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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Your fellow's been dorm bit of booze, and have you
sucking back on Grandpa's old cough medicine.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Captain Whitaker on the three nights before the accident October eleventh.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
October eleventh, October twelfth, and thirteenth and fourteenth, I was intoxicated.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I drank all of those days. I drank in excess.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
On the morning of the accident, I was drunk.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm drunk now, I'm drunk right now.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
That's some kind of Chinese checkers. Chinese checkers. No, this
is pe knuckle.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'm drunk.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's just stuffy in here, that's all.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I'm drunk.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Don't gonna need food.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Hell, he's three sheets to the wind.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
He's drunk. It's a stop.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Why don't you shut up? Shut up to Dong.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Dong Dong. Grandpa is talking to you. Where is my
autum mobile?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Automobile like.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Big like, are you drunk?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
No, Okay, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
We have thrown a very formal surprise party for you.
In there.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh your friends are in there and your parents now
oh yes.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Oh no, my hairs have never seen me drunk. And
they know of who doesn't love a yellow school bus?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow
school bus?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Right?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Just there's something about.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
And most of us, many of us went to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
School on the yellow school bus.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Right. One of the things, it's amazing how things happened
before our very eyes and unless someone points it out and.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
May not even notice it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
During the last administration, Joe Biden was, by every account
in some state of incapacity. That's not even an insult.
Whether it was some form of dementia, decline, whatever that
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may be. It manifested itself in a behavior that you
could see for yourself. He didn't know where he was,
he didn't know who he was, he didn't know what
he was saying, he didn't know to whom, and yet
he was ostensibly our president. And I can't remember who
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famously said that, if Joe Biden is reading the teleprompter,
then the real president is whoever is loading the teleprompter.
In other words, if Joe Biden is just a front
for the power that's making the decisions, then whoever is
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telling him what to say is the power that's making
the decision. We didn't know that. So we had a
president who you would not allow to drive your child
to school. A couple reasons for that, but we had
a president who, if that was as your child's teacher,
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you'd march into the principal's office and say, move my
kid to another class.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
This guy can't teach anything. He doesn't know where he is.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You wouldn't walk into a hospital where he trained as
a doctor and trust him to cut on you. You
wouldn't trust him to identify the problem with your computer
or your car.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And that was the normal for four years.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It was.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Until they smothered him out because they knew he couldn't
win and they have to retain power. Nobody cared about Biden.
That's the real sad thing about the whole thing. I
know he's not a sympathetic character in this narrative, but
imagine being Joe Biden. You've gone from being the most
ambitious guy, willing to lie, cheat and steal, make up everything,
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plagiarize you name it, go back to the nineteen eighty
eight election.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You're willing to say and do anything.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
To cross scratch yourself off into being the president, and
now that you're there, you don't know where you are,
and the people around you are all using you. Jill's
using you because this is her coming out party, her debutante.
Ball Hunters using you, and he resents how you've used
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him over all those years, and now that he's had
a complete breakdown, he's calling you out for being the
big guy and having to kick up the cash and
all the things that you've done. Your own administration is
hiding from you because you're an embarrassment, and they all
want to survive politically beyond your administration. And you got
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Kamala who wants the decision was made, and I don't
think she got to make the decision. But once the
decision was made to smother him out in the palace coup,
then Kamala began wrangling. And that was led by the
Clintons against the wishes of the Obamas, who if they
didn't want someone else, they weren't ready yet to sign
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off on her, and they were pushed into a situation
where they had to be for it, but clearly they
hadn't been the driving force behind it, which they resented.
There was a lot of drama, So you had a
president who was incapacitated and a vice president who was
their presidential candidate who was drunk all the time. Obviously,
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so you know Donald Trump's never had a drop of alcohol.
Isn't it nice to have a president who can hold
his own in a press conference all day every day
and does and a vice president who knows where he.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Is and can answer question. I mean, just let's count
our blessings for a moment.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I've been reading about something they're calling Maha maxing, which
is living a healthy life. It's making America healthy again.
The effort that Bobby Kennedy Junior is leading. And I
was thinking earlier today what Bobby Kennedy is talking about
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is similar to what Michelle Obama talked about. What we
put into our body matters. So why is his effort
so well received and hers was rejected? And that gets
to the heart of a lot of the differences in
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the way we view challenges in our country and the
solutions we have for them. We no longer agree with
the Democrats on the problems. They don't view a rising
crime or rising crime as a problem. They don't view
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criminals being released on the streets as a problem. They
don't view us being overrun by illegal aliens as a problem.
We used to all agree on the problems. We just
disagreed on the solutions or the priority of each problem
in how quickly and thoroughly it should be solved and
to what level of sacrifice. So this is a real
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tearing at the fabric of our nation. But let's say
on this issue, we agree or did agree that, yes,
childhood obesity was a real problem. Michelle Obama's solution was
to wag her finger in using regulation and bullying and shame,
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depriving people of things that they enjoyed to insist that
they would somehow be quote unquote healthy.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
And that was the school meals.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Remember this, She was going to tell the schools, you know,
through the agg Department, through the contributions of the federal
government to school lunch programs, that you're only going to
eat fruits and vegetables. Okay, Well, first of all, the
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kids resented it because it was a change in their
eating pattern. They resented the food, and they resented the
way she said it for most See if you can
find that clip. Simon Biles has just one gold at
the Olympics, and she's on a panel and Michelle Obama
scolds her, Well, Michelle Obama, you're a fat whatever you are,
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and she's fit as she can be. She was having
a cheap meal. Everybody knows what a cheap meal is.
Even the healthiest people eat a cheap meal. And you know,
this gets to an interesting point. Who are you, Michelle Obama,
to be lecturing people You're not exactly the picture of
fitness yourself. We start there, and it's the last thing
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you ought to be doing. It's telling people they're too fat.
Nobody likes that. Nobody likes that. That's number one.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You know, it's funny because I do intermittent fasting, so
I eat every evening. I typically don't eat before that,
although some days if I'm ravenous, I'll eat at say
three or four instead of six or seven.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
And it's always amazing to me.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Somebody that is, shall we say, not in as good
as shape as I'm in. I'm not the fittest person
in the world, but I'm I'm one point eighty. I
was two forty at one point. I'm I would argue,
in much better physical shape than the type of person
who will make this statement.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Oh, oh, you're eating a burger.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, I'm having a burger today. Well, you're gonna get fat.
People have so little understanding of food our energy source,
and it affects on the human body. How it affects
the human body based on what's in the food, when
you eat it, how often you eat it. But people
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have this idea and this goes back to kind of
a nineteen seventies mentality, I need to lose weight. I'm
going to start jogging and eating celery or We didn't
know much about food back then. We didn't know what
went into our food. We didn't know how to eat,
what to eat, the effects of sleep and water processing
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and all these various things. And so you'll get these
people who, you know, they'll make this statement, you can't
eat a hamburger, you'll be fat, and you know that
guy had three hamburgers earlier.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Today.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
They don't understand that you can have a meal that
is outside your normal meal and that you're not going
to die from it. You're not going to become morbid,
le obese overweight overnight, and in fact, it's a healthy
thing to do. There's a guy named Timothy Ferriss who
wrote a book called The Four Hour workweek, and it
was so popular that he followed it up with a
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book called The Four Hour Body, and he studied the
effects of food on the body and how you eat,
and he put together a plan where you would eat
for six days on a reduced calorie, high protein diet,
and on the seventh day you would eat the maximum
number of calories that you could possibly sustain, so that
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would be donuts and bare claws and pastas and these things.
And his theory was that what you're doing is you're
spiking your blood sugar. Your body is reacting in a
way that says, oh my god, we're under attack. We
have to speed up our metabolism. We have to shoot
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course insulin through our body, this was his theory, and
attack all this food or we'll get fat. And so
your body, because it was under attack, would keep firing.
It's like you know, you're firing from behind the wall,
but you're not looking out. And your body would continue
to do that for six days, and as your metabolism
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slowed back down to normal, you would then on the
seventh day spike it. You don't have to agree. There's
lots of different theories on these sorts of things. The
carnivore diet is We're all welcome to have our own
ideas and whatever works for you. I wish for you
the best. But I really thought hard about what happened,
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and it was interesting because Michelle Obama represented anger control,
a patronizing tone toward the peasants because she knows better
than you. Bobby Kennedy's approach has been, Hey, I'm an
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old guy, I'm in good shape, I'm living a great life.
I look good, I feel good, and I want to
share with you when you eat, even on a budget.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I want you to.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Have options that are that are going to lead to
you being healthy and happy. And it's just amazing how
popular he is and how unpopular she was in solving
the same problem. Remember Scott Welcome Out.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I'm not the biggest.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Gark Brooks fan because I hate his politics, but some
of his music's actually pretty good.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And it was my dad's.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Seventyth or seventy fifth birthday, I don't know, I must
have been seventy, and so we went out to Vegas
and it was the second seventy second birthday I remember
now seventy two.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And my friend Russell Lebarra.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Who has a series of his over twenty Tex Mex
restaurants in the Greater Houston area and he's one of
my best friends. My dad's birthday was coming up and
he'd had some real bad health and he'd just come
out of it, and so we thought we might lose him.
Fourteen years later, he's still alive, but we thought we
might lose him. And Russell said, what are you doing
for you dast birthday? I said, I don't know. I
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hadn't thought about it. I haven't had a chance to
think about it because he'd been in the hospital, hit
and out of the hospital with a bunch of health scares.
He's let's take him to Vegas. Russell loves Vegas. So
Russell charted a plane and I took my dad first
and only time he's ever been on a private plane.
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Took him and my brother and our wives, and we
go out there and Russell and Russell got us tickets
to see the Garth Brooks Show. And I'll tell you
when this was. That show had just started, and so
Garth Brooks had been kind of in retirement and then
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he did that stupid Chris Gaines thing, and then he
was doing a one man show and Steve Wynn basically
wallet whipped him to get him to do the show,
so much so he built him an apartment backstage of
the stage, and which was in and of itself very nice,
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very livable. But Steve Wynn made his personal jet available
to Garth Brooks on a daily basis that he could
do the show and fly back to Oklahoma as soon
as the show was over and then fly back the
next afternoon.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
In many days he did do that. But as part
of the show, he told the story about.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
His greatest musical influences, and it was James Taylor and
Bob Seger. Well, it was Haggard and Jones, he claimed
in George Strait. But I think that was all just
trying to burnish his country music credentials, because his actual
influences were James Taylor and Seeger. But that might make
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it seem like he wasn't sufficiently country, which was already
a knock against him.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
But he told.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
About that song that there was a point in his
life where it hit him what that song was actually about,
what the points were, and he kind of broke it down.
And it was funny because I'd never thought of that.
I'd never realized what that song was about, which now
that it's a young man looking at a woman in
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a behind a glass in the window, and now that
you know it's you're never going to be able to
unknow it again. Los Angeles has a mayor all race
going on right now. There's a fellow named Spencer Pratt.
And one of the limitations of the audio medium's where
we are is occasionally you really need to see something
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for yourself. And I've always said that if you're good,
which Rush was at painting pictures with words, then it
doesn't matter that you don't have the advantage of video.
You just paint the picture. And so I'll just tell you,
when you get home, or when you get a minute,
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go to YouTube or wherever you watch videos, rumble, whatever
that may be, and look up Spencer Pratt, p r Att,
Mayor ad. And the ad is about the people of
Los Angeles and they're in this this kind of a
bad dream movie where the aristocracy are sitting around the
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table and these people are basically saying, you know, the crime,
the crime is so bad? What am I to do?
And the aristocracy just laugh at them, and the king
of the aristocracy or the queen is the mayor, Karen
bass It's a really, really powerful political ad. It's getting
a lot of attention, and it's the most powerful ad
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political ad I've seen in quite some time. Frankly, it
really really makes the point, and I would encourage you
to see it for yourself. The La Times reports that
one man this is not part of that. This is
just another example of how Los Angeles is out control.
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Although these are federal cases, one man has filed eighteen
hundred disability lawsuits against southern California shops and how store
owners are fed up. I don't have the time in
this segment to play both of these clips, so I'll
save them for the next one. But it saddens me
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to see. You know, America at one point had a
number of wonderful big cities, more than any other country
in the world, and any one of which had great
contributions to world cuisine or dance or music, or culture, industry, commerce, transportation, technology,
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and then we allowed for the collapse. And it's very
hard to bring these cities back from collapse because they're
past the brink, they're beyond bring And so the people
who would who would vote for the types of changes
you need to see have fled the cities. Somebody told
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you they live in Houston, they don't. They live in
Katie or sugar Land or Cyprus. Somebody told you they
live in la They don't. Or Chicago or New York
or wherever else. They don't and won't live in those
big cities because the taxes are too high, the crime
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is out of control, the filth, the services have gone
to crap. It was a story and we played it
on the Morning Show today. By the way, if you
don't know, we do a three hour morning show that's
focused more on Texas and Houston than this show is.
But it was about an investigative reporter in Houston named
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Amy Davis, and for years she has been on the dogged,
deep dive review of the City of Houston water department.
I know, not real sexy, but she has found people
that were charged six ten thousand dollars on their water bill.
And the water bill, unlike a lot of other things,
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they shut off your water if you don't pay the bill. See,
had people on fixed incomes, their water bill would be
forty dollars a month and had been for thirty years. Now,
all of a sudden, what the hell's going on. And
now we find out the city could never tell them
what was going on. They had installed the wrong meters.
So these people were put through a living hell. Some
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of them had their water cut off. That in some ways,
that's worse than having your electric cut off. And it's
hot in Houston. They couldn't shower, they couldn't they couldn't
take a bath, they couldn't they couldn't cook, they couldn't
wash anything. It's traumatic, and it was their own city
government that was doing this. And I look at Los Angeles,
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a once great city, and I see what's happening, and
there's there's Karen Bass running for reelection, and I just go,
is this Are we going to allow our country to
be destroyed by idiots.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Like Coolberry Show? Colberry Show.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
He's talking about the Arab One of the three members
of the Dixie Chicks, Emily Robinson, who was his then wife,
that is Charlie Robinson. No end only at the end,
so not Robinson Robinson. It's one of my favorite Texas
country musicians. And for those of you outside of Texas
who are not familiar with the Texas music scene, most
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of the best stuff never makes it national. But it's
really good music, and it's really good songwriting. It's not
pop with a twang, it's storytelling and and a lot
of it is Texas specific, but that's okay. Texas is
a state of mind. And the names I would give you,
and if you can't write them down, just go back
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on the podcast and listen to them that you want
to get started with are Charlie Robinson who I just mentioned,
Robert O'Keane, Cory Morrow, Pat Green, Roger Craigor. These are
some of the guys that make wonderful and there's a
lot more. If you want more, email me, but go
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give those folks a listen. And looking around two thousand,
looking around nineteen ninety five to two thousand and five,
that to me is the heyday of the Texas independent
country music. It's sometimes called Texas Country and red dirt.
And the reason for the red dirt is you have
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a couple of guys out of Oklahoma who made a
big impact, and particularly Cody Canada with the band called
Cross Canadian Ragweed guy named Stony LaRue. But in any case,
some great music, some great regional music that is Texas
music that we we're very proud of And the other
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thing I would encourage you to do is just give
an ear to some zydeco music and I would get
started with something called Zydacajun, which is his own genre.
And a guy named Wayne Toops spelled to Ups, who
is fantastic with an accordion. Just go listen to his
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cover of New Orleans Ladies or Tupelo Honey, or a
song called take My Hand which was written by a
twelve year old kid. Great story behind him anyway. I
love music, I love food, I love film. I like
to share a little here and there. Two things I
want to get in before we get to the break here.
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One man has filed eighteen hundred disability lawsuits against shops.
You know, store owners are constantly under attack. And you
got this guy and he's doing what are called drive
by lawsuits against small businesses. And one guy eleven hundred
and fourteen eighty eight Americans with Disability Act suits against
small businesses he hasn't even visited. He's really really upset
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that he doesn't feel like he can get inside the
business because he's in a wheelchair. But he's never even
visited its abuse. This story goes back to twenty sixteen.
At first glance, this convenience store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
may appear to be in compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act. There's a parking space for the disabled and
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an access ramp to the store. But the Americans with
Disabilities Act has thousands of very technical regulations and this
store is in violation.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
What we see here are really sort of the typical
red flags that attract lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So, I mean, there is a parking space.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
There is a space, it's not the right dimensions. It
needs to be a van space. That means this has
to be eight feet. This has to be five feet.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Attorney Nolan Klein says that disabled parking sign is also
in the wrong spot and it doesn't say the words
van accessible.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
That access ramp isn't right either. What's wrong with it?
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Under the law, this is not an access ramp, so
this has to be on an accessible route, which is
sort of the areas they tried to create here that
this is supposed to be five feet long.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Mike Zayed, who's owned the store for eighteen years, says
no disabled customer had ever complained about the ramp, the sign,
or the parking space. That that didn't stop him from
having to hire attorney Nolan Klein when he got sued.
So the person who seed you don't believe they were
actually a customer in the store.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
No, do you think they just drove by or just
stopped outside.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
That's what I believe. The lawyer he just a driving
got on.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That's why it's called a drive by lawsuit when a
lawyer or a disabled person notices violations outside of business
and file suit.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Mike Zayed doesn't think the person who sued.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Him was a real customer because the man claimed he
encountered barriers inside the store that didn't exist.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
To me, I feel it's not fair because to me,
I feel like that's a stealing. We work hard for
a lot of money on this people just to drive
and ground in their car.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Here you go at this high violation.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Here do you know other store owners?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They have two guys I know in the Broward twice
same lawyers, Sam lawyer, Sam guy. So you're there, you
are a small business owner just trying to make it
and you got people out there suing you. This is
why when when you pass at Americans with Disabilities Act,
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which George H. W.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Bush did, and it's going to help disabled people. Well, actually,
it's not what it did at all.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It gave one more cause of action for people to
terrorize small businesses. And most businesses are on the cusp
of going under at any given time, and you just
added one more way for people to harass them.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Here's the rest of that.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
If you think drive by lawsuits had from the comfort
of a car or a novel way to enforce a law,
there's another kind of lawsuit that requires less work. Lawyers
call them Google lawsuits. What's a Google lawsuit?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
A Google lawsuit is where the suspicion at least is
that the property was spotted on Google, Google Earth, google Maps,
whatever the case may be, and you could see certain
things from Google. You could see if there's a pool
lift or not.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
A poolift is a seat that can help disable people
get in and out of the water. Since twenty twelve,
all hotels and motels in America are required to be
accessible to the disabled, which in most cases means having
a lift permanently attached to the side of their pool.
This is what a poolift looks like from Google Earth.
In the comfort of your own home, with a few
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clicks of a mouse, you can See if a pool
near you has one, and if they don't appear to
have a pool lift like many of these hotel pools
we looked up, you can file a lawsuit just like that.
Perry Pustum runs the Adobe Hacienda Motel in Hollywood, Florida.
He has a poolift now, but says he didn't know
he was required to install one until he got sued.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
And what he suspects was a Google lawsuit or.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Did a disabled person actually come here and want to
use the ball?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
At no point in time we ever had a customer
out of property that requested it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Oh, I was even in a room that requested it.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Turns out the same man who sued him sued dozens
of other motel owners as well, all for poolift violations.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
See it was about sixty something lawsuits and fifty something days.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Sixty lawsuits and fifty sixty plus. Yes, and that's all
from seventies, all from the same attorney, same attorney, using
the same plant.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
At last count, that attorney has sued nearly six hundred
businesses in just the last two years, many for not
having pool lifts. Perry Pustam ended up paying three thousand
dollars to buy a lift that so far, no one
has ever used. He also spent thousands of dollars in
attorney's fees. He told us he believes these lawsuits are
sometimes simply a money making venture for lawyers because under
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federal law, business owners have to pay both sets of
attorney's fees, and if you don't, it can end up
costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars in court.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
It's a game for these hotels. Basically, that's what it is.
It's a tax.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'm doing business and you wonder why small businesses struggle.
Next time you write a Yelp review beating up on
some restaurant or retail shop, stop and think about what
they go through every day to just keep the doors open.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
It ain't easy. Try it. Sometimes it's a gentleman ellis
that's left? Good, thank you, and good night.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Your fellow's been dorm bit of booze, and have you
sucking back on Grandpa's old cough medicine.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Captain Whitaker on the three nights before the accident October eleventh.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
October eleventh, October twelfth, and thirteenth and fourteenth, I was intoxicated.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I drank all of those days. I drank in excess.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
On the morning of the accident, I was drunk.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm drunk now, I'm drunk right now.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
That's some kind of Chinese checkers. Chinese checkers. No, this
is pe knuckle.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'm drunk.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's just stuffy in here, that's all.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I'm drunk.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Don't gonna need food.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Hell, he's three sheets to the wind.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
He's drunk. It's a stop.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Why don't you shut up? Shut up to Dong.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Dong Dong. Grandpa is talking to you. Where is my
autum mobile?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Automobile like.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Big like, are you drunk?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
No, Okay, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
We have thrown a very formal surprise party for you.
In there.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh your friends are in there and your parents now
oh yes.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Oh no, my hairs have never seen me drunk. And
they know of who doesn't love a yellow school bus?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow
school bus?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Right?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Just there's something about.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
And most of us, many of us went to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
School on the yellow school bus.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Right. One of the things, it's amazing how things happened
before our very eyes and unless someone points it out and.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
May not even notice it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
During the last administration, Joe Biden was, by every account
in some state of incapacity. That's not even an insult.
Whether it was some form of dementia, decline, whatever that
(02:55):
may be. It manifested itself in a behavior that you
could see for yourself. He didn't know where he was,
he didn't know who he was, he didn't know what
he was saying, he didn't know to whom, and yet
he was ostensibly our president. And I can't remember who
(03:17):
famously said that, if Joe Biden is reading the teleprompter,
then the real president is whoever is loading the teleprompter.
In other words, if Joe Biden is just a front
for the power that's making the decisions, then whoever is
(03:37):
telling him what to say is the power that's making
the decision. We didn't know that. So we had a
president who you would not allow to drive your child
to school. A couple reasons for that, but we had
a president who, if that was as your child's teacher,
(04:01):
you'd march into the principal's office and say, move my
kid to another class.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
This guy can't teach anything. He doesn't know where he is.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You wouldn't walk into a hospital where he trained as
a doctor and trust him to cut on you. You
wouldn't trust him to identify the problem with your computer
or your car.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And that was the normal for four years.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It was.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Until they smothered him out because they knew he couldn't
win and they have to retain power. Nobody cared about Biden.
That's the real sad thing about the whole thing. I
know he's not a sympathetic character in this narrative, but
imagine being Joe Biden. You've gone from being the most
ambitious guy, willing to lie, cheat and steal, make up everything,
(04:51):
plagiarize you name it, go back to the nineteen eighty
eight election.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You're willing to say and do anything.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
To cross scratch yourself off into being the president, and
now that you're there, you don't know where you are,
and the people around you are all using you. Jill's
using you because this is her coming out party, her debutante.
Ball Hunters using you, and he resents how you've used
(05:20):
him over all those years, and now that he's had
a complete breakdown, he's calling you out for being the
big guy and having to kick up the cash and
all the things that you've done. Your own administration is
hiding from you because you're an embarrassment, and they all
want to survive politically beyond your administration. And you got
(05:42):
Kamala who wants the decision was made, and I don't
think she got to make the decision. But once the
decision was made to smother him out in the palace coup,
then Kamala began wrangling. And that was led by the
Clintons against the wishes of the Obamas, who if they
didn't want someone else, they weren't ready yet to sign
(06:05):
off on her, and they were pushed into a situation
where they had to be for it, but clearly they
hadn't been the driving force behind it, which they resented.
There was a lot of drama, So you had a
president who was incapacitated and a vice president who was
their presidential candidate who was drunk all the time. Obviously,
(06:28):
so you know Donald Trump's never had a drop of alcohol.
Isn't it nice to have a president who can hold
his own in a press conference all day every day
and does and a vice president who knows where he.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Is and can answer question. I mean, just let's count
our blessings for a moment.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I've been reading about something they're calling Maha maxing, which
is living a healthy life. It's making America healthy again.
The effort that Bobby Kennedy Junior is leading. And I
was thinking earlier today what Bobby Kennedy is talking about
(07:18):
is similar to what Michelle Obama talked about. What we
put into our body matters. So why is his effort
so well received and hers was rejected? And that gets
to the heart of a lot of the differences in
(07:41):
the way we view challenges in our country and the
solutions we have for them. We no longer agree with
the Democrats on the problems. They don't view a rising
crime or rising crime as a problem. They don't view
(08:01):
criminals being released on the streets as a problem. They
don't view us being overrun by illegal aliens as a problem.
We used to all agree on the problems. We just
disagreed on the solutions or the priority of each problem
in how quickly and thoroughly it should be solved and
to what level of sacrifice. So this is a real
(08:22):
tearing at the fabric of our nation. But let's say
on this issue, we agree or did agree that, yes,
childhood obesity was a real problem. Michelle Obama's solution was
to wag her finger in using regulation and bullying and shame,
(08:50):
depriving people of things that they enjoyed to insist that
they would somehow be quote unquote healthy.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
And that was the school meals.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Remember this, She was going to tell the schools, you know,
through the agg Department, through the contributions of the federal
government to school lunch programs, that you're only going to
eat fruits and vegetables. Okay, Well, first of all, the
(09:24):
kids resented it because it was a change in their
eating pattern. They resented the food, and they resented the
way she said it for most See if you can
find that clip. Simon Biles has just one gold at
the Olympics, and she's on a panel and Michelle Obama
scolds her, Well, Michelle Obama, you're a fat whatever you are,
(09:51):
and she's fit as she can be. She was having
a cheap meal. Everybody knows what a cheap meal is.
Even the healthiest people eat a cheap meal. And you know,
this gets to an interesting point. Who are you, Michelle Obama,
to be lecturing people You're not exactly the picture of
fitness yourself. We start there, and it's the last thing
(10:14):
you ought to be doing. It's telling people they're too fat.
Nobody likes that. Nobody likes that. That's number one.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You know, it's funny because I do intermittent fasting, so
I eat every evening. I typically don't eat before that,
although some days if I'm ravenous, I'll eat at say
three or four instead of six or seven.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
And it's always amazing to me.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Somebody that is, shall we say, not in as good
as shape as I'm in. I'm not the fittest person
in the world, but I'm I'm one point eighty. I
was two forty at one point. I'm I would argue,
in much better physical shape than the type of person
who will make this statement.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Oh, oh, you're eating a burger.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, I'm having a burger today. Well, you're gonna get fat.
People have so little understanding of food our energy source,
and it affects on the human body. How it affects
the human body based on what's in the food, when
you eat it, how often you eat it. But people
(11:33):
have this idea and this goes back to kind of
a nineteen seventies mentality, I need to lose weight. I'm
going to start jogging and eating celery or We didn't
know much about food back then. We didn't know what
went into our food. We didn't know how to eat,
what to eat, the effects of sleep and water processing
(11:56):
and all these various things. And so you'll get these
people who, you know, they'll make this statement, you can't
eat a hamburger, you'll be fat, and you know that
guy had three hamburgers earlier.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Today.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
They don't understand that you can have a meal that
is outside your normal meal and that you're not going
to die from it. You're not going to become morbid,
le obese overweight overnight, and in fact, it's a healthy
thing to do. There's a guy named Timothy Ferriss who
wrote a book called The Four Hour workweek, and it
was so popular that he followed it up with a
(12:32):
book called The Four Hour Body, and he studied the
effects of food on the body and how you eat,
and he put together a plan where you would eat
for six days on a reduced calorie, high protein diet,
and on the seventh day you would eat the maximum
number of calories that you could possibly sustain, so that
(12:55):
would be donuts and bare claws and pastas and these things.
And his theory was that what you're doing is you're
spiking your blood sugar. Your body is reacting in a
way that says, oh my god, we're under attack. We
have to speed up our metabolism. We have to shoot
(13:17):
course insulin through our body, this was his theory, and
attack all this food or we'll get fat. And so
your body, because it was under attack, would keep firing.
It's like you know, you're firing from behind the wall,
but you're not looking out. And your body would continue
to do that for six days, and as your metabolism
(13:39):
slowed back down to normal, you would then on the
seventh day spike it. You don't have to agree. There's
lots of different theories on these sorts of things. The
carnivore diet is We're all welcome to have our own
ideas and whatever works for you. I wish for you
the best. But I really thought hard about what happened,
(14:00):
and it was interesting because Michelle Obama represented anger control,
a patronizing tone toward the peasants because she knows better
than you. Bobby Kennedy's approach has been, Hey, I'm an
(14:20):
old guy, I'm in good shape, I'm living a great life.
I look good, I feel good, and I want to
share with you when you eat, even on a budget.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I want you to.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Have options that are that are going to lead to
you being healthy and happy. And it's just amazing how
popular he is and how unpopular she was in solving
the same problem. Remember Scott Welcome Out.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I'm not the biggest.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Gark Brooks fan because I hate his politics, but some
of his music's actually pretty good.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
And it was my dad's.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Seventyth or seventy fifth birthday, I don't know, I must
have been seventy, and so we went out to Vegas
and it was the second seventy second birthday I remember
now seventy two.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And my friend Russell Lebarra.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Who has a series of his over twenty Tex Mex
restaurants in the Greater Houston area and he's one of
my best friends. My dad's birthday was coming up and
he'd had some real bad health and he'd just come
out of it, and so we thought we might lose him.
Fourteen years later, he's still alive, but we thought we
might lose him. And Russell said, what are you doing
for you dast birthday? I said, I don't know. I
(15:44):
hadn't thought about it. I haven't had a chance to
think about it because he'd been in the hospital, hit
and out of the hospital with a bunch of health scares.
He's let's take him to Vegas. Russell loves Vegas. So
Russell charted a plane and I took my dad first
and only time he's ever been on a private plane.
(16:04):
Took him and my brother and our wives, and we
go out there and Russell and Russell got us tickets
to see the Garth Brooks Show. And I'll tell you
when this was. That show had just started, and so
Garth Brooks had been kind of in retirement and then
(16:27):
he did that stupid Chris Gaines thing, and then he
was doing a one man show and Steve Wynn basically
wallet whipped him to get him to do the show,
so much so he built him an apartment backstage of
the stage, and which was in and of itself very nice,
(16:48):
very livable. But Steve Wynn made his personal jet available
to Garth Brooks on a daily basis that he could
do the show and fly back to Oklahoma as soon
as the show was over and then fly back the
next afternoon.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
In many days he did do that. But as part
of the show, he told the story about.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
His greatest musical influences, and it was James Taylor and
Bob Seger. Well, it was Haggard and Jones, he claimed
in George Strait. But I think that was all just
trying to burnish his country music credentials, because his actual
influences were James Taylor and Seeger. But that might make
(17:36):
it seem like he wasn't sufficiently country, which was already
a knock against him.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
But he told.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
About that song that there was a point in his
life where it hit him what that song was actually about,
what the points were, and he kind of broke it down.
And it was funny because I'd never thought of that.
I'd never realized what that song was about, which now
that it's a young man looking at a woman in
(18:05):
a behind a glass in the window, and now that
you know it's you're never going to be able to
unknow it again. Los Angeles has a mayor all race
going on right now. There's a fellow named Spencer Pratt.
And one of the limitations of the audio medium's where
we are is occasionally you really need to see something
(18:29):
for yourself. And I've always said that if you're good,
which Rush was at painting pictures with words, then it
doesn't matter that you don't have the advantage of video.
You just paint the picture. And so I'll just tell you,
when you get home, or when you get a minute,
(18:51):
go to YouTube or wherever you watch videos, rumble, whatever
that may be, and look up Spencer Pratt, p r Att,
Mayor ad. And the ad is about the people of
Los Angeles and they're in this this kind of a
bad dream movie where the aristocracy are sitting around the
(19:15):
table and these people are basically saying, you know, the crime,
the crime is so bad? What am I to do?
And the aristocracy just laugh at them, and the king
of the aristocracy or the queen is the mayor, Karen
bass It's a really, really powerful political ad. It's getting
a lot of attention, and it's the most powerful ad
(19:38):
political ad I've seen in quite some time. Frankly, it
really really makes the point, and I would encourage you
to see it for yourself. The La Times reports that
one man this is not part of that. This is
just another example of how Los Angeles is out control.
(20:00):
Although these are federal cases, one man has filed eighteen
hundred disability lawsuits against southern California shops and how store
owners are fed up. I don't have the time in
this segment to play both of these clips, so I'll
save them for the next one. But it saddens me
(20:22):
to see. You know, America at one point had a
number of wonderful big cities, more than any other country
in the world, and any one of which had great
contributions to world cuisine or dance or music, or culture, industry, commerce, transportation, technology,
(20:49):
and then we allowed for the collapse. And it's very
hard to bring these cities back from collapse because they're
past the brink, they're beyond bring And so the people
who would who would vote for the types of changes
you need to see have fled the cities. Somebody told
(21:11):
you they live in Houston, they don't. They live in
Katie or sugar Land or Cyprus. Somebody told you they
live in la They don't. Or Chicago or New York
or wherever else. They don't and won't live in those
big cities because the taxes are too high, the crime
(21:34):
is out of control, the filth, the services have gone
to crap. It was a story and we played it
on the Morning Show today. By the way, if you
don't know, we do a three hour morning show that's
focused more on Texas and Houston than this show is.
But it was about an investigative reporter in Houston named
(21:57):
Amy Davis, and for years she has been on the dogged,
deep dive review of the City of Houston water department.
I know, not real sexy, but she has found people
that were charged six ten thousand dollars on their water bill.
And the water bill, unlike a lot of other things,
(22:17):
they shut off your water if you don't pay the bill. See,
had people on fixed incomes, their water bill would be
forty dollars a month and had been for thirty years. Now,
all of a sudden, what the hell's going on. And
now we find out the city could never tell them
what was going on. They had installed the wrong meters.
So these people were put through a living hell. Some
(22:37):
of them had their water cut off. That in some ways,
that's worse than having your electric cut off. And it's
hot in Houston. They couldn't shower, they couldn't they couldn't
take a bath, they couldn't they couldn't cook, they couldn't
wash anything. It's traumatic, and it was their own city
government that was doing this. And I look at Los Angeles,
(22:59):
a once great city, and I see what's happening, and
there's there's Karen Bass running for reelection, and I just go,
is this Are we going to allow our country to
be destroyed by idiots.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Like Coolberry Show? Colberry Show.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
He's talking about the Arab One of the three members
of the Dixie Chicks, Emily Robinson, who was his then wife,
that is Charlie Robinson. No end only at the end,
so not Robinson Robinson. It's one of my favorite Texas
country musicians. And for those of you outside of Texas
who are not familiar with the Texas music scene, most
(23:42):
of the best stuff never makes it national. But it's
really good music, and it's really good songwriting. It's not
pop with a twang, it's storytelling and and a lot
of it is Texas specific, but that's okay. Texas is
a state of mind. And the names I would give you,
and if you can't write them down, just go back
(24:03):
on the podcast and listen to them that you want
to get started with are Charlie Robinson who I just mentioned,
Robert O'Keane, Cory Morrow, Pat Green, Roger Craigor. These are
some of the guys that make wonderful and there's a
lot more. If you want more, email me, but go
(24:24):
give those folks a listen. And looking around two thousand,
looking around nineteen ninety five to two thousand and five,
that to me is the heyday of the Texas independent
country music. It's sometimes called Texas Country and red dirt.
And the reason for the red dirt is you have
(24:45):
a couple of guys out of Oklahoma who made a
big impact, and particularly Cody Canada with the band called
Cross Canadian Ragweed guy named Stony LaRue. But in any case,
some great music, some great regional music that is Texas
music that we we're very proud of And the other
(25:07):
thing I would encourage you to do is just give
an ear to some zydeco music and I would get
started with something called Zydacajun, which is his own genre.
And a guy named Wayne Toops spelled to Ups, who
is fantastic with an accordion. Just go listen to his
(25:28):
cover of New Orleans Ladies or Tupelo Honey, or a
song called take My Hand which was written by a
twelve year old kid. Great story behind him anyway. I
love music, I love food, I love film. I like
to share a little here and there. Two things I
want to get in before we get to the break here.
(25:50):
One man has filed eighteen hundred disability lawsuits against shops.
You know, store owners are constantly under attack. And you
got this guy and he's doing what are called drive
by lawsuits against small businesses. And one guy eleven hundred
and fourteen eighty eight Americans with Disability Act suits against
small businesses he hasn't even visited. He's really really upset
(26:12):
that he doesn't feel like he can get inside the
business because he's in a wheelchair. But he's never even
visited its abuse. This story goes back to twenty sixteen.
At first glance, this convenience store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
may appear to be in compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act. There's a parking space for the disabled and
(26:33):
an access ramp to the store. But the Americans with
Disabilities Act has thousands of very technical regulations and this
store is in violation.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
What we see here are really sort of the typical
red flags that attract lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So, I mean, there is a parking space.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
There is a space, it's not the right dimensions. It
needs to be a van space. That means this has
to be eight feet. This has to be five feet.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Attorney Nolan Klein says that disabled parking sign is also
in the wrong spot and it doesn't say the words
van accessible.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
That access ramp isn't right either. What's wrong with it?
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Under the law, this is not an access ramp, so
this has to be on an accessible route, which is
sort of the areas they tried to create here that
this is supposed to be five feet long.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Mike Zayed, who's owned the store for eighteen years, says
no disabled customer had ever complained about the ramp, the sign,
or the parking space. That that didn't stop him from
having to hire attorney Nolan Klein when he got sued.
So the person who seed you don't believe they were
actually a customer in the store.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
No, do you think they just drove by or just
stopped outside.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
That's what I believe. The lawyer he just a driving
got on.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That's why it's called a drive by lawsuit when a
lawyer or a disabled person notices violations outside of business
and file suit.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Mike Zayed doesn't think the person who sued.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Him was a real customer because the man claimed he
encountered barriers inside the store that didn't exist.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
To me, I feel it's not fair because to me,
I feel like that's a stealing. We work hard for
a lot of money on this people just to drive
and ground in their car.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Here you go at this high violation.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Here do you know other store owners?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They have two guys I know in the Broward twice
same lawyers, Sam lawyer, Sam guy. So you're there, you
are a small business owner just trying to make it
and you got people out there suing you. This is
why when when you pass at Americans with Disabilities Act,
(28:29):
which George H. W.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Bush did, and it's going to help disabled people. Well, actually,
it's not what it did at all.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It gave one more cause of action for people to
terrorize small businesses. And most businesses are on the cusp
of going under at any given time, and you just
added one more way for people to harass them.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Here's the rest of that.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
If you think drive by lawsuits had from the comfort
of a car or a novel way to enforce a law,
there's another kind of lawsuit that requires less work. Lawyers
call them Google lawsuits. What's a Google lawsuit?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
A Google lawsuit is where the suspicion at least is
that the property was spotted on Google, Google Earth, google Maps,
whatever the case may be, and you could see certain
things from Google. You could see if there's a pool
lift or not.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
A poolift is a seat that can help disable people
get in and out of the water. Since twenty twelve,
all hotels and motels in America are required to be
accessible to the disabled, which in most cases means having
a lift permanently attached to the side of their pool.
This is what a poolift looks like from Google Earth.
In the comfort of your own home, with a few
(29:40):
clicks of a mouse, you can See if a pool
near you has one, and if they don't appear to
have a pool lift like many of these hotel pools
we looked up, you can file a lawsuit just like that.
Perry Pustum runs the Adobe Hacienda Motel in Hollywood, Florida.
He has a poolift now, but says he didn't know
he was required to install one until he got sued.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
And what he suspects was a Google lawsuit or.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Did a disabled person actually come here and want to
use the ball?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
At no point in time we ever had a customer
out of property that requested it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Oh, I was even in a room that requested it.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Turns out the same man who sued him sued dozens
of other motel owners as well, all for poolift violations.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
See it was about sixty something lawsuits and fifty something days.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Sixty lawsuits and fifty sixty plus. Yes, and that's all
from seventies, all from the same attorney, same attorney, using
the same plant.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
At last count, that attorney has sued nearly six hundred
businesses in just the last two years, many for not
having pool lifts. Perry Pustam ended up paying three thousand
dollars to buy a lift that so far, no one
has ever used. He also spent thousands of dollars in
attorney's fees. He told us he believes these lawsuits are
sometimes simply a money making venture for lawyers because under
(30:55):
federal law, business owners have to pay both sets of
attorney's fees, and if you don't, it can end up
costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars in court.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
It's a game for these hotels. Basically, that's what it is.
It's a tax.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'm doing business and you wonder why small businesses struggle.
Next time you write a Yelp review beating up on
some restaurant or retail shop, stop and think about what
they go through every day to just keep the doors open.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
It ain't easy. Try it. Sometimes it's a gentleman ellis
that's left? Good, thank you, and good night.
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