1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: A time, Time, luck and low. The Michael Verry's Show 2 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I 3 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: can feel a good one coming on. It's the Michael 4 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: Berry Show. Oh yes, it is. What a great week? 5 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: What a wee can fend? 6 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: I got to cut in early because we got a 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: lot going on today and there is an issue I 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 2: have been wanting to get to that I don't want 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 2: to miss out on, and that is the anger that 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 2: the media has that what they are now calling the 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 2: tech bros, it's a way of insulting them for being 12 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 2: all but one white, for not being minorities. When they 13 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 2: call them bros like that, they don't mean short for brothers. 14 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 2: And they are very upset that the people that they 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: have used to keep the peasants down, the technology crowd 16 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 2: has now seen the writing on the wall and have 17 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 2: now paid tribute to Donald Trump. I played two of 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: these earlier, but I'm gonna play all of them back 19 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 2: to back because I think it's going to make a point. 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: Jake Tapper was not happy to see the tech bros 21 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: attending Trump's inaugural church service. 22 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: Listen to how petty he sounds. 23 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, if I could just before I throw out to Anderson, 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 3: just bring back that photograph of the tech bros inside 25 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 3: Saint John's Church. It's just one other thing I want 26 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 3: to show. So we see Mark Zuckerberg on the left 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,559 Speaker 3: there with the curly hair CEO of Meta, Tim Cook, 28 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 3: his faces blocked me as the white hair CEO of Apple, 29 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos on the right there the ball gentlemen looking 30 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 3: to his right CEO of Amazon. The gentleman behind Mark 31 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 3: Zuckerberg is Sundarpachai. He's the CEO of Google. And Anderson. 32 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:55,279 Speaker 3: Between those four people plus East Elon Musk from Twitter 33 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 3: or X, those five people that I just mentioned, the 34 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 3: four in the photograph and also Elon Musk control so 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 3: much of the information that we receive. So much is 36 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 3: in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring or 37 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 3: refusing to monitor, monitor what is real what is not real. 38 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 3: And we're about to enter an era of deep fakes 39 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 3: and all sorts of misinformation. And the degree to which 40 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,839 Speaker 3: those five gentlemen play a role or do not play 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 3: a role, will be pivotal in terms of where the 42 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: American people are four years from now, in terms of understanding, 43 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 3: in terms of understanding what is true and what is false? 44 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 4: You're also you said we uh not. You're not just 45 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 4: talking about we the United States. We're talking about the world, 46 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 4: all the human beings on the planet. They control access 47 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 4: to information. 48 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 3: Uh. 49 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 4: They are the gatekeepers in many ways to information for 50 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 4: the entire planet. 51 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 2: Hell, hath no fury like two prissy little bitches who 52 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 2: feel betrayed. 53 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: And that's what this is. 54 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 2: Y'all are supposed to be on our team. You can't 55 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 2: be over there with MAGA. We'll never win. I played 56 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: you what Jen Psaki of MSNBC said about it. 57 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 5: So, these CEOs and these industries help Donald Trump, and 58 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 5: then he returns the favor. 59 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: That's how it goes. 60 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 5: Elon Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars to 61 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 5: help reelect Donald Trump and use the reach of his 62 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 5: own social media platform to push MAGA talking points, and 63 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 5: in return, muskle and now be an unelected official in 64 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 5: the new Trump administration and is expected to even have 65 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 5: office space at the White House Complex. 66 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: So I guess the influence that this. 67 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 5: Small collection of billionaires will have is something new this 68 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 5: time around, and it will be a new challenge to 69 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 5: explain why this agreement between tech billionaires and Donald Trump 70 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 5: is a real danger. And on that point, my friend 71 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 5: Rachel Maddow may have put it best. 72 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 6: We haven't yet had the discussion in this country about 73 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 6: why oligarchy is bad. It's bad for your economy, it's 74 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 6: bad for your democracy, yes, but it's also bad for 75 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 6: individual people, for the regular things we need to do 76 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 6: in order to protect our families and live the kind 77 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 6: of lives that we want to live. Oligarchy suck for 78 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 6: ninety nine point ninety nine percent of people who live 79 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 6: in them. 80 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 5: Oligarchies suck for ninety nine point nine percent of people 81 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 5: who live in them. They're great if you're a billionaire, 82 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 5: how many of those are there out there? Bad if 83 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 5: you're basically anyone else. And while this agreement may be 84 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 5: playing out very openly, it's on all of us to 85 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 5: explain why it matters, and oligarchy suck isn't a bad 86 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:37,559 Speaker 5: place to start. 87 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 2: MSNBC's Katie Fang says Trump won't have the crowd he's 88 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 2: obsessed with, but he'll have the warm company of the 89 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: tech bros. Sounds like you missed the tech bros. 90 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 7: About forty eight hours from now, President elect and convicted 91 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 7: felon Donald Trump will be sworn in as the forty 92 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 7: seventh president of the United States, but it's not shaping 93 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 7: up quite as he may have wanted. Today, Trump will 94 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 7: arrive here in the DC area, where he's throwing himself 95 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 7: a party at his Virginia golf club, complete with fireworks 96 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 7: and five hundred of his closest donor friends. But come Monday, 97 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 7: the man who obsesses over crowd sized will surely be disappointed, 98 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 7: as frigid winter temperatures have led to his inauguration ceremony 99 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 7: being moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda. As for who 100 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 7: will be in attendance, Presidents Obama, George W. Bush, and 101 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 7: Bill Clinton are scheduled to come, but none of the 102 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 7: former presidents is expected at the inaugural luncheon. But don't worry, 103 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 7: Trump will have the warm affection of the big tech bros, 104 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 7: from Mark Zuckerberg to Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, who 105 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 7: have all confirmed that they'll be in attendance. 106 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: Not only have they lost the tech bros, but black 107 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 2: people are not staying down like the media told him to. 108 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: You people are stupid and and the whites hate you, 109 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: and only we protect you. Don't have opinions for yourself. 110 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 2: CNN went to two black men in the crowd waiting 111 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: along the inaugural parade route and asked what brought them 112 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 2: there from Arizona, because surely black people can't be happy 113 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 2: about Trump, right. 114 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: Trey and Willie, thank you so much for being with me. 115 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: We were live on the air on CNN. 116 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 8: What brought you all the way from Arizona to twenty 117 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 8: degree weather. 118 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 2: Here in DC to watch Donald trumpet inaugurated? 119 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 9: Well, retired military did twenty six years, twenty four years 120 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 9: in the military, and so man, listening to Donald Trump, 121 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 9: we were like, that's our guy. 122 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: And plus, man, we love Jesus. So we came out 123 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: to support the president and Wally, what is the day 124 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: like us? 125 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 9: We know it means a lot because it shows us 126 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 9: is unity a lot of the things that we're been 127 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 9: seeing and been talking about a lot of times. You 128 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 9: just need to get here, yeah, and stop just listening 129 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 9: to what everyone else is saying in America. We are 130 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 9: all better to get than we are apart. Yeah, So 131 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 9: it means a lot to me. That is supposed to 132 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 9: just be how white people talk. 133 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: If blacks are now going to be value voters joining 134 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 2: Hispanics and whites and Asians. 135 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: Democrats will never win again. 136 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: You'll be left with prissy, bitchy white liberal Democrats. You 137 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: will be left with the pointy head, very angry because 138 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 2: Daddy didn't love them, dysphoric, confused, therapy riddled white liberals 139 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 2: and on their own without their powerful media occupied by 140 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 2: people like them, and big tech and the minorities that 141 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: they lead around by elish, they can't win an election. 142 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: This is the Michael Verie Show. 143 00:07:54,640 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, talking about the failures of California government, the snail 144 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 2: darter and the reservoirs that weren't full, and the hydrants 145 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 2: that didn't have any water, and now the zoning restrictions 146 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 2: and the development and all of this. We've been talking 147 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: about the failures of so many people, and the criminal 148 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 2: actions by people who've started these fires, and the idiots 149 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 2: who want to blame it on climate change, a global warming, 150 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: when much of it is man made. But I want 151 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 2: to make sure that in so doing we don't miss 152 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 2: out on something else that is very important, and that 153 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 2: is the good people, very good people who jumped in 154 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 2: there to fight the fires, many of them citizens, many 155 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 2: of them homeowners themselves, and the people who do it 156 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 2: for a living, which makes it no less noble. There 157 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 2: are people from my state and for many states. Texas 158 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: sent a lot of folks to help fight those fire 159 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: I have a nephew who's also named Michael Berry, who's 160 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 2: a firefighter, and I'm incredibly proud of him. It's what 161 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 2: he's wanted to do since he was a kid. Is 162 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: fight fires. Be a fireman. It's a culture. It's a calling. 163 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: It really is. 164 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 2: It is a ministry, it is a calling, it is 165 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 2: a service. A listener named Martha sent me an email 166 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 2: a few days ago and asked if I had ever 167 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: heard Paul Harvey's tribute to Fireman. 168 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: I had, but she wouldn't know this. 169 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: I'm a bit obsessive when it comes to studying radio grades, 170 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 2: and Paul Harvey is a radio great. And that doesn't 171 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 2: mean we're not going to play it, Ramon. I'm just 172 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 2: answering her question. Yes, of course I had heard of 173 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 2: Paul Harvey. No, I don't think that makes me a 174 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 2: big shot. Can I tell my story. I love Paul Harvey. 175 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 2: I love everything about it. I actually thought, and I'm 176 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: in the minority in this, I actually thought that when 177 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 2: his son took over for him when he died. His 178 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 2: son did a pretty good job at it. He writes, 179 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: like Jimmy Mike Rowe. Mike Rowe's whole deal is patterned 180 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 2: on Paul Harvey. Okay, Yeah, Ramon has it and he 181 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: wants me to play it and he wants me to 182 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: stop talking. 183 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: So here it is. 184 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: It's it's Paul Harvey's rest of the story on the fireman. 185 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 10: Nobody knows why fireman or fireman. Not even they can 186 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 10: tell you why, but it is signed somebody. 187 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: Fire. 188 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 10: Firefighting is the most risky I've all get into jobs, 189 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 10: yet also the one where most workers are most likely 190 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,839 Speaker 10: to early. It's hard enough to believe that it's impossible 191 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 10: to explain it. Fire and ice are uncomfortable separately or together. 192 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 10: Wives hate the hours, kids love the noises, Fire and 193 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,199 Speaker 10: ice any day. Get the firehouse to beil from hell. 194 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 10: Puts the respatcher on the horn with a tenement kinder 195 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 10: box address into bunker pens, rubber, turnout coat, grab the 196 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 10: mask and go. Minutes later you're on site. As others run. 197 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: Out, you go in. 198 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 10: If you'll need all you can carry. The four pound 199 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 10: acts a six foot cook. The Eligan prie bar the 200 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 10: ceiling concealing the smoldering has to come down, and it's 201 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 10: one of those stubborn tin ones in the scary park. 202 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 10: With eating your ears, you're gouging out and carrying loose 203 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 10: and pulling apart, dumping hair and tasing black. Your windpipe 204 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 10: is closing and you've lost track of which way is out. 205 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 10: Is it really worth it? They've budgeted and cut your 206 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 10: ladder company from six men to five, so now everything 207 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 10: you do is sixteen point sixty seven percent more than 208 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 10: golden more danger. Your air is low inside your mask, 209 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 10: you're throwing up. There's a searing ember down your neck, 210 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 10: towing gloves exposed, a snaiced hand. So you emerge from 211 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 10: the holocaust hugging with your elbows. Somebody's singed, kitten. If 212 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 10: you had minutes of exhilaration on the bouncing rear, amount 213 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 10: of the screening one hundred foot ce grade, hours of 214 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 10: using all you've learned and learning more. 215 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: Now you're back. 216 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 10: At the station house and you've unstupped your nostrils with 217 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 10: soapy fingers. You can almost breathe again. Next come to 218 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 10: tedious hours as you and Willow gang up on grimy tools. 219 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 10: They clean up. Crew at the firehouses. You when windows 220 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 10: need washing and toilets need cleaning, and floors need mopping 221 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 10: and beds need making, you do it. Fire and eyes 222 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 10: they both go with the job. Then there's that night 223 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 10: another engine company gets there first. You see this weather 224 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 10: and rookie hot dogging ahead. His academy boots are still shining. 225 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 10: You're losing inside the crackling You forget about him until 226 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 10: your helmet warning bell says, get up. The battalion chief 227 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 10: is calling you off. You get out. 228 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 1: The other guy didn't. 229 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 10: He'd heard a scream from the bottom of burning basement 230 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 10: stairs and he'd headed down there went on the bubbling 231 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 10: tar paper roof the three ton compressor broke through that 232 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 10: day we lost two storious fireman cry but only briefly, 233 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 10: because now comes the inevitable and ever more paperwork, just 234 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 10: in case OSHA complains or somebody sees is it worth it? 235 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: Your b crew pumper. 236 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 10: Swapped his day shift so some family guy could be 237 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 10: home for his kid's birthday, and then out down toward 238 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 10: a falso arm. Your buddy gets blindsided by a hot 239 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 10: rod driven by a drunk. 240 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,079 Speaker 1: Fire and ice. 241 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 10: The intercom wright say again, this time at the warehouse. 242 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 10: A big bat multiple blaze probably torched on side engine 243 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 10: mandrake with icicles dragging a three quarter pre connect pros 244 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 10: hose are waiting for your big line. Layman can't make 245 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 10: the building without you, search, rescue, ventilate. Eventually it's over 246 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 10: and out. You smoke some margitan sleepers and grung out 247 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 10: of this one. You won behind graffiti followed walls. You 248 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 10: saved what you could, but the raging blaze that wanted 249 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 10: to consume adjacent buildings did not, And it did not 250 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 10: because you were there. I get to buy a house 251 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 10: before clean up. You and the guys should have spelled 252 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 10: tired but stimulated, drinking coffee, laughing, feeling good about one another. 253 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 10: Nobody outside your world can never know this feeling. In 254 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 10: any other uniform, you get streets named after you for 255 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 10: killing people. In this one, you risk your life to 256 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 10: save people until one day you run out of chances, 257 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 10: and in one final fire, either you buy it or 258 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 10: you don't. If you don't, it's only eventually they brushed 259 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 10: off with the punity tension. And yet there is no 260 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 10: third way that ever leave this job, and you're doubting 261 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 10: even God knows why you're out of the shower. Now 262 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 10: most of the grime and some of the cynicism are 263 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 10: down the drain. When you hear a strangely from in 264 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 10: your voice saying it is worth it, It is worth it, 265 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 10: And you're hearing this voice, and there's nobody there but you. 266 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 10: It's a quiet voice from nowhere saying for salvage and 267 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 10: things and people from planes. I have to rely on 268 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 10: your hands. And you look around, still nobody. But when 269 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 10: you get over your incredulity, you feel better. Suddenly, today's 270 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 10: crew cook in the kitchen, dollars chow. It's time to 271 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 10: eat snows by gross Beet today. That'll be good. You'll 272 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 10: eat fast. You'll want to eat fast for any next salon. 273 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: You'll want to be. 274 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 10: Ready, all hearty. 275 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: Out the world as we know in the world. 276 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 2: We just played he just tuned in. We just played 277 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 2: Paul Harvey's tribute to Fireman. And I will tell you this, 278 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 2: I could play Paul Harvey for you all day long, 279 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 2: because there's two types of people. The people who've never 280 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 2: heard Paul Harvey and they're going to go, wow, that's interesting. 281 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 2: And then there's the people who did hear Paul Harvey, 282 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 2: listen to him every morning and they miss him, just 283 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 2: as we do with Rush Limbaugh. We honor and pay 284 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 2: tribute to those who came before us, not just because 285 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 2: we make a living doing what they did, but because 286 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 2: they are icons. They're part of our lives, they're part 287 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 2: of our histories. I would like to play a rest 288 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: of the story from Paul Harvey. We pay tribute to 289 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 2: Paul Harvey. We haven't done it in a while a 290 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 2: fair amount, because he's part of the reason we get 291 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 2: to do what we do, and we think it's important 292 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 2: to do that, but also because we find it very entertaining, 293 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 2: and we think you will too. I've said all along, 294 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 2: I don't believe a quote unquote talk show has to 295 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: only be the host talking and giving his opinions the 296 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 2: entire time, or interviewing guests the entire time. What I've 297 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 2: always wanted to be is kind of the conductor of 298 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,959 Speaker 2: an orchestra of awesome things happening on the radio. So 299 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 2: if it's a guest who has something interesting to say, 300 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 2: even if I already know a fair amount about that subject, 301 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 2: but they can offer a perspective, then we're going to 302 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 2: do that. But that's also why we spend a lot 303 00:17:53,680 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 2: of time consuming other content and sharing with you that 304 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 2: were said by other people in their own voice, Because 305 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 2: I think, I think that's how you pay tribute. I 306 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 2: think that's how you honor those people. I really do so. 307 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 2: In the course of an average show, especially the evening show, 308 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 2: we will play five to ten audio clips, sometimes more 309 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 2: than that. And some people think, are you being lazy? 310 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,959 Speaker 2: You don't know me, Ask my family, ask my friends. 311 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 2: I can talk all day, every day, and I love 312 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: to do it, but I feel it's a little dishonest 313 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 2: when I'm listening to someone's opinion on something and I go, 314 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 2: that's a very interesting point, and then I steal it 315 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 2: as my own. A lot of people in media do that. 316 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 2: I think it's a bad thing. I really do. I 317 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 2: think it's a bad thing to do. I think it 318 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 2: is plagiarism at a minimum, and I think it's deceitful. 319 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 2: I think it's a sign because look, everything is derivative 320 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 2: of something else. None of us landed here the smartest 321 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 2: person in the history of the world, and none of 322 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 2: us arrived at our own opinions completely on our own. 323 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 2: No man is an island Milton sort of stuff. We 324 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: had teachers, parents, coaches, writers, novelists, movie characters, and from 325 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 2: those things we developed our opinions. And and many times, 326 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 2: you know, it's funny. I go back and listen to 327 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 2: a lot of old audio of Rush, of Paul Harvey, 328 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 2: and many as the time I will hear them say 329 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 2: something that I almost think to myself, you ripped me off, 330 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 2: Paul Harvey, I said that, or you ripped me off Rush, 331 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 2: I said that, and then I realized, no, I ripped 332 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 2: him off. Didn't even realize it. How many times? How 333 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 2: many times have you said something that when you said it, 334 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 2: you heard your mom or your dad, or your grandma 335 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 2: or your grandpa, or your coach or your teacher or 336 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: your first boss, You heard their voice and you realize 337 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 2: that stuck. I didn't intentionally mimic that person. It just 338 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,959 Speaker 2: kind of stuck. Isn't that weird how that happens, But 339 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 2: that's how we all ended up here. This isn't a 340 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 2: you didn't build that moment. This is a I'm giving 341 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 2: credit to the people who are really good at what 342 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 2: they do that helped form what we do. Plus, I 343 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 2: hope I'm sharing something with you that you go, well, 344 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 2: this is a This is a great way to get 345 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 2: home today, Michael. You don't have to talk politics all 346 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 2: day every day. 347 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: Now. The rest of the story. 348 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,719 Speaker 8: Mr Was a twenty one year young inmate at San Quentin, 349 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 8: charging restlessly in his cart after lights out kids set 350 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 8: foot on the road to prison. Years before, it had 351 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 8: started with petty theft and bad checks. 352 00:20:58,800 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: And then stolen car. 353 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 8: Finally got himself drunk and tried to knock over the 354 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 8: roadhouse near Bakersfield, and that's what brought him his stretch 355 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 8: in the joint. By now there had been several months 356 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 8: long enough to see it all. He'd seen one con 357 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 8: kill another over a simple insult, yet another inmate purposely 358 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 8: scalded to death in the prison laundry. And the more 359 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 8: such he saw, the more he wondered whether he'd ever 360 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 8: see the other side of those tall. 361 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: Gray walls again. 362 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,959 Speaker 8: So Mr was lying awake that night, tossing and turning, 363 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 8: trying to fight off every thought but the planet hand. 364 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 8: Because although in thirteen years there'd not been an escape 365 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 8: from San Quentin, come sent up, em I would have 366 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 8: his chance to do just that. You see, in the 367 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 8: prison furniture factory, inmate craftsmen had been making a desk 368 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 8: for a judge's chamber in San Francisco, an enormous desk 369 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 8: weighed about one thousand, five hundred pounds. 370 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: Next morning it was due to be picked up and 371 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: trucked down. 372 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 8: But what prison authorities did not know was there was 373 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 8: room in that huge test for two full. 374 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: Grown men to hide. 375 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 8: One of the cohns already booked for passage was Jim Hendrix, 376 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 8: known to his buddies as Rabbit, and the other that's right, 377 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 8: The other was Mr. Rabbit liked Mr did his best 378 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 8: to talk the younger Khan out of escaping. The elder, 379 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 8: serving two five to life sentences back to back, felt 380 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 8: that he had nothing to lose, but Mr. Well, he'd 381 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 8: be out in a couple of years. The risk wasn't 382 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 8: worth it. But MR's mind was made up. He had 383 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 8: been over and over the plan. 384 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 1: In his mind. He was sure there was no way 385 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: it could fail, and it did not. 386 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 8: The judge's desk was picked up on time, The presiding 387 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 8: gate opened wide for the delivery truck. 388 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: The getaway car was waiting near Oakland the. 389 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 8: Bay Bridge, and so Rabbit became the first con in 390 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 8: thirteen years to break out a sand quin and Mr. 391 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,919 Speaker 8: He stayed behind funny thing. He was all set to go. 392 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 8: He was looking forward to his freedom, but at the 393 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 8: last moment he got cold feet and turned it down. 394 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 8: Weeks later, a highway patrolman stopped Rebbit for a minor 395 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:30,959 Speaker 8: traffic violation. Rabbit panic, He shot the officer dead, and 396 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 8: not long after that they caught Rebbit and sent him 397 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:34,959 Speaker 8: to the gas chamber. 398 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: Now and Mr escaped with Rebbit. 399 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,719 Speaker 8: He'd probably have been there when his buddy pulled the trigger, 400 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 8: and that would have made him an accessory. But instead, 401 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 8: when Rebit ran the Mr stayed and served his time 402 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 8: to a parole two years later, and he went straight. 403 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 8: It would have been so easy to sneak out in 404 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 8: the judge's desk. When Mr came to the crossroads, he 405 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 8: chose the right road. He lived to build a career 406 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 8: which has thrilled the country music lovers ever since. For 407 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 8: more than forty years, you have been humming into tunes 408 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 8: of Mr Merle Ronald Haggard, besh ride Merle Haggard. Only 409 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 8: now you know him flurish of the story. 410 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: There's a job. Don't use that tone to me. Not 411 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: a joke, that's sarcastic. 412 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 2: Contemptuous tone that means you know everything because you're a man, 413 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 2: and I know nothing because I'm a woman. 414 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: That is not a joke. That is a natural fact. 415 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. 416 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 2: We're in The Michael Berry Show love Paul Harvey, and 417 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 2: we have decided to play some more Paul Harvey for 418 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: you today, mostly because we also want to listen to it. 419 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 2: The craft of storytelling, which I believe to be a 420 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 2: very important thing. 421 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: Many of you have heard me say this again and 422 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: again and again. 423 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 2: Teach your children to tell stories, and people will even 424 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 2: how I do that. Okay, if I told you raise 425 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 2: your child to be a self respecting adult, you got 426 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 2: to figure it out. But once it's planted in your 427 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 2: mind how important this is to do, then you will 428 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 2: start thinking about ways to do it. What I do 429 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 2: with my kids is start with tell me about your day. 430 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 2: And I know what you're going to say, Michael. When 431 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 2: I asked my kids tell me about it, it is fine. 432 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 2: What happened nothing? What'd you do? 433 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 1: Not much? 434 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 2: You've got to get better at asking your questions and 435 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 2: you've got to tell them, hey, look, I'm gonna find 436 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 2: out what happened today, and in the process You're gonna 437 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 2: get better at answering questions because you're gonna have to 438 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 2: answer questions from your spouse, from your kids, Why Daddy, 439 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 2: why mama? 440 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: Why? 441 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 2: You're gonna have to answer questions during an interview, You're 442 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 2: gonna have to answer questions your entire life, from your boss. 443 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 2: You might as well learn to get good at it. 444 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 2: So let's take a new approach, because I'm going to 445 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 2: sit here and ask these questions one hundred different ways, 446 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 2: and part of me being a parent is teaching you 447 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: to respond to questions. 448 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: Now, if you can do it in such a way 449 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: that you. 450 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 2: Tell a story, oh the meek shall inherit the earth. 451 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 2: But I think the storytellers, I think they just grab 452 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 2: hold of it and take it. A good salesman is 453 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 2: always a good storyteller. A good pastor is always a 454 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 2: good storyteller, A good coach storyteller. When you wooed your 455 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 2: girlfriend to be your wife, you told a story. You 456 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,679 Speaker 2: don't realize it. You might not have call to the story, 457 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 2: but that's what you were doing. I study Paul Harvey. 458 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 2: I want you to listen, to enjoy, but I also 459 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 2: want you to think about how he tells a story. 460 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 2: How have previous nations gone from being strong, prosperous nations 461 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 2: to a crumbling. 462 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: Shell of their former selves. 463 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 2: Here is Paul Harvey giving a history lesson in a 464 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: piece called Freedom to Chains. 465 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: This is as good. Mark this one. Go look it 466 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: up on YouTube or rumble or. 467 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 2: Wherever you get your content, and share it, because this one, 468 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 2: this is good right here now? 469 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: Then, what makes a nation strong? Taxes? 470 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 8: There's nothing new about those e The the first income 471 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 8: tax was paid by Abraham, was written on a rock 472 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 8: by the hand of Divinity and handed to Moses at 473 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 8: the top of Mount sign You and you might want 474 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 8: to remember this. It was at the flat rate of 475 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 8: ten percent that promised the wrath of God on anybody 476 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 8: who tampered with or violated that law. Christ was born 477 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 8: in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way to pay taxes. 478 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 8: Joseph was a relatively well to do landowner of the 479 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 8: house and lineage of David. Yet the taxes exacted by 480 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 8: Caesar Augustus were so exorbitant that he didn't have enough 481 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 8: money left over to employ a trusted messenger for the mission. So, 482 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 8: though his wife was great with child, he made the 483 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 8: journey himself. And Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph 484 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 8: was on his way to pay his taxes. And Christ 485 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,719 Speaker 8: was born in a manger because there was a housing 486 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 8: shortage when he got there. Our problems are not new. 487 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 8: At Running Meade. The Magna Carter was handed to King 488 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 8: John on the end of a sword, denying to royalty 489 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 8: the right of unlimited taxation. Yet you know it was 490 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 8: for us, the American people, to become the first and 491 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 8: recorded history ever voluntarily to surrender our rights to private property. Yes, 492 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 8: we did with an innocent sounding constitutional amendment, the sixteenth, 493 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 8: which says that Congress will have the power to lay 494 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 8: and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived. And 495 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 8: we forgot to put any limit on the extent to 496 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 8: which we could tax us. Conceivably, we could be taxed 497 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 8: out of all private property. We could be taxed up 498 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 8: ninety percent, but one hundred percent. We could awaken one 499 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 8: morning and find that the government owns the farm and 500 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 8: the house and the car, and has a mortgage on 501 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 8: the church. 502 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: Legally, historically, whenever any. 503 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 8: Nation has taxed its people more than twenty five percent 504 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 8: of their national income, the initiative was destroyed and that 505 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 8: nation was headed for economic eclipse. Presently, the American people 506 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 8: are being taxed thirty three percent of their total income. 507 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 8: History says, We'll roll forward on momentum for a little while, 508 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 8: but we'd better get some more gas in the tank 509 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 8: pretty quick. You see, ours is not the first by 510 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 8: George good government to arise on the world stage. 511 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: There have been several Rome, Spain. 512 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 8: And Greece and China, and each enjoyed about one hundred 513 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 8: and fifty years at its zenith, that's just about our 514 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 8: time in the New World. And then each decayed away. 515 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 8: Not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else's 516 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 8: marching legions. Each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously. 517 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 9: You know. 518 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 8: One of the most cruel paradoxes of history is this. 519 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 8: Because each was a good government, it bore bountiful fruit. 520 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 8: And when it bore bountiful fruit, the people got fat. 521 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 8: And when they got fat, they got lazy. When they 522 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 8: got lazy, they began to want to absolve themselves of 523 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 8: personal responsibility and turn over the government to do for 524 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 8: them things which traditionally they had been doing for themselves. 525 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 8: At first, there appears to be nothing wrong asking government 526 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 8: to perform some. 527 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: Extra service for you. But if you ask. 528 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 8: Government for extra services, government, in order to perform its 529 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 8: increasing function, has. 530 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: To get bigger. 531 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 8: Right, And as government gets bigger, in order to support 532 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 8: its increasing size, it has to what tax the individual 533 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 8: more So the individual gets littler. And to collect the 534 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 8: increased taxes requires more tax collectors. 535 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: So the government gets bigger. In order to pay the. 536 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 8: Additional tax collectors, it has to tax the individual more. 537 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 8: So the government gets bigger, and the individual gets littler. 538 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 8: And the government gets bigger and the individual gets littler. 539 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 8: Until the government is all powerful, the individual is hardly 540 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 8: anything at all. 541 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: The government is all powerful, the people are cattle. 542 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 8: Some believe that the need is for a vigorous strong 543 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 8: man to arise on the scene to regulate and regiment 544 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 8: the affairs of men. Yet history tells us there have 545 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 8: been several such. Once upon a time there was a 546 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 8: nation great and powerful and good. She was suffering from 547 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 8: the aftermath of war, from a depression, And then came 548 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 8: upon the scene a leader and idealist, self confident, intolerant 549 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 8: of criticism. Wisely, he limited his early activities to combating 550 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 8: the financial depression. 551 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: Nobody could argue with that. 552 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 8: But in a while he began to regulate business and 553 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 8: to establish new rules to govern commerce and finance, some 554 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 8: of them in diametrical disagreement with the God made laws 555 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 8: of supply and demand. But anybody who disagreed with those 556 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 8: new rules was promptly fired. The new leader saw that 557 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 8: under the old system of free enterprise, landlords prospered, so 558 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 8: he levied new taxes to take away their profits and 559 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 8: destroy it. He called the monopoly of capital. To please laborers, 560 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 8: he controlled prices. To win the favor of the farmers. 561 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 8: He gave him loans and subsidies. The national debt mounted alarmingly. 562 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 8: Whenever anybody tried to tell him that governments, even as people, 563 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 8: can go broke when they stand beyond their incomes, he said, 564 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 8: they just didn't understand deficit finance. What do you say, 565 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 8: did he build on rock or on sand? I say 566 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 8: on sand. For you see, this was the story of 567 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 8: Emperor Su tung Po, who led China to its doom 568 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 8: more than a thousand years years ago. I am satisfied 569 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 8: with all my heart that if Uncle Sam ever does 570 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 8: get whipped here too, it will have been an inside job.