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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
If I was a white woman, I could sit around
my house on there and tell people what to do. Look,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There would need the plays at the door, and they
would not come.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Steal d at you. I wouldn't have to wear hard.
I would have a real nice husband out here bringing
home a check. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He would drive up Fens and Cadillac, and I could
sit up in a fur coat.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Now I'd have a rang on inbred finger and.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I would look like an episcope yesterday. I would go
down to the PTA and what's my opinions?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You tell us?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I would write a letter to the Niturn. It would
make sense that it would be spelled right, come on.
That would be the funniest.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Part of all. Yeah, because you know you can't spell.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I guess sometimes it looks like white people have all
the advantages and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
They get the vote for Republicans and have a poodle tu.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
They house out smell like old party and their car
gone ways single start dum't at.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And some up fum do not punch a time climb.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's a union girl.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
If I was a white woman, you.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Everything would be wonderfully be diamonds everywhere out of jewelrys.
I would have jewelry everything, money, cash.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I wouldn't have to wear a card. Now I could
send around my house.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Thought they could tell the maid to come home ifout
some orders and some women's coming over here.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Woman, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I would be sold fierce and sturdy and know my words,
and wear some real long pumps. I would paint my
eyelasses a different color.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Of a day.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I could wear some Maril Norman jewelry and Maril Norman lipstick.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Everybody was that girl?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Go y'all forgot about Maril Norman. Governor Abbott has called
a special session for July twenty first. There are at
least six bills on the session's agenda. There will be more.
Any bill that was vetoed he may call a special
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session for. Sometimes what will happen is a special session
will be called for a bill that is vetoed for
the purpose of cleaning it up. Now, you might say, well,
why do you need to do that, Because writing laws,
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which is legislation, the writing of laws, that's what the
legislature does. The legislature writes laws, writing laws in a
committee format is like making sausage. It's an imprecise process. Typically,
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the person whose name you know, your state rep. The speaker,
the committee chairman, the person who is speaking publicly, is
not the person who does any of the writing at all.
In fact, it is almost never the case that that
person actually writes the bill. It is the case case
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that very nerdy, very smart, typically lawyers around them write
the bill. Now, what goes into writing that bill is
generally under the influence of commercial interests who wanted that
bill written, and their lawyers slash lobbyists write the bill.
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It's very common and this has been going on. This
is not limited to Dan Patrick. This has been going
on for a very long time. And so the bill
is written by the lobbyists for the commercial interest. That
bill is then reviewed by the lawyer for the politician
who you know, who writes a little poop sheet, a
little bullet point, this is what this bill does. They
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don't actually know that, they don't know the actual language
of the bill. So then that bill is promoted and
instead of Texas typically newspaper writers, bloggers, some activists will
review the bill and say that's not what it says.
It says this because the politician themselves they've never really
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actually read the words in the bill. You have to
pass it to find out what's in it. To quote
Nancy Pelosi, so the bill related to THHC. Let me
speak to this issue, and even if you disagree with
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my position or what you think my position is, I'm
just going to ask you to give me a moment
to hear me out. If you think about whether you
are for or against things based purely on do you
personally do it or have you heard some things about that,
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There is nothing wrong with that. I don't look down
on you, I don't think less of you, but understand
we're very different and we're going to have some very
different opinions on things. I don't ride motorcycles, but I
don't believe it's the role of the government to tell
people they need to wear a helmet. And if you
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don't wear a helmet, we're going to charge you money,
We're gonna pull you over, We're going to create a
criminal offense for you. If you do it enough times,
we're going to cause you real serious problems. And if
your reaction is, well, you gotta wear a helmet safer,
then you've lost you've lost the plot, and that's okay.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves conservatives
on this basis, Well, you ought to. You gotta wear
a helmet otherwise you hit your head. Ain't no good
to come a hit in your head. Or well, if
you don't wear a helmet, bust your head wide open,
then you get in the hospital. Who's gonna pay for it?
You know, you don't end up costing me money. So yeah,
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you gotta wear a helmet. But it's not a question
of whether wearing a helmet's a good Everybody understands if
you're in an accident, you're more likely to survive if
you have a helmet. So you don't make a law
that requires a helmet, because if you do, by that logic,
government can say everybody has to go to bed at
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eight pm. My like, stay up doesn't matter. Studies have
shown you're going to be more successful, get more sleep,
be healthier, have a lower blood pressure, have a lower
heart rate, have greater longevity, and cost me less in
health costs health care costs. If you go to bed
at eight o'clock and get up early instead of standing
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up late. Well, but who are they to tell me.
Now we're talking. Now you're understanding what libertarianism. Now you're
understanding the concept is not whether the law imposes a
better desired behavior. The question is is it the role
of government to make that decision for the rest of us?
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Because when you say that guy out not smoking, that
guy to wear his helmet, and that guy out to
wear a seatbelt, and that guy out not eat chocolate,
and that guy out not do this, and that guy
out not do that, you are handing over to a
nanny state the power to eventually take something away from you.
And then you wonder, well, how come there's nobody left
to speak on my behalf. Well, I don't want to
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hear it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He'll just go ahead and say it. Sorry. The Michael
Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Story, as I've heard it told, is that he'll need
him a stunt man making his directorial debut. He was
under a lot of pressure to get this film done,
and he has tasked Jerry Reid with the theme song
and it needs to be in by in the morning.
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And he walks into a bar to blow off some steam,
and there is Jerry Reid at the bar and he says, Jerry,
you got my song? And he didn't, and he knew
he hadn't even begun to work on it. And he said,
have it to me by tomorrow morning at ten am,
or you're fired, or you're fired from the project. And
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Jerry Reid told him to calm down, don't overreact. Jerry
Reid had a few more drinks and went home and
in the morning delivered Eastbounding Down and how Needham said,
do not change a single thing, do not tweak it,
do not change it, do not do anything. It is perfect.
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Buddy of mine started dating a girl he met online,
which is always that's a whole different. I don't know
how people do that. And he kept telling me, oh,
she's the one, she's the one, she's the one. So
he goes to her house and he starts looking through
her closet. He finds a nurse's outfit, a French maid's outfit,
in a policewoman's uniform, and he decided that if she
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can't hold down a job, she is not the one
for him. Roy writes, zar today is my twenty fifth
wedding anniversary, and I was considering taking my lovely bride
to Federal American Grill in Katie. Unless you have another recommendation.
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I was kind of looking for something on the west side,
says we live in Brenham. Thank you for any suggestion
you may have. Well, Roy Thibodeaux, let me see what
I can do to make your twenty fifth anniversary special.
Friend of mine's father's been at M. D Anderson for
three days and he is on his way to go
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and sit with him. Says he can't get rid of fluids.
He's got ten active stones going Oh no, no, no,
I'm sorry, that's his business center. Stor's going. I'm going
now to sit with him. It's crazy about the time
you're really clicking in your career in your forties, fifties, sixty,
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and you're going along and you're making good money and
you do where you want to be, and your time
is valuable and you're so important. It's about the time
your parents are on the backside and what you're needed for.
And it's a humbling experience is to go sit with
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your mom or your dad and just sit there, and
it's like you're a kid again. You just need to
go and turn off your phone and sit there. I
don't have anything to add to that, it's just it
happened in real time, so it was on my mind.
But it's an interesting thing. So this THHC Band, I
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think sort of like Iron Israel. This is a really
interesting moment for a lot of people to figure out
who and what you are. I think a lot of
people have this sense that, you know, it's US against them,
Republicans versus the Democrats, and uh, and largely it is.
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Don't get me wrong, it is, but there's this US
versus them and we gotta beat them. For a lot
of people, there's no principle behind it. It's our team
versus their team. And when you see Jasmine Crockett and
she says, uh, how he gonna go to war? He
eve high at me and they go, you know what,
I'm not her. She's stupid and I'm not stupid. So
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I'm on the other team and she's over there, and
so I'm gonna be be for Trump because she's not
for Trump. She talks like a ghetto thug and she's
an idiot. And anytime I come across people like that,
I don't want them in charge of anything because they're
dumb and she is. And so I'm for the other team,
all right. But once the other team is elected. That's
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where you start getting into some real challenges. Now it's
not just enough to not be on her team. Now
it is how much revenue are we going to collect
and from whom? And how are we going to spend it?
What kind of laws are we going to pass, What
freedoms are we going to restrict, What businesses are we
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going to reward, and what are we going to punish.
I don't know about all that. I just know I
ain't Jasmine Crockett, I ain't AOC. I mean, she's stupid.
I ain't Bernie Sanders, I ain't Hillary Clinton. I ain't them. Okay,
but now you've won. Now we begin the process of governing.
This is just as important. So do we drop bombs
on Iran? Or do we wait? Do we threaten and wait?
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To what extent do we threaten? Do we send in
troops on the ground. Is that going to lead to
World War three? Or is that going to provide peace?
These are very difficult considerations that must be considered. We
can't just win elections and then our team won and
then assume all as well. It doesn't work that way.
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I have had some of the best conversations related to
the theory behind governance over this THCHC issue. Now, I've
had a lot of people send me emails and go,
you just trying to help done. It's everybody gonna will dope. Okay, Well,
maybe that's not the entree to a good conversation, but
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at least maybe in some odd way it's It's a
start when when Dan Patrick tells you that people are
going to die and all these things are gonna all
I ask is read research that has not been what's
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happened with marijuana by and large. But if it is
and it's not, what do you think is happening with alcohol?
What do you think has happened with a number of
other Well, let's just stick to alcohol. Alcohol is a
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deadly drug, liver cancer, cirrhosis. It impedes your ability to process,
to think. It's the greatest addiction in the country by far.
You've got more people hooked on prescription drugs in this
country that is devastating their lives than you can possibly imagine,
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lives destroyed on drugs that were absolutely necessary started out
with the best of intentions. I think it's very important
to ask yourself a question. These are the big questions.
What should the role of the government be in my life.
And if you say what doesn't matter to me, I
don't use that it will eventually. Do you trust Sheila Jackson,
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Lee Silvester Turner and Dan Patrick to make decisions for
you your life or are you happy to have them
harassing someone else assuming it'll never come around to you?
About this song bandit, You're the joke. It's one of
the few times that Jerry Reid kind of embraces the
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sex symbol and isn't a clown, isn't being silly. It's like,
it's like a guy who does oka. You have a
great example. Buck Sexton does a great Anthony Fauci, and
if I'm in the car and they hear him do Fauci,
I will text him and say that was a great Fauci.
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Own the bit take it to break. It's almost as
if halfway through the segment he feels awkward, like you know,
I've done this too long, and he stops it and
he does it really, really well. He does a fantastic Fauci.
Had an event in Palm Beach a few weeks ago
and he kept threatening on stage to do his Fauci,
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and I think he's probably never done it in person,
but if you've ever heard their show, he does a
fantastic the best I've heard, the best anthony about you
I've heard. But he's not a guy who does voices typically,
so somehow he stumbled on it, and it's really good.
Jerry Reid is a guy that's always kind of you know,
clowning and goofing, and in that song right there, and
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I don't know the history behind how that came to
be he wrote it, but it's one of the few
times you see the range that he uh that he has.
And anyway, I think it's a fantastic song and I
love Jerry Reid. Jerry Reid, the guitar man, the maestro,
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the unsung hero, a smoke in the bandit, the guy
who doesn't the snowman, and that damn dog. What was
his dog's name, Ramond? Do you remember what was it? Roscoe?
So my wife and I used to live in West
University and we lived on a street called Brompton, going
to Brompton and Pittsburgh and it was such fred that's it.
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It was such a heady time for me. Did Chad
tell you looked at him? It was such a heady
time for me because I was straight out of law school.
I was, you know, not new to Houston, but a
young professional in Houston. I was so excited about the
opportunities in Houston. And Craig Vigio was my neighbor, and
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Dick Harper, is famous neurosurgeon, was my neighbor. And Jack
Roth who was a famous cancer doctor. And it was
just all these doctors. Bill Bryant at the shoulder and
the guy for the astros, and it was just such
a neat time for me and my wife and I
only had one car. We were both baby lawyers downtown
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and we would drive home down Kirby from fifty nine
down Buffalo Speedway. And when you came down Buffalo Speedway
on the left, so on the north, on the east
side of Buffalo Speedway, there was an old folks home
I forget what it was called. And it was set back,
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you know, say two hundred feet from the road, and
in front of it, sharing a parking lot, was a Looby's.
And I said to my wife, when you're straight out
of law school and you've just finished the bar, everything
has a legal reference. And I said, that's an anti
trust violation. Right there. You see that. It's a classic
anti trust violation. She said, what are you talking about?
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I said, it is illegal to have a Luby's in
front of an old folks home. That's not fair competition.
Who else can ever feed the old folks if you
got loubies out front? And she thought that was the
funniest thing. And for years we would come down Brompton chig. Yep,
there's that ant. You're right, that an I trust violation. Well,
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there may be an anti trust violation against our dear friend,
Russell Lebarro. I don't know. I don't know if the
Justice Department or FTC technically will bring the case. But
let's start with. You got Russell Lebarro. You've got the
Gringoes brand, You've got everything he stands for. You've got
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the veterans, everything he does for Camp Hope, everything he
does for our show, everything he does for the cops. Okay,
and you've got the location at Muski. And then you
got the location up forty five North, which I get
confused if that's Spring or Conray or what that is.
But you know what I'm talking about. But there's this
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gap in between the vortex of that of that pac
Man and that Tombo and now today opens the Green
goes at Tomboll. That's almost not even fair. Right at
the hard corner of ninety nine and two forty nine,
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I'm not even sure you should go to today, Ramon,
because it's going to be so crazy. Absolutely did you
you went this weekend? You didn't post about it? How
was it? If I was in town, I would have gone.
It was the friends and family. What'd you get? Fahidas?
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You know, this will probably cost me more listeners even
than my dope position, But I'm gonna say it. I
know I am gonna say. I'm gonna say it. I've
always thought of ordering fajidas at at a tex Mex
restaurant as the less sophisticated approach. That's like, you know, okay, yeah,
get fijidas because you don't know what else to order.
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I've always kind of looked down on the fahida orderer,
you know, it's like it that's that's kind of the
Disneyland approach. It's not, it's not. It doesn't show a
great a droit understanding of text max cuisine. You got
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to get down into the you know, Plato Soldado and
you got to look at okay, do I really okay?
Do I want to crispy beef taco today? Or do
I want to to molly with my combo? You add
a little something over here, maybe throw a flotta in
there and put it. But Fajidas is just sort of
a Fahidas strikes me. It's just me as being the
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thing you order if you don't know text max. It's
the easiest, most accessible entry level order. Well, we just
get Fiddes for everybody. You know, when waiters hear somebody
say that, they go, oh, okay, so you don't know
what else to order. But when you see somebody get
deep down in and when you start taking one item
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off ramon, when you got the combo platter and you're
taking one item off and one item on, and they're
thinking to themselves, we really don't want to do substitutions.
That's the reason for the platter. And you start moving
this over here and moving the woo man, don't do
that on the first day there there, but the waiter
is looking at you at that point as this guy's
a pro right here. He removed his tomali, he put
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his flout in there, he got his refried beans with
extra cheese. And this guy, this guy really really knows
what he's doing. Did I tell you what happened to
me this week? So I'm in DC and I don't
know I had a craven flung on me for text
Max and I went to a place I'm not going
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to tell you the name, no, because there were nice people.
And I go in and I sit down, and they
don't have the bearing of being food people. They have
the bearing of being construction people. Which turns out there
and there El Salvador and the nicest people in the world.
And I told him I was Maxicent and they pretended
to believe me, and the food was awful, and I
felt horrible about that, but not as bad as I
felt about an hour later.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
He will sleep like a bit, touted Michael Arry.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It was a very It was such a smart song.
You know, so many songs are just love ditties. Such
a smart song and the chord progression, it's it's sophisticated.
It's not something I could learn on a weekend on
the back porch with Kevin Bole's advice. It is very,
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very like an Alicia Key's song, even more so in
nineteen sixty seven, Billy Joel was set to graduate with
his high school class, but he missed an English credit.
Who really cares? He goes on to be Billy Joel
Well Twenty five years later on this day, in nineteen
ninety two, he got his high school diploma from Hicksville
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High School in Long Island, New York. But even more importantly,
that song we Didn't Start the Fire, That musical arrangement
is considered the inspiration for and I don't want to
overblow this because I have a tendency when something is
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great to say it's even more than great. But we
Didn't Start the Fire has been credited by music critics
as being the inspiration for one of, if not the
greatest song ever related to baby mamaism and illegitimacy and
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sexual promiscuity. Considered if not the finest work in the genre,
then certainly among them inspired by that, and that is
no less than Shirley Cue Licker Lord.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I've been done and had too many babies, Honey, who.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Is my baby daddy?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Girl?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
I'd be a MEI And as if I could ever
figure out where I got.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Cheap two Limbo cracker Jack, Ranja low K, Martina Simonella Belvida,
Jennitally katfiz Neroy and Coco Puffs and Pluto Penelope, Jack
Daniels beautiful.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And lamon Ngel. Who is my baby daddy? Don't even
two of these children's even look alike?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Hello Vera may Be Leine ginger Vitis, bre Cream Kruex, Nike,
Quill Gangster Q and daffidial Ronmaccarty, Captain Morgan d Moctorius
and Delori and Gunna Lo Trium and Felicia Clamdia Champagne.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Who named these childrens? And how many of them?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Is?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Why they always want to come live with me? Anyway?
Ask him who they daddy is?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Look over he under they go Nova Scotia, Bubbalysius que
Poney to Gonorrhea ice Bucket, but Tugli of Bizene and
Marguerita Percolata, terminative Belcrow at Taekwondo, they're at Tello Chromosome.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Steatri as Shittiev. That's an ignorant one right there at Shatig.
Who is these baby dads?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I wish I knew I'd show Sueingph some child support hat.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Shoes on this day in nineteen eighty two, The Moonwalk
was done for the first time in recorded history, and no,
not by Michael Jackson. It was done on the British
TV show Top of the Pops, which, if you follow
the history of rock music in five hundred songs for
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most any other music show. As to how we ended
up with the songs that became the hits, Top of
the Pops was it man that was an influential show. Well,
the man who performed the moonwalk on British television was
not Michael Jackson, but Michael Jackson was watching and would
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popularize it in America just a year later. In fact,
when he first performed it, and you can see the
YouTube video of that first time he performs it in public,
he had seen Jeffrey Daniel of Shallamar perform the song
and that was the inspiration for what he would end
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up popularizing. And I wonder how many people know he
did not create that dance himself. Ramon, can you moonwalk?
Can you even get anywhere close to moonwalking? Do you
know anybody who can moonwalk? Amy Kim mowak Oh, I
bet you Chance McLain can moonwalk. I bet you Chance
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McLain spent hours on in moonwalking. That was kind of
the sort of thing that I bet he did when
he was I say that would have been about Medical
Middle school on this day. Three years ago, in the
case of Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization, or what
can be known as the Dobbs Decision, the United States
Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution does not assign
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the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, thereby
returning such authority to the individual states. This would overturn
the prior decision in Roe versus Wade nineteen seventy three
and Planned Parenthood versus Casey in nineteen ninety two. Bob Casey,
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of course, being I believe the Attorney General at the time,
that case is very important because it is described as
outlawing abortion. It did not outlaw abortion. And it's important
for people to understand this because I've had people say, well,
it should have Okay, I got that, But if you
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truly believe in federalism, I we have to define murder
because once you once you believe that it is murder,
then it's really not negotiable from there. But even folks
that believe that abortions should be an option and a
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lot of people in the middle do people on the
left of it. They want it everywhere all the time,
and you know, we want everybody to have to watch.
People on the right say it's murder. You shouldn't be allowed.
But a lot of people in the middle, who don't
give a lot of thought, thinks, well, it should be
an option. Okay, we should all agree. The tenth Amendment
to the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, was
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ten amendments to the original Constitution. The Constitution was intended
to limit the authority of government because it is the
natural manifestation of power that it be used against people.
All of the rightings of our founders understand understood this fact.
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The moment we come together and create a government, that
government is going to work against the interest of the individual.
So we're going to have to handcuff that. Dobbs was
just another in a in a great line of jurisprudence
that said, the powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution or prohibited to it by the States,
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are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.
It's important to remember Dobbs didn't even outlaw abortion. Dobbs
simply said a state can make that decision for themselves.
And the left knows this. Think how many people have
been lied to they've made abortion illegal? Know they haven't.
If you, if you are, if you are, what did
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what did? Uh? Rush Lumbaugh? Calsandra Fluke? If you are
a loose woman who gets pregnant by men and then
doesn't want the baby, there are still states where you
can well
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
If I was a white woman, I could sit around
my house on there and tell people what to do. Look,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There would need the plays at the door, and they
would not come.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Steal d at you. I wouldn't have to wear hard.
I would have a real nice husband out here bringing
home a check. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He would drive up Fens and Cadillac, and I could
sit up in a fur coat.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Now I'd have a rang on inbred finger and.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I would look like an episcope yesterday. I would go
down to the PTA and what's my opinions?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You tell us?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I would write a letter to the Niturn. It would
make sense that it would be spelled right, come on.
That would be the funniest.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Part of all. Yeah, because you know you can't spell.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I guess sometimes it looks like white people have all
the advantages and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
They get the vote for Republicans and have a poodle tu.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
They house out smell like old party and their car
gone ways single start dum't at.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And some up fum do not punch a time climb.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's a union girl.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
If I was a white woman, you.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Everything would be wonderfully be diamonds everywhere out of jewelrys.
I would have jewelry everything, money, cash.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I wouldn't have to wear a card. Now I could
send around my house.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Thought they could tell the maid to come home ifout
some orders and some women's coming over here.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Woman, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I would be sold fierce and sturdy and know my words,
and wear some real long pumps. I would paint my
eyelasses a different color.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Of a day.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I could wear some Maril Norman jewelry and Maril Norman lipstick.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Everybody was that girl?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Go y'all forgot about Maril Norman. Governor Abbott has called
a special session for July twenty first. There are at
least six bills on the session's agenda. There will be more.
Any bill that was vetoed he may call a special
(02:57):
session for. Sometimes what will happen is a special session
will be called for a bill that is vetoed for
the purpose of cleaning it up. Now, you might say, well,
why do you need to do that, Because writing laws,
(03:17):
which is legislation, the writing of laws, that's what the
legislature does. The legislature writes laws, writing laws in a
committee format is like making sausage. It's an imprecise process. Typically,
(03:38):
the person whose name you know, your state rep. The speaker,
the committee chairman, the person who is speaking publicly, is
not the person who does any of the writing at all.
In fact, it is almost never the case that that
person actually writes the bill. It is the case case
(04:01):
that very nerdy, very smart, typically lawyers around them write
the bill. Now, what goes into writing that bill is
generally under the influence of commercial interests who wanted that
bill written, and their lawyers slash lobbyists write the bill.
(04:23):
It's very common and this has been going on. This
is not limited to Dan Patrick. This has been going
on for a very long time. And so the bill
is written by the lobbyists for the commercial interest. That
bill is then reviewed by the lawyer for the politician
who you know, who writes a little poop sheet, a
little bullet point, this is what this bill does. They
(04:45):
don't actually know that, they don't know the actual language
of the bill. So then that bill is promoted and
instead of Texas typically newspaper writers, bloggers, some activists will
review the bill and say that's not what it says.
It says this because the politician themselves they've never really
(05:07):
actually read the words in the bill. You have to
pass it to find out what's in it. To quote
Nancy Pelosi, so the bill related to THHC. Let me
speak to this issue, and even if you disagree with
(05:28):
my position or what you think my position is, I'm
just going to ask you to give me a moment
to hear me out. If you think about whether you
are for or against things based purely on do you
personally do it or have you heard some things about that,
(05:51):
There is nothing wrong with that. I don't look down
on you, I don't think less of you, but understand
we're very different and we're going to have some very
different opinions on things. I don't ride motorcycles, but I
don't believe it's the role of the government to tell
people they need to wear a helmet. And if you
(06:13):
don't wear a helmet, we're going to charge you money,
We're gonna pull you over, We're going to create a
criminal offense for you. If you do it enough times,
we're going to cause you real serious problems. And if
your reaction is, well, you gotta wear a helmet safer,
then you've lost you've lost the plot, and that's okay.
(06:34):
There are a lot of people who consider themselves conservatives
on this basis, Well, you ought to. You gotta wear
a helmet otherwise you hit your head. Ain't no good
to come a hit in your head. Or well, if
you don't wear a helmet, bust your head wide open,
then you get in the hospital. Who's gonna pay for it?
You know, you don't end up costing me money. So yeah,
(06:55):
you gotta wear a helmet. But it's not a question
of whether wearing a helmet's a good Everybody understands if
you're in an accident, you're more likely to survive if
you have a helmet. So you don't make a law
that requires a helmet, because if you do, by that logic,
government can say everybody has to go to bed at
(07:17):
eight pm. My like, stay up doesn't matter. Studies have
shown you're going to be more successful, get more sleep,
be healthier, have a lower blood pressure, have a lower
heart rate, have greater longevity, and cost me less in
health costs health care costs. If you go to bed
at eight o'clock and get up early instead of standing
(07:38):
up late. Well, but who are they to tell me.
Now we're talking. Now you're understanding what libertarianism. Now you're
understanding the concept is not whether the law imposes a
better desired behavior. The question is is it the role
of government to make that decision for the rest of us?
(08:00):
Because when you say that guy out not smoking, that
guy to wear his helmet, and that guy out to
wear a seatbelt, and that guy out not eat chocolate,
and that guy out not do this, and that guy
out not do that, you are handing over to a
nanny state the power to eventually take something away from you.
And then you wonder, well, how come there's nobody left
to speak on my behalf. Well, I don't want to
(08:21):
hear it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He'll just go ahead and say it. Sorry. The Michael
Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Story, as I've heard it told, is that he'll need
him a stunt man making his directorial debut. He was
under a lot of pressure to get this film done,
and he has tasked Jerry Reid with the theme song
and it needs to be in by in the morning.
(08:50):
And he walks into a bar to blow off some steam,
and there is Jerry Reid at the bar and he says, Jerry,
you got my song? And he didn't, and he knew
he hadn't even begun to work on it. And he said,
have it to me by tomorrow morning at ten am,
or you're fired, or you're fired from the project. And
(09:11):
Jerry Reid told him to calm down, don't overreact. Jerry
Reid had a few more drinks and went home and
in the morning delivered Eastbounding Down and how Needham said,
do not change a single thing, do not tweak it,
do not change it, do not do anything. It is perfect.
(09:32):
Buddy of mine started dating a girl he met online,
which is always that's a whole different. I don't know
how people do that. And he kept telling me, oh,
she's the one, she's the one, she's the one. So
he goes to her house and he starts looking through
her closet. He finds a nurse's outfit, a French maid's outfit,
in a policewoman's uniform, and he decided that if she
(09:55):
can't hold down a job, she is not the one
for him. Roy writes, zar today is my twenty fifth
wedding anniversary, and I was considering taking my lovely bride
to Federal American Grill in Katie. Unless you have another recommendation.
(10:16):
I was kind of looking for something on the west side,
says we live in Brenham. Thank you for any suggestion
you may have. Well, Roy Thibodeaux, let me see what
I can do to make your twenty fifth anniversary special.
Friend of mine's father's been at M. D Anderson for
three days and he is on his way to go
(10:37):
and sit with him. Says he can't get rid of fluids.
He's got ten active stones going Oh no, no, no,
I'm sorry, that's his business center. Stor's going. I'm going
now to sit with him. It's crazy about the time
you're really clicking in your career in your forties, fifties, sixty,
(11:00):
and you're going along and you're making good money and
you do where you want to be, and your time
is valuable and you're so important. It's about the time
your parents are on the backside and what you're needed for.
And it's a humbling experience is to go sit with
(11:20):
your mom or your dad and just sit there, and
it's like you're a kid again. You just need to
go and turn off your phone and sit there. I
don't have anything to add to that, it's just it
happened in real time, so it was on my mind.
But it's an interesting thing. So this THHC Band, I
(11:43):
think sort of like Iron Israel. This is a really
interesting moment for a lot of people to figure out
who and what you are. I think a lot of
people have this sense that, you know, it's US against them,
Republicans versus the Democrats, and uh, and largely it is.
(12:03):
Don't get me wrong, it is, but there's this US
versus them and we gotta beat them. For a lot
of people, there's no principle behind it. It's our team
versus their team. And when you see Jasmine Crockett and
she says, uh, how he gonna go to war? He
eve high at me and they go, you know what,
I'm not her. She's stupid and I'm not stupid. So
(12:27):
I'm on the other team and she's over there, and
so I'm gonna be be for Trump because she's not
for Trump. She talks like a ghetto thug and she's
an idiot. And anytime I come across people like that,
I don't want them in charge of anything because they're
dumb and she is. And so I'm for the other team,
all right. But once the other team is elected. That's
(12:51):
where you start getting into some real challenges. Now it's
not just enough to not be on her team. Now
it is how much revenue are we going to collect
and from whom? And how are we going to spend it?
What kind of laws are we going to pass, What
freedoms are we going to restrict, What businesses are we
(13:14):
going to reward, and what are we going to punish.
I don't know about all that. I just know I
ain't Jasmine Crockett, I ain't AOC. I mean, she's stupid.
I ain't Bernie Sanders, I ain't Hillary Clinton. I ain't them. Okay,
but now you've won. Now we begin the process of governing.
This is just as important. So do we drop bombs
on Iran? Or do we wait? Do we threaten and wait?
(13:39):
To what extent do we threaten? Do we send in
troops on the ground. Is that going to lead to
World War three? Or is that going to provide peace?
These are very difficult considerations that must be considered. We
can't just win elections and then our team won and
then assume all as well. It doesn't work that way.
(14:00):
I have had some of the best conversations related to
the theory behind governance over this THCHC issue. Now, I've
had a lot of people send me emails and go,
you just trying to help done. It's everybody gonna will dope. Okay, Well,
maybe that's not the entree to a good conversation, but
(14:24):
at least maybe in some odd way it's It's a
start when when Dan Patrick tells you that people are
going to die and all these things are gonna all
I ask is read research that has not been what's
(14:47):
happened with marijuana by and large. But if it is
and it's not, what do you think is happening with alcohol?
What do you think has happened with a number of
other Well, let's just stick to alcohol. Alcohol is a
(15:08):
deadly drug, liver cancer, cirrhosis. It impedes your ability to process,
to think. It's the greatest addiction in the country by far.
You've got more people hooked on prescription drugs in this
country that is devastating their lives than you can possibly imagine,
(15:33):
lives destroyed on drugs that were absolutely necessary started out
with the best of intentions. I think it's very important
to ask yourself a question. These are the big questions.
What should the role of the government be in my life.
And if you say what doesn't matter to me, I
don't use that it will eventually. Do you trust Sheila Jackson,
(15:57):
Lee Silvester Turner and Dan Patrick to make decisions for
you your life or are you happy to have them
harassing someone else assuming it'll never come around to you?
About this song bandit, You're the joke. It's one of
the few times that Jerry Reid kind of embraces the
(16:20):
sex symbol and isn't a clown, isn't being silly. It's like,
it's like a guy who does oka. You have a
great example. Buck Sexton does a great Anthony Fauci, and
if I'm in the car and they hear him do Fauci,
I will text him and say that was a great Fauci.
(16:43):
Own the bit take it to break. It's almost as
if halfway through the segment he feels awkward, like you know,
I've done this too long, and he stops it and
he does it really, really well. He does a fantastic Fauci.
Had an event in Palm Beach a few weeks ago
and he kept threatening on stage to do his Fauci,
(17:05):
and I think he's probably never done it in person,
but if you've ever heard their show, he does a
fantastic the best I've heard, the best anthony about you
I've heard. But he's not a guy who does voices typically,
so somehow he stumbled on it, and it's really good.
Jerry Reid is a guy that's always kind of you know,
clowning and goofing, and in that song right there, and
(17:28):
I don't know the history behind how that came to
be he wrote it, but it's one of the few
times you see the range that he uh that he has.
And anyway, I think it's a fantastic song and I
love Jerry Reid. Jerry Reid, the guitar man, the maestro,
(17:51):
the unsung hero, a smoke in the bandit, the guy
who doesn't the snowman, and that damn dog. What was
his dog's name, Ramond? Do you remember what was it? Roscoe?
So my wife and I used to live in West
University and we lived on a street called Brompton, going
to Brompton and Pittsburgh and it was such fred that's it.
(18:14):
It was such a heady time for me. Did Chad
tell you looked at him? It was such a heady
time for me because I was straight out of law school.
I was, you know, not new to Houston, but a
young professional in Houston. I was so excited about the
opportunities in Houston. And Craig Vigio was my neighbor, and
(18:35):
Dick Harper, is famous neurosurgeon, was my neighbor. And Jack
Roth who was a famous cancer doctor. And it was
just all these doctors. Bill Bryant at the shoulder and
the guy for the astros, and it was just such
a neat time for me and my wife and I
only had one car. We were both baby lawyers downtown
(18:55):
and we would drive home down Kirby from fifty nine
down Buffalo Speedway. And when you came down Buffalo Speedway
on the left, so on the north, on the east
side of Buffalo Speedway, there was an old folks home
I forget what it was called. And it was set back,
(19:20):
you know, say two hundred feet from the road, and
in front of it, sharing a parking lot, was a Looby's.
And I said to my wife, when you're straight out
of law school and you've just finished the bar, everything
has a legal reference. And I said, that's an anti
trust violation. Right there. You see that. It's a classic
anti trust violation. She said, what are you talking about?
(19:42):
I said, it is illegal to have a Luby's in
front of an old folks home. That's not fair competition.
Who else can ever feed the old folks if you
got loubies out front? And she thought that was the
funniest thing. And for years we would come down Brompton chig. Yep,
there's that ant. You're right, that an I trust violation. Well,
(20:07):
there may be an anti trust violation against our dear friend,
Russell Lebarro. I don't know. I don't know if the
Justice Department or FTC technically will bring the case. But
let's start with. You got Russell Lebarro. You've got the
Gringoes brand, You've got everything he stands for. You've got
(20:30):
the veterans, everything he does for Camp Hope, everything he
does for our show, everything he does for the cops. Okay,
and you've got the location at Muski. And then you
got the location up forty five North, which I get
confused if that's Spring or Conray or what that is.
But you know what I'm talking about. But there's this
(20:53):
gap in between the vortex of that of that pac
Man and that Tombo and now today opens the Green
goes at Tomboll. That's almost not even fair. Right at
the hard corner of ninety nine and two forty nine,
(21:17):
I'm not even sure you should go to today, Ramon,
because it's going to be so crazy. Absolutely did you
you went this weekend? You didn't post about it? How
was it? If I was in town, I would have gone.
It was the friends and family. What'd you get? Fahidas?
(21:38):
You know, this will probably cost me more listeners even
than my dope position, But I'm gonna say it. I
know I am gonna say. I'm gonna say it. I've
always thought of ordering fajidas at at a tex Mex
restaurant as the less sophisticated approach. That's like, you know, okay, yeah,
get fijidas because you don't know what else to order.
(22:00):
I've always kind of looked down on the fahida orderer,
you know, it's like it that's that's kind of the
Disneyland approach. It's not, it's not. It doesn't show a
great a droit understanding of text max cuisine. You got
(22:25):
to get down into the you know, Plato Soldado and
you got to look at okay, do I really okay?
Do I want to crispy beef taco today? Or do
I want to to molly with my combo? You add
a little something over here, maybe throw a flotta in
there and put it. But Fajidas is just sort of
a Fahidas strikes me. It's just me as being the
(22:48):
thing you order if you don't know text max. It's
the easiest, most accessible entry level order. Well, we just
get Fiddes for everybody. You know, when waiters hear somebody
say that, they go, oh, okay, so you don't know
what else to order. But when you see somebody get
deep down in and when you start taking one item
(23:11):
off ramon, when you got the combo platter and you're
taking one item off and one item on, and they're
thinking to themselves, we really don't want to do substitutions.
That's the reason for the platter. And you start moving
this over here and moving the woo man, don't do
that on the first day there there, but the waiter
is looking at you at that point as this guy's
a pro right here. He removed his tomali, he put
(23:34):
his flout in there, he got his refried beans with
extra cheese. And this guy, this guy really really knows
what he's doing. Did I tell you what happened to
me this week? So I'm in DC and I don't
know I had a craven flung on me for text
Max and I went to a place I'm not going
(23:54):
to tell you the name, no, because there were nice people.
And I go in and I sit down, and they
don't have the bearing of being food people. They have
the bearing of being construction people. Which turns out there
and there El Salvador and the nicest people in the world.
And I told him I was Maxicent and they pretended
to believe me, and the food was awful, and I
felt horrible about that, but not as bad as I
felt about an hour later.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
He will sleep like a bit, touted Michael Arry.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It was a very It was such a smart song.
You know, so many songs are just love ditties. Such
a smart song and the chord progression, it's it's sophisticated.
It's not something I could learn on a weekend on
the back porch with Kevin Bole's advice. It is very,
(24:39):
very like an Alicia Key's song, even more so in
nineteen sixty seven, Billy Joel was set to graduate with
his high school class, but he missed an English credit.
Who really cares? He goes on to be Billy Joel
Well Twenty five years later on this day, in nineteen
ninety two, he got his high school diploma from Hicksville
(25:03):
High School in Long Island, New York. But even more importantly,
that song we Didn't Start the Fire, That musical arrangement
is considered the inspiration for and I don't want to
overblow this because I have a tendency when something is
(25:24):
great to say it's even more than great. But we
Didn't Start the Fire has been credited by music critics
as being the inspiration for one of, if not the
greatest song ever related to baby mamaism and illegitimacy and
(25:50):
sexual promiscuity. Considered if not the finest work in the genre,
then certainly among them inspired by that, and that is
no less than Shirley Cue Licker Lord.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I've been done and had too many babies, Honey, who.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Is my baby daddy?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Girl?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
I'd be a MEI And as if I could ever
figure out where I got.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Cheap two Limbo cracker Jack, Ranja low K, Martina Simonella Belvida,
Jennitally katfiz Neroy and Coco Puffs and Pluto Penelope, Jack
Daniels beautiful.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And lamon Ngel. Who is my baby daddy? Don't even
two of these children's even look alike?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Hello Vera may Be Leine ginger Vitis, bre Cream Kruex, Nike,
Quill Gangster Q and daffidial Ronmaccarty, Captain Morgan d Moctorius
and Delori and Gunna Lo Trium and Felicia Clamdia Champagne.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Who named these childrens? And how many of them?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Is?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Why they always want to come live with me? Anyway?
Ask him who they daddy is?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Look over he under they go Nova Scotia, Bubbalysius que
Poney to Gonorrhea ice Bucket, but Tugli of Bizene and
Marguerita Percolata, terminative Belcrow at Taekwondo, they're at Tello Chromosome.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Steatri as Shittiev. That's an ignorant one right there at Shatig.
Who is these baby dads?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
I wish I knew I'd show Sueingph some child support hat.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Shoes on this day in nineteen eighty two, The Moonwalk
was done for the first time in recorded history, and no,
not by Michael Jackson. It was done on the British
TV show Top of the Pops, which, if you follow
the history of rock music in five hundred songs for
(27:46):
most any other music show. As to how we ended
up with the songs that became the hits, Top of
the Pops was it man that was an influential show. Well,
the man who performed the moonwalk on British television was
not Michael Jackson, but Michael Jackson was watching and would
(28:07):
popularize it in America just a year later. In fact,
when he first performed it, and you can see the
YouTube video of that first time he performs it in public,
he had seen Jeffrey Daniel of Shallamar perform the song
and that was the inspiration for what he would end
(28:27):
up popularizing. And I wonder how many people know he
did not create that dance himself. Ramon, can you moonwalk?
Can you even get anywhere close to moonwalking? Do you
know anybody who can moonwalk? Amy Kim mowak Oh, I
bet you Chance McLain can moonwalk. I bet you Chance
(28:49):
McLain spent hours on in moonwalking. That was kind of
the sort of thing that I bet he did when
he was I say that would have been about Medical
Middle school on this day. Three years ago, in the
case of Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization, or what
can be known as the Dobbs Decision, the United States
Supreme Court ruled that the US Constitution does not assign
(29:11):
the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, thereby
returning such authority to the individual states. This would overturn
the prior decision in Roe versus Wade nineteen seventy three
and Planned Parenthood versus Casey in nineteen ninety two. Bob Casey,
(29:32):
of course, being I believe the Attorney General at the time,
that case is very important because it is described as
outlawing abortion. It did not outlaw abortion. And it's important
for people to understand this because I've had people say, well,
it should have Okay, I got that, But if you
(29:55):
truly believe in federalism, I we have to define murder
because once you once you believe that it is murder,
then it's really not negotiable from there. But even folks
that believe that abortions should be an option and a
(30:16):
lot of people in the middle do people on the
left of it. They want it everywhere all the time,
and you know, we want everybody to have to watch.
People on the right say it's murder. You shouldn't be allowed.
But a lot of people in the middle, who don't
give a lot of thought, thinks, well, it should be
an option. Okay, we should all agree. The tenth Amendment
to the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, was
(30:40):
ten amendments to the original Constitution. The Constitution was intended
to limit the authority of government because it is the
natural manifestation of power that it be used against people.
All of the rightings of our founders understand understood this fact.
(31:02):
The moment we come together and create a government, that
government is going to work against the interest of the individual.
So we're going to have to handcuff that. Dobbs was
just another in a in a great line of jurisprudence
that said, the powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution or prohibited to it by the States,
(31:23):
are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.
It's important to remember Dobbs didn't even outlaw abortion. Dobbs
simply said a state can make that decision for themselves.
And the left knows this. Think how many people have
been lied to they've made abortion illegal? Know they haven't.
If you, if you are, if you are, what did
(31:46):
what did? Uh? Rush Lumbaugh? Calsandra Fluke? If you are
a loose woman who gets pregnant by men and then
doesn't want the baby, there are still states where you
can well
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