December 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Michael Berry tackles shocking cases in Texas classrooms, a new law for accountability, and pays tribute to music legend Steve Cropper—plus Trump’s latest moves and a classic NFL moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
It could be we're going to run against crazy Birdie.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That could be he's a crazy man, but that's okay.
We like crazy people.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I love running against Crooked Hillary.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I love that Crooked Hillary Clinton, Crooked Hillaries. Here is
a crooked one, Gavin Newscomb. He's the governor of California.
He shigned Newscombe.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Taking to cover Pocahontas. I've named him deranged Jack Smith.
But we'll work together with Shifty Shift.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We're going to defeat crazy Kamala.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
We have a.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Representative in Congress who they say was here a long
time ago.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They call her Pocahontas. But you know what, I like.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You Sometimes you want.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Name here as patch acase you want to be where
you can see. So say you want to be where
everybody knows your name.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We're talking about funny or sad. I think it's more
sad than funny. He has one ability I don't have.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
He sleeps.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He can sleep sleepy Joe Biden, now sleepy Joe crying, Chuck.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Yeah, you you would say Pocahonta says, yes, be glad
there's one.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
They said, the problem behind and knows your name as
patch Aca.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
You want to go, you know you say you want
to go where everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Your name, Little rocket Man, we will have no choice
but to totally destroy North Korea.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Great Steve Cropper, the Colonel, passed yesterday. Sad day.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Indeed, a great musician, a great friend. Many of you
came to know him through his visits to us here
and his time on our show, and it was an
absolute honor to get to know him so well. What
what a man, what a time, what a life, what
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a contribution to our lives in so many ways. We
will be featuring his music and our time with him
through the course of the show today. An Aldean ISD
teacher worked for more than two years in the classroom
despite having active warrants for his arrest on charges of
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sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
At Aldean Id's Eisenhower High School, students in Derek Banks's
agriculture science class for the last two years learned from
a wanted fugitive.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Derek Bran Banks please stand.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That is up until police arrested him on Warrens in
late October, when the thirty nine year old stood in
court accused of sexually assaulting a thirteen year old boy
he met online in March of twenty twenty one. The
alleged assault happened at banks home after the victim record
show snuck out in the middle of the night. Houston
Police detectives interviewed Banks more than a year later when
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he refused to provide a statement, but they got his
DNA through a warrant. At the time, he worked at
Prairieview A and M University record Show, but in August
twenty twenty three, Aldean ISD hired him as a full
time teacher. Two months later, in October twenty twenty three,
Banks became wanted. Warrants for aggravated sexual assault of a
child got issued, and he continued working in the classroom
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up until his arrest.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
It's absolutely crazy and shocking, frankly that someone was able
to basically hide and plain sight while doing a job
with children.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Nathan Beidle is a former child sex crimes prosecutor and
top leader in the Harris County District Attorney's office, and.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
It's on the police to actually go arrest the person
and bring them to justice.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Aldean ISD tells KPRC two News Banks passed a criminal
background check at the time of hire.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Definitely was poor timing, but we want to see them
run those background checks again.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Advocacy group Children at risks as it's an example of
needing coordinated efforts to identify people like Banks.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You can never have a perfect system.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
By the same time, it's up to us to ensure
children's safety.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Banks first worked for Aldean ID up until at least
twenty eleven, and according to Texas Education Agency records, in
twenty sixteen, record show the State Board for Educator Certification
disciplined Banks by revoking his credentials in Texas as a
district of innovation, Alding ISD could hire him again, though
in twenty twenty three as a non certified teacher. Now,
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after his arrest, Banks is on a statewide do not
hire list. As education officials investigate, Banks is now on
administrative lea if he's been released from jail on a
one hundred thousand dollars bond, and so far, Houston police
have not answered any questions about what may have happened
with this case. Also, alding ID hasn't answered any follow
up questions about whether or not the district continues to
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do background checks once an employee gets hired.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
You know, anyone involved with sexual predators knows it is
established fact that the recidivism rate for sex related crimes
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is higher than any other type of crime. It's like
a heroin addict. It's a very very difficult thing to kick,
and understanding that if you have an individual who is
committing sex crimes in a school district, you know that
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the likelihood they're going to do it again.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Goes through the roof.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
One of the issues related to the Camp Mystic case,
whatever side somebody comes down on, that comes up a lot,
is the level of trust when you leave your child
at a camp for the summer.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now, there are lots of things we don't yet and
those sorts of but one.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Of the things I hear parents talk about all the
time is is there is the expectation of a duty
to protect my child. Now, did the camp do everything
they could? We don't know that. Those are things that
investigations tell you in time. It's too easy to leap
to conclusions I don't think that's fair to the process.
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But how about when we require instead of Texas, we
require you to go to school or to have an alternative.
We used to have truancy officers in this state, so
it is mandatory that you either have home instruction or
go to school.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But for a long time, you just had to go
to school. There wasn't an option.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
We require you to send your kid to school, and
yet we have schools that are not ensuring that a
child won't be sexually molested.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think about that for a moment, and then you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Have to ask yourself what kind of people have taken
control of our school system that are seemingly going out
of their way to make sure that predators can remain
in the schools. It's not like, oh, this person's a
great educator, We've got to keep letting him diddle the
kids those his French benefits.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
This is sickening.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I just put that on the Michael Barrison Michael Varry Show,
quoting from kra State Representative Mitch Littell filed House Bill
forty six twenty three, which became law September first. The
law allows for schools to be sued in civil court
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for sexual misconduct involving employees and students. Texas school districts
could be held liable for sexual misconduct involving teachers and
students thanks to that new state law. State Representative Mitch
Little from Lewisville discussed that law on Wednesday at a
press conference at the Collin County Courthouse and McKinney, where
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a pending lawsuit against Selina ID accuses of former football
coach of filming students undressing in the boy's locker room.
The law, which went into effect September first, says school
districts that are grossly negligent or reckless in hiring, supervising
or employing someone who commits sexual misconduct against the student
or failed to report suspected child abuse can be held
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liable for that employee's actions in civil court.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
The man who filed the bill is now bringing the case.
Never expected that would happen so soon. State Representative Mitch
Little returns to the show. Welcome sir, Hey, good morning,
my friends. So what was the basis for filing this law?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Obviously, I don't think you could have known about the
Salina case that we would be I guess one of
the first that we would take advance of it.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
No, I had no idea that we would have to
use the law this quickly. What really drove the law
was we got into the legislative session and what was
happening is what had been happening for years in our
Texas schools. We were having a new news story virtually
every single day about a teacher, a coacher, administrator sexually
abusing a child in our public schools. In fact, when
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we were in the session, there was one week where
in Huntsville, ISD, where it was represented by Trey Wharton,
they had four different stories in one week in one week,
and I thought to myself, well, who's going to do
something about this? The TA was totally incapable of investigating
all the claims. They weren't investigating them, weren't closing them,
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weren't getting rid of enough teachers. So I said, well,
let's give the judicial system a crack at this. And
so we started beating on the sovereign immunity concept in
Texas and saying, look, I just don't think it should
be part of the social contract that if you send
your kids to school and they get molested, that you
have no remedy, that you have no access to the
court system. It's not fair.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Now, the great tragedy is they'll pay out the damages
out of tax out of taxpayer funds, but at least
it will cut into their budget and hopefully have some
sort of talismanic effect.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Yeah, and the idea is, well, look all those the
funds that they're used and to you know, put on
ban program and put on the sports program, and fill
our classrooms with teachers. There's a reason that we as
a society have decided that that money should be used
for that purpose. But what we did not decide and
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we didn't get to vote on, is not having a
remedy if your kid is abused. So, or what I
believe was going to be the case, each of these
school is going to have to take out an insurance
policy to ensure against these types of claims. Yeah, somebody's
got to be responsible for it, for the harm that's cost.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
So, as you noted the pattern, I'm not expecting you
to be a child sex abuse by educator or coach expert.
But do you get a sense that maybe one of
the things that strikes me is there is a high
propensity for sexual abuse in the educational environment. And it's
almost as if that's not a coincidence. Is this a
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protective nature by a sympathetic audience of people that are
hiring In other words, is this a culture by the
staff and faculty.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Well, I've had I've worked on a lot of sexual
abuse cases over the years, whether in churches or parachurch
ministries or schools. The reality is that people who are
creditors always find a place where they can thrive. And
when the school district is not incentivized to catch them
and stop them, and I mean other than out of
the goodness of their heart, those people can thrive in
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those environments they face. They find places to hide and
survive until they can act out. And our school districts
just were not doing enough to root out the problem
because they did not have to, Michael, there was no
incentive for them to get rid of these people. And
in the situation in Salina that the offender is the
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son of the head football coach and athletic director, this,
I mean, this is a very powerful chain of people
that was involved in keeping this predator moving.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
You know, I think back to the Joe Paterno case
and Sandusky and the culture of abuse that was happening
there and the pattern, and until you really study these cases,
you don't realize how devious and clever and sickeningly genius
these people are. They Sandusky was targeting. If you recall
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young men who in fatherless homes, the mother was incuraged.
This was the way out of poverty for their kid
was athletics, and they're basically handing their kid over to Sandusky,
the man who was a monster, abusing that trust and
he spent so much time grooming these kids and their
mothers to be able to undertake his vice is frightening
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and it does require, I think, a tough crackdown because
this is clearly happening far too often.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Way too often, and the environments in the environment that
was going on in Penn State in any ways, it's
not that different from the environment that's going on into editors.
They push their boundaries until everyone kind of suspends their
disbelief that this person is a problem. I mean, if
you take the Caleb Elliott situation in Solina, this is
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a young man who apparently was in a homosexual relationship
with someone who had been a student at the high
school a year before, and so you've got a potential
improper relationship there at the start school district's aware of it,
and not to mention the fact that this is a
young man who is homosexual, is out and is a
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coach for boys in a locker room while they're changing.
I mean, at what point does everyone just wake up
and go, what the hell are we doing? Guys? And
apparently this coach had also attempted to photograph or video
kids in the locker room before, under the guise of
preventing theft in the locker room, and was confronted by
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a coach about it, but it never went up to
the administration for review or consideration to get him out
of the school.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
It's a disturb It's a disturbing lack of a fiduciary
sense of protecting the children. That you could discover such
a thing and not be willing to risk everything.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
To expose It's very disturbing.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
State Representative Mitch Little always a pleasure. You always seem
to be on the side of doing the right thing.
Thank you for that.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
You rather appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
The Michael Mary Show is so incredibly masterful.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I watch in awe and realize he's doing something we've
never seen done before, and I doubt we'll ever see
done again. He does it in such a way that
is so unique. It's like Kevin McHale's drop step. They
were calling him for traveling and he had to have
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it filmed to show the refs. No, I'm just doing
something you've never seen done before. Occasionally, somebody takes the
art and moves it so far ahead that no one
has ever seen anything like that. There is a scene
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in the movie Love You, which is out now on Amazon,
where Mike Renfro makes the catch in the corner of
the end zone. You remember it. It's coming to the
close of the third quarter. They're in Pittsburgh, freezing cold,
which favors the team that you used to playing in
that not the team that used to playing in the
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summer heat, and an indoor stadium, and.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Renfro makes the catch.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Pastorini takes the snap, leans his shoulders back, and without
moving his feet throws the most beautiful fade to the
corner and little bitty Renfro is not very tall over
a defender who is taller than him, streaks down the sideline,
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catches the ball, and as he's catching the ball, he
manages to flip his left foot down to get both
feet inbounds, because in the pros it's two feet and
dragged through the snowy turf for a catch. Immediately the
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ref says no, no catch. The refs confer and then
they decide Nope, no catch. And Wade Phillips said in
the interview that airs during the film they'd never seen
anything like that, so they didn't believe it could be done.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That, of course, is what is credited with bringing instant
replay to the NFL. And I think a good thing.
People will complain it slows the game down. Do you
want the calls made right or not? Okay, if it
slows it down and minute, fine, But how would you
like to lose a game that you should have won
because the refs screwed up? Are you in that much
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of a hurry?
Speaker 8 (18:55):
What else?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What do you else do you have going on?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So, because that catch was so good and so a
typically good, nobody knew what to make of it. They're
watching the play back in New York at the NFL headquarters,
and they saw that it was a catch, but they
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had not as of yet had the communications system to
be able to say, hey, guys, it was a catch
definitive proof, overrule it and give him a touchdown. Of course,
the oilers lose the game and the rest, as they say,
is history, a play that is remembered to this day. Obviously,
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you were almost over that until I brought that up. Okay,
well I had to do that. So when you look
at what Donald Trump is doing, he is so changing
the game for everyone. When he declared war on the
narcot terrorists, he forced the Democrats, who are committed to
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whatever Trump is for if water is wet and anoid's not,
whatever he does, they have to be against. So he
takes issues that people care deeply about, and then he
takes action when people have talked about it for year
after year after year and done nothing, and then the
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Democrats have to come out against it, and the public says, okay,
so now you're on the side of narco terrorists. I
don't think Jim's loaded it yet, but I found audio
last night. I found a video, but we'll only play
audio here of Joe Biden in nineteen eighty nine telling
the newly elected George H. W. Bush that we need
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to attack the narco terrorists before they get on American soil.
To protect the American people. His son would go on
famously to become a very public and very tragic addict.
But isn't it interesting how the Democrat Party has changed.
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I mean, think about this. If you keep Fittingel off
the streets of America, George Floyd would still be alive today.
Another issue one of the many reasons why Americans voted
for Donald Trump. You know, if you have a newish
vehicle and you pull up to the red light and
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your vehicle dies, and then the light turns and your
vehicle starts back up like a golf cart. We're Americans.
This is embarrassing. President Trump has rolled back Biden's costly
and worthless fuel efficiency requirements. Says the changes will save
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Americans one hundred and nine billion dollars over the next
five years and shave an estimated thousand dollars off the
average cost of a new car.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
President Trump talking about that, I've.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Been taking action to make buying a car more affordable.
I signed an executive order to end the unfair expensive
electric vehicle mandate. As you know, you had to have
an electric car within a very short period of time,
even though there was no way of charging them, and
lots of other things. Would have cost five trillion dollars
to build the charging plants, and as you know, in
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certain parts of the Midwest they spent to build nine chargers.
They spent eight billion dollars. So that wasn't working out
too well. That was done before me. By the way,
I wouldn't have let it go forward. We're canceling the
epas observed tailpipe permission standards, one of the most important
things that I've never had a group of people come.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
To me more.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
More powerfully and really just devastate that they had to
do it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It was killing them.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Then the automobile manufactures the tailpipe emission standards, and I
can tell you your people at fort were coming to
me all the time and they were saying, like, please,
it doesn't do anything. It's killing us, and it's driving
the court through the roof.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And we revoked.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Biden's emissions waiver for California so that California communists could
not regulate the automobile industry and ruin the entire nation
of automobiles. And they were doing that too, But we
have that now under control. Also with your governor, who's
got much more than.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
He can control now Under the new.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Rules being issued today by Secretary Duffy, the Department of
Transportation will rescind the Biden fuel economy prices. And I
hate to say that because they were really not economy.
They were really they were anti economy. They were horrible
what they were doing to the costs and actually making
the car much worse. But these policies forced automakers to
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build cars using expensive technologies that drove up costs, drove
up prices, and made the car much worse. The action
is expected to save the typical consumer at least one
thousand dollars off the price of a new car, and
we think substantially.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
More than that.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Catherine Garcia, the director of the Clean Transportation for All
program at the Sierra Club, said in a statement that
gutting the program would make cars burn more gas and
American families burn more cash.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Remember when they put the regulators at the gas tank
and you couldn't you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Set it in show.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, and then they filly went, oh yeah, that one,
let's go and take that off. With the Colonel Steve
Cropper passing yesterday, we remember that great man. Some of
you will remember him telling the story on the air.
It's legendary. He was managing talent and studio at Sax Records,
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while at the Helm of Booker T and the MG's
he was managing Sam and Dave. It was an amazing,
amazing amount of talent that came through that place, an
amount of output for the little, the little studio in
Memphis that could And here he was. And it's not
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lost on anybody that this was a white guy running
a black studio and creating the music, the soul music
of the time. There was some amazing things happening in
that studio. But Otis Redding, a young Otis Redding, was
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working with him on this song that was sitting on
the dock of the bay, and Otis was in a
bad spot. He'd gone out to San Francisco to spend
some time away and clear his head, and that was
when he wrote this song. But he hadn't completed it.
So he came back and he said, crop you gotta
hear this, gotta hear this song to hear it. And
so the part of the song where Otis whistles, he
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didn't know what to put there yet. So the whistling
was a place marker and they were going to come
back and fix it. And of course, just a few
days later, their plane landed in Wisconsin, hit an ice
sheet and kept going and crashed, killing everybody aboard. And
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he didn't get a chance to do that. The uh,
the owner of Stax Records, asked Cropper to finish the song,
and for a while he couldn't do it. He was
just too emotional. But finally he did completed that song.
They began the pressings and he went back in to
a funk and didn't come out.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
For a while.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
But it's a hell of a story of how that
song in that moment, one of the greatest songs in
all of history. How that song and how that moment
came to be is pretty darn cool. Harris County Commissioner's
Court continues dragging their feet and replacing the county attorney,
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who has announced that he's running for the eighteen congressional
district seat once held by Sheila Jackson Lee or Jasmine
Crockett one point zero. Well, the reason they're not replacing
the county attorney, Christian Menifee, is because they want to
keep him in the seat so that Rodney can control him.
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And so that he can continue to make news for
his campaign in that seat, which is what he's doing.
Rodney Ellis says they will appoint his replacement at the
appropriate moment, rather than put our thumb on the scale
ahead of the election.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh No, we wouldn't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Would we.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
We wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
We wouldn't want to have affected the campaign in some
way by our actions.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We would we would never do that. That would just
be beneath us.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
The estate of Johnny Cash is suing Coca Cola for
using an AI imitation of his voice for fan work
is Thirsty Work ads that ran during the college football
season this year.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Thusting Subside.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So as.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah, I'd pretty much say that's an unauthorized ripoff. I
think there's a whole lot of dowt there, Vanilla Ice
that you were sampling Freddie Mercury's work.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Ramon I looked at.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
The results going into conference championship weekend of the preseason
top twenty five. Twelve of the teams ranked in the
top twenty five ended the season unranked, and to three
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five of them were Top twelve teams that didn't end
up in the top twenty five. Number one ranked ut
ended at thirteen. Number two. Penn State ended unranked. They
had the one hundred and twenty ninth best recruiting class
as of yesterday.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
That's not going to be good.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
They ended up behind Harvard, which was one twenty eight,
but ahead of University of Louisiana at Monroe at what yeah, yeah,
that's number three. Ohio State was ranked number one, ended
number sorry it was ranked number three. Ended number one.
Ranked number four was Clemson. They ended up unranked. Ranked
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Number five was Georgia. They ended up number three. Ranked
number six and always over hyped was Notre Dame. They
ended at ten. Ranked number seven was Oregon. They ended
at five. Ranked Number eight was Alabama. They ended at nine.
Think about that. That Florida State team beat them at
the beginning of the season. Everybody thought they were going
to be great and they just folded. Ranked number nine
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was LSU. They ended up unranked. I don't think that'll
happen again. Ranked number ten was Miami. They finished at twelve.
At eleven was Arizona State. They ended up unranked. Number
twelve was Illinois. They ended up unranked. Number thirteen was
South Carolina ended up unranked, and four and eight.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
In the record.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Number fourteen was Michigan ended up nineteen. It's fun to
see them not be good. Number fifteen was Florida. They
ended up unranked. Also at four and eight with a
new coach, was it summ wrong from Tulane? Number sixteen
SMU was ended. They ended unranked with a little fall
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apart there at the end. Let's see eighteen nineteen was
Texas A and M they ended up at seven. Twenty
was Indiana ended up at number two. They got that
one way wrong. Twenty one was Ole miss they ended
up at number six. Twenty two's Iowa State they ended
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up unranked. Twenty three was Texas Tech. They ended up
at number four. They got that one way wrong. Twenty
four was University of Tennessee he ended up unranked. In
twenty five was Boise State and they ended up unranked.
Also has a lot to do with the hype machines
of each of those schools and how well they managed
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to convince people of how good they were going to be.
I think the hype on arch Manning was a curse
upon the man. I know there are people that will
argue with this, but he didn't ask for that hype.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
It didn't do him any favors.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
It was unrealistic, and I do think it contributed to
his yips and some of his mistakes and his mental
state as a competitor at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I know you're going to say, you gotta be tugg.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
There was a lot to throw at a kid that early,
and sports media love to take one story and obsess
over it, even if it's unrealistic.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Look what they've done with with Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Can you imagine when the season starts, they're going to
expect LSU to go undefeated next year with a crop
he didn't even recruit.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Mm hmm.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
It could be we're going to run against crazy Birdie.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That could be he's a crazy man, but that's okay.
We like crazy people.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I love running against Crooked Hillary.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I love that Crooked Hillary Clinton, Crooked Hillaries. Here is
a crooked one, Gavin Newscomb. He's the governor of California.
He shigned Newscombe.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Taking to cover Pocahontas. I've named him deranged Jack Smith.
But we'll work together with Shifty Shift.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We're going to defeat crazy Kamala.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
We have a.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Representative in Congress who they say was here a long
time ago.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They call her Pocahontas. But you know what, I like.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You Sometimes you want.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Name here as patch acase you want to be where
you can see. So say you want to be where
everybody knows your name.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We're talking about funny or sad. I think it's more
sad than funny. He has one ability I don't have.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
He sleeps.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He can sleep sleepy Joe Biden, now sleepy Joe crying, Chuck.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Yeah, you you would say Pocahonta says, yes, be glad
there's one.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
They said, the problem behind and knows your name as
patch Aca.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
You want to go, you know you say you want
to go where everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Your name, Little rocket Man, we will have no choice
but to totally destroy North Korea.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Great Steve Cropper, the Colonel, passed yesterday. Sad day.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Indeed, a great musician, a great friend. Many of you
came to know him through his visits to us here
and his time on our show, and it was an
absolute honor to get to know him so well. What
what a man, what a time, what a life, what
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a contribution to our lives in so many ways. We
will be featuring his music and our time with him
through the course of the show today. An Aldean ISD
teacher worked for more than two years in the classroom
despite having active warrants for his arrest on charges of
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sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
At Aldean Id's Eisenhower High School, students in Derek Banks's
agriculture science class for the last two years learned from
a wanted fugitive.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Derek Bran Banks please stand.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
That is up until police arrested him on Warrens in
late October, when the thirty nine year old stood in
court accused of sexually assaulting a thirteen year old boy
he met online in March of twenty twenty one. The
alleged assault happened at banks home after the victim record
show snuck out in the middle of the night. Houston
Police detectives interviewed Banks more than a year later when
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he refused to provide a statement, but they got his
DNA through a warrant. At the time, he worked at
Prairieview A and M University record Show, but in August
twenty twenty three, Aldean ISD hired him as a full
time teacher. Two months later, in October twenty twenty three,
Banks became wanted. Warrants for aggravated sexual assault of a
child got issued, and he continued working in the classroom
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up until his arrest.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
It's absolutely crazy and shocking, frankly that someone was able
to basically hide and plain sight while doing a job
with children.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Nathan Beidle is a former child sex crimes prosecutor and
top leader in the Harris County District Attorney's office, and.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
It's on the police to actually go arrest the person
and bring them to justice.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Aldean ISD tells KPRC two News Banks passed a criminal
background check at the time of hire.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Definitely was poor timing, but we want to see them
run those background checks again.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Advocacy group Children at risks as it's an example of
needing coordinated efforts to identify people like Banks.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You can never have a perfect system.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
By the same time, it's up to us to ensure
children's safety.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Banks first worked for Aldean ID up until at least
twenty eleven, and according to Texas Education Agency records, in
twenty sixteen, record show the State Board for Educator Certification
disciplined Banks by revoking his credentials in Texas as a
district of innovation, Alding ISD could hire him again, though
in twenty twenty three as a non certified teacher. Now,
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after his arrest, Banks is on a statewide do not
hire list. As education officials investigate, Banks is now on
administrative lea if he's been released from jail on a
one hundred thousand dollars bond, and so far, Houston police
have not answered any questions about what may have happened
with this case. Also, alding ID hasn't answered any follow
up questions about whether or not the district continues to
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do background checks once an employee gets hired.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
You know, anyone involved with sexual predators knows it is
established fact that the recidivism rate for sex related crimes
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is higher than any other type of crime. It's like
a heroin addict. It's a very very difficult thing to kick,
and understanding that if you have an individual who is
committing sex crimes in a school district, you know that
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the likelihood they're going to do it again.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Goes through the roof.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
One of the issues related to the Camp Mystic case,
whatever side somebody comes down on, that comes up a lot,
is the level of trust when you leave your child
at a camp for the summer.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now, there are lots of things we don't yet and
those sorts of but one.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Of the things I hear parents talk about all the
time is is there is the expectation of a duty
to protect my child. Now, did the camp do everything
they could? We don't know that. Those are things that
investigations tell you in time. It's too easy to leap
to conclusions I don't think that's fair to the process.
(07:23):
But how about when we require instead of Texas, we
require you to go to school or to have an alternative.
We used to have truancy officers in this state, so
it is mandatory that you either have home instruction or
go to school.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But for a long time, you just had to go
to school. There wasn't an option.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
We require you to send your kid to school, and
yet we have schools that are not ensuring that a
child won't be sexually molested.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think about that for a moment, and then you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Have to ask yourself what kind of people have taken
control of our school system that are seemingly going out
of their way to make sure that predators can remain
in the schools. It's not like, oh, this person's a
great educator, We've got to keep letting him diddle the
kids those his French benefits.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
This is sickening.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I just put that on the Michael Barrison Michael Varry Show,
quoting from kra State Representative Mitch Littell filed House Bill
forty six twenty three, which became law September first. The
law allows for schools to be sued in civil court
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for sexual misconduct involving employees and students. Texas school districts
could be held liable for sexual misconduct involving teachers and
students thanks to that new state law. State Representative Mitch
Little from Lewisville discussed that law on Wednesday at a
press conference at the Collin County Courthouse and McKinney, where
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a pending lawsuit against Selina ID accuses of former football
coach of filming students undressing in the boy's locker room.
The law, which went into effect September first, says school
districts that are grossly negligent or reckless in hiring, supervising
or employing someone who commits sexual misconduct against the student
or failed to report suspected child abuse can be held
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liable for that employee's actions in civil court.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
The man who filed the bill is now bringing the case.
Never expected that would happen so soon. State Representative Mitch
Little returns to the show. Welcome sir, Hey, good morning,
my friends. So what was the basis for filing this law?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Obviously, I don't think you could have known about the
Salina case that we would be I guess one of
the first that we would take advance of it.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
No, I had no idea that we would have to
use the law this quickly. What really drove the law
was we got into the legislative session and what was
happening is what had been happening for years in our
Texas schools. We were having a new news story virtually
every single day about a teacher, a coacher, administrator sexually
abusing a child in our public schools. In fact, when
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we were in the session, there was one week where
in Huntsville, ISD, where it was represented by Trey Wharton,
they had four different stories in one week in one week,
and I thought to myself, well, who's going to do
something about this? The TA was totally incapable of investigating
all the claims. They weren't investigating them, weren't closing them,
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weren't getting rid of enough teachers. So I said, well,
let's give the judicial system a crack at this. And
so we started beating on the sovereign immunity concept in
Texas and saying, look, I just don't think it should
be part of the social contract that if you send
your kids to school and they get molested, that you
have no remedy, that you have no access to the
court system. It's not fair.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Now, the great tragedy is they'll pay out the damages
out of tax out of taxpayer funds, but at least
it will cut into their budget and hopefully have some
sort of talismanic effect.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Yeah, and the idea is, well, look all those the
funds that they're used and to you know, put on
ban program and put on the sports program, and fill
our classrooms with teachers. There's a reason that we as
a society have decided that that money should be used
for that purpose. But what we did not decide and
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we didn't get to vote on, is not having a
remedy if your kid is abused. So, or what I
believe was going to be the case, each of these
school is going to have to take out an insurance
policy to ensure against these types of claims. Yeah, somebody's
got to be responsible for it, for the harm that's cost.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
So, as you noted the pattern, I'm not expecting you
to be a child sex abuse by educator or coach expert.
But do you get a sense that maybe one of
the things that strikes me is there is a high
propensity for sexual abuse in the educational environment. And it's
almost as if that's not a coincidence. Is this a
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protective nature by a sympathetic audience of people that are
hiring In other words, is this a culture by the
staff and faculty.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Well, I've had I've worked on a lot of sexual
abuse cases over the years, whether in churches or parachurch
ministries or schools. The reality is that people who are
creditors always find a place where they can thrive. And
when the school district is not incentivized to catch them
and stop them, and I mean other than out of
the goodness of their heart, those people can thrive in
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those environments they face. They find places to hide and
survive until they can act out. And our school districts
just were not doing enough to root out the problem
because they did not have to, Michael, there was no
incentive for them to get rid of these people. And
in the situation in Salina that the offender is the
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son of the head football coach and athletic director, this,
I mean, this is a very powerful chain of people
that was involved in keeping this predator moving.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
You know, I think back to the Joe Paterno case
and Sandusky and the culture of abuse that was happening
there and the pattern, and until you really study these cases,
you don't realize how devious and clever and sickeningly genius
these people are. They Sandusky was targeting. If you recall
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young men who in fatherless homes, the mother was incuraged.
This was the way out of poverty for their kid
was athletics, and they're basically handing their kid over to Sandusky,
the man who was a monster, abusing that trust and
he spent so much time grooming these kids and their
mothers to be able to undertake his vice is frightening
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and it does require, I think, a tough crackdown because
this is clearly happening far too often.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Way too often, and the environments in the environment that
was going on in Penn State in any ways, it's
not that different from the environment that's going on into editors.
They push their boundaries until everyone kind of suspends their
disbelief that this person is a problem. I mean, if
you take the Caleb Elliott situation in Solina, this is
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a young man who apparently was in a homosexual relationship
with someone who had been a student at the high
school a year before, and so you've got a potential
improper relationship there at the start school district's aware of it,
and not to mention the fact that this is a
young man who is homosexual, is out and is a
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coach for boys in a locker room while they're changing.
I mean, at what point does everyone just wake up
and go, what the hell are we doing? Guys? And
apparently this coach had also attempted to photograph or video
kids in the locker room before, under the guise of
preventing theft in the locker room, and was confronted by
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a coach about it, but it never went up to
the administration for review or consideration to get him out
of the school.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
It's a disturb It's a disturbing lack of a fiduciary
sense of protecting the children. That you could discover such
a thing and not be willing to risk everything.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
To expose It's very disturbing.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
State Representative Mitch Little always a pleasure. You always seem
to be on the side of doing the right thing.
Thank you for that.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
You rather appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
The Michael Mary Show is so incredibly masterful.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I watch in awe and realize he's doing something we've
never seen done before, and I doubt we'll ever see
done again. He does it in such a way that
is so unique. It's like Kevin McHale's drop step. They
were calling him for traveling and he had to have
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it filmed to show the refs. No, I'm just doing
something you've never seen done before. Occasionally, somebody takes the
art and moves it so far ahead that no one
has ever seen anything like that. There is a scene
(16:58):
in the movie Love You, which is out now on Amazon,
where Mike Renfro makes the catch in the corner of
the end zone. You remember it. It's coming to the
close of the third quarter. They're in Pittsburgh, freezing cold,
which favors the team that you used to playing in
that not the team that used to playing in the
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summer heat, and an indoor stadium, and.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Renfro makes the catch.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Pastorini takes the snap, leans his shoulders back, and without
moving his feet throws the most beautiful fade to the
corner and little bitty Renfro is not very tall over
a defender who is taller than him, streaks down the sideline,
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catches the ball, and as he's catching the ball, he
manages to flip his left foot down to get both
feet inbounds, because in the pros it's two feet and
dragged through the snowy turf for a catch. Immediately the
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ref says no, no catch. The refs confer and then
they decide Nope, no catch. And Wade Phillips said in
the interview that airs during the film they'd never seen
anything like that, so they didn't believe it could be done.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That, of course, is what is credited with bringing instant
replay to the NFL. And I think a good thing.
People will complain it slows the game down. Do you
want the calls made right or not? Okay, if it
slows it down and minute, fine, But how would you
like to lose a game that you should have won
because the refs screwed up? Are you in that much
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of a hurry?
Speaker 8 (18:55):
What else?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What do you else do you have going on?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So, because that catch was so good and so a
typically good, nobody knew what to make of it. They're
watching the play back in New York at the NFL headquarters,
and they saw that it was a catch, but they
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had not as of yet had the communications system to
be able to say, hey, guys, it was a catch
definitive proof, overrule it and give him a touchdown. Of course,
the oilers lose the game and the rest, as they say,
is history, a play that is remembered to this day. Obviously,
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you were almost over that until I brought that up. Okay,
well I had to do that. So when you look
at what Donald Trump is doing, he is so changing
the game for everyone. When he declared war on the
narcot terrorists, he forced the Democrats, who are committed to
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whatever Trump is for if water is wet and anoid's not,
whatever he does, they have to be against. So he
takes issues that people care deeply about, and then he
takes action when people have talked about it for year
after year after year and done nothing, and then the
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Democrats have to come out against it, and the public says, okay,
so now you're on the side of narco terrorists. I
don't think Jim's loaded it yet, but I found audio
last night. I found a video, but we'll only play
audio here of Joe Biden in nineteen eighty nine telling
the newly elected George H. W. Bush that we need
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to attack the narco terrorists before they get on American soil.
To protect the American people. His son would go on
famously to become a very public and very tragic addict.
But isn't it interesting how the Democrat Party has changed.
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I mean, think about this. If you keep Fittingel off
the streets of America, George Floyd would still be alive today.
Another issue one of the many reasons why Americans voted
for Donald Trump. You know, if you have a newish
vehicle and you pull up to the red light and
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your vehicle dies, and then the light turns and your
vehicle starts back up like a golf cart. We're Americans.
This is embarrassing. President Trump has rolled back Biden's costly
and worthless fuel efficiency requirements. Says the changes will save
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Americans one hundred and nine billion dollars over the next
five years and shave an estimated thousand dollars off the
average cost of a new car.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
President Trump talking about that, I've.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Been taking action to make buying a car more affordable.
I signed an executive order to end the unfair expensive
electric vehicle mandate. As you know, you had to have
an electric car within a very short period of time,
even though there was no way of charging them, and
lots of other things. Would have cost five trillion dollars
to build the charging plants, and as you know, in
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certain parts of the Midwest they spent to build nine chargers.
They spent eight billion dollars. So that wasn't working out
too well. That was done before me. By the way,
I wouldn't have let it go forward. We're canceling the
epas observed tailpipe permission standards, one of the most important
things that I've never had a group of people come.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
To me more.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
More powerfully and really just devastate that they had to
do it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It was killing them.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Then the automobile manufactures the tailpipe emission standards, and I
can tell you your people at fort were coming to
me all the time and they were saying, like, please,
it doesn't do anything. It's killing us, and it's driving
the court through the roof.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And we revoked.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Biden's emissions waiver for California so that California communists could
not regulate the automobile industry and ruin the entire nation
of automobiles. And they were doing that too, But we
have that now under control. Also with your governor, who's
got much more than.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
He can control now Under the new.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Rules being issued today by Secretary Duffy, the Department of
Transportation will rescind the Biden fuel economy prices. And I
hate to say that because they were really not economy.
They were really they were anti economy. They were horrible
what they were doing to the costs and actually making
the car much worse. But these policies forced automakers to
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build cars using expensive technologies that drove up costs, drove
up prices, and made the car much worse. The action
is expected to save the typical consumer at least one
thousand dollars off the price of a new car, and
we think substantially.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
More than that.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Catherine Garcia, the director of the Clean Transportation for All
program at the Sierra Club, said in a statement that
gutting the program would make cars burn more gas and
American families burn more cash.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Remember when they put the regulators at the gas tank
and you couldn't you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Set it in show.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, and then they filly went, oh yeah, that one,
let's go and take that off. With the Colonel Steve
Cropper passing yesterday, we remember that great man. Some of
you will remember him telling the story on the air.
It's legendary. He was managing talent and studio at Sax Records,
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while at the Helm of Booker T and the MG's
he was managing Sam and Dave. It was an amazing,
amazing amount of talent that came through that place, an
amount of output for the little, the little studio in
Memphis that could And here he was. And it's not
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lost on anybody that this was a white guy running
a black studio and creating the music, the soul music
of the time. There was some amazing things happening in
that studio. But Otis Redding, a young Otis Redding, was
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working with him on this song that was sitting on
the dock of the bay, and Otis was in a
bad spot. He'd gone out to San Francisco to spend
some time away and clear his head, and that was
when he wrote this song. But he hadn't completed it.
So he came back and he said, crop you gotta
hear this, gotta hear this song to hear it. And
so the part of the song where Otis whistles, he
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didn't know what to put there yet. So the whistling
was a place marker and they were going to come
back and fix it. And of course, just a few
days later, their plane landed in Wisconsin, hit an ice
sheet and kept going and crashed, killing everybody aboard. And
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he didn't get a chance to do that. The uh,
the owner of Stax Records, asked Cropper to finish the song,
and for a while he couldn't do it. He was
just too emotional. But finally he did completed that song.
They began the pressings and he went back in to
a funk and didn't come out.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
For a while.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
But it's a hell of a story of how that
song in that moment, one of the greatest songs in
all of history. How that song and how that moment
came to be is pretty darn cool. Harris County Commissioner's
Court continues dragging their feet and replacing the county attorney,
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who has announced that he's running for the eighteen congressional
district seat once held by Sheila Jackson Lee or Jasmine
Crockett one point zero. Well, the reason they're not replacing
the county attorney, Christian Menifee, is because they want to
keep him in the seat so that Rodney can control him.
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And so that he can continue to make news for
his campaign in that seat, which is what he's doing.
Rodney Ellis says they will appoint his replacement at the
appropriate moment, rather than put our thumb on the scale
ahead of the election.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh No, we wouldn't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Would we.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
We wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
We wouldn't want to have affected the campaign in some
way by our actions.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We would we would never do that. That would just
be beneath us.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
The estate of Johnny Cash is suing Coca Cola for
using an AI imitation of his voice for fan work
is Thirsty Work ads that ran during the college football
season this year.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Thusting Subside.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So as.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah, I'd pretty much say that's an unauthorized ripoff. I
think there's a whole lot of dowt there, Vanilla Ice
that you were sampling Freddie Mercury's work.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Ramon I looked at.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
The results going into conference championship weekend of the preseason
top twenty five. Twelve of the teams ranked in the
top twenty five ended the season unranked, and to three
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five of them were Top twelve teams that didn't end
up in the top twenty five. Number one ranked ut
ended at thirteen. Number two. Penn State ended unranked. They
had the one hundred and twenty ninth best recruiting class
as of yesterday.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
That's not going to be good.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
They ended up behind Harvard, which was one twenty eight,
but ahead of University of Louisiana at Monroe at what yeah, yeah,
that's number three. Ohio State was ranked number one, ended
number sorry it was ranked number three. Ended number one.
Ranked number four was Clemson. They ended up unranked. Ranked
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Number five was Georgia. They ended up number three. Ranked
number six and always over hyped was Notre Dame. They
ended at ten. Ranked number seven was Oregon. They ended
at five. Ranked Number eight was Alabama. They ended at nine.
Think about that. That Florida State team beat them at
the beginning of the season. Everybody thought they were going
to be great and they just folded. Ranked number nine
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was LSU. They ended up unranked. I don't think that'll
happen again. Ranked number ten was Miami. They finished at twelve.
At eleven was Arizona State. They ended up unranked. Number
twelve was Illinois. They ended up unranked. Number thirteen was
South Carolina ended up unranked, and four and eight.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
In the record.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Number fourteen was Michigan ended up nineteen. It's fun to
see them not be good. Number fifteen was Florida. They
ended up unranked. Also at four and eight with a
new coach, was it summ wrong from Tulane? Number sixteen
SMU was ended. They ended unranked with a little fall
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apart there at the end. Let's see eighteen nineteen was
Texas A and M they ended up at seven. Twenty
was Indiana ended up at number two. They got that
one way wrong. Twenty one was Ole miss they ended
up at number six. Twenty two's Iowa State they ended
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up unranked. Twenty three was Texas Tech. They ended up
at number four. They got that one way wrong. Twenty
four was University of Tennessee he ended up unranked. In
twenty five was Boise State and they ended up unranked.
Also has a lot to do with the hype machines
of each of those schools and how well they managed
(32:13):
to convince people of how good they were going to be.
I think the hype on arch Manning was a curse
upon the man. I know there are people that will
argue with this, but he didn't ask for that hype.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
It didn't do him any favors.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
It was unrealistic, and I do think it contributed to
his yips and some of his mistakes and his mental
state as a competitor at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I know you're going to say, you gotta be tugg.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
There was a lot to throw at a kid that early,
and sports media love to take one story and obsess
over it, even if it's unrealistic.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Look what they've done with with Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Can you imagine when the season starts, they're going to
expect LSU to go undefeated next year with a crop
he didn't even recruit.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Mm hmm.
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