1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. We got a 3 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: might message from Larry Derker after we finished our conversation. 4 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: We ran out of time. He said, remind me again 5 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: to talk to you about putting Billy least about Billy 6 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: Wagner at risk as the runner on a squeeze play ouch. 7 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: Can you imagine and forcing him to bat by failing 8 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: to double switch him into a game. I could feel 9 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: the pulled hamstring. Good thing he couldn't. That's a good 10 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: story with there. So during the break, I went to 11 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: the printer, and I have a printer on my desk, 12 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: but I can't print while I'm talking or it makes 13 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: too much noise. So Ramona as a printer, and then 14 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: we have a shared printer, and I went to the 15 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: shared printer, which is in a vestibule between our offices 16 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: as a sound damper to get more layers. When you're 17 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: trying to damp and sound, it's not just how thick 18 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: the walls are and how thick the glass is. You 19 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,639 Speaker 1: want open spaces. So at our old studio, Bob Stroup, 20 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: our chief engineer, had a layer of glass and then 21 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: a pocket like an air pocket and another layer of glass. 22 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: And the sound engineer experts like Jared Kluhn and those 23 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: guys that do all the acoustics for the airports and 24 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: different I think it's called Kluone Acoustics. I'll look it up. 25 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: See lu N they did all our acoustics in here. 26 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: They're fantastic Houston company that does work all over the 27 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 1: world on sound dampening, which is an art. It's like 28 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 1: you know until you know it. There are guys in 29 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: commercial and for that matter of residential design, the core 30 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: engineering who think about exactly the right mood that a 31 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 1: light can create, exactly the right sound. You know, some 32 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: places want to sound busy and have an energy. Tilman 33 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: does this a lot. So there walls will be harsh 34 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: so that the sound will hit it and bounce off 35 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: and that creates an energy. Mastros is very loud. That's 36 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: that's the plan. It's meant You've meant to feel like 37 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: you're in the middle of this awesomeness. But then there 38 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: was a place I used to love in DC called 39 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: tu Quail and everything was a fabric, like a tapestry 40 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: on the walls. That would be what's that place, Richard Zimmerman. 41 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: I think was Richard Zimmerman had overall Montrose, the hotel. 42 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: It's kind of yellow and green colored. But when he 43 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: went into his dining room there, because it was you know, 44 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: he'd brought everything over from from France, and it was 45 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: meant to be kind of, you know, this very quiet. 46 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 1: You might hear maybe a very muted piano in the background, 47 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: very elegant, maybe a harp over in the corner. So anyway, 48 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: I don't remember why I said, Oh, that's why I 49 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: was at the printer. So it's rare that I'm at 50 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: that printer. But I had printed something and I go 51 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: to pick it up and there's a document sitting on 52 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: the printer, and it's a beautiful obituary of the band, 53 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: who is my second favorite group behind Leonard Skinner. And 54 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: of course with the passing of Garth Hudson this week, 55 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: so I figured it must have come from Rolling Stone 56 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: or some music critic, and so I read it and 57 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: it said, this week, the final note of an extraordinary 58 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: symphony fades into silence with the passing of Garth Hudson, 59 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: the last surviving member of the band, we've bid farewell, 60 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: farewell to one of the most iconic groups in music history, 61 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: a band that didn't just play songs, but told stories 62 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: that were woven into the fabric of Americana. From their 63 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: beginnings as the backing band for Ronnie Hawkins and Bob 64 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: Dylan to their rise as legends in their own right, 65 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: the band redefined what music could be. Their timeless songs, 66 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: The Weight Up on Cripple Creek in the Night they 67 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: Drove Old Dixie Down, weren't just tunes. They were soulful 68 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: portraits of a place and a people, steeped in history 69 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: and heartbreak. Garth Hudson, the quiet Genius, with his haunting 70 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: organ and saxophone, added an unmatched depth anduse to their sound. Now, 71 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: with Garth joining Rick Danko, Richard Manuel Levon Helm and 72 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: Robbie Robertson, the band's final encore has been played, but 73 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: their music will echo forever, a testament to the power 74 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: of collaboration, heart and honesty to the band. We owe 75 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: not just melodies, but memories, not just lyrics, but life lessons. 76 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: Their story may have ended, but their music will live on, 77 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: a gift to the ages. Rest in peace, Garth, Rest 78 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: in peace, the Band, Your legacy is eternal. Well I 79 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:43,119 Speaker 1: snapped at ramon what is the source? Because I hate 80 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: when somebody on our team gives me something but doesn't 81 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: give me the source, because if I read that as 82 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: my own, then I've just plagiarized, which I'm not going 83 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: to get in trouble, but I would lose respect for myself. 84 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: You shepherdize, you, you attribute. These are things you learn 85 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: in law school. It's things you learn and debate. These things. 86 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: You know, just a sense of decency. You don't steal 87 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: someone else's work. And the source was ramone, little buddy, 88 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: you're like an aspiring This is bigger than musical critique. 89 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: That's really well written. And I know you did that 90 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: for me because you know I love the band. I'm 91 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: not sure you knew who the band was when I 92 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: met you twenty years ago. But that's okay. I feel 93 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: like you've grown what it's true. Oh so sweet. You 94 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: know music is so different now in the way that 95 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: it's made. You know, it's like movies go direct direct 96 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: to consumer. Netflix and Prime are doing more movies than 97 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: any of the old movie houses were. But you think 98 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: about their biggest album, music from Big Pink. So they're 99 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: backing Bob Dylan and Dylan. Dylan's not going on tour, 100 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: and they got to make a living because they don't 101 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: have the money he does. And they're going, guys, we 102 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: got to hit the road. We got to cut an album, 103 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: we got to support it on the road. They don't 104 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: even have a name. They come up with ten different 105 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: names or so. And finally the album is finished and 106 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: it's being pressed, and they said, we got to put 107 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: a name one here, and so Robbie and Levan said, 108 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: the band. Just call it the band. That's what Bob 109 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: Dylan calls us. Bob would call Levon and Robbie and say, hey, 110 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: get the band. Let's go up, and let's go up 111 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: and record music from Big Pink. Big Pink was the 112 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: house where they were recording. The album cover is a 113 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: painting by Bob Dylan. Albums in those days had meaning 114 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: and where you recorded, you know, in somebody's garage, in 115 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: this old house. I think about Skinner and they were 116 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: being run out of their neighborhood in Jacksonville because they 117 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: were too loud. So they drive twenty miles out of town, 118 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: down near a swamp and they record in what can 119 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: be known as Hellhouse. It was just a cabin and 120 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: they record in this place and it was called Hellhouse 121 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: because there was no air conditioning. And you think of 122 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: the it's the greatest band of all time, and they're 123 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: recording in an unair conditioned, swampy Florida cabin where they're 124 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: opening all the doors to try to get some air 125 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: coming in there. They don't do that anymore, right, It's 126 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: all hit a computer and play the music a beach. 127 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show in the Alley. You got a 128 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: little whelmed yesterday with the lightning round. My apologies. It 129 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 1: was a lot going on yesterday behind the scenes, and 130 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: I added a lightning round to it. It kind of. 131 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 2: It was. 132 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: I love Lucy's scene at the chocolate factory. After a 133 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: while he just started eating the chocolate. Hell with it, 134 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: Lucy and Ethyl? Was it? Ethyl? Yeah? Man, what a 135 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 1: show that was. That show was one hundred years old 136 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: by the time I was watching it in the mid seventies. 137 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: It's still timeless, still timeless, still timeless today you can 138 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: go back. I tell people all the time that are 139 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: watching political news all day long, and they're just Michael, 140 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do. It's so bad, Michael, 141 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing. Even with Trump winning, 142 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: I got people that are so hysterical mine they're left 143 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: just criticizing them. They don't love them, like gotta like 144 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: you need to dial it back. Okay, step back and 145 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: go watch some old television and find it anywhere and 146 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: just laugh and relax. But you're not a more engaged 147 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: activist if you're telling me you're hysterical all day. These 148 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: are the good times. These are the houseying days, the 149 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: salad days. We're gonna talk about these days and years 150 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: to come. If you're that miserable these days, woo boy. 151 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: Richard Howell at Turner's Cut reminded me, as did Denise Partridge, 152 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: that the hotel restaurant I couldn't think of that Steve Zimerman, 153 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: not Richard Zimman. That Steve Zimerman has is called La 154 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: Colombe duor you've never been there in Montrose. It's a doozy. 155 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like something you don't. You feel like 156 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: you walked into a little French cafe right off the 157 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 1: Chancelise and there's you know, Pierre to take your coat, 158 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: and yet you're just off Montrose, which Kimberly writes, you 159 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 1: know women are so obsessed with us being dirty downstairs, Kimberly, 160 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: writes Czar. We had a Catholic priest at the clinic 161 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: one day with urinary symptoms, so we needed a clean 162 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: catch urine sample to see if he had an infection. 163 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: After hearing the instructions, he argued that he was already 164 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 1: clean and he didn't need to physically clean himself. No 165 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: amount of explanation helps, so we finally just send it. 166 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: On urine is sterile, but the vessel it pours from 167 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: is not not is in all caps? Wash your dang 168 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: hands after handling the equipment. Good to hear Derker, he's 169 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: a treasure ken. I'd like to go back to this 170 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: line right here, ramon urine is sterile, but the vessel 171 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: it pours from is not all caps, not with an 172 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: explanation mark. She's trying to tell us our winners are really, really, 173 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: really dirty. Wash your dang hands after handling the equipment. 174 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: That's the whole point. You don't seem to understand. Do 175 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: you think do you think that your thigh, if you 176 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: wear jeans all day every day, that your thigh is 177 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: somehow filthy because it's not. Your feet may smell bad 178 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: because of the sweat. But they're not filthy. It's the sweat. 179 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: The wiener is not dirty. I will argue this while 180 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: I'm blue in the face. I read wellness studies and 181 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: health studies all damn day long, and their study after study, 182 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: your hands are filthy. If people knew how filthy your 183 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 1: hands are, they wouldn't shake hands. They just wouldn't do it. 184 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: But it's a cultural norm that we do. It's part 185 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: of what we do as a greetings, almost a trust. 186 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,719 Speaker 1: But if you knew how many things are passing and 187 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: we're not out there sword fighting, and I'm not suggesting 188 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: we should, I don't even cross the streams, but it 189 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't be as many dirty germs being passed. So that's 190 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: all I'm saying. That's not where the human being. A 191 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: female anatomy is a very different thing, and I'm going 192 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: to leave that there. What you use your wiener to eat? Now, 193 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: see that's now you're just degenerating. Like sophomoric commentary. I 194 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: was having a serious medical discussion where I was imparting knowledge. 195 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 1: This was a great quote I saw posted by Conservative 196 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 1: Teachers of America. It was sent to me by a 197 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: listener and it was. The story was Fox News with 198 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: Reverend that calling that goofy lady. A reverend asks Trump 199 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: to have mercy on immigrants and lgbt children who fear 200 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 1: for their lives. I can't help that they fear for 201 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: their lives. You know, there's all sorts of cults who 202 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: fear that the space aliens are coming to get us on. 203 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: That's not my fault. It is irrational to fear for 204 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: your life if you are LGBTQ. But the Conservative Teachers 205 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: of America posted this comment. It got me thinking about it. 206 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: When you watch Trump having to be lectured by that, 207 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: Biddy said after reading the quotes from her speech, it 208 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: made me think that Trump and Vance got too experience 209 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: firsthand the forced captive audience situations many conservative teachers have 210 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: had to endure time and time again. Educators have been 211 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 1: required to attend quote unquote trainings that have absolutely nothing 212 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: to do with education, but instead are intended to push 213 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: the left's agenda. Now is the time, friends, you own 214 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: the company. You don't need the sexual harassment biddies, the 215 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: diverse diversity biddies. You don't need those people coming in 216 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: and imposing their agenda on your employees. You know, if 217 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: you were to see the scale of the amount of 218 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: time lost in corporate America, the bigger the corporation, the 219 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: worse it is on conference calls. My goodness, allow, I 220 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: asked for a conference call yesterday was some of our 221 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: top people because I had a question I needed to 222 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: resolve because we have all theseffiliates now and I needed 223 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: to resolve how they wanted me to handle all the 224 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: affiliates and all the requests that are coming in from 225 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: the affiliates for things that they need. And I said, guys, 226 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: anybody knows me, knows I don't like phone calls and 227 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: I really don't like meetings. Everything can be reduced in 228 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: writing to an email and then we can forward it 229 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: for those who weren't there, and we can go back 230 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: and consult it later. Those are my notes. You go 231 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: through law school, you learn to take notes. I take 232 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: notes on everything. I still take notes on everything, and 233 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: I take a screenshot of it, and I got it forever. 234 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 1: So I said, if I can have if y'all can 235 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: give me a fifteen minute block, I will assure you'll 236 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: be off. Because they're busy and they're traveling. You know, 237 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: we got stations over a thousand stations in the country, 238 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: so they're on a flight all day. I at least 239 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: get to sit in a studio. We're in the studio 240 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: all day long. At least I can sit here. And 241 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: at eleven minutes, I said, guys, I resolved everything I needed, 242 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: promised I'd be done in fifteen minutes, and we were off. 243 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: And that's how meetings ought to go. Let's open the 244 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: phone lnstro moment seven one three seven sorry seven one 245 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: three nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine 246 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: nine nine one thousand. Right, you're listening to Michael Berry 247 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: may by the don Why would anybody leave Queen Fall? 248 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: Where had you know? The old neighborhood just ain't the same. 249 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: Nobody knows what Dick Moule. 250 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 3: Tell me. 251 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: Curtly c is the NBC News correspondent who went after 252 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth claiming that a family member had filed a document. 253 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: I guess it's an affidavit saying that his former wife, 254 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,719 Speaker 1: Samantha feared for her life when she was married to him. 255 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 1: She is the sister in law, but she is not 256 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: the sister either of him or the a Samantha, the 257 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: woman who was supposedly afraid of him. Now, her saying 258 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: she was afraid if she had doesn't necessarily prove that 259 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: he hit her, which is the allegation. But this woman 260 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: who made this claim, and then the reporter Courtney Cube 261 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: who ran with the story, failed to disclose that Samantha, 262 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 1: the subject of all this, says it's not true. She's 263 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: his ex wife and says, stop using me as a 264 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: political poem. It is simply not true. Well, the reporter 265 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: who filed that story to try to hurt Pete Hexath, 266 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: it is now being revealed that she is the subject 267 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 1: of a complaint accusing her of making funny accusations of 268 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: sexism and misogyny, and she's gone into hiding, turning off 269 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: her social media pages. If you are a reporter who 270 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: is hot on the scent of a story, you don't 271 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: go into hiding. That's your moment, Richard. You're on the 272 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 273 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 3: Go ahead, Hey, Mike, I got to watch a little 274 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 3: bit of that, and this lady that sat there and 275 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 3: lectured Trump. 276 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: Stuck the officship. I mean, I don't want to, I 277 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: don't want to be judgmental, but she looked like she 278 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: was part of the hem U be whatever organization that is. 279 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 4: I don't even know how she has any business being 280 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 4: behind a pull fit. 281 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: I sawry. He had to endure that myself. Well, those people, 282 00:18:53,960 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: people like her, are raging all the time. It's why 283 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: they're always in therapy. It's why they make threats on 284 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: social media. Those people. Let's just lay it out in 285 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: almost I'm gonna paint a picture of that kind of person, 286 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: that woman. And I may be wrong, not every one 287 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: of them. Could you check every box of this. They've 288 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: never had children, They've never had a meaningful relationship with 289 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: their parents. They don't have meaningful relationships with other people. 290 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: They fight everyone, and they rage, and the rage is 291 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: not related to the item at hand. If they don't 292 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: put their shopping cart back and you say, excuse me, ma'am, 293 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: you left your shopping cart, and they lose their mind. 294 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: That's not about the shopping cart. There's a woman that 295 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: I forget what state it's in. Oh, it is in 296 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: Texas now that I think about it. And she's got 297 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: some bakery. I can't remember the name of it, but 298 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: there's a picture of her and she's straight out of 299 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: Central Casting. She got her hair colored off, funky kind 300 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: of fat tattoos, and she's wearing a shirt that says 301 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: if the patriarchy, except it spells it out real classy lady, 302 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: and it has the name of her bakery. Maybe it 303 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: was Hive Bakery, I don't remember. And it was about 304 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: how she was angry. Story was about how she was 305 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: angry with Trump supporters who had asked if she could 306 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: make cookies and cakes for the inauguration. Now, when you're 307 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: in business and people call you to order your product, 308 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: that is your lifeline. For you to go public and 309 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: talk about how much you hate those people, that's a 310 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: special level of anger underneath you. 311 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 3: You know. 312 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: Sometimes you'll see a dog it's been abused and they're 313 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: out in the road, and if you try to get 314 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: out and help that dog, if that dog has had 315 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: enough abuse, they'll do one of two things you wish. 316 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 1: They would say, Hey, I'm here to help you. We're 317 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: gonna get you some help. Come with me. Let me 318 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: pick you up. I'll cradle you in my arms and 319 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: I'll get you We're gonna get you some food, we'll 320 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: get you a safe place. We're gonna take care of you. 321 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: They will either run off frightened because the last person 322 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: that is a grown man abuse the hell out of you. 323 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: So they don't know that that's not going to continue. 324 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes they will snap at you. They're angry at you irrationally, 325 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: so right, they are not serving their own best interests, 326 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: but they don't know that. And if you don't know 327 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: any better, you may think, why why is that dog 328 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: barking at me? Why is that dog so mad at me? 329 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: You didn't do anything wrong. That's a rabid dog, that's 330 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: an abused dog. That dog arrived at this place in 331 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: this time in the history of the world that you 332 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: just happened to coincide with. You didn't do anything wrong. 333 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: And once you begin to understand, you don't have to 334 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 1: be angry at a person like that, you don't have 335 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: to resent them. The nice neighbor concept we suffer from 336 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: is a lot of especially white people and particularly white women, 337 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: suburban white women, they will feel so awful if they're 338 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: called names. I don't want anybody to be scared just 339 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: because you're LGBTQ and all those things. I don't want 340 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: anybody to hurt them because of that. Nobody's hurting them. Well, 341 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: they're scared. They're saying they're scared. They're also quietly behind doors, 342 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: saying that cuts your head off and drink your blood. 343 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: What do you think of that. They're also trying to 344 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: import the rest of the world to replace you because 345 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: they hate you. They're also trying to take your little 346 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: boy chops winner off and make him an angry woman, 347 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: a woman who's very angry. They're also trying to make 348 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: girls into boys. They cut their muscle in their thigh, 349 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: leaving a massive gaping hole and scar, and then they 350 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: put a lump, a little stump which they attach to 351 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: the pubic area to make it look like a peter 352 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: but it doesn't function, so you get none of the 353 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: fun from it. That's who we're talking about here. And 354 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: you think that person is scared. Did that person seem 355 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: scared lecturing Donald Trump? Did she seem scared in the 356 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 1: video you see behind her mask talking about how Trump 357 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: has to go. These are the people that call for 358 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: Trump's head. Kathy Griffin will tell you she's scared, as 359 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: she appears on every magazine cover holding ahead a life life, 360 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: a lifelike version of Donald Trump's head with blood dripping 361 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: off and a blade in the other hand, as if 362 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: she's just decapitated him. But she'll tell you she's scared. 363 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: You've got to stop underestimating these rabid dogs because they'll 364 00:24:54,920 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 1: bite you at least chairs Keith and around. Damn it 365 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: all right, this is Mark Chestnut, enjoyed Bizaar of talk 366 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: radio vir Joe Caine is amazing. I served on the 367 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: Danville trae so so much. Calaly came and pulled off 368 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: the tracks again, and the men around sixty five we 369 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: were hungry. Just Ben in Live by Me, the tenth 370 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: Missman that fail. It's a time out of Denber move 371 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: so well. They drove all Lixi down and the mails 372 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:57,719 Speaker 1: were ringing. They drove all Dixie down, and the people 373 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: were stacking them. When Bill Morale has made a name 374 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: for himself over the last few years, while he's still 375 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: a white liberal, at some point you can either pretend 376 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: that the craziness isn't happening, or you can say, guys, hey, 377 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 1: you're ruining our brand. He's chosen to do that. This 378 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: is a clip where he's making a point about California 379 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: Democrats are saying, hey, with all these fires, we're gonna 380 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: let you rebuild faster without dragging you through the mud, 381 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: without all the silly red tape, we want you to 382 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: build back. And the point is, well, well, then why'd 383 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: you have that stuff there? You allowed that nonsense to 384 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: happen when it didn't need to happen. Otherwise, if that's 385 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 1: the system, why don't we enforce that system for the 386 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 1: rebuilding of California after all these houses are burned down. 387 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: I mean, if those provisions were there to protect people, 388 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: we don't want to just wipe them out. We want 389 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: to keep them there. We want to be really protected. 390 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: And sure, if it takes seven years to build a house, 391 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 1: that's okay, right, but see when there's a lot of 392 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: houses that need to be built, then you have to 393 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: look at the regulations. 394 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 3: And go. 395 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: You're right. So during the lockdown here in COVID under 396 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: Greg Abbot, who is no conservative, they said Greg Abbot said, oh, well, 397 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: you can do liquor sales to go. Wait, why are 398 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: you allowing liquor sales to go. Won't liquor sales to 399 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: go cause everybody to die? I mean, we can't allow 400 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 1: liquor sales to go. That would be the worst thing ever. 401 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: So why are you allowing it now? Because you're trying 402 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: to mitigate some of the hassle people were going through 403 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: because with so many restaurants closed and so many people 404 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: accustomed to going to a bar to have a drink, 405 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: now people were getting angry. So oh, well, we'll we'll 406 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: let the bar make some money off the liquor they've 407 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: got stocked, and we'll let the consumer have the liquor 408 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: that they normally would have gone to the bar for. 409 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: Because you've made it hell on the bars. But if 410 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 1: you could do that, then why could you do that forever? 411 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: If you tell me that the reason you couldn't do 412 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: it was because it would be the end of the 413 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: world we'd all die, well, then by all means, don't 414 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: make an exception now right Anyway, this is what Bill 415 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: Moore had to say. 416 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 3: I followed your journey trying to get the necessary permits 417 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 3: to take down a shed in your backyard over a 418 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 3: period of I believe more than a year, and that's 419 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 3: what I. 420 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: Had to build. 421 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 2: I this is for the solar, trying to get the 422 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 2: solar hooked up, which by the way, is what the 423 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 2: state wants you to do. 424 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 3: If it took you a year, and going on television 425 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 3: every week shaming the state to build a shed for 426 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 3: solos to get solar panels. When you look at the 427 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 3: red tape, with the Coastal Commission, with building in safety, 428 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 3: with all of the rigor borol you have to go 429 00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 3: through to build a house, and especially after HILLSI it's 430 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 3: may be compromised and whatnot. And you look at the 431 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 3: scope of this, how optimistic are you that that could 432 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 3: change enough so that LA can rebuild. 433 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: I always think there's a middle of the road, actual 434 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 2: practical solution everything. And for this, I would say, was 435 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,479 Speaker 2: California's uber progressive politics. 436 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 4: The cause of this fire? 437 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: Of course not did it impede them to some degree? 438 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's the margin of error I'm saying we can't 439 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 4: abide by anymore. 440 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: Now. 441 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 4: As far as the red tape, I see that they're 442 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 4: all newsome baths. 443 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 2: They're all saying we're going to cut red tape, as 444 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 2: if they're doing us a favor. 445 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 4: My question is, well, if you can do it now, 446 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 4: why don't you always do it? Obviously it can be done. 447 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 4: It's not a favor to us to cut the red tape. 448 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 4: Why do we live in this state in this red 449 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 4: tape nightmare? The other times of the year when we're 450 00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 4: not on fire. 451 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: That's the whole point, isn't it. Nobody seems to care. 452 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: When I was on city council, I became known to 453 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: the construction and development real estate communities as the guy 454 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: who would help you get a reasonable response from city government. 455 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: And so somebody would want that were redoing let's say, 456 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: an old building, not a historic building, but an old 457 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: building that had been derelict for twenty thirty years, and 458 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: they'd come in and they were going to redo this 459 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: building and make it into some retail on the first 460 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: floor and office on the second and third. And what 461 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: happens is you get this property under contract, then you 462 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: take ownership of it, and the meter starts running because 463 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: you're not making any money on it. It's bleeding cash, 464 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: and your burn rate is always faster than you expected 465 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: it to be, always higher than you expected it to be, 466 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: and so you start looking at man, I'm gonna run 467 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: out of money before I can get this thing open. 468 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: And the city would invariably say, well, that those toilets 469 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: are built four inches from the wall. They need to 470 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: be six the building is sixty years old. Yeah yeah, 471 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: that was code at the time. Yeah yeah. But for 472 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: you to get a new occupancy permit you're going to 473 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 1: have to bring it up to code. Bringing buildings up 474 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: to modern code that were up to code when they 475 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: were built makes the deal undoable. It doesn't work anymore. 476 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: And everybody thinks that business decisions or you know, these 477 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: are just these people making decisions on dollars and cents. 478 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: How do you choose what vehicle you buy? Do you 479 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: go buy a Rolls Royce? Why not? How dare you 480 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: make a decision for what works with your budget? How 481 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: do you choose where you eat tonight? How do you 482 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: choose where you go on vacation? How do you choose 483 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: what clothes you make? We all make decisions based on 484 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: this unit of exchange and how much of it we have. 485 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: So a deal that made sense, there may be sixty 486 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: toilets in that building, and people think, well, it's a 487 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: big corporation. A big corporations still have to make a profit. 488 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: But a lot of these deals are a small guy 489 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 1: and this is his big leap. He bundled together all this, 490 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: He got a bank loan, he got some investors, and 491 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: he's in trouble now. And so I'd go to the 492 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: permitting department with a very very reasonable head of the 493 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: permitting department named Bobby Oaks. Very reasonable. I will never 494 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 1: let anybody criticize Bobby Oaks because I saw that man 495 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: step in and say, hey, look guys, let's find a 496 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: way to read the code to get this deal done. 497 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: Very reasonable, exactly what you want a bureaucrat. I think 498 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: he's retired now, but he was the best bureaucrat down there, 499 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: the best borrow none. He was fanning tasting, but businesses 500 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 1: would say, hey, man, get this thing done for me. 501 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get more tax dollars into the city. 502 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get a business opening. And I'd say, 503 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: you don't understand. They're government officials. They don't care. And 504 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: once you understand that, it all makes sense.