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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Lock and load. The Michael Derry Show
is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
For the mayor of New York City in Chicago, President
Trump made it clear two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're going double down and triple down the sanctuary city.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
ICE will now have a larger budget than all but
15 of the world's militaries. Its four-year total is more
than every military except for the United States and China.
This is a direct assault on the civil liberties of
all Americans and will fundamentally undermine our rights.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's not a direct assault on my civil liberties. Your
presence here is a direct assault on my civil liberties.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's a day like today.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
I want folks to know we have your back and
we'll continue to come back and do what we can
to protect our diverse communities, to protect the spirit that
defines the best of this city and our state, and
to push back against this cruelty, to push back against
this cruelty. that has been perpetuated by the President of

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the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
What you see in those pictures, is it making America safer?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, it's terrorizing Americans, our friends and neighbors, otherwise known
as immigrants, many of them. But these are folks who,
you know, they go to our churches, they work at
our grocery stores, they work on construction sites, they work
in childcare, they work in many jobs that would not
be filled had they not done it. And I also

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just sit back and ask, Who asked for this? Americans
were told that the most violent individuals would be deported,
and we're now seeing in the numbers that that is
a very small percentage of who is being targeted.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
We're not helpless.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
You should meet their chaos with chaos.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I have been asked by writers, talkers, you name it,
across the country about the Texas election, for the U.S.
Senate particularly. And people are seeing polling numbers that say
that Talafrico is beating Paxton. And I have no reason

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to doubt those polling numbers. I am amazed. If COVID
comes back tomorrow, there will be people who've said that
they would never take the shot again, that will rush
down and take the shot, not knowing what's in it,
knowing what it did to other people. There are people

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in a Groundhog Day way who can be duped on
our side. It happens. I've got an article, I'll pull
it up, that has Beto beating Ted Cruz a matter
of weeks before the election in Texas in 2018. And

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beating him roundly, four or five percentage points, outside the
margin of error. And I can tell you, based on
phone calls I was having, that was consistent with the
internal polling. Beto was winning. If the election was held
that day, Beto would win. But here's what happens. The

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media pushes a candidate out. Do you remember Chris Matthews
and his thrill up the leg at the Beto campaign?
And Keith Olbermann had to be the rational voice of
all people. Keith Olbermann said, steady, steady. Chris Matthews was

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talking about when Beto ran for president two years later
in 20. Do you see the way that Annie Leibovitz
shot this photo of him? There is the blue sky
behind him and the sun is kissing his cheek. That's
a sign of a man on the rise. That is

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the next John F. Kennedy. Well, this is how Beto
was shown to people. Here's Beto at Whataburger. My goodness,
he's just like us. Here's Beto on a skateboard. Well,
that's odd, but the kids love him. Beto was in
a band. They didn't tell you he was dressed as
a girl wearing makeup, but hey, Beto isn't even his

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real name. His real name is Francis Beto. His daddy
called him Beto. I think he's Hispanic. Yeah, yeah, he's,
we need a Hispanic. Well, Cruz is Hispanic. Oh, he's
Cuban Hispanic. We don't like that kind because they vote
Republican and don't want welfare because they've lived under socialism.

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Talafrico is getting the same, by the way, Beto wasn't Hispanic.
His dad was the county judge. And He started calling
Roberto Beto or Robert Beto as a Mexican nickname because
he said and talk about how prescient he was. What

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level of foresight did this man have? He said Mexican-Americans
will make up the majority of Texas by the time
you're an adult. And having the nickname Beto will ingratiate
you with them. It worked. When they first brought him out,
a number of Hispanics believed he was Mexican-American, and that's

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the largest Hispanic group in Texas. He was Beto. He's
good looking. Don't tell me he's not. He is. He is.
You don't.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
All right. I can take some fat ass Republican whose
politics you like. You'll tell me they're the most beautiful
or handsome person in the world. Beto was attractive to voters.
Stop telling me he's not. And I'll rattle off some
more to you if you irritate me. So he's got
his Mexican-American name. He's not. But he could pass off, right?

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He's got personal wealth, so he doesn't have to worry about,
you know, taking money anywhere. His father-in-law's a billionaire. He's energetic.
He's cool. He's hip. The young people like that. He's
not an old fuddy-dud like Mike Pence, right? So... And
he's progressive, but not too progressive. And remember they had

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the blind squirrel? Oh, California loved him, so they funded him.
He was the perfect Trojan horse to roll in and
fool you. We've got audio of Barack Obama running for
office in 2008. And Barack Obama was an unknown senator.
The only thing he'd done is speak at the convention
when they set him up in 2004 because they wanted

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to launch him eventually. Nobody knew it would be that fast.
And Barack Obama is talking about things that J.D. Vance
is talking about this week, like American jobs should go
to American workers. If you don't belong here, we need
to remove you. If you're born here and your parents
are illegal, we should remove you. Harry Reid said that
as well. So Beto did that and came within a

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whisker of winning. But why didn't he win? For the
same reason we can beat Tallarico. Because as voters stopped
listening to the hype by the Houston Chronicle, good grief
have they no shame, by the Dallas paper, the San
Antonio paper, the Austin paper, because he's an Austin white liberal,
he is perfect for them. As voters started paying attention,

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and as the Republican candidacy finally had enough money to
spend to combat them and define him, They realized, this
guy's a freak, he's a weirdo. This is Coach Bob Phillips,
and you're listening to the Michael Berry Show. Good night, Irene!
The United States is two parties. And not everybody fits

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nicely in those two parties. And I don't just mean
the Green Party. Not everybody follows what is the strict
standard on an issue within one or the other of
the parties. The Democrats have a real challenge on their
hands right now because what should have been a fringe
element of their party has now organized, and they have

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organized very well, and they are well-funded and well-organized and ruthless,
and they fully intend to take over the Democrat Party,
which they probably could not have done... If the Democrat
Party wasn't at a point where it lacked any real leadership,

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if Bill Clinton was president and these nut jobs came up,
to his credit, he could have tamped this down. He
used sister soldier and the sister soldier moment to say,
too radical. We don't want this. And everybody he lost
of the sister soldier crowd, he made up more than that.

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with independents saying, oh, well, if he's willing to stand
up to that part of the Democrat base, then maybe
he's tolerable. See, that's why Democrats need to seem moderate
is because a lot of independents say, you know, I

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might vote for some of what you do, but I'm
scared of the radical wing of your party. Well, this election,
the radical wing of the party has taken over the party.
Nancy Pelosi is out. She could control a lot of
that during her heyday. I have said before, and I'll
say it again, she's the most powerful speaker of the
House in American history. It's not even close. Not Newt Gingrich.

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Not Sam Rayburn. her. And we can debate this for
hours on end, but just trust me. In the Senate,
you've got, even though they're in the minority, their leader
is Chuck Schumer. Schumer is way past his prime, and
he's Jewish in New York. The Democrat Party is having

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a moment. They are kicking the Jews out, and they
are bringing in a very aggressive strain of Muslim candidates.
Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan is only the highest profile. There's
a lot more where that's coming from. Hassan Piker didn't

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get rich as a streamer talking about hating the Christians
and conquering the Christians for nothing. There is an audience
out there for him. And it's not all Muslims. It's
some of your kids who've gone off to college and
this is a radical new idea. This is 1969 and

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this is their Woodstock. This is edgy. They want to
be edgy. So they're looking at issues quite differently than
maybe they grew up with. Republicans have our own problem.
The Republican problem isn't A fringe element that began taking
over the party in 2010 with the Tea Party. The

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Republican Party's problem is the establishment. The Republican Party problem
was exemplified or illustrated by Jeb Bush, who was going
to be the nominee, the establishment believed, in 2016. But
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump put an end to that.

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the Mitt Romneys of 2012, the George W. Bushes of before,
that wing of the party people have had enough of.
And so there has been a grassroots effort to replace
those candidates, to replace those officeholders. But they have all
the money and they have the structure. So in Texas,

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you had John Cornyn, who was a 24-year U.S. senator
who who was a do-nothing senator who was cutting deals
with the left, who worked very hard against Trump, who
did not want to close the border, said it couldn't
be done. He didn't represent Texas. So when he was
defeated in the primary, Ken Paxton, a Trump-like Republican who's

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the attorney general, who has done a lot of very
good things as attorney general, including winning a big judgment
against Mehta last week, multi-billion dollar, Several states got to
benefit from that. He's gone after Meta with Facebook for

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what they've done, luring children in. This is sick, and
he's gone after it, and he's won. He's gone after
big pharma. He's gone after big data, harvesting our information,
lying about what they were doing. He's tagged Google with
a suit. And so he's very popular among the base.
But the establishment, who didn't really want to ever get

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anything done anyway, they're not helping him. They poured, by
some estimates, $ 225 million, including dark money, into defeating him
and keeping their boy, John Cornyn, in the Senate. Well,
when John Cornyn didn't win, interestingly, one of his top
guys went over for the radical leftist Democrat, James Tallarico.

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What kind of freaky weirdo... You're not a Republican at all.
So he tells the left-wing rag, the Texas Tribune, that
Paxton is lazy and a bad campaigner. He's a bad campaigner.
He beats you. And now he says, well, I'm raising
money for races in New Hampshire and Michigan and Alaska,
but I'm not going to raise any money for Paxton,

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so you don't care about your state and who represents us.
So Ted Cruz, the other senator from this state, was
asked about Cornyn's comments. Cruz is raising money for Paxton,
campaigning for Paxton. And he was on Meet the Press
and he says Cornyn has his Cornyn's butt hurt. That's
really what this is about. Audios from Meet the Press.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
John Cornyn, who, of course, lost to Ken Paxton in
a primary who served 24 years in the Senate, said
this this week, quote, Paxton's a poor campaigner. He's lazy
and doesn't raise money. And he basically is not offering
a very compelling case for his election. This is unfortunately
shaping up to be a close and I hope not
disastrous election. But it ain't looking good right now. Do

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you agree with Senator Cornyn that Paxton is lazy and.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
A poor campaigner?

Speaker 6 (14:45):
Well, listen, I think primaries can often be bitter and
you often see hurt feelings. That's part of the process.
It's also part of the process that when the primary
is over, that you come together and you focus on
the general election.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
At the end of the day, this.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Is not about how any one particular person feels about
any one particular candidate.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
This is about the people of Texas.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
This is about who will best represent 32 million Texans.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
And on that, I think the answer is very, very clear.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
Ken Paxton is a strong conservative who is going to
fight for low taxes, low regulations, lots of jobs to
secure the border, to support law enforcement, to protect our
constitutional rights.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's what Texans want.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
That's what we believe in. James Tallarico is a far-left
radical candidate.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
He is extreme.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
This is someone who says God is non-binary. This is
someone who says there are six genders. I don't know
what those six genders are, but that's not what most
Texans believe. This is someone who says on our southern
border we should put out a welcome mat to welcome
illegal immigrants.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Into this country. Again, that's not what Texans believe.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
And this is someone who is now on video saying
we should dismantle capitalism.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't have the monkey pop.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
Can't bend over to wear my socks. I think Michael
Berry rocks.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
The Michael Berry Show. That song is called For What
It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield. If you ask a hundred
people who recognize the song what the song is about,

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You'll get a few who say, I have no idea.
But I'll bet you over 90 would say, oh, it's
about Vietnam. Because every documentary you've watched about Vietnam, they
roll helicopter footage, and here comes that guitar. Two notes, ding, ding,

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and you know exactly where you are. You're in a
rice paddy in 1968. Except that song is not about Vietnam.
Here's what it is about. Los Angeles, 1966. Sunset Strip,

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November of 1966. There was a nightclub at Sunset and
Crescent Heights called Pandora's Box. The kids love it. The
neighbors hate it. Typical urban setup. Traffic, noise, kids everywhere.

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I say kids. My 19 and 20-year-old are still kids
to me. We're talking about the youths, as it were.
The business owners were complaining. Homeowners were complaining. The kids
don't vote yet. Young people aren't voting yet at this point.
So Los Angeles County does what government does. They pass

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an ordinance. A 10 o'clock curfew, anti-loitering, and they send
in the cops. This won't take long. And by the way,
the part that nobody tells you, the county wanted that
real estate. They had plans for the strip. So the
strip that you know of is the plans that they executed.

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But let me not get ahead of myself. They wanted
a financial district and office towers built. So the county
government used a curfew ordinance, 10 o'clock, to clear American
citizens off a public street because somebody else had plans
for land. When have we ever heard of that before?
November 12th, 1966. A thousand kids show up outside Pandora's box.

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The Popo move in. It gets ugly. And in that
crowd that night, is Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda. Peter
Fonda gets handcuffed. Of course, this was before either one
of them was Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda. But not
long before. Not long before at all. But more importantly,

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Stephen Steele's is there.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Of Crosby, Steele's, and Nash. Or if you like to
put Neil Young on there, you can. Stephen Steele's is there.
And he sees it, and he writes a poem that
he puts to music, or as we would call it,
a song. They bulldozed Pandora's box the next year. So
the kids lost, the county won, because the government always wins. Now,

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here's the part I love about this story. Everybody spent
60 years turning that song into... vietnam i thought that
song was about vietnam up until relatively recently because it's
such a perfect song and i don't know if they

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lack creativity or it's so well branded Every movie, commercial
or documentary, puts that song in there. And there's one
shot that you see that starts. It's the serviceman from
the back. And you can feel how thick the air is.

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He's got a cigarette dangling from his mouth. You've seen
this shot a thousand times. For 60 years, they've made
that song about Vietnam. And Stephen Stills, who wrote it,
has spent 60 years telling people it is not about Vietnam.
He had to come out and say it again, he's

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done it before, in 2006 because people decided it was
about Kent State. Where the students got out of hand,
the National Guard shot them. He said that song is
three and a half years older than Kent State. It
can't be about Kent State. Neil Young wrote the Kent

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State song, It's Called Ohio. But you might say, well,
does it even matter? It's a good song, Michael. What
does it matter if they... It does matter. Because the
song that you've been told is about a war is
about a curfew, a nightclub, a parking problem. And I

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would argue... We have periods of war, and they're awful,
and we send men off to experience them, and some
don't come home. But when we're not at war, and
also when we are at war, there are things like
this going on on our very streets. The other thing

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that happens every other day, every single day, that happened
in this city is happening in Harris County right now.
A government making rules to target people who are doing
nothing wrong because they want the land, because they want
the money, because someone is putting them up to it.

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60 years later, everybody still hears the helicopters. Stop. Hey,
what's that sound? It's a bulldozer. Actually, it's a bulldozer.

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I don't know that that song could have changed anything.
I'm well aware that Steven Stills' perspective on a lot
of things is different than mine. I will tell you
that my opinion of Vietnam has changed in the course
of my 55 years. Hooray, America. Wave the flag. Love

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your country. Support your servicemen. got a lot more complicated
for me. Support your servicemen. Did we support our servicemen?
We sent them in to a horrible civil war with

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rules of engagement that either made them sitting ducks or
war criminals. They came home to being treated terribly. Ask
a Vietnam veteran. I'm sure there are exceptions to the
rule I'm stating, but ask a Vietnam veteran what they

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think when they got their head shaved, put through the ringer,
and sent over to this crazy place about their service.
I don't think that's supporting our troops at all. Quite
the opposite. Can we come into your house and scoop
up your kids and shave their head and yell at

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them and put them through some grueling physical exercises and
send them somewhere to be shot at in a war
you have no chance of winning. But don't worry, I'll
stand back and cheer for them. That's not respect. I
wouldn't want that done to my kids nor yours. It

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took me a lot of my 55 years to come
to the conclusion that some of the jingoism that was
for a bad cause and bad people who got rich
or powerful for all the wrong reasons, and the good
people end up with war wounds or death. On this
day in 1945, Fleet Admiral Chester W.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Nimitz signed the Instrument of Surrender with Japan that ended
World War II.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Nimitz was born in 1885, the descendant of German pioneer
settlers of Fredericksburg. Of course you knew that. And if
you didn't, you should. There's a wonderful museum in his
honor there. He was named commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet

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shortly after Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and later
commander-in-chief of of Pacific Ocean areas as well. With authority
over the entire Pacific theater, except for General Douglas MacArthur's
Southwest Pacific sector and the inactive Southeast, Nimitz coordinated the
offensive that brought the Japanese to unconditional surrender. He signed

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the peace treaty aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Nimitz. No,
it's not on Netflix. It's probably on Netflix somewhere. Please
don't interrupt. Nimitz later spent two years as commander-in-chief of
the U.S. fleet and also served as a roving ambassador
for the United Nations and chairman of the Presidential Commission

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on Internal Security and Individual Rights. He died in 1966.
In 1964... A local citizens group established the Fleet Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Naval Museum in the old Nimitz
Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas. The project evolved into the National

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Museum of the Pacific War. What a wonderful tribute, not
just to Nimitz, but to all of our grandfathers who
served in the Pacific Navy. I told you the story
recently when Phil Garner was posthumously inducted into the Astros

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Hall of Fame just a few weeks ago that I
met his father at the RCC on December 7th of 2013.
We had just been open a couple of months and
I come up with this harebrained scheme that we're going
to honor World War II veterans. And it being December 7th, which,
of course, a day which will live in infamy, set

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off World War II. And so I said, I would
like to invite our World War II veterans to come
out and be honored and wear anything that you wore,
whether it's a cap. A lot of folks will still
wear their caps, whether it's a cap or anything else
that you have. And if you didn't serve in World

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War II, but you are of that generation, we'll also
call it Grandparents Day. So come out and let us
honor you. How long has it been since you've been out?
And and. Folks my age, bring mom and dad out
with you.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
So what was that? 70 years at that point after
World War II. And we had more than 10. I
think we had 12 World War II veterans. And one
was this little fellow who comes up and he's still
he's stuffed into his. that light tan Marine and that
light tan uniform. Some of you will know what that's called.

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I don't. But you know, there was, there were bulges
in the belly and the thighs and all that. Cause
he's a lot older now. And he handed me a
book that he had written about it. And he said,
you know, my son. And of course it was Phil Garner.
It was Phil Garner's dad. So I call Phil Garner
on the way home. And I said, you didn't tell
me your dad's a world war two veteran. He said, Oh,

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you met him, I guess. And he said, I said, yes.
And he said, Well, he's a big fan of yours.
So the book was about the Pacific Fleet and all
that had occurred there. If you have not been to
Fredericksburg and you live in Texas, I should make a
list of the 10 things you ought to do. Now,
I can already hear a number of people. It ain't
what it used to be. Too many people moving there.

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Too many people moving. Got too expensive. Nobody likes it
no more. The old Yogi Berra. Nobody goes there anymore.
It's too busy. Yeah, it is changing.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
It is.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Some for the good, some for the bad. Sure, it's
not the sleepy little town it always was, but it's beautiful.
And the things that made Fredericksburg great are largely, in effect,
still there. It's a wonderful town, and there's some wonderful history,
and it's a unique part of Texas. And while you're there,

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our show sponsors that started over on I-10 years ago,
Little Bitty Boot Store, I went over and visited them,
and one day they let me know that they've bought
a space on Heights Boulevard and they're going to open
up there. Okay. And then they keep opening the little,
they keep buying the little shops next to them, a
bead shop and a weirdo shop. and a psychedelic shop

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and whatever else because it is heights boulevard and this
old building um that probably would have been a boot
store a hundred years ago they end up taking up
almost the entirety of it and buying the building and
and now everybody we know cal mcnair takes the Texans
over to get them, if you remember when C.J. Stroud
had his boots made, took him to Republic Boot Company.

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They made all the cheerleaders' boots, those red sparkly boots,
they made all of those. Anyway, so Chris Conrad is
a Texas history buff, and he finds a little property
in Johnson City that is a winery, that is a castle.

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And There's a winery attached, and they have fallen on
hard times. And he buys that and restores the whole thing.
And it's the neatest, coolest thing. You can stay at
the hotel. They have events there. It's a castle. It's
a big castle. I mean, if you remember the castle
they walk up on in, was it Life of Brian?

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Where is it? Which is the Knights that Go Knee, Ramone?
Is it the Holy Grail where they come up and
they're looking down on them from the side of the
walls of the castle? Remember they go galloping up on
their stick? There's that scene right there? Yeah. So it

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looks like that. It looks like that castle. It's a really,
really cool thing. It's hard to get people out of
their norm of remember that it's there, but people I've
sent who actually go and see it, blown away. Of course,
you can get custom boots made there. You can sample wine.
You can drink wine. You can buy wine. You can

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stay there. It's really cool. We've had a number of
listeners who I did not realize, who I knew as
working men in the greater Houston area, who retired, and
they and their wives are enjoying Central Texas and In
Johnson City, which is where this is, and the surrounding area,

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Fredericksburg area, they're all pretty close to all of that.
And they're absolutely loving it. You know who lives out
there now? He doesn't like to be called Asphalt Andy,
but that was a great name. His wife didn't like
that name. But when I came up with Asphalt Andy,
I said, this might not be Mattress Mac, but this
is it, man. You're going to get every asphalt contract.

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And he came back because the head of his crew
was named Pete. And he said, and what, are you
going to send Pothole Pete out? I said, oh, write
that down. His wife thought it was horrible. I thought
it was fantastic. Anyway, I think they sold the company,
and he lives out there. He's not even 50 years old.

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You know, when people sell the company and retire at
that age, they either within a year are back working,
or 10 years later, when they're not as young and
spry as they used to be, they wake up and go,
wait a second. That was too young to retire. I
shouldn't have done that. And now you go looking for
stuff and you're like, what is AI? Wait, the phone's

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not attached to the wall anymore? Because the world has
changed on that. Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building.
Thank you and good night.