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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show is on the air.
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Happy day or happy day?
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Whiny those war.
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When he war?
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Whiny those war?
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H she was the way he loved hay day.
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Or have you date?
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Or happy day?
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When those wars? Many war?
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Wouldn't you this war?
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Sheel the way he loved a happy day, a happy
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day or a happy day?
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Happy winter, those wars, oh waity war.
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Winter, those war.
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Three years away?
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A happy day, odd happy.
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God, happy de hound, happy day, Oh happy day, when
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Jesus wool.
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When it was.
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When Jose war.
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Three years away?
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He didn't love me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It was from Chicago. I thought I would check on
his baseball allegiance. I figured he was a Cubs fan.
But they're saying his allegiance is to the Cardinals. No nothing.
It's our Mother's Day edition, one of our favorite shows
ever seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand and
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seven one three, nine, nine nine, one thousand. To get
a start, as we always do, courtesy of literally the
greatest executive producer in all the land, Chatticoni Nakanishi, we
can listen to how Bad nineteen ninety one, the number
one song of the year is Brian Adams. Everything I do,
I do it for you. Everything I do it for you.
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Know it's true.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
No, it's true.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Everything i'd do, I'd do it. Slow down, Brian.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
This morning, than Trump is directing the federal government to
reopen Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on the San Francisco
Bay known as the Frock.
Speaker 9 (06:08):
The president says he wants to reopen alcatraus because he's
frustrated with judges who have placed roadblocks on parts of
his agendas. Long bit of symbol, Alca drives, it's a
symbol of.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Law and order.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The left lost her mind in most Americans cheer? Why
did Americans cheer? Because that is the Rock, That is
the Siberia. That is the place you send the ruthless,
violent offenders. We don't even want them on our soil.
We want them over there. Police charging the woman they
say defecated on another driver's callificated on another driver's car,
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defecating on a car hood. This is all after an
apparent dispute with the driver walking to another woman's car.
She appeared to defecate on the car.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
To be able to put on a car like that
was impressive, but it was discussing at the same sense.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But for me to drop a noose on somebody's hood,
I'd have to get back there, get into a squatting position,
pull my iPhone out, start reading the Facebook comments. I'd
have to get everything comfortable. I think by that time
it did run me over.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Mom, Mommy, let me, Mama, Mama, Mama.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Reminder Mother's Day this Sunday. You better call Connie Stagner
to Corey Diamonds. You better make your reservations with Gringos
or Federal American Grill or Big City Wings. You better
start getting the kids. Make a card for mom. He's
an innocent little boy. She's a single mom.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
She fails his prom the tolls, he fails hard to
He's a reman of pounds.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He's a child, of course. All right, your call seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand. What made your
mother special? Jesus Mom? Seven one three nine one thousand,
and fellas win some points with your girl's the mother
of your children?
Speaker 11 (08:11):
What does she do that you marvel at? She's got
the time and energy the patients to do that. Seven
one three nine one thousand. The Michael Barry Show to
be your in.
Speaker 12 (08:33):
Then you kids back singing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
There was from a number of you of the theaters,
more recently than ever, that you went looking to buy
Friday's Coming by Pat Green and couldn't find it on
your music subscription site. And the answer is, I don't know.
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We have we own it so we can play it.
We don't play it off of a subscription service. Saw
a meme a couple of days ago and it said,
you want to know why my generation is angry because
we grew up and not me. I think it was
Ramon's generation. We grew up with CDs and they told
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us we had to buy it. Well, I want to
say we grew up cassettes. They told us we had
to buy CDs. Then CDs turned into was there something
after that? Before music subscription? Maybe it was albums to CDs,
albums to cassettes to CDs to music to oh maybe
MP three's that's exactly what it was to music subscriptions.
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And now we don't own our music and we have
to pay for it, which is an interesting trick, isn't it.
There was a time where you owned your music and
you didn't have to pay every you paid for it,
But then you didn't have to pay every month. I
don't know. I've never been a big music ownership guy,
so I don't know, but it is rather interesting when
you think about it. Let's go to Cynthia. Cynthia, you
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are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, Good.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Morning, Michael. What a wonderful way to start the day.
Honoring our mother. Yes, my mother passed the one. My
mother passed away in July fourth, two thousand and nine.
And you know, you just never get over the loss
of your mother. But I wanted to honor her by saying,
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she raised seven children, two boys, five girls, and she
made it her most important goal was to make sure
they were saved and they would be in having one
day with her. And of course my dad too. My
dad was disabled after a while, and so she had
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a hard time raising seven children. But she did a
wonderful job.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You know, I think we had two kids, and I wonder,
you know, those big families like that, You don't see
very much of that any longer, But how those mothers
held it together. You know, you figure it out, you
learn some techniques, you stop sweating the small stuff and
and things like that. But it's just incredible to me
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to think of a woman birthing seven children and raising
seven children at a time when you couldn't just hand
them an iPad and say get lost for a few
hours and don't bother me. It really is. It's an
amazing thing. It's uh, where'd you grow up, Cynthia.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Truly Texas? Around Tatum and Henderson, which is Henderson Tatum
was between Henderson and Marshall. Oh, okay, I call it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I know that area.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Three your hold, I said, Highway forty three.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Hi Way forty three three. Printer was humming along. My
mother's people are from Tyler, Troup that area, so I
know Rusk, Jacksonville and that all around there. Marshall, Yeah,
that's that's That's a wonderful part of the state. It's
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so verdant, it's so beautifully green. I love that drive
from here to Tyler. I guess that's forty five north
you're going in and it cuts over at some point.
It is so so pretty through there. I absolutely love it,
absolutely love it. It's glorious. Well, thank you for the call, Cynthia.
Thank you very much. Our mothers how much we love them. Ramona,
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you have the do you have the tributes to moms there.
Let's start with with Uncle Ted. Ted Nugent last year
did a tribute to mothers on Mother's.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
Day for us a Mother's Day at the Nugent household,
we celebrate Mother's Day every day because my mother, my Nude,
was so full of fire and pisson, vinegar and energy
and great positive spirit that she supported everything her loving
sons and daughters stood for and celebrated every day.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Happy Mother's Day every day from the Nugent family. How
about our own Chad Knakanishi with his message to do
in a Kawanishi Hello, cco, Hello all.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
You just wanted to wish my mom duenna ignatio Kawanishi,
Holyela makuahine from her Butterball. She actually used to call
me her quote butterball. Butter ball, Yeah, butterball. Love looking
at my baby pictures from back in the day. Because
my mom had an afro true story called an afro.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I can't see dwelling with an afro. That's hilarious. Kevin Europe, Sir,
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
I want to wish my mother, Phyllis Bainbridge a happy
Mother's Day from her number one son Kevin and then
her other son Larry and her wonderful daughter Kim. But
she was a wonderful mother. I'm just joking. And she
did a great job raising all of us. And she
worked nights for twenty five years at the Nabisco Bakery
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packing cookies. So she would go to work at ten
o'clock at night, come home at eight o'clock in the morning,
sleep till four and still was able to somehow take
care of me because I was the youngest.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
That's amazing. Did she ever bring home to Besco cookies
for y'all?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Sometimes they had like the welfare ben like you know,
the damaged cookies, and like they could buy them for
like ten cents of box or something. But if I
would go up there, like sometimes my dad would drive
her to work when she would have to work like
an eighteen hour shift, and she would sneak some fresh
cookies out of the bakery and bring them down to
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the stairs. It was cool. But they would never let
us go on a tour or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
What kind of that bunny dudes were they?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I mean, I don't know, it's a hospital now, yeah, um, yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It's interesting. Where did y'all?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Where did your mother and we grew up in Greenspoort.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, no, it's green when we think about how much
our mothers struggled and now we don't struggle like that.
You think how hard, how tired she had to be
all the time. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
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It's our Mother's Day special on this Friday, Sunday is
Mother's Day. Federal American Grill one of our sponsors who's
doing something for Mother's Day. They have a special menu.
It is rather elaborate, and they what they still make
them clean the dishes. Yet you mean the mothers, Well, yeah,
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some mothers have to work there. Although it's mostly fellas
in the kitchen. I've been in all his kitchens. It's
mostly fellas. That's true of gringoes, that's true of Federal
American Grill. That's just the way the way it is.
I don't know. There are some women, but not as
many as the men. I'll tell you that Federal American
Grill great place to take mom. Connie Stagner has a
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deal going on where if you come in and buy
jewelry I think you spend two fifty or more, you
get a gift card to gringos and all sorts of
cool stuff. I asked her what the deal was, and
she sent it and I can't find the email. But
it's kind of an all in one there. You get
to take care of all of it, plants for all seasons.
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Good place to take mom. I'm sure they're open on Sunday,
but I need to check on two forty nine. But
the ladies love, love, love gardening and their flowers, or
at least my wife does. And what's mom's greatest skill?
Every mom, not just Jewish moms, every mom was certainly
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my mom's greatest skill. As the scar Brothers said, it
is their greatest superpower.
Speaker 14 (17:11):
Our parents still live in Saint Louis, and they still
live there. First of all, our mom, she's she's got
her stuff too. Yeah, she is, like, we're grown men. Okay,
I'm thirty one, we're both thirty one, I'm married, and
yet our mom still has the power of passive aggressive guilt.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Over the two of us.
Speaker 14 (17:24):
He can get us to do stuff without actually asking.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Us to do it. We figured it out.
Speaker 14 (17:27):
If our mom was a comic book villain, she'd be
the worst villain ever. The almighty guilt, our almighty guilt,
literally like people would be cowering in her pressing her guilt.
Can't feel my leg you. I feel the need to
get my uncle Ricky a birthday content.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
She's in the corner. Well, he's your only uncle. Suddenly
I must shovel the driveway again. Well, if you want
your father to slip, how do you do it?
Speaker 14 (17:55):
Amazing that she gets it. Here's the story that illustrates
that I had to get a new car because I
was drying around a crappy car. I had a nineteen
ninety three Nissan Ultimate. Hello, ladies, how you doing there?
You are awful?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I forgot that.
Speaker 14 (18:06):
Awful Here Taylor's way. We were driving along in l
A and I hit a pothole in my right front
hub captures flew off, and we looked at each other
and we were like, just let it go.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's let it go home to its mom. More ghetto
fabulous Now work for Right Now. One of the best
albums in all of comedy, Believe it or not. It's
the scar Brothers. It it has the it has the
it was NHR National Hot Rod Association vehicle out front
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not a funny car. But I forget what they call that.
Pastorin he would know he raced them. He raced against uh, Shirley.
What's the woman's name, Shirley. He beat her and he
beat the big daddy Don Garlics. It's amazing. But the
album is called Scar Brothers like Pimping and Popping or
something like that. That album that is a fan fantastic.
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Bobby Crumpley, who's normally pretty serious, says like I mean,
normally just goofy joke, says like I tell you every year,
the second greatest gift that God gave us is a
mother's love. That is the truth. That is the truth.
Let's go to Andrew. Andrew, you're on the Michael Berry Show,
a Mother's Day special, Take it away.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
Thank you, Michael. I just want to say to those
individuals that have had their mother past the age of ten,
God bless you. You know the love you know your mother.
But to go on and say, for Mother's Day, the
mother of my children today, she's been a wonderful woman.
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She stood by me, she stood behind me, and she's
gotten in my face and we've gotten in each other's face,
and she is one wonderful marine's wife. She has endured,
she has sacrificed, and she has done for the children,
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and she has been a wonderful woman for her Mother's day. Yeah,
I'm gonna treat her out, and I'm thinking about giving
her more DID presidency than anything that's material outside of
that DID presidents. But she wants it that way. So
my chief of staff, my financial officer, I want to
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say thank you to her, and thank you to those women,
those mothers that are similar mirror image of the one
that I've got. Thank you very much. God bless you mothers, and.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
I'll be praying for you this coming Sunday.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Andrew. Sure, I think you are the first Hispanic Andrew
I've ever met.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
Thank you, Michael, you've met my daughter?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Who's your years ago? Who's your daughter?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
My daughter wash Is today is Ortis?
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Did I meet her at the RCC, No, sir, you
met her when uh, when she was when she was
beaten and uh in the fight because she wouldn't speak Spanish.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Oh yes, Wow, you know so many of these that.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Was my granddaughter, my granddaughter.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's okay. Uh. You know it's interesting. So many of
these stories they draw, they draw such intense interest, and
then they fade away and you forget it, and then
someone brings it up. I thought about Joe Horn the
other day. I wanted to bring Joe Horn back. I
haven't called him, but he'd rather not be in the
public eye again. But you remember Joe Horn, how much
we talked about his case. It was so interesting. How
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did I know he was Hispanic? There were a couple
of tells, but I'll tell you. I'll give you the
one that's the most distinctive. A lot of Hispanics use
the well when they say mirror. They say mirror in
my ro and they don't even know they do it.
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But if you hear it, you hear somebody talking like
a phone caller, and they say, you know, and I
look in the mirror, that that's Hispanic. That's one hundred percent. Uh,
there's something about well. I think originally there was something
about the R to the R. Although so many unconjugated verbs.
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What's the term for an unconjugated verb like morier. It's
an R vowel R. And so it's not that it's
not possible Rompare's. There's so many. So I don't know
why it ended up that way. So I don't know
that it's an inability to say it. Spanish language first speakers.
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You talk to somebody who comes to this country that's
a Spanish language speaker. When they come here, especially if
they learn English as an adult, they will struggle to
say words that start with S. They will put a
vowel in there. I went to the school they and
that is because they're not used to making that sound
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with a word starting in with an S. You'll notice
they'll put they'll put half a vowel in front of
that S. A couple other little little tales. Also, he
just loves his family, which is a very Hispanic thing,
especially the way he loves, loves, loves his wife. And
he's a marine. A lot of hispanis a marine. Lena
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Hidalgo is overwhelmed as a request by sheriff's deputies. Oh,
she had another melt down yesterday that Rodney couldn't save
it from. I'll tell you about that. We'll talk about
my people who care about looking good while doing evil.
To Michael Barry, Fel, I know you, but it does
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feel like you by myself. She's pulling it down just
so I can't make fun guys work, Brian, You're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Go ahead, sir, heard mister Barry. Have you ever heard
that song by Craig Morgan called tough?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I don't know that I have.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
That is my mother to a t Back in two
thousand and six. July four, two thousand and six, she
almost lost her life in a car accident. She was
hit by drunk drivers. It was the hospital for I
believe it was three weeks. We didn't know she'd go
make it for the first three days. Two years after that,
she cut three of her fingers off and home I
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perfect accident.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Oh do all my dad?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
What?
Speaker 12 (25:01):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Sorry? In a home improvement accident? Something about your dad?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Yeah, she was doing the home and prove project with
my dad.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And what was she doing.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
They were cutting wood for a cabinet or something like that.
My dad saw on the piece of wood and it
slipped and cut the heir her fingers off. It hurt
my dad pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So was he injured in the accident as well?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
No, just hurt menally.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Oh can you imagine, because oh.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yeah, he was holding He was holding the same past
away in twenty twelve and he was her rock. But
today she's doing great. There's not a day that goes by.
She's not out of the yard, working, cutting grass, planting flowers,
cleaning house. She got three wonderful grand babies. She babysits
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all the time. She's sixty six years old, and she
is so positive. She is a very religious love and why,
I just don't say how she does that. She is
way topper than I am.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Made of sterner stuff, made of sterner stuff. My mom
passed September nineteenth, so this is my first Mother's Day
without her, and I pulled together some audio of her
voice so that I would have it and one of
my favorites. After my brother Chris passed away January twenty
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fifth of twenty two, my good friend Ray Hunt at
the Houston Police Officers Union sent her a care package
because he knew she would be down. And it took
her a little while because she kind of she just
destroyed her devastator. Took her a little while to be
able to call and thank him. She just couldn't bring
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herself to communicate with anybody. It was really devastating for her.
But she left this voicemail for him, and so he
sent this back to me after she passed because he
knew I was pulling together audio of her.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Mister Hunt, this is Loretta Berry.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I just wanted to thank you for your kind gesture,
the shirts and the cups, and especially.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
The note I'm just now getting for her.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I can do things pertained to Chris, and it was
such a sweet, sweet gesture that I just wanted to
thank you. Speaking of which, today at seven o'clock, the
Houston Police Officer's Memorial. If you've never been to that,
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it's a beautiful, beautiful ceremony. You should arrive at the
Police Officers Union at six and then they walk over.
We've lost one hundred and twenty two HPD officers since
the founding of the department. Fortunately, not one since October
thirteenth of twenty twenty one, so it's been almost four years,
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which is a good thing. You think about one hundred
and twenty two officers killed in the line, that died
in the line of duty, you know, there's not a
lot of four I'm looking at the years, there's not
a lot of four year runs, and there's some years
that it's multiple officers. The families show up there at
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the Union Hall and then the public everyone is invited.
Memorial will be closed down and they will you meet
at the Union Hall, which is one street over and
then everybody walks over together. It's a really nice thing.
I go through these names, and it's interesting because I
can remember a lot of these stories. I remember what
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happened at the time. Some of them went to the funeral.
The last one going back were John will Banks, Bill Jeffrey,
Ernest lay All. I hand wrote these, so these aren't
easy for me to see. Rios. I forget Rio's his
name stars on the s. My handwriting so bad. William, Jeffrey,
Harold Preston. Remember Harold Preston story, It was terrible. Jason
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Michael Knox, he was a big listener to our show,
died in a helicopter crash. Chris Brewster, Steven Albert Perez,
Richard Keith Martin in twenty fifteen, Kevin Scott, will Idelman Money,
Henry Karnalis, Timothy Abernethy. I believe Abernethy is the one
that they if you're out I ten at about Highway six,
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Williams brothers, I believe is the one who who was
building that bridge there that overpassed, and they put a
tribute to him. They just did it on their own.
They just built it in there because that happened at time.
Gary Grider, I remember that Rodney Johnson. Rodney Johnson's one
who was shot by a lee alien. He arrested a
guy he'd been deported before, put the guy in the
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back seat, and the guy had a gun secreted up
his butthole or somewhere in his somewhere in his private regions,
and with handcuffs on him sitting in the back, he
managed to pull that pistol out and shoot Rodney Johnson
six times through the through the seat into his back.
So Rodney Johnson is in the front seat dying, and
he's in the back seat having shot him and cannot
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get out of the car. You think you don't realize
they saw off the the door handle inside, you stupid
illegal alien. The proper answer would be to walk up
to him, put a pistol to his head like a
dying dog, and blast his brains out, but unfortunately they didn't.
Reuben d Leone Frank Kinto Junior Charles Clark. I believe
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Charles Clark was the one that was out off the
South Beltway, pulled up on a I guess it was
a convenience store, might have been a check cashing, but
I believe it was a convenience store, and he pulled
up there by himself, and he walked into guy ambushed
him and killed him when he went inside. Keith D's
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Alberto Vasquez, Dennis Holmes, Jerry Stowe, Tony, Tony, Troy, Sorry, Troy, Blando,
Kent Kincaid, Kwong h Trend or Tony as we knew him.
Tony was the first HPD officer I knew to die.
He I went to University of Houston together his parents,
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Vietnamese family. His parents owned a Sonny's, remember the Sonnies
little convenience store. He was working off duty. The guy
comes in to rob him, takes his wallet. When he
takes his wallet, he opens it up and there's his
HPD badge. Uh oh, that's a cop. This is going
to be bad. Turns and shoots and kills.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
H mem.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That's why it's called in a line of duty. Because
he died because he was an officer. Terrible story, terrible story.
Cool cat hate that. It would have been fun today
to catch up with him about our days in college
and in him at that point being a cop. He
went straight into being a cop straight out of school.
So that would have been twenty twenty eight years ago. Shoot,
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he'd have over thirty years on now, he'd have this
great retirement. Here's me and you over here, just slogging away,
Ramon slogging away. Look at him like surfs
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Happy day or happy day?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Whiny those war.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
When he war?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Whiny those war?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
H she was the way he loved hay day.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Or have you date?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Or happy day?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
When those wars? Many war?
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Wouldn't you this war?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Sheel the way he loved a happy day, a happy
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day or a happy day?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Happy winter, those wars, oh waity war.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Winter, those war.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Three years away?
Speaker 8 (02:35):
A happy day, odd happy.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
God, happy de hound, happy day, Oh happy day, when
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Jesus wool.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
When it was.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
When Jose war.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Three years away?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
He didn't love me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It was from Chicago. I thought I would check on
his baseball allegiance. I figured he was a Cubs fan.
But they're saying his allegiance is to the Cardinals. No nothing.
It's our Mother's Day edition, one of our favorite shows
ever seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand and
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seven one three, nine, nine nine, one thousand. To get
a start, as we always do, courtesy of literally the
greatest executive producer in all the land, Chatticoni Nakanishi, we
can listen to how Bad nineteen ninety one, the number
one song of the year is Brian Adams. Everything I do,
I do it for you. Everything I do it for you.
(05:51):
Know it's true.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
No, it's true.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Everything i'd do, I'd do it. Slow down, Brian.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
This morning, than Trump is directing the federal government to
reopen Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on the San Francisco
Bay known as the Frock.
Speaker 9 (06:08):
The president says he wants to reopen alcatraus because he's
frustrated with judges who have placed roadblocks on parts of
his agendas. Long bit of symbol, Alca drives, it's a
symbol of.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Law and order.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The left lost her mind in most Americans cheer? Why
did Americans cheer? Because that is the Rock, That is
the Siberia. That is the place you send the ruthless,
violent offenders. We don't even want them on our soil.
We want them over there. Police charging the woman they
say defecated on another driver's callificated on another driver's car,
(06:42):
defecating on a car hood. This is all after an
apparent dispute with the driver walking to another woman's car.
She appeared to defecate on the car.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
To be able to put on a car like that
was impressive, but it was discussing at the same sense.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But for me to drop a noose on somebody's hood,
I'd have to get back there, get into a squatting position,
pull my iPhone out, start reading the Facebook comments. I'd
have to get everything comfortable. I think by that time
it did run me over.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Mom, Mommy, let me, Mama, Mama, Mama.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Reminder Mother's Day this Sunday. You better call Connie Stagner
to Corey Diamonds. You better make your reservations with Gringos
or Federal American Grill or Big City Wings. You better
start getting the kids. Make a card for mom. He's
an innocent little boy. She's a single mom.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
She fails his prom the tolls, he fails hard to
He's a reman of pounds.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He's a child, of course. All right, your call seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand. What made your
mother special? Jesus Mom? Seven one three nine one thousand,
and fellas win some points with your girl's the mother
of your children?
Speaker 11 (08:11):
What does she do that you marvel at? She's got
the time and energy the patients to do that. Seven
one three nine one thousand. The Michael Barry Show to
be your in.
Speaker 12 (08:33):
Then you kids back singing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
There was from a number of you of the theaters,
more recently than ever, that you went looking to buy
Friday's Coming by Pat Green and couldn't find it on
your music subscription site. And the answer is, I don't know.
(08:57):
We have we own it so we can play it.
We don't play it off of a subscription service. Saw
a meme a couple of days ago and it said,
you want to know why my generation is angry because
we grew up and not me. I think it was
Ramon's generation. We grew up with CDs and they told
(09:19):
us we had to buy it. Well, I want to
say we grew up cassettes. They told us we had
to buy CDs. Then CDs turned into was there something
after that? Before music subscription? Maybe it was albums to CDs,
albums to cassettes to CDs to music to oh maybe
MP three's that's exactly what it was to music subscriptions.
(09:42):
And now we don't own our music and we have
to pay for it, which is an interesting trick, isn't it.
There was a time where you owned your music and
you didn't have to pay every you paid for it,
But then you didn't have to pay every month. I
don't know. I've never been a big music ownership guy,
so I don't know, but it is rather interesting when
you think about it. Let's go to Cynthia. Cynthia, you
(10:04):
are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, Good.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Morning, Michael. What a wonderful way to start the day.
Honoring our mother. Yes, my mother passed the one. My
mother passed away in July fourth, two thousand and nine.
And you know, you just never get over the loss
of your mother. But I wanted to honor her by saying,
(10:30):
she raised seven children, two boys, five girls, and she
made it her most important goal was to make sure
they were saved and they would be in having one
day with her. And of course my dad too. My
dad was disabled after a while, and so she had
(10:51):
a hard time raising seven children. But she did a
wonderful job.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You know, I think we had two kids, and I wonder,
you know, those big families like that, You don't see
very much of that any longer, But how those mothers
held it together. You know, you figure it out, you
learn some techniques, you stop sweating the small stuff and
and things like that. But it's just incredible to me
(11:19):
to think of a woman birthing seven children and raising
seven children at a time when you couldn't just hand
them an iPad and say get lost for a few
hours and don't bother me. It really is. It's an
amazing thing. It's uh, where'd you grow up, Cynthia.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Truly Texas? Around Tatum and Henderson, which is Henderson Tatum
was between Henderson and Marshall. Oh, okay, I call it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I know that area.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Three your hold, I said, Highway forty three.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Hi Way forty three three. Printer was humming along. My
mother's people are from Tyler, Troup that area, so I
know Rusk, Jacksonville and that all around there. Marshall, Yeah,
that's that's That's a wonderful part of the state. It's
(12:18):
so verdant, it's so beautifully green. I love that drive
from here to Tyler. I guess that's forty five north
you're going in and it cuts over at some point.
It is so so pretty through there. I absolutely love it,
absolutely love it. It's glorious. Well, thank you for the call, Cynthia.
Thank you very much. Our mothers how much we love them. Ramona,
(12:41):
you have the do you have the tributes to moms there.
Let's start with with Uncle Ted. Ted Nugent last year
did a tribute to mothers on Mother's.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
Day for us a Mother's Day at the Nugent household,
we celebrate Mother's Day every day because my mother, my Nude,
was so full of fire and pisson, vinegar and energy
and great positive spirit that she supported everything her loving
sons and daughters stood for and celebrated every day.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Happy Mother's Day every day from the Nugent family. How
about our own Chad Knakanishi with his message to do
in a Kawanishi Hello, cco, Hello all.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
You just wanted to wish my mom duenna ignatio Kawanishi,
Holyela makuahine from her Butterball. She actually used to call
me her quote butterball. Butter ball, Yeah, butterball. Love looking
at my baby pictures from back in the day. Because
my mom had an afro true story called an afro.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I can't see dwelling with an afro. That's hilarious. Kevin Europe, Sir,
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
I want to wish my mother, Phyllis Bainbridge a happy
Mother's Day from her number one son Kevin and then
her other son Larry and her wonderful daughter Kim. But
she was a wonderful mother. I'm just joking. And she
did a great job raising all of us. And she
worked nights for twenty five years at the Nabisco Bakery
(14:15):
packing cookies. So she would go to work at ten
o'clock at night, come home at eight o'clock in the morning,
sleep till four and still was able to somehow take
care of me because I was the youngest.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
That's amazing. Did she ever bring home to Besco cookies
for y'all?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Sometimes they had like the welfare ben like you know,
the damaged cookies, and like they could buy them for
like ten cents of box or something. But if I
would go up there, like sometimes my dad would drive
her to work when she would have to work like
an eighteen hour shift, and she would sneak some fresh
cookies out of the bakery and bring them down to
(14:53):
the stairs. It was cool. But they would never let
us go on a tour or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
What kind of that bunny dudes were they?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I mean, I don't know, it's a hospital now, yeah, um, yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
It's interesting. Where did y'all?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Where did your mother and we grew up in Greenspoort.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, no, it's green when we think about how much
our mothers struggled and now we don't struggle like that.
You think how hard, how tired she had to be
all the time. Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
(15:38):
It's our Mother's Day special on this Friday, Sunday is
Mother's Day. Federal American Grill one of our sponsors who's
doing something for Mother's Day. They have a special menu.
It is rather elaborate, and they what they still make
them clean the dishes. Yet you mean the mothers, Well, yeah,
(16:00):
some mothers have to work there. Although it's mostly fellas
in the kitchen. I've been in all his kitchens. It's
mostly fellas. That's true of gringoes, that's true of Federal
American Grill. That's just the way the way it is.
I don't know. There are some women, but not as
many as the men. I'll tell you that Federal American
Grill great place to take mom. Connie Stagner has a
(16:21):
deal going on where if you come in and buy
jewelry I think you spend two fifty or more, you
get a gift card to gringos and all sorts of
cool stuff. I asked her what the deal was, and
she sent it and I can't find the email. But
it's kind of an all in one there. You get
to take care of all of it, plants for all seasons.
(16:43):
Good place to take mom. I'm sure they're open on Sunday,
but I need to check on two forty nine. But
the ladies love, love, love gardening and their flowers, or
at least my wife does. And what's mom's greatest skill?
Every mom, not just Jewish moms, every mom was certainly
(17:05):
my mom's greatest skill. As the scar Brothers said, it
is their greatest superpower.
Speaker 14 (17:11):
Our parents still live in Saint Louis, and they still
live there. First of all, our mom, she's she's got
her stuff too. Yeah, she is, like, we're grown men. Okay,
I'm thirty one, we're both thirty one, I'm married, and
yet our mom still has the power of passive aggressive guilt.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Over the two of us.
Speaker 14 (17:24):
He can get us to do stuff without actually asking.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Us to do it. We figured it out.
Speaker 14 (17:27):
If our mom was a comic book villain, she'd be
the worst villain ever. The almighty guilt, our almighty guilt,
literally like people would be cowering in her pressing her guilt.
Can't feel my leg you. I feel the need to
get my uncle Ricky a birthday content.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
She's in the corner. Well, he's your only uncle. Suddenly
I must shovel the driveway again. Well, if you want
your father to slip, how do you do it?
Speaker 14 (17:55):
Amazing that she gets it. Here's the story that illustrates
that I had to get a new car because I
was drying around a crappy car. I had a nineteen
ninety three Nissan Ultimate. Hello, ladies, how you doing there?
You are awful?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I forgot that.
Speaker 14 (18:06):
Awful Here Taylor's way. We were driving along in l
A and I hit a pothole in my right front
hub captures flew off, and we looked at each other
and we were like, just let it go.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's let it go home to its mom. More ghetto
fabulous Now work for Right Now. One of the best
albums in all of comedy, Believe it or not. It's
the scar Brothers. It it has the it has the
it was NHR National Hot Rod Association vehicle out front
(18:38):
not a funny car. But I forget what they call that.
Pastorin he would know he raced them. He raced against uh, Shirley.
What's the woman's name, Shirley. He beat her and he
beat the big daddy Don Garlics. It's amazing. But the
album is called Scar Brothers like Pimping and Popping or
something like that. That album that is a fan fantastic.
(19:00):
Bobby Crumpley, who's normally pretty serious, says like I mean,
normally just goofy joke, says like I tell you every year,
the second greatest gift that God gave us is a
mother's love. That is the truth. That is the truth.
Let's go to Andrew. Andrew, you're on the Michael Berry Show,
a Mother's Day special, Take it away.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
Thank you, Michael. I just want to say to those
individuals that have had their mother past the age of ten,
God bless you. You know the love you know your mother.
But to go on and say, for Mother's Day, the
mother of my children today, she's been a wonderful woman.
(19:47):
She stood by me, she stood behind me, and she's
gotten in my face and we've gotten in each other's face,
and she is one wonderful marine's wife. She has endured,
she has sacrificed, and she has done for the children,
(20:09):
and she has been a wonderful woman for her Mother's day. Yeah,
I'm gonna treat her out, and I'm thinking about giving
her more DID presidency than anything that's material outside of
that DID presidents. But she wants it that way. So
my chief of staff, my financial officer, I want to
(20:32):
say thank you to her, and thank you to those women,
those mothers that are similar mirror image of the one
that I've got. Thank you very much. God bless you mothers, and.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
I'll be praying for you this coming Sunday.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Andrew. Sure, I think you are the first Hispanic Andrew
I've ever met.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
Thank you, Michael, you've met my daughter?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Who's your years ago? Who's your daughter?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
My daughter wash Is today is Ortis?
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Did I meet her at the RCC, No, sir, you
met her when uh, when she was when she was
beaten and uh in the fight because she wouldn't speak Spanish.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Oh yes, Wow, you know so many of these that.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Was my granddaughter, my granddaughter.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's okay. Uh. You know it's interesting. So many of
these stories they draw, they draw such intense interest, and
then they fade away and you forget it, and then
someone brings it up. I thought about Joe Horn the
other day. I wanted to bring Joe Horn back. I
haven't called him, but he'd rather not be in the
public eye again. But you remember Joe Horn, how much
we talked about his case. It was so interesting. How
(21:58):
did I know he was Hispanic? There were a couple
of tells, but I'll tell you. I'll give you the
one that's the most distinctive. A lot of Hispanics use
the well when they say mirror. They say mirror in
my ro and they don't even know they do it.
(22:19):
But if you hear it, you hear somebody talking like
a phone caller, and they say, you know, and I
look in the mirror, that that's Hispanic. That's one hundred percent. Uh,
there's something about well. I think originally there was something
about the R to the R. Although so many unconjugated verbs.
(22:42):
What's the term for an unconjugated verb like morier. It's
an R vowel R. And so it's not that it's
not possible Rompare's. There's so many. So I don't know
why it ended up that way. So I don't know
that it's an inability to say it. Spanish language first speakers.
(23:06):
You talk to somebody who comes to this country that's
a Spanish language speaker. When they come here, especially if
they learn English as an adult, they will struggle to
say words that start with S. They will put a
vowel in there. I went to the school they and
that is because they're not used to making that sound
(23:28):
with a word starting in with an S. You'll notice
they'll put they'll put half a vowel in front of
that S. A couple other little little tales. Also, he
just loves his family, which is a very Hispanic thing,
especially the way he loves, loves, loves his wife. And
he's a marine. A lot of hispanis a marine. Lena
(23:50):
Hidalgo is overwhelmed as a request by sheriff's deputies. Oh,
she had another melt down yesterday that Rodney couldn't save
it from. I'll tell you about that. We'll talk about
my people who care about looking good while doing evil.
To Michael Barry, Fel, I know you, but it does
(24:11):
feel like you by myself. She's pulling it down just
so I can't make fun guys work, Brian, You're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Go ahead, sir, heard mister Barry. Have you ever heard
that song by Craig Morgan called tough?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I don't know that I have.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
That is my mother to a t Back in two
thousand and six. July four, two thousand and six, she
almost lost her life in a car accident. She was
hit by drunk drivers. It was the hospital for I
believe it was three weeks. We didn't know she'd go
make it for the first three days. Two years after that,
she cut three of her fingers off and home I
(24:58):
perfect accident.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Oh do all my dad?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
What?
Speaker 12 (25:01):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Sorry? In a home improvement accident? Something about your dad?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Yeah, she was doing the home and prove project with
my dad.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And what was she doing.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
They were cutting wood for a cabinet or something like that.
My dad saw on the piece of wood and it
slipped and cut the heir her fingers off. It hurt
my dad pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
So was he injured in the accident as well?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
No, just hurt menally.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Oh can you imagine, because oh.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yeah, he was holding He was holding the same past
away in twenty twelve and he was her rock. But
today she's doing great. There's not a day that goes by.
She's not out of the yard, working, cutting grass, planting flowers,
cleaning house. She got three wonderful grand babies. She babysits
(26:03):
all the time. She's sixty six years old, and she
is so positive. She is a very religious love and why,
I just don't say how she does that. She is
way topper than I am.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Made of sterner stuff, made of sterner stuff. My mom
passed September nineteenth, so this is my first Mother's Day
without her, and I pulled together some audio of her
voice so that I would have it and one of
my favorites. After my brother Chris passed away January twenty
(26:42):
fifth of twenty two, my good friend Ray Hunt at
the Houston Police Officers Union sent her a care package
because he knew she would be down. And it took
her a little while because she kind of she just
destroyed her devastator. Took her a little while to be
able to call and thank him. She just couldn't bring
(27:02):
herself to communicate with anybody. It was really devastating for her.
But she left this voicemail for him, and so he
sent this back to me after she passed because he
knew I was pulling together audio of her.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Mister Hunt, this is Loretta Berry.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I just wanted to thank you for your kind gesture,
the shirts and the cups, and especially.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
The note I'm just now getting for her.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I can do things pertained to Chris, and it was
such a sweet, sweet gesture that I just wanted to
thank you. Speaking of which, today at seven o'clock, the
Houston Police Officer's Memorial. If you've never been to that,
(27:49):
it's a beautiful, beautiful ceremony. You should arrive at the
Police Officers Union at six and then they walk over.
We've lost one hundred and twenty two HPD officers since
the founding of the department. Fortunately, not one since October
thirteenth of twenty twenty one, so it's been almost four years,
(28:10):
which is a good thing. You think about one hundred
and twenty two officers killed in the line, that died
in the line of duty, you know, there's not a
lot of four I'm looking at the years, there's not
a lot of four year runs, and there's some years
that it's multiple officers. The families show up there at
(28:33):
the Union Hall and then the public everyone is invited.
Memorial will be closed down and they will you meet
at the Union Hall, which is one street over and
then everybody walks over together. It's a really nice thing.
I go through these names, and it's interesting because I
can remember a lot of these stories. I remember what
(28:54):
happened at the time. Some of them went to the funeral.
The last one going back were John will Banks, Bill Jeffrey,
Ernest lay All. I hand wrote these, so these aren't
easy for me to see. Rios. I forget Rio's his
name stars on the s. My handwriting so bad. William, Jeffrey,
Harold Preston. Remember Harold Preston story, It was terrible. Jason
(29:17):
Michael Knox, he was a big listener to our show,
died in a helicopter crash. Chris Brewster, Steven Albert Perez,
Richard Keith Martin in twenty fifteen, Kevin Scott, will Idelman Money,
Henry Karnalis, Timothy Abernethy. I believe Abernethy is the one
that they if you're out I ten at about Highway six,
(29:42):
Williams brothers, I believe is the one who who was
building that bridge there that overpassed, and they put a
tribute to him. They just did it on their own.
They just built it in there because that happened at time.
Gary Grider, I remember that Rodney Johnson. Rodney Johnson's one
who was shot by a lee alien. He arrested a
guy he'd been deported before, put the guy in the
(30:04):
back seat, and the guy had a gun secreted up
his butthole or somewhere in his somewhere in his private regions,
and with handcuffs on him sitting in the back, he
managed to pull that pistol out and shoot Rodney Johnson
six times through the through the seat into his back.
So Rodney Johnson is in the front seat dying, and
he's in the back seat having shot him and cannot
(30:26):
get out of the car. You think you don't realize
they saw off the the door handle inside, you stupid
illegal alien. The proper answer would be to walk up
to him, put a pistol to his head like a
dying dog, and blast his brains out, but unfortunately they didn't.
Reuben d Leone Frank Kinto Junior Charles Clark. I believe
(30:48):
Charles Clark was the one that was out off the
South Beltway, pulled up on a I guess it was
a convenience store, might have been a check cashing, but
I believe it was a convenience store, and he pulled
up there by himself, and he walked into guy ambushed
him and killed him when he went inside. Keith D's
(31:11):
Alberto Vasquez, Dennis Holmes, Jerry Stowe, Tony, Tony, Troy, Sorry, Troy, Blando,
Kent Kincaid, Kwong h Trend or Tony as we knew him.
Tony was the first HPD officer I knew to die.
He I went to University of Houston together his parents,
(31:33):
Vietnamese family. His parents owned a Sonny's, remember the Sonnies
little convenience store. He was working off duty. The guy
comes in to rob him, takes his wallet. When he
takes his wallet, he opens it up and there's his
HPD badge. Uh oh, that's a cop. This is going
to be bad. Turns and shoots and kills.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
H mem.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That's why it's called in a line of duty. Because
he died because he was an officer. Terrible story, terrible story.
Cool cat hate that. It would have been fun today
to catch up with him about our days in college
and in him at that point being a cop. He
went straight into being a cop straight out of school.
So that would have been twenty twenty eight years ago. Shoot,
(32:15):
he'd have over thirty years on now, he'd have this
great retirement. Here's me and you over here, just slogging away,
Ramon slogging away. Look at him like surfs
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