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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Veri Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Michael quinn Sullivan is the publisher Texas scorecard dot Com,
but he does not sit in his ivory tower. He
goes into the halls of the legislature, He goes into meetings.
He reports on things from a first person perspective. He
was on the ground at the protests of the terrorists
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last week and was filming and reporting as he did so. Michael,
how was that terrorist activity different than you expected it
to be going in?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well, it was different than certainly what we'd seen in
other parts of the country where the where the weak
police presence, driven by the politicians dictates, meant that people
were doing very untoward things. You certainly saw in Austin,
in Houston, in Dallas, you saw individuals who showed up
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hoping that they could replicate the vibe of la hoping
they could cause mayhem. But yet between the local law enforcement,
Texas Department Public Safety, and the National Guard, those folks
quickly got the message that that simply wasn't going to
be tolerated in the lone star state I was in.
I was in Austin for those protests, and I just
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have to say I never thought I would sing the
praises of the Austin Police Department the way I found
myself talking to my doing my colleagues on the ground
and then with friends later. Just the professionalism displayed by
the men and women at Austin p D and the
Texas Department of Public Safety was like nothing I've ever
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seen before. One making it very clear they weren't one
folk nonsense, but also not taking the jibs.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They're just you know, men and women doing their job,
and it was.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Very refreshing to see, you know, where you know, we
all developed kind of a cartoon image of our head
of how people are supposed to be right, and sometimes
we have willing to accept reality into realityism. Texas, we
have a lot of really wonderful men and women who
just put on a uniform every day and say, you
know what, I want to make my community peaceful today,
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and that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And I got to see that in real time. It
was nice to see it was and.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I agree you were in the thick of it, but
I've watched it from a distance. My brother was a
cop for over thirty years, and you know, some of
those guys, they want the sheep dogs right. A lot
of them serve in the military. They come home, they
continue to serve. A lot of them want to get
in between the bad guys.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And the week.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
A lot of them believe in the rule of law,
and some of them it's a job and they could
get hired and there's nothing wrong with that either. And
they want to go home to their families. And it's
very frustrating to me how bad this whole nonsense. You know,
you can get away with horrible crimes as long as
you call yourself a protester. I don't buy that nonsense.
Michael Quincelvan. I'm going to make a statement. I'm going
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to ask you to react to it as to whether
you think that's true, and then what you think about
it if it is. And this statement goes like this,
Greg Abbott has always wanted to be president.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I knew Greg Abbott when he was in Houston.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
He's always desperately done everything he possibly can to be president. He's,
you know, one of these guys. It's a stepping stone
guy all the way up. Everything he ever does is
for that next office, and the end goals to be
president and he had hoped to be president by now,
but of course that didn't happen. He wants to be president.
He wants to run in twenty twenty eight, and everything
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he's done this legislative session has been to set him
up with the wins he thinks he needs to get there.
In order to do that, he decided that school vouchers
would be something that he could sell to the nation
as I'm a guy that got this done. I care
about kids. In order to do that, he had to
declare war on some of drunk dates lieutenants who were
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working against him. He had to devote all the political
capital he had to get it done. I don't like
the effort that came out of it because it's not
what I wanted to see, but it is a win
for him on paper, and that's how he'll perceive it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's how he'll sell it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
However, I've been told that a meeting was held by
Burrows with the Republican Caucus that said, if we vote
for this, if we pass it, Abbott has the commitment
of Trump, and maybe Trump was on a phone call
that he will endorse every single state rep next year
for re election for voting for this no matter what
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else you do this session, and that gave them carte
blanche to act like fools, to never get property taxes done,
to do all the other things they did, and it
was all sold out for a Trump endorsement in their
re election for candidates that Trump never would have endorsed otherwise.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Is all of that true?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I think there are certainly bits and pieces of that
that are that are very accurate.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well that's better than my usual, so I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, you've just made that up, now, you know. And
I think that's I think. I think, I think your
end analysis is the most important thing, which is you
had a lot of folks think that that by delivering
on on Governor Abbott school choice can whatever you think
of it. You know, for thirty years Republicans have promised
school choice. They finally have something that school choice right now.
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What you know, whether they like the details of they
did deliver on that. The fact of the matter, though,
is that it presumes that the electorate are a bunch
of lemmings.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Who, oh, we've got school choice.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I don't worry about anything else, So Donald Trump endorse
I don't worry about anything else. And I think that there
is some more nuance. I think that Texans are you know,
do have other issues, they care about them, just school choice.
At the end of the day, the school choice program
is going to affect one hundred thousand families, right at
most one hundred thousand families, which means the three to
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four million kids are in public schools might see a
little bit out of it, not much, right, You've got
to do something to affect those folks as well. So
I think that the false promise which reportedly was made,
the promise that if you hope for this, Donald Trump
will endorse you, a lot of led chars took that
as kind of carte blanche. What Donald Trump has made
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clear over the years is until he posts something on
truth Social, there ain't no endorsement. And you've seen a
couple of these members already pushing out this claim that
they have an endorsement, but there's nothing on truth Social.
And if they're not careful, if they run too far
with that, they're going to get something worse than not
an endorsement. They're going to get a slap down on
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truth Social, which is something no Republican incumbent state rep wants.
If they've got a primary challenge. But the bigger problem,
though there's not that specific political problem, but the problem
of they thought by delivering that they don't have to
deliver on these other priorities of the Republican Party, these
other priorities of grassroots activists, these other priorities of their
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precinct chairs. The most notable, which is in the same
way for thirty years, they've been talking about school choice
for thirty years. Michael, We've had Republicans talk about reducing
and even eliminating all or most of our property tax burden,
and yet once again we didn't get that done this
legislative session. And there's many Texans that that represents a
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gut punch to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And I'll tell you, Galveston is seeing a buyer's market
they're calling it, which is a nice way of saying,
a devaluation of properties and property values. And the market
is going to reflect that. And I think that is
in large part because of Galveston's high taxes. And if
that doesn't change, Republicans are eventually going to have to
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pay the cost of that. Michael Quinn Sullivan, You're fantastic.
Keep up the great work.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The Michael varies show continues to use to use.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I think Ramon is selling X tabs on the sign
on the side. Who are you playing?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Ed M?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now what's going on with you? Is something going on
in your personal life? I'm reading between the lines here.
This is a very odd choice. Uh So.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I want to make sure everybody understands something. So forgive
me in very very simple terms if you already know this.
Insiders have a tendency to think that everybody understands exactly
what's going on. If you really want a reality check,
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ask a random person at your office who doesn't watch
Fox News all day, doesn't listen to radio all day,
doesn't follow politics on Twitter all day. You know somebody
that's more interested in primetime TV or sports, or crochet
or travel or old cars, And ask that person a
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couple of basic questions, not in a judgment a way,
and you'll be shocked how many people didn't know that
Joe Biden was severely demented and fell over all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They had no idea.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And when you tell them things like that, they may
think you're cuckoo because it can't possibly be true. That's
the greatest defense for the absurdism that is American politics,
is that a lot of people can't believe that could
really possibly be true.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The deep State can't really be spying on us. There's
no way.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
There's no way they knew that the COVID shot was
more likely to kill you than COVID itself was.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
There's a way they wouldn't do that, right.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There is the naive neighbor belief that you know, things
are pretty good, y'all are getting y'all get crazy, right, y'all,
So we have to be careful that we take our
time and keep everybody up to speed and explain the
game to them.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Here's how this works.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
HEMP related products, THCHC related products were growing, have been
growing over the last few years to be very very popular.
I have people who have told me about him drinks
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they that they drink. And let's talk about why anybody
does a drug at all. From a cigarette to a
cup of coffee to a beer, whiskey, wine.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All of these are drugs, all of them.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We operate under this false belief, which is both naive
and silly, that things that are legal are good and
things that are illegal or bad. That's the dumbest thing ever,
that is saying that Shila Jackson Lee should make decisions
for you. Because legislators are made up of a bunch
of Shila Jackson Leees and Sylvester Turners. That's just a fact.
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Whatever they do should not be what's in your best
interest any more than you would take their advice on
how to parent or your life part.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You just wouldn't because they're dumb dumbs.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So let's leave out what's legal and not legal as
some sort of childlike idea that that will determine what's
good and what's bad because a group of legislators thought. So.
Just think about some of the other dumb, dumb things
they do, all right, So now let's talk about things
based on science, in fact and experience perspective. People do
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drugs to give them more energy or more focus. I
think the big advancement in the next few years is
going to be a mainstream, relatively cheap, very effective focus drug.
Folks have been pecking around the edge of this for
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a long time. I think someone's going to get it right,
and I think it's going to be I think it's
going to be like what was the boner drug by
viagra to be the next viagra. I think it's going
to be the next blood pressure medication. I think that's
going to be the thing A focus factor type product
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is going. It's already a massive industry, and it's going
to be more. I got news for you. When you
wake up in the morning and you say, don't talk
to me, it's all I've had my cup of coffee,
that is not an endorsement of the flavor of coffee.
Coffee is a delivery mechanism for caffeine. You are addicted,
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whether physically or emotionally psychologically, to coffee.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Most of us are.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I certainly am a've cats at Cat's Coffee. When we
started delivered free coffee, Yeah, he asked us at one point, are.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You giving it away?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Why do you ask, Because y'all drink a lot of
coffee for you. Ramon and Chad in fairness, Chad doesn't
drink any coffee.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's just being the monk. We are.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
From early in the morning until late in the afternoon,
we're hitting the coffee. My cutoff is four o'clock. I
don't know that Ramon ever cuts off. But let's not
get his involvement in THHC and all of this. So
we do these things to alter moods. We do this
to self medicate, and self medication is not necessarily a
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horrible thing. We don't have a problem with self medication
of coffee. It is the most used drug in America
today and it's not even close. It's not even close. Oh,
but it's okay because it's been made legal. Okay, I
guess you now let Sheila Jackson Leane make decisions for you.
You now let Anthony Fauci make decisions for you, So
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I don't have a problem if you want to do coffee.
I believe in freedom, and freedom means a freedom to
make decisions that I might not necessarily make.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And that means if you want to gamble.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
If you want to go take out a loan on
your watch forty percent interest, nobody's making you do those things.
If you want to work over time and not get
time and a half, if you want to work a
job for a lower wage, then you'd ideally like all
of those are decisions for you, an adult, to make
for himself. Milton Friedman wrote a wonderful He and his
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wife Rose wrote a wonderful book called Free to Choose.
It's a ten chapter to mirror the ten episodes that
aired in nineteen seventy nine on PBS, and you can
get it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It's an audiobook.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's called Free to Choose by Milton Friedman, and it
is as good a discussion on American capitalism and how
capitalism and democratic or representative republican government, how that how
those two work together. You can't be free without the
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freedom to choose. And there are extreme freedom They are
extreme restrictions on our freedom to choose. You can't choose
who cuts your hair. You can only choose someone who
the state has blessed by giving them a license.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Wine. You can't choose who braids your hair. You can't win.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
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and had too many babies. Honey, who is my baby daddy? Girl?
I'd be a MEI And if I could ever figure
out where I got.
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Speaker 4 (16:44):
Lemon gel Who is my baby daddy? Don't even two
of these children even look alike? Hello?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
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Gangster Q and Daffidal Ron Bacardy, Captain Mark and de
Moctorius and Delori and Gunna Lochum and Felicia Pleamdia Champagne.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Who named these children? And how many of them?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Why they always want to come live with me? Anyway?
Ask them who their daddy is?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Look over he under they go Nova Scotia, Bubba, Licia's
cue Panie to Goneria ice bucket, but tuglar of Bizine
and Marguerita Percolator, Terminator, Belcrow and Taekwondo.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There are Teller chromosome Steacher and Sha Thiev. That's an
ignorant one right there, Shati?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Who is these baby dads?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I wish I knew?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I'd show sue him for some child sup for it.
Honey Shoes.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Warren Buffett is ninety three years old. He did an
interview recently about his longevity. Hack Honey lived be ninety
three years ol, and it turns out that he consumes
an estimated two hundred and fifty two grams of sugar
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per day, that is seven times what is recommended by
established medical orthodoxy. He consumes seven hundred calories per day
from Coca cola alone.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
He has five cokes, not diet coke, regular cokes.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
He eats zero vegetables, says he doesn't like them. He's
ninety three years old and his net worth is one
hundred and twenty billion dollars. He was asked his secret
as to how he lived so long, and he said,
I get eight hours of sleep, no exceptions, no early meetings,
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no late dinners.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He beats diet.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
He reads five hundred pages a day. He works twelve
hour days. His blood work, doctors say is perfect. At
ninety three, he appears to be as sharp as ever.
He has announced he's retiring from Berkshire Hathaway. His energy
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level is sustained and consistent. He says he drinks far
more coke than water, and he says that his secret,
in addition to sleep, is that you have to love
your work, and he does. You should get plenty of
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quality sleep, reduce your stress, reduce the things in your
life that stress you out and that's often people, and
find daily joy. He says his greatest investment was in
nineteen seventy two he bought C's candies. See apostrophe s
(20:12):
You've seen him, not for the profits for unlimited free chocolates.
He says, quote, I'm basically one quarter coca cola. Seven
hundred of my daily calories come from coca cola alone.
He eats breakfast at McDonald's every morning, seven days a week,
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and has done so for over fifty years. He says
he gets the when stock prices are down. If I
have his fund is down, he says, I get the
two dollars ninety five cent breakfast. When we're doing well financially,
I get the three dollars and seventeen cent one.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I splurge.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
For fifty four years, he estimates he's had nineteen seven
hundred and ten McDonald's breakfasts. He eats there without fail.
He eats the McDonald's breakfast. He's never dieted in his life.
He drinks five coca colas through the course of the day.
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He eats peanut brittle for lunch, and he enjoys ice
cream for dinner. Asked why he keeps this regimen, he said,
I checked the Actuary of tables. The lowest death rate
is among six year olds, so I eat like one.
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The reason I tell you that is because I saw
I saw a meme that showed a continuum, and it
was somebody's quote, I don't remember who it was.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It was a Robert F.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Kennedy kind of statement and said, you're not worth anything dead,
and you're not worth anything healthy. You are worth the
most in a continuous state of needing health care, if
you were to ask. And let's look at third world countries,
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and the ones I've studied the most for obvious reasons
are Ethiopia and India. But let's look at any third
world country where the vast majority of people, over ninety
percent live in abject poverty. If you were king and
you loved your people and you wanted them to be
as happy as possible, let's leave healthy aside from homent,
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because that's such a subjective. You wanted your people to
be contented. You want them to live without pain. You
wanted them to live a pain free life, disease free.
There are a few things you could do that cost
little or own money, and that is solid sleep for
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eight hours or more every single night without exception, at
a consistent bedtime. Plenty of water. Now that becomes difficult
in places because you have.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Malaria, you have various.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Water born illnesses, and clean water is a privilege of
the developed world, but every American could get plenty of sleep,
plenty of water, basic simple exercise. It turns out now
that most folks believe that jogging is not part of
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and in fact is often contrary to.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
A good health regimen.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Reducing your stress, and that usually means reducing stressful people,
eliminating stressful people out of your life. One of the
most interesting parts of Camp Hope six month program, Christian
based that you find and thank you for that at
the PTSD Foundation of America is taking away your phone
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and taking away your contact with the stressors, the triggers.
And I'm told by David Malsby the number one stressor
the number one trigger for a veteran who comes in
the door suicidal, addicted to all sorts of drugs and
ready to kill themselves, incapable of surviving, and they're going
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to build him up so that in six months he
has the tools to go back out in the world
and survive as a combat veteran. The number one trigger
is his girlfriend or wife, not because she's a bad person,
but because they've developed in their relationship certain patterns that
trigger him. And the second one is his mother for
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many of the some reasons. So they have to learn
to deal with their love language and how that stresses them.
All of those things we just described costs little or
no money, and if we really cared about public health,
that's what we'd do.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
This is the Michael Mary Show show.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
How great are the Beg's.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Well, at first you got their entire body work, and
then they go here, we're gonna write this song. It's
really our song, but we'll hand it to you. Samantha sang,
and you sing it. Oh you want us to sing
background on a song that Robin and I wrote.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Do you remember the first time you heard.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Barry Gibb talk and you realized, oh, he doesn't sound
he doesn't speak in falsetto all the time. Listen, real
men love the Beg's, and that's just a fact. Real
men love the Beg's. And I'm gonna tell you something else.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Real straight men love disco.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Now, if you say to me, oh, no, disco is
filling the blank, you are projecting and you're trying too hard.
We've all seen that dude who spent he spends all
his time pounding the Bible talking about the homos and
it turns out he's gay. Nobody likes that guy. Nobody
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likes that guy, and we all see it coming. We've
all Haggard, who was the pastor in Colorado. Every Sunday
he got up and told how awful the homos were.
He hated the homos. The homos were terrible. He'd hate
gay Dave.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
How can you not like gay Dave.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Jay Dave has emerged as one of Roma's favorite callers.
And I know that because if there's eight calls on
the line, he'll put gay Dave and he'll.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
It'll still say unknown on the others.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
He's trying very subtly, like Jeeves did with Bertie Wooster.
He's trying to get you drive my behavior over here.
Let's put gay Dave on, because I guess because gay
Dave gives him compliments or sends him beef jerky or
who tickets.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
To concerts or something. So here is the problem.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Disco displaced classic rock, and that pissed people off, and
rightfully so, because classic rock was was was was in
the middle of a good phase. And then disco takes
over and radio stations ruin everything, and the radio stations
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started flipping to playing disco, and so it was sort
of like, yeah, we don't we don't need any classic
rock anymore. So if you wanted to be relevant and
pay your bills as a classic rock artist, you had
to alter what you were doing and make disco songs.
That's what the Stones did. You can call it a
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sell out, you can do what you want, but at
the end of the day, nobody calls you sell out
for showing up when they tell you to show up
and being back at the time they tell you to
be back and doing the tasks that they give you
to do. Those guys have to pay their bills too,
and the purists just died off. The reason people hate
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disco is number one, it displaced classic rock, and classic
rock never recovered, not in the mainstream, not the way
it had. And number two, because disco's two greatest influences
were homos and blacks, and you could say homos and
blacks in nightclub music. But then, what killed disco or
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what replaced disco? What replaced disco was basically British led
disco repackaged. That's still disco. It's not as good as disco.
But I will tell you this for everybody that says
they don't like disco. You go to a wedding, and
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whether it's a DJ or a live cover band, you
watch a disco song being played and you see how
many people run out to the floor. And I'm talking
about people my age and above.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
People love it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
They love it way more than the eighties. The only
reason anybody likes eighties music is because that's when we
grew up.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
You like what is familiar.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
If you didn't grow up in the eighties, you don't
care for the eighties music because by and large, it's
not any good. Belinda Carlisle, that's not going to be
in the archives one hundred years from now. You're not
going to see Duran Duran eighty years from now. And
Ramon Earmustern you're not going to see depeche Mode a
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year from now. And I hate to hurt his feelings
and h Russell le Borisfield. You ain't go gonna see
you too in there. Youve Nope, you're not, You're not.
You know who you're gonna see. You're gonna see Freddie Mercury.
You're gonna see Mick Jagger, Yeah that was weird. You're
gonna see Paul McCartney. You're gonna see John Lennon and
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at the top have to go eat through each room. Okay,
you're gonna go through each room and you're go, oh, yeah,
I remember them, but yeah they when were they great? Papa, Oh,
they were.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Great in the in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're even gonna see the eagles in there. I'll give
you that. You're gonna see the eagles. And with each
room as it gets more and more exclusive, at the end,
it's gonna open to two rooms with a divider in
the middle, like when Aerosmith and Run DMC did that
and they shattered it and you realized it was really
part of all one big room of greatness. At the end,
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you're going to see Elvis.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And skinnerd oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And you're gonna have Elvis singing over the top of
a free Bird, and you're gonna have Sweet Home Alibi,
and it's just it's going to be glorious and all
will be as it should be. It will be the
reckoning of time, the ordering of all that is good. Yeah,
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your homework assignment And for many of you who drive,
I understand that you don't have time to sit still
and read. Maybe that never appealed to you. And that's
okay too. I listen to more audiobooks than I do
reading nowadays because my eyes are tired and I just
don't when I get home, I don't want to read
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as much as I used to. But I when I'm driving,
when i'm working out, when i'm you know, most anything,
whatever I'm doing, I can put my buds in and
listen to audiobooks. Go to audible and get free to
choose by Milton Friedman and listen to it, and you
(31:57):
will realize that forty six years ago he was stating
timeless truths that are just as accurate and just as
relevant today as.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
They ever were.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And then it will hit you. Wait a second, he's
stating very simple, elementary pedestrian truths.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Why am I not hearing this anywhere else?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Why are we not staying true to the grounding of
what made this nation great? When he talks about in
seventeen seventy six, Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations
That's your next read, laying out the virtue of capitalism,
and Thomas Jefferson laying out the virtue of self governance
not a king in the Declaration of Independence, It's not
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a coincidence that those two things happen in seventeen seventy six.
The things Jefferson was writing in seventeen seventy five, the
Great Document on the Virginian and his freedom, all of
these things are why we're getting to sit here doing
what we're doing right now
It's that time time time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Veri Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Michael quinn Sullivan is the publisher Texas scorecard dot Com,
but he does not sit in his ivory tower. He
goes into the halls of the legislature, He goes into meetings.
He reports on things from a first person perspective. He
was on the ground at the protests of the terrorists
(00:50):
last week and was filming and reporting as he did so. Michael,
how was that terrorist activity different than you expected it
to be going in?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well, it was different than certainly what we'd seen in
other parts of the country where the where the weak
police presence, driven by the politicians dictates, meant that people
were doing very untoward things. You certainly saw in Austin,
in Houston, in Dallas, you saw individuals who showed up
(01:27):
hoping that they could replicate the vibe of la hoping
they could cause mayhem. But yet between the local law enforcement,
Texas Department Public Safety, and the National Guard, those folks
quickly got the message that that simply wasn't going to
be tolerated in the lone star state I was in.
I was in Austin for those protests, and I just
(01:51):
have to say I never thought I would sing the
praises of the Austin Police Department the way I found
myself talking to my doing my colleagues on the ground
and then with friends later. Just the professionalism displayed by
the men and women at Austin p D and the
Texas Department of Public Safety was like nothing I've ever
(02:13):
seen before. One making it very clear they weren't one
folk nonsense, but also not taking the jibs.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They're just you know, men and women doing their job,
and it was.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Very refreshing to see, you know, where you know, we
all developed kind of a cartoon image of our head
of how people are supposed to be right, and sometimes
we have willing to accept reality into realityism. Texas, we
have a lot of really wonderful men and women who
just put on a uniform every day and say, you
know what, I want to make my community peaceful today,
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and that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And I got to see that in real time. It
was nice to see it was and.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I agree you were in the thick of it, but
I've watched it from a distance. My brother was a
cop for over thirty years, and you know, some of
those guys, they want the sheep dogs right. A lot
of them serve in the military. They come home, they
continue to serve. A lot of them want to get
in between the bad guys.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And the week.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
A lot of them believe in the rule of law,
and some of them it's a job and they could
get hired and there's nothing wrong with that either. And
they want to go home to their families. And it's
very frustrating to me how bad this whole nonsense. You know,
you can get away with horrible crimes as long as
you call yourself a protester. I don't buy that nonsense.
Michael Quincelvan. I'm going to make a statement. I'm going
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to ask you to react to it as to whether
you think that's true, and then what you think about
it if it is. And this statement goes like this,
Greg Abbott has always wanted to be president.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I knew Greg Abbott when he was in Houston.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
He's always desperately done everything he possibly can to be president. He's,
you know, one of these guys. It's a stepping stone
guy all the way up. Everything he ever does is
for that next office, and the end goals to be
president and he had hoped to be president by now,
but of course that didn't happen. He wants to be president.
He wants to run in twenty twenty eight, and everything
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he's done this legislative session has been to set him
up with the wins he thinks he needs to get there.
In order to do that, he decided that school vouchers
would be something that he could sell to the nation
as I'm a guy that got this done. I care
about kids. In order to do that, he had to
declare war on some of drunk dates lieutenants who were
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working against him. He had to devote all the political
capital he had to get it done. I don't like
the effort that came out of it because it's not
what I wanted to see, but it is a win
for him on paper, and that's how he'll perceive it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's how he'll sell it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
However, I've been told that a meeting was held by
Burrows with the Republican Caucus that said, if we vote
for this, if we pass it, Abbott has the commitment
of Trump, and maybe Trump was on a phone call
that he will endorse every single state rep next year
for re election for voting for this no matter what
(05:02):
else you do this session, and that gave them carte
blanche to act like fools, to never get property taxes done,
to do all the other things they did, and it
was all sold out for a Trump endorsement in their
re election for candidates that Trump never would have endorsed otherwise.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Is all of that true?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I think there are certainly bits and pieces of that
that are that are very accurate.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well that's better than my usual, so I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, you've just made that up, now, you know. And
I think that's I think. I think, I think your
end analysis is the most important thing, which is you
had a lot of folks think that that by delivering
on on Governor Abbott school choice can whatever you think
of it. You know, for thirty years Republicans have promised
school choice. They finally have something that school choice right now.
(05:53):
What you know, whether they like the details of they
did deliver on that. The fact of the matter, though,
is that it presumes that the electorate are a bunch
of lemmings.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Who, oh, we've got school choice.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I don't worry about anything else, So Donald Trump endorse
I don't worry about anything else. And I think that there
is some more nuance. I think that Texans are you know,
do have other issues, they care about them, just school choice.
At the end of the day, the school choice program
is going to affect one hundred thousand families, right at
most one hundred thousand families, which means the three to
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four million kids are in public schools might see a
little bit out of it, not much, right, You've got
to do something to affect those folks as well. So
I think that the false promise which reportedly was made,
the promise that if you hope for this, Donald Trump
will endorse you, a lot of led chars took that
as kind of carte blanche. What Donald Trump has made
(06:49):
clear over the years is until he posts something on
truth Social, there ain't no endorsement. And you've seen a
couple of these members already pushing out this claim that
they have an endorsement, but there's nothing on truth Social.
And if they're not careful, if they run too far
with that, they're going to get something worse than not
an endorsement. They're going to get a slap down on
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truth Social, which is something no Republican incumbent state rep wants.
If they've got a primary challenge. But the bigger problem,
though there's not that specific political problem, but the problem
of they thought by delivering that they don't have to
deliver on these other priorities of the Republican Party, these
other priorities of grassroots activists, these other priorities of their
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precinct chairs. The most notable, which is in the same
way for thirty years, they've been talking about school choice
for thirty years. Michael, We've had Republicans talk about reducing
and even eliminating all or most of our property tax burden,
and yet once again we didn't get that done this
legislative session. And there's many Texans that that represents a
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gut punch to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And I'll tell you, Galveston is seeing a buyer's market
they're calling it, which is a nice way of saying,
a devaluation of properties and property values. And the market
is going to reflect that. And I think that is
in large part because of Galveston's high taxes. And if
that doesn't change, Republicans are eventually going to have to
(08:19):
pay the cost of that. Michael Quinn Sullivan, You're fantastic.
Keep up the great work.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The Michael varies show continues to use to use.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I think Ramon is selling X tabs on the sign
on the side. Who are you playing?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Ed M?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now what's going on with you? Is something going on
in your personal life? I'm reading between the lines here.
This is a very odd choice. Uh So.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I want to make sure everybody understands something. So forgive
me in very very simple terms if you already know this.
Insiders have a tendency to think that everybody understands exactly
what's going on. If you really want a reality check,
(09:17):
ask a random person at your office who doesn't watch
Fox News all day, doesn't listen to radio all day,
doesn't follow politics on Twitter all day. You know somebody
that's more interested in primetime TV or sports, or crochet
or travel or old cars, And ask that person a
(09:40):
couple of basic questions, not in a judgment a way,
and you'll be shocked how many people didn't know that
Joe Biden was severely demented and fell over all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They had no idea.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And when you tell them things like that, they may
think you're cuckoo because it can't possibly be true. That's
the greatest defense for the absurdism that is American politics,
is that a lot of people can't believe that could
really possibly be true.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The deep State can't really be spying on us. There's
no way.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
There's no way they knew that the COVID shot was
more likely to kill you than COVID itself was.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
There's a way they wouldn't do that, right.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There is the naive neighbor belief that you know, things
are pretty good, y'all are getting y'all get crazy, right, y'all,
So we have to be careful that we take our
time and keep everybody up to speed and explain the
game to them.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Here's how this works.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
HEMP related products, THCHC related products were growing, have been
growing over the last few years to be very very popular.
I have people who have told me about him drinks
(11:09):
they that they drink. And let's talk about why anybody
does a drug at all. From a cigarette to a
cup of coffee to a beer, whiskey, wine.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All of these are drugs, all of them.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We operate under this false belief, which is both naive
and silly, that things that are legal are good and
things that are illegal or bad. That's the dumbest thing ever,
that is saying that Shila Jackson Lee should make decisions
for you. Because legislators are made up of a bunch
of Shila Jackson Leees and Sylvester Turners. That's just a fact.
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Whatever they do should not be what's in your best
interest any more than you would take their advice on
how to parent or your life part.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
You just wouldn't because they're dumb dumbs.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So let's leave out what's legal and not legal as
some sort of childlike idea that that will determine what's
good and what's bad because a group of legislators thought. So.
Just think about some of the other dumb, dumb things
they do, all right, So now let's talk about things
based on science, in fact and experience perspective. People do
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drugs to give them more energy or more focus. I
think the big advancement in the next few years is
going to be a mainstream, relatively cheap, very effective focus drug.
Folks have been pecking around the edge of this for
(12:47):
a long time. I think someone's going to get it right,
and I think it's going to be I think it's
going to be like what was the boner drug by
viagra to be the next viagra. I think it's going
to be the next blood pressure medication. I think that's
going to be the thing A focus factor type product
(13:11):
is going. It's already a massive industry, and it's going
to be more. I got news for you. When you
wake up in the morning and you say, don't talk
to me, it's all I've had my cup of coffee,
that is not an endorsement of the flavor of coffee.
Coffee is a delivery mechanism for caffeine. You are addicted,
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whether physically or emotionally psychologically, to coffee.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Most of us are.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I certainly am a've cats at Cat's Coffee. When we
started delivered free coffee, Yeah, he asked us at one point, are.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You giving it away?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Why do you ask, Because y'all drink a lot of
coffee for you. Ramon and Chad in fairness, Chad doesn't
drink any coffee.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's just being the monk. We are.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
From early in the morning until late in the afternoon,
we're hitting the coffee. My cutoff is four o'clock. I
don't know that Ramon ever cuts off. But let's not
get his involvement in THHC and all of this. So
we do these things to alter moods. We do this
to self medicate, and self medication is not necessarily a
(14:25):
horrible thing. We don't have a problem with self medication
of coffee. It is the most used drug in America
today and it's not even close. It's not even close. Oh,
but it's okay because it's been made legal. Okay, I
guess you now let Sheila Jackson Leane make decisions for you.
You now let Anthony Fauci make decisions for you, So
(14:46):
I don't have a problem if you want to do coffee.
I believe in freedom, and freedom means a freedom to
make decisions that I might not necessarily make.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And that means if you want to gamble.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
If you want to go take out a loan on
your watch forty percent interest, nobody's making you do those things.
If you want to work over time and not get
time and a half, if you want to work a
job for a lower wage, then you'd ideally like all
of those are decisions for you, an adult, to make
for himself. Milton Friedman wrote a wonderful He and his
(15:20):
wife Rose wrote a wonderful book called Free to Choose.
It's a ten chapter to mirror the ten episodes that
aired in nineteen seventy nine on PBS, and you can
get it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It's an audiobook.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's called Free to Choose by Milton Friedman, and it
is as good a discussion on American capitalism and how
capitalism and democratic or representative republican government, how that how
those two work together. You can't be free without the
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freedom to choose. And there are extreme freedom They are
extreme restrictions on our freedom to choose. You can't choose
who cuts your hair. You can only choose someone who
the state has blessed by giving them a license.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Wine. You can't choose who braids your hair. You can't win.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Tell me who you listen show Lord, I've been done
and had too many babies. Honey, who is my baby daddy? Girl?
I'd be a MEI And if I could ever figure
out where I got.
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Speaker 4 (16:44):
Lemon gel Who is my baby daddy? Don't even two
of these children even look alike? Hello?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
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Gangster Q and Daffidal Ron Bacardy, Captain Mark and de
Moctorius and Delori and Gunna Lochum and Felicia Pleamdia Champagne.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Who named these children? And how many of them?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Why they always want to come live with me? Anyway?
Ask them who their daddy is?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Look over he under they go Nova Scotia, Bubba, Licia's
cue Panie to Goneria ice bucket, but tuglar of Bizine
and Marguerita Percolator, Terminator, Belcrow and Taekwondo.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There are Teller chromosome Steacher and Sha Thiev. That's an
ignorant one right there, Shati?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Who is these baby dads?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I wish I knew?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I'd show sue him for some child sup for it.
Honey Shoes.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Warren Buffett is ninety three years old. He did an
interview recently about his longevity. Hack Honey lived be ninety
three years ol, and it turns out that he consumes
an estimated two hundred and fifty two grams of sugar
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per day, that is seven times what is recommended by
established medical orthodoxy. He consumes seven hundred calories per day
from Coca cola alone.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
He has five cokes, not diet coke, regular cokes.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
He eats zero vegetables, says he doesn't like them. He's
ninety three years old and his net worth is one
hundred and twenty billion dollars. He was asked his secret
as to how he lived so long, and he said,
I get eight hours of sleep, no exceptions, no early meetings,
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no late dinners.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He beats diet.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
He reads five hundred pages a day. He works twelve
hour days. His blood work, doctors say is perfect. At
ninety three, he appears to be as sharp as ever.
He has announced he's retiring from Berkshire Hathaway. His energy
(19:27):
level is sustained and consistent. He says he drinks far
more coke than water, and he says that his secret,
in addition to sleep, is that you have to love
your work, and he does. You should get plenty of
(19:50):
quality sleep, reduce your stress, reduce the things in your
life that stress you out and that's often people, and
find daily joy. He says his greatest investment was in
nineteen seventy two he bought C's candies. See apostrophe s
(20:12):
You've seen him, not for the profits for unlimited free chocolates.
He says, quote, I'm basically one quarter coca cola. Seven
hundred of my daily calories come from coca cola alone.
He eats breakfast at McDonald's every morning, seven days a week,
(20:38):
and has done so for over fifty years. He says
he gets the when stock prices are down. If I
have his fund is down, he says, I get the
two dollars ninety five cent breakfast. When we're doing well financially,
I get the three dollars and seventeen cent one.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I splurge.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
For fifty four years, he estimates he's had nineteen seven
hundred and ten McDonald's breakfasts. He eats there without fail.
He eats the McDonald's breakfast. He's never dieted in his life.
He drinks five coca colas through the course of the day.
(21:20):
He eats peanut brittle for lunch, and he enjoys ice
cream for dinner. Asked why he keeps this regimen, he said,
I checked the Actuary of tables. The lowest death rate
is among six year olds, so I eat like one.
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The reason I tell you that is because I saw
I saw a meme that showed a continuum, and it
was somebody's quote, I don't remember who it was.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It was a Robert F.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Kennedy kind of statement and said, you're not worth anything dead,
and you're not worth anything healthy. You are worth the
most in a continuous state of needing health care, if
you were to ask. And let's look at third world countries,
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and the ones I've studied the most for obvious reasons
are Ethiopia and India. But let's look at any third
world country where the vast majority of people, over ninety
percent live in abject poverty. If you were king and
you loved your people and you wanted them to be
as happy as possible, let's leave healthy aside from homent,
(22:42):
because that's such a subjective. You wanted your people to
be contented. You want them to live without pain. You
wanted them to live a pain free life, disease free.
There are a few things you could do that cost
little or own money, and that is solid sleep for
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eight hours or more every single night without exception, at
a consistent bedtime. Plenty of water. Now that becomes difficult
in places because you have.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Malaria, you have various.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Water born illnesses, and clean water is a privilege of
the developed world, but every American could get plenty of sleep,
plenty of water, basic simple exercise. It turns out now
that most folks believe that jogging is not part of
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and in fact is often contrary to.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
A good health regimen.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Reducing your stress, and that usually means reducing stressful people,
eliminating stressful people out of your life. One of the
most interesting parts of Camp Hope six month program, Christian
based that you find and thank you for that at
the PTSD Foundation of America is taking away your phone
(24:10):
and taking away your contact with the stressors, the triggers.
And I'm told by David Malsby the number one stressor
the number one trigger for a veteran who comes in
the door suicidal, addicted to all sorts of drugs and
ready to kill themselves, incapable of surviving, and they're going
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to build him up so that in six months he
has the tools to go back out in the world
and survive as a combat veteran. The number one trigger
is his girlfriend or wife, not because she's a bad person,
but because they've developed in their relationship certain patterns that
trigger him. And the second one is his mother for
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many of the some reasons. So they have to learn
to deal with their love language and how that stresses them.
All of those things we just described costs little or
no money, and if we really cared about public health,
that's what we'd do.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
This is the Michael Mary Show show.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
How great are the Beg's.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Well, at first you got their entire body work, and
then they go here, we're gonna write this song. It's
really our song, but we'll hand it to you. Samantha sang,
and you sing it. Oh you want us to sing
background on a song that Robin and I wrote.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Do you remember the first time you heard.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Barry Gibb talk and you realized, oh, he doesn't sound
he doesn't speak in falsetto all the time. Listen, real
men love the Beg's, and that's just a fact. Real
men love the Beg's. And I'm gonna tell you something else.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Real straight men love disco.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Now, if you say to me, oh, no, disco is
filling the blank, you are projecting and you're trying too hard.
We've all seen that dude who spent he spends all
his time pounding the Bible talking about the homos and
it turns out he's gay. Nobody likes that guy. Nobody
(26:22):
likes that guy, and we all see it coming. We've
all Haggard, who was the pastor in Colorado. Every Sunday
he got up and told how awful the homos were.
He hated the homos. The homos were terrible. He'd hate
gay Dave.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
How can you not like gay Dave.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Jay Dave has emerged as one of Roma's favorite callers.
And I know that because if there's eight calls on
the line, he'll put gay Dave and he'll.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
It'll still say unknown on the others.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
He's trying very subtly, like Jeeves did with Bertie Wooster.
He's trying to get you drive my behavior over here.
Let's put gay Dave on, because I guess because gay
Dave gives him compliments or sends him beef jerky or
who tickets.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
To concerts or something. So here is the problem.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Disco displaced classic rock, and that pissed people off, and
rightfully so, because classic rock was was was was in
the middle of a good phase. And then disco takes
over and radio stations ruin everything, and the radio stations
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started flipping to playing disco, and so it was sort
of like, yeah, we don't we don't need any classic
rock anymore. So if you wanted to be relevant and
pay your bills as a classic rock artist, you had
to alter what you were doing and make disco songs.
That's what the Stones did. You can call it a
(27:56):
sell out, you can do what you want, but at
the end of the day, nobody calls you sell out
for showing up when they tell you to show up
and being back at the time they tell you to
be back and doing the tasks that they give you
to do. Those guys have to pay their bills too,
and the purists just died off. The reason people hate
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disco is number one, it displaced classic rock, and classic
rock never recovered, not in the mainstream, not the way
it had. And number two, because disco's two greatest influences
were homos and blacks, and you could say homos and
blacks in nightclub music. But then, what killed disco or
(28:44):
what replaced disco? What replaced disco was basically British led
disco repackaged. That's still disco. It's not as good as disco.
But I will tell you this for everybody that says
they don't like disco. You go to a wedding, and
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whether it's a DJ or a live cover band, you
watch a disco song being played and you see how
many people run out to the floor. And I'm talking
about people my age and above.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
People love it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
They love it way more than the eighties. The only
reason anybody likes eighties music is because that's when we
grew up.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
You like what is familiar.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
If you didn't grow up in the eighties, you don't
care for the eighties music because by and large, it's
not any good. Belinda Carlisle, that's not going to be
in the archives one hundred years from now. You're not
going to see Duran Duran eighty years from now. And
Ramon Earmustern you're not going to see depeche Mode a
(29:54):
year from now. And I hate to hurt his feelings
and h Russell le Borisfield. You ain't go gonna see
you too in there. Youve Nope, you're not, You're not.
You know who you're gonna see. You're gonna see Freddie Mercury.
You're gonna see Mick Jagger, Yeah that was weird. You're
gonna see Paul McCartney. You're gonna see John Lennon and
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at the top have to go eat through each room. Okay,
you're gonna go through each room and you're go, oh, yeah,
I remember them, but yeah they when were they great? Papa, Oh,
they were.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Great in the in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're even gonna see the eagles in there. I'll give
you that. You're gonna see the eagles. And with each
room as it gets more and more exclusive, at the end,
it's gonna open to two rooms with a divider in
the middle, like when Aerosmith and Run DMC did that
and they shattered it and you realized it was really
part of all one big room of greatness. At the end,
(30:49):
you're going to see Elvis.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And skinnerd oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And you're gonna have Elvis singing over the top of
a free Bird, and you're gonna have Sweet Home Alibi,
and it's just it's going to be glorious and all
will be as it should be. It will be the
reckoning of time, the ordering of all that is good. Yeah,
(31:15):
your homework assignment And for many of you who drive,
I understand that you don't have time to sit still
and read. Maybe that never appealed to you. And that's
okay too. I listen to more audiobooks than I do
reading nowadays because my eyes are tired and I just
don't when I get home, I don't want to read
(31:37):
as much as I used to. But I when I'm driving,
when i'm working out, when i'm you know, most anything,
whatever I'm doing, I can put my buds in and
listen to audiobooks. Go to audible and get free to
choose by Milton Friedman and listen to it, and you
(31:57):
will realize that forty six years ago he was stating
timeless truths that are just as accurate and just as
relevant today as.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
They ever were.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
And then it will hit you. Wait a second, he's
stating very simple, elementary pedestrian truths.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Why am I not hearing this anywhere else?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Why are we not staying true to the grounding of
what made this nation great? When he talks about in
seventeen seventy six, Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations
That's your next read, laying out the virtue of capitalism,
and Thomas Jefferson laying out the virtue of self governance
not a king in the Declaration of Independence, It's not
(32:47):
a coincidence that those two things happen in seventeen seventy six.
The things Jefferson was writing in seventeen seventy five, the
Great Document on the Virginian and his freedom, all of
these things are why we're getting to sit here doing
what we're doing right now
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