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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, luck and load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air. Good morning Michael Berry,
but no you cannot use my bathroom. Hello again, Everyboddy.
(00:25):
This is my old Hamilton. That a good morning to
the TZAR. Good morning, Michael. It's the Mexican cart there,
you know, just checking in.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I hear your shows, all right, they are ready, tomma.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good morning, Exays, listen to the Good Morning Texas, O morning,
your car.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good morning Texas.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Bron is on day and we're happy to be here
to talk about everything in the night. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We're not wearing that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Good morning Texan, Good Lordy Texas, Good Maury Texas, Good morning, waken.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Streak, goddamn my career.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Good morning. Well, there are new rumors swirling in the
US Senate race for the great state of Texas. We'll
get to those in just a moment, but let's get
a glimpse of exactly who John Cornyn is. He went
on the record, as we've talked about last year, calling
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on Donald Trump not to run for president, and he
said that Republican, the Republican Party needs to move past
Donald Trump. His time has passed. Well, let's get a
glimp into some of the glimpse into some of the
things he's done, because I think it's important, no matter
how many million dollars he spends saying that he loves
Trump and he and Trump are working together, which is
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not true. This is John Cornyn questioning then FBI Director
Christopher Ray about the events of January sixth. Since this time,
we have come to learn that there were almost three
hundred FBI agents sprinkled in between the January sixth protesters,
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people walking along as we see people do all day
every day now, except this group wasn't violent, singing patriotic songs,
little old ladies as they walked along in their red,
white and blue, some reading the Constitution aloud. We know
that the FBI was calling for them as if they
were one of them, smash the windows, go in, do
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some damage. They wanted to destroy Trump out of this
movement and Christopher Ray's involvement. Well, notice how John Cornyan
compares January sixth to nine to eleven, as if our
neighbors were somehow Osama bin Laden taking down the Twin Towers.
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And then he laments that the January six ers were
not charged for domestic terrorism he wanted people charged for
domestic terrorism. You think he didn't know that the FBI
had been pushing these people, trying to get them to
commit violent crimes. The only person who died that day
as a result of what happened was Ashley Babbitt, an
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unarmed military veteran who was shot by a Capitol police officer.
She was about five feet tall and one hundred and
ten pounds. But listen to what John Cornyn said direct ray.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
After the events of nine to eleven. I think it
was Admiral Bobby Inman who coined the phrase of failure
of imagination. We just couldn't conceive of the idea that
something like what happened on nine to eleven would occur,
But that was a failure to imagine it. And that
strikes me that the events of January sixth share something
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in common with nine to eleven in the sense that
seemed like there was a failure of imagination. That's not
to point the finger at anyone buddy to blame, but
merely to try to describe what I think may have occurred.
So I think you've told us that these extremists are
not monolithic.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Is that correct? That's correct?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Well, I've heard the expression that here in Washington, whoever
has the best narrative wins, and so sometimes I think
the narrative is created and then try to search for
facts that might bolster that narrative. But as you said,
the fact is, these extremist groups are not monolithic. So
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that's I think an important part of understanding the threat.
I've heard them described. Some of these folks described as
white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionists, anarchists, the list
goes on and on. But I note that you said
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there is no federal crime described as domestic terrorism per se.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Correct. That's correct.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And as I look at the range of charges that
the FBI and the Department of Justice have made against
the people that have been investigated for the events of
January sixth, I read a list of assaulting federal office users,
tampering with documents or proceedings, unlawful entry, disorderly conduct, conspiracy,
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theft of government property. Do you think the current laws
are adequate to deal with this threat? It strikes me
these are a lot of different tools that are available
but don't really get to the whole heart of domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Let's be very clear what's going on here. John Wayne
mccornyn is not liked by the magabase Tea Party didn't
like him, MAGA folks don't like him. There's a huge overlap.
He would like to be able to make people out
who are not his supporters and Republicans. He would like
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to make them out to be criminals. He would like
to finish them off, put them in prison. They are terrorists.
This is what the Democrats do, and this is what
their swamp partners, people like John Cornyn do. Cornyan was
a big fan of Christopher Ray. He even said this
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on the Senate floor.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Under the effective leadership of Director Ray, the agency has
remained committed to doing things independently and by the book,
which I think is perhaps the most important characteristic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Independently and buy the book. Let's see Jim Comey, McCabe,
Peter strasit. They are the least by the book organization
in the country. See. Cornyn is as bad as the Democrats,
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except he's worse because he's occupying a Republican seat and
everything he has done is going to come to light.
There's going to be reckoning, and this is the time.
It is going to happen from all, what do horses
say when they fall?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Help?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I've fallen and I can't get you up? Excleans, he exclames,
He ships amber, going to boy make Marcaberry's show turning
from what have you followed this Mark Sanchez story? It's crazy,
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as I understand, and it goes like this. So many
of you will remember Mark Sanchez as the quarterback at
the University of Southern California, And as USC quarterbacks go,
there's a pretty long line of very good quarterbacks to
come through that school, and he's certainly one of them.
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When he was drafted by the New York Jets, Pete
Carroll at the time said he should have stayed in
school one more year. Now, Pete Carroll had a little
bit of a bias because he stood the game from it,
but that's not so common for a coach to say that. Nevertheless,
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Mark Sanchez set the league on fire that first year.
He was absolutely streaky hot. Everybody thought this is the
next great quarterback. And then he cooled off and he
bounced around quite a bit and never quite achieved what
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anybody had hoped for based on that first season. And
then he goes into broadcasting, and I think he's a
pretty good broadcaster. I don't think he's great, but I
would I think he's better than average. He's been an
anchor in the studio shows, and he's called a fair
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number of games. And he had been dispatched to Indianapolis
to call a game on Sunday and Saturday. For whatever reason,
he ends up hammered in an alleyway between the hotel
and a bar. And the reports from the witnesses are
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he's he's doing sprints.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Like he's.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You know, that's how you tear a hamstring. You have
too much to drink, and you go watch that. I
can run faster than you in the alleyway. He's thirty
eight years old. Now I don't know what he benches.
I don't know you know how hard he works out,
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but he is of the NFL of late that he's
still pretty strapping buck and you know, I would imagine
could do significant damage to a sixty nine year old man.
The sixty nine year old man is by all accounts
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not bothering anybody. He pulls his truck into the alleyway
and this is just past midnight, and what he does
is change out the cooking oil for one or the
other of the two buildings right there, and so he's
in the process of dropping clean cooking oil to them
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and picking up their used cooking oil when Mark Sanchez,
presumably the alcohol got the better of him and he
was pretty far along, decides that that guy doesn't need
to be parked there and tells him as such. And
the old man may not have taken it the way.
I'm trying to give Mark Sanchez benefit of the doubt here.
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You just never know what happened. But let's say even
that's true. The old man doesn't seem to be receptive
to this, because he does this on his regular run.
He's parked there, he knows he's supposed to go, so
Mark Sanchez tells him. The manager's that Mark Sanchest spoke
to the manager of the hotel, and the manager says,
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you cannot be here. Well, we all know that's bunk,
and the driver knew that. And he's supposedly slurring at
this point, and he who knows what the old man said.
Maybe he didn't handle it as well as he would
have liked either, And Mark Sanches cross up into the
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cab of the trump of the truck where the guy
is on his phone trying to call his boss to
see what's going on here. Sanchest won't let him, and
Sanches roughs him up pretty good, and at one point
he stuffs him into the dumpster that's in the alleyway,
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and he's by all accounts manhandling the guy, knocking him
around really good. Whereupon the old man maces Mark Sanchez
and that apparently did not do the job. Sanchez was
startled for a moment and then proceeded into the beatings again.
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And if you see the photo of the old man
in the hospital, he's beat up bad. So Sanchez is
continuing to pummel on him and he says he's going
to kill me. That's what the old man says. Well,
that's what you should say when you're about to stab
somebody to death, or when you've now been arrested, or
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when you've now been questioned about stabbing somebody, you should say,
I believe he intended to kill me. If that's a
reasonable belief, then you're most likely going to be able
to convince a jury, if not just the investigating authorities,
that yeah, you were entitled to use deadly force, which
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in a limited capacity, is what he did. So at
this point he stabs Mark Sanchez several times. Now what's
going to be interesting is apparently stabbed him in a chest,
in the abdomen and somewhere below the belt but above
the upper thigh.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
So I.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
This is going to be an interesting He might got
stabbed in a willie what I'm trying to say, And
they're staying that based on the blood pattern. That's that's
where it is. Well in the middle of this, Sanchez
manages to run the knife through this guy's mouth. Have
you seen that? Runs the knife through the guy's cheek
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all the way into where it cuts the tongue. The
guy has a big gaping hole in his cheek right
so he couldn't he couldn't chew tobacco right now, It
just it would just roll out, huge gash across his
face and deep all the way through. Then there is
footage of Sanchez staggering down the road to the sidewalk
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to get back. He goes to a bar next door,
puts his hands. They still have the handprints on the window.
He leans against the bar, you can see the handprints.
Bartender goes outside realize he doesn't know who this is.
But he realizes this guy's bleeding to death, brings him in,
puts a towel over his wounds. They bring the cops.
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So when he arrives, sorry, this was all Friday night.
When he arrives on Saturday morning, the story goes out,
prayers from Mark Sanchez. He's been stabbed. Well, surely he's
the victim here, right, the cops and then the DA.
The DA reviews the video and it's very clear supposedly
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that he was the aggressor. And so he is released
from the hospital, but or I guess he is arrested.
It's unclear how long he stayed in the hospital, but
they were able to get him back into good shape.
It's not a good deal. It's not a good deal, Ramo.
My grandfather had bad eyesight, but he could always see
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when someone had a nice butt. His hindsight was twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
When you're listening to the Michael Berry Show, Starlart had.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Some jitters yesterday and there is a great deal of concern.
I have not checked the market this morning, but there's
the expectation of a rebound today. There is now a
lot of concern over AI profits in the short term.
It's not doubtful in the long term, but it's amazing
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to me. Is the expectations game. Let's use the case
of arch Manning. If you look at arch Manning's actual statistics.
And I'm not being an apologist for arch Manning, I'm
agnostic on this issue. I didn't hype him now, I'm
not trashing him. Most of the people trashing him today
hyped him and feel stupid, so they have to swing
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the pendulum to the other extreme. I hadn't seen enough
to know how good he was going to be, at
least in his first year. I did think that in
the two games that I saw him play last year
he was fantastic, although I will say that was mostly
with his legs. Then this season started, the game against
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Ohio State was terrible, There's no doubt about that. But
before that game, the Longhorns were ranked projected number one,
and there was all this talk because his last name
is Manning. Now, look, I'm more than happy to say
that there is a certain bloodline advantage to being taller, bigger,
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stronger that comes with you know your natural frame has
passed to you by your relatives. Although his father is
not really that physically impressive. There is the fact that
this kid has hung around Archie Manning, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning,
and you are talking about quarterback royalty. There is no
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doubt that he's been worked with to some extent, although
we really don't know how many hours he put in.
There's a lot of youth sports athletes that will put
in seven days a week, twelve hours a day, you know,
when they're not in school, and every evening when we
don't know if he did that. We didn't know much
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about his competition in New Orleans, and now that the
pictures have emerged, he's bigger than some of the defensive linemen.
I don't say that to trash arch Manning. I say
that because here is a guy that people had hyped
to such an extent that he could not possibly live
up to it. So his performance, as it turns out,
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mirrors Peyton Mannings at Tennessee and Eli Mannings in Mississippi.
He's not so off pace comparatively speaking, now that he
have a better team around him. Maybe, But because the
expectation was so high, whatever he does makes him a bust.
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If he had come into the season and expectations had
been reasonable, we don't know what he can do yet.
It's early in his career. He has a great deal
of development to go. Quinn had a very successful career
at University of Texas. We're going to develop this kid
and see what we got. But in instead, No, the
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expectation was you were going to be great, George W. Bush,
and you were going to be great fast. He may
yet be great, but I don't. I don't know that
he seems to He seems to be in pain when
he throws the ball, which I wonder how much that
affects what he does. But either way, I thought the
hype was ridiculous. To his credit, he didn't contribute to
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the hype. He didn't have a social media page. It
wasn't Johnny Manziel doing the you know, I'm hold of
my cash or or or throwing it out into the
strip club motion. He wasn't doing the Heisman Trophy dance.
He was showing up to practice and playing, doing the
best he could, and everyone around him was creating unreasonable expectations.
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So now the fall seems further because the expectation was
set too high. George W. Bush had the opposite. He
couldn't pronounce nuclear without putting an extra vowel. He didn't
sound very smart. He goofed everything. He always kind of
had a look like he wasn't really sure where he
was and he'd been placed there. It was the kind
of Alena Hidalgo thing, except Alena Hidalgo when it's a
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white man Republican people aren't tolerant of it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
With her.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
They just sort of go, well, you know, she's there,
she's the DEI hire. But because w was thought to
be such a goof every victory, he had exceeded expectations,
in which case it made it that much better. Well,
the AI situation in the short term is everybody's going
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to get rich overnight, and that's just not going to happen, because,
first of all, I mean, let's just look at where
the profits go. A big part of profitability for companies
right now is not the AI efficiencies kicking in. It's
not the fact that AI has made companies able to
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produce things better, faster, cheaper overnight. That will happen if
we're completely honest. It's because companies are shedding employees right
now as a result of AI replacing them, and so
you're CNC machines your machine, your assembly lines. Those things
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are being replaced with artificial intelligence, robotics a big one
of them. And as you cut those employees, you don't
make money in the short term because you have buyouts
three months, six months, some cases up to a year.
Those are just now those economies are just now starting
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to hit. So what you're going to see is, and
we've talked about this before, you're going to see the
very odd it's not going to parallel. You're going to
see unemployment continue to rise, and it will. Unemployment will rise,
I believe through the end of the Trump presidency, even
with economic growth and development, and you're going to see
profitability increase. And we've never seen that before. We've never
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seen companies making more money all the while laying people off.
It might happen in a business or two. We saw
that with offshoring. We saw that with sending things to
China that happened without anyone really noticing what was going on,
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and we see the long term effects of that. But
now we're seeing massive layoffs every day. If you read
financial news every single day, there is another big layoff
by a big company. I think it was Exxon. I
saw it just laid a bunch of people off a lot,
and it was in the Houston office, the Woodlands area,
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and those aren't coming back. Those are all AI And
I think we're going to see over a period of
it'll take a little longer till it kind of seeps
down to mid size and smaller sized companies, but I
think you're going to see massive wholesale layoffs and the
number of people who are working at a corporation is,
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especially in a warehouse, is going to drop dramatically, and
it's going to be interesting to see if there is
absorption of that end of the laborpool somewhere else. There
may be there may be another industry, a nascent industry
that needs human beings not robots, that's going to all
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of a sudden have this massive supply of people they
can bring in. I don't know what that'll be. Amazon
and Ups are themselves increasingly automated and robotic, and I
think they will continue to be to an even greater extent.
But it's going to be interesting. All the while. Dot
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market very volatile. The big news in Wall Street Journal, Investors,
Business Daily, all of them today is gold is up. Big.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Hello, nobody, this is Mickey Giddy and you listen to
this season radio Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
John Cornyn said of Merrick Garland, I'm under no illusion
that Judge Garland will be a firm check on Progressive's
ideological wish list during his tenure. Why would you need
to make the point. Yeah, I'm very well aware that
Merrick Garland as the attorney general, the man who went
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after Trump, the man who went after Conservatives, the man
who absolutely declared war, the hitman for the bidens on Republicans.
Why would he make the point? Yeah. I don't want
you all to think he's I think he's a good guy.
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I'm under no illusion that Judge Garland will be a
firm check on Progressive's ideological wish list during his tenure.
The only check on Merrick Garland was voting against him
to when he was nominated for attorney general, but John
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Corndon didn't do that. Press release from John Cornon at
the time. Today, on the floor, US Senator John Cornan
announced his support of Judge Merrick Garland's nomination to be
US Attorney General. Excerpts from his remarks are below. This morning,
I had a very good conversation with Judge Merrick Garland,
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who President Trump has nominated for Attorney General. Judge Garland's
extensive legal experience makes him well suited to lead the
Department of Justice, and I appreciated his commitment to keep
politics out of the Justice Department. That is my number
one criterion for who should be the next head of
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the Department of Justice as Attorney General. Sure, sure, he's
not going to bring politics into it. Why why would he?
Just because that's what his whole career is. Joan Wrights
z Are. A few months ago, I was polled on
the US Senate race in Texas. They specifically asked me
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what was my reason for not supporting John Cornyan. I'm
a Paxton supporter. I said the reason I wasn't supporting
Cornyn was that he doesn't support Trump. Now I'm hearing
ads all day every day in Houston on how John
Cornyn has voted ninety nine percent of the time with
Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I think the important thing to note here, mister Cornyn
is what are the votes that you didn't vote with
Donald Trump? But don't we look at those? And why
don't you explain why you said last year that Donald
Trump should not run for president? In the election. That's
less than a year ago. You said he should not
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that his time has passed. Has his time still passed?
Why did you do that? Why did you feel the
need to intervene to keep the people of Texas and
the people of this country from choosing who we wanted
as our presidential candidate. What makes you think we give
one good damn what you think as to who we
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should vote for. What makes you think that, in some
odd way, somebody's wondering, well, I don't know who should
be our nominee, but Cornin, we should ask Cornan. Nobody's
ever said that. Kevin writes zar. Just so you know,
today is national flue for Nutter Day, which is a peanut,
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butter and marshmallow sandwich. Now you know, well, let's talk
about that and listen. I'm not really here to make friends.
I tell the truth. You can like it or not
like it. If you're a person who can appreciate that,
will get along fine even when disagree. If your person's
gonna get butt hurt over stupid opinions and feel like
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I need to agree with you, you're not gonna like this.
Here it goes. I don't like putting anything in between
two pieces of bread that is not a regular meat.
My wife eats cucumber sandwiches and I'm not for that,
and she says, well, you say that, but I put
butter on that's even grosser. I don't want a tomato sandwich.
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I don't want marshmallow, and no, I don't do that now.
Peanut butter alone, I'd be willing to talk about because
I have a special place in my heart for peanut butter.
I don't eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Don't judge me.
I'm being honest here. I don't eat peanut butter and jelly.
My brother used to I thought jelly was gross, really don't.
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I'm not a huge fan of jelly. I like it
in the abstract, but truthfully, on my bread products, I
like butter and I like it melted. Now I will
eat a grilled cheese sandwich. I will admit that. I
will admit that, but I don't like most of the
stuff people put in between bread slices of bread in
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the category of soft stuff. I uh, it's that's just
it's not my deal. Now. Peanut butter and marshmallow with
a wafer something in in in kind of a sweet
cracker type thing. Yeah, that'd be nice. I would enjoy that.
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I just am not a fan of the putting squishy
stuff in between in between bread slices. And I'm sure
there are other people that are that are like that.
I know that some of you like tomato sandwiches. That's
just that that's odd to me. Now if you toasted
the bread, that would make it somehow more acceptable to me.
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I just I don't like uncooked bread, which is already
just barely in a solid state. You know, it could
get sticky gooey in a minute. I certainly don't eat
jelly sandwiches or jam sandwiches or any of that stuff.
That's that is completely off the table. Now, you give
me a roast beef sandwich with some apple wood cheddar
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and some nice mayonnaise and a bag of chips an
iced tea middle of the day, especially because I don't eat,
that's a that's a good day right there. When I'm
tired or grumpy or just need a little pick me up,
I'll call over to Nielsen's. They already know when I
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called my name and number it pops up. They know
exactly what I'm gonna get The question is just am
I gonna get something to bring it back for everybody else? Nope,
just me, I don't i'd say anymore. I go over,
I get my sandwich, my chips, my iced tea. I
pull up in the parking lot right there, right in
front of the front door. Nothing fancy, and I'll listen
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to a podcast. And I'll just sit there and listen
to a podcast and eat my sandwich with nobody bothered me.
My phone turned over so nobody can reach me in
the middle of the day. It's about a thirty minute
just escape from reality. Man's that's good living right there, Ramon,
that is good living. Buddy of mine came home and
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his wife's a vegan. He sees his vegan wife eating
a steak. He said, Wow, that's rare. I feel like
I had to rush my earlier one, so let me
try that again. My grandpa had bad eyesight, really bad,
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I say. He couldn't see well at all, but he
could always see when someone had a nice button. His
hindsight was twenty twenty. I'm gonna try that earlier one
for people that weren't here, even though I feel like
it really it killed at the time what do horses
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say when they fall? Ramon help. I've fallen and I
can't gidy up. So I'm gonna say something, and I
want you to hear exactly what I'm saying and what
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I'm not saying. I'm not saying I know this to
be true. I'm saying that this rumor is being spread
that could be spread by Paxton, it could be spread
by a hunt, or it could be true. I'm gonna
tell you what the rumor is. There's a rumor that
is making its way around that Corning is getting out.
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I don't know if that's true. So don't say he
said he was getting out. No I didn't. I'm telling
you there is a rumor. That's it.
It's that time. Time time, luck and load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air. Good morning Michael Berry,
but no you cannot use my bathroom. Hello again, Everyboddy.
(00:25):
This is my old Hamilton. That a good morning to
the TZAR. Good morning, Michael. It's the Mexican cart there,
you know, just checking in.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I hear your shows, all right, they are ready, tomma.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good morning, Exays, listen to the Good Morning Texas, O morning,
your car.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good morning Texas.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Bron is on day and we're happy to be here
to talk about everything in the night. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We're not wearing that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Good morning Texan, Good Lordy Texas, Good Maury Texas, Good morning, waken.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Streak, goddamn my career.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Good morning. Well, there are new rumors swirling in the
US Senate race for the great state of Texas. We'll
get to those in just a moment, but let's get
a glimpse of exactly who John Cornyn is. He went
on the record, as we've talked about last year, calling
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on Donald Trump not to run for president, and he
said that Republican, the Republican Party needs to move past
Donald Trump. His time has passed. Well, let's get a
glimp into some of the glimpse into some of the
things he's done, because I think it's important, no matter
how many million dollars he spends saying that he loves
Trump and he and Trump are working together, which is
(02:11):
not true. This is John Cornyn questioning then FBI Director
Christopher Ray about the events of January sixth. Since this time,
we have come to learn that there were almost three
hundred FBI agents sprinkled in between the January sixth protesters,
(02:38):
people walking along as we see people do all day
every day now, except this group wasn't violent, singing patriotic songs,
little old ladies as they walked along in their red,
white and blue, some reading the Constitution aloud. We know
that the FBI was calling for them as if they
were one of them, smash the windows, go in, do
(03:00):
some damage. They wanted to destroy Trump out of this
movement and Christopher Ray's involvement. Well, notice how John Cornyan
compares January sixth to nine to eleven, as if our
neighbors were somehow Osama bin Laden taking down the Twin Towers.
(03:28):
And then he laments that the January six ers were
not charged for domestic terrorism he wanted people charged for
domestic terrorism. You think he didn't know that the FBI
had been pushing these people, trying to get them to
commit violent crimes. The only person who died that day
as a result of what happened was Ashley Babbitt, an
(03:49):
unarmed military veteran who was shot by a Capitol police officer.
She was about five feet tall and one hundred and
ten pounds. But listen to what John Cornyn said direct ray.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
After the events of nine to eleven. I think it
was Admiral Bobby Inman who coined the phrase of failure
of imagination. We just couldn't conceive of the idea that
something like what happened on nine to eleven would occur,
But that was a failure to imagine it. And that
strikes me that the events of January sixth share something
(04:25):
in common with nine to eleven in the sense that
seemed like there was a failure of imagination. That's not
to point the finger at anyone buddy to blame, but
merely to try to describe what I think may have occurred.
So I think you've told us that these extremists are
not monolithic.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Is that correct? That's correct?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Well, I've heard the expression that here in Washington, whoever
has the best narrative wins, and so sometimes I think
the narrative is created and then try to search for
facts that might bolster that narrative. But as you said,
the fact is, these extremist groups are not monolithic. So
(05:13):
that's I think an important part of understanding the threat.
I've heard them described. Some of these folks described as
white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionists, anarchists, the list
goes on and on. But I note that you said
(05:34):
there is no federal crime described as domestic terrorism per se.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Correct. That's correct.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And as I look at the range of charges that
the FBI and the Department of Justice have made against
the people that have been investigated for the events of
January sixth, I read a list of assaulting federal office users,
tampering with documents or proceedings, unlawful entry, disorderly conduct, conspiracy,
(06:08):
theft of government property. Do you think the current laws
are adequate to deal with this threat? It strikes me
these are a lot of different tools that are available
but don't really get to the whole heart of domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Let's be very clear what's going on here. John Wayne
mccornyn is not liked by the magabase Tea Party didn't
like him, MAGA folks don't like him. There's a huge overlap.
He would like to be able to make people out
who are not his supporters and Republicans. He would like
(06:49):
to make them out to be criminals. He would like
to finish them off, put them in prison. They are terrorists.
This is what the Democrats do, and this is what
their swamp partners, people like John Cornyn do. Cornyan was
a big fan of Christopher Ray. He even said this
(07:10):
on the Senate floor.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Under the effective leadership of Director Ray, the agency has
remained committed to doing things independently and by the book,
which I think is perhaps the most important characteristic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Independently and buy the book. Let's see Jim Comey, McCabe,
Peter strasit. They are the least by the book organization
in the country. See. Cornyn is as bad as the Democrats,
(07:49):
except he's worse because he's occupying a Republican seat and
everything he has done is going to come to light.
There's going to be reckoning, and this is the time.
It is going to happen from all, what do horses
say when they fall?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Help?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I've fallen and I can't get you up? Excleans, he exclames,
He ships amber, going to boy make Marcaberry's show turning
from what have you followed this Mark Sanchez story? It's crazy,
(08:36):
as I understand, and it goes like this. So many
of you will remember Mark Sanchez as the quarterback at
the University of Southern California, And as USC quarterbacks go,
there's a pretty long line of very good quarterbacks to
come through that school, and he's certainly one of them.
(09:02):
When he was drafted by the New York Jets, Pete
Carroll at the time said he should have stayed in
school one more year. Now, Pete Carroll had a little
bit of a bias because he stood the game from it,
but that's not so common for a coach to say that. Nevertheless,
(09:23):
Mark Sanchez set the league on fire that first year.
He was absolutely streaky hot. Everybody thought this is the
next great quarterback. And then he cooled off and he
bounced around quite a bit and never quite achieved what
(09:44):
anybody had hoped for based on that first season. And
then he goes into broadcasting, and I think he's a
pretty good broadcaster. I don't think he's great, but I
would I think he's better than average. He's been an
anchor in the studio shows, and he's called a fair
(10:06):
number of games. And he had been dispatched to Indianapolis
to call a game on Sunday and Saturday. For whatever reason,
he ends up hammered in an alleyway between the hotel
and a bar. And the reports from the witnesses are
(10:30):
he's he's doing sprints.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Like he's.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You know, that's how you tear a hamstring. You have
too much to drink, and you go watch that. I
can run faster than you in the alleyway. He's thirty
eight years old. Now I don't know what he benches.
I don't know you know how hard he works out,
(10:59):
but he is of the NFL of late that he's
still pretty strapping buck and you know, I would imagine
could do significant damage to a sixty nine year old man.
The sixty nine year old man is by all accounts
(11:20):
not bothering anybody. He pulls his truck into the alleyway
and this is just past midnight, and what he does
is change out the cooking oil for one or the
other of the two buildings right there, and so he's
in the process of dropping clean cooking oil to them
(11:42):
and picking up their used cooking oil when Mark Sanchez,
presumably the alcohol got the better of him and he
was pretty far along, decides that that guy doesn't need
to be parked there and tells him as such. And
the old man may not have taken it the way.
I'm trying to give Mark Sanchez benefit of the doubt here.
(12:04):
You just never know what happened. But let's say even
that's true. The old man doesn't seem to be receptive
to this, because he does this on his regular run.
He's parked there, he knows he's supposed to go, so
Mark Sanchez tells him. The manager's that Mark Sanchest spoke
to the manager of the hotel, and the manager says,
(12:24):
you cannot be here. Well, we all know that's bunk,
and the driver knew that. And he's supposedly slurring at
this point, and he who knows what the old man said.
Maybe he didn't handle it as well as he would
have liked either, And Mark Sanches cross up into the
(12:46):
cab of the trump of the truck where the guy
is on his phone trying to call his boss to
see what's going on here. Sanchest won't let him, and
Sanches roughs him up pretty good, and at one point
he stuffs him into the dumpster that's in the alleyway,
(13:07):
and he's by all accounts manhandling the guy, knocking him
around really good. Whereupon the old man maces Mark Sanchez
and that apparently did not do the job. Sanchez was
startled for a moment and then proceeded into the beatings again.
(13:28):
And if you see the photo of the old man
in the hospital, he's beat up bad. So Sanchez is
continuing to pummel on him and he says he's going
to kill me. That's what the old man says. Well,
that's what you should say when you're about to stab
somebody to death, or when you've now been arrested, or
(13:50):
when you've now been questioned about stabbing somebody, you should say,
I believe he intended to kill me. If that's a
reasonable belief, then you're most likely going to be able
to convince a jury, if not just the investigating authorities,
that yeah, you were entitled to use deadly force, which
(14:11):
in a limited capacity, is what he did. So at
this point he stabs Mark Sanchez several times. Now what's
going to be interesting is apparently stabbed him in a chest,
in the abdomen and somewhere below the belt but above
the upper thigh.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
So I.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
This is going to be an interesting He might got
stabbed in a willie what I'm trying to say, And
they're staying that based on the blood pattern. That's that's
where it is. Well in the middle of this, Sanchez
manages to run the knife through this guy's mouth. Have
you seen that? Runs the knife through the guy's cheek
(14:55):
all the way into where it cuts the tongue. The
guy has a big gaping hole in his cheek right
so he couldn't he couldn't chew tobacco right now, It
just it would just roll out, huge gash across his
face and deep all the way through. Then there is
footage of Sanchez staggering down the road to the sidewalk
(15:19):
to get back. He goes to a bar next door,
puts his hands. They still have the handprints on the window.
He leans against the bar, you can see the handprints.
Bartender goes outside realize he doesn't know who this is.
But he realizes this guy's bleeding to death, brings him in,
puts a towel over his wounds. They bring the cops.
(15:40):
So when he arrives, sorry, this was all Friday night.
When he arrives on Saturday morning, the story goes out,
prayers from Mark Sanchez. He's been stabbed. Well, surely he's
the victim here, right, the cops and then the DA.
The DA reviews the video and it's very clear supposedly
(16:01):
that he was the aggressor. And so he is released
from the hospital, but or I guess he is arrested.
It's unclear how long he stayed in the hospital, but
they were able to get him back into good shape.
It's not a good deal. It's not a good deal, Ramo.
My grandfather had bad eyesight, but he could always see
(16:22):
when someone had a nice butt. His hindsight was twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
When you're listening to the Michael Berry Show, Starlart had.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Some jitters yesterday and there is a great deal of concern.
I have not checked the market this morning, but there's
the expectation of a rebound today. There is now a
lot of concern over AI profits in the short term.
It's not doubtful in the long term, but it's amazing
(17:00):
to me. Is the expectations game. Let's use the case
of arch Manning. If you look at arch Manning's actual statistics.
And I'm not being an apologist for arch Manning, I'm
agnostic on this issue. I didn't hype him now, I'm
not trashing him. Most of the people trashing him today
hyped him and feel stupid, so they have to swing
(17:22):
the pendulum to the other extreme. I hadn't seen enough
to know how good he was going to be, at
least in his first year. I did think that in
the two games that I saw him play last year
he was fantastic, although I will say that was mostly
with his legs. Then this season started, the game against
(17:44):
Ohio State was terrible, There's no doubt about that. But
before that game, the Longhorns were ranked projected number one,
and there was all this talk because his last name
is Manning. Now, look, I'm more than happy to say
that there is a certain bloodline advantage to being taller, bigger,
(18:08):
stronger that comes with you know your natural frame has
passed to you by your relatives. Although his father is
not really that physically impressive. There is the fact that
this kid has hung around Archie Manning, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning,
and you are talking about quarterback royalty. There is no
(18:31):
doubt that he's been worked with to some extent, although
we really don't know how many hours he put in.
There's a lot of youth sports athletes that will put
in seven days a week, twelve hours a day, you know,
when they're not in school, and every evening when we
don't know if he did that. We didn't know much
(18:52):
about his competition in New Orleans, and now that the
pictures have emerged, he's bigger than some of the defensive linemen.
I don't say that to trash arch Manning. I say
that because here is a guy that people had hyped
to such an extent that he could not possibly live
up to it. So his performance, as it turns out,
(19:15):
mirrors Peyton Mannings at Tennessee and Eli Mannings in Mississippi.
He's not so off pace comparatively speaking, now that he
have a better team around him. Maybe, But because the
expectation was so high, whatever he does makes him a bust.
(19:38):
If he had come into the season and expectations had
been reasonable, we don't know what he can do yet.
It's early in his career. He has a great deal
of development to go. Quinn had a very successful career
at University of Texas. We're going to develop this kid
and see what we got. But in instead, No, the
(20:01):
expectation was you were going to be great, George W. Bush,
and you were going to be great fast. He may
yet be great, but I don't. I don't know that
he seems to He seems to be in pain when
he throws the ball, which I wonder how much that
affects what he does. But either way, I thought the
hype was ridiculous. To his credit, he didn't contribute to
(20:24):
the hype. He didn't have a social media page. It
wasn't Johnny Manziel doing the you know, I'm hold of
my cash or or or throwing it out into the
strip club motion. He wasn't doing the Heisman Trophy dance.
He was showing up to practice and playing, doing the
best he could, and everyone around him was creating unreasonable expectations.
(20:46):
So now the fall seems further because the expectation was
set too high. George W. Bush had the opposite. He
couldn't pronounce nuclear without putting an extra vowel. He didn't
sound very smart. He goofed everything. He always kind of
had a look like he wasn't really sure where he
was and he'd been placed there. It was the kind
of Alena Hidalgo thing, except Alena Hidalgo when it's a
(21:10):
white man Republican people aren't tolerant of it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
With her.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
They just sort of go, well, you know, she's there,
she's the DEI hire. But because w was thought to
be such a goof every victory, he had exceeded expectations,
in which case it made it that much better. Well,
the AI situation in the short term is everybody's going
(21:35):
to get rich overnight, and that's just not going to happen, because,
first of all, I mean, let's just look at where
the profits go. A big part of profitability for companies
right now is not the AI efficiencies kicking in. It's
not the fact that AI has made companies able to
(21:56):
produce things better, faster, cheaper overnight. That will happen if
we're completely honest. It's because companies are shedding employees right
now as a result of AI replacing them, and so
you're CNC machines your machine, your assembly lines. Those things
(22:17):
are being replaced with artificial intelligence, robotics a big one
of them. And as you cut those employees, you don't
make money in the short term because you have buyouts
three months, six months, some cases up to a year.
Those are just now those economies are just now starting
(22:39):
to hit. So what you're going to see is, and
we've talked about this before, you're going to see the
very odd it's not going to parallel. You're going to
see unemployment continue to rise, and it will. Unemployment will rise,
I believe through the end of the Trump presidency, even
with economic growth and development, and you're going to see
profitability increase. And we've never seen that before. We've never
(23:01):
seen companies making more money all the while laying people off.
It might happen in a business or two. We saw
that with offshoring. We saw that with sending things to
China that happened without anyone really noticing what was going on,
(23:22):
and we see the long term effects of that. But
now we're seeing massive layoffs every day. If you read
financial news every single day, there is another big layoff
by a big company. I think it was Exxon. I
saw it just laid a bunch of people off a lot,
and it was in the Houston office, the Woodlands area,
(23:45):
and those aren't coming back. Those are all AI And
I think we're going to see over a period of
it'll take a little longer till it kind of seeps
down to mid size and smaller sized companies, but I
think you're going to see massive wholesale layoffs and the
number of people who are working at a corporation is,
(24:07):
especially in a warehouse, is going to drop dramatically, and
it's going to be interesting to see if there is
absorption of that end of the laborpool somewhere else. There
may be there may be another industry, a nascent industry
that needs human beings not robots, that's going to all
(24:30):
of a sudden have this massive supply of people they
can bring in. I don't know what that'll be. Amazon
and Ups are themselves increasingly automated and robotic, and I
think they will continue to be to an even greater extent.
But it's going to be interesting. All the while. Dot
(24:51):
market very volatile. The big news in Wall Street Journal, Investors,
Business Daily, all of them today is gold is up. Big.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Hello, nobody, this is Mickey Giddy and you listen to
this season radio Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
John Cornyn said of Merrick Garland, I'm under no illusion
that Judge Garland will be a firm check on Progressive's
ideological wish list during his tenure. Why would you need
to make the point. Yeah, I'm very well aware that
Merrick Garland as the attorney general, the man who went
(25:36):
after Trump, the man who went after Conservatives, the man
who absolutely declared war, the hitman for the bidens on Republicans.
Why would he make the point? Yeah. I don't want
you all to think he's I think he's a good guy.
(25:56):
I'm under no illusion that Judge Garland will be a
firm check on Progressive's ideological wish list during his tenure.
The only check on Merrick Garland was voting against him
to when he was nominated for attorney general, but John
(26:20):
Corndon didn't do that. Press release from John Cornon at
the time. Today, on the floor, US Senator John Cornan
announced his support of Judge Merrick Garland's nomination to be
US Attorney General. Excerpts from his remarks are below. This morning,
I had a very good conversation with Judge Merrick Garland,
(26:40):
who President Trump has nominated for Attorney General. Judge Garland's
extensive legal experience makes him well suited to lead the
Department of Justice, and I appreciated his commitment to keep
politics out of the Justice Department. That is my number
one criterion for who should be the next head of
(27:01):
the Department of Justice as Attorney General. Sure, sure, he's
not going to bring politics into it. Why why would he?
Just because that's what his whole career is. Joan Wrights
z Are. A few months ago, I was polled on
the US Senate race in Texas. They specifically asked me
(27:26):
what was my reason for not supporting John Cornyan. I'm
a Paxton supporter. I said the reason I wasn't supporting
Cornyn was that he doesn't support Trump. Now I'm hearing
ads all day every day in Houston on how John
Cornyn has voted ninety nine percent of the time with
Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I think the important thing to note here, mister Cornyn
is what are the votes that you didn't vote with
Donald Trump? But don't we look at those? And why
don't you explain why you said last year that Donald
Trump should not run for president? In the election. That's
less than a year ago. You said he should not
(28:09):
that his time has passed. Has his time still passed?
Why did you do that? Why did you feel the
need to intervene to keep the people of Texas and
the people of this country from choosing who we wanted
as our presidential candidate. What makes you think we give
one good damn what you think as to who we
(28:29):
should vote for. What makes you think that, in some
odd way, somebody's wondering, well, I don't know who should
be our nominee, but Cornin, we should ask Cornan. Nobody's
ever said that. Kevin writes zar. Just so you know,
today is national flue for Nutter Day, which is a peanut,
(28:51):
butter and marshmallow sandwich. Now you know, well, let's talk
about that and listen. I'm not really here to make friends.
I tell the truth. You can like it or not
like it. If you're a person who can appreciate that,
will get along fine even when disagree. If your person's
gonna get butt hurt over stupid opinions and feel like
(29:14):
I need to agree with you, you're not gonna like this.
Here it goes. I don't like putting anything in between
two pieces of bread that is not a regular meat.
My wife eats cucumber sandwiches and I'm not for that,
and she says, well, you say that, but I put
butter on that's even grosser. I don't want a tomato sandwich.
(29:36):
I don't want marshmallow, and no, I don't do that now.
Peanut butter alone, I'd be willing to talk about because
I have a special place in my heart for peanut butter.
I don't eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Don't judge me.
I'm being honest here. I don't eat peanut butter and jelly.
My brother used to I thought jelly was gross, really don't.
(30:01):
I'm not a huge fan of jelly. I like it
in the abstract, but truthfully, on my bread products, I
like butter and I like it melted. Now I will
eat a grilled cheese sandwich. I will admit that. I
will admit that, but I don't like most of the
stuff people put in between bread slices of bread in
(30:22):
the category of soft stuff. I uh, it's that's just
it's not my deal. Now. Peanut butter and marshmallow with
a wafer something in in in kind of a sweet
cracker type thing. Yeah, that'd be nice. I would enjoy that.
(30:44):
I just am not a fan of the putting squishy
stuff in between in between bread slices. And I'm sure
there are other people that are that are like that.
I know that some of you like tomato sandwiches. That's
just that that's odd to me. Now if you toasted
the bread, that would make it somehow more acceptable to me.
(31:06):
I just I don't like uncooked bread, which is already
just barely in a solid state. You know, it could
get sticky gooey in a minute. I certainly don't eat
jelly sandwiches or jam sandwiches or any of that stuff.
That's that is completely off the table. Now, you give
me a roast beef sandwich with some apple wood cheddar
(31:30):
and some nice mayonnaise and a bag of chips an
iced tea middle of the day, especially because I don't eat,
that's a that's a good day right there. When I'm
tired or grumpy or just need a little pick me up,
I'll call over to Nielsen's. They already know when I
(31:51):
called my name and number it pops up. They know
exactly what I'm gonna get The question is just am
I gonna get something to bring it back for everybody else? Nope,
just me, I don't i'd say anymore. I go over,
I get my sandwich, my chips, my iced tea. I
pull up in the parking lot right there, right in
front of the front door. Nothing fancy, and I'll listen
(32:12):
to a podcast. And I'll just sit there and listen
to a podcast and eat my sandwich with nobody bothered me.
My phone turned over so nobody can reach me in
the middle of the day. It's about a thirty minute
just escape from reality. Man's that's good living right there, Ramon,
that is good living. Buddy of mine came home and
(32:32):
his wife's a vegan. He sees his vegan wife eating
a steak. He said, Wow, that's rare. I feel like
I had to rush my earlier one, so let me
try that again. My grandpa had bad eyesight, really bad,
(32:53):
I say. He couldn't see well at all, but he
could always see when someone had a nice button. His
hindsight was twenty twenty. I'm gonna try that earlier one
for people that weren't here, even though I feel like
it really it killed at the time what do horses
(33:14):
say when they fall? Ramon help. I've fallen and I
can't gidy up. So I'm gonna say something, and I
want you to hear exactly what I'm saying and what
(33:35):
I'm not saying. I'm not saying I know this to
be true. I'm saying that this rumor is being spread
that could be spread by Paxton, it could be spread
by a hunt, or it could be true. I'm gonna
tell you what the rumor is. There's a rumor that
is making its way around that Corning is getting out.
(33:58):
I don't know if that's true. So don't say he
said he was getting out. No I didn't. I'm telling
you there is a rumor. That's it.
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