1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and low. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 2: What we've got here is failure, mil kate. 4 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 3: Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 3: knowledgeable about the past and didn't you know, may not 6 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 3: have even known that. You know, America firsters pac Madison 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 3: Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi 8 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 3: Germany rally. 9 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: You said over the weekend, referring to it, there's a 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: direct parallel to a big rally that. 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 2: Happened in the mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square Garden. 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 2: it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes? 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: I do, Yes, I do. 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 3: The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. 16 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 4: The only garbage I see floating down there is just supporters. 17 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: His demonizational scene is unconstable, and. 18 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 3: You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I 19 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 3: call the basket of deplorable. 20 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 5: You know, that's a little bit old, that shot that 21 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 5: sharts a couple of months old. 22 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: And if you want to really see. 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 5: Something, that said, take a look at what happened. 24 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 2: We bleed the same blood. 25 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 5: We share the same home, and we salute the same 26 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,279 Speaker 5: great American flag. 27 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: We are one people, one family. 28 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 5: And one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 5: and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 5: our cores and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever 31 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 5: seen in this country before, larger than they've ever I've 32 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 5: seen in any country. And the Republican Party has really 33 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 5: become the Party of inclusion, and that's something very nice 34 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 5: about that. 35 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 2: Can we just take a moment. I'm fifty four. If 36 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 2: you were my age, GNR was our Beatles. I don't 37 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: need to hear it from you that grew up with 38 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: the Beatles. I'm just telling you. GNR was ubiquitous. They 39 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 2: were everywhere all the time. You listened to them on 40 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 2: the radio. You it was really the only place you 41 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: could get music back then. Somebody maybe had a cassette tape. 42 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: If you were in a public place, if there was 43 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: a festival, if there was a sporting event, man, it 44 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: was GNR actual road. I mean it was. They were 45 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: so darn big. It is hard to imagine. I mean, 46 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: I don't know who's that big today because the eighties 47 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: had brought in this this a new wave, which was 48 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 2: just basically a shaving the edges off of disco and 49 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 2: calling it pop, but it was really disco. You can 50 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 2: go back and look at it mathematically, the way the 51 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 2: music is structured, so many the glam version of it. Anyway, 52 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 2: we didn't. We're going to talk about terrorism in America today, 53 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 2: which is what's going on across the country, who's funding it, 54 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 2: how it should be dealt with, why it matters. But 55 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: first I want to take you back to nineteen eighty 56 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: eight because we're also in about that era, in that mode. 57 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: In nineteen eighty eight, the largest grossing film of the 58 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 2: year was rain Man. Follow Me Here for a Moment. 59 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: Rainman was nominated for eight awards at the sixty first 60 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman, 61 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: Best Original screenpay Play. I am not a Tom Cruise fan, 62 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: not at all, but I think he is so good 63 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 2: in Tropic Thunder, in a role that's outside the norm 64 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: for him, which is why I like it, and it's awesome. 65 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 2: And I think he is so good in rain Men. 66 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 2: He's got you so twisted off, bent out of shape, 67 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 2: aggravated by his character in rain Man that you almost 68 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 2: wonder if they starved him of sleep and food for 69 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: days to get him that edgy to play that role. 70 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: The movie is so incredibly good, it's just wonderful. It's 71 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: such a frame of reference. You know, if Judge Watner's 72 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: name is mentioned, or if somebody is just too locked 73 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 2: in on doing something at a certain time and refuses 74 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 2: to be the character that was Dustin Hawkman in that film, 75 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: it really moves the conversation forward because it gives you 76 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 2: a frame of reference to talk about certain obsessive, compulsive behaviors. 77 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 2: That was before we started referring to people, including ourselves, 78 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 2: as somewhere on the spectrum, which I think most people 79 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 2: are somewhere on the spectrum, including and especially high performing individuals. 80 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 2: Elon Musk is way out there on the spectrum. But 81 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: then again, you're not a normal guy if you build 82 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 2: Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink and the Boring Company and 83 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 2: everything that he's done, and you want to father a 84 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 2: bunch of kids to you know, further the race or 85 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: the species or whatever else. But thank God for him, 86 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: we need people like that. They move They moved the 87 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 2: ball forward anyway, Dustin Hoffman's character was was really an 88 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 2: opportunity for us to kind of to put our arms 89 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 2: around and begin to grasp this concept of not even 90 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 2: retardation because we had dealt with that, this concept of 91 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 2: people that are somewhere on the spectrum and yet still 92 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 2: able to function. But the reason I brought this up 93 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 2: is there is a scene in the movie where the 94 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 2: two of them are in the phone booth. Remember Tom 95 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: Cruise has basically kidnapped him, and they call back to 96 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 2: the doctor. Remember that, and Dustin Hoffman farts. It's just 97 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 2: right after the farts scene in the phone booth. 98 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 4: Oh far, Charlie Babbot, I'm home far did you fart? 99 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 4: Did you fart? How can you stare in that my 100 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 4: own mind? How can you stand now? 101 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 2: The reason I told you that is I just learned 102 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: today that Dustin Hoffman did fart and it wasn't in 103 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 2: the script and they improvised that. How awesome is that? 104 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: Don't worry, we'll talk about the riots. I just want 105 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 2: to start with that because I think it's a great story. 106 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show, It's one of 107 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: my all time favorite songs, Just a great pure beautiful song, 108 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: and yet I will play it for people and they 109 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: will always say, well, I know it's Frank Sinatra, come 110 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 2: back up again, ramon Joy beyond. I agree. It sounds something. 111 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 6: Like I can't wait, such a great era of music, 112 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 6: such a great style. 113 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 2: See it's me, but it's Inglbert. When I was a kid, 114 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 2: I thought that was the coolest name ever. And you 115 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: got to figure, you know, usually like if you have 116 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: a Jewish name, a long Jewish name, an ashconasm name 117 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 2: from from Eastern Europe, Polish, Russian, lot, being Bulgarian, Czech, 118 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: they would shorten those, They'd take off all the consonants 119 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 2: at the end. Make it simple. You know you don't 120 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 2: you don't want people John Denver toda. You don't want 121 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 2: people to be intimidated of your name. Makes it hard 122 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 2: enough to get their attention with just your art. You 123 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: don't want to make it harder. You don't want to 124 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 2: make yourself less accessible to them. But the funny thing 125 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 2: about Engelbert Humperding is he did the opposite his real name. 126 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 2: Extra credit if you say it out loud, real quick, 127 00:08:53,160 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: Arnold George Dorsey. He actually started his profession career under 128 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: the name Gary Dorsey, which was close enough to his 129 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 2: real name, But then he found that he wanted to 130 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: make a splash, and so he came up with the 131 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 2: name Engelbert Humperdink, which was actually a real name of 132 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 2: a German composer. The composer you will know, whether you 133 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 2: knew his name or not, as the composer of the 134 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 2: opera Hanselin Gretlor Gretel. All right, enough of that to 135 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 2: the real issue. So President Trump has redirected the focus 136 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 2: away from the actual street terrorists and the activities they're 137 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 2: engaged in, and instead focused on who's funding this, who's 138 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 2: organizing this. Now, I think this is where we have 139 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 2: to apply our big boy brain, and that means we 140 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 2: have to pull ourselves back from the natural and very 141 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: predictable guttural visceral reaction to what we see. We are 142 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 2: an orderly people, We are a structured people. And when 143 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 2: you look at cultures historically around the world, you think 144 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: of the Germans, who are very known for this. You 145 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,719 Speaker 2: think of the Japanese who are incredibly well known for this. 146 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: The Germans and some of the German cultures in the Austrians, 147 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 2: for instance, the English. We like structure, we like organization. 148 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 2: We like rules and we want them followed. It gives 149 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 2: us comfort, and I will tell you that investors, for instance, 150 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: tend to follow the lead on this. International investors have 151 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 2: long invested in the United States because there was stability, consistency, 152 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 2: rule of law. There is a greater upside in third 153 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 2: world countries because your year over year return you have 154 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 2: an opportunity to make more because the ceiling may not 155 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 2: be as high, but the floor is so low. Well. 156 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 2: There are also cultures that are less orderly and structured. Historically, 157 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 2: that's been a problem in Africa. In terms of Europe, 158 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: that's less true. In Italy and France. They're not famous 159 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 2: for being structured and orderly. They're famous for being more artistic, 160 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 2: for having more sensibilities in the arts, for instance, as 161 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 2: opposed to sort of the stereotypical German. Of course, there 162 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 2: are exceptions to all of these rules, but they tend 163 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 2: to be rather true. I visited Japan for the first 164 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: time at Christmas this past year, and it was amazing 165 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 2: the extent to which everything I have studied about Japan 166 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 2: going back thousands of years was just as true today. 167 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 2: And I like it. You either love or hate Singapore 168 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 2: depending on how much you like the idea of structure, orderliness, 169 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: and cleanliness. All by way of saying, to the average 170 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,479 Speaker 2: American watching what is happening in the streets, watching destruction 171 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 2: and mayhem and chaos and disorder, violence, lawlessness, we react 172 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 2: in the same way you react if someone is abusing 173 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 2: a child or a dog, you react without thinking. Or 174 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 2: if there is a person stranded in a house, you 175 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 2: immediately want to go in and help. You want to 176 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: fix it, you want to change it. All of the 177 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 2: people who manipulate your behaviors on their behalf know that 178 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 2: you feel this way. They know that these images play 179 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 2: out this way. Now, that's not to say that the 180 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 2: idiots who are engaged in the violence are completely operating 181 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 2: without understanding what they're doing. These are people who enjoy 182 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 2: If you watch how they strut down the street, they 183 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 2: feel like they are engaged in a great war. They're 184 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 2: really really proud of themselves. They really are. They think 185 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 2: that they are doing something very important. They really and 186 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 2: they're enjoying it. Smashing stuff up, tearing stuff up, burning things. 187 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 2: They're part of a crowd. Yeah, ooh, it's like a 188 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 2: rave concert. Oh yeah, right, we're rolling this together. That's 189 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: the concert mentality what Trump is managing to do. And 190 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 2: we're going to talk in the next segment about why 191 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: that is. Is change you away from the anger that 192 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 2: you're naturally feeling there, which is healthy. It's important because 193 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 2: the less has to support that, and that drags them 194 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 2: into being associated the filth with these types of people, 195 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 2: and that makes Middle America think you're not like me, 196 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 2: You're weird. I can't support you. But now we've moved 197 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 2: the focus to the financiers and the coordinators. The reason 198 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 2: that's important is because a it makes everyone understand what 199 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 2: you're seeing is not grassroots up, it's top down. That's 200 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 2: the way the left operates. But it also gets to 201 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 2: how you actually stop this. If the goal is to 202 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 2: stop the nonsense, there is an argument to be made. 203 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 2: You may or may not agree with it, but there 204 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 2: is an argument that's being made, and I've heard it 205 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: made at the top levels of our government today, that 206 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: you stop this at the top, you cut off the 207 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 2: head of the snake. You don't stop it as it's 208 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 2: popping up as little flash fires in city after city. 209 00:14:53,760 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 2: You're talking about, Well, I'm sorry to and I'll have 210 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 2: to hear from some of you, but I'll block you. 211 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 2: It'll be fine. I thought you weren't a breaking news show. 212 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 2: We're not, but this one hits, and so we have 213 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 2: to tell you. Brian Douglas Wilson has passed earlier today 214 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 2: at eighty two years old. In nine days it would 215 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: have been eighty three. And we've talked a lot more 216 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 2: about music today than we normally do. And if I 217 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 2: had my way, we talk about music all the time, 218 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: and how it affects our lives and our culture, and 219 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 2: how it's a representation of art, and how we once 220 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 2: had great poets and now we call them songwriters, and 221 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: you know the artistry behind musicianship and instruments. But I 222 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 2: realize I do that on the morning show. I realize 223 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 2: on the evening show that most of the cases where 224 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 2: you hear us, if you listen to the radio, we 225 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 2: are in a lineup of traditional talk that is consistently 226 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 2: about what's going on in Washington, d C. And what 227 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 2: Fox News is covering. So I try to handcuff my 228 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 2: self and play within the rules. But I must say this. 229 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 2: The Barenaked Ladies tribute to Brian Wilson's one of the 230 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 2: greatest tributes in all of music. I believe that. I 231 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 2: know it's hard to put Barenked Ladies in anything real 232 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 2: serious to start with because of their name, but I 233 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: think it's fantastic, partly because I think Brian Wilson is 234 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 2: one of the greatest American artists of all time. Songwriter, singer, vocalists, 235 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: the concept of vocal layering that any of which you 236 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 2: saw for decades. He sort of pioneered the idea that 237 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 2: the Beatles basically worshiped him, as did every other artist 238 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 2: for decades. The influence he had not just on the 239 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 2: Beach Boys, but on American and britpop for decades, really 240 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 2: extending into today. Those beautiful harmonies, the blood harmonies early 241 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 2: on incredible for a lot of you out there, The Beatles, 242 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 2: the Beatles, the uh easy to get them mixed up 243 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 2: pet sounds and and and the Beach Boys. That was 244 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 2: your teenage years, that was your your growing up. That's 245 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 2: the soundtrack of your life. And you know, at the 246 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 2: older I've gotten, the more I embraced the fact that 247 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 2: sometimes people are troubled and what troubles them may be 248 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 2: part of what makes them great in an odd way, 249 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 2: and that's an that's a that's a weird deal. It 250 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 2: really is. And and you wonder what they have been 251 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 2: happy just being normal like the rest of us. Brian 252 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 2: Wilson was not normal. He was cursed with with this 253 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 2: incredible artistic sensibility. Uh, he was also cursed with with 254 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 2: incredible instability emotionally and and he had a difficult life 255 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 2: because of it. But we're the better for his art. 256 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 2: And I'll leave it there. So let's talk about why 257 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 2: President Trump is focusing now on the people who are 258 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 2: coordinating and funding these protests. Oacom's razor would tell you 259 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 2: that the simplest answer to get you from A to 260 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 2: B is he wants the protest to be over because 261 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 2: they're not good for our country. They look bad. They 262 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 2: arguably reduce his stature when he goes abroad, your country's 263 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 2: on fire, it doesn't look good. It distracts from his agenda. 264 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 2: He's got the one big, beautiful bill he's trying to 265 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 2: get past. He's got reforms. He wants to make advancements 266 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 2: in normalizing and legitimizing crypto. He wants to drive inflation down, 267 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 2: in the standard of living up. He wants to ensure 268 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 2: our energy supply is secured. There are things he wants 269 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 2: to do that are very important. He wants to stabilize 270 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:13,360 Speaker 2: our trade relations by making them more appropriate in defending 271 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 2: American interests. He wants to bring an end to the 272 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 2: war in Ukraine and Putin. There's a meme going around 273 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 2: where putin it's Putent offering to resolve the dispute between 274 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 2: Elon and Trump. These things are distractions from a very 275 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 2: important agenda. And you only have a few days that 276 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 2: you're president. It's not many in the life of the republic. 277 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 2: It's not many at all. And he wants he wants 278 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 2: to be a president of accomplishment. It's very important to him. 279 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 2: He's not there to get to be president. He's there 280 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 2: to be a man of great accomplishment. And these things 281 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: distract him by shining a light on the people with 282 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 2: more to loose. Look, you can put these guys in 283 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 2: their graves that are down there running their motorcycles into 284 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 2: the cops, and there's another one ready to step up. 285 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 2: These are not smart people. These are people who get 286 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 2: tattoos on their face and don't even think about the 287 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 2: fact that they're going to regret it. These are people 288 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 2: who don't have career options, professional options. Most of them 289 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 2: are unstable. They may or may not be seeing three 290 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 2: therapists right now. These are people who are making all 291 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 2: sorts of bad life decisions, fathering children they don't raise, 292 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 2: or laying down with men and having children by them 293 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 2: when you know the dad won't be around. These are 294 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 2: hard people to wrangle, so other than killing them or 295 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 2: putting them in prison, there's not a lot you can do. 296 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 2: And there are a lot of them, but to be clear, 297 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 2: they can't operate without organization. There may be more of them, 298 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 2: but you withdraw the funding and you withdraw the direction. 299 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 2: They are actually a hierarchical structure. CNN and Fox and 300 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 2: all these people are following these folks, and that gives 301 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 2: them more legitimacy. Right, I'm on TV all day. You 302 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 2: ever been in a movie, I mean, you're excited, look 303 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 2: at me on the big screen. So they're out there. 304 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: They're being filmed all day. So it keeps them going, 305 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 2: it sustains them and invigorates them. But if you watch, 306 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: there's guys with bullhorns and they're running things. All right, guys, 307 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: keep moving, keep moving, move over here, all we're gonna 308 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 2: go over here. We're gonna turn down here. Those are 309 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 2: KPO's within new organization. What Trump is trying to do now, 310 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 2: which is less about winning over the public's support of 311 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 2: how you deal with the protest, is bringing the protest 312 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 2: to an end. He is threatening the Chrissy Waltons, He 313 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 2: is threatening the Walton family heir and the George Soros says, 314 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 2: And believe it or not, those people have a lot 315 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 2: to lose, and they are mindful. They love playing the 316 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 2: game with their steads, with their proxies out in the street. 317 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 2: When that turns on them, you'll watch them reduce to puddles. 318 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 2: They have the best lawyer's money can buy. They don't 319 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 2: want Trump turning the artillery on them figuratively, not literally. 320 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 2: They certainly don't want it literally. But watching C, watching C, 321 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 2: and I wouldn't be shocked if you don't see some results, 322 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 2: if you don't see some things changing. So what the 323 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 2: President is doing, while it's less gratifying because it's slower moving, 324 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 2: is he's focusing on shutting off the supply chain, because 325 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 2: the supply chain starts at the top, not at the bottom. 326 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 2: And let's hope it's successful. 327 00:22:54,480 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: You've got the Michael Berry Show, the passing that Brian Wilson. 328 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 2: Is noteworthy on many levels, his musical acumen, his influence 329 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 2: on culture. You know, isn't it interesting the early sixties 330 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 2: that brought us the Beach Boys, through the mid sixties 331 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 2: and into the seventies, and Brian Wilson would go in 332 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 2: and out of the Beach Boys as he wouldn't join 333 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 2: them on tour. He was suffering a mental struggle, a collapse, 334 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 2: a depression, and yet he continued to write throughout all 335 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 2: of that. But he glamorized California culture, the Beach Boys, 336 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 2: the beach culture, the convertible soaking up the sun, the 337 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 2: beautiful people, and the whole world wanted to come to 338 00:23:53,760 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 2: California to experience this culture. Fast forward sixty years, It's 339 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 2: not that California anymore. It's illegal aliens who want to 340 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 2: burn the place down. It's illegal aliens declaring that Mexico 341 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: owns this and so you need to get out of 342 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 2: the way because they own it, because somehow they're Mexican 343 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,199 Speaker 2: even though they live here, and there's going to be 344 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 2: a reconquista. It's violence, it's bloodshed, it's burnings, it's third 345 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 2: world country standards. A bunch of people from the Third 346 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 2: World engaged in third world behaviors, making California look like 347 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 2: a third world country. There's no law, there's no order, 348 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 2: there's no stability. It's filth and fire. You've got the 349 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 2: guy riding in the motorcycle with a face mask on, 350 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 2: hoisting the Mexican flag. The passing of Brian Wilson reflects 351 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 2: in that sense not to be two over the top, 352 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 2: a passing of a generation. My dad's eighty five, Brian 353 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 2: Wilson eighty two, a passing of a generation in the 354 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 2: world that they lived in, a world that in the 355 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 2: sixties they were coming of age, going to work making 356 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: their mark, whether it be as a maintenance worker at 357 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: DuPont and Orange, or as a songwriter, artist, or doctor, engineer, architect, 358 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 2: small business owner, army ranger, navy sailor. It really is 359 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 2: a moment to take stock and ask yourself, how did 360 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 2: we end up in this situation? What role do we play? 361 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 2: What role does Brian Wilson's generation play. I'll tell you 362 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 2: this that guilt is our worst enemy. Guilt is the 363 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 2: tool that the Left used to pry you away from 364 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 2: your natural heritage, from your common sense, from your culture, 365 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 2: from your ancestry from the pride and who you are. 366 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 2: Pride such an interesting word. Here we are, It's Pride month. 367 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 2: We made a little Pride month reference, did Darryl Kunda 368 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 2: on our team, to reflect the fact that, Yeah, June 369 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 2: is pride month for us too. 370 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 7: It's pride month at our grade country and here at 371 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 7: the Michael Berry Show, we embrace it, we celebrate it, 372 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 7: we honor it pride. On June twenty first, seventeen eighty eight, 373 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 7: the US Constitution was officially ratified Pride That. On June second, 374 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 7: eighteen sixty five, the Civil War officially ended Pride that. 375 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 7: On June fourth, nineteen nineteen, Congress passed the nineteenth Amendment 376 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 7: granting women the right of a And shall we never 377 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 7: forget d Day June sixth, nineteen forty four, the. 378 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 2: Bravest men of all generations storm the beaches of Normandy 379 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 2: and what would be. 380 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 7: The largest troop invasion in military history. 381 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 2: So celebrate pride. 382 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 7: Whatever that means to you, but always give thanks to 383 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 7: those before us who gave everything for the Red, white, 384 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 7: and blue. 385 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 2: So how did we end up with our cities on fire? 386 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: How didn't we end up with police chiefs who won't 387 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 2: do much, if anything about it, because they report to 388 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 2: mayors who will defend those people and leave officers to die. 389 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,199 Speaker 2: How did we end up with governors who refused to 390 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 2: send in the national Guard to keep their largest city safe, 391 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 2: second largest city in America safe, all the while they 392 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 2: would send in the national Guard or law enforcement officers 393 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 2: to harass Christian schools or schools who wouldn't mask two 394 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 2: year olds or Americans Californians who were just following the 395 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 2: law but didn't vote Democrat. How did we end up there? 396 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 2: And the thing it's important that we ask ourselves a question. 397 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 8: When you say, yeah, I'd like to go back nineteen 398 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 8: sixty five and Brian Wilson, I like to go back 399 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 8: to the way things used to be. I like to 400 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 8: go back to when we had, oh, I don't know, 401 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 8: when you could call customer service and they spoke English 402 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 8: and they were located in America. I like to go 403 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 8: back to when the hardware store was locally owned. I'd 404 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 8: like to go back to fill in the blank. Companies 405 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 8: didn't preach it me. 406 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 2: Look, it's not very popular for me to say it's 407 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 2: good to have a boogeyman that is somewhere over there 408 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 2: that we point to as the problem. That's what Palestinians 409 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 2: are raised to believe. Yeah, I know we don't have 410 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 2: running water in our hovel, but it's those damned Jews. 411 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 2: So your job is to grow up and kill those 412 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 2: damn Jews. I don't think that damn Jews, or why 413 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 2: you don't have running water. I don't think the damn Jews, 414 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 2: or why the man who fathered you died in a 415 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 2: kamikaze attack where the bombs trapped to him. I don't 416 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 2: think anybody bothers to remember his name. I don't think 417 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 2: that's the reason this kid can't eat. It's because his 418 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 2: dad was a dumb ass. I think it's important that 419 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 2: we not just blame everybody else, and we start asking 420 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 2: ourselves the question. Sure the communists are out there, Sure 421 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 2: they're doing everything they can to destroy our way of life. 422 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 2: Sure they have plenty of foot soldiers. But how did 423 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 2: we get there? How did we get to the point 424 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 2: that Republicans allowed illegal immigration didn't do anything about it. 425 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 2: How did we get to the point that Democrats did. 426 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 2: How did we get to the point that our schools 427 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 2: were lost, our universities were lost. I'll tell you how 428 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 2: we got there because we weren't as rough and tough 429 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 2: as our fathers and their fathers before them. Brian Wilson's 430 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 2: generation was not as tough as his father's generation because 431 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 2: what we were taught to believe was white supremacists or 432 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 2: evil or backward or well, you know, that's how things 433 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 2: were back then. Many of those things were better, law 434 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: and order. You got out of line, you were dealt with. Yeah, 435 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 2: we don't want to do that. We don't want to 436 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 2: raise our kids like that. What like we were raised, 437 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 2: why don't we raise our kids away we were raised? 438 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 2: Were we raised wrong? Well, my dad pulled his belt out, 439 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 2: whoop my butt? Well, how come you don't whip your 440 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 2: kids butt? Well, you know you can't nowadays? Who says, 441 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 2: why did we allow the left to win? And if 442 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 2: we admit we've allowed the left to win up until now, 443 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 2: why don't we starting tomorrow prevent the left from winning? 444 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 2: Do you know why Donald Trump is so damn popular 445 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 2: because he's saying what we all believe and most of us, frankly, 446 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 2: aren't living in our own lives,