1 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: It's that time time, Time, Luck and Load. Michael Very 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: show is on the air. The phone lines will now 3 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: be open seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand. 4 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: If you are interested in attending the event this evening, 5 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: you can go to Steve Tote's website and find out more. 6 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: I take this race very personally because I bear personal 7 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: responsibility for the fact that Dan Crenshaw was elected. When 8 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: I got involved at the request of friends who I 9 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: won't speak for their opinion of Dan Crenshaw today. That's 10 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: not my role. But when I got when I was 11 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: asked to assist who I was told to be a 12 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: very good candidate. In twenty eighteen, he was in a 13 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: distant third place and against a very well funded Kathleen 14 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: wall puh Puhn and a well known state rep in 15 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: the area named Kevin Roberts, and Crenshaw was in third place. 16 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: I saw in him. I should probably tell you I 17 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: think that Congress, the lower House and the upper House, 18 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: should have some level of diversity. You got four hundred 19 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: and thirty five members of Congress. I think you should 20 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: have some mommies in there. They're not very many mommies 21 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: in Congress. I'm not saying all of Congress should be mummies. 22 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: But I think you need to have a few mummies. 23 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: I don't mean women, I mean ladies who have born children, 24 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: so they have an experience with the reproductive process that frankly, 25 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: guys will never ever experience or really completely understand the 26 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: way they will, the way they go through it. The 27 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: hormonal change, the physical change, all of that, prenatal care, 28 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: post birth care, and yes, the feelings that cause some 29 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: women to go into deep depression afterwards. Yeah, I think 30 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: those are things that need to be experienced by some 31 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: members of Congress. We think of Congress as this place 32 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: where former student body presidents and I am one, and 33 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: former lawyers and I am one go because they're quick 34 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: talkers and slap people on the back and remember people's 35 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: names and all look the same. And then we said, well, 36 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 1: it can't just be all white guys, like that's got 37 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: to be some black grifters. Okay, we'll add some Sylvester 38 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: and Sheila Jackson Lee's to the list, and maybe some 39 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,399 Speaker 1: Hispanic guys who go by Chewy or some other little 40 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: cutesy nickname. But at the end of the day, it's 41 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: all the same thing. I do believe in Congress. You 42 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: need some people with different backgrounds. I think you need 43 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: some mommies. I think you need some older folks, some 44 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: older folks that didn't grow up in politics, some older 45 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: folks who had to live as older folks, as private people, 46 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: I think you need to have some startup business guys. 47 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of that. I think you 48 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: need to have some Elon Musk type guys, some gunslinger, 49 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: startup investor dreamer type people. The people in Congress don't 50 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: understand private equity or how deals get done like that, 51 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: how companies get started, and yet they're making laws about it. 52 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: I think you should have farmers. I think you should 53 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: have teachers, and yes, I think you should have people 54 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: who lost an eye and war. And that was my logic. 55 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: He's a smart guy. He is very smart. There's no 56 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: doubt Grenshall's not dumb. He's not as smart as he 57 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: thinks he is. Tucker Carlson has made this point on 58 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: many occasions. He seems to think he should be president 59 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: or king or some other exalted title, and he's got 60 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: a lot of anger about it. The anger seems to 61 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: keep exploding over at least according to reports of various 62 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: things that at this point, I guess are allegations, but 63 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,559 Speaker 1: it does seem to be a pattern over a period 64 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: of time. I feel a personal responsibility, having worked so 65 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: hard to get him elected, to now expose what I know, 66 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: what I've seen, what I've personally witnessed. Look, I would 67 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: love to have a personal friendship with a guy with 68 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: the potential to be president, who's really sharp, with a 69 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: great military background. I would love that to be the case. 70 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: There was not an easy choice for me to make 71 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: that I will no longer have anything to do with 72 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: you any longer. That was my choice, not his. But 73 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: I also understand that the only thing I have of value, 74 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: the only asset I have, is my reputation with you. 75 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: There are things that matter to me, my relationship with 76 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: my family, but the only thing I have of value 77 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: that's marketable, that's how I make my living, is the 78 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: fact that you trust and respect me. I don't think 79 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: that you think that I'm infallible. I don't make mistakes. 80 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: Obviously I did in this case, but that I'm going 81 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: to own up to it very quickly. That I'm going 82 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: to have conversations about things that are awkward like this, 83 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: that are unpleasant to talk about I just as easy 84 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: ride this one out, ride out the career of Dan Crenshaw. 85 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: Why go make an enemy with friends in powerful places? 86 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: And he does have friends in powerful places. I think 87 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: that the people who back Dan Crenshaw, I think that 88 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw has what in the Southern Baptist Church we 89 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: would refer to as favor checking the Black Church, I 90 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: think he has favor. I think there are people in 91 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: very powerful positions that you will never see, who have 92 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: their eye on Dan Crenshaw and view him as a 93 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: very very useful instrument, much as they did John McCain, 94 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: much as they did George hw. Bush. And you will 95 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: notice that the people who support him come from a 96 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: certain thread of a type of people. There are certain 97 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: issues that matter a great deal to them, and they're 98 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: not issues that matter to the second Congressional district. You 99 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: will notice that this type they are warmongers, They are institutionalists, 100 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: they are establishmentarians. They protect their own, they never leave fingerprints. 101 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: And I think Crenshaw may be one of those cases where, 102 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: just like Epstein, an individual who is being controlled by 103 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: other people and powerful interests gets himself personally. They want 104 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: to turn you on and turn you off. And when 105 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: you start having problems. I don't know what happened in Mexico, 106 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: maybe nothing, but there is a lot written. If you 107 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: look up Dan Crenshaw in Mexico, there are enough stories 108 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: about it that some people seem to think it's credible. 109 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: There have been a lot of questions asked that shows 110 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: a certain combustible personality that long term is not useful 111 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: to the people that have been supporting you. And you 112 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: get it off hood with air grabbing scoops mit theco very. 113 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: Fucking who had escaped from the ordinary? You saw a 114 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: video of Kamala Harrison. Audio was down so I couldn't 115 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: tell she was sorrying. But this is odd. I don't 116 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: know if it's been manipulated by AI or not. I 117 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: suspect it has. But it's a video of Kamala Harris 118 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: talking into the camera and she looks sober, so I 119 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: don't know. Doesn't seem believable, but yeah, anyway, my voting 120 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: choices have now been posted. Finally, the delay was all mine. 121 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: I'm not blaming our team because it was not their fault. 122 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: It was mine. I obsess over stupid things in such 123 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: a way that it becomes almost a paralysis and I 124 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: understand for a lot of people that would seem silly, 125 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: but having been a candidate myself, I can't help but 126 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: remember what it was like to be a candidate and 127 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: trying to get people to pay attention to me and 128 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: listen to what I was going to do and how 129 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: I would do it, and they were busy with their 130 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: own lives. I've tried to be as accommodating as I can. 131 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: I've tried to be as that's not true, I have not. 132 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 1: I've tried to be as diligent as I can to 133 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: find the good candidates who I think should win. Now, 134 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: let me go ahead and make this clear because people 135 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 1: I think it's meant as a taunt, but it doesn't 136 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: bother me. I will lose a lot of races. I 137 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: don't have one hundred percent approval rating or win rate. 138 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: But remember I'm not a guy who's trying to get 139 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: hired on as a lobbyist by the candidates who win. 140 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: That's Karl Rove and Allen blakemore. I don't make my 141 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: living off that. I make my living offering commentary and 142 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: observations on the air and supporting businesses who you support 143 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: with your business. That's my business model, so I don't 144 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: have to ever say I'm voting for anyone. I'm not 145 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: saying I'm some big martyr or give me a prize 146 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: for I care about our government because I live in 147 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: this country too, and I know as well as anyone 148 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,479 Speaker 1: the difference between a good office holder and a bad officeholder. 149 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: I also know how difficult it is to get good 150 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: office holders in office, because the kind of people that 151 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: the process tends to reward are malleable, little weasels who 152 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: would sell out their own wife or mother in exchange 153 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: for getting to hold an office. And you've seen that. 154 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: You've seen that again and again and again. I also 155 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: know that there are powerful forces aligned to choose the candidates. 156 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: We have witnessed a glorious moments since twenty ten of 157 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: the public rising up and saying, no, Republican Party, you're 158 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: not choosing our candidate anymore. We don't want any more 159 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: John McCain's, we don't want any more Romney's. We've had 160 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: enough of that. We don't want Jeb Bush. We've had 161 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: enough of that. So I have posted my ballot at 162 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: Michael Berryshow dot com. You can see it for yourself. 163 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: I did weasel out in the Senate race Wesley Hunt 164 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: and Ken Paxton. I think Ken Paxton will make a 165 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: great senator. I think he's been a great attorney general. 166 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: I've known Wesley Hunt for several years. I was one 167 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: of his biggest supporters in his first race. We spent 168 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 1: the next afternoon after he lost the first race commiserating 169 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: over the race because I didn't want him to leave 170 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: the process, which he felt like he wanted to do 171 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: because it was so devastating. I go back with both 172 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 1: of those guys, and I think both of them being 173 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: in the race increases the likelihood that Cornyn loses. It's 174 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: hard for people to understand, but you can choose Hunt 175 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: or you can choose Paxton. You don't need to crap 176 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: on the other one. Both of them being in the race, 177 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: and by the way, they'll both so much as admit 178 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: that having both of them in the race increases the 179 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: likelihood that the next Senator from Texas is not named Cornyn. 180 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: US Representative District two, of course, Steve Toath, That's what 181 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: we've been talking about all morning. A District eight, Jessicas 182 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: Hartsteyle or Nick Tran. I don't personally know either one 183 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 1: of them. Some of the powerful forces in the area 184 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: are with Steinmann. She appairs to have a lot of momentum. 185 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: Some of the grassroots folks that I respect and like 186 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 1: tell me that Nick Tran is a great American. So 187 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: there's your There's District nine. Alex Meheler. Meeler is a very, 188 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: very smart woman. She also happens to fit nicely into 189 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: the She's actually a mommy. She's also a veteran. She 190 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: also has an impressive academic background. She's also been a 191 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: bomb tech. I think it's good to have somebody in 192 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: Congress who, like the hurt Locker, has put on that 193 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,439 Speaker 1: beekeeper outfit and walked out to bombs and taken the 194 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: fuse off of them. I think the kind of person 195 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: who can do that should be one four hundred and 196 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: thirty fifth of Congress. You need that perspective in there too. 197 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: I like the fact that she's raised kids. I like 198 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: the fact she's given birth. I like the fact that 199 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: she's had to go through that whole process. I think, 200 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: you know, we have this idea of Congress as they 201 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: make these big, important laws. The fact is most of 202 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: our lives forget the entertainment that is politics and sports, 203 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: most of our lives is a man and a woman 204 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: and their children. How are we gonna feed them, How 205 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: are we going to clothe them? What time do they 206 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: get to bed? Their education, taking them to school, picking 207 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: them up, taking them for events, taking them for sports, 208 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: taking them for ballet, taking them for dance, taking them 209 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: for volleyball, taking them for confirmation, taking them to sunny school, 210 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: taking them to church, taking them to the doctor, losing 211 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: their first tooth, having their period, having a bar of mitzvah, 212 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: having a kinsinetta. That's raising children is in every species, 213 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: that's the most important thing we're going to do in 214 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: our lives. Often you hear Congress talk about that. The 215 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: closest thing we ever get to a conversation about human 216 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: beings and children is the abortion discussion. And I'm pretty 217 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: well convinced that at least half of the conversation on 218 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: abortion is being conducted by people who have never had 219 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: a child, will never have or raise a child, and 220 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 1: think that children are disgusting. That's not about a choice, 221 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: that's about a deep psychological hatred you have for babies. 222 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: Some people hate babies. Some people hate old people. I've 223 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: noticed this. I don't know why. I think it's cringe. 224 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: I think they suffer they I think it's something they're 225 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: uncomfortable with. It's ikey, like the word moist to some people. 226 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: I don't know why the word moist bothers people, but 227 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: apparently it does. Alex Miheler Congressional District Risco Caine was 228 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: tapped by Dade Feeling to lead the charge against Ken Paxton. 229 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: It destroyed the House session, It destroyed the Republican Party 230 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: in say Texas. That will reverberate for years. He took 231 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: money from Colony Ridge and was a spokesman saying that 232 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: it's the American dream appears to be getting cat well. 233 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: I think Alex Meeler's a much better choice in that race. 234 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: How about that? And I think that the grassroots liberty 235 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: and East end of Harriskont I think they agree. Should 236 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: be interesting to watch If the mother sues, that'll be interesting. 237 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: A female high school student in Nebraska who walked out 238 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: of class as part of an anti ice protest hit 239 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: by a car. Her mother is angry that the school 240 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: allowed and even encouraged the walkout, saying about her daughter, quote, 241 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: I don't feel she's informed enough to have made a 242 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: decision like the one she made by doing a protest. 243 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: She points out that her daughter was even allowed to 244 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: make her protest poster in class. The story from wo 245 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: WTTV in Omaha. 246 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 2: The Fremont High school student who was hit by an 247 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 2: suv during a student protest is at home recovery. She 248 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 2: says she's doing fine, just some bumps and bruises and 249 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 2: a little sore. 250 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: I think it. 251 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 3: Mostly got me in my legs, because my knees are 252 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 3: really what's bugging me right now. 253 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: Okay, did you see it at all? Did you see 254 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: the car at all? 255 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 2: Oh? 256 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: I remember was that it was read? 257 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 2: The girl's mother is upset. She feels this entire incident 258 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 2: should have never happened. 259 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: No, not at all. 260 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 4: I'm angry. I'm first of all, I don't feel that 261 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 4: she is informed enough to have made a decision like 262 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 4: the one that she made by doing a protest. I 263 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 4: don't feel that any of the young people that were 264 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 4: involved know enough about what's going on to do or 265 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 4: set up a protest, because I don't feel they know 266 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 4: what their protests being. 267 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: The mother of the student hit by the suv believes 268 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 2: the high school bears some responsibility for what happened. 269 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 4: My daughter was allowed to make her poster in class 270 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 4: in school to career colass Where are the teachers and 271 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 4: why weren't they paying more attention to what these kids 272 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 4: were doing? 273 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: I feel the school is quite a big out fault 274 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 1: for this. 275 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 2: There are some students at Fremont High who are concerned 276 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 2: this incident will damage the school's reputation. 277 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: You know, I'm always careful with a subject like this 278 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 1: to involve my children because they get to live their 279 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: lives separate and apart from my show and what I 280 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: talk about. But I'm gonna and I'm not a perfect father. 281 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: My mother's my wife and a perfect mother. I don't 282 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 1: mean to suggest that we are. We've been blessed with 283 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: two wonderful kids who never caused us any trouble, sweetest dispositions, 284 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: and I do think, I do think that part of 285 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: that is the lottery I've watched. You don't know how 286 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: people raise their kids. You don't know what kind of 287 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: signals they're giving and what kind of discipline their giving 288 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: or not, which is usually the problem. But I've seen 289 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: some really good people have some kids that end up 290 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: just terrors, and maybe the parents in their own way 291 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: unintentionally contributed to that. I don't know, but I don't 292 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: think so. I think that you have some in every 293 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,479 Speaker 1: in every crowd, you know, you're gonna have a you know, 294 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: a person who's unstable. You have a person who's crazy. 295 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: You have a person who's homicidal, a person whose self 296 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: wants to self harm, all those sorts of things. But 297 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: I think by and large, good parenting wins, not every time, 298 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: but most of the time. I just don't think that 299 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: most people understand what good parenting looks like. I agree 300 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: the school had no business allowing the kids to make 301 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: posters in the classroom, but take some personal responsibility. That's 302 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: your kid who did that. There are a lot of 303 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: people in this troubles me who believe I'm just figuring 304 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: it all out. I don't know how to do all this. 305 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: I got a kid and all this, and the school's 306 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: not doing their job, not doing their job. What which 307 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: part of the not doing their job? If you want 308 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: to control what your kid learns, then be the teacher. 309 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: Oh I can't teach well, then a school failed you. 310 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: If you can't pass down what you learned, then you 311 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: were failed and you failed yourself. Where is your personal responsibility. 312 00:19:55,520 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: Why was your child leaving school? There were her other 313 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: parents who are friends of mine, who think I'm a 314 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: weirdo because we did not condone drinking. I wasn't raised 315 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: to believe kids should be allowed to drink. My wife wasn't. 316 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: My wife didn't want our kids dating in high school. 317 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: She didn't believe it was appropriate. You're welcome to think 318 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: that's weird. Fine, it's a different tradition and the belief 319 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: that at that age you should be focused on personal 320 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: growth and development and academics and not other things. They 321 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: went to homecoming, they did all of those things. However, 322 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: if you don't have a strategy for how you're going 323 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: to parent your child, you end up leaving two chance 324 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: how they're going to turn out. You have more than 325 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: a responsibility of providing sufficient food, clothing, and housing and 326 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: maybe transportation to your child. How did you think it 327 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:10,679 Speaker 1: was a good idea to hand them over to the 328 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: school and expect the school to instill the same values. 329 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: That's why so many parents are mad at the schools, 330 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: the public schools. Oh well, Michael, your kids went to 331 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: private schools. Private schools are worse. Let me tell you 332 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: something you want to get a really scary liberal woman 333 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: who wants to inculcate children with terrible ideas. She ain't 334 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: at the public school, She's at the private school, trust me. 335 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: And there are those types at every school. There are 336 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: also wonderful teachers at every school. We had conversations about this. 337 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: We had conversations about a boy and a girl and 338 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: what makes them different. And it's more than just a 339 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: wiener and a who who hormones, reproduction, growth and development, 340 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: bone man, bone density, strength, size, voice, Adam's apple breasts. Yeah, 341 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: it's not a pleasant conversation to have, but you damn 342 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: well better do it. It's kind of like slaughtering beef. 343 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: I don't want to be the one to gut them, 344 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: have the blood everywhere and saw and cut and hack 345 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: and refrigerating it. But I surely like steak. So at 346 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: some point, as a parent, you're going to have to 347 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: address this. My kids knew when there was an issue 348 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: that might arise at their school that we were going 349 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: to have to discuss it at dinner. And no, I 350 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 1: don't think they wanted to discuss it every day dinner. 351 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: I don't think they looked forward to that, but they 352 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: knew we were going to and they knew they were 353 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: going to have to contribute. It's okay, we can disagree. 354 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: You don't have to agree with my choices on everything, 355 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: But I am going to understand how you're developing. What 356 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: is your process, What are the inputs you're drawing from. 357 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: How do you come to conclusion if we're not parenting 358 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: our kids, we're leaving them to the state, which is 359 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 1: apparently what's happening there. Don't be surprised by what you're 360 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: going to get back. Go ahead and say it. Sorry 361 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 1: to Michael Verry show. Wait to hear what's going on 362 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: in Harris County. Commissioner Tom Ramsey's our guest in about 363 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes to discuss same, and after that, I'll take 364 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: your calls on the candidate you are supporting and in 365 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: what district. Just a word of advice. If the reason 366 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: you're supporting X is because why is an idiot? It's 367 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: not as compelling as you think it is. You should 368 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: also be able to say something quickly about that person. 369 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: I don't mind why is awful X is Just think 370 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: through that for a moment. Anyway, that will not be 371 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: for a couple of segments yet. Thirteen year old girl 372 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: stabbed a deat the Northwest Houston. The person taking into 373 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: custody for the stabbing, ten year old boy, Popo, believed 374 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: that the thirteen year old girl was part of a 375 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: larger group between twenty and thirty people who came over 376 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: to the apartment complex and near two ninety and Tidwell 377 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: and started assaulting people. They believe that the incident stemmed 378 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: from an earlier disturbance at school that involved several teens. 379 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: The story from kp RC TV when we go off 380 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: to war, when we exercise. Hell see, this is one 381 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: of your job is open? What was that? Chad labeled 382 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: the wrong cut? You said it? You just threw Chad 383 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: under the bus. You'd have been better off eating that one. 384 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: Oh do we not have the audio? You go on 385 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: the website to get it? Oh my goodness, that's ghetto. 386 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: You go, what is this two thousand and five? You 387 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: can't pull the audio file? Oh my goodn Chad, you 388 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: work at channel too. Don't worry. I'll talk rest my stuff. 389 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 2: Aving dozens of young people in with a teen girl 390 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 2: down here in Northwest Houston. 391 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, police say that the case is different for most 392 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 3: for one disturbing reason. Kay Paris too. News reporter Ricky 393 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 3: Munos is live to explain this morning. Ricky, hey there, Now, 394 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 3: this is a type of story that you sit back 395 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 3: and you hear it and you're like, what did I 396 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 3: just hear? A thirteen year old girl is now dead 397 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 3: because police say a ten year old boy stabbed her 398 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 3: and that all happened right around the corner right behind him. 399 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 3: Step by the way. 400 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: You won't be able to see it, but it's around 401 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: on the right and to my left. 402 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 3: There's still blood on the floor, there's still trash everywhere. 403 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 3: But let me show you what this scene looked like 404 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 3: overnight to look at your screen. 405 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 2: Now. 406 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 3: This all happened here at Could Creek Apartments at the 407 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 3: corner of Grove Street end Dow Road. Here's video from 408 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 3: that complex last night. Police say they were called out 409 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 3: here around eight pm for what they describe as a 410 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 3: large fight outside. Investigators say there was not a one 411 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 3: on one confrontation. They estimate between twenty and forty people 412 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 3: showed up, mostly teenagers. In the middle of that crowd, 413 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 3: a thirteen year old girl was stabbed. Houston Fire took 414 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 3: her to the hospital, but she died. Police say a 415 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 3: ten year old boy to officers he stabbed her. That 416 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 3: tell us he lives in the apartment with his mother. 417 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 3: Investigators believe this attack is stemmed from us something earlier. 418 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:06,719 Speaker 1: In the day out of school. 419 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 3: Because of the child's age, this case, now, this case 420 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 3: now enters a different legal space. Police say he's just 421 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 3: old enough to face charges under Texas law. 422 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: Take a listen, you know it's a ten year old. 423 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: That is the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the 424 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: state of Texas. So charges could be filed. That'll be 425 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: up to the district attorney. 426 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 3: That decision now goes to the DA's office, and then 427 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 3: Homicide is still under investigating this incident. Of course, we're 428 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 3: going to stay on top of this and keep everyone 429 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 3: updated on air and online on click to Houston dot com, 430 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 3: But for now reporting life in at Northwest Houston. 431 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: I'm rickon when you'll skip here. What kind of kind 432 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: of people twenty to thirty people thirteen years old go 433 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: over to an apartment complex and start assaulting people. I 434 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: don't know that I should blame. 435 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 5: This ten year old. Maybe he was getting his butt kicked. 436 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,719 Speaker 5: Maybe this was like pony Boy I saw the outsiders. 437 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 5: Maybe this was like Ralph Macchio and who was it? 438 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: What was his name? See Thomas Howell, stay true pony boy. 439 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: Maybe this was associates just roughing up a greaser, you know, 440 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: maybe he got held under the water too long. Somebody 441 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 1: had to be stabbed, somebody got to get cut. You 442 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: have any any suspicion what community this might be with 443 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: a cutting instead of a shooting. Ramon. So here is 444 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 1: what I'm about to say. Everybody knows, just nobody else 445 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: feels comfortable saying it, And I think that's probably problematic 446 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: for our country if you cannot say these sorts of things. 447 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: And here it goes. So Corey Crenshaw, friend of mine, 448 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: used to be the district attorney in Beaumont, which is 449 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: how I knew that. My brother n him. And then 450 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: he became a Houston City councilman. I supported him, and 451 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: he he posted the other day there was a vacant 452 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: lot that had become a trash dump, and he wanted 453 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: it cleaned up the city council and is a conference 454 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: part of his job to represent. They got it cleaned up. 455 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: And I learned when I was on city council that dumping, 456 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: particularly in lower class black communities, is a real problem 457 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: and it makes the people crazy, the people who live there, 458 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: because you have a lot of people like Joyce, the 459 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: Sage of Sunday Side. Imagine Joyce in a neighborhood, and 460 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: you can imagine her on the northeast, you can imagine 461 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: her Naker's homes. You can imagine on southeast or the southwest, 462 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: Hiram Clark, Clodland, a Dutch set of gas Lakewood. There's 463 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: all these different communities, Cashmere Gardens, you can go on 464 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: and on and on, Trinity Gardens. That that you have 465 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: these older black folks who lived there forever in what 466 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: used to be a respectable neighborhood. They own their own home. 467 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: They have for many years, many years, some of them 468 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: fifty years and more. They can't get enough for the 469 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: house to sell and get out and move on. Big 470 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: Mama or whatever they call her, is the patriarch of 471 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: the family, her kids and their kids and then their kids' kids. 472 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: Many of them have lived there, gone to school there. 473 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: They still come back there. Every holiday is there, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, 474 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: every birthday is celebrated there. Big Mama is the rock 475 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: of this family, absolute rock of this family. And it's 476 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,719 Speaker 1: not a fancy home, but out of that home. A 477 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: lot of families, a lot of individuals were given a 478 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: shot at an education and a career and some stability, 479 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: and that might have been the only stability they had 480 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: in their home. And if you were to actually find 481 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: out how little Big Mama had left over after she 482 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: bought groceries and bought school uniforms, not just for her kids, 483 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: for her kids' kids. She's still tied at the church. 484 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: She still took care of stray people in the neighborhood. 485 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: She's a rock. Without her, it all goes to hell. 486 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: And when next door to her is a dump, imagine 487 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: how she feels. Imagine how she feels. That doesn't happen 488 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: in white neighborhoods because white people won't allow it to 489 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: It doesn't happen in Hispanic neighborhoods. Mostly if you own, 490 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. If you rent, it's more likely. But 491 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: let me ask you this, what do we learn about 492 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: white privilege that some people don't tolerate trash in their neighborhood. 493 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you this, in my community, snitches 494 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: don't get stitches, snitches get richest. I just made that 495 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: up on the spot, Ramona. That was good. It doesn't 496 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: really make sense, but it sounded good. Like boom. It 497 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: came quick quick, I tell you, yeah, we're gonna tell 498 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: off on you. You don't stuping. I never who's gonna 499 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: tell off on you? Yeah, we'll call the cops.