1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 1: It's that time time time time lucking load. So Michael 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 2: It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good 4 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: one coming on. 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 3: It's the Michael Berry Show. Two six packs, Shiner ninety nine, 6 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 3: sient Putet Ladder, look as track Center, fifth of Patrols down, 7 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 3: Netic glue, Coodler, take a guess at all the dudder 8 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 3: and I can feel a Goose strategy real wiy Hubbard. 9 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 4: I think the first one is the serenity prayer. Understand 10 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 4: that you cannot change broken people. This was a lesson 11 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 4: that took me a good part of my life to accept. 12 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 4: Because I think I'm superman. I can fix any problem. 13 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 4: I can solve anything. People come to me with all 14 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 4: sorts of problems and I solve them all day and 15 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 4: it's very rewarding. You get a god complex. Look at me. 16 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 4: I can do this, And I realized that's a drug 17 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 4: I feed off of, and I've had to learn it'll 18 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 4: also take you down. But I also realized over a 19 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 4: period of time that you cannot change people from their core. 20 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 4: It's a fool's errand but more than that, it's diving 21 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 4: into the water to save someone that's going to drown 22 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 4: you too. You can throw them a lifeline and if 23 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 4: they kick it back, you can recognize that's a decision 24 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 4: they made. They have agency, they have authority over their 25 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 4: decision making, whatever that may be, and at some point 26 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 4: you have to live with that. It's hard because we 27 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 4: want to fix people, We want to change people, and 28 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 4: that is one of the core problems with human relations. 29 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 4: Desire to change other people, and in many cases, the 30 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 4: desire to change other people is really the desire to 31 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 4: control other people. And that gets to our basic animal 32 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 4: instinct of control and dominance. It's natural throughout the animal kingdom. 33 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 4: That's what the hierarchy of species is all about, the 34 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 4: predator prey. The desire to change someone is the desire 35 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 4: to control someone. But here's the part that's important. You 36 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 4: got to figure out which fights are worth fighting. You 37 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 4: got to figure out which behaviors are worth defending. Is 38 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 4: it worth it if you think that people ought to 39 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 4: be allowed to cuss. Is it worth it to go 40 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 4: into a children's school dropping f bombs? 41 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 5: I hope you wouldn't do that, even if you. 42 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 4: Don't think there's anything wrong with it's just another word. 43 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 4: You're picking a fight. It really has no benefit to 44 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 4: you to win. And I see this all the time. 45 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 4: You're picking a fight over a principle. It's not I've 46 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 4: been really a deep principle. You didn't change anybody's mind. 47 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 4: You just showed that you were willing to thwart the rule. 48 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 5: What did you gain? 49 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 4: No one was inspired by you. Whatever their level of 50 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: respect for you was, they have less of it now 51 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 4: than they did before. So you have to decide what 52 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 4: do I want to offer my opinion on, what do 53 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 4: I want to say publicly? Who do I want to 54 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 4: be that. I think it's very important people understand that 55 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 4: that me showing that, expressing that. I think a lot 56 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 4: of people get themselves in trouble on social media by 57 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 4: saying things for shock value, because they're kind of curious 58 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 4: if it will cause them a problem, and by the 59 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 4: time it does cause them a problem, it's too late. 60 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 5: Well that was dumb. 61 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 4: Many times do we do that, We provoke something just 62 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 4: to see what will happen. First time Mom told you 63 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 4: don't don't touch the flame. Oh I got to touch 64 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 4: the slave now? 65 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 5: Oh damn? And then what do they say, idiot? 66 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 4: We told you, I know, but this will be Mom, 67 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 4: This will be a lifelong problem for me. I will 68 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 4: be warned not to touch the flame, and I will 69 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 4: touch the flame. But here's the part that's very important, 70 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 4: and that is understanding that we are complicit, which means 71 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 4: involved in allowing this to happen. And the reason is 72 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 4: for all our tough talk about how we won't bend 73 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 4: the knee, we also won't lift a finger to help 74 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 4: another person. I watched this all the time. Let me 75 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 4: tell you how this plays out. There's a group of 76 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 4: guys got their lunchbox. Their wives made them send them 77 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 4: to work. They work for a big company, but they're 78 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 4: out at the job site. Somebody makes a comment, somebody 79 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 4: adds to the comment. It's like telephone game. It starts going. 80 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 4: It's all guys and they're going around and then finally 81 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 4: somebody says something that someone else views as offensive and 82 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 4: they run tell. Because that's what people do. They run tell. 83 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 4: And then the question becomes what do you do about it? 84 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 4: The question becomes do you say that man is not 85 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 4: at fault unless everyone is fired. He shouldn't be fired. 86 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:02,679 Speaker 4: Most people don't do that. Most people hide, And here's 87 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 4: how they justified. I mean, I'm all for telling Joe's 88 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 4: But man, he went too far? Did he Have you 89 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 4: never told that same joke? Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, 90 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 4: I guess I have. 91 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 5: So why didn't you say that that's a joke. Everybody 92 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 5: in the group is told. 93 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 4: Well, he was an idiot for telling it at the time. 94 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 4: You could have told him at the time, but you didn't. 95 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 4: That's the real that's the real interesting study of how 96 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 4: many people will judge another person for getting a DWI when, 97 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 4: but for pure luck, they don't have one they could 98 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 4: have had twenty five Most people, I'll bet you ninety 99 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 4: of people who drink at all. If you don't drink, 100 00:07:58,040 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 4: you're probably not going to run the risk of this. 101 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 4: But for people who drink at all, I think over 102 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 4: ninety percent of people, if they're honest, especially as low 103 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 4: as the number has come now, I think it's point 104 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 4: oh eight. Over ninety percent of people would have blown hot. No, 105 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 4: you have no idea, get yourself a breathalyzer. 106 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 5: You'll be shocked tofist, But you. 107 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 4: Don't feel any compassion for that person at that moment. 108 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 4: You know, we've been talking about fire and the incompetence 109 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 4: of Los Angeles government. In California government, the snail darter, 110 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 4: and the reservoirs that weren't full, and the hydrants that 111 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 4: didn't have any water, and now the zoning restrictions and 112 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 4: the development and all of this. We've been talking about 113 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 4: the failures of so many people, and the criminal actions 114 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 4: by people who've started these fires, and the idiots who 115 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 4: want to blame it on climate change, a global warming, 116 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 4: when much of it is man made. But I want 117 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 4: to make sure that in so doing we don't miss 118 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 4: out on something else that is very important, and that is. 119 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 5: The good people, very good people who. 120 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 4: Jumped in there to fight the fires, many of them citizens, 121 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 4: many of them homeowners themselves, and the people who do 122 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 4: it for a living, which makes it no less noble. 123 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 4: There are people from my state and for many states. 124 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 4: Texas sent a lot of folks to help fight those fires. 125 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 4: I have a nephew who's also named Michael Berry, who's 126 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 4: a firefighter, and I'm incredibly proud of him. It's what 127 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 4: he's wanted to do since he was a kid. Is 128 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 4: fight fires. Be a fireman. It's a culture. It's a calling, 129 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 4: it really is. It is a ministry. It is a calling, 130 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 4: It is a service. A listener named Martha sent me 131 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 4: an email a few days ago and asked if I 132 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 4: had ever heard Paul Harvey's tribute to Fireman. 133 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,839 Speaker 5: I had, but she wouldn't know this. 134 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 4: I'm a bit obsessive when it comes to studying radio grades, 135 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 4: and Paul Harvey is a radio great. Now that doesn't 136 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 4: mean we're not going to play it, Ramon, I'm just 137 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 4: answering her question. Yes, of course I had heard of 138 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 4: Paul Harvey. No, I don't think that makes me a 139 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 4: big shot. Can I tell my story? I love Paul Harvey. 140 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 4: I love everything about it. I actually thought, and I'm 141 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 4: in the minority in this, I actually thought that when 142 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 4: his son took over for him when he died, his 143 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 4: son did a pretty good job at it. He writes, 144 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 4: like Jimmy Mike Rowe. Mike Rowe's whole deal is patterned 145 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 4: on Paul Harvey. Okay, yeah, Ramon has it, and he 146 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 4: wants me to play it, and he wants me to 147 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 4: stop talking. 148 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 5: So here it is. 149 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 4: It's it's Paul Harvey's rest of the story on the Fireman. 150 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 6: Nobody knows why firemen and fireman, not even they can 151 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 6: tell you why. But it is time somebody try. Firefighting 152 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 6: is the most risky of all good end jobs, yet 153 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 6: also the one where most workers are most likely to 154 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 6: punch in the early it's hard enough to believe that 155 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 6: it's impossible to explain it. 156 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 2: Fire and ice. 157 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 6: Are uncomfortable separately or together. Wives hate the hours, kids 158 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 6: love the noise. Fire and ice. Any day at the 159 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 6: firehouse to beil from hell. Puts the restatuer on the 160 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 6: horn with a tenement tinder box addressed into bunker pence rubber, 161 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 6: turnout coach, grab the mask and go. Minutes later you're 162 00:11:58,480 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 6: on site. 163 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 2: As others run out, you go in. 164 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 6: You'll need all you can carry, the four pound acts 165 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 6: of six foot poop, the heligan pry bar, the ceiling 166 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 6: concealing the smoldering has to come down, and it's one 167 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 6: of those stubborn tin ones in the scary dark. With 168 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 6: eating your ears, you're gouging out and carrying loose and 169 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 6: pulling apart, dumping hair and tasing black. Your windpipe is 170 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,959 Speaker 6: closing and you've lost track of which way is out. 171 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 6: Is it really worth it? They budgeted and cut your 172 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 6: ladder company from six ten to five, so now everything 173 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 6: you do is sixteen point sixty seven percent more difficult. 174 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 2: And more dangers. 175 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,839 Speaker 6: Your air is low inside your mask, you're throwing up. 176 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 6: There's a searing ember down your neck, throwing gloves exposed 177 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 6: a snaice hand. So you emerge from the holocaust hugging 178 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:55,079 Speaker 6: with your elbows. Somebody's singed, kitten. If you had minutes 179 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 6: of exhilaration on the bouncing rear, amount of a screening 180 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 6: one hundred foot seed grade, hours of using all you've 181 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 6: learned and learning more. Now you're back at the station 182 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 6: house and you've unstupped your nostrils with soapy fingers. You 183 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 6: can almost breathe again. Next from the tedious hours, as 184 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 6: you and Billow gang up on grimy tools, they clean 185 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 6: up crew at the firehouses. You when windows need washing 186 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 6: and toilets need cleaning, and floors need mopping and beds 187 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 6: need making, you do it. Fire and ice they both 188 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 6: go with the job. Then there's that night another engine 189 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 6: company gets there first. You see this wet hair rookie 190 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 6: hot nodging ahead. His academy boots are still shining. You're 191 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 6: losing inside the crackling dart. You forget about him until 192 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 6: your helmet warning bell says get up. The battalion chief is. 193 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 2: Calling you off. You get out, Yeah, the god didn't. 194 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 6: He'd heard a scream from the bottom of burning basement 195 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 6: stairs and he'd headed down there went on the bubbling 196 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 6: tar paper roof the three ton compressor broke through that 197 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 6: day we lost two Thorious firemen cry, but only briefly 198 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 6: because now comes the inevitable and ever more paperwork, just 199 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 6: in case OSHA complains or somebody sees is it worth it? 200 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 5: Your b crew. 201 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 6: Pumper swapped his day shift so some family guy could 202 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 6: be home for his kid's birthday, and then out down 203 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 6: toward a falso on your body gets blindsided by a 204 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 6: hot rod driven by a drunk fire and ice the 205 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 6: intercom right say again, this time at the warehouse that 206 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 6: multiple blaze probably torch on side. Engine man drake with 207 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 6: icicles digging a three quarter preconnect pros hose are waiting 208 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 6: for your big line. Lightermen can't make the building without you, search, rescue, ventilate. 209 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 6: Eventually it's over and out. You smoke, smugittant sleepers, and 210 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 6: glung out. But this one you won. Behind graffiti followed walls. 211 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 6: You saved what you could, but the raging blaze that 212 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 6: wanted to consume adjacent buildings did not. 213 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 2: Did not because you were there. 214 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 6: I get to buy a house before clean up. You 215 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 6: and the guys should have fell tired, but simulated drinking coffee, laughing, 216 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 6: feeling good about one another. Nobody outside your world can 217 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 6: never know this feeling. In any other uniform, you get 218 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 6: streets named after you for killing people. In this one, 219 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 6: you risk your life to save people until one day 220 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 6: you run out of chances, and in one final fire, 221 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 6: either you buy it or you don't. If you don't, 222 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 6: it's only eventually they brushed off with a punity tension. 223 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 6: And yet there is no third way that you'd ever 224 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 6: leave this job. And you're dogging even God knows why. 225 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 6: You're out of the shower. Now most of the grime 226 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 6: and some of the centenism are down the drain. When 227 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 6: you hear a strangely come in your voice saying it 228 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 6: is worth it. It is worth it, And you're hearing 229 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 6: this voice, and there's nobody there but you. It's a 230 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 6: quiet voice from nowhere for salvage and things and people 231 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 6: from plans. I have to rely. 232 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 2: On your hands. 233 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 6: And you look around still nobody. But when you get 234 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 6: over your incredul be your feel better. Suddenly, Today's crew 235 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 6: cook in the kitchen, dollars chow. It's trying to eat 236 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 6: snows like groast beef today. That'll be good. You'll eat fast. 237 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 6: You'll want to eat fast for any next to line. 238 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 6: You'll want to be ready. Paul Harvey good. 239 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 7: It's of the world as we know it. 240 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: To Michael Berry's Kids of the World Fish. 241 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 5: You just tuned in. 242 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 4: We just played Paul Harvey's tribute to Fireman. And I 243 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 4: will tell you this. I could play Paul Harvey for 244 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 4: you all day long. Because there's two types of people. 245 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 4: The people who've never heard Paul Harvey and they're going 246 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 4: to go, wow, that's interesting. And then there's the people 247 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 4: who did hear Paul Harvey, listen to him every morning, 248 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 4: and they miss him. Just as we do with Rush Limbaugh. 249 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 4: We honor and pay tribute to those who came before us, 250 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 4: not just because we make a living doing what they did, 251 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 4: but because they are icons. They're part of our lives, 252 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 4: they're part of our histories. I would like to play 253 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 4: a rest of the story from Paul Harvey. We pay 254 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,199 Speaker 4: tribute to Paul Harvey. We haven't done it in a 255 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 4: while a fair amount because He's part of the reason 256 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 4: we get to do what we do, and we think 257 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 4: it's important to do that, but also because we find 258 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 4: it very entertaining and we think you will too. I've 259 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 4: said all along, I don't believe a quote unquote talk 260 00:17:55,520 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 4: show has to only be the host talking and giving 261 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 4: his opinions the entire time, or interviewing guests the entire time. 262 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 4: What I've always wanted to be is kind of the 263 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 4: conductor of an orchestra of awesome things happening on the radio. 264 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 4: So if it's a guest who has something interesting to say, 265 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 4: even if I already know a fair amount about that subject, 266 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 4: but they can offer a perspective, then we're going to 267 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 4: do that. But that's also why we spend a lot 268 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 4: of time consuming other content and sharing with you things 269 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 4: that were said by other people in their own voice, 270 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 4: because I think I think that's how you pay tribute. 271 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 4: I think that's how you honor those people. I really 272 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 4: do so. In the course of an average show, especially 273 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 4: the evening show, we will play five to ten audio clips, 274 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 4: sometimes more than that, and some people think, are you 275 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:58,959 Speaker 4: being lazy? 276 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 5: You don't know me? 277 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 4: Ask my family, ask my friends. I can talk all day, 278 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 4: every day, and I love to do it, but I 279 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 4: feel it's a little dishonest when I'm listening to someone's 280 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 4: opinion on something and I go, that's a very interesting point, 281 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 4: and then I steal it as my own. A lot 282 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 4: of people in media do that. I think it's a 283 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 4: bad thing. I really do. I think it's a bad 284 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 4: thing to do. I think it is plagiarism at a minimum, 285 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,360 Speaker 4: and I think it's deceitful. I think it's a sign 286 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 4: because look, everything is derivative of something else. None of 287 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 4: us landed here the smartest person in the history of 288 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 4: the world, and none of us arrived at our own 289 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 4: opinions completely on our own. 290 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 5: No man is an island Milton sort of stuff. 291 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: We had teachers, parents, coaches, writers, novelists, movie characters, and 292 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 4: from the those things we developed our opinions. 293 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 5: And and many times, you know, it's funny. I go 294 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 5: back and listen to. 295 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 4: A lot of old audio of Rush of Paul Harvey, 296 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 4: and many as the time I will hear them say 297 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 4: something that I almost think to myself, you ripped me off, 298 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 4: Paul Harvey, I said that, Or you ripped me off Rush, 299 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 4: I said that, And then I realized no, I ripped 300 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 4: him off. Didn't even realize how many times? How many 301 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 4: times have you said something that when you said it, 302 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 4: you heard. 303 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 5: Your mom or your dad, or your grandma or your grandpa. 304 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 4: Or your coach or your teacher or your first boss, 305 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 4: You heard their voice and you realize that stuck. I 306 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 4: didn't intentionally mimick that person, It just kind of stuck. 307 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 4: You're not weird how that happens, but that's how we 308 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 4: all ended up here. 309 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 2: This isn't a you didn't that moment. 310 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 4: This is a I'm giving credit to the people who 311 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 4: are really good at what they do that helped form 312 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 4: what we do. Plus, I hope I'm sharing something with 313 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 4: you that you go, well, this is a this is 314 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 4: a great way to get home today, Michael. You don't 315 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 4: have to talk politics all day every day now. The 316 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 4: rest of the story. 317 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 7: Mr was a twenty one year young inmate at San Quentin, 318 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 7: charging restlessly in his cut after lights out. He'd set 319 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,880 Speaker 7: foot on the road to prison years before. It had 320 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 7: started with petty theft and bad checks and then stolen cars. 321 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 7: Finally got himself drunk and tried to knock over the 322 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 7: roadhouse near Bakersfield and That's what brought him a stretch 323 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 7: in the joint. By now there had been several months, 324 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 7: long enough to see it all. He'd seen one come 325 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 7: kill another over a simple insult, yet another inmate purposely 326 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 7: scolded to death in the prison laundry. And the more 327 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 7: such he saw, the more he wondered whether he'd ever 328 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 7: see the other side of. 329 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 5: Those tall gray walls again. 330 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,719 Speaker 7: So Mr was lying awake that night, tossing and turning, 331 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 7: trying to fight off every thought but the plane at hand. 332 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 2: Because although in thirteen years there. 333 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 7: Had not been an escape from San Quentin, come sent 334 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 7: up em I would have his chance to do just that. 335 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 6: You see. 336 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 7: In the prison furniture factory, inmate craftsmen had been making 337 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 7: a desk or a judge's chamber in San Francisco, an 338 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 7: enormous desk weighed about one thousand, five hundred pounds. Next 339 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 7: morning it was due to be picked up and trucked down. 340 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 7: But what prison authorities did not know was there was 341 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 7: roomen that yuga desk for two full grown men to hide. 342 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 2: One of the cons. 343 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 7: Already booked for passage was Jim Hendrix, known to his 344 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 7: buddies as a Rabbit, and the other. 345 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 2: That's right, the other with Mr. 346 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 7: Rabbit, like m Are, did his best to talk the 347 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 7: younger Cohn out of escaping. The elder, serving two five 348 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 7: to life sentences back to back, felt that he had 349 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 7: nothing to lose, but Mr. Well, he'd be out in 350 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 7: a couple of years. The risk wasn't worth it. But 351 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 7: MR's mind was made up. He'd been over and over 352 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 7: the plan in his mind. He was sure there was 353 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 7: no way it could fail, and it did not. The 354 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 7: judge's desk was picked up on time, the presiding gate 355 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 7: opened wide for the delivery truck to get away car 356 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 7: was waiting near Oakland to bay Bridge, and so Rabbit 357 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 7: became the first Cohn in thirteen years to break out 358 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 7: San Quentin and Mr. He stayed behind funny thing. He 359 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 7: was all set to go. He was looking forward to 360 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 7: his freedom, but at the last moment he got cold 361 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 7: feet and turned it down. Weeks later, a highway patrolman 362 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 7: stopped it for a minor traffic violation. Gravit panic, he 363 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 7: shot the officer dead, and not long after that they 364 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 7: caught Rebbit and sent him to the gas chamber. 365 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 2: Now that Mr. 366 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 7: Escaped with Rebbit, he'd probably have been there when his 367 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 7: buddy pulled the trigger, and that would have made him 368 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 7: man accessory. But instead, when rebbit ran, Mr stayed and 369 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,719 Speaker 7: served his time to a parole two years later, and 370 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 7: he went straight. It would have been so easy to 371 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 7: sneak out in the judge's desk. 372 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 2: But when Mr came to the crossroads, he chose the 373 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 2: right road. 374 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 7: He lived to build a career which has thrilled the 375 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 7: country music lovers ever since. 376 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 2: For more than forty years, you have been humming the 377 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 2: tunes of Mr Merle Ronald Haggard. 378 00:24:54,880 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 7: That's right, Merle Haggard, only now you know Moorish of 379 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 7: the story. 380 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 5: There's a job confuse. That tone to me, not a joke. 381 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 7: That's sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know everything because 382 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 7: you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman. 383 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 5: That is not a joke. That is a natural fact. 384 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 4: The Michael Very Show, we heard the Michael Berry Show love, 385 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 4: and we have decided to play some more Paul Harvey 386 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 4: for you today, mostly because we also want to listen 387 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 4: to it. The craft of storytelling, which I believe to 388 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 4: be a very important thing. Many of you have heard 389 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 4: me say this again and again and again, teach your 390 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 4: children to tell stories and people will email how I 391 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 4: do that? 392 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 5: Okay? 393 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 4: If I told you raise your child to be a 394 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 4: self respecting adult, you got to figure it out. But 395 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 4: once it's planted in your mind how important this is 396 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 4: to do, then you will start thinking about ways to 397 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,959 Speaker 4: do it. What I do with my kids is start 398 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 4: with tell me about your day. And I know what 399 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,719 Speaker 4: you're gonna say, Michael, when I asked my kids tell 400 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 4: me about that. 401 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 5: It is fine. What happened nothing? What'd you do? Not much? 402 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 4: You've got to get better at asking your questions, and 403 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 4: you've got to tell them, hey, look, I'm gonna find 404 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 4: out what happened today. And then the process, you're gonna 405 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 4: get better at answering questions. Because you're gonna have to 406 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 4: answer questions from your spouse, from your kids, why daddy, 407 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 4: why mama? Why, You're gonna have to answer questions during 408 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 4: an interview. You're gonna have to answer questions your entire life, 409 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,959 Speaker 4: from your boss. You might as well learn to get 410 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 4: good at it. So let's take a new approach. Because 411 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 4: I'm going to sit here and ask these questions one 412 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 4: hundred different ways, and part of me being a parent 413 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 4: is teaching you to respond to questions. Now, if you 414 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 4: can do it in such a way that you tell 415 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 4: a story, oh the meek shall inherit the earth. But 416 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 4: I think the storytellers, I think they just grab hold 417 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 4: of it and take it. A good salesman is always 418 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 4: a good storyteller. A good pastor is always a good storyteller. 419 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 4: A good coach storyteller. When you wooed your girlfriend to 420 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 4: be your wife, you told a story. You don't realize 421 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 4: that you might not have call to the story, but 422 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 4: that's what you were doing. I study Paul Harvey. I 423 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 4: want you to listen, to enjoy, but I also want 424 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 4: you to think about how he tells a story. How 425 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 4: have previous nations gone from being strong, prosperous nations to 426 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 4: a crumbling shell of their former selves. Here is Paul 427 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 4: Harvey giving a history lesson in a piece called Freedom 428 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 4: to Chains. 429 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 5: This this is as good. Mark this one. 430 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 4: Go look it up on YouTube or rumble or wherever 431 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 4: you get your content, and share it, because this one, 432 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 4: this is good right here? 433 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 2: Now? Then, what makes a nation strong? Taxes? There's nothing 434 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 2: new about those either. 435 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 7: The first income tax was paid by Abraham, was written 436 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 7: on a rock by the hand of Divinity and handed 437 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 7: to Moses at the top of Mount Signia. And you 438 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 7: might want to remember this. It was at the flat 439 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 7: rate of ten percent. It promised the wrath of God 440 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 7: on anybody who tampered with or violated that law. Christ 441 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,919 Speaker 7: was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way 442 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 7: to pay his taxes. Joseph was a relatively well to 443 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 7: do landowner of the house and lineage of David. Yet 444 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 7: the taxes exacted by Caesar Augustus were so exorbitant that 445 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 7: he didn't have enough money left over to employ a 446 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 7: trusted messenger for the mission. So though his wife was 447 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 7: great with child, he made the journey himself. And Christ 448 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 7: was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way 449 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 7: to pay his taxes. And Christ was born in a 450 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 7: manger because there was a housing shortage when he got there. 451 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 2: Our problems are not new at running meed. 452 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,959 Speaker 7: The Magna Carter was handed to King John on the 453 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 7: end of a sword, denying to royalty the right of 454 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 7: unlimited taxation. Yet you know it was for us, the 455 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 7: American people, to become the first and recorded history ever 456 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 7: voluntarily to surrender our rights to private property. Yes, we 457 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 7: did with an innocent sounding constitutional amendment, the sixteenth, which 458 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 7: says that Congress will have the power to lay and 459 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 7: collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived. And we 460 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 7: forgot to put any limit on the extent to which 461 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 7: we could tax ourselves. Conceivably, we could be taxed out 462 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 7: of all private property. We could be taxed up sev 463 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 7: ninety percent, but one hundred percent. We could awaken one 464 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 7: morning and find that the government owns the farm, and 465 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 7: the house, and the car, and has a mortgage on 466 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 7: the church. 467 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 2: Legally, historically, whenever. 468 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 7: Any nation has taxed its people more than twenty five 469 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 7: percent of their national income was destroyed and that nation 470 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,719 Speaker 7: was headed for economic eclipse. Presently, the American people are 471 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 7: being texted thirty three percent of their total income. History says, 472 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 7: we'll roll forward on momentum for a little while, but 473 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 7: we'd better get some more guess in the tank pretty quick. 474 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 7: You see, ours is not the first by George good 475 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,239 Speaker 7: government to arise on the world stage. There have been 476 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 7: several Rome Spain and Greece and China, and each enjoyed 477 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 7: about one hundred and fifty years at its zenith. That's 478 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 7: just about our time in the new world, and then 479 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 7: each decayed away. Not one of them was ever destroyed 480 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 7: by anybody else's marching legions. 481 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 2: Each rotted away morally. 482 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 7: Socially, culturally, economically simultaneously. You know, one of the most 483 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 7: cruel paradoxes of history is this. Because each was a 484 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 7: good government, it bore bountiful fruit. And when it bore 485 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 7: bountiful fruit, the people got fat. When they got fat, 486 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 7: they got lazy. When they got lazy, they began to 487 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 7: want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and turn over 488 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 7: the government to do for them things which traditionally they 489 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 7: had been doing for themselves. At first, there appears to 490 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 7: be nothing wrong asking government to perform some extra service 491 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 7: for you. But if you ask government for extra services, government, 492 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 7: in order to perform its increasing function, has to get bigger, right, 493 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 7: And as government gets bigger, in order to support its 494 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 7: increasing size, it has to what tax the individual more. 495 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 2: So the individual gets littler. 496 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 7: And to collect the increased taxes requires more tax collectors. 497 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 2: So the government gets bigger. 498 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 7: In order to pay the additional tax collectors, it has 499 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 7: tax the individual more. So the government gets bigger, and 500 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 7: the individual gets littler and the government gets bigger, the 501 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 7: individual gets littler. Until the government is all powerful, the 502 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 7: individual is hardly anything at all. 503 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 2: The government is all. 504 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 5: Powerful, the people are cattle. 505 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 7: Some believe that the need is for a vigorous strong 506 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 7: man to arise on the scene to regulate and regiment 507 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 7: the affairs of men. Yet history tells us there have 508 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 7: been several such. Once upon a time there was a 509 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 7: nation great and powerful and good. She was suffering from 510 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 7: the aftermath of war, from a depression, And then came 511 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 7: upon the scene of leader and idealist, self confident, intolerant 512 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 7: of criticism. Wisely, he limited his early activities to combating 513 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 7: the financial depression. 514 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 2: Nobody could argue with that. 515 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 7: But in a while he began to regulate business and 516 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 7: establish new rules to govern commerce and finance, some of 517 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 7: them in diametrical disagreement with the God made laws of 518 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 7: supply and demand. But anybody who disagreed with those new 519 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 7: rules was promptly fired. The new leader saw that under 520 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 7: the old system of free enterprise, landlords prospered, so he 521 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 7: levied new taxes to take away their profits and destroy it. 522 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 7: He called the monopoly of capital. To please laborers, he 523 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 7: controlled prices to win the favor of the farmers, he 524 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 7: gave him loans and subsidies. The National death mounted Alarmingly. 525 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 7: Whenever anybody tried to tell him that government's even as 526 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 7: people can go broke when they spend beyond their incomes, 527 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 7: he said they just didn't understand deficit finance. What do 528 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 7: you say, did he build on rock or on sand? 529 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 7: I say on sand Before you see, this was the 530 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 7: story of Emperor Tu tung Po, who led China to 531 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 7: its doom more than a thousand years ago. I am 532 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 7: satisfied with all my heart that if Uncle Sam ever 533 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 7: does get whipped here too, it will have been an 534 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 7: inside job.