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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Let's test your classic country knowledge. You know, of course,
everybody knows David allen Coe did not write you never
even called me by my name, because he says so
he added another verse, he said, a friend of mine
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named Steve Goodman wrote that song. He told me he
had written a perfect country and Western song. And I
told him he hadn't had the same thing about mama
trucks or getting drunk. And he sat down and wrote
another verse of that song I liked included here. You
know that, all right. So that's the version that everybody knows.
Steve Goodman a songwriting legend who died far too young.
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And you probably also know that Willie Nelson was quite
close to Steve Goodman and.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The song City of New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
He wrote to to raise money for Steve Goodman. He
gave him he Steve Goodman would get the writing credit
and he would donate all proceeds for it, because Steve
Goodman had cancer and he was dying and he needed
he needed he needed treatment, and so Willie did that
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as favor for him. But did you know who co wrote,
you never even called me by my name, because he
doesn't he doesn't get the credit. But it is known
in Nashville circles that there is another singer songwriter who
co wrote that with him and just didn't get mentioned
in the song, and that is the legendary John Prime.
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Here he is at one moment. It's bad audio, but
you can hear him talking about so he saw about
songs that he's written, and he just kind of throws
in there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Here's another one I wrote, which leads me to the
song with Steve, and I wrote.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think maybe the summer in nineteen seventy one, we
were sharing a hotel roent to Hotel Roosevelt in New
York City, and I went out for the evening with Steve.
Stay back at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And I'll come in pretty late.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And there was just one little light on in the corner,
and Steve was sitting there writing stuffing on this hotel
station here. So I looked over his shoulder and the
words grow. It was all I could do to keep
them crying. Sometimes it seems so easy to remain and
I must feel a pretty good So I jumped up
off the bed, left ahead imaginary fell, and I said,
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you don't have to call me don about in every
even call me got my name, so Steve, when I
started that, you know, we just decided to have some
fun with it, and this is what came out.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And now you know the rest of the story.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know, the years, people been very angry with quant
lex popping up at moments here and there as a
spokesman seemingly self appointed for this or that person or cause.
And I was quoted in the Houston Press as saying
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that if quant eleven at quantel Acts was Darnell Evans
as a young man, had not gotten in legal trouble
in his teens and had instead had a mentor who
put him on a course to academics and advocacy, he
could have gone to.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Harvard Law School.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm not saying could have gone to ut Law school,
but he could have gone to at least Harvard Law School.
You don't want to shoot too high, you know what
I mean. And he could have been a great advocate
for great causes and done it legally.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
There is a place in America for the advocate of
whatever the cause may be. And I would like to
see more people do this I mean Catherine Ingelbrecht, and
what she did with true of the vote was legendary.
It was so big that Lois Lerner, the head of
the IRS, prevented her from getting tax exempt status to
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keep her out of the twenty twelve election campaign because
she was so effective.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, there is a group who you.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
May have seen these videos popping up, kind of bubbling up,
just keep coming up again and end.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's called Moms for Liberty. I believe it's become a
national organization. And what I.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Love about this is these are the type of people
Moms for Liberty, who you don't normally see in the
news as advocates. These are the type of people who
you talk to at at dinner party or you sit
next to it a league baseball game because your kids
playing their kid and you talk about what's going wrong
in the country.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And these are the voiceless.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They're smart, they're accomplished, they run households, many of them
work in the workplace. But they're not really the type
that are going to get engaged and battle it out,
except this group does. So we told you this story.
I guess it was yesterday or is this Wednesday? This
is Thursday, I guess it was Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We told you this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Story about the woman with Moms for Liberty who went
to the HISD school board meeting because another woman didn't
feel comfortable present her case but asked Moms for Liberty
to do it. And that was this kid that was
being groomed. And the woman who went and did that,
God bless her is Denise Bell. Denise Thompson Bell. Turns
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out we have some friends in common and she's our guest.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Denise.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm here, Michael, thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You bet so tell me what first. Let's start with
what happened with this child? Why don't you tell that
story again?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes, So this is a family that had reached out
to us this past fall, and anytime someone comes to
us with a frontal rights infringement, we want to try
to help in any way that we can. And so
this family, basically, just like what I said at the
AHISD board meeting a couple of weeks ago, has a
daughter that's been socially transitioned by her high school. And
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social transitioning includes things like different pronouns than biological sex,
different name. It could include things like using a different
bathroom and really kind of at gateway ultimately.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
To medical transition.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We're not talking about medical transition in this case. It's
just social transitioning. But it is a really serious thing.
And so the family came to us and we felt
compelled to help in any way that we could. And
the biggest thing that they really wanted to do is
make sure the story was heard and that HISD took action.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And hum, well, we're up against a break here. I
want to take the entirety of the next segment to
tell the story of them cutting off your mic. But
if someone wants to reach out to you through Moms
for Liberty, how do they do that?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So the best way to find us is on our website,
Moms for Liberty dot org. And there's a map on
there that you can search for a chapter anywhere in
the United States, And so in our case, if you're
here in Houston, you would just search on Harris County
and then you'll get a you'll be directed to our
portal and you can email.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Me from there.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Awesome hold type. Denise Bell is our guest. The group
is Moms for Liberty. This is how you take back
your country, folks, This is how you make America great again.
If you don't wait on Donald Trump's executive orders, you
do your part in your community, and.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yes, that means being criticized. I love this The Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Please clap, please, police clap some ones.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
On the The song they sang, since you have asked.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Was blues Man.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The three of them handling parts kind of stepping in.
I think t Bird started and then Chestnut and then
Clay Walker third. So there's a group called Moms for Liberty,
God bless them. So easy for people to think that
they're part of fixing this country's problems because they.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Watch a lot of Foxnths.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Michael, I'm so mad at what's going on. I just
listened at radio and watch Fox News all day. Okay,
what else I'd say it? I just watch it, Just
watch it harder. Are you watching it?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Okay, Well, well that's like being a part of the
war effort by watching the coverage on TV. And then
you get these crazy people, and you got to be
a little bit off kilter.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You gotta be a little cuckoo to go.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I got a great life at home, I got kids,
I got a household, I financially said I'm gonna go
do this for no personal gain because it needs to
be done and if it is to be, it's up
to me, and God blessed the people that are willing
to do this. So Denise Thompson Bell is one of
those people. You go to HISD because this woman contacted
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y'all and said that her child was being groomed by
the school, and you go to tell your story and
then what happened Denise.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So yeah, the hist Bour meeting is a really interesting event.
Usually there's a lot of public comment, a lot of
people sign up to speak, and what HISD typically does
is put their public comment after their meeting portion, and
I do think that is intentional to try to discourage
public comment. So when you go to HISD, you have
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to sign up in advance. It's a whole production and
you're going to be going there and expecting to wait
for a couple of hours.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
And that's what happened. We arrived around four.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And we didn't have a chance to speak until after seven,
which is fine because this is really important and we're
willing to sit there and wait so that we can
tell this story. But we were given one minute to speak.
Now there were some people that got to speak ahead
of us, and they were speaking on agenda items. We
were not speaking on an agenda item because of course,
this topic is not something the board is going to
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want to put on the agenda, and so we were
just given that one minute timeframe, and.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yes, my mic was turned off.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But you know what, Michael, the great thing is in
that one day, we were able to share enough of
the story to make an impact. And I am so
grateful that the governor of Texas took note of it
and has opened a tea investigation. I mean, that truly
is the best outcome here.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Well, I'm glad that happened, but he's useless and he
won't do anything about it. But you know, if he
got a headline, you know, the guy yesterday posts about
Colony Ridge saying, you know, really happy to see ice
and folks, you know, raiding Colinie Ridge. We have to
keep an eye on this neighborhood while they give you,
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while the Harris brothers give you. How many thousand dollars
this guy has. He is not a leader on anything,
but hey, if he can accidentally help get a resolution
to the problem, just don't expect him to be the
tip of the spirit. It ain't that, ain't Greg Abbott,
not unless the polls tell him that the parade's going
on and he can lead it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But I want to go back something.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Why don't you tell the story of this child the
details you didn't get a chance to tell, because I
think people need to hear this.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So would you like me to read my entire public
comment and read what was a love that?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Let me ask you this. I got to manage a clock.
How long would you guess.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That would take a little over a minute?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Maybe you know?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Otherwise we'd push it into the next week.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, okay, yes, go next speaker, missus Denise Thompson Bell,
Miss Bell, you have the floor.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So I introduced myself, and then these are the words
of the parents that is having the child socially transitioned,
she said. My youngest daughter is now a junior at
bel Air High School. Within the last two years, we
were shocked to learn that the high school was actively
socially transitioning our daughter by calling her by a different
name and pronouns. On the first day of ninth grade,
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my daughter's theater teacher sent home an information sheet for
us to fill out the second line of the sheet
asked for her pronouns. Multiple teachers started calling her by
a different name and pronouns. One teacher even went as
far as to cross out my daughter's legal name that
she had written on her paper and write her chosen
name in red ink. This occurred without our knowledge and
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certainly without our consents. This goes against our Christian faith,
the advice of her therapist, and quite frankly common sense
we met with her teachers, counselors, and the principle to
no avail hisd is purposely and secretively transitioning minors without
parental consent.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Okay, So imagine that's where we were in this process
and they killed her mic as we just did.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's sick, all right, continue on. I want people to
get the full effect.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Go ahead, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So they are following the unproven claims of activists rather
than evidence based science. It is like telling an anorexic
adolescent that if you feel fat, then you need to
go on a diet and get life.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
A section.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Up to eighty eight percent of transgender identified youth have
a concurrent neurodivergence such as autism, ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
HISD is causing a huge division within the family for
those vulnerable kids who need the love and support of
their family the most. Nobody knows their child better or
loves them more than their parents. HISD is attempting to
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override our parental rights at the detriment of our children's
physical and psychological well being. I encourage the board to
enact a policy that prevents schools from encouraging children to
change genders or discuss gender ideology with students.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And that was it, Denise, forgive me, how old is
this child again?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
This is a junior in high school now, And what
would be the proper resolution for you that they simply
stop misgendering this child.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
They would need to stop doing that because the parents
have the right to direct the medical care and the mental.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Health care of this child.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, And so the school is not following the parents'
desires or wishes here, and they're really creating a wedge
between the parent and child relationship. And that's extremely, extremely
troubling and detrimental.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm a school choice guy.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
In cases like this are, in my opinion, should be
one of the biggest arguments in favor of school choice
and funding vouchers for homeschooling because the schools are out
of control. And I believe that most schools are doing
a wonderful job, and most teachers at most schools are
doing a wonderful job. But you get a case like
this and you realize that the public education system is
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a very powerful lobby, far more than any parent or
Denise Bell going up there. Unless you are fearless, talk
more to Denise Bell community than the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Michael Barry's shows and school.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Kids.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
At Marnard College today, the Hellas.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Terror sympathizers and terror promoters have taken over the college.
These people make me crazy because they don't have day jobs.
They just go out bothering people all day. They wake up,
Who can I bother today? And unfortunately our side is
so busy raising babies and running businesses and doing the
things we do, we don't have time for it, but
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we have to make time. My wife is in Orange
today moving my dad. We're bringing him to an assisted
living facility in Houston, and my wife, being the saint
that she is, is coordinating all of this. It's not
pleasant when you've lived in the same house for forty
seven years, it's not pleasant. To have to, you know,
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up and move. But my wife is taking this over
for me, and I'm so grateful that she has. But
Denise Bell and other people like this, we need more
of this. We need more people. Will people ask me
about how can I help? I don't know where you are.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I don't know. It's like showing up at the church.
How can I help? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Coul Can you Can you be a Mother's day Out mom?
You know, coordinator? My mom volunteered at Mother's Day Out
for twenty five years. It gave her something to do.
She loved it. Can you be the person that cuts
the grass at the church? Can you help with the
roof for pair? Can you work the nursery during church?
Can you play the organ?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't know what your skills are. I don't know
what your talents are. But if you, if you are
determined to help, don't wait on it. Nobody's gonna come
knocking on your door like a Jehovah's witness. Denise, You're
not Jehovah's witness, are you?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm not okay.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I saw I saw a report that they have footage
from Mars and they saw what looks like a hole
in the there's a hole in the wall, that there's
a hole kind of in a mountain, and they're claiming
but it's a door, And I thought, Oh, if they
tell the Jehovah's witnesses that they will be on Mars tomorrow, Denise,
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I don't like people to come knock on my door.
I have gates inside of gates around my house. I
don't believe you should be able to come up and
knock on. I don't care if you're running for office.
I don't care what. I believe that your property is
your property and nobody should get to come up there.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
What do you think I agree with that?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, you seem like a blockwalker. I bet you blockwalk
for some campaigns, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, I will be honest, yes I do blockwalk, but
maybe you would like it if I came to your door.
I'm very pleasant when I come to the door.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know what you look like.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But we have a mutual friend whose name I won't
mention right now, who says you're a cutie. She says
you are adorable, and I guess she's known you since
the ut days. You were a sorority girl.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes, I wasity girl. I was a capitalta at ut
and I think I know who you're talking about. And
she and I were both on the board together. She's
also adorable.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And she's also fearless like you, And to me, that's
the most adorable. The hottest of hot traits in women,
in my opinion, is not a waistline or a cut
of hair or clothing or anything else. It is women
who are tough and fearless and kick ass.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And that's what you do. How did you get involved
with Moms for Liberty.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
By the way, Well, like a lot of parents, around
the time of the pandemic, I started seeing a lot
of issues and initially I was very concerned about this
actually explicit content in our schools, and so I did
a lot of work in that area in my own
school district. And because of that work, I got to
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know lots of other advocates across the state of Texas,
and I just started getting pulled into more and more groups.
And about two years ago, friend of mine approached me
about Moms for Liberty and starting a chapter here in
Harrison County, and so that's what we did. In the
fall of twenty twenty three, we launched the Harris County chapter.
Moms for Liberty is a grassroots organization is national, but
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it's organized by county across the United States, and we
have probably close to a dozen chapters in the state
of Texas. So obviously we have so many counties and
we have a lot of work to do. We do
want to expand and get into as many counties as possible.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So I'm on the website now and so someone that
can't participate for whatever reason can donate, and we're trying
to see how somebody signs up. You are the chapter chair.
Oh she's a cutie, Ramont. How come Mariah doesn't put
her last name?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Is she likes share.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
But well no, she has just opted to keep her
first name on there. I will tell you, Michael that
sometimes we.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Get some fan mail and so I you know, the
chapter chair.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I'm very comfortable putting my name out there that I
am who I am, and you can contact us. But
for privacy reasons, sometimes people choose to just have their
first time.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
That's not you're not comfortable with it. You're tough.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I mean it's hard to become I've been a public
figure for twenty five years. People will say, you know,
does it hurt your feelings when someone says this about
your husband's hurt his feelings, And she's like, no, for
better or for worse, He's emotionally dead to criticism, which
is not entirely true. I'm very bothered when a show
fan criticizes, but when an enemy criticizes, oh, I wear
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it is a badge of honor. So let's not understate
your fearlessness and strength and courage at being willing to
do that, because frankly, most people won't.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
People email me all the time, hey, can you help
me with this?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I'm being wronged by the school or I'm being wronged
by this, and I'll say, sure, come on and we'll
tell your story. That's how we bring change. And they go,
oh no, no, I don't want to do that, and
I go, well, then I can't help you, because that's
how I can help you. It's the only way I.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Can help you.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I can't take up your issue behind the scenes. So
I'm looking on here as to how somebody gets involved.
Log in store, donate about join join, I.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
See join, Yeah, so you can join the fight, and
that's how you can become in them. Of our chapter
and we have different forms of membership, but we have
voting membership which allows you to help us endorse candidates.
We do endorse some school board races. That is the
only race that we endorse them at this time. You
can also become an associate member and that still.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Gives you all the national benefits.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Monster Liberty has great training on their website and every
month right now this spring we have a different topic
and this month it's restorative justice, so we'll have some
upcoming trainings on that.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
There'll be a toolkit on that.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
There's usually a book club event where an author comes
on and you have the opportunity to read the book
in advance and then actually interact with.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
The author during the book club.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So really there's fantastic resources on there. We as a
chapter have monthly meetings in the spring and the fall.
We take a couple months off in the summertime, but
we've got an upcoming meeting on March twenty eighth, and
so anyone in the Houston area.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
You don't even have to just be in Harris County.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We really care about the greater Houston ARAA and so
if you're in the area and want to join.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Us, you can reach out to me via email and
I can get you more information about that.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Fast and Michael one of us.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I did want to say just one other thing because
there's some important legislation that's being discussed in the legislature
this spring and one bills and I'm really proud that
Moms for Liberty Texas Legislative Committee has decided to endorse
is House Bill twenty two fifty eight. Steve Toath is
the author of that bill, and it's also called the
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Vulnerable Youth Protection Act, and this bill would stop the
social transition of minors in our schools. It's a really
great piece of legislation and I encourage everyone to go
look it up and read about it and then email
their their reps that this is something they want them
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to support. And we really need to hold our reps
accountable that they protect our youth.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Thank God for women and mommies, because men just won't
get involved like this.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That's a fact.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Denise Thompson Bell, it's Momstliberty dot orgon and you go
to Harris County where she's the chair.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
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Speaker 3 (24:18):
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Speaker 4 (24:23):
Us in seat.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Sirrah for me.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
She threw hoars around him, whispered God will keep us free.
They could hear the rite that's coming.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
He said, this is my last fight if they take
me back to Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
You think Texas is the most mentioned in all the
music I do too, followed by New York and then
Chicago and then Detroit. California is not a city? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
you're actually right. No, I don't think California would be
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as much. I think you'd have more Texas than probably
even New York.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I don't know. It's momsfliberty dot org.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Reminder that if you want to communicate something to me
during the show, Twitter and Facebook are not the most
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I may or may not ever see it, but it
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it on a Facebook post, you're welcome to comment on
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once I'm trying to relax, to slow my brain down
from reading and prepping for the next day, I may
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take twenty minutes or ten minutes and read comments that
people have put up. But by the time I get
back in the studio, you're not going to be able
to give me information I can use on the show, certainly,
not in real time. I do keep my emails open,
and they're popping up all the time, and during each
break I go over there and read those. You can
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from Michael or Emily, but most likely Michael. Emily reads
all my emails to make sure nothing gets lost, and
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if there's something she can handle, she handles it for me.
But I do read every single email. And if you
want to be blocked forever, just starts your email because
you so desperately want me to do something for you.
If you want to be blocked forever, just go ahead
and start with you say you read every email. Well,
let's see now, trying to guilt me into whatever it
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is you want me to do. That's really not your
best move. Our show in the embodiment of Jim Mudd,
our creative director, a task that is about to be
handed to Daryl Kunda. Does Kunda have a title? Have
you come up with a title for Kunda yet? Grand
(27:33):
Kunda that's his title. That's what it's all you had
for a second. Okay, all right? Not your best work,
not your best work. Kunda is spelled see you in
DA for those of you who know Daryl Kunda d
A R Y L see you in DA. He is
going to be taking over the newsletter, the daily news
letter shortly so that we can whip Jim even harder
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to produce more content for the show.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Seemingly impossible task, but we're going to do it.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
And nothing more can ever be added to Chad Knockanishi's
desk because.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
A he's executive producer, so he decides who does what anyway,
including me and number two.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
He's already doing the job of five people, and we
could all die and Chad would keep the show going.
But he's the only one that is irreplaceable in the group.
But our Daily Blast is something that Darryl kunda Is
want to take over and we'll have a little more
time to devote to it because Jim is overwhelmed with
everything else we've got him doing. But that Daily Blast
(28:36):
is where every day when the morning show is over,
we tell you what we're going to talk about that
evening and we put links to stories that we talked
about that morning, and that is literally my show prep.
So if we're talking to Moms for Liberty this morning,
which we were, there will be a link to their website.
So if you sign up for that email, which is free,
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have never will. If you sign up for that email,
then every day after the morning show is over, you
will get an email with what we think is a
funny meme.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's usually something silly, it's usually.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Something one of our guys, Landa McDonald, our graphics guru,
has made, and then there will be links to the
articles that we've talked about that day and clips of audio.
We've learned over the years that if we put some
of our best stuff as a clip, that you can
share a lot of you who are are big not
fans of the show, supporters of the show.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You help the show succeed. You are the folks who
will will then.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Forward those and that's how we develop new new listeners
and the like. That's how our little podcast is going
from the little podcast that could to over a million
downloads per month, which is pretty whopping. And the companies
never advertised it. They've never promoted it. It's just people
understand that after our show is over, our broadcast, which
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goes through the air or through your phone or your computer,
is then posted as a rebroadcast as a podcast, and
that's been our fastest growth. Even though we're over sixty
stations now, we are growing faster by a podcast because
it's the way that people can listen to the show
without ever needing a radio station as the gatekeeper. It's
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the way people can listen to the show as they travel,
as they're away from the radio or whatever reason. And
it's also a way that if you missed a part
of the show, you can go back and listen to
that part every day, and a lot of people do.
And I know there are a lot of people who
do that because I get emails about something we talked
about at eight fifteen in the morning, and I get
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it two days later at four o'clock in the afternoon
out of context, so I have no idea what they're
talking about. And then I'll say context question mark and
then so, oh, well you were talking about so and
so that was two days ago. I completely forgotten. Well,
let's open the phone lines, shall we? Seven to one
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We are honored to have them join our ranks. It
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that's how that works. Rome on all right seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. When we went nationally syndicated October seventh,
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it changed our clock. So when we go to break
at the same time, we have what are called hard breaks.
In some radio shows, you have hard and soft soft.
Rush used to talk about this. We have all horror
hardwired breaks. The problem is, for twenty years, our breaks
were always at the same time, and now all of
our breaks have changed.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
And so I find myself.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Mentally to go, you know, like Tom Brady and you
know you're in the pocket for too long.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I get happy feet, I'm going to wait. I should
be we should be going to break if we're not yet,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Let's test your classic country knowledge. You know, of course,
everybody knows David allen Coe did not write you never
even called me by my name, because he says so
he added another verse, he said, a friend of mine
(00:47):
named Steve Goodman wrote that song. He told me he
had written a perfect country and Western song. And I
told him he hadn't had the same thing about mama
trucks or getting drunk. And he sat down and wrote
another verse of that song I liked included here. You
know that, all right. So that's the version that everybody knows.
Steve Goodman a songwriting legend who died far too young.
(01:13):
And you probably also know that Willie Nelson was quite
close to Steve Goodman and.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The song City of New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
He wrote to to raise money for Steve Goodman. He
gave him he Steve Goodman would get the writing credit
and he would donate all proceeds for it, because Steve
Goodman had cancer and he was dying and he needed
he needed he needed treatment, and so Willie did that
(01:44):
as favor for him. But did you know who co wrote,
you never even called me by my name, because he
doesn't he doesn't get the credit. But it is known
in Nashville circles that there is another singer songwriter who
co wrote that with him and just didn't get mentioned
in the song, and that is the legendary John Prime.
(02:08):
Here he is at one moment. It's bad audio, but
you can hear him talking about so he saw about
songs that he's written, and he just kind of throws
in there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Here's another one I wrote, which leads me to the
song with Steve, and I wrote.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think maybe the summer in nineteen seventy one, we
were sharing a hotel roent to Hotel Roosevelt in New
York City, and I went out for the evening with Steve.
Stay back at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And I'll come in pretty late.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And there was just one little light on in the corner,
and Steve was sitting there writing stuffing on this hotel
station here. So I looked over his shoulder and the
words grow. It was all I could do to keep
them crying. Sometimes it seems so easy to remain and
I must feel a pretty good So I jumped up
off the bed, left ahead imaginary fell, and I said,
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you don't have to call me don about in every
even call me got my name, so Steve, when I
started that, you know, we just decided to have some
fun with it, and this is what came out.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And now you know the rest of the story.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know, the years, people been very angry with quant
lex popping up at moments here and there as a
spokesman seemingly self appointed for this or that person or cause.
And I was quoted in the Houston Press as saying
(03:48):
that if quant eleven at quantel Acts was Darnell Evans
as a young man, had not gotten in legal trouble
in his teens and had instead had a mentor who
put him on a course to academics and advocacy, he
could have gone to.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Harvard Law School.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm not saying could have gone to ut Law school,
but he could have gone to at least Harvard Law School.
You don't want to shoot too high, you know what
I mean. And he could have been a great advocate
for great causes and done it legally.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
There is a place in America for the advocate of
whatever the cause may be. And I would like to
see more people do this I mean Catherine Ingelbrecht, and
what she did with true of the vote was legendary.
It was so big that Lois Lerner, the head of
the IRS, prevented her from getting tax exempt status to
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keep her out of the twenty twelve election campaign because
she was so effective.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, there is a group who you.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
May have seen these videos popping up, kind of bubbling up,
just keep coming up again and end.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's called Moms for Liberty. I believe it's become a
national organization. And what I.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Love about this is these are the type of people
Moms for Liberty, who you don't normally see in the
news as advocates. These are the type of people who
you talk to at at dinner party or you sit
next to it a league baseball game because your kids
playing their kid and you talk about what's going wrong
in the country.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And these are the voiceless.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
They're smart, they're accomplished, they run households, many of them
work in the workplace. But they're not really the type
that are going to get engaged and battle it out,
except this group does. So we told you this story.
I guess it was yesterday or is this Wednesday? This
is Thursday, I guess it was Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We told you this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Story about the woman with Moms for Liberty who went
to the HISD school board meeting because another woman didn't
feel comfortable present her case but asked Moms for Liberty
to do it. And that was this kid that was
being groomed. And the woman who went and did that,
God bless her is Denise Bell. Denise Thompson Bell. Turns
(06:12):
out we have some friends in common and she's our guest.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Denise.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm here, Michael, thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You bet so tell me what first. Let's start with
what happened with this child? Why don't you tell that
story again?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes, So this is a family that had reached out
to us this past fall, and anytime someone comes to
us with a frontal rights infringement, we want to try
to help in any way that we can. And so
this family, basically, just like what I said at the
AHISD board meeting a couple of weeks ago, has a
daughter that's been socially transitioned by her high school. And
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social transitioning includes things like different pronouns than biological sex,
different name. It could include things like using a different
bathroom and really kind of at gateway ultimately.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
To medical transition.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We're not talking about medical transition in this case. It's
just social transitioning. But it is a really serious thing.
And so the family came to us and we felt
compelled to help in any way that we could. And
the biggest thing that they really wanted to do is
make sure the story was heard and that HISD took action.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And hum, well, we're up against a break here. I
want to take the entirety of the next segment to
tell the story of them cutting off your mic. But
if someone wants to reach out to you through Moms
for Liberty, how do they do that?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So the best way to find us is on our website,
Moms for Liberty dot org. And there's a map on
there that you can search for a chapter anywhere in
the United States, And so in our case, if you're
here in Houston, you would just search on Harris County
and then you'll get a you'll be directed to our
portal and you can email.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Me from there.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Awesome hold type. Denise Bell is our guest. The group
is Moms for Liberty. This is how you take back
your country, folks, This is how you make America great again.
If you don't wait on Donald Trump's executive orders, you
do your part in your community, and.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yes, that means being criticized. I love this The Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Please clap, please, police clap some ones.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
On the The song they sang, since you have asked.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Was blues Man.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
The three of them handling parts kind of stepping in.
I think t Bird started and then Chestnut and then
Clay Walker third. So there's a group called Moms for Liberty,
God bless them. So easy for people to think that
they're part of fixing this country's problems because they.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Watch a lot of Foxnths.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Michael, I'm so mad at what's going on. I just
listened at radio and watch Fox News all day. Okay,
what else I'd say it? I just watch it, Just
watch it harder. Are you watching it?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Okay, Well, well that's like being a part of the
war effort by watching the coverage on TV. And then
you get these crazy people, and you got to be
a little bit off kilter.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You gotta be a little cuckoo to go.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I got a great life at home, I got kids,
I got a household, I financially said I'm gonna go
do this for no personal gain because it needs to
be done and if it is to be, it's up
to me, and God blessed the people that are willing
to do this. So Denise Thompson Bell is one of
those people. You go to HISD because this woman contacted
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y'all and said that her child was being groomed by
the school, and you go to tell your story and
then what happened Denise.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So yeah, the hist Bour meeting is a really interesting event.
Usually there's a lot of public comment, a lot of
people sign up to speak, and what HISD typically does
is put their public comment after their meeting portion, and
I do think that is intentional to try to discourage
public comment. So when you go to HISD, you have
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to sign up in advance. It's a whole production and
you're going to be going there and expecting to wait
for a couple of hours.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
And that's what happened. We arrived around four.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And we didn't have a chance to speak until after seven,
which is fine because this is really important and we're
willing to sit there and wait so that we can
tell this story. But we were given one minute to speak.
Now there were some people that got to speak ahead
of us, and they were speaking on agenda items. We
were not speaking on an agenda item because of course,
this topic is not something the board is going to
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want to put on the agenda, and so we were
just given that one minute timeframe, and.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yes, my mic was turned off.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But you know what, Michael, the great thing is in
that one day, we were able to share enough of
the story to make an impact. And I am so
grateful that the governor of Texas took note of it
and has opened a tea investigation. I mean, that truly
is the best outcome here.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Well, I'm glad that happened, but he's useless and he
won't do anything about it. But you know, if he
got a headline, you know, the guy yesterday posts about
Colony Ridge saying, you know, really happy to see ice
and folks, you know, raiding Colinie Ridge. We have to
keep an eye on this neighborhood while they give you,
(11:32):
while the Harris brothers give you. How many thousand dollars
this guy has. He is not a leader on anything,
but hey, if he can accidentally help get a resolution
to the problem, just don't expect him to be the
tip of the spirit. It ain't that, ain't Greg Abbott,
not unless the polls tell him that the parade's going
on and he can lead it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But I want to go back something.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Why don't you tell the story of this child the
details you didn't get a chance to tell, because I
think people need to hear this.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So would you like me to read my entire public
comment and read what was a love that?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Let me ask you this. I got to manage a clock.
How long would you guess.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That would take a little over a minute?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Maybe you know?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Otherwise we'd push it into the next week.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, okay, yes, go next speaker, missus Denise Thompson Bell,
Miss Bell, you have the floor.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So I introduced myself, and then these are the words
of the parents that is having the child socially transitioned,
she said. My youngest daughter is now a junior at
bel Air High School. Within the last two years, we
were shocked to learn that the high school was actively
socially transitioning our daughter by calling her by a different
name and pronouns. On the first day of ninth grade,
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my daughter's theater teacher sent home an information sheet for
us to fill out the second line of the sheet
asked for her pronouns. Multiple teachers started calling her by
a different name and pronouns. One teacher even went as
far as to cross out my daughter's legal name that
she had written on her paper and write her chosen
name in red ink. This occurred without our knowledge and
(13:03):
certainly without our consents. This goes against our Christian faith,
the advice of her therapist, and quite frankly common sense
we met with her teachers, counselors, and the principle to
no avail hisd is purposely and secretively transitioning minors without
parental consent.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Okay, So imagine that's where we were in this process
and they killed her mic as we just did.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's sick, all right, continue on. I want people to
get the full effect.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Go ahead, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So they are following the unproven claims of activists rather
than evidence based science. It is like telling an anorexic
adolescent that if you feel fat, then you need to
go on a diet and get life.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
A section.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Up to eighty eight percent of transgender identified youth have
a concurrent neurodivergence such as autism, ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
HISD is causing a huge division within the family for
those vulnerable kids who need the love and support of
their family the most. Nobody knows their child better or
loves them more than their parents. HISD is attempting to
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override our parental rights at the detriment of our children's
physical and psychological well being. I encourage the board to
enact a policy that prevents schools from encouraging children to
change genders or discuss gender ideology with students.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And that was it, Denise, forgive me, how old is
this child again?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
This is a junior in high school now, And what
would be the proper resolution for you that they simply
stop misgendering this child.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
They would need to stop doing that because the parents
have the right to direct the medical care and the mental.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Health care of this child.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, And so the school is not following the parents'
desires or wishes here, and they're really creating a wedge
between the parent and child relationship. And that's extremely, extremely
troubling and detrimental.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm a school choice guy.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
In cases like this are, in my opinion, should be
one of the biggest arguments in favor of school choice
and funding vouchers for homeschooling because the schools are out
of control. And I believe that most schools are doing
a wonderful job, and most teachers at most schools are
doing a wonderful job. But you get a case like
this and you realize that the public education system is
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a very powerful lobby, far more than any parent or
Denise Bell going up there. Unless you are fearless, talk
more to Denise Bell community than the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Michael Barry's shows and school.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Kids.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
At Marnard College today, the Hellas.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Terror sympathizers and terror promoters have taken over the college.
These people make me crazy because they don't have day jobs.
They just go out bothering people all day. They wake up,
Who can I bother today? And unfortunately our side is
so busy raising babies and running businesses and doing the
things we do, we don't have time for it, but
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we have to make time. My wife is in Orange
today moving my dad. We're bringing him to an assisted
living facility in Houston, and my wife, being the saint
that she is, is coordinating all of this. It's not
pleasant when you've lived in the same house for forty
seven years, it's not pleasant. To have to, you know,
(16:58):
up and move. But my wife is taking this over
for me, and I'm so grateful that she has. But
Denise Bell and other people like this, we need more
of this. We need more people. Will people ask me
about how can I help? I don't know where you are.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I don't know. It's like showing up at the church.
How can I help? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Coul Can you Can you be a Mother's day Out mom?
You know, coordinator? My mom volunteered at Mother's Day Out
for twenty five years. It gave her something to do.
She loved it. Can you be the person that cuts
the grass at the church? Can you help with the
roof for pair? Can you work the nursery during church?
Can you play the organ?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't know what your skills are. I don't know
what your talents are. But if you, if you are
determined to help, don't wait on it. Nobody's gonna come
knocking on your door like a Jehovah's witness. Denise, You're
not Jehovah's witness, are you?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm not okay.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I saw I saw a report that they have footage
from Mars and they saw what looks like a hole
in the there's a hole in the wall, that there's
a hole kind of in a mountain, and they're claiming
but it's a door, And I thought, Oh, if they
tell the Jehovah's witnesses that they will be on Mars tomorrow, Denise,
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I don't like people to come knock on my door.
I have gates inside of gates around my house. I
don't believe you should be able to come up and
knock on. I don't care if you're running for office.
I don't care what. I believe that your property is
your property and nobody should get to come up there.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
What do you think I agree with that?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, you seem like a blockwalker. I bet you blockwalk
for some campaigns, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, I will be honest, yes I do blockwalk, but
maybe you would like it if I came to your door.
I'm very pleasant when I come to the door.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't know what you look like.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But we have a mutual friend whose name I won't
mention right now, who says you're a cutie. She says
you are adorable, and I guess she's known you since
the ut days. You were a sorority girl.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes, I wasity girl. I was a capitalta at ut
and I think I know who you're talking about. And
she and I were both on the board together. She's
also adorable.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And she's also fearless like you, And to me, that's
the most adorable. The hottest of hot traits in women,
in my opinion, is not a waistline or a cut
of hair or clothing or anything else. It is women
who are tough and fearless and kick ass.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And that's what you do. How did you get involved
with Moms for Liberty.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
By the way, Well, like a lot of parents, around
the time of the pandemic, I started seeing a lot
of issues and initially I was very concerned about this
actually explicit content in our schools, and so I did
a lot of work in that area in my own
school district. And because of that work, I got to
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know lots of other advocates across the state of Texas,
and I just started getting pulled into more and more groups.
And about two years ago, friend of mine approached me
about Moms for Liberty and starting a chapter here in
Harrison County, and so that's what we did. In the
fall of twenty twenty three, we launched the Harris County chapter.
Moms for Liberty is a grassroots organization is national, but
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it's organized by county across the United States, and we
have probably close to a dozen chapters in the state
of Texas. So obviously we have so many counties and
we have a lot of work to do. We do
want to expand and get into as many counties as possible.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
So I'm on the website now and so someone that
can't participate for whatever reason can donate, and we're trying
to see how somebody signs up. You are the chapter chair.
Oh she's a cutie, Ramont. How come Mariah doesn't put
her last name?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Is she likes share.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
But well no, she has just opted to keep her
first name on there. I will tell you, Michael that
sometimes we.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Get some fan mail and so I you know, the
chapter chair.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I'm very comfortable putting my name out there that I
am who I am, and you can contact us. But
for privacy reasons, sometimes people choose to just have their
first time.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
That's not you're not comfortable with it. You're tough.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I mean it's hard to become I've been a public
figure for twenty five years. People will say, you know,
does it hurt your feelings when someone says this about
your husband's hurt his feelings, And she's like, no, for
better or for worse, He's emotionally dead to criticism, which
is not entirely true. I'm very bothered when a show
fan criticizes, but when an enemy criticizes, oh, I wear
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it is a badge of honor. So let's not understate
your fearlessness and strength and courage at being willing to
do that, because frankly, most people won't.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
People email me all the time, hey, can you help
me with this?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I'm being wronged by the school or I'm being wronged
by this, and I'll say, sure, come on and we'll
tell your story. That's how we bring change. And they go,
oh no, no, I don't want to do that, and
I go, well, then I can't help you, because that's
how I can help you. It's the only way I.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Can help you.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I can't take up your issue behind the scenes. So
I'm looking on here as to how somebody gets involved.
Log in store, donate about join join, I.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
See join, Yeah, so you can join the fight, and
that's how you can become in them. Of our chapter
and we have different forms of membership, but we have
voting membership which allows you to help us endorse candidates.
We do endorse some school board races. That is the
only race that we endorse them at this time. You
can also become an associate member and that still.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Gives you all the national benefits.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Monster Liberty has great training on their website and every
month right now this spring we have a different topic
and this month it's restorative justice, so we'll have some
upcoming trainings on that.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
There'll be a toolkit on that.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
There's usually a book club event where an author comes
on and you have the opportunity to read the book
in advance and then actually interact with.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
The author during the book club.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So really there's fantastic resources on there. We as a
chapter have monthly meetings in the spring and the fall.
We take a couple months off in the summertime, but
we've got an upcoming meeting on March twenty eighth, and
so anyone in the Houston area.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
You don't even have to just be in Harris County.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We really care about the greater Houston ARAA and so
if you're in the area and want to join.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Us, you can reach out to me via email and
I can get you more information about that.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Fast and Michael one of us.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I did want to say just one other thing because
there's some important legislation that's being discussed in the legislature
this spring and one bills and I'm really proud that
Moms for Liberty Texas Legislative Committee has decided to endorse
is House Bill twenty two fifty eight. Steve Toath is
the author of that bill, and it's also called the
(23:34):
Vulnerable Youth Protection Act, and this bill would stop the
social transition of minors in our schools. It's a really
great piece of legislation and I encourage everyone to go
look it up and read about it and then email
their their reps that this is something they want them
(23:54):
to support. And we really need to hold our reps
accountable that they protect our youth.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Thank God for women and mommies, because men just won't
get involved like this.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That's a fact.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Denise Thompson Bell, it's Momstliberty dot orgon and you go
to Harris County where she's the chair.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
God bless you, maamt W twenty five package and you
get it all. Fiberglass Hood with air grabbing scoops. Mit
the Michael Berry fucking.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Hood Pins sends mobile escaped from the ordinary.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Us in seat.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Sirrah for me.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
She threw hoars around him, whispered God will keep us free.
They could hear the rite that's coming.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
He said, this is my last fight if they take
me back to Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
You think Texas is the most mentioned in all the
music I do too, followed by New York and then
Chicago and then Detroit. California is not a city? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
you're actually right. No, I don't think California would be
(25:14):
as much. I think you'd have more Texas than probably
even New York.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I don't know. It's momsfliberty dot org.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Reminder that if you want to communicate something to me
during the show, Twitter and Facebook are not the most
efficient way to do that. If you send it by Twitter,
I may or may not ever see it, but it
will definitely be later, in which case it'll be too
late to go back and fix it. If you do
it on a Facebook post, you're welcome to comment on
(25:48):
anything I do on Facebook and add your comment to
whatever's up there. Just know that I can't read every
Facebook message period, and what I do do is at night,
once I'm trying to relax, to slow my brain down
from reading and prepping for the next day, I may
(26:08):
take twenty minutes or ten minutes and read comments that
people have put up. But by the time I get
back in the studio, you're not going to be able
to give me information I can use on the show, certainly,
not in real time. I do keep my emails open,
and they're popping up all the time, and during each
break I go over there and read those. You can
send me an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot
(26:30):
com and it says send Michael an email, or you
can send me an email directly Michael at Michael Berryshow
dot com, and the response I send you will say
from Michael or Emily, but most likely Michael. Emily reads
all my emails to make sure nothing gets lost, and
(26:52):
if there's something she can handle, she handles it for me.
But I do read every single email. And if you
want to be blocked forever, just starts your email because
you so desperately want me to do something for you.
If you want to be blocked forever, just go ahead
and start with you say you read every email. Well,
let's see now, trying to guilt me into whatever it
(27:13):
is you want me to do. That's really not your
best move. Our show in the embodiment of Jim Mudd,
our creative director, a task that is about to be
handed to Daryl Kunda. Does Kunda have a title? Have
you come up with a title for Kunda yet? Grand
(27:33):
Kunda that's his title. That's what it's all you had
for a second. Okay, all right? Not your best work,
not your best work. Kunda is spelled see you in
DA for those of you who know Daryl Kunda d
A R Y L see you in DA. He is
going to be taking over the newsletter, the daily news
letter shortly so that we can whip Jim even harder
(27:57):
to produce more content for the show.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Seemingly impossible task, but we're going to do it.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
And nothing more can ever be added to Chad Knockanishi's
desk because.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
A he's executive producer, so he decides who does what anyway,
including me and number two.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
He's already doing the job of five people, and we
could all die and Chad would keep the show going.
But he's the only one that is irreplaceable in the group.
But our Daily Blast is something that Darryl kunda Is
want to take over and we'll have a little more
time to devote to it because Jim is overwhelmed with
everything else we've got him doing. But that Daily Blast
(28:36):
is where every day when the morning show is over,
we tell you what we're going to talk about that
evening and we put links to stories that we talked
about that morning, and that is literally my show prep.
So if we're talking to Moms for Liberty this morning,
which we were, there will be a link to their website.
So if you sign up for that email, which is free,
(28:57):
we never share your email. We never sell your never
have never will. If you sign up for that email,
then every day after the morning show is over, you
will get an email with what we think is a
funny meme.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's usually something silly, it's usually.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Something one of our guys, Landa McDonald, our graphics guru,
has made, and then there will be links to the
articles that we've talked about that day and clips of audio.
We've learned over the years that if we put some
of our best stuff as a clip, that you can
share a lot of you who are are big not
fans of the show, supporters of the show.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You help the show succeed. You are the folks who
will will then.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Forward those and that's how we develop new new listeners
and the like. That's how our little podcast is going
from the little podcast that could to over a million
downloads per month, which is pretty whopping. And the companies
never advertised it. They've never promoted it. It's just people
understand that after our show is over, our broadcast, which
(30:00):
goes through the air or through your phone or your computer,
is then posted as a rebroadcast as a podcast, and
that's been our fastest growth. Even though we're over sixty
stations now, we are growing faster by a podcast because
it's the way that people can listen to the show
without ever needing a radio station as the gatekeeper. It's
(30:21):
the way people can listen to the show as they travel,
as they're away from the radio or whatever reason. And
it's also a way that if you missed a part
of the show, you can go back and listen to
that part every day, and a lot of people do.
And I know there are a lot of people who
do that because I get emails about something we talked
about at eight fifteen in the morning, and I get
(30:42):
it two days later at four o'clock in the afternoon
out of context, so I have no idea what they're
talking about. And then I'll say context question mark and
then so, oh, well you were talking about so and
so that was two days ago. I completely forgotten. Well,
let's open the phone lines, shall we? Seven to one
three nine nine nine one thousand read nine nine nine
one thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
(31:04):
That website was Moms for Liberty dot org and our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com is where you can go to
sign up for our daily e blast. We send it
five days a week, Monday through Friday, and U when
you do that, make sure you when you get our
first one, make sure you put yourself on, make sure
(31:24):
you go to your white list, and that we're not
blocked because some spam filters.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Will catch it. Because we use constant contact or our blast.
Jim puts it in there.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Soon it'll be kon to doing that, and sometimes your
filters will we'll catch that not let it through. But
we're we're pretty proud of it, and we're pretty happy.
Archpublic archpublic dot com the cryptocurrency guys. We had Tilman
On Tilman Holloway on a few weeks ago. They you
can you can trade crypto through them, and they have
(31:56):
asked to be the lead sponsor of our new letter.
We are honored to have them join our ranks. It
also means we can devote more time to it. Yeah,
that's how that works. Rome on all right seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. When we went nationally syndicated October seventh,
(32:17):
it changed our clock. So when we go to break
at the same time, we have what are called hard breaks.
In some radio shows, you have hard and soft soft.
Rush used to talk about this. We have all horror
hardwired breaks. The problem is, for twenty years, our breaks
were always at the same time, and now all of
our breaks have changed.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
And so I find myself.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Mentally to go, you know, like Tom Brady and you
know you're in the pocket for too long.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I get happy feet, I'm going to wait. I should
be we should be going to break if we're not yet,
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