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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't saw you saw the garage.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I see the garage, but I don't saw the garage.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You are speaking incorrectly. You are going to range the
King's English, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
See see shut out.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I think that you punch. I think you punch. I
think you're okay with you.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
You okay, we're punching, you know, I think, And I
love Colin, and I think towards the end he started
to punch a little harder.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But like if there grooves, I mean.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Like this dude has to be knots over the head
like hard right, like there is no niceties with him,
like at all, Like you you go clean off on him,
right because we in these hot ass Texas streets, Honey,
y'all know we got governor hot wheels down there, Come
on now, and the only thing hot about him is
(01:11):
that he is a hot ass mask honey. So so yes, yes, yes, yes, you.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Want twice times.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
But the fact that you literally are going to plan
enemy attacks on a signal chat and then you don't
even know who's in the signal chat, and then y'all
gonna come at us and act like people of color
are the problem.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Are that women are the problem?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Like baby, you probably need a good black woman in
the room who can check you and tell you that,
first of all, you shouldn't be doing this on signore
anything else. But y'all still mad about hims servers?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Is that what I hear? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
So anyway, Literally, I don't know if like your homeboy
was drunk at the time that he was sending these
messages or what, but clearly this administration is not ready
for prime time.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
There has been no oppression for the white man in
this country.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You'll tell me which white.
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Men were dragged out of their homes. You'll tell me
which one of them got dragged all the way across
an ocean and told that you are gonna go at work,
We are gonna seal your wives, We are gonna rape
your wives. That didn't happen. That is oppression. We didn't
ask to be here. Were not the same migrants did
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y'all constantly come up against. We didn't run away from home.
We were stolen. So yeah, we are gonna sit here
and be offended. When you want to sit here and
act like and and don't let it escape you that
it is.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
White man on this side.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Of the isle telling us people of color on this
side of the aisle, that that y'all are the ones
being oppressed, That y'all are the ones that are being harmed.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Your wants twice, three times, lady, you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know this surprises people want to say it. But
Jasmine Crockett is not as stupid as she puts on.
There's audio of her talking like a completely normal person.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But once she got in Congress, she started saying, girl,
were gonna stand up to Elon Musk. Were gonna show
him what we gonna do. He not gonna come to
our hood.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And so she started costplaying this this hood rat, and
I think she's smarter than that. People don't believe me
because you've only seen this character of hers. This is
clip four oh one she was. She was on Jimmy
Kimmel Live, which hasn't been funny in a long time. Sad,
it's sad to see what happened to him where she
(04:20):
said that people don't vote on policy, they vote on vibes.
Only dumb people. But then again, that's all she knows.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I don't think that honestly, policy is what we need
to be finding about, because guess what. Can't nobody tell
you what Donald Trump's policies were at all? Like you
asked him, like what policies? I don't know, but he's
gonna bring down across the age. Well, last time I
take that didn't happen, right, It'd be like, well, we're
saying it's Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
No, Donald said he knows nothing about.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
That, and then what happened all the Project twenty twenty
five started to come around, So like, I don't even
think that it's policy.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I think that people are voting on vibes. But four
o two, Asmin Crockett told a story about how she
decided to become an attorney, I did Little Chaper Horrors.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
So when I was in college at Rhodes in Memphis,
I ended up doing.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Little Shoper Horror. What part did you play in that?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I was one of the women that was singing okay, Yes,
I was in the course, okay, And so I ended
up doing it, and the mock trial coach recruited me
to do mock trial and I was like no, no, no.
By this time, I decided I was going to be
an accountant. Didn't want to do Ante seasonal. More still didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Want talk to people.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So so then he goes, no, no, no, you shouldn't do
mock trial, and I said, that's for the kids going
to law school. Long story short, he recruits me. I
do mock trial. Just my senior year, I become a
national All American. He says, you should go to law school.
So I applied, got a full ride and said fine,
if I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
All quit okay. So that's how you decided to become
a term because you were good at monk Trial's. Well,
that's odd. Let's go back in the way back machine.
The twenty nineteen credit goes to May's on Twitter and
she said that she was the victim of a hate
crime or two. You're not sure how many. Well that's funny.
(06:13):
Did you forget that story?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I had a great background as relates to my ability
to deal with numbers, and it was gonna pay well.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So I was like, I'll be an accountant.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Unfortunately, around my junior year, I was the victim of
a hate crime or two, and so were a group
of my friends. All at the same time.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Cars were keyed with the N word.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
We received hate mail in our on campus mailboxes, and
at that time my school hired the Cochrane Firm and
there was a lawyer who graduated from University of Houston
who was assigned to me. And it was the first
time in my life that I felt helpless, and I
was like, I want to help people that are going
through what I've just experienced. And at that point in time,
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I decided that I was going to say for the
l s at.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Crockett claims to have been the victim of a series
of hate crimes, and the media ran with it because
at that time she was running for Congress and nobody
was asking questions. One journalist, though, Tom Pappert of the
Tennessee Star, did some digging in May of twenty twenty four,
(07:27):
and then the headline came out, Jasmine Crockett silent amid
lack of evidence for alleged two thousand and two hate crimes.
Again credit to journalist Tom Pappert for that. Well. Representative
Jasmine Crockett did not respond to a Wednesday inquiry. The
article says from the Tennessee Star seeking more information to
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corroborate her previous claim that she and seventeen students suffered
a series of hate crimes on the Rhodes College campus
in two thousand and two. Well, I won't read you
this whole article, but it's sad when these people will
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lie about being a victim of a hate crime because
in some way it gives them credibility. That's really weird,
isn't it. I don't care if somebody doc stakes shoot.
You can't shoot at Michael. It's been Let's talk about
health for a moment, shall we. Let's talk about our
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government and big corporations working together to kill Americans and
make us sick. Doctor J. Bodicharia, this is Clippnumer five
oh three more. I don't remember if we played this
the other day or not, but I want to play
this again because it's part of a series of things
I want to go back to back to back on.
He said that Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F.
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Kennedy Jr. Has asked him to initiate a study on
the cause of the rise in autism.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So I just wanted to make a couple of comments
about the role of the NIH in all this. One
of the major problems that I think that the parents
around the country have faced is when they go to
the scientific literature, they come back with a stone wall.
They hear that, well, the science hasn't been done, it's
not rigorous. And part of the problem is that scientists
(09:22):
are afraid to ask questions, basic questions that parents want
answers to. Sector Kennedy has asked me to, for instance,
to initiate a study on autism, the cause of the
rise in autism. It's a question that is at the
front of the minds of so many parents across the
country worried about their kids, and yet scientific progress on
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this has been slow because scientists are frankly scared to
ask the question. The goal of my leadership the NIH
is going to make it so that those questions are
no longer taboo among scientists.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Scientists need to work on the things.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
That actually are at the top of the minds of
the American people. The mission of the NIH is to
do research that extends the life expectancy, make and improves
the health of the American people.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
For since twenty twelve, the United States has seen no
increase in life expectancy none, and it collapsed during the
pandemic and only recently as it started to come back
up to twenty nineteen levels. That is a situation that
is a catastrophic failure of the American public health system,
and it's frankly is also a failure of American scientists
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to address the key drivers of this enormous crime disease
crisis we're facing. And I'm really grateful to Secretary Kennedy
for his leadership, and I'm grateful to President Trump for
his leadership in giving us the opportunity to turn the
ingenuity of American scientists to the questions of how to
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improve American health and to make American health the end.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Now here is skip down clip number six oh seven.
This is much respected, at least by me, Doctor Peter
McCollough talking about autism was one in ten thousand when
I was a kid. It's now one in thirty six. Folks,
what are they doing to us? And why is nobody
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asking any questions before this?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Autism was one in ten thousand when I was a kid,
It's now one in thirty six. It's the biggest epidemic
of childhood in US history. Autism is on fire right now. Sure,
we have greater screening and detection, but there is a
massive bona fide increase.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What we know is it.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Appears to be associated with the expanding childhood vaccine schedule.
Up on the left, when I was a kid, you
can see that there was a three shots nineteen sixty.
Now at child today faces one hundred and eight shots
at one of the visits between age one and two.
There's thirteen shots administered altogether in children, and it's been
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well demonstrated that if a child gets sick with a
big round of shots and they have a seizure, there's
about a forty percent chance that the brain is injured
and they develop autism.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Let's talk about the COVID vaccine. Remember that folks were
kicked off of Facebook, including me or pointing out that
the COVID vaccine was not a vaccine and it could
kill you. Well, here's a flashback to leaked audio. Oh sorry,
leaked video. We have the video, but I can only
play you the audio, obviously of Mark Zuckerberg. This is
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six oh five leaked video of Mark Zuckerberg warning his
staff not to take the COVID shot, so you weren't
allowed to question it on the page on Facebook. But
he's secretly telling his staff, don't y'all take that.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
Shots, because we.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Modifying peoples town down streams.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Doctor Joseph Lodoppo, the Surgeon General of Florida, is a
guy that if you dig into what he says and does,
I think a lot of you would like him. He
pointed something out, this is where the rubber hits the road.
We can talk about what's going on Fox News and
all that, but this is what's really happening. He says.
Parents are struggling to find pediatricians because some pediatricians will
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not treat kids who don't follow the CDC's exact quote
unquote vaccine schedule. They are bought and paid for by
big Pharma, and if you won't do what big Pharma does,
they won't see you as a doctor. That is is
really an indictment of those people.
Speaker 11 (14:04):
We here in the Department of Health so often about
certain themes, and one of those themes is moms and
dads who are having trouble finding a pediatrician because in
their area, the pediatricians will not see their kid if
they deviate at all from the vaccine schedule issued by
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the CDC. And we are in a new era there
are more people now asking questions about what's really best
for my kid. After the last few years we've been
in they're way more parents. Most of these parents aren't
even parents that don't want any vaccines for their kids.
That's the minority of the parents. Most of them are
parents who just don't feel like it's appropriate it's in
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the best interest for their kid to get four vaccines
and one visit, which is part of the CDC schedule.
And there are pediatric practices I can tell you in
Penell's County, most of them they will not even entertain deviations.
So parents who just want to spread their vaccines out
because they think that's what's in the best interest for
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their kid, and I find that very sympathetic. I am
very sympathetic to that cause. And some of these parents
have the resources. It's not easy to pay out a
pocket to see a doctor who will see their kid
and respect their preferences. Some of them have to travel far.
One of the senators we met with shared the story
of a close family member of his who actually has
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to travel and talks to the senator about this because
this particular mom just wants to spread out the vaccines
or has some preferences that aren't in line with the CDCs.
So people are having to sometimes do extraordinary things because
they're trying to do what they think is best for
their kid. So I think it's important for those people
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to be able to have access. Senator Davis quoted a
part of the Hippocratic Code, which says words that are
about respecting and thinking about and caring about your patient right,
the patient that you're taking care of, not just steamrolling
their preferences in because you think that something else is
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a better idea. You parents, they have a right. That's
what it means to be a patient, and that's what
it means to be in a patient position relationship. So
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
She was twelve, I was thirty, but anything, it was
wonderful to have you, mister President. The Michael Barry Joe
turning points USA is doing some really good work these days.
Charlie Kirk is out on university campuses doing what Ben
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Shapiro used to do. I'm glad for these young people
that are willing to do this because I don't want
to go out and have screaming matches with these people.
I don't want to have to expose the purple haired,
crazy fat lady with a bone through her nose that
has daddy issues. It's mad at Trump explaining why everything
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she says is not true. But thank god, there are
people willing to do that, and Charlie klirk Kirk has
been doing that, and he's got a team of folks,
one of whom is named Savannah Hernandez. I didn't know
she was turning point. I don't know why this showed
up on my algorithm. Maybe because we have an affiliate
in Austin, my son's at UT. I went to UT
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Law School, and I love Austin. I know that. When
I say I love Austin to people in Texas now
they just roll their eyes because it's so it's become
like San Francisco. We love San Francisco. My wife and
I used to go and stay in San Francisco. Austin
and San Francisco were two of our favorite season in
the world, along with London, which is now the United
Caliphate is the United Kingdom. But anyway, back to my point,
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I come across this video and this is the kind
of work people need to be doing. I'm not going
to do it. I'm too lazy, I'm not enterprising enough
at this point in my career. But thank god, people
are willing to do this. So Savannah Hernandez posted a
video of herself and she says, I found the Harm
Reduction Center quote unquote that's handing out free needles and
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glass pipes to drug users in Austin, Texas. This is
Austin becoming San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis. These were once
great cities that have now devolved into one big pile
of homeless crap and drugies and theft and violence. And
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it's really sad because they were great cities. Anyway, here
is her story. It's three minutes long, a little longer
than might have intended, but I couldn't find a spot
to cut it because it's so darned good. And it'll
be posted to our website and my Facebook. It's already
been posted to my Twitter, and then we'll talk to
Savannah after that. So here is her report.
Speaker 12 (19:01):
Hernandez in Austin, Texas, standing in front of the Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Harm Reduction Alliance.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Now, this is one of the places in Austin that
is handing out free needles and free glass pipes to
drug users across the city. And to be quite honest
with you guys, so many people kept telling me that
Austin's homeless and drug crisis was comparable to San Francisco
or even Portland, and I thought that was crazy until
I started touring some of these homeless encampments and there
were exposed, dirty needles everywhere. Now, after touring these encampments,
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of course, I wanted to know where all of these
needles were coming from. And very similar to Portland and
San Francisco, this organization is handing out free needles, free types.
They even gave me four different kinds depending on which
type of drug use, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Was interested in.
Speaker 12 (19:49):
They also, again are handing out narcan condoms, even the
cookers and the rubbers that anybody needs to use for
proper drug use. These are very similar the programs that
have completely destroyed San Francisco, and I was truly shocked
to see this here in Austin, Texas. Now, this area
labels itself a safe space for drug users, and when
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I came to this location to pick up this arm
reduction kit, there were so many people outside of this
area that were strung out on drugs. One of the
first things that I experienced. In walking in was a
man who was screaming about how his life was gang
raked and then forced intinue an abortion. The staffers were
kind of just listening to him talk and then laughed
him off. They took me to the back and they
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gave me this big bag of supplies. And once I
was inside, there were so many signs on the walls reading, hey,
you can use drugs in the bathroom, just make sure
to tell somebody, and basically encouraging drug use. Now, not
only that, but a woman was sitting on a couch
and her dog apparently had gotten into her drug supplies,
but her dog was freaking out. It was just a
very chaotic environment. And this is right next to other
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small businesses, by the way, and we're also about a
half a mile away from which so I just wanted
to give you guys an example of some of the
organizations that are here in Austin. I was truly shocked
to see this.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
This isn't the only.
Speaker 12 (21:09):
One, by the way, There's another one called the vent
Help Life Point. They offer similar services. I am just
genuinely floored that the drug crisis in the city has
gotten this bad. I mean, I was even sitting at
a stoplight. I'm here to do a documentary on the
homeless crisis, and as I'm sitting, a homeless woman comes
and picks up what looks like a weapon off of
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the ground, is threatening somebody and screaming at somebody, and
I'm just there at the stoplight with other drivers. She
then is starting to screen and point the weapon at us.
We can't go anywhere, We're just stuck. And this type
of story is very common in Austin. So I just
wanted to come highlight the various programs that are being
allowed to prosper here. Free needles, free nartcan, free cookers.
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But it's just disappointing because I have seen how these
exact same programs that completely destroyed San Francisco. I've spoken
to other addicts as well, can even say that these
programs have destroyed their cities and only enabled drug addiction,
And even to homeless agree.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The liberal mindset is just give more drugs to mentally
ill people and that will solve all the problems. I
think our drug laws are crazy. I think we imprison
people from marijuana possession when we shouldn't. I think we
don't know how to cope with peoples, with people's desire
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to escape their mind through alcohol and drugs. But this
is not the answer. Okay, we can all agree this
is not the answer. Savannah Hernandez is our guests. Savannah.
First of all, congratulations on your courage and fearlessness, which
is the greatest asset I think a person could have
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doing what you do, and so few people do. And secondly,
this is really well done. I want people to see
the video that goes with it because it's fantastic. Thank
you so.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Much, Michael. I have been doing this for a long time,
so I've gotten very good at it. And you know, previously,
when I've done these types of reports, I've gotten physically
attacked by the homeless. So this is actually probably one
of the more relaxed cities that I've gone and reported in.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, what I appreciate is you don't you know sometimes
I feel like you're seeing something and you're smelling it
and you're feeling it, and it's tense and there's anxiety
and fear and sadness and sickness in the air, and
so there is a desire to overdo the You you
were very song fraud You just told the story without
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raising your voice, without trying to hype us up, and
I think that gave you a lot of credibility. Do
you have a connection to Austin? What made you go
to Austin to do this?
Speaker 12 (23:58):
I do.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
I've lived on and off in Austin since twenty eighteen,
and I actually lived there when they passed the initial
ordinance allowing public camping. So I really watched the city
completely devolve into grade as we opened that can of worms.
Now in twenty twenty one, they, you know, the citizens
revokes that ordinance. They voted to no longer allow public
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camping in Austin. But of course, once you start allowing
public camping, it's really hard to.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Fix that problem.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
And Austin, which is the fifth biggest city in Texas,
comes in at number one in terms of having the
highest homeless population. So this has been an issue for
years that I've watched. And I love Austin as well.
I was born in Texas, I've lived on and aut
in Austin. It's a beautiful city. And like I said
too in my report, I've gone to Portland, I've gone
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to Seattle, San Francisco, Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, so I've
seen the direct result of not only lacks homeless policies,
but the drug crisis that eventually ow entailed. And what's
happening right now on the West Coast is those cities
Portland and San Francisco have really had to reverse a
lot of those lacks policies that they passed with homelessness
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and drug use because their cities got so out of control.
So again, that's why I really wanted to express my
shock and concern.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That this hold right there. Savannah old Rut there, Savanna Hernandez.
You can find her on Instagram, Twitter, probably everywhere else.
She's returning point USA. This report she's done out of Austin. Wow,
it is disturbing and enlightening. This class of the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame is not the worst that
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could be clear well, but did not include Oasis, and
there was a real pitch made by fans for them
to go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe they should
have or not. They were hot for a minute. I'll
tell you what you couldn't you talk about street people.
I lived in Austin in the early He's going to
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law school, and then I went to England to do
another law degree. And I could tell you you couldn't
walk in London in the mid nineties when Wonderwall was out.
Every busker sitting out in front of every bar in
London or Ireland, or for that matter, Birmingham or any
other city Liverpool. They would sit outside the bars and
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they would play this with their guitar case open and
people tossing coins in there. I guess that's what makes
some buskers right, I should have I guess I don't
need to say that, but this was the song. It
was not uncommon that you'd walk down down an alley
this song would be somebody be playing this, You turn
and somebody be somewhere else in the song playing the
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same song halfway down. Savannah Hernandez, where do you live now?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
I'm currently living in San Antonio. Again. I did live
in Austin, but it was a difficult city to live
in because not only is it really turning into California
in terms of how expensive it is, but also in
terms of the homeless and drug crisis. It's actually a
terrifying city to live in, which is unfortunate for me
to say. And again too. Yeah, I really try not
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to dramatize my reporting. I've really just try to tell
people exactly how I'm feeling, what I'm seeing, and more importantly,
with other residents are experiencing. And I think that the
word terrifying is a fair one to use because you
do have residents being randomly attacked. You have children that
are now being exposed to open needles on Texas trails
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in Austin, on the green Belt. I mean again, it's
really sad to see how San Francisco is slowly making
its way over to Texas.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, and for people outside of Texas who may
not know, I suppose most people do. Austin is a
special city in Texas, and I'm okay with that. It
was always far more liberal than the rest of Texas,
but it was the cultural center, the epicenter of high culture,
artistic culture, instead of Texas art music. Sixth Street and
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the bars can't go there anymore because the fights and
the filth. It's the state capitol, so it's kind of
the Baton Rouge of Louisiana. You know, you see this,
and it's unfortunate, you know, have the big university there.
It was a play. And you have topography. You have
great topography in Austin. You have the hill country we
call it, and which would be laughable for people who
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live in mountainous ranges, you know, my Tennessee listeners would laugh.
But for us, we like it and it's it's wonderful.
And then here you have what they're calling a harm
reduction center that is an attraction, a nuisance that is ruining,
ruining this town. Savanna, take me through the moment. By
the way, I love san Antone. Going to San Antone
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this weekend. It's one of my favorite cities in the world.
I love San anton Walk me through. You say, I
walked down with a bag of seventy needles, glass pipes, narcan, etc.
So who did you claim? Because I'm looking at you,
you're a very attractive woman, You're well put together, you
don't look like a street user. How were you able
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to go in and walk out with all this stuff?
Speaker 10 (29:19):
So I basically went in and I stated that we
were touring homeless encampments and we wanted to be able
to bring back supplies for the homeless, right and this
is the bag of supplies that we were given. I mean,
I was even at specifics of do you know what
type of needles the people that you're trying to help
like using. And these are outreach programs that happen all
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throughout Texas. The Texas Harm Reduction Alliance isn't the only one.
There is also another program that does similar outreach services.
And what they do is they go to all of
these hotspots throughout Austin. And when I say hotspots, I
mean drug deals are happening in these areas. You have
homeless encampments, and they are essentially bringing these packs of needles,
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narcan cookers, those rubber tie offs for their arms. Again,
I had four different types of glass pipes that they
were handing out to clear drug addicts. And as I
walked up to the building, the entire area is completely
surrounded by drug addicts. When I went to the back,
there was probably about forty or fifty people actively on drugs.
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I think I told the story in the report that
you played as well that a woman's dog had gotten
into her drug supply, so the dog was freaking out.
So it was just a very dark and chaotic environment.
It was a dark energy and the most disturbing thing
about this too is this area is a half a
mile away from a church. It's actually half a mile
away from the church that my friend attends. I've gone
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to that church myself, and as you were walking to
church on Sunday, you were walking past heaps of homeless people,
not homeless people, drug users who were sitting in alleyways
who are surrounding the church. And you know, I spoke
to my friend as well, and he goes, yeah, I mean,
it's not out of the norm for my family and
I to be accosted or harassed by a drug user
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as we're walking to church every Sunday. So again, I
really wanted to bring light and attention to this because
there's a lot going on in Texas right now in
terms of, for example, the mosques that are being built
up north in Dallas, in the Frisco area, in terms
of us just having corrupted from the attorneys and district
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court judges that are continuously allowing criminals out and allowing
crime to prosper. In the Houston area, and then in
Austin you have this huge homeless and drug crisis. So
I wanted to really just shine light on the fact
that Texas. You know, our model is supposed to be
don't mess with Texas. Don't California my Texas. And I'm
trying to highlight how we're not going downhill. We are
(31:52):
kind of almost at the bottom, and we really do
need to start getting this under control, because we do
have a beautiful state, but honestly, we are, we're really
slipping lately.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Well. I think reports like this, a picture's worth a
thousand words, and a narrated video like this, especially because
I'm a father and you're closer to being my child's
age than you are mine. So I'm as a father
seeing this young lady in this situation and kind of cringing, thinking,
(32:25):
my goodness, I hope something doesn't happen. But it's important
that you've done this and you're in the midst of it,
and you're walking around and showing it to us, and
it really is I think it's important that people see this.
I guess my last question I got about a minute
before we go to break. Has anybody the Governor's office,
the Lieutenant governor, Has anybody in Texas government reached out
(32:47):
and said, hey, thanks for your report. Can we get
that video or anything else?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Nope? Not as of now. I've had Keim Paxston's office
reach out on occasion, so I know that they have
their eye on my work, which I'm happy about. But
the Governor's office, Nope, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well that's unfortunate. Savannah Hernandez, you are doing great work.
Please take care of yourself, be as safe as you can,
but continue to be fearless as you tell these stories,
because I do think it makes a difference. I really do.
Thank you for being our guests.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I see so many young people. I don't know how
this young lady is. I'm sure she probably appreciate being
called young by me. Nobody does. But I'm fifty four
and she seems very young. She seems a little bit
older than my kids. There's so many young people that
are doing good work now, and I think it's important
that we not just paint with too broad a brush,
and that we give them an audience, that we promote
(33:50):
their work. This will be all over our site, and yeah,
I'd like more people to see what she's doing.
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't saw you saw the garage.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I see the garage, but I don't saw the garage.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You are speaking incorrectly. You are going to range the
King's English, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
See see shut out.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I think that you punch. I think you punch. I
think you're okay with you.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
You okay, we're punching, you know, I think, And I
love Colin, and I think towards the end he started
to punch a little harder.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But like if there grooves, I mean.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Like this dude has to be knots over the head
like hard right, like there is no niceties with him,
like at all, Like you you go clean off on him,
right because we in these hot ass Texas streets, Honey,
y'all know we got governor hot wheels down there, Come
on now, and the only thing hot about him is
(01:11):
that he is a hot ass mask honey. So so yes, yes, yes, yes, you.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Want twice times.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
But the fact that you literally are going to plan
enemy attacks on a signal chat and then you don't
even know who's in the signal chat, and then y'all
gonna come at us and act like people of color
are the problem.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Are that women are the problem?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Like baby, you probably need a good black woman in
the room who can check you and tell you that,
first of all, you shouldn't be doing this on signore
anything else. But y'all still mad about hims servers?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Is that what I hear? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
So anyway, Literally, I don't know if like your homeboy
was drunk at the time that he was sending these
messages or what, but clearly this administration is not ready
for prime time.
Speaker 8 (02:19):
There has been no oppression for the white man in
this country.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You'll tell me which white.
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Men were dragged out of their homes. You'll tell me
which one of them got dragged all the way across
an ocean and told that you are gonna go at work,
We are gonna seal your wives, We are gonna rape
your wives. That didn't happen. That is oppression. We didn't
ask to be here. Were not the same migrants did
(02:47):
y'all constantly come up against. We didn't run away from home.
We were stolen. So yeah, we are gonna sit here
and be offended. When you want to sit here and
act like and and don't let it escape you that
it is.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
White man on this side.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Of the isle telling us people of color on this
side of the aisle, that that y'all are the ones
being oppressed, That y'all are the ones that are being harmed.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Your wants twice, three times, lady, you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know this surprises people want to say it. But
Jasmine Crockett is not as stupid as she puts on.
There's audio of her talking like a completely normal person.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But once she got in Congress, she started saying, girl,
were gonna stand up to Elon Musk. Were gonna show
him what we gonna do. He not gonna come to
our hood.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And so she started costplaying this this hood rat, and
I think she's smarter than that. People don't believe me
because you've only seen this character of hers. This is
clip four oh one she was. She was on Jimmy
Kimmel Live, which hasn't been funny in a long time. Sad,
it's sad to see what happened to him where she
(04:20):
said that people don't vote on policy, they vote on vibes.
Only dumb people. But then again, that's all she knows.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I don't think that honestly, policy is what we need
to be finding about, because guess what. Can't nobody tell
you what Donald Trump's policies were at all? Like you
asked him, like what policies? I don't know, but he's
gonna bring down across the age. Well, last time I
take that didn't happen, right, It'd be like, well, we're
saying it's Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
No, Donald said he knows nothing about.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
That, and then what happened all the Project twenty twenty
five started to come around, So like, I don't even
think that it's policy.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I think that people are voting on vibes. But four
o two, Asmin Crockett told a story about how she
decided to become an attorney, I did Little Chaper Horrors.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
So when I was in college at Rhodes in Memphis,
I ended up doing.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Little Shoper Horror. What part did you play in that?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I was one of the women that was singing okay, Yes,
I was in the course, okay, And so I ended
up doing it, and the mock trial coach recruited me
to do mock trial and I was like no, no, no.
By this time, I decided I was going to be
an accountant. Didn't want to do Ante seasonal. More still didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Want talk to people.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So so then he goes, no, no, no, you shouldn't do
mock trial, and I said, that's for the kids going
to law school. Long story short, he recruits me. I
do mock trial. Just my senior year, I become a
national All American. He says, you should go to law school.
So I applied, got a full ride and said fine,
if I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
All quit okay. So that's how you decided to become
a term because you were good at monk Trial's. Well,
that's odd. Let's go back in the way back machine.
The twenty nineteen credit goes to May's on Twitter and
she said that she was the victim of a hate
crime or two. You're not sure how many. Well that's funny.
(06:13):
Did you forget that story?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I had a great background as relates to my ability
to deal with numbers, and it was gonna pay well.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So I was like, I'll be an accountant.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Unfortunately, around my junior year, I was the victim of
a hate crime or two, and so were a group
of my friends. All at the same time.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Cars were keyed with the N word.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
We received hate mail in our on campus mailboxes, and
at that time my school hired the Cochrane Firm and
there was a lawyer who graduated from University of Houston
who was assigned to me. And it was the first
time in my life that I felt helpless, and I
was like, I want to help people that are going
through what I've just experienced. And at that point in time,
(07:00):
I decided that I was going to say for the
l s at.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Crockett claims to have been the victim of a series
of hate crimes, and the media ran with it because
at that time she was running for Congress and nobody
was asking questions. One journalist, though, Tom Pappert of the
Tennessee Star, did some digging in May of twenty twenty four,
(07:27):
and then the headline came out, Jasmine Crockett silent amid
lack of evidence for alleged two thousand and two hate crimes.
Again credit to journalist Tom Pappert for that. Well. Representative
Jasmine Crockett did not respond to a Wednesday inquiry. The
article says from the Tennessee Star seeking more information to
(07:50):
corroborate her previous claim that she and seventeen students suffered
a series of hate crimes on the Rhodes College campus
in two thousand and two. Well, I won't read you
this whole article, but it's sad when these people will
(08:11):
lie about being a victim of a hate crime because
in some way it gives them credibility. That's really weird,
isn't it. I don't care if somebody doc stakes shoot.
You can't shoot at Michael. It's been Let's talk about
health for a moment, shall we. Let's talk about our
(08:33):
government and big corporations working together to kill Americans and
make us sick. Doctor J. Bodicharia, this is Clippnumer five
oh three more. I don't remember if we played this
the other day or not, but I want to play
this again because it's part of a series of things
I want to go back to back to back on.
He said that Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F.
(08:55):
Kennedy Jr. Has asked him to initiate a study on
the cause of the rise in autism.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So I just wanted to make a couple of comments
about the role of the NIH in all this. One
of the major problems that I think that the parents
around the country have faced is when they go to
the scientific literature, they come back with a stone wall.
They hear that, well, the science hasn't been done, it's
not rigorous. And part of the problem is that scientists
(09:22):
are afraid to ask questions, basic questions that parents want
answers to. Sector Kennedy has asked me to, for instance,
to initiate a study on autism, the cause of the
rise in autism. It's a question that is at the
front of the minds of so many parents across the
country worried about their kids, and yet scientific progress on
(09:46):
this has been slow because scientists are frankly scared to
ask the question. The goal of my leadership the NIH
is going to make it so that those questions are
no longer taboo among scientists.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Scientists need to work on the things.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
That actually are at the top of the minds of
the American people. The mission of the NIH is to
do research that extends the life expectancy, make and improves
the health of the American people.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
For since twenty twelve, the United States has seen no
increase in life expectancy none, and it collapsed during the
pandemic and only recently as it started to come back
up to twenty nineteen levels. That is a situation that
is a catastrophic failure of the American public health system,
and it's frankly is also a failure of American scientists
(10:37):
to address the key drivers of this enormous crime disease
crisis we're facing. And I'm really grateful to Secretary Kennedy
for his leadership, and I'm grateful to President Trump for
his leadership in giving us the opportunity to turn the
ingenuity of American scientists to the questions of how to
(10:57):
improve American health and to make American health the end.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Now here is skip down clip number six oh seven.
This is much respected, at least by me, Doctor Peter
McCollough talking about autism was one in ten thousand when
I was a kid. It's now one in thirty six. Folks,
what are they doing to us? And why is nobody
(11:21):
asking any questions before this?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Autism was one in ten thousand when I was a kid,
It's now one in thirty six. It's the biggest epidemic
of childhood in US history. Autism is on fire right now. Sure,
we have greater screening and detection, but there is a
massive bona fide increase.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What we know is it.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Appears to be associated with the expanding childhood vaccine schedule.
Up on the left, when I was a kid, you
can see that there was a three shots nineteen sixty.
Now at child today faces one hundred and eight shots
at one of the visits between age one and two.
There's thirteen shots administered altogether in children, and it's been
(12:10):
well demonstrated that if a child gets sick with a
big round of shots and they have a seizure, there's
about a forty percent chance that the brain is injured
and they develop autism.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Let's talk about the COVID vaccine. Remember that folks were
kicked off of Facebook, including me or pointing out that
the COVID vaccine was not a vaccine and it could
kill you. Well, here's a flashback to leaked audio. Oh sorry,
leaked video. We have the video, but I can only
play you the audio, obviously of Mark Zuckerberg. This is
(12:43):
six oh five leaked video of Mark Zuckerberg warning his
staff not to take the COVID shot, so you weren't
allowed to question it on the page on Facebook. But
he's secretly telling his staff, don't y'all take that.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
Shots, because we.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Modifying peoples town down streams.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Doctor Joseph Lodoppo, the Surgeon General of Florida, is a
guy that if you dig into what he says and does,
I think a lot of you would like him. He
pointed something out, this is where the rubber hits the road.
We can talk about what's going on Fox News and
all that, but this is what's really happening. He says.
Parents are struggling to find pediatricians because some pediatricians will
(13:44):
not treat kids who don't follow the CDC's exact quote
unquote vaccine schedule. They are bought and paid for by
big Pharma, and if you won't do what big Pharma does,
they won't see you as a doctor. That is is
really an indictment of those people.
Speaker 11 (14:04):
We here in the Department of Health so often about
certain themes, and one of those themes is moms and
dads who are having trouble finding a pediatrician because in
their area, the pediatricians will not see their kid if
they deviate at all from the vaccine schedule issued by
(14:27):
the CDC. And we are in a new era there
are more people now asking questions about what's really best
for my kid. After the last few years we've been
in they're way more parents. Most of these parents aren't
even parents that don't want any vaccines for their kids.
That's the minority of the parents. Most of them are
parents who just don't feel like it's appropriate it's in
(14:51):
the best interest for their kid to get four vaccines
and one visit, which is part of the CDC schedule.
And there are pediatric practices I can tell you in
Penell's County, most of them they will not even entertain deviations.
So parents who just want to spread their vaccines out
because they think that's what's in the best interest for
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their kid, and I find that very sympathetic. I am
very sympathetic to that cause. And some of these parents
have the resources. It's not easy to pay out a
pocket to see a doctor who will see their kid
and respect their preferences. Some of them have to travel far.
One of the senators we met with shared the story
of a close family member of his who actually has
(15:34):
to travel and talks to the senator about this because
this particular mom just wants to spread out the vaccines
or has some preferences that aren't in line with the CDCs.
So people are having to sometimes do extraordinary things because
they're trying to do what they think is best for
their kid. So I think it's important for those people
(15:56):
to be able to have access. Senator Davis quoted a
part of the Hippocratic Code, which says words that are
about respecting and thinking about and caring about your patient right,
the patient that you're taking care of, not just steamrolling
their preferences in because you think that something else is
(16:17):
a better idea. You parents, they have a right. That's
what it means to be a patient, and that's what
it means to be in a patient position relationship. So
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
She was twelve, I was thirty, but anything, it was
wonderful to have you, mister President. The Michael Barry Joe
turning points USA is doing some really good work these days.
Charlie Kirk is out on university campuses doing what Ben
(16:53):
Shapiro used to do. I'm glad for these young people
that are willing to do this because I don't want
to go out and have screaming matches with these people.
I don't want to have to expose the purple haired,
crazy fat lady with a bone through her nose that
has daddy issues. It's mad at Trump explaining why everything
(17:14):
she says is not true. But thank god, there are
people willing to do that, and Charlie klirk Kirk has
been doing that, and he's got a team of folks,
one of whom is named Savannah Hernandez. I didn't know
she was turning point. I don't know why this showed
up on my algorithm. Maybe because we have an affiliate
in Austin, my son's at UT. I went to UT
(17:37):
Law School, and I love Austin. I know that. When
I say I love Austin to people in Texas now
they just roll their eyes because it's so it's become
like San Francisco. We love San Francisco. My wife and
I used to go and stay in San Francisco. Austin
and San Francisco were two of our favorite season in
the world, along with London, which is now the United
Caliphate is the United Kingdom. But anyway, back to my point,
(17:58):
I come across this video and this is the kind
of work people need to be doing. I'm not going
to do it. I'm too lazy, I'm not enterprising enough
at this point in my career. But thank god, people
are willing to do this. So Savannah Hernandez posted a
video of herself and she says, I found the Harm
Reduction Center quote unquote that's handing out free needles and
(18:19):
glass pipes to drug users in Austin, Texas. This is
Austin becoming San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis. These were once
great cities that have now devolved into one big pile
of homeless crap and drugies and theft and violence. And
(18:40):
it's really sad because they were great cities. Anyway, here
is her story. It's three minutes long, a little longer
than might have intended, but I couldn't find a spot
to cut it because it's so darned good. And it'll
be posted to our website and my Facebook. It's already
been posted to my Twitter, and then we'll talk to
Savannah after that. So here is her report.
Speaker 12 (19:01):
Hernandez in Austin, Texas, standing in front of the Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Harm Reduction Alliance.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Now, this is one of the places in Austin that
is handing out free needles and free glass pipes to
drug users across the city. And to be quite honest
with you guys, so many people kept telling me that
Austin's homeless and drug crisis was comparable to San Francisco
or even Portland, and I thought that was crazy until
I started touring some of these homeless encampments and there
were exposed, dirty needles everywhere. Now, after touring these encampments,
(19:31):
of course, I wanted to know where all of these
needles were coming from. And very similar to Portland and
San Francisco, this organization is handing out free needles, free types.
They even gave me four different kinds depending on which
type of drug use, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Was interested in.
Speaker 12 (19:49):
They also, again are handing out narcan condoms, even the
cookers and the rubbers that anybody needs to use for
proper drug use. These are very similar the programs that
have completely destroyed San Francisco, and I was truly shocked
to see this here in Austin, Texas. Now, this area
labels itself a safe space for drug users, and when
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I came to this location to pick up this arm
reduction kit, there were so many people outside of this
area that were strung out on drugs. One of the
first things that I experienced. In walking in was a
man who was screaming about how his life was gang
raked and then forced intinue an abortion. The staffers were
kind of just listening to him talk and then laughed
him off. They took me to the back and they
(20:31):
gave me this big bag of supplies. And once I
was inside, there were so many signs on the walls reading, hey,
you can use drugs in the bathroom, just make sure
to tell somebody, and basically encouraging drug use. Now, not
only that, but a woman was sitting on a couch
and her dog apparently had gotten into her drug supplies,
but her dog was freaking out. It was just a
very chaotic environment. And this is right next to other
(20:56):
small businesses, by the way, and we're also about a
half a mile away from which so I just wanted
to give you guys an example of some of the
organizations that are here in Austin. I was truly shocked
to see this.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
This isn't the only.
Speaker 12 (21:09):
One, by the way, There's another one called the vent
Help Life Point. They offer similar services. I am just
genuinely floored that the drug crisis in the city has
gotten this bad. I mean, I was even sitting at
a stoplight. I'm here to do a documentary on the
homeless crisis, and as I'm sitting, a homeless woman comes
and picks up what looks like a weapon off of
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the ground, is threatening somebody and screaming at somebody, and
I'm just there at the stoplight with other drivers. She
then is starting to screen and point the weapon at us.
We can't go anywhere, We're just stuck. And this type
of story is very common in Austin. So I just
wanted to come highlight the various programs that are being
allowed to prosper here. Free needles, free nartcan, free cookers.
(21:53):
But it's just disappointing because I have seen how these
exact same programs that completely destroyed San Francisco. I've spoken
to other addicts as well, can even say that these
programs have destroyed their cities and only enabled drug addiction,
And even to homeless agree.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The liberal mindset is just give more drugs to mentally
ill people and that will solve all the problems. I
think our drug laws are crazy. I think we imprison
people from marijuana possession when we shouldn't. I think we
don't know how to cope with peoples, with people's desire
(22:34):
to escape their mind through alcohol and drugs. But this
is not the answer. Okay, we can all agree this
is not the answer. Savannah Hernandez is our guests. Savannah.
First of all, congratulations on your courage and fearlessness, which
is the greatest asset I think a person could have
(22:55):
doing what you do, and so few people do. And secondly,
this is really well done. I want people to see
the video that goes with it because it's fantastic. Thank
you so.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Much, Michael. I have been doing this for a long time,
so I've gotten very good at it. And you know, previously,
when I've done these types of reports, I've gotten physically
attacked by the homeless. So this is actually probably one
of the more relaxed cities that I've gone and reported in.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, what I appreciate is you don't you know sometimes
I feel like you're seeing something and you're smelling it
and you're feeling it, and it's tense and there's anxiety
and fear and sadness and sickness in the air, and
so there is a desire to overdo the You you
were very song fraud You just told the story without
(23:46):
raising your voice, without trying to hype us up, and
I think that gave you a lot of credibility. Do
you have a connection to Austin? What made you go
to Austin to do this?
Speaker 12 (23:58):
I do.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
I've lived on and off in Austin since twenty eighteen,
and I actually lived there when they passed the initial
ordinance allowing public camping. So I really watched the city
completely devolve into grade as we opened that can of worms.
Now in twenty twenty one, they, you know, the citizens
revokes that ordinance. They voted to no longer allow public
(24:19):
camping in Austin. But of course, once you start allowing
public camping, it's really hard to.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Fix that problem.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
And Austin, which is the fifth biggest city in Texas,
comes in at number one in terms of having the
highest homeless population. So this has been an issue for
years that I've watched. And I love Austin as well.
I was born in Texas, I've lived on and aut
in Austin. It's a beautiful city. And like I said
too in my report, I've gone to Portland, I've gone
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to Seattle, San Francisco, Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, so I've
seen the direct result of not only lacks homeless policies,
but the drug crisis that eventually ow entailed. And what's
happening right now on the West Coast is those cities
Portland and San Francisco have really had to reverse a
lot of those lacks policies that they passed with homelessness
(25:11):
and drug use because their cities got so out of control.
So again, that's why I really wanted to express my
shock and concern.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That this hold right there. Savannah old Rut there, Savanna Hernandez.
You can find her on Instagram, Twitter, probably everywhere else.
She's returning point USA. This report she's done out of Austin. Wow,
it is disturbing and enlightening. This class of the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame is not the worst that
(25:39):
could be clear well, but did not include Oasis, and
there was a real pitch made by fans for them
to go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe they should
have or not. They were hot for a minute. I'll
tell you what you couldn't you talk about street people.
I lived in Austin in the early He's going to
(26:00):
law school, and then I went to England to do
another law degree. And I could tell you you couldn't
walk in London in the mid nineties when Wonderwall was out.
Every busker sitting out in front of every bar in
London or Ireland, or for that matter, Birmingham or any
other city Liverpool. They would sit outside the bars and
(26:20):
they would play this with their guitar case open and
people tossing coins in there. I guess that's what makes
some buskers right, I should have I guess I don't
need to say that, but this was the song. It
was not uncommon that you'd walk down down an alley
this song would be somebody be playing this, You turn
and somebody be somewhere else in the song playing the
(26:41):
same song halfway down. Savannah Hernandez, where do you live now?
Speaker 10 (26:47):
I'm currently living in San Antonio. Again. I did live
in Austin, but it was a difficult city to live
in because not only is it really turning into California
in terms of how expensive it is, but also in
terms of the homeless and drug crisis. It's actually a
terrifying city to live in, which is unfortunate for me
to say. And again too. Yeah, I really try not
(27:11):
to dramatize my reporting. I've really just try to tell
people exactly how I'm feeling, what I'm seeing, and more importantly,
with other residents are experiencing. And I think that the
word terrifying is a fair one to use because you
do have residents being randomly attacked. You have children that
are now being exposed to open needles on Texas trails
(27:34):
in Austin, on the green Belt. I mean again, it's
really sad to see how San Francisco is slowly making
its way over to Texas.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, and for people outside of Texas who may
not know, I suppose most people do. Austin is a
special city in Texas, and I'm okay with that. It
was always far more liberal than the rest of Texas,
but it was the cultural center, the epicenter of high culture,
artistic culture, instead of Texas art music. Sixth Street and
(28:09):
the bars can't go there anymore because the fights and
the filth. It's the state capitol, so it's kind of
the Baton Rouge of Louisiana. You know, you see this,
and it's unfortunate, you know, have the big university there.
It was a play. And you have topography. You have
great topography in Austin. You have the hill country we
call it, and which would be laughable for people who
(28:31):
live in mountainous ranges, you know, my Tennessee listeners would laugh.
But for us, we like it and it's it's wonderful.
And then here you have what they're calling a harm
reduction center that is an attraction, a nuisance that is ruining,
ruining this town. Savanna, take me through the moment. By
the way, I love san Antone. Going to San Antone
(28:53):
this weekend. It's one of my favorite cities in the world.
I love San anton Walk me through. You say, I
walked down with a bag of seventy needles, glass pipes, narcan, etc.
So who did you claim? Because I'm looking at you,
you're a very attractive woman, You're well put together, you
don't look like a street user. How were you able
(29:15):
to go in and walk out with all this stuff?
Speaker 10 (29:19):
So I basically went in and I stated that we
were touring homeless encampments and we wanted to be able
to bring back supplies for the homeless, right and this
is the bag of supplies that we were given. I mean,
I was even at specifics of do you know what
type of needles the people that you're trying to help
like using. And these are outreach programs that happen all
(29:40):
throughout Texas. The Texas Harm Reduction Alliance isn't the only one.
There is also another program that does similar outreach services.
And what they do is they go to all of
these hotspots throughout Austin. And when I say hotspots, I
mean drug deals are happening in these areas. You have
homeless encampments, and they are essentially bringing these packs of needles,
(30:02):
narcan cookers, those rubber tie offs for their arms. Again,
I had four different types of glass pipes that they
were handing out to clear drug addicts. And as I
walked up to the building, the entire area is completely
surrounded by drug addicts. When I went to the back,
there was probably about forty or fifty people actively on drugs.
(30:24):
I think I told the story in the report that
you played as well that a woman's dog had gotten
into her drug supply, so the dog was freaking out.
So it was just a very dark and chaotic environment.
It was a dark energy and the most disturbing thing
about this too is this area is a half a
mile away from a church. It's actually half a mile
away from the church that my friend attends. I've gone
(30:47):
to that church myself, and as you were walking to
church on Sunday, you were walking past heaps of homeless people,
not homeless people, drug users who were sitting in alleyways
who are surrounding the church. And you know, I spoke
to my friend as well, and he goes, yeah, I mean,
it's not out of the norm for my family and
I to be accosted or harassed by a drug user
(31:09):
as we're walking to church every Sunday. So again, I
really wanted to bring light and attention to this because
there's a lot going on in Texas right now in
terms of, for example, the mosques that are being built
up north in Dallas, in the Frisco area, in terms
of us just having corrupted from the attorneys and district
(31:29):
court judges that are continuously allowing criminals out and allowing
crime to prosper. In the Houston area, and then in
Austin you have this huge homeless and drug crisis. So
I wanted to really just shine light on the fact
that Texas. You know, our model is supposed to be
don't mess with Texas. Don't California my Texas. And I'm
trying to highlight how we're not going downhill. We are
(31:52):
kind of almost at the bottom, and we really do
need to start getting this under control, because we do
have a beautiful state, but honestly, we are, we're really
slipping lately.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Well. I think reports like this, a picture's worth a
thousand words, and a narrated video like this, especially because
I'm a father and you're closer to being my child's
age than you are mine. So I'm as a father
seeing this young lady in this situation and kind of cringing, thinking,
(32:25):
my goodness, I hope something doesn't happen. But it's important
that you've done this and you're in the midst of it,
and you're walking around and showing it to us, and
it really is I think it's important that people see this.
I guess my last question I got about a minute
before we go to break. Has anybody the Governor's office,
the Lieutenant governor, Has anybody in Texas government reached out
(32:47):
and said, hey, thanks for your report. Can we get
that video or anything else?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Nope? Not as of now. I've had Keim Paxston's office
reach out on occasion, so I know that they have
their eye on my work, which I'm happy about. But
the Governor's office, Nope, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well that's unfortunate. Savannah Hernandez, you are doing great work.
Please take care of yourself, be as safe as you can,
but continue to be fearless as you tell these stories,
because I do think it makes a difference. I really do.
Thank you for being our guests.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I see so many young people. I don't know how
this young lady is. I'm sure she probably appreciate being
called young by me. Nobody does. But I'm fifty four
and she seems very young. She seems a little bit
older than my kids. There's so many young people that
are doing good work now, and I think it's important
that we not just paint with too broad a brush,
and that we give them an audience, that we promote
(33:50):
their work. This will be all over our site, and yeah,
I'd like more people to see what she's doing.
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