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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and look, Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratics.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Two six packs shut.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
Our first voicemail of the week. We haven't had voicemails
in a while. Romore is Jim falling down on the job.
He did take a little vaca. I was complaining about
Jim taking a vacation last week, and Ramone said, listen,
mister slave driver. On his vacation, he was still putting
in from early in the morning till ear in the afternoon.
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His wasn't staying here all day like you want everybod
I did to do budget lazy people. Our first voicemail
of the week comes from an unknown male because he
doesn't tell us his name. He wants to know who
the Republicans would be running if Donald Trump weren't running again.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Very good question.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
You know, it occurs to me that if Donald Trump
wasn't running, what would the Republicans do? What? I can't
even imagine any other person. I don't disantos. I can't
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even imagine. I can't think of anybody who has got
the pluck that Donald Trump has and has displayed, and
the seriousness of intent that Donald Trump has has actually displayed,
and how uncomfortable he makes the demo, which is in
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my opinion, just a wonderful thing. So if he wasn't running,
we are so lucky that he's running, because if he
wasn't running, there is no close second without Donald Trump
there is. We would be done for. I mean, I
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don't know that people really realize that is how important
he is.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Right now in this time.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I was I've been missing these phone calls. I'm not
allowed to your mom, Michelle from Alephant. By the way,
if you ever want to leave a voicemail, all you
have to do is called seven three one thousand when
we're not on the air, uh and it'll take you
to the voicemail. And if you leave a voicemail, it's
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very likely going to make it on the air. We
can't put everyone on the air because we get more
than we can play, but we do enjoy we listen
to every one of them. We come in on Monday,
we're overloaded because people sometimes they get a little lit
up or whatever the reason. But people will leave us
more messages over the weekend, especially Friday night, and we
love listening to them. And we're going to try to
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get back to doing the voicemuls. We've been so focused
on election stuff that we haven't done as much on
the voicemail thing. Michelle from Alabama is a school teacher
who has an iron Ran book recommendation for people who
don't like to read.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Hello, Michael, this is Michelle from Alabama. I was listening
to Friday's Afternoon podcast and you were listing books that
people need to read and you mentioned iron Ran. I
like all of her books, and honestly, they are, like
you said, very heavy, very sick reading. So for people
who don't necessarily like to read, I would like to
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recommend her novella Anthem. It is just shy of one
hundred pages and quickly makes the point that she's trying
to make. I've actually taught it in my sophomore English classes.
Thank you have a good one.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Our next caller, Larry, is a black fellow. Now how
do I know this because I can't see him. Simple
he calls me Mike only black people call me Mike,
just my entire life. He left a voicemail with a
prediction that Kamala Harris would become the first black woman
president one way or another.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Hello, Michael, my name is Larry, and I don't know
you might have discussed this on your show before, but
even if you have, I just called to say that
I really believe that Kamala Harris will be the first
black woman president of the United States. Actually, she could
already be president right now. All Biden handsOn news just resigned,
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and when he does that, she's already vice president and
she'll become president and they can even use her. No now,
if they need to use her becoming president to increase
her chances of being elected president, they'll do it before
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the election. But if they go through the election and
when Trump wins, if he wins, then they can just
remove Biden right then, if you won't go, and that
lets Harris become president, even if she can only serve
them just a few weeks, that'll still make her the
first black woman president.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And at that point, a whole.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Lot of people, a lot of black people are going
to celebrate. They'll they'll celebrate as much as some of
them did when Oja was acquitted after killing Nicole and
Ron go Ron Golan just just my idea, my thought.
Tell them what you think.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Shane Garcia is doing her part to help us win
this election.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
We need more.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
My name is Shane Garcia. You're absolutely right, Michael about Democrats.
I tried to have a conversation with my sixty three
year old uncle and when I asked him to tell
me about different issues that Kamala represented, he could tell
me none. I literally brought up valid points to him
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Clinton that you played the other day in the eighties
saying about illegal immigrants. I bought it about her being
the mistress that her daddy got her job for with
a sixty year old man who actually I saw on
the news and she became vice president, talking about how
he helped her political career. I mentioned to him about abortion,
how women can have abortions up until the ninth month
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which Shami was murdered. He literally said to me that
where am I getting me facts from? It sounds like
I'm from a cult. I let him know, no, I'm
ann dog. I'm a woman and these views and things,
and the problem with the Democratic Party is if you're
born a certain races. Understood you're a Democrat. But again,
no one knows the real issues I presented to you. Issues.
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I said, all this stuff Kamala wants to do now,
she's doing it supposedly as a presidential candidate. But she's
been a vice president for three and a half years.
Why has she spearheaded no tax on tips? Why has
she spearheaded the border?
Speaker 10 (07:22):
She was the border's art.
Speaker 9 (07:23):
Why hasn't she done other things?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Just anything?
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Really?
Speaker 9 (07:26):
I even told him Michelle Obama, as a president's wife,
read adapted to food tarts so people could be healthier.
The truck they had dealt with from years ago, she revamped.
So you have a platform now and you've done nothing.
And I said, and honestly, the Democrats were unfair to
other Democrats when they allowed Biden to stay in office,
knowing he had an illness. They didn't even give Democrats
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a chance to pick a real running mate against Trump.
And so now you have a problem with me because
I say Trump is an anthem. Oh in ps, I
think makes a country look weak when a woman runs it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Because if a.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Woman is running anything, you know what that means there
are men under her, Whether it's a corporational company. Why
has no one else stepped up? Why has no man
stepped up? But that's what we're living now. Transgender, all
these other things that don't matter, don't mean anything, but now,
all of a sudden, they mean everything. I'm so glad
the hurricane came through because if it not had come through,
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I would have never found out about your show. And
I have truly downloaded your podcast. I've been listening to
it every single day, the morning and the evening, of
which I prefer to no commercials, and I love the balance.
You are awesome. I will continue to listen because you're
bringing fast and truth.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Wouldn't the world be a better place if every grown
ass man and lesbian woman off the top on the
drive home?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You bet it would.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's the Friday Drive Home on the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Monday was Labor Day and we ran a best of show.
The rest of us were ready to work, but Ramon
cried that he wanted the day off for Labor Day,
so we gave him the day off for manuel labor.
So we ran the show that we did the top
ten Dude movies of all time, and we received hundreds
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of voicemails during the AM and PM shows from people
submitting their nominations for the Best Dude Movie. We randomly
pulled some of the voicemails and we put them to Freebird,
which if you've been a listener for very long, you
know that, in order to irritate Eddie Martinez, the guy
that got me into radio, we used to end the
show on occasion by playing the entirety of free Bird
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because I thought that was the coolest damn thing in
the world to do. And so we're doing it now
without anyone noticing except I just told you we did it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Okay, my name is Metal and the movie I'm from Washugar, Washington,
and the movie is.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
True Grit but John Wayne.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
And the best line is it's mighty big talk for
a one eyed fatman.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
This is Dewey.
Speaker 12 (10:16):
The movie you need to put up is Rambo. Favorite
line is You're gonna need more body bags.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Bill Machasaki Sarah took U Springer in New York Seniors
nineteen seventy one, Long Beach, Long Island Sound.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
How about replace an eighty album and make it for
Lee Marvin Big read one.
Speaker 14 (10:52):
Top ten Dude Movies once again, it's Demolition Man.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It's got to be number one of the dude movies.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Number one.
Speaker 14 (11:03):
You watch it, probably how to watch it, but if
you watch it, it'll be It's it's the category like
you wouldn't believe Santa Bullet, Wesley Snipes, Uh that comedian.
So it's got your whimsy and all that and you're badass,
tough guy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Everything, it's all that.
Speaker 14 (11:21):
Watch it, it'll be your number one dude movie.
Speaker 13 (11:25):
Trustful, Michael get from Tone, How did cool Hand Luke
make the.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Top ten list of dude movies?
Speaker 8 (11:39):
I believe my name is Lynn Bends, Louisiana, and I
believe the dude movie should be bull metal Jacket.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
If you don't want but but a movie?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
And yeah, a movie or nude but whatever hell you say,
If you don't put the searches.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
On there, you don't have a hair on you?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What am I?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The Search is a great movie.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
And for men, take off Roadhouse and put on.
Speaker 13 (12:16):
Godfather, Bruce Blazing Saddles, parking around the campfire and Mango.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's nothing more dude than that Venice Upstate New York.
All the reason and uh Leon the professional.
Speaker 13 (12:37):
Hello listen, Jasons and the outsiders should be atted.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
You and stuff. In list of weeping.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Dude movie, Tombstone, I'm your Huckleberry.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Best dude flick has got to be an animal House.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It was a chip up and water to shoot it.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Jamie Taken.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's episent Gladiator.
Speaker 13 (13:19):
It's a Robert out here and fatch you hadn't he
getting cleaned second hand line you hadn't watched them any.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Moods from Robert Duvall. That's a rest for you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Think.
Speaker 13 (13:29):
Well, hey, Michael, for dude movies, we got to go
with three hundred and the best quote is this is parta.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Michael was dude movie h.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Silverado Tommy from Marchael Files. The best dude movie is
Lone Wolf McQuaid. I was calling them bust guy movie.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
It's mister fragg Old Metal Jacket, Littell Collins say hello
to my little friend scoffeece.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's Tryst from Albany, New York.
Speaker 13 (14:37):
The movie is full Metal Jackets.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Chris Morrisfield, Texas Man Old Fires.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
This is Tommy.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The best dude movie is Lone Wolf. McQuaid is Tyler.
You gotta take off fight club and add Varsity Blues.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
So it's John Bertram and I would be places pull
fiction with Green Berets with John.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Wayne, Top ten deer Hunter. Y'all are missing it.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
This is Mike calling for the top ten bro movie
and my selection at the two Stone, getting that smoke
wagon and see what happened.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I can't believe nobody has recommended that.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
I mean, it's Keith thirty dozen Lee, Marvin gotta love him, Bullet.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh, this is Bob and I'm in Houston.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Sixes the Fruit and.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Larry Harris, try that one.
Speaker 12 (15:52):
Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Real the perfectuals.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Are given like.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
This is Larry life abiding citizen.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
A Michael is a bad Bob from Needin.
Speaker 14 (16:12):
Uh well you said, dude, movie obviously big Olebowski, right.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Michael.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
This was the first movie that all us college kids
cried out loud to Brian song.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, sir, this very The Warriors.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The Warriors best film oder for me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Bill Rogers high Noon.
Speaker 13 (16:43):
The best line is none at the end of the
movie when he throws his badge on the ground and
rides away.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh yes, Tineasewood Magnum Force.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Name's Mike favorite movie creditor quote Get to the Chappa.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
This is Larry and My other dude movie would be
The Tall Ta Randolph Scott, Patrick Rennan.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Mark Flanagan, The Dirty Dozen.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
My dude movie is Omre with Paul Newman, Larry Winfield.
Speaker 14 (17:36):
Yvonne and sugar Land.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Dude movie An Officer and a Gentleman with Richard Here.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Carl from Lubbicks. Gotta make the list of the top
dude movies. Dirty Airy Plea. He's with Classic.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
Yeah, Steve from McAllen delivering now you're talking?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Maybe this is a stir of success wrote up in Range, Texas,
broke ass cole scholarship, his way to two law degrees,
including one from her Magic to Wanney, elected three or
four times, a lawyer, a hub, a father, but most
of all are ignorant ass asking your seat there, pop
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your cod when you get ready for more of mister Michaelberer.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Sultaniedsen's graduation speech at Harvard is maybe the greatest graduation
speech of all time. Steve Jobs somewhere in California, don't
member was pretty darn good as well. But Admiral mcgraven
at the University of Texas gave a speech that I
find extraordinarily inspiring.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And this is to fire you up to get you
ready for this election.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
What starts here changes the world. I have a few
suggestions that might help you on your way to better world. Now.
While these lessons were learned during my time in the military,
I can assure you that it matters not whether you
ever served a day in uniform. It matters not your gender,
your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Our struggles in.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
This world are similar, and the lessons to overcome those
struggles and to move forward, changing ourselves and changing the
world around us will apply equally to all. So here
are the ten lessons I learned from basic Seal training
that hopefully will be of value to you as you
move forward in life. Every morning in sealed training, my instructors,
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who at the time were all Vietnam veterans, would show
up in my baratroom, and the first thing they do
is inspect my bed. If you did it right, the
corners would be square, the covers would be pulled tight,
the pillow center just under the headboard, and the extra
blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack. It
was a simple task, mundane at best. That every morning
we were required to make our bed to perfection. It
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seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly lie to
the fact that we were aspiring to be real warriors, tough,
battle hardened seals. But the wisdom of the simple act
has been proven to me many times over. If you
make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the
first task of the day. They will give you a
small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to
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do another task, and another and another, and by the
end of the day that one task completed will have
turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also
reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter.
If you can't do the little things right, you'll never
be able to do the big things right.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And if, by chance, you have a miserable day, you.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
Will come home to a bed that is made, that
you made, and a made bed gives you encouragement that
tomorrow will be better. So, if you want to change
the world, start off by making your bed. During seal training,
the students. During training, the students are all broken down
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boat crews. Each crew has seven students, three on each
side of a small rubber boat and one cox and
to help guide the dinghy. Every day your boat crew
forms up on the beach and is instructed to get
through the surf zone and paddle several miles down the coast.
In the winter, the surf off San Diego can get
to be eight to ten feet high, and it is
exceedingly difficult to through the plunging surf unless everyone digs in.
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Every paddle must be synchronized to the stroke count of
the Coxwin. Everyone must exert equal effort or the boat
will turn against the wave and be unceremoniously dumped back
on the beach. For the boat to make it to
its destination, everyone must paddle.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You can't change the world alone.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
You will need some help, and to truly get from
your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the
goodwill of strangers, and a strolling Coxin to guide you.
If you want to change the world, find someone to
help you paddle. Over a few weeks of deical training,
my seal class, which started with one hundred and fifty men,
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was down to just forty two. There were now six
boat crews of seven men each. I was in the
boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew
we had was made up of the little guys, the
Munchkin crew we called them.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No one was over five foot five.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
The Munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African American,
one Polish American, one Greek American, one Italian American, and
two tough kids from the Midwest. They outpaddled, out ran,
and outswam all the other boat crews. The big men
and the other boat crews would always make good natured
fun of the tiny little flippers the Munchkins put on
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their tiny little feet prior to every swim. But somehow
these little guys from every corner of the nation in
the world always had the last laugh. So any faster
than everyone in reaching the shore, long before the rest
of US. Seal training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered
but your will to succeed. Color, not your ethnic background,
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not your education, not your social status. If you want
to change the world, measure a person by the size
of their heart, not by the size of their flippers.
Several times a week, the instructors would line up the
class and do a uniform inspection.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It was exceptionally thorough. Your hat had to be.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
Perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed, your belt buckles shiny
and void of any smudges. But it seemed that no
matter how much effort you put into starching your hat,
or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle, it
just wasn't good enough. The instructors would find something wrong.
For failing uniform inspection, the student had to run fully
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clothed into the surf zone, then wet from head to toe,
roll around on the beach until every part of your
body was covered with sand. The effect was known as
a sugar cookie. You stayed in the uniform the rest
of the day, cold, wet, and sandy. There were many
a student who just couldn't accept the fact that all
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their efforts were in vain. No matter how hard they
tried to get the uniform right, they went unappreciated. Those
students didn't make it through training. Those students didn't understand
the purpose of the drill. You were never going to succeed.
You were never going to have a perfect uniform. The
instructors weren't.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Going to allow it.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
Sometimes, no matter how well you prepare or how well
you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It's just the way life is. Sometimes.
Speaker 11 (24:29):
If you want to change the world, get over being
a sugar cookie, and keep moving forward. Every day, during training,
you were challenged with multiple physical events, long runs, long swims,
obstcle courses, hours of calistenics, something designed to test your metal.
Every event had standards times you had to meet. If
you failed to meet those times those standards, your name
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was posted on a list, and at the end of
the day, those on the list were invited to a circus.
A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to
wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you
to quit.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
No one wanted a circus.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
A circus meant that for that day, you didn't measure up.
A circus meant more fatigue, and more fatigue meant that
the following day would be more difficult and more circuses
were likely. But sometime during seal training everyone everyone made
the circus list.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But an interesting thing happened to those who were constantly
on the list.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
Over time, those students who did two hours of extras
calisthenics got stronger and stronger. The pain of the circuses
built inner strength and physical resiliency.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Life is filled with circuses. You will fail, and you will.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
Likely fail often and it will be painful, it will
be discouraging at times, it will test you to your
very core. But if you don't, if you want to
change the world, they'll be afraid of the circus.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's another work week in the books.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Gain you geared up for the weekend to Friday drive home.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
On the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I'm sharing this speech by Admiral mcgraven.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
If you missed it earlier, you have to hear the
earlier part you go back on the podcast because I
want you to understand we have to do more than
bash Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We have to fire up our.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Troops to save this country that's on us.
Speaker 11 (26:26):
At least twice a week, the trainees were required to
run the obstacle course. The obstacle course contained twenty five obstacles,
including a ten foot wall, a thirty foot cargo net,
a barbed wire crawl to name a few, But the
most challenging obstacle was a slide for Life. It had
a three level thirty foot tower at one end and
a one level tower at the other.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
In between was a two hundred foot long rope.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
You had to climb the three tier tower and once
at the top you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope,
and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to
the other end. The record for the obstacle course had
stood for years. When my class began in nineteen seventy seven.
The record seemed unbeatable until one day, as student decided
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to go down the slide for life head first. Instead
of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching his
way down, he bravely mounted the.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Top of the rope and thrust himself forward.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
It was a dangerous move, seemingly foolish and fraught with risk.
Failure could be an injury in being dropped from the course.
Without hesitation, the students slid down the rope perilously fast.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Instead of several.
Speaker 11 (27:33):
Minutes, it only took him half that time, and by
the end of the course he had broken the record.
If you want to change the world, sometimes you have
to slide down the obstacle's head first.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
During the land warfare.
Speaker 11 (27:49):
Phase of training, the students are flown out to San
Clemente Island, which lies off the coast of San Diego.
The waters off San Clementy are a breeding ground for
the great white sharks. To pass seal training, there a
series of long swims it must be completed.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
One is the night swim.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
Before the swim, the instructors joyfully brief the students on
all the species of sharks that inhabit the waters off
San Clemente. They assure you, however, that no student has
ever been eaten by a shark, at least not that
they can remember. But you are also taught that if
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a shark begins to circle your position, stand your ground,
do not swim away, do not act afray. And if
a shark hungry for a midnight snack darts towards you,
then summons up all your strength and punch him in
the snout and he will turn and swim away.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
There are a lot of sharks in the world. If
you hope to.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Complete the swim, you will have to deal with them.
So if you want to change the world, go back
down from the sharks. As Navy seal is, one of
our jobs is to conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping.
We practice this technique extensively during training. The ship attack
mission is where a pair of sealed divers is dropped
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off outside an enemy harbor and then swims well over
two miles underwater, using nothing but a death gage and
a compass to get to the target. During the entire swim,
even well below the surface, there is some light that
comes through. It is comforting to know that there is
open water above you. But as you approach the ship,
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which is tied to a pier, the light begins to fade.
The steel structure the ship blocks the moonlight, It blocks
the surrounding street lamps, It blocks all ambient light. To
be successful in your mission, you have to swim under
the ship and find the keel, the center line and
the deepest part of the ship. This is your objective.
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But the keel is also the darkest part of the ship,
where you cannot see your hand in front of your
face from the ship's machinery is deafening, and where it
gets to be easily disoriented and you can fail. Every
seal knows that under the keel at that darkest moment
of the mission is the time when you need to
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be calm, When you must be calm, when you must
be composed, when all your tactical skills, your physical power,
and your inner strength must be brought to bear. If
you want to change the world, you must be your
very best in the darkest moments. The ninth week of
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training is referred to as Hell Week. It is six
days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment, and
one special.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Day at the mudflats.
Speaker 11 (30:45):
The mudflats are an area between San Diego and Tijuana
where the water runs off and creates the Tijuana Slews,
a swampy patch of terrain where a mud will engulf you.
It is on Wednesday of Hell Week. Lets paddle down
to the mudflats and spend the next fifths trying to
survive this freezing cold, the howling wind, and the incessant
pressure to quit from the instructors. As the sun began
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to set that Wednesday evening, my training class, having committed
some egregious.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Infraction of the rules, was ordered into the mud.
Speaker 11 (31:18):
The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible
but our heads.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
The instructors told us we could.
Speaker 11 (31:25):
Leave the mud if only five men would quit. Only
five men, just five men, and we could get out
of the oppressive cold. Looking around the mud flat, it
was apparent that some students were about to give up.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It was still over eight hours till the sun came up.
Speaker 11 (31:40):
Eight more hours of bone chilling cold, the chattering teeth
and the shivering moans of the trainees were so loud
it was hard to hear anything. And then one voice
began to echo through the night. One voice raised in song.
The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with
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great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three,
and before long everyone in the class was singing. The
instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if
we kept up singing. But the singing persisted, and somehow
the mud seemed a little warmer, and the wind a
little tamer, and the dawn not so far away. If
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I have learned anything in my time traveling the world,
it is the power of hope, the power of one person.
A Washington, a Lincoln, King Mandela, and even a young
girl from Pakistan Malala.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
One person can change the world by giving people hope.
Speaker 11 (32:40):
So if you want to change the world, start singing
when you're up to your neck in mud. Finally, a
seal training, there's a bell, a brass bell that hangs
in the center of the compound for all the students
to see.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
All you have to do is quit. All you have
to do to quit is ring. The bell.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
Ring the bell, and you no longer have to wake
up at five o'clock. Ring the bell and you no
longer have to be in the freezing cold swims. Ring
the bell and you no longer have to do the runs,
the obstainle course, the pt and you no longer have
to endure the hardships of training. All you have to
do is ring the bell to get out. If you
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want to change the world, don't ever ever ring the bell.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It will not be easy.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to
help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is
not fair and that you will fail often. But if
you take some risks, step up when the times are
the toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the down trodden,
and never ever give up. If you do these things,
the next generation and the generations that follow we'll live
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in a world far better than the one we have today,
and what's started here will indeed have changed the world
for the better.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Go fight when there is your charge. This is your nation,
this is your moment.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Own it
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and look, Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratics.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Two six packs shut.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
Our first voicemail of the week. We haven't had voicemails
in a while. Romore is Jim falling down on the job.
He did take a little vaca. I was complaining about
Jim taking a vacation last week, and Ramone said, listen,
mister slave driver. On his vacation, he was still putting
in from early in the morning till ear in the afternoon.
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His wasn't staying here all day like you want everybod
I did to do budget lazy people. Our first voicemail
of the week comes from an unknown male because he
doesn't tell us his name. He wants to know who
the Republicans would be running if Donald Trump weren't running again.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Very good question.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
You know, it occurs to me that if Donald Trump
wasn't running, what would the Republicans do? What? I can't
even imagine any other person. I don't disantos. I can't
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even imagine. I can't think of anybody who has got
the pluck that Donald Trump has and has displayed, and
the seriousness of intent that Donald Trump has has actually displayed,
and how uncomfortable he makes the demo, which is in
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my opinion, just a wonderful thing. So if he wasn't running,
we are so lucky that he's running, because if he
wasn't running, there is no close second without Donald Trump
there is. We would be done for. I mean, I
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don't know that people really realize that is how important
he is.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Right now in this time.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I was I've been missing these phone calls. I'm not
allowed to your mom, Michelle from Alephant. By the way,
if you ever want to leave a voicemail, all you
have to do is called seven three one thousand when
we're not on the air, uh and it'll take you
to the voicemail. And if you leave a voicemail, it's
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very likely going to make it on the air. We
can't put everyone on the air because we get more
than we can play, but we do enjoy we listen
to every one of them. We come in on Monday,
we're overloaded because people sometimes they get a little lit
up or whatever the reason. But people will leave us
more messages over the weekend, especially Friday night, and we
love listening to them. And we're going to try to
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get back to doing the voicemuls. We've been so focused
on election stuff that we haven't done as much on
the voicemail thing. Michelle from Alabama is a school teacher
who has an iron Ran book recommendation for people who
don't like to read.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Hello, Michael, this is Michelle from Alabama. I was listening
to Friday's Afternoon podcast and you were listing books that
people need to read and you mentioned iron Ran. I
like all of her books, and honestly, they are, like
you said, very heavy, very sick reading. So for people
who don't necessarily like to read, I would like to
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recommend her novella Anthem. It is just shy of one
hundred pages and quickly makes the point that she's trying
to make. I've actually taught it in my sophomore English classes.
Thank you have a good one.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Our next caller, Larry, is a black fellow. Now how
do I know this because I can't see him. Simple
he calls me Mike only black people call me Mike,
just my entire life. He left a voicemail with a
prediction that Kamala Harris would become the first black woman
president one way or another.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
Hello, Michael, my name is Larry, and I don't know
you might have discussed this on your show before, but
even if you have, I just called to say that
I really believe that Kamala Harris will be the first
black woman president of the United States. Actually, she could
already be president right now. All Biden handsOn news just resigned,
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and when he does that, she's already vice president and
she'll become president and they can even use her. No now,
if they need to use her becoming president to increase
her chances of being elected president, they'll do it before
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the election. But if they go through the election and
when Trump wins, if he wins, then they can just
remove Biden right then, if you won't go, and that
lets Harris become president, even if she can only serve
them just a few weeks, that'll still make her the
first black woman president.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And at that point, a whole.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Lot of people, a lot of black people are going
to celebrate. They'll they'll celebrate as much as some of
them did when Oja was acquitted after killing Nicole and
Ron go Ron Golan just just my idea, my thought.
Tell them what you think.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Shane Garcia is doing her part to help us win
this election.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
We need more.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
My name is Shane Garcia. You're absolutely right, Michael about Democrats.
I tried to have a conversation with my sixty three
year old uncle and when I asked him to tell
me about different issues that Kamala represented, he could tell
me none. I literally brought up valid points to him
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Clinton that you played the other day in the eighties
saying about illegal immigrants. I bought it about her being
the mistress that her daddy got her job for with
a sixty year old man who actually I saw on
the news and she became vice president, talking about how
he helped her political career. I mentioned to him about abortion,
how women can have abortions up until the ninth month
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which Shami was murdered. He literally said to me that
where am I getting me facts from? It sounds like
I'm from a cult. I let him know, no, I'm
ann dog. I'm a woman and these views and things,
and the problem with the Democratic Party is if you're
born a certain races. Understood you're a Democrat. But again,
no one knows the real issues I presented to you. Issues.
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I said, all this stuff Kamala wants to do now,
she's doing it supposedly as a presidential candidate. But she's
been a vice president for three and a half years.
Why has she spearheaded no tax on tips? Why has
she spearheaded the border?
Speaker 10 (07:22):
She was the border's art.
Speaker 9 (07:23):
Why hasn't she done other things?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Just anything?
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Really?
Speaker 9 (07:26):
I even told him Michelle Obama, as a president's wife,
read adapted to food tarts so people could be healthier.
The truck they had dealt with from years ago, she revamped.
So you have a platform now and you've done nothing.
And I said, and honestly, the Democrats were unfair to
other Democrats when they allowed Biden to stay in office,
knowing he had an illness. They didn't even give Democrats
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a chance to pick a real running mate against Trump.
And so now you have a problem with me because
I say Trump is an anthem. Oh in ps, I
think makes a country look weak when a woman runs it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Because if a.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Woman is running anything, you know what that means there
are men under her, Whether it's a corporational company. Why
has no one else stepped up? Why has no man
stepped up? But that's what we're living now. Transgender, all
these other things that don't matter, don't mean anything, but now,
all of a sudden, they mean everything. I'm so glad
the hurricane came through because if it not had come through,
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I would have never found out about your show. And
I have truly downloaded your podcast. I've been listening to
it every single day, the morning and the evening, of
which I prefer to no commercials, and I love the balance.
You are awesome. I will continue to listen because you're
bringing fast and truth.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Wouldn't the world be a better place if every grown
ass man and lesbian woman off the top on the
drive home?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You bet it would.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It's the Friday Drive Home on the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Monday was Labor Day and we ran a best of show.
The rest of us were ready to work, but Ramon
cried that he wanted the day off for Labor Day,
so we gave him the day off for manuel labor.
So we ran the show that we did the top
ten Dude movies of all time, and we received hundreds
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of voicemails during the AM and PM shows from people
submitting their nominations for the Best Dude Movie. We randomly
pulled some of the voicemails and we put them to Freebird,
which if you've been a listener for very long, you
know that, in order to irritate Eddie Martinez, the guy
that got me into radio, we used to end the
show on occasion by playing the entirety of free Bird
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because I thought that was the coolest damn thing in
the world to do. And so we're doing it now
without anyone noticing except I just told you we did it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Okay, my name is Metal and the movie I'm from Washugar, Washington,
and the movie is.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
True Grit but John Wayne.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
And the best line is it's mighty big talk for
a one eyed fatman.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
This is Dewey.
Speaker 12 (10:16):
The movie you need to put up is Rambo. Favorite
line is You're gonna need more body bags.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Bill Machasaki Sarah took U Springer in New York Seniors
nineteen seventy one, Long Beach, Long Island Sound.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
How about replace an eighty album and make it for
Lee Marvin Big read one.
Speaker 14 (10:52):
Top ten Dude Movies once again, it's Demolition Man.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It's got to be number one of the dude movies.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Number one.
Speaker 14 (11:03):
You watch it, probably how to watch it, but if
you watch it, it'll be It's it's the category like
you wouldn't believe Santa Bullet, Wesley Snipes, Uh that comedian.
So it's got your whimsy and all that and you're badass,
tough guy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Everything, it's all that.
Speaker 14 (11:21):
Watch it, it'll be your number one dude movie.
Speaker 13 (11:25):
Trustful, Michael get from Tone, How did cool Hand Luke
make the.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Top ten list of dude movies?
Speaker 8 (11:39):
I believe my name is Lynn Bends, Louisiana, and I
believe the dude movie should be bull metal Jacket.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
If you don't want but but a movie?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
And yeah, a movie or nude but whatever hell you say,
If you don't put the searches.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
On there, you don't have a hair on you?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What am I?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The Search is a great movie.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
And for men, take off Roadhouse and put on.
Speaker 13 (12:16):
Godfather, Bruce Blazing Saddles, parking around the campfire and Mango.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's nothing more dude than that Venice Upstate New York.
All the reason and uh Leon the professional.
Speaker 13 (12:37):
Hello listen, Jasons and the outsiders should be atted.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
You and stuff. In list of weeping.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Dude movie, Tombstone, I'm your Huckleberry.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Best dude flick has got to be an animal House.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It was a chip up and water to shoot it.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Jamie Taken.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's episent Gladiator.
Speaker 13 (13:19):
It's a Robert out here and fatch you hadn't he
getting cleaned second hand line you hadn't watched them any.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Moods from Robert Duvall. That's a rest for you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Think.
Speaker 13 (13:29):
Well, hey, Michael, for dude movies, we got to go
with three hundred and the best quote is this is parta.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Michael was dude movie h.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Silverado Tommy from Marchael Files. The best dude movie is
Lone Wolf McQuaid. I was calling them bust guy movie.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
It's mister fragg Old Metal Jacket, Littell Collins say hello
to my little friend scoffeece.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's Tryst from Albany, New York.
Speaker 13 (14:37):
The movie is full Metal Jackets.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Chris Morrisfield, Texas Man Old Fires.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
This is Tommy.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The best dude movie is Lone Wolf. McQuaid is Tyler.
You gotta take off fight club and add Varsity Blues.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
So it's John Bertram and I would be places pull
fiction with Green Berets with John.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Wayne, Top ten deer Hunter. Y'all are missing it.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
This is Mike calling for the top ten bro movie
and my selection at the two Stone, getting that smoke
wagon and see what happened.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I can't believe nobody has recommended that.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
I mean, it's Keith thirty dozen Lee, Marvin gotta love him, Bullet.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh, this is Bob and I'm in Houston.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Sixes the Fruit and.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Larry Harris, try that one.
Speaker 12 (15:52):
Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Real the perfectuals.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Are given like.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
This is Larry life abiding citizen.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
A Michael is a bad Bob from Needin.
Speaker 14 (16:12):
Uh well you said, dude, movie obviously big Olebowski, right.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Michael.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
This was the first movie that all us college kids
cried out loud to Brian song.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, sir, this very The Warriors.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The Warriors best film oder for me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Bill Rogers high Noon.
Speaker 13 (16:43):
The best line is none at the end of the
movie when he throws his badge on the ground and
rides away.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh yes, Tineasewood Magnum Force.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Name's Mike favorite movie creditor quote Get to the Chappa.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
This is Larry and My other dude movie would be
The Tall Ta Randolph Scott, Patrick Rennan.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Mark Flanagan, The Dirty Dozen.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
My dude movie is Omre with Paul Newman, Larry Winfield.
Speaker 14 (17:36):
Yvonne and sugar Land.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Dude movie An Officer and a Gentleman with Richard Here.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Carl from Lubbicks. Gotta make the list of the top
dude movies. Dirty Airy Plea. He's with Classic.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
Yeah, Steve from McAllen delivering now you're talking?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Maybe this is a stir of success wrote up in Range, Texas,
broke ass cole scholarship, his way to two law degrees,
including one from her Magic to Wanney, elected three or
four times, a lawyer, a hub, a father, but most
of all are ignorant ass asking your seat there, pop
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your cod when you get ready for more of mister Michaelberer.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Sultaniedsen's graduation speech at Harvard is maybe the greatest graduation
speech of all time. Steve Jobs somewhere in California, don't
member was pretty darn good as well. But Admiral mcgraven
at the University of Texas gave a speech that I
find extraordinarily inspiring.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And this is to fire you up to get you
ready for this election.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
What starts here changes the world. I have a few
suggestions that might help you on your way to better world. Now.
While these lessons were learned during my time in the military,
I can assure you that it matters not whether you
ever served a day in uniform. It matters not your gender,
your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Our struggles in.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
This world are similar, and the lessons to overcome those
struggles and to move forward, changing ourselves and changing the
world around us will apply equally to all. So here
are the ten lessons I learned from basic Seal training
that hopefully will be of value to you as you
move forward in life. Every morning in sealed training, my instructors,
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who at the time were all Vietnam veterans, would show
up in my baratroom, and the first thing they do
is inspect my bed. If you did it right, the
corners would be square, the covers would be pulled tight,
the pillow center just under the headboard, and the extra
blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack. It
was a simple task, mundane at best. That every morning
we were required to make our bed to perfection. It
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seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly lie to
the fact that we were aspiring to be real warriors, tough,
battle hardened seals. But the wisdom of the simple act
has been proven to me many times over. If you
make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the
first task of the day. They will give you a
small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to
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do another task, and another and another, and by the
end of the day that one task completed will have
turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also
reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter.
If you can't do the little things right, you'll never
be able to do the big things right.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And if, by chance, you have a miserable day, you.
Speaker 11 (20:37):
Will come home to a bed that is made, that
you made, and a made bed gives you encouragement that
tomorrow will be better. So, if you want to change
the world, start off by making your bed. During seal training,
the students. During training, the students are all broken down
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boat crews. Each crew has seven students, three on each
side of a small rubber boat and one cox and
to help guide the dinghy. Every day your boat crew
forms up on the beach and is instructed to get
through the surf zone and paddle several miles down the coast.
In the winter, the surf off San Diego can get
to be eight to ten feet high, and it is
exceedingly difficult to through the plunging surf unless everyone digs in.
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Every paddle must be synchronized to the stroke count of
the Coxwin. Everyone must exert equal effort or the boat
will turn against the wave and be unceremoniously dumped back
on the beach. For the boat to make it to
its destination, everyone must paddle.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You can't change the world alone.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
You will need some help, and to truly get from
your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the
goodwill of strangers, and a strolling Coxin to guide you.
If you want to change the world, find someone to
help you paddle. Over a few weeks of deical training,
my seal class, which started with one hundred and fifty men,
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was down to just forty two. There were now six
boat crews of seven men each. I was in the
boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew
we had was made up of the little guys, the
Munchkin crew we called them.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No one was over five foot five.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
The Munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African American,
one Polish American, one Greek American, one Italian American, and
two tough kids from the Midwest. They outpaddled, out ran,
and outswam all the other boat crews. The big men
and the other boat crews would always make good natured
fun of the tiny little flippers the Munchkins put on
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their tiny little feet prior to every swim. But somehow
these little guys from every corner of the nation in
the world always had the last laugh. So any faster
than everyone in reaching the shore, long before the rest
of US. Seal training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered
but your will to succeed. Color, not your ethnic background,
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not your education, not your social status. If you want
to change the world, measure a person by the size
of their heart, not by the size of their flippers.
Several times a week, the instructors would line up the
class and do a uniform inspection.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It was exceptionally thorough. Your hat had to be.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
Perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed, your belt buckles shiny
and void of any smudges. But it seemed that no
matter how much effort you put into starching your hat,
or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle, it
just wasn't good enough. The instructors would find something wrong.
For failing uniform inspection, the student had to run fully
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clothed into the surf zone, then wet from head to toe,
roll around on the beach until every part of your
body was covered with sand. The effect was known as
a sugar cookie. You stayed in the uniform the rest
of the day, cold, wet, and sandy. There were many
a student who just couldn't accept the fact that all
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their efforts were in vain. No matter how hard they
tried to get the uniform right, they went unappreciated. Those
students didn't make it through training. Those students didn't understand
the purpose of the drill. You were never going to succeed.
You were never going to have a perfect uniform. The
instructors weren't.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Going to allow it.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
Sometimes, no matter how well you prepare or how well
you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It's just the way life is. Sometimes.
Speaker 11 (24:29):
If you want to change the world, get over being
a sugar cookie, and keep moving forward. Every day, during training,
you were challenged with multiple physical events, long runs, long swims,
obstcle courses, hours of calistenics, something designed to test your metal.
Every event had standards times you had to meet. If
you failed to meet those times those standards, your name
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was posted on a list, and at the end of
the day, those on the list were invited to a circus.
A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to
wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you
to quit.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
No one wanted a circus.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
A circus meant that for that day, you didn't measure up.
A circus meant more fatigue, and more fatigue meant that
the following day would be more difficult and more circuses
were likely. But sometime during seal training everyone everyone made
the circus list.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But an interesting thing happened to those who were constantly
on the list.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
Over time, those students who did two hours of extras
calisthenics got stronger and stronger. The pain of the circuses
built inner strength and physical resiliency.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Life is filled with circuses. You will fail, and you will.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
Likely fail often and it will be painful, it will
be discouraging at times, it will test you to your
very core. But if you don't, if you want to
change the world, they'll be afraid of the circus.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's another work week in the books.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Gain you geared up for the weekend to Friday drive home.
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On the Michael Barry Show.
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I'm sharing this speech by Admiral mcgraven.
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If you missed it earlier, you have to hear the
earlier part you go back on the podcast because I
want you to understand we have to do more than
bash Kamala Harris.
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We have to fire up our.
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Troops to save this country that's on us.
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At least twice a week, the trainees were required to
run the obstacle course. The obstacle course contained twenty five obstacles,
including a ten foot wall, a thirty foot cargo net,
a barbed wire crawl to name a few, But the
most challenging obstacle was a slide for Life. It had
a three level thirty foot tower at one end and
a one level tower at the other.
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In between was a two hundred foot long rope.
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You had to climb the three tier tower and once
at the top you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope,
and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to
the other end. The record for the obstacle course had
stood for years. When my class began in nineteen seventy seven.
The record seemed unbeatable until one day, as student decided
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to go down the slide for life head first. Instead
of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching his
way down, he bravely mounted the.
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Top of the rope and thrust himself forward.
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It was a dangerous move, seemingly foolish and fraught with risk.
Failure could be an injury in being dropped from the course.
Without hesitation, the students slid down the rope perilously fast.
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Instead of several.
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Minutes, it only took him half that time, and by
the end of the course he had broken the record.
If you want to change the world, sometimes you have
to slide down the obstacle's head first.
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During the land warfare.
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Phase of training, the students are flown out to San
Clemente Island, which lies off the coast of San Diego.
The waters off San Clementy are a breeding ground for
the great white sharks. To pass seal training, there a
series of long swims it must be completed.
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One is the night swim.
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Before the swim, the instructors joyfully brief the students on
all the species of sharks that inhabit the waters off
San Clemente. They assure you, however, that no student has
ever been eaten by a shark, at least not that
they can remember. But you are also taught that if
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a shark begins to circle your position, stand your ground,
do not swim away, do not act afray. And if
a shark hungry for a midnight snack darts towards you,
then summons up all your strength and punch him in
the snout and he will turn and swim away.
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There are a lot of sharks in the world. If
you hope to.
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Complete the swim, you will have to deal with them.
So if you want to change the world, go back
down from the sharks. As Navy seal is, one of
our jobs is to conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping.
We practice this technique extensively during training. The ship attack
mission is where a pair of sealed divers is dropped
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off outside an enemy harbor and then swims well over
two miles underwater, using nothing but a death gage and
a compass to get to the target. During the entire swim,
even well below the surface, there is some light that
comes through. It is comforting to know that there is
open water above you. But as you approach the ship,
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which is tied to a pier, the light begins to fade.
The steel structure the ship blocks the moonlight, It blocks
the surrounding street lamps, It blocks all ambient light. To
be successful in your mission, you have to swim under
the ship and find the keel, the center line and
the deepest part of the ship. This is your objective.
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But the keel is also the darkest part of the ship,
where you cannot see your hand in front of your
face from the ship's machinery is deafening, and where it
gets to be easily disoriented and you can fail. Every
seal knows that under the keel at that darkest moment
of the mission is the time when you need to
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be calm, When you must be calm, when you must
be composed, when all your tactical skills, your physical power,
and your inner strength must be brought to bear. If
you want to change the world, you must be your
very best in the darkest moments. The ninth week of
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training is referred to as Hell Week. It is six
days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment, and
one special.
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Day at the mudflats.
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The mudflats are an area between San Diego and Tijuana
where the water runs off and creates the Tijuana Slews,
a swampy patch of terrain where a mud will engulf you.
It is on Wednesday of Hell Week. Lets paddle down
to the mudflats and spend the next fifths trying to
survive this freezing cold, the howling wind, and the incessant
pressure to quit from the instructors. As the sun began
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to set that Wednesday evening, my training class, having committed
some egregious.
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Infraction of the rules, was ordered into the mud.
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The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible
but our heads.
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The instructors told us we could.
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Leave the mud if only five men would quit. Only
five men, just five men, and we could get out
of the oppressive cold. Looking around the mud flat, it
was apparent that some students were about to give up.
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It was still over eight hours till the sun came up.
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Eight more hours of bone chilling cold, the chattering teeth
and the shivering moans of the trainees were so loud
it was hard to hear anything. And then one voice
began to echo through the night. One voice raised in song.
The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with
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great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three,
and before long everyone in the class was singing. The
instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if
we kept up singing. But the singing persisted, and somehow
the mud seemed a little warmer, and the wind a
little tamer, and the dawn not so far away. If
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I have learned anything in my time traveling the world,
it is the power of hope, the power of one person.
A Washington, a Lincoln, King Mandela, and even a young
girl from Pakistan Malala.
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One person can change the world by giving people hope.
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So if you want to change the world, start singing
when you're up to your neck in mud. Finally, a
seal training, there's a bell, a brass bell that hangs
in the center of the compound for all the students
to see.
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All you have to do is quit. All you have
to do to quit is ring. The bell.
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Ring the bell, and you no longer have to wake
up at five o'clock. Ring the bell and you no
longer have to be in the freezing cold swims. Ring
the bell and you no longer have to do the runs,
the obstainle course, the pt and you no longer have
to endure the hardships of training. All you have to
do is ring the bell to get out. If you
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want to change the world, don't ever ever ring the bell.
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It will not be easy.
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Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to
help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is
not fair and that you will fail often. But if
you take some risks, step up when the times are
the toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the down trodden,
and never ever give up. If you do these things,
the next generation and the generations that follow we'll live
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in a world far better than the one we have today,
and what's started here will indeed have changed the world
for the better.
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Go fight when there is your charge. This is your nation,
this is your moment.
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Own it
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