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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verry Show is on the air. It's Charlie
from BlackBerry's Mother. I can feel a good one coming on.
It's the Michael Berry Show. Oh yes it is. I'm
so glad you're here now. I've spent a lot of
time thinking of Lake, about the human condition.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Three blocks.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
What makes us happy? What makes us sad? Followed us
down to the lake. The cycle of life from conception
where it begins, to birth, where you leave the host,
the mother, and enter out into the world independently, and
then the symbolic cutting of the court from the mother,

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the host, the person who first received the opposite sex
and then conceived this child and for better part of
a year nurtured within her most of it subconsciously. This creature,

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this miracle of life. It's an amazing thing. It really
is an amazing thing. And every one of us here
we take for granted. I know, I do that we
arrived here despite all odds, despite all odds, We came
into this earth, right into this world. And then we're useless.

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We can't defend ourselves. We are useless quite some time,
and we have to be cared for and then we
begin to grow and develop. And as we're doing that,
our host, our mother, and one half of our development,
our father. They're growing old as we're growing up, and

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in time we will replace them. They will see the
backside of the ark and we will replace them. And
in the middle of all that, we have all these challenges.
And I've spent a lot of time thinking about not happiness,
but fulfillment and purpose. I've come to learn that happiness

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is overrated. You know, you can take drugs that will
give you the feeling of being happy. On the day
you're married, you're happy. On the day a child comes
into this world, You're happier, your graduation, it's that time
of year. You're happy. But you know what, happiness is illusory.

(02:58):
You can't just sit around being happy. But if you
have purpose, it can sometimes be difficult. That is meaningful
and that can last. I told a story this morning.
I got a lot of feedback on it, and I
don't think I could tell it any better, related to
President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia. So Ramon said, let's
just play that back. It's just about four minutes. But

(03:20):
I don't think I could say it this well again.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
On Tuesday, our time president arrived in Saudi Arabia, and
despite the jet lag, in the early round of meetings,
on very little sleep, he gave a speech that is
not getting enough attention. He said he wanted to bring commerce,

(03:49):
not chaos to the Middle East. That's clever wordplay, but
he's such a powerful statement. But I went back and
listen to his speech, and then I got a transcript
of it, and I wanted to share a couple of
lines with you that I pulled out. He said, my
greatest hope is to be a peacemaker and be a unifier.

(04:14):
Now Saudi Arabia has been embroiled in on the precipice
of war, direct war with Iran for decades and a
proxy war through the Hutis in Yemen that is a

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hot war at pleasant At present, Iran would wipe Saudi
Arabia off the map if they could, if they could
get away with it. Saudi Arabia has been, oddly enough,

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at one time, at a single time, one of our
most important allies in the Middle East and the source
of many of our problems. I will remind you that
Osama bin Laden was based in Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
I do not think they are perfect. I think that
they have been the source of a number of problems
that we have suffered, both through terrorism and abroad. But
they're an important person, and Trump is trying has been
trying to manage that relationship to the betterment of America.

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He said, as I said in my inaugural address, my
greatest hope is to be a peacemaker, a unifier. I
don't like war. He talked about brokering a historic ceasefire
between India and Pakistan and using trade to do it.
You know, I got to thinking about that's a real legacy.
If you could teach people, hey, instead of just trying

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to blow each other up, if y'all would calm down,
you would improve your quality of life dramatically. You would
improve the quality life of people. Of course, that didn't
make it harder to recruit, because if Palestinians aren't angry
over their poverty and hopelessness, if the Pakistani people aren't
angry over their poverty and hopelessness, it's harder to recruit them.

(06:23):
Hand them a gun and tell them to go shoot
somebody or blow someone up. No, isn't it, you know,
increasing the prosperity of the common man is not always
good for those who have nefarious purposes. But I got
to think, and there's something deeper than that. How many
people that you know, maybe it might be you, spend
most of their energy and time trying to exact revenge,

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being angry at others, and it has a terrible cause.
They fight with their spouse, they fight with their colleagues.
Imagine if instead of that anger they had ambition, how
it could change their lives. I was just a thought,
my bidn'. He's been rolling around in my head since
presidents I'm not sure what your question was with the

(07:12):
Michael Berry. I lost the plot somewhere you did. The
mainstream media and Democrat talking point is that voter fraud
is not existent. It just doesn't happen, but it keeps happening.
In Texas, five public officials, including the Freo County judge,

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a former county elections administrator, two Puresas City councilmen, and
one school board member, along with another person, have been
indicted by the Texas Attorney General for what he calls
a vote harvesting scheme. I will remind you that Freo
County is a Democrat stronghold. The story from KVUE TV

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we's sakes.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Current and former government officials in Freo County, which is
about sixty miles southwest of San Antonio, all arrested in
an alleged a legal vote harvesting scheme. According to the
Texas Attorney General's Office, the Frio County judge, elections administrator,
two Parsol City Council members, a Paarsal isd trustee, and

(08:23):
an election worker electionally collected absentee ballots in exchange for money,
and a satement. Attorney General kN Paxon wrote, quote, the
people of Texas deserve fair and honest elections, not backroom
deals and political insiders rigging the system. Elected officials who
think they can cheat to stay in power will be

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held accountable.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
No one is above the law. So I had somebody
tell me the other day, let's talk about cash hotel.
I don't think he's doing a great job. And I
had someone tell me, well, all he's doing is hanging
out in nightclubs. I said, where did you get that?

(09:08):
I saw it on TV. I saw it in the news.
Really who said it? Oh, I don't know, of course
you don't, I said, MSNBC is the one who did that.
And you wonder, why do they issue fake news statements
that they have to come back and correct or they'll

(09:29):
be sued and lose, as they have with Trump. Why
do they do that because some people will never see
the correction. When newspapers were powerful, it was understood that
the negative news story is going to be above the fold,
page one. The correction will be back there on page
twenty six. Nobody I will ever see that, So I said, well,

(09:54):
I'm going to send you the clip. MSNBC issued an
apology or an on air correction that that was not true,
that he spends more time at nightclubs than at the
Hoover building. Oh, that's not true. They didn't issue a correction.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
Here it is and Alex circle back to a segment
from Friday Show.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Frank Fragluzy was on that morning.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
During this hour discussing the work of administration officials.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
At the end of that segment, for Lucy.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Said that FBI Director Cash Patel has reportedly been more
visible at nightclubs.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Than at his office at FBI headquarters.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
This was a misstatement. We have not very pified that claim.
I get emails all the time with people across the
country saying, how can this happen in Harris County where
I live? Is you know this little AOC type we
call La Commandante, little tin Pan Martinette, who was installed
there to be the Harris County judge because she's a

(10:47):
Hispanic female and so she was the face or the
county commissioner who really runs the county with an iron fist.
And they'll ask me how this can happen in Texas?

Speaker 7 (11:00):
Well?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
There are evil elements in Texas. So when I saw
that in Aurora, Colorado last year, the trend de Arragua
gang had taken over an entire apartment complex and they
weren't just breaking in stealing stuff, and they had taken
over management, like they were basically sitting in the leasing

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office and you'd have to come in and pay them,
I thought, thank God, that's not happening in Texas. Well.
Our home station in San Anton, WAI is the radio station.
The TV station is WAI. NBC News four has a
story about a six hundred and seventy eight unit apartment

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complex in San Antone now in foreclosure. The owner gave
it up because he could not keep control of the
units trend de Arragua was breaking into the apartments and
destroying them. So the owner just said, if I can't
get control of my unit.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
Back, and the owner of the six hundred and seventy
eight unit Palatia apartments says they never financially recovered after
Trenda Aragua gang members broke into hundreds of apartments, damaged them,
and even rented them to people who had been staying
at the city's Migrant Resource center.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
So this has been kicked in, that's gone.

Speaker 8 (12:29):
Last summer, John Barker showed us how many of his
apartments were being lived in by people who had left
the migrant center or the airport shelter operated by the city.
Some had paid money to gang members to stay there.

Speaker 9 (12:43):
They had their own leases that they were signing with
these residents or with these migrants that they were bringing in,
taking their money and breaking into our units.

Speaker 8 (12:51):
Barker says he begged the city for help, but at
first an assistant city attorney responded with indifference.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
He said, forbade him to me.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
He refused to acknowledge there's a migration issue.

Speaker 9 (13:03):
And if there's any issues on site that you're having
to deal with, that's on you.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
In a statement today, the city said it made extensive
efforts to keep the area safe. A SAPD increased patrols
in the complex, dedicated specialized units to investigate criminal activity,
and worked closely with property owners and management to respond
to ongoing concerns. Barker says, by the time SAPD rated

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the complex last October, arresting nineteen people, including four Trendy
at Agua members, sixty percent of the units were damaged
or vacant. Repairs were so extensive and costly. He's now
forced to give the property back to the bank next week.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
So what you've done, Now, that's an invasion by a foreign,
corrupt organization and you have destroyed. So now there's six
hundred and seventy eight units that are taking off the market.
So what do you think that does to the price
of rent in Sentanton? What do you think that does

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to the people trying to find affordable housing? This is
exactly what happens. This is how you end up with
a housing crisis. This is how you end up with inflation.
This is how you end up in a society where
the leads to money. You know, who is hurt the
most by terrorist organizations like this. It's not Donald Trump,

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it's not rich people. They will hire private security, they
will be behind gates, they will get out of community,
they'll move from communities when they become more drug infested,
more crime infested. It's the poor people who can't sup.
Poor people holding on by a thread, sup. Poor people
working an extra job and having to walk home at
two o'clock in the morning and worrying that one of

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those people on any one of those three corners is
going to knock them in the head tonight. Know what
happens every night. That's what's sad.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
HEREW Michael Berry, you are going to ring the King's English.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Let's talk about broud in government. I'm going to miss
Elon Musk leading doge. But I think what he did
was so unprecedented and so meaningful that he deserves to

(15:37):
be honored and remembered in American history for one hundred years.
I really do. Here he was on Fox News with
Laura Trump. I've actually found there's a lot of people
who have federal coming to place.

Speaker 10 (15:50):
They're active employees who nonetheless applied for and have received unemployment.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Insurance while they're a federal employees.

Speaker 10 (15:57):
Yes, Wow, and this appears to be at least one
hundred thousand people.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Imagine that those found one hundred thousand federal workers who
committed fraud by applying for and getting unemployment benefits while
they worked the very people who are supposed to be
administering the federal government stealing it blind. And how did

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those people get hired? On what basis were they hired
or any of them ever fired? Fraud laziness, Laziness leads
to fraud. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson told Iowa Congressman Ashley
Henson that one third of all Treasury payments could not

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even be traced back to an official appropriation.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
Can you define for the committee today what an improper
payment is in some examples of what you're seeing and
why these procedures were not.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Already in place before, mister.

Speaker 11 (16:57):
Secretary, Well, it's a bit mystifying why they weren't in place,
And what we are seeing is that there was a
very complacent upper level of management in many departments across
the entire across the entire government. What I can say

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at Treasury that of the one point five billion payments
we pack we send out every year, they're required to
have something called a task the treasury account symbol. We
discovered that more than one third, one third of those
payments did not have a task number. So, as the

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Appropriations Committee, you should be shocked by that because how
can a payment be tracked back to an appropriation only
through the task number? So there was no accountability. So
that is why the four hundred and fifty organizations at
above Treasury, where Treasury acts as the paymaster, are unable
to pass an audit. So we have the crackdown on that.

(18:10):
Every payment now requires a task number, very simple. And
I will tell you that the mid level employees who
I've had come into Treasury to talk to me about that,
feel liberated that They tell me, I've been here twenty years,
I've always wanted to do this, I've been here fourteen years,

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and they feel as though they now have agency and
are making a difference towards saving the American taxpayer money.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
So that'd be like at the office. Somebody in your
office is writing checks to somebody on the company account
and you go, who's this two? And why just wrote it? Wait?
What what are we doing here? As I said Elon
Musk and the Doge team, we owe them such a debt.

(19:03):
Whether the problems are solved or not, at least they
exposed them. They can't be denied. We go crazy when
they deny what we can see with our own eyes,
but we may not have the actual supporting document. Here
is a discussion that I've just sat on. I didn't

(19:24):
get to but some of you may not have seen it,
and it's that important. This is Elon Musk and the
Doge team on Fox News with Jesse Waters, and I
think once a year I'll play this into infinity. This
is these little nerd geeks that he brought down there
that used AI to expose so much fraud in our government,

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and thank God for them. The Department of Treasury was
spending about five trillion dollars without any budget codes. They
rented Caesar's Palace, and well, you know what, I'll let
them tell you a lot of great work in the
Treasury this week.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
One of the crazy things with regards to the Treasury
is that when a payment is made and the computers
at the Treasury actually paid but five trillion dollars per
year like crazy amounts. There was formerly not a budget
code on there, so if not a payment was made,
you didn't know actually what it was for.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
It could have been for anything.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
There was a four billion dollar COVID sun in the
Department of Education and there was no receipts required, so
people be just drawed down on it. And when people
looked into it, this wasn't justice. Before us, they found
that money was being used to rent out Caesar's palace
for parties, rent out stadiums, et cetera. And so the
one change that Doge made with part of Education is

(20:50):
we had the simple requirement that if you draw down money,
you must.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
First upload a receipt. That was the only change that
was made.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
You must upload your receipt, and upon doing so, nobody
drew down any money anymore.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yes, but we didn't say that we'd check the receipt.

Speaker 10 (21:05):
You could send a bank receipt, you can send a
picture of your dog, anything, anything, anything.

Speaker 12 (21:14):
And.

Speaker 10 (21:16):
As soon as we ask for anything at all, that something,
the requests were like, oh, we don't need it anymore.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's interesting. They were renting Caesar's palace.

Speaker 10 (21:26):
Yes, they're like basically partying.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
On the tax tay of money.

Speaker 10 (21:30):
Stadiums, Yes, leasing stadiums, stadiums.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
For what for parties? Basically for parties. Yes, that's a
big party. Big party.

Speaker 11 (21:43):
You'd think if you were stealing, you'd start small.

Speaker 10 (21:46):
They do start small, but then what happens is over
the years.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
So generally the.

Speaker 10 (21:51):
Fraud starts out small and they try to hide it.
But then year after year, if nobody stops the fraudy,
it gets more and more brazen, and every year it's bigger.
And so there was literally for hitting out stadiums like
him to run out a stadium fraud Infragrante.

Speaker 11 (22:11):
Delectos, it's Ramon the King of Ding and this other guy,
Michael Barry.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Some of you may remember George Santos. He's a former
congressman from New York's third Congressional district. He was elected
to Congress in twenty twenty two as a Republican and
Republicans were so excited because we had a Republican and
a Democrat district. But you could tell there was going
to be a problem from the very beginning. It wasn't good.

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You had this this nutty guy who was being investigated
before he ever took office. Was that because he was Republican? Maybe,
but he also had an air of fraud about In
December of twenty twenty three, so before his term is up,

(23:05):
he was expelled from Congress following a House Ethics Committee report,
which they would never do to Jasmin Crockett, by the way,
which they would never do to Maxine Waters, which they
would never have done to Sheila Jackson Lee, which they
would never have done to Eddie Bernice Johnson. They won't
kick out a Democrat. And I'm not saying Santo shouldn't
have been kicked out, but if you're going to kick
him out, you're going to kick Jasmine Crockett out this way.

Speaker 12 (23:28):
It is.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
So the charge was using campaign funds for personal expenses,
and they've only been a few members in US history
to be kicked out, expelled from the House. So in August,
after he's kicked out, he pleads guilty to multiple federal

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charges wirefraud, aggravated identity theft, embezzling campaign funds, filing fraudulent
federal election commit reports, stealing identities to fund his campaign.
About a month ago, he was sentenced to a little
over seven years in prison in order to pay almost
four hundred thousand dollars in restitution. I bring Santo's up

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because he posted this rant on social media. So members of.

Speaker 7 (24:21):
Congress that should be indicted but never probably will be
elan Omar immigration fraud. She married her brother to become
a resident. Yeah, true, nobody's talking about that. Riptanader from Michigan. Well,
animal cruelty, identity, theft, all sorts of different freaking issues
that he's done with the shady pass.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Nothing's going to happen about that either.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
I believe has anyone found AOC's missing million dollars from
her campaign? I'm waiting asking for a few friends. Oh
and let's not forget there's a good old Adam Schiff.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
He's ever going to see justice indictment for him? Never?

Speaker 7 (25:00):
Oh what about the insight traders, like all the allegations
around Pelosi, then Crenshaw, Nicole Malliotakis, what not them? Are
they ever going to be indebted and investigated?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I'm just curious.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
Oh, and then there's all the sex scandals, right, I
mean I can name them, but those are so long,
but pretty much about half of Congress.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Anything about that?

Speaker 7 (25:21):
Oh and then there's Jasmine Crockett's grandma receiving Social Security
payments for eleven years after she passed.

Speaker 12 (25:30):
It's just.

Speaker 7 (25:32):
Well, anyway, I just figured i'd share a few thoughts,
and those are thoughts in my mind. I think it's
time we start really putting metal to the pedal, because
why not.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
You may have seen that President Trump announced that Washington,
d C. Would host the NFL Draft in twenty twenty seven.
He had NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on one side, in
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser on the other. If you saw
the anouncement, you may have noticed how uncomfortable Bowser looked
standing there. As it turns out, it had recently been

(26:08):
revealed that she secretly took a luxury trip to Doha
and Dubai for sixty two thousand dollars on the dime
of Cutter or Qatar, however you prefer to say it.
Credit ABC seven News in DC with this story.

Speaker 7 (26:25):
Who is paying for DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's trips around
the world. We've been asking that question for months now
and have gotten different answers from the Mayor's office.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Now it reporter Scott Taylor has uncovered the nation of
Cutter paid for the mayor and four staff.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Members who traveled to its country. This was in twenty
twenty three.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Scott, what else are we learning about where this money
came from.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Well, we're talking about a lot of money, Michelle, almost
sixty two thousand dollars. We discovered that from a letter
from the Embassy of Qatar to the Mayor's office. The
mayor's office told us twice who paid for the trip,
and both times what they said just wasn't true. DC
tells seven News that doesn't have any travel expense records

(27:10):
filed by DC Mayor Miuro Bowser for trips to the
Master's Golf Tournament Las Vegas, Dubai, Miami, or mar A Lago.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
All trips taken within the past three years.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
In December twenty twenty three, Bowser and four staff members,
including her chief of staff Lindsay Parker, took a trip
to Doha, Qatar. They attended the United Nations Climate Conference
in Dubai. Only two travel expense records haven't filed. Parker
appears to be doing well what's required by d C code,

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but it's not cheap. She cost taxpayers thirty five hundred
dollars for a three nights day at the Atlantis Palm
Hotel in Dubai, a two nights day at the Aloft
Hotel in Dubai for thirteen hundred dollars was also filed
by Thomas Delamonte, DC's director of inter Governmental.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Of last year.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Susanna Castillo, the mayor's director of communications, gave seven News
wrong information twice on who paid for the Dubai trip.
She claimed DC's Chamber of Commerce paid for it, not true,
and then she said US Conference of Mayors.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Picked up the bill. I just discovered that is also
not true.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
This letter from the Embassy of Qatar to the Executive
Office of the Mayor says Guitar paid more than sixty
one thousand dollars for the entire trip and called it
an in kind donation. DC has no record of a
donation agreement between the district and Qatar for the trip,
which is required by d C code. Parker also flew

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last May to Las Vegas to attend the International Council
of Shopping Centers convention along with Filder. Parker flew first
class and cost taxpayers forty five hundred dollars. She stayed
at the Wind Hotel Casino three nights, costing taxpayers fifteen
hundred bucks. What about the mayor, She has filed no

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travel expense records. For her Vegas trip, saying it was
paid by Washington DC Economic Partnership and two DC government departments. Well,
so far, no answer from the Mayor's office to our
nine questions we sent that office six days ago. Seven
News would like to know how can any big city
mayor fly all over the world on official business and

(29:31):
not keep clear records of who paid for it? I
guess in the district Mayor Bowser can get away with
it for the IT team, Scott Taylor, seven News.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Some of our many friends in San Antone won't like
to hear this, and some of them will say, I'm
a Spurs coach, but I'm a Spurs fan, but I agree.
Greg Popovich is no longer the coach of the San
Antone Spurs. The team's longtime coach became more famous for
saying really stupid things. Then he did the incredible success

(30:03):
of the basketball franchise. If only he and Steve Kerr
could shut their mouths. Here is a montage of some
of Greg Papovich's greatest hits.

Speaker 8 (30:14):
How is an eighteen year old believe it?

Speaker 12 (30:17):
Why can anybody buy an AR fifteen? I shouldn't be
able to buy one. You shouldn't be able to buy one.
What the hell do you need in ar being curler?

Speaker 9 (30:28):
So he's pathetic, he's small. Well, he's a whiner, we
all know that. But you wouldn't have babysit your kids.
You wouldn't hire him if you had a small business.
You want that man in your business. There's no way.
What are you going to vote for for president? Because
he's strong, I mean, Tamila Harris whipped his ass in

(30:50):
a debate just obviously, and he's rubbing ever says he
doesn't want any part of her because, as she said before,
she's eaten many of his type for lunch as an
attorney general, as a prosecutor.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
He's a small fry compared to some of the people
she's gone after