November 5, 2025 • 30 mins
Michael Berry breaks down election chaos, rail myths, and runaway spending.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, Luck and load. The Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I was looking for boble this clue while I was talking.
I couldn't find it, but I found it during the break.
This was the article from Houston Metropolitan Magazine November nineteen ninety.
The near would be elected in December of nine in
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a runoff against Sylvester Turner. But the article says Lanier,
a developer elected mayor of Houston for his anti mayor
of Houston rail stance, said quote first rail supporters say
it is cheaper when you show it costs more. They
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say it's faster, when you show it's slower. They say
it serves more writers, when you show there are fewer writers.
They say it brings economic development, when you show there's
no economic development. They say it helps the image, when
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you say you don't want to spend that much money
on image. They say it'll solve the pollution problem. When
you show it won't help pollution. They say, finally, it'll
take time. You'll see people in government don't have to meet.
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Every small business owner, myself included, has had that moment
when you sit down at your desk, you know something's happened.
You didn't get paid on your big project. You had
a big expense come in you didn't expect, and you
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sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I'm a paper guy.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I like stuff in front of me, and you sit
down and you start looking at every expense and every
place we may possibly get some cash. Who can we
get How can we push this expense out another month
to survive. Every business owner's had that moment, every one
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of them. What do we do? Do we have to
lay somebody off because nobody wants to do that. It's
an awful feeling. Do we have to sell off our sets?
Do we have to take pennies on the dollar for
things we needed at one point? Do you sell your
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house take the equity out of there? Do you cash
in your retirement you got from the job you were
working that you quit to come and open this business.
It's rough, it's what you do. That's why a small
business owners think in terms of profit and loss. They
think about effectiveness, They think about waste and efficiency. How
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can we reduce the ticket time for when you order
to when your food is delivered to your table? How
can we improve that from the order taking? Can we
shoot that directly to the kitchen. So if that waiter
stops at two more tables on the way back, the
food is already being cooked. It's completely consumer driven, or
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should be. I saw an interview elon Game where he
was talking about the consumer driven development process when your
company runs as if the consumer is the only thing
that matters, not the sales team, not the employees, not
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the board of directors, putting a product in front of
the consumer. Steve Jobs had the same approach. Both of
them are awful to work for. Walter Isaacson wrote biographies
on both of them, and the people around them say
they're monsters to work for because they're not mister nice guy.
They're passionately, obsessively consumed with a product. From the view
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of the consumer. Almost nobody else is but the furthest
from that approach is government. Rodney Ellis and the Harris
County Commissioner's Court do not give one f how much
you pay in taxes that rather you pay more. They
don't care the quality of services you get, the services
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that most people get. They don't actually even pretend to
care whether it's delivered or not.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's law enforcement. You're going to see.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Harris County law enforcement leaving in droves to go join
HPD because HPD just got a fat paycheck and Harris
County is by those standards, underpaid.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So can you blame them?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You got a guy's got a wife and three kids
at home, and they're living in an apartment and struggling,
and he gets off from work and goes and stands
around for six hours at the cell phone store to
get an extra job in the Houston Police Department has
issued a press release that says, ind are you disgusted
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with the election of Zora Mumdani, Join us. The Houston
Police Department is hiring police officers, and it gives the
details of it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's going to get some attention, that will that will
definitely get some attention.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It talks about Texas being a supportive environment for law enforcement,
recently approved thirty six point five percent pay raise over
five years, a supportive mayor and city council, and a
police chief described as a retired Texas ranger, not a politician.
There will be some people leave the NYPD and come
to Houston, some of them immediately, but some of them
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will wait. Some of them will take the death by
a thousand cuts, but they'll wait till, you know, maybe
cut three hundred or four hundred, but they'll leave, they will,
the indignities will pile up. Robert, You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Robert. Let's see all right,
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I'm gonna try this again. Robert, are you there? I know,
I'm just I just double checking. Do you think people
hit mute? You know that's one of the fixes. If
Steve Jobs was still alive, he could have worked on
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is the mute button should be harder to get to?
There are too many occasions Hello, Hello, you can hear me?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yes, okay, it's me. I just testing it. See, wasn't
you you dumb ass?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Robert? I had somebody. I had some guys over last night.
One of them said, does Ramon ever talk? I said
too much? He won't shut up. He said no, no
on air, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Then you went and blew it. Do you want to
do it? To the break? Go ahead? Take it? Take
it away the Michael Berry Show. Please clap, please, please clap.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I don't think Robert's phone works. That's oh for two
on Robert Clyde, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What you got hey, Mike.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I was out voting and humble h and I was
stay in line. I've been pre set jauge before. And
it's old lady going up and down the line with
the voters registration cards. And first I thought she's having
people fill them out, but apparently Harris County decided that
would be a good way too well for them to
fill out the information for them to vote with yesterday,
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to fight right on the back of them to do it.
I went complained and they said that was appreciate. Judge said, well,
you can go complain with them, but we're not taking
them off. But that's how we were told to have
them write down the information for them to vote with.
And I told them, I said, that's not right. You're
not supposed to use vote to registration cards to do that.
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I had to apologize young lady because it wasn't her fault,
but yeah, but nobody was monitoring the line outside of
the boosts and everything and stuff. It was just kind
of chaotic. I just never heard of that. But we
weren't supposed to have anything that had anything to do
with elections and stuff or pre elections to go down
the line. I thought it would be better just to
hand out blank pieces of paper instead of that for
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them to write down the information on right right.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So I'll tell you exactly where the problem lies. And
part of the problem is we have a lot of
people who think that we should just cheer for people
who call themselves Republicans and just focus on the Democrats. Okay,
here's the problem. Greg Abbott will not lift a finger
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to help another person. We have had fraud in Harris
County in multiple elections. They are well aware of it.
But Abbot doesn't expend a penny of political capital unless
it will hurt him. His Secretary of State Jane Nelson,
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has done nothing about it. He doesn't want to engage
Mary taly Boden's case.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
He could get involved. That's what Trump would do.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Trump doesn't wait until it's in his job description to
do things. He sees a problem, he steps in, tries
to fix it, and most of the time people go, well,
he can't do that, canny.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Why I guess he can? And he gets it done.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Trump is reforming CBS, ABC, NBC before our very eyes.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Who would have believed it?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Do you know that CBS replaced their news director, their
entire director of news operations to a woman that has
spent time with Trump, Barry Weiss, you got people over
there screaming bloody murder.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
They're so upset about it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Because Trump Trump sees problems and wants to fix them
everywhere all the time. He doesn't wait to see if
it's in his job description or to run a poll.
Greg Abbott doesn't do anything for anyone. When we had
all the fraud, we could have won the Harris County
Judges race. If Meeler had won the Harris County Judges race,
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we could have had Meeler as county Judge and Cactus
Jack Cagle as commissioner and Ramsey as commissioner. We have
a three to two majority, which would mean that we
could control the election Commissioner. We could con all of
these things that are now being put into service of
Rodney Ellis and the Democrat Party. We would have control
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over all of that. But Abbott didn't lift a finger.
Rodney Ellis knows he won't lift a finger. He knows
he can get away with these things because of this.
So as a result, lend Hidalgo was re elected by fraud.
They jerrymandered Cactus Jack Kegel out of his commissioner's seat.
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They put Leslie Briernies in there. Now it's for one
and it's lost. So I guess old boy Ed could say, well,
we all just let Harris County go. They don't vote
any better. Let before you know it, you've let everything go.
That's not what the Democrats do. The Democrats don't say, well,
that's the Republican's stronghold, we'll let that go and focus
over here. They go in and bust up every majority
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you have and try to take it back. Our folks
don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Let that go. Move over here.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
It's not be bothered, it's not let's not fight with them.
And eventually there's nowhere left for us to hide, because
you can leave the city of Houston, you can even
leave Harris County. But make no mistake, Democrats don't want
to live amongst themselves.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They want to come out and live where you are.
It's what they do.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They want to come to where you are, where things
are nice and clean and Christian safe, and they want
to come in there and start pushing policies and behaviors
that destroy everything that made where you are good.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
They cannot help it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Their policies will always bend to the ark of New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago.
They will always bend to the ark of race based politics,
of poor people politics. You know, Ed Early was talking
about that bust up and there were four people acting
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like fools, and everybody knew exactly what he was talking
about when he said one of them didn't have a shirt.
What he didn't say, but I guarantee is the case.
As I bet you at least one of them was
wearing a wife beater. I don't know how the wife
beater became the young black male standing on the street
corner attire, but it did. But that taking the shirt off.
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Did you ever watch cops? There's a comedian I can't
remember who it was, but he had a whole sketch
about the shirt is always off on cops? Did you
ever notice that the guy that's being arrested, asked Chad.
Chad's the one that found that years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I bet that he found that ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
There's always the guy, white or black. There's always the
guy his shirt is coming off. That shirt is coming off,
better know it, and damn shirt is coming off.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's the Michael Barry's shirt.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It was so okay to beat your wife until so
recently that today we have a kind of shirt named
after it. There's a piece of clothing in our culture
affectionately nicknamed after beating the crap out of your wife.
And for some reason this is offensive to nobody. I
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saw a woman on a good morning murcer, so she's like,
I was walking around the wife at my house, and
a wife beater might stop saying it like it's not horrible.
I was wearing a wife beater and child murder shorts
that I like.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know, Louis c K is, I guess, scratching and
calling himself back into the comedy circuit.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And what's interesting against Louis c.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
K was a white liberal, and so as a white liberal,
he loved to shame other people and rural, red blooded Americans.
And then he was he had his me too movement.
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You remember that room that was big. There were a
lot of people going down on that one, and so
he had his me too moment and what he apparently
would do would be drop trou and wank off in
front of girls. That was his thing. He liked to
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wank off in front of girls, and they would let him,
and then they would come back later and say, yeah,
but but you know, he was so powerful and famous
and he could help me, so I wasn't able to
say no, which always seemed weird.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Because other people do so.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But anyway, that would happen, and then he got excommunicated
from the community. And what's interesting about that is then
people started going back and listening to his comedy routines.
And it turns out that I think over thirty times,
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thirty different times, different sets, he would talk about loving
to wink off. It was apparently something that was kind
of in the open. Everybody knew this about him, and
it wasn't until somebody kind of blew the whistle that
it was that he said, yes, yes, I have.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
A problem, and you just go.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Did nobody pull him aside and go, hey, Louie, look,
I've heard from Sarah, I've heard from Susan, I've heard
from Tiffany. Dude, you gotta knock this off, Okay, you
you got to stop this.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
This is not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And if you don't stop it, then we're going to
escalate what it takes to stop it. Are we clear?
Maybe somebody did that and he just couldn't quit. But
I find that hard to believe. I really do.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Maybe most people just don't, just can't have a tough
conversation with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Maybe he didn't have any real friends. Now that the
Mom Donnie era.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Is set to begin in New York, I guess we
could expect the Statue of Liberty to get a makeover.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
On this week's edition of Project Runway New Times. In
New York City, With a Mom Donnie era just around
the corner, our lead designer Oscar Opez got the phone
call of a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hi, my phone rang and I was shaky. The great
Socrn Mamdani. What's on the other night? You won't believe what?
He asked.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Next, Oscar received a question he thought he'd never hear.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He said, Now that I'm going to be mayor, it's
time for Lady Liberty to have a makeover, and I
could fit her with Are you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
A burka?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
WHOA?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
What a privilege for your very own, Oscar.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I've done so many silk dresses, beautiful skirts, and who
doesn't love a trendy scarf?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What a burka? What a dream for me?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
But rejoicing quickly turned to reality for Oscar. So there
I am designing the seven hundred foot beautiful Lady Burka.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
When my assisted knocks on the door.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Hey Oscar, Yeah, I really don't know how to break
this to you, man, but we just got a word
that uh Mamdani and his folks, Yes they're not really
big on the game talk about a big fat turd
in my designing punch bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That's a hard no for me.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
On I'm not sure where to put this email, but
it came in, so I'll read it to you from
somebody named Jeremy Whistler. A baby oyster is called a spat.
Put that on a crack of dude while you fact
checking me, yo, I can promise you it's true. Baby
otter equals a whelp baby possum equals a joey baby cicada,
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a nymph, baby lama, a crea baby oyster, a spat.
Put some other stuff on it so you can't taste
the spit pretense pun intended flavor because plain I described
the flavor as pre chewed butthole with a hairy underarm
sweat aftertaste that lingers like a bad tender date. Hot
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sauce might numb your face so you can slurp down
several of those big ass think of it as novacane
for your soul, tabasco horseradish, mignonette.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
A lemon wedge the size of a hockey puck.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Basically build a tiny, edible hazmat suit for your tongue.
Some people say that grubworms have a similar palate as oysters.
Same people can keep saying it, you know why, because
pizza exists, and tacos and chicken fried literally anything else.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oysters cost more than a Ribi steak.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Dumb asses, You can have my share of grubworms too,
more than that, because I would imagine you'd also want
plenty of extra beverages, preferably alcoholic, to help kill the
bacteria and to wash it down. When you swallow and
the spittle doesn't move downwards, it just kind of camps
out in your esophagus like a squatter with a lawyer
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in Houston. Chug a lagger, chase it with tequila, then
whisper sweet. Nothing's to your gag reef girl, It's fine.
We're just going to foster this festering sea booger for
a minute. But it's a natural aphrodisiac. Oh, you mean
like chocolate, strawberries, gensen and saffron, figs, honey, avocados, and pomegranates.
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Every one of these are also believed to boost libido
due to their nutritional content or historical associations with fertility
and romance. This dude writes with parenthetical statements like Bill
White used to talk. Every one of these also sound
like the exact opposite of sweaty, nauseating flem wads. One
tastes good and its list of ingredients needed to consume
reads like a love poem. The other reads like the
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crime scene lab report from Poseidon's bachelor party and taste
like a cesspool from und cheese. You ever notice the
face people make when they eat a really cheap concession
stand type sour pickle. That's the exact face that people
make when they suck spat right out of their rocks,
like tiny hole eyebrows launched its cheeks, emplode exits the
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body for a quick smoke break. It's the universal I
have made a terrible mistake expression, usually reserved for realize
I didn't have Juice Newton on my Bengo card to
be played today. If I ain't mad at it, that's
for sure. Well, New Yorker's got what they wanted. Almighty
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Mumdani is their new mayor. He's going to solve all
their problems. Yep, you're eighteen with four kids already, no
baby daddy in sight. But just keep wearing those really
really short shorts and turning on the next man and
maybe have a baby for him too. Yeah, you hate
your job at the fast food restaurant, Your government benefits
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aren't enough, and it's real crappy having to ride the train.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But Mumdanni he's going to solve all that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, this is what happens when you watch too much
liberal news. You get brainwashed. This is what happens.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
At some point though, reality is going to sync in.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Good morning, sir, Way you aheaded, You can drop me
at forty second Street. Yes, sir, you got it. It's
a great day for New York. I'll tell you what
makes you think that that mom Domsi guy he wanted
to elect you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Get a breath.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
The fresh air for us New York is the papers
and news stations. They all say we're in for a
safest city. That makes me happy because my brother is
a cop. Well that mom, Sami guy you say you like,
did you know he actually hates cops. Yeah. He also
wants to close Rikers Island in a few years.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Me.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I personally like heart and criminals in prison. Mom Donnie, well,
he just wants to let him go. Yeah, but he's
going to freeze those rent prices, now I love that. Well,
what developer is going to want to build new housing
when Mom Donnie wants to control the pricing? Yeah, but
the food he's promising cheap prices on food.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Government grocery stores have never worked, never will.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
It's been proven. All right, this is my stuff. Look
enjoy your mom Donnie. Vote, But one more thing. You know,
he wants free busses have a good time. Hey, nobody
told me that one.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Spreading the news. I believe them today.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I was all seventeen of the propositions past because they're
written in such a way. Then unless you actually knew
what was going on, of course you would vote for them.
Of course you would proposition one to make babies cute,
old people healthy, and provide more food more often with
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some good sex to boot.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm for that.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
You think about why these things were being asked of you. Next,
thing is some funding for dementia. Oh yeah, we got
too much dementia. And also some funding for technical schools. Yep,
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we need more of those than we do better more
But wait, well, why did we need a proposition for that?
That's a line item in a bill at the legislature.
Anybody wonder why you needed to vote on that. You
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think they were wondering if people would like more technical
training opportunities for people, and they were just kind of
curious if you agree with that or not.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Is that what you thought. I just generally think i'd
be good. Yeah, well, I generally think we.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Ought to studied dimension a little more too, and uh yeah,
and we should get more sleep. And I'll be honest,
I'll go ahead and the port you we all ought
to get a little bit of exercise to count me
a yes on that one too. Nobody thinks about why
this came in the form of a proposition you had
to vote on. That never crosses anybody's mind. You didn't
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need a public vote on this. Could have done this
at the state legislature, assuming the proposition did what you
think it does.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Just like the Department of Education was going to help
the country's schools learn more. We got a real problem
in America. This was a card administration. We got a
real prom in America. Students aren't learning as much as
they should. We're gonna create a department. We're gonna focus
on learning.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I'm against that. It's just gonna be a huge money suck.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
It's gonna federalize education planning and radicalize it to the left.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
No, no, not me.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I'm for it because I think I believe that children
are our future.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show
them all the beauty they possess inside. I'm fur the
Department of Education.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Give them a sense of well, you get the point,
show them the greatest of the Department of Education.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'm for that. How come you're not for that? I
was really surprised to see your votes and you're against
education for children. You have two children. That really surprised me.
You would say that. I really expected you to be
for reguated. Didn't you go to school like forever? I
really thought you'd be for education. I was very disappointed.
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I don't think I'm gonna listen an more. I'm very
disappointed you're against education. How about the fact that we're
giving more exemptions for taxes. See what we do here
is this is the worst game. These people are so
insulting to you. It's sad for me to watch it.
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They're so insulting to you. They never lower how much
they're spending. The spending is just out of control. It
is madness, profligate spending with a posse spending.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Who was the dude he had the one move and
he wore the parachute pants mc hammer. Remember when he
went bankrupt and he was spending ten million dollars a
year and he had all these people around him and
he was buying everybody a rolls Royce, and he had this
big house and all this and they said, HOI did
in it's expensive to keep a posse.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He said posse.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Well, yeah, that's what our state legislature, that's what our
state government does. So then one will pop up and go, uh,
we're going to give an exemption to veterans, and.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We go, yeah, veterans, And.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
We're going to give an exemption to old people. Yeah,
old people. And we're going to give an exemption to
poor people. Yeah, poor people. Well, every one of those
you take off the rolls, she'll up to make that
money up. Who do you think is gonna pay that?
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I wonder how many people realize that's what they just
voted for. We're not gonna have it's a new one
night here all the time. We're not gonna have property taxes. Yeah, no,
our property taxes. How were you gonna pay for all spending? Now,
one of them will tell you they're cutting spending. We're
just gonna cut all the taxes. Yeah, I for cutting
the taxes. Well, no, you're not cutting a damn thing.
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You're just getting people to support you. Let me guess
prayer in school and balance budget to hunh all the
things they promise, and people just every time kick that football.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Lucy holds
It's that time time, time, Luck and load. The Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I was looking for boble this clue while I was talking.
I couldn't find it, but I found it during the break.
This was the article from Houston Metropolitan Magazine November nineteen ninety.
The near would be elected in December of nine in
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a runoff against Sylvester Turner. But the article says Lanier,
a developer elected mayor of Houston for his anti mayor
of Houston rail stance, said quote first rail supporters say
it is cheaper when you show it costs more. They
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say it's faster, when you show it's slower. They say
it serves more writers, when you show there are fewer writers.
They say it brings economic development, when you show there's
no economic development. They say it helps the image, when
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you say you don't want to spend that much money
on image. They say it'll solve the pollution problem. When
you show it won't help pollution. They say, finally, it'll
take time. You'll see people in government don't have to meet.
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Every small business owner, myself included, has had that moment
when you sit down at your desk, you know something's happened.
You didn't get paid on your big project. You had
a big expense come in you didn't expect, and you
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sit down.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I'm a paper guy.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I like stuff in front of me, and you sit
down and you start looking at every expense and every
place we may possibly get some cash. Who can we
get How can we push this expense out another month
to survive. Every business owner's had that moment, every one
(02:45):
of them. What do we do? Do we have to
lay somebody off because nobody wants to do that. It's
an awful feeling. Do we have to sell off our sets?
Do we have to take pennies on the dollar for
things we needed at one point? Do you sell your
(03:07):
house take the equity out of there? Do you cash
in your retirement you got from the job you were
working that you quit to come and open this business.
It's rough, it's what you do. That's why a small
business owners think in terms of profit and loss. They
think about effectiveness, They think about waste and efficiency. How
(03:31):
can we reduce the ticket time for when you order
to when your food is delivered to your table? How
can we improve that from the order taking? Can we
shoot that directly to the kitchen. So if that waiter
stops at two more tables on the way back, the
food is already being cooked. It's completely consumer driven, or
(03:55):
should be. I saw an interview elon Game where he
was talking about the consumer driven development process when your
company runs as if the consumer is the only thing
that matters, not the sales team, not the employees, not
(04:16):
the board of directors, putting a product in front of
the consumer. Steve Jobs had the same approach. Both of
them are awful to work for. Walter Isaacson wrote biographies
on both of them, and the people around them say
they're monsters to work for because they're not mister nice guy.
They're passionately, obsessively consumed with a product. From the view
(04:41):
of the consumer. Almost nobody else is but the furthest
from that approach is government. Rodney Ellis and the Harris
County Commissioner's Court do not give one f how much
you pay in taxes that rather you pay more. They
don't care the quality of services you get, the services
(05:03):
that most people get. They don't actually even pretend to
care whether it's delivered or not.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's law enforcement. You're going to see.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Harris County law enforcement leaving in droves to go join
HPD because HPD just got a fat paycheck and Harris
County is by those standards, underpaid.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So can you blame them?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You got a guy's got a wife and three kids
at home, and they're living in an apartment and struggling,
and he gets off from work and goes and stands
around for six hours at the cell phone store to
get an extra job in the Houston Police Department has
issued a press release that says, ind are you disgusted
(06:01):
with the election of Zora Mumdani, Join us. The Houston
Police Department is hiring police officers, and it gives the
details of it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's going to get some attention, that will that will
definitely get some attention.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It talks about Texas being a supportive environment for law enforcement,
recently approved thirty six point five percent pay raise over
five years, a supportive mayor and city council, and a
police chief described as a retired Texas ranger, not a politician.
There will be some people leave the NYPD and come
to Houston, some of them immediately, but some of them
(06:44):
will wait. Some of them will take the death by
a thousand cuts, but they'll wait till, you know, maybe
cut three hundred or four hundred, but they'll leave, they will,
the indignities will pile up. Robert, You're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Robert. Let's see all right,
(07:10):
I'm gonna try this again. Robert, are you there? I know,
I'm just I just double checking. Do you think people
hit mute? You know that's one of the fixes. If
Steve Jobs was still alive, he could have worked on
(07:31):
is the mute button should be harder to get to?
There are too many occasions Hello, Hello, you can hear me?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yes, okay, it's me. I just testing it. See, wasn't
you you dumb ass?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Robert? I had somebody. I had some guys over last night.
One of them said, does Ramon ever talk? I said
too much? He won't shut up. He said no, no
on air, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Then you went and blew it. Do you want to
do it? To the break? Go ahead? Take it? Take
it away the Michael Berry Show. Please clap, please, please clap.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I don't think Robert's phone works. That's oh for two
on Robert Clyde, You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What you got hey, Mike.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I was out voting and humble h and I was
stay in line. I've been pre set jauge before. And
it's old lady going up and down the line with
the voters registration cards. And first I thought she's having
people fill them out, but apparently Harris County decided that
would be a good way too well for them to
fill out the information for them to vote with yesterday,
(08:57):
to fight right on the back of them to do it.
I went complained and they said that was appreciate. Judge said, well,
you can go complain with them, but we're not taking
them off. But that's how we were told to have
them write down the information for them to vote with.
And I told them, I said, that's not right. You're
not supposed to use vote to registration cards to do that.
(09:17):
I had to apologize young lady because it wasn't her fault,
but yeah, but nobody was monitoring the line outside of
the boosts and everything and stuff. It was just kind
of chaotic. I just never heard of that. But we
weren't supposed to have anything that had anything to do
with elections and stuff or pre elections to go down
the line. I thought it would be better just to
hand out blank pieces of paper instead of that for
(09:40):
them to write down the information on right right.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So I'll tell you exactly where the problem lies. And
part of the problem is we have a lot of
people who think that we should just cheer for people
who call themselves Republicans and just focus on the Democrats. Okay,
here's the problem. Greg Abbott will not lift a finger
(10:05):
to help another person. We have had fraud in Harris
County in multiple elections. They are well aware of it.
But Abbot doesn't expend a penny of political capital unless
it will hurt him. His Secretary of State Jane Nelson,
(10:29):
has done nothing about it. He doesn't want to engage
Mary taly Boden's case.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
He could get involved. That's what Trump would do.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Trump doesn't wait until it's in his job description to
do things. He sees a problem, he steps in, tries
to fix it, and most of the time people go, well,
he can't do that, canny.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Why I guess he can? And he gets it done.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Trump is reforming CBS, ABC, NBC before our very eyes.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Who would have believed it?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Do you know that CBS replaced their news director, their
entire director of news operations to a woman that has
spent time with Trump, Barry Weiss, you got people over
there screaming bloody murder.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
They're so upset about it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Because Trump Trump sees problems and wants to fix them
everywhere all the time. He doesn't wait to see if
it's in his job description or to run a poll.
Greg Abbott doesn't do anything for anyone. When we had
all the fraud, we could have won the Harris County
Judges race. If Meeler had won the Harris County Judges race,
(11:45):
we could have had Meeler as county Judge and Cactus
Jack Cagle as commissioner and Ramsey as commissioner. We have
a three to two majority, which would mean that we
could control the election Commissioner. We could con all of
these things that are now being put into service of
Rodney Ellis and the Democrat Party. We would have control
(12:08):
over all of that. But Abbott didn't lift a finger.
Rodney Ellis knows he won't lift a finger. He knows
he can get away with these things because of this.
So as a result, lend Hidalgo was re elected by fraud.
They jerrymandered Cactus Jack Kegel out of his commissioner's seat.
(12:29):
They put Leslie Briernies in there. Now it's for one
and it's lost. So I guess old boy Ed could say, well,
we all just let Harris County go. They don't vote
any better. Let before you know it, you've let everything go.
That's not what the Democrats do. The Democrats don't say, well,
that's the Republican's stronghold, we'll let that go and focus
over here. They go in and bust up every majority
(12:52):
you have and try to take it back. Our folks
don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Let that go. Move over here.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
It's not be bothered, it's not let's not fight with them.
And eventually there's nowhere left for us to hide, because
you can leave the city of Houston, you can even
leave Harris County. But make no mistake, Democrats don't want
to live amongst themselves.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They want to come out and live where you are.
It's what they do.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They want to come to where you are, where things
are nice and clean and Christian safe, and they want
to come in there and start pushing policies and behaviors
that destroy everything that made where you are good.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
They cannot help it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Their policies will always bend to the ark of New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago.
They will always bend to the ark of race based politics,
of poor people politics. You know, Ed Early was talking
about that bust up and there were four people acting
(14:02):
like fools, and everybody knew exactly what he was talking
about when he said one of them didn't have a shirt.
What he didn't say, but I guarantee is the case.
As I bet you at least one of them was
wearing a wife beater. I don't know how the wife
beater became the young black male standing on the street
corner attire, but it did. But that taking the shirt off.
(14:27):
Did you ever watch cops? There's a comedian I can't
remember who it was, but he had a whole sketch
about the shirt is always off on cops? Did you
ever notice that the guy that's being arrested, asked Chad.
Chad's the one that found that years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I bet that he found that ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
There's always the guy, white or black. There's always the
guy his shirt is coming off. That shirt is coming off,
better know it, and damn shirt is coming off.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's the Michael Barry's shirt.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It was so okay to beat your wife until so
recently that today we have a kind of shirt named
after it. There's a piece of clothing in our culture
affectionately nicknamed after beating the crap out of your wife.
And for some reason this is offensive to nobody. I
(15:30):
saw a woman on a good morning murcer, so she's like,
I was walking around the wife at my house, and
a wife beater might stop saying it like it's not horrible.
I was wearing a wife beater and child murder shorts
that I like.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know, Louis c K is, I guess, scratching and
calling himself back into the comedy circuit.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And what's interesting against Louis c.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
K was a white liberal, and so as a white liberal,
he loved to shame other people and rural, red blooded Americans.
And then he was he had his me too movement.
(16:20):
You remember that room that was big. There were a
lot of people going down on that one, and so
he had his me too moment and what he apparently
would do would be drop trou and wank off in
front of girls. That was his thing. He liked to
(16:41):
wank off in front of girls, and they would let him,
and then they would come back later and say, yeah,
but but you know, he was so powerful and famous
and he could help me, so I wasn't able to
say no, which always seemed weird.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Because other people do so.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But anyway, that would happen, and then he got excommunicated
from the community. And what's interesting about that is then
people started going back and listening to his comedy routines.
And it turns out that I think over thirty times,
(17:26):
thirty different times, different sets, he would talk about loving
to wink off. It was apparently something that was kind
of in the open. Everybody knew this about him, and
it wasn't until somebody kind of blew the whistle that
it was that he said, yes, yes, I have.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
A problem, and you just go.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Did nobody pull him aside and go, hey, Louie, look,
I've heard from Sarah, I've heard from Susan, I've heard
from Tiffany. Dude, you gotta knock this off, Okay, you
you got to stop this.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
This is not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And if you don't stop it, then we're going to
escalate what it takes to stop it. Are we clear?
Maybe somebody did that and he just couldn't quit. But
I find that hard to believe. I really do.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Maybe most people just don't, just can't have a tough
conversation with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Maybe he didn't have any real friends. Now that the
Mom Donnie era.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Is set to begin in New York, I guess we
could expect the Statue of Liberty to get a makeover.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
On this week's edition of Project Runway New Times. In
New York City, With a Mom Donnie era just around
the corner, our lead designer Oscar Opez got the phone
call of a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hi, my phone rang and I was shaky. The great
Socrn Mamdani. What's on the other night? You won't believe what?
He asked.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Next, Oscar received a question he thought he'd never hear.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He said, Now that I'm going to be mayor, it's
time for Lady Liberty to have a makeover, and I
could fit her with Are you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
A burka?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
WHOA?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
What a privilege for your very own, Oscar.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I've done so many silk dresses, beautiful skirts, and who
doesn't love a trendy scarf?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What a burka? What a dream for me?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
But rejoicing quickly turned to reality for Oscar. So there
I am designing the seven hundred foot beautiful Lady Burka.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
When my assisted knocks on the door.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Hey Oscar, Yeah, I really don't know how to break
this to you, man, but we just got a word
that uh Mamdani and his folks, Yes they're not really
big on the game talk about a big fat turd
in my designing punch bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That's a hard no for me.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
On I'm not sure where to put this email, but
it came in, so I'll read it to you from
somebody named Jeremy Whistler. A baby oyster is called a spat.
Put that on a crack of dude while you fact
checking me, yo, I can promise you it's true. Baby
otter equals a whelp baby possum equals a joey baby cicada,
(20:31):
a nymph, baby lama, a crea baby oyster, a spat.
Put some other stuff on it so you can't taste
the spit pretense pun intended flavor because plain I described
the flavor as pre chewed butthole with a hairy underarm
sweat aftertaste that lingers like a bad tender date. Hot
(20:54):
sauce might numb your face so you can slurp down
several of those big ass think of it as novacane
for your soul, tabasco horseradish, mignonette.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
A lemon wedge the size of a hockey puck.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Basically build a tiny, edible hazmat suit for your tongue.
Some people say that grubworms have a similar palate as oysters.
Same people can keep saying it, you know why, because
pizza exists, and tacos and chicken fried literally anything else.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oysters cost more than a Ribi steak.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Dumb asses, You can have my share of grubworms too,
more than that, because I would imagine you'd also want
plenty of extra beverages, preferably alcoholic, to help kill the
bacteria and to wash it down. When you swallow and
the spittle doesn't move downwards, it just kind of camps
out in your esophagus like a squatter with a lawyer
(21:54):
in Houston. Chug a lagger, chase it with tequila, then
whisper sweet. Nothing's to your gag reef girl, It's fine.
We're just going to foster this festering sea booger for
a minute. But it's a natural aphrodisiac. Oh, you mean
like chocolate, strawberries, gensen and saffron, figs, honey, avocados, and pomegranates.
(22:16):
Every one of these are also believed to boost libido
due to their nutritional content or historical associations with fertility
and romance. This dude writes with parenthetical statements like Bill
White used to talk. Every one of these also sound
like the exact opposite of sweaty, nauseating flem wads. One
tastes good and its list of ingredients needed to consume
reads like a love poem. The other reads like the
(22:38):
crime scene lab report from Poseidon's bachelor party and taste
like a cesspool from und cheese. You ever notice the
face people make when they eat a really cheap concession
stand type sour pickle. That's the exact face that people
make when they suck spat right out of their rocks,
like tiny hole eyebrows launched its cheeks, emplode exits the
(23:01):
body for a quick smoke break. It's the universal I
have made a terrible mistake expression, usually reserved for realize
I didn't have Juice Newton on my Bengo card to
be played today. If I ain't mad at it, that's
for sure. Well, New Yorker's got what they wanted. Almighty
(23:22):
Mumdani is their new mayor. He's going to solve all
their problems. Yep, you're eighteen with four kids already, no
baby daddy in sight. But just keep wearing those really
really short shorts and turning on the next man and
maybe have a baby for him too. Yeah, you hate
your job at the fast food restaurant, Your government benefits
(23:44):
aren't enough, and it's real crappy having to ride the train.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But Mumdanni he's going to solve all that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, this is what happens when you watch too much
liberal news. You get brainwashed. This is what happens.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
At some point though, reality is going to sync in.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Good morning, sir, Way you aheaded, You can drop me
at forty second Street. Yes, sir, you got it. It's
a great day for New York. I'll tell you what
makes you think that that mom Domsi guy he wanted
to elect you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Get a breath.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
The fresh air for us New York is the papers
and news stations. They all say we're in for a
safest city. That makes me happy because my brother is
a cop. Well that mom, Sami guy you say you like,
did you know he actually hates cops. Yeah. He also
wants to close Rikers Island in a few years.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Me.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I personally like heart and criminals in prison. Mom Donnie, well,
he just wants to let him go. Yeah, but he's
going to freeze those rent prices, now I love that. Well,
what developer is going to want to build new housing
when Mom Donnie wants to control the pricing? Yeah, but
the food he's promising cheap prices on food.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Government grocery stores have never worked, never will.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
It's been proven. All right, this is my stuff. Look
enjoy your mom Donnie. Vote, But one more thing. You know,
he wants free busses have a good time. Hey, nobody
told me that one.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Spreading the news. I believe them today.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I was all seventeen of the propositions past because they're
written in such a way. Then unless you actually knew
what was going on, of course you would vote for them.
Of course you would proposition one to make babies cute,
old people healthy, and provide more food more often with
(25:32):
some good sex to boot.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm for that.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
You think about why these things were being asked of you. Next,
thing is some funding for dementia. Oh yeah, we got
too much dementia. And also some funding for technical schools. Yep,
(25:57):
we need more of those than we do better more
But wait, well, why did we need a proposition for that?
That's a line item in a bill at the legislature.
Anybody wonder why you needed to vote on that. You
(26:20):
think they were wondering if people would like more technical
training opportunities for people, and they were just kind of
curious if you agree with that or not.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Is that what you thought. I just generally think i'd
be good. Yeah, well, I generally think we.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Ought to studied dimension a little more too, and uh yeah,
and we should get more sleep. And I'll be honest,
I'll go ahead and the port you we all ought
to get a little bit of exercise to count me
a yes on that one too. Nobody thinks about why
this came in the form of a proposition you had
to vote on. That never crosses anybody's mind. You didn't
(26:58):
need a public vote on this. Could have done this
at the state legislature, assuming the proposition did what you
think it does.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
But it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Just like the Department of Education was going to help
the country's schools learn more. We got a real problem
in America. This was a card administration. We got a
real prom in America. Students aren't learning as much as
they should. We're gonna create a department. We're gonna focus
on learning.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I'm against that. It's just gonna be a huge money suck.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
It's gonna federalize education planning and radicalize it to the left.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
No, no, not me.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I'm for it because I think I believe that children
are our future.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show
them all the beauty they possess inside. I'm fur the
Department of Education.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Give them a sense of well, you get the point,
show them the greatest of the Department of Education.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'm for that. How come you're not for that? I
was really surprised to see your votes and you're against
education for children. You have two children. That really surprised me.
You would say that. I really expected you to be
for reguated. Didn't you go to school like forever? I
really thought you'd be for education. I was very disappointed.
(28:23):
I don't think I'm gonna listen an more. I'm very
disappointed you're against education. How about the fact that we're
giving more exemptions for taxes. See what we do here
is this is the worst game. These people are so
insulting to you. It's sad for me to watch it.
(28:45):
They're so insulting to you. They never lower how much
they're spending. The spending is just out of control. It
is madness, profligate spending with a posse spending.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Who was the dude he had the one move and
he wore the parachute pants mc hammer. Remember when he
went bankrupt and he was spending ten million dollars a
year and he had all these people around him and
he was buying everybody a rolls Royce, and he had this
big house and all this and they said, HOI did
in it's expensive to keep a posse.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He said posse.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Well, yeah, that's what our state legislature, that's what our
state government does. So then one will pop up and go, uh,
we're going to give an exemption to veterans, and.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We go, yeah, veterans, And.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
We're going to give an exemption to old people. Yeah,
old people. And we're going to give an exemption to
poor people. Yeah, poor people. Well, every one of those
you take off the rolls, she'll up to make that
money up. Who do you think is gonna pay that?
(30:06):
I wonder how many people realize that's what they just
voted for. We're not gonna have it's a new one
night here all the time. We're not gonna have property taxes. Yeah, no,
our property taxes. How were you gonna pay for all spending? Now,
one of them will tell you they're cutting spending. We're
just gonna cut all the taxes. Yeah, I for cutting
the taxes. Well, no, you're not cutting a damn thing.
(30:31):
You're just getting people to support you. Let me guess
prayer in school and balance budget to hunh all the
things they promise, and people just every time kick that football.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
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