1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and look. 2 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 2: You Michael Arry Show is. 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: On the air. 4 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good 5 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 2: one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show. Yes it 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: is yesterday. Is so glad you're here. 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: But where are we in the continuum of our lives, 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: in the continuum of the republic. We have been in 9 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: such a brutal election preparation and mobilization phase for so 10 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: long that it's very difficult to just pivot. If you 11 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: saw the movie Friday Night Lights, which is a wonderful movie. 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 2: It's a TV show. I didn't watch that, but the 13 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 2: movie it was. 14 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: It was done by a guy named Peter Berg, who 15 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: I got to be friends with through Marcus A. 16 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 2: Treel because he did Loan Survivor. 17 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: It's a fantastic book about the intensity. And when I 18 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: say intensity, I mean it is everything. The intense focus 19 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: and pressure on high school football at the highest levels, 20 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: particularly in suburban and especially rural Texas, and the Odessa 21 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: program that was the storied program for so many years. 22 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: But if you watch that movie, which is one of 23 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: Billy Bob Thornton's finest and interesting little tidbit, if you 24 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: remember the movie sling Blade where Billy Bob Thornton takes 25 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: on this character that, much like Tom Hanks's Forrest Gump, 26 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 1: is a generational character, the little kid that he has 27 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: a fondness for nothing inappropriate, but he's very protective of 28 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: this little kid. 29 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: That little kid is the same kid that's going. 30 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: To grow up in real life to be the quarterback 31 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: to Billy Bob Thornton's coach in Friday Night Lights. And 32 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: in Friday Night Lights, these kids, they prepare year round 33 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: to try to win an to try to win a 34 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: state might as well be a national because where Texas 35 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: we view it as national. A state championship and it's 36 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:57,119 Speaker 1: their senior year and this is it man And Tim 37 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: McGraw is the father of one of the kids who 38 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: Tim McGraw's whole life, his character was a guy who 39 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: you know, played for this storied and it's a real 40 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: that part's a real true story. Actually, this whole thing 41 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: is a real story. And he's basically saying, you know, 42 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: this is the most important time of your life. Your 43 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: life will go downhill after that, which there are people 44 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: who live and believe that. And then they play for 45 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: the state championship and the game is over and they 46 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: come to the field house to clean out their locker and. 47 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 2: It's over. 48 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: And so everything they've done, you know, stay out of trouble, 49 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: so you can stay on the football team. Work hard, 50 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: don't drink, don't drink and drive, don't get in legal trouble, 51 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: hit the weight room, eat right, run, lift, is all 52 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: dedicated to tomorrow. We got another practice or another game 53 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: to get to the state championship. And then they play 54 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: in the state championship and the game is over and 55 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: they gather and it's sort of like, well, I guess 56 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: the bonds that tied us together. I guess the intensity 57 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: that gave our lives focus and purpose and forced us 58 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: to live so intentionally, it's gone. And I think for 59 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: a lot of folks there has been an interesting sort 60 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: of state of untethering. 61 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 2: But it doesn't have to be that way. 62 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: It's not meant that we should live our lives from 63 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: election to election. 64 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 2: That's only supposed to be a part of our lives. 65 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: But because we didn't take care of it, because we 66 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: let ourselves, our republic get flabby, we had to go 67 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: on a crash diet. Now we're on a maintenance phase. 68 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: Now we need to turn back to family, to business, 69 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: business to community, to ourselves and to our health. And 70 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: that's a good thing without letting our eye stray too 71 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: far from what it's going to take to make this republic. 72 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: What it's going to be. 73 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: But I have to tell you, Donald Trump was prepared 74 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: for this day, and I've never seen any I mean, 75 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: this transition is the most exciting transition I've ever seen. 76 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 3: The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show. 77 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: We were looking at the this day in history for Monday, 78 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: just looking ahead. Red Fox was forty nine years old 79 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: when Sandford and Son started. 80 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 2: He turned fifty during the first season. 81 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: Red Fox was an old man on that show. Red 82 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: Fox was four years younger than I am now. 83 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 2: And he's talking about Elizabeth. It's a big one. 84 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,239 Speaker 1: I mean, you think about the fact that Red Fox 85 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: was considered practically elderly. You know, we talked about earlier 86 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: this week, the Traveling Wilbury's the oldest member of the 87 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: group was fifty two. Now he did die during all 88 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: of this, he was too. Roy Orbison was two years 89 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: younger than me when he was the old man back 90 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight, and me thinking, wow, it's great 91 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: they brought this old geezer out of retirement. I had 92 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: a woman email me this week and she said, you know, 93 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: something about being old or something else. And she was 94 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: forty five years old, and I said, you know, my 95 00:06:54,160 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 1: mom passed just a matter of days ago in ran Skimmithy. 96 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: She was seventy nine. And she would say, I never 97 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: expected to live to be this old. And she and 98 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: her best friend, whose name was Billy Tucker, she said, 99 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: we'd be in our thirties and even in our forties, 100 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: but especially in our thirties, and we'd see these old 101 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: women and we'd say, we're never going to be old 102 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: like that. And she said, and now I'm old like that, 103 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: and you just don't expect it, and it's gone before 104 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: you know it. 105 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: I don't have some. 106 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: Wisdom to offer to it, other than to say, there's 107 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: never going to be a bend around the corner where 108 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: everything is going to be okay. We chose a system 109 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: of government that requires citizen involvement. If you wanted a 110 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: monarchy where you didn't have to worry about it, you 111 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: were born in the wrong wonderful country. You see those 112 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: to whom much is given much as expected with great 113 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: power comes great responsibility. It's a timeless canard. Whether it's 114 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: a cartoon or a superhero or a biblical verse, it's wisdom. 115 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: If you're going to have the power to drive your ship, 116 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: to pilot your ship, to chart your direction, then that 117 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: means that you can't fall asleep at the wheel. 118 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 2: And that's where we're going to be. 119 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: Our president needed us to get him over the finish line. 120 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: Our Congress needed us to get a majority, Our Senate 121 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: needed us. But guess what, our work is not done. 122 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: It's not the only work we have to do. We 123 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: have to get back to doing now that which they 124 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,319 Speaker 1: don't do. We got to make the cheese and the bread. 125 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: We got to raise and slaughter the pigs and the cows. 126 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: We got to make the leather and manufacture things. We've 127 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 1: got to run the financial system. We've got to run 128 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: the healthcare system. We've got to do all the things 129 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: that it takes to run a nation. And a lot 130 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: of us have been so focused on what it takes 131 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: to get the leadership back so we could get back 132 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: to doing it. 133 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 2: And now we're going to have to do that. 134 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: With one eye still on this because one thing that 135 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: is as clear as you've seen it already, the Republicans 136 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: in elected office are going to work very hard to 137 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: get in the way of Donald Trump. Don't sit and 138 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: ask why, don't be frustrated by it. Simply understand it 139 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: is there, and we've got to be prepared for it, 140 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: and we've got to be They've got to be scared 141 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: of us the entire time. 142 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 2: It's like being a good parent. You can love on 143 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 2: your kids, but they've got to. 144 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 4: Know you will whip their little butts if they get 145 00:09:59,520 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 4: out of line. 146 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: Let's go to the phone line, shall we. Sandy, you 147 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: are on the Michael Berry Show. 148 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 5: I just want to tell you a little tidbit about 149 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 5: Johnny Cash. I'm originally from Memphis. I live here, but 150 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 5: Memphis will always be my home. A little backstory, a 151 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 5: little bit. My dad was asked to leave home when 152 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 5: he was fourteen years old because there wasn't room for him. 153 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 5: He went to the Marines at sixteen. He had an 154 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 5: eighth grade education. 155 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 6: He opened his. 156 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 5: Own business in Memphis. He built furniture for Johnny Cash 157 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 5: and his first wife. Johnny Cash, his mother and dad 158 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 5: used to live next door to us, and she babysit me. 159 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 5: At one time this we're talking about the early fifties, 160 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 5: probably fifty five, okay. And he also went over to 161 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 5: Elvis's house to see about building furniture for him. 162 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 2: That's Graceland, yep. 163 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 5: And so that's just a little tidbit that not everybody 164 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 5: knows that. You know, my dad, you know, he built 165 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 5: up a good business in Memphis, and he built furniture 166 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 5: for in the early fifties, and you know, Tommy used 167 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 5: to come over on our front porch. 168 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: Johnny Cash had a home in California that was early, 169 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: early in his successful career, and it came on the 170 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: market a few years ago and it was one of 171 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: those deals. It wasn't insanely expensive. It was very very expensive. 172 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: Let's say it was two million dollars. But it was 173 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: a beautiful home and it was like it was in 174 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: I think it was in the San Fernando Valley. I 175 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: don't remember exactly, but it was kind of in this 176 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: desert landscape and it was built into the landscape and 177 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: it was a fifties style quote unquote modern home and 178 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: it hadn't been changed since he had lived there. 179 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: And it just struck me that it would be the. 180 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: Coolest thing in the world to own that home, but 181 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: of course I don't live there, it wouldn't make sense. 182 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 2: But I studied that home. I mean, I was obsessed 183 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 2: with that. 184 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: But he had a home in Andersonville, which is I'm 185 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: guessing where you're you're talking about called Dogwood Estates. He 186 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: had several homes in Tennessee, but I think one of 187 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: them burned down at one point, if I remember correctly. 188 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: But the estates of great artists like that is a 189 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: subject of incredible interest to me, and I think I 190 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: inherited that from my mom, who who was also fascinated 191 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: by such things. But I'm told that that is a 192 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: I think he and June are buried there, if I 193 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: remember correctly. 194 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 2: But it was apparently it was apparently quite the deal. 195 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: And if I remember correctly, I may be wrong on this, 196 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: but very Gibb. I don't know why I'm remembering this, 197 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,839 Speaker 1: but it may be wrong. I believe Barry Gibb may 198 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: have bought his home and may live in his home 199 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: to this day, but I'm going to I'll check on 200 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: that see if I. 201 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 2: Can keep doing a great show. I miss Russimbob right now. 202 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: You right, there was a place with Michael Show you. 203 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 2: Shan Hanley marked to be some of the best and 204 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 2: work and we have checked. 205 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: Barry Gibb did buy Johnny Cash his home one of them. 206 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: We found a story in the Tennessee and from April 207 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: twenty second, twenty fourteen. 208 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 2: Barry Gibbs sells Johnny Cash property for two million dollars. 209 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 1: Barry Gibb of the seventies pop group The Beg's and 210 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: his wife Linda have sold the Hendersonville property June Carter 211 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: and Johnny Cash called home for over forty years. Lake 212 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: House Holdings, a Tennessee limited liability company, purchased a property 213 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: at two hundred Caudill Drive for two million dollars, according 214 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: to a warranty deed filed March eighteenth with the Summer 215 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: County Register of Deed's Office. Let's get to the phone mail, 216 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: I mean the voicemail. Yaw we ramone our first voicemail. Oh, 217 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 1: we got to do our voicemail intro. We are off 218 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: kilter here this week. We were well attained a minute. 219 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: What we were debating over all all afternoon and it 220 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: involves the United Healthcare CEO being assassinated? 221 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: Do you need a minute ramon? 222 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: Hello, boys and girls, it's Friday, so you know what 223 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: that means. 224 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 2: It's time to check Michael. All right, you've called this. 225 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: Week and as a reminder, you can leave a voicemail 226 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: anytime we're not on the air, day or night, twenty 227 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: four hours a day, seven one three nine nine one thousand, 228 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: seven one three nine, one thousand. Our first voicemail of 229 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: the week, come to it. Comes to us from the 230 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: little town of Sageine, Texas. Sageine, Texas named for Juan Sageine, 231 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: who was one of the Spanish speaking Texans who fought 232 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: against the Mexicans during the Texas War of Independence in 233 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: the Alamo era. 234 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 2: Michael the Preacher is the caller. 235 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: He is shocked that people are surprised by Hunter being pardoned. 236 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 6: Hello, Michael Barrys is Michael the Preacher from sagein Texas. 237 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 6: It amazes me how many people are acting as if 238 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 6: they are surprised the sleepy Joe Biden pardons is done. 239 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 2: What in the heck did they expect? 240 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 6: But I don't want to hear any more of these 241 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 6: people that are surprised. Were upset that Joe Biden pardoned 242 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 6: is Son? He was going to do that before he 243 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 6: left office. People are stupid, or ignorant, or all of 244 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 6: the above. God bless thanks for your great show. Merry 245 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 6: Christmas to you and your family. 246 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: Michael, let me offer an explanation for that. I understand 247 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: his point. I don't think any of us is really surprised, 248 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: but I think it's important. 249 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 2: I think it's important that we put on the show 250 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 2: that we. 251 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: Are because if we simply say, ho hum, we knew 252 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: he was going to pardon his son, that our naive 253 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: neighbors will say, oh, okay, so that's what he's supposed 254 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: to do. What has been done is so shocking, so unprecedented, 255 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: so outside the norm, that we have to react in 256 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: such a manner that we draw attention to it. 257 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 2: For instance, let me give you another example. 258 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: Let's say Michael Jordan is ringing up fifty points a 259 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: game somewhat on the regular in the course of his career, 260 00:16:58,040 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: not every week, but it happens. 261 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 2: If he does that and you don't make a big deal, 262 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 2: then people begin to think it's normal. 263 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:13,479 Speaker 1: It's important that we react in such a way that 264 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: those who don't have perspective, they don't have a context 265 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: within which to put it, they understand. This is the 266 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: biggest thing to happen in many years. The fact that 267 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: we expected this level of evil tells you how bad 268 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: things are. But if we don't pitch a fit about it, 269 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: then people will say, oh, that's what he did. It's 270 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: important that people understand how important this is, and that's 271 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: how we convey that to them. Our next voicemail is 272 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: from an unknown male because he doesn't tell us his name. 273 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 2: Who has a confession to make? Hey, Michael. When I 274 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 2: was in college in the eighties, I turned to my. 275 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 5: Roommate because Phil Collins song. 276 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 2: Came on, and I turned to my room and I said, 277 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 2: what does he mean? She's an easy lama? And he 278 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 2: rolled off to sil hysterical. I always thought she was 279 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 2: saying she's an easy lama. It's an easy lover to 280 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 2: take it easy. 281 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 6: Listen, you'll hear it. 282 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 2: You'll hear it. You'll never hear it. 283 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 7: Otherwise, once you say she's an. 284 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 2: Easy lama, you will hear it. 285 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: In the song promise. 286 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 2: Earlier in the week, I was don't remember which day 287 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 2: it was. 288 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: I was talking about the fact that isn't it fun 289 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: as an adult when there's a word in a song 290 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,199 Speaker 1: that you've been getting wrong all this time? And you 291 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: find out, you know, in a god Davida or Wandnameta 292 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: or whatever that song may be, and you find out 293 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: the real word and you get a good laugh at yourself. 294 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 2: And obviously that's him with easy lama. 295 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: I'm kind of intrigued, now, Raman, can you can you 296 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: pull up that song and go to the end so 297 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: we can get to the chorus. 298 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 3: Fast to see. Okay, she's sama. 299 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 2: Know you fat large? Come get some dinner, find you know, 300 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 2: tell me sheould take you j Okay happens, She's no. 301 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 2: I could absolutely sit. 302 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: Have you seen the comments to this United Healthcare CEO 303 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: being assassinated. I don't think it's all angry people. There 304 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 1: is such hatred, and I have to tell you I 305 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: feel for the guy's family. I feel for him as 306 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 1: a human being. But I think the insurance industry should 307 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: view this as a wake up call, much as the military, 308 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: much as the government. This is a new day, folks. 309 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: You have pushed the American people too far. I'm not 310 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: saying the assassination was justified. Don't get me wrong there. 311 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: Don't try to pin me in that corner. I'm saying 312 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: the peasants are rising up. People have been pushed too far. 313 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: This is the COVID mania, this is the political correctness mania, 314 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: this ISDI manium. 315 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 2: You've got dumb Michael Berry Show. 316 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: There are two things I want to get accomplished in 317 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: this segment, so I'm going to move a little faster. 318 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 2: Than usual for a Friday. 319 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: We can never forget that our president was shot in 320 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: the head, and that the Secret Service has a job 321 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: to do, regardless the party or person that is a 322 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: president or presidential candidate, and they failed to do their job, and. 323 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 2: Some heads need to roll over that. 324 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: This was a very interesting exchange recently between the acting 325 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 1: Secret Service Director, Ronald Rowe and Congressman Pat Fallon during 326 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: a congressional hearing. And I'm going to tell you something, folks, 327 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,959 Speaker 1: winning back this country is going to be It's going 328 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: to be unpleasant because people are not going to want 329 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: to take responsibility for what they did, and we're going 330 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: to have to cram it down their throats. 331 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 2: Some people are going to have to be fired. 332 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: Less than one percent of federal workers that are not 333 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: maintenance or security are showing up to the job for 334 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: forty solid hours a week. 335 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: A bunch of people are. 336 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: Going to get fired, and they're going to cry, and 337 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: they're going to kick back, and they're going to scream, 338 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: and they're going to sue. 339 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 2: But it has to happen. Listen to this. Were you 340 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 2: the specialized in charge of the detail that. 341 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 7: Day, actually let me address this? Could you please staff? 342 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 5: Leave? 343 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 7: No, leave that one up with the circle around me? 344 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 2: Thank you? 345 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 7: So, Actually, Congressman, what you're not seeing is the sack 346 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 7: of the detail off out of the pictures view. And 347 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 7: that is the day where we remember the more than 348 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 7: three thousand people that. 349 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 2: Have died on nine to eleven. 350 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 7: I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going 351 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 7: through the ashes of the World Trade Center. 352 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 2: I was there at Fresh Kills. 353 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 7: I'm not asking you that coman there to show respect 354 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 7: he died. 355 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 2: On, not that you're trying to be. 356 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 7: Do not invoke nine eleven for political purposes. 357 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 2: I'm not I'm invoking this. 358 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 5: You are, sir? 359 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 2: Are you ask him to me? And don't worrying me? 360 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 6: I like the member of Congress, and I'm asking you 361 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 6: a serious question, and you were. 362 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 7: I am a public servant who has served this nation, 363 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 7: and you won't question. 364 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: I want you to notice what's happening here. This is 365 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: an old trick it's a trick. Don't let yourself get 366 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,959 Speaker 1: caught up in our reverence for those who died on 367 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: nine to eleven, because that's exactly what you're supposed to do, 368 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: you see, rather than answer for the mistakes that were 369 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 1: made that by all accounts, our president should have been murdered, 370 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: but for pure luck or God's divine grace, he wasn't. 371 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 2: And so what do they do I deserve for no heaven? 372 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 2: It's not the question. 373 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: This is what people do when they don't want to 374 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: have to answer questions. This is how they distract. All right, 375 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: go ahead, questions. 376 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 2: On our day, on our countries. 377 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 7: Do the committee will come to or asking you serious 378 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 7: questions for the American people, And they're very simple, they're 379 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 7: not true questions. Were you the special agent in charge 380 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 7: that I wasn't? 381 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 2: I was the representing. 382 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 7: Mister not perfect, protective, expired. You want to be visible 383 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 7: because you are listening for this for a. 384 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 2: Full member of this agency, coressman. 385 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: Vice president out of his life because you're putting you 386 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: put those agents out of position. 387 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 7: Mister radio, miss sir, and you were out. 388 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 4: Of lost chairman, mister chairman, mister chairman, yes, sir, please 389 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 4: all right. 390 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 2: This is what is going to take you back, because 391 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you something. 392 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: The people that insinuated themselves, that embedded themselves like a pick, 393 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: into the FBI, into our universities, into our federal be bureaucracy, 394 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: into the Department of Defense, into our military, they're not 395 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: going to give up that power. Lately, they love that power. 396 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: They're not going to admit what they've done. And some 397 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: of them are Republicans. I give you another example, Jony Ernst. 398 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: She's working behind the scenes against Pete Hegseth. You realize 399 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:34,439 Speaker 1: Republicans had a fifty to fifty split in the Senate, 400 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:42,199 Speaker 1: and yet Biden's cabinet appointees got over ninety votes. 401 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 2: Lloyd Austin, are you kidding me? 402 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 4: You look at Pete Buttergig how these people pass And 403 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 4: now we've got Republicans coming out trying to sabotage Pete 404 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 4: Hegseth and the others. 405 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 2: Thing short of victory when. 406 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: You start to compromise with these people, you've lost nothing 407 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: short of victory. You go for it on fourth down. 408 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: You smash them in the mouth. You do not give in. 409 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: Let me, Josh Dougget, I'm up against him. Yeah, no, 410 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,199 Speaker 1: you know what, I'll play another one, all right, So 411 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: Joni Ernst, Republican from Iowa, who's not committing to Pete 412 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:40,719 Speaker 1: Hegseth because Pete Hegseth's not a warmonger on the basis 413 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 1: of stupid things. This is a woman you want to 414 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: talk about the military. 415 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 2: This is a. 416 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: Woman who you're gonna hear her in her own words. 417 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,719 Speaker 1: Five h two ramon say that we need transgenders in 418 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: our military. 419 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 8: So the example of transgender people serving in our military, 420 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 8: we have transgender people serving in our military, they will 421 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 8: bleed red just as the rest of us. But I 422 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 8: also take a stance that we should not be integrating 423 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,239 Speaker 8: transgender people into certain situations where it does make If 424 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 8: you have a female barracks and you have a transgender 425 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 8: woman who has not transitioned, we shouldn't make the rest 426 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,120 Speaker 8: of the unit uncomfortable about that setting. There are certain 427 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 8: accommodations we can make for that transgender individual, But if 428 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 8: they bring value to our unit, if they have specialties 429 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 8: that we can use, especially if we want to maintain 430 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,719 Speaker 8: an all volunteer force, we want to bring that talent 431 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 8: into our services. And I know that's controversial, but again, 432 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 8: I'm looking at what's good for our nation. And believe me, 433 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 8: when we're facing a recruiting challenge right now, if people 434 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 8: are physically willing and able to serve our country, we 435 00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 8: want them to do so. 436 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: Ask your active duty service members, ask them, talk to them. 437 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: Do you want men dressed as women? Because that's what 438 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: it is. It's not women dress as men. It's all 439 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: men dress as women. Do you want your men dressed 440 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: as women in your fighting forces? Because they don't. 441 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,439 Speaker 2: They do not. 442 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: You know, these people have been making videos of themselves 443 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: wearing their uniform and they pull their uniform off and 444 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: they're in a bikini. And there's Jony Ernst saying, well, 445 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: if we don't have those people, we want you telling me, 446 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,959 Speaker 1: we wouldn't have a military with over three hundred million people. 447 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 2: We wouldn't have a military. 448 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,959 Speaker 1: If we didn't have dudes that dress up as girls 449 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: in our military. And you act like you care about 450 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: our military, Jony Ernst, Shame. 451 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 2: On you, folks. 452 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: We're going to have to run some Republicans out of 453 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: office in our primaries. Do you understand this right? You 454 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: understand that's what our battles are not done. These these 455 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: people are going to cross Donald Trump, and you're going 456 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: to have to fight people with an. 457 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 2: R after their name. It's coming. Come on. 458 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: I told you I wouldn't get angry. It's a Friday 459 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: drive home. I want to send people home in a 460 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: good mood. But this makes me angry. This dishonors those 461 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: who serve in the uniform in defense of this great country. 462 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 2: And Frankly, Pete. 463 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: Hegsett deserves better, Our military deserves better. 464 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 2: Donald Trump deserves better.