1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: Arry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: Good morning, Michael Berry. It's Sean Connery. But you had 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: a little radio show. Pity I washer did to find it. 6 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning, 7 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: guild morning, Michael Lady, Good morning Texas. 8 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 3: Listen to the Good Morning in Txas home in your car. 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: Good Morning in Texas. 10 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 4: Bone is on his day and we're happy. 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 3: To be here to talk about everything. 12 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: Good morning. 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 3: We're not wearing past. Good Mardy, Good Lordy, tax sense, 14 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 3: good Maury, Texcense, Good morning, waked the speak condamn my career. 15 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: Shooting in an ice facility this morning exactly what you 16 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: would expect of. The Democrats have ratcheted up the calls 17 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: for this. I'm not sure what's worse that they call 18 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: for the violence or that they have stupid followers out 19 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: there willing to engage in it. Jimmy Kimmel back on 20 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: the air. He wasn't fired, so just stop and think 21 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: about everybody who told you he was. It was a suspension, 22 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: but it made for a better headline to call it 23 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: a firing. Fewer stations for the short term, but rest 24 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: assured he will be back on every single state he 25 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: was already on. It's all performative art. Patrese Lee, the 26 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: former water department manager under Sylvester Turner's corrupt administration, who 27 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: steered millions of dollars in contracts for water line repairs 28 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: to friends and family, including one fellow who didn't even 29 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: own a truck, much less know how to drive one 30 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: or fix the water line while she was taking kickbacks, 31 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: was denied parole. She had cut a sweetheart deal with 32 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: Shawn Tier's office, so she was up for parole after 33 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: serving just five months of a ten year sentence and 34 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: not forced to pay a penny in restitution. She will 35 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: remain in prison for at least three more years thanks 36 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: to a new law that took effect September first, that 37 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: gives the board the discretion to push subsequent parole reviews 38 00:02:55,400 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: as far as five years into the future. Rc TV 39 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: with the. 40 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 5: Story Patrise Lee was the big fish, the woman who 41 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 5: steered multi million dollar city contracts to herself, family and friends. 42 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 5: But because she accepted a plea deal dismissing the most 43 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 5: serious felonies, she was eligible for parole just five months. 44 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 6: Into her ten year prison sentence. But here's where this 45 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 6: case gets interesting. The Board of Pardons and Paroles not 46 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 6: only denied. 47 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 5: Her parole, they said we don't want to consider her 48 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 5: for possible parole. 49 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 6: Again until August first, twenty twenty eight. 50 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 7: I just went yes, Senate Bill fifteen oh six. 51 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: It worked. 52 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 6: That's Andy Kahn of Houston Crime Stoppers. He pushed state 53 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 6: lawmakers to pass Senate Bill fifteen oh six in the 54 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 6: last legislative session. The bill gives the Parole Board the 55 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 6: discretion to set the next hearing for each inmate, and 56 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 6: they can schedule it up to five years in the future. 57 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 7: Previously, before September one, a case like Patrise Lee, if 58 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 7: she was denied parole, she would have had to come 59 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 7: back up for parole again every year, so you never 60 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 7: get a break. 61 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 8: I called Lee's attorney, Jaddrich about all of this, and 62 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 8: we actually delivered the news to him for the first time. 63 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 8: Con says the new law frees up the Parole Board 64 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 8: to spend more time on cases since it doesn't have 65 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 8: to automatically review every offender every year. It also potentially 66 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 8: gives victims families more time between parole hearings because many 67 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 8: make the trip to Austin every single year to try 68 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 8: and keep offenders behind bars, and that's a process that 69 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 8: can be absolutely draining. 70 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 4: I think this will kind of help restore some of 71 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 4: the faith in our justice system that right now is 72 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 4: so sorely lacking. But at least now we know we're 73 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 4: not going to have to hear anything about Patruce Lee. 74 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 4: Until the year twenty twenty eight. 75 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 5: Lee was the only one of seven defendants to get 76 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 5: any prison time in the corruption scandal, and she wasn't 77 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 5: ordered to pay any restitution. 78 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: It is grotesque to think how much crime and corruption 79 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: fraud occurred during Silvester Turner's mayoral administration at the City 80 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: of Houston, stealing every penny of your money they possibly could, 81 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: all the while aiming to be the black mayor for 82 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: the black people, but in fact besmirching the good name 83 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: of anyone black by in some way engaging in the. 84 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 9: Just racial rape of the treasury of this disgusting, absolutely 85 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 9: grotesque effort to steal as much money for yourself as 86 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 9: you possibly can. 87 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: And you know it wouldn't hurt the taxpayers nearly as 88 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: much if we just set aside a fund. All right, 89 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: Sylvester's got to have money for god knows who and 90 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: what he's going to spend it on. Let's put that 91 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: over here. Now, let's run the city efficiently. But the 92 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: problem is he had to steal the money during the 93 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: operation of the city's normally conducted activities. In order to 94 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: do that, they had to hire people to perform tasks 95 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: that are important, and so they didn't hire people who 96 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: knew how to perform those tasks because those people wouldn't 97 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: pay kickbacks. They instead had to put their friends and 98 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: families and people with whom he was doing god knows 99 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: what and pay them an inflated amount of money and 100 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: get kickbacks for it, making the friend or love or 101 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: whatever that is rich and doing the same for himself. 102 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: Last week, funny City of Houston's airport operations were named 103 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: amongst the worst in the country and the worst in 104 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: the state of Texas, the absolute worst in the state 105 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: of Texas. The food services at the Houston airports were 106 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: named the worst in the state of Texas, while DFW 107 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: was named number one in the country. Isn't that interesting? 108 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, the woman in Sylvester Turner's 109 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: administration who chose who got the food contract. Remember she 110 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: took it from Papas, who, by the way, is part 111 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: of the award winning number one food service facilities at 112 00:07:53,640 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: DFW just north of US. Papas Restaurants were kicked out 113 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: of the Houston Airport in favor of Arius A. R. 114 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: E As and the woman who did that. You'll never 115 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: believe this since John Whitmyer didn't keep her at the 116 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: City of Houston. She's now running a division as of 117 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: last week at Arius. Isn't it amazing? 118 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 10: Prosen putting on a stake the Michael Ferry Show, Jello 119 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 10: bran pudding pops made with the goodness of real jello pudding. 120 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: Pirate goes to the doctor asked for the moles on 121 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: his back to be checked. The doctor does, and he 122 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: says they're benign. The pirate says, check again, majie, there 123 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: be ten. The Circus Act for the human Cannonball retired 124 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: two weeks ago. They've tried several replacements, but just haven't 125 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: found any one of his caliber. From on did you 126 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 1: hear about the police gnome? He works in law enforcement. 127 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,839 Speaker 1: A mother in North Harris County arrested for opening fire 128 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: on a thirteen year old during a fight. I should 129 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: probably note the thirteen year old was her son. Authority 130 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: say deputies were dispatched around five twenty pm in the 131 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: one thousand block of Ranch Oak Drive near Hardy Street 132 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: in the Remington Ranch neighborhood. As they were headed to 133 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: the home, another call came in about a gun being 134 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: fired and someone being hit by gunfire. Captain Juan floties 135 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: with precinct force. As they investigated, they learned the mother 136 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: had been in in a fight with her son when 137 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: she shot him. Floyd has said the teenager was unarmed. 138 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: The boy was transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound. 139 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: Other family members were inside at the time of the shooting, 140 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: but they were not hurt. Floyd has said law enforcement 141 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 1: has been called to the home before, for instance between 142 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: the two. Floyd has said the Harris County District Attorney's 143 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: office has accepted charges of aggravated assault. She's very aggravator 144 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: mom against a family member. She will be booked into 145 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: the Harris County Jail. I have so many questions, so 146 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: many questions. I mean, I don't think the average mom 147 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: wants to shoot her thirteen year old son. And a 148 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: thirteen year old kid can drive a mother absolutely up 149 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: the wall. I know, I certainly did. My mom hit 150 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: me with a broom one time. I mean wallet me 151 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: with a broom. And I had a bruise the next day. 152 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: And so I was wearing a tank top. Now is 153 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 1: a tank top that has like the little straps over 154 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: the shoes and has your arms out, No, what do 155 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: you call a shirt? Doesn't have any sleeves in it 156 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: just got the wife beat her. I was wearing it. Well, yeah, 157 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: let's say that. But it was blue and red. It 158 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: wasn't white. It was imprinted in my mind. And anyway, 159 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: so we're driving somewhere the next day. I was about thirteen, 160 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:36,719 Speaker 1: and I got a big old bruise in my arm. 161 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: And my mom turned and looked at it. She said, 162 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: oh my god, what happened? I said, you hit me 163 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: because you know I was gonna ham it up right, 164 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 1: And she felt so bad. And this was during one 165 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 1: of those summers where I'm threatening to run away and 166 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: she's had it with me, And you know, I think 167 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: she is going through pretty nasty effects of minipare, and 168 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: I think I was going through pretty nasty effects of adolescence, 169 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: probably not alone, if we're honest in you know what, 170 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: we were both going through at the time, and it 171 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: might have been later that day or the next day, 172 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: and we get into it again because she wanted me 173 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: to clean the garage for the thirty eighth time that day, 174 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: and I thought the garage was plenty clean, and she 175 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: started in on me, and I basically made some comment 176 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: about I can't believe it's any dirtor and it was 177 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: ten minutes ago when I last had to clean the 178 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: stupid garage, and she made some you know, kind of 179 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: drew back, and I said, you swear you wouldn't beat 180 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: me no more. She felt so horrible. It wasn't like 181 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: I was beaten, but I but I was hamming it up. 182 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: I was. Camp missed It says they will reopen one 183 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: of their camp sites next summer. Matthew Childress, the father 184 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: of Chloe Childress, one of the two counselors who died 185 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: at Camp missed It, responded to the news saying that 186 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: the families of deceased campers and counselors were not consulted 187 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: about and did not approve the proposed memorial they also 188 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: planned to erect. Children said that attention should be centered 189 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: on recovering eight year old I don't know how to 190 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: pronounce this. I think it's Seal Cil and I'm guessing 191 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: that is for Cecial. If someone knows how to pronounce 192 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: her name, I certainly want to get it right. But 193 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: children said that attention should be centered on recovering eight 194 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 1: year old Seal Steward, who's the only child still missing 195 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: after the flood. He said, quote At this time, we 196 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: believe that all sources should be focused on reuniting Seal 197 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: Steward with her family, as the last unrecovered camper lost 198 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: in the waters of the Guadaloupe River at KMP Mystic Camp. 199 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: Mystic officials said that they would follow all new laws 200 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: and regulations as it welcomed campers back at its Cypress 201 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: Lake site and as they look to rebuild the Guadalupe 202 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: River site. The Cypress Lake site site is less than 203 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: a mile south and uphill from the Guadalupe River site. 204 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: They also assured parents that campers would never return to 205 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: cabins that were flooded in July, and said plans are 206 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: in the works to build a memorial for the quote 207 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: heavens twenty seven campers and councilors who died during the flooding. 208 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: In an email, they wrote we are not only rebuilding 209 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: cabins and trails, but also a place where laughter, friendship, 210 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: and spiritual growth will continue to flourish. As we worked 211 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: finalized plans, we will do so in a way that 212 00:14:55,320 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: is mindful of those we have lost. Chloe Childress is 213 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: the young lady from Houston. I don't know how many 214 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: years she'd gone to Camp Mystic as a as a 215 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: as a girl, but she had graduated at Kincaid High School. 216 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: Is the summer before her freshman year of college, and 217 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: as many of these girls do, it's a dream for them. 218 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: She was a counselor and so kind of a cool deal. 219 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: You know, it comes full circle. You've been a camper 220 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: and now you're a counselor, and you know, you know, 221 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: you know what the girls have been through, and you're 222 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: you're continuing this legacy. But boy, my heart goes out 223 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: to her family. 224 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 4: Wow, opened oh yes, yes, yes, yes, we have some trouble. 225 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: I understand. Nineteen eighty eight, it was like yesterday, doesn't it? 226 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: Thirty seven years ago? Put it into perspective, how long 227 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: ago thirty seven years was in nineteen eighty eight, thirty 228 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: seven years ago was nineteen fifty one that's coming out 229 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: of World War Two. In nineteen eighty eight, I was 230 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: going into my senior year of high school, happy if 231 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: an adult my age, and said, oh, yeah, I remember 232 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: that song. It came out in nineteen fifty one. I said, okay, Papa, 233 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: that's a long time ago. And now nineteen eighty eight, Wow, 234 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: thirty seven years ago. How about Nirvana's breakthrough album, never 235 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: Mind is released thirty four years ago today, same day 236 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: that The Red Hot Chili Peppers released Blood, Sugar, Sex 237 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: Magic in the US with under the Bridge and Give 238 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: It Away. Under the Bridge is an interesting song. One 239 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: day I was walking the halls of our studio at 240 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:28,479 Speaker 1: iHeart I don't know ten years or so ago, and 241 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: under the Bridge during the course of walking around a 242 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:39,120 Speaker 1: five year five minute span was playing on our classic rock, 243 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: Alternative Rock, and Sunny So it was playing on the 244 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: Buzz on what was the one that Beavis and Butthead 245 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: were on the Arrow, adenon rog Sorry, it played on 246 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: the Arrow, Buzz and Sonny all within If it wasn't 247 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: a five minute span, or it was at least within 248 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: a ten minute span across three completely different genres, isn't 249 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: that crazy? It was twenty years ago today that Hurricane 250 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: Rita made landfall in the United States, devastating portions of 251 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: southwest Louisiana and Orange Texas and southeastern Texas. As we 252 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: discussed yesterday, that's when the ill advised and poorly executed 253 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: evacuation occurred that cost so many lives. Boy, was that 254 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: ever a bungled deal. Attorney General Ken Paxton will join 255 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: high school students today at an event involving Stratford High 256 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: School students who were targeted by an adult woman, Natalie Herpes. 257 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 1: She is the vice president of the Spring Branch Democrats. 258 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 1: Think about what a broken human being you have to 259 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: be to be a grown woman, probably mid forties. It's 260 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: okay to be ugly. It's all right to be but ugly. 261 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,479 Speaker 1: It's it's all right to be a person who looks 262 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: like you're in a haunted house as a character. There's 263 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: no shame in that right. They may cast a remake 264 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: of the Adams Family and you walk right on the 265 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: set and go to town. It's fine to be physically ugly. 266 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: Nobody cares you get to a certain age, just be ugly. 267 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: It's even fine to have a dark heart, to wish 268 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 1: ill upon people, to sit with potions, double double toil 269 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: and trouble, and and and and you know, with with 270 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: your little your little doll, sticking needles into it, practicing 271 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:31,959 Speaker 1: voodoo on your poodles and all your cats. That's fine 272 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,199 Speaker 1: until the moment that you act upon it, when you 273 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: get on that little keyboard and you become a keyboard cowboy. 274 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,199 Speaker 1: And it's not hard to find the names of the 275 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: kids at high school, like Jack Robertson. This kid you 276 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 1: heard him on the show. He's just a kid going 277 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: to high school figuring it out. And he had a 278 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: number of other kids applied for and were accepted for 279 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: a chapter of Turning Point USA like any other chapter. 280 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: You look at the number of chapters of organizations at 281 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: high schools around. I remember Michael t when year brought 282 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: home the list of organizations. There had to be three 283 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: hundred at his school. And I'm not even joking. There 284 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: were Blacks for Jews, Jews for Arabs, and left Handeds 285 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 1: for Liberals, and I was just you name it, like, 286 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:39,959 Speaker 1: where do you come up? Where do they come up 287 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: with this stuff? There was every kind of organization for 288 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: you know, when I was growing up, they had the 289 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: chess Club. I mean other than sports and the band. 290 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,959 Speaker 1: We had Fellowship of Christian Athletes. We had a chess club. 291 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about it, but I was 292 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: in it. You had student government, no debate, yeah, but 293 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: debates an extracurricular These are organizations that are not extracurricular 294 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: activities like I'm sorry, let me say this. They're not 295 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: UIL sanction activities. They're just social organizations. And this awful, 296 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: dark human being, Natalie Herpes, a Belgian immigrant, sees fit 297 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: to get on social media and her group, the Spring 298 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: Branch Democrats, who should be ashamed of themselves. This awful 299 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: group of of of urchins, just terrible, terrible people. And 300 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: and she gets all the names and post the names 301 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: of teachers and kids, teachers who agreed to be sponsors. 302 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: That's what they're supposed to do. That's what a teacher's 303 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: supposed to do, is facilitate the development of children, their 304 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: intellectual growth, their leadership. Here they were watching the news, 305 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: engaged in the news, engaged in a movement in this 306 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: Natalie Herpes, she decides that she's going to unleash a 307 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: bunch of other ugly cat women and they're going to 308 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: be calling up their saying mean things to the students 309 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: and the teachers who agreed to be their sponsor. I mean, 310 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: think about that's what she woke up. That's what she 311 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: chose to do with her day. Imagine how miserable and 312 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: dried up your life is. That's what she chose to 313 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: do with her day. Can you imagine? Can you imagine anyway? 314 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: Ken Paston speaking in an event this evening for those students. 315 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: You could find the details online the Michael Barry Show. 316 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 2: Simple Man Full Open the phone lines seven one three 317 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 2: one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand. 318 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: We have chosen our winner for the Palm Beach three event. 319 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: So if you did not hear from us, rest assured 320 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: your email was read and considered. There were a lot 321 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: of really awesome applications this year. We punted to Russell Lebara, 322 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: since he's the one who paid for the scholarship for 323 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: him to make the choice. So if you're, you know, 324 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: putting bad juju on someone, don't let it be me 325 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: or Emily. We received quite a few emails. We read 326 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: through those and I asked Emily to pick and choose 327 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: about half of them or so. I don't know how 328 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: many she sent to Russell lebar and for him to 329 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: make the tough decision very hard for me because a 330 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: number of the people, as you might imagine, who applied 331 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: or people who I may not have met face to face, 332 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: but are frequent emailers. So you get to feel like 333 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: you know these people, and you know, you go back 334 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: and forth in some cases over course of years, and 335 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 1: you think, well, I'd really like to reward that person, 336 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: but it's not my scholarship to give. Very kind of 337 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: Russell Lebarra to do that. He's done that in the past. 338 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: In fact, he made the statement I'd like to send 339 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: them all they're also good. There is a picture that 340 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: makes its way around the interwebs once a year or so. 341 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 1: It says these were all released within forty four days 342 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: of each other in nineteen ninety one, And you think 343 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: about it's a month and a half, within a month 344 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: and a half. The Metallica album, the Pearl Jam ten album, 345 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: the Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion. That's a two part, right, 346 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: is it? Use your Illusion? One and two? What do 347 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: they call that? It's one in two? Right? That's my 348 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: lost decade. But I remember that, you know what's funny? 349 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: I forget about that album. I forget about that album 350 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: because Appetite for Destruction was so good, and so if 351 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: you'd asked me ten minutes ago, i'd forgotten that album existed. 352 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: It is a two part album. I need to look 353 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: at what's on there. But I know it was like 354 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: seventeen years between that and Chinese Democracy, right. I remember 355 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: that number six in my head. But I didn't think 356 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: in terms of albums. Ramone thinks in terms of albums. 357 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're an album thinker or not, 358 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 1: that's how you categorize these. But I didn't buy music 359 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: because I didn't have a way to play music. We 360 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: had a little bit tiny house, and you damn sure 361 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: weren't going to be blasting music in our house. I 362 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: have heard from people over the years that they would 363 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: go up to their room. I was always jealous. People 364 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: had a two story house. Oh, y'all are fancy. We 365 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: had a little, tiny, one story house off a little 366 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: tiny hallway, and that's where our bedrooms were. We all 367 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: shared a wall, and I was happy to have it. 368 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: My dad built that house with his own two hands, 369 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: and it was nothing fancy, but we were happy to 370 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: have it. And I say that because I went to 371 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: school with people who lived at the Koa Campground, and 372 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: I mean live. There was one girl I'm not gonna 373 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: say her name because it's not fair to her, but 374 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 1: she lived at the Koa Campground with her single mom 375 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: in a fifth wheel. And I don't mean these nice 376 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: fifth wheels they have now that all seem to have 377 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: this black, white and tan pattern that you said, I mean, 378 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 1: you wouldn't mind living in one of those things. They 379 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: got like a toy hauler on the end who dropped 380 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 1: the back off of it, and you know you got 381 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: a you gotta you got a extendable side and an 382 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: all name to make a little patio out of it. 383 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: So mean, it's a really really nice these fifth wheels. 384 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: I'm talking about an old fifth wheel like Holiday World 385 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: or whatever the brand was back then. It was nothing nice. 386 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: And uh, they lived at the Koa Campground, her and 387 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: her mother when we were in high school. And you 388 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: know that that's uh, that's some poor white people stuff 389 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: right there. So we were happy to have a house, 390 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: but what we weren't gonna do is play music in 391 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: our bedroom that rocked the walls. For the rest of 392 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: the house. That was not going to happen in our household. 393 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: So within forty four days you had Metallica, Pearl Jam, 394 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: Guns N' Roses Parts one and two. Is that how 395 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: you said that? Red Hot, Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic, 396 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: Sound Garden with the Bad motor Finger album, and then, oh, 397 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: by the way, it being nineteen ninety one, Nirvana's never Mind. 398 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: What would you say it's the biggest album out of 399 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: that moment, because it's not Guns N' Roses, that's not 400 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: gin Our's biggest or best? Would you say it would 401 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: be never Mind? Probably most influential, most talked about. Would 402 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: you say most talked about? 403 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 3: My MoMA. 404 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: So, as I'm mentioned, Ken Paxton and others will be 405 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: speaking at an event with the Stratford High School students 406 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: who were targeted by this nai Herpes. 407 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 10: You know. 408 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: This woman, I gotta I can't help, but wonder. I 409 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: can't help, but wonder what was going through her mind? 410 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: And what she managed to do was draw so much 411 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: attention for this organization that they're gonna be able to 412 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: raise funds, They're gonna be able to do more than 413 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: you could ever imagine. The State of Oklahoma has teamed 414 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: up with Turning Point to open a chapter in every school, 415 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 1: every high school in the state of Oklahoma. I don't 416 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: know that they're figuring out. Listen, listen, you monsters, you 417 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: absolute loser monsters. There's more of us than there are 418 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: of you. When you feel the need to rage and 419 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: to lash out at one of us normies, because we're 420 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: not a freak show like you, you need to pause 421 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: for a moment, and you need to realize that all 422 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: you're doing is fueling the fire that burns so hot 423 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: passionately across this country for a better America. And everything 424 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: you hate is what we want. And by the way, 425 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: we tolerate you because every one of you is somebody's neighbor, employee, 426 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: sister in law. And it's not until you engage in 427 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: this kind of wacky behavior. Shoot Charlie Kirk, run somebody 428 00:31:53,320 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: down in your car, harass high school students. We're starting 429 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: a chapter of a school. The Spring Branch Democrats must 430 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: be such a sad, broken group of people. Can you 431 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: imagine Their meetings probably start with a seance in honor 432 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: of Barney Frank's farts, and they probably recycle. They all 433 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: probably bring something to probably have a compost pile in 434 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: the middle you know they smell like sour milk. Their 435 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: cats are at home, aggravated because they haven't been fed, 436 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: probably walk in a circling chant for each other.