1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. 2 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: The Michael Verie Show is on the air. That Representative 3 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: Brian Harrison as our guest. He has been. 4 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 3: You know, the reason you've got to have a Ted 5 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 3: Cruise in the Senate, the reason you've got to have 6 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 3: a Matt Gates or a Marjorie Taylor Green. They don't 7 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 3: like to let them have a leadership position because it 8 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 3: shames everyone else for what they're up to. The reason 9 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 3: you have to have somebody like this Tom Ramsey on 10 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: Harris County Commission's Court, even if you only have one, 11 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 3: they have access and they can blow the thing open 12 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 3: because reporters don't know what's happening behind the scenes. Journalists 13 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 3: can't in many cases don't want to do that, but 14 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 3: especially now in the democratized era of the citizen journalist, 15 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 3: Brian Harrison with a Twitter feed can post off and 16 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 3: now we all know what's going on in a way 17 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 3: that Dustin Burroughs and the Rhinos don't want you to 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 3: know what the Democrats are up to. And we're going 19 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 3: to talk about property tax relief, which I think is 20 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: the biggest issue we should be addressing, and nothing will 21 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 3: be done, I assure you that. But first, Brian Harrison, 22 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 3: I read it. For six years, you were a laboratedoodle breeder. 23 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 3: How in the world does that happen? 24 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 4: Well, that's an interesting story. 25 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 5: Yes, my wife fell in love with these cute little 26 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 5: Australian multi generation labradoodles and we kind of made a deal. 27 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 5: They're crazy expensive. We said, well, what if we get 28 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 5: two of them and as a hobby we start breeding them, 29 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 5: And so she she talked me into doing that and 30 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 5: it was a hobby that we kind of fell in 31 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 5: love with for a couple of years. We did it 32 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 5: while we were both working, so it was not like 33 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 5: that was what I did for for six years. We 34 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 5: did that as a side She worked, she works in 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 5: oil and gas. I had other jobs. 36 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 2: How much does one? 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 4: And then it was a real blessing because my wife. 38 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 5: But one point I want to make about this, It 39 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 5: was a real blessing that we had that little hobby 40 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 5: business because my wife was diagnosed with cancer just a 41 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 5: few weeks after her dad died from cancer. So it 42 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 5: was a real blessing that we had that hobby as 43 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 5: a business to get us buy for a couple of 44 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 5: years while I was able to stay home with her 45 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 5: when she was she was pregnant, had cancer and so 46 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 5: I was able to stay home with her and the kids. 47 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 4: So that business was a real blessing to my family. 48 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 2: We did, we did. So what is one of them 49 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 2: sell for? 50 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 5: Well, it's been a few years since I sold that business. 51 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 5: But they're going for I mean, they're not They're not 52 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 5: super cheap. I think you're I think you're around three thousand. 53 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 4: Dollars for one of those puppies. 54 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 2: And how many in an average litter. 55 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 4: You could have anything from one to thirteen and. 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: How many and okay, so how many? How many dogs 57 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 3: could you sell in the year the business has gone? 58 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 3: These are all public, it's all public information. 59 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 2: Brian, Well, I don't know. I don't remember the numbers, Michael, 60 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 2: but you. 61 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 5: Can sell several. I mean, we were I will say this, 62 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 5: we were. We were blessed with this little hobby business 63 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 5: and it did generate income for us while we had it. 64 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 3: So here's what I don't understand. You know, I'm fascinated 65 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 3: by I have a German shepherd lover to death. 66 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 2: She's fantastic. Her name is George. And and I grew 67 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: up with dogs. 68 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 3: I love dogs, and and and people's attach attachment to 69 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 3: dogs can be incredible. I've seen the veterans at Camp 70 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 3: Hope who come back with PTSD and what dogs can 71 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: do for them. But it's always interesting to me that 72 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 3: there'll be some dog that'll just pop up out of 73 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: nowhere and nobody's heard of, and then it's the most 74 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 3: popular thing in the world. 75 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: I never understood how that how that has spread. 76 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 3: I think it's suburban white women that they're like, I'm 77 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: getting and then it just spreads. 78 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: How what is it about the labradoodle that people love 79 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 2: so much? 80 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 5: Well, people will first of all, they're really intelligent dogs. 81 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 5: You got on that poodle and they're really have very 82 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 5: pleasant dispositions, high intelligence. And then a lot of people 83 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,279 Speaker 5: think because they don't shed. 84 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 4: A lot like how the dogs do, that there's less 85 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 4: allergy issues with them. So that was what attracted a 86 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 4: lot of folks that came to us. 87 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 5: And we had folks I'm not joking come to us 88 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 5: my wife and I from all over not just Texas, 89 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 5: but the country and the world because we ran a 90 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 5: very small, highly reputable, very ethical boutique breeding business, and 91 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 5: so people from all over the country in the world 92 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 5: would come to us. People had special needs they wanted 93 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 5: like an emotional support dog, or they had a child 94 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 5: with allergies. So it was a real joy to get 95 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 5: to improve the lives of people. And I've have been blessed, 96 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 5: as we've talked about, Michael, I've had blessed to serve 97 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 5: in government at lots of levels and at the highest levels, 98 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 5: you know, from school boards to the Oval office with 99 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 5: President Trump. But I was really proud and maybe one 100 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 5: of the highlights of my career was being able to 101 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 5: make money in the private sector with my family, voluntarily 102 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 5: having people voluntarily give give us money change for something 103 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 5: that improved the lives of them and of their family. 104 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 3: Is it true that when it was the breeding season, 105 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 3: in order to encourage them, you would put Verry White on. 106 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: It wasn't just very white little Kenny g oh. 107 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 2: Lit Kenny g this. 108 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 5: Well. 109 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so let me ask you. 110 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 5: This, Kate. 111 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 4: Depending on the day, all I hear. 112 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 3: About, I mean, the number one thing I hear about 113 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 3: is people you don't own your home in the state 114 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 3: of taxes, You could pay off your home and you're 115 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,679 Speaker 3: still paying property taxes keep. 116 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 2: Going up and up and up. 117 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 3: People are demanding that Republicans while we're in charge eighty 118 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 3: eight out of one hundred and fifty. And I'm hearing 119 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 3: you say nothing's going to be done, and yet they're 120 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 3: claiming that they're lowering our property taxes. Well, I'm looking 121 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 3: at the two checks and the check is bigger. So 122 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 3: what is the truth and what is happening? 123 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 5: Well, let me tell you what. You hit the nail 124 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 5: on the head, Michael. If you're a textan out there 125 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 5: right now and you got a mortgage or you paid 126 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 5: off your mortgage, either way, he probably have called yourself 127 00:05:59,040 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 5: a homeowner. 128 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,799 Speaker 4: But I got I've got some really, really devastating news 129 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 4: for you. If you're listening to this right now. 130 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 5: You may call yourself a homeowner in the state of Texas, 131 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 5: but you try not paying that bill at the end 132 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 5: of the year, and you're going to find out real 133 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 5: fast who owns your home? Okay, And it ain't you, 134 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 5: all right, everybody in the state of Texas, whether you 135 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 5: pay your morty's off or not, here's the facts. You 136 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 5: are just a renter and the government is your landlord. 137 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 5: And I'm sorry. Never ending property taxes. I can talk 138 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 5: about the finances of them, and I do a lot 139 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 5: of that, and well, we should talk about that in 140 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 5: the taxes. But this isn't just a financial issue to me. 141 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 5: This is an ethical issue, and it's a moral issue. 142 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 5: And it makes a mockery out of the notion of 143 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 5: private property rights because no Texan in the freedom loving 144 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 5: state of Texas can ever own their home or their property. 145 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 5: And I've got people in my office on my phone, 146 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 5: in my email every day, Michael in tears, fearful they're 147 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 5: going to lose a home or property that's been in 148 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 5: their houses, sometimes paid off for for generations. It's probably 149 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 5: the most untexting thing we do down here. And I'm 150 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 5: bent on eliminating these property taxes. And until then, we 151 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 5: at least got to make some damage and get them 152 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 5: down and do some common sense things like I've been 153 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 5: advocating we should we should make it illegal to raise 154 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 5: property taxes unless the voters approve them in an election. 155 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 5: And I've been harping on that for the three years 156 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 5: i've been down here. At least stop the increases. But 157 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 5: we can't even do that. 158 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 3: Well, you know very well, Uh, you've been there long 159 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 3: enough now, which is not very long, but you've been 160 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 3: around this process to know that what's going to happen 161 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 3: is that all these Republicans who voted for Burroughs, the 162 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 3: Democrat choice, Mono Dialla, Sam Harless, Lacey Hull, Will Metcalf, 163 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 3: all of them, they're going to come in at the 164 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 3: end of the session and they're going to say they're 165 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 3: going to come back and speak to their local associations, 166 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 3: and they're go man him, dad gum. Democrats say, hell, 167 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 3: didn't we just run out of time? But your point 168 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 3: is you were the Democrats sabotaged this this session and 169 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 3: you let them do it. You did it at their 170 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 3: direction is intentionally run out of time. So don't take 171 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 3: up any bills until. 172 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: The right go ahead. 173 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 4: You know you're you're exactly right. 174 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 5: So many of the Rhinos they're going to try and 175 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 5: blame the Democrats, but let's be honest. There ain't enough 176 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 5: Democrats in Austin to pass a birthday resolution unless Republicans 177 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 5: help them. Okay, the Democrats only have power because these 178 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 5: Rhinos voted to give it to them. 179 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 3: And so I just with me for just a moment. 180 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 3: I want to talk about what happened in Harris County. 181 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 3: I want to talk about this Bennie Swallow Bill that 182 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 3: fris cocaine filed district. 183 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 2: Brian Harrison's our guesting. 184 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: You are listening to Michael Barry Show, and you're running 185 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: down my countryman, you walk in on fight inside. 186 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 2: I'd be State Representative Brian Harrison as our guest. 187 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 3: He has been calling out what the Republicans are doing 188 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 3: as a Republican himself in the House, which is taking 189 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 3: vacations but no actions, and the session. 190 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 2: Will be over and it'll be two more years before 191 00:08:58,400 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 2: they meet again. 192 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 3: All this time spent campaigning and telling you all the 193 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 3: great things they're going to do, and then they do nothing. 194 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 3: With an eighty eight vote majority, eighty eight out of 195 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty state reps are Republicans, and yet 196 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 3: the Democrats are running the House. Brian Harrison, you tweeted 197 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 3: quote exposed House leadership quote unquote plans to keep almost 198 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 3: all of the surplus instead of using it to eliminate 199 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 3: property taxes. I'm very frustrated with property taxes, and I 200 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 3: think we're going to see we're reaching the critical mass 201 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 3: where people say, I don't want to live here, I 202 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 3: don't want to be part of this, and Republicans know 203 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 3: it and refuse to fix it. 204 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 5: Why is that, Well, because it's a lot easier to 205 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 5: talk about fixing it than to fix it, Michael. And 206 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 5: because what Austin, Texas as bad as Washington is, and 207 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 5: by the I've worked in both swamps, it may be 208 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 5: worse in Austin. They are the government officials down here, 209 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 5: both parties. They are addicted to your money. If you're 210 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 5: in the car driving to work or doing your job 211 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 5: right now, trying to earn a living, the people that 212 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 5: supposedly represents you, they are completely addicted to you sending 213 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 5: their money down your money down here so they can 214 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 5: waste it on their buddies, getting their buddies rich, and 215 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 5: so they can have lobbyist send them on junkets to 216 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 5: get two thousand dollars dinners every night. 217 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 4: And they give you one example. 218 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 5: They literally want and by the way, this is true 219 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:22,839 Speaker 5: in both the House and the Senate. I'm embarrassed to 220 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 5: say this. They want to keep property taxes five hundred 221 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 5: million dollars higher than they've got to be so that 222 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 5: they can give tax breaks to liberal Hollywood. 223 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: Michael. 224 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 5: I don't know a single Texan that supports that, but 225 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 5: that is what's going on down here. And so We've 226 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 5: got a twenty four billion dollar surplus, and I'm on 227 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 5: the House Appropriations Committee, and it took me a long time, 228 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 5: but I was finally able to get the budget staff 229 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 5: that works for Speaker Borroughs to confess, almost under duress 230 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 5: that even though we got a twenty four billion dollar 231 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 5: surplus and they're bragging that they're going to get six 232 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 5: billion of it back in property taxes, well I was 233 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 5: able to expend. First of all, six is embarrassed small, 234 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 5: that's pathetic. But the real number of the twenty four 235 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,559 Speaker 5: billion dollar surplus three point five. 236 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 2: Michael. 237 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 5: People aren't even going to see their property taxes go 238 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 5: down if we pass this thing. 239 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 4: It's it's a farce. 240 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 5: And I've got to expose this corruption because the only 241 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 5: reason we have a surplus. Folks got to remember this, 242 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 5: and here's talking about a surplus. A surplus just means 243 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 5: the government took more of your money than we needed 244 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 5: to run government. It's a pile of your money twenty 245 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 5: four billion dollars high, and as far as I'm concerned, 246 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 5: we need to return that to Texas taxpayers and every 247 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 5: single penny of it. 248 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 3: It's frustrating because we know that we're paying more. We 249 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: know that these are the salad days, so we know 250 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 3: there's a huge budget surplus. If they don't give it back, 251 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 3: what happens is eventually, if the Democrats are in power, 252 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 3: that becomes the baseline, and that becomes the new normal, 253 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 3: and we just can't keep paying. When you look at 254 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,439 Speaker 3: the big, big elephants in the room, the sacred cows, 255 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 3: that can be slashed because at some point we've got 256 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 3: to talk about spending cuts at the state. 257 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 2: What are the big areas that we could do that. 258 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 5: Well, let me throw some math out shehan. I'll try 259 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 5: to make this as simple as I can, because I 260 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 5: don't want to be one of these. There are some 261 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 5: forceunes of some people that just complain without solutions. Well, 262 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 5: let's talk. I want big property tax real life. Hell, 263 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 5: I want to eliminate property taxes. And for contact, for context, 264 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 5: the folks down here right now are talking about around 265 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 5: three billion dollars of a property tax relief package. To me, 266 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 5: that's a joke. That's embarrassing. It's not bold. I want 267 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 5: to be bold. We've got a twenty four billion dollar surplus. 268 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 5: That's the lowest of. 269 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 2: The low hanging fruit. 270 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 4: We should be starting at twenty four billion. 271 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 5: Next, I want to cut and undo this obscene tax 272 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 5: abatements that we passed last session to give tax breaks 273 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 5: to ul truck rich, billion dollar multinational woke companies to 274 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 5: relocate in taxes. We're going to give them property tax breaks. 275 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 5: Now I canna pay any property taxes. Meanwhile, the Mond 276 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 5: pause shot down the street that's been serving the community 277 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 5: for thirty years. They're paying full that's right, that's in more. 278 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 5: We couldn't end that. We can easily save ten more 279 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 5: billion dollars. Let's keep going. All of all public universities 280 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 5: they'll be talked about that are using tax payer dollars 281 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 5: to promote DEI and liberal gender ideology. If you're doing 282 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 5: that and you're sitting on top of a billion, you know, 283 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 5: forty billion dollar endowment, as far as I'm concerned, you 284 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 5: don't need any more tax money either. So we need 285 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 5: to take that. And that's about thirty billion dollars we 286 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 5: spend on higher edge. 287 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 4: Let's just say half of that. 288 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 5: That's fifteen plus ten, that's twenty five plus another twenty four. 289 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 5: That's almost fifty billion dollars that if I was running 290 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 5: the state and could wave a want, I could give 291 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 5: fifty billion dollars without breaking a sweat back to the 292 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 5: hard working, over taxed men and women of the great 293 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 5: state of Texas. That's the kind of bold leadership I 294 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 5: think they voted for. But you said, of Democrats run 295 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 5: the joint, they're going to spend so much in count 296 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 5: that in the baseline, Michael, we got to start being honest. 297 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 5: Republicans control every lever of power in Austin, and Republicans 298 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 5: for years down here have been spending money, growing government, 299 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 5: increasing spending, increasing taxes at rates that would make DC 300 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 5: Democrats blush. 301 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 3: And I've had it, and yet we don't really have 302 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 3: We've got bills coming out of the Senate. Okay, let's 303 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 3: take for instance, last week State Senator Joan Huffman. 304 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 2: She's passed it out three times. 305 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 3: And here we are again, a Bell reform bill that 306 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 3: in Harris County especially, you got bad guys. 307 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 2: We got a case. 308 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 3: Today they're back out on the streets before they're they're 309 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 3: sufficiently processed with a zero bond, a personal recognizance bond, 310 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 3: and they're back out on the street on their good word. 311 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 3: They've just committed murder, and we can't do anything about 312 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 3: it because Senator Hufman passes it through the Senate. Dan 313 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 3: Patrick gets it through the Senate, and it dies on 314 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 3: the House floor because they're worried about impeaching Paxton. 315 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 2: I don't see that changing. 316 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 5: Now. And in fact, just in the in the break, 317 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 5: I was talking to Ramon, your producer here. While the 318 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 5: Texas Senate has passed in the last few days, by 319 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 5: the way, the way, this proves the point that the 320 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 5: Constitution doesn't let us work because the Senate has already 321 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 5: passed a school choice bill. They've passed a property tax bill. 322 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 5: It needs to be bigger, but they passed one. And 323 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 5: I think today they're going to pass a bail bond 324 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 5: to keep text our streets safer. In the Texas House, 325 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 5: We're going to gavel in in thirty three minutes, and uh, 326 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 5: what are we going to do today? You know, I 327 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 5: think we're gonna pass maybe some birthday resolutions. Uh, if 328 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 5: they're feeling really ambitious, I mean, we may honor if you. Yeah, 329 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 5: I think some folks have had some anniversaries. We may, 330 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 5: we may, we may congratulate some folks on some anniversaries. 331 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 3: Well, you only the other year every two years for 332 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty days, so you know all those 333 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 3: things have built up. 334 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 5: You've got to prioritize those birthday resolutions and honor in 335 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 5: fake country singers like Beyonce. 336 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 4: That's what the only thing to. 337 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 3: Text Brian Harrison, Thank you, sir, State Representative Brian Harrison. 338 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 2: Appreciate you. 339 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 4: Michael God bless y'all. 340 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 2: Allow me to introduce by my name is mitter Michael 341 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 2: Berry genius. 342 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 3: If you remembered this as the theme song to the 343 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 3: show that aired from eighty five to eighty nine that 344 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 3: is credited with relaunching Sybil Shepherd's career and really kind 345 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 3: of launching Bruce. 346 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 2: Willis and the show, of course was Moonlighting Sherry wander name. 347 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 3: I got an email from Jennifer says, z are you 348 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 3: asked us to remind you to discuss Huffman Superintendent Benny Swallow. 349 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 3: Here's your reminder. Please keep my full name anonymous. It 350 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 3: may be off topic from what you intended to discuss. 351 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 3: But was curious about how the board members could get 352 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 3: him out without having to pay out his ridiculous contract. 353 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 3: I understand he's about three years into his four year contract. 354 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 3: It would obviously depend on what is in his contract, 355 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,719 Speaker 3: but hopefully they can gather some evidence that he has 356 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 3: violated his contract and get him out without paying him. 357 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 4: Further. 358 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 2: Time will tell. So here is the problem. 359 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 3: And you see this in every aspect of typically only 360 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 3: public officials. So you think of Jimbo at Texas A 361 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 3: and M. The payout for Jimbo as their football coach 362 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 3: when they blew him out, if I remember correctly, it 363 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 3: was something like seventy million dollars seventy plus and as 364 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 3: a result, and this is just what insiders tell me. 365 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 3: I don't know this to be true. I'm not a 366 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 3: Texas A and M insider. I read the stories, and 367 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 3: I talk to people on the board, big donors, and 368 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 3: and and I think those people kind of are that 369 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 3: they're not only the insider, they're as much a newsmaker 370 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 3: as the university per se itself because they have a 371 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 3: lot of influence on They got to write the checks. 372 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 3: But you take the case of Texas A and M 373 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 3: losing their baseball coach at the end of this last season, Sasnagel, 374 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 3: and he took A and M to the championship game. 375 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 3: It's a hell of a hell of a run. There 376 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 3: was a kid, remember that kid from Katie had the 377 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 3: great French name like La Follette or Lavaller or La 378 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 3: Vallier or what memory had a great name, Big old 379 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 3: white kid and strapping kid. Look at played middle linebacker, 380 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 3: just a little bit leaner, and I believe he was 381 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 3: a lefty and he just whatever he felt like it, 382 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 3: just stepped up and cranked Homers. That was a fun run. 383 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 2: It was, It was. 384 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 3: It was uncanny how this happened. But I decided to 385 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 3: start watching the Call World series. I am unashamed to say, Folks, 386 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 3: before I got to law school in nineteen ninety three, 387 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't own cassettes or CDs. CDs were 388 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 3: big at the time, and I was shocked when I 389 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 3: got there that everybody would say, hey, come check out 390 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 3: my CD collection, and you'd go to their apartment and 391 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 3: they'd have a they just have CDs, you know, stacked 392 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 3: and organized time. And then I had a little efficiency apartment. 393 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 3: I mean we were a young married couple paying for 394 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 3: two law schools, and I had my little efficiency apartment. 395 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 3: And I was the manager of the apartment complex. To 396 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 3: get to be assistant manager, to get to be to 397 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,360 Speaker 3: get free rent, and so my job was I had 398 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 3: to receive all the checks and mark them has paid. 399 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 3: And I had to clean the pool. Those were my tasks, 400 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 3: all right. The beauty of the job of cleaning the 401 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 3: pool is you have to study all the time. That's 402 00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 3: what law school is. You go to class and used 403 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 3: to and you really do. There's no goofing like you 404 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: do or you don't. You're not going to make it otherwise. 405 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 3: And so I could take a study break at eleven 406 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 3: o'clock at night. You know, I had the key to 407 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 3: get in the gate going there, and that'd be my 408 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 3: study break. Clean the pool next day, same deal. But 409 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 3: we would go to people's apartments. You'll be eight of 410 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 3: us or so, and they go in there and I 411 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 3: didn't remember. I didn't drink. So I was shocked how 412 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 3: much people drank. Wow, this is crazy. And the other 413 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 3: thing I was shocked by is everybody had a music 414 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 3: collection and I didn't, but. 415 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 2: Anyway they you know that. 416 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 3: People would say, you know, what's your favorite what's your 417 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 3: favorite Eagles album? And I'd go, you know, the greatest 418 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 3: hits and real music people look at you. 419 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 2: Like, the greatest hits? Are you kidding me? That's you know, 420 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 2: beneath you to do that you can't can't. 421 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 3: Have the greatest hits. That's just that's not done well. 422 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 3: I don't mind telling you that that. I would rather 423 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 3: have that amount of knowledge and move on. 424 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 2: Same thing. You know, real fans will tell you. 425 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 3: Like with basketball, I don't watch I don't really watch 426 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 3: much basketball anymore, but I used to. If nothing else, 427 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 3: I'd pick up at the playoffs and that's a good time. 428 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,479 Speaker 3: So last year, for whatever reason, I pick up watching 429 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 3: the College World Series. In first game I sit down 430 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 3: for no good reason to watch is the Aggies. And 431 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 3: it was a fun team and there were a lot 432 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 3: of kids from Houston, which made me, you know, connected 433 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 3: with them a little more. And I watched their run 434 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 3: and it was a magical run all the way to 435 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 3: the final, and they could have won it all. It 436 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 3: was an incredible They were up against the Juggernaut, and 437 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 3: I don't think that team was so much better than them, 438 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 3: although that team was phenomenal. But the Aggies lost their coach, Schlosnagel, 439 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 3: and I don't think he handled it well. 440 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 2: You know, he should have. 441 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 3: He should have allowed a couple of days to let 442 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 3: the dust settle and let the boys enjoy their victory. 443 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 3: But basically, you know, on the day of the championship, 444 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 3: there was the distraction of the news leaks that Schloasnagel 445 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 3: is going to join his buddy del Conti in Austin, 446 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 3: and everybody knew that they are thickest thieves, and del 447 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 3: Conti is going to spend whatever it takes to get 448 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 3: Schlasnagel to Austin because we got to get back to 449 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 3: the Augie Garito days and we got to win baseball game. 450 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 3: We got to win championships, and Schlasnagel can do that. 451 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 3: But the undercurrent that I heard from from a number 452 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 3: of Aggies was the reason they were able to do 453 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 3: that was that Schlasnagel was I like, saying Schlosnagel makes 454 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 3: me feel. 455 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 2: Like I'm traveling in Germany or something. 456 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 3: Is that he was right for the pickings because they 457 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 3: had promised him a new baseball stadium, first class national 458 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 3: quality baseball stadium for a coach, you know, befitting you 459 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 3: know what he does. 460 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 2: And they didn't have the money for it anymore. 461 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 3: Because finding seventy plus million when you still have to 462 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 3: replace him with another coach, right. 463 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 2: Is you got to something to cut. 464 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 3: And so that's where the Michael Planks and Beaver Applins. 465 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: And I mean, neither one of those talk to me 466 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 3: about this, So I don't mean to just suggest that 467 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 3: they did. But that's where the big boys that give 468 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 3: the busby, that give the big money, they go. 469 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 2: Where are we coming up with this? Well, we'll cut baseball. 470 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 3: College baseball is never as popular in Texas anyway as 471 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 3: college football is. So we got to pay Jimbo off 472 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 3: and we got to bring in. 473 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 2: A new well. 474 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 3: The problem with that is you get these boards of regents, 475 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 3: you get these these boards of public You pay people 476 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 3: too damn much. Why is Bitty Swallow? Why is he 477 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 3: in a contract that is so rich? What is he 478 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 3: the greatest superintendent ever? Little Betty Huffman was going to 479 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 3: be the greatest district ever. And then you get a 480 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,160 Speaker 3: situation where they don't perform and you want to get 481 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 3: rid of them, and you're paying taxpayer dollars at A 482 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 3: and M. I'm using that example because I think A 483 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 3: and M wanted to win so badly that they got 484 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 3: crazy with Jimbo and the thought they want. 485 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 2: A national champ. 486 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 3: You can't, you can't, you can't be mad at the 487 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 3: at the alumni for wanting a championship. I mean, I 488 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 3: admire that, and they were going to spend anything, and 489 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 3: they did, and that makes this even more for us, 490 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 3: Like this the Michael Berry show shop. 491 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 2: Tone indicates everything is ready. 492 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 5: For your call. 493 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 2: Was that little little before your time? That was where. 494 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 3: I'm fifty four, so folks my age will remember, boys 495 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 3: my age will remember, that was where we first started 496 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 3: kind of realizing. You because this comes out in seventy nine, 497 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 3: that was where we first started realizing, you know, maybe 498 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 3: girls aren't so bad, do you know? 499 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: Maybe? 500 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you don't want to draft them on 501 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 3: your basketball team, right, you don't want them sitting near 502 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 3: you at lunch or anything. 503 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 2: But there's something about them that I don't know what 504 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,199 Speaker 2: I like, but I like. 505 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 3: I think this was probably the first time because those 506 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 3: girls were a few years older than us, and you 507 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 3: didn't you didn't have you didn't have girls who were 508 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 3: attractive on TV at that when you're nine years old 509 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 3: that you thought, ah, you know, there were women. 510 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 2: It wasn't the same thing. 511 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 3: They weren't girls, but they had you know, it was 512 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,479 Speaker 3: did you know that was a spin off of different strokes? 513 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, So what happened the woman's name was Charlotte Ray. 514 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 3: Charlotte Ray was the housekeeper for the Drummonds on different strokes, 515 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 3: and so that she becomes the headmistress at a at 516 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 3: a dormitory at a at a private school, which of 517 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 3: course means the girls were all wearing their school girl outfits. 518 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 3: And you're nine years old, and you know, I'm at 519 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 3: a poor public school. We didn't know how cute the 520 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 3: you know, little girls could be. So you're nine years 521 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 3: old looking at it. And I don't know how old 522 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 3: those girls were at that time, but my guess is 523 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 3: that they're always like Ralph Machio in Karate Kid. You 524 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 3: find out he's fifty eight years old and he's playing 525 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 3: you know he's seventeen. 526 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 2: But anyway, that show was. 527 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 3: Mendy con Lisa Winschel and Kim Fields were the thremn. 528 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 2: They were more than that. 529 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 3: But anyway, Lisa Fields was I mean, Kim Fields was 530 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 3: two d all right back to the point I. 531 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 2: Got all the Aggi's riled up, and my last thought, 532 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 2: what happened? It's damn sure what happened? Michael? 533 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 5: How about right? 534 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 2: Okay, how about this? You're paying the man off. 535 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 3: He's not your coach anymore, and your choice of who 536 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 3: to replace him with was, let's be honest, limited to 537 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 3: somebody who would take as part of his compensation the 538 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 3: glory and glamour of getting to be the aggie coach 539 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 3: because you weren't able to wallet whip somebody to come 540 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 3: to Texas A and m I can't if you just 541 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 3: want to be that homewer. It's like you don't ever 542 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 3: say anything about an image by Ed Michael. We can't 543 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 3: have a conversation. I mean, you're welcome, but just go 544 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 3: outside and say that. Don't email me. You make a 545 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 3: fool of yourself. There's no doubt that that the Jimbo 546 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 3: experiment was a bust. That we can argue over whether 547 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 3: it was a good idea at the time, We can 548 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 3: argue over any any number of things, but nobody is 549 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 3: going to tell you it was a win. 550 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 2: And people, well, yeah, but you have to. 551 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 3: Understand No, I don't have to understand anything. I'm it's 552 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 3: there's wins and losses. It was a loss. But the 553 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 3: problem is it wasn't a loss that you move on 554 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 3: down the road. It's a loss that is going to 555 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 3: cost you. It's a it's a line Bias dying of 556 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 3: a cocaine overdose before he ever plays for the Celtics, 557 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 3: and your top draft pick, you're rebuilding the team after 558 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 3: the Bird McHale era, and your your generational star, your 559 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 3: your next Michael Jordan collapses and you don't get to 560 00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 3: replace him. 561 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 2: It's that big, it's that kind of. 562 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 3: It's going to hurt for a long time bad and 563 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 3: the reason was out of an exuberance. Listen, I hear 564 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 3: people criticize the UT and Aggie alumni the big donors 565 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 3: all the time. I hear this constantly, and I will 566 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 3: say this, shame on you, because the reason those teams 567 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 3: have all the glitz and glamour that they have is 568 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 3: because those donors are willing to put the money in. 569 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 3: If LSU had the donor money that UT or even 570 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 3: A and M has, then it would be a different 571 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 3: story nowhere around that. It would be an absolutely different story. 572 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 3: They would be contending in the modern era. It's the 573 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 3: other reason I get aggravated with people who tell me 574 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 3: this inil it's terrible. We have to go back to 575 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 3: the way things are. Wait a second, and they're always 576 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 3: an Aggie or ut Or alumnus. Okay, please if you 577 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 3: want to say something more stupid, tell me how good 578 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 3: dirt tastes or how pretty Nancy Pelosi is, because you're 579 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 3: in that realm. Do you understand, and I said this 580 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 3: two years ago, do you understand that five years into NIL, 581 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 3: Texas A and M and University of Texas will be 582 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 3: top ten teams every year from here to eternity? Do 583 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 3: you understand that? And do you understand that NIL will 584 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 3: be the reason for that? Do you understand that there 585 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 3: are universities who will slowly but surely move back into 586 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 3: the ten to twenty five category that were top ten 587 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 3: because they simply cannot keep up with the money Gameilio 588 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 3: was good for the kids, don't tell me it's not. 589 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 3: And it was good for the schools with a very 590 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 3: active alumni base. And and nobody wants to hear this, 591 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 3: but Auburn in Alabama are two of the schools that 592 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 3: are going to suffer because they don't have the breadth 593 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 3: or depth of donor base that A and M and 594 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 3: U t do. 595 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 2: And it's not gonna be overnight. 596 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 3: You're gonna have some You're gonna have some some some 597 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,239 Speaker 3: fits and starts. But Texas A and M and U 598 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 3: t are going to bring in the best athletes, and 599 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 3: and look that. Guys that have been around the game 600 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 3: will tell you it's not ecs and o's, it's Jimmy's 601 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 3: and Joe's. 602 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 2: And that's even more true today. 603 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 3: You bring in the best kids and you've got a 604 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 3: pretty good coach. I take a pretty good coach with 605 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 3: by far the best athletes in the country, then a 606 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 3: great coach and mid tier athletes. You know, Mike Leach 607 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 3: could win here and he could win there, but he 608 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 3: couldn't win championships. 609 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 2: And I think he was a phenomenal coach. Didn't care 610 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: much for defense. 611 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 3: I think this was the best year of college football 612 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 3: I've washed in ten years, and last year was as well. 613 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 3: And people repeat because they've heard this on sports radio 614 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 3: and they heard, hell, we got to get rid of 615 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 3: that portal. Why because kids they play for one team 616 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 3: and they come to the next one. So how about 617 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 3: all these kids that were on your team this year 618 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 3: that you really liked to playing. 619 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 2: I was so glad he was here. It makes the 620 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 2: game more entertaining. 621 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 3: Why do you want a kid, a great quarterback second 622 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 3: string at a school who can't get to play. How 623 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 3: would you like it if arch was still sitting on 624 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 3: the bench while when yours for some inexplicable reason, it's 625 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 3: still quarterback in next year, and you're going, we got 626 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 3: a great quarterback. He should leave if they're not going 627 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 3: to play him. You would leave if your company didn't 628 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 3: give you opportunities. Why wouldn't you want that for other kids. Well, 629 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 3: that's the way it used to be, and that's what 630 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 3: I heard other people say.