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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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It's Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show.
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Pity I was you to find it.
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This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning,
gild morning, Michael, Daddy.
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Good more Excess.
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Listen to this good morning, Excess.
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Morning your car.
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Good morning, Texas is.
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On this day and we're happy here to talk about everything.
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Good morning. We're not wearing that.
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Good Morty, good Lady, Good Laurie, good morning. Wake unsteact god.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Damn good morning. Actor George Went, best known for playing
Norm Peterson, one of the most beloved sitcom characters of
all time, passed away yesterday morning at the age of
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seventy six, peacefully in his sleep, while at home, surrounded
by family. Born in Chicago in nineteen forty eight, speaking
of Chicago, one of the all time, he was part
of one of the all time great SNL sketches about
dub Bears.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Oh, my friends, they welcome to another edition of super Fans.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And bab Florsky.
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And I want to thank everyone for sending those cards
to my brother Bill, who recently had another heart attack.
We are coming to you live from Dicka's here on
Thanksgiving Day, a day for giving, thanks for, or taking
punishment from a team that is known as Stop Bears.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Spars one of nine children. You don't see big families
like that any more, Romon, at least not white people.
Did you know that his sister, Catherine is the mother
of actor and comedian Jason Sedakis of Where the Miller's
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snl and the insanely popular There for a little while
till it jumped to Shark ted Lasso. George went flunked
out of Notre Dame, worked at his father's real estate
office before graduating from Rockhurst College in nineteen seventy four.
He trained in comedy at the legendary Chicago's The Second
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City Theater, which would birth greats such as Bill Murray, Danakroyd,
John Belushi, Mike Myers, and many many more. He said
that he was terrible at improvisational comedy. Quote for somebody
who made a living at it for six years, I'm
probably the worst improviser of all time. It seems odd.
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Maybe he's just very hard on himself. But the meat
of his success, for which he will be most Remembered
was one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Cheers
as Norman Peterson, the lovable, overweight, beer loving barfly, six immynominations,
and the king of one liners. Here is a best
of of his intros.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Everybody, what do you know?
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Not enough?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I'm doing m cut the small dug and give me
a beer. How's life drinking?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
You?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Norm?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It just ran over its dog.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Have hear anybody.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Joan stout your taps? Anybody? I was treating your nom
He caught me in bed with his wife. Everybody was screamage, coach.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
You what's it going mom? That's rich and mama good looking? Anybody?
Oh my nipples, it's freezing out there.
Speaker 10 (04:41):
Anybody, I'm sorry? All thirsty bar everybody put out to
your arm my ears? Oh mom, Science is seeking a
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cure for thirst. I happened to be the guinea pig.
Have anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Going on?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Well?
Speaker 10 (05:12):
I am gonna need something to kill time before my
second beer?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
How about the first one? The sports fans.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Want to be on fame? Fortune fast women, how about
a beer?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Even better?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Coach on top of the world. It's a dismal spot
in Greenwood.
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Women.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You can't live with them past the beer nuts.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
That's having a normal that's a doggy dog world, Sammy,
and I'm Martin milktone underwear one.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, you know, I never watched that.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I mean I've seen I've seen a scene here and
there that's a famous scene. But I was not a
loyal Did you watch it? You never saw it either.
I couldn't even tell you what night it aired. But
I didn't watch Seinfeld. I didn't watch The Sopranos. I
didn't watch not because it's some great statement on my behalf.
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I just don't typically, and have really not in a
very long time, watched what is called appointment viewing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I just haven't done it much.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
A newsletter I follow called Hurd on the Street, John
Sindrow starts this morning's newsletter with the following, whether tariffs
will stoke inflation may be the most important question in
financial markets right now. To answer it, listen to the
one setting the prices. On Tuesday. Home Depot maintain its
full twenty twenty five outlook while claiming it will not
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pass on higher import costs to consumers. Yet other retailers,
including Walmart will. There'll be earnings reports today from Target
lows and TJX. In a recent report, fact Set highlighted
that over four hundred companies S and P five hundred
mentioned terriffs in first quarter earnings calls. But in fairness
to the author, he then says, this says little about
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corporate behavior. What else are executives supposed to talk about?
But it is notable that more firms than ever in
the past decade are discussing price haggling with suppliers. Within
the broader S and P composite fifteen hundred index, forty
companies have mentioned supplier negotiation or cost sharing since April.
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This is a small group, but it's well above average.
But then as you come down, he says, this is
indeed the approach to mitigating tariff impacts that is rising
the most in popularity. Morgan Stanley researchers found that analyzing
earnings call transcripts using large language models, and what they're
talking about here is what came to be known as
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excuse flation after the COVID hoax, where prices rise because
firms use other people's pricing to decisions to justify their own.
In other words, well we're sorry, we're raising prices. How
Commune of the pandemic, but it had nothing to do
with it. Yeah, yeah, pandemic and that's what you're going
to see a lot of people using this as an
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excuse to raise prices. Harris County precinct for Constable is
Mark Herman. One of his constable's deputies arrested a couple
for getting busy in the pool of an apartment complex
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in Spring in front of the kids.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Last Saturday, a deputy.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
From Constable Mark Herman's office responded to a call an
apartment complex on Spring Plaza Drive following reports of a
couple involved in a sexual act at the community pool.
According to a social media post from Constable Herman's office,
the couple, identified as Nickel Dedrick and Ariel Sims were
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promptly located by the responding officer.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
How do you think he found them, Ramon?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Was it the cries of oh, I'll venture over there,
Oh okay, yeah, getting closer, getting closer.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I hope they don't finish too early.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
In the aftermath of the incident, both Dedric and Sims
were taken into custody. Quote Nicholas Dedrick and Ariel Sims
were arrested and booked into the Harris County Jail for
public lewdness. The Constable's office stated the couple's bonds were
set at one hundred dollars each by County Court number nine.
That means ten dollars and you can get out. They
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may pay the full, they may put up the full bond.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who knows.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I wonder if they put them in the backseat of
the same car that they hauled him in, or they
separated him into two different You never know, you know,
because they were in flagrante de licto at the time
the officer showed up.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You don't know if if they might be trying well.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
The Houston Housing Authority one of the most scandalous organizations
in the region. And it happened right underneath Sylvester Turner's
nose or was he involved? Houston Housing Authority Board releases
executive summary of the investigation. They hired an outside law
firm to conduct on former president and CEO David Northern.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You remember David Northern.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Kprctv's Amy Davis previously reported that Northern hired friends from
out of state, remember the rapper from Chicago with no
experience to install AC window units, lots of them for
a lot of money. Investigators revealed that that project went
three point one million dollars over budget and despite it
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not even being finished, the contractors were paid. Wonderful report
by Amy Davis, who does those for KPRCTV, so they
just released yesterday.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
We've got to be honest. There are no major surprises,
but its confirmation of what we reported last November. Hha's
board chairman, though, says getting this independent third party review
is important to make sure that the board understands what
went wrong so it won't happen again. So the summary
reveals the project to install window units at three housing
projects in twenty twenty three went three point one million
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dollars over budget because of mismanagement, inexperienced and unqualified contractors,
and a lack of oversight. It found contractors were paid
for work that has not been completed even to this day.
The Columbia Tap Trail project to connect to Cuny homes
with the walking trail left residents without tables, benches, and
lighting that contractors were paid in full to install.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
We were not the board who approved or oversaw either
of these projects.
Speaker 12 (11:50):
The investigation has proved been extremely helpful to our new
president and his new leadership team who have embraced the
opportunity to strengthen our in Toronto processes.
Speaker 11 (12:02):
Now, former HJA President David Northern resigned last year in
exchange for agreement that the board would not investigate or
reveal any wrongdoing by him. He is now the president
and CEO of the Housing Authority in Flint, Michigan. So
we wanted to know how much HHA spent on this
third party investigation. We did ask for those payments to
the law firm and they revealed we paid a little
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more than twenty four thousand dollars for this investigation, which
took him a couple of months to complete.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
So he said, hey, guys, I'll leave because y'all know
I've been stealing money and funneling a bunch of it
through my buddies.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I brought here to do work that they never did.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I'll leave, but only if you agree nobody can know
the crimes I committed here. We cool, We cool, y'all cool,
y'all go, y'all, Okay, we coop. Okay, what are you
gonna do, David? I'm going to Flint, Michigan to do
the same damn thing again. It's not a bad thing
to be a black man in America today. No, sir,
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we're not asking any questions. Meanwhile, Sheila Jackson Lee building
named this week. We got the Semester Turner Building coming
this week, and I guarantee you they both had their
fingers in those pists. I will run tee it. You
just watch and see. Fox twenty six is Randy Wallace.
Since twenty twenty two, magistrates have given PR bonds that's
a personal reconnisance bond, that's sign and go to more
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than twenty eight thousand defendants charged with felonies, some with
extensive criminal records. These are the people that are coming
out to get you and your family. Fox twenty six
with us.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Personal reconnais bons. I'm then for first time offenders and
low level misdemeanors, but we found career criminals and even
a registered sex offender being granted.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Numerous PR bonds.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Sixty two year old Nathaniel Cornell Barnes's leafy criminal history
dates back to nineteen eighty nine, but that didn't stop
a magistrate from granting him five PR bonds or get
out of jail free cards.
Speaker 13 (14:03):
You've already been given five PR bonds. Guess what, he
didn't show up the court. Now he's a wanted fugitive.
This is absurd.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
In just a month of March alone, Mario Garza, President,
a professional bondsman of Harris County, says magistrates granted more
than fifteen hundred defendants PR bonds, some.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Of them with extensive records that you would think finality
would be qualifying for those, but they are.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
You're talking about people that six and more bonds and
they've got PR bonds.
Speaker 14 (14:33):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Yes, you have found instances where defendants have PR bonds
for their third dw R.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yes, and that's a felony.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Since twenty twenty two, magistrates have given PR bonds to
more than twenty eight thousand defendants charged with felonies.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
What was more disturbing was a list that I got
here showing some of them had six PR bonds given sixty.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
One year old Troy Carter.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
He's been in and out of prison since nineteen eighty five,
yet he's still free from jail on his sixth fellony
PR bond. His maythy criminal history or being a registered
sex offender didn't stop fifty seven year old Lewis Abney
from getting six PR bonds.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He was given two more PR bonds, so he's right
back out.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
And this was actually by the actual district court job
that gave him the PR bond, not a magistrate, which
is even more disturbing.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
The judge who granted Abbney PR bonds two hundred and
thirty second Judge Josh Hill. A bill the governor is
expected to sign into law will stop magistrates from granting
PR Bondoom.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
The Michael Berry fucking who had been shoosmobile escaped from
the ordinary. We're not going to get property tax reform.
And that's the number one thing people care about in
the state of Texas. So for two years nothing will
be done about it. And the reason is I hear
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from people. We got to change to this cond of
taxt We gotta change this contax. You can put a
tax on how many miles you walk. You can put
a tax on how how many hours a day you're awake.
You can put a tax on gasoline. You can put
a tax on the number of trees. You can put
a tax in the number of days we have sunlight.
It does not matter. That number has to add up
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to how much they are spending. And as long as
you're trying to figure out how you're gonna scramble. Are
we gonna are we look in the sofa cushions, or
we're gonna go to the bank, or we're gonna look
in the ash tray if you still have one in
your vehicle, or we're gonna open our pockets or maybe
in our wallet.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It doesn't matter. You're going to pay. There's no way
around that.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
You're going to pay because the spending is out of
control and nothing's been done to the spending and nothing
will be done to the spending. We'll talk about shifting
the burdens. There will be a lot of talk about
shifting the burdens. Oh, we'll give veterans a tax break, great, okay,
but that just means you raise the taxes on other people.
We'll give the elderly attax break because they all vote. Okay, great,
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but again, that means you're shifting a tax burden.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
You can.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
All of those things are very popular. We'll say that, uh,
left handed people won't pay taxes because left handed pep okay, Well,
then the right handed people are all gonna have to
pay more in taxes to get there. Do we all
understand that, because for all the effort in the chest
puffy on. You know, we're gonna give veterans this, we're
gonna give disabled people this, we're gonna give senior citizens this.
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All that's fine, but you did not change the P
and L statement. You did not change the balance sheet,
and they won't and they won't understand that they won't.
So you got people out here suffering. We had that
conversation about Galveson and people who have a second home
down there Galliston appraisals, apparently through the roof. It's heresay.
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I haven't looked at the data, only what I hear,
but people are extremely frustrated. They're being priced out of
their house. You pay for something, you pay it off,
and yet you're still every month, I mean every year,
you're paying this massive amount of money in taxes relative
to what you paid for that house. It's extraordinarily frustrating
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for people, extraordinarily frustrated. I overall commend the work that
the Lieutenant Governor who presides over the Senate has done.
I do good bills coming out of the Senate. But
there is a bill I disagree on, and that's okay.
You can make of this whatever you want. I just
simply disagree, and I'm going to throw the phones open
for your thoughts on it. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick wants
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a special session if his push to ban consumable hemp
with THCHC fails. And now we're getting the THCHC is
being sold to school children across the country. I'm sorry
across Texas. And you know kids are also smoking cigarettes
and drinking alcohol and having sex. When people say to me,
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we need to make something illegal for adults because some
kids are doing it, no, that's not the answer. That's
not how you do that. We don't let kids drive,
we don't let them smoke, we don't let them consume alcohol.
There are a lot of things don't We don't let
them vote, so we don't all of a sudden find
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out that they are doing it. If someone is selling
this product to children, prosecute them. Don't say that adults
can't do it. We also don't want kids taking vicarin
xanax or anything else. So if somebody is selling it
to them, deal with the person selling it to them.
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This is not how you solve problems. Here's Lieutenant Governor
Dan Patrick.
Speaker 15 (19:54):
Many of you are concerned about THC. How's being sold
to school children all across Texas. This is poisonous THC,
no regulations whatsoever, No one knows what's in it, and
it's more powerful, as you'll hear a little bit later
in this video than what you could buy from a
drug dealer on the street.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Look at this map.
Speaker 15 (20:13):
Just in the last three years, over eight thousand plus
smoke shops and vape shops have opened up in Texas.
It's now an eight billion dollar industry. And where did
they open up? Within one thousand to two thousand feet
of schools. They're poisoning our children and we must ban THHC.
We can't regulate it. We don't have enough police to
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check every store when they're eight to nine thousand of them.
And to put this in perspective, we only have eleven
hundred McDonald's in the state of Texas, thirteen hundred Starbucks
in the state of Texas, so they're eight times more
smoke shops selling this poison.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
First of all, I don't think it's a poison I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I think that is an outdated nineteen fifties mins that
from a drugsar who wanted to make a name for
himself and be the next day at Gohover. I don't
think it's poison at all. It doesn't do anything for me.
I wish it did, because I'll tell you what is poison.
I'll tell you what is absolute one hundred percent poison,
and that is alcohol. And I'm going to tell you something.
This is going to shock some of you. I have
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one son going into being a senior, another son who
just finished his freshman year of college, and I'm going
to tell you something. And I don't want to scandalize you,
shock you. There are junior high kids consuming that poison. Now,
if you think we got a lot of smoke shops,
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you ought to see convenience stores on every corner. I
heard stories about certain convenience stores that sold alcohol, which
is poison. To use that term to very young people
for a little slippage of some cash in the process.
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I think this is fear mongering. I think it's nineteen
fifties policy making. And I'll tell you this, A good
policy is the right policy, no matter whether people like
it or not. Okay, all right, fine, But this is
the kind of thing that hurts Republicans because Republicans are
not made up completely by people who sit at home
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and hope to God that no store opens on Sunday
before noon, because that's how God would want it. He
don't want anything open before noon. There have been throughout
history people who claim to speak for God, and you
don't dare question them, or you're sacrilegious. I've never been
a big fan of that. But the people who love
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the Blue laws can't buy alcohol by alcohol every day
except for Sunday. You have to do that afternoon because
you can't buy it at eleven forty five. That's again
the Bible. And you can't have gambling because gambling is
really bad. Same people set up the law.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I just don't buy it. I don't buy it.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
And in my opinion, you are. You are turning a
lot of libertarians away. I'll get a lot of little
old ladies when this show is over today, who will
say I believed as he believes for many years until
I had chronic pain in my doctor said, your son
is right.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I can't tell you this. This is a product.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
We got Iba gain in one breath, and then we're
outlawing THHC.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
In the other.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
You got smoke shops on every corner because people like them,
are they harming people? Is any were you mugged by
somebody who went to a smoke shop. I don't like
to damn things because they got all that hookah and
sheisha and all that crap. They got all those flavored
oils in there. You're walking in one of those things.
I walk into them thinking, oh, it's a cigar lounge,
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but talk about a poison cigars at poison too?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Your thoughts seven one three nine ninety nine one thousand,
seven three nine nine nine others and Michael, nothing like
the blood harmon. The crazy thing is Richard Carpenter was
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the accomplished musician. He was supposed to be the superstar
he was. He was the guy with the proficiency of
musical instruments, the songwriting, the vocals. She wasn't even interested
in it. And lo and behold did she ever rock
the world? Unbelievable. That was one of the submissions made
by a listener yesterday that hey, don't forget about her.
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THENNY thing is, I don't naturally gravitate toward women lead singers.
I don't know if that makes me a misogynist or
a monster, or a horrible person or whatever else. It's
just I know what I like and what I don't.
I don't typically like women lead singers, but there are
some that I do like that I would say, you know,
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I find to be fantastic, and that is definitely one
of them.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I used to make a lot of jokes about.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Bolima and orexia, all these sorts of things, and we
all do because it's awkward, and we make jokes to
deal with things we don't like. And then I had
several friends whose children had horrible bouts with that, and
two of them, two separate friends out of a few,
almost lost their kid to it. We're talking about high school, college,
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and just post college. It's a bad deal. I did
not understand how bad it really is. I think we
are in an era of significant mental health problems on
multiple levels, and that is one of them, and I
don't understand it, but I do see the results. And
if nothing else, your heart goes out to a parent
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whose kid is struggling with that, because all you want
is for your your kid to be okay that you know. Sure,
we all want our kid to play pro baseball or
be the great you know, entertainer or the CEO of
the contry, but just your kid to be okay, all right,
So we will start with Kevin, then James, then Allen,
then Mark, then Ginny, and we'll go all the way
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down and then start back Cup on the top. Kevin,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Uh really don't care what Dan Patrick says or thinks
about THHC. I'm going to continue to use it.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
And enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I think it's funny though, that you know Dan Patrick,
you know, runs around and acts like he's the moral police.
When his largest three donors personal donors, John Now, donated
four hundred and fifty k. John Now and his family
is the owners of Silver Egal Distributors, which is the
largest Anheuser Bush distributor in the nation. His second largest
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donor is the Rymans, who owns Specs, and then the
third largest donor is Del Papa, who is also a
Budweiser distributor. So I think it's real funny that, you know,
the guy that's going after THAC in marijuana, you know,
gets all this money from lobbyists and from the alcohol industry.
This is the same clown that goes around and acts
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like he's pro police, and I'm standing up for HVD
officers that were killed in the line of duty, and
we we're gonna get rid of alcohol. He's a lion turd.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well that's what I got on that.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Well, tell us how you really feel, Kevin James. You're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 14 (27:38):
Yeah, hey, Michael James from Spring. You know, I've got
I've got a lot of opinions on this matter from
a couple of different, you know, aspects. I mean, first
of all, prohibition is stupid, and we know that every
time they try to ban something, something a thousand times
worse pops up in its place, you know, and look
at you know, all the different deal with the spice
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and all that stuff they came up. They did all
the crack down on weed, and all of a sudden they're,
you know, have all this you know, incense that people
are smoking, and you got people dancing naked on the
hoods of cars in traffic. So I think the prohibition
is just dumb. I think there should be regulation, and
I think adults should be able to do what they want.
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The second half is a lot more personal to me.
I'm a chronic pain patient. I've got three herdiated discs
in my cervical spine. I'm in constant pain every day
twenty four to seven. Now they did a huge crack
down because of the opioid epidemic, and that's fine. I
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wouldn't take those drugs personally myself if I could ever
avoid it, just because I don't like the way they
make me feel. They make me feel jittery. They may
not sleep, but I know a lot of people who
who rely on pain medication, and you know a lot
of people when that stuff got you know, rolled back,
because they start to treating doctors like criminals and putting
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the government between you know, a doctor and a patient.
They moved to THC and Texas has been so backwards
with the way the compassionate use program has been implemented
to where you know, oh, well there's you know, we'll
let these people have this, these people have this. Oh
but if you're in chronic pain, you just have to
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suffer in pain. And I've already written Dan Patrick a
letter saving as much because they basically try to put
us chronic pain patients in a spot to where, oh, well,
you're in chronic pain, so we're not going to treat
your pain. Oh you found something that works for your pain.
Oh we're going to take it away from you. I
can't tell you how many people in some of these
pain support groups I mean, have committed suicide over the
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last five or six years. Like it is shocking the
number of people that are killing themselves because the government
thinks they know better. You know what, People aren't at it.
People want to feel normal. And for somebody who has
never had to suffer with a chronic, debilitating, painful condition,
you don't know what it's like waking up every morning thinking,
oh my god, I wish I hadn't woke up this morning.
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How am I going to get through the day?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thank you James. I think he was the founder and
CEO of Texas Roadhouse, who I'm told was a prince
of a man. I did not know him.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
He had apparently debilitating Tonight's and tried every treatment he
could find out there to get over it, and this
ringing in his ear of such magnitude was so unbearable
that he took his own life. Here's a guy that
ninety nine percent of people would have traded places with
him in a minute. All the money in the world,
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all the professional success, good looking guy, you know, physically
healthy as I understand it other than this issue. So yes,
I do think there is a lot to be said
about chronic pain. Alan, Mark and Jenny hold with me
for just a moment. We'll go to Alan.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Alan, be quick so I can get you in before
the break. You're there, Yep, yes, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Colley, I'm so lound up. I've been to make it quick.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
The parents.
Speaker 14 (31:06):
One thing my kids?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Does she come out here?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Is she living with me? She told me seventeen years old,
she came out here.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
She was a smokeing weed, and she graduated. She was
a year be high. She graduated a.
Speaker 14 (31:18):
Year only with a scholarship.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I've been burning some seventeen years old.
Speaker 14 (31:22):
But I will want later her damn patchman.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
A child.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I'll do it in English. Now, do right?
Speaker 14 (31:36):
What you saying about?
Speaker 7 (31:39):
No?
Speaker 11 (31:40):
Did you.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Was that boom I? Or what was that romania?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
What just happened
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. Good morning, Michael Berry.
It's Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show.
(00:27):
Pity I was you to find it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning,
gild morning, Michael, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Good more Excess.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Listen to this good morning, Excess.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Morning your car.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Good morning, Texas is.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
On this day and we're happy here to talk about everything.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Good morning. We're not wearing that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Good Morty, good Lady, Good Laurie, good morning. Wake unsteact god.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Damn good morning. Actor George Went, best known for playing
Norm Peterson, one of the most beloved sitcom characters of
all time, passed away yesterday morning at the age of
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seventy six, peacefully in his sleep, while at home, surrounded
by family. Born in Chicago in nineteen forty eight, speaking
of Chicago, one of the all time, he was part
of one of the all time great SNL sketches about
dub Bears.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Oh, my friends, they welcome to another edition of super Fans.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And bab Florsky.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
And I want to thank everyone for sending those cards
to my brother Bill, who recently had another heart attack.
We are coming to you live from Dicka's here on
Thanksgiving Day, a day for giving, thanks for, or taking
punishment from a team that is known as Stop Bears.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Spars one of nine children. You don't see big families
like that any more, Romon, at least not white people.
Did you know that his sister, Catherine is the mother
of actor and comedian Jason Sedakis of Where the Miller's
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snl and the insanely popular There for a little while
till it jumped to Shark ted Lasso. George went flunked
out of Notre Dame, worked at his father's real estate
office before graduating from Rockhurst College in nineteen seventy four.
He trained in comedy at the legendary Chicago's The Second
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City Theater, which would birth greats such as Bill Murray, Danakroyd,
John Belushi, Mike Myers, and many many more. He said
that he was terrible at improvisational comedy. Quote for somebody
who made a living at it for six years, I'm
probably the worst improviser of all time. It seems odd.
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Maybe he's just very hard on himself. But the meat
of his success, for which he will be most Remembered
was one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Cheers
as Norman Peterson, the lovable, overweight, beer loving barfly, six immynominations,
and the king of one liners. Here is a best
of of his intros.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Everybody, what do you know?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Not enough?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I'm doing m cut the small dug and give me
a beer. How's life drinking?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
You?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Norm?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It just ran over its dog.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Have hear anybody.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Joan stout your taps? Anybody? I was treating your nom
He caught me in bed with his wife. Everybody was screamage, coach.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
You what's it going mom? That's rich and mama good looking? Anybody?
Oh my nipples, it's freezing out there.
Speaker 10 (04:41):
Anybody, I'm sorry? All thirsty bar everybody put out to
your arm my ears? Oh mom, Science is seeking a
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cure for thirst. I happened to be the guinea pig.
Have anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Going on?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Well?
Speaker 10 (05:12):
I am gonna need something to kill time before my
second beer?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
How about the first one? The sports fans.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Want to be on fame? Fortune fast women, how about
a beer?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Even better?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Coach on top of the world. It's a dismal spot
in Greenwood.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Women.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You can't live with them past the beer nuts.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
That's having a normal that's a doggy dog world, Sammy,
and I'm Martin milktone underwear one.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, you know, I never watched that.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I mean I've seen I've seen a scene here and
there that's a famous scene. But I was not a
loyal Did you watch it? You never saw it either.
I couldn't even tell you what night it aired. But
I didn't watch Seinfeld. I didn't watch The Sopranos. I
didn't watch not because it's some great statement on my behalf.
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I just don't typically, and have really not in a
very long time, watched what is called appointment viewing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I just haven't done it much.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
A newsletter I follow called Hurd on the Street, John
Sindrow starts this morning's newsletter with the following, whether tariffs
will stoke inflation may be the most important question in
financial markets right now. To answer it, listen to the
one setting the prices. On Tuesday. Home Depot maintain its
full twenty twenty five outlook while claiming it will not
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pass on higher import costs to consumers. Yet other retailers,
including Walmart will. There'll be earnings reports today from Target
lows and TJX. In a recent report, fact Set highlighted
that over four hundred companies S and P five hundred
mentioned terriffs in first quarter earnings calls. But in fairness
to the author, he then says, this says little about
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corporate behavior. What else are executives supposed to talk about?
But it is notable that more firms than ever in
the past decade are discussing price haggling with suppliers. Within
the broader S and P composite fifteen hundred index, forty
companies have mentioned supplier negotiation or cost sharing since April.
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This is a small group, but it's well above average.
But then as you come down, he says, this is
indeed the approach to mitigating tariff impacts that is rising
the most in popularity. Morgan Stanley researchers found that analyzing
earnings call transcripts using large language models, and what they're
talking about here is what came to be known as
(07:50):
excuse flation after the COVID hoax, where prices rise because
firms use other people's pricing to decisions to justify their own.
In other words, well we're sorry, we're raising prices. How
Commune of the pandemic, but it had nothing to do
with it. Yeah, yeah, pandemic and that's what you're going
to see a lot of people using this as an
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excuse to raise prices. Harris County precinct for Constable is
Mark Herman. One of his constable's deputies arrested a couple
for getting busy in the pool of an apartment complex
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in Spring in front of the kids.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Last Saturday, a deputy.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
From Constable Mark Herman's office responded to a call an
apartment complex on Spring Plaza Drive following reports of a
couple involved in a sexual act at the community pool.
According to a social media post from Constable Herman's office,
the couple, identified as Nickel Dedrick and Ariel Sims were
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promptly located by the responding officer.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
How do you think he found them, Ramon?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Was it the cries of oh, I'll venture over there,
Oh okay, yeah, getting closer, getting closer.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I hope they don't finish too early.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
In the aftermath of the incident, both Dedric and Sims
were taken into custody. Quote Nicholas Dedrick and Ariel Sims
were arrested and booked into the Harris County Jail for
public lewdness. The Constable's office stated the couple's bonds were
set at one hundred dollars each by County Court number nine.
That means ten dollars and you can get out. They
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may pay the full, they may put up the full bond.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who knows.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I wonder if they put them in the backseat of
the same car that they hauled him in, or they
separated him into two different You never know, you know,
because they were in flagrante de licto at the time
the officer showed up.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You don't know if if they might be trying well.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
The Houston Housing Authority one of the most scandalous organizations
in the region. And it happened right underneath Sylvester Turner's
nose or was he involved? Houston Housing Authority Board releases
executive summary of the investigation. They hired an outside law
firm to conduct on former president and CEO David Northern.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You remember David Northern.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Kprctv's Amy Davis previously reported that Northern hired friends from
out of state, remember the rapper from Chicago with no
experience to install AC window units, lots of them for
a lot of money. Investigators revealed that that project went
three point one million dollars over budget and despite it
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not even being finished, the contractors were paid. Wonderful report
by Amy Davis, who does those for KPRCTV, so they
just released yesterday.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
We've got to be honest. There are no major surprises,
but its confirmation of what we reported last November. Hha's
board chairman, though, says getting this independent third party review
is important to make sure that the board understands what
went wrong so it won't happen again. So the summary
reveals the project to install window units at three housing
projects in twenty twenty three went three point one million
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dollars over budget because of mismanagement, inexperienced and unqualified contractors,
and a lack of oversight. It found contractors were paid
for work that has not been completed even to this day.
The Columbia Tap Trail project to connect to Cuny homes
with the walking trail left residents without tables, benches, and
lighting that contractors were paid in full to install.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
We were not the board who approved or oversaw either
of these projects.
Speaker 12 (11:50):
The investigation has proved been extremely helpful to our new
president and his new leadership team who have embraced the
opportunity to strengthen our in Toronto processes.
Speaker 11 (12:02):
Now, former HJA President David Northern resigned last year in
exchange for agreement that the board would not investigate or
reveal any wrongdoing by him. He is now the president
and CEO of the Housing Authority in Flint, Michigan. So
we wanted to know how much HHA spent on this
third party investigation. We did ask for those payments to
the law firm and they revealed we paid a little
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more than twenty four thousand dollars for this investigation, which
took him a couple of months to complete.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
So he said, hey, guys, I'll leave because y'all know
I've been stealing money and funneling a bunch of it
through my buddies.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I brought here to do work that they never did.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I'll leave, but only if you agree nobody can know
the crimes I committed here. We cool, We cool, y'all cool,
y'all go, y'all, Okay, we coop. Okay, what are you
gonna do, David? I'm going to Flint, Michigan to do
the same damn thing again. It's not a bad thing
to be a black man in America today. No, sir,
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we're not asking any questions. Meanwhile, Sheila Jackson Lee building
named this week. We got the Semester Turner Building coming
this week, and I guarantee you they both had their
fingers in those pists. I will run tee it. You
just watch and see. Fox twenty six is Randy Wallace.
Since twenty twenty two, magistrates have given PR bonds that's
a personal reconnisance bond, that's sign and go to more
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than twenty eight thousand defendants charged with felonies, some with
extensive criminal records. These are the people that are coming
out to get you and your family. Fox twenty six
with us.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Personal reconnais bons. I'm then for first time offenders and
low level misdemeanors, but we found career criminals and even
a registered sex offender being granted.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Numerous PR bonds.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Sixty two year old Nathaniel Cornell Barnes's leafy criminal history
dates back to nineteen eighty nine, but that didn't stop
a magistrate from granting him five PR bonds or get
out of jail free cards.
Speaker 13 (14:03):
You've already been given five PR bonds. Guess what, he
didn't show up the court. Now he's a wanted fugitive.
This is absurd.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
In just a month of March alone, Mario Garza, President,
a professional bondsman of Harris County, says magistrates granted more
than fifteen hundred defendants PR bonds, some.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Of them with extensive records that you would think finality
would be qualifying for those, but they are.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
You're talking about people that six and more bonds and
they've got PR bonds.
Speaker 14 (14:33):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Yes, you have found instances where defendants have PR bonds
for their third dw R.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yes, and that's a felony.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Since twenty twenty two, magistrates have given PR bonds to
more than twenty eight thousand defendants charged with felonies.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
What was more disturbing was a list that I got
here showing some of them had six PR bonds given sixty.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
One year old Troy Carter.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
He's been in and out of prison since nineteen eighty five,
yet he's still free from jail on his sixth fellony
PR bond. His maythy criminal history or being a registered
sex offender didn't stop fifty seven year old Lewis Abney
from getting six PR bonds.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He was given two more PR bonds, so he's right
back out.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
And this was actually by the actual district court job
that gave him the PR bond, not a magistrate, which
is even more disturbing.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
The judge who granted Abbney PR bonds two hundred and
thirty second Judge Josh Hill. A bill the governor is
expected to sign into law will stop magistrates from granting
PR Bondoom.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
The Michael Berry fucking who had been shoosmobile escaped from
the ordinary. We're not going to get property tax reform.
And that's the number one thing people care about in
the state of Texas. So for two years nothing will
be done about it. And the reason is I hear
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from people. We got to change to this cond of
taxt We gotta change this contax. You can put a
tax on how many miles you walk. You can put
a tax on how how many hours a day you're awake.
You can put a tax on gasoline. You can put
a tax on the number of trees. You can put
a tax in the number of days we have sunlight.
It does not matter. That number has to add up
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to how much they are spending. And as long as
you're trying to figure out how you're gonna scramble. Are
we gonna are we look in the sofa cushions, or
we're gonna go to the bank, or we're gonna look
in the ash tray if you still have one in
your vehicle, or we're gonna open our pockets or maybe
in our wallet.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It doesn't matter. You're going to pay. There's no way
around that.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
You're going to pay because the spending is out of
control and nothing's been done to the spending and nothing
will be done to the spending. We'll talk about shifting
the burdens. There will be a lot of talk about
shifting the burdens. Oh, we'll give veterans a tax break, great, okay,
but that just means you raise the taxes on other people.
We'll give the elderly attax break because they all vote. Okay, great,
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but again, that means you're shifting a tax burden.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
You can.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
All of those things are very popular. We'll say that, uh,
left handed people won't pay taxes because left handed pep okay, Well,
then the right handed people are all gonna have to
pay more in taxes to get there. Do we all
understand that, because for all the effort in the chest
puffy on. You know, we're gonna give veterans this, we're
gonna give disabled people this, we're gonna give senior citizens this.
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All that's fine, but you did not change the P
and L statement. You did not change the balance sheet,
and they won't and they won't understand that they won't.
So you got people out here suffering. We had that
conversation about Galveson and people who have a second home
down there Galliston appraisals, apparently through the roof. It's heresay.
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I haven't looked at the data, only what I hear,
but people are extremely frustrated. They're being priced out of
their house. You pay for something, you pay it off,
and yet you're still every month, I mean every year,
you're paying this massive amount of money in taxes relative
to what you paid for that house. It's extraordinarily frustrating
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for people, extraordinarily frustrated. I overall commend the work that
the Lieutenant Governor who presides over the Senate has done.
I do good bills coming out of the Senate. But
there is a bill I disagree on, and that's okay.
You can make of this whatever you want. I just
simply disagree, and I'm going to throw the phones open
for your thoughts on it. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick wants
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a special session if his push to ban consumable hemp
with THCHC fails. And now we're getting the THCHC is
being sold to school children across the country. I'm sorry
across Texas. And you know kids are also smoking cigarettes
and drinking alcohol and having sex. When people say to me,
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we need to make something illegal for adults because some
kids are doing it, no, that's not the answer. That's
not how you do that. We don't let kids drive,
we don't let them smoke, we don't let them consume alcohol.
There are a lot of things don't We don't let
them vote, so we don't all of a sudden find
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out that they are doing it. If someone is selling
this product to children, prosecute them. Don't say that adults
can't do it. We also don't want kids taking vicarin
xanax or anything else. So if somebody is selling it
to them, deal with the person selling it to them.
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This is not how you solve problems. Here's Lieutenant Governor
Dan Patrick.
Speaker 15 (19:54):
Many of you are concerned about THC. How's being sold
to school children all across Texas. This is poisonous THC,
no regulations whatsoever, No one knows what's in it, and
it's more powerful, as you'll hear a little bit later
in this video than what you could buy from a
drug dealer on the street.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Look at this map.
Speaker 15 (20:13):
Just in the last three years, over eight thousand plus
smoke shops and vape shops have opened up in Texas.
It's now an eight billion dollar industry. And where did
they open up? Within one thousand to two thousand feet
of schools. They're poisoning our children and we must ban THHC.
We can't regulate it. We don't have enough police to
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check every store when they're eight to nine thousand of them.
And to put this in perspective, we only have eleven
hundred McDonald's in the state of Texas, thirteen hundred Starbucks
in the state of Texas, so they're eight times more
smoke shops selling this poison.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
First of all, I don't think it's a poison I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I think that is an outdated nineteen fifties mins that
from a drugsar who wanted to make a name for
himself and be the next day at Gohover. I don't
think it's poison at all. It doesn't do anything for me.
I wish it did, because I'll tell you what is poison.
I'll tell you what is absolute one hundred percent poison,
and that is alcohol. And I'm going to tell you something.
This is going to shock some of you. I have
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one son going into being a senior, another son who
just finished his freshman year of college, and I'm going
to tell you something. And I don't want to scandalize you,
shock you. There are junior high kids consuming that poison. Now,
if you think we got a lot of smoke shops,
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you ought to see convenience stores on every corner. I
heard stories about certain convenience stores that sold alcohol, which
is poison. To use that term to very young people
for a little slippage of some cash in the process.
(22:01):
I think this is fear mongering. I think it's nineteen
fifties policy making. And I'll tell you this, A good
policy is the right policy, no matter whether people like
it or not. Okay, all right, fine, But this is
the kind of thing that hurts Republicans because Republicans are
not made up completely by people who sit at home
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and hope to God that no store opens on Sunday
before noon, because that's how God would want it. He
don't want anything open before noon. There have been throughout
history people who claim to speak for God, and you
don't dare question them, or you're sacrilegious. I've never been
a big fan of that. But the people who love
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the Blue laws can't buy alcohol by alcohol every day
except for Sunday. You have to do that afternoon because
you can't buy it at eleven forty five. That's again
the Bible. And you can't have gambling because gambling is
really bad. Same people set up the law.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I just don't buy it. I don't buy it.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
And in my opinion, you are. You are turning a
lot of libertarians away. I'll get a lot of little
old ladies when this show is over today, who will
say I believed as he believes for many years until
I had chronic pain in my doctor said, your son
is right.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I can't tell you this. This is a product.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
We got Iba gain in one breath, and then we're
outlawing THHC.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
In the other.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
You got smoke shops on every corner because people like them,
are they harming people? Is any were you mugged by
somebody who went to a smoke shop. I don't like
to damn things because they got all that hookah and
sheisha and all that crap. They got all those flavored
oils in there. You're walking in one of those things.
I walk into them thinking, oh, it's a cigar lounge,
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but talk about a poison cigars at poison too?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Your thoughts seven one three nine ninety nine one thousand,
seven three nine nine nine others and Michael, nothing like
the blood harmon. The crazy thing is Richard Carpenter was
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the accomplished musician. He was supposed to be the superstar
he was. He was the guy with the proficiency of
musical instruments, the songwriting, the vocals. She wasn't even interested
in it. And lo and behold did she ever rock
the world? Unbelievable. That was one of the submissions made
by a listener yesterday that hey, don't forget about her.
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THENNY thing is, I don't naturally gravitate toward women lead singers.
I don't know if that makes me a misogynist or
a monster, or a horrible person or whatever else. It's
just I know what I like and what I don't.
I don't typically like women lead singers, but there are
some that I do like that I would say, you know,
(25:04):
I find to be fantastic, and that is definitely one
of them.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I used to make a lot of jokes about.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Bolima and orexia, all these sorts of things, and we
all do because it's awkward, and we make jokes to
deal with things we don't like. And then I had
several friends whose children had horrible bouts with that, and
two of them, two separate friends out of a few,
almost lost their kid to it. We're talking about high school, college,
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and just post college. It's a bad deal. I did
not understand how bad it really is. I think we
are in an era of significant mental health problems on
multiple levels, and that is one of them, and I
don't understand it, but I do see the results. And
if nothing else, your heart goes out to a parent
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whose kid is struggling with that, because all you want
is for your your kid to be okay that you know. Sure,
we all want our kid to play pro baseball or
be the great you know, entertainer or the CEO of
the contry, but just your kid to be okay, all right,
So we will start with Kevin, then James, then Allen,
then Mark, then Ginny, and we'll go all the way
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down and then start back Cup on the top. Kevin,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Uh really don't care what Dan Patrick says or thinks
about THHC. I'm going to continue to use it.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
And enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I think it's funny though, that you know Dan Patrick,
you know, runs around and acts like he's the moral police.
When his largest three donors personal donors, John Now, donated
four hundred and fifty k. John Now and his family
is the owners of Silver Egal Distributors, which is the
largest Anheuser Bush distributor in the nation. His second largest
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donor is the Rymans, who owns Specs, and then the
third largest donor is Del Papa, who is also a
Budweiser distributor. So I think it's real funny that, you know,
the guy that's going after THAC in marijuana, you know,
gets all this money from lobbyists and from the alcohol industry.
This is the same clown that goes around and acts
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like he's pro police, and I'm standing up for HVD
officers that were killed in the line of duty, and
we we're gonna get rid of alcohol. He's a lion turd.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well that's what I got on that.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Well, tell us how you really feel, Kevin James. You're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 14 (27:38):
Yeah, hey, Michael James from Spring. You know, I've got
I've got a lot of opinions on this matter from
a couple of different, you know, aspects. I mean, first
of all, prohibition is stupid, and we know that every
time they try to ban something, something a thousand times
worse pops up in its place, you know, and look
at you know, all the different deal with the spice
(27:59):
and all that stuff they came up. They did all
the crack down on weed, and all of a sudden they're,
you know, have all this you know, incense that people
are smoking, and you got people dancing naked on the
hoods of cars in traffic. So I think the prohibition
is just dumb. I think there should be regulation, and
I think adults should be able to do what they want.
(28:19):
The second half is a lot more personal to me.
I'm a chronic pain patient. I've got three herdiated discs
in my cervical spine. I'm in constant pain every day
twenty four to seven. Now they did a huge crack
down because of the opioid epidemic, and that's fine. I
(28:40):
wouldn't take those drugs personally myself if I could ever
avoid it, just because I don't like the way they
make me feel. They make me feel jittery. They may
not sleep, but I know a lot of people who
who rely on pain medication, and you know a lot
of people when that stuff got you know, rolled back,
because they start to treating doctors like criminals and putting
(29:02):
the government between you know, a doctor and a patient.
They moved to THC and Texas has been so backwards
with the way the compassionate use program has been implemented
to where you know, oh, well there's you know, we'll
let these people have this, these people have this. Oh
but if you're in chronic pain, you just have to
(29:22):
suffer in pain. And I've already written Dan Patrick a
letter saving as much because they basically try to put
us chronic pain patients in a spot to where, oh, well,
you're in chronic pain, so we're not going to treat
your pain. Oh you found something that works for your pain.
Oh we're going to take it away from you. I
can't tell you how many people in some of these
pain support groups I mean, have committed suicide over the
(29:44):
last five or six years. Like it is shocking the
number of people that are killing themselves because the government
thinks they know better. You know what, People aren't at it.
People want to feel normal. And for somebody who has
never had to suffer with a chronic, debilitating, painful condition,
you don't know what it's like waking up every morning thinking,
oh my god, I wish I hadn't woke up this morning.
(30:04):
How am I going to get through the day?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thank you James. I think he was the founder and
CEO of Texas Roadhouse, who I'm told was a prince
of a man. I did not know him.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
He had apparently debilitating Tonight's and tried every treatment he
could find out there to get over it, and this
ringing in his ear of such magnitude was so unbearable
that he took his own life. Here's a guy that
ninety nine percent of people would have traded places with
him in a minute. All the money in the world,
(30:36):
all the professional success, good looking guy, you know, physically
healthy as I understand it other than this issue. So yes,
I do think there is a lot to be said
about chronic pain. Alan, Mark and Jenny hold with me
for just a moment. We'll go to Alan.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Alan, be quick so I can get you in before
the break. You're there, Yep, yes, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Colley, I'm so lound up. I've been to make it quick.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
The parents.
Speaker 14 (31:06):
One thing my kids?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Does she come out here?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Is she living with me? She told me seventeen years old,
she came out here.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
She was a smokeing weed, and she graduated. She was
a year be high. She graduated a.
Speaker 14 (31:18):
Year only with a scholarship.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I've been burning some seventeen years old.
Speaker 14 (31:22):
But I will want later her damn patchman.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
A child.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I'll do it in English. Now, do right?
Speaker 14 (31:36):
What you saying about?
Speaker 7 (31:39):
No?
Speaker 11 (31:40):
Did you.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Was that boom I? Or what was that romania?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
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