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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Varie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Earlier in this hearing, you said in your opening statement
that there is nothing more urgent than impeachment right now,
this is the most urgent thing we could possibly do. Well,
you know what, if you're a senior right now and
you can't afford your prescription drugs, that's more urgent than this.
If you're a manufacturer wanting to dominate the Western hemisphere
with the passage of the USMCA, that is more urgent.
(00:40):
If you're a farmer who wants to open markets so
that your family can survive and thrive, that is a
lot more urgent than this partisan process. If you're a
desperate family member watching someone succumb to addiction, solving the
opioid problem probably more urgent.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Why is it that women with the least likelihood of
getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?
Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thought?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Is it safe to say that based off of your comments,
you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Are ugly and overweight.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yes, what do you see to people who think that
those comments are offensive. You all get all worked up
that there's going to be some uncomfortable, chaotic moment that
I'll feel pressure from conservatives or Democrats or whomever. I
feel the judgment of history. I feel the weight of that.
I worry that when the history books are written about
this country going down, that my name is going to
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be on the board of directors here. And if this
country's going down, and if we're losing the dollar, I
am going down fighting. And I don't care if that
means fighting Republicans, Democrats, the uniparty, the leadership, the packs,
the lobbyists.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
I've had it, and.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I take no lecture on asking patriotic Americans to weigh
in and contribute to this fight from those who would
gravel and bend knee for the lobbyists and special interests
who own our leadership, who have followed foo all.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
You want, who have followed out this town.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And have borrowed against the future of our future generations.
I'll be happy to fund my political operation through the
work of hard working Americans ten and twenty and thirty
dollars at a time. And you all keep showing up
at the lobbyist fundraisers and see how that goes for the.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Atlanto. Yep, thank you for the person who sent that.
This is why I read emails. Woman named Jill Kaiser said,
the astronout seems like Houston's Ukraine to me. What a
perfect description. Okay, I understand that most people have never
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done a redevelopment project, but let me just go ahead
and explain something that nobody seems to understand. Let's start
with why we have to keep this building. Have you
ever noticed in certain neighborhoods when you go in and
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you see a house that's an eight hundred square foot
house on an acre lot, when the house is fifty
years old, sixty years old, do you ever notice that
they don't go in and put an all new, all
new mechanical systems, all new roof and on the house
that's already there. Did you ever notice that what do
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they do? They scrape it and they build something listen,
carefully better suited to that property and location. They put
the property. Here's your core real estate term to the
highest and best use. If you were starting over and
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you said, all right, we got what they're calling a
robust building, because that's what they paid three and a
half million dollars for the proposal for it's going to
be exciting and dynamic and accessible and all these wonderful things.
Because it's sixty years old. We got this building. It's
all of those wonderful things. It's all of the history
you loved and all of the future you want, all
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in that same ugly ass building. Can you imagine what's
old is new again? It's glorious. Okay, well how about this.
How's the plumbing? Look? How does the plumbing look? A
sixty year old plumbing? Do you realize how bad that
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has to be?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, Michael, we spent two hundred million on it thirty
years ago to keep Bud Adams. Oh that was a
great ida. How did that work out? He was gone
in a couple of years. Okay, you're not helping your
case here. You do understand that, right, This is the
people's money that you're pissing off. So you got outdated plumbing,
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You've got outdated sewage. How about your mechanical systems? You
have any idea? A Goodman company gave us scratching ding
units for the RCC because they believed in what we
were doing. Was two hundred thousand dollars worth of units
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for just the RCC. You have any idea how much
did you ever walk into NRG The roof was open
on Sunday night. It was nice, It was very nice.
It had to be open. They had a whole fireworks display. Oh,
it was incredible. They had a wonderful display. I gotta
give cal credit.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He is.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
They're putting on an entertaining product. I know, but I
love the game. Michael, shut it up irritating me. I'm
the only person I know that can get aggravated by
a hypothetical conversation that I have with myself because I
know I'm gonna get an email on it, and I
can anticipate. I can already feel it coming in. It's
like a quarterback in the pocket. You know. They can
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tell the pockets collapsing. They got to step up. They
can already feel it. They don't have to look around.
So anyway, all right, So you got mechanical that you'd
have to replace. You got plumbing you got to replace.
And do you realize how many systems in that building
you have to replace. Oh, by the way, it ain't
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eighty a compliant that'll kill anything. What makes you think
that just because they figured out how to put a
roof on a building, and that was a big deal.
I will admit it. The concept of the dome man
that was cutting edge back in the day. But nothing
else was but Michael when I was a kid, and
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they'd score a home run and that that scoreboard to
go off. All right, I'll tell you what. Here's what
we'll do. We'll take from Rodney's bloated budget. Maybe we'll
take the African art budget. We'll take the COVID outreach budget,
will take the different slushes. We'll ask them nicely to
give you ten million. They can hide it and you
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can have ten mini. You can go build that damn
thing wherever the f you want. You build it up.
You can look at it every day. You can just
sit out there butt naked. Nobody will bother you, and
you can have it a little, a little like a
monkey hitting the machine like a drug addict. Give me
another dose of that, like you're in the hospital and
the pain meds, and every time you want to, you
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can click the button and woo and whatever it costs.
We'll take that out of the county's bloated budget. How
about that? How about we don't spend another billion dollars. Okay,
So here's the profit and law statement for taxpayers in
this area. You got NRG, you got Toyota, you got
Minute Made. Uh you know, you built a soccer stadium, right,
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you know? You got the rail. They're still working on
the rail. You got downtown renovations. The gallery has gone
to hell. Yeah, let's just what else can we add
to it? How about the port renovation. You're doing it
big on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
MH love it.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
You did do something Elvis special that has not received
a lot of attention, and that is that when he
goes to Germany, he's drafted. I mean, can you imagine.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
You don't think about people being plucked out of their
lives and thrown into government service, and how disruptive that
is to the plans they had, to the little bit
of equity they're building in their in their bank account
and in their careers. And how two years away from
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where you were early in your career. Your girlfriend's gone
married somebody else. The company you worked for had to
replace you, and now they don't have a space for you.
Your loved ones died. His mama died, while he was.
I mean all of these things, but nobody notices those
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things are happening until it's Elvis, which is okay. You
can bring attention to things. That's what famous people can do.
You can bring attention to things that are going on
every day that nobody's paying attention to. But what hadn't
been really covered was that he falls in love with
opera while he's in Germany and he's listening to a
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famous Italian opera singer. And that was back in the
day where the only music you had other than that
it was on the radio, was on your record player
and listening to this record over and over and over again,
and he begins exploring the range of his voice. And
that is why people get aggravated with me when I
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say I'll give I don't care for the first five
years of Elvis. It's not true, but you have to
say it for a fact. For me, it's the last
five years, the broken Elvis, the complex Elvis, the conflicted Elvis,
the declining Elvis, is scared, addicted, troubled Elvis. That's a
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character and study anyway to the astronom renovation in your
call seven one, three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand Let's
start with Mark. Mark, you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Why don't we just tear it down? But Mark, when
I was a kid, I'd go there with my mama,
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and my mama would take me and we had such
a good time. Don't destroy my childhood. Mark, that's a
that's the level of argument you get. You know, there's
a hundred reasons people don't want it to turn down.
They're personally gonna benefit from it. They're personally that they
have some childhood memory they're holding on to. They think
it's going to be something that they've always wanted in
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Houston and isn't here like snowskiing or a skate park.
There's a hundred different reasons, and these people are good.
You pay three and a half million dollars, which, by
the way, whose money was that? Where's the three and
a half million pot of money come from? To study
this whole thing? You know what's funny about this, Mark,
you can tear down Yankee Stadium. Listen. I love Houston
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as much as the next guy. I wanted to be
mayor of the place. I love it. I love the people.
I came here in eighty nine. This city has been
so good to me, I've never been turned away from anywhere,
and I should because I'm uncouth and crass. I have
been welcomed in every neighborhood, every black church, every white church,
every country club. I've been to every one of them.
I've spoken to business groups. We built a political career,
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built a real estate company. I've practiced law in downtown.
I've run radio stations, and then we built an audience
from here that we launched nationwide. I love this place,
but I don't love the topography or the Bayous, or
the flooding, or the mosquitoes or the heat. I love
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the people and the spirit it really is. It's a
unique spirit. I believe in it. But it is not
a spirit that says, take on a bunch of debt
like this, and we can't get rid of something. Paved paradise,
put up a parking lot is real. My wife came
here in eighty nine, and she told me in the
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early nine she said, you know, Americans are so weird.
She grew up in a house it was one hundreds
of years old. Not that it was nice. You just
don't tear things down and rebuild them. Hell, we tore
down the shamrock Hotel. Do you have any idea who
Glenn McCarthy was and what a legend he was? Giant?
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Well that was clever, Michael. You see what I did there?
That just boom that came out of boom boom. Yeah. Oh,
you don't know about the Shamrock Hotel. Go back and
watch the video of him putting on skiing expedition exhibitions
in the swimming pool. Tell me what the astronome is
and isn't Shamrock Hotel. They tore down Yankee Stadium. I
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love Houston as much as the next guy. Yankee Stadium.
The fact that let me tell you something. If your
argument is and people have said this, but Michael, astrodome's
all we got. If that's what you believe, that's please
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don't say that again in public. That's probably the most
embarrassing thing you can say. But let me help you
with this argument. Okay, what you're telling me is you
went to Paris last year and you saw the great churches.
You went to the Middle East and you saw the bazaar.
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You went to London and you saw maybe the Eye
of London, or you saw Westminster Abbey, you saw the
great structures. Maybe you you drove up to York, I
saw the York Minster. Maybe you went to New York
and you saw the Empire State Building. Or maybe you
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went to Chicago and you saw what was once the
tallest building in the world. Or you went to Miami
and your your friend took you to the beach, same
with La. Or you went to New Orleans and you
went to Bourbon Street. And I ain't got nothing like that, Michael.
My clients come visit me, I ain't got nothing to
show them. We're not that kind of city. We're not
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a vacation town. We're a town where you come to
live and create wealth. Nobody comes here on vacation, and
that's okay. But by the way, if your idea of
the place to take somebody who's here and you want
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to show them what we got that's nice is a
sixty year old, condemned, decrepit stadium that we're clinging to
because we got nothing else, that's sad? Is that really
your argument? You're gonna bring the dome back to grandeur?
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Do you think if that was possible, they would have
built nurg next door. You know how much that thing
costs hours bottle up those memories and hold them upstairs
in your memory palace and stop paying for them. You
don't live in the house you were born in, and
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you didn't go buy it before they tore it down.
The only childhood home you should hold on to is
in Tupelo, Mississippi, because the king was there. You can
tear down at Abraham Lincoln's house for all I care. It's
not just that you're holding on to it. It's worse
than that. It's that you're investing emotion in it, from
which you will never profit and into which you will
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be plunged greater in debt. And by the way, not me, Michael,
I moved out of the city. I don't care where
you are Willis Scie, fair Woodlands, Livingston. They're gonna build
a one hundred million dollars stadium where you are. Well,
we got to Michael Friday night lights. You know, you
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dumb ass. Do you have any idea how much you're
gonna pay in taxes for all this crap. You haven't
had kids in that school district in twenty years. And
by the way, after they build a stadium, you know what,
they come back when the people that make all the
money on us, they come back with after that. On
tonight's news, your local elementary school has leaks in the classrooms.
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Little Billy said, yeah. Sometimes when I was a learning
and writing on my page, the water hits the page
and it drips, and my mama told me not to
drink on it because it might be poisoned. And we
please raise eighteen million dollars. These kids deserve a decent school.
It never stops. This is creeping socialism in the form
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of boosterism. They're gonna take all your money. Don't you
understand that?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well done, sir.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And never night was a crack then, like the dumber.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Full of oil field money and holy hell.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Houston girls as a rule out on the ocean of cause.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
On sixteen, I'm gonna go on down, sit any astra,
don't just me and you and all of them blue
the feed.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And Mamo read, I'm gonna go on down, sit in
the ass strut, don down one whatever itver became.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Of my brother, my brother Bruce Robinson, who's the finest songwriter.
Miss Charlie Chaz writes that Livingston comment killed me just now.
We don't have anything out here in Livingston except crackheads,
and the church is trying to help them. Oh and
the prison been alive. Can you imagine growing up in
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the town where you didn't have a professional sports team.
You also didn't have high taxes. See, people don't understand
the high cost of getting buy People don't understand why
it's so high. They're mad at everybody, but they don't realize.
You get all these stadiums before you ever buy a
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ticket to go there. Mind you, you got all these
public infrastructure projects. Gotta have that flooding, you know, remember
the last flood. If you don't give us the money
this time, we'll do it again. And then we want
to build a dyke. M You thought you were done
with dyke talk. Nope, we're gonna get a build a dyke.
But that's gonna be a whoo that's gonna be a
doozy right there. But that'll save everything. Yep, what else
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can we do? Maybe we could do some airport renovations
that'd be nice. Before you ever get on a plane,
the port has to constantly be maintained. That's real, that's legit,
that's actual economic development. Stadiums are economic development. The port
is economic development. Second largest port seventh in the world.
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There's a lot coming in and out of there that
affects your life. Yeah, well, don't worry about that. We'll
give them their money. I haven't find it over there. Right. Well,
we don't have enough police, and we got more of
them retired and receiving retirement benefits. But we got to
have more cops. What we're gonna do, We're gonna bring
back drop wait till that hits the budget. We screwed
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the firefighters for ten years under Sylvester Turner, so now
we got to do a true up. But we got
to do it all at once. Uh oh, yep, we
did that. What was that six hundred million dollars? Well,
you knew that was coming. Sylvester had been screwing the
firefighters for a long time. Rearly that wasn't anyway. So
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you got that, You got the city employees, the municipal
pension board. Don't even get me going on that metro's
dying to expand that stupid rail that nobody rides, and
the few people who ride it are only because you
canceled the bus lines along there, So they got to
get there somehow. Oh, then you got the county they're
now doing guaranteed minimum income. Yeah, we're gonna pay for
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that too. See, everybody's got their little thing, and there's you,
poor li lo you out there and you can't keep
any of what you make. The cost of home ownership,
it's through the roof. Now did I mention home insurance?
Have you looked at what your insurance premiums are? Yeah,
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that's what happens when your city, county, and region have
not taken proper care for flood mitigation for decades and
your house got flooded and so did everybody else in town,
and the insurance had to pay for it. Well, you're
going to go somewhere else to get insurance. No, they're
out of business in Texas. Now imagine this. Imagine it
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got so bad that some insurance companies said, you know what,
let's pack up shop and go home. We can't make
any money down there on the Gulf Coast. Oh yeah,
so now you've got less competition. That's going to be
a problem. How about your car insurance? Well, we got
the illegal aliens that the Catholic Church got paid by
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the federal government to bring in. I don't care that
you're Catholic. You can send me an email all day long.
Your church got in bed with the federal government to
outsource so the government could keep their hands off of it,
and it became a cash cow for them. And I
don't care if you like it or not. I don't.
You don't have to like it. You can tell me
you hate me. That's fine, doesn't make it any less true.
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Catholic Church got in bed with the US government to
bring the legal aliens into this country and get paid
a lot of money for it. The government had the
interest in bringing in the Democrats and putting them in
the Red States to mak them blue. The Catholic Church
had the interest it always has, which is making money.
Blows my mind when Catholics say to me, you know,
Vatican is the largest landowner in the world. Hold on,
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I keep my Bible right here. Let's see. Let's see
what book of the Bible does it say that thou
should build a church and own the land underneath that
what I'm saying, maybe rent some of it out, triple net,
keep the mineral interest. If you flip it, where is
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that in the Bible?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
I don't want to make you uncomfortable talking about the Bible.
And Jesus and all. But where's that in there being
the largest landowner. Why is that something to be proud of? Well,
you know, oh Jesus, he was into multi family, my goodness. There.
Toward the end he got more into industrial. He saw
the warehouse coming two thousand years later with Amazon and all.
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But boy, he was believing in the land.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
You know.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
The well talked that we started the show with today
got me thinking about something, and that was Jonah. That
story always appealed to me. Jonah in the well. Remember
Jonah and Nineveh? And God told Jonah to go there
and to preach the word. And what did he do?
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He was selfish. He wished that Nineveh would be destroyed,
and he refused to preach there, which God had commanded
him to do. He goes to see he falls into
water and he's swallowed by a whail. Well that's a
humbling thing. What did Omar Kayem say? It is in
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our times? It's during our darkest times that we seek God.
Is only during our darkest times that we seek God.
So Jonah starts praying to God. You remember Old Testament.
He has said, God, I have defied you, and if
you will save me, I will go to Nineveh and
I will preach your word to the people there. And
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he did, and he did well. What I've always taken
from that story since we started on the Moby Dick
and then Ramon had a very very cheeky little thing
he played that. I'm still upset over what I take
from that. And maybe this is just the way my
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parents raised me, or maybe it's just a god complex
I have, or some sort of profit or missionary whatever
that may be. Is the idea that you have to
speak the truth no matter who it upsets.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, well, well, lucky you. The Michael Ferry Show continues.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Your lucky day. I got the home grassfore.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
You love Van, I'm waiting, then you're well, fat line, Well,
I ain't got nothing but dessert on my back and
a nod two button suit. I walked down on my
job about.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Old week, sometimes a telephone. How many people got a
day job? W two? Making a car payment, house payment,
credit card payment, never never seems to add up, and
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there's never enough money, trying somehow some way to make
a little extra. Cut corners here, put a keep on there,
win a free ticket here, do something here, And yet
these people have no idea because people like some hot
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new thing. I notice young people always like to have
a concert they're going to go to. We're going to
Taylor Swift in a year. You bought tickets a year
from now for that hussy man. I wouldn't buy Elvis
tickets a year from now, and partly because I don't
think he'd be there. But there's nothing I want that badly.
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Maybe let's look inward for a moment. I don't want
to get too preachy on you, but maybe let's look
inward for a moment. Maybe if you're looking for something
to give your life meaning that's going to cost billions
of dollars, and you don't understand that you're paying for that, maybe,
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just maybe, I mean, you do realize that this whole
astronom thing, this is not originating from people who just
love Houston, they just do and do. This originates from
people who, if these deals aren't done, they got to
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move to another city where they are. Maybe we can
sell Atlanta on this. Miami's booming, let's go there. Birmingham's
got a chip on their shoulder and they don't have
nothing nice. New Orleans doesn't have a baseball stadium. Yeah,
but everybody's moved out. They're broke. All right, where can
we go? Let's see, Uh, we've already built Phoenix. Oh,
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you know where we'll go. Let's go to Oklahoma City.
In Tulsa. You got a lot of money, a low
tax base, and a huge chip on their shoulder that
they don't have any water bodies. And they got the
one little basketball team they stole from Seattle. And can
you imagine Seattle still a city? I mean, how do
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you lose your professional basketball team and still be a city?
Imagine that? You know why we didn't have an income
tax one hundred and ten years ago, because we didn't
have an entire class of people who scammed you out
of money. And by the way, nobody when they're taking
your money. Nobody when they're taking your money says I'm
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taking your money. I'm taking it out of your pocket
and putting it in mine. Now I got it. You
don't have it anymore. Ha ha. They don't do that. You
ever notice that They say, you love America, don't you? Yeah, well,
then buy this give me your money. You want you
want to pay tribute Houston's past, don't you then give
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me this money? Wait? What yeah, yeah, yeah, you want
to relive all these great experiences, don't you. And you
it's so sad. It's so sad because you see the
glee people have for some of these people's first time
they've been happy in a long time. They got a
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few times in their life they're happy when they're a
kid and don't have anything to worry about, and they
get candy Christmas, and then during a courtship, you know,
they got endorphins flow during the courtship. They're excited about that,
and then they have a lot of events around that,
and then all the event people get money on their
wedding and we'll have a shower, we'll do this, and
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it is oh, over one hundred fifty thousand dollars in
debt that we can't afford, and we live in an
apartment that we can't afford, and we could have bought
a house for that. Oh but we had that princess
prince moment. Okay, all right, so that was good. And
then we don't have a car. Okay, well you can
buy a car on credit. We don't have a house. Well,
you can buy a house on credit. And so then
they've oh but we're pregnant. All right, we're gonna be
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ex said, We're gonna play that whole game again. We're
gonna do all the public events around the child. And
then the child is there and you're up all night.
You're really but you know why because people have bought
the marketing pitch. People have bought the marketing pitch. And
there's Look, I'm a capitalist through and through. I love
to make money. I love to spend money. I love
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to support businesses. Businesses keep it. But you gotta find
a core value and a happy place you can exist
without anybody else's approval that doesn't cost a dime. And
maybe that's it's a beautiful day outside. Maybe that's your garden,
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and maybe that's your dog, and maybe hopefully it's your
children and your wife and your husband, or your neighbor,
or maybe it's woodworking, maybe it's a classic car. You've
got to find something on your little plot of land
that can make you happy that is not determined by
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a public vote of billions of dollars. This whole astronom thing,
if it goes away, it'll be back in two years.
It has to. There are too many people who need
to make the money off of it. I don't mind
people making money, but let's be honest about it. Let's
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put up front, these are the people that have already had.
They already have the contracts, including the minority contracts. You're
gonna see this thing pushed first. There'll be some pouting,
There'll be some some major black and Hispanic leaders, mostly
black because the Hispanics don't realize they're being cut out
of these deals. But there'll be some black folks in
town that'll be against this, just like the his de bond,
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and they'll come out very publicly against it. I don't
think that's a good idea. I think it's just some
old white boys downtown backroom dealing. This is the same
kind of deal we saw before. Hey, Rev, we'd like
you to come down. We'd like to show you these plans.
Hey we got you cut in for eight percent. Well,
like I said, I believe, I believe this thing ought
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to happen because this seemed like a good deal to happen.
Yesterday we had the lovely ladies of the Conroe isd
ON and I got so many nice messages. I'm so hopeful,
not just for Conrad asd but that you are a
person out there that will take on a leadership position
in your church, at your little league, in your homeowner association, everywhere,
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all the time, in your household? Are you the leader
you need to be in your household? I sent them
to Honor Cafe and Chris Sadler last night I texted him.
I said, hey, send me the bill, and he said,
I'm not sending you the bill. You gave us thousands
of dollars worth of promotion, just bragging that they were
coming to Honor Cafe. I said, I would love that,
but that one hundred and seventy seven dollars, I'm on
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the hook for it. And I told people I was
going to pay for it. So checks in the mail
and it is today, and next time I'm going to
send the Gringos. Didn't even think about the fact Gringos
has a location just north of there. Yeah, but they
had a wonderful lunch. And I want to say thank
you to Matt, to Matt, to Mark, Katie and his
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lovely and beautiful may I say wife, Twila, Twila Grooms Katie,
Remember I told you the story about the marine and
the medic told her when she was in war and
she was dying and he said, if you'll stay alive,
I'll give you my seventy four Bronco and he did.
And our friend Benny Tortorella at Muscle Cards of Houston
has almost one hundred thousand dollars in this thing, and
he told me about it, and I said, well, let's
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see if we can recover some of that money. Let
me see if I can get you thirty thousand dollars
to get this thing completed, because that's what's left because
he's having to do it a little bit here, little bit.
And Mark Katie at Benchmark Mortgage Company and his lovely
and beautiful wife Twyla stepped up and wrote a thirty
thousand dollars check for us, and we'll send you photos
that whenever that happens. Oh, I have a new Facebook page,
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by the way,
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Varie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Earlier in this hearing, you said in your opening statement
that there is nothing more urgent than impeachment right now,
this is the most urgent thing we could possibly do. Well,
you know what, if you're a senior right now and
you can't afford your prescription drugs, that's more urgent than this.
If you're a manufacturer wanting to dominate the Western hemisphere
with the passage of the USMCA, that is more urgent.
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If you're a farmer who wants to open markets so
that your family can survive and thrive, that is a
lot more urgent than this partisan process. If you're a
desperate family member watching someone succumb to addiction, solving the
opioid problem probably more urgent.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Why is it that women with the least likelihood of
getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?
Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thought?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Is it safe to say that based off of your comments,
you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Are ugly and overweight.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yes, what do you see to people who think that
those comments are offensive. You all get all worked up
that there's going to be some uncomfortable, chaotic moment that
I'll feel pressure from conservatives or Democrats or whomever. I
feel the judgment of history. I feel the weight of that.
I worry that when the history books are written about
this country going down, that my name is going to
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be on the board of directors here. And if this
country's going down, and if we're losing the dollar, I
am going down fighting. And I don't care if that
means fighting Republicans, Democrats, the uniparty, the leadership, the packs,
the lobbyists.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
I've had it, and.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I take no lecture on asking patriotic Americans to weigh
in and contribute to this fight from those who would
gravel and bend knee for the lobbyists and special interests
who own our leadership, who have followed foo all.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
You want, who have followed out this town.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And have borrowed against the future of our future generations.
I'll be happy to fund my political operation through the
work of hard working Americans ten and twenty and thirty
dollars at a time. And you all keep showing up
at the lobbyist fundraisers and see how that goes for the.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Atlanto. Yep, thank you for the person who sent that.
This is why I read emails. Woman named Jill Kaiser said,
the astronout seems like Houston's Ukraine to me. What a
perfect description. Okay, I understand that most people have never
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done a redevelopment project, but let me just go ahead
and explain something that nobody seems to understand. Let's start
with why we have to keep this building. Have you
ever noticed in certain neighborhoods when you go in and
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you see a house that's an eight hundred square foot
house on an acre lot, when the house is fifty
years old, sixty years old, do you ever notice that
they don't go in and put an all new, all
new mechanical systems, all new roof and on the house
that's already there. Did you ever notice that what do
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they do? They scrape it and they build something listen,
carefully better suited to that property and location. They put
the property. Here's your core real estate term to the
highest and best use. If you were starting over and
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you said, all right, we got what they're calling a
robust building, because that's what they paid three and a
half million dollars for the proposal for it's going to
be exciting and dynamic and accessible and all these wonderful things.
Because it's sixty years old. We got this building. It's
all of those wonderful things. It's all of the history
you loved and all of the future you want, all
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in that same ugly ass building. Can you imagine what's
old is new again? It's glorious. Okay, well how about this.
How's the plumbing? Look? How does the plumbing look? A
sixty year old plumbing? Do you realize how bad that
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has to be?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, Michael, we spent two hundred million on it thirty
years ago to keep Bud Adams. Oh that was a
great ida. How did that work out? He was gone
in a couple of years. Okay, you're not helping your
case here. You do understand that, right, This is the
people's money that you're pissing off. So you got outdated plumbing,
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You've got outdated sewage. How about your mechanical systems? You
have any idea? A Goodman company gave us scratching ding
units for the RCC because they believed in what we
were doing. Was two hundred thousand dollars worth of units
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for just the RCC. You have any idea how much
did you ever walk into NRG The roof was open
on Sunday night. It was nice, It was very nice.
It had to be open. They had a whole fireworks display. Oh,
it was incredible. They had a wonderful display. I gotta
give cal credit.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He is.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
They're putting on an entertaining product. I know, but I
love the game. Michael, shut it up irritating me. I'm
the only person I know that can get aggravated by
a hypothetical conversation that I have with myself because I
know I'm gonna get an email on it, and I
can anticipate. I can already feel it coming in. It's
like a quarterback in the pocket. You know. They can
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tell the pockets collapsing. They got to step up. They
can already feel it. They don't have to look around.
So anyway, all right, So you got mechanical that you'd
have to replace. You got plumbing you got to replace.
And do you realize how many systems in that building
you have to replace. Oh, by the way, it ain't
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eighty a compliant that'll kill anything. What makes you think
that just because they figured out how to put a
roof on a building, and that was a big deal.
I will admit it. The concept of the dome man
that was cutting edge back in the day. But nothing
else was but Michael when I was a kid, and
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they'd score a home run and that that scoreboard to
go off. All right, I'll tell you what. Here's what
we'll do. We'll take from Rodney's bloated budget. Maybe we'll
take the African art budget. We'll take the COVID outreach budget,
will take the different slushes. We'll ask them nicely to
give you ten million. They can hide it and you
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can have ten mini. You can go build that damn
thing wherever the f you want. You build it up.
You can look at it every day. You can just
sit out there butt naked. Nobody will bother you, and
you can have it a little, a little like a
monkey hitting the machine like a drug addict. Give me
another dose of that, like you're in the hospital and
the pain meds, and every time you want to, you
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can click the button and woo and whatever it costs.
We'll take that out of the county's bloated budget. How
about that? How about we don't spend another billion dollars. Okay,
So here's the profit and law statement for taxpayers in
this area. You got NRG, you got Toyota, you got
Minute Made. Uh you know, you built a soccer stadium, right,
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you know? You got the rail. They're still working on
the rail. You got downtown renovations. The gallery has gone
to hell. Yeah, let's just what else can we add
to it? How about the port renovation. You're doing it
big on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
MH love it.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
You did do something Elvis special that has not received
a lot of attention, and that is that when he
goes to Germany, he's drafted. I mean, can you imagine.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
You don't think about people being plucked out of their
lives and thrown into government service, and how disruptive that
is to the plans they had, to the little bit
of equity they're building in their in their bank account
and in their careers. And how two years away from
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where you were early in your career. Your girlfriend's gone
married somebody else. The company you worked for had to
replace you, and now they don't have a space for you.
Your loved ones died. His mama died, while he was.
I mean all of these things, but nobody notices those
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things are happening until it's Elvis, which is okay. You
can bring attention to things. That's what famous people can do.
You can bring attention to things that are going on
every day that nobody's paying attention to. But what hadn't
been really covered was that he falls in love with
opera while he's in Germany and he's listening to a
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famous Italian opera singer. And that was back in the
day where the only music you had other than that
it was on the radio, was on your record player
and listening to this record over and over and over again,
and he begins exploring the range of his voice. And
that is why people get aggravated with me when I
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say I'll give I don't care for the first five
years of Elvis. It's not true, but you have to
say it for a fact. For me, it's the last
five years, the broken Elvis, the complex Elvis, the conflicted Elvis,
the declining Elvis, is scared, addicted, troubled Elvis. That's a
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character and study anyway to the astronom renovation in your
call seven one, three, nine, nine, nine, one thousand Let's
start with Mark. Mark, you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Why don't we just tear it down? But Mark, when
I was a kid, I'd go there with my mama,
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and my mama would take me and we had such
a good time. Don't destroy my childhood. Mark, that's a
that's the level of argument you get. You know, there's
a hundred reasons people don't want it to turn down.
They're personally gonna benefit from it. They're personally that they
have some childhood memory they're holding on to. They think
it's going to be something that they've always wanted in
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Houston and isn't here like snowskiing or a skate park.
There's a hundred different reasons, and these people are good.
You pay three and a half million dollars, which, by
the way, whose money was that? Where's the three and
a half million pot of money come from? To study
this whole thing? You know what's funny about this, Mark,
you can tear down Yankee Stadium. Listen. I love Houston
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as much as the next guy. I wanted to be
mayor of the place. I love it. I love the people.
I came here in eighty nine. This city has been
so good to me, I've never been turned away from anywhere,
and I should because I'm uncouth and crass. I have
been welcomed in every neighborhood, every black church, every white church,
every country club. I've been to every one of them.
I've spoken to business groups. We built a political career,
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built a real estate company. I've practiced law in downtown.
I've run radio stations, and then we built an audience
from here that we launched nationwide. I love this place,
but I don't love the topography or the Bayous, or
the flooding, or the mosquitoes or the heat. I love
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the people and the spirit it really is. It's a
unique spirit. I believe in it. But it is not
a spirit that says, take on a bunch of debt
like this, and we can't get rid of something. Paved paradise,
put up a parking lot is real. My wife came
here in eighty nine, and she told me in the
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early nine she said, you know, Americans are so weird.
She grew up in a house it was one hundreds
of years old. Not that it was nice. You just
don't tear things down and rebuild them. Hell, we tore
down the shamrock Hotel. Do you have any idea who
Glenn McCarthy was and what a legend he was? Giant?
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Well that was clever, Michael. You see what I did there?
That just boom that came out of boom boom. Yeah. Oh,
you don't know about the Shamrock Hotel. Go back and
watch the video of him putting on skiing expedition exhibitions
in the swimming pool. Tell me what the astronome is
and isn't Shamrock Hotel. They tore down Yankee Stadium. I
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love Houston as much as the next guy. Yankee Stadium.
The fact that let me tell you something. If your
argument is and people have said this, but Michael, astrodome's
all we got. If that's what you believe, that's please
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don't say that again in public. That's probably the most
embarrassing thing you can say. But let me help you
with this argument. Okay, what you're telling me is you
went to Paris last year and you saw the great churches.
You went to the Middle East and you saw the bazaar.
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You went to London and you saw maybe the Eye
of London, or you saw Westminster Abbey, you saw the
great structures. Maybe you you drove up to York, I
saw the York Minster. Maybe you went to New York
and you saw the Empire State Building. Or maybe you
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went to Chicago and you saw what was once the
tallest building in the world. Or you went to Miami
and your your friend took you to the beach, same
with La. Or you went to New Orleans and you
went to Bourbon Street. And I ain't got nothing like that, Michael.
My clients come visit me, I ain't got nothing to
show them. We're not that kind of city. We're not
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a vacation town. We're a town where you come to
live and create wealth. Nobody comes here on vacation, and
that's okay. But by the way, if your idea of
the place to take somebody who's here and you want
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to show them what we got that's nice is a
sixty year old, condemned, decrepit stadium that we're clinging to
because we got nothing else, that's sad? Is that really
your argument? You're gonna bring the dome back to grandeur?
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Do you think if that was possible, they would have
built nurg next door. You know how much that thing
costs hours bottle up those memories and hold them upstairs
in your memory palace and stop paying for them. You
don't live in the house you were born in, and
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you didn't go buy it before they tore it down.
The only childhood home you should hold on to is
in Tupelo, Mississippi, because the king was there. You can
tear down at Abraham Lincoln's house for all I care. It's
not just that you're holding on to it. It's worse
than that. It's that you're investing emotion in it, from
which you will never profit and into which you will
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be plunged greater in debt. And by the way, not me, Michael,
I moved out of the city. I don't care where
you are Willis Scie, fair Woodlands, Livingston. They're gonna build
a one hundred million dollars stadium where you are. Well,
we got to Michael Friday night lights. You know, you
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dumb ass. Do you have any idea how much you're
gonna pay in taxes for all this crap. You haven't
had kids in that school district in twenty years. And
by the way, after they build a stadium, you know what,
they come back when the people that make all the
money on us, they come back with after that. On
tonight's news, your local elementary school has leaks in the classrooms.
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Little Billy said, yeah. Sometimes when I was a learning
and writing on my page, the water hits the page
and it drips, and my mama told me not to
drink on it because it might be poisoned. And we
please raise eighteen million dollars. These kids deserve a decent school.
It never stops. This is creeping socialism in the form
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of boosterism. They're gonna take all your money. Don't you
understand that?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Well done, sir.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And never night was a crack then, like the dumber.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Full of oil field money and holy hell.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Houston girls as a rule out on the ocean of cause.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
On sixteen, I'm gonna go on down, sit any astra,
don't just me and you and all of them blue
the feed.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And Mamo read, I'm gonna go on down, sit in
the ass strut, don down one whatever itver became.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Of my brother, my brother Bruce Robinson, who's the finest songwriter.
Miss Charlie Chaz writes that Livingston comment killed me just now.
We don't have anything out here in Livingston except crackheads,
and the church is trying to help them. Oh and
the prison been alive. Can you imagine growing up in
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the town where you didn't have a professional sports team.
You also didn't have high taxes. See, people don't understand
the high cost of getting buy People don't understand why
it's so high. They're mad at everybody, but they don't realize.
You get all these stadiums before you ever buy a
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ticket to go there. Mind you, you got all these
public infrastructure projects. Gotta have that flooding, you know, remember
the last flood. If you don't give us the money
this time, we'll do it again. And then we want
to build a dyke. M You thought you were done
with dyke talk. Nope, we're gonna get a build a dyke.
But that's gonna be a whoo that's gonna be a
doozy right there. But that'll save everything. Yep, what else
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can we do? Maybe we could do some airport renovations
that'd be nice. Before you ever get on a plane,
the port has to constantly be maintained. That's real, that's legit,
that's actual economic development. Stadiums are economic development. The port
is economic development. Second largest port seventh in the world.
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There's a lot coming in and out of there that
affects your life. Yeah, well, don't worry about that. We'll
give them their money. I haven't find it over there. Right. Well,
we don't have enough police, and we got more of
them retired and receiving retirement benefits. But we got to
have more cops. What we're gonna do, We're gonna bring
back drop wait till that hits the budget. We screwed
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the firefighters for ten years under Sylvester Turner, so now
we got to do a true up. But we got
to do it all at once. Uh oh, yep, we
did that. What was that six hundred million dollars? Well,
you knew that was coming. Sylvester had been screwing the
firefighters for a long time. Rearly that wasn't anyway. So
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you got that, You got the city employees, the municipal
pension board. Don't even get me going on that metro's
dying to expand that stupid rail that nobody rides, and
the few people who ride it are only because you
canceled the bus lines along there, So they got to
get there somehow. Oh, then you got the county they're
now doing guaranteed minimum income. Yeah, we're gonna pay for
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that too. See, everybody's got their little thing, and there's you,
poor li lo you out there and you can't keep
any of what you make. The cost of home ownership,
it's through the roof. Now did I mention home insurance?
Have you looked at what your insurance premiums are? Yeah,
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that's what happens when your city, county, and region have
not taken proper care for flood mitigation for decades and
your house got flooded and so did everybody else in town,
and the insurance had to pay for it. Well, you're
going to go somewhere else to get insurance. No, they're
out of business in Texas. Now imagine this. Imagine it
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got so bad that some insurance companies said, you know what,
let's pack up shop and go home. We can't make
any money down there on the Gulf Coast. Oh yeah,
so now you've got less competition. That's going to be
a problem. How about your car insurance? Well, we got
the illegal aliens that the Catholic Church got paid by
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the federal government to bring in. I don't care that
you're Catholic. You can send me an email all day long.
Your church got in bed with the federal government to
outsource so the government could keep their hands off of it,
and it became a cash cow for them. And I
don't care if you like it or not. I don't.
You don't have to like it. You can tell me
you hate me. That's fine, doesn't make it any less true.
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Catholic Church got in bed with the US government to
bring the legal aliens into this country and get paid
a lot of money for it. The government had the
interest in bringing in the Democrats and putting them in
the Red States to mak them blue. The Catholic Church
had the interest it always has, which is making money.
Blows my mind when Catholics say to me, you know,
Vatican is the largest landowner in the world. Hold on,
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I keep my Bible right here. Let's see. Let's see
what book of the Bible does it say that thou
should build a church and own the land underneath that
what I'm saying, maybe rent some of it out, triple net,
keep the mineral interest. If you flip it, where is
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that in the Bible?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
I don't want to make you uncomfortable talking about the Bible.
And Jesus and all. But where's that in there being
the largest landowner. Why is that something to be proud of? Well,
you know, oh Jesus, he was into multi family, my goodness. There.
Toward the end he got more into industrial. He saw
the warehouse coming two thousand years later with Amazon and all.
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But boy, he was believing in the land.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
You know.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
The well talked that we started the show with today
got me thinking about something, and that was Jonah. That
story always appealed to me. Jonah in the well. Remember
Jonah and Nineveh? And God told Jonah to go there
and to preach the word. And what did he do?
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He was selfish. He wished that Nineveh would be destroyed,
and he refused to preach there, which God had commanded
him to do. He goes to see he falls into
water and he's swallowed by a whail. Well that's a
humbling thing. What did Omar Kayem say? It is in
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our times? It's during our darkest times that we seek God.
Is only during our darkest times that we seek God.
So Jonah starts praying to God. You remember Old Testament.
He has said, God, I have defied you, and if
you will save me, I will go to Nineveh and
I will preach your word to the people there. And
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he did, and he did well. What I've always taken
from that story since we started on the Moby Dick
and then Ramon had a very very cheeky little thing
he played that. I'm still upset over what I take
from that. And maybe this is just the way my
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parents raised me, or maybe it's just a god complex
I have, or some sort of profit or missionary whatever
that may be. Is the idea that you have to
speak the truth no matter who it upsets.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, well, well, lucky you. The Michael Ferry Show continues.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Your lucky day. I got the home grassfore.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
You love Van, I'm waiting, then you're well, fat line, Well,
I ain't got nothing but dessert on my back and
a nod two button suit. I walked down on my
job about.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Old week, sometimes a telephone. How many people got a
day job? W two? Making a car payment, house payment,
credit card payment, never never seems to add up, and
(27:23):
there's never enough money, trying somehow some way to make
a little extra. Cut corners here, put a keep on there,
win a free ticket here, do something here, And yet
these people have no idea because people like some hot
(27:47):
new thing. I notice young people always like to have
a concert they're going to go to. We're going to
Taylor Swift in a year. You bought tickets a year
from now for that hussy man. I wouldn't buy Elvis
tickets a year from now, and partly because I don't
think he'd be there. But there's nothing I want that badly.
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Maybe let's look inward for a moment. I don't want
to get too preachy on you, but maybe let's look
inward for a moment. Maybe if you're looking for something
to give your life meaning that's going to cost billions
of dollars, and you don't understand that you're paying for that, maybe,
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just maybe, I mean, you do realize that this whole
astronom thing, this is not originating from people who just
love Houston, they just do and do. This originates from
people who, if these deals aren't done, they got to
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move to another city where they are. Maybe we can
sell Atlanta on this. Miami's booming, let's go there. Birmingham's
got a chip on their shoulder and they don't have
nothing nice. New Orleans doesn't have a baseball stadium. Yeah,
but everybody's moved out. They're broke. All right, where can
we go? Let's see, Uh, we've already built Phoenix. Oh,
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you know where we'll go. Let's go to Oklahoma City.
In Tulsa. You got a lot of money, a low
tax base, and a huge chip on their shoulder that
they don't have any water bodies. And they got the
one little basketball team they stole from Seattle. And can
you imagine Seattle still a city? I mean, how do
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you lose your professional basketball team and still be a city?
Imagine that? You know why we didn't have an income
tax one hundred and ten years ago, because we didn't
have an entire class of people who scammed you out
of money. And by the way, nobody when they're taking
your money. Nobody when they're taking your money says I'm
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taking your money. I'm taking it out of your pocket
and putting it in mine. Now I got it. You
don't have it anymore. Ha ha. They don't do that. You
ever notice that They say, you love America, don't you? Yeah, well,
then buy this give me your money. You want you
want to pay tribute Houston's past, don't you then give
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me this money? Wait? What yeah, yeah, yeah, you want
to relive all these great experiences, don't you. And you
it's so sad. It's so sad because you see the
glee people have for some of these people's first time
they've been happy in a long time. They got a
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few times in their life they're happy when they're a
kid and don't have anything to worry about, and they
get candy Christmas, and then during a courtship, you know,
they got endorphins flow during the courtship. They're excited about that,
and then they have a lot of events around that,
and then all the event people get money on their
wedding and we'll have a shower, we'll do this, and
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it is oh, over one hundred fifty thousand dollars in
debt that we can't afford, and we live in an
apartment that we can't afford, and we could have bought
a house for that. Oh but we had that princess
prince moment. Okay, all right, so that was good. And
then we don't have a car. Okay, well you can
buy a car on credit. We don't have a house. Well,
you can buy a house on credit. And so then
they've oh but we're pregnant. All right, we're gonna be
(31:28):
ex said, We're gonna play that whole game again. We're
gonna do all the public events around the child. And
then the child is there and you're up all night.
You're really but you know why because people have bought
the marketing pitch. People have bought the marketing pitch. And
there's Look, I'm a capitalist through and through. I love
to make money. I love to spend money. I love
(31:49):
to support businesses. Businesses keep it. But you gotta find
a core value and a happy place you can exist
without anybody else's approval that doesn't cost a dime. And
maybe that's it's a beautiful day outside. Maybe that's your garden,
(32:11):
and maybe that's your dog, and maybe hopefully it's your
children and your wife and your husband, or your neighbor,
or maybe it's woodworking, maybe it's a classic car. You've
got to find something on your little plot of land
that can make you happy that is not determined by
(32:34):
a public vote of billions of dollars. This whole astronom thing,
if it goes away, it'll be back in two years.
It has to. There are too many people who need
to make the money off of it. I don't mind
people making money, but let's be honest about it. Let's
(32:56):
put up front, these are the people that have already had.
They already have the contracts, including the minority contracts. You're
gonna see this thing pushed first. There'll be some pouting,
There'll be some some major black and Hispanic leaders, mostly
black because the Hispanics don't realize they're being cut out
of these deals. But there'll be some black folks in
town that'll be against this, just like the his de bond,
(33:17):
and they'll come out very publicly against it. I don't
think that's a good idea. I think it's just some
old white boys downtown backroom dealing. This is the same
kind of deal we saw before. Hey, Rev, we'd like
you to come down. We'd like to show you these plans.
Hey we got you cut in for eight percent. Well,
like I said, I believe, I believe this thing ought
(33:38):
to happen because this seemed like a good deal to happen.
Yesterday we had the lovely ladies of the Conroe isd
ON and I got so many nice messages. I'm so hopeful,
not just for Conrad asd but that you are a
person out there that will take on a leadership position
in your church, at your little league, in your homeowner association, everywhere,
(34:03):
all the time, in your household? Are you the leader
you need to be in your household? I sent them
to Honor Cafe and Chris Sadler last night I texted him.
I said, hey, send me the bill, and he said,
I'm not sending you the bill. You gave us thousands
of dollars worth of promotion, just bragging that they were
coming to Honor Cafe. I said, I would love that,
but that one hundred and seventy seven dollars, I'm on
(34:25):
the hook for it. And I told people I was
going to pay for it. So checks in the mail
and it is today, and next time I'm going to
send the Gringos. Didn't even think about the fact Gringos
has a location just north of there. Yeah, but they
had a wonderful lunch. And I want to say thank
you to Matt, to Matt, to Mark, Katie and his
(34:46):
lovely and beautiful may I say wife, Twila, Twila Grooms Katie,
Remember I told you the story about the marine and
the medic told her when she was in war and
she was dying and he said, if you'll stay alive,
I'll give you my seventy four Bronco and he did.
And our friend Benny Tortorella at Muscle Cards of Houston
has almost one hundred thousand dollars in this thing, and
he told me about it, and I said, well, let's
(35:07):
see if we can recover some of that money. Let
me see if I can get you thirty thousand dollars
to get this thing completed, because that's what's left because
he's having to do it a little bit here, little bit.
And Mark Katie at Benchmark Mortgage Company and his lovely
and beautiful wife Twyla stepped up and wrote a thirty
thousand dollars check for us, and we'll send you photos
that whenever that happens. Oh, I have a new Facebook page,
(35:27):
by the way,
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