1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. I want to 3 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: take a minute longer to talk about school choice. And 4 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: I understand a lot of people who would vote for 5 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: Trump or against school choice, and I understand why. I 6 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: followed this issue in the state legislature over twenty years ago, 7 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: and what I learned was the state representatives. A lobbyist 8 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: actually told me this twenty would have been twenty two 9 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: years ago, and I just had another person send me 10 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: an email to the same effect. In rural counties where 11 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: people live but don't necessarily work, or family farms and 12 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: the like. But you get some of these counties where 13 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 1: people drive to work into another county or into another 14 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: state REPS district. The largest employer in that particular REPS 15 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: district will be the public schools, which makes the superintendent 16 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: what Elon Musk was to Trump, a guy with a 17 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: business acumen could move a lot of people, or a 18 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan was to the Trump campaign. That is what 19 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: the superintendent in the rural school district is to the 20 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: often Republican state rep The superintendent is against school choice. 21 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: The superintendent, I want you to hear this very clearly, 22 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: I don't care if your wife's a teacher, or you're 23 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: a teacher, or whatever you've thought about before. I want 24 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: you to step back and ask this question, why would 25 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: a superintendent be scared of competition with his district if 26 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: he's doing a great job. When you don't have competition, 27 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: you don't get efficiency and effectiveness, you don't get great 28 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: customer service. You can't possibly think it's a good idea 29 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: for these school districts to keep floating bonds to build 30 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: massive football stadiums. Oh I do, Michael, I love my 31 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:05,399 Speaker 1: Friday night football. Good pay for it. The taxpayers of 32 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: any community should not have to pay for sports stadiums, 33 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: whether they be professional or the local high school. If 34 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: you want a nice stadium, then pay fifty bucks for 35 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: every Friday night game. We have created a taxation system 36 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: in the state of Texas with the property tax. We've 37 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: created a system where you never actually own your own home. 38 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: I first read this theory proffered by Kevin Williamson at 39 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: National Review years ago, and it's true. Let's say you're 40 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: eighty year old retiree and you got your house that 41 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: it took you thirty years to pay off. People back 42 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: then didn't take thirty years. You've paid off your house. 43 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: You own it free and clear. Look at that boy, 44 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: and it's great. But you still are renting it from 45 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: the state because you have to pay a property tax 46 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: every year. You don't have an income any longer. You 47 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: may not spend much, if anything, if you're completely self 48 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: sufficient on sales taxes. But the one tax you cannot 49 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: hide from is the tax on the existence of your property. 50 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: You will never stop paying taxes. You don't technically own that. 51 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: You didn't own it before you paid it off. The 52 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: bank did. And once you paid them for what they 53 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: loaned you plus the cost of loaning it to you, 54 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: then they let you own it and you no longer 55 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: have to pay them. But you will always have to 56 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: pay the state. And what are you paying the state for? 57 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: What's your biggest hit? The school system? And what is 58 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: our school system using the money for stadiums? I love 59 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: sports as much as the next guy, but do you 60 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: ever think about the inefficiency of this? You know, every 61 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: four years we have the Olympics. In some country can't 62 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: wait to win the Olympics because that's going to be 63 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: their lottery ticket. And so what do they do? They 64 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: spend from three hundred million to a billion dollars sometimes 65 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: more building stadiums. Go look online at the abandoned stadiums 66 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 1: from the Olympics, from Croatia to Brazil to China. But 67 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: this was going to turn everything around. The world was 68 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: going to come there and see that Sarajevo was the 69 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: place that we all wanted to visit and it was 70 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: going to replace Paris. Well, the war didn't help or China. 71 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: We're all going to realize we all want to go 72 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: see China. No we don't. The air is filthier than Athens. 73 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: So what ends up happening is you spend all this 74 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: money to lure the Olympics, which ends up being a 75 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: net loss. I was on Houston City Council when we 76 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, when we hosted the Super Bowl No. Five, 77 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: and every week there would be massive expenditures we had 78 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: to we had to approve, and I'd raise my hand 79 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: and say, why are we? Why are we? Why do 80 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: you need two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to line 81 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: Main Street with rose bushes? Oh, it's part of our 82 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: super Bowl contract. I didn't sign your Super Bowl contract, 83 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: so no, I'm I'm here on behalf of the taxpayer 84 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: to determine whether their money goes toward wasteful landscaping. You 85 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: think anybody going to the super Bowl gives a damn? 86 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: And by the way, you got all these boosters, these 87 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: super Bowl boosters, same people that want the Olympics here, 88 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: same people want the super Bowl here. Fine, these are 89 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: the people that get the complimentary sweet These are the 90 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: people that have all the money. Why don't they donate 91 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: instead of the taxpayers paying for this. If you want 92 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: a new stadium, let the people who use it. 93 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 2: No, Michael, we gotta have football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and 94 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 2: each one of them's got to have a different stadium 95 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: because if we don't, we're not world class. 96 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: Well, did in that why you needed hundreds of millions 97 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: of dollars for a fixed route trolley system that mirrors 98 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: the fixed route trolley system that we ripped out in 99 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty seven. You think people want to get out 100 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: of their car and wait at the bus stop with 101 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: those crazy people and they're crazy. That crazy dude lives 102 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: at that bus stop and he smells of ass and 103 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: urine and filth, and he's spitting on you and peeing 104 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,239 Speaker 1: on you. And whacking off, and there's your wife sitting 105 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: at the bus stop waiting on the metro because it's 106 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: world class. And it pulls up, oh and it's curving. 107 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: Oh and it's great. And then it smashes into people 108 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: at the intersection. But what do I know. I'm some 109 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: old fuddy duddy that doesn't get a heart on for 110 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: massive government boondoggle projects. But you know who does. The 111 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: people who write the checks for the local elected officials. 112 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: It's the same people, over and over and over again. 113 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: They're not bad people. That's their business. Their business is 114 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: buying elected officials and getting elected officials to get all 115 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: of your money and then giving it to them. 116 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: Southern Fried, Southern friede to Michael Berry show, I wouldn't know. 117 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: On this Veteran's day. Musical stylings of Freddie Hardy. During 118 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: World War Two, he was too young to serve, but 119 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: the greatest generation was they were a different breed. He 120 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: lied about his age and joined the Marines. He would 121 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: go on to serve at Ewajima and at Guam. Then 122 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: he would, having survived World War Two, try to make 123 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: it in the music business. He bounced around from label 124 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: to label with at best modest success, which is almost 125 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,719 Speaker 1: worse than none, because it's just enough to think, well, 126 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: maybe I ought to stick with this, but never enough 127 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: that anybody thinks it's a great idea. Persistence, You know, 128 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: if you can teach your kids one thing, it is 129 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: what is the line? Ramon Russell uses it all the time. 130 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:28,719 Speaker 1: Failure is not final, success is not permanent. Maybe that's it. 131 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: You look at people who are successful. Donald Trump ran 132 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: and won in twenty sixty, then in twenty twenty he 133 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: has the election stolen from him. They're even Democrats now 134 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: coming out and going, let to say, one hundred twenty 135 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: one to one hundred and twenty nine million votes every 136 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: year from two thousand, except the anomaly of twenty twenty, 137 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: when another fifteen million votes shows up. Nobody believe eves 138 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden got eighty one million votes. But what 139 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: does Trump do? He just hangs in there. They raid 140 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: his home, they raised his wife's panty drawer, They drag 141 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 1: him to court, they convict him of thirty four felonies. 142 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: You got the weight of the entire American government against you, 143 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: and you just keep persisting. So here's Freddy Hart. It's 144 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one, twenty five years since he served in 145 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: World War Two. He's probably not gonna make it very big. 146 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: He's probably just going to keep struggling. And a disc 147 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: jockey at a radio station in Atlanta, Georgia WPLO started 148 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: playing this song that Freddy Hart had called easy Lovin. 149 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: And it's not a theme that would catch you on 150 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:08,479 Speaker 1: at the time, because it's not It's not about barroom 151 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: drinking or brawls, or a life of crime, or telling 152 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: your boss to take this job and shove it, or 153 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: the lust you feel for a woman that's not your 154 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: own wife, or a love that has been lost. It's 155 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: about the beauty, the simple, glorious beauty of a monogamous 156 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: life with the woman you love. And there's no great riff, 157 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: no great turn of phrase, but it's just a wonderful, 158 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: wonderful song. So this DJ in Atlanta starts playing it, 159 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: and it starts building and starts building. He was set 160 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: to be dropped from his contract with Capitol Records, which 161 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: was I believe the third or maybe the fourth label 162 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: he had been with. And you don't have a label, 163 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: you ain't getting a hip because you can't get it 164 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: on the radio. And this organic grassroots support for this 165 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: song just grew and grew and grew until it took 166 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: off and he made it. It would make him. At 167 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: the CMA's that year, he would be named Top Male 168 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year. That song would be 169 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: hold On. I had written it down here, single of 170 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: the Year and Song of the Year, an Album of 171 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: the Year for Easy Loved, and he would win Song 172 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: of the Year for Easy Lovin. Because it came out 173 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: in late seventy one, in both seventy one and seventy two, 174 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: certified gold for sales of a million. It was the 175 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart of the Year. It even 176 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: went over into the mainstream or pop chart. I don't 177 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: think they called it pop yet at that point. Maybe 178 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: they did. It's a pretty amazing story, and he's a 179 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: pretty amazing dude. Some of you had grandfathers and fathers 180 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: who at sixteen and seventeen years old, wanted to go 181 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: whip the crowds, Go whip the Japanese, go whip the Italians, 182 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: go whip the folks that had attacked us, and they 183 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: went down and signed up. My boys are seventeen and eighteen, 184 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: and I think to myself. Man, It's incredible the love 185 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: of country those young men have, who instilled that their parents, movies, music, 186 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: the schools. You lose the schools, you lose your people 187 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: within a generation. The Marxists have preached this for one 188 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: hundred years. If you can take the schools within a generation, 189 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: you can take the nation. And what has happened to 190 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: our schools? Look at the state of our schools. HISD 191 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: last week or the week before the story broke kme 192 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: of prosecuting. Was it five hundred teachers who didn't take 193 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: the test to be a teacher? They paid someone to 194 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: do it. The Booker T Washington basketball coach was running 195 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: a scheme. But you see how complex the scheme was. 196 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: They had people taking the test for the other people. Well, 197 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: why do you pay somebody to take the test to 198 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: certify you as a teacher? Because you're a dumb, dumb 199 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: And why are you so eager to become a teacher? 200 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: You have low morals and values? Why are these people 201 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: so eager to be teachers? Do you ever think about this? 202 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: Because they have no alternatives. These aren't people who sought 203 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: to be teachers their whole lives. These aren't people who 204 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: went to college and studied the process, the system, the 205 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: history of educational techniques. What are these people? Lazy people 206 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: who want full benefits to go into a school and 207 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: then presumably advanced to administration because that's where the money is. 208 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: So why wouldn't we want our public schools to have competition? 209 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we If you're doing your job well, why 210 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: are you afraid that unless people are forced to come 211 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: to your school, they won't. You know, nobody forces you 212 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: to buy an apple. They change the damn chargers, they 213 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: change the models, they slow it down. Nobody forces you 214 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: to buy an apple. You buy an apple because you 215 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: like it. It's a good product. Why are we forcing 216 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: people into the public schools? You think about that for me. 217 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: And Republicans have gotten in bed with teachers' unions, one 218 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: of the most odious organizations, one of the most odious 219 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 1: special interests in America today. And you see these wacky teachers, 220 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: they got the purple hair, they're dudes that want to 221 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: be girls. They're communists, and they're talking about what they're 222 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: going they're canceling class. When Trump wins, you're in bed 223 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: with those people. You're protecting those people, and they'll lie 224 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: good lord, the anti school choice that the establishment public 225 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: education people will lie to my face. I read the 226 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: things they'll say, You're going to destroy the public schools. No, 227 00:17:54,640 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: you've already done that. 228 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 3: To demands of illegal as that Joe Biden release in 229 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 3: our country and violation of federal law. You better start 230 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 3: packing out. 231 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show such you're going home. 232 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 2: Inside. Many times I being gear and any times I 233 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 2: pray we used to be so happy when we were 234 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 2: in love. 235 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: I own about On this Veteran's Day, we paid tribute 236 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 1: to Army veteran Charlie Pride. You know that Tom Homan 237 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: is set to be the borders are under Donald Trump 238 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: Clip number nine ramon. Tom Holman has been a guest 239 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: of our show many many times, and we are delighted 240 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: with this choice. It is a tough thing to deport illegals. 241 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: Everyone understands this. The Democrats and the media are cheering 242 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: get as many illegals into the country as you possibly can, 243 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: because once they're here, you claim you're a Nazi for 244 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: kicking them out. This is how you do it. 245 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 3: Well. Look, I agree with the President's planning on this 246 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 3: in the same than he had during the first administration. 247 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 3: You concentrate on the public safety threats and the national 248 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 3: security threats first because they're the worst, are the worst, 249 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 3: so it's called to be the worst first. That's how 250 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 3: it has to be done. And we know a recog 251 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 3: number of people on the terrorists watch this across this border. 252 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 3: We know record number of terrorists have been released in 253 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 3: this country. We've already arrested some planning attacks. So look, 254 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 3: the President is dead on when he says criminal threats, 255 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 3: national security threats are going to be prioritized. And that's 256 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 3: the way it's going to be. 257 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: It's a tough thing. It's a tough thing. It's a 258 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: tough thing to be a cop. It's a tough thing 259 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: to be a criminal judge. It's a tough thing to 260 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: be a parent or a coach. It's difficult, you know, 261 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: you think about We spent the weekend with Michael t. 262 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 1: This weekend, it was parents weekend for his fraternity. I 263 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: never saw him joining a fraternity, but it's turned out 264 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: to work out well for him and the fraternities very 265 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: It's given him structure, it's given him some order, it's 266 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: given him some oversight. They have a required mandatory study 267 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: session and I was not into Greek life, so I 268 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: was not a fan of Greek life. Although a lot 269 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: of my friends man, that was the highlight of their 270 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: kid going to college is the drink fest that is 271 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: fraternity life. I did not think that was a good idea. Didn' 272 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: drink til I was twenty nine. I'm not a fan 273 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: of high school students drinking. I don't care what you think. 274 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: You can think, I'm apprude all you want. I don't 275 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: believe there's any place for it, but whatever. So I 276 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: did not want that to happen. But it turned out 277 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: to be a good group of guys that are focused 278 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: on their academics and their team building and their camaraderie, 279 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: their careers, and they preach respect for the opposite sex, 280 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: respect for yourself, respect for your parents. Anyway, I think 281 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: it's been a good thing for him. What were we 282 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: talking about that led to that? The quote was from Churchill. 283 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is 284 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: the courage to continue that counts. I know what it was. 285 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: So Michael T said something that just caused me to 286 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: absolute melt, absolutely melt. We went to have breakfast yesterday 287 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: morning because yesterday was my birthday and Crockett's twelfth homecoming, 288 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: and before we headed back to Houston, we had breakfast 289 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 1: and I said, Michael, I'm very proud of the man 290 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: you're becoming. I'm very proud of I respectful you are. 291 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: I'm very proud of the way your peers look at 292 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: you because his pledge ship is over, he's joined. I'm 293 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: very proud of what your peers told me about you, 294 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: and how you are protective of weaker members and smaller guys, 295 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: and how you're always willing to help something needs to 296 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,479 Speaker 1: be done. You step, you know all the things you 297 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 1: want to hear about your kid, right And he said, well, Dad, 298 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: I give you and mom all the credit. You should 299 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: pat yourself on the back because that's why I am 300 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: the way I am. And I said, that's very kind 301 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: of you to say, but your mother thinks that I 302 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: have been and I still am too hard on you. 303 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: And he said, you know, I knew all along, but 304 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: now I know better than ever. That's what I needed. 305 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: That's what young people need. And it's true. I see 306 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: parents who are the best friend of their kid. I 307 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: don't think you have to be stern, never speak to 308 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: them and never show them you love them, but they 309 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: don't need a buddy. They need they need a person 310 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: that can draw a line in the sand. They need 311 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: a person that can tell them, no, you can't go 312 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: to that party, because I know that when that family 313 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: has parties, the cops are going to show up because 314 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: there's going to be drinking. There's going to be it's 315 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: going to spill out into the road, and some kids 316 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: are going to get arrested. And we have very very 317 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: very honest, blunt conversations in our household, and I tell them, 318 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: and I believe this, all your friends are white. If 319 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: there's six of y'all standing outside, even if you're not drinking, 320 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: you're the one black dude, you are more likely to 321 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: be hauled in. Go through life expecting that and be 322 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: better than everybody else. Don't be at a party where 323 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: you know the cops are going to show up, period, 324 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: end of story. Because if you do, we can argue 325 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: over whether you were doing anything wrong or whether why 326 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: you were the only one that was pulled out, even 327 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: if all six of you were pulled out. Don't go 328 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: to a party. These kinds of things are difficult. It's 329 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: difficult to fire someone from the workplace who doesn't show up, 330 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: and so people will say, well he's got a drug problem, 331 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: now he's an alcoholic. Well he's having trouble at his marriage. 332 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: Well nobody's firing you the first day. But over a 333 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: period of time and that pattern, you are establishing a culture. 334 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: And other people also drank too much, smoked too much, 335 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: or fighting with their wives or their husbands, and somehow 336 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: they managed to make it there on time, getting good results, 337 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 1: enforcing laws, creating structure, ending chaos. You've got to make 338 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 1: tough decisions. You've got to close the border, and we 339 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: have to deport millions and millions of people and home. 340 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: It's going to do it without separating families. The Michael 341 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: Barry Show. 342 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,479 Speaker 3: Families can be deported together. 343 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: There was a moment on CNN this past weekend where 344 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's press campaign press secretary. I guess it was 345 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: this effeminate dude, black guy. Forget his name, Jamal Jamal. 346 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: I can't remember his name. It doesn't matter, he's not important. 347 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: But he made the point. Want to see an end 348 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:27,479 Speaker 1: panel that Joe Biden should do the right thing and 349 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: resign and let Kamala Harris become the president, because that 350 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 1: would be a historic first, be our first woman president, 351 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: and it was met with derisive laughter. And many people 352 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: are laughing at this, and I will tell you that 353 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,679 Speaker 1: sometimes we laugh at things to avoid confronting them. The 354 00:26:52,800 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: reality is that that conversation is being held. Absolutely, I 355 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: have predicted all along. I thought there was a better 356 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: than average chance, no, not better than average. I thought 357 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: there was probably a forty to fifty percent chance that 358 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: Biden would step down and Kamala would become the president. 359 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: Prior to the election to give her because she would 360 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: own the media cycle. And when we look back on 361 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: what happened, I'm gonna get into this on the Evening 362 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: Show today. I don't want to say she raised because 363 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: she had nothing to do with it. There was just 364 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: over a billion dollars raised on her campaign. Trump had 365 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: a little over three hundred million. And this doesn't include 366 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 1: the pack money that came in, but there was a 367 00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: ton of it for her. There were people and let 368 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: me tell you something. I've seen this with city politics, 369 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: I've seen it with county politics. The people who give 370 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: the big money to the political process are by and 371 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: large people who have as a business government arms, bullets, MREs, uniforms, engineering, 372 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: The people who make money off government or off government 373 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: policies are the people giving the money. There are entire 374 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: industries that would no longer exist but for sub item 375 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: one three, two five four to one sub A sub 376 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: little I, sub little A being changed for them to 377 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: no longer get the subsidy that they get, or for 378 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: their for their biggest competitor to no longer get the subsidy, 379 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: for their biggest competitor to be prevented from doing business 380 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: here and to make that an American only business, or 381 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: flip it around, to open it up to the marketplace. 382 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: For a tariff to be imposed or removed. For the 383 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: tax rate on depleted oil reserves to be accelerated or decelerated, 384 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: could make a could make or break a billionaire. So 385 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: the money was there. The money was absolutely there. And 386 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: now we find out that the Oprah, for instance, received 387 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: a million dollars. How shameful. I've heard tell that Lizzo 388 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: received two point five million to appear on stage with her. 389 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: I've heard varying accounts on what Cardi b was paid 390 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: to talk about how lubricated her reproductive organ is. I 391 00:29:55,080 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: wonder how much Beyonce was paid. You know you look 392 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: at you look at all the people who appeared on 393 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:09,719 Speaker 1: stage with her now and it's coming out they were 394 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: all paid to do so. That's not an endorsement, that's 395 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: not an I believe in her. That's an exchange of services. 396 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: That's pitiful. I wonder how many people fully understood that, 397 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: or if they would even care. Her campaign was left 398 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: with eighteen million dollars and a woman by the name 399 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: of Leing, who's a senior Democrat in the DNC, senior 400 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: official in DNC, is now blowing the whistle on where 401 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: the money went. She had staffers getting massive and there's 402 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: money that's come up missing now, loads of money that's 403 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: come up missing, and that would have happened with the 404 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: federal government. That's been happening for eight years under Sylvester Turner. 405 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: At the City of Houston, the person who was in 406 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: charge of fixing busted water mains was handing deals to 407 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: her brother. And her brother didn't even own a truck, 408 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: much less of business. And you wonder why the taxes 409 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: are going up, the services are going down, and you 410 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: don't think that's happening in the school system. How do 411 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: you fix it? Competition, It's just that simple. You know 412 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: who's driving the school choice movement. I would love to 413 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: say it is the people who would benefit the most, 414 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: which is single mom minorities in major urban school districts. 415 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: I would love to say that that's who's driving this, 416 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: because that's who will benefit because they will no longer 417 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: be stuck at crappy public schools in Kashmir gardens or 418 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: Lakewood or acres homes. They'll be able to go to 419 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 1: the local Catholic church temple or just hip academy or 420 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: wherever else. They'll be able to go wherever they want, 421 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: where the teachers are passionate and love those kids. You 422 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: got a lot of public school teachers, especially at the 423 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: big public schools, that are there for a paycheck, and 424 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: you got a teacher's union that has gone all wrong. 425 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: It's almost like you'd need two funding systems because the 426 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: rural school district's the only game in town. But you 427 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: know who's pushing this. Homeschoolers. So many good things have 428 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: come from the homeschooling communities. Because who are homeschoolers. They're mommies, 429 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: mostly mommies who left their day job to stay home 430 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: with their kids. I get emails from these people every day. 431 00:32:53,560 --> 00:33:00,040 Speaker 1: They were lawyers and accountants, doctors, pharmacists, business owners, and 432 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: they and their husbands. It's almost always the wife. They 433 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: and their husbands decided, I'm going to stay home and 434 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: I'm going to teach these kids. Is it worth it? 435 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: It's been absolutely worth it. These kids are well socialized. 436 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: They now they take them out for enrichment activities. They 437 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: go to the zoo, they go here, they go to 438 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: the park. They learn this, they go spend a day 439 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: interning here and there. It's a beautiful thing. You know. 440 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: The truth is, for Abbot and Republicans, it's easier to 441 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: leave school choice alone because it's going to split the 442 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 1: Republican It's easier to just leave it alone, and the 443 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: kids would suffer. It takes courage to stand up and 444 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: do the right thing that politically will be a loser. 445 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 1: Because the people who will benefit most, inner city blacks, 446 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: inner city Hispanic especially single moms and poor districts. They're 447 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: not going to be appreciative and realize how this is 448 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: going to help them. But it will