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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Mister President, you are the oldest president ever, pretty good shape,
which leads to my next question. You are more aware
of this than anyone. Some people ask whether you are
fit for the job, and when you hear that, I
wonder what you think?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Watch me.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden
is preparing for it, because he is sharp, intensely probing,
and detail oriented and focused.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How would you say your mental focus is?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's focused? The best way to get something done.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
If you holds near and dear to you that you
like to be able.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
To anyway, I.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Won't bid the news that if it build is getting you. Boy,
you just keep on you let me?
Speaker 7 (01:14):
Do you use me? U?
Speaker 8 (01:20):
Do you use me?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
To start your tape right now?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Because I'm about to tell you the truth and f
you if you can't handle the truth.
Speaker 9 (01:30):
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close sucking and I've known him.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
For years, the Presents have known him for fifty years.
If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Of Putin's cryptocerca.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, America is a nation that can be defined in
a single word. I was gonna put him to put
Los Angeles and uh and uh uh I want.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I join here, I said, rather if your own and
do you wish that you were in mass You who
just keep.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
On you let me.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Until you give me a.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Until you here's what drives the driver in the states
that are affected. Here's what that you can do the drivers.
We haven't been able to communicate it in a way
that is uhmt me say another way.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The doughters have all gone away.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
It's it's really incumbent on people that are around Joe
Biden to step up at this point and and and
help the president and help the man they love and
do the right thing. This is not going to This
is not going to end well. If it continues to
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drag out, I won't spend.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The news and it deal is good getting you you
just keep on you let me.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you use me?
Speaker 11 (03:21):
As part of the governmental investigation into Joe Biden's crimes,
which included, but were not limited to, Hunter Biden being
the bag man and kicking ten percent up to the
man above. Remember all this Tony Bobby Lensky. All of
this is out there. People forget because there were so
many things that happened when Her did the report. The
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conclusion was that Joe Biden had committed a number of
crimes and.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Should be charged.
Speaker 11 (03:50):
However, that he did not recommend bringing charges because the
president was unfit.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
To stand trial.
Speaker 11 (04:00):
And all of this came out long before he announced
he was stepping out of the race. He was still
running for president. So Democrats were saying, in one breath, Hey,
her didn't recommend charges, so Biden's been cleared. That was
their narrative. Her did not recommend that charges be brought.
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And technically what her said was he committed crimes, but
there's no point in prosecuting him. They took that and
then told the public, who isn't going to read the report,
no point in bringing to no. No, they said not
to bring charges. Well, Adam Schiff from California made it
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his business to rage at Robert Herr, a government official
doing his job, for daring to include an accurate assessment
of Joe Biden's mental decline, because it made them look
bad that they're out campaigning for this guy in a
government report. Not a Republican not a conservative was saying,
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Joe Biden is in deep mental decline. And Adam Schiff
goes after the man personally who wrote the report four
or four remont what.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Is in the rules, mister Hurr.
Speaker 12 (05:20):
What is in the rules is you don't gratuitously do
things to prejudice this subject of an investigation. When you're
declining to prosecute, you don't gratuitously add language that you'll
know will be useful in a political campaign. You were
not born yesterday. You understood exactly what you were doing.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It was a choice.
Speaker 12 (05:41):
You certainly didn't have to include that language. You could
have said visa via the documents that were found in
the university. The president did not recall. There is nothing
more common you know this.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I know this.
Speaker 12 (05:51):
There is nothing more common with a witness of any
age when asked about events that are years old, to
say I do not recall. Indeed, they're instructed by their
attorney to do that if they have any question about it.
You understood that you made a choice that was a
political choice. It was the wrong choice, mister chairman.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
I yield back.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Tumen yields back.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Jennifer Arizona did a special Council wish to respond to
that in final question.
Speaker 13 (06:15):
Yes, Congressman, what you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize,
omit portions of my reasoning and explanation of the Attorney
General for political reasons.
Speaker 12 (06:25):
No, I suggest that you do not shape your poor
for political reasons.
Speaker 13 (06:29):
Would not have a responsemen, that did not happen.
Speaker 11 (06:34):
Well, let's go oddly enough to Van Jones clip number
six thirteen at CNN talking about the cancer, the decline,
all of it.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Of course, this book is extraordinary. I don't care who
you are, left, right or otherwise, anybody who cares about
this country and about just the dynamics of power. This
is the Emperor's new clothes playing itself out in real time.
Everybody knew, but everyone was afraid to say, except for
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Dave David Axelrod for two years, that something was wrong here.
And so you know, yeah, I was shocked. I love
Joe Biden. I don't like him, I love him. I
got a chance to work with him when I was
a part of the Obama administration and loved him more
every day. I was shocked to see his condition when
he came out, and so was the world. And that
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wasn't the first time he was in that condition. The
book makes it very very clear there are people who
knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against
this republic. And I think the Democrats are going to
pay for a long time for being a part of
what is now being revealed to be a massive cover up.
Speaker 11 (07:48):
Why do that, Well, first of all, you're throwing a
bone to your boy, your colleague, Jake Tapper. Secondly, they
are now pushing away from the cancer of the Biden
presidency and all of the shame of the Biden presidency.
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There are people who now see the writing on the
wall and they want to have futures in the media
and politics, and so now they're pushing Joe Biden and
his crew overboards so they.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Can survive Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 11 (08:26):
So well, Lena Hidalgo wants to go to Paris, and
she wants you to pay for it. Since we're going
to be talking about gay Paris, Ramon, can you give
me a music bed for this story? No, not Paris, Texas,
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you goober. She could drive to Paris, Texas Paris friends, Yeah,
there we go. That's decidedly French. I'll take that, Okay,
Lena had Allgo tried to get twenty three thousand, three
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hundred in your taxpayer money so she and a quote
delegation could fly to Paris as Texas scorecards. Joseph Trimmer
reports the vote at Commissioner's Court failed after Lena Quote
attempted to conceal the destination from the public, citing security
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concerns and political vitriol. She can't tell publicly that your
taxpayer money that she's going to use to go to
Paris is for her to go to Paris, because you'll
be angry about it. Therefore, she was going to hide it,
Tremor reports Quote. According to Hudalgo's request, the delegation is
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part of a collaboration between Greater Houston Partnership and RECE
University aimed at promoting economic development and attracting future investment
to the region. The event, scheduled for June eighth through
the fifteenth, is intended to showcase Harris County as a
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hub for innovation and artificial intelligence. Nothing says Harris County's
got it together in innovation and artificial intelligence, like the
comandante sounding like Dora the Explorer with her shaky voice
straight out of the nutbind Hidalgo would lead the delegation. Oh,
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she's going to lead it. Okay, that's great. Take me
to your leader. This is her, sir, and be accompanied
by three county employees once hotel rooms, flights, okay good.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Who would serve as her.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Staff during the trip, Well, yeah, somebody's got to fetch things.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You think this bitch getting.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Up on her own?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Who you think she is?
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Hello? The request comes at a time when the county
is facing significant financial challenges, such as a reported one
hundred and twenty nine million dollar budget deficit. Earlier this month,
hit Algo said in a heated meeting that the county
could not raise sheriff deputy pay despite a twenty four
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thousand dollars per year salary gap with Houston Police Department officers, due.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
To a lack of funds.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
Critics of the proposed trip to France argue that it
sends the wrong message, you think amid the county's current
financial climate. Republican Commissioner Tom Ramsay, a vocal opponent of
the plan, told Texas Scorecard quote, I voted no last time,
and I'm voting no this time. There's no reason to
spend taxpayer dollars for Judge hid allgo and staff to
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go on a junket. If the Greater Houston Partnership wanted
her to go, they should pay for it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Seems reasonable to me.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
Now that the county has rebuffed Lena's trip to Paris,
perhaps she and her husband should try to win a
trip on the wheel gondola ride through.
Speaker 14 (12:30):
Yeah, let's let's check your geography knowledge. What country do
you think we're sending you to Paris?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Friends? Do we still get in? Apparently you know your husband?
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Well, that's sad, that is just sad. Ramon thinks that
Lena wants to be with like minded Jerry Lewis lovers
in Paris. So he has pulled a little Jerry Lewis
and uh Dean Martin stand up. And for my money,
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there's never a bad time for some Jerry Lewis and
Dean Martin stand up.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So fire away, Romon, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
It's time the old time rate to sit down.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
If you had one more head, you can have a
wonderful rock garden you can start at all the time, a.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Lot of terrific.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Crin tub.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And you don't think I'll get dirty? Did you mean
about the guy?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I think that we should do a number.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
La la la la la.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Lorla.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What do you do?
Speaker 13 (13:58):
Drink the labels la la la, Hey.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
With her right down, with baby, Nay everybody, Hey, Hey,
alway the time, my name everybody.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
You know, it's it's funny. Because our audience is very
broad in age, geography, experiences all that. I will invariably
get an email today from somebody else say that that
comedy thing or whatever you thought it was, that was
stupid and it went on too long and it was dumb,
and please.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Don't do that.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
And I'll get ten emails from little old ladies named
Gertrude and Myrtle who will say thank you for playing that.
Jerry Lewis my husband, and I would cackle to Jerry
Lewis and Ian Martin. It was the best darned thing.
It was so increaible. That just brought me back. I
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lost my husband five years ago, and that just brought
me back to a very good time. What might also
bring you back to a very good time? Nineteen sixty two,
and you talk about a cover up, how about the
fact that John F. Kennedy was bunking the same woman
his dad was three months before her death, Marilyn Monroe
made one of her last public appearances at President John F.
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Kennedy's forty fifth birthday celebration on this day in nineteen
sixty two, where she famously and breathlessly sang Happy Birthday,
mister President, in his honor the late Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
To Happy Birthday Aday, mister President. Happy by mister Resident,
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for all the things you've done the battle such as run, Michael.
Speaker 14 (16:27):
Barrison, Michael Varry show.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
A Harris County government that has raised taxes spent us
into a deficit is about to lose on Moss sheriff's deputies.
The pay increase for HPD officers is going to kick
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in and you're going to have share deputies. The entry
level position is a twenty four thousand dollars disparity, and
you're going to have sheriff's deputies jumping ship. Loads of
sheriff's deputies are going to jump ship. HPD is going
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to have the pick of the litter, and Harris County
is going to be short deputies.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
When they already need more.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
You've got you've got the county judge who's handed over
all the administrative office to what a twenty four million
dollar Rodney set up an administrative office so she wouldn't
have to do anything, and she's trying to take trips
to Paris. These junkets need to all be stopped. I
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am a believer that most business travel is absolutely wasteful,
absolutely wasteful when you consider the amount of time and
money lost if you have a productive employee. There are
people who are road warriors, and they have been for
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so long they don't question any of it. It goes
back to my basic premise about meetings. Most meetings are unnecessary.
Do you want to buy my product that I'm selling?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now?
Speaker 11 (18:31):
There is something to be said for a human connection.
I get that, and there are people who make a difference.
But so many meetings that are regularly called scheduled meetings
at the same time every week, and boy, you ought
to see it in the government realm.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It is bad.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
The Houston Galveston Area Council, the Commission on this there
is a standing meeting, and I'm sure you have these
at your offices. I'm company has them every Tuesday morning
at nine o'clock and.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You pull everybody together.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
So let's say the operations, Let's say the CEO or
the head of your office pulls everybody in on whatever
that day is, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of every week, and
they all come in and they say, we need more
sales and more revenues. And you've got all your salesmen
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sitting around in the room going, well, I can't sell
on Tuesday morning because I have to be in this meeting.
And you've got all of this time tied up in
the preparation of the presentations and the listening to the presentations.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And this is.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Every company I've ever seen. Every when they get to
a certain size, you know who doesn't do that. Small
shops lean small shops because the more people you add,
at some point you reach a layer where if a
person died or went missing, it would not affect the operations,
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revenue efficiency, success of the company. And companies grow and
you don't notice you have so much overlap and so
much fat built into them that you end up with
people who really have nothing to do, and they don't
want anybody to know that, so they call meetings, They
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schedule meetings. When I was at city council, I could
not believe the number of meetings that would be held.
Well if there's nothing on the agenda. Nobody can admit
we're not really doing anything here. So they create things
for the meetings, and the meeting lasts. It starts with
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every good, every good, and then you go it a
little bit into the meeting, and then you talk about
what's going to happen in the next meeting. Maybe you
recap what was at the last meeting. It's the most
inefficient thing imaginable.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And I don't know that Zoom meetings are any better.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Remember the old conference calls which turned into the Zoom meeting,
and so you would log in there was the same
I can't remember the name of it all. Some of
you will know it. It looks like a boomerang, except
it's a three pronged like a Chinese star. And they'd
put it in the middle of the conference room and
so your people would be there, and maybe if like
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at a law firm, you'd have other offices and they
would all be all be on there, and so you'd
start it. Now, it's the same thing with Zoom. You
just have a video element and it goes like this,
All right, guys, we got a couple of people missing. Well,
let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Us.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
It's five minutes past. I don't know where Linda is.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (22:01):
And Tom is he out? Guys, you don't know if
he's out this week. Okay, well let's go ahead and
I'm gonna go ahead and get a started.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Okay. Uh, first of all, thank you all for.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Being here, because you know, you need to thank them
because people otherwise the meeting would be over and people
would think, hmm, I don't think he's appreciative that I
was here. Oh no, no, no, he did say thank
you for being here. Okay, So we've thanked everybody for
being here, and okay, all right. In about two minutes
into the presentation, here comes Linda.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Hey, guys, who is it? Is that Linda? Linda you want? Yeah? Hey,
sorry about that?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Who man traffic? And I this is crazy?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (22:38):
Sorry guys, Uh, how are we doing? Yeah, no problem,
let me just catch you up what we've been doing.
So now we spend five minutes catching Linda up, whereupon
Tom shows up.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Who's that? Who's there?
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's Tom? Tom's that you? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (22:55):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Sorry? I sorry. I thought the.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Meeting was at eleven fifteen, not ten. I am so sorry, guys.
I apologize to you go ahead on without me.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I'm here.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I'll catch you up later. No, no, no, just catch
you up on what we're doing. Then we repeat. So
we're thirty forty five minutes into the meeting. We've never
actually accomplished anything. Nothing. Then Sam wants to speak, but
Sam's muted. So Sam is being very animated, and somebody
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they Sam, you're muted.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You got it? Oh okay, Wait.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Nothing gets done on these damn meetings. And I don't
know about you. I don't remember things. It's not Joe
Biden bad. But if I say we're gonna you're deliverables
or Thursday at three o'clock, So why not take the time,
write an email and move on. Almost every phone call
should have been a name.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Of Michael Berry show.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
Well.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Unfortunately we lost him in two thousand and two at
only sixty two years old. But Milton Simms Newberry Junior
was born on this day in nineteen forty. He came
to be known as Mickey Newberry, and he wrote that
song and a number of others. He was mentioned in Lukenbach,
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Texas with the line between Hank Williams Payne songs Newberry's
train songs. He would go on to be the Songwriters
Hall of Fame, arguably, arguably let me not, let me
not get carried away in nineteen sixty eight. At one
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time he had four top five songs across four charts
that had never been done before, and it's never been
done again. It's an incredible, incredible career and another story
of an incredible Houstonian. You know, we've talked about doing
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a Houston Hall of Fame and it should be done.
I mean, it should absolutely be done. There was there
was an effort. I think it stalled a few years ago.
I think the Houston Press may have been behind it,
and Gene Watson was in the inaugural crowd. I have
been sore over the issue of Pete Rose in the
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Hall of Fame for quite some time, and folks that
know me and know how much this mattered to me
thought that I would be happy last week with the
news that Major League Baseball had determined that twenty seven
players who are deceased would be eligible again for Major
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League Baseball since their no longer life shoeless Joe Jackson
being one of them, and of course Pete Rose, which
would mean that Pete Rose could go into the Hall
of Fame as early as twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
And what made me very angry about that.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Is that you're basically saying, we know Pete Rose needs
to be in the Hall of Fame. He has the
most hits all time, the longevity that he displayed. He
is the batter equivalent of Nolan Ryan on the pitching
mount switch hitting, playing, coaching, winning, the intensity of Charlie Hustle.
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What he brought to the game. It is entertainment. It's
important to never forget that it is entertainment. And we
were entertained to answer the Russell quote, question, crow question.
We were entertained. Did he make a mistake, Sure, a
lot of people do. Was he punished? Absolutely? And he
could have been honored. He could have been honored while
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he was still alive. I don't think anybody doubts that
he was punished sufficiently. But the coup de gras is
you wait till the man dies. He's had Trump call
for him to be inducted. He's called in every friendship
with every player he ever knew, from Johnny Bench to
George Foster to you name it. Nope, they won't let
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him in. He lives a full, long life, obsessed with
getting in the Hall of Fame. It meant the world
to him.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He lived for baseball.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
He said one time that he would walk through Hell
in a gasoline suit to play baseball. He loved the game,
and not until he's dead could his accomplishments be honored
in the Hall of Fame. So the statement is very clear.
We all want to enjoy honoring your body of work.
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We just want to make sure that you don't enjoy
that moment that.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Everybody else us.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
So we will benefit from your career because there'll be
a resurgence of interest in the Hall of Fame. There
will be a resurgence of interest in Cincinnati Red's lore
in baseball from particularly the seventies, and we all want
to benefit from that which they will. Dollars will be made,
glory will be had. We just don't want you in
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any way to get to enjoy a moment of the
reminiscence of your career. We have to wait until you're
dead for all of us to do that. And I
made a statement that these halls of fame are made
up with the kind of people who themselves would never
be in a Hall of fame, whether that's people in
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an industry who see themselves as the gatekeeper of their
little industry or their little industry Hall of fame all
the way up to professional sports. I mean the Country
Music Hall of Fame. Let's Williams Junior in for this year.
So I talked about the fact that that's wrong. I mean,
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he's one of the all time greats. Leaving aside his
name and who his father was, it's one of the
all time greats. Chart success, influence, pop culture influence, musical influence,
the style he brought to music and how it moved forward,
his importance to the genre, his longevity as a performer, singer, entertainer,
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all of that, all of that makes him a first
ballot Hall of Famer, up there with anyone who up there,
just behind the George Joneses and the Merle Haggards, especially
because he wrote all his own stuff and he wrote
stuff that other people covered. So I was talking about
that years ago, and we were pushing that he should
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be in, he should be and he should be in.
And I got emails from people in the industry in
Nashville and they said, Hey, just so you know, you
can waste you can save your time. You're wasting your energy.
Hank Waves Junior is not in the Hall of Fame
because he's an ass. Has nothing to do with chart
success or popularity or longevity. Everybody knows he would be
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in on that basis. He's an ass. And I hear
people say this all the time. I had a email
me over the weekend lay off the Pete Rose thing.
He was a really really bad guy. He was an
unpleasant person. Do you go to any hall of fame
and walk in the door and go, yep, there's old
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so and so. He was a really nice guy, really nice.
Oh and there's old so and so he was really
nice too. You don't know if some famous person is
nice or isn't nice. You only know if you have
an interaction and they don't sign an autograph because they're
not in a good mood, or they had a divorce
and you don't know what went on behind closed doors.
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The point is that these halls of fame don't recognize
the greatest contributor to their art, sport, entertainment. They recognize
what a few chosen gatekeeper choose to do. This is
like at the livestock showing rodeo barbecue tent. The guys
who have the tents, and they like to make a
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big deal that nobody can get in their tent, and
then they invite you because you're supposed to be because
it's more exclusive.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That seems silly, doesn't it.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
I mean, some of the best tents out there have
no security outfront, and people walk in and out and
they're welcoming people, and that's the spirit of the rodeo.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Mister President, you are the oldest president ever, pretty good shape,
which leads to my next question. You are more aware
of this than anyone. Some people ask whether you are
fit for the job, and when you hear that, I
wonder what you think?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Watch me.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden
is preparing for it, because he is sharp, intensely probing,
and detail oriented and focused.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How would you say your mental focus is?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's focused? The best way to get something done.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
If you holds near and dear to you that you
like to be able.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
To anyway, I.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Won't bid the news that if it build is getting you. Boy,
you just keep on you let me?
Speaker 7 (01:14):
Do you use me? U?
Speaker 8 (01:20):
Do you use me?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
To start your tape right now?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Because I'm about to tell you the truth and f
you if you can't handle the truth.
Speaker 9 (01:30):
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close sucking and I've known him.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
For years, the Presents have known him for fifty years.
If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Of Putin's cryptocerca.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, America is a nation that can be defined in
a single word. I was gonna put him to put
Los Angeles and uh and uh uh I want.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I join here, I said, rather if your own and
do you wish that you were in mass You who
just keep.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
On you let me.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Until you give me a.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Until you here's what drives the driver in the states
that are affected. Here's what that you can do the drivers.
We haven't been able to communicate it in a way
that is uhmt me say another way.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The doughters have all gone away.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
It's it's really incumbent on people that are around Joe
Biden to step up at this point and and and
help the president and help the man they love and
do the right thing. This is not going to This
is not going to end well. If it continues to
(03:05):
drag out, I won't spend.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The news and it deal is good getting you you
just keep on you let me.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you use me?
Speaker 11 (03:21):
As part of the governmental investigation into Joe Biden's crimes,
which included, but were not limited to, Hunter Biden being
the bag man and kicking ten percent up to the
man above. Remember all this Tony Bobby Lensky. All of
this is out there. People forget because there were so
many things that happened when Her did the report. The
(03:44):
conclusion was that Joe Biden had committed a number of
crimes and.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Should be charged.
Speaker 11 (03:50):
However, that he did not recommend bringing charges because the
president was unfit.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
To stand trial.
Speaker 11 (04:00):
And all of this came out long before he announced
he was stepping out of the race. He was still
running for president. So Democrats were saying, in one breath, Hey,
her didn't recommend charges, so Biden's been cleared. That was
their narrative. Her did not recommend that charges be brought.
(04:23):
And technically what her said was he committed crimes, but
there's no point in prosecuting him. They took that and
then told the public, who isn't going to read the report,
no point in bringing to no. No, they said not
to bring charges. Well, Adam Schiff from California made it
(04:46):
his business to rage at Robert Herr, a government official
doing his job, for daring to include an accurate assessment
of Joe Biden's mental decline, because it made them look
bad that they're out campaigning for this guy in a
government report. Not a Republican not a conservative was saying,
(05:09):
Joe Biden is in deep mental decline. And Adam Schiff
goes after the man personally who wrote the report four
or four remont what.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Is in the rules, mister Hurr.
Speaker 12 (05:20):
What is in the rules is you don't gratuitously do
things to prejudice this subject of an investigation. When you're
declining to prosecute, you don't gratuitously add language that you'll
know will be useful in a political campaign. You were
not born yesterday. You understood exactly what you were doing.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It was a choice.
Speaker 12 (05:41):
You certainly didn't have to include that language. You could
have said visa via the documents that were found in
the university. The president did not recall. There is nothing
more common you know this.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I know this.
Speaker 12 (05:51):
There is nothing more common with a witness of any
age when asked about events that are years old, to
say I do not recall. Indeed, they're instructed by their
attorney to do that if they have any question about it.
You understood that you made a choice that was a
political choice. It was the wrong choice, mister chairman.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
I yield back.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Tumen yields back.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Jennifer Arizona did a special Council wish to respond to
that in final question.
Speaker 13 (06:15):
Yes, Congressman, what you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize,
omit portions of my reasoning and explanation of the Attorney
General for political reasons.
Speaker 12 (06:25):
No, I suggest that you do not shape your poor
for political reasons.
Speaker 13 (06:29):
Would not have a responsemen, that did not happen.
Speaker 11 (06:34):
Well, let's go oddly enough to Van Jones clip number
six thirteen at CNN talking about the cancer, the decline,
all of it.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Of course, this book is extraordinary. I don't care who
you are, left, right or otherwise, anybody who cares about
this country and about just the dynamics of power. This
is the Emperor's new clothes playing itself out in real time.
Everybody knew, but everyone was afraid to say, except for
(07:08):
Dave David Axelrod for two years, that something was wrong here.
And so you know, yeah, I was shocked. I love
Joe Biden. I don't like him, I love him. I
got a chance to work with him when I was
a part of the Obama administration and loved him more
every day. I was shocked to see his condition when
he came out, and so was the world. And that
(07:28):
wasn't the first time he was in that condition. The
book makes it very very clear there are people who
knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against
this republic. And I think the Democrats are going to
pay for a long time for being a part of
what is now being revealed to be a massive cover up.
Speaker 11 (07:48):
Why do that, Well, first of all, you're throwing a
bone to your boy, your colleague, Jake Tapper. Secondly, they
are now pushing away from the cancer of the Biden
presidency and all of the shame of the Biden presidency.
(08:09):
There are people who now see the writing on the
wall and they want to have futures in the media
and politics, and so now they're pushing Joe Biden and
his crew overboards so they.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Can survive Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 11 (08:26):
So well, Lena Hidalgo wants to go to Paris, and
she wants you to pay for it. Since we're going
to be talking about gay Paris, Ramon, can you give
me a music bed for this story? No, not Paris, Texas,
(08:53):
you goober. She could drive to Paris, Texas Paris friends, Yeah,
there we go. That's decidedly French. I'll take that, Okay,
Lena had Allgo tried to get twenty three thousand, three
(09:15):
hundred in your taxpayer money so she and a quote
delegation could fly to Paris as Texas scorecards. Joseph Trimmer
reports the vote at Commissioner's Court failed after Lena Quote
attempted to conceal the destination from the public, citing security
(09:41):
concerns and political vitriol. She can't tell publicly that your
taxpayer money that she's going to use to go to
Paris is for her to go to Paris, because you'll
be angry about it. Therefore, she was going to hide it,
Tremor reports Quote. According to Hudalgo's request, the delegation is
(10:05):
part of a collaboration between Greater Houston Partnership and RECE
University aimed at promoting economic development and attracting future investment
to the region. The event, scheduled for June eighth through
the fifteenth, is intended to showcase Harris County as a
(10:26):
hub for innovation and artificial intelligence. Nothing says Harris County's
got it together in innovation and artificial intelligence, like the
comandante sounding like Dora the Explorer with her shaky voice
straight out of the nutbind Hidalgo would lead the delegation. Oh,
(10:51):
she's going to lead it. Okay, that's great. Take me
to your leader. This is her, sir, and be accompanied
by three county employees once hotel rooms, flights, okay good.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Who would serve as her.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Staff during the trip, Well, yeah, somebody's got to fetch things.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You think this bitch getting.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Up on her own?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Who you think she is?
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Hello? The request comes at a time when the county
is facing significant financial challenges, such as a reported one
hundred and twenty nine million dollar budget deficit. Earlier this month,
hit Algo said in a heated meeting that the county
could not raise sheriff deputy pay despite a twenty four
(11:36):
thousand dollars per year salary gap with Houston Police Department officers, due.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
To a lack of funds.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
Critics of the proposed trip to France argue that it
sends the wrong message, you think amid the county's current
financial climate. Republican Commissioner Tom Ramsay, a vocal opponent of
the plan, told Texas Scorecard quote, I voted no last time,
and I'm voting no this time. There's no reason to
spend taxpayer dollars for Judge hid allgo and staff to
(12:07):
go on a junket. If the Greater Houston Partnership wanted
her to go, they should pay for it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Seems reasonable to me.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
Now that the county has rebuffed Lena's trip to Paris,
perhaps she and her husband should try to win a
trip on the wheel gondola ride through.
Speaker 14 (12:30):
Yeah, let's let's check your geography knowledge. What country do
you think we're sending you to Paris?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Friends? Do we still get in? Apparently you know your husband?
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Well, that's sad, that is just sad. Ramon thinks that
Lena wants to be with like minded Jerry Lewis lovers
in Paris. So he has pulled a little Jerry Lewis
and uh Dean Martin stand up. And for my money,
(13:19):
there's never a bad time for some Jerry Lewis and
Dean Martin stand up.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So fire away, Romon, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
It's time the old time rate to sit down.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
If you had one more head, you can have a
wonderful rock garden you can start at all the time, a.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Lot of terrific.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Crin tub.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And you don't think I'll get dirty? Did you mean
about the guy?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I think that we should do a number.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
La la la la la.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Lorla.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What do you do?
Speaker 13 (13:58):
Drink the labels la la la, Hey.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
With her right down, with baby, Nay everybody, Hey, Hey,
alway the time, my name everybody.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
You know, it's it's funny. Because our audience is very
broad in age, geography, experiences all that. I will invariably
get an email today from somebody else say that that
comedy thing or whatever you thought it was, that was
stupid and it went on too long and it was dumb,
and please.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Don't do that.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
And I'll get ten emails from little old ladies named
Gertrude and Myrtle who will say thank you for playing that.
Jerry Lewis my husband, and I would cackle to Jerry
Lewis and Ian Martin. It was the best darned thing.
It was so increaible. That just brought me back. I
(15:06):
lost my husband five years ago, and that just brought
me back to a very good time. What might also
bring you back to a very good time? Nineteen sixty two,
and you talk about a cover up, how about the
fact that John F. Kennedy was bunking the same woman
his dad was three months before her death, Marilyn Monroe
made one of her last public appearances at President John F.
(15:30):
Kennedy's forty fifth birthday celebration on this day in nineteen
sixty two, where she famously and breathlessly sang Happy Birthday,
mister President, in his honor the late Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
To Happy Birthday Aday, mister President. Happy by mister Resident,
(16:20):
for all the things you've done the battle such as run, Michael.
Speaker 14 (16:27):
Barrison, Michael Varry show.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
A Harris County government that has raised taxes spent us
into a deficit is about to lose on Moss sheriff's deputies.
The pay increase for HPD officers is going to kick
(16:57):
in and you're going to have share deputies. The entry
level position is a twenty four thousand dollars disparity, and
you're going to have sheriff's deputies jumping ship. Loads of
sheriff's deputies are going to jump ship. HPD is going
(17:18):
to have the pick of the litter, and Harris County
is going to be short deputies.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
When they already need more.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
You've got you've got the county judge who's handed over
all the administrative office to what a twenty four million
dollar Rodney set up an administrative office so she wouldn't
have to do anything, and she's trying to take trips
to Paris. These junkets need to all be stopped. I
(17:53):
am a believer that most business travel is absolutely wasteful,
absolutely wasteful when you consider the amount of time and
money lost if you have a productive employee. There are
people who are road warriors, and they have been for
(18:17):
so long they don't question any of it. It goes
back to my basic premise about meetings. Most meetings are unnecessary.
Do you want to buy my product that I'm selling?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now?
Speaker 11 (18:31):
There is something to be said for a human connection.
I get that, and there are people who make a difference.
But so many meetings that are regularly called scheduled meetings
at the same time every week, and boy, you ought
to see it in the government realm.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It is bad.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
The Houston Galveston Area Council, the Commission on this there
is a standing meeting, and I'm sure you have these
at your offices. I'm company has them every Tuesday morning
at nine o'clock and.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You pull everybody together.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
So let's say the operations, Let's say the CEO or
the head of your office pulls everybody in on whatever
that day is, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of every week, and
they all come in and they say, we need more
sales and more revenues. And you've got all your salesmen
(19:32):
sitting around in the room going, well, I can't sell
on Tuesday morning because I have to be in this meeting.
And you've got all of this time tied up in
the preparation of the presentations and the listening to the presentations.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And this is.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Every company I've ever seen. Every when they get to
a certain size, you know who doesn't do that. Small
shops lean small shops because the more people you add,
at some point you reach a layer where if a
person died or went missing, it would not affect the operations,
(20:19):
revenue efficiency, success of the company. And companies grow and
you don't notice you have so much overlap and so
much fat built into them that you end up with
people who really have nothing to do, and they don't
want anybody to know that, so they call meetings, They
(20:39):
schedule meetings. When I was at city council, I could
not believe the number of meetings that would be held.
Well if there's nothing on the agenda. Nobody can admit
we're not really doing anything here. So they create things
for the meetings, and the meeting lasts. It starts with
(21:02):
every good, every good, and then you go it a
little bit into the meeting, and then you talk about
what's going to happen in the next meeting. Maybe you
recap what was at the last meeting. It's the most
inefficient thing imaginable.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
And I don't know that Zoom meetings are any better.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Remember the old conference calls which turned into the Zoom meeting,
and so you would log in there was the same
I can't remember the name of it all. Some of
you will know it. It looks like a boomerang, except
it's a three pronged like a Chinese star. And they'd
put it in the middle of the conference room and
so your people would be there, and maybe if like
(21:41):
at a law firm, you'd have other offices and they
would all be all be on there, and so you'd
start it. Now, it's the same thing with Zoom. You
just have a video element and it goes like this,
All right, guys, we got a couple of people missing. Well,
let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Us.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
It's five minutes past. I don't know where Linda is.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (22:01):
And Tom is he out? Guys, you don't know if
he's out this week. Okay, well let's go ahead and
I'm gonna go ahead and get a started.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Okay. Uh, first of all, thank you all for.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Being here, because you know, you need to thank them
because people otherwise the meeting would be over and people
would think, hmm, I don't think he's appreciative that I
was here. Oh no, no, no, he did say thank
you for being here. Okay, So we've thanked everybody for
being here, and okay, all right. In about two minutes
into the presentation, here comes Linda.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Hey, guys, who is it? Is that Linda? Linda you want? Yeah? Hey,
sorry about that?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Who man traffic? And I this is crazy?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (22:38):
Sorry guys, Uh, how are we doing? Yeah, no problem,
let me just catch you up what we've been doing.
So now we spend five minutes catching Linda up, whereupon
Tom shows up.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Who's that? Who's there?
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's Tom? Tom's that you? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (22:55):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Sorry? I sorry. I thought the.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Meeting was at eleven fifteen, not ten. I am so sorry, guys.
I apologize to you go ahead on without me.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I'm here.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I'll catch you up later. No, no, no, just catch
you up on what we're doing. Then we repeat. So
we're thirty forty five minutes into the meeting. We've never
actually accomplished anything. Nothing. Then Sam wants to speak, but
Sam's muted. So Sam is being very animated, and somebody
(23:27):
they Sam, you're muted.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You got it? Oh okay, Wait.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Nothing gets done on these damn meetings. And I don't
know about you. I don't remember things. It's not Joe
Biden bad. But if I say we're gonna you're deliverables
or Thursday at three o'clock, So why not take the time,
write an email and move on. Almost every phone call
should have been a name.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Of Michael Berry show.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
Well.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Unfortunately we lost him in two thousand and two at
only sixty two years old. But Milton Simms Newberry Junior
was born on this day in nineteen forty. He came
to be known as Mickey Newberry, and he wrote that
song and a number of others. He was mentioned in Lukenbach,
(24:22):
Texas with the line between Hank Williams Payne songs Newberry's
train songs. He would go on to be the Songwriters
Hall of Fame, arguably, arguably let me not, let me
not get carried away in nineteen sixty eight. At one
(24:45):
time he had four top five songs across four charts
that had never been done before, and it's never been
done again. It's an incredible, incredible career and another story
of an incredible Houstonian. You know, we've talked about doing
(25:06):
a Houston Hall of Fame and it should be done.
I mean, it should absolutely be done. There was there
was an effort. I think it stalled a few years ago.
I think the Houston Press may have been behind it,
and Gene Watson was in the inaugural crowd. I have
been sore over the issue of Pete Rose in the
(25:29):
Hall of Fame for quite some time, and folks that
know me and know how much this mattered to me
thought that I would be happy last week with the
news that Major League Baseball had determined that twenty seven
players who are deceased would be eligible again for Major
(25:50):
League Baseball since their no longer life shoeless Joe Jackson
being one of them, and of course Pete Rose, which
would mean that Pete Rose could go into the Hall
of Fame as early as twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
And what made me very angry about that.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Is that you're basically saying, we know Pete Rose needs
to be in the Hall of Fame. He has the
most hits all time, the longevity that he displayed. He
is the batter equivalent of Nolan Ryan on the pitching
mount switch hitting, playing, coaching, winning, the intensity of Charlie Hustle.
(26:31):
What he brought to the game. It is entertainment. It's
important to never forget that it is entertainment. And we
were entertained to answer the Russell quote, question, crow question.
We were entertained. Did he make a mistake, Sure, a
lot of people do. Was he punished? Absolutely? And he
could have been honored. He could have been honored while
(26:54):
he was still alive. I don't think anybody doubts that
he was punished sufficiently. But the coup de gras is
you wait till the man dies. He's had Trump call
for him to be inducted. He's called in every friendship
with every player he ever knew, from Johnny Bench to
George Foster to you name it. Nope, they won't let
(27:18):
him in. He lives a full, long life, obsessed with
getting in the Hall of Fame. It meant the world
to him.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He lived for baseball.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
He said one time that he would walk through Hell
in a gasoline suit to play baseball. He loved the game,
and not until he's dead could his accomplishments be honored
in the Hall of Fame. So the statement is very clear.
We all want to enjoy honoring your body of work.
(27:53):
We just want to make sure that you don't enjoy
that moment that.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Everybody else us.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
So we will benefit from your career because there'll be
a resurgence of interest in the Hall of Fame. There
will be a resurgence of interest in Cincinnati Red's lore
in baseball from particularly the seventies, and we all want
to benefit from that which they will. Dollars will be made,
glory will be had. We just don't want you in
(28:22):
any way to get to enjoy a moment of the
reminiscence of your career. We have to wait until you're
dead for all of us to do that. And I
made a statement that these halls of fame are made
up with the kind of people who themselves would never
be in a Hall of fame, whether that's people in
(28:45):
an industry who see themselves as the gatekeeper of their
little industry or their little industry Hall of fame all
the way up to professional sports. I mean the Country
Music Hall of Fame. Let's Williams Junior in for this year.
So I talked about the fact that that's wrong. I mean,
(29:07):
he's one of the all time greats. Leaving aside his
name and who his father was, it's one of the
all time greats. Chart success, influence, pop culture influence, musical influence,
the style he brought to music and how it moved forward,
his importance to the genre, his longevity as a performer, singer, entertainer,
(29:32):
all of that, all of that makes him a first
ballot Hall of Famer, up there with anyone who up there,
just behind the George Joneses and the Merle Haggards, especially
because he wrote all his own stuff and he wrote
stuff that other people covered. So I was talking about
that years ago, and we were pushing that he should
(29:52):
be in, he should be and he should be in.
And I got emails from people in the industry in
Nashville and they said, Hey, just so you know, you
can waste you can save your time. You're wasting your energy.
Hank Waves Junior is not in the Hall of Fame
because he's an ass. Has nothing to do with chart
success or popularity or longevity. Everybody knows he would be
(30:14):
in on that basis. He's an ass. And I hear
people say this all the time. I had a email
me over the weekend lay off the Pete Rose thing.
He was a really really bad guy. He was an
unpleasant person. Do you go to any hall of fame
and walk in the door and go, yep, there's old
(30:36):
so and so. He was a really nice guy, really nice.
Oh and there's old so and so he was really
nice too. You don't know if some famous person is
nice or isn't nice. You only know if you have
an interaction and they don't sign an autograph because they're
not in a good mood, or they had a divorce
and you don't know what went on behind closed doors.
(30:59):
The point is that these halls of fame don't recognize
the greatest contributor to their art, sport, entertainment. They recognize
what a few chosen gatekeeper choose to do. This is
like at the livestock showing rodeo barbecue tent. The guys
who have the tents, and they like to make a
(31:19):
big deal that nobody can get in their tent, and
then they invite you because you're supposed to be because
it's more exclusive.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That seems silly, doesn't it.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
I mean, some of the best tents out there have
no security outfront, and people walk in and out and
they're welcoming people, and that's the spirit of the rodeo.
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