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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very show is on the air, and the happiest people
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are the people who don't read the news.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Years ago, people would email me and would email me
and tell me, Michael, how come you're not talking about
filling the blink? And I would explain to them that
news directors of television stations or the Houston Chronicle don't
program my show. I talk about what I want to
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talk about. There is a crew of us, and we
get together and we discuss what we find interesting to
talk about. If you already know about that other story,
you don't need me to talk about it. I'd rather
take something that you are well aware of and offer
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a different perspective on it, or talk about something that
maybe wasn't chosen by the news directors as the most
interesting story or the story most likely to grab your
attention and make that the subject of my discussion. One
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of those things is this sort of sad need by
the Houston Chronicle to scare you.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Because they can't entertain you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
They don't have the staffing anymore, they don't have the
research that they don't do investigations. There's only so many
tall rico's gonna win stories. They can do so instead,
it's always the African killer bees.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's always the next big thing that's gonna get you meningitis.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Have we had our meningitis story yet and there was
a case of meningitis? They'll tell us, Oh my goodness,
there's the African killer bees. There's the hole in the ozone,
the latest an explosive diarrhea parasite in Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh, yes, yes, yes yes.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The US is currently dealing with an outbreak of cyclospora,
a parasite that causes a collection of unpleasant symptoms, including
watery diarrhea, cramping, increase, gas, and nausea. M my good
way to lose weight. Though, Cyclospora is linked to a
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number of common fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
See, you got to stay away from.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The fruits and vegetables that'll get you every time, every
time I tell you, snow peas, raspberries, blackberries, spinach, and
leafy greens. Basil cilantro. Do you say cilantro or cilantro?
Jim you say cilantro? Apparently that is the food most
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commonly linked to US cyclospora outbreaks, especially when it's imported.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I like some cilantro. I'm a risk it. I don't
mind risking it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Mesklin is that pronounce mesklin lettuce and salad mixes. Because
they're eating raw and difficult to thoroughly clean.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
All of that is going.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
To give you the explosive diarrhea. That's an unpleasant thing
to have. Explosive diarrhea. That's the kind of diarrhea you
get that you go to that you rush to the
toilet like you're going out for dinner. You're going out
for a couple's dinner and you're like, look, I'm not
gonna be able to make it, and you just get
you stripped down completely button naked, because there's no putting
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your underwear down around your your feet, nothing, nothing. You're
gonna be there for a while and it might be
that thing might be coming out. I mean, it's a
volcanic explosion going on in there. You're closing the doors,
turning on the music, turning on the shower, turning on
the sink. You don't want that explosive diarrhea. Parasite here's
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the story case c E N TV in Waco.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It's called cyclospora.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It is an intestinal parasite. People frequently use the phrase
explosive watery diarrhea when they're talking about it.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
And the CDC is now monitoring the microscopic parasite.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Doctors say they're prepared.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Nothing new.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's seasonal.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We deal with it, you know, usually every year, but
occasionally some years are worse than others and we have outbreaks.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Kind of what we're dealing with, especially during summertime.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
People tend to be eating more fruits and vegetables, farmer stands, harvests.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Unwashed foods, and not washing hands or culprits.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, there's been improper hand hygiene, improper food preparation, not
washing and preparing the fruits and the vegetables.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's not like salmonella and isn't in every food.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Basic cooking, even simple temperatures will usually kill the bug.
It is more associated with raw produce and foods that
are not normally cooked through normal preparation.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
The difference between the bug and a normal stomach flu
is the duration.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
You're two to three days of typical diarrhea. You shouldn't
be concerned about this at that time. This is really
when you've had a diarrheal onus going on for a week.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
A week and a half. You're at the two week mark.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
The duration the symptoms and the test confirmed to doctors.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Really by one week, seven days up to ten days,
you should be being seen and tested for this.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So the illness can be addressed and treated.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
If we do end up testing you for cyclospora and
you're positive for that, there is a recommended antibacterial therapy
for that.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
But there are people higher risk, like the elderly, immuno suppressed,
were those prone to dehydration.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Again, it's a hygiene issue, washing and preparing your foods,
washing your hands, to be kind of cautious around areas
that have foods and fruits and produce that have been
sitting out.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
While there isn't any evidence of a single outbreak link
in the cases, the CDC is looking to find potential
sources for the illness.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It is amazing how many people die from the effects
of diarrhea in India and Pakistan and Africa. I saw
a report the other day out of every one hundred
thousand deaths, yeah, maybe it's one hundred thousand deaths.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It was comparing around the world the.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Manner in which people die and the number was forty six.
It was the highest rate of it was in Africa
and India, and the reason is extreme explosive diarrhea dehydrates you.
So can you imagine that being the way you go,
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you are blowing You're not even blowing dirt, you are
just blowing water out. You got these horrible, horrible cramps.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You're doubled over.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You got nowhere in crowded countries like that, you got
no peace. You know. It's like when you're out in
public and you got to go into a stall and
you're like, you're listening, You're peeking under the things, see
if abdy's coming into the bathroom. You're hoping you got
the bathroom to yourself, because if you can't lock the door,
if you can lock the door, then after a while
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you're getting the hey, anybody in there, Yeah, you might
as well go ahead and use the women's fella. I'm
gonna be a while, and they're so unhappy. By the way,
scientific study I've conducted over the course of my lifetime,
if you go to the restroom, the men's restroom, and
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it is locked, and it is an abnormally long period
of time, and a line is stacking up outside, it
is one one to one that that is an employee
in there, and they're not even pooping. They're just sitting
in there catching up on their their cell phone because
they can't use their cell phone while they're working.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Anyway, that was a story about explosive diet. Must be
you're listening to Michael Berry. There are some.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Really nice fellas who grow out their long white hair
and they give themselves over to the children for the
wonder and awe that is Santa Claus at Christmas, and
it's glorious. And then there's those few, those freakish, awful,
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evil few who knew that they can use that persona
to lure children in.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's the story we're going to tell you about.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
A seventy five year old Louisiana man who legally is
legally changed his name to Sandy Claus.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
He was arrested in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
A child sex sting after the popos say he tried
to meet a detective who was posing as a fifteen
year old boy. The story out of WWLTV in New Orleans.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
A New Orleans man who legally changed his name to
Santa Claus is facing child exploitation charges in Kenner after
an undercover sting operation. Police say the seventy five year
old man was texting with an undercover officer he thought
was a fifteen year old boy. Clause allegedly arranged to
meet the boy in Kenner for sex and was taken
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into custody. He was charged with indecent behavior with a
juvenile and computer aided solicitation of a minor. In addition
to Clause, ten other men were taken into custody and
booked on similar charges. They are all shown on your
screen right now. Another ten suspects have outstanding warrants out
for their arrests, and Kenner police say they're working to
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bring that group in right now.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Because he changed his name legally to Santa Claus, they're
referring to him as Santa Claus the same way you
would say. You know, Robinson was booked at the Kenner
Clause was booked at the Kenner Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division.
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You know, there was, there was Chris Hansen, to catch
a predator. There's been every knockoff known to mankind. There is,
there are, there are guys. There's one group. I can't
believe they haven't been arrested yet. It's three of them
and they set up their stings, except their sting is
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they'll get somebody.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
They'll have some guy.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
To meet him in the grocery store like a public place,
and then they come up on him. And there's one fellow.
If you've seen this, you know I'm talking about. He
wears a doctor Pepper shirt.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And when they.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Say to the guy, oh, hey, Ethan, what were you doing.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You were here to meet with so and so.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're gonna meet with a little kid, a twelve year
old kid. Huh. And he says no, no, no, no,
and they go, yeah, you were here. It is on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
And he starts trying to remove stuff off his phone.
You don't need to remove that. We've got the whole
exchange right here. And then eventually he tries to slip
out and goes out the back aisle, and so as
he's coming down the aisle, this dude will come out
with a candle op or a watermelon and smash him
in the head. And then he goes out and you're like, ooh,
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I'm for punishing this dude, but I don't want to
see you get arrested. And they'll torment these guys, I mean,
punch them in the face, you just wonder. I mean,
my algorithm is pretty thick with with this stuff, because
if you watch one, they figure you want to watch
them all. But my goodness, alife, how strong must the
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pull be to risk the I'm not gonna say almost
certain apprehension, but pretty high apprehension. And in life we
generally measure, all, right, how likely am I to get caught?
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And the second thing is if I am caught, how
bad is it gonna be? Well, the how bad it's
gonna be, I'm not sure there's anything worse. Your life
is destroyed. Everyone around you's life is destroyed. So now
the only calculation is is there a point one percent
chance you're getting caught or a ninety nine percent chance?
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Is this person that incapable of running those numbers in
their head, because you could assign a value, right if
there's a ten percent chance, But it's the one hundred
percent worst thing that could happen to you, because if
you go to prison, if you go to prison, it
is the worst thing. There is a pecking order in
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prison and child sex predators. I've heard this again and
again and again. That's the worst, that is the lowest,
the lowest of the low. The serial killer picks on you,
the arsonist picks on you, the rapist picks on you.
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You're getting it worst, I mean you, your your life.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Is a living hell.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So why on earth do these people? Which makes you
wonder if we're hearing about so many of these cases,
they're all over the internet now. Used to just be
Chris Hansen, that's the first one I ever knew of,
and there weren't enough of his stings to scare off
a whole nation of people.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
But now if you just go.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Look for vigilanti justice against pedophiles, my goodness, you will
find case after case after case. They're everywhere all the time.
There's more content than you can keep up with, nabbing
these guys, shaming these guys, abusing these guys. So you
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have to think to yourself, do they perceive that the
odds are low of being caught? They've got to know
there are people out there doing these stings all the time.
Is their compulsion overwhelming that they are incapable of assessing
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the risk. We don't know what fetishes and kinks and
pervs people have. You don't know, nobody ever admits to it,
but we do know when they act on it that
that's when it comes to the public light. And I
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can't help but wonder how these people can justify in
their minds putting themselves and their family and their career
at risk. The reason Chris Hansen went off the air
is that one of the people that they did to
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catch a predator.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
On killed himself.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He was an assistant district attorney and they came to
his house because the thing got rushed and he killed
himself right there in front of every That was the
liabilities to talk radio.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Last week we heard the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Story that a Tesla was in full self driving mode
when it crashed through a grandmother's home.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
At seventy three miles an hour and killed her.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And people said, oh, that technology, it's terrible, and I
said at the time, it's not going to be the technology.
There is an override feature. If it was in full
self driving, the driver is going to end up having
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overridden it and he's going to be the one who
did this. And my suspicion is that he will have
done it on purpose. But I don't know that. I
don't know that, so I can't say that that is
a suspicious a suspicion. According to court documents. The man
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had just finished a door dash delivery when he claims
he activated his Tesla's full self driving system. Moments later,
the car slammed into the Katie area home at seventy
three miles an hour. Well, the woman's dead, so.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's a pretty serious charge. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
The data shows that he had overridden the full self
driving so he was in control of the vehicle. He
had the pedal to the floor at seventy three miles
an hour, never touched the brake, jumped the curb into
her home and killed her.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The story from KHOU.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Michael Butler is charged with manslaughter, and today the district
attorney said the charge reflects evidence they believe shows Butler
acted recklessly the night he crashed into Martha Avola's home,
killing the seventy six year old grandmother. But this is
only the beginning of the investigation. If convicted, Butler could
face two to twenty years in prison. According to cored documents,
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Butler just finished a door dash delivery when he claims
he activated his Tesla's autopilot system. Moments later, the car
slammed into a Kadi area home at seventy three miles
per hour. Court documents say Butler never reported feeling ill
or having symptoms before the crash. Further hospital testing reportedly
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found no evidence of seizure or stroke, heart attack, or
intoxicus in his blood or urine, and Butler.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Was not injured.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
The black box data showed that the accelerator pedal was
pressed all the way down to one hundred percent pedal
to the metal, and within five seconds reached seventy three
miles per hour when he struck that curve and when
airborne into the home. There is no evidence that the
defendant tried to press the brake pedal.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
And Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, previously on social media said
the crash made no sense. Tesla's VP of AI software
responded in that post, also saying the driver manually overrode
self driving by pressing the accelerated down one hundred percent.
The judge denied Butler's attorney's requests to lower his bond,
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so he's being held on one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
If the suspect bonds out, he'll be banned from driving
unless he gets prior approval. His attorney didn't comment after court.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Again, these people live amongst us. They live among us,
and you cannot give them the benefit of the doubt.
You just can't. They're monsters in the stupid criminal category.
We continue. This will be clipped on Umber eleven. Jim,
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this is a man in Maryland who had his truck stolen.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Okay, not a big deal, but his truck was.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Stolen while he was burgling of a Verizon store. All right,
so you're committing burglary and they steal your truck while
you're doing it. Could this be more perfect? Surely he
didn't call the cops. Yeah he did. You won't steal
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my truck while I'm committing a burglary, and of course
they arrest him. Popo wrote on social media, quote, don't
you hate it when your car gets stolen while you're
committing a burglary?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Karma? Indeed, the story from Khou.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Burglarysa a tough lesson about karma.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Yes he did, and it landed him in our foolishness files.
Please sharing video on social media. After response into a
man's nine to one one call that someone had stolen
his truck, they also got a call about a burglary
at a Verizon store across the street. Police quickly realized
the man had his truck stolen while he was breaking
into the Verizon store.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
He's bleeding, he's bleeding. I was bleding though. All right,
let me just see your hands real quick, let me
see the same Okay, will you run your back for me?
So the gig's up. It's whether you want to be
honest about stuff or not.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I do all right, trunk.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Oh my god, that's kind of some carn right there,
ain't it.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Well?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I left I left that. Yeah, that's some karma right there. Dude.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
He left the keys in the car while he was robbing.
The man was charged with burglary and destruction of property,
and his stolen truck has not been found.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
My goodness. The rants on a sinking ship, the lowest
of the low, the absolute scum of society, reminds me
of Thenardier, the Master of the house, when he's down
in the sewers and he's digging the gold out of
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the dead revolutionaries during the war. He is digging the
gold out of the dead body's teeth so he can
later sell it and recoup some cash. My goodness, alive.
Seven pro Hamas thugs found guilty on lesser misdemeanor charges
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for shutting down the Golden Greate Bridge, creating hours of
traffic standstill for a silly little scheme to protest Israel.
Protest Israel all you want, but you ain't win any
favors doing this.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Their felony conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Charges were tossed out after jurors were unable to reach
a verdict. San Francisco public defender knuah Abu Samra said
after the verdict. Blocking traffic for a few hours years
ago is the bare minimum that we should be doing
as American citizens while our tax dollars continue to fund
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the mass genocide of Palestinians. So sorry that you're stuck
in traffic, ma'am and have to deliver your baby in
the middle of a crowded traffic, but they're really upset
about Israel Palestine.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
ABC seven San Francisco with the story.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
More than two years after a group of anti war
demonstrators took over the Golden Gabe Bridge, halting traffic for hours,
there's a verdict in their trial.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
They convicted each of those seven defendants with six counts
of six misdemeanor counts and one of them with an additional.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Count Emotions run high outside the courtroom after jurors det
locked on a felony conspiracy and a misdemeanor trespassed to
interfere with a business charge. In April fifteenth of twenty
twenty four, demonstrators parked their vehicles in Unison and chained
themselves together as part of a day of action calling
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for an end to US military aid to Israel during
the war in Gaza that were later.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Nicknamed the Golden Gate.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Twenty six nineteen had their charges dropped or reduced, but
seven went on trial.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It welt like such a relief to realize that I could.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Actually do something after the verdict, public defenders in this
case set their clients fought for their assistance.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
A former US soccer star, now a Fox Sports commentator
for soccer matches, says, there's a part of me that says.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
The time for moral victories is over. Yeahoo.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Stephen Goff writes the US was outclassed European royalty, reduced
to a wabbly team that, after playing with energy and
cohesion for weeks, was.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Out of its depth.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
For all their gains, the Americans found themselves back where
they often are, leaving the competition at the same juncture.
The exit rent was the same in ninety four, twenty ten,
twenty fourteen, twenty twenty two, and now at home. For
all its high marks this summer, the US remains in
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the second tier of international soccer, still behind the Belgians
and England's Belgiums in England countries. US remains sorry Argentina's
and Frances of the world, so behind the Belgium's, England
Argentina's Frances in the world. The Americans have failed to
take the next step time and again, and usually it's
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a European team that swats them away. Well, with America's
exit out of the World Cup, I'll just say this.
First of all, I don't think there's any shame in
being bounced from.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The World Cup.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I mean, Portugal was bounced and they are supposedly a
really good team. Brazil was bounced. I get my info
from Crockett, but Norway was never supposed to beat Brazil.
You've got these teams. Mexico was pretty fired up. Germany
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primarily plays soccer, so I'm not making excuses. I don't
really know anything about it. I watched it for the
same reason I do a lot of things. It was
an opportunity to spend time with my son because Crockett
really enjoys soccer. That's it, and that's all. I never played. Really,
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I don't understand a lot of the rules.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't. You know.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
This book football that I read about Chuck Colosterman said
it tallied up the amount of time of actual play
during a football game that takes three hours, and it
was eleven minutes of actual play.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
And the reason is you have, you know, what might
be a.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Six second play where ball goes out of bounds and
then you've got several minutes of resetting, calling to play,
coming to the line.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Everything that goes with that. But that's what I'm used to,
that's what I enjoy. Getting me to.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Adjust to a sport I don't know is probably not
going to happen. I don't see it happening. I didn't
choose to be a football fan of American football, you know, Texans, Cowboys, Bills, Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I didn't choose that. That's mother's milk to me.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And for people who grew up behind the World Cup,
they're gonna enjoy it and they can enjoy it while
I don't and I can enjoy my football while they don't.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I will say this.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think there were a lot of Americans who got
caught up in wanting to like the World Cup because
you know, they wanted to be part of what was
going on. Everyone's excited, and so they too got excited.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
But I would argue that.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
For ninety nine out of one hundred of those people,
it was not about the play on the field. It
was about the excitement. Look at the orange walk from
Rice to NRG. Look at the Japanese fans cleaning up
their area after they played.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
How could you not love that? All of that off
the field excitement.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
It was people from different countries proud of their country
competing like in the Olympics. But I have to say this,
and I know there will be people who think, well,
you just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Soccer or whatever else. I don't whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I'm not here to I'm just here to tell you
my opinion and you do with it what you want.
There's something odd to me when the teams are supposed
to be representing their country but they go and buy
players from other countries. The star of the American team,
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the guy that Trump got involved, and whether he had
anything to do with getting the red card reversed so
that this guy can play. He's not an American can
by any sense that any of us would would refer
to an American. He happened to have been delivered on
American soil and within two men two months went back
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to England.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
He's a by all accounts, a great player, and he
was proud to play for the Americans, and that's great,
but he's not American. He might be legally an American
because he was able to check the box as to
where he was delivered under birthright citizenship. Okay, great, but
he's not an American in any traditional sense. And by
the way, there are a lot of teams that way.
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There are teams representing countries where the people are Middle
Eastern and the players are Black Africans. Because that black
African is a phenomenal athlete, and they paid him a
bunch of money.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
To wear their jersey. That's what we.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Do in the NFL, that's what we do in Major
League Baseball. I know two bas not from Beaumont. I
got that, but that's our team and he wears our jersey.
To me, the glory of the World Cup is the
people from this country come and compete against the people
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from other countries, not the fans from this country come
and cheer for the team we've paid for to play
against your team to me, to me, that loses a
certain amount of the joy. I've always respected that. In basketball,
you will have players who play in the NBA, but
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during the Olympics they go home and play for their
Eastern European team. I've always thought that was a neat
thing that they did because that's where they're from and
that's their country, and so you would see players that
you were used to seeing in the NBA and the
American Basketball League, where they play for whatever team pays
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them the most. But to me, the Olympics should be
about representing the country you're from, not the biggest paycheck
and wearing their jersey. That's just a professional sports league.
You lose, you lose part of that special, ephemeral, hard
to define element of what makes it neat. And I
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think part of what makes Holland, the big blonde dude.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
With his head bowed forward special is he's a.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Blonde hair, blue eyed, white dude representing Norway. They didn't
go out and buy somebody, now, they have other players.
They did, but they didn't go out and buy some
player and bring him in. There is a class of
players that are the highest class of players, and a
lot of them are are African that are being hired
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by these teams. And I don't care that they're black,
but to me, the idea of what is supposed to
be special about the World Cup loses a certain amount
of its essence. That's just one break I am. I'm
not the guy that pays.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
The bill for the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
So Americans can now go back to not paying attention
to soccer.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
For four years and it won't be here
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Next time, so they can move on, and that's okay.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very show is on the air, and the happiest people
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are the people who don't read the news.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Years ago, people would email me and would email me
and tell me, Michael, how come you're not talking about
filling the blink? And I would explain to them that
news directors of television stations or the Houston Chronicle don't
program my show. I talk about what I want to
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talk about. There is a crew of us, and we
get together and we discuss what we find interesting to
talk about. If you already know about that other story,
you don't need me to talk about it. I'd rather
take something that you are well aware of and offer
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a different perspective on it, or talk about something that
maybe wasn't chosen by the news directors as the most
interesting story or the story most likely to grab your
attention and make that the subject of my discussion. One
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of those things is this sort of sad need by
the Houston Chronicle to scare you.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Because they can't entertain you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
They don't have the staffing anymore, they don't have the
research that they don't do investigations. There's only so many
tall rico's gonna win stories. They can do so instead,
it's always the African killer bees.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's always the next big thing that's gonna get you meningitis.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Have we had our meningitis story yet and there was
a case of meningitis? They'll tell us, Oh my goodness,
there's the African killer bees. There's the hole in the ozone,
the latest an explosive diarrhea parasite in Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh, yes, yes, yes yes.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The US is currently dealing with an outbreak of cyclospora,
a parasite that causes a collection of unpleasant symptoms, including
watery diarrhea, cramping, increase, gas, and nausea. M my good
way to lose weight. Though, Cyclospora is linked to a
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number of common fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
See, you got to stay away from.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
The fruits and vegetables that'll get you every time, every
time I tell you, snow peas, raspberries, blackberries, spinach, and
leafy greens. Basil cilantro. Do you say cilantro or cilantro?
Jim you say cilantro? Apparently that is the food most
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commonly linked to US cyclospora outbreaks, especially when it's imported.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I like some cilantro. I'm a risk it. I don't
mind risking it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Mesklin is that pronounce mesklin lettuce and salad mixes. Because
they're eating raw and difficult to thoroughly clean.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
All of that is going.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
To give you the explosive diarrhea. That's an unpleasant thing
to have. Explosive diarrhea. That's the kind of diarrhea you
get that you go to that you rush to the
toilet like you're going out for dinner. You're going out
for a couple's dinner and you're like, look, I'm not
gonna be able to make it, and you just get
you stripped down completely button naked, because there's no putting
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your underwear down around your your feet, nothing, nothing. You're
gonna be there for a while and it might be
that thing might be coming out. I mean, it's a
volcanic explosion going on in there. You're closing the doors,
turning on the music, turning on the shower, turning on
the sink. You don't want that explosive diarrhea. Parasite here's
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the story case c E N TV in Waco.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It's called cyclospora.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It is an intestinal parasite. People frequently use the phrase
explosive watery diarrhea when they're talking about it.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
And the CDC is now monitoring the microscopic parasite.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Doctors say they're prepared.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Nothing new.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's seasonal.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We deal with it, you know, usually every year, but
occasionally some years are worse than others and we have outbreaks.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Kind of what we're dealing with, especially during summertime.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
People tend to be eating more fruits and vegetables, farmer stands, harvests.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Unwashed foods, and not washing hands or culprits.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, there's been improper hand hygiene, improper food preparation, not
washing and preparing the fruits and the vegetables.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's not like salmonella and isn't in every food.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Basic cooking, even simple temperatures will usually kill the bug.
It is more associated with raw produce and foods that
are not normally cooked through normal preparation.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
The difference between the bug and a normal stomach flu
is the duration.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
You're two to three days of typical diarrhea. You shouldn't
be concerned about this at that time. This is really
when you've had a diarrheal onus going on for a week.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
A week and a half. You're at the two week mark.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
The duration the symptoms and the test confirmed to doctors.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Really by one week, seven days up to ten days,
you should be being seen and tested for this.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So the illness can be addressed and treated.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
If we do end up testing you for cyclospora and
you're positive for that, there is a recommended antibacterial therapy
for that.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
But there are people higher risk, like the elderly, immuno suppressed,
were those prone to dehydration.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Again, it's a hygiene issue, washing and preparing your foods,
washing your hands, to be kind of cautious around areas
that have foods and fruits and produce that have been
sitting out.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
While there isn't any evidence of a single outbreak link
in the cases, the CDC is looking to find potential
sources for the illness.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It is amazing how many people die from the effects
of diarrhea in India and Pakistan and Africa. I saw
a report the other day out of every one hundred
thousand deaths, yeah, maybe it's one hundred thousand deaths.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It was comparing around the world the.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Manner in which people die and the number was forty six.
It was the highest rate of it was in Africa
and India, and the reason is extreme explosive diarrhea dehydrates you.
So can you imagine that being the way you go,
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you are blowing You're not even blowing dirt, you are
just blowing water out. You got these horrible, horrible cramps.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You're doubled over.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You got nowhere in crowded countries like that, you got
no peace. You know. It's like when you're out in
public and you got to go into a stall and
you're like, you're listening, You're peeking under the things, see
if abdy's coming into the bathroom. You're hoping you got
the bathroom to yourself, because if you can't lock the door,
if you can lock the door, then after a while
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you're getting the hey, anybody in there, Yeah, you might
as well go ahead and use the women's fella. I'm
gonna be a while, and they're so unhappy. By the way,
scientific study I've conducted over the course of my lifetime,
if you go to the restroom, the men's restroom, and
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it is locked, and it is an abnormally long period
of time, and a line is stacking up outside, it
is one one to one that that is an employee
in there, and they're not even pooping. They're just sitting
in there catching up on their their cell phone because
they can't use their cell phone while they're working.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Anyway, that was a story about explosive diet. Must be
you're listening to Michael Berry. There are some.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Really nice fellas who grow out their long white hair
and they give themselves over to the children for the
wonder and awe that is Santa Claus at Christmas, and
it's glorious. And then there's those few, those freakish, awful,
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evil few who knew that they can use that persona
to lure children in.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's the story we're going to tell you about.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
A seventy five year old Louisiana man who legally is
legally changed his name to Sandy Claus.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
He was arrested in.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
A child sex sting after the popos say he tried
to meet a detective who was posing as a fifteen
year old boy. The story out of WWLTV in New Orleans.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
A New Orleans man who legally changed his name to
Santa Claus is facing child exploitation charges in Kenner after
an undercover sting operation. Police say the seventy five year
old man was texting with an undercover officer he thought
was a fifteen year old boy. Clause allegedly arranged to
meet the boy in Kenner for sex and was taken
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into custody. He was charged with indecent behavior with a
juvenile and computer aided solicitation of a minor. In addition
to Clause, ten other men were taken into custody and
booked on similar charges. They are all shown on your
screen right now. Another ten suspects have outstanding warrants out
for their arrests, and Kenner police say they're working to
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bring that group in right now.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Because he changed his name legally to Santa Claus, they're
referring to him as Santa Claus the same way you
would say. You know, Robinson was booked at the Kenner
Clause was booked at the Kenner Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division.
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You know, there was, there was Chris Hansen, to catch
a predator. There's been every knockoff known to mankind. There is,
there are, there are guys. There's one group. I can't
believe they haven't been arrested yet. It's three of them
and they set up their stings, except their sting is
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they'll get somebody.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
They'll have some guy.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
To meet him in the grocery store like a public place,
and then they come up on him. And there's one fellow.
If you've seen this, you know I'm talking about. He
wears a doctor Pepper shirt.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And when they.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Say to the guy, oh, hey, Ethan, what were you doing.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You were here to meet with so and so.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You're gonna meet with a little kid, a twelve year
old kid. Huh. And he says no, no, no, no,
and they go, yeah, you were here. It is on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
And he starts trying to remove stuff off his phone.
You don't need to remove that. We've got the whole
exchange right here. And then eventually he tries to slip
out and goes out the back aisle, and so as
he's coming down the aisle, this dude will come out
with a candle op or a watermelon and smash him
in the head. And then he goes out and you're like, ooh,
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I'm for punishing this dude, but I don't want to
see you get arrested. And they'll torment these guys, I mean,
punch them in the face, you just wonder. I mean,
my algorithm is pretty thick with with this stuff, because
if you watch one, they figure you want to watch
them all. But my goodness, alife, how strong must the
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pull be to risk the I'm not gonna say almost
certain apprehension, but pretty high apprehension. And in life we
generally measure, all, right, how likely am I to get caught?
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And the second thing is if I am caught, how
bad is it gonna be? Well, the how bad it's
gonna be, I'm not sure there's anything worse. Your life
is destroyed. Everyone around you's life is destroyed. So now
the only calculation is is there a point one percent
chance you're getting caught or a ninety nine percent chance?
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Is this person that incapable of running those numbers in
their head, because you could assign a value, right if
there's a ten percent chance, But it's the one hundred
percent worst thing that could happen to you, because if
you go to prison, if you go to prison, it
is the worst thing. There is a pecking order in
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prison and child sex predators. I've heard this again and
again and again. That's the worst, that is the lowest,
the lowest of the low. The serial killer picks on you,
the arsonist picks on you, the rapist picks on you.
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You're getting it worst, I mean you, your your life.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Is a living hell.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So why on earth do these people? Which makes you
wonder if we're hearing about so many of these cases,
they're all over the internet now. Used to just be
Chris Hansen, that's the first one I ever knew of,
and there weren't enough of his stings to scare off
a whole nation of people.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
But now if you just go.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Look for vigilanti justice against pedophiles, my goodness, you will
find case after case after case. They're everywhere all the time.
There's more content than you can keep up with, nabbing
these guys, shaming these guys, abusing these guys. So you
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have to think to yourself, do they perceive that the
odds are low of being caught? They've got to know
there are people out there doing these stings all the time.
Is their compulsion overwhelming that they are incapable of assessing
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the risk. We don't know what fetishes and kinks and
pervs people have. You don't know, nobody ever admits to it,
but we do know when they act on it that
that's when it comes to the public light. And I
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can't help but wonder how these people can justify in
their minds putting themselves and their family and their career
at risk. The reason Chris Hansen went off the air
is that one of the people that they did to
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catch a predator.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
On killed himself.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
He was an assistant district attorney and they came to
his house because the thing got rushed and he killed
himself right there in front of every That was the
liabilities to talk radio.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Last week we heard the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Story that a Tesla was in full self driving mode
when it crashed through a grandmother's home.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
At seventy three miles an hour and killed her.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And people said, oh, that technology, it's terrible, and I
said at the time, it's not going to be the technology.
There is an override feature. If it was in full
self driving, the driver is going to end up having
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overridden it and he's going to be the one who
did this. And my suspicion is that he will have
done it on purpose. But I don't know that. I
don't know that, so I can't say that that is
a suspicious a suspicion. According to court documents. The man
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had just finished a door dash delivery when he claims
he activated his Tesla's full self driving system. Moments later,
the car slammed into the Katie area home at seventy
three miles an hour. Well, the woman's dead, so.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's a pretty serious charge. Now.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
The data shows that he had overridden the full self
driving so he was in control of the vehicle. He
had the pedal to the floor at seventy three miles
an hour, never touched the brake, jumped the curb into
her home and killed her.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The story from KHOU.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Michael Butler is charged with manslaughter, and today the district
attorney said the charge reflects evidence they believe shows Butler
acted recklessly the night he crashed into Martha Avola's home,
killing the seventy six year old grandmother. But this is
only the beginning of the investigation. If convicted, Butler could
face two to twenty years in prison. According to cored documents,
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Butler just finished a door dash delivery when he claims
he activated his Tesla's autopilot system. Moments later, the car
slammed into a Kadi area home at seventy three miles
per hour. Court documents say Butler never reported feeling ill
or having symptoms before the crash. Further hospital testing reportedly
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found no evidence of seizure or stroke, heart attack, or
intoxicus in his blood or urine, and Butler.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Was not injured.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
The black box data showed that the accelerator pedal was
pressed all the way down to one hundred percent pedal
to the metal, and within five seconds reached seventy three
miles per hour when he struck that curve and when
airborne into the home. There is no evidence that the
defendant tried to press the brake pedal.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
And Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, previously on social media said
the crash made no sense. Tesla's VP of AI software
responded in that post, also saying the driver manually overrode
self driving by pressing the accelerated down one hundred percent.
The judge denied Butler's attorney's requests to lower his bond,
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so he's being held on one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
If the suspect bonds out, he'll be banned from driving
unless he gets prior approval. His attorney didn't comment after court.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Again, these people live amongst us. They live among us,
and you cannot give them the benefit of the doubt.
You just can't. They're monsters in the stupid criminal category.
We continue. This will be clipped on Umber eleven. Jim,
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this is a man in Maryland who had his truck stolen.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Okay, not a big deal, but his truck was.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Stolen while he was burgling of a Verizon store. All right,
so you're committing burglary and they steal your truck while
you're doing it. Could this be more perfect? Surely he
didn't call the cops. Yeah he did. You won't steal
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my truck while I'm committing a burglary, and of course
they arrest him. Popo wrote on social media, quote, don't
you hate it when your car gets stolen while you're
committing a burglary?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Karma? Indeed, the story from Khou.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Burglarysa a tough lesson about karma.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Yes he did, and it landed him in our foolishness files.
Please sharing video on social media. After response into a
man's nine to one one call that someone had stolen
his truck, they also got a call about a burglary
at a Verizon store across the street. Police quickly realized
the man had his truck stolen while he was breaking
into the Verizon store.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
He's bleeding, he's bleeding. I was bleding though. All right,
let me just see your hands real quick, let me
see the same Okay, will you run your back for me?
So the gig's up. It's whether you want to be
honest about stuff or not.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I do all right, trunk.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Oh my god, that's kind of some carn right there,
ain't it.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Well?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I left I left that. Yeah, that's some karma right there. Dude.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
He left the keys in the car while he was robbing.
The man was charged with burglary and destruction of property,
and his stolen truck has not been found.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
My goodness. The rants on a sinking ship, the lowest
of the low, the absolute scum of society, reminds me
of Thenardier, the Master of the house, when he's down
in the sewers and he's digging the gold out of
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the dead revolutionaries during the war. He is digging the
gold out of the dead body's teeth so he can
later sell it and recoup some cash. My goodness, alive.
Seven pro Hamas thugs found guilty on lesser misdemeanor charges
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for shutting down the Golden Greate Bridge, creating hours of
traffic standstill for a silly little scheme to protest Israel.
Protest Israel all you want, but you ain't win any
favors doing this.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Their felony conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Charges were tossed out after jurors were unable to reach
a verdict. San Francisco public defender knuah Abu Samra said
after the verdict. Blocking traffic for a few hours years
ago is the bare minimum that we should be doing
as American citizens while our tax dollars continue to fund
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the mass genocide of Palestinians. So sorry that you're stuck
in traffic, ma'am and have to deliver your baby in
the middle of a crowded traffic, but they're really upset
about Israel Palestine.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
ABC seven San Francisco with the story.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
More than two years after a group of anti war
demonstrators took over the Golden Gabe Bridge, halting traffic for hours,
there's a verdict in their trial.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
They convicted each of those seven defendants with six counts
of six misdemeanor counts and one of them with an additional.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Count Emotions run high outside the courtroom after jurors det
locked on a felony conspiracy and a misdemeanor trespassed to
interfere with a business charge. In April fifteenth of twenty
twenty four, demonstrators parked their vehicles in Unison and chained
themselves together as part of a day of action calling
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for an end to US military aid to Israel during
the war in Gaza that were later.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Nicknamed the Golden Gate.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Twenty six nineteen had their charges dropped or reduced, but
seven went on trial.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It welt like such a relief to realize that I could.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Actually do something after the verdict, public defenders in this
case set their clients fought for their assistance.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
A former US soccer star, now a Fox Sports commentator
for soccer matches, says, there's a part of me that says.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
The time for moral victories is over. Yeahoo.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Stephen Goff writes the US was outclassed European royalty, reduced
to a wabbly team that, after playing with energy and
cohesion for weeks, was.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Out of its depth.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
For all their gains, the Americans found themselves back where
they often are, leaving the competition at the same juncture.
The exit rent was the same in ninety four, twenty ten,
twenty fourteen, twenty twenty two, and now at home. For
all its high marks this summer, the US remains in
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the second tier of international soccer, still behind the Belgians
and England's Belgiums in England countries. US remains sorry Argentina's
and Frances of the world, so behind the Belgium's, England
Argentina's Frances in the world. The Americans have failed to
take the next step time and again, and usually it's
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a European team that swats them away. Well, with America's
exit out of the World Cup, I'll just say this.
First of all, I don't think there's any shame in
being bounced from.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The World Cup.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I mean, Portugal was bounced and they are supposedly a
really good team. Brazil was bounced. I get my info
from Crockett, but Norway was never supposed to beat Brazil.
You've got these teams. Mexico was pretty fired up. Germany
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primarily plays soccer, so I'm not making excuses. I don't
really know anything about it. I watched it for the
same reason I do a lot of things. It was
an opportunity to spend time with my son because Crockett
really enjoys soccer. That's it, and that's all. I never played. Really,
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I don't understand a lot of the rules.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't. You know.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
This book football that I read about Chuck Colosterman said
it tallied up the amount of time of actual play
during a football game that takes three hours, and it
was eleven minutes of actual play.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
And the reason is you have, you know, what might
be a.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Six second play where ball goes out of bounds and
then you've got several minutes of resetting, calling to play,
coming to the line.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Everything that goes with that. But that's what I'm used to,
that's what I enjoy. Getting me to.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Adjust to a sport I don't know is probably not
going to happen. I don't see it happening. I didn't
choose to be a football fan of American football, you know, Texans, Cowboys, Bills, Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I didn't choose that. That's mother's milk to me.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And for people who grew up behind the World Cup,
they're gonna enjoy it and they can enjoy it while
I don't and I can enjoy my football while they don't.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I will say this.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I think there were a lot of Americans who got
caught up in wanting to like the World Cup because
you know, they wanted to be part of what was
going on. Everyone's excited, and so they too got excited.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
But I would argue that.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
For ninety nine out of one hundred of those people,
it was not about the play on the field. It
was about the excitement. Look at the orange walk from
Rice to NRG. Look at the Japanese fans cleaning up
their area after they played.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
How could you not love that? All of that off
the field excitement.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
It was people from different countries proud of their country
competing like in the Olympics. But I have to say this,
and I know there will be people who think, well,
you just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Soccer or whatever else. I don't whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I'm not here to I'm just here to tell you
my opinion and you do with it what you want.
There's something odd to me when the teams are supposed
to be representing their country but they go and buy
players from other countries. The star of the American team,
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the guy that Trump got involved, and whether he had
anything to do with getting the red card reversed so
that this guy can play. He's not an American can
by any sense that any of us would would refer
to an American. He happened to have been delivered on
American soil and within two men two months went back
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to England.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
He's a by all accounts, a great player, and he
was proud to play for the Americans, and that's great,
but he's not American. He might be legally an American
because he was able to check the box as to
where he was delivered under birthright citizenship. Okay, great, but
he's not an American in any traditional sense. And by
the way, there are a lot of teams that way.
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There are teams representing countries where the people are Middle
Eastern and the players are Black Africans. Because that black
African is a phenomenal athlete, and they paid him a
bunch of money.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
To wear their jersey. That's what we.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Do in the NFL, that's what we do in Major
League Baseball. I know two bas not from Beaumont. I
got that, but that's our team and he wears our jersey.
To me, the glory of the World Cup is the
people from this country come and compete against the people
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from other countries, not the fans from this country come
and cheer for the team we've paid for to play
against your team to me, to me, that loses a
certain amount of the joy. I've always respected that. In basketball,
you will have players who play in the NBA, but
(31:39):
during the Olympics they go home and play for their
Eastern European team. I've always thought that was a neat
thing that they did because that's where they're from and
that's their country, and so you would see players that
you were used to seeing in the NBA and the
American Basketball League, where they play for whatever team pays
(32:00):
them the most. But to me, the Olympics should be
about representing the country you're from, not the biggest paycheck
and wearing their jersey. That's just a professional sports league.
You lose, you lose part of that special, ephemeral, hard
to define element of what makes it neat. And I
(32:23):
think part of what makes Holland, the big blonde dude.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
With his head bowed forward special is he's a.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Blonde hair, blue eyed, white dude representing Norway. They didn't
go out and buy somebody, now, they have other players.
They did, but they didn't go out and buy some
player and bring him in. There is a class of
players that are the highest class of players, and a
lot of them are are African that are being hired
(32:52):
by these teams. And I don't care that they're black,
but to me, the idea of what is supposed to
be special about the World Cup loses a certain amount
of its essence. That's just one break I am. I'm
not the guy that pays.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
The bill for the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
So Americans can now go back to not paying attention
to soccer.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
For four years and it won't be here
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Next time, so they can move on, and that's okay.
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