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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air now.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I literally have never said anything to invoke violence, and
I challenge somebody to go and find a clip of
a democrat invoking violence.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I've just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all
of the country.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Maybe there will be.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
People need to start taking through the streets. This is
a dictator.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
There needs to be unrest in the streets for as
long as there is unrest in our lives.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Enemies of the state, show me where it says that
protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
So it's comes out.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
It is.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Said some your tongue, don't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I thought he should have punish him in the face.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
I said, even if you lost, he insulted you, why
he's on the escalator and called Mexican's rapist and murse.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He said, what do you think I should doe? So
I think you should punsed.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Him in the face and then gotten out of the race.
You would have been a hero.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I should, if we were in high school, take you
behind the gym and beat the hell.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
Out of him.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Point some people in the face.
Speaker 9 (01:28):
When was the last time an actor assassinated for president.
Speaker 10 (01:32):
They're still going to have to go out and put
a bullet a dollar block.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
He's it is, he said up to.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump
is a fascist?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark
Milly said, no one has ever been more dangerous to
this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
To his core.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the
White House.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I will go and take Trump out from that side.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
He lives up. Here's the bombshell just for you to
that of it light.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But like if they're rue, I mean like this dude
has to be knocks over the head like hard. We
are not only gonna punch you back, but we are
gonna knock you out.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Let's just stop them ponder for a moment. Let's take
Jasmine Crockett or Maxine Waters or the late Shila Jackson Lee.
Let's say your company was looking for a new leader.
Can you imagine that person sitting in the CEO seat
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of your company? Can you imagine how that how the
management meeting goes? Can you imagine one of those three
choosing a chief technology officer, chief information officer, chief marketing officer.
Can you imagine that person choosing a strategy of vision
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forward for your company? No, you can't, It's unthinkable. So
what we have in this country is we have people
who run businesses, who have a skill set to run
businesses or organizations. And then we have a political class.
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And we got some duffers on the Republican side, I'm
not going to deny that, but you've got people on
the Democrat side who literally have no other place to go.
They're Richard gear In officer and a gentleman. They got
nowhere to go. They run for office and there's nobody
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else running, and they learned the slogans and they learn
the phrases, and then you've got powerful forces behind them,
like the Rodney Elysis and now, and I can tell
you having seen it, you've got folks who come to
this country first generation, who learned politics abroad in countries
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where politics is blood sport. And so you've got people
that are funding and guiding these campaigns, who are wanting contracts,
who are wanting jobs for everybody they know, and so
this person becomes kind of the puppet for all of that,
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and so they use this person this is what this
is what Obama was, and so the media fawns over them,
and over a period of time they develop a degree
of confidence and they start thinking there's something special. And so,
you know, you get all the interviews. I'll remind you
when Lena Hidalga was elected and for years after there
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were national glowing interviews Hispanic woman leader vision. But honestly,
she can't tie her shoes in the morning. This person
has a crippling, paralyzing mental condition that makes her incapable
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of functioning as a basic adult. And yet because they'd
put her in there because of an election based on
Hispanic Well it was twenty eighteen, so you had the
blue wave to get Beto elected, and they had an
old white guy who was on the ballot and they
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got him to pull back so they could put her in.
And then he gets hired by the county. Just who
would have guessed, right, And so you've got these people
behind the scenes, these puppeteers, and then you have this
person out front, and I guess the only good thing
is that this person is not the person making any decisions.
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But you'll never see the people who are, and their
decision making is not based on what's good for the county,
what makes sense, love or hate. Ed Emmett he enjoyed
going in and sitting down at his desk and governing.
What can we do to keep Harris County from flooding?
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What can we do to balance our budget to provide
good responsive services? You think any of that, You think
she has the slightest clue how to do any of that,
How to build an organization that does any of that.
It's honestly absurd. It's so laughable that I feel silly
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even asking the question. And that's the problem. We don't
expect the left to be able to govern. We don't
expect them to make decisions as to who the food
service provider at Hobby Airport would be based on the
quality of the food, their staffing, their budget, whether their
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budget is sound, and their experience and how they've been
raided across the country. Pappus was named top concessionaire in
the country at the very time that Sylvester Turner was
kicking him out, kicking him out so he could put
his love, so he could put his friends in there.
And that's what they did. Some of whom had never
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been in food service at all. What could possibly go
wrong is the Michael Berry's shows. So Lenihidalgo was brought
to you by the same folks in twenty eighteen that
brought you Beto O'Rourke and that brought you twenty twenty six.
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James Telafrico. Now, I keep hearing people telling me that
this or that person they know is going to vote
for tall Ico, who is typically a Republican voter that
they're talking about, And I say, okay, well, I don't
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know what to tell you. I'm doing my job. What
do you want to Well, they keep saying he's a
nice guy, and I will tell you the honest truth.
I've said this before, and I don't care that people
think I'm not a nice person for it. If you
are stupid enough to cast your ballot on the basis,
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let's assume he was a nice guy. He's not. If
you've listened to anything he's done, he has learned to
present as a nice person because it's disarming. He is
saying very very radical things, but unlike a black activist,
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he's not hissing as he says it. He doesn't have
like kwant Lex two guys in gi Joe Black, Gorilla,
che guevera security guard Berets going huhm. At the end
of it, he puts on a jacket, a white button
down shirt, some jeans, some boots, and he explains to
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you that as Christians, we need to be nice people.
And little do you know that what he's actually talking
about is your child be or your grandchild, because you're
never out of this, being subjected to the pressure of
their peers to get their wiener cut off at eleven
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years old, or girls being subjected to be who Ellen
Page or whatever her name was, Who was Juno? What
was that girl's name? Ellen Page? He wants that to happen.
That's very important to him. He believes that children should transition.
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And when the state legislature, your elected body, tried to
prevent that from happening, a passing a law saying no, no, no,
They've got to wait till they're ready for that, he
brags how hard he worked against it. He wanted a
George Floyd Act. He has called prisons violence. He has
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called to defund police. He is an awful human being.
If you judge him by his policies, would you like
him to smile while he does it. Is that what's important?
And it'll be six years. I had a fellow named Dennis,
and not going to give his last name because there's
no reason. I'm not trying to shame him. I'm trying
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to use this as an example. He said to me
the other day in an email. He said, when you
talk about the Paxton Tallafrico race, you sound panicked that
Telafrico's going to win. And I said, well, shouldn't I
be concerned? And he said, ugh, I'll live either way. Okay, Well,
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you lived through Obama and you lived through Joe Biden.
Should we be concerned if they were being brought back?
Is that what you're telling me? It strikes me that
you can't say, well, I don't care who wins, I'll
be fine. Well, I'm not in that boat. I've got
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kids that are nineteen and twenty. I have a country
I love deeply, and I've watched what happened to Venezuela.
I know from history what happened to Cuba. I know
what has happened to Scandinavia. I've seen what happened to England.
I've watched countries collapsed collapse I know what happens. It's
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sheer misery. It's hard to come out of. And he's
preaching the same message. And this is exactly how we
ended up with Obama eight, this idea that he presents
as a nice person. And so I came back and
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he said, well, you sound panicked. I am panicked. Are
you not getting that point? I am panicked? Well when you,
I said, and what's the problem with me screaming? The
red coats are coming? What's the problem with me being panicked?
Why is that a problem in your mind? Well, if
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people think it's a fae at a company, it's a
thing that's already been done. If they think that he's
already gonna win, they won't show up to vote. And
I said, I've been around politics for a little while.
People don't fail to show up to vote because the
other guy is strong. They failed to show up to
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vote because they underestimate the other side. And if I
got to scream and holler and tell you I'm panicked,
for you to pay attention done, because we're going to
mess around and lose this thing if our people don't
understand this isn't a nice guy. This is the most
radical candidate we've ever run statewide in Texas, this Democrat,
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and you better beat him.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Escape from the ordinary.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So I received a story from Adam Clinton on our
sports station. He said, Michael, this has you written all
over it. It seems quite interesting and I agree. A seventeen
year old from full Sure is headed to Ohio this
week to represent Texas in the first ever Patriot Games.
Would you like to talk to him? Well? Absolutely, RT
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Dukes is our guest. Welcome, Artie, what is up. Nice
to meet you, Yeah, yes, indeed, So tell me about
the Patriot Games.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Man, It's really exciting. So it's like the American Hunger Games,
but obviously, like our lives aren't on the line, and
it's like the high school sports version of it all.
So it's like patriotic military style games where one mement,
one se email, and one mail from each state are
selected to represent their state. They're gonna fly us out
to Ohio and we're gonna compete on these games on
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ESPN and ABC, and so I'm just ecstatic, really excited,
especially representing Texas, Like that's all you could ever want,
like Texas the best, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I agree. I like your attitude and RT stands for Reagan, Tuck.
I understand that your siblings are named for US presidents
Monroe and Lincoln, and of course Reagan.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yes, yes, so we're all named after presidents. Pretty pretty
finally enough, it started out with me, So I'm named
after my dad, right, Reagan, And then it came my
next sister, Kennedy Dukes, and then my next brother, Lincoln Dukes,
and so we got kind of all the way down
the line and we were like, okay, the last one,
let's just pull out the presidential names, and we got
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Monroe finally. So I have three other siblings, Kennedy, Lincoln,
and Monroe.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So I was told that the organizers were so moved
by your fate that they add you to lead a
devotional for all one hundred competitors White House staff and
ES production crew before Sunday's competition kicks off. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, super exciting. I mean, God is so good, you know,
I'm incredibly excited to do that. Just that sentence itself
just astonishes me, just the fact that like the White
House called me and asked me to lead a devotional,
you know, and so I'm looking forward to making that
happen and just leading others and Faye and just talking
about who Jesus is and how awesome he is, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So tell me about the competition. Let me see, I
have some military style boot camp, circus obstacle course, sports skills,
presidential fitness tests. Are you preparing? How are you preparing
for this?
Speaker 11 (16:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
So with how fast everything's moving, I figured out that
I would be a part of this about two weeks ago.
So it's not like I can add a one hundred
pounds to my bench press, two hundred pounds to my squat,
and so I've just been working a little more on
the technical side of things. I did some American Ninja
Warrior training, just working on things of that aspect where
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I can get like some professionals at certain things and
get them to just give me tips, because there's not
really a bunch that I can do to become a
ton better at certain things. So just getting a better
overall understanding of everything before I go into these games.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What is your height weight? I'm about five nine five,
and what great are you in.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I'm headed into my junior year, eleventh grade.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Okay. At my kids' school, they called that a rising junior.
Do you all use that term.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Uh, I've never heard that before, but that's a pretty
good way to describe it.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I hadn't heard that either. I don't know if that's
a private school thing or where that comes from, but
that is that you know that you're you're rising junior.
So even in the spring of your sophomore year, it
would be well, and then especially through the summer, it
would be he's a rising junior. How much do you
bench press.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
One tegt A solid two eighty five maybe?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And what would you bench press? What's the max you
could bench press ten times? Ten times?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Ooh, maybe somewhere around to twenty five two five somewhere there.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
And what do you think you could do the mile
in today in the Houston?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Okay, so the other day I ran like a six
forty five. I think today I could probably run somewhere
if I was in competition like adrenaline, going probably a
six fifteen, six thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Let me switch over to career. If I were to
ask you right now what you would like to do
professionally in your life, what would that be?
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
So Jesus has always kind of had a big pull
in my heart. Ministry interests me.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But that's not.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I'm still working through all that right now. I'm taking
classes in high school that set me up for kind
of to go to A and M and be an engineer.
And so I don't know if engineer becoming an engineer
is something I necessarily want to dedicate my life to,
but I do know that those skills set you up
with a lot of different ways and avenues that you
can take. And so I'm just trusting God to continue
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to guide my steps and be a lamp to my
feet and help me understand like where I'm meant to go,
you know. But that's what I'm figuring out slowly. But
that's what I'm doing right now to set.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Myself up for. What do your parents do?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
So my mom, she's a real estate agent. And then
my dad, he works for an oil and gas company.
He's like the CFO, but one of his buddies just
left and so he's kind of taken on a bit
larger role of making a few more things than having
to make stuff happen. You know.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Do you know the name of the company? A Devco? Okay?
And your mom is she independent or is she with
a firm? Uh, She's with the real estate firm.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
But I couldn't tell you the exact name right now,
CB and A okay, right, yes, sir, I live in Fullsher,
Texas Davie.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
How many students in your class at Fullsher High School?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
So I think I just looked because the class rankings
came out a few weeks ago, the updated ones, and
it's about seven hundred and seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I think, wow, that's a big class. That's weird. Had
seven in mine. That is a big wow. Wow. And
you're a member of the Chargers varsity football team. I
understand what position.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yes, sir, so I played linebacker, but I've always kind
of played both ways my whole life, so I can
play a plethora of positions. And so coming heading into
the season, I asked my head football coach, like, Hey,
where do you need me most? Where can I help
out the team the best? And he said linebacker would
probably be the best spot, and so that's what I've
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been doing this whole off season. But then I asked
him the other day. I was like, Hey, are you
gonna need me on offense a little bit this year?
And he was like, yeah, man, I probably am. So
maybe we're going both ways.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Who knows, but we'll figure out. I were not having
seen you play, if if I were based on current
or past NFL players, if how would you describe your
play as a linebacker? Comparing yourself to a professional linebacker,
which one would be most like?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Hmm, that's hard because you know, I wouldn't really go
to like compare myself to an exact person. I would
compare kind of my style of play, not to a linebacker,
more to like a Christian McCaffrey type body and like
play style of just like aggressive, kind of quick twitch,
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just make something happen and move fast. But there's a
lot of linebackers I would say, I'm not necessarily that
kind of guy. You know, I'm willing to go out
and play anywhere, and so I would consider myself more
of a Christian McCaffrey type, nice white guy on the
football field.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
What's your favorite what's your favorite class in school?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Favorite class in school?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Favorite class?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
That's hard football, probably, But I guess I can't say that,
you know, you know, I feel like school is so inefficient,
and so that's just my perspective on it all. I
think it gives us a lot of tools to go
out and do a lot of things, but there's also
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a ton of things they teach us that I don't
think is necessarily needed. And so I'm just I like math.
I think my brain is very logically intertwined, and so
math is something I enjoy whenever I get a problem.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
In good Luck in the Patriot Games representing Texas in America, Michael,
there's a comedy site, a parody site called a Babylon
b and it started by it was started by some
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Christians who were kind of making fun of the new
televangelists and over the top churches in the private planes
and and all that. And it's morphed into being more
political commentary now than anything else, and it's really interesting.
And there was the post yesterday was Barista making minimum wage,
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explains how Elon Musk is making all the wrong financial decisions,
and then they do a story with it and the
opening quote is, I'm surprised he's not like bankrupt already.
If you've ever heard Let's take a Barista bike repairman
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at the bike shop with a bunch of tats and
the music going with a terrible attitude. Those guys know
everything about everything, and they'll spend their whole day talking
about how, let's say Elon Musk is an idiot and
he's going to be bankrupt any minute now because he's
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not very smart, not exactly the best situational awareness. But
I got to think it. What if that barista becomes
the county judge. What if that barista becomes the US Senator.
What if that barista becomes the transportation director or transportation
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secretary or the president. That's Kamala Harris, that's Sheila Jackson Lee,
that's Lena Hidalgo. That's where we are. That's kind of scary.
So we got something from Robert Reich yesterday, who's the
biggest Johnny Cash fan I've ever known, And it was
a graphic and it said, did you know Johnny Cash
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and June Carter Cash filmed a CBS television special in
Kerrville in nineteen eighty two? And the answer is no,
I did not. I also saw a post by Richard
Drake that said, Beef Wellington is just a corn dog
from a different socioeconomic background, and there's kind of something
to be said for that. I mean, if you think
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about it, it's really just a it's really just a
little meat wrapped in some bread and fried. I really
think we need to bring back the corn dog. When
I was a kid, and maybe I just hang out
at different places. When I was a kid, you could
get a corn dog rather easily in lots of places,
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and somehow, someway we got away from the corn dog.
You know, a lot of high falutin restaurants like to
do working class people dishes. It's kind of ironic, like
you'll get places that will do Kraft mac and cheese.
I don't mean they do elevated mac and cheese. I
mean they will literally serve Kraft mac and cheese. And
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I'm here for it. I love it. I like the idea.
I think it's I think it's fantastic. I wish we
could get the high end Restaurant'm gonna talk to Matt
Brice and see a federal American grill will put a
corn dog on the menu, because if he puts his
mind to it, he could do a hell of a
corn dog. I'm sure of it. A Harris County, it's
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gonna be clip number twelve for more. A Harris County
cereal squatter has been ordered evicted nine times since twenty
twenty two, while one property owner says she uses the
same story over and over again, claiming she paid and
a deposit and was scammed Fox twenty six with the
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story I know she's a serial squatter.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
We've done a lot of digging on her, and we
talked too many of the other landlords that she has
done the same thing too, and she's doing this over
and over and over again in the same sit code.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
She's been behind a number of evictions.
Speaker 12 (27:20):
Yes, sir, just nine evictions since the last in the
past in the last five years, all in within preasing seven.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
Through a translator, coming botetold the judge she was the
victim of a scam.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
She says she gave a.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Five hundred dollars deposit and first months went to someone
posing as a realtor.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
She swore that that was true, that everything she was
saying was true, and if it is true, then she's
been scammed multiple times exactly the same way.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Here.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
You've talked to a gentleman who says she basically gave
the same story and moved into his property.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Sir. Two evictions ago.
Speaker 12 (27:59):
He had mentioned that she also moved into the house,
saying that she had found a realtor and the realtor
had opened the home, and that she had paid a
deposit to somebody else and she stayed in the house.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
It took him a while to get him out.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
How do you think she got into your house?
Speaker 12 (28:17):
We've been thieved that she might have broken in, they
might have valiated the lock. She knows how the system works.
She knows exactly what she needs to do. She wants
one week at a time until she can say the
longest says she can't. That's where I believe that the
court system is feeling because they are not doing their
due diligence to really see you know, who are these
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people and how many times have been have they been
doing the same thing?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You know?
Speaker 12 (28:41):
Refit her defenders should be treated differently?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
How does she have so maliar experience?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
This person right here is not who you guys think is.
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Since Garmon says she doesn't speak English, we asked her
daughter to speak on her.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
Behalf on you to explain is why your mother has
all these evictions?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
No, I want you to explain why you guys pull
up to people's houses and records.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
We didn't pull up to anybody's house.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
We have nothing to do with any of these pictures.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Camera.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Ain't that crazy? Ain't that weird? Camera over there? Cameras
over here?
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Do you want to explain why your mom has all
these evictions?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Is not that crazy? Cameras over there, cameras over here, cameras.
I got nothing to do with you.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
The judge ordered Carmen Manta to be out of the
Melio's property by August fourteenth.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
Oh what if she's related to little Johnny Matta? How
great would that be? How great would that be if
she threw that down? I need y'all to know I
am related to little Johnny Matta.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
We can bring little Johnny Manta in and he could
tell us that this was a lot of injustices.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
So here's the problem. Everybody stands back and says, Okay,
this woman's been evicted nine times. She makes up this story.
Everybody feels sorry for her. Nobody believes it, but nobody
does anything about it. That's what we've become as a country.
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That's what we've become, and you can see it in
every aspect of our lives. You can see these activists
out rioting and spitting in the faces of cops. That's
our husbands and wives and sons and daughters and mothers
and fathers. Pick up the baton one time and bust
them across the head. How long before that would stop?
This can all stop, But nobody wants to do anything
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about anything, and so these people get to They get
all the line to run with. Nobody reels them in,
Nobody ever stops it because nobody wants to stand up
to anything. Ever, the system doesn't correct itself. She's going
to break into every house until the day the lady dies.
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And so here's some poor homeowner or property owner who's
having their windows busted out, is having to go to
court for all this nonsense. This could stop, Throw her
in a cage and leave the old woman there
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air now.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I literally have never said anything to invoke violence, and
I challenge somebody to go and find a clip of
a democrat invoking violence.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I've just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all
of the country.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Maybe there will be.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
People need to start taking through the streets. This is
a dictator.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
There needs to be unrest in the streets for as
long as there is unrest in our lives.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Enemies of the state, show me where it says that
protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
So it's comes out.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
It is.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Said some your tongue, don't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I thought he should have punish him in the face.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
I said, even if you lost, he insulted you, why
he's on the escalator and called Mexican's rapist and murse.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He said, what do you think I should doe? So
I think you should punsed.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Him in the face and then gotten out of the race.
You would have been a hero.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I should, if we were in high school, take you
behind the gym and beat the hell.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
Out of him.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Point some people in the face.
Speaker 9 (01:28):
When was the last time an actor assassinated for president.
Speaker 10 (01:32):
They're still going to have to go out and put
a bullet a dollar block.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
He's it is, he said up to.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump
is a fascist?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark
Milly said, no one has ever been more dangerous to
this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
To his core.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the
White House.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I will go and take Trump out from that side.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
He lives up. Here's the bombshell just for you to
that of it light.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But like if they're rue, I mean like this dude
has to be knocks over the head like hard. We
are not only gonna punch you back, but we are
gonna knock you out.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Let's just stop them ponder for a moment. Let's take
Jasmine Crockett or Maxine Waters or the late Shila Jackson Lee.
Let's say your company was looking for a new leader.
Can you imagine that person sitting in the CEO seat
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of your company? Can you imagine how that how the
management meeting goes? Can you imagine one of those three
choosing a chief technology officer, chief information officer, chief marketing officer.
Can you imagine that person choosing a strategy of vision
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forward for your company? No, you can't, It's unthinkable. So
what we have in this country is we have people
who run businesses, who have a skill set to run
businesses or organizations. And then we have a political class.
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And we got some duffers on the Republican side, I'm
not going to deny that, but you've got people on
the Democrat side who literally have no other place to go.
They're Richard gear In officer and a gentleman. They got
nowhere to go. They run for office and there's nobody
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else running, and they learned the slogans and they learn
the phrases, and then you've got powerful forces behind them,
like the Rodney Elysis and now, and I can tell
you having seen it, you've got folks who come to
this country first generation, who learned politics abroad in countries
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where politics is blood sport. And so you've got people
that are funding and guiding these campaigns, who are wanting contracts,
who are wanting jobs for everybody they know, and so
this person becomes kind of the puppet for all of that,
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and so they use this person this is what this
is what Obama was, and so the media fawns over them,
and over a period of time they develop a degree
of confidence and they start thinking there's something special. And so,
you know, you get all the interviews. I'll remind you
when Lena Hidalga was elected and for years after there
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were national glowing interviews Hispanic woman leader vision. But honestly,
she can't tie her shoes in the morning. This person
has a crippling, paralyzing mental condition that makes her incapable
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of functioning as a basic adult. And yet because they'd
put her in there because of an election based on
Hispanic Well it was twenty eighteen, so you had the
blue wave to get Beto elected, and they had an
old white guy who was on the ballot and they
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got him to pull back so they could put her in.
And then he gets hired by the county. Just who
would have guessed, right, And so you've got these people
behind the scenes, these puppeteers, and then you have this
person out front, and I guess the only good thing
is that this person is not the person making any decisions.
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But you'll never see the people who are, and their
decision making is not based on what's good for the county,
what makes sense, love or hate. Ed Emmett he enjoyed
going in and sitting down at his desk and governing.
What can we do to keep Harris County from flooding?
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What can we do to balance our budget to provide
good responsive services? You think any of that, You think
she has the slightest clue how to do any of that,
How to build an organization that does any of that.
It's honestly absurd. It's so laughable that I feel silly
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even asking the question. And that's the problem. We don't
expect the left to be able to govern. We don't
expect them to make decisions as to who the food
service provider at Hobby Airport would be based on the
quality of the food, their staffing, their budget, whether their
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budget is sound, and their experience and how they've been
raided across the country. Pappus was named top concessionaire in
the country at the very time that Sylvester Turner was
kicking him out, kicking him out so he could put
his love, so he could put his friends in there.
And that's what they did. Some of whom had never
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been in food service at all. What could possibly go
wrong is the Michael Berry's shows. So Lenihidalgo was brought
to you by the same folks in twenty eighteen that
brought you Beto O'Rourke and that brought you twenty twenty six.
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James Telafrico. Now, I keep hearing people telling me that
this or that person they know is going to vote
for tall Ico, who is typically a Republican voter that
they're talking about, And I say, okay, well, I don't
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know what to tell you. I'm doing my job. What
do you want to Well, they keep saying he's a
nice guy, and I will tell you the honest truth.
I've said this before, and I don't care that people
think I'm not a nice person for it. If you
are stupid enough to cast your ballot on the basis,
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let's assume he was a nice guy. He's not. If
you've listened to anything he's done, he has learned to
present as a nice person because it's disarming. He is
saying very very radical things, but unlike a black activist,
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he's not hissing as he says it. He doesn't have
like kwant Lex two guys in gi Joe Black, Gorilla,
che guevera security guard Berets going huhm. At the end
of it, he puts on a jacket, a white button
down shirt, some jeans, some boots, and he explains to
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you that as Christians, we need to be nice people.
And little do you know that what he's actually talking
about is your child be or your grandchild, because you're
never out of this, being subjected to the pressure of
their peers to get their wiener cut off at eleven
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years old, or girls being subjected to be who Ellen
Page or whatever her name was, Who was Juno? What
was that girl's name? Ellen Page? He wants that to happen.
That's very important to him. He believes that children should transition.
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And when the state legislature, your elected body, tried to
prevent that from happening, a passing a law saying no, no, no,
They've got to wait till they're ready for that, he
brags how hard he worked against it. He wanted a
George Floyd Act. He has called prisons violence. He has
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called to defund police. He is an awful human being.
If you judge him by his policies, would you like
him to smile while he does it. Is that what's important?
And it'll be six years. I had a fellow named Dennis,
and not going to give his last name because there's
no reason. I'm not trying to shame him. I'm trying
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to use this as an example. He said to me
the other day in an email. He said, when you
talk about the Paxton Tallafrico race, you sound panicked that
Telafrico's going to win. And I said, well, shouldn't I
be concerned? And he said, ugh, I'll live either way. Okay, Well,
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you lived through Obama and you lived through Joe Biden.
Should we be concerned if they were being brought back?
Is that what you're telling me? It strikes me that
you can't say, well, I don't care who wins, I'll
be fine. Well, I'm not in that boat. I've got
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kids that are nineteen and twenty. I have a country
I love deeply, and I've watched what happened to Venezuela.
I know from history what happened to Cuba. I know
what has happened to Scandinavia. I've seen what happened to England.
I've watched countries collapsed collapse I know what happens. It's
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sheer misery. It's hard to come out of. And he's
preaching the same message. And this is exactly how we
ended up with Obama eight, this idea that he presents
as a nice person. And so I came back and
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he said, well, you sound panicked. I am panicked. Are
you not getting that point? I am panicked? Well when you,
I said, and what's the problem with me screaming? The
red coats are coming? What's the problem with me being panicked?
Why is that a problem in your mind? Well, if
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people think it's a fae at a company, it's a
thing that's already been done. If they think that he's
already gonna win, they won't show up to vote. And
I said, I've been around politics for a little while.
People don't fail to show up to vote because the
other guy is strong. They failed to show up to
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vote because they underestimate the other side. And if I
got to scream and holler and tell you I'm panicked,
for you to pay attention done, because we're going to
mess around and lose this thing if our people don't
understand this isn't a nice guy. This is the most
radical candidate we've ever run statewide in Texas, this Democrat,
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and you better beat him.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Escape from the ordinary.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So I received a story from Adam Clinton on our
sports station. He said, Michael, this has you written all
over it. It seems quite interesting and I agree. A seventeen
year old from full Sure is headed to Ohio this
week to represent Texas in the first ever Patriot Games.
Would you like to talk to him? Well? Absolutely, RT
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Dukes is our guest. Welcome, Artie, what is up. Nice
to meet you, Yeah, yes, indeed, So tell me about
the Patriot Games.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Man, It's really exciting. So it's like the American Hunger Games,
but obviously, like our lives aren't on the line, and
it's like the high school sports version of it all.
So it's like patriotic military style games where one mement,
one se email, and one mail from each state are
selected to represent their state. They're gonna fly us out
to Ohio and we're gonna compete on these games on
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ESPN and ABC, and so I'm just ecstatic, really excited,
especially representing Texas, Like that's all you could ever want,
like Texas the best, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I agree. I like your attitude and RT stands for Reagan, Tuck.
I understand that your siblings are named for US presidents
Monroe and Lincoln, and of course Reagan.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yes, yes, so we're all named after presidents. Pretty pretty
finally enough, it started out with me, So I'm named
after my dad, right, Reagan, And then it came my
next sister, Kennedy Dukes, and then my next brother, Lincoln Dukes,
and so we got kind of all the way down
the line and we were like, okay, the last one,
let's just pull out the presidential names, and we got
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Monroe finally. So I have three other siblings, Kennedy, Lincoln,
and Monroe.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So I was told that the organizers were so moved
by your fate that they add you to lead a
devotional for all one hundred competitors White House staff and
ES production crew before Sunday's competition kicks off. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, super exciting. I mean, God is so good, you know,
I'm incredibly excited to do that. Just that sentence itself
just astonishes me, just the fact that like the White
House called me and asked me to lead a devotional,
you know, and so I'm looking forward to making that
happen and just leading others and Faye and just talking
about who Jesus is and how awesome he is, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So tell me about the competition. Let me see, I
have some military style boot camp, circus obstacle course, sports skills,
presidential fitness tests. Are you preparing? How are you preparing
for this?
Speaker 11 (16:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
So with how fast everything's moving, I figured out that
I would be a part of this about two weeks ago.
So it's not like I can add a one hundred
pounds to my bench press, two hundred pounds to my squat,
and so I've just been working a little more on
the technical side of things. I did some American Ninja
Warrior training, just working on things of that aspect where
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I can get like some professionals at certain things and
get them to just give me tips, because there's not
really a bunch that I can do to become a
ton better at certain things. So just getting a better
overall understanding of everything before I go into these games.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What is your height weight? I'm about five nine five,
and what great are you in.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I'm headed into my junior year, eleventh grade.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Okay. At my kids' school, they called that a rising junior.
Do you all use that term.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Uh, I've never heard that before, but that's a pretty
good way to describe it.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I hadn't heard that either. I don't know if that's
a private school thing or where that comes from, but
that is that you know that you're you're rising junior.
So even in the spring of your sophomore year, it
would be well, and then especially through the summer, it
would be he's a rising junior. How much do you
bench press.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
One tegt A solid two eighty five maybe?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And what would you bench press? What's the max you
could bench press ten times? Ten times?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Ooh, maybe somewhere around to twenty five two five somewhere there.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
And what do you think you could do the mile
in today in the Houston?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Okay, so the other day I ran like a six
forty five. I think today I could probably run somewhere
if I was in competition like adrenaline, going probably a
six fifteen, six thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Let me switch over to career. If I were to
ask you right now what you would like to do
professionally in your life, what would that be?
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
So Jesus has always kind of had a big pull
in my heart. Ministry interests me.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But that's not.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I'm still working through all that right now. I'm taking
classes in high school that set me up for kind
of to go to A and M and be an engineer.
And so I don't know if engineer becoming an engineer
is something I necessarily want to dedicate my life to,
but I do know that those skills set you up
with a lot of different ways and avenues that you
can take. And so I'm just trusting God to continue
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to guide my steps and be a lamp to my
feet and help me understand like where I'm meant to go,
you know. But that's what I'm figuring out slowly. But
that's what I'm doing right now to set.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Myself up for. What do your parents do?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
So my mom, she's a real estate agent. And then
my dad, he works for an oil and gas company.
He's like the CFO, but one of his buddies just
left and so he's kind of taken on a bit
larger role of making a few more things than having
to make stuff happen. You know.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Do you know the name of the company? A Devco? Okay?
And your mom is she independent or is she with
a firm? Uh, She's with the real estate firm.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
But I couldn't tell you the exact name right now,
CB and A okay, right, yes, sir, I live in Fullsher,
Texas Davie.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
How many students in your class at Fullsher High School?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
So I think I just looked because the class rankings
came out a few weeks ago, the updated ones, and
it's about seven hundred and seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I think, wow, that's a big class. That's weird. Had
seven in mine. That is a big wow. Wow. And
you're a member of the Chargers varsity football team. I
understand what position.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yes, sir, so I played linebacker, but I've always kind
of played both ways my whole life, so I can
play a plethora of positions. And so coming heading into
the season, I asked my head football coach, like, Hey,
where do you need me most? Where can I help
out the team the best? And he said linebacker would
probably be the best spot, and so that's what I've
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been doing this whole off season. But then I asked
him the other day. I was like, Hey, are you
gonna need me on offense a little bit this year?
And he was like, yeah, man, I probably am. So
maybe we're going both ways.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Who knows, but we'll figure out. I were not having
seen you play, if if I were based on current
or past NFL players, if how would you describe your
play as a linebacker? Comparing yourself to a professional linebacker,
which one would be most like?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Hmm, that's hard because you know, I wouldn't really go
to like compare myself to an exact person. I would
compare kind of my style of play, not to a linebacker,
more to like a Christian McCaffrey type body and like
play style of just like aggressive, kind of quick twitch,
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just make something happen and move fast. But there's a
lot of linebackers I would say, I'm not necessarily that
kind of guy. You know, I'm willing to go out
and play anywhere, and so I would consider myself more
of a Christian McCaffrey type, nice white guy on the
football field.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
What's your favorite what's your favorite class in school?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Favorite class in school?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Favorite class?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
That's hard football, probably, But I guess I can't say that,
you know, you know, I feel like school is so inefficient,
and so that's just my perspective on it all. I
think it gives us a lot of tools to go
out and do a lot of things, but there's also
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a ton of things they teach us that I don't
think is necessarily needed. And so I'm just I like math.
I think my brain is very logically intertwined, and so
math is something I enjoy whenever I get a problem.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
In good Luck in the Patriot Games representing Texas in America, Michael,
there's a comedy site, a parody site called a Babylon
b and it started by it was started by some
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Christians who were kind of making fun of the new
televangelists and over the top churches in the private planes
and and all that. And it's morphed into being more
political commentary now than anything else, and it's really interesting.
And there was the post yesterday was Barista making minimum wage,
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explains how Elon Musk is making all the wrong financial decisions,
and then they do a story with it and the
opening quote is, I'm surprised he's not like bankrupt already.
If you've ever heard Let's take a Barista bike repairman
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at the bike shop with a bunch of tats and
the music going with a terrible attitude. Those guys know
everything about everything, and they'll spend their whole day talking
about how, let's say Elon Musk is an idiot and
he's going to be bankrupt any minute now because he's
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not very smart, not exactly the best situational awareness. But
I got to think it. What if that barista becomes
the county judge. What if that barista becomes the US Senator.
What if that barista becomes the transportation director or transportation
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secretary or the president. That's Kamala Harris, that's Sheila Jackson Lee,
that's Lena Hidalgo. That's where we are. That's kind of scary.
So we got something from Robert Reich yesterday, who's the
biggest Johnny Cash fan I've ever known, And it was
a graphic and it said, did you know Johnny Cash
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and June Carter Cash filmed a CBS television special in
Kerrville in nineteen eighty two? And the answer is no,
I did not. I also saw a post by Richard
Drake that said, Beef Wellington is just a corn dog
from a different socioeconomic background, and there's kind of something
to be said for that. I mean, if you think
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about it, it's really just a it's really just a
little meat wrapped in some bread and fried. I really
think we need to bring back the corn dog. When
I was a kid, and maybe I just hang out
at different places. When I was a kid, you could
get a corn dog rather easily in lots of places,
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and somehow, someway we got away from the corn dog.
You know, a lot of high falutin restaurants like to
do working class people dishes. It's kind of ironic, like
you'll get places that will do Kraft mac and cheese.
I don't mean they do elevated mac and cheese. I
mean they will literally serve Kraft mac and cheese. And
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I'm here for it. I love it. I like the idea.
I think it's I think it's fantastic. I wish we
could get the high end Restaurant'm gonna talk to Matt
Brice and see a federal American grill will put a
corn dog on the menu, because if he puts his
mind to it, he could do a hell of a
corn dog. I'm sure of it. A Harris County, it's
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gonna be clip number twelve for more. A Harris County
cereal squatter has been ordered evicted nine times since twenty
twenty two, while one property owner says she uses the
same story over and over again, claiming she paid and
a deposit and was scammed Fox twenty six with the
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story I know she's a serial squatter.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
We've done a lot of digging on her, and we
talked too many of the other landlords that she has
done the same thing too, and she's doing this over
and over and over again in the same sit code.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
She's been behind a number of evictions.
Speaker 12 (27:20):
Yes, sir, just nine evictions since the last in the
past in the last five years, all in within preasing seven.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
Through a translator, coming botetold the judge she was the
victim of a scam.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
She says she gave a.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Five hundred dollars deposit and first months went to someone
posing as a realtor.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
She swore that that was true, that everything she was
saying was true, and if it is true, then she's
been scammed multiple times exactly the same way.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Here.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
You've talked to a gentleman who says she basically gave
the same story and moved into his property.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Sir. Two evictions ago.
Speaker 12 (27:59):
He had mentioned that she also moved into the house,
saying that she had found a realtor and the realtor
had opened the home, and that she had paid a
deposit to somebody else and she stayed in the house.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
It took him a while to get him out.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
How do you think she got into your house?
Speaker 12 (28:17):
We've been thieved that she might have broken in, they
might have valiated the lock. She knows how the system works.
She knows exactly what she needs to do. She wants
one week at a time until she can say the
longest says she can't. That's where I believe that the
court system is feeling because they are not doing their
due diligence to really see you know, who are these
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people and how many times have been have they been
doing the same thing?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You know?
Speaker 12 (28:41):
Refit her defenders should be treated differently?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
How does she have so maliar experience?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
This person right here is not who you guys think is.
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Since Garmon says she doesn't speak English, we asked her
daughter to speak on her.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
Behalf on you to explain is why your mother has
all these evictions?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
No, I want you to explain why you guys pull
up to people's houses and records.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
We didn't pull up to anybody's house.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
We have nothing to do with any of these pictures.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Camera.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Ain't that crazy? Ain't that weird? Camera over there? Cameras
over here?
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Do you want to explain why your mom has all
these evictions?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Is not that crazy? Cameras over there, cameras over here, cameras.
I got nothing to do with you.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
The judge ordered Carmen Manta to be out of the
Melio's property by August fourteenth.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
Oh what if she's related to little Johnny Matta? How
great would that be? How great would that be if
she threw that down? I need y'all to know I
am related to little Johnny Matta.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
We can bring little Johnny Manta in and he could
tell us that this was a lot of injustices.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
So here's the problem. Everybody stands back and says, Okay,
this woman's been evicted nine times. She makes up this story.
Everybody feels sorry for her. Nobody believes it, but nobody
does anything about it. That's what we've become as a country.
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That's what we've become, and you can see it in
every aspect of our lives. You can see these activists
out rioting and spitting in the faces of cops. That's
our husbands and wives and sons and daughters and mothers
and fathers. Pick up the baton one time and bust
them across the head. How long before that would stop?
This can all stop, But nobody wants to do anything
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about anything, and so these people get to They get
all the line to run with. Nobody reels them in,
Nobody ever stops it because nobody wants to stand up
to anything. Ever, the system doesn't correct itself. She's going
to break into every house until the day the lady dies.
(31:05):
And so here's some poor homeowner or property owner who's
having their windows busted out, is having to go to
court for all this nonsense. This could stop, Throw her
in a cage and leave the old woman there
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