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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, good morning, Captain, Good morning, Kaptain, Good.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning, Good morning, Captain.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Let's come on out and they wake up the sunshine
and share this ratday.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Good you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
On Intermdain, it's morning's home.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
We see because by.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Herbie see and you're going to Timetowns free. Everybody's saying
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, it's good to be able to credit actions of
people we support for getting results. The lone Republican on
Harris County Commissioner's Court, Tom Ramsey with great news. The
Rodney and Lena scheme to take over voter registration responsibility
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away from the elected voter registrar, who, by the way,
as a Democrat, through Item four hundred and hand it
to one of their political operatives, was pulled yesterday. We
talked about it yesterday morning and Tom Ramsey said, you
shined a light and now they're withdrawing it. Now they'll
try to find another way to do it. Before it
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could come up for a vote during Commissioner's Court, they
withdrew it from the day's agenda and you may say, well, Michael,
how on earth could you have any impact on that.
A lot of the local media they have to file
a story for the day, so they listen to our show.
Perfectly reasonable mining for stories, because that's a big burden.
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You got to find a story today. So if we're
talking about something that's pretty good that sparks their interest.
Tom Ramsey says item four hundred is quote another scheme
to adversely affect voter outcome in the November election. The
sudden desire to register voters and finding money in the
budget that's previously been denied to the tax assessor raises
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suspicions and continues to perpetuate a lack of trust in
our system despite all the findings of voter fraud and
corruption within Harris County. The outreach plan called for the
voter registrar to spend two hundred thousand dollars on mailing
out unrequested voter registration applications. So what they do, and
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this is happening across the country, is they just send
out these applications. All you have to do is cross
reference that and pick the application up. The ballots get
dropped and nobody knows who filled that ballot out. You've
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got operatives, many of them on government programs. See this
was what the COVID outreach plan, the illegal COVID outreach
plan that has Lena Hidalgo's top three people indicted. She
should be indicted and everybody knows that, but that's where
we are. Her top three people were indicted and are
under indictment at present, and the Attorney General has taken
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over the case Ken Paxton. And what they did was
a hand at a twenty million dollar no bid contract.
I guess technically wasn't no bid. Technically they rigged the
scoring system and had it not been for the fact
that the ut Health Science Center had competed for the bid,
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and then they were shocked that they didn't get the
contract and that instead it went to a one woman
operation out of an apartment in Montrose. When Jack Cagle
pointed that detail out, Lena had all lost her mind.
But it was on the woman's website. The woman who
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was the digital director for the Hillary Clinton campaign of
twenty sixteen and who was also Adrian Garcia, one of
the county commissioners, his mayoral campaign director. She was a
political operative. So the idea was this was before twenty
twenty two. You give her the twenty million dollars, she
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kicks back some of it, she keeps a lot of it,
and the rest of it they use to pay these
people not to do COVID outreach. You didn't need to
tell people COVID was happening. It was all over the
news all day every day. Lord knows. But what you
do is you pay these people when they go out
and they knock on the door. We're here to talk
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about COVID outreach. Okay, do you need something or you
would le migra what's going on. We just want to
make sure that y'all are aware. We have this pamphlet
for you. Just want to keep you safe. Oh, thank you.
Has anyone in the household had COVID? Uh? Yeah, this person? Okay,
We want to make sure you have every county. Judge
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Lena had Aalgo wants to make sure you have every
resource that you need. You know, she's up for reelection
and the Republicans don't want you to have the resources
you need to treat COVID, which could kill you. And
you use that to build your databases, you use that
to hand ballots to people. So the poor, naive, average citizen,
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including a lot of Republicans, go, well, you can't really
criticize them. You know, they're just doing COVID outrage. You
know they're uh, they're trying to You can't can't be
cynical about everything. They're just doing COVID outreache. They're just
just trying to help people. That's all they're doing. Well,
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now they had come up with this item that was
going to mail out. You know, Rodney, to his credit,
is a smart guy. He finds ways to shoehorn his
control of the county and to rig the elections in
broad day because you can't move this kind of money.
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He finds ways to do this, and we're all out
here criticizing, but he doesn't care. He'd rather it not
be exposed. It's embarrassing and there is a risk that
he could end up in a sling out of all this.
I mean, Kim Oug to her credit, did indict, and
the Texas Rangers did write. I think it was a
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sixteen page charging document. There are some pretty nasty things
out there, and I think that probably contributes to the
fact that Lena's voice is so unsteady as Rodney's running
all these schemes. She has to be the face of them,
and he manages to keep himself out of trouble. I
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don't I think that's probably got to make her nervous,
and he's telling her, no, no, it's okay. That's why
she's having meltdowns and cussing everybody out and flipping out
and screaming and acting a just a complete fool in
broad daylight. It's also why she's so desperately is seeking
a position in Washington, DC. I am told from inside
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sources in DC that she is basically on her hands
and knees, like Kamala Harris, begging, begging for a federal
appointment so she can get the hell out of Harris County.
Because she's being watched, she's having to do Rodney's bidding.
She realizes she is putting herself in legal jeopardy all
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the while. And you may say, well, it only affects
the presidential election. It's not the presidential election that they're
concerned about it. They want the sheriff's office, they want
the district attorney's office. Remember it was Rodney that beat
kim Ogg in the primary. Show he doesn't need anybody
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asking questions about him.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He saw.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Some of you will remember the story from not very
long ago that one of Sylvester Turner's park rangers, a
City of Houston employee, the Urban Park Ranger aka Rump Ranger,
was accused of threatening to arrest gay men while in
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uniform if they didn't strip naked and or give him money.
He would come upon them while wearing his park ranger
uniform and announce himself to be a rump Ranger. Take
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a clothes off. I've got a badge.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Sylvester Turner gave it to me.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And sometimes to add to that, it's kind of kind
of on brand if you think about it. After all
of this, he would also say, now give me your money.
True story, there were dudes who.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Said, I don't have any money.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You got a cash app? Venmo me the money.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You're jacking me up over sex and cash that you
want on a cash app? Are you stupid or just
that brazen? Where there is a new development to the
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rump Ranger who is a carjacking, then what do you
call that park jacking? Because hijack use the word jack
for anyone who's stealing money from someone. Taking the story
the newest development from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
After we first told you about Joey Ellis's legal troubles
back in June, more victims came forward in the latest charges.
Prosecutors say one of the incidents happened here at Memorial
Park and another happened on the west side in Colham Park,
and they believe there are more victims out there. This
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is former Urban park ranger Joey Ellis in court today
facing a judge on charges of official oppression and sexual assault.
Prosecutors say the former ranger would be in uniform and
then target men at various Houston parks.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And he will approach them and he will accuse them
of being at the park doing inappropriate things to which
they are not doing and there's no proof of and
then he will tell them either pay me money or
perform oral sex on me, or I'll have you arrested
in your vehicle toad.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
ABC thirteen first brought you allegations against Ellis in June.
In that case, Josh Betty told us at the time
that Ellis made the similar demands of him.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
You knew what he was doing, though he's probably done
it before.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
He didn't look nervous doing it.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Ellis's court appointed attorney today pushed back against the charges.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
He denies this wholeheartedly. Mister Ellis has no criminal history.
He appears to be a very good and respected man.
He has a very close family network, and he's denying
these allegations wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Prosecutors have also added a hate crime enhancement to the
sexual assault charge because he allegedly targeted his victims based
on their sexuality. Ellis is currently in jail and if
he makes bond, he will have to be under house arrest.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
We're just so grateful for their bravery and their courage
to come forward because I can't imagine. I know it
can't be easy, but because of them, he's back behind
bars where he belongs.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
If he does make bond, the judge has ruled he
can remain under house arrest with family members in Louisiana
as the case works this way through the legal system.
But the bigger point here is that this is still
an active investigation by the Houston Police. They believe there
could be more victims out there, So if you have
any information, you'll urge a call towards.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Right doing my job on lookin for once you see
the punk on patrol's reputation for man on man.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
For she calls and perforation.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, lomen be off that I see.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
It's a pair around fellows.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
One on their knees on once for a binding.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
A must on the scene.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Put your hands in the air understanding up, Please do.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yo, take off your clothes down to the bus.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I need a coat a naked man. I need to
see me a naked man. Whow your fodness i'ndust and
give me two hundred bucks. Oh your god is a twenty.
Well that's your sup for you because I eve a cash.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Open your phone and open your open the cash up baby,
Pay the pop rock Raiser your life send day.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
If you don't pay me, pay the talk rock.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
Ranger, Buck Rock Ranger, Pop.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Rock Brazer, Talk Rock Ranger, Ranger.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Singing me pay the park Rock Ranger. Your life's in
danger if you don't pay me.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Pay the talk Rob Ranger Ranger, Tuk Rock Ranger, Tuk
Rock Ranger.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
Ranger. Pay me, pay the talk rock Ranger.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Your life's in danger if you don't pay me.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Pay the park rock Ranger, Pop.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Rock Ranger, Pop Rock Ranger, Talk Ranger, Raja Day, I
mean you don't.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Raja Ranger rock right down.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Let's review Sylvester Turner's administration. He kicked out Papas Restaurants
from the airport after they were named the top top
airport concessionaire in the country, a Houston institution. If you
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ever hear Russell Lebara give a speech at a book
signing for his book in Enchilada Entrepreneur, he will tell
you that he decided that in order to have the
best customer service of any restaurant he possibly could, the
best he could do the best with the company he
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was building, that he had to study. Who he considered
to be the best and the best in operations was Papas.
And he ended up hiring a Papas executive as his
first and biggest franchise, and then he really more a
business partner. And then he ended up buying him out
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a couple of years ago and taking over his stores
as well because his partner was ready to retire. Papas
is the gold standard in food service. Quality of food service.
I was a waiter for them in college. You work
for them for weeks before you ever take an order
at their restaurant. Nobody does that. You go to work
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at a restaurant. They put you on the floor of
the first day. Pappus is the best at food service.
It's incredible. Anybody will tell you that, especially for the
scale and scope and size of what they do. He
kicks them out so he could put his own friends
in there. His housing director is a whistleblower for the
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fact that Sylvester, that Sylvester Turner's longtime business partner ended
up getting an affordable housing contract for hundreds of millions
of dollars that was rigged. His housing department marketing director
is in prison right now for taking bribes. His chief
of staff is in prison right now for taking bribes
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during COVID to let bars stay open that paid him.
The water director is under indictment and going to go
to prison. And now we got rup rangers operating, so
of course he's going to take Shila Jackson least seat
in Congress.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
Very appropriate show, and that is the theme song to
which popular seventies crime series.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Give him a little more atation. One of the coolest open.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
When you were watching Too Old a few, how about
this little hint? It featured a nineteen seventy six Ford
Grand to reno red with a white stripe. You know
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of the cars that people buy. I've owned a generally
and I own a bandit. You don't see that grand
to reno like that. I wonder why it's a popular show,
Hug you bear, it's a popular show. Today is the
eighty first birthday of David Soul, who was born David
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Richard Solberg Junior in Chicago. He was Hutch and of
course Paul Michael Glazer was Starsky in Starsky and Hutch.
On this day in history. In nineteen sixty three, Martin
Luther King Jr. Delivered his famous I Have a Dream
speed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Girl, did you remember that one time aint TCA came
down out of the attic? It was something nineteen sixty
five whenever it was doctor Martha Lupman King and got
on television.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Girl, I was about what eighteen year old? And it
was black and white and it was scraggling.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Girl.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I remember remember I would get up there and squat
down in nash on the buttons, get that TV just right.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
And it was just a soloquially of black and white.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
It was white marble statues and columnses and it was
about thirty to forty, and they was in a perfect triangular.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Order on the stage. And I don't remember none of it,
And but I've heard it said, I have a dream today.
Oh Lord Jesus hold on, I had a dream today, honey, well, that.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
All that did the black childrens now little white childrens,
would hold hands together one day and to be able
to pronounce each other name.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
It would be like James, here's Shmika, Charles, here is
Jenner's quality quarter? Uh, Larry meet Velvey. That Jens tell
you who is my Oh, I have a dream today.
Speaker 12 (21:40):
I have a dream.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Someday I will not be drudged by the skin of
my color, but by the content of my character. And
I'm sitting here waiting for my character practical.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
To come over here. And it's not covered under the
this' Oldbama care. Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
I went to Asian Aurra block and uh, woman down
there said.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Her, I'm son. She said, You're not gonna get no refund.
You're gonna get penalized. I said, how I'm gonna get penalized?
Speaker 12 (22:17):
She said.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Barack said, if you don't pay for this here, you're
gonna get penalized.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
You know, Watusa look at me and she shook her head.
She said, I be damn, I said, I know.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Do you remember eight years ago everybody in this neighborhood
thought we were gonna get a free refrigerator or watch
her drive.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
It's like when you go on the prices right and
you freeze up and you don't know what to bid
for and you end up with something ignorant.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Oh that's your mama, how she Duran tell her, I'm
still praying for her.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
What so, what are my juice at.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
There was a great big moose would.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Move.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Professional bull Riders has moved their headquarters to Texas. The
biggest bull riding organization in the world, has officially moved
its headquarters to Cowtown.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
PBR has confirmed they moved their headquarters where it had
been in seven for seventeen years in Pueblo, Colorado. They
have now moved it to a location in Mule Alley
in the Fort Worth Stockyards. They released a statement saying
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Fort Worth is the current location of the PBR World Finals,
which I think they moved from Vegas. The Texas Rattlers
competing in the PBR Camping World Team Series. Our new
television partner Merritt Street Media, and the iconic Cowtown Coliseum,
which features weekly events programmed by the organization. Moving to
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the heart of Cowboy Country positions the sport for further expansion.
There are forty jobs in the headquarters that will move
from Pueblo to Fort Worth, but there are a lot
of ancillary services. It's amazing with something like this, the
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economic impact it can have people. City folks and certain
folks will desperately seek the Olympics and the Super Bowl.
The problem with that is it's not a sustained, durable
economic effect. It's a one time pop and I will
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say this till I'm blue in the face. Cities will
have a net loss if you measure the ten years
before in the ten years after. The world is littered
with stadiums built for the Olympics that were never used again.
And why aren't they used again? Just like the astronaut.
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They don't make sense. You can't maintain them. You don't
need a stadium when the whole world is coming to
watch a few events for a few weeks. You can't
fill that stadium up again, not with the sports you
already have. The goat's head dried out, that you have
polo players flinging at each other, but you get something
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like this, This is a year round deal.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What a big deal?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Tell you what fort Worth? Fort Worth is on a run.
They've got they are good things happening in fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You look at how many people are moving there.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You spend any time in Fort Worth a lovely tenement.
Michael Berry show. We had an RCC member who had
a perfect repe of Vestrosky and Hutch seventy six grand Tourino.
And some of you will remember Americo Mastriani, who was
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our director of security and frankly the face of the place,
certainly the most recognized of any member of our entire team,
usually the first face you saw when you arrived. And
while his job was to maintain security, his real skill,
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although he was good at that, to be sure, was
hospitality making people feel comfortable. I can't tell you how
many times a heart would just melt. I would see
him escorting some little lady into the place. You know,
widows would come by themselves. Technically we'd be classified as
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a bar because it's a concert venue, it's a restaurant,
but it is still a bar, whether you like that
term or not. It's true, and they would be little
old ladies eighty years old. They pull up their head,
got their hair that had been under the dryer all day,
got their hair done, and coming in in their little
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heels or their boots by themselves, the cutest thing ever
it and there would be Rico just squiring them in
to make sure they he got them somewhere with somebody
that would take good care of them. He sent me
an email with a picture of him and Koy Christoffel
in front of that member's Grand Turino and I said,
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oh wow, I forgot that guy. He would park it
in the parking lot because you don't see a seventy
six Grand Turino very often. And he said, yeah. That
member passed away. He was saving someone who was drowning
and it took his life. But before he passed away,
he asked if he could film if we could film
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him in the Starsky and Hutch car chasing the bandit
in the parking lot of the RCC, because I had
the band his car and we did. I can't remember
his name for the life of me, but I wish
I had a copy of that video to share with you.
Somebody out there knows what that fella's name is. And
somebody out there probably has a copy of that video
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and you can email it to me Michael at Michael
Berryshow dot com or just go to Michael Berryshow dot com.
So much bad news with governments gone or run them up.
But here's a good one. The Friendswood Independent School District
Board of Trustees has adopted a decrease in the tax
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rate by four cents. How about that, bully for you,
Friendswood ISD Board of Trustees. If somebody knows those the
chairman of the Friendswood Board of Trustees and can have
them call the show. I would love to hear what
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they've done to do this. Because elected officials and bureaucrats
for that matter, whether they're elected or not, tend to
look at money as if a program has to end,
if a program is closed, if a program is no
longer needed, they just redirect that money somewhere else. Because
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money is power and they are not going to give
it up. They will find new ways to do it.
It's incredible to me how many American citizens do not
sufficiently resent the levels of government spending at all levels,
from local, county, state, federal, How much waste there is.
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A police officer said to me yesterday they had a
continuing education in service. I don't know what they call it.
Everybody's got something where you go sit in a room
and somebody tells you a bunch of stuff you didn't
need to know, like, hey, don't try to rape the
women at work in the office. Hey, if you like
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a woman's boobs, don't rub her nipple to see if
they get hot.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Okay, Oh I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I not did.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And people get fired because now you're talking about something
that makes fourth graders out of all of us. So
people get fired because when you start talking about that,
then you got to do the role playing. Then you
got to give some scenarios. And only an idiot doesn't know.
Only an idiot. And that same idiot that's gonna do
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what you tell them not to do, and you don't
need to tell them not to do it, they already
know it or should that same idiot is the one
that when the instructor turns their backs, like, hey, well, what.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
If you put your finger down there, cleaves?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Can you do that?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Can you tell y'all you think you'll do that?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
We ask her?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Ask her if you can do that, that's the guy
that gets fired at these events for asking the inappropriate.
We said, you said it. All questions were available. I
just wondered if if if she's got cleavage, show up,
I can put my finger in there? And uh are
you saying I can't? I'm gonna asking. It's an honest question.
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I'm asking. There are you think I'm kidding? I think
I'm kidding. There are those people. I had another officer
that was at the end service yesterday and he said, Uh,
I don't know that I've ever been at one of
these things that I got advice from the instructor that
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I could apply to my life, but this one I did,
so if I can find it, there's an email. I
don't know the officer, but anyway, uh, he said. Officer
Fiights was treat teaching the class. Fik s if he
spelled it correctly. Officer Fikes was teaching the class and
he said, when you are at work, he's talking about
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police officers. When you are at work, your mind should
be only at work. Likewise, when you are at home,
your mind should only be at home. Example, if you're
investigating a crime scene where you're trying to preserve evidence.
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And you and your wife got in a fight last
night or this morning, your mind should be on the
crime scene and preserving the evidence, securing the scene, not
on the fight and how your wife made you mad. Likewise,
when you're at home and your daughter asked you a question,
you should be focused exclusively on your daughter and being
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a good parent and answering her question, and not about
that case at work that's bothering you or the sergeant
that's annoying you. And I thought, that's good advice. I
need to send ramon to that class so that when
we're on the air, he could focus not on getting
his lunch delivered, but on playing Charley que lickor onque
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Because I mean, this is like, this is important stuff.
If you don't fire the audio right when it's supposed to,
this is important.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
See if that's exactly what are we talking about? See
if it's See if that's the Friends with I want
somebody to find the chairman of the board of trustees
of the Friends With ISD and have them call up
here so I can brag on them.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well, good morning, Captain, Good morning, Kaptain, Good.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning, Good morning, Captain.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Let's come on out and they wake up the sunshine
and share this ratday.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Good you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
On Intermdain, it's morning's home.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
We see because by.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Herbie see and you're going to Timetowns free. Everybody's saying
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, it's good to be able to credit actions of
people we support for getting results. The lone Republican on
Harris County Commissioner's Court, Tom Ramsey with great news. The
Rodney and Lena scheme to take over voter registration responsibility
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away from the elected voter registrar, who, by the way,
as a Democrat, through Item four hundred and hand it
to one of their political operatives, was pulled yesterday. We
talked about it yesterday morning and Tom Ramsey said, you
shined a light and now they're withdrawing it. Now they'll
try to find another way to do it. Before it
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could come up for a vote during Commissioner's Court, they
withdrew it from the day's agenda and you may say, well, Michael,
how on earth could you have any impact on that.
A lot of the local media they have to file
a story for the day, so they listen to our show.
Perfectly reasonable mining for stories, because that's a big burden.
(02:31):
You got to find a story today. So if we're
talking about something that's pretty good that sparks their interest.
Tom Ramsey says item four hundred is quote another scheme
to adversely affect voter outcome in the November election. The
sudden desire to register voters and finding money in the
budget that's previously been denied to the tax assessor raises
(02:53):
suspicions and continues to perpetuate a lack of trust in
our system despite all the findings of voter fraud and
corruption within Harris County. The outreach plan called for the
voter registrar to spend two hundred thousand dollars on mailing
out unrequested voter registration applications. So what they do, and
(03:19):
this is happening across the country, is they just send
out these applications. All you have to do is cross
reference that and pick the application up. The ballots get
dropped and nobody knows who filled that ballot out. You've
(03:39):
got operatives, many of them on government programs. See this
was what the COVID outreach plan, the illegal COVID outreach
plan that has Lena Hidalgo's top three people indicted. She
should be indicted and everybody knows that, but that's where
we are. Her top three people were indicted and are
under indictment at present, and the Attorney General has taken
(04:00):
over the case Ken Paxton. And what they did was
a hand at a twenty million dollar no bid contract.
I guess technically wasn't no bid. Technically they rigged the
scoring system and had it not been for the fact
that the ut Health Science Center had competed for the bid,
(04:24):
and then they were shocked that they didn't get the
contract and that instead it went to a one woman
operation out of an apartment in Montrose. When Jack Cagle
pointed that detail out, Lena had all lost her mind.
But it was on the woman's website. The woman who
(04:46):
was the digital director for the Hillary Clinton campaign of
twenty sixteen and who was also Adrian Garcia, one of
the county commissioners, his mayoral campaign director. She was a
political operative. So the idea was this was before twenty
twenty two. You give her the twenty million dollars, she
(05:11):
kicks back some of it, she keeps a lot of it,
and the rest of it they use to pay these
people not to do COVID outreach. You didn't need to
tell people COVID was happening. It was all over the
news all day every day. Lord knows. But what you
do is you pay these people when they go out
and they knock on the door. We're here to talk
(05:34):
about COVID outreach. Okay, do you need something or you
would le migra what's going on. We just want to
make sure that y'all are aware. We have this pamphlet
for you. Just want to keep you safe. Oh, thank you.
Has anyone in the household had COVID? Uh? Yeah, this person? Okay,
We want to make sure you have every county. Judge
(05:55):
Lena had Aalgo wants to make sure you have every
resource that you need. You know, she's up for reelection
and the Republicans don't want you to have the resources
you need to treat COVID, which could kill you. And
you use that to build your databases, you use that
to hand ballots to people. So the poor, naive, average citizen,
(06:20):
including a lot of Republicans, go, well, you can't really
criticize them. You know, they're just doing COVID outrage. You
know they're uh, they're trying to You can't can't be
cynical about everything. They're just doing COVID outreache. They're just
just trying to help people. That's all they're doing. Well,
(06:41):
now they had come up with this item that was
going to mail out. You know, Rodney, to his credit,
is a smart guy. He finds ways to shoehorn his
control of the county and to rig the elections in
broad day because you can't move this kind of money.
(07:05):
He finds ways to do this, and we're all out
here criticizing, but he doesn't care. He'd rather it not
be exposed. It's embarrassing and there is a risk that
he could end up in a sling out of all this.
I mean, Kim Oug to her credit, did indict, and
the Texas Rangers did write. I think it was a
(07:26):
sixteen page charging document. There are some pretty nasty things
out there, and I think that probably contributes to the
fact that Lena's voice is so unsteady as Rodney's running
all these schemes. She has to be the face of them,
and he manages to keep himself out of trouble. I
(07:49):
don't I think that's probably got to make her nervous,
and he's telling her, no, no, it's okay. That's why
she's having meltdowns and cussing everybody out and flipping out
and screaming and acting a just a complete fool in
broad daylight. It's also why she's so desperately is seeking
a position in Washington, DC. I am told from inside
(08:12):
sources in DC that she is basically on her hands
and knees, like Kamala Harris, begging, begging for a federal
appointment so she can get the hell out of Harris County.
Because she's being watched, she's having to do Rodney's bidding.
She realizes she is putting herself in legal jeopardy all
(08:36):
the while. And you may say, well, it only affects
the presidential election. It's not the presidential election that they're
concerned about it. They want the sheriff's office, they want
the district attorney's office. Remember it was Rodney that beat
kim Ogg in the primary. Show he doesn't need anybody
(08:56):
asking questions about him.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
He saw.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Some of you will remember the story from not very
long ago that one of Sylvester Turner's park rangers, a
City of Houston employee, the Urban Park Ranger aka Rump Ranger,
was accused of threatening to arrest gay men while in
(09:29):
uniform if they didn't strip naked and or give him money.
He would come upon them while wearing his park ranger
uniform and announce himself to be a rump Ranger. Take
(09:51):
a clothes off. I've got a badge.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Sylvester Turner gave it to me.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And sometimes to add to that, it's kind of kind
of on brand if you think about it. After all
of this, he would also say, now give me your money.
True story, there were dudes who.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Said, I don't have any money.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You got a cash app? Venmo me the money.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You're jacking me up over sex and cash that you
want on a cash app? Are you stupid or just
that brazen? Where there is a new development to the
(10:51):
rump Ranger who is a carjacking, then what do you
call that park jacking? Because hijack use the word jack
for anyone who's stealing money from someone. Taking the story
the newest development from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
After we first told you about Joey Ellis's legal troubles
back in June, more victims came forward in the latest charges.
Prosecutors say one of the incidents happened here at Memorial
Park and another happened on the west side in Colham Park,
and they believe there are more victims out there. This
(11:31):
is former Urban park ranger Joey Ellis in court today
facing a judge on charges of official oppression and sexual assault.
Prosecutors say the former ranger would be in uniform and
then target men at various Houston parks.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
And he will approach them and he will accuse them
of being at the park doing inappropriate things to which
they are not doing and there's no proof of and
then he will tell them either pay me money or
perform oral sex on me, or I'll have you arrested
in your vehicle toad.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
ABC thirteen first brought you allegations against Ellis in June.
In that case, Josh Betty told us at the time
that Ellis made the similar demands of him.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
You knew what he was doing, though he's probably done
it before.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
He didn't look nervous doing it.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Ellis's court appointed attorney today pushed back against the charges.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
He denies this wholeheartedly. Mister Ellis has no criminal history.
He appears to be a very good and respected man.
He has a very close family network, and he's denying
these allegations wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Prosecutors have also added a hate crime enhancement to the
sexual assault charge because he allegedly targeted his victims based
on their sexuality. Ellis is currently in jail and if
he makes bond, he will have to be under house arrest.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
We're just so grateful for their bravery and their courage
to come forward because I can't imagine. I know it
can't be easy, but because of them, he's back behind
bars where he belongs.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
If he does make bond, the judge has ruled he
can remain under house arrest with family members in Louisiana
as the case works this way through the legal system.
But the bigger point here is that this is still
an active investigation by the Houston Police. They believe there
could be more victims out there, So if you have
any information, you'll urge a call towards.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Right doing my job on lookin for once you see
the punk on patrol's reputation for man on man.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
For she calls and perforation.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, lomen be off that I see.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
It's a pair around fellows.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
One on their knees on once for a binding.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
A must on the scene.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Put your hands in the air understanding up, Please do.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yo, take off your clothes down to the bus.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I need a coat a naked man. I need to
see me a naked man. Whow your fodness i'ndust and
give me two hundred bucks. Oh your god is a twenty.
Well that's your sup for you because I eve a cash.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Open your phone and open your open the cash up baby,
Pay the pop rock Raiser your life send day.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
If you don't pay me, pay the talk rock.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
Ranger, Buck Rock Ranger, Pop.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Rock Brazer, Talk Rock Ranger, Ranger.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Singing me pay the park Rock Ranger. Your life's in
danger if you don't pay me.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Pay the talk Rob Ranger Ranger, Tuk Rock Ranger, Tuk
Rock Ranger.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
Ranger. Pay me, pay the talk rock Ranger.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Your life's in danger if you don't pay me.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Pay the park rock Ranger, Pop.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Rock Ranger, Pop Rock Ranger, Talk Ranger, Raja Day, I
mean you don't.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Raja Ranger rock right down.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Let's review Sylvester Turner's administration. He kicked out Papas Restaurants
from the airport after they were named the top top
airport concessionaire in the country, a Houston institution. If you
(15:47):
ever hear Russell Lebara give a speech at a book
signing for his book in Enchilada Entrepreneur, he will tell
you that he decided that in order to have the
best customer service of any restaurant he possibly could, the
best he could do the best with the company he
(16:10):
was building, that he had to study. Who he considered
to be the best and the best in operations was Papas.
And he ended up hiring a Papas executive as his
first and biggest franchise, and then he really more a
business partner. And then he ended up buying him out
(16:32):
a couple of years ago and taking over his stores
as well because his partner was ready to retire. Papas
is the gold standard in food service. Quality of food service.
I was a waiter for them in college. You work
for them for weeks before you ever take an order
at their restaurant. Nobody does that. You go to work
(16:56):
at a restaurant. They put you on the floor of
the first day. Pappus is the best at food service.
It's incredible. Anybody will tell you that, especially for the
scale and scope and size of what they do. He
kicks them out so he could put his own friends
in there. His housing director is a whistleblower for the
(17:22):
fact that Sylvester, that Sylvester Turner's longtime business partner ended
up getting an affordable housing contract for hundreds of millions
of dollars that was rigged. His housing department marketing director
is in prison right now for taking bribes. His chief
of staff is in prison right now for taking bribes
(17:44):
during COVID to let bars stay open that paid him.
The water director is under indictment and going to go
to prison. And now we got rup rangers operating, so
of course he's going to take Shila Jackson least seat
in Congress.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
Very appropriate show, and that is the theme song to
which popular seventies crime series.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Give him a little more atation. One of the coolest open.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
When you were watching Too Old a few, how about
this little hint? It featured a nineteen seventy six Ford
Grand to reno red with a white stripe. You know
(19:16):
of the cars that people buy. I've owned a generally
and I own a bandit. You don't see that grand
to reno like that. I wonder why it's a popular show,
Hug you bear, it's a popular show. Today is the
eighty first birthday of David Soul, who was born David
(19:41):
Richard Solberg Junior in Chicago. He was Hutch and of
course Paul Michael Glazer was Starsky in Starsky and Hutch.
On this day in history. In nineteen sixty three, Martin
Luther King Jr. Delivered his famous I Have a Dream
speed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Girl, did you remember that one time aint TCA came
down out of the attic? It was something nineteen sixty
five whenever it was doctor Martha Lupman King and got
on television.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Girl, I was about what eighteen year old? And it
was black and white and it was scraggling.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Girl.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I remember remember I would get up there and squat
down in nash on the buttons, get that TV just right.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
And it was just a soloquially of black and white.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
It was white marble statues and columnses and it was
about thirty to forty, and they was in a perfect triangular.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Order on the stage. And I don't remember none of it,
And but I've heard it said, I have a dream today.
Oh Lord Jesus hold on, I had a dream today, honey, well, that.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
All that did the black childrens now little white childrens,
would hold hands together one day and to be able
to pronounce each other name.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
It would be like James, here's Shmika, Charles, here is
Jenner's quality quarter? Uh, Larry meet Velvey. That Jens tell
you who is my Oh, I have a dream today.
Speaker 12 (21:40):
I have a dream.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Someday I will not be drudged by the skin of
my color, but by the content of my character. And
I'm sitting here waiting for my character practical.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
To come over here. And it's not covered under the
this' Oldbama care. Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
I went to Asian Aurra block and uh, woman down
there said.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Her, I'm son. She said, You're not gonna get no refund.
You're gonna get penalized. I said, how I'm gonna get penalized?
Speaker 12 (22:17):
She said.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Barack said, if you don't pay for this here, you're
gonna get penalized.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
You know, Watusa look at me and she shook her head.
She said, I be damn, I said, I know.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Do you remember eight years ago everybody in this neighborhood
thought we were gonna get a free refrigerator or watch
her drive.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
It's like when you go on the prices right and
you freeze up and you don't know what to bid
for and you end up with something ignorant.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Oh that's your mama, how she Duran tell her, I'm
still praying for her.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
What so, what are my juice at.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
There was a great big moose would.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Move.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Professional bull Riders has moved their headquarters to Texas. The
biggest bull riding organization in the world, has officially moved
its headquarters to Cowtown.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
PBR has confirmed they moved their headquarters where it had
been in seven for seventeen years in Pueblo, Colorado. They
have now moved it to a location in Mule Alley
in the Fort Worth Stockyards. They released a statement saying
(23:45):
Fort Worth is the current location of the PBR World Finals,
which I think they moved from Vegas. The Texas Rattlers
competing in the PBR Camping World Team Series. Our new
television partner Merritt Street Media, and the iconic Cowtown Coliseum,
which features weekly events programmed by the organization. Moving to
(24:07):
the heart of Cowboy Country positions the sport for further expansion.
There are forty jobs in the headquarters that will move
from Pueblo to Fort Worth, but there are a lot
of ancillary services. It's amazing with something like this, the
(24:32):
economic impact it can have people. City folks and certain
folks will desperately seek the Olympics and the Super Bowl.
The problem with that is it's not a sustained, durable
economic effect. It's a one time pop and I will
(24:52):
say this till I'm blue in the face. Cities will
have a net loss if you measure the ten years
before in the ten years after. The world is littered
with stadiums built for the Olympics that were never used again.
And why aren't they used again? Just like the astronaut.
(25:13):
They don't make sense. You can't maintain them. You don't
need a stadium when the whole world is coming to
watch a few events for a few weeks. You can't
fill that stadium up again, not with the sports you
already have. The goat's head dried out, that you have
polo players flinging at each other, but you get something
(25:35):
like this, This is a year round deal.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What a big deal?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Tell you what fort Worth? Fort Worth is on a run.
They've got they are good things happening in fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You look at how many people are moving there.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You spend any time in Fort Worth a lovely tenement.
Michael Berry show. We had an RCC member who had
a perfect repe of Vestrosky and Hutch seventy six grand Tourino.
And some of you will remember Americo Mastriani, who was
(26:09):
our director of security and frankly the face of the place,
certainly the most recognized of any member of our entire team,
usually the first face you saw when you arrived. And
while his job was to maintain security, his real skill,
(26:31):
although he was good at that, to be sure, was
hospitality making people feel comfortable. I can't tell you how
many times a heart would just melt. I would see
him escorting some little lady into the place. You know,
widows would come by themselves. Technically we'd be classified as
(26:53):
a bar because it's a concert venue, it's a restaurant,
but it is still a bar, whether you like that
term or not. It's true, and they would be little
old ladies eighty years old. They pull up their head,
got their hair that had been under the dryer all day,
got their hair done, and coming in in their little
(27:14):
heels or their boots by themselves, the cutest thing ever
it and there would be Rico just squiring them in
to make sure they he got them somewhere with somebody
that would take good care of them. He sent me
an email with a picture of him and Koy Christoffel
in front of that member's Grand Turino and I said,
(27:38):
oh wow, I forgot that guy. He would park it
in the parking lot because you don't see a seventy
six Grand Turino very often. And he said, yeah. That
member passed away. He was saving someone who was drowning
and it took his life. But before he passed away,
he asked if he could film if we could film
(28:00):
him in the Starsky and Hutch car chasing the bandit
in the parking lot of the RCC, because I had
the band his car and we did. I can't remember
his name for the life of me, but I wish
I had a copy of that video to share with you.
Somebody out there knows what that fella's name is. And
somebody out there probably has a copy of that video
(28:23):
and you can email it to me Michael at Michael
Berryshow dot com or just go to Michael Berryshow dot com.
So much bad news with governments gone or run them up.
But here's a good one. The Friendswood Independent School District
Board of Trustees has adopted a decrease in the tax
(28:47):
rate by four cents. How about that, bully for you,
Friendswood ISD Board of Trustees. If somebody knows those the
chairman of the Friendswood Board of Trustees and can have
them call the show. I would love to hear what
(29:09):
they've done to do this. Because elected officials and bureaucrats
for that matter, whether they're elected or not, tend to
look at money as if a program has to end,
if a program is closed, if a program is no
longer needed, they just redirect that money somewhere else. Because
(29:31):
money is power and they are not going to give
it up. They will find new ways to do it.
It's incredible to me how many American citizens do not
sufficiently resent the levels of government spending at all levels,
from local, county, state, federal, How much waste there is.
(29:56):
A police officer said to me yesterday they had a
continuing education in service. I don't know what they call it.
Everybody's got something where you go sit in a room
and somebody tells you a bunch of stuff you didn't
need to know, like, hey, don't try to rape the
women at work in the office. Hey, if you like
(30:17):
a woman's boobs, don't rub her nipple to see if
they get hot.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Okay, Oh I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I not did.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And people get fired because now you're talking about something
that makes fourth graders out of all of us. So
people get fired because when you start talking about that,
then you got to do the role playing. Then you
got to give some scenarios. And only an idiot doesn't know.
Only an idiot. And that same idiot that's gonna do
(30:47):
what you tell them not to do, and you don't
need to tell them not to do it, they already
know it or should that same idiot is the one
that when the instructor turns their backs, like, hey, well, what.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
If you put your finger down there, cleaves?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Can you do that?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Can you tell y'all you think you'll do that?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
We ask her?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Ask her if you can do that, that's the guy
that gets fired at these events for asking the inappropriate.
We said, you said it. All questions were available. I
just wondered if if if she's got cleavage, show up,
I can put my finger in there? And uh are
you saying I can't? I'm gonna asking. It's an honest question.
(31:27):
I'm asking. There are you think I'm kidding? I think
I'm kidding. There are those people. I had another officer
that was at the end service yesterday and he said, Uh,
I don't know that I've ever been at one of
these things that I got advice from the instructor that
(31:48):
I could apply to my life, but this one I did,
so if I can find it, there's an email. I
don't know the officer, but anyway, uh, he said. Officer
Fiights was treat teaching the class. Fik s if he
spelled it correctly. Officer Fikes was teaching the class and
he said, when you are at work, he's talking about
(32:10):
police officers. When you are at work, your mind should
be only at work. Likewise, when you are at home,
your mind should only be at home. Example, if you're
investigating a crime scene where you're trying to preserve evidence.
(32:32):
And you and your wife got in a fight last
night or this morning, your mind should be on the
crime scene and preserving the evidence, securing the scene, not
on the fight and how your wife made you mad. Likewise,
when you're at home and your daughter asked you a question,
you should be focused exclusively on your daughter and being
(32:56):
a good parent and answering her question, and not about
that case at work that's bothering you or the sergeant
that's annoying you. And I thought, that's good advice. I
need to send ramon to that class so that when
we're on the air, he could focus not on getting
his lunch delivered, but on playing Charley que lickor onque
(33:19):
Because I mean, this is like, this is important stuff.
If you don't fire the audio right when it's supposed to,
this is important.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
See if that's exactly what are we talking about? See
if it's See if that's the Friends with I want
somebody to find the chairman of the board of trustees
of the Friends With ISD and have them call up
here so I can brag on them.
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