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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael

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Speaker 1: Varie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: Earlier in this hearing, you said in your opening statement

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Speaker 2: that there is nothing more urgent than impeachment right now,

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Speaker 2: this is the most urgent thing we could possibly do. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know what, if you're a senior right now and

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Speaker 2: you can't afford your prescription drugs, that's more urgent than this.

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Speaker 2: If you're a manufacturer wanting to dominate the Western hemisphere

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Speaker 2: with the passage of the USMCA, that is more urgent.

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Speaker 2: If you're a farmer who wants to open markets so

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Speaker 2: that your family can survive and thrive, that is a

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Speaker 2: lot more urgent than this partisan process. If you're a

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Speaker 2: desperate family member watching someone succumb to addiction, solving the

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Speaker 2: opioid problem probably more urgent.

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Speaker 3: Why is it that women with the least likelihood of

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Speaker 3: getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?

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Speaker 3: Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thought?

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Speaker 4: Is it safe to say that based off of your comments,

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Speaker 4: you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies.

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Speaker 5: Are ugly and overweight.

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Speaker 2: Yes, what do you see to people who think that

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Speaker 2: those comments are offensive. You all get all worked up

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Speaker 2: that there's going to be some uncomfortable, chaotic moment that

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Speaker 2: I'll feel pressure from conservatives or Democrats or whomever. I

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Speaker 2: feel the judgment of history. I feel the weight of that.

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Speaker 2: I worry that when the history books are written about

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Speaker 2: this country going down, that my name is going to

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Speaker 2: be on the board of directors here. And if this

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Speaker 2: country's going down, and if we're losing the dollar, I

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Speaker 2: am going down fighting. And I don't care if that

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Speaker 2: means fighting Republicans, Democrats, the uniparty, the leadership, the packs,

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Speaker 2: the lobbyists.

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Speaker 6: I've had it, and.

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Speaker 2: I take no lecture on asking patriotic Americans to weigh

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Speaker 2: in and contribute to this fight from those who would

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Speaker 2: gravel and bend knee for the lobbyists and special interests

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Speaker 2: who own our leadership, who have followed foo all.

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Speaker 7: You want, who have followed out this town.

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Speaker 2: And have borrowed against the future of our future generations.

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Speaker 2: I'll be happy to fund my political operation through the

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Speaker 2: work of hard working Americans ten and twenty and thirty

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Speaker 2: dollars at a time. And you all keep showing up

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Speaker 2: at the lobbyist fundraisers and see how that goes for the.

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Speaker 7: Atlanto. Yep, thank you for the person who sent that.

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Speaker 7: This is why I read emails. Woman named Jill Kaiser said,

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Speaker 7: the astronout seems like Houston's Ukraine to me. What a

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Speaker 7: perfect description. Okay, I understand that most people have never

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Speaker 7: done a redevelopment project, but let me just go ahead

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Speaker 7: and explain something that nobody seems to understand. Let's start

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Speaker 7: with why we have to keep this building. Have you

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Speaker 7: ever noticed in certain neighborhoods when you go in and

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Speaker 7: years old, sixty years old, do you ever notice that

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Speaker 7: they don't go in and put an all new, all

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Speaker 7: new mechanical systems, all new roof and on the house

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Speaker 7: that's already there. Did you ever notice that what do

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Speaker 7: they do? They scrape it and they build something listen,

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Speaker 7: carefully better suited to that property and location. They put

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Speaker 7: the property. Here's your core real estate term to the

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Speaker 7: highest and best use. If you were starting over and

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Speaker 7: you said, all right, we got what they're calling a

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Speaker 7: be exciting and dynamic and accessible and all these wonderful things.

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Speaker 7: Because it's sixty years old. We got this building. It's

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Speaker 7: all of those wonderful things. It's all of the history

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Speaker 7: old is new again? It's glorious. Okay, well how about this.

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Speaker 7: How's the plumbing? Look? How does the plumbing look? A

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Speaker 7: sixty year old plumbing? Do you realize how bad that

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 7: No, Michael, we spent two hundred million on it thirty

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Speaker 2: He is.

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Speaker 7: They're putting on an entertaining product. I know, but I

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Speaker 7: love the game. Michael, shut it up irritating me. I'm

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Speaker 7: the only person I know that can get aggravated by

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Speaker 7: So anyway, all right, So you got mechanical that you'd

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Speaker 7: you have to replace. Oh, by the way, it ain't

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Speaker 7: eighty a compliant that'll kill anything. What makes you think

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Speaker 7: that just because they figured out how to put a

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Speaker 7: that was cutting edge back in the day. But nothing

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Speaker 7: we'll do. We'll take from Rodney's bloated budget. Maybe we'll

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Speaker 7: will take the different slushes. We'll ask them nicely to

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Speaker 7: You can look at it every day. You can just

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Speaker 7: We'll take that out of the county's bloated budget. How

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Speaker 7: So here's the profit and law statement for taxpayers in

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Speaker 7: big on the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 5: MH love it.

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Speaker 7: You did do something Elvis special that has not received

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Speaker 7: You don't think about people being plucked out of their

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Speaker 7: and in their careers. And how two years away from

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Speaker 7: Your loved ones died. His mama died, while he was.

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Speaker 7: Why don't we just tear it down? But Mark, when

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Speaker 7: don't tear things down and rebuild them. Hell, we tore

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Speaker 7: Well that was clever, Michael. You see what I did there?

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Speaker 4: And never night was a crack then, like the dumber.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, lucky you. The Michael Ferry Show continues.

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Speaker 7: Your lucky day. I got the home grassfore.

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Speaker 6: You love Van, I'm waiting, then you're well, fat line, Well,

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Speaker 7: Maybe let's look inward for a moment. I don't want

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Speaker 7: astronom thing, this is not originating from people who just

431
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 7: love Houston, they just do and do. This originates from

432
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 7: people who, if these deals aren't done, they got to

433
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Speaker 7: move to another city where they are. Maybe we can

434
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Speaker 7: sell Atlanta on this. Miami's booming, let's go there. Birmingham's

435
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 7: got a chip on their shoulder and they don't have

436
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 7: nothing nice. New Orleans doesn't have a baseball stadium. Yeah,

437
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 7: but everybody's moved out. They're broke. All right, where can

438
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 7: we go? Let's see, Uh, we've already built Phoenix. Oh,

439
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 7: you know where we'll go. Let's go to Oklahoma City.

440
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 7: In Tulsa. You got a lot of money, a low

441
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 7: tax base, and a huge chip on their shoulder that

442
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 7: they don't have any water bodies. And they got the

443
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 7: one little basketball team they stole from Seattle. And can

444
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 7: you imagine Seattle still a city? I mean, how do

445
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 7: you lose your professional basketball team and still be a city?

446
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 7: Imagine that? You know why we didn't have an income

447
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 7: tax one hundred and ten years ago, because we didn't

448
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 7: have an entire class of people who scammed you out

449
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 7: of money. And by the way, nobody when they're taking

450
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 7: your money. Nobody when they're taking your money says I'm

451
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 7: taking your money. I'm taking it out of your pocket

452
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 7: and putting it in mine. Now I got it. You

453
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 7: don't have it anymore. Ha ha. They don't do that. You

454
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Speaker 7: ever notice that They say, you love America, don't you? Yeah, well,

455
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 7: then buy this give me your money. You want you

456
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 7: want to pay tribute Houston's past, don't you then give

457
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 7: me this money? Wait? What yeah, yeah, yeah, you want

458
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 7: to relive all these great experiences, don't you. And you

459
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 7: it's so sad. It's so sad because you see the

460
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 7: glee people have for some of these people's first time

461
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 7: they've been happy in a long time. They got a

462
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 7: few times in their life they're happy when they're a

463
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 7: kid and don't have anything to worry about, and they

464
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 7: get candy Christmas, and then during a courtship, you know,

465
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 7: they got endorphins flow during the courtship. They're excited about that,

466
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 7: and then they have a lot of events around that,

467
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 7: and then all the event people get money on their

468
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 7: wedding and we'll have a shower, we'll do this, and

469
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 7: it is oh, over one hundred fifty thousand dollars in

470
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 7: debt that we can't afford, and we live in an

471
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 7: apartment that we can't afford, and we could have bought

472
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 7: a house for that. Oh but we had that princess

473
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 7: prince moment. Okay, all right, so that was good. And

474
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,239
Speaker 7: then we don't have a car. Okay, well you can

475
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,719
Speaker 7: buy a car on credit. We don't have a house. Well,

476
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 7: you can buy a house on credit. And so then

477
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 7: they've oh but we're pregnant. All right, we're gonna be

478
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 7: ex said, We're gonna play that whole game again. We're

479
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 7: gonna do all the public events around the child. And

480
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 7: then the child is there and you're up all night.

481
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 7: You're really but you know why because people have bought

482
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 7: the marketing pitch. People have bought the marketing pitch. And

483
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 7: there's Look, I'm a capitalist through and through. I love

484
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 7: to make money. I love to spend money. I love

485
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 7: to support businesses. Businesses keep it. But you gotta find

486
00:31:54,560 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 7: a core value and a happy place you can exist

487
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 7: without anybody else's approval that doesn't cost a dime. And

488
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 7: maybe that's it's a beautiful day outside. Maybe that's your garden,

489
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 7: and maybe that's your dog, and maybe hopefully it's your

490
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 7: children and your wife and your husband, or your neighbor,

491
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 7: or maybe it's woodworking, maybe it's a classic car. You've

492
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 7: got to find something on your little plot of land

493
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 7: that can make you happy that is not determined by

494
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 7: a public vote of billions of dollars. This whole astronom thing,

495
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 7: if it goes away, it'll be back in two years.

496
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 7: It has to. There are too many people who need

497
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 7: to make the money off of it. I don't mind

498
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 7: people making money, but let's be honest about it. Let's

499
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 7: put up front, these are the people that have already had.

500
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 7: They already have the contracts, including the minority contracts. You're

501
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,959
Speaker 7: gonna see this thing pushed first. There'll be some pouting,

502
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 7: There'll be some some major black and Hispanic leaders, mostly

503
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 7: black because the Hispanics don't realize they're being cut out

504
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 7: of these deals. But there'll be some black folks in

505
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 7: town that'll be against this, just like the his de bond,

506
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 7: and they'll come out very publicly against it. I don't

507
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 7: think that's a good idea. I think it's just some

508
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 7: old white boys downtown backroom dealing. This is the same

509
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 7: kind of deal we saw before. Hey, Rev, we'd like

510
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 7: you to come down. We'd like to show you these plans.

511
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 7: Hey we got you cut in for eight percent. Well,

512
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 7: like I said, I believe, I believe this thing ought

513
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 7: to happen because this seemed like a good deal to happen.

514
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 7: Yesterday we had the lovely ladies of the Conroe isd

515
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 7: ON and I got so many nice messages. I'm so hopeful,

516
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 7: not just for Conrad asd but that you are a

517
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 7: person out there that will take on a leadership position

518
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 7: in your church, at your little league, in your homeowner association, everywhere,

519
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 7: all the time, in your household? Are you the leader

520
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,479
Speaker 7: you need to be in your household? I sent them

521
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 7: to Honor Cafe and Chris Sadler last night I texted him.

522
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 7: I said, hey, send me the bill, and he said,

523
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 7: I'm not sending you the bill. You gave us thousands

524
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 7: of dollars worth of promotion, just bragging that they were

525
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 7: coming to Honor Cafe. I said, I would love that,

526
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 7: but that one hundred and seventy seven dollars, I'm on

527
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 7: the hook for it. And I told people I was

528
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 7: going to pay for it. So checks in the mail

529
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 7: and it is today, and next time I'm going to

530
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 7: send the Gringos. Didn't even think about the fact Gringos

531
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 7: has a location just north of there. Yeah, but they

532
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 7: had a wonderful lunch. And I want to say thank

533
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 7: you to Matt, to Matt, to Mark, Katie and his

534
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 7: lovely and beautiful may I say wife, Twila, Twila Grooms Katie,

535
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 7: Remember I told you the story about the marine and

536
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 7: the medic told her when she was in war and

537
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 7: she was dying and he said, if you'll stay alive,

538
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 7: I'll give you my seventy four Bronco and he did.

539
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 7: And our friend Benny Tortorella at Muscle Cards of Houston

540
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 7: has almost one hundred thousand dollars in this thing, and

541
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 7: he told me about it, and I said, well, let's

542
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 7: see if we can recover some of that money. Let

543
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 7: me see if I can get you thirty thousand dollars

544
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 7: to get this thing completed, because that's what's left because

545
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 7: he's having to do it a little bit here, little bit.

546
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 7: And Mark Katie at Benchmark Mortgage Company and his lovely

547
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 7: and beautiful wife Twyla stepped up and wrote a thirty

548
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 7: thousand dollars check for us, and we'll send you photos

549
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 7: that whenever that happens. Oh, I have a new Facebook page,

550
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 7: by the way,