1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: Michael Verry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from 3 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: BlackBerry's Mother. I can feel a good one coming on. 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 1: It's the Michael Berry Show. 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: All. I have had a sense of a piece that 6 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: has come over me this week, not just because of 7 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: the Trump win, but something bigger than that, Bigger than 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 2: an election return, although I do truly believe this election 9 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 2: was that important, not just because it will be Trump 10 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: instead of Kamala, not just because but from a more grassroots, 11 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: ground up perspective, this means that you can have in 12 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: your fellow man. There are a lot of people who 13 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: broke out from their usual plantation, their usual cage, their 14 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 2: usual pet status, and said, you're not going to tell 15 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: me how to vote anymore. And we tend to look 16 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: at aggregate numbers. You know. I had somebody say to me, 17 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: you keep talking about twenty five percent of black men 18 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 2: voting for Donald Trump. That still means seventy five percent 19 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: voted wrong. Yeah, it does, but it means that there 20 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 2: are individuals in this country who stepped outside their comfort 21 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 2: zone and did something they've never done before. 22 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: And I'm going to celebrate that. I think that's awesome. 23 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: And the fact that one hundred percent do it or 24 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: five percent do it, there's still people who did it, 25 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: and that's worth noting. 26 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: That's worth being proud of, that's worth celebrating. 27 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: Because when free thought, not just free speech, but when 28 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 2: free thought, when independent thought is on the rise, good 29 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 2: things are going to happen. 30 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: Good things are gonna happen. 31 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 2: When conformity is out of convention, When conformity is no 32 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: longer what is demanded, it's so much easier to just 33 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: ride the bandwagon, to go with the flow, to do 34 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 2: what everyone else is doing. That's why I learned so 35 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 2: much about this country during the COVID nonsense. I watched 36 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 2: how many people I had respected fall in line because 37 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: they're experts told us, and I saw so many other people. 38 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 2: Some of them were Democrats who said, my body, my choice. 39 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 2: That means something. People who were objected, and people who 40 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: couldn't be duped and full you ever noticed the people 41 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 2: who are duped and fooled and scammed and defrauded. It's 42 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: never just once, it's time and time and time again. 43 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 2: It's a character flaw. It's an inability to think deeply. 44 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: It's an inability to assess critically. It's an inability to 45 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: look beyond what you're being told and promised and the 46 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: shiny and look behind there and see what's going on exactly. 47 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: It delights me to see how many and many of 48 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: them are you. I read your emails every day. Many 49 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 2: of you are folks who this is your first time 50 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 2: to vote? Are is the first time to vote? 51 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: As you did? And you know what, God bless you. 52 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: It delights me. 53 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 2: And now to get us started as we always do, 54 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 2: courtesy of the greatest executive producer. 55 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: In all the land, Chattikoni Nakanishi, you we can do. 56 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: It's by Friday. Drive in and I go wonder what 57 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: Chad's gonna put in the weir we can review. I 58 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: wonder wonder what he's going to find in the week 59 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: that I had forgotten? Moore, did you say believe what 60 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: you're going to do? 61 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 2: I think I could stay. 62 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: For whow maybe longer if I do. Did you? Is 63 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: that what you said? Next to no, you don't think well? 64 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: I make a joy for noises to the Lord Bobby. 65 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: I am a conservative, has voted for Trump then he 66 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 2: first went into office. After Bobby called in, I got 67 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 2: three emails in less than five minutes asking for her 68 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 2: number one. Am I running some lesbian dating site here, Payley, Hey, I'm. 69 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,119 Speaker 1: A conservative lesbian John voting for Trump. I am overwhelmed 70 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: with lesbians for Trump. 71 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 2: Long lines of people forming to cast their vote. 72 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: On election day here in America. I day that. 73 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 2: Many people are calling the most consequential election decades. Ran 74 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: Alan Lickman from American University predicted nine of the last 75 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 2: ten elections correctly, and he has a prediction who will 76 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: win the Oval office in twenty twenty four. Kamala Harris 77 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 2: will be a new path breaking president, the first woman president. 78 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 2: The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that 79 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: Donald Trump will become the forty seventh President of the 80 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 2: United States. 81 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: Making a political comeback unlike any in modern American politics. 82 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: Election something of an indictment of the political information complex. 83 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: I mean, we've been sitting. 84 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: Around here for the last couple of weeks and the 85 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 2: story that was portrayed was not the true, and we 86 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 2: were told Puerto Rico. 87 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: Was going to change the election. It is Chaney, Mickey Hailey. 88 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 2: Voter America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandated. 89 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: Globalist lost the people one. There's so many different ways 90 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: you can slice this. There's so many different ways you 91 00:05:53,640 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 1: can look at this. My only street I keep running 92 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: for moving on. I had arrest me or take me 93 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,119 Speaker 1: to Texas because I'm Mandy. Gets out of this state. 94 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: I think Michael Berry robson Michael Show. 95 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 2: I like it. News has emerged that President Trump will 96 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 2: tap Susie Wiles would be his chief of staff. Susie 97 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 2: Wiles will be the first. Surprisingly, I just assumed. I 98 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 2: didn't realize Susie Wiss will be the first woman to 99 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 2: be the chief of staff to the president in American history. 100 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: Who would have guessed? Who would have guessed? 101 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 2: But it is to be I did not know who 102 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 2: Susie Wiles was. One of the things that has come 103 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 2: up is that she's Susie. Some are all Wiles, and 104 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 2: sports fans will remember the lush, velvety voice of Pat 105 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 2: summer All doing his football broadcasts alongside John Madden. 106 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: Boy was he ever wonderful? Boy was that ever a treat? 107 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 2: Well, she's his daughter, and so I just assumed that 108 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 2: if Pat Somerral's daughter is going to be President Trump's 109 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 2: chief of staff and she's Susie Some are all wiles 110 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: that he must have met her through Pat Somerol, but 111 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 2: apparently that's not how he met her. He met her 112 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 2: in a more of a political context. She worked for 113 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 2: Jack Kemp back in the day. You remember Jack Kemp 114 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,679 Speaker 2: as being Bob Dole's running mate in ninety six. 115 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: Jack Kemp formerly of. 116 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills, another football can action, and that's probably 117 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 2: how she knew Jack Kimp. This past summer all was revered. 118 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 2: She was also Reagan's scheduler. I have come to learn, 119 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: and that's a very important role. The person who keeps 120 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: the schedule of a powerful person has a great power 121 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 2: because if you need an audience with that person, it 122 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: is a scheduler typically that has discretion to be able 123 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 2: to do that. It's not just a ministerial position. She 124 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: also worked for a governor Ron DeSantis on his campaign, 125 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 2: and as I understand it, had a falling out with 126 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 2: him and joined Trump. She has been an operations director 127 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 2: for Trump's campaigns in the past, and now she is 128 00:08:50,679 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: his chief of staff. Does it matter that she's a woman, Yeah, 129 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 2: yeah it does now. 130 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: Was she chosen because she's a woman? Absolutely not. 131 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 2: I can assure you of that because Trump doesn't try 132 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: to impress people with such things. But is it worth noting, yes, 133 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 2: when you understand that Trump surrounds himself with women in 134 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 2: positions of power and why he does that. I owned 135 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 2: a place in Houston called the Redneck Country Club and 136 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 2: it was a membership only club, bar, restaurant, and I 137 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 2: was hit up within the first year by I can't 138 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 2: remember how many reality TV shows because they had heard 139 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 2: about what we were doing. And I had a woman 140 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 2: as the president of the organization, a woman as a 141 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 2: director of operations, a woman as head of banquets and 142 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 2: catering and parties, and a woman who was booking our bands. 143 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: And so it was me and all these women, and. 144 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,719 Speaker 2: I was okay with, you know, women doing this and 145 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 2: why this is great. But when one of the folks 146 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 2: showed up to film, they thought that the women were 147 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 2: going to be in skimpy clothes and the men were 148 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 2: going to swat them on the butt, and the girls 149 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 2: were gonna giggle and say, now you stop that, buster, 150 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 2: and but get me an out of the beer, okay, buster, 151 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 2: And so they had this, and so they wanted to 152 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 2: create something that I didn't want, and I didn't want 153 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 2: to ruin the place, so I sent them on my way. 154 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: But back to Trump. 155 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 2: You see, if you want to talk about what's good 156 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: for women as women, abortion is not the issue. Abortion 157 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 2: should should never have been used. And only a dumb 158 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 2: woman believes that. And guess what there are dumb women, 159 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: dumb women. They're also dumb blacks, dumb men, dumb whites, 160 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 2: dumb Hispanics. 161 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: You've got to be honest and frank about these things. 162 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: You have to stop being afraid of the truth, because 163 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 2: when you're afraid of the truth, you don't tell the truth. 164 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 2: In a world without truth is dark, bad things are 165 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: allowed to fester in the darkness. 166 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: See. 167 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 2: Women should succeed when they're good at what they do, 168 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 2: not because they are a woman. That's what was wrong 169 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 2: with the Kamala Harris campaign to begin with. It goes 170 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 2: back to Joe Biden announcing and if you'll let him 171 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 2: be the nominee, he'll put a black woman as his VP. 172 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 2: And so the media ran with it. And then once 173 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 2: the election was over and people said, well, she was 174 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 2: only chosen because she's a black woman. They said, you 175 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 2: can't say that. We didn't need to you did, you said, 176 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 2: he committed to it. So I think this is interesting, 177 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 2: this use Wiles choice, because the chief of staff ends 178 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 2: up being a very very powerful position. You know, you 179 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 2: look at at James A. Baker, the third being George H. W. 180 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 2: Bush's chief of staff, and he would also be the 181 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 2: Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce. You know 182 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: that these are these are it's a it's a very powerful, 183 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 2: very powerful position. I think the model for the position 184 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 2: was Bob Haldeman to Richard Nixon and the guy who 185 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 2: was you know, in a corporate environment, sometimes the CEO 186 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 2: is the guy who is giving vision and overall structure, 187 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 2: but it's the president that is kind of or in 188 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 2: some organizations a chief operations officer. That's the person that's 189 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 2: making sure the trains are running on time. And that 190 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 2: is where having a good chief of staff frees up 191 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 2: the president to think big picture, to have important meetings, 192 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 2: to step back from it all and not have to 193 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 2: manage things and certainly not micro managed. 194 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: That is the job of a chief of staff. 195 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 2: And all I hear I don't know Susie Willis, but 196 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 2: all I hear is that she's absolutely wonderful, that she 197 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 2: is loyal to Trump and he to her, that was 198 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 2: a big problem with his first administration is he trusted 199 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 2: people because he wanted to show the swamp that he 200 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 2: wasn't a threat, and he allowed them in and they 201 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 2: destroyed him. I mean, you look at the generals that 202 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 2: were brought in that were disloyal, and I think he 203 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 2: learned from that. I think now he's not going to 204 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 2: allow those types of people into his administration. And that's 205 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 2: why I think he's going to be much, much, much 206 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 2: more successful this second term. I do believe from the 207 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 2: King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry. 208 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: These are the kind of guys like a smacking air. 209 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 2: I started with the new CPA from this year, and 210 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 2: I use January as an opportunity every year as kind 211 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 2: of a fresh start, you know, a new beginning, and 212 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 2: I do all my medical appointments. I go for my heart, 213 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 2: and I go for my dermatological and I go for 214 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 2: I do everything at that time. I do a deep 215 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 2: dive into my insurance coverages, business, home auto, all of that. 216 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 2: I basically just do a renewal and it's a good reminder. 217 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: Look it's January to reset, right. 218 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: And so. 219 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 2: My my CPA, this firm is very much about being 220 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 2: strategic about everything you do. And look, I know I've 221 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 2: got a bullseye on my back. It's one of the 222 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 2: reasons I I didn't go to January sixth is I 223 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 2: don't want to be in the crowd. I don't know 224 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 2: what's going to happen there. I didn't expect what happened 225 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 2: to happen. But you've got to be mindful of things 226 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 2: like that. You know, if there's a guy like to 227 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 2: punch in the face, I have to recognize that if 228 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: that gets filmed, it goes national because people. 229 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: Would love to burn me. I know that, So you 230 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: behave accordingly. 231 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 2: But I do like knowing what's going on with taxes 232 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 2: because I learned as a baby lawyer that tax policy 233 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 2: drives a great deal of our economy. And you know, 234 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 2: one of the things that Trump has been talking a 235 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 2: lot about, which is very exciting, is tax relief. You know, 236 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: you think about how many people that no tax on tips. 237 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 2: How exciting that is for people no tax on overtime. Well, 238 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: at some point you start asking deep, fundamental questions, profound questions. 239 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 2: Why do we have tax on anything? Now that's not 240 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 2: a silly question. Why do we have tax on anything? Well, 241 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 2: we have taxes because we agree that there are certain 242 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 2: things that we want the community to pay for the 243 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 2: collective instead of the individual. Now this is where we 244 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 2: fall apart. How much of that do we want the 245 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: community to pay for roads? All roads or just some roads? 246 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 2: What about user fees instead of a tax? Will we 247 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: tax your income or will we tax your property? Will 248 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: we tax your purchases as a sales tax? Will we 249 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 2: tax the death of a person before they can hand 250 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 2: their money off to their loved ones, they're a state tax. 251 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 2: All of these things will drive what will cause people 252 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 2: to respond. See, government can make policy, but then the 253 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 2: individual is going to react and they're going to minimize 254 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 2: their taxes, whether lawfully or unlawfully. People are going to 255 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: try to find ways to hold onto more of their money. 256 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: So anyway, I'm always asking them questions about, you know, 257 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 2: what's going on with this tax policy? 258 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: What does this mean? What does this mean? What does 259 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: this mean? 260 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 2: So I get an email from Deroche Partners is my 261 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 2: CPA firm. 262 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: It's based in Houston. 263 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 2: They're in Houston in Dallas anyway, So I get an 264 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 2: email from my team today and it said Michael as 265 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 2: An FYI the IRS E file system will be shut 266 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 2: down November thirtieth for maintenance until sometime in mid to 267 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 2: late January. 268 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: Wait what for two whole months? 269 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 2: The system by which we electronically file our taxes will 270 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 2: be shut down for maintenance. That's good enough for government work, 271 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 2: but that's crazy, all right. What this means is that 272 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 2: anyone who has not filed their twenty twenty three year 273 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 2: in tax returns. Those were the tax returns from LAS 274 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 2: last calendar year that most people would have paid in April, 275 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: or if you delayed them, it would have been for 276 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 2: a few months, would have been until last month due 277 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: to relief provided by Beryl Barrel. Is a storm that 278 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 2: some of you might not know about, depend on where 279 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: you are in the country, that hit the Gulf coast, 280 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 2: and as a result it meant that we could file 281 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 2: our taxes later. 282 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: I didn't, but many people are. 283 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 2: That meant that our taxes wouldn't be due to be 284 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 2: filed until this upcoming February third. Well, if the system 285 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 2: is down, you can see where this would start becoming 286 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 2: a problem. So he says, what this means is that 287 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,959 Speaker 2: people who have not filed those taxes early, but who 288 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 2: got an extension due to the storm that hit the 289 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 2: Gulf coast. But this is going to be for all 290 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 2: of you, whether you got an extension or whether you're going. 291 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: To pay it, pay a penalty. 292 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 2: Should consider e filing by this date of November thirtieth, 293 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 2: otherwise you have to pay per file your return and 294 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 2: paper filing is okay, but it's a pain in the 295 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 2: rear and it potentially subjects them to possible IRS audits. 296 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 2: I've never been audited, but I have heard from people 297 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: that you don't want to be audited, no matter how 298 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 2: perfect you are. 299 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: It's a hassle. 300 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: Right, you might not be speeding, but you don't want 301 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 2: to be pulled over by a cop. 302 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: You could stay. 303 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 2: Well under the speed limit, you still don't want to 304 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 2: be pulled over by a cop. Ever, just a hassle. 305 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 2: So anyway, say, while the E file system should be 306 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 2: up by February three, it may not be. People should 307 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 2: proceed as if it won't be up and running and 308 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 2: be proactive and file their returns by November thirtieth. 309 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:46,360 Speaker 1: If possible. 310 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 2: It says about fifteen to twenty percent of our twenty 311 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 2: twenty three year end returns are still open because clients 312 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 2: are still pulling their information together to get it to 313 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 2: us to file. So why do I tell you that 314 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 2: because your computer system doesn't go down for two months 315 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 2: for maintenance, right, because your customers would lose their minds, 316 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 2: but the government does. Part of the whole idea of 317 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 2: bringing Elon in to a government efficiency group is rethinking 318 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 2: everything about government. You know that government is insanely inefficient. 319 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 2: You know that whatever government does, they're going to screw up. 320 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 2: It's going to cost more, take longer, and have lower quality. 321 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: Everybody knows that there's nobody that doubts that we love 322 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 2: our military. Sure in fact, we all know somebody that 323 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 2: works for the government, and they might be a wonderful person. 324 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 2: But you show me a hard charging, efficiency effectiveness oriented 325 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 2: person who goes to work for the government, and they 326 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 2: will go crazy, absolutely crazy, because the system is set 327 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 2: up for losers and layabouts and lazies. So good people 328 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 2: go into government and they go crazy because the government 329 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 2: doesn't want you to be a hard charger. You make 330 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,719 Speaker 2: everybody else look bad. That's why they unionize as much 331 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 2: as possible to press this thing down. Crabbing a bucket. 332 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 2: Don't come in here making us look bad. We're going 333 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 2: to be here for life. We're not in any hurry. 334 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: This mindset has taken over every aspect of our government, 335 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 2: and over a period of time, what ends up happening 336 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 2: is the only kinds of people who want to go 337 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 2: into government are people that already share this mindset. No 338 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 2: customer service, uh, very entitled. And so it ends up 339 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 2: becoming a self uh self uh preservation. It ends up 340 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 2: being a self Uh what's the durn word? Anyway, it 341 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 2: continues to be that as a result of it. So 342 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 2: I say all that to say this, I think we 343 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 2: got big changes coming under Trump, and I'm excited. 344 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: Michael Berry show change is coming, friends. 345 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 2: It isn't just a victory in a campaign. Change is 346 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 2: actually coming. And that thrills me. It absolutely thrills me. 347 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 2: That things are going to be different. The world is 348 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 2: already different. Overnight. Putin has reached out to Trump and said, 349 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 2: you know, let's let's find a way to in this war. 350 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: Putin is looking for an exit strategy. I'm not going 351 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: to lie to you. 352 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 2: I got a seventeen and eighteen year old son. I 353 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 2: got two sons that are prime draft age. I don't 354 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 2: want them going over and getting shot up in some 355 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 2: war that the Romney's profit off of in the Chenese 356 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 2: profit off of. 357 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: I read a post by a fellow named Mark Penn. 358 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 2: Mark Penn was Hillary Clinton's guy in two thousand and eight. 359 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: Mark Penn is a Democrat. 360 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 2: He's a Democrat strategist, and he's at the top ranks 361 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 2: of Democrat strategists. 362 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: He's the one who did the negative. 363 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 2: Ops on Obama, to tell people that Obama, to argue 364 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 2: that Obama wasn't born in the United States, that Obama's 365 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 2: father was part of the mau Mawing movement, his father 366 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 2: was a socialist and a bad guy in Africa, and. 367 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: All the things that were exposed. He's the one. 368 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 2: He's also the one who crafted a lot of the 369 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 2: strategy for Democrats over a long period of time. And 370 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 2: this was his takeaway from the election, and I think 371 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 2: it's I think it's pretty interesting, he said. He wrote, 372 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 2: lessons of the election. America is a center right country 373 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,199 Speaker 2: at heart. Only twenty five percent are liberal and the 374 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 2: other seventy five percent will not be ruled by the 375 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 2: twenty five Campaigns are about issues and serious proposals and positions, 376 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 2: and you can't avoid having them demonizing opponents and using 377 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 2: lawfare to try to jail your opponents can and will bagfire. 378 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 2: Voters don't listen to Hollywood celebrities when it comes to voting. 379 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 2: Most voters see Hollywood is great for entertaining, but is 380 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 2: far removed from their concerns when it comes to voting. 381 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 2: The working class and middle America voters are done being 382 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 2: disrespected by college elites. They want real, merit based opportunities, 383 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 2: not government subsidies. Identity politics is ultimately losing politics as 384 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,479 Speaker 2: voters care more about issues not identity when living their lives. 385 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,360 Speaker 2: Young people are waking up and beginning to reject woke politics, 386 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 2: and their turn to the center is the surprise of 387 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 2: the election. America wants a country with real borders and 388 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 2: a working immigration system. America's innovation comes from preserving freedom 389 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 2: and opportunity, not from government direction. America supports Israel and 390 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 2: sees Iran as an enemy of civilization. The mainstream media 391 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 2: allowed itself to become a tool for a political party 392 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 2: and an ideology and needs to reform itself. And finally, 393 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 2: Joe Biden should ever have run for reelection. It's an 394 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 2: interesting takeaway considering where he started and who he is 395 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,719 Speaker 2: and what his perspective is, you know, on the issue 396 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 2: of education. I read this stat and I think this 397 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: is I think this is quite interesting. 398 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: Give me a listen. 399 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 2: Here the stat was most educated states in America and 400 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 2: least educated. Now, when I was growing up, you would 401 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,239 Speaker 2: say someone was educated as a way to say they 402 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 2: were smart. I no longer do that. I now view 403 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 2: education sort of like finishing school. A thing you go to, 404 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 2: a thing you sit through, a thing you suffer through, 405 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 2: but not necessarily making you a better person, often not 406 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 2: changing you, and perhaps if it is changing you, not 407 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 2: for the better. So here are the five states that 408 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 2: have the highest education levels. Massachuset, It's Vermont, Maryland, Connecticut, Colorado. 409 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 2: Oddly enough, they're all blue states. Here are the least 410 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 2: Here's the list of the five least educated states in America. 411 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 2: States where people have the lowest level of graduate and 412 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 2: postgraduate degrees or or university and postgraduate degrees. West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, 413 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:42,959 Speaker 2: and Oklahoma. Now guess what those five states are all 414 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:50,719 Speaker 2: red states. It turns out that the longer you go 415 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 2: to school, the more liberal you become. Now, let's think 416 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 2: about people we know. Let's think about people of influence. 417 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 2: Do you think people with PhDs have more or less 418 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 2: influence in this country than people with common sense and experience. 419 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: I give you an example. I read something that a 420 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 2: Democrat wrote. You said, hear me out. There's been this. 421 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 2: I gotta give you the context. There's been this argument 422 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 2: that Democrats need to get their own Joe Rogan. We 423 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 2: got to have our own Joe Rogan, so they can't 424 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 2: do this to us again. And he writes, hear me out. 425 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: Democrats did once have their own Joe Rogan. His name 426 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 2: is Joe Rogan, who is inherently not Maga. He was 427 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: a big fan of Obama, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, universal 428 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 2: health care, taxing the rich, and he disliked Trump. And 429 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: Rogan reaches men that Democrats need. 430 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: What happened with Rogan? 431 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 2: See The problem is sometimes success in politics can give 432 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 2: you a false sense of the extent of your mandate. 433 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 2: It can make you think that because you want an election, 434 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 2: one hundred percent of your kooky ideas are supportable when 435 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 2: they're not. It's sort of like none of us wants 436 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 2: to have guardrails in what we do. Your children don't 437 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 2: want to have guardrails. Creators like me, don't want to 438 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 2: have guard resls. We want to have bosses and censors 439 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 2: and corporate this and corporate that. We want to be 440 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 2: free to do what we want. Musicians don't want to 441 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 2: have a label tell them you can't do this, you 442 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 2: can't do that. They want to do a forty five 443 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 2: minute song. Why can't we do it? Sometimes sometimes having 444 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 2: people throw on the breaks, having people ask that you 445 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 2: justify your position, having some level of questioning what you're 446 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 2: doing and why you're doing it, without having the discipline 447 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: to do those things. If you're not forced to do 448 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 2: those things, oftentimes you don't and so. 449 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: You make bad decisions. 450 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 2: This is why, more often than not, when a cayndidate 451 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 2: is self financing, they will often go off the rails, 452 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 2: because when you're not having to ask people for money, 453 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: then you stop having to justify. 454 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: What you're doing. 455 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 2: And we all need to be challenged. We all need 456 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 2: to be questioned, and sometimes when you're not. Long times, 457 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 2: when you're not, you lose your edge, you lose your 458 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 2: ability to make your case. 459 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: That's what happened to the Democrat