January 6, 2026 • 32 mins
Michael dives into Minnesota’s fraud scandal, Harris County’s forged judicial filings, and the bizarre logic of modern politicians—mixed with wild real‑life stories only this show can deliver.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Look at me, sure,
look at me. Sure, I'm the company now.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sure, Taylor, I'm looking right at you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
My administration has been taking.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Fast, decisive action to solve this crisis. We'll win the
fight against the fraudsters. But the political gamesmanship we're seeing
from Republicans is only making that fight harder.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We've got conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares demanding access to
our children.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We've got the President.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Of the United States demonizing our Smali neighbors and wrongfully
confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's discussed and it's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Republicans are playing politics with the future.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Of the state. It's shameful.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
In the past three years, eighty seven defendants have been charged,
sixty one convicted. The majority of them are Somali American.
Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali population. The perpetrators are
accused of ripping off state run programs intended to feed
low income kids, house the disabled, and provide services to
autistic children.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What you're seeing is the ultimate opportunity.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Cost of electing a vacuus virtue signaler with no skills
at all. While he was pushing tampons and trans and
men's rooms, the Somalis were ripping off the state like
it was a twenty four hour mini mart.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Because I reflect on this moment with my family and
my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion
that I can't give a political campaign by all. Every
minute that I spend defending my own political interest would
be a minute I can't spend defending the people of
Minnesota against the criminals who pray on your generosity.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well as we expected Tim Waltz announcing yesterday that he
would not be seeking re election to be the governor
of Minnesota, this occurring at the last minute, when all
preparations had been made for his re election run, and
shortly before the election.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I suspect.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That this is about more than what has been revealed,
and that this is about what we'll be revealed, that
there is more to be disclosed. If in fact, this
investigation by the FBI and the lawyers of the Department
of Justice is proceeding a pace.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Waltz might not know every detail, but he knows.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That there is a lot out there, and that it
only gets worse tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So why does he resign? What good does that do?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
If he resigns, it blunts the edge on the desire
to prosecute him. You ever notice that when someone is
in office and they're caught committing a crime, a major part,
and sometimes the only part of their plea is that
they will step down and not seek reelection. Well, what
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about the guy that works at a chemical plan. He
doesn't have that option. Hey, I did this horrible thing.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You caught me? You what? Hey what?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'll quit my job at the plant as my punishment.
In politics, that becomes the punishment. It is an acknowledgment
that the only thing that matters to that person is
the power and the position, and that they will give
that up as their punishment. The average person doesn't have
that opportunity. We'll get to those things by first, Ramon,
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did you hear about the cat that swallowed the whole
ball of yarn.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Shed? Mittens?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, I told you the story about my friend and
the girl who.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Who the upper decker. I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I told you about the girl that left the upper
decker for my friend.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But she also stole his dog when she broke into
the house through.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The dog door.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The worst part about that is he had a camera
in the house, so the camera captures her crawling through
the dog door before she begins to commit her series
of very weird, unhinged crimes. She's so unhinged that my buddy,
a marine who does not shy away from a fight
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in fact, in fact, goes looking for him. When I
first told the story and posted it to social media,
said maybe you should take it down. She may see it,
to which I said, if you're scared of her, that
tells me a lot, because this guy's not scared of anybody.
I mean he should be. It's not like, you know,
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he's Mike Tyson, but he's crazy. He fears nothing or
he fears no man. He does fear this crazy woman,
that's for sure. This from the Crazy Girlfriend Files. Investigators
say a woman burning her boyfriend's close on the barbecue
pit caused a huge apartment fire in Northeast Terrace County
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that damaged thirteen units.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The story from Fox twenty six.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
It all started at this apartment complex around noon.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That is when.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Firefighters say they first got the call about the domestic disturbance.
They found a fire when they arrived after a woman
lit her boyfriend's close on fire and a barbecue pit
on their balcony. Now authority to say she believed the
fire was out, but it re lit and quickly spread
through the building. In total, thirteen apartment units were damaged
by fire and smoke. The damage so severe that the
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second floor collapsed into the first.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Early when they had little they thought they had.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
I guess they thought they had put it all the
way out, but it started back up.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's probably like sparked back up a little dam broom
they came back back. I had working again to put
the fire.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
From neighbors reported a small fire to rekindle from the
earlier fire. Today came out and while we were investigating
the fire, bounces of small hotspots. The guys are going
in to check it out and one of them felt
to the floor that was collapsed that you get pull
on the floor. He's being transport to the hospital right now.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Condition That firefighter was taking to Memorial Herman and as
you heard there, he is in stable condition. Fortunately no
residents were hurt. As firefighters continued to work on this
place just behind me.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That's the one. I haven't seen a picture of her.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But on the matrix, I know, I know what quadrant
shoot belongs in. There's just certain women, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But you know what else?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
She's going to burn his clothes on a fire pit
like that? You know the corollary that goes to that.
You know why men go back to women like that?
My goodness alive. You know what's amazing is in her
mind that made sense at that point in her mind,
the logical, rational, reasonable thing to do would be to
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take his clothes and put him on the barbecue pit.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What is the is it lunsfruit? What is this stuff?
The lighter that everybody use?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It would kiss me off every day to see what's
going on in.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
My country to Michael Mary show, and this is my.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Damn country, I thought for this country, this is mine.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The official tune as conciliary for the show, Anna Johnston writes,
tis our happy Epiphany, that is King's Day. You can
now officially eat kingcakes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Every year.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Marty Gross season begins on twelfth Night, which is January sixth.
Twelfth Night represents the Christian holy day of the Epiphany.
The season is a time of celebration before Christian Lent
and as you know, lasts until Fat Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, it's not named after an eighties pop star. It's Epiphany. Epiphany.
She doesn't think you're alone now, She doesn't think you're
alone now.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Rama January sixth marks the feast of the Epiphany, when
the threes Wise Men visited the Christ Child.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
In New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It also means the launch of Carnival season. So Happy Carnival,
or for you, Brazilian's Carnival. May the odds be ever
in your favor. You know, I've never been one to
get real into things, you know, I'm kind of steady
as she goes going. But it's amazing to me. There's
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people forty fifty sixty who they've been getting dressed up
for Marty grow They've been you know, their float, their
Bacchus group.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's incredible. And I thought I knew.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I thought I knew from the outside as a passerby.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Of the culture for so many years.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But when we first added WJBO out of Baton Rouge
and then WR and O out of New Orleans, and
I was spending a lot of time there to meet
my show sponsors, to ingratiate myself with the sales crew
and with the administrative staff and all of that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I was just amazed. You know, there's several.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Months before all this starts, and then there's Marty Grass season,
and then when it's done, you know, you say, hey,
do we need to do this?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, I need some time, you know, I got, I got,
And you.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Think to yourself, my goodness, how much how much out
of your production does this whole thing take? And it's
a lot. I mean it's a big deal. It's it's
it's like they're going through an irs audit, you know,
a massive irs audit every year, or a massive you know,
your kid's wedding. You do just months that are kind
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of lost and all right, I'm coming up rare now.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And they do this.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Every single year. And the truth of the matter is,
if it was left to me, tradition would die. Because tradition,
when we talk about tradition, the stomping of the greats,
the running of the bulls, Marty Graw, whatever that might be, Halloween,
it requires a lot of time from people.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And yeah, what is oh, why.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is Anna Johnson my official Cuness conciliary instead of Eddie Martin,
Eddie Martini.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
No, well she is cutter, that's true.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
All the way is kind of cute for an old
man seventy years old, you get thirty two inch waist
seventy two years old. I'm sorry, not seventy two seventy
seventy seventy. But you know, if you want the honest truth,
and I'm not I don't want to speak ill of Eddie,
but you asked the question and you deserve an answer.
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I feel like, Eddie, these kuon ass edges if kind
of rounded out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Have you noticed that? Yeah, he's he's lost. No, No,
I'm not. I'm not criticizing. I'm just I'm observed.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's what I do observe, and maybe if I'd observe
and keep it myself will be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He has lost a little.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You see people from from foreign countries that come here
and and some of them never lose that accent.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And you think, man, here, you're seventy years old, how
did you not? How'd you you know?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
How did you not kind of pick up a little
of the local patois out of all this? But instead
you still talk like you just came off the boat.
And then you see those people who you wouldn't know
they were from another country. They they kind of they
they shaved down the edges of their accent and their
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their way of thought.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He he's a fan of LSU. Now, he's not obsessive.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He when they moved offices, I don't even think he
put up all his LSU stuff he used to.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I mean it was over the top and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You'd walk in there and it felt sticky in there,
you know, like a Randazzo's Marty King Kik had just
been finished and there was just sticky everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
it wasn't was it?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Where did he get his from?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But anyway, he's just he's not the He's not the
He did ask me the other day, I was kind
of proud of him because I don't know where it
came from. And he said, is Crockett gonna go to LSU?
Has Crockett considered LSU? And so that made me happy
that at least he hasn't completely forgotten where he came from.
An interesting thing is happening in the Democrat party. Four
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Harris County Democrat judicial candidates have withdrawn from their races
after their primary opponents filed lawsuits alleging their candidacy filings
contained forge signatures and other irregularities. We say every year,
every cycle, the only time you're ever going to burn
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a Democrat in Harris County is another Democrat to do it.
So you have four candidates for whom it is alleged
they forged the signatures to get onto the ballot.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Now everyone knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is what NPR did a big national story on
a few years ago in twenty nineteen, and it was
called BGM Black Girl Magic. So Rodney Ellis is recruiting
these black women, some of them have never practiced law,
and they're going to be a judge. Now, can you imagine,
high you're a high powered lawyer and you're ending up
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in court. Your client has paid you a lot of
money to be a tactician, a strategist, a smooth operator
to get them through this lawsuit. And you got somebody
up there that has never practice law, much less than
a judge, and she snapping her fingers, and all you
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could think at any moment is you know what? I
could see her burning her boyfriend's clothes on the barbecue
pick and burning down the entire apartment complex. You know
I could see her as a Harris County Treasurer stealing
somebody's car.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I really could. I could see.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Her snapping her fingers, losing her six inch nails, getting
their wigs snatched off. This ain't the sharpest pencil in pack.
But what has happened now is these white males on
the Harris County Judiciary who've been who've been targeted by
Rodney Ellis with black women are fighting back, and women.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
To Michael Berry show, It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
The four Democrats withdrawing from the Harris County Judicial Sherry
Democrat primary racist Alison Mathis a candidate for the one
hundred and eightieth Annie Anna Edy candidate for County Criminal
Court at Law number three, Angelo Reese McKinnon too in
her ninety fifth District Court, and Velda Faulkner one hundred
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ninetieth District Court. Harris County Democrat Party Chairman Mike Doyle
said all withdrew from their races last week. Yesterday, a
judge ordered the removal of three candidates from the ballot.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
The Houston chronicle reports. Quote.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
While the challenges levied against Faulkner and McKinnon were largely
built on procedural issues, including, in Faulkner's case, failing to
list the name of the office she sought on her
original filing, like she might not be real smart, those
brought against Mathis and Edie alleged the pair's election filings
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contained signatures that were quote forgeries or fraudulent.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
How would you know?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Can you imagine how bad the forgery and fraud had
to be that they were willing to call it prima
facia on its face?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
First look that that is a forgery.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Or maybe they wrote it in all the same, maybe
they misspelled people's names.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
My goodness.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I love really stupid democrats, not when they're in power,
but when they're trying to consume power, to achieve, to
consolidate power.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I love it. I love watching how stupid they can be.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Mathis and Edie use the same workers to collect signatures
to follow their candidacy. Mathis a criminal defense attorney, stood
by the circulator's work.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The allegations are unproven, unsubstatiated, And I feel like this
is an example of why people get disgusted with politics.
Excuse me, I don't think the fact that you're being
kicked off the ballot for allegedly submitting forgeries and frauds.
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I don't think that's why people hate politics. I think
people hate politics because people submit fraud and forgeries. These
allegations are unproven, unsubstantiated.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Isation of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the
Indianesian proximity in order to further segregate the crops of
my venaria infection, by me retain my liquid here for
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one moment, I'd.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Like to continue the redundance of my quote unquote intestinal tract.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
See, because you preclude on.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
The issue world domination, we'd only circumvent, excuse me, circumcised
the revelation that reflects the afrodisiatic symptoms which.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Now perpetrates in Jericholl's activation.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He goes on to say, I think when there's Democrat infighting,
it gives Republican arm strength to say these elections are
unfair and that's not true. See when one of us
Democrats exposes the other Democrat for fraud and corruption, then
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the Republicans, having pointed out that that's.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
What we do, it makes it look like they might
be right.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Matthis withdrew from the race to avoid potentially exorbitant legal
costs in fighting off her primary challenger, Stephanie Morales in
the courts. The complaints from Aguayo and Morales, who hired
the same lawyer to file similar pleadings, alleged Javon Smith
we have need.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Javon's in my house? Do I mean Javon's what's pretty name?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
As signature collector for judicial candidate seeking a place on
the primary ballot, personally forged dozens of signatures on behalf
of Edie and Mathis. Complaints challenging the filings noted alleged
similarities between Smith's handwriting and that of dozens of purported
residents who pledged their support for the Democrats. Dear God,
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somebody get me that list of signatures, because I'll bet
you that is a punch line in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I bet you that is a.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Doozy and organized theftren targeting retailers in southwest Houston was
run by a woman from Honduras who now has ice holds.
Investigators believe she placed orders for specific items like vitamins, cosmetics,
and Stanley cupps she might be working for Corey Crenshaw
ice Hold.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh not yeah, Icehole. Yeah you ice Hold. I don't
like you, you icehole, and then sent others out to
steal them. So she places the order, and then she
sends other people out to steal them. They target. They
targeted stores like Target, HB. Randall's, Kroger The Kroger's, and Academy.
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ABC thirteen with the story.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Well, look like a late night traffic stop. To the
people behind the camera, immediately felt wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Hell do we just see it?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Robert Harvey and Bruce Rubman are self described community activists
who patrol Galison County streets and regularly record police incidents.
Nearly few months ago, they came upon what they thought
was one near Galveson Strand.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
He was doing everything a normal police officer does.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He had people's ID in their hand.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
He was shining his flashlight at these people in the face.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
However, Harvey says he quickly realized something wasn't right.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
I noticed his gear in his outfit. It looked like
it just came in from TIMU. It wasn't like real cops.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Where Harvey says, there wasn't a police cruiser either In
the video, Harvey tried to get information.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
What's your name in badger? They don't have to get.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Harvey asked to see a badge. Eventually, he says one
was shown. It just hit me in the face. Moments later,
the man took off in a blue vehicle. Harvey says
they tracked down officers around the corner.
Speaker 11 (22:42):
I felt like this guy needed to be snitched on.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That is very dangerous what he was doing.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
You know, we don't like bad cops, but somebody pretending
to be a bad cop is.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Worse than a bad cop. Galveson.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Police said the incident sparked an investigation. Days ago, officers
arrested Joshua Warner. Officers say witnesses told them Warner tended
to be an ice agent. Right now, Warner faces two
counts in personally law enforcement, but Galls and detectives believe
there may.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Be more victims.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
That's why they put his information and photo out to
social media and asked anyone who may have been unlawfully
detained by Warner to contact police.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
After I shared the videos, stories came in from everywhere.
People were email I probably got one hundred emails. One
hundred messages on messenger people.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Harvey says he encouraged to contact police like he did
after seeing this.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
If you're shunning a flashlight in space right.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Now now it's Warner behind bars where he's being held
on a half a million dollar bond.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Very happy that they arrested him and got that dangerous
guy off the street before somebody got hurt.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You know, most people live their lives and never really
have to come in contact with a person like this.
Problem with Houston, and I love Houston, but the problem
with Houston is you can get some trash crop up
even in a previously normal area, say Hillcroft and West Timer,
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that should be a perfectly nice area, but it can
at any any given moment turn to trash, I mean
absolute trash. And if you are a retailer, you have
to take all comers. And that's when you really realize
how bad did you talk about the trash it walks
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through your door, just absolute utter rash.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Michael Barry in thes.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I grew up calling in an elevator. My English friend
calls it a lift. I guess we were just raised differently.
When I was a kid, there was a family in
our school that hosted a foreign exchange student from Chernobyl,
by far the brightest kid and the whole student the
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whole school. Let me try that again, because I must
line up. When I was a kid, there was a
family at our school that hosted a foreign exchange student
from Chernobyl, by far the brightest kid at the school.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You don't get enough good Chernobyl jokes.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
You really don't. Yeah, yeah, like a cobbler. Oh, I
like a good cobbler right now, blueberry? Or oh one
who call oh a shoe cobbler? Okay, all right, okay,
Michael writes Zara, I emailed you not too long ago
about missing out on the chance to have mister Chance
put together a tribute for my dad before he became
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ill and passed well. I found his old cowboy hat
in my mom's garage and it's in pretty bad shape.
I am looking to see if you can guide me
in the right direction to have it restored. I don't
have anyone to restore old cowboy hats. I don't know
who does that. Republic Boot Company sells a lot of hats,
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but they make them there, which is a pretty neat process.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
To watch it. You need to steam and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
There is a place in Aspen, Colorado called Keemo Sabi
and what they've done. You know, people don't people think
of Aspen as being a place that Kim Kardashian was
for New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's a rit sea where.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
The beer flow? What was it where the beer flows?
Like like what's the line in Dumb and Dumber? Anyway,
you know what I'm talking about? Where the wine flows,
like beer or something like that. So anyway, but Aspen
fashions itself as an Old West town.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
In fact, it was once part of Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And in fact Texas goes far further north than you
would realize, almost all the way to Wyoming if I
remember correctly. But there are parts of Colorado that are
more Old West than you know, the hanging tree outside
Judge Roy b Means Courthouse, you know, the long west
of the Pekash is sort of north of the Colorado River.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's very Old West.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
But they have this place called Chemo Sabi, and they
also have one in Vegas, and I don't know how
they position themselves like this. It's kind of like voodoo
donuts in Portland. Voodoo donuts are not that good. They're
just not I mean, people will argue that they are
because once something becomes famous, you can never you lose
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sight of the underlying quality or importance or meaning of it.
It just becomes a thing you do. And so people
wait in line for an hour for Voodoo Donuts. And
I remember when Voodoo Donuts came to Houston. They located
at the corner of about Waugh and Washington on the
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southwest corners Odd Corner actually, and there never It was
one of those spaces that had probably been a used
car lot for sixty years, and before that had probably
been an old gas station that got scraped. And so
this lot was was kind of a kind of a
pie shaped lot, and they put two things in there
and it was real odd, but there was a Voodoo Donuts.
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So everybody I knew who had been to Portland and
waited for an hour on Voodoo Donuts. And again, part
of it is the experience. You know you're you're going
there and it's never going to live up to the
hype because the hype is above what it could deliver anyway.
So we were getting a Foodoo Donuts, and I thought,
this is a Shipley's town, and I know you're gonna
say Shipley, no S. But it just needs to be Shipley's.
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It doesn't belong to the ship it does though. The
thing about it is it does belong. It did belong
to Lawrence Shipley till private Equity came in. Yeah it
was Lawrence Shipley. Yeah, yeah, because I have a buddy,
Jeff Shambley, who's buddies with him anyway, So it was Lawrence.
The donuts shot owned by Lawrence Shipley, which made it
ship lease.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It doesn't have an S in the box, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Doug Pike is the sales rep for Shipley's and he
has always held that account very closely. I've always resented that,
not really, but I've always wanted them to sponsor our show.
And the part of the reason was I don't eat
donuts because well two reasons. Number one is I grew
up eating donuts. Thusly, my dad would work a shutdown,
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which was where they would shut down the plant and
they would give everybody in the maintenance department who wanted it,
you could work around the clock for as long till
you passed out.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well that he would do that at Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
He would do it before summer so we could come
over and watch watch an Astros game and steal the
tallest hotel at the holiday end. And he would do
it right before school started, so we'd have money for
school clothes. And so he felt bad that he hadn't
been with the family on Friday evening, and so Saturday
morning when he would come in, when he would get
off six seven, eight o'clock, he would stop at Big
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Be Donuts in Ourses, a little bit tiny donut shop,
and most people did the little drive through, and we
would look forward to that, but we would look forward
to it to the point that we would just gorge
ourselves on milk and doughnuts.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Oh so good. And so that's how I learned to
eat donuts.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I never learned to eat donuts like a reasonable person
having one donut in the morning at at the office.
So when I started in radio, you would walk into
you walk onto the fifth floor, which was the studio floors,
and you'd walk past this kitchen area and there was
free food there every day. And the reason was the
restaurants would drop free food to you because they would
hope they'd get a free mention it was well worth it.
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And there were places that would literally just deliver food
every day. And I'll bet you in fifteen years, seventeen
years of working in that studio, I ate the food
that was literally there every day, few of them five times.
And the reason is I knew if I ate that
one time, I'd never be able to stop. And most
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people in radio get really, really fat, and I did too,
but it would have been a lot worse. So they
would have donuts delivered every day, and I think Doug
Pike would be the one to bring them right on
his way in.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And I always wanted.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Them to be a show sponsor, and it's so stupid.
I always wanted them to be a show sponsor. And
I always wanted gift cards so that I could have
Emily or whoever I needed. And every day I thought
I would bless people with a box of doughnuts, because
you know, good salesmen do that, the old Pfizer reps,
the old drug reps, the drug companies, pharmaceutical companies had
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a little had a little had a little formula. You
would hire a cute girls and give them a gift card.
And I know this because Levi Good and I were
running around together all the time, and every day at
Good Company Barbecue on Kirby.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Because it was so close to the mediciner. They would
call in their orders.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
This was before you could do it on an app
and they would call in their orders and get it early,
and they would come by and they would get you
would bring you'd bring barbecue to the offices. Well, somewhere
along the way, the pharmaceutical operations figured out, Hey, yeah,
there's a horny old doctor in the back that would
love to see this this girl. But you can't get
to the doctor because the girls, half of whom are
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sleeping with the doctor, don't want another cute girl coming
in with a gift card and uh bottled bleached blonde
and barbecue.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So they started handing. They started hiring handsome young men.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
My friend Darren AlCH, his then wife Tracy Aulch, was
the head of Pfizer for the region and that was
when Viagra hit. She was the number one manager in
the company and the whole in the whole deal, and
and that was that was their deal. Yes, so I
always wanted Shipleys to sponsor the show.
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Look at me, sure,
look at me. Sure, I'm the company now.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sure, Taylor, I'm looking right at you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
My administration has been taking.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Fast, decisive action to solve this crisis. We'll win the
fight against the fraudsters. But the political gamesmanship we're seeing
from Republicans is only making that fight harder.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We've got conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares demanding access to
our children.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We've got the President.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Of the United States demonizing our Smali neighbors and wrongfully
confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
It's discussed and it's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Republicans are playing politics with the future.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Of the state. It's shameful.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
In the past three years, eighty seven defendants have been charged,
sixty one convicted. The majority of them are Somali American.
Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali population. The perpetrators are
accused of ripping off state run programs intended to feed
low income kids, house the disabled, and provide services to
autistic children.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What you're seeing is the ultimate opportunity.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Cost of electing a vacuus virtue signaler with no skills
at all. While he was pushing tampons and trans and
men's rooms, the Somalis were ripping off the state like
it was a twenty four hour mini mart.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Because I reflect on this moment with my family and
my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion
that I can't give a political campaign by all. Every
minute that I spend defending my own political interest would
be a minute I can't spend defending the people of
Minnesota against the criminals who pray on your generosity.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well as we expected Tim Waltz announcing yesterday that he
would not be seeking re election to be the governor
of Minnesota, this occurring at the last minute, when all
preparations had been made for his re election run, and
shortly before the election.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I suspect.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That this is about more than what has been revealed,
and that this is about what we'll be revealed, that
there is more to be disclosed. If in fact, this
investigation by the FBI and the lawyers of the Department
of Justice is proceeding a pace.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Waltz might not know every detail, but he knows.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That there is a lot out there, and that it
only gets worse tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So why does he resign? What good does that do?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
If he resigns, it blunts the edge on the desire
to prosecute him. You ever notice that when someone is
in office and they're caught committing a crime, a major part,
and sometimes the only part of their plea is that
they will step down and not seek reelection. Well, what
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about the guy that works at a chemical plan. He
doesn't have that option. Hey, I did this horrible thing.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You caught me? You what? Hey what?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'll quit my job at the plant as my punishment.
In politics, that becomes the punishment. It is an acknowledgment
that the only thing that matters to that person is
the power and the position, and that they will give
that up as their punishment. The average person doesn't have
that opportunity. We'll get to those things by first, Ramon,
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did you hear about the cat that swallowed the whole
ball of yarn.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Shed? Mittens?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, I told you the story about my friend and
the girl who.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Who the upper decker. I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I told you about the girl that left the upper
decker for my friend.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But she also stole his dog when she broke into
the house through.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The dog door.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The worst part about that is he had a camera
in the house, so the camera captures her crawling through
the dog door before she begins to commit her series
of very weird, unhinged crimes. She's so unhinged that my buddy,
a marine who does not shy away from a fight
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in fact, in fact, goes looking for him. When I
first told the story and posted it to social media,
said maybe you should take it down. She may see it,
to which I said, if you're scared of her, that
tells me a lot, because this guy's not scared of anybody.
I mean he should be. It's not like, you know,
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he's Mike Tyson, but he's crazy. He fears nothing or
he fears no man. He does fear this crazy woman,
that's for sure. This from the Crazy Girlfriend Files. Investigators
say a woman burning her boyfriend's close on the barbecue
pit caused a huge apartment fire in Northeast Terrace County
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that damaged thirteen units.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The story from Fox twenty six.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
It all started at this apartment complex around noon.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That is when.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Firefighters say they first got the call about the domestic disturbance.
They found a fire when they arrived after a woman
lit her boyfriend's close on fire and a barbecue pit
on their balcony. Now authority to say she believed the
fire was out, but it re lit and quickly spread
through the building. In total, thirteen apartment units were damaged
by fire and smoke. The damage so severe that the
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second floor collapsed into the first.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Early when they had little they thought they had.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
I guess they thought they had put it all the
way out, but it started back up.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's probably like sparked back up a little dam broom
they came back back. I had working again to put
the fire.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
From neighbors reported a small fire to rekindle from the
earlier fire. Today came out and while we were investigating
the fire, bounces of small hotspots. The guys are going
in to check it out and one of them felt
to the floor that was collapsed that you get pull
on the floor. He's being transport to the hospital right now.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Condition That firefighter was taking to Memorial Herman and as
you heard there, he is in stable condition. Fortunately no
residents were hurt. As firefighters continued to work on this
place just behind me.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That's the one. I haven't seen a picture of her.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But on the matrix, I know, I know what quadrant
shoot belongs in. There's just certain women, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
But you know what else?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
She's going to burn his clothes on a fire pit
like that? You know the corollary that goes to that.
You know why men go back to women like that?
My goodness alive. You know what's amazing is in her
mind that made sense at that point in her mind,
the logical, rational, reasonable thing to do would be to
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take his clothes and put him on the barbecue pit.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What is the is it lunsfruit? What is this stuff?
The lighter that everybody use?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It would kiss me off every day to see what's
going on in.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
My country to Michael Mary show, and this is my.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Damn country, I thought for this country, this is mine.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The official tune as conciliary for the show, Anna Johnston writes,
tis our happy Epiphany, that is King's Day. You can
now officially eat kingcakes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Every year.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Marty Gross season begins on twelfth Night, which is January sixth.
Twelfth Night represents the Christian holy day of the Epiphany.
The season is a time of celebration before Christian Lent
and as you know, lasts until Fat Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, it's not named after an eighties pop star. It's Epiphany. Epiphany.
She doesn't think you're alone now, She doesn't think you're
alone now.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Rama January sixth marks the feast of the Epiphany, when
the threes Wise Men visited the Christ Child.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
In New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It also means the launch of Carnival season. So Happy Carnival,
or for you, Brazilian's Carnival. May the odds be ever
in your favor. You know, I've never been one to
get real into things, you know, I'm kind of steady
as she goes going. But it's amazing to me. There's
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people forty fifty sixty who they've been getting dressed up
for Marty grow They've been you know, their float, their
Bacchus group.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's incredible. And I thought I knew.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I thought I knew from the outside as a passerby.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Of the culture for so many years.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But when we first added WJBO out of Baton Rouge
and then WR and O out of New Orleans, and
I was spending a lot of time there to meet
my show sponsors, to ingratiate myself with the sales crew
and with the administrative staff and all of that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I was just amazed. You know, there's several.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Months before all this starts, and then there's Marty Grass season,
and then when it's done, you know, you say, hey,
do we need to do this?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, I need some time, you know, I got, I got,
And you.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Think to yourself, my goodness, how much how much out
of your production does this whole thing take? And it's
a lot. I mean it's a big deal. It's it's
it's like they're going through an irs audit, you know,
a massive irs audit every year, or a massive you know,
your kid's wedding. You do just months that are kind
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of lost and all right, I'm coming up rare now.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And they do this.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Every single year. And the truth of the matter is,
if it was left to me, tradition would die. Because tradition,
when we talk about tradition, the stomping of the greats,
the running of the bulls, Marty Graw, whatever that might be, Halloween,
it requires a lot of time from people.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And yeah, what is oh, why.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is Anna Johnson my official Cuness conciliary instead of Eddie Martin,
Eddie Martini.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
No, well she is cutter, that's true.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
All the way is kind of cute for an old
man seventy years old, you get thirty two inch waist
seventy two years old. I'm sorry, not seventy two seventy
seventy seventy. But you know, if you want the honest truth,
and I'm not I don't want to speak ill of Eddie,
but you asked the question and you deserve an answer.
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I feel like, Eddie, these kuon ass edges if kind
of rounded out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Have you noticed that? Yeah, he's he's lost. No, No,
I'm not. I'm not criticizing. I'm just I'm observed.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's what I do observe, and maybe if I'd observe
and keep it myself will be fine.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He has lost a little.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You see people from from foreign countries that come here
and and some of them never lose that accent.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And you think, man, here, you're seventy years old, how
did you not? How'd you you know?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
How did you not kind of pick up a little
of the local patois out of all this? But instead
you still talk like you just came off the boat.
And then you see those people who you wouldn't know
they were from another country. They they kind of they
they shaved down the edges of their accent and their
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their way of thought.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He he's a fan of LSU. Now, he's not obsessive.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He when they moved offices, I don't even think he
put up all his LSU stuff he used to.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I mean it was over the top and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You'd walk in there and it felt sticky in there,
you know, like a Randazzo's Marty King Kik had just
been finished and there was just sticky everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
it wasn't was it?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Where did he get his from?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But anyway, he's just he's not the He's not the
He did ask me the other day, I was kind
of proud of him because I don't know where it
came from. And he said, is Crockett gonna go to LSU?
Has Crockett considered LSU? And so that made me happy
that at least he hasn't completely forgotten where he came from.
An interesting thing is happening in the Democrat party. Four
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Harris County Democrat judicial candidates have withdrawn from their races
after their primary opponents filed lawsuits alleging their candidacy filings
contained forge signatures and other irregularities. We say every year,
every cycle, the only time you're ever going to burn
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a Democrat in Harris County is another Democrat to do it.
So you have four candidates for whom it is alleged
they forged the signatures to get onto the ballot.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Now everyone knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is what NPR did a big national story on
a few years ago in twenty nineteen, and it was
called BGM Black Girl Magic. So Rodney Ellis is recruiting
these black women, some of them have never practiced law,
and they're going to be a judge. Now, can you imagine,
high you're a high powered lawyer and you're ending up
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in court. Your client has paid you a lot of
money to be a tactician, a strategist, a smooth operator
to get them through this lawsuit. And you got somebody
up there that has never practice law, much less than
a judge, and she snapping her fingers, and all you
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could think at any moment is you know what? I
could see her burning her boyfriend's clothes on the barbecue
pick and burning down the entire apartment complex. You know
I could see her as a Harris County Treasurer stealing
somebody's car.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I really could. I could see.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Her snapping her fingers, losing her six inch nails, getting
their wigs snatched off. This ain't the sharpest pencil in pack.
But what has happened now is these white males on
the Harris County Judiciary who've been who've been targeted by
Rodney Ellis with black women are fighting back, and women.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
To Michael Berry show, It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
The four Democrats withdrawing from the Harris County Judicial Sherry
Democrat primary racist Alison Mathis a candidate for the one
hundred and eightieth Annie Anna Edy candidate for County Criminal
Court at Law number three, Angelo Reese McKinnon too in
her ninety fifth District Court, and Velda Faulkner one hundred
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ninetieth District Court. Harris County Democrat Party Chairman Mike Doyle
said all withdrew from their races last week. Yesterday, a
judge ordered the removal of three candidates from the ballot.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
The Houston chronicle reports. Quote.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
While the challenges levied against Faulkner and McKinnon were largely
built on procedural issues, including, in Faulkner's case, failing to
list the name of the office she sought on her
original filing, like she might not be real smart, those
brought against Mathis and Edie alleged the pair's election filings
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contained signatures that were quote forgeries or fraudulent.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
How would you know?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Can you imagine how bad the forgery and fraud had
to be that they were willing to call it prima
facia on its face?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
First look that that is a forgery.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Or maybe they wrote it in all the same, maybe
they misspelled people's names.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
My goodness.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I love really stupid democrats, not when they're in power,
but when they're trying to consume power, to achieve, to
consolidate power.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I love it. I love watching how stupid they can be.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Mathis and Edie use the same workers to collect signatures
to follow their candidacy. Mathis a criminal defense attorney, stood
by the circulator's work.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The allegations are unproven, unsubstatiated, And I feel like this
is an example of why people get disgusted with politics.
Excuse me, I don't think the fact that you're being
kicked off the ballot for allegedly submitting forgeries and frauds.
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I don't think that's why people hate politics. I think
people hate politics because people submit fraud and forgeries. These
allegations are unproven, unsubstantiated.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Isation of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the
Indianesian proximity in order to further segregate the crops of
my venaria infection, by me retain my liquid here for
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one moment, I'd.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Like to continue the redundance of my quote unquote intestinal tract.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
See, because you preclude on.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
The issue world domination, we'd only circumvent, excuse me, circumcised
the revelation that reflects the afrodisiatic symptoms which.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Now perpetrates in Jericholl's activation.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He goes on to say, I think when there's Democrat infighting,
it gives Republican arm strength to say these elections are
unfair and that's not true. See when one of us
Democrats exposes the other Democrat for fraud and corruption, then
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the Republicans, having pointed out that that's.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
What we do, it makes it look like they might
be right.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Matthis withdrew from the race to avoid potentially exorbitant legal
costs in fighting off her primary challenger, Stephanie Morales in
the courts. The complaints from Aguayo and Morales, who hired
the same lawyer to file similar pleadings, alleged Javon Smith
we have need.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Javon's in my house? Do I mean Javon's what's pretty name?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
As signature collector for judicial candidate seeking a place on
the primary ballot, personally forged dozens of signatures on behalf
of Edie and Mathis. Complaints challenging the filings noted alleged
similarities between Smith's handwriting and that of dozens of purported
residents who pledged their support for the Democrats. Dear God,
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somebody get me that list of signatures, because I'll bet
you that is a punch line in and of itself.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I bet you that is a.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Doozy and organized theftren targeting retailers in southwest Houston was
run by a woman from Honduras who now has ice holds.
Investigators believe she placed orders for specific items like vitamins, cosmetics,
and Stanley cupps she might be working for Corey Crenshaw
ice Hold.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh not yeah, Icehole. Yeah you ice Hold. I don't
like you, you icehole, and then sent others out to
steal them. So she places the order, and then she
sends other people out to steal them. They target. They
targeted stores like Target, HB. Randall's, Kroger The Kroger's, and Academy.
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ABC thirteen with the story.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Well, look like a late night traffic stop. To the
people behind the camera, immediately felt wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Hell do we just see it?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Robert Harvey and Bruce Rubman are self described community activists
who patrol Galison County streets and regularly record police incidents.
Nearly few months ago, they came upon what they thought
was one near Galveson Strand.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
He was doing everything a normal police officer does.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He had people's ID in their hand.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
He was shining his flashlight at these people in the face.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
However, Harvey says he quickly realized something wasn't right.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
I noticed his gear in his outfit. It looked like
it just came in from TIMU. It wasn't like real cops.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Where Harvey says, there wasn't a police cruiser either In
the video, Harvey tried to get information.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
What's your name in badger? They don't have to get.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Harvey asked to see a badge. Eventually, he says one
was shown. It just hit me in the face. Moments later,
the man took off in a blue vehicle. Harvey says
they tracked down officers around the corner.
Speaker 11 (22:42):
I felt like this guy needed to be snitched on.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That is very dangerous what he was doing.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
You know, we don't like bad cops, but somebody pretending
to be a bad cop is.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Worse than a bad cop. Galveson.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Police said the incident sparked an investigation. Days ago, officers
arrested Joshua Warner. Officers say witnesses told them Warner tended
to be an ice agent. Right now, Warner faces two
counts in personally law enforcement, but Galls and detectives believe
there may.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Be more victims.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
That's why they put his information and photo out to
social media and asked anyone who may have been unlawfully
detained by Warner to contact police.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
After I shared the videos, stories came in from everywhere.
People were email I probably got one hundred emails. One
hundred messages on messenger people.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Harvey says he encouraged to contact police like he did
after seeing this.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
If you're shunning a flashlight in space right.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Now now it's Warner behind bars where he's being held
on a half a million dollar bond.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Very happy that they arrested him and got that dangerous
guy off the street before somebody got hurt.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You know, most people live their lives and never really
have to come in contact with a person like this.
Problem with Houston, and I love Houston, but the problem
with Houston is you can get some trash crop up
even in a previously normal area, say Hillcroft and West Timer,
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that should be a perfectly nice area, but it can
at any any given moment turn to trash, I mean
absolute trash. And if you are a retailer, you have
to take all comers. And that's when you really realize
how bad did you talk about the trash it walks
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through your door, just absolute utter rash.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Michael Barry in thes.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I grew up calling in an elevator. My English friend
calls it a lift. I guess we were just raised differently.
When I was a kid, there was a family in
our school that hosted a foreign exchange student from Chernobyl,
by far the brightest kid and the whole student the
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whole school. Let me try that again, because I must
line up. When I was a kid, there was a
family at our school that hosted a foreign exchange student
from Chernobyl, by far the brightest kid at the school.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You don't get enough good Chernobyl jokes.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
You really don't. Yeah, yeah, like a cobbler. Oh, I
like a good cobbler right now, blueberry? Or oh one
who call oh a shoe cobbler? Okay, all right, okay,
Michael writes Zara, I emailed you not too long ago
about missing out on the chance to have mister Chance
put together a tribute for my dad before he became
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ill and passed well. I found his old cowboy hat
in my mom's garage and it's in pretty bad shape.
I am looking to see if you can guide me
in the right direction to have it restored. I don't
have anyone to restore old cowboy hats. I don't know
who does that. Republic Boot Company sells a lot of hats,
(26:02):
but they make them there, which is a pretty neat process.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
To watch it. You need to steam and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
There is a place in Aspen, Colorado called Keemo Sabi
and what they've done. You know, people don't people think
of Aspen as being a place that Kim Kardashian was
for New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's a rit sea where.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
The beer flow? What was it where the beer flows?
Like like what's the line in Dumb and Dumber? Anyway,
you know what I'm talking about? Where the wine flows,
like beer or something like that. So anyway, but Aspen
fashions itself as an Old West town.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
In fact, it was once part of Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And in fact Texas goes far further north than you
would realize, almost all the way to Wyoming if I
remember correctly. But there are parts of Colorado that are
more Old West than you know, the hanging tree outside
Judge Roy b Means Courthouse, you know, the long west
of the Pekash is sort of north of the Colorado River.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's very Old West.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
But they have this place called Chemo Sabi, and they
also have one in Vegas, and I don't know how
they position themselves like this. It's kind of like voodoo
donuts in Portland. Voodoo donuts are not that good. They're
just not I mean, people will argue that they are
because once something becomes famous, you can never you lose
(27:36):
sight of the underlying quality or importance or meaning of it.
It just becomes a thing you do. And so people
wait in line for an hour for Voodoo Donuts. And
I remember when Voodoo Donuts came to Houston. They located
at the corner of about Waugh and Washington on the
(27:58):
southwest corners Odd Corner actually, and there never It was
one of those spaces that had probably been a used
car lot for sixty years, and before that had probably
been an old gas station that got scraped. And so
this lot was was kind of a kind of a
pie shaped lot, and they put two things in there
and it was real odd, but there was a Voodoo Donuts.
(28:22):
So everybody I knew who had been to Portland and
waited for an hour on Voodoo Donuts. And again, part
of it is the experience. You know you're you're going
there and it's never going to live up to the
hype because the hype is above what it could deliver anyway.
So we were getting a Foodoo Donuts, and I thought,
this is a Shipley's town, and I know you're gonna
say Shipley, no S. But it just needs to be Shipley's.
(28:43):
It doesn't belong to the ship it does though. The
thing about it is it does belong. It did belong
to Lawrence Shipley till private Equity came in. Yeah it
was Lawrence Shipley. Yeah, yeah, because I have a buddy,
Jeff Shambley, who's buddies with him anyway, So it was Lawrence.
The donuts shot owned by Lawrence Shipley, which made it
ship lease.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It doesn't have an S in the box, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Doug Pike is the sales rep for Shipley's and he
has always held that account very closely. I've always resented that,
not really, but I've always wanted them to sponsor our show.
And the part of the reason was I don't eat
donuts because well two reasons. Number one is I grew
up eating donuts. Thusly, my dad would work a shutdown,
(29:29):
which was where they would shut down the plant and
they would give everybody in the maintenance department who wanted it,
you could work around the clock for as long till
you passed out.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well that he would do that at Christmas.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
He would do it before summer so we could come
over and watch watch an Astros game and steal the
tallest hotel at the holiday end. And he would do
it right before school started, so we'd have money for
school clothes. And so he felt bad that he hadn't
been with the family on Friday evening, and so Saturday
morning when he would come in, when he would get
off six seven, eight o'clock, he would stop at Big
(30:00):
Be Donuts in Ourses, a little bit tiny donut shop,
and most people did the little drive through, and we
would look forward to that, but we would look forward
to it to the point that we would just gorge
ourselves on milk and doughnuts.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Oh so good. And so that's how I learned to
eat donuts.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I never learned to eat donuts like a reasonable person
having one donut in the morning at at the office.
So when I started in radio, you would walk into
you walk onto the fifth floor, which was the studio floors,
and you'd walk past this kitchen area and there was
free food there every day. And the reason was the
restaurants would drop free food to you because they would
hope they'd get a free mention it was well worth it.
(30:39):
And there were places that would literally just deliver food
every day. And I'll bet you in fifteen years, seventeen
years of working in that studio, I ate the food
that was literally there every day, few of them five times.
And the reason is I knew if I ate that
one time, I'd never be able to stop. And most
(31:01):
people in radio get really, really fat, and I did too,
but it would have been a lot worse. So they
would have donuts delivered every day, and I think Doug
Pike would be the one to bring them right on
his way in.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And I always wanted.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Them to be a show sponsor, and it's so stupid.
I always wanted them to be a show sponsor. And
I always wanted gift cards so that I could have
Emily or whoever I needed. And every day I thought
I would bless people with a box of doughnuts, because
you know, good salesmen do that, the old Pfizer reps,
the old drug reps, the drug companies, pharmaceutical companies had
(31:35):
a little had a little had a little formula. You
would hire a cute girls and give them a gift card.
And I know this because Levi Good and I were
running around together all the time, and every day at
Good Company Barbecue on Kirby.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Because it was so close to the mediciner. They would
call in their orders.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
This was before you could do it on an app
and they would call in their orders and get it early,
and they would come by and they would get you
would bring you'd bring barbecue to the offices. Well, somewhere
along the way, the pharmaceutical operations figured out, Hey, yeah,
there's a horny old doctor in the back that would
love to see this this girl. But you can't get
to the doctor because the girls, half of whom are
(32:14):
sleeping with the doctor, don't want another cute girl coming
in with a gift card and uh bottled bleached blonde
and barbecue.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So they started handing. They started hiring handsome young men.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
My friend Darren AlCH, his then wife Tracy Aulch, was
the head of Pfizer for the region and that was
when Viagra hit. She was the number one manager in
the company and the whole in the whole deal, and
and that was that was their deal. Yes, so I
always wanted Shipleys to sponsor the show.
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