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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
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all the energy today.
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True.
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Huge tournaments from Washington, d C. To Chicago, West Virginia,
Utah and beyond. Protests in nearly every state.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I think America is a terrible distress.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We're showing the current administration that we are not happy
and we will not stop.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
Demonstrators pushing back on the Trump administration's economic policies, cuts
to the federal workforce rise, and evon Musk's Doge Agency, he's.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Going in with the chainsaw. He doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
In upstate New York, this protest when straight passed borders
our Tom Hohman's house to call out the administration's immigration policy.
And in Palm Beach County, Florida, this miles from mar
A Lago. After the President returned from a third consecutive
day at one of his Florida golf courses, hundreds hoping
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to get his attention.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
I don't want to be reached.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I just want to be comfortable, and that's what I've
been comfortable, and he's taken away from my sagutil.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No rise.
Speaker 8 (01:57):
In a world full of fat accepts via Pete buddha Chet.
Pete Hegseth is the worst Department of Defense secretary we've
ever seen. And Pete Buddhachet was our secretary of Transportation.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Fantastic. He should run for president.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He's an amazing guy.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I am an immigrant, I am am a shame and
we will stop Wigle will stop.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Nut about thirty seconds to the illegal alien who's queer
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and whatever else, I'm afraid you play that again. You
go ahead. She's got a lot working against her because
she's also really fat and really ugly, really ugly.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
I am here and I'm undocumented, and I'm afraid and
queer and.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Really fat and.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Stinky and annoying and really short and chart and I'm
really stinky and annoying. I'm so annoying and yeah, and
that's who I am, and you cannot. Yeah, who would
I like to chair for me? Would I like to
chair for me?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And then all the fat, disgusting, ugly illegals are yay? Actually,
who am I kidding? It's white ladies. It's liberal white
women out there.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Yay, we're for her, She's our pet, because white liberals
love to have a pet, some broken down person that
they can claim that they're protecting.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, why don't you let Tubby move in with you then, Tina,
I mean, if you want her that bad, let her
roll around with her for a little while. When I
got to city council, it was the first year I
was there, and I wasn't sitting near anyone that uh,
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everybody else sitting next to it was a niece Parker
on one side, and Marcos on the other, and Burt
Keller was went over. They'd all been there for four years.
They were in their last terms, and I was new.
I didn't I didn't know the lay of the land.
So I was watching learning. And the first couple of
months I was there, you start noticing that some people
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when they come down before council, they get more respect
because they're powerful or rich or important or influential or whatever.
And it was bicycle day in the City of Houston,
and so there were a group of people who looked
like they were downtown professionals, but they were all in
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their little two tight shoes shorts and the fellas, you know,
their twig and berry was showing. But we all try
to act like, you know, it's normal because their biker
bikers bike, they bike everywhere, they bike, and they've got
their stupid little shoes on that clip into their bicycle,
and they all have their helmets, must must be responsible bikers.
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And they've all got their jersey like their you know,
Lance Armstrong, they got their their little whatever that material
stretchy jersey or on it. And so they all they
all came down, and there are lots of them, and
I recognize the most of them were influential Houstonians, and
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they came down and spoke. And when people were speaking
at public session, city councilmen would often get up and
go to the back, get something to drink, return phone calls.
And I had never forgotten that. Jim Greenwood told me
that if you will sit there and listen to people
when they talk. Sounds easy, but most people don't do it,
you will win yourself a fan for life, because it's
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the ultimate show of respect. So I did, but on
this day you didn't have to do that. On this day,
everybody came from that. You could tell when something important
was happening because people would come running from the cloak
room in the back, come running out and sit in
their seat because we had to be here for this person.
We have to provide an audience for this person. Okay,
so we had to bike crowd there by sickle nothing interesting,
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can't go anywhere on these stats bicycles. So they were
all there and we were all locked in. It's a
serious hole, man. There are lots of fake smiles, Like God,
I'm so glad Samantha is here today. She's with the bikers.
Oh yes, and she's happy because this is National ride
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your Bike to Work Day and so she's looked forward
for this, the outfit she's gonna wear and what she's
gonna do. Hey, Samantha, can we have that sales call
on Monday? No, it's National ride your Bike to Workday.
You can cancel everything for me on Monday. We're speaking
before city council. Oh you're speaking before city council. Oh
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my goodness, you've arrived. Hello. So there they were. There,
we were and I'm watching us people ride your bi
I to work that I came to find out about
that group and their agenda that they are one of
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the most destructive groups in the city of Houston, and
I'll hear from them today good because they are. I'll
tell you a story coming out in the world as well.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Whistling Bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, Honkey Riders, Whosker doooes,
Bhosker don'ts nips and dazers, whether without the scooter stick
or one single whistling, kiddie.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Chasing teaches, ones from California made from beating suits and
beaches Sons.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The National Rider Bike to work crowd. Like every other group,
you have to get some pelts. Ever, saw often can't
just be awareness. There's always someone in the group who
decides we got to have a power play. We got
to make everybody give us a dollar. We got to
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make the city burn down one building that's currently occupied.
We have to have a show of our power. It's like,
you know, if you play pick up ball. At some point,
Let's join a league, Let's play a game, Let's see
if we can win something. Let's get uniforms and travel
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and people come and see us, and afterwards we'll celebrate.
Maybe we'll get a trophy. We don't just want to
practice we need to win here and some pelts to
put on the wall. So the national ride your Bike
to Work crowd decided we needed more bike lanes because
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they like to ride bikes and they come down and
they read reports. And these are people you know. Some
of these people are restaurant owners, business owners, lawyers or ar text.
They're nice enough people. They're the kind of people who
are in the Rice Design Alliance. They're the kind of
people you see at fundraisers for city councilmen. They're the
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kind of people you the smart set of restaurants. You
see a lot of them wear bow ties. They went
to the best schools. They all have nice degrees. They
live in Southampton or West University. Their kids go to
good schools. They went to good schools. They're being honored constantly.
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They're all honoring each other. Their wives are chairing the
Disease Geala. They're the smart set. They're the people that
you're supposed to want to know. Some of them go
to an Episcopal church, maybe Unitarian and lesbian woman priest.
They're members of the country club. They're not wealthy. I
wont get that done. Get that wrong. They're not wealthy.
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They are the kind of people who populated for so
many years the herb they're white, urban core residents and
they're not they're not all liberals. Some of them are moderate,
but a big part of their identity is these are people,
these were the first generation tesla owners. A big part
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of their identity and everything is their identity is that
they ride bikes. But the important thing to understand is
it's not the riding of the bike that's important. It's
where they ride the bike. You need to get out
of your car and clear your car off the road
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so that they can ride their bikes because the riding
of the bike on the public streets is very important.
Now the number of people inside the loop in Houston.
And by the way, this is all an inner city
white people discussion. Nobody black, nobody, Hispanic, nobody, working class, nobody,
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elderly cares, nobody cares. This is the residence of Montrose,
the Heights, West University, Southampton Boulevard around Rice University and
now Museum District in Midtown and it's very important to them.
And they love to get together as a group and
ride their bicycles together. Oh my goodness, they're like swingers.
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But for bicycles. Oh, they get together and they put
the biggest smile on their faces because we're having fun.
Because nothing says we're having fun like having to say
you're having fun. Right, if you're on a roller coaster,
you don't have to say we're all vun Right, if
you're out on the boat skiing having a blast, you
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don't have to go aye, oh, we having fun. Yes,
we're having fun.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Everybody say we're having fun or else we're not having fun.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Because we're having fun. This is what we're doing. We're
having fun. And there is a smug righteousness in the
having of fun that says all these houses were riding past.
Those people are sitting on their couch watching sports. They're
not out here like us. They're not as good as
we are. We're riding our bikes, which is good for
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our health, but it's also the kind of thing you
would do in New York or San Francisco or Seattle
or Portland. That's what the smart set does. They wouldn't
understand they live in Houston. They're not like us. And
these are people, many of them are transplants. The only
thing worse than the transplant from Boston, San Francisco, New
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York to Houston. Is the person from Houston who wishes
they were. That's the kid who goes off to college
and says, oh, you gotta understand my own parents are racist.
I mean, I'll tell you some of the things they said.
Aren't they paying your bills? And didn't they I'll tell
you what I mean. I'm not proud of it. I mean,
what I'm trying to do is make you think more
of me by telling you how bad my parents were.
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My parents were racist, right, I mean, they just were
and I'm just going to tell you right now they were,
and I'm not proud of it. I mean it's embarrassing.
I mean, my whole town I was from, they're all racist,
and everybody was racist and they were horrible. And look
at me, though, I'm better because I'm outing them for
being and I might exaggerate a little how racist they were,
but it's not really about whether they're racist, about you
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thinking more of me and what a great person I
am in the middle of all this. So the bike
crowd they under Lee P. Brown managed to get him
to spend a twenty two million dollar federal grant. It's
federal money it's nobody's money. Don't worry. Taxpayers didn't have
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to pay for it. Well, where do you think that
money comes from? Twenty two million dollar grant? And if
I'm lying, I'm dying. You can think I'm exaggerating twenty
two million dollar grant to build more bike LANs Houston
Chronicle because the Chronicle the publisher Jeff Cohen at the time,
he now works for John Onman. He is a big
bike person. So it is Rodney Ellis. They go for
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long bike rides. Oh, and they solve the world's problems
on their bike rides. They go for bike rides, and
they decide, all right, we're gonna kick Jack Kagel out.
We're gonna put Leslie Brioni's in. We're gonna who We're
gonna put Sylvester and Sheila Seed. Okay, now we'll put
him in his seat. We're gonna do this, And I've
got an editorial. Chronicle's gonna place an editorial on on Sunday.
Nobody reads the editoris, but they still think they do.
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I got an editorial on this. We're gonna do this.
We're gonna put this person over here, and we're gonna
have a symposium over here. We're gonna get a federal
grant over here, and they solve the world's problems while
they're riding their bikes. And Rodney Ellis will have a
big unveiling. And remember they he was putting bike lanes.
Oh we were gonna bike from downtown through the hood.
Oh good, we're gonna have bike lanes. And then the
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people started riding their bikes, the nice white twenty somethings
who moved into the high end of apartments near Minute
May Park, and they start riding their bikes. So long
to buy you and look at this. We're such We're
finally gonna be a real big city. We're gonna have
bike lanes. And there they went on the bike lanes.
And then the hood came out in the hood, came
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out and stole all their stuff and beat them up,
threw their bikes in the bayou and ran back away,
And so now they had to walk back. Maybe this
wasn't such a good idea, but it felt so good
and righteous and smug. And now you're a real big
city resident. You got to ride your bike and get mug.
This is awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
To Michael Berry show, I want to ride my bicy
I want to ride my bike.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So now I bring you this story the Channel thirteen
had in the Houston News a couple of days ago.
It might have been yesterday, Saturday, it doesn't matter. There
is a raging debate over the use of space and
where the bicyclist ride. Now, let me rewind for a
moment and tell you Lee P. Brown got the twenty
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two million dollar grant to build more bike lanes, and
the Houston Chronicle trumpeted it. Oh, here was Lee Brown
and you thought Joe Biden was stupid. Lee Brown was dumb.
Joe Biden was at least elderly and demented. Lee Brown
is legitimately I wish he was white so people would't
feel so uncomfortab when I say this. Lee Brown is
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legitimately retarded. He is so dumb. He is so incredibly dumb.
You wouldn't believe it. When I tell people's stories of
serving on city Council with him and how dumb he was,
they think I'm exaggerating. They think I'm making it up,
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but I'm not. Well, how did he get to be
the police chief of Houston and New York and the
sheriff of Portland, ask what happened on his watch in
every city where he was. When he was the police chief.
In New York, they had what was known as the
Crown Heights massacre. Lee Brown went missing. They couldn't find
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the police chief. Jews were being pulled out of their
cars and beaten to death, and nobody could find the
police chief. I have an idea where he was. It
was exactly what got him in trouble in Houston when
he always had drivers, except the one day he didn't
and he got in a wreck near somebody's house that's
pretty famous in town, and we all knew what was
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going on, and he finally had to answer why he
was driving himself. He never drove himself. He likes to
be treated like a king. He always had drivers, and
that day he drove himself. Very weird. Do you know
what he said he was doing? This is good, this
is guy. I gotta give him credit for this. He
said he was out picking up bandit signs. You know
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the signs in the median they say, you know, rent
this apartment for two hundred dollars or work from home
for thirty He was out picking them up. Okay, well,
then there should be some in the trunk of the
car that you've picked up, right, or did it just
so happen that you got in the wreck at the
first one you were picking up, because we believe you. Leep,
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We think you go around at night picking up bandit science,
caring about the city as you do, and all. So
he built twenty two million dollars worth of bike lanes.
Federal grants. Don't complain, not your money. It's federal money,
so you don't get to complain. It's federal money. It's
throw away money. This is how our government works. Okay, Well,
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if you took a screenshot overhead on Google Maps of
the city of Houston, you would notice that we built
twenty two lane miles. We spent twenty two million dollars
and built whatever it was how remain lane miles of
bike lanes, and we did it. This is an amazing
feat of science, without ever pouring an ounce of concrete,
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without ever laying an ounce of asphalt. Mm hmm. Well,
what they did is they hired one of these Rice
Design Alliance guys. He's real smart guys. Everybody knows who
I'm talking about. They're part of the Chamber of Commerce.
They're part of all these So they go. They're all
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white guys, except now they brought in a couple of
minorities and some women, and they they wear bow ties
and they go. There's a breakfast meeting every day, and
they have a breakfast meeting and maybe at River Roads
Country Club or one of these places, and they'll have
someone who's very smart and they've done a survey or
a study, and they'll say they all go and everybody
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has it. You know, you buy a table and your
organization pays for the table, and you all go there
and it's all the same people, the same ones, and
they're kind of bored of seeing each other. Hey, Bob,
how are you doing? Hey Stephen, how are you doing?
Same exact people every meeting. So they show up and
the guy gets up and maybe it's it's Richard Florida
who's written a book about you know, white liberals in
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the in the cities and how big cities are going
to become more gay and more bikey and more granola e.
And I'm not even kidding, that's really what he said,
and they're going to do all these things. But in fact,
all that was really going to happen is the white
liberals gave way to the corrupt blacks who gave way
to high crime rates, who were bought out by Soros.
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And then all the white moderates and conservatives moved out
of town and now they all live out in the suburbs.
And that's what's happened. That that happened in all the
big cities. And so you saw the fall of San
Francisco and Seattle, in Portland and now Houston. Well, in
the midst of all this, they repainted the lanes. They
repainted the lanes. They actually narrowed the car lanes. It
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wasn't like, you know, these car lanes were built for
a seventy eight Continental and we were driving lanyons and
we're like, you know, now everybody's driving a little bitty
tiny go car, so we'll just narrow the lanes. So
there was one lane in particular at Buffalo Speedway, or
maybe it's west Land northbound into River Oaks, but you
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would first have to cross over West tim or San Philip,
I can't remember. And right there there is on the
southwest corner there is a shell station and you're just
north of River Oaks Baptist School and the River Oaks Baptist,
and you're driving into river Oaks, and some of these
people live in river Oaks, and so this was gonna
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be great. When I was bike lean hear and so
the lanes were already narrow lanes before the bike lane,
but we we'll just make up more narrow. You ever
go to a parking lot where they've had to accommodate
the local municipality with enough park spots, but they don't
have enough concrete for that many parking spots, especially not
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in Euston where everybody's driving a big truck. So what
they do is they just they make the parking spots
big enough for a bicycle, and they go, yep, we
got one hundred and twelve parking spots, just like you
told us. Well make sure you put a bunch of
them with the blue sticker up front, and nobody will
ever use. Oh yeah, we got that too, Okay good.
So then we'll be short of spots and we'll have
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eight spots that nobody will ever use. Okay good. So
we would comply with all the rules, and then you
go trying to get into one of those spots and
you can't, so you're mad at the person that they
parked on the line. You're real mad. So you go
to the very back of the parking lot and you
park where there's a couple of spots open, and you
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park and you get out, and you realize, oh, I
guess I can't complain about that lady, because it's always
a lady, because I parked on the line too, And
you realize I parked on both lines. I park on
both lines. How could I possibly park on both lines?
Maybe I'll get in and straighten it up. But how
am I going to straighten it up? I'm on both
lines because the lanes the parking spots are too narrow.
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Oh okay, well why'd they do that? Because they had
to comply with the city ordinance of how many spots
they had to have. But they're not legitimate spots. They
just marked off that way to create mass confusion and
cause you to want to hate your neighbor. Okay, So
they narrowed the lanes and they put a bike lane. Yeah,
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that's the ticket. And the bike lane had a picture
of a had a painting of a guy on a
bike there. Now, if you've driven wherever you live outside
the loop, you never see anybody riding a bike unless
they're a kid in a cul de sac. But okay,
let's pretend that we're in England in nineteen o six
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and everybody's on bicycle, even inside the loop where they
want all these bike clips which get up on the
sidewalk with jackass. That's what the sidewalks are for. No,
we have to be on the road like the cars.
Let's talk about this because there's something in the news
that brings us up.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Here.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So when I was running for city council, I was
the only one who would publicly oppose light rail downtown
twenty five years ago. Twenty five years and hundreds of
millions of dollars spent. How did that work out? And
it was the same crowd of people. And these are
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people who jack off to the idea of living in
New York and they want to replicate that in Houston.
It is a fetish for them. It is a twisted fetish.
It is a fetish to the point they're porn addicted.
They have organizations, they have conferences, they have their places
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they gather to eat. They want to make their little
sub area of Houston into the place that they went
to college, which is some liberal college in the northeast,
Wellesley or brin Mar or Harvard or Dartmouth or Princeton.
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And they have this fantasy that verges on perverse, that
they're going to remake Houston in that image, and this
becomes their social set. They all socialize with each other,
they all everything they do. They obsess over these sorts
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of things, and they live like an ex patriot in
Cairo or Delhi. They live like ex patriot. It's of
New York and Boston and San Francisco. In Houston they
get all those papers. They travel there frequently. They run
down Houston, and Houston's terrible, and so Leapi, in his
infinite wisdom, he repaints the bike lanes, Well, what happens
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these people start getting hit? Why wouldn't they? And that
makes them hate you even more because there you are
in your big This Ford had gotten crazy. It became
like you remember used two people would would go to
the would stop at a gas station. They would get
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a reasonably sized drink and they would leave and they
would drink their drink, and then in time they got
a bigger drink. Small went to media, medium, went to large,
large went to bigger large, and then it became just
fat as all hell, forty four ounces, and so then
the guy forty four, here's eighty eight and you see
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people coming out right, it's like they got a Wilborough
or it's like they're carrying a barrel. They got the
biggest drink average so massive, right, Well, I started imagining.
I drove to Austin this weekend, so I saw a
lot of this. It's kind of funny. I'm trying to
remember what I was thinking about for that. What was
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I saying, Rewindrow, What was I saying right before that
about the uh there you are in your big this?
Oh yeah, su me. So, so this was the time
when Ford went from not the escort. Ford had the
best selling SUV in the world for a while and
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then it just died in the eighties. It was it
was the small suv, but we didn't know it was
small thing because it was the only shuv. Do you
remember what was that called Explorer? Was it Explorer? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Ford?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Explorer? Okay, So the Explorer gave way to Chevy, matched
it with the Tahoe and pulled ahead, and so Ford
kind of started slipping in the suv game and Chevy
started dominating. So Chevy had the Tahoe, but we need
to be able to put all of that cheerleading soccer, volleyball,
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baseball gear in the back, or at least we think
we do. So let's extend it even bigger. Oh okay,
so now we went from the Tahoe to the suburban. Okay,
so this market, Chevy had about a fifteen year run
where Ford just sat there. Ford had the F one fifty.
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They were winning the truck battle, but they could not
crack the suv market. So Ford comes up with the Expedition. Okay, yeah,
we had a little suv, you went a little bigger.
Watched this boom. Here was the expedition, and this thing
was god awful big, I mean really big. But then
just for kicks, they're like, let's do this and see
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if they take us seriously, Let's make an excursion. The
excursion was basically an RV that was stretched out even bigger,
but packaged to look like a vehicle that you'd put
on the road. So now imagine this. You got Tanglewood Mom,
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we'll call her Heidi or Carolyn Tanglewood Mom, and she's
driving northbound. She's going to be crossing over to willowit.
She's pulling into River Oaks Baptists where she's picking up
Ian and Ethan and Hayden and all their friends. So
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she's got nine kids back there. These sweaty little kids
have just come out of lacrosse practice. They've got all
the energy in the world. They are hyped up on sugar.
And they get in the back and they start right.
She can't see behind her, she can't see out the
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driver's side window a mirror. She has had a long day.
She wants a rose. She's having a mild hot flash.
Her husband has just told her that the CEO of
the company that he's hoping to be promoted to the
vice president for has invited them to dinner. This might
be the big deal where he gets the big promotion
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that they desperately need because they want to get a
second home. And she's got to get ready. Her nails
are not done. She's not gonna have time to get
her nails done. She's not going to have time to
get her hair done. She's just called the blow drowbar
and they can't work her in after all of this.
Can't believe this. The Vietnamese lady is not there today,
So she can't get her nails done, she doesn't have
anything to wear, and she's feeling bloated because it's that
time and those kids are right, she's feeling bloated, and
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she's going to look ugly tonight and disappoint her husband
and the CEO of the company's wife doesn't really care
for her, so and she has no dress, and she
doesn't know what she's gonna do. And she was supposed
to host the kids for the pizza party for the
year end lacrosse event, and she can't find anybody on
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the list that's willing to take the party over from her,
and what's she gonna do? And the balloons are going
to arrive, and the pizza is gonna arrive, and the
drinks are going to arrive, and they had a magic
guy who's gonna arrive, and she can't remember his number
and how to get there and what to do, and
the kids can't be there by themselves, and her husband's
upset and she needs to go on a time and
all of a sudden, in the midst of all that,
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the last thing she's worried about is that some jackass
is trying to ride on the streets in a bicycle.
The most entitled bicyclist you have ever seen in your life.
This is bicycle Man. Because you need to understand that
he went to Dartmouth and then he did his graduate
work at Columbia, and he came to Houston. Wasn't going
(33:03):
to come to Houston, thought Houston. I mean when I
came here, I was like, I'll spend a year here,
but I'm not gonna stay. But ends up. You know what,
these hayseed hillbilly, backwater, poor, uneducated, in bred people, it's
really not so bad. It's not so bad. I mean,
if you know the right places to go. You know,
they put a Whole Foods next to us, and then
we got a Trader Joe's because you can't get everything there.
(33:24):
And and so there's a couple of you know, things
that we do. And we found a good episcopal Piscopal
church with a lesbian priest who never talks about Jesus
because that's weird. And we got our kids in a
Pooh corner. And then Montessey and we basically recreated the
same little lily white, liberal, highly anxious environment. And our
neighbors are Jewish, they go to Emmanuel and so we
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did this, and we do this, and we got all
this little thing. And there is that person on their
bike and she is about to plow him over and
she has no idea, but hey, we got bike lanes.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We are very big on the chanting and you'll have
all the energy today.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
Trup, no trum no.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
True.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Huge tournaments from Washington, d C. To Chicago, West Virginia,
Utah and beyond. Protests in nearly every state.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I think America is a terrible distress.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We're showing the current administration that we are not happy
and we will not stop.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
Demonstrators pushing back on the Trump administration's economic policies, cuts
to the federal workforce rise, and evon Musk's Doge Agency, he's.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Going in with the chainsaw. He doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
In upstate New York, this protest when straight passed borders
our Tom Hohman's house to call out the administration's immigration policy.
And in Palm Beach County, Florida, this miles from mar
A Lago. After the President returned from a third consecutive
day at one of his Florida golf courses, hundreds hoping
(01:26):
to get his attention.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
I don't want to be reached.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I just want to be comfortable, and that's what I've
been comfortable, and he's taken away from my sagutil.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No rise.
Speaker 8 (01:57):
In a world full of fat accepts via Pete buddha Chet.
Pete Hegseth is the worst Department of Defense secretary we've
ever seen. And Pete Buddhachet was our secretary of Transportation.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Fantastic. He should run for president.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He's an amazing guy.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
I am an immigrant, I am am a shame and
we will stop Wigle will stop.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Nut about thirty seconds to the illegal alien who's queer
(03:18):
and whatever else, I'm afraid you play that again. You
go ahead. She's got a lot working against her because
she's also really fat and really ugly, really ugly.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
I am here and I'm undocumented, and I'm afraid and
queer and.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Really fat and.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Stinky and annoying and really short and chart and I'm
really stinky and annoying. I'm so annoying and yeah, and
that's who I am, and you cannot. Yeah, who would
I like to chair for me? Would I like to
chair for me?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And then all the fat, disgusting, ugly illegals are yay? Actually,
who am I kidding? It's white ladies. It's liberal white
women out there.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Yay, we're for her, She's our pet, because white liberals
love to have a pet, some broken down person that
they can claim that they're protecting.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, why don't you let Tubby move in with you then, Tina,
I mean, if you want her that bad, let her
roll around with her for a little while. When I
got to city council, it was the first year I
was there, and I wasn't sitting near anyone that uh,
(04:54):
everybody else sitting next to it was a niece Parker
on one side, and Marcos on the other, and Burt
Keller was went over. They'd all been there for four years.
They were in their last terms, and I was new.
I didn't I didn't know the lay of the land.
So I was watching learning. And the first couple of
months I was there, you start noticing that some people
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when they come down before council, they get more respect
because they're powerful or rich or important or influential or whatever.
And it was bicycle day in the City of Houston,
and so there were a group of people who looked
like they were downtown professionals, but they were all in
(05:38):
their little two tight shoes shorts and the fellas, you know,
their twig and berry was showing. But we all try
to act like, you know, it's normal because their biker
bikers bike, they bike everywhere, they bike, and they've got
their stupid little shoes on that clip into their bicycle,
and they all have their helmets, must must be responsible bikers.
(05:59):
And they've all got their jersey like their you know,
Lance Armstrong, they got their their little whatever that material
stretchy jersey or on it. And so they all they
all came down, and there are lots of them, and
I recognize the most of them were influential Houstonians, and
(06:19):
they came down and spoke. And when people were speaking
at public session, city councilmen would often get up and
go to the back, get something to drink, return phone calls.
And I had never forgotten that. Jim Greenwood told me
that if you will sit there and listen to people
when they talk. Sounds easy, but most people don't do it,
you will win yourself a fan for life, because it's
(06:42):
the ultimate show of respect. So I did, but on
this day you didn't have to do that. On this day,
everybody came from that. You could tell when something important
was happening because people would come running from the cloak
room in the back, come running out and sit in
their seat because we had to be here for this person.
We have to provide an audience for this person. Okay,
so we had to bike crowd there by sickle nothing interesting,
(07:03):
can't go anywhere on these stats bicycles. So they were
all there and we were all locked in. It's a
serious hole, man. There are lots of fake smiles, Like God,
I'm so glad Samantha is here today. She's with the bikers.
Oh yes, and she's happy because this is National ride
(07:24):
your Bike to Work Day and so she's looked forward
for this, the outfit she's gonna wear and what she's
gonna do. Hey, Samantha, can we have that sales call
on Monday? No, it's National ride your Bike to Workday.
You can cancel everything for me on Monday. We're speaking
before city council. Oh you're speaking before city council. Oh
(07:49):
my goodness, you've arrived. Hello. So there they were. There,
we were and I'm watching us people ride your bi
I to work that I came to find out about
that group and their agenda that they are one of
(08:09):
the most destructive groups in the city of Houston, and
I'll hear from them today good because they are. I'll
tell you a story coming out in the world as well.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Whistling Bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, Honkey Riders, Whosker doooes,
Bhosker don'ts nips and dazers, whether without the scooter stick
or one single whistling, kiddie.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Chasing teaches, ones from California made from beating suits and
beaches Sons.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The National Rider Bike to work crowd. Like every other group,
you have to get some pelts. Ever, saw often can't
just be awareness. There's always someone in the group who
decides we got to have a power play. We got
to make everybody give us a dollar. We got to
(09:04):
make the city burn down one building that's currently occupied.
We have to have a show of our power. It's like,
you know, if you play pick up ball. At some point,
Let's join a league, Let's play a game, Let's see
if we can win something. Let's get uniforms and travel
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and people come and see us, and afterwards we'll celebrate.
Maybe we'll get a trophy. We don't just want to
practice we need to win here and some pelts to
put on the wall. So the national ride your Bike
to Work crowd decided we needed more bike lanes because
(09:50):
they like to ride bikes and they come down and
they read reports. And these are people you know. Some
of these people are restaurant owners, business owners, lawyers or ar text.
They're nice enough people. They're the kind of people who
are in the Rice Design Alliance. They're the kind of
people you see at fundraisers for city councilmen. They're the
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kind of people you the smart set of restaurants. You
see a lot of them wear bow ties. They went
to the best schools. They all have nice degrees. They
live in Southampton or West University. Their kids go to
good schools. They went to good schools. They're being honored constantly.
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They're all honoring each other. Their wives are chairing the
Disease Geala. They're the smart set. They're the people that
you're supposed to want to know. Some of them go
to an Episcopal church, maybe Unitarian and lesbian woman priest.
They're members of the country club. They're not wealthy. I
wont get that done. Get that wrong. They're not wealthy.
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They are the kind of people who populated for so
many years the herb they're white, urban core residents and
they're not they're not all liberals. Some of them are moderate,
but a big part of their identity is these are people,
these were the first generation tesla owners. A big part
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of their identity and everything is their identity is that
they ride bikes. But the important thing to understand is
it's not the riding of the bike that's important. It's
where they ride the bike. You need to get out
of your car and clear your car off the road
(11:38):
so that they can ride their bikes because the riding
of the bike on the public streets is very important.
Now the number of people inside the loop in Houston.
And by the way, this is all an inner city
white people discussion. Nobody black, nobody, Hispanic, nobody, working class, nobody,
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elderly cares, nobody cares. This is the residence of Montrose,
the Heights, West University, Southampton Boulevard around Rice University and
now Museum District in Midtown and it's very important to them.
And they love to get together as a group and
ride their bicycles together. Oh my goodness, they're like swingers.
(12:23):
But for bicycles. Oh, they get together and they put
the biggest smile on their faces because we're having fun.
Because nothing says we're having fun like having to say
you're having fun. Right, if you're on a roller coaster,
you don't have to say we're all vun Right, if
you're out on the boat skiing having a blast, you
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don't have to go aye, oh, we having fun. Yes,
we're having fun.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Everybody say we're having fun or else we're not having fun.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Because we're having fun. This is what we're doing. We're
having fun. And there is a smug righteousness in the
having of fun that says all these houses were riding past.
Those people are sitting on their couch watching sports. They're
not out here like us. They're not as good as
we are. We're riding our bikes, which is good for
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our health, but it's also the kind of thing you
would do in New York or San Francisco or Seattle
or Portland. That's what the smart set does. They wouldn't
understand they live in Houston. They're not like us. And
these are people, many of them are transplants. The only
thing worse than the transplant from Boston, San Francisco, New
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York to Houston. Is the person from Houston who wishes
they were. That's the kid who goes off to college
and says, oh, you gotta understand my own parents are racist.
I mean, I'll tell you some of the things they said.
Aren't they paying your bills? And didn't they I'll tell
you what I mean. I'm not proud of it. I mean,
what I'm trying to do is make you think more
of me by telling you how bad my parents were.
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My parents were racist, right, I mean, they just were
and I'm just going to tell you right now they were,
and I'm not proud of it. I mean it's embarrassing.
I mean, my whole town I was from, they're all racist,
and everybody was racist and they were horrible. And look
at me, though, I'm better because I'm outing them for
being and I might exaggerate a little how racist they were,
but it's not really about whether they're racist, about you
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thinking more of me and what a great person I
am in the middle of all this. So the bike
crowd they under Lee P. Brown managed to get him
to spend a twenty two million dollar federal grant. It's
federal money it's nobody's money. Don't worry. Taxpayers didn't have
(14:42):
to pay for it. Well, where do you think that
money comes from? Twenty two million dollar grant? And if
I'm lying, I'm dying. You can think I'm exaggerating twenty
two million dollar grant to build more bike LANs Houston
Chronicle because the Chronicle the publisher Jeff Cohen at the time,
he now works for John Onman. He is a big
bike person. So it is Rodney Ellis. They go for
(15:04):
long bike rides. Oh, and they solve the world's problems
on their bike rides. They go for bike rides, and
they decide, all right, we're gonna kick Jack Kagel out.
We're gonna put Leslie Brioni's in. We're gonna who We're
gonna put Sylvester and Sheila Seed. Okay, now we'll put
him in his seat. We're gonna do this, And I've
got an editorial. Chronicle's gonna place an editorial on on Sunday.
Nobody reads the editoris, but they still think they do.
(15:25):
I got an editorial on this. We're gonna do this.
We're gonna put this person over here, and we're gonna
have a symposium over here. We're gonna get a federal
grant over here, and they solve the world's problems while
they're riding their bikes. And Rodney Ellis will have a
big unveiling. And remember they he was putting bike lanes.
Oh we were gonna bike from downtown through the hood.
Oh good, we're gonna have bike lanes. And then the
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people started riding their bikes, the nice white twenty somethings
who moved into the high end of apartments near Minute
May Park, and they start riding their bikes. So long
to buy you and look at this. We're such We're
finally gonna be a real big city. We're gonna have
bike lanes. And there they went on the bike lanes.
And then the hood came out in the hood, came
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out and stole all their stuff and beat them up,
threw their bikes in the bayou and ran back away,
And so now they had to walk back. Maybe this
wasn't such a good idea, but it felt so good
and righteous and smug. And now you're a real big
city resident. You got to ride your bike and get mug.
This is awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
To Michael Berry show, I want to ride my bicy
I want to ride my bike.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So now I bring you this story the Channel thirteen
had in the Houston News a couple of days ago.
It might have been yesterday, Saturday, it doesn't matter. There
is a raging debate over the use of space and
where the bicyclist ride. Now, let me rewind for a
moment and tell you Lee P. Brown got the twenty
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two million dollar grant to build more bike lanes, and
the Houston Chronicle trumpeted it. Oh, here was Lee Brown
and you thought Joe Biden was stupid. Lee Brown was dumb.
Joe Biden was at least elderly and demented. Lee Brown
is legitimately I wish he was white so people would't
feel so uncomfortab when I say this. Lee Brown is
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legitimately retarded. He is so dumb. He is so incredibly dumb.
You wouldn't believe it. When I tell people's stories of
serving on city Council with him and how dumb he was,
they think I'm exaggerating. They think I'm making it up,
(17:50):
but I'm not. Well, how did he get to be
the police chief of Houston and New York and the
sheriff of Portland, ask what happened on his watch in
every city where he was. When he was the police chief.
In New York, they had what was known as the
Crown Heights massacre. Lee Brown went missing. They couldn't find
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the police chief. Jews were being pulled out of their
cars and beaten to death, and nobody could find the
police chief. I have an idea where he was. It
was exactly what got him in trouble in Houston when
he always had drivers, except the one day he didn't
and he got in a wreck near somebody's house that's
pretty famous in town, and we all knew what was
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going on, and he finally had to answer why he
was driving himself. He never drove himself. He likes to
be treated like a king. He always had drivers, and
that day he drove himself. Very weird. Do you know
what he said he was doing? This is good, this
is guy. I gotta give him credit for this. He
said he was out picking up bandit signs. You know
(18:57):
the signs in the median they say, you know, rent
this apartment for two hundred dollars or work from home
for thirty He was out picking them up. Okay, well,
then there should be some in the trunk of the
car that you've picked up, right, or did it just
so happen that you got in the wreck at the
first one you were picking up, because we believe you. Leep,
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We think you go around at night picking up bandit science,
caring about the city as you do, and all. So
he built twenty two million dollars worth of bike lanes.
Federal grants. Don't complain, not your money. It's federal money,
so you don't get to complain. It's federal money. It's
throw away money. This is how our government works. Okay, Well,
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if you took a screenshot overhead on Google Maps of
the city of Houston, you would notice that we built
twenty two lane miles. We spent twenty two million dollars
and built whatever it was how remain lane miles of
bike lanes, and we did it. This is an amazing
feat of science, without ever pouring an ounce of concrete,
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without ever laying an ounce of asphalt. Mm hmm. Well,
what they did is they hired one of these Rice
Design Alliance guys. He's real smart guys. Everybody knows who
I'm talking about. They're part of the Chamber of Commerce.
They're part of all these So they go. They're all
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white guys, except now they brought in a couple of
minorities and some women, and they they wear bow ties
and they go. There's a breakfast meeting every day, and
they have a breakfast meeting and maybe at River Roads
Country Club or one of these places, and they'll have
someone who's very smart and they've done a survey or
a study, and they'll say they all go and everybody
(20:54):
has it. You know, you buy a table and your
organization pays for the table, and you all go there
and it's all the same people, the same ones, and
they're kind of bored of seeing each other. Hey, Bob,
how are you doing? Hey Stephen, how are you doing?
Same exact people every meeting. So they show up and
the guy gets up and maybe it's it's Richard Florida
who's written a book about you know, white liberals in
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the in the cities and how big cities are going
to become more gay and more bikey and more granola e.
And I'm not even kidding, that's really what he said,
and they're going to do all these things. But in fact,
all that was really going to happen is the white
liberals gave way to the corrupt blacks who gave way
to high crime rates, who were bought out by Soros.
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And then all the white moderates and conservatives moved out
of town and now they all live out in the suburbs.
And that's what's happened. That that happened in all the
big cities. And so you saw the fall of San
Francisco and Seattle, in Portland and now Houston. Well, in
the midst of all this, they repainted the lanes. They
repainted the lanes. They actually narrowed the car lanes. It
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wasn't like, you know, these car lanes were built for
a seventy eight Continental and we were driving lanyons and
we're like, you know, now everybody's driving a little bitty
tiny go car, so we'll just narrow the lanes. So
there was one lane in particular at Buffalo Speedway, or
maybe it's west Land northbound into River Oaks, but you
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would first have to cross over West tim or San Philip,
I can't remember. And right there there is on the
southwest corner there is a shell station and you're just
north of River Oaks Baptist School and the River Oaks Baptist,
and you're driving into river Oaks, and some of these
people live in river Oaks, and so this was gonna
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be great. When I was bike lean hear and so
the lanes were already narrow lanes before the bike lane,
but we we'll just make up more narrow. You ever
go to a parking lot where they've had to accommodate
the local municipality with enough park spots, but they don't
have enough concrete for that many parking spots, especially not
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in Euston where everybody's driving a big truck. So what
they do is they just they make the parking spots
big enough for a bicycle, and they go, yep, we
got one hundred and twelve parking spots, just like you
told us. Well make sure you put a bunch of
them with the blue sticker up front, and nobody will
ever use. Oh yeah, we got that too, Okay good.
So then we'll be short of spots and we'll have
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eight spots that nobody will ever use. Okay good. So
we would comply with all the rules, and then you
go trying to get into one of those spots and
you can't, so you're mad at the person that they
parked on the line. You're real mad. So you go
to the very back of the parking lot and you
park where there's a couple of spots open, and you
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park and you get out, and you realize, oh, I
guess I can't complain about that lady, because it's always
a lady, because I parked on the line too, And
you realize I parked on both lines. I park on
both lines. How could I possibly park on both lines?
Maybe I'll get in and straighten it up. But how
am I going to straighten it up? I'm on both
lines because the lanes the parking spots are too narrow.
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Oh okay, well why'd they do that? Because they had
to comply with the city ordinance of how many spots
they had to have. But they're not legitimate spots. They
just marked off that way to create mass confusion and
cause you to want to hate your neighbor. Okay, So
they narrowed the lanes and they put a bike lane. Yeah,
(24:34):
that's the ticket. And the bike lane had a picture
of a had a painting of a guy on a
bike there. Now, if you've driven wherever you live outside
the loop, you never see anybody riding a bike unless
they're a kid in a cul de sac. But okay,
let's pretend that we're in England in nineteen o six
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and everybody's on bicycle, even inside the loop where they
want all these bike clips which get up on the
sidewalk with jackass. That's what the sidewalks are for. No,
we have to be on the road like the cars.
Let's talk about this because there's something in the news
that brings us up.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Here.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So when I was running for city council, I was
the only one who would publicly oppose light rail downtown
twenty five years ago. Twenty five years and hundreds of
millions of dollars spent. How did that work out? And
it was the same crowd of people. And these are
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people who jack off to the idea of living in
New York and they want to replicate that in Houston.
It is a fetish for them. It is a twisted fetish.
It is a fetish to the point they're porn addicted.
They have organizations, they have conferences, they have their places
(26:09):
they gather to eat. They want to make their little
sub area of Houston into the place that they went
to college, which is some liberal college in the northeast,
Wellesley or brin Mar or Harvard or Dartmouth or Princeton.
(26:32):
And they have this fantasy that verges on perverse, that
they're going to remake Houston in that image, and this
becomes their social set. They all socialize with each other,
they all everything they do. They obsess over these sorts
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of things, and they live like an ex patriot in
Cairo or Delhi. They live like ex patriot. It's of
New York and Boston and San Francisco. In Houston they
get all those papers. They travel there frequently. They run
down Houston, and Houston's terrible, and so Leapi, in his
infinite wisdom, he repaints the bike lanes, Well, what happens
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these people start getting hit? Why wouldn't they? And that
makes them hate you even more because there you are
in your big This Ford had gotten crazy. It became
like you remember used two people would would go to
the would stop at a gas station. They would get
(27:41):
a reasonably sized drink and they would leave and they
would drink their drink, and then in time they got
a bigger drink. Small went to media, medium, went to large,
large went to bigger large, and then it became just
fat as all hell, forty four ounces, and so then
the guy forty four, here's eighty eight and you see
(28:03):
people coming out right, it's like they got a Wilborough
or it's like they're carrying a barrel. They got the
biggest drink average so massive, right, Well, I started imagining.
I drove to Austin this weekend, so I saw a
lot of this. It's kind of funny. I'm trying to
remember what I was thinking about for that. What was
(28:23):
I saying, Rewindrow, What was I saying right before that
about the uh there you are in your big this?
Oh yeah, su me. So, so this was the time
when Ford went from not the escort. Ford had the
best selling SUV in the world for a while and
(28:44):
then it just died in the eighties. It was it
was the small suv, but we didn't know it was
small thing because it was the only shuv. Do you
remember what was that called Explorer? Was it Explorer? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Ford?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Explorer? Okay, So the Explorer gave way to Chevy, matched
it with the Tahoe and pulled ahead, and so Ford
kind of started slipping in the suv game and Chevy
started dominating. So Chevy had the Tahoe, but we need
to be able to put all of that cheerleading soccer, volleyball,
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baseball gear in the back, or at least we think
we do. So let's extend it even bigger. Oh okay,
so now we went from the Tahoe to the suburban. Okay,
so this market, Chevy had about a fifteen year run
where Ford just sat there. Ford had the F one fifty.
(29:40):
They were winning the truck battle, but they could not
crack the suv market. So Ford comes up with the Expedition. Okay, yeah,
we had a little suv, you went a little bigger.
Watched this boom. Here was the expedition, and this thing
was god awful big, I mean really big. But then
just for kicks, they're like, let's do this and see
(30:02):
if they take us seriously, Let's make an excursion. The
excursion was basically an RV that was stretched out even bigger,
but packaged to look like a vehicle that you'd put
on the road. So now imagine this. You got Tanglewood Mom,
(30:25):
we'll call her Heidi or Carolyn Tanglewood Mom, and she's
driving northbound. She's going to be crossing over to willowit.
She's pulling into River Oaks Baptists where she's picking up
Ian and Ethan and Hayden and all their friends. So
(30:49):
she's got nine kids back there. These sweaty little kids
have just come out of lacrosse practice. They've got all
the energy in the world. They are hyped up on sugar.
And they get in the back and they start right.
She can't see behind her, she can't see out the
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driver's side window a mirror. She has had a long day.
She wants a rose. She's having a mild hot flash.
Her husband has just told her that the CEO of
the company that he's hoping to be promoted to the
vice president for has invited them to dinner. This might
be the big deal where he gets the big promotion
(31:34):
that they desperately need because they want to get a
second home. And she's got to get ready. Her nails
are not done. She's not gonna have time to get
her nails done. She's not going to have time to
get her hair done. She's just called the blow drowbar
and they can't work her in after all of this.
Can't believe this. The Vietnamese lady is not there today,
So she can't get her nails done, she doesn't have
anything to wear, and she's feeling bloated because it's that
time and those kids are right, she's feeling bloated, and
(31:57):
she's going to look ugly tonight and disappoint her husband
and the CEO of the company's wife doesn't really care
for her, so and she has no dress, and she
doesn't know what she's gonna do. And she was supposed
to host the kids for the pizza party for the
year end lacrosse event, and she can't find anybody on
(32:17):
the list that's willing to take the party over from her,
and what's she gonna do? And the balloons are going
to arrive, and the pizza is gonna arrive, and the
drinks are going to arrive, and they had a magic
guy who's gonna arrive, and she can't remember his number
and how to get there and what to do, and
the kids can't be there by themselves, and her husband's
upset and she needs to go on a time and
all of a sudden, in the midst of all that,
(32:38):
the last thing she's worried about is that some jackass
is trying to ride on the streets in a bicycle.
The most entitled bicyclist you have ever seen in your life.
This is bicycle Man. Because you need to understand that
he went to Dartmouth and then he did his graduate
work at Columbia, and he came to Houston. Wasn't going
(33:03):
to come to Houston, thought Houston. I mean when I
came here, I was like, I'll spend a year here,
but I'm not gonna stay. But ends up. You know what,
these hayseed hillbilly, backwater, poor, uneducated, in bred people, it's
really not so bad. It's not so bad. I mean,
if you know the right places to go. You know,
they put a Whole Foods next to us, and then
we got a Trader Joe's because you can't get everything there.
(33:24):
And and so there's a couple of you know, things
that we do. And we found a good episcopal Piscopal
church with a lesbian priest who never talks about Jesus
because that's weird. And we got our kids in a
Pooh corner. And then Montessey and we basically recreated the
same little lily white, liberal, highly anxious environment. And our
neighbors are Jewish, they go to Emmanuel and so we
(33:46):
did this, and we do this, and we got all
this little thing. And there is that person on their
bike and she is about to plow him over and
she has no idea, but hey, we got bike lanes.
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