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I just wanted to say to everyone out there, I'm
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It's official.
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Now you know the rest of the story.
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Joy, You like movies about gladiators.
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What if your child get amoonia fu shoes?
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Take me on, Take me on.
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Your mother was a hamster and your father snake off elaberry.
How much you want to make a bet?
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I can throw football over the mountain.
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What are you kidding?
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We got some family here, not.
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Allry well, well so lovely until tonight, then one or
more bye.
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On this day. In nineteen eighty one, Nolan Ryan set
a Major League record by throwing his fifth or if
you prefer the f B pronounced fifth no hitter, fifth
no hitter, and the final out in that game a
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ground out to third by Dusty Baker. You know I'd
be curiou is by folks who are bigger Astros fans
than I am. The most tormented fan is the fan
who watches every game, the fan who can't wait for
the season to start. The fan who goes down to Cassimi.
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Are they still in Kassemi? Why did I? I think I
think Crane moved right. I don't think they're in Kassimi anymore. No, no, no, yeah,
we can say they are, but I want to say
he moved them because he's got a facility. Uh, he's
got a really really high end club in another Florida town,
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and I want to say he moved it there to that,
to that community, and I can't remember what it was.
But anyway, the the worst is the fan who loves
a team, and let's take baseball, the guy who he
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no matter what happened last year, if they won the
World Series, he's ready to win another one. If however,
they lost that he can't sleep over it. He's got
to We've got to get back and win the World
Series so he can avenge what happened last year. And
this isn't all encompassing in thralling emotion. You don't want
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to go to a game with that guy because they're
not fun to watch the game with. They are mad
about everything and they're blowing a gasket in the second
inning on on a on a close call at first,
they're lowing, blowing a gasket when we've got two outs
and the runner gets thrown out at first, I mean,
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it's it's a rough it's a rough deal. It's a
very very rough deal that person. And even when we win,
or even when his team wins, say the World Series,
the immediate concern is, how do we you know what
changes we have to make to get back next year
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and win it again? Because I want this, so they
hate losing far more than they love winning. But I
would be curious, and I didn't watch the Dusty era
closely enough, but I was always interested in how much
people disliked Dusty. But they seemed to be winning during Dusty,
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so I don't know, I don't know what it was.
I would be interested to see what people are saying
who hated Dusty as to this season, because I saw
the matrix of what it would take for the Astros
to win with three games left, and every wild card
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contender has the tie break over them, so you've got
to win it outright by a game, so it makes
it very hard. You basically you basically got to go
You can't go oh and three if you go one
and two. A bunch of crazy stuff has to happen.
If you go three and oh, you still have to
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have the other teams. Some of them go oh and three,
and some of them go one and two, and you
got Detroit and Boston, so they can't both lose at
the same time. But I would be curious by email
if you hated Dusty or his leadership anyway, and you
wanted Dusty gone, If you think this team this year
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was better without him, or this this manager was better
than Dusty, I'd be curious to know. I am well
aware that they had a lot of injuries this season,
and that does add up. It adds up, It adds
up in a big way. So you know what, I'll
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do that in the next thing. I wanted to talk
about the shooting of the Ice agents, and I will
get to that, uh in just a moment. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. Yesterday, Trump humiliated the leader of Turkey, Erdigon,
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right to his face by saying Erdigon knows about rigged
elections better than anybody else, and then turns his head
pivots his head because the man won by fraud I mean,
he has no fear and he does not mind making
an awkward situation. Turning point. USA will be giving away
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five thousand Charlie Kirk t shirts this weekend. They say freedom.
You've probably seen these shirts by now. They're white shirts
with black lettering that says freedom at the Oregon versus
Penn State game this Saturday. A part of the reasoning there,
Charlie Kirk was a big Oregon fan and he was
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expected he had planned to be at that game. So
TPUSA is setting up a tent and a voter registration
and obviously celebrating Charlie Kirk. I think it is wise
to put yourself, expose yourself, make yourself available to young
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people at a time where they are really moved to action.
Because if you can lock in some of these kids
with TPUSA chapters and with political involvement and leadership position
and involvement and and and give them tasks, then you'll
you'll have a higher stickiness, you'll have a higher residual
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rate of involvement over a long period of time, and
you will have other Charlie Kirks who will will come
up through the ranks that you did not recognize that
butt for you reaching out, but for you meeting them
where they are at a football game, then we might
have lost that person. We might have lost that person
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to just doing a nine to five, you know, forty
hours a week, or we might have lost that person
to something else, or we might have lost that person
to the other side. I think it's important to go
out and meet young people where they are, and the
people who are doing that, which is TPUSA, I think
deserve a lot of credit and I'm glad to see
money funnel toward then because they're doing the work, the
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party and nobody else's the deal. Seven one three one thousands,
seven one three nine nine one thousand. You can email
me through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. While
you're there, you can sign up our daily Blast. It's free.
Will never share or sell your information. Ever. You can
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also buy our merch and probably do some other stuff.
I just can't think of what it would be right now.
What you do sell the emails? Huh how much? Quarter?
Oh that's a lot, Yeah, because we got a lot.
Oh well, okay, well, Ramon might say your email, but
we never would. Steve. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Go ahead, good morning. A couple of things. First off, Michael,
I live in the Stratford attendance Zone. I grew up
out here. I went to a different high school. It's
closed now, but I want to thank you for bringing
attention to what has transpired this week for those kids
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at Strafford High School. It was just a travesty what
this woman did and attacking teachers, potential sponsors, and I
just want to say thank you for stepping up and
doing the right thing. That's first. The second thing I
wanted to talk about you were talking about earlier about
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you know, growing up in a home with two dads,
with a dad and mom, which I did, and mom
was laid these auxiliary at literally my dad coached two
teams and that's all we did, you know. And I
had a great childhood here in Houston, Texas. And when
I was growing up, my mom had take que on
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the radio in the kitchen all the time, all the time,
listened to Paul Berlin in the morning and Scott Archer
in the afternoon, and so you know, I grew up
learning to love that genre, which is the music of
your life, the standards, And even though you know I'm
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lik in rhythm and blues and rock and roll and
country music and all of it. But I learned to
love the standards because I listened to them all the time,
and so that was just amazing how our country has
transformed because of no two parents in the home. And
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for me, I'm a substitute teacher here at Spring Ratch iopy,
and what I have witnessed over the last few years,
it's just nothing short of unbelievable. The way the kids
don't respect teachers. They don't even teach how to teach
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kids to my cursive, not even on the radar screen.
So I you know, I just want to say thank you.
I listen to you every day and listen to you
for years and years and years. Now I just want
to say thank you for continuing to teach some younger
people on what it means to have a family with
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a mom and a dad and you work hard and
you live the American dream. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, that's very kind of you to say it is
hard work. It is hard work. It's hard work to
marry and have children and stay married and provide for
them and live some sort of godly life and be
an actual mentor to your children. Be someone that they
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would look up to for the way you live your life,
because we all have the life we project outside our home,
at work, on the air, at church. But you let
your guard down with your kids, and that is where
it is important that as things happen to you as
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a family and individually, that you respond in such a
way that is a teachable moment rather than the knee jerk,
you know, selfish, self centered, self aggrandizing respond And that
is important, and that is how you raise generations of
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young people who are ready to take over and take
your place. Which is going to happen. There was going
to be a moment Charlie Kirk was going to step
down from leading TPUSA. It just wasn't supposed to be. Now,
there was going to be a moment that Rush Limbaugh
was going to step away from the Golden microphone, just
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wouldn't have been when cancer took him. It would have
taken some time longer. So it's hard work to do
those things. But I think we should also be careful
to recognize that you get what you reward if you
reward your employees for being in on time in whatever way, financial,
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pat on the back days off, whatever that is you
will get more of that. If you disincentifize things, then
you will prevent that behavior. But if you leave things
to a state of nature and hope, that's not a
strategy and that's not how you end up with young
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people who are leaders and providers that you would like
to see. There's a great story recently Javier Bracamonte, who
is the bullpen catcher for the Astros and has been
for well over twenty years now. I admit I have
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a saft spot for Javier Bracamonte because he went and
visited my dad a few months ago and it was
his first day off that he had had off, and
I think ten days at that time. I want nine
or ten days. And he lives down south like Friendswood area,
and even though it was his first day off, he
was actually he was actually the following day going to
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be receiving an award for continuity not having missed a
day of work in some long period of time that
I don't think had ever been done with the Astros organization.
And so the day before that is his day off,
so he doesn't have to go to work, but he
comes to see my dad and then goes from there
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to the ballpark to catch somebody who's coming off of
an injury who needed to put some work in and
Bracamonte goes in to work even on his day off
and goes and visits my dad on his day off.
Most people would be curled up on the couch eating
bond bonds. Not this guy. Well, cal Rawley hit a
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franchise record, franchise breaking fifty seventh home run ball that
landed in the Astros bullpen, which broke Ken Griffy Junior's
Mariner's home run record. Rocamonte waited till after the game
went across the field found cal Riley rally gave him
that ball. If you don't have the audio, he still
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want to play it right here. Leave. What do I
do you say? Michael Berry's taken from us far too soon.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I've in turned and turned down. When the bars clues that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
The Astros butring training is now in Palm Beach, West
Palm Beach to specific bezel Poonawala, our friend who owns
Spring Branch Medical Supply, asks the question serious question about
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Uncle Jared's pinky toe. Is the pinky toe preserved in
a jar or something on his shelf? Or did those
mean doctors and nurses throw it away. The mean doctors
and nurses throw it away, is the short answer. And
I don't understand that. I don't feel like you have
the right to just throw something away that you decide
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you're done with that belonged to a human being. You know,
if you're walking into a surgery for the underside of
your foot because the bone keeps sticking through the skin
and your foot has cost you probably you've been in
a boot effectively for five years, and you go in
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to have the underside of your foot, you know, cut apart.
They're gonna lay this thing open and grind down on
the bones. You're so focused on how long your recovery
from that is going to be, that you don't stop
and go, well, there is an inherent danger that she
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could lop off my pinky toe while I'm here. So
you wake up and you look down, and all you
can think about is you don't have a pinky toe.
Forget the underside of your foot, you don't have a
pinky toe. And the reasoning was apparently the bones had
splintered such that they had to remove a bone under
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the top right. If you're looking at the at your
foot from the top view. They had. Let's take your
right foot if you look from the top, and obviously
this was under the underside, but let's work from the top,
and you drilled into the middle of your foot over
at the top right there was a spur that came
off there that had to be removed. There was no option.
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Supposedly when that happened, that gave no support for the
pinky toe. So the pinky toe was literally just going
to just sit there with no purpose, and it was
it was just going to be like a flop of skin. Okay,
I'm fine with that because it was going to cause problems.
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But give the man the dignity of putting the pinky
toe in a jar with fromaldehyde in case he wanted
to preserve this. I'm not trying to take any credit
for this, but I dare say it's the most famous
amputated appendage in the state of Texas in the last
ten years. You've got the song. Well, I don't know
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when the time, proper time and place to play it is,
but I just know that how long is the song?
Three minutes? All right, Well, let's time it out where
we go to break with it? I just feel like
that's kind of a you know, patience bill of right
sort of thing. If you're going to take my appendage
off while I'm under you know, anesthesia or whatever they use.
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Now that okay, all right, we'll agree that I'll trust
you to do that, but you have got to preserve
it and give me the choice to either chuck it
out the window on the drive home or to preserve
it and put it on my desk. I've had more
people ask me of this question, where is the pinky
toe now? And the sad reality is it's probably ground
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up as bologna somewhere or wherever else they put. What's
that movie that you're not supposed to talk about? Fight Club? Yeah? Yeah,
it's you know that movie? Really that'll test your tolerance
right there, That one will. Yesterday a cop knocked on
my door. They said they were looking for a man
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with just one eye. I told him it'd be more
effective to use both eyes. Michael Brown writes, I've said
it before and I'll say it again. Why has Texas
and its infinite wisdom decided to perform road construction and
destruction on every road in or leaving the Houston area
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the same damn time. If we have another hurricane evacuation,
we are screwed. They should work on fewer roads at
a time and work twenty four seven, three sixty five
until the road is complete. Well, you're absolutely right, but
when you've got governmental entities overseeing this, you don't exactly
have a profit motive. They have in the past created
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a bonus if you finish a project early. I don't
know what happened to that process, but I know people
are frustrated that it does feel like every road going
out of Houston is under construction right now at the
exact same time, and nothing makes people matter, and I
think reasonably so. Then you're driving along, they've got lanes
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shut down, which adds to your delay time, and there's
nobody working, and seemingly never anybody working. Even when the
cruis are working, it's one guy looking over about eight
Mexicans and they're all standing around just looking over whelmed.
Oh it's time, it's time for Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This is just a little tune.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Little Biggie went to market.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
About things lost fot too soon.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
These little piggie stayed at home.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
So join me as we remem and roast bee about
those women.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Kurt Cobain left us in nineteen ninety four. Jimmy Hendrix
changed the world that set fire to the score. Janice
Joplin left a little piece of her heart at Heaven's door.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
They're gammin with the angels now and Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Trupot climbed and Biggie rose. They no longer standing. The
day the music died still hurts like John Denver's landing.
Selena's dreams were stolen by a fan's obsessive woes.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They're shining up in gold were with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Bruce Lee kicked the bucket a dragon in the night,
sharing Tate so young and sweet that Helter skelter fight.
Chris Harley went too hard, too fast with all they
went into.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
They're in Avn, down by the river with Uncle Jerry's
spinky toe. Otis Sweet, Otis on the duck of the bay.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Imagine a world where John Lennon never went away.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
River Phoenix, Amy Winehouse.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
They're dancing in the cosmos with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
In You were just anobe and now you're all alone.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You went, we we we.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
All the way.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Hall Home.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You went, we we we all the way.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Peggy went to market, This little biggy stay at home.
This little piggy.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Had today to the Colonial House Apartments and received a
free to more recorded.
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website Michael Berryshow dot com. The screen for the caller's
name says Rooster maybe Ruben. I asked two times, and
by the third time I didn't want to ask a
third time. So I would normally say that's on the caller.
But for whatever, I don't know if we need to
get remote hearing age remedial spelling. I don't know what
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it is. But somewhere between people saying their name is
Bob or Tom, I get Tulsa and Permian basin as
the phone numbers, I mean, as the name. So and
I don't know how that happens. I really don't. I
really really don't. Ruben, Rooster or whatever your name is.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Go ahead, yeah, Michael is it's rufous? Are u f us?
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It's rufous? Okay. When he asked the second time, did
you say are you f us? Or did you just
because some people if they say you say, all right,
call her, what's your name? Okay? Can you give me
that again? Whereas I would say, M I C H
A E L. I'm just trying to get to the
root of this.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Right. No, I just said it again.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You just said it again. See, this is a moment
where relations between my wife and I will break down
because she'll say it's Rufous. It's yeah, you know the name.
Now it's fine, let's move on. And I'll say, no,
let's not move on, because this problem will will arise again.
It won't be with Rufus, It'll be with Tommy or
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Bobby or something else, and Ramon will have screwed this
thing up. I need to figure out what happens so
we can figure out a solution. And she'll say, does
it matter? Why are you so worried about Rufus? And
I have to say, it's not about Rufus, it's about
understanding why this problem keeps happening, and let's figure that out.
And at that point I am being mean and won't
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let it go, and I hang on things and it's
just horrible and why is this so important? Yes, So
welcome to my world anyway, Ruthless, you're up.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Well, you know it's like Lester, you know, Oh my god,
I think it's Chester. You know, things that nature. But
you grew up over in Orange. That first thirty miles
coming into Texas has been under construction since I moved
here in nineteen seventy five. What are they going to
finish it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's it's like a punchline. I mean, it really is.
It's like a punchline. And it's one of those things,
you know, we don't need government to do very much
for us, but the few things that government we can't
pave the road ourselves, right, that is something that we
agree we will allow a governmental entity and then they
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outsource it. But it just seems anecdotally to be the
most inefficiently applied set of rules and guidelines and business
practices of anything you ever see being done. It just
it defies the mind. And I think part of that
is nobody has a real incentive to get this thing done,
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you know, most I think it used to be the case.
When I really dug into this two decades ago. The
state highway work was done on low bid. And so
what happens is you get companies that come in under
low they win the contract with low bid, and nobody
believes they're going to deliver they're going to provide deliverables
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at that bid. So once they come in at you know,
it's like a price is right game, and it just
gets more and more absurd, and so they come in
as the lowest low bid. You could possibly imagine they
couldn't do this project for that amount in a third
world country, much less with American wages. And they get it,
and then immediately you start getting change orders. But they've
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been selected for the contract. And it's all a game.
It's like the Encore and with the Eagles or anybody else.
They tell you we're going to perform for two hours,
and in a minute twenty eight they walk off the stage.
We all know they're coming back. So it's just this
kind of ritual we all go through. And that's what
our highway system has become. And I wonder if we
wouldn't be better just not rebuilding the highways. I think
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I might prefer some pockmarked highways like Louisiana, then constantly
be narrowing down into this funnel on our highways every
different direction. So if you try to go to ways
or some alternate site app it doesn't matter, because every
major highway is under construction at the same time. It
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defies logic.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Rufleus Michael. They just got through with about ten years
ago or so, and they moved like ten or fifteen
miles into Texas constructing, and then they backed up build
a new damn bridge, and I would you gotta be
kidding me. So now they tore it all up, put
a new bridge in. Well what it is? Well they
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tore up right, there's a business center again, and I went,
oh my god, this is getting crazy. It's like they
get fifteen miles down road and they back up and
they do it again. It's crazy, it is, But that's
all I got.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
It is truly crazy, Thank you, rufus. It's crazy, but
it's infuriating because it costs a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
One of the things economists try to do is capture
soft costs, and capture hidden costs, and capture things that
are not obvious. We can measure rather easily the outlay
of expenses from the government, which is you to companies
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that are doing road paving or road rebuilding. We can
measure that, and we can alter that number. What we
don't measure, but can be loosely measured is for every
extra hour that a project is not is closing a
lane if there are normally you know, ten lanes, five
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on each side, and you narrow one lane one direction
down to two lanes for x number of hours x
number of days, and the variables would be weekdays and
week weekends. Friday evening and Monday morning would perhaps be
more than Wednesday late afternoon, but you could you can
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calculate these things. Texas A and M has a transportation
institute that can calculate these things, and so you can
calculate the cost to a society of what this lost
time in your car is. There is lost time in
economic activity, and then there is the harder to put
a dollar sign on, but you would value it the
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lost time with family, lost enjoyment, sense of sanity. And
so there is a cost imposed upon a community by
these projects that drag on. For this, I mean there's
a cost imposed whether the con whether the project is
done on time or not. Right, there's still a cost
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of the shutdown, but every extra day is a real
cost to you when people start thinking of it that
way
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Joy, You like movies about gladiators.
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What if your child get amoonia fu shoes?
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Take me on, Take me on.
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Your mother was a hamster and your father snake off elaberry.
How much you want to make a bet?
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I can throw football over the mountain.
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Don't need food?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We got some family here, not.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Allry well, well so lovely until tonight, then one or
more bye.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
On this day. In nineteen eighty one, Nolan Ryan set
a Major League record by throwing his fifth or if
you prefer the f B pronounced fifth no hitter, fifth
no hitter, and the final out in that game a
(01:53):
ground out to third by Dusty Baker. You know I'd
be curiou is by folks who are bigger Astros fans
than I am. The most tormented fan is the fan
who watches every game, the fan who can't wait for
the season to start. The fan who goes down to Cassimi.
(02:14):
Are they still in Kassemi? Why did I? I think I
think Crane moved right. I don't think they're in Kassimi anymore. No, no, no, yeah,
we can say they are, but I want to say
he moved them because he's got a facility. Uh, he's
got a really really high end club in another Florida town,
(02:41):
and I want to say he moved it there to that,
to that community, and I can't remember what it was.
But anyway, the the worst is the fan who loves
a team, and let's take baseball, the guy who he
(03:03):
no matter what happened last year, if they won the
World Series, he's ready to win another one. If however,
they lost that he can't sleep over it. He's got
to We've got to get back and win the World
Series so he can avenge what happened last year. And
this isn't all encompassing in thralling emotion. You don't want
(03:25):
to go to a game with that guy because they're
not fun to watch the game with. They are mad
about everything and they're blowing a gasket in the second
inning on on a on a close call at first,
they're lowing, blowing a gasket when we've got two outs
and the runner gets thrown out at first, I mean,
(03:49):
it's it's a rough it's a rough deal. It's a
very very rough deal that person. And even when we win,
or even when his team wins, say the World Series,
the immediate concern is, how do we you know what
changes we have to make to get back next year
(04:11):
and win it again? Because I want this, so they
hate losing far more than they love winning. But I
would be curious, and I didn't watch the Dusty era
closely enough, but I was always interested in how much
people disliked Dusty. But they seemed to be winning during Dusty,
(04:32):
so I don't know, I don't know what it was.
I would be interested to see what people are saying
who hated Dusty as to this season, because I saw
the matrix of what it would take for the Astros
to win with three games left, and every wild card
(04:57):
contender has the tie break over them, so you've got
to win it outright by a game, so it makes
it very hard. You basically you basically got to go
You can't go oh and three if you go one
and two. A bunch of crazy stuff has to happen.
If you go three and oh, you still have to
(05:17):
have the other teams. Some of them go oh and three,
and some of them go one and two, and you
got Detroit and Boston, so they can't both lose at
the same time. But I would be curious by email
if you hated Dusty or his leadership anyway, and you
wanted Dusty gone, If you think this team this year
(05:38):
was better without him, or this this manager was better
than Dusty, I'd be curious to know. I am well
aware that they had a lot of injuries this season,
and that does add up. It adds up, It adds
up in a big way. So you know what, I'll
(05:59):
do that in the next thing. I wanted to talk
about the shooting of the Ice agents, and I will
get to that, uh in just a moment. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. Yesterday, Trump humiliated the leader of Turkey, Erdigon,
(06:19):
right to his face by saying Erdigon knows about rigged
elections better than anybody else, and then turns his head
pivots his head because the man won by fraud I mean,
he has no fear and he does not mind making
an awkward situation. Turning point. USA will be giving away
(06:41):
five thousand Charlie Kirk t shirts this weekend. They say freedom.
You've probably seen these shirts by now. They're white shirts
with black lettering that says freedom at the Oregon versus
Penn State game this Saturday. A part of the reasoning there,
Charlie Kirk was a big Oregon fan and he was
(07:01):
expected he had planned to be at that game. So
TPUSA is setting up a tent and a voter registration
and obviously celebrating Charlie Kirk. I think it is wise
to put yourself, expose yourself, make yourself available to young
(07:22):
people at a time where they are really moved to action.
Because if you can lock in some of these kids
with TPUSA chapters and with political involvement and leadership position
and involvement and and and give them tasks, then you'll
you'll have a higher stickiness, you'll have a higher residual
(07:46):
rate of involvement over a long period of time, and
you will have other Charlie Kirks who will will come
up through the ranks that you did not recognize that
butt for you reaching out, but for you meeting them
where they are at a football game, then we might
have lost that person. We might have lost that person
(08:07):
to just doing a nine to five, you know, forty
hours a week, or we might have lost that person
to something else, or we might have lost that person
to the other side. I think it's important to go
out and meet young people where they are, and the
people who are doing that, which is TPUSA, I think
deserve a lot of credit and I'm glad to see
money funnel toward then because they're doing the work, the
(08:29):
party and nobody else's the deal. Seven one three one thousands,
seven one three nine nine one thousand. You can email
me through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. While
you're there, you can sign up our daily Blast. It's free.
Will never share or sell your information. Ever. You can
(08:52):
also buy our merch and probably do some other stuff.
I just can't think of what it would be right now.
What you do sell the emails? Huh how much? Quarter?
Oh that's a lot, Yeah, because we got a lot.
Oh well, okay, well, Ramon might say your email, but
we never would. Steve. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Go ahead, good morning. A couple of things. First off, Michael,
I live in the Stratford attendance Zone. I grew up
out here. I went to a different high school. It's
closed now, but I want to thank you for bringing
attention to what has transpired this week for those kids
(09:32):
at Strafford High School. It was just a travesty what
this woman did and attacking teachers, potential sponsors, and I
just want to say thank you for stepping up and
doing the right thing. That's first. The second thing I
wanted to talk about you were talking about earlier about
(09:52):
you know, growing up in a home with two dads,
with a dad and mom, which I did, and mom
was laid these auxiliary at literally my dad coached two
teams and that's all we did, you know. And I
had a great childhood here in Houston, Texas. And when
I was growing up, my mom had take que on
(10:16):
the radio in the kitchen all the time, all the time,
listened to Paul Berlin in the morning and Scott Archer
in the afternoon, and so you know, I grew up
learning to love that genre, which is the music of
your life, the standards, And even though you know I'm
(10:38):
lik in rhythm and blues and rock and roll and
country music and all of it. But I learned to
love the standards because I listened to them all the time,
and so that was just amazing how our country has
transformed because of no two parents in the home. And
(11:03):
for me, I'm a substitute teacher here at Spring Ratch iopy,
and what I have witnessed over the last few years,
it's just nothing short of unbelievable. The way the kids
don't respect teachers. They don't even teach how to teach
(11:25):
kids to my cursive, not even on the radar screen.
So I you know, I just want to say thank you.
I listen to you every day and listen to you
for years and years and years. Now I just want
to say thank you for continuing to teach some younger
people on what it means to have a family with
(11:48):
a mom and a dad and you work hard and
you live the American dream. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, that's very kind of you to say it is
hard work. It is hard work. It's hard work to
marry and have children and stay married and provide for
them and live some sort of godly life and be
an actual mentor to your children. Be someone that they
(12:21):
would look up to for the way you live your life,
because we all have the life we project outside our home,
at work, on the air, at church. But you let
your guard down with your kids, and that is where
it is important that as things happen to you as
(12:43):
a family and individually, that you respond in such a
way that is a teachable moment rather than the knee jerk,
you know, selfish, self centered, self aggrandizing respond And that
is important, and that is how you raise generations of
(13:06):
young people who are ready to take over and take
your place. Which is going to happen. There was going
to be a moment Charlie Kirk was going to step
down from leading TPUSA. It just wasn't supposed to be. Now,
there was going to be a moment that Rush Limbaugh
was going to step away from the Golden microphone, just
(13:27):
wouldn't have been when cancer took him. It would have
taken some time longer. So it's hard work to do
those things. But I think we should also be careful
to recognize that you get what you reward if you
reward your employees for being in on time in whatever way, financial,
(13:52):
pat on the back days off, whatever that is you
will get more of that. If you disincentifize things, then
you will prevent that behavior. But if you leave things
to a state of nature and hope, that's not a
strategy and that's not how you end up with young
(14:12):
people who are leaders and providers that you would like
to see. There's a great story recently Javier Bracamonte, who
is the bullpen catcher for the Astros and has been
for well over twenty years now. I admit I have
(14:34):
a saft spot for Javier Bracamonte because he went and
visited my dad a few months ago and it was
his first day off that he had had off, and
I think ten days at that time. I want nine
or ten days. And he lives down south like Friendswood area,
and even though it was his first day off, he
was actually he was actually the following day going to
(14:58):
be receiving an award for continuity not having missed a
day of work in some long period of time that
I don't think had ever been done with the Astros organization.
And so the day before that is his day off,
so he doesn't have to go to work, but he
comes to see my dad and then goes from there
(15:19):
to the ballpark to catch somebody who's coming off of
an injury who needed to put some work in and
Bracamonte goes in to work even on his day off
and goes and visits my dad on his day off.
Most people would be curled up on the couch eating
bond bonds. Not this guy. Well, cal Rawley hit a
(15:43):
franchise record, franchise breaking fifty seventh home run ball that
landed in the Astros bullpen, which broke Ken Griffy Junior's
Mariner's home run record. Rocamonte waited till after the game
went across the field found cal Riley rally gave him
that ball. If you don't have the audio, he still
(16:06):
want to play it right here. Leave. What do I
do you say? Michael Berry's taken from us far too soon.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I've in turned and turned down. When the bars clues that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
The Astros butring training is now in Palm Beach, West
Palm Beach to specific bezel Poonawala, our friend who owns
Spring Branch Medical Supply, asks the question serious question about
(16:50):
Uncle Jared's pinky toe. Is the pinky toe preserved in
a jar or something on his shelf? Or did those
mean doctors and nurses throw it away. The mean doctors
and nurses throw it away, is the short answer. And
I don't understand that. I don't feel like you have
the right to just throw something away that you decide
(17:17):
you're done with that belonged to a human being. You know,
if you're walking into a surgery for the underside of
your foot because the bone keeps sticking through the skin
and your foot has cost you probably you've been in
a boot effectively for five years, and you go in
(17:40):
to have the underside of your foot, you know, cut apart.
They're gonna lay this thing open and grind down on
the bones. You're so focused on how long your recovery
from that is going to be, that you don't stop
and go, well, there is an inherent danger that she
(18:01):
could lop off my pinky toe while I'm here. So
you wake up and you look down, and all you
can think about is you don't have a pinky toe.
Forget the underside of your foot, you don't have a
pinky toe. And the reasoning was apparently the bones had
splintered such that they had to remove a bone under
(18:25):
the top right. If you're looking at the at your
foot from the top view. They had. Let's take your
right foot if you look from the top, and obviously
this was under the underside, but let's work from the top,
and you drilled into the middle of your foot over
at the top right there was a spur that came
off there that had to be removed. There was no option.
(18:46):
Supposedly when that happened, that gave no support for the
pinky toe. So the pinky toe was literally just going
to just sit there with no purpose, and it was
it was just going to be like a flop of skin. Okay,
I'm fine with that because it was going to cause problems.
(19:06):
But give the man the dignity of putting the pinky
toe in a jar with fromaldehyde in case he wanted
to preserve this. I'm not trying to take any credit
for this, but I dare say it's the most famous
amputated appendage in the state of Texas in the last
ten years. You've got the song. Well, I don't know
(19:29):
when the time, proper time and place to play it is,
but I just know that how long is the song?
Three minutes? All right, Well, let's time it out where
we go to break with it? I just feel like
that's kind of a you know, patience bill of right
sort of thing. If you're going to take my appendage
off while I'm under you know, anesthesia or whatever they use.
(19:52):
Now that okay, all right, we'll agree that I'll trust
you to do that, but you have got to preserve
it and give me the choice to either chuck it
out the window on the drive home or to preserve
it and put it on my desk. I've had more
people ask me of this question, where is the pinky
toe now? And the sad reality is it's probably ground
(20:16):
up as bologna somewhere or wherever else they put. What's
that movie that you're not supposed to talk about? Fight Club? Yeah? Yeah,
it's you know that movie? Really that'll test your tolerance
right there, That one will. Yesterday a cop knocked on
my door. They said they were looking for a man
(20:38):
with just one eye. I told him it'd be more
effective to use both eyes. Michael Brown writes, I've said
it before and I'll say it again. Why has Texas
and its infinite wisdom decided to perform road construction and
destruction on every road in or leaving the Houston area
(21:00):
the same damn time. If we have another hurricane evacuation,
we are screwed. They should work on fewer roads at
a time and work twenty four seven, three sixty five
until the road is complete. Well, you're absolutely right, but
when you've got governmental entities overseeing this, you don't exactly
have a profit motive. They have in the past created
(21:23):
a bonus if you finish a project early. I don't
know what happened to that process, but I know people
are frustrated that it does feel like every road going
out of Houston is under construction right now at the
exact same time, and nothing makes people matter, and I
think reasonably so. Then you're driving along, they've got lanes
(21:45):
shut down, which adds to your delay time, and there's
nobody working, and seemingly never anybody working. Even when the
cruis are working, it's one guy looking over about eight
Mexicans and they're all standing around just looking over whelmed.
Oh it's time, it's time for Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This is just a little tune.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Little Biggie went to market.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
About things lost fot too soon.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
These little piggie stayed at home.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
So join me as we remem and roast bee about
those women.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Kurt Cobain left us in nineteen ninety four. Jimmy Hendrix
changed the world that set fire to the score. Janice
Joplin left a little piece of her heart at Heaven's door.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
They're gammin with the angels now and Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Trupot climbed and Biggie rose. They no longer standing. The
day the music died still hurts like John Denver's landing.
Selena's dreams were stolen by a fan's obsessive woes.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
They're shining up in gold were with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Bruce Lee kicked the bucket a dragon in the night,
sharing Tate so young and sweet that Helter skelter fight.
Chris Harley went too hard, too fast with all they
went into.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
They're in Avn, down by the river with Uncle Jerry's
spinky toe. Otis Sweet, Otis on the duck of the bay.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Imagine a world where John Lennon never went away.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
River Phoenix, Amy Winehouse.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
They're dancing in the cosmos with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
In You were just anobe and now you're all alone.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You went, we we we.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
All the way.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Hall Home.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You went, we we we all the way.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Peggy went to market, This little biggy stay at home.
This little piggy.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Had today to the Colonial House Apartments and received a
free to more recorded.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So this weekend, if you have a conversation with your
spouse or your grown kids about things you need to
get done from you need real tax advice for your company,
or if you're a high net worth individual, or maybe
(25:17):
you just need a rue for citing, or any number
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with my show sponsors and folks who are always surprised.
But I do check my phone over the weekend to
forward you on when you need a cell phone number
or email connection with someone who does some service that
(25:42):
our show sponsor does. And there's almost nothing you could
possibly need that we don't have a show sponsor that
can help you with. And in many cases, if I
don't have a show sponsor, I will know of someone
who performs that and be happy to connect you with them,
so you can email me anytime over the weekend. I
do not mind, In fact, I enjoy it through the
(26:04):
website Michael Berryshow dot com. The screen for the caller's
name says Rooster maybe Ruben. I asked two times, and
by the third time I didn't want to ask a
third time. So I would normally say that's on the caller.
But for whatever, I don't know if we need to
get remote hearing age remedial spelling. I don't know what
(26:27):
it is. But somewhere between people saying their name is
Bob or Tom, I get Tulsa and Permian basin as
the phone numbers, I mean, as the name. So and
I don't know how that happens. I really don't. I
really really don't. Ruben, Rooster or whatever your name is.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Go ahead, yeah, Michael is it's rufous? Are u f us?
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
It's rufous? Okay. When he asked the second time, did
you say are you f us? Or did you just
because some people if they say you say, all right,
call her, what's your name? Okay? Can you give me
that again? Whereas I would say, M I C H
A E L. I'm just trying to get to the
root of this.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Right. No, I just said it again.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You just said it again. See, this is a moment
where relations between my wife and I will break down
because she'll say it's Rufous. It's yeah, you know the name.
Now it's fine, let's move on. And I'll say, no,
let's not move on, because this problem will will arise again.
It won't be with Rufus, It'll be with Tommy or
(27:36):
Bobby or something else, and Ramon will have screwed this
thing up. I need to figure out what happens so
we can figure out a solution. And she'll say, does
it matter? Why are you so worried about Rufus? And
I have to say, it's not about Rufus, it's about
understanding why this problem keeps happening, and let's figure that out.
And at that point I am being mean and won't
(27:57):
let it go, and I hang on things and it's
just horrible and why is this so important? Yes, So
welcome to my world anyway, Ruthless, you're up.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Well, you know it's like Lester, you know, Oh my god,
I think it's Chester. You know, things that nature. But
you grew up over in Orange. That first thirty miles
coming into Texas has been under construction since I moved
here in nineteen seventy five. What are they going to
finish it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's it's like a punchline. I mean, it really is.
It's like a punchline. And it's one of those things,
you know, we don't need government to do very much
for us, but the few things that government we can't
pave the road ourselves, right, that is something that we
agree we will allow a governmental entity and then they
(28:51):
outsource it. But it just seems anecdotally to be the
most inefficiently applied set of rules and guidelines and business
practices of anything you ever see being done. It just
it defies the mind. And I think part of that
is nobody has a real incentive to get this thing done,
(29:12):
you know, most I think it used to be the case.
When I really dug into this two decades ago. The
state highway work was done on low bid. And so
what happens is you get companies that come in under
low they win the contract with low bid, and nobody
believes they're going to deliver they're going to provide deliverables
(29:35):
at that bid. So once they come in at you know,
it's like a price is right game, and it just
gets more and more absurd, and so they come in
as the lowest low bid. You could possibly imagine they
couldn't do this project for that amount in a third
world country, much less with American wages. And they get it,
and then immediately you start getting change orders. But they've
(29:56):
been selected for the contract. And it's all a game.
It's like the Encore and with the Eagles or anybody else.
They tell you we're going to perform for two hours,
and in a minute twenty eight they walk off the stage.
We all know they're coming back. So it's just this
kind of ritual we all go through. And that's what
our highway system has become. And I wonder if we
wouldn't be better just not rebuilding the highways. I think
(30:16):
I might prefer some pockmarked highways like Louisiana, then constantly
be narrowing down into this funnel on our highways every
different direction. So if you try to go to ways
or some alternate site app it doesn't matter, because every
major highway is under construction at the same time. It
(30:37):
defies logic.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Rufleus Michael. They just got through with about ten years
ago or so, and they moved like ten or fifteen
miles into Texas constructing, and then they backed up build
a new damn bridge, and I would you gotta be
kidding me. So now they tore it all up, put
a new bridge in. Well what it is? Well they
(31:00):
tore up right, there's a business center again, and I went,
oh my god, this is getting crazy. It's like they
get fifteen miles down road and they back up and
they do it again. It's crazy, it is, But that's
all I got.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
It is truly crazy, Thank you, rufus. It's crazy, but
it's infuriating because it costs a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
One of the things economists try to do is capture
soft costs, and capture hidden costs, and capture things that
are not obvious. We can measure rather easily the outlay
of expenses from the government, which is you to companies
(31:49):
that are doing road paving or road rebuilding. We can
measure that, and we can alter that number. What we
don't measure, but can be loosely measured is for every
extra hour that a project is not is closing a
lane if there are normally you know, ten lanes, five
(32:13):
on each side, and you narrow one lane one direction
down to two lanes for x number of hours x
number of days, and the variables would be weekdays and
week weekends. Friday evening and Monday morning would perhaps be
more than Wednesday late afternoon, but you could you can
(32:34):
calculate these things. Texas A and M has a transportation
institute that can calculate these things, and so you can
calculate the cost to a society of what this lost
time in your car is. There is lost time in
economic activity, and then there is the harder to put
a dollar sign on, but you would value it the
(32:55):
lost time with family, lost enjoyment, sense of sanity. And
so there is a cost imposed upon a community by
these projects that drag on. For this, I mean there's
a cost imposed whether the con whether the project is
done on time or not. Right, there's still a cost
(33:19):
of the shutdown, but every extra day is a real
cost to you when people start thinking of it that
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