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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show. Was talking
about strategies viving and thriving in this The first one
is the serenity prayer. Understand that you cannot change broken people.
(00:48):
This was a lesson that took me a good part
of my life to accept. Because I think I'm superman.
I can fix any problem. I can solve anything. People
come to me with all sorts of problems and I
solve them all day. It's very rewarding. You get a
(01:08):
god complex. Look at me. I can do this, And
I realized that's a drug I feed off of and
I've had to learn it'll also take you down. But
I also realized over a period of time that you
cannot change people from their core. It's a fool's errand
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but more than that, it's diving into the water to
save someone that's going to drown you too. You can
throw them a lifeline and if they kick it back,
you can recognize that's a decision they made. They have
(01:57):
agency of authority over their decision. Making whatever that may be,
and at some point you have to live with that.
It's hard because we want to fix people, we want
to change people, and that is one of the core
problems with human relations, desire to change other people. And
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in many cases, the desire to change other people is
really the desire to control other people. And that gets
to our basic animal instinct of control and dominance. It's
natural throughout the animal kingdom. That's what the hierarchy of
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species is all about, the predator prey. The desire to
change someone is the desire to control someone. But here's
the part that's important. You got to figure out which
fights are worth fighting. You got to figure out which
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behaviors are worth defending. Is it worth it if you
think that people ought to be allowed to cut Is
it worth it to go into a children's school dropping
f bombs? I hope you wouldn't do that, even if
you don't think there's anything wrong with It's just another word.
You're picking a fight. It really has no benefit to
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you to win. And I see this all the time.
You're picking a fight over a principle. It's not even
really a deep principle. You didn't change anybody's mind, you
just showed that you were willing to thwart the rule.
What did you gain? No one was inspired by you.
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Whatever their level of respect for you was, they have
less of it now than they did before. So you
have to decide what do I want to offer my opinion?
And you know, what do I want to say publicly?
Who do I want to be that I think it's
very important people understand that. That me showing that, expressing that.
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I think a lot of people get themselves in trouble
on social media by saying things for shock value, because
they're kind of curious if it will cause them a problem,
and by the time it does cause them a problem,
it's too late. Well that was dumb. How many times
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do we do that, We provoke something just to see
what will happen? First time Mom told you don't touch
the flame. Oh I got to touch slave now? Oh damn?
And then what do they say, idiot? We told you,
I know. But this will be Mom, this will be
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a lifelong problem for me. I will be warned to
touch the flame, and I will touch the flame. But
here's the part that's very important, and that is understanding
that we are complicit, which means involved. In allowing this
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to happen. And the reason is for all our tough
talk about how we won't bend the knee, we also
won't lift a finger to help another person. I watched
this all the time. Let me tell you how this
plays out. There's a group of guys got their lunchbox.
(05:44):
Their wives made them send them to work. They work
for a big company, but they're out at the job site.
Somebody makes a comment, somebody adds to the comment. It's
like telephone game. It sort of starts going as all
guys and they're going around, and then finally somebody says
something that someone else views as offensive and they run tell,
(06:10):
because that's what people do. They run tell. And then
the question becomes what do you do about it? The
question becomes do you say that man is not at
fault unless everyone is fired, he shouldn't be fired. Most
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people don't do that. Most people hide, And here's how
they justify it. I mean, I'm all for telling Joe's
but man, he went too far. Did he? Have you
never told that same joke? Well, yeah, I mean yeah,
I guess I have. So why didn't you say that
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that's a joke? Everybody in the group is told, well,
he was an idiot for telling it at the time.
You could have told him at the time, but you didn't.
That's the real that's the real interesting study of how
many people will judge another person for getting a DWI when,
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but for pure luck, they don't have one, they could
have had twenty five most people, I'll bet you ninety
percent of people who drink at all. If you don't drink,
you're probably not going to run the riskiness. But for
people who drink at all, I think over ninety percent
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of people if they're honest, especially as low as the
number has come now, I think it's point oh eight.
Over ninety percent of people would have blown hot. And
now you have no idea, get yourself a breathalyser. You'll
be shocked at this, but you don't feel any compassion
for that person at that moment. The media bubble is real.
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A news study shows a massive disconnect between journalists and
the public. Now, I know that's nothing new to you,
but it is worth noting because I was at a
dinner party last night and the starting point for every
conversation is stories that are in the news. Now, the
good thing is there's more competition to provide news than
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there ever was, and that means a couple of different things.
It means you can choose your news. You want liberal news,
you want conservative news. It's hard to get down the road,
down the middle of the road, you know, objective news
any longer that doesn't have any spend because what used
to be considered that is all left wing now, so
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now everything that is not left wing is a reaction
to that. But it means that at least you can
flip channels and see how a story's being portrayed by
various networks and maybe from that come to your conclusion.
What I find interesting, however, is that as the news
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business is dying, and they are dying, especially particularly on
the left, as that is happening, they don't seem willing
or able to self correct because they have no sense
of self awareness. They don't realize they're the problem. They
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hate you, and they just keep getting madder at you.
But there's not enough of them to support them. They've
tried liberal talk radio again and again and again, and
they just can't get it. They cannot get it. There
are so many conservative talkers in this country. There are
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people that are lifelong liberals who wanted to be talkers
and switched over to being a conservative. Some of them
are national now some of them, and I'm not faulting them.
Look as long as they're saying what I think is
the right thing, I really don't care where they came from.
But there are people. There is so much conservative content
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out there. There's kind of right wing, neo con conservative,
a lot of that. There's conservatorian. There's more libertarian than conservatorian.
But that's where the American public is now. So a
new in depth study by the supposedly nonpartisan but very
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left leaning Pew Research Center found that sixty five percent
of the nearly twelve thousand journalists surveyed say the media
do a solid job of quote covering the most important
stories of the day and reporting news accurately. Sixty five
percent of the twelve thousand journalists, yeah, they're doing a
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great job, but a solid majority of the American public
at large has the opposite view. Only thirty five percent
of them feel that way. That's a thirty thirty point
perception gap. That means these people have no clue how
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they are perceived. When asked if journalists perform well when
quote serving as a watchdog over elected leaders. Fifty two
percent of journalists agreed, but the number dropped precipitously when
the general public was asked, with fewer than thirty percent
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agreeing with the assessment. When asked if journalists manage and
correct misinformation consistently, forty three percent of those in the
industry said yes. So look, more than half of them agree,
we don't do that very well, while twenty five percent
of the general public agreeed almost half. Forty six percent
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of journalists said they felt connected to their readers and viewers,
while just one quarter of the public says they feel
connected to the media outlets from which they get their news.
And imagine that. Imagine that there was once a day
of Walter Cronkaink, Edward R. Murrow. We respected and admired
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these people. Bob Schiffer, longtime journalist, did a piece several
years ago on how insulated journalists have become. Here's an example.
In the twenty twenty election, just nine percent of Manhattan
voters voted for Donald Trump. In DC he got just
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five point four percent. Think about that. So these people,
that's where they live. They live in New York and
DC they're surrounded by other people who view the world
exactly and so you get a confirmation bias. You know,
how do the people in Charlie Manson's cult think what
they're doing is okay? Because everybody around them says it is.
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If everybody around you lives in a polygamous cult, you
think that's normal. That's why they don't let you see
the outside world. That's why in Iran and China they
shut off the outside world the Internet and television. And
because as long as you don't know what else is
going on out there, you think the whole world is
living the way you are. Let me just give you
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a couple of examples of how out of touch the
media is. And look, we could play this game all day,
I get it. Let's start with Don Lemon.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't do opinion, and I know the difference for
me is I do point of view. So I'm giving
my point of view as an American, as a black
man who happens to be gay.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But I'm through that lens.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But I'm also I'm also I also represent CNN, and
so I must tell the truth. And if I don't,
if my facts are wrong, then I had to clarify it,
and I had to come on television and I have
to apologize, and I say, I got that wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
How about we do a little montage of this unbiased
because they think they are this unbiased news. This is
a montage of CNN and MSNBC.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You're hitting a lot of Republicans who are outrage over
President Biden's handling of the exit, especially in the so
called Freedom Caucus. If they support the former guy, the
one who set all of this in motion in the
first place, the hypocrisy is off the charts and it
is sickening.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
All Right, everybody, Good evening. We begin to read out
tonight with two cases which will once again tell us
where we are as a country, whether armed primarily white
men can continue to take matters into their own hands
and serve as judge, jury, and executioner.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So I had this segment laid out where I was
going to call out all of the people who are
prolonging this pandemic with phony COVID cures and anti vaccine garbage.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Now in a moment, you're going to see the sheer
spectacle of a sitting Republican US senator, one of the
most powerful individuals in the country, representing one of the
biggest states in the nation, pretty much groveling at the
feet of a right wing cable TV entertainer, which certainly
reflects the state of the Union.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Was the peaceful transfer of power in January something of
a miracle.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
We're moving toward a kind of politics. We'll remember the
new Republican strategies to follow voters to their cars. They
now have normalized the idea of using political violence to
get the ends they want.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Then, about twenty million people across America watched Thursday's plan
found hearing twenty million viewers is in the ballpark with
big television events like Sunday Night football.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh my god, But I want you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
To compare those twenty million viewers with the biggest ratings
Donald Trump garnered for his reality show.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right I was fourteen Show of Celebrity. FA know, this
was the build up this They had seven point six
million viewers. That's what's become of independent, impartial, non biased,
unbiased objective journalism. The Michael Berry Show of job creation
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in the United States since February of nineteen twenty, over
fifty percent of the three million net jobs added in
the last three years. We're created in only two states.
Can you guess Texas and Florida. In other words, take
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those two states out and you reduce to only half
the job description out of the other forty eight states.
The proof is in the pudding. It's why federalism works
on many levels when you have fifty different states with
fifty different sets of rules, regulations, courts, laws, cultures. This
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is why Democrats don't want states to be able to
do anything other than what the federal government tells them
to do, because they want cramm down policies at the
national level. That way, Texas or Florida won't be able
to reduce their tax rate and see how that works.
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They won't be able to reduce the choke hold regulation
on businesses. They won't be able to allow the individual
to own a gun. After basic safeguards are put in place,
they'll be able to take away the guns from everybody
but the cops and the criminals. Good luck waiting on
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the cops to get there, because if it's three minutes,
that's two minutes fifty seconds, two long. Not their fault,
but fifty laboratories to experiment, and the beauty of those
laboratories are then you really get to see how California's
leftist policies are hurting them. California has the prettiest weather
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and topography in the country. Is there any doubt Is
there any doubt of that? No, It's why so many
people moved out there once the industries began to develop,
particularly for creative people, the movies and music and those
sorts of things. It's why people moved from New York
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out there to enjoy the wonderful weather, followed by Florida.
That's no secret. But look at how many people have
moved from California to Florida because you've got similar weather
and much better regulatory environment, much better culture. When every
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state can create their own framework for how you live
that the people of that state embrace and embody, then
the rest of us can say, I might like to
move to Florida or Texas or Tennessee or Louisiana or
Mississippi or Georgia. And that's what people are doing. And
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how many people are now moving to California or New
York or Illinois. The Blue states are watching jobs disappear,
and those jobs are not just going away, they're relocating
to the Red states. They're relocating to better, more business
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friendly environments, more freedom friendly environments. My wife was Secretary
of State of Texas almost ten years or nine years ago,
and one of her responsibilities was economic development, So she
spent a lot of time talking to companies looking to
move to Texas. And those companies were primarily from California,
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New York, and Illinois. And they were blown away. You
mean you have no income tax. No, we have a
franchise tax, but no income tax. But it's a lower
tax burden. To be clear. Now you are going to
take pay property taxes, you are going to have a
franchise tax on your business, but you're not going to
have that income tax. It's going to make a huge difference. Wow. Yeah,
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And we don't allow it. We have tort reform here.
We don't allow you to get sued just because you're
a business and somebody wants to make you know, wants
a lottery ticket of what can they get out of you?
And and and and fill in the blank. All the
different reasons people wanted to come to this state, dramatic
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reasons to come to this state. Those reasons matter, and
it makes a big difference for how businesses operate. The
problem is the mentality in Washington, d C. Is the
same mentality of the Blue States, and the same mentality
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that is lost that has resulted in job losses and
wealth loss in the Blue States has been brought to
the federal government, and that is bringing our country down.
We are not improving our ability to manufacture. We're not
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improving our ability to find and improve upon energy sources.
We are not improving on our ability to do business.
Whatever reason you may think for the United States to
be the world's superpower, it is not primarily our military.
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It is primarily our economy. The fact that we could
create so much wealth meant we could build a great military.
The fact that we had stability in our court system,
the fact that we had a sense of fairness and opportunity,
meant that we became the dream team, the all star
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team for the world. We didn't build this great country
on illegal aliens fleeing the court systems and the prison systems,
and as cartel operatives coming through our southern border. We
got the best and brightest Jews fleeing Nazi Germany that
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would go on to make great developments and discoveries and
inventions came to this country. Irani's fleeing the Homiani cartel.
The Muslim theocracy came to this country. Indians who wanted
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to learn engineering, in physics and mathematics came to this country.
The world came to this country. Money flowed to this country.
That's changing now. That is changing, and it's not accidental,
and it's not fatalistic, and it's not a destiny. It's
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bad decisions. Our bad decision in Ukraine pushed Russia in
a corner, and Russian Russia turned out to be a
very very powerful foe in convincing the Chinese how they
could bring us harm that and the Chinese owned Joe Biden,
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who's collapsing our government in front of us. And we
are watching a reordering on the world stage that is
going to be a generational setback. It's coming. Inflation in
levels you've not seen in your lifetime, a reduction in
the quality the standard of living in this country that
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you've not seen in your lifetime, a setback of all
the great gains. It is coming. I don't wish it
to come, I don't revel in it. I see it,
and I'm preparing for it very frigame.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Activate the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So a guy who's been working in a job every year.
And granted he's not an inside the air working kind
of guy. He wears boots, jeans, he's from a small town.
He might smoke, Oh wow, but I guess we have
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to have a few of those around here. He wears
out in the heat all day. 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
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look older than his age. 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 existence makes them cringe.
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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, where to get off, and
everybody giggles at him. We know that I in his
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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, he doesn't live the way
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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.
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You didn't 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. It's that he represents the north Star and
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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.
Right the opposite. He doesn't seek your approval. He kind
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of disdains you because he has a clarity of purpose
to his life and conscience and he doesn't do things
he doesn't want to do. He is the savage. He
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is what the 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
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the image I have crafted. 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
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and Indians, the shooting 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 it, and that's okay until it comes time that
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for whatever reason, and occasionally he does do some things wrong.
He's dragged down to HR thinks 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, you name it that
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are the the meanest, nastiest, vicious people that they don't
get sensitivity training. Why would they? They are culture? You're
not so after a period of time, the guys like
him individually, they never gather individually, they start deciding they're angry.
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Now many of them turn inward. The bottle helps. If
you can get drunk enough, fast enough of the minute
you get off of work, it makes life bearable. Of course,
that also makes personal relationships difficult, and then that can
complicate your whole life. So what are we doing to
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these people? What are they doing to you? You can
turn that to the women. What about a woman who
decides that, like her mother or mine, they want to
stay home and raise the kids. They don't want to
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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, They meet
the people there. Things are done. There's a lot of
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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 what makes them
feel whole and wholesome and fulfilled. Is that honored? No, No,
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their marginalized. They're lesser people. You remember Hillary Clinton when
she lost in twenty sixteen. You remember the nasty speech
she gave in Chicago about these stupid women who just
voted the way their husband did. She's always had a
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disdain for these women, but those women, for many of you,
are you.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So you just.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Keep you just keep saying these things, and you just
keep doing these things, and you're noticeing 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
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a threat. You're treated everyone's against you. And the minute
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
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who will email and say, I'm surprised, I'm surprised more
white people aren't pissed off watching what people say about it.
We're kind of like the white Avengers them. We might
need you to be Mexican next week, just for diversity
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show. Was talking
about strategies viving and thriving in this The first one
is the serenity prayer. Understand that you cannot change broken people.
(00:48):
This was a lesson that took me a good part
of my life to accept. Because I think I'm superman.
I can fix any problem. I can solve anything. People
come to me with all sorts of problems and I
solve them all day. It's very rewarding. You get a
(01:08):
god complex. Look at me. I can do this, And
I realized that's a drug I feed off of and
I've had to learn it'll also take you down. But
I also realized over a period of time that you
cannot change people from their core. It's a fool's errand
(01:33):
but more than that, it's diving into the water to
save someone that's going to drown you too. You can
throw them a lifeline and if they kick it back,
you can recognize that's a decision they made. They have
(01:57):
agency of authority over their decision. Making whatever that may be,
and at some point you have to live with that.
It's hard because we want to fix people, we want
to change people, and that is one of the core
problems with human relations, desire to change other people. And
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in many cases, the desire to change other people is
really the desire to control other people. And that gets
to our basic animal instinct of control and dominance. It's
natural throughout the animal kingdom. That's what the hierarchy of
(02:43):
species is all about, the predator prey. The desire to
change someone is the desire to control someone. But here's
the part that's important. You got to figure out which
fights are worth fighting. You got to figure out which
(03:05):
behaviors are worth defending. Is it worth it if you
think that people ought to be allowed to cut Is
it worth it to go into a children's school dropping
f bombs? I hope you wouldn't do that, even if
you don't think there's anything wrong with It's just another word.
You're picking a fight. It really has no benefit to
(03:27):
you to win. And I see this all the time.
You're picking a fight over a principle. It's not even
really a deep principle. You didn't change anybody's mind, you
just showed that you were willing to thwart the rule.
What did you gain? No one was inspired by you.
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Whatever their level of respect for you was, they have
less of it now than they did before. So you
have to decide what do I want to offer my opinion?
And you know, what do I want to say publicly?
Who do I want to be that I think it's
very important people understand that. That me showing that, expressing that.
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I think a lot of people get themselves in trouble
on social media by saying things for shock value, because
they're kind of curious if it will cause them a problem,
and by the time it does cause them a problem,
it's too late. Well that was dumb. How many times
(04:35):
do we do that, We provoke something just to see
what will happen? First time Mom told you don't touch
the flame. Oh I got to touch slave now? Oh damn?
And then what do they say, idiot? We told you,
I know. But this will be Mom, this will be
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a lifelong problem for me. I will be warned to
touch the flame, and I will touch the flame. But
here's the part that's very important, and that is understanding
that we are complicit, which means involved. In allowing this
(05:18):
to happen. And the reason is for all our tough
talk about how we won't bend the knee, we also
won't lift a finger to help another person. I watched
this all the time. Let me tell you how this
plays out. There's a group of guys got their lunchbox.
(05:44):
Their wives made them send them to work. They work
for a big company, but they're out at the job site.
Somebody makes a comment, somebody adds to the comment. It's
like telephone game. It sort of starts going as all
guys and they're going around, and then finally somebody says
something that someone else views as offensive and they run tell,
(06:10):
because that's what people do. They run tell. And then
the question becomes what do you do about it? The
question becomes do you say that man is not at
fault unless everyone is fired, he shouldn't be fired. Most
(06:33):
people don't do that. Most people hide, And here's how
they justify it. I mean, I'm all for telling Joe's
but man, he went too far. Did he? Have you
never told that same joke? Well, yeah, I mean yeah,
I guess I have. So why didn't you say that
(06:53):
that's a joke? Everybody in the group is told, well,
he was an idiot for telling it at the time.
You could have told him at the time, but you didn't.
That's the real that's the real interesting study of how
many people will judge another person for getting a DWI when,
(07:17):
but for pure luck, they don't have one, they could
have had twenty five most people, I'll bet you ninety
percent of people who drink at all. If you don't drink,
you're probably not going to run the riskiness. But for
people who drink at all, I think over ninety percent
(07:40):
of people if they're honest, especially as low as the
number has come now, I think it's point oh eight.
Over ninety percent of people would have blown hot. And
now you have no idea, get yourself a breathalyser. You'll
be shocked at this, but you don't feel any compassion
for that person at that moment. The media bubble is real.
(08:08):
A news study shows a massive disconnect between journalists and
the public. Now, I know that's nothing new to you,
but it is worth noting because I was at a
dinner party last night and the starting point for every
conversation is stories that are in the news. Now, the
good thing is there's more competition to provide news than
(08:33):
there ever was, and that means a couple of different things.
It means you can choose your news. You want liberal news,
you want conservative news. It's hard to get down the road,
down the middle of the road, you know, objective news
any longer that doesn't have any spend because what used
to be considered that is all left wing now, so
(08:55):
now everything that is not left wing is a reaction
to that. But it means that at least you can
flip channels and see how a story's being portrayed by
various networks and maybe from that come to your conclusion.
What I find interesting, however, is that as the news
(09:16):
business is dying, and they are dying, especially particularly on
the left, as that is happening, they don't seem willing
or able to self correct because they have no sense
of self awareness. They don't realize they're the problem. They
(09:37):
hate you, and they just keep getting madder at you.
But there's not enough of them to support them. They've
tried liberal talk radio again and again and again, and
they just can't get it. They cannot get it. There
are so many conservative talkers in this country. There are
(09:57):
people that are lifelong liberals who wanted to be talkers
and switched over to being a conservative. Some of them
are national now some of them, and I'm not faulting them.
Look as long as they're saying what I think is
the right thing, I really don't care where they came from.
But there are people. There is so much conservative content
(10:18):
out there. There's kind of right wing, neo con conservative,
a lot of that. There's conservatorian. There's more libertarian than conservatorian.
But that's where the American public is now. So a
new in depth study by the supposedly nonpartisan but very
(10:38):
left leaning Pew Research Center found that sixty five percent
of the nearly twelve thousand journalists surveyed say the media
do a solid job of quote covering the most important
stories of the day and reporting news accurately. Sixty five
percent of the twelve thousand journalists, yeah, they're doing a
(11:01):
great job, but a solid majority of the American public
at large has the opposite view. Only thirty five percent
of them feel that way. That's a thirty thirty point
perception gap. That means these people have no clue how
(11:22):
they are perceived. When asked if journalists perform well when
quote serving as a watchdog over elected leaders. Fifty two
percent of journalists agreed, but the number dropped precipitously when
the general public was asked, with fewer than thirty percent
(11:42):
agreeing with the assessment. When asked if journalists manage and
correct misinformation consistently, forty three percent of those in the
industry said yes. So look, more than half of them agree,
we don't do that very well, while twenty five percent
of the general public agreeed almost half. Forty six percent
(12:05):
of journalists said they felt connected to their readers and viewers,
while just one quarter of the public says they feel
connected to the media outlets from which they get their news.
And imagine that. Imagine that there was once a day
of Walter Cronkaink, Edward R. Murrow. We respected and admired
(12:29):
these people. Bob Schiffer, longtime journalist, did a piece several
years ago on how insulated journalists have become. Here's an example.
In the twenty twenty election, just nine percent of Manhattan
voters voted for Donald Trump. In DC he got just
(12:50):
five point four percent. Think about that. So these people,
that's where they live. They live in New York and
DC they're surrounded by other people who view the world
exactly and so you get a confirmation bias. You know,
how do the people in Charlie Manson's cult think what
they're doing is okay? Because everybody around them says it is.
(13:12):
If everybody around you lives in a polygamous cult, you
think that's normal. That's why they don't let you see
the outside world. That's why in Iran and China they
shut off the outside world the Internet and television. And
because as long as you don't know what else is
going on out there, you think the whole world is
living the way you are. Let me just give you
(13:35):
a couple of examples of how out of touch the
media is. And look, we could play this game all day,
I get it. Let's start with Don Lemon.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't do opinion, and I know the difference for
me is I do point of view. So I'm giving
my point of view as an American, as a black
man who happens to be gay.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But I'm through that lens.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But I'm also I'm also I also represent CNN, and
so I must tell the truth. And if I don't,
if my facts are wrong, then I had to clarify it,
and I had to come on television and I have
to apologize, and I say, I got that wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
How about we do a little montage of this unbiased
because they think they are this unbiased news. This is
a montage of CNN and MSNBC.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You're hitting a lot of Republicans who are outrage over
President Biden's handling of the exit, especially in the so
called Freedom Caucus. If they support the former guy, the
one who set all of this in motion in the
first place, the hypocrisy is off the charts and it
is sickening.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
All Right, everybody, Good evening. We begin to read out
tonight with two cases which will once again tell us
where we are as a country, whether armed primarily white
men can continue to take matters into their own hands
and serve as judge, jury, and executioner.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So I had this segment laid out where I was
going to call out all of the people who are
prolonging this pandemic with phony COVID cures and anti vaccine garbage.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Now in a moment, you're going to see the sheer
spectacle of a sitting Republican US senator, one of the
most powerful individuals in the country, representing one of the
biggest states in the nation, pretty much groveling at the
feet of a right wing cable TV entertainer, which certainly
reflects the state of the Union.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Was the peaceful transfer of power in January something of
a miracle.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
We're moving toward a kind of politics. We'll remember the
new Republican strategies to follow voters to their cars. They
now have normalized the idea of using political violence to
get the ends they want.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Then, about twenty million people across America watched Thursday's plan
found hearing twenty million viewers is in the ballpark with
big television events like Sunday Night football.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh my god, But I want you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
To compare those twenty million viewers with the biggest ratings
Donald Trump garnered for his reality show.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right I was fourteen Show of Celebrity. FA know, this
was the build up this They had seven point six
million viewers. That's what's become of independent, impartial, non biased,
unbiased objective journalism. The Michael Berry Show of job creation
(16:21):
in the United States since February of nineteen twenty, over
fifty percent of the three million net jobs added in
the last three years. We're created in only two states.
Can you guess Texas and Florida. In other words, take
(16:44):
those two states out and you reduce to only half
the job description out of the other forty eight states.
The proof is in the pudding. It's why federalism works
on many levels when you have fifty different states with
fifty different sets of rules, regulations, courts, laws, cultures. This
(17:10):
is why Democrats don't want states to be able to
do anything other than what the federal government tells them
to do, because they want cramm down policies at the
national level. That way, Texas or Florida won't be able
to reduce their tax rate and see how that works.
(17:34):
They won't be able to reduce the choke hold regulation
on businesses. They won't be able to allow the individual
to own a gun. After basic safeguards are put in place,
they'll be able to take away the guns from everybody
but the cops and the criminals. Good luck waiting on
(17:54):
the cops to get there, because if it's three minutes,
that's two minutes fifty seconds, two long. Not their fault,
but fifty laboratories to experiment, and the beauty of those
laboratories are then you really get to see how California's
leftist policies are hurting them. California has the prettiest weather
(18:17):
and topography in the country. Is there any doubt Is
there any doubt of that? No, It's why so many
people moved out there once the industries began to develop,
particularly for creative people, the movies and music and those
sorts of things. It's why people moved from New York
(18:40):
out there to enjoy the wonderful weather, followed by Florida.
That's no secret. But look at how many people have
moved from California to Florida because you've got similar weather
and much better regulatory environment, much better culture. When every
(19:04):
state can create their own framework for how you live
that the people of that state embrace and embody, then
the rest of us can say, I might like to
move to Florida or Texas or Tennessee or Louisiana or
Mississippi or Georgia. And that's what people are doing. And
(19:27):
how many people are now moving to California or New
York or Illinois. The Blue states are watching jobs disappear,
and those jobs are not just going away, they're relocating
to the Red states. They're relocating to better, more business
(19:54):
friendly environments, more freedom friendly environments. My wife was Secretary
of State of Texas almost ten years or nine years ago,
and one of her responsibilities was economic development, So she
spent a lot of time talking to companies looking to
move to Texas. And those companies were primarily from California,
(20:21):
New York, and Illinois. And they were blown away. You
mean you have no income tax. No, we have a
franchise tax, but no income tax. But it's a lower
tax burden. To be clear. Now you are going to
take pay property taxes, you are going to have a
franchise tax on your business, but you're not going to
have that income tax. It's going to make a huge difference. Wow. Yeah,
(20:46):
And we don't allow it. We have tort reform here.
We don't allow you to get sued just because you're
a business and somebody wants to make you know, wants
a lottery ticket of what can they get out of you?
And and and and fill in the blank. All the
different reasons people wanted to come to this state, dramatic
(21:07):
reasons to come to this state. Those reasons matter, and
it makes a big difference for how businesses operate. The
problem is the mentality in Washington, d C. Is the
same mentality of the Blue States, and the same mentality
(21:28):
that is lost that has resulted in job losses and
wealth loss in the Blue States has been brought to
the federal government, and that is bringing our country down.
We are not improving our ability to manufacture. We're not
(21:49):
improving our ability to find and improve upon energy sources.
We are not improving on our ability to do business.
Whatever reason you may think for the United States to
be the world's superpower, it is not primarily our military.
(22:14):
It is primarily our economy. The fact that we could
create so much wealth meant we could build a great military.
The fact that we had stability in our court system,
the fact that we had a sense of fairness and opportunity,
meant that we became the dream team, the all star
(22:36):
team for the world. We didn't build this great country
on illegal aliens fleeing the court systems and the prison systems,
and as cartel operatives coming through our southern border. We
got the best and brightest Jews fleeing Nazi Germany that
(22:59):
would go on to make great developments and discoveries and
inventions came to this country. Irani's fleeing the Homiani cartel.
The Muslim theocracy came to this country. Indians who wanted
(23:22):
to learn engineering, in physics and mathematics came to this country.
The world came to this country. Money flowed to this country.
That's changing now. That is changing, and it's not accidental,
and it's not fatalistic, and it's not a destiny. It's
(23:45):
bad decisions. Our bad decision in Ukraine pushed Russia in
a corner, and Russian Russia turned out to be a
very very powerful foe in convincing the Chinese how they
could bring us harm that and the Chinese owned Joe Biden,
(24:07):
who's collapsing our government in front of us. And we
are watching a reordering on the world stage that is
going to be a generational setback. It's coming. Inflation in
levels you've not seen in your lifetime, a reduction in
the quality the standard of living in this country that
(24:28):
you've not seen in your lifetime, a setback of all
the great gains. It is coming. I don't wish it
to come, I don't revel in it. I see it,
and I'm preparing for it very frigame.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Activate the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So a guy who's been working in a job every year.
And granted he's not an inside the air working kind
of guy. He wears boots, jeans, he's from a small town.
He might smoke, Oh wow, but I guess we have
(25:13):
to have a few of those around here. He wears
out in the heat all day. 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
(25:35):
look older than his age. 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 existence makes them cringe.
(26:08):
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, where to get off, and
everybody giggles at him. We know that I in his
(26:31):
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, he doesn't live the way
(26:51):
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.
(27:12):
You didn't 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. It's that he represents the north Star and
(27:37):
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.
Right the opposite. He doesn't seek your approval. He kind
(28:00):
of disdains you because he has a clarity of purpose
to his life and conscience and he doesn't do things
he doesn't want to do. He is the savage. He
(28:21):
is what the 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
(28:42):
the image I have crafted. 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
(29:08):
and Indians, the shooting 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 it, and that's okay until it comes time that
(29:33):
for whatever reason, and occasionally he does do some things wrong.
He's dragged down to HR thinks 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, you name it that
(29:59):
are the the meanest, nastiest, vicious people that they don't
get sensitivity training. Why would they? They are culture? You're
not so after a period of time, the guys like
him individually, they never gather individually, they start deciding they're angry.
(30:25):
Now many of them turn inward. The bottle helps. If
you can get drunk enough, fast enough of the minute
you get off of work, it makes life bearable. Of course,
that also makes personal relationships difficult, and then that can
complicate your whole life. So what are we doing to
(30:47):
these people? What are they doing to you? You can
turn that to the women. What about a woman who
decides that, like her mother or mine, they want to
stay home and raise the kids. They don't want to
(31:08):
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, They meet
the people there. Things are done. There's a lot of
(31:31):
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 what makes them
feel whole and wholesome and fulfilled. Is that honored? No, No,
(31:59):
their marginalized. They're lesser people. You remember Hillary Clinton when
she lost in twenty sixteen. You remember the nasty speech
she gave in Chicago about these stupid women who just
voted the way their husband did. She's always had a
(32:23):
disdain for these women, but those women, for many of you,
are you.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
So you just.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Keep you just keep saying these things, and you just
keep doing these things, and you're noticeing 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
(32:53):
a threat. You're treated everyone's against you. And the minute
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
(33:17):
who will email and say, I'm surprised, I'm surprised more
white people aren't pissed off watching what people say about it.
We're kind of like the white Avengers them. We might
need you to be Mexican next week, just for diversity
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