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 Berry Show is. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: Too quick. Programming notes. Tomorrow is our annual adoption special. 5 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: If you are Verklempt when it comes to being on 6 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: the air or speaking publicly, and you would like to 7 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: nevertheless share your adoption story, you may email those to me. 8 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: Our website is Michael Berryshow dot com Michael Berryshow dot com, 9 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: and it will say send me Michael an email. Please 10 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: put adoption as the subject line, because then when I 11 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: print those out, I can put all of those in 12 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: one stack, and I can keep that folder for adoption 13 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: because there'll be emails on all sorts of different things, 14 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: and that helps me to organize a useful subject line 15 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: is very very helpful to me on the show. I 16 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: would like to hear your adoption story, whether you're the parent, 17 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: whether you're the person who was adopted, or you were 18 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: a mother who gave up their child. Every year will 19 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: have at least one mother who will, I think, very 20 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: bravely share their story. 21 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: And I. 22 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: Kind of put it in the for God. So is 23 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: no greater love hath any mail than to lay down 24 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: his life for a friend. I think carrying a child 25 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: to term rather than having an abortion for a child 26 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: that is. As much as I hate the word, the 27 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: word that is widely he's unwanted or unplanned. I think 28 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 1: that carrying a child to term and handing that child over, 29 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: giving that child life, and handing that child over despite 30 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: the maternal instinct and after everything you have been through, 31 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: I think it is so selfless and so sacred and 32 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: so good. And there are more women who have done 33 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: that walking among us than we realize. Many times, it's 34 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: a young woman sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old, and she 35 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: gives up this child, and she's at a point in 36 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: her life who knows what's going on. And then she 37 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: kind of gets her stuff together, she moves back in 38 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: with her parents, starts to work, and meets a guy. 39 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: Maybe she goes to college, maybe she starts a career, 40 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: she gets married, they have children, and years later, that's 41 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: a secret, it's always back there in the back of 42 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: her mind. I don't think a woman needs to be 43 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: ashamed of that. I think it's a very very honorable thing. 44 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: I don't think that life is perfect. I think that 45 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: there is beauty all around us, and sometimes that beauty 46 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: is in areas that we might not have noticed, or 47 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: we may not always realize. Tomorrow will be our Adoption Special. 48 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: If you want to take a moment today and share 49 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: your thoughts, you can still call in tomorrow if you 50 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: build up the confidence to do it in the meantime. 51 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: But then at least your story is told. So that's 52 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: at Michael Berryshow dot com. And by the way, while 53 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: you're there, we have a merchandise store. 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Thursday tomorrow is 64 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:30,679 Speaker 1: the Adoption Special. Friday is the Thanksgiving Special. We always 65 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: do that the Friday before Thanksgiving. The reason being we 66 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: are well aware that a number of you will after 67 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: you finish work or school on Friday or the kids 68 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: finish school. You will on Friday or Saturday or Sunday 69 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 1: begin your journeys to Memo in Papov's house for Thanksgiving, 70 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: and we may not get you live, and for the 71 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: purposes of the live show so that people can call in. 72 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: If you're listening to the podcast and you're compelled to 73 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: call in, it'll be too late. So Friday will be 74 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: our Thanksgiving show. There'll be a couple of things that 75 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: we always play on Thanksgiving, including Rush Limbaugh's The Meaning 76 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: of Thanksgiving, which of course takes on a whole new 77 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: meaning after his passing. And our favorite call, maybe our 78 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: favorite call to the show of all time, the woman 79 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: who called the Sardines story. And those of you who 80 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: remember that will remember that. But anyway, if you want 81 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: to share your Thanksgiving story with us and you're worried 82 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: you won't get in or you're afraid you wouldn't be 83 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: able to speak on there, you can send that as well. 84 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: Please put Thanksgiving in the subject line so again we 85 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: can pull that out and separate it for that show 86 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: and make sure it stays on point. Alice, you're on 87 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: the Michael Berry Show. 88 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 3: Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning, Michael. Your observation of the 89 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 3: man walking down the street with the two double bags. Yeah, 90 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 3: was he an older man? 91 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know what that's a relative term. My 92 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: guess is he's between fifty seven and sixty three. 93 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 3: Okay. My immediate thought was he has dementia and he 94 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 3: is running away, either from home or an assisted living center. 95 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure now I'm gonst strike that as a 96 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: as an alibi. He's he's, he's. I don't think he 97 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: has dementia. He still had his wits about him. I 98 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: believe he's the mastermind of a bank heist. He did 99 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: not carry himself, you know, in a Joe Biden dementia 100 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: sort of way. And the place he was walking out 101 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: of was not a it was a residence, it was 102 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: not an assisted living facility, and he drove himself off. 103 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: He was very purposeful in the way that he walked, 104 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: so he was a guy carrying out an order. And 105 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: it was odd actually that he never looked around him. 106 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: He did not scope the circumstances. This was the guy 107 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: who was purposely focused and refusing to look around in 108 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: order to avoid making any eye contact or his face 109 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: being spotted or drawing any attention in that way. So 110 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: I think this guy's a professional. I really do. I 111 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: don't think this is the first time I think this 112 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: guy is an actual professional. I've watched a lot of 113 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: movies and a lot of documentaries, and I have a 114 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: vivid imagination. I'm pretty sure this guy is. Yeah, this 115 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: is gonna I have asked for a report on all 116 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: bank robberies within the last week. This guy's so good 117 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: it is possible. It is possible that this bank heist 118 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: was a month ago and he's just been laying low 119 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: in that house. And that house never I drive past 120 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: that house every day. That house never sees any action, 121 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: never has any activity. And uh, it would be a 122 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: perfect place to lay low because it's off the beaten path. 123 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: It's not far from our studio. It's off the beaten path, 124 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: so you're not going to get a lot of people, 125 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: you know, just kind of around the area checking things out. 126 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: And when he came out, it was both bags in hand, 127 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: which were heavy for him. He could have carried one 128 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: and put it in the truck, but he didn't. He 129 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: carried him with two hands like they always do in 130 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: the movies, and he went to the a It's a 131 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: Kingcab to the to the second door, dropped them both 132 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,719 Speaker 1: opened the door. He didn't have a clicker because it's 133 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: an older Chevy truck, opened the door, placed him in there, 134 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: closed the door and got in. And when he got in, 135 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: he got in with the complete bank heist mindset. Looking. Dude, 136 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure of this. I used to do aerobics 137 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: till I dropped. Then I tell you to Michael Berry Show. 138 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 4: I recommend it. 139 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 5: And so this next story, as reported by ABC thirteen, 140 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 5: this guy gets shot. 141 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: By his ex girlfriend and then she's out on bond. 142 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: If you've ever known somebody who was a victim of 143 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: violent crime and the violent criminal is then given a bond, 144 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: it is the victim and their family who are now 145 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: put in jail because you're having to live in fear, 146 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: first of all, because you're the witness to the crime, 147 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: because you're the victim. Second, because you got all the 148 00:09:55,559 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: stories on how OJ beat you up, as Nicole Simpson 149 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: so many years before. You've got stories that aren't in 150 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: the that aren't in the crime reports, weren't weren't reported 151 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: for you know that he beat up all his other girlfriends, 152 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: you know their names. You know how to reach them, 153 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: stuff that the cops would never find. But if he 154 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: can off you, and he's just dumb enough to do that, 155 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: he's just dumb enough to think, well, if i'd just 156 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: kill her, which in today's in today's criminal justice system, 157 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: it might actually be a good a good strategy. So 158 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: here's a dude whose ex girlfriend shoots him and multiple 159 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: times and then they give her a low bond. ABC 160 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: thirteen with the story Here. 161 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 6: In this wooded area off of two eighty eight and 162 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 6: your Houston Community colleges were twenty four year old Elvis 163 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 6: Munos nearly lost his life in September. He says his 164 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 6: now ex girlfriend, Alexis Pentho lured him to watch the 165 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 6: sunset in this area and then his accused of shooting 166 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 6: him multiple times, including in the chest and hands. Munyo 167 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 6: says he begged Bento to get him help, and she 168 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 6: finally took him to a gas station where people stepped 169 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 6: in and called police. Court document show Pinto was accused 170 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 6: of aggravator assault in connection to the September twentieth shooting. 171 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 6: Initial bond document showed the state was asking for a 172 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 6: high bond because of the nature of the offense and 173 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 6: for the safety of the victim and community. Months later, 174 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 6: a judge granted her a ten thousand dollars bond, and 175 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 6: she posted bail This morning. As she awaits her next 176 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 6: court hearing, Munyo says Pento was his girlfriend for three 177 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 6: years and lived with him before. He says she betrayed 178 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 6: him and caught him by surprise with a gun to 179 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 6: his head. 180 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 2: She knew exactly what should be she should face her 181 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 2: consequences and or just want to know why she did 182 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: it since I mean I deal with. 183 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 6: Sever At this point, police have not released a motive 184 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 6: for the shooting. We have reached out to the Pinto 185 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 6: family and their defense attorney, and we have not heard 186 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 6: back yet. As for Munols and his family, they tell 187 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 6: us right now they're not living in peace and are afraid. 188 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:32,719 Speaker 1: Dude, what kind of chick is miss Pinto? I mean, 189 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: how does that work? She lured you out to see 190 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: the sunset. 191 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 7: Puppy pull over, pull over, fuffy, This sunset is a romantic. 192 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: No, just pull over for a minie. Let's go, let's 193 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: go enjoy this, I. 194 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 7: Said, I do for you. Well, you like, come up, 195 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 7: puppy pull over. I make it worth you a while? Yeah, 196 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 7: I have to bring my extra purse. While you're asking 197 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 7: why I have my extra purse? You just come and 198 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 7: see the sunset over here? Uh oh no, no, over 199 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 7: here some more. They can still see us from the road. 200 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 7: I'll be where your keys in case I should have 201 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 7: to leave without you. 202 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: Do know anything I happen? In case you're having a 203 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 1: heart attack, I have to what's there? And what is 204 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: bank account password? In case I have to get money 205 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: for the hospital if you have a heart attack or something. 206 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: I'll become a little further over here. 207 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 7: Look what I'm showing you, puppy, I'm to see. 208 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: Okay, that's good enough. Now now stand over there and 209 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: turn around and don't look. 210 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 4: At me. 211 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: And count to demn puppy, Now stand up straight. I 212 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: can't seem to get a good angle on you, puppy. 213 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 2: How does that word? 214 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: I mean, at what point does she go from luring 215 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: to firing? I mean she probably not a very good 216 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: shot because she has the element of surprise here, right, 217 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: and if she shot him multiple times, I'd like to 218 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: have some details on this deal. And then who is 219 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: the magistrate? When they bring her in, they say, look, 220 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: she got seventy five thousand dollars. She got seventy five 221 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: thousand dollars bond, which is she got to come up 222 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: with seven thousand, five hundred. You have to come up 223 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: with ten percent of it. The fellow says that, you know, 224 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: she blasted away at him, just came out of nowhere. 225 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: He has no idea why she did it. She lured 226 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: him over here, and he's worried that she'll if we 227 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: let her out, If she gets out, she'll kill him 228 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: and his family. And she's obviously crazy. Right, we got 229 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: a pretty good idea. She's crazy. She's show man multiple times. 230 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: This is not self defense. Okay, So at that point, yeah, well, 231 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: let's not make it real hard for her to get out. 232 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: Let's drop that seventy five thousand down to ten thousand, 233 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: which means for one thousand dollars, she's back out on 234 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: the street. I'd like to know whose gun this was. 235 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: Does she take his gun and shoot him with it? 236 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: Or is this Pentho's gun? Where did she get this gun? 237 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: I need some more details on this story, but this is, 238 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: you know, all kidding aside. This is an fed up 239 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: fact pattern, but it's not that uncommon, the woman shooting 240 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: a man. It is Usually, if a woman shoots a man, 241 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: he'd been knocking her around at the house and finally 242 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: she's had enough and she's she gets hold of a 243 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: gun and makes it stop. Okay, that's different. Usually it's 244 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: a man beating a woman. And you know, I wonder 245 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: how many women in the Greater Houston area right now, 246 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: right now are living in fear of a man who 247 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: went who was arrested for beating them up, trying to 248 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: kill him, getting close to killing them, and they're out 249 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: on a bond. And when you see these guys that 250 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: they're not just sitting around watching the fights and have 251 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: too much to drink and start knocking her around. They 252 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: go there with the purpose of killing her and sometimes 253 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: her kids. Every time that guy is out on a 254 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: domestic assault charge against him for beating her up before, 255 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: because the moment the cops haul him away from the 256 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: scene and he's being arrested and she's well, she knows, 257 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: and he knows he's coming back. He's coming back now, 258 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: and now he's going to finish the job because he 259 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: feels betrayed because these officers are arresting him because of her. 260 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: My brother told me that in almost every case when 261 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: you would respond to a domestic abuse, domestic violence, and 262 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: you get there, no matter how bad he has beaten her, 263 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 1: no matter how long the beatings have been going on, 264 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: no matter if he's beaten the kids, no matter how 265 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: no matter how much you just want to grab him 266 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: and get him out of there and throw him in 267 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: a cage. At some point she will beg you not 268 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: to take him every time, not because she doesn't want 269 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: you to take him chexy. If she could make him evaporate, 270 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,679 Speaker 1: she would, but because she doesn't want to be the 271 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: one going, yeah, yeah, get him out of here, because 272 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: he's coming back, and our system is going to let 273 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: him out to come back and kill her, and in 274 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 1: this case, let her kill him. 275 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 8: Old times Michael Varry, I did say play a survivors song. 276 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: I said, what you did. It's not a song about survivors, 277 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: but it is a survivor song, so it qualifies. I'm 278 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna beat up on you for that. 279 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: I got a lot of messages from folks related to 280 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: the Bonfire collapse in ninety nine. One of them was, 281 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: my name is Bill Davis. I'm a Bonfire ninety nine 282 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: collapse survivor. I was trapped for four hours in the 283 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: hospital for several weeks. If you'd like to talk, I 284 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: am open to it. Bill Davis, Bill is our guest. 285 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 1: Welcome Bill, Howry, Michael. What that's quite the voice? What 286 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 1: was that a result of the bonfire? Yes? 287 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 4: I was up on the second layer, second stack. 288 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: But did you always have that great voice? Oh? 289 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,719 Speaker 4: The voice? Yeah, just God gifted. 290 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: It's a good voice. What do you do for a living? 291 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 4: Counting? Nothing related to my voice? 292 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: So walk me up to that moment. You were what 293 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: year at A and M And why were you out 294 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: on the stack. 295 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was a sophomore. It was my second year 296 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 4: working on bonfire. I was a crew chief, in charge 297 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 4: of a dorm with the several other guys, and I 298 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 4: was up on bonfire working on it. 299 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: How high up were you? 300 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 4: I was on the second stack, so roughly, you know, 301 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 4: forty forty five feet up. 302 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: I've never been to it. So you're you're you're talking 303 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: to me blind. Uh, So that's pretty pretty high up there. 304 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: And and when you're when you're climbing up there, there's 305 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 1: no external ladder or anything, right, You're just you're climbing 306 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: up the logs. 307 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 4: That's right. You're you're grabbing on the wire. You know, 308 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 4: we wire the logs in to give it some structure, 309 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 4: and you're you're stepping on knots, you're stepping on cut 310 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 4: branches and wire climbing your way up there. 311 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: So how long before it comes down do you start 312 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: noticing a sway? 313 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 4: I didn't even notice it. I was. I was up 314 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 4: there and I just happened to be looking down towards 315 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 4: the ground, and I realized I kind of saw the 316 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 4: ground moving. So for me, it was it happened right away. 317 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 4: Some people heard noises, some people felt movement, but I 318 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 4: just the way I was standing on what I was doing, 319 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 4: I didn't notice any of that. 320 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: And what what were you actually in the act of doing. 321 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 4: Up there, wiring wiring logs. They'd send logs up and 322 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 4: we'd wire them to the stack. Okay, At that moment though, 323 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 4: I was looking down at the ground towards my dorm. 324 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,360 Speaker 1: Okay. And then did it did it start falling from 325 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: the top on to you or did it tip over 326 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: and you went with it? What happened then? 327 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was on the fall side, so the side 328 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 4: it fell towards, so I you know, it all happened 329 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 4: extremely fast. What felt like a fraction of a second 330 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 4: as it was falling, I realized it was falling. I 331 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 4: pushed off and I hit the ground and it fell 332 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 4: over the top of me. 333 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: And you were trapped for four hours? Did you think 334 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: you were going to make it. 335 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 4: I don't remember a thought of ever feeling like I 336 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 4: was going to die. I'll tell you this. So there 337 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 4: was there was a log across my elbow, and I 338 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 4: was right up against the dirt. One of the first 339 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,199 Speaker 4: people to find me was a restistory therapist, and she 340 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 4: said the way she describes it is she watched bonfire 341 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 4: fall through her camera lens, and as soon as it started, 342 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 4: she chucked her camera and ran to stack to help. 343 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 4: And she came right away and said, hey, do you 344 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 4: believe in Jesus chrites to your Lord and Savior? I 345 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 4: said yes, and then she started working on me. She 346 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 4: gave me oxygen and said she had to move on 347 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 4: and said other people needed help. So, and I've heard 348 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 4: several people repeat that they met her. She talked to him. 349 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 4: I couldn't see her. I was faced in and I 350 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 4: literally didn't have enough room in underneath the kind of 351 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 4: the area that I was trapping. I couldn't lift my 352 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 4: head and turn outwards, but she could see me and 353 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 4: she could kind of hear me. 354 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: So you were face down in the dirt. 355 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was if I don't know how to 356 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 4: describe it, but I was three to five feet in 357 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 4: from I think what was going to be the western side. 358 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 4: I couldn't. I was faced inward from that three to 359 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 4: five feet in and couldn't. I was trapped, pinned down 360 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 4: enough that I always just describe it as it was 361 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 4: kind of the width or the size of my body 362 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 4: cavity I was. My left elbow was sticking out but 363 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 4: my right but my left hand was near my left hip. 364 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 4: My right elbow was underneath me. My hand was kind 365 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 4: of cross my chest, and I couldn't lift my head 366 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 4: to turn. It was that tight, But I didn't feel 367 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 4: like I was being squeezed, if that makes sense. 368 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: So did you think to yourself, they got to get 369 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: me out of here for me to survive, or did 370 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: you think to yourself, it's gonna take time. This is 371 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,159 Speaker 1: a logistical nightmare, but they will get to me and 372 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: I will be fine. 373 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 2: No. 374 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 4: One of my guys from my dorm got to me 375 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 4: pretty quick, and I was screaming. I said, grab the guys, let's, 376 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,159 Speaker 4: you know, lift these logs off me. I didn't know 377 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 4: what was on top of me. I didn't know what 378 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 4: it looked like, but I knew I needed to get 379 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 4: out of there. I was in pain. I was I 380 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 4: had broken There was a log across my elbow. My 381 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 4: doctor later told me it was in twenty pieces. So 382 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 4: three bones got broken up. I shot at my femur 383 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 4: punctured and collapse where I long last right of my liver, 384 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 4: cracked both my cheekbones. So I was I would be 385 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 4: willing to bet I was in shock because I wasn't 386 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 4: in extreme pain, but you know, I was going through it. 387 00:23:55,240 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: So they get you out after four hours, and then 388 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: they take you to which hospital, Saint Joseph, and then 389 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: you're there for several weeks, and then what happened right. 390 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 4: Then I went home. I had started rehab right away, 391 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 4: but I continued rehab on my leg and my elbow 392 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 4: probably for the next till I think they end of 393 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 4: March early April. 394 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 1: That elbow seems to be your primary focus, because you 395 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 1: bring that up a lot. That one was bad. 396 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 4: It was that's what kept me under there for so long. 397 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 4: There was literally a log on top of my elbow. 398 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: And how did you feel when all this was over 399 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: about what had happened? 400 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 4: To be honest, you know, for the first I was 401 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 4: in ICU for six days, I didn't know somebody died. 402 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 4: You know. They got me out of they literally they 403 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 4: pulled me out of stack. They told me to lift 404 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 4: my head, and they drugged me out of there, put 405 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 4: me on a backboard and got me a hospital. And 406 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 4: I was in ICU for six days, so I didn't 407 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 4: find out people had passed away until six days later. 408 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 4: And it was a blessing in some ways, because you know, 409 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 4: I didn't I have so many friends. They couldn't talk 410 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 4: about it afterwards. 411 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: Do you use stuff on it? Would you want the 412 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: university to bring it back and sanction itia property supervisor? 413 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 4: As long as the parents were okay with it and 414 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 4: it was safe. 415 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 8: Yeah, to come up with the right character, mister Michael Barry, 416 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 8: That's how I found my. 417 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: First ten wives long. 418 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 4: Wrong. 419 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 5: So there's a tweet. 420 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: That John Thune from Sandy from South Dakota posted November 421 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: eight of twenty sixteen, and he said Donald Trump should 422 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately. 423 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: Now that does not sit well with Trump supporters, as 424 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: you might imagine. 425 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 5: That is. 426 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: That is not being well received. I am not going 427 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: to endorse John Thune and tell you that he's going 428 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: to be a good partner for Donald Trump, because I 429 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: don't know that to be true, and I think his 430 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: temptations will be too grand. I spent a lot of 431 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: time today talking through in communications with people, why wouldn't 432 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: he just do what Trump asked him to do. Trump 433 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:03,239 Speaker 1: just won in a big way. And the answer is this, 434 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: It's not as simple as it looks. Remember when I 435 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: told you again and again that naivete is what is 436 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 1: our biggest problem. You keep thinking that John Thune is 437 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 1: out for what's best for this country, and you keep 438 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: thinking that John Thune sees the power in this country 439 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: to be based in your consent, in your votes. Neither 440 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: of those is true. Almost every person in government would 441 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: allow this country to burn to the ground if it 442 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: benefited them personally. And you've got to understand that. Until 443 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: you can understand that, then you're never going to understand 444 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 1: why they do what they do. Remember, they're not like you, 445 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: and you're not like them. This is like you're studying 446 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: a whole different species from your own. So first of all, 447 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: they're not out to do what's best for the country. 448 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: And number two, they do not perceive you as their boss. 449 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: Our constitution does, but they do not. They perceive that 450 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: you are a constant nuisance. They love being senators. You 451 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,479 Speaker 1: have no idea what a great life it is. You 452 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: have no idea. They are daily told by staffers of 453 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: their own choosing how smart they are, how clever they are. 454 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: They're daily being honored in their home state. They're being 455 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: begged to be fitted, you know, please come back to 456 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: whatever state and come to this little town and bestow 457 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: your glory on us by being here. And they have 458 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: old staff of people schedulers, and also and no we 459 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: can't do it, then we do it. We'll come there. 460 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: They're introduced as if they're the greatest person in the 461 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: history of mankind. Truth is, for ninety of them, nobody 462 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: in the country knows who they are. I could read 463 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: you some of the names and you'd go and if 464 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: I gave you the name of them or a professional 465 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: baseball player, you wouldn't know which was well, the professor, 466 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: you'd know because if it was, if it sounded Dominican, 467 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: you know, as a professional baseball player, but nobody knows 468 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: whose people are but within their own little club. And 469 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: you will often hear the Senate referred to as a 470 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: as a clubby atmosphere. One thing you need to know, 471 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: it's not Republicans versus Democrats. Throw that out. It is 472 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: us versus them, and they view it as them versus us. 473 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: You are the enemy. They don't want you to know that, 474 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: and they typically won't say it unless you catch them 475 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: when they get mad. Arlen Spector said it. There have 476 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: been a few on their way out they'll say it, 477 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: but what ends up happening is once they're out the door, 478 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: then they're free to say and do. Paul Ryan, Oh, 479 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: people thought I never liked Paul Ryan, never trusted him. 480 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: Paul Ryan leadership positioned Republican Party in the House. The 481 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: minute he got out, he starts cashing in and doing 482 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: everything he could to keep the corporate media and government 483 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: from having to listen to you. You annoy them. You 484 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: don't know as much as they do. You're you're you're 485 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: simple minded. You are full of biases and cravings and opinions, 486 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: and none of it matters you're all out there just 487 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw says this all the time. You're all just idiots. 488 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: You're listening to those talk show hosts and these people 489 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: firing you up. But none of it is true. That's 490 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: that's that's what they believe. They believe that only they 491 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: who are meeting with the heads of the companies that 492 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: are writing in the checks, only they understand why the 493 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: big businesses need to be bailed out. Only they need 494 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: to Only they understand why they have to take your 495 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 1: money and send it to Hamas and send it to Ukraine. 496 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: Only that you don't understand. You can't understand how the 497 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: real world works. You're just down there pulling a paycheck. 498 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: You don't grasp the important things that they are doing. 499 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: That's how these people look at this. That is absolutely 500 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: how these people look at this. All right, That's all 501 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: I have to say about the Senate. Time will tell 502 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: a lot of people have come around on Trump. There 503 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: are people that were very close to Trump in sixteen 504 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: that now hate him, Michael Cohen, for instance, And there 505 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: are people like me who did not like him or 506 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: worked against him and are now big supporters. Kelly and 507 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 1: Conway is another one of those. She was on the 508 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: cruise team. So one thing about Trump is he will 509 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: turn on someone who was a friend if he feels 510 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: that person is no longer loyal. But the flip side 511 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: of that, he will make friends with former enemies if 512 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: he feels some good can be done. It's very transactional. 513 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: He's very mission focused. So I can't tell you whether 514 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: to like or not like the John Thune choice. I'm 515 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: certainly not going to put my credibility behind him because 516 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: I know what really drives him to the extent that 517 00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 1: it is in his own personal best interests to go 518 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: along with Trump. If and when that is the case, 519 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: he will do it. And that's all you can expect. 520 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: But do not be naive. Do not believe that he 521 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: in any way is a public servant out to do 522 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: not believe that he respects the results of the Trump election. 523 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: That's not how these people work. They will work behind 524 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: the scenes. And you're still gonna have John Cornyn in there. 525 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: Weaseling around, knifing people in the back and out to 526 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 1: get you because now he's got a vendetta. You kept 527 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: him from having his powerful position, which he's so desperately 528 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 1: wanted to wield. His power because that's what these people do, 529 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: that's what these people do.