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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, lock and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air, We're moving.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Do you have a date that is like your cut
off that you don't buy crawfish till that date? Do
you have a time like do you wait because they're
not big enough? You wait till amy toes? You're not
a big crawfish guy. I should have known that. Not
enough ROI well, you know that's true, okay, in terms
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of in terms of ease of eating, yeah, it ain't brisket, right,
especially a brisket that's you know, cooked so long you
don't even need a don't even need a fork, right,
But but it is a tradition and growing up where
I grew up, especially Orange is much more so than Houston,
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crawfish was everything. And I'm not the biggest crawfish eater
only because I know people who live for it and
I don't want to, you know, step on their toes.
This is their thing. I can enjoy it without needing
to be the biggest crawfish guy in the world. My brother,
on the other hand, was the biggest crawfish either. He
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was the one who taught me how to how to
peel crawfish, and he would until much later in my life.
He would peel my crawfish for me. And I'm unashamed
to say that because that's how much he loved me.
That's what kind of relationship we had. And if we
were somewhere like we're there RCC and I'm trying to
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run things, and things were going on, and people were
asking me questions, people want to come up and say hello,
he would quietly peel my crawfish and lay it in
front of me where you wouldn't even notice he was
doing it, so I wouldn't have to focus on that
and I could focus on talking to people. I mean,
that's that's kind of relationship we had. But anyway, I
was just curious because you know, they're not that big
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yet at this time of year. But I called the
shrimp diva. Where did that? I took a note on this.
You don't do shrimp either, do you. You've got to
stop this. I don't eat I don't eat seafood. That's
so childish, it really is. It's like you're four, you
like oysters raw You know what my wife will do
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for me, she's so sweet. Our little thing is I
tell her she'll say, should we split some oysters this week?
We're like an old married couple. Do you know why?
Because we're an old married couple, and we do old
married couple things like if we go out to a
nice restaurant and before we order, we're not an appetizer
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couple because early in our lives we figured out we
could go out if you don't do an appetizer and
you don't drink, and you order one entree and you
split it. You can even go to some kind of
nice restaurants without much money and still be able to
as long as you drink water and you don't order
appetizers or dessert. Well, as we got older and made
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a little more money, okay, we can add a dessert.
And then I started drinking when I turned twenty nine,
Okay we could add I can have a glass of wine.
Now we're old enough that we don't have to worry
the same way. We can even each have our own
entrey big time, right, but we have. We do now
typically split an entrade, not for financial reasons, but because
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we find that we don't each want a full entree,
especially she likes to have a salad. But we play
this little game where she'll say, if I get some
if I get some oysters, will you eat them with me?
Because you don't even eat all of them? And I'll say,
if you make them for me? So she'll get they're
not rich crackers, Yeah, I guess they might be. I
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mean assualtings. She'll get chill order crackers, which you know
what I don't understand. Some people serve raw oysters with
no cracker. I don't exact thank you that hits you, like,
why would you do that? Exactly exactly my thought. But anyway,
so she'll take the cracker and put my oyster on
top of it. First, you got it ring the you
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got to get the extra excess water because it'll make
your cracker soggy. And then she'll put the just a touch,
just just a little kind of brush it with some
cocktail sauce and then some horse radish and then some Tabasco.
And she's got dainty little fingers. I don't where uh
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she can open that Tabasco bottle. That little Tabasco bottle
is almost more house one's worth. I love little bottles,
like mini bar sized bottles and little you go to specs,
you can get to Specs and be done. And then
you look over there and go, well, I don't need
any jim Beam. Uh, but I might have somebody that
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needs some jim Beam and I can just put this
in my pocket for them, you know, those little big
carry out deals. Steve Moore, who runs Specs, is such
a wealth of information in the liquor industry. And when
we did Redneck Vodka, he said, Michael, you're doing great
on the sales, but what you need to do is
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these little bottles. I forget what they're called. Uncle Jerry
knows what you need to do is just a little
bottle right here. And I said, why don't we to
do that? And he said, because people love to buy
those things, and people don't want to buy a full
bottle of to try it, but if they see that,
they'll grab it and they'll spend as much on those
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bottles as they would your big bottle. They love. Yeah,
So anyway, I'm not sure. Oh so she'll make that
and I'll eat it and I love it. But back
to the point, shrimp. So I checked in with the
shrimp Diva and you can follow her on social media.
She's the one. Remember Pops, I think he's ninety, he
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goes out on the shrimp boat, and so I checked
in with her to see how she's doing, because well,
I really wanted to see how Pops was doing, her
father in law. And I said, how is Pops? And
she said, he's good. He's ready to get back out
on the boat. You know, it's cold and he's lost
his good ten and you this guy's been a shrimper
since he was five years old. And she said, she said,
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we're only shrimping on Saturday and Sunday. And I said, well,
explain that to me. She said, well, we only get
eighty cents a pound unless we sell the shrimp for bait,
and then we can get five dollars a pound. So
local shrimpers are not selling to the restaurants largely, they're
selling to the bait shops. And I said eighty cents
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versus five dollars a pounds. She said, yeah, it's pretty dramatic,
but we can only get that on Saturday and Sunday
when people come down to fish, so that's where we
try to make a little money back. I said, how
much does the bait shop sell it for? She said
twenty five dollars a court. Well, of course that threw
me off, like I'm back in eleventh grade. How many
pounds in a court? So we're going back and forth.
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So apparently it's a pound and a half. She thought
I might be wrong, So the markup for the bait
shop is probably three times. I'm not saying bait shops
are getting rich. Don't you know to tell me that
I'm not down on the bait shop. Can you guess
how many shrimp there are to a pound? Ramonte? Very
good guess, not fifty, Between sixty and seventy depends on
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how big the shrimp are. There's really not a point
to this story, but I learned some information and I
thought i'd share it with you, And so since I
since I I gleaned during my investigation on how Pops
is doing, I learned a few things and I thought
i'd share that with you. So if you're wondering what
was the point of the story, that there really wasn't one.
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I'm pissed off by the speaker's race, if you must know.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Today to the Colonial House aquirements and received a three
to a recorder.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Hippyr CTV's Mario Diez reports that in the year twenty
twenty four, Lena had Aalgo missed thirty six percent of
Commissioner's Court and Special Commissioner's Court meetings. He asked loony
Lena about those missed meetings, and she said that he's
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quote spinning things. That's odd because the records are clear.
Don't know what he's spending. Then a day later, staffers
told he asked quote two meetings were missed because of
an emergency fire and because of her honeymoon. In that
same conversation, we requested a formal interview to discuss what
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the county's own website shows regarding her attendance. Id Aligo
never accommodated our request. On Monday, he followed up and
they refused to answer his questions. Then they sent out
a statement saying, quote, my administration designed business courts to
be quick, less than five minute meetings with only three
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members present, as a solution to keep routine county business
moving in between regular meetings of the Commissioner's Court. It
is a mischaracterization to equate these quick, five minute, three
member business court meetings with regular Commissioner's Court meetings. Any
of the few regular commission Court meetings that I have
missed have been for disaster recovery efforts or for milestones
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like my wedding. I've seen what happens when county leaders
don't show up for necessary votes, and I take that
responsibility seriously. Commissioner Tom Ramsey responded, saying I look at
all commissioners court meetings as valuable things to be at.
Whether you miss two or thirty six percent of the total,
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it's important to be at the meetings. Former Harris County
Judge at Emmett added, I've never heard of these kinds
of meetings to do business. If it's important enough for
the other commissioners to be there, it's important enough for
the county judge to be there. You know. Not showing
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up to work is part of the pattern of these
very entitled, unethical democrats not showing up to work. Now.
Part of Looney Lena's problem is she hates the job.
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I've told you before. They're working right now. Rodney is
working to allow her. She wants to resign. She didn't
want to come back in January. All she does is
post pictures of her and her her nerd boyfriend or
now husband. They're here, they're there, They're you know, they're
on vacation constantly. But I guess if you call it
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a honeymoon, people to feel bad about pointing it out. Well,
I don't. You have a job to do. And by
the way, you didn't have to get married when you did.
You could get married when Commissioner's Court is not meeting.
Don't act like you had. You know, this brings up
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an issue that I have been wanting to talk about.
We're going to do it right now. This is like
that moment ramoned in the household when one of your
kids does something and you've been meaning to have the
big sit down talk about it, and you get you
know what, I'm glad you brought that up right now,
sit down, we're going to have a family meeting. Well,
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we're about to have that right now. And that is
this attendance meetings your job. They have meaning. You don't
cancel them, you don't miss them, You do them. That's
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how I was taught. My dad missed two days in
forty years of being at due point two days sickly.
And you got to understand, my dad has as serious
a chronic illness as you can have, condition as you
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can have and still keep a job. I've had doctors
tell me it is unbelievable that he's kept all his toes,
all his fingers, and his vision. Yeah, because he's worked
very hard at it. He's a saint, he's a monk.
He's had to work very hard to do that. In
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my dad's mind, you get up and go to work.
He was never hung over because he chose not to
drink because his body couldn't process it properly. He was
ever at a party late because his belief is you
go to bed so that you can get up. People
that have trouble getting into work because well, I stayed
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up too late. Look, if you're at the hospital because
your child's been hospitalized and you're there all night, okay,
that's fine. But if you stayed at a party too
late and the next day you sleep, Oh I'm sorry, sorry,
I missed work. I was up too late. You chose
to be. You didn't happen to be up too late.
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You do the crime, you do the time you get
your butt up with a headache. We've all done it,
and you get to work because it has meaning. And
I would tell you on that same subject, there's something
that bothers me. This mindset of people who don't like
to work and people who love to cancel things. I'll
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give you an example. When there's a natural disaster. If
there's a football game coming up, there is a crowd
of people who demand that the game has to be canceled.
We can't play, we're all upset. No, you play, You
play the game. It's a job. People have planned their trip.
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Working class people have planned their trip to this event
around this. This is their big vacation. This is their
big get away, their big diversion. You don't just say, well,
we have to show that we're all upset. You can
be upset and you play through it. This is the
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mindset of people who a bad thing happens in their
life and they feel like they've got to take a
bunch of time off. Why why do you need to
do that? Is that your excuse? Because you will find
that that person finds a lot of reasons not to
show up to work. Shutting down government businesses. Joe Biden
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declared that no business would be conducted on the day
of Jimmy Carter's funeral. My buddy, who's a trader, I
don't know what you call it. He was one of
the guys at the summit, not at summit at I
don't know what you call it, those guys that trade
all day, right, and futures and all that. And he
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wakes up up and he said, did you know that
Joe Biden shut the market down? What I'm never said,
He's stupid? Michael, Why, Richard, You're on the Michael Barry Show. Richard,
go ahead, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Do you think you think people that wives up to
these Democrats questioning of this of this guy they're trying
to get for the Secretary of Defense? I mean they
always is always going to be a sex scandal with everybody.
I think they're doing him like they did Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Do you think people people are still stupid to believe
this stuff? Or you think they wives up to the games?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Very good question. There are two answers, and let me
give them to you one by one. The first one
is are voters wising up to this? Yes? And I
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go back to the moment the tape was released of
Donald Trump talking to Billy Bush, the famous I grab
him by the whohu line? When that came out, that
was designed to be the moment, and Billy Bush has
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come out and talked about how that was released and
what they were trying to do, and he's told, in fact,
he was talking about this a few weeks ago. The
people who work behind the scenes to try to find
something to knock Trump out, and that's very similar to
what they're doing with Hegseth here and let me explain.
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The first part is to get people to turn against them. Hey,
we can't be for this guy because he's a drunk
and we cheats on his wife, and he's a white
nationalist with the crazy Nazi tattoo, and he's a hitler
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and he's putin and he's dangerous, and he's a drunk
and he's a horse chaser. Okay, so that's supposed to
make people go, uh. You know, I'm all for bringing
change and I wasn't for Biden. Believe me, I wasn't it.
I mean, I'm glad Comlo didn't win, but I can't
be for this guy. I mean, he's he's he's a mess,
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and I can't be for him or Cavanaugh, you know.
I mean, I don't want the Democrats to win or anything,
but I don't want a guy on the Supreme Court
that you know, drinks too much. You know, how can I,
how can I? What do I? What do I tell
my teenage daughter when she asked me about this? That's
that's how that's supposed to work. Voters the public at
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this point have wised up to that, and we saw
that through the course of this election. The things that
used to work the old playbook, they'll change the playbook
by the next time. But the old playbook didn't work
this time. So there's that issue number one. But issue
number two is it is meant to break the spirit
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of the man himself. What's supposed to happen here is
Pete Hegseth is a good looking guy with an impressive
resume who was on Fox News, and he gets nothing
but praise anywhere he goes. He's got the world. I mean,
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he's got the whole world in his hand. He's got
everything he could want. And everybody that comes in contact
with him. Pete, we love you on Fox Pete. You're
doing great. Pete. You should run for president. Pete. You're
the best, Hey, Pete, And you get used to that,
You get used to the person people make you out
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to be. Nobody is as bad as it will make
you out to be. And nobody's as great as they'll
make you out to be. But you start buying your
own bs and you get accustomed to it, and you
wake up in the morning and you can't wait to
go out in public, can't wait to read your emails,
can't wait to see what people are saying about you,
because it's all good. Because you're Pete hag Seth, superstar
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on fox Man. They love you. And what that's designed
to do is shatter your self image and embarrass you.
And the idea is they can't get the votes. They
simply cannot get the vote to be him, and they
know that. But it is designed to make you withdraw,
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and many, many, many weak people will. The reason Bill
Clinton was elected in nineteen ninety two is when all
his horror mongeringe was laid bare. He refused to walk away.
Knew Giingrich walked away, Gary Hart walked away. Most folks,
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when confronted, we'll run and hide and hope you won't
think about them again, and then they'll find a lobbying
job and they'll ride out their final days. There's certain
people that have an indomitable spirit, and Pete hagg saith
throughout the course of his life is that kind of guy,
and Donald Trump that kind of guy. These are guys
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who live life at a speed that most people cannot comprehend.
These are people who are in the purest sense of
the word. And this is one of the highest compliments
I ever give anybody. In very few people qualify for this.
They are fearless, fearless in the way that if you've
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ever raised a teenage boy, you know that they're fearless.
And you're spending a lot of your time saying, Eli,
get get down from there. If you fall, you're gonna
break your neck. Eli, I saw you driving ninety miles
an hour down the road. Do you realize if just
one thing goes wrong, you're gonna kill yourself? Oh it's fine,
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I got it. Eli. I saw you on that motorcycle,
and I saw you jumping that hill. Do you realize
if you didn't land out, you're not evil canevil, But
you're gonna bust yourself up and we're gonna be at
the hospital and you'll never walk the same again. Oh,
I got it. They're fearless. They're fearless because they're stupid,
and they're fearless because they have no experience, they have
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no knowledge when you get to be my age. My
kids laugh because I'll say, hey, you know, don't do
this because I had a friend who died that way.
And my boy's loudy dad, Dad, Well, let me guess
you had a friend who died that way. Yeah, a friend.
Anything that comes up and it's true, it happens to
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be true. Well, once you watch somebody die doing a
certain thing, then for the rest of your life it's
in the back of your mind. Hey, it doesn't always
work out. It can end badly to be fearless beyond
your teenage years as a man, not a boy, despite
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the risks people said to me. When Mac after his surgery,
he said, if you if you think it would be
worth doing, I'd like to. I had said to him,
I would like to have folks come out to Gallery
Furniture because people want to see you. People want to
be here for you. You've been here for this town.
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People want to be here for you. And uh, I'd
like to. I'd like to rally folks. Won't you tell
me whenever you think you can handle it, and we'll
do it. And he said, I can do it. Whatever
it was. This was Tuesday, so I can do it
on Thursday, I said, are you sure? Yep, it would
make me feel better. Well, then I come home and
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I said, hey, on Thursday, my wife said, what are
you doing? He can't be exposed. There's gonna be people
that have a cold and they have this, and they
have this. Are you sure that's it's gonna be your
man's gonna die. It's gonna be your fault. You're gonna
feel horrible. And then I can't back out of it now,
so I text him again, Hey, make you sure? Yeah? Positive?
So I couldn't be there, and there was mac and
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I got emails from women and they don't mean ill.
They actually mean well, he don't need to be out there.
He needs to be home recovering. He could die. You
don't understand people who live. I said, that's like telling
Donald Trump he can't have rallies because he might get
us out. That's not how he lives.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
The program reels and cards in and gift.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Sets like Surf The Michael Verry Show he sold separately.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Wayne Wright. Those miniature balls are fa task it. I
use them in the airplane because they fit in the
cabinet space. But I also have the small cans of soda,
and the small cans of bloody Mary mix and the tiny,
tiny bottles of tabasco. The small cans are awesome because
it's basically one can per shot of liquor, so there's
very little waste. I use small cans at home as well.
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The purchase price is a tad higher, but so worth
the convenience. And isn't that what it's all about? By
the way, stories with no point are great. Sometimes, Jenny
Taylor writes primary threats, We're gonna primary you easier said
than done. Name idea is everything in politics. Thus the
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incumbent has a huge advantage. It's difficult to beat an incumbent.
Congratulations to the newcomers. You are now the incumbent. I
have said this before, and I will say it again
because it repeating. The three men most influential in my
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life as a young man that I read about, studied,
admired for, Robert E. Lee, Davy Crockett, and Jesus Christ.
All three of them suffered on principle, all three of
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them took a loss. Christians have told me Christ didn't lose.
If he didn't lose, there wouldn't need to be a resurrection,
right He gave his life for you to pay for
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your sins, because the wages of sin are death. So
he did lose, and he rose again, but he had
to lose to rise again. If you'd think he was
on the cross because it would be fun, that was
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his seventy five hard then you don't understand to argue
with me over whether he suffered for principle, nobody suffered
more for principle, pure principle avoidable suffering. But be that
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as it may. I don't care if we beat the incumbents.
That's what's important. That's the difference between me and a
lot of other people. I don't care if we lose
the election, every single one of them. When I say
I don't care, what I mean is that's not what
drives me. Do the right thing, leave it on the field,
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and walk off knowing you did the right thing for
the right reason and gave everything you had to it
and held nothing back. The problem is people sell you
on things based on what would sell them on things.
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When people say to me, this candidate can't win. This
candidate's going to win over your candidate, I say, okay,
so you shouldn't support your candidate. That's not the basis. Now,
I'm going to tell you, as a result, because I've
been through this game before, as a result of what
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happened yesterday, there will be some people who have one
too many beers. I say one too many have as
mean as they won't who have more beers than usual,
and they're not as my grandmother will say, they're not.
He not at his self. So you'll find somebody who's
not at himself, at his self his self, and he's aggravated,
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and he'll say, I'm gonna run against so and so,
and he's never going to raise a dollar, he's never
going to do what it would take to win the election,
but he might. You know, I'm going to do this. No,
I'm not going to spend any time or energy helping
that guy. I'm great, I hope you win, but I
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only have so much capital that I can spend on
an election, so I'm not going to I'm not going
to spend it in places where I can already tell
you're not going to win, because there's no principle to
you know, getting eight percent of the vote. If you
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want to do what it's going to take to win. Sure.
Christian Collins ran for Congress. I did not support him,
but he would be a good candidate. He'd be a
good officeholder. Young guy, very involved in the Conservative and
he posted last night, I'm so disappointed Cecil Bell, my
state Rep. Cecibel Magnolia sold us out. And I said,
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which I never do, Christian, run for the office, and
I'll support you because I don't know who else is
in the rais. There may be somebody that comes along later.
But what we have to do, and this is what
the establishment does, is we have to identify candidates who
can win and should win and share our values. Because
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you've got to start now. You got to have somebody
ready to run right now in the primary a year
from this march. Who is hounding the rep that just
sold us out in Austin every vote they cast, every
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bad vote they cast, this person's reporting it back to
the district. He just sold us out on election reform.
He just sided with the Democrats. And that person spends
a year, and that person is committed and organized and
well liked. Look, if you got seven dwis, just know
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that's gonna come out. If you got indecency with the
fourteen year old, that's gonna come out. If you fire,
if you filed multiple bankruptcies, that's gonna come out. There
are things voters will forgive you for, and there are
things they want. Don't run for office because four people
online told you you should you should run. I like
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you because you already know what's gonna come out. And
when you go after an incumbent, they're gonna have the
money to do the research on you, and they're gonna
find out everything about you. Now, I say to people
all the time, you are the only one who knows
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everything you've ever done. Nobody else does. You are the
only one if you're comfortable defending those things. I wish
more people would run. A lot of people don't run
because they got that crazy ex wife or crazy ex
husband out there that'll go off and say bad things
about them, and they would be a good officer. So anyway,
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you gotta email me and said you're not mad enough
about the speakers raison. No, I'm mad, but I'm not
the kind of mad that I'm gonna forget tomorrow. This
is this is my state. We are going. Efforts that
were made by good, honest, decent, honorable people out there
were were squandered by people who call themselves Republicans, campaign
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on one thing and do the other. And for that
there has to be a reckoning. And they will. It
will take a full year to get there, but there
will there will be. I assure you that's slow and steady.
It's that time time time, time, lock and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air, We're moving.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Do you have a date that is like your cut
off that you don't buy crawfish till that date? Do
you have a time like do you wait because they're
not big enough? You wait till amy toes? You're not
a big crawfish guy. I should have known that. Not
enough ROI well, you know that's true, okay, in terms
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of in terms of ease of eating, yeah, it ain't brisket, right,
especially a brisket that's you know, cooked so long you
don't even need a don't even need a fork, right,
But but it is a tradition and growing up where
I grew up, especially Orange is much more so than Houston,
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crawfish was everything. And I'm not the biggest crawfish eater
only because I know people who live for it and
I don't want to, you know, step on their toes.
This is their thing. I can enjoy it without needing
to be the biggest crawfish guy in the world. My brother,
on the other hand, was the biggest crawfish either. He
(01:41):
was the one who taught me how to how to
peel crawfish, and he would until much later in my life.
He would peel my crawfish for me. And I'm unashamed
to say that because that's how much he loved me.
That's what kind of relationship we had. And if we
were somewhere like we're there RCC and I'm trying to
(02:02):
run things, and things were going on, and people were
asking me questions, people want to come up and say hello,
he would quietly peel my crawfish and lay it in
front of me where you wouldn't even notice he was
doing it, so I wouldn't have to focus on that
and I could focus on talking to people. I mean,
that's that's kind of relationship we had. But anyway, I
was just curious because you know, they're not that big
(02:24):
yet at this time of year. But I called the
shrimp diva. Where did that? I took a note on this.
You don't do shrimp either, do you. You've got to
stop this. I don't eat I don't eat seafood. That's
so childish, it really is. It's like you're four, you
like oysters raw You know what my wife will do
(02:47):
for me, she's so sweet. Our little thing is I
tell her she'll say, should we split some oysters this week?
We're like an old married couple. Do you know why?
Because we're an old married couple, and we do old
married couple things like if we go out to a
nice restaurant and before we order, we're not an appetizer
(03:10):
couple because early in our lives we figured out we
could go out if you don't do an appetizer and
you don't drink, and you order one entree and you
split it. You can even go to some kind of
nice restaurants without much money and still be able to
as long as you drink water and you don't order
appetizers or dessert. Well, as we got older and made
(03:32):
a little more money, okay, we can add a dessert.
And then I started drinking when I turned twenty nine,
Okay we could add I can have a glass of wine.
Now we're old enough that we don't have to worry
the same way. We can even each have our own
entrey big time, right, but we have. We do now
typically split an entrade, not for financial reasons, but because
(03:56):
we find that we don't each want a full entree,
especially she likes to have a salad. But we play
this little game where she'll say, if I get some
if I get some oysters, will you eat them with me?
Because you don't even eat all of them? And I'll say,
if you make them for me? So she'll get they're
not rich crackers, Yeah, I guess they might be. I
(04:16):
mean assualtings. She'll get chill order crackers, which you know
what I don't understand. Some people serve raw oysters with
no cracker. I don't exact thank you that hits you, like,
why would you do that? Exactly exactly my thought. But anyway,
so she'll take the cracker and put my oyster on
top of it. First, you got it ring the you
(04:38):
got to get the extra excess water because it'll make
your cracker soggy. And then she'll put the just a touch,
just just a little kind of brush it with some
cocktail sauce and then some horse radish and then some Tabasco.
And she's got dainty little fingers. I don't where uh
(05:00):
she can open that Tabasco bottle. That little Tabasco bottle
is almost more house one's worth. I love little bottles,
like mini bar sized bottles and little you go to specs,
you can get to Specs and be done. And then
you look over there and go, well, I don't need
any jim Beam. Uh, but I might have somebody that
(05:23):
needs some jim Beam and I can just put this
in my pocket for them, you know, those little big
carry out deals. Steve Moore, who runs Specs, is such
a wealth of information in the liquor industry. And when
we did Redneck Vodka, he said, Michael, you're doing great
on the sales, but what you need to do is
(05:44):
these little bottles. I forget what they're called. Uncle Jerry
knows what you need to do is just a little
bottle right here. And I said, why don't we to
do that? And he said, because people love to buy
those things, and people don't want to buy a full
bottle of to try it, but if they see that,
they'll grab it and they'll spend as much on those
(06:05):
bottles as they would your big bottle. They love. Yeah,
So anyway, I'm not sure. Oh so she'll make that
and I'll eat it and I love it. But back
to the point, shrimp. So I checked in with the
shrimp Diva and you can follow her on social media.
She's the one. Remember Pops, I think he's ninety, he
(06:26):
goes out on the shrimp boat, and so I checked
in with her to see how she's doing, because well,
I really wanted to see how Pops was doing, her
father in law. And I said, how is Pops? And
she said, he's good. He's ready to get back out
on the boat. You know, it's cold and he's lost
his good ten and you this guy's been a shrimper
since he was five years old. And she said, she said,
(06:52):
we're only shrimping on Saturday and Sunday. And I said, well,
explain that to me. She said, well, we only get
eighty cents a pound unless we sell the shrimp for bait,
and then we can get five dollars a pound. So
local shrimpers are not selling to the restaurants largely, they're
selling to the bait shops. And I said eighty cents
(07:15):
versus five dollars a pounds. She said, yeah, it's pretty dramatic,
but we can only get that on Saturday and Sunday
when people come down to fish, so that's where we
try to make a little money back. I said, how
much does the bait shop sell it for? She said
twenty five dollars a court. Well, of course that threw
me off, like I'm back in eleventh grade. How many
pounds in a court? So we're going back and forth.
(07:37):
So apparently it's a pound and a half. She thought
I might be wrong, So the markup for the bait
shop is probably three times. I'm not saying bait shops
are getting rich. Don't you know to tell me that
I'm not down on the bait shop. Can you guess
how many shrimp there are to a pound? Ramonte? Very
good guess, not fifty, Between sixty and seventy depends on
(07:58):
how big the shrimp are. There's really not a point
to this story, but I learned some information and I
thought i'd share it with you, And so since I
since I I gleaned during my investigation on how Pops
is doing, I learned a few things and I thought
i'd share that with you. So if you're wondering what
was the point of the story, that there really wasn't one.
(08:20):
I'm pissed off by the speaker's race, if you must know.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Today to the Colonial House aquirements and received a three
to a recorder.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Hippyr CTV's Mario Diez reports that in the year twenty
twenty four, Lena had Aalgo missed thirty six percent of
Commissioner's Court and Special Commissioner's Court meetings. He asked loony
Lena about those missed meetings, and she said that he's
(08:55):
quote spinning things. That's odd because the records are clear.
Don't know what he's spending. Then a day later, staffers
told he asked quote two meetings were missed because of
an emergency fire and because of her honeymoon. In that
same conversation, we requested a formal interview to discuss what
(09:19):
the county's own website shows regarding her attendance. Id Aligo
never accommodated our request. On Monday, he followed up and
they refused to answer his questions. Then they sent out
a statement saying, quote, my administration designed business courts to
be quick, less than five minute meetings with only three
(09:41):
members present, as a solution to keep routine county business
moving in between regular meetings of the Commissioner's Court. It
is a mischaracterization to equate these quick, five minute, three
member business court meetings with regular Commissioner's Court meetings. Any
of the few regular commission Court meetings that I have
missed have been for disaster recovery efforts or for milestones
(10:05):
like my wedding. I've seen what happens when county leaders
don't show up for necessary votes, and I take that
responsibility seriously. Commissioner Tom Ramsey responded, saying I look at
all commissioners court meetings as valuable things to be at.
Whether you miss two or thirty six percent of the total,
(10:27):
it's important to be at the meetings. Former Harris County
Judge at Emmett added, I've never heard of these kinds
of meetings to do business. If it's important enough for
the other commissioners to be there, it's important enough for
the county judge to be there. You know. Not showing
(10:49):
up to work is part of the pattern of these
very entitled, unethical democrats not showing up to work. Now.
Part of Looney Lena's problem is she hates the job.
(11:11):
I've told you before. They're working right now. Rodney is
working to allow her. She wants to resign. She didn't
want to come back in January. All she does is
post pictures of her and her her nerd boyfriend or
now husband. They're here, they're there, They're you know, they're
on vacation constantly. But I guess if you call it
(11:33):
a honeymoon, people to feel bad about pointing it out. Well,
I don't. You have a job to do. And by
the way, you didn't have to get married when you did.
You could get married when Commissioner's Court is not meeting.
Don't act like you had. You know, this brings up
(11:53):
an issue that I have been wanting to talk about.
We're going to do it right now. This is like
that moment ramoned in the household when one of your
kids does something and you've been meaning to have the
big sit down talk about it, and you get you
know what, I'm glad you brought that up right now,
sit down, we're going to have a family meeting. Well,
(12:16):
we're about to have that right now. And that is
this attendance meetings your job. They have meaning. You don't
cancel them, you don't miss them, You do them. That's
(12:38):
how I was taught. My dad missed two days in
forty years of being at due point two days sickly.
And you got to understand, my dad has as serious
a chronic illness as you can have, condition as you
(13:00):
can have and still keep a job. I've had doctors
tell me it is unbelievable that he's kept all his toes,
all his fingers, and his vision. Yeah, because he's worked
very hard at it. He's a saint, he's a monk.
He's had to work very hard to do that. In
(13:20):
my dad's mind, you get up and go to work.
He was never hung over because he chose not to
drink because his body couldn't process it properly. He was
ever at a party late because his belief is you
go to bed so that you can get up. People
that have trouble getting into work because well, I stayed
(13:43):
up too late. Look, if you're at the hospital because
your child's been hospitalized and you're there all night, okay,
that's fine. But if you stayed at a party too
late and the next day you sleep, Oh I'm sorry, sorry,
I missed work. I was up too late. You chose
to be. You didn't happen to be up too late.
(14:05):
You do the crime, you do the time you get
your butt up with a headache. We've all done it,
and you get to work because it has meaning. And
I would tell you on that same subject, there's something
that bothers me. This mindset of people who don't like
to work and people who love to cancel things. I'll
(14:28):
give you an example. When there's a natural disaster. If
there's a football game coming up, there is a crowd
of people who demand that the game has to be canceled.
We can't play, we're all upset. No, you play, You
play the game. It's a job. People have planned their trip.
(14:50):
Working class people have planned their trip to this event
around this. This is their big vacation. This is their
big get away, their big diversion. You don't just say, well,
we have to show that we're all upset. You can
be upset and you play through it. This is the
(15:12):
mindset of people who a bad thing happens in their
life and they feel like they've got to take a
bunch of time off. Why why do you need to
do that? Is that your excuse? Because you will find
that that person finds a lot of reasons not to
show up to work. Shutting down government businesses. Joe Biden
(15:37):
declared that no business would be conducted on the day
of Jimmy Carter's funeral. My buddy, who's a trader, I
don't know what you call it. He was one of
the guys at the summit, not at summit at I
don't know what you call it, those guys that trade
all day, right, and futures and all that. And he
(15:59):
wakes up up and he said, did you know that
Joe Biden shut the market down? What I'm never said,
He's stupid? Michael, Why, Richard, You're on the Michael Barry Show. Richard,
go ahead, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Do you think you think people that wives up to
these Democrats questioning of this of this guy they're trying
to get for the Secretary of Defense? I mean they
always is always going to be a sex scandal with everybody.
I think they're doing him like they did Kavanaugh.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Do you think people people are still stupid to believe
this stuff? Or you think they wives up to the games?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Very good question. There are two answers, and let me
give them to you one by one. The first one
is are voters wising up to this? Yes? And I
(17:07):
go back to the moment the tape was released of
Donald Trump talking to Billy Bush, the famous I grab
him by the whohu line? When that came out, that
was designed to be the moment, and Billy Bush has
(17:29):
come out and talked about how that was released and
what they were trying to do, and he's told, in fact,
he was talking about this a few weeks ago. The
people who work behind the scenes to try to find
something to knock Trump out, and that's very similar to
what they're doing with Hegseth here and let me explain.
(17:50):
The first part is to get people to turn against them. Hey,
we can't be for this guy because he's a drunk
and we cheats on his wife, and he's a white
nationalist with the crazy Nazi tattoo, and he's a hitler
(18:11):
and he's putin and he's dangerous, and he's a drunk
and he's a horse chaser. Okay, so that's supposed to
make people go, uh. You know, I'm all for bringing
change and I wasn't for Biden. Believe me, I wasn't it.
I mean, I'm glad Comlo didn't win, but I can't
be for this guy. I mean, he's he's he's a mess,
(18:31):
and I can't be for him or Cavanaugh, you know.
I mean, I don't want the Democrats to win or anything,
but I don't want a guy on the Supreme Court
that you know, drinks too much. You know, how can I,
how can I? What do I? What do I tell
my teenage daughter when she asked me about this? That's
that's how that's supposed to work. Voters the public at
(18:54):
this point have wised up to that, and we saw
that through the course of this election. The things that
used to work the old playbook, they'll change the playbook
by the next time. But the old playbook didn't work
this time. So there's that issue number one. But issue
number two is it is meant to break the spirit
(19:14):
of the man himself. What's supposed to happen here is
Pete Hegseth is a good looking guy with an impressive
resume who was on Fox News, and he gets nothing
but praise anywhere he goes. He's got the world. I mean,
(19:35):
he's got the whole world in his hand. He's got
everything he could want. And everybody that comes in contact
with him. Pete, we love you on Fox Pete. You're
doing great. Pete. You should run for president. Pete. You're
the best, Hey, Pete, And you get used to that,
You get used to the person people make you out
(19:56):
to be. Nobody is as bad as it will make
you out to be. And nobody's as great as they'll
make you out to be. But you start buying your
own bs and you get accustomed to it, and you
wake up in the morning and you can't wait to
go out in public, can't wait to read your emails,
can't wait to see what people are saying about you,
because it's all good. Because you're Pete hag Seth, superstar
(20:19):
on fox Man. They love you. And what that's designed
to do is shatter your self image and embarrass you.
And the idea is they can't get the votes. They
simply cannot get the vote to be him, and they
know that. But it is designed to make you withdraw,
(20:44):
and many, many, many weak people will. The reason Bill
Clinton was elected in nineteen ninety two is when all
his horror mongeringe was laid bare. He refused to walk away.
Knew Giingrich walked away, Gary Hart walked away. Most folks,
(21:09):
when confronted, we'll run and hide and hope you won't
think about them again, and then they'll find a lobbying
job and they'll ride out their final days. There's certain
people that have an indomitable spirit, and Pete hagg saith
throughout the course of his life is that kind of guy,
and Donald Trump that kind of guy. These are guys
(21:34):
who live life at a speed that most people cannot comprehend.
These are people who are in the purest sense of
the word. And this is one of the highest compliments
I ever give anybody. In very few people qualify for this.
They are fearless, fearless in the way that if you've
(21:58):
ever raised a teenage boy, you know that they're fearless.
And you're spending a lot of your time saying, Eli,
get get down from there. If you fall, you're gonna
break your neck. Eli, I saw you driving ninety miles
an hour down the road. Do you realize if just
one thing goes wrong, you're gonna kill yourself? Oh it's fine,
(22:19):
I got it. Eli. I saw you on that motorcycle,
and I saw you jumping that hill. Do you realize
if you didn't land out, you're not evil canevil, But
you're gonna bust yourself up and we're gonna be at
the hospital and you'll never walk the same again. Oh,
I got it. They're fearless. They're fearless because they're stupid,
and they're fearless because they have no experience, they have
(22:41):
no knowledge when you get to be my age. My
kids laugh because I'll say, hey, you know, don't do
this because I had a friend who died that way.
And my boy's loudy dad, Dad, Well, let me guess
you had a friend who died that way. Yeah, a friend.
Anything that comes up and it's true, it happens to
(23:03):
be true. Well, once you watch somebody die doing a
certain thing, then for the rest of your life it's
in the back of your mind. Hey, it doesn't always
work out. It can end badly to be fearless beyond
your teenage years as a man, not a boy, despite
(23:28):
the risks people said to me. When Mac after his surgery,
he said, if you if you think it would be
worth doing, I'd like to. I had said to him,
I would like to have folks come out to Gallery
Furniture because people want to see you. People want to
be here for you. You've been here for this town.
(23:49):
People want to be here for you. And uh, I'd
like to. I'd like to rally folks. Won't you tell
me whenever you think you can handle it, and we'll
do it. And he said, I can do it. Whatever
it was. This was Tuesday, so I can do it
on Thursday, I said, are you sure? Yep, it would
make me feel better. Well, then I come home and
(24:12):
I said, hey, on Thursday, my wife said, what are
you doing? He can't be exposed. There's gonna be people
that have a cold and they have this, and they
have this. Are you sure that's it's gonna be your
man's gonna die. It's gonna be your fault. You're gonna
feel horrible. And then I can't back out of it now,
so I text him again, Hey, make you sure? Yeah? Positive?
So I couldn't be there, and there was mac and
(24:32):
I got emails from women and they don't mean ill.
They actually mean well, he don't need to be out there.
He needs to be home recovering. He could die. You
don't understand people who live. I said, that's like telling
Donald Trump he can't have rallies because he might get
us out. That's not how he lives.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
The program reels and cards in and gift.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Sets like Surf The Michael Verry Show he sold separately.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Wayne Wright. Those miniature balls are fa task it. I
use them in the airplane because they fit in the
cabinet space. But I also have the small cans of soda,
and the small cans of bloody Mary mix and the tiny,
tiny bottles of tabasco. The small cans are awesome because
it's basically one can per shot of liquor, so there's
very little waste. I use small cans at home as well.
(25:21):
The purchase price is a tad higher, but so worth
the convenience. And isn't that what it's all about? By
the way, stories with no point are great. Sometimes, Jenny
Taylor writes primary threats, We're gonna primary you easier said
than done. Name idea is everything in politics. Thus the
(25:43):
incumbent has a huge advantage. It's difficult to beat an incumbent.
Congratulations to the newcomers. You are now the incumbent. I
have said this before, and I will say it again
because it repeating. The three men most influential in my
(26:06):
life as a young man that I read about, studied,
admired for, Robert E. Lee, Davy Crockett, and Jesus Christ.
All three of them suffered on principle, all three of
(26:27):
them took a loss. Christians have told me Christ didn't lose.
If he didn't lose, there wouldn't need to be a resurrection,
right He gave his life for you to pay for
(26:50):
your sins, because the wages of sin are death. So
he did lose, and he rose again, but he had
to lose to rise again. If you'd think he was
on the cross because it would be fun, that was
(27:13):
his seventy five hard then you don't understand to argue
with me over whether he suffered for principle, nobody suffered
more for principle, pure principle avoidable suffering. But be that
(27:33):
as it may. I don't care if we beat the incumbents.
That's what's important. That's the difference between me and a
lot of other people. I don't care if we lose
the election, every single one of them. When I say
I don't care, what I mean is that's not what
drives me. Do the right thing, leave it on the field,
(27:57):
and walk off knowing you did the right thing for
the right reason and gave everything you had to it
and held nothing back. The problem is people sell you
on things based on what would sell them on things.
(28:18):
When people say to me, this candidate can't win. This
candidate's going to win over your candidate, I say, okay,
so you shouldn't support your candidate. That's not the basis. Now,
I'm going to tell you, as a result, because I've
been through this game before, as a result of what
(28:39):
happened yesterday, there will be some people who have one
too many beers. I say one too many have as
mean as they won't who have more beers than usual,
and they're not as my grandmother will say, they're not.
He not at his self. So you'll find somebody who's
not at himself, at his self his self, and he's aggravated,
(29:03):
and he'll say, I'm gonna run against so and so,
and he's never going to raise a dollar, he's never
going to do what it would take to win the election,
but he might. You know, I'm going to do this. No,
I'm not going to spend any time or energy helping
that guy. I'm great, I hope you win, but I
(29:24):
only have so much capital that I can spend on
an election, so I'm not going to I'm not going
to spend it in places where I can already tell
you're not going to win, because there's no principle to
you know, getting eight percent of the vote. If you
(29:47):
want to do what it's going to take to win. Sure.
Christian Collins ran for Congress. I did not support him,
but he would be a good candidate. He'd be a
good officeholder. Young guy, very involved in the Conservative and
he posted last night, I'm so disappointed Cecil Bell, my
state Rep. Cecibel Magnolia sold us out. And I said,
(30:12):
which I never do, Christian, run for the office, and
I'll support you because I don't know who else is
in the rais. There may be somebody that comes along later.
But what we have to do, and this is what
the establishment does, is we have to identify candidates who
can win and should win and share our values. Because
(30:37):
you've got to start now. You got to have somebody
ready to run right now in the primary a year
from this march. Who is hounding the rep that just
sold us out in Austin every vote they cast, every
(30:58):
bad vote they cast, this person's reporting it back to
the district. He just sold us out on election reform.
He just sided with the Democrats. And that person spends
a year, and that person is committed and organized and
well liked. Look, if you got seven dwis, just know
(31:18):
that's gonna come out. If you got indecency with the
fourteen year old, that's gonna come out. If you fire,
if you filed multiple bankruptcies, that's gonna come out. There
are things voters will forgive you for, and there are
things they want. Don't run for office because four people
online told you you should you should run. I like
(31:39):
you because you already know what's gonna come out. And
when you go after an incumbent, they're gonna have the
money to do the research on you, and they're gonna
find out everything about you. Now, I say to people
all the time, you are the only one who knows
(32:00):
everything you've ever done. Nobody else does. You are the
only one if you're comfortable defending those things. I wish
more people would run. A lot of people don't run
because they got that crazy ex wife or crazy ex
husband out there that'll go off and say bad things
about them, and they would be a good officer. So anyway,
(32:25):
you gotta email me and said you're not mad enough
about the speakers raison. No, I'm mad, but I'm not
the kind of mad that I'm gonna forget tomorrow. This
is this is my state. We are going. Efforts that
were made by good, honest, decent, honorable people out there
were were squandered by people who call themselves Republicans, campaign
(32:48):
on one thing and do the other. And for that
there has to be a reckoning. And they will. It
will take a full year to get there, but there
will there will be. I assure you that's slow and steady.
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