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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A pastor from Port Arthur, sent me a message. Zar
I was at a banquet in Beaumont. I was on
the dais, Dad was on the dais, and the MC,
a local broadcaster, kept going on and on about he
The MC himself had a beautiful wife and he had
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out kicked his coverage because he wasn't good looking. So
when I got up next, I said, it's okay, man,
we can't all be Dade feeling. The room erupted with laughter,
but when I looked over at Dade, he wasn't laughing.
Rush always said, watch out for people who cannot laugh
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at themselves. If you look at what made Sheila Jackson
Lene most ridiculous, it was that she was a joke,
but she wasn't in on it. When you watched George P.
Bush on that four wheeler going across the ridge next
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to the canyon in his campaign that Carl wrote made
the ad for him for and he was running for
Attorney General. George P. Not only will he be tough
on crime, but he's a Bush, and he's Hispanic. He
checks all the boxes. It was the most ridiculous thing ever.
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They had just they had just bought his clothes out
of some magazine. He had the perfectly rumpled but not
too rumbled flannel shirt and the perfect designer jeans, and
the perfect brand new boots but not cowboy boots, mall boots.
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You know, like the guy who's in a commercial being
tough and strong, the perfect belt that was straight off
the rack, that just had his hair done. I couldn't
see his nails, but I feel certain they were done.
That just had his teeth whitened. And he smiled and
looked into the camera and said, I'm George P. Bush,
and I.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Authorized this this ad here. I don't watch me ride
this four wheeler across the canyon, because if I'm your
attorney general, that's what I'll be doing. I'll be out
here riding this four wheeler across the canyon. And you
think to yourself, what lack of self awareness are you suffering.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That you saw that and thought, guys, I'm not sure,
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Think about
drunk dad sitting in his little office. He's not in
the Speaker's office anymore, to get an apartment. You know,
it'd been better if he just lost his seat. Honestly,
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he could have gone back to fail in investments. He
wouldn't have to show up at the office every day,
just check make sure all the rent checks came in,
you know, ever so often, maybe show up somewhere to
go meet his buddies for a boozy brunch every day,
talk about the good old days and how wronged he was,
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how Texas gone to hell. Politics so bad. He could
have had that LFE. But no, no, they got all
those Democrats to come over and vote for him in
the Republican primary. Never voted for him before. Karl Rove
and the gang. They all came down and they ran
his campaign in little Orange, Beaumont and Jefferson County. Now
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he's one out of one hundred and fifty writing laws
that you can't make a Daid Failing joke without announcing
that it's a joke. Well, I want you to know.
When Dustin Burrows became a Speaker of the House, we
don't know if Dade Failing called and left him a
congratulatory message. We don't know. This is what we imagine
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it to sound like. But I don't want to run
a foul, tough drunk Dade's laws, So this is pure satire.
Record your message after the tone.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Hey burs this boy they fell in. Hey man, congratulations
on a good win. It's a big, big day, says
Texas in it. I just want to tell you, you
know very well in the side of r head our
fear father figure. Push your tiny hand in mind. Jeff Burros, Man,
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we got this, dude. We're gonna do it. Oh, We're
gonna play pickle ball every day, every day played pickle Paul,
Jeff Burrus, Jeff Burroughs, We get it man. You meet together,
We're like dynamic duo. We're everything and all is you meet.
Teamwork makes dreamwork. Jpt Burrows Snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Prepare for a complete meltdown with more of the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I get an email every morning, want to with an
update on what our people are doing for Camp Hope.
A couple of days ago. The update was on March fourth,
Richard and Lori Edy visited Camp Hope to install two
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bird feeders courtesy of Richard's company, Wild Bird's Unlimited. The
bird feeders will contribute to the beauty of Camp Hope
and bring a healing opportunity for our combat veterans and
everyone who visits Camp Hope. And Richard Edie does not
own every wild Bird's Unlimited. He does own two locations,
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and we actually drive past a location to go to
him because he's a show sponsor. And I've gotten any
good friends with him and absolutely love the guy. But
if you are ever, it's funny. First time I went
to visit, he wanted to sponsor the show, and we
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wanted him to because my wife loves birds. And so
I go out there and he's showing me around, and
I said, Richard, I'm a little confused here. Do these
people want to attract squirrels or get the squirrels out
of their yard? And he said, well, it's fifty to fifty.
Half the people love watching the squirrels run around and
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half the people would do anything on earth to get
rid of those squirrels. And so we sell to both
of them. I said, I'll if I can never connect you.
He is the Cypress location. It's two eight one two
four six twelve hundred. Two eight one two four six
twelve hundred. It's not the first time he has done
things for Camp Hope. He and his wife have been
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big supporters of Camp Hope, and I am incredibly grateful
for that. Yesterday's message, he wrote Zarr, Yesterday was a
wonderful day for many reasons, but particularly for the opportunity
to spend some time with different groups who have proven
to be faithful in loyal partners in saving lives through
Camp Hope. First, I was able to spend some time
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speaking to the Northwest Forest Republican Women's Clubs Club. This
wonderful group has supported Camp Hope regularly and faithfully over
the past twelve years. Can you tell David Malsby's a
pastor regularly and faithfully. Once again, they provided items from
our urgent needs list, which often includes things like paper, towels,
cleaning supply, socks, and many other common needs for our veterans.
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We are honored by the support of so many years
from these ladies. Next, I was off to spend some
time at the Junior Steer Auction at the Houston Livestalk
Show in Rodeo with our amazing friends from Cowboys for Heroes.
For this group has been amazing. They typically buy fifty
to fifty five steer at the auction, which supports young
students who are working hard and learning the business of
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raising cattle. Over the past ten years, Cowboys for Heroes
listen carefully has donated more than two hundred thousand pounds
of quality beef for our veterans at Camp Hope. Our
guys do like to eat, and thanks to Greg Lyles
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and his team, we are able to feed them high quality,
delicious food while keeping our food costs extremely low. This
is an amazing group of people who serve thousands of
troops every year with Chuck Wagon style meals on local
army bases. We're deeply grateful for these faithful friendships. Imagine
having eighty to one hundred grown men. Most of these
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guys are relatively young, most of them under forty othough
we got some Vietnam veterans that are older. These are young,
strapping bucks. Okay. When they come in, almost every one
of them has attempted suicide, and ninety nine point nine
I have met one or two that weren't, but ninety
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nine point nine were in the throes of severe alcoholism
and often every other drug and some of you didn't
know existed. They're in a bad way. They had to
hit rock bottom to be able to say I will
go live at Camp Hope. I will surrender myself to
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God and let him give me the tools and guide
my life. We're too proud to do that. You think
about veterans, they've gone into war. These are not teddy babies.
These are tough guys. These are guys that solve their
own problems. They change their own oil, cut their own grass,
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solve problems. They see two people fighting, they get out
and stop it. They solve problems. So to be able
to say I can't solve myself, that's tough. The only
reason they will agree to come in two reasons. Number One,
they know they're going to die. They know they're going
to die, they're going to kill themselves or get killed. Secondly,
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it's other veterans there helping them get through it. And
one thing everyone who's had anything to do with this
will tell you is the one thing that works is
veteran to veteran, peer to peer. We don't do the counseling,
none of us. The veterans do it because they can
share stories with each other. They can buck them up,
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they can tell them to knock it off, they can
give them a hug, they can cry, they can pray,
They and they alone can understand what they're going through.
And it works for every one of you who over
the years faithfully because David Says has supported it. Thank
you and if you would like to get involved, send
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me an email off forward it, but tell me your talents.
Are you a donor? Some of you don't have time,
but you'd like to write a check. Great, I'll forward
you to David. We'll get you taken care of them.
Or you can go directly to their website. It's PTSD.
Foundation of America. Camp Hope is a facility. Are you
a person that doesn't have a lot of money, but
you have some time and you would like to put
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it to good use? You'd like to go help answer
the phones. We have folks who who was it last week?
Took their kids out and they worked on landscaping all
weekend and spending time with the veterans. It's good for
kids to see people who who've been knocked down at
getting back up. Obviously, Russell Leabarrod and Gringoes Jonathan Kim
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have provided food. Matt Bryce at Capital at the Federal
American Grill. How much food those folks have provided. Big
City Wings has provided food a lot of restaurants, not
just our show sponsors, and a lot of you out there.
Doug Brown and the folks at Graystar, what they've done,
my goodness, Weatherford, what they've done. If you ever need,
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and many of you do, because I have to turn
them down constantly. A speaker for your organization. David Malsby
is a great speaker, and many times he'll bring a
veteran to give their testimony, but David will talk about
the mission and how Camp Hope has grown and developed
in the lives that have been saved. And you know,
over ten years now, so a lot of these Republican
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women's groups. I saw what was at Fort ben County
Republican women's groups. But it's not just Republican groups. It's
rotary clubs, Optimist clubs, cases, men's business groups, whatever, your
alumni groups. If you find yourself needing a guest speaker,
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it's a great organization to have come and speak about
what's going on. You'll learn a lot and at the
end of it you'll end up wanting to help them.
But it's not required. I know, what's the name you say,
Michael Buddy? An email from a fellow named Bruce, subject
line Jamie White murder in Austin, subject, how come you
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have not mentioned this murder? On your show. Yes, mister
White worked for info Wars, but this murder was political.
If you don't know, because it has not been widely covered,
A fellow who worked for Alix Jones for some time
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was murdered, There's no doubt about that, outside the offices
of info Wars. As he was leaving the offices in
the parking lot. I saw an interview that Alex Jones
did yesterday. I believe they discovered him dead when they
came into the office next morning, and Alex said there
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was a pool of blood in the parking lot that
he was laying it. I'm not sure how he was murdered.
It's clear it's not suicide. That was determined pretty early on,
and that's been pretty that's been relatively certain. What I
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don't know is why he died. Do I believe that
who he worked for info Wars and maybe his work
individually may have led to his death. Possibly, it's altogether possible.
I'm willing to believe a number of things, and that's
within the realm of possibility. Do I know that have
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there been facts to establish that? Not to my knowledge.
When they are talking about this tomorrow or a week
from now, Once we've had new developments. Once there's a suspect,
once Alex has said more, it'll still be just as relevant.
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I can't say this enough times, and I can't seem
to make people understanding. We are not a breaking news
show that makes people crazy. If you want breaking news,
go read websites. You can get all you want there.
We choose something to talk about often it is relatively timely,
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but we are almost never the first to announce it.
Unless I have firsthand knowledge of something that I'm certain of,
there will be time to talk about this murder. I
just don't feel the need to do it. I don't
think that the minute he discovered you go, he was murdered.
And it's political. You don't know that unless you're the
type of person who sees conspiracies everywhere all the time.
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And that's fine to do so because most people air
the other way. Most people don't see them where they should.
By the way, I got a movie recommendation for you.
I just watched it last night. It's called The Parallax View.
It's got Warren Bady and a number of other folks
you will recognize. And I don't want to ruin it
for you, but you'll think that that movie was made today.
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Given all the things that happen and how they're covered
up in this deep dark state that is silencing people.
It is it is worth your watch, trust me. Now
let me close with this. We started talking about a
funeral home where an embalmer castrated a fellow because as
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she was embalming him, she learned that he was a
sexual predator. And we're going to close the show talking
about morticians and funeral homes. In the Jewish tradition, they
have a beautiful practice called sitting shiva. For a week
after someone dies, the body is not left alone. They
pray something called the Kuddish. I think it's a beautiful thing,
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but it is also an old Southern Christian tradition. And
the best storyteller of them all will close the show
for us today, and that is Jerry Klower. With just
that story.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
We still set up with a date.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What happened.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
When I was a boy.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
There was no exceptions to this.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
None whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
That's why I said, mate.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Nowadays we done got kind of fancy. The funeral home
director may get up at ten o'clock in the evening
and say the funeral home is closed. And we'll open
back up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It's seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Well, we as having a funeral in Southwest Sippy the
other day, and that funeral director got up and made
that announcement. Uncle Versey let Better said, sir, you go
right ahead and close your funeral home. But my friend
and neighbor, brother Zis, is dead, and I want you
to know that we ain't gonna leave him here byself.
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So now you shut the front door and gone home.
But I'm gonna make two of my boys stay here
with him all night. Clovis and Neu Jene led Better.
They're gonna be here with it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Now.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
They won't get in your way.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
They'll just be sitting here by my dead friend all night.
Everybody left. In about thirty minutes, Clovis could see a
neon light on the bed joined over on across the road.
Clovid said, New Jen I believe I'll step over yonder
and get us something to drink. New Jean said, my aunt,
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I ain't staying here with him by myself. Niu Jane
said Clovis, I all on over there and get us something.
Clovis and I ain't about to stay here with him
by myself either and said, I understand there's four more
down the hall. They set there about another.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Hour, and they could see that neon light on over
and they got the smacking, the lips in their mouth
got dry cotton, and directly they decided did go to
the bed joint and get them something to drink, and
just take a dead man with them.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So they got him up, and one got on one
side and one on the other, and they stood him
up between them, and they started walking to the bridge
on every nine, and then they'd let the dead fella's
foot drag in the middle of the road where people
would think he was stepping right along with him. They
went on in the bed joint and stood him up
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at the count, put one of the four legged stews
back behind him.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
And wedged him in there.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And there I was, Clovis was over here drinking, and
New Gene's over him. The dead man was the best
dressed man in the whole bedge On. About that time
a fight broke out mmmmm, fist fight, busting chairs over
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one another's head, and somebody took a fist and hit
Uncle Zis right side the head and cut him a
clip right out the middle of the floor. Here come
the police lining them up, handcuffing. I'm searching them. Clovis
saw uncle Zis in the middle of the floor, and
he fell down our bine and put his arm under
his head and comissed the screaming and crying. And he
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pointed at the phone and said, you've killed him.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You killed him.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I saw you when you hit him.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You killed him.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You killed him.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And the sheriff run over had a handcuff the fellow
that hit him, and a fellow said, cheff.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I did hit the fellow, but it was self defense.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
He pulled a pocket knife on me. Thank you God,
bless it.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Teach your children to tell stories. You don't have to
be a master at it. Practice makes perfect, same way
you learn to hit a tennis ball, throw a football,
kick a soccer ball, shoot a basketball. Dinner time as
a family supper at the table, it's a great time.
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Oh but Michael, when I asked my kids how that
they went, they said, fine, Okay, you got to get
back prepare them. You're going to tell a one minute
story every day. So what'd y'all do at recess today?
What'd you have for lunch today? It's the only way
you're going to get bad. The Michael Verie Show. We've
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had a good likes of which I've never seen. There
are a lot of symbolic successes, people being fired, for instance,
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statements being made, but there are a lot of actual successes.
Reducing the size of the government is very difficult. Getting
the tick out from under where it's embedded in the
body politic. It was hard. You could have never done
it with congressional support. You just couldn't do it. We
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don't have the people in our party willing, and frankly,
the Democrats are bolder. The Democrats in the legislature are
just bolder. We don't have a lot of Donald Trump's,
let's be honest, we just don't. We tend to have
folks who are very measured, who take pride in losing.
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John Bayner, John McCain, Met Romney, Mike Pence. They look
for an opportunity to lose so they can show how
gracious they are in loss, and they talk a lot
about decency. But they lose, and they won't stoop to
the level of the Democrats who are destroying our way
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of life. Trump's a brawler. He'll get down in the
mud with him. He doesn't mind it, and we just
don't have a lot of that success. The border is
effectively closed. That could change tomorrow, but for now, the
border is closed. Huge success. Bad guys in this country
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being rounded up. Not nearly as fast as President Trump
wants because the locals are us, especially in places like
Boston and Chicago and Denver, but it's still a success.
Don't let the great be the enemy of the good.
We've got a standard of what we'd like to see.
If we fall short of that standard but still make
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great progress, We've got to see that and keep building
upon it. We've got to see the Epstein list released.
There's no doubt of that. Taking down the photos of
the former DOJ officials are not going to be enough.
Pamboni's going to have to put that list into public circulation.
There's no way around that. People are not going to
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forget that. But you've got a number of other things
at play, and President Trump has a real challenge. And
I wish I could say that this one's easy. Getting
boys out of girls bathrooms, it's pretty easy, pretty simple,
not that hard, not that complicated, get them out. It's
only good. The only people mad are pedophiles and perverts,
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and that's okay. There's not enough of them for it
to matter. But when it comes to our economy, the
president has a real challenge. And this is a sophisticated,
complex economy with a lot of moving parts, and some
of them work at opposite ends and toward opposite goals,
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and that's okay. It tends to be like a well
well placed mutual fund. You've got stocks that perform well
when the economy is down and stocks that perform well
when the economy is up, and there's a sense of
leverage of balance so that the risk is hedged. Our
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economy is like that as well. We've got businesses that
are built on imports. We do. We have a lot
of businesses that have died that were built on manufacturing
and export. In order to try to recede the field,
to bring back manufacturing or in some way added value,
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some of that is distribution in this country. In order
to do that, you have to alter that which has
been done. When you do that, that which has been
done has created winners. There are people who are benefiting
in this country from trade practices that hurt it, that
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hurt the American worker, that hurt the American business owner.
But those guys cried in silence. You've got a new
group that have come up and they rely on imports.
For the President to impose tariffs is going to be
short term pain. Those tariffs will not be in effect
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in three years, I'm certain of that. But you're going
to hear the sky is falling from people who are
going to run their schedule and make their predictions based
on those tariffs being in a fact, forever, those tariffs
can be imposed tomorrow, they can be rescinded tomorrow, and
you're seeing a lot of folks who are crying wolf
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before it's time. You're going to see the stock market.
In my opinion, and I'm not giving financial advice, I
think you're going to see a further slump in the
stock market. I do, and I'll go back to a
quote that I saw the Treasury Secretary Secretary Scott Bessett said.
He said the market, talking about the stock market and
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the economy have become hooked, become addicted to excessive government spending,
and there is going to be a detox period where
we're not used to a detox period. We all know
our government is spending way more than is bringing in.
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We all know that's a crash course, but nobody wants
to wear the hickey of what that rebalancing looks like.
Nobody wants to suffer in the short term. Realistically, Americans
are leveraged to the hill, loans on homes and cars
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and furniture and retail boats, lake houses, planes, lots and
lots and lots of debt, and a stock market portfolio
that his I would argue irrationally inflated. But who doesn't
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love more money in your stock portfolio? Irrationally inflated because
of all this government spending. See in the short term,
government just creating paper and sending it out. Oh good,
we all have more money. Isn't this fun? But it's
unsustainable and there has to be a retraction where that
money's pulled out of the economy, and that's going to hurt.
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We're going to suffer. Will there be a recession this year?
I don't know. I think there's a decent chance of it.
Two down quarters is not that hard to do. The
unofficial definition is a drop of twenty percent from the peak.
We have seen artificial spending prop up our economy. The
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same folks who told you that just before the election
that we had a record number of new hires in
this country. The economy was booming, the election was over,
and they go, ooks, we made a mistake. In fact,
it turns out we made a mistake. For the last
two years, all that was lies. There was an exuberance
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for a very long time with low interest rates. There
was an exuberance with a high stock market, and we
are going to go through painful period. This is our
detox our. Nation had a problem, and we're gonna see
some dts before we get this thing's over up. And
in the meantime, they're gonna tell you Trump is awful
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as not. He's the adulting. This is overdue.
A pastor from Port Arthur, sent me a message. Zar
I was at a banquet in Beaumont. I was on
the dais, Dad was on the dais, and the MC,
a local broadcaster, kept going on and on about he
The MC himself had a beautiful wife and he had
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out kicked his coverage because he wasn't good looking. So
when I got up next, I said, it's okay, man,
we can't all be Dade feeling. The room erupted with laughter,
but when I looked over at Dade, he wasn't laughing.
Rush always said, watch out for people who cannot laugh
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at themselves. If you look at what made Sheila Jackson
Lene most ridiculous, it was that she was a joke,
but she wasn't in on it. When you watched George P.
Bush on that four wheeler going across the ridge next
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to the canyon in his campaign that Carl wrote made
the ad for him for and he was running for
Attorney General. George P. Not only will he be tough
on crime, but he's a Bush, and he's Hispanic. He
checks all the boxes. It was the most ridiculous thing ever.
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They had just they had just bought his clothes out
of some magazine. He had the perfectly rumpled but not
too rumbled flannel shirt and the perfect designer jeans, and
the perfect brand new boots but not cowboy boots, mall boots.
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You know, like the guy who's in a commercial being
tough and strong, the perfect belt that was straight off
the rack, that just had his hair done. I couldn't
see his nails, but I feel certain they were done.
That just had his teeth whitened. And he smiled and
looked into the camera and said, I'm George P. Bush,
and I.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Authorized this this ad here. I don't watch me ride
this four wheeler across the canyon, because if I'm your
attorney general, that's what I'll be doing. I'll be out
here riding this four wheeler across the canyon. And you
think to yourself, what lack of self awareness are you suffering.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That you saw that and thought, guys, I'm not sure,
I'm not sure this is a good idea. Think about
drunk dad sitting in his little office. He's not in
the Speaker's office anymore, to get an apartment. You know,
it'd been better if he just lost his seat. Honestly,
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he could have gone back to fail in investments. He
wouldn't have to show up at the office every day,
just check make sure all the rent checks came in,
you know, ever so often, maybe show up somewhere to
go meet his buddies for a boozy brunch every day,
talk about the good old days and how wronged he was,
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how Texas gone to hell. Politics so bad. He could
have had that LFE. But no, no, they got all
those Democrats to come over and vote for him in
the Republican primary. Never voted for him before. Karl Rove
and the gang. They all came down and they ran
his campaign in little Orange, Beaumont and Jefferson County. Now
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he's one out of one hundred and fifty writing laws
that you can't make a Daid Failing joke without announcing
that it's a joke. Well, I want you to know.
When Dustin Burrows became a Speaker of the House, we
don't know if Dade Failing called and left him a
congratulatory message. We don't know. This is what we imagine
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it to sound like. But I don't want to run
a foul, tough drunk Dade's laws, So this is pure satire.
Record your message after the tone.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
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we got this, dude. We're gonna do it. Oh, We're
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Jeff Burrus, Jeff Burroughs, We get it man. You meet together,
We're like dynamic duo. We're everything and all is you meet.
Teamwork makes dreamwork. Jpt Burrows Snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Prepare for a complete meltdown with more of the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I get an email every morning, want to with an
update on what our people are doing for Camp Hope.
A couple of days ago. The update was on March fourth,
Richard and Lori Edy visited Camp Hope to install two
(05:43):
bird feeders courtesy of Richard's company, Wild Bird's Unlimited. The
bird feeders will contribute to the beauty of Camp Hope
and bring a healing opportunity for our combat veterans and
everyone who visits Camp Hope. And Richard Edie does not
own every wild Bird's Unlimited. He does own two locations,
(06:07):
and we actually drive past a location to go to
him because he's a show sponsor. And I've gotten any
good friends with him and absolutely love the guy. But
if you are ever, it's funny. First time I went
to visit, he wanted to sponsor the show, and we
(06:30):
wanted him to because my wife loves birds. And so
I go out there and he's showing me around, and
I said, Richard, I'm a little confused here. Do these
people want to attract squirrels or get the squirrels out
of their yard? And he said, well, it's fifty to fifty.
Half the people love watching the squirrels run around and
(06:52):
half the people would do anything on earth to get
rid of those squirrels. And so we sell to both
of them. I said, I'll if I can never connect you.
He is the Cypress location. It's two eight one two
four six twelve hundred. Two eight one two four six
twelve hundred. It's not the first time he has done
things for Camp Hope. He and his wife have been
(07:17):
big supporters of Camp Hope, and I am incredibly grateful
for that. Yesterday's message, he wrote Zarr, Yesterday was a
wonderful day for many reasons, but particularly for the opportunity
to spend some time with different groups who have proven
to be faithful in loyal partners in saving lives through
Camp Hope. First, I was able to spend some time
(07:40):
speaking to the Northwest Forest Republican Women's Clubs Club. This
wonderful group has supported Camp Hope regularly and faithfully over
the past twelve years. Can you tell David Malsby's a
pastor regularly and faithfully. Once again, they provided items from
our urgent needs list, which often includes things like paper, towels,
cleaning supply, socks, and many other common needs for our veterans.
(08:03):
We are honored by the support of so many years
from these ladies. Next, I was off to spend some
time at the Junior Steer Auction at the Houston Livestalk
Show in Rodeo with our amazing friends from Cowboys for Heroes.
For this group has been amazing. They typically buy fifty
to fifty five steer at the auction, which supports young
students who are working hard and learning the business of
(08:26):
raising cattle. Over the past ten years, Cowboys for Heroes
listen carefully has donated more than two hundred thousand pounds
of quality beef for our veterans at Camp Hope. Our
guys do like to eat, and thanks to Greg Lyles
(08:47):
and his team, we are able to feed them high quality,
delicious food while keeping our food costs extremely low. This
is an amazing group of people who serve thousands of
troops every year with Chuck Wagon style meals on local
army bases. We're deeply grateful for these faithful friendships. Imagine
having eighty to one hundred grown men. Most of these
(09:10):
guys are relatively young, most of them under forty othough
we got some Vietnam veterans that are older. These are young,
strapping bucks. Okay. When they come in, almost every one
of them has attempted suicide, and ninety nine point nine
I have met one or two that weren't, but ninety
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nine point nine were in the throes of severe alcoholism
and often every other drug and some of you didn't
know existed. They're in a bad way. They had to
hit rock bottom to be able to say I will
go live at Camp Hope. I will surrender myself to
(09:53):
God and let him give me the tools and guide
my life. We're too proud to do that. You think
about veterans, they've gone into war. These are not teddy babies.
These are tough guys. These are guys that solve their
own problems. They change their own oil, cut their own grass,
(10:14):
solve problems. They see two people fighting, they get out
and stop it. They solve problems. So to be able
to say I can't solve myself, that's tough. The only
reason they will agree to come in two reasons. Number One,
they know they're going to die. They know they're going
to die, they're going to kill themselves or get killed. Secondly,
(10:40):
it's other veterans there helping them get through it. And
one thing everyone who's had anything to do with this
will tell you is the one thing that works is
veteran to veteran, peer to peer. We don't do the counseling,
none of us. The veterans do it because they can
share stories with each other. They can buck them up,
(11:02):
they can tell them to knock it off, they can
give them a hug, they can cry, they can pray,
They and they alone can understand what they're going through.
And it works for every one of you who over
the years faithfully because David Says has supported it. Thank
you and if you would like to get involved, send
(11:23):
me an email off forward it, but tell me your talents.
Are you a donor? Some of you don't have time,
but you'd like to write a check. Great, I'll forward
you to David. We'll get you taken care of them.
Or you can go directly to their website. It's PTSD.
Foundation of America. Camp Hope is a facility. Are you
a person that doesn't have a lot of money, but
you have some time and you would like to put
(11:44):
it to good use? You'd like to go help answer
the phones. We have folks who who was it last week?
Took their kids out and they worked on landscaping all
weekend and spending time with the veterans. It's good for
kids to see people who who've been knocked down at
getting back up. Obviously, Russell Leabarrod and Gringoes Jonathan Kim
(12:06):
have provided food. Matt Bryce at Capital at the Federal
American Grill. How much food those folks have provided. Big
City Wings has provided food a lot of restaurants, not
just our show sponsors, and a lot of you out there.
Doug Brown and the folks at Graystar, what they've done,
my goodness, Weatherford, what they've done. If you ever need,
(12:29):
and many of you do, because I have to turn
them down constantly. A speaker for your organization. David Malsby
is a great speaker, and many times he'll bring a
veteran to give their testimony, but David will talk about
the mission and how Camp Hope has grown and developed
in the lives that have been saved. And you know,
over ten years now, so a lot of these Republican
(12:51):
women's groups. I saw what was at Fort ben County
Republican women's groups. But it's not just Republican groups. It's
rotary clubs, Optimist clubs, cases, men's business groups, whatever, your
alumni groups. If you find yourself needing a guest speaker,
(13:11):
it's a great organization to have come and speak about
what's going on. You'll learn a lot and at the
end of it you'll end up wanting to help them.
But it's not required. I know, what's the name you say,
Michael Buddy? An email from a fellow named Bruce, subject
line Jamie White murder in Austin, subject, how come you
(13:34):
have not mentioned this murder? On your show. Yes, mister
White worked for info Wars, but this murder was political.
If you don't know, because it has not been widely covered,
A fellow who worked for Alix Jones for some time
(13:57):
was murdered, There's no doubt about that, outside the offices
of info Wars. As he was leaving the offices in
the parking lot. I saw an interview that Alex Jones
did yesterday. I believe they discovered him dead when they
came into the office next morning, and Alex said there
(14:20):
was a pool of blood in the parking lot that
he was laying it. I'm not sure how he was murdered.
It's clear it's not suicide. That was determined pretty early on,
and that's been pretty that's been relatively certain. What I
(14:41):
don't know is why he died. Do I believe that
who he worked for info Wars and maybe his work
individually may have led to his death. Possibly, it's altogether possible.
I'm willing to believe a number of things, and that's
within the realm of possibility. Do I know that have
(15:02):
there been facts to establish that? Not to my knowledge.
When they are talking about this tomorrow or a week
from now, Once we've had new developments. Once there's a suspect,
once Alex has said more, it'll still be just as relevant.
(15:23):
I can't say this enough times, and I can't seem
to make people understanding. We are not a breaking news
show that makes people crazy. If you want breaking news,
go read websites. You can get all you want there.
We choose something to talk about often it is relatively timely,
(15:45):
but we are almost never the first to announce it.
Unless I have firsthand knowledge of something that I'm certain of,
there will be time to talk about this murder. I
just don't feel the need to do it. I don't
think that the minute he discovered you go, he was murdered.
And it's political. You don't know that unless you're the
type of person who sees conspiracies everywhere all the time.
(16:07):
And that's fine to do so because most people air
the other way. Most people don't see them where they should.
By the way, I got a movie recommendation for you.
I just watched it last night. It's called The Parallax View.
It's got Warren Bady and a number of other folks
you will recognize. And I don't want to ruin it
for you, but you'll think that that movie was made today.
(16:31):
Given all the things that happen and how they're covered
up in this deep dark state that is silencing people.
It is it is worth your watch, trust me. Now
let me close with this. We started talking about a
funeral home where an embalmer castrated a fellow because as
(16:53):
she was embalming him, she learned that he was a
sexual predator. And we're going to close the show talking
about morticians and funeral homes. In the Jewish tradition, they
have a beautiful practice called sitting shiva. For a week
after someone dies, the body is not left alone. They
pray something called the Kuddish. I think it's a beautiful thing,
(17:15):
but it is also an old Southern Christian tradition. And
the best storyteller of them all will close the show
for us today, and that is Jerry Klower. With just
that story.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
We still set up with a date.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
What happened.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
When I was a boy.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
There was no exceptions to this.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
None whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
That's why I said, mate.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Nowadays we done got kind of fancy. The funeral home
director may get up at ten o'clock in the evening
and say the funeral home is closed. And we'll open
back up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It's seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Well, we as having a funeral in Southwest Sippy the
other day, and that funeral director got up and made
that announcement. Uncle Versey let Better said, sir, you go
right ahead and close your funeral home. But my friend
and neighbor, brother Zis, is dead, and I want you
to know that we ain't gonna leave him here byself.
(18:21):
So now you shut the front door and gone home.
But I'm gonna make two of my boys stay here
with him all night. Clovis and Neu Jene led Better.
They're gonna be here with it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Now.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
They won't get in your way.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
They'll just be sitting here by my dead friend all night.
Everybody left. In about thirty minutes, Clovis could see a
neon light on the bed joined over on across the road.
Clovid said, New Jen I believe I'll step over yonder
and get us something to drink. New Jean said, my aunt,
(18:56):
I ain't staying here with him by myself. Niu Jane
said Clovis, I all on over there and get us something.
Clovis and I ain't about to stay here with him
by myself either and said, I understand there's four more
down the hall. They set there about another.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Hour, and they could see that neon light on over
and they got the smacking, the lips in their mouth
got dry cotton, and directly they decided did go to
the bed joint and get them something to drink, and
just take a dead man with them.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
So they got him up, and one got on one
side and one on the other, and they stood him
up between them, and they started walking to the bridge
on every nine, and then they'd let the dead fella's
foot drag in the middle of the road where people
would think he was stepping right along with him. They
went on in the bed joint and stood him up
(19:56):
at the count, put one of the four legged stews
back behind him.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
And wedged him in there.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And there I was, Clovis was over here drinking, and
New Gene's over him. The dead man was the best
dressed man in the whole bedge On. About that time
a fight broke out mmmmm, fist fight, busting chairs over
(20:28):
one another's head, and somebody took a fist and hit
Uncle Zis right side the head and cut him a
clip right out the middle of the floor. Here come
the police lining them up, handcuffing. I'm searching them. Clovis
saw uncle Zis in the middle of the floor, and
he fell down our bine and put his arm under
his head and comissed the screaming and crying. And he
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pointed at the phone and said, you've killed him.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
You killed him.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I saw you when you hit him.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You killed him.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You killed him.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And the sheriff run over had a handcuff the fellow
that hit him, and a fellow said, cheff.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I did hit the fellow, but it was self defense.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
He pulled a pocket knife on me. Thank you God,
bless it.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Teach your children to tell stories. You don't have to
be a master at it. Practice makes perfect, same way
you learn to hit a tennis ball, throw a football,
kick a soccer ball, shoot a basketball. Dinner time as
a family supper at the table, it's a great time.
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Oh but Michael, when I asked my kids how that
they went, they said, fine, Okay, you got to get
back prepare them. You're going to tell a one minute
story every day. So what'd y'all do at recess today?
What'd you have for lunch today? It's the only way
you're going to get bad. The Michael Verie Show. We've
(22:07):
had a good likes of which I've never seen. There
are a lot of symbolic successes, people being fired, for instance,
(22:29):
statements being made, but there are a lot of actual successes.
Reducing the size of the government is very difficult. Getting
the tick out from under where it's embedded in the
body politic. It was hard. You could have never done
it with congressional support. You just couldn't do it. We
(22:50):
don't have the people in our party willing, and frankly,
the Democrats are bolder. The Democrats in the legislature are
just bolder. We don't have a lot of Donald Trump's,
let's be honest, we just don't. We tend to have
folks who are very measured, who take pride in losing.
(23:10):
John Bayner, John McCain, Met Romney, Mike Pence. They look
for an opportunity to lose so they can show how
gracious they are in loss, and they talk a lot
about decency. But they lose, and they won't stoop to
the level of the Democrats who are destroying our way
(23:33):
of life. Trump's a brawler. He'll get down in the
mud with him. He doesn't mind it, and we just
don't have a lot of that success. The border is
effectively closed. That could change tomorrow, but for now, the
border is closed. Huge success. Bad guys in this country
(23:55):
being rounded up. Not nearly as fast as President Trump
wants because the locals are us, especially in places like
Boston and Chicago and Denver, but it's still a success.
Don't let the great be the enemy of the good.
We've got a standard of what we'd like to see.
If we fall short of that standard but still make
(24:19):
great progress, We've got to see that and keep building
upon it. We've got to see the Epstein list released.
There's no doubt of that. Taking down the photos of
the former DOJ officials are not going to be enough.
Pamboni's going to have to put that list into public circulation.
There's no way around that. People are not going to
(24:39):
forget that. But you've got a number of other things
at play, and President Trump has a real challenge. And
I wish I could say that this one's easy. Getting
boys out of girls bathrooms, it's pretty easy, pretty simple,
not that hard, not that complicated, get them out. It's
only good. The only people mad are pedophiles and perverts,
(25:00):
and that's okay. There's not enough of them for it
to matter. But when it comes to our economy, the
president has a real challenge. And this is a sophisticated,
complex economy with a lot of moving parts, and some
of them work at opposite ends and toward opposite goals,
(25:22):
and that's okay. It tends to be like a well
well placed mutual fund. You've got stocks that perform well
when the economy is down and stocks that perform well
when the economy is up, and there's a sense of
leverage of balance so that the risk is hedged. Our
(25:45):
economy is like that as well. We've got businesses that
are built on imports. We do. We have a lot
of businesses that have died that were built on manufacturing
and export. In order to try to recede the field,
to bring back manufacturing or in some way added value,
(26:10):
some of that is distribution in this country. In order
to do that, you have to alter that which has
been done. When you do that, that which has been
done has created winners. There are people who are benefiting
in this country from trade practices that hurt it, that
(26:33):
hurt the American worker, that hurt the American business owner.
But those guys cried in silence. You've got a new
group that have come up and they rely on imports.
For the President to impose tariffs is going to be
short term pain. Those tariffs will not be in effect
(26:56):
in three years, I'm certain of that. But you're going
to hear the sky is falling from people who are
going to run their schedule and make their predictions based
on those tariffs being in a fact, forever, those tariffs
can be imposed tomorrow, they can be rescinded tomorrow, and
you're seeing a lot of folks who are crying wolf
(27:19):
before it's time. You're going to see the stock market.
In my opinion, and I'm not giving financial advice, I
think you're going to see a further slump in the
stock market. I do, and I'll go back to a
quote that I saw the Treasury Secretary Secretary Scott Bessett said.
He said the market, talking about the stock market and
(27:42):
the economy have become hooked, become addicted to excessive government spending,
and there is going to be a detox period where
we're not used to a detox period. We all know
our government is spending way more than is bringing in.
(28:05):
We all know that's a crash course, but nobody wants
to wear the hickey of what that rebalancing looks like.
Nobody wants to suffer in the short term. Realistically, Americans
are leveraged to the hill, loans on homes and cars
(28:27):
and furniture and retail boats, lake houses, planes, lots and
lots and lots of debt, and a stock market portfolio
that his I would argue irrationally inflated. But who doesn't
(28:47):
love more money in your stock portfolio? Irrationally inflated because
of all this government spending. See in the short term,
government just creating paper and sending it out. Oh good,
we all have more money. Isn't this fun? But it's
unsustainable and there has to be a retraction where that
money's pulled out of the economy, and that's going to hurt.
(29:09):
We're going to suffer. Will there be a recession this year?
I don't know. I think there's a decent chance of it.
Two down quarters is not that hard to do. The
unofficial definition is a drop of twenty percent from the peak.
We have seen artificial spending prop up our economy. The
(29:32):
same folks who told you that just before the election
that we had a record number of new hires in
this country. The economy was booming, the election was over,
and they go, ooks, we made a mistake. In fact,
it turns out we made a mistake. For the last
two years, all that was lies. There was an exuberance
(29:52):
for a very long time with low interest rates. There
was an exuberance with a high stock market, and we
are going to go through painful period. This is our
detox our. Nation had a problem, and we're gonna see
some dts before we get this thing's over up. And
in the meantime, they're gonna tell you Trump is awful
(30:13):
as not. He's the adulting. This is overdue.
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