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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
On the first day of kuans them my children's aksed me, Mama,
what is quansa fu? Anyway? On the second day of
kwans to some lady bother me, I curse, I I'll
and I say no, I don't want no oldle me
a pictures and quick colin over here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
On that third day of.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Kwansa, I went out to the stove. I need beer
and cigarettes, but they was closed, so I smashed out
the windows, did a drive by and cursed my all out.
On the fourth day of quan so I turned on
the TV, Young and the Restless, all of my children's
one day, two lives and then oh broh. At four
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old clock on the fifth day of quans my check
came in the mail a FBC, Thank you Lord. I said,
come on, kiss, let's go to the stove for some
colored green tan box and some cheese. On the sixth
(01:30):
day of quants the police rang the bell. They served
a warrant. I nearly passed it out, but it was okay.
Someone money has said I stole her weeks, but I
told them all I would give them back anyway. On
the seventh day off kwans I'm holding myself a drink,
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a drink far that ounceers God really full. Then lost
my mind. I drove down the street, cursing out everyone
I saw. Then I mashed the catac upside of Dirk Queen.
On the eighth day of Kwanza, I bought a TV guy.
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Not much had happened. I was hung over from a
bad headache from schlismo liquor bo. I try to stay
home and be quiet, take my nerve pills. You can
just feel Kwansa in the air. On the ninth day
of Quans that I painted all my nails two shades
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of purfle one shade of turquoise. Stow it on some
bit or dead. I'm up, real nice. I had looked good.
Then I drove on down two pop eyes, bought me
some chicken, and I stayed at home and looked at TV.
On the tails day of Quans the shoplifting was the thing.
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Ten now or Later's, nine little candles, eight canser tuna fish,
seven little nicknackt six pack of Buckweiser, five lead press
on nails, four pieces of gum, three large fries. Two
days back in jail. It was Quansah. What the hell?
On the eleventh day of Kwanza, I got out on
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me parole. I rolled a big joint, went down to the
church and talked all out my head. God happy and shouted,
passed out on holiday called nine one one, and the
Lord sent me free, gave my testa money, stepped on home,
didn't even remember where I stayed, and I woke up
real hungry and confused.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Lord.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
On the twelfth day of quans my children gathered around me,
Lincoln and Alo Bell Rugganelochan lem Angelo, and Aroundelo ten
Actin and Tim Tatia came Artina and Filopia, Shatida and
Shmi of one Keisha and Salmonella, chlamydia Champagne see my Torri, Saska, Tune,
(04:09):
Cheeto and sko Keisha. And it had really started to
feel more like it was getting in a quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
One listener noted Red Duke. I would definitely put Red
Duke in that mattress. Mac posted this morning. Is one
of the things about Mac that I find interesting that
you may not have noticed, but now that you've noticed it,
now that I told you, you will notice it. Mac
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is like most, like many very successful people somewhere on
the spectrum. He is very purpose driven. He has a
great focus, and so people like these can walk through
the world sometimes offending other people because they don't stop
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for the niceties that the rest of us do. And
people will say of people like this, they're not nice
or you know, they're weird. You know, can you believe?
And people will give a lot of credence to things
about that person that really don't matter. You know. Einstein
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apparently would go out in the rain and forget his galoshes,
and he had a little friend who lived next door,
this little girl who was friend who he was friends with,
the little girl's dad, and she'd have to say, you know, dad,
you know, mister Einstein's not wearing mister Albert's not wearing
his goloshes. And people might say, oh, he's an idiot,
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he doesn't have the good sense. That's not what he's
on this earth to do. We can all remember to
put our gloe i rubber boots on, but very few
of us can come up with the theory of relativity.
And anyway, when you watch the video, if you see
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it on Twitter, I don't know, I don't know who
he's got filming him. It's very likely his son James,
because his son James does a lot of his social
media and he's very unassuming. He doesn't you know, he
doesn't James is. If you hear James talk, it's much
like Donald Trump junior. You eighty five percent of James
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is his dad. It sounds just like him, same quirks,
same kind of halting delivery, exactly the same. But anyway,
it doesn't matter. So Mac is in his room and
while he's talking, he got his backpack, his backpack is
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very funk. Just drops his backpack and I don't even
think he's conscious of the fact that he drops his backpack.
Did you notice it? But now that I said that,
you will go, well, you just just dropped your backpack
like it? He just he just kind of throws it
down because the backpack is of zero importance. He's talking
directly into the camera and that's what he's focused on.
(07:20):
One percent. He's not worried whether he's gonna bump into
the wall or trip and fall, or whether the nurse
is waiting there and she's like, had you come on
and finished this? And just drops his backpack. It is
the most Mac thing ever it is the most mac
thing ever. And if you watch that video, you go
to Twitter and go to his page and see that video,
(07:41):
you will notice now that I've said that, the way
he just throws that that backpack is in the way
he's telling a story and throws it down. It is
the most mac thing. Anyway, here's what he had.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
To say here.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I'm getting checked in and methodists to get ready for
this part operation on Tuesday morning, December tenth. Thanks for
all the well wish is in emails, text message, phone
calls people at the store furnasure saying they're supporting my
health and I'm praying to the Good Lord for good outcome.
We'll be talking to you as soon as the surgery
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is over. Until then, going to the gallery furniture by
a lot of Furnsure that makes me feel a whole
lot better.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And there you have it. The last of the independent
furniture stores, the last of the independent furniture stores who
can actually compete. You know, there used to be a
little grocery store. It's called JM H. It was Huffington
originally in West University on things on Edlow and it
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was in the community just kind of hung together in
ten years, you won't have little independent furniture stores, grocery stores,
hardware stores. And when the max go on, there's nobody
that just steps in and takes that. You can't do
it like that kind of focus. Think that there might be.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Because I got nothing going on down there, probably.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Pain too early morning dining and dancing with every pretty girl.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like well, of course everyone knows that's George Straight, that
distinctive mallifluous, mollifluous voice. At least a couple of times
a year. I get everybody mad at me when I
try to understand the reason for the stratospheric success of
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George Strait, and I feel like I'm the guy who
wrote the movie Vengeance where he asked them what they
like about Waterberger. Eventually just leave it to but it's Waterburger.
Nobody can ever really explain what made George Strait so insanely,
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and I find it an interesting course of study. But
of course you know that story straight. Our truckers will
know that the person who wrote that song, which was
originally released in the mid sixties, is a fellow named
Bill Mack. Bill Mack was the host. He died a
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couple of years ago, just a few years ago, he
was a host of a show called The Country Roads Show,
which would later become US One Trucking Show, and then
it would later change its name to Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show.
It would start with the Orange Orange Blossom Special, and
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it was a traditional version. It was it was Felix
Slatkin in his arc which would play the traditional opening,
and it was a show for truckers across the country
because back in those days, he was on a nighttime
signal that was known as which is where the company
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I worked for was once named for a clear signal,
and a clear signal like that could be heard. I'm sorry,
did I say clear channel? I know, I'm thinking ahead
a clear channel, which meant that the signal could be
heard basically across the country. He was broadcast on a
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station called WBAP out of Fort Worth, but you could
hear the show from California to New York on a
clear night because it was a clear channel. And then
at one point, for a brief period of time, he
did the Wolfman Jack thing and he went across the
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border into what they called a border blaster, and those
Mexican stations what they would do is they'd put their
equipment as close to the US border as they could,
where they would fall outside the FCC purview, and they'd
crank that thing up as high as they could. And
that was how Wolfman Jack could be heard literally across
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the country. The power of your stick is everything. So
our flagship station out of Houston, KTRH is a fifty
thousand watt, as Chris Baker used to say, the fifty
thousand watt blowtorch. And it's true. You don't find signals
of that strength anymore. And I've told the story. Engineers
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have told me that if the FCC did not regulate
and require Bob Strup, our chief engineer, to make modifications
to the signal at fifty thousand watts, you would literally
be able to hear us all the way to New York, Florida, California,
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and Seattle, not on the local stations, but on the
station we're on. But what ends up happening is you've
got a seven thirty or a seven fifty, because our
dial position is seven forty, and it would interfere with
stations across the way. Very few stations. I'll give you
an example, KPRC our sister station in Houston, the oldest
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station in Texas for port Rail and Cotton and kt R.
Chel's of course come to the Rice Hotel KPRC. The
original station I believe is a five thousand wat is
that Ramon. Ramon used to be the program director of
that station. It's a five thousand WAT and it is
as clear a signal as you can imagine for most
of the Houston area. But that signal alone, again, if
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allowed to if allowed to go, would be would be
able to be able to hear it way beyond where
you would expect. Is that our Okay, Webb County for
the first time, has gone Republican. Donald Trump won it
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with fifty point sixty two percent in South Texas. Donald
Trump's wins are worthy of a lot of study, and
we will be undertaking them. But what you're seeing now
is Domino's beginning to fall. The county judge there Tono
Tierina has announced that he has switched from Democrat to Republican.
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And let me explain what that means. Did he change overnight?
Did his values change? No, he's the same person he was.
He was a conservative Democrat. But what happens when this
happens is it's not so much the policy changes. There
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will be policy changes in time, but it's not so
much the policy changes that are important. When you see
a party flip like this, it is that you are
giving cover to a lot of other people to come
out as Republican who previously were unable. And I'm going
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to tell you from years of being inside the process,
and this would probably depress you, but it's true. There
are a lot of businessmen who they don't know if
they're a Democrat or Republican. They're a car dealer it's
a very common thing, or some other prominent businessmen, and
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they're going to give to whoever they're going to give to.
And it's going to have to do with image and
brand and who's going to win when Webb County officials.
If everybody in Webb County it was Democrat flipped to
being Republican, it would affect statewide races because now a
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lot of people would say, well, I like tier Reno,
I'm gonna show up and vote for tier Reno. He's
got an R after his name. Well, now all the
resources the county judge has and you've seen this with
Lena Hidalgo with the Democrats. Is he's now going to
say vote for me, vote for my candidates, vote for
my platform. And you've got the bully pulpit of the
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county judge in your county pushing whether directly or indirectly, Republican. Well,
before you know it, we've got a state wide race
in Texas in twenty twenty two. The valley and particularly
border Latinos flipping Republicans, which they did for the first
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time on this scale. You know, for all the talk
of the bushes, you know the bushes are bringing. The
bushes didn't scratch the surface for what Donald Trump did.
And guess what, on the issue of the border, border
Latinos on this side want the border clothes because they're
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getting hit harder by illegal immigration than anybody in your life.
It's hit them. Michael Berry's formal Wear. We have all
your formal wear needs, from morning suits to coordinating accessories.
Text writes Tzar. I grew up listening to Bill Mack.
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Once I became a trucker, I listened to his show
as often as I could. He also wrote Blue for
Patsy Klein, but she didn't get the chance to record it.
He held on to it until Leahn Rimes came onto
the scene. Good old WBAP quote the fifty thousand Voice
of the Great Southwest, we bring you the World in Progress.
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That was their top of the hour. I d in
the late eighties early nineties, saysar, you're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Hey, how's it going, Michael?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Good? What you got?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I was listening to your podcast. You're you're saying that
you like going to Chipotle and you like to drink Mexican.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You know why you like Mexican goat because it's real sugar.
Exit No, it's not real sugar.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Sugar cane.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There, yeah, go yeah, that's why a lot of people
that don't like that, they're they like it. They's got
that got that different taste.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, it's taste for me.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I was getting attacked.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, what's that? No, I say, you were saying, what
it's the we grew up on and it is a
it's more natural to our palate.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
There's a mean that goes around and you'll see it.
There's different takeoffs on it. You'll see it a couple
times a year. That in the sixties, we imagined what
life would be like today, you know, and it was
something like the Jetsons, which the Jetsons predicted everything they predicted,
the TV on the wall that you could talk to
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that of course became FaceTime or Zoom. All these We
expected as a society that we would keep advancing, and
that so many things that we could not yet do
we'd be able to do. But we have not advanced.
In fact, in many ways, we pine for a time
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when we could function, when when basic things they can't
deliver the mail now, the US Postal Service Inspector General
released a report a week or two ago, and the
amount of your mail that is stolen by USPS employees
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is staggering and they can't fix it. Meanwhile, overnight, right
here in Houston at a Missouri City Post Office sorting plant, they.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Have an idea. Right now, Missouri City Police say they
have a USPS employee in custody after their coworker was
shot and killed in this building behind me, where you
see security as present. Now if you take a look,
this is video of this morning last night when police
tell US employees were evacuated from the USPS regional processing
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facility on Highway ninety East around ten pm. Now, all
employees were told to run after an active shooter fired
gunshots inside the facility. We confirmed with authorities that an
employee was shot and killed by another employee here, but
at this hour, they are still investigating why what happened now.
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A USPS Assistant inspector with the Houston Division says their
top priority was making sure no one else got hurt.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That individual is in custody, and that the community is safe.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Part of our partnership.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
With Missouri PD is to not only ensure we conduct
a very thorough investigation, but make sure that we protect
the community at large as well as our employees.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah. Right now, we're still working to learn more details
about this investigation.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And get most of this problem is race. It's not
black people necessarily. It is the inability of people to
prioritize what matters over worrying about race. Race is the
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pervasive problem in most of American society, not because it exists,
but because people have made a choice that worrying over
everyone being upset over race is going to is going
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to be the priority over everything else. You know who
doesn't do that. They head football coach, if he's got
a white guy and a black guy quarterback. He's going
to put the guy on the field that's going to
give him the best chance of winning, because at the
end of the season, that's all it matters. He's going
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to put the guy on the field that allows them
to hold the ball and score as much as possible.
And he does not care what the skin color is,
because that's where you're looking at results. But in almost
no other aspect of life, American life, is that the case.
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This was Kamala Harris's campaign manager over the weekend. I
want you to listen carefully. This is hey, Once y'all
smothered Joe Biden and the palace coup occurred, and now
we've got to choose who the next who the Democrat
nominee is going to be. Why didn't y'all do a note?
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Why didn't y'all let the Democrat voters choose instead of
y'all just hand selecting Kamala Harris Because that pissed a
lot of people off, and that hurt you in the election.
So her campaign manager said it with a straight face.
At a conference to figure out where the Democrats went wrong.
He said this, Oh, it's twenty four seconds billion dollars. Oh,
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it's okay, we will find it. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
We had one hundred and seven days, and I know
people don't like that time frame, that number, But to
open up a democratic primary, you would have had black women,
who were the strongest voting block for Kamala Harris be
highly upset.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So you told me that your choice of who should
be the president of the most powerful nation in the
history of mankind you determined based on whether it would
upset black women. Seriously, and that you say that with
a straight face. People that make statements like that and
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make judgments like that are they can never be in leadership.
Listening to the Michael Berry Show for me to be
headed down some done too?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Look good about dress cruising over the cosmic.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
There's nobody here.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
The coaster is all clear.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It's my kind of day on coty.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Others eye.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
There's no Pasearchers say condos are clearing. They boarded the
winds ready.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
For the winners. Kids. You spent much time in South
You like Seth Podra's chat. I've never spent much time
at slth Padrick and I don't know why friends with
the seas I've You've never been. I've been the but
I think what had happened is we had some of
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my wife's side of the family, the Indians, who had
come down to visit, and we were driving them around
to see things, and it was winter and that's not
a time to see a beach community. But I know
a lot of people that from the Houston area, especially
that go down to South Padrea. I just I never did.
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I don't know why. Well I do know why, because
I like, I don't know why I have to prepare
for incoming fire on this. But if I say I
like Galveston, there are people who feel the need to
tell me that they don't like Galveston, as if I
give a damn what they think. You don't like Galison. Okay,
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I still like Galison. The water's muky. Do you think
I'm blind? Uh, it's you know what. The sand is
not white? Okay, As I said, I've been there. Okay,
So you're not telling me something that I'm gonna go,
oh wait, wait a minute. You're telling me the water
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doesn't look like it looks in Florida. You're telling me
the sand doesn't look like it looks in Florida. Well, crap,
then I don't like it. I mean, I don't understand.
Everybody's toting around a processor up there, and I think
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some people have like a Commodore sixty four and they
got one little floppy disk they put in mineral vegetable
animal and that's the highest level of processing. What is
the point if I say I like Galveston to telling
me how much you don't like Galveston. I'm just this
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is a serious question. Forget whether people are gonna do
it or not because they are. Somebody is sitting there
who's choosing to listen to the show. And here here's
me say I like Galaston and thanks to themselves. You
know what I need to tell Michael. He doesn't like Galaiston.
He don't like Galison at all. Do you know how
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many times I've been to I've owned property in Galiston.
I like it. I've got friends who will tell me
how much better Florida is, and I go, Okay, you
go to Florida, Yeah, at least once a year. Okay,
Well I can go to Galison every weekend. Yeah, I
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get it. I get the glory that is the Florida Beaches.
I got the first of all. Let me just go
ahead and confess to you I don't really like the beach.
I don't like the most beautiful beaches. I don't like
the beaches in Hawaii. I don't like the beaches in Florida.
I don't like the beach on the south of France.
I'm not a sand guy. It's not my thing. If
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it's your thing, great, it doesn't have to be mine.
There's things I like, you don't have to like them,
Nathan writes Tzar. When I was in high school, I
used to go to Visible Changes until my dad found
out that I was paying thirty dollars for a haircut.
He absolutely lost his mind. He made me go to
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Fantastic SAMs. After that, I paid five dollars for a
haircut there. The lady literally destroyed my hair. I was
embarrassed to go to school. I never went back, and
I referred to them as fantastic ef ups from then on.
Five years ago today, friends, Five long years ago, Nassau
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Bay Police Sergeant Kayla Sullivan was killed. She was attempting
to arrest a wanted subject on San Sebastian Court at
eight thirty in the evening December tenth, twenty nineteen. She
had conducted a traffic stop on a man who was
wanted on a warrant for domestic assault. She and another
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officer attempted to place him in custody. He began to
resist and he was able to re enter his vehicle.
Once inside the vehicle, he fatally struck Sergeant Sullivan, killing her.
It's five years later. He was arrested two days later.
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Five years later, she's got a life partner and a son. Yes,
she's lesbian, doesn't matter. She's dead. She was a public servant.
She shouldn't have to be. And Tavoris Henderson was indicted
by a grand jury for capital murder. And it's five
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years later. He looks kind of like bow wow, his
head all his Harold twenty one years old and the
trial is set to start in January. Five years You
got to wait five years for a trial to start.
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When your mother is run over, and I'm going to
tell you what happens here. We have allowed so when
a cop pulls up to pull you over, if you
watch the videos or you watch them do it, they
will very discreetly put their hand on the back of
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the vehicle. You know what they're doing. They're putting their
fingerprints on the vehicle. So in the one out of
every ten thousand cases that you shoot and kill them
or run them over, when that car is recovered four
states away, your fingerprints are on that vehicle, that will
be the proof that this is the car that did it.
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You are preparing for life beyond you. You are preparing
to be murdered every time when you start fighting the
cop when they pull you over. You watch these videos,
you read these stories, you watch the body cam. We've
got officers who have been told don't take measures to
subdue this person. We've got to change that as a
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society draw down on this turn you want to run,
I'm shooting and killing you and every jury because that
guy's gonna kill other people. He's already beat up his
old lady. We have got to take back our society
from the criminals. You want to fight the cops, you're
clearly in the wrongs. You're gonna end up dead, not
the cop.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
On the first day of kuans them my children's aksed me, Mama,
what is quansa fu? Anyway? On the second day of
kwans to some lady bother me, I curse, I I'll
and I say no, I don't want no oldle me
a pictures and quick colin over here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
On that third day of.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Kwansa, I went out to the stove. I need beer
and cigarettes, but they was closed, so I smashed out
the windows, did a drive by and cursed my all out.
On the fourth day of quan so I turned on
the TV, Young and the Restless, all of my children's
one day, two lives and then oh broh. At four
(01:10):
old clock on the fifth day of quans my check
came in the mail a FBC, Thank you Lord. I said,
come on, kiss, let's go to the stove for some
colored green tan box and some cheese. On the sixth
(01:30):
day of quants the police rang the bell. They served
a warrant. I nearly passed it out, but it was okay.
Someone money has said I stole her weeks, but I
told them all I would give them back anyway. On
the seventh day off kwans I'm holding myself a drink,
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a drink far that ounceers God really full. Then lost
my mind. I drove down the street, cursing out everyone
I saw. Then I mashed the catac upside of Dirk Queen.
On the eighth day of Kwanza, I bought a TV guy.
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Not much had happened. I was hung over from a
bad headache from schlismo liquor bo. I try to stay
home and be quiet, take my nerve pills. You can
just feel Kwansa in the air. On the ninth day
of Quans that I painted all my nails two shades
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of purfle one shade of turquoise. Stow it on some
bit or dead. I'm up, real nice. I had looked good.
Then I drove on down two pop eyes, bought me
some chicken, and I stayed at home and looked at TV.
On the tails day of Quans the shoplifting was the thing.
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Ten now or Later's, nine little candles, eight canser tuna fish,
seven little nicknackt six pack of Buckweiser, five lead press
on nails, four pieces of gum, three large fries. Two
days back in jail. It was Quansah. What the hell?
On the eleventh day of Kwanza, I got out on
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me parole. I rolled a big joint, went down to the
church and talked all out my head. God happy and shouted,
passed out on holiday called nine one one, and the
Lord sent me free, gave my testa money, stepped on home,
didn't even remember where I stayed, and I woke up
real hungry and confused.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Lord.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
On the twelfth day of quans my children gathered around me,
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Cheeto and sko Keisha. And it had really started to
feel more like it was getting in a quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
One listener noted Red Duke. I would definitely put Red
Duke in that mattress. Mac posted this morning. Is one
of the things about Mac that I find interesting that
you may not have noticed, but now that you've noticed it,
now that I told you, you will notice it. Mac
(04:47):
is like most, like many very successful people somewhere on
the spectrum. He is very purpose driven. He has a
great focus, and so people like these can walk through
the world sometimes offending other people because they don't stop
(05:08):
for the niceties that the rest of us do. And
people will say of people like this, they're not nice
or you know, they're weird. You know, can you believe?
And people will give a lot of credence to things
about that person that really don't matter. You know. Einstein
(05:32):
apparently would go out in the rain and forget his galoshes,
and he had a little friend who lived next door,
this little girl who was friend who he was friends with,
the little girl's dad, and she'd have to say, you know, dad,
you know, mister Einstein's not wearing mister Albert's not wearing
his goloshes. And people might say, oh, he's an idiot,
(05:53):
he doesn't have the good sense. That's not what he's
on this earth to do. We can all remember to
put our gloe i rubber boots on, but very few
of us can come up with the theory of relativity.
And anyway, when you watch the video, if you see
(06:13):
it on Twitter, I don't know, I don't know who
he's got filming him. It's very likely his son James,
because his son James does a lot of his social
media and he's very unassuming. He doesn't you know, he
doesn't James is. If you hear James talk, it's much
like Donald Trump junior. You eighty five percent of James
(06:38):
is his dad. It sounds just like him, same quirks,
same kind of halting delivery, exactly the same. But anyway,
it doesn't matter. So Mac is in his room and
while he's talking, he got his backpack, his backpack is
(06:59):
very funk. Just drops his backpack and I don't even
think he's conscious of the fact that he drops his backpack.
Did you notice it? But now that I said that,
you will go, well, you just just dropped your backpack
like it? He just he just kind of throws it
down because the backpack is of zero importance. He's talking
directly into the camera and that's what he's focused on.
(07:20):
One percent. He's not worried whether he's gonna bump into
the wall or trip and fall, or whether the nurse
is waiting there and she's like, had you come on
and finished this? And just drops his backpack. It is
the most Mac thing ever it is the most mac
thing ever. And if you watch that video, you go
to Twitter and go to his page and see that video,
(07:41):
you will notice now that I've said that, the way
he just throws that that backpack is in the way
he's telling a story and throws it down. It is
the most mac thing. Anyway, here's what he had.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
To say here.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I'm getting checked in and methodists to get ready for
this part operation on Tuesday morning, December tenth. Thanks for
all the well wish is in emails, text message, phone
calls people at the store furnasure saying they're supporting my
health and I'm praying to the Good Lord for good outcome.
We'll be talking to you as soon as the surgery
(08:13):
is over. Until then, going to the gallery furniture by
a lot of Furnsure that makes me feel a whole
lot better.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And there you have it. The last of the independent
furniture stores, the last of the independent furniture stores who
can actually compete. You know, there used to be a
little grocery store. It's called JM H. It was Huffington
originally in West University on things on Edlow and it
(08:42):
was in the community just kind of hung together in
ten years, you won't have little independent furniture stores, grocery stores,
hardware stores. And when the max go on, there's nobody
that just steps in and takes that. You can't do
it like that kind of focus. Think that there might be.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Because I got nothing going on down there, probably.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Pain too early morning dining and dancing with every pretty girl.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like well, of course everyone knows that's George Straight, that
distinctive mallifluous, mollifluous voice. At least a couple of times
a year. I get everybody mad at me when I
try to understand the reason for the stratospheric success of
(09:38):
George Strait, and I feel like I'm the guy who
wrote the movie Vengeance where he asked them what they
like about Waterberger. Eventually just leave it to but it's Waterburger.
Nobody can ever really explain what made George Strait so insanely,
(10:02):
and I find it an interesting course of study. But
of course you know that story straight. Our truckers will
know that the person who wrote that song, which was
originally released in the mid sixties, is a fellow named
Bill Mack. Bill Mack was the host. He died a
(10:27):
couple of years ago, just a few years ago, he
was a host of a show called The Country Roads Show,
which would later become US One Trucking Show, and then
it would later change its name to Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show.
It would start with the Orange Orange Blossom Special, and
(10:53):
it was a traditional version. It was it was Felix
Slatkin in his arc which would play the traditional opening,
and it was a show for truckers across the country
because back in those days, he was on a nighttime
signal that was known as which is where the company
(11:14):
I worked for was once named for a clear signal,
and a clear signal like that could be heard. I'm sorry,
did I say clear channel? I know, I'm thinking ahead
a clear channel, which meant that the signal could be
heard basically across the country. He was broadcast on a
(11:36):
station called WBAP out of Fort Worth, but you could
hear the show from California to New York on a
clear night because it was a clear channel. And then
at one point, for a brief period of time, he
did the Wolfman Jack thing and he went across the
(11:59):
border into what they called a border blaster, and those
Mexican stations what they would do is they'd put their
equipment as close to the US border as they could,
where they would fall outside the FCC purview, and they'd
crank that thing up as high as they could. And
that was how Wolfman Jack could be heard literally across
(12:24):
the country. The power of your stick is everything. So
our flagship station out of Houston, KTRH is a fifty
thousand watt, as Chris Baker used to say, the fifty
thousand watt blowtorch. And it's true. You don't find signals
of that strength anymore. And I've told the story. Engineers
(12:44):
have told me that if the FCC did not regulate
and require Bob Strup, our chief engineer, to make modifications
to the signal at fifty thousand watts, you would literally
be able to hear us all the way to New York, Florida, California,
(13:05):
and Seattle, not on the local stations, but on the
station we're on. But what ends up happening is you've
got a seven thirty or a seven fifty, because our
dial position is seven forty, and it would interfere with
stations across the way. Very few stations. I'll give you
an example, KPRC our sister station in Houston, the oldest
(13:29):
station in Texas for port Rail and Cotton and kt R.
Chel's of course come to the Rice Hotel KPRC. The
original station I believe is a five thousand wat is
that Ramon. Ramon used to be the program director of
that station. It's a five thousand WAT and it is
as clear a signal as you can imagine for most
of the Houston area. But that signal alone, again, if
(13:52):
allowed to if allowed to go, would be would be
able to be able to hear it way beyond where
you would expect. Is that our Okay, Webb County for
the first time, has gone Republican. Donald Trump won it
(14:13):
with fifty point sixty two percent in South Texas. Donald
Trump's wins are worthy of a lot of study, and
we will be undertaking them. But what you're seeing now
is Domino's beginning to fall. The county judge there Tono
Tierina has announced that he has switched from Democrat to Republican.
(14:39):
And let me explain what that means. Did he change overnight?
Did his values change? No, he's the same person he was.
He was a conservative Democrat. But what happens when this
happens is it's not so much the policy changes. There
(15:02):
will be policy changes in time, but it's not so
much the policy changes that are important. When you see
a party flip like this, it is that you are
giving cover to a lot of other people to come
out as Republican who previously were unable. And I'm going
(15:24):
to tell you from years of being inside the process,
and this would probably depress you, but it's true. There
are a lot of businessmen who they don't know if
they're a Democrat or Republican. They're a car dealer it's
a very common thing, or some other prominent businessmen, and
(15:47):
they're going to give to whoever they're going to give to.
And it's going to have to do with image and
brand and who's going to win when Webb County officials.
If everybody in Webb County it was Democrat flipped to
being Republican, it would affect statewide races because now a
(16:07):
lot of people would say, well, I like tier Reno,
I'm gonna show up and vote for tier Reno. He's
got an R after his name. Well, now all the
resources the county judge has and you've seen this with
Lena Hidalgo with the Democrats. Is he's now going to
say vote for me, vote for my candidates, vote for
my platform. And you've got the bully pulpit of the
(16:31):
county judge in your county pushing whether directly or indirectly, Republican. Well,
before you know it, we've got a state wide race
in Texas in twenty twenty two. The valley and particularly
border Latinos flipping Republicans, which they did for the first
(16:54):
time on this scale. You know, for all the talk
of the bushes, you know the bushes are bringing. The
bushes didn't scratch the surface for what Donald Trump did.
And guess what, on the issue of the border, border
Latinos on this side want the border clothes because they're
(17:15):
getting hit harder by illegal immigration than anybody in your life.
It's hit them. Michael Berry's formal Wear. We have all
your formal wear needs, from morning suits to coordinating accessories.
Text writes Tzar. I grew up listening to Bill Mack.
(17:37):
Once I became a trucker, I listened to his show
as often as I could. He also wrote Blue for
Patsy Klein, but she didn't get the chance to record it.
He held on to it until Leahn Rimes came onto
the scene. Good old WBAP quote the fifty thousand Voice
of the Great Southwest, we bring you the World in Progress.
(18:00):
That was their top of the hour. I d in
the late eighties early nineties, saysar, you're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Hey, how's it going, Michael?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Good? What you got?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I was listening to your podcast. You're you're saying that
you like going to Chipotle and you like to drink Mexican.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You know why you like Mexican goat because it's real sugar.
Exit No, it's not real sugar.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Sugar cane.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There, yeah, go yeah, that's why a lot of people
that don't like that, they're they like it. They's got
that got that different taste.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, it's taste for me.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I was getting attacked.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, what's that? No, I say, you were saying, what
it's the we grew up on and it is a
it's more natural to our palate.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
There's a mean that goes around and you'll see it.
There's different takeoffs on it. You'll see it a couple
times a year. That in the sixties, we imagined what
life would be like today, you know, and it was
something like the Jetsons, which the Jetsons predicted everything they predicted,
the TV on the wall that you could talk to
(19:32):
that of course became FaceTime or Zoom. All these We
expected as a society that we would keep advancing, and
that so many things that we could not yet do
we'd be able to do. But we have not advanced.
In fact, in many ways, we pine for a time
(19:56):
when we could function, when when basic things they can't
deliver the mail now, the US Postal Service Inspector General
released a report a week or two ago, and the
amount of your mail that is stolen by USPS employees
(20:23):
is staggering and they can't fix it. Meanwhile, overnight, right
here in Houston at a Missouri City Post Office sorting plant, they.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Have an idea. Right now, Missouri City Police say they
have a USPS employee in custody after their coworker was
shot and killed in this building behind me, where you
see security as present. Now if you take a look,
this is video of this morning last night when police
tell US employees were evacuated from the USPS regional processing
(20:59):
facility on Highway ninety East around ten pm. Now, all
employees were told to run after an active shooter fired
gunshots inside the facility. We confirmed with authorities that an
employee was shot and killed by another employee here, but
at this hour, they are still investigating why what happened now.
(21:19):
A USPS Assistant inspector with the Houston Division says their
top priority was making sure no one else got hurt.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That individual is in custody, and that the community is safe.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Part of our partnership.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
With Missouri PD is to not only ensure we conduct
a very thorough investigation, but make sure that we protect
the community at large as well as our employees.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah. Right now, we're still working to learn more details
about this investigation.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And get most of this problem is race. It's not
black people necessarily. It is the inability of people to
prioritize what matters over worrying about race. Race is the
(22:12):
pervasive problem in most of American society, not because it exists,
but because people have made a choice that worrying over
everyone being upset over race is going to is going
(22:32):
to be the priority over everything else. You know who
doesn't do that. They head football coach, if he's got
a white guy and a black guy quarterback. He's going
to put the guy on the field that's going to
give him the best chance of winning, because at the
end of the season, that's all it matters. He's going
(22:54):
to put the guy on the field that allows them
to hold the ball and score as much as possible.
And he does not care what the skin color is,
because that's where you're looking at results. But in almost
no other aspect of life, American life, is that the case.
(23:16):
This was Kamala Harris's campaign manager over the weekend. I
want you to listen carefully. This is hey, Once y'all
smothered Joe Biden and the palace coup occurred, and now
we've got to choose who the next who the Democrat
nominee is going to be. Why didn't y'all do a note?
(23:37):
Why didn't y'all let the Democrat voters choose instead of
y'all just hand selecting Kamala Harris Because that pissed a
lot of people off, and that hurt you in the election.
So her campaign manager said it with a straight face.
At a conference to figure out where the Democrats went wrong.
He said this, Oh, it's twenty four seconds billion dollars. Oh,
(24:01):
it's okay, we will find it. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
We had one hundred and seven days, and I know
people don't like that time frame, that number, But to
open up a democratic primary, you would have had black women,
who were the strongest voting block for Kamala Harris be
highly upset.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So you told me that your choice of who should
be the president of the most powerful nation in the
history of mankind you determined based on whether it would
upset black women. Seriously, and that you say that with
a straight face. People that make statements like that and
(24:48):
make judgments like that are they can never be in leadership.
Listening to the Michael Berry Show for me to be
headed down some done too?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Look good about dress cruising over the cosmic.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
There's nobody here.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
The coaster is all clear.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It's my kind of day on coty.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Others eye.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
There's no Pasearchers say condos are clearing. They boarded the
winds ready.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
For the winners. Kids. You spent much time in South
You like Seth Podra's chat. I've never spent much time
at slth Padrick and I don't know why friends with
the seas I've You've never been. I've been the but
I think what had happened is we had some of
(25:57):
my wife's side of the family, the Indians, who had
come down to visit, and we were driving them around
to see things, and it was winter and that's not
a time to see a beach community. But I know
a lot of people that from the Houston area, especially
that go down to South Padrea. I just I never did.
(26:20):
I don't know why. Well I do know why, because
I like, I don't know why I have to prepare
for incoming fire on this. But if I say I
like Galveston, there are people who feel the need to
tell me that they don't like Galveston, as if I
give a damn what they think. You don't like Galison. Okay,
(26:44):
I still like Galison. The water's muky. Do you think
I'm blind? Uh, it's you know what. The sand is
not white? Okay, As I said, I've been there. Okay,
So you're not telling me something that I'm gonna go,
oh wait, wait a minute. You're telling me the water
(27:08):
doesn't look like it looks in Florida. You're telling me
the sand doesn't look like it looks in Florida. Well, crap,
then I don't like it. I mean, I don't understand.
Everybody's toting around a processor up there, and I think
(27:28):
some people have like a Commodore sixty four and they
got one little floppy disk they put in mineral vegetable
animal and that's the highest level of processing. What is
the point if I say I like Galveston to telling
me how much you don't like Galveston. I'm just this
(27:49):
is a serious question. Forget whether people are gonna do
it or not because they are. Somebody is sitting there
who's choosing to listen to the show. And here here's
me say I like Galaston and thanks to themselves. You
know what I need to tell Michael. He doesn't like Galaiston.
He don't like Galison at all. Do you know how
(28:11):
many times I've been to I've owned property in Galiston.
I like it. I've got friends who will tell me
how much better Florida is, and I go, Okay, you
go to Florida, Yeah, at least once a year. Okay,
Well I can go to Galison every weekend. Yeah, I
(28:34):
get it. I get the glory that is the Florida Beaches.
I got the first of all. Let me just go
ahead and confess to you I don't really like the beach.
I don't like the most beautiful beaches. I don't like
the beaches in Hawaii. I don't like the beaches in Florida.
I don't like the beach on the south of France.
I'm not a sand guy. It's not my thing. If
(28:56):
it's your thing, great, it doesn't have to be mine.
There's things I like, you don't have to like them,
Nathan writes Tzar. When I was in high school, I
used to go to Visible Changes until my dad found
out that I was paying thirty dollars for a haircut.
He absolutely lost his mind. He made me go to
(29:18):
Fantastic SAMs. After that, I paid five dollars for a
haircut there. The lady literally destroyed my hair. I was
embarrassed to go to school. I never went back, and
I referred to them as fantastic ef ups from then on.
Five years ago today, friends, Five long years ago, Nassau
(29:42):
Bay Police Sergeant Kayla Sullivan was killed. She was attempting
to arrest a wanted subject on San Sebastian Court at
eight thirty in the evening December tenth, twenty nineteen. She
had conducted a traffic stop on a man who was
wanted on a warrant for domestic assault. She and another
(30:04):
officer attempted to place him in custody. He began to
resist and he was able to re enter his vehicle.
Once inside the vehicle, he fatally struck Sergeant Sullivan, killing her.
It's five years later. He was arrested two days later.
(30:28):
Five years later, she's got a life partner and a son. Yes,
she's lesbian, doesn't matter. She's dead. She was a public servant.
She shouldn't have to be. And Tavoris Henderson was indicted
by a grand jury for capital murder. And it's five
(30:52):
years later. He looks kind of like bow wow, his
head all his Harold twenty one years old and the
trial is set to start in January. Five years You
got to wait five years for a trial to start.
(31:14):
When your mother is run over, and I'm going to
tell you what happens here. We have allowed so when
a cop pulls up to pull you over, if you
watch the videos or you watch them do it, they
will very discreetly put their hand on the back of
(31:34):
the vehicle. You know what they're doing. They're putting their
fingerprints on the vehicle. So in the one out of
every ten thousand cases that you shoot and kill them
or run them over, when that car is recovered four
states away, your fingerprints are on that vehicle, that will
be the proof that this is the car that did it.
(31:56):
You are preparing for life beyond you. You are preparing
to be murdered every time when you start fighting the
cop when they pull you over. You watch these videos,
you read these stories, you watch the body cam. We've
got officers who have been told don't take measures to
subdue this person. We've got to change that as a
(32:19):
society draw down on this turn you want to run,
I'm shooting and killing you and every jury because that
guy's gonna kill other people. He's already beat up his
old lady. We have got to take back our society
from the criminals. You want to fight the cops, you're
clearly in the wrongs. You're gonna end up dead, not
the cop.
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