1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,239 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 2: You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right, 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 2: that's not yours? 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Well it becomes ours. How is that not stealing? I 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: don't think I don't think that. I'm explaining this very well. 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: It's seven eleven. 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 3: Right. 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: You can take a penny from the tray from the crippled, 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: you know, that's the job. 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 4: I'm talking about the tray the you know, the pennies 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 4: for for everybody. 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: For everybody. Yeah, well those are whole pennies a right, 14 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: all right, I'm just. 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 5: Talking about fractions of a penny here, okay, But we 16 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 5: do it from a much bigger tray, and we're doing 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 5: a couple of million times, So what's wrong with that? 18 00:00:54,520 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: It's spending? Has the spend? 19 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 6: In a post on x, Doge said the Department of 20 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 6: Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family 21 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 6: Endeavors eighteen million dollars a month to operate an empty 22 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 6: facility in West Texas. Doje also claims Endeavors received its 23 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 6: HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former ICE 24 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 6: employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit Endeavor's 25 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 6: government disclosure forms show its revenues shot up in twenty 26 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 6: twenty one from fifty million to six hundred and fifty 27 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 6: eight million. 28 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: Spin has the spend. 29 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 3: And when you see the people there in Tennessee paying 30 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 3: fifty percent of their their income to state, federal, and 31 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 3: local taxes through other end, you know, through everything else, 32 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 3: fees and everything else, and then they see us sending 33 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 3: literally billions overseas to our enemies. You know, I've uncovered 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 3: forty million dollars going to the Taliban. A guy named 35 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 3: Sean Ryan over Middle Tennessee, former Navy seal podcaster. He 36 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 3: and another guy named Legend had brought this to my attention. 37 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 3: And you know, last term I could not even get 38 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 3: the Democrats to bring it up in the Senate. 39 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: It passed nanimous in the House, not. 40 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 3: Even a question because they're going to have to admit 41 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 3: they made a mistake, and they continuously made a mistake, 42 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 3: and they did it on. 43 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: Purpose is the worst part about it. 44 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: And this graph that you're seeing, and that's one hundred 45 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 3: percent what it is, I think you're going to see 46 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 3: a paper trail. 47 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: Come back to Washington, d C. And that's why I 48 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: think a lot of people. 49 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 3: Are nervous, and you'll see a lot of retirements because 50 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 3: they are stealing from the American taxpayer and now they've 51 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: got their hand caught in the cookie jar, and all 52 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 3: they can do is attack elon Busk. 53 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: Ukraine is so much more complicated than most people understand, 54 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: and yet that doesn't stop them from virtue signally. And 55 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: the reason is because nobody really cares about Ukraine. They 56 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: don't care about Ukraine. They don't care about the people there. 57 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: They don't understand the role of Russia Ukraine, the Baltic nations, 58 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: the fuel supply, the rare earth minerals, the history, the 59 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: ethnic Russians in Ukraine, the corruption in the Ukraine government. 60 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: They don't understand any of that. As with most things, 61 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: it is about a public statement for them. Hey look 62 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: at me over here. I care about Ukraine, always have. 63 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: You know, Houston has not had a Super Bowl victory, 64 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: and we had some rough years when the Oilers left 65 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: and went to Nashville. Then we had a few years 66 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: we didn't have a team, and then Bob and now 67 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: kalmcner had to build a team and that's not an 68 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: easy thing to do. So I found it interesting that 69 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: when the Patriots were winning championships, all of a sudden, 70 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: people that I knew would have on Patriot jerseys. Oh, 71 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: didn't realize that living in Houston, you were a huge 72 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: fan of Boston's football team. Oh, I love them? 73 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 5: He of them. 74 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: Wonder how long that's been going on. That feels odd, 75 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: doesn't it? Or do you just like to pick a winner? 76 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: Because then that guy tells everybody, ma'am, I'm a Patriots fan, 77 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: and you're supposed to go, oh, Bob, tell you what. 78 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: Patriots don't win, he's to be bummed out because he's 79 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: a huge fan. But when they win, which better chance 80 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: of them winning anybody else at the time? Then Bob 81 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,799 Speaker 1: gets the glory. Look at me, I was a fan, 82 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: y'all aren't a fan. I am a fan. How long 83 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,559 Speaker 1: you've been a fan, Bob? Since they started winning Super Bowls? 84 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: So you get these people who all of a sudden 85 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: decide they're going to put the Ukraine flag as their 86 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: profile picture. Now imagine that that's your identity. That's what 87 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: you want people to think of as you. I'll tell 88 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: you what old Michelle fifty seven years old, And there's 89 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: a lot of things you could know about Michelle. Okay, 90 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: how many kids she has, where she grew up, what 91 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: she does for a living, how she beat breast cancer. 92 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: There's a lot of things you could know about Michelle 93 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: that that would tell you who Michelle is. But the 94 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: first thing you need to know and the most defining 95 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: a bit about Michelle is that she's really, really, really 96 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: standing with Ukraine, really standing with Ukraine. She is determined 97 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: that Ukraine win the soccer match or whatever they're doing. 98 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: And she found the flag and she is boy, she 99 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: is on this Ukraine thing. Do not talk about Ukraine 100 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: in front of her unless you want a mouthful, because 101 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: she is very much for Ukraine. 102 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 7: It's a full time job, from the first thing in 103 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 7: the morning, last thing at night. 104 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 8: We were one of the first people to actually make 105 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 8: the ultimate sacrifice for the Ukrainian War. 106 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 9: Did no, no, noop? 107 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 7: We actually change our profile pictures to the Ukraine Prockett. 108 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 7: I think I'm starting to understand how Martin Luther King 109 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 7: felt out. Yeah, changing the world on profile picture at 110 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 7: the time, How does that help we stunded with Ukraine. 111 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: That one's pretty obvious. 112 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 7: You're coming across a little bit of fire right question 113 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 7: in this in. 114 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: While Scott Jennings on CNN says Europeans spend more money 115 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: on oil and gas from Russia than they send to Ukraine. Yeah, 116 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: you mentioned the Europeans. 117 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 9: It's interesting to me they spend more money on Russian 118 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 9: oil and gas last year than they sent to Ukraine collectively. 119 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: It's number one, number two. 120 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 9: It's interesting to me that Zelensky could not see on 121 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 9: Friday the benefit of signing the minerals deal that in 122 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 9: and of itself is a security guarantee. When our interests 123 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 9: become your interests, that is a security guarantee. You're never 124 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 9: going to get Trump to sign an agreement saying well, 125 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 9: we'll eventually. 126 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: Put most Is that a security. 127 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 9: Is because we would we would have guaranteed our ownnots. 128 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: On top of that, most of the minerals are in 129 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: territory that is being. 130 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 9: Held by Russia. 131 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: This mineral deal is something that is are you hearing 132 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: that we would have entered into an economics It's near 133 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: the deer would Donald Trump's heart, but it is not 134 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: a security guarantee. Southern Fried with Michael Berry Show. Mike 135 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: Godwin is a lawyer. I think he's still alive. He 136 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: is a lawyer who observed the tendency for people in 137 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: online arguments, in discussion groups and the like, the tendency 138 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: to call the other person with whom they were disagreeing 139 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 1: and discussing and arguing, debating and whatever else, that there 140 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: was a tendency to call the other person hitler. And 141 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: the reasoning for this is there is a great inability 142 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: that someone can't get the other side to capitulate and 143 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: just say they're right, and they crave this. There are 144 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: a lot of people seeking It's an addiction. I mean, 145 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: it's a form of a mental addiction. They are craving 146 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: so hard to be told that they are right. It's 147 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: a validation. And so a debate becomes not an attempt 148 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: to persuade another person, It becomes an attempt to get 149 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: validation from that person with whom they disagreed. And when 150 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: they can't get it, the more they can't get it, 151 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: the more upset they become, and the harder they're trying, 152 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: and the more desperate they become. So Mike Godwin coined 153 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: what came to be known as god Wins Law, which 154 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: says that as an online discussion grows longer continues longer, 155 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. 156 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: In other words, an absolute certainty. It goes from five 157 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: percent on the first exchange to ten percent to twenty percent. 158 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: But at twenty or thirty exchanges of now oh yeah, huh, 159 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: you know, uh yeah huh, you're a Nazi or you're 160 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: a Hitler. It is the last refuge of a scoundrel. 161 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: It is the weakest, most desperate thing the vanquished can do. 162 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 1: It is an announcement that you've lost. Well, Larry O'Donnell 163 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: of MSNBC has lost here. He is talking about the 164 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 1: fact that Trump is abandoning our dear ally, Vladimir Zelensky. 165 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 1: He's not our ally, he's our welfare recipient. But O'Donnell 166 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: says Trump is abandoning Vladimir. And the last world leader 167 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: to turn on an ally was and Alf Hitler. 168 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 8: The term leader of the Free World was not widely 169 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 8: applied to American presidents until the Cold War era, when 170 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 8: the United States and the Soviet Union, led by a 171 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 8: Russian dictator, were locked into a decades long standoff with 172 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 8: nuclear weapons aimed at each other twenty four hours a day. 173 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 8: The Free World was easily identifiable as the countries who 174 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 8: elected their leaders in free and fair elections. The cruel 175 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 8: dictatorships like the Soviet Union in China, who had been 176 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 8: our allies during World War II, represented the other side 177 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 8: of the Cold War. Those adversarial positions held even after 178 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 8: the Cold War faud But now Donald Trump, for the 179 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 8: first time in American history, has become the president who 180 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 8: is changing sides in the middle of a war. The 181 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 8: last leader to do that, the last head of state 182 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 8: to do that was Adolf Hitler in World War Two, 183 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 8: when he suddenly and intemperately, to say the least, after 184 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 8: conquering Poland and France and other countries, turned and attacked 185 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 8: his ally, the Soviet Union. No other European country has 186 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 8: ever done that, which is why after Donald Trump's incoherent, 187 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 8: raging performance in the Oval Office on Friday, European leaders 188 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 8: embraced President Zelenski in London this weekend, vowing to continue 189 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 8: to support Ukraine against a murderous Russian dictator war crew 190 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 8: in every way they can. While Donald Trump was yelling 191 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 8: in the Oval Office Friday, the war criminal Vladimir Putin 192 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 8: was firing missiles and drones into Ukraine all day long 193 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:19,599 Speaker 8: Ukraine on Friday didn't fire a single shot across the 194 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 8: Russian border into Russia, not one shot. And so the 195 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 8: President of the United States is no longer the leader 196 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 8: of the free world, or even a defender of the 197 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 8: free world. The free world has rallied around the leader who, 198 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 8: though struggling with the language barrier, tried to cut through 199 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 8: Donald Trump's lies in the Oval Office on Friday. President 200 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 8: Volodimir Zelenski might never be called the leader of the 201 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 8: free world, but he is, without. 202 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: A doubt, the. 203 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 8: Bravest leader in the free world. 204 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 2: I'm you're se in the videos of him in high 205 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 2: heels with his shirt off and he puts cups on 206 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: his chest for boobs and another one on his crotch, 207 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 2: and the guys come behind him, and nobody worships this guy, 208 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 2: tharie O'Donnell. You don't know anything about him, and frankly 209 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 2: don't care. This is a desperate attempt in your mind 210 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: to embarrass Trump, and it's not working because, as CNN's 211 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 2: Harry Inton notes, a new CNN poll shows Americans want 212 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 2: the war in Ukraine to end, and what Trump is 213 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 2: doing is ending the war the. 214 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 5: Easiest way we can kind of just ask this, say, 215 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 5: is do Americans like the way that Trump's handling his 216 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 5: job in compared to how they felt about Joe Biden. 217 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 5: So this is the net approval rating. You look at 218 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 5: Joe Biden back in twenty twenty four, he was twenty 219 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 5: two points on the water Holy cow. 220 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: You look at Donald Trump. 221 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 5: It's just a different planet entirely. I mean, the gulf 222 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 5: between these two is wider than the Gulf of America 223 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 5: or Mexico, depending on which side of the AI you 224 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 5: stand on. 225 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: He's at plus two. 226 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 5: So look at this particular point, Americans are giving Donald 227 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 5: Trump the better of the doubt. He's doing considerably better 228 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 5: than Joe Biden was doing on the handling of the 229 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 5: Russia Ukraine conflict, and so on this simple question, I 230 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 5: think Americans are saying, Okay, Donald Trump's doing all right 231 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 5: on this. 232 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 3: What about specifically on how they feel about bringing the 233 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 3: war to an end? 234 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So you know, look, questions on this can 235 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 5: be quite complicated, but I think this kind of gets 236 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 5: at sort of where the American trend line is. Americans 237 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 5: on the Rushi of Ukraine war want a quicker end 238 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 5: of the war, but Rush keeps its captured land. Look 239 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 5: at this, fifty fifty percent Bear majority, Bear majority coming 240 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 5: in here, support you Ukraine's right to fight, even if 241 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 5: it means a long war. 242 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: That's a forty eight. This is very, very close. But 243 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: the trend line. 244 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 5: On this question is so important because that want a 245 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 5: quick end of the war. 246 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: Look at this. 247 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 5: You go back to August of twenty twenty two, it 248 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 5: was at thirty one percent. Now we're at fifty percent. 249 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 5: I mean, that is a rocket ship upwards in terms 250 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 5: of the Americans who want a quick end to the war, 251 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 5: even if it means Russia keeps the captured Ukraine land. 252 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 5: Americans are moving closer and closer to one a compromise, 253 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 5: even if it means that Ukraine doesn't really get what 254 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 5: it's set out to one at least at the beginning. 255 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: Of this field. This is the Michael Berry Show. I 256 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: love this country so much, but sometimes you know, as 257 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: you travel about, with the nationalization and even globalization of 258 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: so much of retail, which is so much of life 259 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: outside our homes, so much of it is just cookie 260 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: cutter replication. It's one company and private equity came in 261 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: and they just they just put in every mall and 262 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: every strip center, and it ends up being kind of 263 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: a faceless, soulless, heartless entity with whatever the professional graphics 264 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: and pr people have have given them to put on there, 265 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: because that's what they've told them that we need to hear. However, 266 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: there are certain places in this country where the culture 267 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: is so distinctive and special. The Cubans in Miami, for instance, 268 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: the Eastern Europeans in Chicago, or the Irish in Chicago 269 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: or Boston or New York. There you see the Southeast, 270 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: for instance, and it's neat. I like it, But there 271 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: is nothing in this country for my money like the Kunasses. 272 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: I love them so much. I grew up in Southeast Texas, 273 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: which if you don't have the map in your head, 274 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: I tend runs across the southern band of the United States. 275 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 1: And if you're coming from California on iten and your 276 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: cruising through Texas, you're going to be a while. One 277 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: thousand miles or so. It's a long way. And the 278 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: last little place you're going to pass before you go 279 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: into Louisiana, then Mississippi, then Alabama into Florida. Last little 280 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: place you're going to pass is Orange, Texas. My little 281 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: town and it was a home. Two things that Orange 282 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: was kind of famous for. Number one is they built 283 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: a port there that during World War two was an 284 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: important naval port and it was very important and vital 285 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: to the war interest. And so that little, tiny little 286 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: port had an outsized importance because it was away from 287 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: the bigger ports of Houston and New Orleans. The second 288 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: thing is the chemical plan. Almost everybody that I knew 289 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: growing up was a son or daughter of a chemical 290 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: plant worker. And if you weren't the son or a 291 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: daughter of a chemical plant worker, because that was almost 292 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: everybody in Orange, your daddy was either a pastor there's 293 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: a lot of churches in the little town, or a 294 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: cop or worked for one of the retail shops, or 295 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 1: owned a little business, a little furniture shop or little 296 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: jewelry shop and that was or a restaurant, and that 297 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: was it. And because of that, it was such a 298 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: big employer. DuPont, Chevron, Crown, Zellerbach. There were these massive 299 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: chemical plants, and my dad worked for DuPont. His dad 300 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: worked for DuPont, his brother worked for DuPont, his sister 301 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 1: worked for DuPont, his other sister worked for DuPont. We 302 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: were a DuPont family. You could say not that we 303 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: loved it. He hated to do, hated the work like 304 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: the people, but hated the company. They made him shave 305 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: his beard, among other things, and he didn't like that. 306 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: He was a maintenance worker. And he gave a lot 307 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: of his life to DuPont over the years. But because 308 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: southwest Louisiana, from New Orleans and some east of New Orleans, 309 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: Santa Ma and all that, all the way west, the 310 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: nearest place to find work was to go not all 311 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: the way to Houston, which also had a lot of 312 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: chemical plans. But kuon Asses don't like to go very 313 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: far from Louisiana. They like to come home because nobody 314 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: can cook like they do. They love the swamp. They 315 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: love their family, love their family. They're like Mexicans. And 316 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: you marry into you marry into a kun Ass family. 317 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: You marry Kunas girl, you have acquired a whole new family, 318 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: just like marrying a Mexican girl. You're gonna play on 319 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: her brother's softball team. They're gonna have Barbercoa on the 320 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: back porch every weekend. You know, you're they're gonna be 321 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: over there all the time. Much gonna be a bunch 322 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: of babies, and you're in it. When you marry into 323 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: a Mexican family man, you are in it. Well, Kunas 324 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: families are the same way. So there were a lot 325 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: of those folks didn't want to come all the way 326 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,919 Speaker 1: to Houston, which would be another two hours if you 327 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: were heading west, and they would stop at Orange. So 328 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: they were just on the Texas side and they'd worked there, 329 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: but that way they could get back home to what 330 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: we're really home was, and even if they'd lived there 331 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: for thirty or forty years, in their minds, in their 332 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: minds they were from. They were Louisiana folks. They were 333 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: coon Asses. That was what they who who they were. 334 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: And that was true of the whites, which we called 335 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: kuon Asses, they called themselves Konasses, and the blacks, which 336 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: were the Creole, and so the Kunases were also known 337 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: as Cajuns. So you had Cajuns, which are the whites, 338 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: and the Creoles, which were the black. But the black 339 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: were pretty light skin and the white were sometimes a 340 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: little darker because there was a lot of intermixing going 341 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: on at that time and still to this day. But 342 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 1: I found that culture to be such a wonderful culture. Look, 343 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna have high blood pressure because you're going to 344 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: eat too much and drink too much. But when I 345 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: look at the fabric of American society, you don't have 346 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: to have diversity programs. We are, in and of ourselves 347 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: very diverse, not just skin colors, not just denominations within religions, 348 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: but our ethnic backgrounds where we came from. There is 349 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: this idea that all white people are the same. Man. 350 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something. The white Southern Baptists 351 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: of Orange, Texas, where I grew up, are very different 352 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: than the white Irish Catholics of Boston, or the white 353 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: Ish Italian Americans of New York Work or Chicago, or 354 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: the French. I mean, all of these cultures came and 355 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: retained to varying degrees over a period of time. They're cultures, 356 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 1: the German cultures that mark so much of Texas from 357 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: Schulenberg up to Fredericksburg. I mean, all of these things 358 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: are what makes the checks. All of these things are 359 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: what make America wonderful. And I don't want you to 360 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: ever think that I don't celebrate all of that. I do. 361 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: We just don't need to make it into laws or 362 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: go looking for stuff beyond that. So to our Louisiana listeners, 363 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: we love you. 364 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 5: Where I can't believe you just said that happens to 365 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 5: Michael Varie show. 366 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: If you've never been to New Orleans, go check it out. 367 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: Now you're probably I'll be honest with you. Go see 368 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: Bourbon Street, Go see it, go enjoy it. So eat 369 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: and drink too much. You're gonna get mugged. That's just 370 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: gonna happen. But that's part of it. I mean, that's 371 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: part of the charm. Right, You're gonna get mugged. I'd 372 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: like to say, you get mugged and then you get 373 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: past it and you but you could get mugged again. 374 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: You know the next guy you turned the corner, and 375 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: you know, the guy doesn't know on Ibberville you got mugged, 376 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,719 Speaker 1: and so here you are on Bourbon and he doesn't know. 377 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 1: You just got through getting mugged. And that's not a defense. 378 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,239 Speaker 1: I know. I already gave it to the office. No, 379 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 1: you're getting mugged again because you look like the demo 380 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 1: of tourists that I'm about to mug And that's just 381 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: all there is to it. This is also Texas Independence time. 382 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: March second being Texas independence. So I think I'd like 383 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: to close the show room moment with your permission, with 384 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: a reading of the letter from the Alamo, that is, 385 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: forget Ukraine. You want to talk about ca a freedom. 386 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: But before we do that, the last thing I didn't 387 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: get to of JD. Van's is he's answering the question 388 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 1: about the rumor Sean Hanned. He's talking to him on 389 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: Fox News. He's answering the questions about the rumor that 390 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: the Ukrainians have called and they already want to come 391 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: back to the White House. 392 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 10: I don't know about numerous calls, but they certainly made 393 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 10: at least one request to come back in and continue 394 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 10: the conversation. The President was like, look, first of all, 395 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 10: they were disrespectful, and second of all, what are we 396 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 10: even going to talk about? They've shown a clear unwillingness 397 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 10: to discuss the peaceful settlement that President Trump is trying 398 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 10: to bring to this situation. 399 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: I think a lot of Americans are sort. 400 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 10: Of, you know, it's useful to step back and ask 401 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 10: ourselves what is the actual plan here. You can't just 402 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 10: fund the war forever. The American people won't stand for it. 403 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 10: And by the way Sean. If you look at European 404 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 10: opinion polls, the Europeans aren't going to stand forever for 405 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 10: it either. We need to bring this thing to a 406 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 10: peaceful settlement. The President was trying to do that. He'll 407 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 10: continue to try to do but you've got to have 408 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 10: two to ten Goo. You've got to have a negotiating 409 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 10: partner in the Ukrainians who recognize that. 410 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: You know, of course they have their views, and of course. 411 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 10: They're not always going to agree with us, but they've 412 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 10: got to participate in the conversation. They weren't willing to 413 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 10: do that on Friday, so the President said, sent. 414 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: Him home, and he did, and he did. No soup 415 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: for you, Crane, No soup for you. Even Lindsey Graham 416 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: is now having to try to act like, you know, 417 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: he's mad at Zelensky. Do I need to remind you 418 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: it was Lindsey Graham who called for Putin to be assassinated. 419 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,959 Speaker 1: Do you remember this? You still stand by her? 420 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 421 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 4: I hope he will be taken out one way or 422 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 4: the other. I don't care how they take him out. 423 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 4: I don't care if we send him to the Hague 424 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 4: and try him. I just want him to go. Yes, 425 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 4: I'm on record, Please understand Senator Lendsey Graham and John 426 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 4: mccam we're here, he'd be saying the same thing you think. 427 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: But it's time for him to go. He's a war criminal. 428 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: If John McCain we're here, I bet he'd be saying 429 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: the same stupid thing you're saying. You're exactly right, because 430 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 1: all the stupid stuff you said, he said too, because 431 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: that's what John McCain did, your little running buddy. He 432 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: wanted us in every war we could possibly be in. 433 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: He loved to be for war, thought it was the 434 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: best thing possible. Just love, love, love war. Well count 435 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: me out. I'm not for it, you idiot. And by 436 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: the way, who is Lindsey Graham to be calling for 437 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 1: the assassination of Putin? You know this is the mindset 438 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: of the neocons. It gets me every time. So everybody 439 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: wanted Saddam Hussein out of Iraq, right, we had to 440 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: topple Saddam Hussein and we did. Now do you think, 441 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: and I know this is gonna upset a lot of 442 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: people to hear me say, do you think that Iraq 443 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: is more stable to than when we toppled Saddam do 444 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: you think that the region is more stable today? I 445 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: will tell you this, Iran is stronger now than they 446 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: were when Iraq was keeping them in check. That is 447 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: for sure. The militant elements within Iraq were under control 448 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 1: under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. But we had 449 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: to topple Saddam and we had to topple Kadafi in Libya. 450 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: Do you think Libya is safer today and we had 451 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: to push Hasni Mubarik out in Egypt? Do you think 452 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: Egypt is better off today under the Muslim brotherhood? These 453 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: people love to topple people, except they don't know that 454 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: who's waiting in the wings is worse. Maestro Ramon, might 455 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: you fire up some Texas music as I close the 456 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: show with the letter from Travis from inside the Alamo. 457 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: He's desperately seeking reinforcements. He writes Commandant See of the 458 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: Alamo from Bear which San Antonio is now in Bear County, 459 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: b e Xar, February twenty fourth, eighteen thirty six, to 460 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: the people of Texas and all Americans in the world, 461 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: fellow citizens and compatriots. He was writing to the world. 462 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: Friends there think about Alimo. Think about idea that you 463 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,479 Speaker 1: are writing a letter to the world. He knew they 464 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: were all about to be slaughtered. I am besieged by 465 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: one thousand or more of the Mexicans second Home depot 466 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: parking lot under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual 467 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: bombardment and cannonade for twenty four hours and have not 468 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 1: lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion. 469 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: Otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword. 470 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: If the fort is taken new body we continue to fight, 471 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: They're gonna kill us all. They've made it very clear. 472 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and 473 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall 474 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: never surrender or retreat. Then I call on you, in 475 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: the name of liberty, of patriots and everything dear to 476 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch. 477 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt 478 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. 479 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: If this call is neglected. I am determined to sustain 480 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: myself as long as possible, and die like a soldier 481 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: who never forgets what is due to his own honor 482 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: and that of his country, victory or death. William Barrett Travis, 483 00:30:53,840 --> 00:31:00,479 Speaker 1: Lieutenant lieutenant colonel Commandant PS. The Lord is on our side. 484 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three 485 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 486 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: eighty or ninety bushels, and got into the walls of 487 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty head of beeves. The Lord was providing 488 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: food that they might fight for Texas independence. Now, how 489 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: glorious is that faith will us has attend? Thank you, 490 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: and good night.