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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. I just
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got an email.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm a company with which I do business and the
person at that company they're not a show sponsor, so
I could say their name, but I'm not going to.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
There's no reason too. They've they meant no harm. But
the email.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Is I hope your April is not too taxing. A
picture of her the bottom, Happy tax day. There.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You know what, Maybe this works on women. Maybe it does.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Maybe they don't realize how cringe worthy this is to men.
One of my great frustrations doing what I do is
often there will be a woman in charge of the
relationship with me from a company. This usually happens with
big companies, and they'll have an internal marketing girl. She's
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usually a marketing assistant, it's her title, and she got
a psychology degree. She's a nice girl. She's done nothing wrong.
I don't mean to suggest I hate her. She's awful,
but she's the bane of my existence. And I almost
never speak for companies for which this is the case,
because she may actually have also on her side an
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ad agency, and the role of the ad agency is
to make me want to kill myself.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And the way they do that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Is they say, we want you to speak for John's Burgers.
I love John's Burgers. I know John. Yes, John loves you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You love him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
He asked us to make this happen. They would like
to sponsor your show. Great Me and John's Burgers, a
partnership made in Heaven. All right, y'all handle him paying
his bills. I'll handle telling my people why I love
Johns Burgers, which, as it turns out, I do. Okay, ye,
lots of exclamation marks going back and forth, and so
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they will send copy points and it will be a
list of forty eight things with lots of exclamation marks.
I don't know why women feel the need to in
in sentences with exclamation marks, is what are you doing
with the X eclamation marks? How would you know when
a sentence is racy or exasperated or intense because everything
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has exclamation marks. And so you got all these exclamation
marks the end of every sentence, as if that's just
basic punctuation. Lots of things, all caps. You're screaming, hello,
screaming here, calm down, I'm at that agent. Please don't scream,
and it will be and they'll say, we need to
refresh the copy. We need a what, Yes, refresh the copy.
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So with everything on the calendar, they have little ticklers.
So around February fifth, they'll say, are.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You feeling the love?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Because John's Burger's is ready for you to fill the
love at Valentine's Day with this special of twenty eight
percent off if you print this out and bring it
in and tell them that Michael Berry is in you. No,
I don't do that. I'm not gonna do that. I
never have done that. And my friend who listen would
ridicule me for doing that because they know that's not me. Oh,
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we have to have it, have to have it, got
to have, got to feel the love, got to feel
the love. We've got this, and so they it becomes
about them. They have created their whole Valentine's Day package,
and then we'll have an Easter package, and then we'll
have a Today, we'll have a tax Are you feeling
text today? Well, John's Burger's has got just what you
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need today. Only John's Burger's to help you out, what
with paying tactic and all is offering twenty percent off
if you mention this promotion and they think I'm going
to say all that, Well, that's not an endorsement. You
don't need me as part of that. You're just reading,
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You're just reading copy points. It's some Have you ever
even been to Johns Burger's and you find out the
person writing that she'd never even been there? She just
writing copy which is awful. Did I mention it's allf
and I won't do it now? Why did I bring
that up to them? There was a reason for that,
which email? Oh I just got that email.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh that's why. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was what
it was.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You know, I'm just wondering when when they put the
When when she tells on the Nacadocia's Facebook page that
there is you know, that her Louisvuitton inspired purse has
been misplaced. I mean I could see where you'd say,
you know, we were at stans Lecro mart, and we
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were at Susie's Erotic Boutique, and we were at Joe
Bob's Butt Plugs, and we were at when Family Toes
and Nails. Somebody that went there and found it. That
would help it narrow down. But why, pray tell, would
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you ever include in the description that your food stamp
cards are inside. I feel like I don't think anybody's going. Well, shoot,
I found a Louis Vauton knockoff. I did, and come
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to think of it, I'm in Nacadocia's and well, let
me you know what, let me just make sure. I
was going to go through it tonight and see what,
see what treasure I stumbled upon. But while I'm at it,
why don't I well, it's there, it's their food stamp cards.
That's too much information, As Rodney Kerton said, the pastor said,
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I don't believe I'd told that.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
And the preacher he always wants to point you out, Dney.
We got some new people here today with us.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
We ain't new it was there last year. Get on
with it.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Why don't they just told the fuddle lights out and
put a spotlight on you?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Make you an answer for fifteen minutes where the new paper.
We're the Sinning family, that's what we are.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But we went to a bab survival.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
If you ain't never been to one of those, and
you get.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
The opportunity, jump off a twelfth, make sure there's rocks
at the bottom, because you don't want to live through that.
That's where They try to make you feel like for
everything you've ever done in your whole life, and they
do a good job of it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was sitting on the back road of this church.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I was minding my own business, coloring. Preacher come out,
I llern, screaming, you don't get up comb forward today.
God's through way. You devil's got change.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I dropped my cray on.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
What he say? See you don't get up and come forward,
God's through way. Your devil's got change. You back there, color,
and I see you. It ain't funny. I got up crying.
I walked all the way up there. I've been drinking.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Preacher, he said, you tell it, brother, be CUsing.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He said, you tell it again.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I said to go. He said, oh, good Lord, I said,
I don't think i'd have told that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
There's some things ain't a Lord, don't let it know
about it. And I was the only one up there.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I'm believing God, but he made me look.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Like an answer that that way.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It ain't to walk up there. That's the bad walk back.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You're looking at you.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Cotty, just say this.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It is very well documented that words nowadays can actually
break your bones.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Are you not?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
That's right? The Michael Berry show their so Sandy Peterson
did a quick review of some cases at Katie ISD
of extreme violence. We have the case of the student,
the black male beating the snot out of the white female.
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Twenty twenty three at Back Junior High in Katie, one
of the girls involved in a fight was so traumatized
she couldn't go back to school. Another girl beat the
living daylights out of her. And according to that story
with Kho you this wasn't a fight. This was an
absolute brutal beat down. In twenty sixteen, and off campus
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after hours brawl between two Taylor High School students involved
head stomping and concussions. In twenty twenty two, a student
was stabbed to death in a fight outside of a
Katie ISD High school.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know, look, young.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Student's like the dog park. We were that way young students.
Males have to show out for the girls, right. You
want to fight the guy that's got the girl you want.
You want to fight the guy to show the girl
you want that you're tough. You've got unremitted love, unrequited love, and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You don't know how to show it. You're young and
dumb and full.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Of whatever else And fights will ensue. We're gonna beat
you in the football game. One kid breaks up with
another kid with another girl, and her brother.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Beats him up.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I got a good ass whipping much deserved massa ass
whipping by Stephen Fuslier when I was in high school
for something bad I said about his sister when I
broke up, which she didn't deserve. And I shouldn't have
done great learningless. My brother said, heard you got your
butt whipped. I did you want me to do anything
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about it?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I deserved it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What'd you do? I ran my mouth about her? Yeah,
you deserved it. Did you learn? Yep?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All right, Well I'm not telling mom and dad, please
don't life lesson out of character. Stupid thing made a
mistake man enough to tell it. Got my butt whipped
and should have got my butt whipped. And that's how
it works. Right, That's been going on since the dawn
of time. That's not what we're seeing now. To start with,
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the girl fights are as bad or worse than the
boy fights and more frequent. Number one, But number two,
I notice something in these videos that are and I'm
sorry that it's gonna I'm not sorry. This is gonna
upset some of you because I'm saying it, But if
I observe it, I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't care who it upsets.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I see videos of young blacks in fights, either with
a white kid, hispanic kid, or another black kid. And
when a kid is incapacitated, when they are on the
ground helpless, including sometimes knocked out, the then or the
attack does not discontinue and nobody makes them stop. There
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is the understanding when there are two combatants in a
fight by everyone around that if you let them go
at it the moment one has a distinct advantage, you
stop the fight. You will see these these hood rats
in these videos where some guy, and it might be
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a black guy walking down the street. Someone else comes
up and the other one is taking a shot on
somebody when they don't see it, knocks them out they're
on the ground. Then everyone runs up and stops them.
And kids get killed this way, not just kids, people
get killed. This is part of the world Star video library.
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It is a trend and and it speaks to something
that is far more sinister. There have always be, and
been and always will be fights. It is a form
of conflict resolution. Whatever you think about it. There's a
time and place for it. There's a manner of it
that you know. Pugilism is part of our society. We
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have boxing as a sport, okay, and any number of
other UFC and all sorts of other things. But the
idea that when someone is down you continue to hurt
them and passers by and your gang cheers and joins in.
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That is a level of darkness that speaks to a vacant, awful, stupid,
backward people, that subculture of people who do that. They're irredeemable.
They're irredeemable.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
The point at which we had to have police departments at.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The schools, that was the moment. That was the moment.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
It was all over the fact that you have to
have a police department in these major school districts. That
is everything you needed to know of what went wrong.
We didn't need a school The cops were never called
to our school ever. First of all, mister Gentry had
played college football and he would have beat the snot
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out of you if you did anything. Mister Donner, the
assistant superintendent, there was a great fight between Chris Ashworth
and some punk that had moved in and it's punk.
You could stay in school till you're twenty one back then,
and then you had you were kicked out, no matter
what rage you're in. This guy was like a sophomore,
but he was twenty one. He'd come in from Louisiana.
He was rough, man oo man. At the time, I
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just thought, Oh, he's rough, he's gross, he needs to
go away. But I look back now and I go man,
the things that kid had seen twenty one in tenth grade,
and he was a quibodeau thibodeaux arsenal something.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He was mean.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Oh, it was mean. And he came in and he
fought Chris Ashworth, which was our starting right tackle all state,
big tough guy. And as often happens in fights like that,
the bigger boy starts with the advantage in the in
the younger the other, the smaller guy that's the better
fighter ends up winning. And that was also the case
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of Larry Cisk and Tracy Reeschu. There's probably only three
people listening who remember those fights under the bridge between
Orangefield and Bridge City, but it's.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Worth it just just that three people will.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Remember those stories, but all of those were fights that
were resolved with the black eye and a legend and
a story to tell, and you move on down the road,
and cops didn't need to be called. You've got a
situation now where you've got gangs in high schools. And
I'll tell you this, all of this can be traced
to the coalition between the black violent subculture and white liberals.
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Those two people combined to ruins that they can never
be in a position of authority, and they are in
the public school system.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
So hurry into cricket City.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
So here's a perfect example.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Houston Press, April fifteenth, taxing headline, it's a mess colon
Houston senior citizens fear recession from Trump's tariffs. All right,
Houston senior citizens fear recession from Trump's tariffs. Okay, you've processed.
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So you've got old people not in the workforce anymore,
afraid of a recession. A recession is a good thing
if you're on government benefits. A lot of these things
aren't aren't understood. If I'm getting Social Security, the opposite
of inflation is recession. I want a recession. I want
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less money in the economy. So if I got one
hundred dollars that I get from the government and my
Social Security and I got one hundred dollars, and I
gotta try to figure out how to eat as many
times as possible. I don't want an inflationary boom time
because then everybody's got all the money in the world
and I can't afford anything. But in a recession, my
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guaranteed amount of money that I get per year, per
month goes further. But that's all right. You're afraid of
Trump's tariffs because deep down he's a Nazi. Remember, all right,
here we go. Parthenia quote Miss pat end quote. Cheney
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was born and raised in Houston's Sunnyside community. I will
describe parthenia. I can't tell her age, but she's a
big black woman. She's sitting down and she's got a
walker in front of her, and then a lot of
stuff around. And she's at the Houston Health Department. I
see assigned by She's down at Houston Health.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Pert.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We've probably found her at the Houston Health Department, and
it says parthenia. Miss pat Chaney was born and raised
in houston Sunnyside community. She went to college at the
University of Houston, Clark Atlanta University, and the University of
Texas at Dallas and had a thirty seven year career,
first as a surgical nurse and later an accountant. She
moved back to the home she grew up in and
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is now one of millions of Americans barely getting by
on a monthly government check. Okay, well, that has nothing
to do with Trump's tariffs, nothing to do but the
check she gets from the government is not as much
as she would like. Now, if she got two thousand
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and more per month in her government checks, do you
think she'd say she still just barely getting by, Because
I do. But she's barely getting by, and that damn
Trump's gonna screw it all up with tariffs. Tariffs are
a tax on foreign products coming into this country that
has no effect on what she gets per.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Month, but we'll continue.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Cheney says she got a notice earlier this month that
because she had reached the quote official retirement age end
quote of sixty six point eight years old, her disability benefits,
because of course, she gets disability benefits stemming from a
twenty ten foot fracture that forced her into expensive orthopedic
shoes and left her unable to drive a vehicle will
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now be folded into her Social Security check. See them tariffs,
I guess she's not sure what the next payment will
look like. Adding to her fear and frustration are the
tariffs that President Donald Trump announced last week and then
walked back, at least temporarily. Yep, don't know what we're
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gonna do with them tariffs and all. I don't even
know how much my check on this month with them
tariffs in all, quote, things already tight, price is already.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
High, Cheney said.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The anticipation of all this is actually scaring me. I'm
not surprised. She says it, like, I know you don't
believe this, but I'm actually scared. No, I think you're
scared a lot. And that's okay, because I think old
people tend to get scared a lot. I spend a
lot of time around old people nowadays, and I can
tell you that old people are scared a lot. That's
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not an insult, it's not insensitive. That's the nature of
being old. Young people are not scared at all. Young
people are irrationally without fear. Old people are irrationally overcome
with fear. It's the human dynamic, she continues, just playing
old eggs are five dollars. Things are going up. Wait
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a minute, Parthenia, you probably don't know this because wherever
you consume your news, they don't tell you this. Inflation
in March went down the most it's gone down in
five years. Did you know that inflation went down? The
cost of goods went down two point four percent, So
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eggs aren't actually going up. Eggs have decreased more than that.
It was a temporary blip. Eggs have decreased more than that.
Do you not know that? Or would that not fit
your narrative because you don't really even know what a
tariff is, do you You don't know how it would
affect anything. You just kind of have a general sense
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that the people you trust, the Sheila Jackson Lee's and
Jesse Jackson's aren't standing around Donald Trump saying well after
every time he makes a statement. So you figure that's
not good for people like you, But actually it is.
She continues, I have medication costs, I have doctors that
I had to pay uber when I can't do metrolyft.
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The tariffs, Yeah, they scare me, they worry me. Well,
that's what helped, That's what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries won.
They want you scared and worried. Trump won't come to
your house. Parthenian, he come my house. Yeah, well, I'm
gonna get a gun. He gonna come when the metro
lyft comes to get you and takes you to all
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the government departments where you get all your government aid.
While you're there shamelessly, he will personally come in there
with his orange ass and that big oldhead of hair,
and all his white friends are gonna cause rich friends
are gonna come in there steal everything you got.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I believe it, I believe it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It also includes seventy oh sorry. Economists say it's too
soon to tell whether Trump's reciprocal reciprocal terriffs will tank
the American of Coon. We don't know yet, but we'll
figure it probably will. And Parthenia, she's scared and force
a recession. But Ustonians who live on fixed incomes say
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they're already feeling the effects. This includes people like Dan,
who says he lost one hundred thousand dollars in stocks
his retirement savings. It also includes seventy three year old
Fanny Patten, who worked for forty two years on an
assembly line for Goodman manufacturing, checking air conditioning units for leaks.
She met her husband at Goodman and the couple's been
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married for thirty nine years. Patent and her husband each
received about two thousand dollars a month from Social Security.
They don't live extravagantly. You know, you never hear the
man on the street described as living extravagantly. Do you
ever notice that you never hear them spending money they
don't have, And yet everybody's eat up with credit card debt.
I wonder how that works because people don't see themselves
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as living extravagantly. You let my dad look at their finances.
My dad still has a few dollars in the bank
on very little income.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Because we never ate out.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He would tell you, all these people live very extravagantly.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Ye ye, Michael Berry, you are to ring the King's English.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Doctor.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Ron Paul was an accomplished doctor. He delivered Selena imagine
now in Lake Jackson. He was well loved in his
community as a husband.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
As a father.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
He would raise a successful doctor who would go on
to be a senator from the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Ron Paul would talk a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
About government being evil, and in so doing he was
part of a long line of thinkers about the very
nature of government and government's weaknesses, which are human weaknesses.
Many people think of government as something that can be
built and then sat on a shelf and it'll just work.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
It involves humans, and that's where the error occurs. That's
why for every answer you come up with, like term limits,
if we can just have term limits, the same people
saying term limits want Trump to serve a third term,
which of course he can't. Now term limits. If we
had term limits, Michael, what happened is the people would
go down there and they would serve, and then just
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about the time they got evil, we'd go term limits
and they go, oh, dad, coming, I was gonna steal
y all blind, all right, And then they would turn around,
they go home, they go back to work, they go
back to doing whatever they were doing selling insurance or
real estate or prics and law that they were doing before,
and the government will work. Well, except it won't. That's
not how it works. You can't create a structure absent
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human beings. That's to set it and forget it, and
it works a lot of reasons term limits don't work.
I'm all for term limits. Don't get me wrong, except
they're not the answer you think they are. Elections are
That's how you take back your government. You get involved,
you stay involved, you run good people for office. But
Ron Paul famously said we should abolish the FBI and
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the CIA. He said the income tax is unnecessary. You know,
this country lasted till twenty thirteen without an income tax,
and then it was only supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
On the rich. That's how they get you.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Just a rich huh oh, sorry, nineteen thirteen, nineteen thirteen,
and they said it's only going to be on the rich.
And for the first three years, it was.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
What is it now?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Where did it end up? Where it always ends up.
People laughed at him when he talked about abolishing the
income tax.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
The income tax is unnecessary. Again, something happened in the
twentieth century where the American people decided that there would
be the steenth There's something happened where we have changed
our attitude about what we want from our government. We've
ushered in this overwhelming runaway welfare state that we cannot afford,
and we've also became an American empire where we have
troops around the world and we pay for the defense
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of Japan and Germany and everybody else. But at the
same time, you had to have two ways of financing
this one. We decided we'd have an income tax that
we would start subtle and small, that would escalate to
the point that it really is the biggest rip off
in the country, along with a federal reserve system that
allows us to monetize.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Sixty five years ago.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Well, I know, but since sixty five years we have
seen the deterioration of this society that we love. I mean,
the libertarian society is no longer with us because the
amount of tax coming out of the economy is still
much greater the amount of taxing GETA.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
We'll put the rest of that on the daily Blast today,
and I'm going to confirm that we can post the
video of the fight at Katie High School, which you
can't see anywhere else, on the Blast. If you are
not signed up for our blast, it's at Michael berryshow
dot com. It's once a day in between the two shows,
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five days a week. We never spam you. We don't
share your email. We don't sell your email, never have.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Never will.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Nobody laughed at President Trump when he stopped at a
barber shop to speak to the folks there, and he
was asked about abolishing the income tax, and he said
the exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Well, all this extra revenue we're going to be bringing
into the country. So do you believe at some point
in time we could find a way, once the country's
back on its feet and getting enough revenue and paid
off our debt, do you think it's possible to find
a way to eliminate federal taxes? There is a way.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
How do you feel about you know, in the old
days when we were smart, when we were a smart
country in the eighteen nineties, and all this is when
the country is relatively the richest it ever was. It
had all terraces, It didn't have an income tax, Yes, sir, okay.
Now we have income taxes and we have people that
are dying. They're paying tax and they don't have the
money to pay the tax. Now, in the old days
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eighteen ninety eighteen eighty, we had so much money they
had to set up committees, blue ribbon committees, how to
spend our wealth. We had no idea how to spend
it with so much money. Then we went to the
income tax system, and the rest is sort of history.
But no, there is a way, I mean, if we
if what I'm planning comes out, it's a great question.
By the way, everyone could have done it. They're a
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sophisticated cat.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
You know, everyone could attain the American dream if it
wasn't for the High Court. That the burden of high taxes,
and we tax at every step of the way when
we make.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It, and regulations and regulations. So I cut more regulations
in four years than any of the president by four times.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
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also send me an email directly from there. Let's close
the show on this tax day with one of our favorites.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's from Paul Harvey. Take It to the Take it
to the break. Oh that was going to be so good.
You don't see it. Yep.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
At running Need, the Magna Carter was handed to King
John on the end of a sword, denying to royalty
the right of unlimited taxation. If you know, it was
for us, the American people, to become the first and
recorded history ever voluntarily to surrender our rights to write
a property. Yes, we did with an innocent sounding constitutional amendment,
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the sixteenth, which says that Congress will have the power
to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived.
And we forgot to put any limit on the extent
to which we could tax ourselves. Conceivably, we could be
taxed out of all private property. We could be taxing
up seventy ninety percent, but one hundred percent. We could
awaken one morning and find that the government owns the
farm and the house and the car, and has a mortgage.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
On the church.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Legally, historically, whenever any nation has taxed its people more
than twenty five percent of their national income, the initiative
was destroyed and that nation was headed for economic eclipse.
History says, we'll roll forward on momentum for a little while,
but we'd better get some more gas in the tank
pretty quick. See ours is not the first by a
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Georgia good government to arise on the world stage. There
have been several Rome, Spain and Greece and China, and
each enjoyed about one hundred and fifty years at its
it that's just about our time in the New World,
and then each decayed away. Not one of them was
ever destroyed by anybody else's marching legions each rotted away morally, socially, culturally,
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economically simultaneously. You know, one of the most cruel paradoxes
of history is this. Because each was a good.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Government, it bore bountiful fruit.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
When it bore bountiful fruit, the people got fat.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And when they got fat.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
They got lazy. When they got lazy, they began to
want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and turn over
the government to do for them things which traditionally they
had been doing for themselves. At first, there appears to
be nothing wrong asking government to perform some extra service
for you.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But if you ask.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Government for extra services, government, in order to perform its
increasing function, has to get bigger, right, And as government
gets bigger, in order to support its increasing size, it
has to watch tax the individual more. So the individual
gets littler, and to collect the increased taxes requires more
tax collectors. So the government gets bigger. In order to
pay the additional tax collectors, it has to tax the
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individual more. So the government gets bigger, and the individual
gets littler, and the government gets bigger, the individual gets littler.
Until the government is all powerful, the individual is hardly
anything at all. The government is all powerful.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
The people are cattle
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. I just
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got an email.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm a company with which I do business and the
person at that company they're not a show sponsor, so
I could say their name, but I'm not going to.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
There's no reason too. They've they meant no harm. But
the email.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Is I hope your April is not too taxing. A
picture of her the bottom, Happy tax day. There.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You know what, Maybe this works on women. Maybe it does.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Maybe they don't realize how cringe worthy this is to men.
One of my great frustrations doing what I do is
often there will be a woman in charge of the
relationship with me from a company. This usually happens with
big companies, and they'll have an internal marketing girl. She's
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usually a marketing assistant, it's her title, and she got
a psychology degree. She's a nice girl. She's done nothing wrong.
I don't mean to suggest I hate her. She's awful,
but she's the bane of my existence. And I almost
never speak for companies for which this is the case,
because she may actually have also on her side an
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ad agency, and the role of the ad agency is
to make me want to kill myself.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And the way they do that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Is they say, we want you to speak for John's Burgers.
I love John's Burgers. I know John. Yes, John loves you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You love him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
He asked us to make this happen. They would like
to sponsor your show. Great Me and John's Burgers, a
partnership made in Heaven. All right, y'all handle him paying
his bills. I'll handle telling my people why I love
Johns Burgers, which, as it turns out, I do. Okay, ye,
lots of exclamation marks going back and forth, and so
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they will send copy points and it will be a
list of forty eight things with lots of exclamation marks.
I don't know why women feel the need to in
in sentences with exclamation marks, is what are you doing
with the X eclamation marks? How would you know when
a sentence is racy or exasperated or intense because everything
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has exclamation marks. And so you got all these exclamation
marks the end of every sentence, as if that's just
basic punctuation. Lots of things, all caps. You're screaming, hello,
screaming here, calm down, I'm at that agent. Please don't scream,
and it will be and they'll say, we need to
refresh the copy. We need a what, Yes, refresh the copy.
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So with everything on the calendar, they have little ticklers.
So around February fifth, they'll say, are.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You feeling the love?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Because John's Burger's is ready for you to fill the
love at Valentine's Day with this special of twenty eight
percent off if you print this out and bring it
in and tell them that Michael Berry is in you. No,
I don't do that. I'm not gonna do that. I
never have done that. And my friend who listen would
ridicule me for doing that because they know that's not me. Oh,
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we have to have it, have to have it, got
to have, got to feel the love, got to feel
the love. We've got this, and so they it becomes
about them. They have created their whole Valentine's Day package,
and then we'll have an Easter package, and then we'll
have a Today, we'll have a tax Are you feeling
text today? Well, John's Burger's has got just what you
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need today. Only John's Burger's to help you out, what
with paying tactic and all is offering twenty percent off
if you mention this promotion and they think I'm going
to say all that, Well, that's not an endorsement. You
don't need me as part of that. You're just reading,
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You're just reading copy points. It's some Have you ever
even been to Johns Burger's and you find out the
person writing that she'd never even been there? She just
writing copy which is awful. Did I mention it's allf
and I won't do it now? Why did I bring
that up to them? There was a reason for that,
which email? Oh I just got that email.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh that's why. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was what
it was.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You know, I'm just wondering when when they put the
When when she tells on the Nacadocia's Facebook page that
there is you know, that her Louisvuitton inspired purse has
been misplaced. I mean I could see where you'd say,
you know, we were at stans Lecro mart, and we
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were at Susie's Erotic Boutique, and we were at Joe
Bob's Butt Plugs, and we were at when Family Toes
and Nails. Somebody that went there and found it. That
would help it narrow down. But why, pray tell, would
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you ever include in the description that your food stamp
cards are inside. I feel like I don't think anybody's going. Well, shoot,
I found a Louis Vauton knockoff. I did, and come
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to think of it, I'm in Nacadocia's and well, let
me you know what, let me just make sure. I
was going to go through it tonight and see what,
see what treasure I stumbled upon. But while I'm at it,
why don't I well, it's there, it's their food stamp cards.
That's too much information, As Rodney Kerton said, the pastor said,
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I don't believe I'd told that.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
And the preacher he always wants to point you out, Dney.
We got some new people here today with us.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
We ain't new it was there last year. Get on
with it.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Why don't they just told the fuddle lights out and
put a spotlight on you?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Make you an answer for fifteen minutes where the new paper.
We're the Sinning family, that's what we are.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But we went to a bab survival.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
If you ain't never been to one of those, and
you get.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
The opportunity, jump off a twelfth, make sure there's rocks
at the bottom, because you don't want to live through that.
That's where They try to make you feel like for
everything you've ever done in your whole life, and they
do a good job of it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was sitting on the back road of this church.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I was minding my own business, coloring. Preacher come out,
I llern, screaming, you don't get up comb forward today.
God's through way. You devil's got change.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I dropped my cray on.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
What he say? See you don't get up and come forward,
God's through way. Your devil's got change. You back there, color,
and I see you. It ain't funny. I got up crying.
I walked all the way up there. I've been drinking.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Preacher, he said, you tell it, brother, be CUsing.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He said, you tell it again.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I said to go. He said, oh, good Lord, I said,
I don't think i'd have told that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
There's some things ain't a Lord, don't let it know
about it. And I was the only one up there.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I'm believing God, but he made me look.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Like an answer that that way.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It ain't to walk up there. That's the bad walk back.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You're looking at you.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Cotty, just say this.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It is very well documented that words nowadays can actually
break your bones.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Are you not?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
That's right? The Michael Berry show their so Sandy Peterson
did a quick review of some cases at Katie ISD
of extreme violence. We have the case of the student,
the black male beating the snot out of the white female.
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Twenty twenty three at Back Junior High in Katie, one
of the girls involved in a fight was so traumatized
she couldn't go back to school. Another girl beat the
living daylights out of her. And according to that story
with Kho you this wasn't a fight. This was an
absolute brutal beat down. In twenty sixteen, and off campus
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after hours brawl between two Taylor High School students involved
head stomping and concussions. In twenty twenty two, a student
was stabbed to death in a fight outside of a
Katie ISD High school.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know, look, young.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Student's like the dog park. We were that way young students.
Males have to show out for the girls, right. You
want to fight the guy that's got the girl you want.
You want to fight the guy to show the girl
you want that you're tough. You've got unremitted love, unrequited love, and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
You don't know how to show it. You're young and
dumb and full.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Of whatever else And fights will ensue. We're gonna beat
you in the football game. One kid breaks up with
another kid with another girl, and her brother.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Beats him up.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I got a good ass whipping much deserved massa ass
whipping by Stephen Fuslier when I was in high school
for something bad I said about his sister when I
broke up, which she didn't deserve. And I shouldn't have
done great learningless. My brother said, heard you got your
butt whipped. I did you want me to do anything
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about it?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I deserved it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What'd you do? I ran my mouth about her? Yeah,
you deserved it. Did you learn? Yep?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All right, Well I'm not telling mom and dad, please
don't life lesson out of character. Stupid thing made a
mistake man enough to tell it. Got my butt whipped
and should have got my butt whipped. And that's how
it works. Right, That's been going on since the dawn
of time. That's not what we're seeing now. To start with,
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the girl fights are as bad or worse than the
boy fights and more frequent. Number one, But number two,
I notice something in these videos that are and I'm
sorry that it's gonna I'm not sorry. This is gonna
upset some of you because I'm saying it, But if
I observe it, I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't care who it upsets.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I see videos of young blacks in fights, either with
a white kid, hispanic kid, or another black kid. And
when a kid is incapacitated, when they are on the
ground helpless, including sometimes knocked out, the then or the
attack does not discontinue and nobody makes them stop. There
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is the understanding when there are two combatants in a
fight by everyone around that if you let them go
at it the moment one has a distinct advantage, you
stop the fight. You will see these these hood rats
in these videos where some guy, and it might be
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a black guy walking down the street. Someone else comes
up and the other one is taking a shot on
somebody when they don't see it, knocks them out they're
on the ground. Then everyone runs up and stops them.
And kids get killed this way, not just kids, people
get killed. This is part of the world Star video library.
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It is a trend and and it speaks to something
that is far more sinister. There have always be, and
been and always will be fights. It is a form
of conflict resolution. Whatever you think about it. There's a
time and place for it. There's a manner of it
that you know. Pugilism is part of our society. We
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have boxing as a sport, okay, and any number of
other UFC and all sorts of other things. But the
idea that when someone is down you continue to hurt
them and passers by and your gang cheers and joins in.
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That is a level of darkness that speaks to a vacant, awful, stupid,
backward people, that subculture of people who do that. They're irredeemable.
They're irredeemable.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
The point at which we had to have police departments at.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The schools, that was the moment. That was the moment.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
It was all over the fact that you have to
have a police department in these major school districts. That
is everything you needed to know of what went wrong.
We didn't need a school The cops were never called
to our school ever. First of all, mister Gentry had
played college football and he would have beat the snot
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out of you if you did anything. Mister Donner, the
assistant superintendent, there was a great fight between Chris Ashworth
and some punk that had moved in and it's punk.
You could stay in school till you're twenty one back then,
and then you had you were kicked out, no matter
what rage you're in. This guy was like a sophomore,
but he was twenty one. He'd come in from Louisiana.
He was rough, man oo man. At the time, I
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just thought, Oh, he's rough, he's gross, he needs to
go away. But I look back now and I go man,
the things that kid had seen twenty one in tenth grade,
and he was a quibodeau thibodeaux arsenal something.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He was mean.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Oh, it was mean. And he came in and he
fought Chris Ashworth, which was our starting right tackle all state,
big tough guy. And as often happens in fights like that,
the bigger boy starts with the advantage in the in
the younger the other, the smaller guy that's the better
fighter ends up winning. And that was also the case
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of Larry Cisk and Tracy Reeschu. There's probably only three
people listening who remember those fights under the bridge between
Orangefield and Bridge City, but it's.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Worth it just just that three people will.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Remember those stories, but all of those were fights that
were resolved with the black eye and a legend and
a story to tell, and you move on down the road,
and cops didn't need to be called. You've got a
situation now where you've got gangs in high schools. And
I'll tell you this, all of this can be traced
to the coalition between the black violent subculture and white liberals.
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Those two people combined to ruins that they can never
be in a position of authority, and they are in
the public school system.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
So hurry into cricket City.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
So here's a perfect example.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Houston Press, April fifteenth, taxing headline, it's a mess colon
Houston senior citizens fear recession from Trump's tariffs. All right,
Houston senior citizens fear recession from Trump's tariffs. Okay, you've processed.
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So you've got old people not in the workforce anymore,
afraid of a recession. A recession is a good thing
if you're on government benefits. A lot of these things
aren't aren't understood. If I'm getting Social Security, the opposite
of inflation is recession. I want a recession. I want
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less money in the economy. So if I got one
hundred dollars that I get from the government and my
Social Security and I got one hundred dollars, and I
gotta try to figure out how to eat as many
times as possible. I don't want an inflationary boom time
because then everybody's got all the money in the world
and I can't afford anything. But in a recession, my
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guaranteed amount of money that I get per year, per
month goes further. But that's all right. You're afraid of
Trump's tariffs because deep down he's a Nazi. Remember, all right,
here we go. Parthenia quote Miss pat end quote. Cheney
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was born and raised in Houston's Sunnyside community. I will
describe parthenia. I can't tell her age, but she's a
big black woman. She's sitting down and she's got a
walker in front of her, and then a lot of
stuff around. And she's at the Houston Health Department. I
see assigned by She's down at Houston Health.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Pert.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We've probably found her at the Houston Health Department, and
it says parthenia. Miss pat Chaney was born and raised
in houston Sunnyside community. She went to college at the
University of Houston, Clark Atlanta University, and the University of
Texas at Dallas and had a thirty seven year career,
first as a surgical nurse and later an accountant. She
moved back to the home she grew up in and
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is now one of millions of Americans barely getting by
on a monthly government check. Okay, well, that has nothing
to do with Trump's tariffs, nothing to do but the
check she gets from the government is not as much
as she would like. Now, if she got two thousand
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and more per month in her government checks, do you
think she'd say she still just barely getting by, Because
I do. But she's barely getting by, and that damn
Trump's gonna screw it all up with tariffs. Tariffs are
a tax on foreign products coming into this country that
has no effect on what she gets per.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Month, but we'll continue.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Cheney says she got a notice earlier this month that
because she had reached the quote official retirement age end
quote of sixty six point eight years old, her disability benefits,
because of course, she gets disability benefits stemming from a
twenty ten foot fracture that forced her into expensive orthopedic
shoes and left her unable to drive a vehicle will
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now be folded into her Social Security check. See them tariffs,
I guess she's not sure what the next payment will
look like. Adding to her fear and frustration are the
tariffs that President Donald Trump announced last week and then
walked back, at least temporarily. Yep, don't know what we're
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gonna do with them tariffs and all. I don't even
know how much my check on this month with them
tariffs in all, quote, things already tight, price is already.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
High, Cheney said.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The anticipation of all this is actually scaring me. I'm
not surprised. She says it, like, I know you don't
believe this, but I'm actually scared. No, I think you're
scared a lot. And that's okay, because I think old
people tend to get scared a lot. I spend a
lot of time around old people nowadays, and I can
tell you that old people are scared a lot. That's
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not an insult, it's not insensitive. That's the nature of
being old. Young people are not scared at all. Young
people are irrationally without fear. Old people are irrationally overcome
with fear. It's the human dynamic, she continues, just playing
old eggs are five dollars. Things are going up. Wait
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a minute, Parthenia, you probably don't know this because wherever
you consume your news, they don't tell you this. Inflation
in March went down the most it's gone down in
five years. Did you know that inflation went down? The
cost of goods went down two point four percent, So
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eggs aren't actually going up. Eggs have decreased more than that.
It was a temporary blip. Eggs have decreased more than that.
Do you not know that? Or would that not fit
your narrative because you don't really even know what a
tariff is, do you You don't know how it would
affect anything. You just kind of have a general sense
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that the people you trust, the Sheila Jackson Lee's and
Jesse Jackson's aren't standing around Donald Trump saying well after
every time he makes a statement. So you figure that's
not good for people like you, But actually it is.
She continues, I have medication costs, I have doctors that
I had to pay uber when I can't do metrolyft.
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The tariffs, Yeah, they scare me, they worry me. Well,
that's what helped, That's what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries won.
They want you scared and worried. Trump won't come to
your house. Parthenian, he come my house. Yeah, well, I'm
gonna get a gun. He gonna come when the metro
lyft comes to get you and takes you to all
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the government departments where you get all your government aid.
While you're there shamelessly, he will personally come in there
with his orange ass and that big oldhead of hair,
and all his white friends are gonna cause rich friends
are gonna come in there steal everything you got.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I believe it, I believe it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It also includes seventy oh sorry. Economists say it's too
soon to tell whether Trump's reciprocal reciprocal terriffs will tank
the American of Coon. We don't know yet, but we'll
figure it probably will. And Parthenia, she's scared and force
a recession. But Ustonians who live on fixed incomes say
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they're already feeling the effects. This includes people like Dan,
who says he lost one hundred thousand dollars in stocks
his retirement savings. It also includes seventy three year old
Fanny Patten, who worked for forty two years on an
assembly line for Goodman manufacturing, checking air conditioning units for leaks.
She met her husband at Goodman and the couple's been
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married for thirty nine years. Patent and her husband each
received about two thousand dollars a month from Social Security.
They don't live extravagantly. You know, you never hear the
man on the street described as living extravagantly. Do you
ever notice that you never hear them spending money they
don't have, And yet everybody's eat up with credit card debt.
I wonder how that works because people don't see themselves
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as living extravagantly. You let my dad look at their finances.
My dad still has a few dollars in the bank
on very little income.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Because we never ate out.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He would tell you, all these people live very extravagantly.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Ye ye, Michael Berry, you are to ring the King's English.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Doctor.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Ron Paul was an accomplished doctor. He delivered Selena imagine
now in Lake Jackson. He was well loved in his
community as a husband.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
As a father.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
He would raise a successful doctor who would go on
to be a senator from the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Ron Paul would talk a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
About government being evil, and in so doing he was
part of a long line of thinkers about the very
nature of government and government's weaknesses, which are human weaknesses.
Many people think of government as something that can be
built and then sat on a shelf and it'll just work.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
It involves humans, and that's where the error occurs. That's
why for every answer you come up with, like term limits,
if we can just have term limits, the same people
saying term limits want Trump to serve a third term,
which of course he can't. Now term limits. If we
had term limits, Michael, what happened is the people would
go down there and they would serve, and then just
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about the time they got evil, we'd go term limits
and they go, oh, dad, coming, I was gonna steal
y all blind, all right, And then they would turn around,
they go home, they go back to work, they go
back to doing whatever they were doing selling insurance or
real estate or prics and law that they were doing before,
and the government will work. Well, except it won't. That's
not how it works. You can't create a structure absent
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human beings. That's to set it and forget it, and
it works a lot of reasons term limits don't work.
I'm all for term limits. Don't get me wrong, except
they're not the answer you think they are. Elections are
That's how you take back your government. You get involved,
you stay involved, you run good people for office. But
Ron Paul famously said we should abolish the FBI and
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the CIA. He said the income tax is unnecessary. You know,
this country lasted till twenty thirteen without an income tax,
and then it was only supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
On the rich. That's how they get you.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Just a rich huh oh, sorry, nineteen thirteen, nineteen thirteen,
and they said it's only going to be on the rich.
And for the first three years, it was.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
What is it now?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Where did it end up? Where it always ends up.
People laughed at him when he talked about abolishing the
income tax.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
The income tax is unnecessary. Again, something happened in the
twentieth century where the American people decided that there would
be the steenth There's something happened where we have changed
our attitude about what we want from our government. We've
ushered in this overwhelming runaway welfare state that we cannot afford,
and we've also became an American empire where we have
troops around the world and we pay for the defense
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of Japan and Germany and everybody else. But at the
same time, you had to have two ways of financing
this one. We decided we'd have an income tax that
we would start subtle and small, that would escalate to
the point that it really is the biggest rip off
in the country, along with a federal reserve system that
allows us to monetize.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Sixty five years ago.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Well, I know, but since sixty five years we have
seen the deterioration of this society that we love. I mean,
the libertarian society is no longer with us because the
amount of tax coming out of the economy is still
much greater the amount of taxing GETA.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
We'll put the rest of that on the daily Blast today,
and I'm going to confirm that we can post the
video of the fight at Katie High School, which you
can't see anywhere else, on the Blast. If you are
not signed up for our blast, it's at Michael berryshow
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(27:43):
five days a week. We never spam you. We don't
share your email. We don't sell your email, never have.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Never will.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Nobody laughed at President Trump when he stopped at a
barber shop to speak to the folks there, and he
was asked about abolishing the income tax, and he said
the exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Well, all this extra revenue we're going to be bringing
into the country. So do you believe at some point
in time we could find a way, once the country's
back on its feet and getting enough revenue and paid
off our debt, do you think it's possible to find
a way to eliminate federal taxes? There is a way.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
How do you feel about you know, in the old
days when we were smart, when we were a smart
country in the eighteen nineties, and all this is when
the country is relatively the richest it ever was. It
had all terraces, It didn't have an income tax, Yes, sir, okay.
Now we have income taxes and we have people that
are dying. They're paying tax and they don't have the
money to pay the tax. Now, in the old days
(28:37):
eighteen ninety eighteen eighty, we had so much money they
had to set up committees, blue ribbon committees, how to
spend our wealth. We had no idea how to spend
it with so much money. Then we went to the
income tax system, and the rest is sort of history.
But no, there is a way, I mean, if we
if what I'm planning comes out, it's a great question.
By the way, everyone could have done it. They're a
(28:58):
sophisticated cat.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
You know, everyone could attain the American dream if it
wasn't for the High Court. That the burden of high taxes,
and we tax at every step of the way when
we make.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It, and regulations and regulations. So I cut more regulations
in four years than any of the president by four times.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
So sign up for the Blast Michael Berrys Show dot com.
You can buy our merch there as well. You can
also send me an email directly from there. Let's close
the show on this tax day with one of our favorites.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's from Paul Harvey. Take It to the Take it
to the break. Oh that was going to be so good.
You don't see it. Yep.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
At running Need, the Magna Carter was handed to King
John on the end of a sword, denying to royalty
the right of unlimited taxation. If you know, it was
for us, the American people, to become the first and
recorded history ever voluntarily to surrender our rights to write
a property. Yes, we did with an innocent sounding constitutional amendment,
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the sixteenth, which says that Congress will have the power
to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived.
And we forgot to put any limit on the extent
to which we could tax ourselves. Conceivably, we could be
taxed out of all private property. We could be taxing
up seventy ninety percent, but one hundred percent. We could
awaken one morning and find that the government owns the
farm and the house and the car, and has a mortgage.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
On the church.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Legally, historically, whenever any nation has taxed its people more
than twenty five percent of their national income, the initiative
was destroyed and that nation was headed for economic eclipse.
History says, we'll roll forward on momentum for a little while,
but we'd better get some more gas in the tank
pretty quick. See ours is not the first by a
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Georgia good government to arise on the world stage. There
have been several Rome, Spain and Greece and China, and
each enjoyed about one hundred and fifty years at its
it that's just about our time in the New World,
and then each decayed away. Not one of them was
ever destroyed by anybody else's marching legions each rotted away morally, socially, culturally,
(31:14):
economically simultaneously. You know, one of the most cruel paradoxes
of history is this. Because each was a good.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Government, it bore bountiful fruit.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
When it bore bountiful fruit, the people got fat.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And when they got fat.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
They got lazy. When they got lazy, they began to
want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and turn over
the government to do for them things which traditionally they
had been doing for themselves. At first, there appears to
be nothing wrong asking government to perform some extra service
for you.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But if you ask.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Government for extra services, government, in order to perform its
increasing function, has to get bigger, right, And as government
gets bigger, in order to support its increasing size, it
has to watch tax the individual more. So the individual
gets littler, and to collect the increased taxes requires more
tax collectors. So the government gets bigger. In order to
pay the additional tax collectors, it has to tax the
(32:11):
individual more. So the government gets bigger, and the individual
gets littler, and the government gets bigger, the individual gets littler.
Until the government is all powerful, the individual is hardly
anything at all. The government is all powerful.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
The people are cattle
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