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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
They fashioned themselves on social media as this legion of superheroes,
this incoming administration, Salcy Gabbard, Robert F Comedy Junior, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive about
to leap tall buildings at a single bound up in
the tide. It's a bird's yes, it's superstrung.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We will very quickly make America great again.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Do we really need whatever it is, four hundred and
twenty eight federal agencies because there's so many that people
have never heard of, and that half overlapping areas of
responsibility we should I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Fully for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Get I mean there are more federal agencies than there
are years since the establishing in the United States, which
means that we've created more than one federal agency per
year on average.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That seems a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot.
So sad, that seems crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I think we failed to get away with nineteen nine agencies.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I am a patriot, I love our country. I am
a strong and intelligent woman of color, and I have
dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security,
and the freedom of all Americans in this city.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I'm not anti vaccine, but I think we need to
be honest and we need to have good science. I
spent thirty years trying to get mercury out of the
fish in this country, and nobody ever called me anti fish.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, one of the most important pieces of.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
The team was put into place today in a fifty
one to forty nine votes. Cash Patel has been named
our has been confirmed as President Trump's FBI director.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He's going to lead your FBI. And I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Tell you, folks say this all the time. My job
is not to break the news. You probably knew that already,
although many of our listeners can't look at the news
during the day.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You're on a back hoe.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You're on a forcliff, you're on a crane, you're doing
the things you do, and you're in meetings, you're teaching,
doing whatever you're doing, and you can't check the news.
So I don't spend a lot of time announcing the
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news or breaking news.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Not what I do.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I tell you what I think is important, and I've
spent the last few days telling you that I did
not think it was important to report on the or
spend a lot of time commenting on the Delta Airlines
flight in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
People loved Hey, people were on board. How much are
they flying it? What do we have video of it?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Vic with is that none of that matters. That's just
it's treating you. It's insulting to you. That's not going
to affect your life. Other than the fact that we
can step back and say, why was that woman flying
that plane when she didn't have enough experience? Who made
the decision to put her flying that plane when she
didn't have enough experience. It's pretty obvious that she most
likely did it because she's a woman, and they've really
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pushed to have unmanned flights.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But in the greater.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Scheme of things, if you skip the news that day
don't matter. This is consequential news.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
When you put Cash Fattel, who is whip smart, as
the director of the FBI, two things are going to happen.
Number One, the FBI is going to do its job now,
and that's not easy to do because you've got folks
in that organization. And I'm not saying it's the majority
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of them. But you've got folks in there who were
out to destroy Trump. You got folks who were involved
in January sixth. You've got folks who've been able to
obscure that they've been working to destroy Trump and you
all the time. And they're scared. They're scared because they
don't want the light shined on them these roaches. Instead
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of scurrying, they're gonna play it cool and hope you
don't notice.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They're still there. They're still there.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
They're still feeding information to the media the way Jim
Comey did when he he hid behind the drape in
the Oval office. Jim Comey did everything he could to
undercut Donald Trump, Robert Muller, who they brought in to
investigate for two years, hiring all the Hillary lawyers, former
FBI guy.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
These people are devious.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The ranks of the FBI are still populated, particularly at
the top, by devious people who have to be replaced
and punished. And the good FBI agents will now be
allowed to shine, and that's great news. We had a
story here at Houston Memorial High School on the near
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west Side, part of the Spring Branch Independent School District,
a very very good public school. Two teenagers, I think
fifteen and sixteen girls with a credible threat to put
a pipe bomb and then shoot up the school. And
in one of those occasions you don't see that often,
the school police department teaming with the FBI and the
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Sheriff's department. The school police department has a guy who
probably should have been at some point the head of
the Houston Police Department, a guy named Bainbridge, very very
well respected law enforcement leader. They brought the school district,
brought him in kind of below his talent level to
just be running a school district's police department. But now
you're getting these great stories of the school police department
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behaving in this phenomenal manner because you've got great talent
leading it. So anyway, the FBI thwarted a pipe bombing
and mass shooting in the school.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
When's the last time that happened.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
All we've seen is Pulse Nightclub and all these schools
and churches and.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Las Vegas, which we still still won't tell us what's
going on there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
All these things that happened, and then we have to
find out, Oh, the FBI had been apprised that this
guy was a real threat and was making was making
threats and they did nothing about it. So Number one
why this matters is the FBI is now going to
do its job. And that's good for us as a society.
It's good for our children, it's good for our culture.
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To feel safer and be safer means that we're happier.
It means that we can accomplish more. But it also
means that good agents can now thrive. That's why the
good agents joined the FBI in the first place, is
to get to save lives.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
They want it's like a dog that brings you back
the bone.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
They want that approval as the kind of as the
sheep dog personality. You want to get to save lives.
But the second reason this is important is Cash Betel
is now going to walk in and open the kimono
and say, here's what happened. And now all of our
crazy conspiracy theorists or theories are going to be proven true.
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All the things we knew were happening January sixth, among them,
Maybe we'll find out what happened in Las Vegas, all
the lies that we're told, what happened in the JFK assassination,
what happened in all these things that we weren't told
and now will. We're going to find out what the
FBI was doing at the school boards, harassing parents. We're
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gonna find out who was calling that in. We're gonna
find out who was coordinating. This is very, very consequential news.
This is the most consequential news. But I mean, by
the way, Mitch mcconel's announced this.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's Michael Barry's shows Chtch McConnell, who's one hundred and
fifty eight years old and has been in the Senate
for one hundred and forty of them, announced today that
he will be retiring. He is the longest serving senator
in Kentucky history. He's in his seventh term. Mind you,
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these are six year terms. He uh, he's been in
the Senate. It's nineteen eighty five. Yeah, the Roman Senate.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
This is.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But hold on, I want to address something a lot
of you love to go. Yeah, term limits, Michael, term limits.
Hold on a damn minute. We've got term limits already
built into place. It's called elections. You know what happens.
You know whether you voted or not, not how you voted,
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but whether you've voted or not. You can look up
and see if somebody voted or not. And you can
look and see if they voted in a party primary.
And if you voted in a Republican primary for three
times in row, you're known as a three R. And
in the political business, three rs are the people who
vote in primaries. Most people don't vote in primaries. Most
people only vote in November, even people who listen to
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Tart radio, And a lot of these people don't ever
vote in the primary because they don't bother to know
who's running against John Corn or Mitch McConnell or one
of these evil people. And so they wake up just
before the November election when the Democrats start criticizing them,
and they go, oh, my guy's not very good either,
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but he's better than the Democrats, and so you put
them back in and they get six more years of it.
The time to beat a Mitch McConnell was always in
the Republican primary because you didn't want to work against
him in November. What are we going to say, he's
a horrible guy, he's a horrible Republican. I'd rather a
Democrat be there instead. That's what Karl Rove used to do.
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That's how we ended up with Todd Aiken losing declare mccaskell,
and mccaskell goes on to be one of the worst senators,
most powerful senators under Obama for the Democrat causes, because
Karl Rove undercut him, because he made a statement that
Rove twisted out a context about rape and pregnancy and
whether somebody had been raped or not, because Rove didn't
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like him, because he couldn't control him. And I've told
you all along, Rove is part of the controlled opposition.
These are the Washington generals. The Washington generals are not
mad at the Harlem globetrotters that the globetrotters win every
time and the generals lose every time. Because if the
Washington generals don't have the Harlem globetrotters taking them around
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the country with them, they don't have a job. Their
job is to lose, but it is nevertheless a job.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And if you want to keep.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Your job in your John Bayn or Paul Ryan, Adam
Ken Singer, Liz Cheney, if you're part of the controlled opposition,
you'd do it. And Rove gets paid a lot of
money to control this machine. A lot of money. Oh turd,
Blossom's doing quite well for himself. Misrees, he's a fat
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more chins than a Chinese phone book. This guy's he's
living large, destroying your country. But let's go back to
Mitch McConnell. This is why we need so you've seen him.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He keeps coming unplugged, and there is the turtle.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He's just sitting there. He's unplugged. You don't know if
it looks like a wax figure. We need term limits,
we need term lemits. Well, how about we just defeat
him in the election. We can't, Michael, That would be hard,
Isn't that the point?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The point that anything worth doing? Do hard things. One
thing I've learned in the last five years is that
I feel better when I forced myself to do difficult things,
whether that's workout, when I don't want to intermitting fasting
and eating only one meal.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Don't you get hungry? Yeah, you get hungry. What's the alternative?
You eat and you're fat? But how do I do it?
I don't know if I can do it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, so be fat? Why are you bothering me? You
hate that you're fat, But when you're giving a plan
to not be fat, you go oh, but that'd be hard,
So that's fine. Just say, hey, look I'm fat and
I'm weak, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
There's nothing wrong with that. Does it make you a
bad person.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
If somebody is lean, that means they work at it,
They make tough decisions. If somebody rises through the ranks
of an organization, they work at it. If somebody builds
a business from scratch, they work. I don't know if
I could do that. Well, what you mean to say is,
I'm not willing to work hard. I'm not willing to
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do difficult things. We have to do difficult things. We
have to beat Republicans in the primary rather than complain
about them in November, because in November our only option
is send the bad Republican or send the usually worst Democrat,
and then there'll be somebody will go I'd just rather
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have the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
We can beat him the next time. I'm not sure
that's not true.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I'm not sure Mitch McConnell has done more to help
the Democrats in the last year than any Democrat has
voting against stuff under cutting Trump. And I honestly believe
once all the digging is done, I personally believe I
can't prove this. Yet, I think that we're going to
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find I suspect we're going to find McConnell and his
fingerprints all over our problems with China, all over the
over one hundred million dollars missing in Ukraine, whether he
kept some of it himself or not, his wife's involvement
in a lot of the China stuff, his personal involvement
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in the Ukraine stuff. And by the way, I feel
the same about Lindsey Graham. They're still trying to pack
cash in for Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Ukraine has lost.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Might I remind you that Zelensky flew to the United
States to campaign on behalf of Kamala Harris. Might I
remind you that he was pulling the strings behind the scenes,
and he's got strings to pull. You might think of
him as just some guy in a country over there. No, no, no,
They've got a whole cyber uh division that is attacking
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and manipulating in the United States on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, how about this.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Mitch McConnell announcing today that he will finally be retiring
at the end of his term was not even the
biggest news story. And he was the leader of the
Senate and of the Republicans in the Senate up until
a minute ago. That's how big to me the Cash
Patel FBI director announcement is. And if I had to
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choose one or the other of which is the bigger
story for me, it's the Cash Motel story. For me.
Cash Pattel is going to turn out to be the
most important of all of the President's nomination, more than
Pam Bondi, more than Hegsath, more than Rubio, more than Holman.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I believe this Michael Barry show.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
If he doesn't say it, who will our guest at
a random time, because I've been trying to grab him
long enough to chat with him, is my friend Jimmy Fullen,
who happens to be the sheriff of Galveston County. For
those of you not in the greater Houston area, Galveston
County is the county south of Houston that encompasses some
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bedroom communities.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It's known as very safe.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
A lot of League City, which is in the area,
several years ago, was rated number one highest population density
of license to carry owners. You don't want to commit
You don't want to walk up on a guy and
try to carjack him in League City. Texas because there's
a good chance he owns a gun and knows how
to use it and will and so that has an
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effect because the citizenry helps law enforcement keep the community safe.
So my friend Jimmy Fullen is the sheriff of Galveston
County and I wanted to talk to him about to
start with the border, and then I want to ask
you about Berna because you and I share an affinity
for the Burna launchers. Let's talk about the border because
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as the sheriff of Galveston County before that, you were
a constable and you made the decision to take some
of your folks and go down to the border with
Mexico and help border patrol keep our border secure. And
you announced that you were doing that because you could
deal with the legals once they got to your county
and hurt your people, or you could help border patrol
keep them from getting in.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
What did you learn from that experience?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
What I learned was if you cut the snake's head
off where it lies, is not able to get into
your community. And that's exactly why we sent people to
the border. Like you said, we want to stop the
problems from me before they even get to Galveston County
and what I did, what I learned down there was
money is the root of all evil. Are human smugglers
down there? That's you know, that's what they were doing.
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They were taking people's money and smuggling them into the
United States. Thankfully, the election went very well for nationally
and locally.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
We have a new.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
President and back of our president, back Donald Trump, and
he is in essence and no matter of thirty days,
completely shut the border down.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, let's talk about what you saw at the border,
because you and I were talking a lot when you
were working down there. You know, some of these people
are coming here to be dishwashers and farm workers, but
some of these people are people are trafficked as pure victims,
including children. Some of them are doing the trafficking, and
some of them are out and out bad guy murderers, hitmen,
and the like. Talk a little bit about what people
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need to understand about who was coming across the border.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Well, I can certainly tell you this what they as
the media was trying to portray them as a bunch
of family units coming over, and that was totally the opposite. Well,
we found you had a bunch of people with felony
warrants for child you know, for a sexual assault of
the child, child pornography. These people were running dope through
our you know, through our country, across the border, just
violent offenders. Every time we turned around, we were engaging
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in these violent offenders, people that were wanting to flee
from us in their vehicles with reckless disregard for the
motoring public, running you know, running into other vehicles, killing
innocent victims. So yeah, it was nothing like the media
was portraying saying that there were a bunch of family
units coming over.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Here and there.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You are having to see it for yourself and not
wanting that to land up in Galveston County, which is
of course why you were down there. What did you
hear from the from the CBP, Customs and Border Patrol.
Those poor guys have had a real tough go of it.
But what were you hearing at the time, And then
let's talk about what I'm hearing today now that Trump
is in office.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
What we were hearing at the time is they were
just flat told not to do engage with these people
coming across the border, and they were very thankful that
they had people like us in Maverick County and Kenny
and DPS that were actually coming in taking the run
of the load off of them because they were just
they were basically handcuffed by the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And now on.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The contrary, now or and now and now, we still
have people going to the border to this day, but unfortunately,
I mean they're patrolling Kinney County in parts of Maverick County,
but we have nothing to do right now. I mean
we're literally still trying to attract these people that are
human smuggling, but they're completely being.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Stopped at the border.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I think, if I'm not mistaken, I think yesterday I
heard there was only two hundred encounters, where prior to that, say,
six months ago to a year ago, you were encountering
thousands a day coming across that border.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, Tom Homan deserves the Nobel Prize and keeping peace
for this country because truly these people need to stay
in the country where they are citizens and improve those
countries instead of coming here and worsening our country. I mean,
that's just as simple as that. And I mean that,
do you foresee yourself, as Gallison County Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Doing more of that or do you think there's less
need for it. Now. How has that changed under Trump?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Well, I can tell you this from from the people
I know in DPS and the people I know that
are still going down to the border from Galison County.
It has drastically been reduced since Trump stepped in, since
he took office. We will continue sending our people down
there to assist until at such time the governor stops
Operation Long Star.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's it's amazing to think that there are people who
think it's okay for terrorists, child traffickers, sex traffickers, cartel members,
and victims of those traffickers to be breaking into our
country illegally. When we see the numbers of how many
young people die of fentanyl, we see the number of
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how many sex crimes are being committed.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We see these these safe quote unquote safe houses.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Where they're they're you know, they break in and you've
got all these girls in there who've been raped, and
all these girls in there who are being trafficked, and
we've got people who not only don't want to do
anything to stop it, they seemingly encourage it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And it's it's mind boggling to me.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I couldn't agree more. Michael I'll get I'll give you
an example. Me and fell Constable Edinburgh and Melville Real.
We went up and met with Jonathan Kim yesterday at
Camp Hope. First time I've ever been there and experienced
like I've never experienced before. So my point is, you
have all these illegals coming into the United States. The
federal government was housing them, feeding them, getting getting them
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items they needed. We have veterans to this day that
are still sleeping under bridges, homeless and having to deal
with possible suicides every single day. But yet we can't
we can't take the federal government money that we're putting
in through our tax dollars and taking care of them first.
There seems to be a problem here, but thankfully again
Donald Trump is going to change all that.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I think you're absolutely right, and I believe that to
be true. And I did get a report on y'all
being there. For those of you who don't know, you
will if you listen to me long enough, if we're
new to your market, Camp Hope is near and dear
to my heart, I'm their national spokesman. It's the residential
facility of something called the PTSD Foundation of America. I'm
not a big fan of the big corporate charities. I
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know that sounds like an oxymoron, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The big black tie gala charities. That's not my vibe.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And it's fine if they raise money for the diseases
and all that, so be it. But I was asked
to get involved twelve years ago with a residential facility
for veterans who they call in. It's free for six
months because our listeners pay for it. And they've got
a gun to their head and they came home from
war a hero, and now they're under a bridge, ready
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to end it all because this world doesn't make sense
to them anymore. And Camp Hope for six months puts
them through a christ based program to learn to deal
with these emotions, to learn to cope, and to get
their lives back together so they can go back and
be a good father to their children, so that they
can be a good husband to their wife, so that
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they can interact with their parents again, and so that
they can make sense of this crazy civilian world that
they left behind when they went to war. And they
came back with all these tattoos and their friends didn't.
And now it makes more sense if you email me
at any point. I can get you a tour of
the facility. I can get you connected to it. We
raised millions and millions of dollars for them every year
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because it saves lives. We're still losing over twenty veterans
a day to suicide, and I appreciate you going over there.
Jimmy full And the Sheriff of Galison County is our guest.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
More coming up, just in here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So, I'm a big one for self defense and the
responsibility we have as a head of household to defend
our family, but the responsibility every person has to defend
ourselves to the extent that we possibly can. I am
a big believer in firearms because a little old lady
can pick up a pistol and blast a thug coming
through the door to harm her when she couldn't take
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him out at the knees or sucker punch him. It
has an effect of evening the playing field for the infirm,
and the elderly.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And the weak. It can give a little, tiny woman.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
A fair fight against a bad guy when maybe she wouldn't.
She doesn't have the training or ability or strength to
take care of herself otherwise. That being said, a firearm
is a real powerful tool of self defense, and sometimes
you don't need such a powerful tool. Sometimes you need
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a form of self defense that stops the threat but
is not necessarily always lethal. And that's why it's called
Burna and I owned them long before they became partners
with us Burna. I are in a dot com forward
slash Michael my first name m I C H A E. L.
I bought at one point eight of them to put
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all around my house. Everywhere I have pistols, I put
burner guns, and then I bought more for everybody in
my life to have one so that they could defend
themselves in a situation where you may not you may
not need to kill somebody. You may just need to
get the threat to stop, because that's the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
You don't want to kill somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
People talk lightly about killing somebody, but I'm going to
tell you I've known a lot of people who've had
to defend themselves by killing someone. You never forget that
you don't want to have to do it. You just
want to stop the threat. And the beauty of this
is it's legal in all fifty states. You don't have
to have a background check any You can buy this thing,
have it delivered to you. You don't have to go
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through all the government forums or databases. And some people
can't buy a gun because they had a problem earlier
in life. So I was a big fan of the
Burners and all of us. I get to know the
folks at the company, and they say, hey, there's this,
there's this.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Uh, well, he was constable at the time.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
There's a sheriff down in Galveson County, and he was
bragging on you and the fact that you love these guns,
and you talked about him, and he's training all his
law enforcement officers to use them, of course in addition
to their firearms. And Jimmy, I haven't asked you how
you got connected with the Burner gun itself, not the company,
but the Burner launcher itself.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Well, I got I got familiar with it because there
were some guys that worked for the Galveston Police Department
that were actually trainers, and I actually went through the
training class with them, and from the time I stepped
in that classroom and saw what it was all.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
About, I was hooked that, you know, proud of that.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I used to carry the traditional taser, but again, and
I'm not knocking taser. They've got practical applications, but there's
a lot of hit and miss with those with this.
With this burner, I have not had one one failed
attemptle with my burner. It is so effective on caple
and for that matter, Mike, it's effective on animals. Sometimes
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you go to scenes and you get animals, they get
loose and they.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Come and touch towards you.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
You can utilize it on an animal and it'll get
them away from you without having to end up killing
the animal.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Which again, if you can avoid ending a life.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I see these cases of somebody that's schizophrenic or bipolar
and they're having an episode and so they're beaten up.
You know, they're thirty five years old. They're beaten up
their mom or their grandmother that they live with. She
calls the cop because he's beaten her up and his
eyes are zonked out and he's in the middle of
a mental health episode and when the officers arrive, it
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triggers him and he goes outside and it's basically death
by cop, and the cops end up you know, all
these problems as a result of it, and if there
was just a way to get him subdued till we
could get him some help. And it strikes me that
that's one of the perfect examples of where you'd rather
not have to kill.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Somebody, absolutely, and that's exactly why you had that means
of non lethal force on your belt when you go
deal with you know, mentally challenge people. All right, let's
go back to our veterans, Mike's. You know, they have
some issues as well if you end up having to
deal with them. The last thing a policeman wants to
do is have to use deadly force on somebody. So
if we have that alternate means, which is the burner,
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you know, by all means, utilize it. So do the
suspect and get them taken into custody and get them
the treatment they need.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And one of the things I like is law enforcement
using it is a little different than the individual because
I think individuals, oddly enough, have more of a presumption
of self defense than law enforcement today. And I think
I credit Black Lives Matter and Antifa and the left
with making law enforcement out to be a bunch of
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you know, gun slingers that are out to shoot people.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
When my brother was an officer.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I know you very well know lots of officers well,
and that's not what you want to do. You want
to go home safe and you want everybody else to
go home save and having another tool to do that.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I am.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I'm an evangelizer. My friends laugh because they'll ask me
questions about it. Let's go, let's go on. Burn up
by r NA dot com forward slash Michael, right now,
let's get it right now, Dude, you got to lay off.
I'm a big believer in this. I think it could.
It could not only change lives, it could save lives.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
It absolutely saves lives.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I mean on a daily basis, you hear reports of
officers being able to use the burners to subduce somebody,
which you know, if you didn't have that burner on
your belt, you may not have had a choice but
to go straight to deadly force. So thankfully there are
burners out there. I'm a I'm.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
A big believer. I always have been. Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
In fact, I just for the Sheriff's office. I just
ordered a hundred of them the other day.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
We're hoping to get those in for our corrections officer
as well as our patrol deputies and even some of
our SLOs. So I'm a I'm a firm believer in them.
Give you a prime example, Mike. You know we got
Marti Graul coming up. If you were to have say
a big ride out on the street, maybe down on
the strand or something, the officers don't have to actually
get into the crowd to engage them and possibly get
their sales injured. You just, you know, put a couple
of rounds of pepper balls or burner rounds into the
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crowd and you disperse that crowd. So, I mean again,
there's multiple uses for the burner where the officers don't
have to engage hand on hand, and you know they
don't have to use deadly force.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Galveston County Sheriff now no longer constable. He's been upgraded
by the public who overwhelmingly voted him in Galveston County
Sheriff Jimmy full and thank you, brother.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
And let me thank you, brother, Mike, I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Let me say, growing up with law enforcement officers and
growing up with people who grew up in the country
and myself growing up in the country where you don't
have time for.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Law enforcement to respond. This is this is a mission
for me.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's a ministry for me to take measures to protect yourself.
You I wish, I wish we lived in Japan, where
the likelihood that you're going to be accosted attacked was
insanely low. But we don't. And it's real. There's thugs,
there's illegals, there's bad people who will do.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Bad things, and you've got to think ahead about it.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
You've got to think ahead about how you're going to
defend yourself in the various points of your life. You know,
I mentioned earlier the license to carry in Texas. Now
anybody can carry. It's open carry, not a felon or whatever.
But you don't need a.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
License to have a gun with you to defend yourself.
And I got to tell you.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I have sold a number of people I know, especially women,
on these Bernard launchers, because it's an opportunity to defend
yourself without having to do what perhaps you don't want
to do. I'm a big believer in martial arts. I'm
a big believer in situational awareness. You know, don't be
texting as you're walking, you know, you folks, you folks
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are our family. We'd like to keep you around a
long time, and if you're interested in more on Burna,
send me an email or just go to Berna b
y r na dot com. Forward slash Michael my first
name in my c H A E. L. Yes, I
am an evangelizer. I'm unashamed of that. I believe in
it a lot. I believed in it so much I've
bought a bunch of them before they ever reached out
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to me and said, hey, would you like to endorse
us on the air.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Absolutely, I'm already doing it.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
They fashioned themselves on social media as this legion of superheroes,
this incoming administration, Salcy Gabbard, Robert F Comedy Junior, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive about
to leap tall buildings at a single bound up in
the tide. It's a bird's yes, it's superstrung.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We will very quickly make America great again.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Do we really need whatever it is, four hundred and
twenty eight federal agencies because there's so many that people
have never heard of, and that half overlapping areas of
responsibility we should I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Fully for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Get I mean there are more federal agencies than there
are years since the establishing in the United States, which
means that we've created more than one federal agency per
year on average.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That seems a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot.
So sad, that seems crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I think we failed to get away with nineteen nine agencies.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I am a patriot, I love our country. I am
a strong and intelligent woman of color, and I have
dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security,
and the freedom of all Americans in this city.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I'm not anti vaccine, but I think we need to
be honest and we need to have good science. I
spent thirty years trying to get mercury out of the
fish in this country, and nobody ever called me anti fish.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, one of the most important pieces of.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
The team was put into place today in a fifty
one to forty nine votes. Cash Patel has been named
our has been confirmed as President Trump's FBI director.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He's going to lead your FBI. And I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Tell you, folks say this all the time. My job
is not to break the news. You probably knew that already,
although many of our listeners can't look at the news
during the day.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You're on a back hoe.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You're on a forcliff, you're on a crane, you're doing
the things you do, and you're in meetings, you're teaching,
doing whatever you're doing, and you can't check the news.
So I don't spend a lot of time announcing the
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news or breaking news.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Not what I do.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I tell you what I think is important, and I've
spent the last few days telling you that I did
not think it was important to report on the or
spend a lot of time commenting on the Delta Airlines
flight in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
People loved Hey, people were on board. How much are
they flying it? What do we have video of it?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Vic with is that none of that matters. That's just
it's treating you. It's insulting to you. That's not going
to affect your life. Other than the fact that we
can step back and say, why was that woman flying
that plane when she didn't have enough experience? Who made
the decision to put her flying that plane when she
didn't have enough experience. It's pretty obvious that she most
likely did it because she's a woman, and they've really
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pushed to have unmanned flights.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But in the greater.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Scheme of things, if you skip the news that day
don't matter. This is consequential news.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Friends.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
When you put Cash Fattel, who is whip smart, as
the director of the FBI, two things are going to happen.
Number One, the FBI is going to do its job now,
and that's not easy to do because you've got folks
in that organization. And I'm not saying it's the majority
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of them. But you've got folks in there who were
out to destroy Trump. You got folks who were involved
in January sixth. You've got folks who've been able to
obscure that they've been working to destroy Trump and you
all the time. And they're scared. They're scared because they
don't want the light shined on them these roaches. Instead
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of scurrying, they're gonna play it cool and hope you
don't notice.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They're still there. They're still there.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
They're still feeding information to the media the way Jim
Comey did when he he hid behind the drape in
the Oval office. Jim Comey did everything he could to
undercut Donald Trump, Robert Muller, who they brought in to
investigate for two years, hiring all the Hillary lawyers, former
FBI guy.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
These people are devious.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The ranks of the FBI are still populated, particularly at
the top, by devious people who have to be replaced
and punished. And the good FBI agents will now be
allowed to shine, and that's great news. We had a
story here at Houston Memorial High School on the near
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west Side, part of the Spring Branch Independent School District,
a very very good public school. Two teenagers, I think
fifteen and sixteen girls with a credible threat to put
a pipe bomb and then shoot up the school. And
in one of those occasions you don't see that often,
the school police department teaming with the FBI and the
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Sheriff's department. The school police department has a guy who
probably should have been at some point the head of
the Houston Police Department, a guy named Bainbridge, very very
well respected law enforcement leader. They brought the school district,
brought him in kind of below his talent level to
just be running a school district's police department. But now
you're getting these great stories of the school police department
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behaving in this phenomenal manner because you've got great talent
leading it. So anyway, the FBI thwarted a pipe bombing
and mass shooting in the school.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
When's the last time that happened.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
All we've seen is Pulse Nightclub and all these schools
and churches and.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Las Vegas, which we still still won't tell us what's
going on there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
All these things that happened, and then we have to
find out, Oh, the FBI had been apprised that this
guy was a real threat and was making was making
threats and they did nothing about it. So Number one
why this matters is the FBI is now going to
do its job. And that's good for us as a society.
It's good for our children, it's good for our culture.
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To feel safer and be safer means that we're happier.
It means that we can accomplish more. But it also
means that good agents can now thrive. That's why the
good agents joined the FBI in the first place, is
to get to save lives.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
They want it's like a dog that brings you back
the bone.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
They want that approval as the kind of as the
sheep dog personality. You want to get to save lives.
But the second reason this is important is Cash Betel
is now going to walk in and open the kimono
and say, here's what happened. And now all of our
crazy conspiracy theorists or theories are going to be proven true.
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All the things we knew were happening January sixth, among them,
Maybe we'll find out what happened in Las Vegas, all
the lies that we're told, what happened in the JFK assassination,
what happened in all these things that we weren't told
and now will. We're going to find out what the
FBI was doing at the school boards, harassing parents. We're
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gonna find out who was calling that in. We're gonna
find out who was coordinating. This is very, very consequential news.
This is the most consequential news. But I mean, by
the way, Mitch mcconel's announced this.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If you.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's Michael Barry's shows Chtch McConnell, who's one hundred and
fifty eight years old and has been in the Senate
for one hundred and forty of them, announced today that
he will be retiring. He is the longest serving senator
in Kentucky history. He's in his seventh term. Mind you,
(08:49):
these are six year terms. He uh, he's been in
the Senate. It's nineteen eighty five. Yeah, the Roman Senate.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
This is.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But hold on, I want to address something a lot
of you love to go. Yeah, term limits, Michael, term limits.
Hold on a damn minute. We've got term limits already
built into place. It's called elections. You know what happens.
You know whether you voted or not, not how you voted,
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but whether you've voted or not. You can look up
and see if somebody voted or not. And you can
look and see if they voted in a party primary.
And if you voted in a Republican primary for three
times in row, you're known as a three R. And
in the political business, three rs are the people who
vote in primaries. Most people don't vote in primaries. Most
people only vote in November, even people who listen to
(09:56):
Tart radio, And a lot of these people don't ever
vote in the primary because they don't bother to know
who's running against John Corn or Mitch McConnell or one
of these evil people. And so they wake up just
before the November election when the Democrats start criticizing them,
and they go, oh, my guy's not very good either,
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but he's better than the Democrats, and so you put
them back in and they get six more years of it.
The time to beat a Mitch McConnell was always in
the Republican primary because you didn't want to work against
him in November. What are we going to say, he's
a horrible guy, he's a horrible Republican. I'd rather a
Democrat be there instead. That's what Karl Rove used to do.
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That's how we ended up with Todd Aiken losing declare mccaskell,
and mccaskell goes on to be one of the worst senators,
most powerful senators under Obama for the Democrat causes, because
Karl Rove undercut him, because he made a statement that
Rove twisted out a context about rape and pregnancy and
whether somebody had been raped or not, because Rove didn't
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like him, because he couldn't control him. And I've told
you all along, Rove is part of the controlled opposition.
These are the Washington generals. The Washington generals are not
mad at the Harlem globetrotters that the globetrotters win every
time and the generals lose every time. Because if the
Washington generals don't have the Harlem globetrotters taking them around
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the country with them, they don't have a job. Their
job is to lose, but it is nevertheless a job.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And if you want to keep.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Your job in your John Bayn or Paul Ryan, Adam
Ken Singer, Liz Cheney, if you're part of the controlled opposition,
you'd do it. And Rove gets paid a lot of
money to control this machine. A lot of money. Oh turd,
Blossom's doing quite well for himself. Misrees, he's a fat
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more chins than a Chinese phone book. This guy's he's
living large, destroying your country. But let's go back to
Mitch McConnell. This is why we need so you've seen him.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He keeps coming unplugged, and there is the turtle.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He's just sitting there. He's unplugged. You don't know if
it looks like a wax figure. We need term limits,
we need term lemits. Well, how about we just defeat
him in the election. We can't, Michael, That would be hard,
Isn't that the point?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The point that anything worth doing? Do hard things. One
thing I've learned in the last five years is that
I feel better when I forced myself to do difficult things,
whether that's workout, when I don't want to intermitting fasting
and eating only one meal.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Don't you get hungry? Yeah, you get hungry. What's the alternative?
You eat and you're fat? But how do I do it?
I don't know if I can do it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, so be fat? Why are you bothering me? You
hate that you're fat, But when you're giving a plan
to not be fat, you go oh, but that'd be hard,
So that's fine. Just say, hey, look I'm fat and
I'm weak, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
There's nothing wrong with that. Does it make you a
bad person.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
If somebody is lean, that means they work at it,
They make tough decisions. If somebody rises through the ranks
of an organization, they work at it. If somebody builds
a business from scratch, they work. I don't know if
I could do that. Well, what you mean to say is,
I'm not willing to work hard. I'm not willing to
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do difficult things. We have to do difficult things. We
have to beat Republicans in the primary rather than complain
about them in November, because in November our only option
is send the bad Republican or send the usually worst Democrat,
and then there'll be somebody will go I'd just rather
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have the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
We can beat him the next time. I'm not sure
that's not true.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I'm not sure Mitch McConnell has done more to help
the Democrats in the last year than any Democrat has
voting against stuff under cutting Trump. And I honestly believe
once all the digging is done, I personally believe I
can't prove this. Yet, I think that we're going to
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find I suspect we're going to find McConnell and his
fingerprints all over our problems with China, all over the
over one hundred million dollars missing in Ukraine, whether he
kept some of it himself or not, his wife's involvement
in a lot of the China stuff, his personal involvement
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in the Ukraine stuff. And by the way, I feel
the same about Lindsey Graham. They're still trying to pack
cash in for Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Ukraine has lost.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Might I remind you that Zelensky flew to the United
States to campaign on behalf of Kamala Harris. Might I
remind you that he was pulling the strings behind the scenes,
and he's got strings to pull. You might think of
him as just some guy in a country over there. No, no, no,
They've got a whole cyber uh division that is attacking
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and manipulating in the United States on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, how about this.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Mitch McConnell announcing today that he will finally be retiring
at the end of his term was not even the
biggest news story. And he was the leader of the
Senate and of the Republicans in the Senate up until
a minute ago. That's how big to me the Cash
Patel FBI director announcement is. And if I had to
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choose one or the other of which is the bigger
story for me, it's the Cash Motel story. For me.
Cash Pattel is going to turn out to be the
most important of all of the President's nomination, more than
Pam Bondi, more than Hegsath, more than Rubio, more than Holman.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I believe this Michael Barry show.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
If he doesn't say it, who will our guest at
a random time, because I've been trying to grab him
long enough to chat with him, is my friend Jimmy Fullen,
who happens to be the sheriff of Galveston County. For
those of you not in the greater Houston area, Galveston
County is the county south of Houston that encompasses some
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bedroom communities.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It's known as very safe.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
A lot of League City, which is in the area,
several years ago, was rated number one highest population density
of license to carry owners. You don't want to commit
You don't want to walk up on a guy and
try to carjack him in League City. Texas because there's
a good chance he owns a gun and knows how
to use it and will and so that has an
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effect because the citizenry helps law enforcement keep the community safe.
So my friend Jimmy Fullen is the sheriff of Galveston
County and I wanted to talk to him about to
start with the border, and then I want to ask
you about Berna because you and I share an affinity
for the Burna launchers. Let's talk about the border because
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as the sheriff of Galveston County before that, you were
a constable and you made the decision to take some
of your folks and go down to the border with
Mexico and help border patrol keep our border secure. And
you announced that you were doing that because you could
deal with the legals once they got to your county
and hurt your people, or you could help border patrol
keep them from getting in.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
What did you learn from that experience?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
What I learned was if you cut the snake's head
off where it lies, is not able to get into
your community. And that's exactly why we sent people to
the border. Like you said, we want to stop the
problems from me before they even get to Galveston County
and what I did, what I learned down there was
money is the root of all evil. Are human smugglers
down there? That's you know, that's what they were doing.
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They were taking people's money and smuggling them into the
United States. Thankfully, the election went very well for nationally
and locally.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
We have a new.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
President and back of our president, back Donald Trump, and
he is in essence and no matter of thirty days,
completely shut the border down.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, let's talk about what you saw at the border,
because you and I were talking a lot when you
were working down there. You know, some of these people
are coming here to be dishwashers and farm workers, but
some of these people are people are trafficked as pure victims,
including children. Some of them are doing the trafficking, and
some of them are out and out bad guy murderers, hitmen,
and the like. Talk a little bit about what people
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need to understand about who was coming across the border.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Well, I can certainly tell you this what they as
the media was trying to portray them as a bunch
of family units coming over, and that was totally the opposite. Well,
we found you had a bunch of people with felony
warrants for child you know, for a sexual assault of
the child, child pornography. These people were running dope through
our you know, through our country, across the border, just
violent offenders. Every time we turned around, we were engaging
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in these violent offenders, people that were wanting to flee
from us in their vehicles with reckless disregard for the
motoring public, running you know, running into other vehicles, killing
innocent victims. So yeah, it was nothing like the media
was portraying saying that there were a bunch of family
units coming over.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Here and there.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You are having to see it for yourself and not
wanting that to land up in Galveston County, which is
of course why you were down there. What did you
hear from the from the CBP, Customs and Border Patrol.
Those poor guys have had a real tough go of it.
But what were you hearing at the time, And then
let's talk about what I'm hearing today now that Trump
is in office.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
What we were hearing at the time is they were
just flat told not to do engage with these people
coming across the border, and they were very thankful that
they had people like us in Maverick County and Kenny
and DPS that were actually coming in taking the run
of the load off of them because they were just
they were basically handcuffed by the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And now on.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The contrary, now or and now and now, we still
have people going to the border to this day, but unfortunately,
I mean they're patrolling Kinney County in parts of Maverick County,
but we have nothing to do right now. I mean
we're literally still trying to attract these people that are
human smuggling, but they're completely being.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Stopped at the border.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I think, if I'm not mistaken, I think yesterday I
heard there was only two hundred encounters, where prior to that, say,
six months ago to a year ago, you were encountering
thousands a day coming across that border.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, Tom Homan deserves the Nobel Prize and keeping peace
for this country because truly these people need to stay
in the country where they are citizens and improve those
countries instead of coming here and worsening our country. I mean,
that's just as simple as that. And I mean that,
do you foresee yourself, as Gallison County Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Doing more of that or do you think there's less
need for it. Now. How has that changed under Trump?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Well, I can tell you this from from the people
I know in DPS and the people I know that
are still going down to the border from Galison County.
It has drastically been reduced since Trump stepped in, since
he took office. We will continue sending our people down
there to assist until at such time the governor stops
Operation Long Star.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's it's amazing to think that there are people who
think it's okay for terrorists, child traffickers, sex traffickers, cartel members,
and victims of those traffickers to be breaking into our
country illegally. When we see the numbers of how many
young people die of fentanyl, we see the number of
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how many sex crimes are being committed.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We see these these safe quote unquote safe houses.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Where they're they're you know, they break in and you've
got all these girls in there who've been raped, and
all these girls in there who are being trafficked, and
we've got people who not only don't want to do
anything to stop it, they seemingly encourage it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
And it's it's mind boggling to me.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I couldn't agree more. Michael I'll get I'll give you
an example. Me and fell Constable Edinburgh and Melville Real.
We went up and met with Jonathan Kim yesterday at
Camp Hope. First time I've ever been there and experienced
like I've never experienced before. So my point is, you
have all these illegals coming into the United States. The
federal government was housing them, feeding them, getting getting them
(22:38):
items they needed. We have veterans to this day that
are still sleeping under bridges, homeless and having to deal
with possible suicides every single day. But yet we can't
we can't take the federal government money that we're putting
in through our tax dollars and taking care of them first.
There seems to be a problem here, but thankfully again
Donald Trump is going to change all that.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I think you're absolutely right, and I believe that to
be true. And I did get a report on y'all
being there. For those of you who don't know, you
will if you listen to me long enough, if we're
new to your market, Camp Hope is near and dear
to my heart, I'm their national spokesman. It's the residential
facility of something called the PTSD Foundation of America. I'm
not a big fan of the big corporate charities. I
(23:22):
know that sounds like an oxymoron, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The big black tie gala charities. That's not my vibe.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And it's fine if they raise money for the diseases
and all that, so be it. But I was asked
to get involved twelve years ago with a residential facility
for veterans who they call in. It's free for six
months because our listeners pay for it. And they've got
a gun to their head and they came home from
war a hero, and now they're under a bridge, ready
(23:50):
to end it all because this world doesn't make sense
to them anymore. And Camp Hope for six months puts
them through a christ based program to learn to deal
with these emotions, to learn to cope, and to get
their lives back together so they can go back and
be a good father to their children, so that they
can be a good husband to their wife, so that
(24:10):
they can interact with their parents again, and so that
they can make sense of this crazy civilian world that
they left behind when they went to war. And they
came back with all these tattoos and their friends didn't.
And now it makes more sense if you email me
at any point. I can get you a tour of
the facility. I can get you connected to it. We
raised millions and millions of dollars for them every year
(24:31):
because it saves lives. We're still losing over twenty veterans
a day to suicide, and I appreciate you going over there.
Jimmy full And the Sheriff of Galison County is our guest.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
More coming up, just in here listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So, I'm a big one for self defense and the
responsibility we have as a head of household to defend
our family, but the responsibility every person has to defend
ourselves to the extent that we possibly can. I am
a big believer in firearms because a little old lady
can pick up a pistol and blast a thug coming
through the door to harm her when she couldn't take
(25:09):
him out at the knees or sucker punch him. It
has an effect of evening the playing field for the infirm,
and the elderly.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And the weak. It can give a little, tiny woman.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
A fair fight against a bad guy when maybe she wouldn't.
She doesn't have the training or ability or strength to
take care of herself otherwise. That being said, a firearm
is a real powerful tool of self defense, and sometimes
you don't need such a powerful tool. Sometimes you need
(25:45):
a form of self defense that stops the threat but
is not necessarily always lethal. And that's why it's called
Burna and I owned them long before they became partners
with us Burna. I are in a dot com forward
slash Michael my first name m I C H A E. L.
I bought at one point eight of them to put
(26:09):
all around my house. Everywhere I have pistols, I put
burner guns, and then I bought more for everybody in
my life to have one so that they could defend
themselves in a situation where you may not you may
not need to kill somebody. You may just need to
get the threat to stop, because that's the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
You don't want to kill somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
People talk lightly about killing somebody, but I'm going to
tell you I've known a lot of people who've had
to defend themselves by killing someone. You never forget that
you don't want to have to do it. You just
want to stop the threat. And the beauty of this
is it's legal in all fifty states. You don't have
to have a background check any You can buy this thing,
have it delivered to you. You don't have to go
(26:49):
through all the government forums or databases. And some people
can't buy a gun because they had a problem earlier
in life. So I was a big fan of the
Burners and all of us. I get to know the
folks at the company, and they say, hey, there's this,
there's this.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Uh, well, he was constable at the time.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
There's a sheriff down in Galveson County, and he was
bragging on you and the fact that you love these guns,
and you talked about him, and he's training all his
law enforcement officers to use them, of course in addition
to their firearms. And Jimmy, I haven't asked you how
you got connected with the Burner gun itself, not the company,
but the Burner launcher itself.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Well, I got I got familiar with it because there
were some guys that worked for the Galveston Police Department
that were actually trainers, and I actually went through the
training class with them, and from the time I stepped
in that classroom and saw what it was all.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
About, I was hooked that, you know, proud of that.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I used to carry the traditional taser, but again, and
I'm not knocking taser. They've got practical applications, but there's
a lot of hit and miss with those with this.
With this burner, I have not had one one failed
attemptle with my burner. It is so effective on caple
and for that matter, Mike, it's effective on animals. Sometimes
(28:05):
you go to scenes and you get animals, they get
loose and they.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Come and touch towards you.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
You can utilize it on an animal and it'll get
them away from you without having to end up killing
the animal.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Which again, if you can avoid ending a life.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I see these cases of somebody that's schizophrenic or bipolar
and they're having an episode and so they're beaten up.
You know, they're thirty five years old. They're beaten up
their mom or their grandmother that they live with. She
calls the cop because he's beaten her up and his
eyes are zonked out and he's in the middle of
a mental health episode and when the officers arrive, it
(28:41):
triggers him and he goes outside and it's basically death
by cop, and the cops end up you know, all
these problems as a result of it, and if there
was just a way to get him subdued till we
could get him some help. And it strikes me that
that's one of the perfect examples of where you'd rather
not have to kill.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Somebody, absolutely, and that's exactly why you had that means
of non lethal force on your belt when you go
deal with you know, mentally challenge people. All right, let's
go back to our veterans, Mike's. You know, they have
some issues as well if you end up having to
deal with them. The last thing a policeman wants to
do is have to use deadly force on somebody. So
if we have that alternate means, which is the burner,
(29:20):
you know, by all means, utilize it. So do the
suspect and get them taken into custody and get them
the treatment they need.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And one of the things I like is law enforcement
using it is a little different than the individual because
I think individuals, oddly enough, have more of a presumption
of self defense than law enforcement today. And I think
I credit Black Lives Matter and Antifa and the left
with making law enforcement out to be a bunch of
(29:49):
you know, gun slingers that are out to shoot people.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
When my brother was an officer.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I know you very well know lots of officers well,
and that's not what you want to do. You want
to go home safe and you want everybody else to
go home save and having another tool to do that.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I am.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I'm an evangelizer. My friends laugh because they'll ask me
questions about it. Let's go, let's go on. Burn up
by r NA dot com forward slash Michael, right now,
let's get it right now, Dude, you got to lay off.
I'm a big believer in this. I think it could.
It could not only change lives, it could save lives.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
It absolutely saves lives.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I mean on a daily basis, you hear reports of
officers being able to use the burners to subduce somebody,
which you know, if you didn't have that burner on
your belt, you may not have had a choice but
to go straight to deadly force. So thankfully there are
burners out there. I'm a I'm.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
A big believer. I always have been. Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
In fact, I just for the Sheriff's office. I just
ordered a hundred of them the other day.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
We're hoping to get those in for our corrections officer
as well as our patrol deputies and even some of
our SLOs. So I'm a I'm a firm believer in them.
Give you a prime example, Mike. You know we got
Marti Graul coming up. If you were to have say
a big ride out on the street, maybe down on
the strand or something, the officers don't have to actually
get into the crowd to engage them and possibly get
their sales injured. You just, you know, put a couple
of rounds of pepper balls or burner rounds into the
(31:06):
crowd and you disperse that crowd. So, I mean again,
there's multiple uses for the burner where the officers don't
have to engage hand on hand, and you know they
don't have to use deadly force.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Galveston County Sheriff now no longer constable. He's been upgraded
by the public who overwhelmingly voted him in Galveston County
Sheriff Jimmy full and thank you, brother.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
And let me thank you, brother, Mike, I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Let me say, growing up with law enforcement officers and
growing up with people who grew up in the country
and myself growing up in the country where you don't
have time for.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Law enforcement to respond. This is this is a mission
for me.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It's a ministry for me to take measures to protect yourself.
You I wish, I wish we lived in Japan, where
the likelihood that you're going to be accosted attacked was
insanely low. But we don't. And it's real. There's thugs,
there's illegals, there's bad people who will do.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Bad things, and you've got to think ahead about it.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
You've got to think ahead about how you're going to
defend yourself in the various points of your life. You know,
I mentioned earlier the license to carry in Texas. Now
anybody can carry. It's open carry, not a felon or whatever.
But you don't need a.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
License to have a gun with you to defend yourself.
And I got to tell you.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I have sold a number of people I know, especially women,
on these Bernard launchers, because it's an opportunity to defend
yourself without having to do what perhaps you don't want
to do. I'm a big believer in martial arts. I'm
a big believer in situational awareness. You know, don't be
texting as you're walking, you know, you folks, you folks
(32:58):
are our family. We'd like to keep you around a
long time, and if you're interested in more on Burna,
send me an email or just go to Berna b
y r na dot com. Forward slash Michael my first
name in my c H A E. L. Yes, I
am an evangelizer. I'm unashamed of that. I believe in
it a lot. I believed in it so much I've
bought a bunch of them before they ever reached out
(33:20):
to me and said, hey, would you like to endorse
us on the air.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Absolutely, I'm already doing it.
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