1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: It's that time time time time lucking load. So Michael 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Very show is on the air. 3 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: Light we'll get into Mica. 4 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: We gotta feed a beard. 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 2: I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing, but 6 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 2: I just gotta see. I'm done alright, will come mix 7 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 2: some mos. I'm feeding ready. That's a true. It's either 8 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: drink or drug and stool. I'm just done out, all right. 9 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 2: It's a bread. 10 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 3: I know it. 11 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 4: Sun still shine. 12 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: Every Monday those night. 13 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 5: I had a flat this morning, so I had to 14 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 5: call him Huber. His last name was drop Off and 15 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 5: I said, you're Russian. He said yep. I said, what's 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 5: your full name? Pick up and drop Off? 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: What's his name? Or man? 18 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 5: You know why the dentist and the manicurist had to 19 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 5: get a divorce. 20 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: They were fighting tooth and nail. 21 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 5: I asked the library and if the library had any 22 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 5: books on paranoia. She said, in a real low whisper, 23 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 5: they're right behind you. The University of Houston Cougar basketball team, 24 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 5: number one seed in their region, pulled out the win 25 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 5: against a tough Tennessee team over the weekend. Here is 26 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 5: the game winning inbound play with two point eight seconds 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 5: left and the score tied. 28 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 6: You Zad Roberts, Sharp and Tuggler out there for the Cougars, 29 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 6: playing for a spot in the Elite eight. 30 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: U Zan gets it in, gets it back what it 31 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 1: puts it in? 32 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 6: What the play? 33 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 3: Now? 34 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 6: The officials will stop the clock to examine exactly how 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 6: much time is left. 36 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: What a great play? 37 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 7: The inbounder is always the forgotten Manzovie has. 38 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: Play is underreviewed for the clock. 39 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 7: Uzan took the ball out of bounds and stepped in. 40 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 7: Watch how he steps in quickly. That is a tremendous 41 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 7: out of bounds play by Kelvin Sampson. You talked about 42 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 7: the special situations, Andrew, that's about the special as it gets. 43 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 6: And Uzanna has had a special night. But twenty two 44 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 6: points and six assists and for now the game winning bucket. 45 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 6: But there's still gonna be some time for Purdue. 46 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 7: And you always say, don't forget. 47 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 5: The inbounder, and they did. Calvin Sampson, the phenomenal coach 48 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 5: who came here twelve years ago and has just he 49 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 5: just wins the guy recruits and wins a. 50 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: Three option read. 51 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 8: You know, that's why you It's like the side out 52 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 8: of bounds that we ran at where was that Central 53 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 8: Florida That we had to execute it perfectly, but you know, 54 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 8: we didn't have to draw up a new play. And 55 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 8: I tell my assistant coaches that when they become head 56 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 8: coaches on and try to be the smartest guy in 57 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 8: the room by drawing up a tricky play at then 58 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 8: a game, it's something that you've practiced and rapped over 59 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 8: and over and over, so they don't have confidence our kids. 60 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 8: You could tell our kids had run that play all 61 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 8: the way to the third option. First option was elle 62 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 8: and a lot of time a basketball is about math. 63 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 8: When they when l drew two, that means we were 64 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 8: four on three. 65 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: So when. 66 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 8: U Jojo set the perfect screen at the angle we wanted, 67 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 8: then he had just come to the ball. Now, had 68 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 8: Mielus's man not taken Jojo, Jojo would have dunked that 69 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 8: but JoJo's but Mielus's man had to take Jojo, and 70 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 8: then Jojo had to just flat foot pass where he 71 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 8: didn't jump, just a little drop pass and we laid 72 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 8: it in. So, uh, we've run that play a lot 73 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 8: where we get the first option and second option, we 74 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 8: get the third option a lot in practice. But that's 75 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 8: the first time. I think we've had to because our 76 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 8: execution and the other two options usually pretty good. 77 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: But we don't run it. 78 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 8: Enough for a team to be sitting on it. You know, 79 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 8: you can't run something one hundred times. I think it's 80 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 8: going to work in that situation. I had not run 81 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 8: that play exactly, but there's alway toward three. Every coach, 82 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 8: not just me, but every coach has always got two 83 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 8: or three plays in his back pocket for just about 84 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 8: any situation. 85 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: Question. 86 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 5: An interview with Tom Brady over the weekend where he 87 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 5: was talking about what it takes to be successful. 88 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: And he didn't use the word talent. So an interview 89 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: with Nick Saban a few days ago did not mention talent. 90 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 5: When you study high performing athletes, and this is true 91 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 5: of high performing anything, Talent is never the top feature. 92 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,840 Speaker 5: Talent can only take you so far. There are folks 93 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 5: with phenomenal talent. A guy's seven. We got this guy's 94 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 5: seven to nine playing ball right now, But for got 95 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 5: seven to five. He has, if not talent, he has 96 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 5: an asset to use. But the good news is you 97 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 5: can be very very effective and successful in whatever your 98 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 5: field with practice. It's funny because my wife being a tire. 99 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 5: Mom Crockett will say, She'll say, you need to go 100 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 5: over your physics homework again. 101 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: Are you go over your physics horns? I already did. I know, 102 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: I know. You don't go over it one time. And 103 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: he's good about it. 104 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 5: He had one hundred on his physics test last week 105 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 5: and I was just over the moon. Physics is tough, 106 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 5: but that wasn't a result of him having the highest 107 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 5: IQ in the country. That was a result of practice, practice, practice. 108 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 5: They say you do something ten thousand times. I forget 109 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 5: how many hours they say you commit to something. You 110 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,559 Speaker 5: look at tennis players, they hit tennis boss hour after 111 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 5: hour after hour. You look at students who come out valedictorian. 112 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 5: They study, study, study, the same thing again and again 113 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 5: and again. People who are effective at what they do. 114 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:04,559 Speaker 5: It's repetition that becomes muscle memory until you develop whatever. 115 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: That skill may be. 116 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 5: It's it's it's true in every A good plumber learns 117 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 5: their craft, and the longer they do it and the 118 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 5: more they do it, the better they get at it. 119 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 5: And you'll see that when a guy owns a company 120 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 5: that he used to electrician or plumber or whatever he 121 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 5: used to be. The guy, and now he owns the 122 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 5: business and he's hired other guys to do it, and 123 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 5: they'll admit to you, I'm not as good as my 124 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 5: guy that does this all day every day. There is 125 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 5: your lesson. I noticed University of Houston Cougar basketball team, 126 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 5: and they've been doing this for a while now, but 127 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,679 Speaker 5: they've really they've really embraced it that. 128 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: They are Houston's team. It's for the city. 129 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 5: Miami did this with their football team to the point 130 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 5: that they became like the like the Miami Dolphins, they 131 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 5: became the team of the people of Miami, even if 132 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 5: you didn't go there. The University of Texas has had 133 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 5: for a very long time this asset of people from Texas, 134 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 5: including my extended family, who didn't go to the University 135 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 5: of Texas, but they rooted for the Longhorns, which is 136 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 5: kind of what you did. They were Texas, they represented 137 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 5: the state. I think it was smart and I suspect 138 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 5: Tillman had something to do with this to promote the 139 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 5: Cougar basketball team, as you don't need to have gone. 140 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: Here, you can root for this. 141 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 5: This is this is Houston, the way the Rockets are, 142 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 5: this is this is your team and it seems to 143 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 5: be working. 144 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: They're in the final four. This is the Michael Berry 145 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: Show show. 146 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: When I was a young boy, the young vways now 147 00:08:58,920 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 4: so much older. 148 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:09,839 Speaker 9: I know know with girl last you you. 149 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 4: No doubt pave with so good. 150 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 5: Zelenski back in the news, white House says he's trying 151 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 5: to back out of the deal with President Trump over 152 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 5: the rare earth minerals. I think he has misplayed his 153 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 5: hand with regard to Donald Trump, and I think it's 154 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 5: going to be to his peril. I think he's got 155 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 5: to go. And I think there needs to be a 156 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 5: reassess of that war from America's participation, which has to end. 157 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 5: And when that happens, the war ends. Europe cannot supply 158 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 5: the forces to fight that war. They don't have them. 159 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 5: I saw a video this weekend and it was described 160 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 5: as this is the state of England today, and it 161 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 5: was a Bobby on a rocking horse in the backseat. 162 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 5: You saw it in the back seat of a flat, 163 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 5: I mean in the backyard of a flat and she's 164 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 5: she's rocking like a kid would on a wooden horse, 165 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 5: and it was a wooden horse and scrolling on her 166 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 5: phone and I. 167 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: Just thought, you know, that is so perfect. It is 168 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: so absolutely perfect. 169 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 5: So I lived in England from ninety four to ninety five, 170 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 5: and when you live somewhere for a year, you really 171 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 5: dig in to culture mindset. You notice things you would 172 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 5: not otherwise notice and that reporters can't notice, can't write 173 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 5: about for you. 174 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: You begin to have. 175 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 5: Enough conversations, especially because it was a pub downstairs from 176 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 5: where I ate. And I've told the story before, but 177 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 5: I didn't drink till I was twenty nine, and I 178 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 5: was still in my mid twenties, and so I could 179 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 5: eat for a little or nothing, and it was always 180 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 5: a hot meal. And people will tell you how awful 181 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 5: English food is, who've never even been to England. English food. 182 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 5: It's the worst English food actually. For the weather, like 183 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 5: most cultures, the food is perfect. It's cold most of 184 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 5: the time, and it's cold and rainy, which I love, 185 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 5: and you can eat a I could eat a bowl 186 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 5: of English pea soup, and I know that's not for everybody, 187 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 5: but that sort of porridgy, thick, hot, piping hot soup 188 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 5: and a little piece of bread like a baguette, which 189 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 5: is of course a French bread, but a little a 190 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 5: piece of hard bread with your soup you can dip 191 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 5: in there, oh my goodness, and some hot tea that 192 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 5: for probably you know, two bucks. 193 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: It was heavenly. I absolutely loved it. 194 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 5: But I noticed what I had feared and what I 195 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,559 Speaker 5: had read for years, and that was a nation in decline, 196 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 5: not just industrial output, not just military prowess, but deep 197 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 5: emotional decline in pride and patriotism, ambition, optimism. There was 198 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 5: a moment in England where the concept of architecture died 199 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 5: and socialism crept in. And if you watch any English 200 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 5: television show, and many of you do, Netflix has them now. 201 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 5: Of course PBS has been doing this for years. If 202 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 5: you ever notice when they're driving, just just look at 203 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 5: the houses. If you wanted to say the individual doesn't matter, 204 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 5: you're all just ants in an ant hill. You would 205 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 5: implement English or architecture or lack thereof. They're literally the 206 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 5: same cookie cutter down to the window seal. It's probably 207 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 5: one government contract and they're just row houses all over. 208 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 5: It is a really, really big and unique deal to 209 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 5: have a standalone home in England and it be an 210 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 5: architecture different than what we would hear call Section eight housing, 211 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 5: at least even in the United States are Section eight housing. 212 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 5: They put some architectural emphasis on it. You'll see those 213 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 5: from the seventies and eighties that were all built exactly 214 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 5: the same cookie cutter throw them up, and I think 215 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 5: there's a deep psychological effect of that. I've been reading 216 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 5: the last few years about this concept that big corporations 217 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 5: have imposed where the individual no longer gets a desk, 218 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 5: I mean an office. 219 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: Everything is. 220 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,719 Speaker 5: You don't get to claim your own office. There may 221 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 5: be an office where you can reserve it for a meeting, 222 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 5: but everything is a bullpen. 223 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: Everything is open. 224 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 5: There is no sense of kind of nesting and individualism 225 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 5: within the company. So you've got now the CEO, he's 226 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 5: going to have his own office, that he is unique. 227 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 5: You need to know that he is unique, and he 228 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 5: will have his office and he'll have all his stuff there, 229 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 5: but nobody else. 230 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: Maybe he'll allow the C suite, but that's it. 231 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 5: Mid level managers in today's corporations, largely especially tech companies 232 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 5: and Fortune five hundred companies, it is often the case, 233 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 5: not always. Your company may be an exception that they 234 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 5: have done away with all of that. No walls, no individualism, 235 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 5: no nothing like that. 236 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: You work at a different desk. 237 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 5: Don't bring your stuff, don't bring your pictures of your kid, 238 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 5: don't bring your your your, your diploma, or put your 239 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 5: your your you know, your your big hunt hill on 240 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 5: the wall, the things that make you unique, your own 241 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 5: rug in there from that elk you dragged out two 242 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 5: years ago. 243 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: None of it. 244 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 5: And there's been a lot written that that is part 245 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 5: of a mindset to denigrate the individual, reduce the individual 246 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 5: to part of the cooperative. If you look at how 247 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 5: eagerly so many corporations and even their employees embraced being 248 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 5: sheep or cattle during COVID. I think that this is 249 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 5: the long term the indoctrination through the school system, because 250 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 5: they all have college degrees, which is the indoctrination academy, 251 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 5: and they have not been taught to think for themselves. 252 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: It's a well known fact. I don't have to argue 253 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: with you own this. I think most people know this. 254 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 5: That our schools are public schools in their modern form, 255 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 5: were funded and founded and focused on the concept of 256 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 5: creating workers. This is the k through twelve workers for 257 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 5: the industrial revolution. So they needed to have the basic 258 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 5: commune duication skills and a basic set of values, and 259 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 5: they were prepared that at the end of that you 260 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 5: would send them into the factories, and the factory owners 261 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 5: needed a good steady supply of replacement robots to come 262 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 5: through there. And that is why conformity is taught more 263 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 5: than creativity, more than questioning, more than fighting back or 264 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 5: or the light. 265 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: And I think that's where we are. 266 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 2: Look at the hub. 267 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 9: The Michael Berry, We're wearing down on your love as 268 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 9: you ad a b London, You're a goner, even London Breds. 269 00:16:54,560 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 9: It's fallen down. Then moved to Erazon, and I'll substantia 270 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 9: that the English census humor is dry than Texas eating 271 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 9: food up here, dude, So you took that chart, boots, I. 272 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: Believe in just as fast as like. 273 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 2: Along I go. 274 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 9: Home with is a cowman. 275 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 5: Simmy Peters says, how abut a little loan for my 276 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 5: Auburn Tigers. Yeah, you've got listeners there in Aniston and Gaston, Birmingham, Birmingham. 277 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: I went from England to Alabama. Okay, pronounce that dire. 278 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 5: And yes I know how to spell the cities of Alabama. 279 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 5: But for some reason Apple Voice to TEXTA is not Yes, 280 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 5: Auburn looking very very solid. Did you watch any of 281 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 5: the cost basketball with the weekend, So I forget her name. 282 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 5: She's cute black girl, she played college basketball, real spunky, 283 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 5: but she she roots for Tennessee and Charles Barkley openly 284 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 5: roots for Auburn, and it makes Ernie the sort of 285 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 5: white guy, straight guy, you know, keep the keep the 286 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 5: keep the show on the rails. A little uncomfor not 287 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 5: a little uncomfortable, but for me, it's kind of like 288 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 5: the media. You know that Charles Barkley was the round 289 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 5: mound of rebound at Auburn, and that he has talked 290 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 5: about since he was in college, I'm gonna come home 291 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 5: and be governor of Alabama, which is he just has 292 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 5: fun saying it. And you know, he loves Alabama, he 293 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 5: loves the state of Alabama. He loves Auburn Tigers, and 294 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 5: he's he's passionate about all things Auburn. So in the 295 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 5: in the the walk up to the game, when he's 296 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 5: providing his analysis on how great they are and nobody 297 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 5: else is as good as they are and how strong, 298 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 5: that's a fan talking, but he says it, and the 299 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,239 Speaker 5: media for so many years didn't want anybody rooting, and 300 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 5: so when you do see someone root. It feels odd. 301 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 5: It feels like they've It feels like they've broken the rules. 302 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 5: Like when people will call up here and I'll say 303 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 5: where do you work? And they'll say, can I say 304 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 5: it on the air? I don't know where it became 305 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 5: the case that you couldn't say a name on the air. 306 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 5: I don't know who perpetuated that, but it is a 307 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 5: widely held belief that is erroneous. 308 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: You can mention any company on here. So I find it. 309 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 5: I find it a relief to see people be honest 310 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 5: that they are rooting for Alabama for Auburn. Now, if 311 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,239 Speaker 5: Auburn had lost who they play, Michigan State, and he 312 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 5: was Michigan State, then he's still going to call the game. 313 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 5: He's still going to tell you what a great coach 314 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 5: I is, oh is. He's still going to tell you 315 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,959 Speaker 5: how good that team is and assess whether they can 316 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 5: win or won't in how strong they are based on 317 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 5: the merits of that team. But he is rooting for 318 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 5: a team, and the media are rooting for the Democrats, 319 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 5: and more importantly, they're rooting against the Republican and particularly Trump. 320 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 5: So for them to act like they are being objective 321 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 5: it's more dangerous. Admit you're rooting for Kamala Harris and 322 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 5: Joe Biden, and that way we'll know when you craft 323 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 5: your story why you're doing what you're doing. At least 324 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 5: there's a full disclosure. I've always been a big believer 325 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 5: that if people want to allow smoking in their establishment, they. 326 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: Should be able to. 327 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 5: But they should also have a sign out front so 328 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 5: that somebody doesn't come in order their food, just start 329 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 5: to eat and someone else comes in after them and 330 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 5: fires one up, and now you've got to pay for 331 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 5: your food and you're stuck there breathe in somebody else's 332 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 5: smoke when you didn't know that this was a smoking establishment. 333 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 5: As long as it's upfront, I'm a big one for 334 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 5: full disclosure upfront and let people come to the risk 335 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 5: if they choose to. Rodney and Lena last year told 336 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 5: us the county Harris County was broke, so they needed 337 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 5: the property tax hike loophole that the Republicans like idiots 338 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 5: built into the legislation that allowed them to do this. Well, 339 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 5: now Rodney and Lena have voted to raise the minimum 340 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 5: wage for twenty thousand county employees. It says to twenty 341 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 5: dollars an hour, but I think it's to twenty two 342 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 5: dollars an hour, which will add about five point four 343 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 5: million dollars in costs because a group of Massachusetts liberals 344 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 5: at MIT who were hired to come down and tell 345 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 5: them they needed to do that, because they told them 346 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 5: to do that. Commissioner Tom Ramsey with a statement on 347 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 5: the matter on kt h's morning News. 348 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 3: We know that this is going to result in roughly 349 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 3: five million dollars worth of increases, so it does affect 350 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 3: a number of folks. But remember we've already given twenty 351 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 3: two million dollars worth of increases already this year, and 352 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 3: my point to court yesterday was we need to slow 353 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 3: this thing down. There was not one public meeting on 354 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 3: this topic. I wasn't even breathed prior to, so it 355 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 3: was thrown on the agenda. Apparently, MIT, which I'm sure 356 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,199 Speaker 3: you know where that's going from, has done a study 357 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 3: that says that we must establish the minimum wages. They 358 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,479 Speaker 3: even say how much, and we just, like blind sheep, 359 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 3: go and do exactly what some liberal leaning group in 360 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,880 Speaker 3: the northeast directs. 361 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: Well, I just think it's wrong. 362 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 3: This is, by the way, being pushed strongly by labor unions. Yep, 363 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 3: So they bowed the knee to the labor unions. They 364 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 3: passed this without any public discussion, and this is going 365 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 3: to be result and significant burden on nuts in terms 366 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 3: of a budget. 367 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 5: That was Harris County Commissioner the Loan Republican on Commissioner 368 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 5: score Tom Ramsey on kter h's Morning News this morning. 369 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 5: That was Jimmy Barrett's voice you heard conducting that interview mission. 370 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 5: Tom Ramsey is our guest. Welcome to the program. 371 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: Commissioner. 372 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 5: To give this big pay raise like this, which will 373 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 5: have an inflationary effect if everyone in the community does 374 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 5: it and then no net net or if no one 375 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 5: else does it, because I know they're trying to get 376 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 5: the city and other entities around the area to do this. 377 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 1: Were we having trouble hiring people because we weren't paying 378 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: people enough? 379 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 3: No, I don't think that's the that's the case at all. 380 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 3: We we certainly uh do well the cans. The reason 381 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 3: people went to work for the county in years past 382 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 3: was we had great benefits. We still have great benefits, 383 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 3: but we don't compare ourselves to anything north of Lubbock. 384 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 3: And yet every time you turn around, they're going to 385 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 3: either Boston or New York or LA or Chicago, and 386 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 3: they come up with a hair brain idea. It's like, Uh, 387 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 3: anytime you hear the word holistic, you know you've got 388 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 3: to run. So this is their. 389 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 5: Whole commissioner, Please tell me, Please tell me that they 390 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,959 Speaker 5: dialogued with all the stakeholders to get their bias. Absolutely not, no, No, 391 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 5: those are the little that's the lingo they love to use. 392 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, well they didn't have one public meeting. And understand 393 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 3: you do because you owned and operate a small business 394 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 3: like me. And when government comes here and tells you 395 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 3: what you got to pay people, it's it's it's it's 396 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 3: more than people can afford. 397 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 5: Mister Tom Ramsey is our guest. Harris County is in 398 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 5: a steep decline and it only gets worse. 399 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: Think Detroit coming up. I'm just sitting here listen in 400 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: my erry. 401 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 3: That they want to be. 402 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: I was living with my mind. 403 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,239 Speaker 5: Sometimes folks don't understand why it's important that you have 404 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 5: a Republican and a Democrat government, even if like Tom Ramsey, 405 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 5: he can't win any votes because they've got him out 406 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 5: numbered four to one. But they can't do anything in 407 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 5: public without him knowing it, and there are requirements as 408 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 5: to what must be conducted in public, and so in 409 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 5: the process they'd like to keep him out of knowing 410 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 5: what's going on, and they do manage to hide some things. 411 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: But he's down there. 412 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 5: And then he can be he can issue the claryon call. Hey, guys, 413 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 5: look what they're doing here, and you can't stop them, 414 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 5: but you can at least keep the focus on them 415 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 5: and the ongoing investigations and the fraud and the corruption, 416 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 5: and the light continues to roll along. 417 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: Commissioner Tom Ramsey, you had told me a. 418 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 5: While back about this study that Rodney had commissioned to 419 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 5: come down and study whether they needed to raise the 420 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 5: minimum wage at Harris County government, and that in your 421 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 5: I guess you had a conversation with him, or I 422 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 5: guess others did that. These folks weren't from Houston. They 423 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 5: knew nothing about Houston. Our wages are not as high, 424 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 5: and our restaurants don't cost as much, nothing costs as much, 425 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 5: and they're wanting to drive these wages so high, and 426 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 5: we the taxpayers, are gonna have to pay for that. 427 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 3: Exactly when you when you look at the number of 428 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 3: contracts with the county. I mean, we have a two 429 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 3: point eight billion dollar budget, and so you can only 430 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 3: imagine the number of construction contracts, the number of support contracts. 431 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 3: We buy everything from tires to to trees. So that 432 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 3: all involves people working. And this is what I know 433 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 3: just from operating a business is if you raise a 434 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 3: certain group of employees by thirty percent, if you raise 435 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 3: their salary, then there's a real good chance some people 436 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 3: are gonna lose their job and you're going to have 437 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 3: to ask the other people to do thirty percent more. 438 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 3: So it's not good for people. It's it's going to 439 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 3: be the ones that are left have to work harder 440 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 3: and you're going to have fewer number of them. That's 441 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 3: just the law of economics as relates to business. 442 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: I don't understand the laws. 443 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 9: Now. 444 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: You know. 445 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 5: The other thing, commissioner is, let's say guys making sixteen 446 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 5: bucks an hour, and now they bump him up to 447 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 5: twenty two. The delta between sixteen and twenty two that 448 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 5: has to also move upward by that amount, because if 449 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 5: I'm making twenty one and someone else is making sixteen, 450 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 5: but I've been here for five years and I've been 451 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 5: getting a steady pay increase. 452 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: I don't want him making what I make. 453 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 3: No, they call that, they call that, I don't know 454 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 3: what you call it in East Texas, but they call 455 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 3: that the compression. 456 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 1: Exactly right. It's an upward compression. 457 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely right. 458 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: It's a rising tie. 459 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 5: They saw boats, but not by but by government fiat, 460 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 5: and that's not a good way for all boats to 461 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 5: be lifted. It's very, very disturbing. You know, I have 462 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 5: to ask you. I I George Foreman passed great, not 463 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 5: just Houstonian America, a great story on so many levels, 464 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 5: far beyond boxing and far beyond the George Forman Grille. 465 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 3: And who was Pray Saint gree. 466 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: Yes correct, northeast. 467 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 5: And who does Harris County decide they're going to name 468 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 5: a building after but Sylvester Turner. I don't blame you 469 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 5: for that, but it blows my mind. There are people 470 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 5: in prison right now who were his top people for 471 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 5: taking bribes. 472 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: It was bribes all around. 473 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 5: They just didn't never bring the case against him, and 474 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 5: they're naming buildings after him. But I guess that's who 475 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 5: they honor, that's who they respect. 476 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 3: I mean, I remember going to na I c t 477 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 3: dinner one night and L. Franco Lee invided me just 478 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,959 Speaker 3: one of the greatest leaders we ever had in the county. 479 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 3: And I was sitting between him and George Foreman, and L. 480 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 3: Franco said loud enough so Farman could hear. He said, hey, Ramsey, 481 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 3: asked Farim by the time I beat him up in 482 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 3: the second grade? And Farman did it? Met that L. 483 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 3: Franco Lee did up in pretty bad in a second right. 484 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 3: But those were those were people that cared about the community. 485 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 3: Those were people that were involved in the community, in 486 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 3: their families and in their life. And it's just it 487 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 3: is hard to understand how you can go through and 488 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 3: do some of the things you do and end up 489 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 3: in that position. 490 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 5: It's frustrating. I know it's frustrating for you because you 491 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 5: have to get up every day and remember that what 492 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 5: you're doing does make a difference, even if it doesn't 493 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 5: feel like it. Serving on council for six years for 494 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 5: the City of Houston, there were one year proposed eighty 495 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 5: two budget amendments because the budget was an omnibus building 496 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 5: in all or nothing, and so I decided that what 497 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 5: I was going to do was make a big show 498 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 5: of finding the areas of waste and creating a budget 499 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 5: amendment for that, and then we would have to debate 500 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,239 Speaker 5: each amendment, and the criticism was, well, we'll be here 501 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 5: past midnight. Well it's the people's people's budgets, people's you know, 502 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 5: the people work past midnight. 503 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: We should too. And eventually, after they'd had it enough. 504 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 5: Of having to argue why we needed this waste in 505 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 5: that waste, they voted against me to consolidate the budget, 506 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 5: to consolidate all of my amendments and vote them down. 507 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: But I made my point. 508 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 5: They got front page news, and it just felt frustrating 509 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 5: that we all knew there was waste, fraud and corruption 510 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 5: and nobody wanted to do anything about it. And I 511 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 5: find that very, very aggravating, and I know it's got 512 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 5: to be for you. 513 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 3: Well, I represent seventy five percent of the unincorporated area. 514 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 3: There's more people live in the unincorporated area than live 515 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 3: in the city of Houston. So I do or to 516 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 3: one point two million people that I represent to at 517 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 3: least speak on their behalf on issues like this. The 518 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 3: other thing, and I told them the other day, I 519 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 3: don't think this is legal. I don't think it's legal 520 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 3: for a county to set a minimum wage. Certainly the 521 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,719 Speaker 3: state may do it. Fed's do it, David's bacon, But 522 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 3: I don't think it's legal. In fact, I've gotten some 523 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 3: input that it didn't, so we'll be pursuing that side 524 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 3: of it. But that's the case. They don't anything. They 525 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 3: just do it. They had a photo op before the 526 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 3: before the meeting with all the labor unions. And even 527 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 3: though I pointed out several reasons why we should put 528 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 3: this thing on hold, have a public meeting, invite all 529 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 3: the contractors in Harris County to give input, well, they 530 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 3: don't want to do that. They are going to pass something, 531 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 3: even if it's not legal, they will pass it. 532 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: You sent me a stat I asked you about a 533 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: while back, and. 534 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 5: In twenty ten, unincorporated Harris County was one point five 535 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 5: to six million people. 536 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: City of Houston was two point one. 537 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 5: In twenty twenty ten years later, unincorporated was one point 538 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 5: nine to six and Houston City of Houston was two 539 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 5: point three. The unincorporated Harris County population had doubled the 540 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 5: growth that the City of Houston had, and it had 541 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 5: seen a twenty six percent growth whereas the city of 542 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 5: Houston had seen ten we are fast approaching the day 543 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 5: and I don't know if if ten years, if twenty thirty, 544 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 5: will be that day where there will be more people 545 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 5: in Harris County who don't live in the city than 546 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 5: do and that reflects a big changing in a lot 547 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 5: of those demographics. Mission Tom Ramsey, he fighting the good fight. 548 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: We do appreciate you, thanks sir. 549 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 3: Talk to you White Mica. 550 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: From Crockett, Texas. You know, you know, if you know that. 551 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 5: We should have on Houston City Council we currently don't, 552 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 5: and on Harris County Commission's Court we do. In Tom Ramsey, 553 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 5: we ought to have at all times at least one 554 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 5: guy who has. 555 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: An accent who sounds like he's from Texas. You know 556 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: what I mean. 557 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 5: You know, if the national press comes down and they go, 558 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 5: we're gonna interview you, there ought to be one guy 559 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 5: that talks like he's from this area. 560 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: Tom Ramsey fits that bill. Nice one.