1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load until 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 2: And now a totally random week in review from the past. 4 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 3: Take a guess when this was, Think of all the 5 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 3: people you're better. Then that's how you feel better about yourself. 6 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 3: You should try that sometime. People who are unhappy will 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 3: tell you you're not supposed to do that. You're supposed 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 3: to be You're supposed to cry for everybody and emode 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,639 Speaker 3: and empathize and all that. That's a recipe for need 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 3: and counseling. 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 4: Well. 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: Hurricane Barrel is just days away from hitting the Texas 13 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,279 Speaker 1: coast and state officials are gearing up for any impacts. 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 5: Hurricane Barrel made landfall in Texas this morning after strengthening overnight. 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 5: Now this is now a dangerous Category one storm with 16 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 5: torrential rain and sustained wins up to eight miles an hour. 17 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 3: Barrel left millions of people without power. I used to 18 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 3: think that our people were tough, and you would see 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 3: it after these storms. I think our people were. 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 6: Tough because of these sorts. 21 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 3: I think that you grow the way coal miners grow tough. 22 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 6: The spirit of a people is developed and refined as 23 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 6: a result of having to pick up the pieces from 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 6: moments like this, homeless Victor, how are you. 25 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 7: Oh bo I me? Or Bill? We went through the 26 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 7: John bulls, We went through the Okay bulls. 27 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 3: Victor. We had a tree over one hundred feet tall 28 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 3: fall and hit the car pork in the garage. How 29 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 3: on earth does it not pick your tent up with 30 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 3: you in it and fling you forty miles down? 31 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 7: I'm serious, I have no idea. I let him glating 32 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 7: God and lia Bill pull do it both times. 33 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 3: Big Democratic donor George Clooney, of course, the actor has 34 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 3: just called for President Biden to step aside. 35 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 5: George Clooney was. 36 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 8: One of those celebrities that headline and a major Los 37 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 8: Angeles fundraiser with President Biden back in June, and today 38 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 8: he is saying that he believes it is time for 39 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 8: President Biden to step aside. 40 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 3: So if Clooney says not only is he not going 41 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 3: to support him, but he's not going to give him money, 42 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 3: that sounds to me like Biden's got to step down. 43 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 3: Because George Clooney runs things, because he is a man 44 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 3: of great discernment, he would know take me, take me 45 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 3: hold to HOLLI take me, take me, Well, that one 46 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 3: much liked the Trump getting shot in the head audio 47 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 3: will be something a number of you will nail. Because 48 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 3: Hurricane Beryl has just hit and that sent a lot 49 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: of you like me into documentation mode of roofs collapsing 50 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 3: and windows being shattered and things like that. That particular Friday, 51 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 3: so you got to think a few days after the 52 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: storm hit was July twelfth? What date did Barrel hit? 53 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 3: You remember? Ramone and I had gone over to Michael Sambrooks, 54 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 3: who owns what oh that was the Dracho? We went there. 55 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 3: You're right, you know what, You're right. That wasn't Barrel. 56 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: That wasn't Barrel. July eighth was Beryl? Okay, when was 57 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 3: the d Racho? I never her a direct before that. 58 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 3: Drachel had you the du Racho was May sixteenth, So 59 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 3: Ramona and I had left the studio and gone over 60 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 3: to try the pit room on iten. Michael Sambrooks had 61 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 3: opened a second location of the pit Room. His first 62 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: one was in Montrose at Richmond and block or two 63 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 3: west of Montrose Boulevard on Richmond on the corner, let's 64 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: say it's Yoakum might be Yoakum actually one of those 65 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 3: streets right there, and he's won all sorts of awards 66 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 3: as part of this big resurgence of kind of high 67 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 3: end barbecue. I hesitate to send anybody there because a 68 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 3: lot of our listeners had been buying barbecue at the 69 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 3: old fashioned rural barbecue prices, and then Texas Monthly says, oh, 70 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 3: pit room is great, and they go in and it's 71 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 3: thirty bucks ap and I get hate email. Well, just 72 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 3: don't try it. I mean, that's part of the whole 73 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: trendy mendy thing, you know, when these things become trendy. 74 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 3: That's what it is is people who live inside the 75 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 3: loop and have a lot of money like to go 76 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 3: do rednecky things and feel real rednecky about it, but 77 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 3: spend a bunch of money on it, so it's not 78 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 3: barbecue like you make in your backyard. Anyway. Michael's our 79 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 3: friend who used to work for Levi Good. He's had 80 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 3: a lot of success, he's he's got multiple restaurants now, 81 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: and he met us over at the Pitroom on Ien West, 82 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 3: which is set back. It's just west of Memorial City, 83 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 3: Mall wester might be, might be east of Morris, it's 84 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 3: right there. It's no you know what, it's east because 85 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 3: if you're ien westbound, you exit ten at the Beltway, 86 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 3: you curl back around and you head in and it's 87 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 3: set back right there on the right. Anyway, he hadn't 88 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 3: been opened that long. The day we went. We didn't 89 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 3: know that De Racho was coming because we didn't pay 90 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 3: attention to it. And his brother, who was the head 91 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 3: football coach at Huffman or Shenandore or one of those schools, 92 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 3: was there with us. He's a big boy too, they're 93 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: both big boys. And all of a sudden, this huge 94 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 3: wind comes and knocks a bunch of stuff. He's got 95 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 3: these transom windows bow. I mean, it sound like a 96 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 3: gunshot go off. And then the power went out, and 97 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 3: he goes, hey, I hope you guys are willing to 98 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 3: settle in for a little while. I don't think y'all 99 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 3: should be driving. And my immediate thought was, if the 100 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 3: power's out while we still have eye, get the beer 101 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 3: and get it on ice. We're gonna be here for 102 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 3: a while because Ramone's driving. So dutifully he did, and 103 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 3: we moved to the interior of the of the restaurant 104 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 3: because the exterior of the restaurant was all glass, and 105 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 3: some of those windows ended up getting getting shattered while 106 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 3: we were there, but we had cold beer on ice. 107 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 3: Everything was fine anyway. So if you guessed July twelfth 108 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 3: right there, you did well. 109 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 7: You know. 110 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 3: The other thing is there was a reference there homeless 111 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 3: Victor was on that week. I believe that's the last 112 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 3: we've heard of homeless Victor. I got an email from 113 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 3: a listener yesterday, Hey is homeless Victor? Okay? Can you 114 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 3: check on him? And so I called his number. It 115 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 3: goes straight to voicemail, and I sent him a text, 116 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 3: but he's not always real good about the text. I 117 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 3: hope he's okay. But remember we talked. You know what happened. 118 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 3: We talked to him because he was in his tent 119 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 3: down by the by you when the dracho goes right 120 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 3: over him. Can you imagine how that wind would have 121 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 3: been howling and you're out there just probably clinging to 122 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 3: a tree. You got your mangy dog with you, because 123 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 3: that's a required accoutrement of every homeless person. But he 124 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 3: and that other guy, David, who he was trying to 125 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 3: get into a center. David's the marine, remember, and I 126 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 3: think David's got gangreen on his leg and one of 127 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 3: his eyes is hanging out and you know to hear 128 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 3: Homeless Victory teller, he's not. But anyway, if Homeless Victory 129 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 3: is out there and he could give us a call, 130 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 3: seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, I hope 131 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 3: he's okay. We'd like to know. Seven one three nine 132 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 3: nine nine one thousand. I got a message from uh 133 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 3: doctor Bowden, Mary Tally Boden, Mary Tyler Bell. I can't 134 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 3: remember that at Breathe MD, and she said, be mindful 135 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 3: if you need your prescriptions over the break, I'm calling 136 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 3: them in for my patients. Call our office and I'll 137 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 3: take care of it for you. Let's good reasoning of 138 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 3: the It's easy to forget how big Cyndi Lauper was 139 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 3: for a minute there. If you want a real good 140 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 3: time capsule screenshot of a moment in time, go back 141 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 3: and watch that We Are the World video and you 142 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 3: will look at people in there and go, why's that 143 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 3: guy in there? And it's because at that moment, that 144 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 3: guy had the number one song on the charts. Surprisingly, so, 145 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 3: the FED is expected this week to deliver for the 146 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 3: third time in a row. An interest rate cut and 147 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 3: then it is being predicted and Jerome Power is giving 148 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 3: indications to this effect that that will be that they 149 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 3: will either slow down the rate cuts or stop them 150 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 3: altogether for a little while. And I know you know 151 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 3: this already, but a quick review of how this works. 152 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 3: Inflation is a one hundred percent governmental issue. Individuals do 153 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 3: not contribute to inflation. It's important to understand what inflation is. 154 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 3: And if you really want a good primer on inflation, 155 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 3: the all time expert is Milton Friedman, and you can 156 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 3: go to YouTube or wherever you go for videos and 157 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 3: put in Milton Friedman inflation and he will explain it 158 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 3: as well as I've ever seen explained, patiently, methodically, thoroughly. 159 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 3: Inflation occurs when the money being injected into the economy 160 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 3: that is printed exceeds the current supply to the point 161 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 3: that you create more money, then you have products at 162 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 3: that price. So what that means is if we all, 163 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 3: if you took a snapshot right now, and everybody had 164 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 3: one hundred dollars in their pocket, and all of a sudden, 165 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 3: the government pumped out one hundred dollars for half of us. 166 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 3: So the let's say ramone got the hundred dollars. Because 167 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 3: he's Hispanic, he'd probably get it and I wouldn't. So 168 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 3: he and I go to the grocery store. We go 169 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 3: to the baker, and the baker was selling a Bogett 170 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 3: two dollars. It was a bogat cost. Do you know 171 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 3: I like a Boget. So the baker's been selling a 172 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 3: Bogett for two dollars when we all had one hundred dollars. 173 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 3: That's about where the market had established itself. Because remember 174 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 3: the marketplace sets price. Price is how buyers and sellers communicate. 175 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 3: When people say, I can't believe they're selling that car 176 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 3: for one hundred thousand dollars, it's not worth it. It 177 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 3: is worth it. Do you know how we know it's 178 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 3: worth it? Because somebody bought it for that it's not 179 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 3: worth it to you. It is not required that anything 180 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 3: be of universal value to everyone at that price, only 181 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 3: that one person is willing to pay. That's how we communicate. 182 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 3: So when we walk into a store, if the Bogatt 183 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 3: is four dollars and we go not gonna pay that, 184 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 3: I will turn and walk out. If everybody turns in 185 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 3: walks out, they're stuck with bread. That goes bad, so 186 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 3: they go, all right, three dollars still too much. When 187 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: it settles at a price, let's say two dollars, they 188 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 3: know that's the price you're willing to pay, the maximum 189 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 3: price you're willing to pay. And you know that's the 190 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 3: maximum price. That's the lowest they're willing to go because 191 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 3: enough people are willing to buy it. Now, many times 192 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: we have to pay more for something than we would 193 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 3: like to pay for it, because if other people are 194 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: paying that for it, that is what the established market is. 195 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 3: And you either pay the established market or you don't participate. 196 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 3: You don't get to set prices. You only get to 197 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,839 Speaker 3: communicate I'm a buyer or I'm not at that price. 198 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 3: If enough people join you in that and you walk away, 199 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 3: they got to sell that. And bread's a great example. 200 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 3: I just lucked into it because bread goes back, so 201 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 3: they got to establish that market quickly. But so ramone 202 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,599 Speaker 3: has another one hundred in his pocket. So now he 203 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 3: has two hundred dollars and I only have one hundred 204 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 3: dollars because the government gave him one hundred dollars. They 205 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 3: printed more money. So when he walks in, there are 206 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 3: a limited number of bogettes. He's now willing to pay 207 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 3: more than two dollars because there's only one bogette left. 208 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 3: They sell out every day. They got to sell their inventory. 209 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 3: And he says, hey, guys, I'll give you three dollars 210 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 3: for that boget and I go, oh, well, I can't 211 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 3: pay three dollars. Well, there's two of us competing for 212 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 3: the bogette, so one of us is going to get 213 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 3: the bogette. Who should make the decision as to who 214 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 3: gets the bogette? Not the government? The individual price is communication. 215 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 3: When ramone says I will pay three dollars for the boggette, 216 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 3: I didn't know I was gonna have to say bogettes, 217 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 3: So damn Menytimes. I would have picked some else. And 218 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 3: I say, well, I'm only willing to pay two dollars, 219 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 3: and they sell it to him. 220 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 6: For three dollars. 221 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 3: We've now established a market. Well that was the last 222 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 3: one on this day. So the next day they say, hey, 223 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 3: we had a buyer willing to pay three dollars for 224 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 3: the first time for a bucket. Let's price it today 225 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 3: at three dollars. So they do, and if people come in, 226 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 3: all those people with the extra hundred dollars in their pocket. 227 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 3: They go, damn, y'all went up on price. Yeah, we 228 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 3: sold out yesterday. Well I'll get no one wants to 229 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 3: pay more. But because they have more money, they pay 230 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 3: more money. Well, me, the guy that doesn't get the 231 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 3: extra hundred, my one hundred dollars is now worth It 232 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 3: is now not worth as much as it was yesterday 233 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 3: because now Ramon has two hundred and I only have 234 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 3: one hundred. Because that extra money was injected into the economy, 235 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 3: my one hundred dollars reduced in value because prices increased. 236 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 3: And when prices increase without my income increasing, my buying 237 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 3: power reduces. And this is where you see a lowering 238 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 3: of the standard of living. Anyone who doesn't get that cash, 239 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 3: however it's distributed now all of a sudden, is worth 240 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 3: less money. So now you start seeing situations where people 241 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 3: are looking at their investments or they're looking at their cash, 242 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 3: particularly people that hold cash. Cash is king. You always 243 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 3: hear that the problem is if my cash isn't growing 244 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 3: and prices are increasing, my cash is actually worth less now. 245 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 3: So the FED comes in when inflation heats up too 246 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 3: much and says we've got to pull some cash out 247 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 3: of the market. How do we do that? Well, one 248 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 3: of the ways cash is in acted into the market 249 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 3: is I go borrow money or Ramone goes and borrows money, 250 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 3: and when interest rates are low, we borrow a lot 251 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 3: of money. And interest rates had gotten insanely low. They 252 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 3: were down at two percent. I got a two percent 253 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 3: interest rate on my house. That's crazy. Historically, that amount 254 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 3: of money encourages people to take on a lot of debt. Well, 255 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 3: when you take on a lot of debt and put 256 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 3: that money into the economy to buy houses, to buy cars, 257 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 3: to do to buy clothes, to take vacations. When you 258 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 3: do that and inject all that money into the economy, 259 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 3: you increase inflation. And the only way to pull back 260 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,479 Speaker 3: is reduce the supply of money, which is increased interest rates. Well, 261 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 3: that causes a slow down. To Michael Berry Show, Simple Man, 262 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 3: the Robber Rights are just the Two of Us by 263 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 3: Grover Washington Jr. This song makes number one of the 264 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 3: best sax solos that also has a steel drum solo 265 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 3: or vice versa. I think this is a great song 266 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 3: to revisit in your courtyard over a cigar and a 267 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 3: two finger poor. I like the way the female background 268 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 3: singers enunciate the sound in US. These are two classy 269 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 3: ladies in sparkling white dinner party dress, heels, hair pinned 270 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 3: up with small black verses. Also, they don't name folks 271 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 3: Grover anymore. I think Sesame Street ruined that trend. And 272 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 3: we look for love no time. 273 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 6: For ten we did. 274 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 3: Water Yeah, go back, rewind to the. 275 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 4: Building in the sky, kind of sultry, sultry, hissor God. 276 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 3: And just got an email that we have added a 277 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 3: station in Kerrville, Texas, the Hill Country Patriot one O 278 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 3: four point three FM, one O two point one FM 279 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 3: and ninety two point three HD two reminds me of 280 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 3: our late friend Kinky Friedman, who ran for mayor of Kerrville, 281 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 3: and he would begin his speeches my fellow Kerverts. He 282 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 3: also promised, as your first Jewish mayor, I will reduce 283 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 3: the speed limit to fifty four point ninety nine. He 284 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: had a lot of other good, good lines. Those of 285 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 3: you who've been with us for a while when we 286 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 3: were on KPRC nine to fifty am, well remember that 287 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 3: for a couple of years there, about five six, we 288 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 3: used to have Kinky on for an entire hour every 289 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 3: Friday morning. I think it was nine to ten. Is 290 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 3: that what our errow was that he would come on 291 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 3: with and we had so much fun with that. Brian writes, Zara, 292 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 3: this is homeless Brian in the Spring Walmart parking lot. 293 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 3: Hope you remember me. I'm actually your number one homeless fan, Sir. 294 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 3: I told him not until we find out if Homeless 295 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 3: Victor is still alive. He's our number one for now. 296 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 3: Chris writes, regarding the one hundred dollars burger you mentioned, 297 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 3: there's a gal on YouTube who's a professional pilot. She 298 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 3: does videos of her flights in her personal aircraft, and 299 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 3: she has mentioned the one hundred dollars burger before. She's 300 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 3: done such trips around Texas. She's based out of Houston 301 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 3: and she flies a Piper Seneca two, a twin engined aircraft. 302 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 3: Her name is Kay Hall, and she's a typical Texas girl, 303 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 3: twenty five, cute, and a very competent pilot, which you 304 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 3: see the first time you watch one of her videos. 305 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 3: You can see her YouTube videos under the Moniker fly 306 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 3: with k There you go, Sandy writes. On December one, 307 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 3: seven year old Ivory Smith was killed when a drunk 308 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 3: driver slammed into the car driven by her mother. To 309 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 3: be fair, the drunk driver did stop after the accident 310 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:32,679 Speaker 3: to take pictures. Turns out the drunk driver was an 311 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 3: illegal alien from Venezuela who had just gotten out of 312 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 3: jail for battery of a family member. Ice had put 313 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 3: a detainer on his ass for that, but the judge 314 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 3: reduced the charge to a misdemeanor and time served, so 315 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 3: sheriff Ed Gonzalez let him out of jail without informing Ice, 316 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 3: something old Ed's been doing since twenty seventeen, and yet 317 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 3: he still wins reelection. How many more babies have to 318 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 3: die because of this? Pos Amen to that, I think 319 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 3: Ivory Smith was a little girls in the back seat 320 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 3: of her mom's car while her mom was working traffic 321 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 3: on extra job. Drake writes Zar. I'm a commissioned security 322 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 3: guard near NRG Stadium. On Friday afternoon, I suspect while 323 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 3: I was at lunch, my catalytic converter was stolen. And 324 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 3: it's not the first theft that has happened in that 325 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 3: parking lot, nor will it be the last. People think 326 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 3: that we go too hard on criminals, but those same 327 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 3: people don't take into account how hard it is on 328 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 3: us regular citizens when crime happens to us. I am 329 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 3: now stuck having to figure out how to pay for 330 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 3: an expensive car repair bill when I don't have the money. 331 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 3: Keep up the good work, thanks for all you do. 332 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 3: Your friendly neighborhood security guard Drake and Joe writes, you 333 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 3: were talking about Rush earlier. I found him sometime around 334 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 3: eighty nine, being a talk radio junkie. I think he 335 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 3: was on KSV. Almost had to be in the parking 336 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 3: lot to hear the signal. Listened all the way up 337 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 3: to the end. Best friend. I never met Alvin Van 338 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 3: Black on nine point fifty in the morning, Paul Harvey 339 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 3: at noon, and some guy named David Fowler in the afternoon. 340 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 3: I don't know you know, Dave David Fowler. I never 341 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 3: heard that us. That's a new one. 342 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 5: Tom. 343 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 3: You're on the Michael Berry Show. 344 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 7: Go ahead, good morning, Michael. I just caught you talking 345 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 7: to one of the listeners there, you know about He 346 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 7: was talking about that song, just the two of us, 347 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 7: and I wanted to pass on. I probably should have 348 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 7: done this, gotten a hold of you earlier and stuff, 349 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 7: but we were fortunate to attend a real neat concert 350 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 7: last night out at Collin Hall and uh Herbalpert. 351 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 3: Perform and the Tiajuana Brass. 352 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 7: No, it was just he and his wife Laney Hall 353 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 7: think is her name? 354 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 5: Oh? 355 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 3: How cool it was. He's got to be one hundred 356 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 3: years old. 357 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 7: It's unreal. He's going to be ninety in March. 358 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 3: Okay, well close enough, you know, Yeah, that it I got. 359 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 7: It was nostalgic. 360 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 3: Wow, how cool is that? And that was at Colin Hall. 361 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 3: You know, the thing about living in a big city. 362 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 3: I used to say this when we had the RCC. 363 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 3: When you live in a small town, you don't have 364 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 3: forty things going on every weekend. So you know, if 365 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 3: herb Albert is coming to town in Houston on any 366 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 3: given weekend, we would have Jamie Johnson or Willie Nelson 367 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 3: and people would find out and they're like, oh, well, 368 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 3: we're going to this, this, and this already. And the 369 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 3: good news is there's a lot going on. The bummer 370 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 3: is you can't possibly keep up with all the things 371 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 3: that are happening, and if you're trying to program. You know, 372 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 3: when we paid when we hired Willie, it was one 373 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 3: hundred and fifteen thousand plus. There was a h I 374 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 3: think ten or fifteen thousand dollars bonus if he sold 375 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 3: out and you have to pay him that bonus. You 376 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 3: don't any think and you know you're you're programming, like 377 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 3: you want to make sure nothing else is going on 378 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 3: in this town. No chance enjoy it. Who looks at 379 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 3: you the way I do. 380 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,640 Speaker 2: When you small a gain? 381 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 3: No Herb in the tia one brass. Okay, you know 382 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 3: people will remember him. He's born in thirty five. People 383 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 3: remember him from the sixties, but you know it was 384 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 3: maybe late eighties, early nineties. He created a song for 385 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 3: Janet Jackson that was her comeback Herb Albert. Yes, you 386 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 3: know the story. I forget what the song was. I 387 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: think it was that stupid one where she's dressed like 388 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 3: a stormtrooper, remember, and she's punching everything that's not it. 389 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's it. I think Michael was involved 390 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 3: in it one way or another. But that was kind 391 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 3: of her comeback and she credits herbut Albert with a P, 392 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 3: not a B. It's easy to mess up. Yeah, anyway, 393 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 3: I would have liked to have met him. I wonder 394 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 3: I would love to see what his song list was. 395 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 3: I bet he did some cool covers and then all 396 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 3: of his stuff. When I was running for city council, 397 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 3: I set out to go visit every living city councilman, 398 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 3: current and past, in every living former man, and I 399 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 3: think I got to almost every one of them, and 400 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 3: by far the most fascinating was bobblin Air. And he 401 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 3: was living at the Huntingdon at the time. And you 402 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 3: would get on the elevator, which which is this, Which 403 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 3: is this elegant old high rise over on Kirby just 404 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 3: north of West Timer And you've driven by it one 405 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 3: hundred times and didn't know. No, it's not north, Maybe 406 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 3: it's south of West Timer. It's in between West Timer 407 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 3: and West Alabama, close to Breathe, MD. And when you 408 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 3: got off the elevator, you had to get the guard 409 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 3: to get you in the elevator. When you got off 410 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,959 Speaker 3: the elevator, you were in his suite. So he had 411 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 3: the whole floor and it was the coolest thing. And 412 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 3: there he was in his in his sweater. And this 413 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 3: was this would have been ninety nine, So it's two 414 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 3: years before the election where I'm running and I'm lining 415 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 3: up Sport. We go in and we start and he 416 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 3: sits across from me on the on the in his chair, 417 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 3: big chair and big desk in his all wood study, 418 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 3: and he asked me why I'm running. And he starts 419 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 3: asking me details about city finances and all these things, 420 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 3: and he was shocked. He said, you know, nobody reads 421 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 3: the budget, watches the municipal channel and knows what all. 422 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 3: And I said, well, I'm very serious about this. And 423 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 3: he liked that, and he liked it a lot. And 424 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 3: then at some point he said, here, come on, come on, 425 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 3: come around here. He was he was quite old at 426 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 3: the time, and come on, run, come on around there, 427 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 3: the desk over, come, come over here, come on here, 428 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 3: just just dandstand right here. He tapped on the page 429 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 3: and he had the current city budget compared to his 430 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 3: city budget. And this is when that dumb ass lead 431 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,479 Speaker 3: Brown was there. Look look at look at it right 432 00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 3: Look what's that to you right now? 433 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 7: What I Dearren? 434 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 3: And he kind of exhaled as he spoke, and he 435 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 3: spoke kind of soft and in jerky fashion, and I'm 436 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 3: told I do a good late Bob Lanier. And it 437 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 3: was that the budget was out of control. They were 438 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 3: spending money on stuff that shouldn't be spending money on 439 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 3: and he sent me on my way, and he walked 440 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 3: me to the elevator. And as I got on the elevator, 441 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 3: I always asked two things with three things, Can I 442 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 3: get your support? 443 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 7: Yes? 444 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 3: Can I put that in writing? Hey, this person has 445 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 3: supported me in number three? Can you give me somebody 446 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 3: to go talk to that I couldn't get to otherwise, 447 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 3: Jack Trotter or you know, Gordon Bethune, somebody big, and 448 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 3: they would always do it well. For whatever reason, I 449 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 3: chickened out and didn't ask him to support me. And 450 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 3: I got to the elevator and I'm feeling like such 451 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 3: a chicken. And the elevator opens and I stepped onto 452 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 3: the elevator and he put he's a big man's about 453 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 3: six four or sixty five, and he puts his arm 454 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 3: ound and even at an older age, he's still a 455 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 3: big man. Puts his arm out to hold the elevator, 456 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 3: and he said. 457 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,959 Speaker 2: You can tell people I support you. You can tell 458 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 2: people you can put in riding. And I just melted, 459 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Bob, Bob Lanier. And he's two years 460 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: out of being the mayor, and this is gonna be huge. 461 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 2: So my elevator ride down three or four or five, 462 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 2: whatever it was. And later Elise Lanier, his wife, would 463 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 2: tell me, you know, Bob just loved you. He just 464 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 2: loved you, and it I mean stuff like that, Jack Blanton, 465 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 2: there were a lot of people that didn't have to 466 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 2: support me. 467 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 3: That did that made a world of difference to my life. 468 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 3: We tracked down the two officers. If you've been listening 469 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 3: to the show, if you haven't, there was a guy 470 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 3: who called in to start the show and lives out 471 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 3: in Huffman and his son called him on Saturday morning, 472 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 3: seven o'clock and said, hey, I just got a call 473 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 3: from HPD that my business card was found in your truck. 474 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 3: They called the business card and said your truck is stolen, 475 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 3: and he said, is your truck? He looked out the 476 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 3: window and he goes, it's not here. It hadn't even 477 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 3: been reported stolen yet. So we endeavored to persevere to 478 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 3: find the HPDA officers who caught the turd in this 479 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 3: stolen truck. And he got his truck back in perfect condition. 480 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 3: And it's Officer Rivera and Officer Warez. It's Benito Warez. 481 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 3: And I don't know what Rivera's name. I think Benito 482 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 3: Warez was the first Governor General of Galveston. I'm not 483 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 3: positive on that, and now he's at HPD. Yeah, No, 484 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 3: I don't think it's the same one. But somewhere out 485 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 3: there I'm going to see. I'm gonna ask Big City Wings, Gringo's, 486 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 3: tex Max, and Federal American Grill if they will each 487 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 3: give me a gift card. They're probably not allowed to 488 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 3: accept a freebie from us, so I'm not officially going 489 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 3: to give him a gift card, but I'm going to 490 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 3: give them each a gift card. And I think I 491 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 3: hope somewhere out there their mother, father, brother, sister, husband, 492 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 3: their wives, they're both male or one of their buddy. 493 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 3: We got a lot, lot lot of cop listeners. So 494 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 3: if you know Benito Warrez, I don't have Rivera's first 495 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 3: name yet, but that's pretty good policing right there. Now. 496 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 3: They didn't pull the guy over because they knew his 497 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 3: truck was stolen. They pulled the turd over for probably 498 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 3: shooting in somebody's window or drive by or whatever. And 499 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 3: they ran the plates and they're like, you ain't John Smith, 500 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 3: Uh Demarius, Uh you might. Yeah, we're gonna have to 501 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 3: hold you. And I bet this truck is stolen, and 502 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 3: it was. How would you like that you wake up 503 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 3: in the morning, Hey, we've recovered your stolen truck. My 504 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 3: truck's and I sep oh wow, I'm gonna call Michael 505 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 3: Barry on that one. Yeah, how about that? John Plaster 506 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 3: was the guy who had his truck stolen. Anyway, how 507 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 3: are you gonna slug today's show? What would you say? 508 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 3: Today's show was about ramon about three hours. Kay good 509 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 3: Coll