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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That case I couldn't remember was called the O'Donnell Consent Decree,
and it was kind of one of those Rodney Ellis
had Lena had all go fronting the thing. But as
everything else with Harris County, Rodney Ellis runs it and
the county gets sued for holding criminals who committed crimes.
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And there is this idea of, well if a lot
of people arrested for committing murder or black and you
catch them and you hold them so they don't go
out and commit more murders. And they got a rap
sheet a mile long. So there these are rabid dogs
that are just murdering, maiming, stealing, carjacking, jugging, you name it,
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all day long. They need to be held. But if
they happen to be black, we didn't choose it right.
You find your you're defendant, as you see him, you
take your plane. If as you see him, well, it's
not anybody's fault that happened. That's that's cops are just
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arresting the guy who committed to murder. You tell me,
Pooky did it. That's Obama's term not mine. You tell me,
Pooky down the street did it, and you're black, and
the victim's black, and I'm an officer and I'm black,
and I arrest him and bring it down, and that
keeps happening. I don't know if that's systemic racism or
the criminal justice system at.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Work, or cultural problems or.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Fatherhood problems, or I don't know what it is, but
I know that the moment you allow somebody to commit
murder and get away with it, you will have more
murders and you're not safe. And that has a very
powerful effect on the mindset of people who know that
at any moment their life could be rubbed out and
it won't matter. Well that that affects you in ways.
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That affects your behaviors, your career choices. You don't invest
long term when you know that everybody on the block
has been murdered. You don't go to school or learn
a trade or build a business when your mindset is
I could be dead at any moment anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
These are the long.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Term effect effects that create a cultural morass, an awful
situation that's hard to fix, and you don't realize how
much of that is related to all of this. So
what the county did is there's a lawsuit and in
the case is the O'Donnell case, and it was a
don't throw me in the briar patch, brah rabbit story.
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The county agrees to this deal, and and there's a
picture of Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis and their hands
are up. They're celebrating like they just won the Super
Bowl because we've agreed to a consent to decree. The
consent decree is is a boon for murderers. I mean
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it's they won the lottery and we agreed to go. Oh,
we got to do that because you mean, we've got
our hand hands are tied over here. The hands of
the criminal justice system are handcuffed, but the people should
being handcuffs. You can go commit all the murders you want,
all the murders you want. So I got an email
from a fellow and I get this every day, and
this is so common. Name's Jason. The other story with
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the slimeball da I saw yesterday was where he was
fighting the icehold on the father of the little girl
who was murdered several years back. The father had been
arrested for DUI. The district attorney was take making an
active stance in fighting deportation of the same people they're
supposed to be prosecuting.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's infuriating.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
He also defended this man on the predicate that he
was going to take the case to trial, like he
didn't just dismiss multiple murder charges just last week. I
live in Brazoria County and work downtown, so I don't
get to vote on these scumbacks. But this place is
going downhill faster and faster every day. See this, this
is the problem. You got a lot of people who
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live in the Woodlands and work downtown or Greenway Plaza
or uptown or Galleria. You got a lot of people
that live in Crosby and come into the ship Channel.
You got a lot of people that live down in
Brazoria and work at the edge of downtown or midtown,
but get no vote. They're bringing a lot of money
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in they have to drive through it. So now they
need the Houston Police to be good. They need Houston
Fire to be good. They need the roads to make sense,
and they need a crime reduction. And they got good
district attorneys out where they are, and they got functioning.
That's why they live out there. That's why they don't
live in this craphole. So what it happens is they
come into the war zone so their families don't have
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to They send their kids to suburban schools so their
kids don't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Have to go to HISD.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But the problem is, we got so many people that
are subjected to this crime, and that's why people care
about what's happening in Houston, because one way or another,
you end up at a Rockets game, you end up
at an Astros game, you end up at a Texans game,
you end up at the courthouse, you end up some
All the food reviewers live inside the loop, most of
them in Montrose or Upper Kirby, and the restaurants are
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all riding about. So nobody wants to eat at the
nice restaurant that came up in their neighborhood and they can't.
How come we can't get the restaurants out here because
you won't support them. Well, it ain't nothing good out here.
Well there was a really good restaurant. We don't have
anything high and we had classy out here. All we
got is franchises. All right, let's go through the last
five meals you've eaten in your neighborhood if you don't
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support Because what happens is Mama's gonna get dulled up
Friday night. And she goes online Houston Press or Houston Chronicle.
She Oh, the hottest new place is in the Heights.
And it's a Houston interpretation of an La concept, which
was an La interpretation of Thai food made by a
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guy from Burma who grew up in Uganda.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And so they get a new dress and they have
a date night, and they do the whole thing, and
they go in and for two of them, they spend
three hundred dollars and they talk about it for two
years because it was so much money, but they would
never spend that money in their community. So they go
over and eat at these restaurants in the Heights and
in Montrose, and then they go back and they told
all their girlfriends, Oh my god, we're going to try
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this new restaurant. I can't wait. Very la a chef,
you got a Michelin star. Oh my god, it's amazing.
And it's in the Height. Ah, that's a great That's
where all the good restaurants are. And they don't realize.
You know that you wanted the nice restaurant in your
neighborhood in Katie or in Memorial or wherever else clear late,
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and when it comes they won't eat there. They'll go
to the heights for Montrose and talk about there was
no parking. It was creaty. I don't know, it was crazy.
We couldn't park. It took us two years to get reservation.
They will jump through all the hoops, the stupid hoops
of no parking, get mugged on the way, four homeless
people pete on them.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
They took them forever to get reservations.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And one thing in the neighborhood restaurant, the bistro in
their neighborhood. One thing, and they're on the what's the
little neighborhood, the next door neighbor or whatever next door?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Thank you, they go on there. Oh, I'm not eating
there ever again. I'm not eating at the neighborhood beestraver again.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Because they brought out the check and the bill was
supposed to be twenty seven dollars and it was twenty
eight and they had to go check with the manager.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And that's just ridiculous. I'll never eat there.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Again, but they would never, ever dare criticize the restaurant
in the Heights because it's in the Heights and it
got nice reviews by whoever's at the Chronicle or Houston
Press now, so that makes it better than the ones
we have locally.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
People do that all day and they have no idea
the result of it. I'm not sure what you call
that segment, and I just need to get that off my.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Chess experience, the excitement of O Shan the Michael Berry Show,
Everything you need and most everything you want.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
President Trump has announced that today at his press conference
he will name names. It will not be an exhaustive list, Heck,
he's just three weeks in office, but it'll be enough
to wet your appetite.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
When you say wet your appetite, you got to put
that H in there because it's whgt. You didn't know that,
well you do, now, see That's what I'm here for.
Right after the W is wet. It's really wet. But
I like to put the H before the W. I
like to put the H before the W in a
lot of words like what did you say? Or I'm
gonna whip him? My mother would say that you're gonna
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get whipped. And I used to tell her late in
her life. Mom, do you realize how many times you
threaten to whip me? And you almost never did. Now
she pinched the back of your arm.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Woo man, I like to put that h before the
w ooh. Let me have some of that cool whip.
What'd you say?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You can have a pie without cool whip, cool whip,
cool whip. Yeah you mean cool whip. Yeah, coup whip,
cool whip, coup whip, cool whip, cool whip.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You're saying it weird.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Why are you putting so much emphasis on the he
let me talk about I'm just thinking it cool whip.
You put cool whip. I'm pie pie tastes better with
cool whip. Say whip whip. I'll say cool whip, cool whip,
cool whip, cool whip, cool whip, cool whip.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Were you a Family Guy watcher?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I wasn't, but Ted de Luca and Daryl Kunda loved
Family Guy and they would always on DeLuca Show. He
would always be talking about Family Guy and the giggity
giggity and all that sort of stuff. And so it's
just amazing to me how many listeners will send me
something that is a clip of family guy like you
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just played.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's talking about what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And I think a good sitcom or a good show
Seinfeld has this picks up on things that are that
are commentary you will make years later and so oh
that they talked about that on Seinfeld and that is uh,
that is the mark of a good writer.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Because these are timeless concepts.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So the President announced that he will let this press
conference today, he will make a lot of revelations. And
I saw yesterday a list Tiffany Levitt is doing. Is
it No, it's Carolyn Levitt. She's doing a daily Maga
minute where she goes through the accomplishments of the day,
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and it's just staggering. One guy posted current scene at
the White House. This was late last night. No pride flags,
no topless transvestites, no tik talkers dressed in drag, no
twerking easter bunnies, no kids being sniffed, no cocaine scandals.
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Thank you, America. I mean it's just perfect. I saw
a meme that said, the people who obsessed over seeing
Donald Trump's tax returns remember that the people who obsessed
overseeing Donald Trump's tax returns. Sure are against finding out
where their taxpayer money goes? Crazy? Humh, isn't that crazy?
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It's interesting to me. It's very interesting to me. Wall
Street Journal said that Trump and Musk have achieved more
than three and a half weeks than Ronald Reagan did
in eight years when it comes to shrinking the government.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
They had a.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Peace titled Democrats ought to Love Doge and they said
Wall Street Journal said, Musk is accomplishing something nobody has
ever pulled off. Quote Elon Musk's glorious rampage through official
Washington is like something from a dream. Many conservatives and
some Republicans have fantasized for decades about laying off bureaucrats
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and shrinking the government. Nobody's ever pulled it off. Even
Ronald Reagan, the great apostle of smaller government, couldn't in
eight years what mister Musk has done in three weeks.
The billionaire businessman is less apostle than Avenging Angel. The
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Department of Government efficiency is the change we've been waiting for.
I was emailing back and forth with Eddie Martini, who
just a few months ago.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Was given a big promotion.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I wish he hadn't been because it affects my life negatively,
but he was made what's called a division president. And radio,
like every other heritage legacy industry in America, has been
in a constant state of consolidation for the last twenty years.
The entirety of my time in radio, radio has been
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in the process of contracting. And you might have noticed.
It's not the only one. Chevron right now is going
to lay off ten to twenty percent of their work
and that's scary for Houston because Chevron is headquartered in Houston,
and that's a big part of it. News flash this morning,
JP Morgan Chase, I can't remember what percentage of their workforce.
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JP Morgan Chase is going to have layoffs. I mean
the guys who've been fleecing you. I mean, when nobody
else makes money, the Goldman Sacks crowd makes money for
them to be laying off my goodness of Llile. It's
the nature of the beast, and it's scary and it's unpleasant.
I understand that I'm not here for it. I'm not
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the guy who's you know, don't fear the reaper. It's bad.
We saw it in manufacturing. We saw it for decades
in manufacturing, and some of it was political decisions, and frankly,
some of it is this is the way that business
is funded. Private equity doesn't come in and buy Joe
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Bob's plumbing company and add a lot of employees. Typically
they come in and go They look at where the
money is, is it the client list, is it a
good name that we can use, and then as a platform,
and we go out and buy all the other plumbing
companies that are called elite, exceptional, superior, wonderful, outstanding plumbing
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across the country and roll that up into Joe Bobs
because Joe Bobs does well, So we use that as
a platform, buy all those guys out. We come into
each company, we come in each city. We've got an
advertising overlay band. We drop that down, We cut all
the relatives of the owner, We get out of the
expensive or we sell off the properties that they owned
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that they didn't realize how much it was worth, and
we give them a couple million dollars so that he
can retire because he's getting old and there's no succession
plan because his.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Son's a loser.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And we pay him one hundred thousand dollars for five
years or whatever else. In addition to his money, we
get his client list and his name, and you know,
the trucks and things what they're worth.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And we've got a standing business.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And now all of a sudden, we got Joe Bobs
across the country and we turned this thing over, flipped
the deal in a couple of years and make a
pretty penny. That's what's happening. That's not illegal. It's the
nature of business. And tidal waves come and go. But
I say all that to say this. I can't remember
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why I say all that. Marmon, Oh, I'm talking about
Trump and everything he's getting done. And I was saying,
I haven't been inspired by a president since Reagan. Trump's
getting so much done. I feel like, man, I got
to get stuff done.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's like me too.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Meet the Michael Berry's.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Donald Trump was born June fourteenth, nineteen forty six. That
means it come June, which is right around the corner,
Tom flies. When you're having fun, I don't know about you, Ramon,
I'm having fun. I ain't tired of winning.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Trump's in the middle of a speech and you see
a pastor when they do this. I used to give
a lot of speeches. I don't give hardly any speeches
anymore because I don't like to be away from my family.
But there's a moment in a speech where you know
you've got the audience in the palm of your hand.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You'll see bands that'll do this, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
They'll do They'll drag, can't you see out for twenty minutes,
Partly because toy the guy who's saying it's been dead
for thirty years and and they don't have the same
vocalists who say it. Partly because the audience doesn't realize it.
RCC is happy and we're having fun, and stick with it.
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There's a moment where you feel you know it, you
feel it in your bones. It's exhilarating. It's a very
powerful drug of your own making. Endorphins are coursing through
and you know you've got your audience.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know you've got.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Them right where you want them, and you're enjoying that
moment too, and you don't want it to end. And
so you you you you you say something sort of silly,
and you say it because you're so far out on
the ledge.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You just you're punch drunk.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Stone cober Stone culsober, but you're punch drunk on this
connection you have with the audience, and you say things,
you say it and then you kind of realize that
I just say that and you own it. Yeah, going ahead,
And it's one of those moments. It's it's a glorious thing.
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And I remember that Trump has a sense of humor
that people don't realize, and I think they're starting because
he does it deadpan.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He doesn't tell you, he doesn't laugh at his own joke.
He never laughs at his own joke.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And people think he's so serious and grim, and that's
part of the stern exterior that he presents, right, He's
he's always at the ready. And he said, we're gonna
win so much, you're gonna get tired of winning. And
the look on his face you could tell, I don't
know that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That he had expected to say that, but once he
said it, it kind of has.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Just the slightest hint of a smirk. He doesn't lose
his poker face. And I remember thinking at the time, Oh,
now come on, now, he's just having too much.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Now he's just getting ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You remember that to win with every single facet, we're
gonna win so much.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You may even.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Get tired of winning, and you'll say, please, please, it's
too much winning.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We can't take.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It anymore, mister president, it's too much, And I'll say, no,
it is it.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
And.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We've that moment. I didn't think it was possible.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I was trying to find the list of things that
they did just yesterday. Oh, by the way, they managed
to get Tulsey Gabbard passed. Every Democrat plus Mitch McConnell
against her. I could spend five segments.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I could spend five segments telling you how hard it
is to get Republicans to vote for the nominee that
Trump put forward that ninety five percent of their voters,
for those Republics, ninety percent of their voters want TOOLSI Gabbard.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So it should be a layup right, Nope, m.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Not, because they're not going to vote for her. They're
going to, but their power is predicated upon the fear
that they won't. So they start letting things leak out.
They start having a particular staffer tell a staffer for
John Thune, the Senate majority leader. They start letting it
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leak here and there, and they let it get out
to Trump. So a calls placed to the Chief of Staff.
Chief Assass says, oh, I don't know who would have
said that. You know, must say, you know, Jonny Ernst
is on board.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well we're hearing. Well, I mean, look, we got some concerns.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
As you might imagine, this is all This is how
power is wielded in Washington, d c. If you are
a reliable vote for the president. Uh, you have to
be a reliable and influential vote that he needs and
respects to get what you want.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But if you play this thing just right.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And you're the fly in the ointment, they go, what
do you need to vote for her? Well, I got
this highway right through the middle of my state, and
I've committed that it's going to be widened, and it's
on a twelve year plan, and I got election.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I got election coming up. Done.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You can't imagine the stress that goes into just dealing
with the legislator. A legislator, unlike the executive branch, a
county commissioner has executive branch powers.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They vote in commissioner's court but if.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Tom Ramsey wants to build a park on the county property,
he could build a Michael Berry Park.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He did.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
He built a Cactus Jack Kegle Park or whatever it was.
They've got crews.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
They can dig ditches, they can dredge this, they can
build this, they can move that. They have an executive
authority within their precinct. Even though they're kind of legislators
on the Commissioner's Court. When they go to court they
cast their votes, you're dealing with one hundred egos, So
in this case, you're dealing with fifty three egos. Just
getting tools. He passed should have been yesterday. The whole thing,
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like the Kavanaugh hearings, where we're all glued to the TV,
because this is huge.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Director of National Intelligence is huge.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You won't see as much of her as you will
some of the other folks. Marco's going to be in
the news every day, but what she's going to do
is going to be far more consequential behind the scenes,
and she's going to be able to root out the
cancers within that department, the moles, the spies, the liars,
the thieves, the knaves. Run You got any more words
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to add to that. Okay, if you think up one,
go check your thesaurus. She's going to get them out
of there. These are the leakers.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
These are the.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Types of people like the guy at the FBI whose
name is about to be released, who was calling and
tipping off Trende Aragua that ice is coming. You've got
murderers on American soil here illegally committing awful murderers who
are now part of a terrorist organization, as it's been
designated by the President, who are in a conspiracy to
commit violent crimes daily. And you've got a member of
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the FBI, that supposedly top law enforcement agency in the country,
and he's going, hey, guys, get out of there. They're
coming in three hours. Well they don't need thirty minutes.
They're out, grab their guns and move. They got a
safe house. From a safe house to a safe house.
You got guys like that in the FBI. You got
guys like that throughout the intelligence agencies. Just being able
to get them out, forget replacing them with good people,
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just being able to get them out. And by the way,
there's a lot of good people out there, folks. Look
at what Donald Trump did. He brought these kids in
they're nineteen twenty years old. They're astrophysicist majors, their nerds,
their geeks. They're genius, they're brilliant, they're patriots.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
But I got to.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Think, well, I'll extenuate the matter the moment.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'll expand upon that in the next segment.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
How we should all take inspiration from what Donald Trump
is doing.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I'm serious.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
If you what's going on in my cousin Michael Verry show,
Damn country, I'll thought for this country, this is mine.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I was talking about the fact Russell Leborro uses a
phrase that we use in our house now because he
uses it so convincingly and he made it so much
a part of his mo It's called sense of urgency.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
When people ask me.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
If I can get Russell to support this or that,
I always say no because and the reason is because
Russell is never, one time in twenty years told me no.
And some people would view that as well, you got
to ask him for everything all the time. That's how
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you get told no, because he's never told me no.
I realized that I have to be my own gatekeeper.
I have to resist the urge to ask him for
things because I know he'll say yes, and that means
that I should be more judicious about it. But when
we're doing something awesome for Saint Jude, which last year
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was our last Saint Jude and we did an amazing
thing in ten years. We are going to do a
Michael Berry Show golf.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Tournament this year.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's going to be our show for the Michael Berry Foundation,
and to be honest, bonuses for our show team, who
I like to make sure compensated well. But camp Hope,
my goodness, what he's done for that place. It's why
I have the place's name for him, because he's donated
like crazy. It's him and Doug, it's Stacy Hunt the
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guys that those guys have made that thing happen with
the help of a lot of you. But he's always
used the phrase sense of urgency. So if I say,
you know, it might not seem like it. But we
did the trip to mar A Lago several times and
it was expensive to go and I want and some
people to go on a trip like that that blow
their mind. I want to be the greatest trip they've
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ever had in their life, and they couldn't afford it.
So I said, hey, would you be willing to do
a scholarship for these people, so I can pick some
veterans and firefighters and school teachers and different people. And
he did five of them, which I didn't expect. And
it's not only that, it's that if I ask him
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at eleven oh three if he'll do it, then he
delivers the check at eleven thirty and he's thirty minutes
away and he still.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Had to print it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And that's and I'll say, Russo it wasn't a rush.
You didn't any sense of urgency. If something's worth doing
is worth doing right now, pretty powerful. And our kid,
we've all come we quote that in our house. Sense
of urgency. You know, if you ask somebody for a
charitable donation, you know you're raising money for the Little League,
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and like yeah, they go, yeah, I give you two
hundred fifty dollars. Okay, I just just call me in then,
and they add a burden to the collection and then
they hope you'll forget. And then when you call them,
they're not there, and they didn't know how to say no,
so what they do is.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Drag it out. That's the opposite of sense of versus
the exact opposite. But I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
This is a journalist asking about what waste, fraud, and
abuse they've actually uncovered.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well, here it is.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Before it was Elon Musk making our government efficient and accountable,
it was some unnamed bureaucrat that none of you knew.
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He's
also now one of the most highly scrutinized men in
the world, alongside President Trump because of what he's doing
and the axis that he is allowing. So there's great transparency.
As for the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them,
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and I actually brought some today because all of you
know I love to bring their receipts. We have contracts
upon contracts that we can send and provide this information
to you. Let me be very clear, we are not
trying to hide anything. We have been incredibly transparent and
we will continue to be. These are screens of contracts
that Douge found across our government. This is a DEI
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contract thirty six thousand dollars for US citizenship and Immigration
services that is against the President's policies and his America
First agenda. This is a three point four million dollar contract,
a Council for Inclusive Innovation at the US Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of Co Commerce. Another DEI contract that
DOGE identified. I can continue to go through these. Oh,
(29:27):
I love this one. Fifty seven thousand bucks for climate
change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue
the interests of the American people?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
These are the line items across the federal government that
DOGE is identifying daily. They're moving very fast. There's a
lot of paper that we can show you, but we're
happy to do it. This administration has been more than
transparent and about what DOGE is doing. And here's one
of their tweets that they posted about the mine. I
believe this is in Pennsylvania, where the federal employee retirement
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system is being pro Did anybody know this was even
happening in our country before Elon Musk talked about it
in the Oval Office yesterday? A lot of Americans didn't.
So we are providing transparency and accessibility on a daily
basis when it comes to DOGE, and I also have
a DOGE Daily Report if anybody would like it, on
all of the things that they are identifying and finding.
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We're happy to provide this information too. We're talking about
it every single day.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
There is a sense of urgency that Elon Musk has.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And you know, the left keeps saying this billionaire, this billionaire,
that billionaires run the Democrat Party. Make no mistake, George
Soros is a billionaire. Doesn't bother them at all. More
billionaires are Democrats than Republicans because they're guilty. They feel
bad about their money. So what they're trying to do
is keep the teeming hordes away from their gates, from
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them being on a stake. They're not going to have
a let the meat cake moment. They're trying to show
that they're the good guys. They're the good rich guys
that the revolution needs. That's what's happening. This is very
French Revolution seventeen eighty nine, and they saw what happened
with heads on pikes. But when you think about who
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Elon Musk is and what he's done in his life,
I've never seen anything like it. This is a guy
who takes He didn't found Tesla, he discovered Tesla, and
then he had kind of a sharp elbows and he
pushed the guy out and he took that company. There
were lots of electric car companies in the making, in
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the offing that were further along than that, and he
took that technology in that brand and his love of
Nikolay Tesla and everything Tesla stood for, and he made
that company, and he made the electric car the EV industry,
and he made it to such an extent that our
big our manufacturers and a lot of others around the
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world bought the bull. They saw the upside. Tesla became.
The market cap of Tesla was greater than all the
other car companies combined. And they all said, we got
to get in the EV business. No, you don't, that's
not what you do. You're McDonald's b McDonald's. Don't try
to be Tavern on the green. That's not who you are.
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But they all did. By the way, now they're all
pulling back from it. They were behind the eight ball.
They were they were late to the game. And by
the time they just cleared my throat on the air
like like a heathen.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Sorry about that. I got into my story.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And and he made He ended up as a result,
having engaged in some kind of predatory pricing.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
He's got a lot of.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Vehicles sitting on the lot Now he's now got to
weight after he kind of eliminated everybody else, there's not
many left. Rivian wouldn't be in business if Amazon hadn't uh,
if Amazon hadn't a contract with him to build their
those cool Amazon delivery vans.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
That's what keeps him.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And by the way, Fix Auto Houston our new show sponsor.
You drive to Fix Auto Houston and the whole lot,
about half the vehicles there, there's probably one hundred Amazon
of those cool blue delivery vans. He has the exclusive
to maintain all that to repair. And there's lots of
collision repair on Amazon trucks because you know anyway, SpaceX
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the boring company and all that. But what I love
about him that we can all learn from, and Trump
has this too, for a man seventy eight years old,
is this sense of urgency, this sense that I may
be dead in a week.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I got to get it done. Now.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
He's a young man in a hurry. Used to hear,
you know, older folks refer to someone as a young
man in her I've always been told you have to
wait to do that. You have been doing this long enough.
What I love about Elon and I think he's given
the nation. A sense of urgency is get more done. Now,
do meaningful things. Accomplish things so
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That case I couldn't remember was called the O'Donnell Consent Decree,
and it was kind of one of those Rodney Ellis
had Lena had all go fronting the thing. But as
everything else with Harris County, Rodney Ellis runs it and
the county gets sued for holding criminals who committed crimes.
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And there is this idea of, well if a lot
of people arrested for committing murder or black and you
catch them and you hold them so they don't go
out and commit more murders. And they got a rap
sheet a mile long. So there these are rabid dogs
that are just murdering, maiming, stealing, carjacking, jugging, you name it,
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all day long. They need to be held. But if
they happen to be black, we didn't choose it right.
You find your you're defendant, as you see him, you
take your plane. If as you see him, well, it's
not anybody's fault that happened. That's that's cops are just
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arresting the guy who committed to murder. You tell me,
Pooky did it. That's Obama's term not mine. You tell me,
Pooky down the street did it, and you're black, and
the victim's black, and I'm an officer and I'm black,
and I arrest him and bring it down, and that
keeps happening. I don't know if that's systemic racism or
the criminal justice system at.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Work, or cultural problems or.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Fatherhood problems, or I don't know what it is, but
I know that the moment you allow somebody to commit
murder and get away with it, you will have more
murders and you're not safe. And that has a very
powerful effect on the mindset of people who know that
at any moment their life could be rubbed out and
it won't matter. Well that that affects you in ways.
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That affects your behaviors, your career choices. You don't invest
long term when you know that everybody on the block
has been murdered. You don't go to school or learn
a trade or build a business when your mindset is
I could be dead at any moment anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
These are the long.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Term effect effects that create a cultural morass, an awful
situation that's hard to fix, and you don't realize how
much of that is related to all of this. So
what the county did is there's a lawsuit and in
the case is the O'Donnell case, and it was a
don't throw me in the briar patch, brah rabbit story.
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The county agrees to this deal, and and there's a
picture of Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis and their hands
are up. They're celebrating like they just won the Super
Bowl because we've agreed to a consent to decree. The
consent decree is is a boon for murderers. I mean
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it's they won the lottery and we agreed to go. Oh,
we got to do that because you mean, we've got
our hand hands are tied over here. The hands of
the criminal justice system are handcuffed, but the people should
being handcuffs. You can go commit all the murders you want,
all the murders you want. So I got an email
from a fellow and I get this every day, and
this is so common. Name's Jason. The other story with
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the slimeball da I saw yesterday was where he was
fighting the icehold on the father of the little girl
who was murdered several years back. The father had been
arrested for DUI. The district attorney was take making an
active stance in fighting deportation of the same people they're
supposed to be prosecuting.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's infuriating.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
He also defended this man on the predicate that he
was going to take the case to trial, like he
didn't just dismiss multiple murder charges just last week. I
live in Brazoria County and work downtown, so I don't
get to vote on these scumbacks. But this place is
going downhill faster and faster every day. See this, this
is the problem. You got a lot of people who
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live in the Woodlands and work downtown or Greenway Plaza
or uptown or Galleria. You got a lot of people
that live in Crosby and come into the ship Channel.
You got a lot of people that live down in
Brazoria and work at the edge of downtown or midtown,
but get no vote. They're bringing a lot of money
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in they have to drive through it. So now they
need the Houston Police to be good. They need Houston
Fire to be good. They need the roads to make sense,
and they need a crime reduction. And they got good
district attorneys out where they are, and they got functioning.
That's why they live out there. That's why they don't
live in this craphole. So what it happens is they
come into the war zone so their families don't have
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to They send their kids to suburban schools so their
kids don't.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Have to go to HISD.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But the problem is, we got so many people that
are subjected to this crime, and that's why people care
about what's happening in Houston, because one way or another,
you end up at a Rockets game, you end up
at an Astros game, you end up at a Texans game,
you end up at the courthouse, you end up some
All the food reviewers live inside the loop, most of
them in Montrose or Upper Kirby, and the restaurants are
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all riding about. So nobody wants to eat at the
nice restaurant that came up in their neighborhood and they can't.
How come we can't get the restaurants out here because
you won't support them. Well, it ain't nothing good out here.
Well there was a really good restaurant. We don't have
anything high and we had classy out here. All we
got is franchises. All right, let's go through the last
five meals you've eaten in your neighborhood if you don't
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support Because what happens is Mama's gonna get dulled up
Friday night. And she goes online Houston Press or Houston Chronicle.
She Oh, the hottest new place is in the Heights.
And it's a Houston interpretation of an La concept, which
was an La interpretation of Thai food made by a
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guy from Burma who grew up in Uganda.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And so they get a new dress and they have
a date night, and they do the whole thing, and
they go in and for two of them, they spend
three hundred dollars and they talk about it for two
years because it was so much money, but they would
never spend that money in their community. So they go
over and eat at these restaurants in the Heights and
in Montrose, and then they go back and they told
all their girlfriends, Oh my god, we're going to try
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this new restaurant. I can't wait. Very la a chef,
you got a Michelin star. Oh my god, it's amazing.
And it's in the Height. Ah, that's a great That's
where all the good restaurants are. And they don't realize.
You know that you wanted the nice restaurant in your
neighborhood in Katie or in Memorial or wherever else clear late,
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and when it comes they won't eat there. They'll go
to the heights for Montrose and talk about there was
no parking. It was creaty. I don't know, it was crazy.
We couldn't park. It took us two years to get reservation.
They will jump through all the hoops, the stupid hoops
of no parking, get mugged on the way, four homeless
people pete on them.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
They took them forever to get reservations.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And one thing in the neighborhood restaurant, the bistro in
their neighborhood. One thing, and they're on the what's the
little neighborhood, the next door neighbor or whatever next door?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Thank you, they go on there. Oh, I'm not eating
there ever again. I'm not eating at the neighborhood beestraver again.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Because they brought out the check and the bill was
supposed to be twenty seven dollars and it was twenty
eight and they had to go check with the manager.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And that's just ridiculous. I'll never eat there.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Again, but they would never, ever dare criticize the restaurant
in the Heights because it's in the Heights and it
got nice reviews by whoever's at the Chronicle or Houston
Press now, so that makes it better than the ones
we have locally.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
People do that all day and they have no idea
the result of it. I'm not sure what you call
that segment, and I just need to get that off my.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Chess experience, the excitement of O Shan the Michael Berry Show,
Everything you need and most everything you want.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
President Trump has announced that today at his press conference
he will name names. It will not be an exhaustive list, Heck,
he's just three weeks in office, but it'll be enough
to wet your appetite.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
When you say wet your appetite, you got to put
that H in there because it's whgt. You didn't know that,
well you do, now, see That's what I'm here for.
Right after the W is wet. It's really wet. But
I like to put the H before the W. I
like to put the H before the W in a
lot of words like what did you say? Or I'm
gonna whip him? My mother would say that you're gonna
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get whipped. And I used to tell her late in
her life. Mom, do you realize how many times you
threaten to whip me? And you almost never did. Now
she pinched the back of your arm.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Woo man, I like to put that h before the
w ooh. Let me have some of that cool whip.
What'd you say?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You can have a pie without cool whip, cool whip,
cool whip. Yeah you mean cool whip. Yeah, coup whip,
cool whip, coup whip, cool whip, cool whip.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You're saying it weird.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Why are you putting so much emphasis on the he
let me talk about I'm just thinking it cool whip.
You put cool whip. I'm pie pie tastes better with
cool whip. Say whip whip. I'll say cool whip, cool whip,
cool whip, cool whip, cool whip, cool whip.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Were you a Family Guy watcher?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I wasn't, but Ted de Luca and Daryl Kunda loved
Family Guy and they would always on DeLuca Show. He
would always be talking about Family Guy and the giggity
giggity and all that sort of stuff. And so it's
just amazing to me how many listeners will send me
something that is a clip of family guy like you
(10:36):
just played.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's talking about what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And I think a good sitcom or a good show
Seinfeld has this picks up on things that are that
are commentary you will make years later and so oh
that they talked about that on Seinfeld and that is uh,
that is the mark of a good writer.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Because these are timeless concepts.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So the President announced that he will let this press
conference today, he will make a lot of revelations. And
I saw yesterday a list Tiffany Levitt is doing. Is
it No, it's Carolyn Levitt. She's doing a daily Maga
minute where she goes through the accomplishments of the day,
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and it's just staggering. One guy posted current scene at
the White House. This was late last night. No pride flags,
no topless transvestites, no tik talkers dressed in drag, no
twerking easter bunnies, no kids being sniffed, no cocaine scandals.
(11:46):
Thank you, America. I mean it's just perfect. I saw
a meme that said, the people who obsessed over seeing
Donald Trump's tax returns remember that the people who obsessed
overseeing Donald Trump's tax returns. Sure are against finding out
where their taxpayer money goes? Crazy? Humh, isn't that crazy?
(12:09):
It's interesting to me. It's very interesting to me. Wall
Street Journal said that Trump and Musk have achieved more
than three and a half weeks than Ronald Reagan did
in eight years when it comes to shrinking the government.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
They had a.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Peace titled Democrats ought to Love Doge and they said
Wall Street Journal said, Musk is accomplishing something nobody has
ever pulled off. Quote Elon Musk's glorious rampage through official
Washington is like something from a dream. Many conservatives and
some Republicans have fantasized for decades about laying off bureaucrats
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and shrinking the government. Nobody's ever pulled it off. Even
Ronald Reagan, the great apostle of smaller government, couldn't in
eight years what mister Musk has done in three weeks.
The billionaire businessman is less apostle than Avenging Angel. The
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Department of Government efficiency is the change we've been waiting for.
I was emailing back and forth with Eddie Martini, who
just a few months ago.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Was given a big promotion.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I wish he hadn't been because it affects my life negatively,
but he was made what's called a division president. And radio,
like every other heritage legacy industry in America, has been
in a constant state of consolidation for the last twenty years.
The entirety of my time in radio, radio has been
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in the process of contracting. And you might have noticed.
It's not the only one. Chevron right now is going
to lay off ten to twenty percent of their work
and that's scary for Houston because Chevron is headquartered in Houston,
and that's a big part of it. News flash this morning,
JP Morgan Chase, I can't remember what percentage of their workforce.
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JP Morgan Chase is going to have layoffs. I mean
the guys who've been fleecing you. I mean, when nobody
else makes money, the Goldman Sacks crowd makes money for
them to be laying off my goodness of Llile. It's
the nature of the beast, and it's scary and it's unpleasant.
I understand that I'm not here for it. I'm not
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the guy who's you know, don't fear the reaper. It's bad.
We saw it in manufacturing. We saw it for decades
in manufacturing, and some of it was political decisions, and frankly,
some of it is this is the way that business
is funded. Private equity doesn't come in and buy Joe
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Bob's plumbing company and add a lot of employees. Typically
they come in and go They look at where the
money is, is it the client list, is it a
good name that we can use, and then as a platform,
and we go out and buy all the other plumbing
companies that are called elite, exceptional, superior, wonderful, outstanding plumbing
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across the country and roll that up into Joe Bobs
because Joe Bobs does well, So we use that as
a platform, buy all those guys out. We come into
each company, we come in each city. We've got an
advertising overlay band. We drop that down, We cut all
the relatives of the owner, We get out of the
expensive or we sell off the properties that they owned
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that they didn't realize how much it was worth, and
we give them a couple million dollars so that he
can retire because he's getting old and there's no succession
plan because his.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Son's a loser.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And we pay him one hundred thousand dollars for five
years or whatever else. In addition to his money, we
get his client list and his name, and you know,
the trucks and things what they're worth.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And we've got a standing business.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And now all of a sudden, we got Joe Bobs
across the country and we turned this thing over, flipped
the deal in a couple of years and make a
pretty penny. That's what's happening. That's not illegal. It's the
nature of business. And tidal waves come and go. But
I say all that to say this. I can't remember
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why I say all that. Marmon, Oh, I'm talking about
Trump and everything he's getting done. And I was saying,
I haven't been inspired by a president since Reagan. Trump's
getting so much done. I feel like, man, I got
to get stuff done.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's like me too.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Meet the Michael Berry's.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Donald Trump was born June fourteenth, nineteen forty six. That
means it come June, which is right around the corner,
Tom flies. When you're having fun, I don't know about you, Ramon,
I'm having fun. I ain't tired of winning.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Trump's in the middle of a speech and you see
a pastor when they do this. I used to give
a lot of speeches. I don't give hardly any speeches
anymore because I don't like to be away from my family.
But there's a moment in a speech where you know
you've got the audience in the palm of your hand.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You'll see bands that'll do this, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
They'll do They'll drag, can't you see out for twenty minutes,
Partly because toy the guy who's saying it's been dead
for thirty years and and they don't have the same
vocalists who say it. Partly because the audience doesn't realize it.
RCC is happy and we're having fun, and stick with it.
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There's a moment where you feel you know it, you
feel it in your bones. It's exhilarating. It's a very
powerful drug of your own making. Endorphins are coursing through
and you know you've got your audience.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know you've got.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Them right where you want them, and you're enjoying that
moment too, and you don't want it to end. And
so you you you you you say something sort of silly,
and you say it because you're so far out on
the ledge.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You just you're punch drunk.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Stone cober Stone culsober, but you're punch drunk on this
connection you have with the audience, and you say things,
you say it and then you kind of realize that
I just say that and you own it. Yeah, going ahead,
And it's one of those moments. It's it's a glorious thing.
(18:41):
And I remember that Trump has a sense of humor
that people don't realize, and I think they're starting because
he does it deadpan.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He doesn't tell you, he doesn't laugh at his own joke.
He never laughs at his own joke.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And people think he's so serious and grim, and that's
part of the stern exterior that he presents, right, He's
he's always at the ready. And he said, we're gonna
win so much, you're gonna get tired of winning. And
the look on his face you could tell, I don't
know that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That he had expected to say that, but once he
said it, it kind of has.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Just the slightest hint of a smirk. He doesn't lose
his poker face. And I remember thinking at the time, Oh,
now come on, now, he's just having too much.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Now he's just getting ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You remember that to win with every single facet, we're
gonna win so much.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You may even.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Get tired of winning, and you'll say, please, please, it's
too much winning.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We can't take.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It anymore, mister president, it's too much, And I'll say, no,
it is it.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win more. We're gonna win so much.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
And.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We've that moment. I didn't think it was possible.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I was trying to find the list of things that
they did just yesterday. Oh, by the way, they managed
to get Tulsey Gabbard passed. Every Democrat plus Mitch McConnell
against her. I could spend five segments.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I could spend five segments telling you how hard it
is to get Republicans to vote for the nominee that
Trump put forward that ninety five percent of their voters,
for those Republics, ninety percent of their voters want TOOLSI Gabbard.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So it should be a layup right, Nope, m.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Not, because they're not going to vote for her. They're
going to, but their power is predicated upon the fear
that they won't. So they start letting things leak out.
They start having a particular staffer tell a staffer for
John Thune, the Senate majority leader. They start letting it
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leak here and there, and they let it get out
to Trump. So a calls placed to the Chief of Staff.
Chief Assass says, oh, I don't know who would have
said that. You know, must say, you know, Jonny Ernst
is on board.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well we're hearing. Well, I mean, look, we got some concerns.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
As you might imagine, this is all This is how
power is wielded in Washington, d c. If you are
a reliable vote for the president. Uh, you have to
be a reliable and influential vote that he needs and
respects to get what you want.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But if you play this thing just right.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And you're the fly in the ointment, they go, what
do you need to vote for her? Well, I got
this highway right through the middle of my state, and
I've committed that it's going to be widened, and it's
on a twelve year plan, and I got election.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I got election coming up. Done.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You can't imagine the stress that goes into just dealing
with the legislator. A legislator, unlike the executive branch, a
county commissioner has executive branch powers.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They vote in commissioner's court but if.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Tom Ramsey wants to build a park on the county property,
he could build a Michael Berry Park.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He did.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
He built a Cactus Jack Kegle Park or whatever it was.
They've got crews.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
They can dig ditches, they can dredge this, they can
build this, they can move that. They have an executive
authority within their precinct. Even though they're kind of legislators
on the Commissioner's Court. When they go to court they
cast their votes, you're dealing with one hundred egos, So
in this case, you're dealing with fifty three egos. Just
getting tools. He passed should have been yesterday. The whole thing,
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like the Kavanaugh hearings, where we're all glued to the TV,
because this is huge.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Director of National Intelligence is huge.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
You won't see as much of her as you will
some of the other folks. Marco's going to be in
the news every day, but what she's going to do
is going to be far more consequential behind the scenes,
and she's going to be able to root out the
cancers within that department, the moles, the spies, the liars,
the thieves, the knaves. Run You got any more words
(23:28):
to add to that. Okay, if you think up one,
go check your thesaurus. She's going to get them out
of there. These are the leakers.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
These are the.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Types of people like the guy at the FBI whose
name is about to be released, who was calling and
tipping off Trende Aragua that ice is coming. You've got
murderers on American soil here illegally committing awful murderers who
are now part of a terrorist organization, as it's been
designated by the President, who are in a conspiracy to
commit violent crimes daily. And you've got a member of
(24:00):
the FBI, that supposedly top law enforcement agency in the country,
and he's going, hey, guys, get out of there. They're
coming in three hours. Well they don't need thirty minutes.
They're out, grab their guns and move. They got a
safe house. From a safe house to a safe house.
You got guys like that in the FBI. You got
guys like that throughout the intelligence agencies. Just being able
to get them out, forget replacing them with good people,
(24:25):
just being able to get them out. And by the way,
there's a lot of good people out there, folks. Look
at what Donald Trump did. He brought these kids in
they're nineteen twenty years old. They're astrophysicist majors, their nerds,
their geeks. They're genius, they're brilliant, they're patriots.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
But I got to.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Think, well, I'll extenuate the matter the moment.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'll expand upon that in the next segment.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
How we should all take inspiration from what Donald Trump
is doing.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I'm serious.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
If you what's going on in my cousin Michael Verry show,
Damn country, I'll thought for this country, this is mine.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I was talking about the fact Russell Leborro uses a
phrase that we use in our house now because he
uses it so convincingly and he made it so much
a part of his mo It's called sense of urgency.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
When people ask me.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
If I can get Russell to support this or that,
I always say no because and the reason is because
Russell is never, one time in twenty years told me no.
And some people would view that as well, you got
to ask him for everything all the time. That's how
(25:51):
you get told no, because he's never told me no.
I realized that I have to be my own gatekeeper.
I have to resist the urge to ask him for
things because I know he'll say yes, and that means
that I should be more judicious about it. But when
we're doing something awesome for Saint Jude, which last year
(26:15):
was our last Saint Jude and we did an amazing
thing in ten years. We are going to do a
Michael Berry Show golf.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Tournament this year.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's going to be our show for the Michael Berry Foundation,
and to be honest, bonuses for our show team, who
I like to make sure compensated well. But camp Hope,
my goodness, what he's done for that place. It's why
I have the place's name for him, because he's donated
like crazy. It's him and Doug, it's Stacy Hunt the
(26:42):
guys that those guys have made that thing happen with
the help of a lot of you. But he's always
used the phrase sense of urgency. So if I say,
you know, it might not seem like it. But we
did the trip to mar A Lago several times and
it was expensive to go and I want and some
people to go on a trip like that that blow
their mind. I want to be the greatest trip they've
(27:03):
ever had in their life, and they couldn't afford it.
So I said, hey, would you be willing to do
a scholarship for these people, so I can pick some
veterans and firefighters and school teachers and different people. And
he did five of them, which I didn't expect. And
it's not only that, it's that if I ask him
(27:23):
at eleven oh three if he'll do it, then he
delivers the check at eleven thirty and he's thirty minutes
away and he still.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Had to print it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And that's and I'll say, Russo it wasn't a rush.
You didn't any sense of urgency. If something's worth doing
is worth doing right now, pretty powerful. And our kid,
we've all come we quote that in our house. Sense
of urgency. You know, if you ask somebody for a
charitable donation, you know you're raising money for the Little League,
(27:54):
and like yeah, they go, yeah, I give you two
hundred fifty dollars. Okay, I just just call me in then,
and they add a burden to the collection and then
they hope you'll forget. And then when you call them,
they're not there, and they didn't know how to say no,
so what they do is.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Drag it out. That's the opposite of sense of versus
the exact opposite. But I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
This is a journalist asking about what waste, fraud, and
abuse they've actually uncovered.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well, here it is.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Before it was Elon Musk making our government efficient and accountable,
it was some unnamed bureaucrat that none of you knew.
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He's
also now one of the most highly scrutinized men in
the world, alongside President Trump because of what he's doing
and the axis that he is allowing. So there's great transparency.
As for the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them,
(28:43):
and I actually brought some today because all of you
know I love to bring their receipts. We have contracts
upon contracts that we can send and provide this information
to you. Let me be very clear, we are not
trying to hide anything. We have been incredibly transparent and
we will continue to be. These are screens of contracts
that Douge found across our government. This is a DEI
(29:04):
contract thirty six thousand dollars for US citizenship and Immigration
services that is against the President's policies and his America
First agenda. This is a three point four million dollar contract,
a Council for Inclusive Innovation at the US Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of Co Commerce. Another DEI contract that
DOGE identified. I can continue to go through these. Oh,
(29:27):
I love this one. Fifty seven thousand bucks for climate
change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue
the interests of the American people?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
These are the line items across the federal government that
DOGE is identifying daily. They're moving very fast. There's a
lot of paper that we can show you, but we're
happy to do it. This administration has been more than
transparent and about what DOGE is doing. And here's one
of their tweets that they posted about the mine. I
believe this is in Pennsylvania, where the federal employee retirement
(29:58):
system is being pro Did anybody know this was even
happening in our country before Elon Musk talked about it
in the Oval Office yesterday? A lot of Americans didn't.
So we are providing transparency and accessibility on a daily
basis when it comes to DOGE, and I also have
a DOGE Daily Report if anybody would like it, on
all of the things that they are identifying and finding.
(30:19):
We're happy to provide this information too. We're talking about
it every single day.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
There is a sense of urgency that Elon Musk has.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And you know, the left keeps saying this billionaire, this billionaire,
that billionaires run the Democrat Party. Make no mistake, George
Soros is a billionaire. Doesn't bother them at all. More
billionaires are Democrats than Republicans because they're guilty. They feel
bad about their money. So what they're trying to do
is keep the teeming hordes away from their gates, from
(30:54):
them being on a stake. They're not going to have
a let the meat cake moment. They're trying to show
that they're the good guys. They're the good rich guys
that the revolution needs. That's what's happening. This is very
French Revolution seventeen eighty nine, and they saw what happened
with heads on pikes. But when you think about who
(31:17):
Elon Musk is and what he's done in his life,
I've never seen anything like it. This is a guy
who takes He didn't found Tesla, he discovered Tesla, and
then he had kind of a sharp elbows and he
pushed the guy out and he took that company. There
were lots of electric car companies in the making, in
(31:40):
the offing that were further along than that, and he
took that technology in that brand and his love of
Nikolay Tesla and everything Tesla stood for, and he made
that company, and he made the electric car the EV industry,
and he made it to such an extent that our
big our manufacturers and a lot of others around the
(32:01):
world bought the bull. They saw the upside. Tesla became.
The market cap of Tesla was greater than all the
other car companies combined. And they all said, we got
to get in the EV business. No, you don't, that's
not what you do. You're McDonald's b McDonald's. Don't try
to be Tavern on the green. That's not who you are.
(32:22):
But they all did. By the way, now they're all
pulling back from it. They were behind the eight ball.
They were they were late to the game. And by
the time they just cleared my throat on the air
like like a heathen.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Sorry about that. I got into my story.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And and he made He ended up as a result,
having engaged in some kind of predatory pricing.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
He's got a lot of.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Vehicles sitting on the lot Now he's now got to
weight after he kind of eliminated everybody else, there's not
many left. Rivian wouldn't be in business if Amazon hadn't uh,
if Amazon hadn't a contract with him to build their
those cool Amazon delivery vans.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
That's what keeps him.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And by the way, Fix Auto Houston our new show sponsor.
You drive to Fix Auto Houston and the whole lot,
about half the vehicles there, there's probably one hundred Amazon
of those cool blue delivery vans. He has the exclusive
to maintain all that to repair. And there's lots of
collision repair on Amazon trucks because you know anyway, SpaceX
(33:29):
the boring company and all that. But what I love
about him that we can all learn from, and Trump
has this too, for a man seventy eight years old,
is this sense of urgency, this sense that I may
be dead in a week.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I got to get it done. Now.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
He's a young man in a hurry. Used to hear,
you know, older folks refer to someone as a young
man in her I've always been told you have to
wait to do that. You have been doing this long enough.
What I love about Elon and I think he's given
the nation. A sense of urgency is get more done. Now,
do meaningful things. Accomplish things so
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