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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. The Michael
Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Good morning, Michael Berry. It's Sean Connery. But you had
a little radio show. Pity I washer did to find it.
This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning,
guild morning, Michael Lady, Good morning Texas.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Listen to the Good Morning in Txas home in your car.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Good Morning in Texas.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Bone is on his day and we're happy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
To be here to talk about everything.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We're not wearing past. Good Mardy, Good Lordy, tax sense,
good Maury, Texcense, Good morning, waked the speak condamn my career.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Shooting in an ice facility this morning exactly what you
would expect of. The Democrats have ratcheted up the calls
for this. I'm not sure what's worse that they call
for the violence or that they have stupid followers out
there willing to engage in it. Jimmy Kimmel back on
the air. He wasn't fired, so just stop and think
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about everybody who told you he was. It was a suspension,
but it made for a better headline to call it
a firing. Fewer stations for the short term, but rest
assured he will be back on every single state he
was already on. It's all performative art. Patrese Lee, the
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former water department manager under Sylvester Turner's corrupt administration, who
steered millions of dollars in contracts for water line repairs
to friends and family, including one fellow who didn't even
own a truck, much less know how to drive one
or fix the water line while she was taking kickbacks,
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was denied parole. She had cut a sweetheart deal with
Shawn Tier's office, so she was up for parole after
serving just five months of a ten year sentence and
not forced to pay a penny in restitution. She will
remain in prison for at least three more years thanks
to a new law that took effect September first, that
gives the board the discretion to push subsequent parole reviews
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as far as five years into the future. Rc TV
with the.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Story Patrise Lee was the big fish, the woman who
steered multi million dollar city contracts to herself, family and friends.
But because she accepted a plea deal dismissing the most
serious felonies, she was eligible for parole just five months.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Into her ten year prison sentence. But here's where this
case gets interesting. The Board of Pardons and Paroles not
only denied.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Her parole, they said we don't want to consider her
for possible parole.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Again until August first, twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
I just went yes, Senate Bill fifteen oh six.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It worked.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
That's Andy Kahn of Houston Crime Stoppers. He pushed state
lawmakers to pass Senate Bill fifteen oh six in the
last legislative session. The bill gives the Parole Board the
discretion to set the next hearing for each inmate, and
they can schedule it up to five years in the future.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Previously, before September one, a case like Patrise Lee, if
she was denied parole, she would have had to come
back up for parole again every year, so you never
get a break.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
I called Lee's attorney, Jaddrich about all of this, and
we actually delivered the news to him for the first time.
Con says the new law frees up the Parole Board
to spend more time on cases since it doesn't have
to automatically review every offender every year. It also potentially
gives victims families more time between parole hearings because many
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make the trip to Austin every single year to try
and keep offenders behind bars, and that's a process that
can be absolutely draining.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I think this will kind of help restore some of
the faith in our justice system that right now is
so sorely lacking. But at least now we know we're
not going to have to hear anything about Patruce Lee.
Until the year twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Lee was the only one of seven defendants to get
any prison time in the corruption scandal, and she wasn't
ordered to pay any restitution.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It is grotesque to think how much crime and corruption
fraud occurred during Silvester Turner's mayoral administration at the City
of Houston, stealing every penny of your money they possibly could,
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all the while aiming to be the black mayor for
the black people, but in fact besmirching the good name
of anyone black by in some way engaging in the.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
Just racial rape of the treasury of this disgusting, absolutely
grotesque effort to steal as much money for yourself as
you possibly can.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And you know it wouldn't hurt the taxpayers nearly as
much if we just set aside a fund. All right,
Sylvester's got to have money for god knows who and
what he's going to spend it on. Let's put that
over here. Now, let's run the city efficiently. But the
problem is he had to steal the money during the
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operation of the city's normally conducted activities. In order to
do that, they had to hire people to perform tasks
that are important, and so they didn't hire people who
knew how to perform those tasks because those people wouldn't
pay kickbacks. They instead had to put their friends and
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families and people with whom he was doing god knows
what and pay them an inflated amount of money and
get kickbacks for it, making the friend or love or
whatever that is rich and doing the same for himself.
Last week, funny City of Houston's airport operations were named
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amongst the worst in the country and the worst in
the state of Texas, the absolute worst in the state
of Texas. The food services at the Houston airports were
named the worst in the state of Texas, while DFW
was named number one in the country. Isn't that interesting?
(07:34):
And oh, by the way, the woman in Sylvester Turner's
administration who chose who got the food contract. Remember she
took it from Papas, who, by the way, is part
of the award winning number one food service facilities at
DFW just north of US. Papas Restaurants were kicked out
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of the Houston Airport in favor of Arius A. R.
E As and the woman who did that. You'll never
believe this since John Whitmyer didn't keep her at the
City of Houston. She's now running a division as of
last week at Arius. Isn't it amazing?
Speaker 10 (08:25):
Prosen putting on a stake the Michael Ferry Show, Jello
bran pudding pops made with the goodness of real jello pudding.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Pirate goes to the doctor asked for the moles on
his back to be checked. The doctor does, and he
says they're benign. The pirate says, check again, majie, there
be ten. The Circus Act for the human Cannonball retired
two weeks ago. They've tried several replacements, but just haven't
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found any one of his caliber. From on did you
hear about the police gnome? He works in law enforcement.
A mother in North Harris County arrested for opening fire
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on a thirteen year old during a fight. I should
probably note the thirteen year old was her son. Authority
say deputies were dispatched around five twenty pm in the
one thousand block of Ranch Oak Drive near Hardy Street
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in the Remington Ranch neighborhood. As they were headed to
the home, another call came in about a gun being
fired and someone being hit by gunfire. Captain Juan floties
with precinct force. As they investigated, they learned the mother
had been in in a fight with her son when
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she shot him. Floyd has said the teenager was unarmed.
The boy was transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound.
Other family members were inside at the time of the shooting,
but they were not hurt. Floyd has said law enforcement
has been called to the home before, for instance between
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the two. Floyd has said the Harris County District Attorney's
office has accepted charges of aggravated assault. She's very aggravator
mom against a family member. She will be booked into
the Harris County Jail. I have so many questions, so
many questions. I mean, I don't think the average mom
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wants to shoot her thirteen year old son. And a
thirteen year old kid can drive a mother absolutely up
the wall. I know, I certainly did. My mom hit
me with a broom one time. I mean wallet me
with a broom. And I had a bruise the next day.
(11:08):
And so I was wearing a tank top. Now is
a tank top that has like the little straps over
the shoes and has your arms out, No, what do
you call a shirt? Doesn't have any sleeves in it
just got the wife beat her. I was wearing it. Well, yeah,
let's say that. But it was blue and red. It
wasn't white. It was imprinted in my mind. And anyway,
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so we're driving somewhere the next day. I was about thirteen,
and I got a big old bruise in my arm.
And my mom turned and looked at it. She said,
oh my god, what happened? I said, you hit me
because you know I was gonna ham it up right,
And she felt so bad. And this was during one
of those summers where I'm threatening to run away and
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she's had it with me, And you know, I think
she is going through pretty nasty effects of minipare, and
I think I was going through pretty nasty effects of adolescence,
probably not alone, if we're honest in you know what,
we were both going through at the time, and it
might have been later that day or the next day,
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and we get into it again because she wanted me
to clean the garage for the thirty eighth time that day,
and I thought the garage was plenty clean, and she
started in on me, and I basically made some comment
about I can't believe it's any dirtor and it was
ten minutes ago when I last had to clean the
stupid garage, and she made some you know, kind of
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drew back, and I said, you swear you wouldn't beat
me no more. She felt so horrible. It wasn't like
I was beaten, but I but I was hamming it up.
I was. Camp missed It says they will reopen one
of their camp sites next summer. Matthew Childress, the father
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of Chloe Childress, one of the two counselors who died
at Camp missed It, responded to the news saying that
the families of deceased campers and counselors were not consulted
about and did not approve the proposed memorial they also
planned to erect. Children said that attention should be centered
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on recovering eight year old I don't know how to
pronounce this. I think it's Seal Cil and I'm guessing
that is for Cecial. If someone knows how to pronounce
her name, I certainly want to get it right. But
children said that attention should be centered on recovering eight
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year old Seal Steward, who's the only child still missing
after the flood. He said, quote At this time, we
believe that all sources should be focused on reuniting Seal
Steward with her family, as the last unrecovered camper lost
in the waters of the Guadaloupe River at KMP Mystic Camp.
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Mystic officials said that they would follow all new laws
and regulations as it welcomed campers back at its Cypress
Lake site and as they look to rebuild the Guadalupe
River site. The Cypress Lake site site is less than
a mile south and uphill from the Guadalupe River site.
They also assured parents that campers would never return to
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cabins that were flooded in July, and said plans are
in the works to build a memorial for the quote
heavens twenty seven campers and councilors who died during the flooding.
In an email, they wrote we are not only rebuilding
cabins and trails, but also a place where laughter, friendship,
and spiritual growth will continue to flourish. As we worked
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finalized plans, we will do so in a way that
is mindful of those we have lost. Chloe Childress is
the young lady from Houston. I don't know how many
years she'd gone to Camp Mystic as a as a
as a girl, but she had graduated at Kincaid High School.
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Is the summer before her freshman year of college, and
as many of these girls do, it's a dream for them.
She was a counselor and so kind of a cool deal.
You know, it comes full circle. You've been a camper
and now you're a counselor, and you know, you know,
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you know what the girls have been through, and you're
you're continuing this legacy. But boy, my heart goes out
to her family.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Wow, opened oh yes, yes, yes, yes, we have some trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I understand. Nineteen eighty eight, it was like yesterday, doesn't it?
Thirty seven years ago? Put it into perspective, how long
ago thirty seven years was in nineteen eighty eight, thirty
seven years ago was nineteen fifty one that's coming out
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of World War Two. In nineteen eighty eight, I was
going into my senior year of high school, happy if
an adult my age, and said, oh, yeah, I remember
that song. It came out in nineteen fifty one. I said, okay, Papa,
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that's a long time ago. And now nineteen eighty eight, Wow,
thirty seven years ago. How about Nirvana's breakthrough album, never
Mind is released thirty four years ago today, same day
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that The Red Hot Chili Peppers released Blood, Sugar, Sex
Magic in the US with under the Bridge and Give
It Away. Under the Bridge is an interesting song. One
day I was walking the halls of our studio at
iHeart I don't know ten years or so ago, and
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under the Bridge during the course of walking around a
five year five minute span was playing on our classic rock,
Alternative Rock, and Sunny So it was playing on the
Buzz on what was the one that Beavis and Butthead
(17:51):
were on the Arrow, adenon rog Sorry, it played on
the Arrow, Buzz and Sonny all within If it wasn't
a five minute span, or it was at least within
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a ten minute span across three completely different genres, isn't
that crazy? It was twenty years ago today that Hurricane
Rita made landfall in the United States, devastating portions of
southwest Louisiana and Orange Texas and southeastern Texas. As we
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discussed yesterday, that's when the ill advised and poorly executed
evacuation occurred that cost so many lives. Boy, was that
ever a bungled deal. Attorney General Ken Paxton will join
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high school students today at an event involving Stratford High
School students who were targeted by an adult woman, Natalie Herpes.
She is the vice president of the Spring Branch Democrats.
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Think about what a broken human being you have to
be to be a grown woman, probably mid forties. It's
okay to be ugly. It's all right to be but ugly.
It's it's all right to be a person who looks
like you're in a haunted house as a character. There's
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no shame in that right. They may cast a remake
of the Adams Family and you walk right on the
set and go to town. It's fine to be physically ugly.
Nobody cares you get to a certain age, just be ugly.
It's even fine to have a dark heart, to wish
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ill upon people, to sit with potions, double double toil
and trouble, and and and and you know, with with
your little your little doll, sticking needles into it, practicing
voodoo on your poodles and all your cats. That's fine
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until the moment that you act upon it, when you
get on that little keyboard and you become a keyboard cowboy.
And it's not hard to find the names of the
kids at high school, like Jack Robertson. This kid you
heard him on the show. He's just a kid going
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to high school figuring it out. And he had a
number of other kids applied for and were accepted for
a chapter of Turning Point USA like any other chapter.
You look at the number of chapters of organizations at
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high schools around. I remember Michael t when year brought
home the list of organizations. There had to be three
hundred at his school. And I'm not even joking. There
were Blacks for Jews, Jews for Arabs, and left Handeds
for Liberals, and I was just you name it, like,
where do you come up? Where do they come up
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with this stuff? There was every kind of organization for
you know, when I was growing up, they had the
chess Club. I mean other than sports and the band.
We had Fellowship of Christian Athletes. We had a chess club.
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I don't want to hear about it, but I was
in it. You had student government, no debate, yeah, but
debates an extracurricular These are organizations that are not extracurricular
activities like I'm sorry, let me say this. They're not
UIL sanction activities. They're just social organizations. And this awful,
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dark human being, Natalie Herpes, a Belgian immigrant, sees fit
to get on social media and her group, the Spring
Branch Democrats, who should be ashamed of themselves. This awful
group of of of urchins, just terrible, terrible people. And
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and she gets all the names and post the names
of teachers and kids, teachers who agreed to be sponsors.
That's what they're supposed to do. That's what a teacher's
supposed to do, is facilitate the development of children, their
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intellectual growth, their leadership. Here they were watching the news,
engaged in the news, engaged in a movement in this
Natalie Herpes, she decides that she's going to unleash a
bunch of other ugly cat women and they're going to
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be calling up their saying mean things to the students
and the teachers who agreed to be their sponsor. I mean,
think about that's what she woke up. That's what she
chose to do with her day. Imagine how miserable and
dried up your life is. That's what she chose to
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do with her day. Can you imagine? Can you imagine anyway?
Ken Paston speaking in an event this evening for those students.
You could find the details online the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Simple Man Full Open the phone lines seven one three
one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We have chosen our winner for the Palm Beach three event.
So if you did not hear from us, rest assured
your email was read and considered. There were a lot
of really awesome applications this year. We punted to Russell Lebara,
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since he's the one who paid for the scholarship for
him to make the choice. So if you're, you know,
putting bad juju on someone, don't let it be me
or Emily. We received quite a few emails. We read
through those and I asked Emily to pick and choose
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about half of them or so. I don't know how
many she sent to Russell lebar and for him to
make the tough decision very hard for me because a
number of the people, as you might imagine, who applied
or people who I may not have met face to face,
but are frequent emailers. So you get to feel like
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you know these people, and you know, you go back
and forth in some cases over course of years, and
you think, well, I'd really like to reward that person,
but it's not my scholarship to give. Very kind of
Russell Lebarra to do that. He's done that in the past.
In fact, he made the statement I'd like to send
them all they're also good. There is a picture that
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makes its way around the interwebs once a year or so.
It says these were all released within forty four days
of each other in nineteen ninety one, And you think
about it's a month and a half, within a month
and a half. The Metallica album, the Pearl Jam ten album,
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the Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion. That's a two part, right,
is it? Use your Illusion? One and two? What do
they call that? It's one in two? Right? That's my
lost decade. But I remember that, you know what's funny?
I forget about that album. I forget about that album
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because Appetite for Destruction was so good, and so if
you'd asked me ten minutes ago, i'd forgotten that album existed.
It is a two part album. I need to look
at what's on there. But I know it was like
seventeen years between that and Chinese Democracy, right. I remember
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that number six in my head. But I didn't think
in terms of albums. Ramone thinks in terms of albums.
I don't know if you're an album thinker or not,
that's how you categorize these. But I didn't buy music
because I didn't have a way to play music. We
had a little bit tiny house, and you damn sure
weren't going to be blasting music in our house. I
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have heard from people over the years that they would
go up to their room. I was always jealous. People
had a two story house. Oh, y'all are fancy. We
had a little, tiny, one story house off a little
tiny hallway, and that's where our bedrooms were. We all
shared a wall, and I was happy to have it.
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My dad built that house with his own two hands,
and it was nothing fancy, but we were happy to
have it. And I say that because I went to
school with people who lived at the Koa Campground, and
I mean live. There was one girl I'm not gonna
say her name because it's not fair to her, but
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she lived at the Koa Campground with her single mom
in a fifth wheel. And I don't mean these nice
fifth wheels they have now that all seem to have
this black, white and tan pattern that you said, I mean,
you wouldn't mind living in one of those things. They
got like a toy hauler on the end who dropped
the back off of it, and you know you got
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a you gotta you got a extendable side and an
all name to make a little patio out of it.
So mean, it's a really really nice these fifth wheels.
I'm talking about an old fifth wheel like Holiday World
or whatever the brand was back then. It was nothing nice.
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And uh, they lived at the Koa Campground, her and
her mother when we were in high school. And you
know that that's uh, that's some poor white people stuff
right there. So we were happy to have a house,
but what we weren't gonna do is play music in
our bedroom that rocked the walls. For the rest of
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the house. That was not going to happen in our household.
So within forty four days you had Metallica, Pearl Jam,
Guns N' Roses Parts one and two. Is that how
you said that? Red Hot, Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic,
Sound Garden with the Bad motor Finger album, and then, oh,
by the way, it being nineteen ninety one, Nirvana's never Mind.
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What would you say it's the biggest album out of
that moment, because it's not Guns N' Roses, that's not
gin Our's biggest or best? Would you say it would
be never Mind? Probably most influential, most talked about. Would
you say most talked about?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
My MoMA.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So, as I'm mentioned, Ken Paxton and others will be
speaking at an event with the Stratford High School students
who were targeted by this nai Herpes.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
This woman, I gotta I can't help, but wonder. I
can't help, but wonder what was going through her mind?
And what she managed to do was draw so much
attention for this organization that they're gonna be able to
raise funds, They're gonna be able to do more than
you could ever imagine. The State of Oklahoma has teamed
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up with Turning Point to open a chapter in every school,
every high school in the state of Oklahoma. I don't
know that they're figuring out. Listen, listen, you monsters, you
absolute loser monsters. There's more of us than there are
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of you. When you feel the need to rage and
to lash out at one of us normies, because we're
not a freak show like you, you need to pause
for a moment, and you need to realize that all
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you're doing is fueling the fire that burns so hot
passionately across this country for a better America. And everything
you hate is what we want. And by the way,
we tolerate you because every one of you is somebody's neighbor, employee,
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sister in law. And it's not until you engage in
this kind of wacky behavior. Shoot Charlie Kirk, run somebody
down in your car, harass high school students. We're starting
a chapter of a school. The Spring Branch Democrats must
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be such a sad, broken group of people. Can you
imagine Their meetings probably start with a seance in honor
of Barney Frank's farts, and they probably recycle. They all
probably bring something to probably have a compost pile in
the middle you know they smell like sour milk. Their
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cats are at home, aggravated because they haven't been fed,
probably walk in a circling chant for each other.
It's that time time time, luck and load. The Michael
Arry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Good morning, Michael Berry. It's Sean Connery. But you had
a little radio show. Pity I washer did to find it.
This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning,
guild morning, Michael Lady, Good morning Texas.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Listen to the Good Morning in Txas home in your car.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Good Morning in Texas.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Bone is on his day and we're happy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
To be here to talk about everything.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We're not wearing past. Good Mardy, Good Lordy, tax sense,
good Maury, Texcense, Good morning, waked the speak condamn my career.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Shooting in an ice facility this morning exactly what you
would expect of. The Democrats have ratcheted up the calls
for this. I'm not sure what's worse that they call
for the violence or that they have stupid followers out
there willing to engage in it. Jimmy Kimmel back on
the air. He wasn't fired, so just stop and think
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about everybody who told you he was. It was a suspension,
but it made for a better headline to call it
a firing. Fewer stations for the short term, but rest
assured he will be back on every single state he
was already on. It's all performative art. Patrese Lee, the
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former water department manager under Sylvester Turner's corrupt administration, who
steered millions of dollars in contracts for water line repairs
to friends and family, including one fellow who didn't even
own a truck, much less know how to drive one
or fix the water line while she was taking kickbacks,
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was denied parole. She had cut a sweetheart deal with
Shawn Tier's office, so she was up for parole after
serving just five months of a ten year sentence and
not forced to pay a penny in restitution. She will
remain in prison for at least three more years thanks
to a new law that took effect September first, that
gives the board the discretion to push subsequent parole reviews
(02:55):
as far as five years into the future. Rc TV
with the.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Story Patrise Lee was the big fish, the woman who
steered multi million dollar city contracts to herself, family and friends.
But because she accepted a plea deal dismissing the most
serious felonies, she was eligible for parole just five months.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Into her ten year prison sentence. But here's where this
case gets interesting. The Board of Pardons and Paroles not
only denied.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Her parole, they said we don't want to consider her
for possible parole.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Again until August first, twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
I just went yes, Senate Bill fifteen oh six.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It worked.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
That's Andy Kahn of Houston Crime Stoppers. He pushed state
lawmakers to pass Senate Bill fifteen oh six in the
last legislative session. The bill gives the Parole Board the
discretion to set the next hearing for each inmate, and
they can schedule it up to five years in the future.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Previously, before September one, a case like Patrise Lee, if
she was denied parole, she would have had to come
back up for parole again every year, so you never
get a break.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
I called Lee's attorney, Jaddrich about all of this, and
we actually delivered the news to him for the first time.
Con says the new law frees up the Parole Board
to spend more time on cases since it doesn't have
to automatically review every offender every year. It also potentially
gives victims families more time between parole hearings because many
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make the trip to Austin every single year to try
and keep offenders behind bars, and that's a process that
can be absolutely draining.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I think this will kind of help restore some of
the faith in our justice system that right now is
so sorely lacking. But at least now we know we're
not going to have to hear anything about Patruce Lee.
Until the year twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Lee was the only one of seven defendants to get
any prison time in the corruption scandal, and she wasn't
ordered to pay any restitution.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It is grotesque to think how much crime and corruption
fraud occurred during Silvester Turner's mayoral administration at the City
of Houston, stealing every penny of your money they possibly could,
(05:26):
all the while aiming to be the black mayor for
the black people, but in fact besmirching the good name
of anyone black by in some way engaging in the.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
Just racial rape of the treasury of this disgusting, absolutely
grotesque effort to steal as much money for yourself as
you possibly can.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And you know it wouldn't hurt the taxpayers nearly as
much if we just set aside a fund. All right,
Sylvester's got to have money for god knows who and
what he's going to spend it on. Let's put that
over here. Now, let's run the city efficiently. But the
problem is he had to steal the money during the
(06:23):
operation of the city's normally conducted activities. In order to
do that, they had to hire people to perform tasks
that are important, and so they didn't hire people who
knew how to perform those tasks because those people wouldn't
pay kickbacks. They instead had to put their friends and
(06:47):
families and people with whom he was doing god knows
what and pay them an inflated amount of money and
get kickbacks for it, making the friend or love or
whatever that is rich and doing the same for himself.
Last week, funny City of Houston's airport operations were named
(07:13):
amongst the worst in the country and the worst in
the state of Texas, the absolute worst in the state
of Texas. The food services at the Houston airports were
named the worst in the state of Texas, while DFW
was named number one in the country. Isn't that interesting?
(07:34):
And oh, by the way, the woman in Sylvester Turner's
administration who chose who got the food contract. Remember she
took it from Papas, who, by the way, is part
of the award winning number one food service facilities at
DFW just north of US. Papas Restaurants were kicked out
(08:01):
of the Houston Airport in favor of Arius A. R.
E As and the woman who did that. You'll never
believe this since John Whitmyer didn't keep her at the
City of Houston. She's now running a division as of
last week at Arius. Isn't it amazing?
Speaker 10 (08:25):
Prosen putting on a stake the Michael Ferry Show, Jello
bran pudding pops made with the goodness of real jello pudding.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Pirate goes to the doctor asked for the moles on
his back to be checked. The doctor does, and he
says they're benign. The pirate says, check again, majie, there
be ten. The Circus Act for the human Cannonball retired
two weeks ago. They've tried several replacements, but just haven't
(08:59):
found any one of his caliber. From on did you
hear about the police gnome? He works in law enforcement.
A mother in North Harris County arrested for opening fire
(09:21):
on a thirteen year old during a fight. I should
probably note the thirteen year old was her son. Authority
say deputies were dispatched around five twenty pm in the
one thousand block of Ranch Oak Drive near Hardy Street
(09:42):
in the Remington Ranch neighborhood. As they were headed to
the home, another call came in about a gun being
fired and someone being hit by gunfire. Captain Juan floties
with precinct force. As they investigated, they learned the mother
had been in in a fight with her son when
(10:02):
she shot him. Floyd has said the teenager was unarmed.
The boy was transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound.
Other family members were inside at the time of the shooting,
but they were not hurt. Floyd has said law enforcement
has been called to the home before, for instance between
(10:24):
the two. Floyd has said the Harris County District Attorney's
office has accepted charges of aggravated assault. She's very aggravator
mom against a family member. She will be booked into
the Harris County Jail. I have so many questions, so
many questions. I mean, I don't think the average mom
(10:47):
wants to shoot her thirteen year old son. And a
thirteen year old kid can drive a mother absolutely up
the wall. I know, I certainly did. My mom hit
me with a broom one time. I mean wallet me
with a broom. And I had a bruise the next day.
(11:08):
And so I was wearing a tank top. Now is
a tank top that has like the little straps over
the shoes and has your arms out, No, what do
you call a shirt? Doesn't have any sleeves in it
just got the wife beat her. I was wearing it. Well, yeah,
let's say that. But it was blue and red. It
wasn't white. It was imprinted in my mind. And anyway,
(11:30):
so we're driving somewhere the next day. I was about thirteen,
and I got a big old bruise in my arm.
And my mom turned and looked at it. She said,
oh my god, what happened? I said, you hit me
because you know I was gonna ham it up right,
And she felt so bad. And this was during one
of those summers where I'm threatening to run away and
(11:53):
she's had it with me, And you know, I think
she is going through pretty nasty effects of minipare, and
I think I was going through pretty nasty effects of adolescence,
probably not alone, if we're honest in you know what,
we were both going through at the time, and it
might have been later that day or the next day,
(12:13):
and we get into it again because she wanted me
to clean the garage for the thirty eighth time that day,
and I thought the garage was plenty clean, and she
started in on me, and I basically made some comment
about I can't believe it's any dirtor and it was
ten minutes ago when I last had to clean the
stupid garage, and she made some you know, kind of
(12:38):
drew back, and I said, you swear you wouldn't beat
me no more. She felt so horrible. It wasn't like
I was beaten, but I but I was hamming it up.
I was. Camp missed It says they will reopen one
of their camp sites next summer. Matthew Childress, the father
(13:04):
of Chloe Childress, one of the two counselors who died
at Camp missed It, responded to the news saying that
the families of deceased campers and counselors were not consulted
about and did not approve the proposed memorial they also
planned to erect. Children said that attention should be centered
(13:28):
on recovering eight year old I don't know how to
pronounce this. I think it's Seal Cil and I'm guessing
that is for Cecial. If someone knows how to pronounce
her name, I certainly want to get it right. But
children said that attention should be centered on recovering eight
(13:49):
year old Seal Steward, who's the only child still missing
after the flood. He said, quote At this time, we
believe that all sources should be focused on reuniting Seal
Steward with her family, as the last unrecovered camper lost
in the waters of the Guadaloupe River at KMP Mystic Camp.
(14:10):
Mystic officials said that they would follow all new laws
and regulations as it welcomed campers back at its Cypress
Lake site and as they look to rebuild the Guadalupe
River site. The Cypress Lake site site is less than
a mile south and uphill from the Guadalupe River site.
They also assured parents that campers would never return to
(14:31):
cabins that were flooded in July, and said plans are
in the works to build a memorial for the quote
heavens twenty seven campers and councilors who died during the flooding.
In an email, they wrote we are not only rebuilding
cabins and trails, but also a place where laughter, friendship,
and spiritual growth will continue to flourish. As we worked
(14:53):
finalized plans, we will do so in a way that
is mindful of those we have lost. Chloe Childress is
the young lady from Houston. I don't know how many
years she'd gone to Camp Mystic as a as a
as a girl, but she had graduated at Kincaid High School.
(15:19):
Is the summer before her freshman year of college, and
as many of these girls do, it's a dream for them.
She was a counselor and so kind of a cool deal.
You know, it comes full circle. You've been a camper
and now you're a counselor, and you know, you know,
(15:39):
you know what the girls have been through, and you're
you're continuing this legacy. But boy, my heart goes out
to her family.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Wow, opened oh yes, yes, yes, yes, we have some trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I understand. Nineteen eighty eight, it was like yesterday, doesn't it?
Thirty seven years ago? Put it into perspective, how long
ago thirty seven years was in nineteen eighty eight, thirty
seven years ago was nineteen fifty one that's coming out
(16:19):
of World War Two. In nineteen eighty eight, I was
going into my senior year of high school, happy if
an adult my age, and said, oh, yeah, I remember
that song. It came out in nineteen fifty one. I said, okay, Papa,
(16:42):
that's a long time ago. And now nineteen eighty eight, Wow,
thirty seven years ago. How about Nirvana's breakthrough album, never
Mind is released thirty four years ago today, same day
(17:07):
that The Red Hot Chili Peppers released Blood, Sugar, Sex
Magic in the US with under the Bridge and Give
It Away. Under the Bridge is an interesting song. One
day I was walking the halls of our studio at
iHeart I don't know ten years or so ago, and
(17:28):
under the Bridge during the course of walking around a
five year five minute span was playing on our classic rock,
Alternative Rock, and Sunny So it was playing on the
Buzz on what was the one that Beavis and Butthead
(17:51):
were on the Arrow, adenon rog Sorry, it played on
the Arrow, Buzz and Sonny all within If it wasn't
a five minute span, or it was at least within
(18:11):
a ten minute span across three completely different genres, isn't
that crazy? It was twenty years ago today that Hurricane
Rita made landfall in the United States, devastating portions of
southwest Louisiana and Orange Texas and southeastern Texas. As we
(18:36):
discussed yesterday, that's when the ill advised and poorly executed
evacuation occurred that cost so many lives. Boy, was that
ever a bungled deal. Attorney General Ken Paxton will join
(19:01):
high school students today at an event involving Stratford High
School students who were targeted by an adult woman, Natalie Herpes.
She is the vice president of the Spring Branch Democrats.
(19:21):
Think about what a broken human being you have to
be to be a grown woman, probably mid forties. It's
okay to be ugly. It's all right to be but ugly.
It's it's all right to be a person who looks
like you're in a haunted house as a character. There's
(19:47):
no shame in that right. They may cast a remake
of the Adams Family and you walk right on the
set and go to town. It's fine to be physically ugly.
Nobody cares you get to a certain age, just be ugly.
It's even fine to have a dark heart, to wish
(20:09):
ill upon people, to sit with potions, double double toil
and trouble, and and and and you know, with with
your little your little doll, sticking needles into it, practicing
voodoo on your poodles and all your cats. That's fine
(20:33):
until the moment that you act upon it, when you
get on that little keyboard and you become a keyboard cowboy.
And it's not hard to find the names of the
kids at high school, like Jack Robertson. This kid you
heard him on the show. He's just a kid going
(20:55):
to high school figuring it out. And he had a
number of other kids applied for and were accepted for
a chapter of Turning Point USA like any other chapter.
You look at the number of chapters of organizations at
(21:18):
high schools around. I remember Michael t when year brought
home the list of organizations. There had to be three
hundred at his school. And I'm not even joking. There
were Blacks for Jews, Jews for Arabs, and left Handeds
for Liberals, and I was just you name it, like,
where do you come up? Where do they come up
(21:40):
with this stuff? There was every kind of organization for
you know, when I was growing up, they had the
chess Club. I mean other than sports and the band.
We had Fellowship of Christian Athletes. We had a chess club.
(22:00):
I don't want to hear about it, but I was
in it. You had student government, no debate, yeah, but
debates an extracurricular These are organizations that are not extracurricular
activities like I'm sorry, let me say this. They're not
UIL sanction activities. They're just social organizations. And this awful,
(22:25):
dark human being, Natalie Herpes, a Belgian immigrant, sees fit
to get on social media and her group, the Spring
Branch Democrats, who should be ashamed of themselves. This awful
group of of of urchins, just terrible, terrible people. And
(22:49):
and she gets all the names and post the names
of teachers and kids, teachers who agreed to be sponsors.
That's what they're supposed to do. That's what a teacher's
supposed to do, is facilitate the development of children, their
(23:10):
intellectual growth, their leadership. Here they were watching the news,
engaged in the news, engaged in a movement in this
Natalie Herpes, she decides that she's going to unleash a
bunch of other ugly cat women and they're going to
(23:32):
be calling up their saying mean things to the students
and the teachers who agreed to be their sponsor. I mean,
think about that's what she woke up. That's what she
chose to do with her day. Imagine how miserable and
dried up your life is. That's what she chose to
(23:57):
do with her day. Can you imagine? Can you imagine anyway?
Ken Paston speaking in an event this evening for those students.
You could find the details online the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Simple Man Full Open the phone lines seven one three
one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We have chosen our winner for the Palm Beach three event.
So if you did not hear from us, rest assured
your email was read and considered. There were a lot
of really awesome applications this year. We punted to Russell Lebara,
(24:48):
since he's the one who paid for the scholarship for
him to make the choice. So if you're, you know,
putting bad juju on someone, don't let it be me
or Emily. We received quite a few emails. We read
through those and I asked Emily to pick and choose
(25:09):
about half of them or so. I don't know how
many she sent to Russell lebar and for him to
make the tough decision very hard for me because a
number of the people, as you might imagine, who applied
or people who I may not have met face to face,
but are frequent emailers. So you get to feel like
(25:32):
you know these people, and you know, you go back
and forth in some cases over course of years, and
you think, well, I'd really like to reward that person,
but it's not my scholarship to give. Very kind of
Russell Lebarra to do that. He's done that in the past.
In fact, he made the statement I'd like to send
them all they're also good. There is a picture that
(25:55):
makes its way around the interwebs once a year or so.
It says these were all released within forty four days
of each other in nineteen ninety one, And you think
about it's a month and a half, within a month
and a half. The Metallica album, the Pearl Jam ten album,
(26:19):
the Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion. That's a two part, right,
is it? Use your Illusion? One and two? What do
they call that? It's one in two? Right? That's my
lost decade. But I remember that, you know what's funny?
I forget about that album. I forget about that album
(26:42):
because Appetite for Destruction was so good, and so if
you'd asked me ten minutes ago, i'd forgotten that album existed.
It is a two part album. I need to look
at what's on there. But I know it was like
seventeen years between that and Chinese Democracy, right. I remember
(27:03):
that number six in my head. But I didn't think
in terms of albums. Ramone thinks in terms of albums.
I don't know if you're an album thinker or not,
that's how you categorize these. But I didn't buy music
because I didn't have a way to play music. We
had a little bit tiny house, and you damn sure
weren't going to be blasting music in our house. I
(27:27):
have heard from people over the years that they would
go up to their room. I was always jealous. People
had a two story house. Oh, y'all are fancy. We
had a little, tiny, one story house off a little
tiny hallway, and that's where our bedrooms were. We all
shared a wall, and I was happy to have it.
(27:51):
My dad built that house with his own two hands,
and it was nothing fancy, but we were happy to
have it. And I say that because I went to
school with people who lived at the Koa Campground, and
I mean live. There was one girl I'm not gonna
say her name because it's not fair to her, but
(28:12):
she lived at the Koa Campground with her single mom
in a fifth wheel. And I don't mean these nice
fifth wheels they have now that all seem to have
this black, white and tan pattern that you said, I mean,
you wouldn't mind living in one of those things. They
got like a toy hauler on the end who dropped
the back off of it, and you know you got
(28:33):
a you gotta you got a extendable side and an
all name to make a little patio out of it.
So mean, it's a really really nice these fifth wheels.
I'm talking about an old fifth wheel like Holiday World
or whatever the brand was back then. It was nothing nice.
(28:56):
And uh, they lived at the Koa Campground, her and
her mother when we were in high school. And you
know that that's uh, that's some poor white people stuff
right there. So we were happy to have a house,
but what we weren't gonna do is play music in
our bedroom that rocked the walls. For the rest of
(29:18):
the house. That was not going to happen in our household.
So within forty four days you had Metallica, Pearl Jam,
Guns N' Roses Parts one and two. Is that how
you said that? Red Hot, Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic,
Sound Garden with the Bad motor Finger album, and then, oh,
by the way, it being nineteen ninety one, Nirvana's never Mind.
(29:43):
What would you say it's the biggest album out of
that moment, because it's not Guns N' Roses, that's not
gin Our's biggest or best? Would you say it would
be never Mind? Probably most influential, most talked about. Would
you say most talked about?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
My MoMA.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So, as I'm mentioned, Ken Paxton and others will be
speaking at an event with the Stratford High School students
who were targeted by this nai Herpes.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
This woman, I gotta I can't help, but wonder. I
can't help, but wonder what was going through her mind?
And what she managed to do was draw so much
attention for this organization that they're gonna be able to
raise funds, They're gonna be able to do more than
you could ever imagine. The State of Oklahoma has teamed
(30:35):
up with Turning Point to open a chapter in every school,
every high school in the state of Oklahoma. I don't
know that they're figuring out. Listen, listen, you monsters, you
absolute loser monsters. There's more of us than there are
(30:59):
of you. When you feel the need to rage and
to lash out at one of us normies, because we're
not a freak show like you, you need to pause
for a moment, and you need to realize that all
(31:20):
you're doing is fueling the fire that burns so hot
passionately across this country for a better America. And everything
you hate is what we want. And by the way,
we tolerate you because every one of you is somebody's neighbor, employee,
(31:42):
sister in law. And it's not until you engage in
this kind of wacky behavior. Shoot Charlie Kirk, run somebody
down in your car, harass high school students. We're starting
a chapter of a school. The Spring Branch Democrats must
(32:07):
be such a sad, broken group of people. Can you
imagine Their meetings probably start with a seance in honor
of Barney Frank's farts, and they probably recycle. They all
probably bring something to probably have a compost pile in
the middle you know they smell like sour milk. Their
(32:32):
cats are at home, aggravated because they haven't been fed,
probably walk in a circling chant for each other.
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