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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Arry Show is on the air. Oh, yes, it's a
happy day. Indeed. John Bolton's home and office have been

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raided by the FBI. Oh, this is a very happy day, indeed.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Heavy indeed, Uh happy d when doo waity wool, when
do dre is away love a happy day or happy day?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Happy?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Or happy day.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
When Jesus War, oh whitty war, when Jesus War.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Drives away he loved.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
It's a happy day, happy day.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Or a happy day happy.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
When those wars, oh whitty war, when those war a
threeears away? He gave me a luck happy day day,

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Oh happy day, Oh happy dey o happy.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Or habita happy when Jesus War waity war, when Jesus War.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Leave it the way he needed to?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh good gun, President Trump and the ride along with
the DC Police. Drunk Dade is retiring. John Bolton's home
and office raided by the FBI. Oh, it's a busy

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day and the phone lines are open. Seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. But first to get us started, as
we always do. Purtceive the greatest executive producer in all
the land CHATTICONI nominis your week in review. Rollin You're up?

(05:47):
Go ahead, rollin rooman, You dumb ass. I look over
the screen and is r O L L I N
that's not rolling? Shiminy? Where do you get this stuff?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
You really dumb?

Speaker 6 (06:07):
A historic meeting in Alaska between President Donald Trump and
Russian President Vladimir pud.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
To terrible war where he's losing a lot and both
of them are, and hopefully it can get completed.

Speaker 8 (06:18):
That would be a great achievement for them.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Forget about me.

Speaker 9 (06:22):
For them.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
This is an awful war that has cost a lot
of lives in those countries. It's an awful war that
we should not have sent all the money that we did.
The Department Homeland Security is forming a new plan to
paint the southern border wall.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Blast Secretary Christine Nomes says it's an effort to make
the wall too hot to climb during the warm weather.

Speaker 9 (06:42):
Secretary Christineome walked along the border fence here in something
and the way you.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Tell about Santa Teresa in something that that was a
little much, I thought, right there in the middle. I
don't know if he needed to do that.

Speaker 9 (06:54):
In Something.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
And I heard it. Jimmy stands straight up and Ramone
catches out of the corner of his eye. His face
is tomato red. He's getting no oxygen, and he does
what Ramon calls the universal symbol of I'm choking. Ramon
doesn't know what to do, but doctor Guy Lewis, before

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Ramone knows thinks what to.

Speaker 9 (07:21):
Do, jumps in that it would have been a lot
better to to be to be choking on a piece
of steak than a piece of dinner.

Speaker 8 (07:27):
Roll.

Speaker 9 (07:27):
Don't you think if you're gonna go down, go down
with beef?

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Ramon said, The Astros weren't the only ones that choked
on Sunday. I didn't think that was very nice because
Jimmy Barrett is my friend Johnny Nash, one of the
great Eustonians.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
What a guy?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
What a guy?

Speaker 8 (07:43):
A what a story?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
I don't want to hear it.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Don't fucking.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Let's let by gost me by the Let's think about
some bottle here, how hechs bright?

Speaker 9 (08:11):
Why know why I was wrong?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I was just a food to fly to see.

Speaker 8 (08:18):
You are the only girls for me.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
See listen on the chomp Brady.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
Trying to give a mess fuel of stress and my
brain want to flip the moth, but I do my
best to the frame.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well here in the state of Texas, which because.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Of a Christian I gonna let me on.

Speaker 10 (08:49):
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Speaker 1 (09:03):
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I heard somewhere that wearing a ball cap can lead
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know if that's true or not, but it got me

(10:08):
to thinking drunk Dade announcing he is retiring from it.
He's just not having any fun if he can't be
in control. Poor old drunk daid well as usual, we
got a message about it, and Michael, this.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Is bore Dave failing, the bore Dave failing. I wanted
to be the first to tell you something side news,
Bachael Ferry. I sided to hang up the gavel after
five secuted terms. You heard it here versus our secret.
Michael Ferry, you're first one to know. Hey, sweet us,

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hoping it didn't embarrasse my family too much.

Speaker 8 (10:50):
They they bought me to sit, you know, and they're
always told.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Me I'm an idiot.

Speaker 8 (10:56):
I'm a I'm an idiot, Michael. I hate those bag
up people. They're nasty, but I love you. Thank you
for being such a supportive corner fighter for me in
corner of my boxer.

Speaker 7 (11:12):
Thank you, Michael. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do
now because I've I've really done much at all. Frankly,
I think I might be a little bit on the
lazy side when two things I know, one it's five
o'clock somewhere, and the other one I have President went somewhere.

Speaker 8 (11:37):
So you know what that means. Oh it just look
at the time, I part of it.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
Bring me a couple of shots of cossaws, cossa, Zuli.

Speaker 8 (11:50):
Saquilo while I'm still on government teep.

Speaker 7 (11:55):
Time to celebrate, all right, Michael Berry, Let's go play
coopball and sue me man doubles match.

Speaker 8 (12:04):
Call me back, man, I'm retiring. Where's my cross? Zuli?
Give me whatever? Bessy Cat.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
To the phone lines, we go, Tyler eure Upe.

Speaker 9 (12:21):
Morning from forty five to forty five Dacoma at two ninety.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh, how's the traffic over there?

Speaker 9 (12:31):
Inbound looking bad? Outbound looking good? About to walk into
the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Ramon says that Scott Mine is going to give you
a banana sticker, but go ahead.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
Wonderful, wonderful.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (12:47):
You motivated me to call you in Michael Berry. Been
listening for about fifteen years, and you said, we are
starting the day off right, John Bolton, great news, small
win for us, small win for us, and mortgage paid
off yesterday. And I just want to say, I love
what you're doing in good Friday to you.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well that's good, enumer Well where old we're having a
day brims morning.

Speaker 9 (13:19):
But like we couldn't get a win for a while,
and the tides are slowly turning.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Uh man, I don't. I don't think this is slow.
I think this is rapid fire. Like I can't keep up.
How long did it take you to pay off your house?

Speaker 9 (13:34):
Twenty seven years? Three years early?

Speaker 1 (13:37):
What was your original what did you what was the
sales price on the home, not what you paid down?
What was eight eighty nine thousand and what? And did
you look at the numbers as to what you ended
up paying over the twenty seven years?

Speaker 9 (13:54):
I have not, but it's probably astronomical. I mean the
mortgage payment, uh started probably around eight hundred and kind
of went up and down maybe two around twelve hundred
at times, plus a plus a six hundred and twenty dollars.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Maintenance fee per month. Yes, is this a is this
a condo?

Speaker 11 (14:18):
Or what is that? Town home?

Speaker 9 (14:22):
Vas and San Felipe area?

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh, old property? Okay, all right, six twenty a month
is high? What are they doing? Is there a security
guard or is it gated?

Speaker 9 (14:34):
It's not gay? Do we have water, we have electricity, landscaping?

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, all paid for Okay, so that's different. That's different.
And what do you think is worth today?

Speaker 9 (14:46):
I would say, on the low wind one.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Eighty and if you had a thirty year mortgage, that
means you could have continued to pay, but there was
some number and you wanted the thrill of writing them
the last check.

Speaker 9 (15:04):
That's exactly. I want that out of the way, and
then handle a little bit of debt and then get
back on track to where I need to be being
a forty eight year old to be in a what
being a forty eight year old, I need to get
back on track. I've had a few hiccups over the years,
but happy that that notees out of the way, and

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just get a few other things handled to get back
right on track financially correctly.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
If you will, good for you?

Speaker 9 (15:34):
What do you do for a living's own a small
business Houston Shutter Center.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I buy and sell.

Speaker 9 (15:41):
Window treatments, blinds, shades, and shutters, primarily residential working.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Good for you? Paying off your house is a thrill.

Speaker 10 (15:48):
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Speaker 1 (16:40):
First day of school, father sits down with his family.
That's his son. So what you learn in school today,
little boy says, Gay men like sony, lesbian's like Yamaha,
and transgender people like bows. Father lean down his hand

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on his shoulder and said, son, those are just stereotypes. Ramon.
You know the difference between black eyed peas and chickpeas.
The black eyed peas can sing you a song, but
chickpeas can only hum us. One Rick, you're on the

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Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 11 (17:27):
Good morning, Michael. I heard you the other day, I
don't know, maybe Tuesday morning, and you were talking about
Wade Phillips stories, and I have one of my own.
And I am just about a regular guy as you
can get. Okay, I don't know any personalities in my
whole life, but I have a little side gig that

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I've been doing for a number of years as an auctioneer.
And I was asked by a gentleman and his wife
here in town that have a kids camp and that's
the name of the place, kids camp, to do a
charity option and it was at Quell Valley Country Club.

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So I go to the get out there and it
was a nice setting. A lot of people at the auction,
a lot of sports people. Larry Derker was there. He's
the one I recognized the most, but I know there
were a lot of other sports people there, and Wade
Phillips was there. One of the items they had in

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the auction was a blue blazer that belonged to Bum
Phillips and it had his name monogrammed on the inside
on the pocket. So when it comes down to selling,
that bidding was started out pretty good. Wade Phillips was
beating on it. There were two other gentlemen that were

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beating on it also, and the price went on up
and went on up, and they were beating back and forth,
and you know, it went over one thousand dollars twelve
hundred dollars for the blazer, and but Wade quit beating
on it and the other two gentlemen bought it. And

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you could see that that Wade Phillips was kind of distraught.
He really wanted his dad's jacket. Well, those two gentlemen
got up and brought that jacket over and had him
stand up, and they put it on it and gave
it to.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Now that's a story that's I'm glad you called that
is that. That's the kind of story that I love
to put on the air. That is fantastic, John number one,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Sir.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
Michael. I had a question about the previous caller that
was paying office mortgage. And I'm not trying to be
a professional hater, but I'm a younger guy and I'd
take eight hundred dollars a year mortgage or eight hundred
dollars a month mortgage in twenty seven years. It's like, man,
I think about my generation, I'm like, I don't know

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how we're going to do it, you know, And I
hate to sound like the typical younger generation complaining about it,
but I just I don't know. I know you like
this topic, so because it gets your opinion.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't understand what you're saying. You're you're are you
explain what generation?

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Well, we're worried about. There's there's not going to be
an eight hundred our mortgage ever again, you know that's tribby.
I would say, ivers, I think twenty seven hundred in
the US, You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, but there's inflation. I guess there there's well inflation.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Like it's kind of ten pole play tenfold inflation. What
do you do for a living, John, I do sales
for a construct supply company.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
How much do you make?

Speaker 9 (21:12):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Are you straight commission to your base put plus a commission?

Speaker 6 (21:19):
Commission straight commission?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
What you what did you do for twenty twenty four?

Speaker 6 (21:25):
It can be anywhere from like the probably one hundred range,
I would say, on average.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
So your one hundred in twenty twenty five, I'll bet
you is equivalent or more than Rick's income twenty seven
years ago. By the way, the thirty year fixed in
ninety eight was about six point nine, which is similar
to what we're seeing now. I was reading a fellow

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that I I ten to like out of the Wall
Street Journal this morning, and he said we're going to
be disappointed in the Fed's rate drop that we're not
going to see the fore handle that everybody wants to see,
but we'll see. Well, what i'd tell you is buck up,
butter Cup. You're gonna be fine. Work hard, invest wisely.

Speaker 8 (22:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I had a cop tell me what did he say?
See if I can find it here? I had a
cop tell me my first after Rick hung up, he said,
my first home was also eighty nine thousand dollars and
I did a ten year balloon to get a low
interest rate. I worked every extra job I could find
for eight years, and I paid it off two years early,

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and then I lost half of it in the divorce.
Young people today telling me that they're worried about this
and they're upset about this, and I have no patience
for that, because we didn't worry when I was coming up,
because nobody told us to. We just got after it,
and that's what you have to do. These are not

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bad times. These are good times. I people do not
like my opinion on this because it doesn't pat him
on the back. But I'm going to tell you in
very clear terms, there's somebody to your left getting rich
there's somebody to your right stagnating, and that person to
your right is blaming everybody but themselves. You want to

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know what the problem with young people today is spending.
It's not earning, it's not interest rates. The problem with
people today is spending. People do not understand how much
they spend, and they do not understand that they don't
have to spend that. When Dave Ramsey tells people beans
and rice, rice and beans, that's what he means. So

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I love eating out. It's my great treat. It's one
of the things I enjoy the most. But if you
are spending money eating out when you could do a
very basic meal at home, you don't complain about how
much you're making. You just don't do it. We didn't
eat out as a kid. We just didn't eat out.

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We didn't eat out because my parents didn't have the
money for it. So my mother cooked very basic meals
like hamburger, helper and Kraft mac and cheese, which are
dirt cheap. There was ground round in the freezer every
day and she made something with it, spaghetti whatever it was,
with ragos, sauce. It was all those things were very simple.

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Nothing went bad and you did it. But it's not
that hard. We're not living through the late seventies with
fifteen percent interest rates. These are good times. Buckle down,
you got this. Hey, this is Tracy Bird.

Speaker 8 (24:49):
And I tipped my hand to the keeper the stock
and the salt.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
We're talking about the turkey drop episode of w Caripe
in Cincinnati yesterday. And I told you the Jim Mudd
story about going to Mattress Max's parking lot and running
stuff over. I did not realize. Jim said they had
a five story boom lift and they did drop stuff

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in the parking lot and Mack loved it. He said,
we dropped TVs and people were driving up and bringing
us things to drop off, to drop off the boom.
Now that sounds like fun, doesn't it. That sounded like
a blast to me. That and catching stuff on fire only, writes.

(25:43):
My husband and I were taking a thirty five hundred
mile road trip in a Mustang GT during the summer
of twenty twenty. I was making a traveling lunch from
previous night. Oh, I'd make a traveling lunch from previous
night's dinner steak and rolls from oh. So she would
make a traveling lunch from the previous night. It dinner
steak and rolls. Traveling down southern Indiana back roads, we

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were enjoying our scenic drive. I took a bite and
grabbed my husband's shifting arm. He took one look, asked
if I could breathe or talk. No, I couldn't. He
swerved to miss a dead deer in the road, slammed
on his brakes as he pulled over, jumped out of
the car, ran around to the passenger side, opened the door,
dragged me out quickly, and began the himelick on me.

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I was loudly requesting that he please stop. Apparently the
seat belt had locked up and done the Himmelick on
me already. The offending piece of steak sandwich was later
found in the car. It was a great trip. Thank you,
mister Barry for all that you do to keep us
informed ONNY. My husband, Jim is an excellent driver under pressure,
Well clearly, clearly he is.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
The Barry Show is rolling the bullets, breaking through.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Loud lass Nay just for you.

Speaker 10 (27:09):
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Speaker 1 (27:20):
President Trump went on a ride along with the federal
and local law enforcement officers cleaning up Washington, DC. And
we kind of been imagining, you know, we grew up
in the golden era of TV cops and their personalities.
We kind of imagined him preparing for his first big

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arrest and practicing some of the lines he would use
tonight on a special edition of Cops. President Trump joins
the DC men in Blue for a ride along. Okay,
mister President in progress, we've got to buckle up.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Time for winning. Hands up.

Speaker 10 (28:00):
In the words of my great friend Roscoe Pea, Cole,
Tran Kuffham and stuff and.

Speaker 8 (28:05):
Boys, stop right there. You're under arrest, book and dan O.
Don't do the crime.

Speaker 9 (28:10):
If you can't do the time.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
You don't want to miss a special Cops ride along
with the President.

Speaker 11 (28:16):
Stop beating the name of love quite frankly, I love
the Supreme.

Speaker 9 (28:21):
Stack, unlike the former governor of California, Harland Schwartz andever.
I'll be back.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Jennifer. You're on the Michael Berry Show Open Line Friday.
We're honored to have you, sweetheart.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Go ahead, yay, I'm glad, I'm the first female caller today.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Er, how old are you?

Speaker 3 (28:43):
I am fifty seven.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Okay, there's a period there where's a whole lot of Jennifers,
and then there are no Jennifers anymore. And there were
almost no Jennifers before that. I went to SCO. I
can't tell you how many Jennifers I would school with.
I'm fifty four, so I think I think the kind
of I'm not going to get this just right, but
I think I think that kind of forty eight to

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sixty year old women right now, lots of Jennifer's.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, you're right, you're right.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
And then it just went away. And I don't know
where the Jennifer came from. I don't know if it
was a movie, if there was a famous actress, if
there was a singer, but it was it was a
hot name. It was Jennifer, and then after that it
was it was Jessica. Julie was big. None of those
names today. I haven't seen a little Jennifer in a
long time.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
And we broke the mold man.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
It's weird, though. It's weird. You know, you'd think that
some of these moms you know named Susie would have
wanted to be a Jennifer when they were little, and
so then they go and name their doctor, but nope,
they're not doing it. Uh huh. Anyway, what you got, sweetheart?

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yep, anyway I called. I wanted to let you know
how beautiful we have our country or no our country,
but Texas in particular is we've been. My husband and
I got away just for a quick couple of days
this week and taking the back roads. Man, we have
a beautiful state here, even if like right now we're

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camping at Fort Parker State Park, which is basically in
the middle of nowhere. Really uh, and it's I mean,
it's great. And the best part about where our little
trip is honestly the people, I mean the people here
in Texas are awesome.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Nothing like it.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
We went by across the street, there's a little place.

Speaker 11 (30:36):
This is an example.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
It's a little place, not a non descript The front
of us says honey hole, cold beer and pool. So
of course we got to pull in there. And when
we camp, we got a uh it's a slide and
trailer on the back of the truck, and then we
put a XR six fifty on the front. So he
and I buzz around on the bike, says you can

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imagine too, you know, older people buzzing around on that motorcycle.
So we we pull in there and every head it's
an outdoor it's like an outdoor covered bar. Everybody's looking
and they're all waving. So we went for our bike

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ride and came back, came back and you know, they're
like one kid came up and took our picture and
just I mean, everybody just happy to talk to you.
We find anywhere we go, man, they're all like that.
Heck no, we got we still got. Let's see, four
kids at home. I got my youngest is Vincent's going

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to be a senior this year, so homeschooled them all.
So I'm happy. I'm I'm I'm graduating, more excited for
I'm more excited. I'm more excited for me being done
homeschool and then for him to graduate.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Oh wow, yeah, well then you need a vacation. Yeah,
good for you, and then want to do after that? Yup.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
He's not quite sure. He's going to go either to
look a local school for like the two year school,
or either of the Navy or Air Force. I got
my daughter was in the air Force and she actually
did her four years and she's done. And then I
got my son in the Navy right now, he's over
in Bayhrain, So that's I think he's trying to follow

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in Larry's footsteps doing the navy thing.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Let's see if I can find this story. There is
a story about Chad had in my prep earlier this week.
Here it is Texas A and M University Kingsville launches
a new tuition free skilled trades academy designed for students
entering the construction, skilled trades and renewable energy industries. It's

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called the Havelina Skilled Trades Academy, and the academy is
tuition free with a focus on upskilling the local labor
market and driving economic growth in the region. Ramon, do
you say economic or economic? What do you say? Huh?
You say economic? Okay, I'll do it again, and driving

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the economic growth in the region. Inside High Education Higher
Education reports Texas A and M University Kingsville's president, Robert
Vela has established an institutional priority to serve the local community, or,
as he likes to call it, the backyard. See, universities
are funded by taxpayer dollars, So you got all these
illegals being deported. You got a need for people in construction.

(33:30):
This is what the university's ought to be doing.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Bravo.