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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Officer Durphy has a wife and three young kids that
he provides for. They're about five, seven and ten. It's
another officer that works with him that told me that
when I asked, he works an extra job at the church.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Many people don't realize it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Most police officers work an extra job, and it's good
that they do because it means we have a lot
more officers on the street than you realize, because the
departments can't keep up with the crime, and it just
means you're privatizing the expense of keeping people on duty.
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They often I know a number of law enforcement officers,
not just HPD, sheriff's deputies, you name it, all levels
who will take a pay cut from another job to
go be a police officer because it's in their blood.
They have sheep dog mentality. They want to help people,
and there really are good people who do this, but
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they can't they can't match what they could make on
the outside, and they don't have the upside that.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They would in the private sector.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But they do it and the way they make it
makes sense, and then they can still buy things for
their kids that they'd like to and pay their house.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Note is they work extra jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, the problem when it guy gets wounded like this
is they're not cleared for extra jobs for a while,
and that means income that you weren't gonna make otherwise.
So I have donated twenty five hundred. I would love
to hit ten thousand. That's our goal. I think we
can do that rather easily. I'll just say it one time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
If you do.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Donate to him, send me an email tell me how
much you donated. I've just posted a Facebook but I'm
going to make this real easy for you. Go to
assist Theeofficer dot com and if you can't remember how
to do this, email me and I'll send you the
details on how to do it. You go to assist
theeofficer dot com. Then you click on events up at
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the top of the menu and then upcoming benefits and
you'll see he's the one that they have on there
and it says donate and if you can donate twenty
five dollars, it adds up. There's a lot of people
fifty dollars, one hundred dollars. If you can do ten thousand,
whatever you can do is greatly appreciated. And I've set
the gold at ten and we're twenty five percent of
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the way there. And I know there's a lot of
you that are appreciative. Maybe because you're an officer and
you realize that could have been you and you're paying
it forward. Maybe you're the family member of an officer,
maybe you were married to an officer, or maybe you're
a person whose life was saved by an officer. This
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twenty six year old woman with her one year old
and three year old who are at home when these
bad guys pushed the door in and zip tie her
with a gun in her face, demanding the money in
the house. Where's the safe? Who knows what happens if
the neighbor doesn't call Officer Durfy and he doesn't come
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blasting through the door.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Who knows what happens to her?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
To those kids they're having to watch in horror as
Raymond Perez and his little button or pistol whipping her
for cash. Who knows what happens to those three. It's
horrible to imagine. He stood in between evil and innocence
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and fortunately didn't have to make the ultimate sacrifice. But
I don't know about you. I don't want to be shot.
I don't I don't think you just you know a
year later ago.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, it was. It's rough. It's rough.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's it's a reminder every single day of the dangers
of that. If you can't remember how to donate at
assistioficer dot com, because it took me a minute to
figure it out, email me and I just drafted up
a little description on how to do it, and I
would sure appreciate you doing that if you don't know
what Assist the Officer is. When I was on city council,
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I was asked to serve on the board of.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Assist the Office.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And I said, well, why do we need another organization?
Too many organizations? Why do we need another organization? We
already have the one hundred Club. And the head of
the union at the time told me, Michael, for an
officer's family, it's better they get killed than wounded.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And I said, why is that?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And he said, if you're killed, the one hundred Club
steps in and they'll pay off your mortgage and they
do this and then you get life benefits and the
family will be better taken care of.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If an officer is killed in line of duty.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But God help you if you're maimed because you get
a little afflat you know, gap payment, you lose your
extra jobs you've got, in many cases chronic conditions you're
dealing with for.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
The rest of your life. I said, sold I will
be glad to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And it's a great organization. You don't realize how many
officers are wounded, and when their story is not in
the news and you know, you move on to the
next shooting, it is forgotten that that guy talking to
Mango Vallier the other day, Sergeant Valier who was shot
seven times, seven entry wounds, seven eggsit wounds, fourteen holes
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in his body and he's still he's back to work,
but he said he's in significant pain constantly. The nerves
in his body are are out of whack, and they're
telling him that he is experiencing extreme trauma even when
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he's not. But for anybody who's been through a condition
like that, that's not all necessarily gunshot wound related that
maybe something he lives with for the rest of his life.
Can't do any extra jobs for sure, has trouble picking.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
His daughter up.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, you know, those are those are things you have
to you have to live with for the rest of
your life. So if you're able to help.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Please do.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And by the way, when we raise money for things,
I often get emails from people saying as if they
are feeling convicted or accused or look, for most of
my life I didn't have two nickels to rub together.
So if I gave it was a widow's mite. It
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was what little bit I could do. Not worry if
you can't. There are plenty of people who can. Plenty
of people.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Our event October twelfth, twenty nine to twenty Roadhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I said, if I get a sponsor for twenty five thousand,
cover the expenses before Monday, then I'll have the event.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And if I don't, I won't. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I get a call from well, several people offered, but
I get a call from somebody I hadn't talked to
in I don't know a year, Larry Ness. He went
on one of our Pomber trips. He's got a construction
company in Dayton. I said, Larry, can I put your
your websites down? Can I put your website up? And
thank you for it? He said, Michael, we build banks.
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The banks love us.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We're good at what we do. It's kind of our niche.
I'm at a perfect size.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I can oversee every project down to the last possible detail,
make sure every line is plumbed, every window is perfect.
I don't want to If I grew, I just have
more employees and more worries and more thing. I appreciate it.
I support what you're doing. I look forward to being there.
If I can have a table, you can have a table, Larry,
you can have whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's all we need.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Just salt of the earth people not trying to become
fabulously wealthy. Salt of the earth people blessed by their success,
wanting to give back.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's and that's why I love what we do.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Twenty eighteen, which of the theme up paper ballots, But
that actually might be one of the smartest.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Systems Michael Very Show, because.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper. You have a.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Rally on October twelfth in the evening. It is a Saturday,
and if you are interested in applying for tickets, they're free,
but it is a ticketed event. Email me through the
website Michael Berryshow dot com, or you can email me
directly Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com. If I know
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you somehow, you're a show sponsor, a show guest, or
anything else, put that in the first line. Please keep
it brief, but you must include four numbers in your
email so that it goes to the right filter, and
that is two nine two zero twenty nine to twenty
twenty nine to twenty. It'll be on the northwest side
of town. I'm not announcing bands because people think I'm
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putting on a concert and everybody wants their band to play,
and it becomes a huge distraction, and I'm just not
doing that. Think of it as a rally. It's an
election time rally. It's a time to gather with friends.
Don't major in the miners and pester me with fifty
eight questions about what you should wear or anything else.
Imagine we're going to have between one thousand and fifteen
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hundred people and having to answer that many questions of
the little bitty thing that you want to know. Just
please don't do it. If you're interested in tickets, however,
email me through the website or directly Michael at Michael
Berryshow dot com. Just make sure you put in the
subject line and in the body, preferably of the email
as well, so the filter catches it twenty nine to
twenty those four numbers because it's going to be at
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twenty nine to twenty roadhouse, and yes, you must have
a ticket. This should be made into a movie. An
American Airlines mechanic has been sentenced to nine years in
prison for smuggling twenty five pounds of cocaine hidden under
the cockpit of a JFK bound flight from Jamaica. Customs
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officials found ten cocaine bricks in an electronics compartment or
did they find eleven? Ramon, I always wonder about that. Well, sorry,
pull you over here to the side. It appears that
you were trying to smuggle in ten bricks a cocaine. Actually, officer,
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it was eleven. Nope, it was only ten. We were
only turning over ten, was that? Yeah, yeah, exactly, and
replace them with fake bricks sprayed with a substance that
glows under a special black light. Paul Beloisi, fifty six,
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was sentenced by US District Judge Dora Irosari in Brooklyn
after being convicted in May of twenty three of conspiring
to possess cocaine conspiring to import cocaine and importing cocaine.
Case arose from a routine search of American flight thirteen
forty nine, where Belosi had been an American mechanic for
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more than two decades, from Montego Bay, Jamaica. Prosecutors said
custom officers found ten cocaine bricks weighing twenty five pounds
in an electronics compartment beneath the cockpit and replaced them
with fake bricks sprayed with a substance that glows under a.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Special black light.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Prosecutor said law enforcement confronted him and showed that he
had handled the fake bricks because his gloves glued under
the black light. They also said Bloisi was carrying an
empty tool bag and wore a jacket large enough to
hold said cocaine. The cocaine had a street value of
more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Have you
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ever seen cocaine?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Room?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Have you known anybody to do it? You have a
by io who Emily does not do cocaine. You're stupid,
you know what. That's not very nice. If Emily was anything,
it would be a stoner. She's totally chilled. Emily does
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not do cocaine. That can you imagine Emily on cocaine.
She's already too high strung as it is. I think
nine years is too long. Don't get upset. Just hear
me out here. We tend to, uh, we tend to
get really excited about prosecuting people who smuggle drugs because
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people have a relative who odeed.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
On drug, and.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Out of the grief of the relative who odeed on
the drug, we go, let's go catch somebody else's bringing
in drugs. How About we address not doing.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Drugs with people.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
How About how about we get real serious about that.
How About we address what they're trying to do and
what they're trying to accomplish and better safer ways to
do that. How about we start with that. And how
about we really focus on the kind of people who
bust into somebody's house with a gun and zip tie
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a woman pistol.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Whipper while her one year old and three year.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Old watch on, and you say, oh, let's get them all.
Can't get them all. That's the problem. You're pushing one
violent criminal, rapist, pedophile out of prison every day to
make room for a dude that's handling coke. Look I
wish none of them would do it. I mean, it's
all stupid, and you wish that none of them would
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do it. But I'll tell you this, your government spent
a lot more time chasing down anyone over ivermactin than
they ever have over fentanyl. And fentanyl's the scariest drugging
in the history of mankind.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It really is. It's the only drug I know of.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where you can die the first time you try it,
and you're literally dipping a toe into the water.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
There are credible stories.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I've heard it from officers, I've heard it from EMTs,
I've heard it from doctors.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I've heard it from mothers.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
There are credible stories of fifteen sixteen year old kids
at high school and one of their buddies gives them
a candy.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And I mean I'm not talking about a big candy.
I'm talking about little smarty. We went to.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Crockett's parent teacher open house night a couple of weeks ago,
and the teacher came around and gave everybody a smarty.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You know what smarties are? Do you really looks like? Yeah,
little little Asprince.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's in a clear kind of little cellophane read on
the end and rolled up and we went to leave,
and my wife said, you didn't get your candy because
they didn't call them smart as in India.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And I said, no, I don't eat candy. And she said, well,
I'll take them, and she did, and she brought them home.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And we have a little community desk, which is where
the mail goes, and we put our keys, and everything
goes on the community desk. The next morning I get up,
the Smarties are on the community desk. That night I'll
come home the Smarties are on the community desk. So finally,
after about three days, I said, what is going on
with these Smarties?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What are you talking about? Because I knew she still
didn't know the name of them, these candies. Why are
they here? Well, somebody might want them.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We're toting these damn candies around and they've got pride
of place on the community desk where real estate is precious.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, somebody wants them.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Throw them away, Well, somebody wants them. I hadn't bought
Smarties in forty years, maybe fifty years, but I bet
they're a nickel apiece.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Still they can't cost very much. Good grief, I would like.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
To hear from somebody who was a serious, serious cocaine
user as to what it did for you and why
you did it. I have had friends of mine who
were surprisingly successful people, because you know, I always associated
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people that do drugs as people you go to prison
and you die. I didn't know that there were high
functioning people. There are some high function not as high
functioning as they could be if they didn't do the drugs,
but there are. They're high functioning, a lot of high
functioning drunks, but they're high functioning potheads. They're high functioning
coke heads. Anyway, I would like to hear your story.
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Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. We're not
glamorizing cocaine and it's it's it's a very very Americans
or hardcore drug don't touch it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But I would like to hear your story. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousands.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
A lot of folks who.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Feel inspiration to write a song about what's going on
in our country, and they will send them along, and
you can never acknowledge that you got them, because then
they will know when you're going to play them.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And then when you do play it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
How can I get a record of it, and so
you learn over the years you just don't touch it.
And a lot of them, frankly, are just not very good.
They're painful to the ear, but they come from a
good place. You know, when your kid, You know, when
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my brother would be practicing his trumpet before he got really,
really good. He would be practicing his trumpet in middle school,
maybe by his freshman year, and it was wow, and
it wasn't good, and it never is for anybody, you know.
I can't play the glinstruments hard. Takes a lot of time.
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So anyway, I don't know what overtook me, but a
fellow named Norman Kerner in Ellicott City, Maryland sent me
an email entitle he's Lincoln. The Democrats are not aware
that Trump's the closest thing to Lincoln of any of
our presidents, especially now fighting back after the two assassination attempts.
I wrote this song to make the point that he's
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the very essence of Abe Lincoln. I hope you like it.
Feel free to use it in any way you want.
Keep me posted well.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That I won't do.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But it's actually pretty good and we'll come back with
it in the next segment as a bump, and I'll
post it to Facebook and we'll put it. Jim will
put it on the Blast today. So if you're a
subscriber to our Daily Blast, if you like this song,
then you'll be able to click it's a SoundCloud link
to it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
If you're not a.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Subscriber to our Daily Blast, go to Michael Berryshow dot com,
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you're free to delete if you don't have time to
read it that day. All right, let's talk to Let's
see regarding degrees not being necessary. Okay, George, you're on
the Michael Berry Show. Did you call about cocaine?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Okay, David, I'm trying to find a cocid and they've
got people calling in about politics. David, Well, thank you
found one.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Were you previously or are you now a cokid?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I am recovery. I am in recovery. I was a
you know, I smoke crack. They a lot of go
since I was like twenty years old and till I
was about forty. I'm now sixty. I just wanted to
call and answer any questions you might have, because addiction
is something a lot of people can't get that hit
around because well they're not addicted. Ah, it's a very
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you know, And I'd just like to answer any question
you may have.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, let me start by saying, I've never been a
cocaine addict and never will be because I'm scared to
death of it. And the reason I'm scared to death
of it is I've had people friends of mine who
have used cocaine, some of whom became terribly addicted. And
they say, Michael, you have to steer clear of that
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because you already struggle to go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You don't want the data end.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You love to be high energy, and it would give
you all of those things until it couldn't and you
would like it too much.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And I got it. You had to me, don't touch
this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Let's talk about how you got to the point at
twenty that you were experimenting with I mean, you rattle
off some pretty rough stuff. How did you get to
that point in your life?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Well, I started off with an alcoholic and I've got
an addicted nature. I don't know if that makes any
sense to a lot of people, But what happened is
I was drinking and I get drunk, and somebody would
approach me, and where you were told or had the
common sense or whatever it is to say no, I didn't,
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And I did that further. And once you do it
the first time, it's for me. It just set off.
I don't know what. It was, such a great feeling,
an erotic feeling that I was on top of the world.
I could do anything and could and was smarter. But
the think of it is I kept chasing that one
feeling from that first day. I never got it again
for years and years and years. And with that said,
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that's where addiction comes in. You chase that that that
that that I can't really put my word on it,
that feeling it, and it'll take everything from you chasing.
Does that make any sense of all to you?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It makes all the sense.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Andy. Once you get that that that feeling, you want
to keep going and going and going to have that feeling,
and you end up losing everything. And now you was
mentioned there are a lot of high functioning people that
do cocaine, well, the high functioning people do alcohol, you know, alcoholics,
but it's not sustainable for any length of time. I mean,
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you know, you might do it for a few years,
but eventually it will catch up to you. And that's but.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You know, David, and you'll tell you something.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You talk about addictive personalities, and I think we're getting
into the deeper issue of the way our brains work
and the desire for There are a lot of different
words that are used in science, both the psychology side
and the and the physiology side, the biology side that
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get into serotonin. You know, the pleasure principle, the idea
of a positive rush, a bump, you know that phenomenon.
I see that in things even outside of drugs. Obviously
drugs have the chemical side of that, but we also
have natural chemicals we'll release.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I have watched people.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Men and women who love the idea of the teenage romance,
and a lot of this is fostered in pop culture
and they call it the kids call it love bombing now,
and it's this idea of you know, this couple and
they've just started dating and they can't get enough of
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each other and they're all over each other all the time.
That's be around each other all the time, and these constant,
dramatic shows of affection and commitment and all of this,
and then you see that person five years later and
they're miserable and the relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Is horrible and she's horrible, and she says he's horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And part of that is they need that drug of
the newness. And and that's not sustainable either, happy healthy couples.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That that do it for decades. You need to learn
a sense of moderation. And Michael Berry, I don't know
a better work for it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Another say yeah, we're on the break.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They won't unlock him up.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Throw away keep slam another door to keep a man out.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Those fools don't get what he's all about, or.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They hate the more he's reading new There's only one god.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
He bows down to after every hopes. In every case.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
They try, they go lovel That's when he goes high.
He's a Lincoln, Hey left that sink in. He find
so hard for you and need this songs go slagg lead.
He's working for your freed on repetable even about friend.
He's a Lincoln hi Fi fight behind out while he
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was bleeding Si Fi fight piece all we've got.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Left to believe in.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But he's back in twice said strong, his fear and
his fears then a junk yard dog. Let's say together, Hey, Hey, Usa, Usa, Usa, Usa.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Tell he's a Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Hey left that sink in. He find so hard for
you and need this songs go slack lead. He's working
for your friend on Repetable about Friend, He's a Lincoln.
He's a Lincoln, He's a lakem he's a leader, He's truck.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
If you want the link to that fellow's song from Maryland,
it will be in the Daily Blast today.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Sign up for it.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Uh, I'm not sure his first name doesn't give a
first name. I lived through about a twenty year cocaine habit.
I loved the energy that it gave me, but once
it became a chemical dependency, it wasn't fun anymore. Then
my body craved it. It almost ruined my life, It
ruined my finances. It got so bad my wife threatened
my dealer, and he threatened to have her killed, which
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was very stupid of her, but she loved me enough
to put herself at risk. Nothing was going to stop
me from killing myself with it until God, my wife
and the power of prayer saved me from myself. Thank God,
I'm still here. Boy, you want to have a whole
new outlook on your life, talk to an addict that
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hit rock.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Bottom, and I mean rock bottom.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We all think that we've had it rough because we
ate blooney sandwiches. That's not rock bottom. You spend some
time with the guys at Camp Hope and you hear
stories of rock Bottom, and it.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Is brutal, brutal to hear them. I have to.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I become for clemped because if I speak, I'll get
choked up because I've seen addiction like this.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
We had this, not my father or my mother. We
had some.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We had a fair number of people in our family
in the generations before me who whose lives were destroyed
by drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And you see that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You're raised around it, and I was so scared of it.
I still am, and and it's kind of a lifelong
fascination with it because one of the things I notice is,
first of all, nobody sets out to become addicted to anything.
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Everybody's going to You're not going to become a gambling addict.
And mortgage my home for one more roll of the wheel.
Come on, okay, anythink I am nobody? He intends to
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lose their rational powers. And most people don't realize that
they're they're they're sliding down that slippery slope when they're
doing it, because the mind has a coping mechanism. And
if you've if you've had a child who was an addict,
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or a parent who was an addict, or a sibling
or a spouse for many of you, who was an addict,
or an employee, and you realize how convincing they can be.
They will employ every tool of persuasion to get you
to give them one hundred dollars. They're done with the drugs,
they're full of the drug. They're never going to do
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the drugs again. They just got to pay the dealer
back to keep from getting killed. And there they've turned
it around and find out two hours later that they
went and bought another hit. And it's it's in many ways,
it's harder on the people around them. And I've watched
this play out so many times. It's rough, and I
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think that as a result, and this is very natural,
it's so frustrating that we start looking for someone to blame,
and we start looking for someone to punish, especially when
the addict.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The user is gone.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
So this is where we say, you know, Jamaican employee
of American Airlines, we caught you with some cocaine you
were smuggling in. You know, you should get the death penalty,
which is the dumbest thing. I wish people would stop
sending me emails about people getting the death penalty for
things unrelated to murder. But that's how that's their way
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of saying I'm really really against it. You can be
really really against things without threatening the death penalty. You
know the little league baseball coach who only plays his
kid at picture and starts, you know, makes his kid
the leadoff batter and does not care about any of
the other kids. David Crook, that guy. Okay, that's an
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awful human being. That's not the death penalty, right, there
are things.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Short of that.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And by the way, there's also a way of saying
I really like X, Y or Z other than that
person for president. But anyway, I got a little distracted
there on the addiction thing. I've just watched so many
people I know everybody has.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I've watched so many.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
People burn themselves up on bourbon and spead sold Don
Williams song, What do you do with good old boys
like me? But I have, and I think we all have.
I also think we shouldn't blame the drug. I think
we should make better efforts to prepare people, because every
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addict will tell you, as as David did earlier, the early.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Moments of what ends up in an addiction, but never intentionally.
The early moments are golden.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's why the dealers will give you that first round
for free, the early days or man, this is going
to be great until the great is so great that
you want the great all the time, and that's not
sustainable because your body begins to to require more to
do that same thing, and the more becomes, you know,
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the next high, the next high, the next high, until
eventually you can't afford it, or you can't get it,
or you can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's a serious issue.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It's an Alcohol is the the deadliest drug in Americans.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
It's the one we don't we talk very very little
about because people.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Don't want to talk about that because more people are
addicted to it, maybe than or not, and that that
would be painful.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
So it's a tough that's a that's a tough conversation.
You're out there
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Officer Durphy has a wife and three young kids that
he provides for. They're about five, seven and ten. It's
another officer that works with him that told me that
when I asked, he works an extra job at the church.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Many people don't realize it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Most police officers work an extra job, and it's good
that they do because it means we have a lot
more officers on the street than you realize, because the
departments can't keep up with the crime, and it just
means you're privatizing the expense of keeping people on duty.
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They often I know a number of law enforcement officers,
not just HPD, sheriff's deputies, you name it, all levels
who will take a pay cut from another job to
go be a police officer because it's in their blood.
They have sheep dog mentality. They want to help people,
and there really are good people who do this, but
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they can't they can't match what they could make on
the outside, and they don't have the upside that.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They would in the private sector.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But they do it and the way they make it
makes sense, and then they can still buy things for
their kids that they'd like to and pay their house.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Note is they work extra jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, the problem when it guy gets wounded like this
is they're not cleared for extra jobs for a while,
and that means income that you weren't gonna make otherwise.
So I have donated twenty five hundred. I would love
to hit ten thousand. That's our goal. I think we
can do that rather easily. I'll just say it one time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
If you do.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Donate to him, send me an email tell me how
much you donated. I've just posted a Facebook but I'm
going to make this real easy for you. Go to
assist Theeofficer dot com and if you can't remember how
to do this, email me and I'll send you the
details on how to do it. You go to assist
theeofficer dot com. Then you click on events up at
(02:43):
the top of the menu and then upcoming benefits and
you'll see he's the one that they have on there
and it says donate and if you can donate twenty
five dollars, it adds up. There's a lot of people
fifty dollars, one hundred dollars. If you can do ten thousand,
whatever you can do is greatly appreciated. And I've set
the gold at ten and we're twenty five percent of
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the way there. And I know there's a lot of
you that are appreciative. Maybe because you're an officer and
you realize that could have been you and you're paying
it forward. Maybe you're the family member of an officer,
maybe you were married to an officer, or maybe you're
a person whose life was saved by an officer. This
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twenty six year old woman with her one year old
and three year old who are at home when these
bad guys pushed the door in and zip tie her
with a gun in her face, demanding the money in
the house. Where's the safe? Who knows what happens if
the neighbor doesn't call Officer Durfy and he doesn't come
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blasting through the door.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Who knows what happens to her?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
To those kids they're having to watch in horror as
Raymond Perez and his little button or pistol whipping her
for cash. Who knows what happens to those three. It's
horrible to imagine. He stood in between evil and innocence
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and fortunately didn't have to make the ultimate sacrifice. But
I don't know about you. I don't want to be shot.
I don't I don't think you just you know a
year later ago.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, it was. It's rough. It's rough.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's it's a reminder every single day of the dangers
of that. If you can't remember how to donate at
assistioficer dot com, because it took me a minute to
figure it out, email me and I just drafted up
a little description on how to do it, and I
would sure appreciate you doing that if you don't know
what Assist the Officer is. When I was on city council,
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I was asked to serve on the board of.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Assist the Office.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And I said, well, why do we need another organization?
Too many organizations? Why do we need another organization? We
already have the one hundred Club. And the head of
the union at the time told me, Michael, for an
officer's family, it's better they get killed than wounded.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And I said, why is that?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And he said, if you're killed, the one hundred Club
steps in and they'll pay off your mortgage and they
do this and then you get life benefits and the
family will be better taken care of.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If an officer is killed in line of duty.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But God help you if you're maimed because you get
a little afflat you know, gap payment, you lose your
extra jobs you've got, in many cases chronic conditions you're
dealing with for.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
The rest of your life. I said, sold I will
be glad to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And it's a great organization. You don't realize how many
officers are wounded, and when their story is not in
the news and you know, you move on to the
next shooting, it is forgotten that that guy talking to
Mango Vallier the other day, Sergeant Valier who was shot
seven times, seven entry wounds, seven eggsit wounds, fourteen holes
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in his body and he's still he's back to work,
but he said he's in significant pain constantly. The nerves
in his body are are out of whack, and they're
telling him that he is experiencing extreme trauma even when
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he's not. But for anybody who's been through a condition
like that, that's not all necessarily gunshot wound related that
maybe something he lives with for the rest of his life.
Can't do any extra jobs for sure, has trouble picking.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
His daughter up.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, you know, those are those are things you have
to you have to live with for the rest of
your life. So if you're able to help.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Please do.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And by the way, when we raise money for things,
I often get emails from people saying as if they
are feeling convicted or accused or look, for most of
my life I didn't have two nickels to rub together.
So if I gave it was a widow's mite. It
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was what little bit I could do. Not worry if
you can't. There are plenty of people who can. Plenty
of people.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Our event October twelfth, twenty nine to twenty Roadhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I said, if I get a sponsor for twenty five thousand,
cover the expenses before Monday, then I'll have the event.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And if I don't, I won't. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I get a call from well, several people offered, but
I get a call from somebody I hadn't talked to
in I don't know a year, Larry Ness. He went
on one of our Pomber trips. He's got a construction
company in Dayton. I said, Larry, can I put your
your websites down? Can I put your website up? And
thank you for it? He said, Michael, we build banks.
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The banks love us.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We're good at what we do. It's kind of our niche.
I'm at a perfect size.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I can oversee every project down to the last possible detail,
make sure every line is plumbed, every window is perfect.
I don't want to If I grew, I just have
more employees and more worries and more thing. I appreciate it.
I support what you're doing. I look forward to being there.
If I can have a table, you can have a table, Larry,
you can have whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's all we need.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Just salt of the earth people not trying to become
fabulously wealthy. Salt of the earth people blessed by their success,
wanting to give back.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's and that's why I love what we do.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Twenty eighteen, which of the theme up paper ballots, But
that actually might be one of the smartest.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Systems Michael Very Show, because.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper. You have a.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Rally on October twelfth in the evening. It is a Saturday,
and if you are interested in applying for tickets, they're free,
but it is a ticketed event. Email me through the
website Michael Berryshow dot com, or you can email me
directly Michael at Michael Berryshow dot com. If I know
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you somehow, you're a show sponsor, a show guest, or
anything else, put that in the first line. Please keep
it brief, but you must include four numbers in your
email so that it goes to the right filter, and
that is two nine two zero twenty nine to twenty
twenty nine to twenty. It'll be on the northwest side
of town. I'm not announcing bands because people think I'm
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putting on a concert and everybody wants their band to play,
and it becomes a huge distraction, and I'm just not
doing that. Think of it as a rally. It's an
election time rally. It's a time to gather with friends.
Don't major in the miners and pester me with fifty
eight questions about what you should wear or anything else.
Imagine we're going to have between one thousand and fifteen
(10:12):
hundred people and having to answer that many questions of
the little bitty thing that you want to know. Just
please don't do it. If you're interested in tickets, however,
email me through the website or directly Michael at Michael
Berryshow dot com. Just make sure you put in the
subject line and in the body, preferably of the email
as well, so the filter catches it twenty nine to
twenty those four numbers because it's going to be at
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twenty nine to twenty roadhouse, and yes, you must have
a ticket. This should be made into a movie. An
American Airlines mechanic has been sentenced to nine years in
prison for smuggling twenty five pounds of cocaine hidden under
the cockpit of a JFK bound flight from Jamaica. Customs
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officials found ten cocaine bricks in an electronics compartment or
did they find eleven? Ramon, I always wonder about that. Well, sorry,
pull you over here to the side. It appears that
you were trying to smuggle in ten bricks a cocaine. Actually, officer,
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it was eleven. Nope, it was only ten. We were
only turning over ten, was that? Yeah, yeah, exactly, and
replace them with fake bricks sprayed with a substance that
glows under a special black light. Paul Beloisi, fifty six,
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was sentenced by US District Judge Dora Irosari in Brooklyn
after being convicted in May of twenty three of conspiring
to possess cocaine conspiring to import cocaine and importing cocaine.
Case arose from a routine search of American flight thirteen
forty nine, where Belosi had been an American mechanic for
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more than two decades, from Montego Bay, Jamaica. Prosecutors said
custom officers found ten cocaine bricks weighing twenty five pounds
in an electronics compartment beneath the cockpit and replaced them
with fake bricks sprayed with a substance that glows under a.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Special black light.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Prosecutor said law enforcement confronted him and showed that he
had handled the fake bricks because his gloves glued under
the black light. They also said Bloisi was carrying an
empty tool bag and wore a jacket large enough to
hold said cocaine. The cocaine had a street value of
more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Have you
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ever seen cocaine?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Room?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Have you known anybody to do it? You have a
by io who Emily does not do cocaine. You're stupid,
you know what. That's not very nice. If Emily was anything,
it would be a stoner. She's totally chilled. Emily does
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not do cocaine. That can you imagine Emily on cocaine.
She's already too high strung as it is. I think
nine years is too long. Don't get upset. Just hear
me out here. We tend to, uh, we tend to
get really excited about prosecuting people who smuggle drugs because
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people have a relative who odeed.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
On drug, and.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Out of the grief of the relative who odeed on
the drug, we go, let's go catch somebody else's bringing
in drugs. How About we address not doing.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Drugs with people.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
How About how about we get real serious about that.
How About we address what they're trying to do and
what they're trying to accomplish and better safer ways to
do that. How about we start with that. And how
about we really focus on the kind of people who
bust into somebody's house with a gun and zip tie
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a woman pistol.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Whipper while her one year old and three year.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Old watch on, and you say, oh, let's get them all.
Can't get them all. That's the problem. You're pushing one
violent criminal, rapist, pedophile out of prison every day to
make room for a dude that's handling coke. Look I
wish none of them would do it. I mean, it's
all stupid, and you wish that none of them would
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do it. But I'll tell you this, your government spent
a lot more time chasing down anyone over ivermactin than
they ever have over fentanyl. And fentanyl's the scariest drugging
in the history of mankind.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It really is. It's the only drug I know of.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where you can die the first time you try it,
and you're literally dipping a toe into the water.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
There are credible stories.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I've heard it from officers, I've heard it from EMTs,
I've heard it from doctors.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I've heard it from mothers.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
There are credible stories of fifteen sixteen year old kids
at high school and one of their buddies gives them
a candy.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And I mean I'm not talking about a big candy.
I'm talking about little smarty. We went to.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Crockett's parent teacher open house night a couple of weeks ago,
and the teacher came around and gave everybody a smarty.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You know what smarties are? Do you really looks like? Yeah,
little little Asprince.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's in a clear kind of little cellophane read on
the end and rolled up and we went to leave,
and my wife said, you didn't get your candy because
they didn't call them smart as in India.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And I said, no, I don't eat candy. And she said, well,
I'll take them, and she did, and she brought them home.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And we have a little community desk, which is where
the mail goes, and we put our keys, and everything
goes on the community desk. The next morning I get up,
the Smarties are on the community desk. That night I'll
come home the Smarties are on the community desk. So finally,
after about three days, I said, what is going on
with these Smarties?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What are you talking about? Because I knew she still
didn't know the name of them, these candies. Why are
they here? Well, somebody might want them.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We're toting these damn candies around and they've got pride
of place on the community desk where real estate is precious.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, somebody wants them.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Throw them away, Well, somebody wants them. I hadn't bought
Smarties in forty years, maybe fifty years, but I bet
they're a nickel apiece.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Still they can't cost very much. Good grief, I would like.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
To hear from somebody who was a serious, serious cocaine
user as to what it did for you and why
you did it. I have had friends of mine who
were surprisingly successful people, because you know, I always associated
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people that do drugs as people you go to prison
and you die. I didn't know that there were high
functioning people. There are some high function not as high
functioning as they could be if they didn't do the drugs,
but there are. They're high functioning, a lot of high
functioning drunks, but they're high functioning potheads. They're high functioning
coke heads. Anyway, I would like to hear your story.
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Seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. We're not
glamorizing cocaine and it's it's it's a very very Americans
or hardcore drug don't touch it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But I would like to hear your story. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousands.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was raised as a middle class kid.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
A lot of folks who.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Feel inspiration to write a song about what's going on
in our country, and they will send them along, and
you can never acknowledge that you got them, because then
they will know when you're going to play them.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
And then when you do play it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
How can I get a record of it, and so
you learn over the years you just don't touch it.
And a lot of them, frankly, are just not very good.
They're painful to the ear, but they come from a
good place. You know, when your kid, You know, when
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my brother would be practicing his trumpet before he got really,
really good. He would be practicing his trumpet in middle school,
maybe by his freshman year, and it was wow, and
it wasn't good, and it never is for anybody, you know.
I can't play the glinstruments hard. Takes a lot of time.
(19:02):
So anyway, I don't know what overtook me, but a
fellow named Norman Kerner in Ellicott City, Maryland sent me
an email entitle he's Lincoln. The Democrats are not aware
that Trump's the closest thing to Lincoln of any of
our presidents, especially now fighting back after the two assassination attempts.
I wrote this song to make the point that he's
(19:24):
the very essence of Abe Lincoln. I hope you like it.
Feel free to use it in any way you want.
Keep me posted well.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That I won't do.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But it's actually pretty good and we'll come back with
it in the next segment as a bump, and I'll
post it to Facebook and we'll put it. Jim will
put it on the Blast today. So if you're a
subscriber to our Daily Blast, if you like this song,
then you'll be able to click it's a SoundCloud link
to it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
If you're not a.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Subscriber to our Daily Blast, go to Michael Berryshow dot com,
click on subscribe to the Daily Email. We don't sell
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you're free to delete if you don't have time to
read it that day. All right, let's talk to Let's
see regarding degrees not being necessary. Okay, George, you're on
the Michael Berry Show. Did you call about cocaine?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Okay, David, I'm trying to find a cocid and they've
got people calling in about politics. David, Well, thank you
found one.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Were you previously or are you now a cokid?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I am recovery. I am in recovery. I was a
you know, I smoke crack. They a lot of go
since I was like twenty years old and till I
was about forty. I'm now sixty. I just wanted to
call and answer any questions you might have, because addiction
is something a lot of people can't get that hit
around because well they're not addicted. Ah, it's a very
(21:08):
you know, And I'd just like to answer any question
you may have.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, let me start by saying, I've never been a
cocaine addict and never will be because I'm scared to
death of it. And the reason I'm scared to death
of it is I've had people friends of mine who
have used cocaine, some of whom became terribly addicted. And
they say, Michael, you have to steer clear of that
(21:34):
because you already struggle to go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You don't want the data end.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You love to be high energy, and it would give
you all of those things until it couldn't and you
would like it too much.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And I got it. You had to me, don't touch
this stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Let's talk about how you got to the point at
twenty that you were experimenting with I mean, you rattle
off some pretty rough stuff. How did you get to
that point in your life?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Well, I started off with an alcoholic and I've got
an addicted nature. I don't know if that makes any
sense to a lot of people, But what happened is
I was drinking and I get drunk, and somebody would
approach me, and where you were told or had the
common sense or whatever it is to say no, I didn't,
(22:21):
And I did that further. And once you do it
the first time, it's for me. It just set off.
I don't know what. It was, such a great feeling,
an erotic feeling that I was on top of the world.
I could do anything and could and was smarter. But
the think of it is I kept chasing that one
feeling from that first day. I never got it again
for years and years and years. And with that said,
(22:46):
that's where addiction comes in. You chase that that that
that that I can't really put my word on it,
that feeling it, and it'll take everything from you chasing.
Does that make any sense of all to you?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It makes all the sense.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Andy. Once you get that that that feeling, you want
to keep going and going and going to have that feeling,
and you end up losing everything. And now you was
mentioned there are a lot of high functioning people that
do cocaine, well, the high functioning people do alcohol, you know, alcoholics,
but it's not sustainable for any length of time. I mean,
(23:25):
you know, you might do it for a few years,
but eventually it will catch up to you. And that's but.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You know, David, and you'll tell you something.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You talk about addictive personalities, and I think we're getting
into the deeper issue of the way our brains work
and the desire for There are a lot of different
words that are used in science, both the psychology side
and the and the physiology side, the biology side that
(23:57):
get into serotonin. You know, the pleasure principle, the idea
of a positive rush, a bump, you know that phenomenon.
I see that in things even outside of drugs. Obviously
drugs have the chemical side of that, but we also
have natural chemicals we'll release.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I have watched people.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Men and women who love the idea of the teenage romance,
and a lot of this is fostered in pop culture
and they call it the kids call it love bombing now,
and it's this idea of you know, this couple and
they've just started dating and they can't get enough of
(24:39):
each other and they're all over each other all the time.
That's be around each other all the time, and these constant,
dramatic shows of affection and commitment and all of this,
and then you see that person five years later and
they're miserable and the relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Is horrible and she's horrible, and she says he's horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And part of that is they need that drug of
the newness. And and that's not sustainable either, happy healthy couples.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That that do it for decades. You need to learn
a sense of moderation. And Michael Berry, I don't know
a better work for it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Another say yeah, we're on the break.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They won't unlock him up.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Throw away keep slam another door to keep a man out.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Those fools don't get what he's all about, or.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They hate the more he's reading new There's only one god.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
He bows down to after every hopes. In every case.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
They try, they go lovel That's when he goes high.
He's a Lincoln, Hey left that sink in. He find
so hard for you and need this songs go slagg lead.
He's working for your freed on repetable even about friend.
He's a Lincoln hi Fi fight behind out while he
(26:16):
was bleeding Si Fi fight piece all we've got.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Left to believe in.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But he's back in twice said strong, his fear and
his fears then a junk yard dog. Let's say together, Hey, Hey, Usa, Usa, Usa, Usa.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Tell he's a Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Hey left that sink in. He find so hard for
you and need this songs go slack lead. He's working
for your friend on Repetable about Friend, He's a Lincoln.
He's a Lincoln, He's a lakem he's a leader, He's truck.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
If you want the link to that fellow's song from Maryland,
it will be in the Daily Blast today.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Sign up for it.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Uh, I'm not sure his first name doesn't give a
first name. I lived through about a twenty year cocaine habit.
I loved the energy that it gave me, but once
it became a chemical dependency, it wasn't fun anymore. Then
my body craved it. It almost ruined my life, It
ruined my finances. It got so bad my wife threatened
my dealer, and he threatened to have her killed, which
(27:44):
was very stupid of her, but she loved me enough
to put herself at risk. Nothing was going to stop
me from killing myself with it until God, my wife
and the power of prayer saved me from myself. Thank God,
I'm still here. Boy, you want to have a whole
new outlook on your life, talk to an addict that
(28:11):
hit rock.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Bottom, and I mean rock bottom.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We all think that we've had it rough because we
ate blooney sandwiches. That's not rock bottom. You spend some
time with the guys at Camp Hope and you hear
stories of rock Bottom, and it.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Is brutal, brutal to hear them. I have to.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I become for clemped because if I speak, I'll get
choked up because I've seen addiction like this.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
We had this, not my father or my mother. We
had some.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We had a fair number of people in our family
in the generations before me who whose lives were destroyed
by drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And you see that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You're raised around it, and I was so scared of it.
I still am, and and it's kind of a lifelong
fascination with it because one of the things I notice is,
first of all, nobody sets out to become addicted to anything.
(29:42):
Everybody's going to You're not going to become a gambling addict.
And mortgage my home for one more roll of the wheel.
Come on, okay, anythink I am nobody? He intends to
(30:02):
lose their rational powers. And most people don't realize that
they're they're they're sliding down that slippery slope when they're
doing it, because the mind has a coping mechanism. And
if you've if you've had a child who was an addict,
(30:24):
or a parent who was an addict, or a sibling
or a spouse for many of you, who was an addict,
or an employee, and you realize how convincing they can be.
They will employ every tool of persuasion to get you
to give them one hundred dollars. They're done with the drugs,
they're full of the drug. They're never going to do
(30:46):
the drugs again. They just got to pay the dealer
back to keep from getting killed. And there they've turned
it around and find out two hours later that they
went and bought another hit. And it's it's in many ways,
it's harder on the people around them. And I've watched
this play out so many times. It's rough, and I
(31:10):
think that as a result, and this is very natural,
it's so frustrating that we start looking for someone to blame,
and we start looking for someone to punish, especially when
the addict.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The user is gone.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
So this is where we say, you know, Jamaican employee
of American Airlines, we caught you with some cocaine you
were smuggling in. You know, you should get the death penalty,
which is the dumbest thing. I wish people would stop
sending me emails about people getting the death penalty for
things unrelated to murder. But that's how that's their way
(31:49):
of saying I'm really really against it. You can be
really really against things without threatening the death penalty. You
know the little league baseball coach who only plays his
kid at picture and starts, you know, makes his kid
the leadoff batter and does not care about any of
the other kids. David Crook, that guy. Okay, that's an
(32:09):
awful human being. That's not the death penalty, right, there
are things.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Short of that.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And by the way, there's also a way of saying
I really like X, Y or Z other than that
person for president. But anyway, I got a little distracted
there on the addiction thing. I've just watched so many
people I know everybody has.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I've watched so many.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
People burn themselves up on bourbon and spead sold Don
Williams song, What do you do with good old boys
like me? But I have, and I think we all have.
I also think we shouldn't blame the drug. I think
we should make better efforts to prepare people, because every
(32:58):
addict will tell you, as as David did earlier, the early.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Moments of what ends up in an addiction, but never intentionally.
The early moments are golden.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's why the dealers will give you that first round
for free, the early days or man, this is going
to be great until the great is so great that
you want the great all the time, and that's not
sustainable because your body begins to to require more to
do that same thing, and the more becomes, you know,
(33:32):
the next high, the next high, the next high, until
eventually you can't afford it, or you can't get it,
or you can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's a serious issue.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It's an Alcohol is the the deadliest drug in Americans.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
It's the one we don't we talk very very little
about because people.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Don't want to talk about that because more people are
addicted to it, maybe than or not, and that that
would be painful.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
So it's a tough that's a that's a tough conversation.
You're out there
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