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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck, and load till
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
After all we have been through together, we stand on
the verge of the four greatest years in the history
of the USA. With your help, from now until election Day,
we will restore America's promise. We will put America first,
and we will take back the nation.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That we all love.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We bleed the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag. We are
one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
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We will never give in. We will never give up.
We will never ever back down. Together, we will fight, fight, fight,
and we will win, win win.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We're gonna win, win, win.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Our American ancestors pushed shortward, marched forward, and overcame every
single obstacle that stood in their way. Together they crossed
the oceans, settled the continent, came the wilderness, laid down
the railroads, raised up those mighty skyscrapers, built the highways,
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won two World Wars, defeated fascism and communism, and launched
American astronauts to the moon. It was hard working patriots
like you who built this country. And nine from now
it's hard working patriots like you who are going to
save our countrect.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Brooke Taylor used to be a reporter with ABC thirteen
in Houston. She joined the Fox News Network. She has
put her Houston experience to good use. She filed an
open records request the Harris County Jail because there is
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a dirty little secret that the inmates at the Harris
County Jail, many of them are in this country illegally,
and nobody wants to talk about it because these are
violent criminals. Well, her open records request found that one
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out of every ten inmates have an ICE detainer on them,
meaning they're in the country illegally. Forty three of those
cases with ICE holds involved violent crimes, and yet nobody,
but nobody wants to cover this story locally anyway. Credit
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to our KTRH Morning News. We've been all over this story.
Here's Fox's Brooke Taylor.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Records request because I wanted to know how many inmates
with ICE detainers, accused of the most a violent of
crimes are being housed in our jails here in Texas.
This is what we found in Harris County and Houston,
where the VP was just campaigning there's more than nine
thousand inmates in the Harris County Jail. Roughly one thousand
inmates have iceholds, that is one in every inmates. Here
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are the mugshots of some of the most violent suspects
with ICE detainers. Through our open records request. As of September,
we identified ICE detainers lodged for seventy five murder cases,
of which twenty two are capt murder cases. That includes
the two illegal migrants from Venezuela charged with murdering twelve
year old Joscelyn Non Gerret, whose mother has been vocal
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about blaming the Biden Harris open border policy. Thirty two
year old Ozman Sanchez is another suspect among these cases.
ICE officials tell me he's an illegal migrant from Honduras.
Sanchez is accused of killing twenty seven year old Ricardo
Vega during a road rage incident back in April. We
spoke to his mother.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Has a nine year old daughter and a five year
old son.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh now have to grow up without a dad, and
my daughter in law has to be without her husband.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
How many other victims is it going to take before
somebody actually does something about it?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And she tells me. She's going to continue to fight
for justice as her son's case makes its way through
the court system. I do want to mention quickly something
that stood out to us from this open records request
is one hundred and seventy four of these ice detainers
are tied to sexual assault cases. More than half of
those cases involved children under fourteen years old.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Look, it's our country is under attack. I read. I
read a post by a woman last night. She's Asian,
her husband's wife, and she was saying that her life
changed five years ago. She was a proud liberal woman.
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She was driving to the grocery store. She was eight
months pregnant. She was smashed into by an illegal alien
with no insurance, who fled. They ended up catching him
and he was drunk off his ass. She lost the baby,
devastated her, and since then she's become a conservative. Well,
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welcome to the club. But I guess my question is,
why does somebody have to be the personal victim of
an illegal alien's rape, drunk driving, murder, robbery, fraud before
they go, Oh, now that it's happened to me, I'll
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come join you all and complain about it. When you
were the proud liberal by your own words, Did you
not know other people were going through what you've now
gone through? But now that it's hit you, yeah, now
you're mad about it. This is what happens. I see
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stories in the news every day, somebody who's so upset
that the Democrats have let the murderers back out on
the streets. And now they murdered their relative, Now they've
murdered their daughter, their sister. People that will tell you
they were Democrats before. You know, if you only care
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about wrongdoing when it happens to you, when your ox
is being gored, what does that say about you? Think
of all the proud liberals they're standing up to us. See,
there's a very subtle thing happening, and I wonder how
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many people are catching onto this. I'm going to try
to explain it. Do you know why they call Trump
a Nazi? You know why? You know on what basis
they're trying to sell that. It's very very clever and
very very devious, and I really don't think people have
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caught onto it. Sure they call Republicans Nazis, they always do,
But what they're trying to do. I watched a bunch
of these reports last night and I noticed that what
they're doing is Hitler killed his own people, the Jews,
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German Jews, to start with. He killed his own people.
He turned his people against his own people, began putting
them into camps and killing them. They're trying to equate
Trump expelling illegal aliens, murderers, pedophiles, sex traffickers out of
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this country as he's just like Hitler because he's doing
bad things to people like Hitler did what you're doing
in one fell swoop, and many people won't catch. The
sleight of hand is you're saying that illegal aliens have
every right as an American citizen to come here and
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to rape us and kill us, and that Trump, like Hitler,
is trying to remove. It's very very clever what they're doing.
You're not going anywhere even if Trump does, You're not,
you know. Widely believed to have been written by Kenny
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Rodgers walking into the rest, into the bathroom and seeing
Dolly Parton in the tub, it was actually written by
Barry Gibb. Island's in the Stream would go to number
one on this day in nineteen eighty three. Interestingly, Barry
Gibb did not write it for Kenny Rodgers. I can't
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imagine anyone else singing it. But he wrote it for
Marvin Gaye, and on this day in nineteen eighty three,
it went to number one all time bestselling duet. And
it's not even close, not even close. The distance between
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this song and number two is so so far popular
song Trent nine one thousand on the Michael BARTI sure,
go ahead, sir, Trent.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I am driving, Hello, yep, go ahead, bud okay. Sorry,
I am driving back from Pennsylvania a healthcare worker. I'm
a nurse and I've spent the last six months working
a healthcare contract up in Pennsylvania. And they say it's
a swing state and that it's in play. But there
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is a lot of excitement for Donald Trump up there.
I've been in Erie, Pennsylvania for six months, and the
number of Trump yard signs as opposed to Kamala Harris
trump yard signs, there is no comparison. When Trump came
into Erie to do a rally a few weeks ago,
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the entire seven miles or so from the airport to
the venue was packed. Business owners had closed their stores
so that they could be out there cheering for him
and waving flags, and then it's been a few weeks ago.
Kamala Harris was there on a Monday and there was
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a huge crowd that she drew. But the best part
about that crowd was it was a bunch of pickup
trucks and cars with Trump signs and American flags lying
in the entire route.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It was.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It was something to see.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Uh, it's easy to get confused by yard signs because
if you if you look at home ownership versus urban dweller,
for instance, that's gonna skew Republican home ownership urban dweller Democrat.
But I do think there is something that transcends even that.
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I think that you have a lot of folks who
were kind of contrarian and want to vote a little
different than their neighbors, or they want to they want
to think that they're compassionate or merciful, or you know,
Republicans are mean or whatever else. I think their toes
are getting stepped on. I think their their wallets are
being pinched. I think they they realize our country is
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overcome by illegal aliens and that this is the last
chance to fix it, and then if you don't, it
can't be fixed. And I think there is an awakening.
I think there is an awareness by people who maybe
don't always make the best decisions, who are now realizing
there are consequences if I and I think that is
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affecting Trump votes and a lot of people. If the
only people that are going to vote for Trump or
people who worship Trump that he's the greatest, he's he's it,
he's all, then we're not going to win. It has
to be that people are going to vote for him
that don't like him, people that think he's bombastic, or
people that think he's crass, or people that wish he
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would say this or not say this or whatever. Whatever.
The women who manage to get their feelings hurt by everything,
they're going to have to say. You know what, at
the end of the day, they're lying about the whole
abortion thing. Number one and number two. Abortion is not
the number one issue in this country. If abortion is
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somebody's number one issue, then we got a problem. This
country is overrun. It has become a hellhole. Nobody would
walk into a third world country and say yes, but
I need to know their position on abortion with open sewers.
I think that a lot of Americans Trent just like
you see what's going on. They're aware of what's going on,
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and they're ready to make a change. Where is home
for you?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Originally Lufkin, Texas, just a little bit north of Houston
and Angelina County. That's where I'm headed right now. First
thing they want to do when I get home is vote.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And what takes you to Pennsylvania? Are you there in
your capacity as a healthcare worker as a nurse?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yes, sir, I travel.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I'm a contract nurse and I just did as.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Six months and.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We're losing him. You're still there?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, I don't know if you're moving your phone around
or whatever, but your signal is not very hot.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I'm in kind of a weird spot.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I mean, I'm just outside a little rock.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Okay, no problem. So let me ask you this. When
you get an assignment like that, do they take care
of your housing and all that or do you have
to handle that on your own?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Well? There, that is kind of an It depends the
way that it works is we get an hourly rate,
which is comparable but usually a little bit less than
the staff workers. But then we get a stipend and
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if I representing to get my housing for me, they
will and they'll just keep the stipend. However, I'm actually
pulling my RV with me. I sold my house. I'd
moved to Houston right after I got my license back
in two thousand and five. I moved to Houston two
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thousand and seven. That's when I started listening to your show.
And in twenty twenty two, when the housing market was
doing well, I sold my house, bought an RV and
decided to do contract work for a while and get
to see a lot of the country and have really
enjoyed it. But are you soon find your housing and
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take care?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yes, sir, And that's a fifth whell you're pulling behind.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Interesting, So what did you sell your house for in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Two, two hundred and sixty eight thousand, and did did
you owe anything on it?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Or is that what you pulled out of it?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I pulled I bought it for one hundred and fifty
and before all the fees and everything, I made.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
About one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Thousand on it.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And then what'd you pay for your RV?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
My RV was eighty two.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Okay, so you pocketed seventy grand and you have debt,
you have no note?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Oh no, sir, I did a down payment on this.
I had some other debts that I wanted to clear,
so I did that, and then I'm also cash flowing
my nurse practitioner, so'm I kept a little back for
that so that I didn't have to have to work
too much or put too much of my regular paycheck
into my education. I wanted to get it finished up,
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and so I've been I kept a little back for
that so that that's taken care of.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Is it easier for you to get a job as
a nurse because you're a male Because I've been told
that male nurses are in high demand because from a
strength perspective to move patients. Is that true or no?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I honestly don't know, sir. I work in the cardiac
CAF lab, so we pull patients all the time. My
first twelve or fourteen years, they're in Houston, between Memorial
Herman and the medical Center in Saint Joseph's. Was in
the er and we did a lot of pulling. But
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I must say that most of the ladies that I
worked with, they can pull a patient just like anybody else.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That's really interesting, Trent. Your willingness to just kind of
load up and travel around and see the country and
work in different places. I think that's neat. I think
that's really neat. I really enjoy I listen to both
sessions of your show every day. Michael, Mary the most
pleasant boy. Why can't just say how you learn this?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Here is Shirley Q lick a honey, baby. We was
extremely positive this week. My check had not came on time.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Ooh.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
We was stretching it, honting that kool aid was getting
lighter and lighter. Honey. We just saved half of it
and then pour more water in there, make it like
a homeopath of koolaid. And the air conditioning bill have
not been paid, and that old thing wouldn't start anyway.
I asked him to cut my power on. I said,
a woman have got to have some fans running down
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here in this heat, and they wouldn't do it. They're
gonna talk about a deposit. I said, Look, if I
had the money for a deposit, i'd have done paid
the bill. Now, why they don't see that? See who
is working down there is ignorant? I don't know the girl.
Let me tell you. We were stretching. We were stretching,
hunting one egg between nineteen children's shoe. I have invented more.
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Fill a thinks I made a tune. A salad the
other day was ninety nine percent grits and money is
it wasn't there a benefits up in there? It was terrible.
But you know, nothing is really on sale anymore. You
know ninety nine cent is not a bargain if you
do not have ninety nine cent, and everything be so expensive,
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looked like my budgetary be strained.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It Do how.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
I'm supposed to pay for all this? How do people
make it in this world? Gonna try to work eight
dollars a day, some of them and for what? See
that's my part. It's you don't get enough money either way,
you go, ain't nothing you do about it? I guess
I need to go. You tell your mama execution. She
bought me a dollar, Thank you, hanned.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Red Box shut down a couple of months ago after
fillowing Chapter eleven sorry, chapter seven bankruptcy. Did you ever
rent from Redbox tomorrow? How many times would you say
you rented twice? I think I rented once, but it's possible.
I rented twice. I wonder I remember when it came out,
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was red Box the first one? So I have a
friend named Tim Belton, and he got involved in a
deal that was like the Red Box knockoff. You know,
in every industry when there's something that comes out, there's
always kind of the second thing. What is another second
thing to an industry standard that you would say, give
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us some thought? So Red Box went into chapter seven.
But the retailers that were getting to cut a percentage
of the sales of the box out in front of
the Walgreens was a big one. In fact, I drove
by a Walgreens the other day that had one. They're
left with those big machines parked outside their store. Wall
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Street German reports that it cost about five hundred dollars
apiece to remove the kiosks, but that some of them
are embedded in the concrete, which means it's going to
be a lot harder, so they're just gonna leave them there.
There are an estimated twenty four thousand of the boxes
sitting outside of stores right now. Wall Street Journal reports
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Red Box's parent filed for bankruptcy in the summer, saying
it lacked the cash to buy the rights to many
new releases, and the kiosk operator sub subsequently went out
of business. It left twenty four thousand movie vending machines
still in the field. Some of the nation's biggest retailers
were stuck holding the logistical bag. Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens,
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discounters Walmart and Dollar General, and grocers Albertson's and Kroger
are among those getting bankruptcy court approval to dispose of
abandoned red box kiosks, which on average hold more than
more than six hundred films. They're not just taking up
store space, retailers say, the machines interfere with remodeling plans
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and expose them to potential safety hazards and liabilities. Some
kiosks are hardwired into the store's electrical system. Outdoor machines
are bolted into the concrete foundations and contain a coolant
that is supposed to be disposed of in an environmentally
safe manner. Walgreens told the court that it's spent one
hundred and eighty four thousand dollars a month at roughly
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thirty eight hundred stores to power nearly fifty four hundred
machines belonging to this failed business. One supermarket operator said
it's worried about people trying to break into the kiosks
to steal the films. To steal the films, most of
the machines likely will be stripped down and sold for
scrap metal, according to vending machine consultant Ben Wheeler, a
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twoenty seventeen Kiosk Hall of Fame inductee who worked in
marketing and supply chain management for the company that made
Red Box, Dispenser's. Tim Keating, a field service representative for
Red Box when it filed for bankruptcy, said he saw
one of the kiosks in a dumpster in Gerard, Illinois.
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He said he also knows of one former Red Box
employee who convinced a seven to eleven franchisee to give
him the machine. He asks. Also figures there, I'm sorry.
Keating also figures there are millions of DVDs inside of
machines that are still in the field. All of that
might just be thrown away, not to mention the machine
itself in its parts. I don't think the court has
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any idea how large of a problem this is. I
was never one to collect movies. I know you were.
How many movies do you think you have right now
in the box? None? Ten? I mean I don't think
anybody would want. I mean, there's people out there I'm
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sure would love to have whatever movies are in these
red boxes. It's interesting, isn't it, because you could go
back and find glowing reports on how great red box
was going to be. And that's true of every business,
and most business doesn't succeed. But there was a time
I can remember. I remember when they put the red
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cloth over the front of it because you couldn't see
when the sun would come in. It took them years
to figure that out. It took Chick fil A almost
no time. You go out to a Chick fil A,
that is a business model right there. You pull up
and they got that iPad and they put your order
in and look, they're not perfect, but their people are
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pretty cheerful. I wouldn't be cheerful. I've pulled up in
the summer and you're in the drive through line and
they're standing outside there and you're wearing that corporate uniform.
You know, you got that heavy tweed twill shirt that
it doesn't breathe. You got your thing you're ordering. I mean,
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how many chicken sandwiches you going to order? Oh? And
can you make sure the pickles? Can you make sure
the pickles? And there's cheese? And can you can you
make sure When somebody says something like that, you ought
to say, this is chick fil a and our pickles
don't touch if you know what I mean, and walk off.
Period in the story. They'll either get it or they won't.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There's only one place it's so crazy, so totally wago.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
That everybody has a Farty's The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The Dark Side of the Moon was released in nineteen
seventy three, ten years later ut over twenty ninth this day,
nineteen eighty three, it would break the record for most
weeks on the Billboard Album chart when it would hit
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four hundred ninety one weeks on the charts, breaking Johnny
Matthes's Greatest Hits called Johnny's Greatest Hits. The Dart Side
of the Moon would stay on the chart another five years,
when it would finally drop off after seven hundred twenty
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four weeks. They would do reissues and promotions and get
it back on the chart, where it would stay for
a total of eight hundred eighty weeks, but holding the
record was seven hundred and twenty four consecutive. There's songs
that I've liked that within fifty weeks. I'm done with
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five zero, seven hundred twenty four weeks. That's just short
of fifteen years to stay on the charts. And the
thing is, this isn't even my favorite of their albums.
I don't even love Dark Side of the Moon. I
just like Dark Side of the Wall to me. But hey,
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it's it's not for me. It's I can respect it.
I can I can appreciate it, that's for sure. Let's
go to Mike, who has a call about something important
like red Box.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yes, Mike, Hey, Michael, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
You made a great you made a great comment about
red Box here just a few minutes ago that the
owners of the CBS, Walgreens, wherever they are, they're gonna
be stuck with these things. And that is exactly what's
gonna happen when all these wind farms go broke, and
they will when the government subsidies end. The landowners are
going to be stuck with these things. Made a ton
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of cash. Good, but they're gonna be stuck with them,
you know. I major, it's a lot eatter to take
out a red box, and it is a window that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Is a very astute point, as a very good point.
I hadn't even considered that I had. I had T
Boone Pickings on the show he was This was twenty twelve,
and he was claiming he was running for president, but
what he was really trying to do was promote some
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business deal for wind farms. And I asked him a
series of questions based on studies had been done on
the damage that the farms were doing, and he got
upset and hung up, which amused.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Me to no end.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I don't like T. Boone Pickings. Those wind farms are
such a cluster. The just the number of birds alone
they've killed, the number of land, the amount of land
they have locked up, the amount of dollars that have
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been spent building and building them and leasing and purchasing
the land. You know, there's these corridors through which they've
built them. It's incredible. It's truly staggering the amount of
money that we have wasted in this country on stupid
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green energy stuff. And I could handle it if anybody
actually believed it. But the only people who believe it
are children and teachers, the people making a fortune, the
our goores at the top. They don't believe a bit
of it, not one bit of it, but they're getting
rich off of it. And the Chinese don't believe in it.
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And the Chinese, you know, it has been said. The
reason the Chinese don't have global warming policies, they don't
have green new deals, they don't spend the billions and
have all the regulations we do, is they don't need to.
They're already communists. These are the sorts of things you
do as the the UH premise upon which you you
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take complete authoritarian control. Boy, I get bummed out if
I think about it very long. But when I look
back just a few years ago at how many people
I respected who during COVID acted like little bitches, ran
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and hid.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Well, if Sylvester Turner says I got shut my business down,
I do because he's a mayor and he would know
about COVID.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Sylvester Turner, really, oh my goodness. If Lena had all
go issues, she woke up and it was that time
of the month, so she would issue a red alert.
People would run close their businesses down. Businesses went out
of business. Multigeneration business has been handed down three or
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four generations. You can't ever get that back. They closed down.
During that there were people running and tattling on their neighbors,
calling in the cops. That moment showed me, as if
I ever doubted it, how Nazi Germany developed, how people
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can be scared into insanity, how they will not they
will not make good rational decisions when you can get
them good and scared. You had people walking through the
grocery store, following the markers as to where they could
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go and go to this one one way. You're not
going the right way. We're all gonna die of COVID.
You're not going the right way. There were people I
respected who I watched behaving like this, people getting their
personalized masks, made a mask over a mask, somebody I know,
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we're a mask over a mask with the plastic shield
on the front of it and gloves. I will never
trust that person again. That's the person during the Salem
witch trials that if you get called a witch is
bringing the gasoline ta daushie. They'll never change. But I
was scared, Michael. I was scared. No, you were stupid
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and you'll always be stupid. All right, folks, get out
and vote. You've got till I think eight o'clock today,
early voting. Let's get this done. Let's keep the heat on.
The Numbers look good, but we've got to show up
and vote. Take somebody with you. Change the system, change
the world. We can do this. Get out there today,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck, and load till
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
After all we have been through together, we stand on
the verge of the four greatest years in the history
of the USA. With your help, from now until election Day,
we will restore America's promise. We will put America first,
and we will take back the nation.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That we all love.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We bleed the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag. We are
one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
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We will never give in. We will never give up.
We will never ever back down. Together, we will fight, fight, fight,
and we will win, win win.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We're gonna win, win, win.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Our American ancestors pushed shortward, marched forward, and overcame every
single obstacle that stood in their way. Together they crossed
the oceans, settled the continent, came the wilderness, laid down
the railroads, raised up those mighty skyscrapers, built the highways,
(01:45):
won two World Wars, defeated fascism and communism, and launched
American astronauts to the moon. It was hard working patriots
like you who built this country. And nine from now
it's hard working patriots like you who are going to
save our countrect.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Brooke Taylor used to be a reporter with ABC thirteen
in Houston. She joined the Fox News Network. She has
put her Houston experience to good use. She filed an
open records request the Harris County Jail because there is
(02:33):
a dirty little secret that the inmates at the Harris
County Jail, many of them are in this country illegally,
and nobody wants to talk about it because these are
violent criminals. Well, her open records request found that one
(02:54):
out of every ten inmates have an ICE detainer on them,
meaning they're in the country illegally. Forty three of those
cases with ICE holds involved violent crimes, and yet nobody,
but nobody wants to cover this story locally anyway. Credit
(03:18):
to our KTRH Morning News. We've been all over this story.
Here's Fox's Brooke Taylor.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Records request because I wanted to know how many inmates
with ICE detainers, accused of the most a violent of
crimes are being housed in our jails here in Texas.
This is what we found in Harris County and Houston,
where the VP was just campaigning there's more than nine
thousand inmates in the Harris County Jail. Roughly one thousand
inmates have iceholds, that is one in every inmates. Here
(03:47):
are the mugshots of some of the most violent suspects
with ICE detainers. Through our open records request. As of September,
we identified ICE detainers lodged for seventy five murder cases,
of which twenty two are capt murder cases. That includes
the two illegal migrants from Venezuela charged with murdering twelve
year old Joscelyn Non Gerret, whose mother has been vocal
(04:08):
about blaming the Biden Harris open border policy. Thirty two
year old Ozman Sanchez is another suspect among these cases.
ICE officials tell me he's an illegal migrant from Honduras.
Sanchez is accused of killing twenty seven year old Ricardo
Vega during a road rage incident back in April. We
spoke to his mother.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Has a nine year old daughter and a five year
old son.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh now have to grow up without a dad, and
my daughter in law has to be without her husband.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
How many other victims is it going to take before
somebody actually does something about it?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And she tells me. She's going to continue to fight
for justice as her son's case makes its way through
the court system. I do want to mention quickly something
that stood out to us from this open records request
is one hundred and seventy four of these ice detainers
are tied to sexual assault cases. More than half of
those cases involved children under fourteen years old.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Look, it's our country is under attack. I read. I
read a post by a woman last night. She's Asian,
her husband's wife, and she was saying that her life
changed five years ago. She was a proud liberal woman.
(05:30):
She was driving to the grocery store. She was eight
months pregnant. She was smashed into by an illegal alien
with no insurance, who fled. They ended up catching him
and he was drunk off his ass. She lost the baby,
devastated her, and since then she's become a conservative. Well,
(05:52):
welcome to the club. But I guess my question is,
why does somebody have to be the personal victim of
an illegal alien's rape, drunk driving, murder, robbery, fraud before
they go, Oh, now that it's happened to me, I'll
(06:14):
come join you all and complain about it. When you
were the proud liberal by your own words, Did you
not know other people were going through what you've now
gone through? But now that it's hit you, yeah, now
you're mad about it. This is what happens. I see
(06:34):
stories in the news every day, somebody who's so upset
that the Democrats have let the murderers back out on
the streets. And now they murdered their relative, Now they've
murdered their daughter, their sister. People that will tell you
they were Democrats before. You know, if you only care
(06:58):
about wrongdoing when it happens to you, when your ox
is being gored, what does that say about you? Think
of all the proud liberals they're standing up to us. See,
there's a very subtle thing happening, and I wonder how
(07:19):
many people are catching onto this. I'm going to try
to explain it. Do you know why they call Trump
a Nazi? You know why? You know on what basis
they're trying to sell that. It's very very clever and
very very devious, and I really don't think people have
(07:41):
caught onto it. Sure they call Republicans Nazis, they always do,
But what they're trying to do. I watched a bunch
of these reports last night and I noticed that what
they're doing is Hitler killed his own people, the Jews,
(08:03):
German Jews, to start with. He killed his own people.
He turned his people against his own people, began putting
them into camps and killing them. They're trying to equate
Trump expelling illegal aliens, murderers, pedophiles, sex traffickers out of
(08:25):
this country as he's just like Hitler because he's doing
bad things to people like Hitler did what you're doing
in one fell swoop, and many people won't catch. The
sleight of hand is you're saying that illegal aliens have
every right as an American citizen to come here and
(08:46):
to rape us and kill us, and that Trump, like Hitler,
is trying to remove. It's very very clever what they're doing.
You're not going anywhere even if Trump does, You're not,
you know. Widely believed to have been written by Kenny
(09:06):
Rodgers walking into the rest, into the bathroom and seeing
Dolly Parton in the tub, it was actually written by
Barry Gibb. Island's in the Stream would go to number
one on this day in nineteen eighty three. Interestingly, Barry
Gibb did not write it for Kenny Rodgers. I can't
(09:28):
imagine anyone else singing it. But he wrote it for
Marvin Gaye, and on this day in nineteen eighty three,
it went to number one all time bestselling duet. And
it's not even close, not even close. The distance between
(09:48):
this song and number two is so so far popular
song Trent nine one thousand on the Michael BARTI sure,
go ahead, sir, Trent.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I am driving, Hello, yep, go ahead, bud okay. Sorry,
I am driving back from Pennsylvania a healthcare worker. I'm
a nurse and I've spent the last six months working
a healthcare contract up in Pennsylvania. And they say it's
a swing state and that it's in play. But there
(10:27):
is a lot of excitement for Donald Trump up there.
I've been in Erie, Pennsylvania for six months, and the
number of Trump yard signs as opposed to Kamala Harris
trump yard signs, there is no comparison. When Trump came
into Erie to do a rally a few weeks ago,
(10:50):
the entire seven miles or so from the airport to
the venue was packed. Business owners had closed their stores
so that they could be out there cheering for him
and waving flags, and then it's been a few weeks ago.
Kamala Harris was there on a Monday and there was
(11:12):
a huge crowd that she drew. But the best part
about that crowd was it was a bunch of pickup
trucks and cars with Trump signs and American flags lying
in the entire route.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It was.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
It was something to see.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Uh, it's easy to get confused by yard signs because
if you if you look at home ownership versus urban dweller,
for instance, that's gonna skew Republican home ownership urban dweller Democrat.
But I do think there is something that transcends even that.
(11:50):
I think that you have a lot of folks who
were kind of contrarian and want to vote a little
different than their neighbors, or they want to they want
to think that they're compassionate or merciful, or you know,
Republicans are mean or whatever else. I think their toes
are getting stepped on. I think their their wallets are
being pinched. I think they they realize our country is
(12:11):
overcome by illegal aliens and that this is the last
chance to fix it, and then if you don't, it
can't be fixed. And I think there is an awakening.
I think there is an awareness by people who maybe
don't always make the best decisions, who are now realizing
there are consequences if I and I think that is
(12:32):
affecting Trump votes and a lot of people. If the
only people that are going to vote for Trump or
people who worship Trump that he's the greatest, he's he's it,
he's all, then we're not going to win. It has
to be that people are going to vote for him
that don't like him, people that think he's bombastic, or
people that think he's crass, or people that wish he
(12:55):
would say this or not say this or whatever. Whatever.
The women who manage to get their feelings hurt by everything,
they're going to have to say. You know what, at
the end of the day, they're lying about the whole
abortion thing. Number one and number two. Abortion is not
the number one issue in this country. If abortion is
(13:16):
somebody's number one issue, then we got a problem. This
country is overrun. It has become a hellhole. Nobody would
walk into a third world country and say yes, but
I need to know their position on abortion with open sewers.
I think that a lot of Americans Trent just like
you see what's going on. They're aware of what's going on,
(13:40):
and they're ready to make a change. Where is home
for you?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Originally Lufkin, Texas, just a little bit north of Houston
and Angelina County. That's where I'm headed right now. First
thing they want to do when I get home is vote.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And what takes you to Pennsylvania? Are you there in
your capacity as a healthcare worker as a nurse?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yes, sir, I travel.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I'm a contract nurse and I just did as.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Six months and.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We're losing him. You're still there?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, I don't know if you're moving your phone around
or whatever, but your signal is not very hot.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I'm in kind of a weird spot.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I mean, I'm just outside a little rock.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Okay, no problem. So let me ask you this. When
you get an assignment like that, do they take care
of your housing and all that or do you have
to handle that on your own?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Well? There, that is kind of an It depends the
way that it works is we get an hourly rate,
which is comparable but usually a little bit less than
the staff workers. But then we get a stipend and
(14:58):
if I representing to get my housing for me, they
will and they'll just keep the stipend. However, I'm actually
pulling my RV with me. I sold my house. I'd
moved to Houston right after I got my license back
in two thousand and five. I moved to Houston two
(15:18):
thousand and seven. That's when I started listening to your show.
And in twenty twenty two, when the housing market was
doing well, I sold my house, bought an RV and
decided to do contract work for a while and get
to see a lot of the country and have really
enjoyed it. But are you soon find your housing and
(15:41):
take care?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yes, sir, And that's a fifth whell you're pulling behind.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Interesting, So what did you sell your house for in
twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Two, two hundred and sixty eight thousand, and did did
you owe anything on it?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Or is that what you pulled out of it?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I pulled I bought it for one hundred and fifty
and before all the fees and everything, I made.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
About one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Thousand on it.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And then what'd you pay for your RV?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
My RV was eighty two.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Okay, so you pocketed seventy grand and you have debt,
you have no note?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Oh no, sir, I did a down payment on this.
I had some other debts that I wanted to clear,
so I did that, and then I'm also cash flowing
my nurse practitioner, so'm I kept a little back for
that so that I didn't have to have to work
too much or put too much of my regular paycheck
into my education. I wanted to get it finished up,
(16:49):
and so I've been I kept a little back for
that so that that's taken care of.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Is it easier for you to get a job as
a nurse because you're a male Because I've been told
that male nurses are in high demand because from a
strength perspective to move patients. Is that true or no?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I honestly don't know, sir. I work in the cardiac
CAF lab, so we pull patients all the time. My
first twelve or fourteen years, they're in Houston, between Memorial
Herman and the medical Center in Saint Joseph's. Was in
the er and we did a lot of pulling. But
(17:35):
I must say that most of the ladies that I
worked with, they can pull a patient just like anybody else.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That's really interesting, Trent. Your willingness to just kind of
load up and travel around and see the country and
work in different places. I think that's neat. I think
that's really neat. I really enjoy I listen to both
sessions of your show every day. Michael, Mary the most
pleasant boy. Why can't just say how you learn this?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Here is Shirley Q lick a honey, baby. We was
extremely positive this week. My check had not came on time.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Ooh.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
We was stretching it, honting that kool aid was getting
lighter and lighter. Honey. We just saved half of it
and then pour more water in there, make it like
a homeopath of koolaid. And the air conditioning bill have
not been paid, and that old thing wouldn't start anyway.
I asked him to cut my power on. I said,
a woman have got to have some fans running down
(18:37):
here in this heat, and they wouldn't do it. They're
gonna talk about a deposit. I said, Look, if I
had the money for a deposit, i'd have done paid
the bill. Now, why they don't see that? See who
is working down there is ignorant? I don't know the girl.
Let me tell you. We were stretching. We were stretching,
hunting one egg between nineteen children's shoe. I have invented more.
(18:59):
Fill a thinks I made a tune. A salad the
other day was ninety nine percent grits and money is
it wasn't there a benefits up in there? It was terrible.
But you know, nothing is really on sale anymore. You
know ninety nine cent is not a bargain if you
do not have ninety nine cent, and everything be so expensive,
(19:21):
looked like my budgetary be strained.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It Do how.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
I'm supposed to pay for all this? How do people
make it in this world? Gonna try to work eight
dollars a day, some of them and for what? See
that's my part. It's you don't get enough money either way,
you go, ain't nothing you do about it? I guess
I need to go. You tell your mama execution. She
bought me a dollar, Thank you, hanned.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Red Box shut down a couple of months ago after
fillowing Chapter eleven sorry, chapter seven bankruptcy. Did you ever
rent from Redbox tomorrow? How many times would you say
you rented twice? I think I rented once, but it's possible.
I rented twice. I wonder I remember when it came out,
(20:14):
was red Box the first one? So I have a
friend named Tim Belton, and he got involved in a
deal that was like the Red Box knockoff. You know,
in every industry when there's something that comes out, there's
always kind of the second thing. What is another second
thing to an industry standard that you would say, give
(20:35):
us some thought? So Red Box went into chapter seven.
But the retailers that were getting to cut a percentage
of the sales of the box out in front of
the Walgreens was a big one. In fact, I drove
by a Walgreens the other day that had one. They're
left with those big machines parked outside their store. Wall
(20:58):
Street German reports that it cost about five hundred dollars
apiece to remove the kiosks, but that some of them
are embedded in the concrete, which means it's going to
be a lot harder, so they're just gonna leave them there.
There are an estimated twenty four thousand of the boxes
sitting outside of stores right now. Wall Street Journal reports
(21:21):
Red Box's parent filed for bankruptcy in the summer, saying
it lacked the cash to buy the rights to many
new releases, and the kiosk operator sub subsequently went out
of business. It left twenty four thousand movie vending machines
still in the field. Some of the nation's biggest retailers
were stuck holding the logistical bag. Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens,
(21:47):
discounters Walmart and Dollar General, and grocers Albertson's and Kroger
are among those getting bankruptcy court approval to dispose of
abandoned red box kiosks, which on average hold more than
more than six hundred films. They're not just taking up
store space, retailers say, the machines interfere with remodeling plans
(22:10):
and expose them to potential safety hazards and liabilities. Some
kiosks are hardwired into the store's electrical system. Outdoor machines
are bolted into the concrete foundations and contain a coolant
that is supposed to be disposed of in an environmentally
safe manner. Walgreens told the court that it's spent one
hundred and eighty four thousand dollars a month at roughly
(22:32):
thirty eight hundred stores to power nearly fifty four hundred
machines belonging to this failed business. One supermarket operator said
it's worried about people trying to break into the kiosks
to steal the films. To steal the films, most of
the machines likely will be stripped down and sold for
scrap metal, according to vending machine consultant Ben Wheeler, a
(22:55):
twoenty seventeen Kiosk Hall of Fame inductee who worked in
marketing and supply chain management for the company that made
Red Box, Dispenser's. Tim Keating, a field service representative for
Red Box when it filed for bankruptcy, said he saw
one of the kiosks in a dumpster in Gerard, Illinois.
(23:15):
He said he also knows of one former Red Box
employee who convinced a seven to eleven franchisee to give
him the machine. He asks. Also figures there, I'm sorry.
Keating also figures there are millions of DVDs inside of
machines that are still in the field. All of that
might just be thrown away, not to mention the machine
itself in its parts. I don't think the court has
(23:38):
any idea how large of a problem this is. I
was never one to collect movies. I know you were.
How many movies do you think you have right now
in the box? None? Ten? I mean I don't think
anybody would want. I mean, there's people out there I'm
(23:59):
sure would love to have whatever movies are in these
red boxes. It's interesting, isn't it, because you could go
back and find glowing reports on how great red box
was going to be. And that's true of every business,
and most business doesn't succeed. But there was a time
I can remember. I remember when they put the red
(24:20):
cloth over the front of it because you couldn't see
when the sun would come in. It took them years
to figure that out. It took Chick fil A almost
no time. You go out to a Chick fil A,
that is a business model right there. You pull up
and they got that iPad and they put your order
in and look, they're not perfect, but their people are
(24:43):
pretty cheerful. I wouldn't be cheerful. I've pulled up in
the summer and you're in the drive through line and
they're standing outside there and you're wearing that corporate uniform.
You know, you got that heavy tweed twill shirt that
it doesn't breathe. You got your thing you're ordering. I mean,
(25:04):
how many chicken sandwiches you going to order? Oh? And
can you make sure the pickles? Can you make sure
the pickles? And there's cheese? And can you can you
make sure When somebody says something like that, you ought
to say, this is chick fil a and our pickles
don't touch if you know what I mean, and walk off.
Period in the story. They'll either get it or they won't.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There's only one place it's so crazy, so totally wago.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
That everybody has a Farty's The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The Dark Side of the Moon was released in nineteen
seventy three, ten years later ut over twenty ninth this day,
nineteen eighty three, it would break the record for most
weeks on the Billboard Album chart when it would hit
(26:05):
four hundred ninety one weeks on the charts, breaking Johnny
Matthes's Greatest Hits called Johnny's Greatest Hits. The Dart Side
of the Moon would stay on the chart another five years,
when it would finally drop off after seven hundred twenty
(26:25):
four weeks. They would do reissues and promotions and get
it back on the chart, where it would stay for
a total of eight hundred eighty weeks, but holding the
record was seven hundred and twenty four consecutive. There's songs
that I've liked that within fifty weeks. I'm done with
(26:50):
five zero, seven hundred twenty four weeks. That's just short
of fifteen years to stay on the charts. And the
thing is, this isn't even my favorite of their albums.
I don't even love Dark Side of the Moon. I
just like Dark Side of the Wall to me. But hey,
(27:14):
it's it's not for me. It's I can respect it.
I can I can appreciate it, that's for sure. Let's
go to Mike, who has a call about something important
like red Box.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yes, Mike, Hey, Michael, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
You made a great you made a great comment about
red Box here just a few minutes ago that the
owners of the CBS, Walgreens, wherever they are, they're gonna
be stuck with these things. And that is exactly what's
gonna happen when all these wind farms go broke, and
they will when the government subsidies end. The landowners are
going to be stuck with these things. Made a ton
(27:56):
of cash. Good, but they're gonna be stuck with them,
you know. I major, it's a lot eatter to take
out a red box, and it is a window that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Is a very astute point, as a very good point.
I hadn't even considered that I had. I had T
Boone Pickings on the show he was This was twenty twelve,
and he was claiming he was running for president, but
what he was really trying to do was promote some
(28:26):
business deal for wind farms. And I asked him a
series of questions based on studies had been done on
the damage that the farms were doing, and he got
upset and hung up, which amused.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Me to no end.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I don't like T. Boone Pickings. Those wind farms are
such a cluster. The just the number of birds alone
they've killed, the number of land, the amount of land
they have locked up, the amount of dollars that have
(29:02):
been spent building and building them and leasing and purchasing
the land. You know, there's these corridors through which they've
built them. It's incredible. It's truly staggering the amount of
money that we have wasted in this country on stupid
(29:22):
green energy stuff. And I could handle it if anybody
actually believed it. But the only people who believe it
are children and teachers, the people making a fortune, the
our goores at the top. They don't believe a bit
of it, not one bit of it, but they're getting
rich off of it. And the Chinese don't believe in it.
(29:44):
And the Chinese, you know, it has been said. The
reason the Chinese don't have global warming policies, they don't
have green new deals, they don't spend the billions and
have all the regulations we do, is they don't need to.
They're already communists. These are the sorts of things you
do as the the UH premise upon which you you
(30:11):
take complete authoritarian control. Boy, I get bummed out if
I think about it very long. But when I look
back just a few years ago at how many people
I respected who during COVID acted like little bitches, ran
(30:34):
and hid.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Well, if Sylvester Turner says I got shut my business down,
I do because he's a mayor and he would know
about COVID.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Sylvester Turner, really, oh my goodness. If Lena had all
go issues, she woke up and it was that time
of the month, so she would issue a red alert.
People would run close their businesses down. Businesses went out
of business. Multigeneration business has been handed down three or
(31:08):
four generations. You can't ever get that back. They closed down.
During that there were people running and tattling on their neighbors,
calling in the cops. That moment showed me, as if
I ever doubted it, how Nazi Germany developed, how people
(31:30):
can be scared into insanity, how they will not they
will not make good rational decisions when you can get
them good and scared. You had people walking through the
grocery store, following the markers as to where they could
(31:52):
go and go to this one one way. You're not
going the right way. We're all gonna die of COVID.
You're not going the right way. There were people I
respected who I watched behaving like this, people getting their
personalized masks, made a mask over a mask, somebody I know,
(32:13):
we're a mask over a mask with the plastic shield
on the front of it and gloves. I will never
trust that person again. That's the person during the Salem
witch trials that if you get called a witch is
bringing the gasoline ta daushie. They'll never change. But I
was scared, Michael. I was scared. No, you were stupid
(32:38):
and you'll always be stupid. All right, folks, get out
and vote. You've got till I think eight o'clock today,
early voting. Let's get this done. Let's keep the heat on.
The Numbers look good, but we've got to show up
and vote. Take somebody with you. Change the system, change
the world. We can do this. Get out there today,
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