AM Show Hr 3 | OJ Doc Breakdown, Northside High Protests, and the Death of Edgy Radio

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Varie Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
My friend Chance McClane posts something on Facebook. And the
way I use Facebook is I post things and then
I go back to doing what I'm doing. I don't
really spend any time reading anything else on there. But
when I go to Facebook, whatever pops up before I

(00:58):
can get to my own page and post. I'm not
very good with this stuff, I admit it. So I'm
probably doing something wrong. Is the first thing and last
thing that I read. So there was a picture of Chance. Well,
I had seen Chance last Friday because I had some
friends over, and he's lost weight, and like me, he
loses it in his face first, so his face gets
a little more chisel. The jowls go away and face

(01:21):
gets a little chisel. And he's doing a program called
seventy five Hard, which was a big thing about two
years ago, and you can look it up. But simply put,
it is that you do a workout in the morning
of your choosing, workout in the evening of your choosing,
and it could just be walking. This can apply to

(01:41):
whatever your age. And you read ten pages of a
book every day, doesn't sound like much, but most people
don't read. It shocks me how few people read. And
you don't drink. I think that's it, and maybe one
other thing I don't remember. It's pretty easy and anybody
can do it. Anybody can conceivably do it. But he's
done it, and he's done it before, and when he

(02:03):
needs to lose some weight, that's that's what he does.
That's that's how he'll that's how he'll drop a couple pounds.
It's not weight training, it's none of those things. But
it's a good reset for him anyway. So I noticed that,
you know, he'd lost weight. He's wearing a founder's cap
because that's his favorite podcast, and he's holding a can
of Billy beer. And if you know chance, there's going

(02:24):
to be some goofy story behind it. But for once
he was kind of serious and he wrote, and I quote,
for every Heritage Films documentary we create, we ask what's
the secret to happiness and joy? And when warranted, any regrets,
So they ask the people that they're interviewing. We've heard
all kinds of answers over the years, but one recently

(02:45):
caught us off guard. Let's call him Billy Billy's eighty
years old. He's born in a tiny, practically nameless town
in Louisiana, no electricity, no running water, drop out of
high school, no college. At sixteen, he took a job
as a runner in the old Patch. Fast forward a
few decades and Bob has runners and jets plural, a
big family, a life few could imagine. When we asked

(03:09):
about regrets, he hesitated, then admitted he had missed his
kids ballgames and recitals. But then he added something unexpected.
I made sacrifices and decisions that changed the trajectory of
my family for generations. Someone had to do it. No regret,
no remorse, just clarity. It wasn't the answer we expected,

(03:30):
but it stuck with us, the weight of building something
bigger than yourself, knowing that every decision carries a trade off.
And yes, I happened to be holding a can of
Billy Beer in the picture accompanying this story. For those
who don't know, Billy Beer was a short lived brand
from the late seventies named after Billy Carter, the outspoken
younger brother of President Jimmy Carter. He could have said

(03:53):
the dumbass younger brother, because he was the Hunter Biden
of that administration. It was marketed with his face and signature,
but the beer itself not exactly a lasting legacy. Unlike
Billy beer, this Billy story will stand the test of time.
Not every story is the same, and not every answer
is either. That's why we do what we do, preserving wisdom, perspective,

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and stories that would otherwise be lost, and occasionally snagging
a selfie with a relic beer can. I was honored
to play a small part in the founding of that
company that now has multiple employees, including his two adult children.

(04:35):
A spinoff company that his wife runs called year Flix,
which does an annual like a yearbook photo of your
kid as they go through school, except it's not a photo,
it's an interview. Grandparents buy it for their grandkids, but
they're really buy it for themselves, so they have a
memory and you can see your kid grow up year
by year. So Chance created a company that his wife

(04:56):
runs called year Flix that now I think is in
their third or fourth year. Belinda Philts daughter is multiple
years of my kids. We do every year anyway, It's
just amazing to see. For those of you who don't
know the Chance McLean story and I've told it before.
Chance kind of bounced around. I think he was Valdic
to one of his high school classes. Very very smart guy,

(05:16):
extraordinarily smart, and very very creative. He's probably the most
artistic straight guy you'll ever meet, just flaming artistry, creativity
in a straight dude's body as far as I know.
And he wasn't. He never really found his place. And
so he would call John and Lance on six '

(05:38):
ten back when they were on six ten, and he
was a really good caller, really clever, and Lance had
a good sense to go, Hey, why don't you come
in and talk to us, And they brought him in
and they made him an associate producer. He ended up
becoming the associate program director and contributing a lot to
their show. Then, if you know the story, they went
from six ' ten over to Kegaudavid Goal started the

(06:00):
station over there, and John and Lance were the signature
you know, on that startup, and Chance was brought over
to be the program director of the station. Well over
a period of time, he saw a different direction for
the station than the ownership did and he was politely
asked to not come back. And so he's got a

(06:24):
wife and two kids and doesn't have any money in
the bank. He's scared out of his wits, and so
he gets hired by some nonprofit that does videos of
poor people, best I can tell, and so he really
learns and perfects his craft of doing interviews with video

(06:48):
in the interviewing process. And he does this for I
think a full year, maybe two. And it wasn't much money,
thirty forty thousand dollars less than he had been making.
His wife was a school teacher, but they had their
kids in a private Christian school, which you know, wasn't
Saint John's, but it wasn't cheap either, and they're struggling

(07:11):
and they're struggling. And so when he finishes that gig,
that gig is up. He starts a commercial video company
making campaigns for TV, I mean for car dealerships or
that's who does them on furniture stores, whatever. And he
was struggling in that business. It's a feast and famine business,
tough business. And he'd done some videos for me. He's

(07:33):
really good at it, and so I said, I'd like
to do a little documentary on my dad, and so
he did, and he was really good at it. He
really hit it off with my dad. His dad and
my dad worked at DuPont together, but we didn't know
that at the time. We never knew each other till,
you know, fifteen years ago or so. Anyway, it was
so good. When he finished it, I said, chance, we've
got a business here. And the original name was Legacy,

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and his uncle told him Heritage was a better name,
which pissed me off because Legacy was my choice. But whatever,
so Heritage Films became the name of the business. And
I'll bet you he's done since then, somewhere between five
hundred and a thousand of these documentaries he does entire towns.
Now they pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars to
go into like a Beaumont and make a video about

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that that they can use.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'm just so proud of Sorry are you not.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
To follow this from closely listener email? Listener Ian writes,
last week I was selected and served all week on
a terrible trial jury duty aggravated assault of a minor
under the age of fourteen. Remember, aggravated assault means that

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there is a factor that is aggravating to the case,
the use of a weapon, for instance, things that we
saw This is his takeaway from a week trying to
serve on the jury, trying to do the right thing,
your civic duty. Number one the alleged victim transitioned to

(09:22):
a boy. Now we got that involved. Number two Popo
lost the report, lost the audio recording of the mother's complaint,
waited ten months to investigate, never spoke to the alleged victim.

(09:43):
I guarantee you that every single one of those things
involved included a dei hire at a police department. Number
three prosecutor objected continuously to any speaking of the biological
fallo or family history, but allowed a seventy eight page

(10:05):
psych report with self reported by the mother, history of
biological father who was accused of the same crime years before,
and case was dismissed by Child Protector Services. Number four
the mother, an illegal alien, testified that she wanted to
go back to Mexico, but she had to stay here

(10:27):
for the trial for four years. Number five. Mother testified
that child was immediately suicidal, transitioned afterwards due to the crime,
said nothing like this ever happened. Had accused the stepfather
of pushing her off a balcony and then recanted and

(10:49):
said she was drunk and fell and charges never filed.
It was wild mistrial five not guilty, seven guilty. There's
your system right there, and somebody lost work for a week.

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You know, to keep a society running, a lot of
people have to make sacrifices. These people in National Guard,
My god, what they give up the companies that keep
their job open for them, When all you know is
a big company. Somebody being out for a while is
not that big a deal because things will still get

(11:31):
done somewhere or another, and many of the people are
not even really that important to doing what needs to
be done. But most businesses are small businesses, and a
very common setup is a guy who started the business himself,
no formal education, grew up in a business whatever that

(11:52):
business was, started their own, scraped and scratched and clawed
and built the business up and now. And so he
hires some girl to be an assistant, and he's got
some guy that's his salesman, that's out making the sales.
And then they got a shop in the back, and
a couple of guys who do the work fab shop.

(12:14):
There's so many of these businesses. You go over near
Hobby Airport, all over the East Side you've you've got
business after business after business, that this is what it is,
and that business there if they're chief welder. Some cases,

(12:38):
only welder is in the National Guard men they can't
or gets pulled away for jury duty. For a OJ
Simpson case. If I haven't told y'all, Netflix has a
new show out. It's a multi episode deal. It's called
OJ American Manhunt. And I will tell you, as somebody
who's watched everything and read everything about OJ that I

(12:58):
think is out there, I believed there was nothing new
I could learn about that case. I was wrong. There
would be so many things about that case. You didn't know.
He was so guilty, He was way more guilty than
you would have imagined. And I got to tell you,

(13:20):
I don't ever, I don't recall seeing the picture of
Nicole slumped down in front of her front door, in
the little cubby between her front door and was probably
the garage. It's a little cutout. It's about six feet across,

(13:44):
four feet deep best I can tell. And the photo
is her laid down, her head, the top of her head,
you see the top of her head towards you, kind
of towards you, and then her legs splayed out. She
has no shoes on, and she has a black dress. Uh,
she'd just been to dinner, as you know, at mass Luna.

(14:07):
And the blood it honestly looks like, I don't want
to say a river, but it looks like a creek
of blood. There's so much blood that has run because
there's a slight slope out off the off that area
where she is. And it bothers me to think that

(14:34):
all of this was forgotten in that jury did not
think about a human being being murdered. It was purely
an opportunity to stick it to the police, and it's sickening.
Chris Rock has a comedy bit where he said, O

(14:56):
j one, we won, we won? What did we win?
And then you see the picture of Ron Goldman, which
is disturbing, but to me not nearly as disturbing because
he doesn't work as helpless and you know, he's fully closed,
he's got the knife wounds in there, and here's this
guy that walks up on the scene. They pretty well

(15:20):
debunk the idea that somehow they're having an affair or
whatever else that doesn't appear to be a function of it.
He worked at Messaluna. Her mother left her prescription eyeglasses
at the restaurant. Nicole calls up there. He just got off.
He's a waiter there, and he says, oh, I know her,
I know where she lives, and he drops it off.

(15:40):
I don't think she's having an affair with him. Her
kids are upstairs. OJ slaughters her hell all style. It's
just it's so evil and awful, and their kids are upstairs,
and he knows that. Anyway. It's also interesting that if

(16:02):
that case had been tried where it happened, which is
where the the Rodney King trial was tried in that
part of Los Angeles County, would have been an all
white jury. But instead, Yo, Garcetti doesn't want to be
criticized for, you know, or for the case, so he
moves it. Eight out of the twelve jurors were black.

(16:23):
Can you imagine thirteen years of the population eight memorial
and well, we know what happened, high diversity getting high.
My brother and I fought like cats and dogs, but
these two.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Kind of farm while we were getting hide.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm trying to think short of canaan Abel, I don't
recall two brothers having it a problem like this, But
you know, I gotta tell you, if you had to
go on tour with somebody, hun, you're already starting with
unstable megalomaniacs.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
And speaking of megalomaniacs and narcissist, they talked to the detectives, prosecutors,
people working the O.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
J case and and uh Tom Lane who was a
detective who was talking to him as as they were
on the four oh five and a c was driving,
OJ kept saying he's gonna kill himself, and Tom Lane said,
He's not gonna kill himself. He's a narcissist. He's not

(17:39):
gonna he's not gonna shoot that beautiful face of his.
He loves himself too much. He's gonna kill himself, would
have killed himself. And so he said, I just appealed
to his narcissism and it worked. It's pretty interesting when
you study the calls and you see what he's doing

(18:03):
because he gets the number to uh OHJ and he
calls him and he doesn't expect him to pick up
what he does and he's talking to him. You know,
that's all those calls that we have of him on
the on the four oh five, it's, Uh, why are

(18:24):
you holding your pistol? No, we're not being No. No,
that's not an that's a delivery. That's just a delivery.
Buddy of mine's girlfriend left him for a tractor salesman.
She sent him a John Deere letter. You know, deer young,

(18:46):
I'm trying that again. I don't think you got it
the first time. The fact that you didn't get it
doesn't make it any less a good joke. So buddy mine,
his girlfriend left him for a tractor salesman. Roon, she
left him for a tractor salesman. She sent him a
John Deere letter. Did you know the first name of

(19:12):
Colonel Mustard de Jonathan? Forty five students at Northside High
School disrupted classes on Friday by quote, running through the
hallways and persisted with disruptive activities despite requests to returned order.

(19:32):
They were doing all this, they said, to protest Trump's
deportations and demand that HISD defy Trump's orders. They were suspended,
and yesterday their parents showed up to demand the suspensions
be lifted. You know, it tells you a lot about
these people that their method of protest is to burn

(19:57):
things down and tear things up. Disorder, chaos, mayhem, mayhem, chaos, disorder,
trashing things. Let me guess, did you also turn up
the music too loud and fire off some rounds last night?
Is that your protest? Or was that just Tuesday night?

(20:19):
These Hamas protesters shutting down the highways, shutting down the roads,
do they really do they have any idea? No, they don't.
Nobody is thinking. You know, I got a soft spot
for Hamas. You know, oh yasra Era fat. He had

(20:42):
that big nose and those big old lips, and then
you know, he'd wear the picnic blanket over his head,
and I kind of liked the look, you know. Always
had a soft spot for Hamas, did I. And I
wasn't sure which time which side I was going to
come down on. You know, the Jews are the people

(21:06):
on October seventh who killed and raped them all. I
wasn't sure which side I was coming down on, you know,
because I got my dislike of the Jews and then
I got those people over there. I don't know anything about.
Let's see which side will I come down? Oh? Wait,
hold on, honey, what's that on the TV? Oh they've

(21:26):
shut down the traffic. Well, if they've shut down on
the traffic kind of makes me think maybe they're in
the right, Maybe we need more of them here, Maybe
they'll shut down traffic on my way to work. My
favorite video is the guy. He's usually a white guy,

(21:47):
and he's about forty years old, probably a veteran in
most cases. And he's not slight of build, he is
not slight of stature. And he gets out and he
looks like he's on his way at the grocery store
or on his way home. He might be in flip flops,
blue jeans, white T shirt, and kind of unshaven, and

(22:12):
he is not in the mood for this crap today.
By god, he ain't gonna stand for it. And he
gets out, and the way his door opens, you can
already tell this is not a man to be trifled
with today. And he'll get over there and pull him
and drag him out of the street. There's something wrong

(22:33):
in this country when you have to go to such
great links to get someone out from in front of
your vehicle because they don't fear that you will run
them over. Now, I know that sounds harsh, but you
shouldn't get in front of a car in the middle
of the road with no purpose at all. You're not wounded.

(22:55):
You're not down. You shouldn't get there and say you
can't run me over. We should say, as a society,
run his ass over, Plow him over, Clara Harris, his ass,
run him over, throw it reverse. See that's the problem
wrong these new vehicles. Yesterday, my buddy just got a
range Rover. I'm not going to tell you. It's petro

(23:17):
and and I. So after my workout yesterday said let
me drive your range Rover. So we went for a
little ride. You know how you change gears in that thing?
I grew up on a three on a tree, or
at least you know, you drop it down and pull
there's a you know when you would pull up somewhere
and you were mad, you'd throw that thing else and
put it in the park. Get out. Remember your dad

(23:39):
would do that in the truck. You pull up somewhere
real fashion. Go in there and cuss him out, and
he'd take it from dry. He'd hit the break real
hard and take it from drawing good. He'd put it
up high. Diddy, Diddy, was you stay behind me? I
want to tell this fellow cabbage go in there. But
Petrew's got this range Rover. I mean, my friend has

(24:02):
got this range roverer and it's like a dial right,
you're dilling it up like the old the old microwave.
Remember you do you know one minute, think think think, think, think,
think think thing. I said, Michael, I don't like that
they need to go back and run the thing. But
if you were to run one of these Hamas protesters
in the middle of the road over and he's out
there and you're like, guys, you got five seconds countdown.

(24:24):
You stay in front of me and I'm running you over,
and then you go to put it and drive warm
and then you go back over them. We are you
gonna You're gonna dial it back and see you need
to be able to like throw it down a gear.
You know what I'm talking about. I just dad giving information.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
It's not snipping.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Michael Berry show. I want to stop.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I'm on a white transmiss on first two, he says,
I'd rather be this shit to.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Cut off bit way too tightly get.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Stuff almost ever, even nightly running from the cops down
my robe. Can't leave my house because I'm on per
roll wear flip flops because I can't afford sandols. Blew
off my ear with a broken candle trash, get drunk
and sleep till noon. Love lampin staking my bedroom. Free
he is my favorite melody. Dissabled because before wheeler pro
mean smoking so much meth. I need to gain weight.

(25:23):
Rebel flax shh, it's black people.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
I hate.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
If there was a bar fight, you know I caused it.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Lost my front tooth because I never flost it. White
tresh baby, hit tresh baby, hit tresh baby. What tresh baby?
Stupid on my backward ass. Bulkhead did three days in

(25:49):
jail for don't talking. If I couldn't end you cotton,
I take can eat another drink because my hands are.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Shaking of the cops.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Be me right in the table now.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
I can't think I'm real, real set though ac I
just opened the window.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I'm on a roll, just got off pun roll.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
My score is low. Cops come in. I said, don't.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Tangy red bro.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
My wife can't stand me, tries to back hand me.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
She hot, No, she's too man land A.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Thirty eighth special can afford unclot eat fire power to
protect my wheat crop. I supposed to bloody Yoh. Then
I drove to see my girlfriend. You've heard blacking love
got nine kids because I can't stop breeding. Hower got
cut off, so now we're freezing Joseph.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
I transam so fine.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
I can't afford corroner drink phebe earned lives with a
sow a third draw. Wife talked back, so I broke
her jaw, dumb ash my name, I can't spell, didn't
finish eighth grade, got expelled, spend my.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Weffer checked real fast, left with a horn.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
Now I got a.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Really bad rack, ran out of mess.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
So I had a small crap handed dodge a train,
fell asleep on the trash out the tree from.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Too much gimp.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Wife locked me out because I took from my jean
if there was a bar fight, you cause they lost
my front tooth because I never lost it like.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Trash or trash for white trash baby.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
For what trash baby?

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Real take he Because I'm a redneck plow.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
I want a lot of them, but you know I
glow all down, wasted like a drunk clown. I never
fly planes. I always took the gray two acres up
on the landfill, no stove. Every night we read I'm
travelers in Stone. I'm a hell of a rednecker. Trailer's
fore clothes. You don't miss that chop this coke up with.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
The blade once killed the hooker and dumped her.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
In the ever clack, Tracy twotors and my favorite because
said is the best of wife's not home now it's
time to get a little They closed it with my
neck and out of news. If there was a bar fight,
I caused it. Lost my front tooth because I never
flost it. What trash baby, white trash baby, white trash baby.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Some of you will remember that as Bubba the Love Sponge.
Bubba the Love Sponge is. It's kind of out of
the Stevens and Preuit model, although he had a lot
more drama show we say off the air than Stevens

(28:16):
and Prewitt perhaps did. You can look all of it
up if you want, but I do think that there
is a place for humor and for shock, and it's
unfortunate that that has been removed entirely from the airwaves

(28:39):
because it's a good way for people to blow off steam.
A funny morning show that is extremely edgy. Walton and
Johnson do a good job of that. We get away
with perhaps more than we should. But I mean a
show that even if you don't listen to it all day.
Every day you turn on just to see what kind

(29:04):
of absolute nonsense they're going to do. I don't watch
hardly any TV, but I watched a few minutes of
Gutt Failed last night, and I noticed that even for cable,
which is different than your network television, they push some boundaries,
and I think that's probably the reason they've seen a

(29:25):
pretty solid success as a result. I think that I
think that in the Trump era, people are less puritanical
about what they care about, whether that's their comedy or
their political punditry. I think that people want more passion

(29:50):
and engagement and a deeper level of commentary, and believe
it or not, I think that nonsense right there qualifies
as all of that.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
I know.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
When I was growing up, the stuff we listened to
was not world class edgy, but it was certainly more
than companies would want today. And I think that's unfortunate.
And I think that many corporations, and not just the
media business, became so afraid of the complainer, that they

(30:31):
forgot about the core. I mean, you saw that on
Sunday with the NFL. I'm not going to waste one
moment of energy worrying about who plays at the halftime show,
and people will argue, you're the best halftime shows were
Michael Jackson or Prince or whoever, the Blues Brothers and

(30:53):
zz Top. To me, it doesn't matter because the concerts
never actually any good because it's a horrible venue for
a concert and they don't have any setup time, They
just roll them out there. It is part of what
I don't like about the Super Bowl actually, because the
game gets pushed to the back. I was talking to

(31:14):
my trainer, Michael Petrow, and I said, you know, I
don't know why, but this game never felt like it
took off, and it wasn't because it was lopsided. The
game itself never felt like it all kind of felt
like it felt like an exhibition and not a real game.
And he said, well, you know what I noticed this year,
and he's a former college football player at U T.

(31:35):
He said, I noticed something about that I hadn't noticed
as much before, and that is it's a neutral crowd
is neutral site, right, so it's not a home home
game for either one. So you lose this sort of
passionate fan base and the cheers when when one team
does well. You lost that to a large extent, and

(31:56):
he said, you know, think about this. You have far
more people at this game who were there on some
sort of corporate ticket then fans who were there because
they've bought a ticket. So you don't have many Philly fans.
You don't have many KC fans, and that changes the nature.

(32:18):
You have a lot of observers. But I am a
watch sports on TV guy at this phase of my
life because I don't like to be in crowds. Bad
things happen with drunk people in crowds. I don't like
all the time it takes to get to the event,
get to my seat, and I got to do two
things while I'm there, and they both cause problems. I

(32:40):
gotta go get my beer and then I got a pee,
both of which take too long and they're not as
pleasant as being at home. But when I'm watching on TV,
I want the Rockers fans, I still't want to be
amongst them. I bought front row tickets for man Crockett
at one of the Texans games, and it's Jackass twenty
year season ticket holder, and he had the d and

(33:01):
the fence and he would hold up the defense and
I had to finally tell him about five minutes in, Dude,
you're gonna have to defense somewhere else. You're obstructing my
view and he's wearing gloves, he's texting out. It's the
kind of guy that some people go, Yeah, what's that's
a real fan, Michael. Yeah. But I did not want
to sit next to this dude. I did not want to.

(33:22):
I mean, he was it made Diggs. I realized. At
that point, I realized, and this is me, not him.
At that point, I realized, I'm not to sit in
the stands to watch a courting event. Guy, I'm gonna
watch it at home. Guy, I'm at that point. I'm
at that age.