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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It could be we're gonna run against crazy Birdie. That
could be he's a crazy man, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We like crazy people.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I love running against Crooked Hillary.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love that Crooked Hillary Clinton, Crooked Hillaries.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here is a crooked one.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Gavin Newscomb. He's the governor of California. He's signed Newscomb.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Michael, they're going to cover Pocahontas. I've named him deranged
Jack Smith. But we'll work together with Shifty Shift.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We're going to defeat crazy Kamala.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
We have a representative in Congress who they say was
here a.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Long time ago.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
They call her a Pocahontas.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But you know what, I like you.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Sometimes your name.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And they're always patch acase you want to be where
you can see all the same.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You want to be aware everybody in the holes your name.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
We're talking about funny or sad. I think it's more
sad than funny. He has one ability I don't have.
He sleeps.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
He can sleep sleepy Joe Biden, No sleepy.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Joe Cryan Chuck. Do you want to keep it going
for another five years? Yeah, yeah, you you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Would say Pocahontases.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Be glad there's one.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They said the world Man. Everybody knows your name and
they're allays patch acase.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Listen, you want to go No, you don't want all
the same.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You want to go a where everybody in les your name.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Little rocket Man, we will have no choice but to
totally destroy North Korea. Rocketman is on a suicide mission
for himself.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
A Houston police officer the Last Team was suspended for
ten days after he was wrongfully kicked out of a
park by a former park ranger.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Surely not the same park ranger?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Right? That park ranger? Sure did get around, didn't he
when you find out? A Houston police officer has sued
after being kicked out of a park by a former
park ranger later charged with sexual assault in December. According
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to a lawsuit file federal court on Tuesday, Kamary Brahm
alleged in the complaint that Joey Ellis, a former Houston
park ranger, accused of using his position to sexually extort
an assault as many as forty men.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I don't know why they call them people.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
They're all men, and another park ranger verbally harassed and
intimidated him while he and his family were at Trotter
Park in May of twenty twenty three. Despite complying with
in order to leave the park, Bram claimed he was
given a ninety day parkspan, which led to a ten
day suspension from the department.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That guy was absolutely out of control.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
He's going around making people have sex with him, holding
them false imprisonment, holding them at the parks, blocking them in,
acting like a law enforcement officer, threatening them, and in
his case, going after a guy and his family. And
he was doing this all day, every day. It is
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quite clear.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So apparently what he did was not just limited to
his efforts as a park ranger. As a rough ranger.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I was doing my job, working in the park, doing
my job on looking for once you see the.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Park, I'm a tross.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
When he takes you from man on man for she
calling preparation, well lowers he as that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I see it's a pair ofround fellows, one on their knees.
I once former big thing, A must see. Put your
hands in the air, understanding up.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Please you take off your close down through the bus.
I need a coat, A naked man. I need to
see me a naked man. Wow, your this undressing?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Give me two hundred bucks. Oh you god, it's a twenty.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Well that's your sup for you because not even a
cash Open your phone and open your open the cash
out baby.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Pay the pop ruck Ranger. Your life seeing danger.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
If you don't, heybe hey the pup root Ranger, Pop
Rock Rang, up.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Up Breaker.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Raser, Pop Razer s.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Me paid the park rock Ranger.
Speaker 10 (05:11):
Your life in danger if you don't pay me, Pay
the talk mob Rangerer.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Pop rock Rangers, pop rock.
Speaker 10 (05:23):
Ranger Ranger say pay the talk rock Ranger your license danger.
If you don't pay me, pay the park rock Ranger.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Pop rock Ranger, popper.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Ranger, Rock Ranger, Razery say the pup Raiser your life
is change, I mean, don't pay me Crazer, Craze falk
Frock great Down.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I had forgotten.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Even though I read that he extorted him, I forgot
that he would demand money from people and sex.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He's a greedy fella.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Is it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Michael Berry Show presence Pope or Nope? Nope.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
We will keep you updated on the Pope vote. At
this point, we don't have the smoke. I got a
letter from prison from a fella I'm not going to
give his name because i'm not authorized. Well, i'll tell
you that in just a second. Uh coming up, We've
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got a lady who helps young people find summer jobs, internships, clerkships, experiences.
That's what she does professionally to give you some advice
and obviously make yourself available to you. But hopefully we'll
get some advice from her that whether you're able to
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hire her or not, you will be able to use.
For those of you who take my admonition seriously and
have your young person doing something interesting this summer. If
you have your own business, bring your kid to work.
I'm telling you what a great experience that is. Kids
are so naive. They they want to be in the
big boy world. Bring them to work. Let them work
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the cash register. Yeah, otherwise ahtf.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They don't like it. They don't have a pool. If
a kids don't have a summer pool, when does a
youth take up a gun? They take it up when
they don't have a summer job.
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Oh, summer job. If they don't have a summer job,
they take up a gun. Plus they have to have
the pooh. We've got an officer who saved a man.
It's lying we've got oh, we've got a good show
that they go, let's.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Money off of it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We didn't get nothing the hard time to Michael Berry show.
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
The story of the Houston police officer walking into a restaurant.
I don't know if he's off duty or on duty
and just having his meal. I don't know if he's
in uniform or out. But he's walking through a restaurant
and there's a woman who's choking at her table, and
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it's a table of ladies.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I think they were celebrating her retirement. It's what I read.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Just trying to find a story. I can't find it,
and she starts choking. It's an awful thing. If you've
ever been around someone when they're choking, the ladies panic,
they begin screaming, they need someone else to help them.
They don't know what to do. Obviously they didn't go
to school with us because this was drilled into us.
But Lieutenant Jamal Boem, Jamal Bouman, Jamal Martin sees what's
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happening and rush it behind her in her seat, clinches
his fists and over pulls it into her rapidly, and
the projectile shoots out and she can breathe again. Her
obstructed wind pipe is now open. How many people can
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say they ever actually saved a human being's life, no
matter what you do for Lewin, because that guy can
for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Pretty cool deal.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
We have a call and text into him to hopefully
get him on the show, and just what happened. It's
an interesting thing, but I thought that was really neat.
So here was my letter from prison from a fellow
named Luke. That's all the name of money give it
says a subject line. I wrote you a sonnet in prison.
You know what a sonnet is, ramon what a poem.
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Will count of poem. It's not holding much. It's a
subset of poem. I looked it up just to make sure.
It is typically fourteen lines with ten syllables not required,
but typically ten syllables per line of any rhyming pattern.
So here is the sonnet. But first there's a letter Czar.
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I recently was released from prison on parole. I was
an avid daily listener of your show after graduating from
I'll just tell you a college that's pretty well respected
in Chicago and moving to Houston in twenty eleven. Until
I went to prison in twenty twenty three, I struggled
with mental health, and I can honestly say.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Your show helped me so much.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Although I eventually fell in the fell in the battle
against self destruction and depression, it wasn't exactly what the
newspapers reported. Listening to your show was one of the
core aspects of my life, along with my faith and family.
They kept me going and perhaps prevented me from some
other more fatal acts of self harm during those twelve years.
Your show makes me happy and keeps me grounded, and
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I really appreciate everything you do. I spent two years
in prison on a five year sentence and was released
this past Saint Patrick's Day. Ironic since my prison name
was Irish, it was a long absence from my favorite show.
During my incarceration, I took up writing a lot of poetry.
I particularly liked the sonnets and haikups, as their poetic
structure somehow felt like an antidote to the chaotic, painful
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absurdity of prison life. On the prison bus ride from
my unit in West Texas to the Hunstvile unit to
be released. I saw the sun come up on the
eastern horizon, directly in front of us. It was the
first sunrise I'd seen in two years, and I was
in awe of the warm orange glow. Shackled to fellow
prisoners in the cramped, nauseating bus. I found solace in
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finishing in my head a sonnet I had begun writing
in my cell about your show. It helped me realize
I prepare myself for the reality of being released, which
at that time didn't seem possible, for reasons only prisoners
can understand.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Anyway, I thought I'd.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Go ahead and send it to you for whatever it's worth.
I guess some music from some sonic music. I don't
know we've ever received a sonic from prison as a
tribute to our show, So you'll have to You have
to be creative here. Okay, here we go, two years
no freedom. I've paid what was due. Need k t
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rh like buffet needs beach Buffett, Buffett, Oh, Jimmy Buffett.
Let me start that over. I should have caught that.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's my bet. I think a bu F F E
T is buffet.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You know.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Two years, no freedom. I've paid what was due. Need
k t rh like Buffett needs beach. I'll sit in
my car like in a church pew building my soul
with that liberty speech, I long to rejoin the Friday
drive home. Our beer cold, our deduction Cartesian I drink. Therefore,
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I am just like Ramon, a workingman, but not a
Lebizia prison bus ride dreams of Bourbon and states three
hundred miles never felt so far but soft. What light
from yonder city breaks 'chis Houston and Michael Barry is Tzar.
We like this a lot, hippies, rednecks, girls like Miss
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Shirley Q, Texans, countrymen. I've missed all of you. I
titled it Damn. I've missed me some Michael Berry while
I've been locked up in the pokey a sonnet upon
the occasion of the author's release from a Texas penitentiary,
I'll attach it in a file in case of formatting
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from this message box results in something jumbled.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
One more thing in prison. We now have tablets.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
As a libertarian, I obviously don't like government spending, and
in the past would have scoffed at the idea of
giving tablets to prisoners, but they are honestly the best
thing to ever happen to prisoners. Instead of fighting or
any number of things, prisoners can listen to sermons and podcasts,
among other activities. Sadly, the vast majority of the news
programs and podcasts on our tablets consisted of state propaganda
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like Joy Reid and pod Save America. The only news
app we had was the Associated Press. However, the vast
majority of prisoners are very conservative slash libertarian and love
Donald Trump, even the ones you wouldn't expect to be.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Literally everyone in my cell block was rooting for Trump
on Election Night.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
I point this out because your podcast would be an
absolute hit in prison if you're able to get the
show on the securest tablets.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I live in San Marcos now, as I.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Couldn't find any tenants willing to rent to a felon
in the Houston area. Although the signal from kjr H
is faint and full of static, I can still hear
it out here and listen as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
God bless you and.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Thank you for everything you do. By the way, if
you look me up on the Google, don't believe everything
you read.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
That is our sonnet from prison, ramone son it from prison.
I don't know how many people have seen this story.
A woman in Ohio is pulled over with a car
loaded down with drugs.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
She's smoking a crack pipe. She hands it to the raccoon.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
The cop comes up and the raccoon is holding the
crack pipe like he's smoking.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I love this story. Michael Berry.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Stealing these springs Build Township Police Department in Ohio wrote quote.
On May fifth, and approximately seven fifteen pm, Springfield Township
police officer Austin Branham conducted a traffic stop on Sarth
South Arlington Road. After you know what, we have the
news story. I'll just play the new story clip number
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twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Romon go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Police in Summit County's Springfield Township have seen all kinds
of strange things over the years, but nothing prepared officers
for what they found during this traffic stop on Monday.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You no reason I stopped you.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
You are suspended with a warrant.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
For your arrest.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And while speaking with the driver, fifty five year old
Victoria the doll page of Akron about an active warrant
for her arrest and her suspended driver's license.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Is that a raccoon?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes, A patrolman noticed something very unusual in the front
seat of her suv, A raccoon holding a pipe that
is used to smoke crystal methamphetamine.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
The raccoon is her medpipe. That's right, her meth pipe.
He's played with a meth pipe right now. No, don't
reach for it. That's evidence now.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
After Victoria of the doll Page was arrested on the
outstanding warrant, her mother told the officers that their raccoon
is their pet and his name is Chewy. When the
officer took the pipe from Chewy, the pet grabbed another pipe.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, there's no trying to smoke it. Hurry, there is
no life, all right, had enough fun in games.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Based on the evidence provided by Chewy, the officer searched
the suv and found a bag containing seven smaller bags
of crystal meth, crack cocaine, and three meth pipes. Sadly,
investigators say it appears Chewy the raccoon chewed holes in
the bags of drugs.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
Hey buddy.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
The thing is, though, investigators are now working with state
Wildlife officers to determine if the raccoon was properly certified
as a pet, which is required by the state.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Boss.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
Yeah, we will absolutely consider animal cruelty charges, and if
we're able to determine through our investigation that animal was
a f in a negative way or harmed or treated inappropriately,
then absolutely we will meet with the local prosecutor's office
and pursue some charges.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
All right, Well, your raccoon gave you away.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Based on the evidence revealed by Jewey Victoria, the doll
Page is now facing charges of possession of drugs and
drug paraphernalia.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
If it wasn't for the animal pulling out those pipes
and then the officers seeing those narcotics and playing view,
maybe the arrest doesn't occur.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
As it turns out, raccoons love to get high. It's
not just a popo who witnessed this phenomenon. Firemen have
seen it too.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Apparently they have a raccoon they got into three.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
We didn't have anything but fired to call across the
hall and see that it was the raccoon.
Speaker 11 (18:48):
An overdose on somebody, Carolyn.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm sitting at one of those do at fire office.
Raccoons are overdosing here.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Well, they go up way in board.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Remember the CNN reporter that was being terrorized by raccoon
while he was trying to do a live report.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Get there he is, Rah.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Now, no events on the President's schedule today and important
to say the White House, you know, especially from the.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Raccoons.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
God, again, this is the second time I get the
craps are not working right, Hey, man, raccoons in by.
It always comes around right.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
About when I'm gonna go in TV grab a broom,
seeing inn fellow. That's what Forrest Gumpsbama would have done.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
But the raccoon's trying to get an other back and
ports Mama just chasing mom.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
With the broom. Remember when Hirlo cue Lickor used raccoons
to predict who'd win the presidential election back in twenty twelve.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
Hey, you're doing this is Shiry C Liquor with your
EB team. That's e Bonics broadcasting therapy right here on
the Michael Barry Program.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, if you like me, hold on just a minute, Squawkkesha,
get your ball head ass.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
Back of that rest room until you finished. Excuse me,
I had to curse out my daughter. If you like me,
you thin to have a blood clot from sitting around
listening to all this damn conservative talk radio. I sure enough,
hope y'all taking y'all coming in.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I don't know if I'm monsa survive this.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
I got high blood, low sugar up and down the
roaches of the level.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
This damn waiting about to kill me.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
Well, my Cabert, I'm ready to release the results of
my quadrac in the Club Raccoons survey or Who's gonna
win for President? Last night, as you told me, under
the full moon, I put two plates out in the backyard,
each one filled with park Chitling's one of them here
said but Nack Obama.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The other one has said Nick mcbromiey.
Speaker 13 (20:49):
The results is completely incend there because three out of
full raccoons plus the opossum Lady eat everything in the
Nick Romiley platter. Honey, I'm feeling at my Carbert. I
can feel it to para forest, President Gerard Ford. There's
a change coming over America and it's something.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Great to see. Okay, all right, now, I gotta go.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
I gotta make my pill tray up for all this week,
so I'm gonna get all my medications splacked out up
on here, and I'm gonna count them out right this time, okay,
and now back to the Mica Barrow program.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Jeff McShann, when he was at Khor, you sent me
two of the best stories we ever told. One of
them was Albert Wood whose home y'all rebuilt the marine,
And the other one was the fella that had a
domino shop at the car wash that was selling raccoon,
including to the cops.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I cook raccoons. I'm Mississippi.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
I eat raccoon, squells, rabbits, quails, constants.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
I eat that.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I was raised off of that from Mississippi. Well, they
said you were selling it without a permanent hair that
was sold. No, no coon.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
They were supposedly selling drugs, crack, They had a car washed,
they played dominoes, and of course they were selling raccoon.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I mean that that was the place to be.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Sell place in eh Shine where you can get your
card details, your cracks fix on and the freshest coon
meat this side of the Mississippi. You bet crack coons, crack,
car washed, pharmacy, gormet road kill outleft at krack Coons
located on Yell on the north side.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We give new meaning to the words full servians.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Ain't man, brother, roll on in your hooped this Sunday
after church, and we take care of you while you
enjoy a game of high steak dominoes, pick up a
new gun, get a new family patron, take care of
your drug run for the week.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We all you won't stop shot. If it's illegal, we
deal it. And to day at Krack Coons would not
be complete without enjoying one of our chef tinies Coon
meat delicacy, great fresh daily off tidwell early so you
don't get any Greek cooking from the sun.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
It's raccoon meet like you've never had it.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
We got real coon coon jump light, lemon cool, cooning,
up Coon Sushi, Cooncasadylas.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Come on down to crack Coon. Your car washed in
Houston has never been so illegal and so on coming
fruity babble for coke and up coon fo hs the
four Hour System from the Michael Berry Show and other
leading companies. What a different time in radio and in
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our culture.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
On this day in nineteen eighty two, the orchestral instrumental
Chariots of Fire It's actually Charots of Fire, dashed titles
by the Greek composer Van Galis went to number one
in a marri Can you imagine this being the number
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one song on Top forty radio?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Who reads you the background on at the month?
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Territ's Fire is a nineteen eighty one historical sports drama
film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and
produced by David Putnam. It is based on the true
story of two British athletes in the nineteen twenty four Olympics.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abraham's,
an English Jew runs to overcome prejudice in Charleston. Charleston
and Ben Cross stars Ladell and Abrams, alongside Nigel Haver's
in Holme, John Gilder Good, Lindsay Anderson, Ryl Campbell, Alice Creach,
Brad Davis and Jennifer Dennis Christophus Dennis Christopher. In supporting roles,
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Kenneth Branow and Stephen Fry made their debuts in minor roles.
Was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four, including
Best Original Score for Von Galis's.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Electronic theme tone.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Fascinating Story from cb S News how a routine hire
at a Houston tech firm uncovered an alleged North Korea scheme.
The United Nations estimates that North Korea has generated between
two hundred and fifty million and six hundred million dollars
per year by tricking overseas firms to hire its spy.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
On Michael Berry shows home or NOPEO update, Nope Okay
story from CBS News.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
If you're wondering how North Korea funds much of its
nuclear weapons program, meet Stephen Smithy. His mission was to
get a job at Kraken, a cryptocurrency platform, but Kracken's
chief security officer, Nick Percoco, suspected smith was a North
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Korean operative out to make money for Kim Jong UN's regime.
Speaker 14 (26:35):
Their job is to start employment, to steal intellectual property,
steal money from those.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Companies, take home a paycheck, take on a paycheck.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Yes, tipped off by a do not hire list from
federal investigators. Nick and Dan Burkowski, a former Kracken executive,
set a trap. I think most tech professionals would have
avoided the suspected North Korean spy.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You guys invited him to a zoom call. We like
to look the attackers right in the Eyes.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Kraken recorded that interview and shared it with US. Smith
claimed he lived in Houston and listed foods as an
interest on his resume. So Berkowski quizzed him.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Taking my life there any suggestions of life.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Here?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Then they asked Smith for an id okay picture that
I see. It took him more than two minutes to
show this screenshot of a Texas driver's license. Did you
think that was a real license when you saw it?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
No, I thought it was a some sort of generated
type license.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
This is clearly just a screenshot that he had ready
to go somewhere. Yes, The FBI says North Korean operatives
have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars. Cybersecurity pioneer
dmitri El Perevich has tracked North Korea's growing cyber army.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
Oh, that's a huge problem because these people, they're not
just North Koreans. They North Korean's working for their munitions,
and this department there working for the Korean People's Army.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
The FBI has issued a wanted poster of alleged North
Korean agents and arrested Americans for hosting laptop farms in
Arizona and Tennessee. Computer hubs inside the US that disguise
the cyber criminal's locations.
Speaker 14 (28:17):
They cannot do this fraud without support here in America
from wedding onwdding actors.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So they have hired probably hundreds of people.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
FBI officials say the IT worker scheme is expanding worldwide.
As for Smith, all traces of him online have vanished.
Do you think Stephen might have been hired at another
tech firm?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Certainly, Wait, Nicoley means Stephen Smith is often some other firm.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So he's still floating around in the US. And what
if that's the case, what's the US doing about this?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:50):
John, the so called job applicant, Stephen Smith has disappeared online.
His LinkedIn was deleted. He did not respond to our
emails or text messages, but clearly a crack and security
team believes he's likely operating under a different identity.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Now.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
As for what the US government is doing, the FBI's
Counterintelligence Division has really ramped up warnings to the private sector,
put out bulletins cautioning private companies of some of the
indicators to try to prevent this kind of hiring. They're
also sharing information with foreign allies. That's important, particularly as
this scheme grows worldwide, and they're cracking down on US
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persons aiding the North Koreans in part by hosting laptop farms.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
They're not cracking down anything. We get these stories, but
they're not true. They're not cracking down on anything. I
think fraud has become one of the biggest industries in
this country. And what's amazing is how. I'll give an example.
I'm a dumb dumb in the story, so you don't
need to tell me I'm a dumb dumb. I'm a
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dumb dumb in the story. I needed to call United
Airlines to book some flights, so I couldn't remember you,
and I hadn't put it in my phone. So I
went to search engine and United Airlines phone number popped
up a page and have United on it, and here
was the number. I call the number the guys in
India I've called United before. To their credit, they have
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stateside phone systems to telephone. What am I thinking?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Whatever?
Speaker 9 (30:21):
The that's called customer service. So I start giving him
the dates of when each person in my family is flying,
and he keeps getting it extremely confused, and it seems
like he doesn't know what he's doing. And We're going
through this whole thing, and I'm growing more and more concerned,
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And finally I didn't give him my payment information. I said,
tell it, let me have a number I can get
back to you directly, since we've booked all this, and
it was hard because we're all leaving on different days
and all this.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
So he gives my cell phone number. His name is Jitty.
My name is Jitty.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Oh Jitty okay like uncle j Okay, No it's not,
but anyway, that's besides me. So the whole thing goes on.
It turns out its scam. I contact somebody to alert
them as to what happened, and they say it's very,
very common. These scams are going on all day, every day,
and our government is not concerned with.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Stopping old people having their bank accounts drained. North Korea's
inding and spies. Our country should focus on this and
punish it
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It could be we're gonna run against crazy Birdie. That
could be he's a crazy man, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We like crazy people.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I love running against Crooked Hillary.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love that Crooked Hillary Clinton, Crooked Hillaries.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Here is a crooked one.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Gavin Newscomb. He's the governor of California. He's signed Newscomb.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Michael, they're going to cover Pocahontas. I've named him deranged
Jack Smith. But we'll work together with Shifty Shift.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We're going to defeat crazy Kamala.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
We have a representative in Congress who they say was
here a.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Long time ago.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
They call her a Pocahontas.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But you know what, I like you.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Sometimes your name.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And they're always patch acase you want to be where
you can see all the same.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You want to be aware everybody in the holes your name.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
We're talking about funny or sad. I think it's more
sad than funny. He has one ability I don't have.
He sleeps.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
He can sleep sleepy Joe Biden, No sleepy.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Joe Cryan Chuck. Do you want to keep it going
for another five years? Yeah, yeah, you you.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Would say Pocahontases.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Be glad there's one.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They said the world Man. Everybody knows your name and
they're allays patch acase.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Listen, you want to go No, you don't want all
the same.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You want to go a where everybody in les your name.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Little rocket Man, we will have no choice but to
totally destroy North Korea. Rocketman is on a suicide mission
for himself.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
A Houston police officer the Last Team was suspended for
ten days after he was wrongfully kicked out of a
park by a former park ranger.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Surely not the same park ranger?
Speaker 9 (02:37):
Right? That park ranger? Sure did get around, didn't he
when you find out? A Houston police officer has sued
after being kicked out of a park by a former
park ranger later charged with sexual assault in December. According
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to a lawsuit file federal court on Tuesday, Kamary Brahm
alleged in the complaint that Joey Ellis, a former Houston
park ranger, accused of using his position to sexually extort
an assault as many as forty men.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I don't know why they call them people.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
They're all men, and another park ranger verbally harassed and
intimidated him while he and his family were at Trotter
Park in May of twenty twenty three. Despite complying with
in order to leave the park, Bram claimed he was
given a ninety day parkspan, which led to a ten
day suspension from the department.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That guy was absolutely out of control.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
He's going around making people have sex with him, holding
them false imprisonment, holding them at the parks, blocking them in,
acting like a law enforcement officer, threatening them, and in
his case, going after a guy and his family. And
he was doing this all day, every day. It is
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quite clear.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So apparently what he did was not just limited to
his efforts as a park ranger. As a rough ranger.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I was doing my job, working in the park, doing
my job on looking for once you see the.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Park, I'm a tross.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
When he takes you from man on man for she
calling preparation, well lowers he as that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I see it's a pair ofround fellows, one on their knees.
I once former big thing, A must see. Put your
hands in the air, understanding up.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Please you take off your close down through the bus.
I need a coat, A naked man. I need to
see me a naked man. Wow, your this undressing?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Give me two hundred bucks. Oh you god, it's a twenty.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Well that's your sup for you because not even a
cash Open your phone and open your open the cash
out baby.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Pay the pop ruck Ranger. Your life seeing danger.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
If you don't, heybe hey the pup root Ranger, Pop
Rock Rang, up.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Up Breaker.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Raser, Pop Razer s.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Me paid the park rock Ranger.
Speaker 10 (05:11):
Your life in danger if you don't pay me, Pay
the talk mob Rangerer.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Pop rock Rangers, pop rock.
Speaker 10 (05:23):
Ranger Ranger say pay the talk rock Ranger your license danger.
If you don't pay me, pay the park rock Ranger.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Pop rock Ranger, popper.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Ranger, Rock Ranger, Razery say the pup Raiser your life
is change, I mean, don't pay me Crazer, Craze falk
Frock great Down.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I had forgotten.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Even though I read that he extorted him, I forgot
that he would demand money from people and sex.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He's a greedy fella.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Is it.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Michael Berry Show presence Pope or Nope? Nope.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
We will keep you updated on the Pope vote. At
this point, we don't have the smoke. I got a
letter from prison from a fella I'm not going to
give his name because i'm not authorized. Well, i'll tell
you that in just a second. Uh coming up, We've
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got a lady who helps young people find summer jobs, internships, clerkships, experiences.
That's what she does professionally to give you some advice
and obviously make yourself available to you. But hopefully we'll
get some advice from her that whether you're able to
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hire her or not, you will be able to use.
For those of you who take my admonition seriously and
have your young person doing something interesting this summer. If
you have your own business, bring your kid to work.
I'm telling you what a great experience that is. Kids
are so naive. They they want to be in the
big boy world. Bring them to work. Let them work
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the cash register. Yeah, otherwise ahtf.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They don't like it. They don't have a pool. If
a kids don't have a summer pool, when does a
youth take up a gun? They take it up when
they don't have a summer job.
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Oh, summer job. If they don't have a summer job,
they take up a gun. Plus they have to have
the pooh. We've got an officer who saved a man.
It's lying we've got oh, we've got a good show
that they go, let's.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Money off of it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We didn't get nothing the hard time to Michael Berry show.
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
The story of the Houston police officer walking into a restaurant.
I don't know if he's off duty or on duty
and just having his meal. I don't know if he's
in uniform or out. But he's walking through a restaurant
and there's a woman who's choking at her table, and
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it's a table of ladies.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I think they were celebrating her retirement. It's what I read.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Just trying to find a story. I can't find it,
and she starts choking. It's an awful thing. If you've
ever been around someone when they're choking, the ladies panic,
they begin screaming, they need someone else to help them.
They don't know what to do. Obviously they didn't go
to school with us because this was drilled into us.
But Lieutenant Jamal Boem, Jamal Bouman, Jamal Martin sees what's
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happening and rush it behind her in her seat, clinches
his fists and over pulls it into her rapidly, and
the projectile shoots out and she can breathe again. Her
obstructed wind pipe is now open. How many people can
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say they ever actually saved a human being's life, no
matter what you do for Lewin, because that guy can
for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Pretty cool deal.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
We have a call and text into him to hopefully
get him on the show, and just what happened. It's
an interesting thing, but I thought that was really neat.
So here was my letter from prison from a fellow
named Luke. That's all the name of money give it
says a subject line. I wrote you a sonnet in prison.
You know what a sonnet is, ramon what a poem.
(09:59):
Will count of poem. It's not holding much. It's a
subset of poem. I looked it up just to make sure.
It is typically fourteen lines with ten syllables not required,
but typically ten syllables per line of any rhyming pattern.
So here is the sonnet. But first there's a letter Czar.
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I recently was released from prison on parole. I was
an avid daily listener of your show after graduating from
I'll just tell you a college that's pretty well respected
in Chicago and moving to Houston in twenty eleven. Until
I went to prison in twenty twenty three, I struggled
with mental health, and I can honestly say.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Your show helped me so much.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Although I eventually fell in the fell in the battle
against self destruction and depression, it wasn't exactly what the
newspapers reported. Listening to your show was one of the
core aspects of my life, along with my faith and family.
They kept me going and perhaps prevented me from some
other more fatal acts of self harm during those twelve years.
Your show makes me happy and keeps me grounded, and
(11:03):
I really appreciate everything you do. I spent two years
in prison on a five year sentence and was released
this past Saint Patrick's Day. Ironic since my prison name
was Irish, it was a long absence from my favorite show.
During my incarceration, I took up writing a lot of poetry.
I particularly liked the sonnets and haikups, as their poetic
structure somehow felt like an antidote to the chaotic, painful
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absurdity of prison life. On the prison bus ride from
my unit in West Texas to the Hunstvile unit to
be released. I saw the sun come up on the
eastern horizon, directly in front of us. It was the
first sunrise I'd seen in two years, and I was
in awe of the warm orange glow. Shackled to fellow
prisoners in the cramped, nauseating bus. I found solace in
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finishing in my head a sonnet I had begun writing
in my cell about your show. It helped me realize
I prepare myself for the reality of being released, which
at that time didn't seem possible, for reasons only prisoners
can understand.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Anyway, I thought I'd.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Go ahead and send it to you for whatever it's worth.
I guess some music from some sonic music. I don't
know we've ever received a sonic from prison as a
tribute to our show, So you'll have to You have
to be creative here. Okay, here we go, two years
no freedom. I've paid what was due. Need k t
(12:22):
rh like buffet needs beach Buffett, Buffett, Oh, Jimmy Buffett.
Let me start that over. I should have caught that.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's my bet. I think a bu F F E
T is buffet.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You know.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Two years, no freedom. I've paid what was due. Need
k t rh like Buffett needs beach. I'll sit in
my car like in a church pew building my soul
with that liberty speech, I long to rejoin the Friday
drive home. Our beer cold, our deduction Cartesian I drink. Therefore,
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I am just like Ramon, a workingman, but not a
Lebizia prison bus ride dreams of Bourbon and states three
hundred miles never felt so far but soft. What light
from yonder city breaks 'chis Houston and Michael Barry is Tzar.
We like this a lot, hippies, rednecks, girls like Miss
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Shirley Q, Texans, countrymen. I've missed all of you. I
titled it Damn. I've missed me some Michael Berry while
I've been locked up in the pokey a sonnet upon
the occasion of the author's release from a Texas penitentiary,
I'll attach it in a file in case of formatting
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from this message box results in something jumbled.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
One more thing in prison. We now have tablets.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
As a libertarian, I obviously don't like government spending, and
in the past would have scoffed at the idea of
giving tablets to prisoners, but they are honestly the best
thing to ever happen to prisoners. Instead of fighting or
any number of things, prisoners can listen to sermons and podcasts,
among other activities. Sadly, the vast majority of the news
programs and podcasts on our tablets consisted of state propaganda
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like Joy Reid and pod Save America. The only news
app we had was the Associated Press. However, the vast
majority of prisoners are very conservative slash libertarian and love
Donald Trump, even the ones you wouldn't expect to be.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Literally everyone in my cell block was rooting for Trump
on Election Night.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
I point this out because your podcast would be an
absolute hit in prison if you're able to get the
show on the securest tablets.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I live in San Marcos now, as I.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Couldn't find any tenants willing to rent to a felon
in the Houston area. Although the signal from kjr H
is faint and full of static, I can still hear
it out here and listen as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
God bless you and.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Thank you for everything you do. By the way, if
you look me up on the Google, don't believe everything
you read.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
That is our sonnet from prison, ramone son it from prison.
I don't know how many people have seen this story.
A woman in Ohio is pulled over with a car
loaded down with drugs.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
She's smoking a crack pipe. She hands it to the raccoon.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
The cop comes up and the raccoon is holding the
crack pipe like he's smoking.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I love this story. Michael Berry.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Stealing these springs Build Township Police Department in Ohio wrote quote.
On May fifth, and approximately seven fifteen pm, Springfield Township
police officer Austin Branham conducted a traffic stop on Sarth
South Arlington Road. After you know what, we have the
news story. I'll just play the new story clip number
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twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Romon go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Police in Summit County's Springfield Township have seen all kinds
of strange things over the years, but nothing prepared officers
for what they found during this traffic stop on Monday.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You no reason I stopped you.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
You are suspended with a warrant.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
For your arrest.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And while speaking with the driver, fifty five year old
Victoria the doll page of Akron about an active warrant
for her arrest and her suspended driver's license.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Is that a raccoon?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes, A patrolman noticed something very unusual in the front
seat of her suv, A raccoon holding a pipe that
is used to smoke crystal methamphetamine.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
The raccoon is her medpipe. That's right, her meth pipe.
He's played with a meth pipe right now. No, don't
reach for it. That's evidence now.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
After Victoria of the doll Page was arrested on the
outstanding warrant, her mother told the officers that their raccoon
is their pet and his name is Chewy. When the
officer took the pipe from Chewy, the pet grabbed another pipe.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, there's no trying to smoke it. Hurry, there is
no life, all right, had enough fun in games.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Based on the evidence provided by Chewy, the officer searched
the suv and found a bag containing seven smaller bags
of crystal meth, crack cocaine, and three meth pipes. Sadly,
investigators say it appears Chewy the raccoon chewed holes in
the bags of drugs.
Speaker 11 (17:38):
Hey buddy.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
The thing is, though, investigators are now working with state
Wildlife officers to determine if the raccoon was properly certified
as a pet, which is required by the state.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Boss.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
Yeah, we will absolutely consider animal cruelty charges, and if
we're able to determine through our investigation that animal was
a f in a negative way or harmed or treated inappropriately,
then absolutely we will meet with the local prosecutor's office
and pursue some charges.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
All right, Well, your raccoon gave you away.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Based on the evidence revealed by Jewey Victoria, the doll
Page is now facing charges of possession of drugs and
drug paraphernalia.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
If it wasn't for the animal pulling out those pipes
and then the officers seeing those narcotics and playing view,
maybe the arrest doesn't occur.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
As it turns out, raccoons love to get high. It's
not just a popo who witnessed this phenomenon. Firemen have
seen it too.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Apparently they have a raccoon they got into three.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
We didn't have anything but fired to call across the
hall and see that it was the raccoon.
Speaker 11 (18:48):
An overdose on somebody, Carolyn.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm sitting at one of those do at fire office.
Raccoons are overdosing here.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Well, they go up way in board.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Remember the CNN reporter that was being terrorized by raccoon
while he was trying to do a live report.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Get there he is, Rah.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Now, no events on the President's schedule today and important
to say the White House, you know, especially from the.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Raccoons.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
God, again, this is the second time I get the
craps are not working right, Hey, man, raccoons in by.
It always comes around right.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
About when I'm gonna go in TV grab a broom,
seeing inn fellow. That's what Forrest Gumpsbama would have done.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
But the raccoon's trying to get an other back and
ports Mama just chasing mom.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
With the broom. Remember when Hirlo cue Lickor used raccoons
to predict who'd win the presidential election back in twenty twelve.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
Hey, you're doing this is Shiry C Liquor with your
EB team. That's e Bonics broadcasting therapy right here on
the Michael Barry Program.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, if you like me, hold on just a minute, Squawkkesha,
get your ball head ass.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
Back of that rest room until you finished. Excuse me,
I had to curse out my daughter. If you like me,
you thin to have a blood clot from sitting around
listening to all this damn conservative talk radio. I sure enough,
hope y'all taking y'all coming in.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I don't know if I'm monsa survive this.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
I got high blood, low sugar up and down the
roaches of the level.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
This damn waiting about to kill me.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
Well, my Cabert, I'm ready to release the results of
my quadrac in the Club Raccoons survey or Who's gonna
win for President? Last night, as you told me, under
the full moon, I put two plates out in the backyard,
each one filled with park Chitling's one of them here
said but Nack Obama.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The other one has said Nick mcbromiey.
Speaker 13 (20:49):
The results is completely incend there because three out of
full raccoons plus the opossum Lady eat everything in the
Nick Romiley platter. Honey, I'm feeling at my Carbert. I
can feel it to para forest, President Gerard Ford. There's
a change coming over America and it's something.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Great to see. Okay, all right, now, I gotta go.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
I gotta make my pill tray up for all this week,
so I'm gonna get all my medications splacked out up
on here, and I'm gonna count them out right this time, okay,
and now back to the Mica Barrow program.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Jeff McShann, when he was at Khor, you sent me
two of the best stories we ever told. One of
them was Albert Wood whose home y'all rebuilt the marine,
And the other one was the fella that had a
domino shop at the car wash that was selling raccoon,
including to the cops.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I cook raccoons. I'm Mississippi.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
I eat raccoon, squells, rabbits, quails, constants.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
I eat that.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I was raised off of that from Mississippi. Well, they
said you were selling it without a permanent hair that
was sold. No, no coon.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
They were supposedly selling drugs, crack, They had a car washed,
they played dominoes, and of course they were selling raccoon.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I mean that that was the place to be.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Sell place in eh Shine where you can get your
card details, your cracks fix on and the freshest coon
meat this side of the Mississippi. You bet crack coons, crack,
car washed, pharmacy, gormet road kill outleft at krack Coons
located on Yell on the north side.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
We give new meaning to the words full servians.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Ain't man, brother, roll on in your hooped this Sunday
after church, and we take care of you while you
enjoy a game of high steak dominoes, pick up a
new gun, get a new family patron, take care of
your drug run for the week.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We all you won't stop shot. If it's illegal, we
deal it. And to day at Krack Coons would not
be complete without enjoying one of our chef tinies Coon
meat delicacy, great fresh daily off tidwell early so you
don't get any Greek cooking from the sun.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
It's raccoon meet like you've never had it.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
We got real coon coon jump light, lemon cool, cooning,
up Coon Sushi, Cooncasadylas.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Come on down to crack Coon. Your car washed in
Houston has never been so illegal and so on coming
fruity babble for coke and up coon fo hs the
four Hour System from the Michael Berry Show and other
leading companies. What a different time in radio and in
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our culture.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
On this day in nineteen eighty two, the orchestral instrumental
Chariots of Fire It's actually Charots of Fire, dashed titles
by the Greek composer Van Galis went to number one
in a marri Can you imagine this being the number
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one song on Top forty radio?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Who reads you the background on at the month?
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Territ's Fire is a nineteen eighty one historical sports drama
film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and
produced by David Putnam. It is based on the true
story of two British athletes in the nineteen twenty four Olympics.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abraham's,
an English Jew runs to overcome prejudice in Charleston. Charleston
and Ben Cross stars Ladell and Abrams, alongside Nigel Haver's
in Holme, John Gilder Good, Lindsay Anderson, Ryl Campbell, Alice Creach,
Brad Davis and Jennifer Dennis Christophus Dennis Christopher. In supporting roles,
(25:11):
Kenneth Branow and Stephen Fry made their debuts in minor roles.
Was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four, including
Best Original Score for Von Galis's.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Electronic theme tone.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Fascinating Story from cb S News how a routine hire
at a Houston tech firm uncovered an alleged North Korea scheme.
The United Nations estimates that North Korea has generated between
two hundred and fifty million and six hundred million dollars
per year by tricking overseas firms to hire its spy.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
On Michael Berry shows home or NOPEO update, Nope Okay
story from CBS News.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
If you're wondering how North Korea funds much of its
nuclear weapons program, meet Stephen Smithy. His mission was to
get a job at Kraken, a cryptocurrency platform, but Kracken's
chief security officer, Nick Percoco, suspected smith was a North
(26:30):
Korean operative out to make money for Kim Jong UN's regime.
Speaker 14 (26:35):
Their job is to start employment, to steal intellectual property,
steal money from those.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Companies, take home a paycheck, take on a paycheck.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Yes, tipped off by a do not hire list from
federal investigators. Nick and Dan Burkowski, a former Kracken executive,
set a trap. I think most tech professionals would have
avoided the suspected North Korean spy.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You guys invited him to a zoom call. We like
to look the attackers right in the Eyes.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Kraken recorded that interview and shared it with US. Smith
claimed he lived in Houston and listed foods as an
interest on his resume. So Berkowski quizzed him.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Taking my life there any suggestions of life.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Here?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Then they asked Smith for an id okay picture that
I see. It took him more than two minutes to
show this screenshot of a Texas driver's license. Did you
think that was a real license when you saw it?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
No, I thought it was a some sort of generated
type license.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
This is clearly just a screenshot that he had ready
to go somewhere. Yes, The FBI says North Korean operatives
have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars. Cybersecurity pioneer
dmitri El Perevich has tracked North Korea's growing cyber army.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
Oh, that's a huge problem because these people, they're not
just North Koreans. They North Korean's working for their munitions,
and this department there working for the Korean People's Army.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
The FBI has issued a wanted poster of alleged North
Korean agents and arrested Americans for hosting laptop farms in
Arizona and Tennessee. Computer hubs inside the US that disguise
the cyber criminal's locations.
Speaker 14 (28:17):
They cannot do this fraud without support here in America
from wedding onwdding actors.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So they have hired probably hundreds of people.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
FBI officials say the IT worker scheme is expanding worldwide.
As for Smith, all traces of him online have vanished.
Do you think Stephen might have been hired at another
tech firm?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Certainly, Wait, Nicoley means Stephen Smith is often some other firm.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So he's still floating around in the US. And what
if that's the case, what's the US doing about this?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:50):
John, the so called job applicant, Stephen Smith has disappeared online.
His LinkedIn was deleted. He did not respond to our
emails or text messages, but clearly a crack and security
team believes he's likely operating under a different identity.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Now.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
As for what the US government is doing, the FBI's
Counterintelligence Division has really ramped up warnings to the private sector,
put out bulletins cautioning private companies of some of the
indicators to try to prevent this kind of hiring. They're
also sharing information with foreign allies. That's important, particularly as
this scheme grows worldwide, and they're cracking down on US
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persons aiding the North Koreans in part by hosting laptop farms.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
They're not cracking down anything. We get these stories, but
they're not true. They're not cracking down on anything. I
think fraud has become one of the biggest industries in
this country. And what's amazing is how. I'll give an example.
I'm a dumb dumb in the story, so you don't
need to tell me I'm a dumb dumb. I'm a
(29:51):
dumb dumb in the story. I needed to call United
Airlines to book some flights, so I couldn't remember you,
and I hadn't put it in my phone. So I
went to search engine and United Airlines phone number popped
up a page and have United on it, and here
was the number. I call the number the guys in
India I've called United before. To their credit, they have
(30:15):
stateside phone systems to telephone. What am I thinking?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Whatever?
Speaker 9 (30:21):
The that's called customer service. So I start giving him
the dates of when each person in my family is flying,
and he keeps getting it extremely confused, and it seems
like he doesn't know what he's doing. And We're going
through this whole thing, and I'm growing more and more concerned,
(30:44):
And finally I didn't give him my payment information. I said,
tell it, let me have a number I can get
back to you directly, since we've booked all this, and
it was hard because we're all leaving on different days
and all this.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
So he gives my cell phone number. His name is Jitty.
My name is Jitty.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Oh Jitty okay like uncle j Okay, No it's not,
but anyway, that's besides me. So the whole thing goes on.
It turns out its scam. I contact somebody to alert
them as to what happened, and they say it's very,
very common. These scams are going on all day, every day,
and our government is not concerned with.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Stopping old people having their bank accounts drained. North Korea's
inding and spies. Our country should focus on this and
punish it
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