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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time, time, time, Luck and Load from
Michael Darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, you guys, let's listen up. We won a
game yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If we win one today, that's two.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In a row.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We win one tomorrow, that's called a winning streak.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It has happened before.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So let's see some hustle.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Let's jug it up a little.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I got a feeling things are about to turn around
for us.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That's been so many things has held us down, But
now it books.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Like things are finally coming around. I know we've got
a long long.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Time to go and where we.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
So win with every single facet. We're gonna win so much.
You may even get tired of winning. And you'll say, please, please,
it's too much winning.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We can't take.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
It anymore, mister President, it's too much, And I'll say, no.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
It isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
We've regained our stride, we discovered our spirit. America is thriving,
America is flourishing, and yes, America is winning again.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Like never before.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We got wet.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
And now we are going to fulfill that mission. Together,
We're going to fulfill that mission. The task before us
will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce
of energy, spirit, and fighten that I have in my
soul to the job that you've entrusted to me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This is a great job. There's no job like this.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
This is the most important job in the world. Just
as I did it my first term. We had a
great first term, a great, great first term. I will
govern by a simple motto. Promises made, Promises kept.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We're going to keep our promises.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you,
the people.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
We will make America same, strong, prosperous, powerful, and free again.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
The Senate is hoping to get the deal done today.
I don't know that they're any closer. For everything they
take away, they put something back in. Two of the
Republicans who've broken with President Trump have announced they will
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not be running for reelection. That is Tom Tillis, Good riddance,
and Don Bacon. I think there are more on the way,
and they're not the only two. This morning, President Trump
left just almost exactly two hours ago for Alligator Alcatraz,
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the new immigration detention facility into Florida Everglades, he will
participate in a walking tour in about forty five minutes,
drawing attention to Alligator Alcatraz, and then he will have
a roundtable discussion at eleven five am Eastern, so ten
oh five Central, and then just past noon he will
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depart to return to the White House. The Chairman of
the Fed, Jerome Powell, is to speak in about twenty
minutes with May data for the government's job openings and
Labor Turnover survey due in about forty five minutes are
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the as are the ISM report on June manufacturing and
construction spending data for May. There is a strong push
by President Trump for a lowering of interest rates. The
economy is booming, we don't have inflation, and higher interest
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rates are designed to bring down inflation. The President wants
a lower interest rate down to one percent. Let's asking
for the world, but hey, why not ask for everything
and settle for somewhere in between.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That's the Trump way. So we shall see.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
That will be a developing story in coming days. As
I said, Don Bacon will be departing, as will Tom Tillis.
They will not be running for reelection, and I say
good riddance, goodbye. I don't think we will miss them,
not even a little bit. Well, it is July first,
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and that means it is Bobby Benia Day. One of
the best deals in sports, though not the best, probably
goes to the Silna Brothers, who received a portion of
NBA's TV rights fees, making three hundred million dollars plus
when the league bought them out in nineteen seventy six.
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On July first of every deal of every year until
twenty thirty five, Bobby Bania gets one point one nine
million from the New York Mets, twenty five installments of
one point one nine million dollars all for deferring only
five point nine million In nineteen ninety nine, Bobby Bania
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tells USA Today Sports, it's bigger than my birthday. When
that day comes, I get texts all day long, and
a couple days after, and maybe a day or two before.
Everybody just seems to love that day and have fun
with it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It's become a pretty big thing. The money is.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Part of a deferred buyout deal paid over twenty five
installments that the team agreed to after the nineteen ninety
nine season. Bania was owed five point nine million dollars,
but Instead of simply footing the bill, the Mets agreed
to a delayed annual payment so it wouldn't show up
on the on their it wouldn't count against them that year,
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instead for an annual payment plan that went into effect
eleven years later in twenty eleven. In total, the Mets
will pay Bania twenty nine point eight million dollars in
the yearly payments. The Mets' final Bobby Bania payment is
set for twenty thirty five, when the six time All
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Star will be seventy two years old. That is the
most amazing deal in baseball. And the fact that Benia
did that, the fact that he deferred gratification. You know,
you tell a kid you have ice cream today or
no ice cream for a week, and then ice cream for.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
A day for the rest of your life. Oh, that
got'sham right now.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Most almost all professional athletes would not have been able
to defer five point nine million dollars for twelve years
in return for getting one point one to nine million
dollars for twenty five years thereafter.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But he did.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Every single day, I see some report on how your
money grows if invested the earlier you start, and wonder
why more people don't do that, just a little deferred
gratification for.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
A whole lot more money on the back of Happy Tuesday.
Glad you're with a grade show. At least chairs can't
rolling around.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar
of Talk Radio.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
On Thursday, we will talk to Mohit Kara, my urologist
and dear friend. The reason for that was yesterday we
were talking about the effects of the extreme heat and
some tips and advice for how to handle that, and
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we talked to some folks that work out in it
all day every day.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You got to get pretty smart to.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Survive it and to keep from passing out or quitting.
Especially the older you get, you got to learn more
and more techniques because your body's just not as strong.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You also learn to pace yourself better.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I think somebody emailed me and said, you got to
be careful because this is when people get kidney stones
at a much higher rate. The dehydration leads to that.
So I sent Mohit Kara that message and I said,
is that true? He is, It's absolutely true. And we
were talking about the urological function from a purely excretory basis,
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not the.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Sexual side of what he does and.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
What's important, what to look for and those sorts of things,
and I asked him to join us on Thursday. He
is an absolutely wonderful doctor, but he's also a great teacher.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
He can talk about things that.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
I think most people don't talk about in public, and
he just talks about it in a very dry, scientific
manner that exposes it and explains it very well. Ramon,
did you have a term for a man's willy when
you were little that you could say that you wouldn't
get in trouble for saying it? My brother and I
would refer to it as the bippy, Yeah, b ip people.
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Tally whacker is still kind of in the category. I
mean when Paul Harvey said tallywacker, I think that kind
of surprised people. Yeah, so tally whacker was yours tally whacker,
doesn't you know? We always tried to have little kid
names that you could use almost with a baby, that way,
when you said it, you wouldn't get in trouble, you know.
Like my brother one time, we had a little bit
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of bathroom that we were in and he was standing
at the sink blow drying his hair. This was in
the leaf Garrett Garrett era of wings. You know, guys
would would blow their hair back and wings. So you
would you'd blow dry your hair to get enough, put
a puff on it to get it where that the
wings would would go back, and then you would take
out the trays of may and you would put you
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would spray it on there. And supposedly you were eating
a hole in the ozone. I never really believe that. Well,
he was left handed. So he's standing at the sink
and just to the left of the sink was the toilet,
and I mean it's right there, and for some reason,
being four years older than me, he thought it would
be funny as he blew dry his hair. And I've
just woken up and I come in there, and you know,
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you got to sleepy eyes. And I pulled my little
shorts down and pull it out and start peeing.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And he said, burns your bippy. And as he did it.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
He put the blow dryer down on my bippy and
I think he touched it to it, or he got
close enough to it that it put a pretty good
little burn on it. Anyway, I'm not really sure why
I remember to tell you that but that story I'm
still mad about. I wish I could bring him back
to life for five minutes and cuss him out for
it again. But we had a good laugh well into
our adult years that he'd called and said, we'll burn.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You, Bippy, and we just laugh and laugh and laughed.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
All right, Ramon, what year do you think it was
the ZIP codes were introduced into your United States mail?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You can play along at home?
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Nineteen thirty. I would have thought that would be about
the time, if not earlier. It was not until nineteen
sixty three. Nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's much later than I expected.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
And it was on this day in nineteen seventy nine
that Sony would introduce the Walkman.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
The game changer, the.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Ability to carry a personal media device. We take that
for granted. Now you can stream any song you want, anytime, anywhere,
any way, any era doesn't matter. You can watch a
movie on demand on your phone on the flight. But
back then the fact that you could move around away
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from a radio, a speaker, a delivery device and get
your music of your choice just a few This was
a commercial from nineteen eighty for the Sony Walkman.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You read it through the music with the Sonny falk Man.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
The Sony walk Man. It's a tiny stereo cassette.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Player with a guitar, probably out of tune. Now you
might have to edit that.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
This is Mark Chestnut Enjoy, the czar of talk radio.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's amazing how putting the music in their ads to
the theme, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
I got an email from my friend Kenny Allen of
his great Waller meth lab explosion romon.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Can you queue that up? So we got it ready?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
He said, Tzar, here's a song your listeners may enjoy
by a great old friend of mine, Floyd Tolston.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's called Everybody's Got Him a Song?
Speaker 8 (13:41):
The key line goes, if things are so damn good
in Mexico, why are they all coming over here? Floyd
was the principal at Innis High School, I think years ago,
and when the kids got too bad in school, he
said to hell with this and up and quit. He's
a good, old fashioned, kind old man, and I'm very
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fond of him. I wonder if Floyd Toulsen is still alive?
Speaker 10 (14:07):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Roum Well?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
The fellow that sent that to us was Kenny Allen,
who has written and performed many songs, But my favorite
is the twenty six second long Great Waller Meth Lab
explosion of nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Because here's the Great Waller County meth Lab explosion of
nineteen ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking
up drain all and all this a phdron they could
get their hands on. They had bottles of profane and
the batteries in one singer, and then boom they were gone.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
There might be prettier songs, but not one that's shorter.
Houston Chronicle headline, cannot you can't, you can't make this up.
President Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to
make heat heat waves more brutal and costly. I'll read
that again, Houston Chronicle. President Trump is doing everything in
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his power to make heat waves more brutal and costly.
My goodness, the last few stragglers survivors are subscribers, and
they will be gone. Jenny writes, pickle juice for the wind.
I got mine at h B. It's the electric, it's
by the electrolyte drinks. Only way I was able to
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finish my Ironman competition. Best secret ever. And when you
get a chance, please give an encouraging message to all
the mom's caregivers and the significant individuals that are the
heart of the family. It's the dog days of summer
where organized chaos is peaking. Longtime listener, love your show.
Jenny from Katie, Texas married mom in a modern day
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Brady Ready bunched, family and fitness enthusiasts have a great day.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
How about why did you ding? What was a dean for? Oh?
You like when people.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Brag on their kids? Okay, all right, well there's not
wrong with that. I yeah, Ramon. Do you know the
name of the first commercially successful typewriter. It was on
this day in eighteen seventy four that it went on sale.
And I will give you a second playing at home.
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I bet a lot of the typists, I bet a
lot of the stenographer types. I bet a lot of
the old fashioned secretaries. You know, there was a time
when being a secretary made you the most powerful person
in the business. When I was trying to get to
Gordon Bethune, I was running for mayor.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It was two thousand and three.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Bill White, myself, Orlando Sanchez, and Sylvester Turner were all
running for mayor, and everybody wanted Gordon Bethune's time and endorsement.
At the time, I'm United Airlines. Continental Airlines was the
largest employer and the largest business partner to the city
of Houston. It was the largest contractor, so it was
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the biggest company as it relates to the city by far.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Bigger than Enrun.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
And his endorsement because of his book from Worse to First,
because of his respect on the street, because of his
employee base, his endorsement meant everything. So I reached out
and went and met with him, and the other candidates
didn't get to meet with him till we had our
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time that he took an audience with each of the
four and later they asked, how did you get to
meet with Gordon Bethune. He wouldn't meet with anybody who
was in politics, and I thought, you idiots. We kept
calling him, we kept trying to get to him. I
didn't try to get to him. I tried to get
to his secretary. His secretary was the gatekeeper, and that
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was Kay And I learned very early on back in
those days, it was all powerful men.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There were no powerful women.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
It was powerful old mostly white, although not all, but
mostly white old men. And they all had a woman,
not the young, pretty twenty something woman. They had a
woman in her forties or more often far more who
was tough and smart and discriminating and didn't put anybody
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on their schedule unless it was good for them, And
she had all the authority. And if you had any
sense about you, you learned how to schmooz the secretaries.
And I did, because that's how it was determined whether
or not you were going to get in to see
them or not. That was it, Ramon. We didn't get
to play out the Sony Walkman commercial. Can you play
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that again? This was in nineteen eighty nine. It had
been introduced on this day in seventy nine. This was
the full commercials.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You read it through the music with the Sonny Walkman.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
The Sony Walkman is a tiny stereo cassette player with
truly incredible sound in the music the music put on
a Walkman and see the world and a whole new light.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So they pay the Walkman from Sony. The one and.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
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Speaker 8 (19:54):
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Speaker 3 (20:03):
Well and Body.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Is the first day of the second half of the year.
Markets are up, Nasdaq, S and P now all up.
Bitcoin took the tiniest dip. Meta is up two thirds
of one percent and is expected to continue that rise.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
They have hit an all time high.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
As Mark Zuckerberg is on a hiring bonanza for AI.
He is absolutely I got to find that story. I
read it earlier this morning. He is replacing human beings
with robots and AI at a at quite the clip.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That is the goal.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
That is where they're they're going, and you don't have
to like it. It's what's going to happen because robot at
least as far as we know, don't sexually harass anybody.
They don't call in sick, they don't protest they don't
get cancer. Human beings are not so perfect. The Senate
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spent the night and continues into today. They call it
an all nighter, not exactly, but a lot of amendments
to the big beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And yeah, I'll leave that there for now.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
President Trump had called off trade talks with Canada due
to their tech tax. They have now dropped that tech tax.
The Home Depot has made a four point three billion
dollar acquisition that would, they believe, expand their customer base
to home building professionals. In addition to just do it yourselfers.
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They have bought a company called GMS for four point
three billion dollars in an attempt to bring in more
of the folks who are professional builders, whereas they think
they may have tapped out the.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Do it yourself for is like you and me.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
The chain that beats Starbucks in China is coming to
the United States. It's called Luckin Coffee or Lucan Coffee
luc ki n. They've opened two stores in New York City.
It is China's answer to Starbucks, and as you might imagine,
it is a cheaper version, not real hard to do.
I was surprised to see the story this morning, the
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w NBA is expanding to add three new teams the
Women's Basketball League, and all I can figure is they
claim that viewership is up, attendance is up, merch sales
are up. The only this takes them to eighteen franchises.
The only thing I can think is that this is
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all a marketing ploy. This Caitlin Clark, the black lesbians
out to get the straight white woman, and that this
is how they get people to talk about it, because
it's the only thing anybody ever talks about. Nobody ever
talks about the sport itself. They just talk about whether
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the black girls don't like Caitlin Clark and what they're
saying about her, and Angel Reaves called her a hoe
or a bitch or whatever other gutter slang Angel Reese
speaks to. And then you've got the black lesbian women
just constantly trying to kill her. And that's kind of
reminds me of what the Pistons did to Michael Jordan
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for a couple of years till he beefed up and
they got some more help for him. I guess it
was Oakley and a few others to get him over
the top, and then they never looked.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Back after that.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
President Trump has threatened Japan with new tariffs, saying that
we want that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
We won't buy.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
I'm sorry, say Japan say that they won't buy American
rice even though they are suffering an American rice shortage.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I was reading an article yesterday.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
On how many American industries, including agricultural have the capacity
to solve the problems for so much of the world's markets,
and we are simply closed off to them. If you're
the president and you give a damn, there's no way
you wouldn't say, all right, let's solve this problem, and
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let's solve this problem right now.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Ramon if you would.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
This is Chad's prep clip Number nine. Harris County Commissioner's
Court has a one point three billion dollar shortfall. Surprise,
Rodney blew a bunch of money after voters had already
approved a two and a half billion dollar bond in
twoenty eighteen for flood projects.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, now Rodney's going to have the money.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Go exclusively to the people that Rodney Ellis chooses under
his you're ready for this equity prioritization index.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Oh, isn't that nice?
Speaker 8 (25:07):
An equity prioritization index folks, your guilt is going to
kill you. These people will abuse you to know in
and have you feeling bad about it. That will defund
all projects that fall outside of Rodney Ellis's equity prioritization framework. Rodney,
just take the money and say I'm taking the money.
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Don't pretend you're doing anything good for anybody. I could
respect that a whole lot more. Tom Ramsey on Fox
twenty six.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
I can tell you most of the media, include any
Houston chronicle, has essentially ignored this vote, ignored what happened
last Thursday. I've been on court for five years. This
is the most consequential vote that I've participated in since
I've been on Commissioner's Court. And the reason is in
twenty eighteen, voters approved by over eighty percent to do
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flood mitigation projects. They even listed the twenty two watersheds
and the specific projects that we were going to do
in each one of the precincts in each one of
the watersheds, So it was very fair, very clear, it
was very defined in.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Terms of what we were going to do.
Speaker 11 (26:23):
So the vote last Thursday essentially through a big monkey
ranch into the whole plan and the problem is the
vote was to prioritize everything in quartile one. And you say,
I don't remember seeing quartaile one on the.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Vote when we voted. It wasn't.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
It's a made up formula, a flawed formula, a formula
that is not fair to what we voted on.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Back in twenty eighteen. Let me give you an example.
Speaker 11 (26:56):
So the formula was supposed to give priority to underserved neighborhoods.
So I did a test to the formula. That's what
I do as an engineer. I tested the formula. So
I went to the most underserved neighborhood in Precinct three,
one of the most underserved neighborhoods in the entire county,
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called Barrett Station. You know what quartal that was in
was and in one, it was in three. Why was
it in quartile three? Why was it a low priority
because it was in precinct three. This is a scheme
to to move money from half the county into precincts
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one and two.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Just follow the money.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
If you look at what was funded, what they voted
to fund, you can see that that's very clearly where
the dollars are going.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
So what he does is he creates these universal basic incomes,
and then he controls where the money goes.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
He creates that it creates the equity project.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Oh, we'll give the money to the people who need
it most. By the way, this is what Mandani is
doing in New York. This is exactly what he proposes.
What they mean by that is take it from the
white people and give it to the black people. Make
sure you get the credit, and you'll be king of
the blacks. You'll be king of the world. You'll run
the place until eventually you run the whites out and
you'll be left with Detroit. It's exactly what happened in Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
This is what Rodney Ellis is doing.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
It is a race base punishment and king making right
before our very eyes.
It's that time. Time, time, time, Luck and Load from
Michael Darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, you guys, let's listen up. We won a
game yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If we win one today, that's two.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
In a row.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We win one tomorrow, that's called a winning streak.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It has happened before.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So let's see some hustle.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Let's jug it up a little.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I got a feeling things are about to turn around
for us.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That's been so many things has held us down, But
now it books.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Like things are finally coming around. I know we've got
a long long.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Time to go and where we.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
So win with every single facet. We're gonna win so much.
You may even get tired of winning. And you'll say, please, please,
it's too much winning.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We can't take.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
It anymore, mister President, it's too much, And I'll say, no.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
It isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
We've regained our stride, we discovered our spirit. America is thriving,
America is flourishing, and yes, America is winning again.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Like never before.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We got wet.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
And now we are going to fulfill that mission. Together,
We're going to fulfill that mission. The task before us
will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce
of energy, spirit, and fighten that I have in my
soul to the job that you've entrusted to me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This is a great job. There's no job like this.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
This is the most important job in the world. Just
as I did it my first term. We had a
great first term, a great, great first term. I will
govern by a simple motto. Promises made, Promises kept.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We're going to keep our promises.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you,
the people.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
We will make America same, strong, prosperous, powerful, and free again.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
The Senate is hoping to get the deal done today.
I don't know that they're any closer. For everything they
take away, they put something back in. Two of the
Republicans who've broken with President Trump have announced they will
(03:20):
not be running for reelection. That is Tom Tillis, Good riddance,
and Don Bacon. I think there are more on the way,
and they're not the only two. This morning, President Trump
left just almost exactly two hours ago for Alligator Alcatraz,
(03:42):
the new immigration detention facility into Florida Everglades, he will
participate in a walking tour in about forty five minutes,
drawing attention to Alligator Alcatraz, and then he will have
a roundtable discussion at eleven five am Eastern, so ten
oh five Central, and then just past noon he will
(04:05):
depart to return to the White House. The Chairman of
the Fed, Jerome Powell, is to speak in about twenty
minutes with May data for the government's job openings and
Labor Turnover survey due in about forty five minutes are
(04:26):
the as are the ISM report on June manufacturing and
construction spending data for May. There is a strong push
by President Trump for a lowering of interest rates. The
economy is booming, we don't have inflation, and higher interest
(04:49):
rates are designed to bring down inflation. The President wants
a lower interest rate down to one percent. Let's asking
for the world, but hey, why not ask for everything
and settle for somewhere in between.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That's the Trump way. So we shall see.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
That will be a developing story in coming days. As
I said, Don Bacon will be departing, as will Tom Tillis.
They will not be running for reelection, and I say
good riddance, goodbye. I don't think we will miss them,
not even a little bit. Well, it is July first,
(05:30):
and that means it is Bobby Benia Day. One of
the best deals in sports, though not the best, probably
goes to the Silna Brothers, who received a portion of
NBA's TV rights fees, making three hundred million dollars plus
when the league bought them out in nineteen seventy six.
(05:51):
On July first of every deal of every year until
twenty thirty five, Bobby Bania gets one point one nine
million from the New York Mets, twenty five installments of
one point one nine million dollars all for deferring only
five point nine million In nineteen ninety nine, Bobby Bania
(06:14):
tells USA Today Sports, it's bigger than my birthday. When
that day comes, I get texts all day long, and
a couple days after, and maybe a day or two before.
Everybody just seems to love that day and have fun
with it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It's become a pretty big thing. The money is.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Part of a deferred buyout deal paid over twenty five
installments that the team agreed to after the nineteen ninety
nine season. Bania was owed five point nine million dollars,
but Instead of simply footing the bill, the Mets agreed
to a delayed annual payment so it wouldn't show up
on the on their it wouldn't count against them that year,
(06:50):
instead for an annual payment plan that went into effect
eleven years later in twenty eleven. In total, the Mets
will pay Bania twenty nine point eight million dollars in
the yearly payments. The Mets' final Bobby Bania payment is
set for twenty thirty five, when the six time All
(07:12):
Star will be seventy two years old. That is the
most amazing deal in baseball. And the fact that Benia
did that, the fact that he deferred gratification. You know,
you tell a kid you have ice cream today or
no ice cream for a week, and then ice cream for.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
A day for the rest of your life. Oh, that
got'sham right now.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Most almost all professional athletes would not have been able
to defer five point nine million dollars for twelve years
in return for getting one point one to nine million
dollars for twenty five years thereafter.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But he did.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Every single day, I see some report on how your
money grows if invested the earlier you start, and wonder
why more people don't do that, just a little deferred
gratification for.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
A whole lot more money on the back of Happy Tuesday.
Glad you're with a grade show. At least chairs can't
rolling around.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar
of Talk Radio.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
On Thursday, we will talk to Mohit Kara, my urologist
and dear friend. The reason for that was yesterday we
were talking about the effects of the extreme heat and
some tips and advice for how to handle that, and
(08:56):
we talked to some folks that work out in it
all day every day.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You got to get pretty smart to.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Survive it and to keep from passing out or quitting.
Especially the older you get, you got to learn more
and more techniques because your body's just not as strong.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You also learn to pace yourself better.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
I think somebody emailed me and said, you got to
be careful because this is when people get kidney stones
at a much higher rate. The dehydration leads to that.
So I sent Mohit Kara that message and I said,
is that true? He is, It's absolutely true. And we
were talking about the urological function from a purely excretory basis,
(09:35):
not the.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Sexual side of what he does and.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
What's important, what to look for and those sorts of things,
and I asked him to join us on Thursday. He
is an absolutely wonderful doctor, but he's also a great teacher.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
He can talk about things that.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
I think most people don't talk about in public, and
he just talks about it in a very dry, scientific
manner that exposes it and explains it very well. Ramon,
did you have a term for a man's willy when
you were little that you could say that you wouldn't
get in trouble for saying it? My brother and I
would refer to it as the bippy, Yeah, b ip people.
(10:16):
Tally whacker is still kind of in the category. I
mean when Paul Harvey said tallywacker, I think that kind
of surprised people. Yeah, so tally whacker was yours tally whacker,
doesn't you know? We always tried to have little kid
names that you could use almost with a baby, that way,
when you said it, you wouldn't get in trouble, you know.
Like my brother one time, we had a little bit
(10:37):
of bathroom that we were in and he was standing
at the sink blow drying his hair. This was in
the leaf Garrett Garrett era of wings. You know, guys
would would blow their hair back and wings. So you
would you'd blow dry your hair to get enough, put
a puff on it to get it where that the
wings would would go back, and then you would take
out the trays of may and you would put you
(10:59):
would spray it on there. And supposedly you were eating
a hole in the ozone. I never really believe that. Well,
he was left handed. So he's standing at the sink
and just to the left of the sink was the toilet,
and I mean it's right there, and for some reason,
being four years older than me, he thought it would
be funny as he blew dry his hair. And I've
just woken up and I come in there, and you know,
(11:20):
you got to sleepy eyes. And I pulled my little
shorts down and pull it out and start peeing.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And he said, burns your bippy. And as he did it.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
He put the blow dryer down on my bippy and
I think he touched it to it, or he got
close enough to it that it put a pretty good
little burn on it. Anyway, I'm not really sure why
I remember to tell you that but that story I'm
still mad about. I wish I could bring him back
to life for five minutes and cuss him out for
it again. But we had a good laugh well into
our adult years that he'd called and said, we'll burn.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You, Bippy, and we just laugh and laugh and laughed.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
All right, Ramon, what year do you think it was
the ZIP codes were introduced into your United States mail?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You can play along at home?
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Nineteen thirty. I would have thought that would be about
the time, if not earlier. It was not until nineteen
sixty three. Nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's much later than I expected.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
And it was on this day in nineteen seventy nine
that Sony would introduce the Walkman.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
The game changer, the.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Ability to carry a personal media device. We take that
for granted. Now you can stream any song you want, anytime, anywhere,
any way, any era doesn't matter. You can watch a
movie on demand on your phone on the flight. But
back then the fact that you could move around away
(12:42):
from a radio, a speaker, a delivery device and get
your music of your choice just a few This was
a commercial from nineteen eighty for the Sony Walkman.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You read it through the music with the Sonny falk Man.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
The Sony walk Man. It's a tiny stereo cassette.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Player with a guitar, probably out of tune. Now you
might have to edit that.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
This is Mark Chestnut Enjoy, the czar of talk radio.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's amazing how putting the music in their ads to
the theme, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
I got an email from my friend Kenny Allen of
his great Waller meth lab explosion romon.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Can you queue that up? So we got it ready?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
He said, Tzar, here's a song your listeners may enjoy
by a great old friend of mine, Floyd Tolston.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's called Everybody's Got Him a Song?
Speaker 8 (13:41):
The key line goes, if things are so damn good
in Mexico, why are they all coming over here? Floyd
was the principal at Innis High School, I think years ago,
and when the kids got too bad in school, he
said to hell with this and up and quit. He's
a good, old fashioned, kind old man, and I'm very
(14:02):
fond of him. I wonder if Floyd Toulsen is still alive?
Speaker 10 (14:07):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Roum Well?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
The fellow that sent that to us was Kenny Allen,
who has written and performed many songs, But my favorite
is the twenty six second long Great Waller Meth Lab
explosion of nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Because here's the Great Waller County meth Lab explosion of
nineteen ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking
up drain all and all this a phdron they could
get their hands on. They had bottles of profane and
the batteries in one singer, and then boom they were gone.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
There might be prettier songs, but not one that's shorter.
Houston Chronicle headline, cannot you can't, you can't make this up.
President Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to
make heat heat waves more brutal and costly. I'll read
that again, Houston Chronicle. President Trump is doing everything in
(15:09):
his power to make heat waves more brutal and costly.
My goodness, the last few stragglers survivors are subscribers, and
they will be gone. Jenny writes, pickle juice for the wind.
I got mine at h B. It's the electric, it's
by the electrolyte drinks. Only way I was able to
(15:31):
finish my Ironman competition. Best secret ever. And when you
get a chance, please give an encouraging message to all
the mom's caregivers and the significant individuals that are the
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where organized chaos is peaking. Longtime listener, love your show.
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Brady Ready bunched, family and fitness enthusiasts have a great day.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
How about why did you ding? What was a dean for? Oh?
You like when people.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Brag on their kids? Okay, all right, well there's not
wrong with that. I yeah, Ramon. Do you know the
name of the first commercially successful typewriter. It was on
this day in eighteen seventy four that it went on sale.
And I will give you a second playing at home.
(16:29):
I bet a lot of the typists, I bet a
lot of the stenographer types. I bet a lot of
the old fashioned secretaries. You know, there was a time
when being a secretary made you the most powerful person
in the business. When I was trying to get to
Gordon Bethune, I was running for mayor.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It was two thousand and three.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Bill White, myself, Orlando Sanchez, and Sylvester Turner were all
running for mayor, and everybody wanted Gordon Bethune's time and endorsement.
At the time, I'm United Airlines. Continental Airlines was the
largest employer and the largest business partner to the city
of Houston. It was the largest contractor, so it was
(17:11):
the biggest company as it relates to the city by far.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Bigger than Enrun.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
And his endorsement because of his book from Worse to First,
because of his respect on the street, because of his
employee base, his endorsement meant everything. So I reached out
and went and met with him, and the other candidates
didn't get to meet with him till we had our
(17:39):
time that he took an audience with each of the
four and later they asked, how did you get to
meet with Gordon Bethune. He wouldn't meet with anybody who
was in politics, and I thought, you idiots. We kept
calling him, we kept trying to get to him. I
didn't try to get to him. I tried to get
to his secretary. His secretary was the gatekeeper, and that
(18:00):
was Kay And I learned very early on back in
those days, it was all powerful men.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There were no powerful women.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
It was powerful old mostly white, although not all, but
mostly white old men. And they all had a woman,
not the young, pretty twenty something woman. They had a
woman in her forties or more often far more who
was tough and smart and discriminating and didn't put anybody
(18:33):
on their schedule unless it was good for them, And
she had all the authority. And if you had any
sense about you, you learned how to schmooz the secretaries.
And I did, because that's how it was determined whether
or not you were going to get in to see
them or not. That was it, Ramon. We didn't get
to play out the Sony Walkman commercial. Can you play
(18:55):
that again? This was in nineteen eighty nine. It had
been introduced on this day in seventy nine. This was
the full commercials.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You read it through the music with the Sonny Walkman.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
The Sony Walkman is a tiny stereo cassette player with
truly incredible sound in the music the music put on
a Walkman and see the world and a whole new light.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So they pay the Walkman from Sony. The one and.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
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the Not So Rich and Famous, or as I call it,
the Michael Berry Shower.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Well and Body.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Is the first day of the second half of the year.
Markets are up, Nasdaq, S and P now all up.
Bitcoin took the tiniest dip. Meta is up two thirds
of one percent and is expected to continue that rise.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
They have hit an all time high.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
As Mark Zuckerberg is on a hiring bonanza for AI.
He is absolutely I got to find that story. I
read it earlier this morning. He is replacing human beings
with robots and AI at a at quite the clip.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
That is the goal.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
That is where they're they're going, and you don't have
to like it. It's what's going to happen because robot at
least as far as we know, don't sexually harass anybody.
They don't call in sick, they don't protest they don't
get cancer. Human beings are not so perfect. The Senate
(21:15):
spent the night and continues into today. They call it
an all nighter, not exactly, but a lot of amendments
to the big beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And yeah, I'll leave that there for now.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
President Trump had called off trade talks with Canada due
to their tech tax. They have now dropped that tech tax.
The Home Depot has made a four point three billion
dollar acquisition that would, they believe, expand their customer base
to home building professionals. In addition to just do it yourselfers.
(21:55):
They have bought a company called GMS for four point
three billion dollars in an attempt to bring in more
of the folks who are professional builders, whereas they think
they may have tapped out the.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Do it yourself for is like you and me.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
The chain that beats Starbucks in China is coming to
the United States. It's called Luckin Coffee or Lucan Coffee
luc ki n. They've opened two stores in New York City.
It is China's answer to Starbucks, and as you might imagine,
it is a cheaper version, not real hard to do.
I was surprised to see the story this morning, the
(22:32):
w NBA is expanding to add three new teams the
Women's Basketball League, and all I can figure is they
claim that viewership is up, attendance is up, merch sales
are up. The only this takes them to eighteen franchises.
The only thing I can think is that this is
(22:55):
all a marketing ploy. This Caitlin Clark, the black lesbians
out to get the straight white woman, and that this
is how they get people to talk about it, because
it's the only thing anybody ever talks about. Nobody ever
talks about the sport itself. They just talk about whether
(23:16):
the black girls don't like Caitlin Clark and what they're
saying about her, and Angel Reaves called her a hoe
or a bitch or whatever other gutter slang Angel Reese
speaks to. And then you've got the black lesbian women
just constantly trying to kill her. And that's kind of
reminds me of what the Pistons did to Michael Jordan
(23:36):
for a couple of years till he beefed up and
they got some more help for him. I guess it
was Oakley and a few others to get him over
the top, and then they never looked.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Back after that.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
President Trump has threatened Japan with new tariffs, saying that
we want that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
We won't buy.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
I'm sorry, say Japan say that they won't buy American
rice even though they are suffering an American rice shortage.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I was reading an article yesterday.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
On how many American industries, including agricultural have the capacity
to solve the problems for so much of the world's markets,
and we are simply closed off to them. If you're
the president and you give a damn, there's no way
you wouldn't say, all right, let's solve this problem, and
(24:29):
let's solve this problem right now.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Ramon if you would.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
This is Chad's prep clip Number nine. Harris County Commissioner's
Court has a one point three billion dollar shortfall. Surprise,
Rodney blew a bunch of money after voters had already
approved a two and a half billion dollar bond in
twoenty eighteen for flood projects.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, now Rodney's going to have the money.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Go exclusively to the people that Rodney Ellis chooses under
his you're ready for this equity prioritization index.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Oh, isn't that nice?
Speaker 8 (25:07):
An equity prioritization index folks, your guilt is going to
kill you. These people will abuse you to know in
and have you feeling bad about it. That will defund
all projects that fall outside of Rodney Ellis's equity prioritization framework. Rodney,
just take the money and say I'm taking the money.
(25:29):
Don't pretend you're doing anything good for anybody. I could
respect that a whole lot more. Tom Ramsey on Fox
twenty six.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
I can tell you most of the media, include any
Houston chronicle, has essentially ignored this vote, ignored what happened
last Thursday. I've been on court for five years. This
is the most consequential vote that I've participated in since
I've been on Commissioner's Court. And the reason is in
twenty eighteen, voters approved by over eighty percent to do
(26:03):
flood mitigation projects. They even listed the twenty two watersheds
and the specific projects that we were going to do
in each one of the precincts in each one of
the watersheds, So it was very fair, very clear, it
was very defined in.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Terms of what we were going to do.
Speaker 11 (26:23):
So the vote last Thursday essentially through a big monkey
ranch into the whole plan and the problem is the
vote was to prioritize everything in quartile one. And you say,
I don't remember seeing quartaile one on the.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Vote when we voted. It wasn't.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
It's a made up formula, a flawed formula, a formula
that is not fair to what we voted on.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Back in twenty eighteen. Let me give you an example.
Speaker 11 (26:56):
So the formula was supposed to give priority to underserved neighborhoods.
So I did a test to the formula. That's what
I do as an engineer. I tested the formula. So
I went to the most underserved neighborhood in Precinct three,
one of the most underserved neighborhoods in the entire county,
(27:17):
called Barrett Station. You know what quartal that was in
was and in one, it was in three. Why was
it in quartile three? Why was it a low priority
because it was in precinct three. This is a scheme
to to move money from half the county into precincts
(27:39):
one and two.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Just follow the money.
Speaker 11 (27:42):
If you look at what was funded, what they voted
to fund, you can see that that's very clearly where
the dollars are going.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
So what he does is he creates these universal basic incomes,
and then he controls where the money goes.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
He creates that it creates the equity project.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Oh, we'll give the money to the people who need
it most. By the way, this is what Mandani is
doing in New York. This is exactly what he proposes.
What they mean by that is take it from the
white people and give it to the black people. Make
sure you get the credit, and you'll be king of
the blacks. You'll be king of the world. You'll run
the place until eventually you run the whites out and
you'll be left with Detroit. It's exactly what happened in Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
This is what Rodney Ellis is doing.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
It is a race base punishment and king making right
before our very eyes.
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