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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Berry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on. It's the
Michael Berry Show. Two six packs, Shiner, ninety nine cent,
Putine ladder, looking strack center, fifth of patrol Ice down
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at egg blue cooler. Take a guess at all the door.
I can feel a good one coming on. Throw in
a real Wiley Hubbard sing alone the Red Deck. Any
blues I had before another working week is over? No
(01:11):
chune staying sober.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
There with some friends last night and at the end
of the dinner. They are very healthy people, and you know,
small portions, very healthy foods. They're not. They didn't grow
up like I did. There's no fried chicken here, right.
We're not priding ourselves on how much we eat, so
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I have to be on my best behavior. Food was phenomenal.
I had chicken. My wife had fish. My wife would
eat fish at every meal. She could not me, not me.
If I'm eating fish, it's gonna be fried yep. And
you know, where was I the other day? Where was
I the other day? I could not get fried catfish?
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And I could not believe they would not. They did
not have right. No, it wasn't Dante's third level of Hell.
It was somewhere that I would have expected. And they said, no,
we have drum, but not catfish. I don't want drum. Yeah,
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the drums. One lives at his girlfriend's house. Uh what
what where was that? Hold on? Let me think about this.
It was me and no though, and I decide I'm
going to have Oh, I can't remember anyway. Did I
ever tell you my story about Charles Clark at Brasfree nineteen?
So a lot of restaurants, if you go in and
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ask for catfish, which what I grew up on, they
will make comments like ew, I've been told by a
restaurant owner I will not name when I said, how
come I don't fry catfish? That catfish is a trash food.
Be that as it may. We can start listen. Your
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wife's got a tattoo that's begun to sag. Let's not
kidd it. I don't know who said that to me,
and I don't know if that person that was it.
I shouldn't say that because whoever it was probably listening
to the show. And I'll be accused of insulting his
wife when that's not what I'm meant to do. But anyway,
I have been told before that catfish is a trash food,
which I think is ridiculous. Catfish is a delicious food.
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It's a bottom feeder. Wait a second, what fish are
you eating? And do they just did they just float
on top of the water. Anything beneath the surface is
beneath them? Literally, Ah, bottom feeder? What does that even
mean when you're eating the flesh of a fish? What
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are you Yes, it's a bottom feeder. What do you
think I'm down there nibbling on the bottom of the lake.
What kind of stupid people have I said? Yeah, it's vegan.
I mean, what do I care? Honestly, what do I care?
If you really want to get down into your food source,
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whether meat based, fish based, or whatever else. And before
you tell me how nasty pigs are, let me fry
you some bacon and you have some of it, and
you tell me how nasty that pig was.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Let me get you a delicious pork chop. Hmmm, and
let's talk about how honestly. But anyway, can I need
to get back to my fish? B Yeah, plus some bacon.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh, man, I don't eat pork. Are you Jewish? You're Jewish?
I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Why not hold on the delivery of John Travolta in
the way he says, are you Jewish? Like half kind
of jabbing at him, but half kind of asking, knowing
good and well he's not. Travolta in this role is
so good and it's so different than the way he
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he's sort of off handles are you Jewish? Do they
get what's bacon?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Man, I don't eat pork. Are you Jewish? I ain't Jewish.
I just don't dig on swine, that's all. Why not
pigs are filthy animals? I don't eat filthy animals.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, my bacon tastes good.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Poor chops taste good. Hey, sword rat may taste like
punkin pine. But I never know, because I wouldn't eat
the filthiess pigs sleep and group, and that's a filthy animal.
I ain't eat nothing. Ain't got sense enough to disregard
its own CCSP But a dog, dog eats his own feces.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I don't eat dog eagle, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy,
but they're definitely dirty. But dogs got personality. Personality goes
the wrong line.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality,
he ceased to be a filthy animal.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, we have to be talking about one charm and pig.
I mean, he had to be ten times more charming
than that Arlod Green Ankles, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Good dialogue, good writing is lost in most films. Great
films should have wonderful writing, and that's one of the
things that Tarantino does so well. If you haven't seen
the movie Vengeance, it's by BJ what's his name, b B. Jayden?
(06:25):
I can't think his name. I can't think of his name.
Guy's from New York. But it's about Texas. It's what's
set in Texas. The BJ Novak you've seen it. The
dialogue in that there's some scenes there's some discussions of
water burger that you better not drink anything while you're
watching that movie or you will spew them out of
your mouth. Like the church It laid layout to see you.
(06:46):
It will blow your mind. How good the dialogue and
then you will be There's an opening scene of bj
Novak and John Mayer, two buddies, and they go to
parties kind of like a wedding crasher type thing, uh,
and they're telling stories about the their their conquest. Anyway,
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So back to my story. So we have this meal
and then at the end of it, they put on
this plate these very beautiful hand painted pieces of art. Well,
I know that sometimes I can ask questions that make
people uncomfortable, So I don't know if you can eat
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that art because it's honestly too pretty. But it might
be a chocolate. And it was presented on a tape
on a plate with on a plate with some macaroons.
So I said, oh man, these are gorgeous, thinking, you know,
trying to trying to flush out what exactly they were,
and I said, wow, these are these are really pretty.
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So I pick it up in hopes that by picking
it up, I might you know, if it crumbles in
my hands or when I set it back down, if
there's some color on my finger, then that means that
it was a chocolate. And there's maybe six of them
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on the plate, along with about four my karooms. And
you if you saw them. Well, I'll explain in a
minute as the side whether to.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Judge Michael Michael Berry show.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So finally I kind of hemmed and hard around this thing.
I've twisted it over in my hand. I've held it
for a while, and this couple are very good friends
of our. She says, it's the best chocolates I've ever had,
and I hope that my body language did not reveal, Oh, okay,
it is a chocolate now. I say that to compliment
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the thing, because it was truly a work of art.
It was something you might have bought at a museum.
I mean, it was incredibly obviously hand painted, and just
it had it had a like a gloss over it,
like a like a you know when they'll do classic
cars or hot rod cars and then they put, I
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don't know what it is, it's like a glaze over
it so that it almost seems like the color is
an inch like yeah, yeah, like a lacquer type deal. Anyway,
So it was that, so I bite into it. It
looked like a ladybug. It was half orange, half green.
The coloring scheme one the hump of a ladybug. And
I said, wow, what is that? And she said, carrot cake.
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Not only did it look amazing, it tasted amazing. No,
we didn't then kick poor people. I ate more, And
it was an awkward situation because I was the only
one eating them. So there are four of us at
the table, and there were six of on the and
so I had my one, and in my mind I thought, okay,
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if you have two, not everybody can have two. But
my wife every year takes a vow. She gives up
something every year. It's an Indian thing. And so this
year it's sweets. Oh she went ramon one year she said,
for five years, I'm not eating meat or sweets. I thought, well,
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what else? And she doesn't drink, so what else is there? Oh,
it's all she and she did it for five years.
She did it anyway back to it. So I've already
processed that if I have the second one, not everybody
can have two. So it's already kind of one of
those moves. But I thought, well, none, that's not going
to eat any So technically there's three of us, so
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there's two each. And just so when I took my second,
when I was clear, I said, sweetheart, are you going
to eat any No? She wouldn't, but to tell them,
I'm telegraphing to them I can have the second one
without overstepping the bounds. And she said, no, you go ahead,
all right, So I hit number two. We started with six.
Now there's four left. I've had two. There's two of them, Well,
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how do I convey? Suddenly I'd like another one. So
everybody's sitting and we're talking, and I'm like a child,
just focused on those chocolates, and so I waited a
little while and I kind of reached out a little.
Finally I picked one that was different than and I said,
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I'm sorry to touch this, but I just have to
see it. And the husband said, oh, have it, okay.
So I waited, awhile, and waited, awhile. We're thirty minutes
into nobody else has eaten one except for me, and
I finally just said, I feel like it's appropriate if
I have a fourth one, And before long there weren't
any left, and I went home. So before I said
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where do you get these? And she says it's called
mostly chocolate, and she gives me the lady's name and
she does catering, but really it's it's a chocolate thing.
I said, okay, So Ramon, let's see how much you know.
If I were to tell you that the maker of
these chocolates is from a place in the world that
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if you go to a restaurant, I mean, if you
go to a shop anywhere in America and it's high
end chocolates, I mean three or four dollars per little
tiny chocolate, where would you guess she's from. There's two
countries they're most likely from. There's a number one that's
the obvious number. So, okay, Switzerland, good guests, all right,
I'll give you credit. There's three places they could be from.
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Not Belgium, because the Belgians do chocolates, but they don't
do them like this. Let me let me tell you
if a place, if a place sells these, not necessarily makes,
although they do make. It's where they're always from. And
there's a lot of these in Houston's probably ten of
them like this in Houston. No, it's where people are
from that will have high end chocolate shops. They will
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also uh, it'll also be a coffee shop, and they'll
have like a fresco dyning. People would be sitting out
and smoking cigarettes in the middle afternoon dressed to the
nines in Italian clothing. The women will be beautiful. They'll
all be wearing shades.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Italy is a good guess. It's it's where you see
a lot of these people vacation, not sweets, not Switzerland,
not Italy. Focus on the chocolate. It'll be chocolates. It'll
be Uh, what's the Greek thing? I like baklava? Chuck. Yeah,
they do. Shut your filthy mouth. I'll love them. Everybody
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loves blah bla blah. See now, why don't you want
We're on a positive trainer. It'll always It'll be chocolates,
might even be some real high end Italian some gelato coffees.
Germans don't do that. Lebanese, they're always Lebanese. What are
you doing? Everybody would guess Lebanese. Everybody that knows anything.
You don't pay attention to anything. The number one most
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likely place they would be from and they would be
is Lebanese, followed by Irani. I'm telling you, anybody that
knows knows. So I look this place up. It's called
mostly Chocolate. Their website is mostly HTx dot com dump. Yeah,
like most of it. Now, listen to this I'm thinking,
oh yeah, these people like chocolates right. The woman's name
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is Rena Kumkagi and says Rina's passion for cooking began
when she was just a child. Hey this music. Growing
up in Lebanon, Rena was taught by her mother to
create delectable Lebanese dishes and pastries. From working closely with
her mother, her love for cooking and food flourished. As
she got older. Rena realized her passion and natural talent
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for cooking was more than just a hobby when she
crafted a pistachio filled chocolate pastry. Let me read that again,
a pistachio filled chocolate pastry to serve over Thanksgiving. Her
friends were astounded by the delicate texture and full flavor
of her pastry, and she was convinced to replicate the
pastry for a friend's wedding. Inspired to sharpen her craft,
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Rena completely specialty courses completed, sorry, completed specialty courses with
local use and chef and chocolatier on a Gomez. So
this one was a chef and a chocolateier. We're about
to talk about chocolate worse than Somlie's do. This is
like a PhD of Chocolate along with local Houston chef
and chocolateer on A. Gomez, and then went on to
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attend the Chocolate Academy in Saint Hyacinth in Montreal, Quebec
with world renowned choclatier Christophe Morel. Y'all are getting way
too serious about chocolate here, okay, So then it talks
about her catering. Then here's her son. Rina's son, Danny Komkagi,
joined the team in twenty eleven. His endless drive and
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passion bah blah blah blah. After various internships studying under
renowned master chocolatiers in New York and Montreal, Danny became
head chocolateier in twenty fifteen. Since then, he's gone on
to win various prestigious national and international awards, the three
Dessert Brand Champion Buckal Awards at the HLSR Houston Livestock
Sean Rodeo best by its competition for the Goat Cheese Truffle,
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Pakhan High Truffle and hazel Nut and Pop Rocks, a
first place gold finish in the International Chocolate Award America's competition,
second place silver finish in the internationals Chocolate Awards World.
These people are getting real serious about chocolate. Michael Mary Show.
There have been well intentioned people try to bring peace
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to the Middle East, very well intentioned people anwar. Sadat,
in an act of great bravery, led Egypt into a
period of peace with Israel and was assassinated for it.
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When you consider how deeply rooted the hatred in Gasa
is for Jews from the earth earliest ages. A kindergarten
school performance, the children dress in paramilitary uniforms and pretend
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to kill the Jews while their parents cheer. You don't
reprogram that mind, just don't. The only peace you'll ever
find is through deterrence, and as long as some people
don't understand that, you will reward bad actors. In fact,
the concept of peace through deterrence could be used in
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the American criminal justice system. When you let a turd
beat somebody to death, carjack them, rob them, shoot them,
and you put them back out on the streets. That
savage understands only one thing, that there's nothing wrong with
what he's done. You throw him in a cage and
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you never let him out. And I won't cry for that.
Oh but he was young, wayward. Oh, but he bet
if you want to solve the problem, that's how you
presolve it. There will be collateral damage, but not solving
that problem means collateral damage for people who didn't commit
a crime. We can make excuses for why people commit
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crimes and make them into a victim once we punish them,
or we can make excuses for the fact that you're
going to have to suffer because the bad guys are
allowed to win today, because the bad guys must never
be made to suffer, because apparently the bad guys suffered
after they made other people suffer, and that makes some
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people very upset. So where do we go with this?
What is the point? The point is this, It's not
just that you've been forced to suffer a slight because
there will be more. You have to actually implement a strategy.
You can't always react to what's going on around you,
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what's going on around you as it happens, and then
just keep reacting in real time. You have to have
a strategy. How are you going to cope? What are
you going to do? You've got to think about a
game plan for life, and once you do that, you
start making changes. You start seeking peace and happiness and fulfillment,
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because that's much more rewarding. You're not going to win.
You're not going to kill all the people that are
HR directors, nor should you. You're not going to beat
them all up. So you start looking for start asking yourself,
who am I and who do I want to be?
If you want to go crazy, they'll drive you crazy,
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and then you going crazy will be their proof that
you were at fault all along. They'll leave you broken.
They do. They're January sixth protesters in prison right now now,
and not a tear shed for them, Not one tear
is shed for them. So you have to ask yourself
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this question, how do I live my life? How do
I navigate this world? Well, first of all, you don't reward.
You don't give sugar to this cancer that it can grow.
You immediately cut it out of your life. The problem
is a lot of people are like Icarus to the fire.
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They keep going in and poking that fire. You're not
changing it. You're not changing the direction of the fire.
You're just getting burned to varying degrees. And it starts
with arguing with them on social media. It starts with
oh yeah, well you think that's right. Well, uh, yeah, okay,
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so you don't like trouble. Uh what about Bill Clinton?
How y'all look over here. I burned him with the
Bill Clinton maybe you did, but then he's going to
come back with something else, and eventually he's gonna hurt
your feelings. You know the old line, don't wallow in
the mud with the pig, because the pig enjoys it.
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You're in the mud. Now, you're on his turf because
you can't let it go. You don't have a strategy
for how to let it. It doesn't make you happy.
You went on the Facebook machine to reconnect. See what
Tom from high school's up to if his wife got fat.
You went and looked at your ex wife, See how
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she's what she's up all that liar? Oh yeah, oh
and she's so happy and or knew, well, good for her.
You went there for, you know, some personal enjoyment, and
you end up getting sucked into somebody criticizing Trump or
whatever else. And you were going to and before you
know it, your eight messages in and you're furious you
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didn't win anything. Nobody came over to your side. No
independent voter was trolling and saying I shall watch the
joust TwixT left and right, and from that I will
cast my vote. So just stop. I block people every day,
every day, and there are people, Oh, you're not brave,
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you're whatever. Guess what. You're not coming to my door,
knocking on my door and harassing me. You're not riding
in my car. You don't get my cell phone number.
I block you on my cellphone. I don't need you
in my life. There is nothing that enriches my life
by you getting to bother me, and so nothing you
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can do makes them more mad than blocking them. But
you can't do it. People will. They just keep going
on and on. But it's more than this, more than
social media. It's every aspect of your life. It is learning.
First of all, never give them the benefit of the doubt,
because that scorpion is going to turn and bite you
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after you take it. I see this every day. Well
I thought i'd be nice. I thought i'd hire this guy,
thought i'd give him a chance. And now he's dragged
me to court after I fired him for all these
problems because I'm a bad guy. For whatever his protected classes.
Shame on you, Shame on you. Why did you put
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yourself in that situation? I go out of my way.
I don't do business with those people. I don't. I
don't do business with the types of people who spout
the kind of venom that I think is horrible. I
don't I know longer. Let me say this. I no
longer buy into this. Well, we're all Americans. We're in
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this together. We can disagree sometimes, but at the end
of the day, we're all of it. I don't believe
that anymore. I think those people would turn on me
in favor of a Palestinian. I think they'd turn on
me in favor of an islam terrorists. I think that
turn on me in favor of an legal alien from
anywhere in the world. I think that turn on me
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for ten dollars from a Chinaman. I think that turn
on me and take everything I have and give it
to the Ukrainians. I do. And once I came to
that conclusion, I understand I don't value the people who
are evil in this country. I don't. I'm not going
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to do them any harm if I'm not going to
do them any good either, and I'm gonna go out
of my way not to do them any good. Michael
Mary show So a guy that's been working at a
job for years. And granted he's not an inside the
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air conditioning working kind of guy. He wears boots, jeans,
he's from a small town. He might smoke, Oh wow,
but I guess we have to have a few of
those around here. He works out in the heat all day.
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He doesn't complain. Truck may not have air conditioning. He
might have had a divorce. He might have a dwi.
He might have more than one of each. He might
have a mustache. He might look older than his age.
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He might speak in a manner unbecoming of the corporate boardroom.
But he's the front line of the company. You've got
to have him, and that's the only reason they keep him.
And the people like him, but they cringe. His very
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existence makes them cringe. You couldn't have him come to
the offices, to the corporate headquarters. We make movies about
things like this. You know the guy that comes in
from the wild. He doesn't know which button to mash
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and where to get off, and everybody giggles at him.
We know that type in his big old truck with
his bumper stickers on it about guns and god knows
what else, and he doesn't have the right views. He
doesn't tell the right jokes, he doesn't use the right fork,
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he doesn't live the way you're supposed to live. There's
a lot of him. And by the way, it wasn't
the guys on the eighteenth floor of the corporate headquarters
that went and fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. You didn't
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mind him then, but as he's gotten older since he
came back, you don't want him around. But it's not
just that you don't want him around mister Hr or
missus HR or missus that used to be mister Hr.
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It's that he represents the north Star and you hate
that because he never pretends to be anything he's not.
He's not an evolutionary character. He's not desperately trying to
keep up with the trends of the fads. Quite the opposite.
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He doesn't seek your approval and he kind of disdains
you because he has a clarity of purpose to his
life and conscience. He doesn't do things he doesn't want
to do. He is the savage. He is what the
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Christians saw in the savages that they went to evangelize to.
He has to be changed, he has to be molded into.
What must he be molded why? Missus HR director says,
he must be molded into the image I have crafted.
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He must be learned. He must learn to use the
language I use. He must learn to behave in the
manner that I do. He must learn that everything about
his very existence is wrong and always has been. He
was raised wrong. The cowboys and Indians, the sh shooting
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the BB gun, to killing the deer to go and fishing,
all of those things, those must be destroyed. Every part
of him. She resents every part of him, and that's
okay until it comes time that for whatever reason, and
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occasionally he does do some things wrong. He's dragged down
to HR. Think she's going to give him a fair
hearing her lesbian buddy three doors over that's been harassing
the secretary. She didn't get her fired. She didn't require
her to go to sensitivity training. I've seen some lesbians, homos, blacks, Arabs,
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you name it that are the meanest, nastiest, vicious people
that they don't get sensitivity training. Why would they? They
are culture, You're not. After a period of time, the
guys like him individually, they never gather individually. They start
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deciding they're angry. Now many of them turn inward. The
bottle helps. If you can get drunk enough, fast enough,
at the minute you get off of work, it makes
life bearable. Of course, that also makes personal relationships difficult,
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and then that can complicate your whole life. So what
are we doing to these people? What are they doing
to you? We can turn that to the women. What
about a woman who decides that, like her mother or mine,
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they want to stay home and raise the kids. They
don't want to go to a workplace. They want to
stay home and keep a clean house where the family's
well fed. The bills are paid, the plumbing and electrical works,
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they meet the people there, Things are done. There's a
lot of tasks in the house. They're not left undone.
The beds are made, breakfast is made, bedtimes are met,
homework is done. That's what they want to do. That's
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what makes them feel whole and wholesome and fulfilled. Is
that honored? No? No, they're marginalized. They're lesser people. Do
you remember Hillary Clinton when she lost in twenty sixteen.
You remember the nasty speech she gave in Chicago about
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these stupid women who just voted the way their husband did.
She's always had a disdain for these women, those women
for many of you are you? So you just keep
you just keep saying these things, and you just keep
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doing these things, and you're noticing the world is changing
around you and they're constantly and your opinion doesn't matter.
And how dare a black person a transgender if they say, hey,
this is screwed up. If you do it, you're somehow
a threat. You're treated everyone's against you. And the minute
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you start pointing out what is actually true, now now
it's laughable that you're crazy and you think all these things.
But you know what you see, you know what you feel,
you know what you're going through. I have black listeners
who will email and say, I'm surprised, I'm surprised more
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white people aren't pissed off watching what people say about it.
We're kind of like the White Avengers moment. They might
need you to be Mexican next week, just for diversity
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Berry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on. It's the
Michael Berry Show. Two six packs, Shiner, ninety nine cent,
Putine ladder, looking strack center, fifth of patrol Ice down
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at egg blue cooler. Take a guess at all the door.
I can feel a good one coming on. Throw in
a real Wiley Hubbard sing alone the Red Deck. Any
blues I had before another working week is over? No
(01:11):
chune staying sober.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
There with some friends last night and at the end
of the dinner. They are very healthy people, and you know,
small portions, very healthy foods. They're not. They didn't grow
up like I did. There's no fried chicken here, right.
We're not priding ourselves on how much we eat, so
(01:34):
I have to be on my best behavior. Food was phenomenal.
I had chicken. My wife had fish. My wife would
eat fish at every meal. She could not me, not me.
If I'm eating fish, it's gonna be fried yep. And
you know, where was I the other day? Where was
I the other day? I could not get fried catfish?
(01:55):
And I could not believe they would not. They did
not have right. No, it wasn't Dante's third level of Hell.
It was somewhere that I would have expected. And they said, no,
we have drum, but not catfish. I don't want drum. Yeah,
(02:16):
the drums. One lives at his girlfriend's house. Uh what
what where was that? Hold on? Let me think about this.
It was me and no though, and I decide I'm
going to have Oh, I can't remember anyway. Did I
ever tell you my story about Charles Clark at Brasfree nineteen?
So a lot of restaurants, if you go in and
(02:37):
ask for catfish, which what I grew up on, they
will make comments like ew, I've been told by a
restaurant owner I will not name when I said, how
come I don't fry catfish? That catfish is a trash food.
Be that as it may. We can start listen. Your
(03:01):
wife's got a tattoo that's begun to sag. Let's not
kidd it. I don't know who said that to me,
and I don't know if that person that was it.
I shouldn't say that because whoever it was probably listening
to the show. And I'll be accused of insulting his
wife when that's not what I'm meant to do. But anyway,
I have been told before that catfish is a trash food,
which I think is ridiculous. Catfish is a delicious food.
(03:22):
It's a bottom feeder. Wait a second, what fish are
you eating? And do they just did they just float
on top of the water. Anything beneath the surface is
beneath them? Literally, Ah, bottom feeder? What does that even
mean when you're eating the flesh of a fish? What
(03:46):
are you Yes, it's a bottom feeder. What do you
think I'm down there nibbling on the bottom of the lake.
What kind of stupid people have I said? Yeah, it's vegan.
I mean, what do I care? Honestly, what do I care?
If you really want to get down into your food source,
(04:10):
whether meat based, fish based, or whatever else. And before
you tell me how nasty pigs are, let me fry
you some bacon and you have some of it, and
you tell me how nasty that pig was.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Let me get you a delicious pork chop. Hmmm, and
let's talk about how honestly. But anyway, can I need
to get back to my fish? B Yeah, plus some bacon.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh, man, I don't eat pork. Are you Jewish? You're Jewish?
I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Why not hold on the delivery of John Travolta in
the way he says, are you Jewish? Like half kind
of jabbing at him, but half kind of asking, knowing
good and well he's not. Travolta in this role is
so good and it's so different than the way he
(05:05):
he's sort of off handles are you Jewish? Do they
get what's bacon?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Man, I don't eat pork. Are you Jewish? I ain't Jewish.
I just don't dig on swine, that's all. Why not
pigs are filthy animals? I don't eat filthy animals.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, my bacon tastes good.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Poor chops taste good. Hey, sword rat may taste like
punkin pine. But I never know, because I wouldn't eat
the filthiess pigs sleep and group, and that's a filthy animal.
I ain't eat nothing. Ain't got sense enough to disregard
its own CCSP But a dog, dog eats his own feces.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I don't eat dog eagle, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy,
but they're definitely dirty. But dogs got personality. Personality goes
the wrong line.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality,
he ceased to be a filthy animal.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Well, we have to be talking about one charm and pig.
I mean, he had to be ten times more charming
than that Arlod Green Ankles, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Good dialogue, good writing is lost in most films. Great
films should have wonderful writing, and that's one of the
things that Tarantino does so well. If you haven't seen
the movie Vengeance, it's by BJ what's his name, b B. Jayden?
(06:25):
I can't think his name. I can't think of his name.
Guy's from New York. But it's about Texas. It's what's
set in Texas. The BJ Novak you've seen it. The
dialogue in that there's some scenes there's some discussions of
water burger that you better not drink anything while you're
watching that movie or you will spew them out of
your mouth. Like the church It laid layout to see you.
(06:46):
It will blow your mind. How good the dialogue and
then you will be There's an opening scene of bj
Novak and John Mayer, two buddies, and they go to
parties kind of like a wedding crasher type thing, uh,
and they're telling stories about the their their conquest. Anyway,
(07:08):
So back to my story. So we have this meal
and then at the end of it, they put on
this plate these very beautiful hand painted pieces of art. Well,
I know that sometimes I can ask questions that make
people uncomfortable, So I don't know if you can eat
(07:30):
that art because it's honestly too pretty. But it might
be a chocolate. And it was presented on a tape
on a plate with on a plate with some macaroons.
So I said, oh man, these are gorgeous, thinking, you know,
trying to trying to flush out what exactly they were,
and I said, wow, these are these are really pretty.
(07:51):
So I pick it up in hopes that by picking
it up, I might you know, if it crumbles in
my hands or when I set it back down, if
there's some color on my finger, then that means that
it was a chocolate. And there's maybe six of them
(08:11):
on the plate, along with about four my karooms. And
you if you saw them. Well, I'll explain in a
minute as the side whether to.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Judge Michael Michael Berry show.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So finally I kind of hemmed and hard around this thing.
I've twisted it over in my hand. I've held it
for a while, and this couple are very good friends
of our. She says, it's the best chocolates I've ever had,
and I hope that my body language did not reveal, Oh, okay,
it is a chocolate now. I say that to compliment
(08:51):
the thing, because it was truly a work of art.
It was something you might have bought at a museum.
I mean, it was incredibly obviously hand painted, and just
it had it had a like a gloss over it,
like a like a you know when they'll do classic
cars or hot rod cars and then they put, I
(09:14):
don't know what it is, it's like a glaze over
it so that it almost seems like the color is
an inch like yeah, yeah, like a lacquer type deal. Anyway,
So it was that, so I bite into it. It
looked like a ladybug. It was half orange, half green.
The coloring scheme one the hump of a ladybug. And
I said, wow, what is that? And she said, carrot cake.
(09:39):
Not only did it look amazing, it tasted amazing. No,
we didn't then kick poor people. I ate more, And
it was an awkward situation because I was the only
one eating them. So there are four of us at
the table, and there were six of on the and
so I had my one, and in my mind I thought, okay,
(10:00):
if you have two, not everybody can have two. But
my wife every year takes a vow. She gives up
something every year. It's an Indian thing. And so this
year it's sweets. Oh she went ramon one year she said,
for five years, I'm not eating meat or sweets. I thought, well,
(10:21):
what else? And she doesn't drink, so what else is there? Oh,
it's all she and she did it for five years.
She did it anyway back to it. So I've already
processed that if I have the second one, not everybody
can have two. So it's already kind of one of
those moves. But I thought, well, none, that's not going
to eat any So technically there's three of us, so
(10:43):
there's two each. And just so when I took my second,
when I was clear, I said, sweetheart, are you going
to eat any No? She wouldn't, but to tell them,
I'm telegraphing to them I can have the second one
without overstepping the bounds. And she said, no, you go ahead,
all right, So I hit number two. We started with six.
Now there's four left. I've had two. There's two of them, Well,
(11:03):
how do I convey? Suddenly I'd like another one. So
everybody's sitting and we're talking, and I'm like a child,
just focused on those chocolates, and so I waited a
little while and I kind of reached out a little.
Finally I picked one that was different than and I said,
(11:26):
I'm sorry to touch this, but I just have to
see it. And the husband said, oh, have it, okay.
So I waited, awhile, and waited, awhile. We're thirty minutes
into nobody else has eaten one except for me, and
I finally just said, I feel like it's appropriate if
I have a fourth one, And before long there weren't
any left, and I went home. So before I said
(11:47):
where do you get these? And she says it's called
mostly chocolate, and she gives me the lady's name and
she does catering, but really it's it's a chocolate thing.
I said, okay, So Ramon, let's see how much you know.
If I were to tell you that the maker of
these chocolates is from a place in the world that
(12:08):
if you go to a restaurant, I mean, if you
go to a shop anywhere in America and it's high
end chocolates, I mean three or four dollars per little
tiny chocolate, where would you guess she's from. There's two
countries they're most likely from. There's a number one that's
the obvious number. So, okay, Switzerland, good guests, all right,
I'll give you credit. There's three places they could be from.
(12:28):
Not Belgium, because the Belgians do chocolates, but they don't
do them like this. Let me let me tell you
if a place, if a place sells these, not necessarily makes,
although they do make. It's where they're always from. And
there's a lot of these in Houston's probably ten of
them like this in Houston. No, it's where people are
from that will have high end chocolate shops. They will
(12:48):
also uh, it'll also be a coffee shop, and they'll
have like a fresco dyning. People would be sitting out
and smoking cigarettes in the middle afternoon dressed to the
nines in Italian clothing. The women will be beautiful. They'll
all be wearing shades.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Italy is a good guess. It's it's where you see
a lot of these people vacation, not sweets, not Switzerland,
not Italy. Focus on the chocolate. It'll be chocolates. It'll
be Uh, what's the Greek thing? I like baklava? Chuck. Yeah,
they do. Shut your filthy mouth. I'll love them. Everybody
(13:27):
loves blah bla blah. See now, why don't you want
We're on a positive trainer. It'll always It'll be chocolates,
might even be some real high end Italian some gelato coffees.
Germans don't do that. Lebanese, they're always Lebanese. What are
you doing? Everybody would guess Lebanese. Everybody that knows anything.
You don't pay attention to anything. The number one most
(13:49):
likely place they would be from and they would be
is Lebanese, followed by Irani. I'm telling you, anybody that
knows knows. So I look this place up. It's called
mostly Chocolate. Their website is mostly HTx dot com dump. Yeah,
like most of it. Now, listen to this I'm thinking,
oh yeah, these people like chocolates right. The woman's name
(14:12):
is Rena Kumkagi and says Rina's passion for cooking began
when she was just a child. Hey this music. Growing
up in Lebanon, Rena was taught by her mother to
create delectable Lebanese dishes and pastries. From working closely with
her mother, her love for cooking and food flourished. As
she got older. Rena realized her passion and natural talent
(14:32):
for cooking was more than just a hobby when she
crafted a pistachio filled chocolate pastry. Let me read that again,
a pistachio filled chocolate pastry to serve over Thanksgiving. Her
friends were astounded by the delicate texture and full flavor
of her pastry, and she was convinced to replicate the
pastry for a friend's wedding. Inspired to sharpen her craft,
(14:54):
Rena completely specialty courses completed, sorry, completed specialty courses with
local use and chef and chocolatier on a Gomez. So
this one was a chef and a chocolateier. We're about
to talk about chocolate worse than Somlie's do. This is
like a PhD of Chocolate along with local Houston chef
and chocolateer on A. Gomez, and then went on to
(15:16):
attend the Chocolate Academy in Saint Hyacinth in Montreal, Quebec
with world renowned choclatier Christophe Morel. Y'all are getting way
too serious about chocolate here, okay, So then it talks
about her catering. Then here's her son. Rina's son, Danny Komkagi,
joined the team in twenty eleven. His endless drive and
(15:37):
passion bah blah blah blah. After various internships studying under
renowned master chocolatiers in New York and Montreal, Danny became
head chocolateier in twenty fifteen. Since then, he's gone on
to win various prestigious national and international awards, the three
Dessert Brand Champion Buckal Awards at the HLSR Houston Livestock
Sean Rodeo best by its competition for the Goat Cheese Truffle,
(15:59):
Pakhan High Truffle and hazel Nut and Pop Rocks, a
first place gold finish in the International Chocolate Award America's competition,
second place silver finish in the internationals Chocolate Awards World.
These people are getting real serious about chocolate. Michael Mary Show.
There have been well intentioned people try to bring peace
(16:23):
to the Middle East, very well intentioned people anwar. Sadat,
in an act of great bravery, led Egypt into a
period of peace with Israel and was assassinated for it.
(16:47):
When you consider how deeply rooted the hatred in Gasa
is for Jews from the earth earliest ages. A kindergarten
school performance, the children dress in paramilitary uniforms and pretend
(17:10):
to kill the Jews while their parents cheer. You don't
reprogram that mind, just don't. The only peace you'll ever
find is through deterrence, and as long as some people
don't understand that, you will reward bad actors. In fact,
the concept of peace through deterrence could be used in
(17:32):
the American criminal justice system. When you let a turd
beat somebody to death, carjack them, rob them, shoot them,
and you put them back out on the streets. That
savage understands only one thing, that there's nothing wrong with
what he's done. You throw him in a cage and
(17:53):
you never let him out. And I won't cry for that.
Oh but he was young, wayward. Oh, but he bet
if you want to solve the problem, that's how you
presolve it. There will be collateral damage, but not solving
that problem means collateral damage for people who didn't commit
a crime. We can make excuses for why people commit
(18:15):
crimes and make them into a victim once we punish them,
or we can make excuses for the fact that you're
going to have to suffer because the bad guys are
allowed to win today, because the bad guys must never
be made to suffer, because apparently the bad guys suffered
after they made other people suffer, and that makes some
(18:36):
people very upset. So where do we go with this?
What is the point? The point is this, It's not
just that you've been forced to suffer a slight because
there will be more. You have to actually implement a strategy.
You can't always react to what's going on around you,
(19:01):
what's going on around you as it happens, and then
just keep reacting in real time. You have to have
a strategy. How are you going to cope? What are
you going to do? You've got to think about a
game plan for life, and once you do that, you
start making changes. You start seeking peace and happiness and fulfillment,
(19:25):
because that's much more rewarding. You're not going to win.
You're not going to kill all the people that are
HR directors, nor should you. You're not going to beat
them all up. So you start looking for start asking yourself,
who am I and who do I want to be?
If you want to go crazy, they'll drive you crazy,
(19:47):
and then you going crazy will be their proof that
you were at fault all along. They'll leave you broken.
They do. They're January sixth protesters in prison right now now,
and not a tear shed for them, Not one tear
is shed for them. So you have to ask yourself
(20:08):
this question, how do I live my life? How do
I navigate this world? Well, first of all, you don't reward.
You don't give sugar to this cancer that it can grow.
You immediately cut it out of your life. The problem
is a lot of people are like Icarus to the fire.
(20:29):
They keep going in and poking that fire. You're not
changing it. You're not changing the direction of the fire.
You're just getting burned to varying degrees. And it starts
with arguing with them on social media. It starts with
oh yeah, well you think that's right. Well, uh, yeah, okay,
(20:49):
so you don't like trouble. Uh what about Bill Clinton?
How y'all look over here. I burned him with the
Bill Clinton maybe you did, but then he's going to
come back with something else, and eventually he's gonna hurt
your feelings. You know the old line, don't wallow in
the mud with the pig, because the pig enjoys it.
(21:11):
You're in the mud. Now, you're on his turf because
you can't let it go. You don't have a strategy
for how to let it. It doesn't make you happy.
You went on the Facebook machine to reconnect. See what
Tom from high school's up to if his wife got fat.
You went and looked at your ex wife, See how
(21:31):
she's what she's up all that liar? Oh yeah, oh
and she's so happy and or knew, well, good for her.
You went there for, you know, some personal enjoyment, and
you end up getting sucked into somebody criticizing Trump or
whatever else. And you were going to and before you
know it, your eight messages in and you're furious you
(21:55):
didn't win anything. Nobody came over to your side. No
independent voter was trolling and saying I shall watch the
joust TwixT left and right, and from that I will
cast my vote. So just stop. I block people every day,
every day, and there are people, Oh, you're not brave,
(22:16):
you're whatever. Guess what. You're not coming to my door,
knocking on my door and harassing me. You're not riding
in my car. You don't get my cell phone number.
I block you on my cellphone. I don't need you
in my life. There is nothing that enriches my life
by you getting to bother me, and so nothing you
(22:38):
can do makes them more mad than blocking them. But
you can't do it. People will. They just keep going
on and on. But it's more than this, more than
social media. It's every aspect of your life. It is learning.
First of all, never give them the benefit of the doubt,
because that scorpion is going to turn and bite you
(22:58):
after you take it. I see this every day. Well
I thought i'd be nice. I thought i'd hire this guy,
thought i'd give him a chance. And now he's dragged
me to court after I fired him for all these
problems because I'm a bad guy. For whatever his protected classes.
Shame on you, Shame on you. Why did you put
(23:22):
yourself in that situation? I go out of my way.
I don't do business with those people. I don't. I
don't do business with the types of people who spout
the kind of venom that I think is horrible. I
don't I know longer. Let me say this. I no
longer buy into this. Well, we're all Americans. We're in
(23:44):
this together. We can disagree sometimes, but at the end
of the day, we're all of it. I don't believe
that anymore. I think those people would turn on me
in favor of a Palestinian. I think they'd turn on
me in favor of an islam terrorists. I think that
turn on me in favor of an legal alien from
anywhere in the world. I think that turn on me
(24:06):
for ten dollars from a Chinaman. I think that turn
on me and take everything I have and give it
to the Ukrainians. I do. And once I came to
that conclusion, I understand I don't value the people who
are evil in this country. I don't. I'm not going
(24:27):
to do them any harm if I'm not going to
do them any good either, and I'm gonna go out
of my way not to do them any good. Michael
Mary show So a guy that's been working at a
job for years. And granted he's not an inside the
(24:49):
air conditioning working kind of guy. He wears boots, jeans,
he's from a small town. He might smoke, Oh wow,
but I guess we have to have a few of
those around here. He works out in the heat all day.
(25:09):
He doesn't complain. Truck may not have air conditioning. He
might have had a divorce. He might have a dwi.
He might have more than one of each. He might
have a mustache. He might look older than his age.
(25:30):
He might speak in a manner unbecoming of the corporate boardroom.
But he's the front line of the company. You've got
to have him, and that's the only reason they keep him.
And the people like him, but they cringe. His very
(25:51):
existence makes them cringe. You couldn't have him come to
the offices, to the corporate headquarters. We make movies about
things like this. You know the guy that comes in
from the wild. He doesn't know which button to mash
(26:13):
and where to get off, and everybody giggles at him.
We know that type in his big old truck with
his bumper stickers on it about guns and god knows
what else, and he doesn't have the right views. He
doesn't tell the right jokes, he doesn't use the right fork,
(26:38):
he doesn't live the way you're supposed to live. There's
a lot of him. And by the way, it wasn't
the guys on the eighteenth floor of the corporate headquarters
that went and fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. You didn't
(27:02):
mind him then, but as he's gotten older since he
came back, you don't want him around. But it's not
just that you don't want him around mister Hr or
missus HR or missus that used to be mister Hr.
(27:23):
It's that he represents the north Star and you hate
that because he never pretends to be anything he's not.
He's not an evolutionary character. He's not desperately trying to
keep up with the trends of the fads. Quite the opposite.
(27:45):
He doesn't seek your approval and he kind of disdains
you because he has a clarity of purpose to his
life and conscience. He doesn't do things he doesn't want
to do. He is the savage. He is what the
(28:11):
Christians saw in the savages that they went to evangelize to.
He has to be changed, he has to be molded into.
What must he be molded why? Missus HR director says,
he must be molded into the image I have crafted.
(28:36):
He must be learned. He must learn to use the
language I use. He must learn to behave in the
manner that I do. He must learn that everything about
his very existence is wrong and always has been. He
was raised wrong. The cowboys and Indians, the sh shooting
(29:00):
the BB gun, to killing the deer to go and fishing,
all of those things, those must be destroyed. Every part
of him. She resents every part of him, and that's
okay until it comes time that for whatever reason, and
(29:24):
occasionally he does do some things wrong. He's dragged down
to HR. Think she's going to give him a fair
hearing her lesbian buddy three doors over that's been harassing
the secretary. She didn't get her fired. She didn't require
her to go to sensitivity training. I've seen some lesbians, homos, blacks, Arabs,
(29:48):
you name it that are the meanest, nastiest, vicious people
that they don't get sensitivity training. Why would they? They
are culture, You're not. After a period of time, the
guys like him individually, they never gather individually. They start
(30:10):
deciding they're angry. Now many of them turn inward. The
bottle helps. If you can get drunk enough, fast enough,
at the minute you get off of work, it makes
life bearable. Of course, that also makes personal relationships difficult,
(30:32):
and then that can complicate your whole life. So what
are we doing to these people? What are they doing
to you? We can turn that to the women. What
about a woman who decides that, like her mother or mine,
(30:53):
they want to stay home and raise the kids. They
don't want to go to a workplace. They want to
stay home and keep a clean house where the family's
well fed. The bills are paid, the plumbing and electrical works,
(31:14):
they meet the people there, Things are done. There's a
lot of tasks in the house. They're not left undone.
The beds are made, breakfast is made, bedtimes are met,
homework is done. That's what they want to do. That's
(31:38):
what makes them feel whole and wholesome and fulfilled. Is
that honored? No? No, they're marginalized. They're lesser people. Do
you remember Hillary Clinton when she lost in twenty sixteen.
You remember the nasty speech she gave in Chicago about
(32:05):
these stupid women who just voted the way their husband did.
She's always had a disdain for these women, those women
for many of you are you? So you just keep
you just keep saying these things, and you just keep
(32:26):
doing these things, and you're noticing the world is changing
around you and they're constantly and your opinion doesn't matter.
And how dare a black person a transgender if they say, hey,
this is screwed up. If you do it, you're somehow
a threat. You're treated everyone's against you. And the minute
(32:48):
you start pointing out what is actually true, now now
it's laughable that you're crazy and you think all these things.
But you know what you see, you know what you feel,
you know what you're going through. I have black listeners
who will email and say, I'm surprised, I'm surprised more
(33:09):
white people aren't pissed off watching what people say about it.
We're kind of like the White Avengers moment. They might
need you to be Mexican next week, just for diversity
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