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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, Luck and Load, the Michael Verie
Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Sometimes there are things I don't want to talk about,
and I just don't because I realize that talk radio
is not the format for that conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's not to say you can't have a high brow
conversation with our audience. It is to say you can't
have a highbrow, high level, policy oriented conversation when people
are expecting the tradition talk radio type of topics. But
(01:05):
I'm gonna do it anyway. Give me just a moment, Kevin,
you're up. You're on the Michael Berry shotribute.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
When you were talking about BUCkies and how they keep
the eighteen wheelers out. Yeah, I had a friend of
mine that worked there, and he said that the managers
would walk around with the walkie talkies are a lot
of times out in the parking lot, and if they
suspect that somebody's going to pull in, they will go
out there and intercept and kindly ask them to leave
(01:36):
the area. Now, a great business idea would be by, uh,
you know, purchase some land around BUCkies and just have
strictly truck parking. I think that would be great, you know,
charge like ten bucks a truck or something. And I
can make a lot of money doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
If they could make a lot of money doing it,
they would. I'm serious. Everybody has a great business. I
did till you try to you try to do it. Yeah,
you're absolutely right. Though, I asked Beaver Appling years ago,
I said, Beaver, I never noticed until recently that there's
(02:15):
never an eighteen wheeler at a Buckie's. And I saw
a sign the other day and it was a sign.
It was like a It kind of reminded me of
what people put on their front lawn, you know, as
a dog that's just really getting done on it and grinding,
just just dropping and do it. And it's a very
(02:35):
graphic photo. You know, basically, don't let your dog poop
in my yard, right, which is sort of funny because
you figure, I mean, look, you don't want to step
in dog poop. But I don't think that's why people
don't want it. I think people don't want it because
they don't want to look out and see the dog poop.
(02:55):
But you really don't notice dog poop nearly as much
as you do. The sign, right, The sign is rather clear.
I can't imagine this is your castle, and people are
you know you're your daughter has a boyfriend who's coming
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to pick her up for prom or homecoming, and you
have required did he come to the front door to
meet you? And he comes rolling up, pimple face, nervous
sweating because look, we've all been a little boy and
we all know what's on his mind. But he's going
to tell you whatever he needs to tell you. Yes, absolutely, yeah,
he's like the the inmate going before the parole board.
(03:38):
I have found the Lord who God's my every moment.
I have no interest in getting back into running prostitution
and sampling the goods, doing the drugs that I enjoyed
so very much, running the roads with my homies. None
of that will be mine. What I would like to
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do is a job as a fork lift operator in
a warehouse, driving around, listening to beep beep beep all
day long and being yelled at that I'm not working
hard enough and not even having a chance for a
smoke break. That's that's my mission in life. I do
not want to go back to what I used to
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call the good old days. I do not well, we
all know if that teenage boy is going to say
whatever he needs to to to the dad he's going
to see. But he's first got to drive. It's first
got to walk past the sign that has a dog
in flagrante delicto. Have you ever seen those signs? I
mean they are it's not I mean, couldn't the dog
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look a little cute and we'd get you still get
the point, right. I mean put a little you know,
Schnauzer or kind of a Chihuahua, cute, little little fufu dog,
discreet and maybe he'd have a leash around his next
to you know, it was a dog being walked, and
then you would just be a dog, and you'd put
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up a little you know, maybe a line across it.
It doesn't people go to so much trouble to dress
up the front of their home.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It used to be a realtor in town that would
you knew her listings would all have a red door.
She required her her clients. I think she had the person.
She might have paid for it herself. I can't remember.
It wasn't Jane jim Olv, but it was. It was
somebody like that that was a big name realtor in town,
like a legend in town might have been Jane Jim
(05:37):
I don't remember, but she would have a high gloss
red put on. The front door is very distinctive and
you would always chuckle when you pulled up. It's like, oh,
that's a Jane gm Oll house. It's got that bright
red door and you couldn't help but notice how nice
it looked. You know, people will have their windows replaced.
They'll only do the front. If they can't afford all
of them. They'll have it repainted to have the They'll
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they'll put nice perennials. Which one is it seasonals? Go,
you're the point guy. Why are you wearing gloves? You
are so weird? You're cold? Okay, well they make it
not cold anyway, so they'll make you know, they do
all these things to make their their front. They'll have
the people come out so if they're if their address
is you know, fifty two oh four, they'll have them,
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you know, do it with the Texas flag or they'll
have them, you know, pay one hundred bucks for that.
And they do all the pressure washed front. And yet
they put a dog taking a dump out in the
middle of the whole thing. It was crazy anyway, So
that's what that sign looked like, I said, Beaver, why
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why don't you want eighteen wheelers? You know, because we
all think we know how to run somebody's business better
than them. Nobody realizes this, but we're all running around
and I'm the worst about it. We're all running around
announcing how businesses could run their business better. I said, well,
why would you turn away all that business? And he said, well,
he didn't say these words, but this is what I translate.
(07:02):
You got to know who you are and who you're not.
And sometimes this is what makes a country club, this
is what makes Studio fifty six. You have to know
what you are, but you have to know what you're not.
And if you're pursuing every dollar that comes in the door,
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you're going to be running them out the back door
as fast as they're coming in. Because everybody doesn't like everything.
Some people like a place it's quiet. Some people like
a place it's not crowded and they'll pay a premium
for it. Some people like a place that's not loud.
Some people like a place didn't have young people in it.
So anyway, Biab said, it's not worth it at the
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family one of the things. And I never noticed that
was one of the things that BUCkies did, the clean bathrooms. Yes,
BUCkies became a gas to do nation. It became a
clean respite on the road. I couldn't believe that bastrip
BUCkies yesterday. And everybody's like, it's always that busy, Okay, Well,
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I've never been into BUCkies before. I had no idea.
I've been in a hundred BUCkies or in a BUCkies
one hundred times in my life. I've never seen it
that busy. But it was crazy. And the reason is
they've created a concept and they've said no eighteen wheelers.
So you turned down that money to super serve this
community over here, and that is something most businesses never
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learned to do. You want, it's just as important who
you turn away as who you attract. Well, I was
gonna save this till a seegain, but let's talk about
it now. So a number of people are extraordinarily frustrated
with the Paxton campaign, and let me let me start
(08:50):
by saying, I have never supported a campaign ever that
I did not figuratively and in most cases literally cuss
out the candidate at least one good time before the election.
That is who I am. I don't mean to say
(09:16):
I'm Bill Belichick or Nick Saban, but I believe you
got to get up somebody's ass to get them to
do what you want them to do. That, for whatever reason,
they're scared, worried, incapable of doing so, rest assured without
(09:37):
naming names every candidate you've ever heard me talk about.
If I've said their name five times and you're having
a drink with them and you said, you know, I
get the impression that when he's off the air, Michael
Berry can be a complete and I mean stage five
(10:04):
hazardous material ass. And they go, well, I'll tell you
some but don't repeat it. They will tell you I
don't view elections as a game. It's not a fun thing.
I actually hate it. I hate it because I hate
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the opponent and I don't like their supporters. But nothing
makes me matter. Then people who will vote against their
own interests because invariably, one without a doubt, it never fails.
They will come back later and tell me they regret it.
(10:51):
It's like raising teenagers don't touch that it's hot? Why'd
you touch that? I told you it was hot, That's
why you touched it, right, That's what teenagers do. That's
what I did. That's what you did. Don't hang out
with so and so. You'll get you were hanging out
with it. Ah man, don't drive over this bit you do,
(11:15):
oh man, when you tell somebody this is what's gonna happen,
and they go, But I like Rayvos, butterflies and compromise,
that's what gets us a lung. And then they've elected
Barack Obama. Well, once the guy's elected, you don't get
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another chance to knock him down a peg. Now he
takes on a whole new fundraising system, the power of incombacy.
If tall Ico gets in there at thirty seven, unless
he runs for president or dies or something crazy happens,
he'll be there for life. The power of incumbency is
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almost impossible to ever over. So you're putting Taller Rico
in there for at least forty years. In Texas, you've
only got a shot at Senate seats. In so many states.
We've managed to squander Arizona, a Republican state, Barry Goldwater state,
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we've managed we have two Democrats in there. Now we've
managed to squander Georgia. Even Sam Nunn would be conservative
in today's Republican party, even though he's a Democrat, that
was a Southern Democrat that would today be a Republican.
We at one point squandered a seat in Alabama. Cassidy
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lost his primary, so we've got because he was terrible.
So now we've got a Paxton type situation where we've
got a real challenge on our hands. The only good
news is in Michigan, a solidly Democrat seat. I saw
an internal poll that was eighty five to fifteen. There's
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no way that's true. There's no way that's true. It
was eighty five to fifteen Democrat versus Rogers. If Haley
Stevenson went There's no way that's true. The person who
sent me that, I think doesn't verify their sources, so
I strike that from the record. I don't even say,
but suffice it to say Michigan was solidly Democrat. Trump
can win Michigan. We didn't have a candidate who could
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win the Senate seat. And that gets into the Trump coalition.
Trump manages to get people to the polls to vote
for him that no other Republican alive has been able
to do that, not Ted Cruz, no other alive Reagan
managed to do it, and that is working class, socially conservative,
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socially conservative to moderate parents who typically would pull the
blue level lever but would vote for Trump. That was
the Trump phenomenon. Hillary didn't see it. Almost twenty candidates
in the Republican primary didn't see it. Hillary didn't see it.
Biden saw it. That's what they had to cheat. Kamala
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was overwhelmed by He has an appeal Now. I think
Trump's approval is down right now. I know there's the
fire breathers out there and you're gonna have to hear
from you, which is fine. Hey, get it off, get
it off. The block button takes one second. I don't
think Trump's coattails are going to be in November, at
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least right now, what we need them to be, So
we're not going to have that in our favor. I
will argue till I'm blue in the face. Here's how
this argument goes. I say Iran is hurting us in November,
we need to get out of Iran, and the emails
(14:55):
go like this, I know we'll get out of brun
nineteen seventy nine. They took her hostage. Just Michael, okay,
is that? What are we fighting for? The hostages in
seventy nine? Is that what we're doing right now? They
took our heartes. I ain't like them since woo, but
blow them to smotherings? Are we gonna blow them smithereens?
Is that what we're gonna do? Because the President says
(15:15):
we're gonna blow the smithereens, You say we're gonna Why
don't we blow the smithereens? I keep hearing this?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
What are we blowing them to? Smithereens? No, we're not dirty,
little secret. We've lost twenty men and women over there.
You don't think the Democrats know that. Wait till the
first week of October. The only thing you're gonna hear
about is inflation and Iran. Get out. Now, we gotta
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whoop them, Michael, We're gonna whoop them and whoop them. No,
you're not. It's so much more complicated than that. This
is not a bumper sticker. You got that. You've got inflation,
and now if the Fed raises rates, we've got our
work to do. But it's our job. It's not Paston's job.
It's our job to win this. With the goodness of
real jello puddies. Let me try to explain what my
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point is, because talk radio is not always conducive to
a conversation with multiple layers. And I'm as guilty as
the next guy. If I'm listening to a podcast, say
Thomas Soul, which I do a lot of, I have
to keep rewinding because his arguments well, very direct and succinct,
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can be layered and I have to go back to
what he was saying, or Milton Friedman even more so.
And you don't get that benefit with what I'm saying.
And I'm not sure what I'm saying is it's so
high level. Anyway, My intention is to say that it
is not Ken Paxton's race to win or loose. Let
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me be direct. Let me be as direct as I
can be, as much as this will not sit well
with some people, this race is not Ken Paxton's race.
If Ken Paxton loses this race, he will go off
and practice law, and he'll be fine. He'll do whatever
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he does. He'll still go have lunch or dinner, he'll
still go to church, he'll still see his kids. He's
very close with him, and he'll show up to an
office and he'll talk about the old days with his
buddies and and that'll be fine, and I'll reach out, Hey,
how you doing. But he will go on and and
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and as as people do. Uh. Dan Crenshaw will move on.
John Cornying will move on. Uh Uh what's the guys
that ran for a g ramon? Uh? Ted Cruz's buddy, goys, dog,
My memory is not good today. Uh I get him anyway,
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bald headed. We got into it with him anyway. These
candidates move on, and they always will because you have
no alternative, Ken Paxton, if he loses his race, we'll
move on. You and I and our children and his
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children will be left to pick up the pieces of
what happens in this country that is hanging by a
delicate threat. If the Democrats get controlled again, this will
be a form of Democrats that we have never seen before.
They are going for the juggular. If you thought they
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were bad, unprovoked, they've been provoked. Now. The good news
is Trump stuck up their ass. The bad news is
they're coming with a vengeance. Now you should be scared.
But in my years of political observation and participation, one
thing I have learned about our side, we get very,
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very sloppy and complacent when we win this is how
we ended up with Obama. Every red flag was there
on Obama. Rush Limbaugh was frustrated. You go back and
listen to those shows. I was listening to Rush last night.
You go back and listen those shows in two thousand
and eight, and he says, I don't like John McCain.
I've never liked John McCain, but I dislike John McCain,
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oh lot less. And I dislike Barack Obama. And nobody listened.
Chip Roy that was his name. Yeah, and Chip will
be back. He'll be back in another position. He's very ambitious,
he's hard working, he's smart. My problem with Chip was
he said some really nasty anti Magat things, and frankly,
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I think he learned from it. Not everybody who gets
vanquished Corn is not. Everybody who's been defeated this this
season has learned from that the way you should learn.
I ran for mayor in two thousand and three. I
learned a lot from that failure. It was the first
real failure I'd ever had in my life. I got
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the girl I wanted, I got into every school I
wanted to get into. I got the career I wanted,
and then another career, and then another career. I had
never failed. I didn't think I could fail. It was
important to who I am today that I fail and
fail so fabulously, so famously, so that it be all
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over the news that I had been defeated. I mean,
I didn't actually lose. Let's be clear. I pulled out
of the race, but I wasn't gonna win, and that
we were out of cash. So back to the point.
If Paxton loses this race, you lose. So once you
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understand that. See, politics in this country has become a
way to get famous and as a result of that
fame and celebrity and power to get rich. So let
me let me look at it another one. We think
of CJ. Stroud as the quarterback of the Texans, and
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you want him to do well. But if he doesn't
do well, it's not really gonna affect your life, right,
I mean, the team's not any good. Your tickets, nobody
wants your tickets anymore. Nobody's hyped up about the season.
If CJ doesn't have a good season, if CJ turns
out not be any good. When Deshaun Watson flamed out,
by the way, he's back with Cleveland. Now you know
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that it's very likely he's gonna beat out Shador. It's
very likely that Deshaun Watson is going to be back
starting an NFL team. It's the Browns, mind you. But
the point is your life didn't change when Deshaun absolutely
flamed up. They just went you know, you had you
had a bad season, and your tickets aren't good. You
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weren't excited about going to the game. You don't talk
about the game, you listen to sports radio, you didn't
care about who we drafted, blah blah blah blah. But
it didn't change your life. If Paxton loses, this ain't
about Paxton. That's what I keep telling people. Well, I
get all these people who all they want to do.
I don't want to talk politics when I'm off the air,
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but all they want to do is talk politics, and
it goes like this, wo what are we gonna do
about the Democrats doing this and Democrats doing that? And
what are they saying? Now? Hey, Michael, I don't know
about Paxton. Please never speak to me again. That little
hole in your mouth, close it and never speak again,
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because you've got really, really, really stupid things going on
in your head. But I don't know it if all
you do is blink, but when you speak, you remind
me that you've learned nothing. This race is not about
Ken Paxton. I'm going to say that until election day.
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I've told him that get out of the way, don't
be a distraction, and let us beat Tallafrico. That's it,
and that's all. Well, But Michael, he went through a divorce,
and what do you think Talla Rico has been doing.
He's a thirty seven year old single man who's never
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been seen with a woman. And now you know how
bad the truth is for Tallafrico. Did you see what
they did in order to manufacture a girlfriend, the love
of his life. They brought out his chief of staff,
his most loyal political supporter, I'm his girlfriend, and in fact,
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in order to make it believable, they made it a
violation of every nepotism policy. He's banging the help and
you go, that's terrible. He's banging the help and they go, yeah,
but it's a whole lot better than the reality. So
we're going with that one because it's believable. He ain't
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banging any well, he ain't banging the help, not this help.
You don't care about Tallafrico's background. You care about Ken
Paxton because you want the perfect candidate. This ain't about
the perfect candidate. This is about who you can send
to Washington, d C. To do the least damage. And
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that's Ken Paxton period. In the story. I'm not trying
to make him out to be God. I'm not trying
to make him out to be Donald Trump. I just
want to beat Tallafrico to Michael Berry Show, simple man,
t well, a bit of Houston news. We're not a
news program. I don't break news. You know the drill
on that. But a fellow named John Frels, I don't
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believe I know him. Some people will ask me why
I offer and say I don't believe or I don't
think I know someone. And the reason is is some
of the things I say come off as immodest. They're
not immodest. I'm not the most modest person, but I
am self aware enough to know how this sounds. But
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it doesn't make it any less true. I know a
lot of people, and a lot of people know me.
If I say, let's take this case John Frele's. John
Freles has posted something to the internet. I don't think
I know him. That's my way of saying, it's not
my buddy who posted this. So I don't know if
it's credible. I don't know if it's real. I'm just
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letting you know this is a person I don't know.
But I'm still saying the name, because why would you
say the name of someone you don't know if they're
not famous, Because people like to hear their name said,
and then everybody who knows John Freles will call them,
go hey, Michael Brey's talking about you. Who would he say?
I don't remember he Wanders and me Andrews, although I
never get his point anyway, but he was talking about you.
I heard that. So when I say I don't think
I know him, it is because I Matt know him. Matt.
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I didn't mean to say it that way, kime On.
It was a cross between May and Mike. I Matt
know him, so Mate know him. So I don't want
John or whoever else I say this about to have
told everybody around me bad Michael Berry, he's my buddy,
and then they go he said he didn't know you, Well,
I might know him if I saw his face. I've
interacted with a lot of people in the a lot
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of different walks of life, and they might be out
of context and they may go, hey, remember it's me,
and then it is so anyway, that's why I do that. Anyway,
John Freils, I don't think I know posted the following yesterday,
legendary Houston restaurant tour Manfred Yachman has passed away. I
don't know if I've pronounced his name correctly, but I
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called Johnny Kiraba, who never takes my call. But then
again he's getting ready for lunch. He'll call back about
three days later. And you know why he does that.
I think he does that because if there's some heat, right,
then he figures whatever it is, it'll pass. I do
that too, right, Hey, Johnny, and I need you do
me this favor. But if three days later, about three
days later, you've already fixed it, right, So Johnny doesn't
take my call until a few days later. And then
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the second one is I called Russell, and I never
called Russell, so he knew it was important. I said, hey,
I need you to find out how to pronounce this
guy's name, and so he started doing some researching and
then I called him back during the last break and
I said what's this? How do you pronounce his name?
And he said you should ask Brian Caswell, So I
called Caswell. I thought, oh, Caswell and him are close.
I said hey to Russell Cally you mm mm, why
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did he tell me to call you? Oh? No, oh, well,
how do you pronounce this guy's name? And he said,
I've always said it as Manfred yach Mick. So that's
how I'm going to say. He was deeply involved in
the Houston restaurant industry for many years. Born in Kablen's, Germany,
Manfred worked as a pastry chef in both Germany and
Switzerland before immigrating to Houston in sixty three. He earned
a degree in economics and management from Houston Baptist University,
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which I think is now called Houston Christian University. In
nineteen seventy two, yach mcopened the original Ruggles Grill on
West Timer near Montrose and managed it during its peak
years before were selling it. I think he sold it
to Bruce Moles Moselyn Moselyn moles Lynd Mules Moselin Moselyn
who owned Ruggles and has had several different He has
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Ruggles Black, I think now with an Indian woman, I
forget her name, real pretty woman. And I don't know
if he's still involved in that or not, but it's
like right off of I think Kirby Ruggles at one point.
This was before I drank. Didn't drink till I was
twenty nine, so I started in seventies, so ninety nine.
I think probably mid nineties. Before I was on the scene,
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Ruggles was crushing. I mean they were the hot spot
when the hot spots were still inside the loop, or
maybe the hotspots are still there. I'm just old now,
but back then, when I was coming up, that was
the hot spot. I think he sold it to Bruce
before I really knew what it was. It was also
a great place to get your car trashed. You know,
Sylvia Jones valets there one time and they tore her
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car up. I knew so many people that the Valets
tore their car up there. At one point, there were
several yachtmic concepts throughout the sea, including Redwood Grill, River
Oaks Grill, and Cafe Mustache or Mustache, although most of
these are now long gone. Nevertheless, his impact on the
culinary scene is undeniable. Another original Yak Mick concept Post
Oak Grill was once a popular gathering place that many
finally remember. In addition to his culinary achievements, Mentor was
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also accomplished tennis player and a friend of many. So
Brian Caswell said Post Oak Grill was, in its day
the hot spot. I knew Polo, who I guess took
over after him. I don't know the history behind that,
so I'm not trying to offer it and I'll probably
get it wrong, but Polo work pretty hard. I don't
know if Postouk Grill is still still around, but Polo
was a partner with our radio company. I never I
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did speak for it. I did speak for it a
little bit for a little while, maybe a year. But
he was a good marketer. I think he did a
weekend show on I Forget, though that's twenty years ago anyway.
So for those of you who knew, for those of
you who loved the old Houston stories, that's one for you.
And thanks to Brian Caswell, whose son were Y Sun
worked for Caswell for a number of years. All right
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back to the point, I'm speaking very plainly and very
blunt here because I don't want to be misunderstood. I
don't do this often, all right, I'm laying it out there. Yes,
I am worried. I am not worried because this is
a question of is is Tallarico a genius or is
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I'm not trying to do anything other than hold the Senate.
So I had someone yesterday say to me, well, Beto
never led Ted Cruz in twenty eighteen. I don't want
to overstate my importance here, but at periods of time,
especially twenty eighteen, I was talking to Ted Cruz every day.
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I went back and looked this was September nineteenth. In
today's August tenth, September nineteenth headline, Texas, Beto O'Rourke leads
Ted Cruz by two among likely voters in US Senate race.
New poll finds O'Rourke has been closing the gap over
the last several months, but this is the first poll
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that puts him ahead of Cruise. That language is language
that is used for insiders. There are a lot of
people who will give money to whoever they think is
going to win. There are a lot of people who won't
give money to a candidate they think is going to lose.
And money becomes very important around September nineteenth because you've
got to make that final buy, that final push. So
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this is the media trying to say the money guys, Hey,
stay out, he's going to lose. Hey give to Beto,
He's going to win. You are showing what in political
analysis is the buzzword, the most important thing. Who's got
the juice, who's got the big mo, who has momentum?
(31:56):
If Beto had been trailing, but closing the gap, closing
the gap, closing the gap, you never want to know
what's happening in a static moment. You want to know
what the trend is showing. The trend here was showing
Beto is rising and Cruise is falling. Beto's about to win.
He didn't win. It was disturbingly close. I think it
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was fifty one forty eight, uh with obviously not everybody
votes for either one of them, but that was a
dreadfully close race, and Beto was ten times better than
talla Rico. Beto scares me. If Beto had run this time,
Beto would have won. Talafrico is not going to win
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if we do our jobs. But here's the park that
upsets me. Everybody thinks it's Ken Paxton's shop. You know
you don't. You don't say to CJ. Stroud, hey I'm
gonna call the plays and I'll go. You just you
support them, you cheer for them. Campaigns are grassroots. You
are the camp pain. Paxton's gonna spend money. There's a
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new ad that just ran that's based on a flip
of the sixty four ad they ran against Goldwater. Paxton's
gonna do his job. Don't worry, you do yours. That's
what I'm more worried about.
It's that time time, Luck and Load, the Michael Verie
Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Sometimes there are things I don't want to talk about,
and I just don't because I realize that talk radio
is not the format for that conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's not to say you can't have a high brow
conversation with our audience. It is to say you can't
have a highbrow, high level, policy oriented conversation when people
are expecting the tradition talk radio type of topics. But
(01:05):
I'm gonna do it anyway. Give me just a moment, Kevin,
you're up. You're on the Michael Berry shotribute.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
When you were talking about BUCkies and how they keep
the eighteen wheelers out. Yeah, I had a friend of
mine that worked there, and he said that the managers
would walk around with the walkie talkies are a lot
of times out in the parking lot, and if they
suspect that somebody's going to pull in, they will go
out there and intercept and kindly ask them to leave
(01:36):
the area. Now, a great business idea would be by, uh,
you know, purchase some land around BUCkies and just have
strictly truck parking. I think that would be great, you know,
charge like ten bucks a truck or something. And I
can make a lot of money doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
If they could make a lot of money doing it,
they would. I'm serious. Everybody has a great business. I
did till you try to you try to do it. Yeah,
you're absolutely right. Though, I asked Beaver Appling years ago,
I said, Beaver, I never noticed until recently that there's
(02:15):
never an eighteen wheeler at a Buckie's. And I saw
a sign the other day and it was a sign.
It was like a It kind of reminded me of
what people put on their front lawn, you know, as
a dog that's just really getting done on it and grinding,
just just dropping and do it. And it's a very
(02:35):
graphic photo. You know, basically, don't let your dog poop
in my yard, right, which is sort of funny because
you figure, I mean, look, you don't want to step
in dog poop. But I don't think that's why people
don't want it. I think people don't want it because
they don't want to look out and see the dog poop.
(02:55):
But you really don't notice dog poop nearly as much
as you do. The sign, right, The sign is rather clear.
I can't imagine this is your castle, and people are
you know you're your daughter has a boyfriend who's coming
(03:17):
to pick her up for prom or homecoming, and you
have required did he come to the front door to
meet you? And he comes rolling up, pimple face, nervous
sweating because look, we've all been a little boy and
we all know what's on his mind. But he's going
to tell you whatever he needs to tell you. Yes, absolutely, yeah,
he's like the the inmate going before the parole board.
(03:38):
I have found the Lord who God's my every moment.
I have no interest in getting back into running prostitution
and sampling the goods, doing the drugs that I enjoyed
so very much, running the roads with my homies. None
of that will be mine. What I would like to
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do is a job as a fork lift operator in
a warehouse, driving around, listening to beep beep beep all
day long and being yelled at that I'm not working
hard enough and not even having a chance for a
smoke break. That's that's my mission in life. I do
not want to go back to what I used to
(04:20):
call the good old days. I do not well, we
all know if that teenage boy is going to say
whatever he needs to to to the dad he's going
to see. But he's first got to drive. It's first
got to walk past the sign that has a dog
in flagrante delicto. Have you ever seen those signs? I
mean they are it's not I mean, couldn't the dog
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look a little cute and we'd get you still get
the point, right. I mean put a little you know,
Schnauzer or kind of a Chihuahua, cute, little little fufu dog,
discreet and maybe he'd have a leash around his next
to you know, it was a dog being walked, and
then you would just be a dog, and you'd put
(05:05):
up a little you know, maybe a line across it.
It doesn't people go to so much trouble to dress
up the front of their home.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It used to be a realtor in town that would
you knew her listings would all have a red door.
She required her her clients. I think she had the person.
She might have paid for it herself. I can't remember.
It wasn't Jane jim Olv, but it was. It was
somebody like that that was a big name realtor in town,
like a legend in town might have been Jane Jim
(05:37):
I don't remember, but she would have a high gloss
red put on. The front door is very distinctive and
you would always chuckle when you pulled up. It's like, oh,
that's a Jane gm Oll house. It's got that bright
red door and you couldn't help but notice how nice
it looked. You know, people will have their windows replaced.
They'll only do the front. If they can't afford all
of them. They'll have it repainted to have the They'll
(05:59):
they'll put nice perennials. Which one is it seasonals? Go,
you're the point guy. Why are you wearing gloves? You
are so weird? You're cold? Okay, well they make it
not cold anyway, so they'll make you know, they do
all these things to make their their front. They'll have
the people come out so if they're if their address
is you know, fifty two oh four, they'll have them,
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you know, do it with the Texas flag or they'll
have them, you know, pay one hundred bucks for that.
And they do all the pressure washed front. And yet
they put a dog taking a dump out in the
middle of the whole thing. It was crazy anyway, So
that's what that sign looked like, I said, Beaver, why
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why don't you want eighteen wheelers? You know, because we
all think we know how to run somebody's business better
than them. Nobody realizes this, but we're all running around
and I'm the worst about it. We're all running around
announcing how businesses could run their business better. I said, well,
why would you turn away all that business? And he said, well,
he didn't say these words, but this is what I translate.
(07:02):
You got to know who you are and who you're not.
And sometimes this is what makes a country club, this
is what makes Studio fifty six. You have to know
what you are, but you have to know what you're not.
And if you're pursuing every dollar that comes in the door,
(07:23):
you're going to be running them out the back door
as fast as they're coming in. Because everybody doesn't like everything.
Some people like a place it's quiet. Some people like
a place it's not crowded and they'll pay a premium
for it. Some people like a place that's not loud.
Some people like a place didn't have young people in it.
So anyway, Biab said, it's not worth it at the
(07:47):
family one of the things. And I never noticed that
was one of the things that BUCkies did, the clean bathrooms. Yes,
BUCkies became a gas to do nation. It became a
clean respite on the road. I couldn't believe that bastrip
BUCkies yesterday. And everybody's like, it's always that busy, Okay, Well,
(08:07):
I've never been into BUCkies before. I had no idea.
I've been in a hundred BUCkies or in a BUCkies
one hundred times in my life. I've never seen it
that busy. But it was crazy. And the reason is
they've created a concept and they've said no eighteen wheelers.
So you turned down that money to super serve this
community over here, and that is something most businesses never
(08:28):
learned to do. You want, it's just as important who
you turn away as who you attract. Well, I was
gonna save this till a seegain, but let's talk about
it now. So a number of people are extraordinarily frustrated
with the Paxton campaign, and let me let me start
(08:50):
by saying, I have never supported a campaign ever that
I did not figuratively and in most cases literally cuss
out the candidate at least one good time before the election.
That is who I am. I don't mean to say
(09:16):
I'm Bill Belichick or Nick Saban, but I believe you
got to get up somebody's ass to get them to
do what you want them to do. That, for whatever reason,
they're scared, worried, incapable of doing so, rest assured without
(09:37):
naming names every candidate you've ever heard me talk about.
If I've said their name five times and you're having
a drink with them and you said, you know, I
get the impression that when he's off the air, Michael
Berry can be a complete and I mean stage five
(10:04):
hazardous material ass. And they go, well, I'll tell you
some but don't repeat it. They will tell you I
don't view elections as a game. It's not a fun thing.
I actually hate it. I hate it because I hate
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the opponent and I don't like their supporters. But nothing
makes me matter. Then people who will vote against their
own interests because invariably, one without a doubt, it never fails.
They will come back later and tell me they regret it.
(10:51):
It's like raising teenagers don't touch that it's hot? Why'd
you touch that? I told you it was hot, That's
why you touched it, right, That's what teenagers do. That's
what I did. That's what you did. Don't hang out
with so and so. You'll get you were hanging out
with it. Ah man, don't drive over this bit you do,
(11:15):
oh man, when you tell somebody this is what's gonna happen,
and they go, But I like Rayvos, butterflies and compromise,
that's what gets us a lung. And then they've elected
Barack Obama. Well, once the guy's elected, you don't get
(11:36):
another chance to knock him down a peg. Now he
takes on a whole new fundraising system, the power of incombacy.
If tall Ico gets in there at thirty seven, unless
he runs for president or dies or something crazy happens,
he'll be there for life. The power of incumbency is
(11:57):
almost impossible to ever over. So you're putting Taller Rico
in there for at least forty years. In Texas, you've
only got a shot at Senate seats. In so many states.
We've managed to squander Arizona, a Republican state, Barry Goldwater state,
(12:19):
we've managed we have two Democrats in there. Now we've
managed to squander Georgia. Even Sam Nunn would be conservative
in today's Republican party, even though he's a Democrat, that
was a Southern Democrat that would today be a Republican.
We at one point squandered a seat in Alabama. Cassidy
(12:41):
lost his primary, so we've got because he was terrible.
So now we've got a Paxton type situation where we've
got a real challenge on our hands. The only good
news is in Michigan, a solidly Democrat seat. I saw
an internal poll that was eighty five to fifteen. There's
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no way that's true. There's no way that's true. It
was eighty five to fifteen Democrat versus Rogers. If Haley
Stevenson went There's no way that's true. The person who
sent me that, I think doesn't verify their sources, so
I strike that from the record. I don't even say,
but suffice it to say Michigan was solidly Democrat. Trump
can win Michigan. We didn't have a candidate who could
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win the Senate seat. And that gets into the Trump coalition.
Trump manages to get people to the polls to vote
for him that no other Republican alive has been able
to do that, not Ted Cruz, no other alive Reagan
managed to do it, and that is working class, socially conservative,
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socially conservative to moderate parents who typically would pull the
blue level lever but would vote for Trump. That was
the Trump phenomenon. Hillary didn't see it. Almost twenty candidates
in the Republican primary didn't see it. Hillary didn't see it.
Biden saw it. That's what they had to cheat. Kamala
(14:13):
was overwhelmed by He has an appeal Now. I think
Trump's approval is down right now. I know there's the
fire breathers out there and you're gonna have to hear
from you, which is fine. Hey, get it off, get
it off. The block button takes one second. I don't
think Trump's coattails are going to be in November, at
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least right now, what we need them to be, So
we're not going to have that in our favor. I
will argue till I'm blue in the face. Here's how
this argument goes. I say Iran is hurting us in November,
we need to get out of Iran, and the emails
(14:55):
go like this, I know we'll get out of brun
nineteen seventy nine. They took her hostage. Just Michael, okay,
is that? What are we fighting for? The hostages in
seventy nine? Is that what we're doing right now? They
took our heartes. I ain't like them since woo, but
blow them to smotherings? Are we gonna blow them smithereens?
Is that what we're gonna do? Because the President says
(15:15):
we're gonna blow the smithereens, You say we're gonna Why
don't we blow the smithereens? I keep hearing this?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
What are we blowing them to? Smithereens? No, we're not dirty,
little secret. We've lost twenty men and women over there.
You don't think the Democrats know that. Wait till the
first week of October. The only thing you're gonna hear
about is inflation and Iran. Get out. Now, we gotta
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whoop them, Michael, We're gonna whoop them and whoop them. No,
you're not. It's so much more complicated than that. This
is not a bumper sticker. You got that. You've got inflation,
and now if the Fed raises rates, we've got our
work to do. But it's our job. It's not Paston's job.
It's our job to win this. With the goodness of
real jello puddies. Let me try to explain what my
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point is, because talk radio is not always conducive to
a conversation with multiple layers. And I'm as guilty as
the next guy. If I'm listening to a podcast, say
Thomas Soul, which I do a lot of, I have
to keep rewinding because his arguments well, very direct and succinct,
(16:36):
can be layered and I have to go back to
what he was saying, or Milton Friedman even more so.
And you don't get that benefit with what I'm saying.
And I'm not sure what I'm saying is it's so
high level. Anyway, My intention is to say that it
is not Ken Paxton's race to win or loose. Let
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me be direct. Let me be as direct as I
can be, as much as this will not sit well
with some people, this race is not Ken Paxton's race.
If Ken Paxton loses this race, he will go off
and practice law, and he'll be fine. He'll do whatever
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he does. He'll still go have lunch or dinner, he'll
still go to church, he'll still see his kids. He's
very close with him, and he'll show up to an
office and he'll talk about the old days with his
buddies and and that'll be fine, and I'll reach out, Hey,
how you doing. But he will go on and and
(17:40):
and as as people do. Uh. Dan Crenshaw will move on.
John Cornying will move on. Uh Uh what's the guys
that ran for a g ramon? Uh? Ted Cruz's buddy, goys, dog,
My memory is not good today. Uh I get him anyway,
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bald headed. We got into it with him anyway. These
candidates move on, and they always will because you have
no alternative, Ken Paxton, if he loses his race, we'll
move on. You and I and our children and his
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children will be left to pick up the pieces of
what happens in this country that is hanging by a
delicate threat. If the Democrats get controlled again, this will
be a form of Democrats that we have never seen before.
They are going for the juggular. If you thought they
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were bad, unprovoked, they've been provoked. Now. The good news
is Trump stuck up their ass. The bad news is
they're coming with a vengeance. Now you should be scared.
But in my years of political observation and participation, one
thing I have learned about our side, we get very,
(19:06):
very sloppy and complacent when we win this is how
we ended up with Obama. Every red flag was there
on Obama. Rush Limbaugh was frustrated. You go back and
listen to those shows. I was listening to Rush last night.
You go back and listen those shows in two thousand
and eight, and he says, I don't like John McCain.
I've never liked John McCain, but I dislike John McCain,
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oh lot less. And I dislike Barack Obama. And nobody listened.
Chip Roy that was his name. Yeah, and Chip will
be back. He'll be back in another position. He's very ambitious,
he's hard working, he's smart. My problem with Chip was
he said some really nasty anti Magat things, and frankly,
(19:53):
I think he learned from it. Not everybody who gets
vanquished Corn is not. Everybody who's been defeated this this
season has learned from that the way you should learn.
I ran for mayor in two thousand and three. I
learned a lot from that failure. It was the first
real failure I'd ever had in my life. I got
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the girl I wanted, I got into every school I
wanted to get into. I got the career I wanted,
and then another career, and then another career. I had
never failed. I didn't think I could fail. It was
important to who I am today that I fail and
fail so fabulously, so famously, so that it be all
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over the news that I had been defeated. I mean,
I didn't actually lose. Let's be clear. I pulled out
of the race, but I wasn't gonna win, and that
we were out of cash. So back to the point.
If Paxton loses this race, you lose. So once you
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understand that. See, politics in this country has become a
way to get famous and as a result of that
fame and celebrity and power to get rich. So let
me let me look at it another one. We think
of CJ. Stroud as the quarterback of the Texans, and
(21:17):
you want him to do well. But if he doesn't
do well, it's not really gonna affect your life, right,
I mean, the team's not any good. Your tickets, nobody
wants your tickets anymore. Nobody's hyped up about the season.
If CJ doesn't have a good season, if CJ turns
out not be any good. When Deshaun Watson flamed out,
by the way, he's back with Cleveland. Now you know
(21:38):
that it's very likely he's gonna beat out Shador. It's
very likely that Deshaun Watson is going to be back
starting an NFL team. It's the Browns, mind you. But
the point is your life didn't change when Deshaun absolutely
flamed up. They just went you know, you had you
had a bad season, and your tickets aren't good. You
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weren't excited about going to the game. You don't talk
about the game, you listen to sports radio, you didn't
care about who we drafted, blah blah blah blah. But
it didn't change your life. If Paxton loses, this ain't
about Paxton. That's what I keep telling people. Well, I
get all these people who all they want to do.
I don't want to talk politics when I'm off the air,
(22:19):
but all they want to do is talk politics, and
it goes like this, wo what are we gonna do
about the Democrats doing this and Democrats doing that? And
what are they saying? Now? Hey, Michael, I don't know
about Paxton. Please never speak to me again. That little
hole in your mouth, close it and never speak again,
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because you've got really, really, really stupid things going on
in your head. But I don't know it if all
you do is blink, but when you speak, you remind
me that you've learned nothing. This race is not about
Ken Paxton. I'm going to say that until election day.
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I've told him that get out of the way, don't
be a distraction, and let us beat Tallafrico. That's it,
and that's all. Well, But Michael, he went through a divorce,
and what do you think Talla Rico has been doing.
He's a thirty seven year old single man who's never
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been seen with a woman. And now you know how
bad the truth is for Tallafrico. Did you see what
they did in order to manufacture a girlfriend, the love
of his life. They brought out his chief of staff,
his most loyal political supporter, I'm his girlfriend, and in fact,
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in order to make it believable, they made it a
violation of every nepotism policy. He's banging the help and
you go, that's terrible. He's banging the help and they go, yeah,
but it's a whole lot better than the reality. So
we're going with that one because it's believable. He ain't
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banging any well, he ain't banging the help, not this help.
You don't care about Tallafrico's background. You care about Ken
Paxton because you want the perfect candidate. This ain't about
the perfect candidate. This is about who you can send
to Washington, d C. To do the least damage. And
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that's Ken Paxton period. In the story. I'm not trying
to make him out to be God. I'm not trying
to make him out to be Donald Trump. I just
want to beat Tallafrico to Michael Berry Show, simple man,
t well, a bit of Houston news. We're not a
news program. I don't break news. You know the drill
on that. But a fellow named John Frels, I don't
(24:55):
believe I know him. Some people will ask me why
I offer and say I don't believe or I don't
think I know someone. And the reason is is some
of the things I say come off as immodest. They're
not immodest. I'm not the most modest person, but I
am self aware enough to know how this sounds. But
(25:16):
it doesn't make it any less true. I know a
lot of people, and a lot of people know me.
If I say, let's take this case John Frele's. John
Freles has posted something to the internet. I don't think
I know him. That's my way of saying, it's not
my buddy who posted this. So I don't know if
it's credible. I don't know if it's real. I'm just
(25:37):
letting you know this is a person I don't know.
But I'm still saying the name, because why would you
say the name of someone you don't know if they're
not famous, Because people like to hear their name said,
and then everybody who knows John Freles will call them,
go hey, Michael Brey's talking about you. Who would he say?
I don't remember he Wanders and me Andrews, although I
never get his point anyway, but he was talking about you.
I heard that. So when I say I don't think
I know him, it is because I Matt know him. Matt.
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I didn't mean to say it that way, kime On.
It was a cross between May and Mike. I Matt
know him, so Mate know him. So I don't want
John or whoever else I say this about to have
told everybody around me bad Michael Berry, he's my buddy,
and then they go he said he didn't know you, Well,
I might know him if I saw his face. I've
interacted with a lot of people in the a lot
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of different walks of life, and they might be out
of context and they may go, hey, remember it's me,
and then it is so anyway, that's why I do that. Anyway,
John Freils, I don't think I know posted the following yesterday,
legendary Houston restaurant tour Manfred Yachman has passed away. I
don't know if I've pronounced his name correctly, but I
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called Johnny Kiraba, who never takes my call. But then
again he's getting ready for lunch. He'll call back about
three days later. And you know why he does that.
I think he does that because if there's some heat, right,
then he figures whatever it is, it'll pass. I do
that too, right, Hey, Johnny, and I need you do
me this favor. But if three days later, about three
days later, you've already fixed it, right, So Johnny doesn't
take my call until a few days later. And then
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the second one is I called Russell, and I never
called Russell, so he knew it was important. I said, hey,
I need you to find out how to pronounce this
guy's name, and so he started doing some researching and
then I called him back during the last break and
I said what's this? How do you pronounce his name?
And he said you should ask Brian Caswell, So I
called Caswell. I thought, oh, Caswell and him are close.
I said hey to Russell Cally you mm mm, why
(27:29):
did he tell me to call you? Oh? No, oh, well,
how do you pronounce this guy's name? And he said,
I've always said it as Manfred yach Mick. So that's
how I'm going to say. He was deeply involved in
the Houston restaurant industry for many years. Born in Kablen's, Germany,
Manfred worked as a pastry chef in both Germany and
Switzerland before immigrating to Houston in sixty three. He earned
a degree in economics and management from Houston Baptist University,
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which I think is now called Houston Christian University. In
nineteen seventy two, yach mcopened the original Ruggles Grill on
West Timer near Montrose and managed it during its peak
years before were selling it. I think he sold it
to Bruce Moles Moselyn Moselyn moles Lynd Mules Moselin Moselyn
who owned Ruggles and has had several different He has
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Ruggles Black, I think now with an Indian woman, I
forget her name, real pretty woman. And I don't know
if he's still involved in that or not, but it's
like right off of I think Kirby Ruggles at one point.
This was before I drank. Didn't drink till I was
twenty nine, so I started in seventies, so ninety nine.
I think probably mid nineties. Before I was on the scene,
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Ruggles was crushing. I mean they were the hot spot
when the hot spots were still inside the loop, or
maybe the hotspots are still there. I'm just old now,
but back then, when I was coming up, that was
the hot spot. I think he sold it to Bruce
before I really knew what it was. It was also
a great place to get your car trashed. You know,
Sylvia Jones valets there one time and they tore her
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car up. I knew so many people that the Valets
tore their car up there. At one point, there were
several yachtmic concepts throughout the sea, including Redwood Grill, River
Oaks Grill, and Cafe Mustache or Mustache, although most of
these are now long gone. Nevertheless, his impact on the
culinary scene is undeniable. Another original Yak Mick concept Post
Oak Grill was once a popular gathering place that many
finally remember. In addition to his culinary achievements, Mentor was
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also accomplished tennis player and a friend of many. So
Brian Caswell said Post Oak Grill was, in its day
the hot spot. I knew Polo, who I guess took
over after him. I don't know the history behind that,
so I'm not trying to offer it and I'll probably
get it wrong, but Polo work pretty hard. I don't
know if Postouk Grill is still still around, but Polo
was a partner with our radio company. I never I
(29:40):
did speak for it. I did speak for it a
little bit for a little while, maybe a year. But
he was a good marketer. I think he did a
weekend show on I Forget, though that's twenty years ago anyway.
So for those of you who knew, for those of
you who loved the old Houston stories, that's one for you.
And thanks to Brian Caswell, whose son were Y Sun
worked for Caswell for a number of years. All right
(30:02):
back to the point, I'm speaking very plainly and very
blunt here because I don't want to be misunderstood. I
don't do this often, all right, I'm laying it out there. Yes,
I am worried. I am not worried because this is
a question of is is Tallarico a genius or is
(30:28):
I'm not trying to do anything other than hold the Senate.
So I had someone yesterday say to me, well, Beto
never led Ted Cruz in twenty eighteen. I don't want
to overstate my importance here, but at periods of time,
especially twenty eighteen, I was talking to Ted Cruz every day.
(30:52):
I went back and looked this was September nineteenth. In
today's August tenth, September nineteenth headline, Texas, Beto O'Rourke leads
Ted Cruz by two among likely voters in US Senate race.
New poll finds O'Rourke has been closing the gap over
the last several months, but this is the first poll
(31:13):
that puts him ahead of Cruise. That language is language
that is used for insiders. There are a lot of
people who will give money to whoever they think is
going to win. There are a lot of people who won't
give money to a candidate they think is going to lose.
And money becomes very important around September nineteenth because you've
got to make that final buy, that final push. So
(31:35):
this is the media trying to say the money guys, Hey,
stay out, he's going to lose. Hey give to Beto,
He's going to win. You are showing what in political
analysis is the buzzword, the most important thing. Who's got
the juice, who's got the big mo, who has momentum?
(31:56):
If Beto had been trailing, but closing the gap, closing
the gap, closing the gap, you never want to know
what's happening in a static moment. You want to know
what the trend is showing. The trend here was showing
Beto is rising and Cruise is falling. Beto's about to win.
He didn't win. It was disturbingly close. I think it
(32:17):
was fifty one forty eight, uh with obviously not everybody
votes for either one of them, but that was a
dreadfully close race, and Beto was ten times better than
talla Rico. Beto scares me. If Beto had run this time,
Beto would have won. Talafrico is not going to win
(32:39):
if we do our jobs. But here's the park that
upsets me. Everybody thinks it's Ken Paxton's shop. You know
you don't. You don't say to CJ. Stroud, hey I'm
gonna call the plays and I'll go. You just you
support them, you cheer for them. Campaigns are grassroots. You
are the camp pain. Paxton's gonna spend money. There's a
(33:03):
new ad that just ran that's based on a flip
of the sixty four ad they ran against Goldwater. Paxton's
gonna do his job. Don't worry, you do yours. That's
what I'm more worried about.
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