AM Show Hr 3 | Border Success, Rodeo Reviews, & Big Moves in Politics & Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. What happened?
Something must have happened. It's not you, it's me. You're
giving me the it's not you, it's me routine I invented.
It's not you. Its Smith. Nobody tells me it's them,
not me. If it's anybody, it's me. George, it's you.

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You're a damn right, it's Smith.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Let's start with a new polling that shows the Democratic
Party has preached an all time low in popularity. The
latest NBC News national poll finds that a majority of
registered voters fifty five percent have a negative view of
the party, while seven percent just over a quarter of
registered voters have a pulsive view the party. That's the

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party's lowest rating in NBC News polling dating back to
nineteen ninety Meanwhile, though, a new CNNSSRS poll finds the
Democratic Party's favorability rating at just twenty nine percent, a
record low going back to nineteen ninety two and a

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drop of twenty points since January of twenty twenty one.
What's more, just sixty three percent of Democrats and Democratic
leaning independents have a favorable view of their own party,
down nine points from January and eighteen points from the
start of the Biden administration.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Good you know, good you know, due to the massive
drop in illegal border crossings under President Trump.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Because of President Trump, Galveston County Judge Mark Henry says
starting next month, they will no longer send sheriff's deputies
from Galveston County and deputy constables to the southern border
because the help is.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
No longer needed. A story from KPRC TV.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
In the last month, border patrol logged just over eleven
thousand immigrants called crossing the border illegally or who were
deemed inadmissible to the United States. The average number of
daily arrests dropped below three hundred. That is a historic low.
At the height of the Bard crisis, rural counties with
little law enforcement, like Kinney County were overwhelmed by smuggling operations, chases,
and immigrants who crossed into the US illegally, trespassing through

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ranches in damaging property. Governor Greg Abbott set up a
program to where other counties could send deputies to help
their colleagues on the border. Galveston County started doing that
in twenty twenty one, and we rode with those deputies
and Deputy constables on several trips. But as we reported
earlier this year, in the numbers now show the activity
on the border has dropped dramatically. Galveston County Judge Mark

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Henry said he also spoke with the Kinney County sheriff
who confirmed they'll be okay on their own now.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
So we made the determination that if we can't be
helpful to Kinney County that we will offer our services
to the governor to help elsewhere with Operation Loan Star,
but if not needed, then we'll just wrap it up
and bring them all back. We really helped them out
with their manpower being so small and the invasion being
so large. So glad to see that it's finally under control,
and very happy to have our people back in Galveston

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County full time.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Henry says two deputies will continue helping Kinney County through
the end of the month, then he'll cancel the disaster
declaration that allowed.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
For the sharing of resources.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
This comes as Governor Greg Abbott says this is also
shutting down a jail booking facility in Jim Hogg County
that was opened in twenty twenty two and used to
handle border related arrests. However, a similar facility in Valverdi
County remains open.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Don't tell us how much money will be saved in
law enforcement, how much money will be saved in criminal justice,
in courthouse time, in jail space, in prison space.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
We have to feed those bastards. Think about that. We
have to feed those bastards.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I have a friend I hadn't talked to in years,
and his son was sixteen and got pinched for a DWI,
and so I had called to check on him a
while back, and I asked him how the food was,
because after Bert's experience of the baloney sandwich, I wanted
to know what they gave the juveniles if it was

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any different, And it was better. It was a ham
sandwich and for breakfast was oatmeal. Yeah, but apparently most
people lose weight while they're in the jail because the
quality of the food is not exactly.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's not to taste. Shall we say that.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Article mentioned Galveston County's County Judge Mark Henry. The guy
who was actually going down to the border and who
was the first to do it in the region, is
Jimmy Fullen and Fullan was a constable in Galveston County, which,

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as you know, a constable is like a they have
a precinct, same way county commissioners have a precinct. The
constable has a precinct over which they're kind of the
little mini sheriff of that precinct. And then the county
wide force is the sheriff's department. Jimmy Fullen ran for
and was elected to the Sheriff's department to head that.

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So he is now at Galason County Sheriff. But he's
the one that was going down there and bringing his
deputies down there and working on the border. In fact,
he got national attention for it. Berna wrote a whole
article about it, the burner guns, because he was the
first to implement the use of the burner guns because

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some of these folks are aggressive coming across the border,
and he wanted a less lethal way to get them
to stop, because you don't know what language you're trying
to tell them to stop, and you know, you don't
know if they're Hyle Hitler or you know, French, you
don't know, you don't know, And so they had to

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find some ways when these people became aggressive and burnad
a big deal out of it nationally, and a lot
of law enforcement ended up using that Berna les Leitha
launchers for law enforcement purposes. Anyway, So Jimmy Fullen got
elected sheriff of Galson County in November, and a couple

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of weeks ago he announced that the inmates would no
longer have their usual colors for their for their for
the little suits they wore, but instead they would be pink.
The Houston Chronicle wrote an article and this is the
way they staged these things. The article was so while

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they praised the legacy of Sheila Jackson Lee and to
a lesser extent, Sylvester Turner and whoever is the next
Congressman will stand on the shoulders of greatness, Well, this
guy's down there. He's putting inmates in pink suits. And
they found somebody. They had to call around, I'm sure
to find somebody. They found somebody who said's a bad idea,

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not good and that's a sociology.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Professor at the University of Houston.

Speaker 7 (08:06):
And he said he thinks it might not be good
that they do that because the inmates might not like it.
They might feel humiliated. Yeah, you just keep continuing on
in the sociology department at u H there, Fellows Champion
might be on something.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I just running big league ballplayers there with Michael Berry American.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
I might just.

Speaker 8 (08:34):
So.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I have several friends who were big fans of Charlie
Crockett and he was playing at the Rodeo last year.
So I'm just scanning emails during the break.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
And somebody sent, you.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Know, great review of Charlie's performance last night at the
Rodeo was the subject line, and I clicked on it
and didn't notice it, and it was a really well
written review. But not only that it is the subject
that the description in the review itself was glowing, and

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I thought, oh, that Joey guy at the Chronicle has
finally written something nice about somebody other than Taylor Swift
and Beyonce. There is a certain level of fandom that
a certain type of guy has toward Taylor Swift and
Beyonce that if you've and they're always the food review

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I mean, there are always the music reviewer types. They
use a certain type of language, a flourish of flamboyance,
and it's their fascination with these women is on a
level it's weird and it's not. It's not turn out

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the lights fascination. It's very much gawking on the runway, yes,
queen kind of stuff. But anyway, so I read this review,
which i'll read to you, and I had to scroll
down and go, hey, I might send that dude an
email saying you finally wrote a decent review about something

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that wasn't you know, girl power?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Dude. I'm kind of proud of you. And here's the review.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Texas cruiter Charlie Crockett covers King George at Rodeo Houston debut.
If zach Topp looked and sounded like he was transported
straight from the Rodeo lineup in nineteen ninety five, Monday
Night's headliner, Charlie Crockett would have been perfect in seventy two,
holding his own during an afternoon matinee.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
With Glenn Campbell in the Astronome. Okay, you got my attention.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Turning in a career spanning set, an introduction for the
newbies and a heart hug for the diehards in the crowd.
Crockett cinematics sound translated effortlessly inside NRG Stadium. You know
when Bob Tolman, the voice of Rodeo Houston, says he
loves that you're in the right building. One of Rodeo

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Houston's most esoteric picks in some time, which is true.
Charlie's not a headliner for a crowd this big, so
it was bold of the Rodeo to do this.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Hat's off to the Rodeo for doing this.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
One of Rodeo Houston's most esoteric picks and sometimes the
San Benito born Charlie Crockett has released fourteen albums since
his debut in twenty fifteen. His last album is Lonesome Drifter,
and it comes less than a year since twenty twenty
four to ten Dollars Cowboy, he did all ten dollars
shows and its direct sequel Visions of Dallas. On Crockett's

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last few records, he's dipped into genteel country politan shades
of sound, gorgeous strings, angelic backing vocals, Elvis Presley style
gospel flourishes, sporting production by Outlaw Royalty Shooter Jennings. Lonesome
Drifter is his first on major label Island Records and
a definitive career statement. Just before nine thirty PM, Crockett

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drove his damn self out to the Starred Stage in
a classic Ford Thunderbird to meet his band, The Blue Drifters,
kicking off with the world Weary Game I Can't Win,
the opening cut from Lonesome Drifter. Crockett's striking voice diverted
into country music after he explored blues and soul textures
early in his career. That was most evident on Monday nights.

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I'm Just a Clown and hard Luck and Circumstances, two
early standouts like Kindred Spirit and Rodeo Houston alum Leon Bridges,
Crockett bridges the gap between classic soul and country. He
followed up James Hands Rockabilly Rave up Don't Tell Me
That by writing one of the points of the Starred
Stage into the Air for Life of a Country Singer,

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one of the most biting songs from the new album.
Crockett may have become the first man on earth to
cover Link Ray's Errol Jukebox Mama in a football stadium
on Monday nine. The latter has been in his live
repertoire for the past year. The Cowboys swinger Trinity River
has been a constant in Crockett's discography, debuting back in
twenty fifteen on a Stolen Jewel and reappearing in twenty

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twenty Two's demand from Waco album We'd like to see
him revisit it in twenty twenty nine if he can.
Seeing Crockett on such a large stage was surreal for
an avowed fan like myself. I've seen him in venues
smaller than an NRG Stadium, Men's Room, the late Montrose
honky Tonk, good Night Charlie's, and at music festivals in Georgetown, Texas.
Just a year ago, Crockett headlined the backstage patio at

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the Armadilla Palace and returned to play the seven to
one to three Music Hall in the early fall. There
have been many George Strait covers in twenty twenty five
at Rodeo Houston, including efforts by Brad Paisley and Zach
Topp King. George's influence looms large here where he's played
in front of millions of people. Ernest and Swaggery. At
the same time, Rocket ended his debut Rodeo appearance with

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a Maillo. By morning, this cowboy and his bride rode
away not on a horse, but in a thunderbird. So
I go scrolling down because I hadn't noticed. I wasn't
going to read the review. It's kind of like how
you've gotten used to if you turn on the TV
they're going to say something bad about Trump, and they
say something nice, you.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Go, well, hell, who is this guy?

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Who is Scott Jennings?

Speaker 2 (14:25):
What's going on here?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
This is CNN and there's somebody saying nice things about Trump.
It's we've grown so numb, We've grown a thick skin
that we know. It's like it's like when you, uh,
buddy of mine was on a oh it Rome was
on a flight coming back from Canada. I was trying
to remember who said down, and the stewardess wanted He

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realized the stewardess was a poly f fan and a conservative,
and she started easing into politics till she figured out
his politics, and she said, oh my god, and she
just wanted to talk to him the whole flight.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Apparently he thought she was trying to flirt with him too.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
But you're so used to people trashing everything decent that
when someone says something that aligns with your views, you'd
sort of like wow. So I scrolled down and the
review is not signed, and I said, oh, well, maybe
they got a guest reviewer, because that little joey fella

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would never write such a nice thing about a country artist.
It's our friend, Craig Levati's the best.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Review I've read in years. It makes sense, culture of out,
not chronic flop.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
Michael Ferry show.

Speaker 9 (15:38):
We have.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
The fix is in Leno.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Christian Minifee will replace Silvester Turner, who replaced Sheila Jackson
Lee in the eighteenth Congressional district. You are free to
hate Rodney Ellis, but you must give credit where it's due.
He has absolute, utter, complete, unchallenged, unquestioned control of the

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Greater Houston Region government. It is an amazing thing to watch.
Some of you are incapable, and I've just come to
understand this. Some of you are incapable of expressing awe

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and recognizing complete power and effectiveness in an evil person.
So I guess you'd say Hitler never won any of
the battles, He never stormed any in the countries, He
was never effective in any portion of the war or politics.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well that's just not true. You can both.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Despise him and understand and accurately assess his effectiveness For
a long period of time. The world hung in the balance, well,
our region hangs in the balance. And the new congressman
has been chosen. His name is Christian Menafie. He's been
groomed by Rodney Ellis for some time. He was the

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county attorney. He's part of the farm team. Houston Chronicle
openly talks about these things. Uh who among the black
group that's endorsed by the black group.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Was not a black group anymore. It's all Rodney Ellis.
It is all Rodney Ellis.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
The latest development is Christian Menefee had to resign from
being the county attorney because if you have more than
a year left on your term, I think it's a
year and thirty days left on your term and you
announce for another office, you have to step down. And
he was just reelected in November, so he had more
than four year term. So he had more than a year,

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so he immediately resigned. You don't resign as a young
up and coming politician chosen to be one of the
Black Leap leaders if you will office holders, you don't
resign your position to run for an office that you
might not win. The deck had been cleared. The reason

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they didn't tell you Sylvester was in such poor health.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
But the reason they didn't tell you that is they
didn't want any potential challengers to start making those late
night calls and having meetings and building a team and structure.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
So they kept it very quiet.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
And all the while we're working behind the scenes, so
that Christian Minifie was ready to step right into the
campaign and the office with a short fuse on it. See,
this will be a special called election by the governor.
He hasn't called the election, but when it is called,
Christian Minifie's already ready to go. They have rolled out

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his list of endorsements very strategically. The first major endorsement
was Shela Jackson Lee's daughter, Erica Lee Carter. That was
the signal to the insiders and the moneymen, all right,
Shela Jackson Lee's daughter is not going to run the
way you announce you're not going to run, is you

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indorse the candidate? So a deal was cut. Erica will
get another position. There's a rumor, but I'm not ready
to say that yet, but she will get another position locally.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
As her deal. She wasn't ready to go to Washington,
d C. Right now.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
So then the next round of endorsements yesterday was Erica Lee.
The next round that comes out is Beto O'Rourke. Don't laugh, Okay,
you can laugh Beto O'Rourke. That's a way saying the
white liberals are behind her. See you're thinking, how goofy
Beto or work is, But understand that the way Rodney

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puts together these endorsements like this, this is how you
signal to the insiders what's going on. So Beto represents
the white liberal wing and the national money out of
California and New York. Colin Allred, remember he got his
ass whipped by Ted Cruz in November. But Colin Allread

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has a lot of aid and he was the Senate
candidate as a Democrat, so that that is intended to
show that a statewide democrat. They don't have any state
white democrats. Republicans have control of all of it. So
the closest thing they have is these two goobers. Beto
ran for governor, president and the Senate three times in
four years and got whipped in every one of them.

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I don't know if he still has that blind squirrel.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I have a horrible, horrible, horrible.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Suspicion that the blind squirrel he talked about during the
camp that they had remembered they had rescued the blind squirrel.
I have a horrible suspicion and fear for that poor
blind squirrel. At the minute it was over, he went home,
grabbed it behind the neck because a blind squirrel can't
see you coming, and threw it against the wall or
threw it in the gutter or something because it wasn't
usefully longer.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
So you've got old Beato as well.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
Just went with Molly, who is nursing back to life.
A blind squirrel that was picked up in East Texas
dropped off in El Paso at a wildlife animal rescue
run by Miss Julie. Got to meet this blind squirrel
who's slowly regaining its sight.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
You cannot script the comedy of this any better, all right,
we need a story that humanizes you, Beto.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
First of all, your.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Daddy gave you the Mexican name as a kid because
your daddy was the county judge, and one day you
would be running for office in a state that would
be if not majority Mexican American largely American, and they
would think you were one of them. So that was
Brilliantn't know how your dad had wisdom to do that,
you know, forty five years ago, but he did, all right.

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So we got that, We got all the money boys
in California and in Texas, and he did hes.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
He raised more money has ever been raised.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
We've got we got Vanity Fair writing glowing pictures of you,
Chris Matthews talking about Beto O'Rourke and Vanity Fair and
how the the the positioning of the subject of the foto.
Remember it was any Leebowitz that took the photo for
the front cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Texas Monthly had

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done the same treatment on him when he was running statewide,
but it was it should be Chris Matthews, Beto Chattle,
build to fight.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
We'll play the next time anyway.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
So you got Beto, you got Colin all Red, You've
got Representative Fletcher. Let's see who else we got here. Oh,
you got the Chris Matthews.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Go ahead, by the way, bring back that cover a bit.

Speaker 9 (23:01):
That that cover is the best kiss I'm seeing for
a candidate in a long time. I always say the
candedy Wins, who's got the son in his face who
looks like Sonny optimistic, not the indoor bureaucrats sitting at
some dusk somewhere. That's the image you want.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
You've got Chris Hollins, You've got this is his endorsement list.
You've got Ron Green, you got Tiffany Thomas. You've got
Corol Robinson, Dwight Boykins, Roaldo Ebara. So you got a
couple of Hispands, because you've got some Hispanic voters here,
Anna Hernandez.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
But mostly you've got blacks.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Not Alan Fletcher, Lizzie Fletcher, sart with that. You got
Sylvia Trevigno's Victor Travino's widow. You've got Smoky Phillips Black.
You've got let's see here, Alma Allen Black, Royce, West
State Senator Black. So you Erica Lee Carter. That was
an important signal, and in fact she's the campaign chair,

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so that's not to be lost. So you're telling black voters, look,
we got mostly black endorsers. But then we got a
couple of Jews and Hispanics and even a couple of
white liberals because you know, we got to have that too.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
This is all very very carefully calculated smell. Mister, Oh
the Michael Barry Show.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
I just woke up from my dream.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Were you and I had to say bad.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
And I don't know what it all means.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
But since I survived, I realized.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
You're playing like Bruno Marter's Lady God got bumped on
the Michael Berry Show in twenty twenty five. Nobody's your
boys talked to you about it? Were you serious? So how
does that go?

Speaker 10 (25:04):
You know that crazy woman that was in the Egg,
you know, real crazy, but she was in that Radley
Cooper movie, so she's got kind of sexy deep voice.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
And calls her fans monsters because they are.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Well.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
She just teamed up with that little Filipino dude that
is an Elvis impersonator with a gambling problem that owes
everybody in town money. They have a duet. Oh, very
very interesting. Breaking news for the Houston Texans. Cal McNair

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went down to the bank. I'm not seeing the scarface
when they bring the bags of money in. They pull
up in the van and they're getting out and the
banker comeing. He goes, guys, guys, you can't be doing this.
It's a great sin. Well, cal McNair went down to
the bank and he had to bring some big boys
with him to pull to pull out this amount of money,

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the highest paid, the highest paid defensive back in all
of history. As a beginning this coming season, not Den
said he don't even have ten toes anymore. That poor bastard.
You watch him run and you think, now, I mean
it's bad. Have you seen a picture of his feet?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I did too.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh oh, I told ramone this last night. I would
be curious to know there's two levels to this. How
many of you remember from watching Kojak? I just started
rewatching Kojak. How many of you remember from watching Kojak

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that Telly Savalis's left index finger Telly Savalas has a
left index finger that is bent down at all times
and stuck in a position and then like a praying mantis.
So if you take your left hand, fall on with
me here unless you're driving, and bend your your left

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index finger down to a ninety degree angle. Okay, Now
with your right hand, bend the tip of your finger
from the nail forward. Kind of has a praying Mannis
style karate kid, look to it. Okay, His his finger
is like that. And the nail is jacked up, so

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he got it's not quite Billy Joe Shaver. He's he
has a finger, but I don't know why. He just
doesn't have it taken off, although he could probably balance
things on it, but it's stuck in that position. And once,
now that I've told you you can watch Kojak on
Amazon Prime, you're going to go back to season one.
And you know the other thing that I loved about

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TV shows back then, Rockford Files does it. Rockford Files
first ever show had Lindsay Wagner, but the first or
second episode, I forget, I'm ten episodes in now had
Harvey Kytel, a young Harvey Kottel, and he's still the
same Harvey Cattel still talks exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I mean, he's the wolf, but just young wolf. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
I didn't realize Darryl Stingley's I mean, not Darylon. I
didn't realize Telly Sabalas's finger was all jacked up. But
you will notice it because he's often smoking a cigarette
and can't hold anything with that, but he can balance
scenes against it. Anyway. I don't know why that's important.
I just noticed it the other day, so here's what
I want to hear from you. If you didn't notice it,
you don't need to email me. But if you remembered

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it from when you were a kid, because y'all talked
about it or whatever, send me an email that. Or
if you started watching the old TV shows the way
I do on Amazon Prime and you noticed it recently,
tell me that that's two different levels of notice though. Anyway,
Derek Stingley, Texas Texans all Pro has agreed to a

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three year ninety million dollar extension. Now I know what
you're thinking, Ramon. It's never the amount that they report.
They just puff up that amount because the money's not guaranteed.
And you're right, ninety million of the ninety million is
not guaranteed, only eighty nine million. So one of Adam

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Schefter broke the news. So one of the one of
the fellas, Vito Pinozzo commented on this. He's in quotes
as if he's Kal McNair, we can guarantee eighty nine
of the ninety million, but that last million just too
steep for us. We got to have some incentives in there.
You know. This is further proof that the NFL has

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become a passing league. It's seven on seven. It is
seven on seven. If you notice the guys getting the
paychecks these days, they're not the Earl Campbell's, Walter Payton's.
They're just not because they don't have they don't have
the careers anymore the way they used to. And the
offenses aren't built around the Jim Brown running back. Gail

(30:01):
Sayers is just not happening. It is a running shoot,
throw it every play offense. And they've decided that the
that the running backs are interchangeable, so you don't have
to have a star running back. What's the white kid
in San Francisco, Christian H. McCaffrey, that he he is

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a cut above other running backs, But the number of
running backs who are a cut above otherwise they're just fungible.
It's running back back committee, allough. I tell you this
guy Mixing that we got I think, but you know,
even he he went down middle of season, how many
games and and they I can't remember who they put
in to replace him. I get most of my news

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from Crockett.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
We watched the games together and I asked him, where
did that guy go to? I used to tell you
where every guy went to school, what year they came in,
all their stats. But I just don't follow any sports
like that anymore. I just I just don't. Although Crockett
did ask me the other day if we could go
sit on the front row of the Rockets and see
a Rockets game. And this is how bad I am.
I have a friend named Paul Miller. He's very close

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friends with Russeller Barr, but he's also my friend. And
he owns a concept called Union Kitchen. He's got multiple
restaurant Union Kitchen. And I saw him at Tilman had
this thing for Rockets suite owners, the big spenders for
the Rockets, and I'm not one of them. He just
invited me and it was kind of, you know, here's
how the season's going to go, and here's what we're
excited about, and you know, here's this instance. It was

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a neat thing at his Post hotel and Paul Miller
was there and he said, Hey, I got front row
tea tickets to the Rockets. Why don't you take the boys?
You can have in their their mid court front row.
And I said, Paul, I'll be honest with you. My
kids when they were younger, I would. I would look
for amazing experiences and I would drag them everywhere. These days,

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they've had every experience they could ever want, and school
takes so much of their time, and when it's not school,
it's sport or something that they're So I've just learned
if I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do it on
my own, because it's just hard. They're at an age
where it's just hard to get them to do anything.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Crockett is in school or tutoring or sports from seven
in the morning until literally eleven at night, and so
I just don't another day, he said. Rocket. So now
I got to call Paul Miller and see if that
offer is still good.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Because I was a little blase about the thing.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Be honest with you, So that the quarterback market that
now that the league's stars are first and foremost quarterback,
secondly wide receivers, third pass blockers. Then the flip side
of that is the only way you can stop the
wide receivers is we shut down corners. And a market

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has been reset. As Adam Schefter made thirty million dollars
a year, but that will be twenty nine point seven
because it's not over there. That is incredible. Wow, quoral past.
He went to the Raiders for one hundred and fifteen
a year and had to sue Al Davis and didn't
get paid on it for ten years later. Yeah, that's

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why he was driving around the country driving his own
eighteen wheeler with his race cars in the back because
he had no money left because they cheated him. True story.
All right, we got a Trump meeting with Putin today
and the Kennedy Files should be an interesting evening show.