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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load. So Michael darry Show is on
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
One of my favorite stories in the news today. A
liquor store manager has his daughter at work with him
and a robber comes in and they end up on
the ground and the little girl, to save her daddy,
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takes a baseball bat and proceeds to beat the man
who's probably trying to kill her father. Fox nine in
Minnesota with the story.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
An eight year old little girl is being hailed a
hero after stopping a robbery that was all caught on camera.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Big Discount Liquors saw a steady stream of customers Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Thank you, okay, I appreciated everything.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Have a good night, stopping by with treats and kind
words for Leo's daughter.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We don't ask for it, but I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was a typical Saturday night at the family owned
liquor store off White Bear Avenue in Maplewood, and Leo's
kids tagged along with their dad for his shift. Right
around closing time, a man wearing an Amazon vest stopped
in the store while Leo's daughter was sitting behind the
counter and loitered around the aisles.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
When he's back. He just would the gun on the
table and point to me, and he just told me,
like you know what to do.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Leo said he could have all the money in the register.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Please take everything.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I don't care. There's dawn point on my daughter.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He didn't move quickly enough for the robber who moved by.
I'm the counter. Fearing for his daughter's safety, Leo grabbed
the weapon and punched him, but he didn't realize he
had back up.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I never noticed my daughter was behind me. I thought
she was crying or hiding somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Surveillance video shows his eight year old grabbing a bat
and swinging it, helping her dad during the struggle. Leo
couldn't believe what he saw and tells us his daughter
recently started playing baseball.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
This really surprised me. She got the chorus to do that,
and we that's so strong. She never cried, she never screamed.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Police later tracked down Concho bar Morell, who now faces
aggravated robbery charges. Leo says he's offered to get his
daughter a present to reward her for heroism, but she's
refused at all.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
That I don't need anything. I don't do it for
money or for anything. I just do it because I
love you and I just want to help you. I
was like, that make me feel so proud.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wow. No, good story, A very good story, Ramon. I
would like to tell you about what happened last night.
I told you that I fell asleep outside on the
back porch, sopping wet, which cooled me down. It was delightful.
But I did forget to tell you that my wife
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had picked up She had driven by Island Grill. You
ever try that place? So Island Grill has several locations.
I think Cheryl speaks for them, but it's kind of real.
It's it's Mediterranean, but if Mediterranean scares you, and it shouldn't,
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you can find something you would like there. It's not real, Uh,
it doesn't get out there. You know, no Turkish belly
dancers or you know, anything overly Greek. But it's very clean, fresh,
simple foods done well anyway. If I'm in the area
sometimes and it's kind of one of those places I
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can eat and then not feel guilty about it afterwards.
I like the way they prepare their food anyway, so
my wife gets from me something that I would not
have guessed I would like, but you like peanut butter.
I think we don't. I'm not going to devote the
whole show to this today, but I feel like this
is something we need to focus on. We need more
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peanut butter in everything, especially desserts. We need more peanut
butter in desserts, especially when you get peanut butter mixed
with banana. You know, sometimes when it's time to eat,
if the food is running late, my wife will lay
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out us. Or if I'm being cranky, which happens because
I don't eat till the evening. I'm not gonna lie.
Sometimes I get a little cranky. She will cut up
apples and smear peanut butter on them. My goodness, that
is heaven. I could eat a hundred of them anyway.
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So she got me something called a peanut butter Buster.
And here's my question for you. Here's what it has
in it. Non fat, vanilla, yogurt, way protein. I don't
think that whatever bananas. So the combination of bananas and
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peanut butter, that's magic right there. That's magic. That's Elvis
level stuff. But then it has raspberries, and for whatever reason,
she had the foresight to cut the raspberries. But I'm
wondering why you would put raspberries in a peanut butter
dominated smoothie, do you? Because raspberries would take the would
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change the flavor profile or something I don't want. My
only guess is because some of there, like they have
one called Muscle Beach and iron Man and uh, you
know these are kind of perform what they call them
workout fuel. I didn't really need to work out fuel.
It was just delicious.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
They also have a president, George H. W. Bush and
a Lance Berkman. Let me see how the Lance Berkman
is different.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
It has non fat vanilla yogurt, wave protein, banana, and
peanut butter. The only thing it doesn't have is raspberries. Hm.
I don't know what. I don't know what to make
of that. But anyway, I'm curious if the raspberries have
some sort of effect, right, because there's all these people
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that are into the akai or asai or whatever you
call it. You I'm talking about, is it? I see?
I I don't know if that's true or not, but
I'm gonna trust you what raspberries dot mean to say,
the p okay raspberries. But I'm wondering somebody who who
knows something about this can email me, because it doesn't
make sense to have raspberries ruining a perfectly delicious peanut
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butter based dish or smoothie unless somebody is being self
righteous and feels like they're getting some great workout right,
or they're getting some great health effects. You see, Island
Grill is a place that you will see people walking in,
you know, women in their yoga pants, and you're feeling
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very righteous because they've just done their workout. They walk in,
and I'll take a smoothie with all these sorts of
health benefit things in there, and put carrots and ginger
and papiya juice and apple and peaches and celery and parsley.
I'm reading off the menu. This does not sound like
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liquid sunshine. Apples and carrots and parsley and celery and
strawberries and peaches. That sounds horrible to me. Go ahead
and skip me down on the menu, and I will
take the peanut butter butster with vanilla yogurt banana peanut butter.
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That was perfect. So she got she got a bunch
of stuff at that place, and I didn't end up
eating dinner because I passed out. As I told you,
I was so exhausted and I passed out with my
peanut butter on my tongue. And it got me to think,
and I asked her, I said, how come we don't
eat more peanut butter? She said, you probably eat more
peanut butter than anybody you know. And I got to
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thinking that's probably true, But that doesn't mean I'm eating
enough peanut butter. I love peanut butter. And by the way,
you know some of the grocery stores you can get
cashew nut butter, almond butter with this monkey pox. I
hope they're not selling duct butter, but you know, good
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nut butter like such thing.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Rais Mornings. Are you talking about peanut butter mixed with
various things? Reminded me of trying peanut butter and sliced
jlapanos out of a can. Surprisingly good. Honestly, I don't
know that anything. I don't know of anything that peanut
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butter has not made better that I've tried. Can you
think of it? You put a doll up of peanut
butter on ice cream, it's better you put it on anything.
Chocolate Raese's peanut butter cup. I mean, I'm racking my brain. Yeah,
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how you pronounced t y r a n tyrone? It's
not tyrone? What is it? Tyrone? Terran might be irish
or something. He says, Try screwball. It's a peanut butter whiskey.
It's delicious over a round ball ice cube. I only
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do my whiskey products neat, so I'm not going to
do that, but I will try it. Although Uncle Jerry
and I were talking the other day because several people
have proposed bringing back Michael Berry moonshine and the vodka
product that was the sideline of that, and we were
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discussing it and he said, have you tried this screwball?
I no, you love peanut butter and I said no,
And he said, it's a whiskey with peanut butter in it,
and it's awful. But this guy thinks it's fantastic. I
don't know. I don't know what to make of that.
But I mean, can you think of anything you've tried
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it butter on it you didn't like better? Huh?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But see, I don't like flavored whiskeys anyway. I've never
been a flavored whiskey guy. A lot of people are.
I am not. I'm very much, but I'm boring that way.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I don't like mixing a bunch of flavors it. I
think my brain can't keep up with it. I think
I like things to be very simple and straightforward the
way it is. And people get upset when they like
something some way. They want you to like a coult
it's better, No, not for me. For me, it is not.
Most of the time. I would rather hear an artist
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and a guitar acoustic set.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You gotta have forty eight thousand things.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
No, I actually don't. That's nice for you, but that's
not nice for me. Just because I like a particular
food does not mean I want that food with a
bunch of other junk mixing it up. Like my burger.
People get upset. I like my burger, meat, cheese, mayonnaise
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the way God intended. No, you gotta put six hundred
and forty three other things. No, I don't. And by
the way, while we're at it, why are you putting
bacon on a burger? Well, you got a problem. Well,
if you want bacon, eat bacon. Why are you putting
bacon on a burger. It's not a burger anymore. It's bacon.
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Bacon's gonna dominate the flavor of anything. If you want
to be lt that's fine, that's a bacon based sandwich.
But I don't understand why you gotta put bacon on everything.
You can wrap a shrimp in bacon, yeah, because that
changes everything, absolutely everything. That's what bacon's for. My mouth
is watering so hard right now. My TMJ is in
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full force and the mouth is watering. I'm gonna get
five hundred emeles. You have a cough drop in your mouth? No, no,
I don't. That's TMJ combined with mouth watering. I've flung
a craven on myself. I let myself. I worked myself
up into You know, sex addicts should not watch porn
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at work, right, They should know that, they should understand
their limitations. I should not discuss food when I'm in
the middle of a fast and I fling a craving
on myself. So bad A Chris, you're up, what you got, sir?
Top caller, Chris, you're up, sir?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Hey, what's going on? Michael? I'm just putting my vote
in for the safety Dance.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
You're the onliest one. I think you're the only one
that voted safety Dance. No, I understanding, you're the only
one that voted safety dance. What year did safety Dance
come out? Romme, it's a little yeah, it's a little earlier.
The real question we were getting it how old are you, Chris,
I'm twenty nine. Oh okay, Well, then our theory did
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not prove correct. What we were doing was trying to
see if we could get the two generations from the
separation of the years to realize that they liked what
they liked because that was comfortable to them as they
were developing their musical tastes. But you don't fit with
that because you're only twenty nine, and so safety Dance
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was prior to your U was prior to your time
when you came of age. So okay, well, then there
you go. Let's go to Ben Ben you're on the
Michael Berry Show. What's say you, sir?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Hey Michael Berry. I was just listening to you talking
about peanut butter and you were saying that there's oh
the moaning by the way. You were saying that you
can't think of anything that goes with peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
No, no, I can't think of anything that doesn't go
with peanut butter.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, that's what I said. Yes, you wouldn't put peanut
butter on a steak, would you? Or mix it in
with mayonnaise and eat it. I'm just being silly.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well no, no, actually, actually this is a good it's
a good exercise to start with. I would try it
on a steak just to see how it tasted. You
got a protein on protein. I mean, in my mind,
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it doesn't gross me out. You remove you wouldn't do it,
or does it grosses you? I mean, I'm not saying
that's how I would start eating my steaks, but I
would be interested to know what that does to the flavors,
how they combined, especially because I would like to see
what it does. I like the iron skillet as a base.
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I like them to bring it out and go careful,
this is hot, Yes it is. And I like them
to do that where they're holding it on their hands.
You look at their hand, they're all blistered, they got
you know, they've just been burned a thousand times. I
like that, and you think, wow, this is a superhero
and they put it down. You remember the old you
know when we were kids, the cheap steak restaurants, it
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was the cheapest flank steak. I was just cheap, cheap, cheap,
like bonanza. They would give it to you. You would have
it would have the old wooden plate, the wooden't wooden't
uh plank, and then it would have the curved iron
and then you'd have the cheapest steak that could possibly
be placed on there. But they would hand it to
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you still sizzling, and and you'd have some onions in there,
so you get that crackle. That was a good sound there.
You knew it was going to be good, and you
didn't know any better because we never had good steak.
So there would be your steak and it was still
I like to imagine maybe putting a little peanut butter
into that sizzle and making it almost into a cream.
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Ask for mayonnaise. I'm going to tell you this. I
have come to learn I was never a mayonnaise eater
earlier in life. I have come to learn that mayonnaise
pairs well with a number of things. And my steak
order now is ask the chef, which the waiter usually
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goes and does it himself, because I just want to ask,
but ask the chef to make me a mix on
the side of two parts mayonnaise, one part horse radish,
and mix them up and bring it and then I
will dip my steak in that The mayonnaise gives you
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a nice flavor, but the horse radish gives you a
little bite. I'm a big fan of horse radish. Are
you remo horse radish on my oysters? I like to
see how much horse radish I can get on the
oyster to where it makes your nose burn, I mean
just burn. It gives you a real sharp flavor. That's
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good too. I'm not really sure what you would name
that segment, per se, but you can put it in.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
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Speaker 5 (18:31):
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Speaker 3 (18:33):
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Speaker 2 (18:38):
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Another vidsspreading around the world house the organizations. Have you
heard of a restaurant called the Dirty South? Their logo
is Dirty South Along the Guitar. Established twenty nineteen. Cast
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Iron Kitchen, food, drinks, music. Cast Iron prepared meals in
a downtown historic business building with a full bar in
live music. It is in Angleton, cast Iron Cooking, full bar, brunch, food, drinks, music.
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It's pretty cool looking place. There's so many of these
wonderful spaces in the old towns of Texas where you know,
there's not a lot of commercial activity occurring in the town,
so these spaces become it becomes kind of quaint to
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go into the downtown. Like what's our friend's name that
has the place in Belleville. He runs a great, great
restaurant there. He lives upstairs from it. If that guy leaves,
nobody will replace it because you can't make any money.
It's his passion. I think he he was the family
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chef for like the Swiss family Robinson or the who
was the family, the von Trapps, the von Trapps. I
think he was like their family, family chef in Switzerland
or somewhere. He had to sing Atolweiss every day. What
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twenty two North Hollan. That's it. You've been. Oh, it's incredible,
absolutely incredible, And it's one of those places it's I
kind of want to lecture people, which is not pleasant,
I realize I kind of want to lecture people because
when that place closes, you got nothing. I love dairy queen,
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don't get me wrong, but you got dairy queen when
that's that's all you got. Because it will never be
profitable to run a restaurant like that. So you got
to find somebody that has some connection there. And then
the town elders. You know, the guy that owns ten
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thousand acres and farms it, and he's got to You've
got to kind of subsidize this guy. You've got to.
You've got to do every event there. You have to
because otherwise he closes up, shopping leaves because he's as
successful as he can be. And you can't you can't
really ever make any money in a little town like that.
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But you'll see these these places they pop up and
then eventually they they shut down, and like Randy Evans,
had Haven. I mean they were, I mean it was
over the top. I love Randy, but it was over
the top. It was you know, everything locally sourced and
you know, farmed a table and all this sort of stuff,
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which is great if many times you can taste the
difference in you know the fact that they're growing their
own you know, everything's coming straight from the garden. It
literally might be straight from the garden onto your table
one hundred feet away. That's cool. I got it. It's
always going to be more expensive. But in a small town,
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especially to do that it is it is hard to
make it make sense because people have grown accustomed to
cheap cafe or cheap franchise food or cafe food where
you have to keep the prices down. Now, look if
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somebody's punching the clock at the local plant and he says, hey,
I can't do twenty bucks at Entrey, I just can't.
I'd like to, but I can't. That's one thing. But
I have noticed you get into these little towns and
you get people that they, wow, we want to have
some good restaurants in this town. We want to have
some good restaurants. And then the guy comes in, how
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hard do you think it is to make a fourteen
ounce pork chop that he grows the mangole, eats a
pig and he butchers it and he puts it on
your table. How much you think that on tree is
gonna cost? Well, I go down to Bob's Cafe. But
Bob's Cafe is bringing everything in and is frozen. If
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you want to have those nice things in a little town,
then you've got to be willing to pay a premium
for that. And this is true. This was the Walmart phenomenon.
Everybody was so excited that Walmart came into their little town.
I'm gonna be open twenty four hours a day. But
what they didn't realize is there's not enough room for
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Walmart and your local hardware store, and your local bike
store and your local gardening store. And they didn't give
a damn when the local store went out until it
was so far gone that there was no and then
there's nobody else coming back in. There's nobody else coming
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back in to replace that. And now Walmart is like
the Chinese or when the Japanese did it with the
with the chips, where they've dumped something on the market
drove the price to the bottom. Everyone is priced sensitive.
And once they push everybody out of the market, now
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they go back up and no, you have no competition,
you have no alternative, but everybody is in pursuit of
that cheapest thing. If somebody cannot afford the difference between
I mean, what's you know, a marginal difference and for better,
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for better customer service and better quality of employees and
all that. I don't fault that person, but a lot
of people do. A lot of people will chase saving
a few pennies and then they wonder why you're left
with own Your whole world consists of big box stores
with desultory, listless high school students wearing these awful you
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know vest and their name on it, who don't care
about you, and there's no customer service, and there's no
they don't support the Little League, they don't support the
local school, they don't do any of that. And and
COVID did a number on the kind of little businesses
I'm talking about, did an absolute number. But that is
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my reminder that if you can afford to shop local,
locally owned, uh locally staff people that work at a
business for years and years and years, it's like casting
a vote. If you don't spend your money with those people,
you're gonna be left without them. Experience incredible, shop the
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Michael Berry Show, Everything you need and most everything you want.
Southwest Airlines has announced a new seating policy. You may
know about this already. It will no longer be open seating.
You will be assigned a seat. We we think about that.
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You don't fly Southwest because you don't like the open seating.
Let's talk this through. You have anxiety where you're gonna sit.
Why because you're afraid you're just sitting or you just
don't know where you're gonna go. Okay, So, so if
you own an airline, I assume I don't know this
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to be true. I assume that if you don't assign seats,
one goal there would be you're selling hope. Right, everybody
gets the hope that they get the seat they want,
but you still only have so many aisle seats in
front seat, you know whatever? Right, I guess. So I
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guess you're hoping that hope springs eternal and everybody will
think I'll fly them all right, because you could choose
to second thing is I suppose you're hoping for the
efficiency to be achieved over the fact that people cancel,
and so now you're not left with that single seat
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in the middle on the seating chart, and people go,
I don't want that because there's only that single seat
in the middle. Although you're still stuck with the single
seat in the middle. One way or another. Somebody's getting
stuck with that, right whether you assign the seats or not,
that's how it's going to because that is the least
desirable seat. I wonder if after all these years, the
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marketplace said, well, you know what, I wonder I wonder
if frequently I wonder if business flyers, which end up
being a huge portion of the revenues for an airline,
I wonder if they say, I don't want to fly
that airline because they don't have to be as cost
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conscious because the company's paying for it. And number two,
I don't like getting stuck in the middle. I plan ahead.
I want a good seat, and you won't let me
have a good seat. You forced me to battle it
out with all these ruffians who just booked their ticket
last night, families and layabouts and last minute people, and
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so I wonder if it cost them the plan personality
because he says, I want my seat, and I want
to know what my damn seat is. I tell you what,
Chap's my ass. I don't fly Southwest anymore either, and
I used to love it. What really gets me is
if you pay extra whatever I don't remember what it is,
has been years since I did this. You pay an
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extra fifty seventy five bucks and you're gonna get the
front row seat or you're gonna get the board first.
And so you're all fired up. And then they get
up there and they go anybody crippled, and everybody's you know,
dragging their leg, anybody real old, Oh me, me and me,
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And you end up with forty people who get on
before you inbody got little kids? What yeah? And they're
fourteen year old going with them, and you go, well,
what did I pay for? So you just don't do
it anymore. You just you don't fly there. I think
that's a big part of it. I will tell you
the airport this is a problem. There's a story about
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Bargo Elementary. A kid makes a death threat on another
kid and he sends a message where he says, let's
see gun threats sent to Houston Elementary student. The night
before school, and the kid said, night before ten year
old Lakai went to his first day of fifth grade
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at Bargo Elementary. His mom says he got a threatening
video sent to his phone. Alexa Lung says the message
stated try me and find out, sent with the video
of another student shooting a gun. The woman says the
video was from a school bully who we've had issues
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with the past few years, and then she goes through
the stress of that. Listen, the whole deal with school
bullies is not letting kids deal with their problems. This
is what happened, and you didn't let kids deal with
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the problem. If you got a school bully, somebody needs
to knock the snot out of that kid. And women
don't understand that. This is why you cannot let women
be in charge of dispute resolution because they think, well,
everybody'd be nice to have that. Let me tell you something.
You watch dogs in a park, and you see how
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they solve problems very quickly, very quickly. Do you hear
how pop at ramon very quickly. You will notice the
dogs established hierarchy. It is that simple. They will very
quickly fall in line. They'll figure out who's the big
dog and who's not well Number three, four or five
would have been bullying all the other dogs. But now
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there's a new dog coming, so he knows his place.
Women do not understand these dynamics. They do not understand
the male psyche, so they talk about things like male
toxic masculinity. They want to drug these kids so the
boys aren't boys anymore. That's frankly why they want to
convert half these boys to girls. There are differences between
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the sexes. We need to stop pretending there are not.
There are differences between the sexes, and most women do
not understand how you deal with boys in the same
way they don't understand how you deal with dogs. You
see these people walking along. They have not spent a
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day training their dog, and you're on the other side
of the road, you're on your sidewalk there on theirs,
and then their dog starts running towards your dog, and
they have no ability to control their dog because they've
never thought about the fact that their dog is a dog.
Because their dog is Fifi, and they love Feifi and
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Fefee sleeps with them, but they haven't trained Fefe. In
the fact that they are the master and he's the
because the dog runs the house except when the And
all I'm thinking is let that little dog go, Let
the dog go, and let George show you why you
should have controlled your dog. George down, she goes down,
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and she sits there, and they're just being dragged across
the street like a fool. It's the same thing happening
in the schools. Same exact thing happened in schools. It's
the same thing happening in society. You get a bad
dog who murders somebody, and you go, well, let's let
him out for a little while until that. No, these
are all very simple rules we understood for thousands of
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years as a society. There is a way you deal
with these things. And feminized men and angry women are
the worst people that you let them be in charge
of the government and the schools. And that's the worst.
The old fashioned, classic woman that understood this stuff. She's
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tired because she's tired of these transitioning teachers. I hear
yesterday Saint Francis sends an email to the parents says,
we got a teacher. He started the summer as a man.
Now he's a woman. Just let y'all know so the
kids aren't shocked.