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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm embarrassed to tell you all this, but I actually
hang out with some very haggardly hold I am not
kidding you. These women that goes to my church and
get in my car and we rides around. Okay, for
the last these weeks, we've been going every Friday night
to get some free catfish at the Catholic church. And
you say free. I thought they charged, yes, But these
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women that go down there with they act like, oh,
we so poverty, but we love the Lord. They make
the sign and cross, they fall down on one knee
and the pole priests ain't got no choice but to
give them that and a double helping the cold slow goods.
I ain't trying to put nobody on blasts or spot
like they ask. But ib I know what I'm talking about.
Care Niggas and doria El, Doris Finney and Beverly but Wine. Yes,
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that's them women's that can do all this ignorance. I
had confessed all this to the new preacher down in
my hold second Baptist Design Church of Goding Christs down
on third and jowing streaking orange, and I say.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What should I do? He said, get your nose out
of other people bus this. It don't affect you. Your
reputations already arned. Why do you even give a care?
And uh, I said, well that's a good parent, isn't
it tell you my mind?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Then I act cash during Okay, now back to the
MICA bad program.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You all know the person that if you ask if
they want a coffee and they have an elaborate order,
if you're on your way to pick up coffee for
the office, you regret it immediately and you think to yourself,
if you just call Cats Coffee Kitz Coffee dot com,
then you wouldn't need to fill up the coffee, You
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wouldn't need to cover it up with all that other stuff,
because the coffee itself would be roasted, blended right here
in Houston, and it would be delicious and you would
enjoy it. But when you have bad coffee, you have
to fill it, you have to cover it up. You
know when I first when I had my first cup
of coffee, I'll sit with my grandmother.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Have coffee because the adults had coffee as an adult thing.
So I filled it full of milk and creamer and
sugar until eventually there was a little coffee in my sugar.
And that's how I drank it for years. That's how
you have to drink it when you don't like coffee
or when the coffee is not any good. So anyway,
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this is a woman that I discovered the listener center
to me, and she's hilarious and very clever, and she
does these impersonations, these character riffs. And this is her name,
is Ellie Elle Cordova, and it's it's called I'll just
do a coffee.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'll just do a coffee black. I have a little
half and half half of this, half of that, not
too much to splash, and a little itty bitty hit
to mint, just a dab with the cold foam on
the dome, keep it pretty flat in the silk, almond milk,
no straw, no cap, extra hot, extra whip, extra shot, jab,
a chip, and a little Kramel disele on the top,
just a bit. Plus a cappuccino, frappuccino, pupacino, al pacino ice,
flat white oat milks and pellegrino vente avagato at the
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hot Americano and the moka choka yaya and the caramel machiyata.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
All Right, I told you I was cleaning out audio
files and I came across the story. I feel like
we talked about this, but sometimes we talk about it
at our production meets and then I don't I don't
remember if we played it or not. There was a
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a man by the name of Liquarian Robertson, a father
of five, and he was shot and killed at the
Diamond Inn in the eighty nine hundred block of the
Golf Freeway near Caniff Street. I did some checking with
some popo who worked that area, and they informed me
that the Diamond Inn is not not only not a
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luxury hotel, the Diamond Inn is really not a place
at people typically are laying their head as they travel
across the country selling vacuum cleaners. It is more of
a hot bed of drugs, violence, and sex. For Seal
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authorities have video of the suspect, who they say, well, oh, okay,
well we know the victim was black. Let's see what
we can find out some details about it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They say he was wearing a red and white clown mask.
Oh okay, Well, all we have to do is just
look for a red and white clown mask, because surely
he still has it on, right he wouldn't throw it away.
A dark blue hoodie. Not only do we get the
color and the type of shirtwear, but we get the
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shade of that color. Dark blue pants. We don't know
their color, probably blue jeans, black sneakers. So now we
get the type of shoe and the color. That's important
to know. With white soles, Oh why was it important
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that we know that the sole is a different color
than the shoe. It's almost as if color helps us
narrow things down and identify if, in fact, we want
to catch him. Popo had limited information about the suspect's
appearance other than he was a man and may have
been bald. They did share one surveillance photo. Now I've
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seen that surveillance photo, and you'll never guess what I
noticed about the surveillance photo that wasn't in the story.
I'm going to leave that for your imagination. You'll never
guess what was in there. Now. The mother of this
young man, Veronica Robertson, says that her youngest son was
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killed thirteen years ago. So this is the second of
her two children who were murdered. I've said it before
and I'll say it again. The victim of black violence
is mostly blacks. But if you dare call out black violence,
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you're a racist. I'm not entirely sure how how black
politicians and white liberals keep passing off to a black
audience that somehow they're helping black people by keeping black
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murderers on the streets.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's actually.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Quite fascinating. I mean, it's really really interesting stuff, you know,
the mass manipulation, aside from how disturbing it is. Eight
years of Sylvester Turner's mayoral administration and the first the
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big storm, and John Whitmyer comes out and says, nine
of our fire stations went offline and don't have a
backup generator. Now where do you think those fire stations are?
And who do you think suffered from that? And yet
that was an event a couple months ago, might have
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been Juneteenth, actually it was juneen. And one of the
black pastors invited Sheila Jackson Lee up on stage and
they invited and he invited the mayor emeritus, Sylvester Turner. Oh,
he's mayor for life.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Great.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
They didn't invite the sitting mayor, John Whitmark because he's white.
They don't need him up there. They're celebrating Sylvester Turner
as some great black man, like he's Martin Luther King Jr.
Half his administrative they're crooks, absolute crooks, but they're treating
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him like he's a hero. It's just incredible to me.
It is incredible to me that this continues to have.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
I know apples, and I know apples, and I know
what the Michael Verry Show, and I know it the
Michael Verry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
When I came to Houston in nineteen eighty nine, the
Galleria was, boy, it was something special. I remember coming
over to Houston with a buddy of min named Craig
McCabe and his parents before I could drive, and they
had come over to buy him something for his birth
there or whatever, and I rode along with him from Orange.
It was two hour drive and I can remember walking
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into the gallery. We didn't have anything like that. The
nicest thing we had in Orange was a Palais Royal,
and you know they had a They had a wind
curtain when you walked in, so you would open the
glass doors. It had the kind of the steel handle
and opened the glass door and the wind curtain and
hitching like, oh it's air conditioning. That's nice. And and
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there was a Sears that jutted out on the end
of the Strip Center where they were, and there was
a Bell's, so that there was the Seers was was
kind of the anchor t in it on the on
the end that kind of jutted out, and it was
past its prime at this point. It might still go
pick up some some craftsmen tools and some tough skins,
but buying large the Seers was not It would be
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closed down a few years after I left. And then
and then perpendicular to that, the Sears was kind of
an isthmus coming out at the end. And then predicatar
of that, you walk down the Strip Center and there
was a there was a Palais Royal and then maybe
like a little photo you know, Oland Mills or Guns
Studio or whatever. And then you go on down and
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then at the other end of it there was an
old wine gardens, and then there was before that there
was a Bell's and Bells was a little lower end
than Palais Royal. For for clothing, we didn't have a galleria,
so we came to Houston to the galleria. You didn't
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even have to buy anything. It was like going to
an amusement park. You walked through the galleria and man, they.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Were ice skating.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
We'd go and just stand and watch them ice skate.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Who it is amazing.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And then because you couldn't afford to buy anything, you
might get an ice cream cone, but you you'd space
it out because if you were planning on being there
all day, you want to, you know, get your ice
cream cone at this point, cone at this point. Then
go get some samples from the Chick fil A. I
don't know that Chick fil a back then, but the Asian,
the Chinese buffet would have samples. We'd wear them samples out.
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Who was it that used to have the samples? Was
it Sam's Club? Costc You can go, you can actually
fill up just on the samples. You laugh, you laugh
because you got some money now, but you forgot when
you didn't have money.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I can remember going to those stores, or like going
to the mall and you didn't have money to eat,
so you walk around the food court and you'd fill
up on samples. That way, the little money you had
for hamburger fries and a coke you could instead use
on something else like a orange Julius or whatever they
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had jamba juice. I don't think they had any of
that back then, but you know, some sort of maybe
there was a basking Robins in there. All by way
of saying the gallery, it was a place of pride
for Houstonians. You had relatives come in from town. When
I moved to Houston and people would come, I'd take
them there. That was when I was like a tourist site.
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There was NASA, the Astronome, Astroworld, and the Galleria. But
that has changed. The best shops have left. The crowd
they they attract now is Sylvester Turner, Rodney Ellis, Lena
had all go voters. They're shootings, and you know how
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you know you're in the wrong place because the stores
are shoe stores and baseball cap stores that are referred
to as lids. It's not it's not your mama's galleria anymore.
It's not safe. I've had officers tell me it's almost
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daily somebody coming out of that. They wait in the
parking garage that you come out of there with your bags.
They walk up and bust you across the jaw and
steal your bags. He's poor women coming Oh it's awful, awful.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So there's a.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Fellow named Phillip Scott and he's on social media. You
can find him for yourself. And he posts under the
name the Black Congregation, and he posted a video about
a woman from out of town her experience while visiting
the galleria. Now, I'm gonna have to say this because
some of you can't understand I don't agree with one
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hundred percent of what he says, because somebody is listening
to me, will go and watch this and find out
that four months ago he said something about maybe Sylvester
Turner might turn out to be a good mayor is something? Now,
could you believe this? I don't agree with the one
hundred percent of what anybody says, but I think this
right here is telling because you got a black woman
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talking about how ghetto the galleria has become. This isn't
by accident.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
At the Houston Galleria, they had a woman that was visiting,
uh Houston and you know, and when she went out
to go shopping, she parked in the parking garage.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You didn't like anyone.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
Else, but she came back to a surprise out there
in the gallery.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Let's go roll that.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
So y'all. I'm in Houston. We're in Houston visiting, and
we're at the gallery. We wasn't even in the gallery,
of y'all for our probably forty five minutes. He was center.
We came back out, We came back outs, so our
rents were looking like this.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Owing breeze.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Right, this is what we came out to, y'all in Houston, Texas.
Literally they took all four tides and put them on bricks,
right happy, right there, we can answer me.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Let me tell y'all something. I don't even go to
the Houston Galleria and I live here. I don't go
there at all. It's not really impressive to me to
be in that kind of place because I just think, personally,
it's a waste of time and money to being the Galleria.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Personally, if I.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Do go to a mall, I go to maybe some
other ones, but nine times out of ten usually I
like to shop, you know, online for the most part.
But yeah, the Galleria have been kind of ghetto for
for years. Man, the gallery is not what it used
to be. I mean, at one point in time, the
Gallleria say, oh man, you going to Galleria. That's a
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high end, big time mall. But they just have too
much ghetto things going on. And when I mean by ghetto,
I'm talking about low class. I'm not talking about, you know,
any particular group of people. We don't know who did
this at all. It could be anybody who did that.
So when I say ghetto, I'm not mentioning color. I
mentioned the low class criminals basically what I'm mentioning. But
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yet when I went to Fencer, the durban out there
in South Africa and I saw how that was running,
I'm like boy. And even when I was there, we
talked Brother Serif and said, man, listen, they.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
We had this in Houston.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I said, We'll be probably over here every weekend, hanging
out the lounge, just doing this, doing that, being at
the mall doing different things. I say, but yeah, it's
the gallery is not what it used to be. That's
the only thing I would say. So if you go
to a gallery of ladies and gentlemen, just go at
your own risk. I'm not saying that they're gonna do
something every time to go there, but they come on now, like,
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what are you really gonna do with some Ultima TI
some tires from an ultima I mean seriously. That's why
you want to make sure when you get a vehicle,
make sure that vehicle has a particular locking nut where
they can't take that off because you gotta have a
special key for that and everything. But you know, are
a good thief to even have that too, right, So yeah,
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but you know people like that, like, what are you
really gonna get for four tires? Four tires selling them
to a tire shop. You're not gonna get but maybe
a couple of hundred bucks. If that did somebody sells
some used tires, I'm like, bruh, Like, then you take
a big risk affecially in the state of Texas, or
somebody come and catch you and if they are armed,
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they have a write in Texas to shoot you for that,
you know what I'm saying. I'm saying, so you criminals
in Texas are taking a huge risk doing some crap
like that.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Is that like a tire worth your dog on life?
Speaker 8 (17:28):
It's easy to get a dog on jobs, start a business,
do something, you know what I'm saying. In Texas, you
can get an LLC like this in a few minutes
and then and go.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Start your business.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Why risk your life afore tires? But you know, hey,
that's why they've been in prisons every day as well.
But you know, just be careful of y'all go to
the gallery. I'm just let y'all know it's you got
some funny characters running around there.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Girl, you listened to the Mica Bearrys show. And if
you do not know, his wife from India was the
Secretary of State from Texas, and she know what she
was during and everybody called her your majesty or your
honor or something like that. She had learned how to
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cook things that Micael Barry liked from Michael bear Own
Mama Loretta. I love me some little Retta. That woman
is crazy in the hell, but she exemplified ERNs Texas.
She knows what she talking about, but she actually don't.
And Michael Barry daddy Norman Barry, Oh my goodness, I
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used to see him all the time at Kroger eating coffee.
That man has killed diabetes in his single lifetime. He
has wore it out, turned it upside down and killed it.
I loved me some Norman Bearer. And now about the cheers.
He got two sons, Michael t which I think is
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Stam for Tiberius and Crockett, which I know is tam
for David Crockett. Them boys they excelling in their fields
of ignorance. I don't know what y'all have heard, but
those boys, they be just out there and everybody and
people loves them. They're gonna be an exemplar aya of
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success in this world. Faks to Michael and DONITEABERI God
love them all. And now back to the men's of
the ava. Mister Michael barn good way you put by Ashtad.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Now, one thing we love here at Michael Berry Show
is music. You know, if you listen on the podcast,
they have to strip out the music now because the
whole different set of licenses. I don't in all the reason.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I don't really care.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I just know that they get complaints that we play
a lot of music and they don't hear it on
the podcast. And when we started in talk radio, the
programmers told to stop using music. These people don't want
to use music. They're all old and stupid or I
don't know what they thought. But we use music to
tell stories, to set moves. We enjoy it and it's
the stories, it's the moments, it's the remembrance you know,
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corn bread's just corn bread. I could boil it down
to eggs and milk it. But there's more to it
than that. If it was Grandma's corn bread, hot skillet
corn bread, right, these things matter. And a sound and
where you were and who you were dating and all
that at that time, that makes a lot of difference.
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But songwriting the poetry of the songwriter, and that's why
I always try to tell you who writes a song
that you love, not just who sings it. I think
it's important. And one of the great songwriters, which makes
him a great poet of a relatively modern era, of course,
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died in early seventies, is Jim Croche and his storytelling.
I think he's fantastic, this wonderful storytelling. I didn't even
know there was a real bad bad Leroy Brown, but
I enjoyed this. I go back and dig deep into
audio and listens. I enjoyed this, and I hope you
do too.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
I get out of a university in nineteen sixty five,
totally prepared for life in the twelfth century, kind of
looked around here, looked around there, and then I got
this brown letter in the mail one day, signed by
a general, said come play with us. So I went
down to a place called Fort Jackson in South Carolina,
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where they took my extensive college experience and put me
into the infantry as a lineman. I climbed telephone poles.
It was communications, yes, stringing that wire from one place
to another. And I met this guy down there who
was in the company. His name was Leroy Brown, and
Leroy was one of those guys that didn't know the
meaning of no. You tell Leroy to do one thing,
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and lee Roy would do another thing. He was just
one of those kind of characters. He come from Chicago,
been out in the street a long time and had
to make his own way, so he was about to
keep on making it. He was down there a couple
of weeks and he looked at me one night, we're
sitting talking. He says, you know, Jim, I don't like
this place, and I'm gonna go home. So he got
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himself packed up and he went home without telling anybody
except in the army. They call it a wall absent
without leave. But he did come back at the end
of the month to get his paycheck, and that was it.
Snap put him in the handcuffs and took him where
we didn't bother him, picket out a little later and
still hung around. He was always the kind of guy
that would keep people laughing unless he got in trouble
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with him. Widdo's outside, Oh Chicago gets the betters Bard
of town.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And if you go down there, you're better.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Just be well, now, Evil Lee Roy Brown, Now leave
Rot money trouble. You see you're standing about six four
four all though downtown Lead it's called the three top
over or the man fast called him sir, then he's
bad baith Lee Rod Brown, the better man in the
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old dawn bown better than old Gan call home mean
know there in the junk yard dog, Now leave Rot.
He a gambler, and he like his bounc and clothes,
and he likes two reve hills and time on rings
and want if everybody's known, he gotta fuss on Continental.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
He got held over ride ol two.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
He got a thirty two gune in his pocket, or
fall he got a razor in his shoes.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
The bell fall many Rod Brown batters mad and the
old down a down matter.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Than old gang.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Call me a man that don't y'all done very Friday,
Betty be big le Roy shooting dice.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
And at the air tore the barside the girl named
Madonna's hand the wood.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
After long nice when it cast the eyes of Pa
Hood and the trouble Sumi girl de Roy Brown and
turned the messer by the messer with the white Bob
Jules Mantain and his fast man.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
Mal de Roy Brown bad as man and a old
damn bound matter. That old king called me the man
that don't y'all dollar fell through wo men.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Took to fight him and went to pull down from
the floor. Dee Roy looked like a jig soft balls
will the couple of pieces.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Gone and his bad bad.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
That is man.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
Game Ben Brown Battle is man who down down Game
Battle Game.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
John The Michael Barry Show the Place of where Woke
Goes to Die.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I received an email from one of our show sponsors
and longtime supporter of our show. His name is Skip Hartley,
and he owns Thunderbolt Motors and Transmissions and has for
hell it feels like I was saying seventy years twenty
years ago. He's owned that business for a very very
very long time, and like many other people, he will
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sometimes discover something and think, oh, Michael would like this.
He might even be able to use it on the show.
So he sends me an email with a YouTube link
and a short message that said simply, I think you'll
like this. You may be able to use it on
the show. The link was to a song written by
a country music singer songwriter Nashville recording artist named Adam Grant.
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I didn't know Adam Grant. The song is called leave
Me the Hell Alone, and the song is pretty good.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I think you may like it, particularly if you're a
person who has reached a point in his life who
says I just want the government, I just want the left,
I want them out of my life. I just want
to live my life and be left the hell alone. Now,
if this song even halfway intrigues you, then I want
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you to go to YouTube. We will put it in
the Blast today. I want you to see the video
because the video has a bit of a setup. I
don't want to ruin it for you. The video has
a bit of a setup that gives a little more
context to the song. But I can't talk politics all
day every day. Sometimes sometimes a song like this says
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a lot at a moment like this. Anyways, Adam Grant.
The song is called leam me the hell alone.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Trouble times. I'm afraid the better days that we seen
I've done past us spy nothing but lie.
Speaker 13 (27:47):
You can't believe a damn word that they say they're
missing with our lies news on the TV, nothing but negativity,
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just poison to the soul.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Right is wrong?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Is right?
Speaker 13 (28:16):
To challenge God's word with all their might. I can't help,
but wonder where's this country gone? Lunatics and politics about
enough to make you sick.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
It's corruption to the ball, mister Washington DC. Best thing
you can do for me, excuse me the hell a hell.
Speaker 12 (28:53):
I'm just a good old boy, rising hell and making noise.
But I've eighty million wrongs. I ain't much for backing down.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I'm gonna fight and stand my ground.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Got an army of my Best thing you can do
for me, give me the hell along?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Hello, ball.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
Claring war on Donald Trump with their best stories that
they're making up. They can't stand the fact that he
speaks the truth. I don't know what's going on, and
I can tell that something's wrong. Pencil Vania Avenue, Crookhead,
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ask politicians mine ought to pay attention. This country is
tired of you. Hit our guns and our freedom.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Piece like you is why we need them. Don't hold
your breath.
Speaker 13 (30:26):
We ain't giving a double standard. Weblow. It's good for them,
it's bad for y'all. Change all the rules. They come
up as you go, mister Washington, DC. Best thing you
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can do for me, excuse me, the.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Hell of law.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
Just sut over renting hell and making noise.
Speaker 14 (31:04):
We're eighty million strows. He must be backing down. We're
gonna fight and stand aground.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Got an army of five. The best thing you can
do for me, give me the hell hell.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Just a good old boss written here and making noise.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
We're eighty million dollars.
Speaker 14 (32:29):
Hayms for backing down, gonna fight and standing aground, got
an army of five.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Best thing you can do for me, you me the
hell of a hell. The best thing you can do
for you leave this country alone
I'm embarrassed to tell you all this, but I actually
hang out with some very haggardly hold I am not
kidding you. These women that goes to my church and
get in my car and we rides around. Okay, for
the last these weeks, we've been going every Friday night
to get some free catfish at the Catholic church. And
you say free. I thought they charged, yes, But these
(00:23):
women that go down there with they act like, oh,
we so poverty, but we love the Lord. They make
the sign and cross, they fall down on one knee
and the pole priests ain't got no choice but to
give them that and a double helping the cold slow goods.
I ain't trying to put nobody on blasts or spot
like they ask. But ib I know what I'm talking about.
Care Niggas and doria El, Doris Finney and Beverly but Wine. Yes,
(00:48):
that's them women's that can do all this ignorance. I
had confessed all this to the new preacher down in
my hold second Baptist Design Church of Goding Christs down
on third and jowing streaking orange, and I say.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What should I do? He said, get your nose out
of other people bus this. It don't affect you. Your
reputations already arned. Why do you even give a care?
And uh, I said, well that's a good parent, isn't
it tell you my mind?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Then I act cash during Okay, now back to the
MICA bad program.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You all know the person that if you ask if
they want a coffee and they have an elaborate order,
if you're on your way to pick up coffee for
the office, you regret it immediately and you think to yourself,
if you just call Cats Coffee Kitz Coffee dot com,
then you wouldn't need to fill up the coffee, You
(01:42):
wouldn't need to cover it up with all that other stuff,
because the coffee itself would be roasted, blended right here
in Houston, and it would be delicious and you would
enjoy it. But when you have bad coffee, you have
to fill it, you have to cover it up. You
know when I first when I had my first cup
of coffee, I'll sit with my grandmother.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Have coffee because the adults had coffee as an adult thing.
So I filled it full of milk and creamer and
sugar until eventually there was a little coffee in my sugar.
And that's how I drank it for years. That's how
you have to drink it when you don't like coffee
or when the coffee is not any good. So anyway,
(02:26):
this is a woman that I discovered the listener center
to me, and she's hilarious and very clever, and she
does these impersonations, these character riffs. And this is her name,
is Ellie Elle Cordova, and it's it's called I'll just
do a coffee.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'll just do a coffee black. I have a little
half and half half of this, half of that, not
too much to splash, and a little itty bitty hit
to mint, just a dab with the cold foam on
the dome, keep it pretty flat in the silk, almond milk,
no straw, no cap, extra hot, extra whip, extra shot, jab,
a chip, and a little Kramel disele on the top,
just a bit. Plus a cappuccino, frappuccino, pupacino, al pacino ice,
flat white oat milks and pellegrino vente avagato at the
(03:03):
hot Americano and the moka choka yaya and the caramel machiyata.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
All Right, I told you I was cleaning out audio
files and I came across the story. I feel like
we talked about this, but sometimes we talk about it
at our production meets and then I don't I don't
remember if we played it or not. There was a
(03:30):
a man by the name of Liquarian Robertson, a father
of five, and he was shot and killed at the
Diamond Inn in the eighty nine hundred block of the
Golf Freeway near Caniff Street. I did some checking with
some popo who worked that area, and they informed me
that the Diamond Inn is not not only not a
(03:54):
luxury hotel, the Diamond Inn is really not a place
at people typically are laying their head as they travel
across the country selling vacuum cleaners. It is more of
a hot bed of drugs, violence, and sex. For Seal
(04:15):
authorities have video of the suspect, who they say, well, oh, okay,
well we know the victim was black. Let's see what
we can find out some details about it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They say he was wearing a red and white clown mask.
Oh okay, Well, all we have to do is just
look for a red and white clown mask, because surely
he still has it on, right he wouldn't throw it away.
A dark blue hoodie. Not only do we get the
color and the type of shirtwear, but we get the
(04:52):
shade of that color. Dark blue pants. We don't know
their color, probably blue jeans, black sneakers. So now we
get the type of shoe and the color. That's important
to know. With white soles, Oh why was it important
(05:15):
that we know that the sole is a different color
than the shoe. It's almost as if color helps us
narrow things down and identify if, in fact, we want
to catch him. Popo had limited information about the suspect's
appearance other than he was a man and may have
been bald. They did share one surveillance photo. Now I've
(05:38):
seen that surveillance photo, and you'll never guess what I
noticed about the surveillance photo that wasn't in the story.
I'm going to leave that for your imagination. You'll never
guess what was in there. Now. The mother of this
young man, Veronica Robertson, says that her youngest son was
(06:04):
killed thirteen years ago. So this is the second of
her two children who were murdered. I've said it before
and I'll say it again. The victim of black violence
is mostly blacks. But if you dare call out black violence,
(06:29):
you're a racist. I'm not entirely sure how how black
politicians and white liberals keep passing off to a black
audience that somehow they're helping black people by keeping black
(06:52):
murderers on the streets.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's actually.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Quite fascinating. I mean, it's really really interesting stuff, you know,
the mass manipulation, aside from how disturbing it is. Eight
years of Sylvester Turner's mayoral administration and the first the
(07:23):
big storm, and John Whitmyer comes out and says, nine
of our fire stations went offline and don't have a
backup generator. Now where do you think those fire stations are?
And who do you think suffered from that? And yet
that was an event a couple months ago, might have
(07:45):
been Juneteenth, actually it was juneen. And one of the
black pastors invited Sheila Jackson Lee up on stage and
they invited and he invited the mayor emeritus, Sylvester Turner. Oh,
he's mayor for life.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Great.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
They didn't invite the sitting mayor, John Whitmark because he's white.
They don't need him up there. They're celebrating Sylvester Turner
as some great black man, like he's Martin Luther King Jr.
Half his administrative they're crooks, absolute crooks, but they're treating
(08:24):
him like he's a hero. It's just incredible to me.
It is incredible to me that this continues to have.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
I know apples, and I know apples, and I know
what the Michael Verry Show, and I know it the
Michael Verry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
When I came to Houston in nineteen eighty nine, the
Galleria was, boy, it was something special. I remember coming
over to Houston with a buddy of min named Craig
McCabe and his parents before I could drive, and they
had come over to buy him something for his birth
there or whatever, and I rode along with him from Orange.
It was two hour drive and I can remember walking
(09:06):
into the gallery. We didn't have anything like that. The
nicest thing we had in Orange was a Palais Royal,
and you know they had a They had a wind
curtain when you walked in, so you would open the
glass doors. It had the kind of the steel handle
and opened the glass door and the wind curtain and
hitching like, oh it's air conditioning. That's nice. And and
(09:29):
there was a Sears that jutted out on the end
of the Strip Center where they were, and there was
a Bell's, so that there was the Seers was was
kind of the anchor t in it on the on
the end that kind of jutted out, and it was
past its prime at this point. It might still go
pick up some some craftsmen tools and some tough skins,
but buying large the Seers was not It would be
(09:51):
closed down a few years after I left. And then
and then perpendicular to that, the Sears was kind of
an isthmus coming out at the end. And then predicatar
of that, you walk down the Strip Center and there
was a there was a Palais Royal and then maybe
like a little photo you know, Oland Mills or Guns
Studio or whatever. And then you go on down and
(10:13):
then at the other end of it there was an
old wine gardens, and then there was before that there
was a Bell's and Bells was a little lower end
than Palais Royal. For for clothing, we didn't have a galleria,
so we came to Houston to the galleria. You didn't
(10:36):
even have to buy anything. It was like going to
an amusement park. You walked through the galleria and man, they.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Were ice skating.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
We'd go and just stand and watch them ice skate.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Who it is amazing.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And then because you couldn't afford to buy anything, you
might get an ice cream cone, but you you'd space
it out because if you were planning on being there
all day, you want to, you know, get your ice
cream cone at this point, cone at this point. Then
go get some samples from the Chick fil A. I
don't know that Chick fil a back then, but the Asian,
the Chinese buffet would have samples. We'd wear them samples out.
(11:14):
Who was it that used to have the samples? Was
it Sam's Club? Costc You can go, you can actually
fill up just on the samples. You laugh, you laugh
because you got some money now, but you forgot when
you didn't have money.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I can remember going to those stores, or like going
to the mall and you didn't have money to eat,
so you walk around the food court and you'd fill
up on samples. That way, the little money you had
for hamburger fries and a coke you could instead use
on something else like a orange Julius or whatever they
(11:50):
had jamba juice. I don't think they had any of
that back then, but you know, some sort of maybe
there was a basking Robins in there. All by way
of saying the gallery, it was a place of pride
for Houstonians. You had relatives come in from town. When
I moved to Houston and people would come, I'd take
them there. That was when I was like a tourist site.
(12:14):
There was NASA, the Astronome, Astroworld, and the Galleria. But
that has changed. The best shops have left. The crowd
they they attract now is Sylvester Turner, Rodney Ellis, Lena
had all go voters. They're shootings, and you know how
(12:36):
you know you're in the wrong place because the stores
are shoe stores and baseball cap stores that are referred
to as lids. It's not it's not your mama's galleria anymore.
It's not safe. I've had officers tell me it's almost
(12:58):
daily somebody coming out of that. They wait in the
parking garage that you come out of there with your bags.
They walk up and bust you across the jaw and
steal your bags. He's poor women coming Oh it's awful, awful.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So there's a.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Fellow named Phillip Scott and he's on social media. You
can find him for yourself. And he posts under the
name the Black Congregation, and he posted a video about
a woman from out of town her experience while visiting
the galleria. Now, I'm gonna have to say this because
some of you can't understand I don't agree with one
(13:31):
hundred percent of what he says, because somebody is listening
to me, will go and watch this and find out
that four months ago he said something about maybe Sylvester
Turner might turn out to be a good mayor is something? Now,
could you believe this? I don't agree with the one
hundred percent of what anybody says, but I think this
right here is telling because you got a black woman
(13:51):
talking about how ghetto the galleria has become. This isn't
by accident.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
At the Houston Galleria, they had a woman that was visiting,
uh Houston and you know, and when she went out
to go shopping, she parked in the parking garage.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You didn't like anyone.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
Else, but she came back to a surprise out there
in the gallery.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Let's go roll that.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
So y'all. I'm in Houston. We're in Houston visiting, and
we're at the gallery. We wasn't even in the gallery,
of y'all for our probably forty five minutes. He was center.
We came back out, We came back outs, so our
rents were looking like this.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Owing breeze.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Right, this is what we came out to, y'all in Houston, Texas.
Literally they took all four tides and put them on bricks,
right happy, right there, we can answer me.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Let me tell y'all something. I don't even go to
the Houston Galleria and I live here. I don't go
there at all. It's not really impressive to me to
be in that kind of place because I just think, personally,
it's a waste of time and money to being the Galleria.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Personally, if I.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Do go to a mall, I go to maybe some
other ones, but nine times out of ten usually I
like to shop, you know, online for the most part.
But yeah, the Galleria have been kind of ghetto for
for years. Man, the gallery is not what it used
to be. I mean, at one point in time, the
Gallleria say, oh man, you going to Galleria. That's a
(15:36):
high end, big time mall. But they just have too
much ghetto things going on. And when I mean by ghetto,
I'm talking about low class. I'm not talking about, you know,
any particular group of people. We don't know who did
this at all. It could be anybody who did that.
So when I say ghetto, I'm not mentioning color. I
mentioned the low class criminals basically what I'm mentioning. But
(15:56):
yet when I went to Fencer, the durban out there
in South Africa and I saw how that was running,
I'm like boy. And even when I was there, we
talked Brother Serif and said, man, listen, they.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
We had this in Houston.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I said, We'll be probably over here every weekend, hanging
out the lounge, just doing this, doing that, being at
the mall doing different things. I say, but yeah, it's
the gallery is not what it used to be. That's
the only thing I would say. So if you go
to a gallery of ladies and gentlemen, just go at
your own risk. I'm not saying that they're gonna do
something every time to go there, but they come on now, like,
(16:30):
what are you really gonna do with some Ultima TI
some tires from an ultima I mean seriously. That's why
you want to make sure when you get a vehicle,
make sure that vehicle has a particular locking nut where
they can't take that off because you gotta have a
special key for that and everything. But you know, are
a good thief to even have that too, right, So yeah,
(16:53):
but you know people like that, like, what are you
really gonna get for four tires? Four tires selling them
to a tire shop. You're not gonna get but maybe
a couple of hundred bucks. If that did somebody sells
some used tires, I'm like, bruh, Like, then you take
a big risk affecially in the state of Texas, or
somebody come and catch you and if they are armed,
(17:17):
they have a write in Texas to shoot you for that,
you know what I'm saying. I'm saying, so you criminals
in Texas are taking a huge risk doing some crap
like that.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Is that like a tire worth your dog on life?
Speaker 8 (17:28):
It's easy to get a dog on jobs, start a business,
do something, you know what I'm saying. In Texas, you
can get an LLC like this in a few minutes
and then and go.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Start your business.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Why risk your life afore tires? But you know, hey,
that's why they've been in prisons every day as well.
But you know, just be careful of y'all go to
the gallery. I'm just let y'all know it's you got
some funny characters running around there.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Girl, you listened to the Mica Bearrys show. And if
you do not know, his wife from India was the
Secretary of State from Texas, and she know what she
was during and everybody called her your majesty or your
honor or something like that. She had learned how to
(18:21):
cook things that Micael Barry liked from Michael bear Own
Mama Loretta. I love me some little Retta. That woman
is crazy in the hell, but she exemplified ERNs Texas.
She knows what she talking about, but she actually don't.
And Michael Barry daddy Norman Barry, Oh my goodness, I
(18:42):
used to see him all the time at Kroger eating coffee.
That man has killed diabetes in his single lifetime. He
has wore it out, turned it upside down and killed it.
I loved me some Norman Bearer. And now about the cheers.
He got two sons, Michael t which I think is
(19:03):
Stam for Tiberius and Crockett, which I know is tam
for David Crockett. Them boys they excelling in their fields
of ignorance. I don't know what y'all have heard, but
those boys, they be just out there and everybody and
people loves them. They're gonna be an exemplar aya of
(19:26):
success in this world. Faks to Michael and DONITEABERI God
love them all. And now back to the men's of
the ava. Mister Michael barn good way you put by Ashtad.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Now, one thing we love here at Michael Berry Show
is music. You know, if you listen on the podcast,
they have to strip out the music now because the
whole different set of licenses. I don't in all the reason.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I don't really care.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I just know that they get complaints that we play
a lot of music and they don't hear it on
the podcast. And when we started in talk radio, the
programmers told to stop using music. These people don't want
to use music. They're all old and stupid or I
don't know what they thought. But we use music to
tell stories, to set moves. We enjoy it and it's
the stories, it's the moments, it's the remembrance you know,
(20:20):
corn bread's just corn bread. I could boil it down
to eggs and milk it. But there's more to it
than that. If it was Grandma's corn bread, hot skillet
corn bread, right, these things matter. And a sound and
where you were and who you were dating and all
that at that time, that makes a lot of difference.
(20:41):
But songwriting the poetry of the songwriter, and that's why
I always try to tell you who writes a song
that you love, not just who sings it. I think
it's important. And one of the great songwriters, which makes
him a great poet of a relatively modern era, of course,
(21:02):
died in early seventies, is Jim Croche and his storytelling.
I think he's fantastic, this wonderful storytelling. I didn't even
know there was a real bad bad Leroy Brown, but
I enjoyed this. I go back and dig deep into
audio and listens. I enjoyed this, and I hope you
do too.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
I get out of a university in nineteen sixty five,
totally prepared for life in the twelfth century, kind of
looked around here, looked around there, and then I got
this brown letter in the mail one day, signed by
a general, said come play with us. So I went
down to a place called Fort Jackson in South Carolina,
(21:43):
where they took my extensive college experience and put me
into the infantry as a lineman. I climbed telephone poles.
It was communications, yes, stringing that wire from one place
to another. And I met this guy down there who
was in the company. His name was Leroy Brown, and
Leroy was one of those guys that didn't know the
meaning of no. You tell Leroy to do one thing,
(22:06):
and lee Roy would do another thing. He was just
one of those kind of characters. He come from Chicago,
been out in the street a long time and had
to make his own way, so he was about to
keep on making it. He was down there a couple
of weeks and he looked at me one night, we're
sitting talking. He says, you know, Jim, I don't like
this place, and I'm gonna go home. So he got
(22:26):
himself packed up and he went home without telling anybody
except in the army. They call it a wall absent
without leave. But he did come back at the end
of the month to get his paycheck, and that was it.
Snap put him in the handcuffs and took him where
we didn't bother him, picket out a little later and
still hung around. He was always the kind of guy
that would keep people laughing unless he got in trouble
(22:49):
with him. Widdo's outside, Oh Chicago gets the betters Bard
of town.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
And if you go down there, you're better.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Just be well, now, Evil Lee Roy Brown, Now leave
Rot money trouble. You see you're standing about six four
four all though downtown Lead it's called the three top
over or the man fast called him sir, then he's
bad baith Lee Rod Brown, the better man in the
(23:20):
old dawn bown better than old Gan call home mean
know there in the junk yard dog, Now leave Rot.
He a gambler, and he like his bounc and clothes,
and he likes two reve hills and time on rings
and want if everybody's known, he gotta fuss on Continental.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
He got held over ride ol two.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
He got a thirty two gune in his pocket, or
fall he got a razor in his shoes.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
The bell fall many Rod Brown batters mad and the
old down a down matter.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Than old gang.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Call me a man that don't y'all done very Friday,
Betty be big le Roy shooting dice.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
And at the air tore the barside the girl named
Madonna's hand the wood.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
After long nice when it cast the eyes of Pa
Hood and the trouble Sumi girl de Roy Brown and
turned the messer by the messer with the white Bob
Jules Mantain and his fast man.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
Mal de Roy Brown bad as man and a old
damn bound matter. That old king called me the man
that don't y'all dollar fell through wo men.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Took to fight him and went to pull down from
the floor. Dee Roy looked like a jig soft balls
will the couple of pieces.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Gone and his bad bad.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
That is man.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
Game Ben Brown Battle is man who down down Game
Battle Game.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
John The Michael Barry Show the Place of where Woke
Goes to Die.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I received an email from one of our show sponsors
and longtime supporter of our show. His name is Skip Hartley,
and he owns Thunderbolt Motors and Transmissions and has for
hell it feels like I was saying seventy years twenty
years ago. He's owned that business for a very very
very long time, and like many other people, he will
(26:00):
sometimes discover something and think, oh, Michael would like this.
He might even be able to use it on the show.
So he sends me an email with a YouTube link
and a short message that said simply, I think you'll
like this. You may be able to use it on
the show. The link was to a song written by
a country music singer songwriter Nashville recording artist named Adam Grant.
(26:24):
I didn't know Adam Grant. The song is called leave
Me the Hell Alone, and the song is pretty good.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I think you may like it, particularly if you're a
person who has reached a point in his life who
says I just want the government, I just want the left,
I want them out of my life. I just want
to live my life and be left the hell alone. Now,
if this song even halfway intrigues you, then I want
(26:59):
you to go to YouTube. We will put it in
the Blast today. I want you to see the video
because the video has a bit of a setup. I
don't want to ruin it for you. The video has
a bit of a setup that gives a little more
context to the song. But I can't talk politics all
day every day. Sometimes sometimes a song like this says
(27:21):
a lot at a moment like this. Anyways, Adam Grant.
The song is called leam me the hell alone.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Trouble times. I'm afraid the better days that we seen
I've done past us spy nothing but lie.
Speaker 13 (27:47):
You can't believe a damn word that they say they're
missing with our lies news on the TV, nothing but negativity,
(28:07):
just poison to the soul.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Right is wrong?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Is right?
Speaker 13 (28:16):
To challenge God's word with all their might. I can't help,
but wonder where's this country gone? Lunatics and politics about
enough to make you sick.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
It's corruption to the ball, mister Washington DC. Best thing
you can do for me, excuse me the hell a hell.
Speaker 12 (28:53):
I'm just a good old boy, rising hell and making noise.
But I've eighty million wrongs. I ain't much for backing down.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
I'm gonna fight and stand my ground.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
Got an army of my Best thing you can do
for me, give me the hell along?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Hello, ball.
Speaker 13 (29:38):
Claring war on Donald Trump with their best stories that
they're making up. They can't stand the fact that he
speaks the truth. I don't know what's going on, and
I can tell that something's wrong. Pencil Vania Avenue, Crookhead,
(30:05):
ask politicians mine ought to pay attention. This country is
tired of you. Hit our guns and our freedom.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Piece like you is why we need them. Don't hold
your breath.
Speaker 13 (30:26):
We ain't giving a double standard. Weblow. It's good for them,
it's bad for y'all. Change all the rules. They come
up as you go, mister Washington, DC. Best thing you
(30:48):
can do for me, excuse me, the.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Hell of law.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
Just sut over renting hell and making noise.
Speaker 14 (31:04):
We're eighty million strows. He must be backing down. We're
gonna fight and stand aground.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Got an army of five. The best thing you can
do for me, give me the hell hell.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Just a good old boss written here and making noise.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
We're eighty million dollars.
Speaker 14 (32:29):
Hayms for backing down, gonna fight and standing aground, got
an army of five.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Best thing you can do for me, you me the
hell of a hell. The best thing you can do
for you leave this country alone
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.