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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Barry Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Out lights. You'll get into Mica week. You gotta feed
a beard. I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing it all right.
Will you come make me support? It's beating rid of
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(00:44):
I'm just doing all right.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's okay, dad be I know the sun's still shining.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Close my eyes. It's hard times in the neighborhood. But
whyking every day? I was driving to the studio this
morning and I saw carry a guy carrying a scrabble board,
which is not something you see every day. And I'm
watching him acting odd, and then he trips and the

(01:17):
tiles went everywhere, and I pulled up beside him. I
couldn't help but asked, what's the word on the street.
What's the word on the street? What do you call
a scientist that studies carbonation? A physicist? A physicist? I

(01:45):
do that again. Now you know the answer, because I'm
not a pronunciate ramon. What do you call a scientist
that studies carbonation? A physicist, so prouder Ramona. He's lost
so much weight. He's finally managed to conquer his addiction

(02:06):
to chocolate, marshmallows and nuts. But it's been a rocky road.
I say marsh mellow instead of marsh mallow. Does he
even say marshmallow? Do you know anybody? Can we identify
anybody that says marshmallow? We say marshmallow? Well, I was

(02:33):
starting to think it wouldn't happen. Now it looks like
it will. Wesley Hunt is in the Senate race, telling
the Associated Press what I've seen in polling over the
last few months is people want an alternative, and I'm
going to give it to them. The uh, the DC
swamp has protected Corning for a long time. That's why

(03:01):
they tried to take out Paxton, because Paxton has been
for several years eyeing that Senate seat, and so they've
done a lot of things to try to harm him,
not at all, unlike what they did to President Trump
in between the twenty election and the twenty four If

(03:24):
we can smear him enough, then he'll be wounded and
won't be able to run for president. It didn't work.
I don't know if in Texas these smears, allegations, investigations,
you lawsuits, divorce, all that will affect Paxton or not,
because much like Trump, he has made the base very

(03:46):
happy by doing the sorts of things Trump would do.
And I don't think you can deny he's one of,
if not the best attorney general in the country when
it comes to the actions he's taken. And I think
that in a Republican primary, that's what's gonna matter most. However,
Corning is very unpopular and there will be people who

(04:09):
don't like Corning. There's really nobody that likes Corning. People
will tolerate Corning and they end up with Corning, but
nobody is loyal to Corning. I'm sort of amused when
I see these ads. They try to a bunch of
small town people, you know, because they try to seem
like real tasting. I'm just so proud that John Cornyn
and glad to stick with him. He's protecting our border

(04:32):
and my little baby girl, Gigi. And this truck here
I'm a drive and it's American maid and this house
I'm living in and I'm about to cut my grass
because I love American and Jesus, John Cornyn, please everybody
it's so fake and I don't think anybody's buying it.
So Paxton had to feel to himself. So Paxton versus Corning,

(04:55):
and we know what the number show. Paxton wins that,
Corning wins that. Cornyon knows that Paxton wins that. But
there was a lane and Wesley Hunt saw that for himself. Now,
as of this summer, it was there were millions of dollars.
It was one of the biggest adviys in the country
for a non campaign in a campaign format, and that

(05:17):
was Wesley Hunt building name ID across the state. The
establishment in DC is saying, oh, it's going to cost
us a lot of money. It's going to cost the
state a lot of money. We don't need a spirited
primary campaign, but we do well now. Hunt is in
the Associated Press reports. Hunt has been testing the waters

(05:38):
as a potential third way for Texas Republicans, as Cornon
and Paxton have weiged a contentious battle of words in
the media. Since the spring, Hunt and groups supporting him
have spent six and a half million dollars on advertising
in Texas, according to the ad tracking site ad Impact.
Groups supporting corn however, have spent more than twenty one

(06:01):
million dollars on television ads this year, according to ad Impact,
to promote the four term senator and attack Paxton. In
a September memo, Thune and Scott said that Cordon had
narrowed his deficit with Paxton and that Hunt quote continues
to cling to the false narrative he pushed as a
justification for his own ambitions. In quote, they said in

(06:26):
their memo, there never was and never will be a
tenable pathway for Hunt. It's time for the vanity project
that would cost Republicans control of the Senate and dilute
our resources to end. When you're saying of a candidate, yeah,
he can't win, he can't. He can't beat our guy

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that we can control. He can't, he can't win. He
he shouldn't run. People who know understand the message. That's
a sign of weakness. They've got polling data that's better
than any polling data they spend a fortune that you're
going to see published, and that polling data says Republican

(07:08):
primary voters voters do not want corning. Hunt argued that
it Senate Republicans who are wasting money on resources on corning,
and resources that can be used in other states to
hold and perhaps expand the majority. This is not a
vanity project. This is about giving the people to Texas
a viable alternative. Hunt told the Associated Press, let's stop

(07:31):
the exercise in futility and get the right person for
the job. Well, you've got us basically a six month
campaign until we get to Super Tuesday in the day,
the Republican Party primary in the state of Texas. Six
months is not very long now, one advance, one positive

(07:54):
for Wesley is that he spent six and a half
million dollars when he had the few to himself. Six
and a half million dollars between say, Valentine's Day and
March first, will not go very far because, as you
remember how this game plays out, if you're watching TV
or listening to radio, it's just gonna be ad after
ad after ad for every campaign, and they all run

(08:16):
together they stopped having any impact. But Wesley Hunt's been
basically in a field left to himself for this period
of time. It's gonna be a very very interesting primary
because Paxton is very popular. It's gonna be interesting. Indeed,
Matt mccoveac, disgraced former Austin political official who will save that.

(08:41):
That part now works for John Cornyn, says. Senator Cornyn
has soared ahead in the latest polling. Really release it
and we'll win this election. Okay, all right, Saddam Hussein.
This is going to be the mother of all battles.

(09:01):
Wesley Hunt is a legend in his own mind. No
one is happier this morning than the National Democrats who
are watching Wesley continue his kehatic quest for relevancy, costing
tens of millions of dollars that will endanger the Trump
agenda from being passed. It was only a year ago

(09:26):
that John Cornyn said Donald Trump needs to realize his
time has passed. The party needs a new nominee. Not
only is John Cornyan not a partner fan friend of
Donald Trump's presidency, he didn't want him running as of

(09:49):
a year ago. As of last calendar year. They think
Texans are stupid. And if I have anything to do
with it, I'm going to make sure every Texan understands
that John Cornyn worked very hard and very publicly to

(10:09):
keep Donald Trump from running for president last year. That's
not twenty sixteen before we knew what Trump was going
to do if he had his way. A matter of
days ago, he was very public talking to the media
using whatever influence he thinks he has to keep Trump

(10:32):
out of the race. Ramot, You know when you're on
a road stop and you get a hankering for something
quick and easy, of course it has to have a
drive through dairy queen. Yeah, that's a good one. You
get Tacos or hunger Buster. What do you get? You
get the tacos, the good tacos, hunger Buster. That's a

(10:56):
good choice as well. If there's not dairy quint around,
where do you stop? Water Birder? Okay, why water Bird?
Because it's always right there. I guess, Sion, I guess
you knew that. Do you have that clip from Vengeance? Oh?

(11:20):
You know what. You've moved computers, So I thought you
were looking out the win. You confuse me. You normally
look to your right, you're looking to your left. Here's
the clip from Vengeance. Well theoretically this would, but now
we'd be listening.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Tell me something that you love about where you live.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Water Burger?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Okay, great, tell me about it right now? Yeah, all right,
you want to know, Just tell me about it.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
You're gonna love water Burger. Ben Oh, it's the best.
What makes it the best? Wherever you are, there's a water.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Burger, Yeah, it's always right there, Okay, And then when
you get there, what do you like about it?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
What do you get? Whatever you want? Whatever you want.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Then, right, But there are a lot of places like that.
So let's say there's a McDonald's, a Burger King, a Sonic,
and a Waterburger all lined up.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Which one you go to?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Water right?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Right?

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Why? But they're all right there in this scenario, they're
all right there. So what do you get out of
water Burger? What makes it better to you? What are
you getting?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Ask him why you love water Burgers, like asking why
you love Christmas or summer night or why you love
your dog. I mean, you could point to the reasons,
but the reasons aren't really the point. You just love it,
and that's how love works.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, the Voice of the water was fired, even though
he was a Californian. He had captured the essence of
the Texas Burger joint, the down home feel, and when
Waburger sold out, they got rid of him. Well, John

(13:19):
Cornyn is sold out, but it sounds like his campaign
has hired the voice of the Whataburger commercials back when
they were using that, and now he is very eager
for you to believe that he is one of Trump.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
John Wayne mccarnyon. He once balanced the budget at home
with his wife. When he enters a room, he's there.
He once started a fire just so he could fight
another FIREQUI refuse to bte him out of respect for

(14:02):
his best good friend Donald J. Trump. He's never been lost.
He just navigates the political wins. Like Magellan. Lobbyists declare
him on their tax returns as a dependent. He doesn't
drain the swamp.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
He is the swamp.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
John Wayne mcconneck, he's.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
One of us femails coming in. Can Wesley Hunt win, Well,
anyone can win if you get into a race. You
can't win if you don't run. I would. At this point,

(14:46):
it's early. There are a number of things to consider.
So he'll have to give up his congressional seat because
he won't be able to run for reelection in March
in the congressional seat he currently holds, which w will
pop open a congressional wide open congressional seat in a
solidly Republican district. I would argue that district was created

(15:08):
for him. So it is. It's the kind of district
it's hard to win in a primary, but once you
win in the primary, you're secure in a general and
that means that you can go to Washington, d C.
Without having a challenge every November. You just take care

(15:29):
of your base and you can hold a seat like
that for a very long time, which allows you to
do things on the national scale, to take on very
controversial issues as long as you are right with the base,
because the Democrats can't nab you and nip at you
come November. Running statewide in the state of Texas is

(15:52):
extremely difficult. Six and a half million dollars sounds like
a lot of money to build your name idea, and
that's what they've been trying to do. But we're still
talking about a major a large city with several major
media markets. You've got to buy media in the Dallas
for work area, You've got to buy media in the

(16:13):
San Anton Austin area. You've got to buy Houston media,
which that's going to be his strongest suit. That's where
he is. West Texas, South Texas. They're thirty eight congressional districts,
so less than three percent of Texans have ever voted
for you. Not to say it can't be done, but
it's it's a tough thing to do. It's been done before,
but it's it's going to be a tough race. Classic

(16:41):
case of FAFO. Caul comes in yesterday to HPD. There
is a Hispanic man. We don't know if he's illegal yet.
Hopefully we'll get that information today. I expect that he
will be, but we'll see. With an AR fifteen firing

(17:02):
off rounds yesterday in the northeastern part of the city,
officers arrived approach cautiously. He's firing at various people and indiscriminately.
He hops up on a vehicle to get a better
vantage point from which to shoot. The officers. They emerge

(17:26):
with their long guns and put him down like the
rabid dog he is. So that's one less person terrorizing
our community, and that is a good thing. A Union
Pacific train stuck on the tracks in the Galleria area,
blocking San Philippi, West, Timer and Richmond from ten o'clock

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on Friday until three point fifteen in the afternoon. A
Union Pacific spokesman confirmed that the train was experiencing a
mechanical issue and was blocking those streets. Just east of
the West Loop. All three crossings are heavily trafficked, and

(18:12):
traffic was backed up about a mile for much of
the day. Officials did not give details on what the
mechanical issue was. When I was mayor pro ten I
was able to work with Bill White on a couple
of things, several things actually, that we both agreed on

(18:33):
and were passionate about, and one of them was Union
Pacific is damn well going to stop blocking our streets.
You have to start with. This is not a uniquely
Houston problem, but it is a Houston problem more so
than most big cities. And the reason is we have
the most what are called at grade crossings. In many

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parts of the country, the road is sunken to go
under a train track, or it's elevated to go over
a train track like an overpass, or the train track
is sunken or elevated. What you don't want is cars
and trains crossing perpendicularly at grade at the same level,

(19:24):
because now when the train is coming through, you're going
to stop traffic, and a lot of products are still
moved by train way more than you would imagine. In fact,
most of the time when you see an eighteen wheeler,
and you think, well, that's how goods are moved. That's

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actually how goods are finished. They're brought to the country
in shipping containers and then they're traffic to the major
hubs of the country in railroad cars, and from there
they're take to their final destination, which is in the
middle of a block by an eighteen wheeler. So all

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three of those touched most products. Well, for a very
long time, Union Pacific had done whatever they wanted, whenever
they wanted, however they wanted, or as long as they wanted,
without ever being questioned. And the belief was, well, they're

(20:27):
the federal railroad. You can't do anything to stop them.
Nobody has the power to stop them. And that goes
back to almost two hundred years ago when the railroads
were expanding across the country. Railroad expansion meant the expansion
of the country before we occupied the entirety of the

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what are now the forty eight states on this continent,
and nobody was able to stop them. They were able
to accumulate whatever land they wanted, and they were able
to operate with impunity. And the theory went, you didn't
want the locals to be able to stop this great
westward expansion in this country, and that's how we were

(21:13):
going to grow and develop and did. But over that
period of time, they grew very arrogant because they could
not be questioned, and so without anyone to ever actually
hold them accountable, they simply began running their businesses if
no one else mattered. And so Bill White and I

(21:33):
start working together, and Union Pacific wouldn't even meet with us,
the mayor and the mayor pro tem of the fourth
largest city or asking you for a meeting, and you
won't even come meet with us. That felt weird. You
got a lot of crossings through this city. So we
decided that we were going to go Tony Busby on him,

(21:54):
and we began hurling mud at them. We began getting
very nasty with them in every way possible, using every
resource at our disposal. It's what Trump would have done.
And so eventually six months into this, they realized, oh,
we better have a meeting. So they finally show up

(22:16):
to the meeting, whereupon they tell us, you have no
authority to regulate us. You have no authority to tell
us when we can stop our trains and when we can't.
So we said look one way or another, you're going
to stop. You're going to end the process of stopping
your trains blocking our major thoroughfares. And so what we

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did we had HPD pulled all this data, but the
better story was the anecdotes. I used to tell this
story publicly a lot. If you drive down Memorial westbound
out of downtown, you will come through Memorial Park. Some
of you made that drive. That is the parkway model,

(23:03):
based on a fellow named Moses, Robert Moses, out of
New York. The parkway model of people being able to
move from the downtown, which is what used to be
the big commercial hubs, it's much less so now into
an interior suburb or the perimeter of your city. And

(23:24):
these broad parkways. It was meant as a more beautiful
way to get home without getting stuck on the freeway.
So instead of taking Ien, you would take this parkway.
This parkway brings a lot of people in in the
morning and unloads a lot of people in the evening.
When Union Pacific had gotten worse and worse and worse

(23:45):
about blocking that particular crossing, one day call comes in
that the train has been out, has been out of commission,
were told because that's what they just claimed out train
broke down. It's not true. The train didn't break down

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on that day for almost two and a half hours.
The train conductor who came through, they got women in
every city. He stops his train, gets out of his train,
goes and gets in a woman's car. They drive to
a hot sheet motel and have a conjugal visit. All

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in all, that train blocked the road for about two
and a half hours. So this was the story we
went public with. And of course we're calling congressmen on
both sides of the aisle. Turns out Republicans and Democrats
have constituents who don't want to be stuck in traffic
because of the arrogance of Union Pacific. And I will

(24:52):
say that during our time there they knocked that nonsense off,
but clearly they haven't again. So Whipmeyer needs to let
them know how the caw ate the cabbage because you
deserve better. You shouldn't be stuck in traffic because Union
Pacific or a bunch of arrogant asses.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Morning suits to coordinating accessories.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Joe Roberts writes, pot call Kettle, you're one of the
most arrogant asses there is. I always enjoy when someone
who I already can tell I don't like does not
have good command of the English language, because it just
further demonstrates their stupid you not mark you not. Don't

(25:34):
they think good? Arrogant? I am one of the most
arrogant asses there is, and that is absolutely true. However
you define arrogant, I am arrogant. Here is the difference
when I criticize Union Pacific for being arrogant. The important

(25:57):
thing to remember there is if a guy lives up
in the woods and in his cabin up in the
woods where he never interacts with anyone, he is extraordinarily arrogant.
It doesn't matter to me or anyone else. Arrogance in
and of itself is not a problem. The arrogance of

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Union Pacific is not offensive because they are arrogant. It
is because that is the best word to use for
the fact that, when asked to be good corporate neighbors
and share the public space, you know, not leave people
waiting for five hours on a road because you leave

(26:39):
your train abandoned or your driver takes a nap or
has a conjugal visit. That let the reaction that says
I don't care about the people. People can be stuck
in the road. I don't care if they were rushing
to the hospital, if they're trying to pick up their kus,

(27:00):
if they're rushing to a job interview, if they have
groceries they're trying to get home with. I do not
care when someone does that. Arrogant is, in fact the
word that is used. It's not arrogance in and of
itself that is problematic. It is the fact that they
are arrogant in the face of a criticism. But I

(27:23):
think Joe is probably one of those people that's sitting
at home choking on his boogers, who already doesn't like
us anyway. And so you you're arrogant. You got arrogant too.
You you are arrogant, Yes, yes I am. But in
this case it's not bothering you because you can turn

(27:46):
the dial, you jackass. Houston Chronicle has filed a Freedom
of Information Act request to get Lena Hidalgo's text messages,
and they did because old Lena. Now she's going to
rape the taxpayers for every possible penny. She uses a
government phone, she's not paying for her own. She's the

(28:06):
queen which means her phone and her text messages are discoverable,
and the fred of Information Act request shows that she
had planned to leave the September ninth budget meeting early, which,
of course we know she stormed out to attend a
Hans Zimmer concert. Do you know who Hans Zimmer is?

(28:28):
Who is Hans Zimmer?

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Oh? Oh?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
The conductor? Okay?

Speaker 5 (28:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Who is it?

Speaker 5 (28:35):
Is?

Speaker 4 (28:35):
That?

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Really?

Speaker 5 (28:35):
It?

Speaker 2 (28:37):
He writes music for movies like what like at John
Williams type gun? Uh? John Claude vun dem huh? Christopher Nolan?
And who is Christopher Nolan? Uh?

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Oppenheimer? Okay, okay uh. So she wanted to go to
that concert, and she was going to go to that concert.
So when she says to everyone, I can't stand this anymore, y'all,
you don't care about the children, and gets up and
storms out, supposedly because she was upset they didn't care

(29:17):
about the children. She was already going to leave. It
was all a ruse, and text between her and her
chief of staff indicated that the judge had planned to
leave the meeting at five point forty five so she
could buy merchandise, which she did. Adrian Garcia and the
other commissioners said, Garcia said, none of us chose a

(29:40):
concert over our constituents. This behavior is disappointing, to say
the least. I couldn't help it. I read the text
message exchange with her chief of staff yesterday and she
says in one of her text messages to her chief
of staff, I can't remember the name of her dog
feefee or I mean her cat. But not surprising, because

(30:03):
she's crazy. She says that she's bringing her cat to
the concert. Uh. Yes, here she was storming out. Now
remember now you know she was going to leave at
that time. Anyway, the storming out, she had to have
an excuse because she couldn't just say, hey, guys, I'm
supposed to be chairing this meeting. This is the people's business.

(30:25):
It's a regular scheduled meeting. I'm going to a concert.
So instead she creates this whole smoke screen and stands
up and marches out on her way to the concert.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
I would like to move to restore. Since we're not
cutting anything, I would like to restore all departments to
their full fiscal year current level of service budgets. Since
everybody says we're not cutting any services, then we should
just have the current level of service repeated for next year.
So I would like to see if my colleagues are
willing to have the same level of services next year

(31:01):
as we've had this year. I would like to vote
that all departments keep the same level of service. Do
I have a second for all departments to keep the
same level of services?

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I think, well, we can't do that because the money
has to come from somewhere. Right this process we've set up,
I'm for it, but we can't do it.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
So when the decision, well, I just want to make
it clear that three colleagues here they say there are
no cuts, but they're they're not willing to second emotion
to keep the current level of service. So that means
so that means there are cuts. It's for colleagues that
don't want to okay, and so Judge, yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
We bought it at that time. Now when you say anyone.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
You can, well, I'm just not gonna vote for these
additional I'm not gonna vote for this whole and im
and I'm not gonna vote against my constituents interests. You
represent a certain part Commission Raim's gonna respect that, but
the rest of us ran on something else, the whole county.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
We got about five more items, right.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna let you continue
with the court. I don't want to be a part
of this nonsense. All right, thank you.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
So she tried to act like she was leaving on
a principal basis, but she was leaving anyway. And what's
interesting about all of this is it's Joe Biden all
over again. Because Lena Hidalgo will not be the Democrat
nominee to be the county judge next year. It'll be

(32:44):
an East porker. And the moment she's gone, and maybe
before she's gone, but certainly when she's gone, the people
who put her in there will come out and admit
she was crazy, like boil your rabbit crazy. She's psychotic,

(33:07):
she's not very smart. She never learned the job. She
doesn't understand the job. She was petty, unqualified and never
grew into the job that was handed to her. But
you supported her and you defended her. You know, you've

(33:28):
got these Democrats now who are saying, you know, Joe
Biden was basically brain dead. But I didn't want to
say anything because I didn't want to help Trump. I
didn't want to say anything because I didn't want Democrats
to be mad at me, So they are all responsible
for having put her into This is Joe Biden all
over again again. We've got people who don't need to

(33:49):
be in these positions who were there