1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. Very interesting. One 3 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: of the newsletters I read that comes out of the 4 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal called Hurd on the Street. A woman 5 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:52,599 Speaker 1: named Carol Ryan had written about warehouses and the headline 6 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: was stocking up on warehouses, and I thought what it 7 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: was going to say, what I expected it to say, 8 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: was warehouse stocks are up because I knew. I've been 9 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: told that companies who import a lot, who were scared 10 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: of the tariffs, they went ahead and blew their budgets 11 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: on getting everything they could into the country before the 12 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: tariff's hit. Well, you got to store it, you got 13 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: to add that cost. So that becomes a pretty interesting 14 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: calculation because the warehousing cost has to offset the tariff savings. 15 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: So you could end up getting pinched if you end 16 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: up bringing in a bunch of stuff warehousing it and 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: then the tariff doesn't hit because you were counting on 18 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: a competitive advantage. So what they have not seen is 19 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: a big boost in warehouse stocks because increasingly people do 20 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: not believe that the tariffs are going to hit to 21 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: the extent that they thought they were. I set all along. 22 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: I'm not a predictor. I just tell you what I think. 23 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: I've been wrong plenty of times before. I'm not rushed 24 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: limball with a nine to nine point six percent accuracy level, 25 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: as verified by Deloitte and Touche. I believe that Trump 26 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 1: threatens the tariffs to get people to do things he 27 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: couldn't otherwise do. The tariff with Mexico was never meant 28 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: to be a financial arrangement. It was to get Mexico 29 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: to stop the flood of people into this country. And 30 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: after their president said it wouldn't happen, she had to 31 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: double back and say it would because he can break 32 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: their e commy. I received an email this morning from 33 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: a fellow named Dan again, and this will be our 34 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: third Palm Beach trip, and we've done two Aspen trips. 35 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 1: Dan came on our first and maybe our second Aspen trip. 36 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: They started to mind together after a while, and he's 37 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: an interesting guy. He lives up in I think Anderson, Texas, 38 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: up somewhere in Grimes County, and he owns approximately thirty 39 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: eight trillion acres I don't know. He owns a lot 40 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: of land, and he has a timber company and so 41 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: he manages timber interests on the properties that he has, 42 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: and he's one of these really really smart guys with 43 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: a computer who's always dreaming up ideas on how you 44 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: saved the country. Thank God for people like this. And 45 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: so he will send me things that he's reading and 46 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: things like that. So he sends me an email this morning, 47 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: early this morning. This lady is one of the individual 48 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: warriors you were talking about lately, and that was those 49 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: people like Bob Showden, Marissa Hanson and different Rachel Palmer Hooper, 50 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: the people who put in the time and energy to 51 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: research things and share it with the rest of us. 52 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: And thank God for them, he says. She fights toll roads, 53 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: car shut off switches, right to repair, and terrible bills 54 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: that elevate bikes over cars. I like her already. So 55 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: he sends me the newsletter that she sends out, and 56 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: the top line in the newsletter says, stop the road diets. 57 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: And I must confess I didn't I didn't know what 58 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: a road diet was. And I start reading and this 59 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: woman is up there hawking every bill in the state 60 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: legislature in Austin that would affect the average person that 61 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: doesn't have a lobbyist. And I've come to the conclusion 62 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: that a road diet is restricting how many roads we 63 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: have so they can take away our roads for the 64 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,679 Speaker 1: bike riders. Any other thing about this is bike riders 65 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: all drive cars. Ninety nine percent of the time they're 66 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: on a road, they're in their car. But one percent 67 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: of the time they like to ride in a bike. 68 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: They like to ride their bike. But they would have you, 69 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: They would take up half the roads and give them 70 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: to the bike. It's the most inefficient thing I have 71 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: ever seen. Idiotic and inefficient. And everyone is scared of 72 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: the bike riders. Well I can't stand that because we'll 73 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: be left with no roads except a bunch of lanes 74 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: for bike ridering. And guess what, that's how you get 75 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: bike riders killed, by the way, That's how you get 76 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: them killed. And that's not good for anybody. All right. 77 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: Terry Hall is her name? Terry, welcome the program. 78 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 2: I might good to be with you. 79 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: Yes, So how did you get so? Her organization, if 80 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: you want to read about her when we go to 81 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: break in just a moment, is called Texas Turf t 82 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: u RF Texas Turf Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom. 83 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: This is very I've read your entire newsletter from this morning, 84 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: and it's chock full of interesting stuff. This is most interesting, Terry. 85 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: I'm impressed. 86 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad. It's a lot of work. Let me 87 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 2: tell you. 88 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: She's cute too, Ramona. If you were wondering, how did 89 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: you get involved in this kind of as a citizen 90 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: activist for good not you know, not a cuckoo citizen activist, 91 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: or you might be cuckoo. I don't know that right, 92 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: But as a citizen activist for normal people, well. 93 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: I can tell you there isn't anybody up there advocating 94 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 2: for taxpayers in general. It's all the lobbyists. They're paid 95 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: by these entities, particularly the toll road authority, that are 96 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 2: working against us. Twenty four to seven. Well, I didn't 97 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 2: even to get involved in this until I realized what 98 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 2: was happening. I lived near San Antonio for the first 99 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 2: fifteen years we lived in Texas. We still be living 100 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 2: in San Antonio, but we're on the west side now. 101 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: But I can tell you they were going to come 102 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 2: in and take every lane of Too eighty one that 103 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 2: we drove every single day to get into San Antonio 104 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 2: and turn it into a toll lane. And then we 105 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 2: found out they're added to a private foreign corporation for 106 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 2: profit in a fifteen year deal, and that's when we just, 107 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 2: I mean, that just blew the lid off for me. 108 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 2: There's no way you're going to come and take our 109 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 2: Texas roads and hand them to foreign operators. Not going 110 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 2: to happen, not on my watch. 111 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: Well there you probably know. There have been. 112 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 2: Several out of it to try and stop it. 113 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: There have been several efforts by the kinds of people 114 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: who go from politician to lobbyists to government commission all 115 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: over the state of Texas, including several roads outside of Houston, 116 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: major thoroughfares where I think they sold one of them 117 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: to Spain, to a Spanish company where they would actually 118 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: sell our roads backed by a revenue stream of tolls. 119 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: It is sickening what these people do. Imagine driving the 120 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: Texas road and it's owned by a foreign government. 121 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 2: That's right, And that happened on State Highway to eighty eight. 122 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 2: You may remember that one that was the ame was 123 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 2: operated by a foreign consortium. I think it was actually Israeli, French, British. 124 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: It was a whole conglomeration of different foreign entities that 125 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: get in on these deals and they get guaranteed profits 126 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 2: for fifty plus years on the backs of taxpayers. We 127 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 2: pay for Mexican drivers or anyone from out of state 128 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 2: that they can't collect a toll from. We pay for that. 129 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 2: We pay to reduce their truck toll rates. They have 130 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: non compete agreements that say you cannot build a free 131 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: road that competes with their toll revenue. 132 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: Right. 133 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 2: So that's why your free roads are jammed, Dot folks, 134 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: because they're writing contracts that sell us down a river. 135 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: And that's what I've been doing in the legislature ever since. 136 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 2: It's been over twenty years now, and this is I 137 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 2: think my eleventh legislative sessions. Working in the wet type 138 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 2: of sudds. If they throw on behalf of tack players 139 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 2: to triumph, hold. 140 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: On just a moment. Terry Hall t E r R I. 141 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: Her Her website is Texas Turf Turf dot org, The 142 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: Michael Barry Show. Simple man. I can't respond to every email, 143 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: but I do read them, every request for help, every 144 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: request for promote this event. It's a group called Grateful 145 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: Americans who has put on a pickleball tournament. I don't 146 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: remember when it was. I just I got the email, 147 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: and they're raising a lot of money. It all goes 148 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: to Camp Hope. There's more than one event per day. 149 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: In the course of a year's probably five hundred events 150 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: for Camp Hope, and obviously people want me to promote those, 151 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: and I wish I could, but we would become just 152 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: a community bulletin board if if that's what I did, 153 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: and I can't do that. But Ramoni, you're still there. 154 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: You're not gonna believe what I just did. So I 155 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: was looking at my broadcast box and there was a 156 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: piece of lint on the screen while I was talking. 157 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: I put my finger on it to get it off 158 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: because I'm neurotic, and I switched the signal off of 159 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 1: you back to Rush Limbaugh's station, which goes back to 160 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: the first time I brought That was a close call. 161 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: I think I saved the day anyway. So I do 162 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: read them, and Dan Egan said, Hey, here's a woman. 163 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: You're gonna really like what she's doing. It's called Texas 164 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: TURF t u RF Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom. Terry. 165 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: First of all, do you have a day job. Do 166 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: you make a living doing this? It matters because I 167 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: think people no, No, It's important to understand not everybody 168 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: can do this. It's a tough thing to do. Maybe 169 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: you're in a financial position you can. I'm glad you're 170 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: doing this. I think this is fantastic. The more I 171 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: read of what you're doing, I love it. 172 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 3: Well. 173 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 2: I appreciate that very much. And I don't I don't 174 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 2: work outside the home. I'm actually a homeschool mom of 175 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 2: ten kids, so I'm still homeschooling actively, and so I'm 176 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 2: very very busy to say that I don't work outside 177 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 2: the home. That's why I chuckle, because I definitely have 178 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 2: a job that business owners that's true, and we are 179 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 2: small business owners and and that is, you know, a 180 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 2: full time job in another itself, just keeping our house operating. 181 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, You're right, and not a 182 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 2: lot of people can do what I do. And at 183 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 2: the end of the day, it has to be done 184 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 2: because I feel like there's so many times where I've 185 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 2: just been so stretched every direction and going, how am 186 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 2: I going to read these thousand bills and you know, 187 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 2: digest them and understand how to follow all of them 188 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 2: and then get there to Austin and testify against them 189 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 2: and do all the things I do. But I'll tell 190 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 2: you what, when you realize and your eyes are opened 191 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: about how bad it is and how they come at 192 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 2: us with a pipeline of bad bill after bad bill 193 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 2: every single session, and they just get worse and worse, 194 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 2: Who's going to be there to stand in the gap. 195 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I know too much. I 196 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 2: can't stop at this point. I just have got to 197 00:10:58,520 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 2: kill all these bills. They're just terrible. 198 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: You know. You hear it said, and I found this 199 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: to be true. If you want something done, ask a 200 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: busy person to do it. Busy people know how to 201 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: get things done. They don't deliberate, worry, get anxious, overthink, procrastinate. 202 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: They know, do it and move on. They're decids. They're 203 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: decision makers. They're not indecisive. I'm amazed how often I 204 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: talk to someone like you, and as I begin to 205 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: peel back the layers of the onion, not only are 206 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: you in Austin hawking every bill that will affect all 207 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: of us, as we don't have lobbyists updating this, speaking 208 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: all over the state, writing the newsletter and all that, 209 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: but you're also homeschooling and probably spending more time helping 210 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: your husband with the family business than you're giving yourself 211 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,199 Speaker 1: credit for. It's amazing to me how often I find 212 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: and it's usually women, women who are engaged in advocacy 213 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: and things like this, and they're also homeschooling. It's like, 214 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: why would you add that? Of course you would add 215 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: add that extra thing. And I love it. I admire it. 216 00:11:58,880 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic. 217 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 2: Tell you my kids and there certainly my kids don't 218 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 2: have their head in the sand either. Believe me, they're 219 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 2: quite politically aware. They most of the time, they probably 220 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 2: don't like it, but you know, that's just how our 221 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 2: family is. 222 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: I think they're incredibly proud of their mother, as they 223 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: should be. 224 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 2: Aw I appreciate that very much. But you mentioned the 225 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 2: road diet issue, and you know that's another one. We've 226 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 2: been fighting toll roads really for twenty years in Texas 227 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 2: and we have been we have We've had a bill 228 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 2: since twenty eleven to take the tolls off the road 229 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 2: when they're paid for, and to stop all these gimmicks 230 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 2: with the surplus revenue, which I know has been a 231 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 2: huge problem there in Harris County in particular, where they 232 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: take that surplus revenue and send it on everything except roads, 233 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 2: and that's been a huge problem. But we also have 234 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 2: the problem where they're literally coming after our cars. They 235 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 2: want to shrink our road space and give it over 236 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 2: to bikes and buses, and these buffered lanes and the 237 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,559 Speaker 2: special mapstick pipes and you know, make it impossible to 238 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 2: make a right turn or a left turn on so 239 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 2: many of these roads, particularly downtown region where I've been 240 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 2: many times for different speaking engagements as well as for 241 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 2: the Republican Convention, and it's almost impossible to get around. 242 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 2: And that's what they want. And your former mayor Selester 243 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 2: Turner literally said before the Transportation Commission, if you slow 244 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 2: down the trucks and the cars, they'll get out of 245 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 2: the trucks in the cars, you get on the bikes 246 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 2: in the buses. 247 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: Exactly right. 248 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 2: That is the goal of the left. 249 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: You know, statements like that. There's a Houston Galveston Area councilors, 250 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: different commissions and these these sort of multi state multi 251 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: agency metro all that all's and it's a bunch of 252 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: you look at how many of them are former state senators, 253 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: former county commissioners, lawyers and lobbyists who their whole like 254 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: they see these big pools of money, and what they're 255 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: doing is is harassing the day to day commuter who 256 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: just wants to get on the road to get back 257 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: and forth to work and get their kids. And they 258 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: can't imagine what's going on behind closed meeting closed doors 259 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: at these meetings of these commissions. It's infuriating to me. 260 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 2: It is, and there's attorney all need to know if 261 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 2: you haven't already become aware of it. In the Houston area, 262 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 2: it's called Vision Zero and their goal is to take 263 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 2: away our cars, to get everybody out of their cars 264 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 2: and get them in mass transit, walking or biking everywhere 265 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 2: they go. And it's really kind of designed as part 266 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 2: of that fifteen minute city concept that started in Parison. 267 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 2: And you're particularly during the lockdowns and they all think, wow, 268 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 2: this is wonderful. There was no cars on the road. 269 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 2: They thought that was the utopia of the world, is 270 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 2: to have us going nowhere and producing nothing. Well, that's 271 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 2: what they really want long term. They want us out 272 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 2: of our cars. And everywhere you go, you have to 273 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 2: be able to go on bike, foot, or mass transit 274 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 2: within fifteen minutes of your home. And that's not the 275 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 2: life that most Texans want certainly not, but Vision zero 276 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 2: is trying to impose that. And I mean, you see 277 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 2: all these bills that come through. Who's on the opposite 278 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 2: side of me test to find it's Vision zero and 279 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 2: they literally bust people in from Harris County. I've seen 280 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 2: them do it before on different bills and advocate that 281 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 2: they take away our road funds, give us to these 282 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 2: bikes and buses, mass transit initiatives, and sometimes we'll even 283 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 2: put race into it. They'll try and put the diversity 284 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 2: equity inclusion into trans application decision making and who should 285 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 2: get funded and who shouldn't. It was all part of 286 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 2: Pete Beautagidge's Reconnecting Communities plan and they're doing it on 287 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: parts of I forty five right now, where they're trying 288 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 2: to put these grassy parks over the top of our 289 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: highways and sinking out our highways and supposedly reunify communities 290 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 2: this way. Well, as a mom of ten, the last 291 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 2: place I want my kids playing is on top of 292 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 2: a highway. It doesn't make any sense. They're wasting our 293 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 2: money left and right, and it's all part of the 294 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 2: left agenda to take away our cars. And that's what 295 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 2: I stand in the gap on behalf of Texans because 296 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 2: there isn't anybody that's there for us, and it's you know, 297 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: a voice for us in the legislature. So we've just 298 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 2: cobbled together this grassroots effort across the state and said, no, 299 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: we're going to push back on this. You're not going 300 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 2: to come do this to us. And it's for all 301 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 2: those working class folks out there. I'm trying to do 302 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 2: my best to stand in a gap for you, because 303 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 2: that's what motivates me to get up at four in 304 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 2: the morning and call myself over to Austin to be 305 00:15:58,480 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 2: there for these committing hearings and testify. 306 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: Harry Hall, you are awesome, folks. The website is Texas 307 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: Turf Turf dot org. Donate support her volunteered. Here's your 308 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: opportunity to get involved. Michael Verie show. 309 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 2: Enjoy it. 310 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: All right if you've got a ticket scalping or a 311 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: getting backstage story, preferably a ticket scalping story. Seven one 312 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine 313 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: nine nine one thousand. I I have tried to make 314 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: use of my ten days in DC to good end, 315 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: and I have had a series of meetings with folks. 316 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: The topic that comes up at the beginning of every 317 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: discussion from every elected officials, government officials, lobbyists, staffers, operatives. 318 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: What do you think about the Paxton Cornin race. I 319 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: don't like to say what I think first, because I 320 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 1: think people will naturally, because I'm a little bombastic, people 321 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: will naturally agree with me, and I don't want that. 322 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 1: I want to hear what they have to say. But 323 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: the consensus seems to be Cornyn is in big trouble, 324 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: really big trouble because it's a Republican primary. So you've 325 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: got a little over so you've got you know, let's 326 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: just say Texas is fifty to fifty Republican Democrat. Right, 327 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: we'll just round numbers. Well, now you're only asking that 328 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: fifty percent of the people who are Republican and going 329 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: to vote in a primary, the people who just vote 330 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,400 Speaker 1: in November and don't vote in March. That's a lot. 331 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: That's people that are kind of casually Republican. The people 332 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: who vote in a primary are precinct chairman, Senate district chairman, 333 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: Rachel Palmer, Hooper, dan Aghan, these people who are very 334 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: very informed. The more informed you are of what's going 335 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: on the less you like John Wayne mccornyn. He's despicable. 336 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: He is the swamp. Cornyn is more of the swamp 337 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: than Chuck Schumer is, and Republican voters know that. And 338 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: we've never been able to touch him because we didn't 339 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 1: have a candidate who had the name ID and could 340 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: unite the base. And so yeah, so now there is 341 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: that candidate and the crew that supports Cornyn, who were 342 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: behind the impeachment of Ken Paxton, using Karl Rove as 343 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: the operative to do it all. They overplayed their hand. 344 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 1: If you're gonna shoot it the king, don't miss Butler Pennsylvania. 345 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: If you're gonna shoot at the king, don't miss the 346 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: impeachment of Paxton and Dan Patrick, to his credit, leading 347 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: the Senate to shoot that down. Paxton is way bigger 348 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: now than before the impeachment, because once you withstand, Trump 349 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: is way bigger now. He got shot in the head. 350 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: That's gangster, that's Tupac level stuff. You are a whole 351 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: different person when you survive that sort of thing. Now 352 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: Corning is going to go super nasty. They are claiming, 353 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: we'll see that they're going to raise two hundred million 354 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: dollars in that race, or that they're going to spend 355 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars in that race. We'll see whatever 356 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: I things spend all they want, because I'm going to 357 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: be there at every turn saying that's a lie, that's 358 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: a liar, that's a lie. They're going to try to 359 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: convince you that Ken Paxton is whatever their polling tells 360 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: you is the thing that would bother you the most. 361 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: He's owned by China, he's owned by the Rush. He's 362 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: a pedophile, he's a cannibal, he's a murderer, he's a 363 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: tax cheat, he's a swamp creatures. They're gonna say whatever 364 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: it takes, whatever Carl Rose research tells them will bother 365 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 1: you the most. They're gonna claim he's that. But I've 366 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: noticed they're already floating a particular theory. And you're gonna 367 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: watch this because I've had three different people out of 368 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 1: my meetings use this phrase very casually and it goes 369 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: like this, Yeah, I think Paxton could beat Cornyan. You do, Yeah, 370 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: I think he beat him. You know, he's got over 371 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: twenty percent right now. You know it's a primary instead 372 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: of voter gonna But I tell you what I'm worried 373 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: Paxton can't win in November against the Democrats. Oh you 374 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: are Yeah. I could see Paxton winning the primary over Corning, 375 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: but he's so far out there to win the primary 376 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 1: that by November or he can't get back close enough 377 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: to the middle and we lose that seat. Can you 378 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: imagine if Paxton winning the primary causes us to lose 379 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: that seat? Oh really, but corn would win in November. Yeah, 380 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: don't you think? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I think Cornyn is 381 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 1: more popular with the Democrats in packson is I do. 382 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 1: I think that's the most damning thing you can say 383 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: about him, But yes, I do. I also know that 384 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, one of the arguments that John Kasick 385 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: made the milk Toast governor sell out governor son of 386 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: a postal worker or was it a son of a barkeep, 387 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: I don't remember. In Ohio, his argument was, I know 388 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: you don't like me because I'm not a conservative, and 389 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: I know you like Trump because he's a populist. But 390 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: Trump can't win in November, and we don't want Hillary 391 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: to win, so put me in there. This has been 392 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 1: the argument for the swamp machines all along is Hey, 393 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: I know you got Ted Cruz out there. I know 394 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: you got Ken Paxton out there. I know you got 395 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 1: Trump out there. I know you got Steve Toath out there, 396 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 1: or Mitch Little or but we don't want one of 397 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: these guys. I know he's your choice. I get it. 398 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: He's your choice because he actually does what you want 399 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 1: him to do, right, But he can't win in November 400 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: because the Democrats won't vote for him. I now, I 401 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: know you don't like me. I if I'm your choice, 402 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: I can win in November. Well, so you're telling me 403 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: I gotta let the Democrats choose my candidate. They told 404 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: us Trump couldn't win in twenty sixteen. That was the 405 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: last argument of the scoundrels. That was Karl Rove's last 406 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: attempt to steal the nomination, to wrest it from Trump 407 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Is Trump can win the primary? Sure, 408 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: I know you want him. I know that's your guy, 409 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: but he can't win in November. So go with the 410 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: guy you don't like because he can win. So that's 411 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: how this Whisper campaign or the Insiders is going. Is 412 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: sure Paxton can beat Cornyn. Now that that was a 413 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: long time in coming. The polling had to show you 414 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: how bad Cornyn was, So what do they do? Look, 415 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: these guys are good, they're professionals at this. They run 416 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: the swamp because they're good at it. So phase one 417 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: was Paxton can't touch corn Cornn crushes him. Polling comes back, 418 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: Oh wow, we can't really argue that Cornyn is going 419 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: to close that gap. We've got to find ways to 420 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: undercut Paxton. So the next phase was, oh, yeah, Paxton 421 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: could probably beat Cornyn. Yeah, probably could, probably could because 422 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: he'll say anything and do anything. Uh, And you know, 423 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: Cornyn has to has to govern. Paxton doesn't have to govern. 424 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: Cornyn has to take tough decisions. He's got to keep 425 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,719 Speaker 1: the government going. He's got to he got to keep 426 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: the Senate going. He's so judicious, he's like Solemn went 427 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: up there, so whise and things, and so he has 428 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: to take some tough decisions to be a great leader. 429 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: But here's problem. Passing can't win in November. It never stops. Right. 430 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: But that's Almon. You got folks on the line. It'd 431 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: be weird if you said no. Huh. From Levisians to librarians, 432 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 1: everyone listens Michael Verry show, my little friend named Croy 433 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: Christophel he mispronounces his last name is Christophin and he's 434 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: got some big title at Pits and Spits. I don't 435 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: know what his actual title is, but longtime friend, one 436 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: of the star warts of the RCC, so much of 437 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: stalwart that he had a walk when he entered into 438 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 1: the RCC. It was like norm was entering right. There 439 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: were certain people like this Got Kutaje, Doug Truck and 440 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: broad mat at that. There were people that Matt Trumbull 441 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: that when they came in, Michael Robinson, everybody, ah, it's 442 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: like you know where everybody knows your name. And Coy 443 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: would come walking in. He stands very tall and stands 444 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: very straight and he kind of cocks his head back 445 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: like he just can't be bothered. And Lauren Cole, who 446 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: was our GM at the time, would imitate his walk 447 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: by coming in right behind him where he couldn't see 448 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: her and doing the walk and we would just fall out. 449 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: But anyway, everybody loves Coy and he he has all 450 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 1: these cool hobbies on the side. He's always doing something. 451 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 1: It's not a guy that sits in watch evening TV. 452 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: He makes knives, he does this, he builds barbecue pits, 453 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: he does this and this. Anyway, so he's started making 454 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: custom or his own batches of bacon. And he sent 455 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: me a thing and it was a batch of bacon 456 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: and it looks fantastic, and he said, hey, do you 457 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: want some? So I asked and Emily if they wanted bacon. 458 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: Ramon guys fields hurt because I asked him. I said, well, 459 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: I forged you make your own bacon. I want some 460 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: of that. So anyway, I don't know if anybody else 461 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,199 Speaker 1: out there makes their own bacon, but I just I 462 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: thought it was pretty cool, all right. So we were 463 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: talking about scalping after Ramone got arrested, and if you 464 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,919 Speaker 1: have a good scalping or going back back back doors, 465 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: back green room, backstage stories, then we want to hear them. 466 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: Who was the I know Carlos. Let's go to Carlos first. Carlos. 467 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, mister Barry. 468 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: I'm good. Go ahead. What's your story? 469 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 4: So I've been going to baseball games for a long 470 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 4: time and you kind of figure things out. Actually got 471 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 4: to go to the last Astros geame in the Dome, 472 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 4: which was pretty cool. But one day we were walking 473 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 4: up to back then it was in Ronfield and scalp 474 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 4: was were all over the place. Back he used to 475 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 4: be able to get just a hard ticket. Now it's 476 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 4: all digital stuff. And we didn't have his tickets, and 477 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 4: so we were walking up to the park and the 478 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 4: scalper comes up to us and wouldn't leave us alone. 479 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,479 Speaker 4: Come on, I got tickets for good seats, and so 480 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 4: I asked him, let me see your seat and we 481 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 4: see it to God and he said, yeah, I got 482 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 4: these right here row row x x X, seat yy 483 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 4: why whatever EZD And I said, okay, great, those are 484 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 4: your best seats. 485 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 3: He says yes. I said how much. 486 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 4: He said this price, and you know the scalpers, so 487 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 4: it's a lot more than he would want to normally pay. 488 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 4: So I said, all right, let me see what I 489 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 4: can do, and we walked up to ticket counter boxer 490 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 4: keep the seat they had, and then just went and 491 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 4: sat in the seats that he had outside, knowing that 492 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 4: nobody was going to sit in those seats because he 493 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 4: had the tickets himself. Got to have some nice seats 494 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 4: for the day. We've found that a couple of times, 495 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 4: once when the scalper actually came in and sat down 496 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 4: right next to us because nobody would buy a seat. 497 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 3: So we've got the here being a pose. 498 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: Behind you? 499 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 3: Actually, what is that? I don't know. That's a good 500 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 3: question I got I got the work from. 501 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: What. 502 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 3: No, that's not a woodpecker. They got a h Yeah, 503 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 3: that's not a woodpecker. I can't see it. 504 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: I can hear it, yes, reaching. 505 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a bunch of border. 506 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'm gonst Send the audio of this discussion 507 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: to Rich Eadie at wild Birds Lemon and he'll be 508 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: able to tell me. 509 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 3: Just like that. 510 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: Let's go to ron. What it's a tick. 511 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 3: T I? 512 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: T is that? 513 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 2: Really? 514 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 3: Are I get posted? 515 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: Did you? Did you run it through an app? Because 516 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: that's not fair? A tit? What the hell? What is 517 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: a tit? I mean, let me see it? Sure is? 518 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: How did you know that that is a pretty bird? 519 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: Look at that pattern? It's like almost lsu colors. That 520 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: is a really pretty little bird. I did not know 521 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: that's called a tit. The chickadee and till mice constitute 522 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: the paraday, a large family of small passerine birds which 523 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: occur mainly in the Northern Hemisphere and Africa. Most were 524 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: formerly classified in the genus Paris or parous Eurasian and 525 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: African members of this family are referred to as tits, 526 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: while North African species are either called chickadees or tit mice. 527 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: The name titmouse is recorded from the fourteenth century, composed 528 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: of the Old English name for the bird mace uh 529 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: and tit denoting something small. Oh like tit for tat Ramon. 530 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: You are so good. I'm really impressed with you. A 531 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: great tit. I never heard of this. These birds are 532 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: mainly small, stocky woodland species with short, stout bills. You 533 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: know who would have known this, Quai christophel our Bacon 534 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: perveyor all right, I can't remember who you had next? 535 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: Was it? Ron? Okay? Ron, you're up. 536 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 3: I'm Michael Ron. 537 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: You ever heard of a bird? 538 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 3: No? I just did on your show. Ron. 539 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: Please, for the love of all that is decent, tell 540 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: me you're not on a bluetooth. 541 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 3: I am, I'm in my car. 542 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 5: I'm I'm in a parking lot of waiting to have 543 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 5: a medical appointment. 544 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well in that it's okay. You sound like 545 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: you're at the end of a tunnel. 546 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 3: Go ahead, Well, the story was for the scalp them. 547 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 3: I did have it on. 548 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, all right because their way, they have people in traffic. 549 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 3: No any rate. 550 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 5: Over the last twenty years, I think my son the 551 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 5: game is which are very very expensive to get into 552 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 5: a you know, like a football game or a playoff 553 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 5: game or remember what sport. 554 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 3: But we used to leave, you. 555 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 5: Know, arrive at the stadium just about the time there's 556 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 5: you know, the game is gonna start. 557 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 3: You have to hear all the big cheering and stuff 558 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 3: like this when you walk down there. 559 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 5: These people that are holding a bunch of tickets are 560 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 5: gonna really sell them out cheap because there's don't be 561 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,479 Speaker 5: a wall paper ever if you don't get it, you know, 562 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 5: so anything is better than nothing, and so we want 563 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 5: to my son when these small we went to games, 564 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 5: probably one hundred different games, and I've never bought a 565 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 5: ticket other than a scoff ticket because you know, and 566 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 5: we'd always go there right after the game starts. So 567 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 5: if you want to be there before the game kickoff goes, 568 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 5: that's one thing, but it wasn't. 569 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 3: That important to us. 570 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 5: So we get in there just a little late and 571 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 5: anybody that's holding ticket to just get rid of them