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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michael vari show is on the Air's.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
That thing that he may take executive action to end
sanctuary cities. It must happen.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We're going to end sanctuary cities for some of these
jurisdictions that aren't cooperating with law enforcement. They're guarding criminals,
they're taking the rights away from the citizens of this
state and the city. And we're going to be ending
sanctuary cities if we find it necessary to do in
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certain major areas, and we may just end the entire
thing altogether because it's just a way of protecting criminals
and nobody else is benefited by that. And for some reason,
Democrats want to keep and they want to shield criminals
from being sent back to their countries or being sent
to prison. And in the meantime, the crime rate has
gone through the roof under Biden. It was through the roof.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It started to come down.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But we're taking a lot of people out of here.
So we may be presenting you very shortly with a
executive order ending sanctuary cities.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It has to happen. Why is it important. Well, here's
a CBS News story from Boston detailing what's happening. So
illegals charged with violent crime should be picked up by ICE.
They should be detained, processed, and dealt with. We have
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a federal department that does this, but in Boston and
other places, what they're doing is putting them back out
on the street because they don't want ICE to come
and get them and remove them from the country.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You're not a police commissioner. Take that badge off your chest.
We're in the dust drawer.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
It's hard to forget those fiery comments when President Trump's
borders are Tom Holman accusing Boston's police commissioner of releasing
immigrants charged with violent crimes. We decided to go through
every ICE Boston press release from January to now and
found only one which said Boston police released someone wanted
by ICE. Nearly all others were released from court or jail.
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When inmates wanted by ICE leave lock up at the
Worcester County Jail, it's rarely in Sheriff Lewis Evangelitis's control.
That's because of a decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,
which states local law enforcement have no authority to arrest
and hold an individual solely on the basis of a
federal civil intion detainer, they meet their bail and they
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could be gone within an hour. So you could see
how it would be very challenging for ICE to get
here in time.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
VERI, as a matter of fact, it's very frustrating for
me to know I might have a drug trafficker or
a violent offender getting bail out of here. I call
ICE and they're like, well, we're busy with a couple
of situations. We can't get there for a few hours.
I can't hold them right now.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
You are seeing more individuals right with detainers placed on them.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yes, what do you think is going on?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Well, I think what we've seen, and I think it's
pretty clear by the data, is that we've seen the
detainer's triple in the last three years.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
We were in the thirties.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
A couple of years ago, we exceeded one hundred and
twenty twenty four. To me, that means there are more
people illegally in the commonwealth committing crimes.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
So sheriffs can't hold someone who's been bailed out of
their jail. The next logical question is is there a
standard bail set for people charged with child reef in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We went back into those ICE press releases to find out.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Take this man arrested by Ice in February. He was
charged with three counts of rape of a child by force.
In twenty twenty two, he posted his seventy five hundred
dollars bail at Essex Superior Court and was released on
a condition of staying in his residence. Or this ICE
arrestee charged with aggravated rape of a child. He was
released from Laurence District Court on seventy five hundred dollars
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bail with a GPS monitoring device. Finally, this man, he
was charged with indecent assault and battery on a person
over fourteen and assault to rape. He was released without bail,
but with a GPS monitoring device. All of these cases
are ongoing and none of these men have been convicted.
Does that seem like an appropriate bail amount, Well, it
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doesn't to me, but Stephen Ross, a criminal defense an
immigration attorney, says, these bails are set by judges to
reasonably assure someone reappears in court, not to ensure someone
remains in custody.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
There's a list of criteria that they go through immigration
status is not one of those of those categories.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Prosecutors may also request a dangerousness hearing to keep a
defendant behind bars, but attorney Jennifer Roman says to tension
all the way until trial is rare. Their primary focus
is to ensure the safety of the publag while minimizing
the restraints or constraints on the defend end. We know
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these two men had dangerousness hearings and were in jail
for a period before they were released from court with conditions.
This man, only nineteen years old, did not have a hearing.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
When I ran for office, I promised I would cooperate
with all the officials that could help keep my community safety.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Sheriff of Evangelitis now supports a bill filed by two Republican
lawmakers which allows him to hold inmates wanted by Ice
for an additional thirty six hours.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It also asks judges.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
To take immigration status into consideration when setting bail.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
I think immigration status is a big factor in whether
people are going to voluntarily come back to court.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The cost. This is what was bankrupting us. This is
it in a nutshell. Illegals are bankrupting California. They're bankrupting medicaid.
Congressman Kevin Kylie from California blames Gavin Newsom. These were
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decisions that were made and now they can't afford it.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
This is one of the biggest scandals that we have
ever seen in California is that our Governor, Gavin Newsom
is literally bankrupting medicaid or medical as we call it,
because he's an act of the policy.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That exists in no other state in the country. We're
the only one of.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
The fifty states that provides free medical to every single
person who is in the state illegally. They initially said, Okay,
this will cost a few billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They have now revised that estimate.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
The price is up to nine point five billion dollars
just for this year. And as a result of that,
the governor has now number one, taken out an emergency
loan in order to just make payments through the end
of the month, and number two ask the legislature for
billions more dollars. And if you project this over a
ten year time horizon, we're talking about it. When from
three billion to nine point five billion this year, how
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many billions is it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Going to be for the next decade?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Probably hundreds of billions of dollars that is being taken
away from Californians that could be going towards increasing access
to care for Californians who are in need, and is
instead being used to entice more.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
People to come into the state illegally.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
So I've introduced the No Medicaid for Illegal Immigrants Act,
and if we get that passed into law, it'll make
it illegal for any state, whether it's using state or
federal dollars, to provide medicaid to those who are here illegally.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You can't continue to do this, and why would you
have wanted to in the first place. Why would you
have felt the need to do this. It's not compassion,
it's not some of it is. The brains behind it
are collapsing the American system. That's the goal. It is
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unsustainable and they know this. They are overloading on our
system the burdens that we cannot bear. But a lot
of people are executing. You know, they're the Nazi that's
just putting the bullet in. They didn't make the decision
because this is what they're supposed to do, because this
is what the party is doing, and so they go
along to get along.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Michael Barry because you're a public Paul Revere to Ring
in the Morning.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It was such a thing in the seventies for black
artists to make songs about a really bad dude. And
the songs are always well. I don't know if they're all,
but there are so many of them. They are so good,
and I would say that white guys can't do it.
I don't think white guys can do it as well
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because there's a certain grit to the way a black
guy is. That's one bad dude, right, I mean, Jim
Croach you with bad bad Leroy Brown, he approaches it right,
he's he's he's in the category. But like that right there,
that and shaft. You know, there's some songs that black
artists do about a dude that man, you do not
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want to mess with that, or he's the coolest, the hippist,
the greatest. Yes, you can slug this segment in the podcast.
As do black guys pay better tribute to badasses than
other cultures do. I'm trying to think of a Hispanic
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artist it does that. Okay, So we got Santanah, what
is the song? Santana has a has a song that
that would fit here. Why is it not coming to me?
I was thinking, Maria, Maria, But that's about a woman.
A love song is a whole different category of song
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than talking about a dude. Is just a bad dude?
Elvis had was gosh, was it King Creole? What was
the one he had about that? You know what? I
was thinking about this off the top of my head,
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and I'll go back to it later. So the costs
of liberalism to the left were the election a number
of office holders around the country. The cost to corporations
has been so vast that companies, I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
So.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
The distributor of silver of bud Light in Houston for
a very long time was a man named John Now
military veteran, I think he was Vietnam. He was President
Bush forty three's chairman of the National Historical Association, and
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he got very involved with that. He was a big, big,
big benefactor in Republican Party politics for decades, probably still is.
I haven't seen him in a while. Really really sharp dresser,
like like Ivan Bosky style sharp dresser. And he was
beloved in the greater Houston area, and I took a
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tour of his He was the distributor of Budweiser products
in this region. The beer distillers do like the car
dealers do. They authorize you to be a distributor of
their product. In the state of Texas, the distributors have
more power than the breweries. The distributors became very powerful
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and basically wrote the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission laws
of you know when you can sell drinks and you
know everything related to that. Budweiser. The number one Budweiser
market in the country, he told me at the time,
was Houston Greater Houston area. His distributorship had more Budweiser
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under its roof. It's hundreds of thousands of gare feet.
His distributor had more Budweiser under its roof than the
brewery in Saint Louis had on site. That's how much
product he was moving. When I opened a bar. I
had a bar in Houston called a Redneck country Club.
We closed during COVID for obvious reasons. We couldn't have
gatherings and all that, and my burn rate was too
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high to hold on to fifty five people during that
kind of break, which ended up would have been fourteen
months before I could have done another concert. So I
sold the property. Bummer dream come true. Now it was over.
But they, like the other dealers distributors, reached out, what
do you need? You need signage, what do you need?
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You need? You want to help booking an artist? You
want advice on this, you want me. They wanted you
to succeed because you were selling Budweiser. Budweiser was the
dominant beer in the region. Wasn't even close. I know
the Huggins family that are the Miller distributors. I know
the Faust family that are the other Miller distributors. They
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have two different sides of Houston. Houston's a big town,
but their sales were not anywhere near what silver Ega was.
So then a friend of mine named Johnny Johnson, who
was the number two under Jim. Under john now he
takes over and he continues a lot of charity, a
lot of helping you know, businesses that sell beer succeed,
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holding a lot of community events. They always anytime ever
had anything for veterans, they would do it. And I
got to tell you they had so much goodwill, so
much goodwill in this community of the greater Houston area.
It was, you know, Donald Trump walking into mar A Lago.
Budweiser dominated the market, not just as a product, but
as a brand as a lifestyle. Mexican working class love
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boode Light, White guy, working class bud Light. You know,
rich guy with his private ranch and his private jet
and you're putting his boots on his belt. Bult bud Light,
and it was bud Light. It was bud Light for everybody. Well,
blacks don't drink a lot of beer, So I don't
know that bud Light was big with blacks. I don't
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know that. It's a good question. I don't know. But
then the Dylan mulvaney thing happened, and I haven't seen somebody.
And it hurts my heart for Johnny Johnson because he's
such a great guy. They've had to pivot to other things,
and he is. He didn't have anything to do with it.
He hated it, and it's cost him a lot of money.
And he's a great human being. He's done a lot
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for a lot of good causes. The point is, go woke,
go broke. Here's Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
First of all, the Democrat Party has gone woke, and
now they have gone broke. They have their lowest approval
ratings ever, and they are rallying around two of the
most far left leaders in their party, AOC and Jasmine Krockett.
So that tells you the current state of the Democrat Party. Meanwhile,
President Trump is enjoying some of his highest favorability ratings ever.
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He is more popular with the American public than he
has ever been, which is truly remarkable when you think
about all of the lies, hoaxes, and smears he has
suffered at the behest of the lying fake news media.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Your speakers smart devices from Michael's brain, one of them,
to your ears. This is the Michael Arry Show. Will
I don't want to say worship, it's the wrong word.
That they will HiPE. They will praise someone that they
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admire in a way that white people typically not take
the exception of that moment do not. That's what made
it so weird for people when Barack Obama was running
and then elected that people, you know, Barack Obama gonna
solve my problem. Back Obama, going back Obama, superman, Brock Obama.
And he's sort of like, do you understand He's no
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different than the others. He's a clown, a conniver, a swindler. No,
he's not special. Just because he's half black does not
make him and he doesn't care about you. Just see
you know, sweetheart. But we hadn't seen that level of worship. Well,
I had, because if you go to a black church
in the South, especially, there are pastors that I have
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seen in the pulpit who are so I don't want
to say worshiped because that's blasphemous and that's not what
I intend. They are so beloved by their parishioners. They
are so beloved by their parishioners that I'd never seen that.
You know, ed young long time pastor of Second Baptist
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Church here well regarded, beloved, but not in this overt way.
You know, people would want him to come to lunch
at their home because he's like a king. He's so regally,
so well respected, and it's a big news over a
thirty thousand member churches, and you know, it's such an
honor to even be at his presence. It's not like
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a small town or I was where you know, I'd
go up and give the pastor a hug at the
end of the service. My whole family did. We had
that kind of close friendship with him. But for a
black pastor and a black congregation, especially the poorer ones,
there are people that their will would say, just leave
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everything to the church of the pastor. When the pastor
would go on vacation, they would do a love offering,
they call it, and you would walk up and pastor
would be up there sitting on his chair, and they
would literally drop cash on the steps leading up to
the pastor. I'm not passing judgment on I'm commenting and observing.
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People often want to know. I often want to assume
that if I state something, I'm insulting it. I'm not.
It's it's not my thing, but if it's yours, so
be it. Many of these pastors were, and some of
them still are, my friend. They helped me get elected,
They were supporters of mine. Now some of them don't
like that I have criticized certain political things over the years,
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but most of them know that that's who I was
and am, and a lot of them share my opinion
that just can't say it publicly anyway. The only time
I have seen an exception to this where I have
seen white people the equivalent of worship or it's a
word more than love and I don't. I can't think
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what the word would be idolize would be President Trump.
I've never seen he is a true juggernaut. There are
people there were you know he said during the twenty
sixteen campaign, he said, Well, what was reported is that
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he said I could shoot somebody on Main Street on
I'm sorry, I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and
that y'all would still support me. Well, actually that was written,
and then he read that they had said it, and
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now they had him saying it, and out of context,
they printed it as if he had just said it
I could, I'd do whatever I'm done from I can
kill somebody on Fifth Avenue and they won't do anything
about it. Well, they they cut just a portion of
him saying that. The media says that I don't believe
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that's true, but I do know that something happened during
twenty sixteen. The grab them by the whohu comment. That
was the knockout shot. That was where they were going
to end Donald Trump. And my at that point forty
six years of political experience, said to me, they got
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him this time. They got him this time, they got
the audio, and it's not being doubted. They've got Billy
Bush saying it's on the deal, it's authenticated. They got him,
they got him dead to rights. The campaign is over,
he's finished, and something amazing happened, And I think this
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is a good thing. Voters who for years would have
abandoned Republican voters consistent what we call three are they
voting three Republican primaries in a row. They would have
abandoned Donald Trump. They would have sorry, they would have
abandoned any Republican before that. George Bush would have been finished,
his dad would have been definitely finished. They would have said, no,
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you're immoral, said a bad thing. I can't support you.
I'm ashamed of you, and they wouldn't voted for him.
But remember the context of twenty sixteen. We just lived
through four years of Joe Biden or whoever was actually
running things. After eight years of Barack Obama, Americans were
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never going back. So the media was not going to
There was nothing you could say that was that the
media was going to be able to change your vote.
And if that means that they say that he shoots
somebody on Fifth Avenue, and so be it. If that
means they call you hay seeds or cult members. Yeah,
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we're in a cult. We brainwashed people to think for themselves.
I stole that from a meme. Yeah, that's our cult.
Our cult is think for yourself, not what someone in
the media tells you. Stop thinking they're objective, Stop thinking
they are more knowledgeable than you. They're partisan hacks. Period
in the story. So when we look at what this
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movement is that we're in the middle of, you never
know what you're in the middle of until you're not
in the middle of it anymore. And it's long gone.
And that's unfortunate. And I tell the story sometimes if
you if you have kids, you're gonna pick up your
She's gonna fall asleep in the back seat when she's
four six. I don't know how big and strong you
are and how big she is, there's going to be
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an age that you're going to pick her up, throw
her over your shoulder, and with your other arm you're
gonna do the finger to the to the lips to
tell the siblings should be quiet and wake her back up.
Let's put her to bed. It's a school name. We
get her in bed, and your wife gives you the
most loving look when she sees you with that baby
over your shoulder. That is where the animal inside us
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comes out. That is you being a father in the
most biological way possible. You are carry your strength is
on display carrying your daughter or your son to put
them in bed after the drive home, and it is
such a beautiful, special moment. And that's going to happen
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to you. It happens to all of us. My boys
are bigger than I am now they would have to
put me on their shoulder. That's going to happen to
you the last time. It's going to be a time
that you throw that kid over your shoulder, and it
will be the last time. But you won't know it's
the last time, because at the moment, nobody steps in
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and says, hey, drink this one in. It's the last
time this will ever happen. You wish it d and
then it just never happens again, and you don't know
what happened, and they get too big. We are in
the middle of a moment right now, a movement that
we're going to look back and remember these things, and
it's going to be powerful.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Snowflakes through Fair for a complete meltdown.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
With more of the Michael Berry show Man alive. Earlier today, JD.
Vance spoke to the Marines, and there was such a
pep in his step when he went out on that stage.
And the reason is he's not some one hundred and
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twenty five year old vice president. He's not some guy
that's into the pageantry of it. He's not Mike Pence,
who's you know, just says on pro life all day
every day and doesn't have any other opinions. And the
other things he does is gets his haircut once a
week in the barbershop downstairs, and have his shoes polished,
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and you know, put on his tie and his wingtips
and stand around and be conservative. But he can't feel
it in his bones what that moment means. But for JD. Vance,
here's a guy who was a marine yesterday, or who
was a marine yesterday. Figuratively speaking, it wasn't many yesterdays
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that he was where they are and now he's up here.
But he doesn't want any separation. He wants them to
know I'm wanting you when you're here with me. And
it was beautiful, man, it was beautiful. It was special. Goley.
He's the first vice president to be a marine. But
he's young. He's turned out to be such an inspired
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choice on so many levels. But it was such a
moment because I just I don't know what those marines
were feeling. I don't claim to, but it just felt
like here was a moment these marines were relishing because
this is one of their own. Kamala Harris is not
one of their own. They know she doesn't give a
damn about them. They know she secretly hated them. They
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know that, intuitively, they know that. But here's a guy
that is one of them, here's a guy that had
their same fears aspirations yesterday and it was just so perfect.
It was so beautiful, what a moment. I'm just so
proud it was. It was a Carl Sandberg poem. It
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was it was Robert Rossed at jfkse inauguration reading the poetry.
It was Norman Rockwell's painting. I mean, it was just
everything was so right. Dare I say it? Ramon? It
was Whitney Houston singing the national anthem and what was
that ninety one in that white cute jumpsuit and the
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headband man Alive. You know, black people get very excited
about that, and as a result, some white people feel
like they're supposed to. No. No, we can all be
happy for Whitney. Just because some black people don't relish
things that are celebrated by a white guy. Don't let
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that make you be that way. That's just dumb anyway.
So there was JD. Vans and it harkens back a
couple of weeks ago. Pete hegseth is up at the
butt crack of dawn, you know, because it was still
dark outside and it's that kind of dark. We've all
been there, right, first time you went snipe hunting? Did
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you ever go snipe hunting? I did, Yeah, I went
snipe hunting. Every kid out there, especially in the South.
As you ask your granddaddy is your dad. Your mom
might not let your dad take you snipe hunting, but
ask your grandpa or your uncle, or if your dad
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has a has a friend who's kind of wild. You know,
your dad settled down when he got married. He used
to be wild too, That's why that guy and your
dad are friends. But back when your dad and that
guy ran around together before your dad was you know, responsible.
You won't believe this because he don't want you to
know it, but your dad was a little bit. He
was a little bit mischievous, shall we say, And then
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he got married and his buddy got married, but he
got divorced. And so his buddy, who you might even
call uncle, he might be Uncle John to you ask
him if if Uncle John can take you snipe hunting,
because it's an experience you should have in your life.
And I'll just leave it at that. Everybody should go snipehunting,
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and girls, you can go snipephunting too. There's another thing
that says you can. I had a buddy when I
was a baby lawyer, I was a long way from
having kids. His name was Andrea's Contramist. He was a
man's man. He's a big Lithuanian. His family was a
Lithuanian and he had played I think college basketball, and
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he I think he had competed internationally in like water polo.
He's about six seven, a big dude. And he married
a woman who was a professional volleyball player. So they
looked like a postcard for Sweden or Norway or something.
Just very very tanned, blonde, tall, athletic looking people like
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Tom Brady spawned sort of deal. But anyway, he being
a man's man, was blessed with daughters. Everybody knows this story, right,
the guy who just can't wait to have little boys,
they're going to be just like him. And you get
little girls. So what do they do. Well, what good
dads do is you dive in same as you would
with a boy. So that's what he did. So they
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got this thing called Indian Princess. And I think it's
a knockoff of Girl Scouts because the Girl Scouts got
too political or got into abortion. I don't know where
it came from, but I think it's and they do
camp outs and all this, and he got into that.
And you got to figure out a time. You got
to figure out an activity to do with your kids.
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There's no way around us. If you don't, the time
goes by. And it's got to be an activity that
you both enjoy, that you look forward to, and that
you can do frequently. It can be a boat. It
can be shooting bows in the backyard. It can be fishing, hunting,
playing ball, going to sporting events. It could be chess.
Crockett and I play chess. It could be anything. But
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you got to have activity that you do otherwise you
don't naturally just sit across the table and have conversation
if they're not living under your roof anymore. So you've
got to find some things that you have in common.
But anyway, he did the Indian princess thing, Ramon, I
just realized, we're out of time. I've got so many
things I got to get to.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I'm sorry I sometimes I ramble because I get into
these stories. I am so passionate about this country, our families,
our institutions, the future, and I sometimes I have this
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idea that I'm going to bring something up that's going
to spark in you, going to place in your heart
a desire to fix the problems wherever it is you are.
Maybe you're a small business owner, dad, a mom, a
pastor and assistant principal, little lead coach, whatever that's going
to be. And I really do. I take it so seriously.
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I am so passionate about it, and in the process
sometimes trying to present my case, trying to argue my
case by making it putting into a bite sized piece
with a good metaphor, because a good metaphor for me
really helps me put things into perspective. And I'm always
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searching for that. And so my apologies because I do
tend to ramble. I understand that, and I do tend
to get off track. But you know, it's the journey
that's enjoyable. It's like a Jerry Clower joke. It's not
the punchline, except for a coon hunting story shoot up
here amongst us, one of us got to have some relief.
That is both a great journey along the story. Oh
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and the other one is the possible. I don't want
to ruin it, but when they stop the train to
sell the train apossible. That's another one with a good punchline.
But most of them are just the journey. So I
enjoy you taking this journey with us and me getting
to be there with you and your vehicle or wherever
you are. So thank you. Tell us that lot good
doing to you. Thank you, and goodnight,