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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael darry Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
This story has made much better because it's a Dairy
Queen Sanantone man uses a wood chair to quack a
masked robber armed with a metal pipe inside a dairy Queen.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'll let KABB TV tell you the story.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Dairy Queen may be known for their blizzards, but the
chilli encounter with a pipe wielding robber is enough to
freeze anyone in their tracks.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Do we have to do that? Son?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I realize you're excited to be a journalist. Did you
make a list? If he was doing it ironically, I
could get it. How bad is this going to be?
It's going to have a chilling effect that could freeze

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any bad guy.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Dairy Queen may be known for their blizzards, but the
chilling encounter with a pipe wielding robber is enough to
freeze anyone in their tracks.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I would find a worry intone hoping nobody got hurt
and out of the kids.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
And he's in the restaurant for only a few minutes.
But what the guy who's apparently trying to help himself
to free money, does it know there's a fearless customer
watching his every move.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
He has said that he came around the corner around
the counter and she moved back, and if he was
saying that, if you're not gonna give him the money.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
He's not in your typical hero, no suit, no Kate,
but dairy queen customer Christopher Ortiz is plotting his move
watching them on camera, pacing in a tank top and
sliders with socks, seemingly staring down his prey. I asked
Chris what made him pounds?

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I heard a pipe faugh and I looked up and he.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Was walking up to the Christy Street with he and
I guess he started telling her something order and I didn't.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
Know what was going on. I really thought he was
asking her for a cup of water or something.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
And then she said there's kids.

Speaker 7 (02:39):
And then when I heard that, that's when I reacted.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's pipe versus chair, a showdown the alleged Robert never
seas coming. Listen to what's caught on camera after Chris
casually grabs his wooden four legged weapon of choice. That's
the sound of a perfect stre right to the back,
echoing stunned onlookers, breathing a sigh of relief. Chris walks

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me through his life saving actions.

Speaker 6 (03:08):
What if that weapon our gun? You had nothing on.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
You just this chair nothing pretty happy chair though they
were able to swing that thing.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
I mean for people.

Speaker 9 (03:20):
It was ving today, Yeah it was.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
This is not easy to swing. This is not your
typical chair. And look at a bank or this is eddie,
this is wood.

Speaker 9 (03:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
Man, do you feel like a he bro for what
you did?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Kind of, I'm feel proud of but I'm bad he
did it. A lot of people won't do it and stuff.
They're just stay away and don't mind your own business
and stuff. So I appreciate that he did what he did.
Say my assistant could have been worse.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
And so Mary Rios calls him a hero. She's a
customer who learned about what Chris did.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
Well.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
I think that he just wanted to protect other people
and help and even though the share is heavy, so
I guess, you know, just to dein the people.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
His selfless act to protect strangers is the reason for
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Speaker 8 (04:14):
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Speaker 6 (04:27):
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Speaker 8 (04:29):
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Speaker 6 (04:41):
To start that new life because you're a hero.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Appreciate.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
How do you feel what's going through your mind right now?
What's going through your mind?

Speaker 7 (04:54):
That feels good?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
In a world where most pull out phones, he picked
up a chair, a thousand dollars decision, proving it pays
to be kind through the right thing.

Speaker 7 (05:05):
I hope people out.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Ramon, can you play the opening of that again?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Dairy Queen may be known for their blizzards, but the
chilling encounter with a pipe wielding robber is enough to
freeze anyone on the track.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
My goodness, I hate when people do that. That is
the worst. When they find words that fit with that
and they deliver it like they're so proud of it.
That is the absolute worst thing ever. Anyway, The Michael
Mary Show received exclusive audio of the good Samaritan that
stopped the robbery. Let's just say it was a bad

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day for the loser who decided to rob a Texas
dairy queen.

Speaker 10 (05:47):
Seriously, you're rubbing a dairy queen. What's wrong with you?
You weren't yourself a belt buster? What did the five
steak fingers say to the Facebook?

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Heard?

Speaker 10 (05:55):
You had a sweet tooth? But it's your lucky day now? Sermon,
peanut butter nut buster? How about a banana? Split your
head wide open?

Speaker 7 (06:03):
Hey, where are you going?

Speaker 10 (06:05):
You didn't even touch your blizzard top with cracked nuts.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Twenty sixth anniversary of Bonfire. We say it every year.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I won't say it again.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Traditions are important, They're meaningful, they matter, They create deep connection.
You go to any school that doesn't have deep traditions,
say hey, what would you pay for a Texas tradition?

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An A and M tradition? What would you pay to
have one of these deep, rich traditions like what they
do at you know, the Rings ceremony this past weekend
for the Aggies. He worked a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Nil. If you could just import that, if you could
give your.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Alumni that level of connection to the school, man, you'd
pay anything for it. I understand it. It was a
horrible thing. But I also think that a lot of
people make knee jerk reactions like this because it is
easier to do that than to figure out a nuanced

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way to navigate how to make this happen, how to
make this tradition continue, how to give alumni something very special.
It is inherently dangerous, but I don't know if you
noticed this. It's inherently dangerous for three hundred pounds men
to fly around a field smashing each other at every

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different direction, but we do it, and we love it.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Liberal tiers, I.

Speaker 11 (08:09):
Didn't get a single time starts here that our country
is failing you today, investing cleenics, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 10 (08:18):
And this is the Michael Arry Shows.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Customs and Order Protection kicked off a major immigration enforce
enforcement operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend, and on
day one, agents arrested eighty one people.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Officials say many.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Of those taken into custody had serious criminal or immigration histories.
The operation, called Charlotte's Web, began early Saturday morning. Commander
Gregory Bovino, who's overseeing the effort, said the arrests are
just a start and promised more details on social media
as the operation continues. By Sunday morning, agents were already

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back out making additional arrests. Bovino posted updates on his
x feed, highlighting several individuals he described as having prior
criminal records. In one post, he wrote, criminal illegal aliens
shop too. This is why border security matters. This is
why we're in Charlotte. A press conference was held to
address the other immigration enforcement operations around the country, and

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we have it.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for being here.

Speaker 10 (09:32):
I know it's been a busy weekend with the completion
of Operation Charlotte's Web in North Carolina. And while I
cannot discuss ongoing enforcement details, I can share the updated
list of federal operations conducted in recent months. Let's go
through them. Operation Horton. Here's a who else is here illegally?
During the sweep, agents listen carefully and detected voices coming
from an area no bigger than a speck. Upon investigation,

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it became clear Horton was not the only one to
increase something. Then we completed oper Ration brown Bear, Brown Bear,
what do you see? Upon contact, the suspect appeared startled
and stated icee ice agents looking at me? The statement
was accurate and noted in the report. We also wrapped
up Operation Curious George Gets a one way ticket. The
subject displayed continued curiosity about violating federal law. That curiosity

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has now been resolved. In a larger, multi state effort,
we launched Operation Green Eggs and scram The subject refused
every order to exit the van. Not here or there,
not in a chair, not on the street, not on
his feet, not in the rain, and not on the plane.
Agents insisted all the same, and he has been processed.
Operation the Very Hungry Border Crawler. Agents tracked the subject,

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whose behavior mirror the familiar children's story, beginning with small
crossings than increasingly larger and more ambitious attempts. By the
end of the week, the individual had crawled through fences,
brush lines, irrigation ditches, and one abandoned chicken coop. After
several days of the pattern of the individual finally emerged
in custody on our list, Operation Peekaboo I Seize You.

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Suspects repeatedly hid behind doors, furniture, and one large houseplant.
Briefly successful but ultimately ineffective, and we end on one
of the more controversial missions. We executed operation. If you
give a mouse a deportation hearing, that's predicted. He asked
for a translator, then a lawyer, then asylum, then a snack,
and then a ride home. This operation remains ongoing. That

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concludes the briefing everybody. If there are no further questions,
will reconvene tomorrow to discuss operation where the wild things went.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
Have a good afternoon, everybody.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
The CEO of Ford Voters, Jim Barley, says they have
five thousand mechanic jobs paying one hundred twenty thousand dollars
per year that they simply cannot fill. As of this morning,
we had five thousand openings. A bay with a lift
and tools and no one to work in it. One
hundred and twenty thousand dollars a job a year, but

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it takes you five years to learn it.

Speaker 9 (12:00):
Central economy, we are in trouble in our country. We
are not talking about this enough. We have over a
million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians,
and tradesmen. It's a very serious thing. We do not

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have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a
next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing,
who built a middle class life and a future for
his family. Those jobs are out there. Mechanics and a
Ford dealership. As of this morning, we had five thousand
openings a bay with a lift and tools and no

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one to work in it.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 9 (12:46):
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars a job a year,
but it takes you five years to learn it. Take
a diesel out of a super duty. It takes a
lot of skill. You need to know what you're doing.
And God forbid we ever get in a war or
Google's not gonna be able to make the tanks and
the planes.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
So this is a self.

Speaker 9 (13:07):
Defense for a country issue. But how I think about
it is if we work together like we always have
in America, we shine a light on the problem and
we start getting people together like we did, it accelerate
here in Detroit, like minded people with similar problems, Roger Pence,
lots of other CEOs, and we get after this with

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the government with education. I think we can solve this.
But we have a lot of work to do, and
I'm very humbled. I'm late in my life. These jobs
gave me the ability to go through graduate school. And
we are in deep trouble when you compare us to China.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
I do see this problem, and I think it's a
serious one. It's an education promim it's also a cultural problem.
I think that for so long, even people in the
trades who made a good living, maybe built their own
company plumbing, electrical, mechanical, but they wanted that the sign

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the impromoter of success, and that was that you wear
a suit when you go to an office and you
have a college degree. And so once that person does that,
they don't think they should ever use their hands again.
So I spoke to the Independent Electrical Contractors Association a

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few years ago.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
The guys at pool wires for non union.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Electric electrical jobs, and it was the graduating class, and
they were I don't remember forty guys there, thirty eight
of them guys, two women, let's say, and seventy percent
of them more Hispanic first generation families.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't. I guess white kids think they just shouldn't
do jobs like this. Can you get a four year
degree and what are you gonna do.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Separately?

Speaker 12 (15:07):
Oh? Yes.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
If this does not make you think of Tawny Katain,
then you've probably seen the freckle on Pete butter gigs
left buttsheet. I mean, if that does not revue of
for Tony Katain, I don't know what can.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
After a nearly.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Fifty year run, seventy four year old White Snake front
man David Coverdale says it's time for him to hang
up his platform shoes and skin tight jeans and enjoy
his retirement.

Speaker 13 (15:56):
Betters and gentlemen, boys and girls, brothers and sisters of
the Snake, special announcement for you. After fifty years plus
of incredible journey with you with Deep Purple with White
Snake Jimmy Page, the last few years has been very
evident to me that it's time really for me to
hang up my rock and roll platform shoes and my

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skin tight jeans.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
And as you can.

Speaker 13 (16:22):
See, we've taken care of the lions Wig lions Wig,
but it's time for me to call it to day.
I love you, Deally. I thank everyone who's assisted and
supported me on this incredible journey. All the musicians, the crew,
the fans, the family. It's amazing. But it really is

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time for me to just enjoy my retirement, and I
hope you can appreciate that. Once again I love you
with all my heart fairly.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, translation, I'm gonna wait a few minds, soak all
this up, and I'll do one special show, but at
ten times the revenues, we'll come out of retirement. But
just for one I thought I saw the or would

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have seen I sold the tickets Stones in eighty nine
when they were on their final tour.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
They've been final touring for a long time. Now.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I'll tell you who played that right? Who played that deftly?
Was Robert Earl, Keane Robert Earl. Just all of a sudden,
all right, I'm done. It's been a good run. I've
enjoyed it. You guys are great. Wait no, wa hey, wait,
the last five times you've been through town, I haven't

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haven't bothered to get over there. I was shoot, dang it.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Then a year later, hey, Robert.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Earl's going to do one show, just one, but now
it's going to cost a whole lot more. And he does,
I don't know, a couple of shows a year makes
a bunch of money, doesn't tour, no grind, no headache.
It's a wonderful thing, man, it's and he handled it right,

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and he has so much goodwill there is so much
goodwill because his songs have meant so much to people.
When I hear Robert Earl, I'm thinking of driving up
two ninety on a on a weekend day, seeing the
blue bonnets and driving up into the Oh that's a
that's a. Or driving out I ten towards San anton

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or all the way to Uvaldi. I said, that's a
good feeling. That's he was there with you when when
when you.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Did all that?

Speaker 2 (18:47):
I gotta tell you there's nothing wrong speaking of David
Coverdale and White Snake, there's nothing wrong with the aging
artists continuing to perform. A lot of people love to
say he is retired. They said that about Brett Farv. No,
maybe you need to retire as a fan. If people
are willing to pay for the ticket, why do Why

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don't you just not buy a ticket? Why is it
important to you? Well, it's going to ruin his legacy.
That is the dumbest thing ever. What's your legacy? Just
out of curiacy. What's your legacy? Because whatever it is,
you're ruining it with this stupid statement. When Farv came
out of retirement and they said, oh, it's going to
be terrible it's going to be terrible. It's going to

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be terrible. Well, first of all, the Jets were interesting
for the first time in a while, and then he
went to the Vikings and damned if he didn't almost
get him back to the super Bowl, and he was
having fun. The team decided he gave him the best
chance of winning, and that's really the only person that
matters that and the fans and fans were excited to

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see him, except for Packers fans, and that's only because
he's good. I've never understood this desire to tell people
you know, I want you.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I want you to be.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Someone I really like and I'm a big fan of.
But the second you hit a certain age, I want
you to just go away and your life.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Doesn't matter, because you're really just a commodity to me.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
It would be better if I could be wistful for
you ever coming back, But you don't come back. That's stupid.
I mean, that kind of logic is just stupid anyway.
I don't I don't see a problem with these old
rockers getting up there. I don't think rockers today will
be doing that. I love that Coverdale is up at
seventy four years old. Prancing around or kiss or Mick Jagger.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
For that matter.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
But what people get a kick out of is they're
up there in leather and.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
They stay skinny.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know, drugs will do that, and they're prancing around
like they're still in their twenties. I think it would
be funny if these guys sang songs that were more
age appropriate. Now, that'd be funny.

Speaker 7 (20:58):
Just the drug stage now, stretch wasting. The weather shook
my It's like a turn a storm now my lolla
back to skis on. I still screamed like I said
it for but the musing bone knees after every young
car the road and down. I'll just form my pills
and another one for mind in pet thrills flowing into

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spots in my face.

Speaker 14 (21:23):
I feel flickering days, I can't tell my I can't.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
Sway, maybe walking road a jealously. I'm still on the raft.
You now, I'm shacking up. That's and but I didn't.

Speaker 13 (21:55):
Thing he.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
With others.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Sup these funding.

Speaker 7 (22:22):
Remember when my jeams were paid it all? Now they
were if they don't cut off circulation. But the dreams
still roar even in my Cairol pressures on tour. They're
resking me for it by some nil raised lumbar support.
Still the drafts with a shaking hand. But hey, legends, tremble,
that's the brand, every ring, content.

Speaker 11 (22:44):
Of the sail, not some buses, bos and beer.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
When it comes to beards, brisket and verry, letting it
all hang out, going against the great And it's what.

Speaker 9 (23:00):
We do on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Real Quick Stories from around the Horn. This will be
number three, Local four, Detroit, Vermon. A group of thug
teens broke into a man's garage outside the Detroit area
the middle of the night. The homeowner shot him and
killed one of them. Homeowner is charged with manslaughter, while
the thugs family is shamelessly parading around demanding murder charges.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Against the homeowner. You don't want murder charges.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
You want to paycheck, raise your kids better and they
won't end up dead breaking into somebody else's garage. That
is in defensible period. End of story. In defensible, it doesn't.

Speaker 15 (23:41):
Make sense, doesn't make sense, and Eric's the lot.

Speaker 11 (23:44):
Four months after a seventeen year old Savon Wilson of
Pontiac shot and killed in White Lake Township, his family
says the charges have them confused.

Speaker 15 (23:54):
I think the way that he went about it, it
could have been done better.

Speaker 11 (23:57):
Twenty four year old Dayton Naptor in charge with manslaughter,
assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and two
counts of felony firearm for the death of Wilson and
shooting another team in the leg Wilson's family says they
want Naptin charged with murder.

Speaker 15 (24:11):
It doesn't make sense that it wasn't done out of
malicon for them to charge him with the manslaughter win.
Everything in the report is suggesting that it was most intent.

Speaker 11 (24:22):
Back in July, prosecutors say Wilson, along with six others
broke into Naptin's detached garage, Naptin coming out with a
nine millimeter, prosecutors say, firing two shots through a windowless,
locked garage door. Then as the group ran away, prosecutors say,
Naptin shot at them five more times, ran back inside,

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reloaded his gun, and came back outside.

Speaker 10 (24:44):
The vine was.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Running away and got shot.

Speaker 15 (24:49):
I never heard anything about him getting shot in the garage.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
The prosecutor say.

Speaker 11 (24:53):
Wilson hit and killed from a bullet fired through the
locked door.

Speaker 15 (24:57):
We had a really close connection, so it hurts a lot.
I would have never expected this to happen to him.
He has so many dreams and aspiration.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Back out your live.

Speaker 11 (25:07):
The Oakland County Prosecutor's Office says the rights to own
firearms and protect one's family and home are fundamental. Those
important rights also come with profound responsibility. We believe the
evidence demonstrates this defendant crossed the line by firing outside
his home at fleeing persons. Now, meanwhile, I just got
the phone with Dappin's defense attorney. He says Nappin was

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startled and this case is one of quote stone self defense,
and he believes Napping should have never been charged.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
The New York Post Miranda Divine has uncovered the digital
footprint of the man who tried to murder President Trump
in Butler, Pennsylvania. We were told by Biden's administration, we
don't know much about this guy. We don't know anything
about his intentions. Oh, yes we do. This is really good.

Speaker 14 (25:55):
It's quite a different story to the one that Chris
Ferray and he's pitty paul A Bait told Congress just
in a couple of weeks after that assassination attempt, and
we were sort of led to believe that Thomas Crooks
was really a ghost, that there was no motive that
could be ascertained from his online accounts. And yet a

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source has provided us with a lot of information from
seventeen different online accounts that Thomas Crooks had, and they
ranged from Google Play to that sight you reference before
called deviant art, which is probably the biggest still one
of the biggest hubs online for this sexual fetish called furies,

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where people dress up or fantasize about animal characters, cartoon
characters that are sort of humanized, and so it's very bizarre.
But we also saw that with Charlie Kirk's killer, alleged
killer Tyler Robinson, who was also and involved in this
bizarre fury culture. So there's not a lot that my

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source discovered on those lines, but there was a little
bit the fact that this guy, Thomas Crooks was interested
in this furry sight.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I've spent a lot of time there, had.

Speaker 14 (27:19):
Various images that he liked and reposted and also gave
his pronouns as they them. But I think the more
important part is what the comments his online comments from
he was very young, I mean fifteen, sixteen seventeen show
us about how he became increasingly violent and sort of

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radicalized against Democrats. He was pro Trump, and then in
January of twenty twenty he flipped.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
One hundred and eighty degrees.

Speaker 14 (27:49):
Something happened to make him become rapidly anti Trump, and
again his rhetoric took more and more of a violent turn.
He started brushing up against There was a neo Nazi
by the name fake name, probably William Teppers, who started
encouraging crooks in more and more violent retoric. And then

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suddenly something happened in August of twenty twenty and he
just disappeared online, very unusual. And then of course in
July twenty twenty four, he fired off eight shots from
a rooftop at Donald Trump at that rally in Butler,
killing Corey Comparatory who was sitting behind Donald Trump, and
badly injuring two other rally goers and hitting Donald Trump

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in the ear. Only by a miracle did Donald Trump
not get killed that day.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
In the Party of Democracy, Chicago Democrat Rep. Chewy Garcia
filed for reelection on October twenty seventh. Then after the
November third filing dead Gilen, he announced he would not
file for reelection so he could basically hand the seat
to his chief of staff since he coordinated with her before,
so she filed paperwork to run. This is what they
do so they can just keep control of a seat.

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Washington Democrat Congressman Marie Glusen camp Perez introduced a resolution
condemning the move by Garcia, saying it is undermining the
process of a fair and free election and claims his
actions are incompatible with the spirit of the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
No, actually, you can do that. You can absolutely do that.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
The problem is that people let the incumbent have a
free go of it. So that's really your fault for
doing that. Typical Chicago land when most of the kids
in the Chicago Public school system can't read at their
grade level. A new OIG report finds lavish travel by

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public school employees Hawaii, Egypt, Vegas, Finland. That's the money
that should have gone to the kids. Oh, it's professional development,
that's what they call it.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
It's vacation.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
The mayor who always has something to say about everything,
no comment. The Chicago public school systems travel expenditures more
than doubled between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty four, going
from three point six million to seven point seven million.
One principal attended seven conferences in two years. Do some

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checking and see who's sleeping with that principle. I bet
you that'll tell you a lot.

Speaker 16 (30:22):
A new scathing report calls the district spending on travel
questionable and exorbitant. Those were done by Philip Wagonet, the
Inspector General for Chicago Public Schools, says his office started
taking a close look at the district's travel expenses a
couple of years ago after receiving a few complaints.

Speaker 17 (30:41):
One involving a school that went on a very expensive
trip to Egypt for professional development that was at a
cost to CPS of.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
About twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 16 (30:52):
Another instance involved a professional development conference in Las Vegas
that more than six hundred employees attended between twenty five,
twenty two and twenty twenty four, spending more than a
million and a half in district dollars. Nearly ninety percent
of attendees stayed in hotel rooms, exceeding CPS spending limits,
and about forty percent of all conference attendees traveled without

(31:15):
receiving approval.

Speaker 17 (31:16):
Trips were normally approved simply by based on the paperwork
that was provided without asking the fundamental question is this
cost necessary.

Speaker 16 (31:26):
In a new report, the Office of the Inspector General
lists examples of what it calls travel abuses, leading to
a sharp increase in spending. In twenty twenty four, the
OIG's office found travel expenditure surged to seven point seven
million dollars last year. That's more than double what the
district spent in twenty nineteen before the pandemic.

Speaker 17 (31:48):
Even if these trips were beneficial, CPS needs to be
making folds hasten, thank you, and good night.