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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air. US Municipal
Politics one oh one. Nobody votes. This last election, John
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Whitmeer beat Sheila Jackson Lee only because Republicans voted. Republicans
never vote ever, and it wasn't that Republicans loved John Whitmer.
John Whitmeyer is a white Democrat who's been in the
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state Senate for fifty year. He is a crafty, wiley guy.
He's not going to win an IQ contest, but he
is a guy that's going to hang around a legislative
body for a long time. He's not an executive, and
you're seeing the failures of not being an executive. He's
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not a decision maker. Bob Lanier was to his credit,
Boblineer was Trump is, you know, to his credit, Bill
White was. I saved with Bill White. I disagreed on
some things, but Bill White was a decision maker. He
had run a business. John Whittmeyer liked Joe Biden is
a guy who hung around as a white Democrat for
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fifty years. A white Democrat who always feared that Silvester
Turner who was a state rep in his district would
run against him and beat him because that district is
largely black. It's an interesting district, the state Senate district.
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Sylvester had the state one of the state rep seats
within that district Acres Holmes, and he would have cleaned
up and Sylvester would have won all the black vote
and all he had to do was win a little
bit of the white vote and he would win. When
you're John Weptmeyer, you in urban politics, you've got to
figure out how to find pockets of votes, because did
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I mention nobody votes some elections. Blacks will vote if
you can find a reason to get the churches fired up.
So John Whipmeyer has always managed to win in November
in a Democrat seat by getting the blacks excited for him.
But he didn't want blacks excited in the primary or
there would be a black who would primary him and
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beat him. And he knew it. He was very astute
in that way. So now here's a guy who's had
to kind of manage the blacks the way the British
managed the Indians during the raj. They had to, you
know it pit one against the other. So now he's
against Sheila, and believe it or not, because I looked
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at the numbers, Blacks voted for Sheila in higher numbers
than you would want to believe. Sheila made the runoff
for a reason. And so here we are Whitmyer against Sheila,
and Republicans were so afraid of Sheila Jackson Lee being
the mayor that they showed up and they voted for Whitmer.
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And there were a lot of activists and precinct chairmen
and those folks who were saying, why are y'all helping Whitmyer.
Don't you know he's a Democrat. Sheila's the devil. He's
less of a devil, all right. And so that was
the deal that we hope people would make, and they did,
and he won to move on down the road. But
now he's looking at reelection. You can do two four
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year terms and other than the black block, and so
he's scared the death of a black opponent, and he's
going to have one. There's a fellow on city Council
named Ed Pollard who's going to run. And Pollard is
dangerous to him because Pollard can pick up the black
vote and some Republicans, and that makes him a very
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dangerous opponent. Well, Whitmyer is a survivor. He's not a visionary,
he's not an executive. He's a survivor. That's how he
survived for fifty years in the state legislature. Can you
imagine same amount of time, exact amount of time that
Joe Biden did. So now he's looking at his election
and staving off an opponent and keeping his people happy. Well,
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one of the groups that's very influential in city politics,
never enough to rule the day, but they're influential is
the white moderate and the white liberal. And you remember
that byte group I told you about earlier. They are
a subset of this group of people. This this group
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of people lives north of Holcombe all the way up
to the Heights, and they tend not to be outside
the loop. You can even come in a little further,
and they tend not to go east of Maine. So
there is a swath that cuts from Rice University. Just
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go do north, go through Upper Kirby, go through Washington Avenue,
which was why that rebirth. But it was all those
people into the heights. And so you've got a group
of white professionals, and they're all professionals who are very
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active in city politics. These are the people who write
letters to the editor. These are the people who desperately
want the River Oaks Theater to be reopened. These are
the people who root for, you know, a business that's
been around for a long time to stay in business.
And they'll all show up and they on websites and
oh there are website. I'm sure they're cursing me right
now because they hate me, and that's fine because I
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think they're idiots. And so that group of people wants
more bike lanes, bike lanes, more bike lanes. How long
is that ABC story that we've been for two minutes?
All right, we'll get to that story in the next
segment so you can hear it. And that is the
group of people that is driving the recall John Whipmeyer movement.
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And he'll act like it doesn't bother him, but it
does bother him because these are the people. White liberals
in Houston in Texas for that matter, are kind of
like if you go abroad and you're in Cairo or
New Delhi and people that are from five hours from
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where you're from are suddenly your neighbor because it's somebody
you fill in affinity with y'all have to hang together.
We are the Americans here right. White liberals are this
way and these there aren't very many of these white liberals,
and they've been battling the same battles for a long time.
These are the George Grinnaises. These are the Bill Whites.
These are even though Bill White and John Woodmoer hate
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each other, but these are the people who've been around.
You know these people. They're prominent lawyers. They have their
lawyers with offices in Midtown. Their kids are prominent around town.
They either attend Emmanuel or nothing. And they all know
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each other. And these people believe we need more bike LANs.
They also believed we needed a light rail. They also
believe we need more city things. They also believe we
need stadiums. They also desperately please do not tear down
the astronome. It's all we got, so we got. We
got to have the astronom because when they see people
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from Boston, they see people from New York, and those
people go, we have we have this, we have this,
we have this, and they go, we don't have anything
except the astronom. Well, they're going to tear the astrodome down, No,
because then Houston won't be a city if we don't
have an astronom, if we don't have a sixty year
old stadium that literally nobody uses and you can't go
inside because the air is unbreathable. If we don't have that,
then we don't have a city. To these people, and
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you know, they're Rice faculty members, Rice Design Alliance, architects,
lawyers and all that. Okay, so they're very upset at
John Whipmark, and so that brings us to this next sale.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Only sound warehouse.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay, So here is the great irony about all this,
This little group of people. They have websites, they have
email lists. I'm sure they're buzzing right now at us,
and they're very very active. They always have a hotline
to the mayor. They're very very influential. This is city, Pauls.
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This is the kind of stuff that if you don't know,
you wouldn't know, and you wouldn't believe me. You still
probably can't wonder why I'm talking about this this long,
because this is where government goes wrong. This is the
little engine that could. This little group of people has
an outsized influence on policymaking in this city. Now, who cares, Michael, Well,
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here's why you should care. This group of people wants
roads for cars replaced with roads or bicycles. They want
everybody to have to get out of the way. They
want bike parking everywhere. They want bicycle rack. You ever
notice downtown all the buildings have bike racks. You go
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to Amsterdam, you'll take a photo of the first time
and go to Amsterdam. You might literally be if you
pivot three hundred and sixty degrees, you might be able
to spy two thousand bicycles. And you can't imagine somebody
could come back and find their bicycle. But their bicycle
is everything. You ride the cobblestones, the canals, You ride
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through the canals on your bicycle. Can't get a car
in there anyway, so your bicycle is important. Well, these
people don't ride their bicycle to them from work. They
wouldn't if they could, it's one hundred and five degrees.
But they liked the idea of showing their power by
getting bike lane. There was a picture, there was a
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news report of a nice porker. They had dedicated a
bike lane into downtown off Allen Parkway. They had painted
it green, the busiest spot coming into downtown other than
spar five twenty seven, second busiest spot. So everybody come
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in from Memorial, everybody coming through the middle section of
the community, so not all the way out west, but
all of River Oaks, all of that area coming down
alland Parkway. They would cross over Bagbee into downtown and
then go their various directions. Well, here we were dedicating
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an entire lane to cars, I mean two bikes. Well
it's a zero some game. You had to take it
from somewhere. You took it from the cars, which made
the commute even worse. And here was a nice porker
in the most smug, goofy manner possible. She's she's got
the cut, you know, the haircut, right that that real short,
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kind of blow dried back haircut. She's got these jeane thingies.
They're they're an elastic but they're colored to look like jeans,
you know the look. And she's big as a house,
and her fat ass cheeks are hanging over the seat.
That poor seat is screaming for mercy. And there she
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is riding, and she's got her goofy helmet up on top,
and she's riding both hands on both hands on tens
and two's. She's riding her bicycle and in her mind,
she's looking so big city mayor, look at me. Because
big city mayors do big city things. We're not like
the rural residents. We have bike lanes. This is what
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we do. We have bike lanes. We have hide and
seek adult hide and seek. We have events at the library.
We do things because.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We're a big city and it's important.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We have ribbon cuttings and this is what we do.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We have commissions, festivals.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Here we are. So those people are now putting all
the pressure in the world on John Whitmer because he's
pulling back some of the bike lanes, not because he
doesn't like the bike bicyclist. He probably doesn't like him,
truth be told, but he has to pretend he likes them.
And they've always supported him because they're residents. Don't want
them because they mess up neighborhoods. Right, So he starts saying,
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get that bike lane out of there, Get that bike
lane out of there now.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Fast forward ABC News story.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Go pulling advocates holding a so called funeral for Austin
street bike lane Sunday. Some even laid down pretending to
be Wait, you.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Might not have heard that correctly. They're having a funeral
for the bike lane. A funeral for the bike lane.
Some of them even laid down at this macabre, macabre demonstration,
the death of the bike lane. You know, it's not
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enough that Houston is racist and has too many mosquitoes
and humidity and no state income tax and not a
sufficiently vibrant gay scene. It's not enough.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
But we also we're not heading in the right direction.
We're going in the wrong direction. We're murdering the bike lanes.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
There weren't many bike lanes to start with, so few,
so few and far between. We'd have to do the
peat buddy gig thing, and we'd have to drive our
bike to the area of the bike lane, and then
we would ride our bike there, and then we'd put
our bike back on the back of our supararou with
our rack. Then we would go have coffee Sunday morning
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in a expensive coffee place with granola tofu avocado.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But now they're killing off the bike the bikelnes.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
What are we to do?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Cycling advocates holding a so called funeral for Austin street
bike lanes Sunday Some even laid down, pretending to be deceased,
I'm a cop gesture or intended to demonstrate how they
feel the city's latest decision to remove bike lane protections
will impact their safety.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Immunity wants this bike lane.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's become an important part of biking, for people that
bike for recreation, for people that bike to work, people
that bike for exercise. Hold on, hold on, do you
know a single person who bikes to work in Houston?
Because if you do, I'm going to say this because
it might be your friend. I'm gonna say it's because
I don't know them, but I'm gonna tell you right now.
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They're a douche, an absolute douche. Are they? Are they
riding to buy? Are they riding to work in a
suit in June? In jeans, in boots? Are they riding
to work? Are women riding to work in address on
a bicycle?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Are they really like the Wicked Witch and Wizard of Oz?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Is that what they're doing?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Speak?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
ABC thirteen first brought you news that the city was
ripping out concrete barriers that protect the dedicated bike lanes,
planning to repurpose them into shared lanes with cars Houston
Mayor John Whitmeyer, telling ABC thirteen the decision came after
several of his constituents said the bike lanes made it
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harder for them to live and work here, citing issues
with trash, pickup parking, even driving.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I think it's a fantasy that we will have a
critical mass of motorists who replaced their cars for bicycles.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yet it was pressure from cyclists that ultimately steered the
mayor in a new direction.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yep, hold you the people who ride their bicycles, either
recreationally or professionally to work.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
In the Michael Berry Show, no I said a bike theme.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Jeez, baby, you see what Jim said at ten seventeen.
All right, So, while Ramona is finding that when I'm driving,
whinc Michael t for father Son weekend this weekend, and
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so my wife wasn't with me, and I enjoy a
ride with her, but I also enjoy a ride by
myself because a I can smoke in my truck. You
don't have to email me. The fact that you think
that's gross is. I get that's good for you, but
it doesn't matter to me. So don't feel the need
to write to me that you think that's gross. Probably
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a lot of things about you that I think are gross,
and I don't feel the need to share that with you.
So anyway, I get to drive, you get to smoke
my cigar. I quit drinking diet cokes twenty years ago,
and I am convinced that diet cokes are more addictive
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than cigarettes or alcohol. And I'm convinced that diet cokes
are addictive whereas cokes are not. You won't see somebody
with a twenty coca day habit. You will see a
lot of people, particularly fat people, with a twenty diet
coca a day addiction. And it really is an addiction,
and I've studied it and without wasting a lot of time.
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The reason it is an addiction is because it is
a physical craving that you do not choose. When you
take a sip of dit, your brain believes that you're
about to put sugar into your body. So your pancreas says,
got to break down that sugar. Use it for energy.
That's the first source of sugar. That's why people that
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eat a lot of sugar can never lose weight, because
your body is always pulling the sugar that you last
put in the system. So your brain says, ooh, insta sugar.
That's what we'll use to power ourselves. Shut down all
the other sugar, the fat that we were pulling off
of your belly and behind your arm and off your ass.
Let's just pull that sugar this directly. That's easy, low
hanging fruit sugar. And so your body releases insulin to
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break to go, search out, find the sugar, break it down,
convert it to energy. Except there isn't any sugar.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It's fake sugar, but it tastes like sugar.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So your brain set it with sugar because your brain
wasn't built for fake sugar. Your brain was built for
natural foods, and natural foods. Tell your brain, I'm sweet,
I'm sugar. Use me as your fur source of energy.
So when your body releases that insulin, it goes looking
and it's out on a seeking destroy mission and can't
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find anything there, so it starts wanting sugar, and it
tells your brain, hey, dude, the sugar got loose. I
don't know where it is, but it's not here. We
need to find the sugar. Oh, so I got to
drink some more. And so what ends up happening is
you don't realize you're in this brain game against your
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will where you are craving a dit coke. I quit
diet cokes twenty years ago. It was the hardest thing
I've ever done. I chewed my nails when I was younger.
It's a very hard If you never chewed your nails,
God bless you. You don't, you don't understand. But if you
were or are a nail chore, it is a surprisingly
hard thing to stop because you know, if you quit,
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if you like I'm gonna quit heroin, all right, Well
we're gonna move you from Houston to bat and Rouge.
You're gonna meet new friends, and you're not gonna be
around the Heroin people anymore. So you won't have heroin.
So you're not gonna do heroin once you know detox,
you won't have heroin around. But you got these darn
fingers around you all the time, and you have been
used to that's an outlet for your nervousness. And if
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you're not a person who does this, you don't understand.
But for people who are, you know you got a
little treatment. Oh oh that one, not there, even that one,
And so it's very hard to quit. I quit doing that,
you know, I quit eating certain foods, or I've done
some things. I'm not, you know, impressive, but I've done
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a little bit well. Quitting dyke cokes, I had maintained
was the hardest thing in the world for me. And
for twenty years I haven't drank dyke cokes. I decide
this weekend I'm gonna treat myself. So did I have
one Dik Coke on the way to Austin?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I had four, the big ones. Whatever, what is this size?
It's about this size you get in the well. I
hadn't bought a Dike Coke about drinks at a gas
station in years. So I play these little games with
myself driving on, I wonder what it costs. Well, it
used to be about a dollar fifteen dollars about dollar
fifteen or so. I bet it's a dollar fifty now.
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So I pull in the Indian owned place and we
play the game. You ever play this game? I like
to play the game of what excuse are you going
to use for me that you don't let me use
the restroom? Because you don't let anybody use the restroom? Right,
I bet it's out of order? Hey, you got a
code on the bathroom. Can I get the code? What
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is out of order?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I bet? It's always out of order, isn't it. Isn't
that crazy? I bet if you need to drop a doucy,
it ain't out of order, is it. So that's what
they do. They don't want you to use a bathroom,
but they they learned right when you get here from India,
there's an orientation. One of them is bathrooms out of
order because these people will use a bathroom and you
don't want to use the bathroom, so you just well,
that's half the reason I stopped, right. So here's what happened.
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The Indians in pakistanis bought all the gas stations, easy
business to get into. I know there's a community called Ishmaile's.
They're a Muslim community of very very successful entrepreneurs. There's
a guy named Alcolt the Nani and he is extraordinarily successful.
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I've known him since college because his brother Ali the Nani,
who we called Ali d. We all hung out together
in college. And he is probably the largest gas station
owner in the state of Texas, one of the top
in the country.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But he's like the number four Wendy's owner and the
number three.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Jack in the Box owner and the number two burger
king owner, and he's killed it. Well, every member of
his family that comes here they put to work there.
And there are a lot of Indians who've done the
same thing. And there is a group. There is an
area in India, southwest India called Gudrat And if you
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see it spelled, you won't be able to pronounce, but
trust me, it's called Gudrat and Gudratis are famously effective merchants.
If you go anywhere in the world and you meet
somebody whose last name is Patel, they're a Gudrati. And
the Patels do not work for other people. They don't
dig ditches, they're not morticians. They own businesses.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It is part of.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What the family does, it's part of what the community does.
You own businesses and everybody knows each other and so
they all do business with each other. If white people
ever figured this out, you'd be surprised the wealth that
could be created. But white people have been convinced this's
a very bad thing to do. Used two white people
did it.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And then they were convinced that's bad. Okay, so you
got the.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Gudrathis that own them, and then you got the Pakistanis
who own them. And public bathrooms in India almost don't exist.
You pee against a wall, you're riding along. People peet
against the wall, peeing in the ditch, peeing over here,
pee and there and here. We have obscenity lows. You
can't just pee everywhere. Oh, people don't like you to
pe everyhere. Because I like to pee outside, can't pee here?
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Got to go to the bathroom? Well, how do I
go to the bathroom if I'm out in public? I
have to rely on a private business owner because there
aren't hardly any public bathrooms, and God help you if
you go to one, they're filthy. But how do I
go to the bathroom? So there's kind of an unwritten
tacit agreement that gas stations and restaurants will have a bathroom.
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But they don't want everybody coming in and messing up
their bathroom, so they just tell you can't use the bathroom.
And so here's my theory. What happened the white people
who've been driving the state of Texas. I love the
drive I did two ninety and I tend to get
both the white people were driving the highways, they stop
and pee get their coke, like coke and on, and
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the Indians and Pakistanis wouldn't let them use the bathroom.
So the white dude beaver says, oh, I'll make a
place where you can stop and peek.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So everybody shot past all those other gas stations.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And that's how he gives it happens. I'm serious, bro,
It simply works better if you're on hold, haying for
just a minute. If I don't get to you before
the show, I'll get you as soon as we're done.
We're going to go back to doing a bonus podcast
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because and it'll be ten to fifteen minutes, because we
always have more show than we have time for. And
when we did the bonus podcast, we were one of
the top rank podcasts in the country because that content
you can't get on the air, So people would leave
the show if they were able, they'd leave the show,
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and then they would wait till it populated on the podcast,
which was usually a few minutes after we got off
the air, definitely a by eleven thirty, and so that
we would take our entire radio audience, not entire, they
would take some percentage of our radio audience. Let me
not exaggerate and move it over to the podcast, and
they would pick up that podcast, and then some of
them would listen to other shows while we were there.
So it shot us way to the top, like massive,
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not Joe Rogan big, but way bigger than some of
the national shows that you would have expected to have.
Our national podcasts that have a lot of money behind them.
We stop doing it because you know, life gets in
a way. We've got eighty five show sponsors, We've got
two shows, we've got now we add new affiliates all time.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But anyway, long story short, we're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We're gonna start back on the Bonus podcast, so you
can if it says bonus, that means it did not
air on the radio. So if you listen to our
show and don't want to listen to something you've already
heard before, if you see the word bonus in front
of it, that means it's only for the podcast. Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
So one of the things I.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Do while I'm driving is I will call people and
I will read out or tell them what I'm seeing,
and then I will ask them what the next water
tower exit, whatever it is if you are a person
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that enjoys that, then you you know I have I
know who likes that. So anyway, so I did this
little thing, and that is that I decided I would
record one. It's simple. It will start very easy. It's
gonna get harder. Ramon, you got the first one that Jimson?
Uh what is it?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Don't say the answer out loud, Okay,
So listen carefully. You're driving from Austin to Houston, as
I'll say, in there, and I'm going to ask you
to tell me which retail establishment I'm looking at at
the end.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Michael Barry has been everywhere, man, have.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You I've traveled every road in this ceiling. I've been everywhere. Man,
I've been everywhere.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Man, here's Michael Berry. Do you know what he's looking at?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Eastbound from Austin to Houston.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
Driving through Chapel Hill, there is the Chapel Hill Bakery
Delhi Barbecue.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
There is Nomo.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Seafood in Steakhouse, make that Nemo Seafood Steakhouse.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
There is the Bank of Brenham.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
So on the left is a burger King and a
gas station.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
And on the right, just past this on the right stand.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Alone in a sheet metal business building is what retail business?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
You know?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Nope, it is. So you got that, you're coming into
Chapel Hill. You've got Chapel Hill, whatever place it is.
Then you got Nemo's Seafood and you go up and
then you got that. You got that intersection. I forget
what that road is. It takes you into Chapel Hill proper.
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So because you're eastbound, you're Austin to Houston. It's that
intersection right there that to the left would take you.
And frankly, this is another great Chapel Hill is the
bicyclist of this analogy. There should not be a red
light on the highway.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
But Michael, we live in Chapel Hill and we want
to go to Houston, and we want to have everybody
on the freeway stop so we can turn. It makes
all this sense in the world that have one hundred
and fifty eight thousand people per day coming along there
have to come to a complete stop right there so
that two hundred and nineteen of us can turn left.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No, no, we're not doing that. You're gonna turn right
and you're gonna go up and we're gonna have a
cutout and you're gonna do a little whipper around, or
we'll do you a little jug handle turn and go
down and come back. No, this is dumb. If you
were the king of Texas and you just wanted things
to be good for the residents, you wouldn't make hundreds
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of thousands of people stop because you got a couple
of powerful people that live in Chapel Hill. But Michael,
I live in Chapel Hill.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I know.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Can you just once stand on principle instead of what's
good for you? It's dumb, dumb to have a red
light in a highway. But I don't mind, because well
I do mind, obviously, but I like to end it
by saying I don't mind. So you're on the right,
So right there on the left, at that little intersection,
you've got I think it's a Suneco and you got
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a burger king, which why anybody eats at burging out
will never understand. And then you go up just a
little bit to the right and there's a retail establishment
on your right, and that retail establishment is drum roll please,
Dollar General is Dollar General, the yellow one with black letters. Okay,
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Family Dollar is orange and white. I think they're the
same owner. It's so funny. All right, we have another one.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
We're coming into Waller at Highway six.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Com Michael Barry has been everywhere, man, have you.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I've traveled every road in this yeerland. I've been everywhere. Man,
I've been everywhere.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Man, here's Michael Berry. Do you know what he's looking at?
Speaker 9 (32:33):
I passed Legendary Oaks and I'm coming up to the
Shell station. There's a little hotel called the Summit in
there's a little produce market. There's a place called Waller
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County Golf Carts. And there is a water tower over
to the right. This is where the Highway six cut
off its What does the water tower say?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So Eddie Martini, he won't do it anymore, but used
to he would say, are you just gonna do? Are
you just gonna do a straight up tradios thing? Like
you realize you're not orange anymore? You're doing you realize
you're doing a small town radio? Yeah, people love it.
Somebody just screamed out that answer right now, And that
is the hap. That guy's the happiest person in the world.
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And that guy is gonna be at a party with
Eddie Martini this weekend somewhere their kids go to A
and M together or something, and he's gonna go, oh.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
You're Eddie Martin. Man, have you heard this thing he's doing?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Where is this r?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I was listening and I was like, welcome to him's dad,
Welcome to him's dead. And I was like, say the answer, man,
say the answer, and he wouldn't. He told a story
about you. And then finally he's like, welcome to himstead
I man, I've been how happy I was?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I was like, well, I've seen that thing.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Welcome to handstead.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I was so happy it was.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Welcome to handstead?
Speaker 7 (34:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Is there one more?
Speaker 7 (34:10):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Well, I'll ask you one more of this. I may
not have recorded this.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
As you continue on into two ninety, you're gonna see
a water tower on the right. You're starting to get
into town Cypress area. The water tower says Cypress Falls,
underneath Cypress Falls. It has two words.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
What are those two words?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You know? Some of y'all, especially women, won't appreciate this.
But I record these little things and I send them
to friends friends of mine who do not use exclamation mark.
That's a woman thing, And they will send back the
answer with exclamation mark because they're so excited. We're gonna
make a bit out Cypress Falls Golden Eagles
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air. US Municipal
Politics one oh one. Nobody votes. This last election, John
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Whitmeer beat Sheila Jackson Lee only because Republicans voted. Republicans
never vote ever, and it wasn't that Republicans loved John Whitmer.
John Whitmeyer is a white Democrat who's been in the
(00:58):
state Senate for fifty year. He is a crafty, wiley guy.
He's not going to win an IQ contest, but he
is a guy that's going to hang around a legislative
body for a long time. He's not an executive, and
you're seeing the failures of not being an executive. He's
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not a decision maker. Bob Lanier was to his credit,
Boblineer was Trump is, you know, to his credit, Bill
White was. I saved with Bill White. I disagreed on
some things, but Bill White was a decision maker. He
had run a business. John Whittmeyer liked Joe Biden is
a guy who hung around as a white Democrat for
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fifty years. A white Democrat who always feared that Silvester
Turner who was a state rep in his district would
run against him and beat him because that district is
largely black. It's an interesting district, the state Senate district.
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Sylvester had the state one of the state rep seats
within that district Acres Holmes, and he would have cleaned
up and Sylvester would have won all the black vote
and all he had to do was win a little
bit of the white vote and he would win. When
you're John Weptmeyer, you in urban politics, you've got to
figure out how to find pockets of votes, because did
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I mention nobody votes some elections. Blacks will vote if
you can find a reason to get the churches fired up.
So John Whipmeyer has always managed to win in November
in a Democrat seat by getting the blacks excited for him.
But he didn't want blacks excited in the primary or
there would be a black who would primary him and
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beat him. And he knew it. He was very astute
in that way. So now here's a guy who's had
to kind of manage the blacks the way the British
managed the Indians during the raj. They had to, you
know it pit one against the other. So now he's
against Sheila, and believe it or not, because I looked
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at the numbers, Blacks voted for Sheila in higher numbers
than you would want to believe. Sheila made the runoff
for a reason. And so here we are Whitmyer against Sheila,
and Republicans were so afraid of Sheila Jackson Lee being
the mayor that they showed up and they voted for Whitmer.
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And there were a lot of activists and precinct chairmen
and those folks who were saying, why are y'all helping Whitmyer.
Don't you know he's a Democrat. Sheila's the devil. He's
less of a devil, all right. And so that was
the deal that we hope people would make, and they did,
and he won to move on down the road. But
now he's looking at reelection. You can do two four
(03:53):
year terms and other than the black block, and so
he's scared the death of a black opponent, and he's
going to have one. There's a fellow on city Council
named Ed Pollard who's going to run. And Pollard is
dangerous to him because Pollard can pick up the black
vote and some Republicans, and that makes him a very
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dangerous opponent. Well, Whitmyer is a survivor. He's not a visionary,
he's not an executive. He's a survivor. That's how he
survived for fifty years in the state legislature. Can you
imagine same amount of time, exact amount of time that
Joe Biden did. So now he's looking at his election
and staving off an opponent and keeping his people happy. Well,
(04:39):
one of the groups that's very influential in city politics,
never enough to rule the day, but they're influential is
the white moderate and the white liberal. And you remember
that byte group I told you about earlier. They are
a subset of this group of people. This this group
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of people lives north of Holcombe all the way up
to the Heights, and they tend not to be outside
the loop. You can even come in a little further,
and they tend not to go east of Maine. So
there is a swath that cuts from Rice University. Just
(05:22):
go do north, go through Upper Kirby, go through Washington Avenue,
which was why that rebirth. But it was all those
people into the heights. And so you've got a group
of white professionals, and they're all professionals who are very
(05:43):
active in city politics. These are the people who write
letters to the editor. These are the people who desperately
want the River Oaks Theater to be reopened. These are
the people who root for, you know, a business that's
been around for a long time to stay in business.
And they'll all show up and they on websites and
oh there are website. I'm sure they're cursing me right
now because they hate me, and that's fine because I
(06:06):
think they're idiots. And so that group of people wants
more bike lanes, bike lanes, more bike lanes. How long
is that ABC story that we've been for two minutes?
All right, we'll get to that story in the next
segment so you can hear it. And that is the
group of people that is driving the recall John Whipmeyer movement.
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And he'll act like it doesn't bother him, but it
does bother him because these are the people. White liberals
in Houston in Texas for that matter, are kind of
like if you go abroad and you're in Cairo or
New Delhi and people that are from five hours from
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where you're from are suddenly your neighbor because it's somebody
you fill in affinity with y'all have to hang together.
We are the Americans here right. White liberals are this
way and these there aren't very many of these white liberals,
and they've been battling the same battles for a long time.
These are the George Grinnaises. These are the Bill Whites.
These are even though Bill White and John Woodmoer hate
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each other, but these are the people who've been around.
You know these people. They're prominent lawyers. They have their
lawyers with offices in Midtown. Their kids are prominent around town.
They either attend Emmanuel or nothing. And they all know
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each other. And these people believe we need more bike LANs.
They also believed we needed a light rail. They also
believe we need more city things. They also believe we
need stadiums. They also desperately please do not tear down
the astronome. It's all we got, so we got. We
got to have the astronom because when they see people
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from Boston, they see people from New York, and those
people go, we have we have this, we have this,
we have this, and they go, we don't have anything
except the astronom. Well, they're going to tear the astrodome down, No,
because then Houston won't be a city if we don't
have an astronom, if we don't have a sixty year
old stadium that literally nobody uses and you can't go
inside because the air is unbreathable. If we don't have that,
then we don't have a city. To these people, and
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you know, they're Rice faculty members, Rice Design Alliance, architects,
lawyers and all that. Okay, so they're very upset at
John Whipmark, and so that brings us to this next sale.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Only sound warehouse.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay, So here is the great irony about all this,
This little group of people. They have websites, they have
email lists. I'm sure they're buzzing right now at us,
and they're very very active. They always have a hotline
to the mayor. They're very very influential. This is city, Pauls.
(09:00):
This is the kind of stuff that if you don't know,
you wouldn't know, and you wouldn't believe me. You still
probably can't wonder why I'm talking about this this long,
because this is where government goes wrong. This is the
little engine that could. This little group of people has
an outsized influence on policymaking in this city. Now, who cares, Michael, Well,
(09:27):
here's why you should care. This group of people wants
roads for cars replaced with roads or bicycles. They want
everybody to have to get out of the way. They
want bike parking everywhere. They want bicycle rack. You ever
notice downtown all the buildings have bike racks. You go
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to Amsterdam, you'll take a photo of the first time
and go to Amsterdam. You might literally be if you
pivot three hundred and sixty degrees, you might be able
to spy two thousand bicycles. And you can't imagine somebody
could come back and find their bicycle. But their bicycle
is everything. You ride the cobblestones, the canals, You ride
(10:15):
through the canals on your bicycle. Can't get a car
in there anyway, so your bicycle is important. Well, these
people don't ride their bicycle to them from work. They
wouldn't if they could, it's one hundred and five degrees.
But they liked the idea of showing their power by
getting bike lane. There was a picture, there was a
(10:37):
news report of a nice porker. They had dedicated a
bike lane into downtown off Allen Parkway. They had painted
it green, the busiest spot coming into downtown other than
spar five twenty seven, second busiest spot. So everybody come
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in from Memorial, everybody coming through the middle section of
the community, so not all the way out west, but
all of River Oaks, all of that area coming down
alland Parkway. They would cross over Bagbee into downtown and
then go their various directions. Well, here we were dedicating
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an entire lane to cars, I mean two bikes. Well
it's a zero some game. You had to take it
from somewhere. You took it from the cars, which made
the commute even worse. And here was a nice porker
in the most smug, goofy manner possible. She's she's got
the cut, you know, the haircut, right that that real short,
(11:43):
kind of blow dried back haircut. She's got these jeane thingies.
They're they're an elastic but they're colored to look like jeans,
you know the look. And she's big as a house,
and her fat ass cheeks are hanging over the seat.
That poor seat is screaming for mercy. And there she
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is riding, and she's got her goofy helmet up on top,
and she's riding both hands on both hands on tens
and two's. She's riding her bicycle and in her mind,
she's looking so big city mayor, look at me. Because
big city mayors do big city things. We're not like
the rural residents. We have bike lanes. This is what
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we do. We have bike lanes. We have hide and
seek adult hide and seek. We have events at the library.
We do things because.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We're a big city and it's important.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We have ribbon cuttings and this is what we do.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We have commissions, festivals.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Here we are. So those people are now putting all
the pressure in the world on John Whitmer because he's
pulling back some of the bike lanes, not because he
doesn't like the bike bicyclist. He probably doesn't like him,
truth be told, but he has to pretend he likes them.
And they've always supported him because they're residents. Don't want
them because they mess up neighborhoods. Right, So he starts saying,
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get that bike lane out of there, Get that bike
lane out of there now.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Fast forward ABC News story.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Go pulling advocates holding a so called funeral for Austin
street bike lane Sunday. Some even laid down pretending to
be Wait, you.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Might not have heard that correctly. They're having a funeral
for the bike lane. A funeral for the bike lane.
Some of them even laid down at this macabre, macabre demonstration,
the death of the bike lane. You know, it's not
(13:49):
enough that Houston is racist and has too many mosquitoes
and humidity and no state income tax and not a
sufficiently vibrant gay scene. It's not enough.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
But we also we're not heading in the right direction.
We're going in the wrong direction. We're murdering the bike lanes.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
There weren't many bike lanes to start with, so few,
so few and far between. We'd have to do the
peat buddy gig thing, and we'd have to drive our
bike to the area of the bike lane, and then
we would ride our bike there, and then we'd put
our bike back on the back of our supararou with
our rack. Then we would go have coffee Sunday morning
(14:41):
in a expensive coffee place with granola tofu avocado.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But now they're killing off the bike the bikelnes.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
What are we to do?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Cycling advocates holding a so called funeral for Austin street
bike lanes Sunday Some even laid down, pretending to be deceased,
I'm a cop gesture or intended to demonstrate how they
feel the city's latest decision to remove bike lane protections
will impact their safety.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Immunity wants this bike lane.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's become an important part of biking, for people that
bike for recreation, for people that bike to work, people
that bike for exercise. Hold on, hold on, do you
know a single person who bikes to work in Houston?
Because if you do, I'm going to say this because
it might be your friend. I'm gonna say it's because
I don't know them, but I'm gonna tell you right now.
(15:37):
They're a douche, an absolute douche. Are they? Are they
riding to buy? Are they riding to work in a
suit in June? In jeans, in boots? Are they riding
to work? Are women riding to work in address on
a bicycle?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Are they really like the Wicked Witch and Wizard of Oz?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Is that what they're doing?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Speak?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
ABC thirteen first brought you news that the city was
ripping out concrete barriers that protect the dedicated bike lanes,
planning to repurpose them into shared lanes with cars Houston
Mayor John Whitmeyer, telling ABC thirteen the decision came after
several of his constituents said the bike lanes made it
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harder for them to live and work here, citing issues
with trash, pickup parking, even driving.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I think it's a fantasy that we will have a
critical mass of motorists who replaced their cars for bicycles.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yet it was pressure from cyclists that ultimately steered the
mayor in a new direction.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yep, hold you the people who ride their bicycles, either
recreationally or professionally to work.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
In the Michael Berry Show, no I said a bike theme.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Jeez, baby, you see what Jim said at ten seventeen.
All right, So, while Ramona is finding that when I'm driving,
whinc Michael t for father Son weekend this weekend, and
(17:46):
so my wife wasn't with me, and I enjoy a
ride with her, but I also enjoy a ride by
myself because a I can smoke in my truck. You
don't have to email me. The fact that you think
that's gross is. I get that's good for you, but
it doesn't matter to me. So don't feel the need
to write to me that you think that's gross. Probably
(18:07):
a lot of things about you that I think are gross,
and I don't feel the need to share that with you.
So anyway, I get to drive, you get to smoke
my cigar. I quit drinking diet cokes twenty years ago,
and I am convinced that diet cokes are more addictive
(18:28):
than cigarettes or alcohol. And I'm convinced that diet cokes
are addictive whereas cokes are not. You won't see somebody
with a twenty coca day habit. You will see a
lot of people, particularly fat people, with a twenty diet
coca a day addiction. And it really is an addiction,
and I've studied it and without wasting a lot of time.
(18:52):
The reason it is an addiction is because it is
a physical craving that you do not choose. When you
take a sip of dit, your brain believes that you're
about to put sugar into your body. So your pancreas says,
got to break down that sugar. Use it for energy.
That's the first source of sugar. That's why people that
(19:13):
eat a lot of sugar can never lose weight, because
your body is always pulling the sugar that you last
put in the system. So your brain says, ooh, insta sugar.
That's what we'll use to power ourselves. Shut down all
the other sugar, the fat that we were pulling off
of your belly and behind your arm and off your ass.
Let's just pull that sugar this directly. That's easy, low
hanging fruit sugar. And so your body releases insulin to
(19:38):
break to go, search out, find the sugar, break it down,
convert it to energy. Except there isn't any sugar.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It's fake sugar, but it tastes like sugar.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So your brain set it with sugar because your brain
wasn't built for fake sugar. Your brain was built for
natural foods, and natural foods. Tell your brain, I'm sweet,
I'm sugar. Use me as your fur source of energy.
So when your body releases that insulin, it goes looking
and it's out on a seeking destroy mission and can't
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find anything there, so it starts wanting sugar, and it
tells your brain, hey, dude, the sugar got loose. I
don't know where it is, but it's not here. We
need to find the sugar. Oh, so I got to
drink some more. And so what ends up happening is
you don't realize you're in this brain game against your
(20:33):
will where you are craving a dit coke. I quit
diet cokes twenty years ago. It was the hardest thing
I've ever done. I chewed my nails when I was younger.
It's a very hard If you never chewed your nails,
God bless you. You don't, you don't understand. But if you
were or are a nail chore, it is a surprisingly
hard thing to stop because you know, if you quit,
(20:55):
if you like I'm gonna quit heroin, all right, Well
we're gonna move you from Houston to bat and Rouge.
You're gonna meet new friends, and you're not gonna be
around the Heroin people anymore. So you won't have heroin.
So you're not gonna do heroin once you know detox,
you won't have heroin around. But you got these darn
fingers around you all the time, and you have been
used to that's an outlet for your nervousness. And if
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you're not a person who does this, you don't understand.
But for people who are, you know you got a
little treatment. Oh oh that one, not there, even that one,
And so it's very hard to quit. I quit doing that,
you know, I quit eating certain foods, or I've done
some things. I'm not, you know, impressive, but I've done
(21:37):
a little bit well. Quitting dyke cokes, I had maintained
was the hardest thing in the world for me. And
for twenty years I haven't drank dyke cokes. I decide
this weekend I'm gonna treat myself. So did I have
one Dik Coke on the way to Austin?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I had four, the big ones. Whatever, what is this size?
It's about this size you get in the well. I
hadn't bought a Dike Coke about drinks at a gas
station in years. So I play these little games with
myself driving on, I wonder what it costs. Well, it
used to be about a dollar fifteen dollars about dollar
fifteen or so. I bet it's a dollar fifty now.
(22:15):
So I pull in the Indian owned place and we
play the game. You ever play this game? I like
to play the game of what excuse are you going
to use for me that you don't let me use
the restroom? Because you don't let anybody use the restroom? Right,
I bet it's out of order? Hey, you got a
code on the bathroom. Can I get the code? What
(22:37):
is out of order?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I bet? It's always out of order, isn't it. Isn't
that crazy? I bet if you need to drop a doucy,
it ain't out of order, is it. So that's what
they do. They don't want you to use a bathroom,
but they they learned right when you get here from India,
there's an orientation. One of them is bathrooms out of
order because these people will use a bathroom and you
don't want to use the bathroom, so you just well,
that's half the reason I stopped, right. So here's what happened.
(23:03):
The Indians in pakistanis bought all the gas stations, easy
business to get into. I know there's a community called Ishmaile's.
They're a Muslim community of very very successful entrepreneurs. There's
a guy named Alcolt the Nani and he is extraordinarily successful.
(23:24):
I've known him since college because his brother Ali the Nani,
who we called Ali d. We all hung out together
in college. And he is probably the largest gas station
owner in the state of Texas, one of the top
in the country.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But he's like the number four Wendy's owner and the
number three.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Jack in the Box owner and the number two burger
king owner, and he's killed it. Well, every member of
his family that comes here they put to work there.
And there are a lot of Indians who've done the
same thing. And there is a group. There is an
area in India, southwest India called Gudrat And if you
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see it spelled, you won't be able to pronounce, but
trust me, it's called Gudrat and Gudratis are famously effective merchants.
If you go anywhere in the world and you meet
somebody whose last name is Patel, they're a Gudrati. And
the Patels do not work for other people. They don't
dig ditches, they're not morticians. They own businesses.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It is part of.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
What the family does, it's part of what the community does.
You own businesses and everybody knows each other and so
they all do business with each other. If white people
ever figured this out, you'd be surprised the wealth that
could be created. But white people have been convinced this's
a very bad thing to do. Used two white people
did it.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And then they were convinced that's bad. Okay, so you
got the.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Gudrathis that own them, and then you got the Pakistanis
who own them. And public bathrooms in India almost don't exist.
You pee against a wall, you're riding along. People peet
against the wall, peeing in the ditch, peeing over here,
pee and there and here. We have obscenity lows. You
can't just pee everywhere. Oh, people don't like you to
pe everyhere. Because I like to pee outside, can't pee here?
(25:13):
Got to go to the bathroom? Well, how do I
go to the bathroom if I'm out in public? I
have to rely on a private business owner because there
aren't hardly any public bathrooms, and God help you if
you go to one, they're filthy. But how do I
go to the bathroom? So there's kind of an unwritten
tacit agreement that gas stations and restaurants will have a bathroom.
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But they don't want everybody coming in and messing up
their bathroom, so they just tell you can't use the bathroom.
And so here's my theory. What happened the white people
who've been driving the state of Texas. I love the
drive I did two ninety and I tend to get
both the white people were driving the highways, they stop
and pee get their coke, like coke and on, and
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the Indians and Pakistanis wouldn't let them use the bathroom.
So the white dude beaver says, oh, I'll make a
place where you can stop and peek.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So everybody shot past all those other gas stations.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And that's how he gives it happens. I'm serious, bro,
It simply works better if you're on hold, haying for
just a minute. If I don't get to you before
the show, I'll get you as soon as we're done.
We're going to go back to doing a bonus podcast
(26:25):
because and it'll be ten to fifteen minutes, because we
always have more show than we have time for. And
when we did the bonus podcast, we were one of
the top rank podcasts in the country because that content
you can't get on the air, So people would leave
the show if they were able, they'd leave the show,
(26:47):
and then they would wait till it populated on the podcast,
which was usually a few minutes after we got off
the air, definitely a by eleven thirty, and so that
we would take our entire radio audience, not entire, they
would take some percentage of our radio audience. Let me
not exaggerate and move it over to the podcast, and
they would pick up that podcast, and then some of
them would listen to other shows while we were there.
So it shot us way to the top, like massive,
(27:10):
not Joe Rogan big, but way bigger than some of
the national shows that you would have expected to have.
Our national podcasts that have a lot of money behind them.
We stop doing it because you know, life gets in
a way. We've got eighty five show sponsors, We've got
two shows, we've got now we add new affiliates all time.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But anyway, long story short, we're gonna start.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We're gonna start back on the Bonus podcast, so you
can if it says bonus, that means it did not
air on the radio. So if you listen to our
show and don't want to listen to something you've already
heard before, if you see the word bonus in front
of it, that means it's only for the podcast. Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
So one of the things I.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Do while I'm driving is I will call people and
I will read out or tell them what I'm seeing,
and then I will ask them what the next water
tower exit, whatever it is if you are a person
(28:08):
that enjoys that, then you you know I have I
know who likes that. So anyway, so I did this
little thing, and that is that I decided I would
record one. It's simple. It will start very easy. It's
gonna get harder. Ramon, you got the first one that Jimson?
Uh what is it?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Don't say the answer out loud, Okay,
So listen carefully. You're driving from Austin to Houston, as
I'll say, in there, and I'm going to ask you
to tell me which retail establishment I'm looking at at
the end.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Michael Barry has been everywhere, man, have.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You I've traveled every road in this ceiling. I've been everywhere. Man,
I've been everywhere.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Man, here's Michael Berry. Do you know what he's looking at?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Eastbound from Austin to Houston.
Speaker 9 (29:09):
Driving through Chapel Hill, there is the Chapel Hill Bakery
Delhi Barbecue.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
There is Nomo.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Seafood in Steakhouse, make that Nemo Seafood Steakhouse.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
There is the Bank of Brenham.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
So on the left is a burger King and a
gas station.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
And on the right, just past this on the right stand.
Speaker 9 (29:38):
Alone in a sheet metal business building is what retail business?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
You know?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Nope, it is. So you got that, you're coming into
Chapel Hill. You've got Chapel Hill, whatever place it is.
Then you got Nemo's Seafood and you go up and
then you got that. You got that intersection. I forget
what that road is. It takes you into Chapel Hill proper.
(30:10):
So because you're eastbound, you're Austin to Houston. It's that
intersection right there that to the left would take you.
And frankly, this is another great Chapel Hill is the
bicyclist of this analogy. There should not be a red
light on the highway.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
But Michael, we live in Chapel Hill and we want
to go to Houston, and we want to have everybody
on the freeway stop so we can turn. It makes
all this sense in the world that have one hundred
and fifty eight thousand people per day coming along there
have to come to a complete stop right there so
that two hundred and nineteen of us can turn left.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No, no, we're not doing that. You're gonna turn right
and you're gonna go up and we're gonna have a
cutout and you're gonna do a little whipper around, or
we'll do you a little jug handle turn and go
down and come back. No, this is dumb. If you
were the king of Texas and you just wanted things
to be good for the residents, you wouldn't make hundreds
(31:11):
of thousands of people stop because you got a couple
of powerful people that live in Chapel Hill. But Michael,
I live in Chapel Hill.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I know.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Can you just once stand on principle instead of what's
good for you? It's dumb, dumb to have a red
light in a highway. But I don't mind, because well
I do mind, obviously, but I like to end it
by saying I don't mind. So you're on the right,
So right there on the left, at that little intersection,
you've got I think it's a Suneco and you got
(31:39):
a burger king, which why anybody eats at burging out
will never understand. And then you go up just a
little bit to the right and there's a retail establishment
on your right, and that retail establishment is drum roll please,
Dollar General is Dollar General, the yellow one with black letters. Okay,
(32:00):
Family Dollar is orange and white. I think they're the
same owner. It's so funny. All right, we have another one.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
We're coming into Waller at Highway six.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Com Michael Barry has been everywhere, man, have you.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I've traveled every road in this yeerland. I've been everywhere. Man,
I've been everywhere.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Man, here's Michael Berry. Do you know what he's looking at?
Speaker 9 (32:33):
I passed Legendary Oaks and I'm coming up to the
Shell station. There's a little hotel called the Summit in
there's a little produce market. There's a place called Waller
(32:55):
County Golf Carts. And there is a water tower over
to the right. This is where the Highway six cut
off its What does the water tower say?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So Eddie Martini, he won't do it anymore, but used
to he would say, are you just gonna do? Are
you just gonna do a straight up tradios thing? Like
you realize you're not orange anymore? You're doing you realize
you're doing a small town radio? Yeah, people love it.
Somebody just screamed out that answer right now, And that
is the hap. That guy's the happiest person in the world.
(33:35):
And that guy is gonna be at a party with
Eddie Martini this weekend somewhere their kids go to A
and M together or something, and he's gonna go, oh.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
You're Eddie Martin. Man, have you heard this thing he's doing?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Now?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Where is this r?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I was listening and I was like, welcome to him's dad,
Welcome to him's dead. And I was like, say the answer, man,
say the answer, and he wouldn't. He told a story
about you. And then finally he's like, welcome to himstead
I man, I've been how happy I was?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I was like, well, I've seen that thing.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Welcome to handstead.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I was so happy it was.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Welcome to handstead?
Speaker 7 (34:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Is there one more?
Speaker 7 (34:10):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Well, I'll ask you one more of this. I may
not have recorded this.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
As you continue on into two ninety, you're gonna see
a water tower on the right. You're starting to get
into town Cypress area. The water tower says Cypress Falls,
underneath Cypress Falls. It has two words.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
What are those two words?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You know? Some of y'all, especially women, won't appreciate this.
But I record these little things and I send them
to friends friends of mine who do not use exclamation mark.
That's a woman thing, And they will send back the
answer with exclamation mark because they're so excited. We're gonna
make a bit out Cypress Falls Golden Eagles
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