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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. Go for it. Body,
you ain't got no job. You're young and you got
your hail. What do you want with the job? I
believe we drove around all day and there's not a
(00:31):
single job in this tune. There is nothing, not a zecond.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, unless you want to work forty hours a week,
really should quit that same job.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Man, Hey, man, I wish I could man stuff I equipment.
The whole place would fall apart without man.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm need it there, man.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Responsibility is a heavy responsibility.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Man, I don't like my job, and I don't think
I'm gonna go anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He's not gonna go?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, won't you get fired? I don't know, but I
really don't like it and I'm not gonna go. That's
the older boy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Blessed Soul is preparing for his career. Colic Carnival gotta
be proud.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh yeah yeah. Last season he was a dricty dust
spreader on a Teltic world. He thinks that maybe next
year I'll be guessing people's waiter marking for the act woman.
I need a different job.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I'm having real trouble in a confined indoor space. How
do you feel about working outdoors?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
What else do you have?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'm gonna lose my job, Pilot, and I just calm down.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I don't know fo I killed the boss.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You think they're not gonna fire me for a thing
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Lauren, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Go ahead, dear Hi, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I want to reach out to the city of Houston. So,
my cousin, Kenneth Cutting, was one of the bodies that
was found in one of the bayoues of Houston, and
his case recently was closed by HPD, and we've also
had issues with the Coroner's office with misinformation in his autopsy.
(02:45):
So why this is so important to me is this
situation that is going on in Houston. It is bigger
than just my cousin. Since twenty seventeen, there's been one
hundred and eighty nine bodies found in Houston by US,
and there's forty of them that are undetermined autopsies. For
those of you that don't know what an undetermined autopsy is,
(03:07):
it means that they came back and they can't determine
whether it's an accident or if it's a homicide. Basically,
so there's all these people that have been found where
there's just no answers, and the City of Houston needs
to do something about this. We need change, We need
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investigations for all of these people. It is so important.
My cousin is just one person here. There's all these
other families as well, fighting just like I am, and
I need the City of Houston to rally behind these
people because it is important. It doesn't matter what race
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you are. It doesn't matter whether you're female or male.
It doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight, you're homeless,
or you're on drugs. Their families deserve answers.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So, Lauren, let me ask you a couple of questions
about your cousin. How old was he when he died?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So, my cousin was twenty two when.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He died, twenty two, and he was found in what value?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He was found in Buffalo by you and East River whereabouts?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Do you know like a cross street?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, so that exact address is thirty three hundred Sweeney Street.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Okay, we're working on our audio, so I can't hear
very well. Can you spell the street?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
S W I N E Y s W O.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Sweeney okay or Sweeney? And when was this?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So he was found on July first at four fifty
nine pm, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh, so this is relatively recent, okay. And how was
he discovered?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He was discovered floating, But who discovered My understanding is
a bystander called it in and HPD came out and
recovered him.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And was he fully clothed?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
He was not fully clothed, So whenever he was found,
he was found with no socks or shoes. He had underwear,
a pair of blue jeans on a belt in one
diamond earring. Why this is so important in my cousin's case, specifically,
is that we have video from the night he went
he went missing, and he was wearing an Apple watch.
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The Apple watch was missing. Also, the T shirt he
was wearing was missing, and the shoes and socks, so he.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Was not wearing a shirt when they found him. No, okay,
But he was wearing his blue jeans, still had his underwear,
his blue jeans, and the diamond.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Ring in his ear that's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And no other jewelry, no other jewelry, but his apple
went missing.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's right. So the weird part about this is is
that the two roommates that he was with the night
he went missing had that in their possess and gave
it back to us. Whenever we went to retrieve.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
His stuff, they gave what back?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
The T shirt?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
What about the watch?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The watch isn't hasn't been found.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What's on the T shirt?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
T shirt was a tie die like green and white
tied ie yes T shirt like the brand guess And
I mean, he's just a basic T shirt.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And so when y'all went over, did they give you
that as he was wearing this or did they say,
here's a pile of his stuff and it happened to
be in there.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So basically what happened was the morning that he went missing,
my uncle got a text message about eight o'clock in
the morning that they had sent previously the night before
at two o'clock in the morning, and he didn't see
it because most normal people are not answering text messages
at two o'clock in the morning. So he got up,
tried to call these two gentlemen that he was with
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phone kept going to voice meil up to the house
because he knew immediately something was wrong, and knocked on
the door got him to open, kind of pushed his
way into the house and he noticed that there was
trash bags that were lying in the entryway and he says,
what is that and he goes, that's your son's stuff.
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We don't want him living here anymore. So at that
time we didn't think anything other than that that's weird,
because we were more concerned of finding my cousin. And
later on, after the body was discovered and a police
investigation wasn't opened up because they said that there was
no signs of foul play, we were told, if you
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want it, you need to go get it. So at
that point we went and got the material, We got
the bags, and we brought it home and we opened
it up and when we went started going through it
is when we discovered that the bag had the shirt
that he was wearing the night he went missing.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And the odo y'all are using from the night that
he died is what is on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Uh No, we actually I have gone full detective on
this since day one, because this is somebody who was
more like a brother to me than my cousin. And
I went and got video from Pete Doling Piano bar
where they were at that night. Oh, I know exactly
what he was marrying.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
One of these women are chief Michael Mary. I think
that there might.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Because I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Probably Lauren. Yes, I'm here, try to pick up. I
have to bring her volume up, just letting, you know,
try to pick up where you left off. Uh. The
what's your cousin's name?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
His name is Kenneth Cutting?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
See U T T I and G Yes, Sir Kenneth
Cutting and his father went over. He's twenty two. His
father goes over to the house. Is it an actual house,
a standalone house or an apartment?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It's an actual house, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And that's on the east side.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Say that one more time?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Was that on the east side? How far from the from.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So they actually lived in the Bear Creek area.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So the way that they were headed where they said
that they dropped him off because they said there was
an altercation in the car. They said that they dropped
him off at Iten in Waco. Well, that's the complete
opposite direction of their house. Why would they be headed
down into Fifth Ward? That didn't make any sense. Today's
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day and age, everybody has a cell phone, everybody has GPS,
you don't know where you're going, you plug it in
and let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So they claim they drove him and dropped it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Did he have a vehicle, No, they were all together.
He didn't have a vehicle with him.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Was he romantic associated with these guys or what was
their association?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He sure was. He was definitely a part of the
LBGVPQ community. Okay, So he was in our relationship with him,
which makes this all that much more weird because I
don't know about you, any relationship I've ever been in.
If something happened to the person I was with, you're
right there in it trying to help. Right, that didn't
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happen here.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, it also makes it far more likely there's foul
play because people gay or straight are more likely to
harm somebody that they're associated with in that way. So
was he involved with both of the dudes, Yes, sir,
he was, Okay, And how old were they they were?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I believe thirty five and thirty six at the time.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay. Was he working?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
He was working. He was working the full time job
at a restaurant in Jersey Village at this time. He's
doing good. Yeah, everybody at his work loved him. He
was doing great for himself. It was he was doing wonderful.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
When you say doing great for himself, had he had
problems in the past, Well.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, he didn't necessarily have problems. It's just you know,
when you're starting out, you make a lot of mistakes
when you're in your teenage years, and you know, like
you could just tell that he was he was growing up.
Does that make sense, of course, like just just growing
up and making better decisions for himself during this time period.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's also the case that some people don't figure it
out and they have a lot of problems at an
early age, and whether that be drugs or their sexual orientation,
or alcohol, which can often go together, or a number
of other things, they could be wayward. And when you
said he was doing well in the sense that being
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stable was doing well, I had a good feeling. What
that meant he had was kind of struggling to find himself.
That's not that uncommon, no, especially.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
For that age group, right. I remember being in my
early twenties and I didn't know which way I was
going half the time.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well, I think it varies a lot, and I think
it's probably harder for gay kids because they have to
figure they're a bit more alienated and they have to
find their own community and they have to figure out
how to work within that. They don't have a that's
not how their parents were, So I do think that
probably presents an extra challenge. So when he was discovered,
did the body have any markings or sources of trauma
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or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, so they said that there was no trauma to
the body and that is why a case was not
opened up immediately.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Interesting and you said, you went full on detective. So
you had photos from earlier that night. What all did
you discover?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So I went to the bar. I had photos from
Snapchat that people sent me, you know that are time stamped.
So I saw videos of him having a great time
with one of these gentlemen. And then, you know, later on,
as I went on full detective mode, I went to
the bar, I said, I need this video from you,
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and I found out that the video shows a verbal
altercation between him and one of the men. And what
I also found out is he walked outside on this
video and you can see him asking to borrow a
cell phone, and I thought, well, that's weird. So what
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I realized in this video was there was a bouncer outside,
and then there was a man talking to the bouncer,
and you know when it's common to talk when you're
at a bar, but this guy stood there and talked
to this other gentleman for a very long time. The
gentleman that let Kenneth borrow his phone, so he asked
to borrow a phone. What I found out is that
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I was able to obtain the callogue from the gentleman's
phone that he borrowed, and he was trying to find
his own cell phone, which I thought was really weird.
You're at a bar, you just took a snapchat, and
now you're trying to find your own cell phone. What
happened to it?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
What do you think happened to it?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't know, honestly, I'm not sure. I find it weird.
I know that from the video one of the boyfriends
have the cell phone, because you can hear him saying
that in the video, I have his cell phone. I
thought it was very strange why somebody else would have
somebody else's cell phones. I think cell phones are.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Could be a prank. It could be a prank, could
be to prevent him from taking more photos. It could
be that they're planning to murder him later and they
don't want him calling for help. But it could also
be just a hey, I grabbed his phone, you know,
let's see if he can find it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
One hundred percent all of those scenarios are things that
could have happened, right, But what it comes down to
is we don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Right right, And so what time do they leave?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They left the bar ride about midnight, and my uncle
was got that text at two ten in the morning
that he had jumped out of the car and went crazy.
So there's a couple things that are weird about where
his body was actually found. So these men in the
text message and when my uncle went to confront them
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the next morning, said that he got out the car
at I ten in Waco, and that's in fifth ward
right dangerous neighborhood. Where his body was found was at
thirty three hundred Sweeney. If you look on a map
to see how and where that is, you would have
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to walk about a mile up I ten and then
probably a quarter to a half a mile to the bayou.
So where I get hung up at is is that
the bayou flows from the city of Houston down towards
the golf right.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, could he swim? Hold on his s well the
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let you know that Specs, Liquors, and Finer Foods for
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Our goal at the beginning of the month was one
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at ninety eight. I have not asked this morning, but
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I will ask you this. If you're going to make
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to get ready for your Christmas party, to restock your
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I would like us to far surpass our goal of
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if it's fifty dollars, at five hundred dollars, whatever it is,
so widows might and we very much appreciate it, and
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I can assure you it goes to a very good cause.
And the dollars that go to Camp Hope are going
to help veterans, help veterans beat PTSD, not a bunch
of salaries or real estate or everything else. We raise
a lot of money for them, and that money goes
to a great cause. And I'm very proud of that fact.
I'm proud of the work that's done there and the
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lives that are saved. So today is the day at SPEX.
Any specs that you were already going to go to, you.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Can go to that, Lauren, Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Okay, So you're Let me just recap your twenty July
first of last year. Your twenty two year old cousin,
Kenneth Cutting, was found floating at four fifty nine PM
in Buffalo Bayou at thirty three hundred swining HBD came out.
They said there are no visible signs of trauma on
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the body. We're not conducting an investigation. His father, Kenneth's
your cousin's. Kenneth's father received a text from Kenneth's phone
or from the.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Other guy's phones, the other men's phones.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Other men's phones at two ten am approximately saying he
was acting weird and he jumped out of the car
at it and Waco when they live out in Bear Creek.
He was found floating with no shirt, no socks, no shoes,
a diamond in his ear, but his Apple watch was
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missing from his wrist. Where was his phone?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
His phone was with the possession of the two men.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Okay, so you're so. His father goes to the house
the next morning when he gets up, sees the text,
goes to the house that the three of them they're
in some gay threesome. The other two or thirty five
and thirty six. Kenneth was twenty two. He gets in
the house and they have bags of his stuff and
they go, that's his stuff. We don't want him living
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here anymore. And in the bags of stuff is the
shirt he was wearing earlier that night at the club
that they had gone out to, the Taidie shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Right, that's correct. We didn't receive the bags on that date.
We didn't know that until Wednesday, when his body was
idd but ultimately when we got the bags on Wednesday,
that's when we found out sure was in the bag.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Did that's awful, That's just awful. Did you get his
phone back?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
We did so. While this was going on, after they
said they were not gonna open an investigation, me being
me and my uncle being him, Homicide got a call
every couple days from us saying, you guys need to
look into this, you need you guys need to look
into this. So we handed the cell phone over to
Homicide HPD Homicide and during that time a case wasn't opened.
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Case wasn't opened until the autopsy came back undetermined.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And what did the case find?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So the case basically what they said is that they
questioned the two roommates, and the two roommates they thought
were okay, and that they went through his social on
his phone, and that there wasn't any other information out
there like cameras or anything, because twelve months later, camera
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footage is gone, so they're saying there's nothing else, so
they think it's an accident. Well, my uncle throw a fit.
How can you say this is an accident when all
this stuff has happened and rightfully so it's a bunch
of really odd things that took place that night that
we know about. And last week we actually found out
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the case was closed from a reporter that has been
following the story since the beginning that we've been working with.
And at that point I lost it because how do
you close a case and not tell the family, And
then how do you close the case and not pull
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GEO location records for the phone that was with the
two men the night he went missing? So that is
where I'm at right now. My family is fighting for
this case to be reopen because they need to look
at the geolocations on the phone. We had a forensic pathologist,
actually Fox News National had a forensic pathologist look over
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the autopsy about two weeks ago, and her comments were,
the digital data on this case is imperative. It has
to be looked at. But here we are and it
hasn't been looked at and the cases closed.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Do you know the names of the other two men?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I do, but I'm not comfortable sharing that on here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, No, all fair, I'd like to get that, okay
off the air. Have you run their backgrounds?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Have I run their backgrounds?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
But p haverun their background, and there are some things
on there are there things involving assault or anything of.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
That nature, No, sir, just like Dwis or what.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Controlled substance things from what I've been told, Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But neither one of them has anything that would suggest violence. No,
do you have any basis to believe that they there
had been a fight or that there had been any
anything of that nature.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Well, I mean there was a fight on camera at
pete'steling piano bar at about eleventh fifty in the morning
or eleven fifty at night. Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Was it just verbal?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It was just verbal?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Okay, And we.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Don't know you can I mean this video when I'm
talking verbal altercation, I'm talking like you can hear both
of them throwing f bombs all the way down the
escalator at Pete's doling the piano bar, and you can
hear it on the video. It's not it's not like
me and Firring. It's plain as day.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Are they do you know what they're fighting about?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I don't know what they're fighting about.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Did anyone ask the two men?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yes, But when they won't speak to you and they
didn't help try to find them, and they didn't go
to a funeral, and that makes it poses a hard
situation right to get that information?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What do they do for a living?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I honestly, I'm not sure we can.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Find that out pretty fast. It strikes me that there
needs to be a bigger investigation into who they are,
how he came into this relationship, what that looked like.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I agree, there's a lot of things that should be investigating.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
All right, hold on, I want to talk to you
all there for a moment. Hold on, you are listening
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Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
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outside of building in half of White House plus construction.
No exclamation. We are going with a good attitude, but
this was a twist I never expected. Wanted to see
many things. Pray for peace in our car, lol. I
love your show and I listen every morning and evening
(29:42):
in the car. Best not to use my name. This
is family. Ooh sorry that was at the end. How
can I know? How could I know? Trust the feeling?
How could I know? Michael? The funny thing about that
fireman who called in was the dead silence from you
(30:03):
when he was chuckling so hard after telling his story.
It wasn't a funny thing that happened to that guy,
but his laugh and you not laughing made me laugh.
Thanks for keeping us so entertained with your call in people.
Pam George writes, Tzar, I lied to my wife for
our first two years together to get her attention. I
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made every effort to give her the impression that I
was a rednecked country boy. I wore boots, wranglers, and
even gave myself a bit of a country twain. The
charade unraveled the first time I brought her home to
Washington State and confirmed her thoughts that I was a fake. Thankfully,
she laughed and confessed she knew better. Fairly early on
in our relationship. She's an actual country girl, having grown
(30:47):
up in rural Wisconsin and knew I was anything but
a redneck. My fingernails were too clean. She has a
great sense of humor, and I'm so thankful she saw
through my act. Twenty nine years kids later, she's still
my smoking hot five to four hundred and twenty pound firecracker.
The act would have been incredibly difficult to maintain all
(31:07):
this time. But if I'm honest, especially with the knowledge
of how our lives and marriage have turned out, if
I had to do it all over again, I'd lie
just the same if it meant ending up with her.
You're the best star. I love listening to you up
here in northern Wisconsin. Keep up the great work, George.
That's a nice message for mom. That's a nice message. Indeed, Well,
(31:30):
we're not going to have time to play it today,
but I will post it. Lauren Freeman is an advocate.
She's good. She got herself on kho EWT. She sent
me the link, or I found the link. I don't know.
I was looking and she was sending. She did not
mention on the air that the medical examiner said that
(31:52):
he had an orthopedic insert into his neck and shoulder,
which she didn't know of him ever having. And then
the medical examiner later came back and said, oh, that
was another that was another body, not his. How do
you get that wrong? They also listed his body as
being four to eight eighty five pounds and he was
(32:13):
five to three one hundred and twenty. And when you're
brought out of the water, you hold water, you don't shrink,
which seems odd. So either the medical examiners asleep at
the wheel or I don't know. I really don't know.
I have been contacted by HPD, so I know that
(32:33):
they are looking at this case since we started talking
about it, and hopefully they can find out exactly what
happened with regard to this. That's I don't you're not
bringing the kid back, but at least you could give
his family some grief, some grief, some solace. Perhaps we
will be back in a few hours for the evening show.
(32:56):
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It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. Go for it. Body,
you ain't got no job. You're young and you got
your hail. What do you want with the job? I
believe we drove around all day and there's not a
(00:31):
single job in this tune. There is nothing, not a zecond.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, unless you want to work forty hours a week,
really should quit that same job.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Man, Hey, man, I wish I could man stuff I equipment.
The whole place would fall apart without man.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm need it there, man.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Responsibility is a heavy responsibility.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Man, I don't like my job, and I don't think
I'm gonna go anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He's not gonna go?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, won't you get fired? I don't know, but I
really don't like it and I'm not gonna go. That's
the older boy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Blessed Soul is preparing for his career. Colic Carnival gotta
be proud.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh yeah yeah. Last season he was a dricty dust
spreader on a Teltic world. He thinks that maybe next
year I'll be guessing people's waiter marking for the act woman.
I need a different job.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I'm having real trouble in a confined indoor space. How
do you feel about working outdoors?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
What else do you have?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'm gonna lose my job, Pilot, and I just calm down.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I don't know fo I killed the boss.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You think they're not gonna fire me for a thing
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Lauren, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Go ahead, dear Hi, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I want to reach out to the city of Houston. So,
my cousin, Kenneth Cutting, was one of the bodies that
was found in one of the bayoues of Houston, and
his case recently was closed by HPD, and we've also
had issues with the Coroner's office with misinformation in his autopsy.
(02:45):
So why this is so important to me is this
situation that is going on in Houston. It is bigger
than just my cousin. Since twenty seventeen, there's been one
hundred and eighty nine bodies found in Houston by US,
and there's forty of them that are undetermined autopsies. For
those of you that don't know what an undetermined autopsy is,
(03:07):
it means that they came back and they can't determine
whether it's an accident or if it's a homicide. Basically,
so there's all these people that have been found where
there's just no answers, and the City of Houston needs
to do something about this. We need change, We need
(03:29):
investigations for all of these people. It is so important.
My cousin is just one person here. There's all these
other families as well, fighting just like I am, and
I need the City of Houston to rally behind these
people because it is important. It doesn't matter what race
(03:49):
you are. It doesn't matter whether you're female or male.
It doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight, you're homeless,
or you're on drugs. Their families deserve answers.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So, Lauren, let me ask you a couple of questions
about your cousin. How old was he when he died?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So, my cousin was twenty two when.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He died, twenty two, and he was found in what value?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He was found in Buffalo by you and East River whereabouts?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Do you know like a cross street?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, so that exact address is thirty three hundred Sweeney Street.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Okay, we're working on our audio, so I can't hear
very well. Can you spell the street?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
S W I N E Y s W O.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Sweeney okay or Sweeney? And when was this?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So he was found on July first at four fifty
nine pm, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh, so this is relatively recent, okay. And how was
he discovered?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
He was discovered floating, But who discovered My understanding is
a bystander called it in and HPD came out and
recovered him.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And was he fully clothed?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
He was not fully clothed, So whenever he was found,
he was found with no socks or shoes. He had underwear,
a pair of blue jeans on a belt in one
diamond earring. Why this is so important in my cousin's case, specifically,
is that we have video from the night he went
he went missing, and he was wearing an Apple watch.
(05:24):
The Apple watch was missing. Also, the T shirt he
was wearing was missing, and the shoes and socks, so he.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Was not wearing a shirt when they found him. No, okay,
But he was wearing his blue jeans, still had his underwear,
his blue jeans, and the diamond.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Ring in his ear that's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And no other jewelry, no other jewelry, but his apple
went missing.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's right. So the weird part about this is is
that the two roommates that he was with the night
he went missing had that in their possess and gave
it back to us. Whenever we went to retrieve.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
His stuff, they gave what back?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
The T shirt?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
What about the watch?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The watch isn't hasn't been found.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What's on the T shirt?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
T shirt was a tie die like green and white
tied ie yes T shirt like the brand guess And
I mean, he's just a basic T shirt.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And so when y'all went over, did they give you
that as he was wearing this or did they say,
here's a pile of his stuff and it happened to
be in there.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So basically what happened was the morning that he went missing,
my uncle got a text message about eight o'clock in
the morning that they had sent previously the night before
at two o'clock in the morning, and he didn't see
it because most normal people are not answering text messages
at two o'clock in the morning. So he got up,
tried to call these two gentlemen that he was with
(06:57):
phone kept going to voice meil up to the house
because he knew immediately something was wrong, and knocked on
the door got him to open, kind of pushed his
way into the house and he noticed that there was
trash bags that were lying in the entryway and he says,
what is that and he goes, that's your son's stuff.
(07:18):
We don't want him living here anymore. So at that
time we didn't think anything other than that that's weird,
because we were more concerned of finding my cousin. And
later on, after the body was discovered and a police
investigation wasn't opened up because they said that there was
no signs of foul play, we were told, if you
(07:42):
want it, you need to go get it. So at
that point we went and got the material, We got
the bags, and we brought it home and we opened
it up and when we went started going through it
is when we discovered that the bag had the shirt
that he was wearing the night he went missing.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And the odo y'all are using from the night that
he died is what is on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Uh No, we actually I have gone full detective on
this since day one, because this is somebody who was
more like a brother to me than my cousin. And
I went and got video from Pete Doling Piano bar
where they were at that night. Oh, I know exactly
what he was marrying.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
One of these women are chief Michael Mary. I think
that there might.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Because I got nothing going on down there.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Probably Lauren. Yes, I'm here, try to pick up. I
have to bring her volume up, just letting, you know,
try to pick up where you left off. Uh. The
what's your cousin's name?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
His name is Kenneth Cutting?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
See U T T I and G Yes, Sir Kenneth
Cutting and his father went over. He's twenty two. His
father goes over to the house. Is it an actual house,
a standalone house or an apartment?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It's an actual house, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And that's on the east side.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Say that one more time?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Was that on the east side? How far from the from.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So they actually lived in the Bear Creek area.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So the way that they were headed where they said
that they dropped him off because they said there was
an altercation in the car. They said that they dropped
him off at Iten in Waco. Well, that's the complete
opposite direction of their house. Why would they be headed
down into Fifth Ward? That didn't make any sense. Today's
(09:42):
day and age, everybody has a cell phone, everybody has GPS,
you don't know where you're going, you plug it in
and let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So they claim they drove him and dropped it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Did he have a vehicle, No, they were all together.
He didn't have a vehicle with him.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Was he romantic associated with these guys or what was
their association?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He sure was. He was definitely a part of the
LBGVPQ community. Okay, So he was in our relationship with him,
which makes this all that much more weird because I
don't know about you, any relationship I've ever been in.
If something happened to the person I was with, you're
right there in it trying to help. Right, that didn't
(10:24):
happen here.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, it also makes it far more likely there's foul
play because people gay or straight are more likely to
harm somebody that they're associated with in that way. So
was he involved with both of the dudes, Yes, sir,
he was, Okay, And how old were they they were?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I believe thirty five and thirty six at the time.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay. Was he working?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
He was working. He was working the full time job
at a restaurant in Jersey Village at this time. He's
doing good. Yeah, everybody at his work loved him. He
was doing great for himself. It was he was doing wonderful.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
When you say doing great for himself, had he had
problems in the past, Well.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, he didn't necessarily have problems. It's just you know,
when you're starting out, you make a lot of mistakes
when you're in your teenage years, and you know, like
you could just tell that he was he was growing up.
Does that make sense, of course, like just just growing
up and making better decisions for himself during this time period.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's also the case that some people don't figure it
out and they have a lot of problems at an
early age, and whether that be drugs or their sexual orientation,
or alcohol, which can often go together, or a number
of other things, they could be wayward. And when you
said he was doing well in the sense that being
(11:53):
stable was doing well, I had a good feeling. What
that meant he had was kind of struggling to find himself.
That's not that uncommon, no, especially.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
For that age group, right. I remember being in my
early twenties and I didn't know which way I was
going half the time.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well, I think it varies a lot, and I think
it's probably harder for gay kids because they have to
figure they're a bit more alienated and they have to
find their own community and they have to figure out
how to work within that. They don't have a that's
not how their parents were, So I do think that
probably presents an extra challenge. So when he was discovered,
did the body have any markings or sources of trauma
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or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, so they said that there was no trauma to
the body and that is why a case was not
opened up immediately.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Interesting and you said, you went full on detective. So
you had photos from earlier that night. What all did
you discover?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So I went to the bar. I had photos from
Snapchat that people sent me, you know that are time stamped.
So I saw videos of him having a great time
with one of these gentlemen. And then, you know, later on,
as I went on full detective mode, I went to
the bar, I said, I need this video from you,
(13:20):
and I found out that the video shows a verbal
altercation between him and one of the men. And what
I also found out is he walked outside on this
video and you can see him asking to borrow a
cell phone, and I thought, well, that's weird. So what
(13:42):
I realized in this video was there was a bouncer outside,
and then there was a man talking to the bouncer,
and you know when it's common to talk when you're
at a bar, but this guy stood there and talked
to this other gentleman for a very long time. The
gentleman that let Kenneth borrow his phone, so he asked
to borrow a phone. What I found out is that
(14:02):
I was able to obtain the callogue from the gentleman's
phone that he borrowed, and he was trying to find
his own cell phone, which I thought was really weird.
You're at a bar, you just took a snapchat, and
now you're trying to find your own cell phone. What
happened to it?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
What do you think happened to it?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't know, honestly, I'm not sure. I find it weird.
I know that from the video one of the boyfriends
have the cell phone, because you can hear him saying
that in the video, I have his cell phone. I
thought it was very strange why somebody else would have
somebody else's cell phones. I think cell phones are.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Could be a prank. It could be a prank, could
be to prevent him from taking more photos. It could
be that they're planning to murder him later and they
don't want him calling for help. But it could also
be just a hey, I grabbed his phone, you know,
let's see if he can find it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
One hundred percent all of those scenarios are things that
could have happened, right, But what it comes down to
is we don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Right right, And so what time do they leave?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They left the bar ride about midnight, and my uncle
was got that text at two ten in the morning
that he had jumped out of the car and went crazy.
So there's a couple things that are weird about where
his body was actually found. So these men in the
text message and when my uncle went to confront them
(15:31):
the next morning, said that he got out the car
at I ten in Waco, and that's in fifth ward
right dangerous neighborhood. Where his body was found was at
thirty three hundred Sweeney. If you look on a map
to see how and where that is, you would have
(15:51):
to walk about a mile up I ten and then
probably a quarter to a half a mile to the bayou.
So where I get hung up at is is that
the bayou flows from the city of Houston down towards
the golf right.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, could he swim? Hold on his s well the
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let you know that Specs, Liquors, and Finer Foods for
the month of October are raising money for Camp Hope.
Our goal at the beginning of the month was one
hundred thousand dollars. As of day before yesterday, we were
at ninety eight. I have not asked this morning, but
(16:53):
I will ask you this. If you're going to make
a Spex run already at some point to get ready
for tonight, or to get ready for this weekend, or
to get ready for your Christmas party, to restock your
bar at every Spex if you go, when you check out,
if you don't see it, just ask for it. There's
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a charitable contribution to Camp Hope. Canister. Today's the last day.
I would like us to far surpass our goal of
one hundred thousand dollars. And whatever you give, if it's
a dollar, it adds up. A lot of people go
through Specs. If it's fifty cents, if it's five dollars,
if it's fifty dollars, at five hundred dollars, whatever it is,
so widows might and we very much appreciate it, and
(17:34):
I can assure you it goes to a very good cause.
And the dollars that go to Camp Hope are going
to help veterans, help veterans beat PTSD, not a bunch
of salaries or real estate or everything else. We raise
a lot of money for them, and that money goes
to a great cause. And I'm very proud of that fact.
I'm proud of the work that's done there and the
(17:55):
lives that are saved. So today is the day at SPEX.
Any specs that you were already going to go to, you.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Can go to that, Lauren, Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Okay, So you're Let me just recap your twenty July
first of last year. Your twenty two year old cousin,
Kenneth Cutting, was found floating at four fifty nine PM
in Buffalo Bayou at thirty three hundred swining HBD came out.
They said there are no visible signs of trauma on
(18:28):
the body. We're not conducting an investigation. His father, Kenneth's
your cousin's. Kenneth's father received a text from Kenneth's phone
or from the.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Other guy's phones, the other men's phones.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Other men's phones at two ten am approximately saying he
was acting weird and he jumped out of the car
at it and Waco when they live out in Bear Creek.
He was found floating with no shirt, no socks, no shoes,
a diamond in his ear, but his Apple watch was
(19:04):
missing from his wrist. Where was his phone?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
His phone was with the possession of the two men.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Okay, so you're so. His father goes to the house
the next morning when he gets up, sees the text,
goes to the house that the three of them they're
in some gay threesome. The other two or thirty five
and thirty six. Kenneth was twenty two. He gets in
the house and they have bags of his stuff and
they go, that's his stuff. We don't want him living
(19:33):
here anymore. And in the bags of stuff is the
shirt he was wearing earlier that night at the club
that they had gone out to, the Taidie shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Right, that's correct. We didn't receive the bags on that date.
We didn't know that until Wednesday, when his body was
idd but ultimately when we got the bags on Wednesday,
that's when we found out sure was in the bag.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Did that's awful, That's just awful. Did you get his
phone back?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
We did so. While this was going on, after they
said they were not gonna open an investigation, me being
me and my uncle being him, Homicide got a call
every couple days from us saying, you guys need to
look into this, you need you guys need to look
into this. So we handed the cell phone over to
Homicide HPD Homicide and during that time a case wasn't opened.
(20:37):
Case wasn't opened until the autopsy came back undetermined.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And what did the case find?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So the case basically what they said is that they
questioned the two roommates, and the two roommates they thought
were okay, and that they went through his social on
his phone, and that there wasn't any other information out
there like cameras or anything, because twelve months later, camera
(21:10):
footage is gone, so they're saying there's nothing else, so
they think it's an accident. Well, my uncle throw a fit.
How can you say this is an accident when all
this stuff has happened and rightfully so it's a bunch
of really odd things that took place that night that
we know about. And last week we actually found out
(21:35):
the case was closed from a reporter that has been
following the story since the beginning that we've been working with.
And at that point I lost it because how do
you close a case and not tell the family, And
then how do you close the case and not pull
(21:58):
GEO location records for the phone that was with the
two men the night he went missing? So that is
where I'm at right now. My family is fighting for
this case to be reopen because they need to look
at the geolocations on the phone. We had a forensic pathologist,
actually Fox News National had a forensic pathologist look over
(22:22):
the autopsy about two weeks ago, and her comments were,
the digital data on this case is imperative. It has
to be looked at. But here we are and it
hasn't been looked at and the cases closed.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Do you know the names of the other two men?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I do, but I'm not comfortable sharing that on here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, No, all fair, I'd like to get that, okay
off the air. Have you run their backgrounds?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Have I run their backgrounds?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
But p haverun their background, and there are some things
on there are there things involving assault or anything of.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
That nature, No, sir, just like Dwis or what.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Controlled substance things from what I've been told, Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But neither one of them has anything that would suggest violence. No,
do you have any basis to believe that they there
had been a fight or that there had been any
anything of that nature.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Well, I mean there was a fight on camera at
pete'steling piano bar at about eleventh fifty in the morning
or eleven fifty at night. Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Was it just verbal?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It was just verbal?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Okay, And we.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Don't know you can I mean this video when I'm
talking verbal altercation, I'm talking like you can hear both
of them throwing f bombs all the way down the
escalator at Pete's doling the piano bar, and you can
hear it on the video. It's not it's not like
me and Firring. It's plain as day.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Are they do you know what they're fighting about?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I don't know what they're fighting about.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Did anyone ask the two men?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yes, But when they won't speak to you and they
didn't help try to find them, and they didn't go
to a funeral, and that makes it poses a hard
situation right to get that information?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What do they do for a living?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I honestly, I'm not sure we can.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Find that out pretty fast. It strikes me that there
needs to be a bigger investigation into who they are,
how he came into this relationship, what that looked like.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I agree, there's a lot of things that should be investigating.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
All right, hold on, I want to talk to you
all there for a moment. Hold on, you are listening
to the Michael Berrier. Lena Hidalgo has posted a job
position that she's hiring for a deputy director of Policy
(25:08):
and listed in the list. Listed in the job description
is co lead internal policy team meetings by drafting meeting
agendas and reserving conference rooms as needed to support clear
(25:30):
bi directional communication channels across teams. First of all, I'm
not sure you're going to be able to do this job.
You need to dig deep. But one of the things
you'll have to do is you'll have to call and
(25:51):
reserve the conference room. It's going to be one of
your tasks. Okay, if you don't have experience reserving the
conference room, we're willing to train you for a period
of time probationary, but we'd like to know if you've
ever reserved anything. Well, one time, one time I made
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reservations for dinner, open table or did you call? I called, okay,
tell us how that went? Okay? So it was like
ring ring, okay, good and they were like, Federal American girl,
how can we help you? And I was like, hold on,
(26:32):
I'm nervous, and they said it's fine, take your time.
So I was like, we'd like to have dinner. Okay.
What did they respond? They said, okay, I need some details.
And I said, okay, hold on, I'm getting nervous. Okay, good,
You're gonna you have a lot of anxiety attacks, right, yeah,
you're gonna fit in great here. Okay, yeah, thank you, Okay.
(26:54):
Feel I feel like I'm in a safe space already. Okay.
So I said, yeah, we want to a meal and
they said, okay, let's start with what day? And I
was like, oh, you're triggering me, you're pressuring me. Oh
that's good. Good, good. You fought for yourself. You fought
that you're gonna be a good co leader of clear
(27:15):
bi directional communication channels across teams. I can already see.
You've got our skill set that we need. Oh good, Okay.
I feel very safe right now, very safe, but still
still anxious. Don't worry. Take your time. We have all
the time in the world. We never get anything done anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
So they said what day, and I said, okay, stop
yelling and they said, we're not yelling, and I said,
it feels like you're yelling, and that makes it yelling. Okay.
Good again, you're standing up for yourself. You're drawing boundaries.
This is good. You're gonna be a continas. Lena's gonna
love you. Lena's gonna love you on this team. Okay.
So then they wanted to day and I said I
don't know yet, and they said, well, now you're screaming,
(27:51):
and I said, I get the scream. And they said, okay,
well just hold on, let's figure it out. And I
was like, I'll figure it out. You're scaring me. And
then so I said hold on and I put them
on hold and I had to breathe and I had
to pet my cat. Oh, you're gonna be very good.
One of the things that we need help with is
Lina's katz. Would you be willing to pat Lina's cats
(28:11):
very much. So yes, more cats Marrier. Okay, all right,
you know I can tell you this. I can go
ahead and tell you we're gonna hire you. You are good,
you are ready for our team. I can already this
is gonna be a great fit, great fit. I tell you,
just just wonderful. And there you have it, and there
(28:34):
you have it. I love this email, and you're gonna
love it too. Jan rights. You know, girls aren't named
jan anymore, or Janet for that matter. I don't know
if it's short for Jana. She's Her name is Jan Lithworre,
she writes, going to d C with a Democrat. We
leave on November sixth to see DC for the first time.
(28:57):
Exclamation mark. She's excited. Well, I did see it at
four years old, but I know only because I have
a picture of me in front of Lincoln's statue. I
am eighty two. My husband is eighty seven. Again exclamation mark.
She's excited. Trip has been planned and paid for since
last November. Exclamation again, very excited. Well, we will see
(29:22):
outside of building in half of White House plus construction.
No exclamation. We are going with a good attitude, but
this was a twist I never expected. Wanted to see
many things. Pray for peace in our car, lol. I
love your show and I listen every morning and evening
(29:42):
in the car. Best not to use my name. This
is family. Ooh sorry that was at the end. How
can I know? How could I know? Trust the feeling?
How could I know? Michael? The funny thing about that
fireman who called in was the dead silence from you
(30:03):
when he was chuckling so hard after telling his story.
It wasn't a funny thing that happened to that guy,
but his laugh and you not laughing made me laugh.
Thanks for keeping us so entertained with your call in people.
Pam George writes, Tzar, I lied to my wife for
our first two years together to get her attention. I
(30:23):
made every effort to give her the impression that I
was a rednecked country boy. I wore boots, wranglers, and
even gave myself a bit of a country twain. The
charade unraveled the first time I brought her home to
Washington State and confirmed her thoughts that I was a fake. Thankfully,
she laughed and confessed she knew better. Fairly early on
in our relationship. She's an actual country girl, having grown
(30:47):
up in rural Wisconsin and knew I was anything but
a redneck. My fingernails were too clean. She has a
great sense of humor, and I'm so thankful she saw
through my act. Twenty nine years kids later, she's still
my smoking hot five to four hundred and twenty pound firecracker.
The act would have been incredibly difficult to maintain all
(31:07):
this time. But if I'm honest, especially with the knowledge
of how our lives and marriage have turned out, if
I had to do it all over again, I'd lie
just the same if it meant ending up with her.
You're the best star. I love listening to you up
here in northern Wisconsin. Keep up the great work, George.
That's a nice message for mom. That's a nice message. Indeed, Well,
(31:30):
we're not going to have time to play it today,
but I will post it. Lauren Freeman is an advocate.
She's good. She got herself on kho EWT. She sent
me the link, or I found the link. I don't know.
I was looking and she was sending. She did not
mention on the air that the medical examiner said that
(31:52):
he had an orthopedic insert into his neck and shoulder,
which she didn't know of him ever having. And then
the medical examiner later came back and said, oh, that
was another that was another body, not his. How do
you get that wrong? They also listed his body as
being four to eight eighty five pounds and he was
(32:13):
five to three one hundred and twenty. And when you're
brought out of the water, you hold water, you don't shrink,
which seems odd. So either the medical examiners asleep at
the wheel or I don't know. I really don't know.
I have been contacted by HPD, so I know that
(32:33):
they are looking at this case since we started talking
about it, and hopefully they can find out exactly what
happened with regard to this. That's I don't you're not
bringing the kid back, but at least you could give
his family some grief, some grief, some solace. Perhaps we
will be back in a few hours for the evening show.
(32:56):
I do read your emails if you need to buy
something over the weekend, a good or service. I love
it when you send me an email. It's never trouble.
I respond to every one of those emails, and I
respond to as many emails as I possibly can, so
keep them coming. That's all. Through the website at Michael
Berryshow dot com. You can sign up for your Gringo's
gift card and free bumper sticker while they last. You
(33:18):
can get our daily Blast, which Darryl Kunde so ably
puts together. And otherwise we'll talk too soon. Goodbye,
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