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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. We are hating
for mass EXTINCTIONE. That's it end at there as humans
destroy our own habitats.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can't imagine there will be a human on the
planet in ten years. I suspect it'll be no. I'm sorry,
did you say ten? E is yes, yes in my
outlied voice, President.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Trump has endorsed in the US Senate race. We're in
the great state of Texas, where four term senator and
Trump backstabber John Cornyn was up for yet another term,
being challenged by the very popular Attorney General Ken Paxton,
who I am supporting. The President's endorsement was hoped for
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by Paxton, but Paxton's going to win even without it.
That being ed, this makes it a whole lot more likely.
The President announcing today his support for Donald Trump for
Ken Paxton over John corn in the swamp creature President
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Trump posting the truth social earlier today, the highly respected
Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First patriot
and someone who has always been an extremely who has
always been extremely loyal to me and our amazing MAGA movement,
is running for the United States Senate to represent a
place I love and one big three times, with six
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point four million votes in twenty twenty four, the most
votes in the history of.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The state by far.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I know Ken well, have seen him tested at the
highest and most difficult levels, and he is a winner.
Ken is a strong supporter of terminating the Filibuster and
very importantly, the Save America Act, something which polls at
eighty seven percent, including Democrats, and yet can't seem to
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get approved. Perhaps Ken can help move these important elements
of government forward, because with the Filibuster as an example,
the Democrats will terminate it on their first day in office,
giving US.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Two extra states d c.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And Puerto Rico, and a greatly enlarged Supreme Court of
the United States, probably going with their dream number of
twenty one justices from the nine that we currently have.
And these new justices will be radical leftist lunatics. Two
years ago, our country was dead. Now we have the
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hottest country anywhere in the world, and I want to
keep it that way. Ken Paxon will help me do
that in making America bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
Ken is a true Maga warrior who has always delivered
for Texas and will continue to do so in the
United States Senate. He will tirelessly fight to continue the
great growth of our economy, cut taxes and regulations. I
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just delivered the largest tax and regulation cuts in American
history and advance made in the USA. Unleash American energy dominance,
champion Texas oil and gas. Advocate for our amazing farmers
and ranchers. Promote school choice, keep our border secure, stop
migrant crime, support our incredible military and veterans, safeguard our elections,
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and protect are always under siege Second Amendment. John corn
is a good man and I worked well with him,
but he was not supportive of me when times were tough.
And despite having the most successful economy in the history
of our country during my first term, and with all
of the many other things that I accomplished, secure border, military, dominance,
space force, all time high stock markets and four oh
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one case record job and economic growth, and so many
other things it would be impossible to readily list, which
are considered by many to be legendary. John Cornyn was
very late in backing me in what turned out to
be a historic run for the Republican nomine and then
the presidency itself, both of which were landslide victories and
more importantly gave us the country that we have today,
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the Golden Age of America. And when we finish up
with Iran, which will not be allowed to have a
nuclear weapon, you will see numbers that have never been
generated by our country before as opposed to the disaster
of the previous administration. Ken Paxton has gone through a lot,
in many cases very unfairly, but he is a fighter
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and knows how to win. Our country needs fighters and
also loyalty to the cause of greatness. We can never
allow what happened to the United States of America during
the corrupt Biden administration to happen again in Texas alone.
Just look at the border with the highest level criminals
allowed to run through your state, totally unvetted and unchecked
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through an open border policy that was a laughing stock
all over the world. I came in, I fixed it immediately.
I will not permit those dark and dangerous days to
come back. We have already made America great again, but
now we want to make our nation better than ever before. Therefore,
Ken Paxton has my complete and total endorsement to be
the next United States Senator from the great State of Texas,
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Ken Paxton will not let you down.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Trump, President of the United States with America. That came
out at eleven thirty Central today. Early voting is going
on in Texas this week started on Monday. It will
go through the twenty second which against US Friday, and
then what they call election Day next Tuesday, the mail ballots.
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Of course, the early voting. We were projected to have
some rain in the Greater Houston area, which is about
a quarter of the votes that come in, which of course,
could affect that turnout will be an important question in
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a primary runoff. Folks ten not to vote nearly as much.
Usually drops to about half the turnout of a primary itself,
and a primary tends to be far less than a
general election. And there are people who wring their hands
over this.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh, we must get people out to vote. Everyone must vote.
That's not true. That's not true. When it comes to.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
What your family's going to have for dinner and you're
really hungry, you don't worry about what the neighbors or
people across town think you should have for dinner. If
someone is not committed enough to want to vote in
a primary. I'd just assume they not vote. Primaries. Tend
to be far more informed, engaged, energetic voters. They tend
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to be less likely to be swayed by negative campaigning
that arose at the last minute. They tend not to
be fooled by lies created by Karl Rove and his ilk.
Karl Rove was paid a lot of money. I suspect
I don't know that it's an allegation, but Karl Rove
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has spent a lot of time and energy on Fox
News and beyond trying to defeat Ken Paxton. That goes
back twelve years. Paxton beat them in the Senate race,
Paxton beat them in the AG's race, Paxstan beat him
again in the AG's race, Paxton beat them in the impeachment,
and now Paxton's going to beat them in the Senate race.
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Because the people of Texas have had enough of turd blossom.
The guy who brought you Bush and country Club Republicanism
and Forever Wars and a corporatist Republican Party is going
to be kicked in the teeth on this election because
the people of Texas have had e enough. Oh, We've
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got a lot to get to today. But this is
big news. The Trump endorsement of Ken Packton is a
very very important endorsement. I think Paston was going to
win anyway, but I sure think this is going to
make a big difference rate pills is awful.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Nice of that smart Alecki power Michael Berryer.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Made a notable announcement on Monday. They're creating a one
point eight billion dollar quote anti weaponization fund. And this
kind of worked alongside President Trump's decision to drop his
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ten billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked
tax returns.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You remember that story.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
As part of the deal, he and his co plaintiffs
agreed to walk away from their case against the IRS,
along with other damage claims which he tied to the
twenty twenty two search of his home and his wife's
painty drawer by the federal government, which is just this
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is what these monsters do, and the Russian collusion investigation,
which again crimes against him, serious serious crimes. I would
have liked to seen some people go to prison over that.
In return, there is this newly established fund, which the
Justice Department says will create a formal process for people
to bring forward claims that they were targeted by government
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overreach or politically motivated legal action. Of course, the left
is going crazy because they don't ever want the government
punished for these overreaches and awful things. But I've known
some people who've been targeted by the government unfairly, and
we've seen this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's a horrible thing. A lot of J sixers had
this experience. Anyway. NBC News with the.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Story the Justice Department announcing a settlement after President Trump
dropped his ten billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS overleaked
tax return.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
As part of this deal, the DJ unveiling a one
point eight billion dollar anti weaponization funds to pay damages
to Trump's allies, and we seen its. White House corresponded,
Monic Alba is joining us now with one on this,
so I realize this is just coming to light at
this moment, Monka, the President moving to drop his case
against the IRS. Remind us where that comes from the
origin of this and hours before the settlement was announced.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
What's what else is in the deal?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, Sam and VICKI, this is pretty significant for a
couple of reasons. You mentioned that lawsuit specifically with the IRS.
That was something that related to the President and his
adult sons and their tax returns. Remember that essentially he
was suing the government, the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Internal Revenue Service over that.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Now in a settlement over that case, they are now
setting up that anti weaponization fund, which is also really
significant for a couple of reasons because it's unclear exactly how.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's going to work.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
But essentially the plaintiffs in this case, the President and
his sons, have agreed that they're not going to get
any kind of formal payment from the government, but they
are going to resc according to the Department of Justice,
a formal apology, which is significant in and of itself.
But in addition to that, now they are going to
set up this fund that likely guys will be met
with some legal challenges. It's going to have a commission
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that is going to set up a way for potentially
anybody who wants to file a claim and attempt to
prove how they were potentially wronged by the US government
to see if they can seek monetary compensation. But we
are just getting some of these details in and learning
more about it. But again I think important to point
out the context that this is something that could face
a challenge before it becomes a reality.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Well, it does become a reality, and I know it's
early stages, Monica, But has the DJ said anything else
about who would be eligible for money from this fund?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Essentially anybody who wants to make a claim, who says
that they were potentially wronged either by the previous administration
or a past administration. They say, there's no partisan requirement
to apply for this, that anybody from any political party
can do so. But again, there's going to be a commission,
it seems that's going to be set up here with
five different members. But what we don't know is how
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this is going to work in terms of who can approve,
who might get any kind of a settlement, and again
the logistics.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Of how that would work.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We have tort law for people who are wronged by
a company or individual. It is a civil that is
non criminal type of cause of action so that you
can be compensated for the tort committed against you. There's
also breach of contract and these sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But this was done to people.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
At January sixth, our government, a private company would be
forced to pay. President Trump was askedhy J six ers
should receive taxpayer money from the new Department of Justice
Weaponization Fund.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Justice Department has.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
This new fund that was announced today one point seven
billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Why should taxpayers pay for the January?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Well, it's spend very well received. I have to tell you,
I know very little about it. I wasn't involved in
the whole creation of it and the negotiation. But this
is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated as
anti weaponization. They've been weaponized, They've been in some cases
imprisoned wrongly, they paid legal fees that they didn't have,
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They've gone bankrupt, their lives have been destroyed, and they
turned out to be right. I mean, it was a
terrible period of time in the history of our country,
and they worked on it. I know the Justice supportsent.
It's really been working on it very hard. There's been
numerous other occasions over the years where things like this
have been done. But these were people that were weaponized
and really treated brutally by a system that was so
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corrupt with corrupt people running it, and they're getting reimbursed
for their legal fees and the other things that they
had to suffer.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
For years, we were told that Ann Navarro was a
Hispanic Latina Republican. We're all supposed to support her because
we needed minorities, and she's a Latina Republican. And then
the minute Trump came along, she didn't like him, so
she started trashing him, and they gave her top billing
because she's a Latina Republican, like Michael Steele, who was
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the head of the Republican Party and now works for MS. Now,
like George Conway, who wanted to be Trump's Attorney General.
When he didn't and his wife became Trump's advisor, he
proceeded to burn everything down because it's really only about
their own personal accomplishment and position and power that they
claim to be Republican. These aren't believers in the way
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that you are in our agenda. And so now Annonavarro
is outraged because she says, reparations are not being paid
to people who suffered slavery, but the J sixers could
get money for the injustice they suffered. Well, first of all,
reparations has never been about money to people who were
victims of slavery or who were slaves. It's always been
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about payment to black people for votes, most of whom
would not even be descendants of slaves. And everybody knows
that reparations is false on its face because it has
no way to try people as being victims of slavery.
Nor is every white person a former slave owner. In fact,
only a minuscule percentage of people are. And then you
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find out that some famous black people are descendants of
white slave owned The whole thing is silly. But we
do know that wrongs were done. We can trace them
for January sixth, for instance, and we can make that right.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
See it n.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
The idea of reparations to people who suffered slavery, but
we're going to be giving money to January sixth insurrectionists.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That part's okay, Yeah, it's disgusting.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
God is this reparations?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Look, I think there's a lot about it. We don't know.
I don't know who's on the committee.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I don't know exactly who's going to be applying for it.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
People Trump, the people that Trump approves.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Well, they say anybody can apply for it, and you know,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Think, okay, I'll apply for it.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
You think I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Have you ever been unfairly targeted by the Department of Justice?
Speaker 9 (15:51):
I have been unfairly targeted by this administration.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Yeah, Have you been unfairly prosecuted by the Department of Justice?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Are those the people that are going to be in
uh in this.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Advantures, No, you haven't.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
The issue is the question is has anyone in the
history of the United States ever been unfairly targeted by
the Department of Justice. Of course they have, and there
ought to be just at a top line, a way
for people to seek recourse if they have been unfairly target.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Michael Berry, no change in the system lacking to modern d.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
A week from today, Ken Paxton will be our Republican
Senate nominee.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And all the ninnies who worry because that's what they
do to worry. They've been told to worry.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We're gonna lose tallerco We're gonna lose time we got
we got to elect a Democrat or Corning or somebody,
because we're gonna lose to him.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Michael, We're gonna lose. I've been around a few election cycles.
Maybe you haven't.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
We were gonna lose to Beato. To remember, we were
gonna lose both times. We're not gonna lose because we're
going to show our fellow Texans who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But the polls say he's winning.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You mean the polls at the Houston Chronicle commissions, You
mean the polls at Democrats commission, You mean the polls
that Corning commissions to give the result that tall Rico
wins if Paxton wins, because that's the only way they
can get you to vote for Cornan is fear that
taller Rico will win. No, I won't be fooled again
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by that nonsense. It's the same Cornan who told us
that Trump couldn't win in twenty twenty four. Same Cornan
who told the country less than two years ago, move
on past Trump, He's not the guy. He can't win. Well,
he did, and he should have. Are you stupid or
serving another master? Well, now we've got tall Rico.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Worried.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Dude's never had a girlfriend. It's okay, it's okay if
he's gay. Actually, but he's real, effeminate.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And weird. He's weird in the way. You know he's weird.
You don't know why, you know he's weird, but he's weird.
You see this type.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He's got the male Karen tendencies, he's got the effeminate tendencies.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
He's got the oddness.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
There's an odd you can't trust this guy, and then
he says things. He says things that give you pedo vibes.
He says things that give you a Oh okay, so
you're beato with a Bible, but you bastardize everything it says. Okay, Well,
remember when Corey Booker just all of a sudden had
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a girlfriend. Tom Cruise went on Oprah Winfrey and did
the gayest thing you could do when he put his
legs up and down.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I gotta girl, Red, I'm be love, You're weird.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And that's a beard. Well, now we've got Tallerico doing
the wry Booker thing. I got a girlfriend and she's
my rock. You know, I remember back in school when
somebody dude, you never even been with a girl. Yeah, Yeah,
I got a girlfriend. She just goes to another school.
You'll never see her. He was on the Jamie Kern
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Lima show where the host claims that the biggest question
she received prior to talking to tall Rico was whether.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Or not he was single. Ah, yes, because all the
ladies want him.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yes, sexier and Richard Simmons, Yeah, that was the biggest
question she received.
Speaker 12 (19:33):
The biggest question, not even close. The most popular question.
That we got asked, is are you single? Are you single?
So you have a girlfriend?
Speaker 10 (19:45):
I do?
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Many years I do, and she is.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
She is my rock, she is my best friend.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
I don't know if I could have gotten through the
last six months of this crazy race if if she
hadn't been by my side. So yeah, thanks for asking
about her as well.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Thanks for asking what were the chances you were going
to ask?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What were the chances I was going to drop this
bombshell that's never been discussed before, never been hinted at.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I've never been seen with her. What were the chances
all this would.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Come out almost as if I would never say, they
do this, almost as if it was scripted.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Remember how familiar this thing was. Two people.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
From whom most people think of when the idea of
a fake girlfriend is introduced. Remember man Tito and he
was supposedly being catfished into thinking he had a girlfriend.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
This evening a huge story called Everyone by Surprise, a
love story that led to a kind of sensational hoax.
The star athlete for the Notre Dame football team rivetted
the nation with his inspiring story of a girlfriend who
had died of leukemia right before a crucial game. It
turns out that girl apparently never existed. ABC's Dan Harris
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explains the incredible tale of fame and deception.
Speaker 14 (21:11):
It was one of the most dramatic and emotional stories
in recent sports history. Manti Teo, the star linebacker for
Notre Dame, enduring the death of both his grandmother and
then his girlfriend, Linee Kakua within just six hours.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Here you take the love of my life. I just
think she said.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Some of it was I love you.
Speaker 14 (21:29):
Tao then went on to lead his team to a
series of epic victories. Propelled by his success and his story,
he was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. All along,
he spoke freely about his twin tragedies.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
The brother called me and he was just crying and
crying and crying, and that's when I kind of knew
about I was still in denial.
Speaker 14 (21:49):
But tonight word that that girlfriend, Line Kakua never existed
at all. The story, first reported on the sports news
website Deadspin, says she was a hoax and that the
picture we all saw was of another woman who is
very much alive, and says she doesn't know Tao at all.
Late today, Notre Dame released a statement that coaches were
informed by Tayo and his parents that the star had
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been the victim of what appears to be a hoax.
The college says someone using the fictitious name Liney Kakua
apparently ingratiated herself with Mantai and then conspired with others
to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia.
The question was this a case of catfishing, a term
based on a documentary about a young man who's fooled
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into an online romance with a woman pretending to be
somebody else. Tayo himself has now issued a statement to
our partner network ESPN, saying he developed what he thought
was an authentic emotional relationship with a woman he met
on the internet, and that they communicated both.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Online and on the phone.
Speaker 14 (22:47):
He calls this entire episode incredibly embarrassing. That's a direct quote,
and he says he hopes others can learn from it.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Twists and turns of a modern world in a modern era,
I guess that's what you call it.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But when you're telling everybody you're gonna marry this woman,
you're madly in love with her, she's the one for you,
and you've never met her.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I don't know that you're the one being duped.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
And now we have James Tallerico, who all of a
sudden has a girlfriend. He just happens to have been
asked about her. Just say no, everybody else, don't ask
that question anymore. Tall Rico has a girlfriend, not to
worry about.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Not to see here.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Dillerco's got a girlfriend, then she's real. He don't want
no one to steal his girlfriend because she's pretty. But
she lives in another city and she's super into him.
They go shopping to the gym. When the gym bros
look at her, he stares them.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Down and says, no, sir, you cannot have her.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
Cuse line.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
We have real sex all the time.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
We get frisky, win alone, we have full sex all
the phone. I like it which he talks dirty. She's
super sexy and flirty. All my friends thinks that's his
hot day. Wish had the girl that time. She's real.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
WI drink.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
That's right.
Speaker 15 (24:21):
You should be proud of me because my girlfriend is
she and her boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He guess what that boyfriend's meat.
Speaker 15 (24:30):
I send her flowers twice a week, kiss her with
tongue on the shek we're probably gonna get married, have
a bachelor party time.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
What you have got Allow me to introduce myself. My
name is Mita Michael Marry genius.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Give to go back to the house you grew up in.
What would you give to have just one more Christmas
at Grandma's house the way it used to be when
Grandma and Grandpa were alive. What would you give to
go out and play with your childhood.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Friends just one more time?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Ride your bike down to Damon Mayfield's house and say,
come on, we're trying to rustle up enough to play football,
and then ride down to Michael Stone's house. His mom
would come to the door and you'd say, can Michael
come out and play? Well, he's got to do his chores.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We're one short on.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
We lived out in the country, so we need everybody
to phone you up, and we couldn't have a proper game.
Then y'all would ride back to my place, you'd play
and you'd eat your your little those little little silver
I mean not silver with a clear plastic deals you
cut the top off and push it through. It was
just sugar water, but Manny was good. What would you
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give to do that one time. What would you give
to be able to cruise around with your buddies in
the first car you owned? Gosh, why did you sell
that thing? What would you give to have that thing
back and drive around? Drive drag mane one time? Try
to get Christi da Leon's attention. Well, if you hung
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out at the Pizza Hut like a lot of people did,
you would be delighted to go back to the Pizza
Hut the way it used to be. You know, the jukebox,
the pac Man game, not misspac Man, No, no, that
was later, just the original. And then they'd bring the
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pizza to your table, still piping hot in the pan.
Maybe somebody like Ramon would bring it because Ramon worked
a pizza hut. In fact, he's the only person I
know who still goes back to pizza Hut, he and
his kids. Well, there's a fellow named Tim Sparks. Talk
about marketing. This guy is a marketing genius. He's the
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president of Dalland Corporation, which is a company he created
that is a pizza hut franchisee. And he's bought up
I guess eighty pizza huts and he's converting them one
by one into retro pizza Hut classic locations, just like.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
In the old days. Listen to this in the hills
of Tuganik, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
A familiar red roof catches the eye inside, the vinyl booths,
tiffany style lamps, and yes, the salad bar you may
remember from decades ago.
Speaker 16 (27:57):
I mean, it's amazing the comments we have about they
have the red cups.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yes we do.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
Tim Sparks got his start working at a Pizza Hut
that looked like this. He's now president of Daylin Corporation,
which owns this franchise and more than eighty others around
the country. They've redecorated many restaurants to rewind the clock.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It looks exactly like the one that I remember from
when I was a kid.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
Yeah, that's what we were after Some Pizza Hut classics
are now top performing locations. Customers show up for a
piece of their childhood. It's a great night memory to
share with their own kids.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
When you finally find something that tastes how you genuinely
remember it tasting.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Mike, you can't let it go.
Speaker 16 (28:40):
People come from two to three hours. Wait, I'm not
making out up.
Speaker 11 (28:43):
More restaurants are serving up nostalgia. Franchises like Burger King
and KFC returned to old school logos and packaging in
recent years. At Pizza Hut, they even brought back pac Man.
But for Sparks, Ah, this is much more than a game.
It's a mission to build places where families can connect.
Speaker 16 (29:02):
If we can get him in here as a family,
they do tend to put their phones down and actually
have conversations.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
And stack with each other.
Speaker 16 (29:09):
I'm gonna tell you I know how to fix the world,
but I do think that family is a good place
to start.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
He hopes to renovate more of his restaurants as long
as he can find enough of those lamps.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They're hard to get.
Speaker 16 (29:20):
Yeah, they're almost impossible to get.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
A familiar taste of chairs to bringing people together, just
like I remember it again, Bradley Blackburn's CBS News Tunkanic, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I'll bet you there's thousands of those lamps. It's just
the information cost that's the friction. If that story gets out,
there's some little old lady in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania or Beaumont, Texas,
and her husband bought and she couldn't understand why. Now
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he's passed and she's a widow. He bought some stupid
lamp at a garage sale or from a pizza hut
that was closing down, and it was that leaded glass
pizza hut lamp that this guy's trying to get a
hold of now. So I guess at least with those lamps,
they're not made anymore, which is odd, right when you
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figure somebody could make that, maybe there'd be a demand
for it, but maybe not. But it really does say
a lot about nostalgia, doesn't it, And not just nostalgia
for nostalgia's sake. It says something about the values.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That we've lost.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Cultural values, even turning the damn phone off. Eating dinner
as a family, that's always been something very important in
our family, and a lot of families don't do that.
And they'll say, how do you get the kids to
eat dinner when you My son's in college, when he
comes home, we sit down and eat together. How do
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you get them to do that? I don't you mean
explain how I breathe? Do you explain how I sleep?
Or blink my eyes? You say we're having dinner, Oh,
my kids won't wait a second. That's not an option.
When did you get into the business of you're the
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child and they're the adult. You tell your kids are
having dinner with you, and they do.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You don't give an option.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I really don't understand this. How is this so hard?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Your children make the decisions? Do they tell you when
to have sex with your wife? Do they tell you
what you're going to pay for your mortgage? They're a child,
They're always the younger of the two. You're the adult.
You make decisions. They pout, You push through it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What are we doing here? What is going on here?
I do not understand this.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
People want to go back to a time where families
ate together, where the phone didn't come out at dinner.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I want to go back to the way things
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Used to be, which raises the question, how did we
let it get to the point that it's not that way.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. We are hating
for mass EXTINCTIONE. That's it end at there as humans
destroy our own habitats.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can't imagine there will be a human on the
planet in ten years. I suspect it'll be no. I'm sorry,
did you say ten? E is yes, yes in my
outlied voice, President.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Trump has endorsed in the US Senate race. We're in
the great state of Texas, where four term senator and
Trump backstabber John Cornyn was up for yet another term,
being challenged by the very popular Attorney General Ken Paxton,
who I am supporting. The President's endorsement was hoped for
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by Paxton, but Paxton's going to win even without it.
That being ed, this makes it a whole lot more likely.
The President announcing today his support for Donald Trump for
Ken Paxton over John corn in the swamp creature President
(01:15):
Trump posting the truth social earlier today, the highly respected
Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First patriot
and someone who has always been an extremely who has
always been extremely loyal to me and our amazing MAGA movement,
is running for the United States Senate to represent a
place I love and one big three times, with six
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point four million votes in twenty twenty four, the most
votes in the history of.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The state by far.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I know Ken well, have seen him tested at the
highest and most difficult levels, and he is a winner.
Ken is a strong supporter of terminating the Filibuster and
very importantly, the Save America Act, something which polls at
eighty seven percent, including Democrats, and yet can't seem to
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get approved. Perhaps Ken can help move these important elements
of government forward, because with the Filibuster as an example,
the Democrats will terminate it on their first day in office,
giving US.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Two extra states d c.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And Puerto Rico, and a greatly enlarged Supreme Court of
the United States, probably going with their dream number of
twenty one justices from the nine that we currently have.
And these new justices will be radical leftist lunatics. Two
years ago, our country was dead. Now we have the
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hottest country anywhere in the world, and I want to
keep it that way. Ken Paxon will help me do
that in making America bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
Ken is a true Maga warrior who has always delivered
for Texas and will continue to do so in the
United States Senate. He will tirelessly fight to continue the
great growth of our economy, cut taxes and regulations. I
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just delivered the largest tax and regulation cuts in American
history and advance made in the USA. Unleash American energy dominance,
champion Texas oil and gas. Advocate for our amazing farmers
and ranchers. Promote school choice, keep our border secure, stop
migrant crime, support our incredible military and veterans, safeguard our elections,
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and protect are always under siege Second Amendment. John corn
is a good man and I worked well with him,
but he was not supportive of me when times were tough.
And despite having the most successful economy in the history
of our country during my first term, and with all
of the many other things that I accomplished, secure border, military, dominance,
space force, all time high stock markets and four oh
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one case record job and economic growth, and so many
other things it would be impossible to readily list, which
are considered by many to be legendary. John Cornyn was
very late in backing me in what turned out to
be a historic run for the Republican nomine and then
the presidency itself, both of which were landslide victories and
more importantly gave us the country that we have today,
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the Golden Age of America. And when we finish up
with Iran, which will not be allowed to have a
nuclear weapon, you will see numbers that have never been
generated by our country before as opposed to the disaster
of the previous administration. Ken Paxton has gone through a lot,
in many cases very unfairly, but he is a fighter
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and knows how to win. Our country needs fighters and
also loyalty to the cause of greatness. We can never
allow what happened to the United States of America during
the corrupt Biden administration to happen again in Texas alone.
Just look at the border with the highest level criminals
allowed to run through your state, totally unvetted and unchecked
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through an open border policy that was a laughing stock
all over the world. I came in, I fixed it immediately.
I will not permit those dark and dangerous days to
come back. We have already made America great again, but
now we want to make our nation better than ever before. Therefore,
Ken Paxton has my complete and total endorsement to be
the next United States Senator from the great State of Texas,
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Ken Paxton will not let you down.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Trump, President of the United States with America. That came
out at eleven thirty Central today. Early voting is going
on in Texas this week started on Monday. It will
go through the twenty second which against US Friday, and
then what they call election Day next Tuesday, the mail ballots.
(05:36):
Of course, the early voting. We were projected to have
some rain in the Greater Houston area, which is about
a quarter of the votes that come in, which of course,
could affect that turnout will be an important question in
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a primary runoff. Folks ten not to vote nearly as much.
Usually drops to about half the turnout of a primary itself,
and a primary tends to be far less than a
general election. And there are people who wring their hands
over this.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh, we must get people out to vote. Everyone must vote.
That's not true. That's not true. When it comes to.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
What your family's going to have for dinner and you're
really hungry, you don't worry about what the neighbors or
people across town think you should have for dinner. If
someone is not committed enough to want to vote in
a primary. I'd just assume they not vote. Primaries. Tend
to be far more informed, engaged, energetic voters. They tend
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to be less likely to be swayed by negative campaigning
that arose at the last minute. They tend not to
be fooled by lies created by Karl Rove and his ilk.
Karl Rove was paid a lot of money. I suspect
I don't know that it's an allegation, but Karl Rove
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has spent a lot of time and energy on Fox
News and beyond trying to defeat Ken Paxton. That goes
back twelve years. Paxton beat them in the Senate race,
Paxton beat them in the AG's race, Paxstan beat him
again in the AG's race, Paxton beat them in the impeachment,
and now Paxton's going to beat them in the Senate race.
(07:30):
Because the people of Texas have had enough of turd blossom.
The guy who brought you Bush and country Club Republicanism
and Forever Wars and a corporatist Republican Party is going
to be kicked in the teeth on this election because
the people of Texas have had e enough. Oh, We've
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got a lot to get to today. But this is
big news. The Trump endorsement of Ken Packton is a
very very important endorsement. I think Paston was going to
win anyway, but I sure think this is going to
make a big difference rate pills is awful.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Nice of that smart Alecki power Michael Berryer.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Made a notable announcement on Monday. They're creating a one
point eight billion dollar quote anti weaponization fund. And this
kind of worked alongside President Trump's decision to drop his
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ten billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked
tax returns.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You remember that story.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
As part of the deal, he and his co plaintiffs
agreed to walk away from their case against the IRS,
along with other damage claims which he tied to the
twenty twenty two search of his home and his wife's
painty drawer by the federal government, which is just this
(09:11):
is what these monsters do, and the Russian collusion investigation,
which again crimes against him, serious serious crimes. I would
have liked to seen some people go to prison over that.
In return, there is this newly established fund, which the
Justice Department says will create a formal process for people
to bring forward claims that they were targeted by government
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overreach or politically motivated legal action. Of course, the left
is going crazy because they don't ever want the government
punished for these overreaches and awful things. But I've known
some people who've been targeted by the government unfairly, and
we've seen this.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's a horrible thing. A lot of J sixers had
this experience. Anyway. NBC News with the.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Story the Justice Department announcing a settlement after President Trump
dropped his ten billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS overleaked
tax return.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
As part of this deal, the DJ unveiling a one
point eight billion dollar anti weaponization funds to pay damages
to Trump's allies, and we seen its. White House corresponded,
Monic Alba is joining us now with one on this,
so I realize this is just coming to light at
this moment, Monka, the President moving to drop his case
against the IRS. Remind us where that comes from the
origin of this and hours before the settlement was announced.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
What's what else is in the deal?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, Sam and VICKI, this is pretty significant for a
couple of reasons. You mentioned that lawsuit specifically with the IRS.
That was something that related to the President and his
adult sons and their tax returns. Remember that essentially he
was suing the government, the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Internal Revenue Service over that.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Now in a settlement over that case, they are now
setting up that anti weaponization fund, which is also really
significant for a couple of reasons because it's unclear exactly how.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's going to work.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
But essentially the plaintiffs in this case, the President and
his sons, have agreed that they're not going to get
any kind of formal payment from the government, but they
are going to resc according to the Department of Justice,
a formal apology, which is significant in and of itself.
But in addition to that, now they are going to
set up this fund that likely guys will be met
with some legal challenges. It's going to have a commission
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that is going to set up a way for potentially
anybody who wants to file a claim and attempt to
prove how they were potentially wronged by the US government
to see if they can seek monetary compensation. But we
are just getting some of these details in and learning
more about it. But again I think important to point
out the context that this is something that could face
a challenge before it becomes a reality.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Well, it does become a reality, and I know it's
early stages, Monica, But has the DJ said anything else
about who would be eligible for money from this fund?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Essentially anybody who wants to make a claim, who says
that they were potentially wronged either by the previous administration
or a past administration. They say, there's no partisan requirement
to apply for this, that anybody from any political party
can do so. But again, there's going to be a commission,
it seems that's going to be set up here with
five different members. But what we don't know is how
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this is going to work in terms of who can approve,
who might get any kind of a settlement, and again
the logistics.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Of how that would work.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We have tort law for people who are wronged by
a company or individual. It is a civil that is
non criminal type of cause of action so that you
can be compensated for the tort committed against you. There's
also breach of contract and these sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But this was done to people.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
At January sixth, our government, a private company would be
forced to pay. President Trump was askedhy J six ers
should receive taxpayer money from the new Department of Justice
Weaponization Fund.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Justice Department has.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
This new fund that was announced today one point seven
billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Why should taxpayers pay for the January?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Well, it's spend very well received. I have to tell you,
I know very little about it. I wasn't involved in
the whole creation of it and the negotiation. But this
is reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated as
anti weaponization. They've been weaponized, They've been in some cases
imprisoned wrongly, they paid legal fees that they didn't have,
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They've gone bankrupt, their lives have been destroyed, and they
turned out to be right. I mean, it was a
terrible period of time in the history of our country,
and they worked on it. I know the Justice supportsent.
It's really been working on it very hard. There's been
numerous other occasions over the years where things like this
have been done. But these were people that were weaponized
and really treated brutally by a system that was so
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corrupt with corrupt people running it, and they're getting reimbursed
for their legal fees and the other things that they
had to suffer.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
For years, we were told that Ann Navarro was a
Hispanic Latina Republican. We're all supposed to support her because
we needed minorities, and she's a Latina Republican. And then
the minute Trump came along, she didn't like him, so
she started trashing him, and they gave her top billing
because she's a Latina Republican, like Michael Steele, who was
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the head of the Republican Party and now works for MS. Now,
like George Conway, who wanted to be Trump's Attorney General.
When he didn't and his wife became Trump's advisor, he
proceeded to burn everything down because it's really only about
their own personal accomplishment and position and power that they
claim to be Republican. These aren't believers in the way
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that you are in our agenda. And so now Annonavarro
is outraged because she says, reparations are not being paid
to people who suffered slavery, but the J sixers could
get money for the injustice they suffered. Well, first of all,
reparations has never been about money to people who were
victims of slavery or who were slaves. It's always been
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about payment to black people for votes, most of whom
would not even be descendants of slaves. And everybody knows
that reparations is false on its face because it has
no way to try people as being victims of slavery.
Nor is every white person a former slave owner. In fact,
only a minuscule percentage of people are. And then you
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find out that some famous black people are descendants of
white slave owned The whole thing is silly. But we
do know that wrongs were done. We can trace them
for January sixth, for instance, and we can make that right.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
See it n.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
The idea of reparations to people who suffered slavery, but
we're going to be giving money to January sixth insurrectionists.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That part's okay, Yeah, it's disgusting.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
God is this reparations?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Look, I think there's a lot about it. We don't know.
I don't know who's on the committee.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I don't know exactly who's going to be applying for it.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
People Trump, the people that Trump approves.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Well, they say anybody can apply for it, and you know,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Think, okay, I'll apply for it.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
You think I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Have you ever been unfairly targeted by the Department of Justice?
Speaker 9 (15:51):
I have been unfairly targeted by this administration.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Yeah, Have you been unfairly prosecuted by the Department of Justice?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Are those the people that are going to be in
uh in this.
Speaker 11 (15:58):
Advantures, No, you haven't.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
The issue is the question is has anyone in the
history of the United States ever been unfairly targeted by
the Department of Justice. Of course they have, and there
ought to be just at a top line, a way
for people to seek recourse if they have been unfairly target.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Michael Berry, no change in the system lacking to modern d.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
A week from today, Ken Paxton will be our Republican
Senate nominee.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And all the ninnies who worry because that's what they
do to worry. They've been told to worry.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We're gonna lose tallerco We're gonna lose time we got
we got to elect a Democrat or Corning or somebody,
because we're gonna lose to him.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Michael, We're gonna lose. I've been around a few election cycles.
Maybe you haven't.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
We were gonna lose to Beato. To remember, we were
gonna lose both times. We're not gonna lose because we're
going to show our fellow Texans who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But the polls say he's winning.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You mean the polls at the Houston Chronicle commissions, You
mean the polls at Democrats commission, You mean the polls
that Corning commissions to give the result that tall Rico
wins if Paxton wins, because that's the only way they
can get you to vote for Cornan is fear that
taller Rico will win. No, I won't be fooled again
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by that nonsense. It's the same Cornan who told us
that Trump couldn't win in twenty twenty four. Same Cornan
who told the country less than two years ago, move
on past Trump, He's not the guy. He can't win. Well,
he did, and he should have. Are you stupid or
serving another master? Well, now we've got tall Rico.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Worried.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Dude's never had a girlfriend. It's okay, it's okay if
he's gay. Actually, but he's real, effeminate.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And weird. He's weird in the way. You know he's weird.
You don't know why, you know he's weird, but he's weird.
You see this type.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He's got the male Karen tendencies, he's got the effeminate tendencies.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
He's got the oddness.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
There's an odd you can't trust this guy, and then
he says things. He says things that give you pedo vibes.
He says things that give you a Oh okay, so
you're beato with a Bible, but you bastardize everything it says. Okay, Well,
remember when Corey Booker just all of a sudden had
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a girlfriend. Tom Cruise went on Oprah Winfrey and did
the gayest thing you could do when he put his
legs up and down.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I gotta girl, Red, I'm be love, You're weird.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And that's a beard. Well, now we've got Tallerico doing
the wry Booker thing. I got a girlfriend and she's
my rock. You know, I remember back in school when
somebody dude, you never even been with a girl. Yeah, Yeah,
I got a girlfriend. She just goes to another school.
You'll never see her. He was on the Jamie Kern
(19:17):
Lima show where the host claims that the biggest question
she received prior to talking to tall Rico was whether.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Or not he was single. Ah, yes, because all the
ladies want him.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yes, sexier and Richard Simmons, Yeah, that was the biggest
question she received.
Speaker 12 (19:33):
The biggest question, not even close. The most popular question.
That we got asked, is are you single? Are you single?
So you have a girlfriend?
Speaker 10 (19:45):
I do?
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Many years I do, and she is.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
She is my rock, she is my best friend.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
I don't know if I could have gotten through the
last six months of this crazy race if if she
hadn't been by my side. So yeah, thanks for asking
about her as well.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Thanks for asking what were the chances you were going
to ask?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What were the chances I was going to drop this
bombshell that's never been discussed before, never been hinted at.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I've never been seen with her. What were the chances
all this would.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Come out almost as if I would never say, they
do this, almost as if it was scripted.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Remember how familiar this thing was. Two people.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
From whom most people think of when the idea of
a fake girlfriend is introduced. Remember man Tito and he
was supposedly being catfished into thinking he had a girlfriend.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
This evening a huge story called Everyone by Surprise, a
love story that led to a kind of sensational hoax.
The star athlete for the Notre Dame football team rivetted
the nation with his inspiring story of a girlfriend who
had died of leukemia right before a crucial game. It
turns out that girl apparently never existed. ABC's Dan Harris
(21:06):
explains the incredible tale of fame and deception.
Speaker 14 (21:11):
It was one of the most dramatic and emotional stories
in recent sports history. Manti Teo, the star linebacker for
Notre Dame, enduring the death of both his grandmother and
then his girlfriend, Linee Kakua within just six hours.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Here you take the love of my life. I just
think she said.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Some of it was I love you.
Speaker 14 (21:29):
Tao then went on to lead his team to a
series of epic victories. Propelled by his success and his story,
he was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. All along,
he spoke freely about his twin tragedies.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
The brother called me and he was just crying and
crying and crying, and that's when I kind of knew
about I was still in denial.
Speaker 14 (21:49):
But tonight word that that girlfriend, Line Kakua never existed
at all. The story, first reported on the sports news
website Deadspin, says she was a hoax and that the
picture we all saw was of another woman who is
very much alive, and says she doesn't know Tao at all.
Late today, Notre Dame released a statement that coaches were
informed by Tayo and his parents that the star had
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been the victim of what appears to be a hoax.
The college says someone using the fictitious name Liney Kakua
apparently ingratiated herself with Mantai and then conspired with others
to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia.
The question was this a case of catfishing, a term
based on a documentary about a young man who's fooled
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into an online romance with a woman pretending to be
somebody else. Tayo himself has now issued a statement to
our partner network ESPN, saying he developed what he thought
was an authentic emotional relationship with a woman he met
on the internet, and that they communicated both.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Online and on the phone.
Speaker 14 (22:47):
He calls this entire episode incredibly embarrassing. That's a direct quote,
and he says he hopes others can learn from it.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Twists and turns of a modern world in a modern era,
I guess that's what you call it.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But when you're telling everybody you're gonna marry this woman,
you're madly in love with her, she's the one for you,
and you've never met her.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I don't know that you're the one being duped.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
And now we have James Tallerico, who all of a
sudden has a girlfriend. He just happens to have been
asked about her. Just say no, everybody else, don't ask
that question anymore. Tall Rico has a girlfriend, not to
worry about.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Not to see here.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Dillerco's got a girlfriend, then she's real. He don't want
no one to steal his girlfriend because she's pretty. But
she lives in another city and she's super into him.
They go shopping to the gym. When the gym bros
look at her, he stares them.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Down and says, no, sir, you cannot have her.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
Cuse line.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
We have real sex all the time.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
We get frisky, win alone, we have full sex all
the phone. I like it which he talks dirty. She's
super sexy and flirty. All my friends thinks that's his
hot day. Wish had the girl that time. She's real.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
WI drink.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
That's right.
Speaker 15 (24:21):
You should be proud of me because my girlfriend is
she and her boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He guess what that boyfriend's meat.
Speaker 15 (24:30):
I send her flowers twice a week, kiss her with
tongue on the shek we're probably gonna get married, have
a bachelor party time.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
What you have got Allow me to introduce myself. My
name is Mita Michael Marry genius.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Give to go back to the house you grew up in.
What would you give to have just one more Christmas
at Grandma's house the way it used to be when
Grandma and Grandpa were alive. What would you give to
go out and play with your childhood.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Friends just one more time?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Ride your bike down to Damon Mayfield's house and say,
come on, we're trying to rustle up enough to play football,
and then ride down to Michael Stone's house. His mom
would come to the door and you'd say, can Michael
come out and play? Well, he's got to do his chores.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We're one short on.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
We lived out in the country, so we need everybody
to phone you up, and we couldn't have a proper game.
Then y'all would ride back to my place, you'd play
and you'd eat your your little those little little silver
I mean not silver with a clear plastic deals you
cut the top off and push it through. It was
just sugar water, but Manny was good. What would you
(26:09):
give to do that one time. What would you give
to be able to cruise around with your buddies in
the first car you owned? Gosh, why did you sell
that thing? What would you give to have that thing
back and drive around? Drive drag mane one time? Try
to get Christi da Leon's attention. Well, if you hung
(26:37):
out at the Pizza Hut like a lot of people did,
you would be delighted to go back to the Pizza
Hut the way it used to be. You know, the jukebox,
the pac Man game, not misspac Man, No, no, that
was later, just the original. And then they'd bring the
(26:59):
pizza to your table, still piping hot in the pan.
Maybe somebody like Ramon would bring it because Ramon worked
a pizza hut. In fact, he's the only person I
know who still goes back to pizza Hut, he and
his kids. Well, there's a fellow named Tim Sparks. Talk
about marketing. This guy is a marketing genius. He's the
(27:20):
president of Dalland Corporation, which is a company he created
that is a pizza hut franchisee. And he's bought up
I guess eighty pizza huts and he's converting them one
by one into retro pizza Hut classic locations, just like.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
In the old days. Listen to this in the hills
of Tuganik, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
A familiar red roof catches the eye inside, the vinyl booths,
tiffany style lamps, and yes, the salad bar you may
remember from decades ago.
Speaker 16 (27:57):
I mean, it's amazing the comments we have about they
have the red cups.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yes we do.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
Tim Sparks got his start working at a Pizza Hut
that looked like this. He's now president of Daylin Corporation,
which owns this franchise and more than eighty others around
the country. They've redecorated many restaurants to rewind the clock.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It looks exactly like the one that I remember from
when I was a kid.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
Yeah, that's what we were after Some Pizza Hut classics
are now top performing locations. Customers show up for a
piece of their childhood. It's a great night memory to
share with their own kids.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
When you finally find something that tastes how you genuinely
remember it tasting.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Mike, you can't let it go.
Speaker 16 (28:40):
People come from two to three hours. Wait, I'm not
making out up.
Speaker 11 (28:43):
More restaurants are serving up nostalgia. Franchises like Burger King
and KFC returned to old school logos and packaging in
recent years. At Pizza Hut, they even brought back pac Man.
But for Sparks, Ah, this is much more than a game.
It's a mission to build places where families can connect.
Speaker 16 (29:02):
If we can get him in here as a family,
they do tend to put their phones down and actually
have conversations.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
And stack with each other.
Speaker 16 (29:09):
I'm gonna tell you I know how to fix the world,
but I do think that family is a good place
to start.
Speaker 11 (29:15):
He hopes to renovate more of his restaurants as long
as he can find enough of those lamps.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They're hard to get.
Speaker 16 (29:20):
Yeah, they're almost impossible to get.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
A familiar taste of chairs to bringing people together, just
like I remember it again, Bradley Blackburn's CBS News Tunkanic, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I'll bet you there's thousands of those lamps. It's just
the information cost that's the friction. If that story gets out,
there's some little old lady in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania or Beaumont, Texas,
and her husband bought and she couldn't understand why. Now
(29:54):
he's passed and she's a widow. He bought some stupid
lamp at a garage sale or from a pizza hut
that was closing down, and it was that leaded glass
pizza hut lamp that this guy's trying to get a
hold of now. So I guess at least with those lamps,
they're not made anymore, which is odd, right when you
(30:18):
figure somebody could make that, maybe there'd be a demand
for it, but maybe not. But it really does say
a lot about nostalgia, doesn't it, And not just nostalgia
for nostalgia's sake. It says something about the values.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That we've lost.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Cultural values, even turning the damn phone off. Eating dinner
as a family, that's always been something very important in
our family, and a lot of families don't do that.
And they'll say, how do you get the kids to
eat dinner when you My son's in college, when he
comes home, we sit down and eat together. How do
(30:59):
you get them to do that? I don't you mean
explain how I breathe? Do you explain how I sleep?
Or blink my eyes? You say we're having dinner, Oh,
my kids won't wait a second. That's not an option.
When did you get into the business of you're the
(31:21):
child and they're the adult. You tell your kids are
having dinner with you, and they do.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You don't give an option.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I really don't understand this. How is this so hard?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Your children make the decisions? Do they tell you when
to have sex with your wife? Do they tell you
what you're going to pay for your mortgage? They're a child,
They're always the younger of the two. You're the adult.
You make decisions. They pout, You push through it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What are we doing here? What is going on here?
I do not understand this.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
People want to go back to a time where families
ate together, where the phone didn't come out at dinner.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I want to go back to the way things
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Used to be, which raises the question, how did we
let it get to the point that it's not that way.
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