1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from 3 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on. 4 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: It's the Michael Berry Show. Like you two. I found 5 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: what I was looking for, and that was the reference 6 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: to San Francisco and retail there. It was posted by 7 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: a fellow named John LeFave, who these days has returned 8 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: from New York and lives in Houston. He has a 9 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 1: very interesting background and broad range of life experiences. He's 10 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: a very good follow for those of you who are 11 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: on Twitter. L E F E V R E. I 12 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: believe it is and this was what he said. There 13 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:08,839 Speaker 1: was a reference from San Francisco City government to retail 14 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,479 Speaker 1: is coming back to San Francisco. It's an interesting way 15 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: to say that. Why do you say it's coming back. 16 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: You've had to admit it left. See for years they 17 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: said there's no problem. Yeah, there is a problem. You're 18 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: losing businesses. Businesses are closing their doors and leaving San Francisco. Oh, 19 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: that happens. Businesses come, businesses go. They denied it, and 20 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: you would see anecdotally, you'd see the video of they'd 21 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: be a gang of four, eight, ten, twelve, young black thugs, 22 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: and they'd go into department stores and they would just 23 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: they'd take entire racks and they ring them outside, put 24 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: it in a stolen vehicle drive off and stores would say, well, 25 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: we can't operate on this, babe. Nobody wants to shop 26 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: in these stores. Doors don't want to stay open, so 27 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: they would they would close down. Do you know what 28 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: it costs to build out a retail department store? Millions 29 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: and millions of dollars. It's a massive investment that can 30 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: take ten to twenty years to pay back. So for 31 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: them to shutter the doors and say that location is lost. 32 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: So this San Francisco post that retail has come back 33 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: to San Francisco. It was a ross dress for less. 34 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that, but that's not a sign that 35 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: retail has come back. In fact, we do a segment 36 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: on the Morning Show signs that your neighborhood is going 37 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: to hell, and one of them is restaurants have closed, 38 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: but the restaurant space has been converted to a check 39 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: cashing location. That's a sign. John writes, thanks to insane 40 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: left wing policies Market Street in San Francisco, this that 41 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: they're saying that retail is coming back to San Francisco 42 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 1: because Ross Dress for Less just open a second Main 43 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: Street location. Thanks to insane left wing policies, market Street 44 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: in San Francisco lost Rolex, Whole Foods, Sacks, Nordstrom, Chase Bank, 45 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: and most other reputable retailers. Now the mayor has declared 46 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: retail is back because they're getting a new tenant, Ross 47 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: Dress for Less. And as I said, there's nothing wrong 48 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: with Ross Dress for Less. In fact, it's pretty cost 49 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: effective clothing. However, that is not a sign of high 50 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: end retail. In fact, it's a sign that your retail 51 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: tenant mix has changed dramatically. So you get the sense 52 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: that what is occurring there is is that the old 53 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: allure of high dollar shopping has gone. And do you 54 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: know why the last vestige in a city in decline 55 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: is working class and black because historically they weren't able 56 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: to leave the urban core as fast as the rich 57 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: people could. If you want to see what's happening to 58 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: a city, look at whether rich people are moving in 59 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: or moving out. Not that rich people are any better, 60 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: but rich people have an easy facility, a facility of 61 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: moving in and out of places easily. They can simply sell. 62 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: If they don't recover what they paid for the property, 63 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: they can afford to eat the loss and they'll move 64 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: somewhere else. They also can afford to value their own 65 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: personal security in a way that the working class and 66 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: inner city blacks cannot. You know, if you watch Boys 67 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: in the Hood, for instance, which was a really groundbreaking program, 68 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: and you wonder, well, if Laurence Fishburne is having this 69 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: much trouble raising Kuba Gooding junior in this neighborhood, why 70 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: doesn't he move? Well, he can't. He can't afford that 71 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: house somewhere else. He can't he can't get anything back 72 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: for his house, and then he can't afford to move 73 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: somewhere else. So you're forced to do the best in 74 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: a bad neighborhood where shots are firing every day. Rich 75 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: people won't tolerate that. Guitars, cigars and a few thoughts 76 00:05:55,160 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: from Bizarre on Michael Little Paul Harvey Way, let me 77 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: ask you to ask yourself who sang that song? Do 78 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: you remember? Do you remember the name of the band 79 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: who sang that song that you have heard a thousand 80 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: times in your life? If you were at least ten 81 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: years old in nineteen sixty nine. So if you are 82 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: sixty six and over, you've probably literally heard that song 83 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,559 Speaker 1: a thousand times or been exposed to it. As we say, 84 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: you've gone into a donut shop that had to you know, 85 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: adult listening, easy listening on in the background, and you 86 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: sang along to it. I mean, not real advanced lyrics, 87 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,239 Speaker 1: but you you got the cadence, you got the beat. 88 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: It came out on May twenty fourth, nineteen sixty nine, 89 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: and it's one of those, one of those songs. And 90 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: Ramona and I played games with this all the time. 91 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: And as to who sang this song that you've heard 92 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: so many times you go, come to think of it, 93 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't actually know who saying that. Well, 94 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: that song went to number one. It was a massive 95 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: hit in the United States, and it would do pretty 96 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: well around the world. The song was among the selections 97 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: at astronaut Alan Bean chose when allowed to bring an 98 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: audio cassette of music to listen to during the Apollo 99 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: twelve mission in November of sixty nine. According to historian 100 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: Andrew Chaikin quote, when it came on during the trip 101 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: out from Earth, the three of them, Bean Pete Conrad 102 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: and Dick Gordon would hold on to the struts in 103 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: the command module and bounce weightlessly to the beat, dancing 104 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: their way to the moon. In the issue of Billboard 105 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: magazine dated September twentieth, the single started a four week 106 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: run at number one on the Hot one hundred, replacing 107 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: Honky Tonk Women by the Rolling Stones. It spent a 108 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: then lengthy twenty two weeks on the Hot one hundred, 109 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: which was longer than any single in nineteen sixty nine. 110 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: That song was bigger than anything that Three Dog Night did, 111 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: anything that The Stones did, anything that the Beatles did, 112 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: and any other band you can think of that was 113 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: big in sixty nine. It was one of only ten 114 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: singles to spend twelve weeks in the top ten during 115 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 1: that entire decade. It topped the Billboard Top one hundred 116 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: Singles of the year. It was named the biggest single 117 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty nine. It was certified that year by 118 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: the RA for sales of one million. That was huge. 119 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: In fact, that was nineteen sixty nine. In nineteen eighty nine, 120 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: twenty years later, it became twice as easy, a whole 121 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: lot more likely that you could have a gold record 122 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: because they lowered the threshold of five hundred thousand, and 123 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: the reason was people would sell somewhere between five hundred 124 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: thousand and a million records, and that was a pretty 125 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: darn good effort, but it wouldn't be certified gold, which 126 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: was kind of one of those things that was a 127 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: real badge on your letterman jacket. In twenty eighteen, Sugar 128 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,719 Speaker 1: Sugar ranked eighty one in Billboard's Hot one hundred and 129 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: sixtieth anniversary chart. Hang with Me, There's a reveal here. 130 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 1: Between late October and mid December of sixty nine, that 131 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: song spent eight weeks at the top of the UK 132 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 1: Singles Chart. It was awarded a gold disc in January 133 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: of seventy. In February of twenty twenty four, last year, 134 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: it was certified gold by the BPI for selling four 135 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: hundred thousand units since it was made available digitally in 136 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: November of two thousand and four, A song that had 137 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: been thirty five years old at the time went on 138 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: to be certified gold to an all new audience. It's 139 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: been inducted into Halls of Fame for the records it 140 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: has broken, and yet at the end of it, nobody 141 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: knows who the band is that sang it. It is 142 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 1: literally one of the biggest songs in American history. And 143 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: I geek out on this stuff. And the reason you 144 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: don't know who the band is that sang it is 145 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: that the band that is listed on the album. Well, first, 146 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: I should probably tell you this story. It was sent 147 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 1: by Kershner to play for a radio station, and there 148 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: was no name listed on the album. They said, hey, 149 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: listen to this and tell us what you think. It 150 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: was taken to one of the top radio stations in 151 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: the country, twelve sixty KYA in San Francisco. It was 152 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: handed to the program director and he was told just 153 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: play it, and he said, but who is it? And 154 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,719 Speaker 1: they said it's a mystery group? Was it? Ever? The 155 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: mystery group was the Archiees. If you grew up on 156 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: Archie's comics and my wife, who was born in sixty 157 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: eight did, as did I, the Archie's Comics became a 158 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: cartoon and on Archie's Comics they created a fictional bubblegum 159 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: pop band. You remember when on The Brady Bunch they 160 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: did this or the Partridge Family. That was kind of 161 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: the first of these sorts of shows that would later 162 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties, take Off the Archies weren't 163 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: a real band. The lead singer on this was Andy Kim, 164 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: who would have a number of big hits Baby I 165 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: Love You, rock Me Gently, and he was the voice 166 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: behind this song. Sugar Sugar is also written by Jeff Barry, 167 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: who also had a lot of success. And we'll take 168 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: it to the break with the intro of the song 169 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: with the cartoon characters. I find stuff like this so 170 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: much fun. And why do I tell you this Because 171 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: it's a great connection with the generation before you to 172 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: learn about their music and be able to talk to 173 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: them about it. So here is how it was first 174 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: introduced the Michael Berry Show. Michael Berry Show, and I 175 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:59,359 Speaker 1: sign an executive order that pushes cities and local governments 176 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: to remove homeless people from the streets. The order will 177 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: redirect federal funds so that these people who are homeless, 178 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: which that's a term that sociologists use, they are not 179 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 1: just absent a home. There are people who have become vagrants. 180 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: They live on the stoop of private businesses. For instance, 181 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: there are some places in downtown Austin. Downtown Austin used 182 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: to be a great downtown, had a very lively music 183 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: scene on something called Sixth Street you might have heard of, 184 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: and a number of country music artists that you know of, 185 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: especially singer songwriters, either cut their teeth there or spent 186 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: years honing their craft there in much the same way 187 00:13:55,679 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: that comedians would go to Paully Shor's mom's in La 188 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: that Joe Rogan talks about, and they would try out 189 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: their material there. And you know, it's in the late twenties. 190 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: You had some great authors who met in Paris and 191 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: there was kind of an artistic renaissance of American and 192 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: European artists who would meet at the cafes and swap ideas. 193 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: These things, you know, tend to spur creativity. Well, that's 194 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: what downtown Austin was until the local liberal government decided 195 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: that homeless people were to be treated like gods and so. 196 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: And this was a trend of the far left, that 197 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: is a self defeating, sorrow's funded trend. The major cities 198 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: of American of America have in large part been destroyed. 199 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: They are a vestige of what they used to be. 200 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: When I was growing up, I sought to visit the 201 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: major cities of this country and the world, which by 202 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: the way has happened across the world as well. The 203 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: London's of Paris, is, the New York, San Francisco, Chicago. 204 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to see those major cities because that's where 205 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: great things happened. That's where the great artists performed, that's 206 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: where sports teams were housed. That's where communities were built 207 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: up and always had been. That's where the great restaurants 208 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: and theaters and music halls were and universities. But the 209 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: white liberal left imploded, it cannibalized itself. It said what weird, creepy, 210 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: freaky things can we do? And they all said it 211 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: with sincerity, so that you were the outcast if you 212 00:15:55,920 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: didn't go along with it, and they pushed to make 213 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: the most freakish things. The grown men in panties gyrating 214 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: on your six year old at elementary school was just 215 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: three or four phases down the road. This has been 216 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: going on for decades, and this is why. If you 217 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: notice how many national leftist political leaders came out of 218 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: being urban mayors where they were awful. Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco, 219 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom San Francisco. I mentioned Kamala Harris, 220 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: San Francisco, where she was Willie's mattress, to quote Willie 221 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: Brown's mattress, to quote the great late Rush Limbaugh. But 222 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: what Trump is trying to do, and credit him for this, 223 00:16:54,960 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: he is trying to, in some small way, save the 224 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: major cities of this country from themselves. And you might 225 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: say to yourself, well, why do that. They don't want 226 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: your help. It's their bad decisions that have left them 227 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: to rot and decay. Needles thrown about everywhere, people with 228 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: eyes the size of saucers, urinating, having sex in public, defecating, 229 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: destroying business owners. In Houston, you'll have business owners who've 230 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: been broken into ten or twenty times, and the guy 231 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: who's doing it is sleeping on the front stoop, the 232 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: front steps of the business. There's nothing you can do 233 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: to stop them. The cops arrive and arrest them, they 234 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: haul them down. The guy's been arrested forty times. They 235 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: don't do anything to them because the left wing judiciary 236 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: and the left wing district attorney have collaborated to all 237 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: buy in to the tenets of the cult, which is 238 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: we don't prosecute bad people, we prosecute good people. We 239 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: go after January sixth, protesters, not rapist pedophiles. But this 240 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: problem of homelessness all of a sudden exploded across the country. 241 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: Not because there were more people seeking to inject heroine 242 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: in their veins and sleep on a park bench, but 243 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: because the cities made a decision. See, this is why 244 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: they all go to the same conferences. This is why 245 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: they all communicate with each other. They take their orders 246 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: that the mind warp spreads, it is contagious, and they 247 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: all agree to subscribe to and apply the principles of 248 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: this evil doctrine. That's why if you've noticed, if you travel, 249 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: those of you who if you're a business traveler, you 250 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: notice that you want to stay out of the downtowns 251 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: of all the major cities. Now Detroit was once the 252 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: fifth largest city in America, a great city. Philadelphia, Baltimore 253 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 1: had the greatest public library in the world, the Pratt Library. 254 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: These were great urban areas San Francisco, Seattle, Minnesota, Minneapolis. 255 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: Minneapolis just elected a Somali American, a state senator named 256 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: Omar Fate, who has said the most Antai American anti 257 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: white things imaginable if you just flipped white to black, 258 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: and he had said that the man would be in prisoned, 259 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: he'd be driven from the country. And yet Jacob fry 260 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: the little Weasley mayor there, who no matter what, would 261 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: never criticize the thugs and violent elements that burned that 262 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: city to the ground. After that thug George Floyd from Houston, 263 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: Texas who relocated there because the cops all knew him. 264 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: Here Jacob frye who pandered to the Somalis who've taken 265 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: over that city, and they still voted for his replacement, 266 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: because you see, Jacob fry was only useful until they 267 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: had their own candidate. Omar Fate is going to end 268 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: up being worse than Kami Mumdani. But here we are again, Minneapolis, 269 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: another large American city, New York soon to be taken 270 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: over by Kami Mumdani. Look at what's happening in these cities. 271 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: Look at the mayor of Los Angeles who went down 272 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: as a teenager to worship at the foot of Fidel Castro, 273 00:20:53,760 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: an avowed communist. She came back and into her forties 274 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: was talking about the excellence of the Cuban healthcare system 275 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: and that we should have that here. Nobody in the 276 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: world goes to Cuba for healthcare because it's not good. 277 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: Just because you have a clinic on every corner doesn't 278 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: mean that they have a basic aspirin inside. The shelves 279 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: are barren. At least Trump's trying to do something for 280 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:31,360 Speaker 1: the Michael I got an email this week. I don't 281 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: know where this always from Alabama follow nam Jason Haynes, 282 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: and he said, Zora, my mom celebrated her fiftieth five 283 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:46,120 Speaker 1: zero fiftieth work anniversary today at the age of eighty one. 284 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 1: This was yesterday. She took a part time job at 285 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: a physician's clinic in ope Lika, Alabama, July twenty fourth, 286 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, and she just never left. She's the 287 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: best mom ever, and she's been such a blessing in 288 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 1: our lives. I don't know the exact statistics, but I'm 289 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: sure that less than ten percent of the population has 290 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: made it to this milestone. Cheers to Teresa O'Connor Haynes. 291 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: Well in my best casey Cason. Without trying his voice, Jason, 292 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: I can tell you with some certainty or confidence that 293 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: it's not less than ten percent of the population that 294 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: has made fifty years with one company. I guarantee you 295 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 1: it's less than one percent. It might be less than 296 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 1: point one percent. It just doesn't happen. This woman took 297 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 1: a part time job at a physician's clinic July twenty fourth, 298 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. And he didn't say, but I'll bet 299 00:22:55,359 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: you she was a single mom. Maybe I guarantee that 300 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,439 Speaker 1: the purpose was to take care of her children, to 301 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: provide for her kids, to help pay the bills, to 302 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: buy clothes for them to go back to school, he says, 303 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: And she never left. As a society, we have grown 304 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: to celebrate some of the wrong things, and social media 305 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: is an instrument that allows us to do that. There 306 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: are people who can tell you all about the background 307 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: of the CEO of astronomer or his HR director, the 308 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: state of her marriage and his how much each one 309 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: of their homes cost and when they built them, and 310 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: how many kids they have, and what song had just 311 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: played and was about to play, and what Chris Martin 312 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: said at the concert the next night. Because that's what 313 00:23:53,760 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: we study, that's what we celebrate, even begrudgingly. But what 314 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: we don't tend to celebrate is the people that keep 315 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: the trains running, the mom that goes to work to 316 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: take the part time job and never leaves because she's 317 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: a person who will never be celebrated on social media. 318 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: She's a person who makes sure her kids are fed, 319 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: make sure the homework is done, who make sure they 320 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: go to school, who make sure that they are a 321 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: solid person, A disciplined person, a self respecting person, A 322 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: young man who respects ladies just as he was taught 323 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: to respect his mother. Those are the sorts of cultural 324 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: traits that we are failing to pass to the next generation. 325 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 1: A woman who went to work in a part time 326 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 1: job July twenty fourth, nineteen seventy five and never left it. 327 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: She's eighty one years old. Now, that was a woman 328 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: who was raised with certain values. Guarantee you if she's 329 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: not a person who's a me me me person, a 330 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 1: person who needs everything to be about her, a person 331 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: who creates drama, a person who constantly feels that she's 332 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: not sufficiently appreciated. Guarantee you that this is a person 333 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: who at her work for fifty years and at home, 334 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: as her son notes, gives of herself to everyone else. 335 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: You know the old line that behind every successful man 336 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,199 Speaker 1: is a strong woman. I guarantee you the seeds she 337 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: has planted. She's probably involved at her church. She probably 338 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: helps some other kids in the family. Maybe her sister 339 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: wasn't as good at raising her kids, so she helps 340 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: that kid out. Probably involved in the life of her 341 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: grandchildren in more ways than you would expect, slipping them 342 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: a fifty or a twenty or whatever that is here 343 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: and there when they need something their mom or dad 344 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: can't pay for. If you want to have more of 345 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: a cultural trait in your society, you've got to celebrate that. 346 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: You've got to make that the thing about which you 347 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: pay tribute. That's the thing you build monuments off. Because 348 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: whatever you build monuments of is what young people will 349 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: want to do. When you make legends of rappers, and 350 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: kids will want to grow up and be rappers. When 351 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: you make legends of movie stars, they'll leave Omaha, go 352 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: out to la and wait tables for ten years and 353 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: subject themselves to a living hell of penury in order 354 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 1: to stay in town and keep auditioning for that one 355 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 1: big role, because that's the only thing that can give 356 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: their life meaning. When you celebrate sports, they'll want to 357 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: be a sports star. When you elevate your politicians to gods, 358 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: you will create generations of young people who will do 359 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: anything to get to Washington, d C. And stay there 360 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: and won't leave until they come home to pretend they 361 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: like the hayseeds they left and that's how they consider them, 362 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: and pretend that they like the community where they were raised, 363 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 1: but only so that they can be elected and go 364 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: back to Washington, D C. And live there forever. And 365 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: when you do that for long enough, and you don't 366 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: question your politicians, you don't replace them. Who was it 367 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: that said that politicians are like underwear. They need to 368 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: be replaced quite often, or they start to stink. When 369 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: you don't replace those people, when you don't remind them 370 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 1: that you're the boss, not him, then you end up 371 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: creating an elite class, which is what we've done of people. 372 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: And that elite class is funded by people who make 373 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: a lot of money off the government, whether it be 374 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: big pharma or arms manufacturers, and they give them all 375 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 1: the money they need to hire the karl Roves, and 376 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: the karl Roves are sort of the common man whisperer. 377 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: They learn what needs to be said to you to 378 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: get to keep that office. That's how John Cornyon has 379 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: remained a United States Senator for this Loan or Mitch 380 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 1: McConnell or Nancy Pelosi or any number of other folks. 381 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: And that's how you end up with a dysfunctional government. 382 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: That's how you end up with a dysfunctional government. The 383 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: values of this lady eighty one years old, fifty years 384 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: at a job that's never had a parade in her honor, 385 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: when you've got politicians who you know. I was in 386 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: Vegas with some friends a couple weeks ago and we're 387 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: driving along and we come upon the Harry Reid Airport. 388 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: Harry Reid, a man who should be in prison, not 389 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: have his name emblazoned on an airport. A man who 390 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: bragged that he lied to the American people that the 391 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: Republican presidential candidate in twenty twelve had never paid taxes, 392 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: and that a source inside the government had given him 393 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: that information. And when the election was over and he 394 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: was called on and he said, well Obama won, didn't 395 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: he Seeing the truth didn't matter. Winning was all that matters. 396 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: And yet his name is on the airport. We got 397 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: to do better. Have a good weekend. I do love 398 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: to hear from you. Send me an email Michael Berryshow 399 00:29:53,680 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 1: dot com. Goodunity, Thank you, and good night eight