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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Today is August twenty sixth, twenty twenty five. On August
twenty sixth, nineteen oh nine, Jim Davis was born. You
may not recognize that name, but you do and will
recognize that character.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
He is not the most identifiable character on the show.
He's not even the same second. But he was straight
out of Central Casting for this role.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
He could not have been more perfect for this role.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And is it's an underrated character because he died in
real life while the show was ongoing. But both he
and his wife were so perfectly perfect. I have known
people like the family portrayed in that movie, and the
husband and the wife are so amazingly just. Casting directors
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don't get their credit for finding the right person for
a role. Did you guess who I'm talking about, who
Jim Davis was, or the character by which you knew him?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
In this scene, I'm not gonna tell you. I'm not
gonna set it up. I'm just gonna let it play.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I called Less at the bank and asked him to
transfer twelve million dollars from the account.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
So what you got a hundred times that much.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I'm talking liquid assets cash, daddy cash, and we don't
have that on ount. And you know why because you
took ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You damn right, I took it. It's mine.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
That money belongs to Eing Oil.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
And who in the hell do you think Euing Oil is.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's me. Euing Oil belongs to me. And don't you
forget it, boy.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
And you gave me Euing Oil to run in writing,
and that makes you obliged to consult me before you
do anything that concerns that company. Obliged you telling me
that I'm obliged to ask you how to spend my
own money any damn way, I see fit.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
You gave me the power to run that company. On
damn it, I intend to run it.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
So I gave you power. Let me tell you something, boy,
If I did give you power, you've got nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nobody give you power. Real power is something you pick.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Jock Ewing Jim Davis played Jock Ewing. When you think back, now,
tell me I'm not right. That is an.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Inspired casting Ewing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Jim Davis was Jock Ewing. He was born to be
Jock Ewing. And I'll tell you this if you go back,
I mean, if you watch. Netflix has a thing now
called America's Team. It's an eight part series on Jerry Jones.
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Whether you love Jerry Jones or hate Jerry Jones. I
hate Jerry Jones, despise him, but I also recognize his
success and acknowledge it and and respect it. But there's
no doubt in my mind that Jerry Jones watched Dallas
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and wanted to be Dallas and fashions himself in the
Dallas mold.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
There's no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Died on this day in twenty twenty three. American television
game show host born one hundred years earlier, and that
would be Bob Barker.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
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Speaker 1 (05:18):
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Speaker 3 (05:22):
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Speaker 1 (05:28):
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Speaker 3 (05:36):
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give you real flavor, full rich tobacco flavor.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
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Speaker 4 (05:47):
The filter's put the flavor to Winston's tastes good like
a cigarette shoe.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I don't need me a smoke breaking now.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Even the Flintstones endorse Winston's.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
The ain't sure work hard, don't they money? Yeah? I
hate to see them work so hard.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Meat cool?
Speaker 6 (06:17):
And let's go around back.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Well we can't see him. Gee, we ought to do
something fread. Okay, how's about taking a nap?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I got a better idea.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
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Speaker 1 (06:46):
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Speaker 7 (06:48):
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Speaker 1 (06:53):
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Speaker 7 (06:55):
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I's been loved you by Winston. I'm not going blood
selling tasting goat.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Like how fernicious? Is that a children's cartoon? You know,
talk about cultural changes. I was never a cigarette smoker,
but but.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I can remember.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I don't know, it feels like there was a bond
in the workplace or at a sporting event by smokers.
That might be artificial, but I always had the impression
there was a bond between them, because you know, it
was kind of a shameful activity, or at least maybe
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by the time I started, you know, getting up to
where I could notice such things, it was a shameful activity.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You had to hide and do it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And so if you were at a sporting event, uh,
then people would kind of go behind the concessions. Now
they'd go behind somebody, and so it was kind of naughty,
but you got to figure that was kind of a
bonding experience. You know, you're having a you're over there smoking,
you're behind it. You got to talk about something.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's Tracy Bird.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon crawl.
Listen to the TSAR talk my buddy Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, it's not a baseball story.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's a different ball, bigger balls, Harris County story.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That will I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
At this point, I think you just shake your head.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure there are any emotions left.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
For these people. But first.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Republican leadership in Austin had the opportunity to censure fleabag Democrats,
you know, those who fled to prevent the camp site
Regulation Bill from being passed. I'd you like to be
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a parent of a child who perished in camp. Mystic
special session is called to address that and hopefully improve
camp site regulation. And the Democrats play a game and
go hide up under the fat rolls of JB. Pritzker
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in Illinois and Barack Obama's telling them how great they are,
and Nancy Pelosi and the whole the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
How would you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, surely you're going to punish them afterwards, right, No,
A motion to censure the fleabag Democrats fail to get
a two thirds majority in the Texas House Republican caucus
with twenty seven Republicans voting to protect the Democrats. Well,
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couldn't the speaker get his own caucus to censure the Democrats?
Republican state rent money from Canton says that the Speaker
was actually whipping votes to oppose cinsure the vote took
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place behind closed doors. The censure would have resulted in
loss of chairmanships and vice chairmanships. And you might think
to yourself, wait a second, I thought you were talking
about punishing the Democrats. What are the Democrats doing with
chairmanships and vice chairmanships?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Cole? Oh yeah, Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Deal with the Democrats because remember it's the Democrats who
supported him. Once he had the Democrats and sixteen Republics.
He didn't need the other Republicans. So who did he
reward the block of votes that made him the speaker?
The Democrats. The Democrats are cleaning our clock. They're making
fools of us, and the worst part is I don't
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even mind that they're better at the game. The part
that pisses me off, and this one really does.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This gets me.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I try not to get angry over these things because
the process is made up of people, and anytime you
have people, you'll have sellouts, you'll have compromisers, you'll have
people who do deals.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And I wouldn't mind that a crook's a crook.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What I mind is how advanced the process is that
the carl Rose of the world have created a situation
where the very people selling our voters out have professionals
behind them who don't say, hey, you know, oh Bob,
he sold you out. Those people have professionals who the
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minute it happens, start with the text messages, the mail
and telling you how they have cut a good deal
for you, and they're up there working hard for you.
So I have people, good people, honest, honorable people who,
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for instance, think the Democrats fleeing the state is scandalous, awful, horrible, horrible,
and yet behind the scenes, their state rep is making
sure there's no price that was paid for it. The
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censure would have resulted in loss of chairmanships and vice chairmanships,
loss of credit for seniority for the next session, which
means you'd lose good offices and things like that, and
a pro rat of reduction in office budgets for each
day the member was absent without leave. The vote was
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forty four to twenty seven. Because remember it's just Republicans
who vote, forty seven was needed to pass.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Twenty seven Republicans voted against it.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And to be very clear, the Speaker of the House
was working hard to keep it from passing. Now we
turn to Harris Counting. You wonder why they keep getting
more money but services get worse. An item on the
agenda for Harris County Commissioner's Court today is a four
hundred and sixty eighty six hundred and ten dollars request
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by Democrat Commissioner Adrian Garcia to sponsor the twenty twenty
five Gay Softball World Series under the guise of economic development.
And you wonder, folks, why there's no money to do
the things that are important. You wonder why there's no
You wonder why a light sprinkle in the water's rising
because they don't spend money on drainage.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They don't spend money on things that matter.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They don't as Tom Ramsey said, we should be worried
about safety, infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And flood control.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
They told the constables they can't have a pay raise,
but they can spend four hundred and sixty eight thousand
dollars sponsoring the Gay Softball World Series.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What does that even sound like? Live from George Santos Field.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hello everybody, and welcome to the twenty twenty five Gay
Softball World Series. Let's go down to the field now
and talk to our leadoff better and the mascot for
today's game, Tim Wallas, who's giddy as a kid.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
On Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well it might as well be Christmas boys. We're all
gay and jolly down here on the field. Listen, what
a big day we're in for these lineups.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They're loaded.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Of course, We've got the best catcher around, Pete Buddegig
Hey Peat batting clean up for us today. It's the hammer,
Pauy Pelosi, and we've got a wild card on a
mound today. You know, he never wins, but he shared
us talk a big game and I like that. Also
host the ball for a very long time. Not sure
what that's but that's old betto a roar. Hey beto Now,
Lindsey Graham's a fan favorite, but he's still in the dugout.
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Fans are chanting his name, but he's afraid to come out.
He does this every year. Oh, and we do have
a late scratch.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's Hillary Clinton. She's a rally killer.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't forget Today's dollar hot Dog Day. Every Barney
Frank is a buck. Mitt Romney has had a half
dozen of those dogs, telling everybody hot dogs, my favorite meat,
hot dogs, my favorite meat. Oh okay, middieh I better
quit my chatting.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I already have two strikes and no balls. Nobody to wall.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
It's rain.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
This is Selvester Turner, the Mayor, and a human being.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Wa Michael Betty Show on this day.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
In nineteen ninety five, Seal's Hiss from a Rose hit
number one in the United States after being used in
What Movie From.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Home and What.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Seal would later say, I owe my career to Joel Schumacher,
referring to the film's director, Gay Dave is on the line,
Gay Dave, do you know what film it was? Hi?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I'm trying to think of a Joel Schumacher film that
would have that. In ninety five, Pretty Woman, how many
Schumacher I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
How many Joel Schumacher films do you know?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
It's apparently none. I can't think of any.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The film was Batman Forever, Kay, Dave, Batman Forever?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Oh, Batman Forever. Okay, I think I've seen it?
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
The Is that the Michael Keaton one?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Uh? Is it remote?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
George Clooney, I have not seen it. It's it's during
my lost decades, so I have not seen it. I
am much more likely to see a Gene Hackman or
Jack Nicholson, Val Kilmer, Sorry, yes, Val Kilmer.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Ramon corrected himselfs valco is the best one.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Val Kilmer is good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'm much more likely to know a seventies film like
French Connection than.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I am a nineties film.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I just that's my lost decade, and I've never gone
back and corrected most of that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I have taken the like in the Baronet French Connections.
What's it?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Baroncu Letis is awesome? What where did the baronical lads
just come from?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well it's a nineties ban.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, yeah, they're on my favorites. They're awesome. In concert
if you've never seen.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Him, I have not seen him in concert. But I've
watched video of them in concert and they're Brian Wilson song.
I love that song. It's a great tribute. It's a
good song on its own. It has a good sound
and vibe, and then it's well written, and it happens
to be a tribute to someone who pays, which pays
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proper tribute to someone. It's very hard to pull all
of those things off at the same time.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I saw them in DC right after the Gore Bush election.
Uh huh, And it was the night of the Canadian election,
and every hour or so in the concert, they'd stop
the concert to give us an update on the pote
just says a folk fund at our election. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So that was in two thousand. Yeah, that was kind
of at the end of the ye.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Two thousand or two thousand and one. It was probably
around there.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So interesting. What'd you call it that, Dave?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Oh, well, I heard the bats, I heard it's raining men,
So I thought you wanted me to call in. Hey,
one of your show Spotsors is getting started on my
house today Allied Outdoor Solutions. We're doing an out there kitchen.
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They worked on some of our pool area in the past,
and we brought them back in to finish up the backyard.
That's the one thing we didn't do. Oh my god,
we do.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So what do you what are you doing? Apparently what
what all are you doing?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
But so we're extending out our patio cover and then
uh put in a flattop grill, regular grill and a
green egg and fridge and storage and trashed area and
uh dropping cooler and just tying it all into our
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drainage and stuff. A. It's a it's a big project.
And I told him I would. They gave me a
good price. I might have dropped your name a few times.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Actually, I'll like them to know that is it attached
to the house. Is it a free standing building, a
free standing structure.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
It's it's attached. So we have a little patio area
outside the in the backyard around the pool, and then
we already had a covered area under that. Well they're
sending that out again about the same amount, you know,
so it's a longer covered area. And so we'll do
like a big kind of L shaped uh uh. We're
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doing like an L shaped area with a you know,
a seating area on one side and it's it's gonna be.
It's pretty good. I'll send I'll send you pictures. And
we had North wind A out last week too.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You had good, good, good good, and they took good
care of you.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
They did, they did.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Y'all aren't having get parties out there? Are you?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah? Every once in a while we do. Yeah. We
have a little kind of a playpool. It's only five
feet deep, four and a half feet deep. And then
we have a little uh, pre standing spa and have
an outdoor shower and a trophy journal inside it. So
it's fun. So we have a fire pit in an
area to sit around. We should we should we should
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all hang out and drink some whiskey and sit around
the fire.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Is that what you think all straight people do?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I think all normal people do.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You said it as.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
If you were trying to get uh, and you know,
we'll have y'all over and we'll I don't know where
cowboy boots and fire and drink whiskey I had.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know if y'all we do.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But I talked to my old neighbor who lived directly
behind to our house and his next door neighbor, which
we could also see out the back of our house.
That house sold and they had this this amazing slide
and into the pool.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And I said, you know, how is the smith house?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Uh? You know, did did it ever sell? And because
it flooded? And he said yes, And he said the
neighbors are very nice.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's a gay couple. They're very nice.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
He's older and you know the fella he's with is younger.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He said, they're very nice people.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
The only problem is they have these parties every weekend
and it's like the biggest, loudest parties and it's all
naked men coming down the slide.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And he said, it's just a little And it's not
like I'm offended, but.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's just odd and it feels like they should, you know,
kind of knock that off. Maybe I don't know if
y'all all know each other or not, but if I
give you the can you call it?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Sounds fun?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I want to know they got a.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Cool slide into the pool.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I had one of those twisty slides into my pool
growing up. That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You know, they don't do slides anymore, and they don't
you know. The big loss is the diving board. When
I was a kid. Everybody the diving board was it?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Man, we had a springboard diving board like you go
high on them?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, as you're supposed to. And now you know what
they have.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now they have a required This is the dumbest thing ever.
If you have a pool and you are a public place,
you've got to have this deal, this crane to drop
people down in your pool.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's like disabled parking spots. It's never used.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
They have, you know, ten times as many disabled parking
spots as they need, but they nobody wants to be
Oh to me, nobody thinks this is a waste. Go
into a parking lot where you have to park a
mile away and you'll see see how many spots they've
left open for disabled people that are not being used.
And oh, by the way, ninety percent of people with
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a disabled parking sticker parking disabled are not disabled. Now
I'll get a bunch of emails going. You don't know
who's disabled or not. I can tell you that if
you can walk in, you ain't. You don't know how
many people have emphysema or this or that. Well, a
lot of people have a little struggle getting in. They
don't have a disabled parking sticker. That's the biggest scam
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out there. You want to know the second biggest scam, Kay, Dave,
I'm gonna tell you, emotional support dogs. And then that
led to emotional support everything because we're a nation that
can't tell people get over it, you don't need it.
You get on a plane and everybody wants to bring
their little fe feed dogs. So what do they do.
It's my emotional support dog. Really, really, it's ridiculous. A
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friend of mine's daughter, there were four girls in an
apartment this semester. Three of the girls came to college
with emotional support dogs. Because that way you can have
your dog in the apartment. Otherwise you can't.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You can't shoot Michaels. It's Russell. Butler is on the line.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
He says he's a candidate in the upcoming October eleventh
New Orleans mayoral race.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Russell, welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Thank you, Michael, thank you for having me on the show.
It's great to be here, first time calling in. Listen
to you all the time. Twice a day, Russell.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I looked up candidates for New Orleans mayor and you're
not listed on there. Did you file late?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
No? No, I'm on the list. You're just seeing the
short list of the three that are getting all the media.
There are actually I think eleven of us now still
in the race.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Oh yeah, you sure.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
How about that you got you got a big old
red dup mustache and the cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah. I like that. You might run to move to
Texas and run over here.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, that you got a little better.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But I love New Orleans all blowed handlebarn.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
He's got like, uh the sissy bar kind of handlebars,
like way up there.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, I like the real deal. What do you do
for Livan Russell?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Well, Michael, I worked my whole career in construction, engineering,
project management, technology type things, uh, chemical plants, residential construction,
and I'm just I'm a project guy. I'm not a politician,
and I think if I were elected, I could get
some of the stuff done around here that actually needs
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to get done. Uh foremost the flood control, and we
need to get our crime under control, and we need
to get our infrastructure back up before we worry about
all the little social issues and all this other stuff
that we uh seem to waste a whole lot of
time on.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I saw LaToya the destroyer was indicted recently. Do you
expect anything to come of that.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
I have heard that it is about fifty to fifty
that she actually goes to jail. She is indicted, and
everybody knew what she was doing. But they say with
the dollar amounts and stuff, that she'll probably get a
probation and fining and pay some money back and stuff
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like that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
So that dude, that's banging her that the taxpayers are
paying for her to part all around the world. Is
he still active as a police officer?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I think he is not active. He was indicted about
a year ago on some other things, well same thing really,
mostly time sheet issues and stuff like that, and I
think he has been off the police force since then.
But stuttle butt is that he is still active in Uh,
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how would you say it? Advising LaToya?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, what in the world is happening back there?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I'm sorry I stepped on something.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
My understanding was he was her security detail, as as
is typical for the mayor to have. Were they carrying
on before she was the mayor and then she tapped
him to tap her for the job or no?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I believe I believe her husband died while she was
in office.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, and he was just providing took up after that, he.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Was providing comfort. Yes, and uh in a city owned
apartment at the Pentabla building on Jackson Square. Uh, that
they were using for their engagements.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Do you know Eddie Martini?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I do not know him. I would love to know
him that well.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
He always tells me he's a big deal in New Orleans.
But I ask everybody. I randomly ask people. I go
to the gas station in New Orleans and I ask
people if they know Eddie Martin, And nobody ever knows
Eddie Martine. Now some people know his brother Danny, who
was a state senator. Up until very recently he was
the head of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
You know Danny Martini, I don't know him either. Do
you know any Martinis?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Just the ones in the glass.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
If you live in New Orleans, how often do you
go to Cafe Dumont? Because I'll tell you when I go.
I generally go one time, but that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I feel horrible afterwards.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I don't go that often every couple of months. But
I actually don't go to the one down in the
French Quarter that I go to the Wooden City Park
where there's a lot less crowd, a lot more of
leisurely atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Percentage of people who buy the Cafe Dumont coffee and
the yellow can bring it home, put it in the
freezer and never once use it.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I've a guess, probably all of them.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What is one really touristy thing in New Orleans that
you still do even though you've lived there forever.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I still ride my bike down Bourbon Street, although I
don't frequent the establishments on Bourbon Street all that often.
I just ride my bicycle down to the river and
then up Bourbon Street and just people watch. That's my
relaxing activity.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
It is some of the best people watching. It really
is some of the best people watching. What is a
restaurant that you go to that, yes, is kind of
a touristy thing and known in that in that realm,
but you still like to eat there?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Ah GALLAXI this fine. I don't really go to most
of the touristy restaurants. I generally get out of the
French Quarter to go out to eat.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
The last time we were there, Michael T, my oldest son,
had a football game there against against It's one of
the Catholic schools.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
No surprise. Archbishop wasn't Rummel, it was Archbishop. I can't
remember it. But we went to Gallantry. As we got
to what's that, Brother Martin.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
No, I'll think of it just a second. Maybe I
blocked it out because our boys in their field house,
in their locker room before the game. You know, these
are private school kids. They a lot of them don't
realize how the real world works. They left their stuff
in the in the locker room, and the somebody from
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the other team went in and stole all the watches, wallets,
all of them and we never got those back, which
kind of creates an awkward situation. You might you might
think it was not the welcome that we were quite expecting.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
But we went to Galatois at lunch that day before
the game. We got in early, and.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'm going to tell you, Russell Butler, this was I
have such fond memories of New Orleans. Nineteen eighty four.
We went and stayed in New Orleans for the World's Fair.
My dad planned for that for two years, saved up
for us to go and stay in a hotel in
New Orleans. And it was going to be so exciting,
and I had I have such fond memories of that experience,
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family experience. And we go to Galatoais during during the
day at noon. It was a Friday at noon, and
I said, you know what, WHI while our food's coming,
I'm just gonna walk the street. I'm gonna take ten
minutes and just I don't get to New Orleans enough.
I'm just gonna walk the street and I go out.
I get about two blocks away from restaurant, and I
felt like I was in mogod Isshue.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
It's like I was.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Being eyeballed by folks who were trying to figure out
what they could pick pocket off of me or just
knock me in the head and steal what I had.
Very menacing, very very awkward and uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
And I thought to myself.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Because it's all I've ever heard, you know, Russell, this
was the story for you. I was going to put
together a World War Two Museum Michael Berry listener event,
and we started the event and we always get an
overwhelming response, and the World War Two Museum was dying
for us to be there. They gave us a great
deal on the rent. They were going to give us
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the space, they were going to give us speakers. You know,
they have a whole retinue of speakers who will come in.
I couldn't get anybody interest. The first weekend we probably
had ten people us it's not worth it, and everybody said, nope,
it's not safe.
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Vari Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Today is August twenty sixth, twenty twenty five. On August
twenty sixth, nineteen oh nine, Jim Davis was born. You
may not recognize that name, but you do and will
recognize that character.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
He is not the most identifiable character on the show.
He's not even the same second. But he was straight
out of Central Casting for this role.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
He could not have been more perfect for this role.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And is it's an underrated character because he died in
real life while the show was ongoing. But both he
and his wife were so perfectly perfect. I have known
people like the family portrayed in that movie, and the
husband and the wife are so amazingly just. Casting directors
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don't get their credit for finding the right person for
a role. Did you guess who I'm talking about, who
Jim Davis was, or the character by which you knew him?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
In this scene, I'm not gonna tell you. I'm not
gonna set it up. I'm just gonna let it play.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I called Less at the bank and asked him to
transfer twelve million dollars from the account.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
So what you got a hundred times that much.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I'm talking liquid assets cash, daddy cash, and we don't
have that on ount. And you know why because you
took ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You damn right, I took it. It's mine.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
That money belongs to Eing Oil.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
And who in the hell do you think Euing Oil is.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's me. Euing Oil belongs to me. And don't you
forget it, boy.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
And you gave me Euing Oil to run in writing,
and that makes you obliged to consult me before you
do anything that concerns that company. Obliged you telling me
that I'm obliged to ask you how to spend my
own money any damn way, I see fit.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
You gave me the power to run that company. On
damn it, I intend to run it.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
So I gave you power. Let me tell you something, boy,
If I did give you power, you've got nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Nobody give you power. Real power is something you pick.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Jock Ewing Jim Davis played Jock Ewing. When you think back, now,
tell me I'm not right. That is an.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Inspired casting Ewing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Jim Davis was Jock Ewing. He was born to be
Jock Ewing. And I'll tell you this if you go back,
I mean, if you watch. Netflix has a thing now
called America's Team. It's an eight part series on Jerry Jones.
(03:51):
Whether you love Jerry Jones or hate Jerry Jones. I
hate Jerry Jones, despise him, but I also recognize his
success and acknowledge it and and respect it. But there's
no doubt in my mind that Jerry Jones watched Dallas
(04:11):
and wanted to be Dallas and fashions himself in the
Dallas mold.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
There's no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Died on this day in twenty twenty three. American television
game show host born one hundred years earlier, and that
would be Bob Barker.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
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Speaker 4 (05:47):
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Speaker 1 (05:57):
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Speaker 3 (06:00):
Even the Flintstones endorse Winston's.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
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Speaker 7 (06:19):
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Speaker 4 (06:26):
I got a better idea.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
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Speaker 3 (07:13):
Like how fernicious? Is that a children's cartoon? You know,
talk about cultural changes. I was never a cigarette smoker,
but but.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I can remember.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I don't know, it feels like there was a bond
in the workplace or at a sporting event by smokers.
That might be artificial, but I always had the impression
there was a bond between them, because you know, it
was kind of a shameful activity, or at least maybe
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by the time I started, you know, getting up to
where I could notice such things, it was a shameful activity.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You had to hide and do it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And so if you were at a sporting event, uh,
then people would kind of go behind the concessions. Now
they'd go behind somebody, and so it was kind of naughty,
but you got to figure that was kind of a
bonding experience. You know, you're having a you're over there smoking,
you're behind it. You got to talk about something.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's Tracy Bird.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon crawl.
Listen to the TSAR talk my buddy Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, it's not a baseball story.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's a different ball, bigger balls, Harris County story.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That will I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
At this point, I think you just shake your head.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure there are any emotions left.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
For these people. But first.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Republican leadership in Austin had the opportunity to censure fleabag Democrats,
you know, those who fled to prevent the camp site
Regulation Bill from being passed. I'd you like to be
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a parent of a child who perished in camp. Mystic
special session is called to address that and hopefully improve
camp site regulation. And the Democrats play a game and
go hide up under the fat rolls of JB. Pritzker
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in Illinois and Barack Obama's telling them how great they are,
and Nancy Pelosi and the whole the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
How would you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, surely you're going to punish them afterwards, right, No,
A motion to censure the fleabag Democrats fail to get
a two thirds majority in the Texas House Republican caucus
with twenty seven Republicans voting to protect the Democrats. Well,
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couldn't the speaker get his own caucus to censure the Democrats?
Republican state rent money from Canton says that the Speaker
was actually whipping votes to oppose cinsure the vote took
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place behind closed doors. The censure would have resulted in
loss of chairmanships and vice chairmanships. And you might think
to yourself, wait a second, I thought you were talking
about punishing the Democrats. What are the Democrats doing with
chairmanships and vice chairmanships?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Cole? Oh yeah, Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Deal with the Democrats because remember it's the Democrats who
supported him. Once he had the Democrats and sixteen Republics.
He didn't need the other Republicans. So who did he
reward the block of votes that made him the speaker?
The Democrats. The Democrats are cleaning our clock. They're making
fools of us, and the worst part is I don't
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even mind that they're better at the game. The part
that pisses me off, and this one really does.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This gets me.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I try not to get angry over these things because
the process is made up of people, and anytime you
have people, you'll have sellouts, you'll have compromisers, you'll have
people who do deals.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And I wouldn't mind that a crook's a crook.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What I mind is how advanced the process is that
the carl Rose of the world have created a situation
where the very people selling our voters out have professionals
behind them who don't say, hey, you know, oh Bob,
he sold you out. Those people have professionals who the
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minute it happens, start with the text messages, the mail
and telling you how they have cut a good deal
for you, and they're up there working hard for you.
So I have people, good people, honest, honorable people who,
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for instance, think the Democrats fleeing the state is scandalous, awful, horrible, horrible,
and yet behind the scenes, their state rep is making
sure there's no price that was paid for it. The
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censure would have resulted in loss of chairmanships and vice chairmanships,
loss of credit for seniority for the next session, which
means you'd lose good offices and things like that, and
a pro rat of reduction in office budgets for each
day the member was absent without leave. The vote was
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forty four to twenty seven. Because remember it's just Republicans
who vote, forty seven was needed to pass.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Twenty seven Republicans voted against it.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
And to be very clear, the Speaker of the House
was working hard to keep it from passing. Now we
turn to Harris Counting. You wonder why they keep getting
more money but services get worse. An item on the
agenda for Harris County Commissioner's Court today is a four
hundred and sixty eighty six hundred and ten dollars request
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by Democrat Commissioner Adrian Garcia to sponsor the twenty twenty
five Gay Softball World Series under the guise of economic development.
And you wonder, folks, why there's no money to do
the things that are important. You wonder why there's no
You wonder why a light sprinkle in the water's rising
because they don't spend money on drainage.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They don't spend money on things that matter.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They don't as Tom Ramsey said, we should be worried
about safety, infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And flood control.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
They told the constables they can't have a pay raise,
but they can spend four hundred and sixty eight thousand
dollars sponsoring the Gay Softball World Series.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What does that even sound like? Live from George Santos Field.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hello everybody, and welcome to the twenty twenty five Gay
Softball World Series. Let's go down to the field now
and talk to our leadoff better and the mascot for
today's game, Tim Wallas, who's giddy as a kid.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
On Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well it might as well be Christmas boys. We're all
gay and jolly down here on the field. Listen, what
a big day we're in for these lineups.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They're loaded.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Of course, We've got the best catcher around, Pete Buddegig
Hey Peat batting clean up for us today. It's the hammer,
Pauy Pelosi, and we've got a wild card on a
mound today. You know, he never wins, but he shared
us talk a big game and I like that. Also
host the ball for a very long time. Not sure
what that's but that's old betto a roar. Hey beto Now,
Lindsey Graham's a fan favorite, but he's still in the dugout.
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Fans are chanting his name, but he's afraid to come out.
He does this every year. Oh, and we do have
a late scratch.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's Hillary Clinton. She's a rally killer.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't forget Today's dollar hot Dog Day. Every Barney
Frank is a buck. Mitt Romney has had a half
dozen of those dogs, telling everybody hot dogs, my favorite meat,
hot dogs, my favorite meat. Oh okay, middieh I better
quit my chatting.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I already have two strikes and no balls. Nobody to wall.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
It's rain.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
This is Selvester Turner, the Mayor, and a human being.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Wa Michael Betty Show on this day.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
In nineteen ninety five, Seal's Hiss from a Rose hit
number one in the United States after being used in
What Movie From.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Home and What.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Seal would later say, I owe my career to Joel Schumacher,
referring to the film's director, Gay Dave is on the line,
Gay Dave, do you know what film it was? Hi?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I'm trying to think of a Joel Schumacher film that
would have that. In ninety five, Pretty Woman, how many
Schumacher I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
How many Joel Schumacher films do you know?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
It's apparently none. I can't think of any.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The film was Batman Forever, Kay, Dave, Batman Forever?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Oh, Batman Forever. Okay, I think I've seen it?
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
The Is that the Michael Keaton one?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Uh? Is it remote?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
George Clooney, I have not seen it. It's it's during
my lost decades, so I have not seen it. I
am much more likely to see a Gene Hackman or
Jack Nicholson, Val Kilmer, Sorry, yes, Val Kilmer.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Ramon corrected himselfs valco is the best one.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Val Kilmer is good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'm much more likely to know a seventies film like
French Connection than.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I am a nineties film.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I just that's my lost decade, and I've never gone
back and corrected most of that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I have taken the like in the Baronet French Connections.
What's it?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Baroncu Letis is awesome? What where did the baronical lads
just come from?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well it's a nineties ban.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, yeah, they're on my favorites. They're awesome. In concert
if you've never seen.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Him, I have not seen him in concert. But I've
watched video of them in concert and they're Brian Wilson song.
I love that song. It's a great tribute. It's a
good song on its own. It has a good sound
and vibe, and then it's well written, and it happens
to be a tribute to someone who pays, which pays
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proper tribute to someone. It's very hard to pull all
of those things off at the same time.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I saw them in DC right after the Gore Bush election.
Uh huh, And it was the night of the Canadian election,
and every hour or so in the concert, they'd stop
the concert to give us an update on the pote
just says a folk fund at our election. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So that was in two thousand. Yeah, that was kind
of at the end of the ye.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Two thousand or two thousand and one. It was probably
around there.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So interesting. What'd you call it that, Dave?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Oh, well, I heard the bats, I heard it's raining men,
So I thought you wanted me to call in. Hey,
one of your show Spotsors is getting started on my
house today Allied Outdoor Solutions. We're doing an out there kitchen.
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They worked on some of our pool area in the past,
and we brought them back in to finish up the backyard.
That's the one thing we didn't do. Oh my god,
we do.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So what do you what are you doing? Apparently what
what all are you doing?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
But so we're extending out our patio cover and then
uh put in a flattop grill, regular grill and a
green egg and fridge and storage and trashed area and
uh dropping cooler and just tying it all into our
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drainage and stuff. A. It's a it's a big project.
And I told him I would. They gave me a
good price. I might have dropped your name a few times.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Happy.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Actually, I'll like them to know that is it attached
to the house. Is it a free standing building, a
free standing structure.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
It's it's attached. So we have a little patio area
outside the in the backyard around the pool, and then
we already had a covered area under that. Well they're
sending that out again about the same amount, you know,
so it's a longer covered area. And so we'll do
like a big kind of L shaped uh uh. We're
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doing like an L shaped area with a you know,
a seating area on one side and it's it's gonna be.
It's pretty good. I'll send I'll send you pictures. And
we had North wind A out last week too.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You had good, good, good good, and they took good
care of you.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
They did, they did.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Y'all aren't having get parties out there? Are you?
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah? Every once in a while we do. Yeah. We
have a little kind of a playpool. It's only five
feet deep, four and a half feet deep. And then
we have a little uh, pre standing spa and have
an outdoor shower and a trophy journal inside it. So
it's fun. So we have a fire pit in an
area to sit around. We should we should we should
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all hang out and drink some whiskey and sit around
the fire.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Is that what you think all straight people do?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I think all normal people do.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You said it as.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
If you were trying to get uh, and you know,
we'll have y'all over and we'll I don't know where
cowboy boots and fire and drink whiskey I had.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know if y'all we do.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But I talked to my old neighbor who lived directly
behind to our house and his next door neighbor, which
we could also see out the back of our house.
That house sold and they had this this amazing slide
and into the pool.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And I said, you know, how is the smith house?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Uh? You know, did did it ever sell? And because
it flooded? And he said yes, And he said the
neighbors are very nice.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's a gay couple. They're very nice.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
He's older and you know the fella he's with is younger.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He said, they're very nice people.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
The only problem is they have these parties every weekend
and it's like the biggest, loudest parties and it's all
naked men coming down the slide.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And he said, it's just a little And it's not
like I'm offended, but.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's just odd and it feels like they should, you know,
kind of knock that off. Maybe I don't know if
y'all all know each other or not, but if I
give you the can you call it?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Sounds fun?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I want to know they got a.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Cool slide into the pool.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I had one of those twisty slides into my pool
growing up. That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You know, they don't do slides anymore, and they don't
you know. The big loss is the diving board. When
I was a kid. Everybody the diving board was it?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Man, we had a springboard diving board like you go
high on them?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, as you're supposed to. And now you know what
they have.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now they have a required This is the dumbest thing ever.
If you have a pool and you are a public place,
you've got to have this deal, this crane to drop
people down in your pool.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's like disabled parking spots. It's never used.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
They have, you know, ten times as many disabled parking
spots as they need, but they nobody wants to be
Oh to me, nobody thinks this is a waste. Go
into a parking lot where you have to park a
mile away and you'll see see how many spots they've
left open for disabled people that are not being used.
And oh, by the way, ninety percent of people with
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a disabled parking sticker parking disabled are not disabled. Now
I'll get a bunch of emails going. You don't know
who's disabled or not. I can tell you that if
you can walk in, you ain't. You don't know how
many people have emphysema or this or that. Well, a
lot of people have a little struggle getting in. They
don't have a disabled parking sticker. That's the biggest scam
(24:22):
out there. You want to know the second biggest scam, Kay, Dave,
I'm gonna tell you, emotional support dogs. And then that
led to emotional support everything because we're a nation that
can't tell people get over it, you don't need it.
You get on a plane and everybody wants to bring
their little fe feed dogs. So what do they do.
It's my emotional support dog. Really, really, it's ridiculous. A
(24:45):
friend of mine's daughter, there were four girls in an
apartment this semester. Three of the girls came to college
with emotional support dogs. Because that way you can have
your dog in the apartment. Otherwise you can't.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You can't shoot Michaels. It's Russell. Butler is on the line.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
He says he's a candidate in the upcoming October eleventh
New Orleans mayoral race.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Russell, welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Thank you, Michael, thank you for having me on the show.
It's great to be here, first time calling in. Listen
to you all the time. Twice a day, Russell.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I looked up candidates for New Orleans mayor and you're
not listed on there. Did you file late?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
No? No, I'm on the list. You're just seeing the
short list of the three that are getting all the media.
There are actually I think eleven of us now still
in the race.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Oh yeah, you sure.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
How about that you got you got a big old
red dup mustache and the cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah. I like that. You might run to move to
Texas and run over here.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, that you got a little better.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But I love New Orleans all blowed handlebarn.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
He's got like, uh the sissy bar kind of handlebars,
like way up there.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, I like the real deal. What do you do
for Livan Russell?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Well, Michael, I worked my whole career in construction, engineering,
project management, technology type things, uh, chemical plants, residential construction,
and I'm just I'm a project guy. I'm not a politician,
and I think if I were elected, I could get
some of the stuff done around here that actually needs
(26:37):
to get done. Uh foremost the flood control, and we
need to get our crime under control, and we need
to get our infrastructure back up before we worry about
all the little social issues and all this other stuff
that we uh seem to waste a whole lot of
time on.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I saw LaToya the destroyer was indicted recently. Do you
expect anything to come of that.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
I have heard that it is about fifty to fifty
that she actually goes to jail. She is indicted, and
everybody knew what she was doing. But they say with
the dollar amounts and stuff, that she'll probably get a
probation and fining and pay some money back and stuff
(27:30):
like that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
So that dude, that's banging her that the taxpayers are
paying for her to part all around the world. Is
he still active as a police officer?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I think he is not active. He was indicted about
a year ago on some other things, well same thing really,
mostly time sheet issues and stuff like that, and I
think he has been off the police force since then.
But stuttle butt is that he is still active in Uh,
(28:06):
how would you say it? Advising LaToya?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay, what in the world is happening back there?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I'm sorry I stepped on something.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
My understanding was he was her security detail, as as
is typical for the mayor to have. Were they carrying
on before she was the mayor and then she tapped
him to tap her for the job or no?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I believe I believe her husband died while she was
in office.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, and he was just providing took up after that, he.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Was providing comfort. Yes, and uh in a city owned
apartment at the Pentabla building on Jackson Square. Uh, that
they were using for their engagements.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Do you know Eddie Martini?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I do not know him. I would love to know
him that well.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
He always tells me he's a big deal in New Orleans.
But I ask everybody. I randomly ask people. I go
to the gas station in New Orleans and I ask
people if they know Eddie Martin, And nobody ever knows
Eddie Martine. Now some people know his brother Danny, who
was a state senator. Up until very recently he was
the head of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
You know Danny Martini, I don't know him either. Do
you know any Martinis?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Just the ones in the glass.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
If you live in New Orleans, how often do you
go to Cafe Dumont? Because I'll tell you when I go.
I generally go one time, but that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I feel horrible afterwards.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I don't go that often every couple of months. But
I actually don't go to the one down in the
French Quarter that I go to the Wooden City Park
where there's a lot less crowd, a lot more of
leisurely atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Percentage of people who buy the Cafe Dumont coffee and
the yellow can bring it home, put it in the
freezer and never once use it.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I've a guess, probably all of them.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What is one really touristy thing in New Orleans that
you still do even though you've lived there forever.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I still ride my bike down Bourbon Street, although I
don't frequent the establishments on Bourbon Street all that often.
I just ride my bicycle down to the river and
then up Bourbon Street and just people watch. That's my
relaxing activity.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
It is some of the best people watching. It really
is some of the best people watching. What is a
restaurant that you go to that, yes, is kind of
a touristy thing and known in that in that realm,
but you still like to eat there?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Ah GALLAXI this fine. I don't really go to most
of the touristy restaurants. I generally get out of the
French Quarter to go out to eat.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
The last time we were there, Michael T, my oldest son,
had a football game there against against It's one of
the Catholic schools.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
No surprise. Archbishop wasn't Rummel, it was Archbishop. I can't
remember it. But we went to Gallantry. As we got
to what's that, Brother Martin.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
No, I'll think of it just a second. Maybe I
blocked it out because our boys in their field house,
in their locker room before the game. You know, these
are private school kids. They a lot of them don't
realize how the real world works. They left their stuff
in the in the locker room, and the somebody from
(32:03):
the other team went in and stole all the watches, wallets,
all of them and we never got those back, which
kind of creates an awkward situation. You might you might
think it was not the welcome that we were quite expecting.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
But we went to Galatois at lunch that day before
the game. We got in early, and.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'm going to tell you, Russell Butler, this was I
have such fond memories of New Orleans. Nineteen eighty four.
We went and stayed in New Orleans for the World's Fair.
My dad planned for that for two years, saved up
for us to go and stay in a hotel in
New Orleans. And it was going to be so exciting,
and I had I have such fond memories of that experience,
(32:44):
family experience. And we go to Galatoais during during the
day at noon. It was a Friday at noon, and
I said, you know what, WHI while our food's coming,
I'm just gonna walk the street. I'm gonna take ten
minutes and just I don't get to New Orleans enough.
I'm just gonna walk the street and I go out.
I get about two blocks away from restaurant, and I
felt like I was in mogod Isshue.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
It's like I was.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Being eyeballed by folks who were trying to figure out
what they could pick pocket off of me or just
knock me in the head and steal what I had.
Very menacing, very very awkward and uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
And I thought to myself.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Because it's all I've ever heard, you know, Russell, this
was the story for you. I was going to put
together a World War Two Museum Michael Berry listener event,
and we started the event and we always get an
overwhelming response, and the World War Two Museum was dying
for us to be there. They gave us a great
deal on the rent. They were going to give us
(33:38):
the space, they were going to give us speakers. You know,
they have a whole retinue of speakers who will come in.
I couldn't get anybody interest. The first weekend we probably
had ten people us it's not worth it, and everybody said, nope,
it's not safe.
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