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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We begin tonight with Musk and big Balls, big balls,
big balls.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Big balls who work for Elon muss so called Department
of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Doze in the one case of the big balls kid,
a literal teenager.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Big balls online big balls here that he's talking about
in nineteen year old that goes by the username big.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ball, So that would be one way that we could
refer to him.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Poo among us doesn't feel better about big.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Balls, big balls, big balls.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Government has wasted the only three trillion dollars in taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
One and seventy billion dollars if improper payments.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Lift two hundred and forty seven billion billions blown on
improper payments of people that should not have received.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The other payments payments to the wrongly.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Dead people received more than five hundred and thirty million
dollars last year in pension payments. Medicare paying forty seven
billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Dedicaid and properly issuing eighty one billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Sex one hundred and forty four million PERCI Way You
Do It money phone free, and seven hundred and sixty
four billion.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Under three years of the Biden administrations, improper.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Payments have piled up to a total of two point
eight trillion dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Seen billion dollars per month, or enough to pay for
five years of US four and aid to all countries.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And child across the country. It was eight hundred and
fifty dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Who is receiving these payments both some instances dead people that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Money, phone up chicks for free, money for nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, fellas, it is the week of Valentine's Day is
this Friday? And I came across a video. If you're
on an extreme budget, that might keep you out of
the doghouse. This lady explains what a Southern woman wants
for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
I don't need a dozen roses. I need a dozen tacos.
And I don't need no Teddy Bear either. I need
a tax reform. I told him, I said, save your money,
bring me a Chick fil A combo. That's all I want.
And ain't no jewelry gonna impress me. Like a clean
house that I didn't have to clean. I don't need
no roses. I need somebody to buy everything in my
Amazon car. And I un told him too. I said,
I don't want no heart shaped jewelry. I want a
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heart shaped pizza. No, I want no flowers.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I want to go to Target.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
I don't want no fancy dinner either. I want somebody
to take these kids somewhere. So I'm taking now. I
ain't no Teddy bear in the world more romantic than
a full tank of gas. Look here, just skip the
chocolates and ben momy so I can handle my own happiness.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
My wife has never done this before, thirty five years
in thirty six. Now we'll be thirty six in the fall.
She says to me, yesterday, have you thought about what
you're getting me for Valentine's Day? But we're not a
big gift giving couple, right, And I said, well, well,
that's kind of a I shouldn't have to answer that
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question like I had some big, you know, surprise waiting,
and I honestly, I haven't given it any thought.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
She said, have you thought about it? Uh, well, if you.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Must ruin the surprise, Yes, I've thought about it. I've
been thinking about it since November. Untrue but you know
you'd better say that. So she said, well, if you're
gonna buy me jeely in a way, do you mind
if I just go down and see Connie and pick
what I want? And my immediate reaction was presumptuous much
(03:56):
And then I thought, wait a second, wait a secon
you know there is a you know, it's like the meme,
you know, where the guy's his veins are bulging and
he's sweating, he's trying to make a decision. The kid
in the classroom like he's just been called on, or
he's holding in a far I thought, well, not that
could be.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, I aren't just send her to Connie.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So that was my to do list today is to
call Connie and say nothing's coming down.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And there's her gift, and we're all happy.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You know, I'm not a big surprise guy anyway. I
don't like to be surprised personally, and I don't mind
surprising someone else.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But you end up putting a lot of work in
to carry.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Out the surprise, right, So this just takes care of everything.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I will say that as you think about Valentine's Day
this Friday and you and your girl, I.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Don't view Valentine's Day as a Hallmark holiday, and though
some people you know will use that term for various things,
you gotta understand my grandmother worked or Hallmark for twenty
five years, so I'm not down on Hallmark. But I
think there is an important role in our society that
gets insufficient attention, which celebrates the love between a man
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and a woman who are in a committed relationship. We
have all the promotion in the world or isn't she hot,
fellas and she's not your girl. We have all the
promotion in the world for seemingly everything, but the bonds
between a husband and wife, a parent and child, and
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an adult child of older parents. Those are your three
most sacred relationships. And I think anything we can do,
that's why we make such a big deal about Mother's Day.
That's why he makes such a big deal about Father's Day.
I don't think it's it's naturally the case that you're
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going to have that same romantic flutter after ten years
or more that you had when you had the tingly
nervousness of asking her out and you didn't know if she'd.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Say yes or not.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I think some people chase that emotion that feeling
that experience.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Their entire lives. The kids have a term for it.
It's called love bombing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And that's the guy who is dating the girl and
they've just started, and you know, he's showing up with,
you know, a carful of roses, and he's having all
this stuff sent to her into her house or her school,
or her home or I mean her her office or
whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There are people who love that emotion of the.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Of the early stages of a relationship, when everything is
new and fresh and exciting, and I think some people
struggle with settling into a long term relationship. That doesn't
mean it should. Why are you tuned in on me
so much that you don't normally are you trying to
learn something? You're creeping me out. Ramon is normally distracted
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or taking a nap, or pulling up the next audio
for the next bit, and he has put everything aside,
come around his computer screen and he is locked in
on me, like speak oracle. I don't know what to
do with all this. I was just making the point
that I believe that part of the proper functioning of
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a civilized society is the family in it. And I
think it's important for men and women to love each other.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That is not.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Necessarily that you have as much sex or more sex
than you once had. That is not to say that
you're wild and crazy, is he like you were when
you were eighteen or twenty one or whatever that is,
or that either one of you looks as good on
the beach, But it is to say, I think it's
important to remind a woman that you love her and women,
(08:12):
I think it's important to remind your man that he's your.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
French charmy I do. I'm that serious on that. Asking
for Michael Berry show continues.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
It all.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
I don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I had nothing to do last night. I dressed him
Tales for tend.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
A law school's classmate went through a divorce and we
had a friend in law school who was a female
but not his girlfriend. They were like brothers sister, and
we're all kind of worried about him because he went
underground after the divorce and nobody had seen him for
a while.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So she went to check on him and she said.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
How about I bring you dinner and you know, we'll
hang out and catch up shoot.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It in And he said, what does he do? How's
he doing?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Then she said, well, he has a recliner that looks
like he bought it at a garage sale. There's no
furniture in this old rented shack that he's this old
shack that.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
He's rented in Boulevard Oaks near Rice.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It's somebody's old garage out in the back, falling down,
and he sits and watches movies and smokes cigarettes and
drinks that coke all day. I got the worst life,
you know. I mean, he seems kind of happy. He's
doing what he wants to do. Maybe he wanted to
do that before. She wouldn't let him.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But if if I have sparked.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
In you fellas a little something that says, ah, do stay,
let me do something nice for her, whether it is
a gift or where to eat or anything else, feel
free to email me and where I can, I will
connect you directly with the owners of Big City Wings Gringos,
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tex mex Federal American Grill and they will be happy
to take care of you.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
For gifts.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Magpies has two locations. The ladies there would be will
make it very easy for you for jewelry, which I
will be doing this year. I've been advised it will
be Connie Stagner and her husband Billy. This is their
busiest week of the year, even busier than Christmas. And
they're wonderful, wonderful people. But wherever you go, whatever you do,
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Houston owned and operated businesses are struggling.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And that is the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
After four years of the Obama of the Biden administration,
Obama two point zero KHO. You had a story about
Houston restaurant owners frustrated with repeat break ins, and wait
till you hear some of these numbers. But what you
realize is it's not there's eight hundred and forty six
restaurant burglaries that were reported. Not all of them will
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be reported. You know that some people don't even bother. Well,
the cops can't do anything for me now, so they
don't even call it in. That's not eight hundred and
forty six different criminals. That's a handful that are committing
all these crimes. That's the way this works. Atlanta did
a study and they found forty percent of crime in
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Atlanta was attributable to I think fifty people.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You take those fifty people off the streets.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
This is what they've done in El Salvadar when you
catch a bad guy, you keep him locked up, and
all the crimes he was going to commit he now
doesn't commit. So all of a sudden, your year over
year crime rate goes way down.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You didn't catch.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
All the bad guys, Well, you didn't catch the person
individually that committed each crime. You committed the guy who
commits all the crimes. You think about how many these
Harris County Democrat judges have repeatedly released these criminals on
PR bonds, which basically just means sign your name and
promise you'll come back and go out commit some more crimes.
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The story is khou on Houston restaurant owners.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
They just want to come and break in and steal
something that somebody else is working hard for.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
For Paul Miller, CEO of Great Plate Hospitality, a restaurant
group with ten locations, it's a constant headache.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
So you have very little cash in the restaurant at all.
But now what we're seeing is a lot more of
the break ins are bottles of wine, bottles of liquor.
You know they're breaking in to get to get other things.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Just this morning, two men dressed in black hit up
his wine bar vine memorial along the Katie Freeway. They
started at the front.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Door, tried to break the door here, then moved.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
To the side of the bar, where it appears they
used some sort of tool on the window to break it,
but then they struggle to get inside. Now, after these
guys break the glass, they don't even go inside. They
get scared off by the alarm, leaving shattered pieces of
glass just everywhere on the ground. A few minutes away
in Montrose, at Riel, co owner Michelle Trent dealt with
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this break in on Monday at five am.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They crawled right.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
In, right, They crawled right in one at two guys,
one after another, fully covered face, covered hoodie. You know
they're professionals.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
For Trent, and it happens every couple of months, and
she says customers take note on social media when.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I post a picture of the window broken in, the
comments are again, oh no, sorry, this happened to you again.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
According to data from the Houston Police Department, there were
nearly eight hundred and fifty restaurant burglary incidents reported in
twenty twenty four. It's a problem that restaurant owners feel
is only getting worse without different penalties for those caught
doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, they're not gonna get prosecuted.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
They're not going to jail.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
If the DA doesn't prosecute. That's where the deterrence is failing.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That's exactly right, that's exactly right. These people live on
a life of crime and being arrested. It's just like
a tax to them. We know the process. They don't
even hire a criminal defense attorney.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
They don't need to. The cases get pushed off for
so long.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
President Trump made history yesterday as the first president to
attend a Super Bowl while serving as president.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
That would be history history already in the building tonight
as President Donald Trump becomes.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The first sitting US president ever to attend a Super
Bowl game.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Ride and in fact, as you know, he did to
a roaring applause, which was which was pretty cool. Things
are changing in this country in so many ways. Things
are changing in this country.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
There is a I'll get to that in the moment.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So we're told that Harris County desperately needed money and
that's why they raised our taxes so high without voter approval.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
See the state legislature. The state legislature.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Gets punked by Harris County and before Wittmeyer by Turner
constantly they go, oh, we're going to give you the
ability to raise as much morney as you need and
not have to bother those pesky voters after a storm,
because we're sure that the voters would want you to
have a lot more money.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And so what does rightdneyls do?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh, we are going to raise taxes and the voters
can't do anything about it, and the state legislator lead it.
Let us, and then all your Republican state legislators go, oh, dad,
burn it. We could have defeated them, if it defeated them,
if it hadn't been for those pesky kids, they got
away again.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And it's like a TV sitcom.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
How did you Why did you give them the opportunity
to do that? Well, I'll tell you another way is
ful Harris County expenditure story coming up.
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Speaker 6 (16:23):
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Speaker 7 (16:37):
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the way?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Has it ever been a moment that you didn't because
you were you were a membook.
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Speaker 4 (16:53):
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Speaker 2 (16:55):
He doesn't think.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
He had a.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Went to me.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Maby forty ninth birthday, too big Puma. William Lance Berkman
played fifteen years of Major League Baseball, six times MLB
All Star, World Series Champion, National League Comeback Player of
the Year Award with the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Boy that made the Astros look bad. Well, he went away.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He went he went to the Yankees, and he left
the Astros. And when the Cardinals picked him up, I
think a lot of people didn't know he had any
gas in the tank. But boy did he ever played
at Rice University and he was part of the Killer
Bees team that included Jeff Bagwell and Craig Bigio.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Those were some good teams, some good teams and some
good years. And he is.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
He was recognized in twenty twelve by Forums magazine as
one of the thirty most generous celebrities.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
He's it also is a good dude. He's a genuinely
good dude.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When I was a baby lawyer, I did some deals
with a lawyer out of San Antone who was at
our ten and tone office named Larry Bertman, who happened
to be his father.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And he was also a first class dude. I told
you the story.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Earlier about the penny not being produced as clip number
five from Chad. This is a story President Trump has said,
why are we still printing pennies?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I was using them.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It costs more to print them than we assign them
in value.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
We're not going to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
This is a sixty minute story from all the way
back fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
That's still warm.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Can you feel that?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Every year the US Mint turns out eight billion new
pennies using high tech presses that operate faster than the
I can see stamping out eight lincoln on blank pieces
of metal.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We're making full pennies per second. We're making a couple
million pennies a day.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
And says US Mint director Edmund moy despite inflation, despite
their lowly status, eight billion pennies still that up to.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Eighty million dollars. That's real money.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Trouble is to get eighty million in pennies. The government
spends one hundred and thirty four million dollars, and to
produce one point three billion nickels, as the men did
last year, costs one hundred and twenty four million, even
though the coins are worth only about half that much.
It's weird economics.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So when it really comes down to it, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well from our perspective at the United States, meant it's unsustainable.
You can't sustain losses on pennies and nickels and expect
to be a viable organization that benefits the American people.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
How do we get this fix?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You know, coins are.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Made out of metal, and worldwide demand for copper, nickel,
and zinc have dramatically increased over the last three years.
That's what's primarily driving up the cost of making the
penny and nickel.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Nickels are made mainly of copper. Pennies are ninety eight
percent zinc. On the Frenzied Commodity exchange, the price of
coppers tripled in the last five years, zinc has doubled.
Both are in heavy demand used in everything from electrical
wiring to suntan lotions, so both coins are worth less
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than the metals they contain, but if you're thinking you're
putting in a backyard smelter and melting down your spare
change to make a profit, forget it. The Treasury Department
has declared that illegal.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Was there a.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Genuine fear that we thineople were going to melt their
pennies and sell them by the pound.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, you know, other countries who've been in the same
situation have ended up having shortages because people melt them.
My colleagues in India at the Indian meant I have
noted that once the rupee became more valuable, melted down
as razor blades, they disappeared overnight and there was a
shortage of rupees that India is still recovering from.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
In the five o'clock shadow of the rupees close shave.
Washington is considering ways to reduce the cost of making
pennies and nickels, among them giving the mint authority to
use cheaper metals like steel, and no. Efforts in Congress
to retire the penny altogether have failed in past years.
It's the tractor say the time has come.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's kind of the Houston astronom of coins, isn't it.
We can't let it go, even though the proper decision
would be to let it go, because then people would
blame us for letting it go. We're not here to
be leaders, are we? Two things to note on that,
Let's take the penny. We'll leave the nickel side for
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a moment. Even though copper, this is even more true
of copper. The production of pennies is the largest use
of zinc. So by buying so much zinc, an already
precious commodity, you're increasing the scarcity of zinc for industry.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Supply and demand when you reduce the supply, because you
buy up all the zinc, the mint buys up all
the zinc for pennies, and you leave very little zinc
left to for industry.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The demand is high, the supply is low.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That scarcity drives the cost of and what does that
do to you the consumer? If I use zinc to
make products that you buy, I necessarily have to pay
more for zinc and I have to pass that on
to you. So the actual production of the penny is
leading to inflation of zinc, which is an item that's
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used in a lot of things. It's also true of
copper even more so. You remember the copper theft in
air conditioning units before everybody had to cage up their
air conditioning units and some iod strip out the copper
out of your AC unit.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
For one hundred dollars worth of copper.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That cost you ten thousand dollars in AC repairs because
the scarcity and copper, the low supply with a consistent
demand created uninflated price. So making these pennies alone, and
nickels for that matter, is causing us to pay more
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for other goods. Let's start there. It's causing us to
pay for something that most of us never use. And finally,
there's an important element of economics that I have to say,
and I know you know this, but I'm not sure
everyone does. When Morley say first says that the penny
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is worth less than it costs to make, and I
use that term earlier, the penny itself has no value
if you can't smelt it to use it as zinc itself.
If it must be used as a penny, but let's
say nobody will accept it, no stores will accept it.
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But you can't smelt it down to use it as
an element. That means the penny is worthless. Remember, the
penny is not worth a penny because of the zinc
that's inside of it. It only has that value if
the zinc is used as zinc. If the penny is
only something that you put in your pocket and lay
out on the table, and in no country for old men,
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you flip turn it over.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Was that a penny or nickel the quarter? Are you sure? Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
The value of a penny is not because it was produced,
It is the value we assign it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Dollars have no money. This is the whole. This is
a whole. Move to gold and crypto.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
A piece of paper that says a five or ten
dollars bill has no value as a piece of paper
unless we assign it to that and we all agree
to it. Okay, Remember are you related to a dunnahe robless?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That ring a bell?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
She writes, Hubby took me in the Federal American Grill
on Friday at your recommendation to celebrate my birthday. It
was delicious and the service was great. Today is my
actual birthday. I just thought it being robless shark might
be related. Crosby writes, Tzara, my sister also has a
five gallon carboy full of quarters sitting on the edge
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of her bathtub.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I'm afraid to touch it.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I have my own spare change game that I play
while pumping gas are walking cross parking lots. I scan
the area for spare change and if found, put it
in my left pocket. When I get home, the spoils
go into a yogurt container. Since COVID, this is my
current tally. I decided to count it today so I
can tell you about it. This is the first time
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I've counted it since COVID. One US one dollar bill,
thirty nine quarters, forty three dimes, thirteen nickels, one hundred
and seventy three pennies, one Canadian quarter, one PGA pro
Am series token dated twenty seventeen, and two that I
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can't tell what They are not enough yet to invest
in the stock market, except.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Maybe the penny stocks that's crossby.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So I get all these emails from people who say
I can't afford to do this, I can't afford to
do that. And when I say, hey, go out Rolls
Royce if that's the car you want to buy, you
don't need to send me an email and go I
can't afford a Rolls Royce. That's okay, It's all right.
Growing up, my parents couldn't spend on anything. Didn't mean
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they loved each other or us any less or frankly,
that we were any less happy.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But if you have a little more money, some people
do want to spend on some things. Melissa writes Zar,
I heard you talking about Valentine's Day gifts. My husband
makes me a heart shaped cake every year. He did
this when we started dating, and nineteen years later he
still makes a heart shaped cake for me. He gets
very creative each year with the design. Thanks for what
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you do. See that's nice right there, Charlie writes Zar.
Valentine's Day for us is handled. We'll have an early
cocktail dinner at Rainbow Lodge and follow with a candlelight
concert at the Bell Tower on thirty fourth. We've been
married for forty five years and have never really put
a lot of effort into Valentine's Day. But the older
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we get, the more I regret not honoring her with
more knights like the one we planned to have.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I'm trying to make up for lost time. My advice
to anyone don't let it happen to you. Well, that's
a nice thing.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
This is a very good email from a fellow named
William Porr talking about the fact that the cartels have
started firing on the Mexican troops on the Mexican side,
and that's only going to escalate. And here's your answer,
if members of the US Border Patrol or the US
military are fired upon my members of international criminal organizations,
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Mexican cartels, who arguably have captured the Mexican government. President
Trump should follow the example of President Woodrow Wilson. On
March eighth, nineteen sixteen, Poncho Villa, while rating for much
needed supplies, made the mistake of engaging in a full
scale battle with the thirteenth Cavalry Regiment in Columbus, New Mexico.
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In reaction to the attack, President Woodrow Wilson appointed General
black Jack Pershing as commander of a US Army expeditionary
force that was to capture Via and police the US
Mexico border. This was the beginning of a lengthy search
for Via, known as the Mexican Expedition, that took place
from March fourteenth, nineteen sixteen, to February seventh, nineteen seventeen.
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They only let him, well, you know, with regard to
the above, President Trump should avoid making the mistake that
President Wilson made in ending the Mexican Expedition prematurely. While
Mexican cartels are free to start the war by firing
on members of the US Border patrol or military, the
US military should only end it after said cartels are
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no longer in control of Mexico and no longer pose
any threat to the citizens of this country. I agree
with all of that, and I will add to that
that I am told by law enforcement at every life
level that the cartels are very active on American soil,
extremely active on American soil, brazenly so.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
The firepower, the expertise.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The man power that they have, should they declare, you know,
on one particular day they're going to attack, they could
extract some really, really terrible damage. I told you earlier
that Harris County just raised our taxes, and the idiot
Republicans in Austin allowed them to do it by giving
them the power to do it. Well, Harris County spent
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millions on four new murals, yes, murals, painting on a
wall quote aimed at social and environmental justice.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Rodney is just laughing.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
He's laughing at the taxpayer he's laughing at Republicans in Austin.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh, you're going to stop me from doing things.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You just gave me the power, the emergency power after
a storm to raise taxes, and I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And what are the Republicans.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Well, we're gonna close that Dad burned loophole this time.
We're not gonna let them get away. Okay, Beuford, we
we ah, they did it.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
They did it. They tricked us.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
We gave them the power to raise taxes without having
voter approval, and.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
They did it. Dad burn it.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Well, this session, it's always well, this session.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
We're gonna close that dad burned loophole. Of fit said,
death of me, send me back.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
One more time. And the Houston Chronicle is a pr outlet.
They don't ask anything about the waste. Kyle Scott, who
sits on the h kdboard, says, thirty six million dollars
will spend on the murals. Thirty six million dollars. And
of course who's spearheaded the project, Rodney Ellis. The Chronicle says, quote,
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downtown own Houston may have just gotten a new look,
as Harris County Precinct one Commissioner Rodney Ellis unveiled new
murals this week. Oh that's what we needed. That way,
maybe some of the murders will happen right in front
of particular murals, and that's how the cops can identify
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where they're located. Harris County, Downtown Houston, and street Art
for Mankin unveiled new artwork as part of its Big Art,
Bigger Change mural series.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Because nothing brings change.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Like paying nine ten million dollars for an artist to
paint on a wall.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Nothing brings change like that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
In fact, I'm concerned because yesterday was the first Super
Bowl in forever that they didn't have end racism on
their helmets. So now we're just gonna have a rash
of racism because nobody told us not to quote. These
murals carry powerful messages that inspire and uplift our communities,
said La in a YouTube stream. I also want to
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celebrate the artists who are here today. And then he
called out the names of the artists who've been handed
thirty six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
One of them is from Berlin by way of Turkey.
Oh that's even better.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I mean, as long as you don't have any white
guys who we're already on the track. Huh, just please, Lord,
don't let any white people in on the mural business.
Good grief. And there's the Chronicle all the while.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yay uplifting murls. We're going to be like a big city,
like New York or LA.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
If only we could get more light rail, we'll be
like a big city. Maybe we could redo the astronom
for two and a half billion dollars, we'll be like
a real big city.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 4 (00:28):
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Speaker 5 (00:47):
Government has wasted the only three trillion dollars in taxpayer.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
One and seventy billion dollars if improper payments.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Lift two hundred and forty seven billion billions blown on
improper payments of people that should not have received.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The other payments payments to the wrongly.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Dead people received more than five hundred and thirty million
dollars last year in pension payments. Medicare paying forty seven
billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Dedicaid and properly issuing eighty one billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Sex one hundred and forty four million PERCI Way You
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four billion.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Under three years of the Biden administrations, improper.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Payments have piled up to a total of two point
eight trillion dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Seen billion dollars per month, or enough to pay for
five years of US four and aid to all countries.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And child across the country. It was eight hundred and
fifty dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Who is receiving these payments both some instances dead people that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Money, phone up chicks for free, money for nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, fellas, it is the week of Valentine's Day is
this Friday? And I came across a video. If you're
on an extreme budget, that might keep you out of
the doghouse. This lady explains what a Southern woman wants
for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
I don't need a dozen roses. I need a dozen tacos.
And I don't need no Teddy Bear either. I need
a tax reform. I told him, I said, save your money,
bring me a Chick fil A combo. That's all I want.
And ain't no jewelry gonna impress me. Like a clean
house that I didn't have to clean. I don't need
no roses. I need somebody to buy everything in my
Amazon car. And I un told him too. I said,
I don't want no heart shaped jewelry. I want a
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heart shaped pizza. No, I want no flowers.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I want to go to Target.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
I don't want no fancy dinner either. I want somebody
to take these kids somewhere. So I'm taking now. I
ain't no Teddy bear in the world more romantic than
a full tank of gas. Look here, just skip the
chocolates and ben momy so I can handle my own happiness.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
My wife has never done this before, thirty five years
in thirty six. Now we'll be thirty six in the fall.
She says to me, yesterday, have you thought about what
you're getting me for Valentine's Day? But we're not a
big gift giving couple, right, And I said, well, well,
that's kind of a I shouldn't have to answer that
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question like I had some big, you know, surprise waiting,
and I honestly, I haven't given it any thought.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
She said, have you thought about it? Uh, well, if you.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Must ruin the surprise, Yes, I've thought about it. I've
been thinking about it since November. Untrue but you know
you'd better say that. So she said, well, if you're
gonna buy me jeely in a way, do you mind
if I just go down and see Connie and pick
what I want? And my immediate reaction was presumptuous much
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And then I thought, wait a second, wait a secon
you know there is a you know, it's like the meme,
you know, where the guy's his veins are bulging and
he's sweating, he's trying to make a decision. The kid
in the classroom like he's just been called on, or
he's holding in a far I thought, well, not that
could be.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, I aren't just send her to Connie.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So that was my to do list today is to
call Connie and say nothing's coming down.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And there's her gift, and we're all happy.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You know, I'm not a big surprise guy anyway. I
don't like to be surprised personally, and I don't mind
surprising someone else.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But you end up putting a lot of work in
to carry.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Out the surprise, right, So this just takes care of everything.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I will say that as you think about Valentine's Day
this Friday and you and your girl, I.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Don't view Valentine's Day as a Hallmark holiday, and though
some people you know will use that term for various things,
you gotta understand my grandmother worked or Hallmark for twenty
five years, so I'm not down on Hallmark. But I
think there is an important role in our society that
gets insufficient attention, which celebrates the love between a man
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and a woman who are in a committed relationship. We
have all the promotion in the world or isn't she hot,
fellas and she's not your girl. We have all the
promotion in the world for seemingly everything, but the bonds
between a husband and wife, a parent and child, and
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an adult child of older parents. Those are your three
most sacred relationships. And I think anything we can do,
that's why we make such a big deal about Mother's Day.
That's why he makes such a big deal about Father's Day.
I don't think it's it's naturally the case that you're
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going to have that same romantic flutter after ten years
or more that you had when you had the tingly
nervousness of asking her out and you didn't know if she'd.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Say yes or not.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I think some people chase that emotion that feeling
that experience.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Their entire lives. The kids have a term for it.
It's called love bombing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And that's the guy who is dating the girl and
they've just started, and you know, he's showing up with,
you know, a carful of roses, and he's having all
this stuff sent to her into her house or her school,
or her home or I mean her her office or
whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There are people who love that emotion of the.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Of the early stages of a relationship, when everything is
new and fresh and exciting, and I think some people
struggle with settling into a long term relationship. That doesn't
mean it should. Why are you tuned in on me
so much that you don't normally are you trying to
learn something? You're creeping me out. Ramon is normally distracted
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or taking a nap, or pulling up the next audio
for the next bit, and he has put everything aside,
come around his computer screen and he is locked in
on me, like speak oracle. I don't know what to
do with all this. I was just making the point
that I believe that part of the proper functioning of
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a civilized society is the family in it. And I
think it's important for men and women to love each other.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That is not.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Necessarily that you have as much sex or more sex
than you once had. That is not to say that
you're wild and crazy, is he like you were when
you were eighteen or twenty one or whatever that is,
or that either one of you looks as good on
the beach, But it is to say, I think it's
important to remind a woman that you love her and women,
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I think it's important to remind your man that he's your.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
French charmy I do. I'm that serious on that. Asking
for Michael Berry show continues.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
It all.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
I don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I had nothing to do last night. I dressed him
Tales for tend.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
A law school's classmate went through a divorce and we
had a friend in law school who was a female
but not his girlfriend. They were like brothers sister, and
we're all kind of worried about him because he went
underground after the divorce and nobody had seen him for
a while.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So she went to check on him and she said.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
How about I bring you dinner and you know, we'll
hang out and catch up shoot.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It in And he said, what does he do? How's
he doing?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Then she said, well, he has a recliner that looks
like he bought it at a garage sale. There's no
furniture in this old rented shack that he's this old
shack that.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
He's rented in Boulevard Oaks near Rice.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It's somebody's old garage out in the back, falling down,
and he sits and watches movies and smokes cigarettes and
drinks that coke all day. I got the worst life,
you know. I mean, he seems kind of happy. He's
doing what he wants to do. Maybe he wanted to
do that before. She wouldn't let him.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But if if I have sparked.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
In you fellas a little something that says, ah, do stay,
let me do something nice for her, whether it is
a gift or where to eat or anything else, feel
free to email me and where I can, I will
connect you directly with the owners of Big City Wings Gringos,
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tex mex Federal American Grill and they will be happy
to take care of you.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
For gifts.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Magpies has two locations. The ladies there would be will
make it very easy for you for jewelry, which I
will be doing this year. I've been advised it will
be Connie Stagner and her husband Billy. This is their
busiest week of the year, even busier than Christmas. And
they're wonderful, wonderful people. But wherever you go, whatever you do,
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Houston owned and operated businesses are struggling.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And that is the truth.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
After four years of the Obama of the Biden administration,
Obama two point zero KHO. You had a story about
Houston restaurant owners frustrated with repeat break ins, and wait
till you hear some of these numbers. But what you
realize is it's not there's eight hundred and forty six
restaurant burglaries that were reported. Not all of them will
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be reported. You know that some people don't even bother. Well,
the cops can't do anything for me now, so they
don't even call it in. That's not eight hundred and
forty six different criminals. That's a handful that are committing
all these crimes. That's the way this works. Atlanta did
a study and they found forty percent of crime in
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Atlanta was attributable to I think fifty people.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You take those fifty people off the streets.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
This is what they've done in El Salvadar when you
catch a bad guy, you keep him locked up, and
all the crimes he was going to commit he now
doesn't commit. So all of a sudden, your year over
year crime rate goes way down.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You didn't catch.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
All the bad guys, Well, you didn't catch the person
individually that committed each crime. You committed the guy who
commits all the crimes. You think about how many these
Harris County Democrat judges have repeatedly released these criminals on
PR bonds, which basically just means sign your name and
promise you'll come back and go out commit some more crimes.
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The story is khou on Houston restaurant owners.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
They just want to come and break in and steal
something that somebody else is working hard for.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
For Paul Miller, CEO of Great Plate Hospitality, a restaurant
group with ten locations, it's a constant headache.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
So you have very little cash in the restaurant at all.
But now what we're seeing is a lot more of
the break ins are bottles of wine, bottles of liquor.
You know they're breaking in to get to get other things.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Just this morning, two men dressed in black hit up
his wine bar vine memorial along the Katie Freeway. They
started at the front.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Door, tried to break the door here, then moved.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
To the side of the bar, where it appears they
used some sort of tool on the window to break it,
but then they struggle to get inside. Now, after these
guys break the glass, they don't even go inside. They
get scared off by the alarm, leaving shattered pieces of
glass just everywhere on the ground. A few minutes away
in Montrose, at Riel, co owner Michelle Trent dealt with
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this break in on Monday at five am.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They crawled right.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
In, right, They crawled right in one at two guys,
one after another, fully covered face, covered hoodie. You know
they're professionals.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
For Trent, and it happens every couple of months, and
she says customers take note on social media when.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I post a picture of the window broken in, the
comments are again, oh no, sorry, this happened to you again.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
According to data from the Houston Police Department, there were
nearly eight hundred and fifty restaurant burglary incidents reported in
twenty twenty four. It's a problem that restaurant owners feel
is only getting worse without different penalties for those caught
doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, they're not gonna get prosecuted.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
They're not going to jail.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
If the DA doesn't prosecute. That's where the deterrence is failing.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That's exactly right, that's exactly right. These people live on
a life of crime and being arrested. It's just like
a tax to them. We know the process. They don't
even hire a criminal defense attorney.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
They don't need to. The cases get pushed off for
so long.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
President Trump made history yesterday as the first president to
attend a Super Bowl while serving as president.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
That would be history history already in the building tonight
as President Donald Trump becomes.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The first sitting US president ever to attend a Super
Bowl game.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Ride and in fact, as you know, he did to
a roaring applause, which was which was pretty cool. Things
are changing in this country in so many ways. Things
are changing in this country.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
There is a I'll get to that in the moment.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So we're told that Harris County desperately needed money and
that's why they raised our taxes so high without voter approval.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
See the state legislature. The state legislature.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Gets punked by Harris County and before Wittmeyer by Turner
constantly they go, oh, we're going to give you the
ability to raise as much morney as you need and
not have to bother those pesky voters after a storm,
because we're sure that the voters would want you to
have a lot more money.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And so what does rightdneyls do?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh, we are going to raise taxes and the voters
can't do anything about it, and the state legislator lead it.
Let us, and then all your Republican state legislators go, oh, dad,
burn it. We could have defeated them, if it defeated them,
if it hadn't been for those pesky kids, they got
away again.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And it's like a TV sitcom.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
How did you Why did you give them the opportunity
to do that? Well, I'll tell you another way is
ful Harris County expenditure story coming up.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
You need to escape from the every day escape of
the Michael Barry Show. Put your hands together for with yours?
Get what's your hands?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Get a jew And.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
There's never.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Like Bob.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Have you never seen the purple problems the publics of
the PLI you Have you ever seen the boy in
the way?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Has it ever been a moment that you didn't because
you were you were a membook.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You're a purple, but you're not gonna.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Be with Mete. Give that puma energy to the bower,
over power everything the Poma.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
The Linus can't antsicipate of samle thing he does.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
He doesn't think.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
He had a.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Went to me.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Maby forty ninth birthday, too big Puma. William Lance Berkman
played fifteen years of Major League Baseball, six times MLB
All Star, World Series Champion, National League Comeback Player of
the Year Award with the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Boy that made the Astros look bad. Well, he went away.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He went he went to the Yankees, and he left
the Astros. And when the Cardinals picked him up, I
think a lot of people didn't know he had any
gas in the tank. But boy did he ever played
at Rice University and he was part of the Killer
Bees team that included Jeff Bagwell and Craig Bigio.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Those were some good teams, some good teams and some
good years. And he is.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
He was recognized in twenty twelve by Forums magazine as
one of the thirty most generous celebrities.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
He's it also is a good dude. He's a genuinely
good dude.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When I was a baby lawyer, I did some deals
with a lawyer out of San Antone who was at
our ten and tone office named Larry Bertman, who happened
to be his father.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And he was also a first class dude. I told
you the story.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Earlier about the penny not being produced as clip number
five from Chad. This is a story President Trump has said,
why are we still printing pennies?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I was using them.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It costs more to print them than we assign them
in value.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
We're not going to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
This is a sixty minute story from all the way
back fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
That's still warm.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Can you feel that?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Every year the US Mint turns out eight billion new
pennies using high tech presses that operate faster than the
I can see stamping out eight lincoln on blank pieces
of metal.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
We're making full pennies per second. We're making a couple
million pennies a day.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
And says US Mint director Edmund moy despite inflation, despite
their lowly status, eight billion pennies still that up to.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Eighty million dollars. That's real money.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Trouble is to get eighty million in pennies. The government
spends one hundred and thirty four million dollars, and to
produce one point three billion nickels, as the men did
last year, costs one hundred and twenty four million, even
though the coins are worth only about half that much.
It's weird economics.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So when it really comes down to it, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Well from our perspective at the United States, meant it's unsustainable.
You can't sustain losses on pennies and nickels and expect
to be a viable organization that benefits the American people.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
How do we get this fix?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
You know, coins are.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Made out of metal, and worldwide demand for copper, nickel,
and zinc have dramatically increased over the last three years.
That's what's primarily driving up the cost of making the
penny and nickel.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Nickels are made mainly of copper. Pennies are ninety eight
percent zinc. On the Frenzied Commodity exchange, the price of
coppers tripled in the last five years, zinc has doubled.
Both are in heavy demand used in everything from electrical
wiring to suntan lotions, so both coins are worth less
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than the metals they contain, but if you're thinking you're
putting in a backyard smelter and melting down your spare
change to make a profit, forget it. The Treasury Department
has declared that illegal.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Was there a.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Genuine fear that we thineople were going to melt their
pennies and sell them by the pound.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, you know, other countries who've been in the same
situation have ended up having shortages because people melt them.
My colleagues in India at the Indian meant I have
noted that once the rupee became more valuable, melted down
as razor blades, they disappeared overnight and there was a
shortage of rupees that India is still recovering from.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
In the five o'clock shadow of the rupees close shave.
Washington is considering ways to reduce the cost of making
pennies and nickels, among them giving the mint authority to
use cheaper metals like steel, and no. Efforts in Congress
to retire the penny altogether have failed in past years.
It's the tractor say the time has come.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's kind of the Houston astronom of coins, isn't it.
We can't let it go, even though the proper decision
would be to let it go, because then people would
blame us for letting it go. We're not here to
be leaders, are we? Two things to note on that,
Let's take the penny. We'll leave the nickel side for
(22:00):
a moment. Even though copper, this is even more true
of copper. The production of pennies is the largest use
of zinc. So by buying so much zinc, an already
precious commodity, you're increasing the scarcity of zinc for industry.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Supply and demand when you reduce the supply, because you
buy up all the zinc, the mint buys up all
the zinc for pennies, and you leave very little zinc
left to for industry.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The demand is high, the supply is low.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That scarcity drives the cost of and what does that
do to you the consumer? If I use zinc to
make products that you buy, I necessarily have to pay
more for zinc and I have to pass that on
to you. So the actual production of the penny is
leading to inflation of zinc, which is an item that's
(23:07):
used in a lot of things. It's also true of
copper even more so. You remember the copper theft in
air conditioning units before everybody had to cage up their
air conditioning units and some iod strip out the copper
out of your AC unit.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
For one hundred dollars worth of copper.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That cost you ten thousand dollars in AC repairs because
the scarcity and copper, the low supply with a consistent
demand created uninflated price. So making these pennies alone, and
nickels for that matter, is causing us to pay more
(23:43):
for other goods. Let's start there. It's causing us to
pay for something that most of us never use. And finally,
there's an important element of economics that I have to say,
and I know you know this, but I'm not sure
everyone does. When Morley say first says that the penny
(24:05):
is worth less than it costs to make, and I
use that term earlier, the penny itself has no value
if you can't smelt it to use it as zinc itself.
If it must be used as a penny, but let's
say nobody will accept it, no stores will accept it.
(24:26):
But you can't smelt it down to use it as
an element. That means the penny is worthless. Remember, the
penny is not worth a penny because of the zinc
that's inside of it. It only has that value if
the zinc is used as zinc. If the penny is
only something that you put in your pocket and lay
out on the table, and in no country for old men,
(24:50):
you flip turn it over.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Was that a penny or nickel the quarter? Are you sure? Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
The value of a penny is not because it was produced,
It is the value we assign it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Dollars have no money. This is the whole. This is
a whole. Move to gold and crypto.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
A piece of paper that says a five or ten
dollars bill has no value as a piece of paper
unless we assign it to that and we all agree
to it. Okay, Remember are you related to a dunnahe robless?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
That ring a bell?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
She writes, Hubby took me in the Federal American Grill
on Friday at your recommendation to celebrate my birthday. It
was delicious and the service was great. Today is my
actual birthday. I just thought it being robless shark might
be related. Crosby writes, Tzara, my sister also has a
five gallon carboy full of quarters sitting on the edge
(25:53):
of her bathtub.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I'm afraid to touch it.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I have my own spare change game that I play
while pumping gas are walking cross parking lots. I scan
the area for spare change and if found, put it
in my left pocket. When I get home, the spoils
go into a yogurt container. Since COVID, this is my
current tally. I decided to count it today so I
can tell you about it. This is the first time
(26:17):
I've counted it since COVID. One US one dollar bill,
thirty nine quarters, forty three dimes, thirteen nickels, one hundred
and seventy three pennies, one Canadian quarter, one PGA pro
Am series token dated twenty seventeen, and two that I
(26:39):
can't tell what They are not enough yet to invest
in the stock market, except.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Maybe the penny stocks that's crossby.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So I get all these emails from people who say
I can't afford to do this, I can't afford to
do that. And when I say, hey, go out Rolls
Royce if that's the car you want to buy, you
don't need to send me an email and go I
can't afford a Rolls Royce. That's okay, It's all right.
Growing up, my parents couldn't spend on anything. Didn't mean
(27:11):
they loved each other or us any less or frankly,
that we were any less happy.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
But if you have a little more money, some people
do want to spend on some things. Melissa writes Zar,
I heard you talking about Valentine's Day gifts. My husband
makes me a heart shaped cake every year. He did
this when we started dating, and nineteen years later he
still makes a heart shaped cake for me. He gets
very creative each year with the design. Thanks for what
(27:38):
you do. See that's nice right there, Charlie writes Zar.
Valentine's Day for us is handled. We'll have an early
cocktail dinner at Rainbow Lodge and follow with a candlelight
concert at the Bell Tower on thirty fourth. We've been
married for forty five years and have never really put
a lot of effort into Valentine's Day. But the older
(27:59):
we get, the more I regret not honoring her with
more knights like the one we planned to have.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I'm trying to make up for lost time. My advice
to anyone don't let it happen to you. Well, that's
a nice thing.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
This is a very good email from a fellow named
William Porr talking about the fact that the cartels have
started firing on the Mexican troops on the Mexican side,
and that's only going to escalate. And here's your answer,
if members of the US Border Patrol or the US
military are fired upon my members of international criminal organizations,
(28:36):
Mexican cartels, who arguably have captured the Mexican government. President
Trump should follow the example of President Woodrow Wilson. On
March eighth, nineteen sixteen, Poncho Villa, while rating for much
needed supplies, made the mistake of engaging in a full
scale battle with the thirteenth Cavalry Regiment in Columbus, New Mexico.
(28:59):
In reaction to the attack, President Woodrow Wilson appointed General
black Jack Pershing as commander of a US Army expeditionary
force that was to capture Via and police the US
Mexico border. This was the beginning of a lengthy search
for Via, known as the Mexican Expedition, that took place
from March fourteenth, nineteen sixteen, to February seventh, nineteen seventeen.
(29:24):
They only let him, well, you know, with regard to
the above, President Trump should avoid making the mistake that
President Wilson made in ending the Mexican Expedition prematurely. While
Mexican cartels are free to start the war by firing
on members of the US Border patrol or military, the
US military should only end it after said cartels are
(29:45):
no longer in control of Mexico and no longer pose
any threat to the citizens of this country. I agree
with all of that, and I will add to that
that I am told by law enforcement at every life
level that the cartels are very active on American soil,
extremely active on American soil, brazenly so.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
The firepower, the expertise.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The man power that they have, should they declare, you know,
on one particular day they're going to attack, they could
extract some really, really terrible damage. I told you earlier
that Harris County just raised our taxes, and the idiot
Republicans in Austin allowed them to do it by giving
them the power to do it. Well, Harris County spent
(30:37):
millions on four new murals, yes, murals, painting on a
wall quote aimed at social and environmental justice.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Rodney is just laughing.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
He's laughing at the taxpayer he's laughing at Republicans in Austin.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh, you're going to stop me from doing things.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You just gave me the power, the emergency power after
a storm to raise taxes, and I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And what are the Republicans.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Well, we're gonna close that Dad burned loophole this time.
We're not gonna let them get away. Okay, Beuford, we
we ah, they did it.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
They did it. They tricked us.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
We gave them the power to raise taxes without having
voter approval, and.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
They did it. Dad burn it.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Well, this session, it's always well, this session.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
We're gonna close that dad burned loophole. Of fit said,
death of me, send me back.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
One more time. And the Houston Chronicle is a pr outlet.
They don't ask anything about the waste. Kyle Scott, who
sits on the h kdboard, says, thirty six million dollars
will spend on the murals. Thirty six million dollars. And
of course who's spearheaded the project, Rodney Ellis. The Chronicle says, quote,
(31:59):
downtown own Houston may have just gotten a new look,
as Harris County Precinct one Commissioner Rodney Ellis unveiled new
murals this week. Oh that's what we needed. That way,
maybe some of the murders will happen right in front
of particular murals, and that's how the cops can identify
(32:19):
where they're located. Harris County, Downtown Houston, and street Art
for Mankin unveiled new artwork as part of its Big Art,
Bigger Change mural series.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Because nothing brings change.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Like paying nine ten million dollars for an artist to
paint on a wall.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Nothing brings change like that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
In fact, I'm concerned because yesterday was the first Super
Bowl in forever that they didn't have end racism on
their helmets. So now we're just gonna have a rash
of racism because nobody told us not to quote. These
murals carry powerful messages that inspire and uplift our communities,
said La in a YouTube stream. I also want to
(33:03):
celebrate the artists who are here today. And then he
called out the names of the artists who've been handed
thirty six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
One of them is from Berlin by way of Turkey.
Oh that's even better.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I mean, as long as you don't have any white
guys who we're already on the track. Huh, just please, Lord,
don't let any white people in on the mural business.
Good grief. And there's the Chronicle all the while.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yay uplifting murls. We're going to be like a big city,
like New York or LA.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
If only we could get more light rail, we'll be
like a big city. Maybe we could redo the astronom
for two and a half billion dollars, we'll be like
a real big city.
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