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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time time, time, Luck and load.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air. All right.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is from my notes from about ten days ago.
So some of this may have changed, and I'm not
aware of it, but this is what I have for
the current lineup of what our elections for the spring
primary look like. There will be some maneuvering, and that's

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just the way it works. Some of that maneuvering will
be occasioned by the fact that some of the candidates
for some of these races aren't going to get any traction.
And when that happens, they're going to start looking around
for another race to run in, or they'll stay put
in the seat they're in. Now happens, It's always going to.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Happen, and it will happen this time.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
So we start with the Democrat side, where you've got
Congressional District eighteen, the seat long held by Sheila Jackson Lee,
first held by Barbara Jordan and Mickey Leland, and then
Craig Washington, and in of course the congress woman ah
Sheila Jackson leeke for thirty years. She ran for mayor
and loss went back the Monday following the Saturday loss

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and ran for reelection, got reelected knowing she was dying,
and died a few months later. Sylvester Turner was railroaded
into that position by the same people that put Lena
Hidalgo in and that are trying to put Sylvester's replacement
in there, and that's Rodney and Crewe. But Sylvester died
and so then that seat popped open, and now there

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is a runoff for that seat, and it's an open runoff.
In California, they call it a jungle primary, which is
everybody runs in both parties.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
There is an.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Advantage to being the only Republican in a race like
that in a Democrat seat, because in a general election
in a seat like Congressional District eighteen. I haven't looked
at the numbers lately, but let's say that district is
sixty forty Democrat Republican. If you could pick up the

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forty percent Republican votes and they showed up and voted
in the jungle primary or in the primary, your forty
percent now would be more than the twenty five percent
or so that the other folks get, so you could
manage to slide in there. The Democrats are very good
at taking seats away from US across the country. By
understanding dynamics like this, they don't leave it to the

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market as to who gets in and how they They
control it so they win them. So you've got Carmen
Maria Montel who is the Republican running in that race,
and she is by all accounts running at least in
second or in third or tied for second. She's doing
pretty well. With some effort, she could win that seat. Now,

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why would it matter that she win a congressional seat
that is a Democrat majority congressional seat if the Democrats
are just going to win it back next November, Because
you got all of twenty twenty six and that's a
Republican vote and we're down to the hair. We're splitting

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hairs over votes, right, So you've got a very very tight,
a very very tight house where you're barely keeping Trump
his initiatives passed. Picking up a Republican seat in what
was a Democrat seat, even if you were only able
to do it for a year, is massive because now

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it's a zero sum game. Your win is their loss.
So that's a two vote change in the composition of
the House. So this seat ends up taking on a
lot of significance, and I think with some help, Carmen
Maria Montelle could win this could win this primary.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
But we shall see.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
The Democrats are Amanda Edwards, Jolanda Jones, and Rodney's choice,
the county attorney, Christian Menafie. Jolanda Jones is a state rep.
She replaced me on city council when I left. Amanda
Edwards former state former city councilman. That race looks to

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be Jolanda Jones is leading. Menefee is not doing as
well as they thought he would do. There will be
some cheating on election day, but Jolanda is tough enough
to whip somebody's ass if she catches them doing it,
and I'm not sure, well, there will be cheating in
that election. The question will be who will be able
to out cheat the others. And that's going to be

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fun because it's primarily a Democrat primary, even though there's
a Republican Carmen in that. It'll be fun to watch
the Democrats cheat against each other and call each other cheaters,
which they will, mark my words. There will be accusations
of cheating in that congressional race.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
And by the.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Way, they'll be right, there will be cheating. Then you've
got City Council at large four. You've got over ten
candidates in that.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
We'll get to that race later. It will take a
lot of time.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Congressional District two, which is currently held by Dan Crenshaw.
With the redistricting, Crenshaw picked up more of Houston and
lost more of Montgomery County. That helps him. Grenshaw is
not popular in Montgomery County. He's not popular with conservative,
grassroots Republican voters. He does better with interloop twenty somethings

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who kind of not exactly a very doctrinal shall we say.
Steve Toath, the state rep running against him, I think
Toth wins that race running away without the redistricting. I
think he's got a tough race with the redistricting, but

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I think that if Toath can get the money to
get the message out, Prenshaw is so disliked among Republican
primary voters, so disliked that I think Toth wins, and
Tote is a grassroots guy, always has been. In Congressional
District eight, where just a few days ago, Congressman Morgan

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Latrelle announcing that he will not be seeking re election
Jessica Steinman is the first candidate in that race. I'm
sure there will be more. It's an open congressional race
in a Republican district. It's a fat pitch for somebody
wants to.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Hit a home run.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
There will be other candidates in Congressional District nine, currently
held by Al Green. He's one of the Democrats that sacrificed.
That was the reason Trump wanted the redistricting. In Congressional
District nine. You've got Briscoe Caine, the state rep in
that area, and you've got Alex Mieler, who ran for
county judge county wide. Several people have speculated that maybe

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Alex Mieler moves into Congressional District thirty eight. I don't
know that to be true. I have no reason to
believe that is true. But it's one of those things.
There will be some candidates that will run in Congressional
District thirty eight, which will now be open, with as today,
Wesley Hunt announcing he will be running for the US

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Senate against John Cornyn and of course the challenger, Ken Paxton.
So his congressional seat will pop open in a reliably
Republican seat. So you're going to see some folks coming
out of the woodworks for that one as well. The
Congressional District ten, which is now Michael McCall. McCall announcing

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this week that fortunately he's getting out of whatever he's doing.
I wouldn't call it public service, but being in Congress,
I am.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Delighted to see that.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
I don't know any of the names yet that are
looking at that seat to run in that seat. Greg
Abbott running for reelection as governor, Dan Patrick as Lieutenant governor,
Attorney General we talked about earlier. You've got Joan Huffman,
Mays Middleton, Aaron Wrights, who was our guest, Anne chip
Roy agg Commissioner Sid Miller being challenged by Nate Sheets,

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who's endorsed by mattress mac Land Commissioner Don Buckingham staying put,
I know she'd like to run for.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Another office Comptroller.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
You've got Don Huffines, Kelly Hancock, Christie Kradick More coming up.
Very a career criminal with a long rap sheet, arrested
for being a getaway driver where his accomplices posed as
cops during a home invasion a series of robberies. Those
two accomplices were shot dead by a homeowner.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Boy, do I love this? We'll play the story.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
But the best part of the story is not the
two dead robbers. The best part of the story is
the female neighbor of the home owner who says she
stays safe with a baseball bat in her room, telling
KPRCTV quote, You're gonna have to show me your badge
and your ID if you're not the police you get

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away from my door. Are you gonna get beat with
a baseball bat? That seems reasonable? I mean you agree
with them on that. That seems like a reasonable proposition.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Allegedly committing crimes as a fake comp landed Andres Torres
on the other side of the law and in front
of a Harris County judge. Court record show Torres didn't
have a driver's license, but was the getaway driver in
two home invasions, one of those happening in July at
an apartment complex in East Houston. Geraldine Eason is a

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neighbor who says she was shocked to learn about what happened.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
I didn't know what was going on.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Document showed the victims were hogtied with zip ties and
held a gunpoint while the gunmen robbed them while impersonating
law enforcement. A judge revealed more details than probable cause
corps over the weekend about another home invasion. Tours is
accused of at a home in southeast Houston last month.
Surveillance capture the sound of those deadly gunshots.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
The defendant is here as one of multiple defendants, but
those other two defendants are dead because one of those
home invasions resulted in the home runner in Texas shooting back.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
How do you stay safe?

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Oh, I stay in my room with my baseball.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Back, Ethan says she's taking extra steps to verify if
police knock on her door.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
You got to show me your bed and your hagi.
If you ain't the police, you get known with my duel. Oh,
you gonna get people a baseball bet.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
You got that, you understand you can show some O day.
Are you getting beat with a baseball beat?

Speaker 5 (10:49):
You got to show me your bed and your hagi.
If you ain't the police, you get non with my duel. Oh,
you gonna get people a baseball best.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
It's reasonable, I mean as a reasonable statement. Crime victims
forced to wait more than a year after the criminal
case is closed against the person who committed a crime
on them in order to get back there recovered stolen items.
HPD says part of the problem is because the Harris

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County District Attorney's Office did not always inform detectives when
a case was disposed of the story from Khou.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
The Economy may he's a crime victim as a delta
blow by those sworn to protect and sir, should you
have to and others like you wait this long? No,
it shouldn't have the beat his hard. Trent Nzagoise first
told us how he tracked his stolen car back in
twenty twenty three and called nine to one one. Police

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nabbed the thief, recovered his stolen jewelry, and the case
was closed last October, but the victims stolen stuff sat
on an HPDE property room show. I'm one person. How
many people on the list that had never gotten that
items back from Houston PD. We found a lot of
other stolen property like cameras, bicycles and air pods, air

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Jordan's shoes, and a whole lot of power tools, all
recovered but never returned. We've basically been victimized twice. Maya
Williams recovered stolen wedding rink was sitting on a shelf
since her case was closed more than two years ago
after Cage eleven investigates got involved. HPD finally shipped it
to Louisiana, where Williams lives. For her and this crime victim,

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it's been a long time coming. And Zagoize says this
pair of diamond bracelets cost him more than ten grand.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
It took two and a half years for me to
get this.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm happy, and it's bittersweet because it took you all
at the news station to do an investigation.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
And I probably would have never got this back if
it wouldn't have been for the news station.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
And HPD spokes and previously told us the Harris County
District Attorney's Office did not always notified detectives when a
case is disposed. It's working to make that process more
efficient going forward.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
You know a lot of times when you go into
a store, even the owner can be dismissive, can ignore you,
can be short with you. And maybe they've had a
long day, maybe they just got served to notice that
they're being sued. Maybe it's got bad news from their family.

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It happens, but it's very easy to lose sight of
what you're doing and who you're serving. And I think
this is true of district attorneys, assistant districts attorneys. I
think it's true of law enforcement. I think it's true
of everybody, including me. Sometimes you forget that that person

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in front of you is going to have an experience
from what you do right now. It's going to affect them,
and they deserve a positive experience. We're talking about crime
victims here. Police officers are sensitive to crime victims. We're

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all out to get the bad guy, but we can
never forget that there is a victim of this crime,
and that that person deserves our sympathy and our respect.
And when their item is stolen, they are separated from it.
You're lucky and in the minority messay if your item

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is recovered.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
But if that recovered item goes.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Into the evidence room to be used in a case
against the turd who stole it from you, and you're
separated from it for an extended period of time, that's wrong,
as simple as that. And a great police officer will
be mindful that we're going to get miss Jones her
earrings back, We're going to get mister Smith his watch back,

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whatever that may be. When you see a breakdown like this,
what you're seeing is not just a procedural failure, but
you're seeing a lack of understanding as to what our
mission is. Our mission is to prevent crimes when possible,

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to solve crimes every time, to bring criminals to justice,
and to do as much as possible to ameliorate the
damage done to a victim who did.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Not deserve this. Unfortunately, enough.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Conferences on sexual harassment and race relations and police brutality later,
and enough roll calls and enough memos to don't forget
to do this, and don't forget to do this, and
make sure your body cams on it you get fired,
and don't forget to do this, and do't forget to
do this, and don't forget to do this. And oh,
there was a complaint by somebody you arrested yesterday. They
claimed this, And there was another complaint by somebody you

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arrested yesterday, and there was another complaint by somebody. You
can forget, but that is your call to just be.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Betters sub gonna wuck all over.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
There's a story in the Houston Chronicle entitled how Republic
Boot Company made the Texans cheerleaders new dancing boots. The
Chronicles Leah Van writes this spring, the Houston Texans cheerleaders
crowded into Republic Boot Company on the corner of Studi
Wood in Eleventh in Houston's Heights neighborhood for a first

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of its kind uniform fitting their own custom made boots.
One by one, each cheerleader took her place on a
cowhide covered platform while a fitter traced her feet from
both standing and seated positions, marking the spots where heels arches,
and toes pressed against the floor. For the record, it's

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worth noting Ramon offered to help measure, but they turned
him down.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
It was what oh boots, Yeah? With the tea.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Boots, boots, boots, it was far from a typical tryon.
As teammates waited their turn, they wandered past shelves of
exotic hides and work benches stacked with tools, eventually gathering
around a small stage near the fitting chairs. The idea
for the Texans cheerleaders to team up with Republic Boot
Company came from a few casual conversations as the Houston Rodeo.

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Over the years, Republic Boot Company founder Chris Conrad has
spent years studying cowboy boot craftsmanship around the world, and
that expertise.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Shows in the details.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Conrad, a fifth generation Houston in with grandparents who were
also raised in the Heights, founded Republic Boot Company in
twenty eleven. Fans in NRG Stadium might not notice at
first glance, but the boots were engineered to withstand hours
of choreography, handmade by Republic's master boot makers. Improved quality

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means more comfort and more durability, said Ian Smith, Republic's
director of business Development. Something softer yet longer lasting. But
being a Houston based company is a big part too.
He changes include a red zipper that blends with the
metallic red leather, replacing the old black one. The Texans
small bullhead heel point pen, once prone to falling off,

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was reworked into a sturdier silver carving, complete with a
sparkling star eye. That's our friends at Republic Boot Company.
I don't know how many years ago it was that
I was asked to meet the guy at Republic Boot
Company by Robert Reese, and I did, and at the

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time it was this tiny little boot shop, custom boot makers.
But I liked the fact that they made the boots
on site because Almah, I'm not going to say every
but I can't think of anyone else. The boot shops
that you come across are almost exclusively today. You go in,

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they're not boot makers anymore. They're boot measurers, and they
measure your boot.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
They measure your foot.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
And they send it to Mexico and the Mexican craftsman, well,
we'll send your boots back. Every boot maker that makes
boots for one of the big boys has a side
hustle in Mexico, and why wouldn't they, So you know,
you send your your your design to Diego Garcia. Well

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it turns out Diego Garcia is director of boot making
it name the big boot company, whichever one you want to,
and at night he and his family are making boots
out of his He's got a side operation going. And
the bigger the name, the more capital, the more capital
he's got, the more he's doing that. So what they're

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doing in Texas almost exclusively, and I mean literally, to
my knowledge, almost absolutely exclusively, is you go in and
they measure your foot and that's it, and a pair
of boots arrives in the mail. At Republic Boot Company,
they actually make the boot there. Well, that impressed me

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because that is a lost art. It's not an inexpensive
proposition to make boots on American soil in Houston, Texas
in prime real estate is a rare thing. So they
wanted to sponsor the show. Well, it's an expensive proposition.
Most folks spent spend more than ten grand a month,

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but it's ten grand a month to open the doors.
And that's a lot of money. Sure, but that's a
lot of people in a very engaged audience, and the
market sets the right And so I said, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
That they're going to be able to handle this.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
That's I don't want somebody to fail, and I don't
want somebody to put their hard earned money up and
then I'm a reason that they go under. And Chris
Conrad said, failure is not an option, and I was
very impressed with his pluck. He was leaving the next
day to go to one of the very dangerous regions.

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I forget Aerbajean or one of those. Let's just say
Azerbaijean because it sounds good, all right. I think it
might be Abe, it might be Kazakhstehan.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
It's one of those.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's a dangerous war torn region, and he worked for
Exxon and he's one of the guys that goes in
and works on the big oil platforms and he's paid
good money, but it's awful. He always has to be
in bad places. And so he starts this boot company

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and he's having to work his butt off, take every
bit of dangerous job he can in order to fund
this boot shop.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
That is his passion.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So he brings in Fireball Bill, who's passionate about this.
He brings in, he builds a team. Well, eventually it
took off. Y'all did respond and thank you so much.
And we have watched a little tiny boot shop that
has grown to triple the size. He bought the building

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there in which includes some other tenants, and now it's
become an event venue. People hold their events there. We
hold our sponsor parties there. People go by, they'll have
an artist standing up with the front singing, go in
and have a bourbon. Some people go in when they're
not even buying boots or now it's full on clothing hats.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
The whole thing.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
I got measured yesterday because I needed a jacket for
an event I have coming up. And Steve Springer, who
some people will know as houstonsuitguy dot com.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
His company is called.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Blue bou It ought to just be Houston Suit Guy
because that's very memorable, and that's what he is online.
But I got a jacket for me and Crockett needed
a jacket for an event, and he's a custom suit
maker and so he came to the house and measured
us and that's a great deal. But he measures and
makes suits for Republic Boot Company. I say all that

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to say this. I'm pretty sure Republic Boot Company lost
money on the Texans cheerleaders boots. I'm pretty sure of it.
And you got to be careful. My wife says the
reason she won't ever let me open another bar is
I try to buy everybody around, and then you get
yourself upside down. But what's the point of owning a
bar if you can't buy everybody around? That's the thrill, right.

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But this is a group of guys that, by pure pluck,
have been very very good at what they do. But
they have also and not just us, not just us
bragging about them, and you going over there, you go
to their page. They're making TikTok videos, They're making Facebook videos,
they're doing to all themselves cool videos. When they have
an event, they film it, they get approval, they film it.

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They're constantly marketing, which you have to which is really
telling their story and doing things like this. You'll remember
cal McNair went in.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
He brought c J Stroud.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
He was buying him a pair of boots because CJ
was being honored at some big event and he needed
a custom pair of boots. And so they went in
and he goes, oh, this is Michael Berry's play.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Is what Michael Berry listens to.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
So congratulations with Public Boot Company and the founder Chris
Conrad named CEO of the Year or Entrepreneur of the Year.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Good for him. Like the publicot Company, dot com indicates
everything is ready for your call.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
It tells you how strong the visuals to Miami Vice
World that when you hear the.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Song, you go wait, is that that's not that good?
A theme song in the.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
In the grand scheme of theme song is on this
day in nineteen eighty four, forty one years ago today,
that Miami Vice made its debut with a two hour
episode that included a scene featuring the Phil Collins hit
in the air Tonight Urban Legend would have you believe

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that that was a reference to a murder.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Phil Collins.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Has protested, No, no, no, it's not, which is how
you know it is Ramon, That's how you know. I
hadn't seen that.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
None of the stations are covern it. You won't see
this on a mainstream news heard you. They're not covering
this right now? Do I an't covering this at all?

Speaker 3 (25:47):
President Trump is sending in the National Guard. This time
took graceland.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Memphis will be saved. H Yes, the Blues will be back.
Trump signed the on Monday.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
And is calling it a replica of his crackdown on Washington.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
D c Romon, you like a dry rib?

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Apparently President Trump is not a big fan of the
crime or the Memphis dry rib.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
Well, the beer Street, lots of flicker.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Quite frankly, Memphis is a place of great music. For
the crime just won't slow down. And maybe the biggest
crime is your dry ribs.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
Every time you park your shivy, somebody's riding off with
ill sound.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Never been a fan of those thumping speakers.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
But it's time for the crime to stop.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
So we're calling a god baby, calling the god bus
in the street.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Don't need nobody guard.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
When the booze.

Speaker 7 (26:50):
Gets heavy and the crime gets hard, you gotta call
in the guard.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Down in Memphis, y'all.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
I've had my blue suede shoest on one too many
times now. Mama said, don't walk in midnight, knock your
doors in God your fries. Even helvest left the building
and took the gris and gates and said goodbye. So

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one calling the god Baby, calling.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
The God Baby, calling the guardage and.

Speaker 8 (27:23):
Through Memphis with a barbecue cars the Savans for payment.
Don't you oosing pod. But we're safer to night because we.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Call the guard.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
They be calling the garden, ain't no clothes man climbed out,
stolen guitars, don't ain't on at Helfhillo bussing and Bob
excuse me one good hobby painted cans and a trumpet
solo from Mischief, Tie long Gavin calling the god Baby, calling.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
The God Baby, calling the guard the blood.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
From Builder of the Yard.

Speaker 8 (28:06):
It's the Memphis Blues, but we're the security cord. We're
laughing again because we call the gods. As the kids say,
Memphis ribs are mid but way better than New York barbecue.
Play the Blues, but cuff the news.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
And let's not get started on California barbecue.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
They have something called a tri tip.

Speaker 8 (28:27):
It's the radical left version of the risket.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
So I was laying out what the field looks like
for campaigns right now. It's still very early, but a
lot of these things will be locked up because the
big money folks will be tied up, a lot of
the endorsements will be tied up, and it'll scare off
a lot of the outsider candidates. Perception becomes very important

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at this point in a campaign. So the agg Commissioner
Ray sid Miller, the incumbent running for reelection, just got
a pair of boots Republic Boot Company last week. Nate Sheets,
who as I mentioned, has been endorsed by Mattress Mac
running against him in that primary. Land Commissioner Don Buckingham

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is staying put. Although she's very ambitious. She would like
to run for something else. She just doesn't see her
chance right now. The comptroller seat opened up by Glenn
Hager becoming the Chancellor of the Texas A and M system.
So you've got Christi Krattick, the daughter of long term

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swamp creature Tom Krattick, who's former speaker. You've got Kelly Hancock,
and you've got Don Huffines. Huff Fines seems to have
united these sort of crews and Trump folks under one.
He's also going to pour a bunch of money in there.
He's a former state senator. He ran a pretty good
race against Greg Abbott for governor. He's considered a kind

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of a firebrand libertarian, freethinking Texas constitutionalist candidate.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
I think he probably wins that race handily.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
The lobby will all be behind Christy Krattick, but they're
behind drunk Dade.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
And how that turn out.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
House District fifteen, which Steve Toath is vacating to run
against Dan Crenshaw. There is a candidate named Brad Bailey
running there. I'm told he is an open borders candidate.
I don't know that. I'm trying to verify that, but
I'm told unreliable authority that in the past he has
had some very disturbing positions. I'm sure there will be

(30:51):
other candidates for that state REPSI House District sixteen, which
is now Will Metcalf the incumbent. I don't know if
it's Boush or Bouche Bouch in Orange or Louisiana by Bouchet,
but I don't know what it is in Houston. Is
the candidate that I'm hearing there in the County judge primary.

(31:11):
Orlando Sanchez, who I ran against for mayor, who ran
against Lee Brown before that for mayor as former treasurer
and Houston City councilman, is running Eliza Dutt, who is
the mayor of Piney Point Village, which is one of
the villages on the west side of town. And Marty Langton,

(31:35):
who is the head of the Houston it's not technically
a union. There's a local local three forty one. I
think it's called the Leader of the Fire Folks, and
so he is in that race. And I have received
calls from some of the money folks asking me my

(31:55):
opinion on that race. And they don't ask what your
opinion is unless they're asking what you're going to do
in that race, So that means that they're interested in
the race and probably.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Likely to give him money.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
The perception is that you can't win Harris County Judge,
which is the Harris County mayor effectively, but that's not true.
If you can keep the cheating down, you can actually
win it, and we.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Proved it four years ago.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
The problem is Abbot doesn't want to do anything for
anyone but himself, So unless he's worried that the cheating
will affect his reelection, he's not going to do anything
about it. You could send in the rangers, you could
send in the DPS, you could tamp down the cheating.
You could put election observers, you could prosecute the people

(32:45):
who cheat and they know they cheated. But Abbot won't
lift a finger for anybody else. So for anybody who's
right now banging out an email, you should be nice
to Abbot. He's our governor. He's a Republican. He is
a do nothing governor who is narcissistic and self centered
and doesn't help a soul. Whether you like Trump or
don't like Trump, what everybody has to agree is he'll

(33:06):
go to bat for other people, and he'll he'll fight
fights that are unwinnable and make unwinnable, and he'll fight
fights that he knows he's gonna lose because the fight
is worth it. Greg Abbott doesn't do a damn thing
for anybody ever, and by the way, everybody in the
political realm will tell you that if you're running for
office and you need help from Greg Abbott, you won't

(33:29):
get it. He won't do anything for anybody but himself.
If we could get a fair election in Harris County,
we could elect a republic