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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
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Feel the way he loved. It's a happy day, happy d.
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Happy day?
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Have you.
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Meme o?
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He needed to up the habit oh lone good God.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Open line Friday seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand. Ronald Reagan sat
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in nineteen eighty we should abolish the Department of Education
and end unnecessary federal intervention and education. The best way
to ensure quality education is to maximize control by parents, teachers,
and local school boards. Aimen to that a him into
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that seven three one thousand. I was asked by a
friend this week his daughter is going into an interview,
and he said, what advice do you have for her?
And I said, I get asked that question a lot,
and some people don't ask but should have, and I'm
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going to give it to you.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
This is to every young person or not so young
that it's going in to apply for a job, and
it is quite simple. This job is not for you,
This job is for them. Originally we all lived as
a family in a tent out in the woods. We
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came together as a civilization. Nobody hired anybody. It wasn't
until one guy could farm better than the other guys
that he went over and said, hey, you're not very
good at farming, but I am, so you come work
for me and you'll make more than you're making on
your own because I know how to run a business.
And that built up somebody else said, hey, I'm pretty
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good at transporting things, so how about ib Instead of
me being a farmer, I'll transport things. You hire me.
Before long, they realized the farm was getting bigger. They
needed someone to transport. They needed a company to transport.
So he hired some other farmers who weren't good farmers,
and they transported. People don't hire you because they like you.
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They don't hire you because they want to help your
family out. They don't hire you because you're eager to learn.
They hire you because you are performing tasks that they
can't perform and making money for them. Just remember, when
you go in for a job, just remember tell them
what you can do for them. Young people today don't
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understand this.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I'm very eager to learn, and I'm really really smart,
and my mommy and daddy telling me I'm great. And
nobody cares about you. Nobody cares about you, nobody's impressed
with you. They brought you in there because they want
to make more money. Tell them how you're going to
help them make more money. That's all anybody cares about.
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That's why the business exists. And I don't care what
mammy and daddy have told you. You are there to
help them make more money. That's why they're hiring you.
The faster you can do that, the better. You're not
there for your own personal enrichment. And I don't care
how old you are when you walk in the door,
tell the person on the other side of the table,
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especially if they're the owner. I'm here to help you
make more money and be more profitable. That's what I'm
here to do. That's what people want to hear. That's
my advice.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
So Ramond, I was meaning to talk to.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You about something.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
This is.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
What's the name to say, Michael buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But in my retired HBD officer stress from the good
things happening at Metro Police Department. You know, it's such
a such a good time. The Trump victory has ushered
in such optimism because, whether we like it or not,
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there are a lot of governmental positions. There are a
lot of governmental functions, and you want to see good
people in office. And he said, guy I served with
years ago when I was active duty has been named
by Whitmire to be the new Metro Police chief. And
he's the first Asian American to do that. And I said,
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is this a diversity hired? He said, no, this guy's badass.
He just happens to be Asian Americans. His name is
ban Ten. I thought he meant Ben Ten, which was
my kid's favorite cartoon when they were young. You remember
Ben Ten. Michael t had a Ben Ten watch. It's
like SpongeBob SquarePants. My brother would always sing the is
that the one that was under the water Yeah, my
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brother knew all the songs because his kids were, you know,
at that age, and if you don't have kids at
that age, you don't know all the songs. But Michael
t had a big old ben Ten watch that he
wore that when you touched it would activate and all
it would do is the lights would turn on. But
he thought it was the coolest thing ever. He wanted
to be ben Ten. Anyway, this guy's not ben Ten.
He's band B A N te N. But apparently he
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was a master sergeant in he served in Afghanistan or Iraq,
I forget which one, but he's he's apparently a bad dude.
I mean in a good way, so good. I'm glad
to see that. I'm glad. The previous Metro police chief
was absolutely out of control. He ended up running the
place and that guy he thought that was his own
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little honey hole slush pit. He had to go a
dude with the I don't know if that was a
two pay or not, but he that guy needed to go.
He was power hungry like you would not believe. You know,
I will say this, there is kind of a moment
right now for Asian Americans. You got cash for tell
with a big position. Why are you laughing like there's
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a joke coming.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Vivak Ramaswami jd Vance's wife's Indian. Yeah huh.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Finally, finally the Asians can get ahead after being held
down for so long, Finally the Asians can get ahead.
You know how you know when Asians move into your neighborhood.
Even the illegal aliens buy car insurance.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Let me tell you something that was my brother's favorite joke.
That's the damn troop married to an Indian. I'm gonna
tell you something. Asians are bad drivers. There's just nowhere
around it. And I'm sorry if that hurt somebody's feelings.
If the worst thing I can say about you is
your bad drivers, but with high s A T scores,
take it. Okay, don't don't report me for that one
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if that's if that's the worst thing, but I'm gonna
taste it. We were There was a this call a
Festival of Lights di vali, or as Americans said, do
wally because the W makes a V. But anyway, d
I V d I sorry, d I w A l
I And it's the festival of lights. But it's like
Christmas for Indians and uh, we go over there. It's
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on it's on Hillcroft and the owners are longtime friends
of ours. So when we go over there, we're over
there for a while because we have to catch up
with all of them. And you go driving in there
and it's a small parking lot, which is you know,
that wouldn't be such a problem, but it's a small
parking lot populated by Indians and the people are coming
in and going out, so it's just a constant ant
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ant hill of activity buying their suites from It's called
Roger Sweets R.
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A j A.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's the best in town, Roger's Sweets. They're phenomenal. And
just sitting there watching the Indians going in and out
and they're like bumping into each other, the cars, not
the people, the cars. So my niece Ruccie, who she
married a white boy, well he's Jewish, but she married
a white boy and she lives in the Heights and she,
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you know, she's been here from India since she was eighteen.
She was born nine eleven ninety, so she's thirty four,
so she's been here almost half her life now. So
she and my wife go over and they make a
day of it. They buy the sweets for that night
because we have a little Indian celebration that night, and
they buy some Indian garbs, some sories and some presents
and things like that to send to India. And my
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wife laughed and she said, Rouchie, sounded like you. She's
the whole time going, Auntie, these people cannot drive. Oh
my god, look at that. She can't drive. She said, Rucchie,
that was you. It's actually still her because she's also
a terrible driver. But they're not bad drivers in the
way black women are bad drivers where they're really aggressive.
They're bad drivers where you know, they're tens and twos
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and real slow, but they'll still hit you. It won't
hurt because they're driving slow. All of that because this
poor guy happens to be of Asian descent. But I'm
happy that my report was that this guy is a
solid dude and the kind of guy that should be
Metro chairman and otherwise would not be. So congratulations to
Chief Man Ten, the new Metro police chief. I hope
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this portends good things for Metro to the phone lines
we go. I had to do the weekend review. I'll
do that in the next thing. No, No, let us
get to this call first. Cliff, You're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Go ahead, Hello, Michael, long time listener. I just wanted
to bring up Oklahoma. First of all, I want you
to know a musical I consider myself, No, No, the
state I'm a text to. As far as I'm concerned.
I've lived here four different times, and I got over
forty years this latest one of this, I've been here
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thirty years. On my last one, I'm still here. But anyway,
Dad was in the Air Force, I was here several times.
I'm sixty four, so I'm a Texans as far as
I'm concerned. But I was born in Oklahoma. And one
thing I wanted to bring your Two things I.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Wanted to bring up.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Is that Oklahoma was the only state that one hundred
percent of the counties voted for Trump. Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I did not, But it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Okay, And my other thing I wanted to bring up
is last earlier this week, you were talking about country
music and what a great influence Texas, Alabama, Louisiana. I came,
remember what other states, but you didn't mention Oklahoma. Some
of the greatest country music stars ever have came from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Absolutely, I love.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I know.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I'll just that's the one. You didn't mention it, so
I thought i'd just throw that in on it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I were not on in Tulsa, well, mostly Tulsa. I
like to be on in Tulsa, and I like to
be on. I went to baseball camp in Uh, Stillwater
is os U and Stillwater, yes, sir? And then nor
was it still still Water is Oklahoma is Oklahoma State?
Speaker 7 (16:24):
And Norman is Oklahoma Oklahoma State. Norman, yes, sir, No,
I love Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Funny you say that I had a long conversation about
Oklahoma this week. Uh, there's an affiliate that's interested in Tulsa,
and I'm very eager because Tulsa is just kind of
like a northern Houston in a lot of ways.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Ramon.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
While that guy was talking, I wrote a little song
in my head about him. I'd like to share it
with you. I hadn't worked it out yet, ready for it.
He said he was born in Oklahoma. He was born
in Oklahoma. His wife's name is Betty Joe, Thelma Liz.
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He's not responsible for what he's doing. His mama made
him what he is and it's up against the wall,
redneck mother mother who has raised him so well? You
say so well after I say he's thirty four and
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drinking in them homegrons, just kicking hippie's asses and raising Hell,
that's all I got so far. They got a new
piano bar coming up called the Kennedy on Dallas at Wall.
I like a piano bar. What's the one in New Orleans?
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Who is it called Blacksmith?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Here?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Been there down at the very end. Yeah, I like
a nice piano bar, Lafittees, that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
How did you know that?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I think there's one called Blacksmith too. You know who
this is gonna surprise you? You know who you know
through me, who is surprisingly such a good pianist and
such a good performer that he he could have a
residency at a high end piano bar where they sold tickets,
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the whole deal, like Elton John Style, somebody that you
know through me, a Texas country music artist. Well, of course,
Lyle love It. That's not surprising. Lyle love It can
do anything. Huh Mickey Gilly of course, But that's yes,
that's not surprising because you think of him on the piano,
this person you may never have seen on the piano.
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But I'm telling you he might not be Mickey Gilly
Jerry Lee Lewis level, but he's up there. You know,
Steve can get Texas country music. No, not Corey, not
Pat Green, keep going, hey Scarl, Nope, this guy, huh,
this guy could tickle the ivories and do that style
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of kind of Billy Joel you know, piano man vibe
and he could. He could. He could do it for
a two hour set while you're and you would go, oh,
that's what he does. Huh. Not Tracy Bird. I don't
know if Tracy could play the piano. Maybe not Mark Chestnut. No,
keep and those aren't Those aren't Texas music guys. They
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just happen to live in Texas. Johnny Lee, I do
not believe can play the piano, but I don't know that.
And again, not a Texas music guy. Those are national
guys that happened to live in Texas. Please don't if
it mix those up.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Who.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yes, you're just inflating my ego.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
The correct answer is a graduate of Texas a university
with an accounting degree who actually worked as an accountant
at a big accounting firm. Surprisingly, who has terrible, terrible politics,
but is a wonderful human being and a dear friend
and now a father who sing songs about floating the
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river in guadeloup and to my knowledge, holds against book
World Records or the largest float of the Guadeloupe because
they had, like I don't know how many thousand people
they had there. But his piano skills and piano performance
are as good as you'll ever see, and that would
be Roger Craiger. Yeah, so this song right here, turn
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that up. The song doesn't get its due for the
structure of this song. This is not your average It's
not your average song when you'd listen to it closely.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's work the drive.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
And now I'm here in canyon, lay alone, and well,
I know you came here. You went down and freezing
Bud help you sort out the pieces on your own.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
But I'm seeing what you sound. It was breaked up.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It's beautiful. I'm around to call this country home.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Either. I am missing you as a song singing on me.
I think I'll break up my pick up sand and tongue.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And ain't enough dance all in Texas to keep.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
My heart and mind oct than I'm trying it all
the time. Here out very name. The rapture has seen somebous.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
By the words of the rap this song to get
me back on talk about blow Well, I'm got over
here yet I must be.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's a good tune right there. Let's go to Becky. Becky,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Good morning, Michael Berry. I love your show.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I listened to you all the time.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
It is a glory this morning and the United States
of America is finally staring.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Amen. Amen, well said sweetheart. Randon, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Hey, Michael Berry, just wanting to give you a special
set out in thanks from Guardian Community. Please check out
Guardian Community and what we're doing. If any veterans out
there need counseling or financial assistance, we.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Have the we have it available for them.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
Again, that's Guardiancommunity dot org. And thank you for everything.
Thank you for your support and Camp Hope. I was
a previous resident there and man, God bless this country.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
And you're doing well now, yes, sir, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Where did you serve.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Afghanistan win?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
How many tours.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Two thousand and nine eleven one tour?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
How long were you there?
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Thirteen months?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, what'd you do?
Speaker 10 (23:21):
I trained the Afghan National Army over four thousand Army
army or four thousand of their soldiers in combat arms.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
How many of those guys did you fear at any
given time could turn could be could be turned by
the Taliban?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
It should have been one hundred percent of the time,
but I would say ninety nine percent of the time
there was, you know, because once you start trusting those guys,
that's called complacency, and complacency kills.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Wow, were you pretty messed up when you got back?
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Absolutely, yes, sir, I was. Oh, it was probably it
was several years, sir, It was about seven years. In
August twenty of twenty thirteen. I'd been back for a
little while.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Was just in my head.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Partying drunk and drinking driving. I hit Oak Tree doing
seventy My friend in the back feet passed away. I
got intoxics and manslaughter.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Was finished.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
The five years in prison, and I got out in
April twenty eighteen, and then I went to Camp Hope
about six months after that.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
God bless you, Randon, thank you for calling.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
You've got corn.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Pop was a bad dude. The Michael Berry Show. When
I did.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Rocky, Remember the first image was the picture of Jesus
is a resurrection ac club. I found a church that
had been converted to a boxing ring. So the image
pans down from Jesus onto Rocky being hid. And at
that moment he was a chosen person. And that's how
I began the journey. Something was going to happen. This
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man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Lives, just like President Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And look what happened to our country, probably twenty million people.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
And you know that's a little bit old. That chart,
that charts a couple of months old.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And if you want to really see something that said,
take a look at what happened.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
We are in the presence of a really mythical character.
I love mythology, and this individual does not exist on
this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off
what he pulled off.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So I'm in awe and I'll just say this and
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I mean it.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea
that he was going to change the world, because without him,
you can imagine what the world would look like.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Guess what we got. The second George Washington.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Congrestl please welcome the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yesterday at Marlago at a big event, Sylvester Stallone introduced
President Trump. And those are clips from that speech there. Uh,
completely forgot what I was about to tell you, Sylvester Stallone,
Donald Trump. Oh, oddly enough, Sylvester Stallone, and I doubt
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he knew this, but he may have. He mentioned George
Washington in comparing him to Donald Trump. Yesterday after we
finished the morning show, immediately at eleven, I interviewed Selena Zito.
She wrote a book called The Great Revolt, which was
the best book on the twenty sixteen election, and it
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was about this new breed of voter that was voting
for Trump, who may not necessarily have been Republicans and
may not have voted in a long time, and they
were passionate about Trump's make America First, tear down DC,
hate the swamp. And she really captured that sentiment in
a way that nobody had. And it was heavy on
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the qualitative instead the quantitative. But she brought in a
pollster or an analytics guy to really study the numbers
and how this thing played out as fascinating. But she
told me during the interview. Two things that I did
not know. One was when Trump comes up and says fight,
fight Fight. That was not the first thing he said
to the crowd. He started a USA USA chant. But
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apparently you can't see his mouth or hear him, and
he's he's rising up from being down where they know
they've ducked him down where he's been shot and put
his shoes back on him. Demanded that his shoes be
back on it. She tells that story. Her book is
called Butler and it's the story of the near assassination
of Donald Trump. And you can pre order it now,
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and I hope you do because she's a great writer
and you will enjoy it. It won't be in for
a few months, but I'm trying to support her project
because I think it's great and I think there's a
lot to be learned there. One thing was the USA
USA before fight Fight Fight. The second one was that
Donald Trump was not the first president to be shot
at in Butler, Pennsylvania, because George Washington was. And I thought, oh,
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that's interesting. You know what we should do. We should
play that because that interview aired last night. We should
play that on the morning show. One day. Uh, Sean,
you're up. Go ahead, Hey there, mister MARKL. Berry, Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Okay. So I want to say last summer I ended
up getting my mother out of a bad situation. She
was living in Eaton, Texas, and she she's mentally ill.
She's being taken advantage of by drug addicts around her.
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You know, she has a good heart. Hard for her
to say now. I ended up buying her a camper
and moving her to San Leon to get her away
from all those people. Well, whenever the hurricane it, it
totally destroyed her camper. Ruth leaking power goes in and out,
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the feeling is falling apart. There's mold. You're just taking
over the place. And he has health issues. I got
the issues. She's mentally ill. And she applied for FEMA
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surely after the hurricane for female assistance, and she's one
eligible for FEMA assistants. And now there is a fraud
investigation open on her apparently from what she said, and
she's this living in squalor that I had to drop
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two thousand dollars to buy that camper and get her
out of the situation, and being at camper right now,
by far is better than the situation that she was
in when she was living in Eaton, Texas. She has
severe mental issues and she's having a hard time doing
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all this stuff for herself, so she needs assistants from
me and my siblings. And it's just an uphill battle.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Now.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I was on the FEMA website and I've heard a
lot of stuff about FEMA as well, a lot of
money being spent on illegal migrants, housing them, this, that
and the other. And it's just I feel stone walls.
I want to be able to help my mom, and
it's I just don't know what to do anymore. It's
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you know, our government is supposed to be helping us,
helping people like her.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
What is the what?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What do they claim? Did she help these crackheads in
some in some way and that got her in trouble?
Speaker 6 (32:30):
No, no, no, I'm so she she followed for FEMA
after her camper was destroyed. She she's away from all
the crackheads. Okay, so I moved her out of Eton, Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
What what is the case?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
I'm don Tyler sure.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
She would dig into that because and I understand your
frustration with FEMA. I understand it's inefficient. I understand all that,
but you've got to get down to a very simple
is you gotta you gotta, you gotta get down to
the discreet issue. What are they accusing her of? And
then you can get to that. None of this, all
this other stuff is smoking mirrors. And I hope you're
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able to do it. I had a case in my
extended family, not my immediate family, where we had a
drug and alcohol addict who was leeching off an elderly
woman in our family. And I see this again, and
they just they keep trying to help this person, and
these people are leeches to suck the lifeblood of it.
I wouldn't be shocked if if that didn't get her
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back in trouble. And you don't realize, I don't know,
but that's what you need to find out exactly what
they're charging her with
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Happy d happy day.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
When Gy does war, when he war, when Gy does
warded away he loved.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
A happy day happy or happy de happy or happy dad?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
When Jesus warm, oh, witty war, when Jesus war.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Feel the way he loved. It's a happy day, happy d.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
A happy day winter those wars big oh whitty war winder,
there's war fund three is a way he did he love?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Happy day?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Have you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What have you de?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Meme o?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Happy, oh, happy happy? When Jesus war waity war, when
Jesus War three its away.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He needed to up the habit oh lone good God.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Open line Friday seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand, seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand. Ronald Reagan sat
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in nineteen eighty we should abolish the Department of Education
and end unnecessary federal intervention and education. The best way
to ensure quality education is to maximize control by parents, teachers,
and local school boards. Aimen to that a him into
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that seven three one thousand. I was asked by a
friend this week his daughter is going into an interview,
and he said, what advice do you have for her?
And I said, I get asked that question a lot,
and some people don't ask but should have, and I'm
(06:21):
going to give it to you.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
This is to every young person or not so young
that it's going in to apply for a job, and
it is quite simple. This job is not for you,
This job is for them. Originally we all lived as
a family in a tent out in the woods. We
(06:44):
came together as a civilization. Nobody hired anybody. It wasn't
until one guy could farm better than the other guys
that he went over and said, hey, you're not very
good at farming, but I am, so you come work
for me and you'll make more than you're making on
your own because I know how to run a business.
And that built up somebody else said, hey, I'm pretty
(07:07):
good at transporting things, so how about ib Instead of
me being a farmer, I'll transport things. You hire me.
Before long, they realized the farm was getting bigger. They
needed someone to transport. They needed a company to transport.
So he hired some other farmers who weren't good farmers,
and they transported. People don't hire you because they like you.
(07:28):
They don't hire you because they want to help your
family out. They don't hire you because you're eager to learn.
They hire you because you are performing tasks that they
can't perform and making money for them. Just remember, when
you go in for a job, just remember tell them
what you can do for them. Young people today don't
(07:51):
understand this.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I'm very eager to learn, and I'm really really smart,
and my mommy and daddy telling me I'm great. And
nobody cares about you. Nobody cares about you, nobody's impressed
with you. They brought you in there because they want
to make more money. Tell them how you're going to
help them make more money. That's all anybody cares about.
(08:15):
That's why the business exists. And I don't care what
mammy and daddy have told you. You are there to
help them make more money. That's why they're hiring you.
The faster you can do that, the better. You're not
there for your own personal enrichment. And I don't care
how old you are when you walk in the door,
tell the person on the other side of the table,
(08:36):
especially if they're the owner. I'm here to help you
make more money and be more profitable. That's what I'm
here to do. That's what people want to hear. That's
my advice.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
So Ramond, I was meaning to talk to.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You about something.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
This is.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
What's the name to say, Michael buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But in my retired HBD officer stress from the good
things happening at Metro Police Department. You know, it's such
a such a good time. The Trump victory has ushered
in such optimism because, whether we like it or not,
(09:25):
there are a lot of governmental positions. There are a
lot of governmental functions, and you want to see good
people in office. And he said, guy I served with
years ago when I was active duty has been named
by Whitmire to be the new Metro Police chief. And
he's the first Asian American to do that. And I said,
(09:48):
is this a diversity hired? He said, no, this guy's badass.
He just happens to be Asian Americans. His name is
ban Ten. I thought he meant Ben Ten, which was
my kid's favorite cartoon when they were young. You remember
Ben Ten. Michael t had a Ben Ten watch. It's
like SpongeBob SquarePants. My brother would always sing the is
that the one that was under the water Yeah, my
(10:08):
brother knew all the songs because his kids were, you know,
at that age, and if you don't have kids at
that age, you don't know all the songs. But Michael
t had a big old ben Ten watch that he
wore that when you touched it would activate and all
it would do is the lights would turn on. But
he thought it was the coolest thing ever. He wanted
to be ben Ten. Anyway, this guy's not ben Ten.
He's band B A N te N. But apparently he
(10:30):
was a master sergeant in he served in Afghanistan or Iraq,
I forget which one, but he's he's apparently a bad dude.
I mean in a good way, so good. I'm glad
to see that. I'm glad. The previous Metro police chief
was absolutely out of control. He ended up running the
place and that guy he thought that was his own
(10:52):
little honey hole slush pit. He had to go a
dude with the I don't know if that was a
two pay or not, but he that guy needed to go.
He was power hungry like you would not believe. You know,
I will say this, there is kind of a moment
right now for Asian Americans. You got cash for tell
with a big position. Why are you laughing like there's
(11:15):
a joke coming.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Vivak Ramaswami jd Vance's wife's Indian. Yeah huh.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Finally, finally the Asians can get ahead after being held
down for so long, Finally the Asians can get ahead.
You know how you know when Asians move into your neighborhood.
Even the illegal aliens buy car insurance.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Let me tell you something that was my brother's favorite joke.
That's the damn troop married to an Indian. I'm gonna
tell you something. Asians are bad drivers. There's just nowhere
around it. And I'm sorry if that hurt somebody's feelings.
If the worst thing I can say about you is
your bad drivers, but with high s A T scores,
take it. Okay, don't don't report me for that one
(12:09):
if that's if that's the worst thing, but I'm gonna
taste it. We were There was a this call a
Festival of Lights di vali, or as Americans said, do
wally because the W makes a V. But anyway, d
I V d I sorry, d I w A l
I And it's the festival of lights. But it's like
Christmas for Indians and uh, we go over there. It's
(12:32):
on it's on Hillcroft and the owners are longtime friends
of ours. So when we go over there, we're over
there for a while because we have to catch up
with all of them. And you go driving in there
and it's a small parking lot, which is you know,
that wouldn't be such a problem, but it's a small
parking lot populated by Indians and the people are coming
in and going out, so it's just a constant ant
(12:53):
ant hill of activity buying their suites from It's called
Roger Sweets R.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
A j A.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's the best in town, Roger's Sweets. They're phenomenal. And
just sitting there watching the Indians going in and out
and they're like bumping into each other, the cars, not
the people, the cars. So my niece Ruccie, who she
married a white boy, well he's Jewish, but she married
a white boy and she lives in the Heights and she,
(13:20):
you know, she's been here from India since she was eighteen.
She was born nine eleven ninety, so she's thirty four,
so she's been here almost half her life now. So
she and my wife go over and they make a
day of it. They buy the sweets for that night
because we have a little Indian celebration that night, and
they buy some Indian garbs, some sories and some presents
and things like that to send to India. And my
(13:42):
wife laughed and she said, Rouchie, sounded like you. She's
the whole time going, Auntie, these people cannot drive. Oh
my god, look at that. She can't drive. She said, Rucchie,
that was you. It's actually still her because she's also
a terrible driver. But they're not bad drivers in the
way black women are bad drivers where they're really aggressive.
They're bad drivers where you know, they're tens and twos
(14:05):
and real slow, but they'll still hit you. It won't
hurt because they're driving slow. All of that because this
poor guy happens to be of Asian descent. But I'm
happy that my report was that this guy is a
solid dude and the kind of guy that should be
Metro chairman and otherwise would not be. So congratulations to
Chief Man Ten, the new Metro police chief. I hope
(14:31):
this portends good things for Metro to the phone lines
we go. I had to do the weekend review. I'll
do that in the next thing. No, No, let us
get to this call first. Cliff, You're on the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Go ahead, Hello, Michael, long time listener. I just wanted
to bring up Oklahoma. First of all, I want you
to know a musical I consider myself, No, No, the
state I'm a text to. As far as I'm concerned.
I've lived here four different times, and I got over
forty years this latest one of this, I've been here
(15:05):
thirty years. On my last one, I'm still here. But anyway,
Dad was in the Air Force, I was here several times.
I'm sixty four, so I'm a Texans as far as
I'm concerned. But I was born in Oklahoma. And one
thing I wanted to bring your Two things I.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Wanted to bring up.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Is that Oklahoma was the only state that one hundred
percent of the counties voted for Trump. Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I did not, But it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Okay, And my other thing I wanted to bring up
is last earlier this week, you were talking about country
music and what a great influence Texas, Alabama, Louisiana. I came,
remember what other states, but you didn't mention Oklahoma. Some
of the greatest country music stars ever have came from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Absolutely, I love.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I know.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I'll just that's the one. You didn't mention it, so
I thought i'd just throw that in on it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I were not on in Tulsa, well, mostly Tulsa. I
like to be on in Tulsa, and I like to
be on. I went to baseball camp in Uh, Stillwater
is os U and Stillwater, yes, sir? And then nor
was it still still Water is Oklahoma is Oklahoma State?
Speaker 7 (16:24):
And Norman is Oklahoma Oklahoma State. Norman, yes, sir, No,
I love Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Funny you say that I had a long conversation about
Oklahoma this week. Uh, there's an affiliate that's interested in Tulsa,
and I'm very eager because Tulsa is just kind of
like a northern Houston in a lot of ways.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Ramon.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
While that guy was talking, I wrote a little song
in my head about him. I'd like to share it
with you. I hadn't worked it out yet, ready for it.
He said he was born in Oklahoma. He was born
in Oklahoma. His wife's name is Betty Joe, Thelma Liz.
(17:09):
He's not responsible for what he's doing. His mama made
him what he is and it's up against the wall,
redneck mother mother who has raised him so well? You
say so well after I say he's thirty four and
(17:30):
drinking in them homegrons, just kicking hippie's asses and raising Hell,
that's all I got so far. They got a new
piano bar coming up called the Kennedy on Dallas at Wall.
I like a piano bar. What's the one in New Orleans?
(17:51):
Who is it called Blacksmith?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Here?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Been there down at the very end. Yeah, I like
a nice piano bar, Lafittees, that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
How did you know that?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I think there's one called Blacksmith too. You know who
this is gonna surprise you? You know who you know
through me, who is surprisingly such a good pianist and
such a good performer that he he could have a
residency at a high end piano bar where they sold tickets,
(18:31):
the whole deal, like Elton John Style, somebody that you
know through me, a Texas country music artist. Well, of course,
Lyle love It. That's not surprising. Lyle love It can
do anything. Huh Mickey Gilly of course, But that's yes,
that's not surprising because you think of him on the piano,
this person you may never have seen on the piano.
(18:53):
But I'm telling you he might not be Mickey Gilly
Jerry Lee Lewis level, but he's up there. You know,
Steve can get Texas country music. No, not Corey, not
Pat Green, keep going, hey Scarl, Nope, this guy, huh,
this guy could tickle the ivories and do that style
(19:18):
of kind of Billy Joel you know, piano man vibe
and he could. He could. He could do it for
a two hour set while you're and you would go, oh,
that's what he does. Huh. Not Tracy Bird. I don't
know if Tracy could play the piano. Maybe not Mark Chestnut. No,
keep and those aren't Those aren't Texas music guys. They
(19:40):
just happen to live in Texas. Johnny Lee, I do
not believe can play the piano, but I don't know that.
And again, not a Texas music guy. Those are national
guys that happened to live in Texas. Please don't if
it mix those up.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Who.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yes, you're just inflating my ego.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
The correct answer is a graduate of Texas a university
with an accounting degree who actually worked as an accountant
at a big accounting firm. Surprisingly, who has terrible, terrible politics,
but is a wonderful human being and a dear friend
and now a father who sing songs about floating the
(20:18):
river in guadeloup and to my knowledge, holds against book
World Records or the largest float of the Guadeloupe because
they had, like I don't know how many thousand people
they had there. But his piano skills and piano performance
are as good as you'll ever see, and that would
be Roger Craiger. Yeah, so this song right here, turn
(20:41):
that up. The song doesn't get its due for the
structure of this song. This is not your average It's
not your average song when you'd listen to it closely.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's work the drive.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
And now I'm here in canyon, lay alone, and well,
I know you came here. You went down and freezing
Bud help you sort out the pieces on your own.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
But I'm seeing what you sound. It was breaked up.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It's beautiful. I'm around to call this country home.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Either. I am missing you as a song singing on me.
I think I'll break up my pick up sand and tongue.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And ain't enough dance all in Texas to keep.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
My heart and mind oct than I'm trying it all
the time. Here out very name. The rapture has seen somebous.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
By the words of the rap this song to get
me back on talk about blow Well, I'm got over
here yet I must be.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's a good tune right there. Let's go to Becky. Becky,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Good morning, Michael Berry. I love your show.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I listened to you all the time.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
It is a glory this morning and the United States
of America is finally staring.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Amen. Amen, well said sweetheart. Randon, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Hey, Michael Berry, just wanting to give you a special
set out in thanks from Guardian Community. Please check out
Guardian Community and what we're doing. If any veterans out
there need counseling or financial assistance, we.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Have the we have it available for them.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
Again, that's Guardiancommunity dot org. And thank you for everything.
Thank you for your support and Camp Hope. I was
a previous resident there and man, God bless this country.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
And you're doing well now, yes, sir, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Where did you serve.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Afghanistan win?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
How many tours.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Two thousand and nine eleven one tour?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
How long were you there?
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Thirteen months?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, what'd you do?
Speaker 10 (23:21):
I trained the Afghan National Army over four thousand Army
army or four thousand of their soldiers in combat arms.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
How many of those guys did you fear at any
given time could turn could be could be turned by
the Taliban?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
It should have been one hundred percent of the time,
but I would say ninety nine percent of the time
there was, you know, because once you start trusting those guys,
that's called complacency, and complacency kills.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Wow, were you pretty messed up when you got back?
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Absolutely, yes, sir, I was. Oh, it was probably it
was several years, sir, It was about seven years. In
August twenty of twenty thirteen. I'd been back for a
little while.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Was just in my head.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Partying drunk and drinking driving. I hit Oak Tree doing
seventy My friend in the back feet passed away. I
got intoxics and manslaughter.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Was finished.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
The five years in prison, and I got out in
April twenty eighteen, and then I went to Camp Hope
about six months after that.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
God bless you, Randon, thank you for calling.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
You've got corn.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Pop was a bad dude. The Michael Berry Show. When
I did.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Rocky, Remember the first image was the picture of Jesus
is a resurrection ac club. I found a church that
had been converted to a boxing ring. So the image
pans down from Jesus onto Rocky being hid. And at
that moment he was a chosen person. And that's how
I began the journey. Something was going to happen. This
(25:33):
man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Lives, just like President Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And look what happened to our country, probably twenty million people.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
And you know that's a little bit old. That chart,
that charts a couple of months old.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And if you want to really see something that said,
take a look at what happened.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
We are in the presence of a really mythical character.
I love mythology, and this individual does not exist on
this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off
what he pulled off.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So I'm in awe and I'll just say this and
(26:40):
I mean it.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea
that he was going to change the world, because without him,
you can imagine what the world would look like.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Guess what we got. The second George Washington.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Congrestl please welcome the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yesterday at Marlago at a big event, Sylvester Stallone introduced
President Trump. And those are clips from that speech there. Uh,
completely forgot what I was about to tell you, Sylvester Stallone,
Donald Trump. Oh, oddly enough, Sylvester Stallone, and I doubt
(27:39):
he knew this, but he may have. He mentioned George
Washington in comparing him to Donald Trump. Yesterday after we
finished the morning show, immediately at eleven, I interviewed Selena Zito.
She wrote a book called The Great Revolt, which was
the best book on the twenty sixteen election, and it
(28:00):
was about this new breed of voter that was voting
for Trump, who may not necessarily have been Republicans and
may not have voted in a long time, and they
were passionate about Trump's make America First, tear down DC,
hate the swamp. And she really captured that sentiment in
a way that nobody had. And it was heavy on
(28:22):
the qualitative instead the quantitative. But she brought in a
pollster or an analytics guy to really study the numbers
and how this thing played out as fascinating. But she
told me during the interview. Two things that I did
not know. One was when Trump comes up and says fight,
fight Fight. That was not the first thing he said
to the crowd. He started a USA USA chant. But
(28:47):
apparently you can't see his mouth or hear him, and
he's he's rising up from being down where they know
they've ducked him down where he's been shot and put
his shoes back on him. Demanded that his shoes be
back on it. She tells that story. Her book is
called Butler and it's the story of the near assassination
of Donald Trump. And you can pre order it now,
(29:08):
and I hope you do because she's a great writer
and you will enjoy it. It won't be in for
a few months, but I'm trying to support her project
because I think it's great and I think there's a
lot to be learned there. One thing was the USA
USA before fight Fight Fight. The second one was that
Donald Trump was not the first president to be shot
at in Butler, Pennsylvania, because George Washington was. And I thought, oh,
(29:29):
that's interesting. You know what we should do. We should
play that because that interview aired last night. We should
play that on the morning show. One day. Uh, Sean,
you're up. Go ahead, Hey there, mister MARKL. Berry, Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Okay. So I want to say last summer I ended
up getting my mother out of a bad situation. She
was living in Eaton, Texas, and she she's mentally ill.
She's being taken advantage of by drug addicts around her.
(30:12):
You know, she has a good heart. Hard for her
to say now. I ended up buying her a camper
and moving her to San Leon to get her away
from all those people. Well, whenever the hurricane it, it
totally destroyed her camper. Ruth leaking power goes in and out,
(30:38):
the feeling is falling apart. There's mold. You're just taking
over the place. And he has health issues. I got
the issues. She's mentally ill. And she applied for FEMA
(31:00):
surely after the hurricane for female assistance, and she's one
eligible for FEMA assistants. And now there is a fraud
investigation open on her apparently from what she said, and
she's this living in squalor that I had to drop
(31:23):
two thousand dollars to buy that camper and get her
out of the situation, and being at camper right now,
by far is better than the situation that she was
in when she was living in Eaton, Texas. She has
severe mental issues and she's having a hard time doing
(31:44):
all this stuff for herself, so she needs assistants from
me and my siblings. And it's just an uphill battle.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Now.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I was on the FEMA website and I've heard a
lot of stuff about FEMA as well, a lot of
money being spent on illegal migrants, housing them, this, that
and the other. And it's just I feel stone walls.
I want to be able to help my mom, and
it's I just don't know what to do anymore. It's
(32:18):
you know, our government is supposed to be helping us,
helping people like her.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
What is the what?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
What do they claim? Did she help these crackheads in
some in some way and that got her in trouble?
Speaker 6 (32:30):
No, no, no, I'm so she she followed for FEMA
after her camper was destroyed. She she's away from all
the crackheads. Okay, so I moved her out of Eton, Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
What what is the case?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
I'm don Tyler sure.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
She would dig into that because and I understand your
frustration with FEMA. I understand it's inefficient. I understand all that,
but you've got to get down to a very simple
is you gotta you gotta, you gotta get down to
the discreet issue. What are they accusing her of? And
then you can get to that. None of this, all
this other stuff is smoking mirrors. And I hope you're
(33:10):
able to do it. I had a case in my
extended family, not my immediate family, where we had a
drug and alcohol addict who was leeching off an elderly
woman in our family. And I see this again, and
they just they keep trying to help this person, and
these people are leeches to suck the lifeblood of it.
I wouldn't be shocked if if that didn't get her
(33:32):
back in trouble. And you don't realize, I don't know,
but that's what you need to find out exactly what
they're charging her with
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