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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I thought post a couple of days ago from Mary
Tally Boden, you have to have some people that are
obsessed over their issue, because most of us are kind
of generalists. And if somebody's not obsessed over an issue,
then never move the ball down the field. If Tom
Brady played every sport, he would have dominated football. Michael Jordan,
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despite a stanton baseball, was focused in the gym on
improving his jump shot. So when Mary Tally Boden posts
something about Donald Trump that is praise for Trump on
the issue of COVID, I take notice because she's a
very harsh critic. The president came into the White House
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and had a very successful first three years January of
twenty twenty. The economy is booming, things are great. There's
no chance anybody can beat him. Most people don't remember this,
but it's not I keep articles, I keep data, I
keep notes. Most people don't remember. There was no chance
you were going to beat him. He was insanely popular,
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the economy was doing too well, and then they unleash
the Wuhan virus. The Chinese flew COVID. What does Trump
do A couple of months into it, he says, Look,
we're going to sit around and wallow in the sadness.
We're going to do something about this. We're going to
fix it. We're going to innovate, we're gonna invent, we're
gonna create, We're gonna solve this. So he brought the
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best minds in or who he thought were. He never
done this before, Operation warp Speed. We're gonna do it.
We're gonna do it now. This is a guy who
came into public projects in Houston, I mean in Houston,
in New York where they were years behind, millions of
dollars behind, and said we're gonna get it done, and
we're gonna get it done overnight. That's what that's what
business owners do. They're not nice about it. We're gonna
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crack heads. And if you can't get this done, I
want this part done in a week. It should take
us a month. Find somebody. You read Elon's book by
Walter Isaacson. Elon will say I want this rotor to
be able to run, you know, ten thousand hours continuously
without a singer, And they, oh, it'll take us. No, No,
I want it done in sixty days. That's gonna take
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a year. All right, you're out who on the team
can make it happen? And finally somebody whose ambitious steps
forward says I'll do it well. Operation warp Speed meant
that Trump had to trust people who, it turns out
weren't trustworthy, from Fauchi to Burkes to big pharma. And
then the quote unquote vaccine came out. Trump never wanted
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it to be mandatory, but the big pharmaceutical companies did,
and the public health professionals did, and the lefties got
caught up in it. It's again, remember we talked about Earth.
They got to have a cause. Well, this is their cause.
It's global warming. One day, it's you got to get
the shot next day. And they wanted your life over
if you didn't take that vaccine. They wanted you to.
They want everybody to do it. And when they did that,
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we're gonna move to the next thing. Trainees for everybody here,
you know something. And a lot of people died, including
my brother, from taking that damn shot. So the President
is now saying two pharmaceutical companies, which is the first
time he's really come out and done this publicly in writing, Hey,
you're gonna have to tell me what you knew and
when you knew it. You're gonna have to show me
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how you did what you did. So then I'm reading
comments seeing how people are going to respond to that,
and I come across this one from a fella I
don't know his name is. He writes under the name
Harry Fisher EMTP, mister President. I'm writing to it as
a paramedic who has worked day after day in the field,
responding to emergencies where people's lives hang in the balance.
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I don't sit behind a desk, and I don't deal
in theories. I deal in blood, broken bodies, in human reality.
The reality is why I cannot ignore what I personally
witnessed a twelve year old girl who suffered a stroke
shortly after receiving her COVID shot. Pfizer. This was not propaganda,
not a story I read online. It was in front
of me, a child with the medical catastrophe that should
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never have happened. You've recently called on Phizer, Maderna, and
the CNC to release the full data on these drugs.
That demand is not only right, but it is long overdue.
The public is fed safe and effective slogans. Those of
us on the medical front lines see the injuries, the
side effects, and the tragedies that get swept under the rug.
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Families are left in the dark, told it's a coincidence,
and pressured into silence. The drug companies parade miracle statistics
in press releases, but they never release the raw truth.
Why not. If their products are the life saving breakthroughs
they claim, then full transparency would vindicate them. And if
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their products cause widespread harm, then the public deserves know.
The public is owed nothing less than honesty, mister President,
Operation warp Speed was held as a triumph. If it
truly was, Americans should see the proof, unfiltered, not curated charts,
not spend not sanitized reports. And if it wasn't, the
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families who lost sons, daughters, fathers, mothers deserve accountability and
brothers on the ground. I've seen too much to let
this slide into bureaucratic silence. Hidden data doesn't save truth, does.
I'm asking you directly to please demand that Pfizer, Maderna
and others release the full clinical trial data. Adverse event
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reports and internal communications compel the CDC to stop hiding
behind vague reassurances and publish all raw numbers. Give the
American people what they were promised, the truth. The debate
must end, the secrecy must end. What I witnessed in
that twelve year old's case is not is just one story,
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but there are thousands upon thousands more out there unreported
lives have been destroyed. The American people deserve closure. I
urge you don't let corporate interest or captured regulators bury
this any longer with sincere urgency Harry Fisher, paramedic Now.
The story he was responding to was President Trump posting,
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it's very important that the drug companies justify the success
of their various COVID drugs. Many people think they're a
miracle that saved millions of lives. Others disagreed with CDC
being ripped apart over this question. I want the answer,
and I want it now. I've been shown information from
Pfizer and others that is extraordinary, but they never seem
to show those results to the public. Why not they
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go off to the next hunt and let everyone rip
themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Junior and CDC trying to
figure out the success or failure of the drug company's
COVID work. They show me great numbers and results, but
they don't seem to be showing them to many others.
I want them to show them now to CDC and
the public and clear up this mess one way or another.
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I hope Operation Warp Speed was as brilliant as many
say it was. If not, we all want to know
about it and why. Thank you for your attention this
very important matter. President DJT. Now Harry Fisher, the same
fellow who posted that one, posted another. I've collected vaccine
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in injured friends by the hundreds. I've seen injured people
by the thousands, He writes about his experience as a
first responder to people with vaccine injuries. We're not talking
about COVID. We're talking about a vaccine. They didn't have
to take it. He'll be our guests coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
No, Christy, he's eating right now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
He can't be the Michael Berry, Sir, Please do not
call him the fat pick. See I'm trying to be nice.
Don't call him a fat pick.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Stop the ring.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I realize a lot of people want, you know, a
music teacher, vocalists with no heart and soul and don't
like these voices. But I could listen to Tom Waits
or Bob Seeger cover every song every day, all day,
and you wont know who else. Robert O'Keane. I don't
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like pretty thang voice. I don't like you. You don't have
a brain, Ray Wiley Hubbard. Give me some grit, give
me some imperfection. I like that. Harry Fisher. If you're
on Twitter, He's Harry Fisher, all caps, E, M T P.
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Welcome to the program sir, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
For having me on. What else I saying, I'm really
sorry about your brother?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, thank you. Why are you wearing a beanie? Are
you bald?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No? I've got way too much hair on my head.
I just I was working in Alaska a lot, because
I'm been a contract medic for many years, working all
over the place, from New York City to Alaska. And
I worked in Alaska for a couple of years, so
it's typically cold, so i'd wear a beanie.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh keeps your hair back.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I have long hairs, and I don't like wearing a
I don't like wearing a ponytail, so a beanie will
hold it back.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But you will occasionally wear a pony do you ever
wear a man bun? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I have worn a man bun before, but I feel
bad every time I do it, but it is convenient.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
How long has your hair refused to let it go?
How far down your back would it go?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
About? Probably about midway, maybe a little bit a little
bit shorter than midway. I stopped cutting my hair whenever
I got out of the Air Force. I was Army
initially Air Force second branch, and then after that I
grew a beard and grew long hair. But now with
the paramedic job that I'm working, they don't let me
have a full beard anymore. I can only have like
a goatee and a mustache. They want you to be
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able to wear those masks, so I've got to actually
shave my beard, but don't let me keep my hair,
Thank the Lord.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I can't tell you how many people, and I didn't
even know this was done twenty years ago. I had
to know this. I can't tell you how many people
I've talked to who's serving one branch and then serving another.
Some of them will serve an entire career in one
and then go serve another one. I didn't know when
I was younger that that was a thing that could
even be done.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yep, it's well. I mean, I just wanted to tell
people I wanted to work smarter, not harder. So I
went to the Air Force. But that's just mainly because
my friends given me a hard time for crossing over
to the Air Force. I wanted to be a flight medics.
I was a medic in the Army, medic in the
Air Force. I wanted to be a flight medics. I
crossed over to the Air Force. And crossing over from
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the Army to the Air Force, you don't have to
go through all the training and everything, like the initial
basic trainings for the Air Force. Basically just have to,
you know, raise your hand, swear an oath, and go
figure out where your job's at. You don't have to
do all the you know, rebasic training and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
My friend, my friend Robert Reese says he got he
chose the Air Force because they had hot showers.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And good food.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So when you show up at it all, when you
show up on the scene and somebody has had a reaction,
I suppose the reactions are different or maybe there are
consistencies throughout two in do you believe it's the COVID shot,
who's done that? Because they were otherwise healthy, no co morbidities,
no pre existing conditions, and they're young. What do you
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notice about those people? What do you see upon arrival?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Mean, I've seen so much upon arrival, but just typically
it would be younger than younger than I'd ever witnessed
because I've been I've been an EMT since nineteen ninety seven,
so quite a few years. So seeing the shots roll out,
it was night and day because I started running calls
that were just very strange, like young heart attacks, young strokes,
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things that you would never see before the COVID shot
came out, like it was wasn't I wasn't even seeing
that during COVID. Like during COVID, we didn't run very
many pediatric calls, like most most of your kids were
just stuck indoors, not going out and getting sick like
they typically do at school. So our host our children's
hospitals were quite slow, like I mean really slow. And
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then when the shots rolled out and they opened the
gates back up, you started running the typical calls where
your kids were getting sick, of course, and they know
their kids get sick, you know, it's how they build
their immune system. But then you started running these calls
where kids were having like it looked like just full
blown MI which means like they're there ekg. Looked like
they were having a heart attack. But that's that's a
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big sign of mile carditis. It looks like they're having
a heart attack. So running these calls right after the shots,
it was like I said, night and deck. You just
anybody who didn't have big farm of blinders on, you
could just see it very clear. I was lucky enough
to say lucky. It wasn't really lucky, but but in
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my case there was some luck there because I was
thinking about going ahead and taking the shot anyways, because
I was bought into the system to a degree. But
right at the start of them rolling these shots out,
I got a nine to one one call to what
I call a pfisor line. You know those big lines
where everybody was lined up like cattle to get their
shot right start. When they rolled out the shot, the tents, yeah,
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I mean, oh go ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No, they would have them in tents, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh yeah, kants tents and on the in parking lots, and.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
People couldn't wait. They couldn't wait. They were like like
cash to the slaughter and had no idea. They were
I'm going to get I got gone, going to get
my shot. Why I'm going I'm not gonna be able
to get COVID. Okay, So they scared you to death
over COVID to get you to rush and get this
thing that you're gonna get free that's gonna save your life,
and you trust it and don't know it. I'm tope
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every day, give me with God. It just shocked me
how people would do that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It was and they would wait there just in that line,
like like we say cattle and I get there to
a nine on one call to a full arrest, meaning
someone's dead. So I get there, fire departments already doing CPR,
initiated CPR for me. I take over the scene, start
where working this younger lady, not an old person, younger,
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and she's she's dead, and we go through everything. I innovator.
I shocked her multiple times because she's in a shockable rhythm.
It didn't look like an allergic reaction because you can
tell signs of allergic reaction. It looked like she went
into a lethal arhythmia because I shocked the leathal aarhythmia
multiple you know, three times. She was in v TACH predominantly,
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but inevitably I couldn't save her. And I worked this
young lady in front of a crowd of people that
were still waiting to get their shot. Like at one point,
I remember looking over my shoulder and no one's leaving
this line, like this person just got their shot, they're dead.
There's this scene in front of them of fire department,
in EMS and the nurses that were on seeing all
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trying to bring this lady back. And at one point
the nurse that gave the shot loudly, not quite loudly,
said this is the second one in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And by the way, they would not have died from COVID.
Harry Fisher EMTP. He's in EMT in real life. EMTP
on Twitter is our guest coming up with Harry Fisher
is our guest. I don't know Harry Fisher. I read
a post he put up in response to President Trump
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demanding that the pharmaceutical companies answer questions about the dangers
of the COVID shot. They called it a vaccine. It wasn't.
It does not qualify as a vaccine. What did qualify
as a vaccine was not shipped within the United States.
It was sent abroad. The number of people who have
died suddenly, just look up the term died suddenly in quotes.
Their entire websites devoted to it. We've had young, healthy
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basketball players sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old dribbling the ball
up the court, collapse on the spot and die. We've
had journalists who were on camera at international soccer events
who were the biggest proponents of it died. Joe Rogan
said this week. One of the great tragedies is that
the people who were advocating for it so much, young
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healthy people themselves died after taking it. We've got video
of people who received the shot and were hauled away
immediately after receiving the shot from the shot. Now, if
this was ibola, fine, it's willing to take a risk
for an upside. But we're talking about something less deadly
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than the common flu that we get every year. Oh
but people died, Michael. The morbidly OBEs and the elderly,
those are comorbidities that make it far more likely you'll die.
Young healthy people didn't die. My fifty four year old,
relatively healthy brother would not have died. Teenagers, college kids,
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young people, athletes, doctors, people in good shape. This thing
was dangerous and it killed a lot of people. And
the worst part about that is how many people don't
want to admit that, not because they got rich off
of it because they worked for Pfiser, but because they're
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embarrassed or because they played a part in a proving it.
The truth has to get out. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Harry Fisher. Let me first say, I think it's cool
you're paramedic. I think that that that is up there
with being a preacher or a teacher or a comp
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I think you know the idea. I mean, I'm from
a selfish perspective. You're helping people. It's got to be
cool to feel like, you know, you're responding and helping people.
And when you get to walk away from from someone
and changing you know their condition, that has to be
a high.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, I mean idea that it's it's it's definitely a
You don't get into being an into your paramedic for money.
That's one of the first things you learned in school.
I think one of the first things I remember my
instructor telling me many many years ago, is if you
wanted to be a millionaire, you're in their own business.
So we do it because we like to help people.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I agree, Would you do it over again?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's one I wouldn't do anything different. I might. There's
a few things that during this time I would have
done differently, like like the lady that the lady that died,
and I couldn't say that in that Pfizer line after
she just took her shot. Whenever I looked over my
shoulder and saw a bunch of people just standing there
like cattle, I would have maybe screamed all made. I
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know it probably wouldn't have changed anything, but but I've
thought about that over and over again, Like could I
have told them, hey, she just took this substance, since
she's dead, get out of line, get out, please get
out of the line. Maybe I would have done something
like that, try to help more. But since then I've
experienced so many people that only better way I can
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say it is brainwashing people that have been abused so
bad by a system telling them the fear fear, fear, fear,
fear that they've been abused into this brainwashed state where
they'll do anything that big fires or big pharm of
big Maderna tells them to do through their favorite politician,
that they will do whatever they're told because they've been abused.
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I like in it to people that have been molested
because whenever you run to someone who's been abused or molested,
they don't want to lot. Typically they don't want to
blame their abuser or even talk about their abuser. They
want to pretend like it never happens. Well, our society
has been so molested and abused at this point, they
want to just sweep it under the rugs. It's sickening.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Fear was the critical component. You had to have people
so afraid that, in that fear, they would do irrational things.
I've studied successful print calls, and one of the things
successful print callers did was you create a crisis. Now,
there are these spam callers that are basically a prank
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caller for profit, where they get people to give their
information or they're going to cut off your electricity or
you know, your kids a hostage or whatever. You create
a situation where someone is on their heels and frightened,
and they do things they would never otherwise do. They're
not methodical and measured in their answers. The fear was
the most important part of COVID, and that is why
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when they start preaching fear, everyone should have their hackles
up and say, wait a second, why is it so
important that they frightened me? And there will always be
those weak people. But you know what's amazing to me
hearing is how many people have said to me, man,
I hate that I got the shot. I would never
do that again, to which I always respond, yes, you will, no, no,
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not knowing what I know now. The point is you
had to make that decision knowing what you knew then.
And you're a person who, out of complete fear, will
always jump in and throw caution to the wind and
good judgment to the wind, because you will give in
to fear. And people that will do that will always
do that. There will be another COVID. There will be
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more COVID. They'll come in different ways, but there will
be There will be turning on your your friend to
help the Nazis. There will be turning in the lady
next door as the Salem, which there will be more.
This is endemic to the human condition. Harry Fisher I'm
grateful for you, thank you for sharing your story, thank
you for sharing your perspective, and I'm glad to know
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that God forbid. At some point there'll be a call
that I'll need an EMT and I hope you're the
guy on the other end of the line.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I appreciate you, sir, and I'll be praying for you
and your family, and I appreciate you prayers as well.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You bet Khou Clip number ten has a story. Politicians,
political groups, and parties are the biggest offenders. A new
law that just took effect in Texas on September first
is design and to stop spam text messages.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
You know how it feels you're in the middle of
something and there it is, boom, that random text message
from a number you just don't recognize, and there's the
self pits, sales pitch you never saw coming. Well, yep,
we've all been there, and there is good news now
for Texans. It's called Senate Bill one forty and it
took effect this week. It officially expands the definition of
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telephone solicitation to include text messages or anything designed to
persuade you to buy, rent, or claim a product or service.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So Now before.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Business can solicit you by text, they must do a
few things and here they are jot them down. Okay,
so they have got to register with the state first,
they have got to get written consent from you, and
they've got to provide an easy option out like send
you the word stop where you can reply, so they
can stop texting you immediately, and they have to observe
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quiet hours. Now for consumers, the law closes up major
loophol because until now companies could argue that texts were
in phone calls and avoid the rules. Well, SB one
point shuts that down, giving Texans new protections. You can
opt out by simply replying with stop. You can report
that business to the AG's office. And guess what, now
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you can directly sue them. So if you start getting
the sales pitches by texts that you never agreed to,
you can do something now to make them stop.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's it. Thought that be a little more wrap up,
you know, sound effect. Yeah, working for you, I'm Ivory
Hecker who was the reporter that wasn't Ivory Hecker should
not tell them working for you? I'm Lisa Farnva kho Unit.
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I really enjoy listening to both sessions of your show, Every.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Day Makola Mary.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
He had the most pleasant boy get off of the
counts and one of my favorite interviews I ever did.
I was doing Texas Time, the radio interviews Sunday night
interviews of Texas country singer songwriters, and Robert Earl Keene
had said some nice things about Adam Carroll and Cory
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Morrow called me one day and said, Hey, I'm going
to be out in Wharton on the Square. There they
have an old theater. You ought to come out be
my guest. Let's have dinner before it and be my guest.
So I go out and there's a guy sitting at
the table with us who never talks to before the concert.
And he's a little guy, kind of frumpy, has kind
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of a real bad mullet, like a home cup mullet.
And I'm thinking, you know, this must be some roadie
or something. And then they come out to do the
show and Corey starts and then he tosses to that
little guy, Well, he's a singer song writer. Name's Adam Carroll.
And he did Red Bandana Blues and I About Lost
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my Mind, which is one of the songs he did.
How often do you hear reference to a bow dark
tree in a song about two hippie parents that you
have who are you're paying tribute, but also telling people
this was a real rough childhood. It's just amazing. Well,
so I set up to do the interview, and we
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did the interviews back then Levi Good would let me
use Armadilla Palace on Kirby next to the original Good
Company Barbecue, and we would do them on Friday afternoon
when they weren't open in between shifts. Well they were open,
but there were nobody there in between shifts. In this
particular day, we were going to do the interview starting
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at say three, But when we got there, we'd go
up to the door and it's locked, and the guy,
the sound guy's not there yet to let us in,
and the rain is just about to start coming out,
and I'd part right near the door and I said,
let's get in my truck real quick and we'll wait.
So we hop in my truck. Thankfully he has his
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guitar with him. Well, it's coming down extremely hard and
it's going to be a long time, you can tell.
And I got to get back to the studio and
I said, how about this, You won't be able to sing,
But how about I just ask you the questions on
my phone. We'll do an interview like this, And he said,
I can sing if you want. So he had his
guitar case in the back. He crawled over the seat,
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click click, grabbed his guitar, did a little tuning, and
I would take my phone and I would talk into
it and ask him a question and I would hold
it to his mouth and he would answer, and then
he would sing the songs. And we did probably forty
five minute interview of him singing me asking You're sitting
pretty close in the truck, right, We're sitting there inside
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a truck, and if you listen carefully to that interview,
you can hear the rain coming downs, coming down hard.
It was one of those moments that I'm thinking, you know,
I wouldn't want to do this all day every day,
but this is cool, this is really cool moment. I
love Adam Carroll. He didn't translate well to the stage
at RCC. I wanted him to, so I would try
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to get hyped up for people I liked. And I
love Adam Carroll because he has no band. He just
travels around just himself and a guitar and he sings songs,
and he's never had a band, who'll never have a band,
And he just sings songs that he's written. And Robert o'
keene had called him the John Prine of his generation,
which is pretty high praise. And it's very John Primee esque.
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It's just it's very simple songs. Just a few keys.
Listen to me like some music theorists. Just simple songs,
simple guitar, storytelling. My kind of deal stripped down right.
And our audience didn't know him, so they would come out.
You know, we got Jamie Johnson night, no Ted Agent,
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no Adam Carroll, who's at he a little bit of guy, singer, songwriter,
left handed, but he's got this one song, red band
and a blues and okay, and so they'd start talking. Well,
he didn't stop him. He's one of those guys. And
when he sits down, you're gonna get ninety minutes. He's
gonna get up and leave. And if you want to photographic,
give it to you. But if you don't, that's okay.
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He's been in rowdy places, quiet places, in the corner
at a party, he goes in, he sings his song
as he goes home, and I would be so bummed
because I think, man, y'all are missing out on something great.
But I also realize that I'm always the guy who says, hey, hey,
listen to this passage I just read at a party.
Can y'all listen to it? No, we don't want to
listen to that right now. So you know, you got
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to know your time and place. So we're all for deportation,
we're all for closing the borders. But the dirty little
secret is restaurants have employed illegal aliens for a long time.
We know that. And while I do think it's true,
not a lot of people want to work in a kitchen,
not for very long anyway, So it's difficult training people
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and all that. It's going to affect the wages of
the restaurant industry. One of the areas we're seeing there's
a deflationary and inflationary effect to the deportations already. For instance,
if you take a bunch of people out of the
rental pool, landlords are stuck with empty units. What do
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they do to rent their units? They undercut the next
guy drives the price down. Deflationary What happens when you
take people out of the labor force that were working
for cash that the employer didn't have to pay all
the expenses and the employee didn't have to pay all
the taxes, and they can pay them cash, so they
can make more money but cost the restaurant own or less.
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You take that, you take that dynamic out of the kitchen.
First of all, you got an operational challenge. Secondly, you
got a real inflationary challenge because you can get Americans
to work in the kitchen. You just kind to pay
a lot more than you want to before. But when
you do that, there's really the only way to see.
You have to understand. Businesses don't make nearly what you
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think they do. So a lot of people think, well
they can just pay more money. They make too much
money anyway, Well, it's not how it works. So they're
going to have to increase the price. And people are
very price sensitive, and we're seeing in some industries where
you're going to have to hire Americans. Now that means
you got to pay all the taxes we pile on
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and then they got to pay taxes, and so you
got to make it more money to get people off
the couch from welfare or whatever. Else they're doing. So
we close with this story that includes the sympathetic story
of someone who had to close two food trucks in
Colony Ridge. Queue up the tiny sad violin that Steve
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Bashamy talked about in pulp fiction. The story from Khou.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
The Texas restaurant industry is the state's largest private employer,
and they say.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
There's a stress.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Restaurant or because the you know, the traffic is down.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
A crackdown on immigration is making the problem worse.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Seeing a great amount of fear among our immigrant population,
which is doing two things. They're not going out and
spending money in their local community, and in many cases
they may not decide to work.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
It's not just restaurants. Hotels, farms and even meat packing
are affected. People not applying for these jobs.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
We have not seen a major resurgence, especially on the
agriculture side, of US born workers that are out taking
these jobs.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
One local restaurant, Biria los Primos, illustrates the impact. Says
it's not just staffing, it's customers. He says he had
to shut down four of his food trucks in the
Houston area. Two of them were in the Colony Ridge,
an area impacted by immigration rates. He says fear is
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keeping customers.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Away Without these workers, what happens first is rising prices
when you don't have the supply chain.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Movie.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
According to the Texas Restaurant Association, immigrants make up twenty
two percent of Texas restaurant Workferst not counting undocumented workers
who are harder to track.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh Struck
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I thought post a couple of days ago from Mary
Tally Boden, you have to have some people that are
obsessed over their issue, because most of us are kind
of generalists. And if somebody's not obsessed over an issue,
then never move the ball down the field. If Tom
Brady played every sport, he would have dominated football. Michael Jordan,
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despite a stanton baseball, was focused in the gym on
improving his jump shot. So when Mary Tally Boden posts
something about Donald Trump that is praise for Trump on
the issue of COVID, I take notice because she's a
very harsh critic. The president came into the White House
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and had a very successful first three years January of
twenty twenty. The economy is booming, things are great. There's
no chance anybody can beat him. Most people don't remember this,
but it's not I keep articles, I keep data, I
keep notes. Most people don't remember. There was no chance
you were going to beat him. He was insanely popular,
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the economy was doing too well, and then they unleash
the Wuhan virus. The Chinese flew COVID. What does Trump
do A couple of months into it, he says, Look,
we're going to sit around and wallow in the sadness.
We're going to do something about this. We're going to
fix it. We're going to innovate, we're gonna invent, we're
gonna create, We're gonna solve this. So he brought the
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best minds in or who he thought were. He never
done this before, Operation warp Speed. We're gonna do it.
We're gonna do it now. This is a guy who
came into public projects in Houston, I mean in Houston,
in New York where they were years behind, millions of
dollars behind, and said we're gonna get it done, and
we're gonna get it done overnight. That's what that's what
business owners do. They're not nice about it. We're gonna
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crack heads. And if you can't get this done, I
want this part done in a week. It should take
us a month. Find somebody. You read Elon's book by
Walter Isaacson. Elon will say I want this rotor to
be able to run, you know, ten thousand hours continuously
without a singer, And they, oh, it'll take us. No, No,
I want it done in sixty days. That's gonna take
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a year. All right, you're out who on the team
can make it happen? And finally somebody whose ambitious steps
forward says I'll do it well. Operation warp Speed meant
that Trump had to trust people who, it turns out
weren't trustworthy, from Fauchi to Burkes to big pharma. And
then the quote unquote vaccine came out. Trump never wanted
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it to be mandatory, but the big pharmaceutical companies did,
and the public health professionals did, and the lefties got
caught up in it. It's again, remember we talked about Earth.
They got to have a cause. Well, this is their cause.
It's global warming. One day, it's you got to get
the shot next day. And they wanted your life over
if you didn't take that vaccine. They wanted you to.
They want everybody to do it. And when they did that,
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we're gonna move to the next thing. Trainees for everybody here,
you know something. And a lot of people died, including
my brother, from taking that damn shot. So the President
is now saying two pharmaceutical companies, which is the first
time he's really come out and done this publicly in writing, Hey,
you're gonna have to tell me what you knew and
when you knew it. You're gonna have to show me
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how you did what you did. So then I'm reading
comments seeing how people are going to respond to that,
and I come across this one from a fella I
don't know his name is. He writes under the name
Harry Fisher EMTP, mister President. I'm writing to it as
a paramedic who has worked day after day in the field,
responding to emergencies where people's lives hang in the balance.
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I don't sit behind a desk, and I don't deal
in theories. I deal in blood, broken bodies, in human reality.
The reality is why I cannot ignore what I personally
witnessed a twelve year old girl who suffered a stroke
shortly after receiving her COVID shot. Pfizer. This was not propaganda,
not a story I read online. It was in front
of me, a child with the medical catastrophe that should
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never have happened. You've recently called on Phizer, Maderna, and
the CNC to release the full data on these drugs.
That demand is not only right, but it is long overdue.
The public is fed safe and effective slogans. Those of
us on the medical front lines see the injuries, the
side effects, and the tragedies that get swept under the rug.
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Families are left in the dark, told it's a coincidence,
and pressured into silence. The drug companies parade miracle statistics
in press releases, but they never release the raw truth.
Why not. If their products are the life saving breakthroughs
they claim, then full transparency would vindicate them. And if
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their products cause widespread harm, then the public deserves know.
The public is owed nothing less than honesty, mister President,
Operation warp Speed was held as a triumph. If it
truly was, Americans should see the proof, unfiltered, not curated charts,
not spend not sanitized reports. And if it wasn't, the
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families who lost sons, daughters, fathers, mothers deserve accountability and
brothers on the ground. I've seen too much to let
this slide into bureaucratic silence. Hidden data doesn't save truth, does.
I'm asking you directly to please demand that Pfizer, Maderna
and others release the full clinical trial data. Adverse event
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reports and internal communications compel the CDC to stop hiding
behind vague reassurances and publish all raw numbers. Give the
American people what they were promised, the truth. The debate
must end, the secrecy must end. What I witnessed in
that twelve year old's case is not is just one story,
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but there are thousands upon thousands more out there unreported
lives have been destroyed. The American people deserve closure. I
urge you don't let corporate interest or captured regulators bury
this any longer with sincere urgency Harry Fisher, paramedic Now.
The story he was responding to was President Trump posting,
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it's very important that the drug companies justify the success
of their various COVID drugs. Many people think they're a
miracle that saved millions of lives. Others disagreed with CDC
being ripped apart over this question. I want the answer,
and I want it now. I've been shown information from
Pfizer and others that is extraordinary, but they never seem
to show those results to the public. Why not they
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go off to the next hunt and let everyone rip
themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Junior and CDC trying to
figure out the success or failure of the drug company's
COVID work. They show me great numbers and results, but
they don't seem to be showing them to many others.
I want them to show them now to CDC and
the public and clear up this mess one way or another.
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I hope Operation Warp Speed was as brilliant as many
say it was. If not, we all want to know
about it and why. Thank you for your attention this
very important matter. President DJT. Now Harry Fisher, the same
fellow who posted that one, posted another. I've collected vaccine
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in injured friends by the hundreds. I've seen injured people
by the thousands, He writes about his experience as a
first responder to people with vaccine injuries. We're not talking
about COVID. We're talking about a vaccine. They didn't have
to take it. He'll be our guests coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
No, Christy, he's eating right now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
He can't be the Michael Berry, Sir, Please do not
call him the fat pick. See I'm trying to be nice.
Don't call him a fat pick.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Stop the ring.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I realize a lot of people want, you know, a
music teacher, vocalists with no heart and soul and don't
like these voices. But I could listen to Tom Waits
or Bob Seeger cover every song every day, all day,
and you wont know who else. Robert O'Keane. I don't
(08:54):
like pretty thang voice. I don't like you. You don't have
a brain, Ray Wiley Hubbard. Give me some grit, give
me some imperfection. I like that. Harry Fisher. If you're
on Twitter, He's Harry Fisher, all caps, E, M T P.
(09:16):
Welcome to the program sir, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
For having me on. What else I saying, I'm really
sorry about your brother?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, thank you. Why are you wearing a beanie? Are
you bald?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No? I've got way too much hair on my head.
I just I was working in Alaska a lot, because
I'm been a contract medic for many years, working all
over the place, from New York City to Alaska. And
I worked in Alaska for a couple of years, so
it's typically cold, so i'd wear a beanie.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Oh keeps your hair back.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I have long hairs, and I don't like wearing a
I don't like wearing a ponytail, so a beanie will
hold it back.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But you will occasionally wear a pony do you ever
wear a man bun? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I have worn a man bun before, but I feel
bad every time I do it, but it is convenient.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
How long has your hair refused to let it go?
How far down your back would it go?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
About? Probably about midway, maybe a little bit a little
bit shorter than midway. I stopped cutting my hair whenever
I got out of the Air Force. I was Army
initially Air Force second branch, and then after that I
grew a beard and grew long hair. But now with
the paramedic job that I'm working, they don't let me
have a full beard anymore. I can only have like
a goatee and a mustache. They want you to be
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able to wear those masks, so I've got to actually
shave my beard, but don't let me keep my hair,
Thank the Lord.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I can't tell you how many people, and I didn't
even know this was done twenty years ago. I had
to know this. I can't tell you how many people
I've talked to who's serving one branch and then serving another.
Some of them will serve an entire career in one
and then go serve another one. I didn't know when
I was younger that that was a thing that could
even be done.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yep, it's well. I mean, I just wanted to tell
people I wanted to work smarter, not harder. So I
went to the Air Force. But that's just mainly because
my friends given me a hard time for crossing over
to the Air Force. I wanted to be a flight medics.
I was a medic in the Army, medic in the
Air Force. I wanted to be a flight medics. I
crossed over to the Air Force. And crossing over from
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the Army to the Air Force, you don't have to
go through all the training and everything, like the initial
basic trainings for the Air Force. Basically just have to,
you know, raise your hand, swear an oath, and go
figure out where your job's at. You don't have to
do all the you know, rebasic training and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
My friend, my friend Robert Reese says he got he
chose the Air Force because they had hot showers.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And good food.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So when you show up at it all, when you
show up on the scene and somebody has had a reaction,
I suppose the reactions are different or maybe there are
consistencies throughout two in do you believe it's the COVID shot,
who's done that? Because they were otherwise healthy, no co morbidities,
no pre existing conditions, and they're young. What do you
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notice about those people? What do you see upon arrival?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Mean, I've seen so much upon arrival, but just typically
it would be younger than younger than I'd ever witnessed
because I've been I've been an EMT since nineteen ninety seven,
so quite a few years. So seeing the shots roll out,
it was night and day because I started running calls
that were just very strange, like young heart attacks, young strokes,
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things that you would never see before the COVID shot
came out, like it was wasn't I wasn't even seeing
that during COVID. Like during COVID, we didn't run very
many pediatric calls, like most most of your kids were
just stuck indoors, not going out and getting sick like
they typically do at school. So our host our children's
hospitals were quite slow, like I mean really slow. And
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then when the shots rolled out and they opened the
gates back up, you started running the typical calls where
your kids were getting sick, of course, and they know
their kids get sick, you know, it's how they build
their immune system. But then you started running these calls
where kids were having like it looked like just full
blown MI which means like they're there ekg. Looked like
they were having a heart attack. But that's that's a
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big sign of mile carditis. It looks like they're having
a heart attack. So running these calls right after the shots,
it was like I said, night and deck. You just
anybody who didn't have big farm of blinders on, you
could just see it very clear. I was lucky enough
to say lucky. It wasn't really lucky, but but in
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my case there was some luck there because I was
thinking about going ahead and taking the shot anyways, because
I was bought into the system to a degree. But
right at the start of them rolling these shots out,
I got a nine to one one call to what
I call a pfisor line. You know those big lines
where everybody was lined up like cattle to get their
shot right start. When they rolled out the shot, the tents, yeah,
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I mean, oh go ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No, they would have them in tents, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh yeah, kants tents and on the in parking lots, and.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
People couldn't wait. They couldn't wait. They were like like
cash to the slaughter and had no idea. They were
I'm going to get I got gone, going to get
my shot. Why I'm going I'm not gonna be able
to get COVID. Okay, So they scared you to death
over COVID to get you to rush and get this
thing that you're gonna get free that's gonna save your life,
and you trust it and don't know it. I'm tope
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every day, give me with God. It just shocked me
how people would do that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It was and they would wait there just in that line,
like like we say cattle and I get there to
a nine on one call to a full arrest, meaning
someone's dead. So I get there, fire departments already doing CPR,
initiated CPR for me. I take over the scene, start
where working this younger lady, not an old person, younger,
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and she's she's dead, and we go through everything. I innovator.
I shocked her multiple times because she's in a shockable rhythm.
It didn't look like an allergic reaction because you can
tell signs of allergic reaction. It looked like she went
into a lethal arhythmia because I shocked the leathal aarhythmia
multiple you know, three times. She was in v TACH predominantly,
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but inevitably I couldn't save her. And I worked this
young lady in front of a crowd of people that
were still waiting to get their shot. Like at one point,
I remember looking over my shoulder and no one's leaving
this line, like this person just got their shot, they're dead.
There's this scene in front of them of fire department,
in EMS and the nurses that were on seeing all
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trying to bring this lady back. And at one point
the nurse that gave the shot loudly, not quite loudly,
said this is the second one in two weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And by the way, they would not have died from COVID.
Harry Fisher EMTP. He's in EMT in real life. EMTP
on Twitter is our guest coming up with Harry Fisher
is our guest. I don't know Harry Fisher. I read
a post he put up in response to President Trump
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demanding that the pharmaceutical companies answer questions about the dangers
of the COVID shot. They called it a vaccine. It wasn't.
It does not qualify as a vaccine. What did qualify
as a vaccine was not shipped within the United States.
It was sent abroad. The number of people who have
died suddenly, just look up the term died suddenly in quotes.
Their entire websites devoted to it. We've had young, healthy
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basketball players sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old dribbling the ball
up the court, collapse on the spot and die. We've
had journalists who were on camera at international soccer events
who were the biggest proponents of it died. Joe Rogan
said this week. One of the great tragedies is that
the people who were advocating for it so much, young
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healthy people themselves died after taking it. We've got video
of people who received the shot and were hauled away
immediately after receiving the shot from the shot. Now, if
this was ibola, fine, it's willing to take a risk
for an upside. But we're talking about something less deadly
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than the common flu that we get every year. Oh
but people died, Michael. The morbidly OBEs and the elderly,
those are comorbidities that make it far more likely you'll die.
Young healthy people didn't die. My fifty four year old,
relatively healthy brother would not have died. Teenagers, college kids,
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young people, athletes, doctors, people in good shape. This thing
was dangerous and it killed a lot of people. And
the worst part about that is how many people don't
want to admit that, not because they got rich off
of it because they worked for Pfiser, but because they're
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embarrassed or because they played a part in a proving it.
The truth has to get out. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Harry Fisher. Let me first say, I think it's cool
you're paramedic. I think that that that is up there
with being a preacher or a teacher or a comp
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I think you know the idea. I mean, I'm from
a selfish perspective. You're helping people. It's got to be
cool to feel like, you know, you're responding and helping people.
And when you get to walk away from from someone
and changing you know their condition, that has to be
a high.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, I mean idea that it's it's it's definitely a
You don't get into being an into your paramedic for money.
That's one of the first things you learned in school.
I think one of the first things I remember my
instructor telling me many many years ago, is if you
wanted to be a millionaire, you're in their own business.
So we do it because we like to help people.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I agree, Would you do it over again?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's one I wouldn't do anything different. I might. There's
a few things that during this time I would have
done differently, like like the lady that the lady that died,
and I couldn't say that in that Pfizer line after
she just took her shot. Whenever I looked over my
shoulder and saw a bunch of people just standing there
like cattle, I would have maybe screamed all made. I
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know it probably wouldn't have changed anything, but but I've
thought about that over and over again, Like could I
have told them, hey, she just took this substance, since
she's dead, get out of line, get out, please get
out of the line. Maybe I would have done something
like that, try to help more. But since then I've
experienced so many people that only better way I can
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say it is brainwashing people that have been abused so
bad by a system telling them the fear fear, fear, fear,
fear that they've been abused into this brainwashed state where
they'll do anything that big fires or big pharm of
big Maderna tells them to do through their favorite politician,
that they will do whatever they're told because they've been abused.
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I like in it to people that have been molested
because whenever you run to someone who's been abused or molested,
they don't want to lot. Typically they don't want to
blame their abuser or even talk about their abuser. They
want to pretend like it never happens. Well, our society
has been so molested and abused at this point, they
want to just sweep it under the rugs. It's sickening.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Fear was the critical component. You had to have people
so afraid that, in that fear, they would do irrational things.
I've studied successful print calls, and one of the things
successful print callers did was you create a crisis. Now,
there are these spam callers that are basically a prank
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caller for profit, where they get people to give their
information or they're going to cut off your electricity or
you know, your kids a hostage or whatever. You create
a situation where someone is on their heels and frightened,
and they do things they would never otherwise do. They're
not methodical and measured in their answers. The fear was
the most important part of COVID, and that is why
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when they start preaching fear, everyone should have their hackles
up and say, wait a second, why is it so
important that they frightened me? And there will always be
those weak people. But you know what's amazing to me
hearing is how many people have said to me, man,
I hate that I got the shot. I would never
do that again, to which I always respond, yes, you will, no, no,
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not knowing what I know now. The point is you
had to make that decision knowing what you knew then.
And you're a person who, out of complete fear, will
always jump in and throw caution to the wind and
good judgment to the wind, because you will give in
to fear. And people that will do that will always
do that. There will be another COVID. There will be
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more COVID. They'll come in different ways, but there will
be There will be turning on your your friend to
help the Nazis. There will be turning in the lady
next door as the Salem, which there will be more.
This is endemic to the human condition. Harry Fisher I'm
grateful for you, thank you for sharing your story, thank
you for sharing your perspective, and I'm glad to know
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that God forbid. At some point there'll be a call
that I'll need an EMT and I hope you're the
guy on the other end of the line.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I appreciate you, sir, and I'll be praying for you
and your family, and I appreciate you prayers as well.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You bet Khou Clip number ten has a story. Politicians,
political groups, and parties are the biggest offenders. A new
law that just took effect in Texas on September first
is design and to stop spam text messages.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
You know how it feels you're in the middle of
something and there it is, boom, that random text message
from a number you just don't recognize, and there's the
self pits, sales pitch you never saw coming. Well, yep,
we've all been there, and there is good news now
for Texans. It's called Senate Bill one forty and it
took effect this week. It officially expands the definition of
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telephone solicitation to include text messages or anything designed to
persuade you to buy, rent, or claim a product or service.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So Now before.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Business can solicit you by text, they must do a
few things and here they are jot them down. Okay,
so they have got to register with the state first,
they have got to get written consent from you, and
they've got to provide an easy option out like send
you the word stop where you can reply, so they
can stop texting you immediately, and they have to observe
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quiet hours. Now for consumers, the law closes up major
loophol because until now companies could argue that texts were
in phone calls and avoid the rules. Well, SB one
point shuts that down, giving Texans new protections. You can
opt out by simply replying with stop. You can report
that business to the AG's office. And guess what, now
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you can directly sue them. So if you start getting
the sales pitches by texts that you never agreed to,
you can do something now to make them stop.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's it. Thought that be a little more wrap up,
you know, sound effect. Yeah, working for you, I'm Ivory
Hecker who was the reporter that wasn't Ivory Hecker should
not tell them working for you? I'm Lisa Farnva kho Unit.
(24:54):
I really enjoy listening to both sessions of your show, Every.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Day Makola Mary.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
He had the most pleasant boy get off of the
counts and one of my favorite interviews I ever did.
I was doing Texas Time, the radio interviews Sunday night
interviews of Texas country singer songwriters, and Robert Earl Keene
had said some nice things about Adam Carroll and Cory
(25:21):
Morrow called me one day and said, Hey, I'm going
to be out in Wharton on the Square. There they
have an old theater. You ought to come out be
my guest. Let's have dinner before it and be my guest.
So I go out and there's a guy sitting at
the table with us who never talks to before the concert.
And he's a little guy, kind of frumpy, has kind
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of a real bad mullet, like a home cup mullet.
And I'm thinking, you know, this must be some roadie
or something. And then they come out to do the
show and Corey starts and then he tosses to that
little guy, Well, he's a singer song writer. Name's Adam Carroll.
And he did Red Bandana Blues and I About Lost
(26:06):
my Mind, which is one of the songs he did.
How often do you hear reference to a bow dark
tree in a song about two hippie parents that you
have who are you're paying tribute, but also telling people
this was a real rough childhood. It's just amazing. Well,
so I set up to do the interview, and we
(26:26):
did the interviews back then Levi Good would let me
use Armadilla Palace on Kirby next to the original Good
Company Barbecue, and we would do them on Friday afternoon
when they weren't open in between shifts. Well they were open,
but there were nobody there in between shifts. In this
particular day, we were going to do the interview starting
(26:48):
at say three, But when we got there, we'd go
up to the door and it's locked, and the guy,
the sound guy's not there yet to let us in,
and the rain is just about to start coming out,
and I'd part right near the door and I said,
let's get in my truck real quick and we'll wait.
So we hop in my truck. Thankfully he has his
(27:09):
guitar with him. Well, it's coming down extremely hard and
it's going to be a long time, you can tell.
And I got to get back to the studio and
I said, how about this, You won't be able to sing,
But how about I just ask you the questions on
my phone. We'll do an interview like this, And he said,
I can sing if you want. So he had his
guitar case in the back. He crawled over the seat,
(27:30):
click click, grabbed his guitar, did a little tuning, and
I would take my phone and I would talk into
it and ask him a question and I would hold
it to his mouth and he would answer, and then
he would sing the songs. And we did probably forty
five minute interview of him singing me asking You're sitting
pretty close in the truck, right, We're sitting there inside
(27:52):
a truck, and if you listen carefully to that interview,
you can hear the rain coming downs, coming down hard.
It was one of those moments that I'm thinking, you know,
I wouldn't want to do this all day every day,
but this is cool, this is really cool moment. I
love Adam Carroll. He didn't translate well to the stage
at RCC. I wanted him to, so I would try
(28:16):
to get hyped up for people I liked. And I
love Adam Carroll because he has no band. He just
travels around just himself and a guitar and he sings songs,
and he's never had a band, who'll never have a band,
And he just sings songs that he's written. And Robert o'
keene had called him the John Prine of his generation,
which is pretty high praise. And it's very John Primee esque.
(28:37):
It's just it's very simple songs. Just a few keys.
Listen to me like some music theorists. Just simple songs,
simple guitar, storytelling. My kind of deal stripped down right.
And our audience didn't know him, so they would come out.
You know, we got Jamie Johnson night, no Ted Agent,
(28:59):
no Adam Carroll, who's at he a little bit of guy, singer, songwriter,
left handed, but he's got this one song, red band
and a blues and okay, and so they'd start talking. Well,
he didn't stop him. He's one of those guys. And
when he sits down, you're gonna get ninety minutes. He's
gonna get up and leave. And if you want to photographic,
give it to you. But if you don't, that's okay.
(29:21):
He's been in rowdy places, quiet places, in the corner
at a party, he goes in, he sings his song
as he goes home, and I would be so bummed
because I think, man, y'all are missing out on something great.
But I also realize that I'm always the guy who says, hey, hey,
listen to this passage I just read at a party.
Can y'all listen to it? No, we don't want to
listen to that right now. So you know, you got
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to know your time and place. So we're all for deportation,
we're all for closing the borders. But the dirty little
secret is restaurants have employed illegal aliens for a long time.
We know that. And while I do think it's true,
not a lot of people want to work in a kitchen,
not for very long anyway, So it's difficult training people
(30:03):
and all that. It's going to affect the wages of
the restaurant industry. One of the areas we're seeing there's
a deflationary and inflationary effect to the deportations already. For instance,
if you take a bunch of people out of the
rental pool, landlords are stuck with empty units. What do
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they do to rent their units? They undercut the next
guy drives the price down. Deflationary What happens when you
take people out of the labor force that were working
for cash that the employer didn't have to pay all
the expenses and the employee didn't have to pay all
the taxes, and they can pay them cash, so they
can make more money but cost the restaurant own or less.
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You take that, you take that dynamic out of the kitchen.
First of all, you got an operational challenge. Secondly, you
got a real inflationary challenge because you can get Americans
to work in the kitchen. You just kind to pay
a lot more than you want to before. But when
you do that, there's really the only way to see.
You have to understand. Businesses don't make nearly what you
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think they do. So a lot of people think, well
they can just pay more money. They make too much
money anyway, Well, it's not how it works. So they're
going to have to increase the price. And people are
very price sensitive, and we're seeing in some industries where
you're going to have to hire Americans. Now that means
you got to pay all the taxes we pile on
(31:31):
and then they got to pay taxes, and so you
got to make it more money to get people off
the couch from welfare or whatever. Else they're doing. So
we close with this story that includes the sympathetic story
of someone who had to close two food trucks in
Colony Ridge. Queue up the tiny sad violin that Steve
(31:52):
Bashamy talked about in pulp fiction. The story from Khou.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
The Texas restaurant industry is the state's largest private employer,
and they say.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
There's a stress.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Restaurant or because the you know, the traffic is down.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
A crackdown on immigration is making the problem worse.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Seeing a great amount of fear among our immigrant population,
which is doing two things. They're not going out and
spending money in their local community, and in many cases
they may not decide to work.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
It's not just restaurants. Hotels, farms and even meat packing
are affected. People not applying for these jobs.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
We have not seen a major resurgence, especially on the
agriculture side, of US born workers that are out taking
these jobs.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
One local restaurant, Biria los Primos, illustrates the impact. Says
it's not just staffing, it's customers. He says he had
to shut down four of his food trucks in the
Houston area. Two of them were in the Colony Ridge,
an area impacted by immigration rates. He says fear is
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keeping customers.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Away Without these workers, what happens first is rising prices
when you don't have the supply chain.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Movie.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
According to the Texas Restaurant Association, immigrants make up twenty
two percent of Texas restaurant Workferst not counting undocumented workers
who are harder to track.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh Struck
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