1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time time time time lucking load the Michael 2 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: Arry Show. 3 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: It's on the air, joking into mic week. Gotta feed 4 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: every beard. I don't plan to shave, and it's good 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: the thing, but I just gotta. 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: See I'm doing it all right, will I'm. 7 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: Making support me's I'm beating ridictu. 8 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: That's a true. It's neither drinking, no drug and snool. 9 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 2: I'm just doing all right. 10 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: It's a great dad. 11 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 3: Be I know the sun's still shining on a close Yes, 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 3: it's five times in the neighborhood, but whyk it every day? 13 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 4: Yes, well, happy Monday to you. 14 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 5: I hope you had a refreshing weekend. I hope you 15 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,919 Speaker 5: nourish the soul and mind and body, and you are 16 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 5: prepared to take on a great week plenty of rest, 17 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 5: family time, let your brain relax. And yes, I am 18 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 5: mindful that some people do work on the weekend. Some 19 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 5: people have the counter schedule to what the rest of 20 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 5: us do. But for most folks, hopefully you had a 21 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 5: very RESTful weekend and you are back at. 22 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: It and back ready to get after it. 23 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 5: So I try not to do. Oh by the way, 24 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 5: ramone is back after two weeks of suspension. A continuation 25 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 5: of that is for the by agreement. Mutual agreement is 26 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 5: that he wouldn't communicate at all during this first segment. 27 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: And only this first segment. 28 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 5: So if I was to mention, say, Damn Pastorini or 29 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 5: Eddie Martini or Tilman for Tita or calmuc Nair, you 30 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,119 Speaker 5: wouldn't hear him. 31 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: As you normally would. 32 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 5: Or if I was to point out that sometimes he 33 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 5: takes a nap while we're doing the show, or two 34 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 5: weeks is a long time to take a vacation in 35 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 5: the middle of the show when the rest of the 36 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 5: team had to be here, and even Chad works while 37 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 5: he's in Hawaii, and Jim had to come into the 38 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 5: studio when he doesn't normally and that's not really fair 39 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 5: that Ramon would do that. He's not allowed to comment, 40 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 5: but Ramone is back. So for those of you, and 41 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 5: there were many, may I say, who expressed your preference 42 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 5: for Jim's bump music, my apologies, but Ramone is back 43 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 5: at the Helm. And for the poor fellow his name 44 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,839 Speaker 5: is Wes Hobbs who called up and said, hey, when 45 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 5: you're out, instead of playing a rerun of Ted NuGen, 46 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 5: why don't you. Why don't you have Ramone set in? 47 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 5: Oh we had a good laugh at that one. Well, 48 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 5: the real answer is because when I'm out, Ramone's out, 49 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 5: and that's a fact sometimes. 50 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: But anyway, he sent me the nicest apology. 51 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 5: He said, Dude, I was just trying to give Ramone 52 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 5: a compliment, and I said, it's okay. 53 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: I was just in a mood. I was just having 54 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: a day. 55 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 5: So anyway, yes, that was I'd like to think a 56 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 5: slightly out of character meltdown from somebody that was probably 57 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 5: just tired or irritable or I don't know what I 58 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 5: will tell you before we dive into the discussion. It's 59 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 5: such an interesting time to be an American and things 60 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:26,239 Speaker 5: that were sacred be trampled and things that were never 61 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 5: opened or being revealed, and it is such a weird, 62 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 5: weird time. And we'll get into to some of those 63 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 5: things all the way down to finally, Barack Obama if 64 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 5: not being held accountable, then at least a discussion of it, 65 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 5: because that never happened, and that's a discussion worth having. 66 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 5: The golden goose Barack Obama being talked about in terms 67 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 5: of prosecution. No, I don't think he will ever be 68 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 5: prosecuted if he were, which would be such a wonderful moment, 69 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 5: because I can't stand him. He's so arrogant, and this 70 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 5: idea that he was held up as this sacred, you know, 71 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 5: a savior of the country when he. 72 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: Was quite the opposite. 73 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 5: It's these are just such interesting times, and I will 74 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 5: confess I walk away from the show every day exhausted, 75 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 5: trying to process and put into some level of context 76 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 5: things that we've never seen before. And you don't want 77 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 5: to overstate what's happening, but you can't help but understate either. 78 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 5: And this coming a few days after the one year 79 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 5: anniversary of our president being shot in the head. 80 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: You know, James. 81 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 5: Wilkes Booth was a rogue operator. He was a lone gunman. 82 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 5: I do think there was an uneasiness in the country 83 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 5: after Kennedy was shut up, because I think a lot 84 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 5: of people recognize the likelihood of the accuracy of Lee 85 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 5: Harvey Oswald from that distance, even a slow moving car, 86 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 5: and that particular weapon at such an odd angle, and 87 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 5: the troubling connections the man had before. 88 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a there's a there's. 89 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 5: An uneasiness to that, and I do take it all 90 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,799 Speaker 5: very seriously, and some some feeble attempt to make sense 91 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 5: of it all, at least while we're on the air. 92 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 5: Uh But in any case, that's where we are. We 93 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 5: have a lot to talk about, both local, national, and international. 94 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 5: It's going to be an interesting week, a lot of 95 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 5: earnings reports coming in, and for all the talk of politics, 96 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 5: the economy and how people feel about the economy tends 97 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 5: to be the undercurrent that that guides and moves and 98 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 5: effects and shapes our conversation and our feelings about the. 99 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: Politics of the country. 100 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 5: And we've got some very very interesting earnings reports, the 101 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 5: dollar hitting its lowest mark in fifty years, and how 102 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 5: that affects folks. I mean, you know, the automatic reaction 103 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 5: when I was fourteen would probably have been, well, this 104 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 5: is terrible news, but for many people, including many Americans, 105 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 5: it's not. And if we see a rate cut, which 106 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 5: we're expecting a rate cut, whether it's fifty basis points 107 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 5: or one hundred basis points or I would like to 108 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 5: see much more, then we're going to see the dollar 109 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 5: week in of course, as a result as well, those 110 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 5: of you taking the European vacation in the coming weeks 111 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 5: are going to feel that, But again, this is a sophisticated, 112 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 5: complex economy where there are winners and losers with everything 113 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 5: that happens. A recession helps some folks, I mean, just 114 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 5: the nature of it all. But we have the complete 115 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 5: team back in place of Chad and Jim and Ramon 116 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 5: and Kunda and Rachel and Chance Sandy, and we are 117 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 5: delighted to do so and a lot to get into today. 118 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: We're glad you're here the Michael Berry Show. And then 119 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: if I share with you. 120 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 5: My story, will do share your got of me? 121 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 2: Bad? 122 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: Time to come in? 123 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 5: And I read what out of sw Well, let me tell. 124 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: You something, Oh that that isn't good. 125 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 2: It's been a long old trouble longo troubles road, and 126 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 2: I'm looking for. 127 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 6: Hey, they the cats eat food, get out of there, 128 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 6: say shake their hat at you. So what do you 129 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 6: think about that? 130 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 2: Let's think about. 131 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: That cat or something like that. 132 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 3: We'll probably sit around and cook some soups and eat 133 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 3: bread and desserts and just get on fat and sassy. 134 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: I got a miss in my mouth, shoot. 135 00:09:58,200 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 2: Shoes. 136 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: Did we get that out of our system? Are we 137 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: good now? Yes? Yes? Good? I'm glad to hear that. 138 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 5: Today begins the first of what may be several special 139 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 5: sessions in the Texas Legislature. Reminder, the special session shall 140 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 5: be no longer than thirty days. That is Article three, 141 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 5: Section forty. When the Legislature shall be convened in special session, 142 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 5: there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those 143 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 5: designated in the proclamation of the Governor calling such session, 144 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 5: or presented to them by the Governor, And no such 145 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 5: session shall be of longer duration than thirty days. The 146 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 5: Texas House will convene at noon today, July twenty first, 147 00:10:54,920 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 5: and recess until Thursday, July twenty fourth. So what we'll 148 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 5: have is a lot of show pony stuff. We'll have 149 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 5: a lot of We'll have a lot of talk about 150 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 5: what is and isn't going to happen, and then there 151 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 5: will be hey, look, I had to come in from 152 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 5: my time off to be in Austin and do the 153 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 5: job I was elected to do. But I really only 154 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 5: spend a few days every other year doing and so 155 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 5: let me get some. 156 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: Press coverage for myself out of it. 157 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 5: And that will be every person that's involved, and that's 158 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 5: just how that will go. 159 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:40,719 Speaker 1: Consumable. 160 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 5: THC will be a big, big, issue, and it will 161 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 5: be an issue that will split Republicans. There's no way 162 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 5: around that, and it is not an avoidable issue. Another 163 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 5: of the issue use on the docket is flood dangers. 164 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 5: If you're the governor of the state of Texas, considering 165 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 5: what we just went through with particularly Camp Mystic and 166 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 5: Camp Lahunta and all the folks along the Flash Flood 167 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 5: Alley Corridor, they'd like to see that if our legislature 168 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 5: is going to be in session, then at least. 169 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: Review what happened and see if we can't plug a 170 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: gap or two. 171 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 5: So you would expect that the flood issue would be 172 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 5: taken up even if nothing is done about it. 173 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: Because it is a complex issue. 174 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 5: You're going to have a lot of things to discuss 175 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 5: and it's not going to be an overnight solution, and 176 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 5: it can't be. This is complex. You're going to have 177 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 5: to talk about warning systems, and this is what we do. 178 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 5: This is what sophisticated civilizations do. I'm not talking about 179 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 5: finger pointing, I'm not talking about blame gaming. I'm talking 180 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 5: about what you do when there is a breakdown in 181 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 5: your systems or we don't know breakdown sirs. 182 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: When there is a tragedy when something goes wrong. 183 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 5: The scientific method says, accountability says good, Proper operating procedures 184 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 5: say best practices. Say you look back at what happened, 185 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 5: you see if there are failures in what would be 186 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 5: your standard operating procedure, And then you look at your 187 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 5: standard operating procedure and say is that good enough? Because 188 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 5: I think we all know this can't happen again. It 189 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 5: cannot happen again. It would dishonor these little girls. It 190 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 5: would dishonor Pat Green's brother and sister in law and 191 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 5: their kids. It would dishonor the the teacher and his 192 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 5: family in Kingwood. It would dishonor the guy who smashed 193 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 5: through the window to get his family out and dies 194 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 5: of the blood loss from the glass cutting, but managed 195 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 5: to save his life. It would dishonor all the people. 196 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 5: And this is the thing. I spend a lot of 197 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 5: time thinking about all the people, most of whom will 198 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 5: be lost to memory, who dove in and saved people 199 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 5: in one way or another. All the people who in 200 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 5: the moment and afterward jumped in in one way or 201 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 5: another to save, to help, to serve, to heal. It's incredible. 202 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 5: I hate that it requires that, But nothing short of 203 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 5: what has happened in Kerville and the surrounding counties, nothing 204 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 5: short of a situation like that can move the iPhones 205 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 5: and iPads and drama and pettiness and silliness and distraction 206 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 5: to the back burner and force a focus on life. Boy, 207 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 5: I tell you, I've heard from so many people whose 208 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 5: children survived that situation and how they have hugged their 209 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 5: kids so closely and appreciate. I mean, I know every 210 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 5: parent I know has had a statement of some sort 211 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 5: or another that you don't realize. 212 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 213 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 5: One of the emails in the thousands I got on 214 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 5: the subject said, when you bury your parents, you bury 215 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 5: your past. When you bury your spouse, you bury your present. 216 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 5: But when you bury your child, you bury your future. 217 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 5: And I have thought about that. That's been a week, 218 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 5: and I have thought about that so many times. What 219 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 5: are a profound level makes it so difficult to bury 220 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 5: a child? 221 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: And I think that's it. 222 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 5: That's our future, that's our hope, that's our everything. Michael 223 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 5: Berry Show Journal had an editorial this morning entitled the 224 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 5: Real Risk to the Electric Grid. Power shortages are coming 225 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 5: thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here's how they distort 226 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 5: energy investment. No matter how diligent you are, no matter 227 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 5: how hard you work, there are factors at play that 228 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 5: affect your personal life and your business, your community, that 229 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 5: are bigger than your personal decisions, even if you make 230 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 5: great personal decisions. And one of them is the extent 231 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 5: to which your tax dollars and. 232 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: You pay so much. Many of them. 233 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 5: Are used for the infrastructure necessary necessary to conduct your life. 234 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: Let's take it to the lowest level. I talked last 235 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: week about Metro. 236 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 5: Over a penny out of every dollar you spend locally 237 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 5: goes to Metro. Now, it doesn't seem like a lot, 238 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 5: but sure adds up to be a lot. It sure 239 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 5: adds up to be a lot. And in the course 240 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 5: of a year, between eating out and buying clothes and 241 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 5: buying this and buying that, the amount of money that 242 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 5: you personally hand to Metro and never even think about it. 243 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: When the odds are you never use Metro for anything anything. 244 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 5: There's a bus system which is basically a welfare program, 245 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 5: a subsidized transportation program. 246 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: And you've heard me say before, and I will say 247 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: it again. 248 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 5: I don't have a problem with an efficient subsidized bus program, 249 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 5: if the subsidy is at a maximum minimal amount, if 250 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 5: the buses are efficiently programmed, if they're clean and well 251 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:23,479 Speaker 5: run and safe and not wasteful. But what happened was 252 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 5: you get these huge pockets and money, and Metro's one 253 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 5: of them. And Metro's a great one because you never 254 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 5: notice Metro. You even notice Harris County. Of course you 255 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 5: notice the city of Houston, but Harris County can hide 256 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 5: out there, or at least it could until Rodney got 257 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 5: out of control. We'll talk about Lina's meltdown. By the way, 258 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 5: there's talk of Lena resigning before the term is up. 259 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 1: It is being openly floated. 260 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 5: There are conversations being held right now, and Rodney is 261 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 5: behind this, but we have that in just a moment. 262 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: So you got this pocket of money, and there are 263 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: a lot of them out. 264 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 5: There, Houston can Unity College, Houston Independent School District. So 265 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 5: you've got Metro, whi's got this huge pocket of money. 266 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: And then you've got these folks who come in and 267 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 1: they go. 268 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 5: Running a bus service that really doesn't How can we 269 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 5: benefit from that? 270 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: Hard to benefit from that? 271 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 5: Well, the most efficient thing that the Metro system does 272 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 5: that affects the most people is actually the parking ride. 273 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 5: You might be sitting on a parking ride right now. 274 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 5: Many many folks use the parking ride. It's actually the 275 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 5: best thing that Metro does. It's a very very efficient 276 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:45,360 Speaker 5: way to accomplish a couple of good public policy goals 277 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 5: that we all support. Number one, reducing the overall traffic. 278 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 5: Believe it or not, parking ride really does that. So 279 00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 5: whatever your parking ride is, northwest, north, northeast, southwest, south, wherever, 280 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 5: out west, wherever you are. The ability to live in 281 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 5: Katie or the Woodlands or wherever else. 282 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: Not the Woodlands but Kingwood. 283 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 5: The ability to pull up, park your car in a 284 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 5: safe lot that is patrolled. Get on the parking ride 285 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 5: which runs at a consistent time. I'll tell you if 286 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 5: you want to see one of the most efficient governmental 287 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 5: functions you will ever see in the entire world. I 288 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 5: think it's called the shins end. I forget my wife 289 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 5: could tell me, but ride the train system in Japan. 290 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 5: I have never been more impressed with a governmental function 291 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 5: performance in my life. In fact, the system runs, I 292 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 5: can't remember if it goes down to the second. I 293 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 5: don't want to exaggerate, but it runs down to the minute, 294 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 5: much so that if you're catching the train from Kyoto 295 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 5: to Japan, or sorry, Kyoto to Tokyo, and your train 296 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 5: is supposed to be there at eight twenty two and 297 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 5: it's rolling in at eight twenty one, he will slow 298 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 5: it down. Or if he's running late and he's and 299 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 5: he's a little behind, he will speed it up because 300 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 5: he wants it. 301 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: To arrive at exactly the moment. You can count. You 302 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 1: can set your watch by the train system. 303 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 5: Now, the Japanese are not as free expression as i'd like. 304 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 5: They're certainly not libertarian by nature. But what they do 305 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 5: do is a strict adherence to rules, norms, standards, expectations, effectiveness, efficiency. 306 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:54,679 Speaker 1: They're really really good at it. 307 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 5: The bus system is necessarily how you transport people who 308 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 5: are the working poor, who cannot afford a functioning vehicle, 309 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 5: and the smaller the core the footprint that you try 310 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 5: to service, the more likely you can make that work. 311 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 5: All right, I'm okay with that. Just don't waste a 312 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 5: bunch of money. Make it as efficient as possible. We 313 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 5: all agree we need people to staff fast food restaurants 314 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:37,479 Speaker 5: in tree level positions for older people. I'm great with that. 315 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 5: Move people around. The parking ride is the best thing 316 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 5: they do. But they don't care about that. That's not 317 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 5: something that they wanted to expand that's not something they 318 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 5: want to improve on. They fall under the sway of 319 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 5: people who can make a bunch of money on light rail. 320 00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: Who was that? 321 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 5: There are people that got rich off of buying the 322 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 5: property along the light rail path. Remember we started with downtown, 323 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 5: huge bust. We drove a bunch of business out of there. 324 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 5: I never forget Adrian's Cantena. It had been there forever 325 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 5: and when he closed down, he said, close down after whatever. 326 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 5: It closed down after twenty eight years due to metro 327 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 5: or yeah, metro rail, and nobody rides the metrorail. The 328 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 5: few people who are riding the metrorail were already riding 329 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 5: the bus that ran along the same corridor. 330 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: So what did they do. 331 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 5: They shut the bus system down to force them onto 332 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 5: the rail so there'd be somebody on the rail. We 333 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 5: didn't need a fixed rail, We didn't need to buy 334 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 5: the land. You could have used the lane miles and 335 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 5: a bus could have traveled there. We didn't need to 336 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 5: buy the technology at grade rail is the worst kind 337 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 5: of rail you can do. You have to either bury it, 338 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 5: which costs twice as much, or elevate it, which costs 339 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 5: four times as much. And we wouldn't have had the 340 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 5: money to do it. 341 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: It was already fifty. 342 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 5: Million dollars a lane mile, and they were doing seven 343 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 5: miles three hundred and fifty million dollars. I think it 344 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 5: ended up costing five hundred million dollars. Anyway, back to 345 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 5: the point, the infrastructure of the roads you drive, and 346 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 5: the water you drink and the energy that is provided 347 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 5: to you are things that are slightly out of your 348 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,959 Speaker 5: immediate control, and our government has bungled power. 349 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry shows. 350 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 3: Suk Kid, watch you weave them, Bring we sik. 351 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: Kid. 352 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 5: Marcus Petrel and his brother Morgan, the Congressman, went to Kerrville, 353 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 5: as many of you did, and they conducted dives, hoping 354 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 5: for a survivor, but at a minimum, hoping to give 355 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 5: closure to families. My understanding is there are only three. 356 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: Folks still missing. Now. 357 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 5: The good news to come of this is that some 358 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 5: folks who were reported missing have been recovered or have 359 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 5: been rescued excuse me, rescued alive. They lived somewhere along 360 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 5: there or they were vacationing somewhere along there, and they 361 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 5: have connected with family members who said, you're listed among 362 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 5: the missing, and they reported no, they're okay. Thank goodness, 363 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 5: they have survived. I read a gut wrenching commentary over 364 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 5: the weekend about why you continue to search for bodies 365 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 5: when it's almost as if what you're going to find 366 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 5: is only going to bring sadness. But the concept of 367 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 5: closure is so powerful that a rescue operation is is 368 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 5: a must. And we'll talk to Marcus about that. I 369 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 5: love the thought of the fact that we train warriors 370 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 5: like seals. 371 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: And other warriors. They're not the only ones. 372 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 5: They've just been talked about a lot since Marcus's book 373 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 5: Long Survivor, But there are lots of these guys a 374 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 5: Special Forces that do different amazing things, and there are 375 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 5: guys that are just in our military that do amazing things. 376 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: But we'll talk to. 377 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 5: Him about why he went and what they what they discovered, 378 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 5: what they saw coming up in just a few moments. 379 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: But first we go to the phone line seven. 380 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 5: One three one thousand, Kevin Europe. 381 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: Sir, Well, good morning, good morning, Kevin. 382 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 6: I know whenever I do my Houston laws Uh, I'm 383 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 6: a truck driver of course, which uh on which right 384 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 6: now I'm I'm driving towards Houston from Austin, which means 385 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 6: Austin is in its great place, which is in my 386 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 6: rear view mirror. 387 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: And uh, but. 388 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 6: I do I do my little when I work out 389 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 6: of a Houston yard. I passed by the Woodlands Parking 390 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 6: Ride and uh, there is a company. I don't think 391 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 6: it is associated with Houston Metro, but it services Houston 392 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 6: Metro and it's it's called the Woodlands in the Woodlands Express, 393 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 6: which uh with which Sex Takes takes takes buses down 394 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 6: from the from the Booty Road, UH, parking ride all 395 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 6: the way downtown and back. And I've had a lot, 396 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 6: I've had a lot of friends actually use that, actually 397 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 6: use that, and during the rodeo, I use that because 398 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 6: once I get downtown, it's easy, it's easy to uh 399 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,919 Speaker 6: to get to rail down down to the down to 400 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 6: the as Asper Domain. And I still call it that. 401 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: You can call it that for me because that's my childhood. Kevin. 402 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 5: I know I've told you this before, but I feel 403 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 5: the need to tell you every time you call. I 404 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 5: admire you calling our show knowing you're going to have 405 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 5: to stutter through it. I admire that. And let me 406 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 5: give you the best example I can possibly give. It 407 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 5: might not be a good analogy, but I'm gonna give 408 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 5: you the best one I can. I cannot dance, Kevin. 409 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 5: When I say I can't dance, people, you know, if 410 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 5: we're out in public. I love music. 411 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: I love music. I love musicians. 412 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 5: I love the sounds, I love the stories, I love 413 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 5: the feel, I love the beat. 414 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: I love to see. 415 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 5: An audience engage in interect I love music and I 416 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 5: love concerts, and I love to beat at him. So 417 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 5: when I'm with a group of people and people have 418 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 5: had a few drinks and they're getting friendlier, and you know, 419 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 5: breaking down the. 420 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: Barriers that you they don't know you that well. 421 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 5: They all think I'm gonna be the one that gets 422 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 5: Michael to dance, and he's gonna love me for it 423 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 5: because he doesn't dance. And I'm going to tell you something. 424 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 5: You drag me out on the floor and you think 425 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 5: that I'll go. 426 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: Hell, we're already out here. 427 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 5: I'm gonna turn and walk off because I'm horrified of dancing. Horrified, 428 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 5: And so you know what, I don't do I don't 429 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 5: go out and dance in front of people because I'm 430 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 5: not brave enough, because I'm not strong enough, because I'm 431 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 5: not tough enough. The fact that you dial our number 432 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 5: to make a point, knowing good and well, you could 433 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 5: be the subject of ridicule, knowing good and well, that 434 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 5: you may not make your point knowing good and well. 435 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 5: I just my hat's off to. 436 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: You, dude. You are one badass. Dude. I love it 437 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: so much. 438 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 5: And I hope that by saying that, anybody who ever 439 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 5: wants to be on the show because you have content 440 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 5: to offer that whatever your delivery mechanism is. You got 441 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 5: a odd voice, you got a weak voice, you got 442 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 5: a high pitched voice, you got a horse voice, you 443 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 5: gotta stutter, you got a speech impediment, whatever that is, 444 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 5: I hope you understand you will be judged by the 445 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 5: quality of your content. Doesn't mean I won't remark on 446 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 5: your accent or whatever else. But you know, Kevin, when 447 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 5: I started in radio, the guy who was the head 448 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 5: of the station would tell the coll. 449 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: Screeners, don't put old people on. 450 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 5: Don't put people on with a speech impediment or an accent. 451 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: And do you know there were five calls that came in. 452 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 5: When your call came in and Ramon puts you to 453 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 5: the front as the stuttering dude, and I immediately remembered who. 454 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: It was, and he knew I would. 455 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 5: He numbers the calls what order he wants me to 456 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 5: take them, based on how he thinks they'll be. He 457 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 5: knew that we would want to put you on first. 458 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 5: So I will get to the content of the Woodlands Express, 459 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 5: which is incredible. But I want to make sure everybody 460 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 5: understands if you ever want to be on this show, 461 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 5: you've got something to offer, a question to ask, and 462 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 5: you got. 463 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: Whatever whatever your delivery. 464 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 5: Mechanism is that you think is an impediment to you 465 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 5: being on the show, Trust me it's not. And if 466 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 5: I remark on your accent or your stutter, or your 467 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 5: the way you say certain words, rest assured it is 468 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 5: because it is the Henry Higgins of me from my 469 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 5: fair lady. I study those things. I'm fascinated by those things. 470 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 5: I'm interested in those sorts of things. It is not ridicule. 471 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 5: We want you on the show. And Ramona will tell 472 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 5: you we went from from the admonition the edict don't 473 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 5: put people on with funny accents or odd speech impediments 474 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 5: or who are old. 475 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: Don't put them on the air. That's who we put 476 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: on first. 477 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 5: That is God's Hon's true because we find those to 478 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 5: be the most interesting cause. As for the Woodlands Express, 479 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 5: first of all, the Woodlands is probably the best run 480 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 5: local municipality community corporation. 481 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: It's canniballe in the region and it always has been. 482 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 5: George Mitchell Howard Hughes Corporation, that whole amalgam and by 483 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 5: the way, that's why people love to live there. 484 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: That's why people love to live in the Woodlands. You 485 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: can live in the Woodlands. 486 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 5: Right the Woodlands Express into downtown and work, get your 487 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 5: work done on your way, come home to your family distressed. 488 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: It's it's brilliant, good call. Kevin