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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and load until Michael darry Show is.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Caucasian Caucasian. Yeah, you know a white.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Guy for a mustache, about six foot three, not very
big mustache. Ah, got ta.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Clark.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's a serious matter.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'll do it myself, Honey.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm not an ordained minister.

Speaker 5 (00:32):
I'm doing my best.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Okay, we lost our cock screw live on food war.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Will you play s?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
You're short on ears and long on mouth sixty percent
of the time. It works every time.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
In fact, drunk and stupid.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
There's no way to go through life stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm dang.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Now we are in trumble.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You got a record player of the one you play
albums on it? Vinyl, y'all like to say, you hipsters
like to say vinyl. Buddy Mine's big into vinyl us
to tell me, hey, I just found this. He'll send
the album cover. I never I never collected you know,
the whole covers. But it's a beautiful thing. You know

(01:36):
that big I don't know what the size is, ten
by twelve, maybe bigger. You know the that the that
the album would come in. But Buddy Mine bought a
vinyl record yesterday and he said, he was all excited.
It was called sounds wasps make. So he gets home

(01:59):
curious to hear or how it'll sound, and he says
to himself, this doesn't sound anything like wasps. And then
he realized he was playing the B side. What what

(02:22):
kind of bee can't fly? I give up? What kind
of bee can't fly? Huh? Kobe? Oh, Kobe? Are you serious?
He just did that soon too soon? Ramon, Michelle, you're

(02:43):
on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yes, dad, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Not well, but yes.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Okay, my dad. I went to see Elvis at when
he was fifteen. His father was a professor at A
and M. And he died his hair black after that
and learned to play the guitar pretty good and played
in a lot of bands at UT. He ended up

(03:17):
going to UT because he's doing journalism and they didn't
offer that at A and M at the time. And
he actually he was an editor of the Daily Texan
one year the year I was born.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
How about that? And what does he do now?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, now he's eighty four and had some dementia, but
he wrote political columns for Austin Mersons Statesman for thirty
plus years. What's his name, David mcneelee.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
David McNeeley. And was he a full time columnist? Is
that what he did for a living?

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yes, and all over textas to like Cortoranza's you know,
different little local papers after he left a statesman.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Hum, how about that job? That town doesn't exist anymore.
The role of the guy that would write the clever little,
you know, political commentary for the local paper. Who was
a local guy? That's gone it. You just don't see
that anymore.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, google him. He's very interesting and he is you know,
we always went on these camp out pretty liberal bunch
of people, but you.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Know, and.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Richards was on the campouts and Molly Ivans told a
mean story around the campfire, and it was just Sun
growing up and all the time the guitar. And the
whole reason he did that is he saw girls at
A and M in nineteen fifty five and he was
fifteen sewing their panties up on the stage and got

(05:00):
his hair black and learned to play the guitar.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
You know, I've seen many interviews with classic rock musicians
Jimmy Page, Robert playing you know, you name it, and
they ask them, you know why Eric Clapton, why did
you learn to play the guitar? And they say, to
get chicks. It's never to make great art to express

(05:28):
the deep emotion I had in a way that came
out through my fingertips in this instrument. Never ever, ever,
It is always because they saw that.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
The girls liked.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's that's what the girls wanted, and that's what they did,
and then eventually that became what they were good at.
Speaking of which, I bought my wife an electric blanket
it being colder moon, I bought my wife an electric blanket,
and she gets aggravated when I call the old blankets
acoustic covers, because he is an electric way. He was

(06:11):
playing the B side. Jean, you're only Michael Berry show, go.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Ahead, good morning. Yeah, you'd ask me to give you
a call this morning about the camera that from April
in nineteen fifty five and Elvis, well.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Can you turn the base down and the trouble up?
I got a lot of base on him. That's a joke, Jean,
I got you. You're supposed to laugh to hear me? Now, No,
I heard you. You're supposed to laugh at that one.
Hold on just a second. Yes, he's the one that

(06:51):
I told you about that camera that the the nineteen
fifty five Magnolia concert was taken. Oh, I thought I
was up against the break. I'm not okay, Yes, go ahead.
You came into possession with that of that camera, which
is reputed to be the first actual video of Elvis
when he came to Elvis, when he came to Houston

(07:11):
Magnolia Gardens in nineteen fifty five, first footage of Elvis
performing anywhere, not just in Houston, anywhere. And you bought it,
I think you wrote me in nineteen ninety nine. How
did that happen?

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Just from know it? The people that we knew, My
brother's best friend and the son of the lady that
actually did the filming went to high school together, and
my brother and his best friend, Larry, and then Monnie,
who's the son of the lady, were friends. And Moni

(07:45):
decided that he was going to sell the camera way
back in nineteen ninety nine. And that's that's how it happened,
just by pure coincidence, that they have to know each other.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
And you said, the camera which you're now going to
sell is in mint conditions, still has the original box.
The whole deal.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yes, sir, the camera is pretty pretty cool when you
see it.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I have to say, I mean maybe somebody in our
audience would would love to have it. You and I
talked about what it's worth, and it's worth what somebody
will walk in. I am surprised that hasn't solely already
because somebody's gonna want to hold the mount down with
more of the Michael Berry Show. One of the newsletters

(08:32):
I follow is called the Kobe ec Letter, and it's
on financial matters and they write as of an hour ago.
With the jobs report coming out today, the FED pivot
is officially dead. Stocks are crashing after the US added
nearly one hundred thousand more jobs than expected in December.

(08:52):
The unemployment rate fell to four point one percent, just
after the FED said the labor market was we So
why are stocks crashing? Let us explain to begin, the
US economy added two hundred and fifty six thousand jobs
in December, or ninety two thousand more than expected. Because

(09:13):
your immediate reaction should be when anyone gives you the
December jobs numbers, well that's just seasonal Christmas workers, end
of year and end of calendar year and Christmas workers. Fine,
but we have a baseline for what that's supposed to
look like, and we added more than that. Because the
Trump presidency has locked loose, has unlocked and knocked loose

(09:38):
a bunch of cash. I'm seeing it with our show sponsors.
I have been calling our show sponsors. Are you seeing
a difference in business since the Trump election? Well, a
lot of people all the way up till November, we're
just trying to get through the election, and people were
holding onto their cash. They weren't investing. They weren't they
weren't spending money on research and deve development. They weren't

(10:00):
spending money on capital improvements. They weren't spending money on equipment.
They were anything cap X, anything labor that was a
long term call. They weren't touching it. Well, that money
didn't break loose a week or two after the election,
because now people had to figure out the landscape. Then

(10:21):
you went into Thanksgiving, then you begin December and the
Christmas holidays. So there was a sort of sense that
things are going to be better now. But you have
a lot of people traveling, a lot of decisions that
need to be made or held off. Let's wait until
the new year and it's not until this week that
I'm really seeing people got back after the new year,

(10:44):
and now they're ready to start making decisions. Michael Petru,
my trainer just had the biggest week they've ever had. Now, Yes,
it's a new year, so people are saying, you know what,
I need some strength training, I need I need to
do the things they've been meaning to do. It's a
new era. I want to live longer because Trump's going
to be president. I'm serious. People think this way because

(11:07):
there's more to live for. The feeling is things are better.
You're more when you're When you feel good and you're optimistic,
you start thinking about things like longevity and quality of life.
When things are depressed, whether that's just the economy and
the people like why no Kamala Harris drunk on TV,

(11:27):
there's less reason to be excited about the future, so
you don't start thinking about things like, let me take
care of my health, let me get let me strengthen
my core, even if you're eighty eight years old. So
I'm seeing that in so many different ways. Republic Grand
ranch folks are now showing up this past weekend one
of their biggest weekends they've ever had. I mean, it's

(11:48):
just over and over and over again. Our CPAs Deuro's
partners checked in with them yesterday and they said, all
these people that have been kind of waiting with the
begin of the new year, said all right, we've had
a solo CPA. We need an aggressive approach to being
strategic about how we handle our taxes and our tax

(12:10):
planning and our business, our audit division, the whole thing.
So they're going, we just went from you know, pacing
along to all of a sudden, we're keeping long hours,
a lot going on. And granted, some of that is
a new year, and I've been saying all year, you know,
look at January as a time to renew your vows

(12:32):
to yourself, to your business, to your country, to your family,
and level these things up, get right, take care of yourself,
make some changes. So yes, some of that is just
that it is January, but a lot of that is
the mood in the nation, not just that Trump is president.
But hey, I'm not the only person out here making

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good decisions. We're a nation of people that actually care
and that makes people feel good. On average, the US
economy has added one hundred and sixty five thousand jobs
over the last six months. This marks the highest six
month average since July of twenty four, when Fed rate
cuts were being delayed. The Fed messed up. Stocks are
trading sharply lower after the jobs report, even though it

(13:16):
came in stronger than expected. At first, this seems like
it doesn't make sense. Why would the market crash if
the US job market is actually stronger than expected. We
must first explain what happened in September. Here's the Fed
policy statement from September. The Fed began rate cuts with
a fifty bps rate cut for the first time in

(13:38):
two thousand and eight. We were yeah, first time in
two thousand and eight, we were highly critical of this decision.
Their reasoning was that job gains have slowed and inflation
was heading to their two percent objective. However, since then,
the exact opposite is now happening. Job gains are accelerating
and inflation is clear back on the rise. This effectively

(14:03):
destroys the need for any FED rate cuts, because remember,
let me step away from that for a moment. The
reason the rate goes high is the FED is trying
to pull money out of the economy. Inflation means there's
too much money in the economy. So the way you
pull money out of the economy is you reduce lending.

(14:25):
How do you reduce lending. You have to tell the
banks to make themselves less attractive to you and me,
the borrower. How does a pretty bank become less attractive
to us, the very overly excited borrower. You raise the
interest rate, so folks that would have bought a new
house go interest rates are to high, I'll wait. So

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that has a calming effect on an inflationary economy. You're
pulling money out of the economy. You're saying, don't lend
the money. How do you tell banks who are in
the business of lending money to not lend money. Well,
you tell them that lending the money is going to
be at a higher rate. You're not going to get
your money at a rate that you can pass it
off at a chiefe brate to borrowers. So you're not

(15:11):
going to be able to lend as much money. When
you stop lending money, you pull money out of the economy.
When you pull money out of the economy, prices go
back down. If we don't have money, whether we've borrowed
it or made it, we don't have money to spend.
When we don't have money to spend, supply and demand.
The supply remains the same, the demand reduces at that price. Remember,

(15:36):
price is how we communicate in the marketplace. You can
run off and write your Yelp review. You can cuss
out the owner or the poorer. I hate people that
do this, the poor server. You can tell the server
how much you hate the pricing at this place. You
can keep coming back to the same place you always
go to that you think the prices are too high,
and just bitch every time. But the only true means

(15:59):
we have communicating with a seller as a buyer is
to not buy at that price. When we don't buy
at that price, eventually their business goes down. So what
do they do? They dropped their prices right, This is
the reverse for This is the reverse inflationary effect. And
by the way, Milton Friedman talks about this all day

(16:20):
and night. If you want to go deeper into it's
all over YouTube.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
This is.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
What's the name you say, Michael Buddy.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
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two five. Bill, you're on the Michael Berry Show, Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
One of Michael.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
Just a couple of quick things on the Elvis coming
up at A and m My father in law was
on the selection committee in nineteen fifty four fifty five,
and he recommended Elvis because he always heard Elvis.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
As a country singer. And then when Elvis obviously showed
up in the following spring, he was no longer a
country singer. And as my father in law tells a story,
he was not very popular amongst his peers there in
the core Cadets because they were expecting the country guy
and not the gyrating Elvis, and he caught quite a
lot of flak for that. Early on, obviously, everybody's opinions changed.

(18:47):
And to the earlier caller who said her dad really
liked it because anybody who'd get on stage and girls
were throwing the painties, I can tell you in college
station at All Male School in nineteen fifty five fifty six,
they only wish they had girls throwing panties up on
the stage because that just wasn't happening in g rolly
white colisseum at the time.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
It really is, Uh, it's hard. Everything is derivative of
something else. We all we all think we've you know,
discovered the holy Grail. We all think we've figured it
out and we're doing something it's never been done before.
But I don't care what your field is. We're all
building what is Isaac Newton serrimony. If I have seen further,

(19:32):
it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. No,
it's not one saying you know what you love? You
love to criticize great quotes. I'm not you know what
You're not. You're not gonna steal my joy today. I'm
in a good mindset for this game tonight. I'm trying
to channel good energy. It's Friday, We've had a long week,
and you're not gonna You're not stealing my joy at evermon,
I'm not letting you do it. But it's true. Everything

(19:55):
we building, every one of these heart throbs today, every
one of them is it is beholden or it Owes
a Owes something to Elvis as being one of not
the first, one of the first to make the women swoon,

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the Beatles, the Stones, to a lesser extent, the Beach Boys.
You know, I was going to play something for you
or mom, let me see if I can find it
the U. The Rodeo released their I'll find it in
a minute, Oh maybe this is it. The Rodeo released

(20:36):
their schedule of or here we Go the Rodeo lineup,
and every year I read the Rodeo lineup for the
sole reason to see how many I will know who
they are. And twenty five years ago I knew all
but two or three, and now I only know two

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or three. And it's not a criticism of the Rodeo.
They know what they're doing. They're programming a massive event.
I mean, can you imagine doing three weeks of concerts
and they're trying to get everybody. But I look at
this schedule and I feel so old. All right, First night,
March fourth, Reba McIntyre. I will leave aside her trump

(21:22):
humping for a moment. I'm not a Riba fan, but
I know I'm gonna have to hear that from a
lot of our listeners. I like, real, Well, then you
keep liking Riba, it'll sell out. So the Rodeo's not
mad at me. They'll do fine. Wednesday, March fifth, Armed
Forces Appreciation Day. Riley Green. I even know who Riley
Green is. By the way, a bunch of women, young

(21:45):
women are gonna send me, Michael, How do you not
know who Riley Green is? He or she? I don't
know if it's a mad woman. Oh. She has a
song about driving down a dirt road with her boyfriend,
in the truck in the south to the river on
Friday night where there were guitars and beer. It was good.

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I think I've heard that one anyway, I know Riley
Green is. Then AJR. You know who AJR is? That's
a pop night, have no idea who that is. Then
bun Bee's birthday Bananza. I know who bun Bee is.
Bailey Zimmerman a country. I have no idea who Bailey
Zimmerman is, but I'm sure a bunch of other people do.
I guess I'm not really your target demographic. But here's

(22:31):
my question. The people buying the retail tickets, they know
who these people are. But do the people up in
the suites, like do the rodeo directors know? I can't wait,
we got Bailey Zimmerman coming. You know what ends up happening.
I will tell you this is a long standing tradition
for well, this is an over twenty year tradition. The

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rodeo directors don't know who Bailey O Bailey Zimmerman is either,
So they call their granddaughter and they say, Cameron, you
ever heard of Bailey Zerman? Yes, sir, Pootpoul baby Zerom
is my favorite. Again, I don't know if it's a
boy or girl. All the little name of camera and

(23:14):
Bailey Morgan, you don't know if it's a boy or girl.
And I'm not really worried about it. And by the way,
don't tell me. Don't send me a link. I don't
want to. I don't want to learn any new music
since two thousands. So thank you, but no thanks. And well,
how'd you like to go see the show? I'd like to.
Would you like to bring a couple of friends? I
like that. And so now if Papall gets to take them,
and you know, they get the great seats, and they're
up there and all of us old people, all the

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rodeo directors, they're just excited to be at the rodeo
because they're rodeo directors. And they're up in the suite,
and you've got some young people there singing along to
the songs and say, oh, you're that cute because they're
not singing a long song because they don't know who
Baley Zerman is. Then you got regional Mexican Kadeen Leone.
I never heard of that one, and I actually know
a little regional Mexican. Then you got Brad Paisley. I'm

(23:58):
gonna pass on that one, but thank you. I don't
know why Brad Paisley has to be the face of
country music today. I don't watch any of the cmas Amas,
any of the country music television shows or anything else,
but it's always Brad Paisley. Then you've got Zach Topp.
That's country. I guess that's a guy. Lauren Dagel that's Christian.

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Then John Party that's country. Then Journey. Okay, at least
I know who Journey is. Warren Zeeders or Zyd's that's
country group, ro Fronteta Fronteta that's regional Mexican. Charlie Crockett
all right, I know who Charlie Crockett is. I'm excited
for him. It's a big show for him. Post Malone, Okay,
I know who that is, Old Dominion, that's country. Cody

(24:40):
Jings all right, I know who Cody Jenks is. That's
Charlie Crockett. So when people try to introduce me to
new music, I generally resist, not just to be an ass,
but it's rooted in that. Mostly I just don't want
to invest in any new music because there's still a

(25:01):
Johnny Paycheck's own or two that I haven't heard, and
I'd rather go back and listen to deep cuts.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Of Merle and.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Jerry Lee Lewis and the like. But my buddy Cody Johnson,
not the singer and not the president of garage doordoctor
dot bisz. I actually have three friends named Cody Johnson,
and one of them is a famous singer. And that
always makes it weird because I'm far more likely in

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conversation to go, oh, you want to get that photo
on your phone printed on canvas so it can be
hung up on the wall. You want a photo of
all your employees when they come in and put it
up on the wall. Oh, I got a guy that
can do that. Go to canvaspress dot com or here,
I'll just I'll connect you with my buddy who owns
it canvaspress dot com. He also does those big vinyls

(25:51):
at high school football stadiums in college football stads when
you walk in and it's got you know, the Wildcats
or the Bobcats on the wall on there. He does those.
Separate company does that. I think it's called sign Press,
but anyway, so he's Cody Johnson and then the head
of garage door doctor dot biz our garage door folks
is Cody Johnson. So every time somebody says, hey, can

(26:11):
you connect me with the sign company or I need
my garage door replaced or repaired, I'll say, oh, I'll
connect you with my buddy, Cody Johnson. And they always
say the singer. No, not the singer. Cody doesn't Cody
Cody rodeos and sings. He doesn't have any of these
other skill sets that I know of. But anyway, so
my Cody Johnson canvaspress dot com. Buddy tells me, you

(26:36):
gotta hear this guy Charlie Crokett. Got to hear this
guy Charlie Crockett, And he keeps trying to get me
to listen to him. And it's been going on for years,
and I finally, one day out of nowhere, decided I
would give one song a listen. And it was hard
Luck and Circumstances and I love it and now I've
played it on loot but it's the only one. And
now he's getting his big shot. He's playing at the rodeo.

(26:59):
You ought to hear Corey Morrow sometime tell the story
his stepdad, who basically raised him Red was real big
in the rodeo, and Corey got to play the Rodeo
and he was just on his way up, but he
had kind of hit it, you know, Pat Green had
hit it first, and then Corey was having his moment

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and he wasn't quite big enough to sell out the
whole rodeo because it's a big stadium. So they paired
him with Larry the Cable Guy. And I think the
fear was whether Larry the Cable Guy could sell out
the whole thing because that was a spoken word show,
and you know, I don't think they do to my knowledge,
they don't do a lot of those, so they paired him.

(27:43):
It was a great night. Corey got to play the
Rodeo and it's still a highlight of his career. Anyway,
I was going to give you the end of the schedule.
So you had Cody Jinks on Thursday, March twentieth. Then
you got Parker McCollum, and I know that's a guy,
but I don't know any of his songs. That's another
one of them, that's that's the country thing. Then you
got Brooks and Done see the Parker McCollum crowd on

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Friday March twenty first, the Saturday March twenty second, Brooks
and Done. That'll be their parents. There will be I
guarantee you there will be a thousand families for which
the kids will go see Parker McCollum and their parents
will go see Brooks and Done. And that's good programming, right.
It's like when you're when you're when you're programming the

(28:30):
strip center that you own. You want some places that
do business by day and some places do business by
night because you only have so many parking spots. Well,
you're trying to get as many people. You know, you
got your black audience over here, and you got your
your first generation Mexicans over here, and then you got
your young country music fans over here or pop it's

(28:51):
really pop. They call them country with their pop. And
then you've got you still got your old classic, you know,
Brooks and Done, which is now a lot older than
it used to be. Uh. And then the final night
is Luke Bran, which there is nothing less country to
me than Luke Bryan. I despise Luke Brian. I despise

(29:11):
Luke Brian even more than I despise Brad Paisley. But hey,
I hope the Rodeo succeeds because I like the Rodeo.
I like the people over there, I like the directors,
I like the culture. I like that people raise a
pig and sell it. I love everything about the Rodeo.
So I'm not trashing the Rodeo. I'm simply saying that
I've grown older and I don't follow new music, and

(29:32):
increasingly the new music is stuff I don't know, and
the people I listened to from years ago are getting
few or few nights. And that's probably hell. There was
probably some old codure in nineteen seventy four that said, Elvis,
how come they putting Elvis out there? He's washed up?
I thought he lived out in Las Vegas. How come

(29:53):
they gonna bring Elvis in there? I don't know what
he's gonna do, same old song. Hell, he've been around
since the fifties. I don't know what. I don't know
why they're gonna have Elvis. They ought to have something good,
like Jim Reeves or Eddie Arnold. You know, some quality
music for America. Yeah and yeah, yeah, and you know
you know there were George is that straight or straight?

(30:17):
Who is that? I've never even heard of that they
got these young people coming in now, I never heard
of George Straight. My goodness, I'm not gonna go out
to the rodeo. Listen to somebody and never heard of
George Straight. Why can't they do some good music? You know,
Hank Snow or something. Jim ed Brown? Who is some

(30:37):
George Straight? There was some old codger that was the
Michael Berry of his day? Was it eighty one or
eighty two? Eighty two? I think that George Strait's first
year could be his late as eighty three, but then
it was eighty two was his first one? Boy did
he ever have a run. The rodeo made him Houston
lifestick showing. Rodeo has many, many things to be proud of,

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but the rodeo made George Strait. And I will tell
you when I ask people their favorite rodeo memories or
they just offer them, it is it is often Elvis's
show in seventy four and and that Red International Scout
that he or maybe that's the Ford Bronco that he

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rides out on. And the second one is George Straight.
For people that are a little younger, those are probably
the two shows that I hear talked about more than
anybody else. And I'm trying to even think about what
number three would be in terms of coming up again
and again and again. That's the ones. Let's see, do
I have time? We have a new clock. If y'all

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haven't figured out, just I tell you what. Tell Jeff
to hang on for just a moment. We'll get to
him in just a moment. The phone lines are now
open again. Seven one thousand, we had a counselor at
Orangefield High School, Anita Ryan was her name, and she
would say, again, we're going to do that again. I

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think she thought that was like a fancy way to
say it. But if I'm being completely honestly irritated the
hell out of it, We're going to do that again.
You're gonna say that now you're gain Houston's largest private
company has been sold. A publicly traded utilities company based

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in Baltimore is acquiring Houston's largest private company in a deal.
We're twenty six point six billion dollars. Mine goodness, Oh, Calpine,
I thought I told her. Yeah. Houston based Calpine is
the largest generator of electricity for natural gas and geo

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thermal sources in the United States,