1 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: So Michael vari Show is on the air. The question 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 2: is froul Helm. 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: We are you lying then? 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: Are you lying now? 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 3: Or are you not in fact to chronic and habitual liar. 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 4: When you hear the term fake news, you probably think 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 4: about how it's used often today by President Trump. But 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 4: it's actually an old term used by the Soviet Union 10 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 4: as a reference to disinformation campaigns that the Soviets and 11 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 4: now the Russians have long used to destabilize the West. 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 5: US officials have warned that Russian interference remains an active 13 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 5: threat for the twenty twenty presidential elections. 14 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 6: Why can't you see what you do to me when 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 6: you don't the word. 16 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 3: Say, CNN is scum, MSDNUS scum, The New York Times 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 3: is scum. 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 6: We can together were suspicious, We all suspicious. 19 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 7: Rudy Giuliani already had open contact with a person that 20 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 7: the US has. 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 2: Called an agent for the Kremlin. 22 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 7: Now we are being told by two people who've been 23 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 7: briefed on what the FBI is doing that they're looking 24 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 7: into whether these unverified emails about Hunter Biden that were 25 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 7: published earlier this week by the New York Post about 26 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 7: his business dealings in Ukraine and China are part of 27 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 7: this bigger Russian disinformation effort in the twenty twenty election. 28 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 3: CNN is scum, msdnngus scum. The New York Times is scum. 29 00:01:50,120 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 8: We can't suspicious. 30 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 9: President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be 31 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 9: standing in front of a monument of two slave owners 32 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 9: and on land wrestled away from Native Americans. 33 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 2: We do have now some of the sound. As I 34 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 2: told you, we're not in the audience. 35 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 10: We're not carrying his remarks live because, frankly, he says a. 36 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 9: Lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous. 37 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 3: CNN is scum, MSDNNG is scum. The New York Times 38 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 3: is scum. Start your tape right now, because I'm about 39 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: to tell you the truth and f you if you 40 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 3: can't handle the truth. 41 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 10: This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically. 42 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 9: Is the best Biden ever looking at the images and 43 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 9: looking at what was actually damaged. The Defense Intelligence Agency 44 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 9: has assessed that the core component of Aron's nuclear program 45 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 9: are largely intact, and that Iron's nuclear program has essentially 46 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 9: only been set back by months. 47 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 8: World. I can't to. 48 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: Over SI, especially suspicious minds. 49 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 10: Then I can't come in after the intro is just impossible. 50 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 10: How am I going to talk over that story from 51 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 10: k p r C TV about a family and acres homes. 52 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 10: They say their home was stolen from them in a 53 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 10: in a legal document sort of way, in a title 54 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 10: fraud scheme, and then the home was demolished. So they're 55 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 10: family photos. It's a home that they inherited. Now, when 56 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 10: you listen to this story, I want you to see 57 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 10: it as part of a theme a pattern we've talked 58 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 10: about again and again and again, and that pattern is 59 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 10: the breakdown of the rule of law. When you don't 60 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 10: have structure, when you don't have law and order, then 61 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 10: you have nothing. You can't protect value, you can't hold value, 62 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 10: you can't transfer value, because value dissipates. It becomes a 63 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 10: reward to fraudsters and bullies. 64 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: The strong survive. 65 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 10: And when this happens, you see the collapse of a 66 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 10: civil society. And this is what most of Africa, much 67 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 10: of Asia, parts of South America, this is what that 68 00:04:59,000 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 10: looks like. 69 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 2: This is what. 70 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 10: Happens when you've got to go to this, when you 71 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 10: go to the CBS and you have to ask them 72 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 10: to come and open the commissary so that you can 73 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 10: get an item out of there that five years ago 74 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 10: you could have walked in taken off the shelf. This 75 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 10: is what happens when you don't prosecute, when you don't enforce, 76 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 10: when you don't have a system, then there is a 77 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 10: complete breakdown in society. 78 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: The story from KPRCTV. 79 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 5: The Kelly family had a home on this property since 80 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 5: the nineteen sixties, but what's here now is nothing like 81 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 5: what they knew. It's a rebuild that destroyed years of 82 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 5: memories and heirlooms. Home videos in the yard like these 83 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 5: are some of the only ways the Kelly family remembers 84 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 5: their time on Conklin Street. 85 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 11: He was very proud, as a black man in the 86 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 11: sixties to be a homeowner. 87 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 5: Vanessa Voldbachin's father, Carl, raised five children and several grandchildren 88 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 5: at the home, where he also had pecan, pear and 89 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 5: fig trees. 90 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 11: My dad loved his property, but the. 91 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 5: Trouble started in twenty nineteen when they planned to sell 92 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 5: the property, got an unagreeable offer, and then ended up 93 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 5: losing the home altogether. 94 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 11: We were absolutely flabbergasts because, first of all, I was 95 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 11: in ice you when they forged my signature had the 96 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 11: open heart surgery, so there was no way I was there. 97 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 2: And it was not just one, but six fort sign 98 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 2: six of us. Their attorney claims the now. 99 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 5: Defunct Patriot Title Company then enabled the fraudulent sale to 100 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 5: a third party, before the Harris County Attorney's Office in 101 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 5: twenty twenty three launched a consumer fraud investigation. 102 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 2: Patriot Title was the title. 103 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 4: Company that you would go to if you wanted to 104 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 4: do something fraudulent. 105 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 5: Attorney Jacob Schul represented the family pro bono, and last 106 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 5: month a judge signed a two hundred thousand dollars judgment 107 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 5: against Jerry Gurley, the man who first approached the Kellys 108 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 5: to buy the property, didn't. 109 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,799 Speaker 2: Answer a call or text to discuss. 110 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 5: Hours after, the Kellys filed a report with Houston Police, 111 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 5: hoping to hold someone accountable for the home they say 112 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 5: was ripped away. 113 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 11: At legacy has been erased. All of our family heirlooms, 114 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 11: family memento, those have been destroyed and we want justice. 115 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 5: So far, the Kelly family says they haven't seen any 116 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 5: of the money that they are owed. An attorney who 117 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 5: represented Jerry Gurley on the civil case told me over 118 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 5: the phone today he had no comment. 119 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 10: Buddy of mine sent me an email Today's Thursday yesterday, says, 120 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 10: here's a link to the story of when my dad 121 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 10: got arrested back in twenty twenty two for stealing four 122 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 10: different trucks from four different dealerships using fake checks. It's 123 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 10: three years later. He still doesn't have a court date. 124 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 10: He got married on Easter Sunday, and now he's driving 125 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 10: a new twenty twenty five Dodge Ram. I can only 126 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 10: imagine how he got it. Our system has collapsed. There 127 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 10: is an unwillingness to deal with people who have zero conscience, 128 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 10: and that adds a cost, a frustration, an uncertainty to 129 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 10: the rest of us that we all bear. 130 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: It's just it's sickness. 131 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: Bullets in your life, it's there. We have all your 132 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: formal war needs, from morning suits to coordinating Accessories's. 133 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 10: A friend of mine, says, begins his message. I'm an 134 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 10: art major, not a professional political scientist, and that too, 135 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 10: an art major from LSU. So let's give him every 136 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 10: bit of humility you can before he makes a very 137 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 10: profound point. I'm an art major from LSU, not a 138 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 10: professional political analyst. Want to see something interesting. Here is 139 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 10: the result of how many times over the last ninety 140 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 10: days the residents of New York City googled the word socialist. 141 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 2: Do you see that spike? 142 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 10: That's the result from June twenty fifth, the day after 143 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 10: the election. And let me give this to you. I 144 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 10: don't know if that's how many thousand, but whatever the 145 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 10: metric is, you've got the ground zero and then you've 146 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 10: got twenty five fifty seventy five one hundred. Today after 147 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 10: the election, there's more than one hundred. I'm assuming that thousand. 148 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 10: Going back to March twenty sixth that number is down 149 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 10: around five or six thousand every day after the election. 150 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 10: The day after it goes up to one hundred thousand. 151 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 10: Too late to figure out who he is now, he says. 152 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 10: The second draft attached shows the same results for searches 153 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 10: of the term Zorn Mamdani. 154 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 2: That's the guy who won the primary. 155 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 10: That spike is also from June ti twenty fifth, the 156 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 10: day after he was elected. New York City seems to 157 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 10: have had a vote now research later plan for choosing 158 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 10: their new mayor. What this means is that people voted 159 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 10: for this guy under the idea his One of his 160 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 10: mottos was afford to dream, afford to live. And you 161 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 10: know how you're going to be able to afford to 162 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 10: dream and afford to live. The city's going to run 163 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 10: the grocery stores. Bus service is going to be free. 164 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 10: I'm not actually I will tell you. I would like 165 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 10: to see the numbers, but I'm not actually necessarily against 166 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 10: a free bus service. And I'll tell you why. When 167 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 10: you look at the cost of congestion to a set 168 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 10: if you can encourage people to take public transit, there 169 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 10: is a benefit to society. This is why every city 170 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 10: tries to get you out of your car and into 171 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 10: the public transit. From a purely financial perspective, it's better 172 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 10: for the municipality if everybody would ride public transit. But 173 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 10: we don't believe in that because we believe in agency 174 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 10: for the individual, the freedom to move however you want 175 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 10: to move. Municipalities provide public goods. Now, how many should 176 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 10: they provide? 177 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 2: If any? 178 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 10: Those are the types of arguments we should have. But 179 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 10: municipalities provide public goods. This wouldn't be the first parks, 180 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 10: for instance, libraries, for instance, overpasses, under passes, although those 181 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 10: are usually the state sidewalks. Love to do the little 182 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 10: share a bike program. Houston got into that where these 183 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 10: raggedy old grandma bikes are put on a rack and 184 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 10: you go and check it out. 185 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 2: Don't try to ride it. 186 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 10: They're really really hard to get around. But as a 187 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 10: public good assisting people in moving around at little or 188 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 10: no cost, the people who are going to use that 189 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 10: are the people who are the working class service provider. 190 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 10: So in New York that's going to be nannies, or 191 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 10: if they're white, you can call them an old parrots. 192 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:43,839 Speaker 10: Still a nanny, cooks, bus boys, janitors. That's a big 193 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 10: portion of what they spend is on transportation, whether that's 194 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 10: on a. 195 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 2: Bus or a hootie. 196 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 10: And you take those cars off the road, you start 197 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 10: being able to move goods and services faster, and you've 198 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 10: provided a service to people that they will use use 199 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 10: that's valuable. That's valuable to them individually and to the 200 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 10: common good. Do you need so many libraries? Absolutely not, 201 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 10: absolutely not. I have oh it's as a percentage of oh, 202 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 10: I say, okay, it says a percentage of searches. So 203 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 10: it was a very low percentage to a very high percentage. 204 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 10: It's not the aggregate number. He just told me that 205 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 10: our LSU Digital Art major. But when you look at 206 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 10: things municipalities and counties provide, let's look in Houston and 207 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 10: Harris County, Rodney Ellis wanted to give away for the 208 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 10: Guaranteed Income Program. 209 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 2: Well, we all know what that was. 210 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 10: That was he would be able to pick and choose 211 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 10: who he gave money to every month. 212 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 2: And who would that be, Oh, precinct. 213 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 10: Chairman, activists, people who show up on his command to 214 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 10: rally or protest or threaten or register people to vote, 215 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 10: or stuff ballots or move African art from one. Yeah, 216 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 10: and this just gave him a pool of cash to 217 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 10: use to give to them and their friends. And that's 218 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 10: what the Guaranteed Income Program was. It was using money 219 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 10: to reward your friends. Well, if you were actually going 220 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 10: to use if you were going to do one thing 221 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 10: as a municipality, keep the roads clean, make the traffic 222 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 10: lights work, pick up the trash, make sure the water 223 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 10: is drinkable, police the streets, respond to fires and emergencies, 224 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 10: and provide a means by which people could move around. 225 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 10: I'd be okay with that. That's what sidewalks are at 226 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 10: the end of the day. That's what roads are at 227 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 10: the end of the day. That's supposed to be what 228 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 10: traffic enforcement is about, is providing a safer, better way 229 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 10: for traffic to move. But it becomes every single time 230 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 10: a means by which you raise more money for the city. 231 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 10: Because why wouldn't you, Why wouldn't you just send officers 232 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 10: out with a quota, which they do, and then tag 233 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 10: people and make them pay money for the city. 234 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 4: You are listening to the Michael Berry Show. 235 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 10: It was eighty years ago today the United Nations Charter 236 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 10: was signed by fifty Allied nations in San Francisco, California. My, 237 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 10: how the world has changed, including no less the once 238 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 10: great city of San Francisco, California. It was sixty two 239 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 10: years ago on this day that President Kennedy announced I 240 00:15:52,800 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 10: am a jelly donut. Two thousands gathered in Germany. 241 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 2: All free man. 242 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 12: Wherever they may live, a citizen to Berlina, and therefore, 243 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 12: as a freeman, I say pride in the word ish 244 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 12: ben i'm deelina. 245 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 10: So much is made of that moment. By including the 246 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 10: indefinite article i'm he I have read supposedly changed the 247 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 10: meaning of the sentence from what was intended which was 248 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 10: I am a citizen of Berlin to I am a Berliner, 249 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 10: and a Berliner was a type of German pastry like 250 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 10: a jam or jelly filled donut. And the story goes 251 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 10: that the German people laughed at him for that because 252 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 10: he said I am a jelly donut. But that's not true. 253 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 10: It makes for a good story to a history class, 254 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 10: it makes for a good anecdote. 255 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 2: It's making history come alive. 256 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 10: But the German people, if you watch their reaction, aren't 257 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 10: laughing and scoffing like, oh. 258 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 2: You idiot. 259 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 10: They are delighted that their savior, the United States, remember 260 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 10: what's happening in Germany post World War Two. They are 261 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 10: delighted that the president of the United States, this young, 262 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:44,360 Speaker 10: handsome president with his young, beautiful, well dressed, highly respected wife, 263 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 10: is attempting to say something in Germany. And what he's 264 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 10: attempting to say is pandering. I am a citizen of Berlin, 265 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 10: I am one of you. I love you, you are great. 266 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 10: They're not actually laughing at him. They are delighted. Play 267 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 10: it again and listen to the roar. They know what 268 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 10: he meant. 269 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 12: All free men, wherever they may live, a citizens at Berlina, 270 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 12: and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in 271 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 12: the word if ben I'm Deelina. 272 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 10: It was on this day, Ramon, I got a question 273 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 10: for you. It was on this day in what year 274 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 10: that the universal Product code was scanned for the first 275 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,239 Speaker 10: time to sell a package, to sell a product, a 276 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 10: consumer product? What year do you think the UPC code 277 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 10: that we now use are the earlier what eighty five 278 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 10: is not correct? It was only back to nineteen seventy four. 279 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 10: That is earlier than I would have expected as well. 280 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,199 Speaker 10: And the first product that was scanned was at the 281 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 10: Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, and the product was a 282 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 10: package of. 283 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 2: Wrigley's chewing gum. How about that? How are you going 284 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 2: to scan a package of Wrigley's. 285 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,120 Speaker 10: Chewing gum and not do that in Chicago? I guess 286 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 10: the scanner was in was in Troy, Ohio. And sadly, 287 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 10: it was on this day in nineteen seventy seven that 288 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 10: Elvis would perform his last concert in Indianapolis, Indiana. He 289 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:40,239 Speaker 10: would die a few months later, on August sixteenth of 290 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 10: nineteen seventy seven. It was on this day. 291 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty one. 292 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 10: That Terry Nunn, American singer, songwriter and actress, was born. 293 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 2: And that's only noteworthy. 294 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 10: And I only tell you because she perform take My 295 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 10: Breath Away with the band Ramon Verlin. Correct And sadly 296 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 10: it was on this day in nineteen seventy nine, two 297 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 10: years after his son's death, that Vernon Presley would die 298 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 10: of heart failure at only sixty three. 299 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,239 Speaker 2: What's amazing, is it? 300 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 10: Sixty three is pretty young and he died two years after. 301 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 2: His son dies and he's still young. 302 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 10: So Elvis is forty two seems really really young. Jim 303 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 10: had a question that I wanted to ask, and I 304 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 10: can't find it now. I had it open and I 305 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,239 Speaker 10: cannot find it now, So I guess we'll get to 306 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 10: it in a moment. There was a piece we played 307 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 10: last night. In fact, I think we might have twice. 308 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 10: Denesh de Suza had sat down with This is in 309 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 10: Chad's prep this morning, but it also comes from gyms 310 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 10: last night. I don't know if you see it. It 311 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 10: was a discussion Danesh de Susa had with an imm 312 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 10: and IMM to Whitey I think is how his name 313 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 10: is pronound could be Tweedy who was previously radicalized and 314 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 10: having left, that radicalization. 315 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 2: He has the zeal of the. 316 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 10: Recently converted, and he is explaining to Christians and the West, 317 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 10: let me explain to you what's happening with radical Islam 318 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 10: because you people don't see it, and you're at your peril. 319 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 2: You are overlooking it. And I want you to listen 320 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 2: very carefully. His name is. 321 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 10: Imam Mohammed to Whitey, he's talking to Denesh de Suza, 322 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 10: and he's talking about why Muslims always align themselves with 323 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 10: the left. And we say, well, well, why do you 324 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 10: align yourself with the left. You don't believe in gay rights, 325 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 10: you don't believe in trainees, you don't believe in abortion. 326 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 2: Listen to what he says. 327 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 13: When I was an extremist Islamist, fundamentalist, I would only 328 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 13: vote left. 329 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 2: Why that I saw them as very stupid. 330 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 13: I would fear the conservatives because they come with principle, 331 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 13: that's not someone they can brainwash. 332 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 2: But the left, I know. 333 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 13: They have no values and no principles to begin with. 334 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 13: I dare you to find one Islamic extremists the votes 335 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 13: for Donald Trump. 336 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 2: Never do it. They'd give their. 337 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 13: Vote to the leftist who wants to run around in 338 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 13: pride trades and Islamic extremists are against gays and homosexuals 339 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 13: and transgenders. But they want the left to go and 340 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,439 Speaker 13: get busy with that. They want them go go, go 341 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 13: speak about the climate, to go, go go speak about 342 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 13: the abortion, Go go kill your skis, go go do that, 343 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 13: and allah, she's fighting for abortion rights and all the 344 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 13: other my about you, my choice, Yes, good, do that. 345 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: But would she have an abortion? Never? Never? 346 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 13: Would she kill Almo slip and her stomach never? 347 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 12: Heavy. 348 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 10: Starbucks says a turnaround is on track, but their quarterly 349 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 10: earnings and sales continue to fall short. That is Starbucks, 350 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 10: as in the grandfather of Go Woke, Go broke. Once 351 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 10: upon a time, not so long ago, Starbucks was America's 352 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 10: favorite overpriced guilty pleasure. I am fascinated by Starbucks and 353 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 10: have been for a very long time in much the 354 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 10: same way I'm fascinated by BUCkies for many of the 355 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 10: same reasons, and that is that they did not create 356 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 10: a new product. There is nothing new about Starbucks. There 357 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 10: is no single thing about Starbucks that is new. You 358 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 10: could say the Caromel frappuccino. But there were places that 359 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 10: offered basically a dessert drink under the guise of a 360 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 10: morning coffee that's been going on a long time. We 361 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 10: have cream on top, various flavors, all of that sour 362 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 10: service done. Kind of a cool chic coffee shop, vibe, 363 00:24:54,600 --> 00:25:00,360 Speaker 10: already done, drive through, already done. It's a commodity, it's 364 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 10: a coffee bean. Now they over roast their bean. But 365 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 10: it's not that they overroasted their bean, put it on 366 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 10: the market, and people said this was what we needed. 367 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 10: People weren't roasting the bean sufficiently. This is how you 368 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 10: should You should do the be You should over roast 369 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 10: it just like this. 370 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 2: We like this. 371 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 10: We're going to make this the new standard, and a 372 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 10: properly roasted bean by traditional standards will be an undercooked bean. 373 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 10: That will be the outlier. This will be the new standard. 374 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 10: We'll do this three four times a day. So you've 375 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 10: got a commodity that had been around for I don't know, 376 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 10: hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. 377 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 2: I don't know how long coffee's been around. You weren't 378 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 2: getting it anywhere. 379 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 10: Nobody else was the Ethiopian bean, the Indonesian bean, those 380 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 10: were already on the market. Everybody was serving coffee everybody. 381 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 10: You could walk into a lot of small shops and 382 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 10: they would have a pot of coffee on. You could 383 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 10: go to every convenience store, you could go to every 384 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 10: gas station, every donut shop. Everybody had coffee. Everybody had 385 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 10: this very simple commodity. It's amazing, It's absolutely amazing. They 386 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 10: raised the price, built in many cases ground up or 387 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 10: retail tenant improvement shops, increased the price, added some silly 388 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 10: little kind of Italian names for the sizes, tried to 389 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 10: make the coffee server into a bartender that turned out 390 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:49,959 Speaker 10: to bite them on the ass. And the Lululemon wearing 391 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 10: moms would go to Whole Foods and there people would 392 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 10: stop in multiple times a day, multiple times. 393 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 2: A day to over pay for their coffee. 394 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 10: I'm not madam them. It was something to do. As 395 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 10: my mother used to say, she didn't go to Starbucks. Well, 396 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 10: Starbucks reported his first quarterly sales increase in more than 397 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 10: a year, but the coffee giant said that its turnaround 398 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 10: effort is afar from complete, and its second quarter saw 399 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 10: lagging store traffic and lower than expected earnings. The problem 400 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 10: is they went woke for the baristas, for their staff. 401 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 10: They ended up having a staff of people who they 402 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 10: became the show bones through. 403 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 2: The nose green hair. 404 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 10: In related news, two thousand glorified coffee pours baristas are 405 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 10: now in a fit because they've gone on strike protesting 406 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 10: the company's new dress code. They may be off the 407 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 10: strike now, and it is so on brand for the 408 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 10: Starbucks coffee clowns. The dress code it started last month 409 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 10: requires some ridiculous requests for employees. These are the ridiculous requests. 410 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 10: They can't handle. Solid black shirt, No, we're not doing that. 411 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 10: Khaki pants no way black or blue denim bottoms nightmare. 412 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 2: You mean we gotta dress like. 413 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 10: The suburban white people who come in here and buy 414 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 10: the coffee. You mean we got a dress like our parents. 415 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 10: Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader 416 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 10: range of dark colors and patterned shirts that became rainbows. 417 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 2: Here's the kicker. 418 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 10: Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons 419 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 10: stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers 420 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 10: as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling 421 00:28:55,480 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 10: in its stores. Oh, you mean the fact that when 422 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 10: the white suburban moms walked in, they were being judged 423 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 10: as Trump voters and harassed by the baristas. 424 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 14: Oh okay, more, how long do. 425 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 2: You think it's been since you've been to a Starbucks? 426 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: A month? Amy took you. It's interesting. 427 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:44,239 Speaker 10: I follow personal finance newsletters and they all say, you know, 428 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 10: get off this, you know, figure out what you're spending 429 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 10: on Starbucks and stop, And then people will put in 430 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 10: the comments. I didn't realize I was spending three hundred 431 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 10: and twelve. 432 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 2: What are you doing? It's a cup of coffee.