1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: We are very big on the chanting and you'll have 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: all the energy today. 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 3: So no truck, no kkk oh gosh, it's USA, No. 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 4: Trup, no trum no. 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 5: True. 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 6: Huge tournaments from Washington, d C. To Chicago, West Virginia, 9 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 6: Utah and beyond. Protests in nearly every state. 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: I think America is a terrible distress. 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 3: We're showing the current administration that we are not happy 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 3: and we will not stop. 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 6: Demonstrators pushing back on the Trump administration's economic policies, cuts 14 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 6: to the federal workforce rise, and evon Musk's Doge Agency, he's. 15 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: Going in with the chainsaw. He doesn't know what he's doing. 16 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 6: In upstate New York, this protest when straight passed borders 17 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 6: our Tom Hohman's house to call out the administration's immigration policy. 18 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 6: And in Palm Beach County, Florida, this miles from mar 19 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 6: A Lago. After the President returned from a third consecutive 20 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 6: day at one of his Florida golf courses, hundreds hoping 21 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 6: to get his attention. 22 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 7: I don't want to be reached. 23 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: I just want to be comfortable, and that's what I've 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: been comfortable, and he's taken away from my sagutil. 25 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 2: No rise. 26 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 8: In a world full of fat accepts via Pete buddha Chet. 27 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 8: Pete Hegseth is the worst Department of Defense secretary we've 28 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 8: ever seen. And Pete Buddhachet was our secretary of Transportation. 29 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: Fantastic. He should run for president. 30 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 2: He's an amazing guy. 31 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 7: I am an immigrant, I am am a shame and 32 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,839 Speaker 7: we will stop Wigle will stop. 33 00:02:53,160 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: Nut about thirty seconds to the illegal alien who's queer 34 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: and whatever else, I'm afraid you play that again. You 35 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: go ahead. She's got a lot working against her because 36 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: she's also really fat and really ugly, really ugly. 37 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 9: I am here and I'm undocumented, and I'm afraid and 38 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 9: queer and. 39 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: Really fat and. 40 00:03:53,480 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 9: Stinky and annoying and really short and chart and I'm 41 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 9: really stinky and annoying. I'm so annoying and yeah, and 42 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 9: that's who I am, and you cannot. Yeah, who would 43 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 9: I like to chair for me? Would I like to 44 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 9: chair for me? 45 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: And then all the fat, disgusting, ugly illegals are yay? Actually, 46 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: who am I kidding? It's white ladies. It's liberal white 47 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: women out there. 48 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 7: Yay, we're for her, She's our pet, because white liberals 49 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 7: love to have a pet, some broken down person that 50 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 7: they can claim that they're protecting. 51 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: Well, why don't you let Tubby move in with you then, Tina, 52 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: I mean, if you want her that bad, let her 53 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: roll around with her for a little while. When I 54 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: got to city council, it was the first year I 55 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: was there, and I wasn't sitting near anyone that uh, 56 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,799 Speaker 1: everybody else sitting next to it was a niece Parker 57 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: on one side, and Marcos on the other, and Burt 58 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: Keller was went over. They'd all been there for four years. 59 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: They were in their last terms, and I was new. 60 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know the lay of the land. 61 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: So I was watching learning. And the first couple of 62 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: months I was there, you start noticing that some people 63 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: when they come down before council, they get more respect 64 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: because they're powerful or rich or important or influential or whatever. 65 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: And it was bicycle day in the City of Houston, 66 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: and so there were a group of people who looked 67 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: like they were downtown professionals, but they were all in 68 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: their little two tight shoes shorts and the fellas, you know, 69 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: their twig and berry was showing. But we all try 70 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: to act like, you know, it's normal because their biker 71 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: bikers bike, they bike everywhere, they bike, and they've got 72 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: their stupid little shoes on that clip into their bicycle, 73 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: and they all have their helmets, must must be responsible bikers. 74 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: And they've all got their jersey like their you know, 75 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: Lance Armstrong, they got their their little whatever that material 76 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: stretchy jersey or on it. And so they all they 77 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: all came down, and there are lots of them, and 78 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: I recognize the most of them were influential Houstonians, and 79 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: they came down and spoke. And when people were speaking 80 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: at public session, city councilmen would often get up and 81 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 1: go to the back, get something to drink, return phone calls. 82 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: And I had never forgotten that. Jim Greenwood told me 83 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: that if you will sit there and listen to people 84 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: when they talk. Sounds easy, but most people don't do it, 85 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: you will win yourself a fan for life, because it's 86 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: the ultimate show of respect. So I did, but on 87 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: this day you didn't have to do that. On this day, 88 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: everybody came from that. You could tell when something important 89 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: was happening because people would come running from the cloak 90 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: room in the back, come running out and sit in 91 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: their seat because we had to be here for this person. 92 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 1: We have to provide an audience for this person. Okay, 93 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: so we had to bike crowd there by sickle nothing interesting, 94 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: can't go anywhere on these stats bicycles. So they were 95 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: all there and we were all locked in. It's a 96 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: serious hole, man. There are lots of fake smiles, Like God, 97 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: I'm so glad Samantha is here today. She's with the bikers. 98 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: Oh yes, and she's happy because this is National ride 99 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: your Bike to Work Day and so she's looked forward 100 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: for this, the outfit she's gonna wear and what she's 101 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: gonna do. Hey, Samantha, can we have that sales call 102 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: on Monday? No, it's National ride your Bike to Workday. 103 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: You can cancel everything for me on Monday. We're speaking 104 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: before city council. Oh you're speaking before city council. Oh 105 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: my goodness, you've arrived. Hello. So there they were. There, 106 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: we were and I'm watching us people ride your bi 107 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: I to work that I came to find out about 108 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: that group and their agenda that they are one of 109 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: the most destructive groups in the city of Houston, and 110 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: I'll hear from them today good because they are. I'll 111 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: tell you a story coming out in the world as well. 112 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,559 Speaker 3: Whistling Bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, Honkey Riders, Whosker doooes, 113 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 3: Bhosker don'ts nips and dazers, whether without the scooter stick 114 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 3: or one single whistling, kiddie. 115 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 5: Chasing teaches, ones from California made from beating suits and 116 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 5: beaches Sons. 117 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 1: The National Rider Bike to work crowd. Like every other group, 118 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: you have to get some pelts. Ever, saw often can't 119 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: just be awareness. There's always someone in the group who 120 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 1: decides we got to have a power play. We got 121 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: to make everybody give us a dollar. We got to 122 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: make the city burn down one building that's currently occupied. 123 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: We have to have a show of our power. It's like, 124 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: you know, if you play pick up ball. At some point, 125 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 1: Let's join a league, Let's play a game, Let's see 126 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: if we can win something. Let's get uniforms and travel 127 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: and people come and see us, and afterwards we'll celebrate. 128 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get a trophy. We don't just want to 129 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: practice we need to win here and some pelts to 130 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: put on the wall. So the national ride your Bike 131 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: to Work crowd decided we needed more bike lanes because 132 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: they like to ride bikes and they come down and 133 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: they read reports. And these are people you know. Some 134 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: of these people are restaurant owners, business owners, lawyers or ar text. 135 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: They're nice enough people. They're the kind of people who 136 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: are in the Rice Design Alliance. They're the kind of 137 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: people you see at fundraisers for city councilmen. They're the 138 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: kind of people you the smart set of restaurants. You 139 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: see a lot of them wear bow ties. They went 140 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: to the best schools. They all have nice degrees. They 141 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: live in Southampton or West University. Their kids go to 142 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: good schools. They went to good schools. They're being honored constantly. 143 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: They're all honoring each other. Their wives are chairing the 144 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: Disease Geala. They're the smart set. They're the people that 145 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: you're supposed to want to know. Some of them go 146 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: to an Episcopal church, maybe Unitarian and lesbian woman priest. 147 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: They're members of the country club. They're not wealthy. I 148 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: wont get that done. Get that wrong. They're not wealthy. 149 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: They are the kind of people who populated for so 150 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: many years the herb they're white, urban core residents and 151 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: they're not they're not all liberals. Some of them are moderate, 152 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: but a big part of their identity is these are people, 153 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: these were the first generation tesla owners. A big part 154 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: of their identity and everything is their identity is that 155 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: they ride bikes. But the important thing to understand is 156 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: it's not the riding of the bike that's important. It's 157 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 1: where they ride the bike. You need to get out 158 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: of your car and clear your car off the road 159 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: so that they can ride their bikes because the riding 160 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: of the bike on the public streets is very important. 161 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: Now the number of people inside the loop in Houston. 162 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: And by the way, this is all an inner city 163 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: white people discussion. Nobody black, nobody, Hispanic, nobody, working class, nobody, 164 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: elderly cares, nobody cares. This is the residence of Montrose, 165 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: the Heights, West University, Southampton Boulevard around Rice University and 166 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: now Museum District in Midtown and it's very important to them. 167 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: And they love to get together as a group and 168 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: ride their bicycles together. Oh my goodness, they're like swingers. 169 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: But for bicycles. Oh, they get together and they put 170 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 1: the biggest smile on their faces because we're having fun. 171 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: Because nothing says we're having fun like having to say 172 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: you're having fun. Right, if you're on a roller coaster, 173 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: you don't have to say we're all vun Right, if 174 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: you're out on the boat skiing having a blast, you 175 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: don't have to go aye, oh, we having fun. Yes, 176 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: we're having fun. 177 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 7: Everybody say we're having fun or else we're not having fun. 178 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: Because we're having fun. This is what we're doing. We're 179 00:12:54,679 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: having fun. And there is a smug righteousness in the 180 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: having of fun that says all these houses were riding past. 181 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: Those people are sitting on their couch watching sports. They're 182 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: not out here like us. They're not as good as 183 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: we are. We're riding our bikes, which is good for 184 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: our health, but it's also the kind of thing you 185 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: would do in New York or San Francisco or Seattle 186 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: or Portland. That's what the smart set does. They wouldn't 187 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: understand they live in Houston. They're not like us. And 188 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: these are people, many of them are transplants. The only 189 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: thing worse than the transplant from Boston, San Francisco, New 190 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: York to Houston. Is the person from Houston who wishes 191 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: they were. That's the kid who goes off to college 192 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: and says, oh, you gotta understand my own parents are racist. 193 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you some of the things they said. 194 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: Aren't they paying your bills? And didn't they I'll tell 195 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: you what I mean. I'm not proud of it. I mean, 196 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do is make you think more 197 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: of me by telling you how bad my parents were. 198 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: My parents were racist, right, I mean, they just were 199 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: and I'm just going to tell you right now they were, 200 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: and I'm not proud of it. I mean it's embarrassing. 201 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: I mean, my whole town I was from, they're all racist, 202 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: and everybody was racist and they were horrible. And look 203 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: at me, though, I'm better because I'm outing them for 204 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: being and I might exaggerate a little how racist they were, 205 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: but it's not really about whether they're racist, about you 206 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: thinking more of me and what a great person I 207 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: am in the middle of all this. So the bike 208 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: crowd they under Lee P. Brown managed to get him 209 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: to spend a twenty two million dollar federal grant. It's 210 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: federal money it's nobody's money. Don't worry. Taxpayers didn't have 211 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: to pay for it. Well, where do you think that 212 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: money comes from? Twenty two million dollar grant? And if 213 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: I'm lying, I'm dying. You can think I'm exaggerating twenty 214 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: two million dollar grant to build more bike LANs Houston 215 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: Chronicle because the Chronicle the publisher Jeff Cohen at the time, 216 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: he now works for John Onman. He is a big 217 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: bike person. So it is Rodney Ellis. They go for 218 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: long bike rides. Oh, and they solve the world's problems 219 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: on their bike rides. They go for bike rides, and 220 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: they decide, all right, we're gonna kick Jack Kagel out. 221 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: We're gonna put Leslie Brioni's in. We're gonna who We're 222 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: gonna put Sylvester and Sheila Seed. Okay, now we'll put 223 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: him in his seat. We're gonna do this, And I've 224 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: got an editorial. Chronicle's gonna place an editorial on on Sunday. 225 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: Nobody reads the editoris, but they still think they do. 226 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: I got an editorial on this. We're gonna do this. 227 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna put this person over here, and we're gonna 228 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: have a symposium over here. We're gonna get a federal 229 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: grant over here, and they solve the world's problems while 230 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: they're riding their bikes. And Rodney Ellis will have a 231 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: big unveiling. And remember they he was putting bike lanes. 232 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: Oh we were gonna bike from downtown through the hood. 233 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: Oh good, we're gonna have bike lanes. And then the 234 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: people started riding their bikes, the nice white twenty somethings 235 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: who moved into the high end of apartments near Minute 236 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: May Park, and they start riding their bikes. So long 237 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: to buy you and look at this. We're such We're 238 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: finally gonna be a real big city. We're gonna have 239 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: bike lanes. And there they went on the bike lanes. 240 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: And then the hood came out in the hood, came 241 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: out and stole all their stuff and beat them up, 242 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: threw their bikes in the bayou and ran back away, 243 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: And so now they had to walk back. Maybe this 244 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: wasn't such a good idea, but it felt so good 245 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: and righteous and smug. And now you're a real big 246 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: city resident. You got to ride your bike and get mug. 247 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: This is awesome. 248 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 4: To Michael Berry show, I want to ride my bicy 249 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 4: I want to ride my bike. 250 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: So now I bring you this story the Channel thirteen 251 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: had in the Houston News a couple of days ago. 252 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: It might have been yesterday, Saturday, it doesn't matter. There 253 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: is a raging debate over the use of space and 254 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: where the bicyclist ride. Now, let me rewind for a 255 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: moment and tell you Lee P. Brown got the twenty 256 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: two million dollar grant to build more bike lanes, and 257 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: the Houston Chronicle trumpeted it. Oh, here was Lee Brown 258 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: and you thought Joe Biden was stupid. Lee Brown was dumb. 259 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was at least elderly and demented. Lee Brown 260 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: is legitimately I wish he was white so people would't 261 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: feel so uncomfortab when I say this. Lee Brown is 262 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: legitimately retarded. He is so dumb. He is so incredibly dumb. 263 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe it. When I tell people's stories of 264 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: serving on city Council with him and how dumb he was, 265 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: they think I'm exaggerating. They think I'm making it up, 266 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: but I'm not. Well, how did he get to be 267 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: the police chief of Houston and New York and the 268 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: sheriff of Portland, ask what happened on his watch in 269 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: every city where he was. When he was the police chief. 270 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: In New York, they had what was known as the 271 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: Crown Heights massacre. Lee Brown went missing. They couldn't find 272 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: the police chief. Jews were being pulled out of their 273 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: cars and beaten to death, and nobody could find the 274 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: police chief. I have an idea where he was. It 275 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: was exactly what got him in trouble in Houston when 276 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: he always had drivers, except the one day he didn't 277 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: and he got in a wreck near somebody's house that's 278 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: pretty famous in town, and we all knew what was 279 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 1: going on, and he finally had to answer why he 280 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 1: was driving himself. He never drove himself. He likes to 281 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: be treated like a king. He always had drivers, and 282 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: that day he drove himself. Very weird. Do you know 283 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: what he said he was doing? This is good, this 284 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: is guy. I gotta give him credit for this. He 285 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: said he was out picking up bandit signs. You know 286 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: the signs in the median they say, you know, rent 287 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: this apartment for two hundred dollars or work from home 288 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: for thirty He was out picking them up. Okay, well, 289 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: then there should be some in the trunk of the 290 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: car that you've picked up, right, or did it just 291 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 1: so happen that you got in the wreck at the 292 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: first one you were picking up, because we believe you. Leep, 293 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:27,479 Speaker 1: We think you go around at night picking up bandit science, 294 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: caring about the city as you do, and all. So 295 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: he built twenty two million dollars worth of bike lanes. 296 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: Federal grants. Don't complain, not your money. It's federal money, 297 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: so you don't get to complain. It's federal money. It's 298 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: throw away money. This is how our government works. Okay, Well, 299 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: if you took a screenshot overhead on Google Maps of 300 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: the city of Houston, you would notice that we built 301 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: twenty two lane miles. We spent twenty two million dollars 302 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 1: and built whatever it was how remain lane miles of 303 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: bike lanes, and we did it. This is an amazing 304 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: feat of science, without ever pouring an ounce of concrete, 305 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: without ever laying an ounce of asphalt. Mm hmm. Well, 306 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: what they did is they hired one of these Rice 307 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: Design Alliance guys. He's real smart guys. Everybody knows who 308 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. They're part of the Chamber of Commerce. 309 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: They're part of all these So they go. They're all 310 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: white guys, except now they brought in a couple of 311 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 1: minorities and some women, and they they wear bow ties 312 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: and they go. There's a breakfast meeting every day, and 313 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: they have a breakfast meeting and maybe at River Roads 314 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: Country Club or one of these places, and they'll have 315 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: someone who's very smart and they've done a survey or 316 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: a study, and they'll say they all go and everybody 317 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: has it. You know, you buy a table and your 318 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: organization pays for the table, and you all go there 319 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: and it's all the same people, the same ones, and 320 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: they're kind of bored of seeing each other. Hey, Bob, 321 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 1: how are you doing? Hey Stephen, how are you doing? 322 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: Same exact people every meeting. So they show up and 323 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: the guy gets up and maybe it's it's Richard Florida 324 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: who's written a book about you know, white liberals in 325 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,719 Speaker 1: the in the cities and how big cities are going 326 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,199 Speaker 1: to become more gay and more bikey and more granola e. 327 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: And I'm not even kidding, that's really what he said, 328 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 1: and they're going to do all these things. But in fact, 329 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: all that was really going to happen is the white 330 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: liberals gave way to the corrupt blacks who gave way 331 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: to high crime rates, who were bought out by Soros. 332 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: And then all the white moderates and conservatives moved out 333 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,719 Speaker 1: of town and now they all live out in the suburbs. 334 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: And that's what's happened. That that happened in all the 335 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 1: big cities. And so you saw the fall of San 336 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: Francisco and Seattle, in Portland and now Houston. Well, in 337 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: the midst of all this, they repainted the lanes. They 338 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: repainted the lanes. They actually narrowed the car lanes. It 339 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: wasn't like, you know, these car lanes were built for 340 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: a seventy eight Continental and we were driving lanyons and 341 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: we're like, you know, now everybody's driving a little bitty 342 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 1: tiny go car, so we'll just narrow the lanes. So 343 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: there was one lane in particular at Buffalo Speedway, or 344 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: maybe it's west Land northbound into River Oaks, but you 345 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: would first have to cross over West tim or San Philip, 346 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: I can't remember. And right there there is on the 347 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: southwest corner there is a shell station and you're just 348 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: north of River Oaks Baptist School and the River Oaks Baptist, 349 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: and you're driving into river Oaks, and some of these 350 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 1: people live in river Oaks, and so this was gonna 351 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: be great. When I was bike lean hear and so 352 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: the lanes were already narrow lanes before the bike lane, 353 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: but we we'll just make up more narrow. You ever 354 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: go to a parking lot where they've had to accommodate 355 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: the local municipality with enough park spots, but they don't 356 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 1: have enough concrete for that many parking spots, especially not 357 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: in Euston where everybody's driving a big truck. So what 358 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: they do is they just they make the parking spots 359 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: big enough for a bicycle, and they go, yep, we 360 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: got one hundred and twelve parking spots, just like you 361 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: told us. Well make sure you put a bunch of 362 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: them with the blue sticker up front, and nobody will 363 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: ever use. Oh yeah, we got that too, Okay good. 364 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 1: So then we'll be short of spots and we'll have 365 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: eight spots that nobody will ever use. Okay good. So 366 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: we would comply with all the rules, and then you 367 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: go trying to get into one of those spots and 368 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: you can't, so you're mad at the person that they 369 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 1: parked on the line. You're real mad. So you go 370 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: to the very back of the parking lot and you 371 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: park where there's a couple of spots open, and you 372 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: park and you get out, and you realize, oh, I 373 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: guess I can't complain about that lady, because it's always 374 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: a lady, because I parked on the line too, And 375 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: you realize I parked on both lines. I park on 376 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 1: both lines. How could I possibly park on both lines? 377 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll get in and straighten it up. But how 378 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: am I going to straighten it up? I'm on both 379 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: lines because the lanes the parking spots are too narrow. 380 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 1: Oh okay, well why'd they do that? Because they had 381 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: to comply with the city ordinance of how many spots 382 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: they had to have. But they're not legitimate spots. They 383 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: just marked off that way to create mass confusion and 384 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: cause you to want to hate your neighbor. Okay, So 385 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: they narrowed the lanes and they put a bike lane. Yeah, 386 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: that's the ticket. And the bike lane had a picture 387 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,919 Speaker 1: of a had a painting of a guy on a 388 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: bike there. Now, if you've driven wherever you live outside 389 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: the loop, you never see anybody riding a bike unless 390 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: they're a kid in a cul de sac. But okay, 391 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: let's pretend that we're in England in nineteen o six 392 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: and everybody's on bicycle, even inside the loop where they 393 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: want all these bike clips which get up on the 394 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: sidewalk with jackass. That's what the sidewalks are for. No, 395 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: we have to be on the road like the cars. 396 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: Let's talk about this because there's something in the news 397 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: that brings us up. 398 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 4: Here. 399 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: So when I was running for city council, I was 400 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: the only one who would publicly oppose light rail downtown 401 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. Twenty five years and hundreds of 402 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: millions of dollars spent. How did that work out? And 403 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: it was the same crowd of people. And these are 404 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: people who jack off to the idea of living in 405 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: New York and they want to replicate that in Houston. 406 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: It is a fetish for them. It is a twisted fetish. 407 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 1: It is a fetish to the point they're porn addicted. 408 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: They have organizations, they have conferences, they have their places 409 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: they gather to eat. They want to make their little 410 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 1: sub area of Houston into the place that they went 411 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: to college, which is some liberal college in the northeast, 412 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: Wellesley or brin Mar or Harvard or Dartmouth or Princeton. 413 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: And they have this fantasy that verges on perverse, that 414 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: they're going to remake Houston in that image, and this 415 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: becomes their social set. They all socialize with each other, 416 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: they all everything they do. They obsess over these sorts 417 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: of things, and they live like an ex patriot in 418 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: Cairo or Delhi. They live like ex patriot. It's of 419 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: New York and Boston and San Francisco. In Houston they 420 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: get all those papers. They travel there frequently. They run 421 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: down Houston, and Houston's terrible, and so Leapi, in his 422 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: infinite wisdom, he repaints the bike lanes, Well, what happens 423 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: these people start getting hit? Why wouldn't they? And that 424 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: makes them hate you even more because there you are 425 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 1: in your big This Ford had gotten crazy. It became 426 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: like you remember used two people would would go to 427 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: the would stop at a gas station. They would get 428 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: a reasonably sized drink and they would leave and they 429 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: would drink their drink, and then in time they got 430 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,679 Speaker 1: a bigger drink. Small went to media, medium, went to large, 431 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: large went to bigger large, and then it became just 432 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: fat as all hell, forty four ounces, and so then 433 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: the guy forty four, here's eighty eight and you see 434 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: people coming out right, it's like they got a Wilborough 435 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: or it's like they're carrying a barrel. They got the 436 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 1: biggest drink average so massive, right, Well, I started imagining. 437 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: I drove to Austin this weekend, so I saw a 438 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 1: lot of this. It's kind of funny. I'm trying to 439 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: remember what I was thinking about for that. What was 440 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 1: I saying, Rewindrow, What was I saying right before that 441 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 1: about the uh there you are in your big this? 442 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, su me. So, so this was the time 443 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: when Ford went from not the escort. Ford had the 444 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: best selling SUV in the world for a while and 445 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: then it just died in the eighties. It was it 446 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: was the small suv, but we didn't know it was 447 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: small thing because it was the only shuv. Do you 448 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: remember what was that called Explorer? Was it Explorer? Yeah? 449 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 7: Ford? 450 00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: Explorer? Okay, So the Explorer gave way to Chevy, matched 451 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: it with the Tahoe and pulled ahead, and so Ford 452 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: kind of started slipping in the suv game and Chevy 453 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: started dominating. So Chevy had the Tahoe, but we need 454 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: to be able to put all of that cheerleading soccer, volleyball, 455 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: baseball gear in the back, or at least we think 456 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: we do. So let's extend it even bigger. Oh okay, 457 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: so now we went from the Tahoe to the suburban. Okay, 458 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: so this market, Chevy had about a fifteen year run 459 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: where Ford just sat there. Ford had the F one fifty. 460 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: They were winning the truck battle, but they could not 461 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: crack the suv market. So Ford comes up with the Expedition. Okay, yeah, 462 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: we had a little suv, you went a little bigger. 463 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: Watched this boom. Here was the expedition, and this thing 464 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: was god awful big, I mean really big. But then 465 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: just for kicks, they're like, let's do this and see 466 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: if they take us seriously, Let's make an excursion. The 467 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: excursion was basically an RV that was stretched out even bigger, 468 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: but packaged to look like a vehicle that you'd put 469 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: on the road. So now imagine this. You got Tanglewood Mom, 470 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: we'll call her Heidi or Carolyn Tanglewood Mom, and she's 471 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: driving northbound. She's going to be crossing over to willowit. 472 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: She's pulling into River Oaks Baptists where she's picking up 473 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: Ian and Ethan and Hayden and all their friends. So 474 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: she's got nine kids back there. These sweaty little kids 475 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 1: have just come out of lacrosse practice. They've got all 476 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: the energy in the world. They are hyped up on sugar. 477 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: And they get in the back and they start right. 478 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: She can't see behind her, she can't see out the 479 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: driver's side window a mirror. She has had a long day. 480 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: She wants a rose. She's having a mild hot flash. 481 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: Her husband has just told her that the CEO of 482 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: the company that he's hoping to be promoted to the 483 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: vice president for has invited them to dinner. This might 484 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: be the big deal where he gets the big promotion 485 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: that they desperately need because they want to get a 486 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: second home. And she's got to get ready. Her nails 487 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: are not done. She's not gonna have time to get 488 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: her nails done. She's not going to have time to 489 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: get her hair done. She's just called the blow drowbar 490 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: and they can't work her in after all of this. 491 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: Can't believe this. The Vietnamese lady is not there today, 492 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: So she can't get her nails done, she doesn't have 493 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: anything to wear, and she's feeling bloated because it's that 494 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: time and those kids are right, she's feeling bloated, and 495 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: she's going to look ugly tonight and disappoint her husband 496 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: and the CEO of the company's wife doesn't really care 497 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: for her, so and she has no dress, and she 498 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: doesn't know what she's gonna do. And she was supposed 499 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: to host the kids for the pizza party for the 500 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: year end lacrosse event, and she can't find anybody on 501 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: the list that's willing to take the party over from her, 502 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: and what's she gonna do? And the balloons are going 503 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: to arrive, and the pizza is gonna arrive, and the 504 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: drinks are going to arrive, and they had a magic 505 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: guy who's gonna arrive, and she can't remember his number 506 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: and how to get there and what to do, and 507 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: the kids can't be there by themselves, and her husband's 508 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: upset and she needs to go on a time and 509 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, in the midst of all that, 510 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: the last thing she's worried about is that some jackass 511 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: is trying to ride on the streets in a bicycle. 512 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: The most entitled bicyclist you have ever seen in your life. 513 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: This is bicycle Man. Because you need to understand that 514 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: he went to Dartmouth and then he did his graduate 515 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: work at Columbia, and he came to Houston. Wasn't going 516 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: to come to Houston, thought Houston. I mean when I 517 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: came here, I was like, I'll spend a year here, 518 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna stay. But ends up. You know what, 519 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: these hayseed hillbilly, backwater, poor, uneducated, in bred people, it's 520 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: really not so bad. It's not so bad. I mean, 521 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: if you know the right places to go. You know, 522 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,239 Speaker 1: they put a Whole Foods next to us, and then 523 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: we got a Trader Joe's because you can't get everything there. 524 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: And and so there's a couple of you know, things 525 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: that we do. And we found a good episcopal Piscopal 526 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: church with a lesbian priest who never talks about Jesus 527 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: because that's weird. And we got our kids in a 528 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: Pooh corner. And then Montessey and we basically recreated the 529 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: same little lily white, liberal, highly anxious environment. And our 530 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: neighbors are Jewish, they go to Emmanuel and so we 531 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: did this, and we do this, and we got all 532 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: this little thing. And there is that person on their 533 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: bike and she is about to plow him over and 534 00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: she has no idea, but hey, we got bike lanes.