1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load till 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. Set off to 3 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,319 Speaker 1: my litack, take this job and chove it. 4 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: Joy. 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: You like movies about gladiators. He's down, But sometimes I 6 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: get the mincedul crabs for your card. This time you 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: pick on too. You're gonna sit down in the kitchen 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: and fix me something good to eat. Pull on it. 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: Make my head a. 10 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: Little high and the whole day crack his wax. You're 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: gonna lay around the shanty rum and but a good 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: bo I'm the guy who can get it for a 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: time cigarettes a bag of briefer. If that's your thing, 14 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: will pass to be a baby, will pass it to 15 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: be slow. We'll take time off to smile a little defoil. 16 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: Laddya go. We're gonna lay shamton mom and put a 17 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: good buzz on. They ever catch that gorilla would escape 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: from the zoo and punched you an I. I have 19 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: been advised that the Chief operating Officer of HISD, Brian Busby, 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: that his federal trial for bribery is starting. We were 21 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: told that was the tip of the iceberg. It'll be 22 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 1: interesting to see who else is involved, If any We're 23 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: always promised for these things that there's going to be 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: a big grand investigation in prosecution, and then they tend 25 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: to peter out. It's like you see these TV shows 26 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: where you know they're catching the bad guys or bad 27 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: guys are doing things, and the voice will say, and 28 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: they're going away for a very long time. No they're not. No, 29 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: they're probably back out on this three ten minutes before 30 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: you were. They're not going away for any time. That's 31 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 1: just not happening. Uh, let's see, James, James, you're on 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: the Michael Berry Show. 33 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: Michael I ran for Cheff and Flag miss Paris, Louisiana 34 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen. On these numbers, seven thirty four, one 35 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: oh three ninety seventy two. What do those numbers mean. 36 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: Tottery. 37 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 2: Man, Not quite. For every one hundred thousand people we 38 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: have in America, we have seven hundred and thirty four 39 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: people in jail. Uh. The next country, Great Britain, had 40 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,839 Speaker 2: one hundred and three four hundred thousand, The next one 41 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: China ninety four hundred thousand, the next one Russia seventy two. 42 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 2: Per one hundred thousand. We put three times more people 43 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 2: in jail here in the United States than the next 44 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 2: three countries combined. And then he too goes down from there. Now, 45 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 2: I also had a men's health book I was running 46 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 2: on the legalization of marijuana. They had it in the 47 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: Men's Health book that there has never been one reported 48 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 2: marijuana debt death in America in that article. Now, I've 49 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 2: seen Dan Patrick yesterday trying to stop the CBD laws 50 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: in the cannabis products that you advertised. And I've seen 51 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 2: this morning on Newsmatch they said, oh, a report come 52 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 2: out and said if you smoked marijuana you were in 53 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: greater risk of heart attacks and stroke. But they don't 54 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 2: show you the report. It don't tell you who did it, 55 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: how many how long it went on for a complete line, 56 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 2: And I burnt my behind up. And also the American 57 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: Medical Association in that magazine, the Men's Health magazine said 58 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: that obese d alcoholism, and cigarette smoking or diseases. And 59 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 2: they also said cocaine addition, heroin addition, marijuana smoking for addiction. 60 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: Now for addition, not crime. We make crimes out of three. 61 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: The other three you can just go about your business 62 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: and do whatever you want. Now, it don't take a 63 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 2: medical doctor to realize that alcoholism, cigarette smoking, and obesity. 64 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 2: It causes more heart attacking stokes than ever anybody ever 65 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 2: smoking marijuana cigarette And the reason why this nonsense is 66 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: going on in this contract, or actually the entire world, 67 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 2: is because Satan controls the world right now. He wants 68 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 2: everybody drinking in the ballrooms shooting each other up because 69 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 2: they get drunken, stupid and they don't know what they're doing. 70 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 2: And people that smoke maljuana not seeing the true he 71 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 2: is in that I ain't never to get along good. 72 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 2: And the worst thing they might do, they might go 73 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: down to the ice cream shop and eat a bunch 74 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: of ice creams because they got the munches. But we 75 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 2: can't have that. Don't be happy, don't be relaxing, peaceful 76 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 2: in that. You know in the Indians also they smoke 77 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 2: marijuana cannabis in the peace pipes for peace and tranquility. 78 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 2: And I have that to say on the. 79 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: Subject, James, I am. Before this legislative session started, I 80 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: have heard for the last few years that people are 81 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: so frustrated with their property taxes, They're so frustrated with 82 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: the border, they're so frustrated with the state lockdown during COVID, 83 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: Furious over these things and they want something done about it. 84 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: I never once had anybody say to me what I'd 85 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: like the state to do is take away any THHC 86 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: anything related to me, marijuana, Delta eight, all of it. 87 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: It's horrible. We got to get rid of it. We 88 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: got we gotta invest every bit of energy we have. 89 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: And I have to tell you I am very supportive 90 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: of what Dan Patrick has done as Lieutenant governor. I 91 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: think this is the most ill advised thing he has 92 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: ever done. Number one, Number two, I think this is 93 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 1: going to cost far more votes than it's going to gain. 94 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: Who whoever is happy about this, and I I'll tell 95 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: you who's happy. There are some mothers, because I've heard 96 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: from them whose kids got real bad into drugs and 97 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: they rip a vape that then was a bad vape 98 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: and it you know, they got a lung problem, or 99 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 1: they got into drugs and it led to other things. 100 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: And uh, they think that this is going to be 101 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: the thing that that you know, because their little baby 102 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong. 103 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 3: It was. 104 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: The retail shop. I know more. I know more old 105 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: people now and this is a recent phenomenon who have 106 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: chronic pain. And the way this works is they go 107 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: to their doctor and say, Doc, my grandson's a stoner, 108 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: and he says that if I'll take this this chronic 109 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 1: pain I'm suffering from, and the doctor will say, I'm 110 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: not allowed to tell you this, but that's what you 111 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: need to do. That's better than any pharmaceutical. I can 112 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: give you the most abused drug in America by far, 113 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: and it's not even close as alcohol. The most abuse 114 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: reefer Madness, did more damage in this country than any 115 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:50,679 Speaker 1: single film ever released any There are marijuana users all 116 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: around us who do not bother anyone. The drug itself 117 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: has does less damage and in most cases more good 118 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: than any other drug, including coffee. There are military veterans 119 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: who have seen results. There are cancer sufferers who have 120 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: seen results. My brother was a narcotics officer for years. 121 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: He said, if people would smoke marijuana instead of drinking alcohol, 122 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have domestic abuse cases. I wouldn't have drunk 123 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: driver cases. So yeah, I think this is a stupid 124 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: move by Dan Patrick, and I wish he'd quit. I 125 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: look at what's going on in Florida where American values. 126 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: The take back of America from the left is actually 127 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: occurring at the state government level, they're accomplishing things. It's 128 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: become the model in the country. I look at Oklahoma 129 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: where they're doing things, things that you could only dream 130 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: what happened, and they're making them happen. Look at Arkansas, 131 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: where Sarah Huckabee has just done amazing things in a 132 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: very brief period of time. And then I turned to 133 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: Texas where the speaker has been controlled by the Democrats 134 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: for years. Our governor is incredibly weak. He's the John 135 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: Cornyn of our state government. And now the one guy 136 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: you could rely on, Dan Patrick, is taking up an 137 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: issue that will not gain any support for our initiatives. 138 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: It will not and it's going to piss a lot 139 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 1: of people off. A lot of people are going to 140 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: be pissed off over this that were our kind of voters. 141 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: They're going to be pissed off over this, and they're 142 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: not going to forgive it. And this is where I 143 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: have conversations with people who will say they're in a 144 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: dimes worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans. And 145 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: let me tell you why. This is where folks who 146 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: call themselves conservatives turn off the Libertarians. This is where 147 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: Trump brings those people into the big tent and this 148 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: quote unquote conservative initiative is doing the opposite. Notice what 149 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: Trump did. Did you notice him pardoning people that had 150 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: marijuana crimes. They made a big deal. It's a black woman. 151 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: She'd had her life ruined, she was a user of marijuana, 152 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: and she had received a long sentence, and he pardoned her. 153 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: He made a big deal out of that. Was that 154 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: was a statement he had flirted with an announced but 155 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: to legalize marijuana across the country. That is the trend. 156 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: That is a trend. There are people who are frightened 157 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: of things they know nothing about, and those people, out 158 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: of that fear, they're baled up and they want something 159 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: to be mad about. And so their idea is, maybe 160 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:28,239 Speaker 1: if somewhere, someplace, somebody I'll never meet, who might actually 161 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: be eating gummies on their back porch that I'll never see, 162 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: maybe if I can keep them, if that is giving 163 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: them some pain relief or relaxation from anxiety, or maybe 164 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: even just a little happiness, if there's some way we 165 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: could kick down their door and go get them and 166 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: arrest them and put them in prison for that, that'd 167 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: make me feel better about my miserable life. That'd make 168 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: me feel good if we could do that. There are 169 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: some people among us, sad as it is, who cannot 170 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: find happiness in their life. They may not have had 171 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: a good life. They may never have loved, they may 172 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: never have been loved, They may never have accomplished, they 173 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: may never have dreamed, they may never have known the 174 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: great joys of the human existence. And they don't have 175 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: a future. They don't have an aspiration, they don't have 176 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: a goal. They don't wake up in the morning looking 177 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: forward to anything. And so they reduce themselves to finding 178 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 1: some degree of utility in hoping someone else who is 179 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: enjoying some aspect of life can have it taken away. 180 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: And that's important. That's important to that person and to 181 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: that person. They don't want anybody gambling, they want any marijuana. 182 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: They don't want you to have alcohol on Sunday before noon, 183 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: because the Lord wants you to wait till noon eleven 184 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: forty five. Let me go up here to the package. 185 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: Uh Lord, says an Ecclesiastes, thou shalt not drink for noon. 186 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: We won't have stores open on Sunday, because that that 187 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: is how we will honor God. But you're mean, spirited 188 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: and cruel and unkind and hateful. Have you read the Bible? 189 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: Because all the little rituals that these people love to play, 190 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: what they eat and when they eat it, these were 191 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: all things created by men on earth enriching their own power. 192 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: They're not vessels of God. This is not godly in 193 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: any way. This is not Christian. You're not more Christian 194 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: by trying to outlaw things that don't affect you or 195 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: anyone else. That is not Christians. That's the kind of 196 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: people who turn off potential Christians who've had an experience 197 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: like that, for whom Christianity is a basis upon which 198 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: they hate and judge in ridicule. That is not godly, 199 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: that is not biblical. This marijuana thing, I don't know 200 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: the basis of it. I'll tell you what. I suspect 201 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: legislators government will do this on occasion they know they're 202 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: not going to get any wins out of this session. 203 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: The House was lost. To his credit, dan Patrick busted 204 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: his ass to get DAVEE Feelin out of there, but 205 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: we couldn't get the votes to replace him. So you've 206 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: got Dustin Burroughs his number two. So now they're just playing. 207 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: The house is just playing, and the Democrats are comfortable 208 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: with the just played. The Democrats don't have to accomplish anything. 209 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: Republicans have control. Republicans have the majority, and Democrats are 210 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: able to retain a very quiet, subtle control. So all 211 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: they have to do is keep the Republicans from making 212 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: any changes. This is what Schumer would love to have, 213 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: the ability to keep Trump from being able to make 214 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: executive orders. This is why they've gone to the district 215 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: courts to slow him down. The House will not pass anything, 216 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: so it won't matter what the Senate does because the 217 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: House won't pass anything. And so we come up with 218 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: these issues to stay in the news. We're going to 219 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: do away with the dope, and literally nobody's cheering. That 220 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: was a nineteen We've had leap law, law enforcement against prohibition, 221 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: We've had doctors, we've had studies. This is an outdated 222 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: old Why why don't we come out against the gays too. 223 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: We're gonna make it illegal to be homo, and I mean, 224 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: this is just dumb. 225 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 4: With the Michael Berry, we worked so hard, so hard, 226 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 4: so many people. 227 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: Winning elections, and our biggest challenge in Texas getting people 228 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: to care because they've been burned so many times we 229 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: finally finally get to where we need to be. We've 230 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:54,239 Speaker 1: got a president on our side, and now our biggest 231 00:16:54,560 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: issue appears to be driving marijuana from the state. Let 232 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,919 Speaker 1: me address a couple of things that I have received. 233 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: One listener writes, your take on legalizing whoch Have you 234 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 1: been to the cities where marijuana is legal. You can't 235 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: walk down any street in that city where people are 236 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: without smelling that nasty smell. This is not how it 237 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: should be. I usually like your side of arguments, but 238 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: I cannot agree to any of that. Marijuana smokers in 239 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: public are the source of seventy five percent of the 240 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: opposition to legalizing marijuana. If every marijuana smoker with a 241 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: day job would go, grab those people by the ear, 242 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: like the black mom in the grocery store, and walk 243 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: them up and down the aisle, tell them you can't 244 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: do this, you idiot. You're ruining it for everybody. I 245 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: despise the smell of marijuana. I find it to be disgusting. 246 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: I'm told that a meth lab smells like cat urine, 247 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: so I suppose that might be worse. I can't go, 248 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: won't go, have no interest in going to festivals or 249 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: outdoor concerts, but these days it is often if it's 250 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: in a state that has legalized marijuana, there will be 251 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 1: that nasty, rancid smell and it's awful. It's one of 252 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: the worst smells to me out there. It smells sour 253 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: and it's terrible. So what cities have done is they 254 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: have made it such that you cannot smoke in public. 255 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: But as a delivery mechan I think that the old 256 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: style joint, which is the rolling up and smoking of marijuana. 257 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: I don't know this. I haven't looked at the statistics, 258 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: but this is just my suspicion that that is a 259 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: very small percentage of the delivery mechanism used today as 260 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: it once was the old days of the stoner, you know, 261 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: the dirty, nasty Brad Pitt played that character in True 262 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: Romance where he's sitting on the couch ripping a bong, 263 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: just zombied out of his brain, and his roommate Michael 264 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: ol whatever the guy's name is, Rappaport, I think, has 265 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 1: left and the bad guys are there to try to 266 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: track him down. That's outdated, that's a thing of the past. 267 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: But I also you have to ask yourself some tough questions, 268 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: so you can deal with the nasty smell. That's not 269 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: a reason to make something illegal. Okay, if you go somewhere, 270 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,439 Speaker 1: if you go to any same festival, there are going 271 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: to be people who've had too much to drink and 272 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: they're staggering around. Well, prohibition, when you study prohibition and 273 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: how bad it was for this country, the negative effects 274 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: prohibition had on this country that we still fill today, 275 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: criminal organizations, all sorts of things. It is not. You 276 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: have to stop and ask yourself a question. Why do 277 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: we have a government? What's the purpose do we want 278 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: to give that government the power to take things away 279 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: from us, to tell us what time to go to bed, 280 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: to tell us what time to wake up, to tell 281 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: us what we can and cannot do with our lives 282 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: and our bodies. Is that what we want to do? 283 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: Because you have to ask yourself that question, because a 284 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: government big enough to make you happy by causing someone 285 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: else to not be able to do things, is going 286 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: to be able to turn that same power on you. 287 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: And you go, oh, my goodness, but you made it happen. 288 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:17,439 Speaker 1: There are so many misconceptions on this issue, and there 289 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: are more and more people now who come forward here's 290 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: one listener. I'm not going to say her name. She 291 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: says Zorro. I'm seventy one and I've been taking Delta 292 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: eight for many years. I have not increased my dose. 293 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: I have not gone on to other drugs, even vaping. 294 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: I was not a marijuana user. I drink very little. 295 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: I only eat gummies at night to help me get 296 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 1: to sleep and turn my mind off. Otherwise I will 297 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: lay in bed with my mind racing. I do not 298 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: eat any gummies during the day, or I would be 299 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: a couch potato. I will not vote for anyone who 300 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: votes to get rid of THHC. I will hear this 301 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: mostly from women, and they'll say, Michael, are you aware 302 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 1: that marijuana SAPs people's motivation? They won't want to work. 303 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: Wait a second, are we now in the business of 304 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: motivating people? Is that as a government? Okay, we'll look 305 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: around Anything that takes away y'all's motivation you can't do 306 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: Are you serious? Do you hear yourself? Do you hear yourself? 307 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: You are giving into the worst element of the little 308 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: old lady, the worst aspect of it. Don't let that in, 309 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: don't let that rule the day. Don't do it that 310 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: is that is not a good look, trust me. And 311 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: are you aware that some people don't lack motivation, don't 312 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: lack desire, but have too much? Are you aware that 313 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: some people people can't turn their brain off. Some people 314 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: can't get their mind to stop racing, and they're highly successful. 315 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: I worked with a guy for years probably kept the 316 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: longest schedule of being awake and functioning at a high 317 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: level than anybody I've ever met in my life. I've 318 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: never seen anything like it, so much so that I 319 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: could barely be around him for more than five minutes 320 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: at a time because I wanted to switch that I 321 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 1: could turn it off. And that individual consumed more marijuana 322 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: than anybody I've ever known of. I know people that 323 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: are very, very, very high functioning and that use it 324 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: to turn it off. Well, it's a drug, so is alcohol. 325 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: Do you realize how many deaths are attributed to alcohol? 326 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: Drunk driving, domestic violence, fights, liver disease, all the things 327 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 1: that happen as a result. Ask any doctor who's honest 328 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: about the effects on the human body between marijuana and alcohol. 329 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: It's not even close. It's say, they're not even the 330 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: same realm. But alcohol is legal. Michael what does that mean? 331 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: You mean the same jackasses like Sheila Jackson Lee and 332 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: Sylvester Turner. You mean those same people said this will 333 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: be allowed and this won't and that's your basis. Well, 334 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: this one's legal. Why is it legal? Why is this illegal? 335 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: Why is this legal? If your answer to something as well, 336 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: it's legal? Who made it legal? Which jack ass do 337 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: you want to pin as the genius in the group. Well, 338 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: they ought to do is have a joint session and 339 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: legalize it. 340 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 2: I'm just sitting here listening to Michael Berry. 341 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 3: If you meet somebody from Ethiopia, you will find that 342 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 3: they eat something called injera, in many cases once a day, 343 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 3: but never less than once a week. 344 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: They crave it, as the old saying goes as mother's milk. 345 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 1: In Gera looks like a flattened pancake, and it's made 346 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: of something called tef and it's the highest protein grain 347 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: I believe of them all. The World Health Organization has 348 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: written extensively about trying to spread the use of this 349 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: particular agricultural product because for protein deficient economies it is 350 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: an agricultural miracle. It's incredible. But you don't crave in jara. 351 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: Why would you. You may have been to Blue Nile. 352 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: I hope you do. Tina the owners and dear friends, 353 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: sweet lady, wonderful restaurant. And when you were there, you 354 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 1: ate with your hands. 355 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 2: And. 356 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: The meat and the cheese and the spinach was placed 357 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: on top of that pancake looking thing that extended out 358 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: past the edges of the plate. And if you were 359 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: taught by in Ethiopia and how to eat this food, 360 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: you would, just as many cultures do, Middle Eastern Indian 361 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: and others. You took the in jara in your hands 362 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: and you scooped up your food using that as sort 363 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: of a I don't know, and then you took it 364 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 1: directly to your mouth without the use of utensils. And 365 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: you might have enjoyed that, but you didn't. Three weeks later, 366 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: think I have to have in Jerra today, I have 367 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: to have in Jera. Or if you were to go 368 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: to India and you are to be talking to people 369 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: about how often they eat doll doll chocol which is 370 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: just rice and doll, which are these pulses. India is 371 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: famous for these different types of doll, moon doll, China, doll, 372 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: It's mother's milk. In a country that still has a 373 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: large portion of the particularly rural population. It's terribly poor. 374 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: This mashed bean pulse and rice with a few peppers 375 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: and maybe some turmeric. And you've seen Indian food with 376 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: just a few things like this. That is their meal 377 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: eaten typically by hand, mixed together. Not dissimilar from the 378 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: dirty rice and rue that you might see in the 379 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 1: poorer region of southwest Louisiana. You take a kun ass 380 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:10,479 Speaker 1: out of Louisiana, they're bringing their food with them because 381 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: they have to can't live without it, gumbo at tufe rice, 382 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 1: and you're just you're not going to They're not going 383 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 1: to be able to survive. They're going to go crazy. 384 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: They have to have these things. Did it ever cross 385 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: your mind if your name is Boudreau, that you didn't 386 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,239 Speaker 1: choose to love those things? Did it ever cross your 387 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: mind if your name is Aneil or Roge, that you 388 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: didn't choose to love Riis and thal, or if you're 389 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: from Ethiopia, that you you didn't choose to crave in Gerrah. 390 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: There are things we crave so deeply that we think 391 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: we chose. I like to belie leave that I fell 392 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: in love with bluebell. I didn't I loved bluebell before 393 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: I knew what it was, because that was a special treat, 394 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: and I ate it before I can even remember your 395 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: favorite sugar cereal, your favorite moms for chad. It would 396 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: be spam, or it could be thought us. How many 397 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: things that are the embodiment of who we are did 398 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: we never consciously choose. They're baked into our dna for 399 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: all intents and purposes. They were spoon fed to us. 400 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: But now we hold them dear, don't we. We love 401 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: that food. We will argue to the ends of the earth. 402 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: That is the greatest food in the history of mankind. 403 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: It is superior to your food over there, and your 404 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: food across the ocean, and your food south of us. 405 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: My food is better than your food. Tastes better, it's 406 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: better for you, You'll live longer, it's more fun, it's 407 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: feeling them. It's more natural, it's more godly, it's more wonderful. 408 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: But you didn't actually choose it. It was spoon fed 409 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: to you, not out of any malice. That was your culture, 410 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: that was your region, that was your family, that was 411 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: your tradition. So it becomes who you are. But that 412 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: doesn't make it the healthiest food. Or the best tasting 413 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: food or the fill in the blank. It doesn't it 414 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,479 Speaker 1: doesn't stack up necessarily that all of our views of 415 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: what we each hold ear and we all have these views. 416 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: I love a big read, especially with barbecue. I love 417 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: a big read. There are people who think that's goofy 418 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: because they didn't grow up where when you had barbecue, 419 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: you had big red. Okay, I love catfish. I meet 420 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: people from around the country who are listeners, say, you 421 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: don't really eat catfish, do Yeah? You know it's a 422 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: bottom feeder, right, Yeah, it's a good, good bottom feeder. 423 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: You know mercury down there. Yeah, I know, it's good 424 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: mercury too. 425 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 3: I know. 426 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: To tell you what temperature is, you know it's that Friday. Yeah, 427 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: I know. And it's the best. I didn't choose it. 428 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: I was eating catfish around people sitting outside. I can 429 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: hear the catfish being fried in the little friar outside 430 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: at sam Raven, I can hear it. Or damn b 431 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: I can hear it. I can feel it. It's emotional 432 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: to me. It's wonderful. I sweat it out of my system. 433 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: It's who I am. But I didn't choose it. Do 434 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: you realize how many views you and I and everybody 435 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: else holds that we never chose, and it's hard to 436 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: stop and challenge those views. You might just hate marijuana 437 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: because such a view was spoon fed to you. You 438 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: might not have come to that conclusion on your own. 439 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: You may have never stopped to question whether that's a 440 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: rational view. You may be unwilling to question the reasonableness 441 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: of criticizing pride catfish because you are so committed to 442 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 1: it it has become your identity. There are views like 443 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: this that we have that we are unable go. Tell 444 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: a Palestinian that the Jews aren't his biggest problem, it's 445 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: a lack of running water. Won't believe it because he's 446 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: been spoon fed the Jews or problems with everything. And 447 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: there are people, there are generations. You ask young people 448 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,479 Speaker 1: their view of marijuana, whether they use it or not, 449 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: very different than old people because they're not playing reefer 450 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: madness these days and talking about the dope. Except in Texas, 451 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: where we've decided we're going back to nineteen fifty eight