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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lucking load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh, he says it's a scratch on his finger, but
I notice he's calling on one of those miracle drugs
to heal a bounie dear.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I was right there when Andy came rushing in.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Barney got his hand caught in the.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Revolver and got hisself a serious infection.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I heard it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Barnie was cleaning his gun or something, and he ripped
his arm clear up to his shoulder.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
With terrible news.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Berney fire shot himself in the chest. I have read
both four reports of your regularly being drunk at work,
including by people who worked with your Fox News. Do
you know that being drunk at work is prohibited for
service members under the u CMJ.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Senator, those are multiple false, anonymous reports peddled by NBCD.
You know that directly job is to the dozens of
men and women.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Who I worry.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm not hearing that my question and said in your state, Minister,
except you commit to holding leaders accountable at all levels,
that includes you, sactor, you would be on the job
twenty four to seven. You recently promised some of my
Republican colleagues that you stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed. Correct, Absolutely,
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you don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Many of your work colleagues have said that you show
up for work under the influence of alcohol or drunk.
I know you've denied that, but you would agree with
me right that if that was the case, that would
be disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Senator, those are.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
All anonymous false claims.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Now, I know you denied these things, but it isn't
that the kind of behaveavior that, if true, would be
disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
This is the pattern, is that we have all these
anonymous complaints where people are saying things, they aren't giving
any specifics, they don't have any corroboration whatsoever. And yet
the people who were also there at the time are
willing to come on the record by name, on camera
and say this didn't happen. It's the same thing at CVA,
it's the same thing at FOX, it's the same thing
at the Veterans for Freedom, every single one of these.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's every way.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Then you may go the.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Senator, as I've acknowledged to everyone in this committee, not
a perfect person not claiming, but.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Now I just asked a simple question. You've taken an
oath like you would take an oath to be secretary
of Defense and all of your weddings to be faithful
to your wife.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully
I'm redeemed by my Lord and Savior.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Do you think you're being Kavanaugh right now?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I had a member not forty five minutes ago, look
me in the eye in private, just you and I,
and say, that's what they're trying to do to you.
That's what they're trying to.
Speaker 9 (03:21):
Do to you.
Speaker 8 (03:21):
That's their playbook. Get ready for more, and they're gonna
make it up just like they have so far, all anonymous,
all innuendo, all rumor, nothing sourced, no verification, and they're
just going to keep doing it because you're a threat
to them. You're a threat to their system. You're a
threat to all the things in Washington, d see the swamp,
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the things that people have rejected. You're a threat to that,
and so they're coming.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
After you busy like da phone.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Heg seths at Pete hegg sets hearing yes to be
Secretary of Defense. They asked him if he was sometimes drunk.
You do realize that in any given moment on the
floor of the Senate, a third of the members are drunk.
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They asked him about being unfaithful to his wife in
the past. You do realize that they probably rolled out
of bed, half of them from somebody other than their
spouse to come to that hearing. You're going to ask
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Pete Hegseth questions that Joe Biden couldn't understand what the
question is that Kamala Harris is guilty of all day
every day and go to a meeting with Bill Clinton
to talk strategy. I mean, it's really really rich, the
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hypocrisy these people have. Roman I cannot solely focus on
this speaker's race. I need a moment of relief. And
so this is your personal health moment. I received an
email from a friend of mine from high school yesterday.
We grew up in the church together. It's a dear,
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dear friend. He checks in on my father. He goes by,
he brings him lunch from Luigi's or Roberts. There's only
a couple restaurants in Orange. He brings him lunch, and
most importantly, he sits with him and then when he's done,
he'll give me a call and he'll tell me how
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dad's doing. And then I'll call Dad as if I
didn't know, Hey Dad, what's going on and check in
and he'll say, my friend's name was here today, and
I'll say, oh, what y'all eat? We'll go through the
whole story. And it's a sweet thing that he does.
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I've got a few friends who stopping on my parents
and were now my dad. Obviously my mom passed, but
on my dad, and I appreciate it. We always have
somebody with him because he has severe health issues, but
that's not the same. That's somebody there to make sure
that if his blood sugar drops, they can do something.
So yesterday I told you the story Ramon about my
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friend who I caught up with after several years and
he had a cyst on his back and his wife
told me that, hey, Michael, you know your friend. Her
husband is going in. He's got a big system in
his back. He's having it checked out.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He and I have a mutual friend who died at
forty three last week. So these things are kind of
top of mind, you know, our health and these shocking
things that can happen so quickly and all that. And
so last night I got an email from my buddy.
I was talking about early goes and sees my dad,
and he writes, I've been in Baptist Hospital since. Let
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me warn you right now, if you're bothered by references
to the male anatomy, just go ahead and take one
minute off and then you can come back, because there's
about to be some very clinical references to the male anatomy. Okay,
it's got to happen, all right, You've been warned. I've
been in Baptist Hospital in Beaumont since Christmas Eve. What
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brought me here is what I thought was a cyst
on my taint. I had been working every day for
a while. He works at a chemical plant. Due to
the season, and never mind, I told you he lives
in Orange. Everybody works at the chemical due to the
season and vacation coverage of shifts at the plant. I've
been working a lot. This little cyst grew and infection
moved up into my right testicle and scroted them that
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swole larger than a tennis ball, and walk on my
own due to the pain. Christmas morning, they took me
to surgery to stop the growth of the infection. I've
had eight surgery since Christmas Day and I'm now waiting
on a room in Houston to repair my scrotum which
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had to be entirely removed due to infection, all because
I thought it was just a cyst. Fella, get it
checked out. If anything's odds happening down there. Thee children
speak Chinese and Spanish.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And Michael shows.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Some of you will have gone to Lawyer's round Top
Cafe in obviously Roundtop on the square there. Now if
you go to Roundtop today, it's a whole different thing
than it used to be. We started going to Roundtop,
my wife and I in the late nineties. We drive
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up for the day, hour and a half there and
a half back and a fun little getaway and then
we'dn't have to pay for a place to stay. And
that drive back is kind of a bummer. But look,
we got listeners at drive hour and a half both
ways to work every day. Yes, just a fact. And
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the reason is they want to live in Shennandoor or
Willis or wherever else. They want to live in Huntsville
and their job is in town. But they don't want
to have to raise their kids like that. Many many, many,
many many families of our listeners. Daddy gets up in
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the morning two hours before anybody else he works with,
gets out the door, gets on the road, beats fights
that traffic the whole way into town, and then turns
around the evening and goes back, all so that his
wife and kids can have a not just a suburban
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but a rural upbringing or lifestyle, and a sense of
safety and security. A local school they can trust, or
their homeschooling, a grocery store where they don't feel like
they're going to get mugged, they don't have to deal
with traffic, so it's just a sacrifice he makes. So
we used to go to Royers around on Top Cafe
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and Bud made the best pies. Bud the pie Man,
he called himself. At one point Bud had a cookbook,
a cookbook on pies that they sold and did a
signing at Neiman Marcus. Bud was and has always been
the toast of the River Oaks Tanglewood, this crowd that
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loved to get out of town. That was their little
aspen close by. Well the last twenty five years, that
whole air he was ahead of the curve on Now
the last twenty five years there's an other restaurant now
that have popped up, and the housing values have gone
through the room. It's crazy what prices have done in
that area. The whole, the whole of Washington County and
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Fayette County have gone up, but that round Top area especially,
it is crazy anyway. So Bud has had a lot
of health problems and to get through it all he
will post kind of funny things, and so I saw
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this one ramon things you need to know if you
move to the South. Number one, apossum is a flat
animal that sleeps in the middle of the road. Number
two there are five thousand types of snakes and four
nine and ninety nine of them living in the South.
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Number three there are ten thousand types of spiders, all
ten thousand of them live in Texas, plus a couple
nobody's seen before. Number four. If it grows, it'll stick you.
If it crawls, it'll bite you. Number five once and
twice are words. Well, my mother would agree with that.
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Number six, It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
Number seven Ja l dash pe jaw p means did
you go to the restaurant number eight, people actually grow
eat and like, Okra, that's not actually true, that's true,
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and Lowi's in And I'll just tell you right now,
okri as we've pronounced it. Growing up is just like sushi.
People don't really like it. They eat it because you're
supposed to. Because that's part of I got news for you.
There's a lot of people going to NASCAR that don't
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actually like to watch Richard Pettig, Terry Labonnie. I know
you don't have to tell me, but my point is
that's who I grew up with that don't actually like it.
You think I'm wrong because you really like it. I'll
tell you something else. There's people going to NFL games
on Sunday that don't actually care for it. You want
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to know who they are? Women who the first time
the team that they got all their gear on, they've
spent all they they spent the whole week since they
found out their husband got tickets and they went and
bought glittery Texans is and they take a picture. We're
going a game. They've got their nails done, They've got
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the Texans on the nails. And they get there and
Nico Collins catches a pass on the first play for
twelve yards and they jump up.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
First down.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You go, hold on, tuts, this is it's gonna be
a it's gonna be a over three hours. You understand, right,
there's gonna be some first downs. Let's pace ourselves.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
By the second quarter, she's talking to the woman beside
her and they're talking about her friend. Couldn't believe she
got tickets. Hey, we're on the one yard line, fourth down.
This is the big play, and you're over there yammering.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So that's the same thing with sushi and Okrey. I
don't think people really like it. And if somebody has
to tell you, which they often will, if I say
Okrey's nasty, it's slimy and gross, I thought you's from
right on the Luisi in the water, I am. I am. Yes,
it's true. And I don't like it because I choose.
Not if I don't like something, I'm not gonna tell
you I do just because I'm supposed.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
To like it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You don't like it either, Well, I like it fried? Well,
what don't you like fried? Good grief?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Uh, fixing to is one word. It means I'm going
to do something. Number ten. There's no such thing as lunch.
There's only dinner and then there's supper. Well, that's my dad.
Number eleven. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and
you start drinking it when you're two. We do like
a little tea with our sugar. It's referred to as
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the wine of the South. Number twelve backwards and forwards
means I know everything about you. Number thirteen. The word
jeet j e e t is actually a question, meaning
did you eat? Number fourteen, We don't. You don't have
to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time
it is. You work until you're done or it's too
dark to see. Number fifteen. You don't push buttons, you
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mash them. Number sixteen, y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.
Number seventeen. All the festivals across the state are named
after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. That is true.
Number eighteen. You carry jumper cables in your car for
your own car. Nine You only owned five spices salt, pepper, occagun, seasoning, tabasco,
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and ketchup.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Wear That poor what Ditch and Michael Berry show the Evil.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Can Evil stunt cycle rum.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Ideal State Representative Steve Toath from north of Houston in
the Woodlands area will be our guest in just a
moment beforest State Representative Mitch Little, he's the warm up.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Aack what they do.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
I don't have my security, Mitch Little.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'm used to that.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're you're the worm doc, You're the opener for Steve Toath,
just to kind of get the crowd.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Fluffed that that seems appropriate.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Quite honestly, you were just worn in yesterday, so you
don't have sessions like Toath does and some of these
other guys that have been around for a while to
compare it to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But you did have.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
An idea of what was going to happen, and you
did fight hard, and you did work hard to keep
the impeachment that came through the House and then was
defeated in the Senate UH with to keep a guilty
verdict from happening. What did you walk away from yesterday?
What was different than what you expected?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know, it was this is all part of our plan.
Quite honestly, part of me was worried that David Cook
was going to win with all the Republicans and then
we wouldn't get an opportunity, opportunity to really reveal who
these people really are. And now it's laid bare for everyone.
Everyone in Texas can see who is siding with the
Democrats or control of the Texas House. The Texas House
is more under control of the Democrats than it has
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been since Joe Strauss was speaker, and Texans better buckle up.
You're getting ready for a wild ride.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Forty nine Democrats teamed with thirty six minority Republicans to
create a majority, and almost no Democrats voted for the
Republican choice, which was David Cook. So the Democrats are
in the majority of the group that elected Dustin Burroughs
the speaker. They have to be over the moon that
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they pull this off.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So I wish you could have been there on the
floor with me, Michael, to feel the vibration of applause
from the Democrats all around me when Dustin won. They
were fit to be tied. I mean there was raucous shouting, applause, cheers,
and I mean they were more excited than Republicans were, obviously.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Because the Republicans have to go back to their districts
and they saw what happened to Drunk Daid. They saw
what happened to Ernest Bells. They saw the Republicans who
went to Austin and forgot their base get defeated or
Drunk Daid was held out by a lot of money
and Democrats voting in the primary. The only way they
win now is either to go over and become a
Democrat or get Democrats to register and vote in their primary.
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And they know it. Whereas the Democrats get to go
home and say, hey, we're in the minority of the House,
but we managed to elect a speaker. That's a big
win for them.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Their goal is it's really twofold. They think they're going
to pass enough conservative bills to put on a mailer
one and two. They think that they're going to be
able to raise enough money to squelch out the grassroots
when they show up at the polls, when they show
up at their clubs, they think that the censure is
a paper tiger. They think that the party can't touch them. Well,
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there are a lot of people home now, Michael, playing
with their grandkids who thought the party couldn't touch them.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Well, said interesting that all but Jeff Berry from Paarland
all the other newbies who came there with an agenda
to give the House back to the people. All those
newbie Republicans voted for Cook and it was nothing but
the old grizzled guard, the Tom Cratix and the sellouts
that went with that, went with.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Burrows, did they though? I mean those guys, the freshmen
who voted with with Burrows have been with They've been
with the feeling regime from the beginning. They just kind
of sneaked in under the wire with the kind of
the red wave of grassroots energy that drove out a
lot of the incumbents. We've got to vet these candidates
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that are running for office. We've got to know that
we've got to understand and appreciate their conservative bona fides,
and the clubs have to really know who they are.
The local party's got to got to filter out the
people who are going to perpetuate this regime. Otherwise it's
going to be here for a very long time. But
we can wait. The people in Texas can wait as
long as it takes to ensure that the Republicans control
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the Texas House.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Have there been threats made that those of you who
weren't with Burrows would be punished, that they would be
hell to pay, that you'd be frozen out.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Against against the people who didn't vote with him yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, people like you.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Oh No, there's just this kind of subtle nose in
the air, attitude that they're in control. There's nothing you
can do about it. I think that's really what it is.
And you know, I think we're going to see a
bunch more like we did last session, a bunch more
accidental oopsies. Oopsy, we dropped all your election bills, Oopsy,
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we dropped the China land bill, We ran out of time,
et cetera, et cetera. There's nothing. There's nothing in the
Texas House that happens by accident, Michael. Everything is a
product of design, and now it will be the design
of a majority of Democrats controlling the House. And they
know that. That's why they were excited.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
State Representative Mitch Little is our guest. What happens today?
I know you have to be on the floor at
ten o'clock. What happens?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We got it. We're going to go over what the
housekeeping resolution is. Then we're going to meet as a
caucus to discuss that and the significance of it, and
I believe the rules will be discussed next week and
the fight begins.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You're going to meet as as well.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's hard to do, That's what we're hard to do.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You're going to meet as a Republican caucus and Dennis
Burrows will be there, presumably when he wasn't the choice
of the bosh.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, we don't know if he'll be there. In fact,
I think it'll be important for your listeners to know
who will be there in the caucus meeting and who won't.
So we'll be sure to make sure everybody's aware of that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Cecil Bell from Magnolia flipped at the last minute. Did
that surprise you not?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Based on his communication to our group, I think what.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Does he get out of that?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I guess we'll find out. And what I'm realizing today
is not everybody's built for this, Michael. And when you
show up at when you show up in the Texas House,
and he told voters you were going to fight for
them and fight for their values, it doesn't look like
what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Ron Wilson, a black state rep from Houston who had
friends who were rappers. He was a longtime lawyer ran
with kind of a rough crowd, but he's a fun
guy to hang out with, and he got to be
very good buddies with Rick Perry. He was a Democrat,
but he would support Perry's agenda and help him every
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way he possibly could. And as a result, he got
a prime parking spot even though he was in the
minority party where his orange Lamborghini would be sticking out
out in front of the State House. So maybe Cecil
Bell will get a Lamborghi and we'll get a not
a Lamborghini. Maybe he'll get a nice parking spot out
of the deal. How mean he's sold out? What about
Sam Harlest? Did he surprise you because he had committed
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to voting for Cook and not voting for and not
being a sellout, and then at the last minute he
did as well.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Talk is cheap. Talk is cheap. We now have a
very public visual record for everyone of how you voted
and what you said you were going to do versus
what you actually did. So at some point someone's going
to have to hold him accountable, whether it's their local party,
the voters, the donors, maybe all three, but it's it
has to start somewhere and it should start. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I've got thirty eight seconds for you, and then I'm
going to Steve Toath and I know you've got to
go anyway. What's the one bill that you had hoped
we'd get through but now we won't because the Democrats won.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, I think the third rail for the Democrats is
election reform. It's why you know, people complain last session
about some things that didn't get passed, but no election
reform bills got passed. That's the third rail. They'll talk
about abortion, they'll talk about school finance, but there is
a redline. Then it is election bills, and so any
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of those that you see die, you'll now know exactly
why and who's responsible for it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Michael, Well, the majority of the people who supported Dustin
Burroughs to ensure that he could be the Speaker were Democrats.
They're not about to allow an election reform bill that
would keep them from winning because they cheated at the polls.
State Representative Mitch little GOI make us proud, Yes, sir,
Steve Toath coming up, and Michael married you. State Representative
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Steve Toath from the Woodlands area has been a rock
solid conservative Tea Party style Republican since before. It was
cool and popular on every single issue, every single time
State Representative Steve Toast, Welcome to the program, sir. What
happened yesterday?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
It was a colossal blowout.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I did a tweet last night saying I was floored
by what happened, Michael, because i've you know, over the years.
I said this to Cecil Bella said, Cecil, you know
you and I came in as freshman together in twenty thirteen.
We disagreed often on policy, but I've never heard you
lie to me. You lied to me, You lied to
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everybody in the district.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Never saw it. Never have I ever seen you do
that before. I was floored, couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Why do you think he lied?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
He said, I'm a pragmatic Republican. I did what I
did so that I can pass legislation, and that you know,
I'm actually with Mitch right now.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Office the Sayhi Mitchy.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
So he said, I did what I did so I
could pass legislation. And there's an unstated threat. If you
do this, you will be backbenched. You will not pass
any legislation. Do you not pass go? Do not collect
two hundred dollars don't get any money. You won't get
any money from the lobby. And it's funny, Michael, because
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one of the things that they said, they kept saying
is they kept pointing to Dunn in Wilkes is these
conservative evangelical Christian oil men in West Texas, and I
think they maybe gave me twenty thousand dollars last session, right. Meanwhile,
meanwhile the lobby gave my opponent five hundred thousand dollars
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for some reason. Lobby money is wholly sanctified, sent from
heaven money. But if twenty grand comes from Tim Dunn
or Ferris Wilkes, it's evil, It's it's terroristic political terrorism.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You know what's interesting State Representative Steve Tolkys, our guest,
is what they've done. And this is what this is
what very smart operatives and consultants and lobbyists do. Is
they said, look, we're in the back pocket of the lobbyists.
So what we have to do is we have to
attack the Conservatives as being beholden to rich people. And
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so once they say you're beholden to a couple of
billionaires who want school choice and some of these issues
at the base wants, and then you're having to defend
going no, no, you are, and what they do is
muddy the waters. This is what the Democrats have done
for a long It's a brilliant tactic unless people figure.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It out.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Correct because you're taking you're taking the focus off the
policy and you're making it about Ferris Wilkes or Tim
Dunn or the lobby.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
It's ridiculous, cauld we lose them.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Sorry, no, no, What is the bill that doesn't get passed?
What is the issue that we really wanted to get
done that doesn't get passed now that we don't accomplish
because Democrats control the House with the Republican leader.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Mis said it earlier.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
It's it's liberal.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
It's absolutely legislation that deals with writing our elections and
making our elections more secure. They don't give a crap
if we pass pro life legislation. They don't give a
crap if we pass the bill to keep from from
cutting the testicles off of little boys or the breasts
off of little girls. They don't care about.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Because the long game is controlling how you elect people.
Because if you control how you elect people, eventually they'll
get their people in and they can do whatever they want.
That's the long game. You will not see any election
reform this session.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
What's frustrating about this is that people who may not
may not be grassroots voters, but there are people that
live in the state and have a sense of and
they may vote Republican in November when they find out
that we still have a lot of problems that look
more like California and New York than you would have
expected in Texas, and they go, how can this be
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in Texas? This can't happen in Texas. This is how
it happens. We may not be California or Democrat or
New York, but the Democrats use the same strategies. They
just have to work within our system to thwart what
we're doing. And they did it yesterday, Sure did, Yes,
they did.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
They did it with steely, steely resolved.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
They got it done.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
So Sam, anybody.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Was supposed to be voting with us, and then he
goes and sells out what happened there.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It's you know, I think many of these guys took
an attitude of, well, I'm just going to tell people
that I'm going to vote for Cook so that I
keep the heat off myself. And then at the last minute,
I'm going to switch over. I think that's what a
bunch of them did, and I think that's what Sequel did.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
As well well.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And then of course you what they're telling people is
I did what was best for my district. So you
voted for the guy that was gonna win, but you
helped him win so that he would win. That's how
that worked. You didn't work against him. What about Will
metcalf Well, that guy, that guy that the stuff he
sends out and the lies he tells, it's amazing to me.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
He sat with me, Michael a month ago at a
Starbucks on fourteen eighty eight and twenty nine seventy eight Magnolia,
and he said, Steve, don't you worry about me.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Don't you worry about me?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And I'm going to abide by the caucus rules.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
He lied to me.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
He also lied to Pat Tibbs. He also lied to
the leader of the Montgomery County Republican Party, and he said,
don't you worry about me.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
I'm going to vote.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I'm going to vote the caucus rules, and whoever.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Win's coming out of the caucus, that's who I'm going
to support.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He lied what did they say to you when they
lost the caucus, when the majority of Republicans went with
Cook and not Burroughs, What did they say, Because now
they have to pivot and go, well, we're going to
team up with the Democrats. You knew we would all along.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
They haven't.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And so you know, as an example, you asked Mitch
a little earlier how he was threatened. He and I
weren't threatened, And it's because we weren't considered low hanging fruit.
Theyknew they weren't going to pull us over, so they
they didn't waste their breath on us, and so instead
they went after younger people like Caroline Fairley and other
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ones that they knew that they could could get to
to switch.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Those are the ones that they threatened.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Those are the ones that they said, you better be
with us. And so now what they're going to try
and do is they're going to try and remake the
Republican Caucus, who they have a minority share in. They're
going to try and remake the Republican Caucus in their image.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, and we'll have some battles next election, which is
a year from now, because of course they're going to
try to get folks like you out and get more
of their voters in there so they don't have to
battle like this again. Because they took it on the
chin with drunk date. There's no doubt the drunk day
loss and figuring out who was going to replace him,
and that being his mini me, Dustin Burrows. They took
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it on the chin on this one.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Oh and Michael, I'm telling you this is going to
be ten times as bad as the impeachment thing was.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
I just know that.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I mean just seeing the traffic on social media and
the phone calls that our office is getting. That impeachment
vote costs fifteen moderate liberals Democrats their seats, and you're
going to see fifteen at least more.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And I look forward to that moment. I can wait.
Steve Toath go get them. Thank you, appreciate you, see you, buddy.
I have to be careful because in the process of
pointing out the cancers in our body politic, I forget
to point out the areas where we have volks who
are doing a great job. And it's always very Having
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been an elected official many years ago, I remember people
are very good at criticizing the other side. But we
have to remember to support and applaud the people who
who we didn't have to worry about. We didn't have
to worry at the last minute. We always knew Sam
Harless might sell out. We always knew that Cecil Bell
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might sell out. We never doubted the Steve Toats, and
and that bears noting, that bears a nice note. You know,
we're all happy to call Will Metcalf and tell him
he's the son of a bitch, but it might not
to take a moment to tell Toad, hey, great job,
thanks for doing what we do, because it's easy to
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forget to be
It's that time time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Lucking load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh, he says it's a scratch on his finger, but
I notice he's calling on one of those miracle drugs
to heal a bounie dear.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I was right there when Andy came rushing in.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Barney got his hand caught in the.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Revolver and got hisself a serious infection.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I heard it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Barnie was cleaning his gun or something, and he ripped
his arm clear up to his shoulder.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
With terrible news.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Berney fire shot himself in the chest. I have read
both four reports of your regularly being drunk at work,
including by people who worked with your Fox News. Do
you know that being drunk at work is prohibited for
service members under the u CMJ.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Senator, those are multiple false, anonymous reports peddled by NBCD.
You know that directly job is to the dozens of
men and women.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Who I worry.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm not hearing that my question and said in your state, Minister,
except you commit to holding leaders accountable at all levels,
that includes you, sactor, you would be on the job
twenty four to seven. You recently promised some of my
Republican colleagues that you stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed. Correct, Absolutely,
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you don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Many of your work colleagues have said that you show
up for work under the influence of alcohol or drunk.
I know you've denied that, but you would agree with
me right that if that was the case, that would
be disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Senator, those are.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
All anonymous false claims.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Now, I know you denied these things, but it isn't
that the kind of behaveavior that, if true, would be
disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
This is the pattern, is that we have all these
anonymous complaints where people are saying things, they aren't giving
any specifics, they don't have any corroboration whatsoever. And yet
the people who were also there at the time are
willing to come on the record by name, on camera
and say this didn't happen. It's the same thing at CVA,
it's the same thing at FOX, it's the same thing
at the Veterans for Freedom, every single one of these.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's every way.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Then you may go the.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Senator, as I've acknowledged to everyone in this committee, not
a perfect person not claiming, but.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Now I just asked a simple question. You've taken an
oath like you would take an oath to be secretary
of Defense and all of your weddings to be faithful
to your wife.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully
I'm redeemed by my Lord and Savior.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Do you think you're being Kavanaugh right now?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I had a member not forty five minutes ago, look
me in the eye in private, just you and I,
and say, that's what they're trying to do to you.
That's what they're trying to.
Speaker 9 (03:21):
Do to you.
Speaker 8 (03:21):
That's their playbook. Get ready for more, and they're gonna
make it up just like they have so far, all anonymous,
all innuendo, all rumor, nothing sourced, no verification, and they're
just going to keep doing it because you're a threat
to them. You're a threat to their system. You're a
threat to all the things in Washington, d see the swamp,
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the things that people have rejected. You're a threat to that,
and so they're coming.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
After you busy like da phone.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Heg seths at Pete hegg sets hearing yes to be
Secretary of Defense. They asked him if he was sometimes drunk.
You do realize that in any given moment on the
floor of the Senate, a third of the members are drunk.
(04:18):
They asked him about being unfaithful to his wife in
the past. You do realize that they probably rolled out
of bed, half of them from somebody other than their
spouse to come to that hearing. You're going to ask
(04:40):
Pete Hegseth questions that Joe Biden couldn't understand what the
question is that Kamala Harris is guilty of all day
every day and go to a meeting with Bill Clinton
to talk strategy. I mean, it's really really rich, the
(05:02):
hypocrisy these people have. Roman I cannot solely focus on
this speaker's race. I need a moment of relief. And
so this is your personal health moment. I received an
email from a friend of mine from high school yesterday.
We grew up in the church together. It's a dear,
(05:22):
dear friend. He checks in on my father. He goes by,
he brings him lunch from Luigi's or Roberts. There's only
a couple restaurants in Orange. He brings him lunch, and
most importantly, he sits with him and then when he's done,
he'll give me a call and he'll tell me how
(05:44):
dad's doing. And then I'll call Dad as if I
didn't know, Hey Dad, what's going on and check in
and he'll say, my friend's name was here today, and
I'll say, oh, what y'all eat? We'll go through the
whole story. And it's a sweet thing that he does.
(06:05):
I've got a few friends who stopping on my parents
and were now my dad. Obviously my mom passed, but
on my dad, and I appreciate it. We always have
somebody with him because he has severe health issues, but
that's not the same. That's somebody there to make sure
that if his blood sugar drops, they can do something.
So yesterday I told you the story Ramon about my
(06:30):
friend who I caught up with after several years and
he had a cyst on his back and his wife
told me that, hey, Michael, you know your friend. Her
husband is going in. He's got a big system in
his back. He's having it checked out.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He and I have a mutual friend who died at
forty three last week. So these things are kind of
top of mind, you know, our health and these shocking
things that can happen so quickly and all that. And
so last night I got an email from my buddy.
I was talking about early goes and sees my dad,
and he writes, I've been in Baptist Hospital since. Let
(07:12):
me warn you right now, if you're bothered by references
to the male anatomy, just go ahead and take one
minute off and then you can come back, because there's
about to be some very clinical references to the male anatomy. Okay,
it's got to happen, all right, You've been warned. I've
been in Baptist Hospital in Beaumont since Christmas Eve. What
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brought me here is what I thought was a cyst
on my taint. I had been working every day for
a while. He works at a chemical plant. Due to
the season, and never mind, I told you he lives
in Orange. Everybody works at the chemical due to the
season and vacation coverage of shifts at the plant. I've
been working a lot. This little cyst grew and infection
moved up into my right testicle and scroted them that
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swole larger than a tennis ball, and walk on my
own due to the pain. Christmas morning, they took me
to surgery to stop the growth of the infection. I've
had eight surgery since Christmas Day and I'm now waiting
on a room in Houston to repair my scrotum which
(08:17):
had to be entirely removed due to infection, all because
I thought it was just a cyst. Fella, get it
checked out. If anything's odds happening down there. Thee children
speak Chinese and Spanish.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And Michael shows.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Some of you will have gone to Lawyer's round Top
Cafe in obviously Roundtop on the square there. Now if
you go to Roundtop today, it's a whole different thing
than it used to be. We started going to Roundtop,
my wife and I in the late nineties. We drive
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up for the day, hour and a half there and
a half back and a fun little getaway and then
we'dn't have to pay for a place to stay. And
that drive back is kind of a bummer. But look,
we got listeners at drive hour and a half both
ways to work every day. Yes, just a fact. And
(09:16):
the reason is they want to live in Shennandoor or
Willis or wherever else. They want to live in Huntsville
and their job is in town. But they don't want
to have to raise their kids like that. Many many, many,
many many families of our listeners. Daddy gets up in
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the morning two hours before anybody else he works with,
gets out the door, gets on the road, beats fights
that traffic the whole way into town, and then turns
around the evening and goes back, all so that his
wife and kids can have a not just a suburban
(10:05):
but a rural upbringing or lifestyle, and a sense of
safety and security. A local school they can trust, or
their homeschooling, a grocery store where they don't feel like
they're going to get mugged, they don't have to deal
with traffic, so it's just a sacrifice he makes. So
we used to go to Royers around on Top Cafe
(10:26):
and Bud made the best pies. Bud the pie Man,
he called himself. At one point Bud had a cookbook,
a cookbook on pies that they sold and did a
signing at Neiman Marcus. Bud was and has always been
the toast of the River Oaks Tanglewood, this crowd that
(10:49):
loved to get out of town. That was their little
aspen close by. Well the last twenty five years, that
whole air he was ahead of the curve on Now
the last twenty five years there's an other restaurant now
that have popped up, and the housing values have gone
through the room. It's crazy what prices have done in
that area. The whole, the whole of Washington County and
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Fayette County have gone up, but that round Top area especially,
it is crazy anyway. So Bud has had a lot
of health problems and to get through it all he
will post kind of funny things, and so I saw
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this one ramon things you need to know if you
move to the South. Number one, apossum is a flat
animal that sleeps in the middle of the road. Number
two there are five thousand types of snakes and four
nine and ninety nine of them living in the South.
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Number three there are ten thousand types of spiders, all
ten thousand of them live in Texas, plus a couple
nobody's seen before. Number four. If it grows, it'll stick you.
If it crawls, it'll bite you. Number five once and
twice are words. Well, my mother would agree with that.
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Number six, It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
Number seven Ja l dash pe jaw p means did
you go to the restaurant number eight, people actually grow
eat and like, Okra, that's not actually true, that's true,
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and Lowi's in And I'll just tell you right now,
okri as we've pronounced it. Growing up is just like sushi.
People don't really like it. They eat it because you're
supposed to. Because that's part of I got news for you.
There's a lot of people going to NASCAR that don't
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actually like to watch Richard Pettig, Terry Labonnie. I know
you don't have to tell me, but my point is
that's who I grew up with that don't actually like it.
You think I'm wrong because you really like it. I'll
tell you something else. There's people going to NFL games
on Sunday that don't actually care for it. You want
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to know who they are? Women who the first time
the team that they got all their gear on, they've
spent all they they spent the whole week since they
found out their husband got tickets and they went and
bought glittery Texans is and they take a picture. We're
going a game. They've got their nails done, They've got
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the Texans on the nails. And they get there and
Nico Collins catches a pass on the first play for
twelve yards and they jump up.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
First down.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You go, hold on, tuts, this is it's gonna be
a it's gonna be a over three hours. You understand, right,
there's gonna be some first downs. Let's pace ourselves.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
By the second quarter, she's talking to the woman beside
her and they're talking about her friend. Couldn't believe she
got tickets. Hey, we're on the one yard line, fourth down.
This is the big play, and you're over there yammering.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So that's the same thing with sushi and Okrey. I
don't think people really like it. And if somebody has
to tell you, which they often will, if I say
Okrey's nasty, it's slimy and gross, I thought you's from
right on the Luisi in the water, I am. I am. Yes,
it's true. And I don't like it because I choose.
Not if I don't like something, I'm not gonna tell
you I do just because I'm supposed.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
To like it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You don't like it either, Well, I like it fried? Well,
what don't you like fried? Good grief?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Uh, fixing to is one word. It means I'm going
to do something. Number ten. There's no such thing as lunch.
There's only dinner and then there's supper. Well, that's my dad.
Number eleven. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and
you start drinking it when you're two. We do like
a little tea with our sugar. It's referred to as
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the wine of the South. Number twelve backwards and forwards
means I know everything about you. Number thirteen. The word
jeet j e e t is actually a question, meaning
did you eat? Number fourteen, We don't. You don't have
to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time
it is. You work until you're done or it's too
dark to see. Number fifteen. You don't push buttons, you
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mash them. Number sixteen, y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.
Number seventeen. All the festivals across the state are named
after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. That is true.
Number eighteen. You carry jumper cables in your car for
your own car. Nine You only owned five spices salt, pepper, occagun, seasoning, tabasco,
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and ketchup.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Wear That poor what Ditch and Michael Berry show the Evil.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Can Evil stunt cycle rum.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Ideal State Representative Steve Toath from north of Houston in
the Woodlands area will be our guest in just a
moment beforest State Representative Mitch Little, he's the warm up.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Aack what they do.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
I don't have my security, Mitch Little.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'm used to that.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're you're the worm doc, You're the opener for Steve Toath,
just to kind of get the crowd.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Fluffed that that seems appropriate.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Quite honestly, you were just worn in yesterday, so you
don't have sessions like Toath does and some of these
other guys that have been around for a while to
compare it to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But you did have.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
An idea of what was going to happen, and you
did fight hard, and you did work hard to keep
the impeachment that came through the House and then was
defeated in the Senate UH with to keep a guilty
verdict from happening. What did you walk away from yesterday?
What was different than what you expected?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You know, it was this is all part of our plan.
Quite honestly, part of me was worried that David Cook
was going to win with all the Republicans and then
we wouldn't get an opportunity, opportunity to really reveal who
these people really are. And now it's laid bare for everyone.
Everyone in Texas can see who is siding with the
Democrats or control of the Texas House. The Texas House
is more under control of the Democrats than it has
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been since Joe Strauss was speaker, and Texans better buckle up.
You're getting ready for a wild ride.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Forty nine Democrats teamed with thirty six minority Republicans to
create a majority, and almost no Democrats voted for the
Republican choice, which was David Cook. So the Democrats are
in the majority of the group that elected Dustin Burroughs
the speaker. They have to be over the moon that
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they pull this off.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So I wish you could have been there on the
floor with me, Michael, to feel the vibration of applause
from the Democrats all around me when Dustin won. They
were fit to be tied. I mean there was raucous shouting, applause, cheers,
and I mean they were more excited than Republicans were, obviously.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Because the Republicans have to go back to their districts
and they saw what happened to Drunk Daid. They saw
what happened to Ernest Bells. They saw the Republicans who
went to Austin and forgot their base get defeated or
Drunk Daid was held out by a lot of money
and Democrats voting in the primary. The only way they
win now is either to go over and become a
Democrat or get Democrats to register and vote in their primary.
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And they know it. Whereas the Democrats get to go
home and say, hey, we're in the minority of the House,
but we managed to elect a speaker. That's a big
win for them.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Their goal is it's really twofold. They think they're going
to pass enough conservative bills to put on a mailer
one and two. They think that they're going to be
able to raise enough money to squelch out the grassroots
when they show up at the polls, when they show
up at their clubs, they think that the censure is
a paper tiger. They think that the party can't touch them. Well,
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there are a lot of people home now, Michael, playing
with their grandkids who thought the party couldn't touch them.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Well, said interesting that all but Jeff Berry from Paarland
all the other newbies who came there with an agenda
to give the House back to the people. All those
newbie Republicans voted for Cook and it was nothing but
the old grizzled guard, the Tom Cratix and the sellouts
that went with that, went with.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Burrows, did they though? I mean those guys, the freshmen
who voted with with Burrows have been with They've been
with the feeling regime from the beginning. They just kind
of sneaked in under the wire with the kind of
the red wave of grassroots energy that drove out a
lot of the incumbents. We've got to vet these candidates
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that are running for office. We've got to know that
we've got to understand and appreciate their conservative bona fides,
and the clubs have to really know who they are.
The local party's got to got to filter out the
people who are going to perpetuate this regime. Otherwise it's
going to be here for a very long time. But
we can wait. The people in Texas can wait as
long as it takes to ensure that the Republicans control
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the Texas House.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Have there been threats made that those of you who
weren't with Burrows would be punished, that they would be
hell to pay, that you'd be frozen out.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Against against the people who didn't vote with him yesterday.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, people like you.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Oh No, there's just this kind of subtle nose in
the air, attitude that they're in control. There's nothing you
can do about it. I think that's really what it is.
And you know, I think we're going to see a
bunch more like we did last session, a bunch more
accidental oopsies. Oopsy, we dropped all your election bills, Oopsy,
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we dropped the China land bill, We ran out of time,
et cetera, et cetera. There's nothing. There's nothing in the
Texas House that happens by accident, Michael. Everything is a
product of design, and now it will be the design
of a majority of Democrats controlling the House. And they
know that. That's why they were excited.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
State Representative Mitch Little is our guest. What happens today?
I know you have to be on the floor at
ten o'clock. What happens?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We got it. We're going to go over what the
housekeeping resolution is. Then we're going to meet as a
caucus to discuss that and the significance of it, and
I believe the rules will be discussed next week and
the fight begins.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You're going to meet as as well.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's hard to do, That's what we're hard to do.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You're going to meet as a Republican caucus and Dennis
Burrows will be there, presumably when he wasn't the choice
of the bosh.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh, we don't know if he'll be there. In fact,
I think it'll be important for your listeners to know
who will be there in the caucus meeting and who won't.
So we'll be sure to make sure everybody's aware of that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Cecil Bell from Magnolia flipped at the last minute. Did
that surprise you not?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Based on his communication to our group, I think what.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Does he get out of that?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I guess we'll find out. And what I'm realizing today
is not everybody's built for this, Michael. And when you
show up at when you show up in the Texas House,
and he told voters you were going to fight for
them and fight for their values, it doesn't look like
what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Ron Wilson, a black state rep from Houston who had
friends who were rappers. He was a longtime lawyer ran
with kind of a rough crowd, but he's a fun
guy to hang out with, and he got to be
very good buddies with Rick Perry. He was a Democrat,
but he would support Perry's agenda and help him every
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way he possibly could. And as a result, he got
a prime parking spot even though he was in the
minority party where his orange Lamborghini would be sticking out
out in front of the State House. So maybe Cecil
Bell will get a Lamborghi and we'll get a not
a Lamborghini. Maybe he'll get a nice parking spot out
of the deal. How mean he's sold out? What about
Sam Harlest? Did he surprise you because he had committed
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to voting for Cook and not voting for and not
being a sellout, and then at the last minute he
did as well.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Talk is cheap. Talk is cheap. We now have a
very public visual record for everyone of how you voted
and what you said you were going to do versus
what you actually did. So at some point someone's going
to have to hold him accountable, whether it's their local party,
the voters, the donors, maybe all three, but it's it
has to start somewhere and it should start. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I've got thirty eight seconds for you, and then I'm
going to Steve Toath and I know you've got to
go anyway. What's the one bill that you had hoped
we'd get through but now we won't because the Democrats won.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, I think the third rail for the Democrats is
election reform. It's why you know, people complain last session
about some things that didn't get passed, but no election
reform bills got passed. That's the third rail. They'll talk
about abortion, they'll talk about school finance, but there is
a redline. Then it is election bills, and so any
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of those that you see die, you'll now know exactly
why and who's responsible for it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Michael, Well, the majority of the people who supported Dustin
Burroughs to ensure that he could be the Speaker were Democrats.
They're not about to allow an election reform bill that
would keep them from winning because they cheated at the polls.
State Representative Mitch little GOI make us proud, Yes, sir,
Steve Toath coming up, and Michael married you. State Representative
(24:57):
Steve Toath from the Woodlands area has been a rock
solid conservative Tea Party style Republican since before. It was
cool and popular on every single issue, every single time
State Representative Steve Toast, Welcome to the program, sir. What
happened yesterday?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
It was a colossal blowout.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I did a tweet last night saying I was floored
by what happened, Michael, because i've you know, over the years.
I said this to Cecil Bella said, Cecil, you know
you and I came in as freshman together in twenty thirteen.
We disagreed often on policy, but I've never heard you
lie to me. You lied to me, You lied to
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everybody in the district.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Never saw it. Never have I ever seen you do
that before. I was floored, couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Why do you think he lied?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
He said, I'm a pragmatic Republican. I did what I
did so that I can pass legislation, and that you know,
I'm actually with Mitch right now.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Office the Sayhi Mitchy.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
So he said, I did what I did so I
could pass legislation. And there's an unstated threat. If you
do this, you will be backbenched. You will not pass
any legislation. Do you not pass go? Do not collect
two hundred dollars don't get any money. You won't get
any money from the lobby. And it's funny, Michael, because
(26:26):
one of the things that they said, they kept saying
is they kept pointing to Dunn in Wilkes is these
conservative evangelical Christian oil men in West Texas, and I
think they maybe gave me twenty thousand dollars last session, right. Meanwhile,
meanwhile the lobby gave my opponent five hundred thousand dollars
(26:48):
for some reason. Lobby money is wholly sanctified, sent from
heaven money. But if twenty grand comes from Tim Dunn
or Ferris Wilkes, it's evil, It's it's terroristic political terrorism.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You know what's interesting State Representative Steve Tolkys, our guest,
is what they've done. And this is what this is
what very smart operatives and consultants and lobbyists do. Is
they said, look, we're in the back pocket of the lobbyists.
So what we have to do is we have to
attack the Conservatives as being beholden to rich people. And
(27:28):
so once they say you're beholden to a couple of
billionaires who want school choice and some of these issues
at the base wants, and then you're having to defend
going no, no, you are, and what they do is
muddy the waters. This is what the Democrats have done
for a long It's a brilliant tactic unless people figure.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It out.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Correct because you're taking you're taking the focus off the
policy and you're making it about Ferris Wilkes or Tim
Dunn or the lobby.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
It's ridiculous, cauld we lose them.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Sorry, no, no, What is the bill that doesn't get passed?
What is the issue that we really wanted to get
done that doesn't get passed now that we don't accomplish
because Democrats control the House with the Republican leader.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Mis said it earlier.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
It's it's liberal.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
It's absolutely legislation that deals with writing our elections and
making our elections more secure. They don't give a crap
if we pass pro life legislation. They don't give a
crap if we pass the bill to keep from from
cutting the testicles off of little boys or the breasts
off of little girls. They don't care about.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Because the long game is controlling how you elect people.
Because if you control how you elect people, eventually they'll
get their people in and they can do whatever they want.
That's the long game. You will not see any election
reform this session.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
What's frustrating about this is that people who may not
may not be grassroots voters, but there are people that
live in the state and have a sense of and
they may vote Republican in November when they find out
that we still have a lot of problems that look
more like California and New York than you would have
expected in Texas, and they go, how can this be
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in Texas? This can't happen in Texas. This is how
it happens. We may not be California or Democrat or
New York, but the Democrats use the same strategies. They
just have to work within our system to thwart what
we're doing. And they did it yesterday, Sure did, Yes,
they did.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
They did it with steely, steely resolved.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
They got it done.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
So Sam, anybody.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Was supposed to be voting with us, and then he
goes and sells out what happened there.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
It's you know, I think many of these guys took
an attitude of, well, I'm just going to tell people
that I'm going to vote for Cook so that I
keep the heat off myself. And then at the last minute,
I'm going to switch over. I think that's what a
bunch of them did, and I think that's what Sequel did.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
As well well.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And then of course you what they're telling people is
I did what was best for my district. So you
voted for the guy that was gonna win, but you
helped him win so that he would win. That's how
that worked. You didn't work against him. What about Will
metcalf Well, that guy, that guy that the stuff he
sends out and the lies he tells, it's amazing to me.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
He sat with me, Michael a month ago at a
Starbucks on fourteen eighty eight and twenty nine seventy eight Magnolia,
and he said, Steve, don't you worry about me.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Don't you worry about me?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And I'm going to abide by the caucus rules.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
He lied to me.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
He also lied to Pat Tibbs. He also lied to
the leader of the Montgomery County Republican Party, and he said,
don't you worry about me.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
I'm going to vote.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I'm going to vote the caucus rules, and whoever.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Win's coming out of the caucus, that's who I'm going
to support.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He lied what did they say to you when they
lost the caucus, when the majority of Republicans went with
Cook and not Burroughs, What did they say, Because now
they have to pivot and go, well, we're going to
team up with the Democrats. You knew we would all along.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
They haven't.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And so you know, as an example, you asked Mitch
a little earlier how he was threatened. He and I
weren't threatened, And it's because we weren't considered low hanging fruit.
Theyknew they weren't going to pull us over, so they
they didn't waste their breath on us, and so instead
they went after younger people like Caroline Fairley and other
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ones that they knew that they could could get to
to switch.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Those are the ones that they threatened.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Those are the ones that they said, you better be
with us. And so now what they're going to try
and do is they're going to try and remake the
Republican Caucus, who they have a minority share in. They're
going to try and remake the Republican Caucus in their image.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, and we'll have some battles next election, which is
a year from now, because of course they're going to
try to get folks like you out and get more
of their voters in there so they don't have to
battle like this again. Because they took it on the
chin with drunk date. There's no doubt the drunk day
loss and figuring out who was going to replace him,
and that being his mini me, Dustin Burrows. They took
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it on the chin on this one.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Oh and Michael, I'm telling you this is going to
be ten times as bad as the impeachment thing was.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
I just know that.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I mean just seeing the traffic on social media and
the phone calls that our office is getting. That impeachment
vote costs fifteen moderate liberals Democrats their seats, and you're
going to see fifteen at least more.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
And I look forward to that moment. I can wait.
Steve Toath go get them. Thank you, appreciate you, see you, buddy.
I have to be careful because in the process of
pointing out the cancers in our body politic, I forget
to point out the areas where we have volks who
are doing a great job. And it's always very Having
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been an elected official many years ago, I remember people
are very good at criticizing the other side. But we
have to remember to support and applaud the people who
who we didn't have to worry about. We didn't have
to worry at the last minute. We always knew Sam
Harless might sell out. We always knew that Cecil Bell
(33:23):
might sell out. We never doubted the Steve Toats, and
and that bears noting, that bears a nice note. You know,
we're all happy to call Will Metcalf and tell him
he's the son of a bitch, but it might not
to take a moment to tell Toad, hey, great job,
thanks for doing what we do, because it's easy to
(33:44):
forget to be
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