December 8, 2025 • 33 mins
Michael Barry tackles Texas election filing chaos and Supreme Court redistricting drama to Pearl Harbor tributes and a hilarious Christmas ornament heist.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time lucking load. So Michael Arry
Show's on the air looking into Mica week.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Gotta feed a beard. I don't plan to shave, and
it's good thing, but I just gotta see I'm doing
it all right? Will I make support me?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's beating VERDICTU.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's the truth.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It's neither drinking a drug and.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
To snoolm just doing all right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's a great dad be I know, suns still shining
in a close eyes. It's hard times.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
In the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But whyking every days? Today is the day, the last
day to file for office in the great state of Texas,
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to be on the Republican primary ballot in March, and
upon winning that, to be on the general election ballot
come next November, whether you are running for the governor's race,
the US Senate, a congressional seat, state house, state Senate,
or most anything else, all the way down to the
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lowest in hierarchy and one of the most important. And
anybody can do it, and everybody should try. Precinct Chairman,
Today is the day the polls will cleub me. The
election filings will close at six pm. If you are
filing for an office that involves multiple counties, you file
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in Austin at the state Republican Party. If you are
filing for an office that only includes one county, like
precinct chairman in Harris County or Montgomery or Brisouria or
Fort benn you file at the state party headquarters. Or
you can do what someone does every year in about
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five point thirty, get a wild hair and decide that,
having waited till the last minute, you're going to go
there and then email me and argue that they screwge
you out of it because it was seven minutes till
and the door was locked. Because every single year somebody
does that. It's the same group of people who wait
till the last hour to vote on the last day
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of voting, not early voting, election day, and they've moved
the poll there out to get us. Michael, why not
vote early, I'll never understand. But today is that day,
and there are some moves being made by candidates already
out of races and into others. We'll talk about that,
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But that means it's December eighth. The day before, of course,
is December seventh day, which will live in infamy Pearl
Harbor Day. Yesterday We start with story from KHO N
two in Honolulu. I believe this was the first year,
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first year that none of the Pearl Harbor survivor survivors
were able to attend the conference.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Only twelve Pearl Harbor survivors are alive today, and on
the eighty fourth anniversary of the attack, none were able
to attend the remembrance, but their legacy and stories were
still shared by loved ones, like one hundred and six
year old Alice Darrow, a former Navy nurse whose late
husband Dean was on the USS West Virginia when it
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was struck by torpedoes and he was unknowingly wounded.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Bike on fire.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
They would brow the ship be okay, so they sent
him back to duty. And every time he'd gone for
his pro for his age position, he would pass out
and they thought he had warners until he had been
excited to stay.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Alice was his nurse.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
The doctor did an X ray and found a bullet
lodged in his heart.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
It was a shock to my to my husband Ben.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
He was just a patient till he went.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Through surgery and he's lived almost almost fifty years.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
This week, Alice donated the bullet to the Pearl Harbor Museum.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I feel it should be passed on and so people
could see it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
He's amstaffs the artifacts like this preserved.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
The human stories behind the history.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
That detail that Dean shared in his own words about
you know, when the attackers happened, he was standing in
front of his locker trying to decide to wear one
en up for an upcoming Christmas shopping trip. You know,
it's is those stories that really make the history of
the park and make people realize that, oh, yeah, these
guys were human too.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
One year old World War Two veteran Milton Riptide Ripple
says he thinks of the lives lost every year.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Oh, I've dropped no honor to be here today. I'm
around to enjoy this sharemony, and I always say, oh
as a result of veterans ucksh the way the war
and are buried out there.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
And they are angel And for many the memories of
December seventh, nineteen forty one remain vivid, including those who
were teenagers when the attack happened.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I did that the most.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Scares in my life, and I couldn't eat.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, I was so scared. I was shaken all night.
I didn't know wa has come to how.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
We didn't know what the war was by when this
said our military rifle walking over the helmet, that that
was cool, you know, So that really convincing me that
there's war.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know that they were in my life.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Around even without survivors presence.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Military service members said their courage continues to guide the nation.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We are forever grateful for this service, and they will
never be for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm mindful there. Those young people were no idea it's coming,
and all of a sudden they realize we're not going home.
It gets me every time Pearl Harbor survivors speak. This
was years past, just I'll never forget.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I watched the Arizona, the West Virginia, the Tennessee, the Nevada, California, Utah,
all in guffed and smoking flames.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And all sinking. It was chaotics.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Guys hollered for their lives, boiled from destroyer, came on
top of the water, caught fire.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
To it, flames all around us.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
The fire from the Arizona were so intents. These guys
that fell over, came out, got the film on their bodies,
were like human torches.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
The fireballer went aboudy feet in the air just enveloped us.
I got burned over about sixty seventy percent of my body.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
We've seen men jumping off the ship into boiling oil
and water trying to make it to the beach.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
There was a body in the water.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
When I pull the guy's arm, it came off pull.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Of course, that scared the living daylight.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's time of me.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
I saw these bodies lying around, so the first run
I turned them over on the back of his head
was missing.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I wasn't revered for asaid for his name.
Speaker 13 (08:17):
This are he's on well done, So this is the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But in my success with taking selfies in the shower,
but they always turn out blurry, he says. I think
he has selfie steam issues. Well, the filings today are
much more interesting than they would have been had Federal
district Judge Jeff Brown, who sided with the Democrats despite
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being a Trump appointee. He tried to kill the redistricting.
We need redistricting because we need maps that are drawn
fairly and not on a racial basis. It could mean
a pickup of five congressional seats. That's a game changer.
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We've got to have those. If Trump doesn't have a
majority in his second term, then life becomes much more difficult.
You know, you you hear the Democrats say that the
maps are jerrymander. They're not. The map's what they should
have been in the first place. But think about this
for a moment. In the state of Massachusetts, thirty six
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percent of voters vote Republican. They don't have a single
Republican congressman. Connecticut forty two percent vote Republican. They don't
have a single Republican congressman. Neither does Maine were forty
eight percent vote republican, or New Hampshire forty eight percent republican,
Rhode Island forty two percent republican, Vermont thirty two percent republican,
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Hawaii thirty eight percent republican, Laware forty two percent Republican.
None of those states, none of those eight states have
a single Republican congressman. If our elected offices reflected the desires,
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the voting patterns, the values of American voters, we wouldn't
be having these battles. The Supreme Court voted to allow
Texas to use the newly redrawn congressional maps for twenty
twenty six. The Supreme Court's order putting the two to
one ruling by US district judges out of El Paso
that blocked the map on hold until at least the
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High Court issues of final decision in the case. So
we will proceed with the maps on the basis of
what you thought. As of about October, ABC News had
that story.
Speaker 14 (10:50):
Supreme Court allowing Texas to move forward with a newly
redrawn congressional map for the twenty twenty six midterm elections
despite a lower court ruling that the map likely discriminates
on the base race.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Texas state officials arguing.
Speaker 14 (11:02):
The map was drawn purely for political advantage, which the
Supreme Court has previously allowed.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
The court's three liberal.
Speaker 14 (11:08):
Justices dissenting Justice Kagan, writing the court's order deserves the
millions of Texans whom the district court found were assigned
to their new districts based on their race, But the
majority insisted the lower court had improperly inserted itself into
an active primary campaign of setting the delicate federal state
balance in elections. Critics argue this Supreme Court decision has
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the appearance of partisanship.
Speaker 15 (11:32):
Over the last year, the Supreme Court has repeatedly issued
emergency orders that have set aside existing law and the
careful work of district courts when asked to do so
by the Republican Party.
Speaker 14 (11:43):
The state's redistricting plan, pushed by President Trump, would likely
flip five congressional seats in Texas from Democrat to Republican
in an effort to preserve the slim GOP majority in
the House in next year's midterms. Soon, Texas Governor Greg
Abbott says the new maps better represent Texas voters, writing
on social media, quote, we won Texas is officially and
legally more read. The Texas effort set off a nationwide
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redistrict In battle to counter those moves, Governor Gavenusim led
a campaign to change California's congressional map, which voters.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Approved in November.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Colin Allred is back was expected that he would run
for the United States Senate, but as of this morning,
he has made a change. He's dropped out of the
Senate race and instead he will run for the House
of Representatives in the newly drawn district thirty three. In
an article that dropped about seven o'clock this morning, the
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Dallas Morning News quoted him as saying, I felt that
having a long drawn out, brutal primary and runoff was
not in the people's interests or the interests of the
folks who placed their trust in me. I made the
decision to end my Senate campaign, but I've decided to
run for the newly drawn thirty third Congressional district. As
a paper notes quote, all Red's move creates a primary
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class cash with a woman who replaced him in Congress,
US Congressman Julie Johnson, Democrat from Farmers Branch. Johnson is
in her first term representing District thirty two, which the
Republican control legislature redrew this summer to be more favorable
to a GOP candidate. Former State Rep. Domingo Garcia, Democrat
from Dallas, is also considering running for Congress and District
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thirty three, which is represented by fort Worth Democrat Mark Vezy,
shedding all of Terrant County under the redistricting and now
including neighborhoods all read once represented. VZ is expected to
run for District thirty which Crockett currently represents, but as
we'll discuss, she'll be running for the US Senate. Allred's
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decision comes on today. Crockett has set a four to
thirty PM announcement where she is expected to announce her
campaign for the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyan. Cornan,
of course, won't win that primary and won't be on
the ballot in November. Allred had been campaigning for that
seat since July first, and Tallarico an out and out socialist,
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and I mean socialist. This is the guy who says
we should confiscate Elon Musk's money. He's just he's made
too much money. He shouldn't shouldn't be allowed to make
so much money. It's going to be very interesting. Indeed,
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Jasmine Crockett expected the launch sentate mid today at four
point thirty. CNN reports that she was working behind the
scenes to get Colin all Read to drop out of
that race. See we can't have but one black person
in there, that's their argument, and instead to run for governor.
But he has chosen to run for a congressional seat.
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He's got to have a job somewhere, I suppose, And
you talk about hilarious. Jasmine Crockett has been coordinating with
the self proclaimed actual governor of Georgia, remember her, Stacy Abrams.
You know I always had the sweat coming down her face,
using Stacy Abrams's expertise at quote, expanding the electorate in
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a long time red state that turned purple. You remember
that Stacy Abrams received over a billion dollars in a
government grant. She got rich politics in the politics of
race baiting has been very, very good for her. She's
made a lot of money at it. Edward Isaac Devere writes,
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Jasmine Crockett has two cashiers checks made out to use
on Monday, one to submit if she files for reelection
for her US House seat, the other to jump into
the already competitive Democrat primary for US Senate. Her down
to the wire in decision she knows is driving even
her staff racy. She's invited hundreds of people to an
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announcement of it Monday that scheduled ninety minutes before she
needs to submit one of the checks. Oh way, lucky you.
The Michael Verie Show continues your lucky day. Think about
how bad the Democrats have it. Everybody has somebody in
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your life who is still a Democrat, and they love
to say, Oh, I saw Trump did this for that
the other day. I guess. I guess you're proud of
your President. Listen, do not speak to me. You had
Joe Biden as president. How was that? Do you support that?
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You had Sheila Jackson Lee as a congressman. You had
Nancy Pelosi as the speaker. Your party through so many
resources at Stacy Abrams legal and probably illegal as well.
You have Bernie Sanders. You have ilhan Omar, who I
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can only hope is part of the Minnesota fraud scandal.
Kind of interesting how it all comes together, isn't it.
Keith Ellison, Timmy Walls, ilhan Omar and all that money
stolen from the federal government and the children of Minnesota
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in a massive, massive fraud. But back to Texas where
Jasmine Crockett, it looks like it's going to run for
the United States Senate. This segment brought to you by
her campaign from the great traditions of Queen's like never
Tit and Latifa, the time has come for the next
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moment of black power. Jazz Mean Crockett.
Speaker 16 (17:52):
Growing up in a bougie white neighborhood, she studied the enemy.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
She knows their way.
Speaker 16 (17:58):
She's been inside that belly beast, and she's ready to
bring hood to the hill. Wiggs to Washington, crash to
the Capitol and saz.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
To what once had classed. She's jazz Mean Crockett and
she can rocket.
Speaker 16 (18:11):
She descends from a long line of distinguished ladies who
bravely and foldy dump served before her.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I will go and take Trump out to.
Speaker 17 (18:19):
Night boys and razors that literally killing people at the border.
Let me just say this, it is very well documented
that words nowadays can actually break your bones.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Well, I'm glad I was standing with these children right
here here.
Speaker 17 (18:37):
I am to be able to celebrate the eclipse.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
They will not be seen for another forty.
Speaker 17 (18:43):
For another time until twenty forty four.
Speaker 16 (18:47):
Jazz Mean Crockett, because it's time we ruined this country.
Speaker 17 (18:51):
That's the snowflowd.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
On a cold and grayish Chicago, on a little baby Chathers.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Born to give it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
In response to the Supreme Court ruling giving Texas the
green light on the newly drawn congressional maps, Al Green
was going to lose his congressional district, so he retired,
or so he said. People believed him because he walks
around with a cane, looks like he's got one foot
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in the grave. But oh no, he just can't go.
He has announced he will be filing for the eighteenth
Congressional District Act today, the district long held by Sila
Jackson Lee. That seat sort of designated for a dumbass,
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and Al will do. He says, the President's not gonna
run me out of office. The president can't be father.
To know your name, khou with the story.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We're hearing from Congressman Al Green, the Democrat who currently
represents District nine but now finds himself in District eighteen
in this new map, and he says he'll be running
for that seat in the March primary.
Speaker 18 (20:17):
Well, the President's not going to run me out of office.
That won't happen. I am going to be on the Bounty.
I will be running from the eighteenth Congressional District because
that's where my home is, That's where my constituents that
I've been representing for many years on now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Green has represented the ninth Congressional district, anchored in the
southern parts of Houston since two thousand and five, but
again it's been redrawn, with Green saying he's failed to
run in the eighteenth. That means he'll likely of a
primary fight against Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and former
Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards, both in a runoff
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for District eighteen. Voters might find some of this confusing,
it will be interesting, and it'll be here before we
know it. We'll start early voting before you know it.
As a reminder, because this comes up every year, you
do not have to live in a congressional district to
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run for and be elected to that district.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It will often be complaints that this candidate or that
one doesn't live in the congressional district. Really they don't
spend much time in Houston in any case, but no,
you are not required to have a residence inside a
congressional district. With the lines moving in these races, you
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can expect that some of these candidates are going to
be moving, and certainly if they get elected, would then
be moving. It's not a true Hall of Fame for
Major League Baseball without Barry Bonds and Jeff Clement and
Roger Clemens, and that is what has happened. Jeff Kent
has been elected to the Hall of Fame by the
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sixteen member Temporary Era Committee, but Barry Bonds and Roger
Clemens have been snubbed.
Speaker 19 (22:09):
Sports needs steroids, it does, Are you kidding me? A baseball? Certainly,
baseball's all strike away from being soccer. Yeah, and if
you like soccer, we'll welcome to America. See, our country
already has entertainment, So watching people chase the ball for
four hours to end zero zero is not enjoyable, unless,
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of course, the bleachers collapse.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
In half of Europe dies baseball.
Speaker 19 (22:36):
Nobody wants to watch a pitching battle either. Let's hit
the ball deep. Don't worry about your records either. For
every superstar that's done steroids, a billion double A boys
have juiced up, so the playing field is plenty. Even
we'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds his name, sure,
as soon as we put one next to baby Bruce
name getting a break records before black people are allowed
to play? Excuse me, where is that? Why don't people
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talk about that? I've loved to know how many homers
the Babe would have hit had CC been throwing them
ninety two on our sliders. Yeah, maybe the fat boy
would have put the cigar down and quit pointing, had
Jose been allowed to swim ninety miles to throw them
a junk ball?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And in other sports scandals. As you know, college football's
national playoffs have been announced. You know, several years ago
Florida State went thirteen and oh, but the quarterback went
down before the decision was made, so they were kept
out of the playoffs on the theory that, well, they're
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not as good as they would have been with their quarterback.
In fact, they're not good enough to be in the playoffs.
That was a four member, four team playoff. Then they've
expanded it now to twelve. But the idea was that
this is the selection of now the twelve best teams
in the country. You don't earn it. It is a
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pitting of the twelve best teams. That's their theory, that's
what they say. But that's a ridiculous argument because now
James Madison JM you and Tulane have made the tournament,
which of course means they'll be blown out in the
first round, and the University of Texas has not made
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the playoffs. And you and I and every Aggie fan
and everyone else knows they should have.
Speaker 13 (24:38):
Car speakers, smart devices from Michael's brain, every single one
of them.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
To your ears. This is the Michael Very Show. On
the anniversary of the passing of Lennon, I'm wrong, offers
this tribute long Linen. Forty five years ago today, John
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Lennon was gunned down outside the Dakota Lofts by a
nut job. No good deed goes unpunished. He'd actually signed
an album cover for the nut several hours before. I
mean that to me is the real kicker. John Lennon
was only forty years old. You know, some people say
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that life starts at forty. Those people are really pro choice.
You know, you think you shoot John Lennon and you
got Yoko right there beside him, right there beside him. No,
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I'm not. I'm just saying there was. There was Yoko
Clip number nine. FBI Director Cash Battel says the Biden
administration sat on evidence in the handling of the DC
pipe bomber.
Speaker 20 (26:10):
Cash Patil, the prior administration sat on the evidence for
four years. There wasn't any production of new evidence from
five years ago. Here's what we did. We went out
to the country, brought in our experts and Deputy Director
Bong Gino led the charge and said we're going to
look at every single piece of evidence again trace. We
looked at three million lines of evidence we went back
and looked at the cell phone tower data dumps. We
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went back and looked at the providers and what information
they provided pursued to search warrants at the time, and
asked questions such as why weren't all the phone numbers scrubbed,
and why weren't they connected? And why wasn't there any
geolocational data done. Now that is either sheer in competence
or complete intentional negligence, and neither of which is acceptable
for this FBI. So we changed that in the prior
eight months, not on just this case, but everyone, and
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what that did was allow us to narrow the search down.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I mean, I have to remind the audience.
Speaker 20 (26:57):
Of the world, this guy, this suspect, plans to bombs
at the United States Capitol on camera, and the Federal
Beer of Investigation for the prior four years couldn't find
him completely unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
We were told it was a white man. It's not,
of course. We were told that the Narco terrorists were
fishermen and they weren't the mother or grandmother. I can't
recall of Brian Cole, the five seven black men who
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is accused of placing the two pipe bombs says that
the reason he visited the site, I think ninety times.
It's an insane number of times. I want to say
it was ninety times was over a one year period,
was because he was an uber driver. But the number
of occasions where he visited the site for between twenty
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minutes and two hours is significantly high. Well, he just
idling happens to be in that spot, and the number
of folks of questionable behavior who had offices in that area,
like Podesta, remember that Freak and a number of other
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Democrat strategists really do call to mind. Let's see what
would be their motive implacing pipe bombs the night before
the big January sixth hoax. I think you get the
idea closer to home. What kind of klepto thieves steal
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two huge, one hundred pound Christmas balls from the city
of Paarland display. We'll leave the clever word play to
Fox twenty six here, and they didn't disappoint.
Speaker 21 (28:58):
When I found out about this case, I definitely thought
to myself, what are people thinking?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Why would somebody do this? And it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 21 (29:05):
Big red Christmas ornament weighs about one hundred pounds valued
about two thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 21 (29:12):
I can't imagine what somebody would want to do with
a one hundred pound Christmas ornament that they actually had
to cut a lock to remove and actually steal that
property at that time.
Speaker 12 (29:21):
Apparentlyand city employee noticed the balls were missing on December first.
One was taken from this Apairland city sign at twenty
six fifty takes you Farm Road. The other one was
taken from thirteen hundred Pairland Parkway. I mean, this is
something that you couldn't put.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
In your house or put out in your yard.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Because people would realize that, well, hey, it doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Belonged to the city.
Speaker 21 (29:42):
Yeah, it's not normal to see a Christmain order ornament
that big just anywhere. That's why it stands out. That's
why when you're enter in the city you see it.
You know, you know what it represents. But the idea
that someone may have stolen it for their own personal
gain or decor is wild to think.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
Cal I'm doing us and want these big red Christmas
balls from the City of Paarland being stolen.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
We've got all these big red balls.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
What's that all about?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Well, I don't know. These are just salons. They're not
what you think they are.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
What do you think about somebody actually stealing these big.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I think that's so crazy. But I mean I love
to I mean it's as bad as it sounds.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
I love to see how everybody's trying to gain the
Christmas decorations weird.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
If you had a chance to talk to whoever did this,
what would you say to them?
Speaker 21 (30:32):
I don't know what you're doing, but it would be
best for you to contact us and return that item
as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thieves literally have some huge balls for Christmas after stealing
the decorations from the City of Parland. Well played, well
played Appearland PD Public Information Officer Chad Rogers making those statements.
If you know Chad r and he can call us,
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the number is seven one three, one thousand. I can
assure you it's not one of our listeners and is
stolen the big red balls. But I happen to know
a business owner whose most successful business happens to be
in the City of Parland, who has a very big
heart for the city of Paarland. I wouldn't be shocked
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if that individual, if asked nicely wouldn't gladly replace the
big red ball. I would not be surprised, Ramon. I
will leave it at that. One year ago. Today, I
received a photo of Mattress Mac. No, he didn't look himself,
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but he didn't look terrible. And the email said, Czar
three days out from open heart surgery and here's Mattress
Mack serving as celebrity Grand Marshal of the League City
Christmas Parade on Saturday evening. He never stops, he never
stops supporting the community. May God watch over him and
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his medical team. Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas.
I spoke to Linda, his wife, during that time, and
I said, I mean, wow, it's amazing, and she said
there's nothing I can do. He wants to be out there.
He committed to the people he'd be there. And we'll
see if you can get Mattress Mack on the line.
I would like to see how he's doing one year
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after open heart surgery. He also had some very strong
opinions regarding the University of Texas being left out of
the playoffs, particularly for Jmu and Tulane. We will speak
to the man himself if we can track him down
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coming up
It's that time time time lucking load. So Michael Arry
Show's on the air looking into Mica week.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Gotta feed a beard. I don't plan to shave, and
it's good thing, but I just gotta see I'm doing
it all right? Will I make support me?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's beating VERDICTU.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's the truth.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It's neither drinking a drug and.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
To snoolm just doing all right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's a great dad be I know, suns still shining
in a close eyes. It's hard times.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
In the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But whyking every days? Today is the day, the last
day to file for office in the great state of Texas,
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to be on the Republican primary ballot in March, and
upon winning that, to be on the general election ballot
come next November, whether you are running for the governor's race,
the US Senate, a congressional seat, state house, state Senate,
or most anything else, all the way down to the
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lowest in hierarchy and one of the most important. And
anybody can do it, and everybody should try. Precinct Chairman,
Today is the day the polls will cleub me. The
election filings will close at six pm. If you are
filing for an office that involves multiple counties, you file
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in Austin at the state Republican Party. If you are
filing for an office that only includes one county, like
precinct chairman in Harris County or Montgomery or Brisouria or
Fort benn you file at the state party headquarters. Or
you can do what someone does every year in about
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five point thirty, get a wild hair and decide that,
having waited till the last minute, you're going to go
there and then email me and argue that they screwge
you out of it because it was seven minutes till
and the door was locked. Because every single year somebody
does that. It's the same group of people who wait
till the last hour to vote on the last day
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of voting, not early voting, election day, and they've moved
the poll there out to get us. Michael, why not
vote early, I'll never understand. But today is that day,
and there are some moves being made by candidates already
out of races and into others. We'll talk about that,
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But that means it's December eighth. The day before, of course,
is December seventh day, which will live in infamy Pearl
Harbor Day. Yesterday We start with story from KHO N
two in Honolulu. I believe this was the first year,
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first year that none of the Pearl Harbor survivor survivors
were able to attend the conference.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Only twelve Pearl Harbor survivors are alive today, and on
the eighty fourth anniversary of the attack, none were able
to attend the remembrance, but their legacy and stories were
still shared by loved ones, like one hundred and six
year old Alice Darrow, a former Navy nurse whose late
husband Dean was on the USS West Virginia when it
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was struck by torpedoes and he was unknowingly wounded.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Bike on fire.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
They would brow the ship be okay, so they sent
him back to duty. And every time he'd gone for
his pro for his age position, he would pass out
and they thought he had warners until he had been
excited to stay.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Alice was his nurse.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
The doctor did an X ray and found a bullet
lodged in his heart.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
It was a shock to my to my husband Ben.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
He was just a patient till he went.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Through surgery and he's lived almost almost fifty years.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
This week, Alice donated the bullet to the Pearl Harbor Museum.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
I feel it should be passed on and so people
could see it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
He's amstaffs the artifacts like this preserved.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
The human stories behind the history.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
That detail that Dean shared in his own words about
you know, when the attackers happened, he was standing in
front of his locker trying to decide to wear one
en up for an upcoming Christmas shopping trip. You know,
it's is those stories that really make the history of
the park and make people realize that, oh, yeah, these
guys were human too.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
One year old World War Two veteran Milton Riptide Ripple
says he thinks of the lives lost every year.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Oh, I've dropped no honor to be here today. I'm
around to enjoy this sharemony, and I always say, oh
as a result of veterans ucksh the way the war
and are buried out there.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
And they are angel And for many the memories of
December seventh, nineteen forty one remain vivid, including those who
were teenagers when the attack happened.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I did that the most.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Scares in my life, and I couldn't eat.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, I was so scared. I was shaken all night.
I didn't know wa has come to how.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
We didn't know what the war was by when this
said our military rifle walking over the helmet, that that
was cool, you know, So that really convincing me that
there's war.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know that they were in my life.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Around even without survivors presence.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Military service members said their courage continues to guide the nation.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We are forever grateful for this service, and they will
never be for a while.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm mindful there. Those young people were no idea it's coming,
and all of a sudden they realize we're not going home.
It gets me every time Pearl Harbor survivors speak. This
was years past, just I'll never forget.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
I watched the Arizona, the West Virginia, the Tennessee, the Nevada, California, Utah,
all in guffed and smoking flames.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And all sinking. It was chaotics.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Guys hollered for their lives, boiled from destroyer, came on
top of the water, caught fire.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
To it, flames all around us.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
The fire from the Arizona were so intents. These guys
that fell over, came out, got the film on their bodies,
were like human torches.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
The fireballer went aboudy feet in the air just enveloped us.
I got burned over about sixty seventy percent of my body.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
We've seen men jumping off the ship into boiling oil
and water trying to make it to the beach.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
There was a body in the water.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
When I pull the guy's arm, it came off pull.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Of course, that scared the living daylight.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's time of me.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
I saw these bodies lying around, so the first run
I turned them over on the back of his head
was missing.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I wasn't revered for asaid for his name.
Speaker 13 (08:17):
This are he's on well done, So this is the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But in my success with taking selfies in the shower,
but they always turn out blurry, he says. I think
he has selfie steam issues. Well, the filings today are
much more interesting than they would have been had Federal
district Judge Jeff Brown, who sided with the Democrats despite
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being a Trump appointee. He tried to kill the redistricting.
We need redistricting because we need maps that are drawn
fairly and not on a racial basis. It could mean
a pickup of five congressional seats. That's a game changer.
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We've got to have those. If Trump doesn't have a
majority in his second term, then life becomes much more difficult.
You know, you you hear the Democrats say that the
maps are jerrymander. They're not. The map's what they should
have been in the first place. But think about this
for a moment. In the state of Massachusetts, thirty six
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percent of voters vote Republican. They don't have a single
Republican congressman. Connecticut forty two percent vote Republican. They don't
have a single Republican congressman. Neither does Maine were forty
eight percent vote republican, or New Hampshire forty eight percent republican,
Rhode Island forty two percent republican, Vermont thirty two percent republican,
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Hawaii thirty eight percent republican, Laware forty two percent Republican.
None of those states, none of those eight states have
a single Republican congressman. If our elected offices reflected the desires,
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the voting patterns, the values of American voters, we wouldn't
be having these battles. The Supreme Court voted to allow
Texas to use the newly redrawn congressional maps for twenty
twenty six. The Supreme Court's order putting the two to
one ruling by US district judges out of El Paso
that blocked the map on hold until at least the
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High Court issues of final decision in the case. So
we will proceed with the maps on the basis of
what you thought. As of about October, ABC News had
that story.
Speaker 14 (10:50):
Supreme Court allowing Texas to move forward with a newly
redrawn congressional map for the twenty twenty six midterm elections
despite a lower court ruling that the map likely discriminates
on the base race.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Texas state officials arguing.
Speaker 14 (11:02):
The map was drawn purely for political advantage, which the
Supreme Court has previously allowed.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
The court's three liberal.
Speaker 14 (11:08):
Justices dissenting Justice Kagan, writing the court's order deserves the
millions of Texans whom the district court found were assigned
to their new districts based on their race, But the
majority insisted the lower court had improperly inserted itself into
an active primary campaign of setting the delicate federal state
balance in elections. Critics argue this Supreme Court decision has
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the appearance of partisanship.
Speaker 15 (11:32):
Over the last year, the Supreme Court has repeatedly issued
emergency orders that have set aside existing law and the
careful work of district courts when asked to do so
by the Republican Party.
Speaker 14 (11:43):
The state's redistricting plan, pushed by President Trump, would likely
flip five congressional seats in Texas from Democrat to Republican
in an effort to preserve the slim GOP majority in
the House in next year's midterms. Soon, Texas Governor Greg
Abbott says the new maps better represent Texas voters, writing
on social media, quote, we won Texas is officially and
legally more read. The Texas effort set off a nationwide
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redistrict In battle to counter those moves, Governor Gavenusim led
a campaign to change California's congressional map, which voters.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Approved in November.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Colin Allred is back was expected that he would run
for the United States Senate, but as of this morning,
he has made a change. He's dropped out of the
Senate race and instead he will run for the House
of Representatives in the newly drawn district thirty three. In
an article that dropped about seven o'clock this morning, the
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Dallas Morning News quoted him as saying, I felt that
having a long drawn out, brutal primary and runoff was
not in the people's interests or the interests of the
folks who placed their trust in me. I made the
decision to end my Senate campaign, but I've decided to
run for the newly drawn thirty third Congressional district. As
a paper notes quote, all Red's move creates a primary
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class cash with a woman who replaced him in Congress,
US Congressman Julie Johnson, Democrat from Farmers Branch. Johnson is
in her first term representing District thirty two, which the
Republican control legislature redrew this summer to be more favorable
to a GOP candidate. Former State Rep. Domingo Garcia, Democrat
from Dallas, is also considering running for Congress and District
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thirty three, which is represented by fort Worth Democrat Mark Vezy,
shedding all of Terrant County under the redistricting and now
including neighborhoods all read once represented. VZ is expected to
run for District thirty which Crockett currently represents, but as
we'll discuss, she'll be running for the US Senate. Allred's
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decision comes on today. Crockett has set a four to
thirty PM announcement where she is expected to announce her
campaign for the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyan. Cornan,
of course, won't win that primary and won't be on
the ballot in November. Allred had been campaigning for that
seat since July first, and Tallarico an out and out socialist,
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and I mean socialist. This is the guy who says
we should confiscate Elon Musk's money. He's just he's made
too much money. He shouldn't shouldn't be allowed to make
so much money. It's going to be very interesting. Indeed,
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Jasmine Crockett expected the launch sentate mid today at four
point thirty. CNN reports that she was working behind the
scenes to get Colin all Read to drop out of
that race. See we can't have but one black person
in there, that's their argument, and instead to run for governor.
But he has chosen to run for a congressional seat.
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He's got to have a job somewhere, I suppose, And
you talk about hilarious. Jasmine Crockett has been coordinating with
the self proclaimed actual governor of Georgia, remember her, Stacy Abrams.
You know I always had the sweat coming down her face,
using Stacy Abrams's expertise at quote, expanding the electorate in
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a long time red state that turned purple. You remember
that Stacy Abrams received over a billion dollars in a
government grant. She got rich politics in the politics of
race baiting has been very, very good for her. She's
made a lot of money at it. Edward Isaac Devere writes,
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Jasmine Crockett has two cashiers checks made out to use
on Monday, one to submit if she files for reelection
for her US House seat, the other to jump into
the already competitive Democrat primary for US Senate. Her down
to the wire in decision she knows is driving even
her staff racy. She's invited hundreds of people to an
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announcement of it Monday that scheduled ninety minutes before she
needs to submit one of the checks. Oh way, lucky you.
The Michael Verie Show continues your lucky day. Think about
how bad the Democrats have it. Everybody has somebody in
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your life who is still a Democrat, and they love
to say, Oh, I saw Trump did this for that
the other day. I guess. I guess you're proud of
your President. Listen, do not speak to me. You had
Joe Biden as president. How was that? Do you support that?
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You had Sheila Jackson Lee as a congressman. You had
Nancy Pelosi as the speaker. Your party through so many
resources at Stacy Abrams legal and probably illegal as well.
You have Bernie Sanders. You have ilhan Omar, who I
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can only hope is part of the Minnesota fraud scandal.
Kind of interesting how it all comes together, isn't it.
Keith Ellison, Timmy Walls, ilhan Omar and all that money
stolen from the federal government and the children of Minnesota
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in a massive, massive fraud. But back to Texas where
Jasmine Crockett, it looks like it's going to run for
the United States Senate. This segment brought to you by
her campaign from the great traditions of Queen's like never
Tit and Latifa, the time has come for the next
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moment of black power. Jazz Mean Crockett.
Speaker 16 (17:52):
Growing up in a bougie white neighborhood, she studied the enemy.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
She knows their way.
Speaker 16 (17:58):
She's been inside that belly beast, and she's ready to
bring hood to the hill. Wiggs to Washington, crash to
the Capitol and saz.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
To what once had classed. She's jazz Mean Crockett and
she can rocket.
Speaker 16 (18:11):
She descends from a long line of distinguished ladies who
bravely and foldy dump served before her.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I will go and take Trump out to.
Speaker 17 (18:19):
Night boys and razors that literally killing people at the border.
Let me just say this, it is very well documented
that words nowadays can actually break your bones.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Well, I'm glad I was standing with these children right
here here.
Speaker 17 (18:37):
I am to be able to celebrate the eclipse.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
They will not be seen for another forty.
Speaker 17 (18:43):
For another time until twenty forty four.
Speaker 16 (18:47):
Jazz Mean Crockett, because it's time we ruined this country.
Speaker 17 (18:51):
That's the snowflowd.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
On a cold and grayish Chicago, on a little baby Chathers.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Born to give it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
In response to the Supreme Court ruling giving Texas the
green light on the newly drawn congressional maps, Al Green
was going to lose his congressional district, so he retired,
or so he said. People believed him because he walks
around with a cane, looks like he's got one foot
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in the grave. But oh no, he just can't go.
He has announced he will be filing for the eighteenth
Congressional District Act today, the district long held by Sila
Jackson Lee. That seat sort of designated for a dumbass,
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and Al will do. He says, the President's not gonna
run me out of office. The president can't be father.
To know your name, khou with the story.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
We're hearing from Congressman Al Green, the Democrat who currently
represents District nine but now finds himself in District eighteen
in this new map, and he says he'll be running
for that seat in the March primary.
Speaker 18 (20:17):
Well, the President's not going to run me out of office.
That won't happen. I am going to be on the Bounty.
I will be running from the eighteenth Congressional District because
that's where my home is, That's where my constituents that
I've been representing for many years on now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Green has represented the ninth Congressional district, anchored in the
southern parts of Houston since two thousand and five, but
again it's been redrawn, with Green saying he's failed to
run in the eighteenth. That means he'll likely of a
primary fight against Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and former
Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards, both in a runoff
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for District eighteen. Voters might find some of this confusing,
it will be interesting, and it'll be here before we
know it. We'll start early voting before you know it.
As a reminder, because this comes up every year, you
do not have to live in a congressional district to
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run for and be elected to that district.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It will often be complaints that this candidate or that
one doesn't live in the congressional district. Really they don't
spend much time in Houston in any case, but no,
you are not required to have a residence inside a
congressional district. With the lines moving in these races, you
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can expect that some of these candidates are going to
be moving, and certainly if they get elected, would then
be moving. It's not a true Hall of Fame for
Major League Baseball without Barry Bonds and Jeff Clement and
Roger Clemens, and that is what has happened. Jeff Kent
has been elected to the Hall of Fame by the
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sixteen member Temporary Era Committee, but Barry Bonds and Roger
Clemens have been snubbed.
Speaker 19 (22:09):
Sports needs steroids, it does, Are you kidding me? A baseball? Certainly,
baseball's all strike away from being soccer. Yeah, and if
you like soccer, we'll welcome to America. See, our country
already has entertainment, So watching people chase the ball for
four hours to end zero zero is not enjoyable, unless,
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of course, the bleachers collapse.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
In half of Europe dies baseball.
Speaker 19 (22:36):
Nobody wants to watch a pitching battle either. Let's hit
the ball deep. Don't worry about your records either. For
every superstar that's done steroids, a billion double A boys
have juiced up, so the playing field is plenty. Even
we'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds his name, sure,
as soon as we put one next to baby Bruce
name getting a break records before black people are allowed
to play? Excuse me, where is that? Why don't people
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talk about that? I've loved to know how many homers
the Babe would have hit had CC been throwing them
ninety two on our sliders. Yeah, maybe the fat boy
would have put the cigar down and quit pointing, had
Jose been allowed to swim ninety miles to throw them
a junk ball?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And in other sports scandals. As you know, college football's
national playoffs have been announced. You know, several years ago
Florida State went thirteen and oh, but the quarterback went
down before the decision was made, so they were kept
out of the playoffs on the theory that, well, they're
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not as good as they would have been with their quarterback.
In fact, they're not good enough to be in the playoffs.
That was a four member, four team playoff. Then they've
expanded it now to twelve. But the idea was that
this is the selection of now the twelve best teams
in the country. You don't earn it. It is a
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pitting of the twelve best teams. That's their theory, that's
what they say. But that's a ridiculous argument because now
James Madison JM you and Tulane have made the tournament,
which of course means they'll be blown out in the
first round, and the University of Texas has not made
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the playoffs. And you and I and every Aggie fan
and everyone else knows they should have.
Speaker 13 (24:38):
Car speakers, smart devices from Michael's brain, every single one
of them.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
To your ears. This is the Michael Very Show. On
the anniversary of the passing of Lennon, I'm wrong, offers
this tribute long Linen. Forty five years ago today, John
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Lennon was gunned down outside the Dakota Lofts by a
nut job. No good deed goes unpunished. He'd actually signed
an album cover for the nut several hours before. I
mean that to me is the real kicker. John Lennon
was only forty years old. You know, some people say
(25:31):
that life starts at forty. Those people are really pro choice.
You know, you think you shoot John Lennon and you
got Yoko right there beside him, right there beside him. No,
(25:55):
I'm not. I'm just saying there was. There was Yoko
Clip number nine. FBI Director Cash Battel says the Biden
administration sat on evidence in the handling of the DC
pipe bomber.
Speaker 20 (26:10):
Cash Patil, the prior administration sat on the evidence for
four years. There wasn't any production of new evidence from
five years ago. Here's what we did. We went out
to the country, brought in our experts and Deputy Director
Bong Gino led the charge and said we're going to
look at every single piece of evidence again trace. We
looked at three million lines of evidence we went back
and looked at the cell phone tower data dumps. We
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went back and looked at the providers and what information
they provided pursued to search warrants at the time, and
asked questions such as why weren't all the phone numbers scrubbed,
and why weren't they connected? And why wasn't there any
geolocational data done. Now that is either sheer in competence
or complete intentional negligence, and neither of which is acceptable
for this FBI. So we changed that in the prior
eight months, not on just this case, but everyone, and
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what that did was allow us to narrow the search down.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I mean, I have to remind the audience.
Speaker 20 (26:57):
Of the world, this guy, this suspect, plans to bombs
at the United States Capitol on camera, and the Federal
Beer of Investigation for the prior four years couldn't find
him completely unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
We were told it was a white man. It's not,
of course. We were told that the Narco terrorists were
fishermen and they weren't the mother or grandmother. I can't
recall of Brian Cole, the five seven black men who
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is accused of placing the two pipe bombs says that
the reason he visited the site, I think ninety times.
It's an insane number of times. I want to say
it was ninety times was over a one year period,
was because he was an uber driver. But the number
of occasions where he visited the site for between twenty
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minutes and two hours is significantly high. Well, he just
idling happens to be in that spot, and the number
of folks of questionable behavior who had offices in that area,
like Podesta, remember that Freak and a number of other
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Democrat strategists really do call to mind. Let's see what
would be their motive implacing pipe bombs the night before
the big January sixth hoax. I think you get the
idea closer to home. What kind of klepto thieves steal
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two huge, one hundred pound Christmas balls from the city
of Paarland display. We'll leave the clever word play to
Fox twenty six here, and they didn't disappoint.
Speaker 21 (28:58):
When I found out about this case, I definitely thought
to myself, what are people thinking?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Why would somebody do this? And it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 21 (29:05):
Big red Christmas ornament weighs about one hundred pounds valued
about two thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 21 (29:12):
I can't imagine what somebody would want to do with
a one hundred pound Christmas ornament that they actually had
to cut a lock to remove and actually steal that
property at that time.
Speaker 12 (29:21):
Apparentlyand city employee noticed the balls were missing on December first.
One was taken from this Apairland city sign at twenty
six fifty takes you Farm Road. The other one was
taken from thirteen hundred Pairland Parkway. I mean, this is
something that you couldn't put.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
In your house or put out in your yard.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Because people would realize that, well, hey, it doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Belonged to the city.
Speaker 21 (29:42):
Yeah, it's not normal to see a Christmain order ornament
that big just anywhere. That's why it stands out. That's
why when you're enter in the city you see it.
You know, you know what it represents. But the idea
that someone may have stolen it for their own personal
gain or decor is wild to think.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
Cal I'm doing us and want these big red Christmas
balls from the City of Paarland being stolen.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
We've got all these big red balls.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
What's that all about?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Well, I don't know. These are just salons. They're not
what you think they are.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
What do you think about somebody actually stealing these big.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I think that's so crazy. But I mean I love
to I mean it's as bad as it sounds.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
I love to see how everybody's trying to gain the
Christmas decorations weird.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
If you had a chance to talk to whoever did this,
what would you say to them?
Speaker 21 (30:32):
I don't know what you're doing, but it would be
best for you to contact us and return that item
as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thieves literally have some huge balls for Christmas after stealing
the decorations from the City of Parland. Well played, well
played Appearland PD Public Information Officer Chad Rogers making those statements.
If you know Chad r and he can call us,
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the number is seven one three, one thousand. I can
assure you it's not one of our listeners and is
stolen the big red balls. But I happen to know
a business owner whose most successful business happens to be
in the City of Parland, who has a very big
heart for the city of Paarland. I wouldn't be shocked
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if that individual, if asked nicely wouldn't gladly replace the
big red ball. I would not be surprised, Ramon. I
will leave it at that. One year ago. Today, I
received a photo of Mattress Mac. No, he didn't look himself,
(31:51):
but he didn't look terrible. And the email said, Czar
three days out from open heart surgery and here's Mattress
Mack serving as celebrity Grand Marshal of the League City
Christmas Parade on Saturday evening. He never stops, he never
stops supporting the community. May God watch over him and
(32:14):
his medical team. Keep up the great work and Merry Christmas.
I spoke to Linda, his wife, during that time, and
I said, I mean, wow, it's amazing, and she said
there's nothing I can do. He wants to be out there.
He committed to the people he'd be there. And we'll
see if you can get Mattress Mack on the line.
I would like to see how he's doing one year
(32:35):
after open heart surgery. He also had some very strong
opinions regarding the University of Texas being left out of
the playoffs, particularly for Jmu and Tulane. We will speak
to the man himself if we can track him down
(32:57):
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