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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. I remember when
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I remember, I remember when I lost my hand. Mind,
that was something so pleasant about that day.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So I'm not maybe you sir excuse me, and so on.
So I've got the microphone, sir, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And when you're out there without there? Yeah, I was
out a time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And as I said, I'm not sure because.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Because I didn't know, I just new to love it.
Does that make me pray?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Is a factory equity as a factor? This is a
Pearl Harbor moment of our generation.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
All right, we'll go back to crazy Lena and her
latest antics. She got shot down on her request for
money to go to Paris, at least for all her staffers.
She wanted to take a posse with her. Now she
won't be able to take a posse. She can just
go on her own. But who pray tell we'll carry
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her purse. All right, I have a question for you, Garlo,
you're in on this too. Do you know what the
word temblor means? You can say timbler, timblore, t E
M B l O R. Do you know what a
timblor is parlo. Do you have a guess A drunk kit? Oh,
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a drum kit? Okay, good guess. No, that is incorrect.
An earthquake is an earth movement that does significant damage.
We all know what an earthquake is, and you can
measure the strength of an earthquake. A trimmor is a
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mild earthquake that does no damage. So you know, we
were in La they had trimmors. We got scared, but
we're okay. So you've got the earthquake up here, you've
got the trimmer down there in the middle is a timbler.
A timbler is stronger than a tremor, but not really
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yet an earthquake. So windows will shake, doors will rattle,
might even burst. But you're not talking about you know,
I was in California in nineteen eighty three sort of
thing that is a timbler. And the reason it came
up is there is a Wall Street Journal had a
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story on Japan and the Japanese economy and the earthquakes
in how earthquakes have had a habit of when Japan
is starting to see an acceleration in their economy, an
earthquake occurs because they are earthquake prone and sets everything back.
It's sort of like about the time you buy a
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beach house in Galveston, that's when the big storm comes through.
You know. It's funny because I have a lot of
friends with places in Galveston and we talk a lot
about it, and they'll tell you the values after a
If you want to buy in Galveston, you buy it
right after a storm because people are getting their insurance payment.
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They want out here done. I'm never coming back. This
is too traumatic. But the longer you go without a storm,
the more we have. You know, it's like you wonder
how a woman. You see a woman go through childbirth,
and you think, how in the world does she agree
to do that again? And there's been a lot written
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and talked about on We have. Women have a natural
innate ability to forget about that pain. In fact, I've
tried to pay tribute to women on this show for
the fact that they don't get credit for the hell
they go through to bring us into this world. And
they will push back. They don't want me saying that
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people want to be a victim over everything. Women do
not want to be a victim over childhood, over childbirth,
And I find that interesting. And the reason that's interesting
is that is the innate ability to reproduce again, because
if you started panicking over it, I'd have a panic attack.
Wait a second, you mean you mean it's gonna get
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so bad. I'd rather you stick a needle of mileng
into my back to make it stop hurting. It's going
to be that bad. You got to be kidding me. Yeah,
I don't think I want to do that again. But honey,
we wanted to have three kids. Yeah you go, no, no, no,
somebody else will do that. We're not going to do it.
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So for a woman to get to that stage, think about,
there has to be something in her that turns it off. Well,
that's kind of what happens over a period of time
in Galveston, where people slowly but surely forget and they go,
you know, Galison's nice. I forgot how nice it is
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down here, and then you see the prices start creeping up. Now,
what happened during COVID is an artificial, altogether artificial deal.
In fact, Melissa, if I have time here, yes, well no,
we'll do it. The next seven Lena had algo asked taxpayers,
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asked county commissioners to approve twenty three thousand dollars so
she could take four staff members with her to Paris
for a party. They were gonna have a little party
in Paris, a little junket. No, I'm gonna lead the
delegation and show the world what Harris County can do
in AI. Okay, Well, let's do a dry run rehearsal.
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Right now, what can Harris County companies do in AI?
They're working really hard and they're good. Okay, Well, we
are a European company looking to spend eighty five trillion
dollars on a investing in a company that can help
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us use AI to enter the market in this field.
What do y'all have? We have a lot of stuff
and we're doing good, and you know, we have a
lot of diversity. You know, I'm I'm a Latina, I'm
an immigrant, i have mental health problems, and we have
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a lot of poor people. But we have a basic income.
So that's good and okay, But but we're trying to decide,
Like you're here as the head of the AI Capacity
Delegation for Harris County, could you just explain a little
bit about what y'all what the companies there are doing.
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This is shameful. There are people in downtown Houston who
should be ashamed of this. And in fact, I think
it was Commissioner Ramsey who made the point if the
Chamber of Commerce, which is what the organization effectively is,
they have another name. If they want you to go
on this trip, then they can pay for you to go.
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I'll play that audio. She has a meltdown. It's sad
because she asked for twenty three thousand and they say no,
and she goes, wait, I'd like to bring up another
motion for half that amount. Yeah, no to that, toune
or she sh the Michael Mary, I think that there
might because I got nothing going on down there. Probably
why dude. Okay, So Leva had all who wanted money
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to go to Paris, and she wanted to bring four
staffers with her. Can you imagine the gall to security
because you know, everybody knows where she's going to be,
and two staffers because somebody has to hold her person,
somebody has to open the door, because if she doesn't
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have a bunch of people with her, she doesn't look important.
Here we are broke the county's facing with a two
hundred and seventy million dollar deficit, and she wants four
staffers to join her. She's already being paid, they've already
covered her going on this stupid trip. I honestly believe
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ninety percent of these trips, conventions and all that is
absolute waste. Your company does it, My company does it.
But nobody does it like governmental entities because they don't
have to show a profit. School districts. You'd be shocked
to know how much school districts spend on junkets, on
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conventions and conferences and all this. I mean, they pay
a speaker. It's always some fat black lady to get
up there and tell them that white kids are awful.
And that's what they do. And all the teachers come
back and they go, oh, this is really good. We
took our careers to another level. We're learning instant stuff
we didn't know. You know, all the of the little
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Cadence and Aidens and Braden's and Gayden, they don't know
how awful their kid is. But now we can come
back and tell them because we went to the conference.
Now we got hammered every night and put that on
the expense report. School districts, universities, municipal employees, county employees,
state employees, federal employees, commissions for this, and commissions for that.
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Even law enforcement has them. It's all one big junket.
But you can't sell those junkets as such, so you
have to act like there's an underlying cause. It's like
the crypto rug pullers, the pumping dump guys. After so
many crypto, after so many coins and NFTs and all that,
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they come out with some of them then start trying
to act like they have a real product. They closed
that fund, Yeah they went bankrupt. And they closed that fund. Yeah,
that also went bankrupt. But this one, this one has
a real product. It's like the multi level marketer guys.
They're all hype. It doesn't It might be a barbecue grill,
it might be soap, it might it changes. Each of
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the products changes. But one thing you need to know.
I saw one this weekend. I'm on the internet and
it popped up and it says this product will be
gone before you know it. It is military grademoning. It
was military grade water pressure. Oh okay, all right, so
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but what's going to power the water? You're gonna have
to have some sort of generator or something to push
the water down the line. The laws of physics don't change.
Oh no, no, no, no, you don't need any of that.
You just have this one little adapter that goes at
the end of your hose. And that adapter when you
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put it on there, it is military grade. It is
used by militaries around the world to clean their tanks,
their aircraft, their fighter aircraft. Yes, but here's what you
need to know. This will not be sold in home
depot or lows. It won't even be sold on Amazon.
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It will only be sold direct on this website because, okay,
this is gonna be good. You don't want it in
every big box store on every corner, okay, because they
wanted to keep the price as low as possible. Oh
you didn't want those evil big box stores to take
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some of them to add to the price. Because that's
how it works, okay, all right. Yeah, So you go
to your website and you buy it, and the number
ends in ninety nine to keep it below the next number.
So that tells me it's got to be a good deal. Okay,
all right, that's good, that's solid. All right, But let's
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go back to the technology. Y'all are a little short
on how the technology works. Well, you put this adapter
on the end of the hose and whoa man. Okay,
I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I
do understand that basic laws of physics suggest that if
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you are not increasing the pressure on the back end,
there is no amount of holding your finger on the
end of the hose, which we did as a kid.
There is no amount of that. Now if there's if
there's some genius engineer out there that can tell me
there is, But I can't imagine you could restrict the
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flow sufficiently in a hose adapter that's about eight inches long,
that you could restrict the flow by putting that on there,
and that would somehow give you military grade pressure coming
out of there. Oh boy, this is going to be something.
And I guarantee you that whoever is involved in this
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effort has five other things on the market right now,
and every one of them is pitched as the greatest,
most wonderful. So you get these guys that'll come in
and buy out a product like that, or they'll buy it,
they'll distribute a bunch of them, and they go, are
we in Home Depot, Lows or Amazon? Not yet, We're
working Okay, that's right. Before that, what we'll just say
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is we don't want to be in those places. You
won't find us in those places. Don't just go down
to the store and find us there. We are not
in Ace Hardware. We are not in your local store.
You have to get them here because we don't want
those people to have them. This thing is so amazing,
this thing could change the world. We don't want those
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companies to have it and sell it on their shelves.
Why would we do that. No, no, no, we're keeping
this for ourselves and you and that guy's We've got
ten other products. And that's how this whole deal works.
That's this whole system of scam. And I've come to
the conclusion that you have to step back and look
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at a macro, Bill Bennett's book sliding toward Gomorrah or
any other number of cultural trends, and that is the
lack of personal accountability, the willingness to stand up when
you know what's wrong. There's people at Harris County listening
right now that know about frauds that would blow our mind.
The greatest wellments in your life. It's with the Michael
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Berry's formal aware we have all your formal ware needs,
from morning suits to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
When I want to play that audio because I've been
willing to play it for a long but I have
a question. I think so my nephew Kyle, who is
a who has performed on stage at our various events.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He's the one married to my niece Shelby. He sent
me a song to listen to, and he's a very
good guitarist, vocalist, pianist, the whole thing. And oddly enough,
because he'll perform country songs, he'll learn country songs that
I like so that we can play it for singer longs.
But his favorite band is Auzi, or is Black Sabbath,
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and he's a Harley Ryder and he's got Black Sabbath
stuff all in his garage. And he sends me this
video of a guy named Charles Bradley performing Black Sabbath's
song Changes, and it's this black guy who looks like
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he's sang Wider Shade of Pale, but it wasn't his song.
He has a diastole, he's a gap and his Harry
and fro. He was a porter at the hotel and
muscle showals. You know who I'm talking about Percy Sledge.
He's got looks like a leaner. Percy Sledge got some
grit toing, he sweat, and he's talking about this song
about losing your woman, that he heard this song right
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after his mother died. I'll sent you this, and how
meaningful it was to him. So here was and he said,
I knew I could sing the song after one time.
I knew a song made sense to me. So he
sings it. I'd never heard the song. I never heard
that version, but I don't think i'd ever heard the
song itself. So when I learned and it was a
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black Sabbath song, I had to go back and listen
to Ozzie in studio. I'm not the biggest Ozzie fan,
but knowing Ozzie and who he is, it's kind of
like Beth for Kiss when they break and sing that
one ballad's in a ballad. I mean, well, I guess
this is a it's a deep song. But anyway, we
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should come back with the studio cut all right back
to it. Lena had Allgough is very upset. She wants
your money to take a bunch of people with her
to Paris. This clip number to blind nightem twenty six.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Trade missions have been important in our region for some time.
We are focused on.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Why are trade missions important to our region?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Region?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You know, you keep going, why are they important to
our region?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Best practices in terms of major events?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh okay, and so you're gonna bring that. You're going
to bring something back from there and tell Rodney and
he'll do it.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Other was because they'd have to take vacation time.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
In the past, these kinds of requests have been approved
without issue.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So that's my motion. I've taken out my pay.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
If you don't approve this, I can't even bring security detail,
even though the leaks about where I'm going already got
people to say they want they're gonna come.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay, hold on, she almost got over her skizer. The
leagues about where I'm going to be already have people
saying they're gonna She wants everyone to believe that she's
the president of the United States and their death threats
against her. Lady, Nobody knows who you are, nor do
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they care if you weren't the little ten Pan martinette
princess that you are all they wasting our money crying
about it, going off the mental health facilities because you've
broken down again because you were hand picked for this
position by Rodney. And if they hadn't stolen the election
last time, when remember they brought in the fake They
brought in Chas Bono to be the head of the elections,
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and then even Chaz got run out of town, and
then they bring in Tatum, and Tatum's whole job was
to come in and cheat the election, so they didn't
send ballots out to the West side. So Alex Mieler
wins the election. And you keep this little you keep
this little creature. It's Joe Biden all over again. Except
the difference is this one's crazy and dumb. She's not
yet demented. But it's the same thing. Everybody at the county.
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I get stories every day. Everybody at the county knows
she doesn't know what she's doing. She has no idea.
Rodney's running everything. The difference is the Rodneys of the
Biden administration weren't as front and center, the Anita Duns
and Ron Klains and those folks. They weren't as front
and center as as Rodney has to be to kind
of be the face. Because Rodney recognizes that it looks bad.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
All right, continue, I just want to make sure the
public news will.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Say this is the last item, right.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, oh excepts excepts okay. So emotion a second on
in favor hi an your posts? No okay, Motion fails two.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Okay, So let's see, okay, hold on, hold on, rewind
fifteen seconds. This whole thing is are you coming to
my birthday party? This whole thing is do I get
to spend money? And three of them. Two of those
three are Democrats, Adrian Garcia and Leslie Brioni's. Leslie Brini's
was put there by Rodney Ellis, so he she's having
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to defy Rodney to do This is how bad Lena
is that they're turning against her. So she has to
go ok okay, So that's yes, three two, uh yeah,
she is devastated, all right, So listen again.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Motion a second own favor hi any posts? No okay,
Motion fails two okay, So let's see.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Let's move to resolutions. Okay. So the resolution is.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh wait, wait, wait, you know what.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Let me make another motion here because I'm really concurity.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So the last issue was me getting twenty three thousand
dollars twenty three and change. So let's say twenty four
The last issue was me getting twenty four thousand dollars
to take four people with me to Paris, and I
just you know, just a formality here, and you know,
trade missions, she reads out what they're written for. Trade
missions have been increasingly important for our region. They foster
best practices, climate change awareness, improvements in your flaw so
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they grow more of your hair, make you feel younger,
increase your testosterone, and basically make you more sensitive to
the world and natural forces around you. In furtherance, there
too is a resolution to send somebody for twenty three
thousand and eight hundred dollars to Paris. All those in favor,
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Rodney says yes. She doesn't vote. At that point. Rodney
says yes, and that's when you know it's over all
those of posts. Nope, so there's three of those, and
then Rodney wants to make sure her vote is counted,
so he says three two, and then she she's in
puddles at this point. She needs a thirsty meeting. At
this point, she's not she is not capable of this
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moment if they're not going to send me to And
then immediately she says okay, on too resolutions, because that
was the last item, and then we're onto resolution. She goes, no, wait,
I take that back all right. If y'all won't give
me half of it, will you give me all of it?
Will you give me half? It's like a child negotiating
with their parent.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
So the rest solution is, you know what, let me
make another motion here because I'm really concerned about my
security detail. So I would like to make a motion
to approve international travel to Paris, France for two staff members.
Had I needed four to include staff and detail from
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the count judge from the County Judge's office for eleven
six hundred and fifty dollars from June eight through fifteenth,
twenty twenty five. My cavea is that this court approved
last year in May, international travel for the hetero director
at a cost of thirteen thousand dollars for one employee.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
This director spending all this money, why can't I You
are listening to the Michael Berry Show. A friend sent
a message and I'm going to put it out for
your consideration. He said, I have a solution to send
it to Paris with as many staffers as she wants
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We're gonna put a tip jar at the pawn shops.
Each time a criminal comes in to sell the wheels
they stole from the cars at Bush Airport, they must
drop a dollar in the tip jar. She gets all
the money. She'll have the money in no time. We'll
call the program rims for DIMS. I like it. I
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like it. Yeah. See that's the kind of forward thinking
you gotta find new revenue streams. So the audio we
played earlier, did you see the second match that Chad
sent of the better version of the audio? He cleaned
it up because there's a lot of ambient noise in
the background. So this is Lena Hidalgo very upset. How
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dare y'all try to have votes without me here? I'm
the queen. Here, y'all keep forgetting I'm the queen. This
is her getting very upset because they're trying to take
votes while she's at group therapy. And then she says
that Adrian Garcia is just picking on her for having
mental health. That's the only reason he won't change the thing.
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He won't change the meeting. And he says, well, I've
had to send a proxy to a commission I serve
on and she says, I can't send a proxy for
my health, my mental health.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
I walk into these meetings with my day planned and
so today I've already got I already got commitments. If
if we kill an hour without anything productive, it really
sets my schedule up. So I will also like some
consideration for my schedule, not knowing that we're going to
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take an hour out during court meetings, and so I
would just say, if we can, we're going to change
the rule next court and we can just if we
happen to go into the three o'clock hour when you're gone,
I would just ask if we could just take votes
and then we're going to it's gonna be one court.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
We'll be able to move forward the court.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
After yeah, and you can do the commissioner. I'll make
sure not tixend that courtesy in the future. But really
the concern is, you know court used to be on Tuesday.
The court decided to move our meetings to Thursdays. And
so this is not a committee a commitment that came
up for me out of nowhere. I did my mental
health leave in twenty twenty three. I was impatient for
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anxiety and depression for eight weeks. Have been very public
about that, and since I returned, I've been doing oh.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Right, hold on hold therapy. She hasn't been public about it.
We don't know. It was eight weeks, a month into
her not having been seen one time, including at commission meetings.
Questions started getting asked, rumors started speculating, and Rodney had
to do what he hoped he wouldn't. He had to
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address it publicly, which is where he stepped forward and said,
she's in the nutthouse, but don't worry in charge. Well,
we know that you've always been in charge, but shouldn't
you have had to tell us? Shouldn't somebody have had
to tell us? By the way, he has no basis
for being in charge. He has no official capacity. The
way the county is structured, it's a unique system. There
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are four precincts that make up Harris County. There are
four precincts plus the Harris County Judge who's not actually
a judge in a legal sense, which is the mayor.
Unlike a city council, those commissioners run their precinct. They
can build a park, they can they can do all
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sorts of They have crews, they have work crews, They
have construction crews, they have all that. The Harris County
Judge is the county wide titular head, so that's the
person who represents the county in an official capacity, but
she doesn't run the end of the Commissioners have a
lot more power than a regular city councilman would have.
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So when she says, I've been very open about out
my mental health issues, that's a lie. They were hidden
until it was revealed, and then they ran out there
and said, oh, this is good. And then what did
they do. They hired strategy message strategists and they had
her do interviews not with local TV stations but with
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the national guys. It would be super nice, and it
was agreed that they would all play real nice with her,
and they'd say, this is very brave of you. You've
shown such courage and dignity to do this. We do
so hope no one will question or criticize. And you're
not supposed to question or criticize sort like Kamala Harris.
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If you didn't think she should be president, you were
a racist, right. That's how this game is played. It's
the shame game, and they're very very good at it.
And the only way you make it stop is you
shame them back. You shame them for their shame game.
And you have to understand, which I do. There will
always be people, oh my god, he's mean. He's my
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sister had mental health problems. We didn't try to make
your sister the county judge, did we. We didn't make
your sister the quarterback of the team or the head coach.
We didn't make your sister the president. Right, your sister
had some problems. Okay, fine, she got help. That's good.
Family psychiatry the Woodlands. We went looking for somebody because
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I had so many friends who told me that they
had a spouse or a child, some cases a parent
who had mental health issues, and they didn't want them
going into the public system. They wanted real people who
could provide solutions. And I took that very seriously, and
we went and found somebody. I don't make fun of
mental health issues, but we've got to stop saying that
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you can use that as a defense for incompetence or
put that above the county. We're talking about a county
bigger than three states. Anyway, back to it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
For anxiety and depression. For eight weeks have been very
public about that. And since I returned, and I've been
doing my group therapy on Thursdays from three to four thirty.
So when the court said they wanted to move our
meetings to Thursday, I said, I have the standing committee committee. Well,
I guess it could be a committed it's a group,
the standing commitment that is part of my mental health treatment.
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So I would just like to underscore that that's you,
you know, joining the ranks of those who are trying
to pick on me over mental health treatment.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, please please, we're not going to go there.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Look, I get put on the Planning Commission that is
on Thursdays. We move the court to Thursdays, I can't
make all the Planning Commission meetings. So I have my
proxy there and we're able to continue the business.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
They can't send a proxy to my mental health treatment. Yes, commissioner,
let's just move on.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
If you want to have the vote without me, have the
vote without me. I'll remind the community that you are
interfering with something that I mentioned before.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And I mean people can see that.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
People can your behavior, and I frankly think it's embarrassing,
but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
She's embarrassed for him that he's questioning her mental health.
People can see it. There's this vast group of faceless
people out there who love Lena. Remember how she's told
us how they love her. It came out recently that
her wedding was paid for by a bunch of engineering
firms that do business with the city. It's all on her.
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For some reason, Houston Chronicle didn't cover it, but Texas
Scorecard did they because you have to report all this
money that you received. So she took in I don't know,
seventy five thousand dollars over fifty thousand dollars for her
wedding reception and it was all engineering firms. Wh I
guess engineering firms just really want her to have a
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nice wedding.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air. I remember when
(00:25):
I remember, I remember when I lost my hand. Mind,
that was something so pleasant about that day.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So I'm not maybe you sir excuse me, and so on.
So I've got the microphone, sir, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And when you're out there without there? Yeah, I was
out a time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And as I said, I'm not sure because.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Because I didn't know, I just new to love it.
Does that make me pray?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Is a factory equity as a factor? This is a
Pearl Harbor moment of our generation.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
All right, we'll go back to crazy Lena and her
latest antics. She got shot down on her request for
money to go to Paris, at least for all her staffers.
She wanted to take a posse with her. Now she
won't be able to take a posse. She can just
go on her own. But who pray tell we'll carry
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her purse. All right, I have a question for you, Garlo,
you're in on this too. Do you know what the
word temblor means? You can say timbler, timblore, t E
M B l O R. Do you know what a
timblor is parlo. Do you have a guess A drunk kit? Oh,
(02:19):
a drum kit? Okay, good guess. No, that is incorrect.
An earthquake is an earth movement that does significant damage.
We all know what an earthquake is, and you can
measure the strength of an earthquake. A trimmor is a
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mild earthquake that does no damage. So you know, we
were in La they had trimmors. We got scared, but
we're okay. So you've got the earthquake up here, you've
got the trimmer down there in the middle is a timbler.
A timbler is stronger than a tremor, but not really
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yet an earthquake. So windows will shake, doors will rattle,
might even burst. But you're not talking about you know,
I was in California in nineteen eighty three sort of
thing that is a timbler. And the reason it came
up is there is a Wall Street Journal had a
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story on Japan and the Japanese economy and the earthquakes
in how earthquakes have had a habit of when Japan
is starting to see an acceleration in their economy, an
earthquake occurs because they are earthquake prone and sets everything back.
It's sort of like about the time you buy a
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beach house in Galveston, that's when the big storm comes through.
You know. It's funny because I have a lot of
friends with places in Galveston and we talk a lot
about it, and they'll tell you the values after a
If you want to buy in Galveston, you buy it
right after a storm because people are getting their insurance payment.
(04:10):
They want out here done. I'm never coming back. This
is too traumatic. But the longer you go without a storm,
the more we have. You know, it's like you wonder
how a woman. You see a woman go through childbirth,
and you think, how in the world does she agree
to do that again? And there's been a lot written
(04:32):
and talked about on We have. Women have a natural
innate ability to forget about that pain. In fact, I've
tried to pay tribute to women on this show for
the fact that they don't get credit for the hell
they go through to bring us into this world. And
they will push back. They don't want me saying that
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people want to be a victim over everything. Women do
not want to be a victim over childhood, over childbirth,
And I find that interesting. And the reason that's interesting
is that is the innate ability to reproduce again, because
if you started panicking over it, I'd have a panic attack.
Wait a second, you mean you mean it's gonna get
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so bad. I'd rather you stick a needle of mileng
into my back to make it stop hurting. It's going
to be that bad. You got to be kidding me. Yeah,
I don't think I want to do that again. But honey,
we wanted to have three kids. Yeah you go, no, no, no,
somebody else will do that. We're not going to do it.
(05:34):
So for a woman to get to that stage, think about,
there has to be something in her that turns it off. Well,
that's kind of what happens over a period of time
in Galveston, where people slowly but surely forget and they go,
you know, Galison's nice. I forgot how nice it is
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down here, and then you see the prices start creeping up. Now,
what happened during COVID is an artificial, altogether artificial deal.
In fact, Melissa, if I have time here, yes, well no,
we'll do it. The next seven Lena had algo asked taxpayers,
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asked county commissioners to approve twenty three thousand dollars so
she could take four staff members with her to Paris
for a party. They were gonna have a little party
in Paris, a little junket. No, I'm gonna lead the
delegation and show the world what Harris County can do
in AI. Okay, Well, let's do a dry run rehearsal.
(06:42):
Right now, what can Harris County companies do in AI?
They're working really hard and they're good. Okay, Well, we
are a European company looking to spend eighty five trillion
dollars on a investing in a company that can help
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us use AI to enter the market in this field.
What do y'all have? We have a lot of stuff
and we're doing good, and you know, we have a
lot of diversity. You know, I'm I'm a Latina, I'm
an immigrant, i have mental health problems, and we have
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a lot of poor people. But we have a basic income.
So that's good and okay, But but we're trying to decide,
Like you're here as the head of the AI Capacity
Delegation for Harris County, could you just explain a little
bit about what y'all what the companies there are doing.
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This is shameful. There are people in downtown Houston who
should be ashamed of this. And in fact, I think
it was Commissioner Ramsey who made the point if the
Chamber of Commerce, which is what the organization effectively is,
they have another name. If they want you to go
on this trip, then they can pay for you to go.
(08:09):
I'll play that audio. She has a meltdown. It's sad
because she asked for twenty three thousand and they say no,
and she goes, wait, I'd like to bring up another
motion for half that amount. Yeah, no to that, toune
or she sh the Michael Mary, I think that there
might because I got nothing going on down there. Probably
why dude. Okay, So Leva had all who wanted money
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to go to Paris, and she wanted to bring four
staffers with her. Can you imagine the gall to security
because you know, everybody knows where she's going to be,
and two staffers because somebody has to hold her person,
somebody has to open the door, because if she doesn't
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have a bunch of people with her, she doesn't look important.
Here we are broke the county's facing with a two
hundred and seventy million dollar deficit, and she wants four
staffers to join her. She's already being paid, they've already
covered her going on this stupid trip. I honestly believe
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ninety percent of these trips, conventions and all that is
absolute waste. Your company does it, My company does it.
But nobody does it like governmental entities because they don't
have to show a profit. School districts. You'd be shocked
to know how much school districts spend on junkets, on
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conventions and conferences and all this. I mean, they pay
a speaker. It's always some fat black lady to get
up there and tell them that white kids are awful.
And that's what they do. And all the teachers come
back and they go, oh, this is really good. We
took our careers to another level. We're learning instant stuff
we didn't know. You know, all the of the little
(10:01):
Cadence and Aidens and Braden's and Gayden, they don't know
how awful their kid is. But now we can come
back and tell them because we went to the conference.
Now we got hammered every night and put that on
the expense report. School districts, universities, municipal employees, county employees,
state employees, federal employees, commissions for this, and commissions for that.
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Even law enforcement has them. It's all one big junket.
But you can't sell those junkets as such, so you
have to act like there's an underlying cause. It's like
the crypto rug pullers, the pumping dump guys. After so
many crypto, after so many coins and NFTs and all that,
(10:47):
they come out with some of them then start trying
to act like they have a real product. They closed
that fund, Yeah they went bankrupt. And they closed that fund. Yeah,
that also went bankrupt. But this one, this one has
a real product. It's like the multi level marketer guys.
They're all hype. It doesn't It might be a barbecue grill,
it might be soap, it might it changes. Each of
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the products changes. But one thing you need to know.
I saw one this weekend. I'm on the internet and
it popped up and it says this product will be
gone before you know it. It is military grademoning. It
was military grade water pressure. Oh okay, all right, so
(11:33):
but what's going to power the water? You're gonna have
to have some sort of generator or something to push
the water down the line. The laws of physics don't change.
Oh no, no, no, no, you don't need any of that.
You just have this one little adapter that goes at
the end of your hose. And that adapter when you
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put it on there, it is military grade. It is
used by militaries around the world to clean their tanks,
their aircraft, their fighter aircraft. Yes, but here's what you
need to know. This will not be sold in home
depot or lows. It won't even be sold on Amazon.
(12:18):
It will only be sold direct on this website because, okay,
this is gonna be good. You don't want it in
every big box store on every corner, okay, because they
wanted to keep the price as low as possible. Oh
you didn't want those evil big box stores to take
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some of them to add to the price. Because that's
how it works, okay, all right. Yeah, So you go
to your website and you buy it, and the number
ends in ninety nine to keep it below the next number.
So that tells me it's got to be a good deal. Okay,
all right, that's good, that's solid. All right, But let's
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go back to the technology. Y'all are a little short
on how the technology works. Well, you put this adapter
on the end of the hose and whoa man. Okay,
I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I
do understand that basic laws of physics suggest that if
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you are not increasing the pressure on the back end,
there is no amount of holding your finger on the
end of the hose, which we did as a kid.
There is no amount of that. Now if there's if
there's some genius engineer out there that can tell me
there is, But I can't imagine you could restrict the
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flow sufficiently in a hose adapter that's about eight inches long,
that you could restrict the flow by putting that on there,
and that would somehow give you military grade pressure coming
out of there. Oh boy, this is going to be something.
And I guarantee you that whoever is involved in this
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effort has five other things on the market right now,
and every one of them is pitched as the greatest,
most wonderful. So you get these guys that'll come in
and buy out a product like that, or they'll buy it,
they'll distribute a bunch of them, and they go, are
we in Home Depot, Lows or Amazon? Not yet, We're
working Okay, that's right. Before that, what we'll just say
(14:28):
is we don't want to be in those places. You
won't find us in those places. Don't just go down
to the store and find us there. We are not
in Ace Hardware. We are not in your local store.
You have to get them here because we don't want
those people to have them. This thing is so amazing,
this thing could change the world. We don't want those
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companies to have it and sell it on their shelves.
Why would we do that. No, no, no, we're keeping
this for ourselves and you and that guy's We've got
ten other products. And that's how this whole deal works.
That's this whole system of scam. And I've come to
the conclusion that you have to step back and look
(15:10):
at a macro, Bill Bennett's book sliding toward Gomorrah or
any other number of cultural trends, and that is the
lack of personal accountability, the willingness to stand up when
you know what's wrong. There's people at Harris County listening
right now that know about frauds that would blow our mind.
The greatest wellments in your life. It's with the Michael
(15:31):
Berry's formal aware we have all your formal ware needs,
from morning suits to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
When I want to play that audio because I've been
willing to play it for a long but I have
a question. I think so my nephew Kyle, who is
a who has performed on stage at our various events.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
He's the one married to my niece Shelby. He sent
me a song to listen to, and he's a very
good guitarist, vocalist, pianist, the whole thing. And oddly enough,
because he'll perform country songs, he'll learn country songs that
I like so that we can play it for singer longs.
But his favorite band is Auzi, or is Black Sabbath,
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and he's a Harley Ryder and he's got Black Sabbath
stuff all in his garage. And he sends me this
video of a guy named Charles Bradley performing Black Sabbath's
song Changes, and it's this black guy who looks like
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he's sang Wider Shade of Pale, but it wasn't his song.
He has a diastole, he's a gap and his Harry
and fro. He was a porter at the hotel and
muscle showals. You know who I'm talking about Percy Sledge.
He's got looks like a leaner. Percy Sledge got some
grit toing, he sweat, and he's talking about this song
about losing your woman, that he heard this song right
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after his mother died. I'll sent you this, and how
meaningful it was to him. So here was and he said,
I knew I could sing the song after one time.
I knew a song made sense to me. So he
sings it. I'd never heard the song. I never heard
that version, but I don't think i'd ever heard the
song itself. So when I learned and it was a
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black Sabbath song, I had to go back and listen
to Ozzie in studio. I'm not the biggest Ozzie fan,
but knowing Ozzie and who he is, it's kind of
like Beth for Kiss when they break and sing that
one ballad's in a ballad. I mean, well, I guess
this is a it's a deep song. But anyway, we
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should come back with the studio cut all right back
to it. Lena had Allgough is very upset. She wants
your money to take a bunch of people with her
to Paris. This clip number to blind nightem twenty six.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Trade missions have been important in our region for some time.
We are focused on.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Why are trade missions important to our region?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Region?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You know, you keep going, why are they important to
our region?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Best practices in terms of major events?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh okay, and so you're gonna bring that. You're going
to bring something back from there and tell Rodney and
he'll do it.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Other was because they'd have to take vacation time.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
In the past, these kinds of requests have been approved
without issue.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So that's my motion. I've taken out my pay.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
If you don't approve this, I can't even bring security detail,
even though the leaks about where I'm going already got
people to say they want they're gonna come.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay, hold on, she almost got over her skizer. The
leagues about where I'm going to be already have people
saying they're gonna She wants everyone to believe that she's
the president of the United States and their death threats
against her. Lady, Nobody knows who you are, nor do
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they care if you weren't the little ten Pan martinette
princess that you are all they wasting our money crying
about it, going off the mental health facilities because you've
broken down again because you were hand picked for this
position by Rodney. And if they hadn't stolen the election
last time, when remember they brought in the fake They
brought in Chas Bono to be the head of the elections,
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and then even Chaz got run out of town, and
then they bring in Tatum, and Tatum's whole job was
to come in and cheat the election, so they didn't
send ballots out to the West side. So Alex Mieler
wins the election. And you keep this little you keep
this little creature. It's Joe Biden all over again. Except
the difference is this one's crazy and dumb. She's not
yet demented. But it's the same thing. Everybody at the county.
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I get stories every day. Everybody at the county knows
she doesn't know what she's doing. She has no idea.
Rodney's running everything. The difference is the Rodneys of the
Biden administration weren't as front and center, the Anita Duns
and Ron Klains and those folks. They weren't as front
and center as as Rodney has to be to kind
of be the face. Because Rodney recognizes that it looks bad.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
All right, continue, I just want to make sure the
public news will.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Say this is the last item, right.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, oh excepts excepts okay. So emotion a second on
in favor hi an your posts? No okay, Motion fails two.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Okay, So let's see, okay, hold on, hold on, rewind
fifteen seconds. This whole thing is are you coming to
my birthday party? This whole thing is do I get
to spend money? And three of them. Two of those
three are Democrats, Adrian Garcia and Leslie Brioni's. Leslie Brini's
was put there by Rodney Ellis, so he she's having
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to defy Rodney to do This is how bad Lena
is that they're turning against her. So she has to
go ok okay, So that's yes, three two, uh yeah,
she is devastated, all right, So listen again.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Motion a second own favor hi any posts? No okay,
Motion fails two okay, So let's see.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Let's move to resolutions. Okay. So the resolution is.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh wait, wait, wait, you know what.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Let me make another motion here because I'm really concurity.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So the last issue was me getting twenty three thousand
dollars twenty three and change. So let's say twenty four
The last issue was me getting twenty four thousand dollars
to take four people with me to Paris, and I
just you know, just a formality here, and you know,
trade missions, she reads out what they're written for. Trade
missions have been increasingly important for our region. They foster
best practices, climate change awareness, improvements in your flaw so
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they grow more of your hair, make you feel younger,
increase your testosterone, and basically make you more sensitive to
the world and natural forces around you. In furtherance, there
too is a resolution to send somebody for twenty three
thousand and eight hundred dollars to Paris. All those in favor,
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Rodney says yes. She doesn't vote. At that point. Rodney
says yes, and that's when you know it's over all
those of posts. Nope, so there's three of those, and
then Rodney wants to make sure her vote is counted,
so he says three two, and then she she's in
puddles at this point. She needs a thirsty meeting. At
this point, she's not she is not capable of this
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moment if they're not going to send me to And
then immediately she says okay, on too resolutions, because that
was the last item, and then we're onto resolution. She goes, no, wait,
I take that back all right. If y'all won't give
me half of it, will you give me all of it?
Will you give me half? It's like a child negotiating
with their parent.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
So the rest solution is, you know what, let me
make another motion here because I'm really concerned about my
security detail. So I would like to make a motion
to approve international travel to Paris, France for two staff members.
Had I needed four to include staff and detail from
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the count judge from the County Judge's office for eleven
six hundred and fifty dollars from June eight through fifteenth,
twenty twenty five. My cavea is that this court approved
last year in May, international travel for the hetero director
at a cost of thirteen thousand dollars for one employee.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
This director spending all this money, why can't I You
are listening to the Michael Berry Show. A friend sent
a message and I'm going to put it out for
your consideration. He said, I have a solution to send
it to Paris with as many staffers as she wants
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We're gonna put a tip jar at the pawn shops.
Each time a criminal comes in to sell the wheels
they stole from the cars at Bush Airport, they must
drop a dollar in the tip jar. She gets all
the money. She'll have the money in no time. We'll
call the program rims for DIMS. I like it. I
(24:25):
like it. Yeah. See that's the kind of forward thinking
you gotta find new revenue streams. So the audio we
played earlier, did you see the second match that Chad
sent of the better version of the audio? He cleaned
it up because there's a lot of ambient noise in
the background. So this is Lena Hidalgo very upset. How
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dare y'all try to have votes without me here? I'm
the queen. Here, y'all keep forgetting I'm the queen. This
is her getting very upset because they're trying to take
votes while she's at group therapy. And then she says
that Adrian Garcia is just picking on her for having
mental health. That's the only reason he won't change the thing.
(25:08):
He won't change the meeting. And he says, well, I've
had to send a proxy to a commission I serve
on and she says, I can't send a proxy for
my health, my mental health.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
I walk into these meetings with my day planned and
so today I've already got I already got commitments. If
if we kill an hour without anything productive, it really
sets my schedule up. So I will also like some
consideration for my schedule, not knowing that we're going to
(25:42):
take an hour out during court meetings, and so I
would just say, if we can, we're going to change
the rule next court and we can just if we
happen to go into the three o'clock hour when you're gone,
I would just ask if we could just take votes
and then we're going to it's gonna be one court.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
We'll be able to move forward the court.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
After yeah, and you can do the commissioner. I'll make
sure not tixend that courtesy in the future. But really
the concern is, you know court used to be on Tuesday.
The court decided to move our meetings to Thursdays. And
so this is not a committee a commitment that came
up for me out of nowhere. I did my mental
health leave in twenty twenty three. I was impatient for
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anxiety and depression for eight weeks. Have been very public
about that, and since I returned, I've been doing oh.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Right, hold on hold therapy. She hasn't been public about it.
We don't know. It was eight weeks, a month into
her not having been seen one time, including at commission meetings.
Questions started getting asked, rumors started speculating, and Rodney had
to do what he hoped he wouldn't. He had to
(26:52):
address it publicly, which is where he stepped forward and said,
she's in the nutthouse, but don't worry in charge. Well,
we know that you've always been in charge, but shouldn't
you have had to tell us? Shouldn't somebody have had
to tell us? By the way, he has no basis
for being in charge. He has no official capacity. The
way the county is structured, it's a unique system. There
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are four precincts that make up Harris County. There are
four precincts plus the Harris County Judge who's not actually
a judge in a legal sense, which is the mayor.
Unlike a city council, those commissioners run their precinct. They
can build a park, they can they can do all
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sorts of They have crews, they have work crews, They
have construction crews, they have all that. The Harris County
Judge is the county wide titular head, so that's the
person who represents the county in an official capacity, but
she doesn't run the end of the Commissioners have a
lot more power than a regular city councilman would have.
(27:57):
So when she says, I've been very open about out
my mental health issues, that's a lie. They were hidden
until it was revealed, and then they ran out there
and said, oh, this is good. And then what did
they do. They hired strategy message strategists and they had
her do interviews not with local TV stations but with
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the national guys. It would be super nice, and it
was agreed that they would all play real nice with her,
and they'd say, this is very brave of you. You've
shown such courage and dignity to do this. We do
so hope no one will question or criticize. And you're
not supposed to question or criticize sort like Kamala Harris.
(28:40):
If you didn't think she should be president, you were
a racist, right. That's how this game is played. It's
the shame game, and they're very very good at it.
And the only way you make it stop is you
shame them back. You shame them for their shame game.
And you have to understand, which I do. There will
always be people, oh my god, he's mean. He's my
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sister had mental health problems. We didn't try to make
your sister the county judge, did we. We didn't make
your sister the quarterback of the team or the head coach.
We didn't make your sister the president. Right, your sister
had some problems. Okay, fine, she got help. That's good.
Family psychiatry the Woodlands. We went looking for somebody because
(29:24):
I had so many friends who told me that they
had a spouse or a child, some cases a parent
who had mental health issues, and they didn't want them
going into the public system. They wanted real people who
could provide solutions. And I took that very seriously, and
we went and found somebody. I don't make fun of
mental health issues, but we've got to stop saying that
(29:45):
you can use that as a defense for incompetence or
put that above the county. We're talking about a county
bigger than three states. Anyway, back to it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
For anxiety and depression. For eight weeks have been very
public about that. And since I returned, and I've been
doing my group therapy on Thursdays from three to four thirty.
So when the court said they wanted to move our
meetings to Thursday, I said, I have the standing committee committee. Well,
I guess it could be a committed it's a group,
the standing commitment that is part of my mental health treatment.
(30:18):
So I would just like to underscore that that's you,
you know, joining the ranks of those who are trying
to pick on me over mental health treatment.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, please please, we're not going to go there.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Look, I get put on the Planning Commission that is
on Thursdays. We move the court to Thursdays, I can't
make all the Planning Commission meetings. So I have my
proxy there and we're able to continue the business.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
They can't send a proxy to my mental health treatment. Yes, commissioner,
let's just move on.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
If you want to have the vote without me, have the
vote without me. I'll remind the community that you are
interfering with something that I mentioned before.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And I mean people can see that.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
People can your behavior, and I frankly think it's embarrassing,
but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
She's embarrassed for him that he's questioning her mental health.
People can see it. There's this vast group of faceless
people out there who love Lena. Remember how she's told
us how they love her. It came out recently that
her wedding was paid for by a bunch of engineering
firms that do business with the city. It's all on her.
(31:31):
For some reason, Houston Chronicle didn't cover it, but Texas
Scorecard did they because you have to report all this
money that you received. So she took in I don't know,
seventy five thousand dollars over fifty thousand dollars for her
wedding reception and it was all engineering firms. Wh I
guess engineering firms just really want her to have a
(31:51):
nice wedding.
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