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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air. That Representative Brian

(00:28):
Harrison as our guest. He has been. You know, the
reason you've got to have a Ted Cruise in the Senate,
the reason you've got to have a Matt Gates or
a Marjorie Taylor Green. They don't like to let them
have a leadership position because it shames everyone else for
what they're up to. The reason you have to have

(00:50):
somebody like this Tom Ramsey on Harris County Commission's Court,
even if you only have one, they have access and
they can blow the thing open because reporters don't know
what's happening behind the scenes. Journalists can't in many cases
don't want to do that, but especially now in the
democratized era of the citizen journalist, Brian Harrison with a

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Twitter feed can post off and now we all know
what's going on in a way that Dustin Burroughs and
the Rhinos don't want you to know what the Democrats
are up to. And we're going to talk about property
tax relief, which I think is the biggest issue we
should be addressing, and nothing will be done, I assure
you that. But first, Brian Harrison, I read it. For

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six years, you were a laboratedoodle breeder. How in the
world does that happen?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, that's an interesting story. Yes, my wife fell in
love with these cute little Australian multi generation labradoodles and
we kind of made a deal. They're crazy expensive. We said, well,
what if we get two of them and as a
hobby we start breeding them, And so she she talked
me into doing that and it was a hobby that

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we kind of fell in love with for a couple
of years. We did it while we were both working,
so it was not like that was what I did
for for six years. We did that as a side
She worked, she works in oil and gas. I had
other jobs.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
How much does one?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
And then it was a real blessing because my wife.
But one point I want to make about this, It
was a real blessing that we had that little hobby
business because my wife was diagnosed with cancer just a
few weeks after her dad died from cancer. So it
was a real blessing that we had that hobby as
a business to get us by for a couple of
years while I was able to stay home with her
when she was she was pregnant, had cancer and so
I was able to stay home with her and the kids.
So that business was a real blessing to my family.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
We did, we did. So what is one of them
sell for?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, it's been a few years since I sold that business.
But they're going for I mean, they're not They're not
super cheap. I think you're I think you're around three
thousand dollars for one of those puppies.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
And how many in an average litter.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
You could have anything from one to thirteen and.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
How many and okay, so how many? How many dogs
could you sell in the year the business has gone?
These are all public, it's all public information.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Brian, Well, I don't know. I don't remember the numbers, Michael,
but you can sell several. I mean, we were I
will say this, we were. We were blessed with this
little hobby business and it did generate income for us
while we had it.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
So here's what I don't understand. You know, I'm fascinated
by I have a German shepherd lover to death. She's fantastic.
Her name is George. And and I grew up with dogs.
I love dogs, and and and people's attach attachment to
dogs can be incredible. I've seen the veterans at Camp
Hope who come back with PTSD and what dogs can

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do for them. But it's always interesting to me that
there'll be some dog that'll just pop up out of
nowhere and nobody's heard of, and then it's the most
popular thing in the world. I never understood how that
how that has spread. I think it's suburban white women
that they're like, I'm getting and then it just spreads.
How what is it about the labradoodle that people love
so much?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, people will first of all, they're really intelligent dogs.
You got on that poodle and they're really have very
pleasant dispositions, high intelligence. And then a lot of people
think because they don't shed a lot like how the
dogs do, that there's less allergy issues with them. So
that was what attracted a lot of folks that came
to us. And we had folks I'm not joking come

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to us my wife and I from all over not
just Texas, but the country and the world because we
ran a very small, highly reputable, very ethical boutique breeding business,
and so people from all over the country in the
world would come to us. People had special needs they
wanted like an emotional support dog, or they had a
child with allergies. So it was a real joy to
get to improve the lives of people. And I've have

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been blessed, as we've talked about, Michael, I've had blessed
to serve in government at lots of levels and at
the highest levels, you know, from school boards to the
Oval office with President Trump. But I was really proud
and maybe one of the highlights of my career was
being able to make money in the private sector with
my family, voluntarily having people voluntarily give give us money
change for something that improved the lives of them and

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of their family.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Is it true that when it was the breeding season,
in order to encourage them, you would put Verry White on.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
It wasn't just very white little Kenny g oh.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Litt Kenny g this.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, all right, so let me ask you.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
This, Kate. Depending on the day, all I hear.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
About, I mean, the number one thing I hear about
is people you don't own your home in the state
of taxes, You could pay off your home and you're
still paying property taxes keep going up and up and up.
People are demanding that Republicans while we're in charge eighty
eight out of one hundred and fifty. And I'm hearing
you say nothing's going to be done, and yet they're
claiming that they're lowering our property taxes. Well, I'm looking

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at the two checks and the check is bigger. So
what is the truth and what is happening?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, let me tell you what. You hit the nail
on the head, Michael. If you're a textan out there
right now and you've got a mortgage or you paid
off your mortgage, either way, he probably have called yourself
a homeowner. But I got I've got some really, really
devastating news for you. If you're listening to this right now,
you may call yourself a homeowner in the state of Texas,
but you try not paying that bill at the end
of the year, and you're going to find out real

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fast who owns your home? Okay, And it ain't you,
all right, everybody in the state of Texas, whether you
pay your morty's off or not, here's the facts. You
are just a renter and the government is your landlord.
And I'm sorry. Never ending property taxes. I can talk
about the finances of them, and I do a lot
of that, and we should talk about that in the taxes.

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But this isn't just a financial issue to me. This
is an ethical issue, and it's a moral issue. And
it makes a mockery out of the notion of private
property rights because no Texan in the freedom loving state
of Texas can ever own their home or their property.
And I've got people in my office on my phone,
in my email every day, Michael in tears, fearful they're
going to lose a home or property that's been in

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their houses, sometimes paid off for for generations. It's probably
the most untexting thing we do down here. And I'm
bent on eliminating these property taxes. And until then, we
at least got to make some damage and get them
down and do some common sense things like I've been
advocating we should we should make it illegal to raise
property taxes unless the voters approve them in an election.

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And I've been harping on that for the three years
i've been down here. At least stop the increases. But
we can't even do that.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, you know very well, Uh, you've been there long
enough now, which is not very long, but you've been
around this process to know that what's going to happen
is that all these Republicans who voted for Burroughs, the
Democrat choice, Mono Dialla, Sam Harless, Lacey Hull, Will Metcalf,
all of them, they're going to come in at the
end of the session and they're going to say they're
going to come back and speak to their local associations,

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and they're go man him, dad gum. Democrats say, hell
didn't we We just run out of time. But your
point is you were the Democrats sabotaged this this session
and you let them do it. You did it at
their direction is intentionally run out of time. So don't
take up any bills until the right go ahead.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know you're you're exactly right. So many of the
Rhinos they're going to try and blame the Democrats, but
let's be honest. There ain't enough Democrats in Austin to
pass a birthday resolution unless Republicans help them. Okay, the
Democrats only have power because these Rhinos voted to give
it to them.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
And so I just with me for just a moment.
I want to talk about what happened in Harris County.
I want to talk about this. Bennie Swallow bill that
frist cocaine filed district. Brian Harrison's our guesting.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
You are listening to Michael Barry Show, and you're running
down my countryman.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
You walk in on fight inside.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'd be.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
State Representative Brian Harrison as our guest. He has been
calling out what the Republicans are doing as a Republican
himself in the House, which is taking vacations but no actions,
and the session will be over and it'll be two
more years before they meet again. All this time spent
campaigning and telling you all the great things they're going

(09:03):
to do, and then they do nothing. With an eighty
eight vote majority, eighty eight out of one hundred and
fifty state reps are Republicans, and yet the Democrats are
running the House. Brian Harrison, you tweeted quote exposed House
leadership quote unquote plans to keep almost all of the
surplus instead of using it to eliminate property taxes. I'm

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very frustrated with property taxes, and I think we're going
to see we're reaching the critical mass where people say,
I don't want to live here, I don't want to
be part of this, and Republicans know it and refuse
to fix it.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Why is that, Well, because it's a lot easier to
talk about fixing it than to fix it, Michael. And
because what Austin, Texas as bad as Washington is, and
by the I've worked in both swamps, it may be
worse in Austin. They are the government officials down here,
both parties. They are addicted to your money. If you're
in the car driving to work or doing your job

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right now, trying to earn a living, the people that
supposedly represents you, they are completely addicted to you sending
their money down your money down here so they can
waste it on their buddies, getting their buddies rich, and
so they can have lobbyist send them on junkets to
get two thousand dollars dinners every night. And they give
you one example. They literally want and by the way,
this is true in both the House and the Senate.

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I'm embarrassed to say this. They want to keep property
taxes five hundred million dollars higher than they've got to
be so that they can give tax breaks to liberal Hollywood. Michael.
I don't know a single Texan that supports that, but
that is what's going on down here. And So we've
got a twenty four billion dollar surplus, and I'm on
the House Appropriations Committee, and it took me a long time,

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but I was finally able to get the budget staff
that works for Speaker Borroughs to confess, almost under duress
that even though we got a twenty four billion dollar
surplus and they're bragging that they're going to get six
billion of it back in property taxes, well I was
able to expend. First of all, six is embarrassed small,
that's pathetic. But the real number of the twenty four

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billion dollar surplus three point five.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Michael.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
People aren't even going to see their property taxes go
down if we pass this thing. It's it's a farce.
And I've got to expose this corruption because the only
reason we have a surplus. Folks got to remember this,
and here's talking about a surplus. A surplus just means
the government took more of your money than we needed
to run government. It's a pile of your money twenty
four billion dollars high, and as far as I'm concerned,

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we need to return that to Texas taxpayers and every
single penny of it.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's frustrating because we know that we're paying more. We
know that these are the salad days, so we know
there's a huge budget surplus. If they don't give it back,
what happens is eventually, if the Democrats are in power,
that becomes the baseline, and that becomes the new normal,
and we just can't keep paying. When you look at

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the big, big elephants in the room, the sacred cows
that can be slashed. Because at some point we've got
to talk about spending cuts at the state. What are
the big areas that we could do that.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, let me throw some math out shehan. I'll try
to make this as simple as I can, because I
don't want to be one of these There are some
fortunes of some people that just complain without solutions. Well,
let's talk. I want big property tax real life. Hell,
I want to eliminate property taxes and for contact, for context,
the folks down here right now are talking about around
three billion dollars of a property tax relief package. To me,
that's a joke. That's embarrassing. It's not bold. I want

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to be bold. We've got a twenty four billion dollar surplus.
That's the lowest of the low hanging fruit. We should
be starting at twenty four billion. Next, I want to
cut and undo this obscene tax abatements that we passed
last session to give tax breaks to ul truck rich,
billion dollar multinational woke companies to relocate in taxes. We're

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going to give them property tax breaks. Now I canna
pay any property taxes. Meanwhile, the Mond pause shot down
the street that's been serving the community for thirty years.
They're paying full that's right, that's in more. We couldn't
end that. We can easily save ten more billion dollars.
Let's keep going. All of all public universities they'll be
talked about that are using tax payer dollars to promote
DEI and liberal gender ideology. If you're doing that and

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you're sitting on top of a billion, you know, forty
billion dollar endowment, as far as I'm concerned, you don't
need any more tax money either. So we need to
take that. And that's about thirty billion dollars we spend
on higher edge. Let's just say half of that. That's
fifteen plus ten, that's twenty five plus another twenty four.
That's almost fifty billion dollars that if I was running

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the state and could wave a want I could give
fifty billion dollars without breaking a sweat back to the
hard working, over taxed men and women of the great
state of Texas. That's the kind of bold leadership I
think they voted for. But you said, of Democrats run
the joint, they're going to spend so much in count
that in the baseline, Michael, we got to start being honest.
Republicans control every lever of power in Austin, and Republicans

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for years down here have been spending money, growing government,
increasing spending, increasing taxes at rates that would make DC
Democrats blush.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
And I've had it, and yet we don't really have
We've got bills coming out of the Senate. Okay, let's
take for instance, last week State Senator Joan Huffman. She's
passed it out three times. And here we are again,
a Bell reform bill that in Harris County especially, you
got bad guys. We got a case today they're back

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out on the streets before they're they're sufficiently processed with
a zero bond, a personal recognizance bond, and they're back
out on the street on their good word. They've just
committed murder, and we can't do anything about it because
Senator Hufman passes it through the Senate. Dan Patrick gets
it through the Senate and it dies on the House
floor because they're worried about impeaching Paxton. I don't see

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that changing.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Now. And in fact, just in the in the break,
I was talking to Ramon, your producer here. While the
Texas Senate has passed in the last few days, by
the way, the way, this proves the point that the
Constitution doesn't let us work because the Senate has already
passed a school choice bill. They've passed a property tax bill.
It needs to be bigger, but they passed one. And
I think today they're going to pass a bail bond
to keep text our streets safer. In the Texas House,

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We're going to gavel in in thirty three minutes, and uh,
what are we going to do today? You know? I
think we're gonna pass maybe some birthday resolutions. Uh, if
they're feeling really ambitious, I mean, we may honor if you. Yeah,
I think some folks have had some anniversaries. We may,
we may, we may congratulate some folks on some anniversaries.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Well, you only the other year every two years for
one hundred and fifty days, so you know all those
things have built up.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
You've got to prioritize those birthday resolutions and honor in
fake country singers like Beyonce. That's what the only thing to.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Text Brian Harrison, Thank you, sir, State Representative Brian Harrison,
appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Michael God bless y'all.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Allow me to introduce Fike.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
My name is mitter Michael Berry genius.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
If you remembered this as the theme song to the
show that aired from eighty five to eighty nine that
is credited with relaunching Sybil Shepherd's career and really kind
of launching Bruce Willis. And the show, of course was
Moonlighting Sherry wander name. I got an email from Jennifer says,

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z are you asked us to remind you to discuss
Huffman Superintendent Benny Swallow. Here's your reminder. Please keep my
full name anonymous. It may be off topic from what
you intended to discuss, but was curious about how the
board members could get him out without having to pay
out his ridiculous contract. I understand he's about three years

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into his four year contract. It would obviously depend on
what is in his contract, but hopefully they can gather
some evidence that he has violated his contract and get
him out without paying him.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Further.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Time will tell. So here is the problem. And you
see this in every aspect of typically only public officials.
So you think of Jimbo at Texas A and M.

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The payout for Jimbo as their football coach when they
blew him out, if I remember correctly, it was something
like seventy million dollars seventy plus and as a result,
and this is just what insiders tell me. I don't
know this to be true. I'm not a Texas A

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and M insider. I read the stories, and I talk
to people on the board, big donors, and and and
I think those people kind of are that they're not
only the insider, they're as much a newsmaker as the
university per se itself because they have a lot of
influence on They got to write the checks. But you
take the case of Texas A and M losing their

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baseball coach at the end of this last season, Sasnagel,
and he took A and M to the championship game.
It's a hell of a hell of a run. There
was a kid, remember that kid from Katie had the
great French name like La Follette or Lavaller or La
Vallier or what memory had a great name, big old

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white kid and strapping kid look at played middle linebacker,
just a little bit leaner, and I believe he was
a lefty and he just whatever he felt like it,
just stepped up and cranked Homers. That was a fun run.
It was, It was. It was uncanny how this happened.
But I decided to start watching the Call World series.

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I am unashamed to say, Folks, before I got to
law school in nineteen ninety three, I didn't I didn't
own cassettes or CDs. CDs were big at the time,
and I was shocked when I got there that everybody
would say, hey, come check out my CD collection, and
you'd go to their apartment and they'd have a they

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just have CDs, you know, stacked and organized time. And
then I had a little efficiency apartment. I mean we
were a young married couple paying for two law schools,
and I had my little efficiency apartment. And I was
the manager of the apartment complex. To get to be
assistant manager, to get to be to get free rent,

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and so my job was. I had to receive all
the checks and mark them has paid, and I had
to clean the pool. Those were my tasks, all right.
The beauty of the job of cleaning the pool is
you have to study all the time. That's what law
school is. You go to class and used to and
you really do. There's no goofing like you do or
you don't. You're not going to make it otherwise. And

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so I could take a study break at eleven o'clock
at night. You know, I had the key to get
in the gate going there, and that'd be my study break.
Clean the pool next day, same deal. But we would
go to people's apartments. You'll be eight of us or
so and they go in there. And I remember I
didn't drink, so I was shocked how much people drank. Wow,
this is crazy. And the other thing I was shocked

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by is everybody had a music collection and I didn't.
But anyway, they you know that. People would say, you know,
what's your favorite what's your favorite Eagles album? And I'd go,
you know, the greatest hits and real music people look
at you like, the greatest hits? Are you kidding me?

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That's you know, beneath you to do that. You can't
can't have the greatest hits. That's just that's not done well.
I don't mind telling you that that. I would rather
have that amount of knowledge and move on. Same thing.
You know, real fans will tell you. Like with basketball,

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I don't watch I don't really watch much basketball anymore,
but I used to. If nothing else, I'd pick up
at the playoffs and that's a good time. So last year,
for whatever reason, I pick up watching the College World Series.
In first game I sit down for no good reason
to watch is the Aggies. And it was a fun
team and there were a lot of kids from Houston,
which made me, you know, connected with them a little more.

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And I watched their run and it was a magical
run all the way to the final, and they could
have won it all. It was an incredible They were
up against the Juggernaut, and I don't think that team
was so much better than them, although that team was phenomenal.
But the Aggies lost their coach, Schlosnagel, and I don't
think he handled it well. You know, he should have.

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He should have allowed a couple of days to let
the dust settle and let the boys enjoy their victory.
But basically, you know, on the day of the championship,
there was the distraction of the news leaks that Schloasnagel
is going to join his buddy del Conti in Austin,
and everybody knew that they are thickest thieves, and del
Conti is going to spend whatever it takes to get

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Schlasnagel to Austin because we got to get back to
the Augie Garito days and we got to win baseball game.
We got to win championships, and Schlasnagel can do that.
But the undercurrent that I heard from from a number
of Aggies was the reason they were able to do
that was that Schlaschnagel was I like saying Schlosnagel makes

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me feel like I'm traveling in Germany or something. Is
that he was right for the pickings because they had
promised him a new baseball stadium, first class, national quality
baseball stadium for a coach, you know, befitting you know
what he does, and they didn't have the money for
it anymore. Because finding seventy plus million when you still
have to replace him with another coach, right is you

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got to find something to cut. And so that's where
the Michael Planks and Beaver Applins, and I mean neither
one of those talk to me about this, So I
don't mean to just suggest that they did. But that's
where the big boys that give the busby, that give
the big money they go. Where are we coming up
with this? Well, we'll cut baseball. College baseball is never
as popular in Texas anyway as college football is. So

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we got to pay Jimbo off and we got to
bring in a new well. The problem with that is
you get these boards of regents, you get these these
boards of public You pay people too damn much. Why
is Bitty Swallow? Why is he in a contract that
is so rich? What is he the greatest superintendent ever?

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Little Betty Huffman was going to be the greatest district ever.
And then you get a situation where they don't perform
and you want to get rid of them, and you're
paying taxpayer dollars at A and M. I'm using that
example because I think A and M wanted to win
so badly that they got crazy with Jimbo and the
thought they want a national champ. You can't you can't,

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you can't be mad at the at the alumni for
wanting a championship. I mean, I admire that, and they
were going to spend anything, and they did, and that
makes this even more for us, Like this the Michael
Berry show shop.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Tone indicates everything is ready for your call.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Was that little little before your time? That was where
I'm fifty four, so folks my age will remember, boys
my age will remember. That was where we first started
kind of realizing. You because this comes out in seventy nine,
that was where we first started realizing, you know, maybe

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girls aren't so bad, do you know?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean, yeah, you don't want to draft them on
your basketball team, right, you don't want them sitting near
you at lunch or anything. But there's something about them
that I don't know what I like, but I like.
I think this was probably the first time because those

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girls were a few years older than us, and you
didn't you didn't have you didn't have girls who were
attractive on TV at that when you're nine years old
that you thought, ah, you know, there were women. It
wasn't the same thing. They weren't girls, but they had

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you know, it was did you know that was a
spin off of different strokes? Yeah, So what happened. The
woman's name was Charlotte Ray. Charlotte Ray was the housekeeper
for the Drummonds on different strokes, and so that she

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becomes the headmistress at a at a dormitory at a
at a private school, which of course means the girls
were all wearing their school girl outfits. And you're nine
years old, and you know, I'm at a poor public school.
We didn't know how cute the you know, little girls
could be. So you're nine years old looking at it.
And I don't know how old those girls were at

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that time, but my guess is that they're always like
Ralph Machio in Karate Kid. You find out he's fifty
eight years old and he's playing you know he's seventeen.
But anyway, that show was mindy con Lisa Winschel and

(27:02):
Kim Fields were the thren. They were more than that.
But anyway, Lisa Fields was I mean, Kim Fields was
two d all right back to the point I got
all the Aggi's riled up, and my last thought, what happened?
It's damn sure what happened? Michael?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
How about right?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, how about this? You're paying the man off. He's
not your coach anymore, and your choice of who to
replace him with was, let's be honest, limited to somebody
who would take as part of his compensation the glory

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and glamour of getting to be the aggie coach because
you weren't able to wallet whip somebody to come to
Texas A and m I can't if you just want
to be that homewer. It's like you don't ever say
anything about an image by Ed Michael. We can't have
a conversation. I mean, you're welcome, but just go outside
and say that. Don't email me. You make a fool
of yourself. There's no doubt that that the Jimbo experiment

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was a bust. That we can argue over whether it
was a good idea at the time, We can argue
over any any number of things, but nobody is going
to tell you it was a win. And people, well, yeah,
but you have to understand No, I don't have to
understand anything. I'm it's there's wins and losses. It was

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a loss. But the problem is it wasn't a loss
that you move on down the road. It's a loss
that is going to cost you. It's a it's a
lene Bias dying of a cocaine overdose before he ever
plays for the Celtics, and your top draft pick, you're

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rebuilding the team after the Bird McHale era, and your
your generational star, your your next Michael Jordan collapses and
you don't get to replace him. It's that big, it's
that kind of it's going to hurt for a long
time bad and the reason was out of an exuberance. Listen,

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I hear people criticize the UT and Aggie alumni the
big donors all the time. I hear this constantly, and
I will say this, shame on you, because the reason
those teams have all the glitz and glamour that they
have is because those donors are willing to put the

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money in. If LSU had the donor money that UT
or even A and M has, then it would be
a different story nowhere around that. It would be an
absolutely different story. They would be contending in the modern era.

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It's the other reason I get aggravated with people who
tell me this inil it's terrible. We have to go
back to the way things are. Wait a second, and
they're always an Aggie or ut Or alumnus. Okay, please
if you want to say something more stupid, tell me
how good dirt tastes or how pretty Nancy Pelosi is,

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because you're in that realm. Do you understand, and I
said this two years ago, do you understand that five
years into NIL, Texas A and M and University of
Texas will be top ten teams every year from here
to eternity? Do you understand that? And do you understand

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that NIL will be the reason for that? Do you
understand that there are universities who will slowly but surely
move back into the ten to twenty five category that
were top ten because they simply cannot keep up with
the money game. Nilio was good for the kids, don't

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tell me it's not. And it was good for the
schools with a very active alumni base. And and nobody
wants to hear this, but Auburn in Alabama are two
of the schools that are going to suffer because they
don't have the breadth or depth of donor base that

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A and M and U t do. And it's not
gonna be overnight. You're gonna have some You're gonna have
some some some fits and starts. But Texas A and
M and U t are going to bring in the
best athletes, and and look that. Guys that have been
around the game will tell you it's not Actus and O's,
it's Jimmy's and Joe's. And that's even more true today.

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You bring in the best kids and you've got a
pretty good coach. I take a pretty good coach with
by far the best athletes in the country, then a
great coach and mid tier athletes. You know, Mike Leach
could win here and he could win there, but he
couldn't win championships. And I think he was a phenomenal coach.
Didn't care much for defense. I think this was the

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best year of college football I've washed in ten years,
and last year was as well. And people repeat because
they've heard this on sports radio and they heard, hell,
we got to get rid of that hortal Why because
kids they play for one team and they come to
the next one. So how about all these kids that
were on your team this year that you really liked
to playing. I was so glad he was here. It
makes the game more entertaining. Why do you want a kid,

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a great quarterback second string at a school who can't
get to play? How would you like it if arch
was still sitting on the bench while when yours for
some inexplicable reason, it's still quarterback in next year, and
you're going, we got a great quarterback. He should leave
if they're not going to play him. You would leave
if your company didn't give you opportunities. Why wouldn't you
want that for other kids. Well, that's the way it

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used to be, and that's what I heard other people say.