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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie show is on the air. Well, what's
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yellow and really painful if it gets in your eye?
A bulldozer? The Catholic priest asked the Jewish rabbi, when
will you finally start eating pork? Rabbi replied, at your wedding?
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Why didn't the orange make it up the hill? It
ran out of juice. A crazy scene on I five
near Village Parkway at Rayford Road, north of Houston. A
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latch wrapped around the door just come undone. The story
from JPRC TV What just happened? Number eleven. I could
talk for a minute, give you time, We'll try that again.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And standstill traffic. With his arms wide, this driver jumped
out of his suv and tried to stop two roping
steers running down the main lanes of I forty five northbound.
They got loose around eleven thirty Monday morning, on their
way back to County from the Houston Livestock show in Rodeo,
jumping barriers and shutting down the north freeway as law
enforcement ran after them.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
We live in Texas, so you know it's nothing new.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
At least more works at a nearby business, and.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I was like, give me a horse, I'll help out.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And watched as two of the loose steer ran onto
their property.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
They were just kind of running around in the parking
lot ate some grass back there.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
A latch came loose on the trailer door carrying thirty
one steers. The Harris County Sheriff's Office says the driver
kept control of twenty five of them, but the rest
had to be corralled by law enforcement.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Leagues.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Particular, cows are made for open They're meant to come
out of a shoot and take off running.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Deputies tried to keep up, wanting to keep an eye
on them at all times.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Some ended up in a wooded area.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
A DPS chopper kept watch overhead, and crews on the
ground worked to find them. Cell Phone video captured a
deputy guiding one steer through a median and back to
a trailer. Law enforcement suggests letting them do the hard work.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
You start honking your horn, you start chasing the waving
your hands.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
All you do is hey put pressure on them and
they want to watch.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Four hours after breaking loose, we captured all of the
steers being loaded back onto the trailer.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They came in and we're just kind of enjoying the show.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Fortunately, but you know, hope all the cows.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Are okay, ready to go home after a disruptive detour.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Of all the time spent roping those steers for no
particular good end. This was the moment for the lone Ranger.
This was the moment for the lone Ranger to be
off in a distance. You don't like that Indian dude.
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It turns out he wasn't Indian, but he cried when
when you when you lettered, he'd be standing off to
the side a stride. Trigger was the trigger? No, who was?
Uh sh check on that. But there he'd be as
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dride his horse, high whole silver. Yes, there he'd be.
And he'd see the steers come loose, and there they're
running there, white lining in the middle of the freeway
and some naive woman getting Now, y'all hold on, I'll
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help y'all hold on, No, get back in a car.
They're gonna trample you, lady. This saint Pamplona, he is.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Starry, starry steer.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You've never seen this deer. And there would come the
lone Ranger riding in and each time he caught one
and tightened the lasso. Everybody cheer yeah, and then finally
the last one, and then he'd take off his hat
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for the crowd, put it back on, and just like that,
right off into the distance. I don't know what happened
to Tonte. He's watching.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Probably gambling, Probably run into casino. That's how that works.
Do you imagine the scene?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Six roping steers from the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo running
loose on I forty five in the Spring area, closing
the freeway for several hours. The steers ran through the
northbound and southbound lanes of I forty five near Village
Parkway at Rayford Road. Some of them resorted to a
grassy wooded area, while others were captured in the freeway.
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Median officials said they are still investigating potential charges for
the driver. Really, really, do you honestly they believe you?
You're gonna charge this guy for what is clearly an
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embarrassing mistake. Do you realize how silly that looks? Do
you have any I don't know who that is so
I can say it because it maybe somebody I know.
I hope it's not. They were en route to Bottom, Texas,
apparently back where. Can you imagine their story when they
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get back ooh boy, because you guarantee you they were
more scared than anybody else was. They were more scared
than the people stuck on nine to forty five in
their vehicles. And you know, there was a couple of
good old boys. You know what I used to do, FFI,
I had a calf hold on. I'm gonna get out. Honey,
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you get back in here. You get back in here.
You know you got to warn out for you. I'm
gonna help these guys. I you know, you gotta see something,
say something, got to help. Get out there and help. Honey,
you get back in here. They're gonna get you. They're
gonna run your credit card and see you got a
warrant on you and there and then water will we
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be I can't drive this big thing. Oh man. The
commentary that would have been, that would have been a
scene to behold. And you know the cops, God bless them.
I love my cops. But the one thing I will
criticize is they are never in a hurry to clear
the road. If there's a I mean, if there is
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the slightest thing and shut it all down, shut it
all down. I was driving. In fact, everybody would do
well to remember the roads or to get people to
and from. You're just wasting people's time. I was driving
out to ninety to bring them the other day on Saturday,
and just past Chapel Hill, it all funneled down to
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two lanes and then to one lane, and I thought,
oh man, this one's bad. Somebody got killed here. This
is bad. And you know, it added quite a while
to the drive. Get up to the intersection with what
was it, eleven fifty five, I'm trying to remember the
number of that intersection just before you get into Brenham,
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and there was one work crew working the turnaround in
the middle of the two like the esplanade, and we
could have all but nope, just go ahead and shut
it all down. Why not something to do with Michael
Berry show, but walked it up his conton little suit.
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It is crazy. The Texas Highway, you think at any
given time. My brother used to work on it in
Jefferson County, just outside of Beaumont On. It was a
federal grant to stop the drug traffic, and it was
from California to Florida. And they would run it along
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it ten and so it was a drug interdiction unit.
And he would call me with with stories of the
different things they had seen. People from countries you couldn't
imagine a lot of a Mexican, but people from countries
you couldn't imagine running loads of drugs like you couldn't imagine.
And it's just in the just in the truck right
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beside you. You're just hauling along at any given time,
the various people driving along Texas highways, especially when you
get down South Texas, it's basically just good old boys
and cartel traffickers, same same convenience store. That that's the
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two people, just kind of interacting. Hey, how you done
on their Stacey, I'll take my usual kind of snuff. Please,
look who we got here?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Record old JULIOI glaciol Let me ask you something.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What do you do for a living? Partner? Hang on, now,
I do speak a little lespain treba hair? What's your
treba hair?
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Ka?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yote? Kaudi? Man? You seen some coyote?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
I'll tell you what. They're all over the place. We
popped them sung guns as much as we can. Boy,
But listen, I know, I know there's a little language barrier.
Uh the trauma hair.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
What was new for a living?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Got yuti gring Ooh now wait a minute, now my
granddaughter is taking some espanio that.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There means a dango albino kyot before.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Let me tell you something about you see that and
you tell me. I got a bunch of boys over
there in these stuckies. They'll come down here shoot them
things like crazy. It makes so much money.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'll cut you in on. Don't you worry about it big.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
When you had a stranger, I got you a big
stickers the family side. Because the cartels are all over
our roads. We have to be serious about criminal justice
because they are committing crimes because we are easy pickings
for them, the little old ladies, the kids, the neighborhoods.
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An innocent grandfather buying happy meals for his grandkids murdered
by a thug on probation that thug had repeatedly violated
that probation and faced no consequences in Harris County. He
was a fugitive in Harris County since twenty twenty three,
while he somehow managed to rack up convictions in Florida,
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without revocation of that probation.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Fox twenty six, Based on our court documents, twenty four
year old Antoine Ridge made it clear to Harris County's
court system he wasn't going to abide by the conditions
of probation. Instead of going to prison. At twenty nineteen,
Ridge was sentenced to two years probation.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
He failed probation miserably. He didn't he didn't do anything.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Instead of revoking the probation and sending him to prison,
Ridge was rewarded with an unsatisfactory in his probation. Twenty
twenty three, he charged with a felony aggravated assault of
a family member with.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
A deadly well.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
But he has been wanted since the middle of twenty
twenty three. He was a fugitive for a violent felony.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
In twenty twenty four, Ridge is convicted of two felonies
and three misdemeanors in Oaklalusca County, Florida. He gets probation,
which means Ridges on probation in Florida. Well, he's a
one fugitive in Texas.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Where Harris County officials were they aware that he was
now on probation in Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Whatever reasons.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
In hindsight, nothing happened on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Pelisa Ridge was at this McDonald He said, sixty one
ten East Fry Road, firing rounds in a gang fight.
Sixty one New vote Orgey ar Besa was walking into
the McDonald's to buy happy meals for his three grand
kiss when he was struck by bullets.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
There were multiple situations and times when the systems and
the people should have been working a little harder, being
more diligent in their process to make sure that he's
held accountable.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It shouldn't hate the.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Death of an innocent bystander for him to finally be
caught and hopefully put away for the rest.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Of his life.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Now, we reached out to authorities here in Harris County
and in Florida for answers, but we've yet to hear
anything back. Ridge remains jelled in lieu of about one
million dollars bond.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The arc of that story means that by the time
you get to the end of it, you've forgotten the
real victim. Here a grandfather buying happy meals for his grandkids,
sixty one year olde Arbaisa, who did nothing wrong. I mean,
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is there anything more wholesome out buying happy meals for
the grandkids. How about the grandkids. They're going to remember
that for the rest of their lives, three grandkids. These
things are just happening, and it's not by accident. This
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is exactly what the Rodney ellisis want. This is exactly
what George Soros is commanding. This is according to plan.
These folks will continue to do. This is our state
doing anything about it? Is our state government finding ways
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the way Trump has to solve problems. No, but they've
spent three days discussing Beyonce bills one on Zoroastrianism. We're
now over half the way through the session and there's
nothing meaningful that's come out. Nothing. Ten weekends of extended vacation.
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You meet one hundred and forty days every two years
for a year and a half, you're off. Then we
have what's supposed to be an intense session to deal
with the problems that we don't get to see for
another two years, and instead you take an extended vacation,
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exactly the way that Democrats wanted it. Have you even
heard from Greg Abbott? Is he doing anything? The session
is on as long as nobody presses them.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
As long as they don't get any heat, maybe they'll
put a Texas flag pin on.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, it takes better than everybody else. Yeah, that's what
you accomplished. Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
Tim Woltz, Tim Watts, he's a mess and it's his fault.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Tim Woltz, Tim Watts.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
The Democrats loved Tim Walls.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
He served with honor, he served with glory, he served
for twenty four years. But if you try it a
very fine.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Tim Wats will be left in tears.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Tim Waltz, Tim Watts, He's a mess and it's his fault.
Tim Woltz, Tim Watts. How Democrats loved Tim Walls.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Some soldiers served with class and points stand tall when
they show their face. But Tim Walts of valor is
just as stolen as a Sam Brinton airport suitcase. Tim Waltz,
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Tim Watts, He's a mense and it's hit his faults.
Tim Waltz, Tim Wats, Don Democrats of Tim Waltz.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He was the best Schopshipiro felt. I guess he's the
best that come on I can do.
Speaker 12 (17:44):
If you are in need of a donical.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Clone, give Tim Walt's a call. The og Weir does
him wats Tim.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Waltz, He's a mense man.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is his faults? Tim wals the Governor of Minnesota.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
The borns of Tims.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The founder of the Minnesota based Feeding our Future nonprofit,
has been convicted or what is now being called the
nation's single largest fraud scheme of COVID relief funds, more
than two hundred and fifty million dollars stolen two five zero.
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Governor Tim Waltz turned a blind eye because of his
political connections with the ringleaders.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
ABC News with the story a jury in Minnesota has
found the ring leader of what's been called the largest
pandemic era fraud scheme in the country guilty on all charges.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Amy Bach, the founder.
Speaker 12 (18:50):
Of Feeding our Future, now convicted in a plot that
stole nearly two hundred and fifty million dollars from a
federal program meant to feed children in need.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
F Arts, to lie, to blame others, to escape responsibility,
all came to an end.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
What Bach and her co defendants did was reprehensible.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Back along with co defendant Salem Sayid, convicted on conspiracy,
wire fraud, and bribery charges. They're two of seventy defendants
accused of falsifying meal counts, invoices and attendance rosters claiming
to have served food to thousands of kids per day
across Minnesota, all to get reimbursed with hundreds of millions
of taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
These are criminals that preyed on a system that was
meant to feed children.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Instead of feeding children, bach and said allegedly created dozens
of shell companies to receive the money and launder it,
all to fund their lavish lifestyles buying luxury cars in
real estate. Authorities so far have recouped only sixty million
of the two hundred and fifty million dollars stolen.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And Tim Walls will be bringing his celebrity status for
the Democrat Party right here to Houston Well sugar Land
on Thursday in Rosenberg. Somewhere in Rosenberg. They're not going
to release the location until the day before. He and
Beto O'Rourke. Now, were there ever two more stalwart powerhouse
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Democrats coming to sugar Land for a town hall? Uh,
I'm not joking.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
CNN presents a thrilling sugar Land Showcase Thursday night town
hall event featuring Timmy Wallas. I think we all agree
on this issue.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Coke, THEO will never be the bath, Come Sugar and
Beto o Rorke.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I want to thank everyone who actually thought I was
hispanic discussing what matters most, two.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And what just happened. Maybe go with the earlier version.
I think the edit was wrong, but it's a true story.
The point is it's a true story that Tim Waltz
and Beto O'Rourke will be in sugar Land on Thursday
for a town hall. Yeah do it?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, just started over see it presents a thrilling sugar
Land showcase Thursday night townhall event.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Featuring Timmy Walls. I think we all agree on this issue. Cope,
THEO will never be the bath? Oh Sugar and.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Beto o or I want to thank everyone who actually
thought I was hispanic, discussing what matters most to want
to be leaders of the floundering Democratic Party on one stage.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Seriously, this is really happening. Necessity's almost included.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Got a persona well sweeter than a sugar silo, Oh Rourke,
tacos with a force together sharing one stage.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Hey, Texas, Tom puts some extra sugar in my tank
and headed your way.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What's happening right now is that losing the election in
November and new polls showing a favorable rating of twenty
nine percent for Democrats thirty four percent for Republicans. This
is as a brand. The Democrat brand is far below
the Republicans, and they're unfavorable as well, above fifty. They
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are spotting that Tim Wallas is spotting. They are they
are noticing that there is an opportunity. The one thing
that happens in nature is that a void will be filled.
This is true from Castle Rick and a cassereat in
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Metternick in eighteen twelve in Vienna. It is true in
World War two. Where there is a power vacuum, it
will be filled. Someone will step into It doesn't matter
if they're the best. They may be the boldest, they
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may be the most ambitious. In November, the Democrats were trounced,
and it's not lost on them. And we'd like to
believe they didn't know. They know Kamala was a terrible candidate.
They know it. They know that Schumer is a bad look.
They know that Nancy is just going to kill over
one day. She's she's been there for too long, and
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they realize they don't have a B team, a Keem Jeffries.
If that's what the Farm Club is bringing up, that's
going to be a problems. He's not. No one's gonna
gravitate to him. So into that void have lurched aoc,
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Tim Walls, and you would say, as I would say,
is that who's gonna be y'all's leader? I hope so.
Jasmine Crockett is on TV every night, and I know
some people go crazy. You want her on TV. You
want Middle America to see Jasmine Crockett saying I'm gonna
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hit Ted cruising his head. I'm gonna hit him in
his head, work on his face. That's what you want.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
The Michael Berry Show. That's just like Bryan Eddie Martine.
If you're on the phone with Eddie Martin and he says, hey,
don't stop playing that song. I'm on an FM music station.
He says, shit, I'm enjoying it the first time I've
heard it. So Stephen Page, co lead singer of Bare
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Necked Ladies, grew up as I did, loving seventies what
we now call classic rock, edgy, angst ridden, heavy, deep, complex, harsh,
and just as I did. He viewed the Beach Boys
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as sort of bubblegum pop, not serious, not deep, not dark,
and one of his bandmates said, man, you need to
spend more time on the Beach Boys. It's a lot
deeper than you think. You like the Beatles. The Beatles
were obsessed with pet sounds. You need to really dig
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deeper into Brian Wilson and build a new appreciation for him.
And so he made him a mixtape, if you will,
and he said, I just obsessively listened to Brian Wilson,
and I grew to understand the beauty in the simplicity,
he said, And then it hit me, you know they
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were a layered sound because they had five vocals. We
have five vocals, We could do what they've done. So
he sets out to pay tribute to Brian Wilson. What
I love about this song is not only does he
managed to pay tribute, he mentions fun, fun, fun, but
the harmonies are Beach Boys esque. I'm not saying they
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achieved the Beach Boys harmonies because nobody does. Literally nobody does.
But the amazing thing about that is he said, I'm
playing in my sandbox. You've you've ever seen the photo
of Brian Wilson sitting in his living room behind his piano.
He had loads of beach sand brought in so he
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could sit in the sand in his living room while
he sat at his piano and composed songs. Yes, he
was in a very serious mental health decline. There's no
doubt about that. That's why he was laying in bed.
So Stephen Page is reference to laying in bed. Well,
I'm laying in bed just like Brian Wilson did. Is
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a reference to the debilitating effects of the inability to
get out of bed. And I'm fortunate I have not
suffered from that. But I have known many people in
the throes of mental health decline or mental health episodes
or challenges, and I've seen what it does to people.
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I don't think they're lazy, because there are people who
often love what they do or love the life they have,
but they're in this situation.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
It's like a.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Cancer of the brain. I don't claim to understand it,
but it's real. I know it's real. I've seen it,
and I've seen what it can do to people. But
the beauty is that's not something that Brian Wilson is
proud of, even though he's talked about it at length
and I mean, I think he's a troubled soul no
matter what you watch. There's a documentary around him with
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the guys just drive around with him all day and
you can tell there's a lot rattle around in there.
I feel bad for him as a prisoner of his
own mind. But the song laying in bed, just like
Brian Wilson. Did you wonder how Brian Wilson would take
to that? You know how dare as great as I am,
and the Beach Boys stack up against anybody of all time,
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you know, the Beatles, anybody you can think of. So
how would he take to a song that is talking
about the worst of his life? Or would he want
to go? He loved it, In fact, he recorded it.
The Bare Neck Ladies brought him on stage to sing it,
and I think it's just one of those most poignant
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moments about it.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Clean up tonight the man we all came to see
that here the great Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And if you want to find me, Harvey, who houd
in my sandbox, who wondered where the hell all the
love has no.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Laying in my pianaway building, who castles in the sun.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And singing fun front.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Bomb lieing in bead like Brian Wilson did, Lie like
Brian Wilson did Yes, Sir Lion Day, like Pride Wilson
did lie like trying.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
There is something very rewarding to identifying another person that
you admire for whatever that may be because he led
the league and strikeouts, because he got the most home runs,
because he in a Monday night football game against the
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Dolphins ran for over two hundred yards in his rookie season,
because he dunked over shack, because he wrote a song.
But it could be because he built a business. Or
it could be because he married your mom and she
had several kids and he raised y'all as your own,
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and you realize that but for him, you would not
have had a stable childhood. Or it could be because
he hired you.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Or she hired you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
When you didn't meet the qualifications and took a chance
on you because she saw something in you. There's a
very rewarding, deeply rewarding experience to expressing to someone else
the admiration you have had for them and what a
difference they've made to you in ways big and small,
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whether that's your spouse, your parent, your child, your boss,
your pastor, your friend it is. I think people keep
those things bottled up because there's going to be the
perfect time for you to express it. Can you imagine
how much joy that gave Stephen Page the Barrenecked Ladies
to show this to Brian Wilson and say I hope
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you like it. It's meant as a tribute, and for
Brian Wilson to say I like it, I love it.
I want to come on stage and sing it with you.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie show is on the air. Well, what's
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yellow and really painful if it gets in your eye?
A bulldozer? The Catholic priest asked the Jewish rabbi, when
will you finally start eating pork? Rabbi replied, at your wedding?
(01:02):
Why didn't the orange make it up the hill? It
ran out of juice. A crazy scene on I five
near Village Parkway at Rayford Road, north of Houston. A
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latch wrapped around the door just come undone. The story
from JPRC TV What just happened? Number eleven. I could
talk for a minute, give you time, We'll try that again.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And standstill traffic. With his arms wide, this driver jumped
out of his suv and tried to stop two roping
steers running down the main lanes of I forty five northbound.
They got loose around eleven thirty Monday morning, on their
way back to County from the Houston Livestock show in Rodeo,
jumping barriers and shutting down the north freeway as law
enforcement ran after them.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
We live in Texas, so you know it's nothing new.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
At least more works at a nearby business, and.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I was like, give me a horse, I'll help out.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And watched as two of the loose steer ran onto
their property.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
They were just kind of running around in the parking
lot ate some grass back there.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
A latch came loose on the trailer door carrying thirty
one steers. The Harris County Sheriff's Office says the driver
kept control of twenty five of them, but the rest
had to be corralled by law enforcement.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Leagues.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Particular, cows are made for open They're meant to come
out of a shoot and take off running.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Deputies tried to keep up, wanting to keep an eye
on them at all times.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Some ended up in a wooded area.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
A DPS chopper kept watch overhead, and crews on the
ground worked to find them. Cell Phone video captured a
deputy guiding one steer through a median and back to
a trailer. Law enforcement suggests letting them do the hard work.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
You start honking your horn, you start chasing the waving
your hands.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
All you do is hey put pressure on them and
they want to watch.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Four hours after breaking loose, we captured all of the
steers being loaded back onto the trailer.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They came in and we're just kind of enjoying the show.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Fortunately, but you know, hope all the cows.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Are okay, ready to go home after a disruptive detour.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Of all the time spent roping those steers for no
particular good end. This was the moment for the lone Ranger.
This was the moment for the lone Ranger to be
off in a distance. You don't like that Indian dude.
(03:42):
It turns out he wasn't Indian, but he cried when
when you when you lettered, he'd be standing off to
the side a stride. Trigger was the trigger? No, who was?
Uh sh check on that. But there he'd be as
(04:08):
dride his horse, high whole silver. Yes, there he'd be.
And he'd see the steers come loose, and there they're
running there, white lining in the middle of the freeway
and some naive woman getting Now, y'all hold on, I'll
(04:28):
help y'all hold on, No, get back in a car.
They're gonna trample you, lady. This saint Pamplona, he is.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Starry, starry steer.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You've never seen this deer. And there would come the
lone Ranger riding in and each time he caught one
and tightened the lasso. Everybody cheer yeah, and then finally
the last one, and then he'd take off his hat
(04:58):
for the crowd, put it back on, and just like that,
right off into the distance. I don't know what happened
to Tonte. He's watching.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Probably gambling, Probably run into casino. That's how that works.
Do you imagine the scene?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Six roping steers from the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo running
loose on I forty five in the Spring area, closing
the freeway for several hours. The steers ran through the
northbound and southbound lanes of I forty five near Village
Parkway at Rayford Road. Some of them resorted to a
grassy wooded area, while others were captured in the freeway.
(05:47):
Median officials said they are still investigating potential charges for
the driver. Really, really, do you honestly they believe you?
You're gonna charge this guy for what is clearly an
(06:08):
embarrassing mistake. Do you realize how silly that looks? Do
you have any I don't know who that is so
I can say it because it maybe somebody I know.
I hope it's not. They were en route to Bottom, Texas,
apparently back where. Can you imagine their story when they
(06:29):
get back ooh boy, because you guarantee you they were
more scared than anybody else was. They were more scared
than the people stuck on nine to forty five in
their vehicles. And you know, there was a couple of
good old boys. You know what I used to do, FFI,
I had a calf hold on. I'm gonna get out. Honey,
(06:50):
you get back in here. You get back in here.
You know you got to warn out for you. I'm
gonna help these guys. I you know, you gotta see something,
say something, got to help. Get out there and help. Honey,
you get back in here. They're gonna get you. They're
gonna run your credit card and see you got a
warrant on you and there and then water will we
(07:10):
be I can't drive this big thing. Oh man. The
commentary that would have been, that would have been a
scene to behold. And you know the cops, God bless them.
I love my cops. But the one thing I will
criticize is they are never in a hurry to clear
the road. If there's a I mean, if there is
(07:31):
the slightest thing and shut it all down, shut it
all down. I was driving. In fact, everybody would do
well to remember the roads or to get people to
and from. You're just wasting people's time. I was driving
out to ninety to bring them the other day on Saturday,
and just past Chapel Hill, it all funneled down to
(07:53):
two lanes and then to one lane, and I thought,
oh man, this one's bad. Somebody got killed here. This
is bad. And you know, it added quite a while
to the drive. Get up to the intersection with what
was it, eleven fifty five, I'm trying to remember the
number of that intersection just before you get into Brenham,
(08:14):
and there was one work crew working the turnaround in
the middle of the two like the esplanade, and we
could have all but nope, just go ahead and shut
it all down. Why not something to do with Michael
Berry show, but walked it up his conton little suit.
(08:37):
It is crazy. The Texas Highway, you think at any
given time. My brother used to work on it in
Jefferson County, just outside of Beaumont On. It was a
federal grant to stop the drug traffic, and it was
from California to Florida. And they would run it along
(08:58):
it ten and so it was a drug interdiction unit.
And he would call me with with stories of the
different things they had seen. People from countries you couldn't
imagine a lot of a Mexican, but people from countries
you couldn't imagine running loads of drugs like you couldn't imagine.
And it's just in the just in the truck right
(09:20):
beside you. You're just hauling along at any given time,
the various people driving along Texas highways, especially when you
get down South Texas, it's basically just good old boys
and cartel traffickers, same same convenience store. That that's the
(09:43):
two people, just kind of interacting. Hey, how you done
on their Stacey, I'll take my usual kind of snuff. Please,
look who we got here?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Record old JULIOI glaciol Let me ask you something.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What do you do for a living? Partner? Hang on, now,
I do speak a little lespain treba hair? What's your
treba hair?
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Ka?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yote? Kaudi? Man? You seen some coyote?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
I'll tell you what. They're all over the place. We
popped them sung guns as much as we can. Boy,
But listen, I know, I know there's a little language barrier.
Uh the trauma hair.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
What was new for a living?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Got yuti gring Ooh now wait a minute, now my
granddaughter is taking some espanio that.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There means a dango albino kyot before.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Let me tell you something about you see that and
you tell me. I got a bunch of boys over
there in these stuckies. They'll come down here shoot them
things like crazy. It makes so much money.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'll cut you in on. Don't you worry about it big.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
When you had a stranger, I got you a big
stickers the family side. Because the cartels are all over
our roads. We have to be serious about criminal justice
because they are committing crimes because we are easy pickings
for them, the little old ladies, the kids, the neighborhoods.
(11:01):
An innocent grandfather buying happy meals for his grandkids murdered
by a thug on probation that thug had repeatedly violated
that probation and faced no consequences in Harris County. He
was a fugitive in Harris County since twenty twenty three,
while he somehow managed to rack up convictions in Florida,
(11:23):
without revocation of that probation.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Fox twenty six, Based on our court documents, twenty four
year old Antoine Ridge made it clear to Harris County's
court system he wasn't going to abide by the conditions
of probation. Instead of going to prison. At twenty nineteen,
Ridge was sentenced to two years probation.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
He failed probation miserably. He didn't he didn't do anything.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Instead of revoking the probation and sending him to prison,
Ridge was rewarded with an unsatisfactory in his probation. Twenty
twenty three, he charged with a felony aggravated assault of
a family member with.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
A deadly well.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
But he has been wanted since the middle of twenty
twenty three. He was a fugitive for a violent felony.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
In twenty twenty four, Ridge is convicted of two felonies
and three misdemeanors in Oaklalusca County, Florida. He gets probation,
which means Ridges on probation in Florida. Well, he's a
one fugitive in Texas.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Where Harris County officials were they aware that he was
now on probation in Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Whatever reasons.
Speaker 9 (12:29):
In hindsight, nothing happened on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Pelisa Ridge was at this McDonald He said, sixty one
ten East Fry Road, firing rounds in a gang fight.
Sixty one New vote Orgey ar Besa was walking into
the McDonald's to buy happy meals for his three grand
kiss when he was struck by bullets.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
There were multiple situations and times when the systems and
the people should have been working a little harder, being
more diligent in their process to make sure that he's
held accountable.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It shouldn't hate the.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Death of an innocent bystander for him to finally be
caught and hopefully put away for the rest.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Of his life.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Now, we reached out to authorities here in Harris County
and in Florida for answers, but we've yet to hear
anything back. Ridge remains jelled in lieu of about one
million dollars bond.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The arc of that story means that by the time
you get to the end of it, you've forgotten the
real victim. Here a grandfather buying happy meals for his grandkids,
sixty one year olde Arbaisa, who did nothing wrong. I mean,
(13:46):
is there anything more wholesome out buying happy meals for
the grandkids. How about the grandkids. They're going to remember
that for the rest of their lives, three grandkids. These
things are just happening, and it's not by accident. This
(14:11):
is exactly what the Rodney ellisis want. This is exactly
what George Soros is commanding. This is according to plan.
These folks will continue to do. This is our state
doing anything about it? Is our state government finding ways
(14:33):
the way Trump has to solve problems. No, but they've
spent three days discussing Beyonce bills one on Zoroastrianism. We're
now over half the way through the session and there's
nothing meaningful that's come out. Nothing. Ten weekends of extended vacation.
(15:00):
You meet one hundred and forty days every two years
for a year and a half, you're off. Then we
have what's supposed to be an intense session to deal
with the problems that we don't get to see for
another two years, and instead you take an extended vacation,
(15:22):
exactly the way that Democrats wanted it. Have you even
heard from Greg Abbott? Is he doing anything? The session
is on as long as nobody presses them.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
As long as they don't get any heat, maybe they'll
put a Texas flag pin on.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, it takes better than everybody else. Yeah, that's what
you accomplished. Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
Tim Woltz, Tim Watts, he's a mess and it's his fault.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Tim Woltz, Tim Watts.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
The Democrats loved Tim Walls.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
He served with honor, he served with glory, he served
for twenty four years. But if you try it a
very fine.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Tim Wats will be left in tears.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Tim Waltz, Tim Watts, He's a mess and it's his fault.
Tim Woltz, Tim Watts. How Democrats loved Tim Walls.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Some soldiers served with class and points stand tall when
they show their face. But Tim Walts of valor is
just as stolen as a Sam Brinton airport suitcase. Tim Waltz,
(17:21):
Tim Watts, He's a mense and it's hit his faults.
Tim Waltz, Tim Wats, Don Democrats of Tim Waltz.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He was the best Schopshipiro felt. I guess he's the
best that come on I can do.
Speaker 12 (17:44):
If you are in need of a donical.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Clone, give Tim Walt's a call. The og Weir does
him wats Tim.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Waltz, He's a mense man.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is his faults? Tim wals the Governor of Minnesota.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
The borns of Tims.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The founder of the Minnesota based Feeding our Future nonprofit,
has been convicted or what is now being called the
nation's single largest fraud scheme of COVID relief funds, more
than two hundred and fifty million dollars stolen two five zero.
(18:32):
Governor Tim Waltz turned a blind eye because of his
political connections with the ringleaders.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
ABC News with the story a jury in Minnesota has
found the ring leader of what's been called the largest
pandemic era fraud scheme in the country guilty on all charges.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Amy Bach, the founder.
Speaker 12 (18:50):
Of Feeding our Future, now convicted in a plot that
stole nearly two hundred and fifty million dollars from a
federal program meant to feed children in need.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
F Arts, to lie, to blame others, to escape responsibility,
all came to an end.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
What Bach and her co defendants did was reprehensible.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Back along with co defendant Salem Sayid, convicted on conspiracy,
wire fraud, and bribery charges. They're two of seventy defendants
accused of falsifying meal counts, invoices and attendance rosters claiming
to have served food to thousands of kids per day
across Minnesota, all to get reimbursed with hundreds of millions
of taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
These are criminals that preyed on a system that was
meant to feed children.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Instead of feeding children, bach and said allegedly created dozens
of shell companies to receive the money and launder it,
all to fund their lavish lifestyles buying luxury cars in
real estate. Authorities so far have recouped only sixty million
of the two hundred and fifty million dollars stolen.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And Tim Walls will be bringing his celebrity status for
the Democrat Party right here to Houston Well sugar Land
on Thursday in Rosenberg. Somewhere in Rosenberg. They're not going
to release the location until the day before. He and
Beto O'Rourke. Now, were there ever two more stalwart powerhouse
(20:21):
Democrats coming to sugar Land for a town hall? Uh,
I'm not joking.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
CNN presents a thrilling sugar Land Showcase Thursday night town
hall event featuring Timmy Wallas. I think we all agree
on this issue.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Coke, THEO will never be the bath, Come Sugar and
Beto o Rorke.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I want to thank everyone who actually thought I was
hispanic discussing what matters most, two.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And what just happened. Maybe go with the earlier version.
I think the edit was wrong, but it's a true story.
The point is it's a true story that Tim Waltz
and Beto O'Rourke will be in sugar Land on Thursday
for a town hall. Yeah do it?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, just started over see it presents a thrilling sugar
Land showcase Thursday night townhall event.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Featuring Timmy Walls. I think we all agree on this issue. Cope,
THEO will never be the bath? Oh Sugar and.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Beto o or I want to thank everyone who actually
thought I was hispanic, discussing what matters most to want
to be leaders of the floundering Democratic Party on one stage.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Seriously, this is really happening. Necessity's almost included.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Got a persona well sweeter than a sugar silo, Oh Rourke,
tacos with a force together sharing one stage.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Hey, Texas, Tom puts some extra sugar in my tank
and headed your way.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What's happening right now is that losing the election in
November and new polls showing a favorable rating of twenty
nine percent for Democrats thirty four percent for Republicans. This
is as a brand. The Democrat brand is far below
the Republicans, and they're unfavorable as well, above fifty. They
(22:39):
are spotting that Tim Wallas is spotting. They are they
are noticing that there is an opportunity. The one thing
that happens in nature is that a void will be filled.
This is true from Castle Rick and a cassereat in
(23:00):
Metternick in eighteen twelve in Vienna. It is true in
World War two. Where there is a power vacuum, it
will be filled. Someone will step into It doesn't matter
if they're the best. They may be the boldest, they
(23:21):
may be the most ambitious. In November, the Democrats were trounced,
and it's not lost on them. And we'd like to
believe they didn't know. They know Kamala was a terrible candidate.
They know it. They know that Schumer is a bad look.
They know that Nancy is just going to kill over
one day. She's she's been there for too long, and
(23:47):
they realize they don't have a B team, a Keem Jeffries.
If that's what the Farm Club is bringing up, that's
going to be a problems. He's not. No one's gonna
gravitate to him. So into that void have lurched aoc,
(24:09):
Tim Walls, and you would say, as I would say,
is that who's gonna be y'all's leader? I hope so.
Jasmine Crockett is on TV every night, and I know
some people go crazy. You want her on TV. You
want Middle America to see Jasmine Crockett saying I'm gonna
(24:30):
hit Ted cruising his head. I'm gonna hit him in
his head, work on his face. That's what you want.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
The Michael Berry Show. That's just like Bryan Eddie Martine.
If you're on the phone with Eddie Martin and he says, hey,
don't stop playing that song. I'm on an FM music station.
He says, shit, I'm enjoying it the first time I've
heard it. So Stephen Page, co lead singer of Bare
(25:06):
Necked Ladies, grew up as I did, loving seventies what
we now call classic rock, edgy, angst ridden, heavy, deep, complex, harsh,
and just as I did. He viewed the Beach Boys
(25:29):
as sort of bubblegum pop, not serious, not deep, not dark,
and one of his bandmates said, man, you need to
spend more time on the Beach Boys. It's a lot
deeper than you think. You like the Beatles. The Beatles
were obsessed with pet sounds. You need to really dig
(25:50):
deeper into Brian Wilson and build a new appreciation for him.
And so he made him a mixtape, if you will,
and he said, I just obsessively listened to Brian Wilson,
and I grew to understand the beauty in the simplicity,
he said, And then it hit me, you know they
(26:12):
were a layered sound because they had five vocals. We
have five vocals, We could do what they've done. So
he sets out to pay tribute to Brian Wilson. What
I love about this song is not only does he
managed to pay tribute, he mentions fun, fun, fun, but
the harmonies are Beach Boys esque. I'm not saying they
(26:33):
achieved the Beach Boys harmonies because nobody does. Literally nobody does.
But the amazing thing about that is he said, I'm
playing in my sandbox. You've you've ever seen the photo
of Brian Wilson sitting in his living room behind his piano.
He had loads of beach sand brought in so he
(26:54):
could sit in the sand in his living room while
he sat at his piano and composed songs. Yes, he
was in a very serious mental health decline. There's no
doubt about that. That's why he was laying in bed.
So Stephen Page is reference to laying in bed. Well,
I'm laying in bed just like Brian Wilson did. Is
(27:15):
a reference to the debilitating effects of the inability to
get out of bed. And I'm fortunate I have not
suffered from that. But I have known many people in
the throes of mental health decline or mental health episodes
or challenges, and I've seen what it does to people.
(27:36):
I don't think they're lazy, because there are people who
often love what they do or love the life they have,
but they're in this situation.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
It's like a.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Cancer of the brain. I don't claim to understand it,
but it's real. I know it's real. I've seen it,
and I've seen what it can do to people. But
the beauty is that's not something that Brian Wilson is
proud of, even though he's talked about it at length
and I mean, I think he's a troubled soul no
matter what you watch. There's a documentary around him with
(28:12):
the guys just drive around with him all day and
you can tell there's a lot rattle around in there.
I feel bad for him as a prisoner of his
own mind. But the song laying in bed, just like
Brian Wilson. Did you wonder how Brian Wilson would take
to that? You know how dare as great as I am,
and the Beach Boys stack up against anybody of all time,
(28:34):
you know, the Beatles, anybody you can think of. So
how would he take to a song that is talking
about the worst of his life? Or would he want
to go? He loved it, In fact, he recorded it.
The Bare Neck Ladies brought him on stage to sing it,
and I think it's just one of those most poignant
(28:56):
moments about it.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Clean up tonight the man we all came to see
that here the great Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
And if you want to find me, Harvey, who houd
in my sandbox, who wondered where the hell all the
love has no.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Laying in my pianaway building, who castles in the sun.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And singing fun front.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Bomb lieing in bead like Brian Wilson did, Lie like
Brian Wilson did Yes, Sir Lion Day, like Pride Wilson
did lie like trying.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
There is something very rewarding to identifying another person that
you admire for whatever that may be because he led
the league and strikeouts, because he got the most home runs,
because he in a Monday night football game against the
(30:36):
Dolphins ran for over two hundred yards in his rookie season,
because he dunked over shack, because he wrote a song.
But it could be because he built a business. Or
it could be because he married your mom and she
had several kids and he raised y'all as your own,
(30:58):
and you realize that but for him, you would not
have had a stable childhood. Or it could be because
he hired you.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Or she hired you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
When you didn't meet the qualifications and took a chance
on you because she saw something in you. There's a
very rewarding, deeply rewarding experience to expressing to someone else
the admiration you have had for them and what a
difference they've made to you in ways big and small,
(31:30):
whether that's your spouse, your parent, your child, your boss,
your pastor, your friend it is. I think people keep
those things bottled up because there's going to be the
perfect time for you to express it. Can you imagine
how much joy that gave Stephen Page the Barrenecked Ladies
to show this to Brian Wilson and say I hope
(31:52):
you like it. It's meant as a tribute, and for
Brian Wilson to say I like it, I love it.
I want to come on stage and sing it with you.
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