1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 2: So Michael Arry Show is on the air. US Municipal 3 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 2: Politics one oh one. Nobody votes. This last election, John 4 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: Whitmeer beat Sheila Jackson Lee only because Republicans voted. Republicans 5 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 2: never vote ever, and it wasn't that Republicans loved John Whitmer. 6 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: John Whitmeyer is a white Democrat who's been in the 7 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 2: state Senate for fifty year. He is a crafty, wiley guy. 8 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 2: He's not going to win an IQ contest, but he 9 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 2: is a guy that's going to hang around a legislative 10 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 2: body for a long time. He's not an executive, and 11 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 2: you're seeing the failures of not being an executive. He's 12 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 2: not a decision maker. Bob Lanier was to his credit, 13 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 2: Boblineer was Trump is, you know, to his credit, Bill 14 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 2: White was. I saved with Bill White. I disagreed on 15 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: some things, but Bill White was a decision maker. He 16 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 2: had run a business. John Whittmeyer liked Joe Biden is 17 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: a guy who hung around as a white Democrat for 18 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 2: fifty years. A white Democrat who always feared that Silvester 19 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: Turner who was a state rep in his district would 20 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 2: run against him and beat him because that district is 21 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: largely black. It's an interesting district, the state Senate district. 22 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: Sylvester had the state one of the state rep seats 23 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 2: within that district Acres Holmes, and he would have cleaned 24 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: up and Sylvester would have won all the black vote 25 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 2: and all he had to do was win a little 26 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: bit of the white vote and he would win. When 27 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: you're John Weptmeyer, you in urban politics, you've got to 28 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: figure out how to find pockets of votes, because did 29 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 2: I mention nobody votes some elections. Blacks will vote if 30 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 2: you can find a reason to get the churches fired up. 31 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 2: So John Whipmeyer has always managed to win in November 32 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,119 Speaker 2: in a Democrat seat by getting the blacks excited for him. 33 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: But he didn't want blacks excited in the primary or 34 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 2: there would be a black who would primary him and 35 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: beat him. And he knew it. He was very astute 36 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: in that way. So now here's a guy who's had 37 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: to kind of manage the blacks the way the British 38 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: managed the Indians during the raj. They had to, you 39 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: know it pit one against the other. So now he's 40 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 2: against Sheila, and believe it or not, because I looked 41 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 2: at the numbers, Blacks voted for Sheila in higher numbers 42 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 2: than you would want to believe. Sheila made the runoff 43 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 2: for a reason. And so here we are Whitmyer against Sheila, 44 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 2: and Republicans were so afraid of Sheila Jackson Lee being 45 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 2: the mayor that they showed up and they voted for Whitmer. 46 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: And there were a lot of activists and precinct chairmen 47 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: and those folks who were saying, why are y'all helping Whitmyer. 48 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: Don't you know he's a Democrat. Sheila's the devil. He's 49 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: less of a devil, all right. And so that was 50 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 2: the deal that we hope people would make, and they did, 51 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 2: and he won to move on down the road. But 52 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 2: now he's looking at reelection. You can do two four 53 00:03:53,800 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: year terms and other than the black block, and so 54 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 2: he's scared the death of a black opponent, and he's 55 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: going to have one. There's a fellow on city Council 56 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: named Ed Pollard who's going to run. And Pollard is 57 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: dangerous to him because Pollard can pick up the black 58 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 2: vote and some Republicans, and that makes him a very 59 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: dangerous opponent. Well, Whitmyer is a survivor. He's not a visionary, 60 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: he's not an executive. He's a survivor. That's how he 61 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 2: survived for fifty years in the state legislature. Can you 62 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 2: imagine same amount of time, exact amount of time that 63 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: Joe Biden did. So now he's looking at his election 64 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 2: and staving off an opponent and keeping his people happy. Well, 65 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 2: one of the groups that's very influential in city politics, 66 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 2: never enough to rule the day, but they're influential is 67 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: the white moderate and the white liberal. And you remember 68 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: that byte group I told you about earlier. They are 69 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: a subset of this group of people. This this group 70 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 2: of people lives north of Holcombe all the way up 71 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: to the Heights, and they tend not to be outside 72 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: the loop. You can even come in a little further, 73 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 2: and they tend not to go east of Maine. So 74 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 2: there is a swath that cuts from Rice University. Just 75 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: go do north, go through Upper Kirby, go through Washington Avenue, 76 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 2: which was why that rebirth. But it was all those 77 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 2: people into the heights. And so you've got a group 78 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 2: of white professionals, and they're all professionals who are very 79 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: active in city politics. These are the people who write 80 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 2: letters to the editor. These are the people who desperately 81 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 2: want the River Oaks Theater to be reopened. These are 82 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 2: the people who root for, you know, a business that's 83 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: been around for a long time to stay in business. 84 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 2: And they'll all show up and they on websites and 85 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 2: oh there are website. I'm sure they're cursing me right 86 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: now because they hate me, and that's fine because I 87 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 2: think they're idiots. And so that group of people wants 88 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 2: more bike lanes, bike lanes, more bike lanes. How long 89 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 2: is that ABC story that we've been for two minutes? 90 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 2: All right, we'll get to that story in the next 91 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: segment so you can hear it. And that is the 92 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 2: group of people that is driving the recall John Whipmeyer movement. 93 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 2: And he'll act like it doesn't bother him, but it 94 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 2: does bother him because these are the people. White liberals 95 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 2: in Houston in Texas for that matter, are kind of 96 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 2: like if you go abroad and you're in Cairo or 97 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: New Delhi and people that are from five hours from 98 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 2: where you're from are suddenly your neighbor because it's somebody 99 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 2: you fill in affinity with y'all have to hang together. 100 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: We are the Americans here right. White liberals are this 101 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 2: way and these there aren't very many of these white liberals, 102 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 2: and they've been battling the same battles for a long time. 103 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 2: These are the George Grinnaises. These are the Bill Whites. 104 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 2: These are even though Bill White and John Woodmoer hate 105 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: each other, but these are the people who've been around. 106 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 2: You know these people. They're prominent lawyers. They have their 107 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 2: lawyers with offices in Midtown. Their kids are prominent around town. 108 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: They either attend Emmanuel or nothing. And they all know 109 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 2: each other. And these people believe we need more bike LANs. 110 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 2: They also believed we needed a light rail. They also 111 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 2: believe we need more city things. They also believe we 112 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 2: need stadiums. They also desperately please do not tear down 113 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 2: the astronome. It's all we got, so we got. We 114 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 2: got to have the astronom because when they see people 115 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 2: from Boston, they see people from New York, and those 116 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: people go, we have we have this, we have this, 117 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 2: we have this, and they go, we don't have anything 118 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: except the astronom. Well, they're going to tear the astrodome down, No, 119 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 2: because then Houston won't be a city if we don't 120 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 2: have an astronom, if we don't have a sixty year 121 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 2: old stadium that literally nobody uses and you can't go 122 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 2: inside because the air is unbreathable. If we don't have that, 123 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 2: then we don't have a city. To these people, and 124 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: you know, they're Rice faculty members, Rice Design Alliance, architects, 125 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: lawyers and all that. Okay, so they're very upset at 126 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: John Whipmark, and so that brings us to this next sale. 127 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 3: Only sound warehouse. 128 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 2: Okay, So here is the great irony about all this, 129 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 2: This little group of people. They have websites, they have 130 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 2: email lists. I'm sure they're buzzing right now at us, 131 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 2: and they're very very active. They always have a hotline 132 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 2: to the mayor. They're very very influential. This is city, Pauls. 133 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 2: This is the kind of stuff that if you don't know, 134 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 2: you wouldn't know, and you wouldn't believe me. You still 135 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: probably can't wonder why I'm talking about this this long, 136 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 2: because this is where government goes wrong. This is the 137 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 2: little engine that could. This little group of people has 138 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: an outsized influence on policymaking in this city. Now, who cares, Michael, Well, 139 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,559 Speaker 2: here's why you should care. This group of people wants 140 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 2: roads for cars replaced with roads or bicycles. They want 141 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 2: everybody to have to get out of the way. They 142 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 2: want bike parking everywhere. They want bicycle rack. You ever 143 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 2: notice downtown all the buildings have bike racks. You go 144 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 2: to Amsterdam, you'll take a photo of the first time 145 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 2: and go to Amsterdam. You might literally be if you 146 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 2: pivot three hundred and sixty degrees, you might be able 147 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 2: to spy two thousand bicycles. And you can't imagine somebody 148 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 2: could come back and find their bicycle. But their bicycle 149 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: is everything. You ride the cobblestones, the canals, You ride 150 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 2: through the canals on your bicycle. Can't get a car 151 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 2: in there anyway, so your bicycle is important. Well, these 152 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 2: people don't ride their bicycle to them from work. They 153 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 2: wouldn't if they could, it's one hundred and five degrees. 154 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 2: But they liked the idea of showing their power by 155 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 2: getting bike lane. There was a picture, there was a 156 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 2: news report of a nice porker. They had dedicated a 157 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 2: bike lane into downtown off Allen Parkway. They had painted 158 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 2: it green, the busiest spot coming into downtown other than 159 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 2: spar five twenty seven, second busiest spot. So everybody come 160 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 2: in from Memorial, everybody coming through the middle section of 161 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 2: the community, so not all the way out west, but 162 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 2: all of River Oaks, all of that area coming down 163 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 2: alland Parkway. They would cross over Bagbee into downtown and 164 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: then go their various directions. Well, here we were dedicating 165 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 2: an entire lane to cars, I mean two bikes. Well 166 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 2: it's a zero some game. You had to take it 167 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 2: from somewhere. You took it from the cars, which made 168 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 2: the commute even worse. And here was a nice porker 169 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 2: in the most smug, goofy manner possible. She's she's got 170 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 2: the cut, you know, the haircut, right that that real short, 171 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 2: kind of blow dried back haircut. She's got these jeane thingies. 172 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 2: They're they're an elastic but they're colored to look like jeans, 173 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 2: you know the look. And she's big as a house, 174 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 2: and her fat ass cheeks are hanging over the seat. 175 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 2: That poor seat is screaming for mercy. And there she 176 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 2: is riding, and she's got her goofy helmet up on top, 177 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 2: and she's riding both hands on both hands on tens 178 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,599 Speaker 2: and two's. She's riding her bicycle and in her mind, 179 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 2: she's looking so big city mayor, look at me. Because 180 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 2: big city mayors do big city things. We're not like 181 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 2: the rural residents. We have bike lanes. This is what 182 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 2: we do. We have bike lanes. We have hide and 183 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 2: seek adult hide and seek. We have events at the library. 184 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 2: We do things because. 185 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 3: We're a big city and it's important. 186 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 2: We have ribbon cuttings and this is what we do. 187 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 3: We have commissions, festivals. 188 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 2: Here we are. So those people are now putting all 189 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 2: the pressure in the world on John Whitmer because he's 190 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 2: pulling back some of the bike lanes, not because he 191 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: doesn't like the bike bicyclist. He probably doesn't like him, 192 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: truth be told, but he has to pretend he likes them. 193 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 2: And they've always supported him because they're residents. Don't want 194 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: them because they mess up neighborhoods. Right, So he starts saying, 195 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 2: get that bike lane out of there, Get that bike 196 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 2: lane out of there now. 197 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 3: Fast forward ABC News story. 198 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 4: Go pulling advocates holding a so called funeral for Austin 199 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 4: street bike lane Sunday. Some even laid down pretending to 200 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 4: be Wait, you. 201 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 2: Might not have heard that correctly. They're having a funeral 202 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: for the bike lane. A funeral for the bike lane. 203 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 2: Some of them even laid down at this macabre, macabre demonstration, 204 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: the death of the bike lane. You know, it's not 205 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,359 Speaker 2: enough that Houston is racist and has too many mosquitoes 206 00:13:54,520 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 2: and humidity and no state income tax and not a 207 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: sufficiently vibrant gay scene. It's not enough. 208 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 5: But we also we're not heading in the right direction. 209 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 5: We're going in the wrong direction. We're murdering the bike lanes. 210 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 2: There weren't many bike lanes to start with, so few, 211 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 2: so few and far between. We'd have to do the 212 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 2: peat buddy gig thing, and we'd have to drive our 213 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 2: bike to the area of the bike lane, and then 214 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: we would ride our bike there, and then we'd put 215 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 2: our bike back on the back of our supararou with 216 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 2: our rack. Then we would go have coffee Sunday morning 217 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: in a expensive coffee place with granola tofu avocado. 218 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 3: But now they're killing off the bike the bikelnes. 219 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 6: What are we to do? 220 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 4: Cycling advocates holding a so called funeral for Austin street 221 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 4: bike lanes Sunday Some even laid down, pretending to be deceased, 222 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 4: I'm a cop gesture or intended to demonstrate how they 223 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 4: feel the city's latest decision to remove bike lane protections 224 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 4: will impact their safety. 225 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 3: Immunity wants this bike lane. 226 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 2: It's become an important part of biking, for people that 227 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: bike for recreation, for people that bike to work, people 228 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 2: that bike for exercise. Hold on, hold on, do you 229 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 2: know a single person who bikes to work in Houston? 230 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: Because if you do, I'm going to say this because 231 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 2: it might be your friend. I'm gonna say it's because 232 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 2: I don't know them, but I'm gonna tell you right now. 233 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: They're a douche, an absolute douche. Are they? Are they 234 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 2: riding to buy? Are they riding to work in a 235 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 2: suit in June? In jeans, in boots? Are they riding 236 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 2: to work? Are women riding to work in address on 237 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 2: a bicycle? 238 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 7: Really? 239 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 2: Are they really like the Wicked Witch and Wizard of Oz? 240 00:15:58,800 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 3: Really? 241 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: Is that what they're doing? 242 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 6: Speak? 243 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 4: ABC thirteen first brought you news that the city was 244 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 4: ripping out concrete barriers that protect the dedicated bike lanes, 245 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 4: planning to repurpose them into shared lanes with cars Houston 246 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 4: Mayor John Whitmeyer, telling ABC thirteen the decision came after 247 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 4: several of his constituents said the bike lanes made it 248 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 4: harder for them to live and work here, citing issues 249 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 4: with trash, pickup parking, even driving. 250 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 2: I think it's a fantasy that we will have a 251 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 2: critical mass of motorists who replaced their cars for bicycles. 252 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 4: Yet it was pressure from cyclists that ultimately steered the 253 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 4: mayor in a new direction. 254 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 2: Yep, hold you the people who ride their bicycles, either 255 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: recreationally or professionally to work. 256 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 3: In the Michael Berry Show, no I said a bike theme. 257 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 2: Jeez, baby, you see what Jim said at ten seventeen. 258 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 2: All right, So, while Ramona is finding that when I'm driving, 259 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 2: whinc Michael t for father Son weekend this weekend, and 260 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 2: so my wife wasn't with me, and I enjoy a 261 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 2: ride with her, but I also enjoy a ride by 262 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 2: myself because a I can smoke in my truck. You 263 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 2: don't have to email me. The fact that you think 264 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 2: that's gross is. I get that's good for you, but 265 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 2: it doesn't matter to me. So don't feel the need 266 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 2: to write to me that you think that's gross. Probably 267 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 2: a lot of things about you that I think are gross, 268 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 2: and I don't feel the need to share that with you. 269 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 2: So anyway, I get to drive, you get to smoke 270 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 2: my cigar. I quit drinking diet cokes twenty years ago, 271 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 2: and I am convinced that diet cokes are more addictive 272 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 2: than cigarettes or alcohol. And I'm convinced that diet cokes 273 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 2: are addictive whereas cokes are not. You won't see somebody 274 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 2: with a twenty coca day habit. You will see a 275 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 2: lot of people, particularly fat people, with a twenty diet 276 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 2: coca a day addiction. And it really is an addiction, 277 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 2: and I've studied it and without wasting a lot of time. 278 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 2: The reason it is an addiction is because it is 279 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 2: a physical craving that you do not choose. When you 280 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 2: take a sip of dit, your brain believes that you're 281 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 2: about to put sugar into your body. So your pancreas says, 282 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 2: got to break down that sugar. Use it for energy. 283 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 2: That's the first source of sugar. That's why people that 284 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 2: eat a lot of sugar can never lose weight, because 285 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 2: your body is always pulling the sugar that you last 286 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 2: put in the system. So your brain says, ooh, insta sugar. 287 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 2: That's what we'll use to power ourselves. Shut down all 288 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 2: the other sugar, the fat that we were pulling off 289 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 2: of your belly and behind your arm and off your ass. 290 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 2: Let's just pull that sugar this directly. That's easy, low 291 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 2: hanging fruit sugar. And so your body releases insulin to 292 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 2: break to go, search out, find the sugar, break it down, 293 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 2: convert it to energy. Except there isn't any sugar. 294 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 3: It's fake sugar, but it tastes like sugar. 295 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 2: So your brain set it with sugar because your brain 296 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 2: wasn't built for fake sugar. Your brain was built for 297 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 2: natural foods, and natural foods. Tell your brain, I'm sweet, 298 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 2: I'm sugar. Use me as your fur source of energy. 299 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: So when your body releases that insulin, it goes looking 300 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 2: and it's out on a seeking destroy mission and can't 301 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 2: find anything there, so it starts wanting sugar, and it 302 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 2: tells your brain, hey, dude, the sugar got loose. I 303 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,719 Speaker 2: don't know where it is, but it's not here. We 304 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 2: need to find the sugar. Oh, so I got to 305 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 2: drink some more. And so what ends up happening is 306 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 2: you don't realize you're in this brain game against your 307 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 2: will where you are craving a dit coke. I quit 308 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 2: diet cokes twenty years ago. It was the hardest thing 309 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 2: I've ever done. I chewed my nails when I was younger. 310 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 2: It's a very hard If you never chewed your nails, 311 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 2: God bless you. You don't, you don't understand. But if you 312 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 2: were or are a nail chore, it is a surprisingly 313 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 2: hard thing to stop because you know, if you quit, 314 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 2: if you like I'm gonna quit heroin, all right, Well 315 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 2: we're gonna move you from Houston to bat and Rouge. 316 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 2: You're gonna meet new friends, and you're not gonna be 317 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 2: around the Heroin people anymore. So you won't have heroin. 318 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 2: So you're not gonna do heroin once you know detox, 319 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 2: you won't have heroin around. But you got these darn 320 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: fingers around you all the time, and you have been 321 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,479 Speaker 2: used to that's an outlet for your nervousness. And if 322 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 2: you're not a person who does this, you don't understand. 323 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 2: But for people who are, you know you got a 324 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 2: little treatment. Oh oh that one, not there, even that one, 325 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 2: And so it's very hard to quit. I quit doing that, 326 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 2: you know, I quit eating certain foods, or I've done 327 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 2: some things. I'm not, you know, impressive, but I've done 328 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 2: a little bit well. Quitting dyke cokes, I had maintained 329 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 2: was the hardest thing in the world for me. And 330 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 2: for twenty years I haven't drank dyke cokes. I decide 331 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 2: this weekend I'm gonna treat myself. So did I have 332 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 2: one Dik Coke on the way to Austin? 333 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 8: No? 334 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: I had four, the big ones. Whatever, what is this size? 335 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 2: It's about this size you get in the well. I 336 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 2: hadn't bought a Dike Coke about drinks at a gas 337 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 2: station in years. So I play these little games with 338 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 2: myself driving on, I wonder what it costs. Well, it 339 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 2: used to be about a dollar fifteen dollars about dollar 340 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,360 Speaker 2: fifteen or so. I bet it's a dollar fifty now. 341 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 2: So I pull in the Indian owned place and we 342 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 2: play the game. You ever play this game? I like 343 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: to play the game of what excuse are you going 344 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 2: to use for me that you don't let me use 345 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 2: the restroom? Because you don't let anybody use the restroom? Right, 346 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 2: I bet it's out of order? Hey, you got a 347 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 2: code on the bathroom. Can I get the code? What 348 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 2: is out of order? 349 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 7: Oh? 350 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: Is it? 351 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 2: I bet? It's always out of order, isn't it. Isn't 352 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: that crazy? I bet if you need to drop a doucy, 353 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 2: it ain't out of order, is it. So that's what 354 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 2: they do. They don't want you to use a bathroom, 355 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: but they they learned right when you get here from India, 356 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 2: there's an orientation. One of them is bathrooms out of 357 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 2: order because these people will use a bathroom and you 358 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 2: don't want to use the bathroom, so you just well, 359 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 2: that's half the reason I stopped, right. So here's what happened. 360 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 2: The Indians in pakistanis bought all the gas stations, easy 361 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 2: business to get into. I know there's a community called Ishmaile's. 362 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 2: They're a Muslim community of very very successful entrepreneurs. There's 363 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 2: a guy named Alcolt the Nani and he is extraordinarily successful. 364 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 2: I've known him since college because his brother Ali the Nani, 365 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 2: who we called Ali d. We all hung out together 366 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 2: in college. And he is probably the largest gas station 367 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 2: owner in the state of Texas, one of the top 368 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 2: in the country. 369 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 3: But he's like the number four Wendy's owner and the 370 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 3: number three. 371 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 2: Jack in the Box owner and the number two burger 372 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 2: king owner, and he's killed it. Well, every member of 373 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 2: his family that comes here they put to work there. 374 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 2: And there are a lot of Indians who've done the 375 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 2: same thing. And there is a group. There is an 376 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 2: area in India, southwest India called Gudrat And if you 377 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 2: see it spelled, you won't be able to pronounce, but 378 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 2: trust me, it's called Gudrat and Gudratis are famously effective merchants. 379 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 2: If you go anywhere in the world and you meet 380 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 2: somebody whose last name is Patel, they're a Gudrati. And 381 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 2: the Patels do not work for other people. They don't 382 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 2: dig ditches, they're not morticians. They own businesses. 383 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 3: It is part of. 384 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 2: What the family does, it's part of what the community does. 385 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 2: You own businesses and everybody knows each other and so 386 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 2: they all do business with each other. If white people 387 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 2: ever figured this out, you'd be surprised the wealth that 388 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 2: could be created. But white people have been convinced this's 389 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: a very bad thing to do. Used two white people 390 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 2: did it. 391 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 3: And then they were convinced that's bad. Okay, so you 392 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 3: got the. 393 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 2: Gudrathis that own them, and then you got the Pakistanis 394 00:24:54,520 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 2: who own them. And public bathrooms in India almost don't exist. 395 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 2: You pee against a wall, you're riding along. People peet 396 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 2: against the wall, peeing in the ditch, peeing over here, 397 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 2: pee and there and here. We have obscenity lows. You 398 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 2: can't just pee everywhere. Oh, people don't like you to 399 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 2: pe everyhere. Because I like to pee outside, can't pee here? 400 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 2: Got to go to the bathroom? Well, how do I 401 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 2: go to the bathroom if I'm out in public? I 402 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: have to rely on a private business owner because there 403 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 2: aren't hardly any public bathrooms, and God help you if 404 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 2: you go to one, they're filthy. But how do I 405 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 2: go to the bathroom? So there's kind of an unwritten 406 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 2: tacit agreement that gas stations and restaurants will have a bathroom. 407 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,199 Speaker 2: But they don't want everybody coming in and messing up 408 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 2: their bathroom, so they just tell you can't use the bathroom. 409 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 2: And so here's my theory. What happened the white people 410 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 2: who've been driving the state of Texas. I love the 411 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 2: drive I did two ninety and I tend to get 412 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 2: both the white people were driving the highways, they stop 413 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 2: and pee get their coke, like coke and on, and 414 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 2: the Indians and Pakistanis wouldn't let them use the bathroom. 415 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 2: So the white dude beaver says, oh, I'll make a 416 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 2: place where you can stop and peek. 417 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 3: So everybody shot past all those other gas stations. 418 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 2: And that's how he gives it happens. I'm serious, bro, 419 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: It simply works better if you're on hold, haying for 420 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 2: just a minute. If I don't get to you before 421 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 2: the show, I'll get you as soon as we're done. 422 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,360 Speaker 2: We're going to go back to doing a bonus podcast 423 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 2: because and it'll be ten to fifteen minutes, because we 424 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 2: always have more show than we have time for. And 425 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 2: when we did the bonus podcast, we were one of 426 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 2: the top rank podcasts in the country because that content 427 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 2: you can't get on the air, So people would leave 428 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 2: the show if they were able, they'd leave the show, 429 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 2: and then they would wait till it populated on the podcast, 430 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 2: which was usually a few minutes after we got off 431 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 2: the air, definitely a by eleven thirty, and so that 432 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 2: we would take our entire radio audience, not entire, they 433 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 2: would take some percentage of our radio audience. Let me 434 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 2: not exaggerate and move it over to the podcast, and 435 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 2: they would pick up that podcast, and then some of 436 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 2: them would listen to other shows while we were there. 437 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 2: So it shot us way to the top, like massive, 438 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 2: not Joe Rogan big, but way bigger than some of 439 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 2: the national shows that you would have expected to have. 440 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 2: Our national podcasts that have a lot of money behind them. 441 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 2: We stop doing it because you know, life gets in 442 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 2: a way. We've got eighty five show sponsors, We've got 443 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 2: two shows, we've got now we add new affiliates all time. 444 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 3: But anyway, long story short, we're gonna start. 445 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 2: We're gonna start back on the Bonus podcast, so you 446 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 2: can if it says bonus, that means it did not 447 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 2: air on the radio. So if you listen to our 448 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 2: show and don't want to listen to something you've already 449 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,880 Speaker 2: heard before, if you see the word bonus in front 450 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 2: of it, that means it's only for the podcast. Okay. 451 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 3: So one of the things I. 452 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 2: Do while I'm driving is I will call people and 453 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 2: I will read out or tell them what I'm seeing, 454 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 2: and then I will ask them what the next water 455 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 2: tower exit, whatever it is if you are a person 456 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 2: that enjoys that, then you you know I have I 457 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 2: know who likes that. So anyway, so I did this 458 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 2: little thing, and that is that I decided I would 459 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 2: record one. It's simple. It will start very easy. It's 460 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 2: gonna get harder. Ramon, you got the first one that Jimson? 461 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 2: Uh what is it? 462 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 7: Yeah? 463 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Don't say the answer out loud, Okay, 464 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,360 Speaker 2: So listen carefully. You're driving from Austin to Houston, as 465 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 2: I'll say, in there, and I'm going to ask you 466 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 2: to tell me which retail establishment I'm looking at at 467 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: the end. 468 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 7: Go ahead. 469 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 6: Michael Barry has been everywhere, man, have. 470 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: You I've traveled every road in this ceiling. I've been everywhere. Man, 471 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: I've been everywhere. 472 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 6: Man, here's Michael Berry. Do you know what he's looking at? 473 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 7: Eastbound from Austin to Houston. 474 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 9: Driving through Chapel Hill, there is the Chapel Hill Bakery 475 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 9: Delhi Barbecue. 476 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 7: There is Nomo. 477 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 9: Seafood in Steakhouse, make that Nemo Seafood Steakhouse. 478 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 7: There is the Bank of Brenham. 479 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 9: So on the left is a burger King and a 480 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 9: gas station. 481 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 7: And on the right, just past this on the right stand. 482 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 9: Alone in a sheet metal business building is what retail business? 483 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 7: You know? 484 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 2: Nope, it is. So you got that, you're coming into 485 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 2: Chapel Hill. You've got Chapel Hill, whatever place it is. 486 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 2: Then you got Nemo's Seafood and you go up and 487 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 2: then you got that. You got that intersection. I forget 488 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 2: what that road is. It takes you into Chapel Hill proper. 489 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 2: So because you're eastbound, you're Austin to Houston. It's that 490 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 2: intersection right there that to the left would take you. 491 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 2: And frankly, this is another great Chapel Hill is the 492 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 2: bicyclist of this analogy. There should not be a red 493 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 2: light on the highway. 494 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 3: That's just dumb. 495 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 8: But Michael, we live in Chapel Hill and we want 496 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 8: to go to Houston, and we want to have everybody 497 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 8: on the freeway stop so we can turn. It makes 498 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 8: all this sense in the world that have one hundred 499 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 8: and fifty eight thousand people per day coming along there 500 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 8: have to come to a complete stop right there so 501 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 8: that two hundred and nineteen of us can turn left. 502 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 2: No, no, we're not doing that. You're gonna turn right 503 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 2: and you're gonna go up and we're gonna have a 504 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 2: cutout and you're gonna do a little whipper around, or 505 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 2: we'll do you a little jug handle turn and go 506 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 2: down and come back. No, this is dumb. If you 507 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 2: were the king of Texas and you just wanted things 508 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 2: to be good for the residents, you wouldn't make hundreds 509 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 2: of thousands of people stop because you got a couple 510 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 2: of powerful people that live in Chapel Hill. But Michael, 511 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 2: I live in Chapel Hill. 512 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 7: I know. 513 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 2: Can you just once stand on principle instead of what's 514 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 2: good for you? It's dumb, dumb to have a red 515 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: light in a highway. But I don't mind, because well 516 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 2: I do mind, obviously, but I like to end it 517 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 2: by saying I don't mind. So you're on the right, 518 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 2: So right there on the left, at that little intersection, 519 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 2: you've got I think it's a Suneco and you got 520 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 2: a burger king, which why anybody eats at burging out 521 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 2: will never understand. And then you go up just a 522 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 2: little bit to the right and there's a retail establishment 523 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 2: on your right, and that retail establishment is drum roll please, 524 00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 2: Dollar General is Dollar General, the yellow one with black letters. Okay, 525 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 2: Family Dollar is orange and white. I think they're the 526 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 2: same owner. It's so funny. All right, we have another one. 527 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 3: We're coming into Waller at Highway six. 528 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 6: Com Michael Barry has been everywhere, man, have you. 529 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: I've traveled every road in this yeerland. I've been everywhere. Man, 530 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: I've been everywhere. 531 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 6: Man, here's Michael Berry. Do you know what he's looking at? 532 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 9: I passed Legendary Oaks and I'm coming up to the 533 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 9: Shell station. There's a little hotel called the Summit in 534 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 9: there's a little produce market. There's a place called Waller 535 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 9: County Golf Carts. And there is a water tower over 536 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 9: to the right. This is where the Highway six cut 537 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 9: off its What does the water tower say? 538 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 2: So Eddie Martini, he won't do it anymore, but used 539 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 2: to he would say, are you just gonna do? Are 540 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 2: you just gonna do a straight up tradios thing? Like 541 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 2: you realize you're not orange anymore? You're doing you realize 542 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 2: you're doing a small town radio? Yeah, people love it. 543 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 2: Somebody just screamed out that answer right now, And that 544 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 2: is the hap. That guy's the happiest person in the world. 545 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 2: And that guy is gonna be at a party with 546 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 2: Eddie Martini this weekend somewhere their kids go to A 547 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 2: and M together or something, and he's gonna go, oh. 548 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,960 Speaker 3: You're Eddie Martin. Man, have you heard this thing he's doing? 549 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: Now? 550 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 3: Where is this r? 551 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 2: I was listening and I was like, welcome to him's dad, 552 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 2: Welcome to him's dead. And I was like, say the answer, man, 553 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 2: say the answer, and he wouldn't. He told a story 554 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 2: about you. And then finally he's like, welcome to himstead 555 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 2: I man, I've been how happy I was? 556 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 3: I was like, well, I've seen that thing. 557 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 8: Nice. 558 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 2: Welcome to handstead. 559 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 3: I was so happy it was. 560 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 2: Welcome to handstead? 561 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 7: Yeah? 562 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 2: Is there one more? 563 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:10,359 Speaker 7: All right? 564 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 3: Well, I'll ask you one more of this. I may 565 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 3: not have recorded this. 566 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 2: As you continue on into two ninety, you're gonna see 567 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,839 Speaker 2: a water tower on the right. You're starting to get 568 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 2: into town Cypress area. The water tower says Cypress Falls, 569 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 2: underneath Cypress Falls. It has two words. 570 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 3: What are those two words? 571 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 2: You know? Some of y'all, especially women, won't appreciate this. 572 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 2: But I record these little things and I send them 573 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 2: to friends friends of mine who do not use exclamation mark. 574 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 2: That's a woman thing, And they will send back the 575 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,879 Speaker 2: answer with exclamation mark because they're so excited. We're gonna 576 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 2: make a bit out Cypress Falls Golden Eagles