November 19, 2025 • 32 mins
Join Michael Berry for bold opinions on Houston headlines, Mattress Mack’s Hollywood debut, Nvidia’s market moves, Elon Musk’s AI and tunnel ventures, and political shake-ups like the Texas redistricting ruling.
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Goddamn good morning. A feature film based on the life
of Mattress Mack as The cast named, with production set
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to begin later this month here in Texas. Deadline reports
the movie will star Billy Magnuson of Lilo and Stitch
Is it Leelo and Stitch Leelo and Stitch as Mack,
Diana Agron of The Chosen One. I don't know her
nor the movie, but that doesn't mean she's not the
biggest star ever Darby Lee Stack from The Holdovers and
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Rob Cordrey from The Audacity. Man, I'm really out of it.
Not only do I not know actors, I don't even
know movies entire movies. I don't know. Shane Andrews will
direct from a screenplay. He also wrote, I was contacted
about this movie about eight months ago and to see
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if I wanted to be in it and invest in it.
And the truth is I just didn't have the bandwidth
to consider it at the time. But before I did anything,
I reached out to Mac said hey, I just want
to make sure you know this is out there and
that you are comfortable with it, because I didn't want
to wake up as this thing's go into production and
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Max mad as hell that they're doing something about him.
That's not nice. What you do but I'm it wasn't nice,
but you just never know. And he said, yeah, I'm aware.
They seem like they you know, it seems like a
nice enough project, Deadline reports. Set in the early eighties
and two thousands in Houston, the film is based on
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a true story about Jim Mattress Mac Mackingvell, a beloved
Texas tycoon. Ramon, do you say beloved or beloved? I
like beloved too, feels very Jerry Lelewis and retail pioneer
who is best known for his generosity and community service,
hence the term Mac gives back. If they don't use
my term in my movie, I'm gonna curse the movie.
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Often opening his gallery furniture stores to shelter and feed
people during natural disasters, macinvel has helped thousands affected by
multiple major hurricanes in Texas, earning recognition as a Houston hero.
This thing's more than a Houston hero. This past summer,
Macnewveell made headlines after donating five hundred mattresses to survivors
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of the July fourth Texas Hill Country floods, along with
first responders and volunteers who helped out during the historic
flood event. Mattress Mac will follow Mackingwell's journey as he
risks everything to open Gallery Furniture alongside his wife and
business partner, Linda, and the challenges the family faces years
later when their youngest daughter battles a debilitating case of
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obsessive family of obsessive I'm sorry compulsive disorder. Mattress Mac
is produced by Andrew's John Robleski, Christian Sosa, Molly Connors,
Magnuson and Holliser Hollister, Amanda Bowers, Alex Spat and Lance Kramer.
Executive producers are Carl Effinson, Curtis knob Sergei Nakadzi, and
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Meg Jenkins Locke Jim Mcinbel. Story is one of resilience,
harding community. Magdison said in a statement, I am honored
to help bring his incredible journey to the screen and
to collaborate with such passionate storytellers in capturing the spirit
of Mattress Mac and the city of Houston. Andrew's added,
everyone in Houston knows Mac, but few know the quiet moments,
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the private battles, the human being behind the slogans, and
the Texas grit. We are thrilled to have partnered with
Roosevelt Film Lab and fifthen to bring this project to life. Well,
that's fantastic. No news on when we will be able
to see this, but I look forward to that. It's
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a great story. I hope they capture it properly, and
I hope they get into the depth of the man,
because I think he's far more interesting than people realize.
I mean, it's sort of a caricature, as you know,
save you money, but there's a very deep person underneath
all of that. Very intellectually curious and intellectually accomplished man
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he is. He is very, very thoughtful. I also think
it's noteworthy that he is so willing to take on
public causes that are not one hundred percent you know,
it's one thing to support storm victims. Everybody's for that.
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Everybody loves you across the board. He got very involved
in Alex Mieler's victory over Lena Hidalgo when the Democrats
cheated in the county judge race, for which obviously county
Judge out to get him and saying so as often
as she possibly could. He's very involved in her congressional
race the ninth congressional district. He's been very involved about
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government corruption under Sylvester Turner. You want to know how
hard that is to do? How many other business people
have been willing to speak out publicly and do that?
How many can you think of off the top of
your head publicly their name behind it, public and pay
to do it. And only that he's a retailer. If
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your firm is selling valves or pipeline or whatever else,
you pretty much it's not going to affect you because
your industry is you know, a narrow set of people
and not the retail public. When you sell to the
retail public, having an opinion can potentially cost you a customer.
And that's why so many people are woosies who are retailers. Well,
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you know, I don't I don't want to hurt my
business for every person that you don't get because you
stood up and did the right thing. Which don't you
tell your kids to do that no matter what anyway?
Or do you say oh, only if it's you know,
doesn't cost you anything. If doing the right thing was easy,
everybody would do it all the time. But he does that,
and he does not fear the fact that he may
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lose some customers. But he picks up a whole hell
of a lot more. And I tell companies that all
the time. If you're scared to sponsor our show because
somebody might not like it, then you're really not somebody
I want as our partner in the first place. Part
of the charm of John Prime to me is that
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he's not a particularly good singer. So much of what
he sings he's written himself. There's the storytelling which the
lake Marie there is the I guess vulnerability to him
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that he's not a handsome It was not a he
passed right, He's not. It was not a handsome man.
And the sicker he got from cancer, and the more
his face was was cut away as they removed parts
of it, and his voice began to fail him not
a particularly pretty voice to start with. It's like it
was more and more charming is it? As it went along?
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It just had just kept laying it out there. And
I don't know, it feels like the older I've gotten,
the more I've come to appreciate voices and personalities that
are imperfect. You know, if you want to what is
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the guy's name, Josh bro No, but Josh Grobin or
a Michael Bluebla or you know, if you want a
perfect voice that you know, your vocal coaches would tell
you that's perfect. Fine, but that's all they not a
deep personality. And then you get a Willie or a
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John Prime or Tom Waits or one of these guys
with a very odd voice, and you think it's a
wonder they ever made it. Because people that judge those
sorts of things and can control those sorts of things
would say, no, no, no, you don't do it exactly
the way it's supposed to be done, like having a
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herky jerky pitching motion, or having a business plan to
do something in an industry where you're a disruptor, and
they say, but but who's already doing that. That's the point, nobody.
I'm going to do it. I'm going to tell this
story and I'm going to try not to lose my
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stuff because i want to, because I'm tempted to A
federal judicial panel in an Opasso overturned the Republican redistricting map.
It will now head to the Supreme Court. The good
news is we've got Judge Alito in the administrative hearing
for a stay on the ruling. Stay means the ruling
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does not go into effect right now. You just sort
of put the brakes on it. And Alito is more
likely receptive to our appeal State of Texas appeal as
brought by Ken Paxton than some of the other justices
would be. But it should have never come to this,
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and it pains me terribly. In fact, it infuriates me
terribly that the judge who has ruled thusly is Jeff Brown,
someone I haven't seen in a long time, but I
considered a friend for many, many years. We were in
the our club together, a group of young guys thirty
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years old, twenty five years ago, Ted Crue, who's Grant Dorfmann,
Ken Wise, a number of us. There were thirty of
us in this group, little precocious punks, thinking that we
were changed the world. And that's how I knew. Jeff
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was always very ambitious, always portrayed himself as very conservative.
This is a guy that Trump appoints to the federal bench,
and he has ruled against the congressional map, throwing everything
into disarray. That's what the Democrats won't do. The Democrats
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won't do something to destroy their party in what they
truly believe in. But we've always got a Republican who
feels the need that he's holier than now, and unfortunately
that's Jeff Brown. It's disappointing, very very disappointing. I can't
imagine Trump's response when he finds out found out overnight
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that his appointee, who he was promised was going to
be such a great conservative, goes and does this. So
now now you've got a primary coming up in March.
Let's just take one case. Al Green resigned from or
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announced his retirement from his congressional seat and then announces
that he's running for the eighteenth congressional seat, which was
Sheila Jackson Lee's seat forever before that, Craig Washington, and
before that, of course Barbara Jordan, for whom that district
was originally jerrymandered, and it was jerry mandered. It was
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part of the Voting Rights Act. That was their application,
because you Southerners are such racists that they went in
and carved out districts that would span a long distance
and they'd run through a they'd run through a creek
where there were no people, just to keep it tiguous,
because you can't have two separated islands. You would have
to is that a tolls? Is that what those so
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called Roman look up the definition of a toll, the
exact definition of a toll anyway, So they would create
these districts only in the South because Southerners are such racists,
you see, And we have to fix that, because that's
going to solve the problem. We're going to create districts.
It's only going to have black people in it, and
then we'll have black congressional districts and that will somehow
solve every problem. Well, a chain of islands forming formed
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of Coral most of non Coral Atoll. That's island, okay anyway,
So h al Green he announces his retirement from his
congressional seat that he's in now, which I guess is
nine and I'm not positive on that, and then he
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announces that he's going to run in District eighteen because
he's got the name idea, presumably he could win that
seat no matter who wins it in the UH in
the in the primary, in the in the race to
fill the unexpired term that has gone to a runoff
between Amanda Edwards and Christian Menefee. Christian Menefee is uh
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lads right up under or Is is supported from behind
by Rodney Ellis. That's his candidate, and Amanda Ellis is
Amanda Edwards is the candidate. Well, anyway, whoever wins there
is gonna was gonna be. This throws it all into
absolute disarray, including our opportunity to pick up five congressional seats.
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I cannot believe Jeff Brown has done this. I cannot
believe he has done this. If Judge Jeff Brown's decision
is upheld by the Circuit judge, which will be Alito,
that's who is assigned for our area, that will mean
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that we will lose five extra seats in Texas, which
we were projected, and we will lose five seats in California. Still,
everything you need to know about his opinion you can
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see in the introduction to his opinion where he quotes
none other than Chief Justice John Roberts. When you quote
John Roberts to start anything, we're in trouble. This is demand.
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I will remind you that when Obamacare went to the
Supreme Court, everyone knew Obamacare was unconstitutional. You cannot compel
people to engage in commerce, and that's exactly what Obamacare did.
And so when it went before the Supreme Court. The
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expectation was that it would be overruled, and John Roberts
didn't want to overrule it because John Roberts decided that
his place in history was to right the wrongs and
not to disrupt things, and Republicans had really gone too far,
and Republicans have it good anyway, let me be this
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kind of reminds me of Earl Warren, another Republican appointee
who decided that he would solve America's problems from the bench.
It's called judicial activism. It's a terrible thing because you're
unelected and it's not how our constitution was designed to function.
What these folks are trying to do is legislative in nature,
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not judicial in nature. But so John Roberts, sorry, I'm
just so pissed. I'm wanting to say things that I
probably better not say. So John Roberts decides he comes
down to be the deciding vote. It's four to four,
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majority's going to be five four. He decides that he
will call Obamacare. He will. He's looking for what He's
just looking for a way to shoehorn Obamacare into constitutionality.
And the way he decides to do that is to say, well,
you're right, Congress does not have the power to compel
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commerce in that manner. You know what, this is a tax.
That's what we will call it attacks because Congress does
very clearly have the power to tax. So when the
opinion comes out, they're waiting outside the Supreme Court building
when I can't remember her name, that little evil Susan Rice,
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I think it was Susan Rice gets the opinion and
she says to Obama. Roberts declares it attacks, and Obama says, no, Remember,
he's supposed to be mister constitutional lawyer. I'm here to
tell you he's not a great constitutional mind. He never
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practiced in any meaningful way, and his teaching was not
in any way substantive. But that have you think that
he's Charles Allen Wright, that you know, he's just this
great professor. That have you think he's Lewis brandeis this
great legal mind, or Oliver Wendell Holmes. But he's not.
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But even he knew. His immediate reaction was it's not
a tax. So his thought was, if they're ruling it
at they're finding some way to strike it down. Because
he feared that they would strike it down even Obama
found John roberts tortured opinion to be goofy. But little
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did he realize until a few moments later, that Roberts
had actually upheld Obamacare because he started by wanting to
uphold Obamacare. He didn't start seeking the truth and end
up upholding Obamacare. He started wanting to uphold Obamacare and
ended up finding a way to get there by hook
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or by crook. And that is not the mind of
a great jurist. So they did. He called it attacks,
and Congress has the power to attacks. Even the justices
concurring with him were looking at his opinion and later
shook their hands heads. Well, we all agreed to uphold Obamacare,
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but for very different reasons and coming to very different conclusions.
But all that mattered was that we had the governmental
control of healthcare or health care finances, because it's really
not about healthcare, never has been. It was all about
creating a massive insurance industry. And here we are later,
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you know, well over a decade later, we've seen what
Obamacare did. And you can't make this stuff up. It's
almost perfect. The Democrats are now claiming that Trump doesn't
want to help us fix the health care problem. How
can there be a health care problem when you fixed
it with Obamacare? But actually the problem is Obamacare. But
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you know who benefited from Obamacare. And this is the
secret nobody ever talks about. It's been talked about of
late a little insurance companies. There's been an explosion in
insurance company wealth. Look at the stocks of insurance companies
over the last fifteen years. Look what they've done. Look
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at the pay packages, Look at the overall revenues. You
know how you do that. You compel everybody to get
health insurance. You compel everybody to make a payment to
these people, exactly the way you compel people to take
a stupid shot. The compulsion to engage in behaviors that
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the people in the Ivory Tower declare are required is
pure socialism in its purest, most academic form, undiluted, uncut.
There it is so Jeff Brown has seen fit to
strike this down, to strike down all the potential gains
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we would have in the House for the last two
years of President Trump's term, the most powerful act he
will ever commit in his life. And he is a
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Trump appointed to a guy who campaigned as a judge
for the State Supreme court as mister Law and Order.
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The Queen Sea brings you bias, Michael Berry brings your bias.
Do you ever think about the fact that when you fart,
I can either be silent or loud, and then there's
a third option. In Vidia set to release financials today.
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The Nvidia earnings report has the market a twitter. This
one's going to be big. In Vidia is, as you know,
the world's first five trillion dollar company. If you look
at your stock portfolio online, you can you can look
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at whether your your account is up or down in
any particular day. You can first go to Nvidia, and
that's going to have a greater determinant than anything else
on what your portfolio is doing. It's amazing. It's amazing
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how important to the overall market a handful of stocks
are in, particularly in video. You know what, Uncle Jerry,
Uncle Uncle Jerry, and I very rarely taught finances. But
he tells me the other day that he and his
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financial advisor compete. He split his portfolio in half, and
his financial advisor takes half and he takes half and
then he can track. It's a little competition they have.
And he showed me that he had bought in video.
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I believe at nine dollars, it's crazy. I mean, if
he could have bought, if he could have bought, well,
it's crazy. But a million shares of in video, he
would be he would be a very he would be
Uncle Jerry, Daddy Jerry. Good point. Yeah, no, that's a
good point. In vidio earnings today, one of those things
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that makes it into Donald Trump's briefing book. They will
be watching that very very carefully. There is a delayed
September jobs report which will not come out today. It
will come out tomorrow. And in other big news, President
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Trump has dispatched a high level Pentagon delegation to Kiev
in Ukraine for talks trying to bring an end to
the war. Interesting, isn't it. The war continues, but we
don't hear about it. It's amazing to me and kind
of sad, really tragic almost that there are people who
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live or die by what news directors put on TV.
There are people who put the Ukrainian flag on as
their profile picture on their Facebook account because we've got
to stop that war. That war is the most important
thing in the world. Michael, you're making jokes, but it is.
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Was it a year ago because you never talked about
it in your life. How did it all of a
sudden become the most important thing in the world and
we have to give every bit of money we have
to them because that's going to stop it. How did
this happen? What caused it to be so important overnight
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that the bidens get a kickback for every dollar we
sent there. I just saw that Zelenski, who has been
living off our largess, talk about a welfare queen, been
living off our largess, is the largest investor in a
Ukrainian ski resort. And I can't remember how much he
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put in, but it was a significant amount of money.
Significant amount of money and this isn't a governmental investment.
I'm sure he'll match that or put even more because
he's going to back his investment with plenty of money
from the government. But he also put some of his
personal money in. How does he have all this money?
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I thought his country was on the brink. Elon Musk's
new artificial intelligence company. If you want something to read
about today, go read about some of the stuff they're doing.
It's very interesting. Now he's a master promoter. He'll have
you believing that it is where he hopes it'll be
in five years today, which it's not. That was always
the case with full self driving, but he got there,
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and he got there before anybody else, and there is
something to be said for that. But he's been promising
it for thirteen years and it finally came around, and
there's plenty of criticisms about it, and I know there's
a lot of self doubt about it, but I have
to give a man credit when he does what he
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said he would do and no one else had done it.
The man friend of mine, Michael Holthous. I consider Michael
to be a very very very smart man, very smart man,
particularly when it comes to innovation. Michael Holdaus was telling
me ten years ago about AI and why I should
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be interested in AI, and I would say, you know what, Michael,
why don't you be interested in AI? And I'll not
and that'll be good, And he would just every time
we'd see each other, which is a lot, he'd start
into AI, what do you think about AI? Well, after
a while, my AI antipathy started cracking because I started
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realizing he's right. This is going to invade every aspect
of our lives, and whether I learn about it or
just don't remain at luddite, doesn't matter. It's that train
has left the station and it is it is hurtling forward,
and I better or I should Why not? I like
to learn things, and so I've kind of I kind
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of as my Grandmo's, I dive off in there, and
I've tried to catch up to speed on these oc
what it's doing and how it is affecting life already.
And he said to me. We watched the ut Game together,
and he said to me that Elon Musk is the
smartest man on the planet, and the smartest man in
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multiple different fields, and that may never have happened in
history before. Everything he does is cutting edge and successful. Obviously,
his car company, his robotics company, his AI company, his
boring company, which he's so cleverly named the Boring Company,
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is cutting edge in a way that no one else
had ever done. Boring underground tunnels. I don't know if
anybody's been to it. Send me an email through the
website at Michael Berryshow dot com. They've bored tunnels underground
in Las Vegas so that you drive around. I guess
when you pick up your tesla or whatever, you come
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out from the tunnel up to the street. It's been
ascribed to me as something you've never seen before. You're
driving through this tunnel. But I don't know why it's
so different, but supposedly it is. Then there is Space X,
where he did things that NASA could never do or
would never do. How about redocking a ship so that
you don't waste the entirety of the structure every single time?
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It's incredible, It really is incredible. How about taking over
Twitter and fixing it. Everyone loves to say all the
things that are still wrong with it, true, but it's
one hundred times better. And Twitter has turned out to
be very important to people. And Twitter being a free
speech platform has made Facebook now Meta change a lot
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of their practices. Meta has had to improve with regard
to canceling major players. They've had to because of the
Twitter competition. I think those things are worthy of note anyway.
They're trying to raise fifteen million in new equity at
a two hundred and thirty billion dollar valuation, Not for nothing.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
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Wake up.
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Goddamn good morning. A feature film based on the life
of Mattress Mack as The cast named, with production set
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to begin later this month here in Texas. Deadline reports
the movie will star Billy Magnuson of Lilo and Stitch
Is it Leelo and Stitch Leelo and Stitch as Mack,
Diana Agron of The Chosen One. I don't know her
nor the movie, but that doesn't mean she's not the
biggest star ever Darby Lee Stack from The Holdovers and
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Rob Cordrey from The Audacity. Man, I'm really out of it.
Not only do I not know actors, I don't even
know movies entire movies. I don't know. Shane Andrews will
direct from a screenplay. He also wrote, I was contacted
about this movie about eight months ago and to see
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if I wanted to be in it and invest in it.
And the truth is I just didn't have the bandwidth
to consider it at the time. But before I did anything,
I reached out to Mac said hey, I just want
to make sure you know this is out there and
that you are comfortable with it, because I didn't want
to wake up as this thing's go into production and
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Max mad as hell that they're doing something about him.
That's not nice. What you do but I'm it wasn't nice,
but you just never know. And he said, yeah, I'm aware.
They seem like they you know, it seems like a
nice enough project, Deadline reports. Set in the early eighties
and two thousands in Houston, the film is based on
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a true story about Jim Mattress Mac Mackingvell, a beloved
Texas tycoon. Ramon, do you say beloved or beloved? I
like beloved too, feels very Jerry Lelewis and retail pioneer
who is best known for his generosity and community service,
hence the term Mac gives back. If they don't use
my term in my movie, I'm gonna curse the movie.
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Often opening his gallery furniture stores to shelter and feed
people during natural disasters, macinvel has helped thousands affected by
multiple major hurricanes in Texas, earning recognition as a Houston hero.
This thing's more than a Houston hero. This past summer,
Macnewveell made headlines after donating five hundred mattresses to survivors
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of the July fourth Texas Hill Country floods, along with
first responders and volunteers who helped out during the historic
flood event. Mattress Mac will follow Mackingwell's journey as he
risks everything to open Gallery Furniture alongside his wife and
business partner, Linda, and the challenges the family faces years
later when their youngest daughter battles a debilitating case of
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obsessive family of obsessive I'm sorry compulsive disorder. Mattress Mac
is produced by Andrew's John Robleski, Christian Sosa, Molly Connors,
Magnuson and Holliser Hollister, Amanda Bowers, Alex Spat and Lance Kramer.
Executive producers are Carl Effinson, Curtis knob Sergei Nakadzi, and
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Meg Jenkins Locke Jim Mcinbel. Story is one of resilience,
harding community. Magdison said in a statement, I am honored
to help bring his incredible journey to the screen and
to collaborate with such passionate storytellers in capturing the spirit
of Mattress Mac and the city of Houston. Andrew's added,
everyone in Houston knows Mac, but few know the quiet moments,
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the private battles, the human being behind the slogans, and
the Texas grit. We are thrilled to have partnered with
Roosevelt Film Lab and fifthen to bring this project to life. Well,
that's fantastic. No news on when we will be able
to see this, but I look forward to that. It's
(05:54):
a great story. I hope they capture it properly, and
I hope they get into the depth of the man,
because I think he's far more interesting than people realize.
I mean, it's sort of a caricature, as you know,
save you money, but there's a very deep person underneath
all of that. Very intellectually curious and intellectually accomplished man
(06:22):
he is. He is very, very thoughtful. I also think
it's noteworthy that he is so willing to take on
public causes that are not one hundred percent you know,
it's one thing to support storm victims. Everybody's for that.
(06:44):
Everybody loves you across the board. He got very involved
in Alex Mieler's victory over Lena Hidalgo when the Democrats
cheated in the county judge race, for which obviously county
Judge out to get him and saying so as often
as she possibly could. He's very involved in her congressional
race the ninth congressional district. He's been very involved about
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government corruption under Sylvester Turner. You want to know how
hard that is to do? How many other business people
have been willing to speak out publicly and do that?
How many can you think of off the top of
your head publicly their name behind it, public and pay
to do it. And only that he's a retailer. If
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your firm is selling valves or pipeline or whatever else,
you pretty much it's not going to affect you because
your industry is you know, a narrow set of people
and not the retail public. When you sell to the
retail public, having an opinion can potentially cost you a customer.
And that's why so many people are woosies who are retailers. Well,
(07:54):
you know, I don't I don't want to hurt my
business for every person that you don't get because you
stood up and did the right thing. Which don't you
tell your kids to do that no matter what anyway?
Or do you say oh, only if it's you know,
doesn't cost you anything. If doing the right thing was easy,
everybody would do it all the time. But he does that,
and he does not fear the fact that he may
(08:15):
lose some customers. But he picks up a whole hell
of a lot more. And I tell companies that all
the time. If you're scared to sponsor our show because
somebody might not like it, then you're really not somebody
I want as our partner in the first place. Part
of the charm of John Prime to me is that
(08:38):
he's not a particularly good singer. So much of what
he sings he's written himself. There's the storytelling which the
lake Marie there is the I guess vulnerability to him
(09:01):
that he's not a handsome It was not a he
passed right, He's not. It was not a handsome man.
And the sicker he got from cancer, and the more
his face was was cut away as they removed parts
of it, and his voice began to fail him not
a particularly pretty voice to start with. It's like it
was more and more charming is it? As it went along?
(09:23):
It just had just kept laying it out there. And
I don't know, it feels like the older I've gotten,
the more I've come to appreciate voices and personalities that
are imperfect. You know, if you want to what is
(09:44):
the guy's name, Josh bro No, but Josh Grobin or
a Michael Bluebla or you know, if you want a
perfect voice that you know, your vocal coaches would tell
you that's perfect. Fine, but that's all they not a
deep personality. And then you get a Willie or a
(10:05):
John Prime or Tom Waits or one of these guys
with a very odd voice, and you think it's a
wonder they ever made it. Because people that judge those
sorts of things and can control those sorts of things
would say, no, no, no, you don't do it exactly
the way it's supposed to be done, like having a
(10:28):
herky jerky pitching motion, or having a business plan to
do something in an industry where you're a disruptor, and
they say, but but who's already doing that. That's the point, nobody.
I'm going to do it. I'm going to tell this
story and I'm going to try not to lose my
(10:51):
stuff because i want to, because I'm tempted to A
federal judicial panel in an Opasso overturned the Republican redistricting map.
It will now head to the Supreme Court. The good
news is we've got Judge Alito in the administrative hearing
for a stay on the ruling. Stay means the ruling
(11:14):
does not go into effect right now. You just sort
of put the brakes on it. And Alito is more
likely receptive to our appeal State of Texas appeal as
brought by Ken Paxton than some of the other justices
would be. But it should have never come to this,
(11:35):
and it pains me terribly. In fact, it infuriates me
terribly that the judge who has ruled thusly is Jeff Brown,
someone I haven't seen in a long time, but I
considered a friend for many, many years. We were in
the our club together, a group of young guys thirty
(11:56):
years old, twenty five years ago, Ted Crue, who's Grant Dorfmann,
Ken Wise, a number of us. There were thirty of
us in this group, little precocious punks, thinking that we
were changed the world. And that's how I knew. Jeff
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was always very ambitious, always portrayed himself as very conservative.
This is a guy that Trump appoints to the federal bench,
and he has ruled against the congressional map, throwing everything
into disarray. That's what the Democrats won't do. The Democrats
(12:38):
won't do something to destroy their party in what they
truly believe in. But we've always got a Republican who
feels the need that he's holier than now, and unfortunately
that's Jeff Brown. It's disappointing, very very disappointing. I can't
imagine Trump's response when he finds out found out overnight
(13:02):
that his appointee, who he was promised was going to
be such a great conservative, goes and does this. So
now now you've got a primary coming up in March.
Let's just take one case. Al Green resigned from or
(13:25):
announced his retirement from his congressional seat and then announces
that he's running for the eighteenth congressional seat, which was
Sheila Jackson Lee's seat forever before that, Craig Washington, and
before that, of course Barbara Jordan, for whom that district
was originally jerrymandered, and it was jerry mandered. It was
(13:45):
part of the Voting Rights Act. That was their application,
because you Southerners are such racists that they went in
and carved out districts that would span a long distance
and they'd run through a they'd run through a creek
where there were no people, just to keep it tiguous,
because you can't have two separated islands. You would have
to is that a tolls? Is that what those so
(14:07):
called Roman look up the definition of a toll, the
exact definition of a toll anyway, So they would create
these districts only in the South because Southerners are such racists,
you see, And we have to fix that, because that's
going to solve the problem. We're going to create districts.
It's only going to have black people in it, and
then we'll have black congressional districts and that will somehow
solve every problem. Well, a chain of islands forming formed
(14:33):
of Coral most of non Coral Atoll. That's island, okay anyway,
So h al Green he announces his retirement from his
congressional seat that he's in now, which I guess is
nine and I'm not positive on that, and then he
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announces that he's going to run in District eighteen because
he's got the name idea, presumably he could win that
seat no matter who wins it in the UH in
the in the primary, in the in the race to
fill the unexpired term that has gone to a runoff
between Amanda Edwards and Christian Menefee. Christian Menefee is uh
(15:20):
lads right up under or Is is supported from behind
by Rodney Ellis. That's his candidate, and Amanda Ellis is
Amanda Edwards is the candidate. Well, anyway, whoever wins there
is gonna was gonna be. This throws it all into
absolute disarray, including our opportunity to pick up five congressional seats.
(15:42):
I cannot believe Jeff Brown has done this. I cannot
believe he has done this. If Judge Jeff Brown's decision
is upheld by the Circuit judge, which will be Alito,
that's who is assigned for our area, that will mean
(16:05):
that we will lose five extra seats in Texas, which
we were projected, and we will lose five seats in California. Still,
everything you need to know about his opinion you can
(16:27):
see in the introduction to his opinion where he quotes
none other than Chief Justice John Roberts. When you quote
John Roberts to start anything, we're in trouble. This is demand.
(16:50):
I will remind you that when Obamacare went to the
Supreme Court, everyone knew Obamacare was unconstitutional. You cannot compel
people to engage in commerce, and that's exactly what Obamacare did.
And so when it went before the Supreme Court. The
(17:12):
expectation was that it would be overruled, and John Roberts
didn't want to overrule it because John Roberts decided that
his place in history was to right the wrongs and
not to disrupt things, and Republicans had really gone too far,
and Republicans have it good anyway, let me be this
(17:38):
kind of reminds me of Earl Warren, another Republican appointee
who decided that he would solve America's problems from the bench.
It's called judicial activism. It's a terrible thing because you're
unelected and it's not how our constitution was designed to function.
What these folks are trying to do is legislative in nature,
(18:00):
not judicial in nature. But so John Roberts, sorry, I'm
just so pissed. I'm wanting to say things that I
probably better not say. So John Roberts decides he comes
down to be the deciding vote. It's four to four,
(18:20):
majority's going to be five four. He decides that he
will call Obamacare. He will. He's looking for what He's
just looking for a way to shoehorn Obamacare into constitutionality.
And the way he decides to do that is to say, well,
you're right, Congress does not have the power to compel
(18:40):
commerce in that manner. You know what, this is a tax.
That's what we will call it attacks because Congress does
very clearly have the power to tax. So when the
opinion comes out, they're waiting outside the Supreme Court building
when I can't remember her name, that little evil Susan Rice,
(19:07):
I think it was Susan Rice gets the opinion and
she says to Obama. Roberts declares it attacks, and Obama says, no, Remember,
he's supposed to be mister constitutional lawyer. I'm here to
tell you he's not a great constitutional mind. He never
(19:29):
practiced in any meaningful way, and his teaching was not
in any way substantive. But that have you think that
he's Charles Allen Wright, that you know, he's just this
great professor. That have you think he's Lewis brandeis this
great legal mind, or Oliver Wendell Holmes. But he's not.
(19:50):
But even he knew. His immediate reaction was it's not
a tax. So his thought was, if they're ruling it
at they're finding some way to strike it down. Because
he feared that they would strike it down even Obama
found John roberts tortured opinion to be goofy. But little
(20:16):
did he realize until a few moments later, that Roberts
had actually upheld Obamacare because he started by wanting to
uphold Obamacare. He didn't start seeking the truth and end
up upholding Obamacare. He started wanting to uphold Obamacare and
ended up finding a way to get there by hook
(20:37):
or by crook. And that is not the mind of
a great jurist. So they did. He called it attacks,
and Congress has the power to attacks. Even the justices
concurring with him were looking at his opinion and later
shook their hands heads. Well, we all agreed to uphold Obamacare,
(21:03):
but for very different reasons and coming to very different conclusions.
But all that mattered was that we had the governmental
control of healthcare or health care finances, because it's really
not about healthcare, never has been. It was all about
creating a massive insurance industry. And here we are later,
(21:24):
you know, well over a decade later, we've seen what
Obamacare did. And you can't make this stuff up. It's
almost perfect. The Democrats are now claiming that Trump doesn't
want to help us fix the health care problem. How
can there be a health care problem when you fixed
it with Obamacare? But actually the problem is Obamacare. But
(21:50):
you know who benefited from Obamacare. And this is the
secret nobody ever talks about. It's been talked about of
late a little insurance companies. There's been an explosion in
insurance company wealth. Look at the stocks of insurance companies
over the last fifteen years. Look what they've done. Look
(22:11):
at the pay packages, Look at the overall revenues. You
know how you do that. You compel everybody to get
health insurance. You compel everybody to make a payment to
these people, exactly the way you compel people to take
a stupid shot. The compulsion to engage in behaviors that
(22:37):
the people in the Ivory Tower declare are required is
pure socialism in its purest, most academic form, undiluted, uncut.
There it is so Jeff Brown has seen fit to
strike this down, to strike down all the potential gains
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we would have in the House for the last two
years of President Trump's term, the most powerful act he
will ever commit in his life. And he is a
(23:24):
Trump appointed to a guy who campaigned as a judge
for the State Supreme court as mister Law and Order.
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The Queen Sea brings you bias, Michael Berry brings your bias.
Do you ever think about the fact that when you fart,
I can either be silent or loud, and then there's
a third option. In Vidia set to release financials today.
(24:12):
The Nvidia earnings report has the market a twitter. This
one's going to be big. In Vidia is, as you know,
the world's first five trillion dollar company. If you look
at your stock portfolio online, you can you can look
(24:34):
at whether your your account is up or down in
any particular day. You can first go to Nvidia, and
that's going to have a greater determinant than anything else
on what your portfolio is doing. It's amazing. It's amazing
(24:54):
how important to the overall market a handful of stocks
are in, particularly in video. You know what, Uncle Jerry,
Uncle Uncle Jerry, and I very rarely taught finances. But
he tells me the other day that he and his
(25:15):
financial advisor compete. He split his portfolio in half, and
his financial advisor takes half and he takes half and
then he can track. It's a little competition they have.
And he showed me that he had bought in video.
(25:36):
I believe at nine dollars, it's crazy. I mean, if
he could have bought, if he could have bought, well,
it's crazy. But a million shares of in video, he
would be he would be a very he would be
Uncle Jerry, Daddy Jerry. Good point. Yeah, no, that's a
good point. In vidio earnings today, one of those things
(25:59):
that makes it into Donald Trump's briefing book. They will
be watching that very very carefully. There is a delayed
September jobs report which will not come out today. It
will come out tomorrow. And in other big news, President
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Trump has dispatched a high level Pentagon delegation to Kiev
in Ukraine for talks trying to bring an end to
the war. Interesting, isn't it. The war continues, but we
don't hear about it. It's amazing to me and kind
of sad, really tragic almost that there are people who
(26:44):
live or die by what news directors put on TV.
There are people who put the Ukrainian flag on as
their profile picture on their Facebook account because we've got
to stop that war. That war is the most important
thing in the world. Michael, you're making jokes, but it is.
(27:06):
Was it a year ago because you never talked about
it in your life. How did it all of a
sudden become the most important thing in the world and
we have to give every bit of money we have
to them because that's going to stop it. How did
this happen? What caused it to be so important overnight
(27:27):
that the bidens get a kickback for every dollar we
sent there. I just saw that Zelenski, who has been
living off our largess, talk about a welfare queen, been
living off our largess, is the largest investor in a
Ukrainian ski resort. And I can't remember how much he
(27:47):
put in, but it was a significant amount of money.
Significant amount of money and this isn't a governmental investment.
I'm sure he'll match that or put even more because
he's going to back his investment with plenty of money
from the government. But he also put some of his
personal money in. How does he have all this money?
(28:08):
I thought his country was on the brink. Elon Musk's
new artificial intelligence company. If you want something to read
about today, go read about some of the stuff they're doing.
It's very interesting. Now he's a master promoter. He'll have
you believing that it is where he hopes it'll be
in five years today, which it's not. That was always
the case with full self driving, but he got there,
(28:29):
and he got there before anybody else, and there is
something to be said for that. But he's been promising
it for thirteen years and it finally came around, and
there's plenty of criticisms about it, and I know there's
a lot of self doubt about it, but I have
to give a man credit when he does what he
(28:50):
said he would do and no one else had done it.
The man friend of mine, Michael Holthous. I consider Michael
to be a very very very smart man, very smart man,
particularly when it comes to innovation. Michael Holdaus was telling
me ten years ago about AI and why I should
(29:10):
be interested in AI, and I would say, you know what, Michael,
why don't you be interested in AI? And I'll not
and that'll be good, And he would just every time
we'd see each other, which is a lot, he'd start
into AI, what do you think about AI? Well, after
a while, my AI antipathy started cracking because I started
(29:32):
realizing he's right. This is going to invade every aspect
of our lives, and whether I learn about it or
just don't remain at luddite, doesn't matter. It's that train
has left the station and it is it is hurtling forward,
and I better or I should Why not? I like
to learn things, and so I've kind of I kind
(29:54):
of as my Grandmo's, I dive off in there, and
I've tried to catch up to speed on these oc
what it's doing and how it is affecting life already.
And he said to me. We watched the ut Game together,
and he said to me that Elon Musk is the
smartest man on the planet, and the smartest man in
(30:15):
multiple different fields, and that may never have happened in
history before. Everything he does is cutting edge and successful. Obviously,
his car company, his robotics company, his AI company, his
boring company, which he's so cleverly named the Boring Company,
(30:36):
is cutting edge in a way that no one else
had ever done. Boring underground tunnels. I don't know if
anybody's been to it. Send me an email through the
website at Michael Berryshow dot com. They've bored tunnels underground
in Las Vegas so that you drive around. I guess
when you pick up your tesla or whatever, you come
(30:57):
out from the tunnel up to the street. It's been
ascribed to me as something you've never seen before. You're
driving through this tunnel. But I don't know why it's
so different, but supposedly it is. Then there is Space X,
where he did things that NASA could never do or
would never do. How about redocking a ship so that
you don't waste the entirety of the structure every single time?
(31:22):
It's incredible, It really is incredible. How about taking over
Twitter and fixing it. Everyone loves to say all the
things that are still wrong with it, true, but it's
one hundred times better. And Twitter has turned out to
be very important to people. And Twitter being a free
speech platform has made Facebook now Meta change a lot
(31:43):
of their practices. Meta has had to improve with regard
to canceling major players. They've had to because of the
Twitter competition. I think those things are worthy of note anyway.
They're trying to raise fifteen million in new equity at
a two hundred and thirty billion dollar valuation, Not for nothing.
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