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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time sign SI lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air, looking into
mic week, gotta feed in bed. I don't plan to shave,
and it's you've the thing, but I just gotta see
I'm doing it all right. We'll I'm mixing spots. I'm
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eating ready to and that's true. It's neither drink nor
drug and noo, I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Instagradad.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I know soun's still shining.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
On a close my eyes.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood. The five at every
over the Week, and Michael smurcunish, who is one of
the hosts on CNN, admonished his audience and particularly the
Democrat Party, saying, you've got to stop criticizing Trump at
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every corner, at every turn. You've got to give Trump
credit when he has a win. You've got to be
more reasonable. The American people know that his trade policies
are working. The American people know that the country is
doing well. The American people are very happy with what
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Trump is doing. If you don't acknowledge that and you
simply criticize him at every turn, you lose credibility. Well,
they took their own advice. They have a young fellow
named Harry Inton who does their polling numbers, and I
don't actually know his background. I'm bothered to look. But
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he has allowed the numbers to speak for themselves over
the last few months and repeatedly told the good numbers
for Trump and the bad numbers for Democrats. Well, this
right here is the most powerful statement they have made.
Behold CNN following their own advice and making a statement
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about Trump that I never expected to hear, partly because
I don't watch television at the airport, so I don't
watch CNN, partly because I've known CNN well enough to
know that this isn't the sort of thing they would say.
Listen carefully. This is Harry Inton with CNN calling Trump
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the most influential president of this century and probably dating
back to a good portion of the last century.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
The Donald Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century,
and probably as well, dating back a good portion of
the last century as well. Love it like it, lumpet,
Trump is remaking in the United States of America. Let's
talk about tariffs first, right, There's all this talk that
Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to taris
uh uh no tacos for Trump. The effective tariffray get
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this to eighteen percent, the highest, the highest since the
FDR administration in the nineteen thirties, up from get this,
just two percent last year, from just two percent last year.
We're talking about a level, an effective tariffray level get
this nine times as high this year than last year.
But is not just on tariffs, which of course Donald
Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
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What about immigration. Of course Trump ran and has always
run on a very hawkish immigration platform. Get this. Twenty
twenty five net migration in the United States down at
least sixty percent from last year. In fact, we may
be heading for the first time and at least fifty
years in which we have negative net negative migration into
the United States. And last year, of course, in twenty
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twenty four, the net migration in the US was two
point eight million.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
This year, we might be.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Talking about negative net migracious. My goodness, gracious, now, of
course this is part of the larger story. As I
was mentioning, we're talking about immigration, net migration, we're talking
about the effective tariff rate. But get this, how is
Donald Trump doing it? While he is signing a ton
of executive orders? Get this, one hundred and eighty the
most in a year since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Oh my goodness,
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you have to go back to the first half of
the twentieth century, the last century. And to make a comparison,
Joe Biden signed get this, just seventy seven during his
entire first year, and we're only a little bit in
August so far, and Donald Trump making history with one
hundred and eighty, one hundred and eighty executive orders signed
so far this year. So that's why I said that,
in my mind, Donald Trump is the most influential president
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of this century and probably dating back a good portion
of the last century. That is because he is remaking
the country in terms of tariffs, he is remaking the
country in terms of net migration, and he is remaking
the country in terms of how much policy changes he's
putting through in executive orders. As I said, it truly
is history making love it, like it or lump it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The only job growth in twenty twenty five is in
the private sector. No net job growth in the public sector.
There is so much to love about what's going on.
We'll unpack that as the show begins, but first I
want you to step back and think about being a
parent in your proudest moment. I received an email this
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morning about an hour ago from a fellow named Steve Rooney,
and Steve Rooney wrote, Czar, my son, John Rooney has
been fighting his way up to the major leagues for years.
He finally made it. Traded from Triple A Jacksonville, the
Marlins organization, the Houston Astros, Major League Baseball, small upstate
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New York school, class of sixty students, most of all
super humble and just loves people.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yes, I'm a proud dad.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
So I engaged him with an email, said tell me
more about your boy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Where did he play?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And he said, We lived and grew up in Upstate
New York, actually pretty rural country. We never did the
travel baseball circuit much focused much more on music, hiking, fishing, basketball.
He wasn't heavily recruited. He played an old Man's league
and when he was sixteen or seventeen went to the
Old Man's World Series in Long Island. Stand Usually the
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coach was there from Hostra University. Long Island saw him
pitch and said where's he going to college? And we
were like, what do you have in mind? He was
given an offer on the spot. Wasn't any good for
the first couple of years.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Then in his junior year he just lit it up.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He was named a Division one college All American and
then was drafted by the LA Dodgers in the third round.
I've been listening to the show since you came on
in Schenectady, New York years ago, listen every day, so
obviously I kind of feel like I know Houston somewhat
because of you. He's a really great conversation listen, super humble,
and then he gives me a cell phone number. I'm
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sure if you guys reach out, he would love to
talk to you. Anyway, keep doing what you're doing. Thank you,
mister Barry. You know it's easy to forget. A new
reliever comes in for the Astros, or a new kid
who's up at bat. You don't know him yet, he's
not considered a superstar, wasn't heavily recruited or heavily hyped.
But some guy that luis so and so gets sent
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to the miners so they can pick up this kid, Rooney,
nobody knows who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Comes in middle relief.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I don't know, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, thing they bring
him into early now and there he is pitching and anything. Oh,
I hope this guy's not a bum. But somewhere in
upstate New York, or outside Portland or east of Miami,
there are two parents just screaming their lungs out for
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their baby boy because they've been toting that kid the
baseball game since he was six, seven, eight years old.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
And he's in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And we don't even realize how excited they are.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Hike and I sticking to who am I sticking to?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Michael Berry?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Michael Berry, Yeah, I do enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Rocketing Man. Who is crazy? How Freddy went through he
hits his notes? Isn't it this crazy? I think it's
because he had the teeth pushing out. I think that
probably made it made it special for him.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The Rocketman turned sixty three years old today. Roger Clemens.
Only four pitchers in all of baseball history. You think
of how many games have been played over all those years.
Four pitchers have ever struck out twenty players in a game.
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The only other players to do it, Randy Johnson, Carrie Wood.
You remember he did it against the Astros and Max Schurzer.
Only four players, the fourth being Roger Clemens, and Clemens
being the only.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Guy to do it twice.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Here he was April twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Nineteen for Roger Tlennans.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Major that record tie.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
He has two batters to God to try to set.
I know on how matter of fact, I'm going to
stand up, no record flims I set.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I'm major legged record first track adis in a game.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Twenty It's really incredible. It's really incredible what he did
and how he did it. It's a great, great Houston story.
I used to love to watch Roger Clemens play the game,
but then again I loved watching John McEnroe play tennis.
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There are certain guys that make the game great that
I love to watch John Daly play golf. Heck, I'll
watched John daily clips of him barefoot in a bar.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I'll watch clips of him driving or putting with Tiger
and he's barefoot with cigarette and a drink in his
mouth at three o'clock in the afternoon. There are just
certain people that we don't expect to play by the
same rules, and we love them for it. They're just
larger than life.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It is.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Entertainment, after all. It is entertainment. Great story out of Beaumont,
Ramon and this is from Jim at six h three,
a recent graduate from Woodville High School of the Great
Fried Chicken Restaurant, is breaking new ground in the skilled trades.
We need more of this. He's the first student in
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Texas to complete a high school plumbing program and pass
the state exam to enter the workforce directly. Did I
mention he's still in high school. His name is Carmelo Castle,
He's eighteen. He graduated.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
He just graduated in May from Woodville High School's four
year plumbing program. This makes me so happy. And now
he's working as a second year tradesman level for the
local sixty eight Plumbing twelve news in Beaumont with a story.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
A Woodville ISD program is paving the way for future plumbers.
The high school's plumbing program gives kids hands on experience
which prepares them for the real world. Carmelo Castle is
the first graduate to need all the criteria and to
excel in the workforce. Twelve News reporter Spencer Plato got
to talk to him and the instructor, who says, the
district hoax. This is really going to inspire others to
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join the program.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Right, that's right, Jordan. The Woodville High School plumbing program
is only four years old. It's past May. They celebrated
their first graduate in the first in Texas to pass
the state exam straight out of a high school plumbing program.
And it goes straight to work.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So sit hard.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Remember it gave me a chance to like actually step
up in life.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
At just eighteen years old, Carmelo Castle is already working
at a second year tradesman level. It's all thanks to
the training he received through Woodville High School's plumbing program.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The fact that I'm so young doing this stuff, I mean,
you know, average teenagers are like partying and.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Stuff and all that. See, I had to actually like
be like the sip of one of the group.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Castle is the first graduate from the new plumbing program.
He's also the first in Texas to finish a high
school plumbing program and pass the state exam. Now he
works for Local sixty eight Plumbing.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
I was so used to it as soon as I
went in to where like it didn't really affect me.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
This is our shop area right here.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
It's a large shop, but we have this here primarily
for my class, which is the plumbing class.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
John Bunker is the Woodville High School plumbing instructor. He
says the program helps students get ahead start on their
careers with hands on experience.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
For them to be able to go through a class
such as this and then qualify right away to be
able to go and take their Plumbing Tradesmen exam and
if they pass, they have a license in their pocket.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Bunker says the demand for plumbers is increasing in the
Gulf Coast region.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
The average age of licensed plumbers is forty three and
the average age of apprentices is thirty seven, So we
need younger people coming into the workforce or we're going
to have some problems.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Haasel says he's grateful for the program and he believes
there's value in taking a different path.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, you can't really follow the same crowd oh day
and knowing that you're not going to get anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Bunker says they expect three Woodville High School students to
take the State Plumbing Exam this upcoming school year. In
the studio, Spencer twelve News.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It's incredible how much a kid can do while they're
still in high school, while they're still living at home.
At eighteen years old, you can get your real estate license,
full blown real estate license. You can begin a lot
of these trades programs, trade programs even if you end
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up not continuing in life as a plumber or an electrician.
We had a longtime show sponsor, the woman Helene Webster,
who was our big fan, and Bob Wilkinson before that.
They sponsored our show for twenty years. When Bob stepped down,
Helene stepped up to be the leader. And then when
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Helene left, they went a different direction because I guess
they were fans of our show. I don't know, but
it was a great partnership and we used to send
them a lot of people. The independent electrical contractors still there,
and electrical contractors need young folks to come up through
the ranks and learn that business. And that is true
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of plumbing and all of the other trades. And if
you're serious about deportation and Trump is somebody's going to
need to step in and learn a lot of these
trades that folks are leaving that they carried out the
Michael Berry show everything you need and most everything you want.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
We'll Happy birthday to the United States Coast Guard, celebrating
its two hundred thirty fifth anniversary, established in seventeen ninety
when Congress authorized the construction of ten cutters to enforce
tariff laws.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Amazing how that comes back around, isn't it, and to
combat smuggling. Initially known as the Revenue Marine, later became
the Revenue Cutter Service before merging in nineteen fifteen with
the US Life Saving Service to form the United States
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Coast Guard.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
My father was a proud member of the United States
Coast Guard and will tell anybody who will listen how
proud he is of that time in his life.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Right now, Governor Abbott is talking a big game about
the fleabag Democrats who fled the state, saying that they
must return by three pm today or he will remove
the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House. We'll
see if he follows through. He also points out that
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they have committed felonies because they are soliciting funds to
evade the fines they will incur under House rules, which
means they are taking money to miss a vote, which
is a felony.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's a bribe.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
The story from Chad's prep Mister King of Dan clipped
number two from NewsNation.
Speaker 11 (17:06):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott seems set on making it happen,
threatening to remove Democrats who left the state to block
the vote from office if they don't return. Abbot also
writing in a letter late Sunday that they could face
felony charges for raising money to pay for fines and
expenses while out of state, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,
who's running for Senate, also signaling his support, saying Democrats
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should be found, arrested and brought back to the capital immediately.
But Democrats from Texas and around the country say they're
ready for the fight, with Democratic National Committee chair Ken
Martin Vine to ramp up the pressure on News Nations
the Hills Sunday.
Speaker 12 (17:43):
What Texas is doing right now is a craven power grab,
and as I said, we're going to fight fire with fire.
If Texas wants a showdown, which they clearly do, we're
going to give them the showdown. And I've talked with
the number of Democratic governors around the country, and as
you can tell, they're already preparing to follow suit.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Here, So let me explain what's happening. I'm sure you know.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
A special session was called by Governor Abbot at the
end of.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The legislative session. That special session is limited to thirty days.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
President Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Abbott
and dan Patrick for redistricting. That redistricting would give Texas
five would flip five seats from Democrat to Republican. These
seats were jerrymandered. Our census is flawed. The illegal aliens
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have been removed. The seats were jerrymandered to achieve a
racist result, and Trump wants it fixed. So Abbot couldn't
defy him. Because y'all don't realize. Abbot believes he's going
to be president one day. That's his calculation, so he
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doesn't do much of anything. But when the national spotlight
is on, he has to pretend to do something. Well,
there was no way around this. Trump made a very
public announcement. This wasn't a behind the scene. Hey guys,
you've got a jerrymandering, jerrymandered districts in your state, and
I need you to fix it. It'll flip five seats Republican.
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You flip five seats. We don't have to. We don't
have to sweat next November. You flipped five seats and
you've you've just made a world, a world of difference.
It changes everything overnight. Jasmine Crockett, it's been reported, would
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be out, would no longer live in the district that
she currently is elected to represent. But I have noticed
some journal don't understand the law because they note that
she will lose her seat. It's not certain that she
would lose her seat simply because the district is redrawn
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and she.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Doesn't live in it.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
It's a not so secret fact that you don't have
to live in a congressional district in order to represent it.
If you don't live in that district, your opponent will
use it against you. But I don't think it matters
so much. If you had a terribly popular congressman in
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their district, Wesley Hunt. If Wesley Hunt didn't live in
a district that he's representing, if a district was redrawn
and he didn't live in it, he could still get
re elected to serve there, and any popular congressman would
still be re elected. Nobody really cares where their house
is now. Could you be re elected? You know? If
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you live in South Texas and the distric strict is
in Dallas, you'd have to be a pretty darn popular fella.
But for most people that would probably be a bridge
too far. In this case, that's not enough to kick
her out. But the belief is, and if I recall correctly,
it's a military veteran, well regarded, and the expectation is
that this guy, given the district as it's now been drawn,
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would defeat her. The new districts to go into effect
require a vote of the whole the entirety of the House. Now,
in order to get that, the Democrats have to be present.
So the Democrats once the plan came out of the
committee and it goes to the whole House, the Democrats fled.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You'll recall they've done this before.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
So now what's happening is the pawns in the game
are Greg Abbott on one side and the Democrat state
reps on the other. The Democrats, including Dollar Store Obama,
Hakim Jeffries, he's made this a big deal because he's
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going to lose any chance he ever had in his
lifetime to be Speaker of the House. He's Nancy Pelosi's
successor and Without the House, you can't impeach Trump his
last two years. Without the House, you don't control appropriations.
The Senate is where you pass your judicial nominations. The
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House is where the appropriations come from, and an impeachment
begins in the House. Without the House, the Democrats cannot
terrorize Donald Trump in the way they would like to.
You can't, of course, redistrict the Senate because you get
two senators per state, so there's nothing that can be
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done that there. We have to win the Senate fair
and square, out right, not undoing what the Democrats have done.
We've got to win the Senate in twenty twenty six
to keep the Senate for Trump's last two years.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
But the House, oh no.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
This could allow us to lose some seats here and
there without losing the majority and the Speaker of the House,
because if you're not up by one congressman in the House,
you're in the minority and you're getting a leader at
the Michael Berry's.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Sweet Genie Seely has passed. If you don't know what
it is, ask your grandmother. She does or did that?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Her biggest hit written by her then husband Hank Cochrane,
another legend of classic country music Genie Seeley. Some of
you may recognize the name if you ever listen to
Sirius XM. She did a show on you with Sundays.
Sometimes I'd be out driving around and pick that up.
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She appeared at the Grand Old Opry more times than
any other artist.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I think.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I think it was five thousand times. She appeared at
the Grand Old Opry five over.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Five thousand times.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yes, she was invited. Ramon, you know, I will tell
you first time I went to the Grand Old Opera,
I was so excited. Grand Old Opry, Minnie Pearl, Grand
Old Opry, Country Music, Grand Old opryl Raymond, all of
it's gonna be so exciting.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And you get there.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And when you get there, they start with a cracker barrel.
It sure is good.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
You can get biscuits and sausage. Cracker barrel. It's real good.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Next up, we've got not the Blind Boys of Alabama.
We couldn't book them, but we got the Blind Boys
of Idaho. No, they're not very good, but they're blind.
So then you get like a barbershop quartent. We'd like
to remind you that cracker bell's real good. You can
get gravy on them. Biscuits. Have some eggs. However you
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want them, we prefer crimble. It's easier. We can make
more of them at one time, but we make you eggs.
Cracker Barrel, it's real good. Next up, we got Hank Presley.
No it's not Hank Cochran, and no it's not Elvis Presley,
but it's a guy from the East end of Florida,
and he liked to sing a song for y'all. And
then Cracker Barrel are real good. You can get coffee
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with all that too, juice as well. And if you
want one of those things where it's like a triangle
and you put the little plastic thing in the holes,
we got those for sale too. We got a whole
store next door. You can get moon pies and all
sorts of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
We're gonna have Rickey Skaggs. This was a true story.
We're gonna have Rickey Skaggs tonight. I know we've told
you ten times. We hadn't brought them out yet. We
gonna have Ricky Skaggs and he gonna play one of
real little bit of guitars.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yep, Ricky Skaggs.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
He's coming out in a minute, but we'd like to
remind you that Cracker Barrel is. We've got the owner
of Cracker Barrel here tonight, Miss Lucy May Smith or
whatever her name was.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And she was I think she lived in Nashville at
the time.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
She's here. Would you she's she's buy gum Opery Royalty.
Would you please stand up Miss Lucy May She stands
up with Cracker Barrel. They got most of everything you want,
a whole bunch of stuff you don't. We'd like to
remind you Cracker Barrel has has rocking chairs out front.
Rocking chairs are for selling, in fact, everything the Cracker
barrels for self. We're gonna bring up.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Ricky Skaggs here in a moment.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I know that's the thirteen time I told you, but
we're gonna bring him out here in a minute.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And if I'm lying, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
They bring out Ricky Skaggs after forty eight times to
tell me they were bringing out Ricky Skaggs. And he
walks out and says, I'm so glad to be here
and I'm grateful for Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, my god, I.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Have never been so Cracker barreled over the head. He
played one song they talked about Cracker Barrel. He told
a story for a while that wasn't very good because
involved biscuits and gravyes so that it sounded like it
was paid for, and then he walked off, And in
the Annals of Opry history, that means Ricky Skaggs played
that night. I think he had a show somewhere else.
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He came over, did a song, left, maybe picked up
a Crocker Barrel gift certificate and went on about his way.
But anyway, I'm not really sure why I brought that up.
Oh must have been because of Genie Seeley. I got
an email from a nice lady named Bridget. She said,
good morning, Zar, I'm headed to the schoolhouse. I've been
thinking about you as we head into this new school year.
I'm starting my eleventh year in education at Brentham MYSD.
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Time really flies. It seems like yesterday I was learning
the roots, and now here I am another fresh year,
new students, and still that same mix of nerves and excitement.
But what really tugs at my heart is that, my
little girl, Bailey, you start in kindergarten this year. It's
such a big milestone and I'm trying to hold it together,
but it's definitely an emotional one. Seeing her walk into
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that classroom with her tiny backpack and big smile, it's
both beautiful and heartbreaking. Well, I can feel you on
that one, sister girl. I know you got your own
big milestone this year too, your son's senior year. I
hope it's an amazing one for him, full of memories
and moments to cherish. I can only imagine the roller
coaster of emotions you're hiding right now and then empty nesting.
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I honestly dread that day. I'm not sure i'll ever.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Be ready for that anyways.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I just wanted to check in, wishing you and your
family a smooth and special start to the school year.
Have a great day, sir, Sincerely, Bridget Bolton Krause Elementary School.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Well how about that?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
PS, I agree with the good teacher's email you posted
this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
There are still a lot of us that are normal.
Bridget Bolton is our guest. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hi, Michaels.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Well that was a nice message.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It's very surreal that she's going to be starting and
then you're going to be having your senior year or
your senior.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I hadn't read the part about Crockett when I started,
and so I was just reading about you and your
daughter and going back to school, and I thought, oh,
that's sweet, let's get her on. And then I I
was reading the whole thing. I got down to Crockett
and so, yeah, well good, when do y'all turn back?
What's your first day?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Our first day? A staff can go back today to
start getting our classrooms and stuff all together, and then
the kiddos come back on to thirteenth.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
All right, so what do you do with Bailey While
you're up there getting your classroom ready?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
She goes to her daycare, which is First Baptist Church
school there in Brenham, and she goes and just does
her little daily routines over there, and then they're getting
them ready for kindergarten, where she doesn't get a nap
during the day anymore. So that's been a challenge. But
wait a minute, anyways, we kind of rapped.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I was in kindergarten mims Reager's class at Loreena Oates
at Western Star.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
In old nineteen.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yes, they get it. They think, wait, oh my goodness,
so we'd have you'd blink, you'd bring your They called
it your matt but basically what it was was a
was a shower mat and you'd roll it up and
then it was time for your naps, and she had
her whole routine, and then she would turn the lights out,
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and you would, you know, go sit and pinch somebody
or pull it somebody, and she'd tell you to quit.
Finally you'd fall asleep against your wishes. What grade do
you teach?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I teach kindergarten through fourth grade. I'm the fun pe teacher.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Oh right, okay, all right, And so will she be
one of your students, your daughter.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'm going to keep her in private school one more
year to see how we transition for that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
What does mister Bolton do?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yep, he works for Union Pacific Railroad.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh, they make a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I'll tell you else else way, But it's a lot
of hours on the family, for sure. They do work
over a lot of hours during the week and on
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And what does he do for them?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's a job. He is a technician for the railroad signals.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And how did he learn to do that?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
They actually he got it right out of glend and
he went out. They send him to school, to Utah
and they put him through the school and they stay here,
work on your own and he's been doing that for
twenty three years now.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
That sounds safe. That's good to know.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It's just a railroad. There's nobody on it. Figure it
out all right.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Hold on. Just a momentory of broken from across Elementary
and Brenham
It's that time time sign SI lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air, looking into
mic week, gotta feed in bed. I don't plan to shave,
and it's you've the thing, but I just gotta see
I'm doing it all right. We'll I'm mixing spots. I'm
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eating ready to and that's true. It's neither drink nor
drug and noo, I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Instagradad.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I know soun's still shining.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
On a close my eyes.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood. The five at every
over the Week, and Michael smurcunish, who is one of
the hosts on CNN, admonished his audience and particularly the
Democrat Party, saying, you've got to stop criticizing Trump at
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every corner, at every turn. You've got to give Trump
credit when he has a win. You've got to be
more reasonable. The American people know that his trade policies
are working. The American people know that the country is
doing well. The American people are very happy with what
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Trump is doing. If you don't acknowledge that and you
simply criticize him at every turn, you lose credibility. Well,
they took their own advice. They have a young fellow
named Harry Inton who does their polling numbers, and I
don't actually know his background. I'm bothered to look. But
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he has allowed the numbers to speak for themselves over
the last few months and repeatedly told the good numbers
for Trump and the bad numbers for Democrats. Well, this
right here is the most powerful statement they have made.
Behold CNN following their own advice and making a statement
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about Trump that I never expected to hear, partly because
I don't watch television at the airport, so I don't
watch CNN, partly because I've known CNN well enough to
know that this isn't the sort of thing they would say.
Listen carefully. This is Harry Inton with CNN calling Trump
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the most influential president of this century and probably dating
back to a good portion of the last century.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
The Donald Trump administration is arguably the most influential this century,
and probably as well, dating back a good portion of
the last century as well. Love it like it, lumpet,
Trump is remaking in the United States of America. Let's
talk about tariffs first, right, There's all this talk that
Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to taris
uh uh no tacos for Trump. The effective tariffray get
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this to eighteen percent, the highest, the highest since the
FDR administration in the nineteen thirties, up from get this,
just two percent last year, from just two percent last year.
We're talking about a level, an effective tariffray level get
this nine times as high this year than last year.
But is not just on tariffs, which of course Donald
Trump ran on, in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
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What about immigration. Of course Trump ran and has always
run on a very hawkish immigration platform. Get this. Twenty
twenty five net migration in the United States down at
least sixty percent from last year. In fact, we may
be heading for the first time and at least fifty
years in which we have negative net negative migration into
the United States. And last year, of course, in twenty
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twenty four, the net migration in the US was two
point eight million.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
This year, we might be.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Talking about negative net migracious. My goodness, gracious, now, of
course this is part of the larger story. As I
was mentioning, we're talking about immigration, net migration, we're talking
about the effective tariff rate. But get this, how is
Donald Trump doing it? While he is signing a ton
of executive orders? Get this, one hundred and eighty the
most in a year since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Oh my goodness,
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you have to go back to the first half of
the twentieth century, the last century. And to make a comparison,
Joe Biden signed get this, just seventy seven during his
entire first year, and we're only a little bit in
August so far, and Donald Trump making history with one
hundred and eighty, one hundred and eighty executive orders signed
so far this year. So that's why I said that,
in my mind, Donald Trump is the most influential president
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of this century and probably dating back a good portion
of the last century. That is because he is remaking
the country in terms of tariffs, he is remaking the
country in terms of net migration, and he is remaking
the country in terms of how much policy changes he's
putting through in executive orders. As I said, it truly
is history making love it, like it or lump it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
The only job growth in twenty twenty five is in
the private sector. No net job growth in the public sector.
There is so much to love about what's going on.
We'll unpack that as the show begins, but first I
want you to step back and think about being a
parent in your proudest moment. I received an email this
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morning about an hour ago from a fellow named Steve Rooney,
and Steve Rooney wrote, Czar, my son, John Rooney has
been fighting his way up to the major leagues for years.
He finally made it. Traded from Triple A Jacksonville, the
Marlins organization, the Houston Astros, Major League Baseball, small upstate
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New York school, class of sixty students, most of all
super humble and just loves people.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yes, I'm a proud dad.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
So I engaged him with an email, said tell me
more about your boy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Where did he play?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And he said, We lived and grew up in Upstate
New York, actually pretty rural country. We never did the
travel baseball circuit much focused much more on music, hiking, fishing, basketball.
He wasn't heavily recruited. He played an old Man's league
and when he was sixteen or seventeen went to the
Old Man's World Series in Long Island. Stand Usually the
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coach was there from Hostra University. Long Island saw him
pitch and said where's he going to college? And we
were like, what do you have in mind? He was
given an offer on the spot. Wasn't any good for
the first couple of years.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Then in his junior year he just lit it up.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He was named a Division one college All American and
then was drafted by the LA Dodgers in the third round.
I've been listening to the show since you came on
in Schenectady, New York years ago, listen every day, so
obviously I kind of feel like I know Houston somewhat
because of you. He's a really great conversation listen, super humble,
and then he gives me a cell phone number. I'm
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sure if you guys reach out, he would love to
talk to you. Anyway, keep doing what you're doing. Thank you,
mister Barry. You know it's easy to forget. A new
reliever comes in for the Astros, or a new kid
who's up at bat. You don't know him yet, he's
not considered a superstar, wasn't heavily recruited or heavily hyped.
But some guy that luis so and so gets sent
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to the miners so they can pick up this kid, Rooney,
nobody knows who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Comes in middle relief.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I don't know, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, thing they bring
him into early now and there he is pitching and anything. Oh,
I hope this guy's not a bum. But somewhere in
upstate New York, or outside Portland or east of Miami,
there are two parents just screaming their lungs out for
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their baby boy because they've been toting that kid the
baseball game since he was six, seven, eight years old.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
And he's in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And we don't even realize how excited they are.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Hike and I sticking to who am I sticking to?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Michael Berry?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Michael Berry, Yeah, I do enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Rocketing Man. Who is crazy? How Freddy went through he
hits his notes? Isn't it this crazy? I think it's
because he had the teeth pushing out. I think that
probably made it made it special for him.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The Rocketman turned sixty three years old today. Roger Clemens.
Only four pitchers in all of baseball history. You think
of how many games have been played over all those years.
Four pitchers have ever struck out twenty players in a game.
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The only other players to do it, Randy Johnson, Carrie Wood.
You remember he did it against the Astros and Max Schurzer.
Only four players, the fourth being Roger Clemens, and Clemens
being the only.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Guy to do it twice.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Here he was April twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Nineteen for Roger Tlennans.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Major that record tie.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
He has two batters to God to try to set.
I know on how matter of fact, I'm going to
stand up, no record flims I set.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I'm major legged record first track adis in a game.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Twenty It's really incredible. It's really incredible what he did
and how he did it. It's a great, great Houston story.
I used to love to watch Roger Clemens play the game,
but then again I loved watching John McEnroe play tennis.
(10:10):
There are certain guys that make the game great that
I love to watch John Daly play golf. Heck, I'll
watched John daily clips of him barefoot in a bar.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
I'll watch clips of him driving or putting with Tiger
and he's barefoot with cigarette and a drink in his
mouth at three o'clock in the afternoon. There are just
certain people that we don't expect to play by the
same rules, and we love them for it. They're just
larger than life.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It is.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Entertainment, after all. It is entertainment. Great story out of Beaumont,
Ramon and this is from Jim at six h three,
a recent graduate from Woodville High School of the Great
Fried Chicken Restaurant, is breaking new ground in the skilled trades.
We need more of this. He's the first student in
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Texas to complete a high school plumbing program and pass
the state exam to enter the workforce directly. Did I
mention he's still in high school. His name is Carmelo Castle,
He's eighteen. He graduated.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
He just graduated in May from Woodville High School's four
year plumbing program. This makes me so happy. And now
he's working as a second year tradesman level for the
local sixty eight Plumbing twelve news in Beaumont with a story.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
A Woodville ISD program is paving the way for future plumbers.
The high school's plumbing program gives kids hands on experience
which prepares them for the real world. Carmelo Castle is
the first graduate to need all the criteria and to
excel in the workforce. Twelve News reporter Spencer Plato got
to talk to him and the instructor, who says, the
district hoax. This is really going to inspire others to
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join the program.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Right, that's right, Jordan. The Woodville High School plumbing program
is only four years old. It's past May. They celebrated
their first graduate in the first in Texas to pass
the state exam straight out of a high school plumbing program.
And it goes straight to work.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So sit hard.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Remember it gave me a chance to like actually step
up in life.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
At just eighteen years old, Carmelo Castle is already working
at a second year tradesman level. It's all thanks to
the training he received through Woodville High School's plumbing program.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The fact that I'm so young doing this stuff, I mean,
you know, average teenagers are like partying and.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Stuff and all that. See, I had to actually like
be like the sip of one of the group.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Castle is the first graduate from the new plumbing program.
He's also the first in Texas to finish a high
school plumbing program and pass the state exam. Now he
works for Local sixty eight Plumbing.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
I was so used to it as soon as I
went in to where like it didn't really affect me.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
This is our shop area right here.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
It's a large shop, but we have this here primarily
for my class, which is the plumbing class.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
John Bunker is the Woodville High School plumbing instructor. He
says the program helps students get ahead start on their
careers with hands on experience.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
For them to be able to go through a class
such as this and then qualify right away to be
able to go and take their Plumbing Tradesmen exam and
if they pass, they have a license in their pocket.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Bunker says the demand for plumbers is increasing in the
Gulf Coast region.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
The average age of licensed plumbers is forty three and
the average age of apprentices is thirty seven, So we
need younger people coming into the workforce or we're going
to have some problems.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Haasel says he's grateful for the program and he believes
there's value in taking a different path.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, you can't really follow the same crowd oh day
and knowing that you're not going to get anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Bunker says they expect three Woodville High School students to
take the State Plumbing Exam this upcoming school year. In
the studio, Spencer twelve News.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
It's incredible how much a kid can do while they're
still in high school, while they're still living at home.
At eighteen years old, you can get your real estate license,
full blown real estate license. You can begin a lot
of these trades programs, trade programs even if you end
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up not continuing in life as a plumber or an electrician.
We had a longtime show sponsor, the woman Helene Webster,
who was our big fan, and Bob Wilkinson before that.
They sponsored our show for twenty years. When Bob stepped down,
Helene stepped up to be the leader. And then when
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Helene left, they went a different direction because I guess
they were fans of our show. I don't know, but
it was a great partnership and we used to send
them a lot of people. The independent electrical contractors still there,
and electrical contractors need young folks to come up through
the ranks and learn that business. And that is true
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of plumbing and all of the other trades. And if
you're serious about deportation and Trump is somebody's going to
need to step in and learn a lot of these
trades that folks are leaving that they carried out the
Michael Berry show everything you need and most everything you want.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
We'll Happy birthday to the United States Coast Guard, celebrating
its two hundred thirty fifth anniversary, established in seventeen ninety
when Congress authorized the construction of ten cutters to enforce
tariff laws.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Amazing how that comes back around, isn't it, and to
combat smuggling. Initially known as the Revenue Marine, later became
the Revenue Cutter Service before merging in nineteen fifteen with
the US Life Saving Service to form the United States
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Coast Guard.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
My father was a proud member of the United States
Coast Guard and will tell anybody who will listen how
proud he is of that time in his life.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Right now, Governor Abbott is talking a big game about
the fleabag Democrats who fled the state, saying that they
must return by three pm today or he will remove
the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House. We'll
see if he follows through. He also points out that
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they have committed felonies because they are soliciting funds to
evade the fines they will incur under House rules, which
means they are taking money to miss a vote, which
is a felony.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's a bribe.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
The story from Chad's prep Mister King of Dan clipped
number two from NewsNation.
Speaker 11 (17:06):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott seems set on making it happen,
threatening to remove Democrats who left the state to block
the vote from office if they don't return. Abbot also
writing in a letter late Sunday that they could face
felony charges for raising money to pay for fines and
expenses while out of state, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,
who's running for Senate, also signaling his support, saying Democrats
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should be found, arrested and brought back to the capital immediately.
But Democrats from Texas and around the country say they're
ready for the fight, with Democratic National Committee chair Ken
Martin Vine to ramp up the pressure on News Nations
the Hills Sunday.
Speaker 12 (17:43):
What Texas is doing right now is a craven power grab,
and as I said, we're going to fight fire with fire.
If Texas wants a showdown, which they clearly do, we're
going to give them the showdown. And I've talked with
the number of Democratic governors around the country, and as
you can tell, they're already preparing to follow suit.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Here, So let me explain what's happening. I'm sure you know.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
A special session was called by Governor Abbot at the
end of.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The legislative session. That special session is limited to thirty days.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
President Trump is putting a lot of pressure on Abbott
and dan Patrick for redistricting. That redistricting would give Texas
five would flip five seats from Democrat to Republican. These
seats were jerrymandered. Our census is flawed. The illegal aliens
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have been removed. The seats were jerrymandered to achieve a
racist result, and Trump wants it fixed. So Abbot couldn't
defy him. Because y'all don't realize. Abbot believes he's going
to be president one day. That's his calculation, so he
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doesn't do much of anything. But when the national spotlight
is on, he has to pretend to do something. Well,
there was no way around this. Trump made a very
public announcement. This wasn't a behind the scene. Hey guys,
you've got a jerrymandering, jerrymandered districts in your state, and
I need you to fix it. It'll flip five seats Republican.
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You flip five seats. We don't have to. We don't
have to sweat next November. You flipped five seats and
you've you've just made a world, a world of difference.
It changes everything overnight. Jasmine Crockett, it's been reported, would
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be out, would no longer live in the district that
she currently is elected to represent. But I have noticed
some journal don't understand the law because they note that
she will lose her seat. It's not certain that she
would lose her seat simply because the district is redrawn
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and she.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Doesn't live in it.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
It's a not so secret fact that you don't have
to live in a congressional district in order to represent it.
If you don't live in that district, your opponent will
use it against you. But I don't think it matters
so much. If you had a terribly popular congressman in
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their district, Wesley Hunt. If Wesley Hunt didn't live in
a district that he's representing, if a district was redrawn
and he didn't live in it, he could still get
re elected to serve there, and any popular congressman would
still be re elected. Nobody really cares where their house
is now. Could you be re elected? You know? If
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you live in South Texas and the distric strict is
in Dallas, you'd have to be a pretty darn popular fella.
But for most people that would probably be a bridge
too far. In this case, that's not enough to kick
her out. But the belief is, and if I recall correctly,
it's a military veteran, well regarded, and the expectation is
that this guy, given the district as it's now been drawn,
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would defeat her. The new districts to go into effect
require a vote of the whole the entirety of the House. Now,
in order to get that, the Democrats have to be present.
So the Democrats once the plan came out of the
committee and it goes to the whole House, the Democrats fled.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
You'll recall they've done this before.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
So now what's happening is the pawns in the game
are Greg Abbott on one side and the Democrat state
reps on the other. The Democrats, including Dollar Store Obama,
Hakim Jeffries, he's made this a big deal because he's
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going to lose any chance he ever had in his
lifetime to be Speaker of the House. He's Nancy Pelosi's
successor and Without the House, you can't impeach Trump his
last two years. Without the House, you don't control appropriations.
The Senate is where you pass your judicial nominations. The
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House is where the appropriations come from, and an impeachment
begins in the House. Without the House, the Democrats cannot
terrorize Donald Trump in the way they would like to.
You can't, of course, redistrict the Senate because you get
two senators per state, so there's nothing that can be
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done that there. We have to win the Senate fair
and square, out right, not undoing what the Democrats have done.
We've got to win the Senate in twenty twenty six
to keep the Senate for Trump's last two years.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
But the House, oh no.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
This could allow us to lose some seats here and
there without losing the majority and the Speaker of the House,
because if you're not up by one congressman in the House,
you're in the minority and you're getting a leader at
the Michael Berry's.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Sweet Genie Seely has passed. If you don't know what
it is, ask your grandmother. She does or did that?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Her biggest hit written by her then husband Hank Cochrane,
another legend of classic country music Genie Seeley. Some of
you may recognize the name if you ever listen to
Sirius XM. She did a show on you with Sundays.
Sometimes I'd be out driving around and pick that up.
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She appeared at the Grand Old Opry more times than
any other artist.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I think.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I think it was five thousand times. She appeared at
the Grand Old Opry five over.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Five thousand times.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yes, she was invited. Ramon, you know, I will tell
you first time I went to the Grand Old Opera,
I was so excited. Grand Old Opry, Minnie Pearl, Grand
Old Opry, Country Music, Grand Old opryl Raymond, all of
it's gonna be so exciting.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And you get there.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And when you get there, they start with a cracker barrel.
It sure is good.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
You can get biscuits and sausage. Cracker barrel. It's real good.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Next up, we've got not the Blind Boys of Alabama.
We couldn't book them, but we got the Blind Boys
of Idaho. No, they're not very good, but they're blind.
So then you get like a barbershop quartent. We'd like
to remind you that cracker bell's real good. You can
get gravy on them. Biscuits. Have some eggs. However you
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want them, we prefer crimble. It's easier. We can make
more of them at one time, but we make you eggs.
Cracker Barrel, it's real good. Next up, we got Hank Presley.
No it's not Hank Cochran, and no it's not Elvis Presley,
but it's a guy from the East end of Florida,
and he liked to sing a song for y'all. And
then Cracker Barrel are real good. You can get coffee
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with all that too, juice as well. And if you
want one of those things where it's like a triangle
and you put the little plastic thing in the holes,
we got those for sale too. We got a whole
store next door. You can get moon pies and all
sorts of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
We're gonna have Rickey Skaggs. This was a true story.
We're gonna have Rickey Skaggs tonight. I know we've told
you ten times. We hadn't brought them out yet. We
gonna have Ricky Skaggs and he gonna play one of
real little bit of guitars.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yep, Ricky Skaggs.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
He's coming out in a minute, but we'd like to
remind you that Cracker Barrel is. We've got the owner
of Cracker Barrel here tonight, Miss Lucy May Smith or
whatever her name was.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And she was I think she lived in Nashville at
the time.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
She's here. Would you she's she's buy gum Opery Royalty.
Would you please stand up Miss Lucy May She stands
up with Cracker Barrel. They got most of everything you want,
a whole bunch of stuff you don't. We'd like to
remind you Cracker Barrel has has rocking chairs out front.
Rocking chairs are for selling, in fact, everything the Cracker
barrels for self. We're gonna bring up.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Ricky Skaggs here in a moment.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I know that's the thirteen time I told you, but
we're gonna bring him out here in a minute.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And if I'm lying, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
They bring out Ricky Skaggs after forty eight times to
tell me they were bringing out Ricky Skaggs. And he
walks out and says, I'm so glad to be here
and I'm grateful for Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, my god, I.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Have never been so Cracker barreled over the head. He
played one song they talked about Cracker Barrel. He told
a story for a while that wasn't very good because
involved biscuits and gravyes so that it sounded like it
was paid for, and then he walked off, And in
the Annals of Opry history, that means Ricky Skaggs played
that night. I think he had a show somewhere else.
(27:13):
He came over, did a song, left, maybe picked up
a Crocker Barrel gift certificate and went on about his way.
But anyway, I'm not really sure why I brought that up.
Oh must have been because of Genie Seeley. I got
an email from a nice lady named Bridget. She said,
good morning, Zar, I'm headed to the schoolhouse. I've been
thinking about you as we head into this new school year.
I'm starting my eleventh year in education at Brentham MYSD.
(27:35):
Time really flies. It seems like yesterday I was learning
the roots, and now here I am another fresh year,
new students, and still that same mix of nerves and excitement.
But what really tugs at my heart is that, my
little girl, Bailey, you start in kindergarten this year. It's
such a big milestone and I'm trying to hold it together,
but it's definitely an emotional one. Seeing her walk into
(27:57):
that classroom with her tiny backpack and big smile, it's
both beautiful and heartbreaking. Well, I can feel you on
that one, sister girl. I know you got your own
big milestone this year too, your son's senior year. I
hope it's an amazing one for him, full of memories
and moments to cherish. I can only imagine the roller
coaster of emotions you're hiding right now and then empty nesting.
(28:19):
I honestly dread that day. I'm not sure i'll ever.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Be ready for that anyways.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I just wanted to check in, wishing you and your
family a smooth and special start to the school year.
Have a great day, sir, Sincerely, Bridget Bolton Krause Elementary School.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Well how about that?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
PS, I agree with the good teacher's email you posted
this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
There are still a lot of us that are normal.
Bridget Bolton is our guest. Welcome.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hi, Michaels.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Well that was a nice message.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It's very surreal that she's going to be starting and
then you're going to be having your senior year or
your senior.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I hadn't read the part about Crockett when I started,
and so I was just reading about you and your
daughter and going back to school, and I thought, oh,
that's sweet, let's get her on. And then I I
was reading the whole thing. I got down to Crockett
and so, yeah, well good, when do y'all turn back?
What's your first day?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Our first day? A staff can go back today to
start getting our classrooms and stuff all together, and then
the kiddos come back on to thirteenth.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
All right, so what do you do with Bailey While
you're up there getting your classroom ready?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
She goes to her daycare, which is First Baptist Church
school there in Brenham, and she goes and just does
her little daily routines over there, and then they're getting
them ready for kindergarten, where she doesn't get a nap
during the day anymore. So that's been a challenge. But
wait a minute, anyways, we kind of rapped.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I was in kindergarten mims Reager's class at Loreena Oates
at Western Star.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
In old nineteen.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yes, they get it. They think, wait, oh my goodness,
so we'd have you'd blink, you'd bring your They called
it your matt but basically what it was was a
was a shower mat and you'd roll it up and
then it was time for your naps, and she had
her whole routine, and then she would turn the lights out,
(30:19):
and you would, you know, go sit and pinch somebody
or pull it somebody, and she'd tell you to quit.
Finally you'd fall asleep against your wishes. What grade do
you teach?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I teach kindergarten through fourth grade. I'm the fun pe teacher.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Oh right, okay, all right, And so will she be
one of your students, your daughter.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'm going to keep her in private school one more
year to see how we transition for that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
What does mister Bolton do?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yep, he works for Union Pacific Railroad.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh, they make a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I'll tell you else else way, But it's a lot
of hours on the family, for sure. They do work
over a lot of hours during the week and on
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And what does he do for them?
Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's a job. He is a technician for the railroad signals.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And how did he learn to do that?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
They actually he got it right out of glend and
he went out. They send him to school, to Utah
and they put him through the school and they stay here,
work on your own and he's been doing that for
twenty three years now.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
That sounds safe. That's good to know.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It's just a railroad. There's nobody on it. Figure it
out all right.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Hold on. Just a momentory of broken from across Elementary
and Brenham
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