AM Show hr 1 | Finally Friday

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No Michael Very Show is on theair. Oh that was awful. You
want to try that again. Let'sdo the whole opening. My people out

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there ready for their for their Fridaydose of goodness. I'm sorry you came
to the donut shop and we're outof donuts. But if you wait five
minutes, we'll have hot donuts.That'll be really good. Okay, here
we go. It's that time,time, time, time luck and look,

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no Michael Very show is on theair. Oh yeah, on this
day. In nineteen sixty nine,Oh Happy Day entered the Hot one hundred
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Let this wash over, you getyour mind right, base yourself.
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the habit day, happy day,A happy day, winter the war?

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need to lack? Happy day?Happy happy deal? Oh happy deal?

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Oh habit oh habit when those whowaity who when those war see the way

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it is up the habit Oh lo, happy good girl. Oh yes it's
open lind Friday, seven and threenine nine nine, one thousand, seven

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and three nine nine nine one thousand. Big developments yesterday in the staff of
Lena Hidalgo. The case is beingmoved to the Attorney General's office. In
Paxton's office, Kim Ogg with theannouncement. We'll get into that in a
moment. The lawyer for one ofthe accused, Lena Hidalgo's chief of staff,

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Alex Triantaphalos, will be our guestin just a moment. But first
you get a start as well,always do courtesy the greatest executive producer in
all the land. Chattakoni Nakanishi.You you can roll away. If an
eighteen wheeler blew their horn, itwas the best day ever. No amount

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of ice cream, nothing could bebetter. He just blew the horn in
reaction to you. But no gooddeed goes unpunished. You were like done,
aget get I just leave me alone. The final countdown to opening statements
and former President Donald Trump's historic hushmanytrials is there which John Tennant is a

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shame and it comes out of Washingtonit's in coordination with Washington every day.
Think about it. We can't evenimpeach Joe Biden. They doubled impeached Trump,
and they've dragged him to court infive different venues. A horrifying scene
outside the Trump hush money trial today, a man set himself on fire.

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Stunned reporters who are live on aircovering the Trump trial reacted in disbelief.
Can't see in any way how anyhuman being can survive this, you know,
setting yourself on fire. I meanI realize it gets he gets some
attention, But what's going through yourhead? How long into that do you
wish you hadn't done that? BecauseI bet that happens. A woman is

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not an object. Your mother's right, Sean. Listen to what it says,
Peter, I didn't say that,Lee Majors did. What women are
things? Lee Majors? Look atmy cheat sheet? Okay? Oh you
really? You script? Joe Bidengot I like I call on Michael Michael
worry. Do you know you arefour years older than him and fifty years

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more lucid. It's true and youlook great? Thank you? You look
fantastic, jealous, pretty good betweenyou and PASTORNI you both make me feel
awful because I'm no, you're notyet considerably younger, But I don't own
your mir your devilish good looks.Well, I'm not trying to kiss and

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tell. But I've been seen withcar up. I've never been with anything
less than than so fun. I'vebeen on fire with silent Field and down
past with the girl named both.But somehow that it's just got end up
as mine. Jessie read about theyear It's the Michael Berry Show sixteen alarm

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clock won't stop. I'm stumbled tothe same Try to think. Fill the
coffee, Pope. It is overline Friday, and we will get to
your calls shortly, but more developmentsthat require us to have a conversation with
Dan Cogdell, defense attorney. Thiswill be a quick one because he's out

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riding motorcycles in Fredericksburg. What doyou ride today? I'm riding at KTM
thirteen ninety Michael, what does thatmean today? You got so many?
I got more motorcycles? And sincefor sure are you one of those Jerry
J. Moore guys, except insteadof the Dusenbergs or whatever You've got motorcycles.
Well, there's a name from thepast. That's awesome. I probably

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have twenty five motorcycles. Did yourepresent Hu? I did not, but
my mental Racehorse Haynes and Jerry jwere the best of friends. Do you
were you? Oh? No,it was Rudy t plays at Worth them
because I was going to say thelast time I saw Racehorse Hanes, he
was playing. He was walking withthem. He was probably ninety five at

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the time, and I remember thinking, this guy could play anywhere he wants,
and this is he chooses to playthe oldest public course in the country
and not a fancy one that too. Hanks was not fancy. He was
the best lawyer in my opinion,that ever drew a breath of air,
But fancy he was not. Sowhere are y'all riding today? We are
going about a two nd mile looptoday, Michael, and then tomorrow we're

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going to ride the celebrated Twisted Sisters, which is probably the best loop in
Texas to ride a motorcycle on theoutside of the hat out of here,
go ahead. You know. Mything with fishing, hunting, riding motorcycles,
playing poker, most everything else isI don't actually enjoy the activity itself
as much as I do the camaraderie. You know, it's a bad sign
when my first thought when you're talkingabout the Twisted Sister is where are you

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gonna have where you're gonna stop forlunch? Because it seems to me the
whole reason to ride bikes is whereyou're going to stop for lunch. That's
an important part of it to me. Also, you know, it flusures
my como. There's just I don'tthink about anything riding the motorcycle, particularly
when I'm racing motorcycles, except youknow what what that turn is up ahead.
I don't think about the motion Ishould have filed, the judge that

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I got that's mad at me orwhatever. I just I just think about,
you know, it being in themoment, and I don't drink anymore
so that that's that's my That's theway I flush my commodes. I'm still
processing this, flush my commode referencethis. This is interesting question. A
number of people asked, if you'reTrump's lawyer, the Vordyre process, the

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selection of the jurors, how doyou think he did? As best you
can tell, you know, it'shard to tell because they just sit there
and sometimes not at gen sometimes don'ttake notes. So it's it's it's hard
to tell any case as high profileas this one, particularly as an individual
as polarizing as as Trump. Uh, You're the real art of the deal

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these days is getting into there's thebanis the purity members social media, because
that's going to reflect who they reallyare, at least as much as what
they tell you they are. Soyou really have to do a deep dive
in their social media, see whothey listen to, see what their comments
are, because you know they're goingto say the socially appropriate thing in a
jury selection context, and you justcan't trust that, particularly in a case

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like Trump's where he is so polarizing. So one of the stories was that
big law was on the jury becausetwo lawyers with big law firms were on
there. As a general category,if a guy's a Baker, Bot's Fulbright
v and E. Cravatswain lawyer,and you're in a criminal defense you're the
criminal defense attorney in a Trump typecase, what's your gut? I know

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everybody's different, what's your gut forthat guy? I'll take a lawyer every
time, because they understand the burdenof proof. They understand the requirement of
proof beyond a reasonable doubt. They'rea good thing to have on a jury.
I like lawyers because I tend tothink that they a lawyer is going
to vote for who the best lawyeris, and I believe, whether I'm
right or I'm wrong, best lawyerin the room. So I like lawyers.

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When you're looking at categories of peopleas a criminal defense attorney, particularly
in this case, which is morekind of a white collar type deal.
Listen, it's not a murder.What are a couple of things you gravitate
toward and against? What in demographicyou know? Demographically you want you you
tend to want somebody that's demographically associatedwith your client. You don't want somebody

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if you have a client of greatwealth or great power who has never been
exposed to that. You want somebodywho is open minded. You want somebody
who will listen and not make adecision until all the evidence is in.
And what are you looking against?Who scares you the most? People that

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don't have anything to comme up withmy client, right, People that have
never traveled in those same circles.People to look human nature as we are
jealous of things we can't have andwe don't have. And the further ideologically
demographically, a potential jour is fromyour client, UH, the worst off
you're going to be and and andin the same as you're on the flip
side. Right if if you've gota guy charged with with ag robs or

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whatever, you don't want a guywho went to UH whose kids are ken
Gate or Saint John's or whatever.You know, you want somebody as similar
to your client as you can findfair enough elephant in the room. But
we have to ask Kim Ogg yesterdaywho was defeated by Shawn Tier who's the
lawyer and your firm who will beUH on the ballot in November as the

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Democrat nominee for District Attorney. KimOgg announcing, Hey, we're removing the
case against uh Lenahandogo's top three folksto the Attorney General a move full disclosure.
I support. But you are representingAlex Treantophalus uh Lenadoga's chief of staff.
We talked yesterday morning. You're notsurprised by that. You're thought thoughts

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and further complicating and making this domore interesting in the tangled life of Dan
cogdill, it will now be inKen Paxton's office, and you defended Kim
Paxton against the Drunk Dade Show trialto try to impeach him. So these
are interesting times for Dan cogdile.That's why you got to get away and
flush your commode. That's right.You know. The one thing I admiring

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about Kim is her consistency. She'sconsistent, She's consistently wrong. Sean doesn't
work for me anymore, hasn't sincethe primary. So it's just brilliant that
she bases her decision on the factthat Sean still works for me when he
doesn't work for me. I mean, I'm about it's hard to find Michael
as a red light on West Timer. I mean, google me, Kim.
He doesn't work in her office,he has he's not on the website.

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He has nothing to do never hashad anything to do with Alex's case.
So you know, if if therewas such a conflict, she should
have moved forward a long time ago. All this is is a shot at
Sean Tire who beat her like ared headed step child in the primary,
and indirectly a shot at me,which, like I said, I don't
care. A reputation like mine ishard to ruin. But she's just wrong

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on the idea that this conflict createdthe uh, the the you know,
the pension and and and and theexodure. Look, I have no problem
with the AG's office coming in andtaking over the case, Michael. I
have no problem with anybody objectively comingin and taking over the case, because
I think if they do, they'llsee it for what it is. You

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know, it's a it's a it'sa heaping pile of dog dung, it's
it's a horrible case. It shouldhave never been brought. But she's she's
trying to depoliticize the case that shemade political. I'm going to respectfully disagree
because I think it's a great case, but uh that that's part of the
fun of it. Let me closeby asking. I asked Ramon yesterday.

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He was talking about what a dapperdresser you are, and I said,
how much do you think the mostexpensive sports code that Cogdell owns would cost?
And I thought he'd say two thousand, which, in my opinions,
out in landish. And he saidfour thousand. And I said, well,
I'll ask, and you have tobe honest. That's part of the
you know, the the FCC regulatesus. You have to be honest when
you're asked a question, especially UH, sartorial question. Uh, well,

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you're both wrong. My most expensiveUH is not a sport code. It's
a suit that I had custom madefor me. Where the weed is custom.
And if you were if you rememberMichael, Who's who's the who's the
who's the brash boxer who had FUin his suit? Oh? Yeah,
what the name Conor McGregor? Yeah, yeah, So as an homage to

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that suit instead of f U,I have not guilty and little bitty lines
in the chalk side, that's anyway. And your question that was a eight
thousand. Oh see, he couldbe on the Trump Jury Michael Barry Show.
If he doesn't say it, damnwho Well, I got one hundred

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dollars smoking in my bill hole.I know all I'll say, didn't budgies
burning the hold right through my pocketingand do my skin? Come Monday morning,
I'll be brown talking. It's finetoday, I'm freeing here. I've
got my motor running well. Igot a nice message from Rudy t last

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night that you folks stopped in andwere very kind to him at us Coins,
and today from noon to one BrianCushing will be there signing stuff and
being Brian Cushing. That's just whatyou when you're Brian Cushing, you're just
kind of Brian Cushing. He smasheshis head and everything. How much serious

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question, no joke? How muchwould I have to pay you to walk
in? He's not been prepped.This is coming out of nowhere, just
some dude walking in. We're ina you know, black cap and you
literally, I'm not saying you getfifty feet away, because that would be
a you know, he'd assume adefensive posture. You walk in and from
about four steps away you tackle himreal quick and take him to the ground

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because if you hit him, ifyou caught him right, you know,
you knock him over. And thenI'm not saying you then fight him.
You jump up and go I alwayswanted to do that and act like you're
stupid to how much would I haveto pay you? Serious question? A
thousand bucks? You do that fora thousand bucks. The thing about it
is he's probably not going to thinkit's funny, but he's also probably not

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going to beat the snot out ofyou. I don't think he would if
we're all laughing, like, oh, that was funny. It's kind of
one of those deals where he getsup and goes, that's not funny.
Guys, you don't like I couldhave killed you. That's not funny.
You think you think I like that? Get out of here? Okay,
but could could you sign this?Trying to hear your first two Ramote,

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Good job on the tackle, dude, nice form. Head up Bosworth before
he got blasted by bo Jackson.Well done, good technique. Do you
know that he has a child namedKai and Chatt Knockanishi has a child named
Kai? Yeah? Do you knowthat his wife and uh jj Watt's wife

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are they sisters? Actually? Ithink they might be sister. There's a
Hawaiian connection there. That's why theyhave Hawaiian names. And I think they
both played soccer together. I'm notpositive on that. I don't know.
Brian Cushing, we have been inthe same room, in the same gathering
at the same time. But well, huh, they're sisters. They are
sisters. The thing about it isthey look tiny because they're next to them.

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They're not all that little. They'reathletes. They're real athletes, legit
women's athletes. But it's just comparedto those two who would you rather have
stand with their feet solid on theground and you try to see if you
could at least tip them over withfive steps running JJ Watt's wife, No

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weirdo, that's too weird. BrianCushing or Indy Kalou Well, indies older,
and Indy's thicker. Indie s thicker, and now INDI's in shape.
He doesn't drink. He works outlike a maniac. All right. How
about Greg Cook? Because Greg Cookwas a lot older but also a lot

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thicker, a lot bigger, andGreg is genuinely mean. Yeah he'll pull
yeah, yeah, Today noon toone Brian Cushing at US coins and tomorrow
noon to one, Jeff Bagwell andRoger Clemens. Who would you rather hang
out with two of them? Baggyover Roger Clemens, Well, I got

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it, But Roger Clemens think aboutBaggie and mean. I guess it's a
Houston thing, right. But RogerClemens is one of those guys that if
you go across the country and youask a thousand people name a sports legend
you'd most like to have a coupleof beers with and by a couple,

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I mean twenty five, Roger Clemensis gonna come up in that list,
especially if you limit it to whitedudes, because you're gonna have a time
like you are going to have agood You're gonna go from a restaurant to
a bar, to a bar toa restaurant, lunch and dinner, same
same hangout session with some roadies thewhole time. And when you walk in

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with right, you put him first. Nobody's like the owner's not like,
hey, you can't bring a roadiein here, like, hey, Roger
Clement, and he knows he seesthe roadie and then he's kind of looking
at you like you don't get tobring a roady. Who are you?
You're Yeah, well, I'm aRoger. I must be somebody. I'm
somebody tomorrow from noon to one.Jeff Bagwell and Roger Clemens is free.

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Go visit, go bring your stuffto sign. Apparently. I asked Kenny
what he's doing, Why is hedoing this? And he said it's National
Coin Week treasure hunt, and it'ssome deal where you go and you find
gold coins like of real money,like a real deal. Yeah, Joyce

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the same Sunnyside. Yes, goahead, sweetheart, I'm here, Michael.
You know, I've been wanting totalk about this program, but I've
had other fish to fry, soI'm just available today. But I want
to talk about this lift Harrish debacle. Let me first, let me see.

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Nobody have to believe with what I'mabout to say. But if I
have a convict, Michael, you, nobody else have to stand, have
to stand with me. When Iread about this tobaccle, it was just
in the Embryo state that I readlater, you know. And and I'm
medieval, so I still take thechronicle. Okay. So a little bit
later I read and the program hadbeen buried, and I said, how

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could this debacle be afford to happenin the United States of America, Stevie,
want you could see through this foolishness? And and and I heard later
on I read later on that itwas unconstitutional. Well, I'm not up
on the unconstitutionality of it, butI'm very well up on the common sensonality

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of it. And then I keptreading and it said it was would be
randomly picked. Then I started thinkingof this pict just going around in my
brain, who's doing the random?I thought about that, and then I
read further on one day and itsaid only one out of forty would be

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picked, and Sunnyside, my zipcode was especially minted that we're just struggling
and suffering out here, but onlyone out of forty would be picked.
And I started thinking. I said, well, in that case, Betoncourt
and Paxton and the other system ofpeople, that is a guest that shouldn't
have to say nothing. Where isthe thurday nine? The thirday nine is

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the one that should be upset aboutit. Joyce to say the sony side
hang tight right there, you rightback, and we're not actually going anywhere
to take quick bra here and runthe restaurants I would you had robaching and
MAUIs and Michael Lady just sent anemail and said, hey, Cushing trains

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in jiu jitsu. I got someguys that train with him. The ground
is his world. If you knockedhim to the ground, then he's really
going to hurt you. And hesent a video of Cushing training. It's
a lot of dudes locked up witheach other. I didn't look too close,
but I'm pretty pretty sure. Butyou're bigger than the guy he's up
against the guy he's up against,real fit and all that. You got
kind of more of the butterbean approach. I like to think, you know,

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he pulls that move where he getsbehind you and you're laying up on
top, you know, kind ofreverse cowboy kind deal. I like to
think you can bang your head backagainst him, el woman in the gut.
I'm like, yeah, Brian cushedyou to foul. I like to
think, you know, I liketo think of a world where you Todd
writes, Cushing has taken several yearsof Brazilian jiu jitsu over at Gracie,

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at West Timer and Fondren. Howdo I know my step son taught and
sparred with him. Yeah, well, they don't know about you, Ramon.
See that's what I don't like aboutthis. They're all cushing this and
cushing that. They don't know aboutyou. See you, you know what
did it for Cushing? That picturethat gash it oh man, that's up
there with that's up there with NolanRyan after bo Jackson hit that ball,
busted his lip and he still threwhim out. Those two pictures, I'll

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tell you the third one, andI'm mad at him because I had to
cuss him out on Twitter covered hewas Kurt Shilling, remember Kurt Shilling the
blood coming out of his out ofhis sock, and that that secured the
legend of him. I will tellyou, you know what you want to
do is you do it look likethey do in the movies. You do
like a razor cut. You justcut just enough to get that blood going

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and uh, to make it actuallyliterally bleed. But then you can close
it back up. You really wantto have that picture like cushing or you're
sitting here like like that was Chucknarrat kind of stuff. That was that
wash b butckuse kind of stuff thatthat's the kind of thing that you see
that and you go, man,Joyce, to save your sunnyside. Yes,

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I had to interrupt you. I'mturning off my mic. You got
the rest of this segment, gookay. I ended with Thwave thirty nine.
But before that, it was anarticle in the paper about blacks don't
eat soap, and like I said, my area was especially mentioned, and
I'm thinking, well, we justa bag of bones out here. Uh,
we don't have any food, butyou're just gonna get one out of

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Fordy some food. So the restof us we're living. We just we
living on them. One foot onthe banana peel and the other one in
the grave. So you're gonna givethis one person done, so the rest
of us we're just gonna slip oneoff in the grave. And this is
where we are in this mission.And as many problems as we have.

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And I says Sunnyside, but it'sin whatever, a predominant black ere.
It's the same thing aprias Home,Trinity Guard wherever. But I'm talking about
Funny Side because I live here.The truck problems that we have out here,
drugs are very prevalent in my community. I go to my bank to
the ATM machine and it's smashed in. I walk across the street to my

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Walgreens to not I mean a rideacross there to my window to pick up
my prescription, and it's boarded up. I walk around down to the dollar
store and the door is boarded up. And how many times I've been in
the store. A ninety one yearold woman standing at that cashier to pay

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her bill, her mount and Isee young mostly black men walk in that
store pick what they want and walkaround the door and there's nobody there.
There's no manager there to stop it. I don't I guess you couldn't stop
it if he was there. Andyou and you're gonna bring up a program

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like this, and we are supposedto accept this as black people. And
let me say to my people,we need to stop allowing these white liberal
Democrat plantation owners to use us.They will use one black and put him

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up, and that would make therest of us vote for that black.
But back black is the only onethat's moving on up and we'll still living
in the ghetto. And you sosometime I think we have the Stockholmer sending
them in the black community, weare undeserved. And you know I said
this before. I don't agree withvery much the Democrats say, but I've

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heard them say that we are underservedin the black community. That's true.
But who is not discerning us becauseyou know we don't We don't like them.
Are rich white Republicans, you knowthem, all of them are River
Oak folks, and all we don'tlike them because when they break in our
house, we said, why didn'tthey go to River Oaks and break in

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the house and River Oaks. Isaid, why is the hell? You
don't get your back behind on thejob and you won't have to break in
nobody's house. But that's where weare. So let me say, I
am so proud of Boxton for notwanting seeing that this program is he said,

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unconstitutional, but it should be abolishedas I'm speaking, and I know
there are Yale College educated and allthese here, highly educated people have come
up with this idea. Well,this is from a little right down from

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the cotton fields and the corn fieldand the peap hats, and I can
tell you common sensely that it shouldbe abolished. To date, you're gonna
give one out of forty. You'regonna pick fody and you're gonna pick one,

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and you're gonna give them five hundreddollars a month for a year and
a half. You could be giff. We got drug dealers out here in
Sunnyside. You could be giving adrug dealer of five hundred dollars. And
a senior citizen over here that youknow, they tell me that some of
them say their Social Security checks havebeen cut. Shy, I'm saying that

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food stamps have been cut. Yetyou can give Legalanians once at a time
to live in four hundred dollars aday hotels. And we are out here
struggling. There are blacks in myarea that their homes haven't been fixed since

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Harvey. And we want to comeup with a with a prate program to
get five hundred dollars to get afew of us. Well, what about
the rest of us? If allof us are hungry, you men could
tell me that you are satisfied withjust feeding one of us. That doesn't
make any sense. A two yearreturned child would know that this is wrong.

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So this is my plea to thecity of Houston. Are you highly
educated people about it's this program?Amen? Because we are not that suffering
out here. Amen. Joyce theSage of Sunnyside, always a pleasure,
sweetheart, ninety one years young oldthe spunk with them and Viggar, I

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love it. She said, what'dshe say? Fried my fish? That's
her flush my k commote hers isfry my fish? All right? Open
on Friday seven one three nine ninenine, one thousand. We are opening
the lines now seven one three ninenine nine one thousand,