December 2, 2025 • 30 mins
Michael Berry unpacks the saga of Lina's villain era, a nerdy husband, and a breakup list written in glitter gel pen. Plus, sharp takes on immigration bans, Afghan TPS, and government waste.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very show is on the air. End of the world,
come on.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And a social media post the president now threatening to
ban people from what he has called third world countries.
He's vowing to deport anyone who is quote incapable.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Of loving our country or.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Non compatible with Western civilization.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Well, when I heard the secretaries say that they're going
to pause immigration from third world countries, I take that
as a message that they don't want brown people coming
to the United States, and I find that disturbing. We
are a country that has always welcome individuals that are struggling,
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that are fleeing famine, violence, and it would be a
fundamental change to the fabric of our nation to change that.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
In its.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
We know it nine five, the administration says that it
is revoking Temporary Protected status for Afghans, and that is
of course significant, has the potential to effect affect very
a lot of Afghans. It's already receiving criticism from some
of those groups that evacuate Afghan citizen. I just received
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a statement from one who says the decision to terminate
TPS for Afghanistan is not rooted in reality. It's rooted
in politics.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
We know.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Don't say that they're all bad.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
Don't say that people who come from the third world
countries are bad. Virginia, about one out of nine of
us is an immigrant, and our immigrant communities in Virginia
have been.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
An enormous source of strength to.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
Our communalists into our country, and it's wrong to target them.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
All.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
Afghans that is been living in Oklahoma has been charged
with plotting a terrorist attack on election day. For isis
twenty seven year old, and as Here Tahiti obtained weapons
and ammunition to launch this attack. He arrived in the
US in September twenty twenty one, just days after the
US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Now we're going to pause processes or asylum from nineteen
to third world countries.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You don't know which ones they are.
Speaker 10 (03:16):
The world, it's the world.
Speaker 11 (03:22):
We start local today, Harris County, the county larger than
I believe three states county, that much of the Houston
area is subsisted within, consumed within.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And we turn our attention.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
To the little puppet, the local Joe Biden, the crazy
lady who was placed in the county judge seat by
Rodney Ellis that was cheating to protect her so that
she could stay there longer, but she just couldn't hold out.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It was like Joe Biden.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
They had her there, they could control her, but her
crazy just she couldn't keep it in check.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It was so important that we love her.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
It was so important that we not only accept that
she is the County judge, but that we love and
adore her like Princess Diana. Oh, it was very important.
And then we had our own brand of Lena. We
had Lena and the Nerd, and a year ago they
were married. And on the one year anniversary, this crazy
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and I mean crazy lunatic Lena added Defundina el Comandante,
the Cornrow Coman, Dante the wartime County Judge, Dora the Explorer.
She added another title to her list, and that was bride.
And it was the most covered wedding in Houston history
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that I can recall, and I've been here going on
forty years.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh was it something else?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
We were supposed to be very excited over this? It
was very exciting. Indeed, in fact, they even had sponsors.
There were people who may or may not have been
doing business with Harris County getting big contraction. They paid
for everything. What are the chances? Oh, let's take it
to Channel eleven with the story. Boy, this was something weld.
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You're supposed to be very excited this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're Sudney. Congratulations to Harris County Judge Lena.
Speaker 12 (05:28):
Dalgo ok jo you was the first media outlet in
Algo speaking to about her engagement.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Commissioners and attendees.
Speaker 12 (05:34):
Applauded at Algo as she entered today's Commissioner's Court meeting.
She broke the news last night on social media after
telling family and friends first in Algo and her fiance David,
have been together for nine years. She told us they
bought the pink sapphire ring together earlier this month, still
in August, says she was surprised when David popped the
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question Saturday evening. Came outside the building where they met.
Speaker 13 (05:59):
As soon as I like what was happening, I.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Was like, oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 13 (06:02):
And they said maybe we should get out of the car.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
So then we got out.
Speaker 13 (06:05):
We were just like on the street, and you know,
it's not like the nicest part of town, so he
was like, come on, like and then but I was
just so happy and then I finally, you know, went
up to him and he got down on me and
he said some really nice things, and I was so excited.
I don't remember half of it. And then and then
you know, he had the ring and it was really sweet.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Congratulations to them.
Speaker 12 (06:29):
A couple wants to do it small wedding later on
this year as next year.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Oh yeah, so wait, he wanted to get out of
the car, but you didn't want to get out of
the car.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
But because it's a bad.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Neighborhood, aren't you aren't you the county?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Would you like to tell us where that is?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
So you couldn't get out of the car because it's
a bad neighborhood in the county that you were in
the county judge?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
For what part of town? Was it, Lena? Was it
the poors? Out of town?
Speaker 13 (07:00):
As soon as I realized what was happening, I was like,
oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And they said maybe we should get out of the car.
So then we got out.
Speaker 13 (07:06):
We were just like on the street and you know,
it's not like the nicest part of town.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
We'll do to the post side till you have private security, sweetie.
We don't not even the constables are good enough for you,
and we voted for Yulena.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
You gotta.
Speaker 13 (07:23):
He was like, come on, I was so excited. I
don't remember half of it.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You spend that me girl.
Speaker 13 (07:30):
Oh no, I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh my god.
Speaker 13 (07:33):
He got down on me and he said some really
nice things.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Side.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Equity is a factor, can't us now? Equity is the factor?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Get me?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It was really sweet from the post side to you.
Speaker 13 (07:50):
Know, it's not like the nicest part of town. But
I didn't sign up to be a wartime county judge.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Jen Rice posted on Twitter his breakup album is going
to be lit.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Can you imagine? Okay, David your nerd? How crazy was she.
Speaker 13 (08:16):
King in a public forum by a public official a
monket Bay show.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
What are we allowing? Can you just come to three? One,
two three? Okay? So I'm one, So we need two
and three.
Speaker 13 (08:33):
We need three votes so that we can can we
can we can put this on the ballot. Okay, So
so you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
We have one? One?
Speaker 13 (08:41):
Okay, say one, one, two, three, one, Come on down.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Number here, come.
Speaker 14 (08:45):
On, come on, come on, come on, because this is
none of our politics is about kids.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Come on down.
Speaker 14 (08:50):
Excuse me, part of education is respect Travis County. They
spent two years working with subject matter experts for excuse me, judge.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Please be respectful.
Speaker 14 (09:03):
At least education is hey heelling.
Speaker 13 (09:05):
Don't give the kids this example of making things up.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Imagine you're the person at the news station in Houston
who was running around, screeching in the newsroom saying, we've
got to make lenahead Allgo's wedding the biggest wedding in
Houston history.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I want everybody all hands on deck.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
This is the greatest love affair in Houston history, and
we're covering every second of it.
Speaker 15 (09:36):
And now great love affairs in American history that ended poorly.
We began with Ike and Tina Turner I Cantina's relationship
in music eventually led to marriage in nineteen sixty two.
The relationship became defined by Ike's violence and control mixed
with heavy drug abuse. Tina left the relationship in nineteen
seventy six, and they divorced in.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 15 (09:57):
They say everyone has a soulmate, and Bonnie and Clyde
definitely were made for each other. Some couples enjoy the
same hobbies and for these two, golf and collecting antiques
were replaced with bank robberies, kidnapping, and murders between nineteen
thirty two and nineteen thirty four. They were eventually ambushed
and killed on a Louisiana highway in nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Ah.
Speaker 15 (10:16):
Yes, romance at its core, and finally we have Lena
Hidalgo and her nerdy white boy husband. Elle Commandante had
big aspirations for her career wherewith no qualifications at all,
out of nowhere, she became the Harris County judge in
the largest county by population in the great state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's almost as if she was illegally placed there.
Speaker 15 (10:37):
Anyway, she would find the nerdiest of all nerds and
marry in twenty twenty four, almost to the day. One
year later, the relationship has ended, leaving many to wonder
why did Ago was quoted as saying life took a turn,
and we can only imagine that turn is because of
her unhealthy love for cats. Oh and that she's also
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absolutely bat crazy. This has been great love affairs in
American history that ended poorly.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Next week we feature Joe Biden and his love for
sniffing hair.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
What nobody thinks about is some poor sap has to
be her therapist?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Can you imagine the therapy that person needs?
Speaker 15 (11:25):
Dear Diary for Therapists, Log, December two, twenty twenty five.
Another Tuesday, Another avalanche of emotional shrapnel. Girl directly in
my face, and today, well it might have been the worst.
My three PM patient. Let's call her Leonora, because Hurricane
Lenora feels just about accurate. She arrived clutching a pumpkin
spice latte with the same white knuckled intensity one normally
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reserves for cliff faces or malfunctioning parachutes. She announced before
even sitting down that she's spiritually divorced but legally entangled,
which I believe is her way of saying the paper
were hasn't gone through yet. Today's session began with her
reading a list titled reasons my nerdy husband Ruined My Life,
which she wrote in glitter gel Pen.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The list had sublist Those sublists had bullet.
Speaker 15 (12:12):
Points shaped like tiny unicorns. The commitment I must admit
to stationary esthetics was impressive, yet quite disturbing. She then
declared she's entering quote her villain era, which appears to
me to involve ordering a fog machine so she can
enter curshion HER's court like a rock star. When I
gently suggested processing her emotions before investing in theatrical equipment,
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she accused me to me of limiting her potential. At
one point, she lay across the couch like a finging
Victorian heroine and demanded I diagnose her ex husband with
something dramatic enough for her memoir but not technically defamatory.
I explained once again that this is not how therapy works.
She sighed so dramatically that I'm fairly certain she expelled
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part of her soul. The session ended with her asking
if she could bring her cat next time. So he
did give his side the story. I told her, we
discuss it, which is therapist coe.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
For dear God, please forget this idea crazy.
Speaker 13 (13:09):
I did my mental health sleeve in twenty twenty three.
I was impatient for anxiety and depression for eight weeks.
I've been very public about that, and since I returned,
I've been doing my group therapy from Thursdays from three
to four thirty. So when the court said they wanted
to move our meetings to Thursday, I said, I have
the standing committee committee well I guess it could be
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a committee.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's a group you.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I can handle this. I can handle this. I can
handle this.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
So the question we ask of you the phone lines
open a one year marriage. Of course, it has been
ended already. She's just decided that she needs to tell
the world about it. Why we don't know. That's part
of her oversharing problem. The woman doesn't make good decisions, and.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Don't let that worry you.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
She's just the chief executive of the county. Your short
marriage stories, lots of people have them. Maybe y'all got
married in a fever hotter than a pepper. Maybe maybe
y'all went down to Jackson and long before the fire
went out it Well, you know seven one three, nine
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nine nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, your really short marriage stories. You've got to
have a good perspective on it to be able to
share it. Seven one three, nine nine nine one thousand.
And then we turned to the issue, let's compare this
to Joe Biden, because the comparisons are many. I had
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people say to me, you shouldn't make fun of him.
He clearly has extreme advanced dementia, to which I would
reply he's the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
This isn't a time for sympathy.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
If the quarterback of your favorite football team was going
out there and taking the ball and falling down every
time and three and out and you'd punt, you wouldn't say, well,
it's not his fault, he's on the verge of death,
or he's extremely crazy. Her crazy could not be contained.
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Even the Democrats on the County Commissioner's Court had to
expose it, and yet Rodney kept her there despite it all.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
This isn't a place for sympathy. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand, seven one one.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Thousand, said Dollargo has some serious explaining to do about
a multimillion dollar contract steered to a handpicked political operative.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The Michael Verry Show, and eventually all.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Of the facts will be public.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
So we were in our group email preparing for the
show today when last night Jim Mudd suggested, Hey, it'd
be fun to have people call in and tell about
how their marriages have been going strong for decades and
the secrets of success to a successful marriage. I think
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I think they'd be right in the sweet spot of
our audience and Ramone and his infinite wisdom said, no,
I'd rather hear about painfully short weddings marriages.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I'd rather hear about the ones that went real wrong
and didn't last.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
But for a minute, and we all thought that might
not work in our audience because they're not really that's
not going to be the norm, if you know what
I mean. So I thought, no, no, I'm going to
reward Ramone's creativity, and he contributed for one. So we
threw it out there at the beginning of the last segment,
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so we'd have a full break within which to receive
all the calls that were going to come pouring in,
and boy where they were going to be good, because
when people tell a story.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Of how screwed up their life was, that's always our favorite.
So we waited and waited.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Now, sometimes I will toss to a call topic and
the phones will light up, and we will come back
from the break, and I will forget that we have
a board full of calls, and I will start into
the next subject because I'm absent minded, And there I'll be,
and I'll be driving through and end of the segment,
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Roman Ago, what about all the calls? Oh man, Okay,
I'll get to those in a moment.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
This isn't one of those moments.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
This is not one of those moments at all.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
The emotion is to set up public hearing on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, at ten am to consider for the
Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty five tax rates.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Bring the kids here and ask each member yes or no? Yes,
Come a sugar s.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, corn of order.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in Discussionally.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I didn't make emotion. I just read what it's going
to be.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You said no.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I didn't say no. I didn't. Okay, well I take
it back.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Can you just count to three? One, two, three? Okay?
So I'm one, So we need two and three. We
need three votes.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
So that we can can we can we can put
this on the ballot.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Okay, So so you guys help me count right now?
We have one? One? Okay, say one, one, two three one.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Come on down over here, come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Because it's pretty clear how crazy she is. Everyone knows it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
She knows it.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
However, the power they were able to wield by keeping
her in that seat. Money they were able to make
by keeping her in that seat. That's what they think of.
You process that for a moment, we laugh, because otherwise
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we'd smashed the windows out. You talk about the stuff
of revolution. They kept a president in the White House
who sometimes didn't leave the bed for the entire day.
They were gaslighting us that everything was okay when we
could see for ourselves during his rare public appearances that
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he couldn't stand up. They were debating whether to use
a wheelchair because they were afraid he was going to
fall down again, and he did many times. He wasn't
sure where he was. He couldn't finish the Senate, And
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when he did, he told stories of beating up Cornonpop,
who was Koota Kintey's next neighbor.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He fought off the entire slave rebellion.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
He kicked the junk yard dog's ass three times in
one minute.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was just it was fantasy.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Crazed, weird, whacked out fantasy, and everybody knew it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It wasn't anybody who didn't know it. And in the
minute he's not in the White House any longer. They
write a book about it.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
A tell all so they control the story as if
they broke it, and Jake Tapper, while promoting his book, says,
if we made one mistake, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Believing them when they told.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Us he was Okay, it's our fault for being such believing, trusting,
decent souls. We don't believe you. They kept Lena hid
all Goo in that seat. Remember remember when she went missing?
You remember that no one knew where she was. And
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then finally, like Alexander Haig, Rodney Ellis just appears on
the local news and says.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
She's getting help. It's very brave. Don't worry. I'm in charge.
But where was she? She had gone missing.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
One hundred days or more past since you supposedly won
the judges race, like fifteen minutes late, you rejected, Where.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The hell out of this flame?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Your onvery street?
Speaker 13 (22:07):
Can you guys have anything else?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Can you guys?
Speaker 13 (22:12):
I hope everyone has a really awesome yesterday.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Run a private sector business already, I'm so long, so
incredibly difficult. You either have to sell a large volume
of an item with limitations on market size, or well
that's really it. But when you go to the public dollar,
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you have pockets of money, which is why so many
businesses now focus almost exclusively on government work, because government
has hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars to spend,
and when you see how they spend that money, when
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you realize the kind of people who get into government
and the kind of people who lobby government or sell
to government, and you realize it's a huge corrupt cabal.
And I've seen it. I've seen it at the City
of Houston level, which is not as big as the
United States government level, but it's nasty.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
There's a lot of money to be handed out.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
We had a director of the airport system, and I
chaired the Airport committee, and I discovered pretty early on
at Rick Vakar, who was the head of the airport system,
a big job. Houston's a big, major airport. Mind you,
twenty years ago Houston was the hub of Continental. Continental
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had just committed to building a new terminal, which I
think is now e and that was at a time
there weren't a lot of new terminals being built. They
were a major partner in that. This was really good
for the Houston Airport system. So Rick Vaycar should have
been overseeing that. You'd think right, except Rick Vaycar was
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never around. Why is this guy traveling so much? He
runs the Houston Airport, not a Houston airline. If Gordon
Bethune was hopping a flight to fly all over the world,
you could understand he's testing out their airplanes, he's looking
at the airports, he's out in the field. But this
guy runs a venue that is based in Houston. Why
is he never in Houston? So I start making some
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people mad and getting some pushback because I discovered that
Rick Vaycar, in addition to being the head of the
Houston Airport, a well paying job and a big responsibility,
is also Oh, by the way, head of the Houston
Airport Corporation. No, Houston Airport Corporation is that different than
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the Houston Airport system. As it turns out it is.
The Houston Airport Corporation is a consulting firm that consults
other airports.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh so our airport consults for other airports.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
How does that help the citizens of Houston Harris County?
How does that help our airport get better? Because the
airports for which they consult are not as technologically sound.
I think it was Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. Well, it turns
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out those countries were paying money to the Houston Airport
Corporation to advise them on their airport. That'd be like
if you found out that Lane Kiffen was spending half
his time consulting for a Mississippi high school, in half
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his time traveling there to watch their games and help
them coach.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And say, hey, guy, you've got a job here in
Baton Rouge.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
That'd be like Steve Sarkisian consulting for a high school
in Los Angeles. You'd go, hey, hey, how about you
focus on the University of Texas in Austin where you're
supposed to be. That'd be like Mike Elko, how far
you want me to go?
Speaker 16 (26:29):
Okay, that'd be like Mike Elko consulting with a high
school football team in Chicago and spending half his time there,
and you're like, dude, you lost the ut were pissed
at you?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Right, all right, I'll stop there.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
So with that in mind, we turned to the issue
of the Houston Airport System and a fellow named Jim Cesniak,
and it turns out that the Houston Airport System has
spent more than thirty million dollars on.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Art art.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Now, do you think that money was spent to improve
your experience at the airport? Spoiler alert, No, when you
start looking at who gets that money, These people look
for pockets of money and ways to get it out
of the budget and redirect it to friends and families
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and kickbacks.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
That's what they do. That's what almost all of government does.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
They're not there to get you on the ground through
baggage claim and on your way. They're there to look
at the money and figure out how much of this
can I steal. So KPRC TV's Mario Diaz Funny Things,
Small World. The last airport director was named Mario Diaz,
and this Mario Diaz, the investigator reporter used to hound him.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It was hilarious, absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
But listen to this story about Jim Sesniak at the
Houston Airport system.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
On any given day, ac of humanity fills up the
Houston Airport system, especially this time of year. In fact,
in twenty twenty four, the city's airport system had sixty
three point one million passengers. What they also have plenty
of is art, approximately three hundred ninety pieces with an
appraised value of over thirty million dollars, according to the
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airport system purchased with public dollars through major capital improvement
projects where a city ordinance passed years ago requires one
point seventy five percent of the project's budget to be.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Used to purchase art. Airport what is Mayor John Whitmyer's opinion?
Speaker 15 (28:41):
Quite frankly, I like art, but I like parking at
the airport access and picking up the baggage probably more
than I do art.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Airport director Jim Sysniak is a fan of the art.
In the spring of twenty twenty four, he told city
council exactly how proud he was of the airport's collection.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
We get more people looking at the art and airports
than the louver does in France.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Come again, wait rewind ten seconds. Listen to this line.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
We get more people looking at the art and airports
than the louver does in France.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Come again. People go to the louver for one reason.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
To see priceless art, including the Mona Lisa. On the
other hand, there is a clear reason why people go
to the Houston Airports system.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You go airport to pick someone up or catch a plane.
It is not hard to spot costly art. Airports system
you go airport.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Fact that this man who's head of the airports would
make a statement like that.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Tells you a lot. What kind of arrogance.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Stupidity, your own nature do you have to have to
compare the Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Airport to the Loop.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
You have to wonder did that make sense to him?
And then you start to realize, this is what we're
dealing with. This is why nothing in the public sector works.
This is why there's all the waste in broad this
is why you can't believe a thing they say.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very show is on the air. End of the world,
come on.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And a social media post the president now threatening to
ban people from what he has called third world countries.
He's vowing to deport anyone who is quote incapable.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Of loving our country or.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Non compatible with Western civilization.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Well, when I heard the secretaries say that they're going
to pause immigration from third world countries, I take that
as a message that they don't want brown people coming
to the United States, and I find that disturbing. We
are a country that has always welcome individuals that are struggling,
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that are fleeing famine, violence, and it would be a
fundamental change to the fabric of our nation to change that.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
In its.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
We know it nine five, the administration says that it
is revoking Temporary Protected status for Afghans, and that is
of course significant, has the potential to effect affect very
a lot of Afghans. It's already receiving criticism from some
of those groups that evacuate Afghan citizen. I just received
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a statement from one who says the decision to terminate
TPS for Afghanistan is not rooted in reality. It's rooted
in politics.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
We know.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Don't say that they're all bad.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
Don't say that people who come from the third world
countries are bad. Virginia, about one out of nine of
us is an immigrant, and our immigrant communities in Virginia
have been.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
An enormous source of strength to.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
Our communalists into our country, and it's wrong to target them.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
All.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
Afghans that is been living in Oklahoma has been charged
with plotting a terrorist attack on election day. For isis
twenty seven year old, and as Here Tahiti obtained weapons
and ammunition to launch this attack. He arrived in the
US in September twenty twenty one, just days after the
US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Now we're going to pause processes or asylum from nineteen
to third world countries.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You don't know which ones they are.
Speaker 10 (03:16):
The world, it's the world.
Speaker 11 (03:22):
We start local today, Harris County, the county larger than
I believe three states county, that much of the Houston
area is subsisted within, consumed within.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And we turn our attention.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
To the little puppet, the local Joe Biden, the crazy
lady who was placed in the county judge seat by
Rodney Ellis that was cheating to protect her so that
she could stay there longer, but she just couldn't hold out.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It was like Joe Biden.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
They had her there, they could control her, but her
crazy just she couldn't keep it in check.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It was so important that we love her.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
It was so important that we not only accept that
she is the County judge, but that we love and
adore her like Princess Diana. Oh, it was very important.
And then we had our own brand of Lena. We
had Lena and the Nerd, and a year ago they
were married. And on the one year anniversary, this crazy
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and I mean crazy lunatic Lena added Defundina el Comandante,
the Cornrow Coman, Dante the wartime County Judge, Dora the Explorer.
She added another title to her list, and that was bride.
And it was the most covered wedding in Houston history
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that I can recall, and I've been here going on
forty years.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh was it something else?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
We were supposed to be very excited over this? It
was very exciting. Indeed, in fact, they even had sponsors.
There were people who may or may not have been
doing business with Harris County getting big contraction. They paid
for everything. What are the chances? Oh, let's take it
to Channel eleven with the story. Boy, this was something weld.
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You're supposed to be very excited this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We're Sudney. Congratulations to Harris County Judge Lena.
Speaker 12 (05:28):
Dalgo ok jo you was the first media outlet in
Algo speaking to about her engagement.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Commissioners and attendees.
Speaker 12 (05:34):
Applauded at Algo as she entered today's Commissioner's Court meeting.
She broke the news last night on social media after
telling family and friends first in Algo and her fiance David,
have been together for nine years. She told us they
bought the pink sapphire ring together earlier this month, still
in August, says she was surprised when David popped the
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question Saturday evening. Came outside the building where they met.
Speaker 13 (05:59):
As soon as I like what was happening, I.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Was like, oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 13 (06:02):
And they said maybe we should get out of the car.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
So then we got out.
Speaker 13 (06:05):
We were just like on the street, and you know,
it's not like the nicest part of town, so he
was like, come on, like and then but I was
just so happy and then I finally, you know, went
up to him and he got down on me and
he said some really nice things, and I was so excited.
I don't remember half of it. And then and then
you know, he had the ring and it was really sweet.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Congratulations to them.
Speaker 12 (06:29):
A couple wants to do it small wedding later on
this year as next year.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Oh yeah, so wait, he wanted to get out of
the car, but you didn't want to get out of
the car.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
But because it's a bad.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Neighborhood, aren't you aren't you the county?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Would you like to tell us where that is?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
So you couldn't get out of the car because it's
a bad neighborhood in the county that you were in
the county judge?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
For what part of town? Was it, Lena? Was it
the poors? Out of town?
Speaker 13 (07:00):
As soon as I realized what was happening, I was like,
oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And they said maybe we should get out of the car.
So then we got out.
Speaker 13 (07:06):
We were just like on the street and you know,
it's not like the nicest part of town.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
We'll do to the post side till you have private security, sweetie.
We don't not even the constables are good enough for you,
and we voted for Yulena.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
You gotta.
Speaker 13 (07:23):
He was like, come on, I was so excited. I
don't remember half of it.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You spend that me girl.
Speaker 13 (07:30):
Oh no, I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh my god.
Speaker 13 (07:33):
He got down on me and he said some really
nice things.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Side.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Equity is a factor, can't us now? Equity is the factor?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Get me?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It was really sweet from the post side to you.
Speaker 13 (07:50):
Know, it's not like the nicest part of town. But
I didn't sign up to be a wartime county judge.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Jen Rice posted on Twitter his breakup album is going
to be lit.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Can you imagine? Okay, David your nerd? How crazy was she.
Speaker 13 (08:16):
King in a public forum by a public official a
monket Bay show.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
What are we allowing? Can you just come to three? One,
two three? Okay? So I'm one, So we need two
and three.
Speaker 13 (08:33):
We need three votes so that we can can we
can we can put this on the ballot. Okay, So
so you guys help me count right now?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
We have one? One?
Speaker 13 (08:41):
Okay, say one, one, two, three, one, Come on down.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Number here, come.
Speaker 14 (08:45):
On, come on, come on, come on, because this is
none of our politics is about kids.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Come on down.
Speaker 14 (08:50):
Excuse me, part of education is respect Travis County. They
spent two years working with subject matter experts for excuse me, judge.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Please be respectful.
Speaker 14 (09:03):
At least education is hey heelling.
Speaker 13 (09:05):
Don't give the kids this example of making things up.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Imagine you're the person at the news station in Houston
who was running around, screeching in the newsroom saying, we've
got to make lenahead Allgo's wedding the biggest wedding in
Houston history.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I want everybody all hands on deck.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
This is the greatest love affair in Houston history, and
we're covering every second of it.
Speaker 15 (09:36):
And now great love affairs in American history that ended poorly.
We began with Ike and Tina Turner I Cantina's relationship
in music eventually led to marriage in nineteen sixty two.
The relationship became defined by Ike's violence and control mixed
with heavy drug abuse. Tina left the relationship in nineteen
seventy six, and they divorced in.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 15 (09:57):
They say everyone has a soulmate, and Bonnie and Clyde
definitely were made for each other. Some couples enjoy the
same hobbies and for these two, golf and collecting antiques
were replaced with bank robberies, kidnapping, and murders between nineteen
thirty two and nineteen thirty four. They were eventually ambushed
and killed on a Louisiana highway in nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Ah.
Speaker 15 (10:16):
Yes, romance at its core, and finally we have Lena
Hidalgo and her nerdy white boy husband. Elle Commandante had
big aspirations for her career wherewith no qualifications at all,
out of nowhere, she became the Harris County judge in
the largest county by population in the great state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's almost as if she was illegally placed there.
Speaker 15 (10:37):
Anyway, she would find the nerdiest of all nerds and
marry in twenty twenty four, almost to the day. One
year later, the relationship has ended, leaving many to wonder
why did Ago was quoted as saying life took a turn,
and we can only imagine that turn is because of
her unhealthy love for cats. Oh and that she's also
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absolutely bat crazy. This has been great love affairs in
American history that ended poorly.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Next week we feature Joe Biden and his love for
sniffing hair.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
What nobody thinks about is some poor sap has to
be her therapist?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Can you imagine the therapy that person needs?
Speaker 15 (11:25):
Dear Diary for Therapists, Log, December two, twenty twenty five.
Another Tuesday, Another avalanche of emotional shrapnel. Girl directly in
my face, and today, well it might have been the worst.
My three PM patient. Let's call her Leonora, because Hurricane
Lenora feels just about accurate. She arrived clutching a pumpkin
spice latte with the same white knuckled intensity one normally
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reserves for cliff faces or malfunctioning parachutes. She announced before
even sitting down that she's spiritually divorced but legally entangled,
which I believe is her way of saying the paper
were hasn't gone through yet. Today's session began with her
reading a list titled reasons my nerdy husband Ruined My Life,
which she wrote in glitter gel Pen.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The list had sublist Those sublists had bullet.
Speaker 15 (12:12):
Points shaped like tiny unicorns. The commitment I must admit
to stationary esthetics was impressive, yet quite disturbing. She then
declared she's entering quote her villain era, which appears to
me to involve ordering a fog machine so she can
enter curshion HER's court like a rock star. When I
gently suggested processing her emotions before investing in theatrical equipment,
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she accused me to me of limiting her potential. At
one point, she lay across the couch like a finging
Victorian heroine and demanded I diagnose her ex husband with
something dramatic enough for her memoir but not technically defamatory.
I explained once again that this is not how therapy works.
She sighed so dramatically that I'm fairly certain she expelled
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part of her soul. The session ended with her asking
if she could bring her cat next time. So he
did give his side the story. I told her, we
discuss it, which is therapist coe.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
For dear God, please forget this idea crazy.
Speaker 13 (13:09):
I did my mental health sleeve in twenty twenty three.
I was impatient for anxiety and depression for eight weeks.
I've been very public about that, and since I returned,
I've been doing my group therapy from Thursdays from three
to four thirty. So when the court said they wanted
to move our meetings to Thursday, I said, I have
the standing committee committee well I guess it could be
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a committee.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's a group you.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I can handle this. I can handle this. I can
handle this.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
So the question we ask of you the phone lines
open a one year marriage. Of course, it has been
ended already. She's just decided that she needs to tell
the world about it. Why we don't know. That's part
of her oversharing problem. The woman doesn't make good decisions, and.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Don't let that worry you.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
She's just the chief executive of the county. Your short
marriage stories, lots of people have them. Maybe y'all got
married in a fever hotter than a pepper. Maybe maybe
y'all went down to Jackson and long before the fire
went out it Well, you know seven one three, nine
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nine nine one thousand. Seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, your really short marriage stories. You've got to
have a good perspective on it to be able to
share it. Seven one three, nine nine nine one thousand.
And then we turned to the issue, let's compare this
to Joe Biden, because the comparisons are many. I had
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people say to me, you shouldn't make fun of him.
He clearly has extreme advanced dementia, to which I would
reply he's the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
This isn't a time for sympathy.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
If the quarterback of your favorite football team was going
out there and taking the ball and falling down every
time and three and out and you'd punt, you wouldn't say, well,
it's not his fault, he's on the verge of death,
or he's extremely crazy. Her crazy could not be contained.
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Even the Democrats on the County Commissioner's Court had to
expose it, and yet Rodney kept her there despite it all.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
This isn't a place for sympathy. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand, seven one one.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Thousand, said Dollargo has some serious explaining to do about
a multimillion dollar contract steered to a handpicked political operative.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The Michael Verry Show, and eventually all.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Of the facts will be public.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
So we were in our group email preparing for the
show today when last night Jim Mudd suggested, Hey, it'd
be fun to have people call in and tell about
how their marriages have been going strong for decades and
the secrets of success to a successful marriage. I think
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I think they'd be right in the sweet spot of
our audience and Ramone and his infinite wisdom said, no,
I'd rather hear about painfully short weddings marriages.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I'd rather hear about the ones that went real wrong
and didn't last.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
But for a minute, and we all thought that might
not work in our audience because they're not really that's
not going to be the norm, if you know what
I mean. So I thought, no, no, I'm going to
reward Ramone's creativity, and he contributed for one. So we
threw it out there at the beginning of the last segment,
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so we'd have a full break within which to receive
all the calls that were going to come pouring in,
and boy where they were going to be good, because
when people tell a story.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Of how screwed up their life was, that's always our favorite.
So we waited and waited.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Now, sometimes I will toss to a call topic and
the phones will light up, and we will come back
from the break, and I will forget that we have
a board full of calls, and I will start into
the next subject because I'm absent minded, And there I'll be,
and I'll be driving through and end of the segment,
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Roman Ago, what about all the calls? Oh man, Okay,
I'll get to those in a moment.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
This isn't one of those moments.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
This is not one of those moments at all.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
The emotion is to set up public hearing on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, at ten am to consider for the
Harris County General Fund the proposed twenty twenty five tax rates.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Bring the kids here and ask each member yes or no? Yes,
Come a sugar s.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, corn of order.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
There's been a motion made, no second, and we're in Discussionally.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I didn't make emotion. I just read what it's going
to be.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You said no.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I didn't say no. I didn't. Okay, well I take
it back.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Can you just count to three? One, two, three? Okay?
So I'm one, So we need two and three. We
need three votes.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
So that we can can we can we can put
this on the ballot.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Okay, So so you guys help me count right now?
We have one? One? Okay, say one, one, two three one.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
They're coming to take me away.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Come on down over here, come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Because it's pretty clear how crazy she is. Everyone knows it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
She knows it.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
However, the power they were able to wield by keeping
her in that seat. Money they were able to make
by keeping her in that seat. That's what they think of.
You process that for a moment, we laugh, because otherwise
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we'd smashed the windows out. You talk about the stuff
of revolution. They kept a president in the White House
who sometimes didn't leave the bed for the entire day.
They were gaslighting us that everything was okay when we
could see for ourselves during his rare public appearances that
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he couldn't stand up. They were debating whether to use
a wheelchair because they were afraid he was going to
fall down again, and he did many times. He wasn't
sure where he was. He couldn't finish the Senate, And
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when he did, he told stories of beating up Cornonpop,
who was Koota Kintey's next neighbor.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He fought off the entire slave rebellion.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
He kicked the junk yard dog's ass three times in
one minute.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It was just it was fantasy.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Crazed, weird, whacked out fantasy, and everybody knew it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It wasn't anybody who didn't know it. And in the
minute he's not in the White House any longer. They
write a book about it.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
A tell all so they control the story as if
they broke it, and Jake Tapper, while promoting his book, says,
if we made one mistake, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Believing them when they told.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
Us he was Okay, it's our fault for being such believing, trusting,
decent souls. We don't believe you. They kept Lena hid
all Goo in that seat. Remember remember when she went missing?
You remember that no one knew where she was. And
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then finally, like Alexander Haig, Rodney Ellis just appears on
the local news and says.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
She's getting help. It's very brave. Don't worry. I'm in charge.
But where was she? She had gone missing.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
One hundred days or more past since you supposedly won
the judges race, like fifteen minutes late, you rejected, Where.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The hell out of this flame?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Your onvery street?
Speaker 13 (22:07):
Can you guys have anything else?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Can you guys?
Speaker 13 (22:12):
I hope everyone has a really awesome yesterday.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Run a private sector business already, I'm so long, so
incredibly difficult. You either have to sell a large volume
of an item with limitations on market size, or well
that's really it. But when you go to the public dollar,
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you have pockets of money, which is why so many
businesses now focus almost exclusively on government work, because government
has hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars to spend,
and when you see how they spend that money, when
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you realize the kind of people who get into government
and the kind of people who lobby government or sell
to government, and you realize it's a huge corrupt cabal.
And I've seen it. I've seen it at the City
of Houston level, which is not as big as the
United States government level, but it's nasty.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
There's a lot of money to be handed out.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
We had a director of the airport system, and I
chaired the Airport committee, and I discovered pretty early on
at Rick Vakar, who was the head of the airport system,
a big job. Houston's a big, major airport. Mind you,
twenty years ago Houston was the hub of Continental. Continental
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had just committed to building a new terminal, which I
think is now e and that was at a time
there weren't a lot of new terminals being built. They
were a major partner in that. This was really good
for the Houston Airport system. So Rick Vaycar should have
been overseeing that. You'd think right, except Rick Vaycar was
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never around. Why is this guy traveling so much? He
runs the Houston Airport, not a Houston airline. If Gordon
Bethune was hopping a flight to fly all over the world,
you could understand he's testing out their airplanes, he's looking
at the airports, he's out in the field. But this
guy runs a venue that is based in Houston. Why
is he never in Houston? So I start making some
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people mad and getting some pushback because I discovered that
Rick Vaycar, in addition to being the head of the
Houston Airport, a well paying job and a big responsibility,
is also Oh, by the way, head of the Houston
Airport Corporation. No, Houston Airport Corporation is that different than
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the Houston Airport system. As it turns out it is.
The Houston Airport Corporation is a consulting firm that consults
other airports.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh so our airport consults for other airports.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
How does that help the citizens of Houston Harris County?
How does that help our airport get better? Because the
airports for which they consult are not as technologically sound.
I think it was Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. Well, it turns
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out those countries were paying money to the Houston Airport
Corporation to advise them on their airport. That'd be like
if you found out that Lane Kiffen was spending half
his time consulting for a Mississippi high school, in half
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his time traveling there to watch their games and help
them coach.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And say, hey, guy, you've got a job here in
Baton Rouge.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
That'd be like Steve Sarkisian consulting for a high school
in Los Angeles. You'd go, hey, hey, how about you
focus on the University of Texas in Austin where you're
supposed to be. That'd be like Mike Elko, how far
you want me to go?
Speaker 16 (26:29):
Okay, that'd be like Mike Elko consulting with a high
school football team in Chicago and spending half his time there,
and you're like, dude, you lost the ut were pissed
at you?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Right, all right, I'll stop there.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
So with that in mind, we turned to the issue
of the Houston Airport System and a fellow named Jim Cesniak,
and it turns out that the Houston Airport System has
spent more than thirty million dollars on.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Art art.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Now, do you think that money was spent to improve
your experience at the airport? Spoiler alert, No, when you
start looking at who gets that money, These people look
for pockets of money and ways to get it out
of the budget and redirect it to friends and families
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and kickbacks.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
That's what they do. That's what almost all of government does.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
They're not there to get you on the ground through
baggage claim and on your way. They're there to look
at the money and figure out how much of this
can I steal. So KPRC TV's Mario Diaz Funny Things,
Small World. The last airport director was named Mario Diaz,
and this Mario Diaz, the investigator reporter used to hound him.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It was hilarious, absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
But listen to this story about Jim Sesniak at the
Houston Airport system.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
On any given day, ac of humanity fills up the
Houston Airport system, especially this time of year. In fact,
in twenty twenty four, the city's airport system had sixty
three point one million passengers. What they also have plenty
of is art, approximately three hundred ninety pieces with an
appraised value of over thirty million dollars, according to the
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airport system purchased with public dollars through major capital improvement
projects where a city ordinance passed years ago requires one
point seventy five percent of the project's budget to be.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Used to purchase art. Airport what is Mayor John Whitmyer's opinion?
Speaker 15 (28:41):
Quite frankly, I like art, but I like parking at
the airport access and picking up the baggage probably more
than I do art.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Airport director Jim Sysniak is a fan of the art.
In the spring of twenty twenty four, he told city
council exactly how proud he was of the airport's collection.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
We get more people looking at the art and airports
than the louver does in France.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Come again, wait rewind ten seconds. Listen to this line.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
We get more people looking at the art and airports
than the louver does in France.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Come again. People go to the louver for one reason.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
To see priceless art, including the Mona Lisa. On the
other hand, there is a clear reason why people go
to the Houston Airports system.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You go airport to pick someone up or catch a plane.
It is not hard to spot costly art. Airports system
you go airport.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Fact that this man who's head of the airports would
make a statement like that.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Tells you a lot. What kind of arrogance.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Stupidity, your own nature do you have to have to
compare the Houston.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Airport to the Loop.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
You have to wonder did that make sense to him?
And then you start to realize, this is what we're
dealing with. This is why nothing in the public sector works.
This is why there's all the waste in broad this
is why you can't believe a thing they say.
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