1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: It's that time tar whoops. 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 2: Sorry, we apologize for the technical issues. Due to the 3 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: severely cold weather. We have to defrost the Michael Berry Show. 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: Is there a bottle of bourbon around here? No, this 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 2: old hair dryer should do. 6 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: There we go, all right, come on, warm up, warm up. 7 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: There we go the Michael Very Shay. 8 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 3: There we go, boom fully locked and loaded. Enjoy. 9 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: Yes we are back, and yes we are live. You 10 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: know what I thought would take a little time away. 11 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: It's typically the dead season. You know, you're you're kind 12 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: of in that period of time where people are supposed 13 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: to be spending precious moments with family and traveling. There 14 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: shouldn't be much to happen live that requires us to 15 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: comment on it. And maybe some people won't even notice 16 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: that we slept out of town and got a little 17 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: little downtime. Oh no, it was not meant to be. 18 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: We have a terror attack in New Orleans from a 19 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: home grown, although far ungroomed terrorists from right here in Houston. 20 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: And as you will find in the coming weeks if 21 00:01:54,240 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: everything comes to full light, there are some disturbing houstons. 22 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: And I don't just mean he's from here. The mosque 23 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: that he attended and the people with whom he was 24 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: preparing this and as it turns out, as an FBI 25 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: leader has noted, Houston has become ground zero for this 26 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: sort of thing. FBI Washington Field off of Special counter 27 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: Terrorism Agent John Gundolo said, I rate Houston, Texas as 28 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: the number one worst city in America for the Jihati 29 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: network threat. Let me read that again. I rate Houston, 30 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: Texas as the number one worst city in America for 31 00:02:53,919 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: the Jihati network threat. The leadership of Texas has done 32 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: nothing to dismantle these hostile networks. I'll read that one 33 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: again too, Ramo. The leadership of Texas has done nothing 34 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: to dismantle these hostile networks. I've got news for you 35 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: that's not limited to Democrats. See us being away, you forget. 36 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: We hit the Republicans too, because you have to, because 37 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: you have to. You want a good reminder on why 38 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: you have to. During that period of time where all 39 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: these things happen, Joe Biden honors Liz Cheney with the 40 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: highest honor an American can receive. What did Liz Cheney do? Exactly? 41 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: Was it valor in battle? 42 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 4: You know? 43 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: President Trump saying over the weekend this firefighter, pizza delivery 44 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: man you see the story or mom pizza delivery man, 45 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: several kids in the house. The house is on fire, 46 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: and this pizza delivery man goes sprinting into the house 47 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: and brings out three or four of the kids. When 48 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: he brings out the last of the kids, he looks 49 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: like he's about to die from the smoke inholation of 50 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: going in and out, and you know he's wearing no 51 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: breathing apparatus, no protection, nothing. I'm sure he's blistered all 52 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: over his body. And they say that's the last one. 53 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: That's the last kid. He falls back on his back 54 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: and an officer says, he said, are you sure that's it? 55 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: Are you because he's going back in if there's another kid. 56 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: And the officer said, no, no, you did good. You 57 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: did good. And it was sort of like it was 58 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: sort of like, I don't know your coach when you 59 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: were eight saying you did good, or your grandpa saying 60 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: you did good when you just got kicked by a 61 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: horse he's trying to break. It was just one of 62 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: those moments where, well Trump star might given him that award. 63 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: What exactly did Liz Cheney do to deserve our nation's 64 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: highest honor. She didn't serve with any distinction in Congress. 65 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: In fact, you'd be hard pressed to know what she 66 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 1: did as a member of Congress, which she was elected 67 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: because her dad had been elected in that same state. 68 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: What did she do in the course of her service 69 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: before being voted out by her district, So she wasn't 70 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: even like by her congressional district. Just off top of 71 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: your head, can you think of another Congressman? There are some, 72 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, I bet you can't think of 73 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: one quickly who was voted out of their congressional district 74 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: in a primary. The district didn't change, she wasn't redistricted. 75 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: Her own base or the base of the party in 76 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: Wyoming voted her out. She didn't come to the district 77 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: for the entire last year. She was holding fundraisers hours 78 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: away in the state capitol because she couldn't hold him 79 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: in her own district because she'd be booed out of there. 80 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: And Joe Biden honored her well, Liz Cheney didn't get 81 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: to be an awful human being. After the January sixth 82 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: show trials, remember they brought in the ABC producer. The 83 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: point being our job and we take it seriously. Is 84 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: to criticize both parties in every single elected official because 85 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: it should not be said of our state. It should 86 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: not be said of our state. By the former FBI 87 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: Washington Field Off, a special counter terrorism agent, John Guandolo, 88 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: I rate Houston, Texas as the number one worst city 89 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: in America for the Jihati network threat. The leadership of 90 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: Texas has done nothing to dismantle these hostile networks. Well, 91 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: I'm not sure that FBI has done much either, come 92 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: to think of it. They have, by the way, they 93 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: have rated, or investigated or entered oh Boys home a 94 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: second time here in Houston, which is interesting because they 95 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: let a blogger go walk through his house and probably 96 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: contaminate a great deal of evidence. They did not take 97 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: the Quran that was there open. Why is that important? 98 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: There could have been notes in it that if that's 99 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: his holy book. I don't know about you, but in 100 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: our family for generations, that's where you put special notes. 101 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: That's where you put important notes inside your Bible. But 102 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: we're back, You're back. We're glad for it. 103 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 5: I'm just sitting here listening to Michael Berry. 104 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: So we try to slip out of town. I went 105 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: to Japan, which had never visited, and stopped back in 106 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: Maui on the way back, which had also never visited. 107 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: But Michael t really really wanted to visit Maoi in 108 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: something I both always wanted to visit Japan. I have 109 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: something of a Japan obsession and have for many, many years. 110 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: And it's interesting. I think probably the only actual serious 111 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: tweet or Facebook post I put up during that time was, 112 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: and I just couldn't help myself, was that Carine Jean 113 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: Pierre posted a picture of herself and the communications team 114 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: in the White House, and Joe Biden is in it 115 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: as well. I don't think he knows where he is. 116 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: And I made the comment, well, I'll let I'll let 117 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: Rachel Compost Duffy at Fox News read the comment. But 118 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: I realized how many of our listeners wake up Saturday 119 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: morning and watch Fox and Friends because they read the 120 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: tweet on Fox and Friends. And I heard from a 121 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: number of you. And it wasn't my finest work. It's 122 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: just sort of funny the things people pick up. But 123 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: it was just a flippant remark, just funny. You're out 124 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: of town, you're out of the country, and you're quoted 125 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: on Fox. I'm here every day and nobody bothers. She's 126 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 1: a uniquely untalented person. And I and I'll be honest 127 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: with you, I stopped. I had to quit watching the 128 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: press conferences about two years years so ago, just because 129 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: it made literally made me dumber. I knew less. 130 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 4: At the end of it, it was entertaining and it 131 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 4: was funny and you would laugh. But at the end 132 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 4: of it, you're literally you have you are less smart, 133 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 4: You're less not. 134 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 6: So funny you say that, Charlie. 135 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: His conservative radio host Michael Berry said in his posts 136 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: dumb and dumber, and dumber and even dumber and yet 137 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: more dumb and shockingly even more dumber than that. 138 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, at some point it becomes a matter of for like, 139 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 4: how do I put up the gates to stop the pollution. 140 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: From entering into my brain. Let's start with there's so 141 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: many things to get to. And you know, Rush used 142 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: to have this way of saying, when multiple stories had 143 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: had broken out beginning of the show, in the first segment, 144 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: he would say, as the show, as the show rolls on, 145 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 1: we'll get to these things, and if we don't, we'll 146 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: talk about them tomorrow. And I always thought he had 147 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: this uncanny ability because at the time, I would listen 148 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: to talk show hosts across the country and they would 149 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: start their show with this sort of frenetic energy, trying 150 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 1: to get everything in. They would tell you all the 151 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: thing he's ever gonna it was sign posting. They would 152 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: signpost all the stories that we're going to get to 153 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: on the show today, and they they would just seem nervous, 154 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: how the hell they were going to do this, And 155 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: and it conveyed conveyed through the air, you could hear it, 156 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: and Rush always gave you the sense, you know, he said, 157 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: I'll tell you it's not time to panic. I'll tell 158 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: you when it's time to panic. And people would call 159 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: in and now the time can we pantic? Now it's not. 160 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: It's not the time to panning, And people to this 161 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: day will even if Rushing series you'd say it was 162 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: time to panic, you weren't hearing what he said. It's 163 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: not time to panic. It is time for leaders in society. 164 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 1: And by the way, that's not elected officials, leaders in 165 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: the homes, in the churches, in the schools, and the communities, 166 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: in the workplaces to be calm and to demonstrate leadership. 167 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: So let's start with the story out of New Orleans. 168 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: You've got a guy who accomplished what he wanted in 169 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: the sense that he murdered a lot of people. Although 170 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: I have to tell you you'd think with that much planning, 171 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: you could have murdered more people, right, and so in 172 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: that sense, I think to myself, it could have been 173 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: a lot worse. Nine to eleven was three thousand people, 174 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: many of whom were aware of their death for some 175 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 1: period of time. They're impending death before their death, many 176 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: of whom had to jump to their death. You think 177 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: about Let's roll and the plane they had to take down. 178 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: You know when you're taking a plane down that you're 179 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: taking your own life. So here's a guy who's planning 180 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: all this here in Houston, goes to New Orleans. There's 181 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: now video. You either know every detail of the case, 182 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: or you know as much as you need. And I 183 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: think for many people it's kind of a cottage industry. 184 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: They love to know the details. But other than what 185 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: I need to know, I don't bother or certainly don't 186 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: bother to talk about it. But I think the bigger 187 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: issue is how it was handled. In the next segment, 188 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: I will play you in pr in Houston, worried about 189 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: the backlash to Muslims because he had taken a trip 190 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: to Egypt. He said he was doing this as part 191 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: of his Isis tribute. He couched all of this in 192 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: a Muslim cloak. When's the last guy who converted to 193 00:14:53,840 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: being a Lutheran and shot the gem up? Ran people 194 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: over or mode over crowds of people. It's reading an 195 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: article last night about the wife of the editor of 196 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: Charlie Hebdo remember Charlie Hebdo remember the French magazines satirical magazine. 197 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: They were slaughtered in the middle of an editorial meeting 198 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: by Muslims in Paris for the unforgivable crime of daring 199 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: to make a cartoon of Muhammad. And so the French 200 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: press marched through the streets of Paris carrying pencils. What 201 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: a mawkish move. Mark Stein, to his credit, said, if 202 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: you wanted to pay tribute to charliebbat Dope, and you 203 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: wanted to actually protest as you walk through the street, 204 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: you shouldn't have carried a pencil in your hand. You 205 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: should have carried the cartoon of Mohammed. But they won't 206 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: dare do that. Well, they our own press here, you 207 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: see it. They'll mock Maga, they'll mock the Christian Church, 208 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, they'll mock anyone else, but they won't 209 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: mock the Muslims because they're scared Omeda to go Daimasu 210 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: Mike Goo. Jeff Lehner, the top meteorologist for the region, 211 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: says widespread freezing conditions in place this morning, widespread freeze 212 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 1: again tonight into Tuesday day morning. Strong storm system will 213 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: move into the state late Wednesday into Thursday, with a 214 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: coastal low moving up the Texas coast, producing widespread rain 215 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: and gusty winds Wednesday night into Thursday night. Much advertised 216 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: Arctic front has passed through the area with onset of 217 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: subfreezing conditions this morning. Strong cold air advection will be 218 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: maintained today off the fresh central Plains. Snowpacks, so temperatures 219 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: will only slowly warm even with full sun, into the 220 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: low to mid forties for much of the area. You know, 221 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: Houstonians don't well, don't do well when it drops below eighty. 222 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: But boy, oh boy, do the TV stations get active. 223 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 7: Today's top story. Massive snowstorms blanket much of the country. 224 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 7: More is expected in the coming days white out conditions 225 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 7: stretching over two thousand miles from Texas to make frigid 226 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 7: temperatures causing freezing rain and ice, downing trees and power lines. 227 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,479 Speaker 7: For more on this colossal storm, we go to our 228 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 7: reporter Brent Rodriguez Gonzalez, braving this mess down in Houston, Texas. 229 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: Brent, how are you coping? 230 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 4: Yes, Bill, We're hanging in there. The temperature is dipping 231 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 4: to a brutal thirty seven degrees. Forecasters are warning the 232 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 4: temperatures may drop even more and the sky will open 233 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 4: up and dump a quarter inch of snow, paralyzing the 234 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 4: city of Houston. Local officials are urging people to hunker 235 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 4: down and please wrap your pipes. Let me repeat, wrap 236 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 4: your pipes. Bring in your pets, let them sleep in 237 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 4: bed with you, Put a sweater on them. Go into 238 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,719 Speaker 4: the attic and find the winter coat that you have 239 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 4: from the ski trip a few years back. 240 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: I can't feel my finger. 241 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 4: Five pairs of socks will be mandatory. 242 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: I need my snuggie. 243 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 4: All area schools will be closed. Thirty seven degrees is 244 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 4: way too cold to have your child walk from the 245 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 4: car to the front of the school. Did I forget 246 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 4: to tell you to wrap your Pipes's weird. Being that 247 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 4: we're in Texas, you won't find tire chains at the 248 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 4: local auto parts store, so go ahead and rip down 249 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 4: your kid's swing set and use the chains from that. 250 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 4: The big one is coming. Local Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee 251 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 4: is holding a press conference today to urge you Stonians 252 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 4: to stay warm. 253 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: Must I die, Must I die? 254 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 4: If we survive this storm, you will need to wake 255 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 4: up at two thirty in the morning in order to 256 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 4: get to work with your snow shoes. But I wouldn't 257 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 4: leave the house for a week if I didn't have 258 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,439 Speaker 4: to make sure you wrap your pipes. People are really 259 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 4: losing their minds here, so I'm. 260 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: Gonna have to go. 261 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: This is Brent Rodriguez Gonzalez reporting from the frozen tundra 262 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 4: in Texas and now back to New York. 263 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 1: So, yet again, Americans were murdered by a man in 264 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: the name of Islam. A few hours after it happened. 265 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: It was pretty early after it happened, because we have 266 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: footage of it that it was clear it was a Muslim, 267 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: And it wasn't long before it was clear, you know, 268 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: within the day. If not a few hours that he 269 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: had done this in the name of Islam. He was 270 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: a crusader for Islam. It's not just that he happens 271 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: to be a Muslim and he did this, it is 272 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: that he did it as part of his Islamic service. 273 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: American are so angry over this, rightfully so? And how 274 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: does NPR's Houston branch tell the story? 275 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 8: That's some Hamid, one of the Amams at this mosque, 276 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 8: dedicated a majority of his sermon to addressing the horrific attack. 277 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 9: This act has no place in Islam, and has no 278 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 9: place amongst Muslims, and is not accepted by any standard. 279 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 9: There is no excuse and there is no justification for it. 280 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 8: Hamid didn't just condemn the attack. He singled out what 281 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 8: he believes is fueling a lot of hate and anger 282 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 8: and misinformation, particularly online and on social media. 283 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 9: This is how people get tardigalized by getting exposed to 284 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 9: unreliable sources of Islam. 285 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 8: Hamid and other Imams in Houston say they've been talking 286 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 8: to each other about how to combat this problem. Houston 287 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 8: has the largest and most diverse Muslim population in Texas, 288 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 8: which includes immigrants as well as native born US citizens. 289 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 8: Umei Coolsum is originally from India but has lived in 290 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 8: Texas for a number of years. She's married and is 291 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 8: raising four children. She follows the news closely and said 292 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 8: she had two fears when she heard about the attack 293 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 8: in New Orleans. 294 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 6: The first, this fear in my mind was I hope 295 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 6: it's not someone from Abur community. That was the first fear. 296 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 6: Then it's like, now, what will happen? What next? What 297 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 6: will be the Islamophobic reactions we might face in our community. 298 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 8: Sharak Gunny is the executive director of a multi faith 299 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 8: organization in Houston. 300 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 5: The clergy that I've spoken to aren't very concerned about 301 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 5: retaliation or secondary attacks. What they're most concerned about is 302 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,919 Speaker 5: how this impacts us, our neighborlyess here in Houston, our 303 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 5: social cohesion. Will it lead to a rise in Islamophobia 304 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 5: or othering communities here in our city. 305 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 8: Some say this is an uncomfortable echo to what they 306 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 8: felt more than two decades ago. Mohammed Salama is an 307 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 8: IT worker who was at the Medical Center Islamic Society 308 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 8: for Friday prayers. 309 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 10: I lived through September eleventh, and I have to this 310 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 10: day have very vivid memory of both how sad it was, 311 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 10: and then afterwards how difficult it was to be a 312 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 10: Muslim and the US, and how concerned I was about 313 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 10: practicing simply just going to mosque. 314 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: You know, Muslims make up just over one percent of 315 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: the American population. And if you want to look at 316 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: the numbers of how many Americans are murdered by Muslims 317 00:23:52,840 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: versus the inverse of that number, I dare say Americans 318 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: fear Muslims far more than Muslims fear Americans. Norm MacDonald, 319 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: the great comedian Norm MacDonald, had the funniest bit on this. 320 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: And the beauty of Norm is that he didn't need 321 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,959 Speaker 1: you to laugh. He didn't need you to think he 322 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: was funny and show him you thought he was funny. 323 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:36,399 Speaker 1: The right people understood his humor, and it is so 324 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: wise looking back. Listen to this. 325 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 11: My friend's name, but he said his biggest well, I 326 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 11: can't say, well, I can't say my friend's name, But 327 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 11: he said his biggest fear is that isis or some 328 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 11: terrorist group like that would get a hold of a 329 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 11: dirty bomb and exploded over a major city within the 330 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:10,479 Speaker 11: United States and kill tens of millions of people. Because 331 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 11: then the blowback against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible. Yes, 332 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 11: that's true, that's true. 333 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 3: Let's do some jokes. Bizarre of talk radio The Michael 334 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 3: Barry Show. 335 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: A hungry traveler stopped at a monastery and was taken 336 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: to the kitchens where a brother was frying potatoes. Are 337 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: you the friar, he asked? The brother replied, no, I'm 338 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 1: the chipmunk. Lady put an AD out in the classifieds. 339 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: You remember the classifiers for more amiss the classifiers. There 340 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 1: was something about reading the classifier. They jimmed a lot 341 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: of information in the little box. I was young, so 342 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: that didn't bother me then, But now my eyesight failing me. 343 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: I think I would be annoyed by the classifieds reading 344 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: them today because it was tiny tribute right classified advertisement called. 345 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: Lady took an AD out and classified I'm looking for 346 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: a man. They won't run around on me, won't beat me, 347 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: and can please me in bed. It's a tall order. 348 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 1: On one day, she gets a ring in her doorbell. 349 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: She looks out I level and there's nobody there. She 350 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,479 Speaker 1: opens the door and what does she behold but a 351 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: man with no arms and no legs. And she said, 352 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: can I help you, and he said, I'm responding to 353 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: your ad. She said, what am I going to do 354 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: with you? And he said, well, I have no arms. 355 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: I can't beat you. I have no legs. I can't 356 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: run around on you. And she said, well, I guess 357 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 1: that's two out of three. But how are you going 358 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: to please me in bed? And he said, no, I'm 359 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: not gonna tell it. Some bad news over the break. 360 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: Remember Evans Music City. Our friend Brian Evans passed away 361 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: at eleven eleven on Christmas Eve. He was eighty one 362 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: years old. I am told by their daughter, Deborah that 363 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: they have a GoFundMe page set up to help his mom. 364 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of promoting GoFundMe pages just because 365 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: something bad happens, But my understanding is that they fell 366 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: on pretty tough times at the end there, and I 367 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: think that story is probably true for so many people 368 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: in businesses like that. If you were to be westbound 369 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: on West Timer ten years ago and you were on 370 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: your way to vass coming from Chimney Rock and Brier Grove, 371 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: I guess would have been to your right north of 372 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: you the retail along there on the right, you would 373 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: have noticed in the biggest letters possible Evans Music City. 374 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: I bet those letters were ten feet high. It was 375 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: a blue sign, reverse out lettering, white lettering on a 376 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: blue sign that had faded over the years. And one 377 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: day Brian called me and said, Michael, unfortunately, we're not 378 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: going to be able to sponsor the show anymore. I said, oh, shoot, 379 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: well that's okay. I've enjoyed the partnership a lot of 380 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: our listeners who have really appreciated the introduction and gotten 381 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: to know you. He had so many people who'd been 382 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: going to Evans Music City for so many years already. 383 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: That for as many people as we introduced to Evans 384 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: Music City that didn't know about it and now went 385 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: over there and supported them because they respond insters of 386 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: our show. There were just as many who had been 387 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: there in years past. And we're now going to Guitar 388 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: Center and I would say, you know, you can support 389 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: the big box store from seven states away, but here 390 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: we've got a shop that's been here forever. This husband 391 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: wife owned that the employees or the employees are what 392 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: a music shop employees should be, right John Cusack in 393 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: what was that? Nick? What was high fidelity? They're burned 394 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: out they're David Obert, right. They got long hair down 395 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: to their shoulder. They're tall. They're wearing a Ramone's shirt 396 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: or the Kinks or the Clash that hasn't been that's 397 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: been washed too many times but hasn't been washed for 398 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: twenty five years. They're divorced, they're mad at the world. 399 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 1: And they sat in with Rod Stewart for four years 400 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: on tour. You know, they just and you would go there. 401 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: You could buy, you could buy musical instruments, and you 402 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: could rent musical instruments. Steve Cropper had come to town, 403 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: who was the head of Stax Records. There's a great 404 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: documentary I watched it on the plane actually about Stax Records. 405 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,719 Speaker 1: That's out right now, and it's called Soul Town, The 406 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: Story of Stack Trucks. He's in it. Oh, my goodness, 407 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: is it good. It is so good. Yes, it's wonderful. 408 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: And I took Steve Cropper, this guitar god, into Evans 409 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: Music City and they immediately recognized him and they wanted 410 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: photos with the guitars, and he went into He obliged, 411 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: and he went in. They had a little like a 412 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: studio inside there. You could go in and plug in 413 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: any of the guitars and get a feel for it, 414 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: and of course he had to show off, right and 415 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: he just started ripping in there. It was one of 416 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: my favorite memories. It was too loud, I'll be honest 417 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: with you, because I'm very protective with my ears, and 418 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: so I feigned needing to go to the restroom because 419 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: it was so loud. But Cropper was was Block was 420 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: deaf by then, so you know, he didn't probably couldn't 421 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: even hear it. And Brian Evans probably death by that 422 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: time too, So they were just in there, and you know, 423 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: he goes into Green Onions and the whole story behind 424 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: Green Onions and how that happened with Booker t and 425 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: the MG's and anyway, the passing of Brian Evans is 426 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,239 Speaker 1: sad because the passing of anyone means they're not with 427 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: us on this earth any longer. But what is also 428 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 1: very sad is the death of the small owner operated business. 429 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: And I believe in the cycle of life life, you know, 430 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: births for deaths, new life coming in as someone else's exiting. 431 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,239 Speaker 1: But I don't think that the Evans music cities are 432 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: opening anymore. I don't. I don't think there are I 433 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: think that's a change in globalism. I think that's a 434 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: change in logistics. I think that's a change in buying power. 435 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: And I think unfortunately the consumer doesn't and especially younger 436 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: consumers don't appreciate that or understand that. And I'm unfortunately 437 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: in that in that age that went from that's all 438 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: you had to you got fewer and fewer. We're watching 439 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: them die out. You watched what COVID did. Brian didn't 440 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: I think Brian Hazel, I think he's what I say. 441 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: They didn't own that center and I asked him, I said, Brian, Brian. 442 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: He said no, no, we'd stay with you till we 443 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: till the end, and now it's the end. And I said, well, 444 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: what's what's happened and he said, well, we've lost our lease. 445 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: They want to put up they've got a higher end 446 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: dog Topia or something they're putting in there. I think 447 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: that's what they put in there. I said, you don't 448 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: own the land and he said no, it's something like 449 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: forty years and they never did, so rest in peace. 450 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 1: Brian Evans and Evans Music City have used an institution