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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Very Show is on the air. Set off to
my litack, take this job and chove it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Joy.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You like movies about gladiators. He's down, But sometimes I
get the mincedul crabs for your card. This time you
pick on too. You're gonna sit down in the kitchen
and fix me something good to eat. Pull on it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Make my head a.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Little high and the whole day crack his wax. You're
gonna lay around the shanty rum and but a good
bo I'm the guy who can get it for a
time cigarettes a bag of briefer. If that's your thing,
will pass to be a baby, will pass it to
be slow. We'll take time off to smile a little defoil.
Laddya go. We're gonna lay shamton mom and put a
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good buzz on. They ever catch that gorilla would escape
from the zoo and punched you an I. I have
been advised that the Chief operating Officer of HISD, Brian Busby,
(01:22):
that his federal trial for bribery is starting. We were
told that was the tip of the iceberg. It'll be
interesting to see who else is involved, If any We're
always promised for these things that there's going to be
a big grand investigation in prosecution, and then they tend
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to peter out. It's like you see these TV shows
where you know they're catching the bad guys or bad
guys are doing things, and the voice will say, and
they're going away for a very long time. No they're not. No,
they're probably back out on this three ten minutes before
you were. They're not going away for any time. That's
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just not happening. Uh, let's see, James, James, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Michael I ran for Cheff and Flag miss Paris, Louisiana
in twenty fifteen. On these numbers, seven thirty four, one
oh three ninety seventy two. What do those numbers mean.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Tottery.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Man, Not quite. For every one hundred thousand people we
have in America, we have seven hundred and thirty four
people in jail. Uh. The next country, Great Britain, had
one hundred and three four hundred thousand, The next one
China ninety four hundred thousand, the next one Russia seventy two.
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Per one hundred thousand. We put three times more people
in jail here in the United States than the next
three countries combined. And then he too goes down from there. Now,
I also had a men's health book I was running
on the legalization of marijuana. They had it in the
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Men's Health book that there has never been one reported
marijuana debt death in America in that article. Now, I've
seen Dan Patrick yesterday trying to stop the CBD laws
in the cannabis products that you advertised. And I've seen
this morning on Newsmatch they said, oh, a report come
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out and said if you smoked marijuana you were in
greater risk of heart attacks and stroke. But they don't
show you the report. It don't tell you who did it,
how many how long it went on for a complete line,
And I burnt my behind up. And also the American
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Medical Association in that magazine, the Men's Health magazine said
that obese d alcoholism, and cigarette smoking or diseases. And
they also said cocaine addition, heroin addition, marijuana smoking for addiction.
Now for addition, not crime. We make crimes out of three.
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The other three you can just go about your business
and do whatever you want. Now, it don't take a
medical doctor to realize that alcoholism, cigarette smoking, and obesity.
It causes more heart attacking stokes than ever anybody ever
smoking marijuana cigarette And the reason why this nonsense is
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going on in this contract, or actually the entire world,
is because Satan controls the world right now. He wants
everybody drinking in the ballrooms shooting each other up because
they get drunken, stupid and they don't know what they're doing.
And people that smoke maljuana not seeing the true he
is in that I ain't never to get along good.
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And the worst thing they might do, they might go
down to the ice cream shop and eat a bunch
of ice creams because they got the munches. But we
can't have that. Don't be happy, don't be relaxing, peaceful
in that. You know in the Indians also they smoke
marijuana cannabis in the peace pipes for peace and tranquility.
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And I have that to say on the.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Subject, James, I am. Before this legislative session started, I
have heard for the last few years that people are
so frustrated with their property taxes, They're so frustrated with
the border, they're so frustrated with the state lockdown during COVID,
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Furious over these things and they want something done about it.
I never once had anybody say to me what I'd
like the state to do is take away any THHC
anything related to me, marijuana, Delta eight, all of it.
It's horrible. We got to get rid of it. We
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got we gotta invest every bit of energy we have.
And I have to tell you I am very supportive
of what Dan Patrick has done as Lieutenant governor. I
think this is the most ill advised thing he has
ever done. Number one, Number two, I think this is
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going to cost far more votes than it's going to gain.
Who whoever is happy about this, and I I'll tell
you who's happy. There are some mothers, because I've heard
from them whose kids got real bad into drugs and
they rip a vape that then was a bad vape
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and it you know, they got a lung problem, or
they got into drugs and it led to other things.
And uh, they think that this is going to be
the thing that that you know, because their little baby
didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The retail shop. I know more. I know more old
people now and this is a recent phenomenon who have
chronic pain. And the way this works is they go
to their doctor and say, Doc, my grandson's a stoner,
and he says that if I'll take this this chronic
pain I'm suffering from, and the doctor will say, I'm
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not allowed to tell you this, but that's what you
need to do. That's better than any pharmaceutical. I can
give you the most abused drug in America by far,
and it's not even close as alcohol. The most abuse
reefer Madness, did more damage in this country than any
single film ever released any There are marijuana users all
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around us who do not bother anyone. The drug itself
has does less damage and in most cases more good
than any other drug, including coffee. There are military veterans
who have seen results. There are cancer sufferers who have
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seen results. My brother was a narcotics officer for years.
He said, if people would smoke marijuana instead of drinking alcohol,
I wouldn't have domestic abuse cases. I wouldn't have drunk
driver cases. So yeah, I think this is a stupid
move by Dan Patrick, and I wish he'd quit. I
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look at what's going on in Florida where American values.
The take back of America from the left is actually
occurring at the state government level, they're accomplishing things. It's
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become the model in the country. I look at Oklahoma
where they're doing things, things that you could only dream
what happened, and they're making them happen. Look at Arkansas,
where Sarah Huckabee has just done amazing things in a
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very brief period of time. And then I turned to
Texas where the speaker has been controlled by the Democrats
for years. Our governor is incredibly weak. He's the John
Cornyn of our state government. And now the one guy
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you could rely on, Dan Patrick, is taking up an
issue that will not gain any support for our initiatives.
It will not and it's going to piss a lot
of people off. A lot of people are going to
be pissed off over this that were our kind of voters.
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They're going to be pissed off over this, and they're
not going to forgive it. And this is where I
have conversations with people who will say they're in a
dimes worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans. And
let me tell you why. This is where folks who
call themselves conservatives turn off the Libertarians. This is where
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Trump brings those people into the big tent and this
quote unquote conservative initiative is doing the opposite. Notice what
Trump did. Did you notice him pardoning people that had
marijuana crimes. They made a big deal. It's a black woman.
She'd had her life ruined, she was a user of marijuana,
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and she had received a long sentence, and he pardoned her.
He made a big deal out of that. Was that
was a statement he had flirted with an announced but
to legalize marijuana across the country. That is the trend.
That is a trend. There are people who are frightened
of things they know nothing about, and those people, out
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of that fear, they're baled up and they want something
to be mad about. And so their idea is, maybe
if somewhere, someplace, somebody I'll never meet, who might actually
be eating gummies on their back porch that I'll never see,
maybe if I can keep them, if that is giving
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them some pain relief or relaxation from anxiety, or maybe
even just a little happiness, if there's some way we
could kick down their door and go get them and
arrest them and put them in prison for that, that'd
make me feel better about my miserable life. That'd make
me feel good if we could do that. There are
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some people among us, sad as it is, who cannot
find happiness in their life. They may not have had
a good life. They may never have loved, they may
never have been loved, They may never have accomplished, they
may never have dreamed, they may never have known the
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great joys of the human existence. And they don't have
a future. They don't have an aspiration, they don't have
a goal. They don't wake up in the morning looking
forward to anything. And so they reduce themselves to finding
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some degree of utility in hoping someone else who is
enjoying some aspect of life can have it taken away.
And that's important. That's important to that person and to
that person. They don't want anybody gambling, they want any marijuana.
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They don't want you to have alcohol on Sunday before noon,
because the Lord wants you to wait till noon eleven
forty five. Let me go up here to the package.
Uh Lord, says an Ecclesiastes, thou shalt not drink for noon.
We won't have stores open on Sunday, because that that
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is how we will honor God. But you're mean, spirited
and cruel and unkind and hateful. Have you read the Bible?
Because all the little rituals that these people love to play,
what they eat and when they eat it, these were
all things created by men on earth enriching their own power.
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They're not vessels of God. This is not godly in
any way. This is not Christian. You're not more Christian
by trying to outlaw things that don't affect you or
anyone else. That is not Christians. That's the kind of
people who turn off potential Christians who've had an experience
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like that, for whom Christianity is a basis upon which
they hate and judge in ridicule. That is not godly,
that is not biblical. This marijuana thing, I don't know
the basis of it. I'll tell you what. I suspect
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legislators government will do this on occasion they know they're
not going to get any wins out of this session.
The House was lost. To his credit, dan Patrick busted
his ass to get DAVEE Feelin out of there, but
we couldn't get the votes to replace him. So you've
got Dustin Burroughs his number two. So now they're just playing.
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The house is just playing, and the Democrats are comfortable
with the just played. The Democrats don't have to accomplish anything.
Republicans have control. Republicans have the majority, and Democrats are
able to retain a very quiet, subtle control. So all
they have to do is keep the Republicans from making
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any changes. This is what Schumer would love to have,
the ability to keep Trump from being able to make
executive orders. This is why they've gone to the district
courts to slow him down. The House will not pass anything,
so it won't matter what the Senate does because the
House won't pass anything. And so we come up with
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these issues to stay in the news. We're going to
do away with the dope, and literally nobody's cheering. That
was a nineteen We've had leap law, law enforcement against prohibition,
We've had doctors, we've had studies. This is an outdated
old Why why don't we come out against the gays too.
We're gonna make it illegal to be homo, and I mean,
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this is just dumb.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
With the Michael Berry, we worked so hard, so hard,
so many people.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Winning elections, and our biggest challenge in Texas getting people
to care because they've been burned so many times we
finally finally get to where we need to be. We've
got a president on our side, and now our biggest
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issue appears to be driving marijuana from the state. Let
me address a couple of things that I have received.
One listener writes, your take on legalizing whoch Have you
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been to the cities where marijuana is legal. You can't
walk down any street in that city where people are
without smelling that nasty smell. This is not how it
should be. I usually like your side of arguments, but
I cannot agree to any of that. Marijuana smokers in
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public are the source of seventy five percent of the
opposition to legalizing marijuana. If every marijuana smoker with a
day job would go, grab those people by the ear,
like the black mom in the grocery store, and walk
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them up and down the aisle, tell them you can't
do this, you idiot. You're ruining it for everybody. I
despise the smell of marijuana. I find it to be disgusting.
I'm told that a meth lab smells like cat urine,
so I suppose that might be worse. I can't go,
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won't go, have no interest in going to festivals or
outdoor concerts, but these days it is often if it's
in a state that has legalized marijuana, there will be
that nasty, rancid smell and it's awful. It's one of
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the worst smells to me out there. It smells sour
and it's terrible. So what cities have done is they
have made it such that you cannot smoke in public.
But as a delivery mechan I think that the old
style joint, which is the rolling up and smoking of marijuana.
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I don't know this. I haven't looked at the statistics,
but this is just my suspicion that that is a
very small percentage of the delivery mechanism used today as
it once was the old days of the stoner, you know,
the dirty, nasty Brad Pitt played that character in True
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Romance where he's sitting on the couch ripping a bong,
just zombied out of his brain, and his roommate Michael
ol whatever the guy's name is, Rappaport, I think, has
left and the bad guys are there to try to
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track him down. That's outdated, that's a thing of the past.
But I also you have to ask yourself some tough questions,
so you can deal with the nasty smell. That's not
a reason to make something illegal. Okay, if you go somewhere,
if you go to any same festival, there are going
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to be people who've had too much to drink and
they're staggering around. Well, prohibition, when you study prohibition and
how bad it was for this country, the negative effects
prohibition had on this country that we still fill today,
criminal organizations, all sorts of things. It is not. You
have to stop and ask yourself a question. Why do
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we have a government? What's the purpose do we want
to give that government the power to take things away
from us, to tell us what time to go to bed,
to tell us what time to wake up, to tell
us what we can and cannot do with our lives
and our bodies. Is that what we want to do?
Because you have to ask yourself that question, because a
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government big enough to make you happy by causing someone
else to not be able to do things, is going
to be able to turn that same power on you.
And you go, oh, my goodness, but you made it happen.
There are so many misconceptions on this issue, and there
are more and more people now who come forward here's
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one listener. I'm not going to say her name. She
says Zorro. I'm seventy one and I've been taking Delta
eight for many years. I have not increased my dose.
I have not gone on to other drugs, even vaping.
I was not a marijuana user. I drink very little.
I only eat gummies at night to help me get
to sleep and turn my mind off. Otherwise I will
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lay in bed with my mind racing. I do not
eat any gummies during the day, or I would be
a couch potato. I will not vote for anyone who
votes to get rid of THHC. I will hear this
mostly from women, and they'll say, Michael, are you aware
that marijuana SAPs people's motivation? They won't want to work.
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Wait a second, are we now in the business of
motivating people? Is that as a government? Okay, we'll look
around Anything that takes away y'all's motivation you can't do
Are you serious? Do you hear yourself? Do you hear yourself?
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You are giving into the worst element of the little
old lady, the worst aspect of it. Don't let that in,
don't let that rule the day. Don't do it that
is that is not a good look, trust me. And
are you aware that some people don't lack motivation, don't
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lack desire, but have too much? Are you aware that
some people people can't turn their brain off. Some people
can't get their mind to stop racing, and they're highly successful.
I worked with a guy for years probably kept the
longest schedule of being awake and functioning at a high
level than anybody I've ever met in my life. I've
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never seen anything like it, so much so that I
could barely be around him for more than five minutes
at a time because I wanted to switch that I
could turn it off. And that individual consumed more marijuana
than anybody I've ever known of. I know people that
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are very, very, very high functioning and that use it
to turn it off. Well, it's a drug, so is alcohol.
Do you realize how many deaths are attributed to alcohol?
Drunk driving, domestic violence, fights, liver disease, all the things
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that happen as a result. Ask any doctor who's honest
about the effects on the human body between marijuana and alcohol.
It's not even close. It's say, they're not even the
same realm. But alcohol is legal. Michael what does that mean?
You mean the same jackasses like Sheila Jackson Lee and
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Sylvester Turner. You mean those same people said this will
be allowed and this won't and that's your basis. Well,
this one's legal. Why is it legal? Why is this illegal?
Why is this legal? If your answer to something as well,
it's legal? Who made it legal? Which jack ass do
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you want to pin as the genius in the group. Well,
they ought to do is have a joint session and
legalize it.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I'm just sitting here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
If you meet somebody from Ethiopia, you will find that
they eat something called injera, in many cases once a day,
but never less than once a week.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
They crave it, as the old saying goes as mother's milk.
In Gera looks like a flattened pancake, and it's made
of something called tef and it's the highest protein grain
I believe of them all. The World Health Organization has
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written extensively about trying to spread the use of this
particular agricultural product because for protein deficient economies it is
an agricultural miracle. It's incredible. But you don't crave in jara.
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Why would you. You may have been to Blue Nile.
I hope you do. Tina the owners and dear friends,
sweet lady, wonderful restaurant. And when you were there, you
ate with your hands.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The meat and the cheese and the spinach was placed
on top of that pancake looking thing that extended out
past the edges of the plate. And if you were
taught by in Ethiopia and how to eat this food,
you would, just as many cultures do, Middle Eastern Indian
and others. You took the in jara in your hands
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and you scooped up your food using that as sort
of a I don't know, and then you took it
directly to your mouth without the use of utensils. And
you might have enjoyed that, but you didn't. Three weeks later,
think I have to have in Jerra today, I have
to have in Jera. Or if you were to go
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to India and you are to be talking to people
about how often they eat doll doll chocol which is
just rice and doll, which are these pulses. India is
famous for these different types of doll, moon doll, China, doll,
It's mother's milk. In a country that still has a
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large portion of the particularly rural population. It's terribly poor.
This mashed bean pulse and rice with a few peppers
and maybe some turmeric. And you've seen Indian food with
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just a few things like this. That is their meal
eaten typically by hand, mixed together. Not dissimilar from the
dirty rice and rue that you might see in the
poorer region of southwest Louisiana. You take a kun ass
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out of Louisiana, they're bringing their food with them because
they have to can't live without it, gumbo at tufe rice,
and you're just you're not going to They're not going
to be able to survive. They're going to go crazy.
They have to have these things. Did it ever cross
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your mind if your name is Boudreau, that you didn't
choose to love those things? Did it ever cross your
mind if your name is Aneil or Roge, that you
didn't choose to love Riis and thal, or if you're
from Ethiopia, that you you didn't choose to crave in Gerrah.
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There are things we crave so deeply that we think
we chose. I like to belie leave that I fell
in love with bluebell. I didn't I loved bluebell before
I knew what it was, because that was a special treat,
and I ate it before I can even remember your
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favorite sugar cereal, your favorite moms for chad. It would
be spam, or it could be thought us. How many
things that are the embodiment of who we are did
we never consciously choose. They're baked into our dna for
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all intents and purposes. They were spoon fed to us.
But now we hold them dear, don't we. We love
that food. We will argue to the ends of the earth.
That is the greatest food in the history of mankind.
It is superior to your food over there, and your
food across the ocean, and your food south of us.
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My food is better than your food. Tastes better, it's
better for you, You'll live longer, it's more fun, it's
feeling them. It's more natural, it's more godly, it's more wonderful.
But you didn't actually choose it. It was spoon fed
to you, not out of any malice. That was your culture,
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that was your region, that was your family, that was
your tradition. So it becomes who you are. But that
doesn't make it the healthiest food. Or the best tasting
food or the fill in the blank. It doesn't it
doesn't stack up necessarily that all of our views of
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what we each hold ear and we all have these views.
I love a big read, especially with barbecue. I love
a big read. There are people who think that's goofy
because they didn't grow up where when you had barbecue,
you had big red. Okay, I love catfish. I meet
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people from around the country who are listeners, say, you
don't really eat catfish, do Yeah? You know it's a
bottom feeder, right, Yeah, it's a good, good bottom feeder.
You know mercury down there. Yeah, I know, it's good
mercury too.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To tell you what temperature is, you know it's that Friday. Yeah,
I know. And it's the best. I didn't choose it.
I was eating catfish around people sitting outside. I can
hear the catfish being fried in the little friar outside
at sam Raven, I can hear it. Or damn b
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I can hear it. I can feel it. It's emotional
to me. It's wonderful. I sweat it out of my system.
It's who I am. But I didn't choose it. Do
you realize how many views you and I and everybody
else holds that we never chose, and it's hard to
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stop and challenge those views. You might just hate marijuana
because such a view was spoon fed to you. You
might not have come to that conclusion on your own.
You may have never stopped to question whether that's a
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rational view. You may be unwilling to question the reasonableness
of criticizing pride catfish because you are so committed to
it it has become your identity. There are views like
this that we have that we are unable go. Tell
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a Palestinian that the Jews aren't his biggest problem, it's
a lack of running water. Won't believe it because he's
been spoon fed the Jews or problems with everything. And
there are people, there are generations. You ask young people
their view of marijuana, whether they use it or not,
very different than old people because they're not playing reefer
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madness these days and talking about the dope. Except in Texas,
where we've decided we're going back to nineteen fifty eight
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Very Show is on the air. Set off to
my litack, take this job and chove it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Joy.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You like movies about gladiators. He's down, But sometimes I
get the mincedul crabs for your card. This time you
pick on too. You're gonna sit down in the kitchen
and fix me something good to eat. Pull on it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Make my head a.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Little high and the whole day crack his wax. You're
gonna lay around the shanty rum and but a good
bo I'm the guy who can get it for a
time cigarettes a bag of briefer. If that's your thing,
will pass to be a baby, will pass it to
be slow. We'll take time off to smile a little defoil.
Laddya go. We're gonna lay shamton mom and put a
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good buzz on. They ever catch that gorilla would escape
from the zoo and punched you an I. I have
been advised that the Chief operating Officer of HISD, Brian Busby,
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that his federal trial for bribery is starting. We were
told that was the tip of the iceberg. It'll be
interesting to see who else is involved, If any We're
always promised for these things that there's going to be
a big grand investigation in prosecution, and then they tend
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to peter out. It's like you see these TV shows
where you know they're catching the bad guys or bad
guys are doing things, and the voice will say, and
they're going away for a very long time. No they're not. No,
they're probably back out on this three ten minutes before
you were. They're not going away for any time. That's
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just not happening. Uh, let's see, James, James, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Michael I ran for Cheff and Flag miss Paris, Louisiana
in twenty fifteen. On these numbers, seven thirty four, one
oh three ninety seventy two. What do those numbers mean.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Tottery.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Man, Not quite. For every one hundred thousand people we
have in America, we have seven hundred and thirty four
people in jail. Uh. The next country, Great Britain, had
one hundred and three four hundred thousand, The next one
China ninety four hundred thousand, the next one Russia seventy two.
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Per one hundred thousand. We put three times more people
in jail here in the United States than the next
three countries combined. And then he too goes down from there. Now,
I also had a men's health book I was running
on the legalization of marijuana. They had it in the
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Men's Health book that there has never been one reported
marijuana debt death in America in that article. Now, I've
seen Dan Patrick yesterday trying to stop the CBD laws
in the cannabis products that you advertised. And I've seen
this morning on Newsmatch they said, oh, a report come
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out and said if you smoked marijuana you were in
greater risk of heart attacks and stroke. But they don't
show you the report. It don't tell you who did it,
how many how long it went on for a complete line,
And I burnt my behind up. And also the American
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Medical Association in that magazine, the Men's Health magazine said
that obese d alcoholism, and cigarette smoking or diseases. And
they also said cocaine addition, heroin addition, marijuana smoking for addiction.
Now for addition, not crime. We make crimes out of three.
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The other three you can just go about your business
and do whatever you want. Now, it don't take a
medical doctor to realize that alcoholism, cigarette smoking, and obesity.
It causes more heart attacking stokes than ever anybody ever
smoking marijuana cigarette And the reason why this nonsense is
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going on in this contract, or actually the entire world,
is because Satan controls the world right now. He wants
everybody drinking in the ballrooms shooting each other up because
they get drunken, stupid and they don't know what they're doing.
And people that smoke maljuana not seeing the true he
is in that I ain't never to get along good.
(04:58):
And the worst thing they might do, they might go
down to the ice cream shop and eat a bunch
of ice creams because they got the munches. But we
can't have that. Don't be happy, don't be relaxing, peaceful
in that. You know in the Indians also they smoke
marijuana cannabis in the peace pipes for peace and tranquility.
(05:19):
And I have that to say on the.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Subject, James, I am. Before this legislative session started, I
have heard for the last few years that people are
so frustrated with their property taxes, They're so frustrated with
the border, they're so frustrated with the state lockdown during COVID,
(05:44):
Furious over these things and they want something done about it.
I never once had anybody say to me what I'd
like the state to do is take away any THHC
anything related to me, marijuana, Delta eight, all of it.
It's horrible. We got to get rid of it. We
(06:04):
got we gotta invest every bit of energy we have.
And I have to tell you I am very supportive
of what Dan Patrick has done as Lieutenant governor. I
think this is the most ill advised thing he has
ever done. Number one, Number two, I think this is
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going to cost far more votes than it's going to gain.
Who whoever is happy about this, and I I'll tell
you who's happy. There are some mothers, because I've heard
from them whose kids got real bad into drugs and
they rip a vape that then was a bad vape
(06:47):
and it you know, they got a lung problem, or
they got into drugs and it led to other things.
And uh, they think that this is going to be
the thing that that you know, because their little baby
didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The retail shop. I know more. I know more old
people now and this is a recent phenomenon who have
chronic pain. And the way this works is they go
to their doctor and say, Doc, my grandson's a stoner,
and he says that if I'll take this this chronic
pain I'm suffering from, and the doctor will say, I'm
(07:25):
not allowed to tell you this, but that's what you
need to do. That's better than any pharmaceutical. I can
give you the most abused drug in America by far,
and it's not even close as alcohol. The most abuse
reefer Madness, did more damage in this country than any
single film ever released any There are marijuana users all
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around us who do not bother anyone. The drug itself
has does less damage and in most cases more good
than any other drug, including coffee. There are military veterans
who have seen results. There are cancer sufferers who have
(08:11):
seen results. My brother was a narcotics officer for years.
He said, if people would smoke marijuana instead of drinking alcohol,
I wouldn't have domestic abuse cases. I wouldn't have drunk
driver cases. So yeah, I think this is a stupid
move by Dan Patrick, and I wish he'd quit. I
(08:31):
look at what's going on in Florida where American values.
The take back of America from the left is actually
occurring at the state government level, they're accomplishing things. It's
(08:53):
become the model in the country. I look at Oklahoma
where they're doing things, things that you could only dream
what happened, and they're making them happen. Look at Arkansas,
where Sarah Huckabee has just done amazing things in a
(09:16):
very brief period of time. And then I turned to
Texas where the speaker has been controlled by the Democrats
for years. Our governor is incredibly weak. He's the John
Cornyn of our state government. And now the one guy
(09:38):
you could rely on, Dan Patrick, is taking up an
issue that will not gain any support for our initiatives.
It will not and it's going to piss a lot
of people off. A lot of people are going to
be pissed off over this that were our kind of voters.
(10:01):
They're going to be pissed off over this, and they're
not going to forgive it. And this is where I
have conversations with people who will say they're in a
dimes worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans. And
let me tell you why. This is where folks who
call themselves conservatives turn off the Libertarians. This is where
(10:24):
Trump brings those people into the big tent and this
quote unquote conservative initiative is doing the opposite. Notice what
Trump did. Did you notice him pardoning people that had
marijuana crimes. They made a big deal. It's a black woman.
She'd had her life ruined, she was a user of marijuana,
(10:50):
and she had received a long sentence, and he pardoned her.
He made a big deal out of that. Was that
was a statement he had flirted with an announced but
to legalize marijuana across the country. That is the trend.
That is a trend. There are people who are frightened
of things they know nothing about, and those people, out
(11:14):
of that fear, they're baled up and they want something
to be mad about. And so their idea is, maybe
if somewhere, someplace, somebody I'll never meet, who might actually
be eating gummies on their back porch that I'll never see,
maybe if I can keep them, if that is giving
(11:36):
them some pain relief or relaxation from anxiety, or maybe
even just a little happiness, if there's some way we
could kick down their door and go get them and
arrest them and put them in prison for that, that'd
make me feel better about my miserable life. That'd make
me feel good if we could do that. There are
(11:58):
some people among us, sad as it is, who cannot
find happiness in their life. They may not have had
a good life. They may never have loved, they may
never have been loved, They may never have accomplished, they
may never have dreamed, they may never have known the
(12:18):
great joys of the human existence. And they don't have
a future. They don't have an aspiration, they don't have
a goal. They don't wake up in the morning looking
forward to anything. And so they reduce themselves to finding
(12:39):
some degree of utility in hoping someone else who is
enjoying some aspect of life can have it taken away.
And that's important. That's important to that person and to
that person. They don't want anybody gambling, they want any marijuana.
(13:04):
They don't want you to have alcohol on Sunday before noon,
because the Lord wants you to wait till noon eleven
forty five. Let me go up here to the package.
Uh Lord, says an Ecclesiastes, thou shalt not drink for noon.
We won't have stores open on Sunday, because that that
(13:27):
is how we will honor God. But you're mean, spirited
and cruel and unkind and hateful. Have you read the Bible?
Because all the little rituals that these people love to play,
what they eat and when they eat it, these were
all things created by men on earth enriching their own power.
(13:54):
They're not vessels of God. This is not godly in
any way. This is not Christian. You're not more Christian
by trying to outlaw things that don't affect you or
anyone else. That is not Christians. That's the kind of
people who turn off potential Christians who've had an experience
(14:21):
like that, for whom Christianity is a basis upon which
they hate and judge in ridicule. That is not godly,
that is not biblical. This marijuana thing, I don't know
the basis of it. I'll tell you what. I suspect
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legislators government will do this on occasion they know they're
not going to get any wins out of this session.
The House was lost. To his credit, dan Patrick busted
his ass to get DAVEE Feelin out of there, but
we couldn't get the votes to replace him. So you've
got Dustin Burroughs his number two. So now they're just playing.
(15:08):
The house is just playing, and the Democrats are comfortable
with the just played. The Democrats don't have to accomplish anything.
Republicans have control. Republicans have the majority, and Democrats are
able to retain a very quiet, subtle control. So all
they have to do is keep the Republicans from making
(15:30):
any changes. This is what Schumer would love to have,
the ability to keep Trump from being able to make
executive orders. This is why they've gone to the district
courts to slow him down. The House will not pass anything,
so it won't matter what the Senate does because the
House won't pass anything. And so we come up with
(15:51):
these issues to stay in the news. We're going to
do away with the dope, and literally nobody's cheering. That
was a nineteen We've had leap law, law enforcement against prohibition,
We've had doctors, we've had studies. This is an outdated
old Why why don't we come out against the gays too.
We're gonna make it illegal to be homo, and I mean,
(16:12):
this is just dumb.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
With the Michael Berry, we worked so hard, so hard,
so many people.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Winning elections, and our biggest challenge in Texas getting people
to care because they've been burned so many times we
finally finally get to where we need to be. We've
got a president on our side, and now our biggest
(16:54):
issue appears to be driving marijuana from the state. Let
me address a couple of things that I have received.
One listener writes, your take on legalizing whoch Have you
(17:17):
been to the cities where marijuana is legal. You can't
walk down any street in that city where people are
without smelling that nasty smell. This is not how it
should be. I usually like your side of arguments, but
I cannot agree to any of that. Marijuana smokers in
(17:38):
public are the source of seventy five percent of the
opposition to legalizing marijuana. If every marijuana smoker with a
day job would go, grab those people by the ear,
like the black mom in the grocery store, and walk
(18:00):
them up and down the aisle, tell them you can't
do this, you idiot. You're ruining it for everybody. I
despise the smell of marijuana. I find it to be disgusting.
I'm told that a meth lab smells like cat urine,
so I suppose that might be worse. I can't go,
(18:23):
won't go, have no interest in going to festivals or
outdoor concerts, but these days it is often if it's
in a state that has legalized marijuana, there will be
that nasty, rancid smell and it's awful. It's one of
(18:43):
the worst smells to me out there. It smells sour
and it's terrible. So what cities have done is they
have made it such that you cannot smoke in public.
But as a delivery mechan I think that the old
style joint, which is the rolling up and smoking of marijuana.
(19:09):
I don't know this. I haven't looked at the statistics,
but this is just my suspicion that that is a
very small percentage of the delivery mechanism used today as
it once was the old days of the stoner, you know,
the dirty, nasty Brad Pitt played that character in True
(19:31):
Romance where he's sitting on the couch ripping a bong,
just zombied out of his brain, and his roommate Michael
ol whatever the guy's name is, Rappaport, I think, has
left and the bad guys are there to try to
(19:52):
track him down. That's outdated, that's a thing of the past.
But I also you have to ask yourself some tough questions,
so you can deal with the nasty smell. That's not
a reason to make something illegal. Okay, if you go somewhere,
if you go to any same festival, there are going
(20:15):
to be people who've had too much to drink and
they're staggering around. Well, prohibition, when you study prohibition and
how bad it was for this country, the negative effects
prohibition had on this country that we still fill today,
criminal organizations, all sorts of things. It is not. You
have to stop and ask yourself a question. Why do
(20:39):
we have a government? What's the purpose do we want
to give that government the power to take things away
from us, to tell us what time to go to bed,
to tell us what time to wake up, to tell
us what we can and cannot do with our lives
and our bodies. Is that what we want to do?
Because you have to ask yourself that question, because a
(21:00):
government big enough to make you happy by causing someone
else to not be able to do things, is going
to be able to turn that same power on you.
And you go, oh, my goodness, but you made it happen.
There are so many misconceptions on this issue, and there
are more and more people now who come forward here's
(21:21):
one listener. I'm not going to say her name. She
says Zorro. I'm seventy one and I've been taking Delta
eight for many years. I have not increased my dose.
I have not gone on to other drugs, even vaping.
I was not a marijuana user. I drink very little.
I only eat gummies at night to help me get
to sleep and turn my mind off. Otherwise I will
(21:43):
lay in bed with my mind racing. I do not
eat any gummies during the day, or I would be
a couch potato. I will not vote for anyone who
votes to get rid of THHC. I will hear this
mostly from women, and they'll say, Michael, are you aware
that marijuana SAPs people's motivation? They won't want to work.
(22:06):
Wait a second, are we now in the business of
motivating people? Is that as a government? Okay, we'll look
around Anything that takes away y'all's motivation you can't do
Are you serious? Do you hear yourself? Do you hear yourself?
(22:30):
You are giving into the worst element of the little
old lady, the worst aspect of it. Don't let that in,
don't let that rule the day. Don't do it that
is that is not a good look, trust me. And
are you aware that some people don't lack motivation, don't
(22:55):
lack desire, but have too much? Are you aware that
some people people can't turn their brain off. Some people
can't get their mind to stop racing, and they're highly successful.
I worked with a guy for years probably kept the
longest schedule of being awake and functioning at a high
level than anybody I've ever met in my life. I've
(23:20):
never seen anything like it, so much so that I
could barely be around him for more than five minutes
at a time because I wanted to switch that I
could turn it off. And that individual consumed more marijuana
than anybody I've ever known of. I know people that
(23:41):
are very, very, very high functioning and that use it
to turn it off. Well, it's a drug, so is alcohol.
Do you realize how many deaths are attributed to alcohol?
Drunk driving, domestic violence, fights, liver disease, all the things
(24:02):
that happen as a result. Ask any doctor who's honest
about the effects on the human body between marijuana and alcohol.
It's not even close. It's say, they're not even the
same realm. But alcohol is legal. Michael what does that mean?
You mean the same jackasses like Sheila Jackson Lee and
(24:23):
Sylvester Turner. You mean those same people said this will
be allowed and this won't and that's your basis. Well,
this one's legal. Why is it legal? Why is this illegal?
Why is this legal? If your answer to something as well,
it's legal? Who made it legal? Which jack ass do
(24:44):
you want to pin as the genius in the group. Well,
they ought to do is have a joint session and
legalize it.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I'm just sitting here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
If you meet somebody from Ethiopia, you will find that
they eat something called injera, in many cases once a day,
but never less than once a week.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
They crave it, as the old saying goes as mother's milk.
In Gera looks like a flattened pancake, and it's made
of something called tef and it's the highest protein grain
I believe of them all. The World Health Organization has
(25:42):
written extensively about trying to spread the use of this
particular agricultural product because for protein deficient economies it is
an agricultural miracle. It's incredible. But you don't crave in jara.
(26:03):
Why would you. You may have been to Blue Nile.
I hope you do. Tina the owners and dear friends,
sweet lady, wonderful restaurant. And when you were there, you
ate with your hands.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The meat and the cheese and the spinach was placed
on top of that pancake looking thing that extended out
past the edges of the plate. And if you were
taught by in Ethiopia and how to eat this food,
you would, just as many cultures do, Middle Eastern Indian
and others. You took the in jara in your hands
(26:39):
and you scooped up your food using that as sort
of a I don't know, and then you took it
directly to your mouth without the use of utensils. And
you might have enjoyed that, but you didn't. Three weeks later,
think I have to have in Jerra today, I have
to have in Jera. Or if you were to go
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to India and you are to be talking to people
about how often they eat doll doll chocol which is
just rice and doll, which are these pulses. India is
famous for these different types of doll, moon doll, China, doll,
It's mother's milk. In a country that still has a
(27:22):
large portion of the particularly rural population. It's terribly poor.
This mashed bean pulse and rice with a few peppers
and maybe some turmeric. And you've seen Indian food with
(27:43):
just a few things like this. That is their meal
eaten typically by hand, mixed together. Not dissimilar from the
dirty rice and rue that you might see in the
poorer region of southwest Louisiana. You take a kun ass
(28:05):
out of Louisiana, they're bringing their food with them because
they have to can't live without it, gumbo at tufe rice,
and you're just you're not going to They're not going
to be able to survive. They're going to go crazy.
They have to have these things. Did it ever cross
(28:29):
your mind if your name is Boudreau, that you didn't
choose to love those things? Did it ever cross your
mind if your name is Aneil or Roge, that you
didn't choose to love Riis and thal, or if you're
from Ethiopia, that you you didn't choose to crave in Gerrah.
(28:53):
There are things we crave so deeply that we think
we chose. I like to belie leave that I fell
in love with bluebell. I didn't I loved bluebell before
I knew what it was, because that was a special treat,
and I ate it before I can even remember your
(29:13):
favorite sugar cereal, your favorite moms for chad. It would
be spam, or it could be thought us. How many
things that are the embodiment of who we are did
we never consciously choose. They're baked into our dna for
(29:38):
all intents and purposes. They were spoon fed to us.
But now we hold them dear, don't we. We love
that food. We will argue to the ends of the earth.
That is the greatest food in the history of mankind.
It is superior to your food over there, and your
food across the ocean, and your food south of us.
(30:00):
My food is better than your food. Tastes better, it's
better for you, You'll live longer, it's more fun, it's
feeling them. It's more natural, it's more godly, it's more wonderful.
But you didn't actually choose it. It was spoon fed
to you, not out of any malice. That was your culture,
(30:26):
that was your region, that was your family, that was
your tradition. So it becomes who you are. But that
doesn't make it the healthiest food. Or the best tasting
food or the fill in the blank. It doesn't it
doesn't stack up necessarily that all of our views of
(30:47):
what we each hold ear and we all have these views.
I love a big read, especially with barbecue. I love
a big read. There are people who think that's goofy
because they didn't grow up where when you had barbecue,
you had big red. Okay, I love catfish. I meet
(31:09):
people from around the country who are listeners, say, you
don't really eat catfish, do Yeah? You know it's a
bottom feeder, right, Yeah, it's a good, good bottom feeder.
You know mercury down there. Yeah, I know, it's good
mercury too.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
To tell you what temperature is, you know it's that Friday. Yeah,
I know. And it's the best. I didn't choose it.
I was eating catfish around people sitting outside. I can
hear the catfish being fried in the little friar outside
at sam Raven, I can hear it. Or damn b
(31:44):
I can hear it. I can feel it. It's emotional
to me. It's wonderful. I sweat it out of my system.
It's who I am. But I didn't choose it. Do
you realize how many views you and I and everybody
else holds that we never chose, and it's hard to
(32:09):
stop and challenge those views. You might just hate marijuana
because such a view was spoon fed to you. You
might not have come to that conclusion on your own.
You may have never stopped to question whether that's a
(32:29):
rational view. You may be unwilling to question the reasonableness
of criticizing pride catfish because you are so committed to
it it has become your identity. There are views like
this that we have that we are unable go. Tell
(32:52):
a Palestinian that the Jews aren't his biggest problem, it's
a lack of running water. Won't believe it because he's
been spoon fed the Jews or problems with everything. And
there are people, there are generations. You ask young people
their view of marijuana, whether they use it or not,
very different than old people because they're not playing reefer
(33:15):
madness these days and talking about the dope. Except in Texas,
where we've decided we're going back to nineteen fifty eight
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