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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Eddie Martini, who obsesses open markets, said markets aren't up,
and I said, well, they were when they opened, which
was what I was quoting from. So he sends me
a screenshot Dal Jones up, NASDAC down and s and
P five hundred down.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He doesn't include the.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Rest of it. He said, you need better sources. No,
I probably need more up to date information. But the
point was the markets opened. The markets want to see
the big beautiful bill done. The expectation is the big
beautiful bill will be done. It's bad for our long
term economics, it's bad for our long term financial stability,
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but the markets don't care about that. The markets want
more debt, bigger government overnight, and they want a deal done.
They don't want uncertainty. So that's what's going to happen.
We're going to get the deal done today and the
markets will rebound and you'll see all of them up
by the end of the day. If Trump folks are
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saying that they have the deal, that they've got the votes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We shall see shortly. In answer to.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The World's Shortest country song, Tex Crowley sent a song
by a fellow named Kenny Price, and he says, this
is the world's shortest song.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Goes like, this.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is the shortest song in board. And that might be true,
but I don't think you really get the storytelling that
you get with the Great Waller Lab meth lab explosion
of nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
This here's a Great Waller County met Lab explosion of
nineteen ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking
up drain home and a harvest a vedron they could
get their hands on. They had bottles of profanity, batteries
than one cigarette hands and boom they were gone.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Harris County Commissioner's Court trying to plug the whole of
a of a gaping budget shortfall, even despite having more
money than they've had ever.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
In the mid still doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They voted Thursday to compensate former public health director Barbie
Robinson for more than two hundred thousand dollars in legal fees.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Why did she have legal fees?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh, she was holding the job of public health director
in Harris County while she was holding the job of
assistant public health director in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's illegal. But that wasn't really the crime. That was
just further to the criminal culture that she led.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She was being charged for steering a contract to a
company in Los Angeles to get Harris County money. This
is what Rodney and his crew do. You steer these
these big chunks of contracts. Remember the Elevate Strategies contract
that Lena had. Allgo's top three people were indicted for
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same deal. You steer these big contracts to outside people
and you get.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The kickback from it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, in this case, she had negotiated that she was
going to leave this job in Harris County and go
to work out there in LA where she's from, I believe,
And they said, how much do you want to make
when you come to work here? She's in the position
to pick them for a contract. Just tell us how
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much you want and that's what we'll pay you. Sounds
like a real arms link deal, doesn't it. And the
Harris County taxpairer just keeps on getting screwed and they
just keep preaching race. So Barbie Robinson was charged. The
new district attorney who Rodney Ellis put there, dropped the charges,
and then Harris County gave her the money. For her
legal fees for being inconvenienced by being charged for committing
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these crimes. Chris writes, how can you identify the most
dedicated secretary? She's the one that keeps her white rebox
in the filing cabinet behind her desk. While other secretaries
gossip in the company chick in the company kitchen.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
She uses part of her lunch hour to get some
steps in. Ain't that the truth?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Harry Wilkinson, the drummer for Michael Martin Murphy's band, said,
when I first got to Nashville'zar introducing myself around, Charlie
Rich's manager told me date the secretaries. They control the Rolodex,
phone numbers and referrals.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Something to be said for that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Bridget writes, tzar just a little thank you. I'm a
school teacher, so naturally I'm not able to do many
things around the house during the school year, whether it's
just simply mowing the grass, weed eating the yard, or
cleaning out the flower beds. I made it an assignment
a goal to do that this summer. I put my
EarPods in and I go to work. I absolutely love
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listening to you every day, whether it's a live show,
or a podcast. You have no idea how much I've
been able to get done. I feel like a superwoman.
Just a little side note. I'm also a pet sitter
on the side, and while cleaning, stone feeding and putting out.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Hey, I listen to your well organized podcast. Thank you, Ramon.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Thank you for doing what you do, saying what you say,
and being true to yourself. Anyways, have a fabulous Fourth
of July weekend. I'm so proud to be an American.
That's from bridget in Belleville. How about that chance? Mclan says,
I have a short country parody is twenty one seconds long,
and that's with a long intro.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
We should probably check that before you play it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Travis writes, I was alignment for the county now for
HL and P for thirty five years. Some of us
always had the little packets of mustard in our lunch
boxes for heat cramps.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh well, there you go. Here's one of those things
you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Matt writes, Poor Elon, he got bitten by the political
bug and now wants to start his own party. He's
too young to remember Ross Perrot. He needs to get
back to what he knows best. Politics is owned by
no one. I don't think he was saying I don't
think he's trying to own anything. I think he's scared
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for what's happening in our country and it's hard for
him to.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Just let that go.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Zar.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I know you love catfish like I do, so I'm
asking what's your favorite spot for whiskerfish in Houston? I
know you don't respond often, even a one word response
would be appreciated. Love the show, Thanks Mike Well. I'm
open to anybody sending me suggestions on what you like.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Romon.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Whatever happened to the place up north? I think it
was Willis or near Lake Conrod that had the flood.
You remember, I remember posting video of that woman. She's
out there in her flip flops, walking in thigh deep
water through her business. She got like a T shirt
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on what do you call spaghetti straps or whatever she walked. Now,
she might have had a cigarette dangling that she didn't
she should have because it would keep with it. And
she's walking through there trying to figure out what she
can salvage. And I had people sitting in office to
send him emails.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
She shouldn't be in that water. She might get something.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Man, you don't know how tough that lady is. That's
the least of her worries some parasite.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
They don't want to bother her.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Bberis shall.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I always thought this was the most strange imperative statement
in a song title of all time. Apparently it's Vernon's
Country Catfish. That's what it was, Vernon's Country Catfish. And
Chad writes, the best catfish in Greater Houston in the
flooded restaurant you were thinking of is Vernon's Conroe Cajun Catfish.
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Gail is the awesome owner. They rebuilt and they're doing
it great. As Chad from Allied Siding and Windows, I
went to the website. Remember the story, Ramon, We had
her on, but remember the story. I think I think
one of the brothers died at a baseball game.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Do you remember this?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Listeners emailed us one of the brothers. So I think
the parents started the business, and I think they had
I'm gonna get this wrong. Maybe they had two sons
and a daughter, and the sons and daughters be about
my age. And I think one of the sons was
at his kid's baseball game and he had a heart
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attack and died, and I believe it's his wife, who
wasn't part of the family originally, who kind of took
over and random place. I could be wrong. I will check,
but I'm looking here. Would you like to hear the menu?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
There's just not enough.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Good catfish in my life. I I love catfish. It
is amazing to me. And see, check out our delicious menu.
It doesn't say I don't see where. They don't have
the menu on here? What in the sam Hill I
can't tell it doesn't have the menu on here. It
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says menu, but then you can't get you can't get
the actual menu.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I need to see the menu. Oh, here we go.
All right, let's see if that work.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Maybe it's a multi page deal. No, they don't have
a menu on here. Mom, can you talk to them
about that?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
How are you not going to have the menu on? Godly?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
What in the world?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I was fired?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Okay, view the menu. That page can't be found. Huh,
they're hiding the menu on us from mom. Hey play
that Sony Walkman commercial again. Apparently folks are saying it
sounded like Morgan Freeman. I didn't notice.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You read it to the music with the Sonny walk
Man the sony walk Man. It's that tiny stereo Casett
with truly and fredil Gura. I'll be done.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Put on a walk man and see the world and
a whole new lake, A walk man from Sunny, the
one and on there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I didn't notice it because they didn't emphasize the rich base.
How about that clip number eight k h o U
from Chad's prep. Pasadena City Council District B seat is
decided by a coin flip after the June seventh vote
ended with both incumbent Bianca Valerio and challenger Bruce Lehman
both had two dred seventy two votes. You know what
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if you only had turduring seventy two votes in a
district city council seat in Pasadena, even if neither one
of you wins, guess what, We're just leaving that seat
open because you don't have a mandate two hundred and
seventy two votes to be a city councilman in Pasadena.
This isn't some little bitty town. So since there was
a tie, there was a coin toss, and at Monday's
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Pasadena City County meeting, they flipped the coin.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Kho You with the story well, the.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Race for a seat on Pasadena's City Council has ended
in a toin coin toss. Bianco Valario and Bruce A.
Lehman were the top two candidates to represent District B,
and they ended the month's race with the exact same
number of.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Votes, that's two seventy two.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
At a special council meeting that took place about an
hour ago. The coin flip was the deciding factor that
Kingdom come.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That will be done on earth as it isn't heavy heads,
it is clean winner and take Pigiaga.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
You heard there bianco Valario calling heads as the coin
was tossed, and heads is how it landed. And she
was the incumbent.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
How bout that got a message?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I was checking with I check in with our show
sponsors constantly to see how they're doing. How's jewelry sales,
How's furniture sales, How's how's a gold sales? How's bitcoin?
And I checked in with Mike Bachiss at Lone Star
Ship because they do a month by month and how
many vehicles they have to sell by month, and he's
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one of the only dealers that actually met their sales goals.
It probably helped that he had that they were serving
fajitas outside. So you know, Ramon, there were probably people
driving by lone star Chevy on two ninety at Eldridge
and they smelled the fajitas wafting.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
They had their winded down and they.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Said, well, let's just go in and see what's going
on to car dealership. Maybe it's on fire, but the
fire is sizzling fajitas. And then they went in and
they ate some fijitas, which put them in a good mood,
and they said, you know what, I'll take a silverado
for me and a tahoe for my wife.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It could happen. It absolutely could happen.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
A registered sex offender with twenty five convictions for indecent
exposure twenty five convictions for indecent exposure. That doesn't mean
he's done it twenty five times. That's how many times
he's been charged and con has been granted a PR bond.
That means here, show you, Bippy, you're just just signed
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with you, Bippy. Just put it in the ink and
boot touch the tip of it there right there on
the paper, and then you can go on about your
way because we trust you.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We trust that you'll come back.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Because you seem like a real honest guy other than
showing your bippy to everybody. Democrat Judge tv A Bell,
another one of those at Rodney Elli's controls.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
This is what they want. This is what Rodney Ellis wants.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
He wants a guy who drops trou in front of everybody,
who will eventually rape somebody and eventually kill somebody. He
wants those people released because this poor sap he's a victim.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
He just keeps doing this again and again and again
and again.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Houston Police Officers Union's Doug Griffith saying, lock this dude up.
He's done it before, he'll keep doing it again. Fox
twenty six with the story, I've.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Been doing this a long time, but I've never seen
a situation where someone.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Takes a plea to go to prison and walks out
the door. Period.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Now we've discovered another registered sex offender was grunted out
get out of Jail free card shortly after being found
competence is unbelievable.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
I mean, you got twenty five convisions for in decent exposure.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
When we first told you about Gregory Waite Brooks in
March of last year.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
He's been exposing himself and gratifying himself for his own
personal gratification in front of anybody he can, anybody that
drives by.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
He's on the sex Offender Registry. It says risk level high.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
The fact that he's done it twenty five times and
has been arrested twenty five times. Who knows how many
times he's done it and not been arrested.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
Shortly after being released from jail, police say Brooks was
added again.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
He was given a PR bond in April, and he
never showed up to court. What on earth makes you
think giving him a PR bond is in the best
interest of society.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It's beyond my comprehension.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
The guy's been to prison for this, It's been in
dance multiple times. He's already proven he's not going to stop.
Lock him up.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
God of course it's back in jail with this box.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I'd had thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
How many other different phone lines to the people for
whatever they want to talk about for just a second
or two seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Nine one thousand, but not drunk mark. Don't put trunk mark.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I have so many memories of this song. If you
ever came to the RCC. You know that the ritual,
the tradition. Every night if I was there was I
would bring the band on. But before I brought the
band on, I would go up and make announcements, and
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then I would say, we have three rules. Number one,
we're not here to argue. You're here to make a friend,
So separate from the person you are with, tring and
make a friend. Number two, this is not a pickup bar.
This is where people go for date night. This is
where married couples come. There are plenty of singles clubs.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's not what this is.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
If a woman is by herself, assume she is married,
this is a place she can go and feel comfortable
and not have to worry she's going to get hit on.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's not what we are.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And number three, and at that point, Kevin Bull would
start in right there with that dun dun, dun.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Every time.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It would get me every time, and I'd have to
turn and look at him, like, man, I knew it
was coming, but it was always so much richer than
I expected it to be, and like it would kind
of it was startled me for a second. And then
we would bring our veterans forward and we would call
out each conflict and we would thank them.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
The ones that would get the most emotional were Vietnam veterans.
And I would have people tell me, you know, when
we opened in twenty thirteen, that was for many of
those guys forty years since they had forty to fifty
years since they had come home, depending on when they served,
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and so you add the ages, and so you had guys,
you know, sixty five.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
To eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And there were folks that said, my dad has never
mentioned Vietnam, not once. We've never never discussed it. He
doesn't wear the cap that says Vietnam veteran, he doesn't
talk about it. He doesn't watch the movies, we don't
ask questions, and something would move them and that would
start and they would come walking down and sometimes they
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would have tears, and certainly their family would because you know,
dad or Grandpa has never talked about this once, and
it was a very very powerful moment. I do continue
to see out a location for the RCC two. The
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two I go back to every time is the original
RCC location, which is not ideal because our people.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Don't live near there.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And one of the great frustrations was that people had
to drive, in many cases forty five minutes to an
hour and a half to get there and get back. Well,
if you have a couple of pops, you know that's
a concern. It affected you know, the hardcore would come,
but there were a lot of people who said, man,
i'd like to and that's not a cheap uber rite,
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so that was a challenge. It became the Sportsman's Club afterwards,
which was an urban bar. Is the term for that
in the business. And other than just needing a good
white down because it's dusty in there, it's actually set
up better than when we were there because it has
looks like the inside of Happy Days. It's set up
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with booths that I think would be you could sell
them like football suites, where a company would buy the
booth for the year, and then you'd have your programming
budget for the year, and then you could go out
and book your bands, which is what I always wanted
to do in the first place. You'd have that certainty
to begin with. The other place that I keep looking
at is twenty nine to twenty Roadhouse because I really
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like the owner, Kelly. He's done an amazing job. He
just keeps making it better and better and better. He
would love to have a partner. The base is built
out like a brick well. It's built out nice, it's
got plenty of parking, and it's closer to where the
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largest component of our audience is, whether they're coming from
the Woodlands and Willis West or two ninety or even
all the way up College Station down southeast from there.
And it would and even Katie could just come up
ninety nine, so that would probably be the most convenient location.
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The downside to that is it's not entirely enclosed. And
I know people say, well, that doesn't matter because we
the RCC best. When we were outside, man, I remember
wearing a light blue shirt and we were outside and
it was early maybe it was Gene Watson, it was
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one of those early concerts, and I remember my light
blue shirt being increasingly dark blue from the sweat. And man,
I'm gonna tell you, I'm twelve years older than I
was back then, and everybody in our audience is twelve
years older. That is rough to be outside, and then
you've got to worry about rain and all that. If
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that was a completely enclosed structure, that's where we'd be,
and that may be where we end up after all.
But that's kind of some of the things that I'm thinking.
I looked, I was looking last night. I can't find
something else that seems to work for us. James, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
I appreciate it. You got me thinking about catfish. Am
I right to San Antona? So it's me and the
truckers out here, and I just ask your question, what
are you dipping yours in? I'm going a trucker. I'm
going going to sant anton for work.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
But what's work?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
What do you do.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Director of capital project for a multi family ownership and
management group?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
And so what is the meeting for what or what
is the visit for? What are you going to do
while you're there?
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Going to do some walks and sign offs on into
your nextterior renovations at one of our communities.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Are you involved prior to the land purchase or are
you land purchased and then you begin this chematics and
all that and all.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Those guys report to you. Are you purely construction.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Well mostly capital. We buy Class A properties usually after
the lease up, so we're not actually doing ground up construction.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Okay, you buy them and then you know down the
road work. So what are you contributing?
Speaker 11 (23:08):
We're long term hole okay, we're long term hole guys.
So you know, when the loan's up for a refie
five or seven years and we'll take that capital, put
it back into the property and renovate it. So that's
my process, is the big process, the and of the
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work of the general contractors.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And are y'all based in Houston.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Our home office is in Houston. We've got properties throughout Texas,
some in Georgia, and one in lowly Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And is that student housing?
Speaker 11 (23:53):
There are quite a few students there, but it's not
classified as student housing, No, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
And what's your background? Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 11 (24:04):
That's a long story. Holy graduated high school.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Don't be ashamed of that. You should be proud of that.
Look how well you've done. I think that's awesome. Let's
all Charmay.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I'm embarrassed to tell you all this, but I actually
hang out with some very haggardly Hold.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I am not kidding you.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
These women that goes to my church and get in
my car and we rides around. Okay, for the last
these weeks, we've been going every Friday night to get
some free catfish at the Catholic church. And you say free,
I thought they charged, yes. But these women that go
down there with they act like, oh we so poverty,
but we love the Lord and make the sign and cross.
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They fall down on one knee and the pole freeze.
Ain't got no choice but to give them that and
a double helping of Cole slow goods. I ain't trying
to put nobody on blasts or spotlight, they asked, But
I about know what I'm talking about. Care Nigas and
doria El, Doris Finney and Beverly. But why yes, that's
them women's that can do all this ignorance. I had
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confessed all this to the new preacher down in my
hold lot of second Baptist design turn recording for I
sawn on the third joining streaking rage, and I said,
what should I do? He said, get your nose out
of other people's business. It don't affect you. Your reputations
already run. Why do you even give a care? And
I said, well that's a good parent, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Tell you?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Mama nam I asked, has she during Okay, now back
to the Michael bed program.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Let's go to John.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You're on the Michael Berry Show seven one three, one thousand.
Welcome to the program, sir. I'm not hearing him ramon.
Oh there we go, John, Yep, you're up, sir.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
What are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Michael Good.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Called about this weed issue that's going on between our
governor and Patrick and just I was worried it's gonna
turn into a political football that might end up costing
us here in twenty twenty six. And I don't know
why they can't figure out get your hands off their
lead and tell I'll let them be and pass the
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laws that we want to see. They're they're doing a
bunch of other stuff and they're just being like democrats
are promising what we say we want them to do,
but then they go up and they seem to do
their own agendas.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
John, did you intend your opening line to Ryn?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Okay, there was a certain pattern to it in the
pacing that I found pleasing to the ear. Let me
answer to you what is happening? And this is as
clear and as honest and as true as I can
possibly make. This absolutely nobody was calling for this Senate
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bill IREI that Dan Patrick pushed through and pushed onto
Greg Avis desk, except the liquor industry. Good people, friends
of mine. I like them.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But here's the problem. Liquor sales are way down in
the under forty crowd. Sophisticated business owners don't wait on
people to come in the door.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
They don't check the.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Numbers at the end of the day. They're looking five, ten,
fifteen years out. The trend line would tell you that
profits are going to continue to drop precipitously because more
people are grabbedating over to weed based products, hemp Delta eight.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And here's the reason.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
First of all, if you've got liver problems, which if
you drink long enough everybody will. Secondly, the calories. People
don't want all the calories of alcohol. Third, you don't
have a hangover the next day. There are a number
of people who find pain relief in hemp based products
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and the Delta eight products, and they don't get that
out of alcohol.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I wish I got it. I mean, I wish it
did something for me. It doesn't. But I will tell
you that I enjoy alcohol, I.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Enjoy wine, I enjoy beer, and I enjoy bourbon depending
on the mood, depending on the feel and the vibe
and all that sort of stuff. But a lot of people,
including older people who have joint pain, a lot of veterans,
and this, this is what bit them.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
The veterans is what bit them.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
A lot of veterans find relief from psychiatric problems and
some health problems, some physical problems in these products. So
what happened is You've got Greg Abbott's chief of staff
hired by the alcohol industry, Dan Patrick's chief of staff
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hired by the alcohol industry, and Dan Patrick's consultant, Alan Blakemore,
hired by the beer Alliance. Well, the funny thing about
Blakemore is Blakemore is both the consultant and the lobbyist
at the same time. Well, here's what nobody in Texas
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wants to say, and I'll say.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
It for you.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Remember when you wanted to give money to Joe Biden
and you gave it to his son, you bought his art.
Remember that he was the highest priced artist in the
world for a peer time. You think anybody was buying
Hunter Biden's fingerpaint. They were paying Hunter to benefit Joe Biden, Right,
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why do you hire Alan Blakemore. Think about this, So
you've got you've got Alan Blakemore running this operation politically.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
And getting paid as a lobbyist.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Just pay dan Patrick just put it in his own
Just why are the money into his account? Let's stop pretending.
Let's not go through all the charade of all this
just buying cars and do Let's just make it as
a just disgusting as we can, because that's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
That is what is happening.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So dan Patrick went to the legislative, went to the
House of Representatives in the Senate, said, nothing gets through
here this year, nothing unless I get my bill. We've
had state reps have come out and said that that's
why they got them to support it. Nobody at the
grassroots level was asking for this. It wasn't in the
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Republican agenda that the grassroots voted for at the state
party convention. No state parties were asking for it. Nobody
was asking for it except for this small special interest.
So this thing comes out of nowhere and then all
of a sudden it gets passed and the veterans rose up,
and that's what happened. So they have pissed off the veterans.
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The polling shows that a majority of Texans did not
want this, the vast majority. You can't get that many
Texans to agree on anything in both parties, and you
would like to have some of those Democrats to win
state right offices. That's why Soros is ready to pour
this money in. That's why Colin all Read just announced
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that he's running. That's why Beto's getting ready to run.
They have weakened the Republican Party out of all this nonsense.
That's what's happened. Abbot is not in a deep disagreement
with Dan Patrick. Abbott has no core values. Let me
explain this to you. Abbot is a vessel through which
his own ambition runs. He is the best fundraiser there's
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ever been in the state of Texas, because all he
does is raise money, because money allows him to scare
off opponents in a primary and in a runoff, and
it allows him to run ads. So he can have
himself sitting in a wheelchair and a rock thrown near him,
and then he's in the wheelchair and he says, I
guess you could throw rocks at me because I'm in
a wheelchair. But I just want to be the governor,
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and that's what he does. He just raises money. He's
not viscerally opposed to this bill.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
He didn't want it to be over.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's gonna pass and he's gonna sign it, and Republicans
are gonna pay for it,
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Eddie Martini, who obsesses open markets, said markets aren't up,
and I said, well, they were when they opened, which
was what I was quoting from. So he sends me
a screenshot Dal Jones up, NASDAC down and s and
P five hundred down.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He doesn't include the.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Rest of it. He said, you need better sources. No,
I probably need more up to date information. But the
point was the markets opened. The markets want to see
the big beautiful bill done. The expectation is the big
beautiful bill will be done. It's bad for our long
term economics, it's bad for our long term financial stability,
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but the markets don't care about that. The markets want
more debt, bigger government overnight, and they want a deal done.
They don't want uncertainty. So that's what's going to happen.
We're going to get the deal done today and the
markets will rebound and you'll see all of them up
by the end of the day. If Trump folks are
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saying that they have the deal, that they've got the votes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We shall see shortly. In answer to.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The World's Shortest country song, Tex Crowley sent a song
by a fellow named Kenny Price, and he says, this
is the world's shortest song.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Goes like, this.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is the shortest song in board. And that might be true,
but I don't think you really get the storytelling that
you get with the Great Waller Lab meth lab explosion
of nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
This here's a Great Waller County met Lab explosion of
nineteen ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking
up drain home and a harvest a vedron they could
get their hands on. They had bottles of profanity, batteries
than one cigarette hands and boom they were gone.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Harris County Commissioner's Court trying to plug the whole of
a of a gaping budget shortfall, even despite having more
money than they've had ever.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
In the mid still doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They voted Thursday to compensate former public health director Barbie
Robinson for more than two hundred thousand dollars in legal fees.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Why did she have legal fees?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh, she was holding the job of public health director
in Harris County while she was holding the job of
assistant public health director in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's illegal. But that wasn't really the crime. That was
just further to the criminal culture that she led.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She was being charged for steering a contract to a
company in Los Angeles to get Harris County money. This
is what Rodney and his crew do. You steer these
these big chunks of contracts. Remember the Elevate Strategies contract
that Lena had. Allgo's top three people were indicted for
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same deal. You steer these big contracts to outside people
and you get.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The kickback from it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, in this case, she had negotiated that she was
going to leave this job in Harris County and go
to work out there in LA where she's from, I believe,
And they said, how much do you want to make
when you come to work here? She's in the position
to pick them for a contract. Just tell us how
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much you want and that's what we'll pay you. Sounds
like a real arms link deal, doesn't it. And the
Harris County taxpairer just keeps on getting screwed and they
just keep preaching race. So Barbie Robinson was charged. The
new district attorney who Rodney Ellis put there, dropped the charges,
and then Harris County gave her the money. For her
legal fees for being inconvenienced by being charged for committing
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these crimes. Chris writes, how can you identify the most
dedicated secretary? She's the one that keeps her white rebox
in the filing cabinet behind her desk. While other secretaries
gossip in the company chick in the company kitchen.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
She uses part of her lunch hour to get some
steps in. Ain't that the truth?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Harry Wilkinson, the drummer for Michael Martin Murphy's band, said,
when I first got to Nashville'zar introducing myself around, Charlie
Rich's manager told me date the secretaries. They control the Rolodex,
phone numbers and referrals.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Something to be said for that.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Bridget writes, tzar just a little thank you. I'm a
school teacher, so naturally I'm not able to do many
things around the house during the school year, whether it's
just simply mowing the grass, weed eating the yard, or
cleaning out the flower beds. I made it an assignment
a goal to do that this summer. I put my
EarPods in and I go to work. I absolutely love
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listening to you every day, whether it's a live show,
or a podcast. You have no idea how much I've
been able to get done. I feel like a superwoman.
Just a little side note. I'm also a pet sitter
on the side, and while cleaning, stone feeding and putting out.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Hey, I listen to your well organized podcast. Thank you, Ramon.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Thank you for doing what you do, saying what you say,
and being true to yourself. Anyways, have a fabulous Fourth
of July weekend. I'm so proud to be an American.
That's from bridget in Belleville. How about that chance? Mclan says,
I have a short country parody is twenty one seconds long,
and that's with a long intro.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
We should probably check that before you play it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Travis writes, I was alignment for the county now for
HL and P for thirty five years. Some of us
always had the little packets of mustard in our lunch
boxes for heat cramps.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh well, there you go. Here's one of those things
you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Matt writes, Poor Elon, he got bitten by the political
bug and now wants to start his own party. He's
too young to remember Ross Perrot. He needs to get
back to what he knows best. Politics is owned by
no one. I don't think he was saying I don't
think he's trying to own anything. I think he's scared
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for what's happening in our country and it's hard for
him to.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Just let that go.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Zar.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I know you love catfish like I do, so I'm
asking what's your favorite spot for whiskerfish in Houston? I
know you don't respond often, even a one word response
would be appreciated. Love the show, Thanks Mike Well. I'm
open to anybody sending me suggestions on what you like.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Romon.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Whatever happened to the place up north? I think it
was Willis or near Lake Conrod that had the flood.
You remember, I remember posting video of that woman. She's
out there in her flip flops, walking in thigh deep
water through her business. She got like a T shirt
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on what do you call spaghetti straps or whatever she walked. Now,
she might have had a cigarette dangling that she didn't
she should have because it would keep with it. And
she's walking through there trying to figure out what she
can salvage. And I had people sitting in office to
send him emails.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
She shouldn't be in that water. She might get something.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Man, you don't know how tough that lady is. That's
the least of her worries some parasite.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
They don't want to bother her.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Bberis shall.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I always thought this was the most strange imperative statement
in a song title of all time. Apparently it's Vernon's
Country Catfish. That's what it was, Vernon's Country Catfish. And
Chad writes, the best catfish in Greater Houston in the
flooded restaurant you were thinking of is Vernon's Conroe Cajun Catfish.
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Gail is the awesome owner. They rebuilt and they're doing
it great. As Chad from Allied Siding and Windows, I
went to the website. Remember the story, Ramon, We had
her on, but remember the story. I think I think
one of the brothers died at a baseball game.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Do you remember this?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Listeners emailed us one of the brothers. So I think
the parents started the business, and I think they had
I'm gonna get this wrong. Maybe they had two sons
and a daughter, and the sons and daughters be about
my age. And I think one of the sons was
at his kid's baseball game and he had a heart
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attack and died, and I believe it's his wife, who
wasn't part of the family originally, who kind of took
over and random place. I could be wrong. I will check,
but I'm looking here. Would you like to hear the menu?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
There's just not enough.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Good catfish in my life. I I love catfish. It
is amazing to me. And see, check out our delicious menu.
It doesn't say I don't see where. They don't have
the menu on here? What in the sam Hill I
can't tell it doesn't have the menu on here. It
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says menu, but then you can't get you can't get
the actual menu.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I need to see the menu. Oh, here we go.
All right, let's see if that work.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Maybe it's a multi page deal. No, they don't have
a menu on here. Mom, can you talk to them
about that?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
How are you not going to have the menu on? Godly?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
What in the world?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I was fired?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Okay, view the menu. That page can't be found. Huh,
they're hiding the menu on us from mom. Hey play
that Sony Walkman commercial again. Apparently folks are saying it
sounded like Morgan Freeman. I didn't notice.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You read it to the music with the Sonny walk
Man the sony walk Man. It's that tiny stereo Casett
with truly and fredil Gura. I'll be done.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Put on a walk man and see the world and
a whole new lake, A walk man from Sunny, the
one and on there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I didn't notice it because they didn't emphasize the rich base.
How about that clip number eight k h o U
from Chad's prep. Pasadena City Council District B seat is
decided by a coin flip after the June seventh vote
ended with both incumbent Bianca Valerio and challenger Bruce Lehman
both had two dred seventy two votes. You know what
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if you only had turduring seventy two votes in a
district city council seat in Pasadena, even if neither one
of you wins, guess what, We're just leaving that seat
open because you don't have a mandate two hundred and
seventy two votes to be a city councilman in Pasadena.
This isn't some little bitty town. So since there was
a tie, there was a coin toss, and at Monday's
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Pasadena City County meeting, they flipped the coin.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Kho You with the story well, the.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Race for a seat on Pasadena's City Council has ended
in a toin coin toss. Bianco Valario and Bruce A.
Lehman were the top two candidates to represent District B,
and they ended the month's race with the exact same
number of.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Votes, that's two seventy two.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
At a special council meeting that took place about an
hour ago. The coin flip was the deciding factor that
Kingdom come.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That will be done on earth as it isn't heavy heads,
it is clean winner and take Pigiaga.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
You heard there bianco Valario calling heads as the coin
was tossed, and heads is how it landed. And she
was the incumbent.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
How bout that got a message?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I was checking with I check in with our show
sponsors constantly to see how they're doing. How's jewelry sales,
How's furniture sales, How's how's a gold sales? How's bitcoin?
And I checked in with Mike Bachiss at Lone Star
Ship because they do a month by month and how
many vehicles they have to sell by month, and he's
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one of the only dealers that actually met their sales goals.
It probably helped that he had that they were serving
fajitas outside. So you know, Ramon, there were probably people
driving by lone star Chevy on two ninety at Eldridge
and they smelled the fajitas wafting.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
They had their winded down and they.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Said, well, let's just go in and see what's going
on to car dealership. Maybe it's on fire, but the
fire is sizzling fajitas. And then they went in and
they ate some fijitas, which put them in a good mood,
and they said, you know what, I'll take a silverado
for me and a tahoe for my wife.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It could happen. It absolutely could happen.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
A registered sex offender with twenty five convictions for indecent
exposure twenty five convictions for indecent exposure. That doesn't mean
he's done it twenty five times. That's how many times
he's been charged and con has been granted a PR bond.
That means here, show you, Bippy, you're just just signed
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with you, Bippy. Just put it in the ink and
boot touch the tip of it there right there on
the paper, and then you can go on about your
way because we trust you.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We trust that you'll come back.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Because you seem like a real honest guy other than
showing your bippy to everybody. Democrat Judge tv A Bell,
another one of those at Rodney Elli's controls.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
This is what they want. This is what Rodney Ellis wants.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
He wants a guy who drops trou in front of everybody,
who will eventually rape somebody and eventually kill somebody. He
wants those people released because this poor sap he's a victim.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
He just keeps doing this again and again and again
and again.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Houston Police Officers Union's Doug Griffith saying, lock this dude up.
He's done it before, he'll keep doing it again. Fox
twenty six with the story, I've.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Been doing this a long time, but I've never seen
a situation where someone.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Takes a plea to go to prison and walks out
the door. Period.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Now we've discovered another registered sex offender was grunted out
get out of Jail free card shortly after being found
competence is unbelievable.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
I mean, you got twenty five convisions for in decent exposure.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
When we first told you about Gregory Waite Brooks in
March of last year.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
He's been exposing himself and gratifying himself for his own
personal gratification in front of anybody he can, anybody that
drives by.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
He's on the sex Offender Registry. It says risk level high.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
The fact that he's done it twenty five times and
has been arrested twenty five times. Who knows how many
times he's done it and not been arrested.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
Shortly after being released from jail, police say Brooks was
added again.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
He was given a PR bond in April, and he
never showed up to court. What on earth makes you
think giving him a PR bond is in the best
interest of society.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It's beyond my comprehension.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
The guy's been to prison for this, It's been in
dance multiple times. He's already proven he's not going to stop.
Lock him up.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
God of course it's back in jail with this box.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I'd had thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
How many other different phone lines to the people for
whatever they want to talk about for just a second
or two seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Nine one thousand, but not drunk mark. Don't put trunk mark.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I have so many memories of this song. If you
ever came to the RCC. You know that the ritual,
the tradition. Every night if I was there was I
would bring the band on. But before I brought the
band on, I would go up and make announcements, and
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then I would say, we have three rules. Number one,
we're not here to argue. You're here to make a friend,
So separate from the person you are with, tring and
make a friend. Number two, this is not a pickup bar.
This is where people go for date night. This is
where married couples come. There are plenty of singles clubs.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's not what this is.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
If a woman is by herself, assume she is married,
this is a place she can go and feel comfortable
and not have to worry she's going to get hit on.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's not what we are.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And number three, and at that point, Kevin Bull would
start in right there with that dun dun, dun.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Every time.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It would get me every time, and I'd have to
turn and look at him, like, man, I knew it
was coming, but it was always so much richer than
I expected it to be, and like it would kind
of it was startled me for a second. And then
we would bring our veterans forward and we would call
out each conflict and we would thank them.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
The ones that would get the most emotional were Vietnam veterans.
And I would have people tell me, you know, when
we opened in twenty thirteen, that was for many of
those guys forty years since they had forty to fifty
years since they had come home, depending on when they served,
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and so you add the ages, and so you had guys,
you know, sixty five.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
To eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And there were folks that said, my dad has never
mentioned Vietnam, not once. We've never never discussed it. He
doesn't wear the cap that says Vietnam veteran, he doesn't
talk about it. He doesn't watch the movies, we don't
ask questions, and something would move them and that would
start and they would come walking down and sometimes they
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would have tears, and certainly their family would because you know,
dad or Grandpa has never talked about this once, and
it was a very very powerful moment. I do continue
to see out a location for the RCC two. The
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two I go back to every time is the original
RCC location, which is not ideal because our people.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Don't live near there.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And one of the great frustrations was that people had
to drive, in many cases forty five minutes to an
hour and a half to get there and get back. Well,
if you have a couple of pops, you know that's
a concern. It affected you know, the hardcore would come,
but there were a lot of people who said, man,
i'd like to and that's not a cheap uber rite,
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so that was a challenge. It became the Sportsman's Club afterwards,
which was an urban bar. Is the term for that
in the business. And other than just needing a good
white down because it's dusty in there, it's actually set
up better than when we were there because it has
looks like the inside of Happy Days. It's set up
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with booths that I think would be you could sell
them like football suites, where a company would buy the
booth for the year, and then you'd have your programming
budget for the year, and then you could go out
and book your bands, which is what I always wanted
to do in the first place. You'd have that certainty
to begin with. The other place that I keep looking
at is twenty nine to twenty Roadhouse because I really
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like the owner, Kelly. He's done an amazing job. He
just keeps making it better and better and better. He
would love to have a partner. The base is built
out like a brick well. It's built out nice, it's
got plenty of parking, and it's closer to where the
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largest component of our audience is, whether they're coming from
the Woodlands and Willis West or two ninety or even
all the way up College Station down southeast from there.
And it would and even Katie could just come up
ninety nine, so that would probably be the most convenient location.
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The downside to that is it's not entirely enclosed. And
I know people say, well, that doesn't matter because we
the RCC best. When we were outside, man, I remember
wearing a light blue shirt and we were outside and
it was early maybe it was Gene Watson, it was
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one of those early concerts, and I remember my light
blue shirt being increasingly dark blue from the sweat. And man,
I'm gonna tell you, I'm twelve years older than I
was back then, and everybody in our audience is twelve
years older. That is rough to be outside, and then
you've got to worry about rain and all that. If
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that was a completely enclosed structure, that's where we'd be,
and that may be where we end up after all.
But that's kind of some of the things that I'm thinking.
I looked, I was looking last night. I can't find
something else that seems to work for us. James, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
I appreciate it. You got me thinking about catfish. Am
I right to San Antona? So it's me and the
truckers out here, and I just ask your question, what
are you dipping yours in? I'm going a trucker. I'm
going going to sant anton for work.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
But what's work?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
What do you do.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Director of capital project for a multi family ownership and
management group?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
And so what is the meeting for what or what
is the visit for? What are you going to do
while you're there?
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Going to do some walks and sign offs on into
your nextterior renovations at one of our communities.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Are you involved prior to the land purchase or are
you land purchased and then you begin this chematics and
all that and all.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Those guys report to you. Are you purely construction.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Well mostly capital. We buy Class A properties usually after
the lease up, so we're not actually doing ground up construction.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Okay, you buy them and then you know down the
road work. So what are you contributing?
Speaker 11 (23:08):
We're long term hole okay, we're long term hole guys.
So you know, when the loan's up for a refie
five or seven years and we'll take that capital, put
it back into the property and renovate it. So that's
my process, is the big process, the and of the
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work of the general contractors.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And are y'all based in Houston.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Our home office is in Houston. We've got properties throughout Texas,
some in Georgia, and one in lowly Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And is that student housing?
Speaker 11 (23:53):
There are quite a few students there, but it's not
classified as student housing, No, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
And what's your background? Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 11 (24:04):
That's a long story. Holy graduated high school.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Don't be ashamed of that. You should be proud of that.
Look how well you've done. I think that's awesome. Let's
all Charmay.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I'm embarrassed to tell you all this, but I actually
hang out with some very haggardly Hold.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I am not kidding you.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
These women that goes to my church and get in
my car and we rides around. Okay, for the last
these weeks, we've been going every Friday night to get
some free catfish at the Catholic church. And you say free,
I thought they charged, yes. But these women that go
down there with they act like, oh we so poverty,
but we love the Lord and make the sign and cross.
(24:51):
They fall down on one knee and the pole freeze.
Ain't got no choice but to give them that and
a double helping of Cole slow goods. I ain't trying
to put nobody on blasts or spotlight, they asked, But
I about know what I'm talking about. Care Nigas and
doria El, Doris Finney and Beverly. But why yes, that's
them women's that can do all this ignorance. I had
(25:13):
confessed all this to the new preacher down in my
hold lot of second Baptist design turn recording for I
sawn on the third joining streaking rage, and I said,
what should I do? He said, get your nose out
of other people's business. It don't affect you. Your reputations
already run. Why do you even give a care? And
I said, well that's a good parent, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Tell you?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Mama nam I asked, has she during Okay, now back
to the Michael bed program.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Let's go to John.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You're on the Michael Berry Show seven one three, one thousand.
Welcome to the program, sir. I'm not hearing him ramon.
Oh there we go, John, Yep, you're up, sir.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
What are you doing today?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Michael Good.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Called about this weed issue that's going on between our
governor and Patrick and just I was worried it's gonna
turn into a political football that might end up costing
us here in twenty twenty six. And I don't know
why they can't figure out get your hands off their
lead and tell I'll let them be and pass the
(26:26):
laws that we want to see. They're they're doing a
bunch of other stuff and they're just being like democrats
are promising what we say we want them to do,
but then they go up and they seem to do
their own agendas.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
John, did you intend your opening line to Ryn?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Okay, there was a certain pattern to it in the
pacing that I found pleasing to the ear. Let me
answer to you what is happening? And this is as
clear and as honest and as true as I can
possibly make. This absolutely nobody was calling for this Senate
(27:07):
bill IREI that Dan Patrick pushed through and pushed onto
Greg Avis desk, except the liquor industry. Good people, friends
of mine. I like them.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
But here's the problem. Liquor sales are way down in
the under forty crowd. Sophisticated business owners don't wait on
people to come in the door.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
They don't check the.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Numbers at the end of the day. They're looking five, ten,
fifteen years out. The trend line would tell you that
profits are going to continue to drop precipitously because more
people are grabbedating over to weed based products, hemp Delta eight.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And here's the reason.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
First of all, if you've got liver problems, which if
you drink long enough everybody will. Secondly, the calories. People
don't want all the calories of alcohol. Third, you don't
have a hangover the next day. There are a number
of people who find pain relief in hemp based products
(28:30):
and the Delta eight products, and they don't get that
out of alcohol.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I wish I got it. I mean, I wish it
did something for me. It doesn't. But I will tell
you that I enjoy alcohol, I.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Enjoy wine, I enjoy beer, and I enjoy bourbon depending
on the mood, depending on the feel and the vibe
and all that sort of stuff. But a lot of people,
including older people who have joint pain, a lot of veterans,
and this, this is what bit them.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
The veterans is what bit them.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
A lot of veterans find relief from psychiatric problems and
some health problems, some physical problems in these products. So
what happened is You've got Greg Abbott's chief of staff
hired by the alcohol industry, Dan Patrick's chief of staff
(29:24):
hired by the alcohol industry, and Dan Patrick's consultant, Alan Blakemore,
hired by the beer Alliance. Well, the funny thing about
Blakemore is Blakemore is both the consultant and the lobbyist
at the same time. Well, here's what nobody in Texas
(29:45):
wants to say, and I'll say.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
It for you.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Remember when you wanted to give money to Joe Biden
and you gave it to his son, you bought his art.
Remember that he was the highest priced artist in the
world for a peer time. You think anybody was buying
Hunter Biden's fingerpaint. They were paying Hunter to benefit Joe Biden, Right,
(30:10):
why do you hire Alan Blakemore. Think about this, So
you've got you've got Alan Blakemore running this operation politically.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
And getting paid as a lobbyist.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Just pay dan Patrick just put it in his own
Just why are the money into his account? Let's stop pretending.
Let's not go through all the charade of all this
just buying cars and do Let's just make it as
a just disgusting as we can, because that's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
That is what is happening.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So dan Patrick went to the legislative, went to the
House of Representatives in the Senate, said, nothing gets through
here this year, nothing unless I get my bill. We've
had state reps have come out and said that that's
why they got them to support it. Nobody at the
grassroots level was asking for this. It wasn't in the
(31:09):
Republican agenda that the grassroots voted for at the state
party convention. No state parties were asking for it. Nobody
was asking for it except for this small special interest.
So this thing comes out of nowhere and then all
of a sudden it gets passed and the veterans rose up,
and that's what happened. So they have pissed off the veterans.
(31:29):
The polling shows that a majority of Texans did not
want this, the vast majority. You can't get that many
Texans to agree on anything in both parties, and you
would like to have some of those Democrats to win
state right offices. That's why Soros is ready to pour
this money in. That's why Colin all Read just announced
(31:51):
that he's running. That's why Beto's getting ready to run.
They have weakened the Republican Party out of all this nonsense.
That's what's happened. Abbot is not in a deep disagreement
with Dan Patrick. Abbott has no core values. Let me
explain this to you. Abbot is a vessel through which
his own ambition runs. He is the best fundraiser there's
(32:15):
ever been in the state of Texas, because all he
does is raise money, because money allows him to scare
off opponents in a primary and in a runoff, and
it allows him to run ads. So he can have
himself sitting in a wheelchair and a rock thrown near him,
and then he's in the wheelchair and he says, I
guess you could throw rocks at me because I'm in
a wheelchair. But I just want to be the governor,
(32:35):
and that's what he does. He just raises money. He's
not viscerally opposed to this bill.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
He didn't want it to be over.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's gonna pass and he's gonna sign it, and Republicans
are gonna pay for it,
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