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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.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I do want to point out that various articles that
appeared prior to my entering office.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And here's one.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with
severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities
the most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want
them in and they want them they can be air
traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
This was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I
entered office. They put a big push to put a diversity.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Into the FAA's program. You ever flown a plane? Thank
you for the question, Senator. No, I have never flown
a plane.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So you weren't a military pilot or a commercial airline pilot.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
No center. Have you ever worked for an airline? No, Senator.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Have you ever worked as an air traffic controller? No, Senator,
you ever worked for a company that manufactures airplanes? No, Senator,
you ever worked for a company that fixes airplanes?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Center.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
The American people when they think about aviation safety, when
they think about I played in this committee a Southwest
Airlines and FedEx plane almost colliding at Austin's Airport. They
won an FA administrator who knows why those planes crash,
It knows how to fix it, to keep them safe.
And with all respect, mister Washington, it gives no comfort
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to the flying public that their pilot might be a
transgendered witch.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
The lack of staff he is directly attributable to the
Obama administration terminating the lists of eligible, well trained air
traffic control statements in thirty six universities across the country
in twenty thirteen because they were too white.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
We are looking for the best and brightest to join
us as air traffic controllers. We need a diverse group
of air traffic controllers to bring distinct perspectives to handle
the ever changing aerospace landscape. I'm calling on students and
alumni from HBCU's Hispanic serving institutions, and tribal collegists to
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apply now to become air traffic controllers. We need a first,
next generation air traffic workforce with people from all backgrounds.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's the bird controller fifteen years said, well, I'm just
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
If you ask for a short approach, a short approach
is when you turn your base and being the numbers.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Well, I will definitely look up the definition of short
approach because I've never seen where it says you turn
base of being the numbers, because I don't see how you.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Could possibly do that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Well, I googled it. Actually, I googled short approach, and
it's said to turn your base a beam or before
the numbers and you will land probably touch down around viel.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Thanks well. The weekend, a flight from Houston to New
York United Airlines flight was evacuated due to the plane
catching on fire. I've been reading over the weekend, and
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if you start spending enough time reading how many close
calls there are at our airports, and then you factor
into that that the FAA, this is a verifiable fact,
created a system where white males could not be elected,
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it could not be hired as air traffic controllers because
they wanted diversity in the air traffic controllers. You have
a guy who's the lead plantiff in a lawsuit against
the federal government who scored a one hundred on the
test to be hired. Now who was hired instead of him?
(04:58):
And what did they get on that score? Presumably the
test has something to do with your knowledge of being
able to be to execute the role of being an
air traffic controller. We're not talking about a nothing position here.
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Everything I've ever heard is how intense this whole thing is.
It's like Willem Dafoe when he puts his AirPods in
or his headsets in. He's got a Sony walkman in
there in Boondock Saints Moondock Saints, and he's recreating the
(05:42):
situation of what happened in the shootout, and he's you know,
he's going through this very intense presentations as his body
sort of his mind interpres this and this goes over here.
There's a there's a documentary call it's not a documentary
as a movie. It's called The Founder, is it? Michael
Keaton the guy's name, he plays Ray Kroc. And that's
(06:05):
where you find out that Ray Kroc wasn't the original
founder of McDonald's. It may not have been such a
nice guy. Oftentimes the most financially successful people are brutal
to do business with, and he clearly was. But he
goes into McDonald's, which you know that the the fast
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food industry was in its infant stages, and it was
more of what looks like Sonic now or in Orange
we had Elmer's. You say, Ramon, I don't care about Elmers.
Some old goat from Orange right now is going he
just mentioned Elmer's and that'll make them the happiest person ever,
because say, Elmers makes me happy. And you would pull
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up to the to the drive through, and then you
had kind of the tasty freeze concept where you'd walk
up to the window like in sling Blade. You know,
you open the window, you lean down, they lean in,
and you know, the concession stand window of cinder block
building in every little league in America. And they started
ramping up production such that as they started building more locations,
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the original founders they haven't mapped out. It looks like
it looks like synchronized swimming inside there of this guy
goes here and this guy goes here, because you've got
the pass for the food and you've got to get
that to the to the front window. And you look
(07:34):
at that sixty five Mustang sixty that's probably sixty five
sixty six. Oh that's girla Gerlot drives a sixty five
Mustang convertible. Damn okay, all right, you do you? Oh wow, okay,
we've done got the top down. Look at him. He
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don't he don't have a backup camera. He's got to
actually turn around and look. But see he don't have
anything going on, so he can do that anyway. Air
traffic controller is a big job, and you've got errors
being made and lives being lost because of this. You know,
the family of the woman the third member of the
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black Hawk that didn't want her name released. It turns
out because she doesn't have probably doesn't have enough hours.
She's been working in the Biden administration the last couple
of years of talk radio. She's not the Michael Berry Show.
Oh that is black Gold Texas team. Well, the first
thing you know, Old Jeb's a millionaire.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
The king folks said, Jeb, move away from there, said
California is at least.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You ought to be. So theloaded up the Truck bever
League last night. That is swimming found on Amazon Prime.
So if you have Netflix Movies Prime, I would argue
Prime is better because Netflix has more new content coming out.
But Prime bought the library, the catalog of great movies.
(09:03):
So if you want to go back and watch the
Day of the Jackal or The China Job or Odessa
Fhiles or any other movie from before movies were corrupted.
Prime is going to have all of those across their
platform of networks or stations where we're gonna call them.
And it was The Beverly Hillbillies and it was black
(09:26):
and white. So I thought, oh, let me watch an
episode of Beverly Hillbillies. So I clicked on it and
it was season one, episode one, but it was actually
the pilot. And I believe it's the pilot because it's
thirty minutes and twenty three seconds, which was too long.
They would shorten them to twenty four minutes. And they
started and the show is at that point it is
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called the Hillbillies of Beverly Hills. They hadn't had whoever
the genius was that came up with the Beverly Hillbillies,
which is far more clever. Anyway, it was wonderful to watch.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It was a laugh a minute. I mean it was
it was literally laugh out loud funny of this. You
know Ozark Mountain family who end up with million dollars,
They didn't know what a million dollars was. When mister
Brewster from Newell company comes.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Granny says he had some kind of dollars he was
going to give you, and what kind of dollars? And
so Ellie May said, it was was it goal dollars?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It wasn't American dollars. It was called million dollars. And
so you know, now they made all this money and
they moved to Beverly Hills. They moved in next to
mister Drysdale and his secretary who in this episode doesn't
have a name yet, but she becomes miss Hathaway. You
remember Miss Hathaway, the very openly secretary. And anyway, it was,
(10:52):
it just did my blood pressure good to watch that episode,
and I would encourage you to do that. I'm told
because I posted about it on Facebook, that on on
me TV and some other places. You can find episode one,
Season one, Episode one, before they start the song the
theme song that Buddy Epsom sings, Uncle Jed Jed Clampet
sings that that theme song. That's not until the second episode.
(11:15):
So the first one they just described them going there.
The second one they play the song and then they
have a second verse to it, which you don't hear later.
And then they drive past the Kellogg's. They drive past
the Kellogg's Kellogg's billboard and announce that Kellogg's is the
sponsor of the show. I didn't remember that later and
(11:37):
they described him as Kellogg's Breakfast cereal of Is it Battleground?
Where are they from? Is it Battleground? I can't remember
the town they're from? Is limit?
Speaker 8 (11:48):
The Clampet family as they learned the simple pleasures of
the deals of their body, the sponsor of No Weekend,
the serials of Kellogg's, Kellogg's of Battle of Creek.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, Battle Creek? Yeah, how'd you know that? I'm impressed. Anyway,
if you want to listen to a good podcast, don't
email me later asking me to tell you what it is,
because I'm not going to go drag it up. Just
go back to the podcast and listen to me say this.
There is a very very good podcast episode entitled The
Rural Purge Death of the Country Broadcasting System. It's a guy,
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a Jewish guy in New York who becomes head of CBS,
which was known informally as the Country Broadcasting System. They
were the number one rated network, but he didn't like
the fact that they're programming was Petticoat Junction, Green Acres,
Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw. And you have to remember, if
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you're my age, you watched these shows early in the
afternoon when they were in syndication and rerun. Those were
prime time Thursday night seven o'clock shows, and those were
the top shows in their time slot. They delivered the
way they were supposed to deliver. They delivered numbers. But
he decided that he didn't want as he said, well,
(13:08):
I can't say what he said because it's a cussword,
but he didn't basically want those stupid redneck h'll billy viewers.
And so he was going to trace he and he
did everything that Paul Hinting did, all those great shows
that Paul Hinting did with the great intro music and
all that. He killed all of that and he replaced it.
Now to his credit, and I will give him his credit.
(13:30):
He did have some winners in the mix. But that's
when they switched CBS over to Inner City Project, Black Families,
the MAUD different shows that were designed more for city
residents and a blacker audience than what was very popular
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with white rural viewers. And he said he didn't want
that as his viewers. So anyway, the podcast is by
a guy named Moe Roa who he kind of has
an effeminate way of talking. It will get on your nerves,
but if you can get past that. He has a
podcast which is actually pretty good called Mobituaries, and he
does he'll do each episode on a different person and
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this one is called the Rural Purge Death of the
Country Broadcasting System. Anyway, so I was reading an article
about the about the who was the fellow who was
known in Buffalo, New York as the sewer Czar and
(14:36):
the sewers are a fella by the name of Ole
mcfoy was Let's see if I can find it again.
He he had been the here we are Buffalo's This
was from a local Buffalo station, Buffalo's controversial sewer and
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waters are will step down. And this guy had taken
listen to this since twenty fifteen. He had spent two
hundred and ninety seven week days traveling to water conferences
in twenty three states. He's really enjoying these water conferences
that the taxpayers are paying for fifty five work trips
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according to sewer Authority meeting minutes. Now, where have we
seen this before. Where have we seen another public bureaucrat
who's constantly taking trips to the White House, Lena Hidalgo.
Just this past week we had the woman who Sylvester
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Turner put in charge of the water department, who's pleading
out to a felony for all the schemes and scams,
which is why you couldn't get water. Your water bill
we had little ladies of water. Bill was seven thousand dollars.
They couldn't get it fixed. He didn't have anybody to
fix it. You had water mains busted, gushing rivers into
the into the road while other people couldn't get water.
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It was third world conditions. And it turns out she
had no business doing it, and it was she was
committing every crime known to mankind. And that brings us
to our next story. The controversial Buffalo, New York sewers
are with all these candles. He has just been named
the suit the new city engineer for Houston Public Works.
(16:28):
That's glad we got him here Bury. Heaby's got a
blue Jean Travis wiper right up by the bus. Stuff
might not be wiper, might be We paid. It looks
like if his parents had been as cool as I
(16:52):
ways said, man that had named him Windshield, that would
have been us. You went to Parley and High School?
What year did you graduate? Ninety two? Man? I knew
a guy in college at TCU was from Apparentlyn. I
don't know you remember what year he would have been
(17:14):
because he was a lot younger than me I was.
You know, I had gone back to worked there and
be somewhere around that year. Did you happen to know
a fellow named Winshield Winshield Wiper, Yeah, yeah, of course
I did. He was Let's see, he was three years
ahead of me. Oh, how you knew a guy three
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years that?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Everybod knew Winshield. Yeah, oh Winshield Wiper his dad. But yeah,
that was they were quite the quite the family. Yeah.
So anyway, Travis Wiper right aka Winshield Czar Bob McNeill.
Bob McDill never would have written Babies got her Blue
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jeans on for Mel McDaniel to sing if he'd been
around modern day women's blue jeans. I'm certain these horrendous
quote unquote genes women where nowadays were engineered by al
Gore to steymy population growth and reduce global warming. They
are a form of birth control. I do not need
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credit for this awesome show material. You can have it.
Please just raise awareness of this travesty of injustice regards
Travis windshield wiper. I mean, that's not how he really
signed it, but you get the point. The Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam has ended temporary protective status
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for more than three hundred thousand Venezuelans, some of whom
are part of the trend de Arragua violent gang that
was just been terrorizing so many folks over the weekend.
There was a man, a black man. I'm gonna estimate
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he's forty years old. I don't have the report in
front of me, but I'm not looking at the picture,
but I recall thinking he looked about forty. He carjacked
three ladies as they sat in their vehicle this weekend,
and then he went to a store on Westerland Street
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and he jacked the store. So now you've got all
these other people that anyone of whom he could have killed.
Houston Police Department, to their credit, track him down, catch him,
surround him. And what does a turd do? He jumps
out and starts firing. Five officers returned fire. The suspect
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was transported to Herman Memorial Hospital in critical condition. Good job, fellas,
but I wish one of you'd taken him out. The
fellow has a warrant from January twenty ninth. Now this
happened over the weekend, so two days before a warrant
was issued for bank robbery that was filed by the FBI.
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So this guy has committed a bank robbery. Who commits
bank robberies in twenty twenty five like that still happens.
That's just crazy to me that people are still committing
bank robberies. So you know that woman who called herself
a bishop, the kind of real ugly billy jing king
looking lady, the episcopal priest that lectured to President, Well,
(20:46):
it has now been exposed that Marianne Booty's Episcopal Migration
Ministries EMM collected fifty three million dollars from government programs
in twenty twenty three alone for immigrant resettlement. You see,
the reason all these people are so angry at Trump
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is because they're all making millions of dollars, and I
mean millions upon millions upon millions upon millions. Bill Crystal,
who is constantly just trying to torment Trump, trying to
insult Trump, who was part of the Republican establishment and
still is the big Swamp. He was chief of staff
(21:32):
to dan Quell that genius Bill Crystal, whose daddy was
kind of the Jewish Republican mafia, the sort of intelligency
of the very well respected, you know, in the salons
of Georgetown. They held the right parties, and they were
the powerful figures, and they were the intellectuals. And so
Bill Crystal is raised in that. And he's a serial grifter,
(21:55):
is what he is. And he hates Trump, and he
writes nasty things about Trump and you every single day. Well,
it turns out that this organization called USAID, which doesn't
actually give aid, they just claim to, which gives billions
of your dollars out around the world, was giving money
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to an organization that was then funding him. It's a
pass through and it's called a nonprofit, but he's getting
a huge salary. The program is called Defend Democracy, but
they're not defending democracy. They're doing quite the opposite. They're
trying to put Trump in prison. USAID is being canceled.
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The organization because, as it turns out, and now the
head of El Salvador has come out and said they've
done it in his country. We're hearing this from Hungary,
We're hearing this from around the world. USAID puts billions
of dollars into the hands of people who are kicking
it back. Speaking of which, there's so many things I
(22:57):
can't even get to. We'd run out of time. Zelenski
now claims that of the one hundred seventy eight billion
dollars that we've sent him, over one hundred million of
it never got to him. Now, theory one we're going
to work with. Yeah, it did. That's what you put
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in your pocket, all right, that's number one. Number two.
Maybe he's telling the truth. Maybe one hundred of the
one hundred and seventy eight never left American shores. Maybe
it went to You know how much one hundred billion
dollars is. You could give a lot of people ten
million dollars. You could pay off a lot of congressmen,
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you could put all their family members on the payroll
at a big salary. You could give one hundred and
twenty five and not even it wouldn't even be a
drop in the bucket. So Zelensky's now coming out and
throwing Biden under the bus and saying, they say they
gave us all that money, they didn't give us all
that money. And Trump's just sitting back, going, all you
(24:07):
rats fleeing the sinking ship. Isn't it beautiful? All you rats? Meanwhile,
Elon Musk this morning, saying, good morning. My experience with DOGE,
the Department of Government Efficiency, has been totally wild so far.
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Yesterday I told you about the six hundred million per
year the Pentagon was spending on sushi, six hundred million
dollars a year on sushi. Well, I just found another
wild one. The Air Force was spending one thousand, two
hundred and eighty dollars per paper coffee cup, like literally
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those ones you find at the office. They were paying
twelve hundred and eighty dollars. Two hundred and thirty dollars
a month was being spent by the I on Starbucks,
cinnamon roast paycups, Southern Fried, Southern Fried. To Michael Berry Show,
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Speaker 1 (26:03):
That boy is right, Amen, go my God, tell him
the truth. Preach it, baby. I have a bad feeling
you've been drinking shit up. I'm time, mom, I'm on
a roll up in here and there. Derek rights. The
Parland dads are definitely heroes and worthy of recognition, but
(26:25):
they're not who took down the shooter. A dad from
Syranch is the one who actually tackled the shooter. He
was trying to get his disabled father in law to
safety when the shooter ran up behind him. He turned
around and took the shooter to the floor, holding him
there till the other dads arrived to hold him down.
The Syranch gentleman wanted to remain anonymous, but thought you
(26:46):
might like to know the full story. You know, this
is the story of my life. The guy doesn't want
anybody to know who he is, and as a result,
nobody knows who he is. But hey, you need to
know who he is? Well, I can't because he doesn't
want it to be. I have come to respect in
(27:08):
a way I never understood before, people who are willing
to put themselves out there for public criticism, applause, or
anything else. Yesterday I saw an ad that said radio
for sale, one dollar volume, stuck on full. I thought,
I can't turn that down. A friend of mine went
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bald years ago, but he still carries around an old
comb with him. He just can't part with it. Amy
Davis at Channel two reports that a plea set to
be offered today that a plea is set to be
offered today to former City of Houston water Department manager
Patrise Lee for handing out no bid emergency contracts to
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her family members with no experience to fix broken water
lines across the city. They didn't, she still got paid.
Her assistant, Danielle Hurts, is also expected to take a
plea deal today. Prosecutors describe thirty three year old Hurts
as patrise Lee's personal collection agent. They say she also
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used the alias Rachel Taylor to collect from patrise Lee's
fraudulent consulting business and two other city contractors, essentially triple
dipping while doing no actual real work to earn the payments. So,
I mean it's going on at the city, it's going
on in the US Capitol. At the city. It's easier
(28:42):
to catch because it's smaller, but no less grotesque. You've
got people right now who are the heads of departments
at the City of Houston, who are drawing a paycheck
one hundred and fifty two hundred thousand dollars. They are
also giving out contracts no bid contracts, So we don't
know what the price should be for that service, but
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you can bet it's being inflated, and part of the
inflation is being kicked back to the person who's giving
the no bid contract. The person who's giving out the contract,
the city employee has no business in that job. They
were just Sylvester Turner's friend or Jackson Lee got them
in and then they give the contract to somebody else
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just like them, you know, from the same fraternity or soro.
They all eat a turkey leg hunt hut together. They
all live next door to each other, they all go
to church with each other. They're all buddies. So they
give the contract to their buddy. Their buddy kicks some
of the money back. Their buddy helps, their buddy chairs
the campaign of the mayor or county commissioner, who's going
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to keep this thing going, and then get They do
the same thing at the county. They do the same
thing at Houston Community College. They do the same thing
at HISD. And this is why all of those systems
are broken. This is why all of those systems are broken.
They're double dipping, triple dipping. They got multiple jobs, multiple kickbacks,
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contractors or you know, they're they're having they're they're making
a love offering for this or that. They get all
their family members placed in government offices, campaign offices, you
name it. It's it's disgusting. It's why nothing works. It's
absolutely horrific, and it's happening to day in and day out.
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It's the biggest racket you can imagine. And that's why
when you call nobody cares. That's why the streets aren't paved,
the taxes keep going up, and up and up waynel
Chafino has been on this Harris County Toll Road Authority
just kicking off billions of dollars over the years, billions,
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and the County Commission just sucking it all up, all
their little projects. If you were to actually run the
numbers and look at because some of them will use
their maiden name, or they'll use a married name that
they don't want you to see that they have the
same name as another elected official. You pick some of
the people who are the most egregious criminal characters in
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government in this region, and you start looking. It's good
to have a private investigator on the payroll. Paul Baker
does all this for me. You start looking because it's
very easy to see who relatives are, how many brothers
and sisters and sons and daughters, and that the people
they're married to, how many of them get hired by
government offices, and how many of them get hired by
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engineering firms, architectural firms, contracting firms. It's so egregious it'll
make you vomit. You cannot believe this is actually happening,
but it is. Does anybody think it's odd that Sylvester
Turner goes from being mayor of City Houston for eight years,
absolute salute, criminal administration, His chief of staffs in prison
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till till the end of August. I think for taking bribes.
You have the director of marketing for the Housing department
in prison right now for taking kickbacks. Now you've got
the city water department manager who was handing out contracts
and getting kickbacks, her assistant taking a plea today for
the same thing. You know, how many of these people
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have all been indicted and sent to prison or indicted
and took deals. How many million dollars they've made? And
that's just the few that are prosecuted. And then Sylvester
Turner goes to serve in Sheila Jackson Lee's congressional scene.
What are the chances such a thing would happen? I mean,
it's just amazing, isn't it? Just absolutely amazing? This would
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It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I do want to point out that various articles that
appeared prior to my entering office.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And here's one.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with
severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That is amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities
the most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want
them in and they want them they can be air
traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
This was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I
entered office. They put a big push to put a diversity.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Into the FAA's program. You ever flown a plane? Thank
you for the question, Senator. No, I have never flown
a plane.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So you weren't a military pilot or a commercial airline pilot.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
No center. Have you ever worked for an airline? No, Senator.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Have you ever worked as an air traffic controller? No, Senator,
you ever worked for a company that manufactures airplanes? No, Senator,
you ever worked for a company that fixes airplanes?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Center.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
The American people when they think about aviation safety, when
they think about I played in this committee a Southwest
Airlines and FedEx plane almost colliding at Austin's Airport. They
won an FA administrator who knows why those planes crash,
It knows how to fix it, to keep them safe.
And with all respect, mister Washington, it gives no comfort
(01:53):
to the flying public that their pilot might be a
transgendered witch.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
The lack of staff he is directly attributable to the
Obama administration terminating the lists of eligible, well trained air
traffic control statements in thirty six universities across the country
in twenty thirteen because they were too white.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
We are looking for the best and brightest to join
us as air traffic controllers. We need a diverse group
of air traffic controllers to bring distinct perspectives to handle
the ever changing aerospace landscape. I'm calling on students and
alumni from HBCU's Hispanic serving institutions, and tribal collegists to
(02:56):
apply now to become air traffic controllers. We need a first,
next generation air traffic workforce with people from all backgrounds.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's the bird controller fifteen years said, well, I'm just
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
If you ask for a short approach, a short approach
is when you turn your base and being the numbers.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Well, I will definitely look up the definition of short
approach because I've never seen where it says you turn
base of being the numbers, because I don't see how you.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Could possibly do that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Well, I googled it. Actually, I googled short approach, and
it's said to turn your base a beam or before
the numbers and you will land probably touch down around viel.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Thanks well. The weekend, a flight from Houston to New
York United Airlines flight was evacuated due to the plane
catching on fire. I've been reading over the weekend, and
(04:15):
if you start spending enough time reading how many close
calls there are at our airports, and then you factor
into that that the FAA, this is a verifiable fact,
created a system where white males could not be elected,
(04:36):
it could not be hired as air traffic controllers because
they wanted diversity in the air traffic controllers. You have
a guy who's the lead plantiff in a lawsuit against
the federal government who scored a one hundred on the
test to be hired. Now who was hired instead of him?
(04:58):
And what did they get on that score? Presumably the
test has something to do with your knowledge of being
able to be to execute the role of being an
air traffic controller. We're not talking about a nothing position here.
(05:20):
Everything I've ever heard is how intense this whole thing is.
It's like Willem Dafoe when he puts his AirPods in
or his headsets in. He's got a Sony walkman in
there in Boondock Saints Moondock Saints, and he's recreating the
(05:42):
situation of what happened in the shootout, and he's you know,
he's going through this very intense presentations as his body
sort of his mind interpres this and this goes over here.
There's a there's a documentary call it's not a documentary
as a movie. It's called The Founder, is it? Michael
Keaton the guy's name, he plays Ray Kroc. And that's
(06:05):
where you find out that Ray Kroc wasn't the original
founder of McDonald's. It may not have been such a
nice guy. Oftentimes the most financially successful people are brutal
to do business with, and he clearly was. But he
goes into McDonald's, which you know that the the fast
(06:26):
food industry was in its infant stages, and it was
more of what looks like Sonic now or in Orange
we had Elmer's. You say, Ramon, I don't care about Elmers.
Some old goat from Orange right now is going he
just mentioned Elmer's and that'll make them the happiest person ever,
because say, Elmers makes me happy. And you would pull
(06:50):
up to the to the drive through, and then you
had kind of the tasty freeze concept where you'd walk
up to the window like in sling Blade. You know,
you open the window, you lean down, they lean in,
and you know, the concession stand window of cinder block
building in every little league in America. And they started
ramping up production such that as they started building more locations,
(07:14):
the original founders they haven't mapped out. It looks like
it looks like synchronized swimming inside there of this guy
goes here and this guy goes here, because you've got
the pass for the food and you've got to get
that to the to the front window. And you look
(07:34):
at that sixty five Mustang sixty that's probably sixty five
sixty six. Oh that's girla Gerlot drives a sixty five
Mustang convertible. Damn okay, all right, you do you? Oh wow, okay,
we've done got the top down. Look at him. He
(07:55):
don't he don't have a backup camera. He's got to
actually turn around and look. But see he don't have
anything going on, so he can do that anyway. Air
traffic controller is a big job, and you've got errors
being made and lives being lost because of this. You know,
the family of the woman the third member of the
(08:15):
black Hawk that didn't want her name released. It turns
out because she doesn't have probably doesn't have enough hours.
She's been working in the Biden administration the last couple
of years of talk radio. She's not the Michael Berry Show.
Oh that is black Gold Texas team. Well, the first
thing you know, Old Jeb's a millionaire.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
The king folks said, Jeb, move away from there, said
California is at least.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You ought to be. So theloaded up the Truck bever
League last night. That is swimming found on Amazon Prime.
So if you have Netflix Movies Prime, I would argue
Prime is better because Netflix has more new content coming out.
But Prime bought the library, the catalog of great movies.
(09:03):
So if you want to go back and watch the
Day of the Jackal or The China Job or Odessa
Fhiles or any other movie from before movies were corrupted.
Prime is going to have all of those across their
platform of networks or stations where we're gonna call them.
And it was The Beverly Hillbillies and it was black
(09:26):
and white. So I thought, oh, let me watch an
episode of Beverly Hillbillies. So I clicked on it and
it was season one, episode one, but it was actually
the pilot. And I believe it's the pilot because it's
thirty minutes and twenty three seconds, which was too long.
They would shorten them to twenty four minutes. And they
started and the show is at that point it is
(09:49):
called the Hillbillies of Beverly Hills. They hadn't had whoever
the genius was that came up with the Beverly Hillbillies,
which is far more clever. Anyway, it was wonderful to watch.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It was a laugh a minute. I mean it was
it was literally laugh out loud funny of this. You
know Ozark Mountain family who end up with million dollars,
They didn't know what a million dollars was. When mister
Brewster from Newell company comes.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Granny says he had some kind of dollars he was
going to give you, and what kind of dollars? And
so Ellie May said, it was was it goal dollars?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
It wasn't American dollars. It was called million dollars. And
so you know, now they made all this money and
they moved to Beverly Hills. They moved in next to
mister Drysdale and his secretary who in this episode doesn't
have a name yet, but she becomes miss Hathaway. You
remember Miss Hathaway, the very openly secretary. And anyway, it was,
(10:52):
it just did my blood pressure good to watch that episode,
and I would encourage you to do that. I'm told
because I posted about it on Facebook, that on on
me TV and some other places. You can find episode one,
Season one, Episode one, before they start the song the
theme song that Buddy Epsom sings, Uncle Jed Jed Clampet
sings that that theme song. That's not until the second episode.
(11:15):
So the first one they just described them going there.
The second one they play the song and then they
have a second verse to it, which you don't hear later.
And then they drive past the Kellogg's. They drive past
the Kellogg's Kellogg's billboard and announce that Kellogg's is the
sponsor of the show. I didn't remember that later and
(11:37):
they described him as Kellogg's Breakfast cereal of Is it Battleground?
Where are they from? Is it Battleground? I can't remember
the town they're from? Is limit?
Speaker 8 (11:48):
The Clampet family as they learned the simple pleasures of
the deals of their body, the sponsor of No Weekend,
the serials of Kellogg's, Kellogg's of Battle of Creek.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, Battle Creek? Yeah, how'd you know that? I'm impressed. Anyway,
if you want to listen to a good podcast, don't
email me later asking me to tell you what it is,
because I'm not going to go drag it up. Just
go back to the podcast and listen to me say this.
There is a very very good podcast episode entitled The
Rural Purge Death of the Country Broadcasting System. It's a guy,
(12:24):
a Jewish guy in New York who becomes head of CBS,
which was known informally as the Country Broadcasting System. They
were the number one rated network, but he didn't like
the fact that they're programming was Petticoat Junction, Green Acres,
Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw. And you have to remember, if
(12:46):
you're my age, you watched these shows early in the
afternoon when they were in syndication and rerun. Those were
prime time Thursday night seven o'clock shows, and those were
the top shows in their time slot. They delivered the
way they were supposed to deliver. They delivered numbers. But
he decided that he didn't want as he said, well,
(13:08):
I can't say what he said because it's a cussword,
but he didn't basically want those stupid redneck h'll billy viewers.
And so he was going to trace he and he
did everything that Paul Hinting did, all those great shows
that Paul Hinting did with the great intro music and
all that. He killed all of that and he replaced it.
Now to his credit, and I will give him his credit.
(13:30):
He did have some winners in the mix. But that's
when they switched CBS over to Inner City Project, Black Families,
the MAUD different shows that were designed more for city
residents and a blacker audience than what was very popular
(13:52):
with white rural viewers. And he said he didn't want
that as his viewers. So anyway, the podcast is by
a guy named Moe Roa who he kind of has
an effeminate way of talking. It will get on your nerves,
but if you can get past that. He has a
podcast which is actually pretty good called Mobituaries, and he
does he'll do each episode on a different person and
(14:12):
this one is called the Rural Purge Death of the
Country Broadcasting System. Anyway, so I was reading an article
about the about the who was the fellow who was
known in Buffalo, New York as the sewer Czar and
(14:36):
the sewers are a fella by the name of Ole
mcfoy was Let's see if I can find it again.
He he had been the here we are Buffalo's This
was from a local Buffalo station, Buffalo's controversial sewer and
(14:57):
waters are will step down. And this guy had taken
listen to this since twenty fifteen. He had spent two
hundred and ninety seven week days traveling to water conferences
in twenty three states. He's really enjoying these water conferences
that the taxpayers are paying for fifty five work trips
(15:23):
according to sewer Authority meeting minutes. Now, where have we
seen this before. Where have we seen another public bureaucrat
who's constantly taking trips to the White House, Lena Hidalgo.
Just this past week we had the woman who Sylvester
(15:46):
Turner put in charge of the water department, who's pleading
out to a felony for all the schemes and scams,
which is why you couldn't get water. Your water bill
we had little ladies of water. Bill was seven thousand dollars.
They couldn't get it fixed. He didn't have anybody to
fix it. You had water mains busted, gushing rivers into
the into the road while other people couldn't get water.
(16:08):
It was third world conditions. And it turns out she
had no business doing it, and it was she was
committing every crime known to mankind. And that brings us
to our next story. The controversial Buffalo, New York sewers
are with all these candles. He has just been named
the suit the new city engineer for Houston Public Works.
(16:28):
That's glad we got him here Bury. Heaby's got a
blue Jean Travis wiper right up by the bus. Stuff
might not be wiper, might be We paid. It looks
like if his parents had been as cool as I
(16:52):
ways said, man that had named him Windshield, that would
have been us. You went to Parley and High School?
What year did you graduate? Ninety two? Man? I knew
a guy in college at TCU was from Apparentlyn. I
don't know you remember what year he would have been
(17:14):
because he was a lot younger than me I was.
You know, I had gone back to worked there and
be somewhere around that year. Did you happen to know
a fellow named Winshield Winshield Wiper, Yeah, yeah, of course
I did. He was Let's see, he was three years
ahead of me. Oh, how you knew a guy three
(17:35):
years that?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Everybod knew Winshield. Yeah, oh Winshield Wiper his dad. But yeah,
that was they were quite the quite the family. Yeah.
So anyway, Travis Wiper right aka Winshield Czar Bob McNeill.
Bob McDill never would have written Babies got her Blue
(17:57):
jeans on for Mel McDaniel to sing if he'd been
around modern day women's blue jeans. I'm certain these horrendous
quote unquote genes women where nowadays were engineered by al
Gore to steymy population growth and reduce global warming. They
are a form of birth control. I do not need
(18:18):
credit for this awesome show material. You can have it.
Please just raise awareness of this travesty of injustice regards
Travis windshield wiper. I mean, that's not how he really
signed it, but you get the point. The Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam has ended temporary protective status
(18:43):
for more than three hundred thousand Venezuelans, some of whom
are part of the trend de Arragua violent gang that
was just been terrorizing so many folks over the weekend.
There was a man, a black man. I'm gonna estimate
(19:06):
he's forty years old. I don't have the report in
front of me, but I'm not looking at the picture,
but I recall thinking he looked about forty. He carjacked
three ladies as they sat in their vehicle this weekend,
and then he went to a store on Westerland Street
(19:28):
and he jacked the store. So now you've got all
these other people that anyone of whom he could have killed.
Houston Police Department, to their credit, track him down, catch him,
surround him. And what does a turd do? He jumps
out and starts firing. Five officers returned fire. The suspect
(19:54):
was transported to Herman Memorial Hospital in critical condition. Good job, fellas,
but I wish one of you'd taken him out. The
fellow has a warrant from January twenty ninth. Now this
happened over the weekend, so two days before a warrant
was issued for bank robbery that was filed by the FBI.
(20:21):
So this guy has committed a bank robbery. Who commits
bank robberies in twenty twenty five like that still happens.
That's just crazy to me that people are still committing
bank robberies. So you know that woman who called herself
a bishop, the kind of real ugly billy jing king
looking lady, the episcopal priest that lectured to President, Well,
(20:46):
it has now been exposed that Marianne Booty's Episcopal Migration
Ministries EMM collected fifty three million dollars from government programs
in twenty twenty three alone for immigrant resettlement. You see,
the reason all these people are so angry at Trump
(21:09):
is because they're all making millions of dollars, and I
mean millions upon millions upon millions upon millions. Bill Crystal,
who is constantly just trying to torment Trump, trying to
insult Trump, who was part of the Republican establishment and
still is the big Swamp. He was chief of staff
(21:32):
to dan Quell that genius Bill Crystal, whose daddy was
kind of the Jewish Republican mafia, the sort of intelligency
of the very well respected, you know, in the salons
of Georgetown. They held the right parties, and they were
the powerful figures, and they were the intellectuals. And so
Bill Crystal is raised in that. And he's a serial grifter,
(21:55):
is what he is. And he hates Trump, and he
writes nasty things about Trump and you every single day. Well,
it turns out that this organization called USAID, which doesn't
actually give aid, they just claim to, which gives billions
of your dollars out around the world, was giving money
(22:15):
to an organization that was then funding him. It's a
pass through and it's called a nonprofit, but he's getting
a huge salary. The program is called Defend Democracy, but
they're not defending democracy. They're doing quite the opposite. They're
trying to put Trump in prison. USAID is being canceled.
(22:37):
The organization because, as it turns out, and now the
head of El Salvador has come out and said they've
done it in his country. We're hearing this from Hungary,
We're hearing this from around the world. USAID puts billions
of dollars into the hands of people who are kicking
it back. Speaking of which, there's so many things I
(22:57):
can't even get to. We'd run out of time. Zelenski
now claims that of the one hundred seventy eight billion
dollars that we've sent him, over one hundred million of
it never got to him. Now, theory one we're going
to work with. Yeah, it did. That's what you put
(23:17):
in your pocket, all right, that's number one. Number two.
Maybe he's telling the truth. Maybe one hundred of the
one hundred and seventy eight never left American shores. Maybe
it went to You know how much one hundred billion
dollars is. You could give a lot of people ten
million dollars. You could pay off a lot of congressmen,
(23:43):
you could put all their family members on the payroll
at a big salary. You could give one hundred and
twenty five and not even it wouldn't even be a
drop in the bucket. So Zelensky's now coming out and
throwing Biden under the bus and saying, they say they
gave us all that money, they didn't give us all
that money. And Trump's just sitting back, going, all you
(24:07):
rats fleeing the sinking ship. Isn't it beautiful? All you rats? Meanwhile,
Elon Musk this morning, saying, good morning. My experience with DOGE,
the Department of Government Efficiency, has been totally wild so far.
(24:29):
Yesterday I told you about the six hundred million per
year the Pentagon was spending on sushi, six hundred million
dollars a year on sushi. Well, I just found another
wild one. The Air Force was spending one thousand, two
hundred and eighty dollars per paper coffee cup, like literally
(24:51):
those ones you find at the office. They were paying
twelve hundred and eighty dollars. Two hundred and thirty dollars
a month was being spent by the I on Starbucks,
cinnamon roast paycups, Southern Fried, Southern Fried. To Michael Berry Show,
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Don't give a damn what you think. He always have
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That boy is right, Amen, go my God, tell him
the truth. Preach it, baby. I have a bad feeling
you've been drinking shit up. I'm time, mom, I'm on
a roll up in here and there. Derek rights. The
Parland dads are definitely heroes and worthy of recognition, but
(26:25):
they're not who took down the shooter. A dad from
Syranch is the one who actually tackled the shooter. He
was trying to get his disabled father in law to
safety when the shooter ran up behind him. He turned
around and took the shooter to the floor, holding him
there till the other dads arrived to hold him down.
The Syranch gentleman wanted to remain anonymous, but thought you
(26:46):
might like to know the full story. You know, this
is the story of my life. The guy doesn't want
anybody to know who he is, and as a result,
nobody knows who he is. But hey, you need to
know who he is? Well, I can't because he doesn't
want it to be. I have come to respect in
(27:08):
a way I never understood before, people who are willing
to put themselves out there for public criticism, applause, or
anything else. Yesterday I saw an ad that said radio
for sale, one dollar volume, stuck on full. I thought,
I can't turn that down. A friend of mine went
(27:34):
bald years ago, but he still carries around an old
comb with him. He just can't part with it. Amy
Davis at Channel two reports that a plea set to
be offered today that a plea is set to be
offered today to former City of Houston water Department manager
Patrise Lee for handing out no bid emergency contracts to
(27:58):
her family members with no experience to fix broken water
lines across the city. They didn't, she still got paid.
Her assistant, Danielle Hurts, is also expected to take a
plea deal today. Prosecutors describe thirty three year old Hurts
as patrise Lee's personal collection agent. They say she also
(28:20):
used the alias Rachel Taylor to collect from patrise Lee's
fraudulent consulting business and two other city contractors, essentially triple
dipping while doing no actual real work to earn the payments. So,
I mean it's going on at the city, it's going
on in the US Capitol. At the city. It's easier
(28:42):
to catch because it's smaller, but no less grotesque. You've
got people right now who are the heads of departments
at the City of Houston, who are drawing a paycheck
one hundred and fifty two hundred thousand dollars. They are
also giving out contracts no bid contracts, So we don't
know what the price should be for that service, but
(29:03):
you can bet it's being inflated, and part of the
inflation is being kicked back to the person who's giving
the no bid contract. The person who's giving out the contract,
the city employee has no business in that job. They
were just Sylvester Turner's friend or Jackson Lee got them
in and then they give the contract to somebody else
(29:25):
just like them, you know, from the same fraternity or soro.
They all eat a turkey leg hunt hut together. They
all live next door to each other, they all go
to church with each other. They're all buddies. So they
give the contract to their buddy. Their buddy kicks some
of the money back. Their buddy helps, their buddy chairs
the campaign of the mayor or county commissioner, who's going
(29:49):
to keep this thing going, and then get They do
the same thing at the county. They do the same
thing at Houston Community College. They do the same thing
at HISD. And this is why all of those systems
are broken. This is why all of those systems are broken.
They're double dipping, triple dipping. They got multiple jobs, multiple kickbacks,
(30:10):
contractors or you know, they're they're having they're they're making
a love offering for this or that. They get all
their family members placed in government offices, campaign offices, you
name it. It's it's disgusting. It's why nothing works. It's
absolutely horrific, and it's happening to day in and day out.
(30:32):
It's the biggest racket you can imagine. And that's why
when you call nobody cares. That's why the streets aren't paved,
the taxes keep going up, and up and up waynel
Chafino has been on this Harris County Toll Road Authority
just kicking off billions of dollars over the years, billions,
(30:54):
and the County Commission just sucking it all up, all
their little projects. If you were to actually run the
numbers and look at because some of them will use
their maiden name, or they'll use a married name that
they don't want you to see that they have the
same name as another elected official. You pick some of
the people who are the most egregious criminal characters in
(31:15):
government in this region, and you start looking. It's good
to have a private investigator on the payroll. Paul Baker
does all this for me. You start looking because it's
very easy to see who relatives are, how many brothers
and sisters and sons and daughters, and that the people
they're married to, how many of them get hired by
government offices, and how many of them get hired by
(31:38):
engineering firms, architectural firms, contracting firms. It's so egregious it'll
make you vomit. You cannot believe this is actually happening,
but it is. Does anybody think it's odd that Sylvester
Turner goes from being mayor of City Houston for eight years,
absolute salute, criminal administration, His chief of staffs in prison
(32:03):
till till the end of August. I think for taking bribes.
You have the director of marketing for the Housing department
in prison right now for taking kickbacks. Now you've got
the city water department manager who was handing out contracts
and getting kickbacks, her assistant taking a plea today for
the same thing. You know, how many of these people
(32:26):
have all been indicted and sent to prison or indicted
and took deals. How many million dollars they've made? And
that's just the few that are prosecuted. And then Sylvester
Turner goes to serve in Sheila Jackson Lee's congressional scene.
What are the chances such a thing would happen? I mean,
it's just amazing, isn't it? Just absolutely amazing? This would
(32:49):
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