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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Varry Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Replace.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
We went the carry and the sense of joy. I
know it's incredibly disappointing now, and look candidly, it's it's
a bit scary because there's a very different vision that's
being put out there.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump
Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.
We are told that when Trudeau told President elect Trump
that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked
to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off
the US to the tune of one hundred billion dollars
a year, then maybe Canada should become the fifty first
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state and Trudeau could become it's got.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Replace.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
We went the carrying and the sense of joy. I
know it's incredibly disappointing now and look candidly, it's a
bit scary because there's a very different vision, uh that's
being put out there.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
President Trump looked at at the Taliban leader and said this,
I want to leave Afghanistan, but it's going to be
a conditions based withdraw and translator translated, and he said
if you harm a hair on a single American, I'm
going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And translator goes, and Trump goes, tell.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Tell her what I said.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of
the leader, the leader of the Taliban's home, and handed
it to him.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Shut up, got up and walked off the groun. A
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friend of mine's daughter brought a friend of hers home
with her after school. My friend asked the girl if
somebody would be picking her up or if he needed
to drop her back off to her house, and she
said her great great great great great grandfather would be.
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And my friend said, that's amazing. How has he lived
so long? His daughter said, oh, she has a stutter.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Dad.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nurse says to the doctor, Doctor, there's an invisible man
in the waiting room. Doctor replies, tell him, I can't
sin him. One snowman says to the other, does this
smell like carrots in here? You like carrots trong? You
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like carrot juice? Remember the carotini? That was a terrible drink,
But to matt Bryce's credit, we asked him to make it.
He did. You wouldn't believe how many dings sold. I
don't remember thousands, soul thousands. I said, what do people
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think of it? He said, they hate it. It wasn't
the point. The point wasn't. Look if carrot juice tasted
good in the martini, somebody would have put it in
a drink before Carotini had the game winning hit. Little
known fact. I don't know if I told you. I
don't know if you were with me or not. But
I went to the next game like that next night,
and it's one out, bottom of the ninth and who
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should be who should be put in as a pinch hitter? Again?
Was Carotini ripped it? I mean on a line he
got hold of a ball, hard line drive the right fielder.
I don't think he moved one foot. It was right
to him, but he got hold of one. You know,
we didn't talk about the game. The UTA and M game.
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There's a story that has emerged which you may have seen,
but in case you haven't, two Texas A and M
fans were arrested at Saturday's game at Kyle Field for
criminal trespassing. According to arrest affidavits, the two men had
pictures of themselves as ID photos with fake names on
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the ID. Both men were booked in the Brass County
jail for criminal trespass and released the next day. These
guys are legends. The two men arrested were twenty two
year old Julian Carrione and twenty one year old Logan Scalise.
He's got to be related to Steve Scalize. That's too
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rare a name not to wasn't the only arrest at
the stadium. After the game started, Popo arrested a Grand
Prairie man who got into the game without a ticket.
Oriobos Akio, twenty two, was charged with criminal trespass and
resisting arrest. He was released from jail after posting bonds
totaling eight thousand dollars. Popo also arrested a man for
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selling two fake tickets for nine hundred dollars and throwing
away five more fake tickets. The arrest report said the
officer recognized the tickets as fake because the back of
the tickets contained University of Texas logos. Yeah, goober, But
the reason I told you the story is the two
men who were posing as construction workers to get in.
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Have you seen this story? They had hard hats, reflective vests,
and fake credentials. It's what names were used on their
fake credentials that make this story worth noting. One of
them was mister mccachinner mc COCKI N E. R. First
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named Duncan. The other man last name was as crack
a Z crac, first name Harry. Can you imagine how
much fun they had coming up with their names and
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getting them printed on their credentials and showing them to
their buddies. I mean they just cackled, you know, they
just laughed and laughed. They will laugh about that for
the rest of their lives. Was it worth getting arrested? Yeah? Probably,
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because that's a story that when your kids are in
high school and they think dad's lame, you go, well,
why don't you look up this name right here and
see if the guy that pops up in the arrest
report looks familiar. If you're the judge and these two
guys come before you and you say would you like
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to be referred to by your alias or by your
Christian name? I mean you have to get a kick
out of that. There was the thing about it is
today it's considered Oh it's such a serious thing. That's
the kind of stuff in my dad's generation that I mean,
that's American graffiti stuff, right, that's Porky's. That's Fast Times
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at Richmond High. That that's the sort of stuff that
people used to do with their jeans rolled up and
they're in their white T shirt looking like James Dean
with their black horned grim glasses. That's what my dad
looked like, and their hair brike creamed back, and they
played pranks and had fun and it was relatively harmless.
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Relatively anyway. If one of you knows those two legends,
ask them to call it seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Stop right there.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I can think of no song for which this is
more the case. Great opening and the minute Ann Wilson
begins singing, the song goes off cliff. The song does
not go up from there. That song opens with about
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ten seconds of a great guitar opening and then goes
downhill and before you go. But I like Anne Wilson.
I bet there's something about Ann Wilson you don't know.
Do you know that she stopped recording, She stopped performing
the song in Do you know that she stopped performing
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in concert? She said it's sent a bad message, So
she simply stopped performing the song. Oh wait, maybe that
was Hit Me with your best shot. Yeah it was.
Never mind, it wasn't Barracuda. But the song goes downhill
from there. I don't I don't dislike Ann Wilson. I
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just don't think the song gets better. After a very
very strong opening, FBI crime data has been adjusted. Here
we go again. Up until October, they were telling us
that violent crime in America was down two point two percent.
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Well it turns out it wasn't and we knew it wasn't.
Violent crime is actually up four point five percent. Instead
of being up four point five percent, they said it
was down two point two percent, which is a six
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point seven percent swing that doesn't happen on accident. This
is what our government has become. We know that this
data is important. We know that people base their opinions
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on either are they are they personally a crime victim
or do they know someone who is, Or they see
a data point like that and go, well, okay, I
guess I guess we're doing better. And then the President
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comes out and takes some sort of credit, but in
fact quite the opposite. Mayor Johnson of the City of
Chicago announcing a three hundred million dollar property tax hike
as part of his twenty twenty five budget. Three hundred
million dollars of a property tax hike and it's all
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going to illegal alien services. So the City of Houston
has announced I believe it's one hundred million dollar project.
I can't find the story. I'll find it in the moment.
To deal with homelessness, and my immediate thought is do
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we have a homeless problem? Yeah, there is a homeless problem.
It's been a homeless problem since I was on city
council and long before. It feels like it's much worse.
You've got the tent cities under the if you've been
down to Pierce Elevated, that's an entire colony of homeless people.
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And can you imagine what's going on in there? One
need'll be in passed from person to person, every kind
of disease, sexual, just grow tesque filth under there, and imagine,
which ain't that hard to do? You blow a tower
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right there? Can you imagine having to get out right there?
My goodness alive. It is awful, It is terrible. It
should never have been allowed to get that bad, but
nobody wanted to address it. Well, there's a supreme court
ruling now that says homeless people no longer have some
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right to lay around in the public spaces and pee
everywhere and poop everywhere, and defile the public spaces and
basically be a nuisance to society. So you gotta you
can arrest those people now and presumably put them in
some kind of facility, because nobody wants to put them
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in jail that's too expensive, so you create a facility.
The problem is, and I learned this when I really
dug in to try to understand homelessness, and I will
tell you it's the most difficult public policy issue I
ever confronted. It's almost unsolvable. You can deal with the symptoms,
but when you find out And I went for rides
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with the various homeless groups, and it turns out you
pull up on these people and whether it's cold outside
or or so hot that you don't want to be
outside the air conditioned van, they don't want to come
with you. They don't want a cot in three hots
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because they don't want any rules. And by rule, I
mean don't show your weeder belly, but put your underwear
back on. They don't want to be under any sort
of and you can trace these numbers back to when
Reagan unloaded the insane asylums. So you had people that
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we used to keep in a bed and keep medicated
and hope nobody noticed that they were locked away in
a psych word, and the Reagan administration said, that's not right.
Can't do that. You got to let them out. And
when they let them out, these are not people who
function in society. So they went under the bridge and
started causing problems. So I think, to its credit, perhaps
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I'll take him at his word. Whit Myer's trying to
solve the problem. I think he's trying to clean up downtown.
And maybe part of the reason is I suspect some
of the downtown landowners recognized the devaluation. It's hard to
get people to come back into downtown right now, And
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in talking to downtown landowners and brokers and people who
make money off of tendancy in downtown Houston, it's a real,
real tough putt to get people who stopped coming into
downtown to come back into downtown. And if you are
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a tenant and you you know you've got ten thousand
square foot of space that you've you've made out as
bullpen and cubicles for your management team, and your employees
would much prefer to work where they live in Katie
or the Woodlands. You've got a lot of people that
live in the Woodlands and we're working in downtown Houston.
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And when COVID happened, we had a cultural transformation. The
idea became acceptable that you don't have to go into
an office. And it's not just lazy kids. There are
a lot of people who suddenly realized and the thought
was just never there, that you know what, I don't
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have to go into the office. I can be just
as productive doing what I do. Before you say, that's
not true. Not every job requires that you go into
an office. And a lot of people were going to
an office because that was the pattern consistently of what
they had always done. And it would be weird, how
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come Bob never comes into the office. Now, all of
a sudden, nobody's going into the office and works still
getting done because Bob never really actually interacts with anybody anyway.
So the idea that you're sitting at home in shorts
and bare feet and a T shirt and still sending
the same number of pointless, stupid emails and now you
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just do zoom meetings instead of everybody going into the
conference room. And the company recognized, wait, the cost savings
of reducing our footprint. So my guess is the biggest
entity pushing for a change is the midtown and downtown
residents and the owners property owners, because the downtown problem
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is a very bad problem, and it becomes much worse
at night when these nocturnal nuts come out. But here's
the problem. Anytime you attach cash to a problem, you
actually subsidize the problem because these organizations are going to
grow used to this and they can't live without it,
and that I think makes it worse.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
This is the Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Show, all right. This song plays into the.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Story I'm about to tell, the.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Lockedest song in your head and whatever your reaction is
to jukebox hero and just a quick background to give
you the story properly. Chance McClain of Heritage Film and
dear friend, contributor of some of our parodies, some of
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our music, writes a lot of it, writes a lot
of stuff that we end up using, and contributes to
the show in many ways. He's the one that makes
the films or your your parents or your grandparents and
he's very very good at it, very very talented as
a storyteller documentarian, and his business is just boomed because
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of it. And yes, I take a lot of credit
because it was my genius idea. And you know what's funny,
The very first heritage film he ever did was my father,
and he sat out in the driveway with my father.
He said it. He set up we lived and we
lived in New Memorial Park at the time, very leafy,
beautiful tree everywhere, and he's set this shot up out
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in the driveway and he got my dad, who's not
My dad's not a big talker and a real loud guy,
and my mom was kind of overbearing personality compared to him,
and so my dad just does never talk that much.
He does more now because he's widowed. And my mom
goes inside and he gets it. He does the whole thing.
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And I arrive after they've been there for maybe two hours.
I figured to be over by then, and I go
walking in the house and I said, oh, I see
that chance. He's doing the interview with dad. And my
mom says, he's been out there with your dad for
over two hours. I said, I must have been. I
was surprised because I mean, it's not like my dad.
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I said, wow, And she said, Michael, I've never seen
your dad. Your dad's not talked this much in fifty
years as he has in the last two hours. What
was he talking about? She said, I have no idea.
I just can't believe he's talking like a Chance can
get people. So he's telling his life story, right. So
now we have it on. So I said to her, well,
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we're gonna do you next. No, I'm not gonna do it.
And once a year, it's probably been ten years now,
I'd say, mom, you got you gotta do that. We
gotta do that harritage film. Chance just reminded me we
got to do your heritage film. Ah, I'm not gonna
do that. And she never did. Ah that gummt Now
I really wish she had, But it happens. So Chance's daughter,
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her name is Abigail gun gu n n E because
that's a family name from from his wife. Here's family
going back, like there was a gun photography in Orange.
Some people may remember. I tend to forget. Not everybody's
from Orange. Y'all. Remember on sixth on sixteenth Street there
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before prom you'd go to Gun Photography. It was g
U n n E. Do you remember it's next to
where the pawnshop is now. It's across the street from
the old Hinky and Pe lots that became the Kroger's
caddy corner from the Church's Chicken. You know, Michael Kat's
law office, right next to Spankey's. It's about two over
from there, same side of the street as the old
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original Taco bell uh same side of the street as
Superior Tire Tim Hughes's tire joint. If you remember that
across from the other pawn there's about eight pawn shops
in a three block. That's a bad sign for a
for a town. Ramon, that's not a That is not
a sign that you're on the up. You're not. You're
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not in ascendants at that point. You're your house is
not in ascendants anyway. So his daughter's real name is Abby,
we call her Gun. She went to A and M.
She graduated, She works with him now. She's even more
talented than he is, if you can believe that. There's
a lot of a lot of weird, wicked artistic talent.
So he says, El Tassino, you were talking about Barracuda,
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starting strong and then tailing off. I was driving with
Gun last night and I let her DJ. That's the
McCain parlance for who controls the music in the cyber
truck or other more lame vehicle we happen to be in.
She fiddles with the phone for a second, reaches over
and turns the volume up to like seven, and out
of the eleven well placed, perfectly tuned Tesla speakers comes
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Foreigner's Jukebox Hero impressive Gun. That song is fantastic, pillar
to post and it gets no love. But the story's
not over. The Foreigner song fades out, when what to
my wondering years wondering years should appear? But enter by
God Sandman by Metallica. Hell, Yes, now you can understand
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these daughters about twenty four. Put this into perspective, Abby Gun,
What is this playlist? Says I. That is my hype playlist,
Dad says she. The playlist was mostly eighties rock songs.
There were a few more. More are modern bangers like
wrecking Ball by Miley total Oh, I have to tell
you that Chance loves Miley. Cyrus said it's yeah, and
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we appreciate Power by Grimes, Another total banger. This is
him saying not me, but was mostly old rock. Don't
Stop Me Now by Queen. There's a banger right there.
Welcome to the Jungle by gn R White, Wedding by
Billy Idol, that's a Russell Ye barrosong, Living on a
Prayer by bon Jovi. But the one song on the
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list that I absolutely love that your barracouta bit made
me think of was acdc's Thunderstruck. What now there is
not the same delta between starts awesome and ends laying Oh, oh,
he's right, Okay, I thought I thought he was saying
it starts strung, because Thunderstruck is one of the greatest
songs start to finish, pillar to post. Thunderstruck is badass
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all the way through. But my god, the start of
that song is so strong there is no way to
go but down, and yet it doesn't. So my question
to you, what is the song that starts extremely strong
and then goes off a cliff bat seven one three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand with the Michael Berry So at what point
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are you saying it died? You're saying the song dies
at twenty seconds in Hold On, Start It start the clause,
start the clock.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Okay, go, yeah, you're saying it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It does off a cliff and hold on, keep on.
I disagree. Why do you say that because you really
like the openings. So, first of all, I'm really surprised
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you would say that about a Beatles song. Who wrote it,
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Paul or Johnson? It has a little more of the
edgy tone of the john Ony song. I mean, it's
not one of my favorite Beatles songs, but I'm not
the Beatles nut you are either, But it doesn't. But
I don't find that. I mean, I could give you
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a hundred songs of Theirs that I think are overrated,
and I don't get what the Big to Do is,
but that doesn't. That's just kind of one of those
kind of very edgy, punchy songs that he writes. And
that and I actually I like the keys at the
beginning of that so and I like the combination. I
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have only realized in the last couple of years how
much I like the combination of keys and guitar. And
what made me realize that was Freebird. That was the
moment where I said, wow, you take give me the
opening of it. If you take the keyboard out of
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this or the piano out of this song?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
You know who is?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
So we think of that as a guitar song, right,
bring that up. And he's out of town in Dallas today.
So if we wanted to, we could just play the
whole segment again. Like in the old days. I missed
you see, nobody was listening back then. We could feel
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so dangerous.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What is that song that starts strong? Rebird is definitely
not that. What is that song that starts strong and
then just falls off a cliff? Bad Vaughn. You're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Hello, Mike. The song that I feel is by Lionel
Richie say you say me? Uh? It gets into that
that groove and then all of a sudden, the tempo
changes real fast and it kind of scrambles your emotions
and then it goes back to that slow tempo you
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know that the song started out with. And by the
time it does that, you're trying to sort out your
feelings again. You know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Let's give it along. I will tell you I heard
where was I in the last week? I was somewhere
in a public place and stuck on. You came on
and wherever I was, I was about to be outside
earshot of the song, and I specifically just stopped to
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sit there and listen to it. And and I thought
about Lionel Ritchie for a moment, and I have to
tell you there is there is a zone Lionel Richie
gets into stuck on You easy like Sunday morning. I mean,
he's just that there's about there's at least ten songs
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that he's right in that zone for me that I
that I think he's as good at that particular song
which he wrote all of and sang all of as
any artists in their prime. And then I get like
dancing on the ceiling and I go, oh, man, I
could really do you know the point at which stuck
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on you did he say? What did he say? Say?
You say me that helping him?
Speaker 8 (30:11):
Someone understands.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Can you be you lost jo Willie?
Speaker 8 (30:18):
You got someone I was show see save me, save.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Save me?
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Well the whole I had forgotten this. Yeah this wasn't necessary,
thought to me. Yeah you could have done without this.
I don't know, I don't know why it's in there.
That's trash, that that didn't add anything.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That Yeah, good call? Is this Vaughn on the Black Line.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yeah, thank you, Mike. Take it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You know how I knew you were black?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Do you know how I knew you were black?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
How?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Because you call me Mike? It wasn't the bass in yours?
Do you think black people are born with more bass?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I don't try to talk, try to disguise it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Huh. Do you think black people are born with more
bass in their voice, deeper voices or do you think
they learned to talk that way like kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
A walk or No, my voice, my voice was actually
deeper when I was younger. Might I don't know?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Well? No, but but black black male callers are typically
typically have a deeper voice that you can catch it
almost at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, you got a little lingo mixed in with it,
I guess.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, but that's not it's it's it's I mean purely,
if you were to look at it on a meter
and look at at the base, it's a deeper, more
resonant sound, and that is consistent across almost every black
mail call. What do you do for living? Vond Well?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I used to be a maleman in Orange.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, we've been on the phone for two and a
half minutes and you just now tell me you used
to be a mailman in Orange. Any food can call
up and talk about Lona Richie. Why didn't you start
with I used to be a male man in arms?
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Where is your route?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
It was? I had different routes around now. I was
what they called a T six. I worked five different
routes a week, so I was all over the place.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Why did you leave doing that?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I retired at fifty nine and a half and I
just got tired of it.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Are you from Orange.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Not from Beaumint?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Where'd you go out and put off the.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Twenty nine and a half you? I went to Hebert.
Remember if I was telling you my uncle drove the bus,
you said, oh.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, my grandfather drove the bus for their last football game.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I was there
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Varry Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Replace.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
We went the carry and the sense of joy. I
know it's incredibly disappointing now, and look candidly, it's it's
a bit scary because there's a very different vision that's
being put out there.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump
Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.
We are told that when Trudeau told President elect Trump
that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked
to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off
the US to the tune of one hundred billion dollars
a year, then maybe Canada should become the fifty first
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state and Trudeau could become it's got.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Replace.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
We went the carrying and the sense of joy. I
know it's incredibly disappointing now and look candidly, it's a
bit scary because there's a very different vision, uh that's
being put out there.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
President Trump looked at at the Taliban leader and said this,
I want to leave Afghanistan, but it's going to be
a conditions based withdraw and translator translated, and he said
if you harm a hair on a single American, I'm
going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And translator goes, and Trump goes, tell.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Tell her what I said.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of
the leader, the leader of the Taliban's home, and handed
it to him.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Shut up, got up and walked off the groun. A
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friend of mine's daughter brought a friend of hers home
with her after school. My friend asked the girl if
somebody would be picking her up or if he needed
to drop her back off to her house, and she
said her great great great great great grandfather would be.
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And my friend said, that's amazing. How has he lived
so long? His daughter said, oh, she has a stutter.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Dad.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nurse says to the doctor, Doctor, there's an invisible man
in the waiting room. Doctor replies, tell him, I can't
sin him. One snowman says to the other, does this
smell like carrots in here? You like carrots trong? You
(03:46):
like carrot juice? Remember the carotini? That was a terrible drink,
But to matt Bryce's credit, we asked him to make it.
He did. You wouldn't believe how many dings sold. I
don't remember thousands, soul thousands. I said, what do people
(04:08):
think of it? He said, they hate it. It wasn't
the point. The point wasn't. Look if carrot juice tasted
good in the martini, somebody would have put it in
a drink before Carotini had the game winning hit. Little
known fact. I don't know if I told you. I
don't know if you were with me or not. But
I went to the next game like that next night,
and it's one out, bottom of the ninth and who
(04:34):
should be who should be put in as a pinch hitter? Again?
Was Carotini ripped it? I mean on a line he
got hold of a ball, hard line drive the right fielder.
I don't think he moved one foot. It was right
to him, but he got hold of one. You know,
we didn't talk about the game. The UTA and M game.
(04:59):
There's a story that has emerged which you may have seen,
but in case you haven't, two Texas A and M
fans were arrested at Saturday's game at Kyle Field for
criminal trespassing. According to arrest affidavits, the two men had
pictures of themselves as ID photos with fake names on
(05:23):
the ID. Both men were booked in the Brass County
jail for criminal trespass and released the next day. These
guys are legends. The two men arrested were twenty two
year old Julian Carrione and twenty one year old Logan Scalise.
He's got to be related to Steve Scalize. That's too
(05:45):
rare a name not to wasn't the only arrest at
the stadium. After the game started, Popo arrested a Grand
Prairie man who got into the game without a ticket.
Oriobos Akio, twenty two, was charged with criminal trespass and
resisting arrest. He was released from jail after posting bonds
totaling eight thousand dollars. Popo also arrested a man for
(06:07):
selling two fake tickets for nine hundred dollars and throwing
away five more fake tickets. The arrest report said the
officer recognized the tickets as fake because the back of
the tickets contained University of Texas logos. Yeah, goober, But
the reason I told you the story is the two
men who were posing as construction workers to get in.
(06:29):
Have you seen this story? They had hard hats, reflective vests,
and fake credentials. It's what names were used on their
fake credentials that make this story worth noting. One of
them was mister mccachinner mc COCKI N E. R. First
(06:54):
named Duncan. The other man last name was as crack
a Z crac, first name Harry. Can you imagine how
much fun they had coming up with their names and
(07:16):
getting them printed on their credentials and showing them to
their buddies. I mean they just cackled, you know, they
just laughed and laughed. They will laugh about that for
the rest of their lives. Was it worth getting arrested? Yeah? Probably,
(07:38):
because that's a story that when your kids are in
high school and they think dad's lame, you go, well,
why don't you look up this name right here and
see if the guy that pops up in the arrest
report looks familiar. If you're the judge and these two
guys come before you and you say would you like
(07:59):
to be referred to by your alias or by your
Christian name? I mean you have to get a kick
out of that. There was the thing about it is
today it's considered Oh it's such a serious thing. That's
the kind of stuff in my dad's generation that I mean,
that's American graffiti stuff, right, that's Porky's. That's Fast Times
(08:23):
at Richmond High. That that's the sort of stuff that
people used to do with their jeans rolled up and
they're in their white T shirt looking like James Dean
with their black horned grim glasses. That's what my dad
looked like, and their hair brike creamed back, and they
played pranks and had fun and it was relatively harmless.
(08:46):
Relatively anyway. If one of you knows those two legends,
ask them to call it seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Stop right there.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I can think of no song for which this is
more the case. Great opening and the minute Ann Wilson
begins singing, the song goes off cliff. The song does
not go up from there. That song opens with about
(09:37):
ten seconds of a great guitar opening and then goes
downhill and before you go. But I like Anne Wilson.
I bet there's something about Ann Wilson you don't know.
Do you know that she stopped recording, She stopped performing
the song in Do you know that she stopped performing
(09:58):
in concert? She said it's sent a bad message, So
she simply stopped performing the song. Oh wait, maybe that
was Hit Me with your best shot. Yeah it was.
Never mind, it wasn't Barracuda. But the song goes downhill
from there. I don't I don't dislike Ann Wilson. I
(10:23):
just don't think the song gets better. After a very
very strong opening, FBI crime data has been adjusted. Here
we go again. Up until October, they were telling us
that violent crime in America was down two point two percent.
(10:48):
Well it turns out it wasn't and we knew it wasn't.
Violent crime is actually up four point five percent. Instead
of being up four point five percent, they said it
was down two point two percent, which is a six
(11:08):
point seven percent swing that doesn't happen on accident. This
is what our government has become. We know that this
data is important. We know that people base their opinions
(11:37):
on either are they are they personally a crime victim
or do they know someone who is, Or they see
a data point like that and go, well, okay, I
guess I guess we're doing better. And then the President
(11:59):
comes out and takes some sort of credit, but in
fact quite the opposite. Mayor Johnson of the City of
Chicago announcing a three hundred million dollar property tax hike
as part of his twenty twenty five budget. Three hundred
million dollars of a property tax hike and it's all
(12:25):
going to illegal alien services. So the City of Houston
has announced I believe it's one hundred million dollar project.
I can't find the story. I'll find it in the moment.
To deal with homelessness, and my immediate thought is do
(12:48):
we have a homeless problem? Yeah, there is a homeless problem.
It's been a homeless problem since I was on city
council and long before. It feels like it's much worse.
You've got the tent cities under the if you've been
down to Pierce Elevated, that's an entire colony of homeless people.
(13:08):
And can you imagine what's going on in there? One
need'll be in passed from person to person, every kind
of disease, sexual, just grow tesque filth under there, and imagine,
which ain't that hard to do? You blow a tower
(13:30):
right there? Can you imagine having to get out right there?
My goodness alive. It is awful, It is terrible. It
should never have been allowed to get that bad, but
nobody wanted to address it. Well, there's a supreme court
ruling now that says homeless people no longer have some
(13:50):
right to lay around in the public spaces and pee
everywhere and poop everywhere, and defile the public spaces and
basically be a nuisance to society. So you gotta you
can arrest those people now and presumably put them in
some kind of facility, because nobody wants to put them
(14:13):
in jail that's too expensive, so you create a facility.
The problem is, and I learned this when I really
dug in to try to understand homelessness, and I will
tell you it's the most difficult public policy issue I
ever confronted. It's almost unsolvable. You can deal with the symptoms,
but when you find out And I went for rides
(14:35):
with the various homeless groups, and it turns out you
pull up on these people and whether it's cold outside
or or so hot that you don't want to be
outside the air conditioned van, they don't want to come
with you. They don't want a cot in three hots
(14:55):
because they don't want any rules. And by rule, I
mean don't show your weeder belly, but put your underwear
back on. They don't want to be under any sort
of and you can trace these numbers back to when
Reagan unloaded the insane asylums. So you had people that
(15:18):
we used to keep in a bed and keep medicated
and hope nobody noticed that they were locked away in
a psych word, and the Reagan administration said, that's not right.
Can't do that. You got to let them out. And
when they let them out, these are not people who
function in society. So they went under the bridge and
started causing problems. So I think, to its credit, perhaps
(15:44):
I'll take him at his word. Whit Myer's trying to
solve the problem. I think he's trying to clean up downtown.
And maybe part of the reason is I suspect some
of the downtown landowners recognized the devaluation. It's hard to
get people to come back into downtown right now, And
(16:04):
in talking to downtown landowners and brokers and people who
make money off of tendancy in downtown Houston, it's a real,
real tough putt to get people who stopped coming into
downtown to come back into downtown. And if you are
(16:25):
a tenant and you you know you've got ten thousand
square foot of space that you've you've made out as
bullpen and cubicles for your management team, and your employees
would much prefer to work where they live in Katie
or the Woodlands. You've got a lot of people that
live in the Woodlands and we're working in downtown Houston.
(16:48):
And when COVID happened, we had a cultural transformation. The
idea became acceptable that you don't have to go into
an office. And it's not just lazy kids. There are
a lot of people who suddenly realized and the thought
was just never there, that you know what, I don't
(17:10):
have to go into the office. I can be just
as productive doing what I do. Before you say, that's
not true. Not every job requires that you go into
an office. And a lot of people were going to
an office because that was the pattern consistently of what
they had always done. And it would be weird, how
(17:31):
come Bob never comes into the office. Now, all of
a sudden, nobody's going into the office and works still
getting done because Bob never really actually interacts with anybody anyway.
So the idea that you're sitting at home in shorts
and bare feet and a T shirt and still sending
the same number of pointless, stupid emails and now you
(17:54):
just do zoom meetings instead of everybody going into the
conference room. And the company recognized, wait, the cost savings
of reducing our footprint. So my guess is the biggest
entity pushing for a change is the midtown and downtown
residents and the owners property owners, because the downtown problem
(18:16):
is a very bad problem, and it becomes much worse
at night when these nocturnal nuts come out. But here's
the problem. Anytime you attach cash to a problem, you
actually subsidize the problem because these organizations are going to
grow used to this and they can't live without it,
and that I think makes it worse.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
This is the Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Show, all right. This song plays into the.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Story I'm about to tell, the.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Lockedest song in your head and whatever your reaction is
to jukebox hero and just a quick background to give
you the story properly. Chance McClain of Heritage Film and
dear friend, contributor of some of our parodies, some of
(19:16):
our music, writes a lot of it, writes a lot
of stuff that we end up using, and contributes to
the show in many ways. He's the one that makes
the films or your your parents or your grandparents and
he's very very good at it, very very talented as
a storyteller documentarian, and his business is just boomed because
(19:37):
of it. And yes, I take a lot of credit
because it was my genius idea. And you know what's funny,
The very first heritage film he ever did was my father,
and he sat out in the driveway with my father.
He said it. He set up we lived and we
lived in New Memorial Park at the time, very leafy,
beautiful tree everywhere, and he's set this shot up out
(20:03):
in the driveway and he got my dad, who's not
My dad's not a big talker and a real loud guy,
and my mom was kind of overbearing personality compared to him,
and so my dad just does never talk that much.
He does more now because he's widowed. And my mom
goes inside and he gets it. He does the whole thing.
(20:28):
And I arrive after they've been there for maybe two hours.
I figured to be over by then, and I go
walking in the house and I said, oh, I see
that chance. He's doing the interview with dad. And my
mom says, he's been out there with your dad for
over two hours. I said, I must have been. I
was surprised because I mean, it's not like my dad.
(20:48):
I said, wow, And she said, Michael, I've never seen
your dad. Your dad's not talked this much in fifty
years as he has in the last two hours. What
was he talking about? She said, I have no idea.
I just can't believe he's talking like a Chance can
get people. So he's telling his life story, right. So
now we have it on. So I said to her, well,
(21:10):
we're gonna do you next. No, I'm not gonna do it.
And once a year, it's probably been ten years now,
I'd say, mom, you got you gotta do that. We
gotta do that harritage film. Chance just reminded me we
got to do your heritage film. Ah, I'm not gonna
do that. And she never did. Ah that gummt Now
I really wish she had, But it happens. So Chance's daughter,
(21:33):
her name is Abigail gun gu n n E because
that's a family name from from his wife. Here's family
going back, like there was a gun photography in Orange.
Some people may remember. I tend to forget. Not everybody's
from Orange. Y'all. Remember on sixth on sixteenth Street there
(21:56):
before prom you'd go to Gun Photography. It was g
U n n E. Do you remember it's next to
where the pawnshop is now. It's across the street from
the old Hinky and Pe lots that became the Kroger's
caddy corner from the Church's Chicken. You know, Michael Kat's
law office, right next to Spankey's. It's about two over
from there, same side of the street as the old
(22:17):
original Taco bell uh same side of the street as
Superior Tire Tim Hughes's tire joint. If you remember that
across from the other pawn there's about eight pawn shops
in a three block. That's a bad sign for a
for a town. Ramon, that's not a That is not
a sign that you're on the up. You're not. You're
(22:37):
not in ascendants at that point. You're your house is
not in ascendants anyway. So his daughter's real name is Abby,
we call her Gun. She went to A and M.
She graduated, She works with him now. She's even more
talented than he is, if you can believe that. There's
a lot of a lot of weird, wicked artistic talent.
So he says, El Tassino, you were talking about Barracuda,
(23:01):
starting strong and then tailing off. I was driving with
Gun last night and I let her DJ. That's the
McCain parlance for who controls the music in the cyber
truck or other more lame vehicle we happen to be in.
She fiddles with the phone for a second, reaches over
and turns the volume up to like seven, and out
of the eleven well placed, perfectly tuned Tesla speakers comes
(23:23):
Foreigner's Jukebox Hero impressive Gun. That song is fantastic, pillar
to post and it gets no love. But the story's
not over. The Foreigner song fades out, when what to
my wondering years wondering years should appear? But enter by
God Sandman by Metallica. Hell, Yes, now you can understand
(23:45):
these daughters about twenty four. Put this into perspective, Abby Gun,
What is this playlist? Says I. That is my hype playlist,
Dad says she. The playlist was mostly eighties rock songs.
There were a few more. More are modern bangers like
wrecking Ball by Miley total Oh, I have to tell
you that Chance loves Miley. Cyrus said it's yeah, and
(24:08):
we appreciate Power by Grimes, Another total banger. This is
him saying not me, but was mostly old rock. Don't
Stop Me Now by Queen. There's a banger right there.
Welcome to the Jungle by gn R White, Wedding by
Billy Idol, that's a Russell Ye barrosong, Living on a
Prayer by bon Jovi. But the one song on the
(24:29):
list that I absolutely love that your barracouta bit made
me think of was acdc's Thunderstruck. What now there is
not the same delta between starts awesome and ends laying Oh, oh,
he's right, Okay, I thought I thought he was saying
it starts strung, because Thunderstruck is one of the greatest
songs start to finish, pillar to post. Thunderstruck is badass
(24:50):
all the way through. But my god, the start of
that song is so strong there is no way to
go but down, and yet it doesn't. So my question
to you, what is the song that starts extremely strong
and then goes off a cliff bat seven one three, nine, nine, nine,
one thousand with the Michael Berry So at what point
(25:17):
are you saying it died? You're saying the song dies
at twenty seconds in Hold On, Start It start the clause,
start the clock.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Okay, go, yeah, you're saying it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It does off a cliff and hold on, keep on.
I disagree. Why do you say that because you really
like the openings. So, first of all, I'm really surprised
(26:07):
you would say that about a Beatles song. Who wrote it,
(26:28):
Paul or Johnson? It has a little more of the
edgy tone of the john Ony song. I mean, it's
not one of my favorite Beatles songs, but I'm not
the Beatles nut you are either, But it doesn't. But
I don't find that. I mean, I could give you
(26:49):
a hundred songs of Theirs that I think are overrated,
and I don't get what the Big to Do is,
but that doesn't. That's just kind of one of those
kind of very edgy, punchy songs that he writes. And
that and I actually I like the keys at the
beginning of that so and I like the combination. I
(27:11):
have only realized in the last couple of years how
much I like the combination of keys and guitar. And
what made me realize that was Freebird. That was the
moment where I said, wow, you take give me the
opening of it. If you take the keyboard out of
(27:34):
this or the piano out of this song?
Speaker 6 (27:41):
You know who is?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
So we think of that as a guitar song, right,
bring that up. And he's out of town in Dallas today.
So if we wanted to, we could just play the
whole segment again. Like in the old days. I missed
you see, nobody was listening back then. We could feel
(28:12):
so dangerous.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What is that song that starts strong? Rebird is definitely
not that. What is that song that starts strong and
then just falls off a cliff? Bad Vaughn. You're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Hello, Mike. The song that I feel is by Lionel
Richie say you say me? Uh? It gets into that
that groove and then all of a sudden, the tempo
changes real fast and it kind of scrambles your emotions
and then it goes back to that slow tempo you
(28:52):
know that the song started out with. And by the
time it does that, you're trying to sort out your
feelings again. You know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Let's give it along. I will tell you I heard
where was I in the last week? I was somewhere
in a public place and stuck on. You came on
and wherever I was, I was about to be outside
earshot of the song, and I specifically just stopped to
(29:22):
sit there and listen to it. And and I thought
about Lionel Ritchie for a moment, and I have to
tell you there is there is a zone Lionel Richie
gets into stuck on You easy like Sunday morning. I mean,
he's just that there's about there's at least ten songs
(29:44):
that he's right in that zone for me that I
that I think he's as good at that particular song
which he wrote all of and sang all of as
any artists in their prime. And then I get like
dancing on the ceiling and I go, oh, man, I
could really do you know the point at which stuck
(30:05):
on you did he say? What did he say? Say?
You say me that helping him?
Speaker 8 (30:11):
Someone understands.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Can you be you lost jo Willie?
Speaker 8 (30:18):
You got someone I was show see save me, save.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Save me?
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Well the whole I had forgotten this. Yeah this wasn't necessary,
thought to me. Yeah you could have done without this.
I don't know, I don't know why it's in there.
That's trash, that that didn't add anything.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That Yeah, good call? Is this Vaughn on the Black Line.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yeah, thank you, Mike. Take it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You know how I knew you were black?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Do you know how I knew you were black?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
How?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Because you call me Mike? It wasn't the bass in yours?
Do you think black people are born with more bass?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I don't try to talk, try to disguise it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Huh. Do you think black people are born with more
bass in their voice, deeper voices or do you think
they learned to talk that way like kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
A walk or No, my voice, my voice was actually
deeper when I was younger. Might I don't know?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Well? No, but but black black male callers are typically
typically have a deeper voice that you can catch it
almost at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, you got a little lingo mixed in with it,
I guess.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, but that's not it's it's it's I mean purely,
if you were to look at it on a meter
and look at at the base, it's a deeper, more
resonant sound, and that is consistent across almost every black
mail call. What do you do for living? Vond Well?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I used to be a maleman in Orange.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, we've been on the phone for two and a
half minutes and you just now tell me you used
to be a mailman in Orange. Any food can call
up and talk about Lona Richie. Why didn't you start
with I used to be a male man in arms?
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Where is your route?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
It was? I had different routes around now. I was
what they called a T six. I worked five different
routes a week, so I was all over the place.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Why did you leave doing that?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I retired at fifty nine and a half and I
just got tired of it.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Are you from Orange.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Not from Beaumint?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Where'd you go out and put off the.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Twenty nine and a half you? I went to Hebert.
Remember if I was telling you my uncle drove the bus,
you said, oh.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, my grandfather drove the bus for their last football game.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I was there
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