1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air. That case I. 3 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: Couldn't remember was called the O'Donnell Consent Decree, and it 4 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 2: was kind of one of those Rodney Ellis had Lena 5 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 2: had all go fronting the thing. But as everything else 6 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 2: with Harris County, Rodney Ellis runs it and the county 7 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 2: gets sued for holding criminals who committed crimes. And there 8 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 2: is this idea of, well, if a lot of people 9 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: arrested for committing murder or black and you catch them 10 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: and you hold them so they don't go out and 11 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: commit more murders. And they got a rap sheet a 12 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 2: mile long. So there these are rabid dogs that are 13 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: just murdering, maiming, stealing, carjacking, jugging, you name it, all 14 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 2: day long. They need to be held. But if they 15 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: happen to be black, we didn't choose it right. You 16 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 2: find your you're defendant, as you see him, you take 17 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 2: your plane. If as you see him, well it's not 18 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 2: anybody's fault that happened. That's that's cops are just arresting 19 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: the guy who committed to murder. You tell me, Pooky 20 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 2: did it that's Obama's term, not mine. You tell me, 21 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: Pooky down the street did it, and you're black and 22 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 2: the victim's black, and I'm an officer and I'm black, 23 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: and I arrest him and bring it down, and that 24 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 2: keeps happening. I don't know if that's systemic racism or 25 00:01:58,120 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: the criminal justice system at. 26 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: Work, or cultural problems or. 27 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 2: Fatherhood problems, or I don't know what it is, but 28 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 2: I know that the moment you allow somebody to commit 29 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: murder and get away with it, you will have more 30 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: murders and you're not safe. And that has a very 31 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: powerful effect on the mindset of people who know that 32 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: at any moment their life could be rubbed out and 33 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: it won't matter. Well that that affects you in ways. 34 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: That affects your behaviors, your career choices. You don't invest 35 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: long term when you know that everybody on the block 36 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: has been murdered. You don't go to school or learn 37 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 2: a trade or build a business when your mindset is 38 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: I could be dead at any moment anyway. 39 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: These are the long. 40 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 2: Term effect effects that create a cultural morass, an awful 41 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 2: situation that's hard to fix, and you don't realize how 42 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: much of that is related to all of this. So 43 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: what the county did is there's a lawsuit and in 44 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: the case is the O'Donnell case, and it was a 45 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 2: don't throw me in the briar Patch, bri rabbit story. 46 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 2: The county agrees to this deal, and and there's a 47 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 2: picture of Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis and their hands 48 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 2: are up. They're celebrating like they just won the super 49 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: Bowl because we've agreed to a consent to decree. 50 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: The consent decree is is a boon for murderers. 51 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 2: I mean it's they won the lottery and we agreed 52 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: to Oh, we got to do that because you mean, 53 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: we've got our hand hands are tied over here. The 54 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 2: hands of the criminal justice system are handcuffed, but the 55 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: people should being handcuffs. You can go commit all the 56 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: murders you want, all the murders you want. So I 57 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: got an email from a fellow and I get this 58 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 2: every day, and this is so common. Name's Jason. The 59 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: other story with the slimeball da I saw yesterday was 60 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 2: where he was fighting the icehold on the father of 61 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 2: the little girl who was murdered several years back. The 62 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 2: father had been arrested for DUI. The district attorney was 63 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: take making an active stance in fighting deportation of the 64 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 2: same people they're supposed to be prosecuting. 65 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: That's infuriating. 66 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 2: He also defended this man on the predicate that he 67 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: was going to take the case to trial, like he 68 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 2: didn't just dismiss multiple murder charges just last week. I 69 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: live in Brazoria County and work downtown, so I don't 70 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: get to vote on these scumbacks. But this place is 71 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 2: going downhill faster and faster every day. See this, this 72 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 2: is the problem. You got a lot of people who 73 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 2: live in the Woodlands and work downtown or Greenway Plaza 74 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 2: or uptown or galleria. You got a lot of people 75 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 2: that live in Crosby and come into the ship Channel. 76 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 2: You got a lot of people that live down in 77 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 2: Brazoria and work at the edge of downtown or midtown, 78 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 2: but get no vote. They're bringing a lot of money 79 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: in they have to drive through it. So now they 80 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: need the Houston Police to be good. They need Houston 81 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 2: Fire to be good. They need the roads to make sense, 82 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: and they need a crime reduction. And they got good 83 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 2: district attorneys out where they are and they got functioning. 84 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 2: That's why they live out there. That's why they don't 85 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: live in this craphole. So what it happens is they 86 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 2: come into the war zone so their families don't have 87 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 2: to They send their kids to suburban schools so their 88 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: kids don't. 89 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: Have to go to HISD. 90 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 2: But the problem is we got so many people that 91 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 2: are subjected to this crime, and that's why people care 92 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 2: about what's happening in Houston, because one way or another, 93 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 2: you end up at a Rockets game, you end up 94 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 2: at an Astros game, you end up at a Texans game, you. 95 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: End up at the courthouse, you. 96 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: End up some All the food reviewers live inside the loop, 97 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 2: most of them in Montrose or Upper Kirby, and the 98 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 2: restaurants they are all riding about. So nobody wants to 99 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 2: eat at the nice restaurant that came up in their 100 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 2: neighborhood and they can't. How come we can't get the 101 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 2: restaurants out here because you won't support them. Well, it 102 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 2: ain't nothing good out here. Well there was a really 103 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 2: good restaurant. We don't have anything high and we had 104 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: classy out here. All we got is franchises. All right, 105 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 2: let's go through the last five meals you've eaten in 106 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 2: your neighborhood if you don't support, Because what happens is 107 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 2: Mama's gonna get dulled up Friday night. And she goes 108 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 2: online Houston Press or Houston Chronicle. She Oh, the hottest 109 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 2: new place is in the Heights. And it's a Houston 110 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 2: interpretation of an La concept, which was an La interpretation 111 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 2: of Thai food made by a guy from Burma who 112 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 2: grew up in Uganda. 113 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: I can't wait. 114 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 2: And so they get a new dress and they have 115 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 2: a date night, and they do the whole thing, and 116 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 2: they go in and for two of them, they spend 117 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 2: three hundred dollars and they talk about it for two 118 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: years because it was so much money. But they would 119 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 2: never spend that money in their community. So they go 120 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 2: over and eat at these restaurants in the Heights and 121 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 2: in Montrose, and then they go back and they told 122 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 2: all their girlfriends, Oh my god, we're going to try 123 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: this new restaurant. I can't wait. Very la a chef, 124 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,239 Speaker 2: you got a Michelin star. Oh my god, it's amazing. 125 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 2: And it's in the Height. Ah, that's a great That's 126 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 2: where all the good restaurants are and they don't realize, 127 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 2: you know that you wanted the nice restaurant in your 128 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 2: neighborhood in Katie or in Memorial or wherever else clear late, 129 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 2: and when it comes they won't eat there. They'll go 130 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 2: to the heights for Montrose and talk about there was 131 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: no parking. 132 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: It was great. I don't know, it was crazy. We 133 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: couldn't park. It took us two years to get reservation. 134 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 2: They will jump through all the hoops, the stupid hoops 135 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 2: of no parking, get mugged on the way, four homeless 136 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 2: people pete on them. 137 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: They took them forever to get reservations. 138 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 2: And one thing in the neighborhood restaurant, the bistro in 139 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 2: their neighborhood. One thing, and they're on the what's the 140 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: little neighborhood, the next door neighbor or whatever next door? 141 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: Thank you, they go on there. Oh, I'm not eating 142 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: there ever again. I'm not eating at the neighborhood beestraver again. 143 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 2: Because they brought out the check and the bill was 144 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 2: supposed to be twenty seven dollars and it was twenty 145 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 2: eight and they had to go check with the manager. 146 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: And that's just ridiculous. I'll never eat there again, but. 147 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 2: They would never ever dare criticize the restaurant in the 148 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 2: Heights because it's in the Heights and it got nice 149 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 2: reviews by whoever's at the Chronicle or Houston Press now, 150 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 2: so that makes it better than the ones we have locally. 151 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: People do that all day and they have no idea 152 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: the result of it. I'm not sure what you call 153 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: that segment, and I just need to get that off by. 154 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 3: Chess experience, the excitement of O Shan, the Michael Berry Show, 155 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 3: Everything you need and most everything you want. 156 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 2: President Trump has announced that today at his press conference 157 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 2: he will name names. It will not be an exhaustive list. Heck, 158 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 2: he's just three weeks in office, but it'll be enough 159 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,599 Speaker 2: to WT your appetite. 160 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 4: Bro. 161 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 2: When you say wet your appetite, you got to put 162 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 2: that H in there because it's whgt. You didn't know that, 163 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 2: well you do? Now, See That's what I'm here for. 164 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 2: Right after the W is wet. It's really wet. But 165 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 2: I like to put the H before the W. I 166 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 2: like to put the H before the W in a 167 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: lot of words like what did you say? Or I'm 168 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 2: gonna whip him? My mother would say that you're gonna 169 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 2: get whipped. And I used to tell her late in 170 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,599 Speaker 2: her life. Mom, do you realize how many times you 171 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: threaten to whip me? And you almost never did. Now 172 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 2: she pinched the back of your arm. 173 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: Woo man, I like to put that h before the 174 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: w ooh. Let me have some of that cool whip. 175 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: What'd you say? 176 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 3: You can have a pie without cool whip, cool whip, 177 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 3: cool whip. 178 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: Yeah you mean cool whip. 179 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, coup whip, cool whip, coup whip, cool whip, cool whip. 180 00:09:58,400 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: You're saying it weird. 181 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 3: Why are you putting so much emphasis on the he 182 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: let me talk about I'm just thinking it cool whip. 183 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 3: You put cool whip. I'm pie pie tastes better with 184 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 3: cool whip. Say whip whip. I'll say cool whip, cool whip, 185 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 3: cool whip, cool whip, cool whip, cool whip. 186 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: Were you a Family Guy watcher? 187 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 2: I wasn't, but Ted de Luca and Daryl Kunda loved 188 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 2: Family Guy and they would always on DeLuca Show. He 189 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: would always be talking about Family Guy and the giggity 190 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 2: giggity and all that. 191 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 1: Sort of stuff. 192 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 2: And so it's just amazing to me how many listeners 193 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 2: will send me something that is a clip of family 194 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 2: guy like you just played. 195 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: That's talking about what we're talking about. 196 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 2: And I think a good sitcom or a good show 197 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 2: Seinfeld has this picks up on things that are that 198 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: are commentary you will make years later and so oh 199 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 2: that they talked about that on Seinfeld and that is uh, 200 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 2: that is the mark of a good writer. 201 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: Because these are timeless concepts. 202 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 2: So the President announced that he will let this press 203 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 2: conference today, he will make a lot of revelations. And 204 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 2: I saw yesterday a list Tiffany Levitt is doing. Is 205 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 2: it No, it's Carolyn Levitt. She's doing a daily Maga 206 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 2: minute where she goes through the accomplishments of the day, 207 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 2: and it's just staggering. One guy posted current scene at 208 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 2: the White House. This was late last night. No pride flags, 209 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 2: no topless transvestites, no tich talkers dressed in drag, no 210 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 2: twerking easter bunnies, no kids being sniffed, no cocaine scandals. 211 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 2: Thank you, America. I mean it's just perfect. I saw 212 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 2: a meme that said, the people who obsessed over seeing 213 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 2: Donald Trump's tax returns remember that the people who obsessed 214 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 2: overseeing Donald Trump's tax returns. Sure are against finding out 215 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 2: where their taxpayer money goes? Crazy? Humh, isn't that crazy? 216 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: It's interesting to me. It's very interesting to me. Wall 217 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 2: Street Journal said that Trump and Musk have achieved more 218 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 2: than three and a half weeks than Ronald Reagan did 219 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 2: in eight years when it comes to shrinking the government. 220 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: They had a. 221 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 2: Peace titled Democrats ought to Love Doge and they said 222 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal said, Musk is accomplishing something nobody has 223 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 2: ever pulled off. Quote Elon Musk's glorious rampage through official 224 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 2: Washington is like something from a dream. Many conservatives and 225 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 2: some Republicans have fantasized for decades about laying off bureaucrats 226 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 2: and shrinking the government. Nobody's ever pulled it off. Even 227 00:12:55,360 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan, the great apostle of smaller government, couldn't in 228 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 2: eight years what mister Musk has done in three weeks. 229 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 2: The billionaire businessman is less apostle than Avenging Angel. The 230 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 2: Department of Government efficiency is the change we've been waiting for. 231 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 2: I was emailing back and forth with Eddie Martini, who 232 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: just a few months ago. 233 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: Was given a big promotion. 234 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 2: I wish he hadn't been because it affects my life negatively, 235 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 2: but he was made what's called a division president. And radio, 236 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 2: like every other heritage legacy industry in America, has been 237 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: in a constant state of consolidation for the last twenty years. 238 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 2: The entirety of my time in radio, radio has been 239 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 2: in the process of contracting. And you might have noticed. 240 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 2: It's not the only one. Chevron right now is going 241 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: to lay off ten to twenty percent of their work 242 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 2: and that's scary for Houston because Chevron is headquartered in Houston, 243 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: and that's a big part of it. News flash this morning, 244 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 2: JP Morgan Chase, I can't remember what percentage of their workforce. 245 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 2: JP Morgan Chase is going to have layoffs. 246 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: I mean the guys who've been fleecing you. 247 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 2: I mean, when nobody else makes money, the Goldman Sacks 248 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 2: crowd makes money for them to be laying off my 249 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 2: goodness of Llile. It's the nature of the beast, and 250 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 2: it's scary and it's unpleasant. I understand that I'm not 251 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 2: here for it. I'm not the guy who's you know, 252 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: don't fear the reaper. It's bad. We saw it in manufacturing. 253 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 2: We saw it for decades in manufacturing, and some of 254 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 2: it was political decisions, and frankly, some of it is 255 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 2: this is the way that business is funded. Private equity 256 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 2: doesn't come in and buy Joe Bob's plumbing company and 257 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: add a lot of employees. Typically they come in and 258 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 2: go They look at where the money is, is it 259 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 2: the client list, is it a good name that we 260 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 2: can use, and then as a platform, and we go 261 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: out and buy all the other plumbing companies that are 262 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: called elite, exceptional, superior, wonderful, outstanding plumbing across the country 263 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 2: and roll that up into Joe Bobs because Joe Bobs 264 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 2: does well, So we use that as a platform, buy 265 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: all those guys out. We come into each company, we 266 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 2: come in each city. We've got an advertising overlay band. 267 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 2: We drop that down, We cut all the relatives of 268 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 2: the owner, We get out of the expensive or we 269 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: sell off the properties that they owned that they didn't 270 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 2: realize how much it was worth, and we give them 271 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 2: a couple million dollars so that he can retire because 272 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 2: he's getting old and there's no succession plan because his. 273 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: Son's a loser. 274 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 2: And we pay him one hundred thousand dollars for five 275 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 2: years or whatever else. In addition to his money, we 276 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 2: get his client list and his name, and you know, 277 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 2: the trucks and things what they're worth. 278 00:15:58,440 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: And we've got a standing business. 279 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden, we got Joe Bobs 280 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 2: across the country and we turned this thing over, flipped 281 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: a deal in a couple of years, and make a 282 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 2: pretty penny. That's what's happening. That's not illegal. It's the 283 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 2: nature of business. And tidal waves come and go. But 284 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: I say all that say this, I can't remember why 285 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 2: I say all that. Marmon, Oh, I'm talking about Trump 286 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 2: and everything he's getting done. And I was saying, I 287 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 2: haven't been inspired by a president since Reagan. 288 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: Trump's getting so much done. I feel like, man, I 289 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: got to get stuff done. It's like me too. 290 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 5: Meet to Michael Berry. 291 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 2: Donald Trump was born June fourteenth, nineteen forty six. That 292 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 2: means it come June, which is right around the corner, 293 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 2: Tom flies. When you're having fun, I don't know about you, Ramon, 294 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: I'm having fun. I ain't tired of winning. 295 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 5: You know. 296 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 2: Trump's in the middle of a speech and you see 297 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 2: a pastor when they do this. I used to give 298 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 2: a lot of speeches. I don't give hardly any speeches 299 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: anymore because I don't like to be away from my family. 300 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 2: But there's a moment in a speech where you know 301 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 2: you've got the audience in the palm of your hand. 302 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: You'll see bands that'll do this, you know. 303 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: They'll do They'll drag, can't you see out for twenty minutes, 304 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 2: Partly because toy the guy who's saying it's been dead 305 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 2: for thirty years and and they don't have the same 306 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 2: vocalists who say it. Partly because the audience doesn't realize it. 307 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,239 Speaker 2: RCC is happy and we're having fun and stick with it. 308 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 2: There's a moment where you feel you know it, you 309 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 2: feel it in your bones. It's exhilarating. It's a very 310 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 2: powerful drug of your own making. Endorphins are coursing through 311 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 2: and you know you've got your audience. 312 00:17:58,800 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: You know you've got. 313 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 2: Them right where you want them, and you're enjoying that 314 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 2: moment too, and you don't want it to end. And 315 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 2: so you you you, you you say something sort of silly, 316 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 2: and you say it because you're so far out on 317 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 2: the ledge. 318 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: You just you're punch drunk. 319 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 2: Stone cober Stone, Culsober but you're punch drunk on this 320 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 2: connection you have with the audience, and you say things, 321 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 2: you say it and then you kind of realize that 322 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 2: I just say that and you own it. Yeah, going ahead, 323 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 2: And it's one of those moments. It's it's a glorious thing. 324 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 2: And I remember that Trump has a sense of humor 325 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: that people don't realize, and I think they're starting because 326 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: he does it deadpan. 327 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: He doesn't tell you, he doesn't laugh at his own joke. 328 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: He never laughs at his own joke. 329 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 2: And people think he's so serious and grim, and that's 330 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 2: part of the stern exterior that he presents, right, He's 331 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 2: he's always at the ready. And he said, we're gonna 332 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 2: win so much, you're gonna get tired of winning. And 333 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 2: the look on his face you could tell, I don't 334 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 2: know that. 335 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: That he had expected to say that, but once he 336 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: said it, it kind of has. 337 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: Just the slightest hint of a smirk. He doesn't lose 338 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 2: his poker face. And I remember thinking at the time, Oh, 339 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: now come on, now, he's just having too much. 340 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: Now he's just getting ridiculous. 341 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 2: You remember that to win with every single facet, We're 342 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 2: gonna win so much. 343 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: You may even. 344 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 2: Get tired of winning, and you'll say, please, please, it's 345 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 2: too much winning. 346 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: We can't take. 347 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 2: It anymore, mister president, it's too much, And I'll say, no, 348 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 2: it is it. 349 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: We have to keep winning, we have to win more. 350 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so much. And 351 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: we've that moment. I didn't think it was possible. 352 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: I was trying to find the list of things that 353 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 2: they did just yesterday. Oh, by the way, they managed 354 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 2: to get Tulsey Gabbard passed. Every Democrat plus Mitch McConnell 355 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 2: against her. I could spend five segments. 356 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: I won't. 357 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 2: I could spend five segments telling you how hard it 358 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 2: is to get Republicans to vote for the nominee that 359 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 2: Trump put forward that ninety five percent of their voters. 360 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 2: For those Republics, ninety percent of their voters want TOOLSI Gabbard, 361 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 2: So it should be a. 362 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: Layup right, Nope, m. 363 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 2: Not, because they're not going to vote for her. They're 364 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 2: going to, but their power is predicated upon the fear 365 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 2: that they won't. So they start letting things leak out. 366 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 2: They start having a particular staffer tell a staffer for 367 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 2: John Thune, the Senate Majority leader. They start letting it 368 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 2: leak here and there, and they let it get out 369 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 2: to Trump. So a calls placed to the Chief of Staff. 370 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 2: Chief Assass says, oh, I don't know who would have 371 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 2: said that. You know, must say, you know, Jonny Ernst 372 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 2: is on board. 373 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: Well we're hearing. Well, I mean, look, we got some concerns. 374 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: As you might imagine. 375 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 2: This is all This is how power is wielded in Washington, 376 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 2: d C. If you are a reliable vote for the president, Uh, 377 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 2: you have to be a reliable and influential vote that 378 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 2: he needs and respects to get what you want. 379 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 1: But if you. 380 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 2: Play this thing just right and you're the fly in 381 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: the ointment, they go, what do you need to. 382 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: Vote for her? 383 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 2: Well, I got this highway right through the middle of 384 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 2: my state, and I've committed that it's going to be widened, 385 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 2: and it's on a twelve year plan, and I got election. 386 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: I got election coming up. Done. 387 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 2: You can't imagine the stress that goes into just dealing 388 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 2: with the legislator. A legislator unlike the executive branch. A 389 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 2: county commissioner has executive branch powers. They vote in commissioner's court. 390 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 2: But if Tom Ramsey wants to build a park on 391 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 2: the county property. He could build a michael Berry Park tomorrow. 392 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 3: He did. 393 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: He built a Cactus Jack Kegle Park or whatever it was. 394 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: They've got crews. 395 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 2: They can dig ditches, they can dredge this, they can 396 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 2: build this, they can move that. They have an executive 397 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 2: authority within their precinct. Even though they're kind of legislators 398 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 2: on the Commissioner's Court. When they go to court they 399 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 2: cast their votes, you're dealing with one hundred egos, So 400 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 2: in this case, you're dealing with fifty three egos. Just 401 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 2: getting tools. He passed should have been yesterday. The whole thing, 402 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 2: like the Kavanaugh hearings, where we're all glued to the TV, 403 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 2: because this is huge. 404 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence is huge. 405 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 2: You won't see as much of her as you will 406 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 2: some of the other folks. Marco's going to be in 407 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 2: the news every day, but what she's going to do 408 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 2: is going to be far more consequential behind the scenes, 409 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: and she's going to be able to root out the 410 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 2: cancers within that department, the moles, the spies, the liars, 411 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 2: the thieves, the knaves. 412 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: Run You got any more words to add to that? 413 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 2: Okay, if you think up one, go check your thesaurus. 414 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 2: She's going to get them out of there. These are 415 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 2: the leakers. 416 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: These are the. 417 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 2: Types of people like the guy at the FBI whose 418 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 2: name is about to be released, who was calling and 419 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 2: tipping off Trende Aragua that ice is coming. You've got 420 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 2: murderers on American soil, here illegally committing awful murderers who 421 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: are now part of a terrorist organization, as it's been 422 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 2: designated by the President, who are in a conspiracy to 423 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 2: commit violent crimes daily. And you've got a member of 424 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 2: the FBI, that supposedly top law enforcement agency in the country, 425 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 2: and he's going, hey, guys, get out of there. They're 426 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 2: coming in three hours. Well they don't need thirty minutes. 427 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 2: They're out, grab their guns and move. They got a 428 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 2: safe house. From a safe house to a safe house. 429 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 2: You got guys like that in the FBI. You got 430 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 2: guys like that throughout the intelligence agencies. Just being able 431 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,719 Speaker 2: to get them out, forget replacing them with good people, 432 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 2: just being able to get them out. And by the way, 433 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 2: there's a lot of good people out there, folks. Look 434 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 2: at what Donald Trump did. He brought these kids in 435 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:41,199 Speaker 2: they're nineteen twenty years old. They're astrophysicist majors, their nerds, 436 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 2: their geeks. They're genius, they're brilliant, they're patriots. 437 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 1: But I got to. 438 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 2: Think, well, I'll extenuate the matter the moment. 439 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: I'll expand upon that in the next segment. 440 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 2: How we should all take inspiration from what Donald Trump 441 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 2: is doing. 442 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: I'm serious. If you what's going on in my cousin 443 00:24:58,359 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: Michael Verry show. 444 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 4: Damn country, I'll thought for this country, this is mine. 445 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 2: I was talking about the fact Russell Leborro uses a 446 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 2: phrase that we use in our house now because he 447 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 2: uses it so convincingly and he made it so much 448 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 2: a part of his mo It's called sense of urgency. 449 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: When people ask me. 450 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 2: If I can get Russell to support this or that, 451 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: I always say no because and the reason is because 452 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 2: Russell is never, one time in twenty years told me no. 453 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 2: And some people would view that as well, you got 454 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 2: to ask him for everything all the time. That's how 455 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 2: you get told no, because he's never told me no. 456 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 2: I realized that I have to be my own gatekeeper. 457 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 2: I have to resist the urge to ask him for 458 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 2: things because I know he'll say yes, and that means 459 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 2: that I should be more judicious about it. But when 460 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 2: we're doing something awesome for Saint Jude, which last year 461 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 2: was our last Saint Jude and we did an amazing 462 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: thing in ten years. We are going to do a 463 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 2: Michael Berry Show golf tournament this year. It's going to 464 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 2: be our show for the Michael Berry Foundation, and to 465 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 2: be honest, bonuses for our show team, who I like 466 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 2: to make sure compensated well. But camp Hope, my goodness, 467 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 2: what he's done for that place. It's why I have 468 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 2: the place's name for him, because he's donated like crazy. 469 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,439 Speaker 2: It's him and Doug, it's Stacy Hunt, the guys that 470 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 2: those guys have made that thing happen with the help 471 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 2: of a lot of you. But he's always used the 472 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 2: phrase sense of urgency. So if I say, you know, 473 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 2: it might not seem like it. But we did the 474 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 2: trip to mar A Lago several times and it was 475 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 2: expensive to go and I want and some people to 476 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 2: go on a trip like that that blow their mind. 477 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 2: I want to be the greatest trip they've ever had 478 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 2: in their life, and they couldn't afford it. So I said, hey, 479 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 2: would you be willing to do a scholarship for these people, 480 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 2: so I can pick some veterans and firefighters and school 481 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,719 Speaker 2: teachers and different people. And he did five of them, 482 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 2: which I didn't expect. And it's not only that, it's 483 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 2: that if I ask him at eleven oh three if 484 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: he'll do it, then he delivers the check at eleven 485 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 2: thirty and he's thirty minutes away and he still. 486 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: Had to print it. 487 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 2: And that's and I'll say, Russo it wasn't a rush. 488 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 2: You didn't any sense of urgency. If something's worth doing, 489 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 2: is worth doing right now, pretty powerful. And our kid, 490 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 2: we've all come we quote that in our house. Sense 491 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 2: of urgency. You know, if you ask somebody for a 492 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 2: charitable donation, you know you're raising money for the Little League, 493 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,719 Speaker 2: and like yeah, they go, yeah, I give you two 494 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 2: undred fifty dollars. Okay, I just just call me in 495 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 2: then and they add a burden to the collection and 496 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,719 Speaker 2: then they hope you'll forget. And then when you call them, 497 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 2: they're not there and they didn't know how to say no, 498 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 2: so what they do is. 499 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 1: Drag it out. That's the opposite of sense of versus 500 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: the exact opposite. But I want you to listen to this. 501 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 2: This is a journalist asking about what waste, fraud, and 502 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 2: abuse they've actually uncovered. 503 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: Well, here it is. 504 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 6: Before it was Elon Musk making our government efficient and accountable, 505 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 6: it was some unnamed bureaucrat that none of you knew. 506 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 6: Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He's 507 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 6: also now one of the most highly scrutinized men in 508 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 6: the world, alongside President Trump because of what he's doing 509 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 6: and the axis that he is allowing. So there's great transparency. 510 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 6: As for the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them, 511 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 6: and I actually brought some today because all of you 512 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 6: know I love to bring their receipts. We have contracts 513 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 6: upon contracts that we can send and provide this information 514 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 6: to you. Let me be very clear, we are not 515 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 6: trying to hide anything. We have been incredibly transparent and 516 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 6: we will continue to be. These are screens of contracts 517 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 6: that Douge found across our government. This is a DEI 518 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 6: contract thirty six thousand dollars for US Citizenship and Immigration 519 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 6: services that is against the President's policies and his America 520 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 6: First agenda. This is a three point four million dollar contract, 521 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 6: a Council for Inclusive Innovation at the US Patent and 522 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 6: Trademark Office, Department of Co Commerce. Another DEI contract that 523 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 6: DOGE identified. I can continue to go through these. Oh, 524 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 6: I love this one. Fifty seven thousand bucks for climate 525 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 6: change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue 526 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 6: the interests of the American people? 527 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing. 528 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 6: These are the line items across the federal government that 529 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 6: DOGE is identifying daily. They're moving very fast. There's a 530 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 6: lot of paper that we can show you, but we're 531 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 6: happy to do it. This administration has been more than 532 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 6: transparent and about what DOGE is doing. And here's one 533 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 6: of their tweets that they posted about the mine. I 534 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 6: believe this is in Pennsylvania, where the federal employee retirement 535 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 6: system is being pro Did anybody know this was even 536 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 6: happening in our country before Elon Musk talked about it 537 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 6: in the Oval Office yesterday? A lot of Americans didn't. 538 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 6: So we are providing transparency and accessibility on a daily 539 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 6: basis when it comes to DOGE, and I also have 540 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 6: a DOGE Daily Report if anybody would like it on 541 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 6: all of the things that they are identifying and finding. 542 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 6: We're happy to provide this information too. We're talking about 543 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 6: it every single day. 544 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: There is a sense of urgency that Elon Musk has. 545 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 2: And you know, the left keeps saying this billionaire, this billionaire, 546 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 2: that billionaires run the Democrat Party. Make no mistake, George 547 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 2: Soros is a billionaire. Doesn't bother them at all. More 548 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 2: billionaires are Democrats than Republicans because they're guilty. They feel 549 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 2: bad about their money. So what they're trying to do 550 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 2: is keep the teeming hordes away from their gates, from 551 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 2: them being on a stick. They're not going to have 552 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 2: a let the meat cake moment. They're trying to show 553 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: that they're the good guys. They're the good rich guys 554 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 2: that the revolution needs. That's what's happening. This is very 555 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 2: French Revolution seventeen eighty nine, and they saw what happened 556 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 2: with heads on pikes. 557 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: But when you think about who Elon. 558 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 2: Musk is and what he's done in his life, I've 559 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 2: never seen anything like it. This is a guy who 560 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 2: takes He didn't found Tesla. He discovered Tesla, and then 561 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 2: he had kind of a sharp elbows and he pushed 562 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 2: the guy out and he took that company. There were 563 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 2: lots of electric car companies in the making, in the 564 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 2: offing that were further along than that. And he took 565 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 2: that technology, in that brand and his love of Nikolay 566 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 2: Tesla and everything Tesla stood for, and he made that company, 567 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 2: and he made the electric car the EV industry, and 568 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 2: he made it to such an extent that our big 569 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 2: our manufacturers and a lot of others around the world 570 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 2: bought the bull. They saw the upside. Tesla became. The 571 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 2: market cap of Tesla was greater than all the other 572 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 2: car companies combined. And they all said, we got to 573 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 2: get in the EV business. No, you don't, that's not 574 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 2: what you do. You're McDonald's b McDonald's. Don't try to 575 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 2: be tavern on the green. That's not who you are. 576 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 2: But they all did. By the way, now they're all 577 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 2: pulling back from it. They were behind the eight ball. 578 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 2: They were they were late to the game. And by 579 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 2: the time they just cleared my throat on the air 580 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,479 Speaker 2: like like a heathen. 581 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: Sorry about that. I got into my story. 582 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 2: And and he made He ended up as a result, 583 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 2: having engaged in some kind of predatory pricing. 584 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: He's got a lot of vehicles sitting on the lot. 585 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: Now he's now got to weight. 586 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 2: After he kind of eliminated everybody else, there's not many left. 587 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 2: Rivian wouldn't be in business if Amazon hadn't uh, if 588 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 2: Amazon hadn't a contract with him to build their those 589 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 2: cool Amazon delivery vans. 590 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: That's what keeps him. 591 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 2: And by the way, Fix Auto Houston our new show sponsor. 592 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 2: You drive to Fix Auto Houston and the whole lot 593 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 2: about half the vehicles there, there's probably one hundred Amazon 594 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 2: of those cool blue delivery vans. He has the exclusive 595 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 2: to maintain all that, to repair and there's lots of 596 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 2: collision repair on Amazon trucks because you know anyway, SpaceX 597 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 2: the boring company and all that. But what I love 598 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 2: about him that we can all learn from, and Trump 599 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 2: has this too, for a man seventy eight years old, 600 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 2: is this sense of urgency, this sense that I may 601 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 2: be dead in a week. I got to get it 602 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 2: done now. He's a young man in a hurry. Used 603 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 2: to hear, you know, older folks refer to someone as 604 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 2: a young man in her I've always been told you 605 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 2: have to wait to do that. You have been doing 606 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 2: this long enough. What I love about Elon and I 607 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 2: think he's given the nation a sense of urgency is 608 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 2: get more done. 609 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: Now do meaningful things. Accomplish things so