1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud. So 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air before we get to. 3 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: The Democrat National Convention, and. 4 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: We watched it so you didn't have to. Was it 5 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: ever a doozy? You're Astros with a thrilling end to 6 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: a game. 7 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: Diaz with the walk off dinger in the seventh inning. 8 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: He is previous at bat. 9 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: He was struck out on a pitch timer violation, so 10 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: he calls timeout and then he calls another timeout. 11 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: And they ring him up. 12 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 2: As a third strike for the pitch timer violation. The 13 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 2: win gives the Astros eleven of their last twelve in 14 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 2: a row and now a five game lead over the 15 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 2: Mariners in the Al West. 16 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: Here's the call, Giers. 17 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 3: What high tuck tucking the lighter on his way back 18 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 3: to the tugout and Yer pushed up for the winner. 19 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: Hey, dark lander, I ant elextra this month. That was 20 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: a beautiful yonder bomb. 21 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: Yider. 22 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 4: He had cut that thought up by burn Astros walk 23 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 4: off open position. They did just enough to keep this 24 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 4: game osen and allow them the. 25 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: Opportunity he at hold the worst one of the bat to. 26 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 5: Walk this game hold. 27 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: You tell him told to do it. He walked it 28 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: up to Gunner comment and that's all he needed. 29 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 4: Us those Carrell walkout hole drive of the career of Yonner. 30 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: Diaz his second career. 31 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 5: Walk off ahead of me. 32 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 2: So I wrote that it was his second career walk 33 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 2: off hit and first since a game winning RBS single 34 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 2: against the Rangers back in twenty twenty three. Maybe they 35 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: didn't have updated information at that time because they're doing 36 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 2: it in real time. But it's interesting because Jordan strikes 37 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: out in the app bat before him, and as Jordan 38 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 2: is walking back to the dugout, he stops and says 39 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 2: something to Daz, but to throw the other players off. 40 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: He said it in English. So then Diaz comes up. 41 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: To bat, first pitch goes yard and he turns in 42 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: points to your done. So whatever he told him obviously 43 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: turned out to be the case. The first pitch high 44 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: inside fastball. I don't know what he said, but interesting, 45 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 2: interesting times, interesting times, indeed, oh my goodness, the Democrat Convention. 46 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 2: You know, I try not to be a warrior because 47 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 2: you're just you're borrowing problems when you do. But I've 48 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 2: been at this long enough that I know the sorts 49 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 2: of things. You have to watch out for and the 50 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: Democrat convention. My fear was would give the Democrats a bump. 51 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 2: That's the point of a convention, to put you your 52 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 2: best foot forward. My goodness alive, I'm not exaggerating. It 53 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: is a bigger freak show than a nineteenth century circus. 54 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 2: The bearded lady, Oh, she's having an abortion on stage. 55 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: It is crazy. 56 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 2: And by the way, it's about that time people start 57 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: thinking about Halloween. If you were playing on a Yasser 58 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 2: Arafat costume, you're out of luck. 59 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: Because the protesters bought every single one. It looks like the. 60 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 2: Gossip strip outside that place. They crashed the gates. The 61 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,799 Speaker 2: problem was the little noodle arms dudes. They couldn't carry 62 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 2: the gates, so they had to have the big burly 63 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 2: women may or may not have been born as such 64 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 2: out front carrying the gates to move them out of 65 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 2: the way. And they brought in the blue helmets. They 66 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 2: brought in the United Nations helmet troops. It looked like 67 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: Hotel Rwanda, Palestinian style. It is an absolute and utter 68 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: freak show, a comical freak show. America does not identify 69 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 2: with this. This is like that scene in Revenge of 70 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 2: the nerds where you know, the goofy people come out 71 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 2: and now we identify this is the ultimate freak show. 72 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 2: If you were to go to some little comic shop 73 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 2: for weirdos, you grab a couple people out of there, 74 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: go over to Montrose on a street corner, go to 75 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: the youth Counseling Center. It is an absolute and utter 76 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 2: freak show. Reunion is a convention of them. It is 77 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 2: something else. Scott Jennings will get to the to the 78 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: audio as the show rolls along. Scott Jennings made the 79 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: statement by is known in his career as being one 80 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 2: of the best eulogy givers at funerals, and now they're 81 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: making him come home and give his own career eulogy. 82 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 2: I mean, he was bullied out of this race after 83 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: fifty two years of service to the Democrat Party. And 84 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 2: it wasn't all about his age. He had to be 85 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: dragged out by the fingernails. He's not here in a 86 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,559 Speaker 2: happy moment. Okay, I know this yarn that's being spun 87 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 2: in this hall that he was popular and selfless and 88 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 2: hanging on. No, no, no, it's the opposite, and everybody 89 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 2: knows it. Then Joe Biden gets up to speak, and 90 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 2: he absolutely loses it. My transcript says women are now 91 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: without electrical not allowed, excuse me, not without. 92 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: Electoral or power. Oh it was. And then he just 93 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: gives up. He just pauses and gives up. 94 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 2: The Michigan governor emasculated Tim Waltz by saying that her 95 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: daughters said he was just like her if she was 96 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 2: a man. Joe Biden said that she watched Joe Biden 97 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 2: quote dig deep into his soul and. 98 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: Decide to no longer seek reelection. That's not how it worked. 99 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 2: They put a pillow over the man and said, if 100 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: you kick your legs up, that's a resignation, and he did. 101 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 2: Alexandria Ocassio Cortes spoke, she looked like a sixth grade 102 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 2: sassy girl. 103 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: I mean she went over the top. 104 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: Then then Chris Coons, the Democrat from Delaware, gave a 105 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: what he planned to be a rousing speech. 106 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: She looks like Paul Feinbaum. 107 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 2: He gave what he thought would be a rousing speech 108 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: where he went into a chant of we love Joe, 109 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 2: except only about. 110 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: Ten percent of the people joined in with we love Joe. 111 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 2: And on que they had given people green signs with 112 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 2: reverse out lettering that said, Jill, and so about forty 113 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 2: people held up there, Jill Bard and if this is possible, 114 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 2: if this is possible within my realm of emotion, I 115 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 2: felt sorry for. 116 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: Jill at that moment, and that's hard to do. That 117 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:33,599 Speaker 1: is hard to do. 118 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 2: Joe Biden announced we finally beat Big Pharma. You mean 119 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 2: the guy that mandated everybody take ten of their shots. 120 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, it was something else. And we haven't 121 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 2: even gotten to Lena ad allgo. Jd Vance said, crazy 122 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 2: cat ladies run our governments. 123 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: So she carried a cat. 124 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 3: Jeh. 125 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 2: Yes, she showed him one more example of how government 126 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 2: of facts your life. You know, I'm always amazed. You 127 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,719 Speaker 2: see these poor families who've been the victim of a 128 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 2: repeat criminal, violent criminal, and legal alien, and I can't 129 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 2: help but wonder how they voted in the past, almost innocently, 130 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: not realizing it mattered. 131 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: It was just a function of. 132 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 2: Going to a kin sinetta or a backyard barbecue. Everybody 133 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 2: else is going to be a march down to vote, 134 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: and they go down to vote, and then they're shocked 135 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 2: to find out that the Democrat judge that's how they 136 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 2: were told to vote. The Democrat judge is letting out 137 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 2: the murderer of their loved one, seeming to taunt them, 138 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 2: and they never think of it as there's another party 139 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 2: that has a different mindset. They just can't understand why 140 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 2: this is happening, Why is the government, why are the 141 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 2: powerful people doing this? Because they don't realize there's a difference. 142 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 2: They live behind an impenetrable wall, a sad impenetrable wall 143 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: that has been built that gives them constant reaffirmation of 144 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 2: their tribal identity to such a degree. It's like when 145 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 2: you see these people visit these tribes down in the Amazon, 146 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 2: most people have never seen an airplane, and it's shocking 147 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 2: to folks that there could have been an alternative. They 148 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 2: don't know that, and some of them will wise it 149 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 2: up and they become a mouthpiece. They become a spokesman 150 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 2: for criminal justice. There's a woman, her niece was murdered 151 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 2: and I forget her name. I think the little girl's 152 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: name was Angel, I can't remember Lvarez, and she was 153 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: scooped up and she has become the face of crime 154 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 2: victims in the community and she's tireless. I met her 155 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 2: at an event or two, and she has her children 156 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 2: running around behind her. She's very attractive young lady. She's Hispanic, 157 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 2: she's I don't know, somewhere twenty eight to thirty eight, 158 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 2: and it's something Oliver is. But she has become a 159 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 2: tireless and passionate and effective face and voice of crime 160 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 2: victims because they're real people. 161 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: They're real people. 162 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 2: You know, You've got the fellow that's been the face 163 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: of crime stoppers, Andy Kahn for all these years. 164 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: But at some point he kind of blends into the background. 165 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 1: He can't help. But how shocked can he be? 166 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 2: Another person released after murdering someone, murders someone again, and 167 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 2: there's Andy saying, I'm shocked. At some point, people have 168 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 2: become numbed to that bond reform it and the only 169 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 2: problem Harris County. Apparently the fed's intervention is also creating 170 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 2: a mess. The career criminal who Popo SI led him 171 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 2: on a chase which resulted in an innocent woman being 172 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 2: hit and killed, would still be behind bars if it 173 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 2: weren't for the FEDS pressuring the Harris County DA's office 174 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 2: to drop a felon in possession of a weapon case 175 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 2: because the US Attorney's office said prosecution would hinder their 176 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 2: federal drug trafficking case against him, so he was paroled 177 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 2: and the Feds never filed the case against him as 178 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 2: they promised they would. 179 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: The story from ABC thirteen. 180 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 6: Joseph Jebia maybe behind bars now charged with hitting and 181 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 6: killing Carrie Mitchell while he was being chased by law enforcement, 182 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 6: but former prosecutor Michael Winn says he should never have 183 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 6: been out in the first place. 184 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: Who the Fed's messed up. The case should have been charged. 185 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: The guy should not have been on the street. There's 186 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: no excuse for. 187 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 6: According to court records, in twenty twenty two, Jebia was 188 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 6: found to have a go on him when he was 189 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 6: pulled over. He was charged with felon in possession of 190 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 6: a weapon. Jebia state in jail into December of twenty 191 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 6: twenty three, when, just days before he was supposed to 192 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 6: go to trial, the case was dismissed because of appending 193 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 6: federal charge. The Harris County District Atorney's office said that 194 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 6: federal prosecutors told them it would interfere with their federal 195 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 6: investigation if the state case went to trial, so the 196 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 6: case was dismissed and Jebia was let out of jail 197 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 6: with one big problem. 198 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 5: That federal case was never filed. 199 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 4: It's also symptomatic of a colossal lack of communication between 200 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 4: law enforcement on the federal side and on the state side. 201 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,199 Speaker 1: Happens far too frequently. Here we have tragic results. 202 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 6: When says Carol Mitchell's family deserves an explanation from prosecutors 203 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 6: on what happened. 204 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: Odds are defense just didn't get around to. I mean, 205 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 1: there's no excuse. 206 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 6: We contacted the Department of Justice to get their comments 207 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 6: on this issue and see what happened in the case. 208 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 6: They say they are looking into it, but however, they 209 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 6: also said they cannot talk about any that is not 210 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 6: on the public record. Now there is no criminal case, 211 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 6: so for now, there is no public record. 212 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,599 Speaker 2: Fox twenty six reports that two Houston veterans say that 213 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 2: the VA hospitals are circumventing the Mission Act that gives 214 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 2: veterans the right to seek treatment through a community care network, 215 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 2: which is resulting in deadly consequences, particularly for veterans battling 216 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: PTSD and drug abuse. 217 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 4: The Mission Act, passed in twenty eighteen, gave veterans the 218 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 4: right to seek treatment throughout community care network, but some 219 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 4: say since January, VA hospitals all over the country are 220 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 4: circumventing that. 221 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,359 Speaker 1: Law with deadly consequences. 222 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 4: You've asked that I not identify you too, because you're 223 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 4: worried that the VA by retaliate against you. 224 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 3: Good. 225 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: Correct. 226 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 4: Both of these veterans, who had substance abuse issues of 227 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 4: their own, are now working to help other vets struggling 228 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 4: with drugs, PTSD and homelessness. How long are some veterans 229 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 4: waiting to get substance abuse treatments? 230 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had veterans wait over a month. There shouldn't 231 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: be a wait. 232 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 4: Because of the Mission Act, which became long in twenty. 233 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 7: Eighteen, you cannot get a mental health substance abuse within 234 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 7: thirty minute drive of your residence or a twenty day 235 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 7: weight from when you need it. Then you had the 236 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 7: absolute rights or a grecare provider in the network. 237 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 4: In January, a mandate took away a veterans' right to 238 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 4: get treatment sooner through a community provider and not the VA. 239 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: According to the Red Team reports, the increasing. 240 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 4: Number of veterans being referred for community health care and 241 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 4: the rapidly rising costs are eroding the VA's direct care system. 242 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 4: That means veterans are waiting longer for treatment, especially for 243 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 4: substance abuse issues. 244 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 7: There's an increase in the suicide rates, and many veterans 245 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 7: are in danger healthcare wise, in suicide wise because they're 246 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 7: not getting the treatments or they're being told they have 247 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 7: to wait. 248 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: You know of three veterans who committed suicide. I do 249 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: waiting correct, Yeah, that I was personally assisting myself. 250 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 4: Do you believe there's at least one hundred veterans since 251 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 4: January that have needed substance abuse help and the amergotten. 252 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: At least at least at least one hundred. 253 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 4: Now we've reached out to the VA Hospital for a response, 254 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 4: we've yet to hear anything back. 255 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 2: Show that video after you play the be All you 256 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 2: Can Be video. Show that video right after the Few 257 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 2: the Proud the Marines. Hey boys, you're enjoying the football game, 258 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: feeling patriotic, willing to literally give your life for this country. Well, 259 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 2: just so you know when you come home torn up 260 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 2: physically and emotionally, this is what your federal government is 261 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 2: going to do to you. 262 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: Shame on those people. And if you know a veteran 263 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: who is struggling, don't. 264 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 2: Send me their name, give them the name for camp 265 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 2: Hope you our listeners support. This does not cost a 266 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 2: veteran a dime and it works eight seven seven seven 267 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 2: one seven PTSD eight seven seven seven one seven PTSD 268 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: And for those of. 269 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: You who contribute to it, thank you. Nothing Here to 270 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: Michael Berry show. 271 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 2: Mommy asks the question who you reckon is making more 272 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 2: money in Chicago? The people selling the plywood to board 273 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 2: up the businesses are the ones selling the Yasser Arafat 274 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 2: starter Kids to white kids, kids with white to white 275 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 2: kids with daddy issues. 276 00:17:59,240 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: That's a good question. 277 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 2: Can you imagine they're telling you how great it's going 278 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 2: to be that the convention's coming to your town and 279 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: you're having to board up your shop. A lot of 280 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,479 Speaker 2: those are immigrant owned shops. 281 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: Yep, yep. 282 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 2: And it just continues, It just continues. Like a lot 283 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 2: of my show sponsors. I ask Michael Petru to send 284 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 2: me the details. I don't need the name of each 285 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 2: new client he gets. And there were two that came in. 286 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 2: A sixty nine year old woman who's about to begin 287 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 2: cancer treatment. She wants to build her strength and her 288 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 2: stamina for the fight. She lives in Crosby and a 289 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 2: couple thirty seven and thirty six years old, husband wife. 290 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 2: They say they're on the wrong trajectory from a health 291 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 2: and fitness standpoint, and they want professional direction once and 292 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 2: for all. They've made a commitment together and they live 293 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 2: in I love it. I love when people say, you 294 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 2: know what, I'm going to get this. I'm gonna I'm 295 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 2: gonna take care of my teeth. I'm going to see 296 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 2: Spiker Davis or I'm gonna go see Christine Weaver and 297 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 2: we're going to put in a state plan in place. 298 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 2: I've been needing to do this, and I'm always busy. 299 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 2: I don't know about you. I struggle with things like that. 300 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 2: When do you set aside the time to sit down 301 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 2: and do an estate plan? 302 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: And that's why people buying, That's why people die in testate, 303 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: that's why they die. 304 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 2: And then there's all these court proceedings and fellows been 305 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 2: married before and because you just never made time to 306 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 2: do it. It's very There's a lot of things in 307 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 2: life that it's hard to say, I'm gonna set this 308 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 2: time aside and I'm gonna do it. 309 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna set this time aside and I'm gonna exercise them. 310 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: Set this time aside, and I'm gonna make this decision. 311 00:19:58,760 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: And it's not easy to. 312 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 2: Our tax planning and Strategy group Deroached Partners. Listeners will 313 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 2: say I got a business, mid sized business, and this 314 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: is what we're doing, and we're going to sell one 315 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 2: of our. 316 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: Divisions and blah blah blah blah, and. 317 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 2: I'll say, you probably should have been using them five 318 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 2: years ago. Get on it right now, go see them 319 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 2: right now, Get this started. Not only because of the 320 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 2: compliance perspective of you don't want the IRS knocking on 321 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 2: your door and it turns out you owe money not 322 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 2: just from last year, but if it's a systemic problem 323 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 2: that's been going on for years, you can owe years 324 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 2: of back taxes on a mistake that could have been fixed. 325 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 2: And that's the frustrating thing about it. But with Deroached Partners, 326 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 2: what they do is come in. They're very creative in 327 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 2: looking at things that you and maybe your CPA who's 328 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 2: slammed CPA is filing so many tax returns if they 329 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 2: don't have the time to step back and look at 330 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 2: a more global view of well, what if we move 331 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 2: this over here, and what if we move this to 332 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 2: this return, and what if we push this off to 333 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: here and slide this over here, and it can make 334 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 2: a difference of significant amounts of money, significant amounts of money, 335 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,880 Speaker 2: and it allows you to make better business decisions. Most 336 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 2: of us are so busy. If my wife gives me 337 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 2: something administrative to do. 338 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: That I know I need to do for the. 339 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 2: Kids school, or for our home insurance or anything my health, 340 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 2: I can do that, or I can prep for the 341 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 2: next day show. I will put that aside and prep 342 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: for the next day show. It's just that's my Mindset's 343 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 2: what I've always done. I'm one hundred percent focused on 344 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 2: the show, staying up to reading, communicating. 345 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: I will do that. 346 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 2: And it's kind of like the excuse you you made 347 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: when you were in school, anything to keep from studying. 348 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:09,959 Speaker 2: It's the excuse you make anything to keep for if 349 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 2: you do your own personal taxes at home, to keep 350 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 2: from doing things like that, you'll do. 351 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: Everything else but that. On the same way. 352 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 5: It is now. 353 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: Sixteen days from the North Carolina absentee ballots being sent 354 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 2: to voters. This will be the first absentee ballots sent 355 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 2: in a battleground state September sixth. A couple of days later, 356 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 2: September tenth the presidential debate. President Trump announcing last night 357 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 2: that Kamala Harris will not do the Fox News debate. 358 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 2: She's scared of the debates. They are frightened of the debate. 359 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 2: But there will be a September tenth presidential debate. October 360 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 2: seventh the last day for you to register to vote. 361 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 2: And more importantly, don't puff your chest out for those 362 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 2: around you who you know you need to get registered. 363 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 2: October seventh, please don't wait till last minute. October twenty 364 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 2: first will be the first day to vote early in person. 365 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: What is that? Sixty one days away? Not long, It'll 366 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: be here before you know it. 367 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: October twenty fifth will be the last day to apply 368 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 2: for a ballot by mail. 369 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: That's sixty five days away. 370 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 2: November first will be the last day to vote early 371 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 2: in person, seventy two days way. And November fifth election day, 372 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 2: seventy six days away. 373 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: And if we were even a third world country, we'd 374 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: have our results that night. But we know we won't. 375 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: It will go to court. 376 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 2: But we have to do everything in our power to 377 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 2: give our team the side the people that are closest 378 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: aligned to us. I saw a woman from a sweet, 379 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 2: little old lady. I think she was in Pennsylvania. She 380 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 2: said Donald Trump is better than Kamala Harris at defending 381 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 2: my values of my country. I'm not looking for a Valentine. 382 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 2: That's how a voter has to look at it. Who 383 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 2: is more closely aligned to you? If you're looking for 384 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 2: the perfect candidate, you'll never find them. You'll find reasons 385 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: not to vote for this particular candidate, and in so doing, 386 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 2: your helping Kamala. We've got to vote all the way 387 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,719 Speaker 2: down for every Republican office, whether you recognize the name 388 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 2: or not. We've got to share with other people how 389 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 2: to vote and why we are voting the way we 390 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 2: are voting. Get a yard sign. Get a Donald Trump 391 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 2: Ted Cruz yard sign if you're in Harris County. Mike 392 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 2: Knox our Sheriff Dan Simon's a district attorney candidate Will Michael. 393 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about him. Well, what do you 394 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: want me to do? I can tell you this, he's 395 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 1: not supported by George Soros. What more do you need 396 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: to know? 397 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 2: And if you're willing to be a poll watcher, go 398 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 2: to Protect the Vote dot com and then you'll pick 399 00:24:53,640 --> 00:25:02,479 Speaker 2: the state of Texas. Protect the Vote dot com. Well, 400 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 2: we should probably talk about the convention, but let me 401 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 2: knock out a few things locally first so we don't 402 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 2: overlook them. Parents at Sifair ISD forced to endure an hour. 403 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: Long school drop off line. I know some of you 404 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: mommies are going. I do that every day, Michael, I know. 405 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 2: But parents at Sifair ISD forced to endure an hour 406 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 2: long school drop off line that's stretched at some campuses 407 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 2: over a mile after the district cuts seventy nine bus 408 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 2: routes amid budget cuts. Now, the important thing to understand 409 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 2: about these school districts that are so incredibly out of 410 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 2: control is these aren't budget cuts because our economy locally 411 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 2: has tanked. These are not budget cuts occasioned by lower taxes. 412 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 2: These people are rolling in more cash every year, but 413 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 2: they take more conference visits, they build more buildings, they 414 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 2: give themselves more pay raises, because what do they personally 415 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 2: benefit from running buses to get the kids to the school. Hell, 416 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 2: I went to a poor country school and we didn't 417 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 2: have much else, but we had a school bus. I 418 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 2: did steal one Roman. Please, that's not part that's not relevant. 419 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 2: It's not germane to the discussion. Not that I have 420 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 2: anything as Germany. They these school districts have gotten so 421 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:47,239 Speaker 2: out of control, between DEI and WOKE and boys as 422 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 2: girls and girls as boys, and counselors they got more 423 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 2: counselors and teachers. 424 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: Parents need to get up their ass and. 425 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,959 Speaker 2: Say educate the kids, get them to school, and get 426 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 2: get them back. That's what we paid for. Knock this 427 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 2: nonsense off. Join in together and storm these schools and 428 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 2: take them over. Join the school board. Fire the administrators, 429 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 2: demand bad teachers be fired. Stop listening to the lawyers 430 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 2: and the career administrators. 431 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: These people are the problem. They're your schools and your kids. 432 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: Listen to this. 433 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 8: Throughout the morning in this area, your Telgi and zypers 434 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,719 Speaker 8: North Houston traffic was a nightmare. Some parents told us 435 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 8: it took them about an hour to drop their kids 436 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,479 Speaker 8: off at school, and they're thinking this much congestion has 437 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 8: got to do with the district's bus route cuts. You 438 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 8: may expect the first few days at school traffic to 439 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 8: be rough, but. 440 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 5: This was more than these side. They're isd parents bargained 441 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 5: for Arnold Middle School. How long you've been on the 442 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 5: road this morning. 443 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: About forty five minutes. 444 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 6: I had left our house in Raven's way at like 445 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 6: seventeen and everyone on this road is like cutting people 446 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 6: in line. 447 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:01,360 Speaker 5: It's a whole mess. 448 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 8: Some of the extra cars on the road are because 449 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 8: of the seventy nine bus route cuts the. 450 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 5: District made to save money. That's why e Bet is 451 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 5: in the line this morning. Her daughter's route is one 452 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 5: that got cut. 453 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 9: It would dependent on the lessons, so I don't know 454 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 9: how people are going to do it that they have 455 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 9: to go to work. 456 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 5: It's insane. I would never let my daughter just walk 457 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 5: around the street it's busy, so I don't know. They 458 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,439 Speaker 5: just didn't think this through Cifair. 459 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 8: ISD is facing a budget shortfall of nearly one hundred 460 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 8: and forty million dollars. 461 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 5: The bus route cuts will save them about four point 462 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 5: eight million, which they say equates to seventy five teacher positions. 463 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 8: At last week's board meeting, Trusty said it was a 464 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 8: tough decision to make. 465 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: Again, I am truly sorry for those negatively impacted by these. 466 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 5: Changes, and today families are feeling the effects. 467 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 9: At the middle school, they're practically having them get out 468 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 9: at the light there, out of your cars and just 469 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 9: run up to the school because and it's still like ridiculous, 470 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 9: Like it's still out of hand. 471 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 2: Did you know us this is a technique that's used 472 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 2: in every governmental body. We got to find four point 473 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 2: eight million dollars. That's seventy five teachers. Yeah, we have 474 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 2: to make these cuts otherwise we'd have to lose seventy 475 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 2: five teachers. 476 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: Wait a second, come back in here, sit down, we 477 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: need to find. 478 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 2: Four point eight million dollars. You've overspent by four point 479 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 2: eight million dollars. Okay, because that's what's happened. Let's start here. 480 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 2: You've said we have to cut the buses. Hod you 481 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 2: come up with that. See, that's what they do because 482 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: the buses don't benefit the administrators, but the schools not 483 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 2: for the kids. Let's make this clear. The schools are 484 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 2: not for the kids. They're for the administrators. That's why 485 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: the State of Texas taking over HISD was swa upsetting 486 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 2: Theshila Jackson, Lee and Rodney Ellison, Sylvestra Turner because they 487 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 2: have so they they have enmeshed their network of operatives 488 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 2: and consultants and cousins and baby mamas and. 489 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: Sister girls and sorority sisters. 490 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: A lot of sorority sisters who were up and down 491 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 2: the ranks of the administrations. You remember when North Forest ID. 492 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 2: You remember when Northwest ID was being shut down and 493 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 2: Shemla Jackson Lee was out there just screeching and clawing 494 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 2: and oh catterwauling. 495 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: It was terrible. It was going to be the end 496 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: of the world for the kids. The school was failing. 497 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 2: Kids were graduating and couldn't even put an X, much 498 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 2: less sign their name, couldn't read and write. 499 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: But that was the school she controlled. 500 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 2: She had the principles, she had the assistant principles, she 501 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 2: had the hiring, she had the HR manager. When she 502 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 2: needed to put some money in her pocket or somebody else's, 503 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 2: she'd get them hired. She'd get them to hire old 504 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 2: so and so at one hundred thousand dollars a year 505 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 2: to be the diversity equity inclusion director. 506 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: You think I'm kidding. I've seen it. 507 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: I know the people who held the job, I know 508 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: how they got the job, I know when the call 509 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 2: was made. 510 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: That's the problem. 511 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 2: That's a dangerous bit of information, and that's what they 512 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 2: were doing. And finally the state said, we will allow 513 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 2: you a certain amount of coruption. But this is getting 514 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 2: to the point that someone might blame us, oh and 515 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 2: the screeching. What turns out, HISD was this the same 516 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: thing on a bigger scale with a few whites and 517 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 2: a bunch of Hispanics thrown in. 518 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: But it was the same scale. 519 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 2: It's the same little third ward acres homes, fifth ward 520 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: black internal municipal, dirty, dirty, filthy self dealing politics. And 521 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 2: the people who suffer are the blacks. That's the amazing 522 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 2: thing about this whole thing. And everybody knows it. It's 523 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 2: it's like a tax on the community. Everybody knows this 524 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 2: is happening, but nobody really wants to take it on 525 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 2: and say what I say, And nobody wants to go 526 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 2: in head on. You know, to his credit, Miles is 527 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 2: going in there, and I mean he busted that whole 528 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 2: thing up. It was so much corruption. But how about 529 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,719 Speaker 2: sci fair to find four point eight million dollars? All right, 530 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 2: did anybody get a raise this year? Let's first repeal 531 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 2: all raises. I bet you find ten million there, superintendent. 532 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 2: Let's start with you. You were gonna cut your your 533 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 2: pay in half? What yeah, if we didn't make budget, 534 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 2: that starts with you. We're cutting your pay in half. 535 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 2: The last thing we're gonna do is cutting the bus service, 536 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 2: not the first you go in. How many conferences did 537 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 2: y'all go to? No more conferences, How many DEI officials. 538 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 5: None of that. 539 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 2: Every dollar that is not education or bus service, you'd 540 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 2: find thirty million dollars. Guaranteed, I could do it. 541 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 1: I'd love to do it. The superintendent once asked me 542 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: for a meeting. Let's go, let's sit out with the budget. 543 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: I'll find it for you. It'll take me ten minutes.