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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A happy sixty fifth wedding anniversary. You don't hear that
one very often. Sixty fifth wedding anniversary for Daryl Kunda's parents.
Daryl does not have a job title. At some point,
we have to find a job title for him, just
because it takes up too much of the show for
me to explain that he doesn't have a job title.
(00:21):
Jim is our creative director, Ramona is the King of Dean,
Chad is the executive producer. We have to find some
title for Daryl Kunda. And part of the reason we
haven't is we weren't sure if he was if he
was gonna stay right. We didn't know because we're an
odd bunch and he's an odd bird. You just never
know how odd people will fit. And then we didn't
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know if he would take another job and then leave
us in the lurch. And then we don't want to
give him a title. What did you say, Jim. We
don't want his title to make him, you know, think
he has more authority than he does. But we also
don't want his title to make him think that he
doesn't have to work very hard, because he might be
prone to that. So we have to his title needs
(01:03):
to suggest you're kind of always on probationary period and
you have to work harder.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
A title that kind of encompasses all of that and
doesn't take up too many letters. If we still did
business cards, then you would imagine, you know, what it
would look like on your business card. But we don't
have business cards, and why would we. It's always weird
for me when I'm out at an event or something,
someone will pull out their card and the transfer of
the card. It's like, you know, the Japanese, there's just
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a special way you handle over your card. People love
to give you their card, to hand you their card
and say, can I get your card? What would my
card say?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
What would it? What would it do?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't give out my cell phone number. My email
address is widely know. You'd google my name and my
email address is out there so everybody can can email
me because I want people to be able to reach me.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What else would my business cards say? I would?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I would carry a business card in a very very
long time, and it just feels weird, like nothing wrong
with it. Look, if I was selling copiers, I would
carry my business card. When I'm a real estate company,
I carried my business card. I've met somebody somewhere and
connected with them. They're sitting at the next table and
they're reading the real estate section and we get to
talking and they might need somebody in that business.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Here, here's my card.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Glad to do it. But yeah, anyway, Jim, I will
give you the year, I mean, the thing that happened,
and you tell me if you can guess what year
that is. Okay, see if you can guess what year
the following things happened.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And the first one is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Billy Joel released the album Stormfront with the enduring hit
we Didn't Start the Fire on It. Nineteen eighty nine
is correct, the year of my high school graduation, which
was how I would remember that one. The next one,
(02:59):
Leonard's Skinnard releases Street Survivors. Every SKINNERD fan should know
this because that's the last album they would release as
the real Leonard Skinnered. Everything after that is a tribute
Van because of course Rodney van Zant and Steve Gaines
and others would die. But that was the most significant
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impact on the.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Ban as those two.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That was only three days after the plane went down
en route to Baton Rouge Louisiana, and of course that's
the year they died, which was nineteen seventy seven. In
this year, Elvis Presley filmed Jailhouse Rock premieres in Memphis, Tennessee.
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And I know that Paul Baker, among others, would know
the answer to that, and that is in eighteen fifty seven,
and finally one week by Barenked Ladies. It's number one
in the US where it stays for one week.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That year was.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Nineteen ninety eight. Nineteen ninety eight, that's my lost decade.
So I wouldn't have known. I would have thought probably
earlier in the decade, but I don't pride myself in
having those dates down. I came across the video of
a man and the description of it as I was
(04:29):
scrolling caught my attention before I saw it, and it said,
this dude thinks that's a Golden Retriever. And the guy
is sitting atop a massive, massive, boa, I mean huge,
and he's sitting atop of you. It's wearing jeans and
no shoes, and so you first see his feet down
(04:51):
at the end, and then he kind of as he
covers the the as.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He films the.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Boa, he you know, you get a little you get
a little bit of a picture of him, and you're
gonna hear a noise and I assure you it's it's
him just slapping the top of the like he's petting
the bow. I don't know what else you would think
that would be. But anyway, it's better with the video.
But this was this was the this is what I saw. Hey, hey, hey,
(05:29):
what it's it's it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So yeah, that's a lot about captain some ting wong.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, something must be right. You're listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And now deep thoughts with AOC.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
And now something incredibly stupid said by AOC on CNN.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Rivers in rural areas were on fire because of corporations
poisoning the people who lived in those areas, poor middle
class communities getting poisoned and dumped on by corporations like
Deloitte and three M pouring chemicals into these places. And
they want to call it a democratic priority.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
And that was something incredibly stupid said by AOC on CNN.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah so uh okay, yeah, but whatever you say, see,
everything you say gets covered, and so that encourages you
in a Sheila Jackson, Sheila Jackson Lee way to just
keep talking, and the longer you talk, the dumb of
the stuff that comes out.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's amazing how that works.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
With the pressure mounting, John Wayne mccornyan is trying harder
than ever to convince every voter in Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
He's a cowboy ready.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
To wrangle up them Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm a friend of Trump now.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I agree with ninety nine point two percent of everything
he stands for.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Remember Robin Leach and Lifestyles are rich and famous. If
that show was still around, you can bet John Wayne
mccornyn's pr folks would be all over that for a
chance to sell us all that. Old boy John Wayne
mccornan is just one of us. He might be a
rich sum bitch, but boy, old boy, he is Trump's
(07:55):
best buddy. According to him.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Welcome to the large styles of the ridge in Finers.
Today we visit the mansion of singing a Texas Senator
John Wayne mcconnan. A quick walk to his front door,
and it's blatantly familiar.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
He's a man of the people.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
We make our way through the front living quarters and
already a visual presence of his Trump friendship is clear.
I'm a just stick thirty foot picture of Trump on
an inauguration day sits aggressively close to his stoking fireplace mantle,
with John Wayne mcconnin's three by five photo within a
comfortable eight feet shoulder length away. And as we maneuver
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through the mcconnn living quarters, dozens of golf photos of
President Trump occupy the residents, one by one of the President.
But we couldn't help but notice price tags on the
bottoms of each and every frame. And finally, the beautiful
back patio, complete with a relacious food and gary us
(09:05):
out old grill span Silla's complete with John Wayne mcconnan's
face side by side with Trump.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
The guarantee these Burghers will always be well done.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Vaughn, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Go ahead, Hello, Yeah, I have a few suggestions placards,
suggestions for fort rally that no King's Day rally can
just as well be, you know, a Republican party rally
like you know for placards, no King Sorrows, vote Republican,
(09:50):
No King vote Republican. You know, just different signs. Yeah,
no left wing, no King, keep King's Day. You know
they don't know what they're out there for. They think
people try to get rid of King's Day.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, they're out there, Vaughan, as you know, because they're
being paid to be out there.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Right. It's another one that's no King, no Force vaccine,
and no King, no Democrat.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Vaughan.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We could just put you in a room and have
you write slogans all.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Day you get. I could walk around the rally and
tell people they're trying to get rid of King's Day,
and I'll dispersed the black crowd.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Let me tell you something, nothing makes white liberals more
angry than a black person not you don't have to
be a black conservative, a black person not doing what
the white liberals think they should, which is be outraged,
which is again they think that black people are pets,
and so they want their pet kept on a leash.
And when their pet starts having its own opinions, boy,
(10:51):
they don't like that.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, it is something else. The democrat promise to
society is gradual demise of the system. However, you know,
if you're getting their way, they promise an immediate destruction
of the system, you know, which is the chaos, the riots,
the court system, injustice cheating, taking away the civil rights
(11:17):
and stuff, you know. But yeah, I was wondering another thing,
what is the qualification for a crosswalk? Look like if
they get a crowd of people, you know, with different
ideas that go up there and demand their own crosswalk,
look like they would be overwhelmed, just like with the
Ten Commandments when they wanted to put all the different
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religious things into school, then they decided to take out
all of them. You know, they should be I mean,
you know, if you overwhelm the system would request aside
for crosswalks, maybe they would think twice about that. That's
all I have.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's a pretty good bit, Ron, It's a pretty good
bit I had. You know, I can't know what you
called about last time, but I had somebody email in
and they had a thought on it, and I thought
I should afford that to Vaughan.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
I wrote, I rennic Acid, was that rosemernic Acid? Yes, Yes,
I sent your email on that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yes, somebody had a thought on that that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I thought, I bet Vaughn would like this, But I
didn't have your email address handy. I like to forward
things on and you know, pass information, but if it
doesn't pop up, if it doesn't auto populate when I
when I go to it, then I have to move
on because you fall behind on the emails, and I'm
I'm constantly reading the emails.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
It takes a while, right, I imagine you have so
many of them. But I did send you a couple
of emails on the effects comparative effects.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And you know, that was the first I'd ever heard of.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
That b Yeah, well it was when I heard too,
and I've been studying that stuff for years. But like
I said, the algebrium was taken, uh you know, out
of clinical trials at this final stage, and the company
claimed to have uh uh you know, lost funding or
didn't have enough funds to continue. That was kind of
(13:12):
suspect right there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But mind me again, how you got interested in the
subject generally generally, Well.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
The whole thing. I had acne uh you know, growing up,
and I was trying to get rid of it and
couldn't come up with anything at the time, And then
I decided I was gonna just continue studying it in
case my mom got sick. I could help her. Interesting, Yeah,
all right, take care of Michael.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You've got you are an autodidact, a self trained study her.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
This is Mark Chestnut, enjoyed Bizaar of Talk Radio.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Jeff, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Go ahead, sir, Yes, sir, I would like to tell
you your friend Russell has a fantastic restaurant. I stopped
in Pasadena last night and had a wonderful meal. And
he has a fantastic staff.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, you know, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
They they were just right there. If I needed something,
they were right there.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Great staff.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
He should be proud, Yeah, he should. And and that's
that's not just what he gets, it's what he demands,
is what he expects, it's what he's he's built and
and you're right. It makes a difference, you know. I
people are surprised when I say this, but I find
the experience more important than the food at this point
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in my life. And I am of the opinion that
no matter how do you make your food, it is
not universally appreciated. The way one person eats their burger
is very different than the way another person eats a burger.
Do you do a thick patty or a thin How
well do you cook it? It's hard to custom cook
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a burger, especially if if there's any kind of volume.
There's a lot of things like that, where you know
you like your dish. For instance, I've got friends from
Southwest Louisiana. Charles Clark's want them that likes potato salad
in their gumbo.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Potato salad anywhere. I don't want it in the same room.
I don't want the same zip code with me. But
some people, so if you put that in the dish
and they like that, then.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Your food is really good.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
If you put that in the dish and they don't
like it, then oh, your.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Food is awful. Well, yes and no.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Both of those can be true at the same time,
depending on who the audience is, but everybody universally appreciates
or enjoys good service.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So we took the.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wives last night, Mike batchis and I.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
He's the head of Lone.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Star Chevy, and we went to the Oak Room, which
is Tillman's restaurant atop the Post Hotel, and I noticed
something Tilman is they're big on culture as well. I
noticed that the woman who was coming over and taking
care of us, it's like a club. It's not really
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a restaurant because they go get the food from one
of the restaurants Mastros or Willie GE's that are in
the complex right there. It's really more a club. Yeah,
so it's a club, but it's not a clubby atmosphere
in that sense. It's more like a country club a
little more. It's kind of maybe a cross between a
late night club and a country.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Club the vibe of it all. But I noticed that
the woman who was taking care of us, as each
person would ask a question about the menu or have
something to say or whatever, she would first explain and
then she would smile, and it came off as being natural,
but it was clear that she has been trained to
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be pleasant smile. And I'm surprised how often I am
at a restaurant that the staff will come to your table,
the server and whatever mood they're just kind of already
in is the mood they convey.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And the problem with that is you pay for an experience.
At the RCC spending time with artists in the back,
A lot of them would make the statement, you know,
God spends his heart earned money come out and watch me.
So it's my job to get up on that stage
and make it worthwhile to him. It is my job
for him to put aside his worries for a couple
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of hours and just in joy. And I can't be
in a bad mood when I'm out there. That's not allowed.
I'm here to provide an experience and that's what I
have to do. That attitude and getting that experience at
a restaurant does not happen naturally. It has to be
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part of a structured culture. And I unfortunately you see
this with restaurants when you know, somebody gets in the
restaurant business and isn't from the industry and never takes
the time to really learn the industry, and so they think.
You know, you have people in the back who cook
the food and someone who walks up and hands it
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to you, and then you give them a bill and
they pay.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And they leave.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And I guess for some people that's perfectly fine. But
there is an experience at a place like Gringo's Federal
American Grill, you get the feeling that you matter. You know,
when you walk into China Garden across from not the
Summit whatever, the where the rockets play, what is it
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Toiletes Center? When you walk into there, the owner, well,
her brother, Carol, it's a brother sister ownership. Her brother
Richard is outside parking the car so they can maximize
the number of cars that they can get into their
parking lot because it's not a lot. And you know
he's greeting you. And then you walk in, and everybody
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in town who's ever been in that restaurant knows Carol,
and she knows them. And you walk in, and she
screams out your name, and she comes up and gives
everybody a hug, and she stays chipper and chirpy all
day long. She has to be so exhausted when she
gets home because she is so happy to see everybody.
And you believe, you believe that she is genuinely happy
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to see you there. Well, that's more important than the food.
That's an experience. And I have come to learn about
myself the older I get that I care more about
experience than I do actual quality of food or even
ambiance or decor or whatever else. I'm at a point
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now where I if you make me feel good when
I come in, you know, you greet you, sit down.
I I'm going to have a good meal no matter
what food you serve. The other thing that I guess
I'm getting old and grumpy. It happened to us last night.
I have grown so intolerant.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Of there's always this.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's always a woman, and it's either a woman with
a couple of guys, or it's three or four women.
And they get a couple of drinks and I swear
they couldn't scream any louder, and they scream. You know,
I guess one of them tells a joke. It is
so funny that she is laughing so hard that she
has to scream that someone at the other end.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Of a football field could hear her. There is nobody
who actually laughs that way.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So I don't know if it is a I've had
enough drinks that all of my anxieties and neuroses that
I brought with me here and dragged my therapist every day.
I've had a couple of drinks and now I'm going
to relax, and as a relaxation technique, I'm going to
scream my laughter as loud as possible and ruin everybody
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else's experience here. And so it bothers me so much.
And you know, I used to hear old people say this.
You know, everything's too loud, Everything's too loud. You can't
hear it, And now that's how I feel. It was
one of those women last night, and she was a
cute Asian girl, but man, she was with a couple
of guys and when she would laugh it was ear
piercing and she was one hundred feet away. We will
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be focused on the John Bolton indictment on the evening
show today if you can remember to turn us on
as you're driving home. I am delighted to see justice,
the wheels of justice rolling along. This makes me very happy. Indeed,
we had some more Lena had all go from this
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week's County Commissioner's Court meeting. I think we played the
one of her taunting the one fella.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What was the next one?
Speaker 10 (22:16):
Jimbo, Money's not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh, Money's not born on trees? That, madam malapropism? Could
you screw that up?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Is it possible that you could take a cliche and
and cut it in half and then cut it again,
and then cut it again, and then cut it again
and just twist and contort it in the oddest way possible.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But first, first, before you.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Do that, did you did you do it?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
That when you speak really conveys how scattered and shattered
your your mind is. Could you could could you? Could
you channel? Could you channel the mess inside your head
in such a manner it just a few words the
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way you talk that will let us know how how
truly crazy you are?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Could could you do that?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, yeah, go back to the money on the trees.
That's where you get the sense of of how scattered
and shattered and broken her brain is.
Speaker 11 (23:41):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, no, no, the money on trees.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Could we just get money on trees?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Please?
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Money is not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's not. It's just odd.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
There.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
There is a mess in her mind.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It is. It is so disheveled.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It is terrible inside there, just terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Give me that one again.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Money is not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He's not born on trees. First of all, I didn't
know money was even born. There's so many problems and
just a handful of words. There's so many layers of
lunacy to unpack one more time.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
Money is not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
She's she's giving us a statement of that we might
not understand, but but she is wise. She is the
county judge, she is the decider, and she's explaining this.
We don't we can't understand it because heavy is the head,
where's the crown? But but you know you you want
money for your thing over here, and you can't have
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it because it's not.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Born on trees.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
And that's the really odd thing about that, is it
kind of is and that makes it even worse.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
But that's not even relevant to the point.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
Money is not born on trees. It's it's just not.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Okay, all right. And then and then there is the
she kind of takes a deep breath and she does
her I'm going to be strong.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm good enough. I'm strong enough and smart enough, and
by golly, people like me. I'm the county judge. And
this is I'll be okay. I have a cat.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
There is nothing you could say after I'm okay.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
In three all right, you guys, in that spirit.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
In three words that would that would better reflect the
exact opposite of what you're I guess four words. In
four words, you could not possibly say I'm okay or
I'm going to be okay and discredit yourself in four words.
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Better than that, I mean, that's actually in a way,
in a sense, that's actually impressive. She may be crying
out for help. I can tell you this. She ain't
hiding it, but she may be thinking, listen, you people,
I went to the nuthouse, all right, and then you'll
find out I've been going to the.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Nuthouse for years.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I fell out of college because I went to the nuthouse.
I have breakdowns. I have meltdowns. I'm a mess. I'm
absolutely hysterical most of the time.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm not smart at all. I can't handle any pressure.
I don't have any decision making ability.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
This is a big county with a lot of money,
and I don't understand any of it. There's a lot
of people with their handout and I don't know who
to give money to that will give some of it
back to me. I've had to rely on Rodney, and
now Rodney has kicked me out. And by the way,
that's making her very angry, because you see Leslie Brioni,
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Adrian Garcia.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Could a little bit. He could, he could, he.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Could do some things that that Rodney didn't like, and
he'd be okay.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But he's not.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Going to out of respect and in a tactical position
at least not much. But for Leslie Brioni's to do it,
Leslie Brioni's belongs to Rodney. He owns her. It's that
is one hundred percent. She is his puppet. So for
her to start defining Lena, Lena has this, She at
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least has the sense to know, Oh, Rodney, let her
take swings at me. Rodney is done with me. Rodney
is working. He's not supporting me anymore. He's not ensuring
my success. The people he controls are no longer now
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required to be nice to me, and she is aware
of that, and it's very upsetting. We had another one
more clip.
Speaker 11 (28:26):
All right, you.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
Guys, in that spirit uh of no, uh no, I
gotta go.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Wall Well, why are you so breathless? Are you running
a marathon in the middle of the meeting? Are you
touching yourself under the table? Why are you why is
your breathing so labored? What is going on there?
Speaker 12 (28:50):
All right, you guys, in that spirit uh of no,
uh no, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
That poor nerd that married her.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Can you imagine he probably figured it out before they
got married. There was a moment though, where you know,
a knife went flying across the kitchen and stuck in
the wall, and you know, probably missed his head by
an inch. And he said, oh, dear God, what did
I get myself into.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I just wanted a spicy latina.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I didn't realize I was going to get burned by it.
Speaker 11 (29:34):
All right, you guys, in that spirit of no uh no,
I gotta go,
A happy sixty fifth wedding anniversary. You don't hear that
one very often. Sixty fifth wedding anniversary for Daryl Kunda's parents.
Daryl does not have a job title. At some point,
we have to find a job title for him, just
because it takes up too much of the show for
me to explain that he doesn't have a job title.
(00:21):
Jim is our creative director, Ramona is the King of Dean,
Chad is the executive producer. We have to find some
title for Daryl Kunda. And part of the reason we
haven't is we weren't sure if he was if he
was gonna stay right. We didn't know because we're an
odd bunch and he's an odd bird. You just never
know how odd people will fit. And then we didn't
(00:42):
know if he would take another job and then leave
us in the lurch. And then we don't want to
give him a title. What did you say, Jim. We
don't want his title to make him, you know, think
he has more authority than he does. But we also
don't want his title to make him think that he
doesn't have to work very hard, because he might be
prone to that. So we have to his title needs
(01:03):
to suggest you're kind of always on probationary period and
you have to work harder.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
A title that kind of encompasses all of that and
doesn't take up too many letters. If we still did
business cards, then you would imagine, you know, what it
would look like on your business card. But we don't
have business cards, and why would we. It's always weird
for me when I'm out at an event or something,
someone will pull out their card and the transfer of
the card. It's like, you know, the Japanese, there's just
(01:30):
a special way you handle over your card. People love
to give you their card, to hand you their card
and say, can I get your card? What would my
card say?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
What would it? What would it do?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't give out my cell phone number. My email
address is widely know. You'd google my name and my
email address is out there so everybody can can email
me because I want people to be able to reach me.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What else would my business cards say? I would?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I would carry a business card in a very very
long time, and it just feels weird, like nothing wrong
with it. Look, if I was selling copiers, I would
carry my business card. When I'm a real estate company,
I carried my business card. I've met somebody somewhere and
connected with them. They're sitting at the next table and
they're reading the real estate section and we get to
talking and they might need somebody in that business.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Here, here's my card.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Glad to do it. But yeah, anyway, Jim, I will
give you the year, I mean, the thing that happened,
and you tell me if you can guess what year
that is. Okay, see if you can guess what year
the following things happened.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And the first one is.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Billy Joel released the album Stormfront with the enduring hit
we Didn't Start the Fire on It. Nineteen eighty nine
is correct, the year of my high school graduation, which
was how I would remember that one. The next one,
(02:59):
Leonard's Skinnard releases Street Survivors. Every SKINNERD fan should know
this because that's the last album they would release as
the real Leonard Skinnered. Everything after that is a tribute
Van because of course Rodney van Zant and Steve Gaines
and others would die. But that was the most significant
(03:19):
impact on the.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Ban as those two.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That was only three days after the plane went down
en route to Baton Rouge Louisiana, and of course that's
the year they died, which was nineteen seventy seven. In
this year, Elvis Presley filmed Jailhouse Rock premieres in Memphis, Tennessee.
(03:47):
And I know that Paul Baker, among others, would know
the answer to that, and that is in eighteen fifty seven,
and finally one week by Barenked Ladies. It's number one
in the US where it stays for one week.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That year was.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Nineteen ninety eight. Nineteen ninety eight, that's my lost decade.
So I wouldn't have known. I would have thought probably
earlier in the decade, but I don't pride myself in
having those dates down. I came across the video of
a man and the description of it as I was
(04:29):
scrolling caught my attention before I saw it, and it said,
this dude thinks that's a Golden Retriever. And the guy
is sitting atop a massive, massive, boa, I mean huge,
and he's sitting atop of you. It's wearing jeans and
no shoes, and so you first see his feet down
(04:51):
at the end, and then he kind of as he
covers the the as.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He films the.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Boa, he you know, you get a little you get
a little bit of a picture of him, and you're
gonna hear a noise and I assure you it's it's
him just slapping the top of the like he's petting
the bow. I don't know what else you would think
that would be. But anyway, it's better with the video.
But this was this was the this is what I saw. Hey, hey, hey,
(05:29):
what it's it's it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So yeah, that's a lot about captain some ting wong.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, something must be right. You're listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And now deep thoughts with AOC.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
And now something incredibly stupid said by AOC on CNN.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Rivers in rural areas were on fire because of corporations
poisoning the people who lived in those areas, poor middle
class communities getting poisoned and dumped on by corporations like
Deloitte and three M pouring chemicals into these places. And
they want to call it a democratic priority.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
And that was something incredibly stupid said by AOC on CNN.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah so uh okay, yeah, but whatever you say, see,
everything you say gets covered, and so that encourages you
in a Sheila Jackson, Sheila Jackson Lee way to just
keep talking, and the longer you talk, the dumb of
the stuff that comes out.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's amazing how that works.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
With the pressure mounting, John Wayne mccornyan is trying harder
than ever to convince every voter in Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
He's a cowboy ready.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
To wrangle up them Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm a friend of Trump now.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I agree with ninety nine point two percent of everything
he stands for.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Remember Robin Leach and Lifestyles are rich and famous. If
that show was still around, you can bet John Wayne
mccornyn's pr folks would be all over that for a
chance to sell us all that. Old boy John Wayne
mccornan is just one of us. He might be a
rich sum bitch, but boy, old boy, he is Trump's
(07:55):
best buddy. According to him.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Welcome to the large styles of the ridge in Finers.
Today we visit the mansion of singing a Texas Senator
John Wayne mcconnan. A quick walk to his front door,
and it's blatantly familiar.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
He's a man of the people.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
We make our way through the front living quarters and
already a visual presence of his Trump friendship is clear.
I'm a just stick thirty foot picture of Trump on
an inauguration day sits aggressively close to his stoking fireplace mantle,
with John Wayne mcconnin's three by five photo within a
comfortable eight feet shoulder length away. And as we maneuver
(08:42):
through the mcconnn living quarters, dozens of golf photos of
President Trump occupy the residents, one by one of the President.
But we couldn't help but notice price tags on the
bottoms of each and every frame. And finally, the beautiful
back patio, complete with a relacious food and gary us
(09:05):
out old grill span Silla's complete with John Wayne mcconnan's
face side by side with Trump.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
The guarantee these Burghers will always be well done.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Vaughn, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Go ahead, Hello, Yeah, I have a few suggestions placards,
suggestions for fort rally that no King's Day rally can
just as well be, you know, a Republican party rally
like you know for placards, no King Sorrows, vote Republican,
(09:50):
No King vote Republican. You know, just different signs. Yeah,
no left wing, no King, keep King's Day. You know
they don't know what they're out there for. They think
people try to get rid of King's Day.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, they're out there, Vaughan, as you know, because they're
being paid to be out there.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Right. It's another one that's no King, no Force vaccine,
and no King, no Democrat.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Vaughan.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
We could just put you in a room and have
you write slogans all.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Day you get. I could walk around the rally and
tell people they're trying to get rid of King's Day,
and I'll dispersed the black crowd.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Let me tell you something, nothing makes white liberals more
angry than a black person not you don't have to
be a black conservative, a black person not doing what
the white liberals think they should, which is be outraged,
which is again they think that black people are pets,
and so they want their pet kept on a leash.
And when their pet starts having its own opinions, boy,
(10:51):
they don't like that.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, it is something else. The democrat promise to
society is gradual demise of the system. However, you know,
if you're getting their way, they promise an immediate destruction
of the system, you know, which is the chaos, the riots,
the court system, injustice cheating, taking away the civil rights
(11:17):
and stuff, you know. But yeah, I was wondering another thing,
what is the qualification for a crosswalk? Look like if
they get a crowd of people, you know, with different
ideas that go up there and demand their own crosswalk,
look like they would be overwhelmed, just like with the
Ten Commandments when they wanted to put all the different
(11:39):
religious things into school, then they decided to take out
all of them. You know, they should be I mean,
you know, if you overwhelm the system would request aside
for crosswalks, maybe they would think twice about that. That's
all I have.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's a pretty good bit, Ron, It's a pretty good
bit I had. You know, I can't know what you
called about last time, but I had somebody email in
and they had a thought on it, and I thought
I should afford that to Vaughan.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
I wrote, I rennic Acid, was that rosemernic Acid? Yes, Yes,
I sent your email on that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yes, somebody had a thought on that that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I thought, I bet Vaughn would like this, But I
didn't have your email address handy. I like to forward
things on and you know, pass information, but if it
doesn't pop up, if it doesn't auto populate when I
when I go to it, then I have to move
on because you fall behind on the emails, and I'm
I'm constantly reading the emails.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
It takes a while, right, I imagine you have so
many of them. But I did send you a couple
of emails on the effects comparative effects.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And you know, that was the first I'd ever heard of.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
That b Yeah, well it was when I heard too,
and I've been studying that stuff for years. But like
I said, the algebrium was taken, uh you know, out
of clinical trials at this final stage, and the company
claimed to have uh uh you know, lost funding or
didn't have enough funds to continue. That was kind of
(13:12):
suspect right there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But mind me again, how you got interested in the
subject generally generally, Well.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
The whole thing. I had acne uh you know, growing up,
and I was trying to get rid of it and
couldn't come up with anything at the time, And then
I decided I was gonna just continue studying it in
case my mom got sick. I could help her. Interesting, Yeah,
all right, take care of Michael.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You've got you are an autodidact, a self trained study her.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
This is Mark Chestnut, enjoyed Bizaar of Talk Radio.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Jeff, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Go ahead, sir, Yes, sir, I would like to tell
you your friend Russell has a fantastic restaurant. I stopped
in Pasadena last night and had a wonderful meal. And
he has a fantastic staff.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, you know, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
They they were just right there. If I needed something,
they were right there.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
Great staff.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
He should be proud, Yeah, he should. And and that's
that's not just what he gets, it's what he demands,
is what he expects, it's what he's he's built and
and you're right. It makes a difference, you know. I
people are surprised when I say this, but I find
the experience more important than the food at this point
(14:52):
in my life. And I am of the opinion that
no matter how do you make your food, it is
not universally appreciated. The way one person eats their burger
is very different than the way another person eats a burger.
Do you do a thick patty or a thin How
well do you cook it? It's hard to custom cook
(15:14):
a burger, especially if if there's any kind of volume.
There's a lot of things like that, where you know
you like your dish. For instance, I've got friends from
Southwest Louisiana. Charles Clark's want them that likes potato salad
in their gumbo.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Potato salad anywhere. I don't want it in the same room.
I don't want the same zip code with me. But
some people, so if you put that in the dish
and they like that, then.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Your food is really good.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
If you put that in the dish and they don't
like it, then oh, your.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Food is awful. Well, yes and no.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Both of those can be true at the same time,
depending on who the audience is, but everybody universally appreciates
or enjoys good service.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So we took the.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wives last night, Mike batchis and I.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
He's the head of Lone.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Star Chevy, and we went to the Oak Room, which
is Tillman's restaurant atop the Post Hotel, and I noticed
something Tilman is they're big on culture as well. I
noticed that the woman who was coming over and taking
care of us, it's like a club. It's not really
(16:34):
a restaurant because they go get the food from one
of the restaurants Mastros or Willie GE's that are in
the complex right there. It's really more a club. Yeah,
so it's a club, but it's not a clubby atmosphere
in that sense. It's more like a country club a
little more. It's kind of maybe a cross between a
late night club and a country.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Club the vibe of it all. But I noticed that
the woman who was taking care of us, as each
person would ask a question about the menu or have
something to say or whatever, she would first explain and
then she would smile, and it came off as being natural,
but it was clear that she has been trained to
(17:17):
be pleasant smile. And I'm surprised how often I am
at a restaurant that the staff will come to your table,
the server and whatever mood they're just kind of already
in is the mood they convey.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And the problem with that is you pay for an experience.
At the RCC spending time with artists in the back,
A lot of them would make the statement, you know,
God spends his heart earned money come out and watch me.
So it's my job to get up on that stage
and make it worthwhile to him. It is my job
for him to put aside his worries for a couple
(17:57):
of hours and just in joy. And I can't be
in a bad mood when I'm out there. That's not allowed.
I'm here to provide an experience and that's what I
have to do. That attitude and getting that experience at
a restaurant does not happen naturally. It has to be
(18:17):
part of a structured culture. And I unfortunately you see
this with restaurants when you know, somebody gets in the
restaurant business and isn't from the industry and never takes
the time to really learn the industry, and so they think.
You know, you have people in the back who cook
the food and someone who walks up and hands it
(18:39):
to you, and then you give them a bill and
they pay.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And they leave.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And I guess for some people that's perfectly fine. But
there is an experience at a place like Gringo's Federal
American Grill, you get the feeling that you matter. You know,
when you walk into China Garden across from not the
Summit whatever, the where the rockets play, what is it
(19:07):
Toiletes Center? When you walk into there, the owner, well,
her brother, Carol, it's a brother sister ownership. Her brother
Richard is outside parking the car so they can maximize
the number of cars that they can get into their
parking lot because it's not a lot. And you know
he's greeting you. And then you walk in, and everybody
(19:28):
in town who's ever been in that restaurant knows Carol,
and she knows them. And you walk in, and she
screams out your name, and she comes up and gives
everybody a hug, and she stays chipper and chirpy all
day long. She has to be so exhausted when she
gets home because she is so happy to see everybody.
And you believe, you believe that she is genuinely happy
(19:49):
to see you there. Well, that's more important than the food.
That's an experience. And I have come to learn about
myself the older I get that I care more about
experience than I do actual quality of food or even
ambiance or decor or whatever else. I'm at a point
(20:10):
now where I if you make me feel good when
I come in, you know, you greet you, sit down.
I I'm going to have a good meal no matter
what food you serve. The other thing that I guess
I'm getting old and grumpy. It happened to us last night.
I have grown so intolerant.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Of there's always this.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's always a woman, and it's either a woman with
a couple of guys, or it's three or four women.
And they get a couple of drinks and I swear
they couldn't scream any louder, and they scream. You know,
I guess one of them tells a joke. It is
so funny that she is laughing so hard that she
has to scream that someone at the other end.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Of a football field could hear her. There is nobody
who actually laughs that way.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So I don't know if it is a I've had
enough drinks that all of my anxieties and neuroses that
I brought with me here and dragged my therapist every day.
I've had a couple of drinks and now I'm going
to relax, and as a relaxation technique, I'm going to
scream my laughter as loud as possible and ruin everybody
(21:24):
else's experience here. And so it bothers me so much.
And you know, I used to hear old people say this.
You know, everything's too loud, Everything's too loud. You can't
hear it, And now that's how I feel. It was
one of those women last night, and she was a
cute Asian girl, but man, she was with a couple
of guys and when she would laugh it was ear
piercing and she was one hundred feet away. We will
(21:46):
be focused on the John Bolton indictment on the evening
show today if you can remember to turn us on
as you're driving home. I am delighted to see justice,
the wheels of justice rolling along. This makes me very happy. Indeed,
we had some more Lena had all go from this
(22:08):
week's County Commissioner's Court meeting. I think we played the
one of her taunting the one fella.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What was the next one?
Speaker 10 (22:16):
Jimbo, Money's not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh, Money's not born on trees? That, madam malapropism? Could
you screw that up?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Is it possible that you could take a cliche and
and cut it in half and then cut it again,
and then cut it again, and then cut it again
and just twist and contort it in the oddest way possible.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But first, first, before you.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Do that, did you did you do it?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
That when you speak really conveys how scattered and shattered
your your mind is. Could you could could you? Could
you channel? Could you channel the mess inside your head
in such a manner it just a few words the
(23:19):
way you talk that will let us know how how
truly crazy you are?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Could could you do that?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, yeah, go back to the money on the trees.
That's where you get the sense of of how scattered
and shattered and broken her brain is.
Speaker 11 (23:41):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, no, no, the money on trees.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Could we just get money on trees?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Please?
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Money is not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's not. It's just odd.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
There.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
There is a mess in her mind.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It is. It is so disheveled.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It is terrible inside there, just terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Give me that one again.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Money is not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He's not born on trees. First of all, I didn't
know money was even born. There's so many problems and
just a handful of words. There's so many layers of
lunacy to unpack one more time.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
Money is not born on trees. It's just it's just not.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
She's she's giving us a statement of that we might
not understand, but but she is wise. She is the
county judge, she is the decider, and she's explaining this.
We don't we can't understand it because heavy is the head,
where's the crown? But but you know you you want
money for your thing over here, and you can't have
(25:02):
it because it's not.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Born on trees.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
And that's the really odd thing about that, is it
kind of is and that makes it even worse.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
But that's not even relevant to the point.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
Money is not born on trees. It's it's just not.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Okay, all right. And then and then there is the
she kind of takes a deep breath and she does
her I'm going to be strong.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm good enough. I'm strong enough and smart enough, and
by golly, people like me. I'm the county judge. And
this is I'll be okay. I have a cat.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
I'm okay, I have a cat.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
There is nothing you could say after I'm okay.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
In three all right, you guys, in that spirit.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
In three words that would that would better reflect the
exact opposite of what you're I guess four words. In
four words, you could not possibly say I'm okay or
I'm going to be okay and discredit yourself in four words.
(26:15):
Better than that, I mean, that's actually in a way,
in a sense, that's actually impressive. She may be crying
out for help. I can tell you this. She ain't
hiding it, but she may be thinking, listen, you people,
I went to the nuthouse, all right, and then you'll
find out I've been going to the.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Nuthouse for years.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I fell out of college because I went to the nuthouse.
I have breakdowns. I have meltdowns. I'm a mess. I'm
absolutely hysterical most of the time.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm not smart at all. I can't handle any pressure.
I don't have any decision making ability.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
This is a big county with a lot of money,
and I don't understand any of it. There's a lot
of people with their handout and I don't know who
to give money to that will give some of it
back to me. I've had to rely on Rodney, and
now Rodney has kicked me out. And by the way,
that's making her very angry, because you see Leslie Brioni,
(27:21):
Adrian Garcia.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Could a little bit. He could, he could, he.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Could do some things that that Rodney didn't like, and
he'd be okay.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
But he's not.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Going to out of respect and in a tactical position
at least not much. But for Leslie Brioni's to do it,
Leslie Brioni's belongs to Rodney. He owns her. It's that
is one hundred percent. She is his puppet. So for
her to start defining Lena, Lena has this, She at
(27:59):
least has the sense to know, Oh, Rodney, let her
take swings at me. Rodney is done with me. Rodney
is working. He's not supporting me anymore. He's not ensuring
my success. The people he controls are no longer now
(28:19):
required to be nice to me, and she is aware
of that, and it's very upsetting. We had another one
more clip.
Speaker 11 (28:26):
All right, you.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
Guys, in that spirit uh of no, uh no, I
gotta go.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Wall Well, why are you so breathless? Are you running
a marathon in the middle of the meeting? Are you
touching yourself under the table? Why are you why is
your breathing so labored? What is going on there?
Speaker 12 (28:50):
All right, you guys, in that spirit uh of no,
uh no, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
That poor nerd that married her.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Can you imagine he probably figured it out before they
got married. There was a moment though, where you know,
a knife went flying across the kitchen and stuck in
the wall, and you know, probably missed his head by
an inch. And he said, oh, dear God, what did
I get myself into.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I just wanted a spicy latina.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I didn't realize I was going to get burned by it.
Speaker 11 (29:34):
All right, you guys, in that spirit of no uh no,
I gotta go,
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