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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, good morning, Captain.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning, kaptain, Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain.
Speaker 4 (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 ratay. Good you on Interptain it's morning's home.
We see because by Herbie see and you're going to
Timetowns free. Everybody's saying good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1 (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
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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 contractor
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?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, this person? Okay, we want to make sure you
have every county. Judge 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,
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you use that to hand ballots to people. So the poor, naive,
average citizen, 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
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just just trying to help people. That's all they're doing. Well,
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
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broad day because you can't move this kind of money.
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
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the Texas Rangers did write. I think it was a
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,
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and he manages to keep himself out of trouble. I
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
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a position in Washington, DC. I am told from inside
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.
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She realizes she is putting herself in legal jeopardy all
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
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kim Ogg in the primary. Show he doesn't need anybody
asking questions about him.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He saw.
Speaker 1 (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. Sylvester Turner gave
it to me 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 said,
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I don't have any money. You got a cash app?
Venmo me the money. Are you serious? You're jacking me
up over sex and cash that you want on a
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cash app? Are you stupid or just that brazen? Where
there is a new development to the rump Ranger who
is a carjacking, then what do you call that park jacking?
(11:01):
Because hijack use the word jack for anyone who's stealing
money from someone. Taking the story the newest development from
ABC thirteen.
Speaker 2 (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 5 (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 2 (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 7 (12:09):
You knew what he was doing, though he's probably done
it before.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
He didn't look nervous doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Ellis's court appointed attorney today pushed back against the charges.
Speaker 8 (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 2 (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 5 (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 2 (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 6 (13:17):
Right doing my job on lookin for once you see
the punk on patrol's reputation for man on.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Man for she calls and perforation.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Well, lomen be off that I see.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It's a pair around fellows, one on their knees on
once for a binding. A must on the scene. Put
your hands in the air understanding up. Please do yo,
take off your clothes down to the bus.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
I need a goat a naked man.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I need to see me a naked man. Whow your friendness,
I'm dress and give me two hundred bucks. Oh your
god is a twenty. Well that's your sup for you
because I need a cash Open your phone and open
your open the cash out baby, pay them Pop Rock Raiser,
your life send day. If you don't pay me, pay
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the talk Rock.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Ranger, Buck Rock Ranger, Pop Rock Brazer, Talk Rock Ranger,
Ranger singing me pay the park Rock Ranger.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Your life's in danger if you don't pay me, pay
the talk Rob Ranger, Rocker, Park.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
Rock Ranger, Tuk Rock Ranger Ranger, pay me, pay the
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talk rock Ranger. Your life's in danger if you don't
pay me, pay the park Rock Ranger, Pop.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Rock Ranger, Pop Rock Ranger, Talk Ranger Raja days. I
mean you don't.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Raja Ranger crop right.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Down, let's review Sylvester Turner's administration. He kicked out Papas
Restaurants from the airport after they were named the top
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top airport concessionaire in the country, a Houston institution. If
you 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
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the best customer service of any restaurant he possibly could,
the best he could do the best with the company
he 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
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as his first and biggest franchise, and then he really
more a business partner. And then he ended up buying
him out 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
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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 at a restaurant. They put you on the
floor of the first day. Pappus is the best at
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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 fact that Sylvester Turner, that Sylvester Turner's longtime business
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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 during COVID to let bars stay open that
paid him. The water director is under indictment and going
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to go to prison. And now we got rugh rangers operating,
so of course he's going to take Shila Jackson least
seat in Congress.
Speaker 10 (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.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Open when you were watching Too Old a Few, how
about this little hint?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It featured a nineteen seventy six Ford Grand to reno
red with a white stripe. You know 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.
(19:27):
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 Richard Solberg Junior
in Chicago. He was Hutch and of course Paul Michael
Glazer was Starsky in Starsky and Hutch. On this day
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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 7 (20:06):
Girl, did you remember that one time ain't Traca came
down out of the attic? It was something nineteen sixty
five whenever it was doctor Martha Lupman King and got
on television.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
Girl, I was about what eighteen year old? And it
was black and white and it was scraggling.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Girl.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
I remember remember I would get up there and squat down.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
In mash on the buttons, get that TV just right.
And it was just a soloquially of black and white.
It was white marble statues and columnses and it was
about thirty to forty, and they was in a perfect
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triangular order on the stage. And I don't remember none
of it, And but I've heard it said, I have
a dream today.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Oh Lord Jesus.
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Hold on, I had a dream today, honey, well, that
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. It would be like James here, Schmika,
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Charles here is Jenner's quality quarter?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Uh, Larry meet Velvey? That Jens tell you who is
my Oh, I have a dream today.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I have a.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Dream someday I will not be drudged by the skin
of my color, but by the contents of my character.
And I'm sitting here waiting for my character practice to
come over here. And it's not covered under the this'
Oldbama care. Oh my god. I went to Asian Aurra
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block and uh, woman down there said 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? She said.
Barack said, if you don't pay for this here, you're
gonna get penalized. You know, watusa look at me, and
she shook her head. She said, I be damn, I said,
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I know. Do you remember eight years ago everybody in
this neighborhood thought we were gonna get a free refrigerator
or watch her dry. It's like when you go on
the prices right and you freeze up and you don't
know what to bed for and you end up with
something ignorant. Oh that's you, mama, how she during tell her,
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I'm still praying for her. What so what am I
juice at?
Speaker 11 (23:00):
There was a great big moose would.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Move.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (23:21):
Fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (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. What a
big deal? Tell you what fort Worth? Fort Worth is
on a run. They've got they are good things happening
in fort Worth. You look at how many people are
moving there. You spend any time in fort Worth a
lovely tenement. Michael Berry show.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
We had an.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
RCC member who had a perfect repe of Vestrosky and
Hutch seventy six grand Turino. And some of you will
remember Americo Mastriani, who was 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
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face you saw when you arrived. And while his job
was to maintain security, his real skill, although he was
good at that, to be sure, was hospitality making people
feel comfortable. I can't tell you how many times a
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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 a bar because
it's a concert venue, it's a restaurant. It is still
a bar. Whether you like that term or not, it's true.
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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 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
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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, 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
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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 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
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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 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
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a good one. The Friendswood Independent School District Board of
Trustees has adopted a decrease in the tax rate by
four cents. How about that, bully for you, Friendswood ISD
Board of Trustees. If somebody knows those chairman of the
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Friendswood Board of Trustees and can have them call the show,
I would love to hear what 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,
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if a program is no longer needed, they just redirect
that money somewhere else. Because 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
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government spending at all levels, from local, county, state, federal.
How much waste there is. 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
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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 a woman's boobs, don't rub her nipple
to see if they get hot. You can't do that, Okay,
Oh I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I not did.
Speaker 1 (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 if you put your finger down there, cleaves?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Can you do that? Can you tell y'all you think
you'll do that? We ask her, 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
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in there? And uh are you saying I can't? I'm
gonna asking. It's an honest question. 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
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that I've ever been at one of these things that
I got advice from the instructor that 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.
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Officer Fikes was teaching the class and he said, when
you are at work, he's talking about 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
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at home. Example, if you're investigating a crime scene where
you're trying to preserve evidence 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
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and your daughter asked you a question, you should be
focused exclusively on your daughter and being a good parent
in 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,
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he could focus not on getting his lunch delivered, but
on playing Charley que lickor onque 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.
Is that? See if that's exactly what are we talking about?
See if it's See if that's the Friends with I
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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. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, good morning, Captain.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning, kaptain, Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain.
Speaker 4 (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 ratay. Good you on Interptain it's morning's home.
We see because by Herbie see and you're going to
Timetowns free. Everybody's saying good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1 (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
(04:00):
over the case Ken Paxton. And what they did was
a hand at a twenty million dollar no bid contractor
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?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, this person? Okay, we want to make sure you
have every county. Judge 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,
(06:13):
you use that to hand ballots to people. So the poor, naive,
average citizen, 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
(06:35):
just just trying to help people. That's all they're doing. Well,
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
(06:59):
broad day because you can't move this kind of money.
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
(07:24):
the Texas Rangers did write. I think it was a
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,
(07:46):
and he manages to keep himself out of trouble. I
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
(08:08):
a position in Washington, DC. I am told from inside
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.
(08:30):
She realizes she is putting herself in legal jeopardy all
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
(08:51):
kim Ogg in the primary. Show he doesn't need anybody
asking questions about him.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He saw.
Speaker 1 (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. Sylvester Turner gave
it to me 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 said,
(10:15):
I don't have any money. You got a cash app?
Venmo me the money. Are you serious? You're jacking me
up over sex and cash that you want on a
(10:39):
cash app? Are you stupid or just that brazen? Where
there is a new development to the rump Ranger who
is a carjacking, then what do you call that park jacking?
(11:01):
Because hijack use the word jack for anyone who's stealing
money from someone. Taking the story the newest development from
ABC thirteen.
Speaker 2 (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 5 (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 2 (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 7 (12:09):
You knew what he was doing, though he's probably done
it before.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
He didn't look nervous doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Ellis's court appointed attorney today pushed back against the charges.
Speaker 8 (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 2 (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 5 (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 2 (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 6 (13:17):
Right doing my job on lookin for once you see
the punk on patrol's reputation for man on.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Man for she calls and perforation.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Well, lomen be off that I see.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It's a pair around fellows, one on their knees on
once for a binding. A must on the scene. Put
your hands in the air understanding up. Please do yo,
take off your clothes down to the bus.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
I need a goat a naked man.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I need to see me a naked man. Whow your friendness,
I'm dress and give me two hundred bucks. Oh your
god is a twenty. Well that's your sup for you
because I need a cash Open your phone and open
your open the cash out baby, pay them Pop Rock Raiser,
your life send day. If you don't pay me, pay
(14:02):
the talk Rock.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Ranger, Buck Rock Ranger, Pop Rock Brazer, Talk Rock Ranger,
Ranger singing me pay the park Rock Ranger.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Your life's in danger if you don't pay me, pay
the talk Rob Ranger, Rocker, Park.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
Rock Ranger, Tuk Rock Ranger Ranger, pay me, pay the
(14:47):
talk rock Ranger. Your life's in danger if you don't
pay me, pay the park Rock Ranger, Pop.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Rock Ranger, Pop Rock Ranger, Talk Ranger Raja days. I
mean you don't.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Raja Ranger crop right.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Down, let's review Sylvester Turner's administration. He kicked out Papas
Restaurants from the airport after they were named the top
(15:39):
top airport concessionaire in the country, a Houston institution. If
you 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
(16:00):
the best customer service of any restaurant he possibly could,
the best he could do the best with the company
he 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
(16:25):
as his first and biggest franchise, and then he really
more a business partner. And then he ended up buying
him out 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
(16:45):
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 at a restaurant. They put you on the
floor of the first day. Pappus is the best at
(17:06):
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 fact that Sylvester Turner, that Sylvester Turner's longtime business
(17:27):
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 during COVID to let bars stay open that
paid him. The water director is under indictment and going
(17:53):
to go to prison. And now we got rugh rangers operating,
so of course he's going to take Shila Jackson least
seat in Congress.
Speaker 10 (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.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Open when you were watching Too Old a Few, how
about this little hint?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It featured a nineteen seventy six Ford Grand to reno
red with a white stripe. You know 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.
(19:27):
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 Richard Solberg Junior
in Chicago. He was Hutch and of course Paul Michael
Glazer was Starsky in Starsky and Hutch. On this day
(19:52):
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 7 (20:06):
Girl, did you remember that one time ain't Traca came
down out of the attic? It was something nineteen sixty
five whenever it was doctor Martha Lupman King and got
on television.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
Girl, I was about what eighteen year old? And it
was black and white and it was scraggling.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Girl.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
I remember remember I would get up there and squat down.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
In mash on the buttons, get that TV just right.
And it was just a soloquially of black and white.
It was white marble statues and columnses and it was
about thirty to forty, and they was in a perfect
(20:52):
triangular order on the stage. And I don't remember none
of it, And but I've heard it said, I have
a dream today.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Oh Lord Jesus.
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Hold on, I had a dream today, honey, well, that
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. It would be like James here, Schmika,
(21:27):
Charles here is Jenner's quality quarter?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Uh, Larry meet Velvey? That Jens tell you who is
my Oh, I have a dream today.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I have a.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Dream someday I will not be drudged by the skin
of my color, but by the contents of my character.
And I'm sitting here waiting for my character practice to
come over here. And it's not covered under the this'
Oldbama care. Oh my god. I went to Asian Aurra
(22:07):
block and uh, woman down there said 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? She said.
Barack said, if you don't pay for this here, you're
gonna get penalized. You know, watusa look at me, and
she shook her head. She said, I be damn, I said,
(22:28):
I know. Do you remember eight years ago everybody in
this neighborhood thought we were gonna get a free refrigerator
or watch her dry. It's like when you go on
the prices right and you freeze up and you don't
know what to bed for and you end up with
something ignorant. Oh that's you, mama, how she during tell her,
(22:54):
I'm still praying for her. What so what am I
juice at?
Speaker 11 (23:00):
There was a great big moose would.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Move.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (23:21):
Fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (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
(24:53):
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. What a
big deal? Tell you what fort Worth? Fort Worth is
on a run. They've got they are good things happening
in fort Worth. You look at how many people are
moving there. You spend any time in fort Worth a
lovely tenement. Michael Berry show.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
We had an.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
RCC member who had a perfect repe of Vestrosky and
Hutch seventy six grand Turino. And some of you will
remember Americo Mastriani, who was 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
(26:21):
face you saw when you arrived. And while his job
was to maintain security, his real skill, although he was
good at that, to be sure, was hospitality making people
feel comfortable. I can't tell you how many times a
(26:42):
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 a bar because
it's a concert venue, it's a restaurant. It is still
a bar. Whether you like that term or not, it's true.
(27:04):
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 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
(27:26):
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, 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
(27:49):
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 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
(28:11):
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 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
(28:37):
a good one. The Friendswood Independent School District Board of
Trustees has adopted a decrease in the tax rate by
four cents. How about that, bully for you, Friendswood ISD
Board of Trustees. If somebody knows those chairman of the
(29:02):
Friendswood Board of Trustees and can have them call the show,
I would love to hear what 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,
(29:26):
if a program is no longer needed, they just redirect
that money somewhere else. Because 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
(29:47):
government spending at all levels, from local, county, state, federal.
How much waste there is. 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
(30:09):
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 a woman's boobs, don't rub her nipple
to see if they get hot. You can't do that, Okay,
Oh I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I not did.
Speaker 1 (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 if you put your finger down there, cleaves?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Can you do that? Can you tell y'all you think
you'll do that? We ask her, 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
(31:23):
in there? And uh are you saying I can't? I'm
gonna asking. It's an honest question. 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
(31:43):
that I've ever been at one of these things that
I got advice from the instructor that 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.
(32:04):
Officer Fikes was teaching the class and he said, when
you are at work, he's talking about 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
(32:24):
at home. Example, if you're investigating a crime scene where
you're trying to preserve evidence 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
(32:49):
and your daughter asked you a question, you should be
focused exclusively on your daughter and being a good parent
in 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,
(33:11):
he could focus not on getting his lunch delivered, but
on playing Charley que lickor onque 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.
Is that? See if that's exactly what are we talking about?
See if it's See if that's the Friends with I
(33:31):
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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