1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, Luck and Load. The 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 2: Suburban Chicago police officer who was arrested by federal immigration 4 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: authorities for living in the United States illegally has returned 5 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: to duty. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin 6 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 2: points out that a so called law enforcement officer is 7 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: actively breaking the law. 8 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 3: Fox News with the story. 9 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 4: I says officer Radu Lai Boyevich was arrested because he 10 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 4: allegedly overstayed his tourist visa and was living in the 11 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 4: US illegally. 12 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 5: For ten years. 13 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 4: But two weeks after his arrest on October fifteenth, Boyevich 14 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 4: was released on bond and has now been re hired 15 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 4: as a police officer for Hanover Park, a Chicago suburb, 16 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 4: The police department saying quote, given that his bond was 17 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 4: not contested and he remains authorized to work by the 18 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 4: federal government, the Handover Park Police Department determined that he 19 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 4: may work. The Department of Homeland Security, though, is outraged, 20 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 4: telling Fox quote, it is absolutely deranged that this activist 21 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 4: judge released this criminal, illegal alien and now he is 22 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 4: back on full duty as a police officer to enforce 23 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 4: the law which he is breaking with every breath he 24 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 4: takes on US soil, among a litany of other crimes. 25 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: It is a felony for an illegal alien to possess 26 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 4: a firearm. 27 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 5: We will be pursuing. 28 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 4: Every legal option available to us, including criminal charges. Boievich 29 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 4: was one of more than forty two hundred people arrested 30 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 4: in the Chicago area during DHS's immigration enforcement operation called 31 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 4: Midway Blitz. Hanover Park Police says it hired Boyevich in 32 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 4: January because he has a valid federal work Authorization card 33 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 4: and no criminal history, but at the time of his arrest, 34 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 4: ISI's Chicago director explained, the work authorization card does not 35 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 4: mean that Boyevich is here legally. 36 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 5: He was admitted on a VSA. 37 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 6: He overseved that visa for nearly a decade, so he 38 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 6: doesn't have any lawful status in the US. I mean 39 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 6: he did USCIS, which is Citizenship and Immigration Service did 40 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 6: issue him a work authorization card, but he didn't have 41 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 6: any lawful status here in the US. Officer Boyovich was 42 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 6: back to work yesterday. He will be receiving back pay 43 00:02:58,880 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 6: for all the time that. 44 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 3: He will is on leave. 45 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: The Pentagon says that every member of the National Guard 46 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 2: in DC is now armed. Wait, why did you need 47 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: to tell us that? Were they not armed before? 48 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 5: This? 49 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 2: Coming after the Afghan terrorist Biden brought to the United States, 50 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 2: which was supported by John Cornyn in a vote, and 51 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: a letter was written by Dan Crenshaw along with Sylvia 52 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: Garcia to relocate them to Houston. 53 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 5: We want them here. 54 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: Depending on press. 55 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: Secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters, I can confirm that everybody 56 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: in DC is now armed, and a lot of our 57 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 2: DC National guardsmen are now also doing joint patrols with 58 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: members of the police Department here in d C. Wait, 59 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 2: this is concerning what was the point of them walking 60 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 2: around if they weren't armed, They were in uniform, they 61 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: were there for a purpose. That purpose, presumably was to 62 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 2: keep protesters from burning the city down, our nation's capital, 63 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 2: and they weren't armed. 64 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 5: What are we doing? 65 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: We're up to two generations of Americans that were lied 66 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 2: to being told that the key to financial stability was 67 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: a four year college degree. Turns out that psychology, sociology, 68 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 2: gender studies, and other such degrees plus thousands of dollars 69 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 2: in debt worthless Bloomberg reporting Americans with four year degrees 70 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 2: now comprise a record twenty five percent of unemployed workers. 71 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 2: US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate for 72 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: bachelor's degree holders rose to two point eight percent in September, 73 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 2: up half a percent from a year earlier. Other levels 74 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 2: of education, by contrast, registered little or no increases over 75 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 2: the same period. So Americans with four year college degrees 76 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: now comprise the record twenty five percent of total unemployment. 77 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: From the Bloomberg article quote, there were more than one 78 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 2: point nine million Americans age twenty five and older with 79 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: at least a bachelor's degree who were unemployed in September, 80 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 2: one in four of the total number of unemployed Before 81 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, The ratio never reached such a high 82 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:03,239 Speaker 2: in going back to nineteen ninety two. Younger recent college 83 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 2: grads have also been struggling to find work. Rising unemployment 84 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: among the college education quote should further fuel AI related 85 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 2: job loss fears, Michael Faroli, chief US economist at JP 86 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 2: Morgan Chase, said Thursday in a note following the release 87 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 2: for the new graduates from college, they did get hit 88 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: by a bit of a perfect storm fed a Reserve 89 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 2: Bank of New York President John Williams said Friday. Normally, 90 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 2: college graduates are being swept into the labor market as 91 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: they get out of college, and this has not happened 92 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: as much this year. Americans are bearing the brunt of 93 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 2: the recent rise in joblessness. The unemployment rate for those 94 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: between the age of twenty and twenty four was nine 95 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 2: point two percent, up two point two percentage points from 96 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 2: a year earlier. Unemployment rates for older Americans, meanwhile, remain 97 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: below four percent and have seen smaller increases in recent months. 98 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 2: What no one wants to talk about, Let's leave AI 99 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: out of this for just a moment. What no one 100 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 2: wants to talk about is it going to college for 101 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 2: the sake of going to college does not make you 102 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: a task performer, solution provider. That's what people don't realize 103 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: that jobs are. We didn't have a jobs program. Some 104 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 2: people think jobs are welfare. We need to have jobs programs. No, 105 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 2: when there are tasks that need to be performed and 106 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 2: solutions that need to be provided, people will. 107 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 3: Pay you to do that. Simple as that. 108 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 2: So, are you a person that is learning the skills 109 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 2: and the mindset to perform tasks and provide solutions. I 110 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: don't think so. I don't think that's been taught to anyone. 111 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: I don't think they understand that. I think they think 112 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 2: I get my degree, they're gonna have to have me. 113 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 2: I'm somebody. Nobody needs you, nobody cares, nobody wants you. 114 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 2: But what about your attitude? What about your understanding of 115 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 2: your role in an organization? You think you're there because 116 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: you add to what they have. You're there to step 117 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 2: and fetch it, period. 118 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 7: And if you can't. 119 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 2: Understand that, you're not getting hired, and most kids don't 120 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 2: understand that. In my error, I must correct you. Earlier 121 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 2: today I said that I'm earlier to the show. Penn 122 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: State fired James Franklin because he didn't win the big game, 123 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 2: and they're Penn State. They've got to win the big game. 124 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: Franklin had, by all accounts, done a great job. They 125 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: fired him because they can do better than that, so 126 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 2: they thought. And I made the point that their recruiting 127 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 2: class for next year came in at one twenty nine, 128 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 2: just behind Harvard and just ahead of University of Louisiana 129 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 2: at Monroe Wow. But as Chad pointed out, it has 130 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 2: dropped since then. Because they lost some commits, some people 131 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 2: committed to them, and they've moved on to other schools now, 132 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: so now they've dropped to a nice clean one hundred 133 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 2: and fifty. But to their credit, they are ahead of 134 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: Prairie View, A and M. That's where Penn State's recruiting 135 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: class has landed. They have a whopping two commits. They 136 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 2: have two players who have committed to play there. I 137 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 2: guess you're thinking, well, I'll stay there because I'm going 138 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 2: to get to play because everybody will be gone. 139 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I'm like Mike to play right off. 140 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,839 Speaker 2: A New York Post editorial quote, Americans are rightly waking up. 141 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: Much of higher education is now a scan. A new 142 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 2: NBC News poll finds it a full sixty three percent 143 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 2: of voters believe that a four year college degree now 144 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 2: isn't worth it, since many students graduate with a large 145 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 2: amount of debt but no specific job skills. From the 146 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 2: piece quote, more Americans are wising up to the fact 147 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 2: that higher education has become a raw deal for all. 148 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 3: Too many young people. 149 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 2: A new NBC News poll finds it a full sixty 150 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: three percent of voters believe a four year college degree 151 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 2: now just isn't worth it, since many students graduate with 152 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 2: a large amount of debt but no specific job skills. 153 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 2: That's up markedly since twenty thirteen, when a majority took 154 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 2: the opposite view, as fifty three percent called a degree 155 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 2: worth the cost because people have a better chance to 156 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 2: get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime. 157 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: That was the case for generations of Americans who saw 158 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 2: college as a key step. 159 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 5: To higher paying jobs in a better life. 160 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 2: Upwardly, mobile was almost entirely synonymous with college educated, but 161 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 2: over the last few decades the dynamic has shifted far 162 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: too many college degrees guarantee nothing except onerous debt. Tuition 163 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 2: costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last twenty years, are 164 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 2: redoubling from two decades earlier as universities jacked up prices 165 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 2: to match increased help such as federal aid and ever 166 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 2: larger government facilitated student loans. 167 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 3: But in return for. 168 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 2: Seventy grand or more a year, students today often don't 169 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 2: get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career. Countless 170 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 2: colleges have transformed into woken doctrination factories that churn out 171 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 2: grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills. 172 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 5: A report last. 173 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 2: Year found that two thirds of colleges required DEI related 174 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 2: cases courses to graduate. By the way, in the news 175 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,080 Speaker 2: this week, Texas Tech amountcing that they will know no 176 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 2: longer allow reference to more than two sexes because there 177 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 2: aren't more than two sexes. Good on you, Brandon Creighton, 178 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 2: offering classes like Understanding Diversity in a pluralistic society and 179 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 2: Abolition of Whiteness. Why take on huge debt to be 180 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 2: pummeled NonStop with identity politics? Meanwhile, great inflation and faculties 181 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 2: increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduced the return even on 182 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 2: real classes. Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white 183 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 2: collar jobs and increasingly safe unsafe bet. Prospective students once 184 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 2: could safely bet that a hard science or math degree 185 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 2: was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is 186 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 2: already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors, 187 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 2: including tech. Americans have noticed college enrollment has plummeted these 188 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 2: last few years, while numbers of gen zers are eyeing 189 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 2: high paying, high demand careers as welders, plumbers, and electricians. 190 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 2: Trade school was once stigmatized as a less appealing option 191 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 2: than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a 192 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 2: less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable 193 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 2: skill now often seems the far wiser choice. Yes, college 194 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 2: can still absolutely make sense for many young people, especially 195 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 2: at the schools that have kept tuition affordable and academic 196 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 2: standards rigorous, But the idea that everyone should go never 197 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 2: made much sense and is plainly false. 198 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 3: Today, higher education inc. Is on notice. 199 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 2: Squeezing students with sky high tuition while offering subpar ideology 200 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 2: driven curriculum is a death sentence. America's students have caught 201 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 2: on to the scam. I heard a speech by the 202 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 2: President of University of Texas, Jim Davis, a month or 203 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 2: so ago, and without making it overtly political, he seemed 204 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: determined to con to the donors in the audience that 205 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 2: the university would return to its roots as an educational institution, 206 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 2: as a place of opportunity, and as a place that 207 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: was proud to be in Texas and of Texas. I 208 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: thought it was a very very prescient message. You know, 209 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 2: it's an unfortunate thing because college has increasingly cost more 210 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 2: and more and more. That's undeniable. The numbers bear out. 211 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 2: College has at the same time a harder thing to prove. 212 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 2: But I don't think anyone doubts it become more ideologically, 213 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 2: almost exclusively liberal, and I think that's problematic. The real 214 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: problem is the donors are by and large not liberals, 215 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 2: so they find themselves wanting to help their institution, and 216 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 2: it's a two way street. They like They like having 217 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 2: their name on a field, or on a building, or 218 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 2: on a scholarship, or being called out. They liked the 219 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 2: recognition from their school. Many of them didn't do so 220 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 2: well in school, but now look at me. I've made 221 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 2: all the money. So they struggle with this. 222 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 3: Well, I really. 223 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 2: Want to have my name on a building, but I 224 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 2: don't like the direction the school has taken, and I'm not. 225 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 5: Willing to crack down. 226 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 3: Well, they're starting to crack down. The Michael Berry Show. 227 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 8: A truck drive dollar charged with killing a couple in 228 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 8: a horrific crash in Beautiful Bend, Oregon, turns out to 229 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 8: be an illegal alien who was granted a commercial driver's 230 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 8: license in Governor Gavin Newsom's California. 231 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 2: See the Problems of California. Don't stay in California, that's 232 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 2: the problem. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Trisha McLaughlin says, 233 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 2: how many more seamless tragedy senseless tragedies must take place 234 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 2: before sanctuary politicians stop allowing illegal aliens to dangerously operate 235 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 2: semi trucks on America's roads. I only wish the people 236 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 2: they crash into would be the politicians who provide them 237 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 2: the sanctuary to conduct their crimes in this country, because then, 238 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 2: and only then would it change the story from KTVZTV 239 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 2: in Bend, Oregon. 240 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 9: Federal officials say a truck driver charged in a deadly 241 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 9: crash on Highway twenty last week is in the US illegally. 242 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 9: The Department of Homeland Security confirmed tonight ice filed an 243 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 9: arrest warrant for thirty two year old Rajender Kumar of Fresno, California. 244 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 9: Here's an image of Rajender. The Department of Homeland Security 245 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 9: says he's originally from India. Oregon State police say Kumar's 246 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 9: a semi jackknifed on Highway twenty last week. 247 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 5: Two people drove into it. 248 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 9: And were killed, twenty five year old William Harder of 249 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 9: Springfield and twenty four year old Jennifer. 250 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 3: Lower of john Day. 251 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 9: The newlyweds had just married sixteen days earlier. Court record 252 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 9: show Kumar faces two counts of criminally negligent homicide. He's 253 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 9: in the Dashud's County jail tonight admit a passport issue. 254 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 9: Federal authorities say Ice will seek custody if he's released. 255 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,719 Speaker 3: So when illegal immigration. 256 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: Is fostered in California, the problems it causes aren't limited 257 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 2: to California, not that that would make it okay, because 258 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 2: if you live in California, you have every right to expect. 259 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 3: To be able to. 260 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 2: Pursue happiness in a safe, free environment. These people are 261 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 2: determined to sell our country to foreigners, determined to destroy 262 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 2: our country without any regard, I mean without the slightest 263 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 2: regard for the effects that it will have on the 264 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 2: people who live here. And that is terrible. A heartwarming story. 265 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 2: Fifty years ago, a group of high school friends in 266 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 2: Orange County, California made a pack with each others to 267 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 2: be with each other, to be friends until there is 268 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 2: last one. There is one last man standing. They call 269 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 2: it the Last Man's Society. Every Thanksgiving they reunite to 270 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 2: celebrate brotherhood and life. 271 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 5: The story from ABC seven Los Angeles. 272 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 10: Each year we'll toast the friendships that we have shared 273 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 10: until the last Man, and. 274 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 11: The term lifelong friends is a statement this group of 275 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 11: brothers takes to heart. 276 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 12: We were such good friends we figured we cannot let. 277 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 3: This go well. 278 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 11: In high school in nineteen seventy six, the group of 279 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 11: guys eighteen deep made a pack with each other to 280 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 11: be friends until there was one last man standing. 281 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 12: The last guy has access to a bottle that was 282 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 12: purchased in nineteen seventy six. 283 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 5: It's nineteen seventy. 284 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 12: Six, cognyak, and that person will open that and toast 285 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 12: all of his Last Man brothers and the unbelievable friendships 286 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 12: in love we've had. Over the years. 287 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 10: We've all written letters to the Last Man so, and 288 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 10: the last Man's going to open the last letter and 289 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 10: toast alone. 290 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 11: Over the last five decades, the boys have grown into men, 291 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 11: and Everythanksgiving, members of the Last Man Society reunite to 292 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 11: celebrate brotherhood and life. 293 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 10: My wife will tell you that our Thanksgivings planned around 294 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 10: the Last Man in. 295 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 13: The celebration, so it's a priority in my year. 296 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 10: Our families are all friends and getting everybody together is 297 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 10: a challenge, but we accomplished it. 298 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 11: The festivities include team building exercises and their annual Turkey 299 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 11: Bowl game. Fifty years later, the group is still intact. 300 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 12: You know, we're well aware that all of us are 301 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 12: closer to the crypt than we are the cradle, so 302 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 12: it's it's escaped. 303 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 3: Nobody's noticed that. 304 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 12: Yeah, we're going to start falling off, but you know, 305 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 12: thank god, we're all still alive. And what better time 306 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 12: to celebrate than at Thanksgiving. 307 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 11: They know it'll be time to say goodbye to each 308 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 11: other at some point until one of them is crowned 309 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 11: the last man. 310 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 3: That's going to be. 311 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 10: That'll be a challenge, that'll be a huge challenge. These 312 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 10: are my friends for life, and it's. 313 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 5: Hard to think about that. 314 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you heard right there. 315 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 11: Being the last man standing, it's going to be absolutely 316 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 11: hard for whoever it is. But they hope the Last 317 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 11: Man Society inspires everyone out there to make a promise 318 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 11: to their friends to get together any chance they get. 319 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 2: I thoroughly enjoyed hosting high school reunions at the RCC. 320 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 3: We had some that. 321 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 2: Were fifty years I don't think we had more than 322 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 2: that longer than that period of time, but we had 323 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 2: plenty that were ten twenty thirty, Uncle Jerry's class reunion 324 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 2: at Brian High School would meet and they were let's 325 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 2: say fifty forty five. They were probably forty years at 326 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 2: that point. So if you are part of a group 327 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 2: that commemorates your time together, whether it was a high 328 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 2: school reunion or whatever, and you'll do something fun, give 329 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 2: me a call and tell us about it. Seven one 330 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 2: three nine nine nine one thousand. Seven one three nine 331 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 2: nine nine one thousand. The Governor of Minnesota, Timmy Waltz, 332 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 2: has been in the news this week for all the 333 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 2: wrong reasons. The White House has opened up an investigation 334 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: on the alleged fraud of a billion dollars in COVID 335 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 2: relief funds involving the Somali community. Old Timmy Waltz is 336 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: staying positive through all of it, though. Let's pop in 337 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 2: on his podcast and see what he's saying about this scandal. 338 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 3: He's embroiled in Timmy Wolf. 339 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 14: Timm Walton, It's the Timmy walt podcash Well, good morning, 340 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 14: and as subox wanta go sign to our Somali community. 341 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 5: That's right, I said it. 342 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 15: I'm still behind you guys, and we're gonna get through 343 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 15: this together. Well, well, as you probably noticed, due to 344 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 15: the ongoing investigation and fundings being cut for our podcast, 345 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 15: we had to cut loose as a goose the Grand 346 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 15: Open singers, so it's just me, a one man show, 347 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 15: mister Vaudeville. Also some really tough news to share, and 348 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 15: this one hurts. We had to say goodbye to the 349 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 15: most talented, wonderful grand assistant in all the land, Bruce, Oh, 350 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 15: our beloved Bruce. I did get a chance to enjoy 351 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 15: a little turkey and stuffing with Bruce over the Thanksgiving holiday, 352 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 15: and he wanted me to let all of you know 353 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 15: he's getting back into the ballet. That's the Walls applause 354 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 15: for our lovely Bruce. Okay, we're going to start the 355 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 15: show today by opening a gift from one of you 356 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 15: out there. 357 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 5: Not sure who it's from, doesn't really say. 358 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 3: Here. 359 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 5: It showed up at the studio today. Let's see. It 360 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 5: looks like a Christmas record. Let's que it up here. 361 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 15: Oh lucky here, it's kidding us all in the Christmas spirit. 362 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 3: One of my. 363 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 1: Favorite songs all the time, Timmy Walls chestnuts roasting on 364 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: an open fall. 365 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 5: Wait what the government sniffing at your nose? 366 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 3: In the Somalie Tomali. 367 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 15: Oh, I should have known this came from the White House. 368 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 15: That is not funny, mister Trump. Look, I know the 369 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 15: Feds are wrapped my pants with a paddle, but I'm 370 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 15: not worried about it. Nope, I am taking the high road. 371 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 15: I'm gonna be positive. Matter of fact, this morning, I 372 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 15: found a one hundred dollars bill in the wash. That's 373 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 15: gotta mean good things. They're ahead from me. So I'm 374 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 15: gonna put on another pot of wastle. I'm gonna get 375 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 15: my nutcrackers all lined up by the fireplace, and this 376 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 15: is gonna be a wonderful Christmas holiday. I want to 377 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 15: wish you all a super holiday. Until next time, Timmy walls. 378 00:23:52,560 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 16: Out happen something wong, well, something must be right. 379 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 5: You are listening to Michael Berry. 380 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 2: High school friends in Orange County, California created the Last 381 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 2: Man's Society when they were eighteen years old. But they 382 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 2: would gather once a year that they would toast each 383 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 2: other until there was but one last man standing. They 384 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 2: bought a bottle of cognac and that person would toast 385 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 2: each of the members that had fallen before them, eighteen 386 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 2: of them at that moment. Gives them a good excuse 387 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 2: to get together. We thought that was pretty cool. There's 388 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: something about friendships you make early in life. I've met 389 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 2: a lot of people since the time I left high school. 390 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: But it's interesting how when I see someone from high 391 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 2: school who was a friend, and I reconnected with a 392 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: few friends recently, how there's just a bond there. 393 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,719 Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. 394 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 2: I don't know if it's it takes you back to 395 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 2: a moment or if you were more trusting at that moment. 396 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. But there's something about 397 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 2: the people who were your friends at those early ages 398 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 2: that you always have a special bond with. At least 399 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 2: I have found that to be the case, Richard, what 400 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 2: does your group do. 401 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 7: Well? 402 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 17: Six years ago we started getting together. There's about ken 403 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 17: the fourteen of us. We are spring highly class of 404 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 17: seventy five. So we get together up a seeds of one, 405 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 17: two ninety and you know, just friends and tell us 406 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 17: you we have about six seventy nine ers that are 407 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 17: coming in this year that have joined our group. Some 408 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 17: of them are brothers to some of the guys that come. 409 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 17: Some of them are just you know, graduates of that class. 410 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 17: So we get together in December at least once a year. 411 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 2: And what is y'all's connection. I didn't hear what you said. 412 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 2: Where did y'all go to school or whatever? 413 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 17: Spring high school class at seventy five? 414 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 3: All right, very cool? How many? How many members in 415 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 3: the group? 416 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 17: There's normally ken the fourteen of us to get together? 417 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 2: All right, give me give me the ten names quickly 418 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 2: without without stopping. 419 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 3: Let's see how well you can do. 420 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 7: Well? 421 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 17: Uh, Kyle Key, Brandy, rawl myself, Richard? Uh another key? 422 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 17: Now you put me on the spot, So. 423 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 3: All right, that'll do. 424 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 2: I just wanted you to get in trouble with whoever 425 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 2: you didn't remember, Craig what you got. 426 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 7: Michael, very It is a honor to be on your show. 427 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. 428 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 7: This is uh, this is about a dear friend of 429 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 7: mine who's who's now passed away. But I'm originally from 430 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 7: upstate New York. Moved down to Texas when I was eighteen. 431 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 7: I'm sixty nine now. And this person I met down here, 432 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 7: his name was Kenny Simmons, and Kenny was like a 433 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 7: cross between you and John. What's that comedian that drinks 434 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 7: guts on stage? 435 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 3: Oh? 436 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 7: Ryan White? He was full of intelligence and humor and 437 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 7: had a wit that was crazy good like yours. Long 438 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 7: story short. At one point after we met became extremely 439 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 7: good friends. He introduced me to his family. He comes 440 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 7: from a family of ten kids, and of course I'm 441 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 7: down here. I don't have I left on my family 442 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,719 Speaker 7: back home in New York. Well, I did get here 443 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 7: stat so I could, by the way, and Kenny introduced 444 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 7: me to his family, and his family became my family. 445 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 7: At some point, fifteen years into our friendship, Kenny was 446 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 7: diagnosed with the disease that would only allow him to 447 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 7: live for six months, and so Kenny decided, you know what, 448 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 7: We're gonna all have one last party. And there were 449 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 7: there were one hundred, one hundred and twenty five people 450 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 7: that came to that last party on a golf course 451 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 7: north of Houston, and he played eight holes with all 452 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 7: of us, and long story short, Kenny never died. Kenny 453 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 7: kept making it one year after another after another, and 454 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 7: after that first party, we had one all this that 455 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 7: we're friends that you know, we're going to have to 456 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 7: have another party, and so we did for the next 457 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 7: thirty five years. 458 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 2: That's a great story, but I got to keep to 459 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 2: the love story short and I think we're going to 460 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 2: go for a while. 461 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 3: Mary, You're old and Michael Berry show, what's your story? 462 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 7: Hi? 463 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 18: Michael. We don't get together all the time, but we 464 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 18: just rekindled our friendships from the class of nineteen seventy 465 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 18: five grade school. We all graduated eighth grade from Saint 466 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 18: Rita in Dallas, and after one of our classmates died, 467 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 18: several people went to the funeral reconnected and said, you know, 468 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 18: we should get the whole class together. Well, we threw 469 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 18: together quick reunion over a three day period, and I 470 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 18: was a little skeptical how it would go. But Friday 471 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 18: night we shut down a bar. Saturday night ended up 472 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 18: at one of the girls' houses she hosted. Everybody was there, 473 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 18: had a great time, and then Sunday morning ended with 474 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 18: a brunch. On that Saturday night, though out of this 475 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 18: group of people, two of the folks had been both 476 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 18: been divorced and found each other and now looks like 477 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 18: gost forward six months, looks like they're getting married. So 478 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 18: friendships that are that old are. 479 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 2: Friendships. Yes, the relationships I can I can't. I won't 480 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 2: say the names, but the number of people I know 481 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 2: who were high school sweethearts, and you know, she doesn't 482 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 2: have a nice enough car, so he so sorry, he 483 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 2: doesn't have a nice enough car, so and he ain't 484 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 2: really headed anywhere and with any real directions. So she 485 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 2: dumps him and goes off to school ut and he 486 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 2: goes to Stephen f. 487 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 3: Or starts to work or whatever he does. 488 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: And then she gets married and kids, and he gets 489 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 2: married and gets divorced and they reconnect at some point 490 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 2: thirty years later and they're. 491 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 3: Meant to be. 492 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many of these stories with people, 493 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 2: whether they get married to other people and then they 494 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 2: go off and can be forty to fifty years later, 495 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 2: and they reconnect and they get back together and they're 496 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 2: madly in love. It's like they're making up for lost time. 497 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 2: It's the craziest darned thing. I've seen this so many 498 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 2: that it's going to be. 499 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: Something to it. 500 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 5: Frank, you got forty two seconds? 501 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 13: Go, Oh my, Frank Robb. I live out near Columbus. 502 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 13: I graduated from Rolla, Missouri in nineteen seventy University Missouri, 503 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 13: rollam our group of about twenty five fraternity brothers went 504 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 13: through Hell Week together and had bonded for life. We've 505 00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 13: been to fifty five years of class reunions with our 506 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 13: fraternity group, typically a four day weekend anywhere from California 507 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 13: to Nashville to Washington, d C. The Table Rock Lake 508 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 13: in Branson, Missouri. And it's just a great group of guys. 509 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 13: Their kids, our kids and grandkids are all friends. 510 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 3: I love those stories. More of your stories coming up.