1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: It's that time time time time, luck and load the 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: Michael verieshow is on the air? Where how you doing? 3 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: This is Shirley Q Lick of the nutritional consultant that 4 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 2: Orangefield High School, Orangefield, Texas. Is you hungry today? 5 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 3: Here's what we have it? 6 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 2: Hot dog with chili fruit variety, a bell pepper with 7 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 2: some light dressing. That's sound nasty, chili beans, free todpie. 8 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: Ooh do they still make free toe pie? 9 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: You know that's gonna be good. I hope y'all home 10 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:09,279 Speaker 1: with Pete Hegseeth cannot be the Secretary of Defense because 11 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: he had a sexual assault charge against him or I 12 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: don't know what the charge. I don't care. That's their argument. 13 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: And Matt Gates was supposedly engaged in sex trafficking. Let's 14 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: see Donald Trump apparently committed rape. And then what thirty 15 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: five years ago, and then Brett Kavanaugh, Remember he was 16 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: at these parties in that crazy woman later showed up 17 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: and said he rape me. How'd you get to the party. 18 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: I don't remember. I remember the rape. They just don't 19 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: remember anything else about it. Clarence Thomas, he couldn't be 20 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court because remember the professor came out 21 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: and said, oh, he showed me a pubic hair on this. 22 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: Do you see what they were doing? Well, the wait, 23 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: the establishment Republicans that are part of all this, y'all 24 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: need to not overlook the fact that they did this 25 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: to George H. W. 26 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 3: Bush. 27 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: Also, remember they claimed the woman he had an affair 28 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: with late in life or late in his term. Remember 29 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: they smeared him. You will not be immune from the 30 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: deep state using the issue of sex as a cudgel. 31 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:32,679 Speaker 1: Whether you did it or not does not matter. It 32 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 1: will be used against you. And since we're on the subject, 33 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: and I am rolling out conspiracy theories that I'm not 34 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: certain of, but I have suspicions of. So nobody remember 35 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: John Edwards from two thousand and eight, Rush called him 36 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 1: the Brett Girl. It looked like he was from a 37 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: shampoo commercial. John Edwards was a stronger candidate then people realize. 38 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: At the beginning of that campaign it was supposed to 39 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: be Hillary Clinton's nomination. Barack Obama was going to run 40 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: a gentle, chivalrous campaign and people were gonna say, Oh, 41 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: he's a nice black fellow who talks well, looks good. 42 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: Everyone likes him. It's a man. She needs a man. 43 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: He's running and he'll be Hillary's vice president and that'll 44 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: be great. And then we had a black person in there. 45 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: That was what everybody thought. But then he took off 46 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: and Tim tom Dashell and his team got behind him, 47 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: and that exposed how many people didn't like Hillary, even 48 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: from within. But one thing the Clintons kept their finger 49 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: on the button of was the type of people who 50 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: could expose another person. When John Edwards love child came forward, 51 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: my immediate thought at the time was this has the 52 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: Clinton's fingerprints all over it. Remember you didn't get to 53 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: hear about Hunter Biden's love child in Arkansas until she 54 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: the mother the stripper who he impregnated in Washington, d C. 55 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: Having gone back to Arkansas, until she started saying, you're 56 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: gonna pony up some money. I know, the Ukrainians, the Russians, 57 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: the Chinese, I know they're giving you a bunch of 58 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: cash and I want some of it. And rather than 59 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: share it, he denied paternity and she dragged him to court, 60 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: and they couldn't keep that from getting out. That was 61 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: news they could not prevent from getting out. I would 62 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: like to speak on the Matt Gates issue and whether 63 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: we should declassify all of it or nothing, because I'm 64 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: at the all of it stage now and I'm going 65 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: to tell you that's our options. Because if you defer 66 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: to them on the declassification, if you defer to them 67 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: on the well, let's have an attorney general who's nice. 68 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,239 Speaker 1: Maybe Matt go Gates isn't perfect. You want to solve 69 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: this problem or not, because you're gonna have to go 70 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: in there and start chopping off some heads. That's all 71 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: it is to it. Here's Adam Schiff on CNN after 72 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: winning his Senate race, and let me tell you some 73 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: they are frightened that Matt Gates is going to get 74 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: in there and open the files. Listen to this. You 75 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: heard what Speaker Johnson's about Matt Gates. 76 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 4: What do you think I think he's not only unqualified, 77 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 4: he is really disqualified. Are we really going to have 78 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 4: an Attorney general who there's credible allegation see was involved 79 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 4: in child sex trafficking, potential lists a drug use substruction investigation, 80 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 4: who has no experience serving in the Justice Department, only 81 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 4: being investigated by it. 82 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: But Jake, I think the whole. 83 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 4: Point with these nominees several of them. Is their unqualification, 84 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 4: is their affirmative disqualification. That's Trump's point, because what he 85 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 4: wants to do with these nominees is establish that the 86 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 4: Congress Andized States will not stand up to him with anything. 87 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 4: If they will confirm Matt Gates, they will do anything 88 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 4: he wants. I mean, look how the Speaker had to 89 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 4: tie himself in knots a couple days ago, saying the 90 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 4: speaker effectively should stay out of this, there are important 91 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 4: reasons for that, and then getting involved in this, reversing himself. 92 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: They do not want. Matt Gates is crazy, just crazy 93 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: enough to go in and start exposing things like who 94 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: is trading stock as congressman. It's not just the Democrats 95 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: who hate Matt Gates, it's the Republicans because they're scared 96 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: to death. For instance, the Uniparty hates him. For instance, 97 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: he called out their money laundering operation in Ukraine. You're 98 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: not supposed to know this, and he said it, you're 99 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: not supposed to say it. 100 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 5: I think that the reason we are as involved in 101 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 5: Ukraine as we are is because Afghanistan wound down, and 102 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 5: if we still had Afghanistan to launder money through, there 103 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 5: probably wouldn't be the need for this type of excessive 104 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 5: involvement in Ukraine. But I think we can look at 105 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 5: Afghanistan and we can look at what's going on here 106 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 5: and say, what a lot of these defense contractors are 107 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 5: pushing toward is how to have an extended kind of 108 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 5: low yield war, Like if there's a way to stretch 109 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 5: this thing out, turn it into a twenty thirty year 110 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 5: kind of thing where there's a whole lot of money 111 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 5: moving around and unaccountable pots and a lot of weapons 112 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 5: getting bought, and then oh man, the stockpiles, well, we 113 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 5: got to spend more money to reload those. 114 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: Or maybe maybe they hate him because he wants to 115 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: abolish agencies like the ATF and that that they don't 116 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: want to happen. 117 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 5: Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be the name of a 118 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 5: chain of convenience stores in Florida, not a federal agency. 119 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 5: We need to abolish the ATF before they abolish our 120 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 5: Second Amendment rights. 121 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: The government cabal is under attack and they're not going 122 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: to go easily. You're all going to be accused of 123 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: sexual crimes if they have to destroy you. If you 124 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: can't say something nice, you can always say it on 125 00:08:58,720 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: the Michael Berry Show. 126 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 2: I guess their attendance is down, cause then damn Jehovah 127 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 2: witnesses back. That woman come beating on my door eight 128 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 2: o'clock this morning, That pine cone headed lady told in 129 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 2: the Bible in one hand and her cartoons and the 130 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 2: other one, talking about, Uh, you don't plan to over 131 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 2: celebrate Christmas? 132 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: Do you? I said, who is this man with you? 133 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 2: She goes, oh, that's my husband. I said he looked 134 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 2: different than he did last time. And the man said, oh, 135 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 2: it's cause I got missed some new hair. He got 136 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 2: a tappa on his head what they call it, a 137 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 2: two pit, a two pair on his head. He said, 138 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 2: don't it look nice? I said, well, you look a 139 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 2: little younger than you did. I said how much it was? 140 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 2: He said it was over fifty dollars they got off 141 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: Amazon dot Com. I said, how do it stick on 142 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: your head? And he said, just regular scotch tape. And 143 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 2: I was fascinated by the thing. 144 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: I told him. 145 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 2: I said, you look at hell up a lot better 146 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 2: than you did when you come over here, bowled headed. 147 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: Well, I guess his wife got aggravated. 148 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 2: Because that pine combe on her head went to swelling 149 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: up and stuff. And she said, well, if you're not interested, 150 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 2: were just gonna leave. But I said, I have never 151 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 2: been interested. I don't know why y'all keep coming over 152 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 2: here bought in me, But anyway, I got rid of them. 153 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,959 Speaker 2: They don't never do nothing for nobody. At least the 154 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 2: Marmans are asked you, could you move some furniture around, 155 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 2: or could they pick us up some boxes in the 156 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 2: backyard or whatever these you need? 157 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: Dead them jove withness that you. 158 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 2: Stand offish for my nerves. 159 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 3: I don't play that. How you doing? You know? 160 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: There are a lot of aspects to the Gates nomination. 161 00:10:53,480 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: Let's explore those. One is one theory is there's no 162 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: way the Senate will approve Matt Gates. He's the turd 163 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: in the punch bowl. There's no way they will let 164 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: him get through. And all the Democrats would need is 165 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: four of the fifty three Republicans. Democrats have forty seven seats, 166 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: so they just need four out of the fifty three 167 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: to peel away. If you took a vote right now, 168 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: four out of the fifty three would peel away. I'm 169 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: certain of it. Maybe more now, what typically happens in 170 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: such a situation is to avoid embarrassment, the candidate will 171 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: withdraw their name. Let's go back to nineteen ninety two, 172 00:11:49,600 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton nominated I forget her name, lean Lean Lena, 173 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,079 Speaker 1: not Lena. I can't remember her name. But she had 174 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: a problem with domestic staff that was a legal alien. 175 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: So they decide, you can't be attorney, you can't be 176 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: the top law enforcement also, so she so it got real, 177 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: it got real, it got real. Uh, heated, and she 178 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: withdrew her name rather than being shot down. I think 179 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: she was a judge, maybe Pennsylvania. Then the second one 180 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: turns out she had the same problem. And then he 181 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: went to that spinster Janet Reno. What was that ever? 182 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: A clunky choice, But those first two withdrew their name 183 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: not uncommon. Look, maybe Matt Gates passes, but I don't 184 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,719 Speaker 1: think Cornan votes for him. I think there are no 185 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: swamp creatures that say Matt Gates cannot pass. The conversations 186 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: I've had since the announcement yesterday was elected officials and 187 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: consultants saying, dear God, tell me you're not supporting Matt Gates. 188 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:14,479 Speaker 1: Here's what's complicated. This is a very very complicated scenario, 189 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna try to give it. I'm gonna try 190 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: to be as fair to it as I possibly can 191 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: and explain it. In order in order to reform our government, 192 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have some people who are gonna 193 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: go in there who are devil may care. They're not 194 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: just fearless, they're actually reckless. You're gonna have to have that. 195 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to have people who go in who 196 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: set fire to everything, who are the type of people 197 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: who feed off of this intense hatred that they engender 198 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: and believe in what they're doing and don't care who 199 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: likes them. Ron Paul is one of those kinds of people. 200 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is one of those kind of people. Mary 201 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: Tally Boden is one of those kind of people. Robert F. 202 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior is one of those type of people. Rand 203 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: Paul is one of those types of people. But they're 204 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: never put in charge of anything because they'd go in. 205 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: When Elon bought Twitter, he comes in with the kitchen 206 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: saying remember, and he immediately fires almost everybody that worked there, 207 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: and the media went crazy because you have to have 208 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: this big, massive staff, now you don't. The staff wasn't 209 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: improving your experience. They weren't. They weren't coding to make 210 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: the site less glitchy. They were all there to keep 211 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: opinions from being stated that they didn't like. And it 212 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: took a lot of bodies to catch these opinions using 213 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: words in algorithms. The whole site was there to prevent 214 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: it from being a free speech site. So Elon came 215 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: in boom. But he could do that with the government. 216 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: You've got systems of checks and balances for Gates to 217 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: come in. You got a couple of things that play here. 218 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: First of all, there's nothing off limits that Gates won't 219 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: do nothing. If he believes something is wrong, he'll go 220 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: in and do it. He would go in immediately and 221 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: kill every one of the January sixth cases. He would 222 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: kill anything. He might burn the file on Juliana Sange 223 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: because he truly believes, and so do I, that Assange 224 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: was wronged. He might burn the file on Edward Snowden 225 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: and say, Snowden, come on home. You've paid your dues enough. 226 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: You don't have to live in Russia anymore. And they're 227 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: scared to death of that. That organization, the Department of Justice, 228 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: is such an insidious, cant of evil, people like Peter 229 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: Straisik and Lisa Page, who the Biden administration paid for 230 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: the fact that they were carrying on like rabbits and 231 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: working as hard as they could to kill the Trump presidency. 232 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: There are so many dirty secrets that our government has hidden. 233 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: You're gonna think Alex Jones was holding back the number 234 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: of people who've been murdered, the number of businesses that 235 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: were lied about, the number of involved persons whose names 236 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: you know, and organizations of our government whose names you 237 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: know have their fingerprints all over assassinations, murders, people going missing, 238 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: car wrecks went bad. And there's only a handful of 239 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: people in the world that you would put into that 240 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: position as Attorney General that would say open it all up, 241 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: full transparency. Yeah, but but some things will get out 242 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: that shouldn't. That's part of the cost of doing business. 243 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: I'm hoping Pete Hegseth will be that way at the 244 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: Department of Defense, because that's the only way this ever 245 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: gets fixed is you lay it all out. There will 246 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: some things get exposed that shouldn't. Yes, but you have 247 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: to look at the overall best interest as it is now. 248 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: If they hide everything from us. Then arguably nothing ever 249 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: gets exposed that shouldn't have Okay, but is that good? No? No, 250 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: you you're gonna in order to make an omelet, you're 251 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: gonna have to crack some eggs. And I will assure 252 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: you of this. Matt Gates is gonna go in there 253 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: and crack eggs. You think he's gonna make Trump seem placid. 254 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: I just don't think they'll let him get within a 255 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: thousand feet of the Department of Justice. I don't think 256 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: they'll let him do it. I think they will not 257 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: allow him that kind of power, no matter that the 258 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: President wants him. That's what I believe. I believe this 259 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: will be the hill they die, Snowflakes, prepare for a 260 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: complete meltdown with more of the Michael Berry Show. So 261 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: I will open the phone line to you for your 262 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:39,719 Speaker 1: thoughts on whether Bonfire should be continued in the manner 263 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 1: it was twenty five years ago. I know you're gonna 264 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: tell me, because everybody does there is an outside group 265 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 1: that does this unsanctioned and all of that. I mean, 266 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:55,160 Speaker 1: should they return to what they had been doing before? 267 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: And let me let me say, I have a general 268 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: position that shutting everything down when something bad happens. When 269 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: a person dies, for instance, I think is a terrible idea. 270 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: For instance, I think that not having bonfire the one 271 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: year they didn't have it because John F. Kennedy was 272 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 1: assassinated is a terrible thing. I think the tribute is 273 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: the show must go on, And I'll take that to 274 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: another level seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. 275 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: By the way, so that you can weigh in seven 276 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: one three nine nine nine one thousand. I do not 277 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: believe it is the choice of the parents as to 278 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: whether or not bonfire goes on. I think proper tribute 279 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: was paid to those aggies who died. But in the 280 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:01,199 Speaker 1: course of human events and great undertakings, people do die. 281 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: It happens. We don't shut down the streets for a 282 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: day every time someone dies in a fatal car crash. 283 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: There is this virtue signaling false sense that we all 284 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: have to say, uh, we can't have fraternities anymore because 285 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: someone died during hazing. H we can't open the roads 286 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: up because someone died in a car wreck. And no 287 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: one wants to say this. Everybody wants to say, yeah, yeah, listen. 288 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: There was a school in Houston that had a student 289 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: who committed suicide two years ago, and they shut the 290 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,479 Speaker 1: school down for a week unless you wanted to come 291 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: to the school for counseling. And I thought, that is 292 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: the worst message to send to young people is when 293 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: something sad happens, you shut down. You tell me you 294 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: can't go in and learn history in English because a 295 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: student committed suicide. And I said this. I said this 296 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: to several parents and by the way, my kids brought 297 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: were the ones who brought to my attention. They agreed 298 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: in life, the show must go on. You know when 299 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: DeMar Hamlin almost died a couple of years ago and 300 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: they were going to finish the game, and people, you 301 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 1: got to shut the deck game down. He almost died. 302 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: Why I'll take it to another level. I think everything 303 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 1: you need to know about you can on this issue 304 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: and issues like this, whether you're a person who believes 305 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: shut everything down so we can show that we're concerned, 306 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 1: goes like this. If you died, would you want your 307 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: spouse to remarry and be happily remarried, Because if you 308 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: want that person to live alone and never find happy 309 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: be missed with someone else, if that's your view, then 310 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: you were a shut it down, person, It's not my view. 311 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: I want the people around me to be happy if 312 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: I collapse today, I want them to live the rest 313 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 1: of their lives happy. I don't want them to sit 314 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: around and mourn me, and I don't think it's love 315 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: to do that. No, you cannot do the show. I've 316 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: told you you're not doing the show. We'll find somebody 317 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: good you can sit over and ding your dinger. All right, 318 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 1: let's go through the line. David, you're up. 319 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 3: Hey, Michael, how are you doing today? 320 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: Good? Go ahead. 321 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 3: I am my class ninety eight. I was actually on 322 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 3: at school there, working my sixth year, going through the process. 323 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 3: Knew a couple of kids that died on Bonfire is tragedy, 324 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 3: but I agree completely that it needs to be brought 325 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 3: back and kept going. But it's an opportunity, like you 326 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 3: were saying, it's an opportunity to learn from the mistakes 327 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 3: are made and make it better. If you never learn 328 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: from mistakes you make, you don't get to make anything better. 329 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: Exactly. 330 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 3: There were some things that could be made better and 331 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 3: improved and still keep the spirit alive and still remember 332 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 3: everybody had gone before that. 333 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: You mean well, said sir. Well said David. Everything in 334 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: life is a learning experience and this could be two. 335 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 1: Got an email from Whitney and Birmingham Fighting Texas Aggie 336 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: class of one who writes czar I was a reporter 337 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: for the Battalion Radio at Texas A and M. The 338 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: day bonfire fell. There was a crane buried in the 339 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: mess that made the fallen stack even more tricky to dismantle. Also, 340 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: the logs are wired together with heavy cables, so it 341 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 1: is not singular logs, rather several tied together. It was 342 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: like a giant pickup sticks game, complicated with people stuck 343 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: in between. There was one Aggi that didn't make it 344 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: that was in many of the pictures, Timothy Curly. He 345 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 1: was laying across one layer telling the rescuers where to 346 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: find people who had fallen within the logs. He was 347 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: helping others to the very end, at just seventeen years old. 348 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: That's how these stories live on. That's how these traditions 349 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: live on. Just because someone dies in a house, you 350 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: don't level the house. Just because someone dies in a 351 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: car accident, Just because someone dies from an accidental discharge 352 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: of a gun, you don't outlaw guns. This mentality is 353 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: a weak mentality, and I every time I bring this up, 354 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: I will get emails. I can't believe. I hope the 355 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 1: families don't hear you say this. The families are not 356 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: honored by you wanting to shut everything down. By the way, 357 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: forget bonfire. Why not shut the Texas A and M 358 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: University down? Why not close the entire campus? And twenty 359 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: five years later, Oh, it's still not soon enough because 360 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: we had an accident. There was an accident, there were 361 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: errors made, it was sloppy. People were having a lot 362 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: of fun. There had been close calls over all those years. 363 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: You don't all of a sudden act like some elderly 364 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: person to go shut it all down. There's too much 365 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: fun being had down there at campus. We're terribly sorry 366 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: those kids perished, of course we are. You don't need 367 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: to show that you care more than the rest of us. 368 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: Now we have to make good decisions, and the decision 369 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: is carry on with the damn. 370 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 2: Boss sizes, black eyes take a Dolls. 371 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: Exactly a week before she died, my mom summoned me 372 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: and my bride to her hospital room in Houston, and 373 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: she'd had some really aggressive tests done that day. She 374 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: couldn't catch her breath, her lungs had collapsed, and we 375 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: had wonderful, wonderful doctors treating her, my cardiologist Stan Dukman, 376 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: a phenomenon, an old pulmonary expert, pulmonologist named Connelly, and 377 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: Jim Munts, my primary care doctor, was stopping in to 378 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: make sure every day she was getting the best care. 379 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: And truthfully, she probably wouldn't have still been alive if 380 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 1: if these folks hadn't done everything in their power. And 381 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 1: so she'd had a test done that day and it 382 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: was a lou Gerrig's disease type thing that she had, 383 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: and they they had to go in with these big needles, 384 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: and it was it was going to be painful, and 385 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: I didn't tell her ahead of time because she's needle 386 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 1: phobic the way I am, and I didn't want her 387 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: to obsess over it and make it worse. And I 388 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: hoped maybe they'd just knock her out and she wouldn't, 389 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: but that wasn't. So the doctor early in the evening 390 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: told me, you know, this is a very very painful procedure. 391 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: We do this as a last ditch. And so we 392 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: did this for your mom, as I told you we would, 393 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: because we've exhausted everything else, and it's excruciatingly painful. We 394 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: had to do it three times because we couldn't get 395 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: in the way we needed to. He said, I'm going 396 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,199 Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Your mother is one of 397 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: the toughest human beings I've ever met in my life. 398 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: So that night, later that night, and we knew, you know, 399 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: it was a matter of you know, a year at 400 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: the most six months, and she was. She was on 401 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: all these treatments and it was just a brutal life 402 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: in and out of the hospital every day. So she 403 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: summoned me and Nuditta and we got there at ten 404 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: o'clock and we sat for several hours. She said, I'm done. 405 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: I want to go home and die. And she had 406 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: a line that she used. She was telling me, you know, 407 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to memorial I don't want to be 408 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 1: on exhibit. I don't want you announcing it on the air. 409 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear from people. I don't want 410 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: people visiting. I want this kept quiet. I want to 411 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: die in my bed at home, in the living room, 412 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: surrounded by family, and then I want you to have 413 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: I want to be buried. I want Clay Bard to 414 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: do the service be buried next to your brother, and 415 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 1: I don't want anybody there except for the five of y'all, 416 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: six seven, whatever it is of y'all. Okay. So at 417 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 1: some point she's telling a story about something and I said, 418 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 1: and she was talking about life after she was gone, 419 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: and you know your dad, You know your dad needed 420 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: you need to do this for your dad. You do this. 421 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: And I said, now, is this something you want to 422 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: be a part of or And she had this flippant 423 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: line that my wife and I laugh about. She said, no, 424 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to peel off. Y'all are going to continue on. 425 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: And she did this kind of flip over like she 426 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: was peeling off, like like you're you know, in the 427 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: old days, you are all riding horses, and you go, hey, guys, 428 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: that's my pasture over. I'm gonna go over there. Y'all 429 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: keep going. And we left and my wife said, you know, 430 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: I think that is a lot of your attitude in life. 431 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: Obviously you get it from your mother. And that is 432 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: that we don't shut down when things get tough, don't. 433 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: We don't sit in the corner and cry. That is 434 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: not how you honor anyone. What if our warriors did 435 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: that in war. What if Marcus Latrell just laid over 436 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: and said, well, they've killed my buddies. You realize we 437 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: would have never known what happened on that mountain if 438 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: Marcus Latrell doesn't defeat all odds, survive and right and 439 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: publish his diary. Right, But he didn't roll over and 440 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: die when he was supposed to in honor of his 441 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: buddies laid up next to him. No, he lived on 442 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: with one mission alone. He didn't have a girl at 443 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: that time. He was alone. He wanted to go back 444 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: and tell their wives and girlfriends how honorably they died. 445 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: What if he had just curled up right beside him 446 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: and said, I can't survive, it wouldn't be right for 447 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 1: me to go on and survive. That's how you honor people. 448 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: You live your life. We are here with a mission 449 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: to live our lives to honor God. You don't cancel events, 450 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: you don't cancel school, you don't cancel the game, you 451 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: don't cancel the wedding. All of these things we do 452 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: in tribute. All of these things we do to honor. 453 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: We are strong conquerors. You could literally close everything all 454 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: day long, every day because somebody died. That's no way 455 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: to live, that's no way to honor. You know, the 456 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: strength to get back up and do That's what's hard. 457 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: Shutting down school all the time, shutting down workplaces all 458 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: the time. No, you rebuild. It's what you do. Why. 459 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just what you do. I don't 460 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: have a good reason, but it's the proper thing to do. 461 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: The show must go on, life must go on. How 462 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: many women die and dad's got these kids and he 463 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: gets up and says, I'm gonna raise these kids. I'm 464 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: gonna do it. I can't. I can't shut down. How 465 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,959 Speaker 1: many people every day in America and the world for 466 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: that matter, get up, not knowing how they're gonna make 467 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: it through this. How many single moms? Single mom African 468 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: immigrant sends me a message. She's barely paying her rent. 469 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: She got a kid ten years old, ten twelve cent 470 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: I think ten. Her car broke down, she got the 471 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: car picked up, being worked on. She gets a rental car. 472 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: She can't afford rental cars parked in her apartment complex. 473 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: Within two hours of being home, they stole the four 474 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: tires off of it that she cannot afford and she's 475 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:25,239 Speaker 1: just devastated. Just of course I helped, but you know, 476 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: you can't help everybody. And the thing is, that's one 477 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: little example that's happening hundreds of times every day. Those 478 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: are the real victims, because those turds who stole her tires, 479 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: they've done that to somebody else. But she can't just 480 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: sit in the corner and cry. She got rent to do, 481 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: she got rent to pay, she got kid to drop 482 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: off at school, she's got a job to go to 483 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: every day. That's what I admire. You get back up, 484 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: you build that bonfire, and every year at that bonfire, 485 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: you spray paint the name of every one of those 486 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: kids on that bonfire. There's your tribute the next kids 487 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: that come along and do that bonfire like a pledge 488 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: ship for a fraternity, everybody has to learn the name 489 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: and place of birth of every kid who died there. 490 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: That's how you pay tribute. You build it up bigger 491 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: and better, because guess what, it was a fun tradition 492 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: by all accounts, that's why they did it. Nobody was 493 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 1: required to do it, That's why they did it. Was 494 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,479 Speaker 1: it reckless and dangerous? Yeah, a lot of life is. 495 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: And those are the experiences that we remember, and those 496 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: kids would want you to continue on.