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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I just got a message from the business owner the
Galleria area who said one of the ticket gouging thugs
that FIFA have to have a twenty motorcycle police exit
motorcade to get their buses out of the hotel over
here on Post oh and delay everybody else. Is FIFA
that important or do we just exist for FIFA's pleasure
(00:51):
at this point in time, I just had to wait
fifteen minutes for the FIFA buses to come out with
all their police escorts and the little FIFA cars. What
good is FIFA for doing to the average citizen of Houston?
How are they benefiting? Just wanted to propose that question.
You know, it's one of those things I want people
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who come to this country, when people come to State
of Texas, when people come to City Houston, I want
them to have a good experience. I want them to
go back and talk about how wonderful it is. Not
just so that we can export our products. I want
us to have a nice image. You know, you have
(01:36):
somebody in your home, you want them to leave. You
want them to feel welcome in your home. You want
them to feel you want them to leave happy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
That that's you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Know, one of the most moving parts of Loan Survivor. Oh,
we got some more actors proposed to play you and
Lean Survivor ormight not give you those in a minute.
One of them I didn't recognize. One of them was
James Franko. Can he have some problems? Yeah, we don't
want to confuse that. He does look a lot like you, though.
(02:08):
One of the most powerful parts of Marcus's book, which
obviously the book goes into much greater to tail than
in Peter Berg's movie does. That's true of everything you
know that a movie has to has to compress. I
told Marcus one time. I said, man, you know the
(02:29):
problem with that that shootout scene and I said, it
just dragged on so long. It was just painful.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And he said, yeah, it dragged I forget what it was.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It dragged on for what it's twenty three minutes, because
that was actually eleven hours or something. I said, Oh,
I think I'd had to say, hey, guys, I need
to get some cocon this going on too long.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This thing is imagine that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So a movie had to compress an expansive time into
a few minutes, and they still use a huge portion
of the movie to give you the feel for this
firefight and how brutal it was and how long it lasted.
But one of the things that really moved me about
(03:12):
that movie was that at the end, you know, after
he drags himself for a while, he's discovered, and he's
discovered by an Afghan villager who brings him to his
home and Marcus is confused, why are you people doing this?
Are you holding me hostage? Are you gonna hand me over?
Or are you gonna torture me? He's already been through
(03:34):
a living hell. He's lost his buddies. He saw he
saw the plane the rescue come down, you know, shot down.
He's been through helen back. He's not supposed to be alive.
He's already sick because he's had to drink bad water.
He shot up, and he doesn't know his fate. You know,
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they're going to pull him in every different direction. They're
gonna gouge his eyes out, or they you don't know,
you know, you know it's going to be bad, And
they didn't. And he told the story about how they
the in the Afghan culture a guest in your home
is such an important thing, and it was that important
(04:18):
that he be treated well. So, yeah, I want people
to have a great experience here, but you lose sight
of things when you forget that this is a city
for Houstonians. And really, I think this was what a
(04:38):
lot of the Trump phenomenon was about, is the understanding that, look,
we're not nativists, We're not we're not bad people. We
want our country to be good for our countrymen.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
First.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's what Doese was about. Hey, why are we sending
all this money around the world world to people who
hate us? But even if they didn't hate us, why
are we This is the money of the American people.
It's hard when you pay your taxes. Milton Friedman said
they did this for the war effort, and he said
it was his greatest professional regret, and he regretted it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
For the end of his days.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Is they required they outsourced the collection of income taxes
to companies. They said to the company, you will take
the money out of what you pay people, and you
will send it to us. And in very short order,
but certainly within a generation, you stopped noticing as the worker.
(05:40):
You stopped noticing your money going to the government, so
you signed a contractor you got hired at a certain rate.
You know you back then you were getting four dollars
and eighty three cents an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You didn't take that home.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And sure, we need national defense, ensure, we need roads, understandable,
but the amount of money that just kept being taken
from you became obscene, vulgar, and then that money was
it's being spent in lots of crazy ways. We're now
seeing the medicaid fraud, We're seeing the childcare fraud, We're
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seeing all these forms of fraud. We see these big
infrastructure projects, the road to know Where, the big project,
the big rail project in California. But also we just
generally saw that our money's going to every country in
the world, Countries we couldn't find on a map, countries
(06:36):
we're never going to visit, countries we don't do business with.
And this is the American people's money. And I think
that is writ large what my friend is talking about
with the traffic at six' ten coming out of Post.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oke, hey.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We're fine with making them feel, important but why Make,
ustonians ninety nine percent of whom can't afford to go
to the Soccer, Matchain, okay that's a different. Subject why
make them sit and wait for all of this like
these people are. Kings we don't get this when we
have a.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Funeral you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Know one of the most moving things from me in
a reminder of how special small towns, are was when
my brother, died all of the people Of orange pulled
off the side of the road and they would salute
as you went by because somebody from the community who
wore the badge had.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Passed but by the, way if you don't wear the.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Badge my family's originally from The Tyler troop, area and
when we would be on our way to the, funeral
people would see that it was a funeral, procession they
pull off the side of the road so them get
out and show respect for one of their, own for
the people who taught the, children taught At Sunday, school
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served the, country picked up, trash, volunteered paid. Taxes The
american citizen has felt for a very long time that
he is second rate in his own, country and little
moves like that remind him of.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That it's it's a bad look treat them like. Kings
at the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hotel there's lots of things you can, do but don't
do stuff you smear again in the face of the
average citizen who's on his way to his doctor's.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Appointment now he's going to.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Be Late Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Berry Fuckinghood ben escaped from the.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Ordinary those of you who are fans of my second
all time favorite, Band The, band you will know that
there would have been No The band Without Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Hawkins and That's Ronnie. Hawkins Levon helm played drums for
him and wrote. Songs and if you saw the Last
waltz and he saw the guy that looked a little
bit Like Charlie, DANIELS i think some people thought it
Was Charlie. Daniels, no that was the. Great that was
the Great Ronnie hawkins From. Arkansas you, know there was
(09:11):
some STORY i can't remember what it, was That Jack,
ruby that That Ronnie hawkins brought the band To dallas
to pay to play for a club and the club
owner Was Jack ruby And Jack RUBY.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Exactly how it all played, out BUT i Think Jack
ruby was famous in.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
History do you remember Why? Ramon, YEAH i know he
Killed Oswalt please that's the. Joke you didn't you didn't
use the bit.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Properly we have a new working title for the movie
For ramone instead Of Lean's, survivor since it was inspired
By Marcus Latrell's Forty. DAYS i had so Since Loan
survivor Is marcus and my concept For ramone's, title but
now they want to make a.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Movie Is Lean's Our.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Friend At holiday At Cursive, Media John Holliday mallow has
come up With Ramone survivor like. That thank you To
connie And Billy stagner Of Corey diamonds for another five.
HUNDRED i don't think they've ever not contributed since the
(10:23):
DAY i met, HIM i really. Don't thank you To
Michael Claiborne waterftexas Dot, com who calls himself The Texas,
waterboy great, guy one thousand. Dollars thank you To Grant,
patterson our little sales Guy.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Ramon he like twenty one years.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Old he's in for one. Hundred Royd thibodeaux for one.
Hundred he's with the ag. Insurance was it called Uh
texas Ag? Insurance he's out In. Brenda he sells insurance
for THE i forget what it's. Called Bobby crumpley for
one hundred. Dollars one of our best contributors to the.
Show Uncle Darryl Daryl hancock for one, Hundred Andy leahay
for one, Hundred jeff for five. HUNDRED i don't know
(10:57):
his last, Name Jody peck for one, Hundred Lewis pointe
for one. Hundred Chad anders was our first responder With
Andres Land group for two, Hundred Ben barlow Of Hervey
barlow for five, Thousand Koy christoffel Of pitts And spits
for two, Thousand Brendan Blair Brian Garden's landscape And irrigation
for five.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Thousand twenty five hundred From.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Josh Casper zach Of Texas Star, Power Dan, HUNSUCKER i
cannot find the amount that he's.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
GIVING i gotta get him to send me another.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Email the anonymous couple who live In, kingwood who KNOW
i know them for twenty five. Hundred Our County Commissioner
Tom ramsay from his own funds for five thousand. Dollars
Dan agan In Grimes county for five, thousand and we
started it with five, thousand so it gets us to thirty.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Five we're gonna go to forty. Thousand you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Know the funny thing Is ramon started the fast with
a goal of eleven, days and when he got to
eleven days he, SAID i got.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
This i'm gonna keep.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Going as he got closer to, Twenty chad AND i
were kind of scratching our, heads going when does this?
End and now let me see IF i can't get to.
Twenty we got to, twenty we were, like you're not
trying to get To marcus is. Forty but when you're doing,
this you don't never want to say, that because then
if you stop at twenty, seven people are.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Like ww and you didn't hit your, goal you'd.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Get, forty whereas if you give a logoal and you keep.
Going so hopefully that's where we'll. Be ramon's forty for,
forty will hit. Forty we'll hit forty by the end
of the show.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Today let's see what time it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Is, yeah we will hit forty by the end of
the show, today and THEN i won't have to keep
bothering you about. It BUT i do appreciate your, SUPPORT
i really. Do it's For Camp. Hope ramone keeps, saying
would you stop sayings for? ME i do not see this.
Money this is all For Camp. Hope and we got
something very exciting that's coming on coming up later in
the summer For Camp, hope And i'm not allowed to
announce it just, yet but you're going to be very.
(12:52):
Impressive it's a you don't have to. Contribute the money's
already been, raised which's going to be a very cool
unveiling that some people have been working behind the. Scene,
anyway if you would like to, contribute send me an
Email Michael berryshow dot, com through the Website Michael Berry
show dot com And David malsby loves to do the private.
Tours if you go out and see campbo it's not
just some. Charity you will see exactly where your money's.
(13:14):
Going and these are guys who've gone off and served
our country and now they're helping save other veterans and
it's it's it's. Amazing by the, WAY i saw something
That Mattress mac posted and it, said let's see IF
i can find. It, okay it, said now hiring shuttle.
Drivers shuttle. Drivers so what they're, doing it's these smaller vans'
(13:39):
it's the like a box. Truck AND i guess it's
because it's a smaller box. Truck you don't need a
commercial driver's. License it says we train you learn the furniture.
Business you're paid, weekly paid. Weekly that's a big. Deal
five day work. WEEK i bet you he give you
some overtime if you want. It three free meals a.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Day you. Know i've told this, story but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Enough mac used to call me at three four o'clock say,
hey are y'all busy? Today And i'd, say, no could
you use some more?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Business?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Mac we're running a barbecue, joint a bar a concert,
facility an event, venue and we got over fifteen P,
yeah we could always use more. Business how much barbecue
could you have over here by six point? Thirty as
much as you? Want and he'd, say all, right send
me three thousand worth of. Barbecue he wouldn't tell you
what it, went just whatever you think that is. Worth,
(14:36):
Well Uncle, Jerry, Kim, Lauren thornton And, cole our whole.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Team you know what they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Do we're gonna pile everything we can on there because
we want to make him, happy and we want to
make his employees. Happy and everybody would sign up to
go over there and deliver. That and he's got a
whole kitchen and he's got a whole area where he
feeds his. People and then sometimes he'd call back and, go,
hey everybody's excited as. Barbecue make it five, thousand you know?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What make it? Seven, well, shoot.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's seven grand in our. Pocket we need. That that's
a lot of money for a small. Restaurant AND i, Say,
mac here's the. Deal i'm going to send you everything we.
Got we can pace what more we. Have we've overcooked.
Today i'm gonna send you everything we. Got input more
on you don't have to do. More, YEAH i want
to do, it hang up on.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You, Okay so we'd.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Anyway he feeds you three meals a, day good, meals,
solid you, know home cooked. Meals health. Insurance most people
can get. That but here is the only. Restriction you
have to be between twenty one and eighty. Five that's
what it, says ages twenty one to eighty.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Five.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
WELCOME i love that. Anyway go See. Mac if you
want a good job, now if you're, lazy you call in,
sick you're that an excuse. Maker if you want to
work in an environment where hard, work where you have
to treat the customer like a, king go See.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Mac they're. Hiring its good. JOB i don't even need
A cdl the squares a. Day oh never, mind never never,
mind never.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Mind When houston was announced as one of the host
cities for The World, cup county officials claimed business would
see a one point five billion dollar economic. Boom i'll
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tell YOU i often referenced my six years On Houston City.
COUNCIL i was elected In november of, one took Office
january of, two left Office january of. EIGHT i don't
Think i'm the world's expert on government, generally or uh state,
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government county, government or even city. Government BUT i will
tell You i've been around it a pretty long. WHILE
i understand the. Machinations they don't. Change we're talking about
we're talking about. Power we're talking about money under the
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guise of the delivery of. Services unlike the federal, government
the local government is almost exclusively in the business of delivering.
Services the federal government is almost exclusively in the business
(17:33):
of redirecting. Cash the federal government delivers very few services
relative to the municipal. Governments it is your municipal government
that paves your. Streets it is your municipal government who
picks up your. Trash it is your municipal government who
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administers your airport with federal, oversight but by and, large
the city runs the airport. City it's a lot of
times it's a city county. Commission it's your local government
who sends police, officers and that's where most of public
security in this country. Happens is your local government that
sends your. Firefighter and we think of firefighters as people
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who fight. Fires depending on the, area somewhere eighty to
over ninety percent of the calls they make are actually ambulance,
calls which turn out to be much more important than.
Fires in most of the cases where you're sending them
out for a, fire it's not that common that you're rescuing.
Someone it's heroic when you, do don't get me. Wrong
(18:39):
getting somebody out of a burning, car getting a child
or elderly person out of a burning, building it is
heroic and that makes the. News but the day to
day grind of being a firefighter.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Is going in and answering calls.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Because someone is having a heart, attack they're having a,
stroke they've been, shot and so you're running into a.
Situation and you know what makes that job. Heroic cops
and firefighters have a very friendly. Banter but what makes
it heroic is when there's an active scene and somebody
inside and they got to go in there not, knowing
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because bad guys will shoot at, firefighters either because they're
too stupid to know that that guy's not, armed or
they don't. Care they're just going down, there taking everybody
else down with. Them but you'll see elected officials get
very excited over The World.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Cup we're gonna get The World. Cup we're gonna get
The World. Cup you know it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Is it's a party that they're GETTING vip access. TOO
i wish i'd get that excited about safe, streets clean.
WATER i wish they'd get that excited about. Drainage how
about you see what's happening In. Awaco How about every
time it, rains we not have to wade through.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
The.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Water how about? That how about we not have this
sort of.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Damage How about how about you keep the trees trimmed
back so the wires don't go, down so our power's
not going. Out how about you take our tax money
and use. It why oh, no, no, no, no we
just want to host big parties and tell you why
you should be so excited about. It so we were
supposed to see a one point five billion dollar economic.
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Boom WHEN i was on, council there was a GUY
i think it Was Joel. Klatko IF i remember his name,
correctly that could be. Wrong it's been twenty years and
he was a. Contrarian AND i like contrarians because that
means they don't get caught up in the. Hype it
also means they're not taking a. Bribe they're not they're
not getting front row. Tickets and what he would do
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is study Every Super bowl and show you how for
all the hype in the city where they tell you
how much money's going to be made off The Super, Bowl,
oh it's going to be two hundred million. Dollars no it's.
Not it's not going to be ten percent, that and
then the local news everybody gets, excited right put on our.
Jerseys we're all, excited and they tell you all the
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bars and restaurants are going to be, busy and at
best the bars and restaurants right near there are going
to be. Busy but the, outline nobody's coming in and
going To, katie nobody's going to cross Beer. Cyprus they're
going where the sport. Is But i'm not opposed to hosting.
Events there is something to be said for.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
THAT i am.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Opposed to the over the top blank check cart. Bloch
here we'll spend it Because World, cup you, know and
there's all sorts of documentaries that have been done about
stadiums that are built In third world countries for The,
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olympics and you go back a year later and that
thing is weeds because they can't you stadium was too.
Big so whatever they did did bring in in money
and exposure and potential tourism and articles mentioning that the
name Of sarajevo or.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Where was the one In? China it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Matter the point is they spend more outlay than they're
going to make back in twenty. Years so we were
told a one point five billion dollar economic. Boom that's not.
HAPPENING KPRC tv with the.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Story whether it's a big city or small, Town Main
street is traditionally the heart of the. City but on this,
evening just hours After houston's first of Seven World Cup,
games one question stood.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Out DARE i ask where is? Everybody that's a very good.
QUESTION i don't know this sounds got the, message but
they haven't got the crowd.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
When best, Money we hire, people we change our. Menu
we have a new drink, menu we have a new food.
Menu but but today not too much to. People that's,
Right ttaurant's. Bars the tune is the same for. Many
this weekend has not lived up to the. Hype here
at The Little, Dipper, billy the, bartender tells me that
this has been one of the slowest weekends that they
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have seen this entire. Year remember each, game and we
have seven of, them were billed as the equivalent of
A Super bowl in terms of economic.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Impact i've been here.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Through Super, Bowls i've been here Through Astros.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
World series, games and.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
This is like a, regular Like, Dave there's been nothing
special about.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Today this was not what many.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Expected here in, Downtown Fernando, viegos the restaurant owner that
you saw on the, report tells me that he plans
on holding off with regards to any potential staff. Reductions
he's holding out hope that the remaining games will be
much more.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Beneficial, so, yeah so what do you say to the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Community credit TO KPRC tv for doing the. Story they
were playing coom in the. Background wasn't?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
SELENA i, MEAN i Know Gloria stefan saying, it but
didn't she.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Didn't she just cover. IT i Think cole. Was uh it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Was and by the, Way i'm not saying we don't
want international. Events i'm. Not if you're hyped up over, soccer,
great BUT i don't think we should be spending your
tax dollars on something that everyone doesn't. Enjoy this goes
for professional, sports it goes for. Everything sorry That Michael
very shows.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The prettiest songs in all of, rock just absolutely a pretty. Song,
well whether you love soccer or hate.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Soccer and there's a funny little thing that he's out
On facebook where you've got the you, KNOW i got
friends on both, sides My Robert rees friends or Or
Stephen fullard or or soccer, nerds And steven's more likely
to do this Than, robert but a lot of 'em
will do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
This and you've seen.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This, Well i'm really wondering How Goobi jubi is going
to do Against jibouti Because Gooby juby's got old Hakockne
arkhlee and he's a heck of a.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Goalie. Uh i've never seen anyone score against. Him.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh SINCE i don't know seventy eight when he came. Out,
uh but then again you Got djibouti over, there and,
uh you, know those guys.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Are, Real uh they're they're real uh.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Impressive in their. Penetration so it's gonna be a it
could be zero, zero you know we we haven't seen
that since, uh you, know back in the ninety one
qualifier In San.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Jose so and they're going on and knowing kind.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Of a you, know look WHAT i know about, soccer
and then you got the other side of here, GOING
i don't give a.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Damn it's. Stupid it's, kickball AND i like to watch.
IT i like to spur.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It you be real subtle so they don't know what you're.
Doing but if you're good at, it you can get
both of them. Going how like When Charlie daniels saying
about the Easy rider when he's getting out of there
and he turned one against the. Other you, know this
was a communist and he Hates George. Wallace, anyway wherever
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you come down on the spectrum of you're tired of
hearing about, it or you can't get enough of it
and you want everybody to know you love.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It whatever that may. Be and by the Way robberies
comes by.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It, honestly his Son cash is on a soccer scholarship At,
shriner and his Son cash was up owning the world
because he's like an electrical engineer with a PERFECT gpa
and amazing soccer player who probably could have played. Professionally
his older, DAUGHTER i think he's playing AT. Lsu he's
got another one playing. SOMEWHERE i mean the whole. Family
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they are a soccer. Family and you, KNOW i NEVER i.
Play in a true, STORY i played soccer one. YEAR
i was about six years. Old and back, then kids
didn't start playing baseball till your eight eight year old,
season and you'd play eight to nine down and then.
Ten you rather stayed down if you need a, development
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or you went up as a young major leaguer and
then eleven. Twelve of course they've they've, changed they have
more categories now and, anyway but my, parents my, mother
for whatever, reason put me INTO ymca soccer And i'd
never played. BEFORE i might have been younger than, six
MAYBE i was four or, five AND i just remember
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the grass was too, high it was early on A saturday.
MORNING i didn't want to BE i want to be
watching cartoons and eating sugar.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Cereal but here we, were and we're out on a.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Field it's my first. Day i've never played at. Home
nobody in my neighborhood played. It it wasn't. Done but
somehow she don't put me in this soccer league at TO.
Ymc and so we're out there and the shoes weren't.
Comfortable DID i MENTION i didn't want to be? THERE
i THINK i was, hungry and the grass hadn't been,
mowed so it was, wet and THOSE i forget what you,
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talked called like cattails or, whatever and it was itching
my legs AND i wasn't. HAPPY i MENTIONED i wasn't
happy to be. There and my socks kept falling, down
And i'm kind OF.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Ocd you might have. NOTICED i didn't want my socks
to fall.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
DOWN i want my socks to come, up but they
must not have had a good elastic band, on so
they'd fall down the whole. Time so rather than get
in the, Scrum i'd go over the, side pulling my socks.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Up and so the game was.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Over and my, mother who minds, you has never played
a day of soccer in her, life and probably barely
knows the. Rules scolds me for the fact that ALL
i did was spend the whole game or match or
whatever it was, called pulling up my. Socks needless to,
say that was the end of my soccer. Career, well
lo and. BEHOLD i put my kids in the traditional
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sports And. Crocker crockett has loved soccer since he was
a little bitty AND i couldn't shake him of.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It he loved. It he watched it ON, tv he'd
go out and play. IT i could get.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Him to go out and play it more THAN i
could get him to throw the, baseball shoot, baskets throw the.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Football he loved.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It so there came some POINT i don't remember where
in his development where he, Said, DAD i want to
play soccer as, well and that became the sport he
liked the, most the sport he was best. At he
made varsity as a, sophomore which is a big, deal
and he loved. Soccer So i've gone to SEE messi.
PLAY i send videos of you, know this is supposed
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to be the greatest. Goal soccer doesn't speak to, me
partly BECAUSE i don't come from that.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Tradition, LOOK i don't like, haggis you know In.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Scotland BUT i suppose IF i grew up and that
was mother's, milk to, ME i would there's FOODS i
don't like BECAUSE i didn't eat them growing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
UP i know people that like monkey.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
BRAIN i don't do monkey, brain BUT i can appreciate
that he likes.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
It and it father son.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Activities so we have gone To we flew To miami
to SEE messi play when he was WHEN i guess
he first got there or, whatever AND i went all
out to get good tickets AND i tried to learn
EVERYTHING i could about.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It that's to, me that's part of being a good.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Dad and by the, way it could have Been Tiddley,
winks it could have been live, theater it could have
been car, repairs whatever it.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Was that's my. SON i must spend time with, him
AND i think that's how it should.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Be but whatever you think of this, event the amount
of money, spent whether the money is returning, itself whether
there's enough money being spent here.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
By, tourists whatever that.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Is Eric erickson wrote something THAT i thought was poignant and,
beautiful And chad had it in my prep. Today BUT
i have to give credit to See Andy peterson because
she sent it to me the other. Day and she
AND i don't always agree with What Eric erickson, says
because he can be in our, opinion my, OPINION i
won't speak For. Sanny sometimes unfair To. Trump and he,
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wrote we fly To spain to seek, als and To
rome to stand among ruins two thousand years older than our.
Republic we assume the old world holds the. Wonders here
are the people of the old, world crossing an ocean
and crying at our, canyon marveling At. Memphis they look
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at what we walk past every day and cannot believe
their luck at getting to see. It he, writes for
the next five, weeks a sport Most americans cannot be
bothered to, watch will bring the rest of the planet
to our. Doorstep they are already Arriving, German, Spaniards, Egyptians,
australians every, continent But antarctica is showing. Up and something
is happening that ought to make us. Pause their minds
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are being blown away by. US A german Named freddie
came To atlanta and made his way up To North,
georgia went tubing on The chattahoochee drove Through chattanooga and Onto, Auburn.
Alabama you, know jj wats got an interest in A
european sports league, soccer and there was one of the,
players his name Is, freddie and he was posting about
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the hotel that Jj watt put him up, in and
it's a nice it's a nice suite at an, APARTMENT
i mean at a.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Hotel but he's blown away by.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It and it's just amazing how much luxury the Average
american enjoys that people don't see.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Abroad the expanse.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Of, things the, extravaganza the movable feast of, foods the
cornacopia of things we can eat and do and watch
on television and. Go and it is a good reminder
to see ourselves in our community in other people's, eyes
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I just got a message from the business owner the
Galleria area who said one of the ticket gouging thugs
that FIFA have to have a twenty motorcycle police exit
motorcade to get their buses out of the hotel over
here on Post oh and delay everybody else. Is FIFA
that important or do we just exist for FIFA's pleasure
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at this point in time, I just had to wait
fifteen minutes for the FIFA buses to come out with
all their police escorts and the little FIFA cars. What
good is FIFA for doing to the average citizen of Houston?
How are they benefiting? Just wanted to propose that question.
You know, it's one of those things I want people
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who come to this country, when people come to State
of Texas, when people come to City Houston, I want
them to have a good experience. I want them to
go back and talk about how wonderful it is. Not
just so that we can export our products. I want
us to have a nice image. You know, you have
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somebody in your home, you want them to leave. You
want them to feel welcome in your home. You want
them to feel you want them to leave happy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
That that's you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Know, one of the most moving parts of Loan Survivor. Oh,
we got some more actors proposed to play you and
Lean Survivor ormight not give you those in a minute.
One of them I didn't recognize. One of them was
James Franko. Can he have some problems? Yeah, we don't
want to confuse that. He does look a lot like you, though.
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One of the most powerful parts of Marcus's book, which
obviously the book goes into much greater to tail than
in Peter Berg's movie does. That's true of everything you
know that a movie has to has to compress. I
told Marcus one time. I said, man, you know the
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problem with that that shootout scene and I said, it
just dragged on so long. It was just painful.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And he said, yeah, it dragged I forget what it was.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It dragged on for what it's twenty three minutes, because
that was actually eleven hours or something. I said, Oh,
I think I'd had to say, hey, guys, I need
to get some cocon this going on too long.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This thing is imagine that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So a movie had to compress an expansive time into
a few minutes, and they still use a huge portion
of the movie to give you the feel for this
firefight and how brutal it was and how long it lasted.
But one of the things that really moved me about
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that movie was that at the end, you know, after
he drags himself for a while, he's discovered, and he's
discovered by an Afghan villager who brings him to his
home and Marcus is confused, why are you people doing this?
Are you holding me hostage? Are you gonna hand me over?
Or are you gonna torture me? He's already been through
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a living hell. He's lost his buddies. He saw he
saw the plane the rescue come down, you know, shot down.
He's been through helen back. He's not supposed to be alive.
He's already sick because he's had to drink bad water.
He shot up, and he doesn't know his fate. You know,
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they're going to pull him in every different direction. They're
gonna gouge his eyes out, or they you don't know,
you know, you know it's going to be bad, And
they didn't. And he told the story about how they
the in the Afghan culture a guest in your home
is such an important thing, and it was that important
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that he be treated well. So, yeah, I want people
to have a great experience here, but you lose sight
of things when you forget that this is a city
for Houstonians. And really, I think this was what a
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lot of the Trump phenomenon was about, is the understanding that, look,
we're not nativists, We're not we're not bad people. We
want our country to be good for our countrymen.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
First.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's what Doese was about. Hey, why are we sending
all this money around the world world to people who
hate us? But even if they didn't hate us, why
are we This is the money of the American people.
It's hard when you pay your taxes. Milton Friedman said
they did this for the war effort, and he said
it was his greatest professional regret, and he regretted it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
For the end of his days.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Is they required they outsourced the collection of income taxes
to companies. They said to the company, you will take
the money out of what you pay people, and you
will send it to us. And in very short order,
but certainly within a generation, you stopped noticing as the worker.
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You stopped noticing your money going to the government, so
you signed a contractor you got hired at a certain rate.
You know you back then you were getting four dollars
and eighty three cents an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You didn't take that home.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And sure, we need national defense, ensure, we need roads, understandable,
but the amount of money that just kept being taken
from you became obscene, vulgar, and then that money was
it's being spent in lots of crazy ways. We're now
seeing the medicaid fraud, We're seeing the childcare fraud, We're
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seeing all these forms of fraud. We see these big
infrastructure projects, the road to know Where, the big project,
the big rail project in California. But also we just
generally saw that our money's going to every country in
the world, Countries we couldn't find on a map, countries
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we're never going to visit, countries we don't do business with.
And this is the American people's money. And I think
that is writ large what my friend is talking about
with the traffic at six' ten coming out of Post.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oke, hey.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We're fine with making them feel, important but why Make,
ustonians ninety nine percent of whom can't afford to go
to the Soccer, Matchain, okay that's a different. Subject why
make them sit and wait for all of this like
these people are. Kings we don't get this when we
have a.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Funeral you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Know one of the most moving things from me in
a reminder of how special small towns, are was when
my brother, died all of the people Of orange pulled
off the side of the road and they would salute
as you went by because somebody from the community who
wore the badge had.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Passed but by the, way if you don't wear the.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Badge my family's originally from The Tyler troop, area and
when we would be on our way to the, funeral
people would see that it was a funeral, procession they
pull off the side of the road so them get
out and show respect for one of their, own for
the people who taught the, children taught At Sunday, school
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served the, country picked up, trash, volunteered paid. Taxes The
american citizen has felt for a very long time that
he is second rate in his own, country and little
moves like that remind him of.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That it's it's a bad look treat them like. Kings
at the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hotel there's lots of things you can, do but don't
do stuff you smear again in the face of the
average citizen who's on his way to his doctor's.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Appointment now he's going to.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Be Late Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Berry Fuckinghood ben escaped from the.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Ordinary those of you who are fans of my second
all time favorite, Band The, band you will know that
there would have been No The band Without Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Hawkins and That's Ronnie. Hawkins Levon helm played drums for
him and wrote. Songs and if you saw the Last
waltz and he saw the guy that looked a little
bit Like Charlie, DANIELS i think some people thought it
Was Charlie. Daniels, no that was the. Great that was
the Great Ronnie hawkins From. Arkansas you, know there was
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some STORY i can't remember what it, was That Jack,
ruby that That Ronnie hawkins brought the band To dallas
to pay to play for a club and the club
owner Was Jack ruby And Jack RUBY.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Exactly how it all played, out BUT i Think Jack
ruby was famous in.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
History do you remember Why? Ramon, YEAH i know he
Killed Oswalt please that's the. Joke you didn't you didn't
use the bit.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Properly we have a new working title for the movie
For ramone instead Of Lean's, survivor since it was inspired
By Marcus Latrell's Forty. DAYS i had so Since Loan
survivor Is marcus and my concept For ramone's, title but
now they want to make a.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Movie Is Lean's Our.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Friend At holiday At Cursive, Media John Holliday mallow has
come up With Ramone survivor like. That thank you To
connie And Billy stagner Of Corey diamonds for another five.
HUNDRED i don't think they've ever not contributed since the
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DAY i met, HIM i really. Don't thank you To
Michael Claiborne waterftexas Dot, com who calls himself The Texas,
waterboy great, guy one thousand. Dollars thank you To Grant,
patterson our little sales Guy.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Ramon he like twenty one years.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Old he's in for one. Hundred Royd thibodeaux for one.
Hundred he's with the ag. Insurance was it called Uh
texas Ag? Insurance he's out In. Brenda he sells insurance
for THE i forget what it's. Called Bobby crumpley for
one hundred. Dollars one of our best contributors to the.
Show Uncle Darryl Daryl hancock for one, Hundred Andy leahay
for one, Hundred jeff for five. HUNDRED i don't know
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his last, Name Jody peck for one, Hundred Lewis pointe
for one. Hundred Chad anders was our first responder With
Andres Land group for two, Hundred Ben barlow Of Hervey
barlow for five, Thousand Koy christoffel Of pitts And spits
for two, Thousand Brendan Blair Brian Garden's landscape And irrigation
for five.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Thousand twenty five hundred From.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Josh Casper zach Of Texas Star, Power Dan, HUNSUCKER i
cannot find the amount that he's.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
GIVING i gotta get him to send me another.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Email the anonymous couple who live In, kingwood who KNOW
i know them for twenty five. Hundred Our County Commissioner
Tom ramsay from his own funds for five thousand. Dollars
Dan agan In Grimes county for five, thousand and we
started it with five, thousand so it gets us to thirty.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Five we're gonna go to forty. Thousand you.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Know the funny thing Is ramon started the fast with
a goal of eleven, days and when he got to
eleven days he, SAID i got.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
This i'm gonna keep.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Going as he got closer to, Twenty chad AND i
were kind of scratching our, heads going when does this?
End and now let me see IF i can't get to.
Twenty we got to, twenty we were, like you're not
trying to get To marcus is. Forty but when you're doing,
this you don't never want to say, that because then
if you stop at twenty, seven people are.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Like ww and you didn't hit your, goal you'd.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Get, forty whereas if you give a logoal and you keep.
Going so hopefully that's where we'll. Be ramon's forty for,
forty will hit. Forty we'll hit forty by the end
of the show.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Today let's see what time it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Is, yeah we will hit forty by the end of
the show, today and THEN i won't have to keep
bothering you about. It BUT i do appreciate your, SUPPORT
i really. Do it's For Camp. Hope ramone keeps, saying
would you stop sayings for? ME i do not see this.
Money this is all For Camp. Hope and we got
something very exciting that's coming on coming up later in
the summer For Camp, hope And i'm not allowed to
announce it just, yet but you're going to be very.
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Impressive it's a you don't have to. Contribute the money's
already been, raised which's going to be a very cool
unveiling that some people have been working behind the. Scene,
anyway if you would like to, contribute send me an
Email Michael berryshow dot, com through the Website Michael Berry
show dot com And David malsby loves to do the private.
Tours if you go out and see campbo it's not
just some. Charity you will see exactly where your money's.
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Going and these are guys who've gone off and served
our country and now they're helping save other veterans and
it's it's it's. Amazing by the, WAY i saw something
That Mattress mac posted and it, said let's see IF
i can find. It, okay it, said now hiring shuttle.
Drivers shuttle. Drivers so what they're, doing it's these smaller vans'
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it's the like a box. Truck AND i guess it's
because it's a smaller box. Truck you don't need a
commercial driver's. License it says we train you learn the furniture.
Business you're paid, weekly paid. Weekly that's a big. Deal
five day work. WEEK i bet you he give you
some overtime if you want. It three free meals a.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Day you. Know i've told this, story but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Enough mac used to call me at three four o'clock say,
hey are y'all busy? Today And i'd, say, no could
you use some more?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Business?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Mac we're running a barbecue, joint a bar a concert,
facility an event, venue and we got over fifteen P,
yeah we could always use more. Business how much barbecue
could you have over here by six point? Thirty as
much as you? Want and he'd, say all, right send
me three thousand worth of. Barbecue he wouldn't tell you
what it, went just whatever you think that is. Worth,
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Well Uncle, Jerry, Kim, Lauren thornton And, cole our whole.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Team you know what they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Do we're gonna pile everything we can on there because
we want to make him, happy and we want to
make his employees. Happy and everybody would sign up to
go over there and deliver. That and he's got a
whole kitchen and he's got a whole area where he
feeds his. People and then sometimes he'd call back and, go,
hey everybody's excited as. Barbecue make it five, thousand you know?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What make it? Seven, well, shoot.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's seven grand in our. Pocket we need. That that's
a lot of money for a small. Restaurant AND i, Say,
mac here's the. Deal i'm going to send you everything we.
Got we can pace what more we. Have we've overcooked.
Today i'm gonna send you everything we. Got input more
on you don't have to do. More, YEAH i want
to do, it hang up on.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You, Okay so we'd.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Anyway he feeds you three meals a, day good, meals,
solid you, know home cooked. Meals health. Insurance most people
can get. That but here is the only. Restriction you
have to be between twenty one and eighty. Five that's
what it, says ages twenty one to eighty.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Five.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
WELCOME i love that. Anyway go See. Mac if you
want a good job, now if you're, lazy you call in,
sick you're that an excuse. Maker if you want to
work in an environment where hard, work where you have
to treat the customer like a, king go See.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Mac they're. Hiring its good. JOB i don't even need
A cdl the squares a. Day oh never, mind never never,
mind never.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Mind When houston was announced as one of the host
cities for The World, cup county officials claimed business would
see a one point five billion dollar economic. Boom i'll
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tell YOU i often referenced my six years On Houston City.
COUNCIL i was elected In november of, one took Office
january of, two left Office january of. EIGHT i don't
Think i'm the world's expert on government, generally or uh state,
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government county, government or even city. Government BUT i will
tell You i've been around it a pretty long. WHILE
i understand the. Machinations they don't. Change we're talking about
we're talking about. Power we're talking about money under the
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guise of the delivery of. Services unlike the federal, government
the local government is almost exclusively in the business of delivering.
Services the federal government is almost exclusively in the business
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of redirecting. Cash the federal government delivers very few services
relative to the municipal. Governments it is your municipal government
that paves your. Streets it is your municipal government who
picks up your. Trash it is your municipal government who
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administers your airport with federal, oversight but by and, large
the city runs the airport. City it's a lot of
times it's a city county. Commission it's your local government
who sends police, officers and that's where most of public
security in this country. Happens is your local government that
sends your. Firefighter and we think of firefighters as people
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who fight. Fires depending on the, area somewhere eighty to
over ninety percent of the calls they make are actually ambulance,
calls which turn out to be much more important than.
Fires in most of the cases where you're sending them
out for a, fire it's not that common that you're rescuing.
Someone it's heroic when you, do don't get me. Wrong
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getting somebody out of a burning, car getting a child
or elderly person out of a burning, building it is
heroic and that makes the. News but the day to
day grind of being a firefighter.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Is going in and answering calls.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Because someone is having a heart, attack they're having a,
stroke they've been, shot and so you're running into a.
Situation and you know what makes that job. Heroic cops
and firefighters have a very friendly. Banter but what makes
it heroic is when there's an active scene and somebody
inside and they got to go in there not, knowing
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because bad guys will shoot at, firefighters either because they're
too stupid to know that that guy's not, armed or
they don't. Care they're just going down, there taking everybody
else down with. Them but you'll see elected officials get
very excited over The World.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Cup we're gonna get The World. Cup we're gonna get
The World. Cup you know it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Is it's a party that they're GETTING vip access. TOO
i wish i'd get that excited about safe, streets clean.
WATER i wish they'd get that excited about. Drainage how
about you see what's happening In. Awaco How about every
time it, rains we not have to wade through.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
The.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Water how about? That how about we not have this
sort of.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Damage How about how about you keep the trees trimmed
back so the wires don't go, down so our power's
not going. Out how about you take our tax money
and use. It why oh, no, no, no, no we
just want to host big parties and tell you why
you should be so excited about. It so we were
supposed to see a one point five billion dollar economic.
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Boom WHEN i was on, council there was a GUY
i think it Was Joel. Klatko IF i remember his name,
correctly that could be. Wrong it's been twenty years and
he was a. Contrarian AND i like contrarians because that
means they don't get caught up in the. Hype it
also means they're not taking a. Bribe they're not they're
not getting front row. Tickets and what he would do
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is study Every Super bowl and show you how for
all the hype in the city where they tell you
how much money's going to be made off The Super, Bowl,
oh it's going to be two hundred million. Dollars no it's.
Not it's not going to be ten percent, that and
then the local news everybody gets, excited right put on our.
Jerseys we're all, excited and they tell you all the
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bars and restaurants are going to be, busy and at
best the bars and restaurants right near there are going
to be. Busy but the, outline nobody's coming in and
going To, katie nobody's going to cross Beer. Cyprus they're
going where the sport. Is But i'm not opposed to hosting.
Events there is something to be said for.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
THAT i am.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Opposed to the over the top blank check cart. Bloch
here we'll spend it Because World, cup you, know and
there's all sorts of documentaries that have been done about
stadiums that are built In third world countries for The,
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olympics and you go back a year later and that
thing is weeds because they can't you stadium was too.
Big so whatever they did did bring in in money
and exposure and potential tourism and articles mentioning that the
name Of sarajevo or.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Where was the one In? China it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Matter the point is they spend more outlay than they're
going to make back in twenty. Years so we were
told a one point five billion dollar economic. Boom that's not.
HAPPENING KPRC tv with the.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Story whether it's a big city or small, Town Main
street is traditionally the heart of the. City but on this,
evening just hours After houston's first of Seven World Cup,
games one question stood.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Out DARE i ask where is? Everybody that's a very good.
QUESTION i don't know this sounds got the, message but
they haven't got the crowd.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
When best, Money we hire, people we change our. Menu
we have a new drink, menu we have a new food.
Menu but but today not too much to. People that's,
Right ttaurant's. Bars the tune is the same for. Many
this weekend has not lived up to the. Hype here
at The Little, Dipper, billy the, bartender tells me that
this has been one of the slowest weekends that they
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have seen this entire. Year remember each, game and we
have seven of, them were billed as the equivalent of
A Super bowl in terms of economic.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Impact i've been here.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Through Super, Bowls i've been here Through Astros.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
World series, games and.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
This is like a, regular Like, Dave there's been nothing
special about.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Today this was not what many.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Expected here in, Downtown Fernando, viegos the restaurant owner that
you saw on the, report tells me that he plans
on holding off with regards to any potential staff. Reductions
he's holding out hope that the remaining games will be
much more.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Beneficial, so, yeah so what do you say to the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Community credit TO KPRC tv for doing the. Story they
were playing coom in the. Background wasn't?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
SELENA i, MEAN i Know Gloria stefan saying, it but
didn't she.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Didn't she just cover. IT i Think cole. Was uh it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Was and by the, Way i'm not saying we don't
want international. Events i'm. Not if you're hyped up over, soccer,
great BUT i don't think we should be spending your
tax dollars on something that everyone doesn't. Enjoy this goes
for professional, sports it goes for. Everything sorry That Michael
very shows.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The prettiest songs in all of, rock just absolutely a pretty. Song,
well whether you love soccer or hate.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Soccer and there's a funny little thing that he's out
On facebook where you've got the you, KNOW i got
friends on both, sides My Robert rees friends or Or
Stephen fullard or or soccer, nerds And steven's more likely
to do this Than, robert but a lot of 'em
will do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
This and you've seen.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This, Well i'm really wondering How Goobi jubi is going
to do Against jibouti Because Gooby juby's got old Hakockne
arkhlee and he's a heck of a.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Goalie. Uh i've never seen anyone score against. Him.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh SINCE i don't know seventy eight when he came. Out,
uh but then again you Got djibouti over, there and,
uh you, know those guys.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Are, Real uh they're they're real uh.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Impressive in their. Penetration so it's gonna be a it
could be zero, zero you know we we haven't seen
that since, uh you, know back in the ninety one
qualifier In San.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Jose so and they're going on and knowing kind.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Of a you, know look WHAT i know about, soccer
and then you got the other side of here, GOING
i don't give a.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Damn it's. Stupid it's, kickball AND i like to watch.
IT i like to spur.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It you be real subtle so they don't know what you're.
Doing but if you're good at, it you can get
both of them. Going how like When Charlie daniels saying
about the Easy rider when he's getting out of there
and he turned one against the. Other you, know this
was a communist and he Hates George. Wallace, anyway wherever
(26:29):
you come down on the spectrum of you're tired of
hearing about, it or you can't get enough of it
and you want everybody to know you love.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It whatever that may. Be and by the Way robberies
comes by.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It, honestly his Son cash is on a soccer scholarship At,
shriner and his Son cash was up owning the world
because he's like an electrical engineer with a PERFECT gpa
and amazing soccer player who probably could have played. Professionally
his older, DAUGHTER i think he's playing AT. Lsu he's
got another one playing. SOMEWHERE i mean the whole. Family
(27:00):
they are a soccer. Family and you, KNOW i NEVER i.
Play in a true, STORY i played soccer one. YEAR
i was about six years. Old and back, then kids
didn't start playing baseball till your eight eight year old,
season and you'd play eight to nine down and then.
Ten you rather stayed down if you need a, development
(27:21):
or you went up as a young major leaguer and
then eleven. Twelve of course they've they've, changed they have
more categories now and, anyway but my, parents my, mother
for whatever, reason put me INTO ymca soccer And i'd
never played. BEFORE i might have been younger than, six
MAYBE i was four or, five AND i just remember
(27:42):
the grass was too, high it was early on A saturday.
MORNING i didn't want to BE i want to be
watching cartoons and eating sugar.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Cereal but here we, were and we're out on a.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Field it's my first. Day i've never played at. Home
nobody in my neighborhood played. It it wasn't. Done but
somehow she don't put me in this soccer league at TO.
Ymc and so we're out there and the shoes weren't.
Comfortable DID i MENTION i didn't want to be? THERE
i THINK i was, hungry and the grass hadn't been,
mowed so it was, wet and THOSE i forget what you,
(28:16):
talked called like cattails or, whatever and it was itching
my legs AND i wasn't. HAPPY i MENTIONED i wasn't
happy to be. There and my socks kept falling, down
And i'm kind OF.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Ocd you might have. NOTICED i didn't want my socks
to fall.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
DOWN i want my socks to come, up but they
must not have had a good elastic band, on so
they'd fall down the whole. Time so rather than get
in the, Scrum i'd go over the, side pulling my socks.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Up and so the game was.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Over and my, mother who minds, you has never played
a day of soccer in her, life and probably barely
knows the. Rules scolds me for the fact that ALL
i did was spend the whole game or match or
whatever it was, called pulling up my. Socks needless to,
say that was the end of my soccer. Career, well
lo and. BEHOLD i put my kids in the traditional
(29:01):
sports And. Crocker crockett has loved soccer since he was
a little bitty AND i couldn't shake him of.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It he loved. It he watched it ON, tv he'd
go out and play. IT i could get.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Him to go out and play it more THAN i
could get him to throw the, baseball shoot, baskets throw the.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Football he loved.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It so there came some POINT i don't remember where
in his development where he, Said, DAD i want to
play soccer as, well and that became the sport he
liked the, most the sport he was best. At he
made varsity as a, sophomore which is a big, deal
and he loved. Soccer So i've gone to SEE messi.
PLAY i send videos of you, know this is supposed
(29:36):
to be the greatest. Goal soccer doesn't speak to, me
partly BECAUSE i don't come from that.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Tradition, LOOK i don't like, haggis you know In.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Scotland BUT i suppose IF i grew up and that
was mother's, milk to, ME i would there's FOODS i
don't like BECAUSE i didn't eat them growing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
UP i know people that like monkey.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
BRAIN i don't do monkey, brain BUT i can appreciate
that he likes.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
It and it father son.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Activities so we have gone To we flew To miami
to SEE messi play when he was WHEN i guess
he first got there or, whatever AND i went all
out to get good tickets AND i tried to learn
EVERYTHING i could about.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It that's to, me that's part of being a good.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Dad and by the, way it could have Been Tiddley,
winks it could have been live, theater it could have
been car, repairs whatever it.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Was that's my. SON i must spend time with, him
AND i think that's how it should.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Be but whatever you think of this, event the amount
of money, spent whether the money is returning, itself whether
there's enough money being spent here.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
By, tourists whatever that.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Is Eric erickson wrote something THAT i thought was poignant and,
beautiful And chad had it in my prep. Today BUT
i have to give credit to See Andy peterson because
she sent it to me the other. Day and she
AND i don't always agree with What Eric erickson, says
because he can be in our, opinion my, OPINION i
won't speak For. Sanny sometimes unfair To. Trump and he,
(30:57):
wrote we fly To spain to seek, als and To
rome to stand among ruins two thousand years older than our.
Republic we assume the old world holds the. Wonders here
are the people of the old, world crossing an ocean
and crying at our, canyon marveling At. Memphis they look
(31:18):
at what we walk past every day and cannot believe
their luck at getting to see. It he, writes for
the next five, weeks a sport Most americans cannot be
bothered to, watch will bring the rest of the planet
to our. Doorstep they are already Arriving, German, Spaniards, Egyptians,
australians every, continent But antarctica is showing. Up and something
is happening that ought to make us. Pause their minds
(31:40):
are being blown away by. US A german Named freddie
came To atlanta and made his way up To North,
georgia went tubing on The chattahoochee drove Through chattanooga and Onto, Auburn.
Alabama you, know jj wats got an interest in A
european sports league, soccer and there was one of the,
players his name Is, freddie and he was posting about
(32:01):
the hotel that Jj watt put him up, in and
it's a nice it's a nice suite at an, APARTMENT
i mean at a.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Hotel but he's blown away by.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It and it's just amazing how much luxury the Average
american enjoys that people don't see.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Abroad the expanse.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Of, things the, extravaganza the movable feast of, foods the
cornacopia of things we can eat and do and watch
on television and. Go and it is a good reminder
to see ourselves in our community in other people's, eyes
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