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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't saw the wings. You saw the garage.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I see the garage, but I don't saw the garage.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You are speaking incorrectly.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
You are more to range the King's English, etcetera.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
See see shut out.
Speaker 6 (00:32):
I think that you punch. I think you punch. I
think you're okay with you.
Speaker 7 (00:36):
You okay, we're punching, you know, I think, And I
love Colin, and I think towards the end he started
to punch a little harder. But like if there grooves,
I mean, like this dude has to be knocks over
the head like hard, right, Like there is no niceties
with him, like at all, Like you you go clean
off on him, right because we in these hot ass
(00:59):
Texas streets, Honey, y'all know.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
We got governor hot wheels.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Down there, come on now, and the.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
Only thing hot about him is that he is a
hot ass mask honey. So so yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 9 (01:17):
You want twice times.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
But the fact that you literally are going to plan
enemy attacks on a signal chat and then you don't
even know who's in the signal chat, and then y'all
want to come in us and act like people of
color are the problem.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Are that women are the problem.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
Like baby, you probably need a good black.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Woman in the room who can check you.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
And tell you that, first of all, you shouldn't be
doing this on signore or anything else.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
But y'all still mad about him, reads servers? Is that?
Is that what I hear?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah? So anyway, Literally.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
I don't know if like your homeboy was drunk at
the time that he was sending these messages or what,
but clearly this administration is not ready for prime time.
There has been no oppression for the white man in
this country. You'll tell me which white men were dragged
(02:26):
out of their homes. You'll tell me which one of
them got dragged all the way across an ocean and
told that you are gonna go at work, We are
gonna seal your wives, we are gonna rape your wives.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
That didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
That is oppression. We didn't ask to be here. Were
not the same migrants that.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Y'all constantly come up against.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
We didn't run away from home. We were stolen. So yeah,
we are gonna sit here and be offended. When you
want to sit here.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
And act like and and don't let it escape you
that it is white man on this side of the
isle telling us people of color on this side of
the aisle, that that y'all are the ones being oppressed,
That y'all are the ones that are being harmed.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Your wants twice, three times, lady, you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know this surprises people want to say it. But
Jasmine Crockett is not as stupid as she puts on.
There's audio of her talking like a completely normal person.
But once she got in Congress, she started saying, girl,
were gonna stand up to Elon Musk. We gonna show
him what we gonna do. He not gonna come to
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our hood. And so she started costplaying this this hood rat,
and I think she's smarter than that. People don't believe
me because you've only seen this character of hers. This
is clip four one she was. She was on Jimmy
Kimmel Live, which hasn't been funny in a long time. Sad,
it's sad to see what happened to him, where she
(04:20):
said that people don't vote on policy, they vote on vibes.
Only dumb people. But then again, that's all she knows.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
I don't think that honestly, policy is what we need
to be fining about, because guess what. Can't nobody tell
you what Donald Trump's policies were at all? Like you
asked him, like what policies? I don't know, but he's
going to bring down across the age.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Well, last time I take that didn't happen, right, It'd.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Be like, well, we're saying it's Project twenty twenty five. No,
Donald said he knows nothing about.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
That, and then what happened?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
All the projects twenty twenty five started to come around.
So like, I don't even think that it's policy.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
I think that people are voting on vibes.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Clip four O two, Asmin Crockett told a story about
how she decided to become an attorney.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I did Little Chaper Horrors.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
So when I was in college at Rhodes in Memphis,
I ended up doing.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Little Shopper Horrors. What part did you play in that?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I was one of the women that was singing okay, Yes,
I was in the coorse okay, And so I ended
up doing it and the mock trial coach recruited me
to do mock.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Trial and I was like no, no, no.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
By this time, I decided I was going to be
an accountant, didn't want to do ante season no more,
still didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Want to talk to people.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
So so then he goes, no, no, no, you shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Do mock trial.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
And I said that's for the kids going to law school.
Long story short, He recuits me. I do mock trial.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Just my senior year, I become a national All American.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
He says, you should go to law school. So I applied,
got a full ride and said fine, if I don't
like it, all quit okay.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So that's how you decided to become a retterm because
you were good at mock trials. Well that's odd. Let's
go back in the way back machine. The twenty nineteen
credit goes to May's on Twitter and she said that
she was the victim of a hate crime or two.
You're not sure how many. Well that's funny. Did you
(06:14):
forget that story?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I had a great background as relates to my ability
to deal with numbers, and it was gonna pay well,
so I was like, I'll be an accountant. Unfortunately, around
my junior year, I was the victim of a hate
crime or two, and so were a group of my friends.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
All at the same time. Cars were keyed with the
n word.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
We received hate mail in our on campus mailboxes, and
at that time my school hired the Cochrane Firm and
there was a lawyer who graduated.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
From University of Houston who was assigned to me.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
And it was the first time in my life that
I felt helpless, and I was like, I want to
help people that are going through what I've just experienced.
At that point in time, I decided that I was
going to say for the l s.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
At Crockett claims to have been the victim of a
series of hate crimes, and the media ran with it
because at that time she was running for Congress and
nobody was asking questions. One journalist, though, Tom Pappert of
the Tennessee Star, did some digging in May of twenty
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twenty four, and then the headline came out, Jasmine Crockett
silent amid lack of evidence for alleged two thousand and
two hate crimes. Again credit to journalist Tom Pappert for that. Well.
Representative Jasmine Crockett did not respond to a Wednesday inquiry.
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The article says from the Tennessee Star seeking more information
to corroborate her previous claim that she and seventeen students
suffered a series of hate crimes on the Rhodes College
campus in two thousand and two. Well, I won't read
you this whole article, but it's sad when these people
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will lie about being a victim of a hate crime
because in some way it gives them credibility. That's really weird,
isn't it. I don't care if somebody doc streaks shoot.
You can't shoot at Michael. It's let's talk about health
for a moment, shall we. Let's talk about our government
(08:34):
and big corporations working together to kill Americans and make
us sick. Doctor J. Bodicharia, this is clippon Omer five
oh three more. I don't remember if we played this
the other day or not, but I want to play
this again because it's part of a series of things
I want to go back to back to back on.
He said that Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F.
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Kennedy JUNR, has asked him to initiate a study on
the cause of the rise in autism.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So I just wanted to make a couple of comments
about the role of the NIH in all this. One
of the major problems that I think that the parents
around the country have faced is when they go to
the scientific literature, they come back with a stone wall.
They hear that, well, the science hasn't been done, it's
not rigorous. And part of the problem is that scientists
(09:22):
are afraid to ask questions, basic questions that parents want
answers to. Secretory Kennedy has asked me to, for instance,
to initiate a study on autism, the cause of the
rise and autism. It's a question that is at the
front of the minds of so many parents across the
country worried about their kids, and yet scientific progress on
(09:46):
this has been slow because scientists are frankly scared to
ask the question.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The goal of my leadership the.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
NIH is going to make it so that those questions
are no longer taboo among scientists. Scientists need to work
on the things that actually are at the top of
the minds of the American people. The mission of the
NIH is to do research that extends the life expectancy,
make and improves the health of the American people. And
(10:15):
that's exactly what we're going to do. For since twenty twelve,
the United States has seen no increase in life expectancy, none,
and it collapsed during the pandemic and only recently as
it started to come back up to twenty nineteen levels.
That is a situation that is a catastrophic failure of
the American public health system, and it's, frankly is also
(10:35):
a failure of American scientists to address the key drivers
of this enormous crime disease crisis we're facing. And I'm
really grateful to Secretary Kennedy for his leadership, and I'm
grateful to President Trump for his leadership in giving us
the opportunity to turn the ingenuity of American scientists to
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the questions of how to improve American health and to
make American healthy again.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Now Here is skip down clip number six oh seven.
This is much respected, at least by me, doctor Peter
McCollough talking about autism was one in ten thousand when
I was a kid. It's now one in thirty six. Folks,
what are they doing to us? And why is nobody
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asking any questions before this?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Autism was one in ten thousand when I was a kid.
It's now one in thirty six. It's the biggest epidemic
of childhood in US history. Autism is on fire right now. Sure,
we have greater screening and detection, but there is a
massive bona fide increase. What we know is it appears
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to be associated with the expanding childhood vaccine schedule. Up
on the left, When I was a kid, you can
see that there was a what three shots nineteen sixty
Now at child today faces one hundred and eight shots
at one of the visits between age one and two.
There's thirteen shots administered altogether in children. And it's been
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well demonstrated that if a child gets sick with a
big round of shots and they have a seizure, there's
about a forty percent chance that the brain is injured
and they develop autism.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Let's talk about the COVID vaccine. Remember that folks were
kicked off of Facebook, including me or pointing out that
the COVID vaccine was not a vaccine and it could
kill you. Well, here's a flashback to leaked audio. Oh sorry,
leaked video. We have the video, but I can only
play you the audio, obviously of Mark Zuckerberg. This is
(12:43):
six oh five leaked video of Mark Zuckerberg warning his
staff not to take the COVID shot so you weren't
allowed to question it. On the page on Facebook, but
he's secretly telling his staff, don't y'all take.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
That shots because.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Long term.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Modifying peoples.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Doctor Joseph Lodoppo, the Surgeon General of Florida, is a
guy that if you dig into what he says and does,
I think a lot of you would like him. He
pointed something out, this is where the rubber hits the road.
We can talk about what's going on Fox News and
all that, but this is what's really happening. He says.
Parents are struggling to find pediatricians because some pediatricians will
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not treat kids who don't follow the CDC's exact quote
unquote vaccine schedule. They are bought and paid for by
big Pharma, and if you won't do what big Pharma does,
they won't see you as a doctor. That is it
is really an indictment of those people.
Speaker 11 (14:04):
We here in the Department of Health so often about
certain themes, and one of those themes is moms and
dads who are having trouble finding a pediatrician because in
their area, the pediatricians will not see their kid if
they deviate at all from the vaccine schedule issued by
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the CDC. And we are in a new era. There
are more people now asking questions about what's really best
for my kid. After the last few years we've been
in they're way more parents. Most of these parents aren't
even parents that don't want any vaccines.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
For their kids.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
That's the minority of the parents. Most of them are
parents who just don't feel like it's appropriate it's in
the best interest for their kid to get four vaccines
and one visit, which is part of the CDC schedule.
And there are pediatric practices I can tell you in
Penell's County, most of them they will not even entertain deviations.
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So parents who just want to spread their vaccines out
because they think that's what's in the best interest for
their kid, and I find that very sympathetic. I am
very sympathetic to that cause. And some of these parents
have the resources. It's not easy to pay out a
pocket to see a doctor who will see their kid
and respect their preferences. Some of them have to travel far.
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One of the senators we met with shared the story
of a close family member of his who actually has
to travel and talks to the senator about this because
this particular mom just wants to spread out the vaccines
or has some preferences that aren't in line with the CDCs.
So people are having to sometimes do extraordinary things because
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they're trying to do what they think is best for
their kid. So I think it's important for those people
to be able to have access. Senator Davis quoted a
part of the Hippocratic Code Oath, which says, you know,
words that are about respecting and thinking about and caring
about your patient, right, the patient that you're taking care of,
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not just steamrolling their preferences in because you think that
something else is a better idea. You parents, they have
it right. That's what it means to be a patient,
and that's what it means to be in a patient
position relationship. So thank you very much.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
She was twelve, I was thirty, But anyway, it was
wonderful to have you, mister President.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
The Michael Barry Shoe Turning Points USA is doing some
really good work these Daysie Charlie Kirk is out on
university campuses doing what Ben Shapiro used to do. I'm
glad for these young people that are willing to do this,
because I don't want to go out and have screaming
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matches with these people I don't want to have to
expose the purple haired, crazy fat lady with a bone
through her nose that has daddy issues. It's mad at
Trump explain why everything she says is not true. But
thank god, there are people willing to do that, and
Charlie clirk Kirk has been doing that, and he's got
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a team of folks, one of whom is named Savannah Hernandez.
I didn't know she was turning point. I don't know
why this showed up on my algorithm. Maybe because we
have an affiliate in Austin. My son's at UT. I
went to UT Law School, and I love Austin. I
know that When I say I love Austin to people
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in Texas now they just roll their eyes because it's
so it's become like San Francisco. We love San Francisco.
My wife and I used to go and stay in
San Francisco. Austin and San Francisco were two of our
favorite season in the world, along with London, which is
now the United Caliphate is to the United Kingdom. But anyway,
back to my point, I come across this video and
this is the kind of work people need to be doing.
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I'm not going to do it. I'm too lazy, I'm
not enterprising enough at this point in my career. But
thank god, people are willing to do this. So Savannah
Hernandez posted a video of herself and she says, I
found the Harm Reduction Center quote unquote that's handing out
free needles and glass pipes to drug users in Austin, Texas.
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This is Austin becoming San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis. These
were once great cities that have now devolved into one
big pile of homeless crap and druggies and theft and violence.
And it's really sad because they were great cities. Anyway,
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here is her story. It's three minutes long, a little
longer than might have intended, but I couldn't find a
spot to cut it because it's so darned good. And
it'll be posted to our website and my Facebook. It's
already been posted to my Twitter, and then we'll talk
to Savannah after that. So here is her report.
Speaker 12 (19:01):
Fernandez in Austin, Texas standing in front of the Texas
Harm Reduction Alliance.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Now, this is one of the places in.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
Austin that is handing out free needles and free glass
pipes to drug users across the city.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And to be quite.
Speaker 12 (19:14):
Honest with you guys, so many people kept telling me
that Austin's homeless and drug crisis was comparable to San.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Francisco or even Portland.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
And I thought that was crazy until I started touring
some of these homeless encampments and there were exposed, dirty
needles everywhere. Now, after touring these encampments, of course, I
wanted to know where all of these needles were coming from.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
And very similar to Portland.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
And San Francisco, this organization is handing out free needles,
free pipes. They even gave me four different kinds depending
on which type of drug use you know, I.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Was interested in.
Speaker 12 (19:49):
They also again are handing out narcan condoms, even the
cookers and the rubbers that anybody needs to use for
proper drug use.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
These are very similar the.
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Programs that have completely destroyed San Francisco, and I was
truly shocked to see this here.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
In Austin, Texas.
Speaker 12 (20:06):
Now, this area labels itself a safe space for drug users,
and when I came to this location to pick up
this arm reduction kit, there were so many people outside
of this area that were strung out on drugs. One
of the first things that I experienced in walking in
was a man who was screaming about how his life
was gang raped and enforced in team an abortion. The
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staffers were kind of just listening to him talk and
then laughed him off. They took me to the back
and they gave me this big gag of supplies. And
once I was inside, there were so many signs on
the walls reading, Hey, you can use drugs in the bathroom,
just make sure to tell somebody, and basically.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Encouraging drug use.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Now, not only that, but a woman was sitting on
a couch and her dog apparently had gotten into her
drug supplies, so her dog was freaking out.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It was just a very chaotic environment.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
And this is right next to other small businesses, by
the way, and we're also about a half a mile
away from which so I just wanted to give you
guys an example of some of the organizations that are
here in Austin.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I was truly shocked to see this. This isn't the.
Speaker 12 (21:08):
Only one, by the way, there's another one called for
Vent Help Life Point.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
They offer similar services.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
I am just genuinely floored that the drug crisis in
the city has gotten this bad. I mean, I was
even sitting at a stoplight. I'm here to do a
documentary on the homeless crisis, and as I'm sitting, a
homeless woman comes and picks up what looks like a
weapon off of the ground, is threatening somebody and screaming
at somebody, and I'm just there at the stoplight with
other drivers.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
She then is.
Speaker 12 (21:36):
Starting to screen and point the weapon at us. We
can't go anywhere, We're just stuck. And this type of story.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Is very common in Austin.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
So I just wanted to come highlight the various programs
that are being allowed to prosper here. Free needles, free narcan,
free cookers.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
But it's just.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Disappointing because I have seen how these exact same programs
that completely destroyed San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I've spoken to other addicts as well.
Speaker 12 (22:00):
I can even say that these programs have destroyed their
cities and only enabled drug addiction, and even to homeless agree.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The liberal mindset is just give more drugs to mentally
ill people and that will solve all the problems. I
think our drug laws are crazy. I think we imprison
people from marijuana possession when we shouldn't. I think we
don't know how to cope with peoples, with people's desire
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to escape their mind through alcohol and drugs. But this
is not the answer. Okay, we can all agree this
is not the answer. Savannah Hernandez is our guests. Savannah.
First of all, congratulations on your courage and fearlessness, which
is the greatest asset I think a person could have
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doing what you do, and so few people do. And secondly,
this is really well done. I want people to see
the video that goes with it because it's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Thank you so.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Much, Michael. I have been doing this for a long time,
so I've gotten very good at it. And you know, previously,
when I've done these types of reports, I've gotten physically
attacked by the homeless. So this is actually probably one
of the more relaxed cities that I've gone and reported in.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, what I appreciate is you don't you know sometimes
I feel like you're seeing something and you're smelling it
and you're feeling it, and it's tense, and there's anxiety
and fear and sadness and sickness in the air, and
so there is a desire to overdo the you. You
were very song freud. You just told the story without
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raising your voice, without trying to hype us up, and
I think that gave you a lot of credibility. Do
you have a connection to Austin? What made you go
to Austin to do this?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I do.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
I've lived on and off in Austin since twenty eighteen,
and I actually lived there when they passed the initial
ordinance allowing public camping. So I really watched the city
completely devolve into grade as we opened that can of worms.
Now in twenty twenty one, they know the citizens revoked
that ordinance. They voted to no longer allow public camping
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in Austin. But of course, once you start allowing public camping,
it's really hard to fix that problem. And Austin, which
is the fifth biggest city in Texas, comes in at
number one in terms of having the highest homeless population.
So this has been an issue for years that I've watched.
And I love Austin as well. I was born in Texas.
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I've lived on and off in Austin. It's a beautiful city.
And like I said too in my report, I've gone
to Portland, I've gone to Seattle, San Francisco Kensington Avenue
in Philadelphia. So I've seen the direct result of not
only lacks homeless policies, but the drug crisis that eventually
ow He's entailed, and what's happening right now on the
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West Coast is those cities Portland and San Francisco have
really had to reverse a lot of those lax policies
that they passed with homelessness and drug use because their
cities got so out of control. So again that's why
I really wanted to express my shock and concern.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That this whold Rut there, Savannah old Rut. There, Savanna Hernandez.
You can find her on Instagram, Twitter, probably everywhere else.
She's returning point USA. This report she's done out of Austin. Wow,
it is disturbing and enlightened. This class of the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame is not the worst that
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could be clear well, but did not include Oasis, and
there was a real pitch made by fans for them
to go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe they should
have or not. They were hot for a minute. I'll
tell you what you couldn't you talk about street people.
I lived in Austin in the early nine He's going
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to law school, and then I went to England to
do another law degree. And I could tell you you
couldn't walk in London in the mid nineties when Wonderwall
was out. Every busker sitting out in front of every
bar in London or Ireland, or for that matter, Birmingham
or any other city Liverpool. They would sit outside the
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bars and they would play.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
This with their.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Guitar case open and people tossing coins in there. I
guess that's what makes some buskers right, I should have
I guess I don't need to say that, but this
was the song. It was not uncommon that you'd walk
down down an alley this song would be somebody be
playing this. You turn and somebody'd be somewhere else in
the song playing the same song halfway down. Savanna Hernandez,
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where do you live now?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I'm currently living.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
In San Antonio.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Again.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
I did live in Austin, but it was a difficult
city to live in because not only is it really
turning into California in terms of how expensive it is,
but also in terms of the homeless and drug crisis.
It's actually a terrifying city to live in, which is
unfortunate for me to say. And again too, yeah, I
really try not to dramatize my reporting. I've really just
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tried to tell people exactly how I'm feeling, what I'm seeing,
and more important, with other residents are experiencing. And I
think that the word terrifying is a fair one to
use because you do have residents being randomly attacked.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You have children that are now being.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Exposed to open needles on Texas trails in Austin, on
the green Belt. I mean again, it's really sad to
see how San Francisco is slowly making its way over
to Texas.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, and for people outside of Texas who may
not know, I suppose most people do. Austin is a
special city in Texas, and I'm okay with that. It
was always far more liberal than the rest of Texas.
It was the cultural center, the epicenter of high culture,
artistic culture in state of Texas, art music, Sixth Street
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and the bars can't go there anymore because the fights
and the filth. It's the state capitol, so it's kind
of the baton rouge of Louisiana.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You see this in and it's unfortunate. You know, have
the big university there. It was a play. And you
have topography, you have great topography in Austin. You have
the hill country we call it, and which would be
laughable for people who live in mountainous ranges, you know,
my Tennessee listeners would laugh. But for us, we like
it and it's it's wonderful. And then here you have
what they're calling a harm reduction center that is an attraction,
(28:44):
a nuisance that is ruining, ruining this town. Savanna, take
me through the moment. By the way, I love San
Antone going to San Anton this weekend. It's one of
my favorite cities in the world. I love San Anton.
Walk me through. You say, I walked down with a
bag of seventy needles, glass pipes, narcan, etc. So who
(29:06):
did you claim? Because I'm looking at you, you're a
very attractive woman, You're well put together, you don't look
like a street user. How were you able to go
in and walk out with all this stuff?
Speaker 13 (29:19):
So I basically went in and I stated that we
were touring homeless encampments and we wanted to be able
to bring back supplies for the homeless. Right and this
is the bag of supplies that.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
We were given.
Speaker 13 (29:31):
I mean I was even as specifics of do you
know what type of needles the people that you're trying
to help like using. And these are outreach programs that
happen all throughout Texas. The Texas Harm Reduction Alliance isn't
the only one. There is also another program that does
similar outreach services. And what they do is they go
to all of these hotspots throughout Austin. And when I
(29:54):
say hotspots, I mean drug deals are happening in these areas.
You have homeless encampments and they are essential bringing these
packs of needles, narcan cookers, those rubber tie offs for
their arms. Again, I had four different types of glass
pipes that they were handing out to clear drug addicts.
And as I walked up to the building, the entire
(30:15):
area is completely surrounded by drug addicts. When I went
to the back, there was probably about forty or fifty
people actively on drugs. I think I told the story
in the report that you played as well that a
woman's dog had gotten into her drug supply, so the
dog is freaking out. So it was just a very
dark and chaotic environment. It was a dark energy. And
(30:37):
the most disturbing thing about this too is this area
is a half a mile away from a church. It's
actually half a mile away from the church that my
friend attends. I've gone to that church myself, and as
you were walking to church on Sunday, you were walking
past heaps of homeless people, not homeless people, drug users
who were sitting in alleyways who are surrounding the church.
(31:00):
And you know, I spoke to my friend as well,
and he goes, yeah, I mean, it's not out of
the norm for my family and I to be accosted
or harassed by a drug user as we're walking to
church every Sunday. So again, I really wanted to bring
light and attention to this because there's a lot going
on in Texas right now in terms of, for example,
the mosques that are being built up north in Dallas
(31:23):
in the Frisco area, in terms of us just having
corrupted from the attorneys and district court judges that are
continuously allowing criminals out and allowing crime to prosper. In
the Houston area, and then in Austin you have this
huge homeless and drug crisis. So I wanted to really
just shine light on the fact that Texas. You know,
our model was supposed to be don't mess with Texas,
(31:45):
don't California, my Texas. And I'm trying to highlight how
we're not going downhill. We are kind of almost at
the bottom, and we really do need to start getting
this under control, because we do have a beautiful state,
but honestly, we are, we're really slipping lately.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Well. I think reports like this, a picture's worth a
thousand words and a narrated video like this, especially because
I'm a father and you're closer to being my child's
age than you are mine. So I'm as a father
seeing this young lady in this situation and kind of cringing, thinking,
(32:25):
my goodness, I hope something doesn't happen. But it's important
that you've done this and you're in the midst of it,
and you're walking around and showing it to us, and
it really is I think it's important that people see this.
I guess my last question I got about a minute
before we go to break, has anybody the Governor's office,
the Lieutenant governor, has anybody in Texas government reached out
(32:47):
and said, hey, thanks for your report. Can we get
that video or anything else.
Speaker 13 (32:54):
Nope, not as of now. I've had Tim Paxton's office
reach out on occasion, so I know that they have
their eye on my work, which I'm happy about. But
the Governor's office, Nope, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well that's unfortunate. Savannah Hernandez, you are doing great work.
Please take care of yourself, be as safe as you can,
but continue to be fearless as you tell these stories,
because I do think it makes a difference. I really do.
Thank you for being our guests.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (33:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I see so many young people. I don't know how
this young lady is. I'm sure she probably appreciate being
called young by me. Nobody does. But I'm fifty four
and she seems very young. She seems a little bit
older than my kids. There's so many young people that
are doing good work now, and I think it's important
that we not just paint with too broad a brush,
and that we give them an audience, that we promote
(33:50):
their work. This will be all over our site, and yeah,
I'd like more people to see what she's doing.
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't saw the wings. You saw the garage.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I see the garage, but I don't saw the garage.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You are speaking incorrectly.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
You are more to range the King's English, etcetera.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
See see shut out.
Speaker 6 (00:32):
I think that you punch. I think you punch. I
think you're okay with you.
Speaker 7 (00:36):
You okay, we're punching, you know, I think, And I
love Colin, and I think towards the end he started
to punch a little harder. But like if there grooves,
I mean, like this dude has to be knocks over
the head like hard, right, Like there is no niceties
with him, like at all, Like you you go clean
off on him, right because we in these hot ass
(00:59):
Texas streets, Honey, y'all know.
Speaker 8 (01:03):
We got governor hot wheels.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Down there, come on now, and the.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
Only thing hot about him is that he is a
hot ass mask honey. So so yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 9 (01:17):
You want twice times.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
But the fact that you literally are going to plan
enemy attacks on a signal chat and then you don't
even know who's in the signal chat, and then y'all
want to come in us and act like people of
color are the problem.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Are that women are the problem.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
Like baby, you probably need a good black.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Woman in the room who can check you.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
And tell you that, first of all, you shouldn't be
doing this on signore or anything else.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
But y'all still mad about him, reads servers? Is that?
Is that what I hear?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah? So anyway, Literally.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
I don't know if like your homeboy was drunk at
the time that he was sending these messages or what,
but clearly this administration is not ready for prime time.
There has been no oppression for the white man in
this country. You'll tell me which white men were dragged
(02:26):
out of their homes. You'll tell me which one of
them got dragged all the way across an ocean and
told that you are gonna go at work, We are
gonna seal your wives, we are gonna rape your wives.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
That didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
That is oppression. We didn't ask to be here. Were
not the same migrants that.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Y'all constantly come up against.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
We didn't run away from home. We were stolen. So yeah,
we are gonna sit here and be offended. When you
want to sit here.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
And act like and and don't let it escape you
that it is white man on this side of the
isle telling us people of color on this side of
the aisle, that that y'all are the ones being oppressed,
That y'all are the ones that are being harmed.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Your wants twice, three times, lady, you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know this surprises people want to say it. But
Jasmine Crockett is not as stupid as she puts on.
There's audio of her talking like a completely normal person.
But once she got in Congress, she started saying, girl,
were gonna stand up to Elon Musk. We gonna show
him what we gonna do. He not gonna come to
(03:58):
our hood. And so she started costplaying this this hood rat,
and I think she's smarter than that. People don't believe
me because you've only seen this character of hers. This
is clip four one she was. She was on Jimmy
Kimmel Live, which hasn't been funny in a long time. Sad,
it's sad to see what happened to him, where she
(04:20):
said that people don't vote on policy, they vote on vibes.
Only dumb people. But then again, that's all she knows.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
I don't think that honestly, policy is what we need
to be fining about, because guess what. Can't nobody tell
you what Donald Trump's policies were at all? Like you
asked him, like what policies? I don't know, but he's
going to bring down across the age.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Well, last time I take that didn't happen, right, It'd.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
Be like, well, we're saying it's Project twenty twenty five. No,
Donald said he knows nothing about.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
That, and then what happened?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
All the projects twenty twenty five started to come around.
So like, I don't even think that it's policy.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
I think that people are voting on vibes.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Clip four O two, Asmin Crockett told a story about
how she decided to become an attorney.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I did Little Chaper Horrors.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
So when I was in college at Rhodes in Memphis,
I ended up doing.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Little Shopper Horrors. What part did you play in that?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I was one of the women that was singing okay, Yes,
I was in the coorse okay, And so I ended
up doing it and the mock trial coach recruited me
to do mock.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Trial and I was like no, no, no.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
By this time, I decided I was going to be
an accountant, didn't want to do ante season no more,
still didn't.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Want to talk to people.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
So so then he goes, no, no, no, you shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Do mock trial.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
And I said that's for the kids going to law school.
Long story short, He recuits me. I do mock trial.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Just my senior year, I become a national All American.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
He says, you should go to law school. So I applied,
got a full ride and said fine, if I don't
like it, all quit okay.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So that's how you decided to become a retterm because
you were good at mock trials. Well that's odd. Let's
go back in the way back machine. The twenty nineteen
credit goes to May's on Twitter and she said that
she was the victim of a hate crime or two.
You're not sure how many. Well that's funny. Did you
(06:14):
forget that story?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I had a great background as relates to my ability
to deal with numbers, and it was gonna pay well,
so I was like, I'll be an accountant. Unfortunately, around
my junior year, I was the victim of a hate
crime or two, and so were a group of my friends.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
All at the same time. Cars were keyed with the
n word.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
We received hate mail in our on campus mailboxes, and
at that time my school hired the Cochrane Firm and
there was a lawyer who graduated.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
From University of Houston who was assigned to me.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
And it was the first time in my life that
I felt helpless, and I was like, I want to
help people that are going through what I've just experienced.
At that point in time, I decided that I was
going to say for the l s.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
At Crockett claims to have been the victim of a
series of hate crimes, and the media ran with it
because at that time she was running for Congress and
nobody was asking questions. One journalist, though, Tom Pappert of
the Tennessee Star, did some digging in May of twenty
(07:25):
twenty four, and then the headline came out, Jasmine Crockett
silent amid lack of evidence for alleged two thousand and
two hate crimes. Again credit to journalist Tom Pappert for that. Well.
Representative Jasmine Crockett did not respond to a Wednesday inquiry.
(07:46):
The article says from the Tennessee Star seeking more information
to corroborate her previous claim that she and seventeen students
suffered a series of hate crimes on the Rhodes College
campus in two thousand and two. Well, I won't read
you this whole article, but it's sad when these people
(08:11):
will lie about being a victim of a hate crime
because in some way it gives them credibility. That's really weird,
isn't it. I don't care if somebody doc streaks shoot.
You can't shoot at Michael. It's let's talk about health
for a moment, shall we. Let's talk about our government
(08:34):
and big corporations working together to kill Americans and make
us sick. Doctor J. Bodicharia, this is clippon Omer five
oh three more. I don't remember if we played this
the other day or not, but I want to play
this again because it's part of a series of things
I want to go back to back to back on.
He said that Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F.
(08:55):
Kennedy JUNR, has asked him to initiate a study on
the cause of the rise in autism.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So I just wanted to make a couple of comments
about the role of the NIH in all this. One
of the major problems that I think that the parents
around the country have faced is when they go to
the scientific literature, they come back with a stone wall.
They hear that, well, the science hasn't been done, it's
not rigorous. And part of the problem is that scientists
(09:22):
are afraid to ask questions, basic questions that parents want
answers to. Secretory Kennedy has asked me to, for instance,
to initiate a study on autism, the cause of the
rise and autism. It's a question that is at the
front of the minds of so many parents across the
country worried about their kids, and yet scientific progress on
(09:46):
this has been slow because scientists are frankly scared to
ask the question.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
The goal of my leadership the.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
NIH is going to make it so that those questions
are no longer taboo among scientists. Scientists need to work
on the things that actually are at the top of
the minds of the American people. The mission of the
NIH is to do research that extends the life expectancy,
make and improves the health of the American people. And
(10:15):
that's exactly what we're going to do. For since twenty twelve,
the United States has seen no increase in life expectancy, none,
and it collapsed during the pandemic and only recently as
it started to come back up to twenty nineteen levels.
That is a situation that is a catastrophic failure of
the American public health system, and it's, frankly is also
(10:35):
a failure of American scientists to address the key drivers
of this enormous crime disease crisis we're facing. And I'm
really grateful to Secretary Kennedy for his leadership, and I'm
grateful to President Trump for his leadership in giving us
the opportunity to turn the ingenuity of American scientists to
(10:55):
the questions of how to improve American health and to
make American healthy again.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Now Here is skip down clip number six oh seven.
This is much respected, at least by me, doctor Peter
McCollough talking about autism was one in ten thousand when
I was a kid. It's now one in thirty six. Folks,
what are they doing to us? And why is nobody
(11:21):
asking any questions before this?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Autism was one in ten thousand when I was a kid.
It's now one in thirty six. It's the biggest epidemic
of childhood in US history. Autism is on fire right now. Sure,
we have greater screening and detection, but there is a
massive bona fide increase. What we know is it appears
(11:47):
to be associated with the expanding childhood vaccine schedule. Up
on the left, When I was a kid, you can
see that there was a what three shots nineteen sixty
Now at child today faces one hundred and eight shots
at one of the visits between age one and two.
There's thirteen shots administered altogether in children. And it's been
(12:10):
well demonstrated that if a child gets sick with a
big round of shots and they have a seizure, there's
about a forty percent chance that the brain is injured
and they develop autism.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Let's talk about the COVID vaccine. Remember that folks were
kicked off of Facebook, including me or pointing out that
the COVID vaccine was not a vaccine and it could
kill you. Well, here's a flashback to leaked audio. Oh sorry,
leaked video. We have the video, but I can only
play you the audio, obviously of Mark Zuckerberg. This is
(12:43):
six oh five leaked video of Mark Zuckerberg warning his
staff not to take the COVID shot so you weren't
allowed to question it. On the page on Facebook, but
he's secretly telling his staff, don't y'all take.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
That shots because.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Long term.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Modifying peoples.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Doctor Joseph Lodoppo, the Surgeon General of Florida, is a
guy that if you dig into what he says and does,
I think a lot of you would like him. He
pointed something out, this is where the rubber hits the road.
We can talk about what's going on Fox News and
all that, but this is what's really happening. He says.
Parents are struggling to find pediatricians because some pediatricians will
(13:44):
not treat kids who don't follow the CDC's exact quote
unquote vaccine schedule. They are bought and paid for by
big Pharma, and if you won't do what big Pharma does,
they won't see you as a doctor. That is it
is really an indictment of those people.
Speaker 11 (14:04):
We here in the Department of Health so often about
certain themes, and one of those themes is moms and
dads who are having trouble finding a pediatrician because in
their area, the pediatricians will not see their kid if
they deviate at all from the vaccine schedule issued by
(14:27):
the CDC. And we are in a new era. There
are more people now asking questions about what's really best
for my kid. After the last few years we've been
in they're way more parents. Most of these parents aren't
even parents that don't want any vaccines.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
For their kids.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
That's the minority of the parents. Most of them are
parents who just don't feel like it's appropriate it's in
the best interest for their kid to get four vaccines
and one visit, which is part of the CDC schedule.
And there are pediatric practices I can tell you in
Penell's County, most of them they will not even entertain deviations.
(15:06):
So parents who just want to spread their vaccines out
because they think that's what's in the best interest for
their kid, and I find that very sympathetic. I am
very sympathetic to that cause. And some of these parents
have the resources. It's not easy to pay out a
pocket to see a doctor who will see their kid
and respect their preferences. Some of them have to travel far.
(15:28):
One of the senators we met with shared the story
of a close family member of his who actually has
to travel and talks to the senator about this because
this particular mom just wants to spread out the vaccines
or has some preferences that aren't in line with the CDCs.
So people are having to sometimes do extraordinary things because
(15:50):
they're trying to do what they think is best for
their kid. So I think it's important for those people
to be able to have access. Senator Davis quoted a
part of the Hippocratic Code Oath, which says, you know,
words that are about respecting and thinking about and caring
about your patient, right, the patient that you're taking care of,
(16:12):
not just steamrolling their preferences in because you think that
something else is a better idea. You parents, they have
it right. That's what it means to be a patient,
and that's what it means to be in a patient
position relationship. So thank you very much.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
She was twelve, I was thirty, But anyway, it was
wonderful to have you, mister President.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
The Michael Barry Shoe Turning Points USA is doing some
really good work these Daysie Charlie Kirk is out on
university campuses doing what Ben Shapiro used to do. I'm
glad for these young people that are willing to do this,
because I don't want to go out and have screaming
(17:01):
matches with these people I don't want to have to
expose the purple haired, crazy fat lady with a bone
through her nose that has daddy issues. It's mad at
Trump explain why everything she says is not true. But
thank god, there are people willing to do that, and
Charlie clirk Kirk has been doing that, and he's got
(17:21):
a team of folks, one of whom is named Savannah Hernandez.
I didn't know she was turning point. I don't know
why this showed up on my algorithm. Maybe because we
have an affiliate in Austin. My son's at UT. I
went to UT Law School, and I love Austin. I
know that When I say I love Austin to people
(17:42):
in Texas now they just roll their eyes because it's
so it's become like San Francisco. We love San Francisco.
My wife and I used to go and stay in
San Francisco. Austin and San Francisco were two of our
favorite season in the world, along with London, which is
now the United Caliphate is to the United Kingdom. But anyway,
back to my point, I come across this video and
this is the kind of work people need to be doing.
(18:02):
I'm not going to do it. I'm too lazy, I'm
not enterprising enough at this point in my career. But
thank god, people are willing to do this. So Savannah
Hernandez posted a video of herself and she says, I
found the Harm Reduction Center quote unquote that's handing out
free needles and glass pipes to drug users in Austin, Texas.
(18:23):
This is Austin becoming San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis. These
were once great cities that have now devolved into one
big pile of homeless crap and druggies and theft and violence.
And it's really sad because they were great cities. Anyway,
(18:44):
here is her story. It's three minutes long, a little
longer than might have intended, but I couldn't find a
spot to cut it because it's so darned good. And
it'll be posted to our website and my Facebook. It's
already been posted to my Twitter, and then we'll talk
to Savannah after that. So here is her report.
Speaker 12 (19:01):
Fernandez in Austin, Texas standing in front of the Texas
Harm Reduction Alliance.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Now, this is one of the places in.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
Austin that is handing out free needles and free glass
pipes to drug users across the city.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And to be quite.
Speaker 12 (19:14):
Honest with you guys, so many people kept telling me
that Austin's homeless and drug crisis was comparable to San.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Francisco or even Portland.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
And I thought that was crazy until I started touring
some of these homeless encampments and there were exposed, dirty
needles everywhere. Now, after touring these encampments, of course, I
wanted to know where all of these needles were coming from.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
And very similar to Portland.
Speaker 12 (19:36):
And San Francisco, this organization is handing out free needles,
free pipes. They even gave me four different kinds depending
on which type of drug use you know, I.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Was interested in.
Speaker 12 (19:49):
They also again are handing out narcan condoms, even the
cookers and the rubbers that anybody needs to use for
proper drug use.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
These are very similar the.
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Programs that have completely destroyed San Francisco, and I was
truly shocked to see this here.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
In Austin, Texas.
Speaker 12 (20:06):
Now, this area labels itself a safe space for drug users,
and when I came to this location to pick up
this arm reduction kit, there were so many people outside
of this area that were strung out on drugs. One
of the first things that I experienced in walking in
was a man who was screaming about how his life
was gang raped and enforced in team an abortion. The
(20:26):
staffers were kind of just listening to him talk and
then laughed him off. They took me to the back
and they gave me this big gag of supplies. And
once I was inside, there were so many signs on
the walls reading, Hey, you can use drugs in the bathroom,
just make sure to tell somebody, and basically.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Encouraging drug use.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Now, not only that, but a woman was sitting on
a couch and her dog apparently had gotten into her
drug supplies, so her dog was freaking out.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It was just a very chaotic environment.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
And this is right next to other small businesses, by
the way, and we're also about a half a mile
away from which so I just wanted to give you
guys an example of some of the organizations that are
here in Austin.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I was truly shocked to see this. This isn't the.
Speaker 12 (21:08):
Only one, by the way, there's another one called for
Vent Help Life Point.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
They offer similar services.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
I am just genuinely floored that the drug crisis in
the city has gotten this bad. I mean, I was
even sitting at a stoplight. I'm here to do a
documentary on the homeless crisis, and as I'm sitting, a
homeless woman comes and picks up what looks like a
weapon off of the ground, is threatening somebody and screaming
at somebody, and I'm just there at the stoplight with
other drivers.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
She then is.
Speaker 12 (21:36):
Starting to screen and point the weapon at us. We
can't go anywhere, We're just stuck. And this type of story.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Is very common in Austin.
Speaker 12 (21:44):
So I just wanted to come highlight the various programs
that are being allowed to prosper here. Free needles, free narcan,
free cookers.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
But it's just.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Disappointing because I have seen how these exact same programs
that completely destroyed San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I've spoken to other addicts as well.
Speaker 12 (22:00):
I can even say that these programs have destroyed their
cities and only enabled drug addiction, and even to homeless agree.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The liberal mindset is just give more drugs to mentally
ill people and that will solve all the problems. I
think our drug laws are crazy. I think we imprison
people from marijuana possession when we shouldn't. I think we
don't know how to cope with peoples, with people's desire
(22:34):
to escape their mind through alcohol and drugs. But this
is not the answer. Okay, we can all agree this
is not the answer. Savannah Hernandez is our guests. Savannah.
First of all, congratulations on your courage and fearlessness, which
is the greatest asset I think a person could have
(22:55):
doing what you do, and so few people do. And secondly,
this is really well done. I want people to see
the video that goes with it because it's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Thank you so.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Much, Michael. I have been doing this for a long time,
so I've gotten very good at it. And you know, previously,
when I've done these types of reports, I've gotten physically
attacked by the homeless. So this is actually probably one
of the more relaxed cities that I've gone and reported in.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, what I appreciate is you don't you know sometimes
I feel like you're seeing something and you're smelling it
and you're feeling it, and it's tense, and there's anxiety
and fear and sadness and sickness in the air, and
so there is a desire to overdo the you. You
were very song freud. You just told the story without
(23:46):
raising your voice, without trying to hype us up, and
I think that gave you a lot of credibility. Do
you have a connection to Austin? What made you go
to Austin to do this?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I do.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
I've lived on and off in Austin since twenty eighteen,
and I actually lived there when they passed the initial
ordinance allowing public camping. So I really watched the city
completely devolve into grade as we opened that can of worms.
Now in twenty twenty one, they know the citizens revoked
that ordinance. They voted to no longer allow public camping
(24:20):
in Austin. But of course, once you start allowing public camping,
it's really hard to fix that problem. And Austin, which
is the fifth biggest city in Texas, comes in at
number one in terms of having the highest homeless population.
So this has been an issue for years that I've watched.
And I love Austin as well. I was born in Texas.
(24:42):
I've lived on and off in Austin. It's a beautiful city.
And like I said too in my report, I've gone
to Portland, I've gone to Seattle, San Francisco Kensington Avenue
in Philadelphia. So I've seen the direct result of not
only lacks homeless policies, but the drug crisis that eventually
ow He's entailed, and what's happening right now on the
(25:02):
West Coast is those cities Portland and San Francisco have
really had to reverse a lot of those lax policies
that they passed with homelessness and drug use because their
cities got so out of control. So again that's why
I really wanted to express my shock and concern.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That this whold Rut there, Savannah old Rut. There, Savanna Hernandez.
You can find her on Instagram, Twitter, probably everywhere else.
She's returning point USA. This report she's done out of Austin. Wow,
it is disturbing and enlightened. This class of the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame is not the worst that
(25:39):
could be clear well, but did not include Oasis, and
there was a real pitch made by fans for them
to go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe they should
have or not. They were hot for a minute. I'll
tell you what you couldn't you talk about street people.
I lived in Austin in the early nine He's going
(26:00):
to law school, and then I went to England to
do another law degree. And I could tell you you
couldn't walk in London in the mid nineties when Wonderwall
was out. Every busker sitting out in front of every
bar in London or Ireland, or for that matter, Birmingham
or any other city Liverpool. They would sit outside the
(26:20):
bars and they would play.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
This with their.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Guitar case open and people tossing coins in there. I
guess that's what makes some buskers right, I should have
I guess I don't need to say that, but this
was the song. It was not uncommon that you'd walk
down down an alley this song would be somebody be
playing this. You turn and somebody'd be somewhere else in
the song playing the same song halfway down. Savanna Hernandez,
(26:44):
where do you live now?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I'm currently living.
Speaker 13 (26:48):
In San Antonio.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Again.
Speaker 13 (26:50):
I did live in Austin, but it was a difficult
city to live in because not only is it really
turning into California in terms of how expensive it is,
but also in terms of the homeless and drug crisis.
It's actually a terrifying city to live in, which is
unfortunate for me to say. And again too, yeah, I
really try not to dramatize my reporting. I've really just
(27:14):
tried to tell people exactly how I'm feeling, what I'm seeing,
and more important, with other residents are experiencing. And I
think that the word terrifying is a fair one to
use because you do have residents being randomly attacked.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You have children that are now being.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Exposed to open needles on Texas trails in Austin, on
the green Belt. I mean again, it's really sad to
see how San Francisco is slowly making its way over
to Texas.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, and for people outside of Texas who may
not know, I suppose most people do. Austin is a
special city in Texas, and I'm okay with that. It
was always far more liberal than the rest of Texas.
It was the cultural center, the epicenter of high culture,
artistic culture in state of Texas, art music, Sixth Street
(28:09):
and the bars can't go there anymore because the fights
and the filth. It's the state capitol, so it's kind
of the baton rouge of Louisiana.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You see this in and it's unfortunate. You know, have
the big university there. It was a play. And you
have topography, you have great topography in Austin. You have
the hill country we call it, and which would be
laughable for people who live in mountainous ranges, you know,
my Tennessee listeners would laugh. But for us, we like
it and it's it's wonderful. And then here you have
what they're calling a harm reduction center that is an attraction,
(28:44):
a nuisance that is ruining, ruining this town. Savanna, take
me through the moment. By the way, I love San
Antone going to San Anton this weekend. It's one of
my favorite cities in the world. I love San Anton.
Walk me through. You say, I walked down with a
bag of seventy needles, glass pipes, narcan, etc. So who
(29:06):
did you claim? Because I'm looking at you, you're a
very attractive woman, You're well put together, you don't look
like a street user. How were you able to go
in and walk out with all this stuff?
Speaker 13 (29:19):
So I basically went in and I stated that we
were touring homeless encampments and we wanted to be able
to bring back supplies for the homeless. Right and this
is the bag of supplies that.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
We were given.
Speaker 13 (29:31):
I mean I was even as specifics of do you
know what type of needles the people that you're trying
to help like using. And these are outreach programs that
happen all throughout Texas. The Texas Harm Reduction Alliance isn't
the only one. There is also another program that does
similar outreach services. And what they do is they go
to all of these hotspots throughout Austin. And when I
(29:54):
say hotspots, I mean drug deals are happening in these areas.
You have homeless encampments and they are essential bringing these
packs of needles, narcan cookers, those rubber tie offs for
their arms. Again, I had four different types of glass
pipes that they were handing out to clear drug addicts.
And as I walked up to the building, the entire
(30:15):
area is completely surrounded by drug addicts. When I went
to the back, there was probably about forty or fifty
people actively on drugs. I think I told the story
in the report that you played as well that a
woman's dog had gotten into her drug supply, so the
dog is freaking out. So it was just a very
dark and chaotic environment. It was a dark energy. And
(30:37):
the most disturbing thing about this too is this area
is a half a mile away from a church. It's
actually half a mile away from the church that my
friend attends. I've gone to that church myself, and as
you were walking to church on Sunday, you were walking
past heaps of homeless people, not homeless people, drug users
who were sitting in alleyways who are surrounding the church.
(31:00):
And you know, I spoke to my friend as well,
and he goes, yeah, I mean, it's not out of
the norm for my family and I to be accosted
or harassed by a drug user as we're walking to
church every Sunday. So again, I really wanted to bring
light and attention to this because there's a lot going
on in Texas right now in terms of, for example,
the mosques that are being built up north in Dallas
(31:23):
in the Frisco area, in terms of us just having
corrupted from the attorneys and district court judges that are
continuously allowing criminals out and allowing crime to prosper. In
the Houston area, and then in Austin you have this
huge homeless and drug crisis. So I wanted to really
just shine light on the fact that Texas. You know,
our model was supposed to be don't mess with Texas,
(31:45):
don't California, my Texas. And I'm trying to highlight how
we're not going downhill. We are kind of almost at
the bottom, and we really do need to start getting
this under control, because we do have a beautiful state,
but honestly, we are, we're really slipping lately.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Well. I think reports like this, a picture's worth a
thousand words and a narrated video like this, especially because
I'm a father and you're closer to being my child's
age than you are mine. So I'm as a father
seeing this young lady in this situation and kind of cringing, thinking,
(32:25):
my goodness, I hope something doesn't happen. But it's important
that you've done this and you're in the midst of it,
and you're walking around and showing it to us, and
it really is I think it's important that people see this.
I guess my last question I got about a minute
before we go to break, has anybody the Governor's office,
the Lieutenant governor, has anybody in Texas government reached out
(32:47):
and said, hey, thanks for your report. Can we get
that video or anything else.
Speaker 13 (32:54):
Nope, not as of now. I've had Tim Paxton's office
reach out on occasion, so I know that they have
their eye on my work, which I'm happy about. But
the Governor's office, Nope, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well that's unfortunate. Savannah Hernandez, you are doing great work.
Please take care of yourself, be as safe as you can,
but continue to be fearless as you tell these stories,
because I do think it makes a difference. I really do.
Thank you for being our guests.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (33:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I see so many young people. I don't know how
this young lady is. I'm sure she probably appreciate being
called young by me. Nobody does. But I'm fifty four
and she seems very young. She seems a little bit
older than my kids. There's so many young people that
are doing good work now, and I think it's important
that we not just paint with too broad a brush,
and that we give them an audience, that we promote
(33:50):
their work. This will be all over our site, and yeah,
I'd like more people to see what she's doing.
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