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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Jay, I want
you to say what you put made him? Brother? Hey,
I got bomb.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Somebody live here saying, yeah, show you the money, not
so you so me.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And the money.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Show me the.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Money, Yeah, just get show me the money.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Probably Show me the money.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Show me the money.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Tell you boy, yeah, show me. Look at the unfair
trade practices that we have. Representative Brian Harrison is our
guest representative. I know y'all are in session this morning
and you stepped out to join us for a moment,
but you've been quite in the news of late. Folks
are working hard, have worked hard across the state to
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win each and every of the eighty eight out of
one hundred and fifty state rep seats to get a
majority so that we can get bills passed every two years.
Now we're in that brief window to make our state better.
And yet the Republicans in charge are taking orders from
the Democrats and screwing everything up. And you've you've blown
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the whistle on us. Catch people up, assuming they know
nothing of what's going on in that mess of a
hell hole in.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Austin hellholes, right, cesspool, swamps or gutter, it's all pool.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Cesspool was what I was looking for. It it didn't
come to me. Yes, cesspool, big.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, and in sestuous cesspool is what I usually call
the Austin swamp. But good morning, my friend, Michael Berry. Yeah,
talking to you live from the epicenter of that cesspool.
To catch people up, because I want to start by
saying thank you. I want to thank you to the
voter to Texas who did your job. You went to
the batt last March and last November, you pushed the
button for to elect Republicans, probably Republicans that promised you
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they are going to be a conservative fighter and vote
for small government and stand up to the liberal Democrats.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They told you those things. You believed them, you voted
for them, you elected them.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
You gave Republicans the governor's mansion, lieutenant governor's office, big
majorities in the House and the Senate.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And what they do, what they do, I'll tell you
what they did. They sold you out, the Republicans.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
That said they're going to stand up for the Democrats
when you weren't looking. After you elected them, they voted
to put those very Democrats in charge of the Texas House,
and then they colluded with them to destroy liberty, grow government,
increase spending, increase taxes, and push socialism. And as a
result of that, or I guess to say, to give
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you more color, how that happened, Republicans have an eighty
eight seat majority or eighty eight seats in the Texas
House out of one hundred and fifty. That means we
got a twenty six seat majority, a massive majority that
the voters gave us for Republicans, well thirty something. To
those Republicans so called sell out rhinos, they cut a
deal with fifty Democrats to take over the chamber, so
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fifty Democrats actually control the Texas House. So we go.
Texas voters elected Donald Trump by fourteen points. The Biden
Harris Caucus is holding hostage the Texas Legislature. And what
that means is instead of doing the things that y'all
want us to do, like that return that twenty four
billion dollar surplus to you so we can get our
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property taxes under control and ultimately eliminated. Passing real school
choice so parents can pull their kids out of failing
government schools if they are trapped in one of those
failing government schools and into a school that serves their needs,
or to reduce regulations, to finally stop.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The billions, yes, billions, of your.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Tax dollars that this Texas government is using to fund
DEI and promote liberal gender ideology.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Instead of doing any of that.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The Texas House has passed into law zero bills. But
we created Pakistan Day, Zoroastrianism Day, and we spent three
days on the floor talking about Beyonce. And I only
say that actually not to joke, but just to give
folks a little bit of color at the level of
total betrayal that the voters of Texas are suffering at
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the hands of the so called but hold.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Was it early Beyonce, like Destiny's Child or was it
the late the later sort of country incarnation?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
You know, it was the country, which is an insult
to injury. And I actually kind of felt bad for
the other two. You know, I don't even remember their name,
the other two Destiny's Child, But do you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Remember they got left?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They got let that did the our town. You know,
I'm going down to the town. What was that, Ramon?
Do you remember that I kind of liked that that
was a crossover, that it had an appeal to me
in early days. No, no, it's just a few years ago.
He had a huge hit and they gusted him up
like a cowboy, but he looked more like wiz Khalifa.
Huh was it a little nas Is this it okay?
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Here we go listen to this bring Oh no, no, no, no,
it's not dirty. It was a huge hit. It was
called our town of the town or going down to
the town or something, and and it was kind of
a parody of But Brian Harrison, on a serious note,
these Republicans are not accomplishing anything, right, like, none of
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what there's no tax reform, none of it. Right.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Well, let me say it, what's unfortunately, what we're going
to accomplish once we finally start doing anything. Which, by
the way, we had our first Friday after eleven weeks.
We've had long weekends every week, unconstitutional long weekends.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We had a Friday last week. I'll walk on the floor.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Less than half the members even bothered to show up,
and the speaker proceeded to break the constitution and declared
we had a quorum of one hundred members when there
weren't barely sixty on the floor. So he's violating the constitution.
He's breaking the House rules to do one thing that
we're probably going to do, and that's pass a budget
that quite frankly that that budget needs to stop.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's one thing we should not do.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
This is the most bloated liberal budget in the history
of Texas, and our liberal rhinos sellout.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Speaker let the.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Democrats, joking Democrat committee chairs in the Texas House write
the budget, not in open appropriations here with the cameras on,
but he let his Democrat chairman write the budget in.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Secret in rooms that have no cameras, no.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Microphones, so the public is not to be able to
see it. And by the way, that's his direct violation
of the House rules.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So he written by Democrats.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Twenty hours to vote to supposedly read it.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, they emailed it to us and then forced
us on the committee to vote on it twenty hours.
I printed the whole darn thing out, plopped it on
the diis and put a sign under it with an
arrow point to the massive stack of paper, saying, this
is the budget that nobody has read, and let me
tell you what it does, Michael Berry. It funds every
liberal priority under the sun DEI transgender. It increases funding
for government into these engaged in transgender ideology. And what
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it doesn't do, this is the more offensive thing. It
does not fund real property Tactually, but the whole aston
Unit Party, not just the house.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They're all jumping in.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
They want to take your surplus at twenty four billion
dollars of your money that we're just sitting on, that
we already overtaxed from you, took from you and we
didn't need it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
They want to give it to liberal Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
We always say, don't California my Texas, but the Austin
established and.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Michael, they want to.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They want a Hollywood our Texas and spend five hundred
million of your dollars to fund liberal Hollywood. Michael, sometimes
I'll wake up down here. I don't know if I'm
in Austin or Sacramento, but you know, actually thinking of that,
if we were in Sacramento, maybe one thing better about
Sacramento than Austin is at least the Democrats and Sacramento
that they self identify.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeh, at least you can pin it on the Democrats.
Can you hold what's with us for just a moment.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I can do one word.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You bet it. Yeah. What's important to understand, folks, is
what a quorum is. I want to go back. It
might sound procedural, but a quorum is the number of
people you have to have in any governing body in
order to do business. In other words, you can't run
off and have three Major League Baseball players play and
you hit a home run and you go. We won
the World Series. We didn't even get a chance to
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show up. You can't just have a game without anybody knowing.
That's what they did. They violated coorm uh and the
way they did it this is dirty. Wait wait till
you hear the.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Story the.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Time Barris show.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I got the horses in the black horse stock. Is
Brian Harrison's state representative is our guest, and we're talking
about what's happening in the state House, and he's been
blowing the whistle on this. There are a few guys,
Steve Toath, Mitch Little, Brian Harrison, who are every day
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sounding the clarion call because we don't know. You don't
know what what the Republicans who are in control are
doing to sell us out while we're assuming they're up
they're doing the right thing, and in fact, but for
these few guys telling the story, we wouldn't know, and
we would just assume that Republicans were representing us and
they're not. Brian Harrison, why don't you take just a
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moment and explain what they did to try to make
it look like they had achieved a quorum from putting
people in the seats and all of that.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, and for context, we have a last Friday. We've
been in session for over two and a half months,
and last Friday was the very first Friday we were
even asked to show up and do work on the floor.
The Speaker has sent us into unconstitutional long vacation weekends
three day, four day, five day vacations every single week
for eleven plus weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Last Friday was the first day we were asked to
show up on the floor.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
And I walk in and the Speaker was going to
have us vote on maybe about one hundred different resolutions.
And I walk on the floor and I don't see anybody.
I mean, it's a barren wasteland on Friday morning. And
next thing I know, the Speaker's up there, gabbling down
and he says these words a quorum is present, Michael,
for your folks to listen at the Constitution of the
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State of Texas, something we took an oath to uphold
and defend. It says the Texas House cannot conduct business
unless at least one hundred of the one hundred and
fifty were there. So I demanded a verification vote. He
tried to ignore me two times. I had to almost
storm the dat, storm the stage, and he got a
little scared, said, okay, okay, okay, got it. I'll call
of verification, which basically means we're going to do an
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actual roll call.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And he had the clerks come out and do a
roll call. And sure enough, out of.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
One hundred and fifty people who asked Texans to vote
for them to work hard to save our state, only
sixty three out of one hundred and fifty bothered to
even show up for work.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Even less showed up for work the next day.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I bet there weren't forty people the next day, maybe
not even thirty. I think my staff counted around twenty
eight actually the next day. So I don't know how
many Texans. Those of your Texans you're at your job,
or you're driving to work, or maybe you're working in
your truck driving. If you don't show up for work
two days in a row, you get fired. And let
me tell you the worst part of this, Michael, he
wasn't just the Democrats. The majority of the Republicans in
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the Texas House couldn't even be bothered to show up
for work. So on the heels of him trying to
break the constitution to do work without a corn. After
he broke the constitution to have long weekends for months
on end, he put on the bill the very first
bill we debated. Even ag we got eighty eight Republicans
and thousands of Republican bills.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The first bill he put.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
On the floor was a radical Democrat bill. After he
let the Democrats lawlessly write the budget in secret to
grow government, I said, have had enough, and I went
to the floor yesterday and I demanded to vacate the chair.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I made a motion to vacate the chair to force
a vote and say, you know what, we had no
confidence in you.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You cut a deal with Democrats, You've sold Texans downriver.
And I make a motion to vacate you. And he
turned my mic off four times. He wouldn't let me
make the motion. But I will tell you I'm very
proud you mentioned there's a few people down here will
have to fight. I do have to make a note
of appreciation for my friend David Low, who is the
only member of the Texas House willing to stand with
me and sign on to that motion to vacate the chair.
But I don't know why every Republican in Texas is
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not standing out to demand this trader who cut a
deal with fifty Democrats to let the social Marxist leftist
agenda move forward in the state of Texas. Every elected
Republican in Texas, as far as I'm concerned, should be
off the sidelines and in the battle for the future
of Texas because in the Austin Swamp, I'm gonna be
real straight about this, you're either visibly fighting the swamp
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or you are the swamp, and we've got a state
to save.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Bear's noting State Representative Brian Harrison that these folks who
are not showing up for work, who are taking these
long weekends the way most working people cannot do, that
this is not a break from years of hard work.
The legislature only meets every second year, and that too
for one hundred and forty days, so it's not like
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this is a full time job. And they've been at
it for three years. They haven't even been in session
for two years. So when they are in session, they come,
they do it Beyonce Proclamation, and then they all go
out and vacation. Again. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's a social party.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Imagine if you gave the most immature and drunk frat
at any college the keys of the castle, the keys
of the Texas government. That's basically what happens down here
during session. There are two. First of all, we got
too many Democrats that know they can't get elected as
a Democrats and they run as the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That number one.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And then number two, we got a ton of folks
down here who just want the lapel pins. They want
people to call a mister the honorable. They want tickets
to the suite at the University of Texas game. They
want the cocktail hours. They want to hang out with
the lobbyists and get whined and dined. They can't be
bothered to do things like question state agencies about why
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they're spending billions of dollars on DEI, which is what
I'm doing. By the way, but which is why the
entire Austin Union Party is doing their damus to silence me,
because they do not want people to know what's happening
behind their backs. I say this all the time, Michael,
Transparency like kryptonite in the swamp. And that's why they've
got to shut conservative vocal movement.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Conservative fran Harrison, you'd like you've never won, you'd never
been one who was shy. Why don't you mention if you,
especially from the greater Houston area, which is where the
largest portion of our audience right now is from, who
are loyal Burroughs lieutenants who are part of all this?
Who are We know it's not Steve Toth That we know,
it's not Mitch Little, we know it's not Brian Harrison,
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But who are the people, well.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
The people that voted with the Democrats from that area.
And I don't have the maps on memorize, but off hend,
I mean, I think we got people like I think
Lacey Hull voted for Burroughs. I think Mono de Ala
voted for for Burroughs. I'm trying to remember other folks.
Sam Harless, Sam Harlest voted for Dustin Burroughs. He definitely
voted for Dustin Burroughs. Yeah, and here here's what they're
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not doing.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They're not voting for Dustin Boroughs.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Let me tell you what that vote was. That was
a vote for the fifty Democrats. That was a vote
to get fifty Democrats control of the Texas House. There's
no two ways around it. The Democrat caucus candidate for
Speaker was Dustin Burroughs. So and I don't like people even.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Say that they voted for Burroughs because Burrows, he's.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
A human being that puts the word Republican by his name,
But he's selling out the brand and the principles.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
That vote, especially the House Rules.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Package, which I call the Democrat in Powerment Act, because
it gave Democrats more power than they've ever had. Those
votes are votes to sell out, quite frankly, the voters
who they work for, who want Republican leadership, who want
conservative Republican leadership, and Texans, you know, they've had years
and years of many Republicans going home after voting for
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bigger government. Get this, Michael, my friend Van Skin and
I Trump, former Trump White House economists. We put out
data a felve months ago shocking. The Texas government was
actually smaller and growing slower when Democrats ran the state
than since two thousand and three when we've been under
all Republican control.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's just a sad state.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Republicans have to become the party of small government and
low taxes again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Stay representative, Brian Harrison, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It's good to be with you. God bless Texas.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
That's gay.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That you want to Holland.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm chos stop making with some of the d we
knew before became the Two Lovers. God, I loved you more.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It took me by some.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Road when I found the great none mon.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Kind of a tortured lyric. Not much longer would it be?
So he's heard through the great vine that he's losing
his girl. I heard it through the grape vine. Not
much longer would you be mine?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Doesn't roll off the tongue, But I guess that's the
best they could do it, right. Do you remember the
images of Marvin Gay at that time? The microphone, you know,
it was the wand with a little bulb on the end, right,
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a little tiny When I think of that microphone, someone
holding and using that microphone, you know, the first image
that comes to my mind after Marvin Gaye, Bob Barker.
That was the Bob Barker microphone, and I don't know
what happened. I don't know, so it was a very
sleek microphone. Was the longer microphone, the little bulb on
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the end, which was I assume a multi directional because
you did. And then somewhere we went away with from
that two we went back to the much thicker with
the bulb on the end, which is interesting because it's
not typically the case that you go fatter in technology fatter, thicker, bigger, heavier,
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But in this case we did the sort of standard
like Saturday night for the event, the police officer event,
I leaned in to give a speed. They had the
They had the kind of about a I don't know
how what what you would call the microphone that comes
off the lectern and then just has the little the
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little mic at the end, a little black clock mic.
I leaned in to speak into that, and he tapped
the heavier one that I held in my hand. That
is as big as what would be the width of
that thing. But anyway, it's much bigger microphone. And that's
what almost everybody uses now and if you if you
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watch bands, if you watch speeches, they've all kind of
gone to that standard. You know, was Ari two hundred
or what is this one? What is this one called?
They've all kind of gone to about that size. Just
interesting how it got it got tiny and he sounds
fine there and then it went back to fat. It
doesn't typically happen with technology. Let's go to Tom Petty.
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You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, Michael,
thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm just kind of curious. Last couple of days I've
been listening to you and there have been segments where
people are called in and giving their individual little Paul
Harvey stories, And I'm kind of curious, is it possible
that you guys might look into or is he even
conceivable that you could buy or get access to some
of those programs and actually put them on your program
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or not.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Bobby Crumpley, who is one of our best researchers, He's
a listener, but he will he will often when he
hears me mention something, he will chase things down. And
he is feverishly right now trying to determine he found
a place that he can buy something like three thousand
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episodes for not a horrible amount of money. I can't
figure out what the scale is because I don't know
what it was in ten dollars increments, but I don't
know how many shows that gives you, and it's like CDs,
so we would then reduce that. In answer to your question,
I'm going to endeavor to persevere to find out if
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we can make that happen and see what the rebroadcast
looks like. The problem is so much of the use
of audio for rebroadcast is very gray, and so if
I ask, so if I asked the general counsel of
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our the primary company that we work for that would
be iHeart Media, if it would be possible, would would
be problematic for us to replay a rebroadcast a Paul
Harvey rest of the story, because remember he did the news.
It's the rest of the story. You remember the other
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things were the news. The rest of the story was
was less, was not related to the news of the day.
It was a magazine style, it was a it was
an anecdote and then a reveal. I don't know if
we can do that. I'm going to see if I
can find out. But what I was going to say
about that is nobody wants to say yes, because there
is liability, real liability if you broadcast something without rights
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that is considered protected, and that's such a gray area,
so you don't know it until you kind of do it.
It's one of those you ask for forgiveness instead of permission,
but then you get tagged. And I'm a little bit gunshy,
but I'm a lot gunshy because years ago, Chad Nakanishi,
our executive producer for the Weekend Review, played a certain
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clip from a certain fellow who makes a certain statement
about an event beginning, and it's a call to action
to the crowd before, for instance, a wrestling match, and
there is a reference to a word that rhymes with
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bumble or tumble or mumble or well, yeah, yes, you're
exactly right. So that person Chad put that in the
wee Can Review as one of just the sound clips.
Is just a snippet. Whereupon, our company received a demand
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from a law firm that literally all day long sends
auto demand letters demanding and I forget what this one
was a couple hundred thousand dollars what yep, he has
this many markets because it was it aired on the
evening show. If it had just aired on the morning
show would have been it had been a lot less problematic.
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But he has this many markets and this many million listeners,
and at a cost of we had misappropriated his precious
audio for our own personal benefits. Okay, So rather than
fight this case in the courts, our company wrote a
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check to them, not for the amount they requested, but
for more than you and I make in a single day.
And that felt like crap, and it pissed me off
so badly. So as a result of that, I got
more serious about what we replay and what we don't replay.
And here's the problem that people. I give you an analogy,
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people will say, hey, I got an idea. It's gonna
make a lot of money, a billion, trillion, gazillion billion dollars. Okay,
what is it? Can't tell you? How come someone else
stay it? It's not the idea. We don't lack ideas.
Here's your idea. How about if I could fly? Oh,
(24:41):
I hadn't thought about it, almost to your idea. It's
not the idea, it's the execution, the research, the capital,
the manufacturer. Right, So these people want to guard the
use of their intellectual property in such a way. I've
told this story in our industry to other members of
the media nationally, and people have their stories on that
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person and what happened. And as a result, it doesn't
get played ever, and I hope it dies out. I
hope nobody ever plays it again and it dies out. Yeah,
because I'm condictive traits. Oh yes, it show. Do you
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know why I can't forget to know when I go
all my song?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
When I had you there?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We don't talk enough about this song considered by many
of the original power bud don't think of Mariah Carey's
stupid version. Harry Nielson, right here, this is it boosted up.
This is a vocal performance right here. Can't it is
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without you?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Can't, I can't do.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I can't well, I can't forget the se your faces you.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
But I guess that's the last major vocal performance of
note by Harry Nilson. He still recorded, but not in
this voice. He and John Lennon got in a late
night screaming contents and he busted his vocal voice in
his vocal cord. Yeah. True story written by bad Finger
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and if you don't know the story about Bad Fingers
that is worth your time, especially if you're a Beatles fan.
Badfinger wrote this song and recorded it to no great success,
and Harry Nilsen picks it up and makes it. I
think he took it to number one. Not positive, but
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Badfinger wrote come and get it no matter what, day
after day, baby Blue. Badfinger wrote some good songs. The
two leads of the band committed suicide like five seven
years apart, a few years after all of this. They're
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one of those interesting bands that just keep popping up
because I think they were on Apple Records and McCartney
loved them. I absolutely loved him. Of course, Harry Nielsen
was was best friends with John Lennon, so that was
how Harry Nelson came to record the song. But Badfinger
is is an interesting band to do a deep dive
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on if we ever do a music documentary podcast which
is less nerdy and just more enjoyable conversational music, because
I don't think there's enough of that. I love the
top five hundred songs of rock and roll that that
Andrew dude does, but he's so whiny, bitchy and neurotic,
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and he brings in his just goofy, goofy left wing
political stances. And the other thing, if you heard it.
The other thing he does is he says, in this
just terrible English accent, he says that he wants to
warn you that this episode is going to be very
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traumatic for you. He says it in such very serious terms,
very traumatic for you. And there's going to be a
reference to smoking, and there's going to be a reference
to an extramarital affair, and there's going to be a
reference to violent because you know, ike turn or knock
the snot out of Tina or whatever else. And he
does this whole thing, and he says, if any of
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those are going to be upsetting to you, then refer
to the transcript instead. So wait, so I can't hear
you say the word, but I can read it. I'm
triggered if you say the word but I can read it.
Or as you're reading it, do you somehow notice that
he's about to mention that I's gonna smack Tina again,
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and that way you can skip for a paragraph. It's
the dumbest thing ever. But anyway, I've thought it would
be fun to do a very I'll never do it
because it's too lazy, but it would be fun to
do a music podcast that was more accessible. I think
that the ones you have you have to go too
deep into it, like they nerd out. It'd be more
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fun to have a have one that's just conversational, relaxed,
and you could learn things, and you learn things putting
it on because you have to research to do it.
An email from Angie Briant says, Zara, listening to the
show this morning about Colony Ridge and their association with
Greg Abbott, all the money they gave him, it seems
a more appropriate name for him would be Governor Hot
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Deals instead of hot Wheels. Now the reason I read
that is because it's funny and b I've been wanting
to address this issue, and I think now it's an
appropriate time for that. Remember, we're going to have an
adult conversation here, So I don't know if you've got
some music that it's not It's not not a funeral,
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not a wedding, it's not the end of the world.
It's mostly me just, you know, trying to give myself
credit for saying something that no one else will say,
but everyone knows. And so I kind of want to Laurel.
You know, I want to be I want everybody to
appreciate that. You know, look at me, how great I
am for doing what I'm about to do. So I
just I want to I want to put a bow
on that, so y'all know what I'm about to do.
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So last week, Jasmine Crockett referred to Greg Abbott as
governor hot wheels because I don't know if y'all know
he's in a wheelchair. And what are we doing? Is
what's going on with this? What mood is in your mind?
What mood is this setting? Oh around the campfire? Okay,
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do it again? Oh okay, yeah, okay, I can do
that kind of Garrison Keeler meets city slickers. Okay, got
it all right. So Jasmine Crockett is having a moment.
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It could end up lasting a long time or she
could flame out. My guess is she's gonna get There's
two ways Jasmine Crockett goes down. Number one is an
investigation by the IRS, FBI some other organization that she
takes a bribe or she does something awful and horrible
that's a federal crime, and they announce it and she's
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like they trying to take me down, and it becomes this,
you know, this big I'm here for the fight, and
so she does rallies and you know that it becomes
you know, she says the most ridiculous I'm taking them
all down with me, and she does this whole thing.
That's one but that I don't think it'll take till them.
The other one is she gets absolutely hammered, which she
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does a lot, and she plows into somebody and it's
caught on camera, and you know, she's butt naked out
in the street, drunk, puking. Somebody's dead. Cop show up,
she's screaming, and it's kind of over for her, and
she pleads out and steps down and goes on her
merry way. One of those two things is what happened.
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But in the meantime, she's having a bit of a
moment because she's golden for the news. She's golden for
the news because people say, stop playing her moment of
player every day. No, no, stop playing her. You're only
gonna build her up. I hope, so I want her.
She is the leader of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's the point, you know why we lost in Wisconsin
yesterday not because we don't have fifty one percent of
the people, because our people aren't showing up to vote
because they didn't understand why it's important. The only way
a certain percentage of the population is going to show
up to vote is when they are so scared of
that crazy black lady Jasmine Crockett that they show up
to vote against whoever for whoever is running against her. Right,
But here is the point to this whole story. So
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she called him governor hot Wheels because she's just trying
to make a story because she wants to be talked
about the next day and I had an overwhelming number
of people who emailed me. She had jobs a utid
whoa whoa, whoah woah, whom do you know how many
Republicans every day email me? You need to get old
hot Wheel every day
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Jay, I want
you to say what you put made him? Brother? Hey,
I got bomb.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Somebody live here saying, yeah, show you the money, not
so you so me.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And the money.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Show me the.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Money, Yeah, just get show me the money.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Probably Show me the money.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Show me the money.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Tell you boy, yeah, show me. Look at the unfair
trade practices that we have. Representative Brian Harrison is our
guest representative. I know y'all are in session this morning
and you stepped out to join us for a moment,
but you've been quite in the news of late. Folks
are working hard, have worked hard across the state to
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win each and every of the eighty eight out of
one hundred and fifty state rep seats to get a
majority so that we can get bills passed every two years.
Now we're in that brief window to make our state better.
And yet the Republicans in charge are taking orders from
the Democrats and screwing everything up. And you've you've blown
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the whistle on us. Catch people up, assuming they know
nothing of what's going on in that mess of a
hell hole in.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Austin hellholes, right, cesspool, swamps or gutter, it's all pool.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Cesspool was what I was looking for. It it didn't
come to me. Yes, cesspool, big.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, and in sestuous cesspool is what I usually call
the Austin swamp. But good morning, my friend, Michael Berry. Yeah,
talking to you live from the epicenter of that cesspool.
To catch people up, because I want to start by
saying thank you. I want to thank you to the
voter to Texas who did your job. You went to
the batt last March and last November, you pushed the
button for to elect Republicans, probably Republicans that promised you
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they are going to be a conservative fighter and vote
for small government and stand up to the liberal Democrats.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They told you those things. You believed them, you voted
for them, you elected them.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
You gave Republicans the governor's mansion, lieutenant governor's office, big
majorities in the House and the Senate.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And what they do, what they do, I'll tell you
what they did. They sold you out, the Republicans.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
That said they're going to stand up for the Democrats
when you weren't looking. After you elected them, they voted
to put those very Democrats in charge of the Texas House,
and then they colluded with them to destroy liberty, grow government,
increase spending, increase taxes, and push socialism. And as a
result of that, or I guess to say, to give
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you more color, how that happened, Republicans have an eighty
eight seat majority or eighty eight seats in the Texas
House out of one hundred and fifty. That means we
got a twenty six seat majority, a massive majority that
the voters gave us for Republicans, well thirty something. To
those Republicans so called sell out rhinos, they cut a
deal with fifty Democrats to take over the chamber, so
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fifty Democrats actually control the Texas House. So we go.
Texas voters elected Donald Trump by fourteen points. The Biden
Harris Caucus is holding hostage the Texas Legislature. And what
that means is instead of doing the things that y'all
want us to do, like that return that twenty four
billion dollar surplus to you so we can get our
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property taxes under control and ultimately eliminated. Passing real school
choice so parents can pull their kids out of failing
government schools if they are trapped in one of those
failing government schools and into a school that serves their needs,
or to reduce regulations, to finally stop.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The billions, yes, billions, of your.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Tax dollars that this Texas government is using to fund
DEI and promote liberal gender ideology.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Instead of doing any of that.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The Texas House has passed into law zero bills. But
we created Pakistan Day, Zoroastrianism Day, and we spent three
days on the floor talking about Beyonce. And I only
say that actually not to joke, but just to give
folks a little bit of color at the level of
total betrayal that the voters of Texas are suffering at
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the hands of the so called but hold.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Was it early Beyonce, like Destiny's Child or was it
the late the later sort of country incarnation?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
You know, it was the country, which is an insult
to injury. And I actually kind of felt bad for
the other two. You know, I don't even remember their name,
the other two Destiny's Child, But do you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Remember they got left?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They got let that did the our town. You know,
I'm going down to the town. What was that, Ramon?
Do you remember that I kind of liked that that
was a crossover, that it had an appeal to me
in early days. No, no, it's just a few years ago.
He had a huge hit and they gusted him up
like a cowboy, but he looked more like wiz Khalifa.
Huh was it a little nas Is this it okay?
(04:52):
Here we go listen to this bring Oh no, no, no, no,
it's not dirty. It was a huge hit. It was
called our town of the town or going down to
the town or something, and and it was kind of
a parody of But Brian Harrison, on a serious note,
these Republicans are not accomplishing anything, right, like, none of
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what there's no tax reform, none of it. Right.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Well, let me say it, what's unfortunately, what we're going
to accomplish once we finally start doing anything. Which, by
the way, we had our first Friday after eleven weeks.
We've had long weekends every week, unconstitutional long weekends.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We had a Friday last week. I'll walk on the floor.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Less than half the members even bothered to show up,
and the speaker proceeded to break the constitution and declared
we had a quorum of one hundred members when there
weren't barely sixty on the floor. So he's violating the constitution.
He's breaking the House rules to do one thing that
we're probably going to do, and that's pass a budget
that quite frankly that that budget needs to stop.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's one thing we should not do.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
This is the most bloated liberal budget in the history
of Texas, and our liberal rhinos sellout.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Speaker let the.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Democrats, joking Democrat committee chairs in the Texas House write
the budget, not in open appropriations here with the cameras on,
but he let his Democrat chairman write the budget in.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Secret in rooms that have no cameras, no.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Microphones, so the public is not to be able to
see it. And by the way, that's his direct violation
of the House rules.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So he written by Democrats.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Twenty hours to vote to supposedly read it.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, they emailed it to us and then forced
us on the committee to vote on it twenty hours.
I printed the whole darn thing out, plopped it on
the diis and put a sign under it with an
arrow point to the massive stack of paper, saying, this
is the budget that nobody has read, and let me
tell you what it does, Michael Berry. It funds every
liberal priority under the sun DEI transgender. It increases funding
for government into these engaged in transgender ideology. And what
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it doesn't do, this is the more offensive thing. It
does not fund real property Tactually, but the whole aston
Unit Party, not just the house.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They're all jumping in.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
They want to take your surplus at twenty four billion
dollars of your money that we're just sitting on, that
we already overtaxed from you, took from you and we
didn't need it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
They want to give it to liberal Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
We always say, don't California my Texas, but the Austin
established and.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Michael, they want to.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They want a Hollywood our Texas and spend five hundred
million of your dollars to fund liberal Hollywood. Michael, sometimes
I'll wake up down here. I don't know if I'm
in Austin or Sacramento, but you know, actually thinking of that,
if we were in Sacramento, maybe one thing better about
Sacramento than Austin is at least the Democrats and Sacramento
that they self identify.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeh, at least you can pin it on the Democrats.
Can you hold what's with us for just a moment.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I can do one word.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You bet it. Yeah. What's important to understand, folks, is
what a quorum is. I want to go back. It
might sound procedural, but a quorum is the number of
people you have to have in any governing body in
order to do business. In other words, you can't run
off and have three Major League Baseball players play and
you hit a home run and you go. We won
the World Series. We didn't even get a chance to
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show up. You can't just have a game without anybody knowing.
That's what they did. They violated coorm uh and the
way they did it this is dirty. Wait wait till
you hear the.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Story the.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Time Barris show.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I got the horses in the black horse stock. Is
Brian Harrison's state representative is our guest, and we're talking
about what's happening in the state House, and he's been
blowing the whistle on this. There are a few guys,
Steve Toath, Mitch Little, Brian Harrison, who are every day
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sounding the clarion call because we don't know. You don't
know what what the Republicans who are in control are
doing to sell us out while we're assuming they're up
they're doing the right thing, and in fact, but for
these few guys telling the story, we wouldn't know, and
we would just assume that Republicans were representing us and
they're not. Brian Harrison, why don't you take just a
(09:11):
moment and explain what they did to try to make
it look like they had achieved a quorum from putting
people in the seats and all of that.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, and for context, we have a last Friday. We've
been in session for over two and a half months,
and last Friday was the very first Friday we were
even asked to show up and do work on the floor.
The Speaker has sent us into unconstitutional long vacation weekends
three day, four day, five day vacations every single week
for eleven plus weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Last Friday was the first day we were asked to
show up on the floor.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
And I walk in and the Speaker was going to
have us vote on maybe about one hundred different resolutions.
And I walk on the floor and I don't see anybody.
I mean, it's a barren wasteland on Friday morning. And
next thing I know, the Speaker's up there, gabbling down
and he says these words a quorum is present, Michael,
for your folks to listen at the Constitution of the
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State of Texas, something we took an oath to uphold
and defend. It says the Texas House cannot conduct business
unless at least one hundred of the one hundred and
fifty were there. So I demanded a verification vote. He
tried to ignore me two times. I had to almost
storm the dat, storm the stage, and he got a
little scared, said, okay, okay, okay, got it. I'll call
of verification, which basically means we're going to do an
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actual roll call.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And he had the clerks come out and do a
roll call. And sure enough, out of.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
One hundred and fifty people who asked Texans to vote
for them to work hard to save our state, only
sixty three out of one hundred and fifty bothered to
even show up for work.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Even less showed up for work the next day.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I bet there weren't forty people the next day, maybe
not even thirty. I think my staff counted around twenty
eight actually the next day. So I don't know how
many Texans. Those of your Texans you're at your job,
or you're driving to work, or maybe you're working in
your truck driving. If you don't show up for work
two days in a row, you get fired. And let
me tell you the worst part of this, Michael, he
wasn't just the Democrats. The majority of the Republicans in
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the Texas House couldn't even be bothered to show up
for work. So on the heels of him trying to
break the constitution to do work without a corn. After
he broke the constitution to have long weekends for months
on end, he put on the bill the very first
bill we debated. Even ag we got eighty eight Republicans
and thousands of Republican bills.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The first bill he put.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
On the floor was a radical Democrat bill. After he
let the Democrats lawlessly write the budget in secret to
grow government, I said, have had enough, and I went
to the floor yesterday and I demanded to vacate the chair.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I made a motion to vacate the chair to force
a vote and say, you know what, we had no
confidence in you.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You cut a deal with Democrats, You've sold Texans downriver.
And I make a motion to vacate you. And he
turned my mic off four times. He wouldn't let me
make the motion. But I will tell you I'm very
proud you mentioned there's a few people down here will
have to fight. I do have to make a note
of appreciation for my friend David Low, who is the
only member of the Texas House willing to stand with
me and sign on to that motion to vacate the chair.
But I don't know why every Republican in Texas is
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not standing out to demand this trader who cut a
deal with fifty Democrats to let the social Marxist leftist
agenda move forward in the state of Texas. Every elected
Republican in Texas, as far as I'm concerned, should be
off the sidelines and in the battle for the future
of Texas because in the Austin Swamp, I'm gonna be
real straight about this, you're either visibly fighting the swamp
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or you are the swamp, and we've got a state
to save.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Bear's noting State Representative Brian Harrison that these folks who
are not showing up for work, who are taking these
long weekends the way most working people cannot do, that
this is not a break from years of hard work.
The legislature only meets every second year, and that too
for one hundred and forty days, so it's not like
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this is a full time job. And they've been at
it for three years. They haven't even been in session
for two years. So when they are in session, they come,
they do it Beyonce Proclamation, and then they all go
out and vacation. Again. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's a social party.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Imagine if you gave the most immature and drunk frat
at any college the keys of the castle, the keys
of the Texas government. That's basically what happens down here
during session. There are two. First of all, we got
too many Democrats that know they can't get elected as
a Democrats and they run as the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That number one.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And then number two, we got a ton of folks
down here who just want the lapel pins. They want
people to call a mister the honorable. They want tickets
to the suite at the University of Texas game. They
want the cocktail hours. They want to hang out with
the lobbyists and get whined and dined. They can't be
bothered to do things like question state agencies about why
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they're spending billions of dollars on DEI, which is what
I'm doing. By the way, but which is why the
entire Austin Union Party is doing their damus to silence me,
because they do not want people to know what's happening
behind their backs. I say this all the time, Michael,
Transparency like kryptonite in the swamp. And that's why they've
got to shut conservative vocal movement.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Conservative fran Harrison, you'd like you've never won, you'd never
been one who was shy. Why don't you mention if you,
especially from the greater Houston area, which is where the
largest portion of our audience right now is from, who
are loyal Burroughs lieutenants who are part of all this?
Who are We know it's not Steve Toth That we know,
it's not Mitch Little, we know it's not Brian Harrison,
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But who are the people, well.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
The people that voted with the Democrats from that area.
And I don't have the maps on memorize, but off hend,
I mean, I think we got people like I think
Lacey Hull voted for Burroughs. I think Mono de Ala
voted for for Burroughs. I'm trying to remember other folks.
Sam Harless, Sam Harlest voted for Dustin Burroughs. He definitely
voted for Dustin Burroughs. Yeah, and here here's what they're
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not doing.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They're not voting for Dustin Boroughs.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Let me tell you what that vote was. That was
a vote for the fifty Democrats. That was a vote
to get fifty Democrats control of the Texas House. There's
no two ways around it. The Democrat caucus candidate for
Speaker was Dustin Burroughs. So and I don't like people even.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Say that they voted for Burroughs because Burrows, he's.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
A human being that puts the word Republican by his name,
But he's selling out the brand and the principles.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
That vote, especially the House Rules.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Package, which I call the Democrat in Powerment Act, because
it gave Democrats more power than they've ever had. Those
votes are votes to sell out, quite frankly, the voters
who they work for, who want Republican leadership, who want
conservative Republican leadership, and Texans, you know, they've had years
and years of many Republicans going home after voting for
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bigger government. Get this, Michael, my friend Van Skin and
I Trump, former Trump White House economists. We put out
data a felve months ago shocking. The Texas government was
actually smaller and growing slower when Democrats ran the state
than since two thousand and three when we've been under
all Republican control.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's just a sad state.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Republicans have to become the party of small government and
low taxes again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Stay representative, Brian Harrison, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It's good to be with you. God bless Texas.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
That's gay.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That you want to Holland.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm chos stop making with some of the d we
knew before became the Two Lovers. God, I loved you more.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It took me by some.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Road when I found the great none mon.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Kind of a tortured lyric. Not much longer would it be?
So he's heard through the great vine that he's losing
his girl. I heard it through the grape vine. Not
much longer would you be mine?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Doesn't roll off the tongue, But I guess that's the
best they could do it, right. Do you remember the
images of Marvin Gay at that time? The microphone, you know,
it was the wand with a little bulb on the end, right,
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a little tiny When I think of that microphone, someone
holding and using that microphone, you know, the first image
that comes to my mind after Marvin Gaye, Bob Barker.
That was the Bob Barker microphone, and I don't know
what happened. I don't know, so it was a very
sleek microphone. Was the longer microphone, the little bulb on
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the end, which was I assume a multi directional because
you did. And then somewhere we went away with from
that two we went back to the much thicker with
the bulb on the end, which is interesting because it's
not typically the case that you go fatter in technology fatter, thicker, bigger, heavier,
(18:26):
But in this case we did the sort of standard
like Saturday night for the event, the police officer event,
I leaned in to give a speed. They had the
They had the kind of about a I don't know
how what what you would call the microphone that comes
off the lectern and then just has the little the
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little mic at the end, a little black clock mic.
I leaned in to speak into that, and he tapped
the heavier one that I held in my hand. That
is as big as what would be the width of
that thing. But anyway, it's much bigger microphone. And that's
what almost everybody uses now and if you if you
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watch bands, if you watch speeches, they've all kind of
gone to that standard. You know, was Ari two hundred
or what is this one? What is this one called?
They've all kind of gone to about that size. Just
interesting how it got it got tiny and he sounds
fine there and then it went back to fat. It
doesn't typically happen with technology. Let's go to Tom Petty.
(19:31):
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, Michael,
thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'm just kind of curious. Last couple of days I've
been listening to you and there have been segments where
people are called in and giving their individual little Paul
Harvey stories, And I'm kind of curious, is it possible
that you guys might look into or is he even
conceivable that you could buy or get access to some
of those programs and actually put them on your program
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or not.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Bobby Crumpley, who is one of our best researchers, He's
a listener, but he will he will often when he
hears me mention something, he will chase things down. And
he is feverishly right now trying to determine he found
a place that he can buy something like three thousand
(20:22):
episodes for not a horrible amount of money. I can't
figure out what the scale is because I don't know
what it was in ten dollars increments, but I don't
know how many shows that gives you, and it's like CDs,
so we would then reduce that. In answer to your question,
I'm going to endeavor to persevere to find out if
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we can make that happen and see what the rebroadcast
looks like. The problem is so much of the use
of audio for rebroadcast is very gray, and so if
I ask, so if I asked the general counsel of
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our the primary company that we work for that would
be iHeart Media, if it would be possible, would would
be problematic for us to replay a rebroadcast a Paul
Harvey rest of the story, because remember he did the news.
It's the rest of the story. You remember the other
(21:26):
things were the news. The rest of the story was
was less, was not related to the news of the day.
It was a magazine style, it was a it was
an anecdote and then a reveal. I don't know if
we can do that. I'm going to see if I
can find out. But what I was going to say
about that is nobody wants to say yes, because there
is liability, real liability if you broadcast something without rights
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that is considered protected, and that's such a gray area,
so you don't know it until you kind of do it.
It's one of those you ask for forgiveness instead of permission,
but then you get tagged. And I'm a little bit gunshy,
but I'm a lot gunshy because years ago, Chad Nakanishi,
our executive producer for the Weekend Review, played a certain
(22:21):
clip from a certain fellow who makes a certain statement
about an event beginning, and it's a call to action
to the crowd before, for instance, a wrestling match, and
there is a reference to a word that rhymes with
(22:47):
bumble or tumble or mumble or well, yeah, yes, you're
exactly right. So that person Chad put that in the
wee Can Review as one of just the sound clips.
Is just a snippet. Whereupon, our company received a demand
(23:14):
from a law firm that literally all day long sends
auto demand letters demanding and I forget what this one
was a couple hundred thousand dollars what yep, he has
this many markets because it was it aired on the
evening show. If it had just aired on the morning
show would have been it had been a lot less problematic.
(23:36):
But he has this many markets and this many million listeners,
and at a cost of we had misappropriated his precious
audio for our own personal benefits. Okay, So rather than
fight this case in the courts, our company wrote a
(23:58):
check to them, not for the amount they requested, but
for more than you and I make in a single day.
And that felt like crap, and it pissed me off
so badly. So as a result of that, I got
more serious about what we replay and what we don't replay.
And here's the problem that people. I give you an analogy,
(24:20):
people will say, hey, I got an idea. It's gonna
make a lot of money, a billion, trillion, gazillion billion dollars. Okay,
what is it? Can't tell you? How come someone else
stay it? It's not the idea. We don't lack ideas.
Here's your idea. How about if I could fly? Oh,
(24:41):
I hadn't thought about it, almost to your idea. It's
not the idea, it's the execution, the research, the capital,
the manufacturer. Right, So these people want to guard the
use of their intellectual property in such a way. I've
told this story in our industry to other members of
the media nationally, and people have their stories on that
(25:04):
person and what happened. And as a result, it doesn't
get played ever, and I hope it dies out. I
hope nobody ever plays it again and it dies out. Yeah,
because I'm condictive traits. Oh yes, it show. Do you
(25:28):
know why I can't forget to know when I go
all my song?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
When I had you there?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We don't talk enough about this song considered by many
of the original power bud don't think of Mariah Carey's
stupid version. Harry Nielson, right here, this is it boosted up.
This is a vocal performance right here. Can't it is
(26:03):
without you?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Can't, I can't do.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I can't well, I can't forget the se your faces you.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
But I guess that's the last major vocal performance of
note by Harry Nilson. He still recorded, but not in
this voice. He and John Lennon got in a late
night screaming contents and he busted his vocal voice in
his vocal cord. Yeah. True story written by bad Finger
(26:58):
and if you don't know the story about Bad Fingers
that is worth your time, especially if you're a Beatles fan.
Badfinger wrote this song and recorded it to no great success,
and Harry Nilsen picks it up and makes it. I
think he took it to number one. Not positive, but
(27:19):
Badfinger wrote come and get it no matter what, day
after day, baby Blue. Badfinger wrote some good songs. The
two leads of the band committed suicide like five seven
years apart, a few years after all of this. They're
(27:40):
one of those interesting bands that just keep popping up
because I think they were on Apple Records and McCartney
loved them. I absolutely loved him. Of course, Harry Nielsen
was was best friends with John Lennon, so that was
how Harry Nelson came to record the song. But Badfinger
is is an interesting band to do a deep dive
(28:02):
on if we ever do a music documentary podcast which
is less nerdy and just more enjoyable conversational music, because
I don't think there's enough of that. I love the
top five hundred songs of rock and roll that that
Andrew dude does, but he's so whiny, bitchy and neurotic,
(28:25):
and he brings in his just goofy, goofy left wing
political stances. And the other thing, if you heard it.
The other thing he does is he says, in this
just terrible English accent, he says that he wants to
warn you that this episode is going to be very
(28:45):
traumatic for you. He says it in such very serious terms,
very traumatic for you. And there's going to be a
reference to smoking, and there's going to be a reference
to an extramarital affair, and there's going to be a
reference to violent because you know, ike turn or knock
the snot out of Tina or whatever else. And he
does this whole thing, and he says, if any of
(29:06):
those are going to be upsetting to you, then refer
to the transcript instead. So wait, so I can't hear
you say the word, but I can read it. I'm
triggered if you say the word but I can read it.
Or as you're reading it, do you somehow notice that
he's about to mention that I's gonna smack Tina again,
(29:29):
and that way you can skip for a paragraph. It's
the dumbest thing ever. But anyway, I've thought it would
be fun to do a very I'll never do it
because it's too lazy, but it would be fun to
do a music podcast that was more accessible. I think
that the ones you have you have to go too
deep into it, like they nerd out. It'd be more
(29:51):
fun to have a have one that's just conversational, relaxed,
and you could learn things, and you learn things putting
it on because you have to research to do it.
An email from Angie Briant says, Zara, listening to the
show this morning about Colony Ridge and their association with
Greg Abbott, all the money they gave him, it seems
a more appropriate name for him would be Governor Hot
(30:14):
Deals instead of hot Wheels. Now the reason I read
that is because it's funny and b I've been wanting
to address this issue, and I think now it's an
appropriate time for that. Remember, we're going to have an
adult conversation here, So I don't know if you've got
some music that it's not It's not not a funeral,
(30:38):
not a wedding, it's not the end of the world.
It's mostly me just, you know, trying to give myself
credit for saying something that no one else will say,
but everyone knows. And so I kind of want to Laurel.
You know, I want to be I want everybody to
appreciate that. You know, look at me, how great I
am for doing what I'm about to do. So I
just I want to I want to put a bow
on that, so y'all know what I'm about to do.
(30:58):
So last week, Jasmine Crockett referred to Greg Abbott as
governor hot wheels because I don't know if y'all know
he's in a wheelchair. And what are we doing? Is
what's going on with this? What mood is in your mind?
What mood is this setting? Oh around the campfire? Okay,
(31:21):
do it again? Oh okay, yeah, okay, I can do
that kind of Garrison Keeler meets city slickers. Okay, got
it all right. So Jasmine Crockett is having a moment.
(31:44):
It could end up lasting a long time or she
could flame out. My guess is she's gonna get There's
two ways Jasmine Crockett goes down. Number one is an
investigation by the IRS, FBI some other organization that she
takes a bribe or she does something awful and horrible
that's a federal crime, and they announce it and she's
(32:05):
like they trying to take me down, and it becomes this,
you know, this big I'm here for the fight, and
so she does rallies and you know that it becomes
you know, she says the most ridiculous I'm taking them
all down with me, and she does this whole thing.
That's one but that I don't think it'll take till them.
The other one is she gets absolutely hammered, which she
(32:26):
does a lot, and she plows into somebody and it's
caught on camera, and you know, she's butt naked out
in the street, drunk, puking. Somebody's dead. Cop show up,
she's screaming, and it's kind of over for her, and
she pleads out and steps down and goes on her
merry way. One of those two things is what happened.
(32:46):
But in the meantime, she's having a bit of a
moment because she's golden for the news. She's golden for
the news because people say, stop playing her moment of
player every day. No, no, stop playing her. You're only
gonna build her up. I hope, so I want her.
She is the leader of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's the point, you know why we lost in Wisconsin
yesterday not because we don't have fifty one percent of
the people, because our people aren't showing up to vote
because they didn't understand why it's important. The only way
a certain percentage of the population is going to show
up to vote is when they are so scared of
that crazy black lady Jasmine Crockett that they show up
to vote against whoever for whoever is running against her. Right,
But here is the point to this whole story. So
(33:26):
she called him governor hot Wheels because she's just trying
to make a story because she wants to be talked
about the next day and I had an overwhelming number
of people who emailed me. She had jobs a utid
whoa whoa, whoah woah, whom do you know how many
Republicans every day email me? You need to get old
hot Wheel every day
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