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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
My friend Rachel Palmer Hooper informs me that you know
what the Junior League is from them, so women's social organization.
The uh, the facility is over you know where the
river Oaks target is? Was that Sam Philippie just inside
the loop just north of there. In that area, everything
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is named Briar Briar. I forget what all they're called,
but there are there's more up in there than you
would expect, you know, from the to the track, and
they have a building there. Used to give a lot
of speeches there over the years, and they always had
the food what was it the orange They had a
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dessert that was like the orange bread pudding or something.
It was an odd pairing and it was so good.
We don't use orange flavors enough. But anyway, she said
that one placement in the Junior League of Houston. So
one of the service responsibilities is called sing along with
Seniors and they go to senior living facilities and perform
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for the old folks. Now, how sweet is that? How
sweet is that? You know, we do so many things
for the little kids and it's not to say they
don't love it, but they're just as happy with cereal.
But old people. I have a heart for old people,
always have. But now I have a better understanding that
old people are needy. They need touch. They need to
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be hugged on and kissed on and their hand held.
It's amazing. I went in yesterday to tell you about
the singer and I hugged my dad and I grabbed
his hand and loved on him for sacing and he
didn't let it go. We sat there and held hands
for fifteen twenty minutes. Yeah, and all the ladies who
it's nine to one ratio. I'm worried about him in there.
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I'm worried when of the women's gonna break into his room.
I mean they are on top of it. I think
you know, the early part of our lives, we chase
the girls. Well, I'm going to tell you, anybody's ever
had a dad and assisted living, if you can hold
out long enough, my goodness, they come a running. It
is crazy, crazy, I tell you. I mean these women
are aggressive. It's the cutest thing ever. Well, let's check
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in with what's going on with the Supreme Court with
none other than our resident Legal expert on all matters
jurisprudential esteemed Professor Josh Blackman. Welcome, professor, Thank you, sir.
Let's start with this case of the religious school. I'll
be Josh Blackman, you be the student. What was our
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little intern's name, Scarborough? What was her real name Scarborough? Yeah,
Adele Adele, Yeah, Adele Via Rel No, it's the Jewish
schools name Slinkerk Adele Schlinker. So miss Schleeker.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Graduates in about a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, and then she's going to do a federal clerkship.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah. Yeah, she'll be with Georgia O'Connor and fort Worth
and then Judge Hollick in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ow cool is that. I see her mother on occasion
at the Carabas on Voss. She's got a she's part
of a social group up there. Yeah, she's a cutie
PETUITI her. I love her. Yeah, And she grew up
in the generation of type fitting jeans, so she will
wear very tight fitting jeans, which I find to be
attractive in a In a I wouldn't say she's an
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older woman, but she's not her twenties. Recite for me
if you would the facts of this religious school case
and why this matters.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Sure, So, for the longest time, the Sprome Court has
said that there must to be a separation of church
and state. That's not actually in the Constitution, but the
Spreme Court kind of need it up. States have been
experimenting over the years with for example, vouchers they can
be used in a religious school. And then for a
time he said, well you can use this for you know,
math class or science class, not for religious class. And
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then more recently the current course sort of turn he said, no, no, no,
that that's not right. That if the school is giving
money for a you know, a non religous school voucher,
they can't sucremmit it against religious schools. So Oklahoma had
a different idea. Oklahoma said, why don't we just create
charter school that's run by the Catholic Church, and that's
Saint Indoors.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's an online academy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It isn't for people in Oklahoma don't live near a
Catholic church. There's no Catholic school and the school basically
fund It's the same way that you send your kids
to a charter school like kid or something else. You
can send them to a religious Catholic School and this
is the basis of the school. Now, the state Supreme
Court and in the state Attorney General Republican said this
is unconstitutional. See a situation where Republican legislature said, you know,
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this is fine, and the Republican ag said, no, this
is not fine. And in the states from courts that
it's the violation of the Church and State provision of
the state constitution and it's unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This bothers me so much to start with, as you
know better than I, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to
the Danbury Baptists assuring them that there would be no
official state religion which comes from the Anglican Church and
the king announcing that he was both the head of
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state monarch and the head of the church, and he
only did it out of necessity because he wanted to
marry someone that the Church wouldn't allow him to. And Jefferson,
if I have the story correct, assured that the Danburry
Baptist in a letter, worry not, government will not intrude
in religion, and we certainly will not establish a state religion.
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There will be a separation between what we do and
what you do. It was an assurance to the church,
not a promise to the atheist. It makes me crazy.
But in any case, is there some basis I mean, okay,
in the arguments that have been made, you refer to
them as a religious Catholic school. I'll put you on
the spot so you'd have time to think it through.
(06:24):
You would have never written that. But so obviously a
Catholic school would presumably be a religious school. In what
way is it different than any other school? And we
could argue that your average public school is a is
a religious woke school. But what separates them? Is it
a required prayer? Is it? Is it a class?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Right? So the school is run by the diocese, right,
the diocese basically managing the school the same way you'd
have a military academy or even just a private organization.
The key issue is the school isn't just giving you know,
vouchers of the money to this religious entity. It's based
considered a state school. And the question is does then
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become under the under the constitution because it's basically a
state chartered school. Can the state charter or religious academy
that's based The question here for this case.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Is there some sort of I may be going too
granular into the weeds here. But is there some sort
of designation that makes it a quote religious school in Oklahoma? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Sure, sure, Yeah, there's religious instruction usually. I don't know
the specifics. I think there's usually half a day is religious,
half a day is secular studies. They have the division
of labor, and they have you know, prayer in the classroom.
They have you know, religious services. They probably cover I
would say, Catholic holidays. They don't cover the Jewish holidays.
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It's a catholicool in every sense of the word.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, you can't cover the Jewish holidays because they're too
darn many of them.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
There are a lot of them, or.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
A lot of them. Michael t started at Temple Emmanuel
has a school called the Becker School, and we had
I had a friend, I have a friend, Paul Strugg,
and his wife was the assistant of the ministrator. We
started there. They only went up through kindergarten, and we
were always on some sort of holiday with what a
great school. Hold with Professor Josh Blackman at the South
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Texas College of Law is our guest. Renowned Supreme Court
expert Josh Malackman, Professor of Law at the South Texas
College of Law in downtown Houston, the finest litigation factory
in the country. Believe it or not, that is true.
(08:45):
Better a better litigation and a pellet preparation program than
my wife's alma mater, the University of Houston with all
the Oquinn money and any of other money. Better litigation program,
training program than the University of Texas, which I am
very proud, a top ten institution, better than Harvard, better
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than Stanford, better than Georgetown. It is the best in
the country. And people who practice in a courtroom that
is a litigator will tell you that pound for pound,
graduate for graduate, that is the best program in the country.
Profess Professor Blackman, what do you make of this case?
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What is the actual ruling, Who were the important players
who wrote the majority and what does that mean for
parish schools Jewish schools across the country.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, the case of being argued tomorrow, So we don't
have a ruin quite yet. Well I thought we have, Okay,
I think no, no, no, no, yeah, So the case we
argue tomorrow and just one little wrinkle here. Justice Barrett,
who's talked a bit about, is actually recused from the
case and the exact reason why there's not entirely clear.
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One of the people who founded it was actually one
of Barrett's colleagues of Notre Dame and actually her best friend.
And it seems that Barrett stepped down because her best
friend was fouled in the case. So now it is
entirely possible this case goes to a four to four split,
in which case the lower court rolling stands and the
Catholic schools lose. So this actually may not generate much
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of anything in the end.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
She is such a disappointment. There's that I won't ask
you to opine on this, but I will. There is
that crowd of people. She's pro laughed. We gotta put
her there. She's wrong and everything else, but she's pro life.
All right. Now, this is what you got. This is
the Mike Pince of Supreme Court Justices. Let's talk about
President Trump's authority or ability to deport bad guess that
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is being challenged in court. Where are we on that?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh, this is a mess. So there's a lot of
things going on here, one of which is simple. The
Alien Enemies Act. It's a law that no one ever
heard of before this year. It was passed in the
seventeen nineties during John Adams administration, So talking a long
time ago, and it's been used their presidents during various
wars to basically deport enemies who are in this country legally.
(11:23):
It's a weird thing that when you are to say
of woar with someone, they don't step through aliens. So
imagine during World War Two we have enemy aliens for Japanese.
We can say, hey, japan you want to take these
people from us. That doesn't work. That's why there were
detention camps who don't quite get that part of it.
The issue here is that President Trump has declared members
of these various gangs trend Uragua, Mus thirteen others as
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basically terrorists and enemy aliens. He tried to remove a
number of people with affiliations in these gangs. These people
deny their gang members, They say that there's nothing wrong
with them, that they're just regular people. Ports have sort
of blocked Trump's removal of these aliens, and even the
Supreme Court got in the game and said, no, you
can't remove them right away. It's kind of in a
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weird state of a holding pattern. Right once the Court's
intervene the contrace weight might see. Trump is not ignoring
the courts. These people are still in a facility somewhere
in Texas that have not been removed. There are other
laws that removal of aliens, and Trump is used of
the authority to send people to this prison El Salvador.
So even if he loses on the Alien Enemies Act,
there's still lots of his gang, these people in the country,
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and it's not not the only way. It seems it's
getting the most attention.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Do you expect the courts to in any way restrict
his ability? You take the case of this gangbanger MS
thirteen member who was returned. Interestingly, he's one of the
few who's originally from l Salvador, which adds a wrinkle
to the case. So Nai Boukeley has said a few
weeks ago that he's not returning him to the United States.
(12:54):
I can't. He's not welcome there. Do you expect this
to slow down in any way President Trump's deportation Stale Salvador.
Not really.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I mean, it's sort of a high profile issue, but
it's only a small number of people who are actually
subject to this detainer. Most people can be removed on
to other authorities. If Trump had just said we're depouring
these people because they're a ledge gang members, there would
been no you know, litigation on it. He could have
just done it might take a little bit longer, but
by going down to sort of culling the alien enemies
and trying to remove them without all the processes, he's
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getting hung up. So I think eventually this issue will
quiet down and will move past it. But there are
definitely efforts by the courts to basically stop Trump using
authorities that he probably does have.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You said, if he had gone through a court process,
but do you think he could have made it through
When you look at these district court judges across the
country who are trying to halt this, some of these
cases would end up just you know, dragging on incessantly
in the court system. And I think he was aware
of that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That might be right, But one of the perks of
being the president he gets to decide where these people
are held, and he will probably brought their removal actions
into favorable courts.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's a weird thing where the judges in New York
and DC and Boston are telling the judges, you know,
people in Texas, what to do. That's not how the
law works. Usually you bring a lawsuit where the person's
being detained. But these judges have been asserting what's cult jurisdiction,
asserting power over people who are far beyond their boundaries.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Very interesting. Are there any other cases bubbling out there
that you're keeping an eye on.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I think the certain of the biggest issue now is
that the Roberts Courts does with birthright citizenship. That issue
will be argued in two weeks from now. I don't
think Trump's going to win this one. I'm just tying.
I quites sure how he loses the quarters is very
crafty and we can explain how this sort of works.
When the litigation began, these losses were brought by a
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bunch of blue states, so you know, Washington and New
York and so on. Texas did not bring such a lawsuit.
So the government says, look, even if New York and
California and whatever, these states I got the rulings, you
know are right, limit the remedy to just those states.
You know, why should Texas have the subjects of this rule?
They don't want it. So I think the court is
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going to serve As avoid it all together and say, oh,
we we declare the being of the fourteenth Amendment and
all children of legal aliens or citizens, and they'll just
sort of move on. But the procedural issues you are
actually kind of tricky, and the court may try and
duck all of it and just roally against Trump at
the outset.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But then we would have a modern disposition serving as
president precedent on an issue that has been argued for
some time. Do you know when the last case on
the matter was ruled upon? Because this was an issue.
I've got audio of Harry Reid, then Democrat senator later
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Majority leader from the state of Nevada in nineteen ninety
two or ninety four talking about this violation of america
sovereignty and integrity, women coming across the border, this birth
tourism and dropping babies. We know that Chinese nationals are
doing this. Now they're just on the verge of having
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their baby and they come to the United States and
drop a baby, and now the baby's a citizen. Professor Blackman,
can you hold with this for just a moment. Sure,
we have an exciting addition of Okay, mister smartypants coming
out lit toomay, Yeah, yeah, he's the club swings. It's
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just about ready to do that thing.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough,
how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No same country would do that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yes, again, if you break our laws by entering this
country without permission and give birth to a child, we
reward that child with US citizenship and guarantee of full
access to all public and social services this society provides.
And that's a lot of services. Is it any wonder
that two thirds of the babies born at tax very
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expensive country county run hospitals in Los Angeles are born
to illegal alien mothers.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Orange roles is the answer. Orange roles is what the
Junior League Keey Room serves orange roles and pecan balls.
They also do a pet therapy for the old folks
that they take around town. Josh Blackman, I have an
answer that I give to this question, and I'll tell
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you what my answer is, but I don't want that
to color yours. I am often asked, as I was
this week on and ask me anything. A woman forty
two years old. She has a master's degree in maritime administration,
she said, and I believe it to be true, because
it's been true since I graduated law school in ninety six.
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She said that there is a dearth of maritime lawyers.
It is most of these folks that I've ever known
practice between New Orleans and Houston. In New Orleans had
the stronger maritime law practice back in the mid nineties.
She said, there is a dearth of maritime lawyers, and
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should she go to law school. She's forty two, And
my answer to that was, you get don't give up
your day job, so you want to go to night school.
So what is the toll that takes on a marriage,
if any, children, if any, personal life if any, If
you can get over that and the fact that you're
not going to make any money your first few years
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practicing anyway, so you're going to be fifty before you
start seeing any real money by the time you go
to law school and night schools graduate. The cost of that,
the personal toll it takes, so financially, be better off
in an administrative position than in a legal position because
lawyers don't make as much people think they do it,
certainly not early in their career. But my argument was, go,
if you want to learn. I loved law school, and
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you never had this conversation. I thrived, I was happy,
I was alive, I was intellectually stimulated. I loved it.
The practice not so much. It was just papering documents.
But I say, go to school, any school, for the
purpose of the education, the knowledge, the engagement, the personal growth,
not for what you make out of it. But I'm curious,
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do you have a cut off line that you say
to people if your goal is to make more money,
not if your goal is to go and learn? Long question,
but go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, South Texas College of Law we have a
very very strong night program, and all our professors teaching
the day teach at night. I teach at night all
the time. I routinely as student in a fifty and
even sixties who have families, who have kids, who have grandkids.
I've had a father and the son. I've had both
of them in the same program within a couple of
years of each other. So it's absolutely doable. Night school, though,
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is not easy. It goes Monday through Thursday five thirty
till about seven thirty, sometimes almost nine o'clock your weekends.
We can ansume by reading you can't get over that.
But we have people at full time jobs. I've had
people who are on SWAT teams who have full time
jobs at law school, people on fire, people in medicine.
It's amazing. And I'll tell you the night students have
a good breath of experience. They don't have as much
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time to study, but they usually study smarter and they
know how to get things done quicker. I found that,
and thes a very good down So i'd encourage your
Friendish once come sit in my class, tell to give
me a call. Happy to do it. But it's an
enjoyable experience and for a second or third career people
really really enjoy it. I fully encourage it.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's very gracious of you, and I'm glad you reminded me.
I will renew the offer because you did that. You
made before of anyone who wants to sit in on
your law school class. And I would tell you, folks, don't.
Don't just go because you're planning to go to law school.
Go go h what was the term we used to use.
(21:16):
If you go sit in in a class that you're
not in, go survey audit. Yeah, go audit. This professor
is willing to accommodate you sitting in on his class,
and you can see what a law school class is worth.
I try to go see people do what they do
in every aspect of life. I'm going out to the
foundry that just became a show sponsor to see them
poor Malten steal or whatever it is, and and create,
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you know, forge, I'm excited to see that. All right,
you're ready for another exciting condition of Okay, mister smarty pants,
the game that was created for them. It's time for okay,
mister smarty pants. On the Michael Berry Show, Ramon, as
always will be playing the role of judge and juryist
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whether we will accept your answer or require more specificity
or sadly in some cases shut it down. Ramon, how
much time are you giving him if he's if his
brain is racked and he can't come up with an answer?
Five second? Okay, are you ready, mister s towny pants.
We'll start with a little more pop culture and every
day know how Who is Mario's brother in the classic
(22:26):
Nintendo games Luigi Very Good? I had it marked as no, Wow,
good for you? What's the name of the cowboy in
toy story Pity? Which artic correct? Which artist painted the
mona Lisa.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Da Vinci.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I'm going to need a full name, Leonardo da Vinci.
What app do people use to post fifteen second dance
videos and accidentally ruin their future careers? TikTok? What color
is Elmo from Sesame Street?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Red?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Which holiday do Americans celebrate on July fourth? Independence? What
do the letters LOL stand for?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Laugh out loud?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Give me the opening line of the Brady Bunch theme song.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Here's a story of a man named Brady.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Of a lovely lady. I think we got to get Oh,
I got back of a lovely lady. Yes, love lada. Yeah. Ladies. First,
which fruit is in a traditional banana? Split? Banana? Very good?
If you're doing the electric slide? What event are you
probably attending?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Line dancing, daffing?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Uh no, what, of course, Nancy, But what type of
event is this most likely to occur? A barbta the
wedding reception. Jews make up less than three percent of
the population. Josh, you silly goose, you missed one. Finally,
all right, now we're gonna move to food, retail and
relatable life stuff. How do you know which side of
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the vehicle the gas tank is on?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It's usually on the driver's side.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But how do you know when you get in there
is a way the.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Little arrow pointing to it.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I learned that much later in life than I should have.
What's the name of the sandwich with three layers and
toothpicks in it? The thump? The club sandwich club a
mainstay of country clubs. What common condiment comes in yellow
brown and spicy brown mustard? If someone says, let's go
(24:41):
have these, what are they asking? Split and half fermial?
What's the frozen drink you get at seven eleven?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
A slushy? Oh, slurpy flurpity flurpy flurpy plushes and the sentence.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
On such a What animal is on the logo for
Lacoste clothing an alligator talking about you gave him? Okay,
I was gonna say crocodile.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What do you use to keep food fresh? Tupperware or
a tort lawsuit? What is that? What is what kind
of question? It's a stupid question. What's the name of
the condiment that comes with Big.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Max Mayo.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Special sauce? Very good? Thank you, Professor Josh Bike, but
we love you. Thank you. Michael three charged with stealing
puppies from a Southeast Houston pet store after surveillance video
of the rip off went viral. What day is this?
I don't know, Ramon, Jim will have to tell you.
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I'm gonna start over. Ramon can't find the audio that's
supposed to go with this. Three charged for stealing I'll
talk slow stealing puppies from a Southeast Shuston pet store
after surveillance video of the ripoff went viral. It's slugged
number nineteen KHOU. Three charged with stealing puppies from pet store.
(26:13):
Two head ankle monitors. Now you've caused me to to
release the reveal too early. Wasn't supposed to come to
the next sentence. Two of the three suspects charged were
wearing ankle monitors at the time of the theft. Most
disturbing about the incident is that the crew had a
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nine year old with them when they stole the puppies.
The story from KHO you.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
The people in this surveillance video shown stealing puppies from
a local pet store now charged with felony theft. Destiny
Elizabeth Estrada and Elmer Giovanni Velaskis Lopez turn.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Themselway hold On rewind it a little bit. Let's let's
hear that.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Again, asks Lope, no, no, you got you.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Gotta you gotta go up to it where you go?
And so they were going in there and they saw
the puppies and his name was.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
The people in this surveillance video shown stealing puppies from
a local pet store.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Now charged with felony theft.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Destiny Elizabeth Estrada and Elmer Giovanni Velaskiez Lopez turn themselves in.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know, she gets you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
She takes an extra puff before she does that. She
she sucks in a look and she's got to you know,
maybe maybe mateo Anita is listening at home and she
will hear.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Me do this.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Are we ready in the studio? Bob? Were ready? Okay?
Or you are coming to me now? Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Camera on camera on okay. We are here on the
site of a heist, a canine caper. Shall we say,
one of the people involved, why do we have to
do this? Listen again?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Pet store now charged with felony theft, Destiny Elizabeth Estrada
and Elmer Giovanni velaski Is Lopez left. Destiny Elizabeth Estrada
and Elmer Giovanni velaski Is Lopez turn themselves in Montes
has also been charged. Johnny Velaskis Lopez turn themselves in
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got in Montees has also been charged. This is a
prior booking photo according to officials.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
For her arrest.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Arizona tells me two of the suspects had prior charges
and ankle monitors when they allegedly committed the crime.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Those ankle monitors do have a GPS tracking device, so
it puts them at the scene at the time that
the theft occurred.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Just to day after the theft, the three puppies were
returned and it was caught on video. Owner Adam Abilideve
tells me he has mixed emotion believing in second chance.
Owner Adam Abildeve tells me he has mixed emotions believe
in the second chances as well as justice.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
They put themselves in. You know this predictament. You know
there's nobody to blame but themselves.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
From stolen to returned a few days later, this puppy
is now going to a forever home soon. This is
a total language named her Nelly and as far as
the criminal investigation officials tell us, surveillance video like.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
What did she say the.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Suspects, and but they call victim sing a child.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I don't know if in the middle of this I
do not speak victim. These kind of a what was
his name, Rob Finnie? What's the guy on news Max
talked about this. I don't know this guy, but this
this is money right here.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Every time we hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether
or not the anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to
shape shift into a perfect Hispanic accent. Police arrested twenty
five year old Elain Alain Sanchez, and I mean that honestly.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Why do we do that?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
When I say Alejandra Myorcis, I just say Alejandra Myorcis.
But on CNN it's Alejandro Majorkis.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm Irish.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
When police arrest someone with an Irish name, I don't
say police just arrested twenty five year.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Old Charlie McLaughlin.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
I just say police arrested Charlie McLoughlin.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Stop that stop.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
And it's for all of these reasons and everything that
I just mentioned that America elected Donald Trump in twenty
sixteen and then elected Donald Trump again.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Ramon, do you think the first words out of the
Pets Store owner's mouth when he saw the pups were missing?
Was Doug gone, Yeah, I just wrote that on the spot.
No I didn't. Jim wrote that Destiny and Elmer are
not the names of people you'd expect to be stealing
from a pet store. Destiny sounds like a stripper, and
she may well be. I don't know how many strippers
(30:55):
dance with ankle monitor, but it's a lot. Take get
all off, baby, Well, I can't take the ankle monitor off.
What's the Spanish word for ankle monitor? Elmer sounds like
he should be out hunting webbits are working a homemade
still out in the woods. You think he's the glue
that holds the trio together? Or is it Carmen Monthys
(31:19):
a sticky fingered filter. Carmen has yet to be found,
though police are asking where in the world is Carmen Monthis? Well,
she sneaks around the world. From me, she's a speaking
(31:41):
pigir filter from She'll take you for a ride, Hu China.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Down there in the world? Is sound?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Baby sings?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Helmet?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Is san Diego? Tell me something? If you understand people
better than I did, why wouldn't when when they say
we're in the world is Carmen San Diego. Why wouldn't
Jim take San Diego out and put Montez in there?
(32:29):
Can you tell me that it was an s n
L skit where they go in and they had the
new Spanish reporter, remember Spanish, and they're sending him to Nicaragua,
or maybe they're talking about Nicaragua, you remember that. Oh,
welcome to our Welcome to our newsrooms. David, it's just Steve. Okay.
Would you like to have a burrito? Uh no, I'm
(32:52):
gonna have a himb burger. Okay, Well, because we also
have nachos. That's one of their better bits. It's definitely
one of their better bits. Well, this was a good
two hours of radio. I have no problem walking out
right now and being like Eddie, I put in a
good show. You know, sales knocks off they you know,
they every other day they're oh, let's Sylvia, do you
(33:16):
know organize something fun? I know, y'all come down to
the sales forar We're gonna do this. No, we're still
over here working because that's what we do. We work
slaving over a hot mic. So y'all have something to sell.
Send Eddie a message and just say we put in
the whole day early, right, like a ten run rule.
You get to go home early. You run up the score,
you get to go home early. Like when the Falcons
(33:37):
went home at halftime against the Patriots they were up
like thirty two to three or something. You remember that
thirty five to three. They were up thirty two points.
I think, hey, we're calling a day, all right, we'll
do more show. We had that Melanie Bargae, Lady, what
do we have coming up? The woman that did made
the app for adhd huh who
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
My friend Rachel Palmer Hooper informs me that you know
what the Junior League is from them, so women's social organization.
The uh, the facility is over you know where the
river Oaks target is? Was that Sam Philippie just inside
the loop just north of there. In that area, everything
(00:49):
is named Briar Briar. I forget what all they're called,
but there are there's more up in there than you
would expect, you know, from the to the track, and
they have a building there. Used to give a lot
of speeches there over the years, and they always had
the food what was it the orange They had a
(01:11):
dessert that was like the orange bread pudding or something.
It was an odd pairing and it was so good.
We don't use orange flavors enough. But anyway, she said
that one placement in the Junior League of Houston. So
one of the service responsibilities is called sing along with
Seniors and they go to senior living facilities and perform
(01:34):
for the old folks. Now, how sweet is that? How
sweet is that? You know, we do so many things
for the little kids and it's not to say they
don't love it, but they're just as happy with cereal.
But old people. I have a heart for old people,
always have. But now I have a better understanding that
old people are needy. They need touch. They need to
(01:57):
be hugged on and kissed on and their hand held.
It's amazing. I went in yesterday to tell you about
the singer and I hugged my dad and I grabbed
his hand and loved on him for sacing and he
didn't let it go. We sat there and held hands
for fifteen twenty minutes. Yeah, and all the ladies who
it's nine to one ratio. I'm worried about him in there.
(02:19):
I'm worried when of the women's gonna break into his room.
I mean they are on top of it. I think
you know, the early part of our lives, we chase
the girls. Well, I'm going to tell you, anybody's ever
had a dad and assisted living, if you can hold
out long enough, my goodness, they come a running. It
is crazy, crazy, I tell you. I mean these women
are aggressive. It's the cutest thing ever. Well, let's check
(02:42):
in with what's going on with the Supreme Court with
none other than our resident Legal expert on all matters
jurisprudential esteemed Professor Josh Blackman. Welcome, professor, Thank you, sir.
Let's start with this case of the religious school. I'll
be Josh Blackman, you be the student. What was our
(03:04):
little intern's name, Scarborough? What was her real name Scarborough? Yeah,
Adele Adele, Yeah, Adele Via Rel No, it's the Jewish
schools name Slinkerk Adele Schlinker. So miss Schleeker.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Graduates in about a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, and then she's going to do a federal clerkship.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah. Yeah, she'll be with Georgia O'Connor and fort Worth
and then Judge Hollick in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ow cool is that. I see her mother on occasion
at the Carabas on Voss. She's got a she's part
of a social group up there. Yeah, she's a cutie
PETUITI her. I love her. Yeah, And she grew up
in the generation of type fitting jeans, so she will
wear very tight fitting jeans, which I find to be
attractive in a In a I wouldn't say she's an
(03:50):
older woman, but she's not her twenties. Recite for me
if you would the facts of this religious school case
and why this matters.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Sure, So, for the longest time, the Sprome Court has
said that there must to be a separation of church
and state. That's not actually in the Constitution, but the
Spreme Court kind of need it up. States have been
experimenting over the years with for example, vouchers they can
be used in a religious school. And then for a
time he said, well you can use this for you know,
math class or science class, not for religious class. And
(04:21):
then more recently the current course sort of turn he said, no, no, no,
that that's not right. That if the school is giving
money for a you know, a non religous school voucher,
they can't sucremmit it against religious schools. So Oklahoma had
a different idea. Oklahoma said, why don't we just create
charter school that's run by the Catholic Church, and that's
Saint Indoors.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's an online academy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It isn't for people in Oklahoma don't live near a
Catholic church. There's no Catholic school and the school basically
fund It's the same way that you send your kids
to a charter school like kid or something else. You
can send them to a religious Catholic School and this
is the basis of the school. Now, the state Supreme
Court and in the state Attorney General Republican said this
is unconstitutional. See a situation where Republican legislature said, you know,
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this is fine, and the Republican ag said, no, this
is not fine. And in the states from courts that
it's the violation of the Church and State provision of
the state constitution and it's unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This bothers me so much to start with, as you
know better than I, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to
the Danbury Baptists assuring them that there would be no
official state religion which comes from the Anglican Church and
the king announcing that he was both the head of
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state monarch and the head of the church, and he
only did it out of necessity because he wanted to
marry someone that the Church wouldn't allow him to. And Jefferson,
if I have the story correct, assured that the Danburry
Baptist in a letter, worry not, government will not intrude
in religion, and we certainly will not establish a state religion.
(06:04):
There will be a separation between what we do and
what you do. It was an assurance to the church,
not a promise to the atheist. It makes me crazy.
But in any case, is there some basis I mean, okay,
in the arguments that have been made, you refer to
them as a religious Catholic school. I'll put you on
the spot so you'd have time to think it through.
(06:24):
You would have never written that. But so obviously a
Catholic school would presumably be a religious school. In what
way is it different than any other school? And we
could argue that your average public school is a is
a religious woke school. But what separates them? Is it
a required prayer? Is it? Is it a class?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Right? So the school is run by the diocese, right,
the diocese basically managing the school the same way you'd
have a military academy or even just a private organization.
The key issue is the school isn't just giving you know,
vouchers of the money to this religious entity. It's based
considered a state school. And the question is does then
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become under the under the constitution because it's basically a
state chartered school. Can the state charter or religious academy
that's based The question here for this case.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Is there some sort of I may be going too
granular into the weeds here. But is there some sort
of designation that makes it a quote religious school in Oklahoma? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Sure, sure, Yeah, there's religious instruction usually. I don't know
the specifics. I think there's usually half a day is religious,
half a day is secular studies. They have the division
of labor, and they have you know, prayer in the classroom.
They have you know, religious services. They probably cover I
would say, Catholic holidays. They don't cover the Jewish holidays.
(07:53):
It's a catholicool in every sense of the word.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, you can't cover the Jewish holidays because they're too
darn many of them.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
There are a lot of them, or.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
A lot of them. Michael t started at Temple Emmanuel
has a school called the Becker School, and we had
I had a friend, I have a friend, Paul Strugg,
and his wife was the assistant of the ministrator. We
started there. They only went up through kindergarten, and we
were always on some sort of holiday with what a
great school. Hold with Professor Josh Blackman at the South
(08:22):
Texas College of Law is our guest. Renowned Supreme Court
expert Josh Malackman, Professor of Law at the South Texas
College of Law in downtown Houston, the finest litigation factory
in the country. Believe it or not, that is true.
(08:45):
Better a better litigation and a pellet preparation program than
my wife's alma mater, the University of Houston with all
the Oquinn money and any of other money. Better litigation program,
training program than the University of Texas, which I am
very proud, a top ten institution, better than Harvard, better
(09:07):
than Stanford, better than Georgetown. It is the best in
the country. And people who practice in a courtroom that
is a litigator will tell you that pound for pound,
graduate for graduate, that is the best program in the country.
Profess Professor Blackman, what do you make of this case?
(09:29):
What is the actual ruling, Who were the important players
who wrote the majority and what does that mean for
parish schools Jewish schools across the country.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, the case of being argued tomorrow, So we don't
have a ruin quite yet. Well I thought we have, Okay,
I think no, no, no, no, yeah, So the case we
argue tomorrow and just one little wrinkle here. Justice Barrett,
who's talked a bit about, is actually recused from the
case and the exact reason why there's not entirely clear.
(10:04):
One of the people who founded it was actually one
of Barrett's colleagues of Notre Dame and actually her best friend.
And it seems that Barrett stepped down because her best
friend was fouled in the case. So now it is
entirely possible this case goes to a four to four split,
in which case the lower court rolling stands and the
Catholic schools lose. So this actually may not generate much
(10:26):
of anything in the end.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
She is such a disappointment. There's that I won't ask
you to opine on this, but I will. There is
that crowd of people. She's pro laughed. We gotta put
her there. She's wrong and everything else, but she's pro life.
All right. Now, this is what you got. This is
the Mike Pince of Supreme Court Justices. Let's talk about
President Trump's authority or ability to deport bad guess that
(10:57):
is being challenged in court. Where are we on that?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh, this is a mess. So there's a lot of
things going on here, one of which is simple. The
Alien Enemies Act. It's a law that no one ever
heard of before this year. It was passed in the
seventeen nineties during John Adams administration, So talking a long
time ago, and it's been used their presidents during various
wars to basically deport enemies who are in this country legally.
(11:23):
It's a weird thing that when you are to say
of woar with someone, they don't step through aliens. So
imagine during World War Two we have enemy aliens for Japanese.
We can say, hey, japan you want to take these
people from us. That doesn't work. That's why there were
detention camps who don't quite get that part of it.
The issue here is that President Trump has declared members
of these various gangs trend Uragua, Mus thirteen others as
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basically terrorists and enemy aliens. He tried to remove a
number of people with affiliations in these gangs. These people
deny their gang members, They say that there's nothing wrong
with them, that they're just regular people. Ports have sort
of blocked Trump's removal of these aliens, and even the
Supreme Court got in the game and said, no, you
can't remove them right away. It's kind of in a
(12:07):
weird state of a holding pattern. Right once the Court's
intervene the contrace weight might see. Trump is not ignoring
the courts. These people are still in a facility somewhere
in Texas that have not been removed. There are other
laws that removal of aliens, and Trump is used of
the authority to send people to this prison El Salvador.
So even if he loses on the Alien Enemies Act,
there's still lots of his gang, these people in the country,
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and it's not not the only way. It seems it's
getting the most attention.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Do you expect the courts to in any way restrict
his ability? You take the case of this gangbanger MS
thirteen member who was returned. Interestingly, he's one of the
few who's originally from l Salvador, which adds a wrinkle
to the case. So Nai Boukeley has said a few
weeks ago that he's not returning him to the United States.
(12:54):
I can't. He's not welcome there. Do you expect this
to slow down in any way President Trump's deportation Stale Salvador.
Not really.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I mean, it's sort of a high profile issue, but
it's only a small number of people who are actually
subject to this detainer. Most people can be removed on
to other authorities. If Trump had just said we're depouring
these people because they're a ledge gang members, there would
been no you know, litigation on it. He could have
just done it might take a little bit longer, but
by going down to sort of culling the alien enemies
and trying to remove them without all the processes, he's
(13:26):
getting hung up. So I think eventually this issue will
quiet down and will move past it. But there are
definitely efforts by the courts to basically stop Trump using
authorities that he probably does have.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You said, if he had gone through a court process,
but do you think he could have made it through
When you look at these district court judges across the
country who are trying to halt this, some of these
cases would end up just you know, dragging on incessantly
in the court system. And I think he was aware
of that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That might be right, But one of the perks of
being the president he gets to decide where these people
are held, and he will probably brought their removal actions
into favorable courts.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's a weird thing where the judges in New York
and DC and Boston are telling the judges, you know,
people in Texas, what to do. That's not how the
law works. Usually you bring a lawsuit where the person's
being detained. But these judges have been asserting what's cult jurisdiction,
asserting power over people who are far beyond their boundaries.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Very interesting. Are there any other cases bubbling out there
that you're keeping an eye on.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I think the certain of the biggest issue now is
that the Roberts Courts does with birthright citizenship. That issue
will be argued in two weeks from now. I don't
think Trump's going to win this one. I'm just tying.
I quites sure how he loses the quarters is very
crafty and we can explain how this sort of works.
When the litigation began, these losses were brought by a
(14:56):
bunch of blue states, so you know, Washington and New
York and so on. Texas did not bring such a lawsuit.
So the government says, look, even if New York and
California and whatever, these states I got the rulings, you
know are right, limit the remedy to just those states.
You know, why should Texas have the subjects of this rule?
They don't want it. So I think the court is
(15:17):
going to serve As avoid it all together and say, oh,
we we declare the being of the fourteenth Amendment and
all children of legal aliens or citizens, and they'll just
sort of move on. But the procedural issues you are
actually kind of tricky, and the court may try and
duck all of it and just roally against Trump at
the outset.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But then we would have a modern disposition serving as
president precedent on an issue that has been argued for
some time. Do you know when the last case on
the matter was ruled upon? Because this was an issue.
I've got audio of Harry Reid, then Democrat senator later
(15:56):
Majority leader from the state of Nevada in nineteen ninety
two or ninety four talking about this violation of america
sovereignty and integrity, women coming across the border, this birth
tourism and dropping babies. We know that Chinese nationals are
doing this. Now they're just on the verge of having
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their baby and they come to the United States and
drop a baby, and now the baby's a citizen. Professor Blackman,
can you hold with this for just a moment. Sure,
we have an exciting addition of Okay, mister smartypants coming
out lit toomay, Yeah, yeah, he's the club swings. It's
(16:39):
just about ready to do that thing.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough,
how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
No same country would do that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yes, again, if you break our laws by entering this
country without permission and give birth to a child, we
reward that child with US citizenship and guarantee of full
access to all public and social services this society provides.
And that's a lot of services. Is it any wonder
that two thirds of the babies born at tax very
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expensive country county run hospitals in Los Angeles are born
to illegal alien mothers.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Orange roles is the answer. Orange roles is what the
Junior League Keey Room serves orange roles and pecan balls.
They also do a pet therapy for the old folks
that they take around town. Josh Blackman, I have an
answer that I give to this question, and I'll tell
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you what my answer is, but I don't want that
to color yours. I am often asked, as I was
this week on and ask me anything. A woman forty
two years old. She has a master's degree in maritime administration,
she said, and I believe it to be true, because
it's been true since I graduated law school in ninety six.
(18:12):
She said that there is a dearth of maritime lawyers.
It is most of these folks that I've ever known
practice between New Orleans and Houston. In New Orleans had
the stronger maritime law practice back in the mid nineties.
She said, there is a dearth of maritime lawyers, and
(18:34):
should she go to law school. She's forty two, And
my answer to that was, you get don't give up
your day job, so you want to go to night school.
So what is the toll that takes on a marriage,
if any, children, if any, personal life if any, If
you can get over that and the fact that you're
not going to make any money your first few years
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practicing anyway, so you're going to be fifty before you
start seeing any real money by the time you go
to law school and night schools graduate. The cost of that,
the personal toll it takes, so financially, be better off
in an administrative position than in a legal position because
lawyers don't make as much people think they do it,
certainly not early in their career. But my argument was, go,
if you want to learn. I loved law school, and
(19:17):
you never had this conversation. I thrived, I was happy,
I was alive, I was intellectually stimulated. I loved it.
The practice not so much. It was just papering documents.
But I say, go to school, any school, for the
purpose of the education, the knowledge, the engagement, the personal growth,
not for what you make out of it. But I'm curious,
(19:39):
do you have a cut off line that you say
to people if your goal is to make more money,
not if your goal is to go and learn? Long question,
but go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, South Texas College of Law we have a
very very strong night program, and all our professors teaching
the day teach at night. I teach at night all
the time. I routinely as student in a fifty and
even sixties who have families, who have kids, who have grandkids.
I've had a father and the son. I've had both
of them in the same program within a couple of
years of each other. So it's absolutely doable. Night school, though,
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is not easy. It goes Monday through Thursday five thirty
till about seven thirty, sometimes almost nine o'clock your weekends.
We can ansume by reading you can't get over that.
But we have people at full time jobs. I've had
people who are on SWAT teams who have full time
jobs at law school, people on fire, people in medicine.
It's amazing. And I'll tell you the night students have
a good breath of experience. They don't have as much
(20:37):
time to study, but they usually study smarter and they
know how to get things done quicker. I found that,
and thes a very good down So i'd encourage your
Friendish once come sit in my class, tell to give
me a call. Happy to do it. But it's an
enjoyable experience and for a second or third career people
really really enjoy it. I fully encourage it.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's very gracious of you, and I'm glad you reminded me.
I will renew the offer because you did that. You
made before of anyone who wants to sit in on
your law school class. And I would tell you, folks, don't.
Don't just go because you're planning to go to law school.
Go go h what was the term we used to use.
(21:16):
If you go sit in in a class that you're
not in, go survey audit. Yeah, go audit. This professor
is willing to accommodate you sitting in on his class,
and you can see what a law school class is worth.
I try to go see people do what they do
in every aspect of life. I'm going out to the
foundry that just became a show sponsor to see them
poor Malten steal or whatever it is, and and create,
(21:41):
you know, forge, I'm excited to see that. All right,
you're ready for another exciting condition of Okay, mister smarty pants,
the game that was created for them. It's time for okay,
mister smarty pants. On the Michael Berry Show, Ramon, as
always will be playing the role of judge and juryist
(22:04):
whether we will accept your answer or require more specificity
or sadly in some cases shut it down. Ramon, how
much time are you giving him if he's if his
brain is racked and he can't come up with an answer?
Five second? Okay, are you ready, mister s towny pants.
We'll start with a little more pop culture and every
day know how Who is Mario's brother in the classic
(22:26):
Nintendo games Luigi Very Good? I had it marked as no, Wow,
good for you? What's the name of the cowboy in
toy story Pity? Which artic correct? Which artist painted the
mona Lisa.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Da Vinci.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I'm going to need a full name, Leonardo da Vinci.
What app do people use to post fifteen second dance
videos and accidentally ruin their future careers? TikTok? What color
is Elmo from Sesame Street?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Red?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Which holiday do Americans celebrate on July fourth? Independence? What
do the letters LOL stand for?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Laugh out loud?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Give me the opening line of the Brady Bunch theme song.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Here's a story of a man named Brady.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Of a lovely lady. I think we got to get Oh,
I got back of a lovely lady. Yes, love lada. Yeah. Ladies. First,
which fruit is in a traditional banana? Split? Banana? Very good?
If you're doing the electric slide? What event are you
probably attending?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Line dancing, daffing?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Uh no, what, of course, Nancy, But what type of
event is this most likely to occur? A barbta the
wedding reception. Jews make up less than three percent of
the population. Josh, you silly goose, you missed one. Finally,
all right, now we're gonna move to food, retail and
relatable life stuff. How do you know which side of
(24:06):
the vehicle the gas tank is on?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
It's usually on the driver's side.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But how do you know when you get in there
is a way the.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Little arrow pointing to it.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I learned that much later in life than I should have.
What's the name of the sandwich with three layers and
toothpicks in it? The thump? The club sandwich club a
mainstay of country clubs. What common condiment comes in yellow
brown and spicy brown mustard? If someone says, let's go
(24:41):
have these, what are they asking? Split and half fermial?
What's the frozen drink you get at seven eleven?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
A slushy? Oh, slurpy flurpity flurpy flurpy plushes and the sentence.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
On such a What animal is on the logo for
Lacoste clothing an alligator talking about you gave him? Okay,
I was gonna say crocodile.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What do you use to keep food fresh? Tupperware or
a tort lawsuit? What is that? What is what kind
of question? It's a stupid question. What's the name of
the condiment that comes with Big.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Max Mayo.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Special sauce? Very good? Thank you, Professor Josh Bike, but
we love you. Thank you. Michael three charged with stealing
puppies from a Southeast Houston pet store after surveillance video
of the rip off went viral. What day is this?
I don't know, Ramon, Jim will have to tell you.
(25:50):
I'm gonna start over. Ramon can't find the audio that's
supposed to go with this. Three charged for stealing I'll
talk slow stealing puppies from a Southeast Shuston pet store
after surveillance video of the ripoff went viral. It's slugged
number nineteen KHOU. Three charged with stealing puppies from pet store.
(26:13):
Two head ankle monitors. Now you've caused me to to
release the reveal too early. Wasn't supposed to come to
the next sentence. Two of the three suspects charged were
wearing ankle monitors at the time of the theft. Most
disturbing about the incident is that the crew had a
(26:34):
nine year old with them when they stole the puppies.
The story from KHO you.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
The people in this surveillance video shown stealing puppies from
a local pet store now charged with felony theft. Destiny
Elizabeth Estrada and Elmer Giovanni Velaskis Lopez turn.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Themselway hold On rewind it a little bit. Let's let's
hear that.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Again, asks Lope, no, no, you got you.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Gotta you gotta go up to it where you go?
And so they were going in there and they saw
the puppies and his name was.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
The people in this surveillance video shown stealing puppies from
a local pet store.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Now charged with felony theft.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Destiny Elizabeth Estrada and Elmer Giovanni Velaskiez Lopez turn themselves in.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know, she gets you.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
She takes an extra puff before she does that. She
she sucks in a look and she's got to you know,
maybe maybe mateo Anita is listening at home and she
will hear.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Me do this.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Are we ready in the studio? Bob? Were ready? Okay?
Or you are coming to me now? Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Camera on camera on okay. We are here on the
site of a heist, a canine caper. Shall we say,
one of the people involved, why do we have to
do this? Listen again?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Pet store now charged with felony theft, Destiny Elizabeth Estrada
and Elmer Giovanni velaski Is Lopez left. Destiny Elizabeth Estrada
and Elmer Giovanni velaski Is Lopez turn themselves in Montes
has also been charged. Johnny Velaskis Lopez turn themselves in
(28:21):
got in Montees has also been charged. This is a
prior booking photo according to officials.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
For her arrest.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Arizona tells me two of the suspects had prior charges
and ankle monitors when they allegedly committed the crime.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Those ankle monitors do have a GPS tracking device, so
it puts them at the scene at the time that
the theft occurred.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Just to day after the theft, the three puppies were
returned and it was caught on video. Owner Adam Abilideve
tells me he has mixed emotion believing in second chance.
Owner Adam Abildeve tells me he has mixed emotions believe
in the second chances as well as justice.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
They put themselves in. You know this predictament. You know
there's nobody to blame but themselves.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
From stolen to returned a few days later, this puppy
is now going to a forever home soon. This is
a total language named her Nelly and as far as
the criminal investigation officials tell us, surveillance video like.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
What did she say the.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Suspects, and but they call victim sing a child.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I don't know if in the middle of this I
do not speak victim. These kind of a what was
his name, Rob Finnie? What's the guy on news Max
talked about this. I don't know this guy, but this
this is money right here.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Every time we hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether
or not the anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to
shape shift into a perfect Hispanic accent. Police arrested twenty
five year old Elain Alain Sanchez, and I mean that honestly.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Why do we do that?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
When I say Alejandra Myorcis, I just say Alejandra Myorcis.
But on CNN it's Alejandro Majorkis.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm Irish.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
When police arrest someone with an Irish name, I don't
say police just arrested twenty five year.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Old Charlie McLaughlin.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
I just say police arrested Charlie McLoughlin.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Stop that stop.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
And it's for all of these reasons and everything that
I just mentioned that America elected Donald Trump in twenty
sixteen and then elected Donald Trump again.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Ramon, do you think the first words out of the
Pets Store owner's mouth when he saw the pups were missing?
Was Doug gone, Yeah, I just wrote that on the spot.
No I didn't. Jim wrote that Destiny and Elmer are
not the names of people you'd expect to be stealing
from a pet store. Destiny sounds like a stripper, and
she may well be. I don't know how many strippers
(30:55):
dance with ankle monitor, but it's a lot. Take get
all off, baby, Well, I can't take the ankle monitor off.
What's the Spanish word for ankle monitor? Elmer sounds like
he should be out hunting webbits are working a homemade
still out in the woods. You think he's the glue
that holds the trio together? Or is it Carmen Monthys
(31:19):
a sticky fingered filter. Carmen has yet to be found,
though police are asking where in the world is Carmen Monthis? Well,
she sneaks around the world. From me, she's a speaking
(31:41):
pigir filter from She'll take you for a ride, Hu China.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Down there in the world? Is sound?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Baby sings?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Helmet?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Is san Diego? Tell me something? If you understand people
better than I did, why wouldn't when when they say
we're in the world is Carmen San Diego. Why wouldn't
Jim take San Diego out and put Montez in there?
(32:29):
Can you tell me that it was an s n
L skit where they go in and they had the
new Spanish reporter, remember Spanish, and they're sending him to Nicaragua,
or maybe they're talking about Nicaragua, you remember that. Oh,
welcome to our Welcome to our newsrooms. David, it's just Steve. Okay.
Would you like to have a burrito? Uh no, I'm
(32:52):
gonna have a himb burger. Okay, Well, because we also
have nachos. That's one of their better bits. It's definitely
one of their better bits. Well, this was a good
two hours of radio. I have no problem walking out
right now and being like Eddie, I put in a
good show. You know, sales knocks off they you know,
they every other day they're oh, let's Sylvia, do you
(33:16):
know organize something fun? I know, y'all come down to
the sales forar We're gonna do this. No, we're still
over here working because that's what we do. We work
slaving over a hot mic. So y'all have something to sell.
Send Eddie a message and just say we put in
the whole day early, right, like a ten run rule.
You get to go home early. You run up the score,
you get to go home early. Like when the Falcons
(33:37):
went home at halftime against the Patriots they were up
like thirty two to three or something. You remember that
thirty five to three. They were up thirty two points.
I think, hey, we're calling a day, all right, we'll
do more show. We had that Melanie Bargae, Lady, what
do we have coming up? The woman that did made
the app for adhd huh who
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