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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
The ABC employee who is being called a whistleblower, a
person who is pointing out something that is illegal or
unethical within the workplace and should have protections as a
result of it, including their identity protected, has claimed in
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an affidavit under penalty of perjury that one of the
things the Harris campaign insisted could not be raised as
an issue by the network of common l Harris. Now,
what were the chances The network's head is Kamala Harris's
best friend. By Kamala Harris's own statement, several years ago,
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she met her husband because the head of ABC told her,
I have a guy you have to meet. He's my
husband's best friend. Kamala Harris meets him, marries him. She
stays on track. That's how this game is played. They
weren't going to ask her a tough question to start with,
but just to make sure. Kamala Harris's list of demands
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was that her brother in law and his case is
with the plural s not be raised in any way. Well,
you might not know about Tony West, Kamala Harris's sister
Maya in nineteen ninety eight married Tony West.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And he's a real character, this one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He would be one of her first political advisors, helping
her with the two thousand and three San Francisco District
Attorney's race.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
These were in the days.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
When she was still servicing Willie Brown, the mayor, so
Tony West would marry Maya Harris. Tony West would serve
in the Clinton Department of Justice and in Barack Obama's
Department of Justice. In Obama's Department of Justice, he was
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accused of setting up a Ponzi scheme which would fleece
billions from taxpayers. As head of the Justice Department's Civil Division,
Tony West took advantage of the Treasury Department's secret Quote
Judgment Fund, a slush account used to pay inflated settlement
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without congressional oversight. Sound like Harris County all over again.
Let's find these pockets of millions, if not billions of
dollars and put them in our pocket. The Government Accountability
Office admitted they have no idea how many settlements are
paid yearly by the Judgment Fund.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
No receipts are published, and attorney's fees that are awarded well, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Not disclosed, because why would you need to know that
you're just the person paying for it. President Trump banned
this fund when he took office, but of course Joe
Biden made it legal again in twenty twenty one because
there are powerful people getting.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Rich off of it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
In two thousand and nine, Tony West was placed in
charge of the Department of Justice's specific division that litigates
and settles lawsuits paid out by the Judgment Fund. You
see how this works, right, So he's working for the government.
You're a plane's attorney. You sue the government. He's the
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person on the other side. And he said, oh no,
you're asking for three million dollars. I'm not going to
give you three million dollars, but I'll give you thirty
because I'm assuming you'd like to kick ten back to me.
Tony West's first order of business, according to one of
his deputy emails. Deputy's emails, was to find the best
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way to use the settlement fund to allocate money toward
his friend's organizations. According to Daniel Huff, former counsel to
the Senate and House Judiciary Committee's quote, settlements became the
vehicle for paying.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Off political allies.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
One of Tony West's biggest scores was a twenty ten
settl with ninety one Hispanic and female farmers who claimed
they were illegally discriminated against. Tony West intervened and quote
engineered a stunning turnabout. According to The New York Times,
the Department of Justice agreed to a one point three
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to three billion dollar settlement, including thousands of farmers who
were never even involved in the case and Native American farmers.
The left wing New York Times admitted at the time
that Tony West settlement was a runaway train driven by
racial politics and law firms that stand again more than
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one hundred and thirty million dollars in fees.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
The settlement payment grew to over four point four.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Billion dollars, creating a sixty million dollar windfall for the
lead lawyer, Joseph Sellers, who just so happened to also
be a member of the Obama Biden transition team. Tony
West also concocted a series of shady bank settlements with
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victims of the housing crisis, with questionable provisions requiring banks
to make almost a billion dollars in mandatory in mandatory
donations to Democrats supporting activist groups, excluding all conservative property
rights organizations. The Tony West corrupt settlement system was again
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used in twenty sixteen to make Volkswagen fund a two
billion dollar White House electric car initiative that Congress had blocked.
And you'll never believe this, but Tony then got a
job with Uber see because he had to leave the government.
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So what he did is he first put government tons
of government money into a private company and then they
hire him to come over big Pharma.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Does that look at Scott Gottlieb.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Tony then got a job with uber, which profits greatly
with the shift to ev A White House email literally
shows staff saying they ought to quote build a statue
to West and bow down to this statue each day
after they receive their two hundred thousand dollars per day.
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The agreement was co signed by then California Attorney General
Kamala Harris, all while being advised by Tony West, her
soon to be White House.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Counsel should she win.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
The White House Department of Justice used Tony West's settlement
system to pay FBI agents Peter Strazik and Lisa Page
two million dollars after the anti tump After their anti
Trump texts were published. You cannot hate these people enough.
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There is a standard paradigm that these people engage in.
They get elected on the basis that we need more
blacks in office. They surround themselves with their fraternity brothers
and their sorority sisters and other like minded folks. Then
they begin scouring for ways to take government money and
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pay their buddies and kick it back to them. And
then when it's all over, when the government time is up,
they get hired by an outside company that they have
made rich over the years. Now, sorry if you were
a company that was bidding for a contract, and sorry
if you're a taxpayer who's being fleeceed, and sorry that
your government may is now a third world banana republic.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But what did you expect? Really, you thought it was funny.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm with them, Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, I won't do that. It's too much for my
She won't go that. That was so funny.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Kamala Harris's brother in law. They didn't want any questions
about the investigation into him, but he was.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
A speaker at the DNC this year. He was on stage.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
If Kamala Harris is elected, it'll be just like Sylvester
Turner taken over as mayor in Houston, giving money to
sorority sisters and fraternity friends and fellow travelers over the years.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
There is a.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Whole cabal of these well connected folks who've known each
other since college, some of their families knew each other
before that, and their self dealing back and forth. They
bring in everyone they know to help their guy get elected.
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They socialize together, they plant their people in the offices,
they get the big contracts, they kicked the money back
to the person in office, and it goes on and
on and on. They've got a network of folks in
the media, in the universities, in the private companies.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
This is.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
What has collapsed the City of Houston government. This is
exactly what has happened. That's what Sylvester Turner did. Meanwhile,
we get the news from Mayor Whitpmeyer that Houston faces
a forty six million dollar deficit and he wants to
raise taxes to cover the funds. He also announces that
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the City of Hughes Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs is
awarding ninety seven thousand dollars in grants to individuals and
nonprofits for specific programs that amplify artistic creativity and innovation.
What in the hell do you think you're doing. We
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have paid more in taxes, received less back.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
In government.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
For years, and now they go, yeah, the guy behind,
but the guy before me squandered a lot of money,
a lot of money. I mean, he made out like
a bandit. And by the way, he's about to be
the next congressman. He's going to replace Sheila Jackson Lee.
That's who they went with. Course, there are some voters
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who are highly comfortable with the fraud in office because
they figure, well, we getting irs, but.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You're not getting yours.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He's getting his, she got hers, You're not getting anything other.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Than screwed and you don't even see it.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Imagine being so beaten down for so long that you
continue to vote for these people, you continue to believe they're.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Bull I'm gonna help y'all.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
We it's us again, then, cause because they out there
getting a's and we gonna get irs. Except you're not
getting anything. They're getting something. You're gonna raise taxes. Currently,
Houston's property tax rate stands at zero point five to
one to nine cents per one hundred dollars of assessed value.
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Houston's finance director, Melissa DuBowski, warns of illuming forty six
million dollar deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. Mayor whit
My emphasizes that there may need to be cuts, which
would be hundreds of layoffs. So, Houston City Council, there's
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a woman named Abbie Cayman. This was her claim to fame,
gave every city employee. I believe it's fifteen weeks of
maternity or paternity leave when a baby is born. If
a private company wants to do that, that's a private
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company's prerogative. But with taxpayer dollars, you've got key positions
being abandoned for four months so that a dad can
hang out at home with the baby and the mom,
or take another job, or who knows what else. Now
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you may say, well, that's a good thing, we bonding families.
I get it, But who's paying for it? There are
a lot of things that are good things. It's a
good thing if you work out every day. How about
if every employee leaves in addition to their lunch hour
and cutting out early. How about if ever employee takes
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two three hours to go work out.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, Michael working out. It's good, Michael.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
What if they take another hour per day, maybe make
it too for counseling, therapy, talk about things, share their feelings, well, Michael, Michael.
My sister, she goes to counsel and this has helped
her a lot. Okay, what if they stagger their workday
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to come in later and leave earlier so they're not
stuck in the traffic, because that's also stressful, Michael, Michael.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We need to do that because there's too much traffic Already,
they're helping us out, Michael.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
So now they come in at ten and leave it
to take a lunch break, counseling and work out. Guess what,
Nobody ever even logs the fact that there's a busted
water main on Braiswood. Nobody ever even logs the fact
that there's crimes all over that can't be reported and
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officers be dispatched. And that's what you're left with. And
you run for office and I'm gonna fix this. Things
are bad. And to imagine this, Kamala Harris is running
for office on the basis of a new way forward.
You are currently the vice president of the country. What
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different than Joe Biden? Are you going to do, especially
because you're not actually going to be running anything. Her
website took down any issues upon which she was running
on the basis that the people would be too stupid
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to care, and then the things. The first policy initiative
she had was no tax on tips. You could not
have asked for a more egregious example of them believing
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the American people are stupid. Not only was that Donald
Trump's proposal from weeks before and never hers before, but
she had actually cast the deciding vote as the vice president,
breaking a fifty to fifty tie in the Senate, preventing
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the no tax on tips. Not only had she never
done anything on the issue, she had actually done something
aggressively the other direction.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That's a non qualifying event for a presidential candidate. That's
Gary Hart on the monkey business with Donna Rice. But
it wasn't, was it. She then claims she was for
the border wall. Really she claims she was what the
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borders are. We've got them saying she was, and the
media saying she was. We've got her making claims on
campaign issues that she's been against, in one case by
text by tweet, exactly contradictory two days before, where the.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Black community is to dismantle the black family to Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Why don't we ask missus Willie Brown if Kamala had
elverys cares about black families people stopping? How did the
shooter know where Donald Trump would be? I can't see
he's from North Carolina. He lives in Hawaiian How would
he know where Donald Trump would be at that moment?
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I've stayed for days at Mar A Lago and you
don't know when Trump's coming and going. And when he does,
there's a very impromptu.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Nature to it all.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He walks fast, comes out of his unit, which is
right in the middle of it. You walk right past
his front door. He's out of his unit into that
open space. He keeps moving and there's a swish that
goes by. He'll point at people, pat people if they
don't see him when he's coming. He'll pat him on
the back as he goes and they ca it was
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Donald Trump. How did a shooter know where he would
be and when he would be there? Reports are that
this was not a planned golf outing. This was a
last minute, let me go play some golf. If that
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is true, how did this guy get the intel.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
To be set up.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
He lives in Hawaii, He's at the precise point.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
On this course. Trump plays golf all over.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
If, in fact, as is being reported, this was a
last minute decision to play golf, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
There are.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Former assistant FBI director was quoted as saying, there are
only three possible answers. Number One, he guessed and got
insanely lucky. Number two, he was conducting surveillance on Trump
and followed.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Him to the course.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Or number three, he had inside information, which would mean
there are other people involved in this. Let's start with
he guessed and got very lucky. You think he just
sitting out on the sixth hole of the golf course
all day, every day in hopes that one day a
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guy who's traveling the world right now, traveling the country campaigning.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
It's not the most.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Unbearable heat in the world, but it's still warm in
Palm Beach. You think he's set up out there with
a backpack and a GoPro to film it in an
ak forty seven? Ready, should the president just come along
at any point in time. If that's true, then he
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should have had provisions.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And I suppose we'll find out. If he did or
he didn't, maybe we won't.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Let's assume he didn't get insanely lucky needle in a haystack.
If he conducted surveillance on Trump, Okay, how do you
conduct surveillance on Trump? The president? With the Secret Service
all around? And they are around. I've seen it. They
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are where you least expect them.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's where they are, and they would spot you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So he would have had to be on the grounds
to spot Trump, see that Trump was coming, and then
go and assume his position and get his vehicle in place.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And all of that.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Not very likely. The third and very disturbing option is
that he was informed tipped off. That is as a
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horrifying notion, absolutely horrifying notion. And now we have to
confront the specter that our own government is trying to
kill our president. I don't think there's anybody who's paid
attention in this country who doesn't believe there's a decent
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chance that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Do we think the FBI director is preventing it happen?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, absolutely we do not. Do we think Chris Ray
is the first FBI director who would like to take
Trump out, whether using legal proceedings, or in a body bag.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
We know what Jim Comey was up to. We know
who was paying Jim Comey's bills. We know the whole story.
We also know about them bugging Trump's unit at Trump
Tower when he was running for president. We also know
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about the disgraced former British spy who was being paid
by the Hillary Clinton campaign through a law firm to
Fusion Gps. But we know what it was, what all
was happening. That's called using a straw man tonst to
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Susan went to prison for that. He gave money to
a friend that didn't have much money to contribute to
a race where the candidate not only didn't didn't even
come close, but it was a candidate who's politics he liked.
He did a year in prison for that. Think about that.
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The Clinton campaign got a fine. Oh well, that's unfortunate.
We have to part with a little money in our
campaign account. And what was that for? For structuring a
transaction so that it wouldn't be seen. They paid the
law firm, The law firm hired Fusion Gps. Fusion Gps
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put together the dossier. They hand the dossier to the media.
The media says, oh my god, Trump is controlled by
the Russians. A British spy has been discovered. And he
says this, Well, he was brought before the court for
libel and slander in England and they have serious libel
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and slander statutes and he would have to pay dearly
if caught.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Lying or slandery.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And he said he never believed anything of what he
said was true. So if he didn't believe it, why
was it handed to the media, and why did the
media regurgitate it. It isn't because Trump has bad table manners, Folks,
this guy is exposing what they don't want you to know.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The Michael Berry Show. Should we open the poll to
the people? Ramon, I think we should seven.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Three nine nine nine one thousand and seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. Speaking of fact checking, Ramon,
can you pull up from our Greatest Hits list number
four five where Kamala Harris says that Goldman Sachs said
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that her plan would strengthen the economy. That's what Kamala
Harris said during the debate, that her plan would Goldman Sachs.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
What Goldman Sachs has said is that Donald Trump's plan
would make the economy worse. Mine would strengthen the economy.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
The CEO Goldman Sachs came out to say.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
No, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Clip number four oh six, where Kamala Harris would say
that nowhere in America is a woman carrying a baby
to term and asking for an abortion.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to
term and asking for an abortion.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Turns out, in nine states it's completely legal, including Tim
Waltz's Minnesota. We've got Democrats on records saying they support
no restrictions on abortion, not one up babies crowning, crush
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it you sure? Yep? I mean I can't promise you.
They say that you're sure, I think they just crushed
the baby at that point. I think that's exactly what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We know it to be the case. Then you have
clip number four oh one.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
And this is what every person needs to understand, not
just whites, but also blacks that when Kamala Harris, if
she were to get into office, it is going to
be reparations and black.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Talk all day every day. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans
are better off than they were four years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Uh four oh one, it is four one oh.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I need four one nine one oh two four. No,
that's all right, I need four O one. I realize
we got to change those.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I need four O one. Kamala Harris high blood pressure
and heart disease.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Apparently the reason that blacks have high blood pressure and
heart disease is because.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Of slavery, which feels kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I'm not sure how exactly that came to pass. How
is it that the institution of slavery one hundred and
sixty years ago is responsible for high blood pressure and
heart disease. No, Actually, if you want to have a
serious conversation, we can discuss. I'm not saying government should
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change policy, should increase taxes for this.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Or do the things that government does. But if you
look at the data.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And you have a sick modicum of understanding of science
and nutrition and biology, you understand that diets tend to
be cultural in nature, and you understand that for many
blacks in America, and not just blacks, plenty of whites
and Hispanics. It's not just black folk filling up those
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tubby seats in the airplane. In fact, used to you
could talk about morbid obesity in this country and how
if nothing else, how tragic and sad it is. Some
people are mad at fatties. I've never understood that. Why
are you mad at fat people? So we went to
the Texans game last night and the last guy to
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perform were the number six hundred on a Texans jersey,
and he had this whole thing about don't mess with Texas,
and the younger folks knew the song, the older folks didn't.
And we were leaving and I have my brother in
law from India, my nephew who's the lawyer, and my
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kids and my wife, and my wife said, who was
the guy who performed at the end there? And I said,
I think his name was Fat the Plug, because I
thought that's what the guy next to me said the
guy's name was, but it was something else, the plug.
None of them have names that you know you'd be
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born with, like Michael or Richard or Robert or anything.
They all have you know, the weekend and you have
to misspell it. But anyway, Michael said, Dad, come on,
you're better than that. Don't make fun of the guy
I said, why would I make fun of a really
really fat guy who embraces being really really fat?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I see no humor in that, Honestly, I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I like to poke fun at things where people think
there's something that they're not, or present themselves as something
that they're not. The hypocrisy, that's the part that's fun.
But I see no fun in poking fun at this
guy for being just massive and he is. But fat
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jokes are funny. A lot of jokes are funny. Jokes
are funny because they relieve stress and they allow us
to poke fun at each other. I poke fun at
myself as much as anyone else. But humorless people can't
do that. They're incapable of doing that. That being said,
why don't we discuss morbid obesity and high rates of
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it and how particularly among blacks?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But it's not just blacks. It tends to be poor people.
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Because the food of poor people is no longer home
cooked meals, it's now fast food. Look at what's going
into that fast food. I don't think the fast food
restaurants are intentionally trying to kill us.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
It's not in their financial best interest. I think they're
trying to put the product at the lowest possible price
they can to still make the maximum money with them
a maximum amount of flavor as fast as they can.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
To get you through the line.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I do, and I don't think anybody's compelling anybody to
eat it all day long. But you look at who
works there, and you look at who eats there. It's
morbid lit beast people. There's no doubt about this. Why
can't we have that discussion and over time? Garbage in
garbage house like putting ethanol in your in your truck,
it's going to cause problems.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
All right, let's open the phone lines to the people.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You got some conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm not going to answer your conspiracy theories, so don't
call Hey, Michael, it is just true. Because I'm not
the arbiter of what isn't true. I ask questions, I
don't provide answers. But if you want to say you
heard this, or you think this, or whatever else, it's
a judgment free zone. So if you just call up
and offer your craziest thoughts, whatever
Speaker 1 (33:11):
They may be, and we'll give them an errand
It's that time. Time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
The ABC employee who is being called a whistleblower, a
person who is pointing out something that is illegal or
unethical within the workplace and should have protections as a
result of it, including their identity protected, has claimed in
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an affidavit under penalty of perjury that one of the
things the Harris campaign insisted could not be raised as
an issue by the network of common l Harris. Now,
what were the chances The network's head is Kamala Harris's
best friend. By Kamala Harris's own statement, several years ago,
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she met her husband because the head of ABC told her,
I have a guy you have to meet. He's my
husband's best friend. Kamala Harris meets him, marries him. She
stays on track. That's how this game is played. They
weren't going to ask her a tough question to start with,
but just to make sure. Kamala Harris's list of demands
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was that her brother in law and his case is
with the plural s not be raised in any way. Well,
you might not know about Tony West, Kamala Harris's sister
Maya in nineteen ninety eight married Tony West.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And he's a real character, this one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He would be one of her first political advisors, helping
her with the two thousand and three San Francisco District
Attorney's race.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
These were in the days.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
When she was still servicing Willie Brown, the mayor, so
Tony West would marry Maya Harris. Tony West would serve
in the Clinton Department of Justice and in Barack Obama's
Department of Justice. In Obama's Department of Justice, he was
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accused of setting up a Ponzi scheme which would fleece
billions from taxpayers. As head of the Justice Department's Civil Division,
Tony West took advantage of the Treasury Department's secret Quote
Judgment Fund, a slush account used to pay inflated settlement
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without congressional oversight. Sound like Harris County all over again.
Let's find these pockets of millions, if not billions of
dollars and put them in our pocket. The Government Accountability
Office admitted they have no idea how many settlements are
paid yearly by the Judgment Fund.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
No receipts are published, and attorney's fees that are awarded well, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Not disclosed, because why would you need to know that
you're just the person paying for it. President Trump banned
this fund when he took office, but of course Joe
Biden made it legal again in twenty twenty one because
there are powerful people getting.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Rich off of it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
In two thousand and nine, Tony West was placed in
charge of the Department of Justice's specific division that litigates
and settles lawsuits paid out by the Judgment Fund. You
see how this works, right, So he's working for the government.
You're a plane's attorney. You sue the government. He's the
(04:12):
person on the other side. And he said, oh no,
you're asking for three million dollars. I'm not going to
give you three million dollars, but I'll give you thirty
because I'm assuming you'd like to kick ten back to me.
Tony West's first order of business, according to one of
his deputy emails. Deputy's emails, was to find the best
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way to use the settlement fund to allocate money toward
his friend's organizations. According to Daniel Huff, former counsel to
the Senate and House Judiciary Committee's quote, settlements became the
vehicle for paying.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Off political allies.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
One of Tony West's biggest scores was a twenty ten
settl with ninety one Hispanic and female farmers who claimed
they were illegally discriminated against. Tony West intervened and quote
engineered a stunning turnabout. According to The New York Times,
the Department of Justice agreed to a one point three
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to three billion dollar settlement, including thousands of farmers who
were never even involved in the case and Native American farmers.
The left wing New York Times admitted at the time
that Tony West settlement was a runaway train driven by
racial politics and law firms that stand again more than
(05:39):
one hundred and thirty million dollars in fees.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
The settlement payment grew to over four point four.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Billion dollars, creating a sixty million dollar windfall for the
lead lawyer, Joseph Sellers, who just so happened to also
be a member of the Obama Biden transition team. Tony
West also concocted a series of shady bank settlements with
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victims of the housing crisis, with questionable provisions requiring banks
to make almost a billion dollars in mandatory in mandatory
donations to Democrats supporting activist groups, excluding all conservative property
rights organizations. The Tony West corrupt settlement system was again
(06:29):
used in twenty sixteen to make Volkswagen fund a two
billion dollar White House electric car initiative that Congress had blocked.
And you'll never believe this, but Tony then got a
job with Uber see because he had to leave the government.
(06:51):
So what he did is he first put government tons
of government money into a private company and then they
hire him to come over big Pharma.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Does that look at Scott Gottlieb.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Tony then got a job with uber, which profits greatly
with the shift to ev A White House email literally
shows staff saying they ought to quote build a statue
to West and bow down to this statue each day
after they receive their two hundred thousand dollars per day.
(07:27):
The agreement was co signed by then California Attorney General
Kamala Harris, all while being advised by Tony West, her
soon to be White House.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Counsel should she win.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
The White House Department of Justice used Tony West's settlement
system to pay FBI agents Peter Strazik and Lisa Page
two million dollars after the anti tump After their anti
Trump texts were published. You cannot hate these people enough.
(08:09):
There is a standard paradigm that these people engage in.
They get elected on the basis that we need more
blacks in office. They surround themselves with their fraternity brothers
and their sorority sisters and other like minded folks. Then
they begin scouring for ways to take government money and
(08:35):
pay their buddies and kick it back to them. And
then when it's all over, when the government time is up,
they get hired by an outside company that they have
made rich over the years. Now, sorry if you were
a company that was bidding for a contract, and sorry
if you're a taxpayer who's being fleeceed, and sorry that
your government may is now a third world banana republic.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But what did you expect? Really, you thought it was funny.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm with them, Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, I won't do that. It's too much for my
She won't go that. That was so funny.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Kamala Harris's brother in law. They didn't want any questions
about the investigation into him, but he was.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
A speaker at the DNC this year. He was on stage.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
If Kamala Harris is elected, it'll be just like Sylvester
Turner taken over as mayor in Houston, giving money to
sorority sisters and fraternity friends and fellow travelers over the years.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
There is a.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Whole cabal of these well connected folks who've known each
other since college, some of their families knew each other
before that, and their self dealing back and forth. They
bring in everyone they know to help their guy get elected.
(10:07):
They socialize together, they plant their people in the offices,
they get the big contracts, they kicked the money back
to the person in office, and it goes on and
on and on. They've got a network of folks in
the media, in the universities, in the private companies.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
This is.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
What has collapsed the City of Houston government. This is
exactly what has happened. That's what Sylvester Turner did. Meanwhile,
we get the news from Mayor Whitpmeyer that Houston faces
a forty six million dollar deficit and he wants to
raise taxes to cover the funds. He also announces that
(10:59):
the City of Hughes Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs is
awarding ninety seven thousand dollars in grants to individuals and
nonprofits for specific programs that amplify artistic creativity and innovation.
What in the hell do you think you're doing. We
(11:23):
have paid more in taxes, received less back.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
In government.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
For years, and now they go, yeah, the guy behind,
but the guy before me squandered a lot of money,
a lot of money. I mean, he made out like
a bandit. And by the way, he's about to be
the next congressman. He's going to replace Sheila Jackson Lee.
That's who they went with. Course, there are some voters
(11:54):
who are highly comfortable with the fraud in office because
they figure, well, we getting irs, but.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You're not getting yours.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He's getting his, she got hers, You're not getting anything other.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Than screwed and you don't even see it.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Imagine being so beaten down for so long that you
continue to vote for these people, you continue to believe they're.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Bull I'm gonna help y'all.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
We it's us again, then, cause because they out there
getting a's and we gonna get irs. Except you're not
getting anything. They're getting something. You're gonna raise taxes. Currently,
Houston's property tax rate stands at zero point five to
one to nine cents per one hundred dollars of assessed value.
(12:52):
Houston's finance director, Melissa DuBowski, warns of illuming forty six
million dollar deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. Mayor whit
My emphasizes that there may need to be cuts, which
would be hundreds of layoffs. So, Houston City Council, there's
(13:14):
a woman named Abbie Cayman. This was her claim to fame,
gave every city employee. I believe it's fifteen weeks of
maternity or paternity leave when a baby is born. If
a private company wants to do that, that's a private
(13:36):
company's prerogative. But with taxpayer dollars, you've got key positions
being abandoned for four months so that a dad can
hang out at home with the baby and the mom,
or take another job, or who knows what else. Now
(14:00):
you may say, well, that's a good thing, we bonding families.
I get it, But who's paying for it? There are
a lot of things that are good things. It's a
good thing if you work out every day. How about
if every employee leaves in addition to their lunch hour
and cutting out early. How about if ever employee takes
(14:23):
two three hours to go work out.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, Michael working out. It's good, Michael.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
What if they take another hour per day, maybe make
it too for counseling, therapy, talk about things, share their feelings, well, Michael, Michael.
My sister, she goes to counsel and this has helped
her a lot. Okay, what if they stagger their workday
(14:51):
to come in later and leave earlier so they're not
stuck in the traffic, because that's also stressful, Michael, Michael.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We need to do that because there's too much traffic Already,
they're helping us out, Michael.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
So now they come in at ten and leave it
to take a lunch break, counseling and work out. Guess what,
Nobody ever even logs the fact that there's a busted
water main on Braiswood. Nobody ever even logs the fact
that there's crimes all over that can't be reported and
(15:26):
officers be dispatched. And that's what you're left with. And
you run for office and I'm gonna fix this. Things
are bad. And to imagine this, Kamala Harris is running
for office on the basis of a new way forward.
You are currently the vice president of the country. What
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different than Joe Biden? Are you going to do, especially
because you're not actually going to be running anything. Her
website took down any issues upon which she was running
on the basis that the people would be too stupid
(16:12):
to care, and then the things. The first policy initiative
she had was no tax on tips. You could not
have asked for a more egregious example of them believing
(16:32):
the American people are stupid. Not only was that Donald
Trump's proposal from weeks before and never hers before, but
she had actually cast the deciding vote as the vice president,
breaking a fifty to fifty tie in the Senate, preventing
(16:53):
the no tax on tips. Not only had she never
done anything on the issue, she had actually done something
aggressively the other direction.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That's a non qualifying event for a presidential candidate. That's
Gary Hart on the monkey business with Donna Rice. But
it wasn't, was it. She then claims she was for
the border wall. Really she claims she was what the
(17:32):
borders are. We've got them saying she was, and the
media saying she was. We've got her making claims on
campaign issues that she's been against, in one case by
text by tweet, exactly contradictory two days before, where the.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Black community is to dismantle the black family to Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Why don't we ask missus Willie Brown if Kamala had
elverys cares about black families people stopping? How did the
shooter know where Donald Trump would be? I can't see
he's from North Carolina. He lives in Hawaiian How would
he know where Donald Trump would be at that moment?
(18:19):
I've stayed for days at Mar A Lago and you
don't know when Trump's coming and going. And when he does,
there's a very impromptu.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Nature to it all.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He walks fast, comes out of his unit, which is
right in the middle of it. You walk right past
his front door. He's out of his unit into that
open space. He keeps moving and there's a swish that
goes by. He'll point at people, pat people if they
don't see him when he's coming. He'll pat him on
the back as he goes and they ca it was
(18:52):
Donald Trump. How did a shooter know where he would
be and when he would be there? Reports are that
this was not a planned golf outing. This was a
last minute, let me go play some golf. If that
(19:13):
is true, how did this guy get the intel.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
To be set up.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
He lives in Hawaii, He's at the precise point.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
On this course. Trump plays golf all over.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
If, in fact, as is being reported, this was a
last minute decision to play golf, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
There are.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Former assistant FBI director was quoted as saying, there are
only three possible answers. Number One, he guessed and got
insanely lucky. Number two, he was conducting surveillance on Trump
and followed.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Him to the course.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Or number three, he had inside information, which would mean
there are other people involved in this. Let's start with
he guessed and got very lucky. You think he just
sitting out on the sixth hole of the golf course
all day, every day in hopes that one day a
(20:35):
guy who's traveling the world right now, traveling the country campaigning.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
It's not the most.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Unbearable heat in the world, but it's still warm in
Palm Beach. You think he's set up out there with
a backpack and a GoPro to film it in an
ak forty seven? Ready, should the president just come along
at any point in time. If that's true, then he
(21:05):
should have had provisions.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And I suppose we'll find out. If he did or
he didn't, maybe we won't.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Let's assume he didn't get insanely lucky needle in a haystack.
If he conducted surveillance on Trump, Okay, how do you
conduct surveillance on Trump? The president? With the Secret Service
all around? And they are around. I've seen it. They
(21:34):
are where you least expect them.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's where they are, and they would spot you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So he would have had to be on the grounds
to spot Trump, see that Trump was coming, and then
go and assume his position and get his vehicle in place.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And all of that.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Not very likely. The third and very disturbing option is
that he was informed tipped off. That is as a
(22:19):
horrifying notion, absolutely horrifying notion. And now we have to
confront the specter that our own government is trying to
kill our president. I don't think there's anybody who's paid
attention in this country who doesn't believe there's a decent
(22:41):
chance that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Do we think the FBI director is preventing it happen?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, absolutely we do not. Do we think Chris Ray
is the first FBI director who would like to take
Trump out, whether using legal proceedings, or in a body bag.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
We know what Jim Comey was up to. We know
who was paying Jim Comey's bills. We know the whole story.
We also know about them bugging Trump's unit at Trump
Tower when he was running for president. We also know
(23:27):
about the disgraced former British spy who was being paid
by the Hillary Clinton campaign through a law firm to
Fusion Gps. But we know what it was, what all
was happening. That's called using a straw man tonst to
(23:49):
Susan went to prison for that. He gave money to
a friend that didn't have much money to contribute to
a race where the candidate not only didn't didn't even
come close, but it was a candidate who's politics he liked.
He did a year in prison for that. Think about that.
(24:09):
The Clinton campaign got a fine. Oh well, that's unfortunate.
We have to part with a little money in our
campaign account. And what was that for? For structuring a
transaction so that it wouldn't be seen. They paid the
law firm, The law firm hired Fusion Gps. Fusion Gps
(24:31):
put together the dossier. They hand the dossier to the media.
The media says, oh my god, Trump is controlled by
the Russians. A British spy has been discovered. And he
says this, Well, he was brought before the court for
libel and slander in England and they have serious libel
(24:54):
and slander statutes and he would have to pay dearly
if caught.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Lying or slandery.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And he said he never believed anything of what he
said was true. So if he didn't believe it, why
was it handed to the media, and why did the
media regurgitate it. It isn't because Trump has bad table manners, Folks,
this guy is exposing what they don't want you to know.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The Michael Berry Show. Should we open the poll to
the people? Ramon, I think we should seven.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Three nine nine nine one thousand and seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand. Speaking of fact checking, Ramon,
can you pull up from our Greatest Hits list number
four five where Kamala Harris says that Goldman Sachs said
(25:54):
that her plan would strengthen the economy. That's what Kamala
Harris said during the debate, that her plan would Goldman Sachs.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
What Goldman Sachs has said is that Donald Trump's plan
would make the economy worse. Mine would strengthen the economy.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
The CEO Goldman Sachs came out to say.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
No, we didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Clip number four oh six, where Kamala Harris would say
that nowhere in America is a woman carrying a baby
to term and asking for an abortion.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to
term and asking for an abortion.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Turns out, in nine states it's completely legal, including Tim
Waltz's Minnesota. We've got Democrats on records saying they support
no restrictions on abortion, not one up babies crowning, crush
(27:05):
it you sure? Yep? I mean I can't promise you.
They say that you're sure, I think they just crushed
the baby at that point. I think that's exactly what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We know it to be the case. Then you have
clip number four oh one.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
And this is what every person needs to understand, not
just whites, but also blacks that when Kamala Harris, if
she were to get into office, it is going to
be reparations and black.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Talk all day every day. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans
are better off than they were four years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Uh four oh one, it is four one oh.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I need four one nine one oh two four. No,
that's all right, I need four O one. I realize
we got to change those.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I need four O one. Kamala Harris high blood pressure
and heart disease.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Apparently the reason that blacks have high blood pressure and
heart disease is because.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Of slavery, which feels kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I'm not sure how exactly that came to pass. How
is it that the institution of slavery one hundred and
sixty years ago is responsible for high blood pressure and
heart disease. No, Actually, if you want to have a
serious conversation, we can discuss. I'm not saying government should
(28:48):
change policy, should increase taxes for this.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Or do the things that government does. But if you
look at the data.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And you have a sick modicum of understanding of science
and nutrition and biology, you understand that diets tend to
be cultural in nature, and you understand that for many
blacks in America, and not just blacks, plenty of whites
and Hispanics. It's not just black folk filling up those
(29:23):
tubby seats in the airplane. In fact, used to you
could talk about morbid obesity in this country and how
if nothing else, how tragic and sad it is. Some
people are mad at fatties. I've never understood that. Why
are you mad at fat people? So we went to
the Texans game last night and the last guy to
(29:48):
perform were the number six hundred on a Texans jersey,
and he had this whole thing about don't mess with Texas,
and the younger folks knew the song, the older folks didn't.
And we were leaving and I have my brother in
law from India, my nephew who's the lawyer, and my
(30:10):
kids and my wife, and my wife said, who was
the guy who performed at the end there? And I said,
I think his name was Fat the Plug, because I
thought that's what the guy next to me said the
guy's name was, but it was something else, the plug.
None of them have names that you know you'd be
(30:30):
born with, like Michael or Richard or Robert or anything.
They all have you know, the weekend and you have
to misspell it. But anyway, Michael said, Dad, come on,
you're better than that. Don't make fun of the guy
I said, why would I make fun of a really
really fat guy who embraces being really really fat?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I see no humor in that, Honestly, I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I like to poke fun at things where people think
there's something that they're not, or present themselves as something
that they're not. The hypocrisy, that's the part that's fun.
But I see no fun in poking fun at this
guy for being just massive and he is. But fat
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jokes are funny. A lot of jokes are funny. Jokes
are funny because they relieve stress and they allow us
to poke fun at each other. I poke fun at
myself as much as anyone else. But humorless people can't
do that. They're incapable of doing that. That being said,
why don't we discuss morbid obesity and high rates of
(31:43):
it and how particularly among blacks?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But it's not just blacks. It tends to be poor people.
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Because the food of poor people is no longer home
cooked meals, it's now fast food. Look at what's going
into that fast food. I don't think the fast food
restaurants are intentionally trying to kill us.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
It's not in their financial best interest. I think they're
trying to put the product at the lowest possible price
they can to still make the maximum money with them
a maximum amount of flavor as fast as they can.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
To get you through the line.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I do, and I don't think anybody's compelling anybody to
eat it all day long. But you look at who
works there, and you look at who eats there. It's
morbid lit beast people. There's no doubt about this. Why
can't we have that discussion and over time? Garbage in
garbage house like putting ethanol in your in your truck,
it's going to cause problems.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
All right, let's open the phone lines to the people.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You got some conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I'm not going to answer your conspiracy theories, so don't
call Hey, Michael, it is just true. Because I'm not
the arbiter of what isn't true. I ask questions, I
don't provide answers. But if you want to say you
heard this, or you think this, or whatever else, it's
a judgment free zone. So if you just call up
and offer your craziest thoughts, whatever
Speaker 1 (33:11):
They may be, and we'll give them an errand
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