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Speaker 1 (00:05):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
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This is mile old Hamilton pastros win again.
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And a good morning to the TZAR. Good morning, Michael Berry.
It's Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show.
Pity I wasn't invind it. Good morning, Michael Berry. I'm
all jaked up on Mountain Dew. This is the Thornton
Finch wishing you a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry.
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You the morning, Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael,
Good morning.
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Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are you there? Good money,
Michael Berry. How you learned that? A ready it tomorrow?
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Listen to this, Good Moarty, Texas morning, your car, Good morning.
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Texas is on his day.
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We're happy here to talk about everything. Good morning, We're
not wearing dance.
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Good moarning Texes, good barding Texas, good bording, excess, good morning,
wake up, let's speak, God damn.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
My good morning.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I want to get into the political and economic and
cultural news of the day, but first, Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday,
at seventy six years older. My first thought is I
measure everything against Russia's life, and I know, how does
Ozzie live six years longer than Russia.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Let me first say.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I was not a Black Sabbath or Osbourne fan twenty
years ago. I couldn't have named more than five of
their songs. Didn't grow up on metal. I'm a country,
classic country guy. You know this, and I just wasn't
exposed to it. So many friends who are Ozzie nuts,
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in fact, folks who emailed me and said you better
start with Ossie tribute. We will nine o'clock. Jim Mutter,
our creative director, went wild on It takes almost the
entire segment. Eddie Martinez is going to say too much music,
and he'll be right, but you'll understand at that time.
But let me start with something I'd like to think
on occasion you tune in to be exposed to something
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different than you came to the show with. My son's
name is Crockett. I'm slightly obsessed with the Alamo. I've
been reading about the Alamo and our heroes and what
it means and what they did since I was in
third grade. My company that I personally own, that we
do our trips, and that all our team works for
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and all is not iHeart, It's Alamo marketing.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So suffice it to say, I have something.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Of a weird obsession with the Alamo, as many of
you do. And all I ever knew of Ozzy Osbourne
is he pete on the Alamo, and I hated him
for that, And so I decided yesterday that I would
go looking for the real story of what happened. And
here it is from a fellow named Traces of Texas.
I'm gonna read fast because I'd like to get it
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all in. In this segment, he wrote, Ozzy Osbourne has
died normally he being an Englishman, and all I wouldn't
mention it here, but this is a Texas history page,
and there is well you know that for those unfamiliar
with the story. On February nineteenth, nineteen eighty two, Ozzy
Osbourne found himself in San Anton, full of booze, dressed
in one of Sharon's dresses. She had hidden his clothes
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to keep him in George Jones again, and in search
of a place to relieve himself. Unfortunately for him and
for the city, he chose the second worst possible spot,
the sixty foot cenotaph in Alamo Plaza, a sacred monument
honoring the defenders of the Alamo who died in eighteen
thirty six. He didn't know where he was, let alone
what he was doing. He didn't technically peel on the
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Alamo itself, but the cenotaph stands just across from it
and protections. That's close enough. Naturally, local officials didn't take
kindly to it. I wish I could find the reference now,
but one official said, I'd rather chew my arm off
than do that. Ozzie was arrested for public intoxication and
spent part of the day sobering up in jail before
being released on a forty dollars bond. That night, he
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still took the stage at Hemisphare Arena, but the fallout
lin sant Antoine banned him from performing in the city
for a full decade. In nineteen ninety two, he returned
hat in hand, issued a public apology, and donated ten
thousand dollars to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas,
the group that maintains the Alamo grounds. The city forgave
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him and Ozzi played two nights at the Freeman Colisina Coliseum.
The incident became a part of rock and roll legend.
Artists even created a motion activated statue of Ozzy that
mimicked the act in a gallery setting. In twenty fourteen,
a twenty three year old from El Paso was arrested
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trying to copy him. Ozzi returned once more in twenty fifteen,
this time with his son Jack. While filming for the
History Channel, word got out and a crowd gathered to
see the Prince of Darkness make peace with Texas history.
He met with Councilman Robert Trevigno and spoke from the
heart quote We've all done things we regret. Ozzie said,
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you can say that in his voice. I know you should.
We've all done things we regret. I'm honored San Antonio
has welcomed me back. I hope this shows I've grown up.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
My thoughts.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I've also done my share of things that I regret,
and conveniently, perhaps I believe in second chances, atonement and redemption.
John Conny once said there's no better place than Texas
for starting over. And I find that quote so useful,
not only for this page, but just for life situations
in general. It reflects the fact that every human has
moments that he wished he could have over and that
Texas is mostly big hearted enough to let such moments slide. Now,
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if Ozzie had whizzed on the Alamo itself, that might
be a bridge too far, because I don't care how
drunk you are, You're still sober enough to know that
you shouldn't let your freak flag fly on the Alamo.
You could have a bac content one point forty five
and be lying comatose in a prostate position and know that,
but the cenotaph drunk in an unfamiliar city, and then
you come back later and give ten thousand dollars to
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the offended folks and beg forgiveness. I'm willing to let
it go, if only because it serves as a cautionary
tale for others. If you're in a foreign city and
you somehow find yourself overserved, be careful, know where the
facilities are long before you get to that point. Learn
from Ozzie's mistake. But that expression party like a rock star.
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I'm convinced it was created for Ozzy on this day,
and no amount of historical evidence to the contrary will
convince me otherwise. Then there's a picture of Ozzie returning
to the Alamo, cap in hand, metaphorically speaking. I'm not
asking you to change your opinion on the issue. I'm
not sure I have. But here's a guy that built
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a big, bad reputation for biting off the heads of
bats and being a demon, devil, monstered, devil may care.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Nobody can tell him what to do, bad.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Boy, and he managed to go back and apologize.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Did he have to know?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
He could have lived out his seventy six years and
never played in San Antonio again. There were plenty of
other places to play. But I do think it says
something about admitting when you're wrong, in fixing it and
trying to make it right. Smart.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Maybe there's something to learn from loss from Michael's brain,
every single one of them. To your ears, this is
a Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
If you are an Ozzie fan, especially if it would
surprise me to know, and I mean fan, I don't
mean you recognize eight of his songs to what I do?
I mean you love his music? You would travel, you know,
four hours to see a show. My nephew Kyle, who
was married to my niece Shilpy. Yes, I know that's
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not the technical legal term, but that's what I call him.
I treated more like a son in law he Inheritson
who's married to my niece, who's also more like my
daughter Rucci. Those two boys are are like extra sons
for me, but I call them nephews. They're more They're
technically nephews in law, I suppose, but I treat them
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like sons in law. Are well, Kyle. His two greatest
musical influences are Lenyard Skinnert, which of course means something
to me, and Ozzy Osbourne and his His garage, which
I've posted photos of of him working on his Harley
Davidson's has posters of his old time favorite band, which
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is Black Sabbath, and that is that is his thing.
In economic news today, Tesla shares expected to be up
and way up, even after they posted a seventy one
percent drop in net income during their most recent quarter.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Your grandfather or maybe even your father who.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Followed the market, I mean read the financial pages, studied
the stock market and Wall Street is very different than
Main Street, and increasingly so over the last twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But it's quite.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Interesting that companies like Tesla will see a drop in income,
which means fewer cars sold. Of course, would you like
to sell cars in an environment where people are setting
them on fire. It's hard to get people to buy,
although it hasn't stopped many people who are their partisans.
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But the reason is because Tesla's not an automobile car,
an automobile company. It never has been. Tesla has always
been a technology company. Elon didn't found Tesla. He found Tesla.
He discovered it, it already existed. He was the force
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that drove it to the next level. But Tesla is
notable not as an automobile but as a technology company,
and that is for the foreseeable future that is going
to be where the huge upside.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Is going to exist.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
It's a trillion dollar narrative and robotaxis batteries, humanoid robots
that is.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Getting people very, very interested.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
If you want an automobile, you go buy a Chevrolet.
If you're interested in the spin off technologies, you buy
the Tesla stock. And increasingly that appears to be what
is going on. Let me step back for a moment
and say, because we get so caught up in the
day to day that we may lose sight of this.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We are going to look back in five.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And ten years and realize these are the solid days,
These were the housey and days.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
These are the good old days.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
We are witnessing for our way of life, in our mindset,
greater victories now than we have seen in my lifetime period.
End of story. We are seeing a revolutionary zeal to
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fix this country and a willingness to withstand the slings
and arrows of those who made it so bad, those
who seek to ruin our country. And I think what
you're witnessing that can be frustrating. And I know this
because I read what you say. It can be very
frustrating that the left does not go along with things
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that we perceive are good for this country. And they're
never going to go along. They don't agree with them.
They are the reason for the problem. They don't want
to be the solution. The solution would take us back
to a place they didn't like, where they don't hold
the power, where they can't engage in the graft and corruption,
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where they are not in charge.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They want to.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Be a non white, non capitalist, unfair, not opportunistic society,
and that is what they are working very hard to mold.
And to their credit, they have been extraordinarily successful, and
they have many acolytes. They have evangelized through our public
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and secondary post secondary educational systems. They have recruited from
our own households. They have managed to take complete control
the media. They have managed to take complete control of Washington,
d C. They have even managed to take control of
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the mindset of many people who serve in office in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Under the banner.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
That we carry, which is Republican. And this was why
Donald Trump was so dangerous and frankly, this is why
Donald Trump won. I don't know that Trump wins in
two thousand and eight. I really don't. And if you
think that, well, Trump's the greatest. He can never lose.
Trump's image in eight was not as welcomed and beloved
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by some of the same people who in sixteen welcomed him.
And that was why John McCain couldn't sink him. And
that was why I grab him by the who who
couldn't sink him? And that was why, oh, he's making
fun of somebody couldn't sink him. Because many people who
in the past became distracted did buy things that were
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not relevant to whether you could be a good president.
Would have dismissed him in the same way that some
people agreed, okay, will allow George W. Bush to be
our candidate, or Met Romney, or for that matter, John McCain.
Trump was a man who met his moment, and that
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moment was twenty sixteen. I submit you had to have
Barack Obama to have Donald Trump in twenty sixteen. I
submit that a number of people who considered themselves hardcore
loyal Republicans gravitated to a man who really hadn't in
the course of his career. People who were very concerned
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with social issues the personal life of the candidate recognized
we needed a wrecking ball, and by golly, he has
lived up to the flat.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
These are very very good times.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
We'll talk about that for a complete meltdown with more
of the Michael Berry Show show. I am informed by
Ramon that that is tea pain. Any a dude that
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does all the auto tune? So is that auto tuned?
Does he have some app Okay, it's it's only been
a year. Hurricane Beryl. We didn't expect it, and frankly,
we didn't talk much about it after it was gone.
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But city council in Houston to vote on a three
hundred and fourteen million dollar recovery plan from the Dray Show,
remember that and Hurricane Beryl, and there is a debate
raging over whether enough is going to help families rebuild
their homes. Houston set to received millions of federal dollars
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to help recover from last year's disasters, including the Deracho
and Hurricane Beryl, and there is concern, according to Khou,
about how that money could be spent. City council expected
to vote on the plan today and the city could
get up to three hundred and fourteen million dollars in reimbursement.
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Probably didn't help that. John Whitmyer endorsed Kamala Harris when
A she wasn't gonna win and B didn't and C
nobody was asking him to endorse Kamala. I don't know
where that goofy idea came from. Whoever it is it
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told him to do that because he has a very
good political gut. John Whitmire was a Democrat state senator
in the Texas Legislature for fifty years, in a legislature
that for the last half of it was Republican dominated.
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He still managed to wield a lot of influence. He
knows how to cut deals. This is a guy who
was elected in a district that turned increasingly black, that
had Silvester Turner nipping at his heels at all times,
and he managed to work the deal to stay in
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the Senate when there are a lot of folks who
wanted a black state senator in that seat. This is
not an It's not an idiot. This is the British
government managing the various Indian interests before they unified them.
Why he came out and endorsed Kamala Harris late makes
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no sense to me, but anyway. It's a federal reimbursement program.
Up to three hundred and fourteen million dollar proposed budgeted
activities according to the City Hall documents, include power generation, resilience.
Remember the fact that Centerpoint was self dealing and keeping
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all the money for themselves and not repairing the infrastructure.
Now you might say, well, Michael, I thought you're.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
The ultimate capital capitalist.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Centerpoint operates under governmental protection. It's sort of like publishers
versus platforms. The protections that Facebook and Twitter get. The
budgeted activities will include power generation, resilience sounds to me
like the government, which is you paying for more of
what Centerpoint didn't pay for?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Hmmm?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Homeless services? What Wait a minute, Wait a minute, we
had a storm come through. What what are we going
to go through? In inventory? You lost your shopping basket?
Did you okay, Well, let's make sure we buy more
shopping baskets and blankets.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
While homeowners were devastated include.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Power generation, resilience, homeless services, debris, and more. Initially, zero
dollars were allocated toward housing, but after public outcry, the
total increased to fifty, including twenty million in home repairs.
Watching broken local government fight over the spoils of federal
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dollars is one of the most grotesque activities for political watchers.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Cities are broken. They waste money on stupid.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Stuff every week, diversity, gay, illegal immigration, every thing other
than roads, trash, water safety, and then when everything goes
to hell and they're going to get a big chunk
of federal money, they argue over it again.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Maybe we can have it noither. Poet Larreate the story
from khou.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I, Houston said to receive hundreds and millions of dollars
in federal funds to help recover from last year's d
Rachel and Hurricane Beryl.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
But there is concern about how that money could be spent.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
The city council expected to vote on the plan tomorrow.
Rikless Live ed city Council to explain here, try, yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
When so the city can get up to three hundred
and fourteen million dollars in reimbursement, But today we heard
from many people who are concerned about how that money
will be spent.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Afflicted for years.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
In public comment today.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Fifty million is a drop in the bucket next to
the needs of the community.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Residents voiced concerns over how much of the money in
the city's twenty twenty four disaster recovery plan will go
towards more multifamily and single family housing. The fund is
intended to help the city recover from the Deracho and
Hurricane Barrel and make the city resilient to future storms.
You make the vote, but it seems like it's still
going to take a while for that money to come.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Here, correct, and so this is a federal reimbursement program.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Council Member Tiffany D. Thomas concerned after public outcry. She's
now also worried that the fifty million allocated to housing
may not be enough. As things stand. Categories with the
most money earmarked include power generation, homeless services, and debris recovery,
but Thomas says there is a great need for affordable
housing and home repairs.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
My recommendation would be to take from the power generation
and minimize the one fifty one million to one hundred million,
and then give the additional one hundred of fifty million
to housing, so you at least have a match of
one hundred million dollars in housing and one hundred million
dollars in power generation.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
The sentiment today, while fifty million is a lot of money,
it will only go so far to address an overwhelming need.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Consider moving funds from the energy generation or Police Fire
Vehicle fund to expand the amount for housing needs.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I did reach out to the Mayor's office to ask
if they would reconsider and move more funding to the
housing needs, and the Office for the Mayor says in
part that it is a comprehensive plan to assist Houstonians
with some of its greatest needs. So for now, it
does not appear that these residents will get the change
that they're hoping for before the city council votes tomorrow.
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Reporting live that city Hall, Troy kluskge OU eleven News
and of course we'll have.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Made you make no mistake when they talk about giving
the money to the community.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
It's not what's your name, you say, Michael Buddy.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Well, the amazing.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
So much respect for people of fortitude. Most people have
moved on from the floods. If you didn't lose someone
or know someone personally, move on. There are still people
waiting through those rivers, searching desperately for the bodies. There's
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no heroes welcome. If you find a body at this point,
you're just doing something that needs to be done and
nobody else wants.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
To do it.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
The latest update I have from this morning was that
another body has been recovered near Kerrville. That brings the
missing person's number down to two, and that is an
adult male and a camp mystic camper. I just can't imagine,
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you know, your little girl doesn't come home and you're
still I just try to put myself in the headspace
of what you're hoping for is the recovery of your
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loved one, certain they're not alive, and woman yesterday said
don't use the word closure. I don't know the right
word to use. I do know that people have said
to me that they needed the next step in the
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journey of the recovery to begin some level, some type,
some crazy version of life after that point. So whatever
word you want to use, but my heart goes out
to the families of those who still haven't recovered. You know,
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you think about planning a funeral, you think about what
you're in. Such an awful position already. God, just grant
me this little wish, if nothing else. Oh my goodness,
what we have witnessed, What we have witnessed through all
of this.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
You know, I saw that.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
The Palisades fire, the La fires beyond Palisades, but the
La fires that ravaged that community, that really exposed the
breakdown in local government in that in that area. They
held a star studded event to raise money and they
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raised one hundred million dollars to go to relief. Not
a penny of it went to relief. It went to
the agencies that were handpicked by the mayor, Karen Bass,
the communist, the Castro admirer, and Gavin Newsom, the governor.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It is a gross disgusting.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Connection between some of the nonprofits and liberal Democrat government officials.
When you see how many times one's married, one's in politics,
the other ones ahead of a non Oh, oh.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It is it is. It is grizzly to behold.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
A Harris County judge last week ordered a Houston businessman
to pay a little more than a million dollars to
thirty seven families after she failed to respond to their
lawsuit seeking damages. They gave money to Dominique's Side, Dominique Sides,
her name is Dominique Side. They claimed that they gave
money to seem Seam Surrogacy Escrow account Management, believing that
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it would go to the women bearing their children, and
well it didn't because she needed to boost her wrap career.
ABC thirteen with the story that is cut twenty nine? Sir, Yes, sir,
you don't have twenty nine? What Ronning mills up will
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not approved? Did Coonda not include twenty nine? Let's just
take a moment and list all the things about Kunda
we would most like to improve.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I'll start, I'll start, I'll start.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
I wish he had loaded clip number twenty nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
What parody do you have? Oh? Oh, okay, pivot, Let's
pretend that didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Okay, ready, in other news, you know, I was reading
Donald Trump went to Coca Cola and told them do
away with the corn syrup.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
You're not getting subsidies anymore. You need to go with
real cane sugar. And they did a bit of a.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Buzz around town tonight, as President Trump is officially struck
a deal with Coca Cola to remove that gooey, nasty
syrup out of the recipe and replace with one hundred
percent purecut sugarcane. And now, exclusive the Channel nine News,
We've just gotten word from Coca Cola's chief marketing officer
a new name has been revealed for this sweet nectar
soda drink, Cokecaine. We go to the streets to corresponded
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Billy McCracken, who's at Costco where pelletts of the newly
branded cocaine are just arriving.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Billy, what can you sell us now?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Jim Peggy, I am so jacked up. I am so
happy about this. I had a couple of amples just earlier.
Now I'm so excited about this new product. Cocaine stepping
ever tasted anything better? It's the most wonderful thing.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
In a product.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
When they got to your costco they ever get.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
In by eighteen forty six thirty eight ninety two hundred
and forty six cases, it's percane sugar. It's the greatest
thing I've ever tasted. Abort of an Artsforce Tec in
front of Hghhop back Human Studio.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, thank you, Billy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
We haven't heard you this exciting since that red bull
truck overturned on the interstate as we closed. Denye, take
a look at the new Coca Cola commercial for the
newest product features pure cane sugar coke caine.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Eighteen eighty six, What a year. Conral Bens introduced the
first automobile. Joseph Cochrane has been the first commercially successful
automatic dishwasher. I'm a pharmacist by the name of John Pemberton,
sold a medical syrup that quickly gained popularity as a
refreshing that ridge cold coke do comer.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Fast forward to today, and there's more varieties of Coca
Cola than leite singers of your.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Favorite washed up eighties rock band, Original Coke, Diet Coke,
Coke
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Zero Cola, cherry Coca cola vanilla, and even what we
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Berry Show is on the air. Hello, go everybuddy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is mile old Hamilton pastros win again.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And a good morning to the TZAR. Good morning, Michael Berry.
It's Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show.
Pity I wasn't invind it. Good morning, Michael Berry. I'm
all jaked up on Mountain Dew. This is the Thornton
Finch wishing you a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry.
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You the morning, Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael,
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Zar, Good morning, Michael, zay Sailing, Good morning, El Casino.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are you there? Good money,
Michael Berry. How you learned that? A ready it tomorrow?
Mone Good morny Eexcess.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Listen to this, Good Moarty, Texas morning, your car, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Texas is on his day.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We're happy here to talk about everything. Good morning, We're
not wearing dance.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Good moarning Texes, good barding Texas, good bording, excess, good morning,
wake up, let's speak, God damn.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
My good morning.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I want to get into the political and economic and
cultural news of the day, but first, Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday,
at seventy six years older. My first thought is I
measure everything against Russia's life, and I know, how does
Ozzie live six years longer than Russia.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Let me first say.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I was not a Black Sabbath or Osbourne fan twenty
years ago. I couldn't have named more than five of
their songs. Didn't grow up on metal. I'm a country,
classic country guy. You know this, and I just wasn't
exposed to it. So many friends who are Ozzie nuts,
(02:42):
in fact, folks who emailed me and said you better
start with Ossie tribute. We will nine o'clock. Jim Mutter,
our creative director, went wild on It takes almost the
entire segment. Eddie Martinez is going to say too much music,
and he'll be right, but you'll understand at that time.
But let me start with something I'd like to think
on occasion you tune in to be exposed to something
(03:03):
different than you came to the show with. My son's
name is Crockett. I'm slightly obsessed with the Alamo. I've
been reading about the Alamo and our heroes and what
it means and what they did since I was in
third grade. My company that I personally own, that we
do our trips, and that all our team works for
(03:25):
and all is not iHeart, It's Alamo marketing.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So suffice it to say, I have something.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Of a weird obsession with the Alamo, as many of
you do. And all I ever knew of Ozzy Osbourne
is he pete on the Alamo, and I hated him
for that, And so I decided yesterday that I would
go looking for the real story of what happened. And
here it is from a fellow named Traces of Texas.
I'm gonna read fast because I'd like to get it
(03:51):
all in. In this segment, he wrote, Ozzy Osbourne has
died normally he being an Englishman, and all I wouldn't
mention it here, but this is a Texas history page,
and there is well you know that for those unfamiliar
with the story. On February nineteenth, nineteen eighty two, Ozzy
Osbourne found himself in San Anton, full of booze, dressed
in one of Sharon's dresses. She had hidden his clothes
(04:12):
to keep him in George Jones again, and in search
of a place to relieve himself. Unfortunately for him and
for the city, he chose the second worst possible spot,
the sixty foot cenotaph in Alamo Plaza, a sacred monument
honoring the defenders of the Alamo who died in eighteen
thirty six. He didn't know where he was, let alone
what he was doing. He didn't technically peel on the
(04:33):
Alamo itself, but the cenotaph stands just across from it
and protections. That's close enough. Naturally, local officials didn't take
kindly to it. I wish I could find the reference now,
but one official said, I'd rather chew my arm off
than do that. Ozzie was arrested for public intoxication and
spent part of the day sobering up in jail before
being released on a forty dollars bond. That night, he
(04:56):
still took the stage at Hemisphare Arena, but the fallout
lin sant Antoine banned him from performing in the city
for a full decade. In nineteen ninety two, he returned
hat in hand, issued a public apology, and donated ten
thousand dollars to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas,
the group that maintains the Alamo grounds. The city forgave
(05:17):
him and Ozzi played two nights at the Freeman Colisina Coliseum.
The incident became a part of rock and roll legend.
Artists even created a motion activated statue of Ozzy that
mimicked the act in a gallery setting. In twenty fourteen,
a twenty three year old from El Paso was arrested
(05:38):
trying to copy him. Ozzi returned once more in twenty fifteen,
this time with his son Jack. While filming for the
History Channel, word got out and a crowd gathered to
see the Prince of Darkness make peace with Texas history.
He met with Councilman Robert Trevigno and spoke from the
heart quote We've all done things we regret. Ozzie said,
(06:01):
you can say that in his voice. I know you should.
We've all done things we regret. I'm honored San Antonio
has welcomed me back. I hope this shows I've grown up.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
My thoughts.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I've also done my share of things that I regret,
and conveniently, perhaps I believe in second chances, atonement and redemption.
John Conny once said there's no better place than Texas
for starting over. And I find that quote so useful,
not only for this page, but just for life situations
in general. It reflects the fact that every human has
moments that he wished he could have over and that
Texas is mostly big hearted enough to let such moments slide. Now,
(06:41):
if Ozzie had whizzed on the Alamo itself, that might
be a bridge too far, because I don't care how
drunk you are, You're still sober enough to know that
you shouldn't let your freak flag fly on the Alamo.
You could have a bac content one point forty five
and be lying comatose in a prostate position and know that,
but the cenotaph drunk in an unfamiliar city, and then
you come back later and give ten thousand dollars to
(07:02):
the offended folks and beg forgiveness. I'm willing to let
it go, if only because it serves as a cautionary
tale for others. If you're in a foreign city and
you somehow find yourself overserved, be careful, know where the
facilities are long before you get to that point. Learn
from Ozzie's mistake. But that expression party like a rock star.
(07:23):
I'm convinced it was created for Ozzy on this day,
and no amount of historical evidence to the contrary will
convince me otherwise. Then there's a picture of Ozzie returning
to the Alamo, cap in hand, metaphorically speaking. I'm not
asking you to change your opinion on the issue. I'm
not sure I have. But here's a guy that built
(07:44):
a big, bad reputation for biting off the heads of
bats and being a demon, devil, monstered, devil may care.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Nobody can tell him what to do, bad.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Boy, and he managed to go back and apologize.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Did he have to know?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
He could have lived out his seventy six years and
never played in San Antonio again. There were plenty of
other places to play. But I do think it says
something about admitting when you're wrong, in fixing it and
trying to make it right. Smart.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Maybe there's something to learn from loss from Michael's brain,
every single one of them. To your ears, this is
a Michael Berry show.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
If you are an Ozzie fan, especially if it would
surprise me to know, and I mean fan, I don't
mean you recognize eight of his songs to what I do?
I mean you love his music? You would travel, you know,
four hours to see a show. My nephew Kyle, who
was married to my niece Shilpy. Yes, I know that's
(08:55):
not the technical legal term, but that's what I call him.
I treated more like a son in law he Inheritson
who's married to my niece, who's also more like my
daughter Rucci. Those two boys are are like extra sons
for me, but I call them nephews. They're more They're
technically nephews in law, I suppose, but I treat them
(09:15):
like sons in law. Are well, Kyle. His two greatest
musical influences are Lenyard Skinnert, which of course means something
to me, and Ozzy Osbourne and his His garage, which
I've posted photos of of him working on his Harley
Davidson's has posters of his old time favorite band, which
(09:36):
is Black Sabbath, and that is that is his thing.
In economic news today, Tesla shares expected to be up
and way up, even after they posted a seventy one
percent drop in net income during their most recent quarter.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Your grandfather or maybe even your father who.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Followed the market, I mean read the financial pages, studied
the stock market and Wall Street is very different than
Main Street, and increasingly so over the last twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But it's quite.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Interesting that companies like Tesla will see a drop in income,
which means fewer cars sold. Of course, would you like
to sell cars in an environment where people are setting
them on fire. It's hard to get people to buy,
although it hasn't stopped many people who are their partisans.
(10:47):
But the reason is because Tesla's not an automobile car,
an automobile company. It never has been. Tesla has always
been a technology company. Elon didn't found Tesla. He found Tesla.
He discovered it, it already existed. He was the force
(11:07):
that drove it to the next level. But Tesla is
notable not as an automobile but as a technology company,
and that is for the foreseeable future that is going
to be where the huge upside.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Is going to exist.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
It's a trillion dollar narrative and robotaxis batteries, humanoid robots
that is.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Getting people very, very interested.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
If you want an automobile, you go buy a Chevrolet.
If you're interested in the spin off technologies, you buy
the Tesla stock. And increasingly that appears to be what
is going on. Let me step back for a moment
and say, because we get so caught up in the
day to day that we may lose sight of this.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We are going to look back in five.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And ten years and realize these are the solid days,
These were the housey and days.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
These are the good old days.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
We are witnessing for our way of life, in our mindset,
greater victories now than we have seen in my lifetime period.
End of story. We are seeing a revolutionary zeal to
(12:36):
fix this country and a willingness to withstand the slings
and arrows of those who made it so bad, those
who seek to ruin our country. And I think what
you're witnessing that can be frustrating. And I know this
because I read what you say. It can be very
frustrating that the left does not go along with things
(12:58):
that we perceive are good for this country. And they're
never going to go along. They don't agree with them.
They are the reason for the problem. They don't want
to be the solution. The solution would take us back
to a place they didn't like, where they don't hold
the power, where they can't engage in the graft and corruption,
(13:20):
where they are not in charge.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They want to.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Be a non white, non capitalist, unfair, not opportunistic society,
and that is what they are working very hard to mold.
And to their credit, they have been extraordinarily successful, and
they have many acolytes. They have evangelized through our public
(13:47):
and secondary post secondary educational systems. They have recruited from
our own households. They have managed to take complete control
the media. They have managed to take complete control of Washington,
d C. They have even managed to take control of
(14:08):
the mindset of many people who serve in office in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Under the banner.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
That we carry, which is Republican. And this was why
Donald Trump was so dangerous and frankly, this is why
Donald Trump won. I don't know that Trump wins in
two thousand and eight. I really don't. And if you
think that, well, Trump's the greatest. He can never lose.
Trump's image in eight was not as welcomed and beloved
(14:40):
by some of the same people who in sixteen welcomed him.
And that was why John McCain couldn't sink him. And
that was why I grab him by the who who
couldn't sink him? And that was why, oh, he's making
fun of somebody couldn't sink him. Because many people who
in the past became distracted did buy things that were
(15:01):
not relevant to whether you could be a good president.
Would have dismissed him in the same way that some
people agreed, okay, will allow George W. Bush to be
our candidate, or Met Romney, or for that matter, John McCain.
Trump was a man who met his moment, and that
(15:22):
moment was twenty sixteen. I submit you had to have
Barack Obama to have Donald Trump in twenty sixteen. I
submit that a number of people who considered themselves hardcore
loyal Republicans gravitated to a man who really hadn't in
the course of his career. People who were very concerned
(15:45):
with social issues the personal life of the candidate recognized
we needed a wrecking ball, and by golly, he has
lived up to the flat.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
These are very very good times.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
We'll talk about that for a complete meltdown with more
of the Michael Berry Show show. I am informed by
Ramon that that is tea pain. Any a dude that
(16:17):
does all the auto tune? So is that auto tuned?
Does he have some app Okay, it's it's only been
a year. Hurricane Beryl. We didn't expect it, and frankly,
we didn't talk much about it after it was gone.
(16:40):
But city council in Houston to vote on a three
hundred and fourteen million dollar recovery plan from the Dray Show,
remember that and Hurricane Beryl, and there is a debate
raging over whether enough is going to help families rebuild
their homes. Houston set to received millions of federal dollars
(17:03):
to help recover from last year's disasters, including the Deracho
and Hurricane Beryl, and there is concern, according to Khou,
about how that money could be spent. City council expected
to vote on the plan today and the city could
get up to three hundred and fourteen million dollars in reimbursement.
(17:25):
Probably didn't help that. John Whitmyer endorsed Kamala Harris when
A she wasn't gonna win and B didn't and C
nobody was asking him to endorse Kamala. I don't know
where that goofy idea came from. Whoever it is it
(17:46):
told him to do that because he has a very
good political gut. John Whitmire was a Democrat state senator
in the Texas Legislature for fifty years, in a legislature
that for the last half of it was Republican dominated.
(18:07):
He still managed to wield a lot of influence. He
knows how to cut deals. This is a guy who
was elected in a district that turned increasingly black, that
had Silvester Turner nipping at his heels at all times,
and he managed to work the deal to stay in
(18:29):
the Senate when there are a lot of folks who
wanted a black state senator in that seat. This is
not an It's not an idiot. This is the British
government managing the various Indian interests before they unified them.
Why he came out and endorsed Kamala Harris late makes
(18:52):
no sense to me, but anyway. It's a federal reimbursement program.
Up to three hundred and fourteen million dollar proposed budgeted
activities according to the City Hall documents, include power generation, resilience.
Remember the fact that Centerpoint was self dealing and keeping
(19:13):
all the money for themselves and not repairing the infrastructure.
Now you might say, well, Michael, I thought you're.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
The ultimate capital capitalist.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Centerpoint operates under governmental protection. It's sort of like publishers
versus platforms. The protections that Facebook and Twitter get. The
budgeted activities will include power generation, resilience sounds to me
like the government, which is you paying for more of
what Centerpoint didn't pay for?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Hmmm?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Homeless services? What Wait a minute, Wait a minute, we
had a storm come through. What what are we going
to go through? In inventory? You lost your shopping basket?
Did you okay, Well, let's make sure we buy more
shopping baskets and blankets.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
While homeowners were devastated include.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Power generation, resilience, homeless services, debris, and more. Initially, zero
dollars were allocated toward housing, but after public outcry, the
total increased to fifty, including twenty million in home repairs.
Watching broken local government fight over the spoils of federal
(20:39):
dollars is one of the most grotesque activities for political watchers.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Cities are broken. They waste money on stupid.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Stuff every week, diversity, gay, illegal immigration, every thing other
than roads, trash, water safety, and then when everything goes
to hell and they're going to get a big chunk
of federal money, they argue over it again.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Maybe we can have it noither. Poet Larreate the story
from khou.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I, Houston said to receive hundreds and millions of dollars
in federal funds to help recover from last year's d
Rachel and Hurricane Beryl.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
But there is concern about how that money could be spent.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
The city council expected to vote on the plan tomorrow.
Rikless Live ed city Council to explain here, try, yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
When so the city can get up to three hundred
and fourteen million dollars in reimbursement, But today we heard
from many people who are concerned about how that money
will be spent.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Afflicted for years.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
In public comment today.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Fifty million is a drop in the bucket next to
the needs of the community.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Residents voiced concerns over how much of the money in
the city's twenty twenty four disaster recovery plan will go
towards more multifamily and single family housing. The fund is
intended to help the city recover from the Deracho and
Hurricane Barrel and make the city resilient to future storms.
You make the vote, but it seems like it's still
going to take a while for that money to come.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Here, correct, and so this is a federal reimbursement program.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Council Member Tiffany D. Thomas concerned after public outcry. She's
now also worried that the fifty million allocated to housing
may not be enough. As things stand. Categories with the
most money earmarked include power generation, homeless services, and debris recovery,
but Thomas says there is a great need for affordable
housing and home repairs.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
My recommendation would be to take from the power generation
and minimize the one fifty one million to one hundred million,
and then give the additional one hundred of fifty million
to housing, so you at least have a match of
one hundred million dollars in housing and one hundred million
dollars in power generation.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
The sentiment today, while fifty million is a lot of money,
it will only go so far to address an overwhelming need.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Consider moving funds from the energy generation or Police Fire
Vehicle fund to expand the amount for housing needs.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I did reach out to the Mayor's office to ask
if they would reconsider and move more funding to the
housing needs, and the Office for the Mayor says in
part that it is a comprehensive plan to assist Houstonians
with some of its greatest needs. So for now, it
does not appear that these residents will get the change
that they're hoping for before the city council votes tomorrow.
(23:37):
Reporting live that city Hall, Troy kluskge OU eleven News
and of course we'll have.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Made you make no mistake when they talk about giving
the money to the community.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
It's not what's your name, you say, Michael Buddy.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Well, the amazing.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
So much respect for people of fortitude. Most people have
moved on from the floods. If you didn't lose someone
or know someone personally, move on. There are still people
waiting through those rivers, searching desperately for the bodies. There's
(24:30):
no heroes welcome. If you find a body at this point,
you're just doing something that needs to be done and
nobody else wants.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
To do it.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
The latest update I have from this morning was that
another body has been recovered near Kerrville. That brings the
missing person's number down to two, and that is an
adult male and a camp mystic camper. I just can't imagine,
(25:09):
you know, your little girl doesn't come home and you're
still I just try to put myself in the headspace
of what you're hoping for is the recovery of your
(25:33):
loved one, certain they're not alive, and woman yesterday said
don't use the word closure. I don't know the right
word to use. I do know that people have said
to me that they needed the next step in the
(25:54):
journey of the recovery to begin some level, some type,
some crazy version of life after that point. So whatever
word you want to use, but my heart goes out
to the families of those who still haven't recovered. You know,
(26:15):
you think about planning a funeral, you think about what
you're in. Such an awful position already. God, just grant
me this little wish, if nothing else. Oh my goodness,
what we have witnessed, What we have witnessed through all
of this.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
You know, I saw that.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
The Palisades fire, the La fires beyond Palisades, but the
La fires that ravaged that community, that really exposed the
breakdown in local government in that in that area. They
held a star studded event to raise money and they
(26:58):
raised one hundred million dollars to go to relief. Not
a penny of it went to relief. It went to
the agencies that were handpicked by the mayor, Karen Bass,
the communist, the Castro admirer, and Gavin Newsom, the governor.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It is a gross disgusting.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Connection between some of the nonprofits and liberal Democrat government officials.
When you see how many times one's married, one's in politics,
the other ones ahead of a non Oh, oh.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It is it is. It is grizzly to behold.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
A Harris County judge last week ordered a Houston businessman
to pay a little more than a million dollars to
thirty seven families after she failed to respond to their
lawsuit seeking damages. They gave money to Dominique's Side, Dominique Sides,
her name is Dominique Side. They claimed that they gave
money to seem Seam Surrogacy Escrow account Management, believing that
(28:09):
it would go to the women bearing their children, and
well it didn't because she needed to boost her wrap career.
ABC thirteen with the story that is cut twenty nine? Sir, Yes, sir,
you don't have twenty nine? What Ronning mills up will
(28:32):
not approved? Did Coonda not include twenty nine? Let's just
take a moment and list all the things about Kunda
we would most like to improve.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I'll start, I'll start, I'll start.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
I wish he had loaded clip number twenty nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
What parody do you have? Oh? Oh, okay, pivot, Let's
pretend that didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Okay, ready, in other news, you know, I was reading
Donald Trump went to Coca Cola and told them do
away with the corn syrup.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
You're not getting subsidies anymore. You need to go with
real cane sugar. And they did a bit of a.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Buzz around town tonight, as President Trump is officially struck
a deal with Coca Cola to remove that gooey, nasty
syrup out of the recipe and replace with one hundred
percent purecut sugarcane. And now, exclusive the Channel nine News,
We've just gotten word from Coca Cola's chief marketing officer
a new name has been revealed for this sweet nectar
soda drink, Cokecaine. We go to the streets to corresponded
(29:37):
Billy McCracken, who's at Costco where pelletts of the newly
branded cocaine are just arriving.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Billy, what can you sell us now?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Jim Peggy, I am so jacked up. I am so
happy about this. I had a couple of amples just earlier.
Now I'm so excited about this new product. Cocaine stepping
ever tasted anything better? It's the most wonderful thing.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
In a product.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
When they got to your costco they ever get.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
In by eighteen forty six thirty eight ninety two hundred
and forty six cases, it's percane sugar. It's the greatest
thing I've ever tasted. Abort of an Artsforce Tec in
front of Hghhop back Human Studio.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, thank you, Billy.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
We haven't heard you this exciting since that red bull
truck overturned on the interstate as we closed. Denye, take
a look at the new Coca Cola commercial for the
newest product features pure cane sugar coke caine.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Eighteen eighty six, What a year. Conral Bens introduced the
first automobile. Joseph Cochrane has been the first commercially successful
automatic dishwasher. I'm a pharmacist by the name of John Pemberton,
sold a medical syrup that quickly gained popularity as a
refreshing that ridge cold coke do comer.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Fast forward to today, and there's more varieties of Coca
Cola than leite singers of your.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Favorite washed up eighties rock band, Original Coke, Diet Coke,
Coke
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Zero Cola, cherry Coca cola vanilla, and even what we
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