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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air. Looking into
mic We gotta feed a beard. I don't plan to shave,
and it's good thing, but I just gotta see I'm
doing all right. Will got make some points. There was
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a lot of activity at the Ukrainian embassy over the weekend.
Neither drink the drugs, American. Uh, I'm just doing all right.
State Department officials and some Trump officials shuttling in and
out of the Ukrainian embassy. There were top negotiators shuttling
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in and out. President Trump had a brief meeting at
the Vatican where the Pope's funeral with Zelensky. He pulled
his uh, one of his better power moves. He went
in for the meeting with Zelensky, and Zelensky had planned
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on having Macrone there. There were three chairs set up,
and he leaned in on Macron and said, I'm doing
this one by myself. And I don't know exactly what
he said, but I assume it was something of that order.
And Macrone backed out. So he had a one on
one with a little twerp that was so impertinent to
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him in the White House a few months ago. I
don't know what was said. I have not seen footage
of it. But after that meeting was over all, the
scuttling and shuttling started happening in Washington, d C. As
the President board at Air Force one to come home.
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It would appear to be the case that that was
in relation to a meeting that was going well. Marco
Rubio will get to this. Was asked on the Sunday Talkers,
why President Trump is not imposing sanctions on Russia? Why
is he not hitting Russia? And he said, we are
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very close to a deal, and if we try to
punish him, then we set this thing back for two years,
and that's not good for anybody. I get the impression
you've got some very some very independent and volatile characters
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in Zelenski and Putin. Although I think Putin wants a
deal and he wants to deal now, I think he's
willing to do the deal. He would get crimea back.
But if this deal happens, if the old Nobel Peace
Prize had any meaning today, he would be the most
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deserving recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in my lifetime.
Remember Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. I think
a month or two into his presidency, he had done
he did know where the restrooms were. It done nothing.
The Nobel Peace Prize has become the award given to
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Democrat presidents and presidential contenders Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama.
Isn't it interesting that Donald Trump will have done more
for peace than any of those three, all of those
three combined, and yet of course they won't give it
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to him. Let's check in on Houston, Texas? Shall we?
Such a welcoming said, it's a beautiful day, this day,
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aborhood of beautiful day for a labor Would you be by?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Could you be like it's a labor leader.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
In the Chicago Weekend crime report, we've got the Houston
crime report. Nine people shot across Houston last night over
a seven hour period. K h o U with the story.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Truly violent night across Houston, nine people shot within.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Just seven hours.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Started last night around nine o'clock a man shot at
this bus stop on Hillcroft near West Park Tolway. Houston
Police A two young men approached the guy, demanded his phone,
and then shot him in the chest. Amazingly, He's expected
to be just fine. Fifteen minutes later, police rushed to
the scene of a deadly shooting two miles away. They
say it started as an argument over a parking spot.
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In the end, one man died at the hospital, shot
multiple times, and the shooter get this stayed at the
scene and is with police now. Two hours after that,
Houston police responded to a deadly shooting on South Main
near Buffalo Speedway that victim shot several times.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No info on a suspect.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Police, of course, reviewing surveillance video and interviewing witnesses.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
About an hour after that.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Geez, so many shootings in this one, two people shot
while sitting in a car on Gillette in Montrose. Houston
Police say someone walked up to the car and opened fire.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
People hit.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Two others in the car not hurt and they are
now talking to police. And then on Tuck Street and
East Houston, Houston police say three juveniles shot in a
reported drive by, at least two taken to the hospital.
The youngest fourteen years old.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I've always wanted to live in the neighborhood with you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since
we're together, we might as well say, why don't you be?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Mind? Would be mine my neighbor. Believe won't you be
my neighbor? NI television neighbor. I'm glad we're together again.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I wonder what the demographics are on the shooters, because
they don't provide that anymore the moment it was decided,
we're not going to give that information anymore. That's your solution.
How about all the Al Sharpton's and Jesse Jackson's and
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Ben Crumb's. How about you focus on a message. How
about you focus on incarcerating people that are shooting people up.
There was a video of a carnival cruise line over
the weekend at the terminal in Galveston. I'm surprised there
wasn't shooting there. I asked nobody had a gun on
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them at the time. But it is absolute and utter mayhem.
There is an increasing number of cases and violence and
silliness as to what triggers it with people who you
heard the parking space story, with people who get angry
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that the store is closing or the story is out
of something, or someone pulls into a parking spot and
they get out and start shooting, or they get out
and start beating on someone and beat them to death.
But as long as we don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Any the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
George Floyd had gone to Jack Yates High School, Crimson
and Gold, where he had played football. Wasn't a superstar.
My understanding is he's a solid player. Lived in the
Third Ward area during his upbringing and was well known
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to the popo by the time he was twenty years old,
and not for donating to the Assist the Officer fund
he was. He was quite the quite the mess in
the community as the years progressed. He made a lot
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of babies. Will never know how many, although they a
lot of them showed up at his funeral. I had
somebody who was working behind the scenes at the funeral
tell me that at one point they had to tell
the children that that's your daddy. That says it's your
daddy that's showing pictures because they hadn't seen him real
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stand up guy. It got so bad that he got
so bad on him that he moved to Minneapolis, because
at least there they didn't know his street name and
record to start with. Of course, he'd already been in prison.
He wants wore a uniform to look like he was
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working for the electric company. And when the pregnant woman
opened the door because he needed to get in and
check a meter, he put a gun in her stomach
and invited his friends over, and you can only imagine
what they did. He had a series of other crimes,
so he he he hot foots it to Minneapolis. He's
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going to start over, fresh start. Well, while there, he
has some scrapes with the law as well, because he
was not a good man. He was a very bad man.
And there's video of a thirty two minute call when
he's pulled over. Officer comes up to him. It's all
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on camera. You can find it. It's easy to find.
And he the officer has him get out, and he
keeps saying, don't shoot me, don't shoot me, don't shoot me,
don't shoot don't shoot Please, don't shoot me, Please, don't
shoot I've been shot before, not bad, copy hasn't And
he starts crying it's please don't take him because his
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mother just died, which was not true. But it's not
first or last lie he would tell in his life.
He wailed and whined and it turned out that he
had fentanyl with him and that he had put it
in his mouth and the officer made him spit it out.
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This he would end up in the hospital and very
nearly die. It's easy to overdose some ventanyl and especially
when you're taking a number of appeals to get rid
of them, because the cop is about to arrestue for him.
So he would go into the hospital. He would have
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more health troubles in the coming weeks. And then there
was the day that he was passing counterfeit checks to
the pack sack and the owners called the cops, and
when they arrived, he started into the whole thing. And
then there was there was a moment that they went
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to put him in the back seat and he said,
I can't breathe. They put him in the car, air
conditioning on, and he kept saying, I can't breathe. I
can't breathe. He's sitting in the back seat, I can't breathe,
which is the effect that fentannel has on you. He
keeps saying I can't breathe for minutes while they're trying
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to run the background and figure out what to do
with him. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I got
to get out of the car. I can't breathe. I'm suffocating,
I can't breathe. They get him out of the car.
He starts struggling again. He's in the throes of a
drug overdose. Quite unpleasant, I'm sure, and he's struggling. He's struggling,
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so they put him down. He's trying to get up.
They put him back down, trying to get him on
the ground, which, by the way, is standard operating procedure.
So all came out in the case. Of course, the
case didn't matter. Derek Chauvain had to be the sacrificial cop.
They get him down and put one knee on his shoulder.
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It is clear, it is clear that he is not
on his neck, he is not obstructing the flow of
oxygen to his brain. And this thing drags on and
finally George Floyd dies. Well, it had to be the cops,
because it's always the cops, and thank god it's a
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white cop. Although there was a black cop on the
scene who had some things to say that were not
nearly as nice as the white cops, but he felt
more comfortable saying it. That's how that works. So George
Floyd dies and it's twenty twenty, and this is going
to be great for the election. Trump's a bad guy.
White guys are bad guys. Authority figures are bad guys.
Black folk, you need to hate Trump and vote Democrat
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because this is what cops and white people and white
authorities is what they do to you. Okay, So George
Floyd was honored. His face was painted on walls. Surprised
they haven't named the street for him yet, but they
probably just hadn't gotten around to it. Just so many
things for Sheila Jackson Lee. So Sheila Jackson Lee's district. Oh,
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they honored their neighborhoods owned Saint George Floyd. Wasn't he great?
Silvester had had a memorial for There were memorials all
over the country. Never seen people have more memorials like this,
and now who would have seen this coming? Residents of
the Third Ward, that same Third Ward meet with POPO
to demand a larger police presence because they are not
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doing enough, particularly around the Columbia Tap bike Trail. Remember
that this is back in twenty twenty. Candice Weber, a
BLM organizer and Third Ward resident, told the Texas Tribune quote.
We know that the increase in police presence does not
make us safer, So why do you want more of them? Now?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
K show you walking along these third ward streets. Keta
Rodgers knows things have changed over the years.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Across the street here is pretty recent.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
But he can also tell you what this community has
spent years fighting for their safety.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
First of all, it's that fear of being mindful of
what time it is, because you can't go at night
because it gets too dangerous.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Do you know why it gets dangerous? It ain't because
of the cops. It ain't because of the Klan, It
ain't because of the Frisbee uh adult Frisbee League, Frisbee
golf League, and all of this is happening on this
Columbia tap bike trail. Do you remember this? Rodney Ellis
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decided that the county was going to spend fortune putting
bike lanes through the hood. Now this might come in
some surprise, but if you think people are easy pickings
when they're in their vehicle potentially with the gun able
to speed off, imagine if they're on a bicycle and
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you hop out in front of them and plow your
pistol Yeah, that's how that's turning out.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Southern Pride, Southern Fried with Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The White House has adorned the lawn outside with yard signs,
yard sign sized, you know, you see the political yard
sign in somebody's front.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Long.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
They've got them lined one next to the next, next
to the next, next to the next, one next to
the other, with no break in between. And it says arrested,
and it is the mugshot of illegal aliens with their
crime on there, and they're all pedophiles and murderers and
the whole deal. And it is positioned directly in front
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of I'm sorry, directly behind where the White House correspondents
do their daily hits from the White House. So as
there as they're doing their interview, are they giving their report,
they'll have those signs right behind them. It's just fantastic.
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Do you remember the Turkey leg Hut? It was all
the rage in the third Ward and uh it was.
It was a frequent haunt of Sheila Jackson Lee. It
was held up as a as a beacon of small business,
but they were all always questions, were always lots of
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questions and lots of problems. It became the hot spot
for the for Hoy Poloy black rappers and politicians, and
the couple that owned it were the toast of the town,
and particularly in that area. I think it's on Almeida.
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It was a really really big deal and it got
a lot of press. You're probably seen some other places
like that. And then the couple started having trouble and
she started making claims against him. I don't know either
one of them personally, so this isn't a shot like
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I sometimes do. I don't know either one of them,
and I think they had a business partner. Well, it
was a three way going wrong. The business partner got
into it with him or her or both of them.
I think there were lawsuits. Then the wife started making
some allegations on him. He was kicked out of the business.
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He would come back to the business. There were all
there was a lot of drama. It got, as they say, messy.
Well it has continued on now because the former owner,
Lyndell Price, has now been indicted on federal arson charges.
The FBI say that he and two other men conspired
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to set fire to Bar fifty to fifteen back in
twenty twenty, which was owned by a one time business
partner of his. Oh, we know be partners anymore. Well,
I'm gonna burn this thing down. What you think about that?
The story from KPRCTV June twelfth to twenty twenty.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Surveillance video showed the masked men dumping cans of gas
on the deck at Bar fifty to fifteen on Almeda.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Soon a fire ignited.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Museum District neighbors felt the blast and drone video of
the aftermath showed the destruction. Despite those clear images, years
passed before a federal grand jury returned this three count indictment.
It accuses former Turkey leg Hut Co owner Lindell Lynn
Price of being the mastermind that paid others for the explosion,
targeting his one time restaurant business partner who owned the bar,
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Armani Williams and John Lee Price, unrelated to Linn Price,
allegedly bought gas cans and masks before driving to the bar,
setting in a blaze, and within three minutes, prosecutors say
Lynn Price got the call the arson was completed.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
John Lee Price's attorney.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
This is a classic example of being very mindful of
the company that you keep. Sometimes the company that you
keep can get you in trouble. We look forward to
looking into the charges.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
No cameras were allowed inside the courtroom, but with his
mother watching, Lynn Price stood before the judge with handcuffs
and shackles to hear the allegations. Amid other legal woes
and health inspection violations, the Turkey leg Hut shut down
last November. Lynn Price opened a new restaurant and Bar
fifty to fifteen has since rebuilt. Other people have been
charged in the conspiracy to burn it down, prosecutors say,
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but they're not yet arrested, so not yet named, all
connected to the well known entrepreneur who now faces up
to twenty five years in prison. Armani Williams and John
Lee Price have been released on bond, but Lynn Price
is expected back in federal court next week for a
detention hearing, when his attorney says he looks forward to
getting him a bond.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Stop. The report came out this weekend from NAEP Education
Arm of I believe the government, but I'm not positive
with the breaking news that fourth grade scores and eighth
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grade scores in math from students in Mississippi and Louisiana
surpassed those of New York In California. Let me read
that again. The scores for students in the fourth and
eighth grades, where these two math tests are done standardized
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tests for students in Mississippi and Louisiana were higher than
those in New York and California. Well, that's probably because
they did the test in English. You can't expect people
in New York and California to be able to answer
questions in English. There there is, I would say quietly,
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but it's not so quiet. There is going on in
this country a massive what is the right word, a massive,
not redistribution, not even reallocation. It is the case that
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things that were at the bottom arising to the top
and at the top of it are falling to the
bottom in so many ways. We started the show with
the story about the crime in Houston. It is explosive
to see the growth outside the city of Houston. Most
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of it is crime. Most of what is driving people
away is the crime. And the crime is so much
worse than people realize because most of it never makes
the news. First of all, the threshold to make the
news in Houston, some guy pulls up behind you, bumps
you in the back. You get out. He pulls a gun,
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takes your wallet, drives up. That doesn't even make the news.
That's just Tuesday, and that's happening a lot. The moment
where it was de termined, officers would not be sent
to minor accidents. That tells you you're not you've given up.
Now you're in the emergency room triage. Now if y'all
are coming in with with you know something, little, we
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don't even have room for you. Just just just as
the hospitals, we're on drive by status. That means an
ambulance can't can't stop, just keep going. We're full up.
You go down sitting at the emergency room at Ben
Tobs sometime any evening and you look at what's coming
in there. Just gunshot wound, gunshot wound, gunshot womb, mix
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it up, knife wound. We do have a lot of
well you know it now, who does the knife wounds?
You know who does the knife wounds? Or moon? We
all know who does the knife wounds. Yeah, I mean
it was better. You know, what.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
Does a pirate look for in a woman? Ramon a
big chest and lots of booty. Still pirates booty get
that bag. My kids did not get that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
From the show that I don't seem to get from
other places, The Michael Perry Show, Welcome and Voting. When
I was making endorsements the other day, it wasn't endorsements. Actually,
I was reading you the list of Publican Party endorsements
in races where I didn't know the candidates. I left
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out the Pasadena Mayor's race. And I am supporting Rex
Lindbergh a lot of folks that I trust and have
known a long time. I have known him a long time.
I met him multiple times. I can't say we're close friends,
but I know him, know him somewhat well, and I
am supporting him. Early voting in your school boards in
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some of these municipal races, mud races, different races around
may not be getting a lot of attention, but this
is when you wake up and find out, oh, that
was when the voting was held, because it's usually not
covered very widely by the media, particularly because if you're
a region wide media outlet, one of the TV stations,
for instance, you've got I don't know how many elections
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on this current that are going on at one time.
So Victor Perez as the president of the school board
in Katie is very important, but it's not going to
get a lot of attention outside of Katie. There is
a fellow named Dennis Spelman used to be at Channel
thirty nine who writes he may edit a Katie community newspaper,
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and I know he has covered that closely, and I
think he's the one that has revealed that the candidate
running to challenge Victor Perez is supported by the most
crazy wight communist cross dressing community that you could ever imagine.
I mean LGBTQMS thirteen all the way, because they cannot
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stand it. They cannot stand the children going to school
and not having a grown man in a speedo walk
in and talk about cutting off wieners. These kids are
missing out, They're missing everything that these people so desperately
want them to have, and Victor Perez is not allowing it.
And I just can't. I just that cannot happen. It
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cannot happen. It's it's just it's the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Ramon.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Did you see that the this is it is worse
than a Nobel Prize? Now did you see that the
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been released? Oh,
it's just terrible. It's just terrible. They are crying. You
are right, they are crying for as Cindy Lauper. That's embarrassing.
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I here's who didn't make it. The Black Crows, Billy
Idol Manah and Fish, Mariah their first time nominees didn't
make it, Mariah Carey and Oasis and Joy Division slash
New Order. I'd put Joy Division in slash new Order.
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What was the guy's name, the lead singer that died?
You remember, I'd put what Michael Hutchins. I was surprised
if you couldn't remember it. I knew, I knew if
you took a second. All right, here's who is going in?
Uh uh Salt and Peppa will be we'll be recognized
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with the Musical Influence Award Warren Zevon posthumously obviously because
he passed. Uh different people. You don't know. Music executives
given each other awards and I don't even see. Are
they going to tell us who's in the thing. Maybe
it's at the top. Not a good idea to read
an article while you're on air. Oh here's oh oh.
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I was just making a list of people who should
be in and are not. Several of them got in
I gotta change my list. Bad Company got in bet
Bad Company the song by Bad Company, the band on
what album was it? Bad Company? The album that that
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is as good as anything in rock it is that
that is as good as I'm not saying their entire
body of work. I'm just saying that Chubby Checker got in.
I think Chubby should be in now. I have always
believed that there is there is this perception that black artist,
especially motown artist, although I don't really put Chubby in
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the motown kind of he was sort of into and
on his own, but that there is this, uh, this
idea that that's not rock and roll. But but I
don't agree with that because if you look at the
influences on Elvis, it is thank You, it is it
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is these artists. Little Richard, the marvel Letts are not in,
you know, the marvel Ats. There is an argument that
Mark the marvel Atts are the most underrated Motown band
of all time. I read somewhere that they had the
first number one hit on the Billboard Top one hundred
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when the Billboard Top one hundred started, they had it.
So the musical influence Award Ramoni has brought this to
me is salt and peppa. He went ahead and printed
out the lyrics to their biggest song, Ah push it,
ah push it. I think it is written by an obstetrician.
Ooh baby, baby, baby baby, ooh baby baby, but baby baby,
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get up on this. Ah push it, ah push it.
I could see the musical influence. Ah push it, get
up on this, Ah push it, get up on this
our baby. Okay, all right, we've pushed for a while.
Now what who are you? Salt and peppers here, question answered, Salt, salt, salt,
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salt and peppers here, salt, salt, salt, salt, salt and
peppers here, salt and pepper, Salt and pepper, salt and
peppers here, Salt, salt, salt, salt and peppers here. That's
quite a musical influence. Now now, now wait a minute, y'all.
This dance ain't for everybody, only to sexy people. So
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all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance.
I said, salt and peppers here, and we're in effect
wants you to push it back. Cooling by day, then
at night, working up a sweat. Come on, girls, let's
go show the guys that we know how to become
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number one in a hot party show. You could have
rite hoe in there somewhere. I feel certain. Now push it,
push it good, all push it, push it real good. Ah,
push it, push it good. Ah, push it, push it
real good. I'll push it good. Ooh baby baby, baby baby,
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ooh baby baby, but baby baby push it good, push
it real good. I'll push it. Ah, I push it.
That's that's who's presenting the Musical Influence Award. Nobody was
pushing it. Have people that just be sitting there, and
that's that's when we got all the sea sections. They're like,
all right, you know, just do a sea section. What's
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your schedule? Look like, what do you want to have
this baby? All right, well about three weeks away, so
let's do uh May eighteenth, that's ninep No, I'll be
on vacation. Let's have this baby. Let's see I get
back on twenty third. Let's do this May twenty four.
See you don't push it. This is what happened. Here
are the winners, Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker. All
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three were on my list that needed to go in Outcast,
Soundgarden and The White Stripes. Do you wonder who's not
in stepping walk. You know that's not in Three Dog Night.
That's crazy.
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air. Looking into
mic We gotta feed a beard. I don't plan to shave,
and it's good thing, but I just gotta see I'm
doing all right. Will got make some points. There was
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a lot of activity at the Ukrainian embassy over the weekend.
Neither drink the drugs, American. Uh, I'm just doing all right.
State Department officials and some Trump officials shuttling in and
out of the Ukrainian embassy. There were top negotiators shuttling
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in and out. President Trump had a brief meeting at
the Vatican where the Pope's funeral with Zelensky. He pulled
his uh, one of his better power moves. He went
in for the meeting with Zelensky, and Zelensky had planned
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on having Macrone there. There were three chairs set up,
and he leaned in on Macron and said, I'm doing
this one by myself. And I don't know exactly what
he said, but I assume it was something of that order.
And Macrone backed out. So he had a one on
one with a little twerp that was so impertinent to
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him in the White House a few months ago. I
don't know what was said. I have not seen footage
of it. But after that meeting was over all, the
scuttling and shuttling started happening in Washington, d C. As
the President board at Air Force one to come home.
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It would appear to be the case that that was
in relation to a meeting that was going well. Marco
Rubio will get to this. Was asked on the Sunday Talkers,
why President Trump is not imposing sanctions on Russia? Why
is he not hitting Russia? And he said, we are
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very close to a deal, and if we try to
punish him, then we set this thing back for two years,
and that's not good for anybody. I get the impression
you've got some very some very independent and volatile characters
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in Zelenski and Putin. Although I think Putin wants a
deal and he wants to deal now, I think he's
willing to do the deal. He would get crimea back.
But if this deal happens, if the old Nobel Peace
Prize had any meaning today, he would be the most
(03:11):
deserving recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in my lifetime.
Remember Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. I think
a month or two into his presidency, he had done
he did know where the restrooms were. It done nothing.
The Nobel Peace Prize has become the award given to
(03:34):
Democrat presidents and presidential contenders Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama.
Isn't it interesting that Donald Trump will have done more
for peace than any of those three, all of those
three combined, and yet of course they won't give it
(03:55):
to him. Let's check in on Houston, Texas? Shall we?
Such a welcoming said, it's a beautiful day, this day,
(04:34):
aborhood of beautiful day for a labor Would you be by?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Could you be like it's a labor leader.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
In the Chicago Weekend crime report, we've got the Houston
crime report. Nine people shot across Houston last night over
a seven hour period. K h o U with the story.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Truly violent night across Houston, nine people shot within.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Just seven hours.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Started last night around nine o'clock a man shot at
this bus stop on Hillcroft near West Park Tolway. Houston
Police A two young men approached the guy, demanded his phone,
and then shot him in the chest. Amazingly, He's expected
to be just fine. Fifteen minutes later, police rushed to
the scene of a deadly shooting two miles away. They
say it started as an argument over a parking spot.
(05:25):
In the end, one man died at the hospital, shot
multiple times, and the shooter get this stayed at the
scene and is with police now. Two hours after that,
Houston police responded to a deadly shooting on South Main
near Buffalo Speedway that victim shot several times.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No info on a suspect.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Police, of course, reviewing surveillance video and interviewing witnesses.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
About an hour after that.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Geez, so many shootings in this one, two people shot
while sitting in a car on Gillette in Montrose. Houston
Police say someone walked up to the car and opened fire.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
People hit.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Two others in the car not hurt and they are
now talking to police. And then on Tuck Street and
East Houston, Houston police say three juveniles shot in a
reported drive by, at least two taken to the hospital.
The youngest fourteen years old.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I've always wanted to live in the neighborhood with you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since
we're together, we might as well say, why don't you be?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Mind? Would be mine my neighbor. Believe won't you be
my neighbor? NI television neighbor. I'm glad we're together again.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I wonder what the demographics are on the shooters, because
they don't provide that anymore the moment it was decided,
we're not going to give that information anymore. That's your solution.
How about all the Al Sharpton's and Jesse Jackson's and
(07:23):
Ben Crumb's. How about you focus on a message. How
about you focus on incarcerating people that are shooting people up.
There was a video of a carnival cruise line over
the weekend at the terminal in Galveston. I'm surprised there
wasn't shooting there. I asked nobody had a gun on
(07:44):
them at the time. But it is absolute and utter mayhem.
There is an increasing number of cases and violence and
silliness as to what triggers it with people who you
heard the parking space story, with people who get angry
(08:05):
that the store is closing or the story is out
of something, or someone pulls into a parking spot and
they get out and start shooting, or they get out
and start beating on someone and beat them to death.
But as long as we don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Any the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
George Floyd had gone to Jack Yates High School, Crimson
and Gold, where he had played football. Wasn't a superstar.
My understanding is he's a solid player. Lived in the
Third Ward area during his upbringing and was well known
(08:54):
to the popo by the time he was twenty years old,
and not for donating to the Assist the Officer fund
he was. He was quite the quite the mess in
the community as the years progressed. He made a lot
(09:16):
of babies. Will never know how many, although they a
lot of them showed up at his funeral. I had
somebody who was working behind the scenes at the funeral
tell me that at one point they had to tell
the children that that's your daddy. That says it's your
daddy that's showing pictures because they hadn't seen him real
(09:42):
stand up guy. It got so bad that he got
so bad on him that he moved to Minneapolis, because
at least there they didn't know his street name and
record to start with. Of course, he'd already been in prison.
He wants wore a uniform to look like he was
(10:02):
working for the electric company. And when the pregnant woman
opened the door because he needed to get in and
check a meter, he put a gun in her stomach
and invited his friends over, and you can only imagine
what they did. He had a series of other crimes,
so he he he hot foots it to Minneapolis. He's
(10:23):
going to start over, fresh start. Well, while there, he
has some scrapes with the law as well, because he
was not a good man. He was a very bad man.
And there's video of a thirty two minute call when
he's pulled over. Officer comes up to him. It's all
(10:46):
on camera. You can find it. It's easy to find.
And he the officer has him get out, and he
keeps saying, don't shoot me, don't shoot me, don't shoot me,
don't shoot don't shoot Please, don't shoot me, Please, don't
shoot I've been shot before, not bad, copy hasn't And
he starts crying it's please don't take him because his
(11:07):
mother just died, which was not true. But it's not
first or last lie he would tell in his life.
He wailed and whined and it turned out that he
had fentanyl with him and that he had put it
in his mouth and the officer made him spit it out.
(11:29):
This he would end up in the hospital and very
nearly die. It's easy to overdose some ventanyl and especially
when you're taking a number of appeals to get rid
of them, because the cop is about to arrestue for him.
So he would go into the hospital. He would have
(11:49):
more health troubles in the coming weeks. And then there
was the day that he was passing counterfeit checks to
the pack sack and the owners called the cops, and
when they arrived, he started into the whole thing. And
then there was there was a moment that they went
(12:13):
to put him in the back seat and he said,
I can't breathe. They put him in the car, air
conditioning on, and he kept saying, I can't breathe. I
can't breathe. He's sitting in the back seat, I can't breathe,
which is the effect that fentannel has on you. He
keeps saying I can't breathe for minutes while they're trying
(12:34):
to run the background and figure out what to do
with him. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I got
to get out of the car. I can't breathe. I'm suffocating,
I can't breathe. They get him out of the car.
He starts struggling again. He's in the throes of a
drug overdose. Quite unpleasant, I'm sure, and he's struggling. He's struggling,
(12:55):
so they put him down. He's trying to get up.
They put him back down, trying to get him on
the ground, which, by the way, is standard operating procedure.
So all came out in the case. Of course, the
case didn't matter. Derek Chauvain had to be the sacrificial cop.
They get him down and put one knee on his shoulder.
(13:16):
It is clear, it is clear that he is not
on his neck, he is not obstructing the flow of
oxygen to his brain. And this thing drags on and
finally George Floyd dies. Well, it had to be the cops,
because it's always the cops, and thank god it's a
(13:37):
white cop. Although there was a black cop on the
scene who had some things to say that were not
nearly as nice as the white cops, but he felt
more comfortable saying it. That's how that works. So George
Floyd dies and it's twenty twenty, and this is going
to be great for the election. Trump's a bad guy.
White guys are bad guys. Authority figures are bad guys.
Black folk, you need to hate Trump and vote Democrat
(13:59):
because this is what cops and white people and white
authorities is what they do to you. Okay, So George
Floyd was honored. His face was painted on walls. Surprised
they haven't named the street for him yet, but they
probably just hadn't gotten around to it. Just so many
things for Sheila Jackson Lee. So Sheila Jackson Lee's district. Oh,
(14:21):
they honored their neighborhoods owned Saint George Floyd. Wasn't he great?
Silvester had had a memorial for There were memorials all
over the country. Never seen people have more memorials like this,
and now who would have seen this coming? Residents of
the Third Ward, that same Third Ward meet with POPO
to demand a larger police presence because they are not
(14:44):
doing enough, particularly around the Columbia Tap bike Trail. Remember
that this is back in twenty twenty. Candice Weber, a
BLM organizer and Third Ward resident, told the Texas Tribune quote.
We know that the increase in police presence does not
make us safer, So why do you want more of them? Now?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
K show you walking along these third ward streets. Keta
Rodgers knows things have changed over the years.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Across the street here is pretty recent.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
But he can also tell you what this community has
spent years fighting for their safety.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
First of all, it's that fear of being mindful of
what time it is, because you can't go at night
because it gets too dangerous.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Do you know why it gets dangerous? It ain't because
of the cops. It ain't because of the Klan, It
ain't because of the Frisbee uh adult Frisbee League, Frisbee
golf League, and all of this is happening on this
Columbia tap bike trail. Do you remember this? Rodney Ellis
(15:58):
decided that the county was going to spend fortune putting
bike lanes through the hood. Now this might come in
some surprise, but if you think people are easy pickings
when they're in their vehicle potentially with the gun able
to speed off, imagine if they're on a bicycle and
(16:20):
you hop out in front of them and plow your
pistol Yeah, that's how that's turning out.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Southern Pride, Southern Fried with Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The White House has adorned the lawn outside with yard signs,
yard sign sized, you know, you see the political yard
sign in somebody's front.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Long.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
They've got them lined one next to the next, next
to the next, next to the next, one next to
the other, with no break in between. And it says arrested,
and it is the mugshot of illegal aliens with their
crime on there, and they're all pedophiles and murderers and
the whole deal. And it is positioned directly in front
(17:19):
of I'm sorry, directly behind where the White House correspondents
do their daily hits from the White House. So as
there as they're doing their interview, are they giving their report,
they'll have those signs right behind them. It's just fantastic.
(17:40):
Do you remember the Turkey leg Hut? It was all
the rage in the third Ward and uh it was.
It was a frequent haunt of Sheila Jackson Lee. It
was held up as a as a beacon of small business,
but they were all always questions, were always lots of
(18:02):
questions and lots of problems. It became the hot spot
for the for Hoy Poloy black rappers and politicians, and
the couple that owned it were the toast of the town,
and particularly in that area. I think it's on Almeida.
(18:23):
It was a really really big deal and it got
a lot of press. You're probably seen some other places
like that. And then the couple started having trouble and
she started making claims against him. I don't know either
one of them personally, so this isn't a shot like
(18:43):
I sometimes do. I don't know either one of them,
and I think they had a business partner. Well, it
was a three way going wrong. The business partner got
into it with him or her or both of them.
I think there were lawsuits. Then the wife started making
some allegations on him. He was kicked out of the business.
(19:05):
He would come back to the business. There were all
there was a lot of drama. It got, as they say, messy.
Well it has continued on now because the former owner,
Lyndell Price, has now been indicted on federal arson charges.
The FBI say that he and two other men conspired
(19:27):
to set fire to Bar fifty to fifteen back in
twenty twenty, which was owned by a one time business
partner of his. Oh, we know be partners anymore. Well,
I'm gonna burn this thing down. What you think about that?
The story from KPRCTV June twelfth to twenty twenty.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Surveillance video showed the masked men dumping cans of gas
on the deck at Bar fifty to fifteen on Almeda.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Soon a fire ignited.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Museum District neighbors felt the blast and drone video of
the aftermath showed the destruction. Despite those clear images, years
passed before a federal grand jury returned this three count indictment.
It accuses former Turkey leg Hut Co owner Lindell Lynn
Price of being the mastermind that paid others for the explosion,
targeting his one time restaurant business partner who owned the bar,
(20:17):
Armani Williams and John Lee Price, unrelated to Linn Price,
allegedly bought gas cans and masks before driving to the bar,
setting in a blaze, and within three minutes, prosecutors say
Lynn Price got the call the arson was completed.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
John Lee Price's attorney.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
This is a classic example of being very mindful of
the company that you keep. Sometimes the company that you
keep can get you in trouble. We look forward to
looking into the charges.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
No cameras were allowed inside the courtroom, but with his
mother watching, Lynn Price stood before the judge with handcuffs
and shackles to hear the allegations. Amid other legal woes
and health inspection violations, the Turkey leg Hut shut down
last November. Lynn Price opened a new restaurant and Bar
fifty to fifteen has since rebuilt. Other people have been
charged in the conspiracy to burn it down, prosecutors say,
(21:07):
but they're not yet arrested, so not yet named, all
connected to the well known entrepreneur who now faces up
to twenty five years in prison. Armani Williams and John
Lee Price have been released on bond, but Lynn Price
is expected back in federal court next week for a
detention hearing, when his attorney says he looks forward to
getting him a bond.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Stop. The report came out this weekend from NAEP Education
Arm of I believe the government, but I'm not positive
with the breaking news that fourth grade scores and eighth
(22:07):
grade scores in math from students in Mississippi and Louisiana
surpassed those of New York In California. Let me read
that again. The scores for students in the fourth and
eighth grades, where these two math tests are done standardized
(22:27):
tests for students in Mississippi and Louisiana were higher than
those in New York and California. Well, that's probably because
they did the test in English. You can't expect people
in New York and California to be able to answer
questions in English. There there is, I would say quietly,
(22:53):
but it's not so quiet. There is going on in
this country a massive what is the right word, a massive,
not redistribution, not even reallocation. It is the case that
(23:16):
things that were at the bottom arising to the top
and at the top of it are falling to the
bottom in so many ways. We started the show with
the story about the crime in Houston. It is explosive
to see the growth outside the city of Houston. Most
(23:42):
of it is crime. Most of what is driving people
away is the crime. And the crime is so much
worse than people realize because most of it never makes
the news. First of all, the threshold to make the
news in Houston, some guy pulls up behind you, bumps
you in the back. You get out. He pulls a gun,
(24:04):
takes your wallet, drives up. That doesn't even make the news.
That's just Tuesday, and that's happening a lot. The moment
where it was de termined, officers would not be sent
to minor accidents. That tells you you're not you've given up.
Now you're in the emergency room triage. Now if y'all
are coming in with with you know something, little, we
(24:25):
don't even have room for you. Just just just as
the hospitals, we're on drive by status. That means an
ambulance can't can't stop, just keep going. We're full up.
You go down sitting at the emergency room at Ben
Tobs sometime any evening and you look at what's coming
in there. Just gunshot wound, gunshot wound, gunshot womb, mix
(24:45):
it up, knife wound. We do have a lot of
well you know it now, who does the knife wounds?
You know who does the knife wounds? Or moon? We
all know who does the knife wounds. Yeah, I mean
it was better. You know, what.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
Does a pirate look for in a woman? Ramon a
big chest and lots of booty. Still pirates booty get
that bag. My kids did not get that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
From the show that I don't seem to get from
other places, The Michael Perry Show, Welcome and Voting. When
I was making endorsements the other day, it wasn't endorsements. Actually,
I was reading you the list of Publican Party endorsements
in races where I didn't know the candidates. I left
(25:37):
out the Pasadena Mayor's race. And I am supporting Rex
Lindbergh a lot of folks that I trust and have
known a long time. I have known him a long time.
I met him multiple times. I can't say we're close friends,
but I know him, know him somewhat well, and I
am supporting him. Early voting in your school boards in
(26:01):
some of these municipal races, mud races, different races around
may not be getting a lot of attention, but this
is when you wake up and find out, oh, that
was when the voting was held, because it's usually not
covered very widely by the media, particularly because if you're
a region wide media outlet, one of the TV stations,
for instance, you've got I don't know how many elections
(26:24):
on this current that are going on at one time.
So Victor Perez as the president of the school board
in Katie is very important, but it's not going to
get a lot of attention outside of Katie. There is
a fellow named Dennis Spelman used to be at Channel
thirty nine who writes he may edit a Katie community newspaper,
(26:50):
and I know he has covered that closely, and I
think he's the one that has revealed that the candidate
running to challenge Victor Perez is supported by the most
crazy wight communist cross dressing community that you could ever imagine.
I mean LGBTQMS thirteen all the way, because they cannot
(27:12):
stand it. They cannot stand the children going to school
and not having a grown man in a speedo walk
in and talk about cutting off wieners. These kids are
missing out, They're missing everything that these people so desperately
want them to have, and Victor Perez is not allowing it.
And I just can't. I just that cannot happen. It
(27:34):
cannot happen. It's it's just it's the end of the world.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Ramon.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Did you see that the this is it is worse
than a Nobel Prize? Now did you see that the
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been released? Oh,
it's just terrible. It's just terrible. They are crying. You
are right, they are crying for as Cindy Lauper. That's embarrassing.
(28:07):
I here's who didn't make it. The Black Crows, Billy
Idol Manah and Fish, Mariah their first time nominees didn't
make it, Mariah Carey and Oasis and Joy Division slash
New Order. I'd put Joy Division in slash new Order.
(28:29):
What was the guy's name, the lead singer that died?
You remember, I'd put what Michael Hutchins. I was surprised
if you couldn't remember it. I knew, I knew if
you took a second. All right, here's who is going in?
Uh uh Salt and Peppa will be we'll be recognized
(28:49):
with the Musical Influence Award Warren Zevon posthumously obviously because
he passed. Uh different people. You don't know. Music executives
given each other awards and I don't even see. Are
they going to tell us who's in the thing. Maybe
it's at the top. Not a good idea to read
an article while you're on air. Oh here's oh oh.
(29:12):
I was just making a list of people who should
be in and are not. Several of them got in
I gotta change my list. Bad Company got in bet
Bad Company the song by Bad Company, the band on
what album was it? Bad Company? The album that that
(29:34):
is as good as anything in rock it is that
that is as good as I'm not saying their entire
body of work. I'm just saying that Chubby Checker got in.
I think Chubby should be in now. I have always
believed that there is there is this perception that black artist,
especially motown artist, although I don't really put Chubby in
(29:57):
the motown kind of he was sort of into and
on his own, but that there is this, uh, this
idea that that's not rock and roll. But but I
don't agree with that because if you look at the
influences on Elvis, it is thank You, it is it
(30:20):
is these artists. Little Richard, the marvel Letts are not in,
you know, the marvel Ats. There is an argument that
Mark the marvel Atts are the most underrated Motown band
of all time. I read somewhere that they had the
first number one hit on the Billboard Top one hundred
(30:40):
when the Billboard Top one hundred started, they had it.
So the musical influence Award Ramoni has brought this to
me is salt and peppa. He went ahead and printed
out the lyrics to their biggest song, Ah push it,
ah push it. I think it is written by an obstetrician.
Ooh baby, baby, baby baby, ooh baby baby, but baby baby,
(31:08):
get up on this. Ah push it, ah push it.
I could see the musical influence. Ah push it, get
up on this, Ah push it, get up on this
our baby. Okay, all right, we've pushed for a while.
Now what who are you? Salt and peppers here, question answered, Salt, salt, salt,
(31:35):
salt and peppers here, salt, salt, salt, salt, salt and
peppers here, salt and pepper, Salt and pepper, salt and
peppers here, Salt, salt, salt, salt and peppers here. That's
quite a musical influence. Now now, now wait a minute, y'all.
This dance ain't for everybody, only to sexy people. So
(31:56):
all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance.
I said, salt and peppers here, and we're in effect
wants you to push it back. Cooling by day, then
at night, working up a sweat. Come on, girls, let's
go show the guys that we know how to become
(32:19):
number one in a hot party show. You could have
rite hoe in there somewhere. I feel certain. Now push it,
push it good, all push it, push it real good. Ah,
push it, push it good. Ah, push it, push it
real good. I'll push it good. Ooh baby baby, baby baby,
(32:44):
ooh baby baby, but baby baby push it good, push
it real good. I'll push it. Ah, I push it.
That's that's who's presenting the Musical Influence Award. Nobody was
pushing it. Have people that just be sitting there, and
that's that's when we got all the sea sections. They're like,
all right, you know, just do a sea section. What's
(33:07):
your schedule? Look like, what do you want to have
this baby? All right, well about three weeks away, so
let's do uh May eighteenth, that's ninep No, I'll be
on vacation. Let's have this baby. Let's see I get
back on twenty third. Let's do this May twenty four.
See you don't push it. This is what happened. Here
are the winners, Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker. All
(33:29):
three were on my list that needed to go in Outcast,
Soundgarden and The White Stripes. Do you wonder who's not
in stepping walk. You know that's not in Three Dog Night.
That's crazy.
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