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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
So it's to be clear that conversation about menopause and
women's hormonal issues as they age will air next Friday.
Sometimes visits with doctors I will pre record in case
there is a medical emergency so we don't miss the
conversation that I've slotted for that time, especially if I've
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promoted it and I know people are going to be
tuning in to listen to that. So that will be
next Friday morning, and next Friday it'll probably be an
hour all in. We will record that middle of next week.
So I would suggest, if you have a question you
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would like ask of her a menopause expert women's hormone expert,
that you email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com.
Don't worry, I will not say this is Ruth Silver's question.
I understand some of these things can be embarrassing. I
also believe that a lot of people don't have the
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easy access by phone or text that I do to
top medical professionals, and to visit a doctor means driving, well,
setting it up, driving, waiting and then limited amount of time.
So we've got a platform. I choose how to use it,
and one of the things I choose to do is
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to share what I consider to be public information about
very personal issues. I understand that makes some people feel
very uncomfortable. It's often because they have discomfort with their
own body or discussing adult topics. But that's on you,
so feel free to tune out. That will be next
Friday morning, and any questions that you submit, I would
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do my best to ask of doctor Andrew Davis. So
it has come to my attention, Well, let me start
with this. Ramon was on a roll this weekend. I
mean he was teaching a master class on libertarian values
and it was all couched in terms of when he
could order a drink. And I guess he was at
the Great Wolf Lodge or Disney World or wherever he goes,
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and he couldn't order a drink till ten o'clock. And
by god, Davy Crockett didn't die for him to have
to wait till ten o'clock. And it was nine to
twenty at the time. So you get to a lot
of ladies going well, if you if you're mad, you
can't get a drink till ten, and that's on you.
And he's going, lady, this is about Jim Bowie and
Alamo and the whole you know, the whole thing. So
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somebody made the mistake of saying, well, I guess you
took seventh grade history, and that's about where you tapped out.
Whereupon Ramone's deep pride in the great state of Texas
was inflamed. Musket shots were.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Fired, lines were drawn.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
William Barrett Travis a commentary was invoked. It turned into
a moment. It has come to our attention. You know
when in seventh grade when you had Texas history for
many Texans, most Texans, that's the most Texas they'll ever know.
And then at forty they go to the Alamo and.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
They're like, okay, now, let's see Booye had to big knife, right,
David Crockett had to coonskin cap, and fest Parker sang
his song, and then let's see it was Sam Houston
here and no, no, no, he was, and then what happened
at Goliad and then what happened over here.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That is an important part teaching your history. Great cultures
teach their history to perpetuate them. It's very important you
do that it increases state pride. There's no greater state
pride than this state, Texas pride. It has come to
my attention that the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Teks,
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the state standards that spell out what every student has
to learn in every subject, that all of that is up.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We're on a.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Timeline for that to be reviewed. So oddly enough, when
you wake up and go, hey, my kid came home
in seventh grade and they're not teaching history, or the
history they're teaching is that Texas was stolen from the Mexicans,
or the history we're teaching is that Texas is an
awful place. How did this happen? It happened because of
a lot of boring meetings that you didn't want to
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go to. It happened because a lot of people were
willing to sit on weekends at conferences, give speeches, do this,
serve on committees and do this, and it's a lot
of work. And then we wake up and there's a
real problem. So I reached out to a friend of
mine named Judge Knwise, who, in addition to being a
great golfer like he played professionally a great If you
(05:01):
need a ringer to bring to Houston Gun Club for
your competition, and a world class billiard pool player. In
addition to those three things, happens to have a sideline
as a judge. And he is a Texas history nut.
So I said, look, I know you probably don't want
to do this because of your judicial role, but could
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you put me in touch with the right person. He say,
I'm going to give you somebody better than me. His
name is Don Fraser. He's a PhD and something bad
assery apparently. He's the chairman of the Texas eighteen thirty
six Project Advisory Committee. Again, another one of those seemingly
boring things that are very important. And he's the director
of the Texas Center at Shriner University in Kerrville. And
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I looked him up and said, doctor Fraser leads initiatives
focused on Texas history, culture and community outreach. He's an
award winning author and historian with extensive experience in the field.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It is our honor.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'm going to have some nice music. Oh we didn't
have music ready to hold on. It is our honor
to welcome for the first but not last time, the
You just are a chairman of the Texas eighteen thirty
six Project Advisory Committee and the director of the Texas
Center at Shriner University, the honorable doctor Don Fraser.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That's quite the build up.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, don't disappoint.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh he he did the You're a dawn as in
you're a dome, you know, Marlon Brando.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Mario Poots, you got Yeah, that's touch Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So let's set the stage. We're talking in an environment
where our discussions are what Trump is doing, what Biden did,
RFK Junior Toolsey Gabbard Congress coming back from But things
like this matter, and they matter for the short term
and the long term, and they're generally conducted under cover
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of darkness. And thank goodness, we have someone who cares
deeply and passionately about Texas history the way all of
us do, but is willing to put in the time
and effort to make sure our kids' course books curriculum
are doing what they should do. So I got about
a minute in this segment, and then we'll dive deep
into this. Let's start with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
(07:25):
Can you explain what that is in about a minute?
You bet so.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I'd say that most of this debate's not handled in
under cover of darkness, but under the cover of apathy.
The TEKS is essentially the guidebook for what we want
our kids to know across Texas schools, all two hundred
and fifty four counties, public schools, public charters. I mean,
there's it's got an incredible reach.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So how does it come about? How is it developed?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
The State Board of Education is elected by the voters.
They come up with a framework, and they come up
with a policy. This is kind of the you know
what we think people ought to know. Then it's tossed
over to Tha Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I've got my clock wrong. Hold on, doctor Don Fraser.
More coming up the.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Champion Marbel shooting, the fastest runner big league ballplayers. There, tuckist,
the Michael Berry American is level winner.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Doctor Don Fraser.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
He's the chairman of the Texas eighteen thirty six Project
Advisory Committee and the Texas Center Director of the Texas
Center at Shriner University. So one of the things I
read was that Texas is one of the largest textbook
markets in the country. So whatever is approved here influences
textbooks and classrooms across the country because as the materials
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are printed, you want to print something that's compliant with
the Texas standards because otherwise, you know, one of your
biggest markets is lost out on. Can you explain how
this whole process works for how kids? I don't know,
you know, my kids don't need to buy nearly as
many books, or the university at ut where my son
is a sophomore, now they buy almost no books. Everything's online.
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And my son's a senior in high school and he
has a third the number of books you used to
because everything's online. But I'm sure the curriculum is still similar.
How does that come to be?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
So let's start at the whalehead and go downstring. So
State Board of Education comes up with policy, and then
the Texas Education Agency implements that policy. That implementation is
where we get the Texas of Central Knowledge and Skills
from and then that go downstream to you know, school boards,
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superintendents into the classroom. So that's kind of the flow,
and the TA is tasked with coming up with appropriate
educational material to support the policy that has been adopted
by the State Board of Education and agreed upon by
the legislature of the State of Texas. So it's about
halfway down the processes where we get the educational material. Now,
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one of the things that big publishers go ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
No, no, I'm sorry, you go ahead.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Well, So one of the things that big publishers like
to do is they like to have one size fits
all curriculum. So you can get a ghost writer out
of a junior college in Connecticut to write your US
History survey book, and it'll sell in Idaho, it will
sell in Iowa. But when it comes to Texas, Texas
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has always been kind of a one off. So any
way that you can chant that curriculum to where Texas
is treated as a one off and your focus just
on that you know, broad American story, how it is told,
is a lot more efficient for the big educational publishers.
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So what we've got now, I mean, if you went
to took a look at textbooks, now you've got a
lot of Texas sidebars, and then you have a seventh
grade Texas history textbook. What's happened, though, in reality, is
that as Texas is treated as one off, that particular
piece of intellectual geography in the classroom, those hours that
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you're spending teaching Texas end up being cannibalized because people
see it as not particularly important. It's not you know,
it's not the big American story. It's some sort of
you know, strange curiosity that if you need to teach
your kids something about keyboarding, well you can do keyboarding
and computer skills.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's the second semester of Texas history and nobody will notice.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
So we've had a real decline in the actual amount
of instruction over the Texas story in the last decade
decade and a half.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So I'm thinking of, you know, the teaching of youth
is very important, and it strikes me that while Texans
are more proud of our history than any state in
the Union, there are still a lot of people who've
been cussed into or cowed into this posture of being ashamed.
You know, we've watched our monuments be toppled and our
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heroes be leveled and spoken ill of. But I think
of subjects that you have to teach slavery, civil rights, immigration, religion,
political movements, US Mexico relations, migration of people from Mexico
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into Texas, and the cultures and the Tejano and all
of these things that developed and how that is taught.
You know, AI can't replace that. It will in a
negative way. But I think that those are very nuanced
conversations that need to be considered carefully so that you
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don't get some I'll say this so you don't have
to some crazy liberal woman coming in with a bone
through her nose and purple hair declaring that Texas should
apologize for existing on indigenous lands.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I guess that was a question I ferunctuated.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yeah, it's kind of a question in there somewhere. And
really the root of all of this goes back to
our institution to higher learning, because that's where teachers are made,
and so school of education, some of our flagship institutions.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
If that's the message that.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
They're pumping into their education classrooms, then those teachers then
export that into their.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Public school classrooms. And uh So.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
It's a it's an interesting intellectual genealogy, but it all
starts and higher ed in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, so, is there an opportunity not to put you
on the spot it may already be. Is there an
opportunity for somebody out there says I'd like to get
involved in this process?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And if so, what what would what is that?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Corium?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Well, I mean you can talk to your elected officials, uh,
state Board of Education is probably not on your speed,
doll uh, but it might need to be. What's coming
up next week is they're thinking about revising the t
k s in what that's called is the framework. You
know what framework are we going to use that? We
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will then decide what fits into that framework in terms
of the Texas Essential Knowledge and.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Skills and so uh.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That has next week and you probably ought to send
an email or make a phone call to your SBOE representative.
I know in Houston that's Will Hickman. There's Julie Pickering's
over in Perland, I think, so that's kind of within
the greater Houston area.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But that's step one.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Step two. There's going to be working groups that are
formed after the framework is adopted, and those working groups
are composed of volunteers, and you can lobby to be
part of the working group and actually review the various
tks are being proposed by content experts. Now content experts,
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That's what I did back in twenty twenty two. I
was a content expert, and what we do is advise
on here's what we think the s ought to look like.
Then it goes to the working groups, and the working
groups come up with the burbs and specifics. So, uh,
that's the process and you can jump in at anytime.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Doctor Don Fraser whole with me if you can for
one more segment.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
And right there.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I sport flop Michael Berry Shower.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Don Frasier.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Doctor Don Fraser serves as the chairman of the Texas
eighteen thirty six Project Advisory Committee. He's also the director
of the Texas Center at Shriner University. So I have
a friend named Larry Bogus. His son Noah, went to Shriner.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He's a filmmaker and he made a film for the
one hundred or one hundred and fifty, I guess be
the one hundredth anniversary of Shriner and asked me to
be a part of it, using the radio show and
a radio piece, and it was funn He's a great kid,
and I love to see young people pursuing things like that.
And then I have a friend named Robert Reese who's
a superstar. The term is seller, but he's a relationship
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manager for our show.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I never knew.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Anybody who went to Shriner except for a fellow named
Rick Bays who was my wife's law partner. And I
used to play tennis with years ago, minsh of a man,
super great guy. He was the only person I ever
knew who went to Shriner, and now I probably know
ten people who've been there in the last few years.
Is Shriner on the rise or am I just moving
in different circles?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Now we're moving We're moving up. We had a long
history of punching above our weight, and now we're actually
reaching out to statewide audience, especially through outreach programs like
the Texas Center. I mean, we're determined to help Texas
tell it story, and that means we get involved in
a bunch of these conversations like the ones we're discussing now.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know, the concept of hiding your light under a
bushel is antithetic to the academic environment, particularly as it
relates to the professor. I think Texas A and M.
I'm not an alumnus, but I think they've done probably
the best job at Through the Extension service, through the
agricultural through transportation, through a number of different things, they
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have reached out into every sinew of the state and beyond,
using their faculty and their resources and their institutes. University
of Texas has a long standing support of the arts
especially fine arts as well as literature. You know, there
should be so much more to a university than the football, basketball,
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and baseball team. And it's nice to see these professors
who devote themselves as you do to a subject, sharing
that beyond kids in class who are probably less likely
to be interested in it than us. Old Fogey's sitting
at home reading Loansome Dove for the third time. So
it's nice to see you're sharing the wealth and evangelizing.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah, that's uh. You know, we were looking for a
way where we could do the most good for the
most people, and a lot of people were running away
from the Texas identity and trying to ran smackdub into
it right through the middle. And I was recruited down
to stand up the Texas Center. And first thing we
had to figure out is what does the Texas Center do?
And we stood it up actually on the first of
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June twenty twenty, and so I was there at the
height of COVID, which meant that I got a lot
of time to look around the state and figure out,
you know, what's next, what is the Texas story has
it being told? And got a really good you know,
thirty thousand foot view of what was going on across
the state. And I came back and said, all right,
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Texas culture is formed in the classrooms and we are
watching that or road away and think about it. We're
about to be the largest state in the country in
terms of population. That's the trend we're going on now.
I think it's thousand people a day moving here. And
these people didn't have Coach Pringle in seventh grade to
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hand out.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
The worksheets so that you could learn.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
About, you know, Booie's knife. They had no Texas history.
So there's kind of a dual purpose here. One is,
let's get the culture factory right in the K through
twelve space, but also in the K through sixteen space,
and we're doing a lot of outreach at the cottage
level as well to prepare a population in this state
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to take care of this state into the future. Somebody's
got to know this story and carry it forward. We're not,
you know, as they say, we're not worshiping ashes. We're
actually passing the porch at Shriner and we think that
Texas I'll be front and center, and that's that's we're
living into.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
That promise was Shriner University hit by the flood physically hit.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You know, it was.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
We were high and drive. You know, I'm speaking to you,
one mile from Guadelupe River. I was high and dry.
I was wondering where the rain was falling. So I
wasn't seeing much in my backyard. And I was heading
out to gathering Fourth July gathering out in Tarpley down
in Vandera County, and the only thing I saw was that,
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you know, one of the river crossings might be a
little tough, so I was going to delay going. And
then all of a sudden, the news started growing in
that there was a disaster unfolding just within you know,
nearly rifle shot of my house, and I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I was not aware that area was even known as
flash Flood Alley. I have since learned so much about
Kerrville and Kerr County and part of a movie team
that will be releasing a movie in a few months
about it, called River of Angels, And I have learned
so much about rescue and then unfortunately recovery, and the
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nobility of people who do these sorts of things, and
the area and the history, and it's all so fascinating
to me, just absolutely fascinating Doctor Don Fraser. Let me
ask you this. I'm gonna hear from parents when we
hang up. Who are going to say? I have a
young kid who is interested in Texas history.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
My mother imbued in me a great.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Love of Texas history, and for Christmas I would get books.
I had a teacher, Miss Steed, in third grade who
I would finish the reading early because I was a
little dork, and she would go to the library and
pull Texas history books on me. I wanted to have
a son named Crockett from the time I was in
middle school, and I do. And so Texas history is
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near and dear to me. But is there a site
or a resource or things that you have found in
budding young Texas officionados, if not historians, that you would
give as a resource to parents.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
You Bett.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
This summer we launched a two hundred and fifty video
series that tells the entire story of Texas from Day
eight of Genesis to last Thursday. And we do it
in five minute chunks. So each video is five minutes long,
and it's a narrative story. Gives you the entire narrative
arts that you can pick up the plotline on how
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Texas came to be what it is today, and that
is on our YouTube channel, and you can go to
our website, the Texas Center dot org and you'll see
a link to e Pluribus Texas, which is our big project.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh I had my mic off. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The Texas Center dot e or dot org I'm looking
at is a slick website, Doctor Frasier.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
That's good, going to be sicker because we're going to
be delivering a lot of curricular content both for public
schools that homeschoolers, private schools, charter schools. We're leaning into
fight and curriculum now to go with those videos. So
the videos that's that's free to the public, we're going
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to mount those on the website. Right now, they're all
available on YouTube on the Texas Center website. But it's
about twenty three hours worth of content. So thank you know,
three Netflix series for seasons, and by the time you
get done with it, you'll know a lot about things
like you know why oil is important, and what the
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whole story of the comanches were, and where does Mexico
play into all this, and you know what was the
story behind the alum on we are the implications of
that story for the rest of the country. And you'll
also learn about slavery and learn about the importance of
cotton and all sorts of things. By the time you're
done with this two hundred and fifty video series, you
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will be ready to be fully immersed, baptized in the
brasses as a true text.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
God bless you, Doctor Don Fraser, the Texas Center, Shriner University.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You normally smell mister.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The Michael Berry Show, Urban Cowboy, don't ride bulls, but I.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Will.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
All of a sudden, we're in crisis again.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Because Congress has been out, they've been on vacation, they've
been on their lobbyist funded vacations, and somehow the country
kept going. And then they come back and all of
a sudden, it's into the world. Have you ever known
that person? Maybe in school, maybe in your workplace. God,
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I hope not in your household, but it can happen.
Maybe at church. Maybe you haven't seen them since yesterday,
maybe it's been a year, but it's always going to
be the same, and almost always a woman, never a
straight man.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And they come bounding into the room. Oh my God,
have you hired?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
No, has my dad died? Is my wife sick, or
my kids in trouble. No, no, they're gonna, they're gonna.
And then whatever it is is what what's got that
person twisted off? And if you're if most people will go, oh,
I'm sorry and empathize.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'm dead inside. I've done what I do for too long,
everyday emails.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Of hey, what I have going on over here is
really important?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Look over here.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Sorry, I don't have time for that. You're awful, You're horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
At some point you just kind of you literally grow
a skin of leather and you do am I am I?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay? Good to know. Well you're stupid and overly emotional.
How about that? How about that? I can play too.
So there's that person that.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Is just they're wound up like a whirling dervish, and
there's always a crisis.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's what the liberals do.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
The average everyday liberals do it, and that crisis it's
what drives them. That's what makes you go get the
hair and pink, that's what makes you get the bones
through every part of your body. So you can't go
through the magnetometer at the airport without getting dragged into
the wall. That's what causes these people to have fifty
five bumper stickers on their back. It's what causes them
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to run up and screech at you. They're dead inside.
They're sad and pathetic and hollow and dead inside, and
they're just gloming on to anything. Like Greta Thunberg. They're
just what is my next thing that I can get
attention for it, that I can get caught up in.
But what's the point of getting caught up if everybody
else isn't getting caught up. You got to get everybody
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caught up. That's you're just the foot soldiers in the
whole fraud. But Congress, and by the way, there's some
Republicans that do this too. This is what they do
when they're on vacation, or we can be on vacation now.
Then they come back and whoooo. The worst part is
a lot of people don't realize that game is going on.
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They don't realize, Oh, how come I wasn't how come
I wasn't all panicked over Congress the last three weeks?
Oh because they were they were in recess. Now the
day they get back, all of a sudden, the crisis again.
Do you not notice? So they're threatening another government shutdown.
Oh no, not another government shut down. I died twenty
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three of them ago didn't. Wasn't there a fiscal cliff?
Ask Chad chat had a bunch of materials on the
fiscal cliff. We were going off the fiscal cliff. Oh,
it was gonna be the end of the world. The
government was going to shut down. And every year they
bring out, oh, one of the wise sages of government shutdowns,
he's been around a while. They'll roll out brit Hume,
for instance. Oh, you know, government shutdown, honey four. They
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Republicans have regretted that ever since then the government shut
down and oh brit Hume.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
And then the Fox audience says, oh, maybe we're not
for a government shut Yeah, you know that's that new Gangridge.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
He misplayed his hand.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And then Clinton got reelected and you know, you know
what happened and all those things and terrible and horrible.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh go home.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Maybe we shouldn't. I thought we did want of the
compan should I Maybe we don't? Break Humo says we don't.
And there's all this drama over the government shut down,
and I'm like, look, if y'all need something to put
on TV, do this during the off season.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
It's football season.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We're over here arguing over whether Arch Manning is overhyped
or he's going to be fine. You got me over
here going calm down, all you people who hyped him
up and now kicked him.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Out of the bed.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
His first career start, he went seventeen for thirty. Peyton
Manning's first career start, he went ten for eighteen. Arch
had one hundred and seventy yards. Peyton had one hundred
and thirty eight. Arch had a touchdown and an interception.
Peyton had no touchdowns in two interceptions. Arch paid the
number three Ohio State team with arguably the best defensive
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coordinator in college football this year, Matt Patricia Peyton was
number ten Alabama. And by the way, it wasn't Nick
Saban Alabama. They both lost. They were both hyped. It's
not Arche's fault. He was hyped and the very people
who hyped him, hey, aggress It's a generational six star town.
He's got the pedigreat pedigree doesn't matter one bit.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Oh, it means he got good, good jeans.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
He's big, he's strong, and if you listen to the game,
you heard fifteen times you got the speed from his mama.
That's what happens the first game when these guys have
had too much time to prep and they got a
long list of stuff and they got to work it
into the broadcast. So every time arch Manning out ran somebody,
cut the corn, turned the corner, ran down on the
side of you knows a he's a manny, but he
got that speed from his mama.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay, Joel, we heard you. We know that.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You've spoken to the family and his dad and he
insisted that his mama get credit for his speed. We've
got that. You've said it enough times. We know what
town he's from, we know his mama's fast.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
We got it.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But anyway, you got these fools trying to get you
all hyped up in his football season. No thanks, you
can save that for you know, there's a couple of
weeks there, there's no sport, there's no sport on TV.
You don't do this, then maybe we'll go okay, all right,
all right, we'll do it. Then you can roll out
il hom Omars. You'll say stupid stuff. Jasmine Clark, Jasmin
(31:19):
Crockett will have even more of a ghetto accident.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I won't tell y'all what they going? Okay, you know what,
it's kind.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Of funny for a minute, But I think in the
midst of all this nonsense, before you get worked up,
it's time we heard from Trump's secretary of sanity to tell.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Us what's going on.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Good afternoon, let me get right to it. Congress has
returned from a month long vacation. During their absence, America
did not collapse. The sun came up, dog still barked,
Bucky still sold brisket sandwiches. In fact, many Americans reported
a noticeable reduction and noise. They now inform us of
an impending funding crisis.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Translation, they forgot to do their job before they left.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Now they want credit for sprinting to clean.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Up their own mess.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
If your babysitter took the month off then ran back
and yelling the kids might starve, you wouldn't give her
a medal, you'd fire O.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
My goodness, hell, could he say.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
That shutdowns are not the apocalypse? The last time it happened,
the biggest tragedy was someone couldn't tour the Washington Monument. Meanwhile,
the people who caused the shutdown, well, they still got paid.
Of course they did so to summarize, Congress left, nobody
missed him.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
They came back, started.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Panicking about a problem they created, and now the expect
applause for maybe possibly sort of fixing it. Ladies and gentlemen,
this is not governance. This is performance art, and a
bad one. So in closing, America is not in a
funding crisis. America is in a Congress crisis. Thank you,
No further.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Question, no.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Promo.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Should we open up the phone lines seven one thousand, No,
we got a guess,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
So it's to be clear that conversation about menopause and
women's hormonal issues as they age will air next Friday.
Sometimes visits with doctors I will pre record in case
there is a medical emergency so we don't miss the
conversation that I've slotted for that time, especially if I've
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promoted it and I know people are going to be
tuning in to listen to that. So that will be
next Friday morning, and next Friday it'll probably be an
hour all in. We will record that middle of next week.
So I would suggest, if you have a question you
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would like ask of her a menopause expert women's hormone expert,
that you email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com.
Don't worry, I will not say this is Ruth Silver's question.
I understand some of these things can be embarrassing. I
also believe that a lot of people don't have the
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easy access by phone or text that I do to
top medical professionals, and to visit a doctor means driving, well,
setting it up, driving, waiting and then limited amount of time.
So we've got a platform. I choose how to use it,
and one of the things I choose to do is
(01:55):
to share what I consider to be public information about
very personal issues. I understand that makes some people feel
very uncomfortable. It's often because they have discomfort with their
own body or discussing adult topics. But that's on you,
so feel free to tune out. That will be next
Friday morning, and any questions that you submit, I would
(02:17):
do my best to ask of doctor Andrew Davis. So
it has come to my attention, Well, let me start
with this. Ramon was on a roll this weekend. I
mean he was teaching a master class on libertarian values
and it was all couched in terms of when he
could order a drink. And I guess he was at
the Great Wolf Lodge or Disney World or wherever he goes,
(02:39):
and he couldn't order a drink till ten o'clock. And
by god, Davy Crockett didn't die for him to have
to wait till ten o'clock. And it was nine to
twenty at the time. So you get to a lot
of ladies going well, if you if you're mad, you
can't get a drink till ten, and that's on you.
And he's going, lady, this is about Jim Bowie and
Alamo and the whole you know, the whole thing. So
(02:59):
somebody made the mistake of saying, well, I guess you
took seventh grade history, and that's about where you tapped out.
Whereupon Ramone's deep pride in the great state of Texas
was inflamed. Musket shots were.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Fired, lines were drawn.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
William Barrett Travis a commentary was invoked. It turned into
a moment. It has come to our attention. You know
when in seventh grade when you had Texas history for
many Texans, most Texans, that's the most Texas they'll ever know.
And then at forty they go to the Alamo and.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
They're like, okay, now, let's see Booye had to big knife, right,
David Crockett had to coonskin cap, and fest Parker sang
his song, and then let's see it was Sam Houston
here and no, no, no, he was, and then what happened
at Goliad and then what happened over here.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That is an important part teaching your history. Great cultures
teach their history to perpetuate them. It's very important you
do that it increases state pride. There's no greater state
pride than this state, Texas pride. It has come to
my attention that the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Teks,
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the state standards that spell out what every student has
to learn in every subject, that all of that is up.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We're on a.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Timeline for that to be reviewed. So oddly enough, when
you wake up and go, hey, my kid came home
in seventh grade and they're not teaching history, or the
history they're teaching is that Texas was stolen from the Mexicans,
or the history we're teaching is that Texas is an
awful place. How did this happen? It happened because of
a lot of boring meetings that you didn't want to
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go to. It happened because a lot of people were
willing to sit on weekends at conferences, give speeches, do this,
serve on committees and do this, and it's a lot
of work. And then we wake up and there's a
real problem. So I reached out to a friend of
mine named Judge Knwise, who, in addition to being a
great golfer like he played professionally a great If you
(05:01):
need a ringer to bring to Houston Gun Club for
your competition, and a world class billiard pool player. In
addition to those three things, happens to have a sideline
as a judge. And he is a Texas history nut.
So I said, look, I know you probably don't want
to do this because of your judicial role, but could
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you put me in touch with the right person. He say,
I'm going to give you somebody better than me. His
name is Don Fraser. He's a PhD and something bad
assery apparently. He's the chairman of the Texas eighteen thirty
six Project Advisory Committee. Again, another one of those seemingly
boring things that are very important. And he's the director
of the Texas Center at Shriner University in Kerrville. And
(05:46):
I looked him up and said, doctor Fraser leads initiatives
focused on Texas history, culture and community outreach. He's an
award winning author and historian with extensive experience in the field.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It is our honor.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'm going to have some nice music. Oh we didn't
have music ready to hold on. It is our honor
to welcome for the first but not last time, the
You just are a chairman of the Texas eighteen thirty
six Project Advisory Committee and the director of the Texas
Center at Shriner University, the honorable doctor Don Fraser.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That's quite the build up.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, don't disappoint.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh he he did the You're a dawn as in
you're a dome, you know, Marlon Brando.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Mario Poots, you got Yeah, that's touch Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So let's set the stage. We're talking in an environment
where our discussions are what Trump is doing, what Biden did,
RFK Junior Toolsey Gabbard Congress coming back from But things
like this matter, and they matter for the short term
and the long term, and they're generally conducted under cover
(07:00):
of darkness. And thank goodness, we have someone who cares
deeply and passionately about Texas history the way all of
us do, but is willing to put in the time
and effort to make sure our kids' course books curriculum
are doing what they should do. So I got about
a minute in this segment, and then we'll dive deep
into this. Let's start with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
(07:25):
Can you explain what that is in about a minute?
You bet so.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I'd say that most of this debate's not handled in
under cover of darkness, but under the cover of apathy.
The TEKS is essentially the guidebook for what we want
our kids to know across Texas schools, all two hundred
and fifty four counties, public schools, public charters. I mean,
there's it's got an incredible reach.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So how does it come about? How is it developed?
Speaker 6 (08:01):
The State Board of Education is elected by the voters.
They come up with a framework, and they come up
with a policy. This is kind of the you know
what we think people ought to know. Then it's tossed
over to Tha Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I've got my clock wrong. Hold on, doctor Don Fraser.
More coming up the.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Champion Marbel shooting, the fastest runner big league ballplayers. There, tuckist,
the Michael Berry American is level winner.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Doctor Don Fraser.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
He's the chairman of the Texas eighteen thirty six Project
Advisory Committee and the Texas Center Director of the Texas
Center at Shriner University. So one of the things I
read was that Texas is one of the largest textbook
markets in the country. So whatever is approved here influences
textbooks and classrooms across the country because as the materials
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are printed, you want to print something that's compliant with
the Texas standards because otherwise, you know, one of your
biggest markets is lost out on. Can you explain how
this whole process works for how kids? I don't know,
you know, my kids don't need to buy nearly as
many books, or the university at ut where my son
is a sophomore, now they buy almost no books. Everything's online.
(09:30):
And my son's a senior in high school and he
has a third the number of books you used to
because everything's online. But I'm sure the curriculum is still similar.
How does that come to be?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
So let's start at the whalehead and go downstring. So
State Board of Education comes up with policy, and then
the Texas Education Agency implements that policy. That implementation is
where we get the Texas of Central Knowledge and Skills
from and then that go downstream to you know, school boards,
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superintendents into the classroom. So that's kind of the flow,
and the TA is tasked with coming up with appropriate
educational material to support the policy that has been adopted
by the State Board of Education and agreed upon by
the legislature of the State of Texas. So it's about
halfway down the processes where we get the educational material. Now,
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one of the things that big publishers go ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
No, no, I'm sorry, you go ahead.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Well, So one of the things that big publishers like
to do is they like to have one size fits
all curriculum. So you can get a ghost writer out
of a junior college in Connecticut to write your US
History survey book, and it'll sell in Idaho, it will
sell in Iowa. But when it comes to Texas, Texas
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has always been kind of a one off. So any
way that you can chant that curriculum to where Texas
is treated as a one off and your focus just
on that you know, broad American story, how it is told,
is a lot more efficient for the big educational publishers.
(11:17):
So what we've got now, I mean, if you went
to took a look at textbooks, now you've got a
lot of Texas sidebars, and then you have a seventh
grade Texas history textbook. What's happened, though, in reality, is
that as Texas is treated as one off, that particular
piece of intellectual geography in the classroom, those hours that
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you're spending teaching Texas end up being cannibalized because people
see it as not particularly important. It's not you know,
it's not the big American story. It's some sort of
you know, strange curiosity that if you need to teach
your kids something about keyboarding, well you can do keyboarding
and computer skills.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's the second semester of Texas history and nobody will notice.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
So we've had a real decline in the actual amount
of instruction over the Texas story in the last decade
decade and a half.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So I'm thinking of, you know, the teaching of youth
is very important, and it strikes me that while Texans
are more proud of our history than any state in
the Union, there are still a lot of people who've
been cussed into or cowed into this posture of being ashamed.
You know, we've watched our monuments be toppled and our
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heroes be leveled and spoken ill of. But I think
of subjects that you have to teach slavery, civil rights, immigration, religion,
political movements, US Mexico relations, migration of people from Mexico
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into Texas, and the cultures and the Tejano and all
of these things that developed and how that is taught.
You know, AI can't replace that. It will in a
negative way. But I think that those are very nuanced
conversations that need to be considered carefully so that you
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don't get some I'll say this so you don't have
to some crazy liberal woman coming in with a bone
through her nose and purple hair declaring that Texas should
apologize for existing on indigenous lands.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I guess that was a question I ferunctuated.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yeah, it's kind of a question in there somewhere. And
really the root of all of this goes back to
our institution to higher learning, because that's where teachers are made,
and so school of education, some of our flagship institutions.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
If that's the message that.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
They're pumping into their education classrooms, then those teachers then
export that into their.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Public school classrooms. And uh So.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
It's a it's an interesting intellectual genealogy, but it all
starts and higher ed in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, so, is there an opportunity not to put you
on the spot it may already be. Is there an
opportunity for somebody out there says I'd like to get
involved in this process?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And if so, what what would what is that?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Corium?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Well, I mean you can talk to your elected officials, uh,
state Board of Education is probably not on your speed,
doll uh, but it might need to be. What's coming
up next week is they're thinking about revising the t
k s in what that's called is the framework. You
know what framework are we going to use that? We
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will then decide what fits into that framework in terms
of the Texas Essential Knowledge and.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Skills and so uh.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That has next week and you probably ought to send
an email or make a phone call to your SBOE representative.
I know in Houston that's Will Hickman. There's Julie Pickering's
over in Perland, I think, so that's kind of within
the greater Houston area.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But that's step one.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Step two. There's going to be working groups that are
formed after the framework is adopted, and those working groups
are composed of volunteers, and you can lobby to be
part of the working group and actually review the various
tks are being proposed by content experts. Now content experts,
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That's what I did back in twenty twenty two. I
was a content expert, and what we do is advise
on here's what we think the s ought to look like.
Then it goes to the working groups, and the working
groups come up with the burbs and specifics. So, uh,
that's the process and you can jump in at anytime.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Doctor Don Fraser whole with me if you can for
one more segment.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
And right there.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I sport flop Michael Berry Shower.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Don Frasier.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Doctor Don Fraser serves as the chairman of the Texas
eighteen thirty six Project Advisory Committee. He's also the director
of the Texas Center at Shriner University. So I have
a friend named Larry Bogus. His son Noah, went to Shriner.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He's a filmmaker and he made a film for the
one hundred or one hundred and fifty, I guess be
the one hundredth anniversary of Shriner and asked me to
be a part of it, using the radio show and
a radio piece, and it was funn He's a great kid,
and I love to see young people pursuing things like that.
And then I have a friend named Robert Reese who's
a superstar. The term is seller, but he's a relationship
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manager for our show.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I never knew.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Anybody who went to Shriner except for a fellow named
Rick Bays who was my wife's law partner. And I
used to play tennis with years ago, minsh of a man,
super great guy. He was the only person I ever
knew who went to Shriner, and now I probably know
ten people who've been there in the last few years.
Is Shriner on the rise or am I just moving
in different circles?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Now we're moving We're moving up. We had a long
history of punching above our weight, and now we're actually
reaching out to statewide audience, especially through outreach programs like
the Texas Center. I mean, we're determined to help Texas
tell it story, and that means we get involved in
a bunch of these conversations like the ones we're discussing now.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know, the concept of hiding your light under a
bushel is antithetic to the academic environment, particularly as it
relates to the professor. I think Texas A and M.
I'm not an alumnus, but I think they've done probably
the best job at Through the Extension service, through the
agricultural through transportation, through a number of different things, they
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have reached out into every sinew of the state and beyond,
using their faculty and their resources and their institutes. University
of Texas has a long standing support of the arts
especially fine arts as well as literature. You know, there
should be so much more to a university than the football, basketball,
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and baseball team. And it's nice to see these professors
who devote themselves as you do to a subject, sharing
that beyond kids in class who are probably less likely
to be interested in it than us. Old Fogey's sitting
at home reading Loansome Dove for the third time. So
it's nice to see you're sharing the wealth and evangelizing.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah, that's uh. You know, we were looking for a
way where we could do the most good for the
most people, and a lot of people were running away
from the Texas identity and trying to ran smackdub into
it right through the middle. And I was recruited down
to stand up the Texas Center. And first thing we
had to figure out is what does the Texas Center do?
And we stood it up actually on the first of
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June twenty twenty, and so I was there at the
height of COVID, which meant that I got a lot
of time to look around the state and figure out,
you know, what's next, what is the Texas story has
it being told? And got a really good you know,
thirty thousand foot view of what was going on across
the state. And I came back and said, all right,
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Texas culture is formed in the classrooms and we are
watching that or road away and think about it. We're
about to be the largest state in the country in
terms of population. That's the trend we're going on now.
I think it's thousand people a day moving here. And
these people didn't have Coach Pringle in seventh grade to
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hand out.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
The worksheets so that you could learn.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
About, you know, Booie's knife. They had no Texas history.
So there's kind of a dual purpose here. One is,
let's get the culture factory right in the K through
twelve space, but also in the K through sixteen space,
and we're doing a lot of outreach at the cottage
level as well to prepare a population in this state
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to take care of this state into the future. Somebody's
got to know this story and carry it forward. We're not,
you know, as they say, we're not worshiping ashes. We're
actually passing the porch at Shriner and we think that
Texas I'll be front and center, and that's that's we're
living into.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
That promise was Shriner University hit by the flood physically hit.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You know, it was.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
We were high and drive. You know, I'm speaking to you,
one mile from Guadelupe River. I was high and dry.
I was wondering where the rain was falling. So I
wasn't seeing much in my backyard. And I was heading
out to gathering Fourth July gathering out in Tarpley down
in Vandera County, and the only thing I saw was that,
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you know, one of the river crossings might be a
little tough, so I was going to delay going. And
then all of a sudden, the news started growing in
that there was a disaster unfolding just within you know,
nearly rifle shot of my house, and I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I was not aware that area was even known as
flash Flood Alley. I have since learned so much about
Kerrville and Kerr County and part of a movie team
that will be releasing a movie in a few months
about it, called River of Angels, And I have learned
so much about rescue and then unfortunately recovery, and the
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nobility of people who do these sorts of things, and
the area and the history, and it's all so fascinating
to me, just absolutely fascinating Doctor Don Fraser. Let me
ask you this. I'm gonna hear from parents when we
hang up. Who are going to say? I have a
young kid who is interested in Texas history.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
My mother imbued in me a great.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Love of Texas history, and for Christmas I would get books.
I had a teacher, Miss Steed, in third grade who
I would finish the reading early because I was a
little dork, and she would go to the library and
pull Texas history books on me. I wanted to have
a son named Crockett from the time I was in
middle school, and I do. And so Texas history is
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near and dear to me. But is there a site
or a resource or things that you have found in
budding young Texas officionados, if not historians, that you would
give as a resource to parents.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
You Bett.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
This summer we launched a two hundred and fifty video
series that tells the entire story of Texas from Day
eight of Genesis to last Thursday. And we do it
in five minute chunks. So each video is five minutes long,
and it's a narrative story. Gives you the entire narrative
arts that you can pick up the plotline on how
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Texas came to be what it is today, and that
is on our YouTube channel, and you can go to
our website, the Texas Center dot org and you'll see
a link to e Pluribus Texas, which is our big project.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh I had my mic off. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The Texas Center dot e or dot org I'm looking
at is a slick website, Doctor Frasier.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
That's good, going to be sicker because we're going to
be delivering a lot of curricular content both for public
schools that homeschoolers, private schools, charter schools. We're leaning into
fight and curriculum now to go with those videos. So
the videos that's that's free to the public, we're going
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to mount those on the website. Right now, they're all
available on YouTube on the Texas Center website. But it's
about twenty three hours worth of content. So thank you know,
three Netflix series for seasons, and by the time you
get done with it, you'll know a lot about things
like you know why oil is important, and what the
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whole story of the comanches were, and where does Mexico
play into all this, and you know what was the
story behind the alum on we are the implications of
that story for the rest of the country. And you'll
also learn about slavery and learn about the importance of
cotton and all sorts of things. By the time you're
done with this two hundred and fifty video series, you
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will be ready to be fully immersed, baptized in the
brasses as a true text.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
God bless you, Doctor Don Fraser, the Texas Center, Shriner University.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You normally smell mister.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The Michael Berry Show, Urban Cowboy, don't ride bulls, but I.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Will.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
All of a sudden, we're in crisis again.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Because Congress has been out, they've been on vacation, they've
been on their lobbyist funded vacations, and somehow the country
kept going. And then they come back and all of
a sudden, it's into the world. Have you ever known
that person? Maybe in school, maybe in your workplace. God,
(25:40):
I hope not in your household, but it can happen.
Maybe at church. Maybe you haven't seen them since yesterday,
maybe it's been a year, but it's always going to
be the same, and almost always a woman, never a
straight man.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And they come bounding into the room. Oh my God,
have you hired?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
No, has my dad died? Is my wife sick, or
my kids in trouble. No, no, they're gonna, they're gonna.
And then whatever it is is what what's got that
person twisted off? And if you're if most people will go, oh,
I'm sorry and empathize.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'm dead inside. I've done what I do for too long,
everyday emails.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Of hey, what I have going on over here is
really important?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Look over here.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Sorry, I don't have time for that. You're awful, You're horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
At some point you just kind of you literally grow
a skin of leather and you do am I am I?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Okay? Good to know. Well you're stupid and overly emotional.
How about that? How about that? I can play too.
So there's that person that.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Is just they're wound up like a whirling dervish, and
there's always a crisis.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's what the liberals do.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
The average everyday liberals do it, and that crisis it's
what drives them. That's what makes you go get the
hair and pink, that's what makes you get the bones
through every part of your body. So you can't go
through the magnetometer at the airport without getting dragged into
the wall. That's what causes these people to have fifty
five bumper stickers on their back. It's what causes them
(27:19):
to run up and screech at you. They're dead inside.
They're sad and pathetic and hollow and dead inside, and
they're just gloming on to anything. Like Greta Thunberg. They're
just what is my next thing that I can get
attention for it, that I can get caught up in.
But what's the point of getting caught up if everybody
else isn't getting caught up. You got to get everybody
(27:41):
caught up. That's you're just the foot soldiers in the
whole fraud. But Congress, and by the way, there's some
Republicans that do this too. This is what they do
when they're on vacation, or we can be on vacation now.
Then they come back and whoooo. The worst part is
a lot of people don't realize that game is going on.
(28:03):
They don't realize, Oh, how come I wasn't how come
I wasn't all panicked over Congress the last three weeks?
Oh because they were they were in recess. Now the
day they get back, all of a sudden, the crisis again.
Do you not notice? So they're threatening another government shutdown.
Oh no, not another government shut down. I died twenty
(28:23):
three of them ago didn't. Wasn't there a fiscal cliff?
Ask Chad chat had a bunch of materials on the
fiscal cliff. We were going off the fiscal cliff. Oh,
it was gonna be the end of the world. The
government was going to shut down. And every year they
bring out, oh, one of the wise sages of government shutdowns,
he's been around a while. They'll roll out brit Hume,
for instance. Oh, you know, government shutdown, honey four. They
(28:47):
Republicans have regretted that ever since then the government shut
down and oh brit Hume.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
And then the Fox audience says, oh, maybe we're not
for a government shut Yeah, you know that's that new Gangridge.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
He misplayed his hand.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And then Clinton got reelected and you know, you know
what happened and all those things and terrible and horrible.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh go home.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Maybe we shouldn't. I thought we did want of the
compan should I Maybe we don't? Break Humo says we don't.
And there's all this drama over the government shut down,
and I'm like, look, if y'all need something to put
on TV, do this during the off season.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
It's football season.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We're over here arguing over whether Arch Manning is overhyped
or he's going to be fine. You got me over
here going calm down, all you people who hyped him
up and now kicked him.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Out of the bed.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
His first career start, he went seventeen for thirty. Peyton
Manning's first career start, he went ten for eighteen. Arch
had one hundred and seventy yards. Peyton had one hundred
and thirty eight. Arch had a touchdown and an interception.
Peyton had no touchdowns in two interceptions. Arch paid the
number three Ohio State team with arguably the best defensive
(29:56):
coordinator in college football this year, Matt Patricia Peyton was
number ten Alabama. And by the way, it wasn't Nick
Saban Alabama. They both lost. They were both hyped. It's
not Arche's fault. He was hyped and the very people
who hyped him, hey, aggress It's a generational six star town.
He's got the pedigreat pedigree doesn't matter one bit.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Oh, it means he got good, good jeans.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
He's big, he's strong, and if you listen to the game,
you heard fifteen times you got the speed from his mama.
That's what happens the first game when these guys have
had too much time to prep and they got a
long list of stuff and they got to work it
into the broadcast. So every time arch Manning out ran somebody,
cut the corn, turned the corner, ran down on the
side of you knows a he's a manny, but he
got that speed from his mama.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay, Joel, we heard you. We know that.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You've spoken to the family and his dad and he
insisted that his mama get credit for his speed. We've
got that. You've said it enough times. We know what
town he's from, we know his mama's fast.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
We got it.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But anyway, you got these fools trying to get you
all hyped up in his football season. No thanks, you
can save that for you know, there's a couple of
weeks there, there's no sport, there's no sport on TV.
You don't do this, then maybe we'll go okay, all right,
all right, we'll do it. Then you can roll out
il hom Omars. You'll say stupid stuff. Jasmine Clark, Jasmin
(31:19):
Crockett will have even more of a ghetto accident.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I won't tell y'all what they going? Okay, you know what,
it's kind.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Of funny for a minute, But I think in the
midst of all this nonsense, before you get worked up,
it's time we heard from Trump's secretary of sanity to tell.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Us what's going on.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Good afternoon, let me get right to it. Congress has
returned from a month long vacation. During their absence, America
did not collapse. The sun came up, dog still barked,
Bucky still sold brisket sandwiches. In fact, many Americans reported
a noticeable reduction and noise. They now inform us of
an impending funding crisis.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Translation, they forgot to do their job before they left.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Now they want credit for sprinting to clean.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Up their own mess.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
If your babysitter took the month off then ran back
and yelling the kids might starve, you wouldn't give her
a medal, you'd fire O.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
My goodness, hell, could he say.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
That shutdowns are not the apocalypse? The last time it happened,
the biggest tragedy was someone couldn't tour the Washington Monument. Meanwhile,
the people who caused the shutdown, well, they still got paid.
Of course they did so to summarize, Congress left, nobody
missed him.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
They came back, started.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Panicking about a problem they created, and now the expect
applause for maybe possibly sort of fixing it. Ladies and gentlemen,
this is not governance. This is performance art, and a
bad one. So in closing, America is not in a
funding crisis. America is in a Congress crisis. Thank you,
No further.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Question, no.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Promo.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Should we open up the phone lines seven one thousand, No,
we got a guess,
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