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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. Good morning, Michael,
it's Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What's this I hear about Ramon being on some kind
of pansy vacation for two weeks?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Why the hell? Em and we ordered the code red.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning, Jah, it's your favorite Detective Colombo here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Interesting coincidence that Lena Hidalgo is out with that mono
and Ramon disappears for two weeks now, Mister Barry, I
would hate to find out that Ramon was playing the
smoochy woocie with that looney Lena.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Like zoid school.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I think Ramone got mono from Lena Hidalgo.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Woo, that's gross and I schniff my own butt.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
My god, did somebody say own might have gotten mono
from Lena Hidalgo?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Dear Lord, somebody get my pro paint and some comment.
We've got work to do.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Good money, Michael Brey, How you learned they all ready
to my money excess?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Listen to.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Good Morning Texas, Morning your car mon Tex and we're happy.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
To don't about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're not wearing.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Good Morning Morning tex Mory morning Wake that's your God,
damn my care. So a little perspective provider.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Last week, I think it was Wednesday, I got an email.
And I talk a lot about our emails because that's
my communication medium with a lot of people, and I
hear from a lot of people with different backgrounds and
experiences and input, and I.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Really thoroughly enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
But it takes its toll because you're communicating with a
lot of people, and there are people that get angry
that you don't respond to them, and there are people
that it just goes on and on and on. But
the trade off is it really helps me and I
enjoy it. If I'm honest, I enjoy it so because
you can't have that many phone calls and you can't
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can't text with everybody. That'd be weird. So it is
a good way. And I take pride in the fact
that anybody can reach me. Anybody can go to our website,
send me an email, and I will at least hear
what you say. Now you learn that people can be crazy.
They will, they will get upset if they send an
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email and you don't respond, You don't you don't promote
their you know they're having a barbecue plate a fundraiser
on Saturday at the VFW for Bob and it's ten dollars.
At least you could do is respond because it's in Belleville,
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or it's in New Caney, or it's in Pasadena. And
they're upset. Why didn't you do that? They don't know
you've had three hundred other requests for that. But anyway,
enough of that, you don't care. Neither do I. So
I get an email from a fellow last week and
it's his opinions on this or that, and I notice
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in his profile pick that he's in a wheelchair and
appears to be sort of stuff upper body. So I
sent back, you know, what is your condition? And he
says CB a cpiece. I think it was cerebral palsy.
I could be wrong on that, but I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And so.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I sent back and we had a couple of exchanges,
and I said, Hey, would you like to come on
the show and talk about living with CP. I don't
know that much about it, and I bet other people don't.
And so I'm thinking to myself, and I'm always mindful
of the fact that you know, when you're driving along
the road or when you're in the line at the
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grocery store. There's somebody struggling with something. You have no
idea they got Chrome's disease, or they got a bag
on their belly they have to poop into, or you know,
they've always different conditions and we just take for granted,
you know, our basic help. So I said, hey, would
you like to come on the show and talk about that?
And he said, well, and again I'm paraphrasing, I'm not
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looking at it, so I don't and I'm sure he's
going to lose his mind that I've not said this correctly,
with something to the effect of, you know, will it
makes sense?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You know, I don't know the way I talk.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And he said, here's the audio recording of me talking.
So I sent it to Jim and Jim said, it'll
be fine. We'll record it after the show and then
if he needs to start and stop, that'll be okay.
So we'll do it at eleven when the show finishes. Okay,
So this is on Wednesday, So I said, you know,
Friday's open line.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Friday, we'll do it Friday.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, I'm a very forgetful person, and I will I
will own that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I will tell you every time.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It doesn't mean I don't like you if I don't
remember your name or your face, or where we met
sixteen years ago, or where Friday I completely forget. We
have the phone lines off because it was July fourth,
and you know, there we're going.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
This was I guess two fridays ago, and so things
get busy, emails get lost. I didn't have them on.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So yesterday he posts to Facebook. I start to Twitter
our exchange.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
The good news is because I joke with people a lot.
If you were to say, hey, somebody posted an exchange
between you and them on Twitter, I'd go, oh, okay, Well,
I mean I said it, but this was okay. Well,
I'd like to get you on the air. I think
people would like to hear your story and him going okay.
But he posts with that that you know, I thought
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you were.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gonna have me on.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You didn't hit me on, and you say you good
had me on.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So I replied, no, good deed goes unpunished. You know,
I don't know if you thought this was a way
to get us to get you on sooner. We're trying
to coordinate it. Ramon is out. Chad's traveling Jim's holding down.
I mean, we got a lot going on here. I'm
sorry that you were not accommodated the second you wanted
and now you're going public with it, but it made
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me think of something immediately. Russell Lebarr posted something yesterday
that I saw. It said, what would you do? Our
restaurants all for veterans of fifty percent discount up to
ten dollars each time they visit one of our twenty
two locations. Recently, a veteran's spouse contacted us after her
husband passed away and asked if his discount could be
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extended to her. In fact, she insisted that it should,
arguing that certain veterans survivors benefits transferred to a surviving spouse. Now,
mind you, they're just giving fifty percent off to a veteran.
She's now mad, her husband has died and she desires
to get those We expressed our sincere appreciation for her
husband's service and for her family's sacrifice, but we also
explained that our discount is intended specifically for individuals who
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have served in the military. To ensure fairness and consistency,
our team members verify eligible to be a requesting a
valid military idea whenever the discount is applied. This allows
us to enforce the policy uniformly across all our locations.
We recognize the situations like this are sensitive, and we
genuinely want to honor those who have served while maintaining
a clear and consistent policy for all guests. What are
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your thoughts wherever? You come down on them? And some
people will think.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You got to give it for You got to give
everybody for you all the time, he said, did you
just run around? You just got to give everybody free.
You gotta have the guy on the minute you said
you'd have him money. You got to have him on
five minutes later, while we were already off the air
by the day.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But it just goes to show that, you know, sometimes
the restaurant owner, of the talk show host, the guy
you run into, they've had to deal with the general public.
And I'm just gonna be honest with you, the general
public is crazy, So don't take it personally, guys.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Sometimes that guy's just he's had enough of the crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I've been listening to a podcast again and I had
sworn off for a while. It's called the History of
Rock and Roll and five hundred songs by a guy
named Andrew Hickey, and he does a lot of things
that annoy me, Like at the beginning, everyone, he's got
this real whiny voice, and he's about his stable as
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Lena Hidalgo, and things upset him and he goes into
mental health crises and he'll start everyone and say, you know,
warning that this episode will include references to child abuse smoking.
I don't know smoking, but child abuse violence. And it's
a story. You know, if it's a story is about
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Ike Turner beating up Tina, then warrenet is going to
be a reference to violence in here. Oh no, in
this whole you know, this is that therapy generation of
everything triggers them and they're just running around looking to
be triggered and it's just gross. Anyway, I just finished
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an episode on Jimmy Cliff and it's called Many Rivers
to Cross, and it's about the the Jamaican and Caribbean
really Jamaican music scene coming up in the fifties and
sixties and what would end up as reggae, but before
that was rock steady and ska and how the beats
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were made and how it wasn't until that music started
making it in England and then eventually in the US,
which came much later than I realized. Even Marlee was
not big in the US until much later than I realized.
But it's fascinating because it didn't have to be Marley.
It could have been Jimmy Cliff that that was the
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superstar here representative of reggae it. You know, there are reasons,
but just happened to be Bob Marley.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's a good podcast. Although morning in advance he has
a whiny voice. He's mentally disturbed and overly into therapy.
But his research into rock and roll and the history
and his storytelling with it and the use of the music,
it really appeals to me. I received an email from
Sandy Peterson this morning and she said, this is the
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most balanced review of Lindsey Graham I've seen. I think
you should read it because I don't really like to
read a lot of long things that rather you just
synopsize it for it, synthesize it for me.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So for Herrison, yes, I read the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
She had to be giving it her highest recommendation, and
it was worthy of its fellow named Jeremy Carl He's
at something called the Claremont Institute, which is a think tank,
and he wrote, reading all of the various tributes to
Lindsey Graham over the past few days, I've come away
with a few thoughts.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Number One.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I had always thought Lindsay Graham was a formidable intra
party opponent, but even I had underestimated how politically powerful.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And influential Lindsay Graham was.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That was a tribute to both his relentless work ethic,
his personal charm and sense of humor, and just as important,
his willingness to be a team player rather than make
a futile stand on principle when the chips were down
in general elections, he raised money for and campaigned for
candidates who had been quite critical of him personally. On
the latter points, many of his biggest critics in the
party could learn a lot. The fact that he could
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so impress a master politician like Trump with his political
skills tells you everything you need to know there.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Number two.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
He had a largely coherent set of beliefs, particularly in
the foreign policy sphere, and he advocated those relentlessly and unapologetically.
His relatively modest networks suggests that he wasn't financially corrupt
number three, and yet on the most important issues, especially
where he diverged from the new Right enabled by Trump,
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Graham was badly wrong, and Republicans should not hesitate to
say so, even now, perhaps especially now. He was a
principal argument of a militarily hyper aggressive US policy that
led to one strategic disaster after another, starting with the
Iraq War and going onward from there. And he was
arguably the Jew's most influential lifelong champion of immigration amnesty,
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only dropping his co sponsorship of the Dream Act during
his final year in Congress. That's this past year, after
his position was overwhelmingly and convincingly opposed by so many
Republican voters that Graham, facing a twenty twenty six reelection
bid in November, waived the white flag. Graham's political life
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shows both and limitations of political skill. He was clearly
an enormously effective advocate for his positions, but in key
areas his positions were badly wrong and dragged the party backward,
both substantively and politically.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Politics. Winning elections and influencing.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
The debate are skills, valuable skills, and really they are
the skills almost exclusively valued by Washington, and Graham was
clearly a master of them. But while they are necessary,
they are not sufficient to constitute a successful political life.
To do that, those skills must be harnessed to wise policies.
Many talented politicians win election after election and influence debates,
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but they do it towards destructive policies. Sadly, this will
be Lindsay Graham's principal legacy. While Graham's friends and loved
ones and those he genuinely helped in politics rightly mourn
his loss, at a policy level, a post Graham Republican
Party will be far stronger than it was when he
was legislating, and Conservatives should not hesitate to say so
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after his death, as we most certainly did during his lifetime.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Proper respect for the.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Dead does not include the need to embrace that person's
failed policy agenda, and I would take that one step further.
I think that our need to be the nice neighbor,
which is the destruction of white people in America, It's
destruction of white Christians in America. It's the destruction of
the Republican Party in America's destruction of America generally. This
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need to be nice all the time. I think that
this need to be nice ends up sugar coating a
career that did a great deal of harm, and a
career that was marked by an obnoxious aberration from the views,
from the.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Desires of his constituents.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Do I need to remind you it was just a
few months ago that he said, I'm going back to
California and tell them that their children are going to
need to go to Iran and fight a war. You
go to Iran and fight a war. I don't believe
in dragging America and your boys and my voice into
foreign wars. I don't think Iraq was a success. I
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know Afghanistan wasn't a success, and we'll wait and see
on your own.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
So sure, those who knew him and appreciate.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
His political skills can rightfully mornings, but his contribution to
the policies of this country, which will outlast all of us,
were dreadful. Donia Rights, Can you just stop talking about
Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
We get it you didn't like him, Now he's dead.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Move on, Just stop to talk about how bad the
man was. Wasn't my favorite either, but he's dead. Stop
being pissed off that some people did like him. Not
your concern. Actually it is my concern, and it's your
concern too. See if I talk about Bob Marley for
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five segments, you won't complain. But I talk about my
favorite way to eat fried chicken or the best fried
catfish in the Gulf Coast, you won't complain. But if
I talk about Lindsey Graham a handful of days after
he's died, while the narrative is still being sculpted.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You will say, move on. He's dead.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Okay, he is dead. But what doesn't die with him
is the bloodlust the foreign policies that says we're going
to fight the wars of other countries. We're going to
go inject ourselves into the civil wars of Vietnam, of Korea,
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of Ukraine and Russia, of Iraq, of Afghanistan.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And there are plenty more.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
And that is more important than almost everything we do
in this country.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Our decisions as to.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Whether we go to war and in what manner, and
for how long and how and what when we exit
and how we exit, those decisions will shape whether we
will continue as a powerful nation, and perhaps even as
a nation at all. Those are far more important than
anything else we talk about, believe it or not, And
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the single most influential person in that discussion is not
the senator from Mississippi or Idaho or Vermont or Montana
or Wyoming or Kansas or Nevada. It was and has
been for at least twenty years, Lindsey Graham. That's incredibly important.
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Did I Liken No despised him, and so did most people.
But that's not why I'm talking about this. I'm talking
about legacy because I'm going to tell you what's going
to happen. We're going to have things that are going
to be done in Lindsey Graham's honor, because that's how
DC works, because DC knows there's a lot of dnia's
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out there. All right, guys, now, y'all had your opinions
and everything. But now that he's dead, let's let's all
rally around. Let's name a ship for him, Let's let's
start a new war for him. What he'd want is
to us is for us to send fifty billion dollars
to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Let's do it for Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I know, no, Sorry, I ain't doing it for Lindsey.
You're not sending my boys and my money to Ukraine.
Why are you We got it, you didn't like him,
but now he's dead, in him dead, And all least
you could do is put aside all your principles and
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do what we want you to do for Lindsey and
tomorrow we'll do it for Nancy Pelosi in the day after,
for Mitch McConnell. And you know, John Cornyn, did you
give us twenty four years?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And no, we might not have liked him, but he
did the best he could do. He tried hard. He
wasn't all bad.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Remember that one time he said something good at the
Kavanaugh hearings. Yeah, and Ted Kennedy, we know you don't
like him, but he was the lion of the Senate.
The Republicans told us, so we could name some buildings
for him. And why are you opposed to naming all
these buildings for Sheila jacksonline, We got it, you don't
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like her.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
She's dead. Move on, Well, she's.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Dead, but but her political alliance with Rodney Ellis put
her daughter in as the Harris County judge, I mean,
as you know, as basically the Harris County judge, the
Harris County administrator, and she's running the county behind the scenes,
and she's handing out contracts based on race and friendship.
Well that's all the same thing, really, And so she's
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running the county as an unelected official. There were over
four hundred people and she was the one chosen. What
were the odds of that? There were people with amazing experiences,
but there was Sheila. We haven't named a building in
public in this community in thirty years for.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Any one other than Lee P.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Brown.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Doctor Lee P. Brown. He's got a doctor of whatever.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And Sheila Jackson Lene. That's who we named buildings for.
George Foreman came and went. Not we now name anything
for him?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Why would we?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
He was just a guy that showed incredible resilience, a
man of God, a father to his children, a guy
who gave back to his community, a guy who rose
up on the streets poor and probably, by all accounts
his account, should have ended up in prison and found
a way. A man who won gold for the country
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and danced around the sixty eight Olympics with the little
American flag he had tucked in his trousers because he
was proud to be an American, An America that we
were being told in nineteen sixty eight by the Black
panther closed fist, clinched fist was awful to black people,
and he saw it as an America of opportunity, and
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he seized on that opportunity. But lord, no, we wouldn't
name a building for George Foreman. No, No, it's Sheila
Jackson Lee. And they struck while the iron was hot,
while nobody would complain because by doing it. The minute
she died, who other than me is going to say
that's an awful idea. She was a monstrous person with
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dragon breath and a horrible legacy, a terrible legacy of
corruption and evil, and it lives on, and it lives
on because the nice neighbor that we all are. Well,
let's not speak ill of her now she's died. Now,
you know, you know, I get it. You don't like her. Okay,
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you don't like her. Okay, but let it go. Okay,
let it go. We get it you don't like her,
but you don't have to speak ill of her. Well,
what about Hitler? Can I speak ill of Hitler? Not
a fan of him either? What about when Obama dies?
We're all going to rush to say, well, he was
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our first black president. You know, and I mean he
wasn't all bad. You know, I voted for him twice.
You know, I mean I did regret it. I'll admit
I regretted it, but you know he did the best
he could do. What about his wife, Well, she was
trying to get people to be healthy. This desperate need
to be nice that we have so engendered among our people.
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That was wonderful when we were an island isolated from
the rest of the world, when our culture dominated the
American landscape and the outliers were Mom, Donnie and Sheila
Jackson Lee. That world has changed. Friend, You're the minority.
Now you are up against people. Amy Cony Barrett, Supreme
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Court Justice testifying before Congress yesterday talking about the death threat,
serious legitimate, credible death threat. The thing's done to her
and her family. Look at how her votes have changed
since those death threats started. She's scared out of her mind.
She needs to resign. She can't do the job they
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are winning. ICE announced this morning that they have told
their agents no more traffic stops for a while, because
when you try to stop and get the illegal aliens,
they fight back and try to kill you, so you.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Have to kill them.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And then they're the whole apparatus comes at you, so
they win. No traffic stops, no deportations. Jim just said,
you don't hear harmonica at all.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's true. I love harmonica. Still hear it. In some.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Texas Red Dirt Cody Canada will whip out his harmonica
in the middle of a song.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He'll be playing his guitar and put his cigarette.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Down in the fret down at the end to hold
it for a minute, pull his harmonica out.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
He just knows what key's gonna be in. It's just perfect.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
And then he'll play us harmonica in the middle of
the song while Stony LaRue or somebody sings, just in
the middle of every then go back to singing and
then play. It's a super cool moment when we have
house parties and have five or six singers around the group,
and at some point I'll if it's not Josh's turn
be the lead singer, so it's Corey Morrow or somebody
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else singing. I'll look at Josh Fuller and I'll kind
of give him the pull out the mouth harp and
he has this look like, oh, I hadn't looked at Michael,
because now I have to acknowledge his request, and then
he'll go dig it in his bag and pull his
harmonica out, and it just adds so much, just makes
it so nice. Oh, it's the best, It's it's fantastic.
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So oh we have a phone call.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And then I would like to hear from folks about
your crazy experience. If you are a retailer, you tell retail,
you sell retail goods, you deal with the public. I
say this all the time before you go right in
that Yelp review and enlighten somebody up have too bad experiences,
not one. I understand that most people see the whole
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world through the lens of their own life. There's not
realizing that you too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You too.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
If you were owning a restaurant, you'd get tired of
the guy who comes in and or the woman who
comes in and says, my husband was a veteran.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay, I want fifty percent off. Okay, where is he?
He died?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
You should honor him. We go, well, chursal' I don't
know that your husband was.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You don't like veterans.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I'm starting to campaign against you.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
WHOA you were supposed to give fifty percent off to veterans.
I'm supposed to gringos did that to be nice.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I will tell you when you own a place, any
kind of place the public comes to, there is a
certain segment of society that will come in. And this
isn't racial, it isn't sex, it isn't even age. There
are certain and it's not even socioeconomic. There are certain
people for whom it's a game, it's a challenge, it's
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a mission to come in and find some way and
twist your kindness again. If you say it on Thursday,
if you come in, we'll give you a free appetizer
and an ice cream. There are people who will come
in on Wednesday or Friday, say go ahead and take
my free ice cream and appetizer.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Sorry, that's only on third.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You can't do it today. No, why can't you do
it today? If you can give it away on Thursday,
you can give it away today. Well, I can give
it away never. You can get the f out of
my face. You can never come here again. I don't
like you. See, the customer is not always right, and
it takes a long time and a lot of anger
that you have to reconcile until you understand what it's
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like to be on the other side of the cash register,
because if you have only ever been a consumer, you
always see that person on the other side.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
As your enemy.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
There are just some money grubbing get rich quick, doesn't
care about you, doesn't realize about inflation, doesn't know that
your dollar's not going far enough, when most of the
time you may more than they do. Anyway, there are
months they don't make a penny, and there they are,
and guess what, they got to work earlier than you did.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
They're gonna stay later than you did.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
And at your job, if a window gets busted out
by thug overnight, you don't have to be called up
there at two thirty in the morning to meet the officer,
file the report, and sweep up the glass and then
find some plywood to seal it up so nobody else
comes in when you go home and go to bed,
or maybe you just sleep there for the night with
a pistol.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, that doesn't happen at your job.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
So maybe, just maybe at twelve eighteen when you go
walking in in your mood, that guy's been there all night,
it happens, or maybe they're cooke didn't show up today,
that happens, or maybe they're cooked. Didn't show up because
he got a DWIO overnight and he's down in Galveston.
Now you got to go bail him out, and you
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got nobody to cook. Ooh man, that's a rough one,
isn't it? That happens? Or your hostess who's supposed to
be working up at the front, you've got a party
coming in. She's the only one that knows the people
that are in the party. She's not feeling good today,
so she decided not to come in because she's not
as committed as you are.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I'm not trying to make excuses for people. I am saying.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
It's a good thing to have the perspective to look
at other people sometimes and understand the difficulties of doing
what they're doing. Because if you go to most countries,
and the Europeans who came here prove this. You go
to most countries, you don't have the options we do.
We want a fertile environment, fertile ground for people to
open businesses. We want them to thrive, we want them
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to succeed. We want them to love what they do,
because that gives us options. Not may I eat at home,
I cook my own, dude, I don't need to eat out.
I don't go and eat out like you do every day.
I say, you've owned Facebook eating out every day. I
cook my own, fit my face batter. Okay, Well, there
will come a time, and maybe it won't even be
a restaurant. Maybe it'll be a hardware store, maybe be
(29:57):
a bike shop, maybe a tire shop. It will come
a time when you would wish there is a locally
owned and opera. Maybe, just maybe it'll be that one
time in your lifetime that you cut loose ten dollars
and go out and eat because your granddaughter graduated and
that's what she wanted to do to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I cook my own food. My food is better anyway.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Okay, well, then nothing of what I said would make
any sense anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Is it? Rooster? Is that his name? Rooster? You're up?
Stop me from yelling?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Just yelling?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Good? Can you hear me? I can hear you?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Go ahead, Yeah, I'm sitting here on my porch listening
to you. And it always amazes me the things that
you say and so eloquently say them same thing that
I have thought, but I can't put them in words
like you do. But this deal with Sheila Jackson Lee
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and others like her that are.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Well. I won't talk that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Bad about them, but they don't deserve what you spoke about.
There's name and buildings after I'm everything, because then that
justifies everything they did wrong exactly. And so I was
just sitting here amazed that you said said it as
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eloquently as you did. I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I'm very kind of you, mister.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I appreciate that, you know. I think about the long
term effects. The things that Sheila Jackson Lee pushed are
going to come back around in the voice of her successors.
And when they do, they're going to say, let's do
this for Sheila, and you'll go, Sheila, she was dreadful.
But the people who wouldn't say she was dreadful right
(31:44):
after she died will now realize, Oh, that Sheila they're
talking about is very different than the dragon breast Sheila
that was alive, and now in her honor, they're going
to accomplish what she could not accomplish when alive because
we were too nice to stand up to it. The
nice neighbor. That's the collapse of Western civilization. We were
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too nice to say no at the border, too nice
to say no to the welfare fraud
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. Good morning, Michael,
it's Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What's this I hear about Ramon being on some kind
of pansy vacation for two weeks?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Why the hell? Em and we ordered the code red.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning, Jah, it's your favorite Detective Colombo here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Interesting coincidence that Lena Hidalgo is out with that mono
and Ramon disappears for two weeks now, Mister Barry, I
would hate to find out that Ramon was playing the
smoochy woocie with that looney Lena.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Like zoid school.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I think Ramone got mono from Lena Hidalgo.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Woo, that's gross and I schniff my own butt.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
My god, did somebody say own might have gotten mono
from Lena Hidalgo?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Dear Lord, somebody get my pro paint and some comment.
We've got work to do.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Good money, Michael Brey, How you learned they all ready
to my money excess?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Listen to.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Good Morning Texas, Morning your car mon Tex and we're happy.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
To don't about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're not wearing.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Good Morning Morning tex Mory morning Wake that's your God,
damn my care. So a little perspective provider.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Last week, I think it was Wednesday, I got an email.
And I talk a lot about our emails because that's
my communication medium with a lot of people, and I
hear from a lot of people with different backgrounds and
experiences and input, and I.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Really thoroughly enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
But it takes its toll because you're communicating with a
lot of people, and there are people that get angry
that you don't respond to them, and there are people
that it just goes on and on and on. But
the trade off is it really helps me and I
enjoy it. If I'm honest, I enjoy it so because
you can't have that many phone calls and you can't
(02:49):
can't text with everybody. That'd be weird. So it is
a good way. And I take pride in the fact
that anybody can reach me. Anybody can go to our website,
send me an email, and I will at least hear
what you say. Now you learn that people can be crazy.
They will, they will get upset if they send an
(03:09):
email and you don't respond, You don't you don't promote
their you know they're having a barbecue plate a fundraiser
on Saturday at the VFW for Bob and it's ten dollars.
At least you could do is respond because it's in Belleville,
(03:30):
or it's in New Caney, or it's in Pasadena. And
they're upset. Why didn't you do that? They don't know
you've had three hundred other requests for that. But anyway,
enough of that, you don't care. Neither do I. So
I get an email from a fellow last week and
it's his opinions on this or that, and I notice
(03:51):
in his profile pick that he's in a wheelchair and
appears to be sort of stuff upper body. So I
sent back, you know, what is your condition? And he
says CB a cpiece. I think it was cerebral palsy.
I could be wrong on that, but I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And so.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I sent back and we had a couple of exchanges,
and I said, Hey, would you like to come on
the show and talk about living with CP. I don't
know that much about it, and I bet other people don't.
And so I'm thinking to myself, and I'm always mindful
of the fact that you know, when you're driving along
the road or when you're in the line at the
(04:34):
grocery store. There's somebody struggling with something. You have no
idea they got Chrome's disease, or they got a bag
on their belly they have to poop into, or you know,
they've always different conditions and we just take for granted,
you know, our basic help. So I said, hey, would
you like to come on the show and talk about that?
And he said, well, and again I'm paraphrasing, I'm not
(04:56):
looking at it, so I don't and I'm sure he's
going to lose his mind that I've not said this correctly,
with something to the effect of, you know, will it
makes sense?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You know, I don't know the way I talk.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And he said, here's the audio recording of me talking.
So I sent it to Jim and Jim said, it'll
be fine. We'll record it after the show and then
if he needs to start and stop, that'll be okay.
So we'll do it at eleven when the show finishes. Okay,
So this is on Wednesday, So I said, you know,
Friday's open line.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Friday, we'll do it Friday.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, I'm a very forgetful person, and I will I
will own that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I will tell you every time.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It doesn't mean I don't like you if I don't
remember your name or your face, or where we met
sixteen years ago, or where Friday I completely forget. We
have the phone lines off because it was July fourth,
and you know, there we're going.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
This was I guess two fridays ago, and so things
get busy, emails get lost. I didn't have them on.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So yesterday he posts to Facebook. I start to Twitter
our exchange.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
The good news is because I joke with people a lot.
If you were to say, hey, somebody posted an exchange
between you and them on Twitter, I'd go, oh, okay, Well,
I mean I said it, but this was okay. Well,
I'd like to get you on the air. I think
people would like to hear your story and him going okay.
But he posts with that that you know, I thought
(06:27):
you were.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gonna have me on.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You didn't hit me on, and you say you good
had me on.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So I replied, no, good deed goes unpunished. You know,
I don't know if you thought this was a way
to get us to get you on sooner. We're trying
to coordinate it. Ramon is out. Chad's traveling Jim's holding down.
I mean, we got a lot going on here. I'm
sorry that you were not accommodated the second you wanted
and now you're going public with it, but it made
(06:52):
me think of something immediately. Russell Lebarr posted something yesterday
that I saw. It said, what would you do? Our
restaurants all for veterans of fifty percent discount up to
ten dollars each time they visit one of our twenty
two locations. Recently, a veteran's spouse contacted us after her
husband passed away and asked if his discount could be
(07:12):
extended to her. In fact, she insisted that it should,
arguing that certain veterans survivors benefits transferred to a surviving spouse. Now,
mind you, they're just giving fifty percent off to a veteran.
She's now mad, her husband has died and she desires
to get those We expressed our sincere appreciation for her
husband's service and for her family's sacrifice, but we also
explained that our discount is intended specifically for individuals who
(07:36):
have served in the military. To ensure fairness and consistency,
our team members verify eligible to be a requesting a
valid military idea whenever the discount is applied. This allows
us to enforce the policy uniformly across all our locations.
We recognize the situations like this are sensitive, and we
genuinely want to honor those who have served while maintaining
a clear and consistent policy for all guests. What are
(07:57):
your thoughts wherever? You come down on them? And some
people will think.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You got to give it for You got to give
everybody for you all the time, he said, did you
just run around? You just got to give everybody free.
You gotta have the guy on the minute you said
you'd have him money. You got to have him on
five minutes later, while we were already off the air
by the day.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But it just goes to show that, you know, sometimes
the restaurant owner, of the talk show host, the guy
you run into, they've had to deal with the general public.
And I'm just gonna be honest with you, the general
public is crazy, So don't take it personally, guys.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Sometimes that guy's just he's had enough of the crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I've been listening to a podcast again and I had
sworn off for a while. It's called the History of
Rock and Roll and five hundred songs by a guy
named Andrew Hickey, and he does a lot of things
that annoy me, Like at the beginning, everyone, he's got
this real whiny voice, and he's about his stable as
(08:51):
Lena Hidalgo, and things upset him and he goes into
mental health crises and he'll start everyone and say, you know,
warning that this episode will include references to child abuse smoking.
I don't know smoking, but child abuse violence. And it's
a story. You know, if it's a story is about
(09:12):
Ike Turner beating up Tina, then warrenet is going to
be a reference to violence in here. Oh no, in
this whole you know, this is that therapy generation of
everything triggers them and they're just running around looking to
be triggered and it's just gross. Anyway, I just finished
(09:34):
an episode on Jimmy Cliff and it's called Many Rivers
to Cross, and it's about the the Jamaican and Caribbean
really Jamaican music scene coming up in the fifties and
sixties and what would end up as reggae, but before
that was rock steady and ska and how the beats
(09:56):
were made and how it wasn't until that music started
making it in England and then eventually in the US,
which came much later than I realized. Even Marlee was
not big in the US until much later than I realized.
But it's fascinating because it didn't have to be Marley.
It could have been Jimmy Cliff that that was the
(10:18):
superstar here representative of reggae it. You know, there are reasons,
but just happened to be Bob Marley.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's a good podcast. Although morning in advance he has
a whiny voice. He's mentally disturbed and overly into therapy.
But his research into rock and roll and the history
and his storytelling with it and the use of the music,
it really appeals to me. I received an email from
Sandy Peterson this morning and she said, this is the
(10:47):
most balanced review of Lindsey Graham I've seen. I think
you should read it because I don't really like to
read a lot of long things that rather you just
synopsize it for it, synthesize it for me.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So for Herrison, yes, I read the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
She had to be giving it her highest recommendation, and
it was worthy of its fellow named Jeremy Carl He's
at something called the Claremont Institute, which is a think tank,
and he wrote, reading all of the various tributes to
Lindsey Graham over the past few days, I've come away
with a few thoughts.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Number One.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I had always thought Lindsay Graham was a formidable intra
party opponent, but even I had underestimated how politically powerful.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And influential Lindsay Graham was.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That was a tribute to both his relentless work ethic,
his personal charm and sense of humor, and just as important,
his willingness to be a team player rather than make
a futile stand on principle when the chips were down
in general elections, he raised money for and campaigned for
candidates who had been quite critical of him personally. On
the latter points, many of his biggest critics in the
party could learn a lot. The fact that he could
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so impress a master politician like Trump with his political
skills tells you everything you need to know there.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Number two.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
He had a largely coherent set of beliefs, particularly in
the foreign policy sphere, and he advocated those relentlessly and unapologetically.
His relatively modest networks suggests that he wasn't financially corrupt
number three, and yet on the most important issues, especially
where he diverged from the new Right enabled by Trump,
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Graham was badly wrong, and Republicans should not hesitate to
say so, even now, perhaps especially now. He was a
principal argument of a militarily hyper aggressive US policy that
led to one strategic disaster after another, starting with the
Iraq War and going onward from there. And he was
arguably the Jew's most influential lifelong champion of immigration amnesty,
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only dropping his co sponsorship of the Dream Act during
his final year in Congress. That's this past year, after
his position was overwhelmingly and convincingly opposed by so many
Republican voters that Graham, facing a twenty twenty six reelection
bid in November, waived the white flag. Graham's political life
(12:59):
shows both and limitations of political skill. He was clearly
an enormously effective advocate for his positions, but in key
areas his positions were badly wrong and dragged the party backward,
both substantively and politically.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Politics. Winning elections and influencing.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
The debate are skills, valuable skills, and really they are
the skills almost exclusively valued by Washington, and Graham was
clearly a master of them. But while they are necessary,
they are not sufficient to constitute a successful political life.
To do that, those skills must be harnessed to wise policies.
Many talented politicians win election after election and influence debates,
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but they do it towards destructive policies. Sadly, this will
be Lindsay Graham's principal legacy. While Graham's friends and loved
ones and those he genuinely helped in politics rightly mourn
his loss, at a policy level, a post Graham Republican
Party will be far stronger than it was when he
was legislating, and Conservatives should not hesitate to say so
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after his death, as we most certainly did during his lifetime.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Proper respect for the.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Dead does not include the need to embrace that person's
failed policy agenda, and I would take that one step further.
I think that our need to be the nice neighbor,
which is the destruction of white people in America, It's
destruction of white Christians in America. It's the destruction of
the Republican Party in America's destruction of America generally. This
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need to be nice all the time. I think that
this need to be nice ends up sugar coating a
career that did a great deal of harm, and a
career that was marked by an obnoxious aberration from the views,
from the.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Desires of his constituents.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Do I need to remind you it was just a
few months ago that he said, I'm going back to
California and tell them that their children are going to
need to go to Iran and fight a war. You
go to Iran and fight a war. I don't believe
in dragging America and your boys and my voice into
foreign wars. I don't think Iraq was a success. I
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know Afghanistan wasn't a success, and we'll wait and see
on your own.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
So sure, those who knew him and appreciate.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
His political skills can rightfully mornings, but his contribution to
the policies of this country, which will outlast all of us,
were dreadful. Donia Rights, Can you just stop talking about
Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
We get it you didn't like him, Now he's dead.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Move on, Just stop to talk about how bad the
man was. Wasn't my favorite either, but he's dead. Stop
being pissed off that some people did like him. Not
your concern. Actually it is my concern, and it's your
concern too. See if I talk about Bob Marley for
(16:03):
five segments, you won't complain. But I talk about my
favorite way to eat fried chicken or the best fried
catfish in the Gulf Coast, you won't complain. But if
I talk about Lindsey Graham a handful of days after
he's died, while the narrative is still being sculpted.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You will say, move on. He's dead.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Okay, he is dead. But what doesn't die with him
is the bloodlust the foreign policies that says we're going
to fight the wars of other countries. We're going to
go inject ourselves into the civil wars of Vietnam, of Korea,
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of Ukraine and Russia, of Iraq, of Afghanistan.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And there are plenty more.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
And that is more important than almost everything we do
in this country.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Our decisions as to.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Whether we go to war and in what manner, and
for how long and how and what when we exit
and how we exit, those decisions will shape whether we
will continue as a powerful nation, and perhaps even as
a nation at all. Those are far more important than
anything else we talk about, believe it or not, And
(17:34):
the single most influential person in that discussion is not
the senator from Mississippi or Idaho or Vermont or Montana
or Wyoming or Kansas or Nevada. It was and has
been for at least twenty years, Lindsey Graham. That's incredibly important.
(17:59):
Did I Liken No despised him, and so did most people.
But that's not why I'm talking about this. I'm talking
about legacy because I'm going to tell you what's going
to happen. We're going to have things that are going
to be done in Lindsey Graham's honor, because that's how
DC works, because DC knows there's a lot of dnia's
(18:19):
out there. All right, guys, now, y'all had your opinions
and everything. But now that he's dead, let's let's all
rally around. Let's name a ship for him, Let's let's
start a new war for him. What he'd want is
to us is for us to send fifty billion dollars
to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Let's do it for Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I know, no, Sorry, I ain't doing it for Lindsey.
You're not sending my boys and my money to Ukraine.
Why are you We got it, you didn't like him,
but now he's dead, in him dead, And all least
you could do is put aside all your principles and
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do what we want you to do for Lindsey and
tomorrow we'll do it for Nancy Pelosi in the day after,
for Mitch McConnell. And you know, John Cornyn, did you
give us twenty four years?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And no, we might not have liked him, but he
did the best he could do. He tried hard. He
wasn't all bad.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Remember that one time he said something good at the
Kavanaugh hearings. Yeah, and Ted Kennedy, we know you don't
like him, but he was the lion of the Senate.
The Republicans told us, so we could name some buildings
for him. And why are you opposed to naming all
these buildings for Sheila jacksonline, We got it, you don't
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like her.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
She's dead. Move on, Well, she's.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Dead, but but her political alliance with Rodney Ellis put
her daughter in as the Harris County judge, I mean,
as you know, as basically the Harris County judge, the
Harris County administrator, and she's running the county behind the scenes,
and she's handing out contracts based on race and friendship.
Well that's all the same thing, really, And so she's
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running the county as an unelected official. There were over
four hundred people and she was the one chosen. What
were the odds of that? There were people with amazing experiences,
but there was Sheila. We haven't named a building in
public in this community in thirty years for.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Any one other than Lee P.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Brown.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Doctor Lee P. Brown. He's got a doctor of whatever.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And Sheila Jackson Lene. That's who we named buildings for.
George Foreman came and went. Not we now name anything
for him?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Why would we?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
He was just a guy that showed incredible resilience, a
man of God, a father to his children, a guy
who gave back to his community, a guy who rose
up on the streets poor and probably, by all accounts
his account, should have ended up in prison and found
a way. A man who won gold for the country
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and danced around the sixty eight Olympics with the little
American flag he had tucked in his trousers because he
was proud to be an American, An America that we
were being told in nineteen sixty eight by the Black
panther closed fist, clinched fist was awful to black people,
and he saw it as an America of opportunity, and
(21:30):
he seized on that opportunity. But lord, no, we wouldn't
name a building for George Foreman. No, No, it's Sheila
Jackson Lee. And they struck while the iron was hot,
while nobody would complain because by doing it. The minute
she died, who other than me is going to say
that's an awful idea. She was a monstrous person with
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dragon breath and a horrible legacy, a terrible legacy of
corruption and evil, and it lives on, and it lives
on because the nice neighbor that we all are. Well,
let's not speak ill of her now she's died. Now,
you know, you know, I get it. You don't like her. Okay,
(22:13):
you don't like her. Okay, but let it go. Okay,
let it go. We get it you don't like her,
but you don't have to speak ill of her. Well,
what about Hitler? Can I speak ill of Hitler? Not
a fan of him either? What about when Obama dies?
We're all going to rush to say, well, he was
(22:35):
our first black president. You know, and I mean he
wasn't all bad. You know, I voted for him twice.
You know, I mean I did regret it. I'll admit
I regretted it, but you know he did the best
he could do. What about his wife, Well, she was
trying to get people to be healthy. This desperate need
to be nice that we have so engendered among our people.
(23:00):
That was wonderful when we were an island isolated from
the rest of the world, when our culture dominated the
American landscape and the outliers were Mom, Donnie and Sheila
Jackson Lee. That world has changed. Friend, You're the minority.
Now you are up against people. Amy Cony Barrett, Supreme
(23:24):
Court Justice testifying before Congress yesterday talking about the death threat,
serious legitimate, credible death threat. The thing's done to her
and her family. Look at how her votes have changed
since those death threats started. She's scared out of her mind.
She needs to resign. She can't do the job they
(23:44):
are winning. ICE announced this morning that they have told
their agents no more traffic stops for a while, because
when you try to stop and get the illegal aliens,
they fight back and try to kill you, so you.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Have to kill them.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And then they're the whole apparatus comes at you, so
they win. No traffic stops, no deportations. Jim just said,
you don't hear harmonica at all.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's true. I love harmonica. Still hear it. In some.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Texas Red Dirt Cody Canada will whip out his harmonica
in the middle of a song.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
He'll be playing his guitar and put his cigarette.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Down in the fret down at the end to hold
it for a minute, pull his harmonica out.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
He just knows what key's gonna be in. It's just perfect.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
And then he'll play us harmonica in the middle of
the song while Stony LaRue or somebody sings, just in
the middle of every then go back to singing and
then play. It's a super cool moment when we have
house parties and have five or six singers around the group,
and at some point I'll if it's not Josh's turn
be the lead singer, so it's Corey Morrow or somebody
(25:03):
else singing. I'll look at Josh Fuller and I'll kind
of give him the pull out the mouth harp and
he has this look like, oh, I hadn't looked at Michael,
because now I have to acknowledge his request, and then
he'll go dig it in his bag and pull his
harmonica out, and it just adds so much, just makes
it so nice. Oh, it's the best, It's it's fantastic.
(25:29):
So oh we have a phone call.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And then I would like to hear from folks about
your crazy experience. If you are a retailer, you tell retail,
you sell retail goods, you deal with the public. I
say this all the time before you go right in
that Yelp review and enlighten somebody up have too bad experiences,
not one. I understand that most people see the whole
(25:54):
world through the lens of their own life. There's not
realizing that you too.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You too.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
If you were owning a restaurant, you'd get tired of
the guy who comes in and or the woman who
comes in and says, my husband was a veteran.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay, I want fifty percent off. Okay, where is he?
He died?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
You should honor him. We go, well, chursal' I don't
know that your husband was.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You don't like veterans.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I'm starting to campaign against you.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
WHOA you were supposed to give fifty percent off to veterans.
I'm supposed to gringos did that to be nice.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I will tell you when you own a place, any
kind of place the public comes to, there is a
certain segment of society that will come in. And this
isn't racial, it isn't sex, it isn't even age. There
are certain and it's not even socioeconomic. There are certain
people for whom it's a game, it's a challenge, it's
(26:53):
a mission to come in and find some way and
twist your kindness again. If you say it on Thursday,
if you come in, we'll give you a free appetizer
and an ice cream. There are people who will come
in on Wednesday or Friday, say go ahead and take
my free ice cream and appetizer.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Sorry, that's only on third.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
You can't do it today. No, why can't you do
it today? If you can give it away on Thursday,
you can give it away today. Well, I can give
it away never. You can get the f out of
my face. You can never come here again. I don't
like you. See, the customer is not always right, and
it takes a long time and a lot of anger
that you have to reconcile until you understand what it's
(27:39):
like to be on the other side of the cash register,
because if you have only ever been a consumer, you
always see that person on the other side.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
As your enemy.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
There are just some money grubbing get rich quick, doesn't
care about you, doesn't realize about inflation, doesn't know that
your dollar's not going far enough, when most of the
time you may more than they do. Anyway, there are
months they don't make a penny, and there they are,
and guess what, they got to work earlier than you did.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
They're gonna stay later than you did.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
And at your job, if a window gets busted out
by thug overnight, you don't have to be called up
there at two thirty in the morning to meet the officer,
file the report, and sweep up the glass and then
find some plywood to seal it up so nobody else
comes in when you go home and go to bed,
or maybe you just sleep there for the night with
a pistol.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, that doesn't happen at your job.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
So maybe, just maybe at twelve eighteen when you go
walking in in your mood, that guy's been there all night,
it happens, or maybe they're cooke didn't show up today,
that happens, or maybe they're cooked. Didn't show up because
he got a DWIO overnight and he's down in Galveston.
Now you got to go bail him out, and you
(28:53):
got nobody to cook. Ooh man, that's a rough one,
isn't it? That happens? Or your hostess who's supposed to
be working up at the front, you've got a party
coming in. She's the only one that knows the people
that are in the party. She's not feeling good today,
so she decided not to come in because she's not
as committed as you are.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I'm not trying to make excuses for people. I am saying.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
It's a good thing to have the perspective to look
at other people sometimes and understand the difficulties of doing
what they're doing. Because if you go to most countries,
and the Europeans who came here prove this. You go
to most countries, you don't have the options we do.
We want a fertile environment, fertile ground for people to
open businesses. We want them to thrive, we want them
(29:37):
to succeed. We want them to love what they do,
because that gives us options. Not may I eat at home,
I cook my own, dude, I don't need to eat out.
I don't go and eat out like you do every day.
I say, you've owned Facebook eating out every day. I
cook my own, fit my face batter. Okay, Well, there
will come a time, and maybe it won't even be
a restaurant. Maybe it'll be a hardware store, maybe be
(29:57):
a bike shop, maybe a tire shop. It will come
a time when you would wish there is a locally
owned and opera. Maybe, just maybe it'll be that one
time in your lifetime that you cut loose ten dollars
and go out and eat because your granddaughter graduated and
that's what she wanted to do to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I cook my own food. My food is better anyway.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Okay, well, then nothing of what I said would make
any sense anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Is it? Rooster? Is that his name? Rooster? You're up?
Stop me from yelling?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Just yelling?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Good? Can you hear me? I can hear you?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Go ahead, Yeah, I'm sitting here on my porch listening
to you. And it always amazes me the things that
you say and so eloquently say them same thing that
I have thought, but I can't put them in words
like you do. But this deal with Sheila Jackson Lee
(30:51):
and others like her that are.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Well. I won't talk that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Bad about them, but they don't deserve what you spoke about.
There's name and buildings after I'm everything, because then that
justifies everything they did wrong exactly. And so I was
just sitting here amazed that you said said it as
(31:17):
eloquently as you did. I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I'm very kind of you, mister.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I appreciate that, you know. I think about the long
term effects. The things that Sheila Jackson Lee pushed are
going to come back around in the voice of her successors.
And when they do, they're going to say, let's do
this for Sheila, and you'll go, Sheila, she was dreadful.
But the people who wouldn't say she was dreadful right
(31:44):
after she died will now realize, Oh, that Sheila they're
talking about is very different than the dragon breast Sheila
that was alive, and now in her honor, they're going
to accomplish what she could not accomplish when alive because
we were too nice to stand up to it. The
nice neighbor. That's the collapse of Western civilization. We were
(32:05):
too nice to say no at the border, too nice
to say no to the welfare fraud
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