1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. Look at me, sure, 3 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: look at me. Sure, I'm the company now. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: Sure, Taylor, I'm looking right at you. 5 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: My administration has been taking. 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 3: Fast, decisive action to solve this crisis. We'll win the 7 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 3: fight against the fraudsters. But the political gamesmanship we're seeing 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 3: from Republicans is only making that fight harder. 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 1: We've got conspiracy theorists. 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 3: Right wing YouTubers breaking into our daycares demanding access to 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 3: our children. 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: We've got the President. 13 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 3: Of the United States demonizing our Smali neighbors and wrongfully 14 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 3: confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. 15 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: It's discussed and it's dangerous. 16 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 3: Republicans are playing politics with the future. 17 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: Of the state. It's shameful. 18 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 4: In the past three years, eighty seven defendants have been charged, 19 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 4: sixty one convicted. The majority of them are Somali American. 20 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 4: Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali population. The perpetrators are 21 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 4: accused of ripping off state run programs intended to feed 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 4: low income kids, house the disabled, and provide services to 23 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 4: autistic children. 24 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: What you're seeing is the ultimate opportunity. 25 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 5: Cost of electing a vacuus virtue signaler with no skills 26 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 5: at all. While he was pushing tampons and trans and 27 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 5: men's rooms, the Somalis were ripping off the state like 28 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 5: it was a twenty four hour mini mart. 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 3: Because I reflect on this moment with my family and 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 3: my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion 31 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 3: that I can't give a political campaign by all. Every 32 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 3: minute that I spend defending my own political interest would 33 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 3: be a minute I can't spend defending the people of 34 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 3: Minnesota against the criminals who pray on your generosity. 35 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: Well as we expected Tim Waltz announcing yesterday that he 36 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 2: would not be seeking re election to be the governor 37 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 2: of Minnesota, this occurring at the last minute, when all 38 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 2: preparations had been made for his re election run, and 39 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: shortly before the election. 40 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: I suspect. 41 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 2: That this is about more than what has been revealed, 42 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: and that this is about what we'll be revealed, that 43 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: there is more to be disclosed. If in fact, this 44 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: investigation by the FBI and the lawyers of the Department 45 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: of Justice is proceeding a pace. 46 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: Waltz might not know every detail, but he knows. 47 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 2: That there is a lot out there, and that it 48 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 2: only gets worse tip of the iceberg. 49 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: So why does he resign? What good does that do? 50 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,119 Speaker 2: If he resigns, it blunts the edge on the desire 51 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 2: to prosecute him. You ever notice that when someone is 52 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 2: in office and they're caught committing a crime, a major part, 53 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: and sometimes the only part of their plea is that 54 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 2: they will step down and not seek reelection. Well, what 55 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 2: about the guy that works at a chemical plan. He 56 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: doesn't have that option. Hey, I did this horrible thing. 57 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: You caught me? You what? Hey what? 58 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: I'll quit my job at the plant as my punishment. 59 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 2: In politics, that becomes the punishment. It is an acknowledgment 60 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: that the only thing that matters to that person is 61 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: the power and the position, and that they will give 62 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 2: that up as their punishment. The average person doesn't have 63 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: that opportunity. We'll get to those things by first, Ramon, 64 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 2: did you hear about the cat that swallowed the whole 65 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 2: ball of yarn. 66 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: Shed? Mittens? 67 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: Well, I told you the story about my friend and 68 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: the girl who. 69 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: Who the upper decker. I'll leave it at that. 70 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: I told you about the girl that left the upper 71 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 2: decker for my friend. 72 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember. 73 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: But she also stole his dog when she broke into 74 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 2: the house through. 75 00:04:58,880 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: The dog door. 76 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 2: The worst part about that is he had a camera 77 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 2: in the house, so the camera captures her crawling through 78 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 2: the dog door before she begins to commit her series 79 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: of very weird, unhinged crimes. She's so unhinged that my buddy, 80 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 2: a marine who does not shy away from a fight 81 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: in fact, in fact, goes looking for him. When I 82 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 2: first told the story and posted it to social media, 83 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 2: said maybe you should take it down. She may see it, 84 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 2: to which I said, if you're scared of her, that 85 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 2: tells me a lot, because this guy's not scared of anybody. 86 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 2: I mean he should be. It's not like, you know, 87 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 2: he's Mike Tyson, but he's crazy. He fears nothing or 88 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,119 Speaker 2: he fears no man. He does fear this crazy woman, 89 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 2: that's for sure. This from the Crazy Girlfriend Files. Investigators 90 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: say a woman burning her boyfriend's close on the barbecue 91 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 2: pit caused a huge apartment fire in Northeast Terrace County 92 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: that damaged thirteen units. 93 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: The story from Fox twenty six. 94 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 6: It all started at this apartment complex around noon. 95 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: That is when. 96 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 6: Firefighters say they first got the call about the domestic disturbance. 97 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 6: They found a fire when they arrived after a woman 98 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 6: lit her boyfriend's close on fire and a barbecue pit 99 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 6: on their balcony. Now authority to say she believed the 100 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 6: fire was out, but it re lit and quickly spread 101 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 6: through the building. In total, thirteen apartment units were damaged 102 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 6: by fire and smoke. The damage so severe that the 103 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 6: second floor collapsed into the first. 104 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: Early when they had little they thought they had. 105 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 7: I guess they thought they had put it all the 106 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 7: way out, but it started back up. 107 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: It's probably like sparked back up a little dam broom 108 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: they came back back. I had working again to put 109 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: the fire. 110 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 8: From neighbors reported a small fire to rekindle from the 111 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 8: earlier fire. Today came out and while we were investigating 112 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 8: the fire, bounces of small hotspots. The guys are going 113 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 8: in to check it out and one of them felt 114 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 8: to the floor that was collapsed that you get pull 115 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 8: on the floor. He's being transport to the hospital right now. 116 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 6: Condition That firefighter was taking to Memorial Herman and as 117 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 6: you heard there, he is in stable condition. Fortunately no 118 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 6: residents were hurt. As firefighters continued to work on this 119 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 6: place just behind me. 120 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: That's the one. I haven't seen a picture of her. 121 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 2: But on the matrix, I know, I know what quadrant 122 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 2: shoot belongs in. There's just certain women, my goodness. 123 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: But you know what else? 124 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 2: She's going to burn his clothes on a fire pit 125 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 2: like that? You know the corollary that goes to that. 126 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 2: You know why men go back to women like that? 127 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 2: My goodness alive. You know what's amazing is in her 128 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: mind that made sense at that point in her mind, 129 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 2: the logical, rational, reasonable thing to do would be to 130 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: take his clothes and put him on the barbecue pit. 131 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: What is the is it lunsfruit? What is this stuff? 132 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: The lighter that everybody use? 133 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 2: It would kiss me off every day to see what's 134 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: going on in. 135 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: My country to Michael Mary show, and this is my. 136 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 9: Damn country, I thought for this country, this is mine. 137 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 2: The official tune as conciliary for the show, Anna Johnston writes, 138 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 2: tis our happy Epiphany, that is King's Day. You can 139 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 2: now officially eat kingcakes. 140 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: Every year. 141 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: Marty Gross season begins on twelfth Night, which is January sixth. 142 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 2: Twelfth Night represents the Christian holy day of the Epiphany. 143 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: The season is a time of celebration before Christian Lent 144 00:08:53,960 --> 00:09:00,080 Speaker 2: and as you know, lasts until Fat Tuesday. 145 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,119 Speaker 1: No, it's not named after an eighties pop star. It's Epiphany. Epiphany. 146 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: She doesn't think you're alone now, She doesn't think you're 147 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: alone now. 148 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 2: Rama January sixth marks the feast of the Epiphany, when 149 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: the threes Wise Men visited the Christ Child. 150 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: In New Orleans. 151 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 2: It also means the launch of Carnival season. So Happy Carnival, 152 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: or for you, Brazilian's Carnival. May the odds be ever 153 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 2: in your favor. You know, I've never been one to 154 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: get real into things, you know, I'm kind of steady 155 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 2: as she goes going. But it's amazing to me. There's 156 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 2: people forty fifty sixty who they've been getting dressed up 157 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 2: for Marty grow They've been you know, their float, their 158 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 2: Bacchus group. 159 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: It's incredible. And I thought I knew. 160 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: I thought I knew from the outside as a passerby. 161 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: Of the culture for so many years. 162 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 2: But when we first added WJBO out of Baton Rouge 163 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 2: and then WR and O out of New Orleans, and 164 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 2: I was spending a lot of time there to meet 165 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 2: my show sponsors, to ingratiate myself with the sales crew 166 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 2: and with the administrative staff and all of that. 167 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: I was just amazed. You know, there's several. 168 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 2: Months before all this starts, and then there's Marty Grass season, 169 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 2: and then when it's done, you know, you say, hey, 170 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 2: do we need to do this? 171 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,839 Speaker 1: Well, I need some time, you know, I got, I got, 172 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: And you. 173 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: Think to yourself, my goodness, how much how much out 174 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 2: of your production does this whole thing take? And it's 175 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 2: a lot. I mean it's a big deal. It's it's 176 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: it's like they're going through an irs audit, you know, 177 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 2: a massive irs audit every year, or a massive you know, 178 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 2: your kid's wedding. You do just months that are kind 179 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 2: of lost and all right, I'm coming up rare now. 180 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: And they do this. 181 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 2: Every single year. And the truth of the matter is, 182 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 2: if it was left to me, tradition would die. Because tradition, 183 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 2: when we talk about tradition, the stomping of the greats, 184 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 2: the running of the bulls, Marty Graw, whatever that might be, Halloween, 185 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 2: it requires a lot of time from people. 186 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: And yeah, what is oh, why. 187 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: Is Anna Johnson my official Cuness conciliary instead of Eddie Martin, 188 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 2: Eddie Martini. 189 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: No, well she is cutter, that's true. 190 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 2: All the way is kind of cute for an old 191 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 2: man seventy years old, you get thirty two inch waist 192 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 2: seventy two years old. I'm sorry, not seventy two seventy 193 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 2: seventy seventy. But you know, if you want the honest truth, 194 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: and I'm not I don't want to speak ill of Eddie, 195 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 2: but you asked the question and you deserve an answer. 196 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 2: I feel like, Eddie, these kuon ass edges if kind 197 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 2: of rounded out a little bit. 198 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: Have you noticed that? Yeah, he's he's lost. No, No, 199 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not criticizing. I'm just I'm observed. 200 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 2: That's what I do observe, and maybe if I'd observe 201 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: and keep it myself will be fine. 202 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: He has lost a little. 203 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 2: You see people from from foreign countries that come here 204 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 2: and and some of them never lose that accent. 205 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 1: And you think, man, here, you're seventy years old, how 206 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: did you not? How'd you you know? 207 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 2: How did you not kind of pick up a little 208 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 2: of the local patois out of all this? But instead 209 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 2: you still talk like you just came off the boat. 210 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 2: And then you see those people who you wouldn't know 211 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 2: they were from another country. They they kind of they 212 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 2: they shaved down the edges of their accent and their 213 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 2: their way of thought. 214 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: He he's a fan of LSU. Now, he's not obsessive. 215 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 2: He when they moved offices, I don't even think he 216 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 2: put up all his LSU stuff he used to. 217 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: I mean it was over the top and. 218 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 2: You'd walk in there and it felt sticky in there, 219 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 2: you know, like a Randazzo's Marty King Kik had just 220 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 2: been finished and there was just sticky everywhere. Yeah, yeah, 221 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 2: it wasn't was it? 222 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: Where did he get his from? 223 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 2: But anyway, he's just he's not the He's not the 224 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 2: He did ask me the other day, I was kind 225 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 2: of proud of him because I don't know where it 226 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 2: came from. And he said, is Crockett gonna go to LSU? 227 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 2: Has Crockett considered LSU? And so that made me happy 228 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 2: that at least he hasn't completely forgotten where he came from. 229 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 2: An interesting thing is happening in the Democrat party. Four 230 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 2: Harris County Democrat judicial candidates have withdrawn from their races 231 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 2: after their primary opponents filed lawsuits alleging their candidacy filings 232 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 2: contained forge signatures and other irregularities. We say every year, 233 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: every cycle, the only time you're ever going to burn 234 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: a Democrat in Harris County is another Democrat to do it. 235 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 2: So you have four candidates for whom it is alleged 236 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 2: they forged the signatures to get onto the ballot. 237 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: Now everyone knows what's going on. 238 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 2: This is what NPR did a big national story on 239 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: a few years ago in twenty nineteen, and it was 240 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 2: called BGM Black Girl Magic. So Rodney Ellis is recruiting 241 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 2: these black women, some of them have never practiced law, 242 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 2: and they're going to be a judge. Now, can you imagine, 243 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: high you're a high powered lawyer and you're ending up 244 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 2: in court. Your client has paid you a lot of 245 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 2: money to be a tactician, a strategist, a smooth operator 246 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 2: to get them through this lawsuit. And you got somebody 247 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 2: up there that has never practice law, much less than 248 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 2: a judge, and she snapping her fingers, and all you 249 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 2: could think at any moment is you know what? I 250 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 2: could see her burning her boyfriend's clothes on the barbecue 251 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 2: pick and burning down the entire apartment complex. You know 252 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 2: I could see her as a Harris County Treasurer stealing 253 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 2: somebody's car. 254 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: I really could. I could see. 255 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 2: Her snapping her fingers, losing her six inch nails, getting 256 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 2: their wigs snatched off. This ain't the sharpest pencil in pack. 257 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 2: But what has happened now is these white males on 258 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 2: the Harris County Judiciary who've been who've been targeted by 259 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 2: Rodney Ellis with black women are fighting back, and women. 260 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: To Michael Berry show, It's a damn shame. It's a 261 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. 262 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 2: The four Democrats withdrawing from the Harris County Judicial Sherry 263 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 2: Democrat primary racist Alison Mathis a candidate for the one 264 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 2: hundred and eightieth Annie Anna Edy candidate for County Criminal 265 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 2: Court at Law number three, Angelo Reese McKinnon too in 266 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 2: her ninety fifth District Court, and Velda Faulkner one hundred 267 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 2: ninetieth District Court. Harris County Democrat Party Chairman Mike Doyle 268 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 2: said all withdrew from their races last week. Yesterday, a 269 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 2: judge ordered the removal of three candidates from the ballot. 270 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: The Houston chronicle reports. Quote. 271 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 2: While the challenges levied against Faulkner and McKinnon were largely 272 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 2: built on procedural issues, including, in Faulkner's case, failing to 273 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 2: list the name of the office she sought on her 274 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: original filing, like she might not be real smart, those 275 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 2: brought against Mathis and Edie alleged the pair's election filings 276 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 2: contained signatures that were quote forgeries or fraudulent. 277 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: How would you know? 278 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 2: Can you imagine how bad the forgery and fraud had 279 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 2: to be that they were willing to call it prima 280 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 2: facia on its face? 281 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: First look that that is a forgery. 282 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 2: Or maybe they wrote it in all the same, maybe 283 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: they misspelled people's names. 284 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: My goodness. 285 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 2: I love really stupid democrats, not when they're in power, 286 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 2: but when they're trying to consume power, to achieve, to 287 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 2: consolidate power. 288 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: I love it. I love watching how stupid they can be. 289 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 2: Mathis and Edie use the same workers to collect signatures 290 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: to follow their candidacy. Mathis a criminal defense attorney, stood 291 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: by the circulator's work. 292 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: Quote. 293 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 2: The allegations are unproven, unsubstatiated, And I feel like this 294 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 2: is an example of why people get disgusted with politics. 295 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 2: Excuse me, I don't think the fact that you're being 296 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 2: kicked off the ballot for allegedly submitting forgeries and frauds. 297 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 2: I don't think that's why people hate politics. I think 298 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: people hate politics because people submit fraud and forgeries. These 299 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 2: allegations are unproven, unsubstantiated. 300 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 7: Isation of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the 301 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 7: Indianesian proximity in order to further segregate the crops of 302 00:18:53,800 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 7: my venaria infection, by me retain my liquid here for 303 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 7: one moment, I'd. 304 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 10: Like to continue the redundance of my quote unquote intestinal tract. 305 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: See, because you preclude on. 306 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 10: The issue world domination, we'd only circumvent, excuse me, circumcised 307 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 10: the revelation that reflects the afrodisiatic symptoms which. 308 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 7: Now perpetrates in Jericholl's activation. 309 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 2: He goes on to say, I think when there's Democrat infighting, 310 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 2: it gives Republican arm strength to say these elections are 311 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 2: unfair and that's not true. See when one of us 312 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 2: Democrats exposes the other Democrat for fraud and corruption, then 313 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 2: the Republicans, having pointed out that that's. 314 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 1: What we do, it makes it look like they might 315 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: be right. 316 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 2: Matthis withdrew from the race to avoid potentially exorbitant legal 317 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 2: costs in fighting off her primary challenger, Stephanie Morales in 318 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 2: the courts. The complaints from Aguayo and Morales, who hired 319 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,479 Speaker 2: the same lawyer to file similar pleadings, alleged Javon Smith 320 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 2: we have need. 321 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: Javon's in my house? Do I mean Javon's what's pretty name? 322 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 2: As signature collector for judicial candidate seeking a place on 323 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 2: the primary ballot, personally forged dozens of signatures on behalf 324 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 2: of Edie and Mathis. Complaints challenging the filings noted alleged 325 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 2: similarities between Smith's handwriting and that of dozens of purported 326 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 2: residents who pledged their support for the Democrats. Dear God, 327 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 2: somebody get me that list of signatures, because I'll bet 328 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 2: you that is a punch line in and of itself. 329 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: I bet you that is a. 330 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 2: Doozy and organized theftren targeting retailers in southwest Houston was 331 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 2: run by a woman from Honduras who now has ice holds. 332 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 2: Investigators believe she placed orders for specific items like vitamins, cosmetics, 333 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 2: and Stanley cupps she might be working for Corey Crenshaw 334 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 2: ice Hold. 335 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: Yeah. 336 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 2: Oh not yeah, Icehole. Yeah you ice Hold. I don't 337 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 2: like you, you icehole, and then sent others out to 338 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 2: steal them. So she places the order, and then she 339 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 2: sends other people out to steal them. They target. They 340 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 2: targeted stores like Target, HB. Randall's, Kroger The Kroger's, and Academy. 341 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 2: ABC thirteen with the story. 342 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 9: Well, look like a late night traffic stop. To the 343 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 9: people behind the camera, immediately felt wrong. 344 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: Hell do we just see it? 345 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 9: Robert Harvey and Bruce Rubman are self described community activists 346 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 9: who patrol Galison County streets and regularly record police incidents. 347 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 9: Nearly few months ago, they came upon what they thought 348 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 9: was one near Galveson Strand. 349 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 11: He was doing everything a normal police officer does. 350 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: He had people's ID in their hand. 351 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 11: He was shining his flashlight at these people in the face. 352 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 9: However, Harvey says he quickly realized something wasn't right. 353 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 11: I noticed his gear in his outfit. It looked like 354 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 11: it just came in from TIMU. It wasn't like real cops. 355 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 9: Where Harvey says, there wasn't a police cruiser either In 356 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 9: the video, Harvey tried to get information. 357 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: What's your name in badger? They don't have to get. 358 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 9: Harvey asked to see a badge. Eventually, he says one 359 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 9: was shown. It just hit me in the face. Moments later, 360 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 9: the man took off in a blue vehicle. Harvey says 361 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 9: they tracked down officers around the corner. 362 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 11: I felt like this guy needed to be snitched on. 363 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: That is very dangerous what he was doing. 364 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 11: You know, we don't like bad cops, but somebody pretending 365 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 11: to be a bad cop is. 366 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: Worse than a bad cop. Galveson. 367 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 9: Police said the incident sparked an investigation. Days ago, officers 368 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 9: arrested Joshua Warner. Officers say witnesses told them Warner tended 369 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 9: to be an ice agent. Right now, Warner faces two 370 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 9: counts in personally law enforcement, but Galls and detectives believe 371 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 9: there may. 372 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: Be more victims. 373 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 9: That's why they put his information and photo out to 374 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 9: social media and asked anyone who may have been unlawfully 375 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 9: detained by Warner to contact police. 376 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 11: After I shared the videos, stories came in from everywhere. 377 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 11: People were email I probably got one hundred emails. One 378 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 11: hundred messages on messenger people. 379 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 9: Harvey says he encouraged to contact police like he did 380 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:26,959 Speaker 9: after seeing this. 381 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: If you're shunning a flashlight in space right. 382 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 9: Now now it's Warner behind bars where he's being held 383 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 9: on a half a million dollar bond. 384 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 11: Very happy that they arrested him and got that dangerous 385 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 11: guy off the street before somebody got hurt. 386 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 2: You know, most people live their lives and never really 387 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 2: have to come in contact with a person like this. 388 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 2: Problem with Houston, and I love Houston, but the problem 389 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 2: with Houston is you can get some trash crop up 390 00:23:54,880 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: even in a previously normal area, say Hillcroft and West Timer, 391 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: that should be a perfectly nice area, but it can 392 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 2: at any any given moment turn to trash, I mean 393 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 2: absolute trash. And if you are a retailer, you have 394 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 2: to take all comers. And that's when you really realize 395 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 2: how bad did you talk about the trash it walks 396 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 2: through your door, just absolute utter rash. 397 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: Michael Barry in thes. 398 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 2: I grew up calling in an elevator. My English friend 399 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 2: calls it a lift. I guess we were just raised differently. 400 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 2: When I was a kid, there was a family in 401 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 2: our school that hosted a foreign exchange student from Chernobyl, 402 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 2: by far the brightest kid and the whole student the 403 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 2: whole school. Let me try that again, because I must 404 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: line up. When I was a kid, there was a 405 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 2: family at our school that hosted a foreign exchange student 406 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,479 Speaker 2: from Chernobyl, by far the brightest kid at the school. 407 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: You don't get enough good Chernobyl jokes. 408 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 2: You really don't. Yeah, yeah, like a cobbler. Oh, I 409 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 2: like a good cobbler right now, blueberry? Or oh one 410 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 2: who call oh a shoe cobbler? Okay, all right, okay, 411 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 2: Michael writes Zara, I emailed you not too long ago 412 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 2: about missing out on the chance to have mister Chance 413 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 2: put together a tribute for my dad before he became 414 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 2: ill and passed well. I found his old cowboy hat 415 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: in my mom's garage and it's in pretty bad shape. 416 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 2: I am looking to see if you can guide me 417 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 2: in the right direction to have it restored. I don't 418 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 2: have anyone to restore old cowboy hats. I don't know 419 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 2: who does that. Republic Boot Company sells a lot of hats, 420 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 2: but they make them there, which is a pretty neat process. 421 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: To watch it. You need to steam and all that stuff. 422 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 2: There is a place in Aspen, Colorado called Keemo Sabi 423 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 2: and what they've done. You know, people don't people think 424 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 2: of Aspen as being a place that Kim Kardashian was 425 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 2: for New Year's Eve. 426 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,360 Speaker 1: It's a rit sea where. 427 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 2: The beer flow? What was it where the beer flows? 428 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 2: Like like what's the line in Dumb and Dumber? Anyway, 429 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about? Where the wine flows, 430 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: like beer or something like that. So anyway, but Aspen 431 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 2: fashions itself as an Old West town. 432 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: In fact, it was once part of Texas. 433 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 2: And in fact Texas goes far further north than you 434 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 2: would realize, almost all the way to Wyoming if I 435 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 2: remember correctly. But there are parts of Colorado that are 436 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,199 Speaker 2: more Old West than you know, the hanging tree outside 437 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 2: Judge Roy b Means Courthouse, you know, the long west 438 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 2: of the Pekash is sort of north of the Colorado River. 439 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 1: It's very Old West. 440 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 2: But they have this place called Chemo Sabi, and they 441 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 2: also have one in Vegas, and I don't know how 442 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 2: they position themselves like this. It's kind of like voodoo 443 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 2: donuts in Portland. Voodoo donuts are not that good. They're 444 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 2: just not I mean, people will argue that they are 445 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 2: because once something becomes famous, you can never you lose 446 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 2: sight of the underlying quality or importance or meaning of it. 447 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: It just becomes a thing you do. And so people 448 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 2: wait in line for an hour for Voodoo Donuts. And 449 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 2: I remember when Voodoo Donuts came to Houston. They located 450 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 2: at the corner of about Waugh and Washington on the 451 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 2: southwest corners Odd Corner actually, and there never It was 452 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 2: one of those spaces that had probably been a used 453 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 2: car lot for sixty years, and before that had probably 454 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 2: been an old gas station that got scraped. And so 455 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 2: this lot was was kind of a kind of a 456 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 2: pie shaped lot, and they put two things in there 457 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 2: and it was real odd, but there was a Voodoo Donuts. 458 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 2: So everybody I knew who had been to Portland and 459 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 2: waited for an hour on Voodoo Donuts. And again, part 460 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 2: of it is the experience. You know you're you're going 461 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 2: there and it's never going to live up to the 462 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 2: hype because the hype is above what it could deliver anyway. 463 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 2: So we were getting a Foodoo Donuts, and I thought, 464 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 2: this is a Shipley's town, and I know you're gonna 465 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 2: say Shipley, no S. But it just needs to be Shipley's. 466 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 2: It doesn't belong to the ship it does though. The 467 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 2: thing about it is it does belong. It did belong 468 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 2: to Lawrence Shipley till private Equity came in. Yeah it 469 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 2: was Lawrence Shipley. Yeah, yeah, because I have a buddy, 470 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 2: Jeff Shambley, who's buddies with him anyway, So it was Lawrence. 471 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 2: The donuts shot owned by Lawrence Shipley, which made it 472 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 2: ship lease. 473 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: It doesn't have an S in the box, you know. 474 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 2: Doug Pike is the sales rep for Shipley's and he 475 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 2: has always held that account very closely. I've always resented that, 476 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 2: not really, but I've always wanted them to sponsor our show. 477 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 2: And the part of the reason was I don't eat 478 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 2: donuts because well two reasons. Number one is I grew 479 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 2: up eating donuts. Thusly, my dad would work a shutdown, 480 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 2: which was where they would shut down the plant and 481 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 2: they would give everybody in the maintenance department who wanted it, 482 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 2: you could work around the clock for as long till 483 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: you passed out. 484 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: Well that he would do that at Christmas. 485 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 2: He would do it before summer so we could come 486 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 2: over and watch watch an Astros game and steal the 487 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 2: tallest hotel at the holiday end. And he would do 488 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: it right before school started, so we'd have money for 489 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 2: school clothes. And so he felt bad that he hadn't 490 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 2: been with the family on Friday evening, and so Saturday 491 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 2: morning when he would come in, when he would get 492 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 2: off six seven, eight o'clock, he would stop at Big 493 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 2: Be Donuts in Ourses, a little bit tiny donut shop, 494 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 2: and most people did the little drive through, and we 495 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: would look forward to that, but we would look forward 496 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 2: to it to the point that we would just gorge 497 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 2: ourselves on milk and doughnuts. 498 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: Oh so good. And so that's how I learned to 499 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: eat donuts. 500 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 2: I never learned to eat donuts like a reasonable person 501 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 2: having one donut in the morning at at the office. 502 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 2: So when I started in radio, you would walk into 503 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 2: you walk onto the fifth floor, which was the studio floors, 504 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 2: and you'd walk past this kitchen area and there was 505 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 2: free food there every day. And the reason was the 506 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 2: restaurants would drop free food to you because they would 507 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 2: hope they'd get a free mention it was well worth it. 508 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 2: And there were places that would literally just deliver food 509 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 2: every day. And I'll bet you in fifteen years, seventeen 510 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 2: years of working in that studio, I ate the food 511 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 2: that was literally there every day, few of them five times. 512 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 2: And the reason is I knew if I ate that 513 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 2: one time, I'd never be able to stop. And most 514 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 2: people in radio get really, really fat, and I did too, 515 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 2: but it would have been a lot worse. So they 516 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 2: would have donuts delivered every day, and I think Doug 517 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: Pike would be the one to bring them right on 518 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 2: his way in. 519 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: And I always wanted. 520 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 2: Them to be a show sponsor, and it's so stupid. 521 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 2: I always wanted them to be a show sponsor. And 522 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: I always wanted gift cards so that I could have 523 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 2: Emily or whoever I needed. And every day I thought 524 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 2: I would bless people with a box of doughnuts, because 525 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 2: you know, good salesmen do that, the old Pfizer reps, 526 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 2: the old drug reps, the drug companies, pharmaceutical companies had 527 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 2: a little had a little had a little formula. You 528 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 2: would hire a cute girls and give them a gift card. 529 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 2: And I know this because Levi Good and I were 530 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 2: running around together all the time, and every day at 531 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 2: Good Company Barbecue on Kirby. 532 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: Because it was so close to the mediciner. They would 533 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: call in their orders. 534 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 2: This was before you could do it on an app 535 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 2: and they would call in their orders and get it early, 536 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 2: and they would come by and they would get you 537 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 2: would bring you'd bring barbecue to the offices. Well, somewhere 538 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,719 Speaker 2: along the way, the pharmaceutical operations figured out, Hey, yeah, 539 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 2: there's a horny old doctor in the back that would 540 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 2: love to see this this girl. But you can't get 541 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 2: to the doctor because the girls, half of whom are 542 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 2: sleeping with the doctor, don't want another cute girl coming 543 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 2: in with a gift card and uh bottled bleached blonde 544 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 2: and barbecue. 545 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: So they started handing. They started hiring handsome young men. 546 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 2: My friend Darren AlCH, his then wife Tracy Aulch, was 547 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 2: the head of Pfizer for the region and that was 548 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 2: when Viagra hit. She was the number one manager in 549 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 2: the company and the whole in the whole deal, and 550 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 2: and that was that was their deal. Yes, so I 551 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 2: always wanted Shipleys to sponsor the show.