1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: Michael Verry's Show is. 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 2: On the air. 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: It's Charlie from BlackBerry's Mother. I can feel a good 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: one coming on. 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 3: It's the Michael Berry Show. 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: I read a headline today. I think it was a 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: Free press but I don't remember. But I wrote it 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 2: down when I should have put the source, and it 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: said the end of the bisexual boom. You know, there's 11 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: something about trends and trendiness. I was raised in a household. 12 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 2: I'm not saying this is better or worse. When I 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: tell you that my views and my background. You might 14 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: have a different background and you might think I'm an idiot. 15 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 2: That's fine. I'm just giving you my perspective because that's 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: the only perspective I know. But I was raised in 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: a household to believe that trends were not something to 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: get excited over, and so as a result, it shapes 19 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 2: who I am. So when somebody says to me, I'll say, hey, 20 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 2: at grown man over that football player. He's got his 21 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: femur nails painted, and they go, oh, that's that's the 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: trend now, okay, am I gonna wake up one day 23 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: and you're gonna go, Hey, that dude over there, he 24 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 2: cut his ears off. Yeah, that's the trend that I 25 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: don't understand because something is a trend doesn't change what 26 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 2: it is. 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: I don't understand. 28 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: Wearing things, doing things, acting a certain way. I have, 29 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: I have, I know people that you know separate from 30 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: their lives because well that's the you know, that's the thing. 31 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: If you're not happy you do this, you don't know 32 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: who you are. 33 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: Do you understand that people who make trends are all 34 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 2: therapists and crazy people? But I repeat myself, do you 35 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: understand that those people? Whatever is a trend today won't 36 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 2: be the trend tomorrow. That's that's the point of a trend. 37 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,679 Speaker 2: Do you even know who you are? Sit in a 38 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 2: room silently and create a mission statement for yourself, good grief, 39 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 2: figure out who the hell you are because you don't know. 40 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: Anyway. 41 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: Lots to get to on the program today, I do 42 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 2: love to hear from you. If you've never sent me 43 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: an email, drop me one Michael Berryshow dot com. You 44 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,399 Speaker 2: can sign up for our daily blast, where we send 45 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: you highlights from the show. 46 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: You can buy our merse. 47 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: Most importantly, you can send me an email directly, and 48 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: I read them all, and I love to hear from 49 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 2: you where you are and how you found the show 50 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: to get a start as well. Always do courtesee, the 51 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 2: greatest executive producer all the land. CHATTICONI Nakanishi, you're con. 52 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: Sibirth is ship bird Day's happy birth? Titulely, that's so? 53 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: Is it? Ninety three today? 54 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 4: Live n AM ninety three years old today? 55 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 5: And I love my country. 56 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: And I hear citizens of the United States of America 57 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,119 Speaker 1: saying Donald John Trumpy, he's not my president. Well, let 58 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: me say this. 59 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 6: You are a citizen numbers United States of America. 60 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: Donald John Trump is your president. 61 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 5: These travelers leaving Houston spending hours in these lines. 62 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 4: George Bush Intercontinental Airport is warning travelers tsa way times 63 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 4: are expected to exceed four hours hours. 64 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 2: Members of Congress get to routinely skip the lines all. 65 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: Together, down to airlines. 66 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 4: Just announce it's ending special treatment remembers of Congress as 67 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 4: long as the partial government shutdown continues. 68 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 2: So what is designed to be a shot across the bow, 69 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 2: a SmackDown Members of Congress is actually just telling Americans, 70 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: you want to know why these people don't want to 71 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: leave Congress because all day, every day, they're treated like kings, 72 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 2: while you're treated like a peasant. 73 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 4: Professional cornhole player with no hands and no legs is 74 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 4: accused of firing a deadly shot all while driving. Video 75 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 4: from his TikTok page titled no hands, no feet shooting 76 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 4: nine millimeter handgun. His name is Dayton James Webber, a 77 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 4: twenty seven year old quadriplegic AMPU team and professional cornhole player. 78 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: This is a professional cornhole player, no arms. 79 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 1: No legs. 80 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: Well, none of that is as interesting as that dude 81 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: shot and killed somebody and has been charged. 82 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: Are you ready for slinging the coast? What do they 83 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: call sling shots? 84 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 2: You know, I don't know how it happened that the 85 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: only people that rent those are black looks. 86 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: Black guys just care to ride to look right on three. 87 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: I don't think that's true. 88 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 2: Crowd rockets now are probably seventy five percent black dudes. 89 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: But you can kind of, you know, you can still 90 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: a little bit of it. You can put your head 91 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: on your lass. If you can't do that with a 92 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: seven fifty man, you'll be this This is the Michael 93 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: Verie Show. That's one there. 94 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: I have to put in early because I want to 95 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 2: get three voicemails in on this segment. So while that 96 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 2: is our second segment, Friday Drive Home branding song by 97 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 2: the Great Tracy Bird, I'm gonna have to cut it 98 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 2: short hair because it is voicemail time and a reminder, 99 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 2: anytime we are not on the air, you can always 100 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: call in and leave us a voicemail and we will 101 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 2: choose some of those to air on the show. It's 102 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 2: your occasional reminder. I don't necessarily agree with something for 103 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 2: us to play with it or to play it, not 104 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 2: play with it, play it. 105 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: We air it for various reasons, but it's not necessarily 106 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: coming from. 107 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 5: Me and girls. 108 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: It's Friday, so you know what that means. 109 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 2: It's time a check for Michael's calm. 110 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: This week, So we start with Lonnie. 111 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 2: Lonnie doesn't tell us where he is, but he is 112 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 2: a big supporter of President Trump's actions in Iran. 113 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 7: Hey, Michael Fanning, I just don't understand, like this dude, 114 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 7: this assistant, that's no. 115 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 6: Security encounter terrorism whatever. 116 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 7: The title was, when comes out flying about. 117 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 6: The war and it's not even really a war. 118 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 7: It's like a connectic actor. 119 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 6: But whatever has anybody ever thought like, this is not 120 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 6: going to be World War three World wars. I know, 121 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 6: you noticed, Michael, World wars for all these. 122 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 7: People that are students of history, it was massive alliances 123 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 7: of country fighting other massive alliances of country, and they 124 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 7: duke it out, and all the countries pulled their resources 125 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 7: together and they fought each other. 126 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 6: That is not what's going on right now. America is 127 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 6: seeing the crap out of Iran. Anybody that did business 128 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 6: with Iran, like Russia, they said, see you later. We 129 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 6: got cracked with Ukrainey worry about China's like, no, America 130 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 6: will crash our freaking economy if we step in North Korea. 131 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 6: I don't even want They're nothing. 132 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 7: They're like, they're no. 133 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 6: Yeah, nobody knows the Kim Jong who's still alive. 134 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 7: He's probably stuff from face for the cheeseburgers. 135 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,679 Speaker 6: But they're no. Nobody's coming to help Iran. 136 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 7: They are the third and the punch bowl in. 137 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 6: The Middle East. Nobody in the Middle East likes them, 138 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 6: Nobody anywhere likes them. There's no alliance anywhere. So it's 139 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 6: not gonna be World War three. You get Russia and 140 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 6: Tanna that team up, you know, and then they start 141 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 6: want to. That's when you gotta worry about World War 142 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 6: three right now, you know, one of those countries of 143 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 6: chiming in. It's all America versus Iran, and it ain't 144 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 6: gonna be World War three. It'll be over about two 145 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 6: more weeks. I just wish people would just get the. 146 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 5: Big boy pants on. 147 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 6: Unlet's finish this thing strong and be done with it. 148 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 7: I just I just don't get it. I don't want 149 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 7: to hear world War. 150 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 6: Three one more time. 151 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: I'm so sick of it. 152 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 6: Thanks, Michael, you're the best. 153 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 2: The beauty of our format and the view of our 154 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: show is that varying, disparate positions should be aired. We 155 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: live in a great country where we get to do that. 156 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 2: So that was Lonnie a very different perspective as Andrew, 157 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 2: who's a trucker lives in Katie, Texas, which is a 158 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 2: town just west of Houston, but he's calling in from 159 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 2: Illinois on the road and he does not. 160 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: Feel that way. 161 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 5: Hey, Michael Desandra, I live in Katie, Texas. 162 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: Currently, I drive a Semi. 163 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 5: I'm sitting at a blizzard in Illinois. 164 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: But you know, I'm glad, you know to hear how 165 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: you feel. 166 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 5: About this war and I ran. 167 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: I lived driving a truck. 168 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 5: I listen to a lot of talk radio, and I 169 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 5: feel like everybody's just really champion this along. And you know, 170 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 5: I truly do feel abandoned by MAGA and Trump. You know, 171 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 5: he ran on no Wars and on one hand they're saying, 172 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 5: you know, this was kind of spontaneous, but then on 173 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 5: the other hand, they say, this has been a threat 174 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 5: for forty seven years. He didn't campaign on it. I 175 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 5: think they were a threat to Israel, not US. You know, nothing, 176 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,319 Speaker 5: nothing's I call in a lot of shows, you know, 177 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 5: when I start talking like this and they keep me 178 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 5: on hold. You know, nothing has gotten cheaper, nothing, you know, 179 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 5: Scott Best in the second third quarter. So I was 180 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 5: kind of crossing my fingers and I think this Iran war, 181 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 5: any little feeling we would have got, is now going 182 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 5: to go away. And you know, my biggest thing that 183 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 5: bothers me is, you know, I heard Trump say to 184 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 5: the Speaker of the House, American people don't care about 185 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 5: housing prices. And you know, obviously he wasn't paying attention 186 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 5: when he ran. And you know Trump's messaging, he says, 187 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 5: we're in the Golden Air. I fixed the economy, not 188 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 5: you know, hey, it's coming. I just I don't know 189 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 5: everything about how he's talking and what I'm seeing. I 190 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,319 Speaker 5: just I really feel portrayed. 191 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: By Thanks Michael. 192 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: The President had his finger on the pulse of the 193 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 2: American public when he was running for reelection, or when 194 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 2: he was running for election in twenty twenty four against 195 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, who bore the burden of being the quote 196 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: unquote incumbent. He talked about egg prices and Kamala Harris, 197 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 2: who was living inside the bubble as the vice president, 198 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 2: she wasn't out buying eggs. And every statistic you read 199 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 2: is that women buy the groceries for the house in 200 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 2: most of the cases. And women are conscious of the 201 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 2: household budget, stay at home women that don't work outside 202 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 2: the home. They are conscious that one of the ways 203 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 2: they can add value to the home is they can 204 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 2: manage a family budget. That's important. That's a major contribution. 205 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 2: Raise the kids, you know, run the household. And they 206 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:59,079 Speaker 2: were very conscious of egg prices and egg inflation, and 207 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 2: the President was mindful of that. At his cabinet meeting 208 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: yesterday morning, he addressed the fact that prices will come down, 209 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 2: including energy prices, because that is what people are worried 210 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 2: about right now. 211 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: That is a real thing. So here's Eddie. 212 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 2: He's worried that the Mexican drug cartels may have infiltrated 213 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 2: his lawn service. 214 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: It's not necessarily a crazy notion. 215 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 3: My name is Eddie. I have a question for you. Recently, 216 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 3: I've been having this yard man come for nineteen years. 217 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 3: All of a sudden he tells me he's going on 218 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 3: vacations for three months. This's never happened before. Another guy 219 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 3: comes over. 220 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 5: To do the yard work. 221 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 3: And he tells me, well, how much are you paying? Well, 222 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 3: shit he asked for. Well that's not enough. You're going 223 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 3: to have to pay ass not even enough to cut 224 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 3: my hair in Spanish. Of course, he's wanting more money 225 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 3: to do the thing job that my regular person was doing. 226 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:24,719 Speaker 3: I'm wondering if this is part of the cartel that 227 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 3: are being in piltrating deeper into Texas and coming and 228 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 3: disrupting what nor normal is. I was just wondering. I 229 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 3: haven't told my wife what I'm thinking, but I'm just 230 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 3: because this is very odd. Thank you. 231 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 2: I was raised with the strict admonition don't put all 232 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 2: your eggs into one ask it. I see people who 233 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 2: have contributed to their four oh one k because they're lazy, 234 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: and they're not bad people. 235 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: They worked hard. 236 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 2: And the idea is I'll just put everything in the 237 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 2: stock market equities. Okay, well, that's great when stock market's up, 238 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 2: but what if it's down. I work too hard for 239 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 2: my money, and I tell people this, you work too 240 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 2: hard for your money too long to leave that to 241 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 2: the vagaries of the stock market. I'm not saying you 242 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: shouldn't have a four oh one k or anything else. 243 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 2: I'm just telling you that for me, I'm diversified precious metals. 244 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 2: I don't trust the government. I don't I don't trust 245 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 2: the government that won't pay TSA and leaves people waiting 246 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 2: in line that long. I don't trust the Fed. I 247 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 2: don't trust the monetary policy. Put me on the Ron 248 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 2: Paul end of it. I'm just telling you gold and 249 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 2: silver from folks that are going to give you the 250 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 2: white glove treatment. It's gold code. But they created a 251 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: URL for our listeners. It's called Michael likes gold dot com. 252 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 2: Michael likes gold dot com. 253 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: This is the Michael Berry Show. Locked and loaded, loaded. 254 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 2: Five dollars and sixty cent for each way you travel. 255 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 2: Fee added to your ticket. The airline collects it and 256 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: sends it to the TSA. It is known as the 257 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 2: September eleventh security fee or the passenger security fee or 258 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 2: the TSA security fee. They send that money to the 259 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: TSA to offset TSA expenses. So even if you have 260 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: multiple segments, it's limited to two times per round trip flight. 261 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 2: But that means for every round trip flight you fly, 262 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 2: that's eleven dollars and twenty cents. It adds up to 263 00:14:52,400 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 2: real money. Except right now they're short TSA agents. They're 264 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: bringing in ice. Now think about this for a moment. 265 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 2: What is ICE supposed to do. They're saying they're making 266 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 2: a show if we're doing something. So they're bringing in ice. 267 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 2: So you know what they're doing. They're looking at your 268 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 2: driver's license earlier. Well, guess what happens when you do that. 269 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 2: You start catching the legal aliens and they're taking them 270 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 2: down on the spot. 271 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: So the Democrats don't like that. 272 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 2: You've got the district attorney in Philadelphia, Larry Krasner saying 273 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 2: that every ICE agent who shows up to the airport, 274 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 2: he's going to have them arrested and charge them, and 275 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 2: Trump can't pardon them, and all this is nonsense. But 276 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 2: imagine that you've got a district attorney in Philadelphia threatening 277 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 2: federal agents who are. 278 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: Doing their jobs. 279 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 2: I am surprised Trump is not taking a more dramatic 280 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 2: approach to this. I'm very surprised. I don't think he's 281 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 2: getting good advice. Again, now I'll get emails. 282 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: You not for Trump, Michael, You not for Trump. Gotta 283 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: get a Trump train. 284 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, the President's got one hundred different things 285 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 2: going on, and I don't think he's being given the 286 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 2: best advice because I think if Donald Trump saw the hassle, 287 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 2: the anger, the bitterness in this country over what's going 288 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 2: on the way it is in Houston at the airport, 289 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: I think he would say, executive order, send in the 290 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 2: National Guard, risk everybody, you know, get people moving. I 291 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 2: think it's important we not lose sight of what is 292 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 2: going on with this airport delay. The whole point of 293 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 2: the delay has nothing to do with airline travel, has 294 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: nothing to do with the plane. We don't lack pilots. 295 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: If he didn't have pilots, okay, understandable. We've had to 296 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 2: reduce a number of flights. We have plenty of pilots. 297 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 2: We don't lack stewardesses. There's federal requirements as to how 298 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: many stewardessts per flight. 299 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: Okay, got all that, all. 300 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 2: Right, that's that's a little silly, but let's play along. 301 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 2: We don't lack fuel. We've got enough fuel for the 302 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 2: planes to get them everywhere they are scheduled to go. 303 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: That's the schedule that was presented to you when you 304 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 2: bought it to take your flight. We don't lack planes. No, 305 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 2: plenty of planes. They're airworthy, they've been maintained, plenty of airspace, 306 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 2: no war going on on American in American airspace, plenty 307 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: of runways, the tires. 308 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: Are aired up. We've been doing this. We're good at 309 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: this air traffic. We got this down. Okay, we did 310 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: have a crash at log Warda that day, But you 311 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: get the point. 312 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 2: So the whole point of you waiting for six hours 313 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 2: and then not getting your flight and having to come 314 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 2: back the next day all relate to a matter. 315 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: Of seconds when you walk through the machine. That's what 316 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: all this is about. There aren't enough people to stand 317 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: at the machine while you walk through it. This is ridiculous. 318 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: This is absurd. 319 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 2: I'm shocked Trump is not saying we're suspending that requirement. 320 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 2: Get on the planes. 321 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: But Michael, they'll cause him problems and if there's a crash, 322 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: they'll say it was him. 323 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 2: He has been bold and decisive in the past. This 324 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: is a man who was shot in the head and 325 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 2: still goes out in public. He's going to do something dramatic, 326 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 2: whatever that is, He's going to do it. He's not 327 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 2: going to let this. This is a snarling pace, this 328 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 2: is a bad visual. This is Carter in Iran, unable 329 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: to do anything and looking inept. He's not going to 330 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 2: allow this to happen. I'm shocked they've allowed to happen. 331 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 2: And let's rewind and make sure we're keeping it all 332 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 2: into perspective. 333 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:17,239 Speaker 7: Here. 334 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 2: All of this is to walk through the machine. All right, 335 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 2: do away with the machine. I guarantee everybody in that 336 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: line would say, yes, do away with the machine. Let's 337 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: just get on the planes. You got a ticket, you 338 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 2: get through. 339 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: Fine. The machines went down. Period. Next question, all right, 340 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: why do we have the machines? When did the machine start? 341 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 2: We had to be over the top about this was 342 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 2: our reaction to twenty Muslims from Saudi Arabia. 343 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: This was our reaction. They won. Make no mistake, I 344 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: don't care what you say. They won. 345 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 2: They've done. This still goes back to Osama bin Laden. 346 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 2: He is still terrorizing this country. Look at what we've done. 347 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 2: He intended to shut down air traffic and he did it, 348 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 2: and he's done it again. 349 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: Think about that. 350 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,719 Speaker 2: We're the most powerful nation on earth, brought to our 351 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 2: knees by twenty Muslims. You look at the history in 352 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 2: the last thirty years of aviation terrorism in this country. 353 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 2: There are things you could do to prevent this. They 354 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 2: would be drastic, but there are things you could do. 355 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 2: We're told every year by the Democrats that the greatest 356 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 2: threat to America as white conservative veterans. Is that why 357 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 2: we're standing in line at the TSA. 358 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. So let's 359 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 1: go back fourteen months ago. 360 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 2: President Trump, on day one, executes all these executive orders. 361 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: Democrats didn't know what to do. They were on their heels. 362 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 2: They thought we'd have a couple of weeks of pageantry, 363 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 2: pomp and circumstance parades. Oh no, Trump's in there signing them. 364 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,199 Speaker 2: There's no autopen BAM bam bam. They couldn't keep up. 365 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 2: Public was loving it, Press was frenzied. Deportations started shortly thereafter, 366 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 2: and they knew they had to do something they cannot get. 367 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 2: They worked too hard to get these illegals in here 368 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 2: to count them as votes. They've got to stop this. 369 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: So what they do. They started sending in kamikazes to 370 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: get killed by ice. 371 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 2: That didn't even stop. They've tried everything. They called him hitler. 372 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 2: They've done it all. They have tried everything. So finally 373 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 2: they said, all right, we're going to bring the American 374 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 2: Flying Public, which is every family and everybody's connected to this, 375 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 2: to their knees. 376 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 1: We won't pay for. 377 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 2: TSA fine, don't pay for TSA. Shut down the TSA 378 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 2: and open up the airlines. We did it twenty five 379 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 2: years ago. We could do it again. 380 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: That's what they ought to do, all right, that's. 381 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 6: What you want. 382 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 2: I have spent a fair amount of time studying Donald 383 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 2: Trump's leadership style, how he makes decisions, in how he leads, 384 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 2: and he has a style as president that goes back 385 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 2: to the very beginning but has been accelerated this second term. 386 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 5: And it is not. 387 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: It's not a common style but he's not the only 388 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: one that does this what he. 389 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 2: Likes to do, and there have been kings in history 390 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,719 Speaker 2: who do this, and there are presidents of companies who 391 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 2: would do this. Is he likes to is he surrounds 392 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 2: himself with very ambitious people who understand that loyalty to 393 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 2: him will serve their ambitions because. 394 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: You know, people who've never led. 395 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 2: That's the problem with most political commentators, for instance, they're 396 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 2: just people whose nipe. It's like, it's like Bob Costas, 397 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 2: you know, criticizing what the pitch choice of Bob Gibson 398 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 2: when Bob Costas couldn't throw a baseball right, or guys 399 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 2: that are questioning that the call by a coach when 400 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 2: they've never they've never played the game. They don't understand 401 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 2: the game. They've certainly never coached the game. And one 402 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,239 Speaker 2: of the things that will be criticized is leaders who 403 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 2: expect loyalty and reporters like to you know, that's like 404 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 2: a you know, oh, he's a weak person, he needs loyalty. 405 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 2: Quite the opposite. You should demand loyalty if you intend 406 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 2: to get anything done. Biden didn't have any loyalty by 407 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:24,479 Speaker 2: anybody around him, and his administration was dysfunctional. They were 408 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 2: not only disloyal to him, they were dismissive of him. 409 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 2: That's what the autopen was. The real crime is not 410 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 2: that Biden didn't sign anything. The real crime is who 411 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 2: chose to make that decision, because it wasn't Biden. It 412 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 2: was like the old line when he was reading from 413 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 2: the teleprompter. I can't remember who first said it, it 414 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: was repeated by several people, myself included that the real 415 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 2: president was not the guy reading the teleprompter. The real 416 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 2: president was the guy choosing what went on the teleprompter. 417 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 2: And there's some wisdom to that. 418 00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 3: Well. 419 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 2: Trump's leadership style is very different. He surrounds himself with 420 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 2: very ambitious people, and I think the two most ambitious 421 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 2: now Christy Noam is out, but she could never work 422 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 2: within his ambit. Within his circle are Marco Rubio and JD. 423 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: Vans. 424 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 5: Now. 425 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 2: I am not a guy who likes to think ahead 426 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 2: for the next presidential campaign because I think when you 427 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 2: do that, the moment you begin doing that is the 428 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 2: moment you begin handicapping the current administration because you've made 429 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 2: him a lame duck, and he does not want to 430 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 2: be a lame duck, and he's very careful of that. 431 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 2: I noticed that, you know when when a when a 432 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 2: team wins a championship, before they're even off the field, 433 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 2: before they've even celebrated. 434 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: That what are we gonna do next year? 435 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 2: Who's gonna who's gonna get traded, who's Let's enjoy this moment. 436 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 2: So I would like to enjoy this moment, and I 437 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 2: would like the second Trump presidency to be highly successful. 438 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: We are a little over a quarter of the way through. 439 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 2: The second term, and I don't want to spend the 440 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 2: whole second term talking about who's going to be president next. 441 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 2: But with that being said, I do think as part 442 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 2: of his administration style this time, he is playing off 443 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 2: of the ambition of JD. Vance and Marco Rubio to 444 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: get them to advance his agenda. I think it also 445 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: reflects the fact that he likes both of them. He 446 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 2: has come to like both of them. He had to 447 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 2: destroy who he called little Marco in twenty sixteen because 448 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 2: he had to get him out of the way to 449 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 2: get to the end goal that is Trump. It's nothing 450 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 2: personal to him. You've got to be destroyed so that 451 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 2: he can win. And that's fine, and he did that, 452 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: but tapping Marco Rubio to be his Secretary of State 453 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 2: was a decision I found to be surprising, and he has. 454 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 2: I think Marco has earned his respect and support and 455 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 2: he has been very, very complementary of Marco. 456 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 5: Now. 457 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 2: That also reflects the fact that Marco has been loyal. 458 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 2: When you are disloyal and he hears about it, he 459 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 2: will cut you off at the knees, and we've seen 460 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 2: him do that. I think he views Marco as a 461 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 2: guy who is now very loyal to him, who was 462 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 2: a never trumper in twenty sixteen, who is very loyal 463 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 2: to him now. And this has been a sort of 464 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 2: resuscitation of Marco's career. He was on the downside, was 465 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 2: kind of he was kind of broken goods and he 466 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 2: has reinvented himself to use a term I don't normally like, 467 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 2: but he has, and Trump is using that to his advantage. 468 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 2: You think about Rex Tillerson, what a horrible choice he was. 469 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 2: Compare Marco to that, and I think you see the 470 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 2: difference in Trump two point zero and Trump one point 471 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: zher He is now giving j d Vance very plumb assignments. 472 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 2: The role of the vice president is to sit around 473 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 2: in case the president dies, and now you're the president, 474 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 2: and to break ties in the case of the Senate, 475 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 2: you are an acting senator in that sense. So what 476 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 2: a president chooses to assign to a vice president tells 477 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 2: you a lot about his view of that vice president. 478 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 2: Dan Quall's kind of an idiot, and he was the 479 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: Indiana senator that George H. W. Bush brought in as 480 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 2: a younger guy, Midwest guy, and he would have Quail 481 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 2: go out and as a trial balloon, he would announce 482 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 2: the dumbest initiatives to see how much pushback there was, 483 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 2: and that told you a lot about his respect for 484 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 2: dan Quill. 485 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: Or lack of. 486 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 2: Look just watch in the coming weeks, look at the 487 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 2: tasks Trump is giving to JD. Vance and it tells 488 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 2: you a lot about where his head is with regard 489 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,479 Speaker 2: to Jdvans. I think what he's doing in a Lincoln 490 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: team of rivals. Doris Kern's goodwin sort of way is 491 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 2: he has identified those two guys as two of the 492 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 2: stars of his administration, and the fact that they each 493 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 2: want to outdo each other makes them work harder and 494 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 2: do more, and go further and be willing to take 495 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 2: more chances and that is real leadership on Trump's part. 496 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 2: I'm going to be interested to watch this as it develops. 497 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 2: I do think he has the ultimate respect for Scott Bessont. 498 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:55,239 Speaker 2: Bessett has no ambitions beyond what he's doing now. 499 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: I think he saw that. 500 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,719 Speaker 2: Christy Noam was a distraction and that she couldn't operate 501 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 2: within his ecosystem because she was about herself and she 502 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 2: had to you know, some side freakish, you know, ethics 503 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 2: and all sorts of other obligations or violations. But anyway, 504 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 2: just keep an eye on that. That's going to be 505 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 2: very interesting to watch in the coming months as we 506 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 2: move forward. I fully expect him to put jd vance 507 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 2: and oddly enough because the Secretary of State Marco Rubio 508 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 2: in the right places on the campaign trail to help 509 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 2: win the Senate this fall, and that will tell you 510 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 2: a lot about what he is kind of using them 511 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 2: for and setting them up for.