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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. I grew up
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two hours southeast of Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Those of you in Louisiana, you will recognize the name
Orange Texas. It's I've always said, it's more southwest Louisiana
than southwest Southeast Texas. It's more southwest Louisiana than it
is Southeast Texas. If you drive I ten from California
to Florida or back, it will take you through the
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easternmost little town on the way out of Texas into Louisiana,
or in reverse on the border. And that is Orange,
known for chemical plants, which my dad worked at as
a maintenance work. So we didn't have any professional sports
teams close by. We rooted for the Houston teams. My
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parents rooted for the Cowboys, as many people do. I
hated the Cowboys, I think partly to be a contrarian,
and yeah, probably mostly to be a contrarian. I followed
the Houston Oilers of Dan Pasterini, Bum Phillips, Earl Campbell,
Elvin Bethay fame, and I followed the Houston Astros, and
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I followed the Houston Rockets and although we didn't get
the Rockets on local television, so we had some lean years,
Houston didn't. I was a sports fanatic. Un mean, probably
some of you as adults are still this way. But
I worked washing cars and cutting grass so I could
buy a Sporting news subscription because I wanted to get
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all the box scores. I kept score at area league
games when our teams weren't playing. I lived for the
score book. I lived for what's called keeping score keeping,
the book of what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You get paid by the local leagues to do that.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I lived for sports, and I wanted my teams to
be good, and unfortunately, we had some good teams and
a lot of bad teams.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The Oilers gave us a lot of glory.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But I recall when the Rockets won the national championship.
It was the first national championship to be won in Houston.
The Bulls had won three in a row. Then we
sweep Orlando Magic. First year that Michael Jordan is out.
We sweep through Orlando Magic when they have Shack and
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Anthony Penny Hardaway. And then the next year, I'm sorry,
we sweeped the Magic. Next year, first year we won
a national championship. We beat a very very good New
York Next team, a very very good New York Knicks
team in seven games, but nobody saw it because that
was the oj OJ on the Run with Al Cowlling's video,
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and they cut away from our beloved Rockets, which was
very sad.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It felt good to.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Have a winner. It felt good to be a winner.
And I was in law school and I refer to
that as my lost decade because I didn't listen to
music or watch TV like I did before.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But I loved those Rockets.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And then we didn't win an Astros championship until twenty seventeen,
and they've been on a tear since then. It felt good.
And we had some really really good teams with the Oilers,
especially in the late seventies under Dan Pasterini and of
course bom Phillips or Ocampbell, and we got very very
close to getting to the super Bowl and winning it all,
but we didn't. And I say all that to say this,
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we rooted for some real doll in politics, John McCain
in two thousand and eight. Let's be honest, nobody thought
John McCain should be president. He was just hopefully a
little better than Barack Obama, and somewhere along the way,
in the most ultimate cuckhole move, it kind of felt
like John McCain thought, you know what, Barack Obama ought
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to be president. And then in twenty twelve, it almost
seemed like Mitt Romney felt bad about running against the
black guy and he didn't want to be perceived as
a race system. He feared being called a racist more
than he wanted to be president and stop the Obama agenda.
And you know what happened. And then Trump came along.
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I wasn't for Trump. I don't deny that. I was
for Ted Cruz. I introduced him in Iowa the night
he won Iowa, and he did. I introduced him at
the fairgrounds there to a packed house and national TV audience,
and it was pretty heady time the Cruise campaign won Iowa.
They claimed in the news the next morning that Ben
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Carson had won Iowa, and Trump, as the master that
he is, claimed that Cruz had had somehow cheated and
Carson had won. And none of that was true when
the dust settled a week later, although New Hampshire already happened.
Cruse had won Iowa and that was that. But it
didn't matter. He didn't get the bump he needed, and
we'd moved on to New Hampshire and Trump was strong
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in New Hampshire and I didn't like Trump. I didn't
believe that Trump would be the president he came to be.
And I care more about the country than Trump or
anybody else. I just want you to understand that. And
our listeners at that time, we weren't nationally syndicated, but
we had a lot of affiliates. They were mad at me,
and understandably so in time, Trump did govern as he
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does today. He was willing to take on the establishment,
and I said, that's all I asked, That's wonderful. He's
the best president my lifetime, there's no doubt in my mind.
And I have supported his actions not because I worshiped Trump,
but because I love this country and he is the
guy doing what is necessary to fix this country. Oddly enough,
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there are people who were big supporters of him at
the beginning and they abandoned him. And I don't understand that,
because he's been a better president than we could have
ever hoped he would be, and he's done everything he
promised he would do. But when you've rooted for dogs,
when you've had losers for teams so long and you
rooted for him, and now you've finally got somebody worthy
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of rooting for. I use the sports analogy because for
many people, I think that rings true. You know, it's
a good feeling. It's a nice feeling to go to
the stadium believing your team is probably going to win.
It's a nice feeling to end the season with a
championship or in the championship. It's a good feeling to
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know that we've got an all star cast of folks
running this country. And you have to understand, if you're
a Rockets fan, the Knicks fans aren't going to root
for you. If you're a Longhorn fan, the Aggie fans
aren't going to root for you. If you roll tied,
the War Eagle is not going to root for you.
That's just the way it goes. So you have to
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understand that there are people out there that are going
to root against your team, which even if your team
is doing what's best for this country, they're going to
root against this team as a matter of course because
their team's not winning. But just know this, We've got
the right team on the field and everything they do.
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Everything they do is hurting their brand. You know, they're
they're making fools of themselves going down to El Salvador,
making absolute fools of themselves with this whole El Salvador
MS thirteen thing. They're making fools of themselves in the schools.
People don't want boys in the girls' bathrooms. People don't
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want boys on the sporting field with girls. People don't
want illegal aliens in this country. People don't want murderers
released back out on the streets. I'm not saying that
hoping to convince people. People already hold these values and democrats,
it just gets weirder.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
By the day, and I'm glad for it. Keep going.
You're making bad trades. You're horrible. I whow.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You remember the crying Indian commercial from the seventies. It
started with an Indian feather NOTO Dot, paddling his canoe
up a creek. Turned out he was Italian. I think,
not an Indian, but hey, the Indians got it so bad.
He don't even get to play himself. When he gets out,
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he sees trash on the shore. Then someone throws trash
out of their car window and he sheds a single
tear remember that commercial.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Some people have a deep, combiding respect for the natural
beauty that was once this country, and some people don't.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
People starting pollution. People kind of stopped right for pollution.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Booklet Bucks, seventeen seventy one Radio City Station, New.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
York, Send us some money.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The Indian in the commercial was Iron Eyes Cody, or
so we were told. He was born Espeta Oscar de Courti.
He was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed
Native Americans in Hollywood films, including the role of Chief
ironized in Bob Hope's The Pale Face in nineteen forty eight.
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Lived in Hollywood, and he began to insist even in
his private life that he was Native American, over time,
claiming membership in several different tribes.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
He would forget what he'd said.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Nineteen ninety six, his half sister said that he was
of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death
it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage and
not Native American at all. I mean, he could have
been in The Godfather movies. It's not only entertainers who
do this. The Left loves to pretend they are a
member of a minority group. They love it, they get.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Off on it. It's their mother's milk.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Remember, so, centered, why did you list yourself as an
American Union on this Texas bar application?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So this was about thirty years ago. And I am
not a tribal citizen. Tribes and only tribes determined citizenship.
When I was growing up in Oklahoma, I learned about
my family the same way most people do. My brothers
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and I learned from our mom and our dad, and
our brothers and our sisters, and those were our family stories.
But that said, there really is an important distinction of
tribal citizenship. I am not a member of the tribe,
and I have apologized for not being more sensitive to
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that distinction. It's an important distinction.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
The President has made the case that you have used
this part of your background to get ahead. Are you
saying that this is something you fundamentally believed about yourself,
or how do you respond.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
To that criticism.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
This was a knowing attempt to get ahead by using
that claim of ancestry.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So that is a claim that has been fully investigated,
and it has now been shown completely that nothing about
my background ever had anything to do with any job
I got in any place. It's been fully documented and
there's no evidence of any kind other than it had
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nothing to do my backgrounds.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Were documents or any more forms like this out there
that you have listed yourself as they could come out.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But this is who I grew up believing with my brothers.
This is our family's story, and it's all consistent from
that point in time. But as I say, it's important enough.
I'm not a tribal citizen and I should have been
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more just more mindful of the distinction with tribal citizenship
and tribal sovereignty. And that is why I apologize to
Chief Baker and why I've made a very public apology.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Forget the tribes. She's not an engine at all. Remember
the former NAACP leader Rachel dolas All. She wasn't black,
she was white as all get out, but she identified
as black.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
So what I say to them is, you know, I
don't I don't give to what you guys think.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, like you're at your far done and out
of my life.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
The president of the NAACP, who we think is a
black woman who says she's the victim of hate crimes,
might not be black. That seems like a misrepresentation.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I can understand that.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
I mean, like I said, it's more important for me
to clarify that with the black community and with my
executive board than it really is to explain it to
a community that I quite frankly don't think, you know,
really understands the definitions of race and ethnicity.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Do you think anyone within the Spokane n DOUBLEACP is
unclear about your identity?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Would you identify yourself as an African American?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I actually don't like the term African American. I prefer black,
and I would say that if you know, if I
was asked, I would definitely say that, yes, I do
consider myself to be black.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So the reason I bring this up today, there's nothing
in the news necessarily that this is relevant to. But
I've been noodling on this idea of the mental health
problems of the left and the attempt to change reality,
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the inability to live in reality, the pathological nature of
their mindset cannot be reasoned with. This is what leads
you to believe that this past weekend there was an
argument that yes, a man can get pregnant. Well, they're
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talking about women who call themselves men but still have
a vagina and fallopian tubes. Okay, well, if you have
a vagina and you're not a man, you can take
some testosterone and grow a beard. I think it's gross,
but whatever. You can cut your boobs off, which they do,
and you can do what else they do, which is
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undergo a horribly painful disfiguring surgery where they take a
lump of fat and muscle.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
From your thigh, leaving you with a massive.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Gash, and they hang a sausage from your but it
doesn't work. So I mean, I guess it's that important
that you have a bulge in your underwear. Put a sop,
good grief what Ramon does. But this is the mental health.
There's more to the story. I'm going No, this is
these people don't live in reality.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
There's more to like on Facebook, like the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So I've been sitting on.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This story and meaning to get to it and giving
consideration to the various ways in which the Left have
lost their minds. We can have honest disagreements. We can
disagree about the role of the government in the life
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of the citizen.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We can disagree over.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Should taxpayers pay for stadiums in a city to keep
or recruit or tract a professional sports team there. We
can debate whether that's the taxpayer's role or should be
left to the owner, And if the owner won't do it,
we can debate whether that will cost the city more
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money than just building the stadium in the first place.
We can have those conversations, and they're good conversations to have.
We can debate corporal punishment. We can debate homeschooling versus
public schools, how much tax is appropriate, and at what
point it stifles entrepreneurism and growth and development. All these
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are I don't claim that because we disagree politically the
other person is an idiot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I think that's a weak position to take. But what
we have.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now are people who are crazy, just crazy. Singer songwriter
Buffy Saint Marie became a liberal icon in the sixties
and to this day still is because she claimed she
was Indigenous. But now the Canadian government has stripped her
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of this prestigious honor that she received back in twenty
twenty three from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sorry received, but
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation uncovered that the Oscar winning singer
who co wrote up Where We Belong for officer and
a Gentleman. There's out she's white and in the seventies
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she appeared on Sesame Street claiming that she was indigenous.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Global News with the story.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
In twenty twenty one, Governor General Mary Simon presented Buffy
Saint Marie with a commemorative stamp to.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Me gletch everybody.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Four years later, Simon is the one taking one of
her awards away. At first, it was you know, elation
because you know, like we have been, you know, trying
to set history straight.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But it was also really a very very sad event.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
The notice was posted online.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
The appointment of Buffy Saint Marie to the Order of
Canada was terminated by ordinance signed by the Governor General
on January third, twenty twenty five. No official reason was given,
but her removal follows a CBC investigation casting doubt on
her claims of Indigenous roots.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm just coming down from visiting my Folks and Cream
Reservation in Canada.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Saint Marie did not respond to Global News request for comment,
but has previously denied she misrepresented herself.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
I'm an artist and activist, a mom.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
A survivor and a proud member of the Native community
with deep roots in Canada.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
An order of Canada termination is rare. It's only happened
nine times in history.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
The public is finally accepting the seriousness of the allegations
against her and that self indigenization is an actual problem.
I think of my great grandmother for blooded Cree woman
Lucy Brenneyes.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Randy Bossno resigned as Employment Minister after shifting claims about
his heritage. Canada's Auditor General is also set to examine
Ottawa's multi billion dollar Indigenous procurement program after a Global
News investigation revealed concerns of abuse.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
People have gained a lot financially and in terms of
social capital by playing Indian and how do you possibly
repay that niversal souls?
Speaker 10 (19:55):
Saint Marie has received honorary doctorates people Juno's, even in
auscar Now the question is whether she'll get to keep
those after losing Canada's highest honor.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's important to understand why this happens. These people get
so caught up in the narrative of the victim they
fall in love with the victim. This is this is
like women who become pen pals with prison inmates. If
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you notice, it's always a fat white woman who falls
in love with a black murderer in prison, and she
writes letters to him and eventually maybe gets a conjugal
visit and that's you know, the thing that turns her
on and he don't mind. But there is this this
lionization of the victim. White liberal women love to find
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a victim and tell everybody else that y'all aren't paying
enough attention to the victim. That's what they do, and
they they fall in love with that victim to such
an extent that they start wanting that which they've created
for that victim, which is pity and all of that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And so in time they sort of they sort.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Of imagine that they are that victim, and they then
become that victim. There's a Netflix movie out now about
a woman who's a She claimed to have brain cancer
and you know, she was eating her way to during
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the brain cancer and it's it's just nuts. I'll remind
you that Beto O'Rourke who ran for president and governor
of Texas and then senator from governor, his dad named
in Beato. He's not his fanic his dad named in Beato,
except by the time you're this age, the state will
be his fanning. This happens so often that we had
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to make something funny out of it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
How else do we deal with this?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Hi, welcome to the official DNC Halloween Store. Can I
help you?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (22:18):
I'm looking for a costume for my office Halloween party,
something really topical.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Ooh, how about this one?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
What's that Native American costume?
Speaker 13 (22:27):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
This is Elizabeth Warren. It's very popular with feminists. And
do you want to try it on?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
What else do you have?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Well, if you'd like to try something a bit racier,
you might like this one. It comes with a fake
cornrow wig and black face makeup.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
What's that a rosta costume? I don't want to offend
people by putting on black face. No, it's not a
roster costume. This is Rachel Dolisol. She's a civil rights icon.
I want to wear a fun costume. Say, why does
this sombrero come with a skateboard?
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No, that's the Beato Roar costume.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
But for that to work, you need to douse yourself
with water so you look real sweaty.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
H I want a costume that'll still be relevant next year.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Well, then definitely don't get the Beto O War costume.
How about this one? It's real scary.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
What is this skeletor the crypt keeper?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
No, but close, this is Diane Feinstein. This costume will
never go out of style. She's not going anywhere.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
When the grindin doors creak and the toombs songs, quake,
books count or a swing and a wake, happy haunts,
material lies and begin to vote Lize Brennan, ghosts come
out to social life.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now, don't close your.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Eyes and don't try to hide.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
It's very shall.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I generally state an opinion on the matter, and I
guess I have one here two, but it's a little
more nuanced. And that is so the state of Texas.
We have a Republican House, Republican senator, republican governor. Every
elected official statewide is Republican. But the House is actually
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run by the Democrats because they all pitch together and
just pick off a few Republicans and that gives them
a majority. So they have a person who calls themselves
a Republican, but he's actually doing the bidding of the Democrats.
A it's a procedural, it's procedural mastery. It makes me angry,
but I have to admire what they do, how good
they are at what they do. Our side is not
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good at what we do. But the State Senate in
Texas is wanting to set aside two point five or sorry,
five hundred million dollars a year every two years, or sorry,
five hundred million dollars every two years until twenty thirty five.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
For a movie fund.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And there would be there's the Texas Film Office, which
is in the Governor's office, would issue grants to film
productions that spend at least two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in Texas, and it would reduce the Texas residency
requirements that are necessary to obtain grants to thirty five
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percent for the next two years, increasing it over time
until you reach fifty percent in twenty thirty one. Under
current Texas law, film productions are only eligible for grants
if fifty five percent of their crew base, including actors
and extras, are Texas residents. The bill passed with a
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twenty three to eight vote, and now it goes to
the House and I expect it'll pass there too. And
there is a coalition of stars. Dennis Quaid is one
of Matthew McConaughey, and people are enamored, including people in
public life, are enamored of actors. So they do things
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like this because they want to hang out with those actors,
not because.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They give a damn they don't.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
One thing I've learned about people is most people don't
know who any of the athletes or actors are. They
just want to hang out with them so they can
take a picture and show their kid, and their kid
will think they're cool. See look who my friends are.
So my question is your thoughts on in this case
it's Texas. Louisiana has done it. That's why so many
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films have been made in New Orleans over the years.
None of this would be possible if California's bad policies
didn't drive Hollywood out of that state.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Does it matter? It? Does?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It does because films bring with them something, something that
is hard, something intangible. Films bring with them a cool factor.
They also bring dollars. If you look at the top
breed of dog that's purchased every year, it is typically
a dog that's in some sort of a movie, whether
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that's Paris Hilton and her Chihuahua or Lassie or you
name it. Although I don't know what Kujo did for
dog sales. I don't know if that helped or her.
I don't like Stephen King, but that was.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
A good movie.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Movies are art powerful, very powerful. When people see a
movie star, they don't see a human being. They see
a role that person played and how important it was
to them. Billy Bob Thornton has a band and he
played my club which we closed during COVID, which was
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called we started as Redneck Country Club and then it
became Republic Country Club RCC, and he played there and
he told his band how much he loved the place,
and that got back to me and several people did that.
I mean Larry the cable guy wears an RCC shirt
on stage.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
He loved the place so much. Anyway, So Billy Bob.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Thornton's band was playing a show in Galveston a couple
of weeks ago, and one of the band members recognized
me and they brought me back to say hello to him,
and we got to talking and I posted a picture
of the two of us, and it was amazing to
me that people's comments were not about Billy, about Thornton.
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The comments were about either Carl and sling Blade or
his character in Landman, which is the current one, or Goliath.
And I think people suspend reality and see these people.
So I guess the question is, you know, I think
the taxpayers got into trouble once owners started pinning one
town against the next. How you better build me a
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stadium or I'm going to leave, And so people would panic,
and so the taxpayers would build a stadium, which is
so crazy, right, don't build a We don't pay to
build a restaurant for a restaurant tour, so he doesn't
move his restaurant somewhere else. But we do that for stadiums.
And I think a lot of people want to do
it because they're big fans of sports teams. So anyway,
here's the story I would like to hear from you.
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Buy email on the thought would you want your what
state do you live in, and would you want your
state to spend significant money to bring movies to your state?
Is that important to you? The story is k x
A n TV.
Speaker 13 (29:40):
The movie business is not a cheap endeavor. Cost to
hire a crew and cast, renting equipment and building sets.
Speaker 14 (29:47):
How do you decrease the cost of production in A
big component of that is incentives.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
Dallas Morgan is the executive producer of Castor Studios, based
in Dripping Springs, Texas. It works under a rio of projects,
more recently kids and family friendly content. It's benefited from
the state's film incentive program in the past, and Morgan
knows a new push at the state capitol would mean
more films being made in Texas.
Speaker 14 (30:12):
Or dollars being spent in the state towards film and
television projects.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
A new bill by Senator Joan Huffman could cover up
to thirty one percent of the costs associated with making
a project in Texas.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The program is not new, but.
Speaker 13 (30:26):
This legislation would increase the program's funding to five hundred
million dollars every two years. The bill passed the Senate
with bipartisan support. One concern is Senator Sarah Eckhart supports
the bill but is not a fan of some subjective language.
It gives the Governor's office the discretion to deny and
even revoke a grant at any point the movie is
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being made, and it codifies current rules used by the
office projecting films that portray Texas in a negative light
or don't represent family values.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
I don't think the promotion of family values would ever
be in the propagame into category, but that's again my opinion.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Of course, his family values would always be the question
we're going to.
Speaker 13 (31:08):
Agrees the subjective aspect of the program can make it
hard to financially plan a film, but understands it may
not become law without those provisions.
Speaker 14 (31:17):
If that's what it takes, it may not be a
terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So I would like to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I read every email. Just make a reference in the
subject line to film commission budget. Would you want your
state and tell me what your state is to spend
money to bring movies to your state. The fiscally conservative
side of me says, no, movies are no different than
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anything else.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
They can do it on their own.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
The problem is, and we all know this, that other
states are going to do it. And how important do
you think it is to a state to have movies
made there?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Uh, let's say you have a restaurant, Well, let's Win's Low, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They've got the museum there. Uh and when when it when.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
That fell apart? It says standing on the corner. The
Eagles auctioned off guitars to pay for that little thing
to be the Jackson Brown song that they started that
you know, Glenn fry And launches the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I don't know. I think it's an interest. I'd be
curious to know what you think.
Speaker 12 (32:27):
M
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. I grew up
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two hours southeast of Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Those of you in Louisiana, you will recognize the name
Orange Texas. It's I've always said, it's more southwest Louisiana
than southwest Southeast Texas. It's more southwest Louisiana than it
is Southeast Texas. If you drive I ten from California
to Florida or back, it will take you through the
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easternmost little town on the way out of Texas into Louisiana,
or in reverse on the border. And that is Orange,
known for chemical plants, which my dad worked at as
a maintenance work. So we didn't have any professional sports
teams close by. We rooted for the Houston teams. My
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parents rooted for the Cowboys, as many people do. I
hated the Cowboys, I think partly to be a contrarian,
and yeah, probably mostly to be a contrarian. I followed
the Houston Oilers of Dan Pasterini, Bum Phillips, Earl Campbell,
Elvin Bethay fame, and I followed the Houston Astros, and
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I followed the Houston Rockets and although we didn't get
the Rockets on local television, so we had some lean years,
Houston didn't. I was a sports fanatic. Un mean, probably
some of you as adults are still this way. But
I worked washing cars and cutting grass so I could
buy a Sporting news subscription because I wanted to get
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all the box scores. I kept score at area league
games when our teams weren't playing. I lived for the
score book. I lived for what's called keeping score keeping,
the book of what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You get paid by the local leagues to do that.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I lived for sports, and I wanted my teams to
be good, and unfortunately, we had some good teams and
a lot of bad teams.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The Oilers gave us a lot of glory.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But I recall when the Rockets won the national championship.
It was the first national championship to be won in Houston.
The Bulls had won three in a row. Then we
sweep Orlando Magic. First year that Michael Jordan is out.
We sweep through Orlando Magic when they have Shack and
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Anthony Penny Hardaway. And then the next year, I'm sorry,
we sweeped the Magic. Next year, first year we won
a national championship. We beat a very very good New
York Next team, a very very good New York Knicks
team in seven games, but nobody saw it because that
was the oj OJ on the Run with Al Cowlling's video,
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and they cut away from our beloved Rockets, which was
very sad.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It felt good to.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Have a winner. It felt good to be a winner.
And I was in law school and I refer to
that as my lost decade because I didn't listen to
music or watch TV like I did before.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But I loved those Rockets.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And then we didn't win an Astros championship until twenty seventeen,
and they've been on a tear since then. It felt good.
And we had some really really good teams with the Oilers,
especially in the late seventies under Dan Pasterini and of
course bom Phillips or Ocampbell, and we got very very
close to getting to the super Bowl and winning it all,
but we didn't. And I say all that to say this,
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we rooted for some real doll in politics, John McCain
in two thousand and eight. Let's be honest, nobody thought
John McCain should be president. He was just hopefully a
little better than Barack Obama, and somewhere along the way,
in the most ultimate cuckhole move, it kind of felt
like John McCain thought, you know what, Barack Obama ought
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to be president. And then in twenty twelve, it almost
seemed like Mitt Romney felt bad about running against the
black guy and he didn't want to be perceived as
a race system. He feared being called a racist more
than he wanted to be president and stop the Obama agenda.
And you know what happened. And then Trump came along.
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I wasn't for Trump. I don't deny that. I was
for Ted Cruz. I introduced him in Iowa the night
he won Iowa, and he did. I introduced him at
the fairgrounds there to a packed house and national TV audience,
and it was pretty heady time the Cruise campaign won Iowa.
They claimed in the news the next morning that Ben
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Carson had won Iowa, and Trump, as the master that
he is, claimed that Cruz had had somehow cheated and
Carson had won. And none of that was true when
the dust settled a week later, although New Hampshire already happened.
Cruse had won Iowa and that was that. But it
didn't matter. He didn't get the bump he needed, and
we'd moved on to New Hampshire and Trump was strong
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in New Hampshire and I didn't like Trump. I didn't
believe that Trump would be the president he came to be.
And I care more about the country than Trump or
anybody else. I just want you to understand that. And
our listeners at that time, we weren't nationally syndicated, but
we had a lot of affiliates. They were mad at me,
and understandably so in time, Trump did govern as he
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does today. He was willing to take on the establishment,
and I said, that's all I asked, That's wonderful. He's
the best president my lifetime, there's no doubt in my mind.
And I have supported his actions not because I worshiped Trump,
but because I love this country and he is the
guy doing what is necessary to fix this country. Oddly enough,
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there are people who were big supporters of him at
the beginning and they abandoned him. And I don't understand that,
because he's been a better president than we could have
ever hoped he would be, and he's done everything he
promised he would do. But when you've rooted for dogs,
when you've had losers for teams so long and you
rooted for him, and now you've finally got somebody worthy
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of rooting for. I use the sports analogy because for
many people, I think that rings true. You know, it's
a good feeling. It's a nice feeling to go to
the stadium believing your team is probably going to win.
It's a nice feeling to end the season with a
championship or in the championship. It's a good feeling to
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know that we've got an all star cast of folks
running this country. And you have to understand, if you're
a Rockets fan, the Knicks fans aren't going to root
for you. If you're a Longhorn fan, the Aggie fans
aren't going to root for you. If you roll tied,
the War Eagle is not going to root for you.
That's just the way it goes. So you have to
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understand that there are people out there that are going
to root against your team, which even if your team
is doing what's best for this country, they're going to
root against this team as a matter of course because
their team's not winning. But just know this, We've got
the right team on the field and everything they do.
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Everything they do is hurting their brand. You know, they're
they're making fools of themselves going down to El Salvador,
making absolute fools of themselves with this whole El Salvador
MS thirteen thing. They're making fools of themselves in the schools.
People don't want boys in the girls' bathrooms. People don't
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want boys on the sporting field with girls. People don't
want illegal aliens in this country. People don't want murderers
released back out on the streets. I'm not saying that
hoping to convince people. People already hold these values and democrats,
it just gets weirder.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
By the day, and I'm glad for it. Keep going.
You're making bad trades. You're horrible. I whow.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You remember the crying Indian commercial from the seventies. It
started with an Indian feather NOTO Dot, paddling his canoe
up a creek. Turned out he was Italian. I think,
not an Indian, but hey, the Indians got it so bad.
He don't even get to play himself. When he gets out,
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he sees trash on the shore. Then someone throws trash
out of their car window and he sheds a single
tear remember that commercial.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Some people have a deep, combiding respect for the natural
beauty that was once this country, and some people don't.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
People starting pollution. People kind of stopped right for pollution.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Booklet Bucks, seventeen seventy one Radio City Station, New.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
York, Send us some money.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The Indian in the commercial was Iron Eyes Cody, or
so we were told. He was born Espeta Oscar de Courti.
He was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed
Native Americans in Hollywood films, including the role of Chief
ironized in Bob Hope's The Pale Face in nineteen forty eight.
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Lived in Hollywood, and he began to insist even in
his private life that he was Native American, over time,
claiming membership in several different tribes.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
He would forget what he'd said.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Nineteen ninety six, his half sister said that he was
of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death
it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage and
not Native American at all. I mean, he could have
been in The Godfather movies. It's not only entertainers who
do this. The Left loves to pretend they are a
member of a minority group. They love it, they get.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Off on it. It's their mother's milk.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Remember, so, centered, why did you list yourself as an
American Union on this Texas bar application?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So this was about thirty years ago. And I am
not a tribal citizen. Tribes and only tribes determined citizenship.
When I was growing up in Oklahoma, I learned about
my family the same way most people do. My brothers
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and I learned from our mom and our dad, and
our brothers and our sisters, and those were our family stories.
But that said, there really is an important distinction of
tribal citizenship. I am not a member of the tribe,
and I have apologized for not being more sensitive to
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that distinction. It's an important distinction.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
The President has made the case that you have used
this part of your background to get ahead. Are you
saying that this is something you fundamentally believed about yourself,
or how do you respond.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
To that criticism.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
This was a knowing attempt to get ahead by using
that claim of ancestry.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So that is a claim that has been fully investigated,
and it has now been shown completely that nothing about
my background ever had anything to do with any job
I got in any place. It's been fully documented and
there's no evidence of any kind other than it had
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nothing to do my backgrounds.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Were documents or any more forms like this out there
that you have listed yourself as they could come out.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But this is who I grew up believing with my brothers.
This is our family's story, and it's all consistent from
that point in time. But as I say, it's important enough.
I'm not a tribal citizen and I should have been
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more just more mindful of the distinction with tribal citizenship
and tribal sovereignty. And that is why I apologize to
Chief Baker and why I've made a very public apology.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Forget the tribes. She's not an engine at all. Remember
the former NAACP leader Rachel dolas All. She wasn't black,
she was white as all get out, but she identified
as black.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
So what I say to them is, you know, I
don't I don't give to what you guys think.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You know, like you're at your far done and out
of my life.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
The president of the NAACP, who we think is a
black woman who says she's the victim of hate crimes,
might not be black. That seems like a misrepresentation.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I can understand that.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
I mean, like I said, it's more important for me
to clarify that with the black community and with my
executive board than it really is to explain it to
a community that I quite frankly don't think, you know,
really understands the definitions of race and ethnicity.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Do you think anyone within the Spokane n DOUBLEACP is
unclear about your identity?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Would you identify yourself as an African American?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I actually don't like the term African American. I prefer black,
and I would say that if you know, if I
was asked, I would definitely say that, yes, I do
consider myself to be black.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So the reason I bring this up today, there's nothing
in the news necessarily that this is relevant to. But
I've been noodling on this idea of the mental health
problems of the left and the attempt to change reality,
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the inability to live in reality, the pathological nature of
their mindset cannot be reasoned with. This is what leads
you to believe that this past weekend there was an
argument that yes, a man can get pregnant. Well, they're
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talking about women who call themselves men but still have
a vagina and fallopian tubes. Okay, well, if you have
a vagina and you're not a man, you can take
some testosterone and grow a beard. I think it's gross,
but whatever. You can cut your boobs off, which they do,
and you can do what else they do, which is
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undergo a horribly painful disfiguring surgery where they take a
lump of fat and muscle.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
From your thigh, leaving you with a massive.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Gash, and they hang a sausage from your but it
doesn't work. So I mean, I guess it's that important
that you have a bulge in your underwear. Put a sop,
good grief what Ramon does. But this is the mental health.
There's more to the story. I'm going No, this is
these people don't live in reality.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
There's more to like on Facebook, like the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So I've been sitting on.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This story and meaning to get to it and giving
consideration to the various ways in which the Left have
lost their minds. We can have honest disagreements. We can
disagree about the role of the government in the life
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of the citizen.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We can disagree over.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Should taxpayers pay for stadiums in a city to keep
or recruit or tract a professional sports team there. We
can debate whether that's the taxpayer's role or should be
left to the owner, And if the owner won't do it,
we can debate whether that will cost the city more
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money than just building the stadium in the first place.
We can have those conversations, and they're good conversations to have.
We can debate corporal punishment. We can debate homeschooling versus
public schools, how much tax is appropriate, and at what
point it stifles entrepreneurism and growth and development. All these
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are I don't claim that because we disagree politically the
other person is an idiot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I think that's a weak position to take. But what
we have.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now are people who are crazy, just crazy. Singer songwriter
Buffy Saint Marie became a liberal icon in the sixties
and to this day still is because she claimed she
was Indigenous. But now the Canadian government has stripped her
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of this prestigious honor that she received back in twenty
twenty three from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sorry received, but
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation uncovered that the Oscar winning singer
who co wrote up Where We Belong for officer and
a Gentleman. There's out she's white and in the seventies
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she appeared on Sesame Street claiming that she was indigenous.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Global News with the story.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
In twenty twenty one, Governor General Mary Simon presented Buffy
Saint Marie with a commemorative stamp to.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Me gletch everybody.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Four years later, Simon is the one taking one of
her awards away. At first, it was you know, elation
because you know, like we have been, you know, trying
to set history straight.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But it was also really a very very sad event.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
The notice was posted online.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
The appointment of Buffy Saint Marie to the Order of
Canada was terminated by ordinance signed by the Governor General
on January third, twenty twenty five. No official reason was given,
but her removal follows a CBC investigation casting doubt on
her claims of Indigenous roots.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm just coming down from visiting my Folks and Cream
Reservation in Canada.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Saint Marie did not respond to Global News request for comment,
but has previously denied she misrepresented herself.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
I'm an artist and activist, a mom.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
A survivor and a proud member of the Native community
with deep roots in Canada.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
An order of Canada termination is rare. It's only happened
nine times in history.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
The public is finally accepting the seriousness of the allegations
against her and that self indigenization is an actual problem.
I think of my great grandmother for blooded Cree woman
Lucy Brenneyes.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Randy Bossno resigned as Employment Minister after shifting claims about
his heritage. Canada's Auditor General is also set to examine
Ottawa's multi billion dollar Indigenous procurement program after a Global
News investigation revealed concerns of abuse.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
People have gained a lot financially and in terms of
social capital by playing Indian and how do you possibly
repay that niversal souls?
Speaker 10 (19:55):
Saint Marie has received honorary doctorates people Juno's, even in
auscar Now the question is whether she'll get to keep
those after losing Canada's highest honor.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's important to understand why this happens. These people get
so caught up in the narrative of the victim they
fall in love with the victim. This is this is
like women who become pen pals with prison inmates. If
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you notice, it's always a fat white woman who falls
in love with a black murderer in prison, and she
writes letters to him and eventually maybe gets a conjugal
visit and that's you know, the thing that turns her
on and he don't mind. But there is this this
lionization of the victim. White liberal women love to find
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a victim and tell everybody else that y'all aren't paying
enough attention to the victim. That's what they do, and
they they fall in love with that victim to such
an extent that they start wanting that which they've created
for that victim, which is pity and all of that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And so in time they sort of they sort.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Of imagine that they are that victim, and they then
become that victim. There's a Netflix movie out now about
a woman who's a She claimed to have brain cancer
and you know, she was eating her way to during
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the brain cancer and it's it's just nuts. I'll remind
you that Beto O'Rourke who ran for president and governor
of Texas and then senator from governor, his dad named
in Beato. He's not his fanic his dad named in Beato,
except by the time you're this age, the state will
be his fanning. This happens so often that we had
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to make something funny out of it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
How else do we deal with this?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Hi, welcome to the official DNC Halloween Store. Can I
help you?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (22:18):
I'm looking for a costume for my office Halloween party,
something really topical.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Ooh, how about this one?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
What's that Native American costume?
Speaker 13 (22:27):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
This is Elizabeth Warren. It's very popular with feminists. And
do you want to try it on?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
What else do you have?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Well, if you'd like to try something a bit racier,
you might like this one. It comes with a fake
cornrow wig and black face makeup.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
What's that a rosta costume? I don't want to offend
people by putting on black face. No, it's not a
roster costume. This is Rachel Dolisol. She's a civil rights icon.
I want to wear a fun costume. Say, why does
this sombrero come with a skateboard?
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No, that's the Beato Roar costume.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
But for that to work, you need to douse yourself
with water so you look real sweaty.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
H I want a costume that'll still be relevant next year.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Well, then definitely don't get the Beto O War costume.
How about this one? It's real scary.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
What is this skeletor the crypt keeper?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
No, but close, this is Diane Feinstein. This costume will
never go out of style. She's not going anywhere.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
When the grindin doors creak and the toombs songs, quake,
books count or a swing and a wake, happy haunts,
material lies and begin to vote Lize Brennan, ghosts come
out to social life.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now, don't close your.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Eyes and don't try to hide.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
It's very shall.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I generally state an opinion on the matter, and I
guess I have one here two, but it's a little
more nuanced. And that is so the state of Texas.
We have a Republican House, Republican senator, republican governor. Every
elected official statewide is Republican. But the House is actually
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run by the Democrats because they all pitch together and
just pick off a few Republicans and that gives them
a majority. So they have a person who calls themselves
a Republican, but he's actually doing the bidding of the Democrats.
A it's a procedural, it's procedural mastery. It makes me angry,
but I have to admire what they do, how good
they are at what they do. Our side is not
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good at what we do. But the State Senate in
Texas is wanting to set aside two point five or sorry,
five hundred million dollars a year every two years, or sorry,
five hundred million dollars every two years until twenty thirty five.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
For a movie fund.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And there would be there's the Texas Film Office, which
is in the Governor's office, would issue grants to film
productions that spend at least two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in Texas, and it would reduce the Texas residency
requirements that are necessary to obtain grants to thirty five
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percent for the next two years, increasing it over time
until you reach fifty percent in twenty thirty one. Under
current Texas law, film productions are only eligible for grants
if fifty five percent of their crew base, including actors
and extras, are Texas residents. The bill passed with a
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twenty three to eight vote, and now it goes to
the House and I expect it'll pass there too. And
there is a coalition of stars. Dennis Quaid is one
of Matthew McConaughey, and people are enamored, including people in
public life, are enamored of actors. So they do things
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like this because they want to hang out with those actors,
not because.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They give a damn they don't.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
One thing I've learned about people is most people don't
know who any of the athletes or actors are. They
just want to hang out with them so they can
take a picture and show their kid, and their kid
will think they're cool. See look who my friends are.
So my question is your thoughts on in this case
it's Texas. Louisiana has done it. That's why so many
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films have been made in New Orleans over the years.
None of this would be possible if California's bad policies
didn't drive Hollywood out of that state.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Does it matter? It? Does?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It does because films bring with them something, something that
is hard, something intangible. Films bring with them a cool factor.
They also bring dollars. If you look at the top
breed of dog that's purchased every year, it is typically
a dog that's in some sort of a movie, whether
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that's Paris Hilton and her Chihuahua or Lassie or you
name it. Although I don't know what Kujo did for
dog sales. I don't know if that helped or her.
I don't like Stephen King, but that was.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
A good movie.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Movies are art powerful, very powerful. When people see a
movie star, they don't see a human being. They see
a role that person played and how important it was
to them. Billy Bob Thornton has a band and he
played my club which we closed during COVID, which was
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called we started as Redneck Country Club and then it
became Republic Country Club RCC, and he played there and
he told his band how much he loved the place,
and that got back to me and several people did that.
I mean Larry the cable guy wears an RCC shirt
on stage.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
He loved the place so much. Anyway, So Billy Bob.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Thornton's band was playing a show in Galveston a couple
of weeks ago, and one of the band members recognized
me and they brought me back to say hello to him,
and we got to talking and I posted a picture
of the two of us, and it was amazing to
me that people's comments were not about Billy, about Thornton.
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The comments were about either Carl and sling Blade or
his character in Landman, which is the current one, or Goliath.
And I think people suspend reality and see these people.
So I guess the question is, you know, I think
the taxpayers got into trouble once owners started pinning one
town against the next. How you better build me a
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stadium or I'm going to leave, And so people would panic,
and so the taxpayers would build a stadium, which is
so crazy, right, don't build a We don't pay to
build a restaurant for a restaurant tour, so he doesn't
move his restaurant somewhere else. But we do that for stadiums.
And I think a lot of people want to do
it because they're big fans of sports teams. So anyway,
here's the story I would like to hear from you.
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Buy email on the thought would you want your what
state do you live in, and would you want your
state to spend significant money to bring movies to your state?
Is that important to you? The story is k x
A n TV.
Speaker 13 (29:40):
The movie business is not a cheap endeavor. Cost to
hire a crew and cast, renting equipment and building sets.
Speaker 14 (29:47):
How do you decrease the cost of production in A
big component of that is incentives.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
Dallas Morgan is the executive producer of Castor Studios, based
in Dripping Springs, Texas. It works under a rio of projects,
more recently kids and family friendly content. It's benefited from
the state's film incentive program in the past, and Morgan
knows a new push at the state capitol would mean
more films being made in Texas.
Speaker 14 (30:12):
Or dollars being spent in the state towards film and
television projects.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
A new bill by Senator Joan Huffman could cover up
to thirty one percent of the costs associated with making
a project in Texas.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The program is not new, but.
Speaker 13 (30:26):
This legislation would increase the program's funding to five hundred
million dollars every two years. The bill passed the Senate
with bipartisan support. One concern is Senator Sarah Eckhart supports
the bill but is not a fan of some subjective language.
It gives the Governor's office the discretion to deny and
even revoke a grant at any point the movie is
(30:47):
being made, and it codifies current rules used by the
office projecting films that portray Texas in a negative light
or don't represent family values.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
I don't think the promotion of family values would ever
be in the propagame into category, but that's again my opinion.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Of course, his family values would always be the question
we're going to.
Speaker 13 (31:08):
Agrees the subjective aspect of the program can make it
hard to financially plan a film, but understands it may
not become law without those provisions.
Speaker 14 (31:17):
If that's what it takes, it may not be a
terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So I would like to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I read every email. Just make a reference in the
subject line to film commission budget. Would you want your
state and tell me what your state is to spend
money to bring movies to your state. The fiscally conservative
side of me says, no, movies are no different than
(31:45):
anything else.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
They can do it on their own.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
The problem is, and we all know this, that other
states are going to do it. And how important do
you think it is to a state to have movies
made there?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Uh, let's say you have a restaurant, Well, let's Win's Low, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They've got the museum there. Uh and when when it when.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
That fell apart? It says standing on the corner. The
Eagles auctioned off guitars to pay for that little thing
to be the Jackson Brown song that they started that
you know, Glenn fry And launches the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I don't know. I think it's an interest. I'd be
curious to know what you think.
Speaker 12 (32:27):
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