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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Very Show.
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Is on the air.
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Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain,
good morning, good morning.
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And Captain, come on out and say, wake up the
sunshine to share this rate today. Good morning in Captain,
it's morning.
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So we've seen because we're Herbie see and you're good
timetown's free. Everybody's seeing. Good morning, Good.
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Morning, the sunshine.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't know if I ever told you this for him,
but I used to have a coworker who was really
good at excel, but she would gossip about everybody in
the office constantly. She really loved a spreadsheet. During the
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first President Bush, his one and only term, George H. W. Bush,
Saddam Hussein had been on the American payroll for most
of the eighties in a coordinated effort, a sort of
divide and conquer, whereby the United States would assist in
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the Iraq Iran War, a war that doesn't get a
lot of publicity, but one of the most brutal of
the modern era, including the extensive use of chemical warfare,
and America's military was testing some things that we might
want to use later. By allowing it to be used
by the Iraqis on the Iranis too, or Iranian if
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you prefer its up to you in case we would
want to use it. That's how these wars are fought.
And Saddam got too big for his breeches, and as
you know, he would invade Kuwait in Houston's own oil well,
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fire fighting legend would be sent to tamp it down.
And we can't tolerate that. He got out of hand,
and so we thumped him. Norman Schwartzkoff was a general
who was very, very keen to suck up the airtime
at that moment, and he announced a campaign of what
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was called shock and awe. And the idea of shock
and awe was, We're not going to phase in this thing.
We're gonna hit them from every direction at the same time.
They've never seen anything like this. Oh and by night,
I know we've got some folks in our audience because
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I've heard from you who were there, who were serving,
who were part of it. You were part of the
shock and all. How cool I hold my manhood cheap
against you for the rest of your life. You were
at a great moment. We talk about D Day we
talk about moments that are important. That was an important moment,
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and it told the world these people are not to
be jacked with that shock and awe had Saddam Hussein
who referred to this forthcoming battle as being the mother
of all battles. He was trying to will his men
to be tougher, but they weren't. We were told at
the time it was the third largest army in the world,
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and they were well trained, and they were coming out
of war and lamb from every different direction. He never
seen anything like that, never seen anything like that. That's
what Trump is doing. That is what Trump is doing.
I read a post this morning by a guy named
John Conrad to fifth I don't know him, but he
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actually owns a maritime news source. But I thought he
explained this very very well. He wrote, I opened my
New York Times app today. They're trying, but they can't
keep up. He's some about the New York Times news
that broke just hours ago is already off the homepage.
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This is crucial. The entire liberal deep state command and
control system is broken. Let me explain. He's really onto something.
And funny thing is, I was thinking about this in
the shower this morning. But he said it in a
way that structured my thoughts, So I'm gonna read what
he said. The New York Times is primary function is
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not journalism, its narrative coordination, setting the frame so the
entire political media machine knows how to think about an
issue before it takes off. This is really good. Ever,
notice how overnight everyone starts saying Biden as sharp as
attack or jd Vance is weird. It's not random. It's
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a system, the narrative pipeline how the blob operates. The
New York Times, NPR, WAPO, Washington Post, CNN, and the
rest don't just react to news. They function as a distributed,
decentralized mission command system for the Democrat Party and the
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broader blob. Step one local bureau chiefs. These guys are
stationed across the country, watching which stories gain traction, and
fielding calls from Democrat operatives feeding them narratives stories that
they need to start controlling. Step two New York editors.
Bureau chiefs snip the news and send it to New York,
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where an editor triages it. Will this explode nationwide? Will
it simmer for days? Or should we bury it? Step
three editorial meeting. The most concerning stories get flagged. Here,
editors decide on the narrative, framing, and who to assign
to write it. But before they assign a journalist, they
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make one critical call to the deep state. Why to
give the government a head start on controlling the story.
At this point, the deep state doesn't just say here's
what happened. They strategically select sources based on the tone
they want. If they needed hawkish China rhetoric, they have
a China hardliner expert on Steve speed Dial. If they
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want to downplay a Chinese spy scandal, they go to
a dovish China expert who will say it's being blown
out of proportion. If it's a military scandal, they pick
a trustworthy retired general to subtly steer the discussion toward
a desired conclusion. This isn't journalism, its perception warfare. Once
the tone is set, the editor assigns the story and
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suggests the approved sources to call. The journalist's job is simple,
get quotes from the right expert, write it up, stick
to the approved angles. If something goes wrong with the angle,
for example, a source exposes it as a lie. They
return to the editor for guidance. Occasionally a journalist oversteps.
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If it's minor, it passes. If it's major, the editor
kills the piece, buries it on page sixteen, or reassigns
it to a more trusted writer to correct the framing.
Overstep too many times and you're reassigned to local news
or gently. It's not your fault. We love your spark,
just downsizing. Let go do a really good job sticking
to the approved script. You'll get awards or book deals
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and travel assignments. Nobody flatly says this award isn't for
towing the party line, because that would expose can Now,
these journalists are smart. They either pick up on the
reward incentives or they're gently pushed to side. This is
what Trump's doing right now. He has crashed their whole system.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Must be right.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You're listening to Michael Berry. There wasn't as many as
there was a while ago. That's what but Trump's doing.
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He's got the left in full retreat. If you study
the Civil War, and Shelby Foote tells the stories very well,
you will see references to pickets Line or Stonewall Jackson
pulling up on the side in the middle of a
battle and unloading and then repositioning, and some of these
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some of these strategies were so clever where it was
like in the Bible at Jericho where they gave the
impression they were a bigger unit than they were.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And so what it did is it forced the Union
Army to have to reposition to handle the onslaught coming
from one side, which meant they would lose their strong
position against the forces they were fighting, and that would
alter the battle. And it was what happened. It's complete chockenhaw,
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complete confusion. Mike Leach when he was at Texas Tech,
they had an article he was on the front cover
of Texas Monthly and it was one of the best
articles ever written about Mike Leach's coaching style. And they
brought up the fact that every year he would beat
either UT or A and M and when he was
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at Texas Tech and some of the other schools as well.
But the thing about beating UT at A and M,
not one of his twenty two starters on either side
of the ball had been offered a scholarship to play
at either UT or A and M. In other words,
this is the old bum Phillips line, which some people
credit to Don Chula, But I choose bum Phillips. He
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can take his in and beat urine, and he can
take urine and beat hisin. He was taking what were
thought to be inferior players and coaching them up to
beat teams that physically were bigger, stronger, faster, right, And
he said the way he did that, the way his
offense was so number one offense in the country. And
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this scheme worked at Tech, it worked at Kentucky, it
worked everywhere. He did it. The way he said he
did it is my player may not be faster or
bigger or stronger, my offensive, my wide receiver, tight end.
I don't think he played with that is. But if
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I've got the defensive player for a split second hesitating
because he doesn't know what I'm going to do, I've
got an advantage. So that's why he had all the schemes.
That's why you never saw the same setup. It might
be trips right on one play, trips left on the next,
and then he'd put one guy in motion and then
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the next guy. It was just constant confusion. Trump has
him and this won't last forever, folks. This will be
hard to keep up, but he's doing it and it's
a source of the success. Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy passed
out of the Senate fourteen thirteen Senate Committee'll go to
the complete Senate now. Yesterday afternoon, Tulsey Gabbard passed out
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for national intelligence. She was sent to the entire Senate, obviously,
as you know, there are one hundred senators. Yesterday, President
Trump announces We're going to take over the Gaza stript,
make it something you can be proud of, and restore
the Union. If you could stop and this is a
tall order, if you could stop the war in the
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Middle East, crush Commas, and stop the fighting, a lot
of geopolitical pawns would fall back to what this guy said, because,
as I mentioned, I was in the shower thinking about this,
and I get in and I read what he said,
and it gave a lot of structure to what I
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had been thinking. So he's talking about how the New
York Times is the enforcer. They give structure to the
system to create the narrative. And that's why it always
seems because it is that the left is reading from
the same script. They're setting that script and then he says,
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suddenly every news outlet, late night host in blue check
is reinforcing the same message. And because they aren't technically
taking orders, they think it's their own independent analysis. This
is why the narrative feels so unified. No one is
forcing compliance. It's a system that rewards alignment. Now, each
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individual pundit and blog is allowed to post independently, but
they all know unconsciously to work the narrative because that's
where the rewards are. If someone breaks the narrative in
a bug way intentionally, there are three options. Number one,
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smear campaign to make them toxic. Number two ban them
from the system, Wikipedia, blacklist, social media throttle, no DC party, invites,
no Pentagon press pass, or number three turn them into
a double agent who claims to buck the narrative but
suddenly shifts things left. Barry Weiss is the ultimate genius
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at this. Not all stories emerge organically. Sometimes the deep
state calls. First, a senior editor gets a call. Everyone
in DC is talking about how weird jd Vance is.
The next morning, at the editorial meeting, that becomes people
are saying jd Vance is weird. Let's get some stories
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on that. Then every editor repeats it to their reporters.
Did you hear Jdvance is weird? Let's explore that. Suddenly
every news outlet, late night host, and blue check is
reinforcing the same message. The deep state tries its best
to play a soft hand. They let things emerge around
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the narrative and only step in if the narrative is
evolving in a bad way or new information disturbs the narrative.
So where does this organic command and control system come from? Well,
I'll tell you this morning. I'll post a link to
this in the Daily Blast. You're signed up for it
at Michael berryshow dot com. Really well written, damn it
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all right? This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizar of
talk radio. So President Trump's shock and all campaign has
the entire media industrial complex on their heels. They don't
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know what to do. They are scrambling. I read a
series of posts this morning by a fellow named John A.
Conrad the Fifth, and I would like to conclude his
statement about what's happening and how the narrative is normally
set and how Trump is destroying that by throwing too
many things at him too fast. He says, So where
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does this organic command and control system come from well
the military, of course. Why this matters the mission comm
and model. This decentralized coordination mirrors how the best militaries
operate through a doctrine called mission command. A bad general
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micromanages move three platoons and six tanks around this road
and attack the base. A good general gives flexibility. Take
this logistics base by x time. Figure out the best way.
A great general sets intent. We need to cripple their
supply lines. Here's what we know about their logistics. The
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best commanders set objectives, not orders, then let their officers
adapt on the ground. This is exactly how the New
York Times and the Blob operate. They don't give direct
orders to every outlet. They set the intent how the
political media machine should think about an issue, then think tanks, columnists,
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TV hosts, an activists execute their own variations of the message.
Why Republicans keep losing the narrative war Republicans don't have
this No clear commander's intent, no unified messaging framework, no
ecosystem where think tanks, media and party strategists move in
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the same direction. Instead, it's chaotic, reactive, and uncoordinated. Meanwhile,
Democrats operate like a well oiled mission command system, not
because of a single top down controller, but because every
key player understands their role in pushing the message. And
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until Republicans build a competing system, they'll always be playing defense.
But Trump has broken the Democrats mission command system. The
famed fighter pilot John Boyd, who literally wrote the manual
for Top Gun, came up with the OODA loop. I'm
assuming that's the UDA loop. If I got that wrong,
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you're free to correct me. UDA is a process for
making better calculated decisions FASTERODA observe, orient decide act. I
can't go into all the details on how the food
system works. If you can throw a lot of information
at an enemy, information of all kinds, including false information,
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they start to get overloaded. This is what is called
the fog of war. Now military have been doing fake
attacks and fake information and maneuvering around objectives objectives for centuries.
But what Boyd found is you can't just overload the
enemy system because your troops will also get overloaded with information.
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What you have to do is move and adapt, thrown
out a ton of information, then let your officers change frequently.
In the field. An officer might bypass the logistics base
and go for the train rail. But then misinformation causes
the enemy to abandon the base, so the officer will
turn around and destroy it. In a fighter jet, you
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might fly straight so the enemy thinks you have a problem.
Then when he's on your tail, most people would push
the throttle. Boyd said it might be better to drop
the flops as a break to make the enemy fly
right past you be unpredictable. Boyd called this maneuver warfare
because you're always maneuvering around the enemy. If you can
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not only throw out more information, but move a lot
faster than your enemy and change tactics on the fly,
you will quote get inside the enemy's udah loop and
win easily. This is exactly what Trump is doing. The
sheer number of stories is absolutely overloading the New York
Times app. New York Times editors do not have time
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to coordinate the deep state and coax the process. Trump
is completely overloading the information distribution system. And he's not
just overloaded the system, he's moving fast and adapting tactics. Instance,
in Panama, he was demanding the canal, but then when
he went down there took a quick win with giving
Navy ships, free transit and kicking China. Then he's on
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to Canadian tariffs before the New York Times editors can
figure out what the hell happened in Panama, and well
before they can develop, and well before they can develop
a narrative for Panama. Boyd didn't just teach us how
to defeat the enemy. He taught us how to recognize
when you're already winning. The easiest way to tell the
enemy starts making really dumb moves. They waste AMMO shooting
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into empty forest, convinced you're still there when you actually
left two days ago. They fly in a They fly
in a senior general to bark orders, trying to reassert
control over a situation already spiraling out of their hands.
Sound familiar, That's exactly what the Democrats are doing right now.
Chuck Schumer is firing off a constant stream of bombastic orders,
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desperate to override events he can't control. Let's take a
look at those. So you've got Chuck Schumer trying to
rally his troops. They know they're being defeated. This is
clip number nineteen.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Ramon go, I'm gonna stand with you in this fight.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And we will win. We will win. We will win.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We will win. We will win.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
We will we won't rest.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
We won't rest.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We won't rest, we won't rest.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh wow, we did a chant chanting.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They deleted smarre chance important chanting hasten important?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Oh my gosh, he's right. Hint, it does make things
sound important. John Stewart, usually a relatively reliable liberal, if
not spokesman for the left, said you got to stop
with the Chuck Schumer Democrats. Can you please stop trotting
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Schumer out there every time.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Trump traverses into the unreal He's not good at this.
What is the decision making process here? Hey? Who should
we get out there to.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Effectively battle one of the most savvy presidential media manipulators
in history. I don't know how about Schumer. He's uninteresting,
but at least he's monotone. Oh wait, and Chuck, before
you go out there, you look too young.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Put on these.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Readers and lower them on your nose.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Perfect. Honestly, listening to Chuck Schumer speak on almost any tomic.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Makes me want to bomb. Can imagine the genius responsible
for the staging. We'll have Schumer, We'll have Schumer out there,
and he'll say, we're gonna win. We're gonna win. We're
gonna win, We're gonna win. We're gonna win. Everybody together,
We're gonna win everybody. Come on, we're gonna win. Come on,
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we're gonna win. We're not gonna rest. That's how you
know you're losing badly. Yeah, but you don't have any color.
You're like an old white guy. Okay, here's Maxine, here's
Al Green. Where's Sheila Jackson Lee? Sheila would have been
throwing some sharp elbows. She would have said something so
stupefyingly stupid. I miss her. That's why I had my guitar.
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Probably had a tune.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now you might have to edit that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of Talk Radio.
We do not talk enough about Francesco Steven Costalluccio aka
Frankie Valley. We need to fix that. I'm at a
point in my life and thank goodness for the Internet.
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I don't know what my parents would have done when
they were my age and this was happening. But I'm
at a point in my life where everybody that I
liked is either dead or could be. And so you know,
you play my eyes adored you, and I go, ah, man,
I love Frankie Valley. I wonder if he's still alive.
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So the good news is we got the WWW. You go, oh,
he's ninety years old. It'll be ninety one May third. Wow,
that's increble. But in the past you just had to
kind of wonder. And at fifty four, all my friends,
I usually make it the case to get to know
my friend's parents, so you know, you want to check
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and see how their parents are doing. So for friends
of mine that are about my age, when I talked
to them, I can't ask how their parents are doing
because their mom or dad might have died a year ago,
and that's weird. I mean, that's just creepy. But I
can't keep up with everything all the time. I'm not
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making excuses, but you know they may not have they made.
I'm private with that stuff. I don't I don't want
to blast it. I don't want a million people sending condolences.
It's a distraction. You keep moving forward. That's my way
of dealing with things. Other people have their own way.
But I'm at a point now where I can't ask, you, know, how,
how how's your mom? Doing because that creates a very
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very awkward situation. I uh, I spoke to Mama Martha yesterday,
Ramone's beloved mother. I needed some mommy time and my
mama not being alive. I called Ramonte or texted Ramone's mother,
and we had a very sweet exchange. She is Ramone's
mother is straight out of Central casting for the uh
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Chicano mom who loves her son and is always available.
You see these stories where like Ted Bundy's mom is
going but he's a good kid. Mama Martha would be
there on the stand when Ramon was discovered to be
a serial killer and say he was such a good boy.
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He really was. After she left, I lived boring.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
He was hiding behind the tieving pupid.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
She's got just the right voice, just the right delivery,
just the right everything. I mean, she's just perfect. It's
just perfect for I feel like I'm in a sitcom
with her, which is perfect. And then his dad, his
dad is the quintessential man who's married to her. He's
real quiet. You know, she says when we're if they're
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you know, if they're visiting, So she says, when we're
gonna leave, and he's okay, he does not stay drunk
all day. Stop it. You love to be goofy, but
he is like that perfect you know, little my Dad's
a lot like this. You have to watch him for
a while to realize how cute he is. And I
mean cute like a little boy, cute, just adorable. You know.
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There was the story of they have a family text message,
and he had sent a text to this family text
message asking where the Viny Sausages were? Has anybody seen him?
Here's Ramon and his whole family and a radio show
that he's running in, a podcast that he's putting together,
and all these different things he's doing. And then his
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daughter and then his sister and the whole family's out there.
And then they're getting a text, Hey, you might see
a Vinnie Sausages at their house. You know, nobody on
this list lives there. And so it became a running
joke treasure hunt as to where the Viny Sausages were.
And then they who were the people in Chicago. It
wasn't even the Viny Sausages.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It was.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Be Franks, it's another brand. They saw my tweet and
they offered to send to replace his Viny Sausages and instead,
they called their location down here and they had the guide.
They asked if they could get his address. They had
the guid deliver like a cartload of the other sausages.
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Ramon Senior didn't know what to do, like, what are
we what are we gonna do with all these sausages? Anyway,
it became a funny exchange. I say all that to
say this. When the world's getting you down, just remember
two things. Number One, old people will make you feel
much better because they generally they might be grumpy, but
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if you listen carefully, they generally have good advice, and
they've experienced a lot more than you have. And they're
not on their phone all day. They're not You can
have a conversation without them, you know, with two thumbs
going wild responding to somebody who's not in their presence.
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They actually will engage with you. They will talk to
you can call them and they'll pick up and they're
happy to talk to you. It's crazy. I mean, it's
a soul fashioned. If you engage with them, they're just
delighted to engage. You can ask their advice or happy
to give it because nobody listens to them anymore, although
they should you know, in Asian societies, the seniority was respected,
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the elderly were exalted. There was a scene last week
when Cash Patel was walking into the Senate hearing and
for six hours they hammered him, I mean hammered him.
And he gave as well as he took. Very very
sharp guy. You look at Cashptel's eyes, they're a little
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off kilter. He has got what I call that genius
Indian gene. And I've told my wife this, there's certain Indians.
There was a guy named Chandrashaker. He won the Nobel
Prize for mathematics. But if you hear him talk, it's
what you imagine Einstein would sound like, just sort of
the mutterings of a genius. Einstein would supposedly go for
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six hour walks. Just go out six hour walks. Sometime
you forget to put his shoes on. The little girl
next door with his goloshes. She would have to remind him,
mister alb but you have to put your just as
just mad rambling genius. Cash Ptel has that look very intense. Look,
my wife has a cousin has eyes like that kind
of scary. They're a little bit bugged out. But as
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he was walking in to be eviscerated, he stopped. His
parents were at the edge of one of the rows,
and he fell to his knees and he touched his
parents feet. In India, you respect the elderly and touching
their feet is the ultimate supplication. Jesus washed the feet
of the disciples because your feet are dirty. You know
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your feet. You know we're walking through the sand walk
So you're touching that person and supplicating yourself and saying
you are my parent. He did that knowing he was
on American television, knowing he's about to be the most
powerful person, and he supplicated himself before his parents. Sh
I admire that. I admire that so much. We could
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stand to supplicate ourselves before our parents, honor our parents more.
One of the j six political prisoners will be our
desk coming up.
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Very Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain, Good morning, Captain,
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And Captain, come on out and say, wake up the
sunshine to share this rate today. Good morning in Captain,
it's morning.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So we've seen because we're Herbie see and you're good
timetown's free. Everybody's seeing. Good morning, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Morning, the sunshine.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't know if I ever told you this for him,
but I used to have a coworker who was really
good at excel, but she would gossip about everybody in
the office constantly. She really loved a spreadsheet. During the
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first President Bush, his one and only term, George H. W. Bush,
Saddam Hussein had been on the American payroll for most
of the eighties in a coordinated effort, a sort of
divide and conquer, whereby the United States would assist in
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the Iraq Iran War, a war that doesn't get a
lot of publicity, but one of the most brutal of
the modern era, including the extensive use of chemical warfare,
and America's military was testing some things that we might
want to use later. By allowing it to be used
by the Iraqis on the Iranis too, or Iranian if
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you prefer its up to you in case we would
want to use it. That's how these wars are fought.
And Saddam got too big for his breeches, and as
you know, he would invade Kuwait in Houston's own oil well,
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fire fighting legend would be sent to tamp it down.
And we can't tolerate that. He got out of hand,
and so we thumped him. Norman Schwartzkoff was a general
who was very, very keen to suck up the airtime
at that moment, and he announced a campaign of what
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was called shock and awe. And the idea of shock
and awe was, We're not going to phase in this thing.
We're gonna hit them from every direction at the same time.
They've never seen anything like this. Oh and by night,
I know we've got some folks in our audience because
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I've heard from you who were there, who were serving,
who were part of it. You were part of the
shock and all. How cool I hold my manhood cheap
against you for the rest of your life. You were
at a great moment. We talk about D Day we
talk about moments that are important. That was an important moment,
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and it told the world these people are not to
be jacked with that shock and awe had Saddam Hussein
who referred to this forthcoming battle as being the mother
of all battles. He was trying to will his men
to be tougher, but they weren't. We were told at
the time it was the third largest army in the world,
(04:11):
and they were well trained, and they were coming out
of war and lamb from every different direction. He never
seen anything like that, never seen anything like that. That's
what Trump is doing. That is what Trump is doing.
I read a post this morning by a guy named
John Conrad to fifth I don't know him, but he
(04:34):
actually owns a maritime news source. But I thought he
explained this very very well. He wrote, I opened my
New York Times app today. They're trying, but they can't
keep up. He's some about the New York Times news
that broke just hours ago is already off the homepage.
(04:54):
This is crucial. The entire liberal deep state command and
control system is broken. Let me explain. He's really onto something.
And funny thing is, I was thinking about this in
the shower this morning. But he said it in a
way that structured my thoughts, So I'm gonna read what
he said. The New York Times is primary function is
(05:15):
not journalism, its narrative coordination, setting the frame so the
entire political media machine knows how to think about an
issue before it takes off. This is really good. Ever,
notice how overnight everyone starts saying Biden as sharp as
attack or jd Vance is weird. It's not random. It's
(05:39):
a system, the narrative pipeline how the blob operates. The
New York Times, NPR, WAPO, Washington Post, CNN, and the
rest don't just react to news. They function as a distributed,
decentralized mission command system for the Democrat Party and the
(06:00):
broader blob. Step one local bureau chiefs. These guys are
stationed across the country, watching which stories gain traction, and
fielding calls from Democrat operatives feeding them narratives stories that
they need to start controlling. Step two New York editors.
Bureau chiefs snip the news and send it to New York,
(06:22):
where an editor triages it. Will this explode nationwide? Will
it simmer for days? Or should we bury it? Step
three editorial meeting. The most concerning stories get flagged. Here,
editors decide on the narrative, framing, and who to assign
to write it. But before they assign a journalist, they
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make one critical call to the deep state. Why to
give the government a head start on controlling the story.
At this point, the deep state doesn't just say here's
what happened. They strategically select sources based on the tone
they want. If they needed hawkish China rhetoric, they have
a China hardliner expert on Steve speed Dial. If they
(07:06):
want to downplay a Chinese spy scandal, they go to
a dovish China expert who will say it's being blown
out of proportion. If it's a military scandal, they pick
a trustworthy retired general to subtly steer the discussion toward
a desired conclusion. This isn't journalism, its perception warfare. Once
the tone is set, the editor assigns the story and
(07:28):
suggests the approved sources to call. The journalist's job is simple,
get quotes from the right expert, write it up, stick
to the approved angles. If something goes wrong with the angle,
for example, a source exposes it as a lie. They
return to the editor for guidance. Occasionally a journalist oversteps.
(07:50):
If it's minor, it passes. If it's major, the editor
kills the piece, buries it on page sixteen, or reassigns
it to a more trusted writer to correct the framing.
Overstep too many times and you're reassigned to local news
or gently. It's not your fault. We love your spark,
just downsizing. Let go do a really good job sticking
to the approved script. You'll get awards or book deals
(08:11):
and travel assignments. Nobody flatly says this award isn't for
towing the party line, because that would expose can Now,
these journalists are smart. They either pick up on the
reward incentives or they're gently pushed to side. This is
what Trump's doing right now. He has crashed their whole system.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Must be right.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You're listening to Michael Berry. There wasn't as many as
there was a while ago. That's what but Trump's doing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
He's got the left in full retreat. If you study
the Civil War, and Shelby Foote tells the stories very well,
you will see references to pickets Line or Stonewall Jackson
pulling up on the side in the middle of a
battle and unloading and then repositioning, and some of these
(09:00):
some of these strategies were so clever where it was
like in the Bible at Jericho where they gave the
impression they were a bigger unit than they were.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And so what it did is it forced the Union
Army to have to reposition to handle the onslaught coming
from one side, which meant they would lose their strong
position against the forces they were fighting, and that would
alter the battle. And it was what happened. It's complete chockenhaw,
(09:37):
complete confusion. Mike Leach when he was at Texas Tech,
they had an article he was on the front cover
of Texas Monthly and it was one of the best
articles ever written about Mike Leach's coaching style. And they
brought up the fact that every year he would beat
either UT or A and M and when he was
(10:01):
at Texas Tech and some of the other schools as well.
But the thing about beating UT at A and M,
not one of his twenty two starters on either side
of the ball had been offered a scholarship to play
at either UT or A and M. In other words,
this is the old bum Phillips line, which some people
credit to Don Chula, But I choose bum Phillips. He
(10:23):
can take his in and beat urine, and he can
take urine and beat hisin. He was taking what were
thought to be inferior players and coaching them up to
beat teams that physically were bigger, stronger, faster, right, And
he said the way he did that, the way his
offense was so number one offense in the country. And
(10:44):
this scheme worked at Tech, it worked at Kentucky, it
worked everywhere. He did it. The way he said he
did it is my player may not be faster or
bigger or stronger, my offensive, my wide receiver, tight end.
I don't think he played with that is. But if
(11:05):
I've got the defensive player for a split second hesitating
because he doesn't know what I'm going to do, I've
got an advantage. So that's why he had all the schemes.
That's why you never saw the same setup. It might
be trips right on one play, trips left on the next,
and then he'd put one guy in motion and then
(11:27):
the next guy. It was just constant confusion. Trump has
him and this won't last forever, folks. This will be
hard to keep up, but he's doing it and it's
a source of the success. Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy passed
out of the Senate fourteen thirteen Senate Committee'll go to
the complete Senate now. Yesterday afternoon, Tulsey Gabbard passed out
(11:51):
for national intelligence. She was sent to the entire Senate, obviously,
as you know, there are one hundred senators. Yesterday, President
Trump announces We're going to take over the Gaza stript,
make it something you can be proud of, and restore
the Union. If you could stop and this is a
tall order, if you could stop the war in the
(12:12):
Middle East, crush Commas, and stop the fighting, a lot
of geopolitical pawns would fall back to what this guy said, because,
as I mentioned, I was in the shower thinking about this,
and I get in and I read what he said,
and it gave a lot of structure to what I
(12:33):
had been thinking. So he's talking about how the New
York Times is the enforcer. They give structure to the
system to create the narrative. And that's why it always
seems because it is that the left is reading from
the same script. They're setting that script and then he says,
(12:54):
suddenly every news outlet, late night host in blue check
is reinforcing the same message. And because they aren't technically
taking orders, they think it's their own independent analysis. This
is why the narrative feels so unified. No one is
forcing compliance. It's a system that rewards alignment. Now, each
(13:17):
individual pundit and blog is allowed to post independently, but
they all know unconsciously to work the narrative because that's
where the rewards are. If someone breaks the narrative in
a bug way intentionally, there are three options. Number one,
(13:37):
smear campaign to make them toxic. Number two ban them
from the system, Wikipedia, blacklist, social media throttle, no DC party, invites,
no Pentagon press pass, or number three turn them into
a double agent who claims to buck the narrative but
suddenly shifts things left. Barry Weiss is the ultimate genius
(14:02):
at this. Not all stories emerge organically. Sometimes the deep
state calls. First, a senior editor gets a call. Everyone
in DC is talking about how weird jd Vance is.
The next morning, at the editorial meeting, that becomes people
are saying jd Vance is weird. Let's get some stories
(14:23):
on that. Then every editor repeats it to their reporters.
Did you hear Jdvance is weird? Let's explore that. Suddenly
every news outlet, late night host, and blue check is
reinforcing the same message. The deep state tries its best
to play a soft hand. They let things emerge around
(14:44):
the narrative and only step in if the narrative is
evolving in a bad way or new information disturbs the narrative.
So where does this organic command and control system come from? Well,
I'll tell you this morning. I'll post a link to
this in the Daily Blast. You're signed up for it
at Michael berryshow dot com. Really well written, damn it
(15:05):
all right? This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizar of
talk radio. So President Trump's shock and all campaign has
the entire media industrial complex on their heels. They don't
(15:26):
know what to do. They are scrambling. I read a
series of posts this morning by a fellow named John A.
Conrad the Fifth, and I would like to conclude his
statement about what's happening and how the narrative is normally
set and how Trump is destroying that by throwing too
many things at him too fast. He says, So where
(15:50):
does this organic command and control system come from well
the military, of course. Why this matters the mission comm
and model. This decentralized coordination mirrors how the best militaries
operate through a doctrine called mission command. A bad general
(16:13):
micromanages move three platoons and six tanks around this road
and attack the base. A good general gives flexibility. Take
this logistics base by x time. Figure out the best way.
A great general sets intent. We need to cripple their
supply lines. Here's what we know about their logistics. The
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best commanders set objectives, not orders, then let their officers
adapt on the ground. This is exactly how the New
York Times and the Blob operate. They don't give direct
orders to every outlet. They set the intent how the
political media machine should think about an issue, then think tanks, columnists,
(16:59):
TV hosts, an activists execute their own variations of the message.
Why Republicans keep losing the narrative war Republicans don't have
this No clear commander's intent, no unified messaging framework, no
ecosystem where think tanks, media and party strategists move in
(17:21):
the same direction. Instead, it's chaotic, reactive, and uncoordinated. Meanwhile,
Democrats operate like a well oiled mission command system, not
because of a single top down controller, but because every
key player understands their role in pushing the message. And
(17:43):
until Republicans build a competing system, they'll always be playing defense.
But Trump has broken the Democrats mission command system. The
famed fighter pilot John Boyd, who literally wrote the manual
for Top Gun, came up with the OODA loop. I'm
assuming that's the UDA loop. If I got that wrong,
(18:05):
you're free to correct me. UDA is a process for
making better calculated decisions FASTERODA observe, orient decide act. I
can't go into all the details on how the food
system works. If you can throw a lot of information
at an enemy, information of all kinds, including false information,
(18:30):
they start to get overloaded. This is what is called
the fog of war. Now military have been doing fake
attacks and fake information and maneuvering around objectives objectives for centuries.
But what Boyd found is you can't just overload the
enemy system because your troops will also get overloaded with information.
(18:51):
What you have to do is move and adapt, thrown
out a ton of information, then let your officers change frequently.
In the field. An officer might bypass the logistics base
and go for the train rail. But then misinformation causes
the enemy to abandon the base, so the officer will
turn around and destroy it. In a fighter jet, you
(19:12):
might fly straight so the enemy thinks you have a problem.
Then when he's on your tail, most people would push
the throttle. Boyd said it might be better to drop
the flops as a break to make the enemy fly
right past you be unpredictable. Boyd called this maneuver warfare
because you're always maneuvering around the enemy. If you can
(19:33):
not only throw out more information, but move a lot
faster than your enemy and change tactics on the fly,
you will quote get inside the enemy's udah loop and
win easily. This is exactly what Trump is doing. The
sheer number of stories is absolutely overloading the New York
Times app. New York Times editors do not have time
(19:55):
to coordinate the deep state and coax the process. Trump
is completely overloading the information distribution system. And he's not
just overloaded the system, he's moving fast and adapting tactics. Instance,
in Panama, he was demanding the canal, but then when
he went down there took a quick win with giving
Navy ships, free transit and kicking China. Then he's on
(20:16):
to Canadian tariffs before the New York Times editors can
figure out what the hell happened in Panama, and well
before they can develop, and well before they can develop
a narrative for Panama. Boyd didn't just teach us how
to defeat the enemy. He taught us how to recognize
when you're already winning. The easiest way to tell the
enemy starts making really dumb moves. They waste AMMO shooting
(20:37):
into empty forest, convinced you're still there when you actually
left two days ago. They fly in a They fly
in a senior general to bark orders, trying to reassert
control over a situation already spiraling out of their hands.
Sound familiar, That's exactly what the Democrats are doing right now.
Chuck Schumer is firing off a constant stream of bombastic orders,
(20:57):
desperate to override events he can't control. Let's take a
look at those. So you've got Chuck Schumer trying to
rally his troops. They know they're being defeated. This is
clip number nineteen.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Ramon go, I'm gonna stand with you in this fight.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And we will win. We will win. We will win.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We will win. We will win.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
We will we won't rest.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
We won't rest.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
We won't rest, we won't rest.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh wow, we did a chant chanting.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They deleted smarre chance important chanting hasten important?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Oh my gosh, he's right. Hint, it does make things
sound important. John Stewart, usually a relatively reliable liberal, if
not spokesman for the left, said you got to stop
with the Chuck Schumer Democrats. Can you please stop trotting
(22:09):
Schumer out there every time.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Trump traverses into the unreal He's not good at this.
What is the decision making process here? Hey? Who should
we get out there to.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Effectively battle one of the most savvy presidential media manipulators
in history. I don't know how about Schumer. He's uninteresting,
but at least he's monotone. Oh wait, and Chuck, before
you go out there, you look too young.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Put on these.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Readers and lower them on your nose.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Perfect. Honestly, listening to Chuck Schumer speak on almost any tomic.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Makes me want to bomb. Can imagine the genius responsible
for the staging. We'll have Schumer, We'll have Schumer out there,
and he'll say, we're gonna win. We're gonna win. We're
gonna win, We're gonna win. We're gonna win. Everybody together,
We're gonna win everybody. Come on, we're gonna win. Come on,
(23:20):
we're gonna win. We're not gonna rest. That's how you
know you're losing badly. Yeah, but you don't have any color.
You're like an old white guy. Okay, here's Maxine, here's
Al Green. Where's Sheila Jackson Lee? Sheila would have been
throwing some sharp elbows. She would have said something so
stupefyingly stupid. I miss her. That's why I had my guitar.
(23:45):
Probably had a tune.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now you might have to edit that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of Talk Radio.
We do not talk enough about Francesco Steven Costalluccio aka
Frankie Valley. We need to fix that. I'm at a
point in my life and thank goodness for the Internet.
(24:08):
I don't know what my parents would have done when
they were my age and this was happening. But I'm
at a point in my life where everybody that I
liked is either dead or could be. And so you know,
you play my eyes adored you, and I go, ah, man,
I love Frankie Valley. I wonder if he's still alive.
(24:32):
So the good news is we got the WWW. You go, oh,
he's ninety years old. It'll be ninety one May third. Wow,
that's increble. But in the past you just had to
kind of wonder. And at fifty four, all my friends,
I usually make it the case to get to know
my friend's parents, so you know, you want to check
(24:54):
and see how their parents are doing. So for friends
of mine that are about my age, when I talked
to them, I can't ask how their parents are doing
because their mom or dad might have died a year ago,
and that's weird. I mean, that's just creepy. But I
can't keep up with everything all the time. I'm not
(25:15):
making excuses, but you know they may not have they made.
I'm private with that stuff. I don't I don't want
to blast it. I don't want a million people sending condolences.
It's a distraction. You keep moving forward. That's my way
of dealing with things. Other people have their own way.
But I'm at a point now where I can't ask, you, know, how,
how how's your mom? Doing because that creates a very
(25:37):
very awkward situation. I uh, I spoke to Mama Martha yesterday,
Ramone's beloved mother. I needed some mommy time and my
mama not being alive. I called Ramonte or texted Ramone's mother,
and we had a very sweet exchange. She is Ramone's
mother is straight out of Central casting for the uh
(26:02):
Chicano mom who loves her son and is always available.
You see these stories where like Ted Bundy's mom is
going but he's a good kid. Mama Martha would be
there on the stand when Ramon was discovered to be
a serial killer and say he was such a good boy.
(26:24):
He really was. After she left, I lived boring.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
He was hiding behind the tieving pupid.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
She's got just the right voice, just the right delivery,
just the right everything. I mean, she's just perfect. It's
just perfect for I feel like I'm in a sitcom
with her, which is perfect. And then his dad, his
dad is the quintessential man who's married to her. He's
real quiet. You know, she says when we're if they're
(26:57):
you know, if they're visiting, So she says, when we're
gonna leave, and he's okay, he does not stay drunk
all day. Stop it. You love to be goofy, but
he is like that perfect you know, little my Dad's
a lot like this. You have to watch him for
a while to realize how cute he is. And I
mean cute like a little boy, cute, just adorable. You know.
(27:19):
There was the story of they have a family text message,
and he had sent a text to this family text
message asking where the Viny Sausages were? Has anybody seen him?
Here's Ramon and his whole family and a radio show
that he's running in, a podcast that he's putting together,
and all these different things he's doing. And then his
(27:41):
daughter and then his sister and the whole family's out there.
And then they're getting a text, Hey, you might see
a Vinnie Sausages at their house. You know, nobody on
this list lives there. And so it became a running
joke treasure hunt as to where the Viny Sausages were.
And then they who were the people in Chicago. It
wasn't even the Viny Sausages.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It was.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Be Franks, it's another brand. They saw my tweet and
they offered to send to replace his Viny Sausages and instead,
they called their location down here and they had the guide.
They asked if they could get his address. They had
the guid deliver like a cartload of the other sausages.
(28:29):
Ramon Senior didn't know what to do, like, what are
we what are we gonna do with all these sausages? Anyway,
it became a funny exchange. I say all that to
say this. When the world's getting you down, just remember
two things. Number One, old people will make you feel
much better because they generally they might be grumpy, but
(28:53):
if you listen carefully, they generally have good advice, and
they've experienced a lot more than you have. And they're
not on their phone all day. They're not You can
have a conversation without them, you know, with two thumbs
going wild responding to somebody who's not in their presence.
(29:13):
They actually will engage with you. They will talk to
you can call them and they'll pick up and they're
happy to talk to you. It's crazy. I mean, it's
a soul fashioned. If you engage with them, they're just
delighted to engage. You can ask their advice or happy
to give it because nobody listens to them anymore, although
they should you know, in Asian societies, the seniority was respected,
(29:40):
the elderly were exalted. There was a scene last week
when Cash Patel was walking into the Senate hearing and
for six hours they hammered him, I mean hammered him.
And he gave as well as he took. Very very
sharp guy. You look at Cashptel's eyes, they're a little
(30:04):
off kilter. He has got what I call that genius
Indian gene. And I've told my wife this, there's certain Indians.
There was a guy named Chandrashaker. He won the Nobel
Prize for mathematics. But if you hear him talk, it's
what you imagine Einstein would sound like, just sort of
the mutterings of a genius. Einstein would supposedly go for
(30:28):
six hour walks. Just go out six hour walks. Sometime
you forget to put his shoes on. The little girl
next door with his goloshes. She would have to remind him,
mister alb but you have to put your just as
just mad rambling genius. Cash Ptel has that look very intense. Look,
my wife has a cousin has eyes like that kind
of scary. They're a little bit bugged out. But as
(30:50):
he was walking in to be eviscerated, he stopped. His
parents were at the edge of one of the rows,
and he fell to his knees and he touched his
parents feet. In India, you respect the elderly and touching
their feet is the ultimate supplication. Jesus washed the feet
of the disciples because your feet are dirty. You know
(31:11):
your feet. You know we're walking through the sand walk
So you're touching that person and supplicating yourself and saying
you are my parent. He did that knowing he was
on American television, knowing he's about to be the most
powerful person, and he supplicated himself before his parents. Sh
I admire that. I admire that so much. We could
(31:34):
stand to supplicate ourselves before our parents, honor our parents more.
One of the j six political prisoners will be our
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