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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, yes, always good to start with the little Edward
Hawkins singers. Yes indeed seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand. Once spent
three hundred dollars on a limo. Ever tell you the story, Jim.
I spent three hundred dollars on a limo and I
(00:21):
found out that fee didn't cover a driver. I couldn't
believe it. I spent all that money and I had
nothing to show for it. I had nothing to chow
for it. Yeah, buddy of mine was dating a cannibal.
I said that's weird. He said it's okay. She finally
(00:43):
convinced him to sleep over. She's a cannibal. She promised
to make him breakfast in the morning. And to get
us started seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
your call seven won three nine nine nine one thousand
to get us started as we always do, courtesy the
greatest executive producer in all the land, Shadow Koni Nakanishi,
(01:03):
your week in review. I'm bad to the ball, Bad
to the ball. My friend's got Kutaj sent me a message. Unprompted.
He sends me a picture of Ted Dibiassi wearing a
black leather jacket with sparkles on him, and he wrote,
(01:24):
Junkyard Dog was the best man in Ted Dibiassi's wedding.
Just thought you should know, And now I can't stop
thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
A historic moment in the Middle East, as world lars
signed a deal formalizing a ceasefire in Gosspep.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The historic day in Israel is the twenty remaining hostages
take him by him off two years ago, are making
the way home.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And after so many years of unceasing war and analyst danger,
today this guy's are calm, The guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
land that is finally at peace, a land.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
This is the most amazing thing is this is This
is history in the making. Who would have believed he
could do this. He's pulled it off, and the whole
world is watching and celebrating. State departments has revoked the
visas of six people over accusations that they praised or
celebrated the assassination of Charlie.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Kirk, parrying them no one will welcome in the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Social media posts the State Department listed examples from six
people who had their visas revoked. They were from Argentina,
South Africa, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil and Germany. Get them out.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I hope that Donald Trump can inspire some other people
to grow a set and find a spine and continue
when he's gone, because a lot of people are doing
what they're doing because Trump is president. But they would
never of themselves, Suisponte do the things that they're doing now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Texas A and M fans and one drunk fan in particular,
after university police started posting their arrests on x it reads.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Aggie Park contacted subjects eating a sandwich with a water
jug of whiskey BAC was point three thirty seven released
to EA.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This dude was really really dangerously drunk to the phone lines.
We go in just a moment, we will get to
the John Bolton issue, who has now been indicted. After
mar A Lago was rated by the FBI, John Bolton
(03:20):
demanded that the Department of Justice quote move as rapidly
as possible end quote to prosecute President Trump over what
turned out to be a hoax related to classified documents
they claimed were being held at his home. Well, John
Bolton is now being indicted for keeping classified documents at
his home and a whole lot more. Nolan, Nolan, you
(03:47):
are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Go ahead, sir, Oh good mornings. Are how you doing today,
sir good? That's great. Sound you sound all perky and happy.
I was listened to you yesterday and you were talking
about how, you know, you like to listen to people
that tell good stories and be able to make a
good story. My wife and I we we're busy writing
and she's just finishing up a Spanish novel and I
(04:11):
finish up a sci fi novel called Dinosaurs Sphere, and
I learned a lot just in the process of telling stories.
I wanted to make it where you could write a
roller coaster, start off at the station, ice and calm,
and have those highs and lows, you know. But it
also gave me an insight into life. And I think
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that listening to you and how your weave stories is
just really a beautiful effort. And what you do and
how you with your double logger degrees, I mean, wow,
what a storyteller.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, I appreciate that. I enjoy the process of telling
stories and hearing stories. It's it's perhaps my favorite way
to learn. You know, you learn a lot about yourself,
and maybe you change over the years, but I was
once a book reader learner. That was my primary means.
(05:13):
Maybe that's just because that's all that was really available.
And then in time as I grew older, I found
that it was exchanges with other people where I learned
the most, and I supplement that with documentaries and sort
of that visual medium. But I still find that the
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hearing and telling of stories is I think it's in
our DNA. I think it's a big part of who
and what we are. When does your book publish?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I published it in December last year, twenty twenty four.
It's on Amazon. It's called The Dinosaurs Sphere, The Nemacs Emerge.
It's set in a world where the asteroid missed the Earth.
Dinosaur are as common to us as deer in the fields,
but we live in the fenced in walled cities, and
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it takes place within that world. It's a story of
a bloom power worker. He works along the fence and
the wall, and he's got an eight month pregnant wife
and the events unfold. So so it's set in a
world with dinosaurs, but not necessarily about dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I can't ask him how it ends, Jim, So, I
can't find it listed under dinosaur sphere.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Look up, look up noland tally n O l A
n d p A l l u y. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Paid the dinosaur's spear not not sphere. Okay, all right,
the s with the f backed up sounded to me
like a sphere as in spherical, but in fact it
is the dinosaur's fear. The new mac yeah emerge.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Okay, yes, sir, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
What does that mean? The Nemax emerged?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
The nemax is a creature that has always been used
to scare the children. You know, stay out of the jungle,
stay inside the walls, and pnosaurs is gonna get you,
and there's the Nemax out there. Well, come to find
out there was some truth to fairy tales.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Is nemax plural?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Uh no, it's a singular creature.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well, why is it the nemax emerge?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well, because the whole group of nemacs nemax is would
be a little uncomfortable. But the creature itself is known
as the.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Nex interest Okay, this is all very new to me.
I'm not I'm not as well. How'd you come up
with the name Paul yell At or the fence maintenance worker.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Oh well, Paul has always been a sort of a
calm name that I've always people that are named Paul
is kind of like a center and in a society.
And you, well, I was starving for a name, so
I just turned my name around.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh well, there you go. Yeah, how about that? And
then uh, the wife is that Sarah or sarral uh cel?
And where'd that come from?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Oh it was I didn't want to sit like we
were in a modern day world, and Sarah Sarah. It
just had a sweet rain. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, very cool.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Not an easy thing to do to finish a book.
I appreciate your compliment. Good sir, thank you for the call.
I uh right. I will often refer when when when
someone has to give a speech and they'll ask me
for advice. I keep it pretty simple. Or a presentation
(08:58):
or host of podcast, I say, tell stories easier said
than done. But when you embrace the concept of telling stories,
you have an endless reservoir of content to share. Everybody's
got stories, no matter if you go to prison, you've
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got stories. If you're a maintenance worker, you've got stories.
If you're a mechanic. Stories cops get all the stories.
I mean anything there's a television show of is stories
of that. And I always go back to that great
line from Ed Sable, the founder of NFL Films, and
(09:43):
when he handed the company over to Steve Sable, his son.
You remember, NFL Films made those great films on a
bluff Stories Sunday. Was it Frank for Kenda? What was
the guy's named, John Fakenda? I think it's I don't
know if to see is hard or soft. It's either
Faceenda or for Kenda, but I think it might be anyway.
But they would do those big NFL films that make
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them gladiators in the arena rather than just football players.
And Ed Sable, when he retired from the business, he
would give speeches to business groups and he would talk
about the art of storytelling, how powerful storytelling is to
the human experience. And his line was, tell me a
fact and I'll learn it. Tell me the truth and
I'll believe it. But tell me a story and it'll
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live in my heart forever. And I think that's true.
I think that when you embrace the art of telling
your stories, good thing Settlement one thousand Michael Barry show, well,
(10:47):
further proof that it's all performative art. There's nothing really
to any of it. It's just silliness. It's the carnival.
Harris County Democrats decided to protest the removal of the
rainbow crosswalk in Montrose. So Molly Cook, Rodney Ellis, Jene Wu,
(11:11):
Leslie Brions, and Abby Cohman. Yeah, their protel you can't
take our rainbow in the crosswalk away. This is very upsetting.
We're all here, gay people. Do you all notice we're
all here? Y'all see it?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Remember us?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Remember us? When's the election time? Remember us? We're the
ones here. You think anybody actually cares about that rainbow crosswalk? No,
they don't. They don't give one damn not one, not
a single one. Nobody cares. Nobody is thinking, well, life's
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tougher when you're gay, because it is. And I know
that some people will never like me, and I know
that some people will never understand me, and I know
that that people think I'm a weirdo, and some people
choose not to be my friend because of it, And
no matter how hard I try, some people are never
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really going to get comfortable around me and all those
things they feel unfair and wrong, and I wish I
could fix it, But I just have one bit of
abiding comfort, and that's that they put a rainbow on
a crosswalk over in Montrose. I live in bel Air,
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but that's okay. I know I always have. I'm sustained
by the knowledge of the crosswalk. It is. It is
the crosswalk that gives me. Yeah. Yeah, that. So the
Harris kind of Democrats are saying, hey, look, the crosswork
crosswalk is really important to you, which we're trying to
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remind you of that in case you forget now. Our
policies have also made it such that you're far more
likely to be carjacked, mugged, murdered, dry by shooting because
our policies have allowed for that. But none of that matters.
We just want you to know that your identity as
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a gay dude, we really, really, really care about it,
and that's why we slap some paint on the crosswalk. Yes, yes,
and not the usual paint. The usual paint is for
straight people. You know, the yellow and the white, the
one way and the two way, and you know we
know what that's for. Yeah, Well, we're here for you
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to have your own painting, because the yellows and the
whites are not for you. And we want you to
know that this is really, really, really important. So we've
made sure that all the newspapers will hear or this
only one the magazines, I mean, the news stations are
here and a photo journalist and we're gonna we're gonna
capture this moment and and we've we've written some things
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we're gonna say about this moment, about the rainbow flag,
because that's important to you, because the rainbow painting on
the crosswalk is really the only thing we can offer you,
because our policies will get you killed and take all
your money and and nothing will actually work. But but
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but but we want to keep you focused on the crosswalk. Yes, yes,
let's give that a Listen.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it.
It's fun to be out. It's fun to be queer
in Houston. Oh my god, An, if they do, you'll
have a promise for me. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
She's so strong, Jim, She's so strong. Listen to her.
She's just just stronger. Word, get it.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Girl, she is so strong.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
She's share her voice is not cracking. She's not hiding,
she's she's being tough and strong. I'm brave and courageous
to start that over. That's whoa, that's good man, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You go girl, And we are queer. We love ourselves
for it. It's fun to be out, it's fun to
be queer. And he's yes, And if they do pick
up this sidewalk, you'll have a promise from me that
I'm gonna work every single day and till.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The day we gather right back here.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
And yes, if we lose the.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Battle and you have to hold on, hold hold right there.
Just it's just a bye god minute. She just made
a solemn swear that she's going to work every single
day until that crosswalk is back and we can gather
back here in celebration. So I'm just gonna go ahead
(15:44):
and warn you right now. Two weeks from now, you
call her office, Hey, you want to go to lunch?
Can't do it? Why so, Stern, I'm working as I
have every day for two weeks and will makes me
ten years. I am working to get the paint put
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back on the crosswalk. That is the proper colors to
trigger the right people. Oh well, well, couldn't you work
on it tomorrow and yesterday but take today off? Nope,
every single day I will work on this crosswalk. This
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will be my crosswalk to bear. I will work on
it every single day. It's what I will do, this crosswalk,
this paint. Sure nobody even knew it was here. Sure
nobody else in the region ever drives over here to
look at it. But I have decided to make this
a really really big issue, as if it is really
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really important, and somebody might actually that had to be stupid,
but somebody might actually end up giving a damn about it.
And I want those people to believe right now, based
on my constant statements and just over the top seriousness,
such a silly thing, they might believe it. Okay, let's
hear that again.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Work every single day, the whole.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Thing, the whole thing. This is good right here.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
WHOA we are Houston. We are queer. We love ourselves
for it. It's fun to be out.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It's fun to be queer in Houston. Do pick up
this sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You'll have a promise for me that I'm gonna work
every single day until the day we gather right back
here and paint.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It back yeah, I love one of those moments, you know,
were kind of biting down and taking like, yeah, I
could tell she's gonna fight. You know what, I'm mad
right now over this paint in the sidewalk. Like there's
nobody there, it's just the cameras. But if I'm sitting
at home, Oh, you're sitting at home, you got your
dog there, you're eating your cheerios, you're watching your TV.
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You're like, well, I'm gay. Well they talking about, oh, paintings,
a stupid sidewalk thing. Nobody gay cares about the sidewalk thing, dude.
But whatever, Oh what is who's this woman? Oh? Oh
she's oh and she's okay, so she's she's making a lot.
Does she think I care about that? I guarantee you
that's what people are saying. I'll guarantee you. I guarantee
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that's what Kay Davis saying. I guarantee that someone three
nine nine, nine, one thousand, the Michael Berry Show. Imagine
that Harris County Democrats. They actually they actually planned this out.
Hey guys, we haven't been in the news for a while. Yeah,
because we don't do anything. Nobody cares about us.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But but let's have a press conference at the crosswalk.
It'll be the new George Floyd. Here is where the
crosswalk used to be painted the colors of the rainbow,
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and now it's just a regular old crosswalk. White. It's
a white crosswalk. The whitewashing our crosswalk. You know, we
the Harrison County Democrat leadership, we used to come here.
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We didn't make a big fuss about it. But now
we're telling you. We used to come here and we'd
stand on one side of the street and the signal
would change and we would all walk across it. We
kind of swish a little, and we'd say, yes, this
is for gay people. And that's how you know we
like the gay people and we want their votes, because
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we would come to this crosswalk and we would cross
over it. Sometimes we'd walk over it. I don't know
ten twenty times. We would just cross over and cross back.
And that was our way, our own quiet, silent, but strong,
brave way of saying, gay people, we want your vote,
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vote on your gayness, not our horrible policies. That's what
we would do, all right, let's hear it, Jimbo, is
it not playing?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
See, we've been silenced. Okay, well, when it starts working
and you let me know.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it.
It's fun to be out. It's fun to be queer
in Houston. And if they do pick up this sidewalk,
you'll have a promise for me.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Doesn't she make it sound fun. It's not like she's
trying it all. It's fun to be queer. It's fine,
We're in fine everybody. You sound fun. You sound like
a barrel of lass. I bet you're a lot of fun.
It's fun to be quere. It's not bad, it's good. Okay, Well,
(20:44):
what does that have to do with the crosswalk? If
it's fun to be queer, and I don't doubt that
it is, I'm sure it's good for you. Do you
need a crosswalk? Do you need a crosswalk? Because you
know what you don't have is a crosswalk to commemorate
sitting on my fat ass Saturday all day watching football.
(21:08):
I don't need that. I don't have to show up
and tell you it's fun. I just choose to do it.
When I have a hundred other things I can do,
That's what I choose to do. So I don't need
a sidewalk a crosswalk to commemorate that fact. I don't
need to tell you how fun it is. Kind of
odd that you do. Actually, kind of odd. It's kind
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of odd that they think anybody cares, because I submit,
nobody gay cares about the crosswork. Nobody. These are the
sorts of things that people do to keep you from
watching how much money your government is stealing, how much
power they are continuing to exert over you, their own
self dealing, their own inside deals, the situations they make.
(21:51):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it.
It's fun to be out.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's fun to be queer in Houston.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
And if they do pick up this sidewalk, you'll have
a promise from me that I'm gonna work every single
day until the day we gather right back here and
paint it back.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
If we lose the battle and you have to, we
have to take this off the street, you'll put it
on your house. You go and put it on the
your side street and stick it out window.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh yeah, to Rodney actually talks. We have to find
Rodney is a very very smart guy. Very smart guy,
well educated, hangs out with with with rich sophisticated, uh
New York Wall streeters, and I think he got his
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I think he got his pandurin confused. He showed up,
He's like, oh, I gotta give a speech, okay, and
they he thought he was going out to a group
of poor blacks, but instead this is gay people, and
that's mostly white gay people. For something like this, that's
gonna be white gay people. You're not gonna see a
lot of black people show up and then Rodney shows up.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
If they take this off the streets, I want you
to put one on your house, and I want that
rainbow to be on your house when people drive out
there like that's a rainbow, Yes, my rainbow.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There's my rainbow. You can't have my rainbow. This is
my rainbow. We loud and proud over here and out
who without rainbow? No, no, no, no, roddy. That's this
is This is actually white professional people who live in
Montrose and the Heights. They're they're not really talking that way.
In fact, they're kind of finding it odd that you are,
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because they know that that's not how you normally talk.
So maybe let's dill all that back.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Let's hear him again, ain't back here and paint it back.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
If we lose the battle and you have to, we
have to take this off the street. You put it
on your house, on your house, You go and put
it on a yard sign.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
There's one person clapping. You roll down, you put it
on your house.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
To the day we gather right back here and paint
it back.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
If we lose the battle and you have to, we
have to take this off the street.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You put it on your house. Right, you go and
put it on.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
A yard side. You roll down the street and stick
it out.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Your car when it happened.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Whatever angle they come up with, we have to find another.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yes, the state is on the edge. Major, we'll show them.
We'll put yard signs. Yes. This is so absurd and
so ridiculous. It's a wonder there's not a revolution over
the whole of it. This is John Cornyn. This, this
is what John Cornyn does. You find some meaningless nothing
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burger and you parade it around.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Look it, man, I really care about the crosswalk.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Really, So you're saying that if as long as the
crosswalk stays here, everybody won't put yard signs. If they
pick up that yard and how about him telling people
to do that. Are you gonna do it? Rodney? Here's
what I want y'all to do, you stupid idiots. I
want y'all to do this, this, this, this, this, this,
and this while I'm down at Harris County Commissioner's Court.
(25:24):
Get rich, bitch. I put Lena in, I'm taking Lena out.
I'm gonna get rich. But oh, in the meantime, y'all,
what's this?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
What's the flying what's it? What's what is? What is
the deal?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Okay, all right, yeah, the flying flag are important.
Uh, yes, always good to start with the little Edward
Hawkins singers. Yes indeed seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand. Once spent
three hundred dollars on a limo. Ever tell you the story, Jim.
I spent three hundred dollars on a limo and I
(00:21):
found out that fee didn't cover a driver. I couldn't
believe it. I spent all that money and I had
nothing to show for it. I had nothing to chow
for it. Yeah, buddy of mine was dating a cannibal.
I said that's weird. He said it's okay. She finally
(00:43):
convinced him to sleep over. She's a cannibal. She promised
to make him breakfast in the morning. And to get
us started seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
your call seven won three nine nine nine one thousand
to get us started as we always do, courtesy the
greatest executive producer in all the land, Shadow Koni Nakanishi,
(01:03):
your week in review. I'm bad to the ball, Bad
to the ball. My friend's got Kutaj sent me a message. Unprompted.
He sends me a picture of Ted Dibiassi wearing a
black leather jacket with sparkles on him, and he wrote,
(01:24):
Junkyard Dog was the best man in Ted Dibiassi's wedding.
Just thought you should know, And now I can't stop
thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
A historic moment in the Middle East, as world lars
signed a deal formalizing a ceasefire in Gosspep.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The historic day in Israel is the twenty remaining hostages
take him by him off two years ago, are making
the way home.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And after so many years of unceasing war and analyst danger,
today this guy's are calm, The guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
land that is finally at peace, a land.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
This is the most amazing thing is this is This
is history in the making. Who would have believed he
could do this. He's pulled it off, and the whole
world is watching and celebrating. State departments has revoked the
visas of six people over accusations that they praised or
celebrated the assassination of Charlie.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Kirk, parrying them no one will welcome in the United States.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Social media posts the State Department listed examples from six
people who had their visas revoked. They were from Argentina,
South Africa, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil and Germany. Get them out.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I hope that Donald Trump can inspire some other people
to grow a set and find a spine and continue
when he's gone, because a lot of people are doing
what they're doing because Trump is president. But they would
never of themselves, Suisponte do the things that they're doing now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Texas A and M fans and one drunk fan in particular,
after university police started posting their arrests on x it reads.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Aggie Park contacted subjects eating a sandwich with a water
jug of whiskey BAC was point three thirty seven released
to EA.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This dude was really really dangerously drunk to the phone lines.
We go in just a moment, we will get to
the John Bolton issue, who has now been indicted. After
mar A Lago was rated by the FBI, John Bolton
(03:20):
demanded that the Department of Justice quote move as rapidly
as possible end quote to prosecute President Trump over what
turned out to be a hoax related to classified documents
they claimed were being held at his home. Well, John
Bolton is now being indicted for keeping classified documents at
his home and a whole lot more. Nolan, Nolan, you
(03:47):
are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Go ahead, sir, Oh good mornings. Are how you doing today,
sir good? That's great. Sound you sound all perky and happy.
I was listened to you yesterday and you were talking
about how, you know, you like to listen to people
that tell good stories and be able to make a
good story. My wife and I we we're busy writing
and she's just finishing up a Spanish novel and I
(04:11):
finish up a sci fi novel called Dinosaurs Sphere, and
I learned a lot just in the process of telling stories.
I wanted to make it where you could write a
roller coaster, start off at the station, ice and calm,
and have those highs and lows, you know. But it
also gave me an insight into life. And I think
(04:35):
that listening to you and how your weave stories is
just really a beautiful effort. And what you do and
how you with your double logger degrees, I mean, wow,
what a storyteller.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, I appreciate that. I enjoy the process of telling
stories and hearing stories. It's it's perhaps my favorite way
to learn. You know, you learn a lot about yourself,
and maybe you change over the years, but I was
once a book reader learner. That was my primary means.
(05:13):
Maybe that's just because that's all that was really available.
And then in time as I grew older, I found
that it was exchanges with other people where I learned
the most, and I supplement that with documentaries and sort
of that visual medium. But I still find that the
(05:35):
hearing and telling of stories is I think it's in
our DNA. I think it's a big part of who
and what we are. When does your book publish?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I published it in December last year, twenty twenty four.
It's on Amazon. It's called The Dinosaurs Sphere, The Nemacs Emerge.
It's set in a world where the asteroid missed the Earth.
Dinosaur are as common to us as deer in the fields,
but we live in the fenced in walled cities, and
(06:06):
it takes place within that world. It's a story of
a bloom power worker. He works along the fence and
the wall, and he's got an eight month pregnant wife
and the events unfold. So so it's set in a
world with dinosaurs, but not necessarily about dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I can't ask him how it ends, Jim, So, I
can't find it listed under dinosaur sphere.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Look up, look up noland tally n O l A
n d p A l l u y. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Paid the dinosaur's spear not not sphere. Okay, all right,
the s with the f backed up sounded to me
like a sphere as in spherical, but in fact it
is the dinosaur's fear. The new mac yeah emerge.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Okay, yes, sir, what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
What does that mean? The Nemax emerged?
Speaker 6 (07:04):
The nemax is a creature that has always been used
to scare the children. You know, stay out of the jungle,
stay inside the walls, and pnosaurs is gonna get you,
and there's the Nemax out there. Well, come to find
out there was some truth to fairy tales.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Is nemax plural?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Uh no, it's a singular creature.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well, why is it the nemax emerge?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well, because the whole group of nemacs nemax is would
be a little uncomfortable. But the creature itself is known
as the.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Nex interest Okay, this is all very new to me.
I'm not I'm not as well. How'd you come up
with the name Paul yell At or the fence maintenance worker.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Oh well, Paul has always been a sort of a
calm name that I've always people that are named Paul
is kind of like a center and in a society.
And you, well, I was starving for a name, so
I just turned my name around.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh well, there you go. Yeah, how about that? And
then uh, the wife is that Sarah or sarral uh cel?
And where'd that come from?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Oh it was I didn't want to sit like we
were in a modern day world, and Sarah Sarah. It
just had a sweet rain. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, very cool.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Not an easy thing to do to finish a book.
I appreciate your compliment. Good sir, thank you for the call.
I uh right. I will often refer when when when
someone has to give a speech and they'll ask me
for advice. I keep it pretty simple. Or a presentation
(08:58):
or host of podcast, I say, tell stories easier said
than done. But when you embrace the concept of telling stories,
you have an endless reservoir of content to share. Everybody's
got stories, no matter if you go to prison, you've
(09:20):
got stories. If you're a maintenance worker, you've got stories.
If you're a mechanic. Stories cops get all the stories.
I mean anything there's a television show of is stories
of that. And I always go back to that great
line from Ed Sable, the founder of NFL Films, and
(09:43):
when he handed the company over to Steve Sable, his son.
You remember, NFL Films made those great films on a
bluff Stories Sunday. Was it Frank for Kenda? What was
the guy's named, John Fakenda? I think it's I don't
know if to see is hard or soft. It's either
Faceenda or for Kenda, but I think it might be anyway.
But they would do those big NFL films that make
(10:04):
them gladiators in the arena rather than just football players.
And Ed Sable, when he retired from the business, he
would give speeches to business groups and he would talk
about the art of storytelling, how powerful storytelling is to
the human experience. And his line was, tell me a
fact and I'll learn it. Tell me the truth and
I'll believe it. But tell me a story and it'll
(10:26):
live in my heart forever. And I think that's true.
I think that when you embrace the art of telling
your stories, good thing Settlement one thousand Michael Barry show, well,
(10:47):
further proof that it's all performative art. There's nothing really
to any of it. It's just silliness. It's the carnival.
Harris County Democrats decided to protest the removal of the
rainbow crosswalk in Montrose. So Molly Cook, Rodney Ellis, Jene Wu,
(11:11):
Leslie Brions, and Abby Cohman. Yeah, their protel you can't
take our rainbow in the crosswalk away. This is very upsetting.
We're all here, gay people. Do you all notice we're
all here? Y'all see it?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Remember us?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Remember us? When's the election time? Remember us? We're the
ones here. You think anybody actually cares about that rainbow crosswalk? No,
they don't. They don't give one damn not one, not
a single one. Nobody cares. Nobody is thinking, well, life's
(11:57):
tougher when you're gay, because it is. And I know
that some people will never like me, and I know
that some people will never understand me, and I know
that that people think I'm a weirdo, and some people
choose not to be my friend because of it, And
no matter how hard I try, some people are never
(12:18):
really going to get comfortable around me and all those
things they feel unfair and wrong, and I wish I
could fix it, But I just have one bit of
abiding comfort, and that's that they put a rainbow on
a crosswalk over in Montrose. I live in bel Air,
(12:39):
but that's okay. I know I always have. I'm sustained
by the knowledge of the crosswalk. It is. It is
the crosswalk that gives me. Yeah. Yeah, that. So the
Harris kind of Democrats are saying, hey, look, the crosswork
crosswalk is really important to you, which we're trying to
(13:00):
remind you of that in case you forget now. Our
policies have also made it such that you're far more
likely to be carjacked, mugged, murdered, dry by shooting because
our policies have allowed for that. But none of that matters.
We just want you to know that your identity as
(13:22):
a gay dude, we really, really, really care about it,
and that's why we slap some paint on the crosswalk. Yes, yes,
and not the usual paint. The usual paint is for
straight people. You know, the yellow and the white, the
one way and the two way, and you know we
know what that's for. Yeah, Well, we're here for you
(13:43):
to have your own painting, because the yellows and the
whites are not for you. And we want you to
know that this is really, really, really important. So we've
made sure that all the newspapers will hear or this
only one the magazines, I mean, the news stations are
here and a photo journalist and we're gonna we're gonna
capture this moment and and we've we've written some things
(14:04):
we're gonna say about this moment, about the rainbow flag,
because that's important to you, because the rainbow painting on
the crosswalk is really the only thing we can offer you,
because our policies will get you killed and take all
your money and and nothing will actually work. But but
(14:26):
but but we want to keep you focused on the crosswalk. Yes, yes,
let's give that a Listen.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it.
It's fun to be out. It's fun to be queer
in Houston. Oh my god, An, if they do, you'll
have a promise for me. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
She's so strong, Jim, She's so strong. Listen to her.
She's just just stronger. Word, get it.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Girl, she is so strong.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
She's share her voice is not cracking. She's not hiding,
she's she's being tough and strong. I'm brave and courageous
to start that over. That's whoa, that's good man, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You go girl, And we are queer. We love ourselves
for it. It's fun to be out, it's fun to
be queer. And he's yes, And if they do pick
up this sidewalk, you'll have a promise from me that
I'm gonna work every single day and till.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The day we gather right back here.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
And yes, if we lose the.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Battle and you have to hold on, hold hold right there.
Just it's just a bye god minute. She just made
a solemn swear that she's going to work every single
day until that crosswalk is back and we can gather
back here in celebration. So I'm just gonna go ahead
(15:44):
and warn you right now. Two weeks from now, you
call her office, Hey, you want to go to lunch?
Can't do it? Why so, Stern, I'm working as I
have every day for two weeks and will makes me
ten years. I am working to get the paint put
(16:04):
back on the crosswalk. That is the proper colors to
trigger the right people. Oh well, well, couldn't you work
on it tomorrow and yesterday but take today off? Nope,
every single day I will work on this crosswalk. This
(16:25):
will be my crosswalk to bear. I will work on
it every single day. It's what I will do, this crosswalk,
this paint. Sure nobody even knew it was here. Sure
nobody else in the region ever drives over here to
look at it. But I have decided to make this
a really really big issue, as if it is really
(16:47):
really important, and somebody might actually that had to be stupid,
but somebody might actually end up giving a damn about it.
And I want those people to believe right now, based
on my constant statements and just over the top seriousness,
such a silly thing, they might believe it. Okay, let's
hear that again.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Work every single day, the whole.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Thing, the whole thing. This is good right here.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
WHOA we are Houston. We are queer. We love ourselves
for it. It's fun to be out.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It's fun to be queer in Houston. Do pick up
this sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You'll have a promise for me that I'm gonna work
every single day until the day we gather right back
here and paint.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It back yeah, I love one of those moments, you know,
were kind of biting down and taking like, yeah, I
could tell she's gonna fight. You know what, I'm mad
right now over this paint in the sidewalk. Like there's
nobody there, it's just the cameras. But if I'm sitting
at home, Oh, you're sitting at home, you got your
dog there, you're eating your cheerios, you're watching your TV.
(17:44):
You're like, well, I'm gay. Well they talking about, oh, paintings,
a stupid sidewalk thing. Nobody gay cares about the sidewalk thing, dude.
But whatever, Oh what is who's this woman? Oh? Oh
she's oh and she's okay, so she's she's making a lot.
Does she think I care about that? I guarantee you
that's what people are saying. I'll guarantee you. I guarantee
(18:06):
that's what Kay Davis saying. I guarantee that someone three
nine nine, nine, one thousand, the Michael Berry Show. Imagine
that Harris County Democrats. They actually they actually planned this out.
Hey guys, we haven't been in the news for a while. Yeah,
because we don't do anything. Nobody cares about us.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But but let's have a press conference at the crosswalk.
It'll be the new George Floyd. Here is where the
crosswalk used to be painted the colors of the rainbow,
(18:51):
and now it's just a regular old crosswalk. White. It's
a white crosswalk. The whitewashing our crosswalk. You know, we
the Harrison County Democrat leadership, we used to come here.
(19:12):
We didn't make a big fuss about it. But now
we're telling you. We used to come here and we'd
stand on one side of the street and the signal
would change and we would all walk across it. We
kind of swish a little, and we'd say, yes, this
is for gay people. And that's how you know we
like the gay people and we want their votes, because
(19:34):
we would come to this crosswalk and we would cross
over it. Sometimes we'd walk over it. I don't know
ten twenty times. We would just cross over and cross back.
And that was our way, our own quiet, silent, but strong,
brave way of saying, gay people, we want your vote,
(19:56):
vote on your gayness, not our horrible policies. That's what
we would do, all right, let's hear it, Jimbo, is
it not playing?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
See, we've been silenced. Okay, well, when it starts working
and you let me know.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it.
It's fun to be out. It's fun to be queer
in Houston. And if they do pick up this sidewalk,
you'll have a promise for me.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Doesn't she make it sound fun. It's not like she's
trying it all. It's fun to be queer. It's fine,
We're in fine everybody. You sound fun. You sound like
a barrel of lass. I bet you're a lot of fun.
It's fun to be quere. It's not bad, it's good. Okay, Well,
(20:44):
what does that have to do with the crosswalk? If
it's fun to be queer, and I don't doubt that
it is, I'm sure it's good for you. Do you
need a crosswalk? Do you need a crosswalk? Because you
know what you don't have is a crosswalk to commemorate
sitting on my fat ass Saturday all day watching football.
(21:08):
I don't need that. I don't have to show up
and tell you it's fun. I just choose to do it.
When I have a hundred other things I can do,
That's what I choose to do. So I don't need
a sidewalk a crosswalk to commemorate that fact. I don't
need to tell you how fun it is. Kind of
odd that you do. Actually, kind of odd. It's kind
(21:29):
of odd that they think anybody cares, because I submit,
nobody gay cares about the crosswork. Nobody. These are the
sorts of things that people do to keep you from
watching how much money your government is stealing, how much
power they are continuing to exert over you, their own
self dealing, their own inside deals, the situations they make.
(21:51):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
We are Houston, we are queer. We love ourselves for it.
It's fun to be out.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's fun to be queer in Houston.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
And if they do pick up this sidewalk, you'll have
a promise from me that I'm gonna work every single
day until the day we gather right back here and
paint it back.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
If we lose the battle and you have to, we
have to take this off the street, you'll put it
on your house. You go and put it on the
your side street and stick it out window.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh yeah, to Rodney actually talks. We have to find
Rodney is a very very smart guy. Very smart guy,
well educated, hangs out with with with rich sophisticated, uh
New York Wall streeters, and I think he got his
(22:48):
I think he got his pandurin confused. He showed up,
He's like, oh, I gotta give a speech, okay, and
they he thought he was going out to a group
of poor blacks, but instead this is gay people, and
that's mostly white gay people. For something like this, that's
gonna be white gay people. You're not gonna see a
lot of black people show up and then Rodney shows up.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
If they take this off the streets, I want you
to put one on your house, and I want that
rainbow to be on your house when people drive out
there like that's a rainbow, Yes, my rainbow.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There's my rainbow. You can't have my rainbow. This is
my rainbow. We loud and proud over here and out
who without rainbow? No, no, no, no, roddy. That's this
is This is actually white professional people who live in
Montrose and the Heights. They're they're not really talking that way.
In fact, they're kind of finding it odd that you are,
(23:46):
because they know that that's not how you normally talk.
So maybe let's dill all that back.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Let's hear him again, ain't back here and paint it back.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
If we lose the battle and you have to, we
have to take this off the street. You put it
on your house, on your house, You go and put
it on a yard sign.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
There's one person clapping. You roll down, you put it
on your house.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
To the day we gather right back here and paint
it back.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
If we lose the battle and you have to, we
have to take this off the street.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You put it on your house. Right, you go and
put it on.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
A yard side. You roll down the street and stick
it out.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Your car when it happened.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Whatever angle they come up with, we have to find another.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yes, the state is on the edge. Major, we'll show them.
We'll put yard signs. Yes. This is so absurd and
so ridiculous. It's a wonder there's not a revolution over
the whole of it. This is John Cornyn. This, this
is what John Cornyn does. You find some meaningless nothing
(24:55):
burger and you parade it around.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Look it, man, I really care about the crosswalk.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Really, So you're saying that if as long as the
crosswalk stays here, everybody won't put yard signs. If they
pick up that yard and how about him telling people
to do that. Are you gonna do it? Rodney? Here's
what I want y'all to do, you stupid idiots. I
want y'all to do this, this, this, this, this, this,
and this while I'm down at Harris County Commissioner's Court.
(25:24):
Get rich, bitch. I put Lena in, I'm taking Lena out.
I'm gonna get rich. But oh, in the meantime, y'all,
what's this?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
What's the flying what's it? What's what is? What is
the deal?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Okay, all right, yeah, the flying flag are important.
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