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This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Ray Breyer's is the pipe man. He owns Pipeyard, Inc. and they buy and sell pipe all day long. And I am shocked how much business we've been able to send him across the country. Entire pipelines going across three different states where they need to get the pipe pulled out. He's like, I'll pull the pipe out, I'll sell the pipe. People buying pipe, people selling pipe. The people that buy pipe are environmental managers, pipeline project managers. Somebody that's got an abandoned pipeline that's been removed. They want the pipe yard ink, compliance and regulatory folks. They want to get those pipes out of there. Selling pipe, folks that need carbon steel pipe, the pipe yard ink stocks everything you need, any kind of pipe. There is stuff that people call him for, industrial stuff, that he doesn't even have, and he tracks it down. He's working his phone, and his team is working their phones all day long. He's got a yard, they've got pipe. They are working the phones to get stuff for people all day long. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. I'm on testosterone, and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350 on your testosterone level, a very good chance your insurance will pay for you to have it. You know why? There's a lot of studies that say it's very good for you, not just your sex life, but your energy, your strength, all sorts of good things. Do your own research. Don't trust me. But you should do your research and you should get your blood panels checked. And they'll do all that for you at synergenics. Go to fixmylowt.com. Fix my lowtie.com. There comes a point where you don't want to go to the gym. You don't want to drive there, park, go in, be around a bunch of folks that are dropping weights and talking and waiting. You want your... fitness to come to you, to your living room, to your garage. You don't even need a weight set. They'll bring bands. Whether you're trying to recover from a stroke, a heart attack, you just want to get up out of the wheelchair. Petru in-home fitness. It's a breath of fresh air coming to your home every day. The older you are, hey, that's not a problem. Folks do it well into their 90s. Petru in-home fitness. It's that time, time, time. Lock and Load. The Michael Bari Weiss Show is on the air. Good morning, Michael Barry, but no, you cannot use my bathroom. Hello again, everybody. This is Milo Hamilton. Astros went again. And a good morning to the czar. Good morning, Michael Barry. It's Sean Connery. I heard you had a little radio show. Pity I wasn't invited. Good morning, Michael Bari Weiss. I'm all jaked up on Mountain Mike DeWine. This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning. Good morning, Michael Bari Weiss. Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Michael. Good morning, Michael. This is Dave Thalen. Good morning, El Tosino. Good morning, Michael. Hello? Hello, are you there? Good morning, Michael Bari Weiss. How are you doing? Is it already tomorrow? Good morning, Texas. Listen to the czar. Good morning, Texas. At home or in your car. Good morning, Texas. Romon is on his dean. And we're happy to be here to talk about everything. Hey.

Texas. Good morning, Texas. Good morning, Texas. Good morning, Texas. Good morning. Wake up. It's awesome. Let's pick on Democrats. Good morning. A feature film based on the life of Mattress Mack has the cast named with production set to begin later this month here in Texas. Deadline reports the movie will star Billy Magnuson of Lilo and Stitch. Is it Lilo and Stitch? Lilo and Stitch as Mac. Diana Agron of the Chosen One. I don't know her nor the movie, but that doesn't mean she's not the biggest star ever. Darby Lee Stack from the holdovers and Rob Cordry from the audacity. Man, I am really out of it. Not only do I not know actors, I don't even know movies. Entire movies I don't know. Shane Andrews will direct from a screenplay. He also wrote, I was contacted about this movie about eight months ago. and to see if I wanted to be in it and invest in it. And the truth is, I just didn't have the bandwidth to consider it at the time. But before I did anything, I reached out to Mac, said, hey, I just want to make sure you know this is out there and that you are comfortable with it because I didn't want to wake up as this thing's going to production and Max mad as hell that they're doing something about him that's not nice. What you do about him that wasn't nice, but you just never know. And he said, yeah, I'm aware. They seem like they, you know, it seems like a nice enough project. Deadline reports set in the early 80s and 2000s in Houston. The film is based on a true story about Jim Mattress MacMack, Mackingville, a beloved Texas tycoon. Ramon, do you say beloved or beloved? I like Beloved too. Feels very Jerry Lee Lewis. And retail pioneer who is best known for his generosity and community service. Hence the term Mac gives back. If they don't use my term in my movie, I'm going to curse the movie. Often opening his gallery furniture stores to shelter and feed people during natural disasters. McInvelle has... helped thousands affected by multiple major hurricanes in Texas, earning recognition as a Houston hero. This thing's more than a Houston hero. This past summer, McInnell made headlines after donating 500 mattresses to survivors of the July 4th, Texas Hill Country floods, along with first responders and volunteers who helped out during the historic flood event. Mattress Mac will follow McInville's journey as he risks everything to open gallery furniture alongside his wife and business partner Linda and the challenges the family faces years later when their youngest daughter battles a debilitating case of obsessive family.

of obsessive, I'm sorry, compulsive disorder. Mattress Mac is produced by Andrews, John Robleski, Christian Sosa, Molly Connors, Magnuson, Ann Hollister, Amanda Bowers, Alex Spatt, and Lance Kramer. Executive producers are... Carl Effenson, Curtis Knobb, Sergey Nakadze, and Meg Jenkins Locke. Jim McInvail's story is one of resilience, Harding Community, Magnuson said in a statement, I am honored to help bring his incredible journey to the screen and to collaborate with such passionate storytellers in capturing the spirit of Mattress Mack and the city of Houston. Andrews added, everyone in Houston knows Mac, but few know the quiet moments. the private battles, the human being behind the slogans and the Texas grit. We are thrilled to have partnered with Roosevelt Film Lab and Fiffin to bring this project to life. Well, that's fantastic. No news on when we will be able to see this. But I look forward to that. It's a great story. I hope they capture it. properly and I hope they get into the depth of the man because I think he's far more interesting than people realize I mean it's sort of a caricature as you know save you money but there's a very deep person underneath all of that very intellectually curious and intellectually um

accomplished man. He is very, very thoughtful. I also think it's noteworthy that he is so willing to take on public causes that are not 100%. You know, it's one thing to support storm victims. Everybody's for that. Everybody loves you across the board. He got very involved in Alex Mueller's victory over Lina Hidalgo when the Democrats cheated in the county judge race, for which obviously county judge out to get him and saying so as often as she possibly could. He's very involved in her congressional race. The ninth congressional district, he's been very involved about government corruption under Sylvester Turner. You want to know how hard that is to do? How many other business people have been willing to speak out publicly and do that? How many can you think of off top of your head? Publicly. Their name behind it, public, and pay to do it. And only that, he's a retailer. If your firm is selling valves or pipeline or whatever else, it's not going to affect you because your industry is, you know, a narrow set of people and not the retail public. When you sell to the retail public, having an opinion can potentially cost you a customer. And that's why so many people are wussies who are retailers. Well, you know, I don't want to hurt my business. For every person that you don't get. because you stood up and did the right thing, which don't you tell your kids to do that no matter what anywhere? Or do you say, oh, only if it's, you know, it doesn't cost you anything. If doing the right thing was easy, everybody would do it all the time. But he does that, and he does not fear the fact that he may lose some customers, but he picks up a whole hell of a lot more. And I tell companies that all the time. If you're scared to sponsor our show because somebody might not like it, then you're really not somebody I want as our partner in the first place. Right, Ramon?

Part of the charm of John Prine to me is that he's not a particularly good singer. So much of what he sings, he's written himself. There's the storytelling, which the, like Lake Marie, there is the... I guess vulnerability to him that he's not a handsome. He passed, right? He was not a handsome man. And the sicker he got from cancer and the more his face was cut away as they removed parts of it. And his voice began to fail him, not a particularly pretty voice to start with. It was like it was more and more charming as it went along. He just kept laying it out there. And I don't know. It feels like the older I've gotten, the more I've come to appreciate voices and personalities that are imperfect. You know, if you want to, what is the guy's name, Josh Brolin? No, what? Josh Grobin or a Michael Blue Blay or, you know, if you want a perfect voice. That, you know, your vocal coaches would tell you that's perfect. Fine. But that's all they are. It's not a deep personality. And then you get a Willie or a John Prine or a Tom Waits or one of these guys with a very odd voice. And you think, it's a wonder they ever made it. Because people that judge those sorts of things, you can. control those sorts of things would say, no, no, no, you don't do it exactly the way it's supposed to be done. Like having a herky jerky pitching motion or having a business plan to do something in an industry where you're a disruptor. And they say, but who's already doing that? That's the point. Nobody. I'm going to do it. I'm going to tell this story. And I'm going to try not to lose my stuff because I want to, because I'm tempted to. A federal judicial panel in El Paso overturned the Republican redistricting map. It will now head to the Supreme Court. The good news is we've got Samuel Alito in the administrative hearing for a stay on the ruling. Stay means the ruling does not go into effect right now. You just sort of put the brakes on it. And Samuel Alito is more likely receptive to our appeal, state of Texas appeal as brought by Ken Paxton than some of the other justices would be. But it should have never come to this. And it pains me terribly. In fact, it infuriates me terribly that the judge who has ruled thusly is Jeff Brown. Someone I haven't seen in a long time, but I considered a friend for many, many years. We were in the R Club together, a group of young guys 30 years old, 25 years ago. Ted Cruz, Grant Dorfman, Ken Wise, a number of us. There were 30 of us in this group, little precocious punks thinking that we were going to change the world.

And that's how I knew Jeff. It was always very ambitious, always portrayed himself as very conservative. This is a guy that Trump appoints to the federal bench. And he has ruled against the congressional map, throwing everything into disarray. That's what the Democrats won't do. The Democrats won't do something to destroy their party in what they truly believe in. But we've always got a Republican who feels the need that he's holier than now. And unfortunately, that's Jeff Brown. It's disappointing. Very, very disappointing. I can't imagine Trump's response when he finds out, found out overnight that his appointee, who he was promised was going to be such a great conservative, goes and does this. So now, Now you've got a primary coming up in March. Let's just take one case. Al Green resigned or announced his retirement from his congressional seat and then announced that he's running for the 18th congressional seat, which was Sheila Jackson Lee's seat forever. Before that, Craig Washington and before that, of course, Barbara Jim Jordan, for whom that district was originally gerrymandered. And it was gerrymandered. It was part of the Voting Rights Act. That was their application because you Southerners are such racist that they went in and carved out districts that would span a long distance. And they'd run through a creek where there were no people just to keep it contiguous because you can't have two separated islands. You would have to, is that atolls? Is that what those are called Ramon? Look up the definition of atoll, the exact definition of atoll. Anyway, so they would create these districts only in the south because southerners are such racist, you see, and we have to fix that because that's going to solve the problem. We're going to create districts that's only going to have black people in it, and then we'll have black congressional districts, and that'll somehow solve every problem. A chain of islands forming, formed of coral. Most of non-corral atoll. This island. Okay. Anyway, so Al Green, he announces his retirement from his congressional seat that he's in now, which I guess is nine. And I'm not positive on that. And then he announces that he's going to run in District 18 because he's got the name idea. And presumably he could win that seat no matter who wins it in the in the in the in the in the in the race to fill the unexpired term. That has gone to a runoff between Amanda Edwards and Christian Menifee. Christian Menofy is. lays right up under or is is supported from behind by Rodney Ellis that's his candidate and amanda ellis is Amanda Edwards is the candidate well anyway whoever wins there is going to was going to be this throws it all into absolute disarray including our opportunity to pick up five congressional seats I cannot believe Jeff Brown has done this I cannot believe he has done this

If Judge Jeff Brown's decision is upheld by the circuit judge, which will be Samuel Alito, that's who is assigned for our area, that will mean that we will lose five extra seats in Texas, which we were projected. And... We will lose five seats in California, still. Everything you need to know about his opinion, you can see in the introduction to his opinion, where he quotes none other than Chief Justice John Roberts. When you quote John Roberts to start anything, we're in trouble. This is the man. I will remind you that when Obamacare went to the Supreme Court, everyone knew Obamacare was unconstitutional. You cannot compel people to engage in commerce. And that's exactly what Obamacare did.

When it went before the Supreme Court, the expectation was that it would be overruled. And John Roberts didn't want to overrule it because John Roberts decided that his place in history was to write the wrongs and not to disrupt things. And Republicans have really gone too far. And Republicans have it good anyway. Let me be. This kind of reminds me of Earl Warren, another Republican appointee who decided that he would solve America's problems from the bench. It's called judicial activism. It's a terrible thing because you're unelected. And it's not how our Constitution was designed to function. What these folks are trying to do is legislative in nature and not judicial in nature. But... So John Roberts, sorry, I'm just so pissed, I'm wanting to say things that I probably better not say. So John Roberts decides he comes down to be the deciding vote. It's 4-4. Majority is going to be 5-4. He decides that he will call Obamacare. He's just looking for a way to shoehorn Obamacare into constitutionality. And the way he decides to do that. is to say, well, you're right, Congress does not have the power to compel commerce in that manner. You know what? This is a tax. That's what we would call it a tax because Congress does very clearly have the power to tax. So when the opinion comes out, they're waiting outside the Supreme Court building. When I can't remember her name, that little evil. Susan Rice, I think it was Susan Rice, gets the opinion. And she says to Obama, John Roberts declares it a tax. And Obama says, now remember, he's supposed to be Mr. Constitutional lawyer. I'm here to tell you, he's not a great constitutional mind. He never practiced in any meaningful way. And his teaching was not in any way substantive. But they'd have you think that he's Charles Allen Wright, that, you know, he's this great professor. That have you think he's Louis Brandeis, this great legal minor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, but he's not. But even he knew. His immediate reaction was, it's not a tax. So. His thought was if they're ruling it attacks, they're finding some way to strike it down because he feared that they would strike it down. Even Obama found John Roberts tortured opinion to be goofy. But little did he realize until a few moments later that John Roberts had actually upheld Obamacare because he started by wanting to uphold Obamacare. He didn't start seeking the truth and end up upholding Obamacare. He started wanting to uphold Obamacare and ended up finding a way to get there by hook or by crook. And that is not the mind of a great jurist. So they did. He called it a tax and Congress has the power to tax. Even the justices concurring with him were looking at his opinion.

And later shook their hands, heads. Well, we all agreed to uphold Obamacare, but for very different reasons and coming to very different conclusions. But all that mattered was that we had the governmental control of health care or health care finances. Because it's really not about health care. Never has been. It was all about creating a massive insurance industry. And here we are later. You know, well over a decade later, we've seen what Obamacare did. And you can't make this stuff up. It's almost perfect. The Democrats are now claiming that Trump doesn't want to help us fix the health care problem. How can there be a health care problem when you fixed it with Obamacare? But actually, the problem is Obamacare. But you know who benefited from Obamacare? And this is the secret nobody ever talks about. It's been talked about of late a little. Insurance companies. There's been an explosion in insurance company wealth. Look at the stocks of insurance companies over the last 15 years. Look what they've done. Look at the pay packages. Look at the overall revenues. You know how you do that? You compel everybody to get health insurance. You compel everybody. to make a payment to these people. Exactly the way you compel people to take a stupid shot. The compulsion to engage in behaviors that the people in the ivory tower declare are required is pure socialism. In its purest, most academic form, undiluted, uncut. There it is. So Jeff Brown has seen fit to strike this down, to strike down all the potential gains we would have in the House for the last two years of President Trump's term. The most powerful act he will ever commit in his life.

And he is a Trump appointee. A guy who campaigned as a judge for the state Supreme Court as Mr. Law and Order. Brings your buyers. Mr. Michael Bari Weiss. Brings your buyers. When you ever think about the fact that when you fart, it can either be silent or loud, and then there's a turd option. NVIDIA set to release financials today. The NVIDIA earnings report has the market a Twitter. This one's going to be big. Invidia is, as you know, the world's first $5 trillion company. If you look at your stock portfolio online, you can look at whether your account is up or down in any particular day. You can first go to invidia, and that's going to have a greater determinant than anything else on what your portfolio is doing. It's amazing. It's amazing how important to the overall market a handful of stocks are, and particularly Nvidia. You know what? Uncle Jerry, Uncle Jerry and I very rarely talk finances. But he tells me the other day. that he and his financial advisor compete. He split his portfolio in half, and his financial advisor takes half, and then he can track. It's a little competition they have. And he showed me that he had bought Nvidia, I believe at $9. It was crazy. I mean, he could have bought. If he could have bought, well, that's crazy, but a million shares of NVIDIA, he would be, he would be a very, he would be Uncle Jerry, be a daddy, Jerry, good point. Yeah, no, that's a good point. Invidia earnings today, one of those things that makes it into Donald Trump's briefing book. They will be watching that very, very carefully. There is a delayed September jobs report, which will not come out today. It will come out tomorrow. And in other big news, President Trump has dispatched a high-level Pentagon delegation to Kiev in Ukraine for talks, trying to bring an end to the war. Interesting, isn't it? The war continues, but we don't hear about it. It's amazing to me and kind of sad, really, tragic almost, that there are people who live or die by what news directors put on TV. There are people who put the Ukrainian flag as their profile picture on their Facebook account because we've got to stop that war. That war is the most important thing of the world, Michael. You're making jokes, but it is.

Was it a year ago? Because you'd never talked about it in your life. How did it all of a sudden become the most important thing in the world? And we have to give every bit of money we have to them because that's going to stop it? How did this happen? What caused it to be so important overnight that the Bidens get a kickback for every dollar we sent there? I just saw that Volodymyr Zelensky. who has been living off our largesse. Talk about a welfare queen. Been living off our large S is the largest investor in a Ukrainian ski resort. And I can't remember how much he put in, but it was a significant amount of money. Significant amount of money. And this isn't a governmental investment. I'm sure he'll match that or put even more because he's going to back his investment with plenty of money. from the government, but he also put some of his personal money in. How does he have all this money? I thought his country was on the brink. Elon Musk's new artificial intelligence company, if you want something to read about today, go read about some of the stuff they're doing. It's very interesting. Now, he's a master promoter. He'll have you believing that it is where he hopes it'll be in five years today, which it's not. That was always the case with full self-driving, but he got there, and he got there before anybody else. And there is something to be said for that. But he's been promising it for 13 years, and it finally came around. And there's plenty of criticisms about it. And I know there's a lot of self-doubt about it. But I have to give a man credit when he does what he said he would do and no one else had done it. The man, a friend of mine, Michael Holtouse, I consider Michael to be a very, very, very smart man, very smart man, particularly when it comes to innovation. Michael Holt House was telling me 10 years ago about AI. and why I should be interested in AI. And I would say, you know what, Michael, why don't you be interested in AI? And I'll not. And that'll be good. And he would just, every time we'd see each other, which is a lot. He'd start into AI. What do you think about AI? Well, after a while, my AI antipathy started cracking because I started realizing. He's right. This is going to invade every aspect of our lives. And whether I learn about it or just remain a Luddite doesn't matter. That train has left the station, and it is hurtling forward. And I better, or I should, why not? I like to learn things. And so I've kind of, as my grandma said, I div off in there. And I've tried to catch up to speed on exactly what it's doing and how it is affecting life already. And he said to me, we watched the UT game together, and he said to me that Elon Musk is the smartest man on the planet and the smartest man in multiple different fields. And that may never have happened in history before. Everything he does is cutting edge and successful. Obviously his car company.

His robotics company, his AI company, his boring company, which he's so cleverly named the boring company, is cutting edge in a way that no one else had ever done, boring underground tunnels. I don't know if anybody's been to it. Send me an email through the website at Michaelberry Show.com. They've bored tunnels underground in Las Vegas so that you drive around, I guess when you pick up your Tesla or whatever, and you come out from the tunnel up to the street. It's been described to me as something you've never seen before. You're driving through this tunnel, but I don't know why it's so different, but supposedly it is. Then there is Space X. where he did things that NASA could never do or would never do. How about redocking a ship so that you don't waste the entirety of the structure every single time? It's incredible. It really is incredible. How about taking over Twitter and fixing it? Everyone loves to say all the things that are still wrong with it. True. But it's a hundred times better. And Twitter has turned out to be very important. to people. And Twitter being a free speech platform has made Facebook, now meta, change a lot of their practices. Meta has had to improve with regard to canceling major players. They've had to because of the Twitter competition. I think those things are worthy of note. Anyway, they're trying to raise $15 billion in new equity at a $230 billion valuation. Not for nothing. Ray Breyer's is the pipe man. He owns Pipeyard Inc. And they buy and sell pipe all day long. And I am shocked how much business we've been able to send him across the country. Entire pipelines going across three different states where they need to get the pipe pulled out. He's like, I'll pull the pipe out, I'll sell the pipe. People buying pipe, people selling pipe. The people that buy pipe are environmental managers, pipeline project managers. Somebody that's got an abandoned pipeline that's been removed. They want the pipe yard ink, compliance and regulatory folks. They want to get those pipes out of there. Selling pipe, folks that need carbon steel pipe, the pipe yard ink stocks everything you need, any kind of pipe. There is stuff that people call him for, industrial stuff, that he doesn't even have, and he tracks it down. He's working his phone, and his team is working their phones all day long. He's got a yard, they've got pipe. They are working the phones to get stuff for people all day long. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. I'm on testosterone, and I encourage everybody else to be on testosterone. If you're below 350 on your testosterone level, a very good chance your insurance will pay for you to have it. You know why? There's a lot of studies that say it's very good for you, not just your sex life, but your energy, your strength, all sorts of good things. Do your own research. Don't trust me. But you should do your research, and you should get your blood panels checked, and they'll do all that for you at synergenics. Go to fixmylowt.com. Fix my lowt.com. Whether you write a check every month or it's on direct deposit or auto pay, you write a check to your insurance company for a reason. You could have spent that money on anything else. You made a good decision to hedge against bad things happen, and then it did.

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