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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Happy day, happy day, when G does war, when he war,
when G does war.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
She is the way he loves me. Happy day or
happy da happy or happy day.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
When Jesus war, Oh pitty war, when Jesus war.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Shel the way he loved the habit day.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Happy day or a happy day? Happy winter? Those wars,
oh whitty war winter, those wars.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
What three is away? He need a love deep happy day? Happy, oh,
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happy dey.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Habit habit winchy the wool waity war Winchy the war.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It was on this day Wait. Eighteen thirty six, Sam
Houston elected the first President of the Republic of Texas.
It is a real honor to get to sit in
the seat and talk to you every day. It is
an honor that of all the other things you could
be doing, working, driving, talking on the phone, texting, watching television,
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for any of you, you choose to listen to us
and join us on this journey. That is an honor
and we do not take it for granted. The phone
lines are open, I would love to talk to you
old folks today. You get in early on the first
hour because y'all been up for a long time already anyway.
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Tell Ramon
(05:44):
if you're eighty or older seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, to get as start as we always do.
Courtesy the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattikoni Nakanishi.
Your wee can review.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The boots.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I could listen to Tom Waits or Bob Seeker cover
every song every day, all day, and you won't know
who else. Robert o' king. I don't like Rara. I
have pretty saying voice. I don't like you. You don't have
a brain.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
A violent Labor Day weekend in Chicago, host of sixty
people were shot. A number of those shootings were death.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The weekend violence includes three mass shootings, two of them
in Bronzeville.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Mayor Johnson today joined Labor Day protesters with a clear
message to President Trump, keep the troops and ice agents
out of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Mayor Brandon Johnson is out there looking like a complete
clown speaking of a Labor Day event. We go keep
Chicago bus Chicago. We're not gonna let them come in
and stop crying. At least Third World countries want to
be better. But you've got Brandon Johnson. He's worse to beetlejuice.
I didn't think that was possible.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Five year old boys fast food run which ended with
a home delivery by the police. It happened this summer
at a Chick fil A in Jacksonville, Florida. Boddy camera
footage shows the boy eating his breakfast sandwich, sitting with
the manager because he walked there by himself.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, I'm not going to put your jails.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's kind of.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Scary actually, because we didn't realize what was going on
until after we came out.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The hilarious thing is when it turns out okay, and
then you get to find out what in the world
that kid was thinking and how that made sense to
that kid, And that is what is so scary.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
The man is in custody tonight because of shooting and
killing his friend as both men took turns shooting at
each other while wearing a kevlar helmet.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So turns shooting at each other while wearing helmet. If
you're willing to let somebody shoot you in the head
to see if the kevlar helmet works or not, I
don't think you were going to discover the cure for cancer.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
This botsa mosqueche.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Now the dudes in Texas just keep something that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I feel like I got a decent butt. You know,
I had to be ashamed of my butt. It's not
sagging or anything like that.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's not great, you know what I mean. I couldn't
be a button model. But it's not a bad.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
But I'm gotta keep.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
A number of folks have emailed asking why they can't
find Pat Green's Friday's Coming online? Why is it not
on any of the services. We don't know. We got
a copy online years ago, and then I had to
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get a copy from the band. We had to go
a back channel to get it. You can't. I mean,
maybe there are a lot better people at sleuthing on
the internet than me, and I'm not the one that
does that. Now. Ramon's not the best, but he did
put in two or three minutes trying to find it
at one point when we had a system crash and
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put in we're reloading everything and we didn't have it.
Some mean you you might not have noticed it, but
there was a period a while back we didn't have
it and we had to go track it down, and
that was not an easy process. I don't know if
it's a licensing deal, I don't know. It's obviously not
as big as Hit or anything like that. It's a
darn good song. I will frequently get emails from people
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asking where you can find that, and I say, oh,
about eight eighteen Friday morning in Houston on News Radio
seven forty k TRH, as well as in Corpus Christi
and all the other stations that carry our morning show.
The evening show has a bigger syndication. All right, let's
get to your calls, if you know. When I started
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in radio, was the senior vice president of the radio
who ran the stations in Houston as well, and he
would tell the call screeners, don't put people with foreign accents,
and don't put old people as callers. Don't let them through,
just put them on hold and just leave them there.
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And I got to tell you that's two of my
favorite groups to put on the air. I love to
listen to older folks, and I think this has probably
always been the case, but because society is moving so rapidly,
the difference between old folks and people my age, pre
old folks and young people is so dramatically different because
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of cultural changes and technological changes that it's almost like
a museum. Old folks have such interesting perspectives, and they
tend to be, if you get the right ones, more unfiltered.
So they say things you know to be true, and
it's new to be true, but that you've or the
other people have not felt comfortable saying in a long time,
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about hard work, about laziness, about welfare, about relationships and
parenting and managing your money, and all of those sorts
of things. So with that we get to it. Seven
one three, Oh sorry, we're gonna do old folks today.
Seven one three nine nine nine one zero zero zero
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seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, and we
start with Carl. Carl, you are the first call of
the week. Be excellent, flow start all right, Carl, Hm,
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we lost him. He was seventy five. Well that's a
good run. Not quite three quarters of a century, but
not bad. There was a time when seventy four was
a really good run. Now folks can live a lot longer.
Let's go to Cynthia. Cynthia's eighty five. That's my dad's age. Hello, Cynthia, Welcome, sweetheart.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Thank you for having me on the radio. How nice
the radio before?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, first of all, let me tell you, Cynthia, I
have a great deal of admiration for anyone who can
call the show because people will criticize, Oh that guy
here or that lady, she did this or she did that.
Have you ever called a show? No, It takes a
certain amount of boldness to say, you know what I'm
getting in the arena, I'm going to be on the
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stage right now and I'm going to put myself out there.
So that's awesome. You've never been on the radio, Well,
now you have, Cynthia.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
That's right. And I first, Paul, I want to thank
you for your program. I've learned a lot. I am.
I was born in Houston, but I've lived in many
other places. But I came back to Houston to live
in oh twenty nineteen. I'm a five year widow. I
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lived with my son and my daughter in law and
my bonus grandchild, and I live out in Magnolia. And
you've brought back many memories for me of Houston in
the and of course I'm way older than you, so
I remember a lot of stuff. And one thing that
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you know you bring up all the high schools and
all the things like that, and and I went to
school with Now my memory just left me there a
young man and he I didn't know that he had
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become famous until I listened to your show. And I
went to junior high and high school with him. He's
a songwriter. And he passed away not too long ago
in Nashville. Let me think.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Mark James, Mickey Mickey Newberry. Mickey Newberry. Yes, yeah, Mickey Dewberry.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
He was Mickey Newberry. And I went off and I
went to school with him all those years. I mean,
I can still remember the house he lived in, you know,
going to school in different places. So that was kind
of neat. I thought, Wow, I knew him, but I
didn't know that he had become famous.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Sure, sure he might have written a song about it.
You might have inspired a song and you don't even know.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Well that's true, but you know he was. He was
really a nice and I remember him having a good
voice and being in chorus and things like that that we,
you know a lot of us were in in junior
high school in high school.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
What a good story.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
But I'm interested in your Sam Houston. I like Texas history,
and I liked the I think you had someone on
this past week that talked about the importance of our
children and our grandchildren learning Texas history, and I think
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I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You know, Cynthia, you said something that you know I'm
not big into the latter day. Everybody gets a trophy
in the new language, people using all that, but the
term of a bonus child and a bonus grandchild and
what that means, and how I love that you want
to use that phrase. You started the shaw so well, Cynthia,
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Thank you, sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That's all folks.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Deborah writes, Oh happy day. My soul is always lifted
up when I hear this song. Our bodies decayed daily,
but our spirits are renewed constantly. We are youthing. Travis writes,
if I may, I would like to wish my mother
Jean a happy ninety second birthday this coming Sunday, the seventh. Well, Travis, doit.
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I can't wish missus Jean do it a happy ninety
second birthday this weekend, because then I would just be
overwhelmed the birthday wishes.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Isn't that right?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Ramon?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And that how that works? All right, Let's go to
Carl is Carl back, all right, go.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Ahead, Carl, Hey, Carl, thanks for taking my call. Boy,
am I mixed up? I say, if Alina Hidalga Hidalgo
is worried about a two hundred million dollar deficit, now
wait till she sees her her income from all the
lower housing prizes all over Harris County. I tell you
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what property values in parts of Harris County are plummeting,
and nobody seems to be talking about it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You're talking about the cell of housing that those prices
are going, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Right right, house, Yes, exactly. So I've got a house
for sale in Cyprus, been for sale, been for sale
for a year, and it was reasonab to me, reasonably
priced in the first place, according to my realtor, and
I've had to drop it twenty percent since September of
last year, and I still haven't. It's five bedroom, nice
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size house. But nobody's buy twenty year old houses.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
At six percent.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, and most people can't get six percent. So well,
let me say this. My view is this, and this
A lot of people don't subscribe to my view or
agree with my view, but it comes after a lot
of study and experience and I hold to it a combine. Honestly,
pricing of homes is based entirely based on a willing buyer,
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a willing seller making an offer that's a list price,
and a willing and able I might like to buy
Trump Tower, but I don't have the money for it.
So a willing and able buyer being willing to pay
a price that the seller accepts it may not be
the original offer, So the buyer makes a counter offer
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of a lower price. Now he's made the offer, and
in contracts contract terms, the seller originally can now accept
that offer or reject that offer. He can make another offer.
So he's first guy says I'm listening it for six hundred.
The next guy says, I'll give you five seventy five,
and the seller comes back and said, I'll give you
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five ninety. So that price offer is the first of
three parts of a contract. There is offer, there is acceptance,
There is consideration that can be as small as a
peppercorn in a famous contracts case, but there's some amount
of money that changes hands that shows that it's real.
Otherwise you go, I'll dance at your next wedding. You know, hey,
I'm getting married. I was just saying that. But when
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money changes hand, that is consideration. That shows that's the
concept of earnest money. That shows I'm invested. I take
this seriously. I understand it to be a contract. I
put money up when your realtor tells you the price
is reasonable. We have to be careful that we understand
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that the value of most things, and especially real estate,
that value is not set in the heavens. It is
not scientific. I'll bet you that home if it's twenty
years old, I bet you're not trying to get what
you bought it for twenty years ago, or what someone
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bought it for twenty years ago. I'll bet you that
price went up, and it might have dropped down around
two thousand and eight, and there might have been some
other fluctuations, so that price has gone up and down,
mostly up.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm not a believer in the term correction when it
comes to the housing market or the stock market, because
a correction suggests there is a number at which it
should be selling, and it got above that number, and
here's the number it needs to be at. That suggests
that that number is somehow set in stone. It came
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from the heavens. Well, that's just not true. Price volatility
is dependent on a number of things, number of buyers
who like that home and are willing to buy it,
and as I said, willing and able. The ability part
has been affected, and that is that a person who
could buy a three hundred thousand dollars house at a
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two point twenty five percent interest rate based on a
monthly payment, well, now maybe that guy can only can
only afford two hundred and twenty five thousand. So the
one buyer, and sometimes it's only one at least for
a while, the one buyer of that house at three
hundred is now over here in the two twenty five market.
So you're thinking, well, nobody wants my home. My home
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is no good. There was a guy who wanted your home,
who was willing to pay you that amount for your home.
That guy's not He might be willing, but he's not
able to make that purchase at three hundred thousand dollars.
So now he's over at the two twenty five market. So,
first of all, you got a couple of factors at
play number one. You had what I would consider to
be an artificial run up in prices due to COVID,
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and that is that people started realizing, I'm now going
to spend more time in my home. I want a
nicer home. Well, if I have a demand for certain
homes that I would have, that I'm willing to pay
more now than I would have because I'm not going
to be traveling as much and be working from home
those sorts of things. I'm willing to spend more on
the same house than I would before. My desire increased,
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my demand increased, and that happened across the board. That
drove up houses. So after twenty nineteen, starting in the
summer of twenty twenty, we started seeing a housing price
run up because people weren't traveling, they were spending more
at home. My home remodeling show sponsors they had their
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best years, not in twenty twenty because it was still
such uncertainty, but by twenty twenty one killing it. People
wanted new roots and new pools, and everybody that is
a show sponsor of virus it's a home improvement person.
Twenty twenty one was probably the best year they ever had.
Sam was twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, and then
it slowed down, and it has slowed down till now
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this has also happened in the residential real estate market.
So there are a number of factors at play that
your house is not what you believed it was before. First,
the demand for homes is lower than it was three
years ago. I've quoted this data a number of times.
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This is the highest number of homes in Texas we
have had on the market relative to the number of
buyers active in the market that we have ever had,
and it's quite large relative to what it's ever been. Well,
the more houses on the market for fewer buyers, the
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more buyers go in and get picky. You wanted three
hundred for your house, There's ten houses like yours in
the neighborhood. I'll give you. So that guy that's paid
off his house, that has that has equity in his home,
he says, Man, I'd like to get three hundred, but
the carrying costs are killing me. I need this money
to roll it over and do this. He takes two forty. Well,
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guess what just happened. The value of that home is
no longer three hundred. It is two forty, and it
now affected every home in the market. So that's what's
going on. I think back Q one will be back.
I think you'll see these these rates, these prices go
back up with it. You'll see interest rate cuts back then.
I think you're going to see the economy booming by then.
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He told the story over the week and it was
in Chatty Chad Chatty's. It was in Chad's weekend review.
The little boy five years old, when across the streets
the Chick fil A's parents were still asleep. All I
could imagine was how mortified his parents had to be.
So I had a police officer told me a story
that he once came over the turn over the hill
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and immediately in front of him was a little kid
three at the most four and one of those little
electric cars they'll have, middle of the street. Slams on
his brake, swerves out of the way, jumps out or
backs up, puts his lights on and doesn't want somebody
to hit the kids in the middle of the street,
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and a busy busy street runs gets the kids, puts
the kid in the back.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Of the car.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, the kid doesn't know where he lives, you know,
he can't say one O eight Rockford. He doesn't know
how to tell this popo where he lives. He said,
The kid wasn't a bit worried. He was quite enjoying
the ride. So he's trying to figure.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Out what to do.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He's called it in to dispatch. The kid doesn't know
his security number, his driver's license number, his day to birth,
the doctor who gave delivery, the president upon Yeah, he's
failing all memory tests. You know, you think he's drunk
or got Alzheimer's. So this little big kid, this officer's
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driving along, he's really thinking, what am I I gotta
I gotta deliver this kid to somebody that can handle
figuring out where he lives. There was a flashlight, as
Popo would use to beat the snot out of paper
room on in between I'm sorry to light things up
at night, in between the seat and the console, and
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the little kid says, fast light. And the officer turns
by you fast light, and he points at it, and
all of a sudden, it lights up to this officer.
I saw this kid two weeks ago. I was at
his house, and he paused for a moment, pulled over,
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and he remembered he ran a call to that kid's
house two weeks earlier. His parents were fighting, so he said,
I know where that is, he drives over to the house.
The gate is open, because you know, he had had
to open the gate to get his little car out right,
And there there were sound asleep. Who isn't in the
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early hours of the morning, right, who knows their kid's
going to get up and sneak out, goes up, knocks
on the door. Hey, here's little Billy. I don't know
that his name would have been Billy given all things
in the story, but but here, for the sake of
the story, here's your little Billy. He said. All I
could think was I could have hit that kid. Somebody
else could have hit that kid, could have ended up very,
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very differently. Yeah, so that's my story. By the way,
I'm a little bit mad at y'all. A little bit
mad at y'all yesterday. Now, I went to break as
I was telling the story, so I didn't set it
up properly, but I said, if you did something crazy
as a little kid, or you had a kid that
did something crazy in that realm, you know, the kid
that goes off to the two, then tell me us.
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I think we got two calls on him, two calls.
I was devastating. I went home. What I was ready
for a good conversation. Don't call today. Don't call today.
We've moved on. I'm just telling you you hurt my
feelings if you sat there and you had a story
and you didn't tell it because you're like, well, I
don't want to And I just want you to know
you hurt my feelings yesterday. My feelings are hurt. Seven nine,
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one thousand.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
We go to Charles.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Because he's eighty eight. We don't know how long he
can hold Charles.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Good morning, Michael. I'm a political junkie. It's it's genetically inherited.
But I got a question for you. I know you
you're a big proponent of Colorado, and given Colorado's repeated
democratic liberal policies that are against Trump and police, I
wonder if you've thought about changing your your winner base
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to Utah, which is a more conservative state and has
great scheme. I remember skiing a lot in Utah when
I was able.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Are you more.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
No, No, No, I'm Freshbyterian.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You know I've never been skiing in Utah. It's a
very good question. Let me start with it's a very
good question. And I only hear good things about Utah.
The politics of Colorado much like the politics of California
and Oregon are atrocious. They're just awful. But I love
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their mountains, I love their weather, I love the rivers.
I love so many things about the natural beauty. I
don't deal with human beings when I'm in Colorado. It
is a very very fair question, and I will tell
you I'd love to see the data. I'd be hard
to compile, but there's probably a good way you could
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pull it by looking at ski lift passes or seasoned passes,
or you know, Utah is a hot commodity right now.
You probably know that a lot of people, a lot
of people want to be in Utah and want to
vacation in Utah, and want to have a second home
in Utah. And I think some of that is at
the expense of Colorado directly. I think people have had
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enough of their granola ways. Yeah, so no, it's a
very fair point.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I have.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
A little spot in Aspen that is my happy place
that I get away from everybody. I don't answer the
phone here, you got to email me. But when I'm
in Colorado, I don't even do the phone. And that
is my recharge the batteries. You know, I don't think
I'm Picasso or Dega, but there is a certain amount
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of creativity to what we do. And when I feel
like I'm getting up and going to the assembly line
and I got to put in my eight hours and
go home, then the show will suffer.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
So I do.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I do appreciate the opportunity. I can tell when I
come back that the wheels are turning better. I'm more creative.
I'm just better at what I think we should do,
which is, you know, mix things up, talk about all
sorts of different things, bring passion to the airwaves, bring perspective,
be a contraindication to what's already out there in media
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and in public thought, force people to think about things differently.
In order to do that, I got to get away
from everybody. Is there a spot in Utah where I
could do that and achieve everything I'm doing. I'm certain
there is that would be perchance, by chance, in a
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state that also happens to have a whole lot better politics.
If I'm completely honest, I'm too tired to do that.
It took me twenty five years to figure out where
I wanted to be in Colorado, and as my grandmother
would say, get somewhere in light, and so I don't.
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I don't have the energy to start over. If if
that makes sense, and that's the complete honesty, I don't.
I don't deny. If I was twenty eight years old today,
I would certainly certainly be a part of the vacation
in Utah crowd. There's there's no doubt. And I have
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read enough and heard enough from people Park City and
all that sort of stuff to believe I would. I
would love it, and and it would be glorious. I
just if I'm completely honest. Once I find something I like,
that's why people get out of it. I smoke the
same cigar, I drink the same bourbon, I drink the
same beer. I just switched over to Dukeman Wines because
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he and his wife are dear friends of mine. But
otherwise I would have drank the same wine. And now
I'll drink that until I die. I've been married to
the same woman for thirty six years. I you know,
I like to find something I like. I wear the
same same shirt, the same raggedy shorts, and the same
house slippers that I take off in place. Ramona lasts
like mister Rogers right next to the trash cancel. I
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do everything consistently, and once I find my system, I don't.
I don't like to change that up. But thank you
for calling eighty eight. You sound great.
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
darry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Happy day, happy day, when G does war, when he war,
when G does war.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
She is the way he loves me. Happy day or
happy da happy or happy day.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
When Jesus war, Oh pitty war, when Jesus war.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Shel the way he loved the habit day.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Happy day or a happy day? Happy winter? Those wars,
oh whitty war winter, those wars.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
What three is away? He need a love deep happy day? Happy, oh,
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happy dey.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Habit habit winchy the wool waity war Winchy the war.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It was on this day Wait. Eighteen thirty six, Sam
Houston elected the first President of the Republic of Texas.
It is a real honor to get to sit in
the seat and talk to you every day. It is
an honor that of all the other things you could
be doing, working, driving, talking on the phone, texting, watching television,
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for any of you, you choose to listen to us
and join us on this journey. That is an honor
and we do not take it for granted. The phone
lines are open, I would love to talk to you
old folks today. You get in early on the first
hour because y'all been up for a long time already anyway.
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Tell Ramon
(05:44):
if you're eighty or older seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, to get as start as we always do.
Courtesy the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattikoni Nakanishi.
Your wee can review.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The boots.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I could listen to Tom Waits or Bob Seeker cover
every song every day, all day, and you won't know
who else. Robert o' king. I don't like Rara. I
have pretty saying voice. I don't like you. You don't have
a brain.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
A violent Labor Day weekend in Chicago, host of sixty
people were shot. A number of those shootings were death.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The weekend violence includes three mass shootings, two of them
in Bronzeville.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Mayor Johnson today joined Labor Day protesters with a clear
message to President Trump, keep the troops and ice agents
out of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Mayor Brandon Johnson is out there looking like a complete
clown speaking of a Labor Day event. We go keep
Chicago bus Chicago. We're not gonna let them come in
and stop crying. At least Third World countries want to
be better. But you've got Brandon Johnson. He's worse to beetlejuice.
I didn't think that was possible.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Five year old boys fast food run which ended with
a home delivery by the police. It happened this summer
at a Chick fil A in Jacksonville, Florida. Boddy camera
footage shows the boy eating his breakfast sandwich, sitting with
the manager because he walked there by himself.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, I'm not going to put your jails.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's kind of.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Scary actually, because we didn't realize what was going on
until after we came out.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The hilarious thing is when it turns out okay, and
then you get to find out what in the world
that kid was thinking and how that made sense to
that kid, And that is what is so scary.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
The man is in custody tonight because of shooting and
killing his friend as both men took turns shooting at
each other while wearing a kevlar helmet.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So turns shooting at each other while wearing helmet. If
you're willing to let somebody shoot you in the head
to see if the kevlar helmet works or not, I
don't think you were going to discover the cure for cancer.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
This botsa mosqueche.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Now the dudes in Texas just keep something that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I feel like I got a decent butt. You know,
I had to be ashamed of my butt. It's not
sagging or anything like that.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's not great, you know what I mean. I couldn't
be a button model. But it's not a bad.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
But I'm gotta keep.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
A number of folks have emailed asking why they can't
find Pat Green's Friday's Coming online? Why is it not
on any of the services. We don't know. We got
a copy online years ago, and then I had to
(08:53):
get a copy from the band. We had to go
a back channel to get it. You can't. I mean,
maybe there are a lot better people at sleuthing on
the internet than me, and I'm not the one that
does that. Now. Ramon's not the best, but he did
put in two or three minutes trying to find it
at one point when we had a system crash and
(09:13):
put in we're reloading everything and we didn't have it.
Some mean you you might not have noticed it, but
there was a period a while back we didn't have
it and we had to go track it down, and
that was not an easy process. I don't know if
it's a licensing deal, I don't know. It's obviously not
as big as Hit or anything like that. It's a
darn good song. I will frequently get emails from people
(09:36):
asking where you can find that, and I say, oh,
about eight eighteen Friday morning in Houston on News Radio
seven forty k TRH, as well as in Corpus Christi
and all the other stations that carry our morning show.
The evening show has a bigger syndication. All right, let's
get to your calls, if you know. When I started
(09:58):
in radio, was the senior vice president of the radio
who ran the stations in Houston as well, and he
would tell the call screeners, don't put people with foreign accents,
and don't put old people as callers. Don't let them through,
just put them on hold and just leave them there.
(10:18):
And I got to tell you that's two of my
favorite groups to put on the air. I love to
listen to older folks, and I think this has probably
always been the case, but because society is moving so rapidly,
the difference between old folks and people my age, pre
old folks and young people is so dramatically different because
(10:43):
of cultural changes and technological changes that it's almost like
a museum. Old folks have such interesting perspectives, and they
tend to be, if you get the right ones, more unfiltered.
So they say things you know to be true, and
it's new to be true, but that you've or the
other people have not felt comfortable saying in a long time,
(11:06):
about hard work, about laziness, about welfare, about relationships and
parenting and managing your money, and all of those sorts
of things. So with that we get to it. Seven
one three, Oh sorry, we're gonna do old folks today.
Seven one three nine nine nine one zero zero zero
(11:29):
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, and we
start with Carl. Carl, you are the first call of
the week. Be excellent, flow start all right, Carl, Hm,
(11:56):
we lost him. He was seventy five. Well that's a
good run. Not quite three quarters of a century, but
not bad. There was a time when seventy four was
a really good run. Now folks can live a lot longer.
Let's go to Cynthia. Cynthia's eighty five. That's my dad's age. Hello, Cynthia, Welcome, sweetheart.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Thank you for having me on the radio. How nice
the radio before?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, first of all, let me tell you, Cynthia, I
have a great deal of admiration for anyone who can
call the show because people will criticize, Oh that guy
here or that lady, she did this or she did that.
Have you ever called a show? No, It takes a
certain amount of boldness to say, you know what I'm
getting in the arena, I'm going to be on the
(12:48):
stage right now and I'm going to put myself out there.
So that's awesome. You've never been on the radio, Well,
now you have, Cynthia.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
That's right. And I first, Paul, I want to thank
you for your program. I've learned a lot. I am.
I was born in Houston, but I've lived in many
other places. But I came back to Houston to live
in oh twenty nineteen. I'm a five year widow. I
(13:24):
lived with my son and my daughter in law and
my bonus grandchild, and I live out in Magnolia. And
you've brought back many memories for me of Houston in
the and of course I'm way older than you, so
I remember a lot of stuff. And one thing that
(13:49):
you know you bring up all the high schools and
all the things like that, and and I went to
school with Now my memory just left me there a
young man and he I didn't know that he had
(14:11):
become famous until I listened to your show. And I
went to junior high and high school with him. He's
a songwriter. And he passed away not too long ago
in Nashville. Let me think.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Mark James, Mickey Mickey Newberry. Mickey Newberry. Yes, yeah, Mickey Dewberry.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
He was Mickey Newberry. And I went off and I
went to school with him all those years. I mean,
I can still remember the house he lived in, you know,
going to school in different places. So that was kind
of neat. I thought, Wow, I knew him, but I
didn't know that he had become famous.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Sure, sure he might have written a song about it.
You might have inspired a song and you don't even know.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Well that's true, but you know he was. He was
really a nice and I remember him having a good
voice and being in chorus and things like that that we,
you know a lot of us were in in junior
high school in high school.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
What a good story.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
But I'm interested in your Sam Houston. I like Texas history,
and I liked the I think you had someone on
this past week that talked about the importance of our
children and our grandchildren learning Texas history, and I think
(15:44):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You know, Cynthia, you said something that you know I'm
not big into the latter day. Everybody gets a trophy
in the new language, people using all that, but the
term of a bonus child and a bonus grandchild and
what that means, and how I love that you want
to use that phrase. You started the shaw so well, Cynthia,
(16:10):
Thank you, sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That's all folks.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Deborah writes, Oh happy day. My soul is always lifted
up when I hear this song. Our bodies decayed daily,
but our spirits are renewed constantly. We are youthing. Travis writes,
if I may, I would like to wish my mother
Jean a happy ninety second birthday this coming Sunday, the seventh. Well, Travis, doit.
(16:42):
I can't wish missus Jean do it a happy ninety
second birthday this weekend, because then I would just be
overwhelmed the birthday wishes.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Isn't that right?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Ramon?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And that how that works? All right, Let's go to
Carl is Carl back, all right, go.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Ahead, Carl, Hey, Carl, thanks for taking my call. Boy,
am I mixed up? I say, if Alina Hidalga Hidalgo
is worried about a two hundred million dollar deficit, now
wait till she sees her her income from all the
lower housing prizes all over Harris County. I tell you
(17:20):
what property values in parts of Harris County are plummeting,
and nobody seems to be talking about it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You're talking about the cell of housing that those prices
are going, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Right right, house, Yes, exactly. So I've got a house
for sale in Cyprus, been for sale, been for sale
for a year, and it was reasonab to me, reasonably
priced in the first place, according to my realtor, and
I've had to drop it twenty percent since September of
last year, and I still haven't. It's five bedroom, nice
(17:57):
size house. But nobody's buy twenty year old houses.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
At six percent.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, and most people can't get six percent. So well,
let me say this. My view is this, and this
A lot of people don't subscribe to my view or
agree with my view, but it comes after a lot
of study and experience and I hold to it a combine. Honestly,
pricing of homes is based entirely based on a willing buyer,
(18:31):
a willing seller making an offer that's a list price,
and a willing and able I might like to buy
Trump Tower, but I don't have the money for it.
So a willing and able buyer being willing to pay
a price that the seller accepts it may not be
the original offer, So the buyer makes a counter offer
(18:54):
of a lower price. Now he's made the offer, and
in contracts contract terms, the seller originally can now accept
that offer or reject that offer. He can make another offer.
So he's first guy says I'm listening it for six hundred.
The next guy says, I'll give you five seventy five,
and the seller comes back and said, I'll give you
(19:15):
five ninety. So that price offer is the first of
three parts of a contract. There is offer, there is acceptance,
There is consideration that can be as small as a
peppercorn in a famous contracts case, but there's some amount
of money that changes hands that shows that it's real.
Otherwise you go, I'll dance at your next wedding. You know, hey,
I'm getting married. I was just saying that. But when
(19:35):
money changes hand, that is consideration. That shows that's the
concept of earnest money. That shows I'm invested. I take
this seriously. I understand it to be a contract. I
put money up when your realtor tells you the price
is reasonable. We have to be careful that we understand
(19:57):
that the value of most things, and especially real estate,
that value is not set in the heavens. It is
not scientific. I'll bet you that home if it's twenty
years old, I bet you're not trying to get what
you bought it for twenty years ago, or what someone
(20:18):
bought it for twenty years ago. I'll bet you that
price went up, and it might have dropped down around
two thousand and eight, and there might have been some
other fluctuations, so that price has gone up and down,
mostly up.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm not a believer in the term correction when it
comes to the housing market or the stock market, because
a correction suggests there is a number at which it
should be selling, and it got above that number, and
here's the number it needs to be at. That suggests
that that number is somehow set in stone. It came
(20:55):
from the heavens. Well, that's just not true. Price volatility
is dependent on a number of things, number of buyers
who like that home and are willing to buy it,
and as I said, willing and able. The ability part
has been affected, and that is that a person who
could buy a three hundred thousand dollars house at a
(21:18):
two point twenty five percent interest rate based on a
monthly payment, well, now maybe that guy can only can
only afford two hundred and twenty five thousand. So the
one buyer, and sometimes it's only one at least for
a while, the one buyer of that house at three
hundred is now over here in the two twenty five market.
So you're thinking, well, nobody wants my home. My home
(21:40):
is no good. There was a guy who wanted your home,
who was willing to pay you that amount for your home.
That guy's not He might be willing, but he's not
able to make that purchase at three hundred thousand dollars.
So now he's over at the two twenty five market. So,
first of all, you got a couple of factors at
play number one. You had what I would consider to
be an artificial run up in prices due to COVID,
(22:04):
and that is that people started realizing, I'm now going
to spend more time in my home. I want a
nicer home. Well, if I have a demand for certain
homes that I would have, that I'm willing to pay
more now than I would have because I'm not going
to be traveling as much and be working from home
those sorts of things. I'm willing to spend more on
the same house than I would before. My desire increased,
(22:25):
my demand increased, and that happened across the board. That
drove up houses. So after twenty nineteen, starting in the
summer of twenty twenty, we started seeing a housing price
run up because people weren't traveling, they were spending more
at home. My home remodeling show sponsors they had their
(22:45):
best years, not in twenty twenty because it was still
such uncertainty, but by twenty twenty one killing it. People
wanted new roots and new pools, and everybody that is
a show sponsor of virus it's a home improvement person.
Twenty twenty one was probably the best year they ever had.
Sam was twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, and then
it slowed down, and it has slowed down till now
(23:07):
this has also happened in the residential real estate market.
So there are a number of factors at play that
your house is not what you believed it was before. First,
the demand for homes is lower than it was three
years ago. I've quoted this data a number of times.
(23:30):
This is the highest number of homes in Texas we
have had on the market relative to the number of
buyers active in the market that we have ever had,
and it's quite large relative to what it's ever been. Well,
the more houses on the market for fewer buyers, the
(23:52):
more buyers go in and get picky. You wanted three
hundred for your house, There's ten houses like yours in
the neighborhood. I'll give you. So that guy that's paid
off his house, that has that has equity in his home,
he says, Man, I'd like to get three hundred, but
the carrying costs are killing me. I need this money
to roll it over and do this. He takes two forty. Well,
(24:14):
guess what just happened. The value of that home is
no longer three hundred. It is two forty, and it
now affected every home in the market. So that's what's
going on. I think back Q one will be back.
I think you'll see these these rates, these prices go
back up with it. You'll see interest rate cuts back then.
I think you're going to see the economy booming by then.
(24:38):
He told the story over the week and it was
in Chatty Chad Chatty's. It was in Chad's weekend review.
The little boy five years old, when across the streets
the Chick fil A's parents were still asleep. All I
could imagine was how mortified his parents had to be.
So I had a police officer told me a story
that he once came over the turn over the hill
(25:02):
and immediately in front of him was a little kid
three at the most four and one of those little
electric cars they'll have, middle of the street. Slams on
his brake, swerves out of the way, jumps out or
backs up, puts his lights on and doesn't want somebody
to hit the kids in the middle of the street,
(25:22):
and a busy busy street runs gets the kids, puts
the kid in the back.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Of the car.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, the kid doesn't know where he lives, you know,
he can't say one O eight Rockford. He doesn't know
how to tell this popo where he lives. He said,
The kid wasn't a bit worried. He was quite enjoying
the ride. So he's trying to figure.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Out what to do.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He's called it in to dispatch. The kid doesn't know
his security number, his driver's license number, his day to birth,
the doctor who gave delivery, the president upon Yeah, he's
failing all memory tests. You know, you think he's drunk
or got Alzheimer's. So this little big kid, this officer's
(26:06):
driving along, he's really thinking, what am I I gotta
I gotta deliver this kid to somebody that can handle
figuring out where he lives. There was a flashlight, as
Popo would use to beat the snot out of paper
room on in between I'm sorry to light things up
at night, in between the seat and the console, and
(26:26):
the little kid says, fast light. And the officer turns
by you fast light, and he points at it, and
all of a sudden, it lights up to this officer.
I saw this kid two weeks ago. I was at
his house, and he paused for a moment, pulled over,
(26:52):
and he remembered he ran a call to that kid's
house two weeks earlier. His parents were fighting, so he said,
I know where that is, he drives over to the house.
The gate is open, because you know, he had had
to open the gate to get his little car out right,
And there there were sound asleep. Who isn't in the
(27:14):
early hours of the morning, right, who knows their kid's
going to get up and sneak out, goes up, knocks
on the door. Hey, here's little Billy. I don't know
that his name would have been Billy given all things
in the story, but but here, for the sake of
the story, here's your little Billy. He said. All I
could think was I could have hit that kid. Somebody
else could have hit that kid, could have ended up very,
(27:37):
very differently. Yeah, so that's my story. By the way,
I'm a little bit mad at y'all. A little bit
mad at y'all yesterday. Now, I went to break as
I was telling the story, so I didn't set it
up properly, but I said, if you did something crazy
as a little kid, or you had a kid that
did something crazy in that realm, you know, the kid
that goes off to the two, then tell me us.
(27:58):
I think we got two calls on him, two calls.
I was devastating. I went home. What I was ready
for a good conversation. Don't call today. Don't call today.
We've moved on. I'm just telling you you hurt my
feelings if you sat there and you had a story
and you didn't tell it because you're like, well, I
don't want to And I just want you to know
you hurt my feelings yesterday. My feelings are hurt. Seven nine,
(28:22):
one thousand.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
We go to Charles.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Because he's eighty eight. We don't know how long he
can hold Charles.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Good morning, Michael. I'm a political junkie. It's it's genetically inherited.
But I got a question for you. I know you
you're a big proponent of Colorado, and given Colorado's repeated
democratic liberal policies that are against Trump and police, I
wonder if you've thought about changing your your winner base
(28:51):
to Utah, which is a more conservative state and has
great scheme. I remember skiing a lot in Utah when
I was able.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Are you more.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
No, No, No, I'm Freshbyterian.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You know I've never been skiing in Utah. It's a
very good question. Let me start with it's a very
good question. And I only hear good things about Utah.
The politics of Colorado much like the politics of California
and Oregon are atrocious. They're just awful. But I love
(29:34):
their mountains, I love their weather, I love the rivers.
I love so many things about the natural beauty. I
don't deal with human beings when I'm in Colorado. It
is a very very fair question, and I will tell
you I'd love to see the data. I'd be hard
to compile, but there's probably a good way you could
(29:54):
pull it by looking at ski lift passes or seasoned passes,
or you know, Utah is a hot commodity right now.
You probably know that a lot of people, a lot
of people want to be in Utah and want to
vacation in Utah, and want to have a second home
in Utah. And I think some of that is at
the expense of Colorado directly. I think people have had
(30:15):
enough of their granola ways. Yeah, so no, it's a
very fair point.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I have.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
A little spot in Aspen that is my happy place
that I get away from everybody. I don't answer the
phone here, you got to email me. But when I'm
in Colorado, I don't even do the phone. And that
is my recharge the batteries. You know, I don't think
I'm Picasso or Dega, but there is a certain amount
(30:45):
of creativity to what we do. And when I feel
like I'm getting up and going to the assembly line
and I got to put in my eight hours and
go home, then the show will suffer.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
So I do.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I do appreciate the opportunity. I can tell when I
come back that the wheels are turning better. I'm more creative.
I'm just better at what I think we should do,
which is, you know, mix things up, talk about all
sorts of different things, bring passion to the airwaves, bring perspective,
be a contraindication to what's already out there in media
(31:22):
and in public thought, force people to think about things differently.
In order to do that, I got to get away
from everybody. Is there a spot in Utah where I
could do that and achieve everything I'm doing. I'm certain
there is that would be perchance, by chance, in a
(31:42):
state that also happens to have a whole lot better politics.
If I'm completely honest, I'm too tired to do that.
It took me twenty five years to figure out where
I wanted to be in Colorado, and as my grandmother
would say, get somewhere in light, and so I don't.
(32:03):
I don't have the energy to start over. If if
that makes sense, and that's the complete honesty, I don't.
I don't deny. If I was twenty eight years old today,
I would certainly certainly be a part of the vacation
in Utah crowd. There's there's no doubt. And I have
(32:25):
read enough and heard enough from people Park City and
all that sort of stuff to believe I would. I
would love it, and and it would be glorious. I
just if I'm completely honest. Once I find something I like,
that's why people get out of it. I smoke the
same cigar, I drink the same bourbon, I drink the
same beer. I just switched over to Dukeman Wines because
(32:47):
he and his wife are dear friends of mine. But
otherwise I would have drank the same wine. And now
I'll drink that until I die. I've been married to
the same woman for thirty six years. I you know,
I like to find something I like. I wear the
same same shirt, the same raggedy shorts, and the same
house slippers that I take off in place. Ramona lasts
like mister Rogers right next to the trash cancel. I
(33:10):
do everything consistently, and once I find my system, I don't.
I don't like to change that up. But thank you
for calling eighty eight. You sound great.
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