1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 2: It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show. 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 3: Yes it is, Yes, it is honored if you would 6 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 3: let us into your life to join the show today. 7 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: Well, I know you hate when I do this, but 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: I need to cut in here because. 9 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 3: I don't want to run out of time this league. 10 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 3: I know some of you really like the Sonic branding. 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 3: You like the the you know that's that's the kickoff 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 3: to you Friday drive home. Hey, let me tell you 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 3: something from me to you, my heart to yours. If 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: you just busted butt for a week and you just finished, 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 3: and you just walked out of the construction site or 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 3: the warehouse or the school where you teach, or clean 17 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 3: the floors for that matter, because we got those listeners too, 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 3: Or if you just parked your eighteen wheeler after a 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 3: long haul, or maybe you just pulled over to to 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 3: catch a little shut eye for a while because you've 21 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 3: hit that number I forget what they call it, when 22 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 3: you've had your mount and now you have to shut 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 3: it down and sleep for a while. Or you just 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 3: finished your shift at the police department or the fire. 25 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: Station or the plant. Man, be proud of who you 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: are and what you've just done. 27 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 3: I hear a lot of folks because they feel comfortable 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 3: venting to me, and they feel like, Man, why do 29 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 3: I work so hard when the liberals are giving away 30 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: everything I work for? Why do I work so hard 31 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 3: when all I get is called a racist and all 32 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 3: these different things. Let me tell you something. Tune that 33 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 3: out sticks and stones. That's those people. I'm gonna tell 34 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 3: you something. The reason to do the right thing and 35 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 3: bust butt, work hard and provide for your family, and 36 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 3: be a good employee or a good boss, and work 37 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 3: hard and be proud of the work you do. The 38 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 3: reason to do all that is not to make AOC proud. 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 3: It's not to make Jasmine Crockett proud, or Nancy Pelosi 40 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 3: or Gavin Newsommer. Hey, Tim Wallas, you didn't really want 41 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 3: their approval. 42 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: You don't have it. 43 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 3: You got nothing but criticism from them. But if you 44 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 3: don't go stick your hand in the hole, they can't 45 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 3: bite you. You don't have to listen to what they 46 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 3: have to say about you. Because I'll bet if you're 47 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 3: anything like me. What you've got to say about them 48 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 3: is a whole hell of a lot worse than what 49 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 3: they've got to say about you. Don't let those people 50 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 3: get to you. Those people do not in any way 51 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: diminish the sacrifices you make, the hard work you undertake, 52 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 3: the smart things you do, the strategic things you do, 53 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 3: the kind things you do. I feel so bad because 54 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: white people, especially black listeners and Hispanic listeners, doesn't bother 55 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 3: them as bad because because they everybody's had somebody in 56 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 3: their family that's been pulling in in for a long time. 57 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: They're used to it. 58 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 3: They got thicker skin. But these sweet white people, they'll 59 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 3: email me, and you minorities know what I'm talking about, 60 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 3: and they'll email me and they say, how come them 61 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 3: to call me a racist? I've done this and I've 62 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 3: done this, and I don't think sweetheart, listen, they're not 63 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: calling you a racist because you're a racist. 64 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: They're calling you a racist because it gets to you 65 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: and you're proving it right now. See. 66 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 3: They're bad people, and their only way to sleep at 67 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 3: night is to keep you on your heels, to keep 68 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 3: you afraid to criticize it. This is a great opportunity 69 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 3: to say there, I say it, There, I say it. Ramon, 70 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: this is a great opportunity to take a moment and say, 71 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 3: damn it. Things are going great in this country. We 72 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 3: are participating in a modern day revolution, a modern day revolution. 73 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 3: We're taking back our country. We're working hard. We're not 74 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 3: just electing Donald Trump. We're not just electing better people 75 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 3: to office, local, county, state, federal. We're taking back our schools. 76 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 3: We're taking back our churches, but dead government. We're taking 77 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 3: back our own homes. As parents, we're being parents again. 78 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 3: We're teaching our kids our values. We're sharing our faith 79 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 3: because we understand, we understand what's at stake. 80 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: We are unashamed and fearless in speaking out and speaking up. 81 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: We're more vocal. We're more proud. Yes, proud, pride go 82 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 3: up before the fall. That's a different form of pride. 83 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 3: That is boastfulness, that is immodesty, that is greed and 84 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 3: avarice and self dealing with narcissism. 85 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: I'm speaking of pride as in that emotion you have. 86 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: That when you see things of which you approve and 87 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 3: you care deeply about, you extol their virtues. You know 88 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 3: that very word has been co opted by different communities 89 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 3: to change the entirety of its meaning. Look, I'm not 90 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 3: your self help guru. I'm not your pick me up 91 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 3: drink or pill. I'm not your raw raw patriotism guy. 92 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 3: Although I am all those things. I'm just a guy 93 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 3: trying to look out there, taking a lot of feedback 94 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 3: from a lot of you and saying, hey, wait a minute, 95 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 3: let me tell you something. Life's what happens when you're 96 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 3: on the what's the line, romon, Life's what happens while 97 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 3: you're busy making other plans. People attribute that to John Lennon. 98 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 3: It's not those from nineteen sixty seven, before he heard 99 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 3: it in the seventies, it wasn't John Lennon. 100 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:12,679 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not gonna fight with you on this. Okay, 101 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: please don't ruin my moment. 102 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 3: Have in a moment, Please don't run it. But I'm 103 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: gonna tell you something. You're gonna look back on these days. 104 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 3: You're gonna look back on them, and I'd hate to 105 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 3: think you look back on these days and didn't enjoy 106 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 3: them while we were having them. I know a lot 107 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 3: of people it's like a sporting event, you know, if 108 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 3: we start celebrating the touchdown, the pick six, when we're 109 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 3: running it in we start celebrating on the fifteen yard line, 110 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 3: then we won't remember the score. Or if we start celebrating, 111 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 3: we'll get lax and they'll come back and beat us. 112 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: That's not what I mean. 113 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 3: I mean what you're doing is glorious. Take stock of it. 114 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 3: It's important we get some wins. It's important we get 115 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:54,119 Speaker 3: some wins so we understand we can win. So many 116 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 3: of our people, not you, but the naive neighbor, the 117 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 3: independent voter, or the frustrated base voter. So many people 118 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 3: were demoralized, they'd had the fight sapped out of them. 119 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 2: We have one. 120 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: We are winning. These are good days. 121 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 3: Celebrate them, Enjoy these moments, share the successes, relish them. 122 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: Not because they're going to end. We're not going to 123 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: let them end. 124 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 3: We're creating a better country, and when America's better, the 125 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 3: world is better. We're creating a better world, and that's 126 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 3: something to be proud of. You are part of that, 127 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 3: doing what you do the way you do it, taking 128 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 3: care of you and yours. Just take a moment and 129 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 3: be proud of yourself because nobody else is going to 130 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 3: tell you to. 131 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: This is the Michael Berry Show Show. 132 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 3: If you were to ask every day American, you're one 133 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 3: of the everyday Americans. But the everyday American is a 134 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 3: lot less politically connected and informed than you are. But 135 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 3: if you were to ask the everyday American what do 136 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 3: you care about? If you watch television, you'd think the 137 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 3: everyday American is very, very, very very concerned about men 138 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 3: who think they're women and women who think they're men, 139 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 3: and making sure that taxpayers are paying for them to 140 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 3: lop off their wienie and get a bunch of hormones 141 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 3: and dance around little children and take every job, and 142 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 3: for boys to go into girls locker rooms, and for 143 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 3: boys to compete against girls to the point that they 144 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 3: injure them. 145 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: And that when these trainees rape children, that's okay. 146 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 3: Let's not judge trainees, and let's make sure the trainees 147 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 3: can kill as many children praying as possible, and please 148 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 3: don't misgender them. Those are the kind of things you'd 149 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 3: think people care about. But there is what Nixon called 150 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 3: a silent majority. 151 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 4: There is. 152 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: A the vast. 153 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 3: Majority of Americans, and I think it's above sixty percent 154 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 3: on most issues. I think it may approach seventy percent 155 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: care deeply about certain things, and getting the drug cartels 156 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 3: out of our country and getting fentanyl in their drugs 157 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 3: out of our country. That matters deeply to Americans, and 158 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,599 Speaker 3: that's part of why there are a number of Republicans 159 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 3: who've changed their position on marijuana because they understand the 160 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 3: drug that scares us. Least keep it out of the 161 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,599 Speaker 3: hands of kids, and stop smoking it in public. It 162 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 3: pisses people off. You know, marijuana users are their own 163 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 3: worst enemy. What they ought to do is self regulate. 164 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 3: If you're ever in a public place, and if you 165 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 3: go to Colorado, you're gonna see it. In California, you're 166 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 3: gonna see it. If you're ever in a public place 167 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 3: and you smell marijuana, people ought to go grab that 168 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 3: guy by the ear and drag him out of the place. 169 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 3: You're ruining it for everybody. Do you know how many 170 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 3: of our listeners tell me, Hey, I'd be okay with 171 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 3: legalizing it or at least decriminalizing it, but they smoke 172 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 3: it in public. Well, places that are serious about it 173 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 3: just prevent it being smoked in public. That's not that 174 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 3: hard to do. It's not that hard to enforce because 175 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 3: it smells rancid burning rope is a nice way to say, 176 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 3: there's a whole lot worse than that. It smells filthy 177 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 3: and nasty and awful. Stop doing it in public, period, 178 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,839 Speaker 3: end the story. When you do that, then people won't 179 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 3: mind you smoking your pot. But oh no, no, we 180 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 3: got to smoke in public because we couldn't for so long. 181 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 3: Now we have to show that we can. 182 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: And so what do you do? You lose everything like 183 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: a child, Like a darned child. I want to take. 184 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 3: Stock for a moment, because you can't manage what you 185 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 3: can't measure, and I want to talk about what the 186 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 3: cab It secretaries are doing, some of whom I've been 187 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:05,839 Speaker 3: very critical of in the past, and by the way, 188 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 3: I will be again. I am in a very different position, mindset, 189 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 3: and job than many of you. And if you think 190 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 3: I'm a guy who is going to say, well, that 191 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 3: guy's a Republican, so let's root for him. Don't criticize him, Michael, 192 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 3: just criticize the Democrats. That's how you get in trouble, 193 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 3: and you end up with a guy like John Cornyn, 194 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 3: who kept getting re elected He's not going to again, 195 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 3: who kept getting re elected because he'd come home and tell. 196 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: You he was just like you. 197 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: Boy. 198 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 3: He laid loves the Lord and boots and cowboy hats 199 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 3: and dust and a six shoot, a pill, pill and everything. 200 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 3: Maybe you have a steak, good quality toilet paper rolled 201 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 3: the right way, not the wrong way. And then he 202 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 3: get to DC and cut deals with Democrats and people 203 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 3: didn't want me criticizing it. 204 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: Now people have had enough. We're going to send him away. 205 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 3: But when you take stop of this cabinet Toolsey Gabbert 206 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 3: is doing great work. Pete Hag said that what's going 207 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 3: to also be known in the Department of Defense as 208 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 3: the Department of War as it once was. He's telling 209 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 3: our warriors, hey man, we got your back. We may 210 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 3: have to send you to war. We hope we don't 211 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 3: because we're not the war miners the other side is. 212 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 3: But when we do, we're going to have your back, 213 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 3: and we're not going to have some fat lesbian woman 214 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 3: that can't carry her weight. They're besides you to risk 215 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 3: your life. We're going to have soldiers and warriors and 216 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 3: sailors and marines and corman We're going to have We're 217 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 3: going to have folks that are just as good as you. 218 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 3: Just as trained as you, just as prepared as you, 219 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 3: with the best equipment in the world to fight war. 220 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 3: We hope we don't have to, but when we do, 221 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 3: we're there to win. That's what our men and women 222 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 3: in uniform want to hear. They didn't sign up for 223 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 3: a DEI course, they didn't sign up for the runt 224 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 3: in the group. This ain't an AA meeting. This ain't 225 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 3: some you know, losers are us? Well, I thought I 226 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 3: was a boy. 227 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 1: Now I'm a girl. 228 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 3: So I've colored my hair green, put a bout to 229 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 3: my nose, sticks through my ear, and I put forty 230 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 3: hats on my face. 231 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 1: Do you all love me or hate me? What do 232 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:13,679 Speaker 1: y'all think? 233 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: Oh? We love you? 234 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: What's the name we should call you? And what are 235 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: your pronouns? 236 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 2: Well? 237 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: Have I'm decided? 238 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 3: I think I might be a furry. That's what our 239 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 3: military had become. That's nonsense. 240 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: That's gotta stop. That's got to stop. 241 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what Trump has done is not 242 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 3: only get good people to serve. He's pulled in people 243 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 3: who are untraditional. The Mike Pences were done with them. 244 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 3: I didn't like Mike Pence as his vice presidential candidate, 245 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 3: running mate the first time, because Pence is one of 246 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 3: those guys that we have seen for a long time. 247 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 3: Let me tell you who Pence was. Pence was a 248 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 3: guy who gets his haircut every week. Always that hair's 249 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 3: always got to be taken care of, gets his nails 250 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 3: polished the whole thing, gets his shoes downstairs in the 251 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 3: below the Capitol building, has the right color blue suit 252 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 3: and the right red tie, and he'll have his American flag, 253 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,199 Speaker 3: and he'll come into every meeting and say I love 254 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 3: God and I oppose abortion. They go amen, all right, 255 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,079 Speaker 3: and then he goes out and doesn't do a damn thing, 256 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 3: loses every battle to the Democrats, and doesn't care. I 257 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 3: love God and I oppose abortion, okay, and never even 258 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 3: actually tried to get abortion stop. It's just that's all 259 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 3: he'd ever say. And everybody thought, well, he's just like me. 260 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 3: He opposes abortion. Yeah, but he's not doing anything else. 261 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 3: He's not even really opposing abortion. 262 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: What Trump has done is pull. 263 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 3: But you know, he gets a lot of criticism over 264 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 3: pulling people that have been on TV at Fox. But 265 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 3: you know what's noticed, you know, I've noticed about all this. 266 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 3: There are people who know how to conduct themselves in 267 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 3: front of a camera. Janine Piro is good in front 268 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 3: of a camera. Pete Hegg said good in front of 269 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 3: a camera. Marco Rubio has turned out to be pretty 270 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 3: good in front of a camera. Of course, he spent 271 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 3: some time there before that. Christy Knowaan, she's made up 272 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 3: and ready in the whole image. And you know, the 273 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 3: only one that's not good in front of a camera 274 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 3: is Homan. And because he's so bad, it makes him great. 275 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 3: If he was any better, he'd be worse because he's 276 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 3: so authentic and raw. He's got a little speech in Pediman. 277 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 3: He's fat, kind of slur I mean, kind of has 278 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 3: a loo Hult single on and you're like, yeah, that 279 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 3: guy's kicking the legals out of here. 280 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: Get after him. And that's exactly what I want. 281 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,479 Speaker 3: I mean, there's a certain old fashioned Old West lawman 282 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 3: to him. I just want to say, I'm very proud 283 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 3: of this cabinet. I'm very proud of him. The Michael 284 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 3: Berry Show, Michael Berry Show, Well, the illegal alien dependent 285 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 3: detention centers are popping up all over it. There is 286 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 3: the corn Husker and Clink in Nebraska, and now the 287 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 3: Louisiana lock Up opening on the grounds of Angola Prison, 288 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 3: which was once dubbed the bloodiest prison in the South. 289 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 3: Partner Homeland Security says it will house some of the 290 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 3: worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens. Louisiana Lockup is 291 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,239 Speaker 3: the latest facility to be converted into an ICE attention facility, 292 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 3: after the aforementioned corn Husker Clink and Alligator Alcatraz in Florida. 293 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 3: I think they're opening another one in Florida and the 294 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 3: Speedway Slammer in Indiana. The Louisiana Lockup story from Fox News. 295 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 5: We are right outside the notorious and Gola Prison here 296 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 5: in Louisiana. A section of this prison is going to 297 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 5: be turned into an ICED attention facility and it's going 298 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 5: to be called Louisiana Lockup. 299 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 2: Now. 300 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: Fox is the. 301 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 5: First to report that fifty one illegal migrants have already 302 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 5: been moved toier. Louisiana Lockup is going to hold up 303 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 5: to four hundred and sixteen beds. The Department of Homeland 304 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 5: Security says they've partnered with the state of Louisiana. They 305 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 5: are using this unused section of the prison to detain 306 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 5: and deport some of the worst of the worst illegal migrants. Now, 307 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 5: Angola is the largest maximum security prison in the country. 308 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 5: It was once named the bloodiest prison in the South 309 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 5: for its harsh conditions in the nineteen sixties. Louisiana Lockup 310 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 5: is funded by the Big Beautiful Bill, which gave ICE 311 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 5: an additional eighty thousand detention beds to help ramp up deportations. 312 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,120 Speaker 5: DHS Secretary Christy Nomes sent us this statement, quote, thank 313 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 5: you to Governor Landry for his partnership to help remove 314 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 5: the worst of the worst out of our country. If 315 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 5: you are in America illegally, you could find yourself in 316 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 5: Seacott Cornhusker, Clink, Speedway Slammer, or Louisiana Lockup, avoid arrest 317 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 5: and self deport now using the CBP home map. And 318 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 5: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said quote, criminal illegal aliens beware, 319 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 5: Louisiana Lockup is where your time in America ends. Louisiana 320 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 5: Lockup will give ICE the space needs to lock up 321 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 5: some of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, 322 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 5: and DHS says they will be housing a violent illegal 323 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 5: migrants like these recently arrested by ICE New Orleans, including murderers, rapists, 324 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 5: and traffickers. Take a look at this twenty two year old, 325 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 5: a legal migrant from Honduras, recently arrested in March. He 326 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 5: had warrants for three hundred ninety four counts of pornography 327 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 5: involving juveniles and two counts of sexual abuse of an animal. Again, 328 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 5: it is illegal migrants like that that DHS says will 329 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 5: end up here in the Louisiana lock Up. Later this afternoon, 330 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 5: the DHS Secretary Governor and Attorney General, Pam Bondi, will 331 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 5: be here to make this formal announcement. 332 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 3: My momma, I could see this as a category on 333 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 3: Jeopardy Ice deporte, ice detention facility nicknames. They give you 334 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 3: the state, you have to give the nickname. So you've 335 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 3: got the Louisiana Lockup, the Alligator Alcatraz. Speaking of the 336 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 3: corn Husker Clink in Nebraska, you've heard. 337 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: About Alligator Alcatraz. Here in Texas, we love Lone Star Lockup. 338 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 6: Now eligal aliens headed to the Midwest, Get ready for. 339 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: The corn Husker clean. 340 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 6: Oh no, not another dinner made of corn going on 341 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 6: the cob can corn corn pudding? 342 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: How much more corn can a man think? This is 343 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: purek porcher? 344 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 2: And if anyone thinks of escaping. Good luck. 345 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: Just wait until one of these jokers. 346 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 6: Want to try and escape My uncle Bart's farmbacks up 347 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 6: to the Cornhusker clink. Well, have a surprise for these guys. 348 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 6: Got the old John Deere out and created a corn 349 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 6: maze in the face of our great President Donald Jenny Trump. 350 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 6: They'll be lucky to get past his hair and coming soon. 351 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 6: The Pennsylvania Pokey, Kansas Cooler, Louisiana Lockdown. 352 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: We could do one in every state. Be fun to 353 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: name it. 354 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 3: The point is we got to get the bad people 355 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 3: out of this country who are in here illegally fighting 356 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 3: crime and restoring order. Feels like a kind of a 357 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 3: garage or barn. Find doesn't it. 358 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: Get the keys, Let's fire it up, let's wash it down, 359 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 1: Let's make. 360 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 3: This thing home again, or a renovation project with chipping Joanna, 361 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 3: I mean, it just makes you feel good. Our country's 362 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 3: coming back. You can walk the streets at night. There's 363 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 3: a pall that is cast upon a people when crime 364 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 3: runs rampant. 365 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking. 366 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 3: The Louisiana lockup. Wouldn't that be the darnedest thing. If 367 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 3: Shirley c. Licker had a family member that was an 368 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 3: illegal alien. And they put this thing near Faraday or 369 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 3: Faraday as she says, and she had to go visit. 370 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 2: You ground India if you are what's it in? 371 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: Say? 372 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 2: Will you be leaving from Orange, Texas? Orange? 373 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:08,239 Speaker 3: Uh? 374 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 2: Huh? 375 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 7: And I need to go over at Ferriday Louisana verdon 376 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 7: f E r Ira I d A Wyre and it's 377 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 7: me and my nineteen. 378 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:24,479 Speaker 2: Children's and we need to leave Monday morning. You were 379 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 2: leaving from Odessa, No Orange, You are eight O ra 380 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 2: A n g E Texas and my sister and her husband. 381 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 7: Staying Ferdy and uh. She wanted us to come over there. 382 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 7: She been wanting us to come over. We just hadn't 383 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,959 Speaker 7: went because of her attitudes. 384 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 2: Frankly, that's the problem is she just she won't to 385 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 2: ask for all. I don't know why she just gets 386 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 2: like that. But now she want to make up. 387 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,360 Speaker 7: So she'll say, well, y'all come out and with all 388 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 7: these children, I want to make sure of the price before. 389 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: I book it. Okay, you don't book tickets. You go 390 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 2: to the terminal at least one hour prior to buy 391 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 2: your tickets. 392 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: How old are the children? 393 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 7: Oh lord, listen, the youngest sweat is five oldest one about. 394 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 2: Seventeen okay, rising as an adult. The seventeen dude? 395 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 4: Uh huh? 396 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 2: And how about sixteen okay, ages two to eleven? 397 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 6: Ride as children? 398 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 2: I think they're all under eleven? 399 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: Okay, ages two to eleven? 400 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 2: Give me the pints on neck okay, and I might 401 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 2: bring my good friend. 402 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 7: Why tooster drinkings from Mars to part so check for 403 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 7: two at doulk. If you have a calculator, what would 404 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 7: the total be for nineteen children? 405 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 6: Me? 406 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 2: And why tousta from urge to ferry to loser at bank? Okay? 407 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 2: Then I don't have a calculator with me. Just approximated 408 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 2: for me? Okay, y'all going around trip? Uh huh? 409 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I at least some of im want 410 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 7: to stay with her. 411 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:54,880 Speaker 2: I don't care. 412 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 7: If they want to stay at her house, that's fine. 413 00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 7: But I'm only buying for round three. 414 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: Okay, for two of those, round trip will be two 415 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 2: hundred and four dollars. Oh lord, Okay, that's with the 416 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 2: adult two adults, uh huh? 417 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: Okay, with nineteen children round trip fifty one dollars times nineteen. 418 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 2: Here's what and that's how much it's gonna be how 419 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 2: much is that? I don't know. 420 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 7: I'm not very good with math. I don't have my 421 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 7: glasses on. How much would that be for approximately. 422 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 2: Nine hundred and sixty nine? Oh jeezu lord, Well, I'm 423 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 2: gonna have to call her and ask her what she's 424 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 2: study with me. I guess okay, And I don't need 425 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 2: to make a way. That's first class of coach. It's 426 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 2: no first class of coach in greyhound. It's first come 427 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 2: for a third. Oh okay, then okay, thank you dollar 428 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 2: ha a good weekend. Tell you mommy and my asking house. 429 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 2: You're durnk okay. 430 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 4: Me or take me to Texas. 431 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: So talking about anything gets out. 432 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 2: Of this state, I think Michael Berry, Robins, Michael very Show, 433 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 2: I like it. 434 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: There are certain things from history that you don't just say, well, 435 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 3: that's history and move on. The Holocaust would be one 436 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 3: such example. The coronavirus and the quote unquote vaccine and 437 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 3: the mandatory jabs and the lives lost, the lockdowns. These 438 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 3: are things you don't simply move on from. 439 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: You learn from. But before you can learn from. 440 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 3: Them, you have to you have to face painful realities, 441 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 3: and you have to pick at a wound that a 442 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 3: lot of people want to move on from That's not 443 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 3: how you progress. George sun Diana famously said, those who 444 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 3: do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to 445 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 3: repeat them. Often, the very people who want to quote 446 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 3: move on don't want to bear responsibility for what I happened. 447 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 3: Nick Saban and other coaches will tell you that some 448 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 3: of the most important coaching you do of a team 449 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 3: is not during the team and during the game, but 450 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 3: after the game, when you come in and watch that 451 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 3: painful game film and you see what you did that 452 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 3: you hope nobody noticed, and how you. 453 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: Failed here and came up short there. 454 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 3: It is very important that we go back and understand 455 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 3: what happened on January sixth of twenty twenty one. It's 456 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 3: important that we understand what happened and not be told 457 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 3: what happened by those with an agenda, but that we 458 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 3: do our own research and we ask questions of various people. 459 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 3: One of the most important voices in all of that 460 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 3: who has seemingly been silenced officially is Stephen sund who 461 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 3: was the Capitol Police chief at that time on that day, 462 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 3: and he's our guest chief. 463 00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:58,959 Speaker 2: Welcome. 464 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 4: Thank you very much for having me on, Michael, let's. 465 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 3: Start with how you ended up the Capitol Police Chief 466 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 3: leave January sixth to side. I think you were a 467 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 3: Metro police officer in DC before that. Talk about your career. 468 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 3: Why did you get into law enforcement? Jeff, family in it, 469 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 3: and then just walk me through your whole career there. 470 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean get the service succinctly as possible. So 471 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 4: I did twenty five years with the DC Police, and 472 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 4: I got into policing because my dad had actually gotten 473 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 4: sickly early on. He had got lacking in the heres 474 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 4: A B fifty two pilot. He had been sick for 475 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 4: a number of years, but passed away when I was sixteen. 476 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 4: So after we got back from the funeral, we just 477 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 4: happen to be visited by two friends of ours that 478 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 4: we used to live with right nearby in California that 479 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 4: became Fremont Police officers Carolyn brad Brown Nania. We'll say 480 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 4: in touch today. They had reached out and came visit. 481 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 4: This was the same day that we had buried my dad, 482 00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 4: and as a young sixteen year old, as a very 483 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 4: part of my life, I looked at and said, you 484 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 4: know what I think, I know what I want to 485 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 4: do and from that point on I was pursuing. Around 486 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 4: twenty three, I applied to the couple different departments, but 487 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 4: DC Police picked me up. Started there right around twenty five. 488 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 4: By the time I went into the academy, got out 489 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 4: and patrolled as an officer and what they call the 490 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 4: sixth District, which is Antacostia, one of the most violent 491 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 4: parts of Washington, d C. Was there for a couple 492 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 4: of years. Made sergeant, went to seventy, which is also 493 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 4: one of the most violent parts in Anacostia, South Anacostia, 494 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 4: down by South Capitol Street Congress Heights. Patrolled there for 495 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 4: a little bit and then started rising up through the ranks, 496 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 4: became a lieutenant and then I got signed Downtown for 497 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 4: a little bit and went to Special Operations Division, where 498 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 4: I kind of stayed from lieutenant on doing all the 499 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 4: major events, major demonstrations in Washington. 500 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 2: D C. 501 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 4: Made Captain inspector, being commander of the Special Operations Division 502 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 4: from twenty ten to twenty fifteen, and that's when I retired. 503 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 4: At the end of the very last day, December thirty first, 504 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 4: twenty fifteen. I retired with had the Pope come visit 505 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 4: in October and I'll figure out it's a good time 506 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 4: to head out. Went out, and you know, kind of 507 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 4: worked a little bit in the private sector for just 508 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,479 Speaker 4: about eight months, and then the House and Senate Sergeant 509 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 4: Arms approached me to come over and become the assistant 510 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 4: chief of Operations for Capitol Police, and January seventh, I started. 511 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 4: Twenty seventeen, started at the US Capitol Police just a 512 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 4: few days before Trump's inauguration, and I'd been involved in 513 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 4: It's probably my fifth or sixth inauguration I've been involved 514 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 4: in planning of so they brought me in right before 515 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 4: that and was there, and then in May became the 516 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 4: May of twenty nineteen, became the chief and started revamping 517 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 4: a lot of operations and capabilities. And then January sixth 518 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,239 Speaker 4: happened and I was removed from the position the very 519 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 4: next day by Spear Pelosi. And I'm sure our conversation 520 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 4: is going to cover a couple of things along. 521 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 3: There, absolutely, but before that, let's set in place procedures 522 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 3: so we know the context within which we're working. 523 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: I was with Senator Cruz at. 524 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 3: An event in Milwaukee a few years ago, and he 525 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 3: had a large contingent of Capital Police, and I learned 526 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 3: that those are a sign based on kind of death 527 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 3: threats and it's all on a screen, you know. And 528 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 3: it turns out he was getting more death threats than 529 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 3: Pelosi and every other member of Congress combined. And it 530 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 3: was kind of interesting to me that that was you know, 531 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 3: that that unlike the president, which is kind of you know, 532 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 3: a designated secret service for the president. It was sort of, 533 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 3: where is the threat right now? It might be Jasmine 534 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 3: Crockett on Monday, it might be Ted Cruz on on Thursday, 535 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 3: or whoever that might be. But talk to me about 536 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 3: how the capital police chief is hired and to whom 537 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 3: they report and take orders. 538 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 4: Okay, and you're you're you're absolutely right about what you 539 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 4: just you just mentioned. We do statutory security details for 540 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 4: the leadership before on the House and the Senate side, 541 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 4: and then others based on the threat. So you're a 542 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 4: store right there. So the Capitol police chief, it's interesting, 543 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 4: it's not like any of the police chief in the country. 544 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 4: I report to a Capitol police board. They're the one 545 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 4: that hire, hire, and fire me. We'll get into that too. 546 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 4: They're the ones that really have the hiring authority, but 547 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 4: they only do it with the approval of Senate leadership 548 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 4: and House leadership. So when I was first hired, you 549 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 4: had let's see, Schumer was over on the for the 550 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 4: chief's position, Humor was over on the Senate side, and 551 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 4: Polos who was on the House side, and they both 552 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 4: had to approve hiring for the position. So you go through, 553 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 4: and what's interesting to understand is the Capitol Police Board 554 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 4: is made up of for individuals, the House and Senate 555 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,479 Speaker 4: sergeant Arms, who are considered to be the lead law 556 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 4: enforcement agent for the House and for the for the 557 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 4: and one for the Senate. So when you think of 558 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 4: the chief as the top law enforcement official for the 559 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 4: legislative branch, I'm sorry. When you think of the chief 560 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 4: as the top law enforcement official for the legislative branch, 561 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 4: that's not the case. The Senate and the House starge 562 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 4: Arms actually are above me. The third person in the 563 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 4: Capitol Police Board is the Architect of the Capitol, and 564 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 4: then the fourth person is the Chief of Police. The 565 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 4: three people that are politically appointed, the House and Senate 566 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 4: sarge Arms, the ar extect and the Capitol all have 567 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 4: a vote on how things go for the Capitol Police, 568 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 4: and they control everything from the schedules, which doors we cover, 569 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 4: which equipment we can use. If I want to get 570 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 4: my officer's tasers, I had to go to the Capitol 571 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 4: Police Board and get approval, and I had to go 572 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 4: to my overstc committee and get approval for them. If 573 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 4: I wanted to like deploy fencing, I got to go 574 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 4: to the Capitol Police Board. If I want to everything, 575 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 4: pretty much all operations has to be approved by the 576 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 4: Capitol boase boards. That just gives you a little bit 577 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 4: of idea what I'm dealing with. Yeah, as the chief 578 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 4: it's very political. It's very political because they the House 579 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 4: and Senate serge and arms who carry mostly weight, don't 580 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 4: want to do anything that's going to upset their congressional leader. 581 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 4: So we may be having a hearing on the Supreme 582 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 4: Court justice being nominated, and I want to put a 583 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 4: certain offending. Well, one side they want no fencing put up, 584 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 4: some protesters can come in, you know, problems, or you know, 585 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 4: the other side may want to shut down all the 586 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 4: buildings in public entries. 587 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 3: So we don't think that's going to be a good 588 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 3: segue into our next discussion point. Our guest is Stephen 589 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 3: Sund who was the Chief of Police of the Capitol 590 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 3: Police on January sixth, twenty twenty one. 591 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: That fateful day. 592 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 3: We'll talk about his perspective, which I bet you haven't 593 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 3: heard and may be surprised by coming up.