November 4, 2025 • 29 mins
Michael Berry snorts salt water, dodges smart meters, and reviews restaurants—with allergy shots and AI rants in between.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varie Show is on the air. So I've been
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I've reached that point in my life the entire time.
When I came to Houston, starting in nineteen eighty nine,
I always lived inside the loop, and my wife and
I were confirmed interlopers, and we always thought, well, so
if you get outside the loop, there aren't any good restaurants.
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There isn't we'll never live outside the loop. So then
we move outside the loop. And now I never go
back inside Loop sixtent except when I go to get
my synergenetics testosterone shot and when I go for my
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allergy shot, and I do that at the same time,
both of which have made a huge difference for me.
My allergist was first my wife's allergist, and I noticed
that her allergy is absolutely cleared up after going to
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this guy, Chris Colosso is his name. I think it's
called advanced asthma. If you email me, I'll send you
a link to it. It's on not the NARC It's
it's on Stella Link, a couple of blocks south of
bel Air slash HOLCM. It's where Stella Link first becomes
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Stella link from Wesleyan and it's right there on the right,
and I forget. I mean it's called Advanced Asthma and
Allergies or something like that. The guy's name is Chris
Colosso co l Aco, great doctor, and I've had incredible
relief from going to this guy. He's not a show sponsor.
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He should be, but he's not. We'll fix that. I
will also say they're also not show sponsors. But I've
had our company send an email to their marketing team
nationally navage. I had Mary Taly Boden on months ago,
and actually this was an interview probably a couple of
years ago, and she's that's her specialty and she recommended
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which I kind of felt stupid because my wife does
this every day. Why didn't I just I didn't need
her to tell me? And then here she was telling me,
and I'm kind of feeling convicted because my wife does it,
and that is a nasal wrens. Well, my allergies pushes
a nasal rents. Mary Tally Bowden believes in a nasal
rents and that's she looks at people's snot all day,
she knows she knows it anyway, So if I do
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something I have to do at first class, I can't
do it, you know, base my wife will you know,
figure out a way to do it for no money
or find a scrap around the house. But oh no, no,
not me. I got to go buy the biggest, baddest
best at something and use it and do it away.
So uh. I asked her about the navage. I asked
Mary Tally Boden, and she said, well, I've never actually
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used it, but people seem to like it. So I
bought it. I loved it so much. I bought my
body the Aggie Plumber one. I bought my wife one.
It is the best thing ever. And I'm gonna tell
you why. I sold Rainbow vacuum cleaners along with Scott Freeland.
I was really his assistant, but I told her around
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the stuff. But he was a mentor of mine. He's
the one I traveled around and he was a revival
preacher and he'd let me get up and preach and
when the sales pitch. If you ever housewives, if you
ever got pitched on the on the Rainbow vacumpleaning dre
someone or more, all you had to do is run
it over the carpet where there's all sorts of crap
in there anyway, and when stuff hits the water, it
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looks really dirty. Oh I want this right now. You
got any encyclopedias to sell me too. So it's the
same concept. You put a little tab in there, which
is the salt, and then you've got distilled water, and
you put the two nozzles into your nose and you
hit the button and the one, let's say it starts
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in your left nostril. You suck a seal on there.
You suck a little seal on there like that, and
then it goes up and it goes around, and then
it comes down and it's pushing whatever's in there, and
that salt is pulling it when it goes through there.
And then you got a little bit coming out of
your mouth. You just spit that out and then at
the end and then you do it for a lit
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while and then you flip it and then it goes
to the opposite direction. Oh, it's great fun. And when it
gets a good seal on there, you can feel the
snot moving, and that's not should not be in there.
You don't want that. And I've had congestion facial congestion
my entire life. So it's just you just all of
a sudden, you can breathe. It's wonderful. So anyway, the
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navage is fantastic. I highly highly encourage you to get one.
Not again, not a sponsor should be. So when I
go into town, we go to I go get my
allergy shot, and then I go by the Synergenics on
fifty nine. Michelle is the I don't know what they
call them there. The director of that facility yesterday was
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my blood dripped my blood day. And when you got
good veins, I got good veins again. I got bad ankles,
but good veins. So my mother, bless her heart, my
mother had horrible veins, so when she'd go to get blood,
it was always just a big to do because they
couldn't get one. But for me, they always brag on
my veins, which makes me real happy. It's like I've
done something like oh you have good vein. Ah, like
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I did something. Anyway, So I do my blood panels
once a month. Yes, it's obsessive, but I'm a big
believer that if you have a good, steady basis baseline
of all your numbers, then if anything spikes, you can
catch it early. So anyway, so I did my blood
and then we went to dinner at a place called
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Mari soul Chin wah Chi n Oi x. And this
place is owned by Alberto Lombardi, who owns Toulouse, and
it's right next door to Brassery nineteen on West Gray.
That little area has become a nice I used to
just be Brassery nineteen. Now you've got some more restaurants
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around there. So Alberto is a fascinating, fascinating character. He
was an Italian stowaway on a ship. He hopped on
a ship illegally, rode around the country, learned to cook
on that two years of being a stowaway, came out
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and started restaurants and he's been very successful in Dallas
and very successful in Houston. And he did a Chinese
restaurant and it's white people Chinese, so you know they're
not gonna be monkey brains or weird feed or any
of that. But it's good. It's really good. It's a
nice environment. You can get drinks at Brassery nineteen, right
next door Charles Clark's Restaurants. War That's always been our
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favorite restaurant in town. And so there's about five restaurants
we eat at Gringoes, Federal American, brast Roy nineteen Okay,
maybe three, oh Carabas. Anyway, it is fantastic. I highly
recommend it. They just opened, but it's incredible, and they
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got me to thinking white people Chinese has not done
well here because you remember ben Berg had Benny Chaws.
Did you ever read there? It was incredible and it
went on. I don't know what happened. It was the
same kind of and all that fantastic food. I don't
know what happened. I wouldn't have known that was Dave Matthews,
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but I knew. I recognized the voices. I just couldn't.
I wouldn't have said Dave Man. I would not have
guessed Jack Johnson to start it. You know, there's there's
a there's a podcast that Chance McClain got me hooked
on called Founders, and it's about people and personalities that
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break out for the mold, that create new and unique things.
Elon is this way, Trump is this way, and there
is no standard template for what they do. And Buffett
is the source of an episode and they wouldn't play
him on the radio because he didn't fit into a genre,
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which is just crazy, right, But that's radio had a
great deal of power as to what kind of music
was made, because that's the kind of music that was played.
But Buffett never, He just kept touring. He just kept
building this very loyal following, if you think about it,
the parrot Head brigade that followed him, this cult that
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followed him. I think he had a cult on a
level for a length of time that you know, only
maybe the grateful Dead would have. I said that on
the fly. Who am I missing? Who had a cult
for that many years? That was that deep. Elvis didn't
live long enough, The Beatles didn't stay together long enough.
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Instant clown possy. Okay, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But yes, okay, okay, all right, anybody else, anybody else
you'd like to bring up since we're on the sub cheet.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Friend of mine wrote me a letter. He lives in Katie.
I got a letter from my mud district yesterday informing
me that I've used more water than other users in
my area. Well, I can I already tell how this
is going to go with this friend of mine. I
thought that was strange because the letter's only purpose seemed
to be making me feel guilty for being the odd
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man out for using too much water water that I
pay for. The letter did get me thinking, but probably
not what the cinder intended. I've noticed a bunch of
Instagram reels lately pushing the idea that daily showers are
unhealthy and that taking two to three showers a week
is not only normal, but better for your skin. The
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reels use words like scientific studies and studies show to
make it seem more credible. It feels like classic softening
before the hard bands hit. The playbook is always the same.
You don't really need it quickly becomes you can't have it.
My guess is that the health of my skin is
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far less important to the powers that be than AI
data centers, which need billions of gallons of water each
year for cooling. They're not saying directly to skip showers
because chet GPT needs your water, but when they mandate
smart meters, tiered pricing, and fines, all the reels we've
seen will already have some believing that three minute showers
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twice a week are virtuous. They're not trying to save us,
they're trying to save AI. Also, the mud district can
kiss my ass if you look at the run the
projection of what data centers are already consuming, and that's
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only going to grow exponentially. See, we've reached a point
where the speed of change is faster by multiples that
we can't imagine because the agents of change, the product
of change, is now the producer of change. So AI
can eliminate the slog the slow down of human interaction.
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In human involvement, humans can only work so many hours
a day. Humans get tired, humans die, humans quit, humans
move jobs. A proper machine in the short term, we
don't know what that'll be over a fifty year lifespan
doesn't need to be. But a proper machine can work
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twenty four hours a day. Elon is a master promoter,
so I always take what he says with the grain
of salt. But what he's talking about doing with their robotics,
which is why his pay package all in looks like
about a trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
And do I tell them about money? Okay, well, what's
the right amount you don't need? Martin active ount in
money where you don't need but half what you make.
Somehow you're soldiering on though it's a wealth creation issue.
We could just get people to stop believing.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And I don't know where they get this from that
people are paid based on what is nice or based
on what there's some sense of I don't know. These
are very feminine ways of thought. There's nothing wrong with
feminine in the right place and time. But there's a
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place for rational thought and this is not the place
for well, let's let everybody make something. It's not how
it works. It doesn't incentivize the things that we love
about life. But back to AI. When you look at
the consumption of electricity and water, the water is to cool,
these machines get hot, the warehouses, the deals that are
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being done now on land in West Texas, where you've
got cheap land and you need a lot of land.
AI does not coexist in major urban areas as a
data center. You've got to be able to have production facilities,
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which is really what this is. It's like a working
oil well. You've got to have these facilities that require
and consume so much space, so much energy, so much
water that it's overnight going to dwarf residential consumption. Add
to that, if electric vehicles had continue to pace, they're not.
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You're going to see electric vehicles continue to drop in
percentage of cars because GM FOD Dodge. They're basically going
to stop making them because all the incentives are gone.
The seventy five hundred is gone into September. But if
that had continued again, nobody thought about that. We're not
going to be able to create as much energy electricity
as we need. So it felt like the old campaign days.
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Yesterday we had a meal inside the Loop at I
said Mary soul chinwah, it's maysom chinhwah. And then we
went from there. I sent David Burton and his mom
and his wife and his niece to Federal American Grill,
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even though they lived in Katie. I wanted them to
be at the location off Itenant, Campbell so that we
could pop by after our dinner and see them. And
so we spent We went to dinner, and then we
rushed out and went and sat with them while they ate.
And it's just amazing to me how solid good systems
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restaurants have consistency. I'm at a point now where I
don't eat. I almost never try a new restaurant. Last
night was was an anomaly, and that was only because
I know the owner and I knew it would be good.
But good restaurants have good systems. I go into Federal
American Grill, I know what I'm going to get. I
know it's going to be solid. I know the fundamentals
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are going to be taken care of. Matt Brice is
opening another Federal American Grill in the old Eloise Nichols,
I say, old, it'll be a second generation restaurant space.
If you remember where Copones used to be, what is
that street called?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I don't know if Polilo dis but what this is
the Michael Berry Show. It's really only a room for
one ego in here? Did he do spots for cabos
of her compons? Didn't they do live broadcast there? So
there was another play. Oh you know my old neighbor,
uh Crpto, Frank Crpto had a place there. Yeah, you know,
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I've told the story before, so forgive me, I'll make
it short. Frank Crypto my next door neighbor, and we
lived at one Crestwood. He lived at two Crestwood, and
we had at the time our kids were say seven
and eight, we didn't have a pool and he did.
And so I got along with him. His wife is
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very liberal. She was a business owner. They had married
later in life, but she had very liberal politics, and
she was nice to me, but I knew she hated
my politics and she hated my show, whereas Frank loved
my politics and loved my show. And so one day
he calls, or he texts, and he said, hey, can
you and Nandita come over? And I forget his wife's name,
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let's say it was Liz. Can you Naded to come
over and visit with me and Liz for just ten
minutes this evening when you get off? And I said sure,
And I thought, oh god, one of the kids has
pete in his yard or you know, pull his dog's ear.
And Frank wasn't the type to complain at all, but
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you know, you got two young kids. I know what
I did when I was that age, right, I'd gone
over and stolen their car or something. I thought, Oh no,
So it is with honest dread that we march over
to their house to take the beating and apologize and
do whatever we need to do to make this situation right.
They offer us a glass of wine. Okay, well, that's
usually when you scold somebody. Don't start with a glass
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of wine. But you know he's a he's he owned
the restaurants. He he he did liquor sales. You know,
it's a glass of wine softness. So we sit down.
I want to be very clear. I'd had no bad
blood with Frank, but I didn't know him that well
yet and so and he would say nice things about
the show, so I know he didn't dislike me. But
still my kids have probably busted a window or something
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and hid from it or whatever. So we sit down
and he said whatever, and it Liz and I have
been talking. Oh no, and y'all don't have a pool,
and you have two sons and we have a pool
and nobody to use it. So we would like your
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kids to use our pool. You can use the side gate,
just text us because they travel all the time. They
had a place in Jackson Hole and use the side gate.
Just please lock it back. And I only have one requirement.
One of you has to be with the kids when
they're here swimming and the gate stays locked and they
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don't get the coat. Because you don't want the bad
things happening. I can't even say the word you don't
want something happening in your pool. And I'm walking home afterwards,
and I said to my wife, who does that? Who says,
you have kids, y'all don't have a pool, you can
use ours? Like that's the most gracious thing in the world.
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It was incredible. Thus began a deep and abiding friendship
with Frank Corpedo which culminated. The high point was Frank
was probably eighty at this time and he texted me
while I was on the air, and it was about
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I don't know, five point fifteen. So I picked up
my phone during the break and he said, hey, you
know I caught these fish he owned. He owned a
Maudi boat Company, which is a which is a real
flat and thin boat that drafts very lower. I don't
know the term. I'm not a big fishing guy. It
can go into real shallow water, extremely shallow water. It's
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in port O'Connor, port Lavaca, I think port O'Connor anyway,
So he loved this little boat company. He bought from
an engineer named Bill Maudi who was who had created
these and then he sent sold it and the guy
who owns it now emails me. Frank passed by the way.
So Frank Crpedo text me and he said, Hey, I
caught these sheep head or sheep fish again, I don't know,
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and I'm looking forward to I like to cook them
for you. Would that be all right? I said yes?
He said how about tonight? And I said yes? And
he said, I'll wait till you get off and when
I see you drive by, I'll come over if that's okay.
And I said that's fine. And he said, I wouldn't
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go over to your house with your wife there because
she wanted to cook him with him. And he's a great,
great cheft I know none Needa wants to cook him
with me, but I won't go over there until you're home.
And I'm like, Frank, that's the most chivalrous thing ever.
But you can go over there. That's perfectly fine. Are
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you sure I wouldn't do that? And I told my
wife and she got the biggest kick out of that.
I mean, just what a great yeah. How many people
just love their neighbor. It just doesn't happen anyway. So
Matt Brice is opening a new one in that space
right there. It used to be Eloise Nichols. I'm excited
about it. I was alerted that Jake Owens made a
cover of Middle Aged Crazy. There's a line in the
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next one that says, talking about him and his wife,
they got a business. They spent a while coming by.
I've been a long uphill climb, but now the profits
are high. Boy, I have seen more family run businesses
where they were young and beautiful and now they're old
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and wrinkled and sharing the fruits that labor together. And
boy did they go through a lot to get there?
Can you turn it up from mom? We should probably
get in there, but you turn it off when.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
They down the line.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, he turn up, have got a business.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They's manny wow, come in by.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's out the propits or such a weird song. I
don't know how much of that was Jerry Lee Lewis
because it doesn't have a consistent I don't have the
music theory knowledge, but doesn't have consistent pace. Right, it's
like a Willie Nelson song. If you think about that,
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you don't know where to put that line, and so
it probably makes it very hard. You can tell he's
struggling with that part right there. With Jerry Lelewis, he
can start and stop on a dime. Drag stuff out
and cram stuff in, uh, kick the kick the seat
out from under him. Some nights, I I'll be up
watching him on the on the piano, and you know
what he's gonna do. You just know he's gonna do
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that flourish you know, ripple down the down, the down
the keyboard. I'm sure there's a term for that. And
he's got that hair that's up and it's flying around
like lyle love its and going at it. And then
he's gonna put his feet up there. It's like he
cannot do it enough times for me. I can watch
him for hours, and then at some point he's gonna
get up there and he's gonna bang his knee on it,
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and like that keyboard is getting tormented, tortured, and he's
going at it. And at some point he's gonna kick
that seat out behind me, Like, oh my god, this
is like when they burned the guitar. Right, kick that seatback.
You know, they had to have five seats per show,
they had to, right, And then he starts the next song,
real slow, middle aged crazy, and they got that seat
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underneathing again and he's like, well be careful because he
liable to kick it out again it's crazy. And then
when I'm through doing that, you know el I do,
I watch him and Mickey, and I watch him and
Mickey go back and forth noeling pianos. And then after that,
you know what I do. I watch uh Jerry Lee
and Mickey and Charlie Rich doom too, oh, Charlie Rich
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and silver Fox now and that's a night. At that point,
I'm about five bourbons in three cigars two hours before
I got to be on the air. I'm in a
good spot right about then. See now that I tell
you this, you'll be looking for it. But sometimes I
come in and you don't know it. I take pride
in the you not knowing it part. But sometimes I
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come in and I might have had a little too much.
Jerry Lee, Lewis, Mickey Gill and Charlie Rich night before.
I like when he says the embroidered star, that's a
good line. They don't make him like that anymore. Even
covering something like that sounds sounds odd. I got a
message from Christine Johnson, Steve Johnson's wife, and she said
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mid Lane. That's what we couldn't think of. That was
mid Lane. What's the street you'd think of Christine is
like forrest gum. She's like forestin a gum because she
knows everybody, she said. Frank Repeter was one of the
nicest men I had the pleasure of working with when
I was with the Restaurant Association years ago. He was
always so generous. I saw a mean this weekend that
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said something to the effect of there's no greater pride
than when someone says, I knew your dad. He was
a good man. And you know, it's odd because we
think of people that came before us as we put
them in a certain place they lived at a time
they were but actually, like right now, how you feel
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right now, tired, cranky, anxious, stress, worried, sick, in pain,
whatever that is wherever you are right now, in this position,
that's how they were going through their life. So when
we think of so and so being a really good man,
he did good things for people, or ma'm mow, she
was always there for us. Sure she was also going
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to bed and putting a tiger bamb on her feet
because her feet hurt right or Ben Gay on her
knees because her joints ache. Thing about Ben Gay, I'm
not even sure, you know, I just found out a
few years ago when we had a guy on the air.
I didn't know that gasoline doesn't stink. How can you
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not have known that? I had no idea. I had
no idea that gasoline doesn't have that awful malodorous scent.
They put it in there so that when it's around,
you don't light a fire and blow us all up.
What are you doing? You what looking at your plants
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in the middle of the show. Sit down? You're making
me nervous. So that's weird. So anyway, I'm wondering if
Ben Gay really didn't have any stink to it, and
they put it in there because they knew how much
I loved it. I do love that Ben Gay, oh Man.
And the only thing better is first time I went
to India, my knee or something was hurting and my
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father in law handed me something called tiger bomb. Now
you get tiger bomb here. But just like everything else
we do, we screw it up because the FDA gets involved.
That tiger bomb was something like napalm or something, but
under a retail brand. He put it on. I think
it was my shoulder or my back whatever it was hurting,
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and it had a dobber. Nothing. You don't get dabbers
like this anymore. It had it had the top, the
top on it was like a kerosene top, you know
what I'm talking about, And you would unscrew it, and
then it had two rods that were twisted like a
almost like a bobby pin or a safety pin, and
they kind of bowed out, and at the bottom they
had what was the equivalent of like a little rubber ball,
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but it was a cloth, right, and you would you
you would turn the bottle upside down so that cloth
thing would absorb it, and then you'd put it on
you and it would burn. Oh what it burn? And
it was beautiful and it smelled even more off slash
awesome than being gay. And so I brought some back
with me. Little did I know it was contraband because
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you can't get it here because it has things in
it MSG or something. I don't know that you're not
supposed to have DDT something that you're not supposed to
have here. So then I find it on the shelf
here and I go home and I well, that's that's
that's like a solar cane or something. It's not that good,
all right? Today is voting day. My vote is for
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all propositions except for one four and fourteen. I am
against one four and fourteen. You can print out my
recommendations if you want them, at Michael Berryshow dot com.
You cannot look at your phone when you're in the
voting booth, but you can carry any papers with you.
Vote today,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varie Show is on the air. So I've been
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I've reached that point in my life the entire time.
When I came to Houston, starting in nineteen eighty nine,
I always lived inside the loop, and my wife and
I were confirmed interlopers, and we always thought, well, so
if you get outside the loop, there aren't any good restaurants.
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There isn't we'll never live outside the loop. So then
we move outside the loop. And now I never go
back inside Loop sixtent except when I go to get
my synergenetics testosterone shot and when I go for my
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allergy shot, and I do that at the same time,
both of which have made a huge difference for me.
My allergist was first my wife's allergist, and I noticed
that her allergy is absolutely cleared up after going to
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this guy, Chris Colosso is his name. I think it's
called advanced asthma. If you email me, I'll send you
a link to it. It's on not the NARC It's
it's on Stella Link, a couple of blocks south of
bel Air slash HOLCM. It's where Stella Link first becomes
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Stella link from Wesleyan and it's right there on the right,
and I forget. I mean it's called Advanced Asthma and
Allergies or something like that. The guy's name is Chris
Colosso co l Aco, great doctor, and I've had incredible
relief from going to this guy. He's not a show sponsor.
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He should be, but he's not. We'll fix that. I
will also say they're also not show sponsors. But I've
had our company send an email to their marketing team
nationally navage. I had Mary Taly Boden on months ago,
and actually this was an interview probably a couple of
years ago, and she's that's her specialty and she recommended
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which I kind of felt stupid because my wife does
this every day. Why didn't I just I didn't need
her to tell me? And then here she was telling me,
and I'm kind of feeling convicted because my wife does it,
and that is a nasal wrens. Well, my allergies pushes
a nasal rents. Mary Tally Bowden believes in a nasal
rents and that's she looks at people's snot all day,
she knows she knows it anyway, So if I do
(03:10):
something I have to do at first class, I can't
do it, you know, base my wife will you know,
figure out a way to do it for no money
or find a scrap around the house. But oh no, no,
not me. I got to go buy the biggest, baddest
best at something and use it and do it away.
So uh. I asked her about the navage. I asked
Mary Tally Boden, and she said, well, I've never actually
(03:31):
used it, but people seem to like it. So I
bought it. I loved it so much. I bought my
body the Aggie Plumber one. I bought my wife one.
It is the best thing ever. And I'm gonna tell
you why. I sold Rainbow vacuum cleaners along with Scott Freeland.
I was really his assistant, but I told her around
(03:52):
the stuff. But he was a mentor of mine. He's
the one I traveled around and he was a revival
preacher and he'd let me get up and preach and
when the sales pitch. If you ever housewives, if you
ever got pitched on the on the Rainbow vacumpleaning dre
someone or more, all you had to do is run
it over the carpet where there's all sorts of crap
in there anyway, and when stuff hits the water, it
(04:12):
looks really dirty. Oh I want this right now. You
got any encyclopedias to sell me too. So it's the
same concept. You put a little tab in there, which
is the salt, and then you've got distilled water, and
you put the two nozzles into your nose and you
hit the button and the one, let's say it starts
(04:35):
in your left nostril. You suck a seal on there.
You suck a little seal on there like that, and
then it goes up and it goes around, and then
it comes down and it's pushing whatever's in there, and
that salt is pulling it when it goes through there.
And then you got a little bit coming out of
your mouth. You just spit that out and then at
the end and then you do it for a lit
(04:57):
while and then you flip it and then it goes
to the opposite direction. Oh, it's great fun. And when it
gets a good seal on there, you can feel the
snot moving, and that's not should not be in there.
You don't want that. And I've had congestion facial congestion
my entire life. So it's just you just all of
a sudden, you can breathe. It's wonderful. So anyway, the
(05:18):
navage is fantastic. I highly highly encourage you to get one.
Not again, not a sponsor should be. So when I
go into town, we go to I go get my
allergy shot, and then I go by the Synergenics on
fifty nine. Michelle is the I don't know what they
call them there. The director of that facility yesterday was
(05:39):
my blood dripped my blood day. And when you got
good veins, I got good veins again. I got bad ankles,
but good veins. So my mother, bless her heart, my
mother had horrible veins, so when she'd go to get blood,
it was always just a big to do because they
couldn't get one. But for me, they always brag on
my veins, which makes me real happy. It's like I've
done something like oh you have good vein. Ah, like
(06:00):
I did something. Anyway, So I do my blood panels
once a month. Yes, it's obsessive, but I'm a big
believer that if you have a good, steady basis baseline
of all your numbers, then if anything spikes, you can
catch it early. So anyway, so I did my blood
and then we went to dinner at a place called
(06:25):
Mari soul Chin wah Chi n Oi x. And this
place is owned by Alberto Lombardi, who owns Toulouse, and
it's right next door to Brassery nineteen on West Gray.
That little area has become a nice I used to
just be Brassery nineteen. Now you've got some more restaurants
(06:45):
around there. So Alberto is a fascinating, fascinating character. He
was an Italian stowaway on a ship. He hopped on
a ship illegally, rode around the country, learned to cook
on that two years of being a stowaway, came out
(07:06):
and started restaurants and he's been very successful in Dallas
and very successful in Houston. And he did a Chinese
restaurant and it's white people Chinese, so you know they're
not gonna be monkey brains or weird feed or any
of that. But it's good. It's really good. It's a
nice environment. You can get drinks at Brassery nineteen, right
next door Charles Clark's Restaurants. War That's always been our
(07:27):
favorite restaurant in town. And so there's about five restaurants
we eat at Gringoes, Federal American, brast Roy nineteen Okay,
maybe three, oh Carabas. Anyway, it is fantastic. I highly
recommend it. They just opened, but it's incredible, and they
(07:49):
got me to thinking white people Chinese has not done
well here because you remember ben Berg had Benny Chaws.
Did you ever read there? It was incredible and it
went on. I don't know what happened. It was the
same kind of and all that fantastic food. I don't
know what happened. I wouldn't have known that was Dave Matthews,
(08:12):
but I knew. I recognized the voices. I just couldn't.
I wouldn't have said Dave Man. I would not have
guessed Jack Johnson to start it. You know, there's there's
a there's a podcast that Chance McClain got me hooked
on called Founders, and it's about people and personalities that
(08:33):
break out for the mold, that create new and unique things.
Elon is this way, Trump is this way, and there
is no standard template for what they do. And Buffett
is the source of an episode and they wouldn't play
him on the radio because he didn't fit into a genre,
(08:54):
which is just crazy, right, But that's radio had a
great deal of power as to what kind of music
was made, because that's the kind of music that was played.
But Buffett never, He just kept touring. He just kept
building this very loyal following, if you think about it,
the parrot Head brigade that followed him, this cult that
(09:16):
followed him. I think he had a cult on a
level for a length of time that you know, only
maybe the grateful Dead would have. I said that on
the fly. Who am I missing? Who had a cult
for that many years? That was that deep. Elvis didn't
live long enough, The Beatles didn't stay together long enough.
(09:44):
Instant clown possy. Okay, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But yes, okay, okay, all right, anybody else, anybody else
you'd like to bring up since we're on the sub cheet.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Friend of mine wrote me a letter. He lives in Katie.
I got a letter from my mud district yesterday informing
me that I've used more water than other users in
my area. Well, I can I already tell how this
is going to go with this friend of mine. I
thought that was strange because the letter's only purpose seemed
to be making me feel guilty for being the odd
(10:24):
man out for using too much water water that I
pay for. The letter did get me thinking, but probably
not what the cinder intended. I've noticed a bunch of
Instagram reels lately pushing the idea that daily showers are
unhealthy and that taking two to three showers a week
is not only normal, but better for your skin. The
(10:46):
reels use words like scientific studies and studies show to
make it seem more credible. It feels like classic softening
before the hard bands hit. The playbook is always the same.
You don't really need it quickly becomes you can't have it.
My guess is that the health of my skin is
(11:08):
far less important to the powers that be than AI
data centers, which need billions of gallons of water each
year for cooling. They're not saying directly to skip showers
because chet GPT needs your water, but when they mandate
smart meters, tiered pricing, and fines, all the reels we've
seen will already have some believing that three minute showers
(11:31):
twice a week are virtuous. They're not trying to save us,
they're trying to save AI. Also, the mud district can
kiss my ass if you look at the run the
projection of what data centers are already consuming, and that's
(11:53):
only going to grow exponentially. See, we've reached a point
where the speed of change is faster by multiples that
we can't imagine because the agents of change, the product
of change, is now the producer of change. So AI
can eliminate the slog the slow down of human interaction.
(12:19):
In human involvement, humans can only work so many hours
a day. Humans get tired, humans die, humans quit, humans
move jobs. A proper machine in the short term, we
don't know what that'll be over a fifty year lifespan
doesn't need to be. But a proper machine can work
(12:40):
twenty four hours a day. Elon is a master promoter,
so I always take what he says with the grain
of salt. But what he's talking about doing with their robotics,
which is why his pay package all in looks like
about a trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
And do I tell them about money? Okay, well, what's
the right amount you don't need? Martin active ount in
money where you don't need but half what you make.
Somehow you're soldiering on though it's a wealth creation issue.
We could just get people to stop believing.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
And I don't know where they get this from that
people are paid based on what is nice or based
on what there's some sense of I don't know. These
are very feminine ways of thought. There's nothing wrong with
feminine in the right place and time. But there's a
(13:31):
place for rational thought and this is not the place
for well, let's let everybody make something. It's not how
it works. It doesn't incentivize the things that we love
about life. But back to AI. When you look at
the consumption of electricity and water, the water is to cool,
these machines get hot, the warehouses, the deals that are
(13:54):
being done now on land in West Texas, where you've
got cheap land and you need a lot of land.
AI does not coexist in major urban areas as a
data center. You've got to be able to have production facilities,
(14:17):
which is really what this is. It's like a working
oil well. You've got to have these facilities that require
and consume so much space, so much energy, so much
water that it's overnight going to dwarf residential consumption. Add
to that, if electric vehicles had continue to pace, they're not.
(14:40):
You're going to see electric vehicles continue to drop in
percentage of cars because GM FOD Dodge. They're basically going
to stop making them because all the incentives are gone.
The seventy five hundred is gone into September. But if
that had continued again, nobody thought about that. We're not
going to be able to create as much energy electricity
as we need. So it felt like the old campaign days.
(15:04):
Yesterday we had a meal inside the Loop at I
said Mary soul chinwah, it's maysom chinhwah. And then we
went from there. I sent David Burton and his mom
and his wife and his niece to Federal American Grill,
(15:26):
even though they lived in Katie. I wanted them to
be at the location off Itenant, Campbell so that we
could pop by after our dinner and see them. And
so we spent We went to dinner, and then we
rushed out and went and sat with them while they ate.
And it's just amazing to me how solid good systems
(15:48):
restaurants have consistency. I'm at a point now where I
don't eat. I almost never try a new restaurant. Last
night was was an anomaly, and that was only because
I know the owner and I knew it would be good.
But good restaurants have good systems. I go into Federal
American Grill, I know what I'm going to get. I
know it's going to be solid. I know the fundamentals
(16:10):
are going to be taken care of. Matt Brice is
opening another Federal American Grill in the old Eloise Nichols,
I say, old, it'll be a second generation restaurant space.
If you remember where Copones used to be, what is
that street called?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I don't know if Polilo dis but what this is
the Michael Berry Show. It's really only a room for
one ego in here? Did he do spots for cabos
of her compons? Didn't they do live broadcast there? So
there was another play. Oh you know my old neighbor,
uh Crpto, Frank Crpto had a place there. Yeah, you know,
(16:56):
I've told the story before, so forgive me, I'll make
it short. Frank Crypto my next door neighbor, and we
lived at one Crestwood. He lived at two Crestwood, and
we had at the time our kids were say seven
and eight, we didn't have a pool and he did.
And so I got along with him. His wife is
(17:19):
very liberal. She was a business owner. They had married
later in life, but she had very liberal politics, and
she was nice to me, but I knew she hated
my politics and she hated my show, whereas Frank loved
my politics and loved my show. And so one day
he calls, or he texts, and he said, hey, can
you and Nandita come over? And I forget his wife's name,
(17:42):
let's say it was Liz. Can you Naded to come
over and visit with me and Liz for just ten
minutes this evening when you get off? And I said sure,
And I thought, oh god, one of the kids has
pete in his yard or you know, pull his dog's ear.
And Frank wasn't the type to complain at all, but
(18:05):
you know, you got two young kids. I know what
I did when I was that age, right, I'd gone
over and stolen their car or something. I thought, Oh no,
So it is with honest dread that we march over
to their house to take the beating and apologize and
do whatever we need to do to make this situation right.
They offer us a glass of wine. Okay, well, that's
usually when you scold somebody. Don't start with a glass
(18:27):
of wine. But you know he's a he's he owned
the restaurants. He he he did liquor sales. You know,
it's a glass of wine softness. So we sit down.
I want to be very clear. I'd had no bad
blood with Frank, but I didn't know him that well
yet and so and he would say nice things about
the show, so I know he didn't dislike me. But
still my kids have probably busted a window or something
(18:49):
and hid from it or whatever. So we sit down
and he said whatever, and it Liz and I have
been talking. Oh no, and y'all don't have a pool,
and you have two sons and we have a pool
and nobody to use it. So we would like your
(19:13):
kids to use our pool. You can use the side gate,
just text us because they travel all the time. They
had a place in Jackson Hole and use the side gate.
Just please lock it back. And I only have one requirement.
One of you has to be with the kids when
they're here swimming and the gate stays locked and they
(19:34):
don't get the coat. Because you don't want the bad
things happening. I can't even say the word you don't
want something happening in your pool. And I'm walking home afterwards,
and I said to my wife, who does that? Who says,
you have kids, y'all don't have a pool, you can
use ours? Like that's the most gracious thing in the world.
(20:04):
It was incredible. Thus began a deep and abiding friendship
with Frank Corpedo which culminated. The high point was Frank
was probably eighty at this time and he texted me
while I was on the air, and it was about
(20:26):
I don't know, five point fifteen. So I picked up
my phone during the break and he said, hey, you
know I caught these fish he owned. He owned a
Maudi boat Company, which is a which is a real
flat and thin boat that drafts very lower. I don't
know the term. I'm not a big fishing guy. It
can go into real shallow water, extremely shallow water. It's
(20:49):
in port O'Connor, port Lavaca, I think port O'Connor anyway,
So he loved this little boat company. He bought from
an engineer named Bill Maudi who was who had created
these and then he sent sold it and the guy
who owns it now emails me. Frank passed by the way.
So Frank Crpedo text me and he said, Hey, I
caught these sheep head or sheep fish again, I don't know,
(21:11):
and I'm looking forward to I like to cook them
for you. Would that be all right? I said yes?
He said how about tonight? And I said yes? And
he said, I'll wait till you get off and when
I see you drive by, I'll come over if that's okay.
And I said that's fine. And he said, I wouldn't
(21:31):
go over to your house with your wife there because
she wanted to cook him with him. And he's a great,
great cheft I know none Needa wants to cook him
with me, but I won't go over there until you're home.
And I'm like, Frank, that's the most chivalrous thing ever.
But you can go over there. That's perfectly fine. Are
(21:54):
you sure I wouldn't do that? And I told my
wife and she got the biggest kick out of that.
I mean, just what a great yeah. How many people
just love their neighbor. It just doesn't happen anyway. So
Matt Brice is opening a new one in that space
right there. It used to be Eloise Nichols. I'm excited
about it. I was alerted that Jake Owens made a
cover of Middle Aged Crazy. There's a line in the
(22:19):
next one that says, talking about him and his wife,
they got a business. They spent a while coming by.
I've been a long uphill climb, but now the profits
are high. Boy, I have seen more family run businesses
where they were young and beautiful and now they're old
(22:41):
and wrinkled and sharing the fruits that labor together. And
boy did they go through a lot to get there?
Can you turn it up from mom? We should probably
get in there, but you turn it off when.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
They down the line.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, he turn up, have got a business.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They's manny wow, come in by.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's out the propits or such a weird song. I
don't know how much of that was Jerry Lee Lewis
because it doesn't have a consistent I don't have the
music theory knowledge, but doesn't have consistent pace. Right, it's
like a Willie Nelson song. If you think about that,
(23:31):
you don't know where to put that line, and so
it probably makes it very hard. You can tell he's
struggling with that part right there. With Jerry Lelewis, he
can start and stop on a dime. Drag stuff out
and cram stuff in, uh, kick the kick the seat
out from under him. Some nights, I I'll be up
watching him on the on the piano, and you know
what he's gonna do. You just know he's gonna do
(23:54):
that flourish you know, ripple down the down, the down
the keyboard. I'm sure there's a term for that. And
he's got that hair that's up and it's flying around
like lyle love its and going at it. And then
he's gonna put his feet up there. It's like he
cannot do it enough times for me. I can watch
him for hours, and then at some point he's gonna
get up there and he's gonna bang his knee on it,
(24:14):
and like that keyboard is getting tormented, tortured, and he's
going at it. And at some point he's gonna kick
that seat out behind me, Like, oh my god, this
is like when they burned the guitar. Right, kick that seatback.
You know, they had to have five seats per show,
they had to, right, And then he starts the next song,
real slow, middle aged crazy, and they got that seat
(24:35):
underneathing again and he's like, well be careful because he
liable to kick it out again it's crazy. And then
when I'm through doing that, you know el I do,
I watch him and Mickey, and I watch him and
Mickey go back and forth noeling pianos. And then after that,
you know what I do. I watch uh Jerry Lee
and Mickey and Charlie Rich doom too, oh, Charlie Rich
(25:02):
and silver Fox now and that's a night. At that point,
I'm about five bourbons in three cigars two hours before
I got to be on the air. I'm in a
good spot right about then. See now that I tell
you this, you'll be looking for it. But sometimes I
come in and you don't know it. I take pride
in the you not knowing it part. But sometimes I
(25:24):
come in and I might have had a little too much.
Jerry Lee, Lewis, Mickey Gill and Charlie Rich night before.
I like when he says the embroidered star, that's a
good line. They don't make him like that anymore. Even
covering something like that sounds sounds odd. I got a
message from Christine Johnson, Steve Johnson's wife, and she said
(25:47):
mid Lane. That's what we couldn't think of. That was
mid Lane. What's the street you'd think of Christine is
like forrest gum. She's like forestin a gum because she
knows everybody, she said. Frank Repeter was one of the
nicest men I had the pleasure of working with when
I was with the Restaurant Association years ago. He was
always so generous. I saw a mean this weekend that
(26:11):
said something to the effect of there's no greater pride
than when someone says, I knew your dad. He was
a good man. And you know, it's odd because we
think of people that came before us as we put
them in a certain place they lived at a time
they were but actually, like right now, how you feel
(26:32):
right now, tired, cranky, anxious, stress, worried, sick, in pain,
whatever that is wherever you are right now, in this position,
that's how they were going through their life. So when
we think of so and so being a really good man,
he did good things for people, or ma'm mow, she
was always there for us. Sure she was also going
(26:55):
to bed and putting a tiger bamb on her feet
because her feet hurt right or Ben Gay on her
knees because her joints ache. Thing about Ben Gay, I'm
not even sure, you know, I just found out a
few years ago when we had a guy on the air.
I didn't know that gasoline doesn't stink. How can you
(27:17):
not have known that? I had no idea. I had
no idea that gasoline doesn't have that awful malodorous scent.
They put it in there so that when it's around,
you don't light a fire and blow us all up.
What are you doing? You what looking at your plants
(27:38):
in the middle of the show. Sit down? You're making
me nervous. So that's weird. So anyway, I'm wondering if
Ben Gay really didn't have any stink to it, and
they put it in there because they knew how much
I loved it. I do love that Ben Gay, oh Man.
And the only thing better is first time I went
to India, my knee or something was hurting and my
(28:01):
father in law handed me something called tiger bomb. Now
you get tiger bomb here. But just like everything else
we do, we screw it up because the FDA gets involved.
That tiger bomb was something like napalm or something, but
under a retail brand. He put it on. I think
it was my shoulder or my back whatever it was hurting,
(28:22):
and it had a dobber. Nothing. You don't get dabbers
like this anymore. It had it had the top, the
top on it was like a kerosene top, you know
what I'm talking about, And you would unscrew it, and
then it had two rods that were twisted like a
almost like a bobby pin or a safety pin, and
they kind of bowed out, and at the bottom they
had what was the equivalent of like a little rubber ball,
(28:44):
but it was a cloth, right, and you would you
you would turn the bottle upside down so that cloth
thing would absorb it, and then you'd put it on
you and it would burn. Oh what it burn? And
it was beautiful and it smelled even more off slash
awesome than being gay. And so I brought some back
with me. Little did I know it was contraband because
(29:07):
you can't get it here because it has things in
it MSG or something. I don't know that you're not
supposed to have DDT something that you're not supposed to
have here. So then I find it on the shelf
here and I go home and I well, that's that's
that's like a solar cane or something. It's not that good,
all right? Today is voting day. My vote is for
(29:29):
all propositions except for one four and fourteen. I am
against one four and fourteen. You can print out my
recommendations if you want them, at Michael Berryshow dot com.
You cannot look at your phone when you're in the
voting booth, but you can carry any papers with you.
Vote today,
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