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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Governor, you previously opposed an assault weapons van. But it's
only later in your political career did you change your position.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Why so, I've become friends with school shooters. And let
me tell you about my best friend.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
He's a woman boy. Cut its on, my up, my down,
my putton joy. I grew up in small rural Nebraska
count of four hundred town that you rode your bike
with your buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Still the street lights come on, and I'm proud of that.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Service is my best.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
He he's my best friend.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I've become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
No one before Ross Perot ran for president in ninety two.
People forget what an impressive effort that was. A reform
minded successful business man. No nonsense, Let's stop talking about
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the silly stuff and solve the problems the way you
would do with the business. I had a great deal
of respect for Ross Parrot when Mark White was elected
governor in eighty two. I remember Ross Perot was his
dollar a year guy who came in and just brought
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common sense solutions to educational problems. And I think that
most of those educational reforms. Not all, but most of
those were good, higher standards, real consequences. But the important
part there was the same Ross Perot that attempted to
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rescue the hostages out of Iran was bringing business principles
and traditional American values. You know, you meet these guys,
they're self made, hard working, no nonsense, solve the problem,
whatever you look like, put the best person in the job.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And we need more of that.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
So a fellow named Joe Penland I first met at
Christ's funeral and he drove over to Orange. We shook hands,
we talked for a minute, and later I was asked
to partner up with him on KLVI out of Beaumont
on a project that he created call Contract from the
American People. And the idea was, these candidates are all
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saying exactly what you want to hear, but there's no
real commitment to do the things that matter, to focus
on the issues that matter and the identity politics. And
then he popped up again at least on my screen.
Our campaign in Beaumont is ongoing. He popped up again
at the Tucker Crosson event where he's one of the sponsors,
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and I thought, you know, I'm constantly telling people to
stop hiding from public life. If you are a successful
businessman and start being a person of influence, and you'll
be surprised what a difference you can make, and asked
him to spend a few minutes with us.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Joe Penland, welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
You can find him at Joe from Texas dot com.
It is easier to hide from the spotlight a lot
of people that I say, you know, you have great ideas.
Why don't you get more involved. You don't have to
run for office. You could basically do what you're doing.
What was that moment for you? I know you served
on the school board, but what was that moment for
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you where you said, I can't just sit by and
let this country go to hell?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well, I guess when the boy got just the doors
came wide open on the border and we see that
being a border state. That rain real true to me.
You know, being in business for fifty years, Michael is
not an easy task, but it's a wonderful experience in
this country. I don't want to see that slip away.
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You know, we need immigration in this country. You know
our birth rate is shrinking as you've talked about before
A lot of people have. We need to do things
in the right way. People need to look at what's
at stake before they just vote. You know, people need
to test the water before you dive in, so to speak,
All those those sayings come true when I think about
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America today. You know, coming up in Frisco, Texas in
the fifties, working in the cotton fields, dad had a stroke.
We were very poor, had a hard time making it,
but we made it because Mom was there. She loved it.
She took care of us, and she put took on
extra work. And it taught me then that if I
was going to get a head in life and get
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off of that bad street of was on, that I
had to work. There was no handouts seventy years ago,
when I was born nineteen fifteen. For seventy four years ago,
it was no handouts, and we were so proud to
just have anything, make anything, make it ourselves. You talked
about ross Paro. I think about Rossboro a lot. Being
a fellow Texan did not want to be president of
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the United States. I have a real close friend, the
former Comptroller General of the United States, Dave Walker, who
is close friends with Ross PuO, very close friends. Actually
was in the last interview that he had. Those are
all great people. You look at Walnald Reagan what he
did when so Security was running out, and I just
start looking because I'm a so Security child, and all
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these things started mounting up. Michael to me and I said,
you know what, You've made it in the best country
in the world, no doubt, by far, nobody can ever
come close to this country. I made it from nothing
to what I am today, and I can give back
and I can help a few thousand people, Michael, in
our area. But the only way to help millions of
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people is we have to get Donald Trump elected as president.
He's got to get back in the White House, get
some common sense back into Washington. We have to have
JD go to the University of Trump for four years,
learn all he can, and stay another eight so we
can have twelve years to try to get some common
sense back in this country, because we're going to run
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off the cliff if we don't. I can't sit on
the porch. I use George Jones as my music when
I come out talking. When I was opening for Tucker
because I'm gray hair, but I'm not ready for the
rocking chair. I've got to do something to give back
to this great country.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You know, you got me thinking about that song, and
I'm sure you know the story, but they performed that
at the Country Music Awards the year that it came out,
and it was kind.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Of his.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Middle finger to the industry, to the labels and all
that were putting him out to pasture. And I think
that happens a lot in our society. The first time
I went to India with my wife was December of
nineteen ninety and I was.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Amazed what.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Degree of respect Indians have for older folks in their country,
because it's understood that that is wisdom and experience and knowledge.
And I've thought about this for thirty five years now,
and the trend has escalated. We have become a society,
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to quote Oscar Wild, youth has wasted on the young.
We have become a nation that is obsessed with young people.
And social media escalated this because it reaffirmed everything that
is awful about the high school herd mentality, and so
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the Kardashians and the call herd daddy in all of
this is it is an accelerated version of the opposite
of what you just talked about guys like you. There's
a guy named Victor Perez who is the who like you.
After a successful business career, stepped up and served as
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the president of the Katie ISD school Board and does
a great job. And guess what, he's not trying to
launch to the next position. Joe Penland, hang with us.
It's Joe for Texas dot Com. You can read the contract.
It's none of the silly fluff. It's about fixing the
issues that we care.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
About when it comes to the economy.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Do you believe Americans are better off than they were
four years ago?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Michael Barry So.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I got a shotgun or rifle, an a bullwheel drive
and a country boyd Cantle survive one hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Bucks counties miss includes Judent.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I say that because you wouldn't know. But if you know,
you know.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
The website is Joe from Texas dot Com. We do
a little duo campaign for Beaumont that we recorded to
ask people to go to the website, read it and
if it's something you support, spread the message. It's called
the contract from the American People. Joe, what was the
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idea behind that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, you know, we looked at things that I think
are the most important things to America today, and this
came from a study that Dave Walker did at Rossboro funded.
And the people are really way way ahead of the politicians, Michael.
The politicians think we're all in the dark or not.
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We understand problems, We understand things are not like they
work ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, and we understand we
need to have some changes. And that's why I went
on this tour with Tucker Calson. I wanted to get
myself out there in front of people and see if
I could talk to people. What could I resonate with them?
Would they would they understand what I was talking about
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when I just got right down and talked on what
I call my level. I struggled to get out of
high school. I made it through twelve years and that
was enough and I went out and got to work.
And thank god I didn't have the money to go
to college, because I don't know what I've amounted to
if I have. But this is what America's about. So
I got out on that tour to listen to people
and talk to people and stand there in front of
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ten or twelve thousand people and tell them a short
story about my life and how we could help people
that are enduring that kind of pain today. I was
so amazed at when people would come up to me
and line up after every show and want to talk
and tell me how much they appreciate the story and
how much it resonated with them. And a man and
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woman walked up to me in Pennsylvania said, Joe, thank
you for the story. The lady was crying so that
it just moved me. She said, I'm going to vote
for Donald Trump now, just by what you said. And
you told us that's the only way we can save
our country and save Social Security and the other things
that are dear to us today. So I've been on
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the line, said my husband's been telling me this is
the way we got to go. And I said, well,
that's great. I'm glad that you that you see the
light that it doesn't matter is that a man of woman, black, white,
that's not the issue. Who's the best for the job,
who's the best surgeon for the job, who's the best
teacher for your children? We got to look at what's
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good for us, not well, you just don't like this,
or you just don't like that. Michael. I hear you
talk about that a lot. But people just get there
wearing their feelings on their shoulder, to the point that
they're going to their family do without. I had another
woman walk up to me. She said, Joe, I know
Donald Trump's the right guy, There's no two ways about it.
I know he's the business guy and he's who we
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need to leave this country. But I can't warm up
to him. I saw, ma'am. I said, let me ask
you this. Do you dislike Trump more than you love
your family or this country? She said absolutely not. I said,
then you've answered your own question. We need to do
what's right for America. Time is running out. Social Security
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will go broke in less than nine years, and there's
seventy million of you. When I was looking at her
talking to her on social Security, I said, I'm on
social Security. I said, can you stand at twenty five
percent cutting? Ma'm She said no, I'm barely making it now.
Is that what this is all about? I said, just, ma'am,
it is. We have to save the economy we have.
We got national security problems today. There's a lot of
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hot buttons across this country to day that the politicians
like to fester up on two things we have to
always stay steadfast on is our national security and our finances.
And the only way we can have a strong military
is strong finances. You know, we're boring money from China, Japan,
foreign countries. China is aligning ourselves with Russian Iran. I mean,
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we're really on the brink of going over the cliff
we formed out our national security not drilling in this country.
If there was a blueprint Michael on how to destroy
the greatest country in the world, they're reading it on
Pennsylvania Avenue right now. And I hope right now that
there's not just another version of it laying on the
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desk for her to read. We have got to change
who lives in the White House or this country is
in a lot of trouble. I'm not just blowing a
lot of hot air and telling people to get scared
and all that. You should have already been scared when
your border got opened, should already been scared when they
quit drill in this country. How are we going to
win a war if we can't fuel our tanks in
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our military. I mean, we have completely lost our way
in this country, and it's all because of Facebook and
television and all this, and you hear this and hear that.
The truth is this. I wanted to talk to the
American people, and the only way I could do it,
to talk to thousands of people, was to go on
this tour with Tucker Callson. My CPA and lawyer told
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me the last thing, do not mention Donald Trump or
jd Vance or anything about the election. You are a sponsor.
If you say anything about that, you fund this yourself.
First thing I'd done is said something about Donald Trump.
It was my platform and I used it, and I'm
so happy I did. I met a lot of great people,
a lot of great Americans. They're just like me and
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you and your mom and dad. They know what's best
for this country, and they love this country. And they're scared.
They're all scared right now.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
They are.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And I think it is when people are down, when
things get bad. Alcoholics know this, Gambling addicts know this.
People that get so fat they can't leave the bed
know this. Sometimes things have to get so.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Bad before people are moved to action.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
And my hope is we have reached that point, because
they can also go so far that you can't fix it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And this is a mess.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Deporting these people, dealing with the problems we've inherited, the
problems with our criminal justice system, the people that are
in place. It isn't It's going to be a real mess.
It is going to be an absolute mess.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
To deal with. An absolute mess. Joe, tell folks. I've
got about a minute and a half. Tell folks your business.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Career and your life career, your school board, and how
you ended up here.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I think it's a good story.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well, we started out in Frisco, Texas. My dad, you
mentioned it will ago about him, but he was an alcoholic.
He had a stroke in nineteen fifty seven. Two weeks
later we didn't have enough to eat. My mom took
in laundry and did the very best she could, and
we took odd jobs and a little bit later he
passed away. We got a SOB security check that helped us.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
My older brother went in the.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Navy, so he has got cut out. The next brother
went in army. His has got cut out. It was
just me and John and Mama, but we made it.
The day after this election will be November sixth, that'd
be sixty years. He's been passed away. I'll go out
there and visit with him and Mom, and I'll let
him know that I did everything I could to try
to make sure that we got the right men back
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in the White House to save this great country. My
dad was in the war.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A lot of people.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You go out to the cemetery and you look out
there at the little flags on Veterans Day. All those
people didn't lose their life in the war or lose
a hand or foot, but they were all willing to
do that for me and you to sit here today.
I don't take that lightly. I know this is my calling.
I am going to help America. I cannot help enough
Americans here. I've got to get up to Washington and
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see if I can have some influence there. If I can,
that'd be great. If I can't, I'll die trying. That's
what I'm going to do. I love this country. I
love the country that have let me build a business
here for fifty years. I've got employees been with me
forty eight, forty six, forty five years. That we do
the right thing. We help our community. You know, we
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take care of our children, we take care of our employees,
and we're going to give something back every day because
I promised Mama that I would do that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'd give back every day.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Joe Pinland Joe from Texas dot Com twenty eighteen, which
all them up paper ballots, but that actually might be
one of the smartest systems.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The Michael Berry Joe.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Or along.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
You know why they say amen instead of a woman
at the end of songs at church.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Because they're hymns, not hers.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You know where bananas go to learn to become banana
splitz Sunday School.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You're a movie guy, you'll know this.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You know what a male prostitute and the peak panther
have in common. They're both Peter Sellers.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I rode to.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Austin conference I went to two weekends ago. Nandita met
me up there and then we got to hang out
with Michael and she and I rode back. That was
the ride from Hell, Riding from Hades. The good news
for Skeeters was skeeters Otto got to fix the whole
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air conditioning system and replace the tires and all of
that sort of stuff, which I always enjoy spending money
with our show sponsors. I mean that because I want
them to succeed too. But in the meantime I had
to suffer through a drive back in one hundred and
six degree heat. My wife keeps reminding me, and it
was bad, it was rough. But on the way up
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to the conference, Chance was kind enough to drive me
in his new cyber truck. And I had been warned
by Emily, you realize people are going to be flipping
you off the whole way. And I said, look, I
think those things are as ugly as the next guy.
But who's going to bother to flip somebody off because
what they're driving. She said, I'm telling you people are
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going to flip you off on the way. So anyway,
we get there and it's as hideous as you would imagine.
I mean they really are. They're god awful ugly. They're
more ugly than you can imagine. They are oppressively ugly.
I said to him, I said, Chance, this thing reminds
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me of something that people the Russian occupiers in Hungary
would drive in nineteen fifty six. And he goes, yeah,
I get that. And Chance doesn't care, like he's not
out to impress anybody. He loves his cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And I will tell you.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
There are some elements to his cyber truck that I say,
gm Ford ch.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Shame on you. How did you let these people figure
out how to do this?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
This guy's been in the business for a few years.
Because it's really it's really an iPad with a car attached, right,
That's what it is. It's an electronic device. But for instance,
you can set it to speed limit and whatever the
speed limit goes up or down, it just stays, so
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it's cruise control on steroids. There were some things about
it that I must admit were really, really, really impressive.
I'm not an electric car guy, never have been, never
will be. Don't think they're the future. I'm not, but
I no longer feel the need to shame people who are.
And Chance is and that's his own deal. He loves
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his cyber truck. You can't make him not love his
cyber truck. It's also a bunch of gadgets, and things
with a bunch of gadgets make me nervous. I mean,
even my phone has Why do I have to keep
updating this thing? I just want a phone. But here
is the reason.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
The electric car will never take over.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
It's a gimmick. Electric cars are for people to drive
as their second vehicle, and that's what most people do.
It's a neat little thing to do on the weekend.
It is not your primary vehicle. Here's another reason there's
a problem with electric vehicles. Florida officials warn that salt
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water from the Hurricane Helene storm can compromise lithium ion batteries,
creating a fire hazard. It's already resulted in several fires,
with one house burning down due to an electric vehicle.
Here's Florida's Chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
This is a storm surge event. This was not as
much a windstorm, but a storm surge. One of the
threads that we're very concerned with as lithium ion battery technologies.
That's evs, golf carts, you know, scooters. These devices do
not mix well with salt water. We've had sixteen fires
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already in the Penelas Tampa Bay area from EV related
flood effects where the device has caught fire, and we
had some circumstances where the house is actually burned down.
The evs, about six of them so far, have set
houses on fire. If you own an EV, if it
did have flooding. The best thing you can do is
call your insurance company and then have it towed away.
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The tow truck operators will have a safe place to
take it while your claim is being settled. But what
you don't want to risk is that lithium ion battery
to product in your garage on charge and down the
powers turned back on, it creates what's called a thermal runaway.
That means it will burn until it doesn't have any
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fuel left. You can't put it out with water. Ultimately,
that could lead to harming you, your household or a
first responder. So please understand those items and salt water
do not mix, and you need to take an extra
precaution as we have already had a series of fires
that are lithium ion battery related.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, you electric car drivers, you're killing grandma.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You're killing grandma. Phase of the COVID crisis. Well, that
was something else, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Should we take calls?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
It was a very serious first hour in can of serious.
Now I think we should take some calls. Seven one three,
nine nine, nine one thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You previously opposed an assault weapons van, but it only
later in your political career did you change your position
wide Markel.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Barry shall become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I need to be better off. Well, we got another
one of these cases.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Another woman has been arrested for practicing dentistry without a license.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You know this pushes a.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Lot of different, somewhat contradictory buttons. First of all, I
think you got to get the government out of everything,
zero based budgeting and regulation and start over. It's funny
to me sometimes you'll be in the backyard having a
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cigar and a beer a bourbon with some friends and
some I say, I think I'm gonna get some tenner
writing blow sipping my I'm and people will immediately begin thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
About whether you can do that or not.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Like we're twelve, Remember when you'd go for a bike
ride when your buddies, with your buddies, and if it
was during the summer, and you started out early, and
you get along away from home, and you'd go somewhere
that you'd never been unless your parents had driven you there.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And you're on your bike and you make it to
the mall. Whoa, we're at the mall.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
We didn't have a mall in Orange, but we had
a little strip center and you'd be all the way
in town. You'd be on your bike and didn't have
a dollar to your name, but it didn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You were there.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Look at us, we're in control of our own lives.
We don't have to sit in the back. We're just right.
And you're just looking at your bike like, yeah, he's
looking over at them, like y'all were an easy rider
there you were what was his name?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Dennis Quaid? Was it Dennis Quaid? And who else? Was
it Dennis Hopper? Dennis Hopper? And who else? Yeah? Was
it Nicholson? And who else? Who? Henry Fonda?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You felt like you were that guy even if you
didn't have a chopper bicyble.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You were riding.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Around and you were into well for me because we
lived outside of town. So when you were in town
on your bike, you were there. Could nobody control you.
Look at us, we're big boys. Not a penny to
our name to even buy you who. But there we
were so being resourceful. You start picking up trash, Hey,
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the convenience store or one of the little shops, especially
if it was woman owned, she'd feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Hey, we're trying to make a little money. Go buy
you who?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
And a payday bar. Could we pick up trash out front?
I don't think I ever got turned down on the
pickup trash. We used to do the Recycled Kens project,
but that didn't pay very well. You know, that was
one of those that somebody's mom would always suggest you
do to go make some money, but that never really
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paid well. Can we pick up some trash? I could
always make money around the neighborhood washing cars, because nobody
really wants to wash their car. But the point is,
I don't think the government ought to be in the
business of telling people what they can and cannot do,
and all these licenses and all that. That being said,
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it is pretty funny to me how you've got these
people that are career criminals and someone else is going
to them for dental work.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Fox twenty six with a.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Story I didn't think I'd ever see another defendant like
Aubrey Davis.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Remember we did the bailbond Queen that we nicknamed Aubrey
Day when we nicknamed it here the bail bond Queen.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
She makes Aubrey Davis look like a minor leaguer.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
She is forty one year old, one out of Solomon.
How many convictions does one out of Solomon have ten.
Solomon is serving probation in both Harris and Galveston Counties.
She's been on probation since twenty twenty one, but she's
done nothing. When I looked at him, going good god girl,
you violated every single condition of your probation.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
One out of Solomon.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Define continues to pick up new charges as time goes on.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
And while serving twoations.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Aggravated assault with a daily weapon and the other is
for unlawfully carrying a weapon with a prior felony conviction.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Just to dame, a few motions are found to revoke
Solomon's probation and put her back in prison. Well, she's
been a few times, but that's not what happens. On
August twelfth, when Solomon appeared before two hundred and thirty
second Court Judge Josh Hill, he let her walk out
the door. Didn't even increase the bond amount.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Everything remained the same, Like everything's fine. Get this.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
On August thirtieth, Solomon is charged with practicing dentistry without
a license.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
She's strongly employed as a teeth whiting specialist.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
According to court documents, Solomon called herself Nikki Callaway. She
had an office in this building at ninety nine to
fifty West Park Drive. Her business was called I Smiles
Cosmetic Designs. A woman who saw Solomon advertise on TikTok
told police she paid one thousand dollars for Veneers and
a Bridge. Court document state Solomon did not take a
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mold of her teeth and mouth. Instead applied the composite
Veneers and Bridge by using a lot of pressure and chemicals.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
She also used a drill and a file
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Governor, you previously opposed an assault weapons van. But it's
only later in your political career did you change your position.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Why so, I've become friends with school shooters. And let
me tell you about my best friend.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
He's a woman boy. Cut its on, my up, my down,
my putton joy. I grew up in small rural Nebraska
count of four hundred town that you rode your bike
with your buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Still the street lights come on, and I'm proud of that.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Service is my best.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
He he's my best friend.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I've become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
No one before Ross Perot ran for president in ninety two.
People forget what an impressive effort that was. A reform
minded successful business man. No nonsense, Let's stop talking about
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the silly stuff and solve the problems the way you
would do with the business. I had a great deal
of respect for Ross Parrot when Mark White was elected
governor in eighty two. I remember Ross Perot was his
dollar a year guy who came in and just brought
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common sense solutions to educational problems. And I think that
most of those educational reforms. Not all, but most of
those were good, higher standards, real consequences. But the important
part there was the same Ross Perot that attempted to
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rescue the hostages out of Iran was bringing business principles
and traditional American values. You know, you meet these guys,
they're self made, hard working, no nonsense, solve the problem,
whatever you look like, put the best person in the job.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And we need more of that.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
So a fellow named Joe Penland I first met at
Christ's funeral and he drove over to Orange. We shook hands,
we talked for a minute, and later I was asked
to partner up with him on KLVI out of Beaumont
on a project that he created call Contract from the
American People. And the idea was, these candidates are all
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saying exactly what you want to hear, but there's no
real commitment to do the things that matter, to focus
on the issues that matter and the identity politics. And
then he popped up again at least on my screen.
Our campaign in Beaumont is ongoing. He popped up again
at the Tucker Crosson event where he's one of the sponsors,
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and I thought, you know, I'm constantly telling people to
stop hiding from public life. If you are a successful
businessman and start being a person of influence, and you'll
be surprised what a difference you can make, and asked
him to spend a few minutes with us.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Joe Penland, welcome to the program.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
You can find him at Joe from Texas dot com.
It is easier to hide from the spotlight a lot
of people that I say, you know, you have great ideas.
Why don't you get more involved. You don't have to
run for office. You could basically do what you're doing.
What was that moment for you? I know you served
on the school board, but what was that moment for
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you where you said, I can't just sit by and
let this country go to hell?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well, I guess when the boy got just the doors
came wide open on the border and we see that
being a border state. That rain real true to me.
You know, being in business for fifty years, Michael is
not an easy task, but it's a wonderful experience in
this country. I don't want to see that slip away.
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You know, we need immigration in this country. You know
our birth rate is shrinking as you've talked about before
A lot of people have. We need to do things
in the right way. People need to look at what's
at stake before they just vote. You know, people need
to test the water before you dive in, so to speak,
All those those sayings come true when I think about
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America today. You know, coming up in Frisco, Texas in
the fifties, working in the cotton fields, dad had a stroke.
We were very poor, had a hard time making it,
but we made it because Mom was there. She loved it.
She took care of us, and she put took on
extra work. And it taught me then that if I
was going to get a head in life and get
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off of that bad street of was on, that I
had to work. There was no handouts seventy years ago,
when I was born nineteen fifteen. For seventy four years ago,
it was no handouts, and we were so proud to
just have anything, make anything, make it ourselves. You talked
about ross Paro. I think about Rossboro a lot. Being
a fellow Texan did not want to be president of
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the United States. I have a real close friend, the
former Comptroller General of the United States, Dave Walker, who
is close friends with Ross PuO, very close friends. Actually
was in the last interview that he had. Those are
all great people. You look at Walnald Reagan what he
did when so Security was running out, and I just
start looking because I'm a so Security child, and all
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these things started mounting up. Michael to me and I said,
you know what, You've made it in the best country
in the world, no doubt, by far, nobody can ever
come close to this country. I made it from nothing
to what I am today, and I can give back
and I can help a few thousand people, Michael, in
our area. But the only way to help millions of
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people is we have to get Donald Trump elected as president.
He's got to get back in the White House, get
some common sense back into Washington. We have to have
JD go to the University of Trump for four years,
learn all he can, and stay another eight so we
can have twelve years to try to get some common
sense back in this country, because we're going to run
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off the cliff if we don't. I can't sit on
the porch. I use George Jones as my music when
I come out talking. When I was opening for Tucker
because I'm gray hair, but I'm not ready for the
rocking chair. I've got to do something to give back
to this great country.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You know, you got me thinking about that song, and
I'm sure you know the story, but they performed that
at the Country Music Awards the year that it came out,
and it was kind.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Of his.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Middle finger to the industry, to the labels and all
that were putting him out to pasture. And I think
that happens a lot in our society. The first time
I went to India with my wife was December of
nineteen ninety and I was.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Amazed what.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Degree of respect Indians have for older folks in their country,
because it's understood that that is wisdom and experience and knowledge.
And I've thought about this for thirty five years now,
and the trend has escalated. We have become a society,
(07:47):
to quote Oscar Wild, youth has wasted on the young.
We have become a nation that is obsessed with young people.
And social media escalated this because it reaffirmed everything that
is awful about the high school herd mentality, and so
(08:09):
the Kardashians and the call herd daddy in all of
this is it is an accelerated version of the opposite
of what you just talked about guys like you. There's
a guy named Victor Perez who is the who like you.
After a successful business career, stepped up and served as
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the president of the Katie ISD school Board and does
a great job. And guess what, he's not trying to
launch to the next position. Joe Penland, hang with us.
It's Joe for Texas dot Com. You can read the contract.
It's none of the silly fluff. It's about fixing the
issues that we care.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
About when it comes to the economy.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Do you believe Americans are better off than they were
four years ago?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Michael Barry So.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I got a shotgun or rifle, an a bullwheel drive
and a country boyd Cantle survive one hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Bucks counties miss includes Judent.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I say that because you wouldn't know. But if you know,
you know.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
The website is Joe from Texas dot Com. We do
a little duo campaign for Beaumont that we recorded to
ask people to go to the website, read it and
if it's something you support, spread the message. It's called
the contract from the American People. Joe, what was the
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idea behind that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, you know, we looked at things that I think
are the most important things to America today, and this
came from a study that Dave Walker did at Rossboro funded.
And the people are really way way ahead of the politicians, Michael.
The politicians think we're all in the dark or not.
(10:08):
We understand problems, We understand things are not like they
work ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, and we understand we
need to have some changes. And that's why I went
on this tour with Tucker Calson. I wanted to get
myself out there in front of people and see if
I could talk to people. What could I resonate with them?
Would they would they understand what I was talking about
(10:29):
when I just got right down and talked on what
I call my level. I struggled to get out of
high school. I made it through twelve years and that
was enough and I went out and got to work.
And thank god I didn't have the money to go
to college, because I don't know what I've amounted to
if I have. But this is what America's about. So
I got out on that tour to listen to people
and talk to people and stand there in front of
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ten or twelve thousand people and tell them a short
story about my life and how we could help people
that are enduring that kind of pain today. I was
so amazed at when people would come up to me
and line up after every show and want to talk
and tell me how much they appreciate the story and
how much it resonated with them. And a man and
(11:13):
woman walked up to me in Pennsylvania said, Joe, thank
you for the story. The lady was crying so that
it just moved me. She said, I'm going to vote
for Donald Trump now, just by what you said. And
you told us that's the only way we can save
our country and save Social Security and the other things
that are dear to us today. So I've been on
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the line, said my husband's been telling me this is
the way we got to go. And I said, well,
that's great. I'm glad that you that you see the
light that it doesn't matter is that a man of woman, black, white,
that's not the issue. Who's the best for the job,
who's the best surgeon for the job, who's the best
teacher for your children? We got to look at what's
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good for us, not well, you just don't like this,
or you just don't like that. Michael. I hear you
talk about that a lot. But people just get there
wearing their feelings on their shoulder, to the point that
they're going to their family do without. I had another
woman walk up to me. She said, Joe, I know
Donald Trump's the right guy, There's no two ways about it.
I know he's the business guy and he's who we
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need to leave this country. But I can't warm up
to him. I saw, ma'am. I said, let me ask
you this. Do you dislike Trump more than you love
your family or this country? She said absolutely not. I said,
then you've answered your own question. We need to do
what's right for America. Time is running out. Social Security
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will go broke in less than nine years, and there's
seventy million of you. When I was looking at her
talking to her on social Security, I said, I'm on
social Security. I said, can you stand at twenty five
percent cutting? Ma'm She said no, I'm barely making it now.
Is that what this is all about? I said, just, ma'am,
it is. We have to save the economy we have.
We got national security problems today. There's a lot of
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hot buttons across this country to day that the politicians
like to fester up on two things we have to
always stay steadfast on is our national security and our finances.
And the only way we can have a strong military
is strong finances. You know, we're boring money from China, Japan,
foreign countries. China is aligning ourselves with Russian Iran. I mean,
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we're really on the brink of going over the cliff
we formed out our national security not drilling in this country.
If there was a blueprint Michael on how to destroy
the greatest country in the world, they're reading it on
Pennsylvania Avenue right now. And I hope right now that
there's not just another version of it laying on the
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desk for her to read. We have got to change
who lives in the White House or this country is
in a lot of trouble. I'm not just blowing a
lot of hot air and telling people to get scared
and all that. You should have already been scared when
your border got opened, should already been scared when they
quit drill in this country. How are we going to
win a war if we can't fuel our tanks in
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our military. I mean, we have completely lost our way
in this country, and it's all because of Facebook and
television and all this, and you hear this and hear that.
The truth is this. I wanted to talk to the
American people, and the only way I could do it,
to talk to thousands of people, was to go on
this tour with Tucker Callson. My CPA and lawyer told
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me the last thing, do not mention Donald Trump or
jd Vance or anything about the election. You are a sponsor.
If you say anything about that, you fund this yourself.
First thing I'd done is said something about Donald Trump.
It was my platform and I used it, and I'm
so happy I did. I met a lot of great people,
a lot of great Americans. They're just like me and
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you and your mom and dad. They know what's best
for this country, and they love this country. And they're scared.
They're all scared right now.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
They are.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And I think it is when people are down, when
things get bad. Alcoholics know this, Gambling addicts know this.
People that get so fat they can't leave the bed
know this. Sometimes things have to get so.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Bad before people are moved to action.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
And my hope is we have reached that point, because
they can also go so far that you can't fix it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And this is a mess.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Deporting these people, dealing with the problems we've inherited, the
problems with our criminal justice system, the people that are
in place. It isn't It's going to be a real mess.
It is going to be an absolute mess.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
To deal with. An absolute mess. Joe, tell folks. I've
got about a minute and a half. Tell folks your business.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Career and your life career, your school board, and how
you ended up here.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I think it's a good story.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well, we started out in Frisco, Texas. My dad, you
mentioned it will ago about him, but he was an alcoholic.
He had a stroke in nineteen fifty seven. Two weeks
later we didn't have enough to eat. My mom took
in laundry and did the very best she could, and
we took odd jobs and a little bit later he
passed away. We got a SOB security check that helped us.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
My older brother went in the.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Navy, so he has got cut out. The next brother
went in army. His has got cut out. It was
just me and John and Mama, but we made it.
The day after this election will be November sixth, that'd
be sixty years. He's been passed away. I'll go out
there and visit with him and Mom, and I'll let
him know that I did everything I could to try
to make sure that we got the right men back
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in the White House to save this great country. My
dad was in the war.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A lot of people.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You go out to the cemetery and you look out
there at the little flags on Veterans Day. All those
people didn't lose their life in the war or lose
a hand or foot, but they were all willing to
do that for me and you to sit here today.
I don't take that lightly. I know this is my calling.
I am going to help America. I cannot help enough
Americans here. I've got to get up to Washington and
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see if I can have some influence there. If I can,
that'd be great. If I can't, I'll die trying. That's
what I'm going to do. I love this country. I
love the country that have let me build a business
here for fifty years. I've got employees been with me
forty eight, forty six, forty five years. That we do
the right thing. We help our community. You know, we
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take care of our children, we take care of our employees,
and we're going to give something back every day because
I promised Mama that I would do that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'd give back every day.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Joe Pinland Joe from Texas dot Com twenty eighteen, which
all them up paper ballots, but that actually might be
one of the smartest systems.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The Michael Berry Joe.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Or along.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
You know why they say amen instead of a woman
at the end of songs at church.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Because they're hymns, not hers.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You know where bananas go to learn to become banana
splitz Sunday School.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You're a movie guy, you'll know this.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You know what a male prostitute and the peak panther
have in common. They're both Peter Sellers.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I rode to.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Austin conference I went to two weekends ago. Nandita met
me up there and then we got to hang out
with Michael and she and I rode back. That was
the ride from Hell, Riding from Hades. The good news
for Skeeters was skeeters Otto got to fix the whole
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air conditioning system and replace the tires and all of
that sort of stuff, which I always enjoy spending money
with our show sponsors. I mean that because I want
them to succeed too. But in the meantime I had
to suffer through a drive back in one hundred and
six degree heat. My wife keeps reminding me, and it
was bad, it was rough. But on the way up
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to the conference, Chance was kind enough to drive me
in his new cyber truck. And I had been warned
by Emily, you realize people are going to be flipping
you off the whole way. And I said, look, I
think those things are as ugly as the next guy.
But who's going to bother to flip somebody off because
what they're driving. She said, I'm telling you people are
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going to flip you off on the way. So anyway,
we get there and it's as hideous as you would imagine.
I mean they really are. They're god awful ugly. They're
more ugly than you can imagine. They are oppressively ugly.
I said to him, I said, Chance, this thing reminds
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me of something that people the Russian occupiers in Hungary
would drive in nineteen fifty six. And he goes, yeah,
I get that. And Chance doesn't care, like he's not
out to impress anybody. He loves his cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And I will tell you.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
There are some elements to his cyber truck that I say,
gm Ford ch.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Shame on you. How did you let these people figure
out how to do this?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
This guy's been in the business for a few years.
Because it's really it's really an iPad with a car attached, right,
That's what it is. It's an electronic device. But for instance,
you can set it to speed limit and whatever the
speed limit goes up or down, it just stays, so
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it's cruise control on steroids. There were some things about
it that I must admit were really, really, really impressive.
I'm not an electric car guy, never have been, never
will be. Don't think they're the future. I'm not, but
I no longer feel the need to shame people who are.
And Chance is and that's his own deal. He loves
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his cyber truck. You can't make him not love his
cyber truck. It's also a bunch of gadgets, and things
with a bunch of gadgets make me nervous. I mean,
even my phone has Why do I have to keep
updating this thing? I just want a phone. But here
is the reason.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
The electric car will never take over.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
It's a gimmick. Electric cars are for people to drive
as their second vehicle, and that's what most people do.
It's a neat little thing to do on the weekend.
It is not your primary vehicle. Here's another reason there's
a problem with electric vehicles. Florida officials warn that salt
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water from the Hurricane Helene storm can compromise lithium ion batteries,
creating a fire hazard. It's already resulted in several fires,
with one house burning down due to an electric vehicle.
Here's Florida's Chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
This is a storm surge event. This was not as
much a windstorm, but a storm surge. One of the
threads that we're very concerned with as lithium ion battery technologies.
That's evs, golf carts, you know, scooters. These devices do
not mix well with salt water. We've had sixteen fires
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already in the Penelas Tampa Bay area from EV related
flood effects where the device has caught fire, and we
had some circumstances where the house is actually burned down.
The evs, about six of them so far, have set
houses on fire. If you own an EV, if it
did have flooding. The best thing you can do is
call your insurance company and then have it towed away.
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The tow truck operators will have a safe place to
take it while your claim is being settled. But what
you don't want to risk is that lithium ion battery
to product in your garage on charge and down the
powers turned back on, it creates what's called a thermal runaway.
That means it will burn until it doesn't have any
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fuel left. You can't put it out with water. Ultimately,
that could lead to harming you, your household or a
first responder. So please understand those items and salt water
do not mix, and you need to take an extra
precaution as we have already had a series of fires
that are lithium ion battery related.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, you electric car drivers, you're killing grandma.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You're killing grandma. Phase of the COVID crisis. Well, that
was something else, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Should we take calls?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
It was a very serious first hour in can of serious.
Now I think we should take some calls. Seven one three,
nine nine, nine one thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You previously opposed an assault weapons van, but it only
later in your political career did you change your position
wide Markel.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Barry shall become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I need to be better off. Well, we got another
one of these cases.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Another woman has been arrested for practicing dentistry without a license.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You know this pushes a.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Lot of different, somewhat contradictory buttons. First of all, I
think you got to get the government out of everything,
zero based budgeting and regulation and start over. It's funny
to me sometimes you'll be in the backyard having a
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cigar and a beer a bourbon with some friends and
some I say, I think I'm gonna get some tenner
writing blow sipping my I'm and people will immediately begin thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
About whether you can do that or not.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Like we're twelve, Remember when you'd go for a bike
ride when your buddies, with your buddies, and if it
was during the summer, and you started out early, and
you get along away from home, and you'd go somewhere
that you'd never been unless your parents had driven you there.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And you're on your bike and you make it to
the mall. Whoa, we're at the mall.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
We didn't have a mall in Orange, but we had
a little strip center and you'd be all the way
in town. You'd be on your bike and didn't have
a dollar to your name, but it didn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You were there.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Look at us, we're in control of our own lives.
We don't have to sit in the back. We're just right.
And you're just looking at your bike like, yeah, he's
looking over at them, like y'all were an easy rider
there you were what was his name?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Dennis Quaid? Was it Dennis Quaid? And who else? Was
it Dennis Hopper? Dennis Hopper? And who else? Yeah? Was
it Nicholson? And who else? Who? Henry Fonda?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You felt like you were that guy even if you
didn't have a chopper bicyble.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You were riding.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Around and you were into well for me because we
lived outside of town. So when you were in town
on your bike, you were there. Could nobody control you.
Look at us, we're big boys. Not a penny to
our name to even buy you who. But there we
were so being resourceful. You start picking up trash, Hey,
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the convenience store or one of the little shops, especially
if it was woman owned, she'd feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Hey, we're trying to make a little money. Go buy
you who?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
And a payday bar. Could we pick up trash out front?
I don't think I ever got turned down on the
pickup trash. We used to do the Recycled Kens project,
but that didn't pay very well. You know, that was
one of those that somebody's mom would always suggest you
do to go make some money, but that never really
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paid well. Can we pick up some trash? I could
always make money around the neighborhood washing cars, because nobody
really wants to wash their car. But the point is,
I don't think the government ought to be in the
business of telling people what they can and cannot do,
and all these licenses and all that. That being said,
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it is pretty funny to me how you've got these
people that are career criminals and someone else is going
to them for dental work.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Fox twenty six with a.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Story I didn't think I'd ever see another defendant like
Aubrey Davis.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Remember we did the bailbond Queen that we nicknamed Aubrey
Day when we nicknamed it here the bail bond Queen.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
She makes Aubrey Davis look like a minor leaguer.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
She is forty one year old, one out of Solomon.
How many convictions does one out of Solomon have ten.
Solomon is serving probation in both Harris and Galveston Counties.
She's been on probation since twenty twenty one, but she's
done nothing. When I looked at him, going good god girl,
you violated every single condition of your probation.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
One out of Solomon.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Define continues to pick up new charges as time goes on.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
And while serving twoations.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Aggravated assault with a daily weapon and the other is
for unlawfully carrying a weapon with a prior felony conviction.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Just to dame, a few motions are found to revoke
Solomon's probation and put her back in prison. Well, she's
been a few times, but that's not what happens. On
August twelfth, when Solomon appeared before two hundred and thirty
second Court Judge Josh Hill, he let her walk out
the door. Didn't even increase the bond amount.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Everything remained the same, Like everything's fine. Get this.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
On August thirtieth, Solomon is charged with practicing dentistry without
a license.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
She's strongly employed as a teeth whiting specialist.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
According to court documents, Solomon called herself Nikki Callaway. She
had an office in this building at ninety nine to
fifty West Park Drive. Her business was called I Smiles
Cosmetic Designs. A woman who saw Solomon advertise on TikTok
told police she paid one thousand dollars for Veneers and
a Bridge. Court document state Solomon did not take a
(29:59):
mold of her teeth and mouth. Instead applied the composite
Veneers and Bridge by using a lot of pressure and chemicals.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
She also used a drill and a file
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