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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time, time, Luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
A lot of our listeners show news jumping and they
follow the news all day every day. You may be
one of those. And traditionally talk radio aired on news
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talk stations that had begun as news stations and developed
into news talk, and so there would be reporters surrounding
at the tops and bottoms of each hour Rush Limbaugh Show.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
For instance, Rush.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Used to say, people don't get their news from the
news anymore, from the media anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They get it from me.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm America's anchorman. And then a survey, a study was done,
and the number one place people answered they got their
news was from Rush Limbaugh. And that horrified the major
media organizations for two reasons. Number One, that meant they
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were a bridesmaid, not the bride. They were left, they
were abandoned, but they did it to themselves. But number two,
the news that Rush was reporting was factual.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It was real.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He was the mayor of realvill and they lived in
a fantasyland of global warming and transitioning and black lives
matter and on and on. So if you are new
to our show, you wouldn't know this, but you will
come to learn. Many days we don't talk about what's
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necessarily in the news that day, mostly because I think
that breaking news is overrated. Being the first to report
on something doesn't make you right, and oftentimes those folks
are wrong, so we don't do breaking news. I also
often don't talk about what has happened that day on purpose.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You'll get that elsewhere. I would rather.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Provide perspective that only time can provide on what happened yesterday,
the day before. So I had a few folks listeners
email today and ask if we would be talking about
Joe Biden's farewell speech, and I said absolutely not, for
the same reason we didn't talk about Jimmy Carter's funeral.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's not important. If you think it's important, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You can go get the speech anywhere. But I don't
think it's important what somebody wrote for him. And then
he mumbled through, what is the importance of that? If
you want to hear a farewell address, I'll read you
George Washington's farewell address, the most important farewell address of
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all time. I'll read you Dwight David Eisenhower's farewell address
where he warned about the military industrial complex, and first
of all, he knew it from two perspectives, having been
a general and a president, and he was sounding the
alarm them on what came to be true. That's why
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Dick Cheney had to stay in positions of power, so
that the military industrial complex can make sure we're at
war all the time. And by the way, that is
the reason they hate Trump. He got us out of Afghanistan.
He didn't start new wars. He didn't send your boys
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to be murdered. And they need your boys being murdered
because they they need to sell C one thirties and
fuel and MREs and guns and uniforms and build bases.
You know how much money we spent on the base
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any rock enough to have rebuilt Lehina in Maui, But
instead what is it today? Don Lemon's guest gave credit
to Donald Trump for the cease fire agreement in Gazo,
and Don Lemon wasn't having it. We're not going to
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give Donald Trump credit. It makes people very very angry. Listen,
this thing's been going on for quite some time in
the Biden administration and would have continued.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There was no end in sight.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Hamas is scared to death of Trump, and Israel is
willing to make concessions to get a deal done because
now they got a president that'll work with them. Because
Israel made a lot of concessions to make this deal happen.
Everybody wants to deal with Trump and that puts America
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in the catbird seat. And let me tell you something,
don Lemon won't have it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
According to diplomats who were involved first hand in the negotiation,
Parson of Biden refused to put any pressure on Natanyahu
and ultimately they gave up that any deal would happen.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It was And don you and I talked about Garrison Trump.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I have no love and I don't want to give
any credits, but I know but I am in the business.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Of telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Donald trump intervention have been monumental in making the.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Sea the ceasefire deal possible.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And and just just to to make people understand, President
Biden not only refused on multiple occasions to put any
pressure on the Prime Minister of Israel to do any deal.
People who were involved in the negotiation, including Israeli negotiators,
told me firsthand that very often they felt that he
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was more than backing than the negotiating team. That is
really negotiating team. He was backing the Prime minister agenda
and his desire to stay in office that Israeli and
Israeli ministers, including bing Vier today confirmed that it was
President Trump. Israeli media also confirmed that that uh Natanielho
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was already gave up on the hostages. He was willing
to sacrifice the hostages for his political desire to stay
in power. However, Donald Trump is happened to be a
transactional president.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Happened to be a transactional man.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He wanted to come to the White House with a win,
and that was always his approach.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
So why why did they not wait until he took office,
which is just going to be in about a week.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Because he didn't want to deal with these issues as
he get into office.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He want this issue rolled the table.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, I don't agree with that.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I think Donald Trump would like to have started off,
we know Donald Trump the day of his inauguration or
on the day to announce a cease fire. The fact
that it happened on Biden's watch, I think that leads
many people to question whether it was And look, I'm
not saying that you're wrong but it's going to lead
many people to question, do you know when.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That ceasfire will enter in? Do you know when the
ceasfire will start?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's going to start, well, the temporary ceasefire is going
to start. It should start on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Correct, it will start on the nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, the phase one of the ceasfire will start the
day inauguration.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Basically.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Compred when we started in radio. I love music. I
can't play music. I can't sing, although if I get
a few drinks in me, I will get up on
stage with the band and start singing. And everybody wishes
I wouldn't, but I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It's not for them. It's for me.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And I'm living out my dream of being a rock star,
which most boys had a dream of being a rock star,
whether they admit it or not, they did. And I
get as close to doing that as I can for
a guy that can't sing at all. Anybody who knows
me knows I'm not I'm not under it. I mean,
I'm not know selling myself short. I cannot sing, and
that becomes part of the joke because I'm in on it.
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But I love it well, Ramone, I love music. Ramone
is crazy for music. I mean, you can play two.
If he'd done name that tune, man, he'd have been
You remember the guys, remember that, they'd always be some
crazy dude that you know. I can name it in eight,
I can name it in seven. And then they get
he was afraid, like he was going to miss his opportunity.
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I can name it in one note.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And you look at him.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
What because he already had an idea what it was
going to be, and he had such a musical such
a knowledge as and intuition for music. We love music,
and so music becomes a part of our show. When
we started nineteen years ago, people in the industry would say,
there's too much music.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
On your show.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
News directors who run radio stations are news people, and
they don't believe these airwaves should be playing music. If
you want to play music, go be a FMDJ. And
my point was music is so much a part of
the It's like water. You can't do anything without it.
And if you don't think I'm right, go to a
Trump rally. Go see how much Trump weaves music into
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the showmanship the entertainment value of his very important rallies.
And the rallies are critical to the Trump juggernaut. The
rallies feed him. Those rallies are not for the people
who go to the rally. Those rallies are for Donald Trump.
He loves the people, he really does. I'm not a
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sick a fan. I wasn't an early Trump convert. But
so I'm not a guy that thinks Trump is, you know,
right on every issue and the greatest thing in the
second coming.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I don't, but I will tell you I believe it.
I see it, I know it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He loves the people and he feeds off of the
energy they give him. And that's what allows a man
of his age. Let's say June fourth, nineteen forty six,
So this June fourth, he will be seventy nine. That
makes him seventy eight right now. I keep the president's
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birthdays written down because I'm a dork. So he's seventy
eight years old. My mom died at seventy nine and
she had als. So that degenerates you. But you think
about this, how many seventy eight year olds do you
know that have that kind of energy like he does.
I think that energy is is it's all mental. It's
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all mental, because he's found what he loves to do
and it's meaningful to him. It's not financially rewarding, but
it's meaningful to him, and it drives him, and it
drives him to keep long hours and do as much
as he possibly can.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's not a job. It's a ministry. It's a passion,
it's a calling, and he believes in it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So anyway, I feel like we've kind of because now
now that we've been at this for nineteen years, all
those people in the early days that said we played
too much music, they're all gone.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
They retired or got fired or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And the new people that come into our show now
that we've had success, they go, I I like the
music that you play. And so it's a little different
for folks that are new to the show because nobody
else in radio, or I shouldn't say nobody other people
in radio typically don't use music, but we do. And
I say all that to say this. The problem is,
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we play music that we really enjoy, and I love
music so much that when a song starts, I don't
want to have to interrupt it, especially if it's Jeffrey
Lynn and Elo, Yeah, it's it. So I told you
that Don Lemon, formerly of CNN very very upset. The
left is their minds are blown that Trump is getting
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credit for the hostage release. There is no other answer.
But let's dig a little deeper into this.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You don't think Trump should get.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The credit for the hostage release, A hostage release that
is timed to happen so that he's basically being sworn
in a few hours after it happens. You think that's
you want us to believe that's a coincidence. You're the
same people that told us that Joe Biden had his
act together, sharp as attack and all of that stuff. Right, Well,
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don Lemon, I got news for you and every other liberal,
just like how the Iranis released the hostages just as
Reagan was inaugurated as a as a goodwill gesture, so too,
this happened because this was this was a tribute.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This this uh, this was what's.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
The mafia term for, like a gift you give to
the to the person of paying none is worth for anyway. Yeah,
there's another word for you. Biden's State Department spokesman admitted
that Trump was quote critical in getting the Israel Hamas
ceasefire and hostage.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
S feel done.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
This is the State Department spokesman, saying that's what happened.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
When it comes to the involvement of President elect Trump's
team has been absolutely critical in getting this deal over
the line.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And it's been.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Critical because obviously, as I stand here today, this administration's
term in office will expire in five days. And one
of the things that we have always said about this
deal is that when you get from stage one to
stage two, that the United States, Egypt, and Cutter are
the guaranteurs of this deal, and Egypt and Cutter will
push Hamas to stay at the bargaining table and to
get from stage one to stage two, and the United
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States will push Israel to stay at the bargaining table
to get from phase one and phase two. So obviously
those are promises we cannot make on behalf of the
United States for any longer than the next five days.
And so it's critical that all of the parties to
the agreement and the other mediators see that when the
United States is in the room making commitments, those are
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lasting commitments that extend beyond this administration into the next one.
I mean, I would just say, lastly, I don't know
if it's unprecedented to have envoys from an outgoing and
an incoming administration sitting at the same table negotiating a
ceasefire agreement of this kind. But if it's not unprecedent,
it's certainly unusual, and we of course thank the Trump
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team for working with this on this ceasefire agreement.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
We think it's important that they were at the table.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Show.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A lot of our listener growth has been in places
where our show does not air on a local station,
or people who can't listen to this show because they
have an odd schedule. Either you know, they're working and
can't listen, or that's when they sleep. You know, a
lot of people don't have the luxury of getting to
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work the old nine to five. In fact, I don't
know anybody other than bankers and government employees these days
who work nine to five. It is more is expected
in longer hours are worked. Just everybody I know works
long hours, and not to be a tough guy, but
because the work requires it.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I had a mentor named Walter Zivley, and Walter was
from a different era. He was born in a little
town in North Texas called Mineral Wells, and as he
would say, Mineral Wells the home of crazy water crystal.
That's what that's what it was famous for. And Walter
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used to explain to me, and mind you, this was
twenty years ago, so think about how much it's changed
since then. Walter used to explain to me how life
had changed. He was a very powerful, well respected, admired
lawyer at a big law firm back then. The firm
was called Ladells Sap, Zivily, Hill and Laboon. He was,
of course the Zivily and my wife ended up going to.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Work there after.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
She was at a company called El Paso Energy, and
I had a lot of friends there, still do. But
Walter had started practicing law in a time long before computers,
and he would talk about the fact, he said, things
move so much faster.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Let me give an example when I started, when I
was a partner. It was well into my thirties. You
would call somebody, a lawyer on the other side of
a deal you were trying to get completed. You would
call the other lawyer and his secretary would pick up.
Nobody answered their own phone back then, there was no email.
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His secretary would pick up and she would say, he's
in a meeting. Can he call you back, and you'd say, yep,
it was Walter Zivley. Here's my number, call me back.
So you'd hang up the call and move on to
the next issue you were working on. So by the
time he called you back, because he got out of
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that meeting, you'd be going to lunch. So you'd get
back from lunch and there would be this little slip.
And when I started as a baby lawyer, we too
had these little pink slips. Is while you were out,
this person called, and your secretary would check the different
boxes on there and this was a message, and here's
the number to call him back. And so you'd come
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back and on.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Your desk you'd have.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You'd have what looks like something that you could impel
yourself on that would be sticking up like an ice pick,
And as you finished each call, you would stick the
post it note onto there, because you'd want to keep
that for later so you could go back if you
needed that person's number, And so as you finished each item,
you'd stick it back. All right, so you called him.
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He was in a meeting when he called you, you
were going to lunch. Then you'd call him back in
the afternoon, but he was still at lunch and by
maybe tomorrow morning, y'all would get connected and y'all would
agree on the turn terms of the document and he
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would send it to you and it would take a
couple of days unless they couriered it. Nobody couriers things anymore.
Email replaced that, but the courier might drive that over
in a couple of hours, or if you were in downtown,
which Walter was on a bicycle, and so the document
would arrive from the courier and then you would do
your thing. But you might have been well. The point
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was it would take three or four days to get
an agreement. I mean to get a document simply signed,
agreed to, and sign. And he said, now you send
an email and go, here's our offer. Here are the terms.
The terms are bolded, and they will look at it
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and turn around and respond within an hour with a
redline version, which means, here's the changes that we made.
You can see that we changed it, so we didn't
hide them. Here they are and you go, yep, that'll work.
You're still doing the same amount of negotiation.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But it's just like that. It's rapid fire.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He said, from start to finish, this process may take
thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And so.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Once you get accustomed to that and how fast the
world moves. Once that happens, you've got to turn things
a lot faster. And being away from work for a
day is much more upsetting to people because a lot
more work gets done, it gets done faster. And he said,
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and what happens is that becomes the new normal. People
expect that to be the case. And I'll give an
example how just in the last few years this has happened.
In my lifetime, we didn't have cell phones. We went
from nobody had a cell phone to a long period
of time where really rich people would have a phone,
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like in their car, and it was a kind of
really neat deal, and it was the big brick phone, remember,
and it would be wired in. And then there was
the big brick phone that maybe you'd carry in a suitcase.
And that period of time was a pretty good little
period of time. And then the cell phone was kind
of ubiquitous. It was everywhere all the time. And once
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that started, boom, everybody has a cell phone. The poorest American,
every person for that matter, the poorest Indian.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You go to third world.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Countries, people in a hunt with no electricity and running water.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
All have a cell phone. It's crazy, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And now a cell phone can replace your computer, your facts,
all the things that we had to have before somebody
calls you. I don't take calls, my ringer stays off.
I don't have what it doesn't buzz doesn't notify me
because I'm in a studio all day and it would
distract me and you'd hear the phone.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Ringing or buzzing, and that would be annoying to you too.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And because of all of this, because this happened, people
call and if you don't pick up, they text, and
if they haven't heard back from you in three minutes,
they're calling the cops to do a welfare check. You
must have died because we changed our expectation. We expect
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to be able to get people right when we want
them right that minute.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Otherwise there are people in the business world.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Clients of lawyers and service providers, who will pitch a
fit if they're accountant or lawyer. I hear this from
accountants and lawyers and different people. They want that person
to call them back at exactly that minute, and they
have grown accustomed to that level of ability to be reached.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Which I think is very unhealthy.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Anyway, I didn't get to my point about this officer
being killed.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I'll get to that in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Give you maybe ought to be laugh when I tell
a joke like that, so I know you thought it.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Was funny them Michael Berry, Oh no, I won't do that.
It's too much. Or she won't go that town. That
was so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It was four years ago today that Phil Spector.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Died after getting coronavirus in prison at eighty one years old,
where he was serving a life sentence for killing the
actress Lana Clarkson.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Back in two thousand and three. I think the greatest
humiliation for Phil Spector was not going to prison. It
was people seeing him without his wig on, because you
couldn't imagine how goofy he was going to look without
his wig on. We had something happen in Houston yesterday
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that is happening across the country. You've probably got a
story in your own community where this is happening, and
that is that a sheriff's deputy in Brazoria County. Zoria
is about forty five minutes south of Houston. Houston itself
is Harris County, mostly Harris County, and it is surrounded
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by Chambers County, Liberty County to the east, Jefferson County,
Walker County, Montgomery County, Fort ben County, and one of
Galveston County in Brasooria County. And so this deputy named
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Hajesus Vargas was part of a regional task force for
serving warrants on bad gas. My brother had served on
one of these task forces. He was an over thirty
year officer, and he used to tell me one of
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the most dangerous things you can do is serving warrants,
because you're going out to tell a guy.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You got to come back.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And a lot of these guys have been to prison
before and they've made a decision they're not going back
to prison.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So if they see you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Coming, some of them have rigged their home with cameras.
Some of them have vowed I will not be taken alive.
And they're going out in the blaze of glory, and
they want to take some cops with them because they
hate They see cops as the reason they have all
these problems, not the fact that they make bad life decisions.
It's the cops that are the bad cops are out
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to get them. Look, we're talking about people make bad
decisions anyway, But hey, sus Vargas is deputy sheriff, goes
to server a warrant on This guy is tard. I'm
not going to say his name because he doesn't desert.
He is a black career criminal, fifty six years old,
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a lifetime of violence, so he doesn't want to go
back to prison. And you know, when you judge officers,
you have to remember people love to judge officers in
what they do. You have to remember that. Okay, So
yesterday this Deputy Vargas is murdered by this bad guy.
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So today every person out there, every law enforcement officer
out there, is reminded that every encounter they have, they
risk being murdered. Every single one of them. They risk
being murdered. They're on high alert at all times. And
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you tend to forget that, right, you get complacent. But
on a day like today, every officer in the Greater
Houston area is reminded. If I'm serving a warrant or
if I'm just pulling somebody over for speeding, you might
walk up there and about the time you get there
and they roll down the window. You're just ready to
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ask for their license and insurance and they start blasting.
They got you, they got to jump on you. So
people love to be angry at cops.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's the game.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
They love to film cops, and they love to play
lawyer on the cops. They're all constitutional lawyers on what
the cops can and cannot do. And there's a whole
there's a whole thing about this, and it's actually mostly
white people. In fact, a lot of them are kind
of they see themselves as constitutional conservatives, but I don't
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think they consider what a cop.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Has to go through on a day to day basis.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I hate a bad cop, can't stand them, want them fired,
one them prosecuted, I hate them. But you can't just
assume that all cops are bad. That's crazy because you
need them. You need them to protect the week in
our society, and you don't want to go serve a
warrant on a turd, a guy that's beating and maiming
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and killing and raping. That's their job. Thank god, they're
willing to do it. But this guy, he's got a wife,
he's got three kids, the youngest of which is eleven
years old. You know, all I can think about all
day long is imagine having to tell his kids that
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Daddy's not coming home. Imagine having to tell them, an
eleven year old kid, that daddy is not coming home.
And this is happening day in and day out. And
these turds like this, that's what cops call repeat offenders
like this turds. These turds like this are walking among us.
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They're in the car next to you as you're driving
along right now, they're in the grocery store. And some
of them look like bad guys, dress like it, act
like it, carry themselves like it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And some of them you don't know it. You wouldn't
expect it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And this should be an issue, not just a political issue.
This should be an issue that has talked about every
single day because what we have allowed to happen, and
this is the soils backed das, is we've allowed people
to get into office, just as LA has allowed people
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into office. That that created an environment where when the
fire started, the place burns to the ground. You look
at what's happened in New York, which is just as bad,
with the kind of people that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Are in office.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Do you realize how many people had to drop the
ball on this bad guy. This guy should have been
in a cage like a rabid animal should be put
down for that matter. But this guy should have been
in a cage for the rest of his life for
what he's done. When I show you his rap sheet,
and yet he was walking the streets. And now he
killed a father. Now wife doesn't have her husband. And
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this the problem is, until it happens to your family,
you don't think about it. This is happening across the
country and it's got to stop.
It's that time. Time, time, Luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
A lot of our listeners show news jumping and they
follow the news all day every day. You may be
one of those. And traditionally talk radio aired on news
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talk stations that had begun as news stations and developed
into news talk, and so there would be reporters surrounding
at the tops and bottoms of each hour Rush Limbaugh Show.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
For instance, Rush.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Used to say, people don't get their news from the
news anymore, from the media anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
They get it from me.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm America's anchorman. And then a survey, a study was done,
and the number one place people answered they got their
news was from Rush Limbaugh. And that horrified the major
media organizations for two reasons. Number One, that meant they
(01:46):
were a bridesmaid, not the bride. They were left, they
were abandoned, but they did it to themselves. But number two,
the news that Rush was reporting was factual.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It was real.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He was the mayor of realvill and they lived in
a fantasyland of global warming and transitioning and black lives
matter and on and on. So if you are new
to our show, you wouldn't know this, but you will
come to learn. Many days we don't talk about what's
(02:28):
necessarily in the news that day, mostly because I think
that breaking news is overrated. Being the first to report
on something doesn't make you right, and oftentimes those folks
are wrong, so we don't do breaking news. I also
often don't talk about what has happened that day on purpose.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You'll get that elsewhere. I would rather.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Provide perspective that only time can provide on what happened yesterday,
the day before. So I had a few folks listeners
email today and ask if we would be talking about
Joe Biden's farewell speech, and I said absolutely not, for
the same reason we didn't talk about Jimmy Carter's funeral.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's not important. If you think it's important, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You can go get the speech anywhere. But I don't
think it's important what somebody wrote for him. And then
he mumbled through, what is the importance of that? If
you want to hear a farewell address, I'll read you
George Washington's farewell address, the most important farewell address of
(03:41):
all time. I'll read you Dwight David Eisenhower's farewell address
where he warned about the military industrial complex, and first
of all, he knew it from two perspectives, having been
a general and a president, and he was sounding the
alarm them on what came to be true. That's why
(04:03):
Dick Cheney had to stay in positions of power, so
that the military industrial complex can make sure we're at
war all the time. And by the way, that is
the reason they hate Trump. He got us out of Afghanistan.
He didn't start new wars. He didn't send your boys
(04:25):
to be murdered. And they need your boys being murdered
because they they need to sell C one thirties and
fuel and MREs and guns and uniforms and build bases.
You know how much money we spent on the base
(04:45):
any rock enough to have rebuilt Lehina in Maui, But
instead what is it today? Don Lemon's guest gave credit
to Donald Trump for the cease fire agreement in Gazo,
and Don Lemon wasn't having it. We're not going to
(05:09):
give Donald Trump credit. It makes people very very angry. Listen,
this thing's been going on for quite some time in
the Biden administration and would have continued.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
There was no end in sight.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Hamas is scared to death of Trump, and Israel is
willing to make concessions to get a deal done because
now they got a president that'll work with them. Because
Israel made a lot of concessions to make this deal happen.
Everybody wants to deal with Trump and that puts America
(05:45):
in the catbird seat. And let me tell you something,
don Lemon won't have it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
According to diplomats who were involved first hand in the negotiation,
Parson of Biden refused to put any pressure on Natanyahu
and ultimately they gave up that any deal would happen.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
It was And don you and I talked about Garrison Trump.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I have no love and I don't want to give
any credits, but I know but I am in the business.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Of telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Donald trump intervention have been monumental in making the.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Sea the ceasefire deal possible.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And and just just to to make people understand, President
Biden not only refused on multiple occasions to put any
pressure on the Prime Minister of Israel to do any deal.
People who were involved in the negotiation, including Israeli negotiators,
told me firsthand that very often they felt that he
(06:49):
was more than backing than the negotiating team. That is
really negotiating team. He was backing the Prime minister agenda
and his desire to stay in office that Israeli and
Israeli ministers, including bing Vier today confirmed that it was
President Trump. Israeli media also confirmed that that uh Natanielho
(07:11):
was already gave up on the hostages. He was willing
to sacrifice the hostages for his political desire to stay
in power. However, Donald Trump is happened to be a
transactional president.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Happened to be a transactional man.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He wanted to come to the White House with a win,
and that was always his approach.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
So why why did they not wait until he took office,
which is just going to be in about a week.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Because he didn't want to deal with these issues as
he get into office.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He want this issue rolled the table.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, I don't agree with that.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I think Donald Trump would like to have started off,
we know Donald Trump the day of his inauguration or
on the day to announce a cease fire. The fact
that it happened on Biden's watch, I think that leads
many people to question whether it was And look, I'm
not saying that you're wrong but it's going to lead
many people to question, do you know when.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That ceasfire will enter in? Do you know when the
ceasfire will start?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
It's going to start, well, the temporary ceasefire is going
to start. It should start on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Correct, it will start on the nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, the phase one of the ceasfire will start the
day inauguration.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Basically.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Compred when we started in radio. I love music. I
can't play music. I can't sing, although if I get
a few drinks in me, I will get up on
stage with the band and start singing. And everybody wishes
I wouldn't, but I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It's not for them. It's for me.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And I'm living out my dream of being a rock star,
which most boys had a dream of being a rock star,
whether they admit it or not, they did. And I
get as close to doing that as I can for
a guy that can't sing at all. Anybody who knows
me knows I'm not I'm not under it. I mean,
I'm not know selling myself short. I cannot sing, and
that becomes part of the joke because I'm in on it.
(09:06):
But I love it well, Ramone, I love music. Ramone
is crazy for music. I mean, you can play two.
If he'd done name that tune, man, he'd have been
You remember the guys, remember that, they'd always be some
crazy dude that you know. I can name it in eight,
I can name it in seven. And then they get
he was afraid, like he was going to miss his opportunity.
(09:27):
I can name it in one note.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And you look at him.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
What because he already had an idea what it was
going to be, and he had such a musical such
a knowledge as and intuition for music. We love music,
and so music becomes a part of our show. When
we started nineteen years ago, people in the industry would say,
there's too much music.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
On your show.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
News directors who run radio stations are news people, and
they don't believe these airwaves should be playing music. If
you want to play music, go be a FMDJ. And
my point was music is so much a part of
the It's like water. You can't do anything without it.
And if you don't think I'm right, go to a
Trump rally. Go see how much Trump weaves music into
(10:12):
the showmanship the entertainment value of his very important rallies.
And the rallies are critical to the Trump juggernaut. The
rallies feed him. Those rallies are not for the people
who go to the rally. Those rallies are for Donald Trump.
He loves the people, he really does. I'm not a
(10:33):
sick a fan. I wasn't an early Trump convert. But
so I'm not a guy that thinks Trump is, you know,
right on every issue and the greatest thing in the
second coming.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I don't, but I will tell you I believe it.
I see it, I know it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He loves the people and he feeds off of the
energy they give him. And that's what allows a man
of his age. Let's say June fourth, nineteen forty six,
So this June fourth, he will be seventy nine. That
makes him seventy eight right now. I keep the president's
(11:07):
birthdays written down because I'm a dork. So he's seventy
eight years old. My mom died at seventy nine and
she had als. So that degenerates you. But you think
about this, how many seventy eight year olds do you
know that have that kind of energy like he does.
I think that energy is is it's all mental. It's
(11:33):
all mental, because he's found what he loves to do
and it's meaningful to him. It's not financially rewarding, but
it's meaningful to him, and it drives him, and it
drives him to keep long hours and do as much
as he possibly can.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's not a job. It's a ministry. It's a passion,
it's a calling, and he believes in it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
So anyway, I feel like we've kind of because now
now that we've been at this for nineteen years, all
those people in the early days that said we played
too much music, they're all gone.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
They retired or got fired or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And the new people that come into our show now
that we've had success, they go, I I like the
music that you play. And so it's a little different
for folks that are new to the show because nobody
else in radio, or I shouldn't say nobody other people
in radio typically don't use music, but we do. And
I say all that to say this. The problem is,
(12:26):
we play music that we really enjoy, and I love
music so much that when a song starts, I don't
want to have to interrupt it, especially if it's Jeffrey
Lynn and Elo, Yeah, it's it. So I told you
that Don Lemon, formerly of CNN very very upset. The
left is their minds are blown that Trump is getting
(12:48):
credit for the hostage release. There is no other answer.
But let's dig a little deeper into this.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You don't think Trump should get.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The credit for the hostage release, A hostage release that
is timed to happen so that he's basically being sworn
in a few hours after it happens. You think that's
you want us to believe that's a coincidence. You're the
same people that told us that Joe Biden had his
act together, sharp as attack and all of that stuff. Right, Well,
(13:21):
don Lemon, I got news for you and every other liberal,
just like how the Iranis released the hostages just as
Reagan was inaugurated as a as a goodwill gesture, so too,
this happened because this was this was a tribute.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This this uh, this was what's.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
The mafia term for, like a gift you give to
the to the person of paying none is worth for anyway. Yeah,
there's another word for you. Biden's State Department spokesman admitted
that Trump was quote critical in getting the Israel Hamas
ceasefire and hostage.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
S feel done.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
This is the State Department spokesman, saying that's what happened.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
When it comes to the involvement of President elect Trump's
team has been absolutely critical in getting this deal over
the line.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And it's been.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Critical because obviously, as I stand here today, this administration's
term in office will expire in five days. And one
of the things that we have always said about this
deal is that when you get from stage one to
stage two, that the United States, Egypt, and Cutter are
the guaranteurs of this deal, and Egypt and Cutter will
push Hamas to stay at the bargaining table and to
get from stage one to stage two, and the United
(14:34):
States will push Israel to stay at the bargaining table
to get from phase one and phase two. So obviously
those are promises we cannot make on behalf of the
United States for any longer than the next five days.
And so it's critical that all of the parties to
the agreement and the other mediators see that when the
United States is in the room making commitments, those are
(14:54):
lasting commitments that extend beyond this administration into the next one.
I mean, I would just say, lastly, I don't know
if it's unprecedented to have envoys from an outgoing and
an incoming administration sitting at the same table negotiating a
ceasefire agreement of this kind. But if it's not unprecedent,
it's certainly unusual, and we of course thank the Trump
(15:17):
team for working with this on this ceasefire agreement.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
We think it's important that they were at the table.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Show.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A lot of our listener growth has been in places
where our show does not air on a local station,
or people who can't listen to this show because they
have an odd schedule. Either you know, they're working and
can't listen, or that's when they sleep. You know, a
lot of people don't have the luxury of getting to
(15:46):
work the old nine to five. In fact, I don't
know anybody other than bankers and government employees these days
who work nine to five. It is more is expected
in longer hours are worked. Just everybody I know works
long hours, and not to be a tough guy, but
because the work requires it.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I had a mentor named Walter Zivley, and Walter was
from a different era. He was born in a little
town in North Texas called Mineral Wells, and as he
would say, Mineral Wells the home of crazy water crystal.
That's what that's what it was famous for. And Walter
(16:29):
used to explain to me, and mind you, this was
twenty years ago, so think about how much it's changed
since then. Walter used to explain to me how life
had changed. He was a very powerful, well respected, admired
lawyer at a big law firm back then. The firm
was called Ladells Sap, Zivily, Hill and Laboon. He was,
of course the Zivily and my wife ended up going to.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Work there after.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
She was at a company called El Paso Energy, and
I had a lot of friends there, still do. But
Walter had started practicing law in a time long before computers,
and he would talk about the fact, he said, things
move so much faster.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Let me give an example when I started, when I
was a partner. It was well into my thirties. You
would call somebody, a lawyer on the other side of
a deal you were trying to get completed. You would
call the other lawyer and his secretary would pick up.
Nobody answered their own phone back then, there was no email.
(17:34):
His secretary would pick up and she would say, he's
in a meeting. Can he call you back, and you'd say, yep,
it was Walter Zivley. Here's my number, call me back.
So you'd hang up the call and move on to
the next issue you were working on. So by the
time he called you back, because he got out of
(17:55):
that meeting, you'd be going to lunch. So you'd get
back from lunch and there would be this little slip.
And when I started as a baby lawyer, we too
had these little pink slips. Is while you were out,
this person called, and your secretary would check the different
boxes on there and this was a message, and here's
the number to call him back. And so you'd come
(18:16):
back and on.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Your desk you'd have.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You'd have what looks like something that you could impel
yourself on that would be sticking up like an ice pick,
And as you finished each call, you would stick the
post it note onto there, because you'd want to keep
that for later so you could go back if you
needed that person's number, And so as you finished each item,
you'd stick it back. All right, so you called him.
(18:42):
He was in a meeting when he called you, you
were going to lunch. Then you'd call him back in
the afternoon, but he was still at lunch and by
maybe tomorrow morning, y'all would get connected and y'all would
agree on the turn terms of the document and he
(19:03):
would send it to you and it would take a
couple of days unless they couriered it. Nobody couriers things anymore.
Email replaced that, but the courier might drive that over
in a couple of hours, or if you were in downtown,
which Walter was on a bicycle, and so the document
would arrive from the courier and then you would do
your thing. But you might have been well. The point
(19:26):
was it would take three or four days to get
an agreement. I mean to get a document simply signed,
agreed to, and sign. And he said, now you send
an email and go, here's our offer. Here are the terms.
The terms are bolded, and they will look at it
(19:50):
and turn around and respond within an hour with a
redline version, which means, here's the changes that we made.
You can see that we changed it, so we didn't
hide them. Here they are and you go, yep, that'll work.
You're still doing the same amount of negotiation.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But it's just like that. It's rapid fire.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He said, from start to finish, this process may take
thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And so.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Once you get accustomed to that and how fast the
world moves. Once that happens, you've got to turn things
a lot faster. And being away from work for a
day is much more upsetting to people because a lot
more work gets done, it gets done faster. And he said,
(20:38):
and what happens is that becomes the new normal. People
expect that to be the case. And I'll give an
example how just in the last few years this has happened.
In my lifetime, we didn't have cell phones. We went
from nobody had a cell phone to a long period
of time where really rich people would have a phone,
(20:58):
like in their car, and it was a kind of
really neat deal, and it was the big brick phone, remember,
and it would be wired in. And then there was
the big brick phone that maybe you'd carry in a suitcase.
And that period of time was a pretty good little
period of time. And then the cell phone was kind
of ubiquitous. It was everywhere all the time. And once
(21:18):
that started, boom, everybody has a cell phone. The poorest American,
every person for that matter, the poorest Indian.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You go to third world.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Countries, people in a hunt with no electricity and running water.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
All have a cell phone. It's crazy, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And now a cell phone can replace your computer, your facts,
all the things that we had to have before somebody
calls you. I don't take calls, my ringer stays off.
I don't have what it doesn't buzz doesn't notify me
because I'm in a studio all day and it would
distract me and you'd hear the phone.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Ringing or buzzing, and that would be annoying to you too.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And because of all of this, because this happened, people
call and if you don't pick up, they text, and
if they haven't heard back from you in three minutes,
they're calling the cops to do a welfare check. You
must have died because we changed our expectation. We expect
(22:14):
to be able to get people right when we want
them right that minute.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Otherwise there are people in the business world.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Clients of lawyers and service providers, who will pitch a
fit if they're accountant or lawyer. I hear this from
accountants and lawyers and different people. They want that person
to call them back at exactly that minute, and they
have grown accustomed to that level of ability to be reached.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Which I think is very unhealthy.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Anyway, I didn't get to my point about this officer
being killed.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I'll get to that in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Give you maybe ought to be laugh when I tell
a joke like that, so I know you thought it.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Was funny them Michael Berry, Oh no, I won't do that.
It's too much. Or she won't go that town. That
was so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It was four years ago today that Phil Spector.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Died after getting coronavirus in prison at eighty one years old,
where he was serving a life sentence for killing the
actress Lana Clarkson.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Back in two thousand and three. I think the greatest
humiliation for Phil Spector was not going to prison. It
was people seeing him without his wig on, because you
couldn't imagine how goofy he was going to look without
his wig on. We had something happen in Houston yesterday
(23:50):
that is happening across the country. You've probably got a
story in your own community where this is happening, and
that is that a sheriff's deputy in Brazoria County. Zoria
is about forty five minutes south of Houston. Houston itself
is Harris County, mostly Harris County, and it is surrounded
(24:10):
by Chambers County, Liberty County to the east, Jefferson County,
Walker County, Montgomery County, Fort ben County, and one of
Galveston County in Brasooria County. And so this deputy named
(24:32):
Hajesus Vargas was part of a regional task force for
serving warrants on bad gas. My brother had served on
one of these task forces. He was an over thirty
year officer, and he used to tell me one of
(24:52):
the most dangerous things you can do is serving warrants,
because you're going out to tell a guy.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You got to come back.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And a lot of these guys have been to prison
before and they've made a decision they're not going back
to prison.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So if they see you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Coming, some of them have rigged their home with cameras.
Some of them have vowed I will not be taken alive.
And they're going out in the blaze of glory, and
they want to take some cops with them because they
hate They see cops as the reason they have all
these problems, not the fact that they make bad life decisions.
It's the cops that are the bad cops are out
(25:30):
to get them. Look, we're talking about people make bad
decisions anyway, But hey, sus Vargas is deputy sheriff, goes
to server a warrant on This guy is tard. I'm
not going to say his name because he doesn't desert.
He is a black career criminal, fifty six years old,
(25:59):
a lifetime of violence, so he doesn't want to go
back to prison. And you know, when you judge officers,
you have to remember people love to judge officers in
what they do. You have to remember that. Okay, So
yesterday this Deputy Vargas is murdered by this bad guy.
(26:23):
So today every person out there, every law enforcement officer
out there, is reminded that every encounter they have, they
risk being murdered. Every single one of them. They risk
being murdered. They're on high alert at all times. And
(26:46):
you tend to forget that, right, you get complacent. But
on a day like today, every officer in the Greater
Houston area is reminded. If I'm serving a warrant or
if I'm just pulling somebody over for speeding, you might
walk up there and about the time you get there
and they roll down the window. You're just ready to
(27:07):
ask for their license and insurance and they start blasting.
They got you, they got to jump on you. So
people love to be angry at cops.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's the game.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
They love to film cops, and they love to play
lawyer on the cops. They're all constitutional lawyers on what
the cops can and cannot do. And there's a whole
there's a whole thing about this, and it's actually mostly
white people. In fact, a lot of them are kind
of they see themselves as constitutional conservatives, but I don't
(27:41):
think they consider what a cop.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Has to go through on a day to day basis.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I hate a bad cop, can't stand them, want them fired,
one them prosecuted, I hate them. But you can't just
assume that all cops are bad. That's crazy because you
need them. You need them to protect the week in
our society, and you don't want to go serve a
warrant on a turd, a guy that's beating and maiming
(28:06):
and killing and raping. That's their job. Thank god, they're
willing to do it. But this guy, he's got a wife,
he's got three kids, the youngest of which is eleven
years old. You know, all I can think about all
day long is imagine having to tell his kids that
(28:27):
Daddy's not coming home. Imagine having to tell them, an
eleven year old kid, that daddy is not coming home.
And this is happening day in and day out. And
these turds like this, that's what cops call repeat offenders
like this turds. These turds like this are walking among us.
(28:48):
They're in the car next to you as you're driving
along right now, they're in the grocery store. And some
of them look like bad guys, dress like it, act
like it, carry themselves like it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And some of them you don't know it. You wouldn't
expect it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And this should be an issue, not just a political issue.
This should be an issue that has talked about every
single day because what we have allowed to happen, and
this is the soils backed das, is we've allowed people
to get into office, just as LA has allowed people
(29:27):
into office. That that created an environment where when the
fire started, the place burns to the ground. You look
at what's happened in New York, which is just as bad,
with the kind of people that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Are in office.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Do you realize how many people had to drop the
ball on this bad guy. This guy should have been
in a cage like a rabid animal should be put
down for that matter. But this guy should have been
in a cage for the rest of his life for
what he's done. When I show you his rap sheet,
and yet he was walking the streets. And now he
killed a father. Now wife doesn't have her husband. And
(30:01):
this the problem is, until it happens to your family,
you don't think about it. This is happening across the
country and it's got to stop.
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