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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jerry, I want you to say what you put made him?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Brother? Hey, I got bomb.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Somebody live here saying, yeah, show you the money.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Not so so me and the money.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Show me the.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Money, yeah, just get show me the money.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Probably Show me the money, jar, show me the money.
Tell you by yeah, show me. Look at the unfair
trade practices that we have.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Representative Brian Harrison is our guest representative. I know y'all
are in session this morning and you stepped out to
join us for a moment, but you've been quite in
the news of late. Folks are working hard, have worked
hard across the state to win each and every of
the eighty eight out of one hundred and fifty state
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rep seats to get a majority so that we can
get bills passed every two years.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now we're in that brief window to make our state better.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And yet the Republicans in charge are taking orders from
the Democrats and screwing everything up.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And you've you've blown the whistle on us. Catch people up,
assuming they know nothing of what's going on in that
mess of a hell hole. In Austin.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Hellholes, right, cesspool, swamps or gutter, it's all pool.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Cesspool was what I was looking for. It it didn't
come to me. Yes, cesspool big.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, and in sestuous cesspool is what I usually call
the Austin swamp. But good morning, my friend, Michael Berry. Yeah,
talking to you live from the epicenter of that cesspool.
To catch people up, because I want to start by
saying thank you. I want to thank you to the
voter to Texas who did your job. You went to
the batt last March and last November, you pushed the
button for to elect Republicans, probably Republicans that promised you
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they are going to be a conservative fighter and vote
for small government and stand up to the liberal Democrats.
They told you those things. You believed them, You voted
for them, You elected them. You gave Republicans the governor's mansion,
lieutenant governor's office, big majorities in the House and the Senate.
And what they do, what they do, I'll tell you
what they did. They sold you out, the Republicans that
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said they're going to stand up for the Democrats when
you weren't looking. After you elected them, they voted to
put those very Democrats in charge of the Texas House,
and then they colluded with them to destroy liberty, grow government,
increase spending, increase taxes, and push socialism. And as a
result of that, or I guess to say, to give
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you more color, how that happened, Republicans have an eighty
eight seat majority or eighty eight seats in the Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
House out of one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That means we got a twenty six seat majority, a
massive majority that the voters gave us for Republicans, well
thirty something. To those Republicans so called sell out rhinos,
they cut a deal with fifty Democrats to take over
the chamber, so fifty Democrats actually control the Texas House.
So we go. Texas voters elected Donald Trump by fourteen points.
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The Biden Harris Caucus is holding hostage the Texas Legislature.
And what that means is instead of doing the things
that y'all want us to do, like that return that
twenty four billion dollar surplus to you so we can
get our property taxes under control and ultimately eliminated. Passing
real school choice so parents can pull their kids out
of failing government schools if they are trapped in one
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of those failing government schools and into a school that
serves their needs, or to reduce regulations, to finally stop
the billions, yes, billions, of your tax dollars that this
Texas government is using to fund DEI and promote liberal
gender ideology instead of doing any of that. The Texas
House has passed into law zero bills.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
But we created.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Pakistan Day, Zoroastrianism Day, and we spent three days on
the floor talking about Beyonce. And I only say that
actually not to joke, but just to give folks a
little bit of color at the level of total betrayal
that the voters of Texas are suffering at the hands
of the so called but hold.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Was it early Beyonce, like Destiny's Child or was it
the late the later sort of country incarnation?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, it was the country, which is an insult
to injury. And I actually kind of felt bad for
the other two. You know, I don't even remember their name,
the other two Destiny's Child, But do you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Remember they got left?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They got let that did the our town. You know,
I'm going down to the town. What was that, Ramon?
Do you remember that I kind of liked that that
was a crossover, that it had an appeal to me
in early days. No, no, it's just a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
He had a huge hit and they gusted him up
like a cowboy, but he looked more like weiz Khalifa.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Huh was it a little nas Is this it okay?
Here we go listen to this bring Oh no, no, no, no,
it's not dirty. It was a huge hit. It was
called our town of the town or going down to
the town or something, and and it was kind of
a parody of But Brian Harrison, on a serious note,
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these Republicans are not accomplishing anything, right, like, none of
what there's no tax reform, none of it. Right.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, let me say it, what's unfortunately, what we're going
to accomplish once we finally start doing anything. Which, by
the way, we had our first Friday after eleven weeks.
We've had long weekends every week, unconstitutional long weekends. We
had a Friday last week. I'll walk on the floor.
Less than half the members even bothered to show up,
and the speaker proceeded to break the constitution and declared
we had a quorum of one hundred members when there
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weren't barely sixty on the floor. So he's violating the constitution.
He's breaking the House rules to do one thing that
we're probably going to do, and that's pass a budget
that quite frankly that that budget needs to stop. That's
one thing we should not do. This is the most
bloated liberal budget in the history of Texas, and our
liberal rhinos sellout. Speaker let the Democrats, joking, Democrat committee
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chairs in the Texas House write the budget, not in
open appropriations here with the cameras on, but he let
his Democrat chairman write the budget in secret in rooms
that have no cameras, no microphones, so the public is
not to be able to see it. And by the way,
that's the direct violation of the House rules.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So he written by Democrats twenty hours to vote to
supposedly read it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, they emailed it to us and then forced
us on the committee to vote on it twenty hours.
I printed the whole darn thing out, plopped it on
the diis and put a sign under it with an
arrow point to the massive stack of paper, saying, this
is the budget that nobody has read, and let me
tell you what it does, Michael Berry. It funds every
liberal priority under the sun DEI transgender. It increases funding
for government entities engaged in transgender ideology. And what it
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doesn't do, this is the more offensive thing. It does
not fund real property Tactually, but the whole aston Unit Party,
not just the house.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They're all jumping in.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
They want to take your surplus at twenty four billion
dollars of your money that we're just sitting on, that
we already overtaxed from you, took from you and we
didn't need it. They want to give it to liberal Hollywood.
We always say, don't California my Texas, but the Austin
established and Michael, they want to. They want a Hollywood
our Texas and spend five hundred million of your dollars
to fund liberal Hollywood. Michael, sometimes I'll wake up down here.
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I don't know if I'm in Austin or Sacramento, but
you know, actually thinking of that, if we were in Sacramento,
maybe one thing better about Sacramento than Austin is at
least the Democrats and Sacramento that they self identify.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeh, at least you can pin it on the Democrats.
Can you hold what's with us for just a moment
I can do one word. You bet it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
What's important to understand, folks, is what a quorum is.
I want to go back. It might sound procedural, but
a quorum is the number of people you have to
have in any governing body in order to do business.
In other words, you can't run off and have three
Major League Baseball players play and you hit a home
run and you go.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We won the World Series. We didn't even get a
chance to show up. You can't just have a.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Game without anybody knowing. That's what they did. They violated
com uh and the way they did it this is dirty.
Wait wait till you hear the story.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Time Barris show, I got the horses in the bag.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Horset, Brian Harrison's state representative, is our guest, and we're
talking about what's happening in the state House, and he's
been blowing the whistle on this. There are a few guys,
Steve Toath, Mitch Little, Brian Harrison who are every day
sounding the clarion call because we don't know. You don't
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know what what the Republicans who are in control are
doing to sell us out. While we're assuming they're up.
They're doing the right thing, and in fact, but for
these few guys telling the story, we wouldn't know, and
we would just assume that Republicans were representing us and
they're not. Brian Harrison, why don't you take just a
moment and explain what they did to try to make
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it look like they had achieved a quorum from putting
people in the seats in all of that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, and for context, we have a last Friday. We've
been in session for over two and a half months,
and last Friday was the very first Friday we were
even asked to show up and do work on the floor.
The Speaker has sent us into unconstitutional long vacation weekends
three day, four day, five day vacations every single week
for eleven plus weeks. Last Friday was the first day
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we were asked to show.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Up on the floor.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And I walk in and the Speaker was going to
have us vote on maybe about one hundred different resolutions.
And I walk on the floor and I don't see anybody.
I mean, it's a barren wasteland on Friday morning. And
next thing I know, the Speaker's up there, gabbling down
and he says these words, A quorum is present Michael,
for your folks to listen at the Constitution of the
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State of Texas, something we took an oath to uphold
and defend. It says the Texas House cannot conduct business
unless at least one hundred of the one hundred and
fifty were there. So I demanded a verification vote. He
tried to ignore me two times. I had to almost
storm the dat, storm the stage, and he got a
little scared, said okay, okay, okay, got it. I'll call
of verification, which basically means we're going to do an
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actual roll call. And he had the clerks come out
and do a roll call. And sure enough, out of
one hundred and fifty people who asked Texans to vote
for them to work hard to save our state, only
sixty three out of one hundred and fifty bothered to
even show up for work. Even less showed up for
work the next day. I bet there weren't forty people
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the next day, maybe not even thirty. I think my
staff counted around twenty eight actually the next day. So
I don't know how many Texans those of your Texans.
You're at your job, or you're driving to work, or
maybe you're working in your truck driving. If you don't
show up for work two days in a row, you
get fired. And let me tell you the worst part
of this, Michael, He wasn't just the Democrats. The majority
of the Republicans in the Texas House couldn't even be
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bothered to show up for work. So on the heels
of him trying to break the constitution to do work
without a corn. After he broke the constitution to have
long weekends for months on end, he put on the
bill the very first bill we debated. Even we got
eighty eight Republicans and thousands of Republican bills, the first
bill he put on the floor was a radical Democrat bill.
After he let the Democrats lawlessly write the budget in
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secret to grow government. I said have had enough, and
I went to the floor yesterday and I demanded to
vacate the chair. I made a motion to vacate the
chair to force a vote and say, you know what,
we had no confidence in you. You cut a deal
with Democrats, You've sold Texans downriver. And I make a
motion to vacate you. And he turned my mic off
four times. He wouldn't let me make the motion.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm very proud you mentioned there's a few people down
here will have to fight. I do have to make
a note of appreciation for my friend David Low, who
is the only member of the Texas House willing to
stand with me and sign on to that motion to
vacate the chair. But I don't know why every Republican
in Texas is not standing out to demand this trader
who cut a deal with fifty Democrats to let the
social Marxist leftist agenda move forward in the state of Texas.
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Every elected Republican in Texas, as far as I'm concerned,
should be off the sidelines and in the battle for
the future of Texas because in the Austin Swamp, I'm
gonna be real straight about this, you're either visibly fighting
the swamp or you are the swamp, and we've got
a state to save.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Bear's noting State Representative Brian Harrison that these folks who
are not showing up for work, who are taking these
long weekends the way most working people cannot do, if
this is not a break from years of hard work.
The legislature only meets.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Every second year, and that too for one hundred and
forty days so it's not like this is a full
time job and they've been at it for three years.
They haven't even been in session for two years. So
when they are in session, they come, they do it
Beyonce Proclamation, and then they all go out and vacation again.
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's a social party. Imagine if you gave the most
immature and drunk frat at any college the keys of
the castle, the keys of the Texas government. That's basically
what happens down here during session. There are two. First
of all, we got too many Democrats that know they
can't get elected as a Democrats and they run as
the Republicans. That number one, and then number two, we
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got a ton of folks down here who just want
the lapel pins. They want people to call a mister
the honorable. They want tickets to the suite at the
University of Texas game. They want the cocktail hours. They
want to hang out with the lobbyists and get whined
and dined. They can't be bothered to do things like
question state agencies about why they're spending billions of dollars
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on DEI, which is what I'm doing, by the way,
but which is why the entire Austin Union Party is
doing their damus to silence me because they do not
want people to know what's happening behind their backs. I
say this all the time, Michael, Transparency like kryptonite in
the swamp. And that's why they've got to shut conservative
vocal movement.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Conservative fran Harrison, you'd like you've never won, you'd never
been one who was shy. Why don't you mention if you,
especially from the greater Houston area, which is where the
largest portion of our audience right now is from, who
are loyal Burroughs lieutenants who are part of all this?
Who are We know it's not Steve Toth That. We know,
it's not Mitch Little, we know it's not Brian Harrison.
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But who are the people, well.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
The people that voted with the Democrats from that area.
And I don't have the maps on memorize, but off hend,
I mean, I think we got people like I think
Lacey Hull voted for Burroughs. I think Mono de Ala
voted for for Burroughs. I'm trying to remember other folks.
Sam Harless, Sam Harlest voted for Dustin Burroughs. He definitely
voted for Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And here here's what they're not doing. They're not voting
for Dustin Boroughs. Let me tell you what that vote was.
That was a vote for the fifty Democrats. That was
a vote to get fifty Democrats control of the Texas House.
There's no two ways around it. The Democrat caucus candidate
for Speaker was Dustin Burroughs. So and I don't like
people even say that they voted for Burroughs because Burrows,
he's a human being that puts the word Republican by
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his name, but he's selling out the brand and the
principles that vote, especially the House Rules Package, which I
call the Democrat in Powerment Act, because it gave Democrats
more power than they've ever had. Those votes are votes
to sell out, quite frankly, the voters who they work for,
who want Republican leadership, who want conservative Republican leadership, and Texans,
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you know, they've had years and years of many Republicans
going home after voting for bigger government. Get this, Michael,
my friend Van Skin and I Trump, former Trump White
House economists, we put out data a coelp months ago
shocking the Texas government was actually smaller and growing slower
when Democrats ran the state than since two thousand and
three when we've been under all Republican control.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And that's just a sad state.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Republicans have to become the party of small government and
low taxes again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Stay representative, Brian Harrison, Thank you, sir. It's good to
be with you. God bless Texas.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
That's gay.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That you want in Holland.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm choto making with some of the we knew before
became the Two Lovers. God, I loved you more. It
took me by the rod when I found the great
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none Mond.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Kind of a tortured lyric. Not much longer would it be?
So he's heard through the great vine that he's losing
his girl. I heard it through the grape vine. Not
much longer would you be mine?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Doesn't roll off the tongue, But I guess that's the
best they could do it, right. Do you remember the
images of Marvin Gay at that time? The microphone, you know,
it was the wand with a little bulb on the end, right,
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a little tiny. When I think of that microphone, someone
holding and using that microphone, you know, the first image
that comes to my mind after Marvin Gaye, Bob Barker.
That was the Bob Barker microphone, and I don't know
what happened. I don't know, so it was a very
sleek microphone. Was the longer microphone, the little bulb on
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the end, which was I assume a multi directional because
you did. And then somewhere we went away with from
that two we went back to the much thicker with
the bulb on the end, which is interesting because it's
not typically the case that you go fatter in technology fatter, thicker, bigger, heavier,
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But in this case we did the sort of standard
like Saturday night for the event, the police officer event,
I leaned in to give a speed they had the
They had the kind of about a I don't know
how what what you.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Would call the microphone that comes off the lectern and
then just has the little the little mic at the end,
a little black clock mic. I leaned in to speak
into that, and he tapped the heavier one that I
held in my hand. That is.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
As big as what would be the width of that thing.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But anyway, it's much bigger microphone and that's what almost
everybody uses now. And if you if you watch bands,
if you watch speeches, they've all kind of gone to
that standard.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know, was Ari two hundred or what is this one?
What is this one called? They've all kind of gone
to about that size.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Just interesting how it got it got tiny and he
sounds fine there and then it went back to fat.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It doesn't typically happen with technology. Let's go to Tom Petty.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, Michael,
thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm just kind of curious. Last couple of days, I've
been listening to you and there have been segments where
people are called in and giving their individual little Paul
Harvey stories, and I'm kind of curious, is it possible
that you guys might look into or is he even
conceivable that you could buy or get access to some
of those programs and actually put them on your program
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or not.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Bobby Crumpley, who is one of our best researchers, He's
a listener, but he will he will often when he
hears me mention something, he will chase things down.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And he is feverishly right now trying to determine he
found a place that he can buy something like three
thousand episodes for not a horrible amount of money. I
can't figure out what the scale is because I don't
know what it was in ten dollars increments, but I
don't know how many shows that gives you, and it's.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Like CDs, so we would then reduce that. In answer
to your question, I'm going to endeavor to persevere to
find out if we can make that happen and see
what the rebroadcast looks like. The problem is so much
of the use of audio for rebroadcast is very gray,
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and so if I ask, so if I asked the
general counsel of our the primary company that we work
for that would be iHeart Media, if it would be possible,
would would be problematic for us to replay a rebroadcast
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a Paul Harvey rest of the story, because remember he
did the news. It's the rest of the story. You
remember the other things were the news. The rest of
the story was was less, was not related to the news.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Of the day. It was a magazine style, it was
a it was an anecdote and then a reveal. I
don't know if we can do that. I'm going to
see if I can find out.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
But what I was going to say about that is
nobody wants to say yes, because there is liability, real
liability if you broadcast something without rights that is considered protected,
and that's such a gray area, so you don't know
it until you kind of do it. It's one of
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those you ask for forgiveness instead of permission, but then
you get tagged. And I'm a little bit gunshy, but
I'm a lot gunshy because years ago, Chad Nakanishi, our
executive producer for The Weekend Review, played a certain clip
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from a certain fellow who makes a certain statement about
an event beginning, and it's a call to action to
the crowd before, for instance, a wrestling match, and there
is a reference to a word that rhymes with bumble
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or tumble or mumble.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Or well, yeah, yes, you're exactly right. So that person
Chad put that in the wee Can Review as one
of just the sound clips. Is just a snippet. Whereupon,
our company received a demand from a law firm that
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literally all day long sends auto demand letters demanding and
I forget what.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
This one was a couple hundred thousand dollars what yep,
he has this many markets because it was it aired
on the evening show. If it had just aired on
the morning show would have been it had been a
lot less problematic. But he has this many markets and
this many million listeners, and at a cost of we
had misappropriated his precious audio for our own personal benefits. Okay,
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So rather than fight this case in the courts, our
company wrote a check to them, not for the amount
they requested, but for more than you and I make
in a single day. And that felt like crap, and
it pissed me off so badly. So as a result
of that, I got more serious about what we replay
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and what we don't replay. And here's the problem that
people I give you an analogy, people will say, hey,
I got an idea.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's gonna make a lot of money, a billion, trillion,
gazillion billion dollars. Okay, what is it?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Can't tell you?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How come someone else stay it? It's not the idea.
We don't lack ideas. Here's your idea. How about if
I could fly? Oh, I hadn't thought about it, almost
to your idea. It's not the idea, it's the execution,
the research, the capital, the manufacturer.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So these people want to guard the use of their
intellectual property in such a way. I've told this story
in our industry to other members of the media nationally,
and people have their stories on that person and what happened.
And as a result, it doesn't get played ever, and
I hope it dies out. I hope nobody ever plays
it again and it dies out. Yeah, because I'm condictive trade.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Oh yes, it show.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Do you know why I can't forget to know when
I go all my song?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
When I had you there?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We don't talk enough about this song considered by many
of the original power bud don't think of Mariah Carey's
stupid version. Harry Nielson, right here, this is it boosted up.
This is a vocal performance right here. Can't it is
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without you?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Can't, I can't do it. I can't.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, I can't forget the see of your faces.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
You.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
But I guess that's the last major vocal performance of
note by Harry Nilson. He still recorded, but not in
this voice. He and John Lennon got in a late
night screaming contents and he busted his vocal voice in
his vocal cord. Yeah. True story written by Bad Finger
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And if you don't know the story about Bad Fingers, that.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Is worth your time, especially if you're a Beatles fan.
Badfinger wrote this song and recorded it to no great success,
and Harry Nilsen picks it up and makes it. I
think he took it to number one. Not positive, but
Badfinger wrote come and get it no matter what, day
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after day, baby Blue. Badfinger wrote some good songs.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The two leads of the band committed suicide like five
seven years apart, a few years after all of this.
They're one of those interesting bands that just keep popping
up because I think they were on Apple Records and
McCartney loved them. I absolutely loved him. Of course, Harry.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Nielsen was was best friends with John Lennon, so that
was how Harry Nelson came to record the song.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
But Badfinger is is an interesting.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Band to do a deep dive on if we ever
do a music documentary podcast which is less nerdy and
just more enjoyable conversational music, because I don't think there's
enough of that. I love the top five hundred songs
of rock and roll that that Andrew dude does, but
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he's so whiny, bitchy and neurotic, and he brings in
his just goofy, goofy left wing political stances, and the
other thing, if you heard it. The other thing he
does is he says, in this just terrible English accent,
he says that he wants to warn you that this
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episode is going to be very traumatic for you. He
says it in such very serious terms, very traumatic for you.
And there's going to be a reference to smoking, and
there's going to be a reference to an extramarital affair,
and there's going to be a reference to violent because
you know, ike turn or knock the snot out of
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Tina or whatever else. And he does this whole thing,
and he says, if any of those are going to
be upsetting to you, then refer to the transcript instead.
So wait, so I can't hear you say the word,
but I can read it. I'm triggered if you say
the word but I can read it. Or as you're
reading it, do you somehow notice that he's about to
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mention that I's gonna smack Tina again, and that way
you can skip for a paragraph. It's the dumbest thing ever.
But anyway, I've thought it would be fun to do
a very I'll never do it because it's too lazy,
but it would be fun. To do a music podcast
that was more accessible. I think that the ones you
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have you have to go too deep into it, like
they nerd out. It'd be more fun to have a
have one that's just conversational, relaxed, and you could learn things,
and you learn things putting it on because you have
to research to do it. An email from Angie Briant
says Zara, listening to the show this morning about Colony
Ridge and their association with Greg Abbott, all the money
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they gave him, it seems a more appropriate name for
him would be Governor Hot.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Deals instead of hot Wheels. Now the reason I read
that is because it's funny and b I've been wanting
to address this issue and I think now it's an
appropriate time for that. Remember, we're going to have an
adult conversation here, So I don't know if you've got
some music that it's not It's not not a funeral,
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not a wedding, it's not the end of the world.
It's mostly me just, you know, trying to give myself
credit for saying something that no one else will say
but everyone knows. And so I kind of want to Laurel,
you know, I want to be I want everybody to
appreciate that. You know, look at me, how great I
am for doing what I'm about to do. So I
just I want to I want to put a bow
on that, so y'all know what I'm about to do.
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So last week, Jasmine Crockett referred to Greg Abbott as
Governor hot wheels because I don't know if y'all know
he's in a wheelchair. And what are we doing? Is
what's going on with this? What mood is in your mind?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
What mood is this setting? Oh around the campfire? Okay,
do it again? Oh okay, yeah, okay, I can do
that kind of.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Garrison Keeler meets city slickers.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Okay, got it all right. So Jasmine Crockett is having
a moment. It could end up lasting a long time
or she could flame out. My guess is she's gonna
get There's two ways Jasmine Crockett goes down.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Number one is an.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Investigation by the IRS, FBI, some other organization that she
takes a bribe or she does something awful and horrible
that's a federal crime, and they announce it and she's like,
they trying to take me down, and it becomes this,
you know, this big, I'm here for the fight, and
so she does rallies and you know that it becomes
you know, she says the most ridiculous I'm taking them
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all down with me, and she does this whole thing.
That's one but that I don't think it'll take till them.
The other one is she gets absolutely hammered, which she
does a lot, and she plows into somebody and it's
caught on camera, and you know, she's butt naked.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Out in the street, drunk, puking. Somebody's dead. Cop show up,
she's screaming, and it's kind of over for her, and
she pleads out and steps down and goes on her
merry way. One of those two things is what happened.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
But in the meantime, she's having a bit of a
moment because she's golden for the news. She's golden for
the news because people say, stop playing her moment of
player every day. No, no, stop playing her. You're only
gonna build her up. I hope, so I want her.
She is the leader of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I can't stand it. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You know why we lost in Wisconsin yesterday, not because
we don't have fifty one percent of the people, because
our people aren't showing up to vote because they didn't
understand why it's important. The only way a certain percentage
of the population is going to show up to vote
is when they are so scared of that crazy black
lady Jasmine Crockett that they show up to vote against whoever.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
For whoever is running against her. Right, But here is
the point to this whole story. So she called him
governor hot Wheels because she's just trying to make a
story because she wants to be talked about the next day,
and I had an overwhelming number of people who email
me she had jobs us harding. Whoa whoa, whoah woah
whom do you know how many Republicans every day email me?
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You need to get old hot Wheel every day
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jerry, I want you to say what you put made him?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Brother? Hey, I got bomb.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Somebody live here saying, yeah, show you the money.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Not so so me and the money.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Show me the.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Money, yeah, just get show me the money.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Probably Show me the money, jar, show me the money.
Tell you by yeah, show me. Look at the unfair
trade practices that we have.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Representative Brian Harrison is our guest representative. I know y'all
are in session this morning and you stepped out to
join us for a moment, but you've been quite in
the news of late. Folks are working hard, have worked
hard across the state to win each and every of
the eighty eight out of one hundred and fifty state
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rep seats to get a majority so that we can
get bills passed every two years.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now we're in that brief window to make our state better.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And yet the Republicans in charge are taking orders from
the Democrats and screwing everything up.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And you've you've blown the whistle on us. Catch people up,
assuming they know nothing of what's going on in that
mess of a hell hole. In Austin.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Hellholes, right, cesspool, swamps or gutter, it's all pool.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Cesspool was what I was looking for. It it didn't
come to me. Yes, cesspool big.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, and in sestuous cesspool is what I usually call
the Austin swamp. But good morning, my friend, Michael Berry. Yeah,
talking to you live from the epicenter of that cesspool.
To catch people up, because I want to start by
saying thank you. I want to thank you to the
voter to Texas who did your job. You went to
the batt last March and last November, you pushed the
button for to elect Republicans, probably Republicans that promised you
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they are going to be a conservative fighter and vote
for small government and stand up to the liberal Democrats.
They told you those things. You believed them, You voted
for them, You elected them. You gave Republicans the governor's mansion,
lieutenant governor's office, big majorities in the House and the Senate.
And what they do, what they do, I'll tell you
what they did. They sold you out, the Republicans that
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said they're going to stand up for the Democrats when
you weren't looking. After you elected them, they voted to
put those very Democrats in charge of the Texas House,
and then they colluded with them to destroy liberty, grow government,
increase spending, increase taxes, and push socialism. And as a
result of that, or I guess to say, to give
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you more color, how that happened, Republicans have an eighty
eight seat majority or eighty eight seats in the Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
House out of one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That means we got a twenty six seat majority, a
massive majority that the voters gave us for Republicans, well
thirty something. To those Republicans so called sell out rhinos,
they cut a deal with fifty Democrats to take over
the chamber, so fifty Democrats actually control the Texas House.
So we go. Texas voters elected Donald Trump by fourteen points.
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The Biden Harris Caucus is holding hostage the Texas Legislature.
And what that means is instead of doing the things
that y'all want us to do, like that return that
twenty four billion dollar surplus to you so we can
get our property taxes under control and ultimately eliminated. Passing
real school choice so parents can pull their kids out
of failing government schools if they are trapped in one
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of those failing government schools and into a school that
serves their needs, or to reduce regulations, to finally stop
the billions, yes, billions, of your tax dollars that this
Texas government is using to fund DEI and promote liberal
gender ideology instead of doing any of that. The Texas
House has passed into law zero bills.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
But we created.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Pakistan Day, Zoroastrianism Day, and we spent three days on
the floor talking about Beyonce. And I only say that
actually not to joke, but just to give folks a
little bit of color at the level of total betrayal
that the voters of Texas are suffering at the hands
of the so called but hold.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Was it early Beyonce, like Destiny's Child or was it
the late the later sort of country incarnation?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, it was the country, which is an insult
to injury. And I actually kind of felt bad for
the other two. You know, I don't even remember their name,
the other two Destiny's Child, But do you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Remember they got left?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They got let that did the our town. You know,
I'm going down to the town. What was that, Ramon?
Do you remember that I kind of liked that that
was a crossover, that it had an appeal to me
in early days. No, no, it's just a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
He had a huge hit and they gusted him up
like a cowboy, but he looked more like weiz Khalifa.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Huh was it a little nas Is this it okay?
Here we go listen to this bring Oh no, no, no, no,
it's not dirty. It was a huge hit. It was
called our town of the town or going down to
the town or something, and and it was kind of
a parody of But Brian Harrison, on a serious note,
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these Republicans are not accomplishing anything, right, like, none of
what there's no tax reform, none of it. Right.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, let me say it, what's unfortunately, what we're going
to accomplish once we finally start doing anything. Which, by
the way, we had our first Friday after eleven weeks.
We've had long weekends every week, unconstitutional long weekends. We
had a Friday last week. I'll walk on the floor.
Less than half the members even bothered to show up,
and the speaker proceeded to break the constitution and declared
we had a quorum of one hundred members when there
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weren't barely sixty on the floor. So he's violating the constitution.
He's breaking the House rules to do one thing that
we're probably going to do, and that's pass a budget
that quite frankly that that budget needs to stop. That's
one thing we should not do. This is the most
bloated liberal budget in the history of Texas, and our
liberal rhinos sellout. Speaker let the Democrats, joking, Democrat committee
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chairs in the Texas House write the budget, not in
open appropriations here with the cameras on, but he let
his Democrat chairman write the budget in secret in rooms
that have no cameras, no microphones, so the public is
not to be able to see it. And by the way,
that's the direct violation of the House rules.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So he written by Democrats twenty hours to vote to
supposedly read it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, they emailed it to us and then forced
us on the committee to vote on it twenty hours.
I printed the whole darn thing out, plopped it on
the diis and put a sign under it with an
arrow point to the massive stack of paper, saying, this
is the budget that nobody has read, and let me
tell you what it does, Michael Berry. It funds every
liberal priority under the sun DEI transgender. It increases funding
for government entities engaged in transgender ideology. And what it
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doesn't do, this is the more offensive thing. It does
not fund real property Tactually, but the whole aston Unit Party,
not just the house.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They're all jumping in.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
They want to take your surplus at twenty four billion
dollars of your money that we're just sitting on, that
we already overtaxed from you, took from you and we
didn't need it. They want to give it to liberal Hollywood.
We always say, don't California my Texas, but the Austin
established and Michael, they want to. They want a Hollywood
our Texas and spend five hundred million of your dollars
to fund liberal Hollywood. Michael, sometimes I'll wake up down here.
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I don't know if I'm in Austin or Sacramento, but
you know, actually thinking of that, if we were in Sacramento,
maybe one thing better about Sacramento than Austin is at
least the Democrats and Sacramento that they self identify.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeh, at least you can pin it on the Democrats.
Can you hold what's with us for just a moment
I can do one word. You bet it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
What's important to understand, folks, is what a quorum is.
I want to go back. It might sound procedural, but
a quorum is the number of people you have to
have in any governing body in order to do business.
In other words, you can't run off and have three
Major League Baseball players play and you hit a home
run and you go.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We won the World Series. We didn't even get a
chance to show up. You can't just have a.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Game without anybody knowing. That's what they did. They violated
com uh and the way they did it this is dirty.
Wait wait till you hear the story.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Time Barris show, I got the horses in the bag.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Horset, Brian Harrison's state representative, is our guest, and we're
talking about what's happening in the state House, and he's
been blowing the whistle on this. There are a few guys,
Steve Toath, Mitch Little, Brian Harrison who are every day
sounding the clarion call because we don't know. You don't
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know what what the Republicans who are in control are
doing to sell us out. While we're assuming they're up.
They're doing the right thing, and in fact, but for
these few guys telling the story, we wouldn't know, and
we would just assume that Republicans were representing us and
they're not. Brian Harrison, why don't you take just a
moment and explain what they did to try to make
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it look like they had achieved a quorum from putting
people in the seats in all of that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, and for context, we have a last Friday. We've
been in session for over two and a half months,
and last Friday was the very first Friday we were
even asked to show up and do work on the floor.
The Speaker has sent us into unconstitutional long vacation weekends
three day, four day, five day vacations every single week
for eleven plus weeks. Last Friday was the first day
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we were asked to show.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Up on the floor.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And I walk in and the Speaker was going to
have us vote on maybe about one hundred different resolutions.
And I walk on the floor and I don't see anybody.
I mean, it's a barren wasteland on Friday morning. And
next thing I know, the Speaker's up there, gabbling down
and he says these words, A quorum is present Michael,
for your folks to listen at the Constitution of the
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State of Texas, something we took an oath to uphold
and defend. It says the Texas House cannot conduct business
unless at least one hundred of the one hundred and
fifty were there. So I demanded a verification vote. He
tried to ignore me two times. I had to almost
storm the dat, storm the stage, and he got a
little scared, said okay, okay, okay, got it. I'll call
of verification, which basically means we're going to do an
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actual roll call. And he had the clerks come out
and do a roll call. And sure enough, out of
one hundred and fifty people who asked Texans to vote
for them to work hard to save our state, only
sixty three out of one hundred and fifty bothered to
even show up for work. Even less showed up for
work the next day. I bet there weren't forty people
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the next day, maybe not even thirty. I think my
staff counted around twenty eight actually the next day. So
I don't know how many Texans those of your Texans.
You're at your job, or you're driving to work, or
maybe you're working in your truck driving. If you don't
show up for work two days in a row, you
get fired. And let me tell you the worst part
of this, Michael, He wasn't just the Democrats. The majority
of the Republicans in the Texas House couldn't even be
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bothered to show up for work. So on the heels
of him trying to break the constitution to do work
without a corn. After he broke the constitution to have
long weekends for months on end, he put on the
bill the very first bill we debated. Even we got
eighty eight Republicans and thousands of Republican bills, the first
bill he put on the floor was a radical Democrat bill.
After he let the Democrats lawlessly write the budget in
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secret to grow government. I said have had enough, and
I went to the floor yesterday and I demanded to
vacate the chair. I made a motion to vacate the
chair to force a vote and say, you know what,
we had no confidence in you. You cut a deal
with Democrats, You've sold Texans downriver. And I make a
motion to vacate you. And he turned my mic off
four times. He wouldn't let me make the motion.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm very proud you mentioned there's a few people down
here will have to fight. I do have to make
a note of appreciation for my friend David Low, who
is the only member of the Texas House willing to
stand with me and sign on to that motion to
vacate the chair. But I don't know why every Republican
in Texas is not standing out to demand this trader
who cut a deal with fifty Democrats to let the
social Marxist leftist agenda move forward in the state of Texas.
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Every elected Republican in Texas, as far as I'm concerned,
should be off the sidelines and in the battle for
the future of Texas because in the Austin Swamp, I'm
gonna be real straight about this, you're either visibly fighting
the swamp or you are the swamp, and we've got
a state to save.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Bear's noting State Representative Brian Harrison that these folks who
are not showing up for work, who are taking these
long weekends the way most working people cannot do, if
this is not a break from years of hard work.
The legislature only meets.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Every second year, and that too for one hundred and
forty days so it's not like this is a full
time job and they've been at it for three years.
They haven't even been in session for two years. So
when they are in session, they come, they do it
Beyonce Proclamation, and then they all go out and vacation again.
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's a social party. Imagine if you gave the most
immature and drunk frat at any college the keys of
the castle, the keys of the Texas government. That's basically
what happens down here during session. There are two. First
of all, we got too many Democrats that know they
can't get elected as a Democrats and they run as
the Republicans. That number one, and then number two, we
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got a ton of folks down here who just want
the lapel pins. They want people to call a mister
the honorable. They want tickets to the suite at the
University of Texas game. They want the cocktail hours. They
want to hang out with the lobbyists and get whined
and dined. They can't be bothered to do things like
question state agencies about why they're spending billions of dollars
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on DEI, which is what I'm doing, by the way,
but which is why the entire Austin Union Party is
doing their damus to silence me because they do not
want people to know what's happening behind their backs. I
say this all the time, Michael, Transparency like kryptonite in
the swamp. And that's why they've got to shut conservative
vocal movement.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Conservative fran Harrison, you'd like you've never won, you'd never
been one who was shy. Why don't you mention if you,
especially from the greater Houston area, which is where the
largest portion of our audience right now is from, who
are loyal Burroughs lieutenants who are part of all this?
Who are We know it's not Steve Toth That. We know,
it's not Mitch Little, we know it's not Brian Harrison.
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But who are the people, well.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
The people that voted with the Democrats from that area.
And I don't have the maps on memorize, but off hend,
I mean, I think we got people like I think
Lacey Hull voted for Burroughs. I think Mono de Ala
voted for for Burroughs. I'm trying to remember other folks.
Sam Harless, Sam Harlest voted for Dustin Burroughs. He definitely
voted for Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And here here's what they're not doing. They're not voting
for Dustin Boroughs. Let me tell you what that vote was.
That was a vote for the fifty Democrats. That was
a vote to get fifty Democrats control of the Texas House.
There's no two ways around it. The Democrat caucus candidate
for Speaker was Dustin Burroughs. So and I don't like
people even say that they voted for Burroughs because Burrows,
he's a human being that puts the word Republican by
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his name, but he's selling out the brand and the
principles that vote, especially the House Rules Package, which I
call the Democrat in Powerment Act, because it gave Democrats
more power than they've ever had. Those votes are votes
to sell out, quite frankly, the voters who they work for,
who want Republican leadership, who want conservative Republican leadership, and Texans,
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you know, they've had years and years of many Republicans
going home after voting for bigger government. Get this, Michael,
my friend Van Skin and I Trump, former Trump White
House economists, we put out data a coelp months ago
shocking the Texas government was actually smaller and growing slower
when Democrats ran the state than since two thousand and
three when we've been under all Republican control.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And that's just a sad state.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Republicans have to become the party of small government and
low taxes again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Stay representative, Brian Harrison, Thank you, sir. It's good to
be with you. God bless Texas.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
That's gay.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That you want in Holland.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm choto making with some of the we knew before
became the Two Lovers. God, I loved you more. It
took me by the rod when I found the great
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none Mond.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Kind of a tortured lyric. Not much longer would it be?
So he's heard through the great vine that he's losing
his girl. I heard it through the grape vine. Not
much longer would you be mine?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Doesn't roll off the tongue, But I guess that's the
best they could do it, right. Do you remember the
images of Marvin Gay at that time? The microphone, you know,
it was the wand with a little bulb on the end, right,
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a little tiny. When I think of that microphone, someone
holding and using that microphone, you know, the first image
that comes to my mind after Marvin Gaye, Bob Barker.
That was the Bob Barker microphone, and I don't know
what happened. I don't know, so it was a very
sleek microphone. Was the longer microphone, the little bulb on
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the end, which was I assume a multi directional because
you did. And then somewhere we went away with from
that two we went back to the much thicker with
the bulb on the end, which is interesting because it's
not typically the case that you go fatter in technology fatter, thicker, bigger, heavier,
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But in this case we did the sort of standard
like Saturday night for the event, the police officer event,
I leaned in to give a speed they had the
They had the kind of about a I don't know
how what what you.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Would call the microphone that comes off the lectern and
then just has the little the little mic at the end,
a little black clock mic. I leaned in to speak
into that, and he tapped the heavier one that I
held in my hand. That is.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
As big as what would be the width of that thing.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
But anyway, it's much bigger microphone and that's what almost
everybody uses now. And if you if you watch bands,
if you watch speeches, they've all kind of gone to
that standard.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know, was Ari two hundred or what is this one?
What is this one called? They've all kind of gone
to about that size.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Just interesting how it got it got tiny and he
sounds fine there and then it went back to fat.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It doesn't typically happen with technology. Let's go to Tom Petty.
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, Michael,
thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm just kind of curious. Last couple of days, I've
been listening to you and there have been segments where
people are called in and giving their individual little Paul
Harvey stories, and I'm kind of curious, is it possible
that you guys might look into or is he even
conceivable that you could buy or get access to some
of those programs and actually put them on your program
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or not.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Bobby Crumpley, who is one of our best researchers, He's
a listener, but he will he will often when he
hears me mention something, he will chase things down.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And he is feverishly right now trying to determine he
found a place that he can buy something like three
thousand episodes for not a horrible amount of money. I
can't figure out what the scale is because I don't
know what it was in ten dollars increments, but I
don't know how many shows that gives you, and it's.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Like CDs, so we would then reduce that. In answer
to your question, I'm going to endeavor to persevere to
find out if we can make that happen and see
what the rebroadcast looks like. The problem is so much
of the use of audio for rebroadcast is very gray,
(20:59):
and so if I ask, so if I asked the
general counsel of our the primary company that we work
for that would be iHeart Media, if it would be possible,
would would be problematic for us to replay a rebroadcast
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a Paul Harvey rest of the story, because remember he
did the news. It's the rest of the story. You
remember the other things were the news. The rest of
the story was was less, was not related to the news.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Of the day. It was a magazine style, it was
a it was an anecdote and then a reveal. I
don't know if we can do that. I'm going to
see if I can find out.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
But what I was going to say about that is
nobody wants to say yes, because there is liability, real
liability if you broadcast something without rights that is considered protected,
and that's such a gray area, so you don't know
it until you kind of do it. It's one of
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those you ask for forgiveness instead of permission, but then
you get tagged. And I'm a little bit gunshy, but
I'm a lot gunshy because years ago, Chad Nakanishi, our
executive producer for The Weekend Review, played a certain clip
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from a certain fellow who makes a certain statement about
an event beginning, and it's a call to action to
the crowd before, for instance, a wrestling match, and there
is a reference to a word that rhymes with bumble
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or tumble or mumble.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Or well, yeah, yes, you're exactly right. So that person
Chad put that in the wee Can Review as one
of just the sound clips. Is just a snippet. Whereupon,
our company received a demand from a law firm that
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literally all day long sends auto demand letters demanding and
I forget what.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
This one was a couple hundred thousand dollars what yep,
he has this many markets because it was it aired
on the evening show. If it had just aired on
the morning show would have been it had been a
lot less problematic. But he has this many markets and
this many million listeners, and at a cost of we
had misappropriated his precious audio for our own personal benefits. Okay,
(23:52):
So rather than fight this case in the courts, our
company wrote a check to them, not for the amount
they requested, but for more than you and I make
in a single day. And that felt like crap, and
it pissed me off so badly. So as a result
of that, I got more serious about what we replay
(24:13):
and what we don't replay. And here's the problem that
people I give you an analogy, people will say, hey,
I got an idea.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's gonna make a lot of money, a billion, trillion,
gazillion billion dollars. Okay, what is it?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Can't tell you?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How come someone else stay it? It's not the idea.
We don't lack ideas. Here's your idea. How about if
I could fly? Oh, I hadn't thought about it, almost
to your idea. It's not the idea, it's the execution,
the research, the capital, the manufacturer.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So these people want to guard the use of their
intellectual property in such a way. I've told this story
in our industry to other members of the media nationally,
and people have their stories on that person and what happened.
And as a result, it doesn't get played ever, and
I hope it dies out. I hope nobody ever plays
it again and it dies out. Yeah, because I'm condictive trade.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Oh yes, it show.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Do you know why I can't forget to know when
I go all my song?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
When I had you there?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We don't talk enough about this song considered by many
of the original power bud don't think of Mariah Carey's
stupid version. Harry Nielson, right here, this is it boosted up.
This is a vocal performance right here. Can't it is
(26:03):
without you?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Can't, I can't do it. I can't.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, I can't forget the see of your faces.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
You.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
But I guess that's the last major vocal performance of
note by Harry Nilson. He still recorded, but not in
this voice. He and John Lennon got in a late
night screaming contents and he busted his vocal voice in
his vocal cord. Yeah. True story written by Bad Finger
(26:58):
And if you don't know the story about Bad Fingers, that.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Is worth your time, especially if you're a Beatles fan.
Badfinger wrote this song and recorded it to no great success,
and Harry Nilsen picks it up and makes it. I
think he took it to number one. Not positive, but
Badfinger wrote come and get it no matter what, day
(27:26):
after day, baby Blue. Badfinger wrote some good songs.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The two leads of the band committed suicide like five
seven years apart, a few years after all of this.
They're one of those interesting bands that just keep popping
up because I think they were on Apple Records and
McCartney loved them. I absolutely loved him. Of course, Harry.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Nielsen was was best friends with John Lennon, so that
was how Harry Nelson came to record the song.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
But Badfinger is is an interesting.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Band to do a deep dive on if we ever
do a music documentary podcast which is less nerdy and
just more enjoyable conversational music, because I don't think there's
enough of that. I love the top five hundred songs
of rock and roll that that Andrew dude does, but
(28:21):
he's so whiny, bitchy and neurotic, and he brings in
his just goofy, goofy left wing political stances, and the
other thing, if you heard it. The other thing he
does is he says, in this just terrible English accent,
he says that he wants to warn you that this
(28:42):
episode is going to be very traumatic for you. He
says it in such very serious terms, very traumatic for you.
And there's going to be a reference to smoking, and
there's going to be a reference to an extramarital affair,
and there's going to be a reference to violent because
you know, ike turn or knock the snot out of
(29:03):
Tina or whatever else. And he does this whole thing,
and he says, if any of those are going to
be upsetting to you, then refer to the transcript instead.
So wait, so I can't hear you say the word,
but I can read it. I'm triggered if you say
the word but I can read it. Or as you're
reading it, do you somehow notice that he's about to
(29:25):
mention that I's gonna smack Tina again, and that way
you can skip for a paragraph. It's the dumbest thing ever.
But anyway, I've thought it would be fun to do
a very I'll never do it because it's too lazy,
but it would be fun. To do a music podcast
that was more accessible. I think that the ones you
(29:46):
have you have to go too deep into it, like
they nerd out. It'd be more fun to have a
have one that's just conversational, relaxed, and you could learn things,
and you learn things putting it on because you have
to research to do it. An email from Angie Briant
says Zara, listening to the show this morning about Colony
Ridge and their association with Greg Abbott, all the money
(30:09):
they gave him, it seems a more appropriate name for
him would be Governor Hot.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Deals instead of hot Wheels. Now the reason I read
that is because it's funny and b I've been wanting
to address this issue and I think now it's an
appropriate time for that. Remember, we're going to have an
adult conversation here, So I don't know if you've got
some music that it's not It's not not a funeral,
(30:38):
not a wedding, it's not the end of the world.
It's mostly me just, you know, trying to give myself
credit for saying something that no one else will say
but everyone knows. And so I kind of want to Laurel,
you know, I want to be I want everybody to
appreciate that. You know, look at me, how great I
am for doing what I'm about to do. So I
just I want to I want to put a bow
on that, so y'all know what I'm about to do.
(30:58):
So last week, Jasmine Crockett referred to Greg Abbott as
Governor hot wheels because I don't know if y'all know
he's in a wheelchair. And what are we doing? Is
what's going on with this? What mood is in your mind?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
What mood is this setting? Oh around the campfire? Okay,
do it again? Oh okay, yeah, okay, I can do
that kind of.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Garrison Keeler meets city slickers.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Okay, got it all right. So Jasmine Crockett is having
a moment. It could end up lasting a long time
or she could flame out. My guess is she's gonna
get There's two ways Jasmine Crockett goes down.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Number one is an.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Investigation by the IRS, FBI, some other organization that she
takes a bribe or she does something awful and horrible
that's a federal crime, and they announce it and she's like,
they trying to take me down, and it becomes this,
you know, this big, I'm here for the fight, and
so she does rallies and you know that it becomes
you know, she says the most ridiculous I'm taking them
(32:16):
all down with me, and she does this whole thing.
That's one but that I don't think it'll take till them.
The other one is she gets absolutely hammered, which she
does a lot, and she plows into somebody and it's
caught on camera, and you know, she's butt naked.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Out in the street, drunk, puking. Somebody's dead. Cop show up,
she's screaming, and it's kind of over for her, and
she pleads out and steps down and goes on her
merry way. One of those two things is what happened.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
But in the meantime, she's having a bit of a
moment because she's golden for the news. She's golden for
the news because people say, stop playing her moment of
player every day. No, no, stop playing her. You're only
gonna build her up. I hope, so I want her.
She is the leader of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I can't stand it. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You know why we lost in Wisconsin yesterday, not because
we don't have fifty one percent of the people, because
our people aren't showing up to vote because they didn't
understand why it's important. The only way a certain percentage
of the population is going to show up to vote
is when they are so scared of that crazy black
lady Jasmine Crockett that they show up to vote against whoever.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
For whoever is running against her. Right, But here is
the point to this whole story. So she called him
governor hot Wheels because she's just trying to make a
story because she wants to be talked about the next day,
and I had an overwhelming number of people who email
me she had jobs us harding. Whoa whoa, whoah woah
whom do you know how many Republicans every day email me?
(33:42):
You need to get old hot Wheel every day
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