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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Texas has a horror house in it. Texas has a
horror house in it.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I'll expose the facts, although it kills me with disgust.
Please excuse the filthy doct details and cornel lust, the
filthy doctor nails kind of listen dancing going on in sided.
Don't just see the gone come wild. I inquired, No
one denied it. Now I think I'm getting riled. Buddy's
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close together off, the legs are rearranged, and the sheriff
does not close it down. That's very strange.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Close it down.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's the stage men till still bringing Jean hunky on
cowboys mixing with green and thin left hartis nails, crocksied lowns.
Not to mention some types that you'd never guess would
mention me.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I can alder pray to loosen water ninety bounds from
here and now our old Melvin peeth off sangers.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Jesus, I'll not let this scandal fade us.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I'll a brute now crusade. I can smell corruption, and
I'll fight it to the top. Lord the stipulation, No, no,
and it must up.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That counts.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Don't touch that don This is Melvin P.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Tholpe saying I'll be back with new and revealing information
about this and other cases.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Watchdog Never Sleeps.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Here's one of Marvin Zeler's rat and roots reports Little
Nostalgia from back in nineteen eighty two. Faction thirteen's Marlin
Zendler is here to tell all.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Marvin Well Dave, roaches, rodents, and filthy equipment were among
the reasons why health inspectors asked these places to voluntarily
close to shape up. Leo's popular coffee shop downtown on
Fannin was infested with mice and roaches. There were two
dead mice and mouse droppings in the storage area, and
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roaches were crawling on the condiment cooler. There was also
slow and mold on the ice machine. Poor Charlie's on
Clay had roaches in the kitchen, hands sinking up on
the ceiling. There were mouse droppings in kitchen cabinets and
storerooms and uncovered food in the cooler.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Poor Old Charlie.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
There was Fishers near downtown on Austin that had mouse
and ret droppings on food and on the storage room
and kitchen floor fishers also had filthy equipment. These places
didn't have hot water, among other violations. The Quick Mini
Market on Capitol, the East King On foundering in Gavero's
on South Main, then the Chickadee on Dolling had an
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infestation of mice, rats and roaches. These weekly restaurant reports
has certainly helped me on my diet, and if you
don't believe it, I've really taken off a few pounds.
But there is no reason why there should be any
filthy restaurant kitchens in town. The owners and managers have
the health and well being of the public at stake
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and should take.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Their responsibility, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And those fours those Pyramits are concerned, they should be
revoked and remember more voluntary closings at ten. And believe me,
some of those restaurants are so bad you can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Marvin Zendler, Eye Witness.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
News, thank you. The amazing thing about that is Dolchafino
was doing investigative reports, and I think he told me
one time his contract was four major investigative reports a year.
There were two ratings seasons. I don't follow the ratings
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process any longer. In radio ratings are done year round,
and they changed the system to where it used to
be what was called a diary. Some of you may
have been a diary responder at one point. If you are,
do not contact me. It's a big no no for
us to ever talk. So do not ever contact me.
I had someone try that a few years ago and
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I said.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
No, no, no, no, don't. I don't need to. So the.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
The way the rating system worked back then in television,
before you could put a monitor on a computer on
a TV and tell what they were watching, you would
have a.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You would you.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Would measure viewing twice during the year, and that was
the best time to watch the local news because that
was when you'd get the big bust, the big scandal,
the big you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Know you name it.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
So Delta Fino was keeping long hours, chasing people down,
any one of whom could shoot and kill you, doing
background investigations on things you know, snooping around, and you know,
you get the wrong guy, you end up with a bullet.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Marvin was doing the rat and.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Roads reports, not the only thing he was doing, but
literally all he had to do the health inspectors the
Health Department would give him was publicly available still is
the health inspection reports. And I'm sure he had somebody
down there that really liked him so he didn't have
to go through them all. They would go all right,
here's here's ones that have rats and roaches. These right here.
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They would send a reporter out, I mean a photographer out,
get some b roll in front of that restaurant as
Marvin read them off the screen. It was absolutely brilliant,
absolutely brilliant that he would do.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
This because.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
His producers, a couple of a producer could pull the
health inspection report, assign the photographer. I mean, Florsheim gave
gave Marvin Zendler run of the place. And Don was
it Don Cobos, remember Don Cobos. His name was Don Cobos.
He'd been a long time. I think he was a
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I think he was with this with the Sheriff's department.
Don Cobos was a guy that looked like.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He would be on dragnet.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
He was a big, burly guy, and he blow dried
his hair straight back, his gray hair, and he had
a big co If you know, guys don't have hair
like don't don't wear their hair like that anymore. Well,
I think Daryl Hall, but with gray hair and a
more conservative cut. I never saw him. He wasn't in
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a suit, but it was. It was again, it was
like the the Old Hills Treat Blues kind of look,
you know. It was like he'd been working all night
home on coffee and cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Don co I think it was Don Cobos was his name. Anyway,
he ended.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Up being kind of the director of operations over there,
and when I met him, when I went on city Council,
I would I would, I would meet up. I would
spend as much time as I could around people who
did that. And Don and I weren't best friends. I
don't mean say that, but I would ask him about Marvin,
and there were always great Marvin Zendler stories. He was
treated because he was so old by the time he
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left there, he was everybody's kind of favorite grandpa.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I dragged people by to meet to see my dad
at his assistant living facility, and he's having a hell
of a victory lap, you know, because everybody's like, oh,
you know, mister Barry. Well, that's kind of how Marmon
Zeler was. He strode into the studio. Everybody paid their
respects to Marmon Zemler.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
He comes join us, it'll be like old times. Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
To the real shining back in June, Ernie Bell and
to the Thomas in the Totten Venus Young because that's
what's eeing. He broke his neck because they've been on
the bout of Irish. He was eighty, His brain was
just a He died upon the honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
When a news email from a news aggregator, it said
Americans are celebrating Saint Patty's Day this weekend. Eighty five
five percent of Americans aged eighteen to fifty four plan
to partake in Saint Patrick's Day celebrations across this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That was this past weekend. That seems high.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Eighty five You can't get eighty five percent of people
to celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That seems way high.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Half of them say they'll wear green, twenty eight percent
will visit a bar, restaurant or pub, twenty six percent
of them will eat corn beef sandwiches, and twenty three
percent will enjoy a boozy beverage. Wait a minute, you
got twenty eight percent of the people visiting a bar,
or restaurant or pub and twenty six percent of them
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eating corn beef.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
There's no way. There is absolutely no way.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You tell me, almost as many people are going to
eat a corn beef sandwich as are going to visit
a bar. People go out for Saint Patrick's Day because
it's a good it's a social time. You don't typically
have to pay a cover, although now like Ale's and
some of the big places, they charged to even walk
in the door because they can, and I think that's
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probably how they limit how many people were there. Richard
Flowers had owned Kenales, was a buddy of mine, and
he he made more the week of Saint Patrick's Day
than he did any given month and probably maybe two months.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It was incredible. He would shut the whole operation down.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You had to just figure out how you were going
to get to You had to park off of Shepherd
somewhere and so that he could have maximum space, and
he would, you know, he was kind of the king
of Saint Patrick's Day. He'd wear he'd wear the whole
get up and it was like a cross between Marty
Gras and Saint Patrick's Day. And everyone loved him in
that bar, and it was so popular on Saint Patrick's Day. Well,
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what brought us to talking about Marvin Zendler was a
story Locally. Friday night, fumes were emanating from the rather
high end downtown Houston apartment complex known as the Parkside Residences.
And this is extremely surprising. It's the eight hundred block
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of Crawford, so that's pretty close to a minute made well.
I guess's now going to be dkuma. I think it's
still minute made for now. It's incredible, a meth lab
at what is a rather high end apartment complex. I
looked at the site because I had friends who told
me that this is who lived downtown, who told me
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this is a This is not a rundown apartment coms.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
This is quite nice.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Multi level lofts available f fob entry system, under counter,
wine coolers, quartz countertops, gas cook tops and ranges, wash
cooking appliances, refrigerators and dishwashers. Designer solid surface quartz backsplashes, Nobilia,
European cabinetry, wood style flooring, would style floor does that
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mean a manufactured flooring? This made to look like wood,
porcelain tile bathrooms, frameless walk in showers, tiles, shower benches,
free standing tub ten foot ceilings, and spacious balconies. And
then they have penthouses and the penthouse finish adds thermidore
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appliances in triple ovens. That's a lot of cooking, triple oat.
You don't even have a triple oven and you cook
every day. Eleven foot ceilings, electronic shades in lofts, captured glass, handrails,
Toto toilets, My goodness, a lot community privileges, twenty four
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to seven concierge valet parking, resident lounge with luxurious catering kitchen,
state of the art, large fitness center with views, co
working pods, work from home suites, conference rooms, two guest suites,
outdoor social terrace with gas grills, Gathering room on forty
third four with observation deck, rooftop pool deck.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Man. I'd like to move into this place.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Covered pet oasis and spa climate controlled bike storage, private
and climate controlled storage units, connection to downtown skybridge system,
multifunctioned resident app and a coffee bar.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
My goodness alive. This place is nice.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And some dude down there cooking up meth and the
meth went bad, which reminds me of the Great Waller
County meth Laud explosion of nineteen ninety six, As told
by the dear friend of the show Kenny Allen, O.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Here's a great Waller County meth lab explosion of nineteen
ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking up
drain on and all this fdron. They could get their
hands on the hand bottles of profanity, matteries and long
citer and then they were gone.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Meth will make people do stupid things. Remember the first
grade teacher who tried to have meth delivered to the school.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
The suspect did request that the drugs be delivered to
the elementary school which she worked.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
We did not deliver the.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Drugs to that school, but that brought us great concern.
It was a pretty nonchalant request, and the indication was
that it was no big deal to the suspect. Instead,
we waited until the teacher got off school for that day.
She then met our undercover detective and she did exchange
money for three and a half grams of methamphetamy.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
How about the fellow who called the police because he
thought he heard noises.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
In his attic, police say thirty seven year old Corey
Favreau reported he heard someone in his attic on Champlain
Street in Plattsburgh.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Police arrived and looked for an intruder.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
They didn't find anyone, but they did find the makings
of a meth lab.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I would say it's fairly common.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
The frequency fluctuates a little bit, but you know, we're
starting to see it a little bit more now. Isn't
the first time Favreau has had a runn with city police.
He was a race arrested in Plant.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
He was.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
My favorite story, which we'll get in before the break,
was Daniel Rushing. He did not have myth, but the
popole thought he did.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Every other Wednesday, I get a glazed donut from Krispy Queen.
They found four little pieces of icing on the floorboard.
First they tried to say it was crack cocaine, and
then they said, no, it's not crack, it's methamphetamines. I went,
it's it's it's icing from a donut.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You're tasting.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
You know, we're willing to work with you, if you're
willing to work with us, because we've had a lot
of drug sales over there in that little area. And
I said, well, I don't know anything about anything. They said, okay,
well then you need to go ahead and put your
hands behind your back.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
And labit Michael Berry Houston as a meth labit. Did
I know the Cranberrys were irish?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I guess I did. That didn't come top of mind.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I mean we could be playing the Furies with every
song here. Annie Reid writes, zar heaven got a good
one on Friday. My dad Mac died of a heart
attack Friday afternoon. An Air Force retiree, he was a
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prominent family law attorney in Fort Benn and Harris Counties,
retiring a few years ago due to three times a
week dialysis, which he endured with a smile. A man
of few words, when he did talk, we all quieted
down or listened to his wisdom and smart assery. He
taught my sister and me to be self reliant, saying,
always be able to support yourself because there is no
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prince charming. He was also quick to say that we
had married pretty close to our own rents. We followed
in his footsteps, becoming lawyers in our own time, and
along with our mother, the four of us practiced together
for fifteen years. Seeing him daily as an adult gave
me a new appreciation for his intelligence and perspective. He
loved Texas America, and his four grandchildren. Dad was truly
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a treasure and he will be missed. I wonder what
the first joke he said in heaven was, thanks for listening.
Annie ps My mom thinks donating his suits to Camp
Hope would make Dad happy. I very much appreciate that sentiment,
and I am delighted that Camp Hope is the first
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place you thought of. Unfortunately, what was our original goal?
Five hundred suits? The original goal shoot.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
That's been.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Six seven years ago, was to collect five hundred suits
for Camp Hope. Because what I kept hearing from David
Maulsby when I would say, what are the needs?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What are the needs?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well, one of the needs was if we could figure
out a way at the end of the when they
graduate the program, many of them are now starting they're
all starting their lives over. But many of them don't
have a job to go to, so they start interviewing
for jobs, and most of them don't own a suit.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Why would they.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
They're warriors and a lot of them came out to
working class jobs. They never needed to have a suit
or now a suit that fits, and so I thought, well,
I bet we could raise I don't think I said
five hundred because I try not to set goals we
can't attain, because it's kind of a bummer. Maybe I
said two hundred and two hundred, we surpassed in a
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matter of minutes, became five hundred, became a thousand.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
We did an event at the RCC.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
We loaded eighteen wheelers up and we ended up all
in with over seven thousand suits. Well, the guys that
can't hope are so kind as to not tell me
that what I did was cause them a problem because
now all these suits have been donated, so they had
to go out and rent warehouse space. Hell, cash is
king for kemp hope. I don't want us to pay
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for anything because I can always find somebody to donate.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So no, no, no, no, don't don't ever do that again.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
So eventually there was another charity that was in the
business of, you know, repurposing suits, and eventually I talked
them into let's not spend money on warehouse space. That
was all donated away, and we moved on. There is
still an inventory of thousands of suits, so that our
veterans will have suits when they need them to.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Apply for jobs. Last I checked.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
But many of you had a situation like that where
your husband or your dad passed and it's hard. You're
not about to take their suits out and just throw
them in the trash. And I remember the day at
the RCC when people were showing up and bringing their
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suits tearful because for some of those folks, they had
said goodbye to their husband, father, father in law, uncle,
grandfather years ago, and they just couldn't bring themselves to
clear that suit out of the closet. And here was
a worthwhile cause that someone else, you know, you're living
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on in a way I am. I am not a
recycler to save the earth kind of guy, but I
am a huge repurposer. And I don't know why it
gives me such joy. I suspect because my parents were
very frugal. You didn't throw anything away. They weren't hoarders.
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But growing up, you didn't throw anything away. Everything had
another use. You know, your your jeans that were ripped
became cut off shorts.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You know, the the.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Shirts that were ripped became a washcloth, but you know,
to wash the car or you know, washed to whatever,
some sort of a rag. And it gives me such
a sense of I feel whole when something that I
cannot use is given to someone who finds joy in that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It just makes me so happy. I remember I was.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I was applying at the at the at the beginning
of your second year of law school. So your grades
for your first year of the three year law school,
uh determine you know who you're going to get interviews with.
And I didn't have a suit. I mean I didn't
have a tie for whatever reason. And I'd come into
Houston to interview with Houston law firms, and I had
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my suit in my shirt. And there was a couple
that mentored us. And his name was Stephen Huber. He
was a law school professor at the time, and his
wife was Wendy Troctye, who I had My wife and
I had known from the University of Houston and they.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Had gotten married.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
And they had taken us to dinner the night before
these interviews, and I swear I wasn't fishing.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I'm not above it. I swear I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
My wife said, you know, Michael has an interviews starting
tomorrow morning at eight. Is there somewhere you know of
he can go get a tie. He packed to come
in for these interviews, and he didn't bring his tie,
and so Steve Huber said, well, let me think on this.
We were having dinner at their home twenty five five c.
August of Potomac. I'll never forget that we used to
house set for him. And at some point during the
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dinner he excused himself to go to the restroom and
he comes back down with three ties, and I chose
the of the yellow one. Not the most conservative choice
looking back, but it was a beautiful tie. It was
a yellow tie with blue and red that I still
own to this day. Air Mas it was.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
It wasn't a throwaway tie. It was a really really
nice tie. And I think to myself, now we would
house set for them. And after that, I remember going
to his closet, which I wouldn't have done otherwise, to see,
you know, is does he.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Only wear air Mace's ties or a nice tie?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
And we go in there and he had the most
beautiful tie collection. And this appeals to another side of me,
which is organization. And the ties were laid out like
a Pantone color swath, you know, starting over here at
the dark reds and moving into the yellows and then
the oranges and then the Greens went to the Blues
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went to the Oh it was glorious and he had
them laid out so perfectly and so organized. But I
think back to that, you know, one of my goofy ideas.
I'll never do it, So don't ask me in a
year if I did it, because then it's just embarrassing.
One of my goofy ideas for years has been somebody
out there would donate a warehouse to us, okay, and
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in the warehouse, we would make it a drop off
like camp Hope, like a thrift store. That way people
wouldn't have to throw things away, and then we'd make
it into an ice house.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Officer. I know it's dumb, but it's just kind of
one of the things that I go. I'd be fun
left Michael.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Lifeless eyes, black eyes to get a dolls.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We were born sick. You heard them see my church
off is no absent. She tells me where she'd been
in the dead room. Only Heaven. I be seen soon,
s when I'm alone with me, I was born.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Sick with The eighteenth Congressional District.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Senate eighteen congressional district seat has had its first major filing,
and that is Harris County Attorney Christian Menafee.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Christian Menafee is.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Has been groomed by Rodney Ellis for just such a
role for quite.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Some time now.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
My sources had told me that Rodney was looking to
replace Sheila because he controls all this with Erica Lee.
Erica Lee Carter, who was Sheila's daughter. You'll remember they
put her in to serve the unexpired term before the
election where Sylvester Turner was installed. My sources had told
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me that Erica was going to be the long term replacement,
and for whatever reason, it now appears that is not
the case. Because Christian Menafee is Rodney's candidate, and I
think he can control Christian Menafee much better perhaps than
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he can control Erica. But I don't think he would
win a nasty race that he may not could win.
So the suggestion is that Erica, that there is another
seat waiting for Erica, and time will tell what that
turns out to be. I have not received certainty as
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to what that looks like, but he has been a
steward of Christian Menife's career for a number of years.
They create these farm teams so they can they can
place these people. Christian Hollands or Chris Hollins is one
of their farm team, these young mostly black men and
women who they put into positions.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
So they basically get to control that office.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So we shall see there will be some other candidates
who will come out and run for that I would
I would imagine Jarvis Johnson would be a candidate there.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know that. I haven't checked with him. I will,
but there'll be some other candidates come out.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Unless there is someone with their own name ID and
a bank account or campaign account. Christian Menafee will win
that seat because Rodney will be able to open up
the George Sorols funds and there will be enough there
to get him over the finish line. And then of
course there will be a replacement of the Harris County
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Attorney after that. The Harris County Attorney, of course, is
different than the district attorney. The Harris County Attorney is
the attorney who handles sort of civil matters related to
and on behalf of the county. He's sort of the
solicitor general, if you will, for the county. It's mostly
administrative style job. Vince Ryan had that job for a
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number of years. Mike Stafford was in that job. Michael
Fleming was in that job. Stafford and Fleming were friends
of mine and great guys. Vince Ryan is a piece
of trash, corrupt, awful human being who.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
At a funeral.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Once, at a funeral, he was speaking at a funeral
or the owner of Liberty Cab and at the funeral
chose to trash me. And the problem with that is
little Vince has little bit of ears.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And you're going to think I'm crazy too.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You look up a picture online of Vince Ryan, and
I once told him that the problem was that I
had tried to explain to him that he shouldn't try
to take me on, but that he couldn't hear me
because he had little bit of ears.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And boy did that set him off. Little Vince was
so upset.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
He's speaking at the funeral of the now deceased owner
of Liberty Cab Company. He had been Liberty Cabs little
step and fetch it for years. He'd been there their lawyer, lobbyist,
coffee getter, or whatever else they needed. And at the
funeral he's in some odd ways suggested that you know,
I was the reason the owner of Liberty.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Cab had died because I hadn't.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I hadn't carried their water on city council and they
needed a special exception for their company to survive, and
it wasn't my job to create special laws for them.
And so Vince Ryan at the funeral said that I
wasn't there. If I had been, he wouldn't have dare
said that. But you know, maybe somebody else told him
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bad idea. Michael basinc by the barrel, probably not the
guy you got to take on. But again he couldn't
hear it. Little bit of ears, very very bad hearing.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's just the way it goes.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Robin.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Go ahead, sir, all right, Michael, I just wanted to
tell you Marvin Zendler sorry. I had the dealings with
Marvin about It's been about twenty five years ago, I guess.
But the thing is I was a teacher and I
had a young man come into my classroom who had
spinal diffidath and anyway, I thought, goodness, this is terrible
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because he was in a wheelchair could hardly move. So
I did some checking and checked with the Scottish RIfS
Hospital in Dallas if they could do anything about that,
and they said, sure we can.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We'll just got to get him up there.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Well, we were having struggling with this and that and
the other time to find out his sister refused to
have him go because the young man his parents had
been killed in a car accident and he was receiving
Social Security benefits and the sister was worried if he
got fixed up, then she wouldn't get the benefits from
Social Security anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
And the thing is she was.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Kind of a nutjob because she had married a guy
who was a child molester, a registered chom moluster. You
can't make this stuff up. I mean, you know, it's
it's something else. But anyway, so one of the guys
at my school where I teach at the time, it said,
cal Marvin Zimler.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He deals with that.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Kind of stuff all the time. So I called him
up and within about thirty seconds Marvin yells at to me.
He says, you know, it's just hell to be poor.
That was just one of his big things. And anyway,
he made a phone call and to Scottish Rite Hospital,
made a phone call to Southwest Airlines, made a phone
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call to a carriage company who picked us up at
the airport, and I made a phone call to a
lawyer who told his sister that either you get this
young man fixed up or you're going to be in jail,
because the thing is that is against the law if
he's got the opportunity to fix this.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Kid up and you're holding him back.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
So anyway, a lawyer called him and made me a
representative for the child for a day. So we flew
up to Dallas, and Marvin called the Southwest Airlines, made
sure we had good seats the very morning that we
were leaving, which is going to be early, and brought
us on there. The coach company picked us up, hauled
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us over there, picked us up and took us back
and flew back this up that afternoon, and Marvin called
me to make sure that that child had everything you needed.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well. Anyway, the young man.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Is doing well now and has his own family.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So what a great things.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Yeah, it's you know, what is the point of having
some degree of celebrity.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
If you don't use it for things like that?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
And I think Marvin genuinely enjoyed the challenge of the
deal of what he could talk people into doing.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Is it's a very rewarding thing.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
I think Marvin Zendler loved being Marvin Zemmler. I think
it was not a chore, it was not a job.
It was a ministry. I know it's Jewish, do you
just that ministry, Jamm.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It was a ministry. It was something that he thoroughly
just loved doing
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Texas has a horror house in it. Texas has a
horror house in it.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I'll expose the facts, although it kills me with disgust.
Please excuse the filthy doct details and cornel lust, the
filthy doctor nails kind of listen dancing going on in sided.
Don't just see the gone come wild. I inquired, No
one denied it. Now I think I'm getting riled. Buddy's
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close together off, the legs are rearranged, and the sheriff
does not close it down. That's very strange.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Close it down.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's the stage men till still bringing Jean hunky on
cowboys mixing with green and thin left hartis nails, crocksied lowns.
Not to mention some types that you'd never guess would
mention me.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I can alder pray to loosen water ninety bounds from
here and now our old Melvin peeth off sangers.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Jesus, I'll not let this scandal fade us.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I'll a brute now crusade. I can smell corruption, and
I'll fight it to the top. Lord the stipulation, No, no,
and it must up.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That counts.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Don't touch that don This is Melvin P.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Tholpe saying I'll be back with new and revealing information
about this and other cases.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Watchdog Never Sleeps.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Here's one of Marvin Zeler's rat and roots reports Little
Nostalgia from back in nineteen eighty two. Faction thirteen's Marlin
Zendler is here to tell all.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Marvin Well Dave, roaches, rodents, and filthy equipment were among
the reasons why health inspectors asked these places to voluntarily
close to shape up. Leo's popular coffee shop downtown on
Fannin was infested with mice and roaches. There were two
dead mice and mouse droppings in the storage area, and
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roaches were crawling on the condiment cooler. There was also
slow and mold on the ice machine. Poor Charlie's on
Clay had roaches in the kitchen, hands sinking up on
the ceiling. There were mouse droppings in kitchen cabinets and
storerooms and uncovered food in the cooler.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Poor Old Charlie.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
There was Fishers near downtown on Austin that had mouse
and ret droppings on food and on the storage room
and kitchen floor fishers also had filthy equipment. These places
didn't have hot water, among other violations. The Quick Mini
Market on Capitol, the East King On foundering in Gavero's
on South Main, then the Chickadee on Dolling had an
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infestation of mice, rats and roaches. These weekly restaurant reports
has certainly helped me on my diet, and if you
don't believe it, I've really taken off a few pounds.
But there is no reason why there should be any
filthy restaurant kitchens in town. The owners and managers have
the health and well being of the public at stake
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and should take.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Their responsibility, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And those fours those Pyramits are concerned, they should be
revoked and remember more voluntary closings at ten. And believe me,
some of those restaurants are so bad you can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Marvin Zendler, Eye Witness.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
News, thank you. The amazing thing about that is Dolchafino
was doing investigative reports, and I think he told me
one time his contract was four major investigative reports a year.
There were two ratings seasons. I don't follow the ratings
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process any longer. In radio ratings are done year round,
and they changed the system to where it used to
be what was called a diary. Some of you may
have been a diary responder at one point. If you are,
do not contact me. It's a big no no for
us to ever talk. So do not ever contact me.
I had someone try that a few years ago and
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I said.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
No, no, no, no, don't. I don't need to. So the.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
The way the rating system worked back then in television,
before you could put a monitor on a computer on
a TV and tell what they were watching, you would
have a.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You would you.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Would measure viewing twice during the year, and that was
the best time to watch the local news because that
was when you'd get the big bust, the big scandal,
the big you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Know you name it.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
So Delta Fino was keeping long hours, chasing people down,
any one of whom could shoot and kill you, doing
background investigations on things you know, snooping around, and you know,
you get the wrong guy, you end up with a bullet.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Marvin was doing the rat and.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Roads reports, not the only thing he was doing, but
literally all he had to do the health inspectors the
Health Department would give him was publicly available still is
the health inspection reports. And I'm sure he had somebody
down there that really liked him so he didn't have
to go through them all. They would go all right,
here's here's ones that have rats and roaches. These right here.
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They would send a reporter out, I mean a photographer out,
get some b roll in front of that restaurant as
Marvin read them off the screen. It was absolutely brilliant,
absolutely brilliant that he would do.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
This because.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
His producers, a couple of a producer could pull the
health inspection report, assign the photographer. I mean, Florsheim gave
gave Marvin Zendler run of the place. And Don was
it Don Cobos, remember Don Cobos. His name was Don Cobos.
He'd been a long time. I think he was a
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I think he was with this with the Sheriff's department.
Don Cobos was a guy that looked like.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He would be on dragnet.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
He was a big, burly guy, and he blow dried
his hair straight back, his gray hair, and he had
a big co If you know, guys don't have hair
like don't don't wear their hair like that anymore. Well,
I think Daryl Hall, but with gray hair and a
more conservative cut. I never saw him. He wasn't in
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a suit, but it was. It was again, it was
like the the Old Hills Treat Blues kind of look,
you know. It was like he'd been working all night
home on coffee and cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Don co I think it was Don Cobos was his name. Anyway,
he ended.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Up being kind of the director of operations over there,
and when I met him, when I went on city Council,
I would I would, I would meet up. I would
spend as much time as I could around people who
did that. And Don and I weren't best friends. I
don't mean say that, but I would ask him about Marvin,
and there were always great Marvin Zendler stories. He was
treated because he was so old by the time he
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left there, he was everybody's kind of favorite grandpa.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I dragged people by to meet to see my dad
at his assistant living facility, and he's having a hell
of a victory lap, you know, because everybody's like, oh,
you know, mister Barry. Well, that's kind of how Marmon
Zeler was. He strode into the studio. Everybody paid their
respects to Marmon Zemler.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
He comes join us, it'll be like old times. Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
To the real shining back in June, Ernie Bell and
to the Thomas in the Totten Venus Young because that's
what's eeing. He broke his neck because they've been on
the bout of Irish. He was eighty, His brain was
just a He died upon the honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
When a news email from a news aggregator, it said
Americans are celebrating Saint Patty's Day this weekend. Eighty five
five percent of Americans aged eighteen to fifty four plan
to partake in Saint Patrick's Day celebrations across this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That was this past weekend. That seems high.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Eighty five You can't get eighty five percent of people
to celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That seems way high.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Half of them say they'll wear green, twenty eight percent
will visit a bar, restaurant or pub, twenty six percent
of them will eat corn beef sandwiches, and twenty three
percent will enjoy a boozy beverage. Wait a minute, you
got twenty eight percent of the people visiting a bar,
or restaurant or pub and twenty six percent of them
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eating corn beef.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
There's no way. There is absolutely no way.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
You tell me, almost as many people are going to
eat a corn beef sandwich as are going to visit
a bar. People go out for Saint Patrick's Day because
it's a good it's a social time. You don't typically
have to pay a cover, although now like Ale's and
some of the big places, they charged to even walk
in the door because they can, and I think that's
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probably how they limit how many people were there. Richard
Flowers had owned Kenales, was a buddy of mine, and
he he made more the week of Saint Patrick's Day
than he did any given month and probably maybe two months.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It was incredible. He would shut the whole operation down.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You had to just figure out how you were going
to get to You had to park off of Shepherd
somewhere and so that he could have maximum space, and
he would, you know, he was kind of the king
of Saint Patrick's Day. He'd wear he'd wear the whole
get up and it was like a cross between Marty
Gras and Saint Patrick's Day. And everyone loved him in
that bar, and it was so popular on Saint Patrick's Day. Well,
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what brought us to talking about Marvin Zendler was a
story Locally. Friday night, fumes were emanating from the rather
high end downtown Houston apartment complex known as the Parkside Residences.
And this is extremely surprising. It's the eight hundred block
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of Crawford, so that's pretty close to a minute made well.
I guess's now going to be dkuma. I think it's
still minute made for now. It's incredible, a meth lab
at what is a rather high end apartment complex. I
looked at the site because I had friends who told
me that this is who lived downtown, who told me
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this is a This is not a rundown apartment coms.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
This is quite nice.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Multi level lofts available f fob entry system, under counter,
wine coolers, quartz countertops, gas cook tops and ranges, wash
cooking appliances, refrigerators and dishwashers. Designer solid surface quartz backsplashes, Nobilia,
European cabinetry, wood style flooring, would style floor does that
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mean a manufactured flooring? This made to look like wood,
porcelain tile bathrooms, frameless walk in showers, tiles, shower benches,
free standing tub ten foot ceilings, and spacious balconies. And
then they have penthouses and the penthouse finish adds thermidore
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appliances in triple ovens. That's a lot of cooking, triple oat.
You don't even have a triple oven and you cook
every day. Eleven foot ceilings, electronic shades in lofts, captured glass, handrails,
Toto toilets, My goodness, a lot community privileges, twenty four
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to seven concierge valet parking, resident lounge with luxurious catering kitchen,
state of the art, large fitness center with views, co
working pods, work from home suites, conference rooms, two guest suites,
outdoor social terrace with gas grills, Gathering room on forty
third four with observation deck, rooftop pool deck.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Man. I'd like to move into this place.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Covered pet oasis and spa climate controlled bike storage, private
and climate controlled storage units, connection to downtown skybridge system,
multifunctioned resident app and a coffee bar.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
My goodness alive. This place is nice.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
And some dude down there cooking up meth and the
meth went bad, which reminds me of the Great Waller
County meth Laud explosion of nineteen ninety six, As told
by the dear friend of the show Kenny Allen, O.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Here's a great Waller County meth lab explosion of nineteen
ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking up
drain on and all this fdron. They could get their
hands on the hand bottles of profanity, matteries and long
citer and then they were gone.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Meth will make people do stupid things. Remember the first
grade teacher who tried to have meth delivered to the school.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
The suspect did request that the drugs be delivered to
the elementary school which she worked.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
We did not deliver the.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Drugs to that school, but that brought us great concern.
It was a pretty nonchalant request, and the indication was
that it was no big deal to the suspect. Instead,
we waited until the teacher got off school for that day.
She then met our undercover detective and she did exchange
money for three and a half grams of methamphetamy.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
How about the fellow who called the police because he
thought he heard noises.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
In his attic, police say thirty seven year old Corey
Favreau reported he heard someone in his attic on Champlain
Street in Plattsburgh.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Police arrived and looked for an intruder.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
They didn't find anyone, but they did find the makings
of a meth lab.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I would say it's fairly common.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
The frequency fluctuates a little bit, but you know, we're
starting to see it a little bit more now. Isn't
the first time Favreau has had a runn with city police.
He was a race arrested in Plant.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
He was.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
My favorite story, which we'll get in before the break,
was Daniel Rushing. He did not have myth, but the
popole thought he did.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Every other Wednesday, I get a glazed donut from Krispy Queen.
They found four little pieces of icing on the floorboard.
First they tried to say it was crack cocaine, and
then they said, no, it's not crack, it's methamphetamines. I went,
it's it's it's icing from a donut.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You're tasting.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
You know, we're willing to work with you, if you're
willing to work with us, because we've had a lot
of drug sales over there in that little area. And
I said, well, I don't know anything about anything. They said, okay,
well then you need to go ahead and put your
hands behind your back.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
And labit Michael Berry Houston as a meth labit. Did
I know the Cranberrys were irish?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I guess I did. That didn't come top of mind.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I mean we could be playing the Furies with every
song here. Annie Reid writes, zar heaven got a good
one on Friday. My dad Mac died of a heart
attack Friday afternoon. An Air Force retiree, he was a
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prominent family law attorney in Fort Benn and Harris Counties,
retiring a few years ago due to three times a
week dialysis, which he endured with a smile. A man
of few words, when he did talk, we all quieted
down or listened to his wisdom and smart assery. He
taught my sister and me to be self reliant, saying,
always be able to support yourself because there is no
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prince charming. He was also quick to say that we
had married pretty close to our own rents. We followed
in his footsteps, becoming lawyers in our own time, and
along with our mother, the four of us practiced together
for fifteen years. Seeing him daily as an adult gave
me a new appreciation for his intelligence and perspective. He
loved Texas America, and his four grandchildren. Dad was truly
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a treasure and he will be missed. I wonder what
the first joke he said in heaven was, thanks for listening.
Annie ps My mom thinks donating his suits to Camp
Hope would make Dad happy. I very much appreciate that sentiment,
and I am delighted that Camp Hope is the first
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place you thought of. Unfortunately, what was our original goal?
Five hundred suits? The original goal shoot.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
That's been.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Six seven years ago, was to collect five hundred suits
for Camp Hope. Because what I kept hearing from David
Maulsby when I would say, what are the needs?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What are the needs?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well, one of the needs was if we could figure
out a way at the end of the when they
graduate the program, many of them are now starting they're
all starting their lives over. But many of them don't
have a job to go to, so they start interviewing
for jobs, and most of them don't own a suit.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Why would they.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
They're warriors and a lot of them came out to
working class jobs. They never needed to have a suit
or now a suit that fits, and so I thought, well,
I bet we could raise I don't think I said
five hundred because I try not to set goals we
can't attain, because it's kind of a bummer. Maybe I
said two hundred and two hundred, we surpassed in a
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matter of minutes, became five hundred, became a thousand.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
We did an event at the RCC.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
We loaded eighteen wheelers up and we ended up all
in with over seven thousand suits. Well, the guys that
can't hope are so kind as to not tell me
that what I did was cause them a problem because
now all these suits have been donated, so they had
to go out and rent warehouse space. Hell, cash is
king for kemp hope. I don't want us to pay
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for anything because I can always find somebody to donate.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So no, no, no, no, don't don't ever do that again.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
So eventually there was another charity that was in the
business of, you know, repurposing suits, and eventually I talked
them into let's not spend money on warehouse space. That
was all donated away, and we moved on. There is
still an inventory of thousands of suits, so that our
veterans will have suits when they need them to.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Apply for jobs. Last I checked.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
But many of you had a situation like that where
your husband or your dad passed and it's hard. You're
not about to take their suits out and just throw
them in the trash. And I remember the day at
the RCC when people were showing up and bringing their
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suits tearful because for some of those folks, they had
said goodbye to their husband, father, father in law, uncle,
grandfather years ago, and they just couldn't bring themselves to
clear that suit out of the closet. And here was
a worthwhile cause that someone else, you know, you're living
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on in a way I am. I am not a
recycler to save the earth kind of guy, but I
am a huge repurposer. And I don't know why it
gives me such joy. I suspect because my parents were
very frugal. You didn't throw anything away. They weren't hoarders.
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But growing up, you didn't throw anything away. Everything had
another use. You know, your your jeans that were ripped
became cut off shorts.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You know, the the.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Shirts that were ripped became a washcloth, but you know,
to wash the car or you know, washed to whatever,
some sort of a rag. And it gives me such
a sense of I feel whole when something that I
cannot use is given to someone who finds joy in that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It just makes me so happy. I remember I was.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I was applying at the at the at the beginning
of your second year of law school. So your grades
for your first year of the three year law school,
uh determine you know who you're going to get interviews with.
And I didn't have a suit. I mean I didn't
have a tie for whatever reason. And I'd come into
Houston to interview with Houston law firms, and I had
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my suit in my shirt. And there was a couple
that mentored us. And his name was Stephen Huber. He
was a law school professor at the time, and his
wife was Wendy Troctye, who I had My wife and
I had known from the University of Houston and they.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Had gotten married.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
And they had taken us to dinner the night before
these interviews, and I swear I wasn't fishing.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I'm not above it. I swear I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
My wife said, you know, Michael has an interviews starting
tomorrow morning at eight. Is there somewhere you know of
he can go get a tie. He packed to come
in for these interviews, and he didn't bring his tie,
and so Steve Huber said, well, let me think on this.
We were having dinner at their home twenty five five c.
August of Potomac. I'll never forget that we used to
house set for him. And at some point during the
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dinner he excused himself to go to the restroom and
he comes back down with three ties, and I chose
the of the yellow one. Not the most conservative choice
looking back, but it was a beautiful tie. It was
a yellow tie with blue and red that I still
own to this day. Air Mas it was.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
It wasn't a throwaway tie. It was a really really
nice tie. And I think to myself, now we would
house set for them. And after that, I remember going
to his closet, which I wouldn't have done otherwise, to see,
you know, is does he.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Only wear air Mace's ties or a nice tie?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
And we go in there and he had the most
beautiful tie collection. And this appeals to another side of me,
which is organization. And the ties were laid out like
a Pantone color swath, you know, starting over here at
the dark reds and moving into the yellows and then
the oranges and then the Greens went to the Blues
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went to the Oh it was glorious and he had
them laid out so perfectly and so organized. But I
think back to that, you know, one of my goofy ideas.
I'll never do it, So don't ask me in a
year if I did it, because then it's just embarrassing.
One of my goofy ideas for years has been somebody
out there would donate a warehouse to us, okay, and
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in the warehouse, we would make it a drop off
like camp Hope, like a thrift store. That way people
wouldn't have to throw things away, and then we'd make
it into an ice house.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Officer. I know it's dumb, but it's just kind of
one of the things that I go. I'd be fun
left Michael.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Lifeless eyes, black eyes to get a dolls.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We were born sick. You heard them see my church
off is no absent. She tells me where she'd been
in the dead room. Only Heaven. I be seen soon,
s when I'm alone with me, I was born.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Sick with The eighteenth Congressional District.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Senate eighteen congressional district seat has had its first major filing,
and that is Harris County Attorney Christian Menafee.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Christian Menafee is.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Has been groomed by Rodney Ellis for just such a
role for quite.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Some time now.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
My sources had told me that Rodney was looking to
replace Sheila because he controls all this with Erica Lee.
Erica Lee Carter, who was Sheila's daughter. You'll remember they
put her in to serve the unexpired term before the
election where Sylvester Turner was installed. My sources had told
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me that Erica was going to be the long term replacement,
and for whatever reason, it now appears that is not
the case. Because Christian Menafee is Rodney's candidate, and I
think he can control Christian Menafee much better perhaps than
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he can control Erica. But I don't think he would
win a nasty race that he may not could win.
So the suggestion is that Erica, that there is another
seat waiting for Erica, and time will tell what that
turns out to be. I have not received certainty as
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to what that looks like, but he has been a
steward of Christian Menife's career for a number of years.
They create these farm teams so they can they can
place these people. Christian Hollands or Chris Hollins is one
of their farm team, these young mostly black men and
women who they put into positions.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
So they basically get to control that office.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So we shall see there will be some other candidates
who will come out and run for that I would
I would imagine Jarvis Johnson would be a candidate there.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know that. I haven't checked with him. I will,
but there'll be some other candidates come out.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Unless there is someone with their own name ID and
a bank account or campaign account. Christian Menafee will win
that seat because Rodney will be able to open up
the George Sorols funds and there will be enough there
to get him over the finish line. And then of
course there will be a replacement of the Harris County
(27:20):
Attorney after that. The Harris County Attorney, of course, is
different than the district attorney. The Harris County Attorney is
the attorney who handles sort of civil matters related to
and on behalf of the county. He's sort of the
solicitor general, if you will, for the county. It's mostly
administrative style job. Vince Ryan had that job for a
(27:43):
number of years. Mike Stafford was in that job. Michael
Fleming was in that job. Stafford and Fleming were friends
of mine and great guys. Vince Ryan is a piece
of trash, corrupt, awful human being who.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
At a funeral.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Once, at a funeral, he was speaking at a funeral
or the owner of Liberty Cab and at the funeral
chose to trash me. And the problem with that is
little Vince has little bit of ears.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And you're going to think I'm crazy too.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You look up a picture online of Vince Ryan, and
I once told him that the problem was that I
had tried to explain to him that he shouldn't try
to take me on, but that he couldn't hear me
because he had little bit of ears.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And boy did that set him off. Little Vince was
so upset.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
He's speaking at the funeral of the now deceased owner
of Liberty Cab Company. He had been Liberty Cabs little
step and fetch it for years. He'd been there their lawyer, lobbyist,
coffee getter, or whatever else they needed. And at the
funeral he's in some odd ways suggested that you know,
I was the reason the owner of Liberty.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Cab had died because I hadn't.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I hadn't carried their water on city council and they
needed a special exception for their company to survive, and
it wasn't my job to create special laws for them.
And so Vince Ryan at the funeral said that I
wasn't there. If I had been, he wouldn't have dare
said that. But you know, maybe somebody else told him
(29:28):
bad idea. Michael basinc by the barrel, probably not the
guy you got to take on. But again he couldn't
hear it. Little bit of ears, very very bad hearing.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's just the way it goes.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Robin.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Go ahead, sir, all right, Michael, I just wanted to
tell you Marvin Zendler sorry. I had the dealings with
Marvin about It's been about twenty five years ago, I guess.
But the thing is I was a teacher and I
had a young man come into my classroom who had
spinal diffidath and anyway, I thought, goodness, this is terrible
(30:00):
because he was in a wheelchair could hardly move. So
I did some checking and checked with the Scottish RIfS
Hospital in Dallas if they could do anything about that,
and they said, sure we can.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We'll just got to get him up there.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Well, we were having struggling with this and that and
the other time to find out his sister refused to
have him go because the young man his parents had
been killed in a car accident and he was receiving
Social Security benefits and the sister was worried if he
got fixed up, then she wouldn't get the benefits from
Social Security anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
And the thing is she was.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Kind of a nutjob because she had married a guy
who was a child molester, a registered chom moluster. You
can't make this stuff up. I mean, you know, it's
it's something else. But anyway, so one of the guys
at my school where I teach at the time, it said,
cal Marvin Zimler.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He deals with that.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Kind of stuff all the time. So I called him
up and within about thirty seconds Marvin yells at to me.
He says, you know, it's just hell to be poor.
That was just one of his big things. And anyway,
he made a phone call and to Scottish Rite Hospital,
made a phone call to Southwest Airlines, made a phone
(31:08):
call to a carriage company who picked us up at
the airport, and I made a phone call to a
lawyer who told his sister that either you get this
young man fixed up or you're going to be in jail,
because the thing is that is against the law if
he's got the opportunity to fix this.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Kid up and you're holding him back.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
So anyway, a lawyer called him and made me a
representative for the child for a day. So we flew
up to Dallas, and Marvin called the Southwest Airlines, made
sure we had good seats the very morning that we
were leaving, which is going to be early, and brought
us on there. The coach company picked us up, hauled
(31:48):
us over there, picked us up and took us back
and flew back this up that afternoon, and Marvin called
me to make sure that that child had everything you needed.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well. Anyway, the young man.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Is doing well now and has his own family.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So what a great things.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Yeah, it's you know, what is the point of having
some degree of celebrity.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
If you don't use it for things like that?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
And I think Marvin genuinely enjoyed the challenge of the
deal of what he could talk people into doing.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Is it's a very rewarding thing.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
I think Marvin Zendler loved being Marvin Zemmler. I think
it was not a chore, it was not a job.
It was a ministry. I know it's Jewish, do you
just that ministry, Jamm.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It was a ministry. It was something that he thoroughly
just loved doing
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