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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
He said, you turn.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So go home. I swear to God, Low dog. You
don't step aside, We'll tear you apart. You die first,
get it. Your friends might get me in a rush,
but not before I make your head into a canoe.
You understand me. He's plucking. Let's rush you. No, hedn't bluffing.
(00:41):
You're not as stupid as you look like.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested at an
immigration and Customs enforcement facility Friday during a visit with
members of New Jersey's congressional delegation. Mayor ros Brock, who's
also running for governor of New Jersey, was detained while
visiting the facility.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Homeland Securities as a group of protesters, including Baraka, stormed
the gate and broke into the facility as a bus
with detainees was entering. He ignored multiple warnings from Homeland
Security and was arrested. The attorney for the District of
New Jersey, Alena Habba, posted on x that no one
is above the law.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
After this, we heard some noise that came out. We
found that the mayor was there and the ICE was
having conversations with him. They asked him to leave the facility.
He left the facility, went behind the gates out there
with the protesters.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Why are you arresting him.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He's not on the property, He's not on your property.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They ignored us.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They opened the gate, they pushed through people. There were
several armed guards and they went to get the mayor.
Get to the mayor and La Monica and Rob and
I type shield the mayor.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
When I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone.
There's no video that supports me body slamming anyone. Uh We,
(02:41):
as a Congresswoman, Bonnie Watson Coleman said, we were simply
there to do our job. Therefore, oversight, visit and what
you want what you're watching in a video. And we
don't have all of the body him, and we hope
that all of the body him is released.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Any kind of footage. It is footage that is manufactured
for this purpose. Because I've said it before and I'll
say it again, they are lighting.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No find God how it was on this day in
nineteen o three, the Eyes of Texas was first sung.
The performance took place at a minstrel show benefiting the
University of Texas track team at the Hancock Opera House
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in Austin. You know, a couple of years ago, a
few years ago, when the world was upside down in
twenty twenty after George Floyd overdose and they blamed it
on Chauvain, who's in prison for life, there was this move.
You will remember some of the athletes at the universities
thought they were really something special and they were going
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to have statues torn down and universities called racist and boy,
it was a crazy, crazy time and a lot of
people lost their mind and capitulated to this nonsense. Well,
they tried to remove the Eyes of Texas from its
tradition at the University of Texas a song that's been
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sung for generations. You don't create tradition overnight. Tradition matters,
it's meaningful, it's powerful, and it takes forever to build.
So whether you're the University of Texas or Texas A
and M or any other institution, you don't do away
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with your traditions lightly. Which said bring back bonfire, But
that's another subject I've never even been. I just I
love the tradition. There's something about, you know, grown men
and women don't leave their estate to a university for nothing.
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It is the deep and abiding connection you have to
that institution, and the rituals and the traditions are a
big part of that. They are a manifestation of that.
So anyway, the story behind the Eyes of Texas, it's
often linked to the president of the institution, William L. Prather,
(05:19):
But I went and did some digging on that and
it's a very interesting story indeed, and it involves it
does involve Praither. But what's interesting is so the the
Hank what is it called, the the Varsity Minstrel Show
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was held every year as a fundraiser for the track
team because the track team didn't have the funds that
the football team did. So John Sinclair wrote the song
at the request of his friend Lewis Johnson, who was
the program director of the Varsity Minstrel Show. So he
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needed something to put on for the show. So John
Sinclair sat down using the tune for I've been working
on the Railroad, and using that tune he created the
Eyes of Texas Are upon You. And the story goes
that William Prather had been at Washington College years before.
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Most of you probably know that Robert E. Lee, after
the Civil War, was asked by Washington College to be
the chancellor of that institution. And he used to speak
to the student body about honor in dignity and conducting
yourself in such a manner, and he would say, the
eyes of the South are upon you. So William Prather
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would have a weekly conversate convocation of the students, and
I did not know this. In nineteen oh three the
University of Texas had fewer than a thousand students. That's crazy,
how big it is now, my goodness. And during that
he would conclude his speeches by saying, ladies and gentlemen,
the eyes of Texas are upon you. That was his
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takeoff of Robert E. Lee's statement to him as a
student at Washington College some number of years before. Anyway,
that's the story behind the Eyes of Texas, which got
us thinking about Texas or Texas and Shirley Q. Lickors
version has to be the best.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Hey, Lauren, don't just sit over here singing. Why don't
you get up at once a while? That serve somebody.
If these ladies do they want a Coca cola or something,
but don't get in that good stuff. Don't let him
in that cabnet over yonder them. How y'all doing it? Listen,
we gonna sing some Mosauma's girls. Put y'aut here in
Ain's then, damn, no younger made me sing this. See
I ain't saying that's his school.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Shut up, that's out the.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Ignorant.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This is the same song about the Yeah, I got
Texas out of Texas. It is always realized crazy, so
totally wago that everybody has a party. The Michael Berry Show.
(08:14):
President Trump speaking this morning before he heads off to
Saudi Arabia. He posted to Truth last night the following statement.
For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs
and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America were so
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much higher in price than they were in any other nation,
sometimes being five to ten times more expensive than the
same drug manufactured in the same laboratory or plant by
the same company. It was always difficult to explain and
very embarrassing because in fact there was no correct or
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rightful answer. The pharmaceutical slash drug companies would say for
years that it was research and development costs, and that
all of these costs were and would be for no
reason whatsoever, borne by the suckers of America alone. Campaign
contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not
with the Republican Party. We're going to do the right thing,
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something that the Democrats have fought for many years. Therefore,
I am pleased to announce that tomorrow morning in the
White House at nine am, and he did this this morning,
I will be signing one of the most consequential executive
orders in our country's history. Prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices
will be reduced almost immediately by thirty to eighty percent.
They will rise throughout the world in order to equalize
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them for the first time in many years, bring fairness
to America. I will be instituting a Most Favored Nations policy,
whereby the United States will pay the same price as
the nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the world.
Our country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens'
health care costs will be reduced by numbers never ever
thought of before. In addition, the United States will say
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trillions of dollars thank you for your attention to this matter.
Make America great again. So my initial reaction is, I
am at what would be called a classical liberal economics followers.
(10:21):
That's not liberal as we think of as conservative and liberal.
It's the term as it was once used originally. Now
you might say libertarian, but for economic theory it doesn't
apply perfectly. But let's assume it does. For the same
reason that I struggled with the tariffs, I am not
a believer that government should set economic policy, that government
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should dictate pricing, for instance. The problem is, let's take
the case of pharmaceuticals. The problem is that our government
has already been setting the prices of pharmaceuticals the facto,
and in some cases, to sure, they've been setting the
price of pharmaceuticals in the sense that we've been subsidizing them.
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I don't have to remind you that what our government
did Professor Merk and Johnson Johnson during COVID is one
of the most disgusting things in American history. It's up
there with the Tuskegee scandals. It is awful. It is
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really truly awful, compelling people to do something that they
didn't want to do, because if they wanted to do it,
you don't have to compel them, right, you don't have
to make somebody do something that they're willing to do
on their own. The first round that had to go
lucky round. They didn't know how many they'd get on that,
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but they thought they'd get a lot and that would
create a critical mass. And the way that would go was, hey, hey,
look we're all getting a shot. Are you getting a shot?
I'm getting a shot.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I got shot.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I not gotta get good. And you had these idiots,
idiots among us. I can't wait, how do you get
the shot? How don't get the shot? They rushed down
and they got their shot, and then we got to see.
I mean, if Lena had to all goes getting it,
I gotta get it right. Hey, whatever she does, she
gets emotional over the pope, said because of the pope.
(12:29):
My moan wasn't ready to hit the said he was
emotional over the pope. So the first round was get
your shot. We're all getting it. I can't get it faster. Hey,
did you get it? No, you gotta wait. We're gonna
gotta all get it. And then you ran through the
list of the idiots. I'll get emails today. Michael it's shot,
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and I just calls idiots. Well, of course you here,
try this shoe on, don't tell me whether it fits
or not. So then they went through that, and then
and then they tried to get your friends and neighbors.
You know you're an idiot, get everybody else to being
in it. Oh God, Doc, how you gotta do it.
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We'll do I do it. Then we went to the Hey,
now you don't want to kill grandma. Do you don't
kill grandma? Because you'll kill grandma if you don't get
the shot. Okay, I'll get on kill grandma. Yeah, you
donna kill grandma. And then increasingly the numbers grew larger
and larger percentage of people taking the claud shot, some
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of them dying because of it. That's okay, it's okay.
It's a cost. We pay right for this game. And Pfiser,
Mr Johnson, they're getting rich off of this. Keep going.
And you didn't remember, you didn't have to pay for it.
It was just paid for miraculously, it was paid for.
Pfeiser stock is shooting up in all the while and
fout she admitted this. They started requiring a mask. He
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admitted use the term Schmaltz. You wear a mask, You're
getting all this stuff on your nose, in your hands.
It's going to cause more problems and it solves and
the mask can't keep It's like assuming a chain link
fence is going to keep the air from flowing through there.
It's not. But the mask told people we were in
the middle of an epidemic. You needed people scared to
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get to for the government to be able to pull
off all these things. So I won't go too deep
into all that, but the point is our government has
been setting up the pharmaceutical companies, just as it has
the social media pages with the platform versus publisher distinction.
Our government has been setting this for a very long time,
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a very long time, and so what should have been
a heroic, glorious industry has become an absolute cabal of
corruption and evil. And Trump knows this.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
He knows this.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
When you look at the prices we are paying for
drugs versus what the rest of the world is. It's
not a free market. However, our government is far too
involved in it, and that's got to stop. It's got
to stop, and it's going to stop.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Sadly, there are people in this country, a lot of
them with an NBA who went in and set aside
any sense of right and wrong, decency and everything else
to make more money. And I'm the ultimate capitalist. But
at some point, at some at the more dangerous places
between Chila Jackson Lee and the campus Bier and the
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Triple Crown, Weave is, you know, tilted to the side,
the leaning tower of Weaver talking about pharmaceutical prices. How
many American families have been through a living hell, making
very difficult decisions for their loved one over whether they
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can afford a medicine that saves someone's life. You know,
there was an audio clip played during the Run trials,
and you'll see it in all the movies and all
the documentaries, and a trader says, burn, baby burn, And
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there's a fire in California, which of course is going
to cause commodity prices to go through the roof, and
he's getting rich. That burn baby burn is a great
example of someone and a culture that has lost focus.
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I'm all for making profit as much as you can,
but honestly, if you've got to murder somebody to do it,
all right, we agree that's too far. All right? What
if you you push someone out into the ocean, you
don't technically murder them because you give them, you know,
a fight and chance to swim to shore. How far
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along that spectrum are you going to go? It's really
disturbed me.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
You know, my.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Dad's in a situation where he needs a lot of
medical care. Obviously, by the way, I've been meaning to
tell you this. So last week I told you the
story about well, we talked about concierge healthcare, and that
means something different to every different doctor and every different patient.
So just because a doctor says they're a conciers doctor
doesn't mean that's going to work out for you or
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that they're going to do the things that we say.
So I asked my various doctors and friends for recommendations
on an intercrenologist, which is the doctor that a diabetic
needs to deal with their pancreas. My dad's pancres simply
doesn't function, so he has to use our official insulin
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and it's quite the process. So we needed a good
doctor in Houston since I've moved him over here, and
we looked around. There are lots of good doctors in Houston,
are lots of well regarded doctors in Houston, but we
wanted a concierge doctor for a number of different reasons,
and we came up with this woman named ANUW. Davis,
a n U Davis, And so my wife calls and
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we get the referral and we go over and see her.
And before they went, my wife was very happy because
she had spoken to the office administrator and she liked
the setup. But what she liked particularly was that this
doctor will make house calls. You only need to go
to the doctor one time for your initial testing and
all that sort of stuff, and after that she'll make
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house calls. No, you pay for it, but it's a
question of what you're willing to pay for. I'll cut
over here to have these things that matter, and it's
it's you're paying the doctor. Our healthcare system is the
most inefficient thing in the world. I have described it
as imagine going to see Mike Batches said lone star Chevy.
You go out there and look at the lot, you
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find the one you kind of like, you're get, you
get the keys, drive off in. A week later you
find out how much it costs. You would never And
this is what we do with healthcare. It's insane. It
makes no sense. It's the most ridiculous thing ever. Who's
going to pay for it? How much am I going
to pay per month? And then once I do that,
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what am I going to be able to get done?
And then how much of that am I going to
have to pay? It's ridiculous. So I have said, why
don't we do it? Like everything else? You go in,
here's your price sheet. Doc says, hey, you need this surgery,
and you go how much it's gonna cost? Oh, okay,
it'll be that much, all right, and then you buy
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it or you don't. Well, here's the problem. It costs money.
It costs a lot less than it does under insurance.
I'll tell you that. But the insurance is an inefficiency
that inflates the price a great deal. But let's say
instead of a surgery cost in thirty thousand, it'll cost
six thousand. The problem is a lot of people won't
have the six thousand dollars. Now they had it, but
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they blew it on stupid stuff because they didn't make
provision that there might be a health care need. Some people,
if you don't take the health expense out, the health
insurance out of their paycheck, they won't save it. If
you don't take the pension fund out of their paycheck,
they won't save it. And then they roll up like
a three year old, who's going to take care of me? Well,
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it was your responsibility. It's people like this for which
Social Security pensions, Obamacare are set up, because they won't
they sip. You tell them how much you have left
after they take everything from your check, and they go, okay,
I'll go blow all that. Hopefully they've taken care of
everything else, because I'm not going to take care of it.
It's sad, but it's true. So my wife takes my
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dad to this New Davis and it's the initial and
she's an intercrinologist, which means she'll hand the diabeta side,
but she'll also be your primary. Well, we didn't have
my primary. My dad's primary doctor relative is in Orange.
We needed a primary here, if possible, doctor Reltich channel's
everything from there, but he needed a primary here. She said,
I can be that too, So they go. And if
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you know anything about diabetics, your circulation is poor. So
a lot of diabetics, most diabetics are. They lived to
be eighty five, which is my dad they lose toes
and fingers. So the state of your feet, you'll get
wounds that won't heal because you can't get circulation under.
My wife said, I've never seen anything like this. The
first visit was an hour. She's talking him through. She asked,
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my wife, she said, can you and I talk separately?
I want to just get his perspective on how he thinks.
So she's talking to him and as she's talking, she
sits down on her butt with her knees in front
of her, with his feet to her side. She begins
to take off his shoes. She takes off his socks
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to see how his toe nails are doing. She's rubbing
his feet, he said, doctor sitting on her butt down
at his feet. This is Christ washing the disciples feet
kind of stuff. And she's how does this feel. She's
looking at every aspect of his feet, top, bottom, the
whole thing on her butt. Now, I'm not saying every
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Concierra's doctor is going to do that. I'm saying the
point of concierge doctors is they got into this because
they didn't want to see thirty five or fifty patients
a day. They wanted to see a few patients and
be able to have a real relationship. Is that something
you're willing to pay for, separate from insurance and getting
away from all those big yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty
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for my dad. Yeah. Well, do I have a story
for you. My brother in law murdered two Native American
to Michael Ferry Show, Now you have my attention. One
hundred one years ago, yesterday, Mama Ninha Lorenzo was born,
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the original Namphus. It's a great story, one of those
really really amazing stories. I think of the Tex Mex
restaurants in Houston before I got here, there were a
few of them left. Russell Lebarrow tells the stories of
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his father and that generation of folks. They didn't go
to culinary school. There weren't foody blogs. There was none
of this environment that had as cropped up. Now you
just went in the kitchen, started cooking, lease some space,
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opened the doors, put the food out on the table,
and hope you got paid more than it cost for
the space, the labor and the food.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And it grew and grew and grew, and they figured
it out as they went along. They weren't trained in it.
There wasn't a culinary, There wasn't a CIA back then.
There weren't blogs and consultants and marketing.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And all this.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
They figured it out as they were along. You think
about that. I was watching a video the other day.
A guy was saying, Hell, think about this. People didn't
have hot shower sixty years ago. You think about how
recent so much of what we I don't want to
say take for granted, because it's not even that we
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take it for granted. It wasn't here normal today, but
it wasn't our normal. I don't write my emails. I
click a button and talk and then at the end
I hit send, and I don't usually approve for it.
They can figure it out. But what a crazy concept. Crazy,
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So many things that we just take as normal. The
Mamaephas and the te Arenas and the Ibarrahs and all
of these families, they figured it out as they went
along and somehow managed to make it and to create
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brands that have built a legacy for fifty plus years.
So Mamaepha has her son Roland. Roland ends up so
when they when they sell the company, there's no place
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for Roland. I've told the story before. What I'm gonna
tell it again. So Roland and his son Dominick, they
open they start providing cheesecakes. Two other restaurants around town
and they start working out of a tiny little space
and selling cheesecakes, and then they open a little a
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little like a concession stand restaurant called Domburger dom for Dominic.
They open that and they realize they can never scale
enough to survive at this space. Mama Niepha has been paid,
but that's pretty much it. They got to work for
a living, so they can't. They can't afford nice space anywhere.
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So they find this little rundown shop over on Richmond
inside the Loop, and it is let's see what would
that be next to uh, near the paint pussy Cat,
right in that little area and little white stucco run
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down building and they open and it's they've they've got.
They open and they have no marketing money, so nobody
knows they're there, and they call it LTMFO because Roland's
cousin in Mexico when they go down there, says this
is your time, this is the time for you. Well
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it begins inauspiciously. They open the doors and nobody comes.
Why would they nobody knows what old Tempo is. Day
after day after day. Then a few people start coming in.
They're calling everybody, just please come in. So they call
big Mama in Mama Ninfa, and she comes and she
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sits in the dining room, pride of place. So when
you walk in, oh my god, that's Mama and Infha
and she says, oh, you've come to see my son
Roland and my grandson Dominant. Oh is this their place?
And so a word began to spread, but not fast enough.
Now Mama Nina had sold not only all the restaurants.
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They had a Chafalaya, they had Bamballino's, they had uh Nimpha's,
they had several different concepts and a lot of restaurants.
She had sold all of that and her likeness because
the company, backed by private equity, was going to take
that and go nationwide with it and use her image,
the Mamma Nina image. So they had bought her likeness.
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And here she was sitting in the living room or
in the dining room as people came in. So the
question is can she eat where she wants to eat?
Or because they bought her likeness, must she now what
never go to another Tex mex restaurant. So Dominic tells
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the story that they were on their last leg. They
are going to close any minute. They're depressed. This was
their one shot. They once ran Nimphas and now they're
done and out of nowhere. The folks that bought out Nmphas,
a San and Tone based company, they get when that
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she's sitting in the dining room over there, and they
don't like it. The restaurant's dying. Let it die, right,
that's the strategic play. Let it die. But what did
they do? The barber streiz and effect. They file a lawsuit.
When they file the lawsuit, it hits the chronicle. This
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is when the chronicle was still very influential. Dominic says,
our world changed overnight. Next morning, when that chronicle article hits,
there's a line out the door. At lunch, people are
backslapping and hugging that we've brought the gang back together again.
All these old Mama Nha fans can now gather at
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El Tempo on Richmond. I don't know how many locations
they have now more than ten, but needless to say,
they've never stopped since then. That one stupid move by
the people who overplayed their hand. Dominic says, very clearly,
we would have been closed. I don't know if it
was a week or a month, we would have been closed.
Which is why that's called the Barber Striisan effect or
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the Striisan effect. There was somebody who was taking video
over the Malibu coast and Barbara Streisand's lawyers sued. I
forget the whole story, but they sued to keep that
video kept quiet, and the lawsuit hit the news. So
everybody who wanted to see where Barbara Streisand lived, they
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just looked at that video. Nobody was looking at the
video or the pictures otherwise. Now she inadvertently told everybody
where she lived, when what she wanted most was privacy.
So it's known as the Striisand effect, kind of the
cutting off your nosed spite your face. The harder you
try to keep something private, sometimes measures like that, all
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you'll actually do is highlighted promone, should we play another
rousing edition of the old rock and roll coming out down? Oh?
I forgot that was an LTMPO, wasn't it. They hosted
the Attorney General and they said, oh yeah,
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
He said, you turn.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So go home. I swear to God, Low dog. You
don't step aside, We'll tear you apart. You die first,
get it. Your friends might get me in a rush,
but not before I make your head into a canoe.
You understand me. He's plucking. Let's rush you. No, hedn't bluffing.
(00:41):
You're not as stupid as you look like.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested at an
immigration and Customs enforcement facility Friday during a visit with
members of New Jersey's congressional delegation. Mayor ros Brock, who's
also running for governor of New Jersey, was detained while
visiting the facility.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Homeland Securities as a group of protesters, including Baraka, stormed
the gate and broke into the facility as a bus
with detainees was entering. He ignored multiple warnings from Homeland
Security and was arrested. The attorney for the District of
New Jersey, Alena Habba, posted on x that no one
is above the law.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
After this, we heard some noise that came out. We
found that the mayor was there and the ICE was
having conversations with him. They asked him to leave the facility.
He left the facility, went behind the gates out there
with the protesters.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Why are you arresting him.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He's not on the property, He's not on your property.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They ignored us.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They opened the gate, they pushed through people. There were
several armed guards and they went to get the mayor.
Get to the mayor and La Monica and Rob and
I type shield the mayor.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
When I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone.
There's no video that supports me body slamming anyone. Uh We,
(02:41):
as a Congresswoman, Bonnie Watson Coleman said, we were simply
there to do our job. Therefore, oversight, visit and what
you want what you're watching in a video. And we
don't have all of the body him, and we hope
that all of the body him is released.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Any kind of footage. It is footage that is manufactured
for this purpose. Because I've said it before and I'll
say it again, they are lighting.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No find God how it was on this day in
nineteen o three, the Eyes of Texas was first sung.
The performance took place at a minstrel show benefiting the
University of Texas track team at the Hancock Opera House
(03:29):
in Austin. You know, a couple of years ago, a
few years ago, when the world was upside down in
twenty twenty after George Floyd overdose and they blamed it
on Chauvain, who's in prison for life, there was this move.
You will remember some of the athletes at the universities
thought they were really something special and they were going
(03:50):
to have statues torn down and universities called racist and boy,
it was a crazy, crazy time and a lot of
people lost their mind and capitulated to this nonsense. Well,
they tried to remove the Eyes of Texas from its
tradition at the University of Texas a song that's been
(04:13):
sung for generations. You don't create tradition overnight. Tradition matters,
it's meaningful, it's powerful, and it takes forever to build.
So whether you're the University of Texas or Texas A
and M or any other institution, you don't do away
(04:35):
with your traditions lightly. Which said bring back bonfire, But
that's another subject I've never even been. I just I
love the tradition. There's something about, you know, grown men
and women don't leave their estate to a university for nothing.
(04:55):
It is the deep and abiding connection you have to
that institution, and the rituals and the traditions are a
big part of that. They are a manifestation of that.
So anyway, the story behind the Eyes of Texas, it's
often linked to the president of the institution, William L. Prather,
(05:19):
But I went and did some digging on that and
it's a very interesting story indeed, and it involves it
does involve Praither. But what's interesting is so the the
Hank what is it called, the the Varsity Minstrel Show
(05:39):
was held every year as a fundraiser for the track
team because the track team didn't have the funds that
the football team did. So John Sinclair wrote the song
at the request of his friend Lewis Johnson, who was
the program director of the Varsity Minstrel Show. So he
(06:01):
needed something to put on for the show. So John
Sinclair sat down using the tune for I've been working
on the Railroad, and using that tune he created the
Eyes of Texas Are upon You. And the story goes
that William Prather had been at Washington College years before.
(06:24):
Most of you probably know that Robert E. Lee, after
the Civil War, was asked by Washington College to be
the chancellor of that institution. And he used to speak
to the student body about honor in dignity and conducting
yourself in such a manner, and he would say, the
eyes of the South are upon you. So William Prather
(06:48):
would have a weekly conversate convocation of the students, and
I did not know this. In nineteen oh three the
University of Texas had fewer than a thousand students. That's crazy,
how big it is now, my goodness. And during that
he would conclude his speeches by saying, ladies and gentlemen,
the eyes of Texas are upon you. That was his
(07:11):
takeoff of Robert E. Lee's statement to him as a
student at Washington College some number of years before. Anyway,
that's the story behind the Eyes of Texas, which got
us thinking about Texas or Texas and Shirley Q. Lickors
version has to be the best.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Hey, Lauren, don't just sit over here singing. Why don't
you get up at once a while? That serve somebody.
If these ladies do they want a Coca cola or something,
but don't get in that good stuff. Don't let him
in that cabnet over yonder them. How y'all doing it? Listen,
we gonna sing some Mosauma's girls. Put y'aut here in
Ain's then, damn, no younger made me sing this. See
I ain't saying that's his school.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Shut up, that's out the.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Ignorant.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This is the same song about the Yeah, I got
Texas out of Texas. It is always realized crazy, so
totally wago that everybody has a party. The Michael Berry Show.
(08:14):
President Trump speaking this morning before he heads off to
Saudi Arabia. He posted to Truth last night the following statement.
For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs
and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America were so
(08:35):
much higher in price than they were in any other nation,
sometimes being five to ten times more expensive than the
same drug manufactured in the same laboratory or plant by
the same company. It was always difficult to explain and
very embarrassing because in fact there was no correct or
(08:55):
rightful answer. The pharmaceutical slash drug companies would say for
years that it was research and development costs, and that
all of these costs were and would be for no
reason whatsoever, borne by the suckers of America alone. Campaign
contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not
with the Republican Party. We're going to do the right thing,
(09:16):
something that the Democrats have fought for many years. Therefore,
I am pleased to announce that tomorrow morning in the
White House at nine am, and he did this this morning,
I will be signing one of the most consequential executive
orders in our country's history. Prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices
will be reduced almost immediately by thirty to eighty percent.
They will rise throughout the world in order to equalize
(09:37):
them for the first time in many years, bring fairness
to America. I will be instituting a Most Favored Nations policy,
whereby the United States will pay the same price as
the nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the world.
Our country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens'
health care costs will be reduced by numbers never ever
thought of before. In addition, the United States will say
(10:00):
trillions of dollars thank you for your attention to this matter.
Make America great again. So my initial reaction is, I
am at what would be called a classical liberal economics followers.
(10:21):
That's not liberal as we think of as conservative and liberal.
It's the term as it was once used originally. Now
you might say libertarian, but for economic theory it doesn't
apply perfectly. But let's assume it does. For the same
reason that I struggled with the tariffs, I am not
a believer that government should set economic policy, that government
(10:45):
should dictate pricing, for instance. The problem is, let's take
the case of pharmaceuticals. The problem is that our government
has already been setting the prices of pharmaceuticals the facto,
and in some cases, to sure, they've been setting the
price of pharmaceuticals in the sense that we've been subsidizing them.
(11:10):
I don't have to remind you that what our government
did Professor Merk and Johnson Johnson during COVID is one
of the most disgusting things in American history. It's up
there with the Tuskegee scandals. It is awful. It is
(11:32):
really truly awful, compelling people to do something that they
didn't want to do, because if they wanted to do it,
you don't have to compel them, right, you don't have
to make somebody do something that they're willing to do
on their own. The first round that had to go
lucky round. They didn't know how many they'd get on that,
(11:55):
but they thought they'd get a lot and that would
create a critical mass. And the way that would go was, hey, hey,
look we're all getting a shot. Are you getting a shot?
I'm getting a shot.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I got shot.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I not gotta get good. And you had these idiots,
idiots among us. I can't wait, how do you get
the shot? How don't get the shot? They rushed down
and they got their shot, and then we got to see.
I mean, if Lena had to all goes getting it,
I gotta get it right. Hey, whatever she does, she
gets emotional over the pope, said because of the pope.
(12:29):
My moan wasn't ready to hit the said he was
emotional over the pope. So the first round was get
your shot. We're all getting it. I can't get it faster. Hey,
did you get it? No, you gotta wait. We're gonna
gotta all get it. And then you ran through the
list of the idiots. I'll get emails today. Michael it's shot,
(12:49):
and I just calls idiots. Well, of course you here,
try this shoe on, don't tell me whether it fits
or not. So then they went through that, and then
and then they tried to get your friends and neighbors.
You know you're an idiot, get everybody else to being
in it. Oh God, Doc, how you gotta do it.
(13:09):
We'll do I do it. Then we went to the Hey,
now you don't want to kill grandma. Do you don't
kill grandma? Because you'll kill grandma if you don't get
the shot. Okay, I'll get on kill grandma. Yeah, you
donna kill grandma. And then increasingly the numbers grew larger
and larger percentage of people taking the claud shot, some
(13:31):
of them dying because of it. That's okay, it's okay.
It's a cost. We pay right for this game. And Pfiser,
Mr Johnson, they're getting rich off of this. Keep going.
And you didn't remember, you didn't have to pay for it.
It was just paid for miraculously, it was paid for.
Pfeiser stock is shooting up in all the while and
fout she admitted this. They started requiring a mask. He
(13:53):
admitted use the term Schmaltz. You wear a mask, You're
getting all this stuff on your nose, in your hands.
It's going to cause more problems and it solves and
the mask can't keep It's like assuming a chain link
fence is going to keep the air from flowing through there.
It's not. But the mask told people we were in
the middle of an epidemic. You needed people scared to
(14:15):
get to for the government to be able to pull
off all these things. So I won't go too deep
into all that, but the point is our government has
been setting up the pharmaceutical companies, just as it has
the social media pages with the platform versus publisher distinction.
Our government has been setting this for a very long time,
(14:38):
a very long time, and so what should have been
a heroic, glorious industry has become an absolute cabal of
corruption and evil. And Trump knows this.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
He knows this.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
When you look at the prices we are paying for
drugs versus what the rest of the world is. It's
not a free market. However, our government is far too
involved in it, and that's got to stop. It's got
to stop, and it's going to stop.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Sadly, there are people in this country, a lot of
them with an NBA who went in and set aside
any sense of right and wrong, decency and everything else
to make more money. And I'm the ultimate capitalist. But
at some point, at some at the more dangerous places
between Chila Jackson Lee and the campus Bier and the
(15:37):
Triple Crown, Weave is, you know, tilted to the side,
the leaning tower of Weaver talking about pharmaceutical prices. How
many American families have been through a living hell, making
very difficult decisions for their loved one over whether they
(16:03):
can afford a medicine that saves someone's life. You know,
there was an audio clip played during the Run trials,
and you'll see it in all the movies and all
the documentaries, and a trader says, burn, baby burn, And
(16:25):
there's a fire in California, which of course is going
to cause commodity prices to go through the roof, and
he's getting rich. That burn baby burn is a great
example of someone and a culture that has lost focus.
(16:48):
I'm all for making profit as much as you can,
but honestly, if you've got to murder somebody to do it,
all right, we agree that's too far. All right? What
if you you push someone out into the ocean, you
don't technically murder them because you give them, you know,
a fight and chance to swim to shore. How far
(17:09):
along that spectrum are you going to go? It's really
disturbed me.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
You know, my.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Dad's in a situation where he needs a lot of
medical care. Obviously, by the way, I've been meaning to
tell you this. So last week I told you the
story about well, we talked about concierge healthcare, and that
means something different to every different doctor and every different patient.
So just because a doctor says they're a conciers doctor
doesn't mean that's going to work out for you or
(17:39):
that they're going to do the things that we say.
So I asked my various doctors and friends for recommendations
on an intercrenologist, which is the doctor that a diabetic
needs to deal with their pancreas. My dad's pancres simply
doesn't function, so he has to use our official insulin
(18:02):
and it's quite the process. So we needed a good
doctor in Houston since I've moved him over here, and
we looked around. There are lots of good doctors in Houston,
are lots of well regarded doctors in Houston, but we
wanted a concierge doctor for a number of different reasons,
and we came up with this woman named ANUW. Davis,
a n U Davis, And so my wife calls and
(18:29):
we get the referral and we go over and see her.
And before they went, my wife was very happy because
she had spoken to the office administrator and she liked
the setup. But what she liked particularly was that this
doctor will make house calls. You only need to go
to the doctor one time for your initial testing and
all that sort of stuff, and after that she'll make
(18:51):
house calls. No, you pay for it, but it's a
question of what you're willing to pay for. I'll cut
over here to have these things that matter, and it's
it's you're paying the doctor. Our healthcare system is the
most inefficient thing in the world. I have described it
as imagine going to see Mike Batches said lone star Chevy.
You go out there and look at the lot, you
(19:14):
find the one you kind of like, you're get, you
get the keys, drive off in. A week later you
find out how much it costs. You would never And
this is what we do with healthcare. It's insane. It
makes no sense. It's the most ridiculous thing ever. Who's
going to pay for it? How much am I going
to pay per month? And then once I do that,
(19:36):
what am I going to be able to get done?
And then how much of that am I going to
have to pay? It's ridiculous. So I have said, why
don't we do it? Like everything else? You go in,
here's your price sheet. Doc says, hey, you need this surgery,
and you go how much it's gonna cost? Oh, okay,
it'll be that much, all right, and then you buy
(19:56):
it or you don't. Well, here's the problem. It costs money.
It costs a lot less than it does under insurance.
I'll tell you that. But the insurance is an inefficiency
that inflates the price a great deal. But let's say
instead of a surgery cost in thirty thousand, it'll cost
six thousand. The problem is a lot of people won't
have the six thousand dollars. Now they had it, but
(20:17):
they blew it on stupid stuff because they didn't make
provision that there might be a health care need. Some people,
if you don't take the health expense out, the health
insurance out of their paycheck, they won't save it. If
you don't take the pension fund out of their paycheck,
they won't save it. And then they roll up like
a three year old, who's going to take care of me? Well,
(20:37):
it was your responsibility. It's people like this for which
Social Security pensions, Obamacare are set up, because they won't
they sip. You tell them how much you have left
after they take everything from your check, and they go, okay,
I'll go blow all that. Hopefully they've taken care of
everything else, because I'm not going to take care of it.
It's sad, but it's true. So my wife takes my
(21:02):
dad to this New Davis and it's the initial and
she's an intercrinologist, which means she'll hand the diabeta side,
but she'll also be your primary. Well, we didn't have
my primary. My dad's primary doctor relative is in Orange.
We needed a primary here, if possible, doctor Reltich channel's
everything from there, but he needed a primary here. She said,
I can be that too, So they go. And if
(21:24):
you know anything about diabetics, your circulation is poor. So
a lot of diabetics, most diabetics are. They lived to
be eighty five, which is my dad they lose toes
and fingers. So the state of your feet, you'll get
wounds that won't heal because you can't get circulation under.
My wife said, I've never seen anything like this. The
first visit was an hour. She's talking him through. She asked,
(21:49):
my wife, she said, can you and I talk separately?
I want to just get his perspective on how he thinks.
So she's talking to him and as she's talking, she
sits down on her butt with her knees in front
of her, with his feet to her side. She begins
to take off his shoes. She takes off his socks
(22:10):
to see how his toe nails are doing. She's rubbing
his feet, he said, doctor sitting on her butt down
at his feet. This is Christ washing the disciples feet
kind of stuff. And she's how does this feel. She's
looking at every aspect of his feet, top, bottom, the
whole thing on her butt. Now, I'm not saying every
(22:34):
Concierra's doctor is going to do that. I'm saying the
point of concierge doctors is they got into this because
they didn't want to see thirty five or fifty patients
a day. They wanted to see a few patients and
be able to have a real relationship. Is that something
you're willing to pay for, separate from insurance and getting
away from all those big yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty
(22:55):
for my dad. Yeah. Well, do I have a story
for you. My brother in law murdered two Native American
to Michael Ferry Show, Now you have my attention. One
hundred one years ago, yesterday, Mama Ninha Lorenzo was born,
(23:22):
the original Namphus. It's a great story, one of those
really really amazing stories. I think of the Tex Mex
restaurants in Houston before I got here, there were a
few of them left. Russell Lebarrow tells the stories of
(23:45):
his father and that generation of folks. They didn't go
to culinary school. There weren't foody blogs. There was none
of this environment that had as cropped up. Now you
just went in the kitchen, started cooking, lease some space,
(24:10):
opened the doors, put the food out on the table,
and hope you got paid more than it cost for
the space, the labor and the food.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
And that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And it grew and grew and grew, and they figured
it out as they went along. They weren't trained in it.
There wasn't a culinary, There wasn't a CIA back then.
There weren't blogs and consultants and marketing.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And all this.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
They figured it out as they were along. You think
about that. I was watching a video the other day.
A guy was saying, Hell, think about this. People didn't
have hot shower sixty years ago. You think about how
recent so much of what we I don't want to
say take for granted, because it's not even that we
(24:56):
take it for granted. It wasn't here normal today, but
it wasn't our normal. I don't write my emails. I
click a button and talk and then at the end
I hit send, and I don't usually approve for it.
They can figure it out. But what a crazy concept. Crazy,
(25:17):
So many things that we just take as normal. The
Mamaephas and the te Arenas and the Ibarrahs and all
of these families, they figured it out as they went
along and somehow managed to make it and to create
(25:38):
brands that have built a legacy for fifty plus years.
So Mamaepha has her son Roland. Roland ends up so
when they when they sell the company, there's no place
(25:58):
for Roland. I've told the story before. What I'm gonna
tell it again. So Roland and his son Dominick, they
open they start providing cheesecakes. Two other restaurants around town
and they start working out of a tiny little space
and selling cheesecakes, and then they open a little a
(26:22):
little like a concession stand restaurant called Domburger dom for Dominic.
They open that and they realize they can never scale
enough to survive at this space. Mama Niepha has been paid,
but that's pretty much it. They got to work for
a living, so they can't. They can't afford nice space anywhere.
(26:47):
So they find this little rundown shop over on Richmond
inside the Loop, and it is let's see what would
that be next to uh, near the paint pussy Cat,
right in that little area and little white stucco run
(27:07):
down building and they open and it's they've they've got.
They open and they have no marketing money, so nobody
knows they're there, and they call it LTMFO because Roland's
cousin in Mexico when they go down there, says this
is your time, this is the time for you. Well
(27:28):
it begins inauspiciously. They open the doors and nobody comes.
Why would they nobody knows what old Tempo is. Day
after day after day. Then a few people start coming in.
They're calling everybody, just please come in. So they call
big Mama in Mama Ninfa, and she comes and she
(27:50):
sits in the dining room, pride of place. So when
you walk in, oh my god, that's Mama and Infha
and she says, oh, you've come to see my son
Roland and my grandson Dominant. Oh is this their place?
And so a word began to spread, but not fast enough.
Now Mama Nina had sold not only all the restaurants.
(28:12):
They had a Chafalaya, they had Bamballino's, they had uh Nimpha's,
they had several different concepts and a lot of restaurants.
She had sold all of that and her likeness because
the company, backed by private equity, was going to take
that and go nationwide with it and use her image,
the Mamma Nina image. So they had bought her likeness.
(28:37):
And here she was sitting in the living room or
in the dining room as people came in. So the
question is can she eat where she wants to eat?
Or because they bought her likeness, must she now what
never go to another Tex mex restaurant. So Dominic tells
(28:58):
the story that they were on their last leg. They
are going to close any minute. They're depressed. This was
their one shot. They once ran Nimphas and now they're
done and out of nowhere. The folks that bought out Nmphas,
a San and Tone based company, they get when that
(29:19):
she's sitting in the dining room over there, and they
don't like it. The restaurant's dying. Let it die, right,
that's the strategic play. Let it die. But what did
they do? The barber streiz and effect. They file a lawsuit.
When they file the lawsuit, it hits the chronicle. This
(29:39):
is when the chronicle was still very influential. Dominic says,
our world changed overnight. Next morning, when that chronicle article hits,
there's a line out the door. At lunch, people are
backslapping and hugging that we've brought the gang back together again.
All these old Mama Nha fans can now gather at
(30:02):
El Tempo on Richmond. I don't know how many locations
they have now more than ten, but needless to say,
they've never stopped since then. That one stupid move by
the people who overplayed their hand. Dominic says, very clearly,
we would have been closed. I don't know if it
was a week or a month, we would have been closed.
Which is why that's called the Barber Striisan effect or
(30:23):
the Striisan effect. There was somebody who was taking video
over the Malibu coast and Barbara Streisand's lawyers sued. I
forget the whole story, but they sued to keep that
video kept quiet, and the lawsuit hit the news. So
everybody who wanted to see where Barbara Streisand lived, they
(30:46):
just looked at that video. Nobody was looking at the
video or the pictures otherwise. Now she inadvertently told everybody
where she lived, when what she wanted most was privacy.
So it's known as the Striisand effect, kind of the
cutting off your nosed spite your face. The harder you
try to keep something private, sometimes measures like that, all
(31:06):
you'll actually do is highlighted promone, should we play another
rousing edition of the old rock and roll coming out down? Oh?
I forgot that was an LTMPO, wasn't it. They hosted
the Attorney General and they said, oh yeah,
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