AM Show Hr 1 | Sunday Talk Shows Used To Mean Something

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
You'll get into mic week.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
The huts loud.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Shoots up through the stony ground.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
There's no room the space to in this town out
of luck. That the reason that you had to call
the traffic stup.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
And get up.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
You thought you fed fed.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
To take you out this place. You would say, four days,

(01:27):
I'll wait you go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
For as long as I can remember, the Sunday talk
shows where the place where.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
The assessment of what was going on politically in the
country was taken. And while it is an insider's game,
and more so today than ever, I think there's probably
a few there are probably fewer people who watch the
Sunday talk shows who are not part of the business

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of politics, and it has become sadly an industry, a
massive industry.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
But for as long as I can remember, that was
the place that the deck was reset.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
And for the most recent memory of the last i'd
say probably twenty five years, the Democrats have owned the
Sunday talk shows, and that of course would own the
print media cycle starting Monday, where the things that were
said would be the front page news. And this was

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a very important part of the media manipulation propaganda machine.
Now it is almost exclusively the domain of insiders. Tim Russert,
for many years was a very well respected I think
on both sides of the Aisle Sunday political talk host.

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There's nobody left like that anymore, but it is it's
hard to put into perspective.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
What this looks like.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
You know, you see a career of Nolan Ryan where
the distance between him and his total strikeouts and the
number two is more strikeouts than probably ninety five percent
of baseball pitchers in their career will get. And that's
just that's just the lead he has over the number two.
Of course they're retired as well. I saw statistic yesterday

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that Randy Johnson most strikeouts in a year, the list
of top ten, number one, number two, number four, number seven.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I think we're all Randy Johnson.

Speaker 6 (03:49):
This guy, the unit had some amazing seasons, but Nolan
Ryan did it so well so long. When you see
the difference between Nolan Ryan over the course of his
career and literally everyone else, it's staggering. You know you've
got something special. When you see what Trump's team is

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doing on Sundays and nightly for that matter, and not
just on a relatively friendly to a relatively friendly interview,
but they're going into the line of fire, and I
mean apps and it's to a man Marco Rubio, who
I've not had any patience for since his sellout with

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the Gang of Eight, which is what ten eleven years ago.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Marco Rubio is going in. I mean, all guns blazing,
and they are.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
You know, the game is, well, Trump's president, inflation, Well
Trump's president. A guy in Baltimore had a car wreck,
Well Trump's president. It was cold yesterday. And these guys
are brooking no quarter. I mean they are going in
and punching back, going in for the fight. You see

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a guy go into an interview where you can tell
he wasn't prepared, and that interviewer is going to make
his name that day.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
The one that.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
Really sticks out to me was John Stewart interviewing Jim Kramer,
the guy who claims to be a financial guru, and
John Stuart had prepared clips of Kramer saying, yeah, I
tell people to buy this, but I'm actually selling it
because I don't care about them. I mean, it's not

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quite that bad, but it sort of is. And you
just watch the look on Jim Kramer's face as he
realizes he is being publicly flogged, and the humiliation in
addition to the surprise as he backtracks and just can't
wait for this thing to be over fast enough. I
don't know who is prepping Trump's people before they're going in.

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I don't know the extent to which they are just
watching what he does and has done for years and
they realize that's what they have to go in and do,
or the extent to which he is or someone on
his team is saying, all right, look, this is what
we're doing, because they are all reading off the same

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que card. Marco Rubio. We'll get into this as the
show develops. Marco Rubio making me proud. I can't remember
the last time I said anything like that. I cannot
remember the last time I thought I felt that Marco
Rubio was making me proud. Well, I can tell you.

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He was a speaker of the Florida House and he
was Ted Cruz before Ted Cruz was known. He was
the Tea Party guy. He was the darling of the
Tea Party and the grassroots supported him.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
He runs against christ who was had been.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
Governor and Senator and Chris had all the John Cornyn,
Mitch McConnell money. And Marco Rubio runs against him as
a tea party guy in twenty ten, or was at
twelve and Kruzell Sports, I think it was ten, twenty ten,
and he comes out of nowhere and he wins that seat,
and that was a bell Weather to the grassroots around

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the country.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
That was a bell Weather win.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
We can beat these guys despite all their money, and
Chris had all the money in the world the days
of the institutional John Cornyn guy just waltzing into reelection
no matter what. We're over now we've not been able
to do that to Corny because we've had a challenger
in an organized opposition. But Marco Rubio did that, got

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to the Senate and was so excited they let him
come have cigars in the in the club, they let
him hang out with the guys. So then they trotted
him out with a gang of eight immigration sellout and
he's been a disappointment. All that to say, even Marco Rubio,
and especially Marco Rubio, killed it this week.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Killed it.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
JHS, the Four Hour System from The Michael Berry Show
and other leading companies.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
We've got a goodly.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
Percentage of our population who are fascinated with weather and
follow any out of the ordinary weather conditions around the
world at all times.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I know because I hear from many of them.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Buddy mine Is works in the pipeline business and he
practically lives out of his truck out and usually West Texas,
but it'll go all the way up to Oklahoma, and
he's out there for a long periods of time, which
is great for us because he chooses to pass that
time listening to our shows. And he sent me a

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picture the other day of an eighteen wheeler that had
been knocked over. And he was on one of these
back roads checking one of these pipelines and a huge truck,
I mean felt like it was longer than usual, had

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high centered in the middle of a road where he
was trying to back up in the middle of it.
He had just jackknifed his truck. It was it was
quite a mess, and he said, even this guy doesn't
have it as bad as the people in Amarillo. If
you haven't seen the video, there's an eighty plus mile
an hour wind in the Amarillo area that flipped Semis
on I twenty seven I mean, I don't know what

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they had in.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
The back of them.

Speaker 6 (10:01):
You got to figure there's some weight in the truck
as well. Three people killed in car crashes during a
dust and windstorm in Amarillo County on Friday.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
There it goes tonight.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
The stunning power of this storm. Seen on a highway
near Amarillo, Texas, was another one massive wind gus knocking
over tractor trailers one after another after another.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Here police stopped to try and assist.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
Texas Department of Public Safety says there were at least
three fatal crashes among two dozen across West Texas. Here,
panic drivers trapped in a sea of brown dust, the
powerful storm sparking apocalyptic scenes, reducing visibility to zero across
several major interstates, officials say, causing this mess of mangled

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cars and overturned trucks.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Another flipped over.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
In the north family ways, as well as locking off.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
Frond An ambulance seen here crushed after a collision, and
this pile up on I twenty seven, which was shut
down the blinding conditions fueled by more than eighty mile
per hour winds. Kreena Garcia was in the middle of
it all.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
There was even rocks flying around because one of them
actually hit my windshield.

Speaker 7 (11:15):
And those destructive winds also fuelling fires, including in Lake Tanglewood, Texas.
This blaze just steps from homes and businesses tonight, others
forcing evacuations in several counties across Texas and Oklahoma.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Such an interesting part of the state in that it
is so different than say the Piney Woods, which is
the southern portion of which I grew up in.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
So different than South Texas. Some of you will remember
several years ago.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Twenty twenty two, to be exact, we had the co
founder of dig World on It's a Katie themed park
where kids and adults can operate real heavy construction equipment. Well,
that co founder went on Shark Tank and he got
a two hundred thousand dollars investment. This here's the audio

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on Shark Tank.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
Hey Sharks, my name is Jacob Robinson. I'm from Katie, Texas,
and I'm the co founder of Digworld. I'm here today
seeking two hundred thousand dollars for ten percent in my business. Sharks,
let me take you all the way back to your childhood.
You're riding in the back of your parents' old jalope
you're gazing out that window and behold the magic land
of a construction site. Your imagination starts to run wild,

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dreaming of getting in one of those excavators and digging
up some dirt. Gloss Sharks, it's time to turn those
childhood dreams into a reality, introducing Digworld, the construction theme
park that gives everyone the opportunity to operate real construction equipment.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Check it out.

Speaker 8 (12:49):
At Digworld, even kids can safely drive and operate full
size construction equipment like real excavators. Kids can get behind
the controls and they can dig up some dirt. They
get to drive full size IT steers and even utility
terrain vehicles around windy tracks, and so much more.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
All what's added safeguards of course, so cool.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
There's no simulators here, Sharks. We offer hands on experiences
for the whole family. Dig World is the ultimate family
friendly theme park where everyone can build their hearts out, allowing.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Us to create memories that last the lifetime. There Sharks, who's.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
Ready to dig up some of that nostalship and pave
the way for dig World to become.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
A national brand.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
So he got his two hundred thousand dollars It said
that the park's most recent annual attendance was sixty five
thousand people, So that's one hundred and seventy eight people
per day. You know, I don't have anything to compare
that to. It's not Astra World, but by the same token,
it's pretty big deal. What's interesting is, and I was

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unaware of this, is that he has partnered with Dude
Perfect out of Frisco. And if you don't know what
Dude Perfect is, it is, ask your kids or grandkids.
It's kind of a cool story. It's a group of
four guys. I think it's four and not three four.
There's a documentary on them on Netflix and it's they're

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living in a house in Aggie Land. They're in college station.
There are four of them, and they would film themselves.
If you've ever seen for whatever reason, you came across
this and you've either seen a thousand of these or
you've seen none, but I'll tell you in case you
haven't seen any, if.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
You ever see videos of guys sitting on.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
A couch, let's say, and bouncing a ping pong ball
against the wall, off the fireplace, against a net, and
into a cup, and you can tell because they're changing
clothes with each one that they've done this ten thousand
times until they finally hit it, and when they.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Hit it, it's pure luck. But then it's you know,
dude perfect and it's awesome.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Well, these four guys graduate from A and M go
off to their own jobs, and but one or two
of them stayed with us because they went real viral online.
And eventually all four of them are back and they
have made a fortune off of their media empire. Now

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they'll you know, drop a basketball from atop a skyscraper
in Las Vegas into you know, a basket down below,
even with the wind blowing anyway, that's good for him,
good for you.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Big world. The Michael Very Show coming values a million
dollar record sale.

Speaker 9 (15:51):
Now, whether you're from Saskatoon or from the Saga and
everybody's iron Sunday Tricks Day.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
You know, we were talking about those high winds in
Amarillo that turned over eighteen wheelers. Did you see that
truck that turned over yesterday on I forty five with
loaded down with Vicks vapor.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Rub The good news was there was no congestion for
eight hours.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
A burglar broke into a mechanic shop in the heights,
and as they often do, three days later, came back.
This time, however, a very different result. The owner was
prepared and loaded for bear and shot him. The story

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from Khou The mechanic.

Speaker 10 (16:58):
Shop owners, who didn't want to be identified, say, the
suspect came here to this business, right here, this great building.
He came to their electrical box which is on the
other side of this building, to steal copper just three
days ago, and he was back again this morning for more.
Only this time around, the business owners were prepared. This
is surveillance video the business owners tell us of the
suspect when he was here three days ago loading stolen

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equipment from the business onto the bed of his pickup truck.
The mechanic shop owner tells us they installed more cameras
with sensors and extra lights, which is how they were
able to see him this morning when he returned around
one point thirty.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Houston Police say when.

Speaker 10 (17:33):
The business owners arrived on scene to confront him, he
got aggressive, and that's when police say the shop owners
shot him once in the abdomen and they were able
to detain him until police arrived.

Speaker 11 (17:44):
He found out tonight that he doesn't get away with everything,
but will it stop him? He looks well versed in this.
That backpack is full of every tool imaginable to do
every job imaginable. I don't suspect he's going to be
stopping and unless he's charged harshly and held accountable, he'll

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be back at it.

Speaker 10 (18:08):
This is a family owned mechanic shop which has been
in this area off West eighteen for more than thirty years,
and the owners tell us this is their livelihood that
they can't afford to lose. Meanwhile, Houston Police tell us
the suspect is in the hospital being treated for his
injuries and it is expected to survive.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Wait a minute, you shot this guy, or somebody shot
this guy, and you don't think this is going to
stop him.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's on you. I think you were using the wrong caliber.
What he's a BB gun?

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Yeah, I shot him, but I'm pretty sure he'll probably
be back out Berglin again. Well, what did you shoot
him with? My goodness that you didn't do the job
the water gun? My goodness alive put him down?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Well?

Speaker 6 (19:00):
The drama begins in the eighteenth Congressional District that Sheila
Jackson Lee once held quick review on the eighteenth Congressional district.
The year was I believe nineteen seventy two. There was
as a result of the Voting Rights Act, there was

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a district, not the only one that were multiples, but
in the South, the Justice Department created a district for
the sole purpose of having a black congressman. Well, the
boys downtown, the city leaders, the money boys, said look,

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we're going to have a black congressman. We don't need
some rabble rouser. We need somebody reasonable. We can reason
with that. We can, you know, sit down together and
talk about shared value. Because, among other things, the eighteenth
Congressional District included Downtown. Well, the interesting thing about carving

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a district, it's going to be the sole purpose is
to elect a black congressman. The interesting thing about that
is that Downtown was put into the district, which picks
up a bunch of real estate but almost no people.
So now all of a sudden, not that a congressman

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has so much to do the way a mayor would
with downtown, but there are things that would fall under
the purview of a congressman that you would want someone
that would be reasonable there. And so Barbara Jordan State
Senator was chosen and Barbara Jordan today would look like

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a raging conservative. We've played you at the seventy sixth convention,
where a Democrat convention where Carter was nominated, and then
in ninety two Clinton brought her in to reprise the
same role. The last time a Democrat had won was
seventy six so and it worked. She had the magic touch.

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She's the one who said if a nation without laws
is not a nation. She's the one who in the
mid nineties chaired the Immigration Commission.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
And to hear her sounds like a sounds like Donald
Trump today.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
Well, she holds that position until I think it was
MS multiple sclerosis that she had, or it might have
been cerebral palsy, I forget, but she had a degenerative
disease that started seizing up her body.

Speaker 10 (21:40):
And in the.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
In the somewhere in the eighties, Mickey Leland, who was
that rabble rouser that you didn't want in there? This
was you know, this guy was rather radical. So Mickey
Leland gets elected to that seat, and then Mickey Leland
dies in a plane crash. In Anthony Hall and Craig
Washington have a nasty, brutal race nineteen eighty nine, Craig

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Washington wins.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, he's going to stay there for the rest of
his life. You can't beat this.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Nineteen ninety four, Sheila Jackson Lee wins her city council race,
is sworn in, and immediately with her entourage, walks down
the street to the now Mickey Leland Federal Building and
files to run for Congress January first, second, third, whatever
that was, with the primary coming up in two months now.

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She's just spent all this money a name I d
in a city council race, and Craig Washington had gotten
a little bit sloppy, and she beat Craig Washington in
that primary and held that seat for almost thirty years.
Whereupon she runs for mayor, as you know, loses to
John Whitmyer.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
And if you'll remember, she had it was a Saturday
election runoff.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
She had until that Monday to file for reelection to Congress,
which of course she did, but became very ill and
would pass in the in the middle of the summer.
Sylvester Turner was the inside choice. He had the track,
so he takes that seat, but he's suffering a terminal

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cancer which they had not revealed, and as you know
recently passed. In fact, a few tuesdays ago when President
Trump gave his joint address to Congress, Sylvester Turner passed
in the tunnel under Congress after that.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
So now we moved in the race to replace.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Sylvester Turner in what was long the seat Sheila Jackson
Lee held, and Rodney Ellis has a choice and it's
not Sheila's daughter.

Speaker 9 (23:54):
Someone proverb now quoted by Sheila Jackson Lean.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Thus I died Michael Barry Show.

Speaker 12 (24:03):
And thought of him as being irish and a while,
I mean, I know he is what you doing this ones,
I never forget the story.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
So Ben Morrison was currently a raging drunk and on
the verge of death because of it, so.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
He gave it up.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
And uh, some folks I knew went to his concert
in the Woodlands years ago. And these are guys that
worked all week and they spent a lot of money
because their wife wanted tickets to see Ben Morrison. They're
gonna take her. And while they're there, they'd like to

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take the edge off have a few drinks. So they
get there and you know, maybe they they're gonna have
more drinks as the evening where on, so they get
their drinks and go and sit down, concert starts and
there will be no more drinking, which is fine if

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you'd been advised, apprized if you will, But according to
my friends, they didn't do that. Van Morrison didn't want
you drinking. If he can't have a drink, you're damn
sure're not going to have a drink. And I have
mentioned that a few times on the air and it
never fails to elicit at least a few emails from

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people saying I was there.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
I remember. That was a pretty crappy thing to do.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
ABC thirteen reported that one person is in custody after
a hazmat situation transpired in a meth lab at an
apartment complex in Houston, specifically Downtown Houston, Friday evening. Authorities

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responded to the incident about seven forty three pm on
the twenty ninth floor at the Park Side Residences in
the eight hundred block of Crawford Popo say the fumes
were emanating from the scene.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Oh we know, we've seen breaking bad.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
ABC thirteen spoke to a Park Side Residences or resident
who described what she witnessed her apartment.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Quote.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
Another resident said over the loudspeaker. They told everyone on
that floor, which was the twenty ninth, to evacuate. So
now the fire department is here to make sure we
won't be harmed by the fumes. So we're out there waiting.
The female resident said, ever since Breaking Bad came out
in eight these meth cookers all think they're Walter White.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
What's both of us? Stop trying to justify this whole
thing and admit you're in danger.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Who are you talking to right now? Who is it
you see? You clearly don't know who you're talking to,
So let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skuyler.
I am the danger. A guy opens his store and
gets shot, and you think out of me. Now I
am the one who knocks. We think about this.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
A meth lab under a under a high end apartment
complex in downtown Houston. This is when you miss Marvin Zendler.
I wonder how Marvin Zendler would have reported on this.

Speaker 13 (27:31):
Now I know this is radio, so I want to
try and be as delicate as I can. Here go
and may God forgive me. Houston has a math lab
in it. Houston has a math lab. So I'll expose the.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Details though it fills me with discussed Please excuse the
milky duc detail. An angel does fumes escaping from inside it,
driving people wild.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
We must keep these fumes.

Speaker 14 (28:05):
Away from every man and child. Now I've taken in
some smoking my deal to, but I can care all.
Let's eat this smells not for me on you, it's
methan fedomin. Please welcome to the show our newest member
of the team, Darryl Kunda. For those of you unaware
because you're outside Houston or too young to know, Marvin

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Zendler is something of a Houston icon. He gained local
and then national attention when he and another journalist who
doesn't get his due, Larry Cunners, exposed a long running
and wink wink, nudge nudge really not problematic to nine

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to nine percent of Texans brothel outside of Houston in
Fayette County, a little over an hour away, known as
the Chicken Ranch near Lagrange.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
As in the song by z Easy Top. There are
so many cultural references to this story, you wouldn't believe
it got a lot of pretty girls out there, as
Billy would say. They did an investigative report leading to
the closure in nineteen seventy three of the Chicken Ranch
Texas monthly magazine back when it was a great magazine,

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and it was a great magazine nineteen seventy three, did
a big story on it, two issues in Playboy magazine
in seventy four, followed by a Broadway musical and then
a film musical and by the way, to prep for
that parody, rut there. We rewatched Best Little Worehouse in

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Texas this weekend and it holds up. Dom Delauise is
absolutely wonderful as Marvin z Inler, We mean it held up.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Oh my goodness. The character of Melvin p.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
Thorpe, and I encourage you to go watch it if
you haven't was based on Marvin Zenler, And my goodness,
was this ever a good movie and interesting story. The
sheriff of Fayette County at the time was Jim T. Flornoy.
You can kind of think of Jim ed in No

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Country for old Men. He's a good old boy who
wore as cowboy hat and his belt kind of hung
off the side of him. Got his pistol, he ain't
fired in a long time, might not have a bullet,
and it doesn't need to. He physically attacked Marvin Zendler,
you punks from Houston coming out here telling us what
to do. It punctured or fractured two of Marvin's ribs,

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and h story goes ripped his to pay off. Florinoy
reportedly waved the hairpiece triumphantly before tossing it into the
street as if it were a war trophy.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
But Marvin would have the last laugh.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
Governor Dolph Briscoe initially shut down the brothel, but it
reopened a few months later. Zendler, determined to expose its operations,
further continued his reporting, ultimately leading to its permanent closure.
Beyond his investigative journalism, Marvin Zendler would become a household
name in Houston for his self proclaimed rat and wrote

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report and I don't have time for the entirety of
the story, which we'll get to in a moment, but
every single person within earshot of our program right now, no,
he is most famous of all of his catchphrases.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
And you may say it along with Marvin.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
And now and now and now and now for the
big bag, big big bake, veg apps climb and the
ice machine.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Machine.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Thank you Marvin, and good night

Speaker 6 (32:10):
Have a good weekend, good cough, good tennis, or whatever
makes you happy.