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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air. I received an
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email from the nice lady. He said, Hey, you're guy
Justin White at Senior Health Services that does the Medicare.
It helps people get through the Medicare process. My daughter
is very talented. She has this background, She's done this,
this and this. If you'd like to reach out to her,
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here's her phone number. And I said to her, and
it crossed my mind I should probably say this publicly.
I'm as guilty as anyone, So don't think I'm wagging
my finger at you. We have to let our kids
act as adults. We have to step back and let
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them step forward. Many is the time that I will say,
you know someone is hiring let's say, and I will
get emails from usually their mother, sometimes the father, but
usually and it's a mothering thing. And I know that
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people are going to take offense to me saying that,
and I'm okay with it because it comes from a
good place. You birth this child, you put this this
child was in your care for a long period of time.
There comes a point in our lives as parents. Who
was my wife telling me yesterday that she had just
(02:04):
talked to and there, Oh, my wife and her friend
went to Credence leave Out Goods new restaurant, and Levi's
number two is a guy named Chris Shaw, and Chris
was there and took great care of him. And she
got a kick out of the fact that, because we've
been through this, Chris is one of his kids had
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just turned sixteen and had for the first day driven
off to school, and he was saying, how weird it
was just all of a sudden from us having to
take you places you don't need us anymore, and there's
no real transition into that, and it's a real weird deal,
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a very weird deal, indeed. And that's but that's the
way life's supposed to work, right, we had there was
a time when we had to do that. So let
me recommend to you and take this as good advice,
and take it as respectful advice. If your child is
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trying to become an Eagle Scout, or your child is
looking for a job, or your child is looking for
this or that, insist that your child handle reaching out
to people to do that. I consider it a knock
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because let's say I'm looking to hire someone and I
always do that publicly. I do it over the air
and people send in and that's that's how he found
Emily Bull. I knew her father, Kevin Bull, and he
was one of the people who said Emily doesn't want
to reach out, and I said, well, have her reach out.
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And I think she didn't want to be rejected. She
had worked for me as a server at the RCC before,
but she did and we begin that conversation. But you
have to recognize, mommy, and I speak to you from
a position of love, that when you reach out for
your child, you are telling that other person that your
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child is not able to do it for themselves. Reach
out to your kid, contact your kid and say, hey,
Xyz is hiring. Or Michael Barry was talking about somebody hiring.
Why don't you reach out to him and say, hey,
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my mom heard you say this, and I'm interested and
hear's a little bit about me. But be conscious that
your image is at stake at that point, your maturity,
your place in life. And we are at a time
when young people are really a lot of young people
are really struggling to grow up, and nobody wants that
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on their payroll. So that's my advice to you. Texas
Education Agency has released the first list of one hundred
teachers under investigation for fraudulently obtaining their teaching certification in
a cheating scheme that kim Ogg announced the indictment of
five people for back in October. At least thirty eight
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teachers from eleven Houston area school districts have been named already.
Story from k PRC TV, which originally stood for port,
Rail and Cotton, the three pillars upon which nineteen teens
and twenties Economy Houston Economy was based on k PRC TV.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Tonight, one hundred Texas educators are part of a growing
probe into a teacher certification cheating scandal that operated out
of Harris County. Thirty eight of them are from Houston
Area district, including fifteen from HISD, five at alvin Id,
four at Sciphair and Fort Bend isds, and several more
at these other school districts. The other sixty four educators
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come from districts in North and Southeast Texas, though the
TEA says all of this is based on their districts
at the end of the last two school years, and
some may no longer work there. To think that this
many people without what I would consider a proper moral
compass we're trying to educate an influence children all across
the state is definitely troubling. Harris County prosecutors announced felony
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indictments against these five in October. They say the alleged ringleader,
HISD basketball coach Vincent Grayson, made more than a million
dollars from the scheme. Teachers from across the state would
pay twenty five hundred bucks to have Assistant Principal Nicholas
Newton test in their place after struggling to succeed on
previous attempts. Some allegedly got recruited by Assistant Principal Lashonda Roberts,
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while two test proctors are accused of accepting payment and
turning a blind eye to the cheating.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And it just destroys that kind of faith that our
community has in public schools.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All three HISD employees accused of leading the scheme are
now out on bond and relieved of duty, awaiting trial
and tonight, the TEA says as this investigation continues, they
do expect this list to grow. In the past, prosecutors
have said at least two hundred and ten educators may
have been fraudulently certified in Texas through this scheme, and
we know that HISD has said it will get rid
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of any employee who was part of this, and tonight
some other school districts are starting to echo that as well.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Think about this. If teaching doesn't pay well, why are
people going to illegal links to get the job? Th
about that for a moment, and what kind of people
are willing to cheat to get to be a teacher?
(08:00):
It's such a bad job. Why are people so eager
to rush into it? And who are these people who
are so eager to rush into it? What were they
doing before? You ever wonder that Amazon has an army
of people if they throw out on the streets every
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day that didn't exist before. What were those people doing before?
What were the TSA agents doing? We had they hired
fifty thousand people. Imagine if I told you you have
to hire fifty thousand people, what do you go raid
to telemarketing firms? Where do you find these people? They're
not just out there, They're not You ever think about this?
(08:45):
Who are you getting? And by the way, the Amazon
drivers I talked to, I mean the kind of reason,
like what what were you doing before? M hmm. One
day we would do a show that that this segment
(09:08):
occasioned sparked. Not every version of that includes Janie Fricky,
bring back, bring it back up. She's got some vocals.
At a moment, I don't think Jennie Freaky had had
hit her mark yet at this point. I don't think
she was a household man. You always seen let your
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feeling show, you love me, and you let me know.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Darn.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Just remember these three words, I love you, I love you,
I love love you, and you.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Me and.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And I I can fly.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
One day we're going to do a segment on uncredited
and you or unappreciated and famous people who sing background
on a song, because there's a lot of that. There's
a lot of those case, especially with classic rock, where
you didn't realize they brought in, you know, Harry Nielsen
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to bring to sing backup. John writes, I worked for
Bass and Minukee at steuben Or Airline and Luetta as
an auto mechanic from eighty five to eighty nine. Ed
Bass and Sam Minikee started Bass and Minukey in Pasadena
in nineteen fifty eight, and that story is still there today.
I believe in the eighties they had thirty something stores.
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The Pasadena store is the only one left. I love
those stories, absolutely love those stories. I want this guy
to call in, but I don't have a phone number.
His name is Dwayne. He said that bad dog in
Indian Shores tried to bite my wife while we were
walking to our hot tub in our own backyard. I
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grabbed my gun and shot the dog. The neighbor called
the police on us. Lady Sheriff was more concerned about
following the blood trail into the woods and finding the
dog than our safety. Crazy neighbor called Channel thirteen and
made false reports online about us. This is a nice
neighborhood right on Lake Houston. We should not have to
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deal with rabid rescue dogs. Let me tell you something
where we lost this battle, folks. There's a group of
people who don't have children, but they have dogs. And
the woman is usually into rescue dogs, and she wants
you to know that she really really really really really
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really really loves dogs. They don't call them for babies.
Oh the moms do, yeah yeah yeah. And what they
do what they do is they in discussions. They make
sure that you treat the dog like the savior of
the world, even in the conversation, and if you don't,
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they get very upset and people don't want to argue
with them, and so they'll talk about things like animal rights.
Animals do not have rights. Anyone who says the term
animal rights either doesn't know what they're talking about because
they don't understand our legal system, or they're retarded. You
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pick your choice. Those are your only two options. Animals
do not have rights. Only a human being can have rights.
I mean, if you really want to have this conversation,
there is no such thing as states rights. You know,
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you hear the States rights movement, and I will tolerate
that term only because of what it has come to mean,
but does not technically mean a state cannot have a right.
When you understand what a right is in a legal system,
neither a state, nor a tree, nor a dog can
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have one. So these people and their dogs have become
so aggressive and they're crazy because they don't have kids, right,
and they don't have kids to raise, and their dogs
became their thing. And it's sort of this reaction to
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they don't want to be treated like second class citizens.
So they've made dogs more valuable in our society than
human beings. I'll tell you this, if in downtown Houston
today somebody walked up to a human being and blasted
him away, and a block away someone walked up to
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a dog and blew it away and both were filmed,
that person who killed the dog would be hunted down
and probably torn peace by peace by the quote unquote
animal rights people. The person who shot the guy, well,
that's most unfortunate. That's a sick, sick, sick sick society.
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When you equate animals to human beings, and there are
a lot of people who are afraid to tell you
that they don't. That's retarded. It's completely retarded. And anybody
who does, boy, that's a real, absolute sick. It is
also a sickness when you believe that every citizen around
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the world, or every human being around the world, should
have the same rights in your country as your fellow
citizen does. That's the moment you don't understand what a
nation is. And I don't care if you screech, cry, scream,
threaten me, write emails to my company, piss your pants,
poop your pants, eat your own buggers gouge your own
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eyeballs out, you freaking idiot. It doesn't make you right.
And too many people have allowed these little temper tantrum
individuals to dictate the conversation because they don't want to
upset them. Well, they're going to have to be upset
because they're like petulant children. Speaking of which, the guy
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who shot the United Healthcare CEO outside the hotel in
Midtown yesterday at six forty six am Eastern, he had
written or someone had written the words deny on the
three shellcasings. They were meant to be three shots fired. Deny, depose, depend,
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I'm sorry, defend, And apparently that's a reference to a
book from twenty ten called Delay, Deny, Defend, Why insurance
companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it. J. M. Feineman.
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Those had been engraved on the live rounds and shellcasings
left behind after Brian Thompson fifty was shot yesterday morning.
Now there's some discussion as to whether this was a
professional hit per se, or just a grudge. And I've
read arguments that say, while he did have to chamber
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the rounds because the silencer was not heavy enough to
not giving up recoil to cycle the next round. I
don't think it's a professional. I do think it was planned.
Listen Timered.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Not you on.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know the celebrity who unnamed sang background on this song.
You would have listened and see if you can tell
jump ahead to it. I'll give you a little hint.
It's somebody that many people think the song is about.
(17:47):
That song is a rewind if you listen carefully, when
you know his voice, you rewind.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
So name.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The song is Mick Jagger. There's a lot of those.
They're very fun. Rob listen to this last name g
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E r A s I m O w I c z.
Jersimovitz would be how I guess that would g E
r A four? I mean mark? How many letters? This
is my wife's last name has thirteen last thirteen letters
vancotation g E r A s I, M O w
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I c z. That's Polish. That's wits or wits phenom.
How you pronounce it as four four and four has
sixteen letters? Giross some mo Jirosimovich, durra juh raw uh
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movits that's five syllables. Subject line from Rob Jirosimovich what
do you think his friends call him no mo probably
and he's a junior. Did you know Eddie van Halen
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did the guitar rip be riff for a thriller on
Michael Jackson. Yes, I did, but good catch. Eddie was
not supposed to do anything outside the band, but Quincy
had called him. Everyone was out of town, so he
came in. And that famous guitar lick is him. That
is correct. Why do I know that because we have
an uh We have a and Halen expert in on
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our team, and that is our creative director by the
name of what's his name or morom? His name is
mud Jim Mud. I wish this guy would call in
bad dog and Indian Shores tried to bite my wife
while we were walking to our hot tub in our
own backyard. I grabbed my gun and shot the dog.
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The neighbor called a popo on us, lady sheriff. I
love the fact that he calls a later sheriff and
the old days they'd called him bitch copses because well,
cops would call him that because they didn't like women
cops coming into the rings. Was more concerned about following
the blood trail into the woods and finding the dog
than our safety. Crazy neighbor called Channel thirteen and made
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false reports online about us. This is a nice neighborhood
right on Lake Houston. We should not have to deal
with rabid rescue dogs. You know, some of you will
not appreciate this, but I'm going to say it anyway.
Donald Trump came out. That's not the part you want
to appreciate. We get that moment. Donald Trump came out
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of a field of nineteen people, a very talented, the
best republic the strongest Republican field of candidates. We've ever
had a president in this country in twenty sixteen. Never
seen anything like it. I doubt we'll ever see anything
like it again. A lot of them are well funded,
had their own base, had national followings. Some of them
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were governors. You know a governor, you're fire's going to
hold his own state, right. You got Kasik in Ohio.
You got guys that had been all over media, could
raise money. Jeb Bush two Bush has been president before
I got the whole Bush machine. Ted Cruz raised more
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money in all of them, had a national campaign. Rob Oh,
what's the guy? What was a Goofball's name? He fell
off early in Wisconsin. He just couldn't get any momentum.
Can Marco Rubio lit Marco Ran Paul don't underestimate him.
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But Trump came out of that group because he bulled
his way through it. I think that at some point
in life you have to decide I'm not going to
let weaker men win, and I'm going to let them
know that I'm going to win. Some people just don't
have this part of their personality. I see. It makes
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me crazy. They don't feel like they should win. They
really don't. They date ugly women because they think that's
what they're supposed to do. They settle for bad jobs
because they think they're not supposed to have good things.
They settle for a crappy house because they don't think
I'm supposed to live in a good house. They settle
for a bad car that they don't even really want,
because well, I'm not to have good things. You think
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I'm kidding. This is the vast majority of people. Crazy
Neighbor called Channel thirteen and made false reports online about us.
You can think what you want about me, but I'm
just going to tell you completely honestly, that would happen
one time. Crazy neighbor called Channel thirteen and made false
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reports online about us. If that happened, and you're sure
that happened, that person thirty years from now should still
say that that was the dumbest thing they ever did
and they have regretted it for the rest of their lives.
I am not turning the other cheek on that, and
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it I think it's important that before someone does that,
they understand that I am not a person to be
trifled with. If you want to play games and do
such a thing. Now, sometimes people do it because you
know you hadn't met you, that you didn't do, you
didn't do your neighborhood watch party. But whether they knew
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or not, if that person called Channel thirteen and made
false online reports about you, that would be hat Phil's
and McCoy's. I would find every way. And anybody who
knows me knows that knows that. And and some people
will tell you he's crazy. You know, he's got anger
management issues, he's he's this. Let me tell you this.
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If you harm me or mine, you're going to lose.
And I think if more people went into now you
can't go being wronged by something somebody didn't intend. But
in that case, Oh man, wish the student call up here,
very show, Michael la. You know, there was a big
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negotiation about that, and she was like, you're wearing the lace. Done,
I'm wearing a leather. I mean it's Stevie Nicks. She
ain't a lace girl. Yeah, I mean, you don't want
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to know what her safe word is. Her safe word
she gives to a dude. Probably that's Stevie Nicks. That
not a lot of lace. I love her, God bless her,
but goodness, she's pure own witch. When they embrace being
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a witch, that's a whole different level of witchery. You know,
you're not ready for that. You can't even imagine where
that goes. Sometimes I read news reports of various scenes
of them. You got that scene from Low Country for
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old men we use in the uh uh oh, what's
the segment we do uh huh signs and wonders. You
got the story where he tells what he's just read
in the newspaper. You know what, while you're finding that,
put Catherine on Catherine. You're on the Michael Barry Show. Sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I just want to touch base
with you about the kids having the mother or the
mother or dad sending it in the emails about the kids.
Hiring gets starts so much earlier. And you know, I
worked at a little mom and pop retail place. So
three times the kids come in. Some of them come
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in to look around and use the facilities and will
not acknowledge you. The second ones that come in with
their parents, and the parents do all the talking, and
so I'll try to talk to the kids and the
parents answer for them. And the third ones, the parents
will send the kids in with their money. The kids
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will come in, take care of the business and do
it all. And so I like to use a little
positive reinforcement. And so when I talk to the parents
about how well how the great social skills of those kids,
the majority of those tell.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Me they're homeschool. Very interesting.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
You can do, yes, you bet, chapmen. So parents need
to back off, let their kids speak for themselves and
teach them some social skills.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
They do. But I want to be very clear that
I am empathetic to how it happens, because I myself,
I have to struggle many as the time that my
parenting decision or action is based on what I think
think I'm supposed to do for the best result rather
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than what I most want to do, because what I
want to do is keep them right here with me
and protect them and cover them and shield them. And
I say, no, you cannot do that. It's not best
for them. You're giving in to your own parental desire.
And I think it's natural. I think God imbuse us
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with a desire to protect and care over our children,
the way a bird creates a nest for her you know,
you see the mother duck. This is biology, it's nature,
it's natural. It's good. But that's a very interesting point
you make, Catherine, about them being homeschooled. And I will
tell you, I have noticed how many more kids I
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come across today that are homeschooled. Number one and number two.
I have noticed the level of maturity, the ability to
talk to adults is. And you know where I think
that comes from is because they're talking to adults all day.
I think you go to school and you end up
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in this kind of strided class of people all your age,
and you learn age not appropriate, but age consistent behaviors,
and the teacher is this whole different you know, status
over there, and you're not interacting much with an adult,
so you learn the behaviors in a pack animal sort
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of way, the lowest common denominator of your age group,
whereas if you're homeschooled, there's no place to hide in
the back and shoot spitballs. And by the way, I
was a spitball shooter, but so I'm not. I'm not throwing.
But you don't. You don't get a substitute teacher when
you're at home. You don't get to hide in the back.
You don't get to hide in the bathroom. You got
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you got a responsible adult who cares about you, who
will pull out a switch and whip you with it,
who's teaching you all. And I think you learn some
maturity from that. What's the name of the shop you
work at, Catherine?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I worked at Froggy's bakedoc and Port O'Connor, Froggy's Bait
Doc you bet you all right? What's the number with
ell Live Baiting?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Do you own it? Glad?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
No? I just worked there.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Roggy's Bait y'all don't have a website? Just a Facebook page?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Just a Facebook page? But it's I mean, it's just
the best. I love it. It's great and you get
to meet so many people. But one man brought in
a kid, his grandson. It was his homeschool day. The
kid was maybe nine years old. They took out every
different kind of sinker every way, and he explained him
what each and everyone was for, what the hooks were for.
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And then they were going and he was doing got
bought a map and comparing the map to the navigation
system and that was his homeschool day with grandpa. These
are the people I get to meet.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
It's amazing that that just gave me the same rush
as eating a bowl of bluebellt ice cream, like just
that thought that that happened.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
But you know, it surprises me kat how many people don't.
I watch people. They'll be asked a question by their kid,
and it's clearly a good natured question, not nagging, and
the parent. I think part of it is they don't
have one hundred percent knowledge, But people will often act
like you asking a question is offensive. You know, you're stupid.
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Everybody's supposed to know. We're not born knowing anything. We
have to learn those things. You just made my day
with that Froggy's baked dog from them. How could you
be in a bad mood when you walk into Froggy's
bakedoc in Port O'Connor getting ready to go fish for
the day. And then there's some papa over there pulling
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out all all the gear and teaching his kid. And
here's how you read the map. Oh, it does my
heart good.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air. I received an
(00:32):
email from the nice lady. He said, Hey, you're guy
Justin White at Senior Health Services that does the Medicare.
It helps people get through the Medicare process. My daughter
is very talented. She has this background, She's done this,
this and this. If you'd like to reach out to her,
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here's her phone number. And I said to her, and
it crossed my mind I should probably say this publicly.
I'm as guilty as anyone, So don't think I'm wagging
my finger at you. We have to let our kids
act as adults. We have to step back and let
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them step forward. Many is the time that I will say,
you know someone is hiring let's say, and I will
get emails from usually their mother, sometimes the father, but
usually and it's a mothering thing. And I know that
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people are going to take offense to me saying that,
and I'm okay with it because it comes from a
good place. You birth this child, you put this this
child was in your care for a long period of time.
There comes a point in our lives as parents. Who
was my wife telling me yesterday that she had just
(02:04):
talked to and there, Oh, my wife and her friend
went to Credence leave Out Goods new restaurant, and Levi's
number two is a guy named Chris Shaw, and Chris
was there and took great care of him. And she
got a kick out of the fact that, because we've
been through this, Chris is one of his kids had
(02:27):
just turned sixteen and had for the first day driven
off to school, and he was saying, how weird it
was just all of a sudden from us having to
take you places you don't need us anymore, and there's
no real transition into that, and it's a real weird deal,
(02:49):
a very weird deal, indeed. And that's but that's the
way life's supposed to work, right, we had there was
a time when we had to do that. So let
me recommend to you and take this as good advice,
and take it as respectful advice. If your child is
(03:12):
trying to become an Eagle Scout, or your child is
looking for a job, or your child is looking for
this or that, insist that your child handle reaching out
to people to do that. I consider it a knock
(03:33):
because let's say I'm looking to hire someone and I
always do that publicly. I do it over the air
and people send in and that's that's how he found
Emily Bull. I knew her father, Kevin Bull, and he
was one of the people who said Emily doesn't want
to reach out, and I said, well, have her reach out.
(03:55):
And I think she didn't want to be rejected. She
had worked for me as a server at the RCC before,
but she did and we begin that conversation. But you
have to recognize, mommy, and I speak to you from
a position of love, that when you reach out for
your child, you are telling that other person that your
(04:18):
child is not able to do it for themselves. Reach
out to your kid, contact your kid and say, hey,
Xyz is hiring. Or Michael Barry was talking about somebody hiring.
Why don't you reach out to him and say, hey,
(04:39):
my mom heard you say this, and I'm interested and
hear's a little bit about me. But be conscious that
your image is at stake at that point, your maturity,
your place in life. And we are at a time
when young people are really a lot of young people
are really struggling to grow up, and nobody wants that
(05:01):
on their payroll. So that's my advice to you. Texas
Education Agency has released the first list of one hundred
teachers under investigation for fraudulently obtaining their teaching certification in
a cheating scheme that kim Ogg announced the indictment of
five people for back in October. At least thirty eight
(05:26):
teachers from eleven Houston area school districts have been named already.
Story from k PRC TV, which originally stood for port,
Rail and Cotton, the three pillars upon which nineteen teens
and twenties Economy Houston Economy was based on k PRC TV.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Tonight, one hundred Texas educators are part of a growing
probe into a teacher certification cheating scandal that operated out
of Harris County. Thirty eight of them are from Houston
Area district, including fifteen from HISD, five at alvin Id,
four at Sciphair and Fort Bend isds, and several more
at these other school districts. The other sixty four educators
(06:11):
come from districts in North and Southeast Texas, though the
TEA says all of this is based on their districts
at the end of the last two school years, and
some may no longer work there. To think that this
many people without what I would consider a proper moral
compass we're trying to educate an influence children all across
the state is definitely troubling. Harris County prosecutors announced felony
(06:33):
indictments against these five in October. They say the alleged ringleader,
HISD basketball coach Vincent Grayson, made more than a million
dollars from the scheme. Teachers from across the state would
pay twenty five hundred bucks to have Assistant Principal Nicholas
Newton test in their place after struggling to succeed on
previous attempts. Some allegedly got recruited by Assistant Principal Lashonda Roberts,
(06:56):
while two test proctors are accused of accepting payment and
turning a blind eye to the cheating.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And it just destroys that kind of faith that our
community has in public schools.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
All three HISD employees accused of leading the scheme are
now out on bond and relieved of duty, awaiting trial
and tonight, the TEA says as this investigation continues, they
do expect this list to grow. In the past, prosecutors
have said at least two hundred and ten educators may
have been fraudulently certified in Texas through this scheme, and
we know that HISD has said it will get rid
(07:30):
of any employee who was part of this, and tonight
some other school districts are starting to echo that as well.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Think about this. If teaching doesn't pay well, why are
people going to illegal links to get the job? Th
about that for a moment, and what kind of people
are willing to cheat to get to be a teacher?
(08:00):
It's such a bad job. Why are people so eager
to rush into it? And who are these people who
are so eager to rush into it? What were they
doing before? You ever wonder that Amazon has an army
of people if they throw out on the streets every
(08:21):
day that didn't exist before. What were those people doing before?
What were the TSA agents doing? We had they hired
fifty thousand people. Imagine if I told you you have
to hire fifty thousand people, what do you go raid
to telemarketing firms? Where do you find these people? They're
not just out there, They're not You ever think about this?
(08:45):
Who are you getting? And by the way, the Amazon
drivers I talked to, I mean the kind of reason,
like what what were you doing before? M hmm. One
day we would do a show that that this segment
(09:08):
occasioned sparked. Not every version of that includes Janie Fricky,
bring back, bring it back up. She's got some vocals.
At a moment, I don't think Jennie Freaky had had
hit her mark yet at this point. I don't think
she was a household man. You always seen let your
(09:45):
feeling show, you love me, and you let me know.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Darn.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Just remember these three words, I love you, I love you,
I love love you, and you.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Me and.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And I I can fly.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
One day we're going to do a segment on uncredited
and you or unappreciated and famous people who sing background
on a song, because there's a lot of that. There's
a lot of those case, especially with classic rock, where
you didn't realize they brought in, you know, Harry Nielsen
(10:42):
to bring to sing backup. John writes, I worked for
Bass and Minukee at steuben Or Airline and Luetta as
an auto mechanic from eighty five to eighty nine. Ed
Bass and Sam Minikee started Bass and Minukey in Pasadena
in nineteen fifty eight, and that story is still there today.
I believe in the eighties they had thirty something stores.
(11:04):
The Pasadena store is the only one left. I love
those stories, absolutely love those stories. I want this guy
to call in, but I don't have a phone number.
His name is Dwayne. He said that bad dog in
Indian Shores tried to bite my wife while we were
walking to our hot tub in our own backyard. I
(11:26):
grabbed my gun and shot the dog. The neighbor called
the police on us. Lady Sheriff was more concerned about
following the blood trail into the woods and finding the
dog than our safety. Crazy neighbor called Channel thirteen and
made false reports online about us. This is a nice
neighborhood right on Lake Houston. We should not have to
(11:46):
deal with rabid rescue dogs. Let me tell you something
where we lost this battle, folks. There's a group of
people who don't have children, but they have dogs. And
the woman is usually into rescue dogs, and she wants
you to know that she really really really really really
(12:08):
really really loves dogs. They don't call them for babies.
Oh the moms do, yeah yeah yeah. And what they
do what they do is they in discussions. They make
sure that you treat the dog like the savior of
the world, even in the conversation, and if you don't,
(12:32):
they get very upset and people don't want to argue
with them, and so they'll talk about things like animal rights.
Animals do not have rights. Anyone who says the term
animal rights either doesn't know what they're talking about because
they don't understand our legal system, or they're retarded. You
(12:53):
pick your choice. Those are your only two options. Animals
do not have rights. Only a human being can have rights.
I mean, if you really want to have this conversation,
there is no such thing as states rights. You know,
(13:13):
you hear the States rights movement, and I will tolerate
that term only because of what it has come to mean,
but does not technically mean a state cannot have a right.
When you understand what a right is in a legal system,
neither a state, nor a tree, nor a dog can
(13:33):
have one. So these people and their dogs have become
so aggressive and they're crazy because they don't have kids, right,
and they don't have kids to raise, and their dogs
became their thing. And it's sort of this reaction to
(13:54):
they don't want to be treated like second class citizens.
So they've made dogs more valuable in our society than
human beings. I'll tell you this, if in downtown Houston
today somebody walked up to a human being and blasted
him away, and a block away someone walked up to
(14:15):
a dog and blew it away and both were filmed,
that person who killed the dog would be hunted down
and probably torn peace by peace by the quote unquote
animal rights people. The person who shot the guy, well,
that's most unfortunate. That's a sick, sick, sick sick society.
(14:42):
When you equate animals to human beings, and there are
a lot of people who are afraid to tell you
that they don't. That's retarded. It's completely retarded. And anybody
who does, boy, that's a real, absolute sick. It is
also a sickness when you believe that every citizen around
(15:06):
the world, or every human being around the world, should
have the same rights in your country as your fellow
citizen does. That's the moment you don't understand what a
nation is. And I don't care if you screech, cry, scream,
threaten me, write emails to my company, piss your pants,
poop your pants, eat your own buggers gouge your own
(15:27):
eyeballs out, you freaking idiot. It doesn't make you right.
And too many people have allowed these little temper tantrum
individuals to dictate the conversation because they don't want to
upset them. Well, they're going to have to be upset
because they're like petulant children. Speaking of which, the guy
(15:51):
who shot the United Healthcare CEO outside the hotel in
Midtown yesterday at six forty six am Eastern, he had
written or someone had written the words deny on the
three shellcasings. They were meant to be three shots fired. Deny, depose, depend,
(16:14):
I'm sorry, defend, And apparently that's a reference to a
book from twenty ten called Delay, Deny, Defend, Why insurance
companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it. J. M. Feineman.
(16:37):
Those had been engraved on the live rounds and shellcasings
left behind after Brian Thompson fifty was shot yesterday morning.
Now there's some discussion as to whether this was a
professional hit per se, or just a grudge. And I've
read arguments that say, while he did have to chamber
(17:02):
the rounds because the silencer was not heavy enough to
not giving up recoil to cycle the next round. I
don't think it's a professional. I do think it was planned.
Listen Timered.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Not you on.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know the celebrity who unnamed sang background on this song.
You would have listened and see if you can tell
jump ahead to it. I'll give you a little hint.
It's somebody that many people think the song is about.
(17:47):
That song is a rewind if you listen carefully, when
you know his voice, you rewind.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
So name.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The song is Mick Jagger. There's a lot of those.
They're very fun. Rob listen to this last name g
(18:29):
E r A s I m O w I c z.
Jersimovitz would be how I guess that would g E
r A four? I mean mark? How many letters? This
is my wife's last name has thirteen last thirteen letters
vancotation g E r A s I, M O w
(18:54):
I c z. That's Polish. That's wits or wits phenom.
How you pronounce it as four four and four has
sixteen letters? Giross some mo Jirosimovich, durra juh raw uh
(19:18):
movits that's five syllables. Subject line from Rob Jirosimovich what
do you think his friends call him no mo probably
and he's a junior. Did you know Eddie van Halen
(19:39):
did the guitar rip be riff for a thriller on
Michael Jackson. Yes, I did, but good catch. Eddie was
not supposed to do anything outside the band, but Quincy
had called him. Everyone was out of town, so he
came in. And that famous guitar lick is him. That
is correct. Why do I know that because we have
an uh We have a and Halen expert in on
(20:05):
our team, and that is our creative director by the
name of what's his name or morom? His name is
mud Jim Mud. I wish this guy would call in
bad dog and Indian Shores tried to bite my wife
while we were walking to our hot tub in our
own backyard. I grabbed my gun and shot the dog.
(20:30):
The neighbor called a popo on us, lady sheriff. I
love the fact that he calls a later sheriff and
the old days they'd called him bitch copses because well,
cops would call him that because they didn't like women
cops coming into the rings. Was more concerned about following
the blood trail into the woods and finding the dog
than our safety. Crazy neighbor called Channel thirteen and made
(20:51):
false reports online about us. This is a nice neighborhood
right on Lake Houston. We should not have to deal
with rabid rescue dogs. You know, some of you will
not appreciate this, but I'm going to say it anyway.
Donald Trump came out. That's not the part you want
to appreciate. We get that moment. Donald Trump came out
(21:13):
of a field of nineteen people, a very talented, the
best republic the strongest Republican field of candidates. We've ever
had a president in this country in twenty sixteen. Never
seen anything like it. I doubt we'll ever see anything
like it again. A lot of them are well funded,
had their own base, had national followings. Some of them
(21:37):
were governors. You know a governor, you're fire's going to
hold his own state, right. You got Kasik in Ohio.
You got guys that had been all over media, could
raise money. Jeb Bush two Bush has been president before
I got the whole Bush machine. Ted Cruz raised more
(21:58):
money in all of them, had a national campaign. Rob Oh,
what's the guy? What was a Goofball's name? He fell
off early in Wisconsin. He just couldn't get any momentum.
Can Marco Rubio lit Marco Ran Paul don't underestimate him.
(22:19):
But Trump came out of that group because he bulled
his way through it. I think that at some point
in life you have to decide I'm not going to
let weaker men win, and I'm going to let them
know that I'm going to win. Some people just don't
have this part of their personality. I see. It makes
(22:41):
me crazy. They don't feel like they should win. They
really don't. They date ugly women because they think that's
what they're supposed to do. They settle for bad jobs
because they think they're not supposed to have good things.
They settle for a crappy house because they don't think
I'm supposed to live in a good house. They settle
for a bad car that they don't even really want,
because well, I'm not to have good things. You think
(23:01):
I'm kidding. This is the vast majority of people. Crazy
Neighbor called Channel thirteen and made false reports online about us.
You can think what you want about me, but I'm
just going to tell you completely honestly, that would happen
one time. Crazy neighbor called Channel thirteen and made false
(23:28):
reports online about us. If that happened, and you're sure
that happened, that person thirty years from now should still
say that that was the dumbest thing they ever did
and they have regretted it for the rest of their lives.
I am not turning the other cheek on that, and
(23:51):
it I think it's important that before someone does that,
they understand that I am not a person to be
trifled with. If you want to play games and do
such a thing. Now, sometimes people do it because you
know you hadn't met you, that you didn't do, you
didn't do your neighborhood watch party. But whether they knew
(24:13):
or not, if that person called Channel thirteen and made
false online reports about you, that would be hat Phil's
and McCoy's. I would find every way. And anybody who
knows me knows that knows that. And and some people
will tell you he's crazy. You know, he's got anger
management issues, he's he's this. Let me tell you this.
(24:34):
If you harm me or mine, you're going to lose.
And I think if more people went into now you
can't go being wronged by something somebody didn't intend. But
in that case, Oh man, wish the student call up here,
very show, Michael la. You know, there was a big
(25:01):
negotiation about that, and she was like, you're wearing the lace. Done,
I'm wearing a leather. I mean it's Stevie Nicks. She
ain't a lace girl. Yeah, I mean, you don't want
(25:23):
to know what her safe word is. Her safe word
she gives to a dude. Probably that's Stevie Nicks. That
not a lot of lace. I love her, God bless her,
but goodness, she's pure own witch. When they embrace being
(25:46):
a witch, that's a whole different level of witchery. You know,
you're not ready for that. You can't even imagine where
that goes. Sometimes I read news reports of various scenes
of them. You got that scene from Low Country for
(26:09):
old men we use in the uh uh oh, what's
the segment we do uh huh signs and wonders. You
got the story where he tells what he's just read
in the newspaper. You know what, while you're finding that,
put Catherine on Catherine. You're on the Michael Barry Show. Sweetheart.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, I just want to touch base
with you about the kids having the mother or the
mother or dad sending it in the emails about the kids.
Hiring gets starts so much earlier. And you know, I
worked at a little mom and pop retail place. So
three times the kids come in. Some of them come
(26:53):
in to look around and use the facilities and will
not acknowledge you. The second ones that come in with
their parents, and the parents do all the talking, and
so I'll try to talk to the kids and the
parents answer for them. And the third ones, the parents
will send the kids in with their money. The kids
(27:13):
will come in, take care of the business and do
it all. And so I like to use a little
positive reinforcement. And so when I talk to the parents
about how well how the great social skills of those kids,
the majority of those tell.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Me they're homeschool. Very interesting.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
You can do, yes, you bet, chapmen. So parents need
to back off, let their kids speak for themselves and
teach them some social skills.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
They do. But I want to be very clear that
I am empathetic to how it happens, because I myself,
I have to struggle many as the time that my
parenting decision or action is based on what I think
think I'm supposed to do for the best result rather
(28:03):
than what I most want to do, because what I
want to do is keep them right here with me
and protect them and cover them and shield them. And
I say, no, you cannot do that. It's not best
for them. You're giving in to your own parental desire.
And I think it's natural. I think God imbuse us
(28:24):
with a desire to protect and care over our children,
the way a bird creates a nest for her you know,
you see the mother duck. This is biology, it's nature,
it's natural. It's good. But that's a very interesting point
you make, Catherine, about them being homeschooled. And I will
tell you, I have noticed how many more kids I
(28:47):
come across today that are homeschooled. Number one and number two.
I have noticed the level of maturity, the ability to
talk to adults is. And you know where I think
that comes from is because they're talking to adults all day.
I think you go to school and you end up
(29:10):
in this kind of strided class of people all your age,
and you learn age not appropriate, but age consistent behaviors,
and the teacher is this whole different you know, status
over there, and you're not interacting much with an adult,
so you learn the behaviors in a pack animal sort
(29:33):
of way, the lowest common denominator of your age group,
whereas if you're homeschooled, there's no place to hide in
the back and shoot spitballs. And by the way, I
was a spitball shooter, but so I'm not. I'm not throwing.
But you don't. You don't get a substitute teacher when
you're at home. You don't get to hide in the back.
You don't get to hide in the bathroom. You got
(29:54):
you got a responsible adult who cares about you, who
will pull out a switch and whip you with it,
who's teaching you all. And I think you learn some
maturity from that. What's the name of the shop you
work at, Catherine?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I worked at Froggy's bakedoc and Port O'Connor, Froggy's Bait
Doc you bet you all right? What's the number with
ell Live Baiting?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Do you own it? Glad?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
No? I just worked there.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Roggy's Bait y'all don't have a website? Just a Facebook page?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Just a Facebook page? But it's I mean, it's just
the best. I love it. It's great and you get
to meet so many people. But one man brought in
a kid, his grandson. It was his homeschool day. The
kid was maybe nine years old. They took out every
different kind of sinker every way, and he explained him
what each and everyone was for, what the hooks were for.
(30:54):
And then they were going and he was doing got
bought a map and comparing the map to the navigation
system and that was his homeschool day with grandpa. These
are the people I get to meet.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
It's amazing that that just gave me the same rush
as eating a bowl of bluebellt ice cream, like just
that thought that that happened.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
But you know, it surprises me kat how many people don't.
I watch people. They'll be asked a question by their kid,
and it's clearly a good natured question, not nagging, and
the parent. I think part of it is they don't
have one hundred percent knowledge, But people will often act
like you asking a question is offensive. You know, you're stupid.
(31:39):
Everybody's supposed to know. We're not born knowing anything. We
have to learn those things. You just made my day
with that Froggy's baked dog from them. How could you
be in a bad mood when you walk into Froggy's
bakedoc in Port O'Connor getting ready to go fish for
the day. And then there's some papa over there pulling
(31:59):
out all all the gear and teaching his kid. And
here's how you read the map. Oh, it does my
heart good.
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