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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
See your fixture offers.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, okay, okay, whoa beautiful gosh couldn't look any better
in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hey guys, finally went to see your house.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Okay, I will.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Look at these United States reminds us that history is
always being made with Morocco. We're off to the People's House.
The White House now under construction, a project swirling in controversy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
More likely, this is part of what Donald Trump has
been doing since day one of his presidency, running the
largest pay to play scheme in the history of the country,
and probably soliciting donations from people who've got business before
the United States government. And all of this is going
to have to be investigated.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It will.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All of this will have to be uncovered. It will,
and these people are going to be held accountable. And
that's all warning to all of these people participating in
the scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and of course to
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destroy the People's House. The White House belongs to the
American people. It doesn't belong to Donald Troup.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Its house.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
East and west wings were added in nineteen oh two,
Seven years later, the rotand William Howard Taft added the
Oval Office. By nineteen forty eight, the White House was
in danger of collapsing. It would have been cheaper to
level the place and rebuild it, but President Harry Truman
decided that preserving the exterior walls was crucial to the
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country's sense of continuity. A blown up White House is
only okay in the movies. Instead, the interior was entirely gutted.
Truman also added a balcony, an alteration which provoked an outcry.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
The East Wing, which importantly is not part of the
White House. It is not part of the residence. It
was a cheaply built add on structure in the mid
twentieth century which houses offices, is not a residence. Nobody
lives there, is badly in need of refurbishment, repair, and renovation.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The White House also.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Desperately needs, and has long needed, a place to hold
large events for Americans, for visitors, for visiting delegations, befitting
the greatest nation in the world.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
In these.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
There was a proof that is often misattributed to Ben Franklin.
He didn't say it, Alexander Fraser Tyler did. I don't
know that the source is so important. What is important
is the statement itself. When you think of what's happening
in let's say New York right now, where Zorn Mundani
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is promising free buses, free healthcare, free childcare, free housing,
and almost anything else. Whatever you want free, he says,
he'll give it. I want you to. In that context,
consider this quotation. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent
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form of government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the
candidates promising the most benefits from from the public treasury,
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with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose
fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of
the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These
nations have progressed through this sequence, from bondage to spiritual faith,
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from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty,
from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness
to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage.
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Sound familiar. Where do you think we are in that
process when you're running against a candidate who's promising things
to be free, and you look to the people and
you say, we simply cannot afford that. You have to
rely on an electorate to say, you're right, I would
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love free things, but that's irresponsible. We can't afford that
the system will collapse. But what if you say that
to people and they say, now, oh, he can do it.
He can take it from all the rich people. And
that's why two nights ago you had a rally where
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the governor Kathy Hockel in aoc and Bernie Sanders and
Kamim Mamdani were speaking, and the people began chanting, tack
the rich, tax the rich, take what they have and
give it to us. But I don't think they really
care what the source of the money is. They want
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the free stuff. Wouldn't that be great? Just free stuff
all the time. We'll all get free stuff, all the
free stuff we want, as often as we want, and
more of it more often. The idea of tying it
to a revenue stream, they don't really even care about that.
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They don't care where you get it, bankrupt the city,
borrow it, sell some stuff, doesn't matter, just give me
free stuff. So why do they say tax the rich,
Because that's a separate portion of their brain that is
jealous of the decisions other people make. You Ever notice
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how often some guys toick a gun in somebody's face
to steal their stuff and just for good measure, shoot
them as they're leaving. They didn't need to do that.
They hate that person. They hate that person's calm and
resolve and saving and diligence and industriousness.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
That's what we're witnessing liberal tears secause I didn't get
a single time.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Five start here that our country is failing you today.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Invest in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen, and this is the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I Ah, there's an interesting thing at play if you
watch closely and you've been around and you've paid attention.
The Houston Chronicle trumpeted the glory of Lenna Hidalgo in
twenty eighteen when she was swept in the last year
you had straight party voting, nobody knew who Lena Hidalgo was.
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I had Democrats calling me the next morning asking me
who is Lena Hidalgo after she had won, because they
figured I must have been covering the race. I must know,
I said, you're candidate for county judge. I know, but
nobody knows who she is. Somebody knew because there was
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an old white guy who filed a run in one
of those chihatic efforts where a Democrat runs in a
race where Republicans always win, just to be on the ballot.
You'll see those candidates. Used to be a guy named
Sam Houston. I think he was actually really named I
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think his real name was like Abud Abud Ali Abud
or something, but he had changed his name to something
like Sam by God Alamo Houston or something, and he'd
be on the ballot a lot. You'll see these people
who do this. They're just kind of perennial candidates. They
throw their name in there. They'll go of the debates,
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maybe even raise a couple hundred dollars, put it in
their own back pocket, get some signs printed, and they're
always a candidate for office. They don't have anything else
to do. There were seven candidates in my first city
council racing. Two of them were those kinds of people,
and we would have debates, and you don't eat at
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the debate. You're in the debate but they were just
happy to get a free meal because you know, they
were debating, and they'd spill food on their shirt. It
didn't matter. They weren't going to win anyway. They were
having so much fun. There were no nerves for them
because they had no chance of winning anyway. They were
just excited to get a free meal. And they'd get
to get up and talk for a little while and
people would pretend to listen. So that was Lena hid allgo,
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or that was the old white guy. And then the
old white guy steps out and Lina is replaced. Who
do you think did that? And the old white guy
ended up being attached to Lena. There are allegations that
funds changed hands. There wouldn't have to be a primary,
not for me to know. I don't know's telling you
there are allegations out there, and Lena wins, and all
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of a sudden, Rodney's got his girl in. And at
that point, with Adrian Garcia already in the precinct in
the southeast, in Rodney ellis in his precinct, and now
they had a three to two majority because ed Emmett
isn't the county judge any longer, So now they had
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a three to two. Rodney used the three to two
to take over the control of the redistricting. He redistricted
Cactus Jack Kegel out and made it four to one,
and he had complete hegemony, dominance over the county's finances everything.
So then then in twenty twenty two, they stole that
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election from Alex Meeler. There's no doubt they stole that election.
You saw it. I saw it. They didn't send ballots out. Remember,
first they had Chas Bono that they hired to be
the election commissioner, and even she in the Democrat primary
was so bad that they ran her off after they
paid her dearly. And then they brought in Clifford Tatum. Oh,
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Clifford Tatum. Clifford Tatum can't conjugate the beaver, but by God,
he can commit the crime he's supposed to commit. And
he did, and they cheated in the election, and that
was that. And then he took his pay out and
he moved on down the road, and Rodney had his
county judge for four more years. Well, the Houston Chronicle
the whole time could not write enough stories. Oh my god,
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we've got a woman for county judge. Who's a Latina
who speaks Spanish, who's an immigrant. It's glorious. She's Ava Perone,
She's Maria Antoinette, She's Cleopatra, she's all of them bundled
up into one. She's our very own AOC and we
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love her. Oh did they ever write the stories on
Lena had Algo? She was great, But somewhere along the way,
with twenty twenty six approaching, Rodney got worried. She's becoming
a problem. She's becoming a real problem. There are rumors
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about her marriage, there are rumors about her mental health.
She's been institutionalized. People started saying, I don't think you
can cheat your way out of this one. So Rodney
starts the delicate process of figuring out how to replace her,
and then anice porker pops in. And these porkers very
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popular among a certain segment of the Democrat constituency. That's
not Rodney's segment, it's a different segment. So Rodney made
his deal with her. She came and kissed the ring.
He made his deal with her, and they will coexist
and he would ease Lena out. Leslie brione Is and
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Adrian Garcia. During all this time start bowing up to her.
Remember this right, Well, now the Houston Chronicle is filing
Freedom of Information Act requests on Lena, which is really weird. Right,
So they checked ahead of her junket to Paris. Remember
that she tried to get all that money go to
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Paris who want to take a posse? And then even
her own Democrats wouldn't give it to her. On her
junket to Paris ahead of time, her staffers asked chat GPT.
This has now become public questions like does Paris experience
natural disasters other than transportation? What can Paris learn from Houston?
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Think big chat GPT That was in the query? Does
Paris or Francis have any issues with their power grid?
How long was Paris's longest power outage? She's going in
and asking the most basic questions before her visit to
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Paris in preparation for representing what us? Do you remember
when La Camma Dante was overwhelmed by just ordering off
the French menu?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Hello, la com madaunt, Might I interest you in our
extensive wine list? Perhaps Merleaux chardonnay sauvignon, Perhaps pare the
wine with our Caviado ergin.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I am feeling very overwhelmed right now. So I'm going
to go to the bathroom, and when I come back,
I hope that you guys will respect my mental balance.
Oh jive, is this American now? Bon voyage Dora the Explorer?
I read that and it was not may go.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Well, yes, we can't tell by the flush.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
True Texas original, true national treasure.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't messing around with This is the Michael Arry Show,
Washington Houston Chronicles coverage of Looney Lena. Nowadays, it's very
similar to Jake Tapper writing the book ten minutes after
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Joe Biden left the White House about Hey, y'all won't
believe this. Biden wasn't all there, and they apparently all
knew it. They lied to us, They duped us. We
were trying to do our jobs, and they all told
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us we were only guilty of being too kind and
trust in them, but they lied to us. Let me
tell y'all how bad it was. Y'all won't believe this.
But apparently he couldn't walk upstairs, he'd fall over. Yeah,
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we we actually all saw that, Jack. We watched him
fall again and again and again. Well, do you know
that he got on his bicycle and he fell over. Yeah,
we we saw that also, and we commented about it
at the time that you didn't Well, are you aware
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that he would walk across the stage where he was
supposed to be speaking and he'd walk walk to the
wrong area where there was anybody. Yeah, yeah, we saw
that too. You you just chose to pretend it didn't happen.
Are you aware that they put a secret Service agent
in the Easter Bunny because they wanted him. They wanted
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to roll him out with the egg roll and they
were worried he'd get in there and start doing the
robot and wander off the reservation. Yeah, yeah, we were
aware of that too. Well. Are you aware that he
didn't sign all those pardons? It was an auto pin yep. Yeah,
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we were saying that at the time. In fact, remember
in twenty twenty when Laura Trump said that there are
real questions about Joe Biden's mental condition, and you said,
we will not say that. That is not fair to say,
and you insisted she stopped speaking about it. Are you
in the interview? Remember that now you're writing the tell
All book about it. Well, that's what the Houston is
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doing now. Houston Chronicle is very eager to get ahead
of this so that Houstonians think, oh, you know, that's
really brave, brave and stunning, brave and stunning, Houston Chronicle.
They're criticizing Lena Hidalgo. That's what good journalists do, except
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that's not what they've done. For seven years. They have
covered for Lena in every way possible. Do you want
to know why? Because Rodney told them to? Now, why
would I say that Rodney can control the Houston Chronicle.
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Rodney's bike riding buddy is the immediate past publisher of
the Houston Chronicle and still has a great deal of
influence there. Or did there was a break with him
Richard Cohens's name. It was a break with him, and
that's why they endorsed Alex Mihler and not Lena Hidalgo.
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But they still continue to write nice stories. They didn't
do it an complete about face. It was shocking when they
endorsed Meheler and not Hidalgo. But there was an internal issue.
I can't tell you what that issue was because it
can't burn my sources. And sometimes it's not that important.
It details not that important, and it's more important to
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retain a source, so just trust me. When Meehler was
endorsed instead of Hidalgo, it was a shock to everyone
except for Rodney. Well. When Rodney made the decision to
ease Lena out. This becomes pallace Injurgue on a level
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that's worthy of a good Netflix special because in the
king's court and Rodney's the king, you've got the interesting
situation that there are people who have knowledge of the
crimes that were allegedly committed that now you have to
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get crossways with, but you don't want an out and
out battle. For instance, you'll remember that Rodney was accused
and even brought before a grand jury twice of housing
African art of questionable but supposed high value in a
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storage warehouse that belonged to the county without telling anyone
about it, in violation of every state contracting law, state
and county contracting law. When it was discovered, I was
told by a high ranking official law enforcement in the
area at the time that Rodney would go to prison
for it, and in fact, that investigation proceeded to pace
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until all of a sudden it didn't, And there were
lots of questions within law enforcement in this region as
to who made the call to make it stop? Had
it been the president? Who? Had it been? This was
very very odd. No one was allowed to ask the
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question any longer. But the way that story came out
was that one of the guys that Rodney was associated
with It's all in nefarious group was a very sketchy
Nigerian guy who had lots of different holdings and very
sketchy stuff. And when he went through a divorce, his
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wife said, you ever seeing that Chris Rock bit where
the guy gets pulled over. Chris Rock is the guy
and there's the woman in there. The guy gets pulled
over and she goes, he's mugging dope. He's smugging out
because they've been fighting. He's mugging dope right now and
the officer looks at him and the guys I'm finished.
And it was about you know, you don't want you want,
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you don't want to fight with ther woman right before
the cop pulls you over. So that guy's wife filed
a series of motions to reveal the presence of all
of this art, which she was entitled to, and the
reason she did that is the guy hadn't claimed it.
So there's all this art that has no obvious owner
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by title because none of them are paying for it.
How'd you get it back from Africa? Was it legal?
Who paid for it? We know who was housing it,
Rodney Ellis. So it was all very This was this
was one of many schemes that I think if people
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ever realized, you'd recognize what a boss Rodney Elyisi is.
I mean he is an out and out crime boss
in this region. He is carrying out in broad daylight
a level of scandal. I mean, you just take a
couple of data points. They stole the twenty twenty two
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election right before our very eyes. They just didn't send
ballots on the last day, just didn't send ballots. It's
not hard at all to figure out who hasn't voted. Well,
what they saw was the West Side was holding their
votes till the last day. I beg people not to
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do this, but you know they all know better than me.
Everybody loves to wait till the last day because if
you wait till the last day, they can't out cheat
you if they don't know how many ballots have been cast.
And I've said for years, yeah, but what if it
rains or what if they closed the facility. What if
they fake a It's not hard to call in a
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bomb threat, real easy. Just call in bomb threats at
the five of precincts where Republicans are voting and shut
them down. That's a whole lot easier than fake voting.
Make them go the extra mile. But anyway, so now
that Rodney has said Lena is out, the Houston Chronicle
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is writing negative stuff about her. Is this fun?
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Juicy?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Super chef Michael Barry I got a message from Petra
this morning. New clients just closed sixty three and fifty
year old husband and wife in magnolia. I said, sixty
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three and fifty nine, you're going, young, Petrow. We hadn't
had anybody less than seventy in a minute, It's been
a while. Yeah. The Houston Avenue bridge at I ten
in the Heights keeps getting hit by trucks this year alone.
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How many times would you guess the bridge is been
hit by a truck ramon. Let's see, we're at the
end of October, so we got sixty days lest we're
about three hundred days into the year. Every time a
truck hits the bridge, tech dot has to send out inspectors.
Closed down I ten so they can assess the structure's safety.
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How many times would you guess the Houston Avenue bridge
at I ten in the Heights has been hit by
a truck passing presumably underneath. Twelve times would be a
little low, a little bit low. Twenty is still a
little bit low. But imagine that twenty would mean that
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one out of every fifteen days the bridge is hit
and IEN has to be shut down. Okay, not twenty.
Thirty is still a little low. That would mean every
ten days a little more than once a week. Are
a little less than once a week, so a few
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more days just over every week. In a few days,
IEN has to be shut down as inspectors come out
at a cost of four hundred one thousand dollars for
the year to do an inspection check and make sure
the bridge is not going to collapse because the truck
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has hit it. Thirty is still a little low. That
would be one every ten days. Forty five is still
a little low. Yeah, yeah, forty five would be once
every week. Okay, still a little more often than once
a week. We have to shut down I ten so
that inspectors can come out and check because the Houston
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Avenue bridge has been hit by truck. Fifty five still
a little low. Sixty is still a little load. That
would mean once every three and a half days that happens.
Now it was six times your original guests. Seventy two
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times this year alone, seventy two times the bridge has
been hit. This is the sort of thing that in
a private company. You know, if Bob came in once
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a year, hungover, stumbled into the office, fell into the copier,
reached up and grabbed the coffee machine and shattered it,
you'd go, all right, Bob, go home, sleep it off,
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come back tomorrow, and let's knock this off. So he would,
and probably by the second, certainly by the third year
of doing this once a year, you'd fire Bob because
this absurd behavior. Right, But if Bob did this twice
a week, who I know, all right, honey, I gotta go.
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I'm walking into the office. I don't know if Bob
came in and shattered the glass, ripped my computer out
of the wall, clogged the toilets, you know, you just
never know. This happens every other day. It's a crazy thing.
Old Bob, you would you would do something about this, right,
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KPRC TV with the story.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Tex Dot calls it one of Houston's most frequently struck bridges,
The Houston Avenue Bridge over nineten. Their monitoring system recorded
seventy two strikes so far in twenty twenty five. The
bridge was last hit on October fifth, Before that, September eighth,
and earlier this year, it was struck on May six.
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Every time a truck hits this bridge, the cost to
fix it adds up, and Texans are footing the bill.
Text Dot says that the cost of repairs and inspections
this year alone tops more than four hundred thousand dollars,
including seventy two thousand dollars in house labor and three
hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars and contracted work. The
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bridge stands just fourteen feet three inches high, meaning anything
taller needs a special permit. Tex Dot says every strike
triggers an immediate inspection, and those inspections can shut down
the freeway for up to two hours. Tex Dot says
many of the truckers responsible we're hauling oversized loads without
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the required permits or ignored designated routes to take shortcuts
to prevent crashes. The bridge is equipped with three oversized
load detection systems that flat warnings when tall trucks approach,
but not everyone listens on paper. The Houston app New
bridge passes the safety test, but it fails the height
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test big time. Text Dot engineers rated its clearance a
two out of nine, the lower score possible, calling it intolerable.
The Houston Avenue Bridge is set to come down in
twenty twenty seven. Until then, Cruz say they'll keep a
close eye every time a truck rose through.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
What would Trump do he had erecked a barrier on
both sides of the bridge and blow the bridge out
of the out of the air period end of story. Tip.
We're not We're not doing it anymore. This is the
inability of people to make tough decisions. You know what
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I was told? I didn't read it. I keep meaning
to go back and read it. The I for five expansion,
which is Pierce elevated, was originally and I can't remember
what I was told. I was told someone whose relative
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is a text dot official, and I don't want to
get them in trouble, who told them this? And I'm
going to make this number up. It might be right.
But it might be way off. So just it's the
point is the scale of the issue. Ramon, don't quibble
over the numbers, Okay, no quibbling. Never quibble. Anytime I
use the word quibble, you're doing a bad thing. So
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let's say it was going to be two billion dollars,
a lot of money to tear down Pierce Elevated and
rebuild it broader because we're growing as a community. And
then Rodney ellis and they fire up a bunch of
people in that area and they say, oh, the highway
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is racist, and everybody looks at themselves and kind of,
the highway is racist. This is the kind of stupid
comment that we've grown to live with. But it's dumb.
It's not racist. You're stupid, but it's not about stupid really,
because they're not stupid. They're going to get paid. And
then it was going to be something like seven billion dollars,
and I think that's what ended up happening. And so
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they're re routing and moving over here and all this
because you don't want to make anybody black or hispanic
or whatever. Maybe somebody transgender down there is homeless, and
it's going to go past the spot that would you know, uh,
displace them, and that's where they turn tricks every night
and they've built up a good little business. I don't know,
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but this is the kind of nonsense that we have
allowed to happen because we care what people think too often. See,
if you stop caring what people think, if you stop
carrying that you've upset people because you say what you
believe to be true, then we stop with all this nonsense.
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We're wasting money, We're becoming a third royal country out
of this
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
See your fixture offers.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, okay, okay, whoa beautiful gosh couldn't look any better
in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hey guys, finally went to see your house.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Okay, I will.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Look at these United States reminds us that history is
always being made with Morocco. We're off to the People's House.
The White House now under construction, a project swirling in controversy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
More likely, this is part of what Donald Trump has
been doing since day one of his presidency, running the
largest pay to play scheme in the history of the country,
and probably soliciting donations from people who've got business before
the United States government. And all of this is going
to have to be investigated.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It will.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All of this will have to be uncovered. It will,
and these people are going to be held accountable. And
that's all warning to all of these people participating in
the scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and of course to
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destroy the People's House. The White House belongs to the
American people. It doesn't belong to Donald Troup.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Its house.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
East and west wings were added in nineteen oh two,
Seven years later, the rotand William Howard Taft added the
Oval Office. By nineteen forty eight, the White House was
in danger of collapsing. It would have been cheaper to
level the place and rebuild it, but President Harry Truman
decided that preserving the exterior walls was crucial to the
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country's sense of continuity. A blown up White House is
only okay in the movies. Instead, the interior was entirely gutted.
Truman also added a balcony, an alteration which provoked an outcry.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
The East Wing, which importantly is not part of the
White House. It is not part of the residence. It
was a cheaply built add on structure in the mid
twentieth century which houses offices, is not a residence. Nobody
lives there, is badly in need of refurbishment, repair, and renovation.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The White House also.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Desperately needs, and has long needed, a place to hold
large events for Americans, for visitors, for visiting delegations, befitting
the greatest nation in the world.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
In these.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
There was a proof that is often misattributed to Ben Franklin.
He didn't say it, Alexander Fraser Tyler did. I don't
know that the source is so important. What is important
is the statement itself. When you think of what's happening
in let's say New York right now, where Zorn Mundani
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is promising free buses, free healthcare, free childcare, free housing,
and almost anything else. Whatever you want free, he says,
he'll give it. I want you to. In that context,
consider this quotation. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent
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form of government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the
candidates promising the most benefits from from the public treasury,
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with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose
fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of
the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These
nations have progressed through this sequence, from bondage to spiritual faith,
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from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty,
from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness
to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage.
(06:01):
Sound familiar. Where do you think we are in that
process when you're running against a candidate who's promising things
to be free, and you look to the people and
you say, we simply cannot afford that. You have to
rely on an electorate to say, you're right, I would
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love free things, but that's irresponsible. We can't afford that
the system will collapse. But what if you say that
to people and they say, now, oh, he can do it.
He can take it from all the rich people. And
that's why two nights ago you had a rally where
(06:49):
the governor Kathy Hockel in aoc and Bernie Sanders and
Kamim Mamdani were speaking, and the people began chanting, tack
the rich, tax the rich, take what they have and
give it to us. But I don't think they really
care what the source of the money is. They want
(07:13):
the free stuff. Wouldn't that be great? Just free stuff
all the time. We'll all get free stuff, all the
free stuff we want, as often as we want, and
more of it more often. The idea of tying it
to a revenue stream, they don't really even care about that.
(07:33):
They don't care where you get it, bankrupt the city,
borrow it, sell some stuff, doesn't matter, just give me
free stuff. So why do they say tax the rich,
Because that's a separate portion of their brain that is
jealous of the decisions other people make. You Ever notice
(07:53):
how often some guys toick a gun in somebody's face
to steal their stuff and just for good measure, shoot
them as they're leaving. They didn't need to do that.
They hate that person. They hate that person's calm and
resolve and saving and diligence and industriousness.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
That's what we're witnessing liberal tears secause I didn't get
a single time.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Five start here that our country is failing you today.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Invest in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen, and this is the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I Ah, there's an interesting thing at play if you
watch closely and you've been around and you've paid attention.
The Houston Chronicle trumpeted the glory of Lenna Hidalgo in
twenty eighteen when she was swept in the last year
you had straight party voting, nobody knew who Lena Hidalgo was.
(08:56):
I had Democrats calling me the next morning asking me
who is Lena Hidalgo after she had won, because they
figured I must have been covering the race. I must know,
I said, you're candidate for county judge. I know, but
nobody knows who she is. Somebody knew because there was
(09:20):
an old white guy who filed a run in one
of those chihatic efforts where a Democrat runs in a
race where Republicans always win, just to be on the ballot.
You'll see those candidates. Used to be a guy named
Sam Houston. I think he was actually really named I
(09:40):
think his real name was like Abud Abud Ali Abud
or something, but he had changed his name to something
like Sam by God Alamo Houston or something, and he'd
be on the ballot a lot. You'll see these people
who do this. They're just kind of perennial candidates. They
throw their name in there. They'll go of the debates,
(10:01):
maybe even raise a couple hundred dollars, put it in
their own back pocket, get some signs printed, and they're
always a candidate for office. They don't have anything else
to do. There were seven candidates in my first city
council racing. Two of them were those kinds of people,
and we would have debates, and you don't eat at
(10:22):
the debate. You're in the debate but they were just
happy to get a free meal because you know, they
were debating, and they'd spill food on their shirt. It
didn't matter. They weren't going to win anyway. They were
having so much fun. There were no nerves for them
because they had no chance of winning anyway. They were
just excited to get a free meal. And they'd get
to get up and talk for a little while and
people would pretend to listen. So that was Lena hid allgo,
(10:45):
or that was the old white guy. And then the
old white guy steps out and Lina is replaced. Who
do you think did that? And the old white guy
ended up being attached to Lena. There are allegations that
funds changed hands. There wouldn't have to be a primary,
not for me to know. I don't know's telling you
there are allegations out there, and Lena wins, and all
(11:06):
of a sudden, Rodney's got his girl in. And at
that point, with Adrian Garcia already in the precinct in
the southeast, in Rodney ellis in his precinct, and now
they had a three to two majority because ed Emmett
isn't the county judge any longer, So now they had
(11:28):
a three to two. Rodney used the three to two
to take over the control of the redistricting. He redistricted
Cactus Jack Kegel out and made it four to one,
and he had complete hegemony, dominance over the county's finances everything.
So then then in twenty twenty two, they stole that
(11:52):
election from Alex Meeler. There's no doubt they stole that election.
You saw it. I saw it. They didn't send ballots out. Remember,
first they had Chas Bono that they hired to be
the election commissioner, and even she in the Democrat primary
was so bad that they ran her off after they
paid her dearly. And then they brought in Clifford Tatum. Oh,
(12:15):
Clifford Tatum. Clifford Tatum can't conjugate the beaver, but by God,
he can commit the crime he's supposed to commit. And
he did, and they cheated in the election, and that
was that. And then he took his pay out and
he moved on down the road, and Rodney had his
county judge for four more years. Well, the Houston Chronicle
the whole time could not write enough stories. Oh my god,
(12:38):
we've got a woman for county judge. Who's a Latina
who speaks Spanish, who's an immigrant. It's glorious. She's Ava Perone,
She's Maria Antoinette, She's Cleopatra, she's all of them bundled
up into one. She's our very own AOC and we
(13:01):
love her. Oh did they ever write the stories on
Lena had Algo? She was great, But somewhere along the way,
with twenty twenty six approaching, Rodney got worried. She's becoming
a problem. She's becoming a real problem. There are rumors
(13:24):
about her marriage, there are rumors about her mental health.
She's been institutionalized. People started saying, I don't think you
can cheat your way out of this one. So Rodney
starts the delicate process of figuring out how to replace her,
and then anice porker pops in. And these porkers very
(13:46):
popular among a certain segment of the Democrat constituency. That's
not Rodney's segment, it's a different segment. So Rodney made
his deal with her. She came and kissed the ring.
He made his deal with her, and they will coexist
and he would ease Lena out. Leslie brione Is and
(14:08):
Adrian Garcia. During all this time start bowing up to her.
Remember this right, Well, now the Houston Chronicle is filing
Freedom of Information Act requests on Lena, which is really weird. Right,
So they checked ahead of her junket to Paris. Remember
that she tried to get all that money go to
(14:28):
Paris who want to take a posse? And then even
her own Democrats wouldn't give it to her. On her
junket to Paris ahead of time, her staffers asked chat GPT.
This has now become public questions like does Paris experience
natural disasters other than transportation? What can Paris learn from Houston?
(14:50):
Think big chat GPT That was in the query? Does
Paris or Francis have any issues with their power grid?
How long was Paris's longest power outage? She's going in
and asking the most basic questions before her visit to
(15:14):
Paris in preparation for representing what us? Do you remember
when La Camma Dante was overwhelmed by just ordering off
the French menu?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Hello, la com madaunt, Might I interest you in our
extensive wine list? Perhaps Merleaux chardonnay sauvignon, Perhaps pare the
wine with our Caviado ergin.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I am feeling very overwhelmed right now. So I'm going
to go to the bathroom, and when I come back,
I hope that you guys will respect my mental balance.
Oh jive, is this American now? Bon voyage Dora the Explorer?
I read that and it was not may go.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Well, yes, we can't tell by the flush.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
True Texas original, true national treasure.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't messing around with This is the Michael Arry Show,
Washington Houston Chronicles coverage of Looney Lena. Nowadays, it's very
similar to Jake Tapper writing the book ten minutes after
(16:44):
Joe Biden left the White House about Hey, y'all won't
believe this. Biden wasn't all there, and they apparently all
knew it. They lied to us, They duped us. We
were trying to do our jobs, and they all told
(17:05):
us we were only guilty of being too kind and
trust in them, but they lied to us. Let me
tell y'all how bad it was. Y'all won't believe this.
But apparently he couldn't walk upstairs, he'd fall over. Yeah,
(17:28):
we we actually all saw that, Jack. We watched him
fall again and again and again. Well, do you know
that he got on his bicycle and he fell over. Yeah,
we we saw that also, and we commented about it
at the time that you didn't Well, are you aware
(17:51):
that he would walk across the stage where he was
supposed to be speaking and he'd walk walk to the
wrong area where there was anybody. Yeah, yeah, we saw
that too. You you just chose to pretend it didn't happen.
Are you aware that they put a secret Service agent
in the Easter Bunny because they wanted him. They wanted
(18:14):
to roll him out with the egg roll and they
were worried he'd get in there and start doing the
robot and wander off the reservation. Yeah, yeah, we were
aware of that too. Well. Are you aware that he
didn't sign all those pardons? It was an auto pin yep. Yeah,
(18:36):
we were saying that at the time. In fact, remember
in twenty twenty when Laura Trump said that there are
real questions about Joe Biden's mental condition, and you said,
we will not say that. That is not fair to say,
and you insisted she stopped speaking about it. Are you
in the interview? Remember that now you're writing the tell
All book about it. Well, that's what the Houston is
(19:00):
doing now. Houston Chronicle is very eager to get ahead
of this so that Houstonians think, oh, you know, that's
really brave, brave and stunning, brave and stunning, Houston Chronicle.
They're criticizing Lena Hidalgo. That's what good journalists do, except
(19:20):
that's not what they've done. For seven years. They have
covered for Lena in every way possible. Do you want
to know why? Because Rodney told them to? Now, why
would I say that Rodney can control the Houston Chronicle.
(19:41):
Rodney's bike riding buddy is the immediate past publisher of
the Houston Chronicle and still has a great deal of
influence there. Or did there was a break with him
Richard Cohens's name. It was a break with him, and
that's why they endorsed Alex Mihler and not Lena Hidalgo.
(20:07):
But they still continue to write nice stories. They didn't
do it an complete about face. It was shocking when they
endorsed Meheler and not Hidalgo. But there was an internal issue.
I can't tell you what that issue was because it
can't burn my sources. And sometimes it's not that important.
It details not that important, and it's more important to
(20:29):
retain a source, so just trust me. When Meehler was
endorsed instead of Hidalgo, it was a shock to everyone
except for Rodney. Well. When Rodney made the decision to
ease Lena out. This becomes pallace Injurgue on a level
(20:50):
that's worthy of a good Netflix special because in the
king's court and Rodney's the king, you've got the interesting
situation that there are people who have knowledge of the
crimes that were allegedly committed that now you have to
(21:12):
get crossways with, but you don't want an out and
out battle. For instance, you'll remember that Rodney was accused
and even brought before a grand jury twice of housing
African art of questionable but supposed high value in a
(21:36):
storage warehouse that belonged to the county without telling anyone
about it, in violation of every state contracting law, state
and county contracting law. When it was discovered, I was
told by a high ranking official law enforcement in the
area at the time that Rodney would go to prison
for it, and in fact, that investigation proceeded to pace
(22:00):
until all of a sudden it didn't, And there were
lots of questions within law enforcement in this region as
to who made the call to make it stop? Had
it been the president? Who? Had it been? This was
very very odd. No one was allowed to ask the
(22:20):
question any longer. But the way that story came out
was that one of the guys that Rodney was associated
with It's all in nefarious group was a very sketchy
Nigerian guy who had lots of different holdings and very
sketchy stuff. And when he went through a divorce, his
(22:41):
wife said, you ever seeing that Chris Rock bit where
the guy gets pulled over. Chris Rock is the guy
and there's the woman in there. The guy gets pulled
over and she goes, he's mugging dope. He's smugging out
because they've been fighting. He's mugging dope right now and
the officer looks at him and the guys I'm finished.
And it was about you know, you don't want you want,
(23:02):
you don't want to fight with ther woman right before
the cop pulls you over. So that guy's wife filed
a series of motions to reveal the presence of all
of this art, which she was entitled to, and the
reason she did that is the guy hadn't claimed it.
So there's all this art that has no obvious owner
(23:25):
by title because none of them are paying for it.
How'd you get it back from Africa? Was it legal?
Who paid for it? We know who was housing it,
Rodney Ellis. So it was all very This was this
was one of many schemes that I think if people
(23:45):
ever realized, you'd recognize what a boss Rodney Elyisi is.
I mean he is an out and out crime boss
in this region. He is carrying out in broad daylight
a level of scandal. I mean, you just take a
couple of data points. They stole the twenty twenty two
(24:06):
election right before our very eyes. They just didn't send
ballots on the last day, just didn't send ballots. It's
not hard at all to figure out who hasn't voted. Well,
what they saw was the West Side was holding their
votes till the last day. I beg people not to
(24:26):
do this, but you know they all know better than me.
Everybody loves to wait till the last day because if
you wait till the last day, they can't out cheat
you if they don't know how many ballots have been cast.
And I've said for years, yeah, but what if it
rains or what if they closed the facility. What if
they fake a It's not hard to call in a
(24:47):
bomb threat, real easy. Just call in bomb threats at
the five of precincts where Republicans are voting and shut
them down. That's a whole lot easier than fake voting.
Make them go the extra mile. But anyway, so now
that Rodney has said Lena is out, the Houston Chronicle
(25:07):
is writing negative stuff about her. Is this fun?
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Juicy?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Super chef Michael Barry I got a message from Petra
this morning. New clients just closed sixty three and fifty
year old husband and wife in magnolia. I said, sixty
(25:32):
three and fifty nine, you're going, young, Petrow. We hadn't
had anybody less than seventy in a minute, It's been
a while. Yeah. The Houston Avenue bridge at I ten
in the Heights keeps getting hit by trucks this year alone.
(25:56):
How many times would you guess the bridge is been
hit by a truck ramon. Let's see, we're at the
end of October, so we got sixty days lest we're
about three hundred days into the year. Every time a
truck hits the bridge, tech dot has to send out inspectors.
Closed down I ten so they can assess the structure's safety.
(26:19):
How many times would you guess the Houston Avenue bridge
at I ten in the Heights has been hit by
a truck passing presumably underneath. Twelve times would be a
little low, a little bit low. Twenty is still a
little bit low. But imagine that twenty would mean that
(26:42):
one out of every fifteen days the bridge is hit
and IEN has to be shut down. Okay, not twenty.
Thirty is still a little low. That would mean every
ten days a little more than once a week. Are
a little less than once a week, so a few
(27:03):
more days just over every week. In a few days,
IEN has to be shut down as inspectors come out
at a cost of four hundred one thousand dollars for
the year to do an inspection check and make sure
the bridge is not going to collapse because the truck
(27:25):
has hit it. Thirty is still a little low. That
would be one every ten days. Forty five is still
a little low. Yeah, yeah, forty five would be once
every week. Okay, still a little more often than once
a week. We have to shut down I ten so
that inspectors can come out and check because the Houston
(27:47):
Avenue bridge has been hit by truck. Fifty five still
a little low. Sixty is still a little load. That
would mean once every three and a half days that happens.
Now it was six times your original guests. Seventy two
(28:07):
times this year alone, seventy two times the bridge has
been hit. This is the sort of thing that in
a private company. You know, if Bob came in once
(28:28):
a year, hungover, stumbled into the office, fell into the copier,
reached up and grabbed the coffee machine and shattered it,
you'd go, all right, Bob, go home, sleep it off,
(28:48):
come back tomorrow, and let's knock this off. So he would,
and probably by the second, certainly by the third year
of doing this once a year, you'd fire Bob because
this absurd behavior. Right, But if Bob did this twice
a week, who I know, all right, honey, I gotta go.
(29:10):
I'm walking into the office. I don't know if Bob
came in and shattered the glass, ripped my computer out
of the wall, clogged the toilets, you know, you just
never know. This happens every other day. It's a crazy thing.
Old Bob, you would you would do something about this, right,
(29:32):
KPRC TV with the story.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Tex Dot calls it one of Houston's most frequently struck bridges,
The Houston Avenue Bridge over nineten. Their monitoring system recorded
seventy two strikes so far in twenty twenty five. The
bridge was last hit on October fifth, Before that, September eighth,
and earlier this year, it was struck on May six.
(29:57):
Every time a truck hits this bridge, the cost to
fix it adds up, and Texans are footing the bill.
Text Dot says that the cost of repairs and inspections
this year alone tops more than four hundred thousand dollars,
including seventy two thousand dollars in house labor and three
hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars and contracted work. The
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bridge stands just fourteen feet three inches high, meaning anything
taller needs a special permit. Tex Dot says every strike
triggers an immediate inspection, and those inspections can shut down
the freeway for up to two hours. Tex Dot says
many of the truckers responsible we're hauling oversized loads without
(30:42):
the required permits or ignored designated routes to take shortcuts
to prevent crashes. The bridge is equipped with three oversized
load detection systems that flat warnings when tall trucks approach,
but not everyone listens on paper. The Houston app New
bridge passes the safety test, but it fails the height
(31:03):
test big time. Text Dot engineers rated its clearance a
two out of nine, the lower score possible, calling it intolerable.
The Houston Avenue Bridge is set to come down in
twenty twenty seven. Until then, Cruz say they'll keep a
close eye every time a truck rose through.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
What would Trump do he had erecked a barrier on
both sides of the bridge and blow the bridge out
of the out of the air period end of story. Tip.
We're not We're not doing it anymore. This is the
inability of people to make tough decisions. You know what
(31:44):
I was told? I didn't read it. I keep meaning
to go back and read it. The I for five expansion,
which is Pierce elevated, was originally and I can't remember
what I was told. I was told someone whose relative
(32:04):
is a text dot official, and I don't want to
get them in trouble, who told them this? And I'm
going to make this number up. It might be right.
But it might be way off. So just it's the
point is the scale of the issue. Ramon, don't quibble
over the numbers, Okay, no quibbling. Never quibble. Anytime I
use the word quibble, you're doing a bad thing. So
(32:25):
let's say it was going to be two billion dollars,
a lot of money to tear down Pierce Elevated and
rebuild it broader because we're growing as a community. And
then Rodney ellis and they fire up a bunch of
people in that area and they say, oh, the highway
(32:46):
is racist, and everybody looks at themselves and kind of,
the highway is racist. This is the kind of stupid
comment that we've grown to live with. But it's dumb.
It's not racist. You're stupid, but it's not about stupid really,
because they're not stupid. They're going to get paid. And
then it was going to be something like seven billion dollars,
and I think that's what ended up happening. And so
(33:08):
they're re routing and moving over here and all this
because you don't want to make anybody black or hispanic
or whatever. Maybe somebody transgender down there is homeless, and
it's going to go past the spot that would you know, uh,
displace them, and that's where they turn tricks every night
and they've built up a good little business. I don't know,
(33:29):
but this is the kind of nonsense that we have
allowed to happen because we care what people think too often. See,
if you stop caring what people think, if you stop
carrying that you've upset people because you say what you
believe to be true, then we stop with all this nonsense.
(33:49):
We're wasting money, We're becoming a third royal country out
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