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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air. I saw a
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post from the moment I went to high school with.
Her name is Joe Harris. She was Jojo back then,
and Jojo was tough, I mean for a girl. She
punchs you in the face. And she had an older
brother named Dan Harris. And Dan was a year or
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two ahead of me. But Dan was like, and you
gotta rouse in high school, this is really big. He
was like six one two fifty and in high school
in the late eighties, that was just Goliath, right. But anyway,
my grandparents lived at the end of a road that
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was down near where the Harrises lived, and they were
a farming family. And Jojo are now Joe. I like
the name Jojo? You like the name Jojo? Yeah? I
still call people by what I called him in high school.
Like I had a classmate, good friend of mine, still
a good friend of mine to this day, named Bebop
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and it was Bebop Quibodou, And if you called him Daryl,
that was like ramon. Did you have anybody in your
high school class that had the name they went by
which was maybe their middle name? And then they had
their their formal name, and if you called them by
their formal name, you were picking a fight. Who well,
see if you can remember, so I'll give you a
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good one. In our class was Craig Hobbs and Craig
k R E G. Craig was his middle name. His
first name was Dustin, and there's nothing wrong objectively with
the name Dustin, but that wasn't his name. And every
year first at school, when the teacher would call out
the names, you could see Craig start kind of kind
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of getting anxious because they were gonna call out Dustin
Hobbs and we me Toby Schultz Ben wording we're all
buddies and we and he was one of our one
of our group. But we at that moment we were
waiting and the minute they said it, we were just
gonna start cackling. And so the teacher was gonna say
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Dustin Hobbs, and he was gonna have to say, here,
but it's Craig Hobbes and then have to say, so Greg,
you know, Craig, it's Craig. I go by Craig, not Dustin,
and we would just I mean, that was that would
that passed for the funniest thing ever. And every class
on the first you have, say middle school, you have
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six classes, and every class they'd call it out. So
when they'd get to hoff Power or I guess Halpower's
not before Hobbs. When they get to Hallstein or whatever
it was the one before Hobbs, he'd say it's Craig
Hobbes and we'd say pipe down, dusting, and then we'd
we'd put him through the ringer again. And it was
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always fun to do that. Anyway, So Bebop was Bebop,
and if you wanted to pick at him, you know,
you could pick at everybody, Like for me, it'd be
Strawberry or Blueberrier or Dingle Berrier or whatever. When you're
in high school, you're going to make fun of people
for something. There's no way you can get away from that.
So anyway, Bebop was Bebop, and if you wanted to
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pick at him, you'd say shut up, Darryl, and he'd
get mad at you because that was his real name,
but that wasn't what anybody called him. So then imagine
my surprise. Years later, Bebop grows up to be a
very solid citizen in Orange works at the plant, nicest guy.
He would always go by and see my parents. I mean,
just a rock solid human being, just a decent, decent person.
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And he's Darryl Quibodeaux. And so when I go to Orange,
I always meet up with him, and you know, with
his wife or whatever. It's always weird for them because
I can't call him Darryl. He's Bebop to me anyway.
Joe Harris now owns The Farmer's Mercantilt in Orange, but
she was Jojo then, so for the purpose of this story,
she's still Jojo anyway. If you have a nickname you
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Speaker 2 (05:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The reason I bring that up is because Jojo and
her mother run the Farmer's mrcantile. Now, the Farmer's mrcantill
has been there, let's see, she told me nineteen twenty eight.
It's been there since nineteen twenty eight, in the same building.
It's got the door that when you open up, when
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you open the door goes think ding. And it's on
the corner of the old downtown Houston, I mean old
downtown Orange and most everything moved out of Orange and
there's very little left, but the old Farmer's mrcantill is
still there. And I can remember as a kid if
we'd have to go by there and pick up I
don't know, dog food or pick up. We didn't feed anything.
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My brother would go by and get deercorn. But you'd
go by there and you'd walk in like there's no
air conditioning. It's the old transom windows. It's been there
almost one hundred years. And nobody like jumps out at you.
You know, when you walk in, you look around a minute.
You need something, you put your hand up and they'll
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come and get it for you. Family run, not a
bunch of employees, and I love these old businesses. We
didn't have a Walmart back then. So back in those days,
the fancy store was like TG and why maybe I'm
trying to think what else we had. But the Farmer's
mrcantill was the old store and still is to this day.
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The fact that they can keep this place running and
here it is like we've got this little product. Okay, hey,
here's a sauce. It's the random stuff you get kind
of pre selected for you. That to me is what
makes living in a small town worth it, because you
don't have much of that. In big cities you don't
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have You just don't have that, you know, where you're
kind of rooting for the business. You know the business
doesn't make very much money, but you're rooting for them.
That's what barbecue in was Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Once the
news got out, people were showing up. Frankly, they could
have got fried chicken somewhere else they could have got
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I never ate barbecue at barbecue, and I always ate
the fried chicken because that's my favorite thing. But they
could anything. They could get there, they could get somewhere else,
and you could argue, yeah, well it was so much better. Okay, great,
I would argue that nobody's food is that much better
than anybody else. It's the experience, the memories, the nostalgia,
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the culture. People drove past all that waited out in
the heat to show that business. We're root even though
you're going under, We're root for you. Some don't want
to hear it. You'll just go ahead and say it.
Sorry to Michael Verry show, Yeah, when don't we do
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a little I truly believe seven one three nine one thousand. Remember,
and I truly believe means I say your name and
you say I truly believe that it needs to be
quick and to the point right to it a sentence
or two at the most, preferably one sentence. It can
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be political, it can be cultural, it can be your
favorite way to eat corn dogs. I don't care seven
to one three nine nine one thousand, seven to one
three nine one thousand. While Ramon is answering the phones,
you may or may not know, there was what looks
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like another assassination attempt on President Trump. A man was
arrested at Trump National Golf Club in California after monitoring
security planning activities days before the President's visit. He was
later found with a cachet of our cash, of weapons
and body armor. Thirty eight year old pleaded not guilty
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on Tuesdays to four criminal charges dimming from his arrest
outside the golf course days before President Trump's scheduled visit.
The President arrived in LA late Tuesday for an RNC fundraiser.
A Los Angeles County judge set his bail at two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ordered him not to possess
any weapons, barred him from Trump National Golf Club, and
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prohibited him from leav California while the case is pending.
I wonder if he would have given a slightly stiffer
set of requirements had this been someone who was looking
to kill Barack Obama. His next quarter parents appearance is
scheduled for August twenty sixth, according to the La County
Sheriff's Department. The investigation began Sunday, when plane closed. Federal
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agents spotted the man walking the grounds of Trump National
Golf Club while taking photographs and videos and appearing to
monitor security planning activities. Deputies from the Lomita Sheriff's station
responded around three point thirty and contacted and contacted him
During a pat down, Deputies allegedly recovered a sixteen round
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magazine loaded with hollowpoint ammunition from his pants pocket. Authorities
then searched his vehicle, which was parked in the golf
course parking lot, and recovered a loaded pistol with a
round in the chamber, along with another loaded magazine containing
hollowpoint ammunition. He claimed he was employed by the State
Department and was on the site for a security detail.
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He was initially arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed
firearm and possessing prohibited ammunition. They later charged him with
receiving a large capacity magazine, carrying a concealed firearm in
a vehicle in possession of a short barreled rifle or shotgun.
The discovery prompted detectives with the Sheriff's Department Major crows
bureaussigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, to obtain
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a search warrant for his home. Investigators said they recovered
an illegally modified ar platform rifle, a nineteen eleven forty
five caliber pistol, an ar platform upper receiver, body armor,
high capacity magazines, bulk pistol and rifle ammunition, to radio
signal devices, and multiple notebooks containing what authorities described as
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concerning statements. Yeah, yeah, all right, it's time for yet
another all and all right, we'll go down the list
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to Greg, Robert John, Jonathan John number two and be
on seven win three nine nine, one thousand. If you
want to try to get on, you can email me
through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. Let's start with Greg,
Greg what g.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Hey, Michael, I truly believed that it was pretty funny.
I had that girlfriend in high school named last name
was t to me t u m e, and the
teacher would always pronounce it too. And the classes say
to me as in sucking.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
What high school requid?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
High school in Florida?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Oh okay, Robert, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Robert,
what do you truly believe?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I truly believe that people say a couple of things
that really make them sound stupid. First is I use
the word after post when they mean appropriate too. They
use the word infer when they mean imply. But worst
of all is making attorney generals plural by saying attorneys general.
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If that's correct, that's the only phrase in the English
language that you put the modifier before the noun and
you make the modifier plural.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It is actually attorney's general because the good the modifier
is general. They're not generals that are attorneys. They are
the attorneys. The the general modifies the attorney. But it
is the proper quote unquote proper term the league. The
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accepted terminology is attorneys general instead of attorney generals. I
don't know, you know, when people get really excited about
these rules, it's funny to me because these rules were
created by some English teacher somewhere, and then people love
to say, you'll have to forgive me, and I'm just
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really say today when it comes do you understand that
all of these rules changed constantly as more people bullied
other people as to how words should be said or shouldn't.
But they love to correct people and this is the
correct way to say it. Well, how things are said,
and the proper use of what we call grammar in
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English varies by the period of time you use it,
and English is this great language that pulled from all
these different linguistic experiences, the Middle English and Old English
and French and the Old French and sanscrit. And that's
what makes it so much fun. It's another exciting edition
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to I truly believe. We start with John and work
our weight down. You can email through the website Michael
Berryshow dot com or Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com.
We'll start with John, John, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I truly believe memorial balloon releases are littering and should
be ticketed as such.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Is this happening a lot?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Every time some more unfortunate person gets killed in the hood.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I didn't even know this was really much happening. Have
you seen the balloons when they come down?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Now?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
I watched the local network and I use and read
the chronicle.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I'm not arguing with you. I'm actually just trying to learn.
So how many balloons are we talking about? Their releasing.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Fifty balloons? And remember but yeah come down in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well, we don't know that they might come down over
the land. You know, didn't tell them where they're Like, again,
I'm not arguing with you. We'll go to Jonathan, I'm
not arguing, and I'm just curious. Why does everybody think
I'm arguing. I think because I'm all stopped up, I
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come off as more aggressive. Everybody thinks I'm yelling all
the time. I'm I'm very rarely yelling. I'm just curious.
I like to know these things. I mean, if you
if you thought enough about the issue to call up
the show, and that's the one thing you chose, then
you probably have a worked out theory. And I'm just
trying to get to it. But people get very defensive
and you ask about these things, and I don't know why, Jonathan,
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what do you truly believe?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I truly believe the war in Ukraine was so they
had experimented with your own warfare.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
So that who could anybody.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
What lether manufacturers, all that government, all that?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Are you black? You're not? No, no third. So you
get card Jordan or Bird?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Michael Jordan? I mean Michael Jordan or Larry Bird Jordan.
M all right. So it's a complicated it's a complicated
series of questions because I do believe that there are
that there are hot spots of battles where if at
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a minimum outside influence is being applied because they do
wish to experiment with this, and I think a great
example was in the eighties the Iran Iraq war that
kept both of them kind of leveled off because they
were too occupied with each other, and chemical warfare was
used and there has been quite the allegation of outside
influence from that. I think the Irans use the UTIs
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to try out some different technologies and some different techniques
that they don't want to be blamed for themselves. So
I think there is It's a very interesting question, the
Ukraine Russia question. Thank you for the call, by the way,
for most Americans to be opining on the Ukraine Russia
issue without any semblance of understanding Ukraine's roll within Russia
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as part of Russia, and who actually lives in Ukraine
and why Russia has a claim on Ukraine and all
of these sorts of things. Is really it's comical, But
it's comical in the sense of the barista who's talking
about Elon Musk doesn't know what he's doing and he's
probably going to go bankrupt any moment. It's comical. Like
Lena Hidalgo. Lena Hidalgo's office yesterday sending out an email
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saying budgeting one oh one. If you want to come
and see how we build the budget for Harris County,
you can learn so much, really that that's being sent
out under Lena Hidalgo's signature. So I do think that
I think there's I think there's more to what you
said than I would have time to get into the
new un stuff. But I don't think that's a crazy statement. John,
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number two, you're on the Michael Berry Show. What do
you try to believe?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I truly believe that brok Hussein Obama is coordinating every
move in Iran for Iran?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Interesting crop duster, J. What do you truly believe? Crup
duster Jay?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I truly believe that Michael Berry, it is familiar with
what a potato panic can do.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You know, about three times a year, I'll get somebody
that'll email me because they will meet that family at
some hunting convention or some farmer's convention, and they'll see
them and they'll get to talking to them, and they'll go,
wait a second, are you the one that said, Michael.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Berry, are you familiar with what even made a gun
could do?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What a great line, Darren you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What do you truly believe, Darren?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I truly believe we got to get this bart Rise
citizenship done. I mean, this is just I've been saying
this for twenty years, since I was fourteen.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I've just watched that invasion got it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
We gotta do something about it.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I don't know what these Republicans are doing, but do
y'all want the whole world to invade this and get citizenship?
It's common sense.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
They don't believe that the great problem is not taking
people seriously enough. Thank you for the call. I've watched enough. Officers.
There was an officer up in Conroe, probably ten years ago,
and he was trying to talk down a guy. I
think he was barricaded in a draft leader or something.
The guy came out and he had a shotgun trade
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on this Conroe police officer, and the officer put his
guns down and he tried to talk to him and
try to talk to him and try to talk to him,
and finally the bid pulled the trigger and one of
the pellets hit the guy's eyes exploded and he was blinded.
And I think that he took the guy lightly. I
think he did not believe that that guy was capable
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of pulling the trigger. I think most Americans are so
naive because we've had it so good, so long, And
if you traveled to see the rest of the world,
the squalor, the lawlessness, the violence, the corruption, you'd realize
those are human beings too. We protect what we have
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and that's how we maintained it. You know, my wife
and I went to see a University of Houston game
years ago. She was on the border regents for the
University of Houston, and we travel with the team and
we went to Greenville, North Carolina. I'd never been to Greenville,
North Carolina, really really pretty part of the country, and
we landed there and we go to the stadium. And
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when you land in Greenville, North Carolina, East Carolina University,
the Pirates is the big deal there. I've never heard
of the school, much less their mascot. And it was
like purple and gold. It was purple and I don't
remember the purple and yellow, let's say. And everything there
had East Carolina on it, and the people there were
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nuts for East Carolina and it was a home game
for them, and I could not believe what a home
field advantage they had because Greenville, North Carolina loves the
East Carolina pirates right. Well, if you were to go
into that audience and try to make the case that
Texas football is the best things had sliced bread, you
couldn't win over a single person. And the reason I
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make that point is I think we are fast reaching
the moment where when we go out to Texans and go, hey,
this guy's for cutting off your kid's penis. This guy
is for ripping out your daughter's vagina and her breast
and cutting off a piece of her thigh and dangling it,
attaching it there so she has what looks like a penis.
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If she's wearing a speedo and he wants this, he actively, openly,
aggressively wore this. This guy is owed by California. He
was a wide open border. He wills to do away
with police and prisons. We're reaching the point where the
audist goes, yeah, sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
She will sleep like eyel Marry a Perrier water bit.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
To the phone. Last week, go let's go to Scott. Scott,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. What do you
truly believe?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I truly believe that Lena Hidalgo was promised that she'd
be appointed Harris County administrator in eighteen months time if
she stepped down.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Do you have a reason to believe that or you
just just pure conjecture.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Well, I think the only way she's going to step down,
Like you said, she likes being Queen Bee, Promising her
a four hundred thousand dollars a year job is a
way to get her to step down. And what will
they do with Sheila Jackson Lee's daughter, Because I'm sure
that'll be a next question. She'll pumpatize up for a
to run for a you know, stight senate say it
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or Congress?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, no doubt. Thanks for the call that. The only
problem with that is that Lena doesn't want an administrative job.
She doesn't like the day to day operational stuff. She's
she's really, really, really mentally limited. So she can't read
a spreadsheet, she can't read a prophet law, she can't
read a budget. She never has. I mean, I know
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enough people that work down there. She walks into a
room and says, we need to do good things. Everybody
good things, no bad things, okay, and then she leaves
and what she really gets a kick out of is
fawning press articles. She really enjoys that, and being out
in public and being called by her name and walking
around with sheriff's deputies on both sides of her. That
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makes her feel really Barack Obama is the same way.
It's look at me, I'm important, y'all. Y'all see that
I'm important. That's really really meaning to her. And the
job of being the Harris County administrator is the job
of taking bribes and kicking contracts to people and cutting
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deals behind the scenes and and getting this person to
pay for this. And it's a lot of what was
his name in Chicago, Richard Day. It's a lot of
boss hog kind of stuff. And that's not really her
her forte. She's not good at it, she doesn't enjoy it,
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and she wants more of a public position, and she
wants to, you know, she wants to walk around on
the dirt at the uh at the rodeo and be
seen and look at me, look at me. She wants
to post that she's at the World Cup. That's the
kind of stuff she loves. Robert, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. What do you truly believe? Robert? What do
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you truly believe, Robert.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
These crazy democrats have been implanted by aliens. Oh, it's
only way they can be that crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Well, all right, Robert number two, what do you truly believe?
All right, Cheryl, what do you truly believe?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
I truly believe we need more mental institutions of all
different levels. We're paying too much for the aftermath of
what these people are doing. And they've been harboring them
in their houses, but they've gotten too big.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
It's like a gorilla.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
And now their kid is eighteen or twenty and mom
can't handle him anymore.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Law enforcement will tell you that they get called out
constantly to these cases. Thank you for the call, by
the way, they get called out to these cases, and
it is, it is, it's standard boiler plate. It's unfortunate.
It's unfortunate for everybody involved. But what happens is the
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mom will call nine one one and her son has
beaten her. He's knocked her around, and he's thirty years old.
He lives at home, and he's knocked her around and
she wants it to stop, and she's upset and she's paying,
so she calls the cops and in her mind when
the cops show up, he'll stop beating on her. But
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when the cops show up, that's not their job. And
so they show up, and the sun at this point
is in the middle of an episode, and I've had
enough folks from all different aspects of this tell me
that it's a legitimate thing. He is hyped up, wired up.
It's like somebody on PCP, but he and sometimes they
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are on drugs in addition to this, but often it's
simply a function of his mental state. Is that bad?
And so he comes out of the house and now
he's he's at a point where he's ready for the
suicide by cop, and he starts lashing out at the cops,
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and so everybody wants to blame the cops, that they're
such bad people, and eventually they have to shoot him
because if they don't, he's going to kill them and everyone,
not just the family. Everyone loves to blame the cop.
The cop is a bad person, will you, son of
a bitch? You get in there, you go deal with
the guy who's six', five three hundred pounds nuteir and
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squirrel turns and trying to kill, you and let's see
what you. Do but everybody loves To monday morning. Quarterback
that cop and soy shit tast. Him we tasted. Him
it didn't stop. Him he was moving at the officer too.
Fast he was closing the distance so much so that
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if if she didn't shoot him center, mass the next
he's got a stick in his hand or his bare,
hands he's gonna kill. Her he should he shot he's
pinky towel. Off this is the ONE i get it
does they shot him down? Low, well you wouldn't kill,
Him you just wound. Him it just wounded him for
a little.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Bit maybe shoot his pinky taiel offer or shoot his
his pinky fingernail off and it would hurt him for
a second and he would, stop but he would look
down in his finger and, say, OH i shot my
pinky nail.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
OFF i had to grow that. Back it's it's just
very very naive lack of. Understanding but, again what we're
dealing with, here and this is what scares, me then
you will talk about what scares. Me this is what
scares me is that we are sending people to, Juries
we are sending people into the voting, booth we are
sending people into Corporate america who no longer share our.
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Values this is this is pulling Into, Greenville North carolina and,
saying you, know here's the greatest teams in the, country
and they, go you're. Crazy East carolina's the best that you. GO,
Whoa i'm not talking to the same people because guess
what if you go INTO i don't, Know, Greenspoint, Sunnyside,
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cloverland Fifth, ward the places that keep voting For Rodney
ellis and his, candidates you'd be shocked to learn that
the vast majority of people there do not see the
world the way you, do and what you take for
granted they think is, crazy and what they believe you
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think is. Crazy and they're in a whole different world
and a whole different, paradigm and you don't have any
ability to connect to them because they have their own,
household such as it, is whatever dysfunctional state of affairs it.
Is then they've got the school they've gone, to which
might Be North, forest it's in the verge at that
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point of being closed. Down they've got the teachers and
the administrators and the self dealers who are getting rich
off the. School they go to a church where we
And Sheila Jackson lee would walk in the front, door then, oh,
madam congress woman is, here and they would bring her
down and she would speak from the bullpit for the next,
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hour even though church was two minutes from being. Over
you got a real battle of your hands trying to
reason with these. People