November 17, 2025 • 29 mins
Michael Berry exposes Harris County’s bail bond fraud, the O’Donnell consent decree, and how violent criminals slip through the cracks. Plus, a surprise spotlight on Marshland Ranch, a rising Texas band.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time lucking load. So Michael
very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Looking in the mic. Week gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's you the thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing all right, will
I'm make sports, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Eating ready tone.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's the true. It's neither drink nor drug and noo,
I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's a bad dead line, I know it. So I'm
still shining on the.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Close my eyes.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood, the biking everything. It
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is homemade bread day today and it also happens to
be National butter Day. I think those two go pretty
well together. This is how so many violent criminals in
Harris County were able to bond out so easily. Another
three people have been convicted on federal charges in a
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scheme where they conspired with violent criminals and a Able
Bail Bonds aa b l e A Able bail bonds
to help them get back out on the streets by
submitting falsified financial documents. A total of fifty three people
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have been charged in the case to date. Twenty six
have now been convicted through please or a trial Now,
why did the FEDS have to bring this investigation in
this case? What are the chances that the same Harris
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County government, with the same players who've done everything they
can to put violent criminals back out on the street,
What are the chances that those people were part of this?
At a minimum look the other way, but what are
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the chances that they're a part of it, that they
encouraged it, that they made it possible.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
The story from khou we need to stop making money
off of dead children, and we need to stop making
money off of homicide victims.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They should not be a lucrative business.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Anger and frustration is what April Aguirre said she felt
for years. She's the aunt of nine year old Arlene Alvariz,
a young girl who was killed back in February of
twenty twenty two. She says she didn't understand how Alvaris,
is alleged shooter, was able to bond out so quickly
out of jail.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I don't know about y'all, but I know that we
didn't have that kind of money sitting around.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
That isn't til today when they learned that federal agents
and local law enforcement conducted a massive arraid and arrested
a total fifty Houston area residence who were taken to
NRG for processing. The Department of Justice indicated all involved,
charging them with participating in a wire fraud scheme. According
to the indictment, employees of a Able Bonds, a now
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defunct bond company based out of Houston, conspired to falsify
co sign financial reports. This was allegedly done to help
individuals charged with criminal offenses qualify for bonds that they
would have not otherwise ineligible for.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you ripping d blog? Not at all?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
The CEO of the company you see here, Shiba Muhari,
is also being charged. This is video of her at
the Harris County Bell Bond hearing back in April of
twenty twenty two. She was applying for a license to
be renewed and was approved by the board, but some
people had voiced their concerns about renewing her license, and
one of those is Bell Bondsman, himself part of the
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county board.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
These companies that as I say, had a Rob Peter
to pay Paul business model, started to wrap up bonding
out people who shouldn't have been bonded.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
After her approval back in twenty twenty two. Just months later,
the FBI raided her office.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
The honor code amongst the bail bond industry. I think
that day is pretty much over and done with, and
the only question is how do we make sure that
the bonds the offenders are getting out are legitimates.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Imagine your family member is killed by someone, so you
come to know that person's name, and you're pretty hot
about it, You are really raging. And then you find
out that the person who did it has done it before,
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and you find out that the Harris County government is
more than happy putting these people back out on the streets.
There's no doubt what they'll do, There's no question about it.
A man arrested for a double murder in Michigan was
free on bond out of Harris County. First for shooting
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a man in the Humble area. He was released on
a two undred thousand dollars bond in that case, and
then days later he was found not to be abiding
by the twenty four hour house arrest, coming and going
as you please, so he ultimately just cut off his
ankle monitor and fled. Of course, he's got a long
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rap sheet and should have never been out in the
first place. Sentenced to eight years in nineteen ninety seven
for burglary, sentenced to ten years in two thousand and
seven for aggravated robbery. He's a rabid dog. He needs
to stay in a cage. The story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Days after being released on bond and Harris County, this
Michigan double murder suspect removed his ankle monitor, according to records,
and stopped showing up for court. He'd been wanted for
more than two months before. He's accused of killing two
people over that car sale outside of car sales business
about thirty miles from Detroit, Michigan. Detectives used drones and
canines to investigate the double murder last week. The business
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owner and his friend, a customer, both dead.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's that not just troubling, it's tragic.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Three weeks before the killings, investigators say the accused shooter,
forty six year old Terrence Sandals of Houston, threatened the
business owner concerned about a three thousand dollars hummer he
had bought.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
He thought it was a lemon.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
They went back and forth arguing about it, and a
certain point he just dropped the vehicle off correct and
just left it there.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Surveillance video captured Sandals leaving the crime scene before Shelby
Township police found him hiding at a hotel in bed
with a.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Handgun, where they believe he'd been living.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
He got arrested now in Jalen, Michigan, facing thirteen charges,
But just three months ago, he got arrested by Humble
police for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and retaliation,
accused of shooting a man in the butt and neck.
Released on bond, record show within days, he didn't follow
his curfew and removed his GPS monitor. He then became
wanted again before Harris County prosecutors filed another warrant for
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his arrest in September for allegedly headbutting his ex wife
earlier this year. The twice convicted felon had been on
the run ever since, wanted in Texas before being accused
in Michigan.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
He was flinging all's crimes. He's come in to pass
involve ment in a Houston area. So when this new
warrant for his arrest, which he is aware of, we
believe he came up to Michigan at that time.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
That's my Michigan jail record show Sandals is being held
with no bond. His warrants do remain active here in
Harris County, but now charged with murder there, prosecutors say
he's facing life without parole.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Three turtles robbed a sloth. Popo took his statement. They
said what they look like? He said, I don't know.
It happened so fast. That's a new wave. That said,
everyone's Internet. I went to the doctors and noticed they
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had my blood type recorded as B plus. I said,
that's not right. That's gotta be a type. Oh, I'm positive.
The friend said she didn't understand cloning. I told her
that makes two of us. One time I met a
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beekeeper who had a glass eye with a picture of
the Disney character Bell. I was confused, and then I
remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A US District Court judge is giving Attorney General Ken
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Paxton the opportunity to argue that new state laws could
invalidate O'Donnell consent decree, which created the revolving door at
the Harris County Courthouse, resulting in violent criminals on your
streets repeatedly. Back in July, Attorney General Paxton asked the
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federal courts to vacate the O'Donnell consent decree, arguing that
the practice goes against the Texas law passed in twenty
twenty one and another state bail law that took effect September. First,
a brief reminder, and I'll keep this overly simple, when
Rodney Ellis managed to get Lena Hidalgo elected in twenty eighteen,
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was the yet last year we did straight party voting
in the state of Texas. Amazing when you do away
with these little procedural games, what a difference you get
at the ballot box, and what a different government you
begin to get. Well, that was the last of the
elections where that happened, and swept into office was a
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woman that had been slipped in there at the last minute.
They already had an old white man running, but he
was talked into stepping back and he would go to
work for the county judge's office. Reminder of county judge
is not a judge in a traditional sense, but like
the mayor of the county, city of Houston has a mayor,
Harris County, the bigger county that the city is part of,
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has a mayor. It's called a county judge. That's a
State of Texas thing. Every county in the state of
Texas as a county judge when she was swept in
to join Rodney Ellis. Traditionally, for the last you know,
going back to say the late eighties early nineties, Harris
County had four Republicans and one Democrat seat just one.
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And then when Rodney Ellis got elected, he started scheming
and has managed to pull off getting a majority of
the court. So he had his seat, the seat long
held by L. Frank Olee, who interestingly won the seat
in nineteen eighty four against first time he was elected
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Sylvester Turner, who five years later would run for state
rep and win.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So L.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Frank Olee was happy to be the lone Democrat on
the county commission and he ran his pre seat, whether
ethically or not is in question. And you had a
Republican county judge, and you had the other county you
had the other county commissioners who were Republican. And then
once Rodney got elected, he started scheming to take the
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county judges seat. Well, just before that, you had a precinct.
They're called precincts, not districts for your county commissioners. You
had a precinct that had kind of gone back and forth.
It was on the east side of Harris County. It
was more Hispanic than the other precincts. It was more
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immigrant than the other precincts, and the Democrat Party had
a stronghold in this area, particularly a Hispanic stronghold. You
had more labor folks on the east side, and so
Adrian Garcia managed to win that seat. Now you got
two of the five on the county commission and then
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Rodney schemed to get Lena elected. When she gets elected,
that makes a three to two majority. I had Democrats
calling me, who's Lena at all? Go why should I know?
She's a Democrat and you're a Democrat. Why are you
asking me because you know that stuff. I never heard
of her. I didn't even pay attention to the fact
she was running. Edimmett was supposed to win. He was shocked.
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He said, people were asking him, who is the woman
that just beats you. I have no idea. Nobody knows. Well.
Rodney's very, very clever. He's more clever than any of
the other Democrats in this way. He knew that whoever
he put in there and won was going to get
national attention for the Democrats were taking over the state
of Texas. So he found this diminutive, Hispanic immigrant woman.
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Now she's dumb as a box of rocks, and you
might say that's a bad thing. Oh no, no, that's
according to design. She needed Rodney. She couldn't balance her
own checkbook. She was Rodney's puppet. So now this little
lowly or this one member of a five member commissioner's
court is controlling the county with an iron fist. And
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then of course he would have Cactus Jack Cagle redistricted
out of his precinct. So now you've gone from a
four to one Republican split to a four to one
Democrats split because the Democrats play ball and the Republicans don't.
And that's a fact. State of Indiana now announcing that
they're backing off of their redistricting efforts, solidly Republican state.
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Mike Pence Republicans, well, we don't want to upset the Democrats,
and Trump is furious. But the O'Donnell consent decree worked
like this. There were people that I'm sure keep company
with Rodney Ellis. But there were people who sued Harris
County and said, if you're arrested because you got blood
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all over in a knife in your hand, just gabbed
somebody to death, and you don't have money to make bail,
you're left in jail until things proceed along, and that's
just not fair, not to you ought to be released
so you can go kill all the witnesses. So Harris
County was battling this once Rodney got Lena in. The
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first thing they did is they agreed, you know what,
we've been, really, really bad. We will agree to everything
defense lawyers want and the illegal alien lobby wants. We'll
let them free. And that's what we have. And Ken
Paxson is trying to stop that sounds like Chris Stapleton,
but it's not. It's a man called Marshland Ranch. I
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was doing and ask me anything yesterday and I'm scrolling
through and I'm aggravated because you get over five hundred
questions pretty fast and trying to answer them all with
a yes, no, or a quick answer, and every time
I answer, my system reloads because I'm on my phone
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and it pushes me up in the list. So I
got to scroll down again to find where the next
question is that I haven't answered, So it takes me
thirty seconds to a minute between answers, which is aggravating
because if somebody takes the time to ask a question
and I've committed answering, it still as it may seem,
I feel like I should answer, and so it's kind
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of aggravated. Why can't Facebook for you? This hour? And
I get a post a question from a guy and
the tone irritated me. It was from a guy named
Evan Lawrence and it said have you checked out my
band Marshland Ranch? And I don't know why it irritated me,
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maybe because it was indelicate in its delivery. If I
wanted to check out the band, there wasn't a link
to check it out, so that was a missed opportunity.
I'm impressed when people are good at what they do,
and that wasn't good at what you do, and it
wasn't really the right way to ask was quick and succinct.
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I'll give me credit for that. And I kept scrolling
along reading other things and it was kind of gnawing
at me. And I imagine some guys out there and
he's got a little band, and maybe they're good and
maybe they're terrible. It doesn't matter. They have a band
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and they're trying to get a little promotion, little some
ears onto their stuff. And I always say, you're good
or you're not. As a radio host, as a band,
as a comic, you're good or you're not, and your
art will stand on its own if you're ever heard.
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You gotta have simplers. People at least have to have
the opportunity. And what snuffs out most comics, talk show hosts,
musicians is that they never get the opportunity to be heard,
to find out if their stuff was any good in
the first place. So it just kind of kept gnawing
at me. And I want to go back up there
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and find it, because there's too many things since then,
and they push it down, and so I'd have to
go all the way back and find that thing. But
I just imagine this guy. He's posted, and he's sitting
there looking at the computer hope and that I'll say something,
not realizing that not only am I not impressed by
what he's written, I'm irritated by it. But there he is, hoping,
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and he's got his little band and they rehearse, I'm sure,
and they play gigs. They load their stuff in and
they play a gig and maybe nobody comes, or nobody
pays a tea, maybe they don't get paid. And then
they load their stuff up, take it back out, bring
it home, and I imagine you get home and your
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wife's like, honey, I don't know how long we can
do this. I'm here with these kids by myself. I
get it, I understand, but this is just not working.
You've got a day job, I've got kids. This is
what's going through my head. I don't know the who
Evan Lawrence is. So I went back and I said,
why don't you send me an email with a link
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to your single best song that I can easily access
and listen to. Because I'm not gonna hut in safe,
but I'm not going to chasing it down. I'm doing
you a favor, So in short order, I get a link.
Mister Barry, this is what you asked for, marsh Land Ranch.
It was that song. I was delightfully surprised. It sounded
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like you put into AI that you wanted a Chris
Stapleton's sounding song. But it's legit, so I posted about
it with a link to it, and I told that
story because I remember when I was trying to be heard.
I remember when I was running around trying to get
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deals done in real estate. I remember when I was
trying to get hired as a lawyer. I remembered when
I was running for city council. I remembered all those
times I wanted somebody to pay attention to what I
was doing. And they're busy. We're all busy. Nobody wakes
up a third of the way through your day, says
I wonder if anybody needs anything like me sampling their
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art to see if I can help them. Nobody does that.
You get your own list and your focus, and this
is just an obstacle in the way. So it's hard
to remember. And I thought, man, I remember when Chris
Baker would have me on and afterwards people, I heard
you on the radio, And I remember when I got
the guest host, And I remember the first time I
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did a show. Remember when I drive back from being
out of town on Sunday morning to do my ten
to eleven awful real estate show. It was awful from
the beginning, awful intro, and the show was awful. I
was so excited and so proud, and I thought, that's
where this guy is so posted it said, I really
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liked it. This morning I wake up to an email
from at two fifty nine am. Dear mister Barry from
Bella Delgado, which means pretty skinny girl literally, apologies for
the late email. Laying here nursing our son Whalan. I'm
overjoyed and so thankful for you giving my husband's band
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a listen. A little background on us. My three younger brothers,
Julie and Jesse and Judah and I grew up with
the booming, unmistakable energy of the seven to forty Michael
Berry Show. My dad often cranked up the truck radio,
laughing at Ramon's lightning fast beings, whistles, and perfectly timed
sound bites while we rode in the back of the
dooly to Low's for supplies for one of his many
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home remodeling projects, or for a reflect replacement toilet. After
someone flushed tampons and baby wash at wash wipes at
the rental properties, he'd crank the volume, drowning out our
noise in the back seat. I found that very rude
at the time. Now that I juggle two boys on
my own, I finally understand. Before the Michael Berry Show
it was Rush Limbo rest in peace, such a great
radio voice. Fast forward to the present. All four of
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us kids, two of us with kids of our own,
are still Avid Michael Berry Show listeners. And now my
husband Evan is too. Julia is twenty three, Jesse twenty,
Judas seventeen. My brother is a rhythm guitar in the band.
My husband Evan is the lead. They tray from the Fay.
Their single had their singer had a stint on American
il problem, deforming Marshland Ranch. Thank you, Michael. My two
thirty waking was almost easy. By the way they perform
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at the Rustic on Govern twenty eight.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
If you feel like stopping by, ever so often you
have to hear the entirety of that song because it's
so good, and never so often you have to hear
from Joyce.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
The sage of Sunnyside, good morning, sweetheart, Joyce, are you there?
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M hm. You definitely thought you could hear Joyce kah,
probably just about the time I started talking about something
else should pick up. No, I can hear, I can
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hear on the other end that she might just put
it down for a minute. I just read that the
estate executor or the joyce. I wonder she's got the
mute button on. Yeah. No, Because she had the mute
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button on, you'll be able to hear the noise in
the background. Well, Shokemon, when she comes on, I tell her,
let me put her on hold and then you can Okay,
I'm gonna put her on hold, and then you can
keep it on and see if you can get hold
of her. The estate executor of the Simpson estate has
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accepted a deal, a settlement to pay the family or
the estate of Ron Goldman fifty eight million dollars. They
had originally asked for one hundred and seventeen million. So
that's been cut literally in half. And I think that's
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been thirty years, thirty years. And I also think to myself,
how big was the estate? How big was the estate
that they can pay out fifty eight million. I understand
they're not limited by what's in the estate. There may
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be the anticipation of future revenues. But I suspect they
would not have agreed him having children to give the
entire corpus of the estate. I mean, I would assume,
and I'm going to give everything fifty eight million dollars.
Thirty years later, Ron Goldman would be older than I
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am today. He would look entirely different. Everything about that
situation would be so different thirty over thirty years later now.
And he got me thinking about that case and the
dangers of how poorly we deal with racism in this country.
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What was once racism has turned into a system turned
on its head. I went to a Jersey Mike's for
the first time over the weekend because it was Saturday,
and it was early afternoon, and Crockett they'd had heat
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and some of his buddies had gone out that morning.
It had played ball, hung around together, and he had
come home and they had had school pictures, and he
came home and he had a Jersey Mike's sandwich with him.
And so I was sitting on the couch watching college football,
as you're supposed to do on Saturday, great day for
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college football. In fact, I'm watching the A and M
game at that point, and they're down thirty to three,
and I thought, you damn Aggie's you get all the
way up to number three. You have an argument that
you're the best team in the country. You already got
four first place votes this past week, a whipping on
South Carolina, A good enough team, but not a team
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that should be holding you up. And it's thirty to
three at a half time. What in the world you
squandered it all? And my heart hurt for Aggie fans
that this was their moment and now they're about to
get ribbed by Longhorn fans mercilessly. And of course ut
is going to run the table and Saturday night blow
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out Georgia. That's how I'm imagining this. This day is
going to go and the poor Aggie fans are going
to have to catch hal for it. And it brings
this jersey Mike's sandwich in And so my wife and
I were sitting on the couch and I said, oh,
show me what you got, and it was the I
don't know number seven. I think number seven Mike's way,
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and Mike's way apparently means let us tomatoes, which, by
the way, let us is just plumper. It's just filler
on a sandwich. Hey, it serves no purpose, gives you
some crunch and makes your sandwich thicker, which delies love
it because doesn't lost anything and tomatoes, which in my opinion,
have no place on a sandwich. They make a sandwich soggy,
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They take over the taste, they take over the texture.
And Mike's way is lettuce, tomatoes, onions, oil and vinegar,
salt and pepper. I think that's everything. You can just say,
you know Mike's way, and they know to do all that.
So nothing said. Have you ever tried a Jersey Mice?
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I said no, And I've asked Crockett why he now
gets Jersey Mice instead of Subway or any of the others,
and he says, oh, I just like it better. No,
you saw it during the football game. No, no, not
at all, which again people don't give credit to where
they found out about. Some of Jersey Mice has been
advertising maniacally on sporting events, probably elsewhere too. So I
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go up to Jersey Mice to get us a sandwich,
and I notice it was all black employees, and the
black employees were very frustrated because they were overwhelmed. The
place was packed, and you know, this isn't your career choice.
You probably didn't get training before you go in there.
But I'm noticing how nasty nice, just over the top groveling.
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The white people were ordering their food, and I thought,
it is as if they are afraid they are about
to get mugged. This is the weirdest thing. Oh, thank
you so much. I really yes, yes, I would love
cheese on that. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you.
Ever seen white people do this? And I thought, this
is not natural. We do not have natural relations in
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this country between people. We've got a real problem on
our hands. I mean, that's not the biggest problem, but
you know what underlies that problem. You know why they're
being so overly nice.
It's that time time time, time lucking load. So Michael
very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Looking in the mic. Week gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's you the thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing all right, will
I'm make sports, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Eating ready tone.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's the true. It's neither drink nor drug and noo,
I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's a bad dead line, I know it. So I'm
still shining on the.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Close my eyes.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood, the biking everything. It
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is homemade bread day today and it also happens to
be National butter Day. I think those two go pretty
well together. This is how so many violent criminals in
Harris County were able to bond out so easily. Another
three people have been convicted on federal charges in a
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scheme where they conspired with violent criminals and a Able
Bail Bonds aa b l e A Able bail bonds
to help them get back out on the streets by
submitting falsified financial documents. A total of fifty three people
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have been charged in the case to date. Twenty six
have now been convicted through please or a trial Now,
why did the FEDS have to bring this investigation in
this case? What are the chances that the same Harris
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County government, with the same players who've done everything they
can to put violent criminals back out on the street,
What are the chances that those people were part of this?
At a minimum look the other way, but what are
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the chances that they're a part of it, that they
encouraged it, that they made it possible.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
The story from khou we need to stop making money
off of dead children, and we need to stop making
money off of homicide victims.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They should not be a lucrative business.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Anger and frustration is what April Aguirre said she felt
for years. She's the aunt of nine year old Arlene Alvariz,
a young girl who was killed back in February of
twenty twenty two. She says she didn't understand how Alvaris,
is alleged shooter, was able to bond out so quickly
out of jail.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I don't know about y'all, but I know that we
didn't have that kind of money sitting around.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
That isn't til today when they learned that federal agents
and local law enforcement conducted a massive arraid and arrested
a total fifty Houston area residence who were taken to
NRG for processing. The Department of Justice indicated all involved,
charging them with participating in a wire fraud scheme. According
to the indictment, employees of a Able Bonds, a now
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defunct bond company based out of Houston, conspired to falsify
co sign financial reports. This was allegedly done to help
individuals charged with criminal offenses qualify for bonds that they
would have not otherwise ineligible for.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you ripping d blog? Not at all?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
The CEO of the company you see here, Shiba Muhari,
is also being charged. This is video of her at
the Harris County Bell Bond hearing back in April of
twenty twenty two. She was applying for a license to
be renewed and was approved by the board, but some
people had voiced their concerns about renewing her license, and
one of those is Bell Bondsman, himself part of the
(04:26):
county board.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
These companies that as I say, had a Rob Peter
to pay Paul business model, started to wrap up bonding
out people who shouldn't have been bonded.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
After her approval back in twenty twenty two. Just months later,
the FBI raided her office.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
The honor code amongst the bail bond industry. I think
that day is pretty much over and done with, and
the only question is how do we make sure that
the bonds the offenders are getting out are legitimates.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Imagine your family member is killed by someone, so you
come to know that person's name, and you're pretty hot
about it, You are really raging. And then you find
out that the person who did it has done it before,
(05:24):
and you find out that the Harris County government is
more than happy putting these people back out on the streets.
There's no doubt what they'll do, There's no question about it.
A man arrested for a double murder in Michigan was
free on bond out of Harris County. First for shooting
(05:48):
a man in the Humble area. He was released on
a two undred thousand dollars bond in that case, and
then days later he was found not to be abiding
by the twenty four hour house arrest, coming and going
as you please, so he ultimately just cut off his
ankle monitor and fled. Of course, he's got a long
(06:09):
rap sheet and should have never been out in the
first place. Sentenced to eight years in nineteen ninety seven
for burglary, sentenced to ten years in two thousand and
seven for aggravated robbery. He's a rabid dog. He needs
to stay in a cage. The story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Days after being released on bond and Harris County, this
Michigan double murder suspect removed his ankle monitor, according to records,
and stopped showing up for court. He'd been wanted for
more than two months before. He's accused of killing two
people over that car sale outside of car sales business
about thirty miles from Detroit, Michigan. Detectives used drones and
canines to investigate the double murder last week. The business
(06:47):
owner and his friend, a customer, both dead.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's that not just troubling, it's tragic.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Three weeks before the killings, investigators say the accused shooter,
forty six year old Terrence Sandals of Houston, threatened the
business owner concerned about a three thousand dollars hummer he
had bought.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
He thought it was a lemon.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
They went back and forth arguing about it, and a
certain point he just dropped the vehicle off correct and
just left it there.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Surveillance video captured Sandals leaving the crime scene before Shelby
Township police found him hiding at a hotel in bed
with a.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Handgun, where they believe he'd been living.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
He got arrested now in Jalen, Michigan, facing thirteen charges,
But just three months ago, he got arrested by Humble
police for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and retaliation,
accused of shooting a man in the butt and neck.
Released on bond, record show within days, he didn't follow
his curfew and removed his GPS monitor. He then became
wanted again before Harris County prosecutors filed another warrant for
(07:40):
his arrest in September for allegedly headbutting his ex wife
earlier this year. The twice convicted felon had been on
the run ever since, wanted in Texas before being accused
in Michigan.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
He was flinging all's crimes. He's come in to pass
involve ment in a Houston area. So when this new
warrant for his arrest, which he is aware of, we
believe he came up to Michigan at that time.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
That's my Michigan jail record show Sandals is being held
with no bond. His warrants do remain active here in
Harris County, but now charged with murder there, prosecutors say
he's facing life without parole.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Three turtles robbed a sloth. Popo took his statement. They
said what they look like? He said, I don't know.
It happened so fast. That's a new wave. That said,
everyone's Internet. I went to the doctors and noticed they
(08:38):
had my blood type recorded as B plus. I said,
that's not right. That's gotta be a type. Oh, I'm positive.
The friend said she didn't understand cloning. I told her
that makes two of us. One time I met a
(09:05):
beekeeper who had a glass eye with a picture of
the Disney character Bell. I was confused, and then I
remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A US District Court judge is giving Attorney General Ken
(09:27):
Paxton the opportunity to argue that new state laws could
invalidate O'Donnell consent decree, which created the revolving door at
the Harris County Courthouse, resulting in violent criminals on your
streets repeatedly. Back in July, Attorney General Paxton asked the
(09:49):
federal courts to vacate the O'Donnell consent decree, arguing that
the practice goes against the Texas law passed in twenty
twenty one and another state bail law that took effect September. First,
a brief reminder, and I'll keep this overly simple, when
Rodney Ellis managed to get Lena Hidalgo elected in twenty eighteen,
(10:13):
was the yet last year we did straight party voting
in the state of Texas. Amazing when you do away
with these little procedural games, what a difference you get
at the ballot box, and what a different government you
begin to get. Well, that was the last of the
elections where that happened, and swept into office was a
(10:36):
woman that had been slipped in there at the last minute.
They already had an old white man running, but he
was talked into stepping back and he would go to
work for the county judge's office. Reminder of county judge
is not a judge in a traditional sense, but like
the mayor of the county, city of Houston has a mayor,
Harris County, the bigger county that the city is part of,
(10:59):
has a mayor. It's called a county judge. That's a
State of Texas thing. Every county in the state of
Texas as a county judge when she was swept in
to join Rodney Ellis. Traditionally, for the last you know,
going back to say the late eighties early nineties, Harris
County had four Republicans and one Democrat seat just one.
(11:24):
And then when Rodney Ellis got elected, he started scheming
and has managed to pull off getting a majority of
the court. So he had his seat, the seat long
held by L. Frank Olee, who interestingly won the seat
in nineteen eighty four against first time he was elected
(11:46):
Sylvester Turner, who five years later would run for state
rep and win.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So L.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Frank Olee was happy to be the lone Democrat on
the county commission and he ran his pre seat, whether
ethically or not is in question. And you had a
Republican county judge, and you had the other county you
had the other county commissioners who were Republican. And then
once Rodney got elected, he started scheming to take the
(12:13):
county judges seat. Well, just before that, you had a precinct.
They're called precincts, not districts for your county commissioners. You
had a precinct that had kind of gone back and forth.
It was on the east side of Harris County. It
was more Hispanic than the other precincts. It was more
(12:35):
immigrant than the other precincts, and the Democrat Party had
a stronghold in this area, particularly a Hispanic stronghold. You
had more labor folks on the east side, and so
Adrian Garcia managed to win that seat. Now you got
two of the five on the county commission and then
(12:58):
Rodney schemed to get Lena elected. When she gets elected,
that makes a three to two majority. I had Democrats
calling me, who's Lena at all? Go why should I know?
She's a Democrat and you're a Democrat. Why are you
asking me because you know that stuff. I never heard
of her. I didn't even pay attention to the fact
she was running. Edimmett was supposed to win. He was shocked.
(13:22):
He said, people were asking him, who is the woman
that just beats you. I have no idea. Nobody knows. Well.
Rodney's very, very clever. He's more clever than any of
the other Democrats in this way. He knew that whoever
he put in there and won was going to get
national attention for the Democrats were taking over the state
of Texas. So he found this diminutive, Hispanic immigrant woman.
(13:50):
Now she's dumb as a box of rocks, and you
might say that's a bad thing. Oh no, no, that's
according to design. She needed Rodney. She couldn't balance her
own checkbook. She was Rodney's puppet. So now this little
lowly or this one member of a five member commissioner's
court is controlling the county with an iron fist. And
(14:14):
then of course he would have Cactus Jack Cagle redistricted
out of his precinct. So now you've gone from a
four to one Republican split to a four to one
Democrats split because the Democrats play ball and the Republicans don't.
And that's a fact. State of Indiana now announcing that
they're backing off of their redistricting efforts, solidly Republican state.
(14:35):
Mike Pence Republicans, well, we don't want to upset the Democrats,
and Trump is furious. But the O'Donnell consent decree worked
like this. There were people that I'm sure keep company
with Rodney Ellis. But there were people who sued Harris
County and said, if you're arrested because you got blood
(14:58):
all over in a knife in your hand, just gabbed
somebody to death, and you don't have money to make bail,
you're left in jail until things proceed along, and that's
just not fair, not to you ought to be released
so you can go kill all the witnesses. So Harris
County was battling this once Rodney got Lena in. The
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first thing they did is they agreed, you know what,
we've been, really, really bad. We will agree to everything
defense lawyers want and the illegal alien lobby wants. We'll
let them free. And that's what we have. And Ken
Paxson is trying to stop that sounds like Chris Stapleton,
but it's not. It's a man called Marshland Ranch. I
(15:46):
was doing and ask me anything yesterday and I'm scrolling
through and I'm aggravated because you get over five hundred
questions pretty fast and trying to answer them all with
a yes, no, or a quick answer, and every time
I answer, my system reloads because I'm on my phone
(16:09):
and it pushes me up in the list. So I
got to scroll down again to find where the next
question is that I haven't answered, So it takes me
thirty seconds to a minute between answers, which is aggravating
because if somebody takes the time to ask a question
and I've committed answering, it still as it may seem,
I feel like I should answer, and so it's kind
(16:34):
of aggravated. Why can't Facebook for you? This hour? And
I get a post a question from a guy and
the tone irritated me. It was from a guy named
Evan Lawrence and it said have you checked out my
band Marshland Ranch? And I don't know why it irritated me,
(17:00):
maybe because it was indelicate in its delivery. If I
wanted to check out the band, there wasn't a link
to check it out, so that was a missed opportunity.
I'm impressed when people are good at what they do,
and that wasn't good at what you do, and it
wasn't really the right way to ask was quick and succinct.
(17:20):
I'll give me credit for that. And I kept scrolling
along reading other things and it was kind of gnawing
at me. And I imagine some guys out there and
he's got a little band, and maybe they're good and
maybe they're terrible. It doesn't matter. They have a band
(17:43):
and they're trying to get a little promotion, little some
ears onto their stuff. And I always say, you're good
or you're not. As a radio host, as a band,
as a comic, you're good or you're not, and your
art will stand on its own if you're ever heard.
(18:03):
You gotta have simplers. People at least have to have
the opportunity. And what snuffs out most comics, talk show hosts,
musicians is that they never get the opportunity to be heard,
to find out if their stuff was any good in
the first place. So it just kind of kept gnawing
at me. And I want to go back up there
(18:26):
and find it, because there's too many things since then,
and they push it down, and so I'd have to
go all the way back and find that thing. But
I just imagine this guy. He's posted, and he's sitting
there looking at the computer hope and that I'll say something,
not realizing that not only am I not impressed by
what he's written, I'm irritated by it. But there he is, hoping,
(18:50):
and he's got his little band and they rehearse, I'm sure,
and they play gigs. They load their stuff in and
they play a gig and maybe nobody comes, or nobody
pays a tea, maybe they don't get paid. And then
they load their stuff up, take it back out, bring
it home, and I imagine you get home and your
(19:11):
wife's like, honey, I don't know how long we can
do this. I'm here with these kids by myself. I
get it, I understand, but this is just not working.
You've got a day job, I've got kids. This is
what's going through my head. I don't know the who
Evan Lawrence is. So I went back and I said,
why don't you send me an email with a link
(19:32):
to your single best song that I can easily access
and listen to. Because I'm not gonna hut in safe,
but I'm not going to chasing it down. I'm doing
you a favor, So in short order, I get a link.
Mister Barry, this is what you asked for, marsh Land Ranch.
It was that song. I was delightfully surprised. It sounded
(19:54):
like you put into AI that you wanted a Chris
Stapleton's sounding song. But it's legit, so I posted about
it with a link to it, and I told that
story because I remember when I was trying to be heard.
I remember when I was running around trying to get
(20:14):
deals done in real estate. I remember when I was
trying to get hired as a lawyer. I remembered when
I was running for city council. I remembered all those
times I wanted somebody to pay attention to what I
was doing. And they're busy. We're all busy. Nobody wakes
up a third of the way through your day, says
I wonder if anybody needs anything like me sampling their
(20:36):
art to see if I can help them. Nobody does that.
You get your own list and your focus, and this
is just an obstacle in the way. So it's hard
to remember. And I thought, man, I remember when Chris
Baker would have me on and afterwards people, I heard
you on the radio, And I remember when I got
the guest host, And I remember the first time I
(20:58):
did a show. Remember when I drive back from being
out of town on Sunday morning to do my ten
to eleven awful real estate show. It was awful from
the beginning, awful intro, and the show was awful. I
was so excited and so proud, and I thought, that's
where this guy is so posted it said, I really
(21:19):
liked it. This morning I wake up to an email
from at two fifty nine am. Dear mister Barry from
Bella Delgado, which means pretty skinny girl literally, apologies for
the late email. Laying here nursing our son Whalan. I'm
overjoyed and so thankful for you giving my husband's band
(21:40):
a listen. A little background on us. My three younger brothers,
Julie and Jesse and Judah and I grew up with
the booming, unmistakable energy of the seven to forty Michael
Berry Show. My dad often cranked up the truck radio,
laughing at Ramon's lightning fast beings, whistles, and perfectly timed
sound bites while we rode in the back of the
dooly to Low's for supplies for one of his many
(22:02):
home remodeling projects, or for a reflect replacement toilet. After
someone flushed tampons and baby wash at wash wipes at
the rental properties, he'd crank the volume, drowning out our
noise in the back seat. I found that very rude
at the time. Now that I juggle two boys on
my own, I finally understand. Before the Michael Berry Show
it was Rush Limbo rest in peace, such a great
radio voice. Fast forward to the present. All four of
(22:23):
us kids, two of us with kids of our own,
are still Avid Michael Berry Show listeners. And now my
husband Evan is too. Julia is twenty three, Jesse twenty,
Judas seventeen. My brother is a rhythm guitar in the band.
My husband Evan is the lead. They tray from the Fay.
Their single had their singer had a stint on American
il problem, deforming Marshland Ranch. Thank you, Michael. My two
thirty waking was almost easy. By the way they perform
(22:45):
at the Rustic on Govern twenty eight.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
If you feel like stopping by, ever so often you
have to hear the entirety of that song because it's
so good, and never so often you have to hear
from Joyce.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
The sage of Sunnyside, good morning, sweetheart, Joyce, are you there?
(23:23):
M hm. You definitely thought you could hear Joyce kah,
probably just about the time I started talking about something
else should pick up. No, I can hear, I can
(23:45):
hear on the other end that she might just put
it down for a minute. I just read that the
estate executor or the joyce. I wonder she's got the
mute button on. Yeah. No, Because she had the mute
(24:06):
button on, you'll be able to hear the noise in
the background. Well, Shokemon, when she comes on, I tell her,
let me put her on hold and then you can Okay,
I'm gonna put her on hold, and then you can
keep it on and see if you can get hold
of her. The estate executor of the Simpson estate has
(24:28):
accepted a deal, a settlement to pay the family or
the estate of Ron Goldman fifty eight million dollars. They
had originally asked for one hundred and seventeen million. So
that's been cut literally in half. And I think that's
(24:51):
been thirty years, thirty years. And I also think to myself,
how big was the estate? How big was the estate
that they can pay out fifty eight million. I understand
they're not limited by what's in the estate. There may
(25:12):
be the anticipation of future revenues. But I suspect they
would not have agreed him having children to give the
entire corpus of the estate. I mean, I would assume,
and I'm going to give everything fifty eight million dollars.
Thirty years later, Ron Goldman would be older than I
(25:36):
am today. He would look entirely different. Everything about that
situation would be so different thirty over thirty years later now.
And he got me thinking about that case and the
dangers of how poorly we deal with racism in this country.
(26:00):
What was once racism has turned into a system turned
on its head. I went to a Jersey Mike's for
the first time over the weekend because it was Saturday,
and it was early afternoon, and Crockett they'd had heat
(26:21):
and some of his buddies had gone out that morning.
It had played ball, hung around together, and he had
come home and they had had school pictures, and he
came home and he had a Jersey Mike's sandwich with him.
And so I was sitting on the couch watching college football,
as you're supposed to do on Saturday, great day for
(26:41):
college football. In fact, I'm watching the A and M
game at that point, and they're down thirty to three,
and I thought, you damn Aggie's you get all the
way up to number three. You have an argument that
you're the best team in the country. You already got
four first place votes this past week, a whipping on
South Carolina, A good enough team, but not a team
(27:03):
that should be holding you up. And it's thirty to
three at a half time. What in the world you
squandered it all? And my heart hurt for Aggie fans
that this was their moment and now they're about to
get ribbed by Longhorn fans mercilessly. And of course ut
is going to run the table and Saturday night blow
(27:24):
out Georgia. That's how I'm imagining this. This day is
going to go and the poor Aggie fans are going
to have to catch hal for it. And it brings
this jersey Mike's sandwich in And so my wife and
I were sitting on the couch and I said, oh,
show me what you got, and it was the I
don't know number seven. I think number seven Mike's way,
(27:45):
and Mike's way apparently means let us tomatoes, which, by
the way, let us is just plumper. It's just filler
on a sandwich. Hey, it serves no purpose, gives you
some crunch and makes your sandwich thicker, which delies love
it because doesn't lost anything and tomatoes, which in my opinion,
have no place on a sandwich. They make a sandwich soggy,
(28:08):
They take over the taste, they take over the texture.
And Mike's way is lettuce, tomatoes, onions, oil and vinegar,
salt and pepper. I think that's everything. You can just say,
you know Mike's way, and they know to do all that.
So nothing said. Have you ever tried a Jersey Mice?
(28:29):
I said no, And I've asked Crockett why he now
gets Jersey Mice instead of Subway or any of the others,
and he says, oh, I just like it better. No,
you saw it during the football game. No, no, not
at all, which again people don't give credit to where
they found out about. Some of Jersey Mice has been
advertising maniacally on sporting events, probably elsewhere too. So I
(28:49):
go up to Jersey Mice to get us a sandwich,
and I notice it was all black employees, and the
black employees were very frustrated because they were overwhelmed. The
place was packed, and you know, this isn't your career choice.
You probably didn't get training before you go in there.
But I'm noticing how nasty nice, just over the top groveling.
(29:14):
The white people were ordering their food, and I thought,
it is as if they are afraid they are about
to get mugged. This is the weirdest thing. Oh, thank
you so much. I really yes, yes, I would love
cheese on that. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you.
Ever seen white people do this? And I thought, this
is not natural. We do not have natural relations in
(29:38):
this country between people. We've got a real problem on
our hands. I mean, that's not the biggest problem, but
you know what underlies that problem. You know why they're
being so overly nice.
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