February 4, 2026 • 33 mins
So many people have real, marketable skills—but freeze the moment money enters the conversation. From fixing cars to teaching Mahjong at the kitchen table, this is a blunt, real-world take on the gig economy, why selling your services feels awkward, and why it shouldn’t. If what you do has value, it’s okay to charge for it.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time, time, Luck and Load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. I'm a big
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fan of the gig economy. I think that there are
a lot of things that people have skills to do
that other people would be willing to pay for, but
they're uncomfortable asking to be paid sort of awkward. I
think there are a lot of people who help other
people fix their cars or fix their cars for the
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rest of the family that if they could ever get
over the barrier and say the way to do it is, Hey,
I've started a business and I've been happy to fix
your car, but I've decided to make a living at this.
So just so you know, I'll be charging less than
you'd pay somewhere else because I don't have overhead. But
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I'm well, where's your shop? You never asked where my
shop was when I was fixing your car before. But
I'm going to work at people's houses. If I can't
do it mobile, then I'm not going to fix it. Well,
I mean I could take it to the professionals. Take
it to the professionals. Then if people could get comfortable
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with selling their services to friends and family, then they
could make a living doing what they love to do,
devote more time to it. But it's hard to do
because a lot of people, and I've witnessed this, a
lot of people are very uncomfortable talking about money. They
are not comfortable at all. Now, as long as you
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have an office or a retail location and a sign
out front, money is supposed to supposed to pass in
those locations. But just the delivery of a service and
the payment for it. People don't think there should all
that should be free, and a lot of people have
the very stupid and I believe it is stupid idea
that everything should be free all the time. You shouldn't
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charge for things. I have decided that those people are
not worth my time because I want to make money
and if I'm doing something that I think is of
value that someone else would pay for, I'm going to
charge for it, and that person can choose not to
pay for it. I don't know why they don't understand that,
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but they like to bitch about it, and it usually
consists of you being a bad person for charging for
something and them not having the money. But they do
have money, they just don't want to spend it on that.
They want that thing free. I say all that to
say this the gig economy for the right people, especially
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wives of men. When the wives are stay at home
and have a skill set that is monetizable, you'd be
You're never going to support the whole family with it.
You don't need to, but for vacation money or more.
I'm amazed how many people create little side how many
wives I have seen this, How many wives create little
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side businesses while raising kids at home and managed to
make it work without it without it affecting them being
a mommy or a wife or the you know, the
person that keeps the house running and makes dinner. Example,
my wife has some friends who play Majong. I like
the Majong trend for this reason. It's a game that
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I don't know much about it, so I'm probably gonna
say something wrong. You don't need to correct me because
I don't really care. But it's a game that apparently
has been around for eight billion years, and it's gotten
popular with white women and they have gatherings. Well, part
of the issue here is women don't know how to
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get together as women. Guys easiest to play golf. Hey,
you and join us playoff. I don't really care it
doesn't matter. We're not really there to play golf, come,
drink beers and hang out. Okay, women don't do that.
There's some, but not mostly they don't do that. So
guys have that. Or you want to spend time with
somebody to get to know them, engage them. Bringing interesting
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people together as a group can create magic. That is,
there are endorphins released. That's why people that have a
farm or a ranch will invite people out, maybe have
somebody play guitar and sit around the campfire and sing.
There is something about male fraternity that is important and engaging.
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It's different than couples hanging out. That's also special, that's fun.
There is guys hanging out. This is a good thing.
Fishing trip, there's always a Houston gun club, going to
a gun club. Those are the sorts of things activities
that guys are very good at. And you develop friendships
through that, and through that you meet new people who
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also become your friends. And as an adult, it's a
lot harder to make new friends than it was in
school because you know you're married, so you go to work,
you come home, you got your wife, your kids, your responsibilities,
and most people go to bed at a reasonable time,
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so you don't have a lot of free time, so
you don't get to meet new friends. And you find
out that years are going by and you haven't developed
any new friendships, and friendships feed you. You know, new people,
interesting people. What do they do for a living? How
do they end up here?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What interesting things have happened to them? That all of
that is the stuff of life. And you have difficulty
developing those new friendships, especially if you don't have a
work job, a job that allows you to interact with
new people. So what do you do? Well, men are
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just better at that than women. But women have learned
that they need this and so one of the things
that this Majong gives them the ability to do this.
And I say, what I like about Majong for women
is that it is a game, a sport. I guess
it's a card game of some sort or some sort
of table game. But what I love about it is
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I know women who play this game with people that
I know women who play this game in their forties
with women in their eighties. And what other activity can
you get multiple generations at the same table around a
game interacting socially pickleball's pretty good about that, but there
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is still a physical component such as it is. It's
not intense, but such as it is with majong. You
really can get from what I've seen of people. I've
had people say, hey, I I met this lady who
really loves you. She just thinks the world are you.
And this will be somebody in their forties, And I said, oh,
who is it? And Miss so and so she's eighty five.
How do you know her? We played majong together. Anyway,
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the point of this whole discussion was, my wife tells
me she's having a group over to the house. She's
just she has all these friends who play majong and
they've been asking her to play forever. And they have
hired a woman to teach you newbies, because my wife's
a nubie to play majong, this this game. I said, oh, okay, well,
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how the person who teaches you to play majong? What
were they doing yesterday? And she said, raising kids, She
was working out of the house, and she's really good
at majah. She was playing all the time. She figured
out a lot of people wanted to wanted to do,
wanted to play majong and didn't know how. So now
she is in the gig economy. She is a person
who goes to your house. You host amajon group of
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all newbies, and she comes in and teaches you. Again,
I don't think she's getting rich, but to have a
little play money on the sign. There's so many things
that people can do. It's a brave new world. Interesting
times we're living. Oh, I got to give you my votes.
I'm sorry. I'll do that next segment.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Damn it, all right, this is Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar
of talk radio.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
In the US Senate race. I think John Cornyn is
an embarrassment. I think he's a hypocrite. I think that
Washington owns him, and I think he is the best
example in Americans to day of the problem we have.
It's not the Democrats, we know who they are. It's
Republicans who claim they're with you and behind your back
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do exactly the opposite. We've played for you before, we'll
play it again. The audio of him telling a business
group that Trump's border wall is impractical and won't happen.
Now he comes around and says, oh, no, no, no, I
change my mind. It's a good idea. What do you
think the people of Texas wanted? John Cornyn knew what
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the people of Texas wanted when he said that, because
six years is a long time. I had somebody tell
me the other day, if Cording doesn't win the primary,
then he's going to torment Trump from March through the
end of the year because he'll still be the Senator.
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And that's what scares me about Cornyn. Wait a minute,
this guy hates Trump and Texas so much that if
he can't be your senator, you believe and I do too.
Did he go back to Washington, d C. And torment
Trump for nine months and that's your basis for voting
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for him? He has blackmailed you into voting for him.
Does that tell you where you are in this process?
Wesley Hunter, Ken Paxton, Congress Steve Toath. I think Dan
Crenshaw's an embarrassment. I think he's horrible. There's one guy
running in that district who's running. Finny is his name.
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I don't know him, but his whole spot is that
Crenshaw's a drunk and crass and rude, and he goes
into that story in Mexico, Crenshaw claims that story is debunked.
I don't know if it's debunk or not. I know
the story's out there. The guy's running ads at say
Crenshaw's a drunk and he won't be a drunk. That's
the whole spot, which is an interesting approach. I don't
know that it gets any attraction, but it'd be interesting
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to study whether. I don't know how much money he's
got behind it, because the only thing I watch on
TV is Jeopardy that I record and watch at night.
I don't know who's watching Jeopardy. Maybe seniors, I don't know.
Steve Toath is a constitutional conservative with a strong track
record in the House. You know this is where politics
is so filthy, so dirty, so diabolical. Crenshaw's professionals out
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of DC are running ads that say Crenshaw worked against us.
He didn't want to cut taxes in the House. Crenshaw
was a group of what Texas Monthly called far right
conservatives who fought the budget bill because it didn't cut
taxes enough. So he voted against a bill that was
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too bloated but claimed to have some tax cuts in it.
Now they claimed Toth this against tax cuts. Toth is
the constitutional conservative. Crenshaw is not a good representative. Crenshaw
wants wars foreign spending Afghans coming to Houston. He wrote
this in a letter, in a letter for Afghans to
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be relocated in Houston, and we see what they've done
to rapes and the murders. He and Sylvia Garcia wrote
that letter together. If you're ever co authoring a letter
with Sylvia Garcia and you're not sure if this is
the right thing to do, just look at the other
seat that t'rore on the letter and go, oh, Sylvia Garcia, Yeah,
not the right thing to do, and steve toath District two.
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Some of you are going to be in District two
that don't Some of you are going to be in
districts that you didn't expect before. So don't be surprised
by that. The redistricting moved some people around. District eight.
Jessica Hart Steinmann or Nick Tran. I think Steinmann's got
the endorsements and the money. Nick Tran's got a lot
of folks that I respect who are constitutional conservatives and
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good guys. I think either one of them would be good.
Best I can tell. District nine Alex Meeler. I was
a big supporter of Meeler for County Judge. Mattress Mac
myself and Tom Ramsey have been big supporters of her
for Congress. I can tell you that if the vote
went to the grassroots, Mieler would win. She's got the
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mayors of the communities within the district. She's got the
city council one of the communities in the district. She's
got law enforcement. The Border Patrol endorsed her. Briscoe Caine
has got the big money guys. He's got Abbot's money
people because he was one of Abbot stooges in Austin.
He's the guy who led the impact the impeachment of Paxton. He's,
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my opinion, a complete sellout. He declared Colony Ridge to
be the American dream. He took money from the Colony
Ridge guys. And if you look at the agency that
is representing him, they are also the agency that are
the lobbyists for the Harris family who developed Colony Ridge,
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and you will notice there is a very close tie there.
You will notice that it is the financial interests that
are behind Briscoe Caine. And I think there is in
the mix really dirty people involved. I think Meeler will
do a much better job. I think that Brisco Kaine's
a complete sellout, and I could say a lot worse,
but I'll hold that for now. District twenty two, Congress
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Trevor Nails District thirty six, Brian Babbin District thirty eight,
John Bonk, Attorney General Aaron Wrights. I kind of gave
right short shrift the other day because I said that
I didn't know if he could win, but I think
he should win. Didn't know how he could do in fundraising,
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so I reached out and asked for some details and
did a little research. Wrights is actually doing better than
everyone else in fundraising that is not self financing. He
raised four million dollars from nearly three thousand individual contributors
in under seven months since he launched his campaign. He
has three million on hand. That's it's not as much
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as you want a state wide race, but it's way
better than you would have expected considering this. Four candidates
in that race. May's Middleton is self financing. Chip Roy
has name ID because he's been up there, but the
Trump folks hate chip Roy. John Huffman's got the Texans
for lawsuit reform and that group behind her because she's
a state senator. And I think there's a lot of
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people scared to death and this happens, there's nothing wrong
with it. I think there's a lot of people supporting
her who are scared to death if she loses and
she goes back. She's got a powerful committee chairmanship in
the State Senate that they don't care she wins or loses.
They don't want her mad at them as a state senator,
and that's part of running as an office holder that's
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a state senator. I think they're banking on her being
a woman and the only woman in the field. But
Aaron Wright's has got all the momentum in terms of
grassroots support, money that he's raising. He went and worked
for Trump, Ken Paxton endorsed him as the candidate to
replace him. That is the most like him. Chip Roy
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has been an anti Trump guy again and again and
again and again, very openly, very vocally calling maga folks,
mf rors, talking about MAGA people in the worst possible way,
seeking the impeachment of Trump. In January, as Trump was
walking out the door in the election that had been
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stolen from him, I know that Chip Roy doesn't think
that anybody's going to remember that, but we are going
to remember it. There are consequences to that. So anyway,
there's a couple other races that I'll give you my
opinion on them. This is Tracy Faird and Welcome to
the Lifestyles of the not so rich and famous are As.
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I call it the Michael Berry Show. Get to it.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Stevie Shadow, we talk about the ultimate breakup song.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Imagine breaking up with your band man. You came into
Fleetwood Mac with this person you share twenty four to
seven music love. She said, what you you? She said
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he wanted to have sex seven times a day. I
don't know how she arrived at that number. That's a
lot of sack. That's a lot of sack. We mean
not at first. I don't think she was saying three
days in. I think she's going, hey, how about we
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calm this down a little bit? Do I look like
a rabbit? Imagine you were with this person twenty four
to seven. You are, Oh, they're rolling a safe out
of the next door neighbors. Please, I don't know where
they're go on that Here it goes going to come
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off the curb.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Pop.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That's a big safe right there. I know it's the
only song credit with all over band members, but they
didn't all equally write it there. I don't have time
for the story right now. Let me give my endorsements.
There's not endorsements, my suggestions. Let's see Aaron Wright's for
Attorney General, Comptroller Don Huffines, Commissioner of Agriculture, Nate Sheets,
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Railroad Commissioner, Bo French, Court of Criminal Appeals, Thomas Smith,
and for separate seat, John Messenger, State Senator, Brett Ligan.
That's the Montgomery County area. State Rep. Dennis Goose Geeseman,
State Rep. Polly Looper, State Rep. Scott Bowen, Court of
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Appeals Place three, Zach Gibson, Harris County Judge, Marty Langton
County Clerk Linda Santis, Dirty's sister Commissioner Precinct two, Richard Vega,
Harris County Republican Party Chairman Don Hooper Propositions one through
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ten four, every one of them, I will have some
precinct chairman. That's the lowest level. That's your person in
your little in your neighborhood. But Mary Tally Boden, obviously
I would endorse because she's done more for health freedom
than probably any single person. That's why RFK reached out
to her and has supported her efforts and a lot
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of other people. But she's running for precinct chairman. I
think she'd be a good rabble rouser to have in
the party hierarchy. The Republican party process should not be
a bunch of people gathering around lathering each other up
and telling them how great they are and giving speeches
and toasts to each other. It should be contentious. People
should argue. In fact, any deliberative body should be a
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frequent argument. Now again, this goes back to the nice neighbor.
The nice neighbor, the compassionate, kind, polite person is the
death of America. This is why Muslims bully Christians in
America so much. A one percent Muslim community can take
over a Christian community because they're pushier, and the Christians
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will keep turning the other cheek and being polite, and
half of them will say, oh, it's not really happening,
when it is. It's what they do. They just want
to keep loving people to death. We're just going to
love everybody as they insult us, ruin our schools, steal
our money. It doesn't matter. We're just going to keep
all love them and don't not love them, because that's
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mean and rude and awkward, and can't we all just
get along the process of politics and deliberative bodies. If
you hear me say something, let it be this, and
it will bother some of you, It will make some
of you you think I'm crazy, and maybe you don't
agree with me. If you believe that what we want
is for everybody to just get along in the political process,
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then you don't understand the political process our forefathers did.
That's why we have three branches of government instead of one.
That's why our chief executive, the head of the executive office,
is not a king. He is a president with limited
powers overseeing the bureaucracy the executive branch. The Congress has
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certain powers, including the power to remove him. But should
the Congress overstep their many powers, including the power to
remove him, there is yet another body, a third, the judiciary,
the highest body of which is the Supreme Court, that
can determine whether or not that was appropriate and everything
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else that comes through it. And to get onto that body,
you had to have the Upper Chamber of the legislative body,
the law righting body, confirm you after you're nominated by
the president. The system is designed with what we learned
as checks and balances. Let me tell you something. Checks
and balances means coordinated arguments, and there should be coordinated arguments.
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People contentant. I don't like that they're always bickering. All right.
How about this, you live next door to me. I
want to put a fence in between us because I
don't like looking at your ugly wife walking around in
a bikini all day. You don't want a fence there
for whatever reason. What are we gonna do? Are you
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gonna win? Am I gonna win? It's just that simple.
How about this. Bob wants works for the government. He
wants to run a road right through your property. You
don't want to road through your property because you got
four houses on it, two of them with you and
one of your kids, the other two with your other
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two kids. This property has been in your family for
one hundred and fifty years. This is your dream, this
is your heaven, this is your sanctuary. But Bob with
the government wants to build a road through there. So
which is it going to be? Are you gonna win,
or is he gonna win? Well, you've got enough acreage
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that for him to go around would cost fifteen times
as much because now we'd have to go through the river,
had to build a bridge, we had to go around there,
we'd have a bunch of curves in it, which is dangerous.
Or we go right over your property. But you don't
want to go through your property. So what do we do?
Do you just sit quietly and give up your property? No? No,
you fight that, and that is the process with fighting it.
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People email me all the time, and I've just I've
lost interest in arguing with them. People email me are
all the time that a criminally charged defendant that their
lawyer is making statements that the cops are bad and
the victim deserved it, and there guy's a really good guy, and.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Babel, I'm so mad, A kn't see straight their lawyer
that bastard's lawyer is saying that his client is a
good guy and the cops didn't do a good job
and that the victim halfway deserved.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It, and buckle A can't spared it. I think you
need to turn the TV off and go watch the
Jetsons and Elroyd because this is how the process works.
He's doing his job.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
George Jackson, he's by now Jane.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
What did they say his wife Jane?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Jane?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
His wife instead of his wife Jane. I think they
didn't want to repeat that line. I think you're just
trying to mix it up. But I think it would
work better. Can you rewind about forty five seconds? Do
the kids? I think it would. I think it would
flow more naturally even if you did the repetition.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
George Jackson's line.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But yeah, should be his wife dame flow back. Think
about it is just the audio of that track without
the visual. You think, man in post production, you should
have brought that background down and brought the voices forward.
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But because you have the visual, you're kind of reading
along like subtitles. But when you just hear the audio,
you're like, what's his daughter's name? I can't even hear it.
That's where the visual would have made a big difference. Oh,
I got through everybody. I think it's important to vote
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for Don Hooper as the Harris County Precinct Chairman Harris
County Precinct Chairman, because I think we need change at
the Harris County Party. I don't have anything bad to
say about the individuals involved there. I think they're nice people.
I think they're good people. I think that you have
to be careful that you pick your fighter for the game.
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I think that the days of the nice guy party
are over. We need people who are willing to fight.
By God, we're up against Rodney Ellis. Okay, we're up
against Rodney Ellis. And I think having somebody who is
a really nice woman, who is very polite, is costing us.
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I think the Harris County Party is not doing battle.
The problem is h let me go ahead and piss
everybody off. I don't care. Here we go Republican Party
heavy lifting, the actual grassroots is almost all women, almost
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all women. George Strake told me this twenty five years ago.
Strake with a K like the school Strake Jesuit, good school,
great school. All the heavy lifting is done, all the organizing,
booking the speakers, keeping the finances, all of that, it's
all done by women. Men do very very little of that.
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And so some of those women who are very active,
they go to the women's groups, they go to lots
of meetings. Some of them that hang around a long time,
they have lots of titles. They're the chair of this
and the vice chair of this, and they're in like
five different organizations and who about it, criticize. At least
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they do something, but their politics are often horrible. And
this is a problem because everybody else's busy doing the
rest of their life and not doing anything political. It's like, oh,
that's old Joan or Susie or Katie or Wendy. She's
missed Republican. You know, she's always taken her picture with
Trump or Cruise or corn In or somebody. She got
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pictures with everybody. I mean, if you follow her on
Facebook or Instagram, she knows everybody, and she does. She
goes to every gathering. They don't ask her about a
political don't ask her about a policy issue. She's pro life,
by God, she knows it. That's fine. She's pro life
in pro Israel and pro Christian, and she loves America
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and that's kind of her policy position. So you can
pretty much do anything you want as long as you
fit it into that. We're going to raise taxes and
go to war in lots of places for twenty five
years because we love America. And she'll say yes of America, Yes,
and God help you if you criticize the person who
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is doing the policy that is that way, because she's
also very loyal and I can respect that. However, subtle
nuance is lost on that individual, not because she's a woman,
but because that's her mindset. She keeps it pretty simple.
She puts a lot of energy, not a lot of
thought into it. And so we have a Republican Party
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that is largely staffed by people like this. And so
you start wondering, well, how come our taxes are up?
How come we've got the Republican majority in the House
and the Senate, We've got every Republican state wide elected official,
and we never seem to get anything done that we
want done. There's your reason. How Come we have the
Republican majority of the House and the Senate in DC
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and the White House, and the majority on the Supreme
Court so they can't overrule our stuff, and yet we
never get anything done. There's your reason. I call it
the Republican Party, the Bush Family, the Romney's. This is
your old fashioned, blue blood country club, bow tie Republicans.
These are Mike Pence Republicans. These are people that don't
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like those gays. They love to go to war. They're
against abortion. They keep it pretty simple. They love America,
and they'll occasionally throw out we should balance the budget
and pray and school. But these the Maga Revolution was
actually a punch in the face to this Republican Party
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by the grassroots. The problem is the grassroots doesn't control
the parties. So you will notice that in some cases
the party is controlled by people who supported Niki Haley.
The party is controlled by people who don't like Trump.
The party is controlled by people who don't like revolutionaries,
they don't like activists, they don't like Maga. So you've
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got to make changes. Not to mention, you've got to
put a candidate in every judicial race. So when we're
out there busting our butt to get people elected, we've
got a Republican to defeat the Democrats. We need a fighter,
a brawler. That's Don Hooper. Don Hooper's not going to
be the guy that comes in and give you a compliment.
He's going to be the guy that when he walks
in the room Rodney Ellis is going to go, oh,
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that mfror right there. He's ready for a fight. That's
what we need. As Harris County Republican party chairman no
more or missus Knight, nice guy. We need a tough
person to come in, push the party, motivate people, fill offices,
and do battle with Rodney Ellis because I'm tired of
losing and we have not had that in a long time.
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That's what we need.
It's that time time time, time, Luck and Load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. I'm a big
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fan of the gig economy. I think that there are
a lot of things that people have skills to do
that other people would be willing to pay for, but
they're uncomfortable asking to be paid sort of awkward. I
think there are a lot of people who help other
people fix their cars or fix their cars for the
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rest of the family that if they could ever get
over the barrier and say the way to do it is, Hey,
I've started a business and I've been happy to fix
your car, but I've decided to make a living at this.
So just so you know, I'll be charging less than
you'd pay somewhere else because I don't have overhead. But
(01:13):
I'm well, where's your shop? You never asked where my
shop was when I was fixing your car before. But
I'm going to work at people's houses. If I can't
do it mobile, then I'm not going to fix it. Well,
I mean I could take it to the professionals. Take
it to the professionals. Then if people could get comfortable
(01:33):
with selling their services to friends and family, then they
could make a living doing what they love to do,
devote more time to it. But it's hard to do
because a lot of people, and I've witnessed this, a
lot of people are very uncomfortable talking about money. They
are not comfortable at all. Now, as long as you
(01:58):
have an office or a retail location and a sign
out front, money is supposed to supposed to pass in
those locations. But just the delivery of a service and
the payment for it. People don't think there should all
that should be free, and a lot of people have
the very stupid and I believe it is stupid idea
that everything should be free all the time. You shouldn't
(02:20):
charge for things. I have decided that those people are
not worth my time because I want to make money
and if I'm doing something that I think is of
value that someone else would pay for, I'm going to
charge for it, and that person can choose not to
pay for it. I don't know why they don't understand that,
(02:40):
but they like to bitch about it, and it usually
consists of you being a bad person for charging for
something and them not having the money. But they do
have money, they just don't want to spend it on that.
They want that thing free. I say all that to
say this the gig economy for the right people, especially
(03:02):
wives of men. When the wives are stay at home
and have a skill set that is monetizable, you'd be
You're never going to support the whole family with it.
You don't need to, but for vacation money or more.
I'm amazed how many people create little side how many
wives I have seen this, How many wives create little
(03:23):
side businesses while raising kids at home and managed to
make it work without it without it affecting them being
a mommy or a wife or the you know, the
person that keeps the house running and makes dinner. Example,
my wife has some friends who play Majong. I like
the Majong trend for this reason. It's a game that
(03:47):
I don't know much about it, so I'm probably gonna
say something wrong. You don't need to correct me because
I don't really care. But it's a game that apparently
has been around for eight billion years, and it's gotten
popular with white women and they have gatherings. Well, part
of the issue here is women don't know how to
(04:08):
get together as women. Guys easiest to play golf. Hey,
you and join us playoff. I don't really care it
doesn't matter. We're not really there to play golf, come,
drink beers and hang out. Okay, women don't do that.
There's some, but not mostly they don't do that. So
guys have that. Or you want to spend time with
somebody to get to know them, engage them. Bringing interesting
(04:32):
people together as a group can create magic. That is,
there are endorphins released. That's why people that have a
farm or a ranch will invite people out, maybe have
somebody play guitar and sit around the campfire and sing.
There is something about male fraternity that is important and engaging.
(04:55):
It's different than couples hanging out. That's also special, that's fun.
There is guys hanging out. This is a good thing.
Fishing trip, there's always a Houston gun club, going to
a gun club. Those are the sorts of things activities
that guys are very good at. And you develop friendships
through that, and through that you meet new people who
(05:19):
also become your friends. And as an adult, it's a
lot harder to make new friends than it was in
school because you know you're married, so you go to work,
you come home, you got your wife, your kids, your responsibilities,
and most people go to bed at a reasonable time,
(05:39):
so you don't have a lot of free time, so
you don't get to meet new friends. And you find
out that years are going by and you haven't developed
any new friendships, and friendships feed you. You know, new people,
interesting people. What do they do for a living? How
do they end up here?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What interesting things have happened to them? That all of
that is the stuff of life. And you have difficulty
developing those new friendships, especially if you don't have a
work job, a job that allows you to interact with
new people. So what do you do? Well, men are
(06:15):
just better at that than women. But women have learned
that they need this and so one of the things
that this Majong gives them the ability to do this.
And I say, what I like about Majong for women
is that it is a game, a sport. I guess
it's a card game of some sort or some sort
of table game. But what I love about it is
(06:36):
I know women who play this game with people that
I know women who play this game in their forties
with women in their eighties. And what other activity can
you get multiple generations at the same table around a
game interacting socially pickleball's pretty good about that, but there
(06:57):
is still a physical component such as it is. It's
not intense, but such as it is with majong. You
really can get from what I've seen of people. I've
had people say, hey, I I met this lady who
really loves you. She just thinks the world are you.
And this will be somebody in their forties, And I said, oh,
who is it? And Miss so and so she's eighty five.
How do you know her? We played majong together. Anyway,
(07:20):
the point of this whole discussion was, my wife tells
me she's having a group over to the house. She's
just she has all these friends who play majong and
they've been asking her to play forever. And they have
hired a woman to teach you newbies, because my wife's
a nubie to play majong, this this game. I said, oh, okay, well,
(07:43):
how the person who teaches you to play majong? What
were they doing yesterday? And she said, raising kids, She
was working out of the house, and she's really good
at majah. She was playing all the time. She figured
out a lot of people wanted to wanted to do,
wanted to play majong and didn't know how. So now
she is in the gig economy. She is a person
who goes to your house. You host amajon group of
(08:06):
all newbies, and she comes in and teaches you. Again,
I don't think she's getting rich, but to have a
little play money on the sign. There's so many things
that people can do. It's a brave new world. Interesting
times we're living. Oh, I got to give you my votes.
I'm sorry. I'll do that next segment.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Damn it, all right, this is Mark Chestnut Enjoy Bizaar
of talk radio.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
In the US Senate race. I think John Cornyn is
an embarrassment. I think he's a hypocrite. I think that
Washington owns him, and I think he is the best
example in Americans to day of the problem we have.
It's not the Democrats, we know who they are. It's
Republicans who claim they're with you and behind your back
(09:09):
do exactly the opposite. We've played for you before, we'll
play it again. The audio of him telling a business
group that Trump's border wall is impractical and won't happen.
Now he comes around and says, oh, no, no, no, I
change my mind. It's a good idea. What do you
think the people of Texas wanted? John Cornyn knew what
(09:30):
the people of Texas wanted when he said that, because
six years is a long time. I had somebody tell
me the other day, if Cording doesn't win the primary,
then he's going to torment Trump from March through the
end of the year because he'll still be the Senator.
(09:50):
And that's what scares me about Cornyn. Wait a minute,
this guy hates Trump and Texas so much that if
he can't be your senator, you believe and I do too.
Did he go back to Washington, d C. And torment
Trump for nine months and that's your basis for voting
(10:10):
for him? He has blackmailed you into voting for him.
Does that tell you where you are in this process?
Wesley Hunter, Ken Paxton, Congress Steve Toath. I think Dan
Crenshaw's an embarrassment. I think he's horrible. There's one guy
running in that district who's running. Finny is his name.
(10:31):
I don't know him, but his whole spot is that
Crenshaw's a drunk and crass and rude, and he goes
into that story in Mexico, Crenshaw claims that story is debunked.
I don't know if it's debunk or not. I know
the story's out there. The guy's running ads at say
Crenshaw's a drunk and he won't be a drunk. That's
the whole spot, which is an interesting approach. I don't
know that it gets any attraction, but it'd be interesting
(10:53):
to study whether. I don't know how much money he's
got behind it, because the only thing I watch on
TV is Jeopardy that I record and watch at night.
I don't know who's watching Jeopardy. Maybe seniors, I don't know.
Steve Toath is a constitutional conservative with a strong track
record in the House. You know this is where politics
is so filthy, so dirty, so diabolical. Crenshaw's professionals out
(11:15):
of DC are running ads that say Crenshaw worked against us.
He didn't want to cut taxes in the House. Crenshaw
was a group of what Texas Monthly called far right
conservatives who fought the budget bill because it didn't cut
taxes enough. So he voted against a bill that was
(11:40):
too bloated but claimed to have some tax cuts in it.
Now they claimed Toth this against tax cuts. Toth is
the constitutional conservative. Crenshaw is not a good representative. Crenshaw
wants wars foreign spending Afghans coming to Houston. He wrote
this in a letter, in a letter for Afghans to
(12:01):
be relocated in Houston, and we see what they've done
to rapes and the murders. He and Sylvia Garcia wrote
that letter together. If you're ever co authoring a letter
with Sylvia Garcia and you're not sure if this is
the right thing to do, just look at the other
seat that t'rore on the letter and go, oh, Sylvia Garcia, Yeah,
not the right thing to do, and steve toath District two.
(12:23):
Some of you are going to be in District two
that don't Some of you are going to be in
districts that you didn't expect before. So don't be surprised
by that. The redistricting moved some people around. District eight.
Jessica Hart Steinmann or Nick Tran. I think Steinmann's got
the endorsements and the money. Nick Tran's got a lot
of folks that I respect who are constitutional conservatives and
(12:44):
good guys. I think either one of them would be good.
Best I can tell. District nine Alex Meeler. I was
a big supporter of Meeler for County Judge. Mattress Mac
myself and Tom Ramsey have been big supporters of her
for Congress. I can tell you that if the vote
went to the grassroots, Mieler would win. She's got the
(13:07):
mayors of the communities within the district. She's got the
city council one of the communities in the district. She's
got law enforcement. The Border Patrol endorsed her. Briscoe Caine
has got the big money guys. He's got Abbot's money
people because he was one of Abbot stooges in Austin.
He's the guy who led the impact the impeachment of Paxton. He's,
(13:29):
my opinion, a complete sellout. He declared Colony Ridge to
be the American dream. He took money from the Colony
Ridge guys. And if you look at the agency that
is representing him, they are also the agency that are
the lobbyists for the Harris family who developed Colony Ridge,
(13:49):
and you will notice there is a very close tie there.
You will notice that it is the financial interests that
are behind Briscoe Caine. And I think there is in
the mix really dirty people involved. I think Meeler will
do a much better job. I think that Brisco Kaine's
a complete sellout, and I could say a lot worse,
but I'll hold that for now. District twenty two, Congress
(14:11):
Trevor Nails District thirty six, Brian Babbin District thirty eight,
John Bonk, Attorney General Aaron Wrights. I kind of gave
right short shrift the other day because I said that
I didn't know if he could win, but I think
he should win. Didn't know how he could do in fundraising,
(14:32):
so I reached out and asked for some details and
did a little research. Wrights is actually doing better than
everyone else in fundraising that is not self financing. He
raised four million dollars from nearly three thousand individual contributors
in under seven months since he launched his campaign. He
has three million on hand. That's it's not as much
(14:55):
as you want a state wide race, but it's way
better than you would have expected considering this. Four candidates
in that race. May's Middleton is self financing. Chip Roy
has name ID because he's been up there, but the
Trump folks hate chip Roy. John Huffman's got the Texans
for lawsuit reform and that group behind her because she's
a state senator. And I think there's a lot of
(15:16):
people scared to death and this happens, there's nothing wrong
with it. I think there's a lot of people supporting
her who are scared to death if she loses and
she goes back. She's got a powerful committee chairmanship in
the State Senate that they don't care she wins or loses.
They don't want her mad at them as a state senator,
and that's part of running as an office holder that's
(15:37):
a state senator. I think they're banking on her being
a woman and the only woman in the field. But
Aaron Wright's has got all the momentum in terms of
grassroots support, money that he's raising. He went and worked
for Trump, Ken Paxton endorsed him as the candidate to
replace him. That is the most like him. Chip Roy
(16:00):
has been an anti Trump guy again and again and
again and again, very openly, very vocally calling maga folks,
mf rors, talking about MAGA people in the worst possible way,
seeking the impeachment of Trump. In January, as Trump was
walking out the door in the election that had been
(16:20):
stolen from him, I know that Chip Roy doesn't think
that anybody's going to remember that, but we are going
to remember it. There are consequences to that. So anyway,
there's a couple other races that I'll give you my
opinion on them. This is Tracy Faird and Welcome to
the Lifestyles of the not so rich and famous are As.
(16:41):
I call it the Michael Berry Show. Get to it.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Stevie Shadow, we talk about the ultimate breakup song.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Imagine breaking up with your band man. You came into
Fleetwood Mac with this person you share twenty four to
seven music love. She said, what you you? She said
(18:13):
he wanted to have sex seven times a day. I
don't know how she arrived at that number. That's a
lot of sack. That's a lot of sack. We mean
not at first. I don't think she was saying three
days in. I think she's going, hey, how about we
(18:34):
calm this down a little bit? Do I look like
a rabbit? Imagine you were with this person twenty four
to seven. You are, Oh, they're rolling a safe out
of the next door neighbors. Please, I don't know where
they're go on that Here it goes going to come
(18:55):
off the curb.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Pop.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That's a big safe right there. I know it's the
only song credit with all over band members, but they
didn't all equally write it there. I don't have time
for the story right now. Let me give my endorsements.
There's not endorsements, my suggestions. Let's see Aaron Wright's for
Attorney General, Comptroller Don Huffines, Commissioner of Agriculture, Nate Sheets,
(19:23):
Railroad Commissioner, Bo French, Court of Criminal Appeals, Thomas Smith,
and for separate seat, John Messenger, State Senator, Brett Ligan.
That's the Montgomery County area. State Rep. Dennis Goose Geeseman,
State Rep. Polly Looper, State Rep. Scott Bowen, Court of
(19:45):
Appeals Place three, Zach Gibson, Harris County Judge, Marty Langton
County Clerk Linda Santis, Dirty's sister Commissioner Precinct two, Richard Vega,
Harris County Republican Party Chairman Don Hooper Propositions one through
(20:05):
ten four, every one of them, I will have some
precinct chairman. That's the lowest level. That's your person in
your little in your neighborhood. But Mary Tally Boden, obviously
I would endorse because she's done more for health freedom
than probably any single person. That's why RFK reached out
to her and has supported her efforts and a lot
(20:26):
of other people. But she's running for precinct chairman. I
think she'd be a good rabble rouser to have in
the party hierarchy. The Republican party process should not be
a bunch of people gathering around lathering each other up
and telling them how great they are and giving speeches
and toasts to each other. It should be contentious. People
should argue. In fact, any deliberative body should be a
(20:52):
frequent argument. Now again, this goes back to the nice neighbor.
The nice neighbor, the compassionate, kind, polite person is the
death of America. This is why Muslims bully Christians in
America so much. A one percent Muslim community can take
over a Christian community because they're pushier, and the Christians
(21:15):
will keep turning the other cheek and being polite, and
half of them will say, oh, it's not really happening,
when it is. It's what they do. They just want
to keep loving people to death. We're just going to
love everybody as they insult us, ruin our schools, steal
our money. It doesn't matter. We're just going to keep
all love them and don't not love them, because that's
(21:37):
mean and rude and awkward, and can't we all just
get along the process of politics and deliberative bodies. If
you hear me say something, let it be this, and
it will bother some of you, It will make some
of you you think I'm crazy, and maybe you don't
agree with me. If you believe that what we want
is for everybody to just get along in the political process,
(22:00):
then you don't understand the political process our forefathers did.
That's why we have three branches of government instead of one.
That's why our chief executive, the head of the executive office,
is not a king. He is a president with limited
powers overseeing the bureaucracy the executive branch. The Congress has
(22:24):
certain powers, including the power to remove him. But should
the Congress overstep their many powers, including the power to
remove him, there is yet another body, a third, the judiciary,
the highest body of which is the Supreme Court, that
can determine whether or not that was appropriate and everything
(22:45):
else that comes through it. And to get onto that body,
you had to have the Upper Chamber of the legislative body,
the law righting body, confirm you after you're nominated by
the president. The system is designed with what we learned
as checks and balances. Let me tell you something. Checks
and balances means coordinated arguments, and there should be coordinated arguments.
(23:13):
People contentant. I don't like that they're always bickering. All right.
How about this, you live next door to me. I
want to put a fence in between us because I
don't like looking at your ugly wife walking around in
a bikini all day. You don't want a fence there
for whatever reason. What are we gonna do? Are you
(23:35):
gonna win? Am I gonna win? It's just that simple.
How about this. Bob wants works for the government. He
wants to run a road right through your property. You
don't want to road through your property because you got
four houses on it, two of them with you and
one of your kids, the other two with your other
(23:57):
two kids. This property has been in your family for
one hundred and fifty years. This is your dream, this
is your heaven, this is your sanctuary. But Bob with
the government wants to build a road through there. So
which is it going to be? Are you gonna win,
or is he gonna win? Well, you've got enough acreage
(24:18):
that for him to go around would cost fifteen times
as much because now we'd have to go through the river,
had to build a bridge, we had to go around there,
we'd have a bunch of curves in it, which is dangerous.
Or we go right over your property. But you don't
want to go through your property. So what do we do?
Do you just sit quietly and give up your property? No? No,
you fight that, and that is the process with fighting it.
(24:39):
People email me all the time, and I've just I've
lost interest in arguing with them. People email me are
all the time that a criminally charged defendant that their
lawyer is making statements that the cops are bad and
the victim deserved it, and there guy's a really good guy, and.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Babel, I'm so mad, A kn't see straight their lawyer
that bastard's lawyer is saying that his client is a
good guy and the cops didn't do a good job
and that the victim halfway deserved.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It, and buckle A can't spared it. I think you
need to turn the TV off and go watch the
Jetsons and Elroyd because this is how the process works.
He's doing his job.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
George Jackson, he's by now Jane.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
What did they say his wife Jane?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Jane?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
His wife instead of his wife Jane. I think they
didn't want to repeat that line. I think you're just
trying to mix it up. But I think it would
work better. Can you rewind about forty five seconds? Do
the kids? I think it would. I think it would
flow more naturally even if you did the repetition.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
George Jackson's line.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But yeah, should be his wife dame flow back. Think
about it is just the audio of that track without
the visual. You think, man in post production, you should
have brought that background down and brought the voices forward.
(27:44):
But because you have the visual, you're kind of reading
along like subtitles. But when you just hear the audio,
you're like, what's his daughter's name? I can't even hear it.
That's where the visual would have made a big difference. Oh,
I got through everybody. I think it's important to vote
(28:06):
for Don Hooper as the Harris County Precinct Chairman Harris
County Precinct Chairman, because I think we need change at
the Harris County Party. I don't have anything bad to
say about the individuals involved there. I think they're nice people.
I think they're good people. I think that you have
to be careful that you pick your fighter for the game.
(28:30):
I think that the days of the nice guy party
are over. We need people who are willing to fight.
By God, we're up against Rodney Ellis. Okay, we're up
against Rodney Ellis. And I think having somebody who is
a really nice woman, who is very polite, is costing us.
(28:52):
I think the Harris County Party is not doing battle.
The problem is h let me go ahead and piss
everybody off. I don't care. Here we go Republican Party
heavy lifting, the actual grassroots is almost all women, almost
(29:15):
all women. George Strake told me this twenty five years ago.
Strake with a K like the school Strake Jesuit, good school,
great school. All the heavy lifting is done, all the organizing,
booking the speakers, keeping the finances, all of that, it's
all done by women. Men do very very little of that.
(29:41):
And so some of those women who are very active,
they go to the women's groups, they go to lots
of meetings. Some of them that hang around a long time,
they have lots of titles. They're the chair of this
and the vice chair of this, and they're in like
five different organizations and who about it, criticize. At least
(30:01):
they do something, but their politics are often horrible. And
this is a problem because everybody else's busy doing the
rest of their life and not doing anything political. It's like, oh,
that's old Joan or Susie or Katie or Wendy. She's
missed Republican. You know, she's always taken her picture with
Trump or Cruise or corn In or somebody. She got
(30:23):
pictures with everybody. I mean, if you follow her on
Facebook or Instagram, she knows everybody, and she does. She
goes to every gathering. They don't ask her about a
political don't ask her about a policy issue. She's pro life,
by God, she knows it. That's fine. She's pro life
in pro Israel and pro Christian, and she loves America
(30:44):
and that's kind of her policy position. So you can
pretty much do anything you want as long as you
fit it into that. We're going to raise taxes and
go to war in lots of places for twenty five
years because we love America. And she'll say yes of America, Yes,
and God help you if you criticize the person who
(31:05):
is doing the policy that is that way, because she's
also very loyal and I can respect that. However, subtle
nuance is lost on that individual, not because she's a woman,
but because that's her mindset. She keeps it pretty simple.
She puts a lot of energy, not a lot of
thought into it. And so we have a Republican Party
(31:27):
that is largely staffed by people like this. And so
you start wondering, well, how come our taxes are up?
How come we've got the Republican majority in the House
and the Senate, We've got every Republican state wide elected official,
and we never seem to get anything done that we
want done. There's your reason. How Come we have the
Republican majority of the House and the Senate in DC
(31:50):
and the White House, and the majority on the Supreme
Court so they can't overrule our stuff, and yet we
never get anything done. There's your reason. I call it
the Republican Party, the Bush Family, the Romney's. This is
your old fashioned, blue blood country club, bow tie Republicans.
These are Mike Pence Republicans. These are people that don't
(32:11):
like those gays. They love to go to war. They're
against abortion. They keep it pretty simple. They love America,
and they'll occasionally throw out we should balance the budget
and pray and school. But these the Maga Revolution was
actually a punch in the face to this Republican Party
(32:34):
by the grassroots. The problem is the grassroots doesn't control
the parties. So you will notice that in some cases
the party is controlled by people who supported Niki Haley.
The party is controlled by people who don't like Trump.
The party is controlled by people who don't like revolutionaries,
they don't like activists, they don't like Maga. So you've
(32:56):
got to make changes. Not to mention, you've got to
put a candidate in every judicial race. So when we're
out there busting our butt to get people elected, we've
got a Republican to defeat the Democrats. We need a fighter,
a brawler. That's Don Hooper. Don Hooper's not going to
be the guy that comes in and give you a compliment.
He's going to be the guy that when he walks
in the room Rodney Ellis is going to go, oh,
(33:17):
that mfror right there. He's ready for a fight. That's
what we need. As Harris County Republican party chairman no
more or missus Knight, nice guy. We need a tough
person to come in, push the party, motivate people, fill offices,
and do battle with Rodney Ellis because I'm tired of
losing and we have not had that in a long time.
(33:39):
That's what we need.
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