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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Arry Show is on the.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Air, and I'm telling you that if you don't get
away from the green energy scam, your country is going
to fail.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
That all out waiting for all the fall out, all
of whom not the lucky mountain with.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever,
you go to the doctor. I'll say the evidence is unequivocal.
One hundred and fifty years ago this year was the
discovery that co two traps heat. That is a principle
in physics. It's not a q of debate. Is like gravity,

(01:02):
it exists.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
People are familiar with that thin blue line that the
astronauts bring back in their pictures from space. That's the
part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere, and
it's only five to seven kilometers thick. That's what we're
using as an open sewer. If you could drive a
car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds,

(01:24):
you get to the top of that blue line in
five minutes and all the greenhouse gas pollution would be
below you. We're still putting one hundred and sixty two
million tons into it every single day, and the accumulated
amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would
be released by six hundred thousand pirosimaclass atomic bombs exploding
every single day on the Earth. That's what's boiling the oceans,

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creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs, and sucking
the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts
and melting the eyes and raising the sea level and
causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach one
billion in this century. Look at the xenophobia and political
authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees.

(02:09):
What about a billion? We would lose our capacity for
self governance on this world.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
We have to.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
While it is true that we have this sustainability revolution
underway and it's very exciting, it has the magnitude of
the industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution,
but we're still not changing fast enough. Because it's not
just the scientific community warning us now, it's Mother Nature.
Every night on the TV news is like a nature

(02:38):
hike through the book of Revelay.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
With little anecdote. But I would hope some of you
would take to heart yourselves Charlie Kirk's passing could still
be measured in hours ago. It is still very fresh
and for many people in this country. Learning Point USA

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TPUSA was first revealed to people upon his assassination, despite
the fact that this is the most exciting grassroots startup

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or not organization in the country and has been for
ten years, despite a big annual event, despite how many
campuses or or or having we're having Charlie Kirk and
others come and speak there, despite the energy, for most folks,

(03:43):
this was underground in the same way that you have
music movements or or cross fed or any number of
other things that become that kind of bubble up until
anyone else spots them. But they've been in a sub genre,
they've been huge. So Charlie's assassination has just uncourked this

(04:06):
thing absolutely. I am hearing from people who are my
age and above who are saying, hey, I like to
help that turning point. How do I do that? It's
quite interesting really, how this is working to draw attention

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to something and to create an explosive excitement around it.
So there's a school in Houston. I ended the show
last night talking about this, but I was on my
way to speak at their event. It's the school. It's
called Stratford High School, and it's west of downtown. It's

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not a fabulously rich neighborhood, but it is an upper
upper middle class, Republican stronghold family values community and still
inside the city. And the kids started or applied to

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start and we're in the process of a turning point chapter.
And this crazy white liberal lady, which is always the
ones that do this sort of stuff, who's named Natalie Herpes,
and she's part of an organization called the Spring Branch Democrats.
She's their vice president in this area. And they are
just I mean, these are just really nasty people. That's

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what it comes down to. She doesn't want the kids
to be able to have a chapter at one of
the schools in the Spring Branch Independent School District. So
she goes to social media and they start. They start
basically revealing the names, which is called dosing of high
school kids. And you know, we live in the fourth

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largest city that this is the kind of stuff that
can concern parents, and the name of the sponsors, the
teachers that have agreed to do this, and and links
to their pages and basically, you know, You'll see that
mom that wants to get real involved in her daughter's
life at the high school as to whether you know
who who her daughter goes to homecoming with, and and

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and then you know she'll spree, She'll she'll uh, she'll
spread these seeds of dissent in the school and have
one kid pitted against the other and using her child.
You'll see that, right, Well, that's kind of what this
woman was doing for this school. I went. I was
invited to speak at their event, and the Attorney General
of Texas, who's running for Senate against John Cornyn, was

(06:40):
scheduled to be there. And uh, I don't give very
many speeches anymore, hardly at all. Usually it's it's a
paid event. It's part of what I do. It's part
of my business how I pay my team. But I
just don't get out and do that anymore. But I
was asked to do this and it was something that

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I was able to do time wise, and I went,
and I'm going to tell you something. The energy. I
don't speak to high school kids very often. The energy
and the excitement of these young people and where they
are headed and how focused and how organ I mean,
I was blown away, just impressed beyond belief. There's your
good news for the day. A news study shows a

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massive disconnect between journalists and the public. Now, I know
that's nothing new to you, but it is worth noting
because I was at a dinner party last night and
the starting point for every conversation is stories that are
in the news.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Now.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
The good thing is there's more competition to provide news
than there ever was, and that means a couple of
different things. It means you can choose your news. You
want liberal news, you want conservative news. It's hard to
get down the road, down the middle of the road,
you know, objective news any longer that doesn't have any

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spend because what used to be considered that is all
left wing now, so now everything that is not left
wing is a reaction to that. But it means that
at least you can you can flip channels and see
how a story's being portrayed by various networks and maybe

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from that come to your conclusion. What I find interesting, however,
is that as the news business is dying, and they
are dying, especially particularly on the left, as that is happening,
they don't seem willing or able to self correct because

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they have no sense of self awareness. They don't realize
they're the problem. They hate you and they just keep
getting mad at you. But there's not enough of them
to support them. They've tried liberal talk radio again and
again and again, and they just can't get it. They

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cannot get it. There are so many conservative talkers in
this country. There are people that are lifelong liberals who
wanted to be talkers and switched over to being a conservative.
Some of them are national now some of them and
I'm not faulting them. Look, as long as they're saying
what I think is the right thing, I really don't
care where they came from. But there are people. There

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is so much conservative content out there. There's kind of
right wing, neocon conservative, a lot of that. There's Conservatorian.
There's more libertarian than conservatorian. But that's where the American
public is now. So A new in depth study by

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the supposedly nonpartisan but very left leaning Pew Research Center
found that sixty five percent of the nearly twelve thousand
journalists surveyed say the media do a solid job of
quote covering the most important stories of the day and
reporting news accurately. Sixty five percent of the twelve thousand

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journalists believe yeah, they're doing a great job, but a
solid majority of the American public at large has the
opposite view. Only thirty five percent of them feel that way.
That's a thirty thirty point perception gap. That means these

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people have no clue how they are perceived. When asked
if journalists perform well when quote serving as a watchdog
over elected leaders, fifty two percent of journalists agreed, but
the number dropped precipitously when the general public was asked,

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with fewer than thirty percent agreeing with the assessment. When
asked if journalists manage and correct misinformation consistently, forty three
percent of those in the industry said yes, So look,
more than half of them agree, we don't do that
very well, while just twenty five percent of the general

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public agreed almost half. Forty six percent of journalists said
they felt connected to their readers and viewers, while just
one quarter of the public says they feel connected to
the media outlets from which they get their news. And
imagine that. Imagine that there was once a day of

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Walter Cronkink, Edward R. Murrow, we respected and admired these people.
Bob Schiffer, longtime journalist, did a piece several years ago
on how in thie related journalists have become. Here's an example.

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Just nine percent of Manhattan voters voted for Donald Trump.
In DC he got just five point four percent. Think
about that. So these people, that's where they live. They
live in New York and DC. They're surrounded by other
people who view the world exactly and so you get
a confirmation bias. You know, how do the people in

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Charlie Manson's cult think what they're doing is okay? Because
everybody around them says it is. If everybody around you
lives in a polygamous cult, you think that's normal. That's
why they don't let you see the outside world. That's
why in Iran and China they shut off the outside
world the Internet and television. And because as long as

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you don't know what else is going on out there,
you think the whole world is living the way you are.
Let me just give you a couple of examples of
how out of touch the media is. And look, we
could we could play this game all day. I get it.
Let's start with Don Lemon.

Speaker 8 (13:05):
I don't do opinion and I know the difference for
me is I do point of view. So I'm giving
my point of view as an American, as a black
man who happens to be gay. But I'm through that lens.
But I'm also I also represent CNN, and so I
must tell the truth. And if I don't, if my
facts are wrong, then I have to clarify it, and

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I have to come on television and I have to apologize,
and I say, I got that wrong.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
How about we do a little montage of this unbiased
because they think they are this unbiased news. This is
a montage of CNN and MSNBC.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
You're hearing a lot of Republicans who are outrage over
President Biden's handling of the exit, especially in the so
called Freedom Caucus. If they support the former guy, the
one who set all of this in motion in the
first place. The hypocrisy is off the charts and it
is sickening.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
All Right, everybody, Good evening.

Speaker 9 (14:02):
We begin the readout tonight with two cases which will
once again tell us where we are as a country.
Whether armed primarily white men can continue to take matters
into their own hands and serve as judge, jury, and executioner.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
So I had this segment laid out where I was
going to call out all of the people who are
prolonging this pandemic with phony COVID cures and anti vaccine garbage.

Speaker 10 (14:23):
Now in a moment, you're going to see the sheer
spectacle of a sitting Republican US senator, one of the
most powerful individuals in the country, representing one of the
biggest states in the nation, pretty much grobbling at the
feet of a right wing cable TV entertainer, which certainly
reflects the state of the Union.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
Was the peaceful transfer of power in January something of
a miracle.

Speaker 9 (14:43):
We're moving toward a kind of politics. We'll remember the
new Republican strategies to follow voters to their cars. They
now have normalized the idea of using political violence to
get the ends they want.

Speaker 11 (14:54):
At about twenty million people across America watched Thursday. Fan
found hearing twenty million viewers is in the ballpark with
big television events like Sunday Night football. Oh my god,
But I want you to compare those twenty million viewers
with the biggest ratings. Donald Trump garnered for his reality show.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Fourteen Show of Celebrity Family. This was the build up.
They had seven point six million viewers.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
That's what's become of independent, impartial, non biased, unbiased objective journalism.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
The Michael Berry Show show.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
There have been well intentioned people try to bring peace,
waise to leave you love to the Middle East. She
said it very well intentioned people unwar. Sadat, in an
act of great bravery, led Egypt into a period of

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peace with Israel and was assassinated for it. When you
consider how deeply rooted the hatred in Gaza is for
Jews from the earliest ages. A kindergarten school performance, the

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children dress in paramilitary uniforms and pretend to kill the
Jews while their parents cheer. You don't reprogram that, mind,
You just don't. The only peace you'll ever find is
through deterrence, and as long as some people don't understand that,

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you will reward bad actors. In fact, the concept of
peace through deterrence could be used in the American criminal
justice system. When you let a turd beat somebody to death,
carjack them, rob them, shoot them, and you put them
back out on the streets. That savage understands only one thing,

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that there's nothing wrong with what he's done. You throw
him in a cage and you never let him out,
and I won't cry for that. Oh but he was young,
Oh but he was wayward. Oh but he bet. If
you want to solve the problem, that's how you presolve it.
It will be collateral damage. But not solving that problem

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means collateral damage for people who didn't commit a crime.
We can make excuses for why people commit crimes and
make them into a victim once we punish them, or
we can make excuses for the fact that you're going
to have to suffer because the bad guys are allowed
to win today, because the bad guys must never be

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made to suffer, because apparently the bad guys suffered after
they made other people suffer, and that makes it people
very upset. So where do we go with this? What
is the point? The point is this, It's not just
that you've been forced to suffer a slight because there

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will be more. You have to actually implement a strategy.
You can't always react to what's going around you, what's
going on around you as it happens, and then just
keep reacting in real time. You have to have a strategy.
How are you going to cope? What are you going

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to do. You've got to think about a game plan
for life. And once you do that, you start making changes.
You start seeking peace and happiness and fulfillment, because that's
much more rewarding. You're not going to win. You're not
going to kill all the people that are hr directors,

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nor should you. You're not going to beat them all up.
So you start looking for start asking yourself, who am
I and who do I want to be? If you
want to go crazy, they'll drive you crazy, and then
you going crazy will be their proof that you were
at fault all along. They'll leave you broken. They do.

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So you have to ask yourself this question, how do
I live my life? How do I navigate this world? Well,
first of all, you don't reward You don't give sugar
to this cancer that it can grow. You immediately cut
it out of your life. The problem is a lot

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of people are like Icarus to the fire. They keep
going in and poking that fire. You're not changing it.
You're not changing the direction of the fire. You're just
getting burned to varying degrees. And it starts with arguing
with them on social media. It starts with oh yeah,

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well you think that's right, well, uh yeah, okay, so
you don't like trouble. Uh what about Bill Clinton? How
y'all look over here. I burned him with the Bill
Clinton maybe you did, but then he's gonna come back
with something else, and eventually he's gonna hurt your feelings.
You know the old line, don't wallow in the mud

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with the pig, because the pig enjoys it. You're in
the mud now, you're on his turf because you can't
let it go. You don't have a strategy for how
to let it. It doesn't make you happy. You went
on the Facebook machine to reconnect. See what Tom from
high school's up to if his wife got fat. You

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went and looked at your ex wife, See how she's
what she's.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Up all that liar?

Speaker 6 (20:51):
Oh yeah, oh and she's so happy and her knew, Well,
good for her. You went there for, you know, some
personal enjoyment, and you end up getting sucked in to
somebody criticizing Trump or whatever else. And you were going
to and before you know it, your eight messages in
and you're furious you didn't win anything. Nobody came over

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to your side. No independent voter was trolling and saying
I shall watch the joust TwixT left and right, and
from that I will cast my vote. So just stop.
I block people every day, every day, and there are
people say, oh, you're not brave, you're whatever. Guess what.

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You're not coming to my door, knocking on my door
and harassing me. You're not riding in my car. You
don't get my cell phone number. I block you on
my cell phone. I don't need you in my life.
There is nothing that enriches my life by you getting
to bother me, and so nothing you can do makes

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them more mad in blocking them. But you can't do it.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
People will.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
They just keep going on and on. But it's more
than this, more than social media. It's every aspect of
your life. It is learning. First of all, never give
them the benefit of the doubt, because that scorpion is
going to turn and bite you after you take it.
I see this every day. Well, I thought i'd be nice.

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I thought i'd hire this guy, thought i'd give him
a chance. And now he's dragged me to court after
I fired him for all these problems because I'm a
bad guy. For whatever his protected classes. Shame on you,
Shame on you. Why did you put yourself in that situation,
I go out of my way. I don't do business

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with those people. I don't. I don't do business with
the types of people who spout the kind of venom
that I think is horrible.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
I no longer let me say this, no longer buy
into this.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, we're all Americans. We're in this together.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
We can disagree sometimes, but at the end of the day,
we're all of it. I don't believe that anymore. I
think those people would turn on me in favor of
a Palestinian. I think that turn on me in favor
of an Islamic terrorist. I think they turn on me
in favor of an illegal alien from anywhere in the world.

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I think that turn on me for ten dollars from
a Chinaman. I think that turn on me and take
everything I have and give it to the Ukrainans.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
I do.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
And once I came to that conclusion, I understand I
don't value the people who are evil in this country.
I don't. I'm not gonna do them any harm if
I'm not gonna do them any good either, and I'm
gonna go out of my way not to do them
any good. Are you on any samurai swords. Any Chad

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owns any samurai swords? Is that Chad specific or you
just think people of Japanese descent have samurai swords. You know,
it's passed down. Every family has like a stamp collection. Okay,
I can see that home invasion suspect is stopped after

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the victim defends himself with a Samurai sword. POPO were
able to track down the injured suspect by following his
trail of blood. Oh I like this story. This comes
from ABC six in Philadelphia. It was pretty chaotic scene

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this morning.

Speaker 7 (24:46):
An alarming scene on Cherry Street in Northtown Tuesday morning.
Neighbors watched as police took a man into custody who
was bleeding profusely after being stabbed with a samurai sword.

Speaker 9 (24:57):
When I came out here, he was just laying on
the ground.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
The cops were dragging home.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
Police say a thirty five year old Marcus Armstrong was
actually the perpetrator of a botched robbery and home invasion
a few blocks away.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
Around eight forty five.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
Police allege you robbed a man at gunpoint outside a
home on BlackBerry Alley while a female escaped inside. That's
when police say Armstrong barged through the door, encountering the
woman's roommate, who was armed with a samurai sword.

Speaker 12 (25:27):
The roommate defended himself to he had that samurai sword
and took a swipe at the suspect.

Speaker 7 (25:33):
Police shared this photo of the weapon.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Not something they see every day.

Speaker 6 (25:37):
This time, Tom, someone fought back, and the fact that
they use a samurai sword, I can't tell you the
last time we've even seen one.

Speaker 13 (25:44):
After being slashed, police say the suspect fled to a
home on Charity Street, leaving a trail of blood that
ultimately helped police piece together their investigation, but initially alarmed neighbors.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I was just worrey trying to get him some hell,
and it was just it.

Speaker 13 (26:02):
Was upset of The investigation revealed this was a random
crime of opportunity when the suspects saw the victims exchanging
money outside, The police said both reported being suspicious of
the man moments before the attack.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Just a good thing.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
Able to be aware your surroundings and if you feel
something's off, I probably is. Be around you, be aware
of your surroundings, and if you feel something is off,
grab your samurai sword. It's always funny when they try
to give a little advice, but they don't really have
any advice, so they say the most stupid things. So

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we want to just, you know, say to the public,
head on a swivel, one game at a time, take
it day by day.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
We'll make sure.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
You know, making good decisions, make sure we're leaning in.
Comedian John Caparulo has a bit about this exact situation.

Speaker 10 (27:09):
You know, there's been a bunch of break into my
neighborhood back in la I get home late at night,
so I was going to buy a gun because it's
it's easier to hide than a.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Sword, which was my first choice.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Wouldn't that be sweet to get mugged and you had
a sword?

Speaker 11 (27:25):
I mean, really, of all days, you know, give me
your wallet.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh not quite. I'm taking this back to the twelfth century.
All right, we're doing it.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
This isn't even the first story we've had this week
about a sword fight. Who told you about the meeting
between Pete butter Gig and Tim Waltz to kind of
iron out some of their differences. Do you remember alone
the time that Fella used his legend of Zelda replica
sword to defend himself against his girlfriend's ex husband, and Katie.

Speaker 14 (28:00):
A bizarre story overnight in Katie, one man says he
had to grab a sword and a duel with his
girlfriend's a strange husband.

Speaker 12 (28:08):
It was a replica master sword from Legend of Zelda.
I do anime conventions and stuff dress up in costume,
and so I got it because it's a good replica,
and it looks nice, and it just so happens to
be pointed and belated.

Speaker 14 (28:27):
According to Harris County Deputies, Eugene.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Thompson lives here with his girlfriend.

Speaker 14 (28:31):
Thompson says last night they got into an argument and
his girlfriend called her a strange husband who stopped by
the house around ten.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Thompson's girlfriend let the man inside.

Speaker 14 (28:42):
He says he ran to the back bedroom and yelled
to the man to leave the house, but he refused.

Speaker 12 (28:47):
And I heard him heading back to the bedroom where
I was, you know, And so I jumped in the
closet and I grabbed one of my replica swords and
I pulled it out and I stood in the doorway
and he was just coming down the hall at me
while I was yelling, go away, you don't live here,

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and he just walked right into the point. So I
don't know if he thought it was a toy.

Speaker 14 (29:13):
Thompson says he managed to get the man out of
the house and locked the door. He says the man
wasn't giving up and busted through the front door and
ran back into the house. The two men thought over
the sword and in the scuffle, the estranged husband was
stabbed once in the chest and once in the leg.
Thompson says the man grabbed a flower pot from outside
and smashed it.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Over his head. Deputies arrived and took.

Speaker 14 (29:37):
The estranged husband to Hermann Hospital in serious condition. Thompson
was transported to Memorial Herman Westside to get the gash
in his head stitched up.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
Ramon said he was able to get security camera footage
from inside the home. So as I was saying, Ramone

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said he was able to obtain security footage from inside
the home. Dwike cut putting the mite my neck. Yeah,
I was going to tell you that he had security chairman,
but it was from inside the home. But he uh,
he played, he played his bit before before I was

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really you know, then he cut the Dwi cut putting
the mite my neck. You know, thinking about it, that
box could have went up, do you get hurt somebody
with that.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
All you have seen with mine own eyes the success
that Mayo Turna in Houston had with his gun buy
back extravaganza. So I'm here today to announce that we
too will be buying back guns and other instruments of death.
It is for the protection of our children, the elderly,
and people of color. Obviously, we will pay you for

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these items. We too will offer fifty dollars gift cards.
So gather up anything that you can use to murder
your fellow man. We're buying knives, including kitchen and pin box, cuttage, hatchets, machetes.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
And old lawnmower blades. Hammers.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
We will buy back your hammers, sledge, floor and roofing.
We will buy back your poison ladies. We know how
much ladies love to kill with poison. Do you have
pillows in your home? We will buy those two, both
through and sleep in kind. Those pillows can be used

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for smothering. We will eliminate death in our city fifty
dollars at a time.

Speaker 6 (32:22):
Yeah,