February 25, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air to walk
us through a typical day for you. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late
that I just sort of space out for about an hour.
I just stare at my desk, but it looks like
I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after
launch too. I'd say in a given week, I probably
only do about fifteen minutes of real actual work. The
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thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, It's that
I just don't care working.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Not five bottle verse.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Just tell us about this email and what it was
like receiving it and what you all have talked about
after getting it.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I got this email Saturday afternoon, about three pm, and
I felt absolutely infuriated getting this email with a demand
within forty eight hours to provide a response and what
I did within the last week or face termination.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
Managers that had to be in office yesterday, and we
waited there all day until maybe twelve one o'clock and
then it was kind of like a fire and range.
They mined us up, took our equipment, and.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Sent us home.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
His pride and passion taken away, Yes, and.
Speaker 8 (01:40):
Fine, so taking it again days you mine and you
nene A get credit gets fine.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'll admit I'm a little bit obsessed on the laying
off the government employees, the one and it gets me
as a woman that went on I can't remember seeing NMSNBC.
It's all the same. But she's talking about the fact
that she had to respond within forty eight hours what
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she had done this past week, and this wasn't enough time.
She wasn't able to It's unfair. She was insulted. But
you had time to book yourself on a TV show,
get to a studio, get makeup done and all dressed
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up for it, and do the interview before that forty
eight hours elapsed. I think you had time to fill
out your report. Yeah, But of course it's not about
the time. What we're seeing now is something that if
we were to discuss, would be hard to explain. But
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when it's laid bare on exhibition on national TV, it
becomes quite abundantly clear, and that is that government workers
don't feel they should be held accountable because they never
have been. They are the most entitled, they're better than you.
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This is the mindset of the inspector when you're going, dude,
it's eight inches from the wall and you want it
to be nine inches. That's going to cost me twenty
eight thousand dollars. It's going to delay my project for
six months. I don't care. This is the mindset. You're
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seeing it as clearly as possible, the idea. It's like
a simmering. What do they call that when people go
to work. Young people brag that they do it like
quiet or something like that. You remember the term for that,
Huh No, it's quitting. Quitting they call it where where
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you basically don't care that you get fired, so you
just show up, don't do anything until they finally you
just don't put anything in. And young people, some young
people are very proud of that. That's kind of what
these government employees have been doing forever. I remember at
the city, I'd have people tell me. I'd say, hey,
we're having problems with old Sam Sami Badrin, and I
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shouldn't say that's probably somebody's name with old Sam Samon
Badron and public works and we can't get him to
get his work done. And we got people complaining about
it that are trying to get projects going, and they'd say, counselmen,
we we can't get him to do anything. Well, let's
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get him fired. Hadn't anybody been fired here in forever?
And if nobody is ever fired in an organization, that
organization is not going to be at maximum efficiency. People
get mad about let's take Bregman. They're upset, although people
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are not as upset as I thought they would have been.
Are you noticing that? People? But they'll get upset that
you trade a player away without understanding that if this
organization or any organization is going to perform at peak performance,
they are going to have to be people who don't
make it. If everybody makes the team and everybody gets
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to play, that's great. If you're eight but not in
the pros and you know you win the championship. And
a good GM is huddling with a good owner and saying,
all right, who contributed, but is up for a new
contract and is not worth the extra money that we
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could spend that money on getting a better person. Well
that that kind of organizational development and maintenance, which it's
a constant to do, is not at play in the government.
It doesn't attract the kind of people with that mindset.
It doesn't reward the kind of people with that mindset.
And it doesn't have specific goals, it doesn't have a
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clear mission, it doesn't have a purpose, it doesn't have measurables,
and if you don't have measurables, you're going to get
exactly what you see out of the government. There's a
story we'll get to in just a moment that near
NRG Stadium, residents have been waiting for over five months
for a water main break to be fixed, gallons of
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water gushing out since September, and the city has done
absolutely nothing. Public Work says they're aware, there's a league
and it's taken more than five months for repairs. You're aware,
and it's taken more than five months, and you're aware
how long it is and you're not doing anything. Remember
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when the city told us not to run our taps,
not to open the tap when it was cold outside,
which is what you do to keep it from freezing up,
because we had to conserve water. There's your conserve water
big raid at Colony Ridge yesterday. We'll get to that
in just a moment. Trey Harris is John Harris, the
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CEO out there put out a statement saying that he
supports this and he's grateful for the efforts of Tom
Homan and the guys. And then old Greg Abbott, as
he always does, got out in front of the parade.
He didn't know what was happening, and he said, yeah,
big raid at Colony Ridge, as if he had done
something about it. Oh well, that's interesting. The same Colony
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Ridge you took all that money from the Harris Boys,
for the same Colony Ridge that had been donating so
any dollars to your account. Did you have no idea
what was going on out there or did you just
choose to look the other way? The same Colony Ridge
that we've had people from all over the country calling
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us that they're aware of it, and you've done nothing.
This came from the Feds, by the way, Oh can
I can I get credit for it? Take a eighty
for five percent of people want? Okay, we're for it, everybody,
greg Avin here, We're for it.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Just put that on a Michael.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Barris So Michael Barry show.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I've never understood what that song's about. The owner of
a New Jersey spa is arrested for running a brothel
out of the business. Yeah. Yeah, I just want you
to understand the spa is not technically supposed to be
a brothel. Is just supposed to be a spa, because
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you might have caught yourself thinking when I thought they
were the same thing. But that's not why the story
is going viral. A bust of a spa that's really
a brothel, it's not national news. The reason the story
has gone viral is that the owner's name is s
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n first name, b A n G last name. The
fella's name is Soon Bang. You go see Soon Bang?
How long will it take? Soon Bang? Take care of
you fast. In addition to that, the woman arrested for
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prostitution at the spa is sixty seven years old. Soon
Bang sixty three is the owner of the Oasis Spa
spa in Denville, New Jersey, and he's been arrested accused
of promoting prostitution at his business. Yushun Lee, sixty seven,
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is accused of engaging in sexual activity for money at
the establishment. According to North Jersey dot Com. On February fifteenth,
the Denville Police Department executed a search warrant at the
Oasis Spa and at Bang's Fairview residence. A large quantity
of US currency was found in Popo. Say it is
indicative of prostitution. Bang was charged on a summons complaint
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with third degree promoting prostitution, second degree money laundering, and
the disorderly person's offense of engaging with prostitution. Yushun Lee
was also charged by summons complaint with the disorderly person's
offense of engaging with prostitution. We here at the Michael
Barry Show, have exclusive undercover audio of sixty seven year
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old Yushun Lee negotiating with the client.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Hey, our friend Vietnam, not just this bit it.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Well, baby, me so honey, Me so honey.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Keep lying me love you a long time?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You pun it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, we might party when you are much. Fifteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Fifteen dollars, you both say.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Fifteen dollars me love you long time. I want me
so horny.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
You ain't three dollars to bookoo?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Five dollars in me lock you that much on these days?
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Five dollars so my mom allows me to spend.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Okay, ten dollars each.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
What do we get for ten dollars every?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Ting? You want everything?
Speaker 11 (11:49):
E three too?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's funny what leads to prostitution in different parts of
the country. In New Jersey, it could be a pedicure.
In Ohio, it's ice fishing.
Speaker 12 (12:00):
The mayor of the City of Hudson is in the
spotlight for saying ice fishing could lead to prostitution. That
comment was made during a discussion on allowing residents to
ice fish on Hudson and Springs Lake. Our lydia Espara
has reaction.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
If you live in northeast Ohio, ice fishing is as
popular as snowboarding. Hudson resident Michael Whittaker has been fishing
in this hole his entire life and didn't notice the
sign that recently went up.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I've been ice fish year forever. Like there's like this
is a this is my spot, you.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
Know, he told our Carl Bachtel. He wrote city council
to ask why it was banned, and he was surprised
at Hudson's Mayor, Craig Schubert's comments about the topic that
even had the fish flipping.
Speaker 12 (12:45):
And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then
that leads to another problem, prostitution.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
A comment so shocking that even Council President Chris Foster's
face tells the story that this could be a fishtail.
Speaker 13 (13:01):
And now you got the police chief and the police department.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Invaulved and I see you laughing already.
Speaker 14 (13:06):
Well, I yes, and I shouldn't laugh when people bring
concerns up.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Kate Chateleman is word one council person, and she says
this is not the first time the mayor has made
controversial statements.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
What has he said before?
Speaker 14 (13:21):
We actually last ball, he went to a school board
meeting and demanded the resignation of five school board members
because the prompts being used in a creative writing class
were considered pornography.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Shalleman says the comments led to death threats to several
board members, and this one has now gone viral. Whitaker
isn't taking the bait. He knows ice fishing can be dangerous.
You fish at your own risk, but the sport is
worth fighting for it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Because it's addicting.
Speaker 14 (13:50):
There's no reason that it should be this fun to
catch four inch bluego through an eight inch.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
Hole, and the mayor should reel in his comments that
ice fishing and shanties lead to constitution.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We'll be out there to get away from women, some
of us. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Man Lydia Spira three News.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
If only Soon Bang had filmed you Shoon Lee sixty
seven years old and her clients, if only he had
filmed them and sold the film, it wouldn't have been prostitution. Oh, Chris,
you can't always believe what you hear.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
For example, everybody thinks that prostitution is illegal, but there
are always around it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All right, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Told if you were under arrest for prostitution, it's not prostitution.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You paid her to have sex.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, I paid her to have sex and we're filming it,
so technically it's not prostitution.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's a porno. Oh well, as long as you're filming
and selling it, it's legal. Enjoy your day. Remember, kids,
she's not a if she's an actress. The fella's name
is Soun Bang Man. How perfect was that? Maybe his
parents had forethought or maybe soon Bang means something there
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that it just doesn't mean here, but it translates beautifully.
Asian names, you gotta love them. Remember those Asian pilots
who crashed the plane.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You have new information now. Also on the plane crash,
k TV has just learned the names of the four
pilots who are on board the flight. They are Captain
some Ting, Wong We Too Low, Ho Lee Fuk, and
Bang dang Ao. The NTSB has confirmed these are the
names of the pilots on board flight two fourteen when
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it crashed. We are working to determine exactly what roles
each of them played during the landing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
On Saturday, it was confirmed. It was confirmed. They had
confirmed the names. That's true, they had confirmed the names.
It was all a prank from an intern and he
pulled it off. That guy would be a lot of fun.
You know, every time I hear those names, I laugh
at a different one and then and then it hits.
You wait a second, the four names are as they're
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going down, and then they hit and then you realize
the absolute genius of the telling of the story through
the names.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Do it again, Ramon, you have new information now also
on the plane crash. K TV has just learned the
names of the four pilots who are on board the flight.
They are Captain some Ting, Wong We Too Low, to
f and Bang dang Out. The NTSB has confirmed these
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are the.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Name Ramon, how did the st D escape from the
hospital on crotches?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So the raid on Colony Ridge yesterday and CEO John Harris,
he's the brother of Trey Harris, who the fellow was
our guest, puts out a statement saying, yeah, yeah, no, no,
we're good. We're very very supportive of your efforts.
Speaker 15 (17:18):
Khou with the story in Colony Ridge, video from a
resident shows officials seemingly making an arrest and in this
neighborhood something. Similardo says he and his family witness a
truck being pulled over at seven am in front of
his home, taking this photo where you can see what
appears to be law enforcement officials and men with their
hands behind their backs.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
They basically forced them out. My neighbor.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
He was screaming at them, basically saying that to not speak.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
To not resist.
Speaker 15 (17:49):
His parents are now afraid.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They were just scared.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Day.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We're crying.
Speaker 15 (17:53):
This a few hours before Governor Abbott announced ice operations
targeting this community. Quote criminals and illegal imigrants here. We
saw homeland security in the area something. Residents tell us
they noticed a lot today.
Speaker 13 (18:06):
I know good people in this area, good families, not
all our criminals.
Speaker 15 (18:11):
Pastor William Yanna at Santi Stevan Episcopal Church says he's
gotten several calls from members of his congregation.
Speaker 13 (18:18):
Very scare, very very scare, especially the kids.
Speaker 15 (18:21):
Says that is Spinosa with Fiel made their way here
to inform the community of their rights, noticing what he
says were over a dozen traffic stops by DPS.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
Twelve stops in about an hour is not normal. There's
something happening in.
Speaker 15 (18:33):
This Espinosa says. Operations like this cause unnecessary fear in
the community.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
We encouraged the governor to do his job, to have
DPS do your job and do proper investigations to get
to the actual criminals, not just cast a wide open edwork.
Speaker 15 (18:48):
Now, within the last hour, I did hear back from
Colony Ridge and they sent us a statement that says
they are grateful for the effort to root out quote
criminal illegals in Texas and that DPS officers have been
working throughout the area for more than two years, saying
they know who the bad guys are and that they
fully support these efforts.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Is it just me or did that pastor sound like
Consuela the Maid and Family guy? Jeez, can you give
me a break here?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
I clean toilet?
Speaker 10 (19:16):
What I clean toilet?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm on the Johney, please leave.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Okay, this trash.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Trash what No, that's a functioning lamp. No, he's okay,
I take home. What the hell is happening right now?
Let's see if Jim can lay Consuela the maid next
to that pastor side by side and uh and see
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if they don't sound exactly the same. This could be
six oh four Houston gronde Gole was some actual reporting
here on the Texas lotto rigging scandal. I was sent
a video from a mutual friend with Dan Patrick, the
Lieutenant Governor, and Dan Patrick was out at a I
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guess it was a convenience store on one side and
another business on the back. And when I saw it,
my immediate thought was, what's the lieutenant governor doing out
at a site like this. We've got people to do investigations.
But then I saw it and I thought, well, this
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is a pretty good way to bring attention to a problem.
And it was basically laid out to suggest quite clearly
that in the same square footage, when you just took
the perimeter of the building, they sold the ticket and
the person lived or worked that won the ticket one
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of the chances and I'm told now that this is
starting to e merge, that we're going to find out
that there's more of this that the and it's outside.
It's foreign influences who are coming in, and it's like,
you know, we're talking Ocean's eleven kind of stuff. It's
worth the time to set up these schemes because you're
talking eighty ninety million dollars at a pop. Here was
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the Houston Chronicle story.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
On Wednesday, a panel of state officials gathered to talk
about the Texas Lottery Commission's budget, but the hearing quickly
turned into something else.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
And then somebody showed up with about eleven million dollars
in cash to buy tickets. Would you consider that an
ordinary operation?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Suddenly lawmakers wanted to hear more about the operation we've
been writing about for nearly a year. In April twenty
twenty three, a single lottery player calling itself Rook Texas,
guaranteed it would win the ninety five million dollars Lotto
Texas jackpot by buying up every number combination. More than
twenty five million tickets, by our calculations, were clear to
twenty min million dollar profit. We reported how the Texas
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Lottery Commission went out of its way to help the
operations organizers, but lawmakers saw a bigger potential problem.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If I was trying to launder money in this country,
I would buy twenty five million dollars worth of lottery tickets.
This is ninety nine percent probability of money laundry.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Lottery commissioners, who are appointed by gog Berner Greg Abbott agreed.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
To answer your question, yes, that that sounds incredibly.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Irregular, And for the.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
First time since we've covered this story, the lottery's director
admitted that maybe helping a single buyer arranged to win
a guaranteed jackpot win wasn't such a great idea.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I think it definitely hurt the integrity and perception of
that game, and all.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
That was before the real bombshell dropped.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
I'm here today as legal counsel to make the following
statement on behalf of a client group victimized by a
long running criminal conspiracy between the Texas Lottery Commission, former
Lottery director Gary grief Igt, and the publicly traded nasbat
Companylottery dot com.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
In a letter read to legislators, a group of aggrieved
investors called the April twenty twenty three Lotto Texas draw
the biggest money long during scheme in global lottery history.
The Senator seemed alarmed that the Lottery Commission hadn't already
started investigating.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Let me ask you us a question, then, do you
think you should receive priority? Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
They also called out the Lottery Commission's recently retired director
for allowing the controversial buy and.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
Gary Grief was the executive director at the time and
pretty much seemed like turned a blind eye to this.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
If not was eighteen and helping.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
This, then they called in the big guns.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
We just need to call them Texas rangers immediately.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
You can read more about the hearing and how a
single buyer stacked the odds in a Texas lottery game
in the Houston Chronicle. Will be staying on this story.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know well. Senator Bob Hall, who has been leading
the charge on them, made a statement quote one step
at a time. The crime syndicate inside the Texas Lottery
Commission completely destroyed what the nineteen ninety two Texas legislature
intended to be an honest game of chance with specific
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guardrails to protect miners and addicts. So we can't have
legalized gambling in Texas. There are a couple of reasons.
One is some people will say God doesn't want you
to and those same people love to wink wink, nod
nod head to Louisiana to gamble. Okay, so you're not
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really opposed to it. Maybe it makes it more thrilling
that it's illegal here and you're breaking the law to
go to Louisiana to gamble instead of being able to
drive twenty minutes to do it. Okay, you need that.
It's the people who push for the Temperance Union and
like to drink on the side. They it's a fetish,
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it's a weirdness, but they do it. And there are
these types of people. But it's also the case that
God want God doesn't want gambling in Texas unless the
Indians do it, m or the government runs it and
guess what, look how it turned out the Michael Mary Show.
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Rarely this film penetrate so deeply that after you see something.
The example I would give is Singing in the Rain
from Clockwork Orange. You can never hear the Whimsicals singing
in the rain again. After the scene in Clockwork Orange
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where they beat the dude into paralysis the same you
will always at least that for me, I always have.
I can never hear this song again, which I had
probably heard a thousand times before that movie and not
envisioned there you know what was the four or five
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part harmony. The NSSA has now confirmed that they are
investigating employees quote secret sex chats, as Elon posted when
the story broke. Now we know what the employees were
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doing last week. Maybe that's why they couldn't tell us.
Chris Ruffo, has been a guest on the show before,
has revealed from his investigation that an NSA spokesman had
quote confirmed the authenticity of the secret sex chat and
the agency was taking administrative action against the employees who
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had reportedly abused the system. And what exactly supposedly happened
is that you've got government employees who are using a
private chat channel. A former NSA employee and a current
NSA employee provided chat logs from the NSA's into Link
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messaging program. This is a secured messaging program supposedly that
the Chinese or the media can't hack, but instead the
site had been taken over by the LGBTQ community within
the group, and it had evolved into discussing constantly sex, kink, polyamory,
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and castration. Some of the chat topics featuring male to
female transgender surgery, discussing hair removal, estrogen injections, and the
experience of sexual pleasure post castration. That's what our government employees.
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We're doing on a site that the NSA was investing
energy and money to keep private from the public and
presumably foreign interest who might do us harm locally. We've
got equal parts uselessness. ABC thirteen reports in clip number
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ten that the Public Works Department can't seem to fix
a water main that's been busted for over five months,
but they did admit, yeah, we're aware. We're aware it's busted.
We've been aware for five months, and we're not gonna
fix it now. I don't know if that's because they're
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on sex chats. I don't know if they're busy taking bribes.
I don't know if they're busy visiting their buddies who
worked for them a few weeks ago, who are now
in prison under the Turner administration. We just know they're
not fixing the waterman.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Resident here at Tellison that she has called three one
one four times within just the last few months. Go
ahead and take a look at this right behind me.
You can see that water just keeps gushing, and people
walking through the area are just avoiding this corner at
all costs, they tell me, because that water just keeps
flowing onto the streets. And the same resident tells me
she noticed the leak in late August and called three
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to one one in September to report it after it
wasn't fixed. In fact, according to the city's website, there
was a case number dating back to mid September. She
tells me she and others have made calls to the
city several times since. I'm also being told people are
having trouble walking along the sidewalk near the leak and
also crossing the street. It's also hard for families to
have strollers for their kids. On top of that, they're
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worries about what could potentially happen to the road.
Speaker 12 (29:48):
You can also see the road on that side once
these cars are gone, are just kind of starting to sink,
And I do worry about a sinkhole.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What if we have a giant sinkhole here now?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So the cities work a public workstip Arman did acknowledge
the situation. They sent us a statement that reads, in
part quotes, Houston Public Works is aware that the leak
is taking more than five months for repairs and understands
a frustration of seeing water loss in neighborhoods. They also
went out to say our team is dealing with a
backlog of repairs from the city's aging infrastructure, and that
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same stateman also did say the department is going to
fix the leak next Wednesday and right now they're also
working on adding more crew members as well to address
the issues when it comes to repair times as well
as a city's aging infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Meanwhile, my mother went to an HISD school board meeting
at bel Air High School to tell the story of
a child who was being groomed for gender transition at
the school. They the school board didn't want to hear it,
so they cut her mic Hi.
Speaker 13 (30:54):
My name is Denny Spell. I'm a mom of four.
I've had a child in HISD before. I'm also the
Chapter two for Moms for Liberty Harris County, and I'm
here tonight to speak on behalf of a parent in HISD.
These are her words. My youngest daughter is now junior
at Belair High School within the last two years. We
were shocked to learn that the high school was actively
socially transitioning our daughter by calling her by a different
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name in pronounce. On the first day of ninth grade,
my daughter's theater teacher sent home an information sheet for
us to fill out. The second line of the sheet
asked for her pronouns. Multiple teachers started calling her by
a different name in pronounce. One teacher even went as
far as to cross out my daughter's legal name that
she had written on her paper and write her chosen
(31:38):
name in red ink. This occurred without our knowledge and
certainly without our consent. This goes against our Christian faith,
the advice of her therapist, and quite frankly, common sense
we met with her teachers, counselors, and the principal to
no avail, HISD is purposely and secretively transitioning Minor.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Thank you cut her mic. You don't. If you're on
the board of trustees of HISD. That's like the board
of directors of a company. You're not at the school
all day. Every day you are providing oversight and a
general vision. You're not there at the school delivering educational services,
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So you have to rely on whistleblowers and constituents or
stakeholders as they love to say, to tell you what
the hell's going on. Now you've got a woman who's
come down to do just that, and you're choosing to go, yep,
that's it, time up, get on out of hair, shut
her down because you don't want to hear that, because
(32:49):
you don't want to address it, don't. I think the
woman's name was Denise Bell.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
Is that what I heard?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Harris County Moms for Liberty. If somebody can put me
in touch with her, I'd like to put some air
under this story. My email address is through the website
Michael Barryshow dot com, and let's say send Michael an
email and either have Denise Bell herself do it, or
you do it and send me her phone number. I
would like to explore this story more. And if they're
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going to cut her mic, we have a few more
people listening than they do, and we're going to call
out each HISD school board member by name who did
not stand up and say, wait a minute, wait a minute.
If this is even ten percent true, this is very troubling.
Let's get this story on the record. And let's get
it investigated, which, as I understand, they did not. So
(33:43):
laws in your court, Denise Bell, and great job by
the way.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air to walk
us through a typical day for you. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late
that I just sort of space out for about an hour.
I just stare at my desk, but it looks like
I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after
launch too. I'd say in a given week, I probably
only do about fifteen minutes of real actual work. The
(00:41):
thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, It's that
I just don't care working.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Not five bottle verse.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Just tell us about this email and what it was
like receiving it and what you all have talked about
after getting it.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I got this email Saturday afternoon, about three pm, and
I felt absolutely infuriated getting this email with a demand
within forty eight hours to provide a response and what
I did within the last week or face termination.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
Managers that had to be in office yesterday, and we
waited there all day until maybe twelve one o'clock and
then it was kind of like a fire and range.
They mined us up, took our equipment, and.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Sent us home.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
His pride and passion taken away, Yes, and.
Speaker 8 (01:40):
Fine, so taking it again days you mine and you
nene A get credit gets fine.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'll admit I'm a little bit obsessed on the laying
off the government employees, the one and it gets me
as a woman that went on I can't remember seeing NMSNBC.
It's all the same. But she's talking about the fact
that she had to respond within forty eight hours what
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she had done this past week, and this wasn't enough time.
She wasn't able to It's unfair. She was insulted. But
you had time to book yourself on a TV show,
get to a studio, get makeup done and all dressed
(02:38):
up for it, and do the interview before that forty
eight hours elapsed. I think you had time to fill
out your report. Yeah, But of course it's not about
the time. What we're seeing now is something that if
we were to discuss, would be hard to explain. But
(02:59):
when it's laid bare on exhibition on national TV, it
becomes quite abundantly clear, and that is that government workers
don't feel they should be held accountable because they never
have been. They are the most entitled, they're better than you.
(03:25):
This is the mindset of the inspector when you're going, dude,
it's eight inches from the wall and you want it
to be nine inches. That's going to cost me twenty
eight thousand dollars. It's going to delay my project for
six months. I don't care. This is the mindset. You're
(03:45):
seeing it as clearly as possible, the idea. It's like
a simmering. What do they call that when people go
to work. Young people brag that they do it like
quiet or something like that. You remember the term for that,
Huh No, it's quitting. Quitting they call it where where
(04:09):
you basically don't care that you get fired, so you
just show up, don't do anything until they finally you
just don't put anything in. And young people, some young
people are very proud of that. That's kind of what
these government employees have been doing forever. I remember at
the city, I'd have people tell me. I'd say, hey,
we're having problems with old Sam Sami Badrin, and I
(04:30):
shouldn't say that's probably somebody's name with old Sam Samon
Badron and public works and we can't get him to
get his work done. And we got people complaining about
it that are trying to get projects going, and they'd say, counselmen,
we we can't get him to do anything. Well, let's
(04:50):
get him fired. Hadn't anybody been fired here in forever?
And if nobody is ever fired in an organization, that
organization is not going to be at maximum efficiency. People
get mad about let's take Bregman. They're upset, although people
(05:12):
are not as upset as I thought they would have been.
Are you noticing that? People? But they'll get upset that
you trade a player away without understanding that if this
organization or any organization is going to perform at peak performance,
they are going to have to be people who don't
make it. If everybody makes the team and everybody gets
(05:35):
to play, that's great. If you're eight but not in
the pros and you know you win the championship. And
a good GM is huddling with a good owner and saying,
all right, who contributed, but is up for a new
contract and is not worth the extra money that we
(05:57):
could spend that money on getting a better person. Well
that that kind of organizational development and maintenance, which it's
a constant to do, is not at play in the government.
It doesn't attract the kind of people with that mindset.
It doesn't reward the kind of people with that mindset.
And it doesn't have specific goals, it doesn't have a
(06:18):
clear mission, it doesn't have a purpose, it doesn't have measurables,
and if you don't have measurables, you're going to get
exactly what you see out of the government. There's a
story we'll get to in just a moment that near
NRG Stadium, residents have been waiting for over five months
for a water main break to be fixed, gallons of
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water gushing out since September, and the city has done
absolutely nothing. Public Work says they're aware, there's a league
and it's taken more than five months for repairs. You're aware,
and it's taken more than five months, and you're aware
how long it is and you're not doing anything. Remember
(07:06):
when the city told us not to run our taps,
not to open the tap when it was cold outside,
which is what you do to keep it from freezing up,
because we had to conserve water. There's your conserve water
big raid at Colony Ridge yesterday. We'll get to that
in just a moment. Trey Harris is John Harris, the
(07:29):
CEO out there put out a statement saying that he
supports this and he's grateful for the efforts of Tom
Homan and the guys. And then old Greg Abbott, as
he always does, got out in front of the parade.
He didn't know what was happening, and he said, yeah,
big raid at Colony Ridge, as if he had done
something about it. Oh well, that's interesting. The same Colony
(07:51):
Ridge you took all that money from the Harris Boys,
for the same Colony Ridge that had been donating so
any dollars to your account. Did you have no idea
what was going on out there or did you just
choose to look the other way? The same Colony Ridge
that we've had people from all over the country calling
(08:12):
us that they're aware of it, and you've done nothing.
This came from the Feds, by the way, Oh can
I can I get credit for it? Take a eighty
for five percent of people want? Okay, we're for it, everybody,
greg Avin here, We're for it.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Just put that on a Michael.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Barris So Michael Barry show.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I've never understood what that song's about. The owner of
a New Jersey spa is arrested for running a brothel
out of the business. Yeah. Yeah, I just want you
to understand the spa is not technically supposed to be
a brothel. Is just supposed to be a spa, because
(09:02):
you might have caught yourself thinking when I thought they
were the same thing. But that's not why the story
is going viral. A bust of a spa that's really
a brothel, it's not national news. The reason the story
has gone viral is that the owner's name is s
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n first name, b A n G last name. The
fella's name is Soon Bang. You go see Soon Bang?
How long will it take? Soon Bang? Take care of
you fast. In addition to that, the woman arrested for
(09:48):
prostitution at the spa is sixty seven years old. Soon
Bang sixty three is the owner of the Oasis Spa
spa in Denville, New Jersey, and he's been arrested accused
of promoting prostitution at his business. Yushun Lee, sixty seven,
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is accused of engaging in sexual activity for money at
the establishment. According to North Jersey dot Com. On February fifteenth,
the Denville Police Department executed a search warrant at the
Oasis Spa and at Bang's Fairview residence. A large quantity
of US currency was found in Popo. Say it is
indicative of prostitution. Bang was charged on a summons complaint
(10:32):
with third degree promoting prostitution, second degree money laundering, and
the disorderly person's offense of engaging with prostitution. Yushun Lee
was also charged by summons complaint with the disorderly person's
offense of engaging with prostitution. We here at the Michael
Barry Show, have exclusive undercover audio of sixty seven year
(10:54):
old Yushun Lee negotiating with the client.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Hey, our friend Vietnam, not just this bit it.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Well, baby, me so honey, Me so honey.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Keep lying me love you a long time?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You pun it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, we might party when you are much. Fifteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Fifteen dollars, you both say.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Fifteen dollars me love you long time. I want me
so horny.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
You ain't three dollars to bookoo?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Five dollars in me lock you that much on these days?
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Five dollars so my mom allows me to spend.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Okay, ten dollars each.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
What do we get for ten dollars every?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Ting? You want everything?
Speaker 11 (11:49):
E three too?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's funny what leads to prostitution in different parts of
the country. In New Jersey, it could be a pedicure.
In Ohio, it's ice fishing.
Speaker 12 (12:00):
The mayor of the City of Hudson is in the
spotlight for saying ice fishing could lead to prostitution. That
comment was made during a discussion on allowing residents to
ice fish on Hudson and Springs Lake. Our lydia Espara
has reaction.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
If you live in northeast Ohio, ice fishing is as
popular as snowboarding. Hudson resident Michael Whittaker has been fishing
in this hole his entire life and didn't notice the
sign that recently went up.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I've been ice fish year forever. Like there's like this
is a this is my spot, you.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
Know, he told our Carl Bachtel. He wrote city council
to ask why it was banned, and he was surprised
at Hudson's Mayor, Craig Schubert's comments about the topic that
even had the fish flipping.
Speaker 12 (12:45):
And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then
that leads to another problem, prostitution.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
A comment so shocking that even Council President Chris Foster's
face tells the story that this could be a fishtail.
Speaker 13 (13:01):
And now you got the police chief and the police department.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Invaulved and I see you laughing already.
Speaker 14 (13:06):
Well, I yes, and I shouldn't laugh when people bring
concerns up.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Kate Chateleman is word one council person, and she says
this is not the first time the mayor has made
controversial statements.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
What has he said before?
Speaker 14 (13:21):
We actually last ball, he went to a school board
meeting and demanded the resignation of five school board members
because the prompts being used in a creative writing class
were considered pornography.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Shalleman says the comments led to death threats to several
board members, and this one has now gone viral. Whitaker
isn't taking the bait. He knows ice fishing can be dangerous.
You fish at your own risk, but the sport is
worth fighting for it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Because it's addicting.
Speaker 14 (13:50):
There's no reason that it should be this fun to
catch four inch bluego through an eight inch.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
Hole, and the mayor should reel in his comments that
ice fishing and shanties lead to constitution.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We'll be out there to get away from women, some
of us. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Man Lydia Spira three News.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
If only Soon Bang had filmed you Shoon Lee sixty
seven years old and her clients, if only he had
filmed them and sold the film, it wouldn't have been prostitution. Oh, Chris,
you can't always believe what you hear.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
For example, everybody thinks that prostitution is illegal, but there
are always around it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
All right, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Told if you were under arrest for prostitution, it's not prostitution.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You paid her to have sex.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, I paid her to have sex and we're filming it,
so technically it's not prostitution.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's a porno. Oh well, as long as you're filming
and selling it, it's legal. Enjoy your day. Remember, kids,
she's not a if she's an actress. The fella's name
is Soun Bang Man. How perfect was that? Maybe his
parents had forethought or maybe soon Bang means something there
(15:07):
that it just doesn't mean here, but it translates beautifully.
Asian names, you gotta love them. Remember those Asian pilots
who crashed the plane.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You have new information now. Also on the plane crash,
k TV has just learned the names of the four
pilots who are on board the flight. They are Captain
some Ting, Wong We Too Low, Ho Lee Fuk, and
Bang dang Ao. The NTSB has confirmed these are the
names of the pilots on board flight two fourteen when
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it crashed. We are working to determine exactly what roles
each of them played during the landing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
On Saturday, it was confirmed. It was confirmed. They had
confirmed the names. That's true, they had confirmed the names.
It was all a prank from an intern and he
pulled it off. That guy would be a lot of fun.
You know, every time I hear those names, I laugh
at a different one and then and then it hits.
You wait a second, the four names are as they're
(16:06):
going down, and then they hit and then you realize
the absolute genius of the telling of the story through
the names.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Do it again, Ramon, you have new information now also
on the plane crash. K TV has just learned the
names of the four pilots who are on board the flight.
They are Captain some Ting, Wong We Too Low, to
f and Bang dang Out. The NTSB has confirmed these
(16:36):
are the.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Name Ramon, how did the st D escape from the
hospital on crotches?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So the raid on Colony Ridge yesterday and CEO John Harris,
he's the brother of Trey Harris, who the fellow was
our guest, puts out a statement saying, yeah, yeah, no, no,
we're good. We're very very supportive of your efforts.
Speaker 15 (17:18):
Khou with the story in Colony Ridge, video from a
resident shows officials seemingly making an arrest and in this
neighborhood something. Similardo says he and his family witness a
truck being pulled over at seven am in front of
his home, taking this photo where you can see what
appears to be law enforcement officials and men with their
hands behind their backs.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
They basically forced them out. My neighbor.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
He was screaming at them, basically saying that to not speak.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
To not resist.
Speaker 15 (17:49):
His parents are now afraid.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They were just scared.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Day.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We're crying.
Speaker 15 (17:53):
This a few hours before Governor Abbott announced ice operations
targeting this community. Quote criminals and illegal imigrants here. We
saw homeland security in the area something. Residents tell us
they noticed a lot today.
Speaker 13 (18:06):
I know good people in this area, good families, not
all our criminals.
Speaker 15 (18:11):
Pastor William Yanna at Santi Stevan Episcopal Church says he's
gotten several calls from members of his congregation.
Speaker 13 (18:18):
Very scare, very very scare, especially the kids.
Speaker 15 (18:21):
Says that is Spinosa with Fiel made their way here
to inform the community of their rights, noticing what he
says were over a dozen traffic stops by DPS.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
Twelve stops in about an hour is not normal. There's
something happening in.
Speaker 15 (18:33):
This Espinosa says. Operations like this cause unnecessary fear in
the community.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
We encouraged the governor to do his job, to have
DPS do your job and do proper investigations to get
to the actual criminals, not just cast a wide open edwork.
Speaker 15 (18:48):
Now, within the last hour, I did hear back from
Colony Ridge and they sent us a statement that says
they are grateful for the effort to root out quote
criminal illegals in Texas and that DPS officers have been
working throughout the area for more than two years, saying
they know who the bad guys are and that they
fully support these efforts.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Is it just me or did that pastor sound like
Consuela the Maid and Family guy? Jeez, can you give
me a break here?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
I clean toilet?
Speaker 10 (19:16):
What I clean toilet?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'm on the Johney, please leave.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Okay, this trash.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Trash what No, that's a functioning lamp. No, he's okay,
I take home. What the hell is happening right now?
Let's see if Jim can lay Consuela the maid next
to that pastor side by side and uh and see
(19:50):
if they don't sound exactly the same. This could be
six oh four Houston gronde Gole was some actual reporting
here on the Texas lotto rigging scandal. I was sent
a video from a mutual friend with Dan Patrick, the
Lieutenant Governor, and Dan Patrick was out at a I
(20:13):
guess it was a convenience store on one side and
another business on the back. And when I saw it,
my immediate thought was, what's the lieutenant governor doing out
at a site like this. We've got people to do investigations.
But then I saw it and I thought, well, this
(20:34):
is a pretty good way to bring attention to a problem.
And it was basically laid out to suggest quite clearly
that in the same square footage, when you just took
the perimeter of the building, they sold the ticket and
the person lived or worked that won the ticket one
(20:56):
of the chances and I'm told now that this is
starting to e merge, that we're going to find out
that there's more of this that the and it's outside.
It's foreign influences who are coming in, and it's like,
you know, we're talking Ocean's eleven kind of stuff. It's
worth the time to set up these schemes because you're
talking eighty ninety million dollars at a pop. Here was
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the Houston Chronicle story.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
On Wednesday, a panel of state officials gathered to talk
about the Texas Lottery Commission's budget, but the hearing quickly
turned into something else.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
And then somebody showed up with about eleven million dollars
in cash to buy tickets. Would you consider that an
ordinary operation?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Suddenly lawmakers wanted to hear more about the operation we've
been writing about for nearly a year. In April twenty
twenty three, a single lottery player calling itself Rook Texas,
guaranteed it would win the ninety five million dollars Lotto
Texas jackpot by buying up every number combination. More than
twenty five million tickets, by our calculations, were clear to
twenty min million dollar profit. We reported how the Texas
(22:03):
Lottery Commission went out of its way to help the
operations organizers, but lawmakers saw a bigger potential problem.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If I was trying to launder money in this country,
I would buy twenty five million dollars worth of lottery tickets.
This is ninety nine percent probability of money laundry.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Lottery commissioners, who are appointed by gog Berner Greg Abbott agreed.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
To answer your question, yes, that that sounds incredibly.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Irregular, And for the.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
First time since we've covered this story, the lottery's director
admitted that maybe helping a single buyer arranged to win
a guaranteed jackpot win wasn't such a great idea.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I think it definitely hurt the integrity and perception of
that game, and all.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
That was before the real bombshell dropped.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
I'm here today as legal counsel to make the following
statement on behalf of a client group victimized by a
long running criminal conspiracy between the Texas Lottery Commission, former
Lottery director Gary grief Igt, and the publicly traded nasbat
Companylottery dot com.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
In a letter read to legislators, a group of aggrieved
investors called the April twenty twenty three Lotto Texas draw
the biggest money long during scheme in global lottery history.
The Senator seemed alarmed that the Lottery Commission hadn't already
started investigating.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Let me ask you us a question, then, do you
think you should receive priority? Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
They also called out the Lottery Commission's recently retired director
for allowing the controversial buy and.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
Gary Grief was the executive director at the time and
pretty much seemed like turned a blind eye to this.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
If not was eighteen and helping.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
This, then they called in the big guns.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
We just need to call them Texas rangers immediately.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
You can read more about the hearing and how a
single buyer stacked the odds in a Texas lottery game
in the Houston Chronicle. Will be staying on this story.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know well. Senator Bob Hall, who has been leading
the charge on them, made a statement quote one step
at a time. The crime syndicate inside the Texas Lottery
Commission completely destroyed what the nineteen ninety two Texas legislature
intended to be an honest game of chance with specific
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guardrails to protect miners and addicts. So we can't have
legalized gambling in Texas. There are a couple of reasons.
One is some people will say God doesn't want you
to and those same people love to wink wink, nod
nod head to Louisiana to gamble. Okay, so you're not
(24:38):
really opposed to it. Maybe it makes it more thrilling
that it's illegal here and you're breaking the law to
go to Louisiana to gamble instead of being able to
drive twenty minutes to do it. Okay, you need that.
It's the people who push for the Temperance Union and
like to drink on the side. They it's a fetish,
(25:00):
it's a weirdness, but they do it. And there are
these types of people. But it's also the case that
God want God doesn't want gambling in Texas unless the
Indians do it, m or the government runs it and
guess what, look how it turned out the Michael Mary Show.
(25:25):
Rarely this film penetrate so deeply that after you see something.
The example I would give is Singing in the Rain
from Clockwork Orange. You can never hear the Whimsicals singing
in the rain again. After the scene in Clockwork Orange
(25:51):
where they beat the dude into paralysis the same you
will always at least that for me, I always have.
I can never hear this song again, which I had
probably heard a thousand times before that movie and not
envisioned there you know what was the four or five
(26:11):
part harmony. The NSSA has now confirmed that they are
investigating employees quote secret sex chats, as Elon posted when
the story broke. Now we know what the employees were
(26:31):
doing last week. Maybe that's why they couldn't tell us.
Chris Ruffo, has been a guest on the show before,
has revealed from his investigation that an NSA spokesman had
quote confirmed the authenticity of the secret sex chat and
the agency was taking administrative action against the employees who
(26:52):
had reportedly abused the system. And what exactly supposedly happened
is that you've got government employees who are using a
private chat channel. A former NSA employee and a current
NSA employee provided chat logs from the NSA's into Link
(27:14):
messaging program. This is a secured messaging program supposedly that
the Chinese or the media can't hack, but instead the
site had been taken over by the LGBTQ community within
the group, and it had evolved into discussing constantly sex, kink, polyamory,
(27:40):
and castration. Some of the chat topics featuring male to
female transgender surgery, discussing hair removal, estrogen injections, and the
experience of sexual pleasure post castration. That's what our government employees.
(28:01):
We're doing on a site that the NSA was investing
energy and money to keep private from the public and
presumably foreign interest who might do us harm locally. We've
got equal parts uselessness. ABC thirteen reports in clip number
(28:26):
ten that the Public Works Department can't seem to fix
a water main that's been busted for over five months,
but they did admit, yeah, we're aware. We're aware it's busted.
We've been aware for five months, and we're not gonna
fix it now. I don't know if that's because they're
(28:48):
on sex chats. I don't know if they're busy taking bribes.
I don't know if they're busy visiting their buddies who
worked for them a few weeks ago, who are now
in prison under the Turner administration. We just know they're
not fixing the waterman.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Resident here at Tellison that she has called three one
one four times within just the last few months. Go
ahead and take a look at this right behind me.
You can see that water just keeps gushing, and people
walking through the area are just avoiding this corner at
all costs, they tell me, because that water just keeps
flowing onto the streets. And the same resident tells me
she noticed the leak in late August and called three
(29:22):
to one one in September to report it after it
wasn't fixed. In fact, according to the city's website, there
was a case number dating back to mid September. She
tells me she and others have made calls to the
city several times since. I'm also being told people are
having trouble walking along the sidewalk near the leak and
also crossing the street. It's also hard for families to
have strollers for their kids. On top of that, they're
(29:44):
worries about what could potentially happen to the road.
Speaker 12 (29:48):
You can also see the road on that side once
these cars are gone, are just kind of starting to sink,
And I do worry about a sinkhole.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What if we have a giant sinkhole here now?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So the cities work a public workstip Arman did acknowledge
the situation. They sent us a statement that reads, in
part quotes, Houston Public Works is aware that the leak
is taking more than five months for repairs and understands
a frustration of seeing water loss in neighborhoods. They also
went out to say our team is dealing with a
backlog of repairs from the city's aging infrastructure, and that
(30:18):
same stateman also did say the department is going to
fix the leak next Wednesday and right now they're also
working on adding more crew members as well to address
the issues when it comes to repair times as well
as a city's aging infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Meanwhile, my mother went to an HISD school board meeting
at bel Air High School to tell the story of
a child who was being groomed for gender transition at
the school. They the school board didn't want to hear it,
so they cut her mic Hi.
Speaker 13 (30:54):
My name is Denny Spell. I'm a mom of four.
I've had a child in HISD before. I'm also the
Chapter two for Moms for Liberty Harris County, and I'm
here tonight to speak on behalf of a parent in HISD.
These are her words. My youngest daughter is now junior
at Belair High School within the last two years. We
were shocked to learn that the high school was actively
socially transitioning our daughter by calling her by a different
(31:17):
name in pronounce. On the first day of ninth grade,
my daughter's theater teacher sent home an information sheet for
us to fill out. The second line of the sheet
asked for her pronouns. Multiple teachers started calling her by
a different name in pronounce. One teacher even went as
far as to cross out my daughter's legal name that
she had written on her paper and write her chosen
(31:38):
name in red ink. This occurred without our knowledge and
certainly without our consent. This goes against our Christian faith,
the advice of her therapist, and quite frankly, common sense
we met with her teachers, counselors, and the principal to
no avail, HISD is purposely and secretively transitioning Minor.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Thank you cut her mic. You don't. If you're on
the board of trustees of HISD. That's like the board
of directors of a company. You're not at the school
all day. Every day you are providing oversight and a
general vision. You're not there at the school delivering educational services,
(32:24):
So you have to rely on whistleblowers and constituents or
stakeholders as they love to say, to tell you what
the hell's going on. Now you've got a woman who's
come down to do just that, and you're choosing to go, yep,
that's it, time up, get on out of hair, shut
her down because you don't want to hear that, because
(32:49):
you don't want to address it, don't. I think the
woman's name was Denise Bell.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
Is that what I heard?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Harris County Moms for Liberty. If somebody can put me
in touch with her, I'd like to put some air
under this story. My email address is through the website
Michael Barryshow dot com, and let's say send Michael an
email and either have Denise Bell herself do it, or
you do it and send me her phone number. I
would like to explore this story more. And if they're
(33:22):
going to cut her mic, we have a few more
people listening than they do, and we're going to call
out each HISD school board member by name who did
not stand up and say, wait a minute, wait a minute.
If this is even ten percent true, this is very troubling.
Let's get this story on the record. And let's get
it investigated, which, as I understand, they did not. So
(33:43):
laws in your court, Denise Bell, and great job by
the way.
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