1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: So Michael Vari Show is on the air. 3 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 3: They fashioned themselves on social media as this legion of superheroes, 4 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,159 Speaker 3: this incoming administration, Telsey Gabbard, Robert F. 5 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: Commedy, Junior, et cetera, et cetera. 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 3: Time faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. 7 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 2: Hey about to leap tall buildings at a single bound 8 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: up in the sky. 9 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: It's a bird. 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 2: It's superum. Yes, it's super Trump. 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 4: We will very quickly make America great again. 12 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 5: Do we really need whatever it is? Four hundred and 13 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 5: twenty eight federal agencies? 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: So there's so many that people have. 15 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 5: Never heard of, and that half overlapping areas of responsibility. 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 2: We should I don't. 17 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 5: Know like I should get I mean, there are more 18 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 5: federal agencies than there are years since the establisher of 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 5: the United States, which means that we've created more than 20 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 5: one federal agency per year on average. That seems a lot. 21 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 2: That's a lot. 22 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 5: That's a lot. So we should that seems crazy. I 23 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 5: think we should be able to get away with ninety 24 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 5: nine agencies. 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 6: I am a patriot, I love our country. I am 26 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 6: a strong and intelligent woman of color, and I have 27 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 6: dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security, 28 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 6: and the freedom of all Americans in this country. 29 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 7: I'm not anti vacacine, but I think we need to 30 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 7: be honest and we need to have good science. I 31 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 7: spent thirty years trying to get mercury out of the 32 00:01:53,360 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 7: fish in this country, and nobody ever called me any fish. 33 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 2: I got to tell you what happened this morning. So 34 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 2: I was driving. I was driving in. 35 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 3: And I had to call a buddy of mine who's 36 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 3: a retired HPD officer, but he keeps very strong relationships 37 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 3: with who's on who's on duty, what captain at what 38 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 3: particular time, and to report this report this in and 39 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 3: I uh, so I drove past. I witnessed a crime 40 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: in progress, but I thought I'd be real smooth about it. 41 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 3: So I pulled in circle the building came back from 42 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 3: a distance. I got some photo I'm gonna share them 43 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 3: with you. Tom pulled in, pulled back, circle of building, 44 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 3: came back. Do not think he made me. I think 45 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 3: I managed to pull all this off because I didn't 46 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 3: want him coming after me afterwards, pulled back around, managed. 47 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: To get a good advantage plant and. 48 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 3: I photoed it, but I fat fingered my phone so 49 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 3: I couldn't video it, and I can't get his license plate. 50 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 2: But what had happened was. 51 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 3: A witnessed a white male approximately sixty fifty eight to 52 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 3: sixty two years old, slight of build, slightly stooped over, 53 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 3: but maybe because of what's about to come, wearing a 54 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 3: green long sleeved shirt tucked in. Clearly somebody'd given him 55 00:03:53,960 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 3: these clothes. They didn't fit properly. What were the pants 56 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 3: that people would wear for dress pant like docker style 57 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 3: blue pants? 58 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: I didn't say. 59 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: It was a snazzy dresser and tennis shoes that didn't 60 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 3: appear to fit. 61 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: And he's grayish. 62 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 3: White hair, he's stooped over, and he is carrying And 63 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 3: this is how I knew he was in the commission 64 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 3: of a crime. He's carrying two duffelbacks, two large, heavy duffelbacks, 65 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 3: and I can tell they're heavy because the way he's 66 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: walking is that kind of walk like you're walking on 67 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 3: a tight rope, you know. I mean, you're just trying 68 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 3: to get it there real fast because you don't want 69 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 3: to put it down and have to pick it back up. 70 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 3: What do you mean what is a crime? Well, I 71 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: don't know what the crime is. Well the Fourth Amendment 72 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 3: can find out once we get in his bags. Listen, 73 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 3: here's the thing, serious question. When was the last time 74 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 3: you saw somebody carrying two Duffel bags that wasn't going 75 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 3: in or out of a gym? Seriously, I watch a 76 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 3: lot of crime movies. I watch all the crime documentaries. 77 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 3: I watch all the police stuff, all. 78 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: The investigation stuff. 79 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 3: If you got a grown man stooped over, dressed like 80 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 3: somebody dressed him right close, it don't fit carrying two 81 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 3: Duffel bags that are very heavy. That's serious, serious crime 82 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 3: being committed. So I'm working a couple theories. One of 83 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 3: them is he was the mastermind behind a bank robbery 84 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 3: and he's the only one that could be trusted with 85 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 3: the cash by his plan, and so he held onto 86 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 3: the cash. The robbery probably occurred. I'm gonna have them 87 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 3: pull all the robberies from the last few days, because 88 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 3: the robbery probably occurred about three days. He's waiting on 89 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 3: the heat to pass, right, so he's got the bags 90 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: and now he's moving the bags of money. 91 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,239 Speaker 2: But he didn't want to do that while it was obvious, 92 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 2: But I got my eye on him. I have I have, 93 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 2: I have. 94 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 3: A good look at him. I got a good description, 95 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 3: and I got a photo of this man who is 96 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 3: very likely the mastermind of this scheme. 97 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 2: This, uh, what is the term for it? When they 98 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 2: when they have. 99 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 3: A whole plan for a crime, this heist. Well, yeah, 100 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 3: the heist is the type of crime, but that doesn't 101 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 3: speak to the overall number of people involved. But I mean, 102 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 3: honest question, when's the last time you saw somebody carrying 103 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 3: two Duffel bags that wasn't going in and out of 104 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: a gym or a school, heavy Duffel bags that he 105 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 3: could barely carry. And here was the giveaway, just straight 106 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 3: out of a movie. They weren't actually Duffel bags. They 107 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 3: weren't nylon Duffel bags. There were like a cloth with 108 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 3: a leather handle. But I don't think it was really leather. 109 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 3: I think it was pleather. It was the old before 110 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 3: you did the nylon, because it's real light. Before that, remember, 111 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 3: you would have the kind of claw. It was a 112 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 3: It was a dark navy blue. 113 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: And these were old bags. 114 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 3: The whole thing just stinks of a crime I would 115 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 3: see in a documentary. So I've alerted my buddy, and no, 116 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 3: I didn't learn anybody. I did call a buddy of 117 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 3: mine and tell him that I was certain I was 118 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 3: witnessing a crime, and he wanted details, and I told 119 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 3: him about Duffel bags and he didn't think that rose 120 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 3: to the level of being certain of a crime. And 121 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 3: I said, see, this is why they get away. Y'all 122 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 3: don't have the gum shoe instincts that I do to 123 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 3: spot something like that and realize that is a crime 124 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 3: being committed. What white man is carrying two heavy bags, 125 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 3: dressed in this fashion at this age, stooped. 126 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 2: Over without ever looking around. He didn't want to be noticed. 127 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 2: As very careful. He didn't want to be noticed, and 128 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 2: he went over to this. 129 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 3: It was a King Cab Chevrolet white truck with a 130 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 3: cattle guard or whatever. 131 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 2: You call it on the front of it. Bump bump, 132 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 2: what the damn thing called? And what is that? A 133 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 2: rail guard? Is that what that's called? Anyway? I got 134 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: a good description. 135 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 3: Truth is, he looked like Walter that works for Uncle 136 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 3: Jerriet Liquid. I said, look, just spitting image. So that's 137 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 3: how I'm gonna describe him. To the to the sketch artist. 138 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 3: I'm just gonna imagine Walter because he looked just like Walter. 139 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 2: Y Ya old Kaya. He's an old college. 140 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: And Michael Berry old Kaya. 141 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 3: Friend of mine, used to work for a startup that 142 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 3: tried to train people to see the future and describe 143 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 3: what they saw. But it went bankrupt because they couldn't 144 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 3: make any profits. You know how you know that George 145 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 3: Foreman doesn't play Nintendo, he's an Xboxer. 146 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 2: Yesterday, when the. 147 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 3: Former public health director Barbie Robinson was indicted by Kim Ogg, 148 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 3: and you'll remember, she's accused of giving a six million 149 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 3: dollar deal to IBM in California while the public health 150 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 3: director here. And part of the evidence against her, which 151 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 3: is kind of strong, is the email where they lay 152 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 3: the scheme out. And she said she never saw that email. Yep, 153 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 3: if if they hadn't investigated her. 154 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 2: We'd never known. 155 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 3: She would have never known they were offering her a bribe. 156 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 3: But when they confirmed it in the email. But the 157 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 3: good news is even though she didn't know about the 158 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 3: email describing the bribe, she still did what she would 159 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 3: need to do to get paid on the bribe. 160 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 2: Now how convenient is that? And oh, by the way, 161 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 2: just to give you a. 162 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 3: Sense of what kind of characters we've recruited into Houston 163 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 3: City and Harris County government. She was at the same 164 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 3: time being paid to be the third in command of 165 00:10:54,480 --> 00:11:00,319 Speaker 3: the Phoenix Health Department. So presumably she showed up in 166 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 3: Harris County to her job here. We don't know, because 167 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 3: remember we had the one county official here. She hadn't 168 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 3: been to the office in three years. Remember that, and 169 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: her replacement, another Democrat, was just elected in November. But 170 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 3: it turned out that she hadn't shown up to the 171 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 3: office in three years. And I don't know if nobody 172 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 3: noticed or cared or Rodney just runs it anyway, so 173 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 3: she doesn't have to bother. Do you just when you're 174 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 3: getting paid and you don't have to show up? Do 175 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 3: you just hang out at the house or do you move? 176 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 3: How does that work? So Barbie Robinson, the Harris County 177 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 3: Public Health director who's running all these schemes, she's the 178 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 3: one who gave the bid to Lena Hidalgo, which is 179 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 3: the reason Lena's top three people are under indictment today. 180 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 3: She when Lena had Ago announced when Kim Ogg announced 181 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 3: the indictment, Lena had Algo said. 182 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 2: You're indicting her. You're just mad and you didn't win 183 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 2: the election. 184 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 3: And I said that sounds like something a high school 185 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 3: kid say. Well, Kim Ogg said exactly the same thing. 186 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,599 Speaker 3: But number twenty two, mister Robs, what should. 187 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 5: Take when it comes to a series of treats from 188 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 5: the county judge Kago saying that this is an attack, 189 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 5: It's obviously take the previous time. 190 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: Owners. 191 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 8: We're not in high school, and our cases aren't based 192 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 8: on opinions. They are based on evidence. The evidence reflects 193 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 8: actions taken by government officials which violate the law, and 194 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 8: so the opinions of politically elected individuals are irrelevant to 195 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 8: the criminal process. 196 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 3: ABC thirteen with the story of one of the crimes 197 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 3: that the Harris County Public Health Director, Barbie Robinson, is 198 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 3: accused of. 199 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 8: When taxpayers are treated like suckers by somebody who sneaks 200 00:12:55,360 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 8: around a well established procurement process, it can be criminal. 201 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 4: And that is what Ogg's team says happened with a 202 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 4: multimillion dollar contract at Harris County Health for an outreach 203 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 4: program called Access. Charging Documents alleged that Barbie Robinson, the 204 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 4: former executive director, fired last summer after an unrelated investigation 205 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 4: used her personal email in twenty twenty one to give 206 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 4: a heads up to IBM about an upcoming contract, which 207 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 4: the County Commission approved later that same year. 208 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 8: By giving that information to IBM early, it gave them 209 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 8: the winning advantage over all other competitors. 210 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 4: OGG said the next highest bidder was tens of millions 211 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 4: of dollars lower than the winning bid. According to a 212 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 4: court filing, investigators with the Department of Public Safety found 213 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 4: that while it appears that Robinson is using her private 214 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 4: email to conduct official county business outside the reach of 215 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 4: public transparency requirements, Afiant believes that this email shows that 216 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 4: IBM is helping craft part of the access program for 217 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 4: which it is then making a competitive bid for later 218 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 4: in the same month, and this is the email in 219 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 4: context with other emails indicates that Robinson has shared the 220 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 4: scope and details of the proposed contract outside of the 221 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 4: competitive bidding window. 222 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 8: Misuse of official information as a crime doesn't require the 223 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 8: defendant to actually benefit, but I will tell you that 224 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 8: it's certainly part of the ongoing investigation to see if 225 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 8: she did. 226 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 4: As of late Tuesday, neither Robinson nor IBM responded to 227 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 4: requests for comment and Robinson's attorney declined to comment. The 228 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 4: county Judge Lena Hidalgo, who is often sparred with Ogg 229 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 4: and whose former staffers were indicted for similar alleged crimes, 230 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 4: posted on social media criticism of the charge against Robinson 231 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 4: and that Ogg weaponizes her office against those who disagree 232 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 4: with her. 233 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 8: We're not in high school, and our cases aren't based 234 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 8: on opinions, they are based on evidence. 235 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 9: And oggs as her team continued to look for evidence, 236 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 9: she would not rule out the possibility of additional charges 237 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 9: against Robinson or against anyone else as they continue that investigation. 238 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: Sylvester Turner was a fraud. 239 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 3: Now he's going into Sheila Jackson Lee's congressional seat, which 240 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 3: is appropriate. The FBI has been reportedly investigating Rodney Ellis 241 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 3: multiple times over such things as the African art in 242 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 3: the Harris County building that he controlled and did not 243 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 3: charge them for. There is the city airport scam that 244 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 3: the Papa says were kicked out of the airport. Nobody 245 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 3: else wanted to stand up to the city, but the 246 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 3: Papist family said no, no, no, no, We'll be here when 247 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 3: y'all are gone. We're going to fight for our rights. 248 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 2: Here. 249 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 3: We were wronged and we've got a record of it. 250 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 3: Sylvester Turner's chief of staff is in prison right now 251 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 3: for a bribe, a series of bribes he took to 252 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: keep bars open during co You see, if we shut 253 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 3: all the bars down, we have the police authority to 254 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 3: shut all the bars down because the bars have to 255 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 3: be closed down or everybody will die from COVID. That 256 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 3: gives us the incredible power which is valuable, to allow 257 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 3: some bars to stay open. And that's what they did 258 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 3: for which he is in prison. The director of marketing 259 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 3: for the city's housing department under Sylvester Turner is now 260 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 3: in prison. He was taking kickbacks for people that he 261 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 3: would spend the city's housing budget marketing allowance with in 262 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 3: exchange for a kickback of part of what he spent. 263 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 3: That's a big one that government officials do. Rodney Ellis's 264 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 3: chief of staff was the former head of the HISD board. 265 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 3: She had served her term and moved to the Houston 266 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 3: Community College Board while working for Rodney Ellis, where she 267 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 3: was arrested for taking bribes while having been HISD board chairman. 268 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 3: So she's working for Rodney Ellis as a staffer and 269 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 3: she's the board chairman of HISD where she took a bribe, 270 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 3: multiple bribes, and she pled guilty to that felony. Do 271 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 3: you notice how these characters they all we it's the 272 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 3: same set of characters. The chief of staff for Sylvester 273 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 3: Turner that's now in prison he worked for. Just go 274 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 3: look at all these people that he worked for over 275 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 3: the course of his crid just got started on all 276 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 3: the Crime Safe Committee. And that's just the ones we've 277 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 3: caught him. 278 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 7: More system from The Michael Barry Show and other leading companies. 279 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 3: Michael Diamond born on this day in nineteen sixty five, 280 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 3: better known as Mike d. 281 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 2: Of the Beastie Boys. Hard to Believe. 282 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 3: Almost everything we know the Beastie Boys is off one album, 283 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 3: one brief, little moment in time. It's considering the influence 284 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,479 Speaker 3: they had, it is one of the most unlikely of 285 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 3: stories in all of music. In fact, I can't think 286 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 3: of anything that is more unlikely than those kids, with 287 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 3: their background at that time, doing what they did in 288 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 3: the way they did it, and then doing what they 289 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 3: did as a result. 290 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 2: It's different, that's for sure. It is different. 291 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 3: So I got a call from a public boot company 292 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 3: yesterday I said. 293 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 2: Hey, Val Kilmer's in the store. Well, that's cool. Are 294 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 2: you picking up some boots? 295 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 3: No, he just walked in. Well, as luck would have it, 296 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 3: not exactly lucky. If you know, the theme of Republic 297 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 3: Boot Company at eleventh in Studor Wood is there's a 298 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 3: lot of leather, there's a lot of wood, a lot 299 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 3: of cowboy, there's a lot of a certain vibe and 300 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 3: feel and. 301 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 2: Ambiance. And they have a. 302 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 3: Picture up on the wall of him in Tombstone, which 303 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 3: I mean, even if you're Val Kilmer, I don't think 304 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 3: you ever get tired of walking in somewhere. 305 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 2: And seeing a poster review on the wall. So I said, 306 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 2: let me. 307 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 3: Let me look up Val Kilmer and see things about 308 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 3: him that I probably don't know, because he's a fascinating life. 309 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 3: Val Edward Kilmer born December thirty first, nineteen fifty nine. 310 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 2: All right, so that already starts interesting. He was born 311 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 2: in la. 312 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 3: The second of three boys to Eugene and Gladys. His 313 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 3: mother was of Swedish descent, including Irish, German and Cherokee broots. 314 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 2: Because he's got an interesting look, you know, he's got 315 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 2: a very striking look. 316 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 3: Parents were divorced when he was eight, Mom remarried they 317 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 3: moved to the Arizona border. His younger brother, Wesley, had 318 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 3: epilepsy drowned in a jacuzzie at age fifteen. He attended 319 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 3: high school with Kevin Spacey. His high school girlfriend was, 320 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 3: I don't know if this is Mare. I don't know 321 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 3: her Winningham. You know this she's an actress and singer songwriter. Yeah, 322 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 3: I don't know her. I probably am supposed to m A. R. Winningham. 323 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 3: It looks like it was originally. Oh, she's professionally known 324 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 3: as Mara. Maybe that's how she spells Mary. I don't 325 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 3: understand why that. He was the youngest person to be 326 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 3: accepted into Juilliard's Drama Division, where he was a member 327 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 3: of Group ten. He declined a role in Francis Ford 328 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 3: Coppola's film The Outsiders Man Looking Back, I wonder who 329 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 3: took that role, because you think. 330 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 2: About what's ce Howard? What's his name? 331 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 3: See Thomas Howard. I mean you think of all the 332 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 3: cool cats in that movie. Matt Dillon was at his 333 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 3: peak at that point. 334 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 2: Tom's Tom Cruise is in that although not a big role. 335 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 3: Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, that's a movie right 336 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 3: there now, eh. He appeared off Broadway in The Slab 337 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,719 Speaker 3: Boys with Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn, and Jackie Earl Haley. 338 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 3: They I don't know who they are. They never turned 339 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 3: out to do anything. Then he was in an after 340 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 3: school special which included Michelle Pfeiffer. What's crazy is none 341 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 3: of these people knew how big they're going to turn 342 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 3: out to be at the time. Then he got top 343 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 3: building in a comedy spoof of a spy movie called 344 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 3: Top Secret, where he was a rock and roll star. 345 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 2: And then the big break, as you know, is when. 346 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 3: Oliver Stone chooses him to be Jim Morrison in The Doors. 347 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 3: The story goes that he filmed himself singing a Jim 348 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 3: Morrison's song and sent it to Oliver Stone, who was unimpressed, 349 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 3: and Paul Rothschild, who was the original producer, said that 350 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 3: he was shaken by it, that it was so good 351 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 3: that he wanted Kilmer to sing as Jim Morrison during 352 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 3: the during the movie so that you didn't have to 353 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 3: splice different Jim Morrison and him. 354 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 2: And if you look at the two of them, Morrison's. 355 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 3: Face is more angular than Valcolmer's it's only till later 356 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 3: when he gets a little more bloated, because Valcomer's face 357 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 3: looks like he's got botox. 358 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 2: He doesn't. 359 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 3: He's got a very full face, kind of rounded face. 360 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 3: Then they look a lot more like each other. Then 361 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 3: he was in Wings of the Then of course True Romance, Tombstone. 362 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 3: What would you say that most people know him from Tombstone, Well, 363 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 3: that would be his his biggest film that people remember 364 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,679 Speaker 3: Batman Forever, and then on and on and on, the 365 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 3: Island of Doctor Moreau, Prince of Egypt, Joe the King, 366 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 3: Red Planet. 367 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 2: Obviously he did Saturday Night Live. Yeah, I would say 368 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: most people probably. 369 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 3: If you were to pick one movie that that he 370 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 3: is most known for. 371 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 2: It would be Tombstone. 372 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 3: Such a I never really enjoyed Tombstone as much as 373 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 3: everybody else did. I don't dislike it. I won't turn 374 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 3: it off, but I never For me, it's it's Young 375 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 3: Guns much more so than to Tombstone. Always felt you know, 376 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 3: I'll tell you this, and you always give me stink 377 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 3: FACEOOD said, I'm gonna say it. 378 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 2: This is how I feel. Right. 379 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 3: I might be wrong, but this was my perception of Tombstone. 380 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,679 Speaker 3: Tombstone always felt to me like a movie that was 381 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 3: put together and they knew it was going to be 382 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 3: big because of the cast they had assembled, and they 383 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 3: knew this was going to be epic. So because all 384 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 3: the time they're in the making of this amazing movie 385 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 3: that's going to be so great, it never really has 386 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 3: the feel of the little engine that could. And I 387 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 3: like those movies that when they when it comes out, 388 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 3: they have no idea how great it's going to be 389 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 3: Clint Eastwood doing the outlaw Josie Wales that he's had 390 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 3: to fund himself because it's I think seventy six and 391 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 3: Hollywood doesn't want to make westerns anymore, and so there's 392 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 3: this you know, they're plugging along and then it turns 393 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 3: out to be the greatest movie of all time. 394 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 2: That I like that story at all. 395 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: John Writers, The. 396 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 2: Michael Very Show, many more, first cosmic values, some million 397 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 2: dollar record sales. 398 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm ho ho now. 399 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 2: So you know, it's a twenty five year. 400 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 3: Anniversary of the tragic bonfire at Texas A and M. 401 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 3: But what's amazing in these stories, whether it's nine to eleven, 402 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:54,919 Speaker 3: a mass shooting, these these stories of extreme trauma, and 403 00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 3: there are lives that come out of these stories that 404 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 3: maybe don't make the headlines, but they're really, really interesting. 405 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 3: And one of them is the story of John Comstock. 406 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,239 Speaker 3: Somebody out there probably knows John Comstock and can get 407 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 3: him to call in seven one, three, one thousand. But 408 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 3: John Comstock is the name you might not know, but 409 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 3: you will soon. He was the final survivor rescued from 410 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 3: the Aggie bonfire collapse, spent nearly seven hours trapped under 411 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 3: the logs. The university thought he died, so they drafted 412 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 3: a press release announcing his death. Or they thought he 413 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 3: would die. They had it ready to send out because 414 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 3: surely he would die. He lost his leg and he 415 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 3: was pretty bad shape. I guess they gave him the 416 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 3: press release because he has it framed to this day. 417 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 3: Reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated. That's the kind 418 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 3: of thing. That's the kind of thing you you frame 419 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 3: and put on the wall, and every single day remind yourself, 420 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 3: no bad days. I'm on borrowed time. I'm not supposed 421 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 3: to be here, you know what? Make the God kept 422 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 3: me here for a reason. I need to get after it. 423 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 3: Let me figure out my purpose in life. The Great 424 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 3: story from w FAA TV. 425 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 10: A generation of Aggis never got to see what generations 426 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:40,959 Speaker 10: before held sacred a burning Aggie bonfire. Thank you because 427 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 10: at this moment, twenty five years ago, the stack of 428 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 10: logs Texas A and M students had spent weeks weaving 429 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 10: together had collapsed during construction. Twelve Aggies died, A thirteenth 430 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 10: almost did. 431 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 3: One year ago. 432 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 6: He lay trapped under the collapsed bonfire stack, the last 433 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 6: survivor rescued after seven hours. 434 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 10: This is an old WFAA news report on that AGGI 435 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 10: who escaped death, and it. 436 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 5: Kind of feels like death. This is kind of coming 437 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 5: point you. 438 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,959 Speaker 2: That was the thought that came through my mind. 439 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: I want to be hard to shay and this. 440 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 10: Mentally physically, how are you doing today? 441 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: Doing good? 442 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 10: I mean, is that Aggie? 443 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: Now? 444 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 6: It's just one of those things where life goes on. 445 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 10: So John Comstock grew up in Richardson. WFAA documented his 446 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 10: rehabilitation and after one hundred and forty eight days his release, 447 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 10: he lost a leg, but a dozen others lost a life. 448 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 10: He was the final survivor cruz rescued from the stack. 449 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 10: There was a point where I could tell they were 450 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 10: not wanting me to look around, but I had looked 451 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 10: up above me and like, literally right above me, there 452 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 10: was a bottom of a boot. 453 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 2: So I knew that there was like somebody, you know, 454 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 2: really close to me that. 455 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: Had not made it. 456 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:02,479 Speaker 10: Comstock himself came close, so close the university drafted a 457 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 10: press release announcing his death. 458 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 4: He framed it, you know, it's it's kind of funny 459 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 4: because people were always saying, you know, God has some 460 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 4: great plan for you, and I was always just. 461 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 10: Like, I just want a regular live Now married with kids, 462 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 10: Comstock lives in College Station. He did graduate from A 463 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 10: and M, and he works for the A and M system. 464 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 10: He stays active and sometimes speaks publicly about resilience. Do 465 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 10: you feel like you achieved that regular old life you 466 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 10: were after? 467 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh for sure. 468 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 10: A grateful survivor now a Texas Aggie, forever, married. 469 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 2: Father of two. 470 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 3: Youngest is just nine months old. The story goes that 471 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 3: he was sitting in his Did. 472 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 2: They tell this because I was looking for something else? 473 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: While? 474 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 3: Forgive me if I'm repeating what they told her in 475 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 3: the story because I didn't get to listen that he 476 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 3: was sitting in his dorm room that night he had 477 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 3: two tests that he's cramming for the next day because 478 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 3: that's what college kids do, because they don't prepare, And 479 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 3: somebody stopped and talked him into work in an overnight 480 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 3: shift at the site where the bonfire was being built. 481 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 3: He arrived at the site around midnight, climbed to the 482 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 3: top of the third layer. I don't know what that means. 483 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 3: I don't know how high that is, and went to 484 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 3: work on construction. A buddy of his from high school 485 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 3: Jesuit College Prep in Dallas was near him. That buddy 486 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 3: took a break about two thirty am. Comstock stayed. A 487 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 3: few minutes later, the stack swayed. Comstock was almost the 488 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 3: thirteenth debt death. He spent thirteen He spent seven hours 489 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 3: trapped in the log. He was the final person rescue 490 00:30:49,920 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 3: crews pulled out alive seven hours. Imagine how comply. I'd 491 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 3: like to know why it took seven hours. I'm sure 492 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 3: there's a good reason. 493 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. If they just they 494 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 2: couldn't get the logs moved, if there were too many 495 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 2: people to rescue, I don't know. I know you can't 496 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 2: just pick up a log. I got that. 497 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 3: I'm sure they were getting in there as fast as 498 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 3: they could to help these people. I'm fascinated by the 499 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 3: logistical nightmare. Our friend Mark Sherman yesterday was on his 500 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 3: way to Dallas for a meeting with one of our 501 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 3: stations there, because I guess he must be running the 502 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 3: stations in Dallason. He's our big program in Guru and 503 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 3: he was driving along. Eighteen wheelers smashed him in the back, 504 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 3: and I mean, it's amazing. 505 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 2: That he survived. 506 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 3: And he's over on the side of the road, discombobulating, discombobulating, 507 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 3: not sure if he's in heaven or Hell or somewhere 508 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 3: in between. And an eighteen wheeler that had stopped up 509 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 3: ahead jumps out of his eighteen wheeler comes running back 510 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 3: to him. And he had been in the middle lane 511 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 3: when the guy who hit him caused him to swoar. 512 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 3: And this guy said, I barely avoided you. He hugged Mark, 513 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 3: and mark'said, so, oh yeah, okay, Well, I just want 514 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 3: you to know I barely missed you, and if I 515 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 3: had hit you, it would have killed you. 516 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 2: I mean, he stopped his eighteen We would have come 517 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 2: back and tell him that. Okay, but you're hurting my shoulder. 518 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 2: So they they brought him back. 519 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 3: In the ambulance and he is waiting on he's going 520 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 3: into surgery today, shattered his clavical. 521 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 2: All of it bad news. Yeah, and just like that, 522 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 2: life happens. It's crazy. I didn't order bur King, Jeff 523 00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 2: Burger King yesterday. 524 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 3: You had it delivered. See, I don't want my fast food. 525 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 3: If you want to know what bad ingredients go into 526 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 3: fast food, especially today, have it when it's not piping hot. 527 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 3: Even water Burger if the burger holds up. 528 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 2: Okay, but the. 529 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 3: Waterburger fries, which I love, you give them about an 530 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 3: hour and. 531 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 2: You go, oh, yeah, that's not that's not. And now 532 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 2: I'll give it to me hot. I'll knock it out.