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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael varieshow is on the air that.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A fake Russia investigation that interfered, That was a terrible thing,
that was actually a treasonous thing to do. Those people
should have been arrested. They made it up. They made
up a problem with Russia that didn't exist. Now they've
all admitted it didn't exist. It was just on to
the next one.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever. The Russians
interfered in our election during the twenty sixteen cycle. They
did it with purpose, they did it with sophistication, they
did it with overwhelming technical efforts, and it was an
active measures campaign driven from the top of that government.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
There is no fuzz on that.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community,
and the members of this committee have seen intelligence.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's not a close call. That happened.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
That's about as unfake as you can possibly get and
is very very serious. Which is why it's so refreshing
to see a bypartisan focus on that, because this is
about America, not about any.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Picture of parties.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I'll be honest with you. When you're talking about cybersecurity,
a lot of it is classified, and we're not going
to provide it because the way we catch folks is
by knowing certain things about them that they may not
want us to know. And if we're going to monitor
this stuff effectively going forward, we don't want them to
know that we know. This is one of those situations
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where unless the American people genuinely think that the professionals
in the CIA, the FBI, our entire intelligence infrastructure, many
of whom, by the way, served in previous administrations and
who are Republicans, are less trustworthy than the Russians, then
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people should pay attention to what our intelligence agency sells.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
So the effect of what President Obama and his senior
national security team did was subvert the will of the
American people, undermining our democratic republic. Creating this piece of
manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped Donald Trump
get elected contradicted every other assessment that had been made
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previously in the months leading up to the election that
said exactly the opposite, that Russia neither had neither the
intent nor the capability to try to quote unquote hack
the United States election.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
For the presidency of the United States. In the.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
YEP today is the first day of the special legislative session. Remember,
our state legislature meets for one hundred and fifty days
every two years. It's called a biennial. It's in the
odd numbered year after the even number year election. So
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you're elected in November, and then the new legislative session.
The new legislature takes office in January two months later,
and then you have your first session, which is one
hundred and fifty days, and then a year and a
half later you're up for re election in the general election.
Of course, a year after that, which is its coming spring,
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you'll have your party primaries. However, at the end of
the one hundred and fifty days, if the governor chooses
to call a special session and bring them back to convene,
he may do so per special session for a limit
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of thirty days for a specific item or items that
he puts on the agenda. On the agenda is congressional redistricting.
President Trump has made very clear he would like five
more congressional seats out of Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Does he expect to get five more congressional seats out
of Texas? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You could do it, but he knows he won't be
able to get that, but by asking for five, he
might get three. Abbot is not a guy. The Democrats
are going to kick and squeal.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
What's going to happen is the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News,
Austin American Statesman, Texas Tribune. They're going to criticize Abbot.
Abbot's a bad gap, Abbot's a puppet of Trump. Abbot
is overly conservative. Abbot And here's the one we'll get him.
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Abbot is disenfranchising voters. Abbot cannot stand that sort of thing.
He might burst into tears in public, He might internally combust,
He will wilt, he always does if he is accused
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of being mean.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He's done.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Abbot has so desperately tried to be the kind, gentle,
sweet Republican. Abbot's one of these Republicans who calling him
a racist always works.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Because he's so scared.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He so desperately wants you to know that some of
his best friends are black in Hispanic and he would never, ever, ever,
ever ever want to be one of those things. But
we begin the process and he has put it on
the agenda. So Democrats today have come out swinging. No surprise,
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they are being coordinated nationally. The sorrows folks are very
good at moments like this. They shine, They're very very
good at what they do. This is not Texas State
rep Democrats coordinating this pushback. Rest assured. This is all
coming out of DC, New York, in LA. This is
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the best minds. They have the best minds money can buy.
And believe it or not, yeah, they're very good at this.
They're not appealing to you. So if you say, well,
it ain't working, they're not very good, You're right.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They're not very good. Not for you.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They're appealing to people who feel left out, offering from dysphoria, confused,
living a life of the consequences of bad decisions of
themselves and people around them. People who are naturally prone
to make excuses for themselves, people are not particularly hard working,
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people who make bad life choices, people who have criminal records,
people who don't seem to ever get ahead. But the
one person they don't blames themselves. Those sorts of people
are their coalition. So the placard on the podium this
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morning at the Democrat press conference, because they're going to
fight against congressional redistricting. The placard says fight the Trump takeover,
and Trump is xed out in red to the side
of that an outline of.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
The state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So what their research shows there are no accidents in
these things. What their research shows is that they're going
to rally the media, and it's not democratics the media
that this is Trump. We got to rally against Trump.
That's what this is going to be. That's they've just
played their hand.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Famous or as I call it, the Michael Barry Shows.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And I don't see a river.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Team out on.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The THC regulation that Dan Patrick has staked everything on
in the state legislature, which by the way, is going
to cost us selections.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
There are a number of Republicans who won't vote Republican
again because of this. It didn't need to be done.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He created a crisis issue, a wedge issue that will
only hurt Republicans.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's just really, really stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
But this is what happens when you let the I'm
going to be charitable and assume this is the people
around Dan Patrick and not him, When the people around
you who don't have to get elected but do get
paid by people to put this issue on the I've
come to learn it's not the liquor industry that put
this up. It's the medical marijuana industry. Because if you're
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effectively buying your marijuana over the counter, and they've got
a license so that you should have to pay them
multiples of that and they will distribute, then it's hurting
their business.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
When drugs go from being prescriptioned to over the counter,
the people who made their money prescribing the drug lose
the ability to prescribe the drug.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They don't get to be the gatekeeper anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And this is why as part of Dan Patrick's plan,
they would expand the compassionate use program. So, you see,
marijuana will kill you. It'll blind you, it'll stunt your growth,
it'll cause you to starve, it'll make you into a devil.
We've all seen refer madness. It'll kill everybody all the time,
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except if you do it over here under this group
that's spending money with the politicians to make it so
that they'll.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Give it to you.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I thought it was so bad, I thought it was
so dangerous. So that's who's actually paying for this. It's
the medical marijuana industry. They don't like you being able
to get it on your own. And this has long
been the case. You know, when drugs are.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Made OTC and in the past you had to go
to the doctor. People don't go crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Sure, there are a few people who will take the
elements out of suit of fed and make very dangerous drugs.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yep. There are also people who'll drive one hundred and
fifty miles an hour in the middle of busy traffic.
There are also people who'll take the.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Same alcohol you and I drink and have twenty five
of them get it behind the wheel. They are also
here's one for you, people that'll take the gun that
you use for self defense and go and cause harm
to the others.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But what if I were to say, well, some people.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Are going to take that thing and abuse it to
cause harm, maybe we should put more gun regulations, you'd say,
you're an idiot, and that's what you should do. Here
a Houston, CBD shop owner supports regulation over an outright ban.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
A DAC band is one of the top items on
the agenda for the special session. Before heading to our
breaking news at the top of the show, KPRC two's
Jawon Jung stopped by a THC store in the Heights.
She spoke to the owner about why is keeping a
close eye on the developments in Austin.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
We're here at CBD American Shaman in the Heights. This
is a boutique style CBD's store with a range of
different products ranging from dog treats to drinks, even topical cream. Now,
the owner tells me he would before some of the
regulations that will be discussing the special session, including age regulation.
What did you think when this was going through the legislative.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Session, Oh, we were scared. We were nervous.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
I spoke with Danny Cassidy about Senate Bill three, a
bill recently vetoed by Governor Greg Abbott that would have
banned the sale of THHC products in Texas. Danny is
the owner of CBD American Shaman in the Heights. He
tells me this business is how he makes a living.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
We've been open for you know, almost six years now.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Senate Bill three passed the Texas House and Senate this
legislative session, despite opposition from veterans who used the product
for PTSD and small business owners.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
So who would have to close because there's no you know,
we can't sell anything. All of our products would be illegal.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
How did you feel when the governor vetoed.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
The bill UHS relief?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Texas mull strongly regulate him and do so immediately.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
The best way to protect the adults of the children is.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
To ban the product.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick had been vocal about his support
for Senate Bill three, saying there is not enough law
enforcement to regulate the more than eight thousand THHC stores
in Texas. He also cited concerns that the products would
get in the hands of children.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Keep it away from them, Keep it away from them.
With THHC you know twenty one and up you know
ID you know, force it.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
These types of regulations like age restrictions, labeling and location
restrictions is what Governor Abbott is calling for. Regulations, Danny
tells me as a business owner, he supports and he
hopes more people know about some of the benefits these
products have.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Some use it for stressed anxiety, pain, sleep aid inflammation.
Most people that come to us, it's like their last resort.
They're like, oh, you know, it's what do you have?
I'm hurting or I need some sleep, and if it works,
they get, you know what they're looking for out of it.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
In the heights j One John k PRC two News.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
When I was growing up, I remember going to the
hospital if a relative had had a surgery or an injury,
and I can remember moaning. You walk down the hall
people with moaning from pain and somewhere I don't know
when it happened, because it was in my transition from a.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Boy to a man.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And at some point the zeit guests changed and people
the medical community understood.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Hey, we need to manage pain.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Pain in and of itself is stressed to the body
and it can cause more damage. Let's find a way
to reasonably manage pain. And all of a sudden, if
you were a patient you noticed it at the hospital,
Let's say, hey, they started the coding system. What's your
number on the coding system?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Are you to for you tonight?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
If you managing your pain became part of treating your condition.
And if you've never known anybody who THHC helped, I'm
going to tell you you do know somebody you don't
know it. A lot of our veterans need this, A
lot of them need this. I didn't get to this
on Friday, but I don't want this week to go
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by without reading this. David Masby sends me today's champion
of who helps our Camp Hope veterans day to day
and on Friday us big things today to Mattress mac
amidst his efforts to support those affected by the floods
in Central Taxes and as we told you, he sent
truckloads of supplies to Curveville. May still be sent them,
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he said. If he asked me if we needed any
recliners and we said we could use up to eleven,
we didn't expect him to send them. He sent eleven recliners.
Michael had to ad met they were over four thousand each.
Didn't charge us a penny. Our veterans know they are
loved by Mattress Mac. So if you're looking to buy furniture,
buy it from him and thank him because that's awesome.
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Ramon with these second most played Gloria Gainers song, Well done.
You're trying to insinuate your back into your way back
into my good graces.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Moms telling me a story this morning about they were
having a family meal, and his oldest son is July Augustus.
His youngest son is Olimer Oliver McCrae and loansome Dove fans.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We'll get those references. But Oliver or Olie as they
call him.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Ramone's wife Amy was saying something to the effect of.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
But Ollie, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And he said, Mama, we listen, but we don't judge,
and I just fell out laughing. I had to tell
my this was thirty minutes before we went on the
other morning. I had to call my wife in to
tell her, You've got to listen to this story. You've
got to listen because there were so many times our
kids would come home. Because kids don't always you have
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to tell them listen, listen to your teachers, be respectful
in class, do what you're supposed to do. Don't pull
Susie's pigtails, you know, don't do this, don't smack talk,
don't but your parents come first. What you learn at
school is never more important than what your parents learned.
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But in Oli's world, he's having to learn that the
teacher's rules do not super do not supersede mom and
dad's rules. So when the teacher says to the class,
we listen, we don't judge, Mom gets to judge because
she's mom. And I just imagine I missed those days
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when our kids were at the age where they would
so sincerely say something like, Ollie, why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Mama.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
We listen, but we don't judge. Robert writes Marcus Latrell
is dead on. My wife's cadaver team was there in Kerrville.
She had a broken ankle. She couldn't make the trip.
She was very upset. Channel two gave them a good
review a couple of days ago. Their team captain is
seventy four years old, going strong all day. We certified
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cadaver dogs at our lake house in Conrad a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's unbelievable what they can do.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Michael the inspector would put a human hand in a
little basket and had to be in a minimum of
ten foot of water in a three hundred by three
hundred grid. My wife's dog found the spot in less
than five minutes. All the dogs found it in ten
foot of water to pass and be certified. The biggest
dog show in Texas was this weekend, and she couldn't
show her dog, or her friend showed him. He won
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first in all classes different breed. He's a Collie. Her
cadaver dogs are Border Collies and a Belgian malanwom.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They never get tired.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's amazing what a blessing those dogs are in a
situation like this. How many practical applications those dogs have.
Richard writes, your discussion with Marcus the trail triggered some
memories for me about how interrelated many Kerr County residents are.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Being a small, tight community.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
My dad retired there in sixty five from the Air
Force to manage the Kerrville Airport. I worked for the
mayor's family at Herring Printing for ten years and picked
him up after elementary school and took him to the
shop for years. I then worked for thirty eight years
at Peterson Hospital as their chief information officer, where the
daughter in law of Dick east Dick Eastland the head
of Camp Mystic who perished trying to save the girls,
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where the daughter in law of Dick Eastland is the
president of the board. During that time I wrote the
camper databases for Camp Mystic, Camp Waldemar, Camp Stuart, and
Heart of the Hills Camp that may be Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I don't know how they say the w so I.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Worked for months hand in hand with the owners of
those camps, the Eastlands, the Elmores, the Ragsdales, Stuart and
his wife Jane Ragsdale, who perished in the flood, first class,
every one of them. We live in Comfort now and
provide our airbnb free to volunteers. Currently we're providing a
place for a Special Forces diver working with some Navy
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seals and recovery efforts. This community is tight and everyone
feels the pain of the disaster, so we have some friends.
My kids didn't go to camp. We always Every family
has a different approach. I'll just tell you what our
approach is. When i tell you our approach, some people
think I'm saying our approach is different or it's better.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's not. I didn't grow up.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Going to camps, so camps weren't part of the tradition.
My wife growing up in India, that's not done. So
we weren't camp people. Most of our friends sent their
kids to at least one camp per year, or for
at least two weeks per summer to a child. Every
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kid loved to go. It wasn't like the parents were
trying to get rid of them. These camps are not cheap.
If thousands and thousands of dollars. I heard Camp Mystic
is between four and five thousand dollars, so it's an
expensive thing. It's not for everybody, but the kids seem
to love it, and the kids have camp friends. They're
they're friends that they meet at camp that are from
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all over the country and they only see him at
camp time, but they look forward to going back. You know,
it's a year later. I'm going to get to see
my friend I haven't seen since last year. And they
make friends for life out of these They make friends
that they go off to U T or A and
M or TCU or tech or wherever it does they
go and and sometimes they'll room with the kid they
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went to camp with because they know they like.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That kid anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So so camp is is is really an important part
of life for these these guys. A friend of mine
named Brian mc macken is very close friends with the
guy whose family owns Camp Ozark, which is one of
the big ones, and he is a part of the
Camp Ozark family. I think there's three family members that
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run that, and then he created his own, which I
think is called Camp at X. But there's so many
of these Longhorn, mystic all of them and people are
you know, they're loyal to their ones. And one night
I sat with him. I had joined my friend Brian
mc mckennatt Houston Country Club and Chris whose name I
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can't remember. We coached against each other in Little legu
real nice guy. I was just talking to him about
the camping business. What are the challenges that we wouldn't
know about?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You know, how do you market? What is this? What
is this? And it's fascinating everybody's businesses. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But I was talking to my wife this weekend because
some of our friends their kids went to camp after
this flood occurred, and the camps are not far from there,
and I said, do you think if we were a
family that sent our kids to camp, do you think
we could have sent them to camp? Because I don't
know that I could have. And she said, yeah, this
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is a learning experience. My wife is the rational one
in our family. If you think I'm cold and clinical,
my wife is times ten. She said, no, this is
this is an opportunity presenting itself. You're learning that life
is fragile and that you're never fully protected from death.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It could happen at any time.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It could come for you at any moment, and and
live every moment with no regrets because you just never know.
Those floodwaters rose fast, and I mean they rose fast.
It also tells you that there is no place completely
free of danger, no matter how hard you try. You
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would have thought that's the safest place in the world,
you would, right, little girls at camp, and and how
much safer could it be.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
They're having a blast. Uh, They've put away their phones,
they've done.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
They're doing everything that you would think would be just perfect.
She said, But you've got to learn. She lost her
mom at nine years old, so coping with grief and
moving on down the road.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
She's better at than I am.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But it's interesting because we had a long conversation about that,
and I said, you're right.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It is a life has to go on. You have
you honor the dead by living better. And it's just trip.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
All right, callers, hang tight, I will get to you
in just a moment. I got an email from a
fellow named Scott, frequent emailer, and he says Channel eleven
story on the proposed downtown Houston scooter band zar so
excited to see a story on Channel eleven's ten PM
newscast Sunday about the proposed ban on scooters in downtown.
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I believe the vote is scheduled for this week. I
hope it passes, as the writers obey zero traffic laws
and exhibit no courtesy, darting in and out in and
around traffic. They are all over the roads and seemingly
mostly come out at night. Now full disclosure, I'm not
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going to tell you I'm for something because I think
you're for it, or because you've just told me you are.
I don't know what the prohibition on scooters looks like yet,
But when I hear someone say I would like to
in this case ban scooters because people who ride scooters
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are rude, that is, I can't be for that. I
don't believe in the use of government regulatory authority or
prohibition in this case on the basis that I don't
like the behavior of people who do that. I don't
think we should allow motorcycles on the highway because a
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lot of those guys have bad bo That's not a
basis for regulating other people's behavior. But let's listen to
the story and I'll tell you whether I agree with it.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Or not.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I'm assuming y'all know what I'm talking about. I don't
know what they have in downtown.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I don't go into downtown Houston anymore other than go
to the Astros game. And I go around and I
come down by Joysticks, the video arcade thing, and I
either park in front of Joysticks. Don't you do that?
Because they didn't want to be a spot for me?
That's what That's not what Hooker's caught. What is wrong
with you? You go to California and you come back broken.
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That's not what Hookers caught. It's video games anyway. So
I don't know what brand they are. Bird makes one
of them. I think Lime makes one of them. I
discovered them in Austin about Michael was twelve and he
wanted to go to a concert. So me and Chance
McLean and Michael T and one of his buddies we
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all went to Austin and I pull up and there's
these They call them scooters. They're like the old razors,
if you remember. It's just like a little a little
sliver of a skateboard, half a skateboard with a wheel
on each end and then a little zoom zoom on
each side. So it's it's kind of like a little
stand up thing. And I got to be completely honest.
So I pull into town and they're thrown everywhere. They're
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all over the sidewalk, and I said, Austin's gone to hell.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Homeless people and those scooters they look terrible, They're awful.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
They're all over the place all right. So we park
stayed at the Driscool, which I love to stay at,
and there's no parking places anywhere that we wanted to go.
And we're going over to south By Southwest to see
this particular band. And so Michael t can't drive at
that point, says, Dad, lets me and you go get
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on a scooter. So I said, well, chance is stupid.
He'll want to be on a scooter too, and so
will your buddy because he's twelve.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So we go scootering all around town and we go
all the way.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Over to south By Southwest, which is quite away from
Sixth Street, which is where we were, and we had
an absolute blast father Son weekend, just all around downtown. Now,
yes people fall and get hurt. Yes they're trashy because
they're left on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
No that's not me.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm a live in the suburbs. I'm too old to
want to live where homeless people and scooters are. However,
here is the story. Because apparently people in Houston aren't digging.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
On it, scooters could soon end up being kicked to
the curb in parts of Houston. The City Council's Quality
of Life Committee will soon hear a proposal to ban them.
Our Oka Romanos spoke with downtown business owners who rely
on scooter rentals entirely to survive orca.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
Anywhere you go around downtown Houston and you'll see scooters
like these. While the proposed ban is meant to improve safety,
scooter rental companies say there has to be a middle ground.
Scooters have become a staple site and sound, especially on
weekend nights in downtown Houston.
Speaker 12 (28:49):
It's a perfect location for the business.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Emilio Montez co owned Swerve Scooters, a rental company just
down the street from the Toyota Center.
Speaker 12 (28:57):
That it is a good recreational activity for the young
people of Houston.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
But a proposal to amends city ordinances would create this
scooter free zone, essentially banning scooters from downtown, Midtown, and Edo.
The potential changes would make it unlawful for anyone to
operate a motor assistant scooter on a public roadway, street, alley, sidewalk,
or city park within that zone.
Speaker 12 (29:21):
It would be worst case scenario for us.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Montez says his shop would shut down and things. Legitimate
businesses like his don't deserve that.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
I believe the problem here with the scooters is like
all the vendors that are doing it, you know, illegally
and don't educate the customers about the city or.
Speaker 11 (29:41):
The city says. The intention of the proposed amendment says
to reduce safety hazards. Some residents telling us that's why
they're on board with banning scooters.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
I think they're very dangerous.
Speaker 10 (29:51):
They're not good for us a city. I mean, you
see them coming out out of nowhere.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Sometimes they're dangerous, you know, for the kids really, because
you know i've and I heard there were occasions almost
run oal of you.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
You know, we brought those concerns to Star Right Scooter Rentals,
which just opened a couple months ago. They point to
safety concerns. What's your response to the city is saying
that's the reason they want to do.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
This, safety concerns. That's that's I mean, that's a valid concern.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
But they say a compromise can be made with the city.
Speaker 13 (30:22):
And they should work with us as small business owners
and make it more safe. You know, they can work
to make it more safe, non Bendus kutters.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
The proposal will be discussed at the City Council's Quality
of Life Committee meeting this Thursday. The companies we spoke
with say they'll be in attendance to make their voices heard.
Reporting from Downtown Houston or Commander KJOU eleven.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
News before the show is over.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
The Cold Place CEO has resigned and now stadiums are
doing a Coldplay cam instead of a kiss cam, and
the whole thing is just awful. I don't know if
you heard the CEO before he resigned called into Delilah.
Speaker 14 (31:18):
What a wonderful night it is.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
The stars are.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
Shining, and we have a man on the phone who
made a little bit of a mistake last week at
a Coldplay concert. Hello, CEO, Andy is on the line.
CEO Andy, tell us what happened last week in that
Coldplay concert.
Speaker 15 (31:38):
Well, thank you, Delilah.
Speaker 16 (31:39):
You know there I was sitting up in my company
suite and what happened was my HR director slipped on
a line that someone here dropped from their janitomic, and
I grabbed her in my own and rided that very moment,
righted that very moment.
Speaker 15 (31:56):
The camera looked at me and I had her in
my arms Grass And what I'm going to tell you
is it was an unfortunate, wrong place at the wrong time,
especially for the camera.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Or it's hang tight. WILL take your call and we'll
play them tomorrow. I'm not going to miss you. Stay
right there,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael varieshow is on the air that.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A fake Russia investigation that interfered, That was a terrible thing,
that was actually a treasonous thing to do. Those people
should have been arrested. They made it up. They made
up a problem with Russia that didn't exist. Now they've
all admitted it didn't exist. It was just on to
the next one.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever. The Russians
interfered in our election during the twenty sixteen cycle. They
did it with purpose, they did it with sophistication, they
did it with overwhelming technical efforts, and it was an
active measures campaign driven from the top of that government.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
There is no fuzz on that.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community,
and the members of this committee have seen intelligence.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's not a close call. That happened.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
That's about as unfake as you can possibly get and
is very very serious. Which is why it's so refreshing
to see a bypartisan focus on that, because this is
about America, not about any.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Picture of parties.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I'll be honest with you. When you're talking about cybersecurity,
a lot of it is classified, and we're not going
to provide it because the way we catch folks is
by knowing certain things about them that they may not
want us to know. And if we're going to monitor
this stuff effectively going forward, we don't want them to
know that we know. This is one of those situations
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where unless the American people genuinely think that the professionals
in the CIA, the FBI, our entire intelligence infrastructure, many
of whom, by the way, served in previous administrations and
who are Republicans, are less trustworthy than the Russians, then
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people should pay attention to what our intelligence agency sells.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
So the effect of what President Obama and his senior
national security team did was subvert the will of the
American people, undermining our democratic republic. Creating this piece of
manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped Donald Trump
get elected contradicted every other assessment that had been made
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previously in the months leading up to the election that
said exactly the opposite, that Russia neither had neither the
intent nor the capability to try to quote unquote hack
the United States election.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
For the presidency of the United States. In the.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
YEP today is the first day of the special legislative session. Remember,
our state legislature meets for one hundred and fifty days
every two years. It's called a biennial. It's in the
odd numbered year after the even number year election. So
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you're elected in November, and then the new legislative session.
The new legislature takes office in January two months later,
and then you have your first session, which is one
hundred and fifty days, and then a year and a
half later you're up for re election in the general election.
Of course, a year after that, which is its coming spring,
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you'll have your party primaries. However, at the end of
the one hundred and fifty days, if the governor chooses
to call a special session and bring them back to convene,
he may do so per special session for a limit
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of thirty days for a specific item or items that
he puts on the agenda. On the agenda is congressional redistricting.
President Trump has made very clear he would like five
more congressional seats out of Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Does he expect to get five more congressional seats out
of Texas? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You could do it, but he knows he won't be
able to get that, but by asking for five, he
might get three. Abbot is not a guy. The Democrats
are going to kick and squeal.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
What's going to happen is the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News,
Austin American Statesman, Texas Tribune. They're going to criticize Abbot.
Abbot's a bad gap, Abbot's a puppet of Trump. Abbot
is overly conservative. Abbot And here's the one we'll get him.
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Abbot is disenfranchising voters. Abbot cannot stand that sort of thing.
He might burst into tears in public, He might internally combust,
He will wilt, he always does if he is accused
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of being mean.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He's done.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Abbot has so desperately tried to be the kind, gentle,
sweet Republican. Abbot's one of these Republicans who calling him
a racist always works.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Because he's so scared.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He so desperately wants you to know that some of
his best friends are black in Hispanic and he would never, ever, ever,
ever ever want to be one of those things. But
we begin the process and he has put it on
the agenda. So Democrats today have come out swinging. No surprise,
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they are being coordinated nationally. The sorrows folks are very
good at moments like this. They shine, They're very very
good at what they do. This is not Texas State
rep Democrats coordinating this pushback. Rest assured. This is all
coming out of DC, New York, in LA. This is
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the best minds. They have the best minds money can buy.
And believe it or not, yeah, they're very good at this.
They're not appealing to you. So if you say, well,
it ain't working, they're not very good, You're right.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They're not very good. Not for you.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They're appealing to people who feel left out, offering from dysphoria, confused,
living a life of the consequences of bad decisions of
themselves and people around them. People who are naturally prone
to make excuses for themselves, people are not particularly hard working,
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people who make bad life choices, people who have criminal records,
people who don't seem to ever get ahead. But the
one person they don't blames themselves. Those sorts of people
are their coalition. So the placard on the podium this
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morning at the Democrat press conference, because they're going to
fight against congressional redistricting. The placard says fight the Trump takeover,
and Trump is xed out in red to the side
of that an outline of.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
The state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So what their research shows there are no accidents in
these things. What their research shows is that they're going
to rally the media, and it's not democratics the media
that this is Trump. We got to rally against Trump.
That's what this is going to be. That's they've just
played their hand.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Famous or as I call it, the Michael Barry Shows.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And I don't see a river.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Team out on.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The THC regulation that Dan Patrick has staked everything on
in the state legislature, which by the way, is going
to cost us selections.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
There are a number of Republicans who won't vote Republican
again because of this. It didn't need to be done.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He created a crisis issue, a wedge issue that will
only hurt Republicans.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's just really, really stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
But this is what happens when you let the I'm
going to be charitable and assume this is the people
around Dan Patrick and not him, When the people around
you who don't have to get elected but do get
paid by people to put this issue on the I've
come to learn it's not the liquor industry that put
this up. It's the medical marijuana industry. Because if you're
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effectively buying your marijuana over the counter, and they've got
a license so that you should have to pay them
multiples of that and they will distribute, then it's hurting
their business.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
When drugs go from being prescriptioned to over the counter,
the people who made their money prescribing the drug lose
the ability to prescribe the drug.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They don't get to be the gatekeeper anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And this is why as part of Dan Patrick's plan,
they would expand the compassionate use program. So, you see,
marijuana will kill you. It'll blind you, it'll stunt your growth,
it'll cause you to starve, it'll make you into a devil.
We've all seen refer madness. It'll kill everybody all the time,
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except if you do it over here under this group
that's spending money with the politicians to make it so
that they'll.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Give it to you.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I thought it was so bad, I thought it was
so dangerous. So that's who's actually paying for this. It's
the medical marijuana industry. They don't like you being able
to get it on your own. And this has long
been the case. You know, when drugs are.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Made OTC and in the past you had to go
to the doctor. People don't go crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Sure, there are a few people who will take the
elements out of suit of fed and make very dangerous drugs.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yep. There are also people who'll drive one hundred and
fifty miles an hour in the middle of busy traffic.
There are also people who'll take the.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Same alcohol you and I drink and have twenty five
of them get it behind the wheel. They are also
here's one for you, people that'll take the gun that
you use for self defense and go and cause harm
to the others.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But what if I were to say, well, some people.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Are going to take that thing and abuse it to
cause harm, maybe we should put more gun regulations, you'd say,
you're an idiot, and that's what you should do. Here
a Houston, CBD shop owner supports regulation over an outright ban.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
A DAC band is one of the top items on
the agenda for the special session. Before heading to our
breaking news at the top of the show, KPRC two's
Jawon Jung stopped by a THC store in the Heights.
She spoke to the owner about why is keeping a
close eye on the developments in Austin.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
We're here at CBD American Shaman in the Heights. This
is a boutique style CBD's store with a range of
different products ranging from dog treats to drinks, even topical cream. Now,
the owner tells me he would before some of the
regulations that will be discussing the special session, including age regulation.
What did you think when this was going through the legislative.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Session, Oh, we were scared. We were nervous.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
I spoke with Danny Cassidy about Senate Bill three, a
bill recently vetoed by Governor Greg Abbott that would have
banned the sale of THHC products in Texas. Danny is
the owner of CBD American Shaman in the Heights. He
tells me this business is how he makes a living.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
We've been open for you know, almost six years now.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Senate Bill three passed the Texas House and Senate this
legislative session, despite opposition from veterans who used the product
for PTSD and small business owners.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
So who would have to close because there's no you know,
we can't sell anything. All of our products would be illegal.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
How did you feel when the governor vetoed.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
The bill UHS relief?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Texas mull strongly regulate him and do so immediately.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
The best way to protect the adults of the children is.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
To ban the product.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick had been vocal about his support
for Senate Bill three, saying there is not enough law
enforcement to regulate the more than eight thousand THHC stores
in Texas. He also cited concerns that the products would
get in the hands of children.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Keep it away from them, Keep it away from them.
With THHC you know twenty one and up you know
ID you know, force it.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
These types of regulations like age restrictions, labeling and location
restrictions is what Governor Abbott is calling for. Regulations, Danny
tells me as a business owner, he supports and he
hopes more people know about some of the benefits these
products have.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Some use it for stressed anxiety, pain, sleep aid inflammation.
Most people that come to us, it's like their last resort.
They're like, oh, you know, it's what do you have?
I'm hurting or I need some sleep, and if it works,
they get, you know what they're looking for out of it.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
In the heights j One John k PRC two News.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
When I was growing up, I remember going to the
hospital if a relative had had a surgery or an injury,
and I can remember moaning. You walk down the hall
people with moaning from pain and somewhere I don't know
when it happened, because it was in my transition from a.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Boy to a man.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And at some point the zeit guests changed and people
the medical community understood.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Hey, we need to manage pain.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Pain in and of itself is stressed to the body
and it can cause more damage. Let's find a way
to reasonably manage pain. And all of a sudden, if
you were a patient you noticed it at the hospital,
Let's say, hey, they started the coding system. What's your
number on the coding system?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Are you to for you tonight?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
If you managing your pain became part of treating your condition.
And if you've never known anybody who THHC helped, I'm
going to tell you you do know somebody you don't
know it. A lot of our veterans need this, A
lot of them need this. I didn't get to this
on Friday, but I don't want this week to go
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by without reading this. David Masby sends me today's champion
of who helps our Camp Hope veterans day to day
and on Friday us big things today to Mattress mac
amidst his efforts to support those affected by the floods
in Central Taxes and as we told you, he sent
truckloads of supplies to Curveville. May still be sent them,
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he said. If he asked me if we needed any
recliners and we said we could use up to eleven,
we didn't expect him to send them. He sent eleven recliners.
Michael had to ad met they were over four thousand each.
Didn't charge us a penny. Our veterans know they are
loved by Mattress Mac. So if you're looking to buy furniture,
buy it from him and thank him because that's awesome.
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Ramon with these second most played Gloria Gainers song, Well done.
You're trying to insinuate your back into your way back
into my good graces.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Moms telling me a story this morning about they were
having a family meal, and his oldest son is July Augustus.
His youngest son is Olimer Oliver McCrae and loansome Dove fans.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We'll get those references. But Oliver or Olie as they
call him.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Ramone's wife Amy was saying something to the effect of.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
But Ollie, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And he said, Mama, we listen, but we don't judge,
and I just fell out laughing. I had to tell
my this was thirty minutes before we went on the
other morning. I had to call my wife in to
tell her, You've got to listen to this story. You've
got to listen because there were so many times our
kids would come home. Because kids don't always you have
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to tell them listen, listen to your teachers, be respectful
in class, do what you're supposed to do. Don't pull
Susie's pigtails, you know, don't do this, don't smack talk,
don't but your parents come first. What you learn at
school is never more important than what your parents learned.
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But in Oli's world, he's having to learn that the
teacher's rules do not super do not supersede mom and
dad's rules. So when the teacher says to the class,
we listen, we don't judge, Mom gets to judge because
she's mom. And I just imagine I missed those days
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when our kids were at the age where they would
so sincerely say something like, Ollie, why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Mama.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
We listen, but we don't judge. Robert writes Marcus Latrell
is dead on. My wife's cadaver team was there in Kerrville.
She had a broken ankle. She couldn't make the trip.
She was very upset. Channel two gave them a good
review a couple of days ago. Their team captain is
seventy four years old, going strong all day. We certified
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cadaver dogs at our lake house in Conrad a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's unbelievable what they can do.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Michael the inspector would put a human hand in a
little basket and had to be in a minimum of
ten foot of water in a three hundred by three
hundred grid. My wife's dog found the spot in less
than five minutes. All the dogs found it in ten
foot of water to pass and be certified. The biggest
dog show in Texas was this weekend, and she couldn't
show her dog, or her friend showed him. He won
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first in all classes different breed. He's a Collie. Her
cadaver dogs are Border Collies and a Belgian malanwom.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
They never get tired.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's amazing what a blessing those dogs are in a
situation like this. How many practical applications those dogs have.
Richard writes, your discussion with Marcus the trail triggered some
memories for me about how interrelated many Kerr County residents are.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Being a small, tight community.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
My dad retired there in sixty five from the Air
Force to manage the Kerrville Airport. I worked for the
mayor's family at Herring Printing for ten years and picked
him up after elementary school and took him to the
shop for years. I then worked for thirty eight years
at Peterson Hospital as their chief information officer, where the
daughter in law of Dick east Dick Eastland the head
of Camp Mystic who perished trying to save the girls,
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where the daughter in law of Dick Eastland is the
president of the board. During that time I wrote the
camper databases for Camp Mystic, Camp Waldemar, Camp Stuart, and
Heart of the Hills Camp that may be Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I don't know how they say the w so I.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Worked for months hand in hand with the owners of
those camps, the Eastlands, the Elmores, the Ragsdales, Stuart and
his wife Jane Ragsdale, who perished in the flood, first class,
every one of them. We live in Comfort now and
provide our airbnb free to volunteers. Currently we're providing a
place for a Special Forces diver working with some Navy
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seals and recovery efforts. This community is tight and everyone
feels the pain of the disaster, so we have some friends.
My kids didn't go to camp. We always Every family
has a different approach. I'll just tell you what our
approach is. When i tell you our approach, some people
think I'm saying our approach is different or it's better.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's not. I didn't grow up.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Going to camps, so camps weren't part of the tradition.
My wife growing up in India, that's not done. So
we weren't camp people. Most of our friends sent their
kids to at least one camp per year, or for
at least two weeks per summer to a child. Every
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kid loved to go. It wasn't like the parents were
trying to get rid of them. These camps are not cheap.
If thousands and thousands of dollars. I heard Camp Mystic
is between four and five thousand dollars, so it's an
expensive thing. It's not for everybody, but the kids seem
to love it, and the kids have camp friends. They're
they're friends that they meet at camp that are from
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all over the country and they only see him at
camp time, but they look forward to going back. You know,
it's a year later. I'm going to get to see
my friend I haven't seen since last year. And they
make friends for life out of these They make friends
that they go off to U T or A and
M or TCU or tech or wherever it does they
go and and sometimes they'll room with the kid they
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went to camp with because they know they like.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That kid anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So so camp is is is really an important part
of life for these these guys. A friend of mine
named Brian mc macken is very close friends with the
guy whose family owns Camp Ozark, which is one of
the big ones, and he is a part of the
Camp Ozark family. I think there's three family members that
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run that, and then he created his own, which I
think is called Camp at X. But there's so many
of these Longhorn, mystic all of them and people are
you know, they're loyal to their ones. And one night
I sat with him. I had joined my friend Brian
mc mckennatt Houston Country Club and Chris whose name I
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can't remember. We coached against each other in Little legu
real nice guy. I was just talking to him about
the camping business. What are the challenges that we wouldn't
know about?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You know, how do you market? What is this? What
is this? And it's fascinating everybody's businesses. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But I was talking to my wife this weekend because
some of our friends their kids went to camp after
this flood occurred, and the camps are not far from there,
and I said, do you think if we were a
family that sent our kids to camp, do you think
we could have sent them to camp? Because I don't
know that I could have. And she said, yeah, this
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is a learning experience. My wife is the rational one
in our family. If you think I'm cold and clinical,
my wife is times ten. She said, no, this is
this is an opportunity presenting itself. You're learning that life
is fragile and that you're never fully protected from death.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It could happen at any time.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It could come for you at any moment, and and
live every moment with no regrets because you just never know.
Those floodwaters rose fast, and I mean they rose fast.
It also tells you that there is no place completely
free of danger, no matter how hard you try. You
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would have thought that's the safest place in the world,
you would, right, little girls at camp, and and how
much safer could it be.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
They're having a blast. Uh, They've put away their phones,
they've done.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
They're doing everything that you would think would be just perfect.
She said, But you've got to learn. She lost her
mom at nine years old, so coping with grief and
moving on down the road.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
She's better at than I am.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But it's interesting because we had a long conversation about that,
and I said, you're right.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It is a life has to go on. You have
you honor the dead by living better. And it's just trip.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
All right, callers, hang tight, I will get to you
in just a moment. I got an email from a
fellow named Scott, frequent emailer, and he says Channel eleven
story on the proposed downtown Houston scooter band zar so
excited to see a story on Channel eleven's ten PM
newscast Sunday about the proposed ban on scooters in downtown.
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I believe the vote is scheduled for this week. I
hope it passes, as the writers obey zero traffic laws
and exhibit no courtesy, darting in and out in and
around traffic. They are all over the roads and seemingly
mostly come out at night. Now full disclosure, I'm not
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going to tell you I'm for something because I think
you're for it, or because you've just told me you are.
I don't know what the prohibition on scooters looks like yet,
But when I hear someone say I would like to
in this case ban scooters because people who ride scooters
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are rude, that is, I can't be for that. I
don't believe in the use of government regulatory authority or
prohibition in this case on the basis that I don't
like the behavior of people who do that. I don't
think we should allow motorcycles on the highway because a
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lot of those guys have bad bo That's not a
basis for regulating other people's behavior. But let's listen to
the story and I'll tell you whether I agree with it.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Or not.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I'm assuming y'all know what I'm talking about. I don't
know what they have in downtown.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I don't go into downtown Houston anymore other than go
to the Astros game. And I go around and I
come down by Joysticks, the video arcade thing, and I
either park in front of Joysticks. Don't you do that?
Because they didn't want to be a spot for me?
That's what That's not what Hooker's caught. What is wrong
with you? You go to California and you come back broken.
(26:25):
That's not what Hookers caught. It's video games anyway. So
I don't know what brand they are. Bird makes one
of them. I think Lime makes one of them. I
discovered them in Austin about Michael was twelve and he
wanted to go to a concert. So me and Chance
McLean and Michael T and one of his buddies we
(26:45):
all went to Austin and I pull up and there's
these They call them scooters. They're like the old razors,
if you remember. It's just like a little a little
sliver of a skateboard, half a skateboard with a wheel
on each end and then a little zoom zoom on
each side. So it's it's kind of like a little
stand up thing. And I got to be completely honest.
So I pull into town and they're thrown everywhere. They're
(27:07):
all over the sidewalk, and I said, Austin's gone to hell.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Homeless people and those scooters they look terrible, They're awful.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
They're all over the place all right. So we park
stayed at the Driscool, which I love to stay at,
and there's no parking places anywhere that we wanted to go.
And we're going over to south By Southwest to see
this particular band. And so Michael t can't drive at
that point, says, Dad, lets me and you go get
(27:36):
on a scooter. So I said, well, chance is stupid.
He'll want to be on a scooter too, and so
will your buddy because he's twelve.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So we go scootering all around town and we go
all the way.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Over to south By Southwest, which is quite away from
Sixth Street, which is where we were, and we had
an absolute blast father Son weekend, just all around downtown. Now,
yes people fall and get hurt. Yes they're trashy because
they're left on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
No that's not me.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm a live in the suburbs. I'm too old to
want to live where homeless people and scooters are. However,
here is the story. Because apparently people in Houston aren't digging.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
On it, scooters could soon end up being kicked to
the curb in parts of Houston. The City Council's Quality
of Life Committee will soon hear a proposal to ban them.
Our Oka Romanos spoke with downtown business owners who rely
on scooter rentals entirely to survive orca.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
Anywhere you go around downtown Houston and you'll see scooters
like these. While the proposed ban is meant to improve safety,
scooter rental companies say there has to be a middle ground.
Scooters have become a staple site and sound, especially on
weekend nights in downtown Houston.
Speaker 12 (28:49):
It's a perfect location for the business.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Emilio Montez co owned Swerve Scooters, a rental company just
down the street from the Toyota Center.
Speaker 12 (28:57):
That it is a good recreational activity for the young
people of Houston.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
But a proposal to amends city ordinances would create this
scooter free zone, essentially banning scooters from downtown, Midtown, and Edo.
The potential changes would make it unlawful for anyone to
operate a motor assistant scooter on a public roadway, street, alley, sidewalk,
or city park within that zone.
Speaker 12 (29:21):
It would be worst case scenario for us.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Montez says his shop would shut down and things. Legitimate
businesses like his don't deserve that.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
I believe the problem here with the scooters is like
all the vendors that are doing it, you know, illegally
and don't educate the customers about the city or.
Speaker 11 (29:41):
The city says. The intention of the proposed amendment says
to reduce safety hazards. Some residents telling us that's why
they're on board with banning scooters.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
I think they're very dangerous.
Speaker 10 (29:51):
They're not good for us a city. I mean, you
see them coming out out of nowhere.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Sometimes they're dangerous, you know, for the kids really, because
you know i've and I heard there were occasions almost
run oal of you.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
You know, we brought those concerns to Star Right Scooter Rentals,
which just opened a couple months ago. They point to
safety concerns. What's your response to the city is saying
that's the reason they want to do.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
This, safety concerns. That's that's I mean, that's a valid concern.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
But they say a compromise can be made with the city.
Speaker 13 (30:22):
And they should work with us as small business owners
and make it more safe. You know, they can work
to make it more safe, non Bendus kutters.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
The proposal will be discussed at the City Council's Quality
of Life Committee meeting this Thursday. The companies we spoke
with say they'll be in attendance to make their voices heard.
Reporting from Downtown Houston or Commander KJOU eleven.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
News before the show is over.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
The Cold Place CEO has resigned and now stadiums are
doing a Coldplay cam instead of a kiss cam, and
the whole thing is just awful. I don't know if
you heard the CEO before he resigned called into Delilah.
Speaker 14 (31:18):
What a wonderful night it is.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
The stars are.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
Shining, and we have a man on the phone who
made a little bit of a mistake last week at
a Coldplay concert. Hello, CEO, Andy is on the line.
CEO Andy, tell us what happened last week in that
Coldplay concert.
Speaker 15 (31:38):
Well, thank you, Delilah.
Speaker 16 (31:39):
You know there I was sitting up in my company
suite and what happened was my HR director slipped on
a line that someone here dropped from their janitomic, and
I grabbed her in my own and rided that very moment,
righted that very moment.
Speaker 15 (31:56):
The camera looked at me and I had her in
my arms Grass And what I'm going to tell you
is it was an unfortunate, wrong place at the wrong time,
especially for the camera.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Or it's hang tight. WILL take your call and we'll
play them tomorrow. I'm not going to miss you. Stay
right there,
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