1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: President Trump's statement on Fort Knox and going there to 5 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: see the gold, I feel is much bigger than whether 6 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: the gold is there, only seven tons of gold the 7 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: grand scheme of things going to make as big a 8 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: difference as some might expect. But what he's doing is 9 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: bigger than gold. What he's doing is exposing the narrative, 10 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: a new way of thinking, to question everything. How do 11 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: you know the gold is it Fort Knox? I've heard 12 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: it said that all the gold in California is in 13 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: a bank, is in a bank in the middle of 14 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, in somebody else's name. Where is the gold? 15 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: Why don't we take for granted the gold is there. 16 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: This is how you build a movement which is bigger 17 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: than defeating Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell or John Cornan 18 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. This is how you 19 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: make people think differently. Instead of telling them what to think, 20 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: you tell him how to think, to question everything. If 21 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: you study highly successful in what just happened, wouldn't it huh? Oh? 22 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: You got excited? Okay? If you study highly successful people 23 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: who change the world, steve jobs, who create things that 24 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: weren't even understood to be possible to exist. You find 25 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: that they question everything, everything, things that we take for granted. 26 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: They question everything. Elon Musk, nothing is Why is that? 27 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: Why don't we drive on this side of the road. 28 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: Why does it have to be the case that we 29 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: have to use water instead of this? Why does it 30 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: have to be What Trump is doing as the president 31 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: is the opposite of what every president before him has done. 32 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: What do they do? They say, Trust, be confident. It's 33 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: all going to be okay. We are the United States 34 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: of America. Everything will be okay. I'm here to tell you. 35 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: Rest easy. Don't worry about UFOs. Don't worry about the 36 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: gold it's there. Don't worry about how much money we're 37 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: printing and where it's going. We're America. We'll always be America. 38 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: Things will be fine. Don't worry about the shot the 39 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: experts say to take it. Trust the science. Don't worry 40 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: about the six feet the experts say. If we do that, 41 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: eventually you'll get to go back to your lives. Don't 42 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: worry about well, but that's not an engaged citizenry, democracy 43 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: or what we have. A democratic republic requires an engaged, questioning, skeptical, 44 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: if not altogether cynical citizenry. This is why, as part 45 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: of that pattern, he said, we're gonna open up the 46 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: JFK assassination. We're gonna ask questions because it's not healthy 47 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: in a republic that most people believe that one man 48 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: with one rifle shot JFK from the fifth floor of 49 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: the school book depository. We don't believe that to be true. 50 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: And rather than just make more movies and we kind 51 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: of all wink wink nod nod. Is that Denise Bell 52 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: on the line? Okay? Instead of wink wink, nod nod, 53 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: you know they're keeping secrets from us. He's saying, no, 54 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna dig in. You should demand that we dig in. 55 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: And that makes it, you know. I see things in 56 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: writing and I hear things on shows where people sort 57 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: of enjoy letting things linger with these conspiracy theories without 58 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: much behind it necessarily, and I've always thought that was 59 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: a sort of a cheap way to get audience engagement, 60 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: and I've tried to resist it. I guess you can 61 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: decide how well I've done or have it, but I 62 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: do find this interesting, And by interesting I mean as 63 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: a euphemism, the secret Service agent who in the Zapruder 64 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: film leaped into the back you say leaped or left 65 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,559 Speaker 1: you say, leaped, okay, onto the back of JFK's limo 66 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: after the President was shot by whom we don't know 67 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: has just died. H Here he is on Charlie Rose 68 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: Back in twenty thirteen, telling his story. 69 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 3: When you first heard the shot, where were you. 70 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: And what did you do? 71 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 3: I was in the car immediately behind the presidential vehicle, 72 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 3: on the left hand side of the car, on a 73 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: running board in the front position, and we had just 74 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 3: turned down onto Elm Street from Houston, and we were 75 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 3: going a little bit so than we normally had been. 76 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 3: We were going maybe ten twelve miles an hour, and 77 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: I was scanning to the left. There were many people there, 78 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 3: but I was scanning to my left and straight ahead, 79 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 3: and I heard this explosive noise over my right shoulder, 80 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: and so I turned toward that noise. And when I 81 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 3: did that, my eyes went across the back of the 82 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 3: presidential car, and I saw the President react to that 83 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 3: first shot. He grabbed in his throat and then he 84 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 3: went to his left. Now, you have to understand he 85 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 3: had a back brace on it, so he couldn't go forward, 86 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 3: and he was sitting up against the right side of 87 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 3: the car, so we couldn't go to the right. He 88 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 3: could only go to his left. And when what was 89 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 3: the conversation with missus Kennedy after you got to the car? 90 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: So really we almost didn't make it. 91 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 3: Well, I know I slipped at first because the driver 92 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 3: hit the accelerator and I had to take a couple 93 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 3: extra steps in order to get up there. We didn't 94 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 3: have any conversations per se in the car. She was 95 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 3: in a state of shock, but she did say that 96 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 3: about I have his brain? She said, oh, Jack, what 97 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 3: have they done? And then she said, Jack, Jack, I 98 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 3: love you. That's really all she said all the way 99 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 3: to the hospital. 100 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: Everybody has their theory, and many people's theory is based 101 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: on simply what they heard some guys say, or what 102 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: book they read or whatever else. A lot of people 103 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: try to act like they came up with the theory 104 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: on their own, which they didn't. But that's okay. The 105 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: point is it is unhealthy to leave such things for 106 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: the public to wonder. Oh it makes for Oliver, it 107 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: helps Oliver Stone sell more movies. It helps guys that 108 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: go on the speaking circuit, helps sell more books. But 109 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: these sorts of things are extraordinarily unhealthy in a republic 110 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: because they erode the basis upon which our style of 111 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: government is built, and that is the trust of the public, 112 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: the power of government. In a democratic republic, the sole 113 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: power is the consent of the government. When the governed 114 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: no longer consent, you have, in one form or another, 115 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: quiet or violet revolution. And it's happened throughout history. The 116 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show. 117 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 2: Step there are going to be people who get angry 118 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 2: at me for saying this, and that's okay, because you're 119 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 2: not hearing what I'm saying, and I can't make you 120 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 2: hear it. I mean, I can't make you understand it it. 121 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: There are times where people since World War Two it's 122 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: cost him a career, where they've pointed out a strategic 123 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: stroke of brilliance by Hitler in you know where he 124 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: invaded at a particular time, and they're not saying that 125 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: they would love Nazism to come to their shores. They're 126 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: simply assessing a battle the way you would. I don't 127 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: get mad when someone points out that Lincoln's direction to 128 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: Mead or to Ulysses s Grant was a stroke of brilliance. 129 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that I approve of it or I applaud it. 130 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: I can look back and say okay. In much the 131 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: same way if you're watching a sporting event and you 132 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: can't admit that you know Phil Simms goes twenty two 133 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: of twenty three in almost a perfect game for the Giants, 134 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 1: but you hate the Giants and you say, oh, he sucks. Well, okay, 135 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: we're lost. There is a TV show I'm not recommending it. 136 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: I'm commenting on it on Netflix called mo and it's 137 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: by and about a comedian from Houston named Mo Ahmer. 138 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 1: I didn't know of mo Amer before this. I knew 139 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: of his name, I know him. And the show is 140 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: about a sort of quirky Palestinian family who've ended up 141 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: in Houston. And I won't ruin the show. I'll just 142 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: give you the basics. Palestinian family who ended up in Houston. 143 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: And he ends up in a school where he learns 144 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: Spanish and becomes fluent, and he takes up with a 145 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: girl who is Hispanic, and she speaks about it. It's 146 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: not the best Spanish, but it's more Spanglish Spanish. And 147 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: she owns a maintenance a car maintenance shop, repair shop, 148 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: mechanic shop, I guess you'd say. And he's got a 149 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: brother who's slow. He's somewhere pretty far out there on 150 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: the autism scale, but it's perfect casting. He has a 151 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: mother who you know, everybody knows somebody who has the 152 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: mother who still has one footback on you. Her Palestinian birthplace, 153 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: and you know she's reading the news of the Palestinians daily. 154 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: She hates the Israelis, and so that adds to the 155 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: character there. He has been an asylum seeker for over 156 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: twenty years, so there's the constant he's under threat of 157 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: being deported. But where would he go because his argument 158 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: is I'm not really Palestinian citizen or anything of the like. 159 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: And I say all that to say this because my 160 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: wife asked me. She watched it with me, and she said, 161 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: does this show bother you? I said, no, it doesn't 162 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: bother me. Why won't it bother me? And she said, well, 163 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: I know you your position pretty clearly on immigration policies 164 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: related to Middle Easterners, particularly those leaving, particularly Palestinians, and 165 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: the overall effect on the ledger of people coming here, 166 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: and it paints a very rosy picture of Palestinians who 167 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: come here as the greatest people, and they're wonderful and 168 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: they all just want a homeland and nobody's engaged in 169 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: any tomfoolery, and but they've been wronged by these evil 170 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: and it's always white people that represent the government. And 171 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: I said no. I view every film as some sort 172 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: of form of advocacy, one way or another. And the 173 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: moment you don't understand that is the moment that you 174 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: get into trouble. Whether it be Bambi or most any 175 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: other thing, there is a degree of advocacy to everything. 176 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: Kathleen Kennedy, the Head of Disney, has been released. By 177 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: the way, Kathleen Kennedy is the one that South Park 178 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: did the episode where they have her at the board 179 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: meeting and every time somebody pitches a movie, she says, yeah, 180 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: and just make the character gay and a lesbian, make 181 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: the character a chick, lead character a chick and a lesbian, 182 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: and make it lame. Because that's what she's done to 183 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: every movie. She's every movie they do a remake of 184 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: every Marvel character or whatever else, and she just replaces 185 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: the lead character with a woman who's a lesbian, and 186 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: the movie's lame, and that's you know, she's banging on 187 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: the table that she insists on that on everything. She 188 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 1: orders a dish at the end, which is like a 189 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: clam linguini, and she's angry because she wanted a chick 190 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: in the clam Linguini who was lesbian and it wasn't 191 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: in the dish and that's who she is. But anyway, 192 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: but I want to make this point very clear, and 193 00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: I want you to hear what I'm saying and what 194 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: I'm not say saying. This film, this TV show is 195 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: so well written, so incredibly well written, that it will 196 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: have the effect of changing the opinion of some people 197 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: toward Palestinians seeking asylum in this country, and perhaps of 198 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: some people toward those I say seeking asylum, those filing 199 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: an asylum planed. Is different, and that is the power 200 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: of film. And mo Amer has done that in a 201 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: way to really humanize and make these characters very sympathetic, 202 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: and that I have to step back and be in 203 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: awe of his ability to have done that. Michael Berry, 204 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: one of our great joys for many years was to 205 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: go over on North Maine on what is known as 206 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: the Delos Mortos, the Day of the Dead, which is 207 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: what Halloween is all about, honoring the dead, your relatives 208 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: who've gone before, and to load up at the bakery 209 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: on the sorts of things that we wouldn't get a 210 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: chance to eat at any point any other point during 211 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: the course of the year, and in our travels over 212 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: the years, we came across the owner of a bakery 213 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: known as El Bolo, which means the white boy, and 214 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: it's a it's like a slang term that would be 215 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: kind of what maybe Doctor Dre would have called eminem 216 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: if they were, you know, in El Barrio. So El 217 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: Boleo was started by a fellow named Kirk Michaelis, and 218 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: I got to know Kirk pretty well because Kirk had 219 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: an interest in promoting his daughters. He had three knock down, 220 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: drag out, gorgeous daughters who had a band by the 221 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 1: name of their last name. It's a Greek name, Michaelis. 222 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: It's michael I S m I c h A E 223 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: l I S Michaelis. And he would want to bounce 224 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: ideas different people they were talking to. So much of 225 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: that business is not how well you sing or how 226 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: well your songs are written. It's who you know. It's 227 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: who gives you entree into the right people, and who 228 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: has the right connection at this particular time and puts 229 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: right song in front of you and gets you the 230 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: right label. Deal. Well, Kirk was invested in his girls. 231 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: His girls wanted to be stars, and their mama and 232 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: their daddy wanted to help them be stars. And he 233 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: whatever I could do to help them, he wanted. And 234 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: I admired that about him as a father myself. So 235 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: the girls moved to Nashville, and he rented a house 236 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: for them there, and they lived there and continued writing. 237 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: They were good writers as well, very good performers. And 238 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: they had the looks. And you can't deny the importance 239 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: of the looks for a female country singer. Did you 240 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: see Ramon? Have you seen the video? If any of 241 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: you haven't, you can look it up. Cash Bettel's girlfriend, 242 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: who's a country singer in Nashville. She's on her way 243 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: to sing for the troops somewhere and they're in the 244 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: airport and somebody asked her to sing, and she grabs 245 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: the mic for you know, Terminal two where now you know, 246 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: are not Gate thirty eight were now and she sings 247 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: a national anthem, just not an easy song to sing anyway, 248 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: So the Girls of Michaelis I don't know what ended 249 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: up happening. He and I would keep up ten years ago, 250 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: amazing how these things were my dad a week ago today, 251 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: my dad turned eighty five. Well ten years ago at 252 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: the RCC we had a birthday party for my dad 253 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: and Kirk made the biggest birthday cake I've ever seen 254 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: in my life, by far, and it had three letters 255 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: on it Dad, and those letters were if I'm lying, 256 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: I'm dying. At least fourteen inches tall, maybe taller, and 257 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: they spanned the length of the cake. It took six 258 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: grown men to carry the cake in so that none 259 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: of it broke. We said that my dad was blown away. 260 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: I'll post a picture of it little well. Unfortunately this 261 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: story does not have a happy ending. It did provide 262 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: many happy memories. But I've just been informed that Kirk 263 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: mchales passed away. Kirk was a cancer survivor back then 264 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: ten years ago. In fact, he was almost completely deaf, 265 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: effect of which I was not aware when I first 266 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: met him, and he kept refusing by text to do 267 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: an interview with me, and I thought, this is, you know, 268 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: kind of hitting me in my pride. Here. Everybody wants 269 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: to be on the show. I did not want to 270 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: be on the show. That's all I got in life. 271 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: You should want to be on the show. Didn't want 272 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: to be on the show. He kept making what I 273 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: felt were dumb excuses. So at some point I'm with 274 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: him and we're touring the bakery and I said, hey, man, 275 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: what's up with you not coming on the show? And 276 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: he said, I'm almost completely deaf. I read your lips 277 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: and so I did you know kind of that Jackie 278 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: Chan thing where I said something but moved my lips 279 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: differently to see it. No, I didn't he uh? I said, 280 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: I had no idea. He said, yeah, he had had 281 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: whatever the cancer was. And and this is the effects 282 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: of chemo. Kimo's awful. It's for every one of you 283 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: out there who has gone through I'm if you're not 284 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: feeling it right now, not in an inappropriate way, but 285 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 1: I am giving you a big hug. That is hell 286 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: on the body and people. Some people will will develop 287 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: a condition for the rest of their lives. For Kirk, 288 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: it was almost a complete loss of his hearing, now. 289 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 1: Ten years ago, I would guess Kirk was at most fifty, 290 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,439 Speaker 1: which would mean he's passed it at maybe sixty. He 291 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: could be into his sixties. He could even be younger 292 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: than that. But that was the reason he wouldn't come 293 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: on the show because can't hear, and he had been 294 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: through a cancer treatment before that it had really taken 295 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: his toll. So he kind of made reference to living 296 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: on borrow time. And there's a book called searching called 297 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: Chasing Daylight, Chasing Daylight, and at one point I had 298 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: bought about one hundred copies over the years, and I 299 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: would give him out, but I gave him out so 300 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: often that I ran out of him. It's hard to find, 301 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: but you can find. It's called Chasing Daylight. And it's 302 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: the story of a guy who was head of ernstin 303 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: Ernst or ernstin Winney or Hooper's in Libran or Arthur Anders, 304 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: one of those firms back when they were the Big eight. 305 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: And he was who was the international chairman of this 306 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 1: big accounting firm and he got a death sentence. He 307 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: just going in for his check up. He's off to 308 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: London the next day and he's going in for his 309 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: checkup and he gets a brain terminal brain cancer diagnosed 310 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: as six months to live, and he tells the lady, 311 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: you're crazy. So he cancels a trip for tomorrow and 312 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: goes and gets another scan, and he does he's got 313 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: a very advanced brain cancer. But he talks about those 314 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: last six months as being the gift he had the 315 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: gift of getting to spend a lot of time saying 316 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: goodbye to everybody in his life who had meant something 317 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: to him, and that most of us don't get that opportunity, 318 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting anyway. Kirk mchaelis built this business 319 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: elbo Leo. He's Tilman for Tita's cousin, but he built 320 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 1: business unrelated to Tillman. He built the business. I had 321 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: asked him. He had three locations at the time. He 322 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: had the one on Airline. I think that's Airline over 323 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: kind of North Heights, right near Spanish Flower. I love 324 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 1: that place, and you know, one of the things I 325 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: love about it. Don't judge me for this, don't do 326 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: not do it. One of the things I love about 327 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,360 Speaker 1: that place is the Mariaccis. I don't want Mariacchi's. Most 328 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: of the time I got to go to San Anton 329 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: this week, and I'm like barely making it there and 330 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 1: back in time to still do the shows. And I'm 331 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,199 Speaker 1: stopping at me Tierra, because I don't want to Mariochi's 332 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,719 Speaker 1: most all the time, but I do want them sometimes. Anyway, 333 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: he built Elbelio at three locations and he was making 334 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: over twenty million dollars out of these little you would 335 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 1: have never guessed. And I said, man, Kirk gots a 336 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: lot of money, and he said, yeah, fifteen cents at 337 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: a time. And I sat there with him and watched 338 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: people check out fifteen cents, little BONDU say, fifteen cent, 339 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: little amazing rest in Pete Kirk, Peace Kirk, Michaelas you 340 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: were a. 341 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 4: Good friend, Captain some Ting Wong, Well some. 342 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: Ting must be right. You are listening to Michael Berry. 343 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: We don't talk enough about the animals. Yeah, it's a 344 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: good show today. We're just barely over halfing. I'm I'm 345 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: afraid we're gonna set the bar too high. 346 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 5: This is just a damn good show today. 347 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: It's the game. 348 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 5: Down and you allie. 349 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: Wait, could he go higher? Shut up? 350 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 4: Satisfied, he wag. 351 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: Jump. We're gonna lower down the quality for the rest 352 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: of the show. Just to balance it out. Say I'd 353 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: back at a bit if you will. I worked for 354 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: Ozarka during summer when I was in college, and I 355 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: went in and my job was to spray all the 356 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: roaches off. Because you know those little water containers that 357 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: people would have. You'd have the big five gallon tank 358 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 1: on the top, and the Ozarka man would bring it 359 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: to your office or you could even give it at 360 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 1: your home. Well, those metal it had a metal housing 361 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: that you would pull the cold and if you had 362 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: the more expensive you need to have the cold and 363 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: the hot. It had a heating element there. You could 364 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: get hot for your water or for your coffee or 365 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: your teeth. Well, when the lease was up, they would 366 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: bring the machine back and we'd put it back into circulation. 367 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,959 Speaker 1: And the first thing would happen is you would go. 368 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 1: It would be put into a gas chamber, and they 369 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: would put the machines into a gas chamber, close the door, 370 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: you wear like a hazmat suit, and turn on the 371 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 1: machine and for some number of time, an hour or whatever, 372 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: you'd come back and you would remove the machine and 373 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: there would be roaches dead on the floor everywhere, but 374 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: a lot of them had stuck to the internal portion 375 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: of the housing, so then it would go from there 376 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: to the to the wash down the powerwash, and I 377 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: was stuck on that dude. Well, my first couple of 378 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: days were for the gas, but it was impossible to 379 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: move any faster. There I got the washdoody. And the 380 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: reason I got the job was I'm a pleaser. I 381 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: wanted to impress. I was a waiter at a restaurant 382 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: called Paul's All American Seafood downtown, and I was hustling 383 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: because I want to make a lot of money, and 384 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: the more you hustled, the more you'd get in tips. 385 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: And the owner was very impressed, or the general manager, 386 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: and he said, man, I'd like you to come to 387 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 1: work for me. How does twenty bucks an hour sound? Wait? 388 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: What guaranteed twenty bucks an hour? That was twenty million. 389 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: That's still decent money thirty years later, thirty three years later. 390 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: Imagine what that was back then. Yeah, but at time 391 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: and a half, if you want it, you go to thirty. 392 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 1: Are you serious? Dang, Yes, I'm in. And then there's 393 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 1: that scene in the movie you know, where you take 394 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,160 Speaker 1: off your apron and you throw it at him. Come 395 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: out of here. You know what always goes through my head. Yeah, 396 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 1: but you still got to pick up your last paycheck. 397 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: Like these people that just throw their apron and walk out. 398 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: Do you go back and get your last paycheck? Because 399 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: you gotta go get your last paycheck anyway. So I 400 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: my first when they moved me over to that, he said, look, 401 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: these guys at work here, lazy. They do about ten 402 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: of these at night, because you got to wash it 403 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: down pretty good. You got to knock all the loose 404 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: paint off, and then you go from there. The next 405 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: prep station is to repaint it so it looks new, 406 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: but it ain't new. There's still dead roaches up in there, 407 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: but don't worry about that. And my first night, he said, 408 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: you know these guys they do ten twelve at night. 409 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: That's that's kind of what we expect of I bet 410 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,360 Speaker 1: you could do twenty five. And I'm like, you think 411 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: I could do twenty five or do thirty? So I 412 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 1: did thirty two. Well, there were some old black guys 413 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: sitting in the kitchen. When I go in. It was 414 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: kind of like that first day of prison kind of 415 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: deal where I bumps into you and they hated me, 416 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: and they wouldn't talk to me, and they ridiculed the 417 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: meal my wife had made for me. And I was expecting, 418 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: you know, hey, they're probably not going to welcome me 419 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: in with open arms because I'm kind of the scab 420 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: that's been brought in from the outside. But I didn't 421 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 1: think it would be that bad. It wasn't horrible. It's just, 422 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: you know, I was eighteen nineteen years old and these 423 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: were old men, and one of them was kind enough 424 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: to explain to me that if you worked here for 425 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: very long, you wouldn't want to have to turn out 426 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: thirty two. You're in here busting ass, but you'll be 427 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: gone and we are stuck. We're gonna do about ten 428 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: or twelve a day, and that's all we're going to do. 429 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: So I want, I don't want the quality to be 430 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,959 Speaker 1: so good that y'all expect that every day. Isaac writes 431 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: off subject. But I was at work at the post 432 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: office and a random thought popped into my brain. I 433 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: was thinking about when I was in elementary school and 434 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: we had Show and tell. I missed that, and I 435 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: miss taking naps on my little mat in class. Have 436 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: a great Dayzar, I will, because I love that email 437 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: Michael writes, zar I had a happy memory of one 438 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: of the funniest Asian trope comedy actors of the eighties 439 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: in the movie Sixteen Candles, the exchange student Long Duck Dong. 440 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: Every time anyone said his name, you heard of Gong. 441 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: He was one of my teenage heroes. Please play the 442 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: gong sound, King of Dame so Long Duck Dong. Never mind. 443 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: You know what you're doing a good job of lowering 444 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: the quality very your own point. Yes, Bobby Wrights, sud 445 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: Bang would also be a good name for a suicide bomber. 446 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: Good point, you think about it. Scotti writes, thank you 447 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: for talking about the money that Trey Harris contributed to 448 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: Governor Greg Grabbit. People are very familiar within the system 449 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: of the Cleveland ISD and their big bond. The district 450 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: built one elementary school in their previous bond and built 451 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: two elementary and one middle school and the current bond. 452 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: They also built a satellite service center down there. Because 453 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: it's seventeen miles one way from Colony Ridge to Cleveland, 454 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: the district depends no sorry, the district spends millions just 455 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: on transportation for Colony Ridge alone. Trey Harris does not 456 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: hide the fact it is rumored that he has Greg 457 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: Grabitt's cell phone number, that they are close. It's amazing 458 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: to me how quickly the governor threw Trey under the 459 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: bus the second this started getting heat. All the while 460 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,479 Speaker 1: he had absolutely no problem taking all his money and 461 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: his phone calls over the years. 462 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 4: That's Greg Gravit. That's who Greg Grabit is. I've said 463 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 4: this to you folks for years. Greg gravity is now 464 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 4: trying to act like he deserves the credit for the 465 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 4: Colony Ridge raid. Look, I could say this every day 466 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 4: and you would tire of it, and I try not to. 467 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 4: But I have contacts at every level of law enforcement 468 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 4: like you would belief, and I can assure you this 469 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 4: did not come from Greg Grabitt. And I can assure 470 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 4: you that what's going on at Cality Ridge was known 471 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 4: by the county, by the District Attorney's office, by the rangers, 472 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 4: by the DPS, by the DEA, by the FBI. 473 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: Every single one of them was aware, and there were 474 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: various people within those organizations calling it out as to 475 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: what was happening. 476 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 4: Greg Grabbitt was abundantly aware of what. 477 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: Was going on and chose to do nothing. Tzar what 478 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: on Earth is going on with Dan Crenshaw threatening to 479 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: kill Tucker Carlson. This thing's gone viral. Has he lost 480 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: his mind?