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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air. The Democratic nominee
for Vice President, Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hie Hi, I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel
pretty witty.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And Governor Walls. Are you a progressive or are you
a centrist? I'm a progressive. I'm a knucklehead. At times,
I feel choming, oh so charming.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
It's a love how charming I do? I'm so pretty.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Believe somebody said, what's next? Child labor?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hell yeah, it's in there. That's what they've got in there.
You see states doing that, putting our children at risk.
That's what they do. I think we need to push
back on this.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
There's no guarantee of free speech on misinformation or or
hate speech.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Feels stunny and entrancy. You like running dancing.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
She's always done it with energy, with passion, and with joy.
Don't ever shy away from our progressive values. One person's
socialism is another person's neighborliness. The Vice President has made
it clear that she has policies that make a difference.
Her border policies are the most strongest, the fairest we've seen.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
You previously oppose an assault weapons ban, but it only
later in your political career did you change your position?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Why so, I've become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I feel stunny and in truncie. Do you like running
and dancing? Emotu?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Another one of these Aris County Democrat judges. Not the
cornelio or she's a bad one, just awful. She illegally
arranged a secret medical procedure for a death row inmate.
Do you notice these people are trying to figure out
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every way they can to take the most monstrous people
in society and free them and give them stuff. She
illegally arranged a secret medical procedure for a death row
inmate who was taken to the medical center here unshackled.
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This person's on death row. Do you understand they have
nothing to lose. She arranged for a procedure for them
to be allowed to be taken to the medical center, unshackled,
and allowed to be in a waiting room. Around the
general public, nobody knew she could be charged with tampering
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with a government record. Of course, the Harris County Republican
Party did not manage to get an opponent for her
in this election, so you can't beat her in November,
even though she's on the ballot. The story from Fox
twenty six.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Now three hundred and fifty first, Judge not At Cornelio
doesn't have to worry about what voters think of her
bending over backwards for one of Houston's most notorious mass murderers.
She's on the ballot, but she's running unopposed. She's going
to be a judge for the next four years and
voters can't stop it. In its motion to recuse Judge
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not At Cornelio in the case of death row inmate
Ronald Haskell, prosecutors claim she didn't want anyone, not even
the state to know what she was doing. In twenty
fourteen high school killed his ex sister in law, her husband,
and four children.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Entire family wiped out, I mean methodically putting people down
one by one by one, and by some sort of miracle,
a fifteen year old girl managed to survive.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
And she was the one who alerted the DA's office
after victim's services told her. Haskell had been moved from
the Polunsky unit in Huntsville to the Harris County Jail
on a bench warrant signed by Judge Cornelio.
Speaker 9 (04:18):
Purportedly for a court setting to occur on July twenty
second at midnight.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Did that ever happen?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Was there a court hearing?
Speaker 9 (04:28):
There was never any court setting in this case. During
the three weeks that Ronald Haskell was in the Harris
County jail.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
What Judge Cornelio wanted, according to court finlings, was to
get Haskell an MRI. Cornelio, who opposes the death penalty,
apparently told the DA's office years ago before becoming a
judge she thought Haskell was quote sick. These are pictures
of Haskell, unshackled, surrounded by other patients in a waiting
room at a Texas Medical Center MRI facility. Nobody around
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him knew that there's a death row inbate right next
to him.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Look, I agree with you, I think it is galling
to look at those photographs of ron Haskell being paraded
through a private MRI facility.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Anytime a death row inmate is brought back to Harris County,
all parties are told.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
According to court filings, the only people who knew Haskell
was in the Harris County jail for three weeks was
Judge Cornelio and Haskell's up Pellet attorney.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Even his attorney told him not to say anything. No
one was supposed to know that he was here.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
In a tape conversation with his mother, even Haskell questioned
why all the cook and dagger.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
That he understood that this whole thing was supposed to
be a secret, the state was not supposed to know,
and he in fact was concerned for his own safety
because apparently this was so cloak and dagger he almost
got put in general population.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Well, Haskell has the right to bring up mental illness
and his appear the judges alleged actions are over the top.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Judge Cornelio has her thumb on the scale in an
unfavorable and a fatal manner to him.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
If you dig deeper into the case and the things
that this Haskal says to his mother. He goes on
and on about the fact that they're hiding the fact
that I'm here. Can you imagine finding out that your
daughter was in the room with a death row inmate,
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and this Cornelio had arranged this whole thing. This is criminal.
What she has done is criminal, but it's part of
a pattern for every Democrat. They have to understand your
stupid reasons for voting Democrat. You're black and they're black.
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They tell you they care about you, They clearly don't.
Your parents were Democrats. That's the team you chose. I mean, look,
if you're a Dallas Cowboys fan because you were raised
in Dallas and your family, that's fine. They can just
keep losing and you go, well, I'm faded to be
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a Cowboys fan. I got to be a Cowboys fans
kind of Well, what I have to do? Okay, I
got it. You're not required to keep casting votes for
the people destroying your life. I tell you what you
don't hear. You see these people that are victims of crime,
you see their family members in Harris County. It's happening
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across the country. But you see these people that are victims,
their family, their daughter was rape murdered. You don't see
them running out there going we got to get us heased.
Those people say the Republicans paid attention to what I
was saying. The Democrats embraced the murderer. I don't know
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why other people can't see what's happening. I don't know
why minorities can't see that. I don't know why immigrants
can't see that. I don't know why women can't see that.
These people have a weird, sick fetish for whatever thing
you're not supposed to be for. It's like the girl
that dates the guy that her dad doesn't like. That's
what the Democrats do. Let's make the girls all be boys.
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Let's make the boys all be girls. Let's chop their
wiener off. Okay, that wasn't good enough. We didn't get there.
Let's put the boys in the girls locker room. Okay,
that wasn't good enough. All right, Let's put the girl
the boys in the boxing ring and beat the snot
out of the girls. Let's take the murderers and free
them all. But what else can we do? They're running
out of stuff? Right?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Do you previously opposed an assault weapons ban? But it
only later in your political career did you change your position?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Wise with the Michael.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Barry shall become friends with school shooters?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Just see my back as a demsen plode the Sweet
State's Trump Wilson now called the open door of Joe
Biden sash.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
We all know that big Miceman and all in due dementia,
Joe was forced to wait.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
One too many snurs had democracy secure?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
When Mary started getting to fake accent. She whipped out you.
Now you know she's like when she starts.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Study aft, democracy would be lost.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
We must win out our cuts.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
The Democrats not confident hoping you're vote for insane with Italy.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The Socialist to is she Indian black Obie, She's still
did not cut a side Obama and Michelle the man
here I gleans. The Houston Chronicle reports that black squirrels
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are being spotted in the White Oak by You area.
Only one in ten thousand squirrels are said to have
black fur.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
While walking along Houston's White Oak by You this week,
Layla Kleine spotted something that made her do a double take.
High above her, clinging to a nearby tree was an
all black squirrel, mostly concealed behind leaves. The shadowy, bushy
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tailed rodent was reportedly camera shot scurrying away after noticing
Cline might be might be on parole. Sometimes squirrels don't
want to be photographed. That's a sign scurrying away after
noticing Cline, making it challenging for her to capture photographic
evidence of the unique creature. Lead the damn squirrel alone, Lady,
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Lead the squirrel alone. Black squirrels are considered rare, with
biologists estimating that only one in ten thousand squirrels have
black fur. You don't like black squirrels, I don't have.
Some of my best friends of black squirrels. They are
primarily found in northern climates. Per the Houston Humane Society
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Wildlife Center, most black squirrels found in the eastern and
northern United States are darker forms of the eastern gray squirrel. Westward,
including in Texas, black squirrels tend to be fox squirrels,
the species of squirrel with the widest distribution in the state,
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according to the Texas Parks while Life Department. Their black
coloring is due to a genetic characteristic known as racism,
not just case melanism, a genetic condition that causes animals
to have more melanin, a dark pigment in their fur,
resulting in a darker appearance than is typical for their species.
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The dark coloration helps black squirrels to more readily absorb
the sun's rays, thereby holding on to heat better during
cold winters. Their dark fur also helps them hide better
from predators like hawks and eagles. In some cultures, black
squirrels are considered to be a symbol of good luck.
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Some believe that if one of the dark hued rodents
crosses your path, good fortune is on the way. I
just remember they all celebrated when OJ was acquitted. They
say black squirrels live in one tree, but they stay
in another tree across the way. One thing about squirrels,
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black don't crack. That's what they say. Now that's one
thing you can you They don't always vote right, but
you know, all in all, black squirrels. Keep it real,
Keep it real, girl. How you did that again?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
What TuS. She got a hand coopp and a squirrel baffle. Downtime.
You're took an it.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Three white man's from kJ and everylance come down there
and get a turn.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Little.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
She looked at so Ino. She looked like she was
vietname Ese. I told her, squat down, girl, picks h rice.
Who did you always mocked me? You do stupid stuff.
That's all right, It's all over now, baby, Go put
some vasiline in your hair and let's sit here and
listen to the radio. Why okay, okay, then.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Just pl this world.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
He's not country.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
What's his name? Secret squirrel? Why force is this guy
takes some bendy places. He's a squirrel of Betty Lass.
Who's that?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Who's that? Who's that? Way? Secret squirrel.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Kamala Harris is coming to Houston tomorrow to campaign for Colin.
All wrong people asking why is she doing that? Two reasons.
Texas is a major major goal for the California Democrats.
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If they can win Texas emotionally, psychologically, that is a
dagger in the heart of American conservatism. That is enough
to say progressivism has taken over. We will be a
communist nation. Paris has fallen, Warsaw has fallen, London has fought.
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We have. We have rolled the tanks through and we
have taken there. There we have we have. We have
gone into the heart of the every man. The truck driving,
gun toting god fear in Texan has now been conquered.
We've beaten them. The war may not be over, but
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see we can win. It's important they understand the psychology
of all this. You're just going about your life, living
your life. They are plotting on a mount where to
engage in their blitzed creek. The amount of money they
spent in Texas far surpasses where they spent every where,
They spent everywhere else, combined on a race like this
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to defeat an incumbent. Many times they don't even go
after an incumbent. But they want this seat so bad.
So people say, is Texas in play for Kamala. No
it's not, but they want to win the Senate seat.
They'd love her to win this seat if they'd love
her to win the state. But she's polling too badly,
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and they drag the back. You got rich Houstonians who
want to help, who want to roll in the White House.
So she'll come here and drag the back. There'll be
a bunch of money that will be made available to her.
There are rich Houstonians who are working against our best
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interests all day, every day. They are. They live amongst us,
mostly in river Oaks, but they're here, plenty of them,
with plenty of money, plenty of money, and everybody may
it's nice with them, and we all act like they're
not out to destroy the country, But they are and
they will. But in the meantime, they'll bide their time.
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So she'll come in, drag the bag and tell us
why Colin all Red, mister all wrong for Texas is
great for Texas. My only goal is that every Texan
see every single Texan who votes. I want every single
Texan who votes to know cackling Kamala Harris from California
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came to Texas to campaign for Collin all wrong. That's
all they need to know. There may be a few
people who say, oh, I'll vote for all Wrong now,
but the vast majority of Texans are going to say
that bitch came to Texas to vote to support all wrong.
That's all I needed to know. Cruise has got my vote.
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No matter how much money they spend, Cruise has got
my vote. That will turn the election against all wrong.
It will. Voters come home at election time. They may say, well,
I don't like Cruise for this reason. I don't like
Cruse because the media tells me he's a bad guy.
I don't like Cruise because of this. I don't like
Cruise because of that. But when it comes down to it,
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voters come home. They come home to where they roost,
to where they belong, to where they feel comfortable, to
what is in the best interest of their state. You're
not picking a best friend. You're not picking the person
you most admire and LIKEE want to be what you're
picking the person who best represents the state. And that
ain't all wrong. The worst president, the worst vice president
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in the history of our country, the Michael Berry. We
can't afford four more years of this.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
We see.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
In two thousand and three, I ran for mayor. Four
of us who ran, and the most coveted endorsement was
Gordon Bethune, CEO and chairman of Continental Airlines. They were
the largest vendor with the City of Houston, being the
major carrier at our airport. They were also the largest
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employer in the city of Houston, making Gordon Bethune a
very influential man. He was extraordinarily well respected as a
corporate leader, and at the time between him and ken Ley,
and ken Lay ended up, as you know, having a
lot of problems. Gordon Bethune retired with his image intact
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as a man who had turned Continental Airlines around. He'd
written a book called From Worst to First about how
he had done that, the lessons he had employed. So
the four of us who were all running for mayor,
Sylvester Turner who was in fourth, Orlando Sanchez and I
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were tied for second, and Bill White was in the lead.
It's a Democrat city and White was a former state
party chairman, and so there's going to be a runoff.
But this race is winnable for everybody but Sylvester. He
can't get above ten percent, and of course he would
go on to be mayor later. But so everybody is
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trying to get Gordon Bethune's endorsement. So he decides that
he's going to interview each of us or I don't know,
thirty minutes apiece in his office and then he's going
to announce an endorsement. And so we each go down
and sit across from him and meet with him, and
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unbeknownst to me, he chose me this guy to be
the mayor of the City of Houston. So the next
morning's Houston Chronicle front page headlined was Bethune backing boosts
Berry's bid, and it talked about out how the most
respected CEO in the country that does the most amount
of business with the city through the city, wants the
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city to prosper believes this guy has a vision and
the skill set to do this. Now, I'm only thirty
years old, thirty one years old, so that was the
big knock as I was too young and he gave
the most glowing endorsement was incredible, absolutely incredible. Well, I
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had admired, and as you know, I study people and
what works and what doesn't work. I had admired what
he had done with Continental, and I believe at the
time this was particularly true. It's less true now, but
it was really true at the time. In order to
be a great city where individuals and businesses want to locate,
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it's not important that you have pro sports people idiots
think that the kind of idiots who walk around in
another own man's jersey all day long, which is fine,
nothing wrong with those people, but you don't want them
making decisions for your city. You do want a great
transportation system, which includes road transportation. So that's where cities
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get into trouble. And Austin's gotten itself into trouble with
this over just refusing to build more roads. California got
itself into trouble. So what do you do. You create
a lower quality of life because people can't move around,
they're stuck in traffic, and everyone thinks people erroneously think
that the reason you're stuck in traffic is there's so
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many people. That's not true. You're stuck in traffic because
of a lack of capacity, road capacity and driver error,
not too many drivers. If you want to look at
what happened in California and where it all went wrong,
it was the refusal to build sufficient road capacity because
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they decided they didn't want anybody to come into their state.
So if you just don't build roads at Austin tried this.
If you just don't build roads, they won't come. But
they're coming. So I believe that a great city and
I love the concept. It's dead now, but at the
time I still believed in the great big city where
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things were done right, where people wanted to come, and
whether that was in the city or in the suburbs,
there were reasons for these hubs, cultural institutions, entertainment, opportunity.
That's where the universities were. That was the seat of government. Well,
the liberals ruined that and so now you're seeing people
moving out. That's why the wacos and Brinham's and the
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like are doing so well now. But part of that
transportation system is you have to have a port, which
we have a great port. You have to have great rail,
which we have good rail. You have to have a
good road network, which to his credit, Bob Lanier had
understood all the way back to his text dot days,
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and that's why he was a good choice from area
at the time. And that's why peeling that money away
from that stupid light rail and putting it into cops
so you could make the streets safer was a big
part of the Houston redevelopment in the nineties. And you've
got to have a major airline as a hub, because
if you don't, you're always secondary. That's why. Look, if
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you're a person who flies American and for whatever reason,
you know that's where you got all your points, you
don't want to go anywhere on American because you got
to go to Dallas to then connect or Delta, you
got to go to Atlanta to then connect Continental. It
was New Jersey, Cleveland, and primarily Houston, which made living
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in Houston great. You go directly, I go anywhere in
the world for so many years. So anyway, because of
my study of Gordon Bethune, I was fascinated of the
history of Continental airlines. And many of you know the
name Frank Lorenzo, so you can imagine my surprise when
a month or six weeks or so ago, I got
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a message mister Lorenzo would like to talk to you
about his new book. And I didn't know who's still alive.
I hadn't heard anything about him in years. I understand
there are a lot of people that don't like him.
He made a lot of enemies when he was here.
I don't know him. He's not a friend. I don't
intend to praise him. But he was the head of
Continental Airlines during a tumultuous time in this in this region.
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And I'm going to interview him at eleven. So if
you have a question you want me to ask, or
a story you want to tell, or some detail you
think I need to know, send me an email between
now and eleven so I know it before I interviewed
him through the website at Michael berryshow dot com.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal the Michael Verry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We have to correct course in this conversation.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
See this is just for play. Everybody knows they want to.
You want to hear them say rascoutin and they're just
goofing around like a sq novel. It's so cold in
Sweden at the whole winter. You got nothing to know
you drag the song up, get the rasputin. If you
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want to be depressed for the American educational system, then
do what I do. When you have to give your
name somewhere that they have to call it out, and
when they ask for your name to write it down,
just say Raspute and then huh huh are a s
p u t I n are a ruh ruh ruh.
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Just do Rubes Pierre and be done with it. That's
my last name, Robespierre. I'll do the first one. I'll
do the first one, sir. The rhetorical question is what
did you learn in school? If you don't know who
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Respute is, and you don't know who Robespierre is, and
you don't know who Charlemagne is, you think he's a
talk show host on the Breakfast Club, what did you learn?
Will I learn? If I'm a boy, I can be
a girl, And if I'm a girl, I can be
a boy or a tree or a horse. I'd be anything.
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I want to be the little engine that could. I
got y'all worked up on this black squirrel story. You
don't realize we got incoming on this. There's incoming fire.
Grumpy Lumpy writes zar actually quote unquote black squirrels. Why
the black is in it? Are you doubting that they're black?
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You wanting to call them African Americans? Like? Why would
you not come anyway? Actually, black squirrels, Actually black squirrels
have been prevalent in the Garden Oaks tree since at
least eighty nine when I was working construction in that area.
They are a very dark gray near black. Oh, he questions,
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the blackness. Okay, then Joe Biden I spotted them, and
I checked with Texas A and M, and I was
told that these were a larger fox squirrel variet variant
very common in the hill country. Now they are a
recognized distinct genetic strain or breed. They do take over
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like gangs and push out the smaller common Eastern gray squirrels,
who I think actually are an invasive import from England.
You know, I've come to the conclusion Rome that people
that like wildlife, they don't run around bragging about it,
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but they have a healthy study of it. Those are
the kind of people you want, you want to know
those people, Those are better people. Another one says, I
saw as a buddy Muney. He says that one in
ten thousand. Black squirrel thing is a bunch of horse,
I'll say, manure, here's a picture of me and some
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black squirrels in Washington, DC. That doesn't mean there's that
many black squirreld. They're just all in d C. In
that little area up there. You got into the rural environments,
you'll go miles in mind and never see a black squirrel.
So I wrote, I don't know how many squirrels there are,
but if we got twenty bazillion squirrels, which is possible
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in this country, then most of everybody in the country
can see a black squirrel and it's still only be
one in ten thousand. Basic mat He said, I saw
six squirrels and two of them were black. That supersedes anecdotal.
In Niagara Falls, half of them are black. I know
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in all of Detroit and Chicago. That does not mean
it's more than one out of ten thousand. I'm a nerd.
I love birds and I love squirrels, and I have
a hard time focusing when I'm in sight of either.
And I don't buy that one in ten thousand. So
I said, well, then I had to start cussing because
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somebody I had to escalate because I didn't write the
Houston Chronicle article. Listen, if that's the worst lie. The
Houston Chronicle tells this week that a black squirrel is
really rare, it's one in ten thousand. That person probably
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went to a Wikipedia page, and it's probably a Wikipedia
page from some troll who's having some fun, and then
they set up an algorithm in AI, which is easy
to do now, to say every time it is mentioned
that black squirrels are so rare that only one out
of every ten thousand are black, he'll get up a
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notification and then they just sit and giggle, look at
them like Anchorman. They'll just read whatever's on the screen
you put it on Wikipedia. The reporters will every time
a black squirrel is seen, they'll report that only one
in ten thousand squirrels is black. But I do think
you could have only one in ten thousand and still
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have a bunch of them, because there's a lot of squirrels.
My guy wild Bird's Unlimited tells me he's got a
whole section for attracting squirrels and a whole section for
getting rid of them. And he said it's the craziest thing.
Half the people want want the squirrels. Half the people
want to get rid of them.