1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 2: So Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 3: Texas has a horror house in it. Texas has a 4 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 3: horror house in it. 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 4: I'll expose the facts, although it kills me with disgust. 6 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 4: Please excuse the filthy doct details and cornel lust, the 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 4: filthy doctor nails kind of listen dancing going on in sided. 8 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 4: Don't just see the gone come wild. I inquired, No 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 4: one denied it. Now I think I'm getting riled. Buddy's 10 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 4: close together off, the legs are rearranged, and the sheriff 11 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 4: does not close it down. That's very strange. 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: Close it down. 13 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 4: That's the stage men till still bringing Jean hunky on 14 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 4: cowboys mixing with green and thin left hartis nails, crocksied lowns. 15 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 4: Not to mention some types that you'd never guess would 16 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 4: mention me. 17 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 3: I can alder pray to loosen water ninety bounds from 18 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 3: here and now our old Melvin peeth off sangers. 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: Jesus, I'll not let this scandal fade us. 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 4: I'll a brute now crusade. I can smell corruption, and 21 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 4: I'll fight it to the top. Lord the stipulation, No, no, 22 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 4: and it must up. 23 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: That counts. 24 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 4: Don't touch that don This is Melvin P. 25 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 3: Tholpe saying I'll be back with new and revealing information 26 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,399 Speaker 3: about this and other cases. 27 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 4: Watchdog Never Sleeps. 28 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 5: Here's one of Marvin Zeler's rat and roots reports Little 29 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 5: Nostalgia from back in nineteen eighty two. Faction thirteen's Marlin 30 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 5: Zendler is here to tell all. 31 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 3: Marvin Well Dave, roaches, rodents, and filthy equipment were among 32 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 3: the reasons why health inspectors asked these places to voluntarily 33 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: close to shape up. Leo's popular coffee shop downtown on 34 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 3: Fannin was infested with mice and roaches. There were two 35 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 3: dead mice and mouse droppings in the storage area, and 36 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 3: roaches were crawling on the condiment cooler. There was also 37 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 3: slow and mold on the ice machine. Poor Charlie's on 38 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 3: Clay had roaches in the kitchen, hands sinking up on 39 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: the ceiling. There were mouse droppings in kitchen cabinets and 40 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 3: storerooms and uncovered food in the cooler. 41 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 2: Poor Old Charlie. 42 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 3: There was Fishers near downtown on Austin that had mouse 43 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 3: and ret droppings on food and on the storage room 44 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: and kitchen floor fishers also had filthy equipment. These places 45 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 3: didn't have hot water, among other violations. The Quick Mini 46 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 3: Market on Capitol, the East King On foundering in Gavero's 47 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 3: on South Main, then the Chickadee on Dolling had an 48 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 3: infestation of mice, rats and roaches. These weekly restaurant reports 49 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 3: has certainly helped me on my diet, and if you 50 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 3: don't believe it, I've really taken off a few pounds. 51 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 3: But there is no reason why there should be any 52 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 3: filthy restaurant kitchens in town. The owners and managers have 53 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 3: the health and well being of the public at stake 54 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 3: and should take. 55 00:03:58,600 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 4: Their responsibility, sir. 56 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 3: And those fours those Pyramits are concerned, they should be 57 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 3: revoked and remember more voluntary closings at ten. And believe me, 58 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 3: some of those restaurants are so bad you can't believe it. 59 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: Marvin Zendler, Eye Witness. 60 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 5: News, thank you. The amazing thing about that is Dolchafino 61 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 5: was doing investigative reports, and I think he told me 62 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 5: one time his contract was four major investigative reports a year. 63 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 5: There were two ratings seasons. I don't follow the ratings 64 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 5: process any longer. In radio ratings are done year round, 65 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 5: and they changed the system to where it used to 66 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 5: be what was called a diary. Some of you may 67 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 5: have been a diary responder at one point. If you are, 68 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 5: do not contact me. It's a big no no for 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 5: us to ever talk. So do not ever contact me. 70 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 5: I had someone try that a few years ago and 71 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 5: I said. 72 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, don't. I don't need to. So the. 73 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 5: The way the rating system worked back then in television, 74 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 5: before you could put a monitor on a computer on 75 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 5: a TV and tell what they were watching, you would 76 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 5: have a. 77 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: You would you. 78 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 5: Would measure viewing twice during the year, and that was 79 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 5: the best time to watch the local news because that 80 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 5: was when you'd get the big bust, the big scandal, 81 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 5: the big you. 82 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 2: Know you name it. 83 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,559 Speaker 5: So Delta Fino was keeping long hours, chasing people down, 84 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 5: any one of whom could shoot and kill you, doing 85 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 5: background investigations on things you know, snooping around, and you know, 86 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 5: you get the wrong guy, you end up with a bullet. 87 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 2: Marvin was doing the rat and. 88 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 5: Roads reports, not the only thing he was doing, but 89 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 5: literally all he had to do the health inspectors the 90 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 5: Health Department would give him was publicly available still is 91 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 5: the health inspection reports. And I'm sure he had somebody 92 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 5: down there that really liked him so he didn't have 93 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 5: to go through them all. They would go all right, 94 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 5: here's here's ones that have rats and roaches. These right here. 95 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 5: They would send a reporter out, I mean a photographer out, 96 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 5: get some b roll in front of that restaurant as 97 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 5: Marvin read them off the screen. It was absolutely brilliant, 98 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 5: absolutely brilliant that he would do. 99 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 2: This because. 100 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 5: His producers, a couple of a producer could pull the 101 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 5: health inspection report, assign the photographer. I mean, Florsheim gave 102 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 5: gave Marvin Zendler run of the place. And Don was 103 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 5: it Don Cobos, remember Don Cobos. His name was Don Cobos. 104 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 5: He'd been a long time. I think he was a 105 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 5: I think he was with this with the Sheriff's department. 106 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 5: Don Cobos was a guy that looked like. 107 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 2: He would be on dragnet. 108 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 5: He was a big, burly guy, and he blow dried 109 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 5: his hair straight back, his gray hair, and he had 110 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 5: a big co If you know, guys don't have hair 111 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 5: like don't don't wear their hair like that anymore. Well, 112 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 5: I think Daryl Hall, but with gray hair and a 113 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 5: more conservative cut. I never saw him. He wasn't in 114 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 5: a suit, but it was. It was again, it was 115 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 5: like the the Old Hills Treat Blues kind of look, 116 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 5: you know. It was like he'd been working all night 117 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 5: home on coffee and cigarettes. 118 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: Don co I think it was Don Cobos was his name. Anyway, 119 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: he ended. 120 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 5: Up being kind of the director of operations over there, 121 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 5: and when I met him, when I went on city Council, 122 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 5: I would I would, I would meet up. I would 123 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 5: spend as much time as I could around people who 124 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 5: did that. And Don and I weren't best friends. I 125 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 5: don't mean say that, but I would ask him about Marvin, 126 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 5: and there were always great Marvin Zendler stories. He was 127 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 5: treated because he was so old by the time he 128 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 5: left there, he was everybody's kind of favorite grandpa. 129 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 6: You know. 130 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 5: I dragged people by to meet to see my dad 131 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 5: at his assistant living facility, and he's having a hell 132 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 5: of a victory lap, you know, because everybody's like, oh, 133 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 5: you know, mister Barry. Well, that's kind of how Marmon 134 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 5: Zeler was. He strode into the studio. Everybody paid their 135 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 5: respects to Marmon Zemler. 136 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: He comes join us, it'll be like old times. Michael Berry. 137 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 4: To the real shining back in June, Ernie Bell and 138 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 4: to the Thomas in the Totten Venus Young because that's 139 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 4: what's eeing. He broke his neck because they've been on 140 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 4: the bout of Irish. He was eighty, His brain was 141 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 4: just a He died upon the honeymoon. 142 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 5: When a news email from a news aggregator, it said 143 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 5: Americans are celebrating Saint Patty's Day this weekend. Eighty five 144 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 5: five percent of Americans aged eighteen to fifty four plan 145 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 5: to partake in Saint Patrick's Day celebrations across this weekend. 146 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 2: That was this past weekend. That seems high. 147 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 5: Eighty five You can't get eighty five percent of people 148 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 5: to celebrate Christmas. 149 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: That seems way high. 150 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 5: Half of them say they'll wear green, twenty eight percent 151 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 5: will visit a bar, restaurant or pub, twenty six percent 152 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 5: of them will eat corn beef sandwiches, and twenty three 153 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 5: percent will enjoy a boozy beverage. Wait a minute, you 154 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 5: got twenty eight percent of the people visiting a bar, 155 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 5: or restaurant or pub and twenty six percent of them 156 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 5: eating corn beef. 157 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: There's no way. There is absolutely no way. 158 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 5: You tell me, almost as many people are going to 159 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 5: eat a corn beef sandwich as are going to visit 160 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 5: a bar. People go out for Saint Patrick's Day because 161 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 5: it's a good it's a social time. You don't typically 162 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 5: have to pay a cover, although now like Ale's and 163 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 5: some of the big places, they charged to even walk 164 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 5: in the door because they can, and I think that's 165 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 5: probably how they limit how many people were there. Richard 166 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 5: Flowers had owned Kenales, was a buddy of mine, and 167 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 5: he he made more the week of Saint Patrick's Day 168 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 5: than he did any given month and probably maybe two months. 169 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 2: It was incredible. He would shut the whole operation down. 170 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 5: You had to just figure out how you were going 171 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 5: to get to You had to park off of Shepherd 172 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 5: somewhere and so that he could have maximum space, and 173 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 5: he would, you know, he was kind of the king 174 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 5: of Saint Patrick's Day. He'd wear he'd wear the whole 175 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 5: get up and it was like a cross between Marty 176 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 5: Gras and Saint Patrick's Day. And everyone loved him in 177 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 5: that bar, and it was so popular on Saint Patrick's Day. Well, 178 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 5: what brought us to talking about Marvin Zendler was a 179 00:10:55,400 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 5: story Locally. Friday night, fumes were emanating from the rather 180 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 5: high end downtown Houston apartment complex known as the Parkside Residences. 181 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 5: And this is extremely surprising. It's the eight hundred block 182 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 5: of Crawford, so that's pretty close to a minute made well. 183 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 5: I guess's now going to be dkuma. I think it's 184 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 5: still minute made for now. It's incredible, a meth lab 185 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 5: at what is a rather high end apartment complex. I 186 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 5: looked at the site because I had friends who told 187 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,839 Speaker 5: me that this is who lived downtown, who told me 188 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 5: this is a This is not a rundown apartment coms. 189 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 2: This is quite nice. 190 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 5: Multi level lofts available f fob entry system, under counter, 191 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 5: wine coolers, quartz countertops, gas cook tops and ranges, wash 192 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 5: cooking appliances, refrigerators and dishwashers. Designer solid surface quartz backsplashes, Nobilia, 193 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 5: European cabinetry, wood style flooring, would style floor does that 194 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 5: mean a manufactured flooring? This made to look like wood, 195 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 5: porcelain tile bathrooms, frameless walk in showers, tiles, shower benches, 196 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 5: free standing tub ten foot ceilings, and spacious balconies. And 197 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 5: then they have penthouses and the penthouse finish adds thermidore 198 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 5: appliances in triple ovens. That's a lot of cooking, triple oat. 199 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 5: You don't even have a triple oven and you cook 200 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 5: every day. Eleven foot ceilings, electronic shades in lofts, captured glass, handrails, 201 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 5: Toto toilets, My goodness, a lot community privileges, twenty four 202 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 5: to seven concierge valet parking, resident lounge with luxurious catering kitchen, 203 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 5: state of the art, large fitness center with views, co 204 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 5: working pods, work from home suites, conference rooms, two guest suites, 205 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 5: outdoor social terrace with gas grills, Gathering room on forty 206 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 5: third four with observation deck, rooftop pool deck. 207 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 2: Man. I'd like to move into this place. 208 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 5: Covered pet oasis and spa climate controlled bike storage, private 209 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 5: and climate controlled storage units, connection to downtown skybridge system, 210 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 5: multifunctioned resident app and a coffee bar. 211 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 2: My goodness alive. This place is nice. 212 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 5: And some dude down there cooking up meth and the 213 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 5: meth went bad, which reminds me of the Great Waller 214 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 5: County meth Laud explosion of nineteen ninety six, As told 215 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 5: by the dear friend of the show Kenny Allen, O. 216 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: Here's a great Waller County meth lab explosion of nineteen 217 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: ninety six. There was these two fellas of cooking up 218 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: drain on and all this fdron. They could get their 219 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: hands on the hand bottles of profanity, matteries and long 220 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: citer and then they were gone. 221 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 5: Meth will make people do stupid things. Remember the first 222 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 5: grade teacher who tried to have meth delivered to the school. 223 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 7: The suspect did request that the drugs be delivered to 224 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 7: the elementary school which she worked. 225 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 2: We did not deliver the. 226 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 7: Drugs to that school, but that brought us great concern. 227 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 7: It was a pretty nonchalant request, and the indication was 228 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 7: that it was no big deal to the suspect. Instead, 229 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 7: we waited until the teacher got off school for that day. 230 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 7: She then met our undercover detective and she did exchange 231 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 7: money for three and a half grams of methamphetamy. 232 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 5: How about the fellow who called the police because he 233 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 5: thought he heard noises. 234 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 8: In his attic, police say thirty seven year old Corey 235 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 8: Favreau reported he heard someone in his attic on Champlain 236 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 8: Street in Plattsburgh. 237 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 2: Police arrived and looked for an intruder. 238 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 8: They didn't find anyone, but they did find the makings 239 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 8: of a meth lab. 240 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: I would say it's fairly common. 241 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 8: The frequency fluctuates a little bit, but you know, we're 242 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 8: starting to see it a little bit more now. Isn't 243 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 8: the first time Favreau has had a runn with city police. 244 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 8: He was a race arrested in Plant. 245 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 4: He was. 246 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 5: My favorite story, which we'll get in before the break, 247 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 5: was Daniel Rushing. He did not have myth, but the 248 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 5: popole thought he did. 249 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 9: Every other Wednesday, I get a glazed donut from Krispy Queen. 250 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 9: They found four little pieces of icing on the floorboard. 251 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 9: First they tried to say it was crack cocaine, and 252 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 9: then they said, no, it's not crack, it's methamphetamines. I went, 253 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 9: it's it's it's icing from a donut. 254 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 2: You're tasting. 255 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 9: You know, we're willing to work with you, if you're 256 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 9: willing to work with us, because we've had a lot 257 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 9: of drug sales over there in that little area. And 258 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 9: I said, well, I don't know anything about anything. They said, okay, 259 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 9: well then you need to go ahead and put your 260 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 9: hands behind your back. 261 00:15:49,480 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 5: And labit Michael Berry Houston as a meth labit. Did 262 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 5: I know the Cranberrys were irish? 263 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 2: I guess I did. That didn't come top of mind. 264 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 5: I mean we could be playing the Furies with every 265 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 5: song here. Annie Reid writes, zar heaven got a good 266 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 5: one on Friday. My dad Mac died of a heart 267 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 5: attack Friday afternoon. An Air Force retiree, he was a 268 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 5: prominent family law attorney in Fort Benn and Harris Counties, 269 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 5: retiring a few years ago due to three times a 270 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 5: week dialysis, which he endured with a smile. A man 271 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 5: of few words, when he did talk, we all quieted 272 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 5: down or listened to his wisdom and smart assery. He 273 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 5: taught my sister and me to be self reliant, saying, 274 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 5: always be able to support yourself because there is no 275 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 5: prince charming. He was also quick to say that we 276 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 5: had married pretty close to our own rents. We followed 277 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 5: in his footsteps, becoming lawyers in our own time, and 278 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 5: along with our mother, the four of us practiced together 279 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 5: for fifteen years. Seeing him daily as an adult gave 280 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,479 Speaker 5: me a new appreciation for his intelligence and perspective. He 281 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 5: loved Texas America, and his four grandchildren. Dad was truly 282 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 5: a treasure and he will be missed. I wonder what 283 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 5: the first joke he said in heaven was, thanks for listening. 284 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 5: Annie ps My mom thinks donating his suits to Camp 285 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 5: Hope would make Dad happy. I very much appreciate that sentiment, 286 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 5: and I am delighted that Camp Hope is the first 287 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 5: place you thought of. Unfortunately, what was our original goal? 288 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 5: Five hundred suits? The original goal shoot. 289 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 2: That's been. 290 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 5: Six seven years ago, was to collect five hundred suits 291 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 5: for Camp Hope. Because what I kept hearing from David 292 00:17:58,560 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 5: Maulsby when I would say, what are the needs? 293 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 2: What are the needs? 294 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 5: Well, one of the needs was if we could figure 295 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 5: out a way at the end of the when they 296 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 5: graduate the program, many of them are now starting they're 297 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 5: all starting their lives over. But many of them don't 298 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 5: have a job to go to, so they start interviewing 299 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 5: for jobs, and most of them don't own a suit. 300 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 2: Why would they. 301 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 5: They're warriors and a lot of them came out to 302 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 5: working class jobs. They never needed to have a suit 303 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 5: or now a suit that fits, and so I thought, well, 304 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 5: I bet we could raise I don't think I said 305 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 5: five hundred because I try not to set goals we 306 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 5: can't attain, because it's kind of a bummer. Maybe I 307 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 5: said two hundred and two hundred, we surpassed in a 308 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 5: matter of minutes, became five hundred, became a thousand. 309 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 2: We did an event at the RCC. 310 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 5: We loaded eighteen wheelers up and we ended up all 311 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 5: in with over seven thousand suits. Well, the guys that 312 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 5: can't hope are so kind as to not tell me 313 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 5: that what I did was cause them a problem because 314 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,479 Speaker 5: now all these suits have been donated, so they had 315 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 5: to go out and rent warehouse space. Hell, cash is 316 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 5: king for kemp hope. I don't want us to pay 317 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 5: for anything because I can always find somebody to donate. 318 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 2: So no, no, no, no, don't don't ever do that again. 319 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 5: So eventually there was another charity that was in the 320 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 5: business of, you know, repurposing suits, and eventually I talked 321 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 5: them into let's not spend money on warehouse space. That 322 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 5: was all donated away, and we moved on. There is 323 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 5: still an inventory of thousands of suits, so that our 324 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 5: veterans will have suits when they need them to. 325 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 2: Apply for jobs. Last I checked. 326 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 5: But many of you had a situation like that where 327 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 5: your husband or your dad passed and it's hard. You're 328 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 5: not about to take their suits out and just throw 329 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 5: them in the trash. And I remember the day at 330 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 5: the RCC when people were showing up and bringing their 331 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 5: suits tearful because for some of those folks, they had 332 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 5: said goodbye to their husband, father, father in law, uncle, 333 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 5: grandfather years ago, and they just couldn't bring themselves to 334 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 5: clear that suit out of the closet. And here was 335 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 5: a worthwhile cause that someone else, you know, you're living 336 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 5: on in a way I am. I am not a 337 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 5: recycler to save the earth kind of guy, but I 338 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 5: am a huge repurposer. And I don't know why it 339 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 5: gives me such joy. I suspect because my parents were 340 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 5: very frugal. You didn't throw anything away. They weren't hoarders. 341 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 5: But growing up, you didn't throw anything away. Everything had 342 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 5: another use. You know, your your jeans that were ripped 343 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 5: became cut off shorts. 344 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 2: You know, the the. 345 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 5: Shirts that were ripped became a washcloth, but you know, 346 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,479 Speaker 5: to wash the car or you know, washed to whatever, 347 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 5: some sort of a rag. And it gives me such 348 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 5: a sense of I feel whole when something that I 349 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 5: cannot use is given to someone who finds joy in that. 350 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 2: It just makes me so happy. I remember I was. 351 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 5: I was applying at the at the at the beginning 352 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 5: of your second year of law school. So your grades 353 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 5: for your first year of the three year law school, 354 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 5: uh determine you know who you're going to get interviews with. 355 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 5: And I didn't have a suit. I mean I didn't 356 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 5: have a tie for whatever reason. And I'd come into 357 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 5: Houston to interview with Houston law firms, and I had 358 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 5: my suit in my shirt. And there was a couple 359 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 5: that mentored us. And his name was Stephen Huber. He 360 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 5: was a law school professor at the time, and his 361 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 5: wife was Wendy Troctye, who I had My wife and 362 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 5: I had known from the University of Houston and they. 363 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 2: Had gotten married. 364 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 5: And they had taken us to dinner the night before 365 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 5: these interviews, and I swear I wasn't fishing. 366 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,959 Speaker 2: I'm not above it. I swear I wasn't. 367 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 5: My wife said, you know, Michael has an interviews starting 368 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 5: tomorrow morning at eight. Is there somewhere you know of 369 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 5: he can go get a tie. He packed to come 370 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 5: in for these interviews, and he didn't bring his tie, 371 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 5: and so Steve Huber said, well, let me think on this. 372 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 5: We were having dinner at their home twenty five five c. 373 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 5: August of Potomac. I'll never forget that we used to 374 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 5: house set for him. And at some point during the 375 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 5: dinner he excused himself to go to the restroom and 376 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 5: he comes back down with three ties, and I chose 377 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 5: the of the yellow one. Not the most conservative choice 378 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 5: looking back, but it was a beautiful tie. It was 379 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 5: a yellow tie with blue and red that I still 380 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 5: own to this day. Air Mas it was. 381 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 2: I mean it was. 382 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 5: It wasn't a throwaway tie. It was a really really 383 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 5: nice tie. And I think to myself, now we would 384 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 5: house set for them. And after that, I remember going 385 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 5: to his closet, which I wouldn't have done otherwise, to see, 386 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 5: you know, is does he. 387 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 2: Only wear air Mace's ties or a nice tie? 388 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 5: And we go in there and he had the most 389 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 5: beautiful tie collection. And this appeals to another side of me, 390 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 5: which is organization. And the ties were laid out like 391 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 5: a Pantone color swath, you know, starting over here at 392 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 5: the dark reds and moving into the yellows and then 393 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 5: the oranges and then the Greens went to the Blues 394 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 5: went to the Oh it was glorious and he had 395 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 5: them laid out so perfectly and so organized. But I 396 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 5: think back to that, you know, one of my goofy ideas. 397 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 5: I'll never do it, So don't ask me in a 398 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 5: year if I did it, because then it's just embarrassing. 399 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 5: One of my goofy ideas for years has been somebody 400 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 5: out there would donate a warehouse to us, okay, and 401 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 5: in the warehouse, we would make it a drop off 402 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 5: like camp Hope, like a thrift store. That way people 403 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 5: wouldn't have to throw things away, and then we'd make 404 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 5: it into an ice house. 405 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 2: Officer. I know it's dumb, but it's just kind of 406 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 2: one of the things that I go. I'd be fun 407 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 2: left Michael. 408 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: Lifeless eyes, black eyes to get a dolls. 409 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 4: We were born sick. You heard them see my church 410 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 4: off is no absent. She tells me where she'd been 411 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 4: in the dead room. Only Heaven. I be seen soon, 412 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 4: s when I'm alone with me, I was born. 413 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: Sick with The eighteenth Congressional District. 414 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 5: Senate eighteen congressional district seat has had its first major filing, 415 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 5: and that is Harris County Attorney Christian Menafee. 416 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 2: Christian Menafee is. 417 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 5: Has been groomed by Rodney Ellis for just such a 418 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 5: role for quite. 419 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 2: Some time now. 420 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 5: My sources had told me that Rodney was looking to 421 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 5: replace Sheila because he controls all this with Erica Lee. 422 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 5: Erica Lee Carter, who was Sheila's daughter. You'll remember they 423 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 5: put her in to serve the unexpired term before the 424 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 5: election where Sylvester Turner was installed. My sources had told 425 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 5: me that Erica was going to be the long term replacement, 426 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 5: and for whatever reason, it now appears that is not 427 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 5: the case. Because Christian Menafee is Rodney's candidate, and I 428 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 5: think he can control Christian Menafee much better perhaps than 429 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 5: he can control Erica. But I don't think he would 430 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 5: win a nasty race that he may not could win. 431 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 5: So the suggestion is that Erica, that there is another 432 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 5: seat waiting for Erica, and time will tell what that 433 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 5: turns out to be. I have not received certainty as 434 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 5: to what that looks like, but he has been a 435 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 5: steward of Christian Menife's career for a number of years. 436 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 5: They create these farm teams so they can they can 437 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 5: place these people. Christian Hollands or Chris Hollins is one 438 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 5: of their farm team, these young mostly black men and 439 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 5: women who they put into positions. 440 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 2: So they basically get to control that office. 441 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 5: So we shall see there will be some other candidates 442 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 5: who will come out and run for that I would 443 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 5: I would imagine Jarvis Johnson would be a candidate there. 444 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 2: I don't know that. I haven't checked with him. I will, 445 00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,360 Speaker 2: but there'll be some other candidates come out. 446 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 5: Unless there is someone with their own name ID and 447 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 5: a bank account or campaign account. Christian Menafee will win 448 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 5: that seat because Rodney will be able to open up 449 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 5: the George Sorols funds and there will be enough there 450 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 5: to get him over the finish line. And then of 451 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 5: course there will be a replacement of the Harris County 452 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 5: Attorney after that. The Harris County Attorney, of course, is 453 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 5: different than the district attorney. The Harris County Attorney is 454 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 5: the attorney who handles sort of civil matters related to 455 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 5: and on behalf of the county. He's sort of the 456 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 5: solicitor general, if you will, for the county. It's mostly 457 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 5: administrative style job. Vince Ryan had that job for a 458 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 5: number of years. Mike Stafford was in that job. Michael 459 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 5: Fleming was in that job. Stafford and Fleming were friends 460 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 5: of mine and great guys. Vince Ryan is a piece 461 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 5: of trash, corrupt, awful human being who. 462 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 2: At a funeral. 463 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 5: Once, at a funeral, he was speaking at a funeral 464 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 5: or the owner of Liberty Cab and at the funeral 465 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 5: chose to trash me. And the problem with that is 466 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 5: little Vince has little bit of ears. 467 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 2: And you're going to think I'm crazy too. 468 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 5: You look up a picture online of Vince Ryan, and 469 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 5: I once told him that the problem was that I 470 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 5: had tried to explain to him that he shouldn't try 471 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 5: to take me on, but that he couldn't hear me 472 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 5: because he had little bit of ears. 473 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 2: And boy did that set him off. Little Vince was 474 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 2: so upset. 475 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 5: He's speaking at the funeral of the now deceased owner 476 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 5: of Liberty Cab Company. He had been Liberty Cabs little 477 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 5: step and fetch it for years. He'd been there their lawyer, lobbyist, 478 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 5: coffee getter, or whatever else they needed. And at the 479 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,959 Speaker 5: funeral he's in some odd ways suggested that you know, 480 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 5: I was the reason the owner of Liberty. 481 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 2: Cab had died because I hadn't. 482 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 5: I hadn't carried their water on city council and they 483 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 5: needed a special exception for their company to survive, and 484 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 5: it wasn't my job to create special laws for them. 485 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 5: And so Vince Ryan at the funeral said that I 486 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 5: wasn't there. If I had been, he wouldn't have dare 487 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 5: said that. But you know, maybe somebody else told him 488 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 5: bad idea. Michael basinc by the barrel, probably not the 489 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 5: guy you got to take on. But again he couldn't 490 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 5: hear it. Little bit of ears, very very bad hearing. 491 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 2: It's just the way it goes. 492 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 4: Robin. 493 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 2: You're on the Michael Berry Show. 494 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 6: Go ahead, sir, all right, Michael, I just wanted to 495 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 6: tell you Marvin Zendler sorry. I had the dealings with 496 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 6: Marvin about It's been about twenty five years ago, I guess. 497 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 6: But the thing is I was a teacher and I 498 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 6: had a young man come into my classroom who had 499 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 6: spinal diffidath and anyway, I thought, goodness, this is terrible 500 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 6: because he was in a wheelchair could hardly move. So 501 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 6: I did some checking and checked with the Scottish RIfS 502 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 6: Hospital in Dallas if they could do anything about that, 503 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 6: and they said, sure we can. 504 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 2: We'll just got to get him up there. 505 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 6: Well, we were having struggling with this and that and 506 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 6: the other time to find out his sister refused to 507 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 6: have him go because the young man his parents had 508 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 6: been killed in a car accident and he was receiving 509 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 6: Social Security benefits and the sister was worried if he 510 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 6: got fixed up, then she wouldn't get the benefits from 511 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 6: Social Security anymore. 512 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 2: And the thing is she was. 513 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 6: Kind of a nutjob because she had married a guy 514 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 6: who was a child molester, a registered chom moluster. You 515 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 6: can't make this stuff up. I mean, you know, it's 516 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 6: it's something else. But anyway, so one of the guys 517 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 6: at my school where I teach at the time, it said, 518 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 6: cal Marvin Zimler. 519 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 2: He deals with that. 520 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 6: Kind of stuff all the time. So I called him 521 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 6: up and within about thirty seconds Marvin yells at to me. 522 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 6: He says, you know, it's just hell to be poor. 523 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 6: That was just one of his big things. And anyway, 524 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 6: he made a phone call and to Scottish Rite Hospital, 525 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 6: made a phone call to Southwest Airlines, made a phone 526 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 6: call to a carriage company who picked us up at 527 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 6: the airport, and I made a phone call to a 528 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 6: lawyer who told his sister that either you get this 529 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 6: young man fixed up or you're going to be in jail, 530 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 6: because the thing is that is against the law if 531 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 6: he's got the opportunity to fix this. 532 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 2: Kid up and you're holding him back. 533 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 6: So anyway, a lawyer called him and made me a 534 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 6: representative for the child for a day. So we flew 535 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 6: up to Dallas, and Marvin called the Southwest Airlines, made 536 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 6: sure we had good seats the very morning that we 537 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 6: were leaving, which is going to be early, and brought 538 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 6: us on there. The coach company picked us up, hauled 539 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 6: us over there, picked us up and took us back 540 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 6: and flew back this up that afternoon, and Marvin called 541 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 6: me to make sure that that child had everything you needed. 542 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 2: Well. Anyway, the young man. 543 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 6: Is doing well now and has his own family. 544 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 2: So what a great things. 545 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you know, what is the point of having 546 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,479 Speaker 5: some degree of celebrity. 547 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 2: If you don't use it for things like that? 548 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 5: And I think Marvin genuinely enjoyed the challenge of the 549 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 5: deal of what he could talk people into doing. 550 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: Is it's a very rewarding thing. 551 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 5: I think Marvin Zendler loved being Marvin Zemmler. I think 552 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 5: it was not a chore, it was not a job. 553 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 5: It was a ministry. I know it's Jewish, do you 554 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 5: just that ministry, Jamm. 555 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 2: It was a ministry. It was something that he thoroughly 556 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 2: just loved doing