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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. Are you all
ready to see your fixer upper? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Okay, okay, Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
God couldn't look any better in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hey guys, finally you went to see your house.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Our look at these United States reminds us that history
is always being made with Morocco. We're off to the
People's House, the White House now under construction, a project
swirling in controversy.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
More likely, this is part of what Donald Trump has
been doing since day one of his presidency, running the
largest pay to play scheme in the history of the country,
and probably soliciting a donation from people who've got business
before the United States government. And all of this is
going to have to be investigated.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It will.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
All of this will have to be uncovered. It will,
and these people are going to be held accountable. And
that's all warning to all of these people participating in
the scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and of course to
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destroy the People's House. The White House belongs to the
American people. It doesn't belong to Donald Trump House.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Such an interesting perspective here, this so often. Joe writes,
I don't think college coaches nor players should get paid
millions of dollars until they prove themselves. That goes for
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the pros as well. There's no player in the NFL, NBA,
et cetera worth one hundred million dollars a year. That's
why ticket prices are so expensive. Thank you, please reply
your opinion. All right, Well, let's start over. I don't
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think college coaches nor players should get paid millions of
dollars until they prove themselves they're not. They did you
didn't end up the head coach of the LSU Tigers
or Alabama Crimson Tide or UT Longhorns or A and
m Aggies. You proved yourself to someone. To someone you
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proved yourself to is the person making the decision what
they're going to pay you when you come here. No
one is winning a lottery and no one is getting
union seniority. These are free market deals. When you get
hired to come to coach the University of Texas Longhorns
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or any other school, there are other options that that
school has before they bring you here. They want you,
and you have other options, presumably to go somewhere else,
and they're more concerned with getting you and preventing you
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from going somewhere else. Then you are going there instead
of someone else somewhere else. And that's why they offer
this money, insane amounts of money. And for the average person,
it feels like this is too much money because it's
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so much more than everybody else is making. Right. We'll
get into in a moment, how it is that these
regents make these deals, because they're horrible deals, and whose
money it is? Is there any accountability for these bad contracts?
I mean, you'd think heads would roll At A and M.
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People go, well, the donors kicked in and they wrote checks,
and now those are checks that could have been used
for other things. That's what delayed the completion of the
baseball field at A and M was having to pay
Jimbo's buyout, and that ended up costing them Hornswagel or
whatever his name is. It's a great name, whatever it is.
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That ended up costing them. Then, depending on the extent
to which Kanti was able to pull him away, and
just was going to be able to pull him away.
But A and M's baseball program fell apart as a
result of the buyout. Of Jimbo because that was downstream.
Baseball was less important than football, but you still had
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to take that. There's an opportunity cost to that money.
I've heard people say it doesn't matter, they'll just raise
more money. You don't understand there is a limit. If
there wasn't a limit, they would have five billion dollars
five trillion dollars. There does come a point where you're
only going to get so much money out of Beaver
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Applin or Michael Plank or Tony Busby or whoever the
next guy is. The fact that they gave a lot
does not mean they're going to give a lot times too.
That's irrational to say so. I don't think college coaches
nor players should get paid mens of dollars until they
prove themselves. They did prove themselves. That's why you wanted them,
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you recruited them here. It's not like the University of
Texas ends up with Arch Manning and he hasn't proved
himself and he's getting paid this money and go prove
to us who you are. They've made a calculation that
he's able to perform. That's why they begged him to come.
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That was the biggest weepstakes in college sports. That was
like Lebron going down to Miami from Cleveland. Everybody wanted
arch Manning. Well, he didn't prove himself well, everybody else
wanted his unproven ass, didn't They and ut landed him,
and everybody was happy when they did. For whatever reason,
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he cannot accurately throw a football. I don't know if
he's got the yips or bad fundamentals. Looks bad to me,
but I hope he fixes it. I hope for his sake,
and I hope for the team's take, and I hope
for the fans sake. But they're not getting paid millions
of dollars until they have proved themselves that we can establish.
That goes for the pros as well. Wait a minute,
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the reason they're on the field is they prove themselves.
When you when the game starts on Sunday, that's not
when they begin proving themselves. They had to prove themselves
to get to be there. You know what level of
competition there is. There's no player in the NFL NBA
worth one hundred million dollars a year. Yeah there is.
You know how we know there is because they're getting
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paid that they're worth it by virtue of the fact
that they're getting paid. You see, it's not like a
number was pulled out of a hat and they go,
is he really worth this? The team paid them what
they think they're worth. They do a calculation, They've got
spreadsheets and data, and they go, all right, this is
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how many jerseys we can sell? Was Yao Ming worth
the money he was paid? He didn't deliver wins on
the court to the to the level they hoped he would,
But Yao Ming was gonna sell a lot of jerseys
in China and did, by the way, and did. When
you say something or someone is not worth something because
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you wouldn't pay that for it, or it's more than
you make, you don't understand the basic point of value
in economics.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Take what kicks me off every day to see what's
going on in my Coustin to Michael Verry show, and
this is my damn country.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I thought for this country, this is mine. It's definitely
a shortcoming in my communication ability. But what I'm trying
to make a point about has nothing to do with
paying players or coaches or how much they're paid. It
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has nothing to do with Brian Kelly or jimbo Fisher
or Nick Saban or Steve Sarkisian or Tom Herman or
Elko or anybody else. The point of this exercise is
that it's the one area where I can get people
who vote for Trump, who run businesses, who pay taxes,
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who are very reasonable, logical, to hopefully dig deep inside
yourself and say, well, am I applying my same level
of consistent thought to every aspect of my life? Or
is there an area where I take leave and start
spouting Bernie Sanderd's platitudes Because I bleed red or I
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bleed burnt orange, I bleed maroon. You can't blame me.
I just I love my team.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Can you now at least begin to understand how democrats
end up where they are, how socialists end up where
they are? Guess what, you love your aggies? They loves socialism.
That's not a stretch that it's their religion. This is yours.
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If nothing else, we begin to understand you can't break through.
There's no wedge that you can drive into the mindset
of those people. I have argued with successful self made
business owners who tell me that the nil is terrible
for football, and I say, how can it be terrible
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for football? We've had more upsets this year than I
can recall. You've had a school like Indiana that could
never be a top ten school and they drove all
the way up to number two. But here's the worst part.
Most people saying these things, they never even gave it
an independent thought. They just repeat what they heard said.
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I said this when nil started, and I will say
it until it's true. The top two teams in the
country within five years will consistently be A and M
and UT. And there's a very simple reason for it.
Dollars and cents. It's just that simple. Remember when you
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were playing neighborhood football and there'd be three kids that
could play, you and two of your friends. You knew
you had to pick first because you'd picked that third
kid and the second kid. Y'all are all three about
the same. He doesn't have anybody else on his team.
The game is over before it started, because you could
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throw to your buddy or he could throw to you,
but the other guy, everybody else on the team ball
hit him in the face. They slap at the ball.
It didn't matter if there was an odd number of
kids or odd number of good kids. You knew the
game was over before it ever started. Peewee football, middle
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school football, high school football, college football. You look at
where the talent is. The amazing thing about what Mike
Leach did at Texas Tech is that his twenty two
starters on each side of the ball, not one of
them had been offered scholarships to you, to your A
and M. And he consistently beat them or played them
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within a few points. That is so incredibly rare. That
is one of the rare cases where coaching makes that
much of a difference. When Saban came into Alabama, Alabama
was not a terrible team, but they would lose in
the fourth quarter, and they would have three or four
losses per year. I'd have to look it up, but
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I think they probably lost three or four games per year.
And he put them through conditioning. He drove them beyond
where they thought they could be, and they not only
became a champion, they became a perennial champion. Their games
weren't even interesting to watch because they'd be sixty to
nothing and he was still mad as he walked off
because they had missed a bl on a third and
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one in the second quarter where the running back reverse
course and ran for forty yards because the other team
couldn't stop him anyway. He wanted perfection. By and large,
it's the kids on the field that are gonna make
the difference. When you have better kids that perform better,
you're going to win. That's just the way it is,
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and that's the way it always has been. And I
don't know who thinks that college football was more fun
when you had Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia as the dominant
teams year in year out. Ever so often Auburn would
sneak in there. Florida had a couple of years, UT
had a few good years there, But by and large
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was the same teams every year in the championship every year.
That wasn't fun. It's actually fun. This year you had
Miami crept up there. As Chad says, eventually krystal ball
was screwed up. You had Oregon creep up there. As
Chad says, eventually oregonal screw it up. Chad is the
long suffering Oregon fan, which by the way, is why
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he hates crystal ball. Now, Ohio State is a consistent
UT will be a consistent This is a bit of
an anomaly. A and M will be a consistent It's
okay if you want to be four or against nil.
But if you are four A and M and UT
you want them to win at all costs, then stop
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saying you're against nil because somebody else is against nil
because they're from Alabama and can't raise the same amount
of money or LSU. Those schools are going to struggle
because they can't. They just don't have the dollars. And
that's why there's this big push to tamp it down.
Because you had schools come out of nowhere like Texas Tech,
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where you had John Sellers, Cody Campbell, and Gary Peterson
each kick in ten million. They raised another eight thirty
eight million dollars. They went out and bought twenty one
of the best kids college football has, and they put
a winner on the field, quirky loss to ASU. But
they may still win. They may still end up in
the playoffs. I expect that they will. But at M
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and UT are going to be two of the best
teams consistently year in and year out, barring some injury
or arch not playing as well as believed. If you
want your team to win, nil is established it's designed
for teams like this to win. The people that should
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be mad are people that can't raise the money to
buy the best kids. Well, they ought not buy the
best kids. You don't think they were buying the best
kids before. Donors have always given money. The difference was
in the past. The donors gave the money for a
weight room and a stadium and a coach and cleats.
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They just couldn't ever give it directly to the kids,
but they did so kids went to the school rules.
It had the best TV contracts. There's always been a
way for a school to separate itself from other schools
to get the best talent, because they all wanted the
best talent. You just didn't allow them to pay it directly.
Nothing changed. You're still trying to get the best. Get
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Saban could get the best kids because he could get
them on national TV and get them in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They got them, made money off of it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
We didn't get nothing the hard time to Michael Berry show,
it's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn I always know that when
I make a joke, there's someone out there who feels
like this is targeted directly at them. Laurie writes, today
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I learned Michael Berry is the type who sees someone
across the mall wearing a band T shirt and marches over,
demanding they list five songs or obscure trivia to prove
their worth. I detest football, but I grew up Montgomery
County and graduated from tom Ball High. I know what
a flea flicker is. That's not a flex insert I
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rolling emoji here, I said, Laurie, I think I love you.
That's awesome. That is absolutely perfectly awesome. Darcy. You're only
Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Show go ahead, Hey, Michael, I am about your age
class of ninety one from A and M. And I
got to tell you we've been Payton players forever. Remember
Jackie Cheryl.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Of course, and the other's a friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
The other flip side is, oh, I did not know that.
But the other flip side of this for me is
what for some of these players, will paying them keep
them in college a little bit longer so that they
can emotionally mature. I e. Johnny Manziel, you know, with
being in college a couple of years longer have made
him more successful. You know, Reid is a great quarterback
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for A and M right now, Buddy's on the small side,
and you know he puts some muscle weight on last year,
but we're paying him keep him in college longer for
a lot of these players, allowing them to mature. We
have a good friend who plays. The last name is Banks.
My daughters went to elementary school with him, and he's
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on the O line for Green Bay now. He went
to Rice and his last two years of college at Rice,
heats really like physically, put on more weight, put on
more muscle, and I think it made him a better
player in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Darcy, you seem like such a sweetheart. I would love
you to have been mamm when I was growing up.
But I think there's something odd about saying, well, forget
all this other stuff. If we got to spend a
few more million dollars so that a kid who's making
two million can make four mayon at nineteen to throw
the football, so that when they make it in the
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NFL they're more emotionally mature. I don't know that that's
necessarily true, that that has the effect, but at the
end of it all, we all internalize what sports mean
to us individually as a society. There's a book called
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of Human Bondage, and there's the protagonist of the book
is a little boy named Philip Carey. And Philip is
an orphan who's taken in by a very strict Caist
Calvinist minister who's old and him and his wife, I
think they're Presbyterians actually, but they're very very strict on him.
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And Philip spends a lot of time by himself, and
he he tries to figure out a system like this
Rube Goldberg contraption, and the system is when any situation
confronts him, he would be a to know what his
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answer would be in an ai sense because he knew
what his values were in that situation. For instance, who
should make decisions for the individual? That individual or society.
Once you make that decision, then you say, should marijuana
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be legal or illegal? Should or let's ask it in
the purest sense to make the analogy work. Should the
community decide whether the individual can smoke marijuana? Or should
the individual? Well, if you've already decided the individual makes
better decisions for the individual, now there will be a mommy,
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because that's who always does this who will say, but
smoking's not good for you. Okay, again, go back to
the original question that you should get comfortable answering who
makes a better decision for the individual, the individual or
the society the individual, even if the individual's decision might
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not be for his best long term health, or might
not be for his best performance in school, or might
not be for his who knows what else, even if
that were the case. No, no, no, you can't let
people make bad decisions for themselves because those are bad.
But that's just it, sweetheart. You not you, Darcy, I'm
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talm about generally, you don't get to make decisions for
him because if we do that, we don't let people
ride motorcycles because you don't think motorcycles are safe. I
don't either, but it's not for me to decide. You
don't let people get married at eighteen because you think
that's too young, because you got married at eighteen and
you were miserable, so you can't get married at eighteen.
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This is what a lot of the Muslim theocracies do.
They tell the individual what he cannot do. Once you decide,
the individual will make that decision. Is he going to
go into the military or is he not. The individual
should make that decision. Is he gonna go to college
or not? Is he gonna take on debt or not?
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Is he gonna work an extra job in college so
he doesn't have take on debt or not? All of
these things should be made by the individual once you
come to that conclusion or you decide. The group is
very efficient, and I will always be part of the group.
And I'm really bossy about other people. So if we
let the group make decisions for other people, then I'll
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always get a chance to have a vote in making
decisions on the individual.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
And that's what I really like.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Because some people really do. It's an any personality, but
it's very common. It tends to be more socialist leftists,
but we got plenty on our side who love to
do that. They love to decide what time the Lord
thinks you should first have a drink on Sunday morning,
And the Lord has decided noon in your low time zone.
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And the Lord does not want you to have a
drink before nooon. Y'all be in church anyway, But wait,
what about fundamental principles of freedom? Not on Sunday morning, No, sir,
But why would the why would the collective decide whether Ramon,
who loses his mind over this, can wake up on
Sunday morning and have a little nip of bourbon. Well,
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you know, probably drinks too much anyway, So if we
can restrict it to again, you can't grasp the concept
of the profound, simple principle in this case, who should
make decisions for the individual? The individual or the collective?
And you start arguing everything but that because it's beyond
your comprehension. Well, drinking's bad for you, again, irrelevant to
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the conversation. Well, when people drink, they drive, and when
they drive they cause accidents, again irrelevant to the conversation.
The fundamental principle. Distill it down to this, and this
is what little Philip did. Who should make decisions for
the individual? The individual himself or the collective. So much
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of what we battle over is things that if we
could actually drill it down to still it to the
simple essence of what the question is. But most people
will never ever do that. Who should provide food for
adults who do not provide food for themselves? So now
we got the shut down snap welfare. Should it be
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that individual or should it be the collective? If we
say the individual and say yeah, but some people they'll
always be fat, by the way, they're never skinny. But
some people won't. They won't do what it takes to
get food. They'll spend a lot of effort trying to
get everybody else to pay for it. Good. They need
to stop asking the government and start asking their neighbors,
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their church, their parents, their friends. They can go directly
ask people for handouts. Just stop asking the collective for it,
and then we don't have problems with shutdowns. Then we
don't argue over that, and then we were very simple.
The individual is responsible for feeding himself. He's an adult.
Go find your own food, fat ass.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Michael Barry, I they don't need your love, Ramona.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
What starts with E ends with e and has only
one letter in it? Envelope? All right, now that you
know the answer, you can study how well I asked it? Okay, Ramona,
what starts with E ends with e and has only
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one letter in it? Envelope? So the Houston Chronicle, bless
their hearts. They have gone from telling us how great
Lena was to now it's so weird. I mean to
watch them, you know, how do you live with yourself, right,
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how do you just overnight? Now they're doing Freedom of
Information Act requests for searches done by Lena Hidalgo's office
before they went to Paris. I mean, dare I say it?
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And mind you, I realized the irony of me saying this,
But damn, Houston Chronicle, get off her Wiener. That's a
little petty, isn't it. I mean, that's what I do
for a living, maintain a little dignity. Hey, what we
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need to do is find out if her office did
any CHET GPT requests for information before they went to Paris.
I mean that is petty. That's digging through their trash
kind of stuff. But worse, I mean, I'm glad they did.
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Don't get me wrong, because it's endlessly amusing, endlessly amusing,
and we do love the thought of them sitting and say,
other than transportation, what can Paris learn from Houston? And then,
and I'm not kidding you the next line, this is
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still part of the search. Think big, chat GPT. They're
leaning into GPT chat GPT and going all right, now
you can do this, think real big. I had a
professor named Carlos VSS came here from Ecuador. And he
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told the story that he showed up at the airport
in New York and he didn't speak any English yet,
and he's coming here to study. He was a graduate student.
And he goes over and he had heard things about America. Ooh,
this America. They got stuff going on. Now, they got technology. Now,
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mind you, this was the seventies, but that was still
advanced technology for the time. And he had heard that
they had machines. Instead of going to the local little
shop like you have an Ecuador where you walk up
and give them your ten cents and they give you
a Coca Cola co coosa, big deal. In third world countries,
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they have machines. You could go up and pay the
machine and somehow the machine would give you the coke.
So he lands at the airport. He's got a couple
hours to kill. He got a dime in his pocket.
He spots one of them Marry machines. He looks left,
he looks right, like in the cartoon. He marches up.
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He's like, damn it says it on there. Oh wow,
you tell the machine what you want. He sees d
I M. E. Doesn't work, doesn't speak a word of English,
He's like, man, this is crazy. I can't believe I'm
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gonna do There's no way that machine's gonna be able
to do this. But he leans in and he says,
d may.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Nothing, D may.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Coca, Coca. D may means tell me. It said dime,
as in, put in a dime, you get a coat.
So he leaned in.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
And said, coca.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Do you want me to tell you?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I want to coca.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Finally somebody came up and felt sorry for him. He
dropped in a diamond, he got his coat. That's how
I imagined that Lina had all go people with chat
GPT probably doesn't all make sense, so we have more
of the readings of Lena had allgo doing her chat
GPT searches.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Okay, chat GPT. Lina has given us an assignment to
learn everything we can about Paris before her big trip. Oh,
let's see, does Paris have culture like we do in Houston. Oh,
they have a museum called the Louver with a painting
called the Moaning Lisa. That's nice and all, But did
they have a rainbow crosswalk or African art in the
storage bin? Hmmm? Let's see. Does Paris have good food? Pastries?
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Do they not know about carbs in Paris. Yack, not
very inclin eclusive. Mister fran said, how about what is
an Eiffel Tower? Oh, it's an actual tower. It was
built as the entrance arc for the eighteen eighty nine
World's Fair celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution.
Kind of looks like two guys high fiving to me, boring.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I totally blew that joke that professor via Sisto. I said,
d may d may is what the machine told him
to say. It should have been coca, and Ramona is
in my ear going coca. I'm thinking, you shut.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Up ramon coca.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He wanted me to say coca because that was the
answer to the D may.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I goofed that one
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. Are you all
ready to see your fixer upper? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Okay, okay, Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
God couldn't look any better in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hey guys, finally you went to see your house.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Our look at these United States reminds us that history
is always being made with Morocco. We're off to the
People's House, the White House now under construction, a project
swirling in controversy.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
More likely, this is part of what Donald Trump has
been doing since day one of his presidency, running the
largest pay to play scheme in the history of the country,
and probably soliciting a donation from people who've got business
before the United States government. And all of this is
going to have to be investigated.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It will.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
All of this will have to be uncovered. It will,
and these people are going to be held accountable. And
that's all warning to all of these people participating in
the scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and of course to
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destroy the People's House. The White House belongs to the
American people. It doesn't belong to Donald Trump House.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Such an interesting perspective here, this so often. Joe writes,
I don't think college coaches nor players should get paid
millions of dollars until they prove themselves. That goes for
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the pros as well. There's no player in the NFL, NBA,
et cetera worth one hundred million dollars a year. That's
why ticket prices are so expensive. Thank you, please reply
your opinion. All right, Well, let's start over. I don't
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think college coaches nor players should get paid millions of
dollars until they prove themselves they're not. They did you
didn't end up the head coach of the LSU Tigers
or Alabama Crimson Tide or UT Longhorns or A and
m Aggies. You proved yourself to someone. To someone you
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proved yourself to is the person making the decision what
they're going to pay you when you come here. No
one is winning a lottery and no one is getting
union seniority. These are free market deals. When you get
hired to come to coach the University of Texas Longhorns
(03:21):
or any other school, there are other options that that
school has before they bring you here. They want you,
and you have other options, presumably to go somewhere else,
and they're more concerned with getting you and preventing you
(03:44):
from going somewhere else. Then you are going there instead
of someone else somewhere else. And that's why they offer
this money, insane amounts of money. And for the average person,
it feels like this is too much money because it's
(04:04):
so much more than everybody else is making. Right. We'll
get into in a moment, how it is that these
regents make these deals, because they're horrible deals, and whose
money it is? Is there any accountability for these bad contracts?
I mean, you'd think heads would roll At A and M.
(04:27):
People go, well, the donors kicked in and they wrote checks,
and now those are checks that could have been used
for other things. That's what delayed the completion of the
baseball field at A and M was having to pay
Jimbo's buyout, and that ended up costing them Hornswagel or
whatever his name is. It's a great name, whatever it is.
(04:51):
That ended up costing them. Then, depending on the extent
to which Kanti was able to pull him away, and
just was going to be able to pull him away.
But A and M's baseball program fell apart as a
result of the buyout. Of Jimbo because that was downstream.
Baseball was less important than football, but you still had
(05:13):
to take that. There's an opportunity cost to that money.
I've heard people say it doesn't matter, they'll just raise
more money. You don't understand there is a limit. If
there wasn't a limit, they would have five billion dollars
five trillion dollars. There does come a point where you're
only going to get so much money out of Beaver
(05:35):
Applin or Michael Plank or Tony Busby or whoever the
next guy is. The fact that they gave a lot
does not mean they're going to give a lot times too.
That's irrational to say so. I don't think college coaches
nor players should get paid mens of dollars until they
prove themselves. They did prove themselves. That's why you wanted them,
(05:57):
you recruited them here. It's not like the University of
Texas ends up with Arch Manning and he hasn't proved
himself and he's getting paid this money and go prove
to us who you are. They've made a calculation that
he's able to perform. That's why they begged him to come.
(06:19):
That was the biggest weepstakes in college sports. That was
like Lebron going down to Miami from Cleveland. Everybody wanted
arch Manning. Well, he didn't prove himself well, everybody else
wanted his unproven ass, didn't They and ut landed him,
and everybody was happy when they did. For whatever reason,
(06:40):
he cannot accurately throw a football. I don't know if
he's got the yips or bad fundamentals. Looks bad to me,
but I hope he fixes it. I hope for his sake,
and I hope for the team's take, and I hope
for the fans sake. But they're not getting paid millions
of dollars until they have proved themselves that we can establish.
That goes for the pros as well. Wait a minute,
(07:03):
the reason they're on the field is they prove themselves.
When you when the game starts on Sunday, that's not
when they begin proving themselves. They had to prove themselves
to get to be there. You know what level of
competition there is. There's no player in the NFL NBA
worth one hundred million dollars a year. Yeah there is.
You know how we know there is because they're getting
(07:24):
paid that they're worth it by virtue of the fact
that they're getting paid. You see, it's not like a
number was pulled out of a hat and they go,
is he really worth this? The team paid them what
they think they're worth. They do a calculation, They've got
spreadsheets and data, and they go, all right, this is
(07:45):
how many jerseys we can sell? Was Yao Ming worth
the money he was paid? He didn't deliver wins on
the court to the to the level they hoped he would,
But Yao Ming was gonna sell a lot of jerseys
in China and did, by the way, and did. When
you say something or someone is not worth something because
(08:08):
you wouldn't pay that for it, or it's more than
you make, you don't understand the basic point of value
in economics.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Take what kicks me off every day to see what's
going on in my Coustin to Michael Verry show, and
this is my damn country.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I thought for this country, this is mine. It's definitely
a shortcoming in my communication ability. But what I'm trying
to make a point about has nothing to do with
paying players or coaches or how much they're paid. It
(08:47):
has nothing to do with Brian Kelly or jimbo Fisher
or Nick Saban or Steve Sarkisian or Tom Herman or
Elko or anybody else. The point of this exercise is
that it's the one area where I can get people
who vote for Trump, who run businesses, who pay taxes,
(09:10):
who are very reasonable, logical, to hopefully dig deep inside
yourself and say, well, am I applying my same level
of consistent thought to every aspect of my life? Or
is there an area where I take leave and start
spouting Bernie Sanderd's platitudes Because I bleed red or I
(09:35):
bleed burnt orange, I bleed maroon. You can't blame me.
I just I love my team.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Can you now at least begin to understand how democrats
end up where they are, how socialists end up where
they are? Guess what, you love your aggies? They loves socialism.
That's not a stretch that it's their religion. This is yours.
(10:04):
If nothing else, we begin to understand you can't break through.
There's no wedge that you can drive into the mindset
of those people. I have argued with successful self made
business owners who tell me that the nil is terrible
for football, and I say, how can it be terrible
(10:24):
for football? We've had more upsets this year than I
can recall. You've had a school like Indiana that could
never be a top ten school and they drove all
the way up to number two. But here's the worst part.
Most people saying these things, they never even gave it
an independent thought. They just repeat what they heard said.
(10:49):
I said this when nil started, and I will say
it until it's true. The top two teams in the
country within five years will consistently be A and M
and UT. And there's a very simple reason for it.
Dollars and cents. It's just that simple. Remember when you
(11:14):
were playing neighborhood football and there'd be three kids that
could play, you and two of your friends. You knew
you had to pick first because you'd picked that third
kid and the second kid. Y'all are all three about
the same. He doesn't have anybody else on his team.
The game is over before it started, because you could
(11:37):
throw to your buddy or he could throw to you,
but the other guy, everybody else on the team ball
hit him in the face. They slap at the ball.
It didn't matter if there was an odd number of
kids or odd number of good kids. You knew the
game was over before it ever started. Peewee football, middle
(11:57):
school football, high school football, college football. You look at
where the talent is. The amazing thing about what Mike
Leach did at Texas Tech is that his twenty two
starters on each side of the ball, not one of
them had been offered scholarships to you, to your A
and M. And he consistently beat them or played them
(12:19):
within a few points. That is so incredibly rare. That
is one of the rare cases where coaching makes that
much of a difference. When Saban came into Alabama, Alabama
was not a terrible team, but they would lose in
the fourth quarter, and they would have three or four
losses per year. I'd have to look it up, but
(12:40):
I think they probably lost three or four games per year.
And he put them through conditioning. He drove them beyond
where they thought they could be, and they not only
became a champion, they became a perennial champion. Their games
weren't even interesting to watch because they'd be sixty to
nothing and he was still mad as he walked off
because they had missed a bl on a third and
(13:02):
one in the second quarter where the running back reverse
course and ran for forty yards because the other team
couldn't stop him anyway. He wanted perfection. By and large,
it's the kids on the field that are gonna make
the difference. When you have better kids that perform better,
you're going to win. That's just the way it is,
(13:22):
and that's the way it always has been. And I
don't know who thinks that college football was more fun
when you had Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia as the dominant
teams year in year out. Ever so often Auburn would
sneak in there. Florida had a couple of years, UT
had a few good years there, But by and large
(13:44):
was the same teams every year in the championship every year.
That wasn't fun. It's actually fun. This year you had
Miami crept up there. As Chad says, eventually krystal ball
was screwed up. You had Oregon creep up there. As
Chad says, eventually oregonal screw it up. Chad is the
long suffering Oregon fan, which by the way, is why
(14:04):
he hates crystal ball. Now, Ohio State is a consistent
UT will be a consistent This is a bit of
an anomaly. A and M will be a consistent It's
okay if you want to be four or against nil.
But if you are four A and M and UT
you want them to win at all costs, then stop
(14:27):
saying you're against nil because somebody else is against nil
because they're from Alabama and can't raise the same amount
of money or LSU. Those schools are going to struggle
because they can't. They just don't have the dollars. And
that's why there's this big push to tamp it down.
Because you had schools come out of nowhere like Texas Tech,
(14:50):
where you had John Sellers, Cody Campbell, and Gary Peterson
each kick in ten million. They raised another eight thirty
eight million dollars. They went out and bought twenty one
of the best kids college football has, and they put
a winner on the field, quirky loss to ASU. But
they may still win. They may still end up in
the playoffs. I expect that they will. But at M
(15:13):
and UT are going to be two of the best
teams consistently year in and year out, barring some injury
or arch not playing as well as believed. If you
want your team to win, nil is established it's designed
for teams like this to win. The people that should
(15:33):
be mad are people that can't raise the money to
buy the best kids. Well, they ought not buy the
best kids. You don't think they were buying the best
kids before. Donors have always given money. The difference was
in the past. The donors gave the money for a
weight room and a stadium and a coach and cleats.
(15:53):
They just couldn't ever give it directly to the kids,
but they did so kids went to the school rules.
It had the best TV contracts. There's always been a
way for a school to separate itself from other schools
to get the best talent, because they all wanted the
best talent. You just didn't allow them to pay it directly.
Nothing changed. You're still trying to get the best. Get
(16:15):
Saban could get the best kids because he could get
them on national TV and get them in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They got them, made money off of it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
We didn't get nothing the hard time to Michael Berry show,
it's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn I always know that when
I make a joke, there's someone out there who feels
like this is targeted directly at them. Laurie writes, today
(16:45):
I learned Michael Berry is the type who sees someone
across the mall wearing a band T shirt and marches over,
demanding they list five songs or obscure trivia to prove
their worth. I detest football, but I grew up Montgomery
County and graduated from tom Ball High. I know what
a flea flicker is. That's not a flex insert I
(17:06):
rolling emoji here, I said, Laurie, I think I love you.
That's awesome. That is absolutely perfectly awesome. Darcy. You're only
Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Show go ahead, Hey, Michael, I am about your age
class of ninety one from A and M. And I
got to tell you we've been Payton players forever. Remember
Jackie Cheryl.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Of course, and the other's a friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
The other flip side is, oh, I did not know that.
But the other flip side of this for me is
what for some of these players, will paying them keep
them in college a little bit longer so that they
can emotionally mature. I e. Johnny Manziel, you know, with
being in college a couple of years longer have made
him more successful. You know, Reid is a great quarterback
(17:57):
for A and M right now, Buddy's on the small side,
and you know he puts some muscle weight on last year,
but we're paying him keep him in college longer for
a lot of these players, allowing them to mature. We
have a good friend who plays. The last name is Banks.
My daughters went to elementary school with him, and he's
(18:18):
on the O line for Green Bay now. He went
to Rice and his last two years of college at Rice,
heats really like physically, put on more weight, put on
more muscle, and I think it made him a better
player in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Darcy, you seem like such a sweetheart. I would love
you to have been mamm when I was growing up.
But I think there's something odd about saying, well, forget
all this other stuff. If we got to spend a
few more million dollars so that a kid who's making
two million can make four mayon at nineteen to throw
the football, so that when they make it in the
(18:57):
NFL they're more emotionally mature. I don't know that that's
necessarily true, that that has the effect, but at the
end of it all, we all internalize what sports mean
to us individually as a society. There's a book called
(19:19):
of Human Bondage, and there's the protagonist of the book
is a little boy named Philip Carey. And Philip is
an orphan who's taken in by a very strict Caist
Calvinist minister who's old and him and his wife, I
think they're Presbyterians actually, but they're very very strict on him.
(19:39):
And Philip spends a lot of time by himself, and
he he tries to figure out a system like this
Rube Goldberg contraption, and the system is when any situation
confronts him, he would be a to know what his
(20:01):
answer would be in an ai sense because he knew
what his values were in that situation. For instance, who
should make decisions for the individual? That individual or society.
Once you make that decision, then you say, should marijuana
(20:24):
be legal or illegal? Should or let's ask it in
the purest sense to make the analogy work. Should the
community decide whether the individual can smoke marijuana? Or should
the individual? Well, if you've already decided the individual makes
better decisions for the individual, now there will be a mommy,
(20:47):
because that's who always does this who will say, but
smoking's not good for you. Okay, again, go back to
the original question that you should get comfortable answering who
makes a better decision for the individual, the individual or
the society the individual, even if the individual's decision might
(21:11):
not be for his best long term health, or might
not be for his best performance in school, or might
not be for his who knows what else, even if
that were the case. No, no, no, you can't let
people make bad decisions for themselves because those are bad.
But that's just it, sweetheart. You not you, Darcy, I'm
(21:33):
talm about generally, you don't get to make decisions for
him because if we do that, we don't let people
ride motorcycles because you don't think motorcycles are safe. I
don't either, but it's not for me to decide. You
don't let people get married at eighteen because you think
that's too young, because you got married at eighteen and
you were miserable, so you can't get married at eighteen.
(21:54):
This is what a lot of the Muslim theocracies do.
They tell the individual what he cannot do. Once you decide,
the individual will make that decision. Is he going to
go into the military or is he not. The individual
should make that decision. Is he gonna go to college
or not? Is he gonna take on debt or not?
(22:14):
Is he gonna work an extra job in college so
he doesn't have take on debt or not? All of
these things should be made by the individual once you
come to that conclusion or you decide. The group is
very efficient, and I will always be part of the group.
And I'm really bossy about other people. So if we
let the group make decisions for other people, then I'll
(22:35):
always get a chance to have a vote in making
decisions on the individual.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
And that's what I really like.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Because some people really do. It's an any personality, but
it's very common. It tends to be more socialist leftists,
but we got plenty on our side who love to
do that. They love to decide what time the Lord
thinks you should first have a drink on Sunday morning,
And the Lord has decided noon in your low time zone.
(23:01):
And the Lord does not want you to have a
drink before nooon. Y'all be in church anyway, But wait,
what about fundamental principles of freedom? Not on Sunday morning, No, sir,
But why would the why would the collective decide whether Ramon,
who loses his mind over this, can wake up on
Sunday morning and have a little nip of bourbon. Well,
(23:24):
you know, probably drinks too much anyway, So if we
can restrict it to again, you can't grasp the concept
of the profound, simple principle in this case, who should
make decisions for the individual? The individual or the collective?
And you start arguing everything but that because it's beyond
your comprehension. Well, drinking's bad for you, again, irrelevant to
(23:49):
the conversation. Well, when people drink, they drive, and when
they drive they cause accidents, again irrelevant to the conversation.
The fundamental principle. Distill it down to this, and this
is what little Philip did. Who should make decisions for
the individual? The individual himself or the collective. So much
(24:10):
of what we battle over is things that if we
could actually drill it down to still it to the
simple essence of what the question is. But most people
will never ever do that. Who should provide food for
adults who do not provide food for themselves? So now
we got the shut down snap welfare. Should it be
(24:33):
that individual or should it be the collective? If we
say the individual and say yeah, but some people they'll
always be fat, by the way, they're never skinny. But
some people won't. They won't do what it takes to
get food. They'll spend a lot of effort trying to
get everybody else to pay for it. Good. They need
to stop asking the government and start asking their neighbors,
(24:56):
their church, their parents, their friends. They can go directly
ask people for handouts. Just stop asking the collective for it,
and then we don't have problems with shutdowns. Then we
don't argue over that, and then we were very simple.
The individual is responsible for feeding himself. He's an adult.
Go find your own food, fat ass.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Michael Barry, I they don't need your love, Ramona.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
What starts with E ends with e and has only
one letter in it? Envelope? All right, now that you
know the answer, you can study how well I asked it? Okay, Ramona,
what starts with E ends with e and has only
(25:45):
one letter in it? Envelope? So the Houston Chronicle, bless
their hearts. They have gone from telling us how great
Lena was to now it's so weird. I mean to
watch them, you know, how do you live with yourself, right,
(26:08):
how do you just overnight? Now they're doing Freedom of
Information Act requests for searches done by Lena Hidalgo's office
before they went to Paris. I mean, dare I say it?
(26:30):
And mind you, I realized the irony of me saying this,
But damn, Houston Chronicle, get off her Wiener. That's a
little petty, isn't it. I mean, that's what I do
for a living, maintain a little dignity. Hey, what we
(26:52):
need to do is find out if her office did
any CHET GPT requests for information before they went to Paris.
I mean that is petty. That's digging through their trash
kind of stuff. But worse, I mean, I'm glad they did.
(27:13):
Don't get me wrong, because it's endlessly amusing, endlessly amusing,
and we do love the thought of them sitting and say,
other than transportation, what can Paris learn from Houston? And then,
and I'm not kidding you the next line, this is
(27:33):
still part of the search. Think big, chat GPT. They're
leaning into GPT chat GPT and going all right, now
you can do this, think real big. I had a
professor named Carlos VSS came here from Ecuador. And he
(27:54):
told the story that he showed up at the airport
in New York and he didn't speak any English yet,
and he's coming here to study. He was a graduate student.
And he goes over and he had heard things about America. Ooh,
this America. They got stuff going on. Now, they got technology. Now,
(28:17):
mind you, this was the seventies, but that was still
advanced technology for the time. And he had heard that
they had machines. Instead of going to the local little
shop like you have an Ecuador where you walk up
and give them your ten cents and they give you
a Coca Cola co coosa, big deal. In third world countries,
(28:39):
they have machines. You could go up and pay the
machine and somehow the machine would give you the coke.
So he lands at the airport. He's got a couple
hours to kill. He got a dime in his pocket.
He spots one of them Marry machines. He looks left,
he looks right, like in the cartoon. He marches up.
(29:04):
He's like, damn it says it on there. Oh wow,
you tell the machine what you want. He sees d
I M. E. Doesn't work, doesn't speak a word of English,
He's like, man, this is crazy. I can't believe I'm
(29:27):
gonna do There's no way that machine's gonna be able
to do this. But he leans in and he says,
d may.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Nothing, D may.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Coca, Coca. D may means tell me. It said dime,
as in, put in a dime, you get a coat.
So he leaned in.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
And said, coca.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Do you want me to tell you?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I want to coca.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Finally somebody came up and felt sorry for him. He
dropped in a diamond, he got his coat. That's how
I imagined that Lina had all go people with chat
GPT probably doesn't all make sense, so we have more
of the readings of Lena had allgo doing her chat
GPT searches.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Okay, chat GPT. Lina has given us an assignment to
learn everything we can about Paris before her big trip. Oh,
let's see, does Paris have culture like we do in Houston. Oh,
they have a museum called the Louver with a painting
called the Moaning Lisa. That's nice and all, But did
they have a rainbow crosswalk or African art in the
storage bin? Hmmm? Let's see. Does Paris have good food? Pastries?
(30:56):
Do they not know about carbs in Paris. Yack, not
very inclin eclusive. Mister fran said, how about what is
an Eiffel Tower? Oh, it's an actual tower. It was
built as the entrance arc for the eighteen eighty nine
World's Fair celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution.
Kind of looks like two guys high fiving to me, boring.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I totally blew that joke that professor via Sisto. I said,
d may d may is what the machine told him
to say. It should have been coca, and Ramona is
in my ear going coca. I'm thinking, you shut.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Up ramon coca.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He wanted me to say coca because that was the
answer to the D may.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I goofed that one
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