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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air, there's no need to bear Underdog is here.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
My three highs from Houston last night. Number one, DJ
Daniel's father lifting him high to receive his new Secret
Service bagggain.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I never thought I can do.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It's joining us at the gallery tonight. Is a young
man who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel.
He is thirteen years old and he has always dreamed
of becoming a police officer. But in twenty eighteen, DJ
(01:21):
was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five
months at most to live. That was more than six
years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Indeed, making on you, I never thought I could feel
so free.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Five away we air.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
It's and tonight, DJ, We're going to do you the
biggest honor.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Of them all.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I am asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Kurrn
to officially make you an agent of the United States
Secret Service.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
They had five months to live. I'm gonna keep on
going into my gas tanks on him. And that's when
God calls you home. You never know when God's gonna
call you home. I want to be here if it
wasn't for my dad. I know he's pretty proud of
proud of me, and I'm pretty proud of him too.
And I'd like to thank President Trump because if it
wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here today.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Fail Free Free.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Wayne finds it nearly two thousand Harris County employeloyees are
still working from home at least part of the time,
which is one third of all county employees. Several departments
have just two workers total coming into the office at all.
The Office of Management and Budget zero full time employees
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that actually come into the office.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Flashback.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Remember data analyst Daryl Blackburn with the now defunct Elections
Administration Office that Rodney created. He was charged last year
with six felonies over the twenty twenty two general election
for working remotely for the county while holding down a
full time job in the Woodlands and getting paid for both.
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Which when you think he was showing up to Wyandel
Chafino with the report, it's.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Nine am and we're looking for the head of the
Harris County Equity and Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Department, seemon Sis, ex secutive director of DEO, and.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
You pay her two hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars
a year to run Harris County version of DEI, the
eleventh highest paid official in Harris County. But on this
Wednesday workday, Gonzalez isn't going into the office, and it
wasn't the first time we saw that. It turns out
she gets to manage her sixty six employees and an
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eight plus million dollar department from the comfort of her
own home when she wants to. Last month, Gonzales didn't
even make an in person appearance at the Harris County
Commissioner's Court when they wanted an update on just how
much DEI we've handed out. The Equity Office is on
the sixth floor of the County Administration building. There is
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an administrative assistant on duty, but I bet she gets
real lonely. Records from the Equity Office showed there are
fifty four hybrid employees, eleven that are totally remote, including
the woman managing how millions in COVID money you spent?
You know how many folks in the Equity Office are
in the office full time? You probably are just two
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out of sixty seven. Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey is
learning just how many county employees are still working from home.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
I want to understand what we are doing, because I
don't think we have got our staff back to work
after COVID.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Our investigation confirms that's an understate.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Harris County Precinct III, we have four hundred employees. No
one is working from home.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Adrian Garcia, the commissioner of PRECING two, said all his
folks were working at the office full time again.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But we ought to be doing it as a matter
of practice.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
PRECING four Commissioner Leslie brionez, I'm.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
So happy to be here with you.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Isn't apparently able to tell us, at least not yet,
but Harris County Commissioner Rodniellas did respond.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
I'm gonna show up as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I hope you all will be gentle whipping my age.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
And he may be setting the record for a PRECING
run from the couch. Forty nine employees Preasing one are hybrid.
They come to the office sometimes fifteen percent of his
entire office. The exploding Harris County government swamp now has
a twenty five million dollar administrative office. Diana Ramrez makes
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four hundred eleven thousand dollars a year. Commissioner Ramsey thinks
it's totally unnecessary.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
We donate a county administ writer period. We don't need that.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Office, especially if folks aren't even required to come to
the office full time. The administrator's office, they told us
they have sixty seven employees who are either hybrid or
totally remote, But it appears people only have to show
up for days a week to be considered an office
full time at Harris County when the administrator calls an
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employee in person. Records obtained by Harris County Commissioner Tom
Ramsey helped expose this portrait of inefficiency. There are more
than fifty three hundred folks on the taxpayer's payroll, two
one thousand of them aren't coming to the office full time.
Three years after the pandemic ended housing in community Development,
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they have only two employees in the office full time,
and the folks we pay to manage the budget, not
a single employee is in the office full time, not one.
Guess that explains this. A virtually empty multi story parking
garage for county employees. Blowing up this remote work racket
with the commissioner has already paying dividends for taxpayers. The
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Office of Management and Budget is suddenly telling its folks
to get back to the office full time this month.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
What we're doing in Harris County is a bureaucracy gone bad.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And there you have it.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Scary thing is but for Tom Ramsey, we wouldn't know
any of what's going on because he's the only Republican
on Commissioner's Court. I sent a message to Whitmyer.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
At the city the other day.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Obviously the city is different in the county, and I said,
let's do a Houston doge. I'll be your elot And
he said, we started last May when we contracted with
Ernst and Young. We're going to transform city government.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't think outside.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Accounting firms are going to transform city government. I think
we've got to have somebody empowered that knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
When you're listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, when the reflection in the class that I hear
to my lips and my babe.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
The varg eight Daniel.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Was the young man that President Trump deputized to be
a new Secret Service agent. Visited the White House. Quite
an experience for that young man, quite an inspiration. We
had a brief visit with him on the air because
a number of you had connections to his father and
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were able to get his.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Father and then Devar Jay on the show. His father.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Theotis Daniel is a veteran of the United States Navy,
and he was very upset that Rachel Maddow put what
he called her bad energy on us, and he said
he was disgusted by Al Green's little stunt that he
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played New York Post noting that DJ being honored as
a Secret Service agent is his nine hundred ninth swearing
in as an honorary law enforcement officer. His goal is
now one thousand. I don't think he's going to have
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any trouble. Rachel Maddow said Donald Trump was disgusting for
highlighting DJ's heroic battle with cancer. The Otis Daniel was
interviewed by The New York Post and he said she
needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice
to say, she does not need to put her bad
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energy on us. The Otis Daniel served as a machinist's
mate and fireman with the Navy. He added he was
not thrilled with Al Green's antick say and when Al
Green stood up and made that rugous.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I was disgusted. Do you say disgusted like with a
C or do you hit the G real hard? I
was disgusted, No G. Some people do the G. Yeah,
I say disgusted as if it was a C or
a K. But there are.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
People who say disgusted. I'm gonna do it with the
G this time. Okay, it's just the otis Daniel. When
al Green stood up and made that rugous, I was disgusted.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right, now I do it with the sea. When
al Green stood up and made that ruckus, I was disgusted. Yeah,
me too. What kind of messages he sending?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
As the post ads Still, devar Jay's family will not
let that get in the way.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Of their positivity.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Devar Jay has overcome the odds, marveled his aunt Jane.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It's all in who you are inside.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I think God has given a tough battle to a
good one. I believe that God is looking out for
him and making sure that the right hands are touching him.
You know, none of us has promised tomorrow. They said
Sylvester Turner passed after the speech in the tunnel under
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the Capitol, And I think, as I understand it, they
were able to revive him for a brief period, but
that was that was the end or less. So he
probably died in the tunnel on the Capitol first and
then not much longer after that. And that was of
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course Tuesday night after after all of this.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But here's what I take away from that.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
That young man might make it to fourteen, he might not.
He might make it to twenty. Hell, he may modern medicine.
His terminal cancer. Life is terminal. We're all gonna die.
But he may live out a full life, whatever that means.
But to take a moment like that and say, I mean,
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he's got his head's all cut up, you know, he's
going through treatments and all that, and to say, you know,
I'm going to do something with it, that really is
a beacon to people, you know, get off your ass
and get to living. There are gonna be people who
die in their teens who didn't have a preparation for that.
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And maybe he won't. Maybe he'll just keep on living.
But how much life is he packing into those few
short years. It's Ramon is walking out of the studio.
He says he's going to pick up his boys in
go camping right now because You're not promised tomorrow, you fool.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Sit down.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Here's what Rachel Maddow had to say about President Trump
honoring dvar Jay Daniel.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
For the record, and this is disgusting. The President made
a spectacle out of praising a young man who serves
thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the President had
something to do with that. This was in the midst
of him praising Doge. Doge cuts, among other things, have
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cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
This is what white liberals do.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
If a black person is honored, promoted, praised by a Republican.
White liberals say, sit down, slave, they're making a fool
out of you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Only I care about your black ass. Sit down. That
is the ultimate racism right there.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That is white, angry lesbian racism right there. That is
your white liberal woman, the worst of them all. That
is it on full display.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That was Hillary Clinton esque. That was Hillary Clinton asked.
That is the I own you slave. Sit down.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Don't let the Republicans honor you, because that makes it
harder for me to make my point that they're all racist.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Sit your black ass down. This is how white liberals feel.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Until you you really fully experience how racist white liberals are.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's why they always call you a racist. Remember what
Rush said, they call you what they are.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Hell, everybody, this.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Is Micky Gilly and you're listened to this season radio.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Michael Berry.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
Hey, Santiana, we're killing your soldiers below that men wherever
they go.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, it is March sixth, a hallowed day in the
Republic of Texas, the day we remember. After a thirteen
day siege by an army of three thousand illegal aliens
I mean Mexican troops, the one hundred and eighty seven
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Texas volunteers.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Would be killed and.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The fort captured, inspiring the Remember the Alamo chant battle
cry as the Texans under the command of Sam Houston,
who was shot twice during the raid at San Jacinto.
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Remember the Alamo. Remember Goliad where when the Mexicans taking
their siesta woke up to find out that in eighteen
minutes they had been routed. It was about seven hundred
taken captive, in about six hundred killed, and if I
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remember correctly, only eleven of the Texans lost their lives.
It was a pretty rousing success. I had such a
passion for Texas history growing up instilled me by my
mother that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I was obsessed.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Still am, but but it was you know, teachers, Teachers
are so happy when a child has an interest in
learning something. And I had a.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Third grade teacher, Miss Steed, and you knew this kid, right,
I was that kid. You hated this kid, and for
good reason.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I was that kid who, in addition to the school work,
always had a book. And I would place the book
in the small of my back and tighten my belt tighter.
I really didn't care if somebody thought I was a
nerd or not. My friends knew that's what I do.
I have a book at all times. If my mom
read all the time, I still do. And I would
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carry my book wherever I went, and I would be
reading it. And so I would finish a book on
Davy Crockett, and Miss Steed would after class or during that,
she'd take me down and check out another book, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Would read about Texas history. I was enthralled by Texas history.
When none of became the one hundred ninth.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Secretary of State, Rick Perry had a there's a glorious
ceremonial reception area outside the Governor's office, and it's where
it's where if the governor is signing a major bill,
it'll be in this room. It's a little smaller than
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the big, massive rooms, but it is a beautiful, beautiful,
glorious space at our capital that the people of Texas
can be proud of.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And so.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
We're having the event where he's going to swear her in.
And I had invited Mark White, who in addition to
being governor was former Secretary of State, George Straight, former
Secretary of State, and some friends of ours. Tillman came
up and it was a relatively small event, maybe fifty people,
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but it was it was a pretty neat deal. And
Rick Perry didn't want us to be out front. He
wanted us to come back into the back room and
spend some time with us before that.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So we had the boys.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
This was twenty fourteen, so eleven years ago, so Crockett
would have been seven and Michael ate and he said,
you know, Michael, you have your father's name. You know
you have to carry that out into the world as
your father has and make him proud.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And Crockett, do you know who.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You named after?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
He said, yes, sir Governor, I do not Miami Vashing.
I'm in the middle of a story, go take the
kids campon.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So behind us, he said, we're sitting on a couch.
He's sitting across. You know what people don't understand about
George W. Bush and Rick Perry because they were always
described as being dumb. And let's let's take whatever your
view of their politics out of this. Each one of
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them is so insanely charming, one on one, face to
face that you can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Rick Perry was always described as being very dumb. He's
not dumb.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And and and that's that's a thing they did. It
did to lbjh and again also not dumb, very Southern,
very Texan, not dumb. But Rick Perry when he locks
down on somebody is even Molly Ivans, who made so
many jokes about him, you know, she's a liberal Democrat,
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would talk about the man on a personal level. You
cannot help but love the guy. You cannot help but.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Love the guy.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And so he takes this laser shooter out and he
starts putting it on this painting behind him, and he says,
he goes through the whole Battle of the Alamo, and
he's a Texas history freak, and he's showing and he
hops up on the couch where we are so that
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he can now point to Crockett at thesis. We're gonna
save Crockett for the end, and he shows him at
the very end. How you know why Crockett was so
important in his history and all that. And the boys
are looking up at me like this.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Man is a madman.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
He's jumped up on the couch beside us and showing
us all this painting experience.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I will never forget.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty proud to be a lifelong Texas.
Michael Berry show.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Held and hell again.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Then he send more replacements for his wound to and blame.
But the troops that were coming never came, never came,
never came.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Damn Charged. Don't talk enough about that decision.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And I think part of that was Sam Houston was very,
very adroit at managing the pr campaign by honoring the
fallen at the Alamo and elevating them, beatifying them practically
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to sainthood. And they are I mean, the names of Crockett,
Bowie or Bowie. Uh, these names were so elevated, Travis.
I mean you think about you know, you read out
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the names of of the counties in the city of
this state, and you see what percentage of those were
at the Alamo, and you see that the outsized influence
on the mindset. You know, the symbolism is very powerful
when you consider what that has for Alamo.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I had a meeting. I had a meeting in sant
Anton last week, and.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
My only my only disappointment was not was that I
didn't the way the schedule worked to get there and
back because I don't have a plane, Eddie Martini. The
only way I could do that, I meant I would
not be able to visit the Alamo. I don't think
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I could visit the Alamo enough.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I really don't.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I could. I could visit the Alamo once a month
and be very very happy, stay at the manger right there,
go to I did make time for me, Tierra. I
did make time for me, Tierra. I had to do that.
I did make time to walk the Riverwalk. And I
will tell you this for those of you considering a
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little weekend getaway Golden Nugget, Lake Charles two hours away.
What it is, it's a show sponsor and it's also
a great time. But if you haven't been to the
Riverwalk in a while, what I found nice was the
madding crowd was not there, including the element that has
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been there the last few times I have, which was
a kind of rough.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Element, and there was none of that.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
In fact, I wouldn't say that the riverwalk was deserted.
I mean it was a week night in you know,
school was in session. But it was quite nice to
get to stroll the riverwalk and see the riverwalk itself.
I like to look at the stones. I like to see,
you know, which of these restaurants do I remember?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah? And then I stayed at the Valencia, which is
down on the end. And you like that hotel? I
really don't. I don't know. I hope Bett he's not
listening because I asked him to put me up there,
But I don't know. It's hmm, yeah, I don't know.
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It's it's an odd hotel. But I liked that it's
on the river walk.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I do like that it has kind of it pays
tribute to kind of almost a Spanish castle style architecture.
I do like that, you know, as opposed to just
being you know, your your modern sleep chic hotel.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
We got enough of those. You never went where?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Oh yeah, the one at the Pearl Brewery. Yeah, that Pearl.
I did not get to go to the Pearl Brewery
while over there. I did not not that you asked,
can we get a little of John Wayne at the
Alamo that I may? I may watch that tonight. By
the way, we're having a meetup for Bert Harvey today
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at three o'clock. We have to manage crowd size with
with the venue owner, so I'm doing it by email.
If you email in either to me through the website
Michael Berryshow dot com, Michael Berryshow dot com, or you
can email me directly Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com.
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If you know Bert, you can contact Bert. He's keeping
the list of people showing up. But that'll be at
three o'clock today. You can just drop in. There's no
ticket required or there's no cost. It's just to hang out.
It's there's no big show. It's just we're gonna hang out,
drink beer, and some of us will smoke cigars, and
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it'll just be a kind of an RCC reunion. You
don't have to have been an RCC, remember, but send
us an email. We'll send you the location if you'd
like to join. Was the Great Alamo Movie scene with
John Wayne Republic.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
I like the sound of the word means people can live, free, talk, free,
go or come buy or sell, be drunk or sober.
However they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic
is one of those words that makes me tighten the throat,
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same tightness a man gets when he's maybe takes his
first step or his first baby, shaves and makes his
first sound like a man. Some words can give you
a feeling that make your heart warm. Republic is one
of those words.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
It's interesting, it's an interesting choice to cast him in
that role.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But I like it. I am, I really like it.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
How's the missed that you've been to the Almah? Go back,
play a little family trip. You got to get your
boys hooked on that. I mean, your boys are named
July Augustus and Oliver mccraig. Your boys are the living
embodiment of lonesome dove.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, you got you got it? You got Have they been?
Dear God, they've not been. You know what.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Don't take them camping. You've got air conditioning at home.
You don't need to go back like it's two thousand
years ago. Take them to the mission in sant In tone.
My goodness that Ramon I am so the Texas history
nut you are, and you haven't taken on
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air, there's no need to bear Underdog is here.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
My three highs from Houston last night. Number one, DJ
Daniel's father lifting him high to receive his new Secret
Service bagggain.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I never thought I can do.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It's joining us at the gallery tonight. Is a young
man who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel.
He is thirteen years old and he has always dreamed
of becoming a police officer. But in twenty eighteen, DJ
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was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five
months at most to live. That was more than six
years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Indeed, making on you, I never thought I could feel
so free.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Five away we air.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
It's and tonight, DJ, We're going to do you the
biggest honor.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Of them all.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I am asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Kurrn
to officially make you an agent of the United States
Secret Service.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
They had five months to live. I'm gonna keep on
going into my gas tanks on him. And that's when
God calls you home. You never know when God's gonna
call you home. I want to be here if it
wasn't for my dad. I know he's pretty proud of
proud of me, and I'm pretty proud of him too.
And I'd like to thank President Trump because if it
wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here today.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Fail Free Free.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Wayne finds it nearly two thousand Harris County employeloyees are
still working from home at least part of the time,
which is one third of all county employees. Several departments
have just two workers total coming into the office at all.
The Office of Management and Budget zero full time employees
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that actually come into the office.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Flashback.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Remember data analyst Daryl Blackburn with the now defunct Elections
Administration Office that Rodney created. He was charged last year
with six felonies over the twenty twenty two general election
for working remotely for the county while holding down a
full time job in the Woodlands and getting paid for both.
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Which when you think he was showing up to Wyandel
Chafino with the report, it's.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Nine am and we're looking for the head of the
Harris County Equity and Opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Department, seemon Sis, ex secutive director of DEO, and.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
You pay her two hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars
a year to run Harris County version of DEI, the
eleventh highest paid official in Harris County. But on this
Wednesday workday, Gonzalez isn't going into the office, and it
wasn't the first time we saw that. It turns out
she gets to manage her sixty six employees and an
(04:17):
eight plus million dollar department from the comfort of her
own home when she wants to. Last month, Gonzales didn't
even make an in person appearance at the Harris County
Commissioner's Court when they wanted an update on just how
much DEI we've handed out. The Equity Office is on
the sixth floor of the County Administration building. There is
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an administrative assistant on duty, but I bet she gets
real lonely. Records from the Equity Office showed there are
fifty four hybrid employees, eleven that are totally remote, including
the woman managing how millions in COVID money you spent?
You know how many folks in the Equity Office are
in the office full time? You probably are just two
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out of sixty seven. Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey is
learning just how many county employees are still working from home.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
I want to understand what we are doing, because I
don't think we have got our staff back to work
after COVID.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Our investigation confirms that's an understate.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Harris County Precinct III, we have four hundred employees. No
one is working from home.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Adrian Garcia, the commissioner of PRECING two, said all his
folks were working at the office full time again.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But we ought to be doing it as a matter
of practice.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
PRECING four Commissioner Leslie brionez, I'm.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
So happy to be here with you.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Isn't apparently able to tell us, at least not yet,
but Harris County Commissioner Rodniellas did respond.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
I'm gonna show up as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I hope you all will be gentle whipping my age.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
And he may be setting the record for a PRECING
run from the couch. Forty nine employees Preasing one are hybrid.
They come to the office sometimes fifteen percent of his
entire office. The exploding Harris County government swamp now has
a twenty five million dollar administrative office. Diana Ramrez makes
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four hundred eleven thousand dollars a year. Commissioner Ramsey thinks
it's totally unnecessary.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
We donate a county administ writer period. We don't need that.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Office, especially if folks aren't even required to come to
the office full time. The administrator's office, they told us
they have sixty seven employees who are either hybrid or
totally remote, But it appears people only have to show
up for days a week to be considered an office
full time at Harris County when the administrator calls an
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employee in person. Records obtained by Harris County Commissioner Tom
Ramsey helped expose this portrait of inefficiency. There are more
than fifty three hundred folks on the taxpayer's payroll, two
one thousand of them aren't coming to the office full time.
Three years after the pandemic ended housing in community Development,
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they have only two employees in the office full time,
and the folks we pay to manage the budget, not
a single employee is in the office full time, not one.
Guess that explains this. A virtually empty multi story parking
garage for county employees. Blowing up this remote work racket
with the commissioner has already paying dividends for taxpayers. The
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Office of Management and Budget is suddenly telling its folks
to get back to the office full time this month.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
What we're doing in Harris County is a bureaucracy gone bad.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And there you have it.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Scary thing is but for Tom Ramsey, we wouldn't know
any of what's going on because he's the only Republican
on Commissioner's Court. I sent a message to Whitmyer.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
At the city the other day.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Obviously the city is different in the county, and I said,
let's do a Houston doge. I'll be your elot And
he said, we started last May when we contracted with
Ernst and Young. We're going to transform city government.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't think outside.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Accounting firms are going to transform city government. I think
we've got to have somebody empowered that knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
When you're listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, when the reflection in the class that I hear
to my lips and my babe.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
The varg eight Daniel.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Was the young man that President Trump deputized to be
a new Secret Service agent. Visited the White House. Quite
an experience for that young man, quite an inspiration. We
had a brief visit with him on the air because
a number of you had connections to his father and
(09:06):
were able to get his.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Father and then Devar Jay on the show. His father.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Theotis Daniel is a veteran of the United States Navy,
and he was very upset that Rachel Maddow put what
he called her bad energy on us, and he said
he was disgusted by Al Green's little stunt that he
(09:33):
played New York Post noting that DJ being honored as
a Secret Service agent is his nine hundred ninth swearing
in as an honorary law enforcement officer. His goal is
now one thousand. I don't think he's going to have
(09:53):
any trouble. Rachel Maddow said Donald Trump was disgusting for
highlighting DJ's heroic battle with cancer. The Otis Daniel was
interviewed by The New York Post and he said she
needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice
to say, she does not need to put her bad
(10:16):
energy on us. The Otis Daniel served as a machinist's
mate and fireman with the Navy. He added he was
not thrilled with Al Green's antick say and when Al
Green stood up and made that rugous.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I was disgusted. Do you say disgusted like with a
C or do you hit the G real hard? I
was disgusted, No G. Some people do the G. Yeah,
I say disgusted as if it was a C or
a K. But there are.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
People who say disgusted. I'm gonna do it with the
G this time. Okay, it's just the otis Daniel. When
al Green stood up and made that rugous, I was disgusted.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right, now I do it with the sea. When
al Green stood up and made that ruckus, I was disgusted. Yeah,
me too. What kind of messages he sending?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
As the post ads Still, devar Jay's family will not
let that get in the way.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Of their positivity.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Devar Jay has overcome the odds, marveled his aunt Jane.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It's all in who you are inside.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I think God has given a tough battle to a
good one. I believe that God is looking out for
him and making sure that the right hands are touching him.
You know, none of us has promised tomorrow. They said
Sylvester Turner passed after the speech in the tunnel under
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the Capitol, And I think, as I understand it, they
were able to revive him for a brief period, but
that was that was the end or less. So he
probably died in the tunnel on the Capitol first and
then not much longer after that. And that was of
(12:11):
course Tuesday night after after all of this.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But here's what I take away from that.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
That young man might make it to fourteen, he might not.
He might make it to twenty. Hell, he may modern medicine.
His terminal cancer. Life is terminal. We're all gonna die.
But he may live out a full life, whatever that means.
But to take a moment like that and say, I mean,
(12:40):
he's got his head's all cut up, you know, he's
going through treatments and all that, and to say, you know,
I'm going to do something with it, that really is
a beacon to people, you know, get off your ass
and get to living. There are gonna be people who
die in their teens who didn't have a preparation for that.
(13:02):
And maybe he won't. Maybe he'll just keep on living.
But how much life is he packing into those few
short years. It's Ramon is walking out of the studio.
He says he's going to pick up his boys in
go camping right now because You're not promised tomorrow, you fool.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Sit down.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Here's what Rachel Maddow had to say about President Trump
honoring dvar Jay Daniel.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
For the record, and this is disgusting. The President made
a spectacle out of praising a young man who serves
thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the President had
something to do with that. This was in the midst
of him praising Doge. Doge cuts, among other things, have
(13:50):
cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
This is what white liberals do.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
If a black person is honored, promoted, praised by a Republican.
White liberals say, sit down, slave, they're making a fool
out of you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Only I care about your black ass. Sit down. That
is the ultimate racism right there.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That is white, angry lesbian racism right there. That is
your white liberal woman, the worst of them all. That
is it on full display.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That was Hillary Clinton esque. That was Hillary Clinton asked.
That is the I own you slave. Sit down.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Don't let the Republicans honor you, because that makes it
harder for me to make my point that they're all racist.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Sit your black ass down. This is how white liberals feel.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Until you you really fully experience how racist white liberals are.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's why they always call you a racist. Remember what
Rush said, they call you what they are.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Hell, everybody, this.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Is Micky Gilly and you're listened to this season radio.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Michael Berry.
Speaker 10 (15:20):
Hey, Santiana, we're killing your soldiers below that men wherever
they go.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, it is March sixth, a hallowed day in the
Republic of Texas, the day we remember. After a thirteen
day siege by an army of three thousand illegal aliens
I mean Mexican troops, the one hundred and eighty seven
(15:52):
Texas volunteers.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Would be killed and.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The fort captured, inspiring the Remember the Alamo chant battle
cry as the Texans under the command of Sam Houston,
who was shot twice during the raid at San Jacinto.
(16:20):
Remember the Alamo. Remember Goliad where when the Mexicans taking
their siesta woke up to find out that in eighteen
minutes they had been routed. It was about seven hundred
taken captive, in about six hundred killed, and if I
(16:43):
remember correctly, only eleven of the Texans lost their lives.
It was a pretty rousing success. I had such a
passion for Texas history growing up instilled me by my
mother that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I was obsessed.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Still am, but but it was you know, teachers, Teachers
are so happy when a child has an interest in
learning something. And I had a.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Third grade teacher, Miss Steed, and you knew this kid, right,
I was that kid. You hated this kid, and for
good reason.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I was that kid who, in addition to the school work,
always had a book. And I would place the book
in the small of my back and tighten my belt tighter.
I really didn't care if somebody thought I was a
nerd or not. My friends knew that's what I do.
I have a book at all times. If my mom
read all the time, I still do. And I would
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carry my book wherever I went, and I would be
reading it. And so I would finish a book on
Davy Crockett, and Miss Steed would after class or during that,
she'd take me down and check out another book, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Would read about Texas history. I was enthralled by Texas history.
When none of became the one hundred ninth.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Secretary of State, Rick Perry had a there's a glorious
ceremonial reception area outside the Governor's office, and it's where
it's where if the governor is signing a major bill,
it'll be in this room. It's a little smaller than
(18:37):
the big, massive rooms, but it is a beautiful, beautiful,
glorious space at our capital that the people of Texas
can be proud of.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And so.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
We're having the event where he's going to swear her in.
And I had invited Mark White, who in addition to
being governor was former Secretary of State, George Straight, former
Secretary of State, and some friends of ours. Tillman came
up and it was a relatively small event, maybe fifty people,
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but it was it was a pretty neat deal. And
Rick Perry didn't want us to be out front. He
wanted us to come back into the back room and
spend some time with us before that.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So we had the boys.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
This was twenty fourteen, so eleven years ago, so Crockett
would have been seven and Michael ate and he said,
you know, Michael, you have your father's name. You know
you have to carry that out into the world as
your father has and make him proud.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And Crockett, do you know who.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You named after?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
He said, yes, sir Governor, I do not Miami Vashing.
I'm in the middle of a story, go take the
kids campon.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So behind us, he said, we're sitting on a couch.
He's sitting across. You know what people don't understand about
George W. Bush and Rick Perry because they were always
described as being dumb. And let's let's take whatever your
view of their politics out of this. Each one of
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them is so insanely charming, one on one, face to
face that you can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Rick Perry was always described as being very dumb. He's
not dumb.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And and and that's that's a thing they did. It
did to lbjh and again also not dumb, very Southern,
very Texan, not dumb. But Rick Perry when he locks
down on somebody is even Molly Ivans, who made so
many jokes about him, you know, she's a liberal Democrat,
(20:47):
would talk about the man on a personal level. You
cannot help but love the guy. You cannot help but.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Love the guy.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And so he takes this laser shooter out and he
starts putting it on this painting behind him, and he says,
he goes through the whole Battle of the Alamo, and
he's a Texas history freak, and he's showing and he
hops up on the couch where we are so that
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he can now point to Crockett at thesis. We're gonna
save Crockett for the end, and he shows him at
the very end. How you know why Crockett was so
important in his history and all that. And the boys
are looking up at me like this.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Man is a madman.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
He's jumped up on the couch beside us and showing
us all this painting experience.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I will never forget.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty proud to be a lifelong Texas.
Michael Berry show.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Held and hell again.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Then he send more replacements for his wound to and blame.
But the troops that were coming never came, never came,
never came.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Damn Charged. Don't talk enough about that decision.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And I think part of that was Sam Houston was very,
very adroit at managing the pr campaign by honoring the
fallen at the Alamo and elevating them, beatifying them practically
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to sainthood. And they are I mean, the names of Crockett,
Bowie or Bowie. Uh, these names were so elevated, Travis.
I mean you think about you know, you read out
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the names of of the counties in the city of
this state, and you see what percentage of those were
at the Alamo, and you see that the outsized influence
on the mindset. You know, the symbolism is very powerful
when you consider what that has for Alamo.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I had a meeting. I had a meeting in sant
Anton last week, and.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
My only my only disappointment was not was that I
didn't the way the schedule worked to get there and
back because I don't have a plane, Eddie Martini. The
only way I could do that, I meant I would
not be able to visit the Alamo. I don't think
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I could visit the Alamo enough.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I really don't.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I could. I could visit the Alamo once a month
and be very very happy, stay at the manger right there,
go to I did make time for me, Tierra. I
did make time for me, Tierra. I had to do that.
I did make time to walk the Riverwalk. And I
will tell you this for those of you considering a
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little weekend getaway Golden Nugget, Lake Charles two hours away.
What it is, it's a show sponsor and it's also
a great time. But if you haven't been to the
Riverwalk in a while, what I found nice was the
madding crowd was not there, including the element that has
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been there the last few times I have, which was
a kind of rough.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Element, and there was none of that.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
In fact, I wouldn't say that the riverwalk was deserted.
I mean it was a week night in you know,
school was in session. But it was quite nice to
get to stroll the riverwalk and see the riverwalk itself.
I like to look at the stones. I like to see,
you know, which of these restaurants do I remember?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah? And then I stayed at the Valencia, which is
down on the end. And you like that hotel? I
really don't. I don't know. I hope Bett he's not
listening because I asked him to put me up there,
But I don't know. It's hmm, yeah, I don't know.
(25:25):
It's it's an odd hotel. But I liked that it's
on the river walk.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I do like that it has kind of it pays
tribute to kind of almost a Spanish castle style architecture.
I do like that, you know, as opposed to just
being you know, your your modern sleep chic hotel.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
We got enough of those. You never went where?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Oh yeah, the one at the Pearl Brewery. Yeah, that Pearl.
I did not get to go to the Pearl Brewery
while over there. I did not not that you asked,
can we get a little of John Wayne at the
Alamo that I may? I may watch that tonight. By
the way, we're having a meetup for Bert Harvey today
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at three o'clock. We have to manage crowd size with
with the venue owner, so I'm doing it by email.
If you email in either to me through the website
Michael Berryshow dot com, Michael Berryshow dot com, or you
can email me directly Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com.
(26:29):
If you know Bert, you can contact Bert. He's keeping
the list of people showing up. But that'll be at
three o'clock today. You can just drop in. There's no
ticket required or there's no cost. It's just to hang out.
It's there's no big show. It's just we're gonna hang out,
drink beer, and some of us will smoke cigars, and
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it'll just be a kind of an RCC reunion. You
don't have to have been an RCC, remember, but send
us an email. We'll send you the location if you'd
like to join. Was the Great Alamo Movie scene with
John Wayne Republic.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
I like the sound of the word means people can live, free, talk, free,
go or come buy or sell, be drunk or sober.
However they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic
is one of those words that makes me tighten the throat,
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same tightness a man gets when he's maybe takes his
first step or his first baby, shaves and makes his
first sound like a man. Some words can give you
a feeling that make your heart warm. Republic is one
of those words.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
It's interesting, it's an interesting choice to cast him in
that role.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But I like it. I am, I really like it.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
How's the missed that you've been to the Almah? Go back,
play a little family trip. You got to get your
boys hooked on that. I mean, your boys are named
July Augustus and Oliver mccraig. Your boys are the living
embodiment of lonesome dove.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, you got you got it? You got Have they been?
Dear God, they've not been. You know what.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Don't take them camping. You've got air conditioning at home.
You don't need to go back like it's two thousand
years ago. Take them to the mission in sant In tone.
My goodness that Ramon I am so the Texas history
nut you are, and you haven't taken on
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