1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: So Michael Very. 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 3: Show is on the air. 4 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 4: Well, it's always fun time for us every morning when 5 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 4: we come in to listen to the voicemails that have 6 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 4: been left overnight. If you would like our phone number, 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 4: it's seven to one three nine nine nine one thousand 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 4: seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Sometimes people 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 4: leave a voicemail the minute we get off the air, 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 4: and maybe they're just sitting down to dinner, and sometimes 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 4: it's a little bit later and they might have had 12 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 4: a pop or two, and that tends to loosen the 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 4: tongue and lighten the mood. We enjoy them all. Seven 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 4: one three nine nine nine one thousand. Of course you 15 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 4: can always email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. 16 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 4: But sometimes people have wild hair and they want they 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 4: want to say something, so we don't. Most of them 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 4: don't make it on the air, but we like to 19 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 4: pick and choose a few, and we would do so 20 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 4: at this moment. Ramon, because we hear at the Michael 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 4: Berry Show get a lot of voicemails. Hello, boys and girls, 22 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 4: it's Friday, so you know what that means. 23 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 2: It's time to check Michael, as. 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 4: I see it's called this week. First up is Lonnie 25 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 4: from Alabama. He heard our conversation about how these leftist 26 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 4: protesters moved from issue to issue depending on which way 27 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 4: the wind blows and what they're told to do, and 28 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 4: he says he has a customer who fits that description. 29 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 5: Hey, Michael, is Flannie from Birmingham, Alabama. I was look 30 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 5: at the talk about you know what happens when these 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 5: people these protests. You know, they passed on their calls 32 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 5: the LB of the day and one day it's Ukraine, 33 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 5: the next day it is the Palestinian flag, and then 34 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 5: now it's. 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 3: The Venezuela flag. 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 5: And I have a customer. And I'm not kidding. This 37 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 5: is I'm not even I r ain't for real. When 38 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 5: I go into her house, I always know there's gonna 39 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 5: be something right behind. The front doors always look like 40 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 5: right when you go in, the door opens up and 41 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 5: there's a wall there, you know, and she stuffs her 42 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 5: little protest posters behind that wall. And it is hilarious. 43 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 5: But cause Michael, you just described her house. He has 44 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 5: a Ukraine flag, he has a Palestinian flag. I don't 45 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 5: think she's got the Venezuela flag yet because she's kind 46 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 5: of old, so she's not with it. 47 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 3: You know. 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 5: It takes her maybe a week to catch up, but 49 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 5: I guarantee the next time I go to her house, 50 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 5: she'll have it. But if she also has no king, 51 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 5: he's got double fight hard board, hardboard, you know, poster 52 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 5: signs that have the flags on them, and this and that, 53 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 5: and if you've got a whole collection and it it 54 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 5: depends always protests with you. That day. She's got her 55 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 5: mut bootstal right there by the so she walks out 56 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 5: the door, she puts her bootstone, she puts gets her 57 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 5: protest style, whichever one she needs for the cost of the 58 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 5: lap of the day. And she hasn't got to her 59 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 5: little protest. She's retired, she don't have muhing better to do. 60 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 5: And she just doesn't like Donald Trump. She just doesn't 61 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 5: like him. He's just not a nice guy and he 62 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 5: has mean tweets. So yeah, it's hilarious. You're thousand miles 63 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 5: away in Texas. 64 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 3: I'm in Alabama. 65 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 5: You just describe one of my customers to key, good job, 66 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 5: my berry. That's why is all thank you, sir. 67 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 4: They live among us. Good call, honey. Next up, is 68 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 4: Keith from French settlement. He thinks there's more to the 69 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 4: story about the man who shot two Minnesota politicians last year, 70 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 4: and that all roads lead back to Tampon. Timmy Watts. 71 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: Hey, it's Keith from Prince down, this boultry gown from Minnesota, 72 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 2: pretty much professional assassin appointed by two different Minnesota governors 73 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: for these Governors' Board of my ba up CNN, the 74 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 2: Minnesota papers. They're trying to say he was a nut. 75 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: He was indigent, but he was in a sixty thousand 76 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 2: dollars vehicle. He had eighteen thousand dollars on him, his 77 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: wife had ten thousand dollars on her. They were living 78 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: in a two point two million dollar house, and they 79 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 2: had shot four or five people, including the Minnesota Speaker 80 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 2: of the House. And it's all time to Tim Waltz. 81 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 2: And also he was trying to get them to kill 82 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 2: Amy Kobakar because he wanted to take over her Senate seat. 83 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 2: The most detailed I saw was by Mark Robert on 84 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 2: America's Untold Stories, and he said, that's what people are 85 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 2: not covering the fact that he's living in a two 86 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: point two million dollar house. The government appointing took a 87 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: couple of boards he had, they had done the jobs 88 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: and they were bugging out. So pretty much DNC fight 89 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 2: hitting in. Thank you for much, mord. 90 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 4: Think your Keith from a French settlement. Lastly, we have 91 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 4: a Francis from Gadsden, Alabama. She is sounding the alarm 92 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 4: on voter registration fraud associated with the food stamp business. 93 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 4: She's tried calling her senator but they don't answer because 94 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 4: they have her phone bug. 95 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 6: This a Spranish system Gadsden, Alabama. There's vote in the 96 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 6: food stamp program. They send out a school required by 97 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 6: the federal of them from the send out registration to 98 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 6: vote in every time they renew their thing for the 99 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 6: food stamp and if they don't send it in, they'll 100 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 6: cut them off from food stamps. The programs they still 101 00:05:54,560 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 6: out register to vote every time, and they know what 102 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 6: they did without the registrations. 103 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 2: Now I called. 104 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 6: Restoration place and is hearing Gidston and they said that 105 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 6: it's a federal program that they're required to do this, 106 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 6: so they need to do it in the figure. I've 107 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 6: tried to call my censor, but my phones bug and 108 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 6: they don't let my call go through. So what maybe 109 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 6: you can do something where I can't thank you. 110 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 4: She sounds like so many of my family members growing up, 111 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 4: same accent, frustrated over what the heck is going on 112 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 4: in this country. Frustrated over what the heck is going 113 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 4: on in this country. You know, there's people across this 114 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 4: land who grew up in an America that was very 115 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 4: different than today. In many ways, it was better. It 116 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: was safer, it was cleaner, it was more just, And 117 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 4: it makes me sad that they have to watch this 118 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 4: happen and a lot of people don't have the outlet, 119 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 4: the connections, the ability to get past how the world 120 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 4: has changed, the ability to thrive in it. They rely 121 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 4: on America being the way it used to be, and 122 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 4: it makes me sad. It makes me sad to have 123 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 4: to watch that. Earlier, we spoke to the Attorney General 124 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 4: in the state of Texas who's running for the US 125 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 4: and and against the Rhino Republican incumbent John Cornyn. Coming up, 126 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 4: we will talk to Congressman Wesley Hunt, who has also 127 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 4: joined that race. The current polling has our Attorney General 128 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 4: Ken Paxton in first, followed by Congressman Wesley Hunt, with 129 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 4: the incumbent the establishment of supporting John Cornyn in third 130 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 4: place talking about. 131 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 7: The un It's Tracy. 132 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 8: Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon 133 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 8: crawl and listen to the Tsar of Salt. 134 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 2: My buddy Michael Berry. 135 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 4: From Wesley Hunt is our guest. I looked up one time. 136 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 4: Your full name is Wesley Parish Hunt and that sounds 137 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 4: a little fancy pants. That doesn't sound like a common 138 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 4: man senatorial candidate. 139 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 9: Well, it most certainly is. You see, I'm named after 140 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 9: the parishes from Louisiana. My mom and my dad were 141 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 9: both born in New Orleans, and so instead of counties 142 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 9: in New Orleans, they have parishes. Sure, and that's what 143 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 9: I am named after. Then, of course I'm named after 144 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 9: the good Christian man, mister Wesley. 145 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 3: That's pretty good. 146 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 4: You know, Parish is a blue blood name in Houston. 147 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 4: I didn't know if you were from some rich family 148 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 4: or something. 149 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 3: Absolutely not, sir, It's a good old fashion amyoric. 150 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 4: That sounded more like a John Corny middle name. 151 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 3: Well, if that's the whole thing we have in common, 152 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 3: that'll be about it. We are nothing. I like, sir Well. 153 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 4: Said, we'll get to the race. We'll reintroduce you to 154 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 4: our folks, I'm curious, though, we'll start with issues of 155 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 4: the day. You've seen what happened in Minnesota with the 156 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 4: Ice agent and the woman, your thoughts. 157 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 9: The bottom line is is that woman's death, while tragic, 158 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 9: what you don't do is you don't hit federal officers 159 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 9: with your vehicle. Your vehicle can be used as a 160 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 9: weapon that offers His life was clearly threatened, and he 161 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 9: acted accordingly and acted according to his training. I fully 162 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 9: support the oakome of what happened. And at the end 163 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 9: of the day, we cannot continue to allow bastions of 164 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 9: liberal media and also liberal propaganda that's happening in Minnesota 165 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 9: to continue to stoke the flames of dissension in this country. 166 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 9: When I saw Governor Walls then get on television and 167 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 9: talk about dispatching the National Guard of Minnesota to combat 168 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 9: federal agents, federal Ice agents, I thought to myself, this 169 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 9: guy's going full Jefferson Davis, and he wants to incite 170 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 9: a civil war after a woman broke the law and 171 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 9: lost their life by almost killing an Ice agent. So 172 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 9: again they are trying to again stoked the flames of 173 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 9: decision in this country by using an incident like this 174 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 9: that quite frankly, is completely wrong. We have got to 175 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 9: understand that these ICE agents and these federal agents are 176 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 9: doing everything that they can to keep us safe. This 177 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 9: is a promise that President Trump made and he is 178 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 9: simply keeping it. 179 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 4: It feels it pains me, as you know, my brother 180 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 4: was an over thirty year law enforcement officer, and there 181 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 4: are so many people who sign up just as you 182 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 4: signed up to where the uniform and go to Iraq 183 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 4: and serve this country abroad. Many of those folks also 184 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 4: came home and signed up to wear a different uniform 185 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 4: and same service to our neighbors and our country. And 186 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 4: it feels like those folks are not getting the support 187 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 4: they need in the media, in our government, amongst cultural leaders. 188 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 4: And I find that very frustrating because these are good 189 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 4: people with good intentions doing their job well. 190 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 3: They're doing their job well. 191 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 9: If you ever meet these people, if you ever met 192 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 9: ICE agents, all of them, if you see our local 193 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 9: law enforcement and what they do every day to keep 194 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 9: us safe, I am thankful. 195 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 3: And these people. 196 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 9: Will all of a sudden realize that when something bad 197 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 9: happens and they have to call the police, then all 198 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 9: of a sudden they're going to love them because they 199 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 9: are cowards and they don't have to do it takes 200 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 9: to protect themselves. And that's why their models protect and 201 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 9: serve because even though there are people that are against them, 202 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 9: they will still do their job relentlessly. You know, one 203 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 9: funny story and not funny, but one great story that 204 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 9: I heard from a spouse of a law enforcement officer 205 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 9: is the sound of velcrow is what she looks forward 206 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 9: to having and hearing every single day because when she 207 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 9: hears the sound of velcrow, it means her spouse came 208 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 9: home and he is still alive. These are people that 209 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 9: have to respond to everything ranging from a cat and 210 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 9: a tree to an all out gang war and everything 211 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 9: in between. This is why when I say I back 212 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,080 Speaker 9: the blue and a country like this, I got to 213 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,599 Speaker 9: tell you what the population this side, with all the 214 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 9: qualm that's going on, I'm surprised that these people behave 215 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 9: and do such a great job in spite of all 216 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 9: the violence that they see every day. And again, we 217 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 9: had to support these people, and I'm one of those 218 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 9: cultural warriors that will support them without relent. 219 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 4: Twenty sixteen, President Trump's number one promise, number one issue 220 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 4: was build a wall, and I think among Republican primary 221 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 4: voters who will go to the polls early voting beginning 222 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 4: in just forty days, in a race where you, Ken 223 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 4: Paxton and John corn are running for the Republican primary 224 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 4: nomination to face Jasmine Crockett just forty days, I think 225 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 4: this issue is as important as it was in twenty sixteen. 226 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 4: I really do. 227 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 9: I can't agree more with you. And as the first 228 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 9: person in the country to endorse President Trump during his 229 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 9: last run and also being one of his top surrogates, 230 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 9: I'm going to tell you that the traveling around the 231 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 9: country with President Trump, that was the first thing he 232 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 9: always opened up with, and that is we're going to 233 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 9: do our job to ensure that we have a soffed 234 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 9: southern border. And just like that, we didn't need any 235 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 9: more new laws. We just needed a new president. And 236 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 9: guess what, we have a secure border. But we have 237 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 9: to keep it that way. And we need young people 238 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 9: that are going to continue the America First mantra, not 239 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 9: for the next six years, not for the next twelve years, 240 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 9: but for the next twenty years to ensure that our 241 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 9: southern border stays secure. And that's why I am running 242 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 9: for the Senator to be to be a center for 243 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 9: the grace out of Texas because at the end of 244 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 9: the day, I'm in my early forties. I have a 245 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 9: long runway to ensure that they hand the mantled down 246 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 9: to the next generation of leadership. That's me, that's state advanced, 247 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 9: that's Marco Rubio, who is in his early fifties. Our 248 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 9: Secretary of War is in his mid forties. I'm in 249 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 9: my early forties. At the end of the day, we've 250 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 9: got to make sure that the border doesn't just stay 251 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 9: secure for the next three years, but it's stays secure 252 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 9: for the next twenty. 253 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 4: When you've been out and about, this is a big state, 254 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 4: it's a tough place to campaign, big media markets, far 255 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 4: from far from far flown places with different economic issues, 256 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 4: with different geological issues, different cultural issues. What do you 257 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 4: see as an issuer two, as one that does not 258 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 4: get much press but seems to come up again and 259 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 4: again that people care about. Maybe it's a regional issue. 260 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 9: You know, you talked on the border, but also let's 261 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 9: talk about affordability in this country. The reason why our 262 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 9: President Trump got elected is because things were completely unaffordable 263 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 9: under Joe Biden. Now that we're getting inflation down. Now 264 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 9: that gasoline prices are coming down, we have to understand 265 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 9: that people are really feeling the pinch of the wasteful 266 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 9: spending that we've had in the government for the past 267 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 9: espressly for the past four years, and in fact, there 268 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 9: were thirty six trillion dollars in that we're running at 269 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 9: two trillion dollars annual deficit, and we're feeling that pain. 270 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 9: We need to have people that are willing to understand 271 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 9: how every day Americans work and live and that's exactly 272 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 9: how I grew up, That's exactly who I am. That's 273 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 9: one of the hidden ones. You talked about what's happening 274 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 9: at our southern border. That's probably the number one issue. 275 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 9: People in Texas just want to feel safe. They want 276 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 9: to be able to go to the store. They want 277 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 9: to be able to have their spouses go get gasoline 278 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 9: at a gas station and not worry about if they're 279 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 9: going to come back home or not. They want their 280 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 9: children to feel safe, and so again, when you see 281 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 9: what's happening in the liberal places, that's the huge problem. 282 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 9: The lastly, I will I will say this, this is 283 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 9: a Christian nation, this is a constitutional republic. Islam and 284 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 9: Sharia law has no place in the great State of Texas. 285 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 9: And as somebody that's deployed to Iraq and spent two 286 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 9: years in Saudi Arabia and lived in regions that has 287 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 9: sharia law, I can assure you that it's not going 288 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 9: to work here in Texas, and that is not what 289 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 9: we want. So we have to fight the liberal media 290 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 9: and liberals that think that we can turn this country 291 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 9: into an islam into an Islamic BASSI that's just not 292 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 9: going to happen. Those are three things that I'm kind 293 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 9: of seeing of. Obviously there's way more, Michael, But at 294 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 9: the end of the day, I know what Texas values are, 295 00:15:58,640 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 9: I know what. 296 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 3: Conservative youth are. 297 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 9: That is what I represent and that's what I will 298 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 9: give to this great state. 299 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 7: I'm the next editor. 300 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 4: Congressman Wesley Hunt, good luck. We'll talk to him again. 301 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. 302 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 7: The Michael Berry show you medily adopted the dock. 303 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 2: I was watering. 304 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 3: Well. 305 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 4: We've heard a lot about the fraud in Mogadishue, Minnesota 306 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 4: by the Somalis, and you might think, well, as long 307 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 4: as it's limited there, what's not. Early last month, a 308 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 4: whistleblower in the state of Maine came forward to expose 309 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 4: Minnesota like fraud or should I say Mogodi Isshue like 310 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 4: fraud in the state's Medicare program, longer clip than we 311 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 4: normally play, but I didn't see an ability to shorten 312 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 4: it because I think it's that important and the source 313 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 4: is news Nation. 314 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 10: Means the right thing this whole time, and more I 315 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 10: started digging, the more I started finding, and I just 316 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 10: couldn't believe what I was seeing, that this was happening 317 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 10: and I was part of this. 318 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 8: Chris Bernardini spent seven years working for Gateway Community Services 319 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 8: as Somali American led health services contractor in Maine. Bernardini 320 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 8: alleges Gateway oversaw a system in which false records were 321 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 8: filed about client visits, and he says they charged taxpayers 322 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 8: for providing services that were never performed. 323 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 10: But we started getting some clients saying that calling and saying, 324 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 10: you know, months later that their client, oh them hours 325 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 10: They hadn't come in for these ships and stuff, but 326 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 10: I had a time card for it, and they were 327 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 10: billing for it. 328 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 4: They were billing for it. 329 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 8: In March of twenty twenty two, Gateway received a notice 330 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 8: of violation from the state's main care services program Integrity Unit. 331 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 8: Based on an audit of records taken at random from 332 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 8: January twenty seventeenth through December of twenty eighteen, Gateway over 333 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 8: billed by an estimated nine hundred and four thousand dollars. 334 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 8: In your professional opinion, what you saw was fraud, absolute, 335 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 8: no doubt about it, no doubt about it. But Bernardini says, 336 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 8: when the pandemic hit, it got worse. 337 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 10: I started seeing bonuses, two thousand dollars, bonuses going to 338 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 10: the staff that had only been with us for two weeks, 339 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 10: never worked a shift with a client, and yet the 340 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 10: PPP loan comes the You're giving two thousand dollars away 341 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 10: like de lollipops at a doctor's office. 342 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 8: In April of twenty twenty four, Bernardini wrote to the 343 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 8: Department of Homeland Security seeking whistleblower protection. They referred him 344 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 8: back to the state of Maine. Nearly a year later, 345 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 8: Gateway fired Bernardini. The company's founder and CEO is Abdu 346 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 8: Lahi Ali, a Somali American who, while at the time 347 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 8: serving as executive director for Gateway. Last year ran for 348 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 8: president of Jubiland, a state in Somalia South that borders Kenya. 349 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 8: Last week, he posted on X I make no apologies 350 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 8: for building a successful business in Maine, working hard to 351 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 8: earn a living, earning my PhD, giving back to my 352 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 8: main community, and running for office in Jubiland. I am 353 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 8: proud to contribute my hard earned dollars to support my 354 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 8: people back home. We reached out to Ali for comment 355 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 8: multiple times. We even came to Gateway to try and 356 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 8: speak with him. Hello, I'm with News Nation. 357 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 4: My name is. 358 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 7: No comment is mister Ali? 359 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 3: Here? 360 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 4: Can we speak with mister Ali. 361 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 8: Republican State Senator Matt Harrington has called on Governor Janet 362 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 8: Mills to investigate just. 363 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 11: An absolutely insult to the main taxpair that we know 364 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 11: that there's this Medicaid for add going on by Gateway 365 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 11: Community Services. We're saying nothing from the Mills administration on this, 366 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 11: and I think it's appalling. 367 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 4: I still can't believe it. 368 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 10: I still can't believe I took so much of my 369 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 10: time and put so much of my life into this 370 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 10: agency that just tossed me aside. It's caused me to 371 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 10: reflect a lot, and you know, try to trust my 372 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 10: gut more and speak up more when I see something. 373 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 4: That's just not right. 374 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 3: Now. 375 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 12: We've reached out repeatedly to mister Ali to gateway behind me. 376 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 12: We've reached out to Governor Janet Mills, the head of 377 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 12: Health and Human Services here. 378 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 3: We've even reached. 379 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 12: Out to the three Democratic Somalian American state reps. 380 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 7: Here. 381 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 12: Nobody would speak with us. 382 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 4: You start looking around, going, you hear this whistleblower, going, 383 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 4: what's the point? And once you demoralize the people that 384 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 4: there is no truth anymore, there is no justice, then 385 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 4: the system collapses. Black Lives Matter Georgia Democrat state rep 386 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 4: now facing charges after being indicted for lying to collect 387 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 4: federal unemployment benefits during COVID lockdowns. She knew the indictment 388 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 4: was coming, so she resigned ahead of it try to 389 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 4: avoid getting in trouble. This is the second Georgia Democrat 390 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 4: house member indicted for theft of COVID funds. And I'll 391 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 4: bet you if you did a little bit of work, 392 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 4: you could find some more. Karen Bennett Black Lives Matter, 393 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 4: Georgia Democrat, accused of one count of making false statements 394 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,479 Speaker 4: to collect thirteen nine hundred and forty dollars. She resigned 395 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 4: from the state House last week. She was first elected 396 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 4: back in twenty twelve, representing a district covering parts of 397 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 4: Dakalb and Gwynett Counties. She is the second Democrat House 398 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 4: member to be charged with lying to obtain federal unemployment 399 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 4: assistance during the pandemic. Congressman Sharon Henderson, a Covington Democrat, 400 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,479 Speaker 4: was indicted in December on charges of theft of government 401 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 4: funds and making false statements. Accused of illegally collecting seventeen 402 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 4: eight hundred and eleven dollars in unemployment benefits. She is 403 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 4: free on bail and remains in office. They will often 404 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 4: give an elected official the ability to plead out of 405 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 4: resigning their office in exchange for no further prosecution. Well, 406 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 4: what about a plant worker. Nobody goes out and arrests 407 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 4: the plant worker who commits fraud and says, hey, you're 408 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 4: going to prison forever. I tell it. If I quit 409 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 4: my job as the plant worker, will you make the 410 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 4: charges go away? So how is that the case? The 411 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 4: system doesn't apply to elected officials? Is this the collegiality 412 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 4: the way a cop might not give a ticket to 413 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 4: another cop if you see's a badge? Is that so 414 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 4: elected officials and law enforcement. You know, when they get prosecuted, 415 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,479 Speaker 4: the elected district attorney says, well, you know what, if 416 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 4: you just step down, we'll we'll give you a pass 417 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 4: this time. The average person doesn't get that. Our Congress 418 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 4: is made up of crooks, so of course there is corruption. 419 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 4: These people want more money. You notice what they do. 420 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 4: They look at the government to make it. They don't 421 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 4: look to the private sector. They don't look to earning it. 422 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 4: They look to the benefits that they take money from 423 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 4: you to hand out checks to other people. And they 424 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 4: go all those checks going out. I want some for myself. 425 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 4: Look at how many congressmen have been caught unemployment funds, 426 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 4: COVID funds, Medicare fraud. You look at these Somali frauds 427 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 4: in Minnesota. You've got these fraud fraud We just saw 428 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 4: the two guys in Boston, black guys. I don't remember 429 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 4: where they're from, somewhere in Africa, but they got I 430 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 4: think was it six and a half million dollars for 431 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 4: snap funds. These welfare programs are all frauds. The after 432 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 4: school programs fraud the school lunch programs frauds. Everything that 433 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 4: is a tug at your heartstrings. Program is a fraud. 434 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 4: That's why we're thirty eight trillion dollars in debt you're 435 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 4: paying for. They're taking money from you and giving it 436 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 4: to people who break the rules, and you're thinking they're 437 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 4: helping the poor people. They're promising their help and the 438 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 4: poor people. And the only thing we're doing is redirecting 439 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 4: funds to fraudsters, which makes fraud. The incentive is to 440 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 4: be a fraudster because they're living better than you are, 441 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 4: way better off your money. This is no way to 442 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 4: run this country. This is not America. It is time 443 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 4: they be prosecuted. Scream racism, scream whatever you want. Put 444 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 4: these people in prison. Some don't want to hear it. 445 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,959 Speaker 4: He'll just go ahead and say it sorry. 446 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 7: The Michael Berry Show. 447 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 4: Nearly four hundred thousand dollars worth of lobsters have been 448 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 4: stolen from a shipping facility in Massachusetts. Investigators say the 449 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 4: thieves a posed as a trucking company and hauled off 450 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 4: the goods. The story from WJAR. 451 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 13: It not once but twice within the past month. 452 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 7: Multiple loads have been taken from this particular facility. 453 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,719 Speaker 13: A massive shipment of lobster said to be trucked from 454 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 13: Taunton to various Costco locations across the Midwest. Never made 455 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 13: it to their intended destination. Instead, the hall was intercepted 456 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 13: at the Lineage Logistics shipping facility off Constitution Avenue. 457 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 14: Kind of the scenario that happened with this case is 458 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 14: a fraudster or a criminal was impersonating a legitimate trucking company. 459 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 13: Chris Burrows is the President and CEO of the Transportation 460 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 13: Intermediaries Association. He explains, like in the most recent lobster heist, 461 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 13: the scheme is simple. 462 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 7: There was a dash and the email dress. 463 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 14: That was the only thing that was addition, everything else 464 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 14: looked exactly the same to the legitimate company. And then 465 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 14: this this individual came in, took the loads and off 466 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 14: they went with it, and who knows where it ends up. 467 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 4: He says. 468 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 13: The recent string of seafood thefts is likely linked to 469 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 13: an organized cargo crime ring. 470 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 7: This is not a nice, slighted case. It's going on 471 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 7: throughout the country. 472 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 14: I think the latest estimates, you know, rougherly thirty to 473 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 14: fifty billion dollars a year annual cost of the supply chain. 474 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 13: So why target perishables for profit? 475 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 3: You know? 476 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 4: TVs? 477 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 7: Things like that have serial numbers. 478 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 14: Again, those are targeted as well, but a little bit 479 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 14: easier to track obviously, you know, Lobster doesn't have a 480 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 14: QR code on it. 481 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 7: Lobster, we just have a QR code on to you know, 482 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 7: track it down. 483 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 13: And while the losses are incurred by the seller, in 484 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 13: the end it's the consumers who take the hit, as 485 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 13: those company costs are offset by products being priced higher 486 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 13: at the store. 487 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 4: I do some things to provoke, to irritate. I'll intentionally 488 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 4: mispronounce a word that I know upsets people, misconjugated verb 489 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 4: that I find to be funny, or often it is 490 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 4: it is from the region where I hail, and it 491 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 4: was the way things were set, and I like to 492 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 4: hear it. It reminds me of my grandmother talking. So I 493 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 4: do it on purpose, and it really really upsets people 494 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 4: because you need to get it prim and proper in 495 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 4: the improper statement bothers them. Another thing I enjoy doing 496 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 4: because I like. What I love to do is point 497 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 4: out something you know to be true, and if you're honest, 498 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 4: you know it to be true that people won't admit 499 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 4: because it would be you know, the emperor has no 500 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 4: clothes I'll give you an example lobster. Lobster has no 501 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 4: real flavor, and people will tell you they love lobster, 502 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 4: and most people have never considered the fact that what 503 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 4: they actually love is butter. Lobster is a delivery mechanism. 504 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 4: There are a lot of things like this. To be clear, now, 505 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 4: there are things that are made better with butter. You 506 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 4: bring out a piping hot loaf of bogette, great French bread. 507 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 4: It's good in and of it self, but you slather 508 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 4: some butter on there. The butter enhances the flavor. But 509 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 4: lobster by itself nothing really to it. And don't tell 510 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 4: me that's not true, because you never tried it. You've 511 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:28,479 Speaker 4: never had lobster by itself. It's always doused in butter. 512 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 4: And there's probably some butter on the side in a 513 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 4: form that you can just dip it, and it's delicious 514 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 4: and it makes for a great delivery mechanism. But when 515 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 4: you say you love lobster, my argument is you don't 516 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 4: love lobster. You love butter on lobster. If you loved lobster, 517 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 4: you wouldn't need the butter. You could say I prefer 518 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 4: it with butter, but I like it without it. That's 519 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 4: a fact. Now people will say that and they get up, 520 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 4: they get upset. Oysters. I like oysters. I don't know, 521 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 4: there's something about it. You know. They're kind of nasty, 522 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 4: they're like snot they're kind of gross raw oysters I'm 523 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 4: talking about. But I like the fact that they're harvested 524 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 4: and brought to your tail. You got the shell, you 525 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 4: pick it up, eat it. But what I love, what 526 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 4: I love is an oyster on a saltine cracker with 527 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 4: Tabasco sauce, horse radish and a little bit of cocktail sauce. 528 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 4: Now that I love. But I still like an oyster 529 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 4: in and of itself. And you can call me a hillbilly, 530 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 4: I don't care. I don't eat an oyster in a 531 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 4: manner where you put it in your mouth and it 532 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 4: just drops down. I've never understood that things that you 533 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 4: don't bother to taste when they're going down, why are 534 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 4: you putting them in your system in the first place. 535 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 4: The point is either the nutritional value you I guess, 536 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 4: I guess that's it for people, and or the flavor, 537 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 4: the texture, the crunch, the explosion of savory features. Oh yes, yes, indeed, 538 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 4: I love to talk about lobsters. If there's something that 539 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 4: you think people don't like, and I would argue sushi 540 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 4: is this way. They either like to talk about it 541 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 4: or as a delivery mechanism. Send me an email Michael 542 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 4: Berryshow dot com. 543 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: Boston's a tough city, right, it's a foster. I love 544 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,959 Speaker 1: the Boston energy. And you guys all of New England, 545 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: you guys love your seafood and it's just disgusting. 546 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 8: LOPSTI lots. 547 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 7: I was a vacationing on Cape Con because I'm. 548 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 4: White, and. 549 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: I was at this seafood restaurant, right, and this guy 550 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: came out on our table. 551 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 3: Wasn't even our waiter. He came up with the table. 552 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 3: I don't know how to do the boss. 553 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 9: An accent uniting lobster? 554 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: Is that reason why you're not eating lobsters? And I 555 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: was like, I thought I'd order what I want. I 556 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: wasn't really in the mood for bug meat because that's 557 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: what childfish are. They're just creepy crawley giant insects on 558 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: the bottom of the ocean, you know, fish or something 559 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: are like we go to get an extreminally interrupting those feet, 560 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: good boss, They have a shell like a bug. They 561 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: have spinley legs and crawl around like a bug. They 562 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: have antennae like a monster. You're probably monsters. Like if 563 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: you went home and you saw a chicken in your house, 564 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: you'll be like, what the hell's a chicken doing in 565 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: my house? 566 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 3: But if you saw a lobster, you'd be like, we're moving. 567 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: Because there's not a nickels worth of difference between a 568 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: lobster and a giant scorpion. Now I understand everyone loves lobster. 569 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 4: I love lobster. Hey, I like butter too. 570 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: Okay, how can I eat three sticks of butter? 571 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 4: Col I throw this giant swimming sea scorpion. 572 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: It's just a spoonful of butter helps the bug meat 573 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: go down in the most delightful way. Lobster tail is 574 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: that the area near the bottom. 575 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 4: That's what I want? 576 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: A little turf and bug button. How are those restaurants 577 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: we have to pick out? 578 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 3: You're on lobster. 579 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: You're like, I guess I'll take that one that's really 580 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: struggling with the rubber bands. He seems appealing. 581 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 3: Why don't we boil him to death? 582 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: Why am I involved in this decision? 583 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 4: Hey, gentleman, Els has left for me. 584 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 2: Thank you and good night.