1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Uh, yes, always good to start with the little Edward 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: Hawkins singers. Yes indeed seven one three nine nine nine 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand. Once spent 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars on a limo. Ever tell you the story, Jim. 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: I spent three hundred dollars on a limo and I 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: found out that fee didn't cover a driver. I couldn't 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: believe it. I spent all that money and I had 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: nothing to show for it. I had nothing to chow 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, buddy of mine was dating a cannibal. 10 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: I said that's weird. He said it's okay. She finally 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: convinced him to sleep over. She's a cannibal. She promised 12 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: to make him breakfast in the morning. And to get 13 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: us started seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, 14 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: your call seven won three nine nine nine one thousand 15 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: to get us started as we always do, courtesy the 16 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: greatest executive producer in all the land, Shadow Koni Nakanishi, 17 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: your week in review. I'm bad to the ball, Bad 18 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: to the ball. My friend's got Kutaj sent me a message. Unprompted. 19 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: He sends me a picture of Ted Dibiassi wearing a 20 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: black leather jacket with sparkles on him, and he wrote, 21 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: Junkyard Dog was the best man in Ted Dibiassi's wedding. 22 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Just thought you should know, And now I can't stop 23 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: thinking about that. 24 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: A historic moment in the Middle East, as world lars 25 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 2: signed a deal formalizing a ceasefire in Gosspep. 26 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: The historic day in Israel is the twenty remaining hostages 27 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: take him by him off two years ago, are making 28 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 1: the way home. 29 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,639 Speaker 3: And after so many years of unceasing war and analyst danger, 30 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 3: today this guy's are calm, The guns are silent, the 31 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy 32 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: land that is finally at peace, a land. 33 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: This is the most amazing thing is this is This 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: is history in the making. Who would have believed he 35 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: could do this. He's pulled it off, and the whole 36 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: world is watching and celebrating. State departments has revoked the 37 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: visas of six people over accusations that they praised or 38 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: celebrated the assassination of Charlie. 39 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 4: Kirk, parrying them no one will welcome in the United States. 40 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: Social media posts the State Department listed examples from six 41 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: people who had their visas revoked. They were from Argentina, 42 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 1: South Africa, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil and Germany. Get them out. 43 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 4: You know. 44 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: I hope that Donald Trump can inspire some other people 45 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: to grow a set and find a spine and continue 46 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: when he's gone, because a lot of people are doing 47 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: what they're doing because Trump is president. But they would 48 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: never of themselves, Suisponte do the things that they're doing now. 49 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 2: Texas A and M fans and one drunk fan in particular, 50 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,279 Speaker 2: after university police started posting their arrests on x it reads. 51 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 5: Aggie Park contacted subjects eating a sandwich with a water 52 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 5: jug of whiskey BAC was point three thirty seven released 53 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 5: to EA. 54 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: This dude was really really dangerously drunk to the phone lines. 55 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: We go in just a moment, we will get to 56 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: the John Bolton issue, who has now been indicted. After 57 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: mar A Lago was rated by the FBI, John Bolton 58 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: demanded that the Department of Justice quote move as rapidly 59 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: as possible end quote to prosecute President Trump over what 60 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: turned out to be a hoax related to classified documents 61 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: they claimed were being held at his home. Well, John 62 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: Bolton is now being indicted for keeping classified documents at 63 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: his home and a whole lot more. Nolan, Nolan, you 64 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: are on the Michael Berry Show. 65 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 6: Go ahead, sir, Oh good mornings. Are how you doing today, 66 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 6: sir good? That's great. Sound you sound all perky and happy. 67 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 6: I was listened to you yesterday and you were talking 68 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 6: about how, you know, you like to listen to people 69 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 6: that tell good stories and be able to make a 70 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 6: good story. My wife and I we we're busy writing 71 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 6: and she's just finishing up a Spanish novel and I 72 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 6: finish up a sci fi novel called Dinosaurs Sphere, and 73 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 6: I learned a lot just in the process of telling stories. 74 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 6: I wanted to make it where you could write a 75 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 6: roller coaster, start off at the station, ice and calm, 76 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 6: and have those highs and lows, you know. But it 77 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 6: also gave me an insight into life. And I think 78 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 6: that listening to you and how your weave stories is 79 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 6: just really a beautiful effort. And what you do and 80 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 6: how you with your double logger degrees, I mean, wow, 81 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 6: what a storyteller. 82 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that. I enjoy the process of telling 83 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: stories and hearing stories. It's it's perhaps my favorite way 84 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: to learn. You know, you learn a lot about yourself, 85 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: and maybe you change over the years, but I was 86 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: once a book reader learner. That was my primary means. 87 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: Maybe that's just because that's all that was really available. 88 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: And then in time as I grew older, I found 89 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: that it was exchanges with other people where I learned 90 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: the most, and I supplement that with documentaries and sort 91 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: of that visual medium. But I still find that the 92 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: hearing and telling of stories is I think it's in 93 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: our DNA. I think it's a big part of who 94 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: and what we are. When does your book publish? 95 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 6: I published it in December last year, twenty twenty four. 96 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 6: It's on Amazon. It's called The Dinosaurs Sphere, The Nemacs Emerge. 97 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 6: It's set in a world where the asteroid missed the Earth. 98 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 6: Dinosaur are as common to us as deer in the fields, 99 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 6: but we live in the fenced in walled cities, and 100 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 6: it takes place within that world. It's a story of 101 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 6: a bloom power worker. He works along the fence and 102 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 6: the wall, and he's got an eight month pregnant wife 103 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 6: and the events unfold. So so it's set in a 104 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 6: world with dinosaurs, but not necessarily about dinosaurs. 105 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: I can't ask him how it ends, Jim, So, I 106 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: can't find it listed under dinosaur sphere. 107 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 6: Look up, look up noland tally n O l A 108 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 6: n d p A l l u y. Yeah. 109 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: Paid the dinosaur's spear not not sphere. Okay, all right, 110 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: the s with the f backed up sounded to me 111 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: like a sphere as in spherical, but in fact it 112 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: is the dinosaur's fear. The new mac yeah emerge. 113 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 6: Okay, yes, sir, what does that mean? 114 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: What does that mean? The Nemax emerged? 115 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 6: The nemax is a creature that has always been used 116 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,679 Speaker 6: to scare the children. You know, stay out of the jungle, 117 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 6: stay inside the walls, and pnosaurs is gonna get you, 118 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 6: and there's the Nemax out there. Well, come to find 119 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 6: out there was some truth to fairy tales. 120 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: Is nemax plural? 121 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 6: Uh no, it's a singular creature. 122 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: Well, why is it the nemax emerge? 123 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 6: Well, because the whole group of nemacs nemax is would 124 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 6: be a little uncomfortable. But the creature itself is known 125 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 6: as the. 126 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: Nex interest Okay, this is all very new to me. 127 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not as well. How'd you come up 128 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: with the name Paul yell At or the fence maintenance worker. 129 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 6: Oh well, Paul has always been a sort of a 130 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,559 Speaker 6: calm name that I've always people that are named Paul 131 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 6: is kind of like a center and in a society. 132 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 6: And you, well, I was starving for a name, so 133 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 6: I just turned my name around. 134 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: Oh well, there you go. Yeah, how about that? And 135 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: then uh, the wife is that Sarah or sarral uh cel? 136 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: And where'd that come from? 137 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 6: Oh it was I didn't want to sit like we 138 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 6: were in a modern day world, and Sarah Sarah. It 139 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 6: just had a sweet rain. Hmm. 140 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: Okay, very cool. 141 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 6: Good for you. 142 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: Not an easy thing to do to finish a book. 143 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: I appreciate your compliment. Good sir, thank you for the call. 144 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: I uh right. I will often refer when when when 145 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: someone has to give a speech and they'll ask me 146 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: for advice. I keep it pretty simple. Or a presentation 147 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: or host of podcast, I say, tell stories easier said 148 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: than done. But when you embrace the concept of telling stories, 149 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: you have an endless reservoir of content to share. Everybody's 150 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: got stories, no matter if you go to prison, you've 151 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: got stories. If you're a maintenance worker, you've got stories. 152 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: If you're a mechanic. Stories cops get all the stories. 153 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: I mean anything there's a television show of is stories 154 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: of that. And I always go back to that great 155 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: line from Ed Sable, the founder of NFL Films, and 156 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: when he handed the company over to Steve Sable, his son. 157 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 1: You remember, NFL Films made those great films on a 158 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: bluff Stories Sunday. Was it Frank for Kenda? What was 159 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: the guy's named, John Fakenda? I think it's I don't 160 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: know if to see is hard or soft. It's either 161 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: Faceenda or for Kenda, but I think it might be anyway. 162 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,719 Speaker 1: But they would do those big NFL films that make 163 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: them gladiators in the arena rather than just football players. 164 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: And Ed Sable, when he retired from the business, he 165 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: would give speeches to business groups and he would talk 166 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: about the art of storytelling, how powerful storytelling is to 167 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: the human experience. And his line was, tell me a 168 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: fact and I'll learn it. Tell me the truth and 169 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: I'll believe it. But tell me a story and it'll 170 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: live in my heart forever. And I think that's true. 171 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: I think that when you embrace the art of telling 172 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: your stories, good thing Settlement one thousand Michael Barry show, well, 173 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: further proof that it's all performative art. There's nothing really 174 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: to any of it. It's just silliness. It's the carnival. 175 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: Harris County Democrats decided to protest the removal of the 176 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: rainbow crosswalk in Montrose. So Molly Cook, Rodney Ellis, Jene Wu, 177 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: Leslie Brions, and Abby Cohman. Yeah, their protel you can't 178 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: take our rainbow in the crosswalk away. This is very upsetting. 179 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: We're all here, gay people. Do you all notice we're 180 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: all here? Y'all see it? 181 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 6: Remember us? 182 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: Remember us? When's the election time? Remember us? We're the 183 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: ones here. You think anybody actually cares about that rainbow crosswalk? No, 184 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: they don't. They don't give one damn not one, not 185 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: a single one. Nobody cares. Nobody is thinking, well, life's 186 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: tougher when you're gay, because it is. And I know 187 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: that some people will never like me, and I know 188 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: that some people will never understand me, and I know 189 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 1: that that people think I'm a weirdo, and some people 190 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: choose not to be my friend because of it, And 191 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: no matter how hard I try, some people are never 192 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: really going to get comfortable around me and all those 193 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: things they feel unfair and wrong, and I wish I 194 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: could fix it, But I just have one bit of 195 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: abiding comfort, and that's that they put a rainbow on 196 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: a crosswalk over in Montrose. I live in bel Air, 197 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: but that's okay. I know I always have. I'm sustained 198 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: by the knowledge of the crosswalk. It is. It is 199 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: the crosswalk that gives me. Yeah. Yeah, that. So the 200 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: Harris kind of Democrats are saying, hey, look, the crosswork 201 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: crosswalk is really important to you, which we're trying to 202 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: remind you of that in case you forget now. Our 203 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: policies have also made it such that you're far more 204 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: likely to be carjacked, mugged, murdered, dry by shooting because 205 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: our policies have allowed for that. But none of that matters. 206 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: We just want you to know that your identity as 207 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: a gay dude, we really, really, really care about it, 208 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: and that's why we slap some paint on the crosswalk. Yes, yes, 209 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: and not the usual paint. The usual paint is for 210 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: straight people. You know, the yellow and the white, the 211 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: one way and the two way, and you know we 212 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: know what that's for. Yeah, Well, we're here for you 213 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: to have your own painting, because the yellows and the 214 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: whites are not for you. And we want you to 215 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: know that this is really, really, really important. So we've 216 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: made sure that all the newspapers will hear or this 217 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: only one the magazines, I mean, the news stations are 218 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: here and a photo journalist and we're gonna we're gonna 219 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: capture this moment and and we've we've written some things 220 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna say about this moment, about the rainbow flag, 221 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: because that's important to you, because the rainbow painting on 222 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: the crosswalk is really the only thing we can offer you, 223 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: because our policies will get you killed and take all 224 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,479 Speaker 1: your money and and nothing will actually work. But but 225 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: but but we want to keep you focused on the crosswalk. Yes, yes, 226 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: let's give that a Listen. 227 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 4: We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it. 228 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 4: It's fun to be out. It's fun to be queer 229 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 4: in Houston. Oh my god, An, if they do, you'll 230 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 4: have a promise for me. Now. 231 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: She's so strong, Jim, She's so strong. Listen to her. 232 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: She's just just stronger. Word, get it. 233 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 6: Girl, she is so strong. 234 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: She's share her voice is not cracking. She's not hiding, 235 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: she's she's being tough and strong. I'm brave and courageous 236 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: to start that over. That's whoa, that's good man, that's tough. 237 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 4: You go girl, And we are queer. We love ourselves 238 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 4: for it. It's fun to be out, it's fun to 239 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 4: be queer. And he's yes, And if they do pick 240 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 4: up this sidewalk, you'll have a promise from me that 241 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 4: I'm gonna work every single day and till. 242 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 2: The day we gather right back here. 243 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 7: And yes, if we lose the. 244 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: Battle and you have to hold on, hold hold right there. 245 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: Just it's just a bye god minute. She just made 246 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: a solemn swear that she's going to work every single 247 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: day until that crosswalk is back and we can gather 248 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: back here in celebration. So I'm just gonna go ahead 249 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: and warn you right now. Two weeks from now, you 250 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: call her office, Hey, you want to go to lunch? 251 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: Can't do it? Why so, Stern, I'm working as I 252 00:15:55,920 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: have every day for two weeks and will makes me 253 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: ten years. I am working to get the paint put 254 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: back on the crosswalk. That is the proper colors to 255 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: trigger the right people. Oh well, well, couldn't you work 256 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: on it tomorrow and yesterday but take today off? Nope, 257 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: every single day I will work on this crosswalk. This 258 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: will be my crosswalk to bear. I will work on 259 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: it every single day. It's what I will do, this crosswalk, 260 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: this paint. Sure nobody even knew it was here. Sure 261 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: nobody else in the region ever drives over here to 262 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: look at it. But I have decided to make this 263 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: a really really big issue, as if it is really 264 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: really important, and somebody might actually that had to be stupid, 265 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: but somebody might actually end up giving a damn about it. 266 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: And I want those people to believe right now, based 267 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: on my constant statements and just over the top seriousness, 268 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: such a silly thing, they might believe it. Okay, let's 269 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: hear that again. 270 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 2: Work every single day, the whole. 271 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: Thing, the whole thing. This is good right here. 272 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 4: WHOA we are Houston. We are queer. We love ourselves 273 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 4: for it. It's fun to be out. 274 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,959 Speaker 2: It's fun to be queer in Houston. Do pick up 275 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: this sidewalk. 276 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 4: You'll have a promise for me that I'm gonna work 277 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 4: every single day until the day we gather right back 278 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 4: here and paint. 279 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: It back yeah, I love one of those moments, you know, 280 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: were kind of biting down and taking like, yeah, I 281 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: could tell she's gonna fight. You know what, I'm mad 282 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 1: right now over this paint in the sidewalk. Like there's 283 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: nobody there, it's just the cameras. But if I'm sitting 284 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: at home, Oh, you're sitting at home, you got your 285 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: dog there, you're eating your cheerios, you're watching your TV. 286 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: You're like, well, I'm gay. Well they talking about, oh, paintings, 287 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: a stupid sidewalk thing. Nobody gay cares about the sidewalk thing, dude. 288 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: But whatever, Oh what is who's this woman? Oh? Oh 289 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 1: she's oh and she's okay, so she's she's making a lot. 290 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: Does she think I care about that? I guarantee you 291 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: that's what people are saying. I'll guarantee you. I guarantee 292 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: that's what Kay Davis saying. I guarantee that someone three 293 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: nine nine, nine, one thousand, the Michael Berry Show. Imagine 294 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: that Harris County Democrats. They actually they actually planned this out. 295 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: Hey guys, we haven't been in the news for a while. Yeah, 296 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: because we don't do anything. Nobody cares about us. 297 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 6: I know. 298 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 1: But but let's have a press conference at the crosswalk. 299 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: It'll be the new George Floyd. Here is where the 300 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: crosswalk used to be painted the colors of the rainbow, 301 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: and now it's just a regular old crosswalk. White. It's 302 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: a white crosswalk. The whitewashing our crosswalk. You know, we 303 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: the Harrison County Democrat leadership, we used to come here. 304 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: We didn't make a big fuss about it. But now 305 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: we're telling you. We used to come here and we'd 306 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: stand on one side of the street and the signal 307 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: would change and we would all walk across it. We 308 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: kind of swish a little, and we'd say, yes, this 309 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: is for gay people. And that's how you know we 310 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: like the gay people and we want their votes, because 311 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,719 Speaker 1: we would come to this crosswalk and we would cross 312 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: over it. Sometimes we'd walk over it. I don't know 313 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 1: ten twenty times. We would just cross over and cross back. 314 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: And that was our way, our own quiet, silent, but strong, 315 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: brave way of saying, gay people, we want your vote, 316 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: vote on your gayness, not our horrible policies. That's what 317 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: we would do, all right, let's hear it, Jimbo, is 318 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: it not playing? 319 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 6: All right? 320 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: See, we've been silenced. Okay, well, when it starts working 321 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: and you let me know. 322 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 4: We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it. 323 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 4: It's fun to be out. It's fun to be queer 324 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 4: in Houston. And if they do pick up this sidewalk, 325 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 4: you'll have a promise for me. 326 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: Doesn't she make it sound fun. It's not like she's 327 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: trying it all. It's fun to be queer. It's fine, 328 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: We're in fine everybody. You sound fun. You sound like 329 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 1: a barrel of lass. I bet you're a lot of fun. 330 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: It's fun to be quere. It's not bad, it's good. Okay, Well, 331 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: what does that have to do with the crosswalk? If 332 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: it's fun to be queer, and I don't doubt that 333 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: it is, I'm sure it's good for you. Do you 334 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: need a crosswalk? Do you need a crosswalk? Because you 335 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: know what you don't have is a crosswalk to commemorate 336 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: sitting on my fat ass Saturday all day watching football. 337 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: I don't need that. I don't have to show up 338 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: and tell you it's fun. I just choose to do it. 339 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 1: When I have a hundred other things I can do, 340 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,719 Speaker 1: That's what I choose to do. So I don't need 341 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: a sidewalk a crosswalk to commemorate that fact. I don't 342 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: need to tell you how fun it is. Kind of 343 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: odd that you do. Actually, kind of odd. It's kind 344 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: of odd that they think anybody cares, because I submit, 345 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: nobody gay cares about the crosswork. Nobody. These are the 346 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: sorts of things that people do to keep you from 347 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: watching how much money your government is stealing, how much 348 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: power they are continuing to exert over you, their own 349 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,360 Speaker 1: self dealing, their own inside deals, the situations they make. 350 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: All right, go ahead. 351 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 4: We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it. 352 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 4: It's fun to be out. 353 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 2: It's fun to be queer in Houston. 354 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 4: And if they do pick up this sidewalk, you'll have 355 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 4: a promise from me that I'm gonna work every single 356 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 4: day until the day we gather right back here and 357 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 4: paint it back. 358 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 7: If we lose the battle and you have to, we 359 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 7: have to take this off the street, you'll put it 360 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 7: on your house. You go and put it on the 361 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 7: your side street and stick it out window. 362 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, to Rodney actually talks. We have to find 363 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: Rodney is a very very smart guy. Very smart guy, 364 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: well educated, hangs out with with with rich sophisticated, uh 365 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 1: New York Wall streeters, and I think he got his 366 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: I think he got his pandurin confused. He showed up, 367 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I gotta give a speech, okay, and 368 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: they he thought he was going out to a group 369 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: of poor blacks, but instead this is gay people, and 370 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: that's mostly white gay people. For something like this, that's 371 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: gonna be white gay people. You're not gonna see a 372 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: lot of black people show up and then Rodney shows up. 373 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 5: If they take this off the streets, I want you 374 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 5: to put one on your house, and I want that 375 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 5: rainbow to be on your house when people drive out 376 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 5: there like that's a rainbow, Yes, my rainbow. 377 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: There's my rainbow. You can't have my rainbow. This is 378 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: my rainbow. We loud and proud over here and out 379 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: who without rainbow? No, no, no, no, roddy. That's this 380 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: is This is actually white professional people who live in 381 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: Montrose and the Heights. They're they're not really talking that way. 382 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: In fact, they're kind of finding it odd that you are, 383 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: because they know that that's not how you normally talk. 384 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: So maybe let's dill all that back. 385 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 2: Let's hear him again, ain't back here and paint it back. 386 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 7: If we lose the battle and you have to, we 387 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 7: have to take this off the street. You put it 388 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 7: on your house, on your house, You go and put 389 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 7: it on a yard sign. 390 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: There's one person clapping. You roll down, you put it 391 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: on your house. 392 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 2: To the day we gather right back here and paint 393 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 2: it back. 394 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 7: If we lose the battle and you have to, we 395 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 7: have to take this off the street. 396 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,479 Speaker 1: You put it on your house. Right, you go and 397 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: put it on. 398 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 7: A yard side. You roll down the street and stick 399 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 7: it out. 400 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: Your car when it happened. 401 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 7: Whatever angle they come up with, we have to find another. 402 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: Yes, the state is on the edge. Major, we'll show them. 403 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: We'll put yard signs. Yes. This is so absurd and 404 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: so ridiculous. It's a wonder there's not a revolution over 405 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: the whole of it. This is John Cornyn. This, this 406 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: is what John Cornyn does. You find some meaningless nothing 407 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,479 Speaker 1: burger and you parade it around. 408 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 5: Look it, man, I really care about the crosswalk. 409 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: Really, So you're saying that if as long as the 410 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: crosswalk stays here, everybody won't put yard signs. If they 411 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: pick up that yard and how about him telling people 412 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: to do that. Are you gonna do it? Rodney? Here's 413 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: what I want y'all to do, you stupid idiots. I 414 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: want y'all to do this, this, this, this, this, this, 415 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: and this while I'm down at Harris County Commissioner's Court. 416 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: Get rich, bitch. I put Lena in, I'm taking Lena out. 417 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get rich. But oh, in the meantime, y'all, 418 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: what's this? 419 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 6: What's the flying what's it? What's what is? What is 420 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:34,439 Speaker 6: the deal? 421 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yeah, the flying flag are important.