December 18, 2025 • 28 mins
From spy roaches with tiny backpacks to a Texas judge making history, and Jelly Roll’s incredible weight-loss journey—Michael Berry dives into the weird, the wild, and the inspiring.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Arry Show is on the air for sixty minutes. Reports
(01:15):
cockroaches fitted with tiny backpacks could be part of the
future of spycraft search and rescue missions. Thank you thanks
to a German startup, Swarm Biotactics, a German startup is
working to fit Madagascar hissing cockroaches with tiny backpacks that
(01:39):
could carry cameras, microphones, and Doppler radio. The species is
small enough to fit almost anywhere and resilient enough to
survive environments it could be dangerous to people. The story
from sixty minutes. That's Klipner fifteen.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The Defense Ministry is thinking outside the box, way outside
the box. It's funding tests to see if these giant
Madagascar hissing cockroaches can be repurposed from repulsive pests to
miniature battlefield assets.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
This is a left turn, and this is a right turn.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Stephen Wilhelm's year old startup, Swarm Biotactics in Central Germany
is working with the Bundesverer to develop technology that can
steer the creepy critters autonomously and send them on reconnaissance missions.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He let me take control.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Wow they're super resilient and as you can see, I
mean there can crol through tiny spaces, can go up the.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Wall into pipes like underground and rubble.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know this is really bizarre, is it?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Swarms?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Insect neuroscientists attach electrodes to the roach's antenna. They insist
this doesn't hurt stimulating their natural ability to navigate. The
electrodes are hidden in these bug sized backpacks, along with
the battery and microchips. They're working to shrink the technology
to soon look like this. Swarm's AI generated videos shows
(03:16):
how they might be deployed, carrying cameras, microphones, and Goppler
radar into war zones.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It's kind of cool. Backpacks aren't just for school anymore. Ramon,
you see adults carrying backpacks around Everywhere's I guess it's
a good way to carry your laptop or tablet. Can
you imagine seeing a cockroach carrying around a backpack? Now
that that's a visual. Your little Stanley water bottle in
(03:48):
his side pocket on Monday, he has his blue one.
On Tuesday it's a gun metal black. You got a
little different one for everyone, thet groach and he's back back.
What kind of training. Do you give a god, how
do you train a cockroach like that? How do they
not scatter when the lights turn on? I mean, I
(04:10):
got a German dude with this German accent and his
prototypically German self, incapable of catching a joke training the roach.
I could just see him there, just coaxing the roach.
You think little roach parents are disappointed when they're little
(04:32):
Roach doesn't want to take over the family business. Wire
Roach is so damn funny. Daddy Roach is very disappointed
that baby Roach doesn't want to go to medical school.
He wants to be a spy. Can you imagine the
(04:52):
disappointment when a little jeth Roach, little Jethroach Bodine comes
home and announces he doesn't want to be a brain surgeon,
and Daddy Roach has to deal with that.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Uncle Jed, I decided I ain't going to be a
brain surgeon. I can bear up under that. Always still
got granny. Maybe one doctor in the family's enough.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'm you're glad, you're taking it so good?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
What made you change your mind? I've seen another one
of them double out spy movies, Uncle Jed.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That is what I was meant to be.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Non seven has got the world by the tail. Yeah,
I remember you was all fired up over him a
while back. He's one does all about fighting and loving,
does he ever? Hey, as long as you're working on shoes,
would you mind hulling out the heel so I can
put a little radio in there?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Radio and the heelier shoe. Yes, that's where Double Knots
seven carries.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Is seems like a mighty unhandy place to carry it.
Why don't he just carry.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
In his pocket?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Really, I can't tell you that secret.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Sure, I just ain't sure. Somewhere in Mexican history, some
dude holly drunk and Bracho modo, the some drunk Mexican
and said, Hey, I got a new song we need
(06:23):
to record. Is it a love song? Is it a ballad? No? No,
it's about a roach who can't walk. It's a metaphor.
It's an allegory. What it's it's? Yeah? What's it called? Like?
(06:45):
You want us to record a song called the Roach?
We got one hour studio time, and you want us
to go in and cut a song called the Roach? Yeah?
He's good, it's really good. Yeah, And he did. Here
we are ninety nine point nine percent of Xtin songs
ever reported. I don't know, but Michael Garacha, oh yes,
(07:07):
it is that Spanish.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
The mayor and a human being Michael Bettyshaw had a
party at my house last night and one of my
friends who's notoriously.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I would say unstable, but I'll say wild because that
has a better but a ring to it. That was
not ninety percent of people there, thank you very much,
fifty at most. Well, at some point during the course
of the evening he tells Jingo Bling that he collects
(07:45):
Kenny Rogers jackets, so he got people's attention. If by
sheer my on earth, would you do that? So I
think he thinks these are Kenny Rogers personal jackets. So
(08:11):
you know, everybody's had a couple of drinks and so
they start goading him on. There is always that personality,
and chance McLean wasn't there, so my buddy Rat had
to be that person. There's always that personality that everybody
else can kind of god into doing something that you know,
weeks later when they have a broken arm or a
broken neck or a gash, or they've been arrested. Why'd
(08:32):
you do that? Well, it just seemed like a good idea.
Everybody was telling me to do it. Everybody is not
looking out for your best interest. So he portrays the jacket,
and I'm still trying to figure out what he actually
thinks in his heart of hearts, he portrays the jacket
as he spends time online buying Kenny Rogers jackets. Okay,
(08:56):
and so at some point it emerges that he has
three of the jackets in his truck with him. So
he goes out to the front of the house to
his truck and he comes back with three jackets that
I'm convinced he's convinced belonged to Kenny Rodgers, and I thought, okay,
(09:16):
I can halfway before that, right. I mean, he's a
quirky dude, you know, I like quirky dudes. This is
the dude who was the victim of the upper decker.
Remember the woman pooped in the toilet bowl, She broke
into his house through the dog door, she stole his dog. Yeah,
so this same guy, Right, there's a lot you need
to have friends like this, but not keep them too close.
But you did have friends like this, so you have
(09:37):
good stories. Well this is mister good story, to be clear.
So he comes back with the jackets. So I put
on Lady by Lionel Richie wrote, and we tell him
to model the jacket. He comes out in the jacket
and he flings it open where Huggy Bear would be
showing you all of his wares. He flings it open
(10:00):
and there is a tag in there, and the tag
says something with the Kenny Rodgers collection. Everybody wanted to
see the tag, which he proudly displayed. All right. The
tag is clearly from you know, the men's warehouse or something.
There's a manufacturer that makes the Kenny Rogers collection that
(10:21):
they stick in there. And my buddy has quote unquote
collected these jackets. He has twelve of them. Yes, I
can't say that. No, anyway, I happen to love this guy.
But my problem is the crazier you are, the more
I tend to like you. So in any case, an
(10:43):
illegal alien thug from Honduras who murdered the owner of
a taco truck in the guns Point area during a
robbery has finally been denied bond. Because a Republican Harris
judge was on the bench hearing the matter, Judge Michelle
(11:05):
Onkin invoked proposition three was just added to the Texas
Constitution last month after your voter approval. Prop three grants
judges the power to hold suspects without bail if there
is clear and convincing evidence that the third poses a
threat to the safety of the community for murder and
other violent crimes. It is believed that this is the
(11:29):
first time in the state that a judge has used
Prop three to deny bail. So I'm hard on a
lot of people in public life, but let me be
very clear. Harris County Judge Michelle Onkin, good on you.
You are great. Harris County Judge Michelle Onkin, Bravo to you,
(11:50):
wonderful to you. Keep being you.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Harri's County judge dropping the hammer on Ahala Donnas Sondivar James,
the twenty four year old facing a murdered arch denied
bail under a new amendment to the Texas Constitution.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This is the first hearing that we've had in Harris Kanny.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
The voter approved change allows judges to deny bail to
those accused of specific violent offenses, such as the charge
sound of our James faces murder. He's accused of shooting
and killing Yadua Barraza, Hernandez last week.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
People of taxes are sick of turning on their TVs
every night and seeing that innocent members of our community
have been taken from us.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
In the bail hearing, we heard from two detectives, saw
surveillance video and watch clips of the interrogation Saladovar. James
is seen laughing showing a detective where he allegedly carried
the murder weapon. His defense team commenting today after the hearing.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Well, obviously I didn't like it very much, but at
the same time, we don't know the facts and circumstances
surrounding that interview. If you noticed, and in front of
in public record, you see him with some sort of
injuries on his face. We don't know if those impacted
him in any way.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Josse Julio Vella Junior is talking about these marks seen
in sound of our James rugshean. He argued, due to
his client's icehold, he was not a flight risk.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There's an icehold.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
He's not going to be going anywhere, is going to
be sitting right here in Harris County Jail until this
case is complete.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
The state argued otherwise, The judge ultimately sighting with them
invoking eleven D for the first time.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Our bar is clear and convincing evidence to show that
somebody is a threat to the community. And we can
show that not just with the history of the defendant,
not with just proof of flight in other instances, but
also the nature of the allegations themselves.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
And one of the detectives who testifying today was actually
in the interrogation when he says that the suspect did
admit to knowing there were issues with his immigration status,
as well as recognizing that people who are undocumented can
neither buy nor be in possession of a gun.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, nor a taco any longer. I don't care somebody
do suspects you you can shoe with. Michael Berry shows well.
A listener sent me a photo of Michelle Unkin Monkin
or Unkin O N C K E N the judge
(14:13):
who denied bail to the the guy who killed the
taco truck owner. How best to say this politely? She
ain't ugly a lot If he's ugly over here, she's
in the other end of the stadium. Yes, you like redheads.
(14:40):
She's got you, remember Victoria Principal. She lives here. This
one she should put her picture on her campaigns signs
vote for me. I don't give an f what party
(15:02):
you're in. Okay, people would switch Democrats would switch over
for this smoke show. You know what's funny about this story?
(15:23):
I gotta tell a story about my brother. It's not it.
You have to know my brother to understand this. I'm
making fun of my brother. But in the way that
I made fun of my brother, my brother, Steve Parracombe
will attest. If he's listening, he will laugh because he
would know this is true. My brother would tell a
(15:44):
story that he would be the butt of but not
even realize he was the butt of it, and everybody
would be laughing, and my brother would not get it.
He was just very earnest, very sincere, as just who
he was. Right. So this was he was recently divorced,
(16:07):
very lonely, and he was working like a dog. We're
worried about him because all I was doing was working
because he was so lonely. He didn't want to be
by himself. And so he's recently divorced and all he
wanted to do is spend time with his kids and work,
and so he took a job. And I mean he
took an apartment in Beaumont where he was what they
(16:29):
call a courtesy officer, and a courtesy officer means you're
an officer who lives in the apartment. And if we have,
you know, a problem in the apartment, before you call
the cops, you go tell him to knock it off,
and if you got to shoot somebody, you do. So
he's he's there, and I would go visit him because
I was worried about him. He was lonely. I mean,
he and I were married within a few months of
(16:50):
each other in ninety two, and he'd been you know,
he'd been married for a long time, is all. He
knew the stability. And I go there and he has
like a mattress on the floor and it's just it's sad.
It's not my brother, and it would not be won brother.
He would remarry, you know, in a few months from there,
maybe a year within that, and be happy and life
(17:13):
was back where it ought to be. But we were
all gathered a group of my buds, and everybody loved Chris.
Everybody loved Chris. And he's telling a story about you.
He's like, I'm single, and so I end up at
the strip club as one will do, and he was
(17:33):
talking about the song dream Weaver. Is it Gary Wright?
What's the guy's name? Is it Gary Wright? He goes,
so dream Weaver comes on by Gary Wright? Do you
know the song? And everybody's like yeah. And so this
woman comes out and she has a what do you
call that thin not shmir veneer? What is it? There's
(17:56):
a term for it. It's ear. It ends an ear anyway,
So she's got her outfit on him, and she's got
the little what is the term anyways, kind of see
through material, but she's got it draped over hers and
(18:17):
he says, she does this very elaborate dance to this song,
and then he says the words that we all gave
him grief until the day that he died. It was
really elegant.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I've got friends to this day who say I loved
your brother more than you. So the day he said
this trip club routine was elegant, I lost my mind?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Was that was the greatest line ever? Anyway, when you
played that song, it made me. Damn it so completely unrelated?
Is I do not know this, lady, I'm not anyway,
I don't want to conflate those two Michelle Nkan the
judge who ruled as she does. This is a difference.
(19:14):
This is what happens when you put republicans on the
bench who act like republicans. This turd murdered. First of all,
who kills the owner of a taco truck? You think
about this, How many times in your life has a
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taco truck I don't want to exaggerate. Has a taco
truck owner saved your life? How many times have you
staggered out of a bar, a club? You've been in
there for a long time, You ate an early dinner,
You've had a few drinks, You're headed home. Somebody else
(19:59):
is driving. You ain't bothering anybody, but you get a
hunger flung upon you, and all man, you're thinking to yourself,
I could crush about eight tacos right now, And there,
like a vision is a taco truck owner. It's almost
(20:21):
like he knew you were going to arrive. And you
are walking out of the club, headed home, and you
don't even realize how hungry you are. It hadn't even
crossed your mind until the moment that you spy the
taco truck and you see the taco truck and you
think to yourself, it's a God in heaven. God in
(20:45):
Heaven has provided for me that taco truck owned. You
think about this. He had to go buy or rent
the taco truck. He had to drag the taco truck
there and drop it. He had to set up a
commissary account or a drop you know, they gotta go
drop the gray water and all that. He had to
(21:06):
purchase his materials. Is cario? Is that oils, the lettuce,
the tomatoes, cilantro, maybe some cheese. I don't like cheese
on my tacos at that moment. I like cheese it ringos,
but but I like I like a more traditional Mexican
(21:29):
taco at that point, you know, Mexican interior kind of deal.
You know, a street taco. And there are people who
still want you to put that taco down. Put the
taco down, and there it is. That guy's there, he thought.
I he had to say, you're gonna you know what,
You're gonna want a taco at this moment. I'm gonna
be here for you. And somebody else said, well, I'm
gonna kill you.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Does that whistling bungholes, spleens splitters Whisker Biscuits, Honkey Riders,
Whosker doos, Whosker don'ts nips and dazers with it without
the scooter stick or one single whistling kiddy Chase Michael
Fear Show.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Jelly Roll is fat, right, real real fat, like fat
or than anybody you know, right, you've seen him.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Jelly Roll weighs less than you do today. He's two twenty.
It's freaky, freaky. He's okay, he's okay. So he was
on Joe Rogan Show. I don't get to watch Rogan's pot.
(22:34):
I can't watch anything for three hours. I don't care
what it is. But I love what Rogan does. I
think it's very important. I think he talks to an
audience of people who are not many of them, many
of them are not conservative talk radio listeners there, and
he talks to them in a way that's very common sensical.
We need more of what Joe Rogan does.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But he did an interview with Jelly Roll, and somebody
sent me a clip of it, and I saw the
photo and I thought it was ai because you know,
there's only so much weight you can lose off your face.
But you see the frame of the body. You know,
Jelly Roll said that the doctor told him, you got
(23:16):
thirty pounds of skin on your body, say you're gonna
have a surgery to remove the skin. Imagine that he
was five hundred and twenty pounds. He has lost three
hundred pounds. He has lost sixty percent of his bodyweight.
I've never known of that to happen to anybody. And
(23:43):
the guy, I think it's Craig Morgan. I didn't recognize
the guy, but the guy whose music he listened to
in prison that he was so inspired by. He he
got out of prison, he goes to the Grand Old Lottery.
He he goes and he points he's performing at the Opry,
(24:05):
performing at the Rhymen, and he's pointing to the spot
where he sat when he got out of prison. And
he hears this guy performing. And I guess that guy
was so impressed because Jelly Row got a whole up
bearer and he did and not literally and figuratively. And
so he's on with Rogan and Joe. Rogan says, h
(24:29):
Craig Morgan made a video. I hope I'm getting the
guys right name right. I just never heard him before,
he says. Craig Morgan made a video and we're going
to play it for you now, and it's Craig Morgan saying,
Jelly Row, you've been an inspiration to me and so
many people, and it is my honor to tell you
that you have become a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
(24:52):
And Jelly Row just loses his role. He just starts weeping.
He asked Joe Rogan if he can hug him. I
don't remember a lot of highly emotional moments from the
Joe Rogan show. That's not really a Joe Rogan thing,
but I mean, you couldn't help. But you know, the
guy has been on, to use the liberal term, he's
(25:14):
been on a journey, and he's been very honest about it.
He's never denied it. I've always admired that about him.
And here's a guy just openly weeping because he knows
the depths, the depths deep t h Tremont, the depths
to which he had fallen. And here he is an
(25:36):
imperfect soul, living a very charmed life and having dug
himself out after a lot of hard work. But anyway,
during that interview, he talks about being as fat as
he was, and he decides he's going to do something
about it. And so he decides, you know, he's had
(25:57):
this yo yo diet and he applies of his addiction
mentality of lying to yourself and all that. He applies
that mentality to he's gonna lose weight. He's lied to
himself and everybody else about the food. And I didn't
I guess I didn't remember how big he was. I mean,
he is Staypuff marshmallow man. Big he is. He is massive,
(26:21):
and they're showing it on the video and he's watching
and he's crying watching himself, seeing how big he was.
And he talks about it's the first day he's gonna
go for a walk because the doctor told him, if
you can just put in ten thousand steps a day,
and that was that he might as well set one
hundred miles to a guy at that point in his life.
(26:44):
And so the moment comes and it's raining outside. So
his wife says, hey, you don't need to go today,
start tomorrow, and he says, I gotta do it. I
gotta do it. He tells his whole story. So he
goes out in the pouring rain and he does his
(27:05):
ten thousand steps and as he's coming back. He's coming
up the hill he lives at on the top of
a hill. His whole family is out there and they're
cheering for him, and he's breaking down as he tells
his story because they knew, you know, he's got to
do something. And look at him. Look at this guy
(27:26):
in the absolute depths and he's out there and he's
trying to change his life. It's a beautiful story. Anyway,
you get a chance to watch the Joe Rogan interview
with Jelly Roll, it's very, very, very inspiring. Leah writes, Zar,
you might be interested to know that you are a
(27:47):
big reason why Judge Michelle Unkin is on the bench.
When you were admonishing the Harris County Republican Party for
not having people running against Democrat judges, I texted her
and told her she should run, and she'd heard you
talking about She had heard you talking about it as well,
so she put her name in the hat and she won,
and here we are, Boom, you got a speeding ticket.
(28:11):
I don't think she can help you with a speeding ticket.
That's municipal Judge
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Arry Show is on the air for sixty minutes. Reports
(01:15):
cockroaches fitted with tiny backpacks could be part of the
future of spycraft search and rescue missions. Thank you thanks
to a German startup, Swarm Biotactics, a German startup is
working to fit Madagascar hissing cockroaches with tiny backpacks that
(01:39):
could carry cameras, microphones, and Doppler radio. The species is
small enough to fit almost anywhere and resilient enough to
survive environments it could be dangerous to people. The story
from sixty minutes. That's Klipner fifteen.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The Defense Ministry is thinking outside the box, way outside
the box. It's funding tests to see if these giant
Madagascar hissing cockroaches can be repurposed from repulsive pests to
miniature battlefield assets.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
This is a left turn, and this is a right turn.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Stephen Wilhelm's year old startup, Swarm Biotactics in Central Germany
is working with the Bundesverer to develop technology that can
steer the creepy critters autonomously and send them on reconnaissance missions.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He let me take control.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Wow they're super resilient and as you can see, I
mean there can crol through tiny spaces, can go up the.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Wall into pipes like underground and rubble.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know this is really bizarre, is it?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Swarms?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Insect neuroscientists attach electrodes to the roach's antenna. They insist
this doesn't hurt stimulating their natural ability to navigate. The
electrodes are hidden in these bug sized backpacks, along with
the battery and microchips. They're working to shrink the technology
to soon look like this. Swarm's AI generated videos shows
(03:16):
how they might be deployed, carrying cameras, microphones, and Goppler
radar into war zones.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It's kind of cool. Backpacks aren't just for school anymore. Ramon,
you see adults carrying backpacks around Everywhere's I guess it's
a good way to carry your laptop or tablet. Can
you imagine seeing a cockroach carrying around a backpack? Now
that that's a visual. Your little Stanley water bottle in
(03:48):
his side pocket on Monday, he has his blue one.
On Tuesday it's a gun metal black. You got a
little different one for everyone, thet groach and he's back back.
What kind of training. Do you give a god, how
do you train a cockroach like that? How do they
not scatter when the lights turn on? I mean, I
(04:10):
got a German dude with this German accent and his
prototypically German self, incapable of catching a joke training the roach.
I could just see him there, just coaxing the roach.
You think little roach parents are disappointed when they're little
(04:32):
Roach doesn't want to take over the family business. Wire
Roach is so damn funny. Daddy Roach is very disappointed
that baby Roach doesn't want to go to medical school.
He wants to be a spy. Can you imagine the
(04:52):
disappointment when a little jeth Roach, little Jethroach Bodine comes
home and announces he doesn't want to be a brain surgeon,
and Daddy Roach has to deal with that.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Uncle Jed, I decided I ain't going to be a
brain surgeon. I can bear up under that. Always still
got granny. Maybe one doctor in the family's enough.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'm you're glad, you're taking it so good?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
What made you change your mind? I've seen another one
of them double out spy movies, Uncle Jed.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That is what I was meant to be.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Non seven has got the world by the tail. Yeah,
I remember you was all fired up over him a
while back. He's one does all about fighting and loving,
does he ever? Hey, as long as you're working on shoes,
would you mind hulling out the heel so I can
put a little radio in there?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Radio and the heelier shoe. Yes, that's where Double Knots
seven carries.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Is seems like a mighty unhandy place to carry it.
Why don't he just carry.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
In his pocket?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Really, I can't tell you that secret.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Sure, I just ain't sure. Somewhere in Mexican history, some
dude holly drunk and Bracho modo, the some drunk Mexican
and said, Hey, I got a new song we need
(06:23):
to record. Is it a love song? Is it a ballad? No? No,
it's about a roach who can't walk. It's a metaphor.
It's an allegory. What it's it's? Yeah? What's it called? Like?
(06:45):
You want us to record a song called the Roach?
We got one hour studio time, and you want us
to go in and cut a song called the Roach? Yeah?
He's good, it's really good. Yeah, And he did. Here
we are ninety nine point nine percent of Xtin songs
ever reported. I don't know, but Michael Garacha, oh yes,
(07:07):
it is that Spanish.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
The mayor and a human being Michael Bettyshaw had a
party at my house last night and one of my
friends who's notoriously.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I would say unstable, but I'll say wild because that
has a better but a ring to it. That was
not ninety percent of people there, thank you very much,
fifty at most. Well, at some point during the course
of the evening he tells Jingo Bling that he collects
(07:45):
Kenny Rogers jackets, so he got people's attention. If by
sheer my on earth, would you do that? So I
think he thinks these are Kenny Rogers personal jackets. So
(08:11):
you know, everybody's had a couple of drinks and so
they start goading him on. There is always that personality,
and chance McLean wasn't there, so my buddy Rat had
to be that person. There's always that personality that everybody
else can kind of god into doing something that you know,
weeks later when they have a broken arm or a
broken neck or a gash, or they've been arrested. Why'd
(08:32):
you do that? Well, it just seemed like a good idea.
Everybody was telling me to do it. Everybody is not
looking out for your best interest. So he portrays the jacket,
and I'm still trying to figure out what he actually
thinks in his heart of hearts, he portrays the jacket
as he spends time online buying Kenny Rogers jackets. Okay,
(08:56):
and so at some point it emerges that he has
three of the jackets in his truck with him. So
he goes out to the front of the house to
his truck and he comes back with three jackets that
I'm convinced he's convinced belonged to Kenny Rodgers, and I thought, okay,
(09:16):
I can halfway before that, right. I mean, he's a
quirky dude, you know, I like quirky dudes. This is
the dude who was the victim of the upper decker.
Remember the woman pooped in the toilet bowl, She broke
into his house through the dog door, she stole his dog. Yeah,
so this same guy, Right, there's a lot you need
to have friends like this, but not keep them too close.
But you did have friends like this, so you have
(09:37):
good stories. Well this is mister good story, to be clear.
So he comes back with the jackets. So I put
on Lady by Lionel Richie wrote, and we tell him
to model the jacket. He comes out in the jacket
and he flings it open where Huggy Bear would be
showing you all of his wares. He flings it open
(10:00):
and there is a tag in there, and the tag
says something with the Kenny Rodgers collection. Everybody wanted to
see the tag, which he proudly displayed. All right. The
tag is clearly from you know, the men's warehouse or something.
There's a manufacturer that makes the Kenny Rogers collection that
(10:21):
they stick in there. And my buddy has quote unquote
collected these jackets. He has twelve of them. Yes, I
can't say that. No, anyway, I happen to love this guy.
But my problem is the crazier you are, the more
I tend to like you. So in any case, an
(10:43):
illegal alien thug from Honduras who murdered the owner of
a taco truck in the guns Point area during a
robbery has finally been denied bond. Because a Republican Harris
judge was on the bench hearing the matter, Judge Michelle
(11:05):
Onkin invoked proposition three was just added to the Texas
Constitution last month after your voter approval. Prop three grants
judges the power to hold suspects without bail if there
is clear and convincing evidence that the third poses a
threat to the safety of the community for murder and
other violent crimes. It is believed that this is the
(11:29):
first time in the state that a judge has used
Prop three to deny bail. So I'm hard on a
lot of people in public life, but let me be
very clear. Harris County Judge Michelle Onkin, good on you.
You are great. Harris County Judge Michelle Onkin, Bravo to you,
(11:50):
wonderful to you. Keep being you.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Harri's County judge dropping the hammer on Ahala Donnas Sondivar James,
the twenty four year old facing a murdered arch denied
bail under a new amendment to the Texas Constitution.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This is the first hearing that we've had in Harris Kanny.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
The voter approved change allows judges to deny bail to
those accused of specific violent offenses, such as the charge
sound of our James faces murder. He's accused of shooting
and killing Yadua Barraza, Hernandez last week.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
People of taxes are sick of turning on their TVs
every night and seeing that innocent members of our community
have been taken from us.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
In the bail hearing, we heard from two detectives, saw
surveillance video and watch clips of the interrogation Saladovar. James
is seen laughing showing a detective where he allegedly carried
the murder weapon. His defense team commenting today after the hearing.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Well, obviously I didn't like it very much, but at
the same time, we don't know the facts and circumstances
surrounding that interview. If you noticed, and in front of
in public record, you see him with some sort of
injuries on his face. We don't know if those impacted
him in any way.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Josse Julio Vella Junior is talking about these marks seen
in sound of our James rugshean. He argued, due to
his client's icehold, he was not a flight risk.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There's an icehold.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
He's not going to be going anywhere, is going to
be sitting right here in Harris County Jail until this
case is complete.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
The state argued otherwise, The judge ultimately sighting with them
invoking eleven D for the first time.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Our bar is clear and convincing evidence to show that
somebody is a threat to the community. And we can
show that not just with the history of the defendant,
not with just proof of flight in other instances, but
also the nature of the allegations themselves.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
And one of the detectives who testifying today was actually
in the interrogation when he says that the suspect did
admit to knowing there were issues with his immigration status,
as well as recognizing that people who are undocumented can
neither buy nor be in possession of a gun.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, nor a taco any longer. I don't care somebody
do suspects you you can shoe with. Michael Berry shows well.
A listener sent me a photo of Michelle Unkin Monkin
or Unkin O N C K E N the judge
(14:13):
who denied bail to the the guy who killed the
taco truck owner. How best to say this politely? She
ain't ugly a lot If he's ugly over here, she's
in the other end of the stadium. Yes, you like redheads.
(14:40):
She's got you, remember Victoria Principal. She lives here. This
one she should put her picture on her campaigns signs
vote for me. I don't give an f what party
(15:02):
you're in. Okay, people would switch Democrats would switch over
for this smoke show. You know what's funny about this story?
(15:23):
I gotta tell a story about my brother. It's not it.
You have to know my brother to understand this. I'm
making fun of my brother. But in the way that
I made fun of my brother, my brother, Steve Parracombe
will attest. If he's listening, he will laugh because he
would know this is true. My brother would tell a
(15:44):
story that he would be the butt of but not
even realize he was the butt of it, and everybody
would be laughing, and my brother would not get it.
He was just very earnest, very sincere, as just who
he was. Right. So this was he was recently divorced,
(16:07):
very lonely, and he was working like a dog. We're
worried about him because all I was doing was working
because he was so lonely. He didn't want to be
by himself. And so he's recently divorced and all he
wanted to do is spend time with his kids and work,
and so he took a job. And I mean he
took an apartment in Beaumont where he was what they
(16:29):
call a courtesy officer, and a courtesy officer means you're
an officer who lives in the apartment. And if we have,
you know, a problem in the apartment, before you call
the cops, you go tell him to knock it off,
and if you got to shoot somebody, you do. So
he's he's there, and I would go visit him because
I was worried about him. He was lonely. I mean,
he and I were married within a few months of
(16:50):
each other in ninety two, and he'd been you know,
he'd been married for a long time, is all. He
knew the stability. And I go there and he has
like a mattress on the floor and it's just it's sad.
It's not my brother, and it would not be won brother.
He would remarry, you know, in a few months from there,
maybe a year within that, and be happy and life
(17:13):
was back where it ought to be. But we were
all gathered a group of my buds, and everybody loved Chris.
Everybody loved Chris. And he's telling a story about you.
He's like, I'm single, and so I end up at
the strip club as one will do, and he was
(17:33):
talking about the song dream Weaver. Is it Gary Wright?
What's the guy's name? Is it Gary Wright? He goes,
so dream Weaver comes on by Gary Wright? Do you
know the song? And everybody's like yeah. And so this
woman comes out and she has a what do you
call that thin not shmir veneer? What is it? There's
(17:56):
a term for it. It's ear. It ends an ear anyway,
So she's got her outfit on him, and she's got
the little what is the term anyways, kind of see
through material, but she's got it draped over hers and
(18:17):
he says, she does this very elaborate dance to this song,
and then he says the words that we all gave
him grief until the day that he died. It was
really elegant.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I've got friends to this day who say I loved
your brother more than you. So the day he said
this trip club routine was elegant, I lost my mind?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Was that was the greatest line ever? Anyway, when you
played that song, it made me. Damn it so completely unrelated?
Is I do not know this, lady, I'm not anyway,
I don't want to conflate those two Michelle Nkan the
judge who ruled as she does. This is a difference.
(19:14):
This is what happens when you put republicans on the
bench who act like republicans. This turd murdered. First of all,
who kills the owner of a taco truck? You think
about this, How many times in your life has a
(19:35):
taco truck I don't want to exaggerate. Has a taco
truck owner saved your life? How many times have you
staggered out of a bar, a club? You've been in
there for a long time, You ate an early dinner,
You've had a few drinks, You're headed home. Somebody else
(19:59):
is driving. You ain't bothering anybody, but you get a
hunger flung upon you, and all man, you're thinking to yourself,
I could crush about eight tacos right now, And there,
like a vision is a taco truck owner. It's almost
(20:21):
like he knew you were going to arrive. And you
are walking out of the club, headed home, and you
don't even realize how hungry you are. It hadn't even
crossed your mind until the moment that you spy the
taco truck and you see the taco truck and you
think to yourself, it's a God in heaven. God in
(20:45):
Heaven has provided for me that taco truck owned. You
think about this. He had to go buy or rent
the taco truck. He had to drag the taco truck
there and drop it. He had to set up a
commissary account or a drop you know, they gotta go
drop the gray water and all that. He had to
(21:06):
purchase his materials. Is cario? Is that oils, the lettuce,
the tomatoes, cilantro, maybe some cheese. I don't like cheese
on my tacos at that moment. I like cheese it ringos,
but but I like I like a more traditional Mexican
(21:29):
taco at that point, you know, Mexican interior kind of deal.
You know, a street taco. And there are people who
still want you to put that taco down. Put the
taco down, and there it is. That guy's there, he thought.
I he had to say, you're gonna you know what,
You're gonna want a taco at this moment. I'm gonna
be here for you. And somebody else said, well, I'm
gonna kill you.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Does that whistling bungholes, spleens splitters Whisker Biscuits, Honkey Riders,
Whosker doos, Whosker don'ts nips and dazers with it without
the scooter stick or one single whistling kiddy Chase Michael
Fear Show.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Jelly Roll is fat, right, real real fat, like fat
or than anybody you know, right, you've seen him.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Jelly Roll weighs less than you do today. He's two twenty.
It's freaky, freaky. He's okay, he's okay. So he was
on Joe Rogan Show. I don't get to watch Rogan's pot.
(22:34):
I can't watch anything for three hours. I don't care
what it is. But I love what Rogan does. I
think it's very important. I think he talks to an
audience of people who are not many of them, many
of them are not conservative talk radio listeners there, and
he talks to them in a way that's very common sensical.
We need more of what Joe Rogan does.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But he did an interview with Jelly Roll, and somebody
sent me a clip of it, and I saw the
photo and I thought it was ai because you know,
there's only so much weight you can lose off your face.
But you see the frame of the body. You know,
Jelly Roll said that the doctor told him, you got
(23:16):
thirty pounds of skin on your body, say you're gonna
have a surgery to remove the skin. Imagine that he
was five hundred and twenty pounds. He has lost three
hundred pounds. He has lost sixty percent of his bodyweight.
I've never known of that to happen to anybody. And
(23:43):
the guy, I think it's Craig Morgan. I didn't recognize
the guy, but the guy whose music he listened to
in prison that he was so inspired by. He he
got out of prison, he goes to the Grand Old Lottery.
He he goes and he points he's performing at the Opry,
(24:05):
performing at the Rhymen, and he's pointing to the spot
where he sat when he got out of prison. And
he hears this guy performing. And I guess that guy
was so impressed because Jelly Row got a whole up
bearer and he did and not literally and figuratively. And
so he's on with Rogan and Joe. Rogan says, h
(24:29):
Craig Morgan made a video. I hope I'm getting the
guys right name right. I just never heard him before,
he says. Craig Morgan made a video and we're going
to play it for you now, and it's Craig Morgan saying,
Jelly Row, you've been an inspiration to me and so
many people, and it is my honor to tell you
that you have become a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
(24:52):
And Jelly Row just loses his role. He just starts weeping.
He asked Joe Rogan if he can hug him. I
don't remember a lot of highly emotional moments from the
Joe Rogan show. That's not really a Joe Rogan thing,
but I mean, you couldn't help. But you know, the
guy has been on, to use the liberal term, he's
(25:14):
been on a journey, and he's been very honest about it.
He's never denied it. I've always admired that about him.
And here's a guy just openly weeping because he knows
the depths, the depths deep t h Tremont, the depths
to which he had fallen. And here he is an
(25:36):
imperfect soul, living a very charmed life and having dug
himself out after a lot of hard work. But anyway,
during that interview, he talks about being as fat as
he was, and he decides he's going to do something
about it. And so he decides, you know, he's had
(25:57):
this yo yo diet and he applies of his addiction
mentality of lying to yourself and all that. He applies
that mentality to he's gonna lose weight. He's lied to
himself and everybody else about the food. And I didn't
I guess I didn't remember how big he was. I mean,
he is Staypuff marshmallow man. Big he is. He is massive,
(26:21):
and they're showing it on the video and he's watching
and he's crying watching himself, seeing how big he was.
And he talks about it's the first day he's gonna
go for a walk because the doctor told him, if
you can just put in ten thousand steps a day,
and that was that he might as well set one
hundred miles to a guy at that point in his life.
(26:44):
And so the moment comes and it's raining outside. So
his wife says, hey, you don't need to go today,
start tomorrow, and he says, I gotta do it. I
gotta do it. He tells his whole story. So he
goes out in the pouring rain and he does his
(27:05):
ten thousand steps and as he's coming back. He's coming
up the hill he lives at on the top of
a hill. His whole family is out there and they're
cheering for him, and he's breaking down as he tells
his story because they knew, you know, he's got to
do something. And look at him. Look at this guy
(27:26):
in the absolute depths and he's out there and he's
trying to change his life. It's a beautiful story. Anyway,
you get a chance to watch the Joe Rogan interview
with Jelly Roll, it's very, very, very inspiring. Leah writes, Zar,
you might be interested to know that you are a
(27:47):
big reason why Judge Michelle Unkin is on the bench.
When you were admonishing the Harris County Republican Party for
not having people running against Democrat judges, I texted her
and told her she should run, and she'd heard you
talking about She had heard you talking about it as well,
so she put her name in the hat and she won,
and here we are, Boom, you got a speeding ticket.
(28:11):
I don't think she can help you with a speeding ticket.
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