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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, luck and load. The Michael
Arry Show is on the air, right, go get into
mic the week.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Gotta feed a beard.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't plan to shave, and it's a good thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing all right. Well,
we come make me support. It's I'm beating rid of
clude and that's the truth. It's neither drinking, no drug, induice, noool.

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I'm just doing all right. It's a great dad, be alive,
nor sun's still shining.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And close my eyes.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's five times in the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
But whyking every days.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Happy Columbus Day. Yes, of course we are alive and
we are on air.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Whether you are hard at work as usual, or whether
you have the day off because you're kids.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, you didn't have the option. We didn't have the option.
We're hard at work, but we have to entertain the people.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
But whether you are.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Enjoying the day off, having your coffee, maybe a little breakfast,
sitting out not as cool as I would like it
to be, but you're enjoying a day of rest, or
maybe just personal errands or work around the house, kids
are off from school, whatever that may be. Maybe you
have the grandkids today, or whether you're hard at working

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right now you're thinking way a minute. I didn't realize
not everybody was going to work today. I don't want
to go to work today. I didn't realize that was
an option. I could have been off Happy Columbus Day,
a day to commemorate the founding by the Western Europeans

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of the region, if not the country which we currently
live in. And this is your occasional reminder for those people.
And by the way, these people are never to be trusted.
These are not good people. They're not to be trusted,
and they would ruin our country. That for all the
talk and the glamorizing of the savages who lived here

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before the Western Europeans arrived, you would not have enjoyed
life as we do had it not been discovered by
the most advanced people in the world at the time,
creating a region, and in this country the very nation

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that would lead the rest of the world and all
of humanity through all the ages, the greatest nation. And
I am glad and proud to be a citizen of
it and to enjoy it with you. Tomorrow, Charlie Kirk
will be posthumously That means of course, after he passed,

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he will be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
President Trump committed that that would be done, and in fact,
tomorrow at will, President Trump is in the Middle East
to usher in a new era of peace in the
Middle East. Clip number one from Israeli leader Benjamin Netan Yahoo.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
The Kamas killers would be back on the border fence,
ready to repeat the horrors of October seventh, again and
again as they vowed to do. But just at that point,
just at that point of maximum pressure on Israel, a
man named Donald J. Trump was elected President of the

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United States, and ladies and gentlemen, overnight, overnight, everything changed everything.

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We fell it right here, mister President. Thanks to your
unequivocal backing of Israel, we secured a second hostage deal
within weeks of your election, and in the months that followed,
we worked closely together to forge a path to bring
the remaining hostages home and in the war, in the

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war in a way that ensures the disarming of Ramas,
the demilitarization of Gaza, and that Gaza would never again
pose a threat to Israel. Two months ago, you fully
backed my decision to send the IDF into the last
Ramas stronghold in Gaza City. You shared my view that
this military pressure would help free the hostages. And despite

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all the criticism, all the naysayers.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
We were right.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Ramas gave it in, and two weeks ago you succeeded
in doing something miraculous. You succeeded in doing something that
no one believed was possible. You brought most of the
Arab world. You brought most of the world behind your

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proposal to free the hostages and end the war.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
The Nobel Prize came out.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
The end of this past week, and of course they
did not honor Donald Trump's president, and just honor Barack
Obama again, who never did anything but was honored. And
I suppose this is the little bit of power they
get to wield, and they're so proud of themselves, but
what they've done is destroy any credibility for the award.

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The winner, a Colombian, a Colombian from the Reform Movement
of South America, came out and said, actually, Donald Trump
deserved it, as have many world leaders around the country.

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President Trump in Israel today, this is what he had
to say.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
After two harrowing years and darkness and captivity, twenty courageous
hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
And it is glorious.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Twenty eight more precious loved ones are coming home at
last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time,
and after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger.
Today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy

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land that is finally at peace, a land and a
region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
This is not only the end of a war. This

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is the end of a age of terror and death
and the beginning of the age of faith and hope
and of God. It's the start of a grand concord
and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of
what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I believe
that so strongly. This is the historic dawn of a

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new Middle East.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Amen, it's a good day.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
It's hard to choose which body part is my favorite,
but I picked my nose with.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Smart devices.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
From Michael's brain, one of them to your ears.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
This is the Michael Ferry Show.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Visited Lubbock, for the first time this weekend. It was
the largest Texas city I had not ever visited. Understandable
it's not on the highway I could pass through on
my way to west or north, as I might have

(08:49):
passed through, say Amaillo. But I have solved that their
charming place, and I will discuss that in time. Chad
told me during the break that I said that Maria
Machilo was Colombian, and he said she's Venezuelan. And I said,

(09:10):
I know I said that, and he said, no, you
said Colombian. And I have come to learn over the
years that no matter what I think I've said, if
Chad says I've said X, and I think I've said
why I've said X.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's pretty well certain. Now.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Part of the reason it's not an excuse is if
I'm thinking, I could not think of the word opposition leader,
and so I was racking my brain for the word
opposition leader while I was explaining where where she was from,
and in fact, I wasn't thinking of the country I thought.
I said South American, not even Venezuelan, even though I

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know she is Venezuelan, but I could not think of
the word opposition leader, and it was not coming to me. Well,
the woman who did win Nobel Prize, Maria Corina Machado.
Machado is the Venezuelan opposition.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Leader, and she.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Dedicated her prize, her Nobel Peace Prize, to President Trump, saying.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
He deserves it. It's just shocking that.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
It's been a grand revelation for so many people to
realize that people who were once respected and honored and
revered are petty little people of very extreme political views
and big egos and small self esteem. Here's what she

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had to say.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Decided to dedicate it to President Trump because he deserves it,
because not only has he been involved in only a
few months in solving eight wars, but his actions have
been decisive to have the issued now at the first
hold of freedom after twenty six years of tyranny that

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have destroyed the lives of millions of Venezuela, destabilized region,
and undermine the institutions in the United States. Because having Venezuela,
as I say, Heaven of the enemies of the United
States and using our territory and our resources to hurt
the American people and American institutions is certainly a threat

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to the national security. Of the United States and the
security of the hemisphere. The President Trump has been very
clear courageous in terms of dismantling this criminal structure on
behalf of the Venezuelan people. I reaffirmed our gratitude and
our commitment to this cause.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
For the whole America. So I insist he deserves it,
and we are very proud to be working at this
moment with all these allies for the huge resolution.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
He is actually making the world a better place. Imagine that.
Imagine that.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
This is President Trump talking about Maria Machado calling him
and dedicating her Nobel prize to him.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today,
called me and said, I'm accepting this in honor of you,
because you really deserved it. A very nice thing to do.
I didn't say, then give it to me, though I
think she might have. He was very nice, and I've been,
you know, I've been helping her along the way. They

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need a lot of help in Venezuela. It's a basic disaster.
So and you could also say it was given out
for twenty four and I was running for office in
twenty four. You know, all of the transactions that we
did in terms of closing. But there are those that
say we did so much that they should have done.
But I don't think I'm happy because they saved millions

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of lives.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Trump off to the peace summit in Egypt. My only
prayer is for his safety while there. The Jerusalem Post
has an incredible and heartwarming video of a mother of
one of the freed Israeli hostages speaking to him via

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video chat for the first time since he was taken
captive by Hamas during the October seventh.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Attack over two years ago.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Now it's a subtitled video, and the woman's name Ainav
Zangalkar tells her twenty five year old son, matanz Angaker,
You're coming home. You're all coming home.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
There's no more war.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
It marks the first time she's spoken to her son
since he was taken from his home in Kibbutz near
Oz with his partner Elana Gritzowitski, who was freed from
Hamas captivity in November of twenty twenty three. I can't imagine,

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you know, I know how much I love my children,
and you know how much you.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Love your children.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
And one day they're living their normal life and the
next day they're taken hostage by a group of savages,
absolute and utter subhuman species savages, and after two years,

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to know they're coming home, my goodness, I would Michael
T drove home Friday to see us. I was leaving
Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
For love it.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
I gave him the biggest hug, and I realized it
wasn't conscious. I suppose at some level it was, but
I didn't realize it. It just felt so good to
hold him. You know, he's not in his bedroom next
door to our bedroom every night. And so to see
your child who is separated from you just three hours

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up the road in Austin, and you've seen, you know,
three or four weeks ago, and to think how happy
you are to see them, I can't imagine you've had
to come to grips with the likelihood that your child's
going to die because he's in the hands of people
who are awful, awful human beings. Wherever someone stands on

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a tract of land somewhere in the world. I don't
think there is any doubt that these people have behaved
in a manner that is subhuman.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
And they're not the only ones, but that is I
can't imagine how happy I'd.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Be to have my kid back a flout, prepare for
a complete meltdown with more of the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
You put the load running along.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Right on.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Texas. A and M's.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Popo social media has quite the following. They post during
the games about the crazy things that happened, which is hilarious.
Posted about a drunk Aggie fan with a quote water
jug of whiskey end quote that's a bad sign on

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Saturday night at Aggie Park goes viral. As they write,
the subject was quote eating a sandwich with the water
jug of whiskey BAC blood alcohol content point three three
three the legal limit for driving in Texas, which I

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think is a touch low, But it's point eight that
is over four times the legal limit. The thing about
it is point eight is different from one person to
the next. One person's point eight is staggering, and you'd
say grab the keys. Don't let that person have the keys.

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Another person can hold it together and be a relatively
successful driver. Drunk driving, of course, is a very very
very serious and can be deadly thing to do, both
for other people and the driver as well as anybody

(17:57):
who's in their vehicle. But to use that as a
standard and to say four times that this dude was really,
really dangerously drunk. A little after seven pm on Saturday,
Texas A and M University Police posted the following to

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X quote public intoxication. Aggie Park conducted, sorry, contacted subject
eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. BAC
was point three three seven released to EMS. That's the
emergency medical folks, that's the firefighters. BTHO Florida, which was

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a hashtag that was posted, beat the Hell out of Florida.
So one asked if the point three to three seven
BAC was real or actually a typo. Texas A and
M POPO responded, it is correct. That is why EMS
was called. As the Houston Chronicle notes, quote, according to

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the Cleveland Clinic, blood alcohol content in the point three
to zero two point four to oh range can induce
alcohol poisoning and result in loss of consciousness. I was
reading years ago there. I don't know if he's still alive.
I've seen him in twenty years. But there's a phone

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named Virgil Wagner, and he and his wife lost their
son to alcohol poisoning, and Virgil Wagner was part of
I don't think it was Caine Chemical. I can't remember
the name of the company that he was a major

(19:42):
part of, but at that point I used to read
the Houston Business Journal rankings every year of the wealthiest,
and you would have you'd have a guy that would
you'd have a series of guys that would pop onto
the scene because their company went public or because their
company sold early and so they vested a bunch of

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their options. Virgil Wagner was a name that came to
the attention of Minnie. Houstonians had been around for a
long time, and.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
He was overnight.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
He went, I think relatively overnight from well to do
to wealthy, and when they lost their child, they donated
a fortune to an addiction and treatment center for alcohol poisoning.

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That was, honestly the first time I realized This would
have been about two or so, if I remember correctly.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
He was a big supporter of me politically.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
And it was the first time I came to realize
that alcohol could actually kill you quickly rather than slowly,
and what could be done if you drank those those levels.
And I started reading about this, and one of the
things I came to learn is when you see someone

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pass out from drinking, and that's you know, we've seen,
you know, the frat boy or the sorority girl, or
the person at your party, or maybe some folks in
high school and they tell a story about they passed out.
Passing out is actually one of the body's coping mechanisms,
survival mechanisms, because at least if you pass out, your

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idiot asks can't keep drinking anymore. It's it's interesting that
this person was at point thirty three seven and still awake.
You know, that's also the time at which you choke
on a sandwich or do something really stupid. It's funny
because he survived, but it could have very easily not

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been funny, and that would have been most unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
There is this I don't know what drives this.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
One day will map the brain much better than we
can already, but there is something about advanced intoxication that
the person who is so intoxicated desires at.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
That moment to keep drinking. And you wonder what causes that.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
You know, I realize it's sort of putting a lot
of thought into something that many.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
People would wait an idiot.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, yeah, he's an idiot, but he's not an idiot.
Who chooses to eat bananas. He's not an idiot who
chooses to try to run a marathon. What is it
about extreme intoxication that for that person, it seems to
make sense to keep drinking more at a more rapid rate,

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because that often happens. You know, when you own a bar,
you start watching the way people drink very very differently
than you ever have before. There's, of course, dram shop regulations,
and there's some degree of liability if you continue to

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serve a person at a point at which most people
would say they're becoming a danger to themselves and others.
And it's amazing, you know, in almost a decade of
the RCC, there were people who would show up who
were otherwise reasonable people. Sometimes he'd show up and say,

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I've been one guy had a like a money manager
show and he shows, man, I've been wanting to meet
you for years. I am such a fan. Nice to
meet you, Gosh, I'm just thrilled to be here. And
that individual got so drunk that Rico or Uncle Jerry,

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I don't remember which one had to take his keys
from him. And he was staying at the that had
to take his keys from him. Is I got to
get home. You're gonna kill somebody or yourself. You're not.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
You're not leaving here. You're you can call a cab
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
So he said he'd go next door and rent a room,
and he did, and then an hour later he breaks
back into our place and he's trying to break into
the r SEC to get his keys to drive home.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Just an alcohol make a man does some stupid things.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
What's the name you say?

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Michael Buddy.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Was to touch his stepdame on Saturday. They had a
big win against Kansas. I think he was forty two seventeen,
and this song comes on. It's one of those songs,
kind of a kiss cam kind of song where they
show the audience and people are cheering and can.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
You turn it up vermonting.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Maybe it says something about my age, But it's one
of those songs that when I hear it, oh yeah,
I recognize that song. I don't know all the words.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
But and then they get to it was only a kiss.
It was only and everybody knows that.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Everybody under sixty knows the words. It's one of those
songs that nobody knows the other words. Just it was
only a kiss, and it took me a second the
thing of what the name was, and I've done that
probably ten times before, and in the past I would

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look it up now. It came out in four and
I stopped consuming new music somewhere after two thousand. In
the nineties is sketchy, but after two thousand, I pretty
much don't consume new music. So it has to be
blasted everywhere all the time. And the name of the

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song is actually mentioned in the song. It's mister Brightside.
But if you were to do a ratio a number
of people who know the song versus know the name
of it, this one has pretty pretty wide gulf, more

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so than most. Usually, if people know your song, they
know the name of it, and it is mister Bright's
Side by the Killers. But it strikes me as one
of those that I think probably most.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
People don't know. I could be wrong.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Young people, It's funny the music at public events like this.
You've got at a Texas Tech Red Raider football game,
You've got almost exclusively white people ranging from eighteen to seventy,

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and the music does not demographically reflect those white people.
But the music of young people at particularly at a
sporting event, is young black dudes, and it's always kind
of interesting. And then you throw something in there for
the alumnus who's say forty years old in this case,

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and they go crazy. But my kids and all of
their friends know all of the words to all the
new songs now, so I'll pull out my phone and
very surreptitiously hit shazam. I'll say there was one that

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came up this weekend. Some of you're going to laugh
because your kids know this song.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh see.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oh, so I said to crocket Man, I like money
Trees because that I say, I say, you hit his am.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Oh man, dang it, man, boots on the Ground is
a good song. Eight oh three, Fresh Dad, there's no
way you knew that you had to hit his end.
I did indeed hit his am. It's true.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
I hit his am there, I admitted it. So I
guess it's not true. I mean, I guess young people
today do learn the worst of the songs. I just
think it's all stupid, and so I can't imagine wanting
to learn it. But it's it's catchy. I don't I
don't deny that it's that that song, Boots on the Ground,

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very catchy song. I will admit, very catchy song and
and maybe fifty years from now people will be talking
about it, but I don't think so. Whereas you know,
we're forty five years after he stopped loving her today

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and you know, the quality the legacy of that song
just absolutely legendary, absolutely legendary. So we are at the
moment where Crockett is considering what he wants to do
when he graduates, So looking at universities is one of
those options.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
I have told him that if.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
He wants to take a gap year the way the
Europeans do and put a backpack on his shoulder and
travel wherever in.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
The world he wants to go, I'm okay with that.
We'll see.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
But one of the schools that he's looking at, of course,
is University of Texas. His brother is there and it's
a fantastic school. One of the schools he's looking at
is Texas A and M. It's a fantastic school. And
to be ornery, whatever his brother does, he'll do the opposite.
One of the schools he's looking at his Texas Tech.
There is there has been a great deal of momentum

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at Texas Tech over the last five to ten years.
I think Texas Tech has always been a good school,
and I measure what you learned in college depends entirely
upon you. I think people that didn't go to college
or didn't pay attention to college, had this idea, if
you go to these quote unquote great schools.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Should come out very smart. That's not true.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
You can get a fantastic education at a community college.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
You can get.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Just a degree piece of paper from one of the
schools that were historically known as great schools. I think
a lot of the bloom is off that rose for
the political activity that's been exposed over the last few years,
but Texas Tech. But I do measure the alumni network.
There was an article this weekend, I think it was
in a Wall Street journal talking about how AI has

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caused parents to change the approach of what they encourage
their kids to do when they go to college now
and whereas before it was to learn X get these degrees,
now AI replacing so many jobs that parents are now
encouraging their kids to double major, to create more tools

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in the toolbox, but to be far more social. I
don't care for the word networking.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
I know a lot of people do.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
I've just never been a huge fan of that word.
I could explain that, but it will take me a minute,
and I will later. But the idea of making and
building and deepening relationships, which kind of comes full circle,
is more in vogue now because the idea is what

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you will do for a living. What you will do
professionally is far more likely to be something you did
not anticipate or plan for when you were eighteen, twenty two,
even twenty five. But relationships allow you to move more easily,
whether you're seeking investors for a fund, or whether you're

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looking to get hired, or you're looking to buy or
sell products or services. And I do think that is
a very very important thing. And when I look at
Texas Tech among those schools of consideration, I have said
to Crockett, I think Texas Tech has one of the
best alumni networks of any school that I've come across.

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I think that Texas A and M in terms of
alumni networks, I think that Tech Texas that the depth
of the Texas A and M alumni network is insanely intense,
and I think that Texas Tech is not far behind it.
Texas kids that go to Texas Tech also have for
the rest of their lives. A chip on your shoulder,

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and I am a big believer in having a chip
on your shoulder. Having to work harder. Feeling like the
world's not giving you respect often causes you to be
a better team, a better organization, and.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
In this case, a better alumni network. But hell of
a good time.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I like Lubbock as a town. It's a nice three
hundred thousand people, and you know, Amilla is only two
hundred thousand people. I did not realize Lubbock was that
much bigger than Amarilla. I just assumed Amarillo was larger
than Lubbock.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Not true, not true.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
I remember last week the restaurant called Winnies a delivery
A guy dressed up as a delivery driver to steal
their shrimp. Well, we have tracked down the owner and
he'll be our guest coming up.