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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Further to our conversation about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Boy,
this is an important one. We need Pete in there
to reform our military. I have so many listeners. Feels
like almost every day that somebody will say, pray for
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my daughter, pray for my son. Here's a picture of
me and him, or me and her. They just got
through boot camp, they just signed up. And I always
cringe because in the back of my mind, I think,
out of an abundance of patriotism, innocence and goodness is
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that young person. It makes me very emotional willing to
give all that they have at this young age. They've
not accumulated wealth, They've typically not accumulated a spouse and children,
a business and equity. No greater love hath any man
than to lay down his life for a friend. They
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are giving the only thing they have, their life for
this nation.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's deep. That's deep.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And I have to ask myself who are the people
in charge of whether they go to war and how
they go to war? Because I have not trusted those
people for a very long time, and I would like
to think we're going to find out how screwed up
our military is when we're attacked by China. We're going
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to find out. We're already finding out, but we're going
to find out that our military is like the LA
Fire Department, some good people serving with some inep leadership
making it a whole lot harder. And I don't want
to lose a war to find out how long they've
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been screwing up. And I believe Pete Hegseth will give
everything he's got to fixing our defense department to fixing
our military so that your sons and daughters and sisters
and brothers and husbands and wives and parents can serve
with honor and dignity and the full support of this.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Country behind them. That's what I want.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Angus King is the dufus out of Maine who asked
Pete Hegseth if he's supported torture Democrat, Angus King, Ainus
or Angus Romo. Listen to Pete Hegs's response, Enator.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
How we treat our wounded, how we treat our prisoners.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The applications of the Juvenia Conventions are incredibly important, but
we would all have to acknowledge that the way we
fought our wars back when the Geneva convictions were written
are a lot different than the asymmetric, non conventional environment
of counterinsurgency that I confronted in Iraq and Afghanistan. I
was the senior counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan. My job was
to understand how the Taliban and al Qaeda operated so
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that NATO units coming in could be informed of what
was happening. They knew our rules of engagement and when
they were more restrictive, they took advantage of them, and
it put our men and women in a more dangerous
and difficult place.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You believe the future wars we fight.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We need to have someone atop the pentagon, Sir, who
understands how those ripple effects.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I just want to.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Understand your position. Your position is torture is okay? Is
that correct? Waterboarding? Torture is no longer prohibited given the
circumstances of whatever war we're in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Is that correct? Enator?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That is not what I said. I've never been party
to torture. We are a country that fights by the
rule of.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Law, and our men and women always do, and yet
we have.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Too many people here in air conditioned offices that like
to point fingers at the guys in dark and dangerous
places in the gals in helicopters in unanomy territory who
are doing things the people in Washington, D C.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Would never dare to do.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Senator Tim Sheehey asked Pete Hegseth today during the committee hearings,
how many genders are there? Through which Pete Hegseth responded
to Tim Sheehey responded, replied.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I know that. Well, I'm a she he his name
is she? What is the diameter of a rifle round
fired out of an M four A one heg Seth?
Five point five? CI? See how many push ups can
you do? Heg Seth?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I did five sets of forty seven this morning. I
think we can shut this thing down and move on.
What do you say, Don't act like if it was
five sets of forty seven. Don't act like you did
ten sets of one hundred. Really, you're gonna question Pete
heg sayt's fitness? Now, why does that matter? Well, I'll
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tell you something. Let me give you a football analogy.
Dimiko Ryans, the head coach of the Houston Texas Demiko
relatively recently played professional football linebacker for those same Texans.
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He still looks like he could suit up. And when
he talks to the players, he talks to them he's
what's who as a player's coach. And I'm not saying
that's necessarily the best way to be all the time
for every coach, but you can see how those players respond,
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and they respond to a guy who understands what they're
going through. Who understands what it's like to get all
this money as a kid, No, I won't be making
money later. I got to spend this money wisely and
save it. Who understands the threats, the challenges, the seductions
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that are now all of a sudden thrown at your feet,
and how dangerous they can be. Who understands the temptation
to go out to the strip club after the game
when you need to go to bed and get ready
for film tomorrow. Who understands what it's like to play hurt,
which they're all playing hurt.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
All the time at this point in the season.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm not saying every coach has to be a guy
that just got out of the NFL, but I'm saying
there is a place for a guy that just got
out of the nall, and that the players themselves seem
to love it because this guy, unlike a guy who
never played pro ball, or if they did, it was
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forty years ago, this guy understands the league.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And sometimes that's nice.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, how long do you think it's been since we've
had a defense secretary that these kids, and they are kids,
they're eighteen years old, and they get their their head
shaved and they're sent off to somewhere they've never been,
and they got to start hauling stuff and chanting stuff
and doing stuff they've never done before. And then they
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got some old now, some old deea lesbian dei lesbian
telling them that they're horrible for being a white male. Well,
I got to tell you something. Are men and women
who are willing to serve deserve better. And maybe every
secretary defense secretary doesn't need to be able to do
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push ups and know every bullet round and the diameter,
but by golly, we need right now somebody that cares
about those young people who may be going into war,
who are preparing for war.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And that's pete hech sath happen some ting wong.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, something must be right, you're listening to Michael Berry.
Here is Pete Hechseth, Secretary of Defense, nominating for Yell
but Committee hearings today. But here he was telling our
friend Jack Pisobic how our military became the woke mess
it is today. And it sounds a lot like what's
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gone wrong with New York government and why they can't
handle their subways, their.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Streets or anything else.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And what's gone wrong in Los Angeles that it's laid
bare once you got a fire in some heavy wins.
This is when the bill comes due for the indulgence
tax that is put on people who think that it
doesn't matter about personnel and policy. You just try to
put non white males in every position on the basis
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that equity is somehow an end goal. Here's Pete Hegseeth
with a clear understanding of the challenge before him.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
And that's why you saw most of the more aggressive
actions of the Obama administration happened in the second.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Half of the second term.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
He didn't do it right away because he knew institutionally
he could not so take something for like women in
combat roles, for example, which rolled out in twenty fourteen
into twenty fifteen. That was would have been an extremely
controversial topic eight years before that, in the middle of
a shooting war, when there was a recognition that men
and women are different, and that you know, bone density
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and lung capacity and muscle.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Mass are different, and oh, adding.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
The variable of women into all male units in the
front lines might add some complicating factors. But by twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, you had a Secretary of the Navy and
Ray Mavis and other services, especially the Air Force in
the army, they just laid down. They didn't even try
to fight, They said, okay. At least the Marine Corps
conducted a study and they studied four hundred male Marines
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versus three hundred male Marines and one hundred female Marines.
And no surprise, after months of study, the all male
unit massively outperformed the mixed gender unit.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But what did the Secretary of the Navy do at
that point, because.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
He knew who his handlers were, threw the study out
and said, I don't care integrate every single billet. And
that's the type of mindset that takes hold everywhere. It's
not about standards and lethality and accountability and meritocracy. It's
about what do my political handlers demand based on some
societal objective that does not align with the most effective
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fighting force. And that's where they advocate their response ability.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They abdicate their oath.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But they've been well placed to be the types of
people that already want to advocate or are willing to
because they're cowers with stars on their shoulders, and they
and they go along to get along. They want to
make the next rank, and then they want their spot
on the defense, on the board of the defense contractor
after that, and they want to be liked by the
chattering class. So there's a careers im problem involved in
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all of it too, But it was set up by
systematically creating, as you said, different types of incentives.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And now are we here, We are in Biden, and
it's a straight off CRT.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
DEI gender based right out of.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
A Marxist playbook.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
If you wanted to remake an institution and destroy a country,
If you've had any experience with government, whether it be city, county,
state government, even in Texas this is going on universities.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
If you've had any experience, you know what he's talking
about right there. And I'm gonna tell you some they
have so these these monsters have so insinuated themselves up
and down the ranks of every organization. That's why they're
never disciplined for this nonsense, because the people above them
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are just like them.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They recruit other people.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Just like them, They reward each other just like them.
But what I love about Pete Hexeth, and I think
Donald Trump has shown the way is first you've got
to explain how big this mountain is to climb and
why it's important that we climb it. But then you've
got to be confident and willing to climb the mountain.
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And that's what I love here he is telling Sean
Ryan on the Sean Ryan Show. We do have a
chance to course correct.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
There's a chance to course correct it.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But it would take the Trump administration going after it
really hard.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
How would they correct it? Well, first of all, you
got a fire.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You got to fire the Chairman and Joint chiefs, and
you got to fire this. I mean obviously gonna bring
in any Secretary Defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever,
that was involved in any of the DEI woke.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's gotta go.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Either you're in for war fighting that and that's it.
That's the only litmus test we care about. You got
to get deis CRT out of military academy so you're
not training young officers to be baptized in this type
of thinking. And then, you know, whatever the standards, whatever
the combat standards were saying, I don't know nineteen ninety five,
let's just make those the standards. And as far as
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recruiting to hire the guy that you know, did top
gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That want to serve.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And there's lots of other ways in which you could
identify who gets promoted and what, but there's an ethos changed.
I mean, there's a reason where not people don't want
to serve because they don't trust that their senior leaders
are going to have their best interest in mind in combat.
I know the room mistakes made on our tours all
over the place, but I, at least for the most part,
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had a sense that my senior leaders were committed to
the completion of the mission for the right reasons. And
maybe there were strategic differences and all that other stuff,
and it wasn't always perfect, but I and that trust
is broken and you have to re establish that trust
by putting in no nonsense warfighters in those positions who
aren't going to cater to the socially correct garbage.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's what I want to hear. That's what we need
more of. That's what we need more of. I meant
to get to this yesterday, but we were on forest
fires yesterday. These are very, very busy news days, so
I don't get to every story i'd like to. Jd
Vance was on Fox News Sunday and he was preparing you, folks,
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you see these stories. We had ten in Santa Monica
Police Department arrested ten different criminals. Most of them are
legal aliens who were setting fires there. They had burglary
tools and fire tools. What they're doing is they go
set a fire in a community, they wait on the
people to flee. Oh, it's come to our neighborhood, so
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they run out, and then they scoot in and steal
all the stuff and get away before anybody can get
there because all the police and fire are distracted. We've
got to get these people out of our country. We've
got to deport them. Here is we'll take this to
the break. Jad Evans on Fox News Sunday, laying it
out what's going to happen, folks, This is what's going
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to happen.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Two are humanitarian activists and others who are worried about
these deportations, saying families are going to be separated, people
are going to be put intense and in terrible conditions.
They have real concerns about the way you plan to
actually meet out those things.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You're planning to do.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yeah, so this term is something going to hear a
lot in the next couple of months, the next couple
of years. Shannon family separation. I think it's important. That's
a euphemism, that is a dishonest term to hide behind
the fact that Joe Biden has not done border enforcement.
If you say, for example, in the United States, we
have a guy who's convicted of a violent crime and
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has to go to prison, we want that guy to
go to prison. But yes, it does mean that that
guy is going to be separated.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
From his family.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
That is the consequence of committing violence upon your fellow citizens.
If you come into this country illegally, you need to
go back home.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Here's what jad Van said.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He did it on Fox News Sunday, but he was
a little more far reaching, more magazine style, and I
thought it was really well done. I really like when
he holds forth on policy because he's incredibly well informed
and thoughtful on these issues. He knows what he knows,
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he knows what he doesn't know, and he's comfortable with
both of those, and he tries to learn what he
doesn't know, and he's unafraid to tell you what he
does know. And we don't have enough of that in
leadership in America today at all levels. So here he
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is talking about Joe Biden and he says, look, I
wish about the guy the best, but he left us
a dumpster fire. This is important to point out because
this is the same thing as Jimmy Carter was such
a nice guyff No, No, he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Stop saying that.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He called Donald Trump an illegitimate president. That makes him
an election denier. That means he is denying your vote
and the effort you made to help Donald Trump win
the office. And he was ninety two when he said that,
in more than lucid, So don't tell me, well he
was catatonic by then. Nope, Nope, he was catatonic when
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he voted. Supposedly Anyway, here's what JD.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Van said. I wish Shoe Biden all the.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Best, but the fact is he has less left us
dumpster fire now, not just at the border, but also
with the economy. First of all, we nope, the prices
are way too high for many Americans. We have to
work every single day to stabilize prices for American families.
But Shannon, everything that he's bragging about ignores the fact
that he has added trillions and trillions of dollars to
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the federal debt during a time of peace. He has
left us with bond yields, meaning how are we going
to finance that debt?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We have to sell.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Treasury bonds, and the treasury bonds have gotten more expensive
because of Joe Biden's policies, So.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You go issue after issue.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Oil prices are now shooting through the roof in the
final two months of Joe Biden's administration, in part because
of decisions that Joe Biden has made over.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The last few weeks.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
He actually hasn't left the American people in good economic condition.
That's why they made Donald J. Trump the President elector
of the United States. So we've got a lot of
work to do. I remain fundamentally and you know the Shannon,
I'll always be an optimist about our country, but I
think that that optimism has to.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Start with a bit of realism.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
I truth is that Joe Biden has left us a
dumpster fire. Donald Trump is going to have to put
it out, but he's good at doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Speaking of fires, let's move to five h five Vermon.
The conversation turned to the Los Angeles fires. Jd Vance said, Look,
some of these water reservoirs, they've been dry for fifteen
to twenty years. These people have allowed this problem to
persist for a long time.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
We have to do a better job. We need competent,
good governance. Now that doesn't mean you can't criticize the
governor of California for I think some very bad decisions
over a very long period of time. I mean, some
of these reservoirs have been dry for fifteen twenty years.
The fire hydrants are being reported as going dry while
the fire fighters are trying to put out these fires.
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There is this serious lack of competent governance in California,
and I think it's part of the reason why these
fires have gotten so bad. We need do a better
job at both the state and federal level.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Then he was asked about presidential pardons for January sixth protesters.
And my position is a pardon for every single person.
They have paid enough already.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
January sixth pardons.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
President Trump says, there's a process, where is the line
drawn and who will and wouldn't be considered for a pardon.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I think it's very simple.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Look, if you protested peacefully on January the sixth, and
you've had Merritt Garland's Department of Justice treat you like
a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed
violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And there's a little bit of a gray area there.
But we're very much.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Committed to seeing the equal administration of law. And there
are a lot of people, we think in the wake
of January the sixth, who were prosecuted unfairly.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We need to rectify that that is correct.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And then we go back to the Hamas issue, the
terrorist organization, and Hamas is a terrorist.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Organization, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And these pro Hamas protests in this country that have
taken over the streets of New York and many of
the campuses. That is a pro terrorist protest. Let's be
very clear what that is that there is no gray
area there here he is. This is five h six Tremont.
President Trump warned Hamas that if the hostages are not
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returned before he takes office, quote, all hell will break loose.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
J d Vansk was asked, what does that look like?
First of all, Steve woo Koff is a great guy.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
He's doing a great job over there, and I think
the president, if you talk to world leaders, it's very
clear that President Trump threatening Hamas and making it clear
that there is going to be hell to pay as
part of the reason why we've made progress on getting
some hostages out. We're hopeful there's going to be a
deal that's struck towards the fair the end of Biden's administration,
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maybe the last day or two.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
But regardless of when that deal is.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Struck, it will be because people are terrified that there
are going to be consequences for Hamas.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Now what does that look like?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I think Number one, it means enabling the Israelis to
knock out the final couple of battalions of Hamas and
their leadership. It means very aggressive sanctions and financial penalties
on those who are supporting terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
It means actually doing the job of American leadership.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Man, those are the kind of words I like to hear.
That is music to my ears. Meanwhile, Biden advisor Jake
Sullivan was on CNN with the other idiot, Jake Tapper,
and he makes the wild claim that the American people
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are safer and the country is better off than four
years ago. These people, you have to admire one thing.
They can look you dead in the eye and do
the old Eddie Murphy Jedi mind trick when the guy's
caught in bed with another woman by his wife and
just claims that wasn't me. And then when she said, yeah,
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well I don't love her. Like these people that they
are capable of saying literally anything without laughing, and you
have to just sit there going, I can't believe you
really just said that. I mean, it's Hitler telling you
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he loves the Jews kind of thing. You can't believe
they're actually saying this.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Listen this as we come to the waiting days of
the Biden administration, where across the globe, could you point
and say the United States is safer because of what
we did here.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Well, I'd start by saying, our alliances are stronger than
we found them four years ago. They're stronger than they've
been in decades. NATO is more powerful, purposeful, and bigger.
Our alliances in the Asia Pacific are at all time highs,
and our adversaries and competitors are weaker across the board.
Russia's weaker, Iran's weaker, China's weaker, and all the while
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we kept America out of war. So I think the
American people are safer and the country is better off
than we were four years ago, and we're handing all
that off to the next team, as well as having
the engines of American power humming our economy or technology,
our defense, industrial base, our supply chains. So the United
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States is in a stronger, more secure position, and our
competitors and adversaries are weaker and under pressure. I think
that's the main handoff that we will make to be
becoming quicker.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Okay, well, I'm so thankful, I'm healthier, happier, Richard, I
didn't realize, Well, we have our first set openly transgender congressman.
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That's a dude pretending to be a woman. His name
is Tim McBride, but now he calls himself Sarah McBride. Well,
as you might imagine, old Tim, the new congressman from Delaware.
His whole job is to draw attention from himself, so
he'll get more speaking gigs. He'll be on the front
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cover of magazines. That's what you do. That's the only
thing he's got going for him. He's a dude who
claims to be a man. So I'm a live and
let live guy. But that's not what we're doing here.
He doesn't just want to be a dude that lives
as a woman. In his trailer, he wants to go
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to your kid's school and tell your kids that they're
all little boys who want to be girls. So Tim
goes to a elementary school to read to the kids
because apparently that's very important to him. Didn't take long
once he got to Congress, did it?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh? Timmy read a book called I Am Jazz.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
This is a book by Jazz Jennings, a YouTuber who
was a dude who.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Transitioned into a woman.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
In the book chronicles his life as a transgender child,
and wouldn't you know it, it's made out to be
a wonderful thing. So maybe some of you little boys
in here would like to do it as well.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
So I am going to read you I Am Jazz
by Jessica Hurfell and Jazz Jennings.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I have a girl brain but a boy body. This
is called transgender. I was born this fight.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
Then one amazing day everything changed. Mom and Dad took
me to meet a new doctor who asked me lots
and lots of questions. Afterwards, the doctor spoke to my
parents and I heard the word transgender for the very
first time.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Mom and Dad told me I could.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Start wearing girl clothes to school and growing my hair long.
They even let me change my name to Jazz.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't mind being different. Different is special. But can
I tell you what I like most about this bubble?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
I like most the story and the message because I.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Want to tell you a little bit about myself. Is
that okay? So I'm like Jazz.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
When I was born, the doctors.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And my parents they all thought that I was a boy.
Speaker 10 (27:49):
But why well, because society people around them told them
that was the piece.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But it took me, getting at a little bit older,
to be able to say.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
That in my heart and in my mind I knew
I was really a girl, and I was very lucky
like Jazz to have parents who loved me and say
that I can be whoever I want to be.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So I was finally able to be myself.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh great, and remember kids dressed nicely tomorrow because Charlie
Manson's going to come and talk about how he started
as a normal kid, but then he encouraged the girls
in his hairm to stab a pregnant woman in her house. Yeah,
and the next day we're going to have Ted Bundy.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Y'all remember who Ted Bundy was.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He is a handsome man, and he's going to tell
us how he started as a perfectly normal kid who's
going to law school, but then he decided that he
would pretend he had a broken arm, make a fake cast,
bring rules who are trying to help him and maybe
halfway turned on by him. He's a sympathetic figure and
a good looking guy into his VW bug and then
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tie him down and rape them and murder them.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And maybe some of you would like to see such
a life.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And then maybe we'll have some prison inmates come and
they can talk about how they got into rape because
your kids and we don't need recess. We don't need
math and science and English. We're going to study about
people with dysphoria by having them come and tell us
how great their dysphoria is. Would anybody else like to
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experience dysphoria? CBS News in Chicago is reporting that more
than ten thousand tax funded There is no segue, Ramon,
that's the segue. I just moved on. They're smart people,
they get it. CBS new Prison Rupe. CBS News in
Chicago is reporting that more than ten thousand taxpayer funded
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devices like iPads and laptops went missing from Chicago public
schools last year. Oh, ten thousand of them. I grew
up in a town that didn't have ten thousand people.
Ten thousand of them. Do you know how many iPads
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and laptops that is, if stacked one on top of
the other. No, I don't know. I'm just saying generally,
I'm telling people to think about it. He's don't in
a row. Ten thousand of them went missing. Well, sure,
some of them they just took home themselves.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Some of them they gave to their boyfriend of their
girlfriend or their.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
He she, but they also clearly sold them because they
showed up in one hundred and eight different countries.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
Dollars down the drain at sea in the midst of
a budget crisis. This brand new report revealing tens of
thousands of laptops, iPads, and cell phone hotspots were lost
or stolen in the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four
school year, and thousands of those devices bought and paid
for with your tax dollars ending up in other countries.
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More than eight thousand devices detected outside of Illinois, a
majority overseas in one hundred and forty countries like Azerbai,
John Barbados, China, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Nicaragua. This report finding
CPS's inventory process lacks accountability, recommending the district resolve asset
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management issues since it's paying for geo tracking services. It
quote barely used.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
How you think they got there? How are you think
they got there? Okay, folks, let me take one minute
to close the show. I don't like to send you home.
Most of you are on your way home. Podcast listeners
could be listening the next day or later tonight, or
as you drive across the country. We got a lot
of long haul drivers.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I want to listen. End to note the show on
a positive note.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And I want to tell you that as bad as
things get, I want you to find the silver lining.
We've got Donald Trump ready to fight. We've got cash
but Tail ready to fight. We've got Pete Hegseth ready
to fight, and we've got you. I know it's hard
to be grateful for yourself, but guess what. You're choosing
to listen to me scream and holler about the bad
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things in this country instead of just listening to great
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I do read them all, and I do appreciate you,
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Jim Mudd, our whole entire Chance McClain, the whole group
of us, Emily boy, we appreciate you and that we
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get to do this every day, and then we get
to live in a country where we get to complain
and make change.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And you are the reasons.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
You
It's that time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Further to our conversation about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Boy,
this is an important one. We need Pete in there
to reform our military. I have so many listeners. Feels
like almost every day that somebody will say, pray for
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my daughter, pray for my son. Here's a picture of
me and him, or me and her. They just got
through boot camp, they just signed up. And I always
cringe because in the back of my mind, I think,
out of an abundance of patriotism, innocence and goodness is
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that young person. It makes me very emotional willing to
give all that they have at this young age. They've
not accumulated wealth, They've typically not accumulated a spouse and children,
a business and equity. No greater love hath any man
than to lay down his life for a friend. They
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are giving the only thing they have, their life for
this nation.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's deep. That's deep.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And I have to ask myself who are the people
in charge of whether they go to war and how
they go to war? Because I have not trusted those
people for a very long time, and I would like
to think we're going to find out how screwed up
our military is when we're attacked by China. We're going
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to find out. We're already finding out, but we're going
to find out that our military is like the LA
Fire Department, some good people serving with some inep leadership
making it a whole lot harder. And I don't want
to lose a war to find out how long they've
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been screwing up. And I believe Pete Hegseth will give
everything he's got to fixing our defense department to fixing
our military so that your sons and daughters and sisters
and brothers and husbands and wives and parents can serve
with honor and dignity and the full support of this.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Country behind them. That's what I want.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Angus King is the dufus out of Maine who asked
Pete Hegseth if he's supported torture Democrat, Angus King, Ainus
or Angus Romo. Listen to Pete Hegs's response, Enator.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
How we treat our wounded, how we treat our prisoners.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The applications of the Juvenia Conventions are incredibly important, but
we would all have to acknowledge that the way we
fought our wars back when the Geneva convictions were written
are a lot different than the asymmetric, non conventional environment
of counterinsurgency that I confronted in Iraq and Afghanistan. I
was the senior counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan. My job was
to understand how the Taliban and al Qaeda operated so
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that NATO units coming in could be informed of what
was happening. They knew our rules of engagement and when
they were more restrictive, they took advantage of them, and
it put our men and women in a more dangerous
and difficult place.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You believe the future wars we fight.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We need to have someone atop the pentagon, Sir, who
understands how those ripple effects.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I just want to.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Understand your position. Your position is torture is okay? Is
that correct? Waterboarding? Torture is no longer prohibited given the
circumstances of whatever war we're in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Is that correct? Enator?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That is not what I said. I've never been party
to torture. We are a country that fights by the
rule of.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Law, and our men and women always do, and yet
we have.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Too many people here in air conditioned offices that like
to point fingers at the guys in dark and dangerous
places in the gals in helicopters in unanomy territory who
are doing things the people in Washington, D C.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Would never dare to do.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Senator Tim Sheehey asked Pete Hegseth today during the committee hearings,
how many genders are there? Through which Pete Hegseth responded
to Tim Sheehey responded, replied.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I know that. Well, I'm a she he his name
is she? What is the diameter of a rifle round
fired out of an M four A one heg Seth?
Five point five? CI? See how many push ups can
you do? Heg Seth?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I did five sets of forty seven this morning. I
think we can shut this thing down and move on.
What do you say, Don't act like if it was
five sets of forty seven. Don't act like you did
ten sets of one hundred. Really, you're gonna question Pete
heg sayt's fitness? Now, why does that matter? Well, I'll
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tell you something. Let me give you a football analogy.
Dimiko Ryans, the head coach of the Houston Texas Demiko
relatively recently played professional football linebacker for those same Texans.
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He still looks like he could suit up. And when
he talks to the players, he talks to them he's
what's who as a player's coach. And I'm not saying
that's necessarily the best way to be all the time
for every coach, but you can see how those players respond,
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and they respond to a guy who understands what they're
going through. Who understands what it's like to get all
this money as a kid, No, I won't be making
money later. I got to spend this money wisely and
save it. Who understands the threats, the challenges, the seductions
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that are now all of a sudden thrown at your feet,
and how dangerous they can be. Who understands the temptation
to go out to the strip club after the game
when you need to go to bed and get ready
for film tomorrow. Who understands what it's like to play hurt,
which they're all playing hurt.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
All the time at this point in the season.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm not saying every coach has to be a guy
that just got out of the NFL, but I'm saying
there is a place for a guy that just got
out of the nall, and that the players themselves seem
to love it because this guy, unlike a guy who
never played pro ball, or if they did, it was
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forty years ago, this guy understands the league.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And sometimes that's nice.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, how long do you think it's been since we've
had a defense secretary that these kids, and they are kids,
they're eighteen years old, and they get their their head
shaved and they're sent off to somewhere they've never been,
and they got to start hauling stuff and chanting stuff
and doing stuff they've never done before. And then they
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got some old now, some old deea lesbian dei lesbian
telling them that they're horrible for being a white male. Well,
I got to tell you something. Are men and women
who are willing to serve deserve better. And maybe every
secretary defense secretary doesn't need to be able to do
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push ups and know every bullet round and the diameter,
but by golly, we need right now somebody that cares
about those young people who may be going into war,
who are preparing for war.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And that's pete hech sath happen some ting wong.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, something must be right, you're listening to Michael Berry.
Here is Pete Hechseth, Secretary of Defense, nominating for Yell
but Committee hearings today. But here he was telling our
friend Jack Pisobic how our military became the woke mess
it is today. And it sounds a lot like what's
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gone wrong with New York government and why they can't
handle their subways, their.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Streets or anything else.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And what's gone wrong in Los Angeles that it's laid
bare once you got a fire in some heavy wins.
This is when the bill comes due for the indulgence
tax that is put on people who think that it
doesn't matter about personnel and policy. You just try to
put non white males in every position on the basis
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that equity is somehow an end goal. Here's Pete Hegseeth
with a clear understanding of the challenge before him.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
And that's why you saw most of the more aggressive
actions of the Obama administration happened in the second.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Half of the second term.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
He didn't do it right away because he knew institutionally
he could not so take something for like women in
combat roles, for example, which rolled out in twenty fourteen
into twenty fifteen. That was would have been an extremely
controversial topic eight years before that, in the middle of
a shooting war, when there was a recognition that men
and women are different, and that you know, bone density
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and lung capacity and muscle.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Mass are different, and oh, adding.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
The variable of women into all male units in the
front lines might add some complicating factors. But by twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, you had a Secretary of the Navy and
Ray Mavis and other services, especially the Air Force in
the army, they just laid down. They didn't even try
to fight, They said, okay. At least the Marine Corps
conducted a study and they studied four hundred male Marines
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versus three hundred male Marines and one hundred female Marines.
And no surprise, after months of study, the all male
unit massively outperformed the mixed gender unit.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But what did the Secretary of the Navy do at
that point, because.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
He knew who his handlers were, threw the study out
and said, I don't care integrate every single billet. And
that's the type of mindset that takes hold everywhere. It's
not about standards and lethality and accountability and meritocracy. It's
about what do my political handlers demand based on some
societal objective that does not align with the most effective
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fighting force. And that's where they advocate their response ability.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They abdicate their oath.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But they've been well placed to be the types of
people that already want to advocate or are willing to
because they're cowers with stars on their shoulders, and they
and they go along to get along. They want to
make the next rank, and then they want their spot
on the defense, on the board of the defense contractor
after that, and they want to be liked by the
chattering class. So there's a careers im problem involved in
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all of it too, But it was set up by
systematically creating, as you said, different types of incentives.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And now are we here, We are in Biden, and
it's a straight off CRT.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
DEI gender based right out of.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
A Marxist playbook.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
If you wanted to remake an institution and destroy a country,
If you've had any experience with government, whether it be city, county,
state government, even in Texas this is going on universities.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
If you've had any experience, you know what he's talking
about right there. And I'm gonna tell you some they
have so these these monsters have so insinuated themselves up
and down the ranks of every organization. That's why they're
never disciplined for this nonsense, because the people above them
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are just like them.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They recruit other people.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Just like them, They reward each other just like them.
But what I love about Pete Hexeth, and I think
Donald Trump has shown the way is first you've got
to explain how big this mountain is to climb and
why it's important that we climb it. But then you've
got to be confident and willing to climb the mountain.
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And that's what I love here he is telling Sean
Ryan on the Sean Ryan Show. We do have a
chance to course correct.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
There's a chance to course correct it.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
But it would take the Trump administration going after it
really hard.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
How would they correct it? Well, first of all, you
got a fire.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You got to fire the Chairman and Joint chiefs, and
you got to fire this. I mean obviously gonna bring
in any Secretary Defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever,
that was involved in any of the DEI woke.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's gotta go.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Either you're in for war fighting that and that's it.
That's the only litmus test we care about. You got
to get deis CRT out of military academy so you're
not training young officers to be baptized in this type
of thinking. And then, you know, whatever the standards, whatever
the combat standards were saying, I don't know nineteen ninety five,
let's just make those the standards. And as far as
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recruiting to hire the guy that you know, did top
gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That want to serve.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And there's lots of other ways in which you could
identify who gets promoted and what, but there's an ethos changed.
I mean, there's a reason where not people don't want
to serve because they don't trust that their senior leaders
are going to have their best interest in mind in combat.
I know the room mistakes made on our tours all
over the place, but I, at least for the most part,
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had a sense that my senior leaders were committed to
the completion of the mission for the right reasons. And
maybe there were strategic differences and all that other stuff,
and it wasn't always perfect, but I and that trust
is broken and you have to re establish that trust
by putting in no nonsense warfighters in those positions who
aren't going to cater to the socially correct garbage.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's what I want to hear. That's what we need
more of. That's what we need more of. I meant
to get to this yesterday, but we were on forest
fires yesterday. These are very, very busy news days, so
I don't get to every story i'd like to. Jd
Vance was on Fox News Sunday and he was preparing you, folks,
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you see these stories. We had ten in Santa Monica
Police Department arrested ten different criminals. Most of them are
legal aliens who were setting fires there. They had burglary
tools and fire tools. What they're doing is they go
set a fire in a community, they wait on the
people to flee. Oh, it's come to our neighborhood, so
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they run out, and then they scoot in and steal
all the stuff and get away before anybody can get
there because all the police and fire are distracted. We've
got to get these people out of our country. We've
got to deport them. Here is we'll take this to
the break. Jad Evans on Fox News Sunday, laying it
out what's going to happen, folks, This is what's going
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to happen.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Two are humanitarian activists and others who are worried about
these deportations, saying families are going to be separated, people
are going to be put intense and in terrible conditions.
They have real concerns about the way you plan to
actually meet out those things.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You're planning to do.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yeah, so this term is something going to hear a
lot in the next couple of months, the next couple
of years. Shannon family separation. I think it's important. That's
a euphemism, that is a dishonest term to hide behind
the fact that Joe Biden has not done border enforcement.
If you say, for example, in the United States, we
have a guy who's convicted of a violent crime and
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has to go to prison, we want that guy to
go to prison. But yes, it does mean that that
guy is going to be separated.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
From his family.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
That is the consequence of committing violence upon your fellow citizens.
If you come into this country illegally, you need to
go back home.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Here's what jad Van said.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He did it on Fox News Sunday, but he was
a little more far reaching, more magazine style, and I
thought it was really well done. I really like when
he holds forth on policy because he's incredibly well informed
and thoughtful on these issues. He knows what he knows,
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he knows what he doesn't know, and he's comfortable with
both of those, and he tries to learn what he
doesn't know, and he's unafraid to tell you what he
does know. And we don't have enough of that in
leadership in America today at all levels. So here he
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is talking about Joe Biden and he says, look, I
wish about the guy the best, but he left us
a dumpster fire. This is important to point out because
this is the same thing as Jimmy Carter was such
a nice guyff No, No, he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Stop saying that.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He called Donald Trump an illegitimate president. That makes him
an election denier. That means he is denying your vote
and the effort you made to help Donald Trump win
the office. And he was ninety two when he said that,
in more than lucid, So don't tell me, well he
was catatonic by then. Nope, Nope, he was catatonic when
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he voted. Supposedly Anyway, here's what JD.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Van said. I wish Shoe Biden all the.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Best, but the fact is he has less left us
dumpster fire now, not just at the border, but also
with the economy. First of all, we nope, the prices
are way too high for many Americans. We have to
work every single day to stabilize prices for American families.
But Shannon, everything that he's bragging about ignores the fact
that he has added trillions and trillions of dollars to
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the federal debt during a time of peace. He has
left us with bond yields, meaning how are we going
to finance that debt?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We have to sell.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Treasury bonds, and the treasury bonds have gotten more expensive
because of Joe Biden's policies, So.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You go issue after issue.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Oil prices are now shooting through the roof in the
final two months of Joe Biden's administration, in part because
of decisions that Joe Biden has made over.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The last few weeks.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
He actually hasn't left the American people in good economic condition.
That's why they made Donald J. Trump the President elector
of the United States. So we've got a lot of
work to do. I remain fundamentally and you know the Shannon,
I'll always be an optimist about our country, but I
think that that optimism has to.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Start with a bit of realism.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
I truth is that Joe Biden has left us a
dumpster fire. Donald Trump is going to have to put
it out, but he's good at doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Speaking of fires, let's move to five h five Vermon.
The conversation turned to the Los Angeles fires. Jd Vance said, Look,
some of these water reservoirs, they've been dry for fifteen
to twenty years. These people have allowed this problem to
persist for a long time.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
We have to do a better job. We need competent,
good governance. Now that doesn't mean you can't criticize the
governor of California for I think some very bad decisions
over a very long period of time. I mean, some
of these reservoirs have been dry for fifteen twenty years.
The fire hydrants are being reported as going dry while
the fire fighters are trying to put out these fires.
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There is this serious lack of competent governance in California,
and I think it's part of the reason why these
fires have gotten so bad. We need do a better
job at both the state and federal level.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Then he was asked about presidential pardons for January sixth protesters.
And my position is a pardon for every single person.
They have paid enough already.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
January sixth pardons.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
President Trump says, there's a process, where is the line
drawn and who will and wouldn't be considered for a pardon.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I think it's very simple.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Look, if you protested peacefully on January the sixth, and
you've had Merritt Garland's Department of Justice treat you like
a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed
violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And there's a little bit of a gray area there.
But we're very much.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Committed to seeing the equal administration of law. And there
are a lot of people, we think in the wake
of January the sixth, who were prosecuted unfairly.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We need to rectify that that is correct.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And then we go back to the Hamas issue, the
terrorist organization, and Hamas is a terrorist.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Organization, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And these pro Hamas protests in this country that have
taken over the streets of New York and many of
the campuses. That is a pro terrorist protest. Let's be
very clear what that is that there is no gray
area there here he is. This is five h six Tremont.
President Trump warned Hamas that if the hostages are not
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returned before he takes office, quote, all hell will break loose.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
J d Vansk was asked, what does that look like?
First of all, Steve woo Koff is a great guy.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
He's doing a great job over there, and I think
the president, if you talk to world leaders, it's very
clear that President Trump threatening Hamas and making it clear
that there is going to be hell to pay as
part of the reason why we've made progress on getting
some hostages out. We're hopeful there's going to be a
deal that's struck towards the fair the end of Biden's administration,
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maybe the last day or two.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
But regardless of when that deal is.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Struck, it will be because people are terrified that there
are going to be consequences for Hamas.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Now what does that look like?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I think Number one, it means enabling the Israelis to
knock out the final couple of battalions of Hamas and
their leadership. It means very aggressive sanctions and financial penalties
on those who are supporting terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
It means actually doing the job of American leadership.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Man, those are the kind of words I like to hear.
That is music to my ears. Meanwhile, Biden advisor Jake
Sullivan was on CNN with the other idiot, Jake Tapper,
and he makes the wild claim that the American people
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are safer and the country is better off than four
years ago. These people, you have to admire one thing.
They can look you dead in the eye and do
the old Eddie Murphy Jedi mind trick when the guy's
caught in bed with another woman by his wife and
just claims that wasn't me. And then when she said, yeah,
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well I don't love her. Like these people that they
are capable of saying literally anything without laughing, and you
have to just sit there going, I can't believe you
really just said that. I mean, it's Hitler telling you
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he loves the Jews kind of thing. You can't believe
they're actually saying this.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Listen this as we come to the waiting days of
the Biden administration, where across the globe, could you point
and say the United States is safer because of what
we did here.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Well, I'd start by saying, our alliances are stronger than
we found them four years ago. They're stronger than they've
been in decades. NATO is more powerful, purposeful, and bigger.
Our alliances in the Asia Pacific are at all time highs,
and our adversaries and competitors are weaker across the board.
Russia's weaker, Iran's weaker, China's weaker, and all the while
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we kept America out of war. So I think the
American people are safer and the country is better off
than we were four years ago, and we're handing all
that off to the next team, as well as having
the engines of American power humming our economy or technology,
our defense, industrial base, our supply chains. So the United
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States is in a stronger, more secure position, and our
competitors and adversaries are weaker and under pressure. I think
that's the main handoff that we will make to be
becoming quicker.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Okay, well, I'm so thankful, I'm healthier, happier, Richard, I
didn't realize, Well, we have our first set openly transgender congressman.
(25:13):
That's a dude pretending to be a woman. His name
is Tim McBride, but now he calls himself Sarah McBride. Well,
as you might imagine, old Tim, the new congressman from Delaware.
His whole job is to draw attention from himself, so
he'll get more speaking gigs. He'll be on the front
(25:33):
cover of magazines. That's what you do. That's the only
thing he's got going for him. He's a dude who
claims to be a man. So I'm a live and
let live guy. But that's not what we're doing here.
He doesn't just want to be a dude that lives
as a woman. In his trailer, he wants to go
(25:53):
to your kid's school and tell your kids that they're
all little boys who want to be girls. So Tim
goes to a elementary school to read to the kids
because apparently that's very important to him. Didn't take long
once he got to Congress, did it?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh? Timmy read a book called I Am Jazz.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
This is a book by Jazz Jennings, a YouTuber who
was a dude who.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Transitioned into a woman.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
In the book chronicles his life as a transgender child,
and wouldn't you know it, it's made out to be
a wonderful thing. So maybe some of you little boys
in here would like to do it as well.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
So I am going to read you I Am Jazz
by Jessica Hurfell and Jazz Jennings.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I have a girl brain but a boy body. This
is called transgender. I was born this fight.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
Then one amazing day everything changed. Mom and Dad took
me to meet a new doctor who asked me lots
and lots of questions. Afterwards, the doctor spoke to my
parents and I heard the word transgender for the very
first time.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Mom and Dad told me I could.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Start wearing girl clothes to school and growing my hair long.
They even let me change my name to Jazz.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't mind being different. Different is special. But can
I tell you what I like most about this bubble?
Speaker 10 (27:31):
I like most the story and the message because I.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Want to tell you a little bit about myself. Is
that okay? So I'm like Jazz.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
When I was born, the doctors.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And my parents they all thought that I was a boy.
Speaker 10 (27:49):
But why well, because society people around them told them
that was the piece.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But it took me, getting at a little bit older,
to be able to say.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
That in my heart and in my mind I knew
I was really a girl, and I was very lucky
like Jazz to have parents who loved me and say
that I can be whoever I want to be.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So I was finally able to be myself.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh great, and remember kids dressed nicely tomorrow because Charlie
Manson's going to come and talk about how he started
as a normal kid, but then he encouraged the girls
in his hairm to stab a pregnant woman in her house. Yeah,
and the next day we're going to have Ted Bundy.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Y'all remember who Ted Bundy was.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He is a handsome man, and he's going to tell
us how he started as a perfectly normal kid who's
going to law school, but then he decided that he
would pretend he had a broken arm, make a fake cast,
bring rules who are trying to help him and maybe
halfway turned on by him. He's a sympathetic figure and
a good looking guy into his VW bug and then
(29:08):
tie him down and rape them and murder them.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And maybe some of you would like to see such
a life.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And then maybe we'll have some prison inmates come and
they can talk about how they got into rape because
your kids and we don't need recess. We don't need
math and science and English. We're going to study about
people with dysphoria by having them come and tell us
how great their dysphoria is. Would anybody else like to
(29:36):
experience dysphoria? CBS News in Chicago is reporting that more
than ten thousand tax funded There is no segue, Ramon,
that's the segue. I just moved on. They're smart people,
they get it. CBS new Prison Rupe. CBS News in
Chicago is reporting that more than ten thousand taxpayer funded
(30:00):
devices like iPads and laptops went missing from Chicago public
schools last year. Oh, ten thousand of them. I grew
up in a town that didn't have ten thousand people.
Ten thousand of them. Do you know how many iPads
(30:23):
and laptops that is, if stacked one on top of
the other. No, I don't know. I'm just saying generally,
I'm telling people to think about it. He's don't in
a row. Ten thousand of them went missing. Well, sure,
some of them they just took home themselves.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Some of them they gave to their boyfriend of their
girlfriend or their.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
He she, but they also clearly sold them because they
showed up in one hundred and eight different countries.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
Dollars down the drain at sea in the midst of
a budget crisis. This brand new report revealing tens of
thousands of laptops, iPads, and cell phone hotspots were lost
or stolen in the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four
school year, and thousands of those devices bought and paid
for with your tax dollars ending up in other countries.
(31:21):
More than eight thousand devices detected outside of Illinois, a
majority overseas in one hundred and forty countries like Azerbai,
John Barbados, China, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Nicaragua. This report finding
CPS's inventory process lacks accountability, recommending the district resolve asset
(31:43):
management issues since it's paying for geo tracking services. It
quote barely used.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
How you think they got there? How are you think
they got there? Okay, folks, let me take one minute
to close the show. I don't like to send you home.
Most of you are on your way home. Podcast listeners
could be listening the next day or later tonight, or
as you drive across the country. We got a lot
of long haul drivers.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I want to listen. End to note the show on
a positive note.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And I want to tell you that as bad as
things get, I want you to find the silver lining.
We've got Donald Trump ready to fight. We've got cash
but Tail ready to fight. We've got Pete Hegseth ready
to fight, and we've got you. I know it's hard
to be grateful for yourself, but guess what. You're choosing
to listen to me scream and holler about the bad
(32:34):
things in this country instead of just listening to great
old music and tuning it all out. You're choosing to
engage because you care. I love to hear from you.
Go to Michael Berryshow dot com m I C h
A E L B E r ry Michael Berryshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
You can send me an email directly. I do read.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I promise you every single one of them. People will say, hey,
I need something from you. Prove you read everyone by
doing for me what you know. It doesn't work like that.
I do read them all, and I do appreciate you,
and our whole team appreciate you. Ramon Roeblas, Chad Knakanishi,
Jim Mudd, our whole entire Chance McClain, the whole group
of us, Emily boy, we appreciate you and that we
(33:15):
get to do this every day, and then we get
to live in a country where we get to complain
and make change.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And you are the reasons.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
You
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