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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Berry Show is.
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On the air.
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I'm all jaked up on Mountain dew. This is the
Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry, You.
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Good morning, Michael.
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Baby, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Sir.
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Good morning, Michael, Zay Sailor.
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Good morning, El Casino.
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Good morning, Michael.
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Hello, Hello are you there?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Good morning you, Michael Bearry.
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How you learned that?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
I read it?
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Tomorrow money, Good morning, Exays, listen to this.
Speaker 7 (00:53):
Good morning, EXAs, morning your car, Good morning, Examon is
on his deed and we're happy to be here to
talk about everything. Good morning, We're not wearing pants. Good
morning Texas. Good morning Texas. Good mooring, Texcess. Good morning,
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wake up, it's all let's speak condamn.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I love ramon to find out interesting bits of wisdom
in our everyday life. How things came to be what
they are. I never thought about this. You know, the
average length of a sock about a foot only in America,
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social mobility, only in America. You think about one day
a guy is serving French fries out of the drive
thru at McDonald's in a few months later, he's negotiating
peace between Putin and Zelenski. As the president of the
United States. One day, a guy's riding in a trash
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truck with a reflective ad visor on, and a few
months later he's the leader of the free world, only
in America. When I come in every day, I walk
past Ramon's studio and it's a it's glass so you
can see in, but the door is closed, and he's
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always got some funny little routine he does. But often
he will clench his fist and shake it and you
can't hear in there because everything is soundproofed here, but
he will mouth the words fire, fight, fight three times.
I think back to Donald Trump being shot in the head.
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I was sitting with a group of folks. We had
a listener trip going on, and we were sitting at
a table in Aspen, and somebody at the table, maybe
it was Connie Stagner, but I can't remember. I think
it was Connie Stagner. She said President Trump's been shot.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I just remember feeling stunned. But somehow, with the way
the words she used, and I wish I could remember
exactly what they were somehow with the words she used,
it suggested that they had shot him, but not killed him.
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It only wounded him. And my immediate thought was, he'll
be stronger because of it. They'll regret this. And I
have to think, if they had it all to do
over again, they would not have engaged in lawfare. They
had it all to do over again, they wouldn't have
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shot him, they would have connected. I believe there are
people who appear on our television who were aware, if
not directing, the assassination attempt, who you wouldn't believe how
cold and callous calculating they are, who wished that had
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been successful, or if they hadn't stolen the election, they
hadn't stolen the election. President Trump serves a second term.
Trump two point zero would not have been what we're
getting now. He had to go through the fire to
get to this point, to get to the I don't
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give up. He had to survive that awful, awful set
of circumstances to get to the point where he said,
I simply don't care. Imagine how much good you could
do in the world if you stop caring what people
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think about you. This president is the most popular president
in my lifetime in most living rooms. But he's the
most hated in some places by powerful people, by rich people,
by vindictive people. Well, he's not the church at lay
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out to Sea. He's not lukewarm, He's not getting spat
out of God's mouth, that's for sure. He has decided
I am going to make bold choices and do bold
things and have no regret. It really is amazing, It
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really is amazing. And I think back how differently things
could have gone. How many people voted for Trump who
typically don't vote showed up and vote. How many people
became politically active that typically don't. How many people got
their elderly parent to vote, you know. Spending a lot
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of time at the old folks home, which I do now,
I see how many votes there are up for grabs
of people who have just as much right a need
for their voice to be heard as anyone else. We
were touring old folks home, old folks homes, and I
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remember there was a woman who came into the old
folks Home and she was registering people to vote and
explaining to them that they could have their proxy. They
have person who votes for them, and a person And
it was clear to me that she was out of
line with the old folks she was talking to, and
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they were just kind of sitting there nodding their heads.
And one little old lady announced that she was Jewish
and her people had been through the Holocaust, and nobody
she wasn't going to stand by for anybody. Nobody was
going to tell her how to vote. And she got
rather uh, she got rather sharp in her tone, and
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I thought, that lady right there, she's you're not going
to push her around. But it struck me that Democrats
do every little thing like this possible to win power,
because power is to be all end all. It is
the religion. It's like it's like the Aztecs offering up
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their sacrifice. They will do anything for this cauldron of corruption.
They will stop it, nothing, absolutely nothing, to control power
and then wield it against others. Stealing money is only
a byproduct, a spoil of the victory. I guess what
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I'm saying is things worked out pretty well and we
should be delighted. These are the good old things.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Ramon, the King of Ding, and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Not jo Can you come the garbage man? Yield get
at Joe? Can you come the garbage man. He get out, Joe,
can you come the garbage man? Last garbage man?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And I have to begin by saying two hundred and
fifty million Americans are not garbage. This week, Kamala has
been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass
murderers in history, and now, speaking on a call for
her campaign last night, Crooked Joe Biden finally said what
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he and Kamala really think of our supporters.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
He called them garbage.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
No way, My supporters are far higher quality than Crooked
Joe or lion Kamala.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
H you got Joe? Can you come the garbage man?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You get out?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You can you come the garbage man? He get at
Joe Cane, he's your garbage man.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Common Joe call all of us and them, even them, garbage.
I call you the heart and soul of America. You
are the heart and soul. You built our country. You
built it far more than they built it. I can
tell you that you built it.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
After you can here come the garbage man. Here you're out,
you can here come the garbage man. You're not you
can here come the garbage man.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Speaking on the choking story, yesterday, I received an email
from someone who worked very high up in the White
House and in the circles of power, who will occasionally
send me a random email, and I got one yesterday.
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He said. My best choking story is second hand. I
have a friend, Elaine Hamilton, Pa, who was head nursed
back in the day at the hospital in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
John Warner was senator back then, and he came to
Big Stone Gap one day or night for a political rally.
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The political dinner featured you guessed it, rubber chicken and
Missus Warner choked on a chicken bone and had to
be rushed to the local hospital, which extracted the bone
and saved Missus Warner moon. Do you know who Missus
Warner was also known as Elizabeth Taylor to eat chicken
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another day. Missus Warner was very nice, Elaine said. Elaine
and her husband Jimmy, now deceased, adopted four orphanages in
Moldova and visited them again and again as Christian missionaries
to bring much needed medicines and medical care to the
orphans and orphanage staff. She's a very nice lady. So
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that is your Elizabeth Taylor story. With a little bit
of a Paul Harvey reveal to it. I like that
the Houston Chronicle and white liberals are obsessed with bicycles.
It's on the order of fetish. It's weird. They would
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like to destroy the inner city and just make it
a bike path. Bikes everywhere, everyone riding bikes. And there
they would be. They would be it, you know, they
would be stopped along this mass bike riding experience, and
and everybody would have this smug look or twigging berries
would be showing on their little black pants and they were, Oh,
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it's a good day for right. Yes, we're all riding.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Look at us. We're all riding.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
We're all on our bikes and we're riding. Look at us,
we're riding. It's a great city. You have to you
have to have bikes, have a great seal. Some they
don't have a great bike scene. We have a great
bike scene. Oh god, it's unbearreling, sufferable. They don't care
about crime. In fact, the great clash of the bikes
and the crime. Where when Rodney Ellis declared that he
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was going to spend all his county money and did
on bike paths through his district, through a particularly crime
riddled area, and there went all the little white liberals
and there they were on their bikes and they had
their big smile like it was a rectile dysfunction ad.
You know, everyone is.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Smiling very bigly. Yes, we're all smiling because we're doing
their pills and riding our bikes.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And there they went on their bike to and they're
out of the bushes. Came the local hooligans and they
jumped out and jumped them and they old bikes has
stole their money and left them there. Huh, how's the
bike ride going, Wendy? How did that work out for you?
So this is the issue the Houston Chronicle is obsessed with.
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Now I need to tell you, I need to give
you a little background. Rodney Ellis is obsessed with bike riding.
Rodney Ellis likes to pretend he's a white liberal. He
lives in white liberal land. He lives across from Rice
University in a big, fancy, expensive house, which he was
a state senator for thirty years. It makes you wonder
how he paid for that. But never the mind because
you have to have a black person involved in every
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big bond deal, and why not Dney Rodney Ellis, who
cares that he's a state senator by day. Now that
had anything to do with it. So there's Rodney Ellis
and his bike riding. He loves to do white liberal things.
Ju juju, look at me. I've become a white, fancy
white liberal. I hang out with a fancy white liberal crowd.
And the fellow that he rides bikes with is Cohen,
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the former publisher of the Houston Chronicle, who John Arnold
billionaire in run money brought over to Arnold Venture's But
now apparently they have officially parted ways. Now who's paying
Cohen's bills is a subject of much discussion. So I
don't want to speculate ramon, you know me and my
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love affair with the truth. So Cohen and Ellis go
for these bike rides at least once a week, I'm told,
and this is where they plot and plan all the
little things they're going to do. So his influence on
the Houston Chronicle remains. Remember it was his wife who
doesn't take his last name, always sketchy to me. It
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was his wife who was Lena Hidalgo's lawyer. Yes, yes,
she was her lawyer on staff when they were going
through all of their criminal accusations as it were. Well,
as the Houston Chronicles audience continues to shrink, they continue
to obsess over bike lanes by ek lanes, bike lanes,
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with the headline this past week, will Houston ever become
a bike friendly city? How Mayor Whitmer's approach has stalled efforts?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
No, you mean like taking lanes that were meant for
cars and making them bike lanes. I will never forget
the day that Anise Porker rode into downtown and she's
riding in off of Allen Parkway and there is a
major expressway for people that live all the way into
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West University in Braves Heights and beyond, and they come
down Kirby and they come down Allen Parkway and they
come in and there was a heritage museum right there
on the right, and this is a major thoroughfare, and
there was an East porker and she had her helmet on,
her fat ass hanging out over it. Did you ever
see the picture of Sheila Jackson Lene when she rode
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her bike over the overpass of fifty nine and Michael,
that one looked like.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Licked me up the place at the little table let.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
That you left us.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Pull me.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I'm a big old uncle floor, I pull my head off.
Elvis had spread up to his pelvis.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, the king is gone.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So I was having dinner a few nights ago, and
I had had cigars with the King of Dean, Ramon
Douglas and my best friend the whole wide world, Gerald
Davis McGill, Uncle Jerry. And it was first day back
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for Uncle Jerry with his shoes, whose foot was in
a shoe. My wife came and met us. We met
at Garabas on Voss and she said, Jerry's, first time
in five years i've seen you. You weren't in a boot,
and not a cowboy boot, the boot boots, you know,
the boot like when you break your ankle kind of deal.
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And it just felt so good. And we're sitting there
and chatting and having a nice time, and around the
corner comes Wade Phillips and his wife Laurie. They met
in nineteen sixty four at Fortunate Portinatus Grows, and they
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came over to say hello. And then right at that moment,
I don't know if y'all remember, two nights ago it
started raining about eight thirty nine o'clock. It started raining
real hard, and then it came down a little bit
of sleep and I don't know if y'all got that
where y'all are, but this was Voss and west of
the Galleria, about a mile or two, and it started
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coming down hard and they would have had to walk
out in it.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So he said, won't you sit down?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So they sat down for a little while and my
wife Adores Laurie, and we were talking various stories.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
And.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Then they left, and Ramon, who has met a lot
of famous people, he said, Man, I don't mean that
goofy starts struck or anything, but of all the people
we meet, I couldn't help but thinking, I'm sitting across
the table from the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
and I used to watch those teams and love those teams.
Just amazing. You know, it's Wade Phillips, by the way,
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he's seventy eight years old. He looks great, as does
his wife. And you know, it got me to thinking,
as often do, everybody has their heroes in life, and
we've had the opportunity to get to know a lot
of our heroes, and almost without exception, they've not been disappointing.
It's been a treat to get to know them. I
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rode into the rodeo Wait with Bomb Phillips one year,
and man, that was a treat. I mean, he's a
real cowboy and I'm not. And there we were riding.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
In and mine was getting a little sketchy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And he would talk it down and to hear wait,
hear bum Phillips, go and talk to your beast and
get it to stay calm. And you're sitting astride and going, wow,
this is this is a moment. This is a moment.
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And I think of the damn Pastorinis and the Terry
Pools and Phil Garner and just the neat people we've
had the opportunity to get to know, and how lucky.
It's not lost on me, how lucky. But I really
feel this way. It's not just that they are people
who were famous in our world when we were young,
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and we got lucky to know those famous people. You know,
this isn't the lead singer of Blink one eighty two
or something. I mean, these are legends larger than life
that we just happened in our own forest, come little
way to stumble upon. John Smoltz is one of the
greatest pitchers of all time. That Braves staff. You had
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the professor with Mike Mannox, you had Smolts, you had
Tom Glavin. You talk about a pitching staff in my lifetime,
I don't know anybody was better. I really don't. He
had a twenty one year Major League Baseball career from
eighty eight to two thousand and nine. That in and
of itself, right, So here's a guy known for longevity
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and other than the fella I'm about to talk about
John Smoltz talk about longevity. I mean, this guy had
a career to end all careers. He spent all but
his last season with the Braves. You always hate that
when they are in a different uniform All Star and
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you think of the dominant force of the nineties in
pitching of a staff, you've got Glavin, Maddox, Smaltz. World
Series Championship in ninety Five's wonder they didn't win more
ninety six. He wins the Cy Young Award twenty four
and eight. What a season. It was the most wins
by an NL pitcher since nineteen seventy two. He finishes
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his career with brief stints in Boston and Saint Louis,
but he's an Atlanta Brave through and through. He transitions
to the bullpen in one after he has Tommy John surgery.
He ends up being the Braves closer for four seasons.
Then it comes back to the rotation. Other than maybe
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Dave Righetti, you just don't see a guy do this.
Two thousand and two, he sets a National League record
with fifty five saves. So not only is it go
to the bullpen, but oh, by the way, I'm gonna
do it, I'm gonna be good at it. He becomes
only the second pitcher ever alongs to O Eckersley Dennis Eckersley.
That's another one to record both a twenty win season
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and a fifty save season. He is to this day
the only picture in Major League Baseball history with at
least two hundred wins and one hundred and fifty saves.
These are pretty amazing stats, right, one of the greatest
postseason pictures of all time fifteen to four with a
two point six to seven ERA forty one playoff appearances,
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Major League MVP honors in the ninety two NLCS fifteen
postseason victories, which was a record until our own Andy
Pettitt surpassed it. The guy has so many records. It's
just unbelievable. And that's why what he says here, the
fact that he says it is so incredible. John Smoltz
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one of the greatest pictures of all time, you could
argue with one of the ten greatest pictures of all time,
and he's talking about Nolan Ryan. For John Smoltz to
say this, sit up and take notice.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Let's just say that guys can never pitch over five
innings ever. Again, they still can't stay healthy. It's not
an inning problem. What's impossible to do is train for
max velocity and max spin and longevity. It's just impossible.
Nolan Ryan and our generation was a freak. They're supposed
to be freaks. They're not supposed to be twenty of them.
There's not supposed to be genetically thirty Nolan Ryan's. Would
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you argue that there's at least thirty potential Nolan Ryans
are more in the game today that have been manufactured
that are not necessarily freaks. And I think that in
and of itself, when I look at the whole history
of the game, at some point we got to level
off and move towards the act of what you're supposed
to be doing as a starting pitcher. That's all I'm saying.
So that if we can train guys to stay healthier,
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this would be great, even if it was only five fear.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
To think what we witnessed, love you, Blue, Nolan Ryan,
the first million dollar contract, two NBA championships. I mean,
I'm I'm sure Boston fans are l ephant. I think
what we had, what we had, the opportunity to witness
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he just got sometimes stopping really think how lucky we've
built that seem to get from other places of Michael
Berry Show, Lewie came here. I told you the Houston
Chronicle is really upset. Their wet dream is not coming
to pass. They want bike lanes everywhere, and that might
seem harmless saving except for the fact that that means
they want to take away your automobile. These are the
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same people that desperately wanted light rail everywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Remember, light rail was going to solve all our problems.
If we could just spend another billion dollars on light rail,
that was going to be the panacea. Well, they ended
up getting seven miles of light rail costs four hundred
million dollars money that did not go to roads. It
ended up being known as the danger train because an
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at grade rail is a danger trap. It ended up
confusing traffic, It ended up overriding the traffic rules, which
meant people were left waiting longer if you were in
your car. But remember, the left hates the independence you
have of your own automobile because then you control the
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air conditioning, you control what you listen to on the radio,
you control where you go and when you go it,
and you're not beholden to them. And if they cannot
giveth the bus.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Or light rail, oh that's world class, will be a
world class city. If they cannot giveth the light rail,
they cannot taketh away. And that's really the goal, you see,
that's the point is having everyone beholden to them, the
big behemoth.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Of big government.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So they've given way for the light rail, and now
it is bike lane's bike lane, bike lanes, Yes, you
dumb bastards, that's what everybody wants to do. Ride their
bikes around in one hundred degree heat, sop and wet,
and then they'll do profiles. Brian Smith rides his bicycle
from Bray's Heights into downtown and has for nineteen years. Well,
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I just I really enjoy it. You know, I see
people in their cars and I think, what are you
doing to the planet that my grand children won't be
around to see. Brian has been riding his bicycle for
nineteen years and says he feels quote really good end
quote about it. Yeah, I feel like I'm doing something
for the environment. And shoot, tell you the truth, I
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actually really enjoy it. My wife says, I'm a happier
person when I'm riding my bicycle. Brian Smith has joined
a growing, a growing cadre of Houstonians who are ditching
the automobile and riding their bicycle. That's all the article
I got, but you get the point. Ro'm on off
the flop. Reporter Julianna Lightze says, quote, like many Houston streets,
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the road to a bicycle friendly city has been bumpy.
Oh clever wordplay. Clever wordplay. Cars are the dominant force
shaping the city's design. Oh what a crappy old city.
We got cars and car lanes. Why can't we just
be like Austin or California? Whereas people continue to come,
we don't build more roads because we're arrogant and then
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we jam up the traffic and can't figure out what
the hell to do, and it's.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Too little, too late.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Cars are the dominant force shaping the city's design. Thousands
of commuters stream into the city daily, prompting crowded streets
and ever expanding highways. Oh we hate those ever expanding highways.
We hated you cattle, you sheep out there in your
cars and your trucks and your SUV's on the ever
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expanding highways, out to your three bedroom, two bath homes
with two car garages and schools that don't have shootouts.
Look at you, just out there breeding and being in
the suburbs and boring amid the traffic. Some brave the
sidewalks or busy shoulders on two wheels instead of four.
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Oh so brave, so stunning. How do you do it?
It is a dangerous task to compete for space with cars,
as the crash injury and fatality data reflects, you dumb asses.
You're gonna get killed on your bicycle. There's nothing brave
about it. It's stupid. Those are roads for cars. Advocates
have pushed for protected bike lanes, more pedestrian, mixed youth
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pat use, paths, paths, and a city commitment to supporting
bicycle transportation for decades. Please commit to more bicycles, please,
good Lord. In nineteen ninety three, the city adopted a
comprehensive bikeways plan. Oh that's what we needed. That's what
Sylvester Turner was good at. He'd have a comprehensive plan.
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Here's our comprehensive plan. We're going to be safe. And
our comprehensive plan, we're going to save money. And our
comprehensive plan, we're all going to ride bicycles. All the while,
the streets were getting more dangerous, the money was being stolen,
everything was falling apart. The roads weren't paid. But we
had a comprehensive plan. We did, and they would roll
it out. And when they rolled it out, they would
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have a fair and exhibition and they would have hot
dogs and ice cream and people on bicycles. And it
was the liberals wet dream. This is what liberals love
because it's their dream delive in San Francisco. It's their
dream to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's their dream to
live in DC. And by God, they're going to make
Houston into their dream if it kills them. In twenty seventeen,
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the city adopted an updated Houston Bike Plan odds what
we needed had to update that plan. Yep, I bet
you didn't know we had a comprehensive bikeways plan, did you?
That set the goal of becoming a gold level bicycle
city within a decade. You gotta have a goal.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Ramone.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They set a goal, We're gonna have a goal. Let's
have a niecee Porker and Sylvester Turner and Rodney Ellis
and Lena Hidalgo, and let's have a press conference and
let's announce a lofty goal. We will go to the
moon within the decade. Not because it's easy, but because
it's tough. Why does Rice play the University of Texas
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Because it's tough. Why do we want to become a
gold level bicycle city? Because it's tough. By God, we
will get the people out of their automobiles and we
will put them on bicycles in the one hundred and
five degree heat.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Because it's tough.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
There will be on our bicycles like Pee Wee Herman.
I hearken to the days of Sheila Jackson Lee on
her bicycle riding the overpass into a Rice University area,
and there she looked just as upid as she possibly could.
And there was Jerome in behind it, huffing and puffing.
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In there she was Sheila jacksonally on her bicycle with
that slug smile, Go Sheila, go ride that thing.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Ride at Sheila.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
And there was a nice parker coming into downtown and
she was sitting up real straight, her back rim road
straight it was, and she had that helmet on, and
she was wearing the jeans that aren't really jeans, but
they're that stretchy material but they're meant to look like jeans.
And she had some very sensible shoes or thief wouldn't hurt.
And she had a blousy shirt because she's not a
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fin girl.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
She's not.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And there she went and she rode that bicycle in
and she was sitting up real straight, and she was smiling,
and they took her photo and she was in the
paper and she was in the news, and she was
being a leader, by God, because this is what leaders do.
They take away lanes for cars to drive on so
we can have one bicycle lane, as if people are
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going to ride their bicycle to work in the Houston
heat every day. Look at us. We're just like the
big cities. Can we bring Pete butter Gig in here,
Maybe he can ride with her, and we'll do what
he always does and have him dropped off a block away,
because lord knows, doing a sweat when you get there,
and we'll have Pete butter Gig right in with her.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And they'll have so much in common and riding he's ride.
We didn't know she could ride like that. Look at
her go riding into town. All the people will ride.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
This is like the old West, but instead of steal cowboy,
she's on that bicycle. Look at it. Go Oh my goodness,
maybe that's a cannondale, Go gro go. And then we'll
put bicycles on every corner where you can check them
out off the shared ownership of the bicycle, because once
you get everybody on the bicycle, you gotta take away
the bicycles. First we take away your car and put
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you on the bicycle. Now we've got you on the bicycle,
we're gonna take away your bicycle. You have a shared bicycle.
Oh you know those blue bicycles. They put them in
every street corner. They put them at the library. And
the dream is that you will just walk outside and
walk over with a smug smile. You will check out
your bicycle and you will ride it down to the
grocery store. You'll have a little basket in the pantry
and you'll put it on the front of your thing,
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and you will ride back, and you will smile.
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Berry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm all jaked up on Mountain dew. This is the
Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry, You.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Baby, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Sir.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Good morning, Michael, Zay Sailor.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Good morning, El Casino.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Hello, Hello are you there?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Good morning you, Michael Bearry.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
How you learned that?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
I read it?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tomorrow money, Good morning, Exays, listen to this.
Speaker 7 (00:53):
Good morning, EXAs, morning your car, Good morning, Examon is
on his deed and we're happy to be here to
talk about everything. Good morning, We're not wearing pants. Good
morning Texas. Good morning Texas. Good mooring, Texcess. Good morning,
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wake up, it's all let's speak condamn.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I love ramon to find out interesting bits of wisdom
in our everyday life. How things came to be what
they are. I never thought about this. You know, the
average length of a sock about a foot only in America,
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social mobility, only in America. You think about one day
a guy is serving French fries out of the drive
thru at McDonald's in a few months later, he's negotiating
peace between Putin and Zelenski. As the president of the
United States. One day, a guy's riding in a trash
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truck with a reflective ad visor on, and a few
months later he's the leader of the free world, only
in America. When I come in every day, I walk
past Ramon's studio and it's a it's glass so you
can see in, but the door is closed, and he's
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always got some funny little routine he does. But often
he will clench his fist and shake it and you
can't hear in there because everything is soundproofed here, but
he will mouth the words fire, fight, fight three times.
I think back to Donald Trump being shot in the head.
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I was sitting with a group of folks. We had
a listener trip going on, and we were sitting at
a table in Aspen, and somebody at the table, maybe
it was Connie Stagner, but I can't remember. I think
it was Connie Stagner. She said President Trump's been shot.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I just remember feeling stunned. But somehow, with the way
the words she used, and I wish I could remember
exactly what they were somehow with the words she used,
it suggested that they had shot him, but not killed him.
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It only wounded him. And my immediate thought was, he'll
be stronger because of it. They'll regret this. And I
have to think, if they had it all to do
over again, they would not have engaged in lawfare. They
had it all to do over again, they wouldn't have
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shot him, they would have connected. I believe there are
people who appear on our television who were aware, if
not directing, the assassination attempt, who you wouldn't believe how
cold and callous calculating they are, who wished that had
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been successful, or if they hadn't stolen the election, they
hadn't stolen the election. President Trump serves a second term.
Trump two point zero would not have been what we're
getting now. He had to go through the fire to
get to this point, to get to the I don't
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give up. He had to survive that awful, awful set
of circumstances to get to the point where he said,
I simply don't care. Imagine how much good you could
do in the world if you stop caring what people
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think about you. This president is the most popular president
in my lifetime in most living rooms. But he's the
most hated in some places by powerful people, by rich people,
by vindictive people. Well, he's not the church at lay
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out to Sea. He's not lukewarm, He's not getting spat
out of God's mouth, that's for sure. He has decided
I am going to make bold choices and do bold
things and have no regret. It really is amazing, It
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really is amazing. And I think back how differently things
could have gone. How many people voted for Trump who
typically don't vote showed up and vote. How many people
became politically active that typically don't. How many people got
their elderly parent to vote, you know. Spending a lot
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of time at the old folks home, which I do now,
I see how many votes there are up for grabs
of people who have just as much right a need
for their voice to be heard as anyone else. We
were touring old folks home, old folks homes, and I
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remember there was a woman who came into the old
folks Home and she was registering people to vote and
explaining to them that they could have their proxy. They
have person who votes for them, and a person And
it was clear to me that she was out of
line with the old folks she was talking to, and
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they were just kind of sitting there nodding their heads.
And one little old lady announced that she was Jewish
and her people had been through the Holocaust, and nobody
she wasn't going to stand by for anybody. Nobody was
going to tell her how to vote. And she got
rather uh, she got rather sharp in her tone, and
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I thought, that lady right there, she's you're not going
to push her around. But it struck me that Democrats
do every little thing like this possible to win power,
because power is to be all end all. It is
the religion. It's like it's like the Aztecs offering up
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their sacrifice. They will do anything for this cauldron of corruption.
They will stop it, nothing, absolutely nothing, to control power
and then wield it against others. Stealing money is only
a byproduct, a spoil of the victory. I guess what
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I'm saying is things worked out pretty well and we
should be delighted. These are the good old things.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Ramon, the King of Ding, and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Not jo Can you come the garbage man? Yield get
at Joe? Can you come the garbage man. He get out, Joe,
can you come the garbage man? Last garbage man?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And I have to begin by saying two hundred and
fifty million Americans are not garbage. This week, Kamala has
been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass
murderers in history, and now, speaking on a call for
her campaign last night, Crooked Joe Biden finally said what
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he and Kamala really think of our supporters.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
He called them garbage.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
No way, My supporters are far higher quality than Crooked
Joe or lion Kamala.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
H you got Joe? Can you come the garbage man?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You get out?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You can you come the garbage man? He get at
Joe Cane, he's your garbage man.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Common Joe call all of us and them, even them, garbage.
I call you the heart and soul of America. You
are the heart and soul. You built our country. You
built it far more than they built it. I can
tell you that you built it.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
After you can here come the garbage man. Here you're out,
you can here come the garbage man. You're not you
can here come the garbage man.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Speaking on the choking story, yesterday, I received an email
from someone who worked very high up in the White
House and in the circles of power, who will occasionally
send me a random email, and I got one yesterday.
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He said. My best choking story is second hand. I
have a friend, Elaine Hamilton, Pa, who was head nursed
back in the day at the hospital in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
John Warner was senator back then, and he came to
Big Stone Gap one day or night for a political rally.
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The political dinner featured you guessed it, rubber chicken and
Missus Warner choked on a chicken bone and had to
be rushed to the local hospital, which extracted the bone
and saved Missus Warner moon. Do you know who Missus
Warner was also known as Elizabeth Taylor to eat chicken
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another day. Missus Warner was very nice, Elaine said. Elaine
and her husband Jimmy, now deceased, adopted four orphanages in
Moldova and visited them again and again as Christian missionaries
to bring much needed medicines and medical care to the
orphans and orphanage staff. She's a very nice lady. So
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that is your Elizabeth Taylor story. With a little bit
of a Paul Harvey reveal to it. I like that
the Houston Chronicle and white liberals are obsessed with bicycles.
It's on the order of fetish. It's weird. They would
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like to destroy the inner city and just make it
a bike path. Bikes everywhere, everyone riding bikes. And there
they would be. They would be it, you know, they
would be stopped along this mass bike riding experience, and
and everybody would have this smug look or twigging berries
would be showing on their little black pants and they were, Oh,
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it's a good day for right. Yes, we're all riding.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Look at us. We're all riding.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
We're all on our bikes and we're riding. Look at us,
we're riding. It's a great city. You have to you
have to have bikes, have a great seal. Some they
don't have a great bike scene. We have a great
bike scene. Oh god, it's unbearreling, sufferable. They don't care
about crime. In fact, the great clash of the bikes
and the crime. Where when Rodney Ellis declared that he
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was going to spend all his county money and did
on bike paths through his district, through a particularly crime
riddled area, and there went all the little white liberals
and there they were on their bikes and they had
their big smile like it was a rectile dysfunction ad.
You know, everyone is.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Smiling very bigly. Yes, we're all smiling because we're doing
their pills and riding our bikes.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And there they went on their bike to and they're
out of the bushes. Came the local hooligans and they
jumped out and jumped them and they old bikes has
stole their money and left them there. Huh, how's the
bike ride going, Wendy? How did that work out for you?
So this is the issue the Houston Chronicle is obsessed with.
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Now I need to tell you, I need to give
you a little background. Rodney Ellis is obsessed with bike riding.
Rodney Ellis likes to pretend he's a white liberal. He
lives in white liberal land. He lives across from Rice
University in a big, fancy, expensive house, which he was
a state senator for thirty years. It makes you wonder
how he paid for that. But never the mind because
you have to have a black person involved in every
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big bond deal, and why not Dney Rodney Ellis, who
cares that he's a state senator by day. Now that
had anything to do with it. So there's Rodney Ellis
and his bike riding. He loves to do white liberal things.
Ju juju, look at me. I've become a white, fancy
white liberal. I hang out with a fancy white liberal crowd.
And the fellow that he rides bikes with is Cohen,
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the former publisher of the Houston Chronicle, who John Arnold
billionaire in run money brought over to Arnold Venture's But
now apparently they have officially parted ways. Now who's paying
Cohen's bills is a subject of much discussion. So I
don't want to speculate ramon, you know me and my
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love affair with the truth. So Cohen and Ellis go
for these bike rides at least once a week, I'm told,
and this is where they plot and plan all the
little things they're going to do. So his influence on
the Houston Chronicle remains. Remember it was his wife who
doesn't take his last name, always sketchy to me. It
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was his wife who was Lena Hidalgo's lawyer. Yes, yes,
she was her lawyer on staff when they were going
through all of their criminal accusations as it were. Well,
as the Houston Chronicles audience continues to shrink, they continue
to obsess over bike lanes by ek lanes, bike lanes,
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with the headline this past week, will Houston ever become
a bike friendly city? How Mayor Whitmer's approach has stalled efforts?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
No, you mean like taking lanes that were meant for
cars and making them bike lanes. I will never forget
the day that Anise Porker rode into downtown and she's
riding in off of Allen Parkway and there is a
major expressway for people that live all the way into
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West University in Braves Heights and beyond, and they come
down Kirby and they come down Allen Parkway and they
come in and there was a heritage museum right there
on the right, and this is a major thoroughfare, and
there was an East porker and she had her helmet on,
her fat ass hanging out over it. Did you ever
see the picture of Sheila Jackson Lene when she rode
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her bike over the overpass of fifty nine and Michael,
that one looked like.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Licked me up the place at the little table let.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
That you left us.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Pull me.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I'm a big old uncle floor, I pull my head off.
Elvis had spread up to his pelvis.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, the king is gone.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So I was having dinner a few nights ago, and
I had had cigars with the King of Dean, Ramon
Douglas and my best friend the whole wide world, Gerald
Davis McGill, Uncle Jerry. And it was first day back
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for Uncle Jerry with his shoes, whose foot was in
a shoe. My wife came and met us. We met
at Garabas on Voss and she said, Jerry's, first time
in five years i've seen you. You weren't in a boot,
and not a cowboy boot, the boot boots, you know,
the boot like when you break your ankle kind of deal.
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And it just felt so good. And we're sitting there
and chatting and having a nice time, and around the
corner comes Wade Phillips and his wife Laurie. They met
in nineteen sixty four at Fortunate Portinatus Grows, and they
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came over to say hello. And then right at that moment,
I don't know if y'all remember, two nights ago it
started raining about eight thirty nine o'clock. It started raining
real hard, and then it came down a little bit
of sleep and I don't know if y'all got that
where y'all are, but this was Voss and west of
the Galleria, about a mile or two, and it started
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coming down hard and they would have had to walk
out in it.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So he said, won't you sit down?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So they sat down for a little while and my
wife Adores Laurie, and we were talking various stories.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
And.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Then they left, and Ramon, who has met a lot
of famous people, he said, Man, I don't mean that
goofy starts struck or anything, but of all the people
we meet, I couldn't help but thinking, I'm sitting across
the table from the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
and I used to watch those teams and love those teams.
Just amazing. You know, it's Wade Phillips, by the way,
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he's seventy eight years old. He looks great, as does
his wife. And you know, it got me to thinking,
as often do, everybody has their heroes in life, and
we've had the opportunity to get to know a lot
of our heroes, and almost without exception, they've not been disappointing.
It's been a treat to get to know them. I
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rode into the rodeo Wait with Bomb Phillips one year,
and man, that was a treat. I mean, he's a
real cowboy and I'm not. And there we were riding.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
In and mine was getting a little sketchy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And he would talk it down and to hear wait,
hear bum Phillips, go and talk to your beast and
get it to stay calm. And you're sitting astride and going, wow,
this is this is a moment. This is a moment.
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And I think of the damn Pastorinis and the Terry
Pools and Phil Garner and just the neat people we've
had the opportunity to get to know, and how lucky.
It's not lost on me, how lucky. But I really
feel this way. It's not just that they are people
who were famous in our world when we were young,
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and we got lucky to know those famous people. You know,
this isn't the lead singer of Blink one eighty two
or something. I mean, these are legends larger than life
that we just happened in our own forest, come little
way to stumble upon. John Smoltz is one of the
greatest pitchers of all time. That Braves staff. You had
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the professor with Mike Mannox, you had Smolts, you had
Tom Glavin. You talk about a pitching staff in my lifetime,
I don't know anybody was better. I really don't. He
had a twenty one year Major League Baseball career from
eighty eight to two thousand and nine. That in and
of itself, right, So here's a guy known for longevity
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and other than the fella I'm about to talk about
John Smoltz talk about longevity. I mean, this guy had
a career to end all careers. He spent all but
his last season with the Braves. You always hate that
when they are in a different uniform All Star and
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you think of the dominant force of the nineties in
pitching of a staff, you've got Glavin, Maddox, Smaltz. World
Series Championship in ninety Five's wonder they didn't win more
ninety six. He wins the Cy Young Award twenty four
and eight. What a season. It was the most wins
by an NL pitcher since nineteen seventy two. He finishes
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his career with brief stints in Boston and Saint Louis,
but he's an Atlanta Brave through and through. He transitions
to the bullpen in one after he has Tommy John surgery.
He ends up being the Braves closer for four seasons.
Then it comes back to the rotation. Other than maybe
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Dave Righetti, you just don't see a guy do this.
Two thousand and two, he sets a National League record
with fifty five saves. So not only is it go
to the bullpen, but oh, by the way, I'm gonna
do it, I'm gonna be good at it. He becomes
only the second pitcher ever alongs to O Eckersley Dennis Eckersley.
That's another one to record both a twenty win season
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and a fifty save season. He is to this day
the only picture in Major League Baseball history with at
least two hundred wins and one hundred and fifty saves.
These are pretty amazing stats, right, one of the greatest
postseason pictures of all time fifteen to four with a
two point six to seven ERA forty one playoff appearances,
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Major League MVP honors in the ninety two NLCS fifteen
postseason victories, which was a record until our own Andy
Pettitt surpassed it. The guy has so many records. It's
just unbelievable. And that's why what he says here, the
fact that he says it is so incredible. John Smoltz
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one of the greatest pictures of all time, you could
argue with one of the ten greatest pictures of all time,
and he's talking about Nolan Ryan. For John Smoltz to
say this, sit up and take notice.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Let's just say that guys can never pitch over five
innings ever. Again, they still can't stay healthy. It's not
an inning problem. What's impossible to do is train for
max velocity and max spin and longevity. It's just impossible.
Nolan Ryan and our generation was a freak. They're supposed
to be freaks. They're not supposed to be twenty of them.
There's not supposed to be genetically thirty Nolan Ryan's. Would
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you argue that there's at least thirty potential Nolan Ryans
are more in the game today that have been manufactured
that are not necessarily freaks. And I think that in
and of itself, when I look at the whole history
of the game, at some point we got to level
off and move towards the act of what you're supposed
to be doing as a starting pitcher. That's all I'm saying.
So that if we can train guys to stay healthier,
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this would be great, even if it was only five fear.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
To think what we witnessed, love you, Blue, Nolan Ryan,
the first million dollar contract, two NBA championships. I mean,
I'm I'm sure Boston fans are l ephant. I think
what we had, what we had, the opportunity to witness
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he just got sometimes stopping really think how lucky we've
built that seem to get from other places of Michael
Berry Show, Lewie came here. I told you the Houston
Chronicle is really upset. Their wet dream is not coming
to pass. They want bike lanes everywhere, and that might
seem harmless saving except for the fact that that means
they want to take away your automobile. These are the
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same people that desperately wanted light rail everywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Remember, light rail was going to solve all our problems.
If we could just spend another billion dollars on light rail,
that was going to be the panacea. Well, they ended
up getting seven miles of light rail costs four hundred
million dollars money that did not go to roads. It
ended up being known as the danger train because an
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at grade rail is a danger trap. It ended up
confusing traffic, It ended up overriding the traffic rules, which
meant people were left waiting longer if you were in
your car. But remember, the left hates the independence you
have of your own automobile because then you control the
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air conditioning, you control what you listen to on the radio,
you control where you go and when you go it,
and you're not beholden to them. And if they cannot
giveth the bus.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Or light rail, oh that's world class, will be a
world class city. If they cannot giveth the light rail,
they cannot taketh away. And that's really the goal, you see,
that's the point is having everyone beholden to them, the
big behemoth.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Of big government.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So they've given way for the light rail, and now
it is bike lane's bike lane, bike lanes, Yes, you
dumb bastards, that's what everybody wants to do. Ride their
bikes around in one hundred degree heat, sop and wet,
and then they'll do profiles. Brian Smith rides his bicycle
from Bray's Heights into downtown and has for nineteen years. Well,
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I just I really enjoy it. You know, I see
people in their cars and I think, what are you
doing to the planet that my grand children won't be
around to see. Brian has been riding his bicycle for
nineteen years and says he feels quote really good end
quote about it. Yeah, I feel like I'm doing something
for the environment. And shoot, tell you the truth, I
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actually really enjoy it. My wife says, I'm a happier
person when I'm riding my bicycle. Brian Smith has joined
a growing, a growing cadre of Houstonians who are ditching
the automobile and riding their bicycle. That's all the article
I got, but you get the point. Ro'm on off
the flop. Reporter Julianna Lightze says, quote, like many Houston streets,
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the road to a bicycle friendly city has been bumpy.
Oh clever wordplay. Clever wordplay. Cars are the dominant force
shaping the city's design. Oh what a crappy old city.
We got cars and car lanes. Why can't we just
be like Austin or California? Whereas people continue to come,
we don't build more roads because we're arrogant and then
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we jam up the traffic and can't figure out what
the hell to do, and it's.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Too little, too late.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Cars are the dominant force shaping the city's design. Thousands
of commuters stream into the city daily, prompting crowded streets
and ever expanding highways. Oh we hate those ever expanding highways.
We hated you cattle, you sheep out there in your
cars and your trucks and your SUV's on the ever
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expanding highways, out to your three bedroom, two bath homes
with two car garages and schools that don't have shootouts.
Look at you, just out there breeding and being in
the suburbs and boring amid the traffic. Some brave the
sidewalks or busy shoulders on two wheels instead of four.
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Oh so brave, so stunning. How do you do it?
It is a dangerous task to compete for space with cars,
as the crash injury and fatality data reflects, you dumb asses.
You're gonna get killed on your bicycle. There's nothing brave
about it. It's stupid. Those are roads for cars. Advocates
have pushed for protected bike lanes, more pedestrian, mixed youth
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pat use, paths, paths, and a city commitment to supporting
bicycle transportation for decades. Please commit to more bicycles, please,
good Lord. In nineteen ninety three, the city adopted a
comprehensive bikeways plan. Oh that's what we needed. That's what
Sylvester Turner was good at. He'd have a comprehensive plan.
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Here's our comprehensive plan. We're going to be safe. And
our comprehensive plan, we're going to save money. And our
comprehensive plan, we're all going to ride bicycles. All the while,
the streets were getting more dangerous, the money was being stolen,
everything was falling apart. The roads weren't paid. But we
had a comprehensive plan. We did, and they would roll
it out. And when they rolled it out, they would
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have a fair and exhibition and they would have hot
dogs and ice cream and people on bicycles. And it
was the liberals wet dream. This is what liberals love
because it's their dream delive in San Francisco. It's their
dream to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's their dream to
live in DC. And by God, they're going to make
Houston into their dream if it kills them. In twenty seventeen,
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the city adopted an updated Houston Bike Plan odds what
we needed had to update that plan. Yep, I bet
you didn't know we had a comprehensive bikeways plan, did you?
That set the goal of becoming a gold level bicycle
city within a decade. You gotta have a goal.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Ramone.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They set a goal, We're gonna have a goal. Let's
have a niecee Porker and Sylvester Turner and Rodney Ellis
and Lena Hidalgo, and let's have a press conference and
let's announce a lofty goal. We will go to the
moon within the decade. Not because it's easy, but because
it's tough. Why does Rice play the University of Texas
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Because it's tough. Why do we want to become a
gold level bicycle city? Because it's tough. By God, we
will get the people out of their automobiles and we
will put them on bicycles in the one hundred and
five degree heat.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Because it's tough.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
There will be on our bicycles like Pee Wee Herman.
I hearken to the days of Sheila Jackson Lee on
her bicycle riding the overpass into a Rice University area,
and there she looked just as upid as she possibly could.
And there was Jerome in behind it, huffing and puffing.
(32:05):
In there she was Sheila jacksonally on her bicycle with
that slug smile, Go Sheila, go ride that thing.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Ride at Sheila.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
And there was a nice parker coming into downtown and
she was sitting up real straight, her back rim road
straight it was, and she had that helmet on, and
she was wearing the jeans that aren't really jeans, but
they're that stretchy material but they're meant to look like jeans.
And she had some very sensible shoes or thief wouldn't hurt.
And she had a blousy shirt because she's not a
(32:38):
fin girl.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
She's not.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And there she went and she rode that bicycle in
and she was sitting up real straight, and she was smiling,
and they took her photo and she was in the
paper and she was in the news, and she was
being a leader, by God, because this is what leaders do.
They take away lanes for cars to drive on so
we can have one bicycle lane, as if people are
(33:02):
going to ride their bicycle to work in the Houston
heat every day. Look at us. We're just like the
big cities. Can we bring Pete butter Gig in here,
Maybe he can ride with her, and we'll do what
he always does and have him dropped off a block away,
because lord knows, doing a sweat when you get there,
and we'll have Pete butter Gig right in with her.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And they'll have so much in common and riding he's ride.
We didn't know she could ride like that. Look at
her go riding into town. All the people will ride.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
This is like the old West, but instead of steal cowboy,
she's on that bicycle. Look at it. Go Oh my goodness,
maybe that's a cannondale, Go gro go. And then we'll
put bicycles on every corner where you can check them
out off the shared ownership of the bicycle, because once
you get everybody on the bicycle, you gotta take away
the bicycles. First we take away your car and put
(33:52):
you on the bicycle. Now we've got you on the bicycle,
we're gonna take away your bicycle. You have a shared bicycle.
Oh you know those blue bicycles. They put them in
every street corner. They put them at the library. And
the dream is that you will just walk outside and
walk over with a smug smile. You will check out
your bicycle and you will ride it down to the
grocery store. You'll have a little basket in the pantry
and you'll put it on the front of your thing,
(34:13):
and you will ride back, and you will smile.
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