1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load from 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: What does up must come down? Spinning wheel cut to borrow. 4 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 3: The bottom line is the White House was lying not 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 3: only to the press, not only to the public, but 6 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 3: they were lying to members of their own. 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 2: Cabinet a painted pony let the spin and wheel spin. 8 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 3: They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to donors 9 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 3: about how bad things had gotten. And then after the 10 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 3: election we found out all of these things that when 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 3: you looked at what was going on with President Biden 12 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 3: at the time, it probably doesn't surprise you the extent 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 3: to which he was to right. 14 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: A painted pony let the spin and uncur. 15 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: So the White House position. Doctor Kevin O'Connor was telling 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 3: White House as that President Biden's deterioration of his spine, 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 3: the degeneration was so significant that if he fell one 18 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 3: more time, that he might have to be in a 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 3: wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair. 20 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 4: I twelve. 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 5: President Biden, you know regularly, well sometimes several times in 22 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 5: a week, well usually several times in a week. 23 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 6: His mental acuity is great, it's fine. 24 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 5: Is as good as it's been over the years. I've 25 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 5: been speaking to him for thirty years, since we worked 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 5: on the Brady Ability. 27 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: Assault Weapons Band when I was a young congressman. 28 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 5: And he's fine. 29 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 6: All this rightling propaganda that his mental acuity has declined 30 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:38,559 Speaker 6: as wrong. 31 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: He's been winning elections some one his way. 32 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 5: Ten you. 33 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: Spinning wheel spinding true trumb Are you trouble on the 34 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 2: river side? Catch a paided pony on the spinning wheel? 35 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,919 Speaker 5: Have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline? 36 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 5: I've been testing and constantly testing. Look all you. 37 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 7: All I gotta do is watch me, and I can 38 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 7: hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability. 39 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 5: Of the man I'm running. 40 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 4: A ass. 41 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 7: Have changed in the way that now you're in a 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 7: situation where the forty fewer people coming across the border illegally. 43 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 7: It's better when he left office, and I'm going to 44 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 7: continue to move until we get the total band on, 45 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 7: the total initiative relative to what we're going to do 46 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 7: with more border control and. 47 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 8: More President Trump, I really don't know what he said 48 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 8: at the end of this, and I don't think he 49 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 8: knows what he said either way. 50 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 2: Just for you steal in weird, steal into all your 51 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: trouble talking about Let a painted pony, Let the stending wheel. 52 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 5: Fly Bob Wright's Tzar. I just got back from celebrating 53 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 5: the graduation of my grandson Joshua from Northwest Technical College 54 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 5: in Bimidgi, Minnesota. He actually got his diploma for college 55 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 5: on Friday, before his diploma from high school on Saturday. 56 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 5: He was already a paid intern and has a full 57 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 5: time job waiting for him in August after a summer 58 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 5: of going on a mission to Honduras and counseling at 59 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 5: a summer camp. So proud of him as well. You 60 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 5: shouldn't be, sir. I will say it again. There was 61 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 5: paper on my desk, all right, not Eric Swallwell. I 62 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 5: didn't want you to think it was, Oh you didn't you. 63 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 5: Oh never mind, find something for your kids to do 64 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 5: this summer. Preferably have them find it, even if it's 65 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 5: just a part time job, even if it's just a 66 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 5: basic part time job bussing tables at the local restaurant. 67 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 5: Who you are going to grow into as an adult 68 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 5: is going to be shaped and formed by experiences. A 69 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 5: very small percentage of that is what you learn in 70 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 5: the school. How many of you graduated high school, knocked 71 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 5: around for a while and got hired on at the plant. 72 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 5: Got hired on at the job, got hired on somewhere, 73 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 5: and you had to show up the first day and 74 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 5: figure it out. That's when you had a warp speed 75 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 5: growth in who you are. Why not give kids the opportunity. 76 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 5: They'll go back to school a different person. They'll go 77 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 5: back to school with a different understanding of what's going 78 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 5: on out there in the real world. Mark writes, I 79 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 5: begain treatment, Tzar. Just want to let you know my 80 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 5: son was addicted to opioids in twenty eighteen. He went 81 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 5: to Mexico for the treatment. He researched it and found 82 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 5: this out on his own and asked if we would 83 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 5: send into Mexico for the treatment. My wife and I 84 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 5: were skeptical, but were desperate and did not know what 85 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 5: to do. We agreed and sent him to San Diego. 86 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 5: He was picked up at the airport and driven to Tijuana. 87 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 5: He was there for a week, came home and cured 88 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 5: of his addiction. He graduated later that year with a 89 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 5: degree in mechanical engineering and is doing great. It worked 90 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:39,679 Speaker 5: for us. Just wanted you to know, man it rips 91 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 5: my heart out when the kid's in trouble. Given that 92 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 5: kids in their twenties or thirties, how it tears a 93 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 5: parent up Man Brian writes, why not quick thoughts on 94 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 5: Airbnb from Barcelona? Why not simply enforce ordinances against the 95 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 5: undesirable behavior rather than restricting the ownership rights by limiting 96 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 5: short term rentals. Sex on balconies charge people with public 97 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 5: in decency parking everywhere, have residential parking permits for specific streets, 98 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 5: trash enforced littering ordinances against the property owner, allowed parties, 99 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 5: enforced noise restrictions. Barcelonas come out very strongly against STRs, 100 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 5: and many people blame them for housing price inflation. They're 101 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 5: mostly wrong. Housing price problems are due to California style 102 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 5: tenant protections, long term squatters, and high taxes that disincentivize 103 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 5: new supply of long term leases. The libertarian and me 104 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 5: doesn't want government telling me how I can use a property, 105 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 5: and the way to ensure people still have freedom is 106 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 5: to enforce laws against the specific anti social behavior rather 107 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 5: than the economic model for a property. Localities could also 108 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 5: have a permitting system that charges appropriate fees to cover 109 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 5: additional costs. For example, sewer and infrastructure increases, which would 110 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 5: allow people to still do Airbnb whilst covering the costs 111 00:06:55,320 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 5: of potential negative externalities add to the mix. I heard 112 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 5: from someone yesterday who's a resident of Jamaica Beach. We 113 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 5: had a fellow named Brandon McDermott on. He's a city 114 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 5: councilman in Jamaica Beach and he's a musician. His band 115 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 5: performed multiple times at the RCC. I don't know him, 116 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 5: but he has emailed and I recognized his name, and 117 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 5: he said he ran for the city council in Jamaica 118 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 5: Beach out on the west end of Galveston, and they're 119 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 5: trying to crack down on the short term rentals. I 120 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 5: had some pushback from some folks who lived there, one 121 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 5: of whom said that out of between one thousand and 122 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 5: thirteen hundred residents, something like forty percent or Airbnb. One 123 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 5: woman said that's not true. They're not actively Airbnb. They 124 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 5: went and applied for the license when the law came out. 125 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 5: They rushed to get the license so they'd be grandfathered in. 126 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 5: The Other thing they said is yeah, without the Airbnb's half, 127 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 5: our restaurants have post. I don't know if that's true, 128 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 5: but something to consider with the Michael Berry to the 129 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 5: bowlines we go Wes, what do you truly believe. 130 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 4: A thousand years ago Jesus walked on this herd, four 131 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 4: thousand years ago there was a great flood, and six 132 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 4: thousand years ago God created everything. Thank you, Michael, Sir. 133 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 5: A fellow named Jim Valentino sent me an email with 134 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 5: a subject line friendship. He said, have you read Kipling's 135 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 5: poem The Thousandth Man? The poem touches me. I've never 136 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 5: found him myself. I believe few of us do. I 137 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 5: was talking about friends and what a real friend is 138 00:08:52,520 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 5: and is not. I can't imagine a friend of mine 139 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 5: unfriending me over something I posted on Facebook. Anyone who 140 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 5: unfriends you on Facebook is not actually a friend. That's 141 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 5: a term they used. It's silly. It's not really a friend. 142 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 5: If you can push a button and eliminate the ties 143 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 5: that bind us, real ties that bind us, that's not 144 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 5: an actual friend. We use the term loosely. An old 145 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 5: friend of mine. Hey, friend, that's not a person would 146 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 5: give you a kidney if you were dying. That's not 147 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 5: the guy you would trust to be the executor of 148 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 5: your will when you died, if no one was looking 149 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 5: over their shoulder to make sure the money was spent 150 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,599 Speaker 5: on your family wisely. Here was the poem The thousandth 151 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 5: Man by Rudyard Kipling. Might I have some music? Please 152 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 5: see Paul Schaeffer had music already ready. 153 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 9: Really so stupid, maybe a little lighter that' a word 154 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 9: bring it down? 155 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 5: Yep, very good. One man in a thousand Solomon says, 156 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 5: we'll stick more close than a brother, and it's worthwhile 157 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 5: seeking him half your days if you find him before 158 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 5: the other nine hundred and ninety nine depend on what 159 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 5: the world sees in you. But the thousandth man will 160 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 5: stand your friend. With the whole world round again. You 161 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 5: 'tis neither promise, nor prayer nor show will settle the 162 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,079 Speaker 5: finding for e nine hundred and ninety nine of them 163 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 5: go by your looks, or your acts or your glory. 164 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 5: But if he finds you and you find him, the 165 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 5: rest of the world don't matter or is. The thousandth 166 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 5: Man will sink or swim with you in any water. 167 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 5: You can use your purse with no more talk than 168 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 5: he uses yours for his spendings, and laugh and meet 169 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 5: in your daily walk as though there had been no lendings. 170 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 5: Nine hundred and ninety nine of them call for silver 171 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 5: and gold in their dealings. But the thousandth Man's worth 172 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 5: them all because you can show him your feelings, his wrongs, 173 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 5: you're wrong, and his rights your right. In season or 174 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 5: out of season, stand up and back at all in 175 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 5: men's sight. With that for your only reason nine hundred 176 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 5: and ninety nine. Can't bide the shame or mocking or laughter. 177 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 5: But the thousandth man will stand by your side to 178 00:11:51,440 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 5: the gallows foot and after. I know I've told the 179 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 5: story before, but our audience is always cycling in and out. 180 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 5: I was preaching one day on the subject of friends, 181 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 5: and I said that your friends, you should choose your friends. 182 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 5: If your friends, If I were to ask you to 183 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 5: name your friends and you didn't choose those people, they 184 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 5: just happened to be in your life, I would argue 185 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 5: that unless you got really lucky, they're probably not the 186 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 5: best you could do. You need friends. In this world. 187 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 5: It's a cold, cruel place. Things can go against you. 188 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 5: You can go bro. You could be jobless, you could 189 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 5: be ill, your wife could leave you, your kid could 190 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 5: be harmed, your kid could be in trouble. The call. 191 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 5: You may remember the show we did about you're in 192 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 5: trouble in a foreign country and you're in jail and 193 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 5: it's bad, and you get one call and know who 194 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 5: that one call would be, because that person would figure 195 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 5: out how to get you out. We were talking about 196 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 5: a person with a skill set, a problem solver. Elon 197 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 5: Musk would get you out, even if he wasn't famous. 198 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 5: Elon Musk would get you out. Donald Trump would get 199 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 5: you out. People like this would figure out how to 200 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 5: get you out. Problem solvers overcomers, right, But we didn't 201 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 5: spend as much time on that day. Was the person 202 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 5: who would have the will to get you out, the 203 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 5: person who wouldn't fall back in the bed and fall 204 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 5: back asleep, the person who would do anything, person who'd 205 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 5: come help you out in the middle of the night. 206 00:13:55,679 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 5: That that is a true friend. So there was a 207 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 5: woman getting cancer treatment at MD Anderson. She was from Boston, 208 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 5: I believe, and she was the editor of a magazine 209 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 5: on I don't know business, so I forget what it was. 210 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 5: And she heard the show and she sent me an 211 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 5: email and she said, I heard you talking about being 212 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 5: strategic about your friends. Could I interview you, and so 213 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 5: I did. I violated my rule of not doing interviews 214 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 5: because it was clear that she wasn't out for a 215 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 5: gotcha moment, and I told her you should be. I 216 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 5: said everything I have to say I said on the show. 217 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 5: It's really nothing else I could say. But she said, 218 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 5: you choose your friends. I thought that was fascinating. You 219 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 5: choose your friends, I said, I do. 220 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 4: I do. 221 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 5: I choose my plumber, I choose my doctor. I choose 222 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 5: my financial advisor, I choose my lawyer. I chose my wife. Yeah, 223 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 5: I choose the things that I choose, the automobile I drive, 224 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 5: I choose who I'm going to work with. Why wouldn't I? 225 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 5: Why would I? I leave that to chance? That'd be 226 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 5: What are the odds it would turn out well if 227 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 5: you don't. 228 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 2: Just in here listening, Michael Berry. 229 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 5: Major League Baseball, it appears, is prepared to make Pete 230 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 5: Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame as well as 231 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 5: shoeless Joe Jackson. This chap's my ass so bad I 232 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 5: cannot even begin to tell you. I'll read you the article. 233 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 5: It's in Yahoo, so it's not exactly great journalism, but 234 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 5: the facts are not in dispute. Major League Baseball Commissioner 235 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 5: Rob Manfred took a major step Tuesday toward allowing both 236 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 5: Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson into the Baseball Hall 237 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 5: of Fame. Manfred officially removed Rose, Jackson, and all other 238 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 5: deceased players from MLB's permanently ineligible list on Tuesday. He 239 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 5: ruled that the league's punishment of banned individuals ends after 240 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 5: their deaths okay quote. Obviously, a person no longer with 241 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:24,239 Speaker 5: us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover, 242 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 5: it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has 243 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 5: more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with 244 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 5: no reprieve. Therefore, I have concluded that permanent ineligibility ends 245 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 5: upon the passing of the disciplined individual, and mister Rose 246 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 5: will be removed from the permanently ineligible list. The harm 247 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 5: that people do, the small mind and did actions that 248 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 5: people take. So what is the point of let's restrict 249 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 5: it to the Baseball Hall of Fame? Maybe there's a 250 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 5: mission statement. I don't know that anybody knows or cares. 251 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:22,959 Speaker 5: Do the voters, the electors, the journalists review that, do 252 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 5: they stay true to it? Do they root for players 253 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 5: from the city that they cover. Do they root for 254 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 5: players that they liked as a fan? Is this the 255 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 5: embodiment of the gold standard of the game? These the 256 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 5: guys who fundamental, fundamentally were the best players, the best hitters, 257 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 5: base steelers, fielders, pitchers, whatever was their mark of distinction. 258 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 5: Is that what it is? The best proficiency at the 259 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 5: skills of the game. I don't know. It is, after all, 260 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 5: a game. People tend to lose sight of them. It's 261 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 5: just a game. It's not war, it's not heart surgery. 262 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 5: It's entertainment. It is no different than getting on a 263 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 5: stage and singing or telling jokes. Some people can't seem that. 264 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 5: Some people lose sight of that very important fact. It's 265 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 5: just a game like tiddley wings or chess, nothing more. So, 266 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 5: why do you want Pete Rose in the Hall of 267 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 5: Fame now? Because everybody knows he needs to be there. 268 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 5: There is an argument to be made that Pete Rose 269 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 5: is the greatest baseball player of all time. That's not 270 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 5: to say that on his best day he was better 271 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 5: than the best player. His body of work simply cannot 272 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 5: be matched. It cannot be matched length of time he did, 273 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 5: what he did, and the way he did it. The 274 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 5: greatest switch hitter of all time, there's no question about that. 275 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 5: It's not even up for debate. The most number of 276 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 5: years hitting three hundred. I looked up his stats for 277 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 5: years ago. I think he played. I may have this wrong. 278 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 5: Somebody will be so happy to tell me I was 279 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 5: wrong by one year. But I think he played for 280 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 5: twenty three years, and I think he was an All 281 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 5: Star seventeen or nineteen of those. I mean, think about 282 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 5: the number of years he was an All Star was 283 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 5: more than the number of years Ninety nine percent of 284 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 5: players even play much less at the top of the game. 285 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 5: To do what he did. He played third, he played first, 286 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 5: he played outfield. In terms of pure skill in the game, 287 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 5: I would argue unmatched Abru's ability to pitch and hit. 288 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 5: I tell you what, this this uh, this guy that 289 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 5: gambled and they let off. That guy's numbers are exactly 290 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 5: what Babe Bruce numbers are at this point. And I 291 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 5: would argue it's a lot tougher today than it was 292 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 5: when Babe Ruth did it. There's a lot more. It's 293 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 5: a lot it's just harder, harder to do. The league 294 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 5: could have kicked him out for gambling. But they didn't, 295 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 5: did they because they preserved their their uh ATM. There's 296 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 5: their their money machine. He's good for the game, and 297 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 5: he opens up the game in Japan and that's a 298 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 5: lot more fans. So you're saying you want Pete Rose 299 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 5: in the Hall of Fame, which is a business. You 300 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 5: want Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame so that 301 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 5: you can make money off of people coming to the 302 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 5: Hall of Fame and and seeing in Cooperstown where he is. 303 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 5: You can draw attention to the game which has been suffering. 304 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 5: Let's be honest. That's why you had to pitch clock 305 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 5: at a number of other things. You can draw some 306 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 5: You can bring a little controversy back into the game 307 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 5: because people stop talking about Pete Rose because he died. 308 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 5: You can make people think, okay, maybe they have a heart. 309 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 5: They put Pete Rose back in there. But here's the 310 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 5: problem with that. You didn't let the man enjoy the 311 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 5: honor that he earned from the league. But Michael, he gambled. 312 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 5: Do you honestly think get everybody that has gambled that 313 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 5: they are aware of that they have punished. This is 314 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 5: the cruelest cut of all. You didn't. You could have 315 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 5: let that man be inducted and enjoy that honor, which 316 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 5: he desperately wanted. Now you didn't, so you can go 317 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 5: to hell. It's just evil, It's sure evil. But Michael 318 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 5: Barry Shaw, Prince and Rick James in the late eighties 319 00:21:52,760 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 5: were the stars of their scene, and they then each 320 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 5: had competing, dueling, battling opening acts that they produced and 321 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 5: sent out, and so it became a kind of a 322 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 5: not only are you and I rivals, but our kids 323 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 5: are rivals. Prince had one band called Vanity six. He 324 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 5: had another one called The Time, and as of the 325 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 5: release of this song in nineteen ninety, they were The Time. 326 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 5: Later they would be Morris Day and The Time. You 327 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 5: probably know what their biggest hit was, but they had 328 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 5: a lesser known hit just as The Time in nineteen 329 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 5: ninety that song about a guy who's so smooth, so 330 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 5: suave that he pleases the lady, and he is Donald 331 00:22:53,640 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 5: Trump black version. It is hard to over state the 332 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 5: extent to which Donald Trump was a cultural icon long 333 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 5: before he ran for office. I think in nineteen eighty eight, 334 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 5: when they prepared the media that he was going to 335 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 5: run for president, I don't think he had any intention 336 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 5: of running for president. I think he wanted to draw 337 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 5: attention to his book, The Art of the Deal, because 338 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 5: he wanted the book to sell. Donald Trump was bored 339 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 5: of just being a rich guy who opened hotels and 340 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 5: casinos or by that time, he was already at the 341 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 5: point that other people did it, and he slapped his 342 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 5: name on it. He built a brand. You talk about branding, 343 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 5: he built a brand that was the gold standard. People 344 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 5: would pay money to put his label on their whatever 345 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 5: it was they were doing because his label represented something. 346 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 5: He was in more movies than you would imagine. He 347 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 5: was on more TV shows. He was on He haw 348 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 5: for God's Sakes, Saturday Night, Lie you name it, And 349 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 5: I believe in eighty eight he had no intention of 350 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 5: running for president, really running presidents. Wanted to draw attention 351 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 5: to it, and nobody knew whether he would run as 352 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 5: a Democrat or Republican. So all the politicians were kissing 353 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 5: up to him because they didn't know which side he 354 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 5: was going to come down on, but they knew they 355 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 5: knew he was a cultural icon. His name id you know. 356 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 5: Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't win the governorship of California because he 357 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 5: made promises to do something special. He won because he 358 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 5: was a terminator. Jesse Ventura didn't win well that that 359 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 5: may not be true. That may not be true. I 360 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 5: think his star power helped him. But Jesse Ventura was 361 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 5: a hard core libertarian, and I think that excited a 362 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 5: certain young group that the likes of which would also 363 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 5: get excited over Donald Trump later. Anyway, just a little 364 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 5: just a little something to throw in there. Do you 365 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 5: remember how ABC killed Amy Roeback's story on Jeffrey Epstein 366 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 5: and the Clintons. Some of you will remember this. Amy 367 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 5: Roeback had a story on Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons, 368 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 5: and she would later tell the story that the network 369 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 5: killed it. They killed her investigation. They did not want 370 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 5: these things to come out here. She isn't her own words. 371 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 10: I've had the story for three years. I've had this 372 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 10: interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on 373 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 10: the air. 374 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 6: First of all, I was told, who's Jeffrey Epstein? No 375 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 6: one knows who that is. This is a stupid story. 376 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 10: Then the Palace found out that we had her whole 377 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 10: allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. 378 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 10: We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview 379 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 10: Kate as will that that also quashed the story. And 380 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 10: then and then Alan Dershowitz was also. 381 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 6: Implicated in because of the planes. She told me everything, 382 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 6: she had, pictures, she had everything. 383 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 10: She was in hiding for twelve or as we convinced 384 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 10: her to come out, we convinced her to talk to us. 385 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 6: It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton, we had everything. 386 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 10: I tried for three years to get it on to 387 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,959 Speaker 10: no avail, and now it's all coming out and it's 388 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 10: like these new relev revelations and I freaking had all 389 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 10: of it. I'm so pissed right now, Like every day 390 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 10: I get more and more pissed because I'm just like, 391 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 10: oh my god, it was what we had was unreal. 392 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 6: Other women backing it up. 393 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 10: Hey yep Bred Edwards, the attorney three years ago, saying 394 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 10: like like there will come a day when we will 395 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 10: realize Jeffrey Epsteen was the most prolific. 396 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 6: Pedophile this country has ever known. I had it all 397 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 6: three years ago. 398 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 5: The guest she had interviewed or was prepared to interview, 399 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 5: who could blow this thing wide open. She referred to 400 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 5: as Virginia Roberts. Virginia Roberts would go on to Mary 401 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 5: and become Virginia Jeffrey. 402 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 4: Well. 403 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 5: A couple of weeks ago, Virginia Jeoffrey committed suicide. Her 404 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 5: attorney cast doubt on her suicide, saying quote, we've got 405 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 5: big question marks over it. Attorney Carry Lowden says that 406 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 5: she had shown no signs she wanted to harm herself 407 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 5: before she was found dead at her farm in Western 408 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 5: Australia last Friday. She says, when I got the phone call, 409 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 5: I was like, are you joking? Because there was no 410 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 5: sign that that was something she was considering. There's suicide 411 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:36,199 Speaker 5: and then there's misadventure. Virginia Jeffrey Nay Roberts said she 412 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 5: was sex trafficked by Epstein to have sex with the 413 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 5: United Kingdoms Prince Andrew when she was a teen. Jeffrey's 414 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 5: death came just weeks after she took social media to 415 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 5: claim she had just days to live after allegedly being 416 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 5: injured in a March twenty fourth collision with the school bus. 417 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 5: Jeffrey's family said in a statement she lost her life 418 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 5: to suicide after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse 419 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 5: and sex trafficking. She was a light that lifted so many. 420 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 5: Can you imagine if you walked in and saw what 421 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 5: did he did to these people? If you walked in 422 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 5: and saw what powerful people who are still hidden to 423 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 5: this day did at Epstein's Orgy Island, If you walked 424 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 5: in and see and saw it, how traumatized you would be. 425 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 5: That there are victims that went through it, and how 426 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 5: traumatized they need to be, And that there are people 427 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 5: that will be on your television today wearing a so 428 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 5: wearing a suit, sitting upright as if they are honorable, 429 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 5: decent people who know all of it, may have been 430 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 5: there and are going out of their way to prevent 431 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 5: the truth from ever coming out.