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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The crazy old man yelling at the clouds again. Al
Green is back. He's brought up another impeachment resolution on
President Trump, with nearly two dozen of his fellow Democrats
voting to block that vote. Republicans have the good sense,
in an election year to shoot it down. Although I
(00:54):
think there are a lot of Republicans that would love
to see Trump and peach and remove from office. This
is a fascinating phenomenon I've never witnessed in my lifetime before,
where the elected officials are the.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Tails waggon a dog.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Here, the elected official Republicans are having to go along
with supposed Trump love, which they don't have, because they're
scared to death of the public which supports Trump. In fact,
I saw a number last night. Let's see if I
can pull that up. I saw a number last night
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of approval ratings. Trump's approval rating at the eleven month
mark of his second term, which is of course what
this is is forty three point seven percent. That's above
Barack Obama's forty two point six. Trump at forty three
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point seven, Obama at forty two point six at this
point in twenty thirteen, and George W. Bush is forty
two point five percent at this point in two thousand
and five.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So to say that Trump is.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Unpopular, he's more popular than the last two presidents who
served a second term at this point in their second term,
making him the most popular president in the twenty first
century at this point in his presidency.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Think about that for a moment. Well, that not only.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's not only shocking, because there becomes a certain fatigue.
Even Democrats were beginning to get fatigued with Obama by
twenty thirteen, by his second term, Republicans were certainly fatigued
with George W. Bush in his second term. He has
sent us He had sent us in to a forever war.
(03:02):
He split the country with his weapons of mass destruction.
He was sending our boys into wars for seemingly reasons
that we couldn't figure out. We were supposed to be
in Afghanistan to track down Osama bin Laden.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We had an opportunity to take him out in Afghanistan,
but there would have been some collateral damage, and he
decided no, I'd rather lose thousands of Americans than a
few dozen of Osama bin Laden's family. So let's hold
up because maybe I'll still win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yet then you had the economic collapse on his watch,
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and it bears no. I'm not blaming the economic collapse
of eight on George W. Bush, but I will say
the idea that everybody needs to own a home, and
the idea that lend should be pushed using the government's
leverage into lending to people who have no business taking
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that kind of loan that did contribute to the collapse.
There's no doubt of that. The community lending guidelines at
George W. Bush Republicans love. They look for an opportunity
to appear to be a nice guy because they're all
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so afraid that they're coming across as mean racists, ebeneze
or scrooges. So they look for something that they think, well,
it will seem to be very very nice to poor
people and black people and minorities, and then they run
with it, and even if it ends up being a debacle,
the damage is done and they think they come off
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looking like a nice guy. Well, good policy does not
always in gender. Love and affection from people who make
bad decisions, that's just the nature of the beast. But
good policy creates a sound fiscal and monetary system in
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this country and keeps us on solid footing. If you
go out playing Santa Claus, you're going to disrupt our
economy and our long term stability. And there are people
who will say, I will only vote for you if
you will redistribute wealth to me. I mean, really, that's
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what we're doing in Texas with the tax cuts, with
the eliminate property taxes. We're not reducing the overall spending,
the drain on the tax payer. We're just redistributing it.
If you think about it, every time we say to
one group, will give you a tax break, we're saying
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to the other groups, you'll pay more. But they don't
notice that. The only people who notice are the people
who are getting the eliminate there or reduce their tax burden.
We're just shifting the burden. Economists will tell you that
that's what people do most of the time. Last week,
Jasmine Crockett announced her campaign launched for US Senate in Texas,
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and of course the media is drooling over the idea
of pumping up Jazzy. Meanwhile, John Wayne mccornyn is pumping
piles of cash from National Republicans into his campaign in
a primary we're not even against the Democrat yet, only
to find himself in third place and falling further behind.
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Jasmine Crockett has come out and said she enjoys working
with John Wayne mccornyn friends like her. He doesn't need enemies.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It seems that Jazzy and John Wayne mccorny have formed
some site type of friendship. They even paired up with
Texas Country Reporter in an episode that aired this weekend.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
This week on Texas Country Reporter, it's road trip time
with two Texas candidates on us at sides of the ticket,
but suddenly find themselves on the right side of a friendship.
Let's hit the road with John Wayne mccornyn at Jasmine Crockett.
Let's listen to some real Texas music because I'm John
Wayne mccornyn and I'm Texas to the ball.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Oh hell no, Johnny Mack. Ain't nobody messing with the
Black Earth Radio.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh Jeszy. We had a long day of travel ahead
of us, but.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It was apparent John Wayne mccornyn has a definite love
for BUCkies, he insisted. We stopped not at one there,
take my picture with the beaver. Gotta get a picture
with the beaver. Texans love Bucky the Beaver.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Not two.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Where's y'all's biggest belt buckles and cowboy heads? Jerzy find
the biggest back of beaver nuggets?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Bring the camera.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Texans love beaver nuggets and belt buckles, and so do
I because I'm John Wayne mccordy. We stopped at three
BUCkies all before noon.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
We asked Jasmine Crockett what she really thinks. So John
Wayne mccorny.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Oh, Johnny Mack, Yeah, he coo. I mean, you know,
whitest white boy I know. But here's something about him
that I relate to. He's like a comedian. He white
right now, we can also flip on a dime and
relate to my people if.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
He needs to.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
And I like that.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I call him my brother from another mother.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh and he's fifthy rich and I'm gonna be rich
to babe.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
John Wayne mccornin and Jasmine Crouckett an unlikely pair that's
seemingly becoming more likely every day, at least.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Chairs Keith rolling around.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut and Enjoy
Bizaar of Talk radio.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
People Magazine somehow had the definitive scoop on the Rob
Reiner murder along with his wife Michelle. This from ABC News.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're mister Bunker. Yeah you figured that out.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
A Hollywood legend who may have started out in television comedy.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
But I would be proud of our take off your
peecon bine, but.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Who's expansion into filmmaking gave us perhaps the greatest romantic comedy,
You trans handle the truth, the most quotable courtroom drama,
and the first mainstream mockumentary. This morning, we are remembering
the incredible life and career of Rob Reiner, who has
passed away at the age of seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
As she is, you.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Could say Reiner was both born for this and into this,
with his father being comedy legend an eleven time Emmy
winner Carl Reiner. Meanwhile, not only was his mother Estelle
also a performer. I'll have what She was even tapped
to deliver to this iconic line in Reiner's nineteen eighty
nine classic When Harry Met Sally.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You are a mee y.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Back in the seventies, after finding national stardoim as the
recipient Devarchie Bunker's affection of nicknames.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
On All in the Family.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
You Know what We did?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Put it up to a Navent exactly.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Reiner would emerge as a versatile director with his documentary
about a fake band, This is Final Tap in nineteen
eighty four. From there, he would continue to rattle off
hit after hit, with memorable films such as Stand By Me,
You Live, The Princess Bride, Oh, The Wrong Paper Ady,
and The oscar Win Misery.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Hi, I'm Marty de Berny.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Most recently, Ryaner returned to direct these sequel to his
very first film, Spinal Tap two.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
The End Continues.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
He recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmelive along with the members
of the band, acting in character at the documentary.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And he played in the films.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And I was just lucky enough to be the one
chosen to document it.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
All right, you chose yourself to do it. I did well.
I chose yes, I chose myself.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
President Trump responded on Truth's social with the following message,
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner,
a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director
and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle,
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reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
as Trump deranged syndrome. Trump Derangement syndrome all capitalized, sometimes
referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven
people crazy all caps by his raging obsession of President
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Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights
as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of
greatness and with the Golden Age of America upon us
perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.
Exclamation mark that was President Trump's statement.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
On the matter.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, the Heisman Trophy has been awarded and Fernando Mendoza,
the little known quarterback at the beginning of the season
of the Indiana squad, winning the honors. I don't think
there was any doubt. I will say this kid Pavia,
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who played at Vanderbilt. I really liked his story. I
mean a cocky kid. He's little or short, played like Scataboo,
played college football.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He liked to hit people. I saw a certain.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Amount of Johnny Manziel bravado to what he was doing.
And while they didn't finish where they would have liked
to have finished, or even make the playoffs, they've taken
a Vanderbilt team who would have thought the best team
in the state of Tennessee would be Vandy and not
the Volunteers. They made a really good run of it.
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In fact, he almost brought him back against the Longhorns
when they were down big plays, with a lot of
spunk hung in there. Nobody wanted him out of high school,
went to a second rate, third rate college program, but
damned if he didn't make something of himself. And now
he's just made an ass of himself. And I'm afraid
that Johnny Manziel ending will be his And I find
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Manziel to be very charming. Well here was for naw
I know Mendoza speech, which I think I think is
a model I think young people should look up to.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
This guy didn't know a single teammate and was fourth
on the depth chart by mid season.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I wanted to get out of there, I wanted to quit.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
My parents said I had to finish what I started,
So I learned to embrace my team, and that is
when I fell in love with football. By high school,
I was chasing the first stages of.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Pipe dream to play in college.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Then COVID hit cut the season short. The result, I
was only a two star prospect.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I only had one scholarship offer, But.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
My family's unconditional love and belief kept me going and
pushed me forward. These are the people who built me
long before football did. Mommy, this is your trophy as
much as his mind. You've always been my biggest fan.
You're my light, You're my why, You're my biggest supporter.
Your sacrifices, courage, love, those have been my first playbook
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and the playbook that I'm gonna carry you through my side, through.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
My entire life.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
He told me that the toughness doesn't need to be loud.
It can be quiet and strong. It's choosing hope. It's
believing in yourself when the world doesn't give you much
reason to. Together, you and I are rewinding what people
think is possible.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I love you, Poppy.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Thank you for grounding me, Thank you for holding me
accountable when it was always tough. It reminded me that
talent as you can't have talent. I mean sorry, remind
me that talent means nothing without discipline and consistency. While
I'm playing a team game, I'm learning to grow into
a man, and you probably personified commitment. You picked all
of us up whenever we've needed it most. To my
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little brother Max, thank you for bringing joy to me
and everyone around you.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Your joy is infectious. Love you, bro.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
And for my grandparents Fiso this means.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
This is an important one.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I want every kid out there who feels overlooked, under
underestimated to know I was you. I was that kid too.
I was in your shoes. The truth is you don't
need the most stars, hype or rankings. You just need discipline,
heart and people who believe in you. And you need
to believe in your own abilities. I hope this moment
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shows you that chasing your dreams are worth it, no
matter how big or impossible they seem. God bless Joe Huigers.
Thank you guys all.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's why so guitar Tune you might have to edit that.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
This is Mark chestnutt Enjoy Bizar of Talk Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Had a real estate firm in the late nineties, and
one of the things we did was we had brokers,
so I would do the business development, and I would
hand that off to agents who would join our firm
because they didn't have to generate business. It's the hardest
part of the real estate brokerage business. So while I
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was out socializing, I would bring in the business, get
the listings or the buyers, hand them off to the
agents and kind of oversee them. But we were up
against the big firms, so I was doing apartments on
the side and renovations and flipping and all that sort
of stuff. But I enjoyed the brokerage side a lot.
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The problem was we were up against some really talented
people at some really good firms, Martha Turner Properties, John
Dort Greenwood King being the three that were that were
the most well respected and had very talented agents. One
of them was Janet Gamalva, and she kind of owned
the Briargrove Tanglewood area, and every time we had a
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listing or a buyer in that area, her name would
come up as this sort of legend. So a couple
of years ago I got an email and it was
something I had said, or some restaurant I had confederate house,
or some restaurant I had referenced, or whatever else. And
it was signed by Janet Gamalva that that she had
eaten there. So we've communicated over the last couple of
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years because her family, the Gamalvas, were so connected in
this town, kind of like the Carabas.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
And Ramon but Terra.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Mandola like the Mandolas, and Houston was at one point
a smaller town where these families were all so connected,
and since then it's grown a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So I asked Janna by email this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I said, because when I came to Houston, I played
tennis a lot. Used to play at the met downtown
every morning every weekday morning at six am, and a
lot of people there. There was a Sammy Gamalva connection.
Sammy Gamalva was a legendary Houston tennis player, I guess,
probably the best tennis player in Houston history, played against Connors.
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He was very, very, very well regarded on the national scale.
So I said, hey, Howard, you related to Sammy and
the rest of the commercial real estate Giammalva family. Here's
the family tree. Ramon Big Sammy is my dad's first cousin.
Their dads were brothers. Sero Lampassas of Zero's is his nephew.
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On Big Sammy's wife's side. These family's all inner, Mary Ramont. See,
that's why you never had a chance. You didn't marry money.
My dad's company was originally Anderson Fitzgerald Giomalva in the seventies.
They specialized in syndications, but when the tax laws changed,
they went their separate ways and always remained great friends.
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My dad's company became Saverio Gamalva Properties. Okay, so that's
the one you see the namer of a commercial broker,
mostly land and building sales. One of his best clients
was John Redman of Specs. He used to be my neighbor,
John Redman. Sure what, No, he was not the gay one.
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He's very happily married. In fact, the daughter is now
increasingly kind of running the show in the face of it.
Have you've seen her in the ads? Real, real cute.
She looks like Tracy Bird's wife Michelle blonde hair, real
real thin, real fit. You see her in the ads.
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She went to high school with Chance McLean, Patrick Nonhoff
and Jeremy Thigpen. Yeah it small world, Okay, please don't interrupt.
Charles Gamalva, my dad's nephew, seven years younger than him,
had Gamalva Properties now retired, but his son, Vincent Jimalva
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my age, has now taken over the company. You usually
see Vincent signs out in Katie. He's done a lot
of development out there. Vincent's brother, Charlie Gamalva, is a
big wig at Lincoln Properties. Mary Joe Gamalva, Big Sammy
the tennis Wait sorry, and then it just oh, Mary
Joe Gamalva, Big Sammy, the tennis player's big wig in
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the industrial real estate industry. She started with Winegarden. Me
and my sister Victoria Minton. Oh, I don't know that
was her sister are both residential realtors with Martha Turner's
Sotheby's International Realty. That pretty much sums it up. And
then she adds, I'm going to use my saltine cracker
tonight to go with my cheese souflet dip to bring
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to a Christmas party. It's always a hit. Have a
great Monday. Speaking of which, Speaking of which, I saw
on the issue of saltine crackers, several people, including our
friend Rick Doak, the farm and ranch realtor, said saladitas
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are really good, you know, soladitas because they don't go
bad as fast.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The one I grew up with was Nabisco. I went
and looked.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I thought, so, that's the red triangle in the corner.
That's what it used to be the tens. But I
looked at who else makes that?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Lngth man?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You know Lance that does the You know, my dad
always had the Lance crackers, the kind of orange cracker
with the peanut in the middle. If his blood sugar
was dropping, that was something he could eat that would
bring it up. That orange juice. Was not easy to
get orange juice, so we always had those everywhere in
the car. And let's see, there was a couple of
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other brands, so Nabisco made. It was called the Nabisco Premium,
the Keebler's Zesta, the Sunshine Crispy, and the Greape Value
I guess that's the discount one. And saladitas, And I
don't know where saladitas are made. But anyway, I was
reading online about this and it said key characteristics flavor
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in texture, dry, crisp, light with a distinct salty taste
from sea salt. On top ingredients white flour, oil shortening, salt,
baking soda, yeast uses excellent with soups, chili, dips, cheeses, peanut, butter,
jam are crumbled as a topping. Nutrition low end calories
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and fat, but contain some folate vitamin B nine. Some
varieties are unsalted or whole grain. And then we went
to the brands how to enjoy them? Ramon savory top
with cream, cheese, hummus, pimento cheese, or pear with soup,
sweet spread with jam, honey or nutella, upgraded season with ranch,
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parmesan or parmesan or other spices for a flavor booth boost.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Ron.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I don't want to get into allergies and being grumpy,
but when I was younger, my wife and I would
go out to eat and we would order the most garlicy,
garlicky garlic dish full of garlic on top of garlic.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Garlic was my favorite flavor of anything.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now I have to we eat at Carabas a lot,
and when I go in, I have to tell them,
you know, if you would, could you not? And they
know now so so Salvador, the waiter who always takes
care of us. They have a potato that they that
they dip in in garlic. He personally goes to the
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back and washes off the potatoes and get the garlic
off because I will pay for it for days.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I feel like God is punishing me. I loved garlic,
I mean loved it.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
This is Tracy Bird and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I call it the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Buck Sexton and his wife Carrie, who used to be
Brian Kilmeat's producer. That's how they met at Fox. They
have a little fella now named James Speed Saxton who
made an appearance but and Carry hosted a Christmas party,
And so my wife and I flew to Miami for
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that and then back and I have to say, ramon,
I forget how much I like Miami, especially Miami Beach.
Miami Beach is nice. For two Christmases several years ago,
for two Christmases in a row, we took our Christmas
break and rented a condos are really really, it's the
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one time I'm off the air. You know what I
find funny is.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You done?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know what I find funny is that when I
have to be somewhere to give a speech, to attend
a convention, for a business meeting, I still do the show.
Nobody knows I'm traveling, I'm doing the show, and yet
everyone around me says I'm on vacation because I'm not
in Houston. I'm still doing the show. That the show
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goes on, nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Edit all you're on vacation. I'm not on vacation.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm working harder from the road because I have to
set everything up. If it's a time change, I've got
to work around that. It's not easy. It's a tough
life from home, not as easy as it looks. But anyway,
the Houston and Miami flight and then Miami to Miami Beach,
it's a it's a tempting thing. It's a nice thing.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I don't know what this Democrat mayor is going to
do to Miami, a first Democrat mayor in forever, and
I fear that the demographics of the town aren't changing.
It was a nice kind of conservative Cuban international hub.
We're the heavy doughs, let's be honest, with the heavy
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dose of rich New York jew thrown in there, and
I can't imagine. So we have several friends in common
who who now are in the Miami area, who are well, Okay,
take Carol Markowitz in her husb. Carol's on Fox News.
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She writes for New York Posts, and we absolutely adore her.
Carol was self proclaimed New York snob. She thought New
York was the beginning and the end. She's a background
is Russian Jewish, New York resident, New York Post. I
mean just everything New York and what New York was.
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And then during COVID things got so bad between the
crime and the masks and all that that she and
her husband Si moved to Boca Raton and they just
seem as happy as they can be. And my wife
and I were talking about if you've lived in Manhattan,
not just in New York, in Manhattan, where it's never quiet, right,
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there's always a fire engine going off, there's always a
blaring alarm, something going on. You've got to prepare yourself
before you leave, like you got to go outside. You
got to prepare yourself, like there's a war going on
in the streets down below, right, rats the size of hogs.
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Remember they had a Ratsar. Remember the city of New
York was naming a Ratsar. And it turns out that
if you leave rats b long enough, it this ain't Ratatui.
They're not cute, they get huge, and so the rats everywhere,
they can't get rid of the trash. So they've got
the trash out on the streets. The rats are getting
into it, the homeless people are getting into it. The
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homeless people are violent. The whole deal is just it's rough.
And then you move down to Florida, where all of
a sudden and everybody's done it. Buck moved to Miami
Beach and just couldn't be happier, and he was a
New York guy. Carol Markowitz moved to Boca. She couldn't
be happier. Hannity has moved. I don't know where he is,
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but he's somewhere down there.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
For a number of years, Trump was New York. To me,
Trump represented New York more than any other single person.
And then he moves Upon Beach, which you know, less
than an hour from Miami.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
That area has had a really really.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Explosive level of growth, and to their credit, which is
quite different than what Katrina did to the Houston area,
the people that are moving down there are more likely Republican,
they're well to do, which has left New York without
kind of the stabilizing foundation that made New York work.
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New York was always a bit of a quirk. How
does it not fall into a socialist, big city morass?
And now I think you've finally seen the tipping point
where you have You've had enough people move out that
would have voted against Mamdani and now you're left with
an entirely immigrant, first generation socialist, crazy populous So last
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one in New York, you know, turn the lights out,
which is going to mean that just like Baltimore, Detroit, Philly,
as Chicago, as this has happened, those people are going
to flee the last few who were holding on, and
that's going to mean that you can't fix the problem
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because we've already reached that point in Houston. You can't
fix the problem in Houston because too many people have
moved out.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
People who call themselves Houstonians in this area live in
the villages or bel Air or Katie Crosby, the Woodlands,
League City, Texas City, Galveston, even now and.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Cypress, Magnolia, tom Ball.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So that's what we think of as people who live
in the area, but they can't vote in City of Houston.
Lee and then the Democrat Party in Houston just further
proving that they are a bunch of Mom Donny Wannaby's.
Now they have basically smacked down John Whitmyer with a
non endorsement. Dude, you're years away from him being up
for election. What are you doing but with a non
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endorsement of Whitmyer, which I'll tell you Lena had algo
got involved in that. That is all Rodney ellis. That
is Rodney ellis playing three D chess. That is Rodney
ellis trying to tear down Whitmyer because Rodney is already
running the campaign against Whitmeyer's reelection, because Rodney is going
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to control who the next mayor of Houston is. And
so what he does is, years before that election, he's
already throwing obstacles in Whitmyer's way.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Now, I don't know who he's got. Maybe he's going
to run from Ariad
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The crazy old man yelling at the clouds again. Al
Green is back. He's brought up another impeachment resolution on
President Trump, with nearly two dozen of his fellow Democrats
voting to block that vote. Republicans have the good sense,
in an election year to shoot it down. Although I
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think there are a lot of Republicans that would love
to see Trump and peach and remove from office. This
is a fascinating phenomenon I've never witnessed in my lifetime before,
where the elected officials are the.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Tails waggon a dog.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Here, the elected official Republicans are having to go along
with supposed Trump love, which they don't have, because they're
scared to death of the public which supports Trump. In fact,
I saw a number last night. Let's see if I
can pull that up. I saw a number last night
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of approval ratings. Trump's approval rating at the eleven month
mark of his second term, which is of course what
this is is forty three point seven percent. That's above
Barack Obama's forty two point six. Trump at forty three
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point seven, Obama at forty two point six at this
point in twenty thirteen, and George W. Bush is forty
two point five percent at this point in two thousand
and five.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So to say that Trump is.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Unpopular, he's more popular than the last two presidents who
served a second term at this point in their second term,
making him the most popular president in the twenty first
century at this point in his presidency.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Think about that for a moment. Well, that not only.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's not only shocking, because there becomes a certain fatigue.
Even Democrats were beginning to get fatigued with Obama by
twenty thirteen, by his second term, Republicans were certainly fatigued
with George W. Bush in his second term. He has
sent us He had sent us in to a forever war.
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He split the country with his weapons of mass destruction.
He was sending our boys into wars for seemingly reasons
that we couldn't figure out. We were supposed to be
in Afghanistan to track down Osama bin Laden.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We had an opportunity to take him out in Afghanistan,
but there would have been some collateral damage, and he
decided no, I'd rather lose thousands of Americans than a
few dozen of Osama bin Laden's family. So let's hold
up because maybe I'll still win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yet then you had the economic collapse on his watch,
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and it bears no. I'm not blaming the economic collapse
of eight on George W. Bush, but I will say
the idea that everybody needs to own a home, and
the idea that lend should be pushed using the government's
leverage into lending to people who have no business taking
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that kind of loan that did contribute to the collapse.
There's no doubt of that. The community lending guidelines at
George W. Bush Republicans love. They look for an opportunity
to appear to be a nice guy because they're all
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so afraid that they're coming across as mean racists, ebeneze
or scrooges. So they look for something that they think, well,
it will seem to be very very nice to poor
people and black people and minorities, and then they run
with it, and even if it ends up being a debacle,
the damage is done and they think they come off
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looking like a nice guy. Well, good policy does not
always in gender. Love and affection from people who make
bad decisions, that's just the nature of the beast. But
good policy creates a sound fiscal and monetary system in
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this country and keeps us on solid footing. If you
go out playing Santa Claus, you're going to disrupt our
economy and our long term stability. And there are people
who will say, I will only vote for you if
you will redistribute wealth to me. I mean, really, that's
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what we're doing in Texas with the tax cuts, with
the eliminate property taxes. We're not reducing the overall spending,
the drain on the tax payer. We're just redistributing it.
If you think about it, every time we say to
one group, will give you a tax break, we're saying
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to the other groups, you'll pay more. But they don't
notice that. The only people who notice are the people
who are getting the eliminate there or reduce their tax burden.
We're just shifting the burden. Economists will tell you that
that's what people do most of the time. Last week,
Jasmine Crockett announced her campaign launched for US Senate in Texas,
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and of course the media is drooling over the idea
of pumping up Jazzy. Meanwhile, John Wayne mccornyn is pumping
piles of cash from National Republicans into his campaign in
a primary we're not even against the Democrat yet, only
to find himself in third place and falling further behind.
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Jasmine Crockett has come out and said she enjoys working
with John Wayne mccornyn friends like her. He doesn't need enemies.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It seems that Jazzy and John Wayne mccorny have formed
some site type of friendship. They even paired up with
Texas Country Reporter in an episode that aired this weekend.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
This week on Texas Country Reporter, it's road trip time
with two Texas candidates on us at sides of the ticket,
but suddenly find themselves on the right side of a friendship.
Let's hit the road with John Wayne mccornyn at Jasmine Crockett.
Let's listen to some real Texas music because I'm John
Wayne mccornyn and I'm Texas to the ball.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Oh hell no, Johnny Mack. Ain't nobody messing with the
Black Earth Radio.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh Jeszy. We had a long day of travel ahead
of us, but.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It was apparent John Wayne mccornyn has a definite love
for BUCkies, he insisted. We stopped not at one there,
take my picture with the beaver. Gotta get a picture
with the beaver. Texans love Bucky the Beaver.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Not two.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Where's y'all's biggest belt buckles and cowboy heads? Jerzy find
the biggest back of beaver nuggets?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Bring the camera.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Texans love beaver nuggets and belt buckles, and so do
I because I'm John Wayne mccordy. We stopped at three
BUCkies all before noon.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
We asked Jasmine Crockett what she really thinks. So John
Wayne mccorny.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Oh, Johnny Mack, Yeah, he coo. I mean, you know,
whitest white boy I know. But here's something about him
that I relate to. He's like a comedian. He white
right now, we can also flip on a dime and
relate to my people if.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
He needs to.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
And I like that.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I call him my brother from another mother.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh and he's fifthy rich and I'm gonna be rich
to babe.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
John Wayne mccornin and Jasmine Crouckett an unlikely pair that's
seemingly becoming more likely every day, at least.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Chairs Keith rolling around.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut and Enjoy
Bizaar of Talk radio.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
People Magazine somehow had the definitive scoop on the Rob
Reiner murder along with his wife Michelle. This from ABC News.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're mister Bunker. Yeah you figured that out.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
A Hollywood legend who may have started out in television comedy.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
But I would be proud of our take off your
peecon bine, but.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Who's expansion into filmmaking gave us perhaps the greatest romantic comedy,
You trans handle the truth, the most quotable courtroom drama,
and the first mainstream mockumentary. This morning, we are remembering
the incredible life and career of Rob Reiner, who has
passed away at the age of seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
As she is, you.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Could say Reiner was both born for this and into this,
with his father being comedy legend an eleven time Emmy
winner Carl Reiner. Meanwhile, not only was his mother Estelle
also a performer. I'll have what She was even tapped
to deliver to this iconic line in Reiner's nineteen eighty
nine classic When Harry Met Sally.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You are a mee y.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Back in the seventies, after finding national stardoim as the
recipient Devarchie Bunker's affection of nicknames.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
On All in the Family.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
You Know what We did?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Put it up to a Navent exactly.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Reiner would emerge as a versatile director with his documentary
about a fake band, This is Final Tap in nineteen
eighty four. From there, he would continue to rattle off
hit after hit, with memorable films such as Stand By Me,
You Live, The Princess Bride, Oh, The Wrong Paper Ady,
and The oscar Win Misery.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Hi, I'm Marty de Berny.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Most recently, Ryaner returned to direct these sequel to his
very first film, Spinal Tap two.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
The End Continues.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
He recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmelive along with the members
of the band, acting in character at the documentary.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And he played in the films.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And I was just lucky enough to be the one
chosen to document it.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
All right, you chose yourself to do it. I did well.
I chose yes, I chose myself.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
President Trump responded on Truth's social with the following message,
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner,
a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director
and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle,
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reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
as Trump deranged syndrome. Trump Derangement syndrome all capitalized, sometimes
referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven
people crazy all caps by his raging obsession of President
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Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights
as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of
greatness and with the Golden Age of America upon us
perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.
Exclamation mark that was President Trump's statement.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
On the matter.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, the Heisman Trophy has been awarded and Fernando Mendoza,
the little known quarterback at the beginning of the season
of the Indiana squad, winning the honors. I don't think
there was any doubt. I will say this kid Pavia,
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who played at Vanderbilt. I really liked his story. I
mean a cocky kid. He's little or short, played like Scataboo,
played college football.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
He liked to hit people. I saw a certain.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Amount of Johnny Manziel bravado to what he was doing.
And while they didn't finish where they would have liked
to have finished, or even make the playoffs, they've taken
a Vanderbilt team who would have thought the best team
in the state of Tennessee would be Vandy and not
the Volunteers. They made a really good run of it.
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In fact, he almost brought him back against the Longhorns
when they were down big plays, with a lot of
spunk hung in there. Nobody wanted him out of high school,
went to a second rate, third rate college program, but
damned if he didn't make something of himself. And now
he's just made an ass of himself. And I'm afraid
that Johnny Manziel ending will be his And I find
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Manziel to be very charming. Well here was for naw
I know Mendoza speech, which I think I think is
a model I think young people should look up to.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
This guy didn't know a single teammate and was fourth
on the depth chart by mid season.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I wanted to get out of there, I wanted to quit.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
My parents said I had to finish what I started,
So I learned to embrace my team, and that is
when I fell in love with football. By high school,
I was chasing the first stages of.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Pipe dream to play in college.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Then COVID hit cut the season short. The result, I
was only a two star prospect.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I only had one scholarship offer, But.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
My family's unconditional love and belief kept me going and
pushed me forward. These are the people who built me
long before football did. Mommy, this is your trophy as
much as his mind. You've always been my biggest fan.
You're my light, You're my why, You're my biggest supporter.
Your sacrifices, courage, love, those have been my first playbook
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and the playbook that I'm gonna carry you through my side, through.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
My entire life.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
He told me that the toughness doesn't need to be loud.
It can be quiet and strong. It's choosing hope. It's
believing in yourself when the world doesn't give you much
reason to. Together, you and I are rewinding what people
think is possible.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I love you, Poppy.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Thank you for grounding me, Thank you for holding me
accountable when it was always tough. It reminded me that
talent as you can't have talent. I mean sorry, remind
me that talent means nothing without discipline and consistency. While
I'm playing a team game, I'm learning to grow into
a man, and you probably personified commitment. You picked all
of us up whenever we've needed it most. To my
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little brother Max, thank you for bringing joy to me
and everyone around you.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Your joy is infectious. Love you, bro.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
And for my grandparents Fiso this means.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
This is an important one.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I want every kid out there who feels overlooked, under
underestimated to know I was you. I was that kid too.
I was in your shoes. The truth is you don't
need the most stars, hype or rankings. You just need discipline,
heart and people who believe in you. And you need
to believe in your own abilities. I hope this moment
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shows you that chasing your dreams are worth it, no
matter how big or impossible they seem. God bless Joe Huigers.
Thank you guys all.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's why so guitar Tune you might have to edit that.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
This is Mark chestnutt Enjoy Bizar of Talk Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Had a real estate firm in the late nineties, and
one of the things we did was we had brokers,
so I would do the business development, and I would
hand that off to agents who would join our firm
because they didn't have to generate business. It's the hardest
part of the real estate brokerage business. So while I
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was out socializing, I would bring in the business, get
the listings or the buyers, hand them off to the
agents and kind of oversee them. But we were up
against the big firms, so I was doing apartments on
the side and renovations and flipping and all that sort
of stuff. But I enjoyed the brokerage side a lot.
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The problem was we were up against some really talented
people at some really good firms, Martha Turner Properties, John
Dort Greenwood King being the three that were that were
the most well respected and had very talented agents. One
of them was Janet Gamalva, and she kind of owned
the Briargrove Tanglewood area, and every time we had a
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listing or a buyer in that area, her name would
come up as this sort of legend. So a couple
of years ago I got an email and it was
something I had said, or some restaurant I had confederate house,
or some restaurant I had referenced, or whatever else. And
it was signed by Janet Gamalva that that she had
eaten there. So we've communicated over the last couple of
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years because her family, the Gamalvas, were so connected in
this town, kind of like the Carabas.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
And Ramon but Terra.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Mandola like the Mandolas, and Houston was at one point
a smaller town where these families were all so connected,
and since then it's grown a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So I asked Janna by email this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I said, because when I came to Houston, I played
tennis a lot. Used to play at the met downtown
every morning every weekday morning at six am, and a
lot of people there. There was a Sammy Gamalva connection.
Sammy Gamalva was a legendary Houston tennis player, I guess,
probably the best tennis player in Houston history, played against Connors.
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He was very, very, very well regarded on the national scale.
So I said, hey, Howard, you related to Sammy and
the rest of the commercial real estate Giammalva family. Here's
the family tree. Ramon Big Sammy is my dad's first cousin.
Their dads were brothers. Sero Lampassas of Zero's is his nephew.
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On Big Sammy's wife's side. These family's all inner, Mary Ramont. See,
that's why you never had a chance. You didn't marry money.
My dad's company was originally Anderson Fitzgerald Giomalva in the seventies.
They specialized in syndications, but when the tax laws changed,
they went their separate ways and always remained great friends.
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My dad's company became Saverio Gamalva Properties. Okay, so that's
the one you see the namer of a commercial broker,
mostly land and building sales. One of his best clients
was John Redman of Specs. He used to be my neighbor,
John Redman. Sure what, No, he was not the gay one.
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He's very happily married. In fact, the daughter is now
increasingly kind of running the show in the face of it.
Have you've seen her in the ads? Real, real cute.
She looks like Tracy Bird's wife Michelle blonde hair, real
real thin, real fit. You see her in the ads.
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She went to high school with Chance McLean, Patrick Nonhoff
and Jeremy Thigpen. Yeah it small world, Okay, please don't interrupt.
Charles Gamalva, my dad's nephew, seven years younger than him,
had Gamalva Properties now retired, but his son, Vincent Jimalva
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my age, has now taken over the company. You usually
see Vincent signs out in Katie. He's done a lot
of development out there. Vincent's brother, Charlie Gamalva, is a
big wig at Lincoln Properties. Mary Joe Gamalva, Big Sammy
the tennis Wait sorry, and then it just oh, Mary
Joe Gamalva, Big Sammy, the tennis player's big wig in
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the industrial real estate industry. She started with Winegarden. Me
and my sister Victoria Minton. Oh, I don't know that
was her sister are both residential realtors with Martha Turner's
Sotheby's International Realty. That pretty much sums it up. And
then she adds, I'm going to use my saltine cracker
tonight to go with my cheese souflet dip to bring
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to a Christmas party. It's always a hit. Have a
great Monday. Speaking of which, Speaking of which, I saw
on the issue of saltine crackers, several people, including our
friend Rick Doak, the farm and ranch realtor, said saladitas
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are really good, you know, soladitas because they don't go
bad as fast.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The one I grew up with was Nabisco. I went
and looked.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I thought, so, that's the red triangle in the corner.
That's what it used to be the tens. But I
looked at who else makes that?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Lngth man?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You know Lance that does the You know, my dad
always had the Lance crackers, the kind of orange cracker
with the peanut in the middle. If his blood sugar
was dropping, that was something he could eat that would
bring it up. That orange juice. Was not easy to
get orange juice, so we always had those everywhere in
the car. And let's see, there was a couple of
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other brands, so Nabisco made. It was called the Nabisco Premium,
the Keebler's Zesta, the Sunshine Crispy, and the Greape Value
I guess that's the discount one. And saladitas, And I
don't know where saladitas are made. But anyway, I was
reading online about this and it said key characteristics flavor
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in texture, dry, crisp, light with a distinct salty taste
from sea salt. On top ingredients white flour, oil shortening, salt,
baking soda, yeast uses excellent with soups, chili, dips, cheeses, peanut, butter,
jam are crumbled as a topping. Nutrition low end calories
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and fat, but contain some folate vitamin B nine. Some
varieties are unsalted or whole grain. And then we went
to the brands how to enjoy them? Ramon savory top
with cream, cheese, hummus, pimento cheese, or pear with soup,
sweet spread with jam, honey or nutella, upgraded season with ranch,
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parmesan or parmesan or other spices for a flavor booth boost.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Ron.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I don't want to get into allergies and being grumpy,
but when I was younger, my wife and I would
go out to eat and we would order the most garlicy,
garlicky garlic dish full of garlic on top of garlic.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Garlic was my favorite flavor of anything.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now I have to we eat at Carabas a lot,
and when I go in, I have to tell them,
you know, if you would, could you not? And they
know now so so Salvador, the waiter who always takes
care of us. They have a potato that they that
they dip in in garlic. He personally goes to the
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back and washes off the potatoes and get the garlic
off because I will pay for it for days.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I feel like God is punishing me. I loved garlic,
I mean loved it.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
This is Tracy Bird and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I call it the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Buck Sexton and his wife Carrie, who used to be
Brian Kilmeat's producer. That's how they met at Fox. They
have a little fella now named James Speed Saxton who
made an appearance but and Carry hosted a Christmas party,
And so my wife and I flew to Miami for
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that and then back and I have to say, ramon,
I forget how much I like Miami, especially Miami Beach.
Miami Beach is nice. For two Christmases several years ago,
for two Christmases in a row, we took our Christmas
break and rented a condos are really really, it's the
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one time I'm off the air. You know what I
find funny is.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You done?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You know what I find funny is that when I
have to be somewhere to give a speech, to attend
a convention, for a business meeting, I still do the show.
Nobody knows I'm traveling, I'm doing the show, and yet
everyone around me says I'm on vacation because I'm not
in Houston. I'm still doing the show. That the show
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goes on, nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Edit all you're on vacation. I'm not on vacation.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm working harder from the road because I have to
set everything up. If it's a time change, I've got
to work around that. It's not easy. It's a tough
life from home, not as easy as it looks. But anyway,
the Houston and Miami flight and then Miami to Miami Beach,
it's a it's a tempting thing. It's a nice thing.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I don't know what this Democrat mayor is going to
do to Miami, a first Democrat mayor in forever, and
I fear that the demographics of the town aren't changing.
It was a nice kind of conservative Cuban international hub.
We're the heavy doughs, let's be honest, with the heavy
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dose of rich New York jew thrown in there, and
I can't imagine. So we have several friends in common
who who now are in the Miami area, who are well, Okay,
take Carol Markowitz in her husb. Carol's on Fox News.
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She writes for New York Posts, and we absolutely adore her.
Carol was self proclaimed New York snob. She thought New
York was the beginning and the end. She's a background
is Russian Jewish, New York resident, New York Post. I
mean just everything New York and what New York was.
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And then during COVID things got so bad between the
crime and the masks and all that that she and
her husband Si moved to Boca Raton and they just
seem as happy as they can be. And my wife
and I were talking about if you've lived in Manhattan,
not just in New York, in Manhattan, where it's never quiet, right,
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there's always a fire engine going off, there's always a
blaring alarm, something going on. You've got to prepare yourself
before you leave, like you got to go outside. You
got to prepare yourself, like there's a war going on
in the streets down below, right, rats the size of hogs.
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Remember they had a Ratsar. Remember the city of New
York was naming a Ratsar. And it turns out that
if you leave rats b long enough, it this ain't Ratatui.
They're not cute, they get huge, and so the rats everywhere,
they can't get rid of the trash. So they've got
the trash out on the streets. The rats are getting
into it, the homeless people are getting into it. The
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homeless people are violent. The whole deal is just it's rough.
And then you move down to Florida, where all of
a sudden and everybody's done it. Buck moved to Miami
Beach and just couldn't be happier, and he was a
New York guy. Carol Markowitz moved to Boca. She couldn't
be happier. Hannity has moved. I don't know where he is,
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but he's somewhere down there.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
For a number of years, Trump was New York. To me,
Trump represented New York more than any other single person.
And then he moves Upon Beach, which you know, less
than an hour from Miami.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
That area has had a really really.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Explosive level of growth, and to their credit, which is
quite different than what Katrina did to the Houston area,
the people that are moving down there are more likely Republican,
they're well to do, which has left New York without
kind of the stabilizing foundation that made New York work.
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New York was always a bit of a quirk. How
does it not fall into a socialist, big city morass?
And now I think you've finally seen the tipping point
where you have You've had enough people move out that
would have voted against Mamdani and now you're left with
an entirely immigrant, first generation socialist, crazy populous So last
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one in New York, you know, turn the lights out,
which is going to mean that just like Baltimore, Detroit, Philly,
as Chicago, as this has happened, those people are going
to flee the last few who were holding on, and
that's going to mean that you can't fix the problem
(30:23):
because we've already reached that point in Houston. You can't
fix the problem in Houston because too many people have
moved out.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
People who call themselves Houstonians in this area live in
the villages or bel Air or Katie Crosby, the Woodlands,
League City, Texas City, Galveston, even now and.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Cypress, Magnolia, tom Ball.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So that's what we think of as people who live
in the area, but they can't vote in City of Houston.
Lee and then the Democrat Party in Houston just further
proving that they are a bunch of Mom Donny Wannaby's.
Now they have basically smacked down John Whitmyer with a
non endorsement. Dude, you're years away from him being up
for election. What are you doing but with a non
(31:15):
endorsement of Whitmyer, which I'll tell you Lena had algo
got involved in that. That is all Rodney ellis. That
is Rodney ellis playing three D chess. That is Rodney
ellis trying to tear down Whitmyer because Rodney is already
running the campaign against Whitmeyer's reelection, because Rodney is going
(31:35):
to control who the next mayor of Houston is. And
so what he does is, years before that election, he's
already throwing obstacles in Whitmyer's way.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Now, I don't know who he's got. Maybe he's going
to run from Ariad
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