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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Verie Show is on the air. SIGs, you'll get into Mico.
We gotta fee in bed.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's a good thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing it all right.
Will just a few hours, President Trump is scheduled to
give a speech of great importance. The expectation is it
will relate to Washington, d C. Having spent three weeks
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there myself this summer, I will tell you there are
parts of that community that are almost unlivable. Third world city,
mogad issue, crime so bad. I can't imagine why we
can't solve this problem.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And that is the President's point.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Some high profile muggings, beatings Friday or Saturday night at
the Navy Yard, there was a basic takeover of thugs
in the community. It's awful. Amidst all this, Democrats have said,
you don't need a federal takeover of the Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Crime is down.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
However, the Washington d C Police officers are saying crime
is not down. We've been pressured to not report certain crimes.
Greg Pemberton is the chairman of the Washington d C
Police Officers Union. Welcome to the program, Sir.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Michael, thanks for having me. Great to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Chairman Pemberton.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Is crime worse in DC today than it was a
year or two or three For people who haven't seen
it for themselves put it into perspective.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, in twenty twenty three, we saw violent crime totals
topping thirty year highs. We had nearly three hundred homicides
that year, we had nine hundred and sixty armed carjackings,
thousands of robberies, thousands of shootings, numbers that we hadn't
seen since the crack epandemic in the early nineteen nineties.
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Since then, the police department reported in twenty twenty four
that crime dropped thirty six percent, and this year the
reporting that has dropped another twenty five percent. But as
you very eloquently stated in your intro, we don't believe
that that's true. The reason being is that won our
NBC affiliate here in Washington uncovered information earlier this month
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that a commander of a police district is now under
investigation and it has been stripped of as police powers
for going into police databases and changing classifications from felonies
to misdemeanors so that those felonies aren't carried on the
monthly reports. And in addition to that, we know that
our members are being told when they go to these
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scenes and victims are reporting that they were a victim
of a violent crime or a felony, that managers are
coming to those scenes, lieutenants, captains and above and are
ordering the officers to take reports for lesser offenses to
keep those crime stats moving in a downward trajectory. But
what anybody that works, or lives or travels to DC knows,
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as you mentioned, it really is problematic. Anywhere you go,
you can feel and sense, it's palpable that there is
criminal activity afoot, whether that's the smell of marijuana smoke,
whether that's traffic incidents, whether that's more violent crime like
robberies and carjackings. It's ubiquitous throughout the city. And so
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we don't believe the crime has gone down. We believe
that that's a manipulation of the crime stats here the district.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
June thirtieth, at the twelve hundred block of Seventh Street,
Eric Tarpinian Jaquem was shot and killed. He was a
twenty one year old Congressional intern It's only one person,
seemingly isolated incident, but those types of things tend to
catch a lot of attention. Then we had Big Balls
this past week who was beaten pretty badly by about
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ten young, young folks. We've had some of these high
profile cases. How common are these cases? I have to
tell you, I've been going to DC since I clerked
there as a young lawyer in nineteen ninety five, and
it feels less safe. But I've also grown older I
recognize that.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well. Unfortunately, they're all too common. I mean, one of
your representatives from Texas, Henry Quaar, was carjacked in Navy Yard.
I think that was earlier this year. We had Angie Craig,
representative from Minnesota, who was assaulted in her elevator of
her own apartment building. There are multitudes of staffers that
have been victims of robberies, assaults, carjackings. Ran Paul's staffer
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was stabbed in the head probably about a year and
a half ago, and the stories continue and continue. Obviously,
those are the ones that you hear about because they
make the news. But on a day to day basis,
our officers are running call to call to call for
these various types of incidents that are happening to citizens
all over the city, and it's a disservice to the
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police department to manipulate these crime staffs. It's the disservice
to the city, and ultimately it's an ultimate disservice to
these victims because we're not dedicating the proper resources to
investigating those cases and trying to close those cases. But ultimately,
what's the takeaway. The bad guys get away with it,
right because we're not doing what we need to do
to get handcuffs on them and get them into the
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criminal justice system, no matter how broken it is here
in the district. But we need to do our job
on the front end is handcuff these guys and get
them booked and charged with these crimes. And we can't
do that in the current environment that we're working in.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Greg Pemberton is a chairman of Washington d C Police
Officers union. President Trump has sent in some FEDS over
the weekend, seemingly in a supplemental capacity to assist the
DC police officers. Nobody's criticizing the DC police officers and
the work they're doing. They're outmanned, outgunned, overwhelmed, understaffed, the
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problems that we see across the country. Do you welcome
a greater federal presence on the streets.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Definitely, But let me back up a little bit and
give it a little context. In twenty twenty, our city council here,
the municipal government legislative branch, passed a multitude of pieces
of legislation that handcuffed police officers, that made it impossible
for them to do their jobs and increased their liability
for administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions even when they go
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out and do their job properly. And since then we
have had a mass exodus of police officers. Our police
agency has an authorized staffing level of four thousand sworn members.
We are currently sitting in three one and eighty with
more than eight hundred vacancies for the position a police officer.
The way the department is making up that difference, that
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that staffing difference is through mandatory overtime, and we're currently
working more than two million hours per year in overtime,
which is completely unsustainable. It is four times or maybe
even five times the pre COVID averages for annual overtime rates,
and it is burning out our officers, and it is
sending people packing for other agencies where they aren't treated
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this way. And the reason that the FEDS are looking
at this and saying let's send some supplemental resources, which
of course we welcome, is because we cannot staff the
police department based on the way our local government treats us,
which is just a whole environment for policing and public safety.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Agreed, get an officer hurt as well. Greg Pemberton, the
chairman of the Washington DC Police Officers Union, will be
watching the President's remarks today closely. I know you'll be there.
Thank you, sir, thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
For having me appreciate that great day. You're listening to
Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The Church's House will gabble in today at one pm.
There are potentially five Congressional seats hanging in the balance.
When you look at redistricting and the opportunities to change
the House to properly represent Americans. This is an opportunity
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we cannot squander. The last day for this first called
session known as a special session, is August nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Those have a sell by date of thirty days.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
When you gabble in a special session, you have thirty
days to complete the work of that session doesn't mean
you can't hold another.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
One.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Becomes a negotiating point because the state reps want to
go back and run their own businesses. They don't want
to still be in session, and that's probably what's going
to end up happening. The governor has said he would
call as many special sessions as needed. Our Texas constitutional
if you're wondering, Article three, Section forty gives the governor power.
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Section forty says, quote special sessions subjects of legislation duration.
When the legislature shall be convened in special session, there
shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated
in the proclamation of the gun calling such session, or
presented to them by the Governor, And no such session
shall be of longer duration than thirty days. So you
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can't simply call a special session and it be an
omnibus bill of catch all categories. You have to specify
what's going to be discussed. But redistricting is on the table.
The Texas Senate will meet today at four pm, so
under the headline, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Speaker Dustin
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Burroughs take action to enforce arrest warrants for rogue Democrats
in California. You'll recall that Friday afternoon was the date
by which the state Supreme Court had given for Democrats
to show up or problems would begin to mount. Well,
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Paxton and Boroughs have filed a legal complaint in the
state of California to enforce a rest warrants issued by
the Texas House of Representatives against legislators who fled the state.
And we know they did that to obstruct the proceedings
of the Texas Legislature. It's rather clear, and they've been
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able to accomplish that so far. Attorney General Ken Paxton saying, quote,
Texans are fed up with lawmakers who refuse to do
their jobs and instead run away to states like California
to exploit radical governors broken political systems as a shield.
Gavin Newsom may be comfortable with lawlessness and the protection
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of corrupt legislators, but Texas will not tolerate elected officials
who defy the constitution for political theater. Speaker Burroughs added,
the Texas House stands ready to conduct the work expected
of us by our constituents, but until the absent members return. See,
he doesn't call them corrupt members. He doesn't insult them,
he doesn't call them names, because they are the majority
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of the people who voted to put him in the House.
I told you this was happening. I told you when
our House convened and the Democrats brought their block of votes,
led by their democrat who's still leading them, Geen Wu,
and can't be mad at him. They're actually executing a
strategic coup. And they come over and they pick off
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Burrows and drunk Day and a few Jeff Leach and
a few of the others, Mono Dialla, and they get
to seventy six votes, and they say to the other Republicans, Hey, yeah,
y'all have the majority. But now we've got the majority
because we got all the Democrats when we've picked off
a few Republicans. You can either vote for the speaker
and make it look like there is is a greater
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call from the body for him to serve, or you
can be in the minority and you won't get a
committee chairmanship and you'll get a bad committee and you
won't be able to get anything done because the Speaker
has all the power. And that's fine if they want
to cut that deal. And Burroughs wants to cut that deal,
and Leech wants to cut that deal. In drunk Day
wants to cut that deal, and Mono wants to cut deal,
and these other Republicans sellouts want to cut that deal.
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That's fine, Just don't then have Karl Rove and his
people sending out messages to our listeners saying, we got
a good republic and Spaker in there, we're gonna get
a lot done this session. You got nothing done. What'd
you get done this session? What'd you get done? The
one thing you got done that Your calling school choice
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is not school choice. Your calling school vouchers is not
school vouchers. You got yet another tax increase. You got
more money spent in public education, because God forbid, the
public education cartel be unhappy with you all across the state.
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It's right here in Spring Branch, It's in every public
school district. I have to hear about it daily. We
need more money. Oh yeah, teachers are important. Education is important.
I believe the children are our future. Just play that
all the time, real cheesy and real loud. And anyone
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who doesn't want to give you more money is a
bad person, y'all.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Don't understand we need more money. Y'are horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Why do you need more money? Okay, how much money
were you getting yesterday? How much money were getting the
day before? Why do you need more money? Our schools
are falling down, our stadiums don't have enough suites. We
don't have enough this, we don't have enough that. We
don't have enough this.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There are a lot of crackheads. Heroin addicts, shoppers, spenders,
idiots who don't have enough money to keep spending on
everything they want to spend on. The fact that you
have let your facilities deteriorate is not a basis upon
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which to give you more money. Where did you spend
the money? If you can show me that your buildings
are leaking, your buildings.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Are older, We've used the same.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Building for so long, so has everybody else. School taxes
and taxes generally are making home ownership real estate investment.
They're making it absolutely unaffordable. It is now becoming the
case that people are spending more money, in many cases
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on their property taxes in the state of Texas than
on their mortgage.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And then you pay off your house. You never own
your house.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You rent it from the government, and those taxes are
going up and up and up and up, and Lena
Hudoga all the while was trying to get a tax
increase last week.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
My name is Mitta Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Genius.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And other astronaut Jim Lovell kiss me, famously portrayed on
The Big Green filma. His time in Houston as an
astronaut made him world famous. He of course would return
to Illinois, where they ran restaurants and the family had retired,
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but he uttered the famous line, Ah, Houston, We've had
a problem that is often misquoted during the Apollo thirteen mishap.
Jim Lovell has passed away last week at the age
of ninety seven.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Accepted into the NASA Space Program in nineteen sixty two,
Jim Level made his first of four space flights in
nineteen sixty five on Gemini seven. In December of sixty eight,
Level commanded the historic Apollo eight mission, the first man
spacecraft to orbit the Moon. The crew, famously, reading from
the Book of Genesis.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
God heard to be Apollowa. It was a bigger deal.
Pollow eight was the epitome, the hype point of my
space ventures.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
But perhaps it was his commander of the ill fated
Apollo thirteen that Level will be most remembered.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Okay, Houston, we have a problem.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
That famous phrase depicted in the nineteen ninety five film
version Apollo thirteen starring Tom.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Hanks as Jim Lovell.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
In April of nineteen seventy, an explosion in the spacecraft
caused a loss of oxygen. Astronauts Level, Jack Swinger, and
Fred Hesse moved into the lunar module. As it traveled
around the Moon, the nation and the world collectively.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Held its breath. The crew successfully returned to Earth on
April seventeenth. Touring an exhibit in Chicago. Level recently reflected
on his experience with the Gemini and Apollo missions.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I spent two weeks on about four days of this
type of a spacecraft, and then of course of the
Apollo spacecraft.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I know this is a very important part of my life.
Lovell retired from NASA in nineteen seventy three and went
to work in the private sector. Jim Lovell one of
the early pioneers of spaceflight. The complete NASA.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And the world and to the front tier of space travel.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
You know, we think of astronauts as celebrities, because that's
what they became. They became these sort of rock star celebrities,
and then the movies were made about them. If there's
such an interesting blend, remone of physical willingness to undergo
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difficulty and potentially death, and we know that some did die,
but the mind, the brilliance.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
The.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Intensity of these human beings very very special. And Jim Lovell,
we haven't interviewed a lot of astronauts, but Jim Lovell.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Really struck me.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
On the fiftieth anniversary, Actually, a few days after the
fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo thirteen, the owner to speak
to Jim Level about that mission. I'd like to play
the audio of your transmission telling Houston that we've had
a problem, and then have you respond go ahead.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
And Mom, okay, we've had a problem here again, go ahead.
We've had a hardware race card.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You see an ac bus under vault their guidance or
he can.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Leave.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The crew reported it. We got laying beyond.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
We may have had an instrumentation ground fight.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
What's going through your mind at that.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Point, well, essentially, what went through my mind at that
particular time was what happened? What is really going wrong?
And how does that affect the flight?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
What was your worst fear at that moment.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I didn't have a wish fear that this was disastrous.
I had a fear that how can we recover from
this particular problem? Is it serious or not? And it
took a little time for the you know, the brain
to function and to figure out what we're going And
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of course, as soon as that occurred, then I saw
that we lost two out of two out of the
three fuel cells, which meant that bost of electricity was
going to be gone. And then, of course, as time
went on, as we looked around to find out what
the situation was, and I examined the instrum panel, and
I finally ambered my way over to the window. And
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when I looked out at the window and saw gas
is gas escaping at a high rate of speed from
the roar of my spacecraft. And then going back and
look at the instrument panel and seeing that the gages
on my two washygen tanks, one was empty and one
I could see the needles had to go down. Then
the thoughts on my brain said, hey, this is really,
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really serious to lane there is all and can we
get home because the command module is now dying.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
That was a.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Difficult interview to coordinate, felt, but well worth the time
to hear his perspective and not just as a as
an astronaut and that experience, and how the movie affected
his life in his celebrity and and which he did
use He did you he did monetize that celebrity and
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I'm not mad at him for that, but it's interesting
how that that that the course of that changed his life.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Scott Mike from the Traffic department notes that if you
want to talk about Jim lovelmore this morning, I wonder
how many people know about the the swimming pool there,
the community pool there in his community where he lived.
Uh is shaped like the Gemini space capsule. I don't
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think people who actually swim in the pool realize that,
he says, but you can clearly see it from the air.
Do you know that Scott Mike has done traffic for
thirteen over the years as well. Yeah, he's a helicopter
traffic guy. He is a traffic He's just traffic through
and through. Scott Mike, Yeah, did you really just say, you.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Know there's apps for that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, But Scott Mike's got commentary, he's got jokes, he's
got he's got color to he's got banana stickers.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I mean, sure, you can go to an app and
get it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But but Skot Mike paints a picture, you know, a
colorful picture.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
He's the He's the mutual of Omaha.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He's the Paul Harvey of of pile ups.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You know, he's the he's the what.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
He's the Garrison Keeler of crashes. He's the He's the
Dan Rather Oh wait, don't want to do it. He's
the Walter Cronkite. Oh I could have done Kronkite of crashes.
Let me think on this better, and we could. We could,
we could improve upon this.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But what a neat thing when I came to Houston
in nineteen eighty nine that the Space Center was still
in full swing.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
What a neat thing it was to learn so much more.
I was not enamored of the space of the Space program.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I am a realist and a pragmatist, and I didn't
understand where the money was being spent.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But I came to appreciate the lore.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And the national pride and the science behind it. I mean,
and by the way, Elon deserves so much credit for
basically replacing NASA still putting people into into space.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
He's just doing it privately. I think there's something to
be said for that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Unless I'm put a dio tone, it sounds like this
that Michael Berry show shop.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Tone indicates everything is writing for your call. If you
like stones Fromoth.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Some people calling scones, I don't really care. Somewhere out
there there's somebody that wants to correct me. Not as
bad as Karlachi Gay.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
There is a certain part of people's personality that I
find to be very ugly that they don't spot. That
is the desperate need to correct things. I wrote the
word dessert as we can, but I spelled it d
s E r T. I kind of feel like anybody
that knows me very well knows I know how to
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spell dessert right. Spelling is kind of a strong point
of mind. I choose to spell things a certain way.
But in this case, it was just being lazy and
hadn't hadn't taking the time to put two s's. You know,
you make mistakes, And I was shocked how many people
are reading Facebook. You're reading to see what's going on
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in the world out there? And somehow you read desert
with one s, which was really a question about underrated
dessert ingredients. I can't understand how in someone's mind they go,
you didn't spell.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Dessert right now?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Hello, Hello, here's how you want to spell dessert. And
someone is posting that. I don't know if they think
that I'm going to read it and go, gosh, that
person there, look at the brains on, Brad. That's just
you're literally sitting around and you read that and you go, oh,
hold on, honey, I gotta post. I gotta make sure
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I post because it's really important. He might not know
how to spell dessert. He spelled it a hundred times before.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But I need to fix it. I will never understand.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I just I chuckle and go, all right, I bet
you're a load of fun at home anyway. So I
had a scone, but I couldn't eat the whole thing.
So there was an all aft sitting outside on a bench.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
And there was a pigeon.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
So I gave part of the scone to the pigeon,
and I figured I would eat the rest of the scone.
But then, as will happen, you feed one pigeon. Now sudden,
here comes another pigeon.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I thought, oh no'm I have a bunch of pig on.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So I feed the other pigeon and that was it.
I finished my part, and they finished theirs. They seemed happy,
and they flutter off, and I got up and I
thought to myself, you know what, I feel pretty good.
I filled two birds with one scone. Lenna that dog
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goes melt down filled two birds with one scone lead
us meltdown.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Drew all the attention last week.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Lost in that is that she spent more than nine
hundred thousand dollars on her security detail. Your money for
her security detail, more than all the commissioners combined. Her
office defends the spending because they say she has a
quote national profile and high public visibility.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Bitch, get over yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Nobody cares about you other than being obnoxious. The Houston
Chronicle reports that quote Hidalgo spent nine hundred three thousand
dollars for security personnel, more than half the amount budgeted
for all five members of Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They mean more than double.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All four members of the court's Democrat super majority were
allotted six figure security budgets, records indicated Commissioner Tom Ramsey,
the lone Republican, was the sole member who's officely not
spending any funds on personal security.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In twenty twenty four, Lena's.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Office set in a statement, given Judge Hidago's national profile
and high public visibility, she uses her security detail for
the protection of her and her staff. When it comes
to safety and security, the cost of inaction far outweighs
the cost of prevention.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The Chronicle reports that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Harris County first began footing the bill for Hidago's security
detail following in August twenty first Commissioner's Court meeting. Although
Hidago said it was a first for Harris County. Commissioners
did not directly vote on the matter because it was
decided through a budget transfer not included on the public agenda.
Every time they don't have the money for the things
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that we need in the county, just remember how they
do squander the money. And you don't even begin to
see how Rodney's moving from one account to the other
account and moving over here in nine hundred three thousand
for her security detail. Oh, he could figure out how
to do that in about thirty seconds. He can transfer
some money from one count from one account to the
other without anybody ever knowing it. He can store African
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art in a county warehouse, saving himself hundreds of thousands
of dollars. A grand jury be convened, the FBI investigate,
and still managed to get out of it. What's interesting
about Lena's security detail and the expense is now being reported.
The Houston Chronicle has gone from just over a week
ago calling her a Hispanic policy wong, a term that
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still gets me, and referring to her historic unprecedented accomplishments
or maybe a historic I don't think this said historic accomplishments.
They're always historic because she's a Hispanic. Yeah, I'll never forget.
You can criticize her all you want, but I'll never
forget the day she was sworn in as county judge.
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And there's a bathroom right behind the county judge's bathroom,
and I'll never she'd had a big breakfast, I mean
big breakfast.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
She'd had Textmax.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I don't remember where it was from, root cheese maybe,
but it was bad Textmax. And she had gone heavy
on the refried beans, and she'd gone heavy on the
refried beans and the green and red salsa, a potent potable,
heavy on the cheese, and she'd gone flour tortillas and
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she had some orchata.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I remember she'd gone heavy on the orchata.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And I remember they were having the she was having
the first meeting with the staff in there, and the
county judge has a its own little private bathroom right behind.
It's just for her, the Queen Bee, but it's always
been there, and I remember hearing the story that when
she got up for the me and she says, in
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a real frenzied tone like she does guys, I have
to go take a poop, and everybody, just everybody, the
moment was not lost. Everybody was sitting there thinking to themselves,
this is the first time we've had a Hispanic county
judge dropping the kids off at the pool in that bathroom,
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as the first Hispanic female county judge. This is a
historic explosive moment. And it was like the heavens opened up.
You could hear it, and.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Then she'd moan inside there.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I mean it was torn up, I mean just absolutely
destroyed that toilet, And all anybody could think was we
were here at this historic moment, the first Hispanic county judge,
blowing up the bathroom in the county judge office.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
This is really historic, just historic,
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Verie Show is on the air. SIGs, you'll get into Mico.
We gotta fee in bed.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's a good thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing it all right.
Will just a few hours, President Trump is scheduled to
give a speech of great importance. The expectation is it
will relate to Washington, d C. Having spent three weeks
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there myself this summer, I will tell you there are
parts of that community that are almost unlivable. Third world city,
mogad issue, crime so bad. I can't imagine why we
can't solve this problem.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And that is the President's point.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Some high profile muggings, beatings Friday or Saturday night at
the Navy Yard, there was a basic takeover of thugs
in the community. It's awful. Amidst all this, Democrats have said,
you don't need a federal takeover of the Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Crime is down.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
However, the Washington d C Police officers are saying crime
is not down. We've been pressured to not report certain crimes.
Greg Pemberton is the chairman of the Washington d C
Police Officers Union. Welcome to the program, Sir.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Michael, thanks for having me. Great to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Chairman Pemberton.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Is crime worse in DC today than it was a
year or two or three For people who haven't seen
it for themselves put it into perspective.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, in twenty twenty three, we saw violent crime totals
topping thirty year highs. We had nearly three hundred homicides
that year, we had nine hundred and sixty armed carjackings,
thousands of robberies, thousands of shootings, numbers that we hadn't
seen since the crack epandemic in the early nineteen nineties.
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Since then, the police department reported in twenty twenty four
that crime dropped thirty six percent, and this year the
reporting that has dropped another twenty five percent. But as
you very eloquently stated in your intro, we don't believe
that that's true. The reason being is that won our
NBC affiliate here in Washington uncovered information earlier this month
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that a commander of a police district is now under
investigation and it has been stripped of as police powers
for going into police databases and changing classifications from felonies
to misdemeanors so that those felonies aren't carried on the
monthly reports. And in addition to that, we know that
our members are being told when they go to these
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scenes and victims are reporting that they were a victim
of a violent crime or a felony, that managers are
coming to those scenes, lieutenants, captains and above and are
ordering the officers to take reports for lesser offenses to
keep those crime stats moving in a downward trajectory. But
what anybody that works, or lives or travels to DC knows,
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as you mentioned, it really is problematic. Anywhere you go,
you can feel and sense, it's palpable that there is
criminal activity afoot, whether that's the smell of marijuana smoke,
whether that's traffic incidents, whether that's more violent crime like
robberies and carjackings. It's ubiquitous throughout the city. And so
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we don't believe the crime has gone down. We believe
that that's a manipulation of the crime stats here the district.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
June thirtieth, at the twelve hundred block of Seventh Street,
Eric Tarpinian Jaquem was shot and killed. He was a
twenty one year old Congressional intern It's only one person,
seemingly isolated incident, but those types of things tend to
catch a lot of attention. Then we had Big Balls
this past week who was beaten pretty badly by about
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ten young, young folks. We've had some of these high
profile cases. How common are these cases? I have to
tell you, I've been going to DC since I clerked
there as a young lawyer in nineteen ninety five, and
it feels less safe. But I've also grown older I
recognize that.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well. Unfortunately, they're all too common. I mean, one of
your representatives from Texas, Henry Quaar, was carjacked in Navy Yard.
I think that was earlier this year. We had Angie Craig,
representative from Minnesota, who was assaulted in her elevator of
her own apartment building. There are multitudes of staffers that
have been victims of robberies, assaults, carjackings. Ran Paul's staffer
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was stabbed in the head probably about a year and
a half ago, and the stories continue and continue. Obviously,
those are the ones that you hear about because they
make the news. But on a day to day basis,
our officers are running call to call to call for
these various types of incidents that are happening to citizens
all over the city, and it's a disservice to the
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police department to manipulate these crime staffs. It's the disservice
to the city, and ultimately it's an ultimate disservice to
these victims because we're not dedicating the proper resources to
investigating those cases and trying to close those cases. But ultimately,
what's the takeaway. The bad guys get away with it,
right because we're not doing what we need to do
to get handcuffs on them and get them into the
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criminal justice system, no matter how broken it is here
in the district. But we need to do our job
on the front end is handcuff these guys and get
them booked and charged with these crimes. And we can't
do that in the current environment that we're working in.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Greg Pemberton is a chairman of Washington d C Police
Officers union. President Trump has sent in some FEDS over
the weekend, seemingly in a supplemental capacity to assist the
DC police officers. Nobody's criticizing the DC police officers and
the work they're doing. They're outmanned, outgunned, overwhelmed, understaffed, the
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problems that we see across the country. Do you welcome
a greater federal presence on the streets.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Definitely, But let me back up a little bit and
give it a little context. In twenty twenty, our city council here,
the municipal government legislative branch, passed a multitude of pieces
of legislation that handcuffed police officers, that made it impossible
for them to do their jobs and increased their liability
for administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions even when they go
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out and do their job properly. And since then we
have had a mass exodus of police officers. Our police
agency has an authorized staffing level of four thousand sworn members.
We are currently sitting in three one and eighty with
more than eight hundred vacancies for the position a police officer.
The way the department is making up that difference, that
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that staffing difference is through mandatory overtime, and we're currently
working more than two million hours per year in overtime,
which is completely unsustainable. It is four times or maybe
even five times the pre COVID averages for annual overtime rates,
and it is burning out our officers, and it is
sending people packing for other agencies where they aren't treated
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this way. And the reason that the FEDS are looking
at this and saying let's send some supplemental resources, which
of course we welcome, is because we cannot staff the
police department based on the way our local government treats us,
which is just a whole environment for policing and public safety.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Agreed, get an officer hurt as well. Greg Pemberton, the
chairman of the Washington DC Police Officers Union, will be
watching the President's remarks today closely. I know you'll be there.
Thank you, sir, thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
For having me appreciate that great day. You're listening to
Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The Church's House will gabble in today at one pm.
There are potentially five Congressional seats hanging in the balance.
When you look at redistricting and the opportunities to change
the House to properly represent Americans. This is an opportunity
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we cannot squander. The last day for this first called
session known as a special session, is August nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Those have a sell by date of thirty days.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
When you gabble in a special session, you have thirty
days to complete the work of that session doesn't mean
you can't hold another.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
One.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Becomes a negotiating point because the state reps want to
go back and run their own businesses. They don't want
to still be in session, and that's probably what's going
to end up happening. The governor has said he would
call as many special sessions as needed. Our Texas constitutional
if you're wondering, Article three, Section forty gives the governor power.
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Section forty says, quote special sessions subjects of legislation duration.
When the legislature shall be convened in special session, there
shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated
in the proclamation of the gun calling such session, or
presented to them by the Governor, And no such session
shall be of longer duration than thirty days. So you
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can't simply call a special session and it be an
omnibus bill of catch all categories. You have to specify
what's going to be discussed. But redistricting is on the table.
The Texas Senate will meet today at four pm, so
under the headline, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Speaker Dustin
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Burroughs take action to enforce arrest warrants for rogue Democrats
in California. You'll recall that Friday afternoon was the date
by which the state Supreme Court had given for Democrats
to show up or problems would begin to mount. Well,
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Paxton and Boroughs have filed a legal complaint in the
state of California to enforce a rest warrants issued by
the Texas House of Representatives against legislators who fled the state.
And we know they did that to obstruct the proceedings
of the Texas Legislature. It's rather clear, and they've been
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able to accomplish that so far. Attorney General Ken Paxton saying, quote,
Texans are fed up with lawmakers who refuse to do
their jobs and instead run away to states like California
to exploit radical governors broken political systems as a shield.
Gavin Newsom may be comfortable with lawlessness and the protection
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of corrupt legislators, but Texas will not tolerate elected officials
who defy the constitution for political theater. Speaker Burroughs added,
the Texas House stands ready to conduct the work expected
of us by our constituents, but until the absent members return. See,
he doesn't call them corrupt members. He doesn't insult them,
he doesn't call them names, because they are the majority
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of the people who voted to put him in the House.
I told you this was happening. I told you when
our House convened and the Democrats brought their block of votes,
led by their democrat who's still leading them, Geen Wu,
and can't be mad at him. They're actually executing a
strategic coup. And they come over and they pick off
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Burrows and drunk Day and a few Jeff Leach and
a few of the others, Mono Dialla, and they get
to seventy six votes, and they say to the other Republicans, Hey, yeah,
y'all have the majority. But now we've got the majority
because we got all the Democrats when we've picked off
a few Republicans. You can either vote for the speaker
and make it look like there is is a greater
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call from the body for him to serve, or you
can be in the minority and you won't get a
committee chairmanship and you'll get a bad committee and you
won't be able to get anything done because the Speaker
has all the power. And that's fine if they want
to cut that deal. And Burroughs wants to cut that deal,
and Leech wants to cut that deal. In drunk Day
wants to cut that deal, and Mono wants to cut deal,
and these other Republicans sellouts want to cut that deal.
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That's fine, Just don't then have Karl Rove and his
people sending out messages to our listeners saying, we got
a good republic and Spaker in there, we're gonna get
a lot done this session. You got nothing done. What'd
you get done this session? What'd you get done? The
one thing you got done that Your calling school choice
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is not school choice. Your calling school vouchers is not
school vouchers. You got yet another tax increase. You got
more money spent in public education, because God forbid, the
public education cartel be unhappy with you all across the state.
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It's right here in Spring Branch, It's in every public
school district. I have to hear about it daily. We
need more money. Oh yeah, teachers are important. Education is important.
I believe the children are our future. Just play that
all the time, real cheesy and real loud. And anyone
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who doesn't want to give you more money is a
bad person, y'all.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Don't understand we need more money. Y'are horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Why do you need more money? Okay, how much money
were you getting yesterday? How much money were getting the
day before? Why do you need more money? Our schools
are falling down, our stadiums don't have enough suites. We
don't have enough this, we don't have enough that. We
don't have enough this.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
There are a lot of crackheads. Heroin addicts, shoppers, spenders,
idiots who don't have enough money to keep spending on
everything they want to spend on. The fact that you
have let your facilities deteriorate is not a basis upon
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which to give you more money. Where did you spend
the money? If you can show me that your buildings
are leaking, your buildings.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Are older, We've used the same.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Building for so long, so has everybody else. School taxes
and taxes generally are making home ownership real estate investment.
They're making it absolutely unaffordable. It is now becoming the
case that people are spending more money, in many cases
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on their property taxes in the state of Texas than
on their mortgage.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And then you pay off your house. You never own
your house.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You rent it from the government, and those taxes are
going up and up and up and up, and Lena
Hudoga all the while was trying to get a tax
increase last week.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
My name is Mitta Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Genius.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And other astronaut Jim Lovell kiss me, famously portrayed on
The Big Green filma. His time in Houston as an
astronaut made him world famous. He of course would return
to Illinois, where they ran restaurants and the family had retired,
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but he uttered the famous line, Ah, Houston, We've had
a problem that is often misquoted during the Apollo thirteen mishap.
Jim Lovell has passed away last week at the age
of ninety seven.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Accepted into the NASA Space Program in nineteen sixty two,
Jim Level made his first of four space flights in
nineteen sixty five on Gemini seven. In December of sixty eight,
Level commanded the historic Apollo eight mission, the first man
spacecraft to orbit the Moon. The crew, famously, reading from
the Book of Genesis.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
God heard to be Apollowa. It was a bigger deal.
Pollow eight was the epitome, the hype point of my
space ventures.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
But perhaps it was his commander of the ill fated
Apollo thirteen that Level will be most remembered.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Okay, Houston, we have a problem.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
That famous phrase depicted in the nineteen ninety five film
version Apollo thirteen starring Tom.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Hanks as Jim Lovell.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
In April of nineteen seventy, an explosion in the spacecraft
caused a loss of oxygen. Astronauts Level, Jack Swinger, and
Fred Hesse moved into the lunar module. As it traveled
around the Moon, the nation and the world collectively.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Held its breath. The crew successfully returned to Earth on
April seventeenth. Touring an exhibit in Chicago. Level recently reflected
on his experience with the Gemini and Apollo missions.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I spent two weeks on about four days of this
type of a spacecraft, and then of course of the
Apollo spacecraft.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I know this is a very important part of my life.
Lovell retired from NASA in nineteen seventy three and went
to work in the private sector. Jim Lovell one of
the early pioneers of spaceflight. The complete NASA.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And the world and to the front tier of space travel.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
You know, we think of astronauts as celebrities, because that's
what they became. They became these sort of rock star celebrities,
and then the movies were made about them. If there's
such an interesting blend, remone of physical willingness to undergo
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difficulty and potentially death, and we know that some did die,
but the mind, the brilliance.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
The.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Intensity of these human beings very very special. And Jim Lovell,
we haven't interviewed a lot of astronauts, but Jim Lovell.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Really struck me.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
On the fiftieth anniversary, Actually, a few days after the
fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo thirteen, the owner to speak
to Jim Level about that mission. I'd like to play
the audio of your transmission telling Houston that we've had
a problem, and then have you respond go ahead.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
And Mom, okay, we've had a problem here again, go ahead.
We've had a hardware race card.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You see an ac bus under vault their guidance or
he can.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Leave.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The crew reported it. We got laying beyond.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
We may have had an instrumentation ground fight.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
What's going through your mind at that.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Point, well, essentially, what went through my mind at that
particular time was what happened? What is really going wrong?
And how does that affect the flight?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
What was your worst fear at that moment.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I didn't have a wish fear that this was disastrous.
I had a fear that how can we recover from
this particular problem? Is it serious or not? And it
took a little time for the you know, the brain
to function and to figure out what we're going And
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of course, as soon as that occurred, then I saw
that we lost two out of two out of the
three fuel cells, which meant that bost of electricity was
going to be gone. And then, of course, as time
went on, as we looked around to find out what
the situation was, and I examined the instrum panel, and
I finally ambered my way over to the window. And
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when I looked out at the window and saw gas
is gas escaping at a high rate of speed from
the roar of my spacecraft. And then going back and
look at the instrument panel and seeing that the gages
on my two washygen tanks, one was empty and one
I could see the needles had to go down. Then
the thoughts on my brain said, hey, this is really,
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really serious to lane there is all and can we
get home because the command module is now dying.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
That was a.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Difficult interview to coordinate, felt, but well worth the time
to hear his perspective and not just as a as
an astronaut and that experience, and how the movie affected
his life in his celebrity and and which he did
use He did you he did monetize that celebrity and
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I'm not mad at him for that, but it's interesting
how that that that the course of that changed his life.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Scott Mike from the Traffic department notes that if you
want to talk about Jim lovelmore this morning, I wonder
how many people know about the the swimming pool there,
the community pool there in his community where he lived.
Uh is shaped like the Gemini space capsule. I don't
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think people who actually swim in the pool realize that,
he says, but you can clearly see it from the air.
Do you know that Scott Mike has done traffic for
thirteen over the years as well. Yeah, he's a helicopter
traffic guy. He is a traffic He's just traffic through
and through. Scott Mike, Yeah, did you really just say, you.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Know there's apps for that.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, But Scott Mike's got commentary, he's got jokes, he's
got he's got color to he's got banana stickers.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I mean, sure, you can go to an app and
get it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But but Skot Mike paints a picture, you know, a
colorful picture.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
He's the He's the mutual of Omaha.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He's the Paul Harvey of of pile ups.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You know, he's the he's the what.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
He's the Garrison Keeler of crashes. He's the He's the
Dan Rather Oh wait, don't want to do it. He's
the Walter Cronkite. Oh I could have done Kronkite of crashes.
Let me think on this better, and we could. We could,
we could improve upon this.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But what a neat thing when I came to Houston
in nineteen eighty nine that the Space Center was still
in full swing.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
What a neat thing it was to learn so much more.
I was not enamored of the space of the Space program.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I am a realist and a pragmatist, and I didn't
understand where the money was being spent.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But I came to appreciate the lore.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And the national pride and the science behind it. I mean,
and by the way, Elon deserves so much credit for
basically replacing NASA still putting people into into space.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
He's just doing it privately. I think there's something to
be said for that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Unless I'm put a dio tone, it sounds like this
that Michael Berry show shop.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Tone indicates everything is writing for your call. If you
like stones Fromoth.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Some people calling scones, I don't really care. Somewhere out
there there's somebody that wants to correct me. Not as
bad as Karlachi Gay.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
There is a certain part of people's personality that I
find to be very ugly that they don't spot. That
is the desperate need to correct things. I wrote the
word dessert as we can, but I spelled it d
s E r T. I kind of feel like anybody
that knows me very well knows I know how to
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spell dessert right. Spelling is kind of a strong point
of mind. I choose to spell things a certain way.
But in this case, it was just being lazy and
hadn't hadn't taking the time to put two s's. You know,
you make mistakes, And I was shocked how many people
are reading Facebook. You're reading to see what's going on
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in the world out there? And somehow you read desert
with one s, which was really a question about underrated
dessert ingredients. I can't understand how in someone's mind they go,
you didn't spell.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Dessert right now?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Hello, Hello, here's how you want to spell dessert. And
someone is posting that. I don't know if they think
that I'm going to read it and go, gosh, that
person there, look at the brains on, Brad. That's just
you're literally sitting around and you read that and you go, oh,
hold on, honey, I gotta post. I gotta make sure
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I post because it's really important. He might not know
how to spell dessert. He spelled it a hundred times before.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But I need to fix it. I will never understand.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I just I chuckle and go, all right, I bet
you're a load of fun at home anyway. So I
had a scone, but I couldn't eat the whole thing.
So there was an all aft sitting outside on a bench.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
And there was a pigeon.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
So I gave part of the scone to the pigeon,
and I figured I would eat the rest of the scone.
But then, as will happen, you feed one pigeon. Now sudden,
here comes another pigeon.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I thought, oh no'm I have a bunch of pig on.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So I feed the other pigeon and that was it.
I finished my part, and they finished theirs. They seemed happy,
and they flutter off, and I got up and I
thought to myself, you know what, I feel pretty good.
I filled two birds with one scone. Lenna that dog
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goes melt down filled two birds with one scone lead
us meltdown.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Drew all the attention last week.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Lost in that is that she spent more than nine
hundred thousand dollars on her security detail. Your money for
her security detail, more than all the commissioners combined. Her
office defends the spending because they say she has a
quote national profile and high public visibility.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Bitch, get over yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Nobody cares about you other than being obnoxious. The Houston
Chronicle reports that quote Hidalgo spent nine hundred three thousand
dollars for security personnel, more than half the amount budgeted
for all five members of Commissioner's Court.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They mean more than double.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All four members of the court's Democrat super majority were
allotted six figure security budgets, records indicated Commissioner Tom Ramsey,
the lone Republican, was the sole member who's officely not
spending any funds on personal security.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In twenty twenty four, Lena's.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Office set in a statement, given Judge Hidago's national profile
and high public visibility, she uses her security detail for
the protection of her and her staff. When it comes
to safety and security, the cost of inaction far outweighs
the cost of prevention.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The Chronicle reports that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Harris County first began footing the bill for Hidago's security
detail following in August twenty first Commissioner's Court meeting. Although
Hidago said it was a first for Harris County. Commissioners
did not directly vote on the matter because it was
decided through a budget transfer not included on the public agenda.
Every time they don't have the money for the things
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that we need in the county, just remember how they
do squander the money. And you don't even begin to
see how Rodney's moving from one account to the other
account and moving over here in nine hundred three thousand
for her security detail. Oh, he could figure out how
to do that in about thirty seconds. He can transfer
some money from one count from one account to the
other without anybody ever knowing it. He can store African
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art in a county warehouse, saving himself hundreds of thousands
of dollars. A grand jury be convened, the FBI investigate,
and still managed to get out of it. What's interesting
about Lena's security detail and the expense is now being reported.
The Houston Chronicle has gone from just over a week
ago calling her a Hispanic policy wong, a term that
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still gets me, and referring to her historic unprecedented accomplishments
or maybe a historic I don't think this said historic accomplishments.
They're always historic because she's a Hispanic. Yeah, I'll never forget.
You can criticize her all you want, but I'll never
forget the day she was sworn in as county judge.
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And there's a bathroom right behind the county judge's bathroom,
and I'll never she'd had a big breakfast, I mean
big breakfast.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
She'd had Textmax.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I don't remember where it was from, root cheese maybe,
but it was bad Textmax. And she had gone heavy
on the refried beans, and she'd gone heavy on the
refried beans and the green and red salsa, a potent potable,
heavy on the cheese, and she'd gone flour tortillas and
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she had some orchata.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I remember she'd gone heavy on the orchata.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And I remember they were having the she was having
the first meeting with the staff in there, and the
county judge has a its own little private bathroom right behind.
It's just for her, the Queen Bee, but it's always
been there, and I remember hearing the story that when
she got up for the me and she says, in
(30:59):
a real frenzied tone like she does guys, I have
to go take a poop, and everybody, just everybody, the
moment was not lost. Everybody was sitting there thinking to themselves,
this is the first time we've had a Hispanic county
judge dropping the kids off at the pool in that bathroom,
(31:26):
as the first Hispanic female county judge. This is a
historic explosive moment. And it was like the heavens opened up.
You could hear it, and.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Then she'd moan inside there.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I mean it was torn up, I mean just absolutely
destroyed that toilet, And all anybody could think was we
were here at this historic moment, the first Hispanic county judge,
blowing up the bathroom in the county judge office.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
This is really historic, just historic,
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