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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load from
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What does up must come down? Spinning wheel cut to borrow.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The bottom line is the White House was lying not
only to the press, not only to the public, but
they were lying to members of their own.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Cabinet a painted pony let the spin and wheel spin.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to donors
about how bad things had gotten. And then after the
election we found out all of these things that when
you looked at what was going on with President Biden
at the time, it probably doesn't surprise you the extent
to which he was to right.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
A painted pony let the spin and uncur.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So the White House position. Doctor Kevin O'Connor was telling
White House as that President Biden's deterioration of his spine,
the degeneration was so significant that if he fell one
more time, that he might have to be in a
wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I twelve.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
President Biden, you know regularly, well sometimes several times in
a week, well usually several times in a week.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Is as good as it's been over the years. I've
been speaking to him for thirty years, since we worked
on the Brady Ability.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Assault Weapons Band when I was a young congressman.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
And he's fine.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
All this rightling propaganda that his mental acuity has declined
as wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
He's been winning elections some one his way.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Ten you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Spinning wheel spinding true trumb Are you trouble on the
river side? Catch a paided pony on the spinning wheel?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline?
I've been testing and constantly testing. Look all you.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
All I gotta do is watch me, and I can
hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Of the man I'm running.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
A ass.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Have changed in the way that now you're in a
situation where the forty fewer people coming across the border illegally.
It's better when he left office, and I'm going to
continue to move until we get the total band on,
the total initiative relative to what we're going to do
with more border control and.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
More President Trump, I really don't know what he said
at the end of this, and I don't think he
knows what he said either way.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Just for you steal in weird, steal into all your
trouble talking about Let a painted pony, Let the stending wheel.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Fly Bob Wright's Tzar. I just got back from celebrating
the graduation of my grandson Joshua from Northwest Technical College
in Bimidgi, Minnesota. He actually got his diploma for college
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on Friday, before his diploma from high school on Saturday.
He was already a paid intern and has a full
time job waiting for him in August after a summer
of going on a mission to Honduras and counseling at
a summer camp. So proud of him as well. You
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shouldn't be, sir. I will say it again. There was
paper on my desk, all right, not Eric Swallwell. I
didn't want you to think it was, Oh you didn't you.
Oh never mind, find something for your kids to do
this summer. Preferably have them find it, even if it's
just a part time job, even if it's just a
basic part time job bussing tables at the local restaurant.
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Who you are going to grow into as an adult
is going to be shaped and formed by experiences. A
very small percentage of that is what you learn in
the school. How many of you graduated high school, knocked
around for a while and got hired on at the plant.
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Got hired on at the job, got hired on somewhere,
and you had to show up the first day and
figure it out. That's when you had a warp speed
growth in who you are. Why not give kids the opportunity.
They'll go back to school a different person. They'll go
back to school with a different understanding of what's going
on out there in the real world. Mark writes, I
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begain treatment, Tzar. Just want to let you know my
son was addicted to opioids in twenty eighteen. He went
to Mexico for the treatment. He researched it and found
this out on his own and asked if we would
send into Mexico for the treatment. My wife and I
were skeptical, but were desperate and did not know what
to do. We agreed and sent him to San Diego.
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He was picked up at the airport and driven to Tijuana.
He was there for a week, came home and cured
of his addiction. He graduated later that year with a
degree in mechanical engineering and is doing great. It worked
for us. Just wanted you to know, man it rips
my heart out when the kid's in trouble. Given that
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kids in their twenties or thirties, how it tears a
parent up Man Brian writes, why not quick thoughts on
Airbnb from Barcelona? Why not simply enforce ordinances against the
undesirable behavior rather than restricting the ownership rights by limiting
short term rentals. Sex on balconies charge people with public
in decency parking everywhere, have residential parking permits for specific streets,
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trash enforced littering ordinances against the property owner, allowed parties,
enforced noise restrictions. Barcelonas come out very strongly against STRs,
and many people blame them for housing price inflation. They're
mostly wrong. Housing price problems are due to California style
tenant protections, long term squatters, and high taxes that disincentivize
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new supply of long term leases. The libertarian and me
doesn't want government telling me how I can use a property,
and the way to ensure people still have freedom is
to enforce laws against the specific anti social behavior rather
than the economic model for a property. Localities could also
have a permitting system that charges appropriate fees to cover
additional costs. For example, sewer and infrastructure increases, which would
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allow people to still do Airbnb whilst covering the costs
of potential negative externalities add to the mix. I heard
from someone yesterday who's a resident of Jamaica Beach. We
had a fellow named Brandon McDermott on. He's a city
councilman in Jamaica Beach and he's a musician. His band
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performed multiple times at the RCC. I don't know him,
but he has emailed and I recognized his name, and
he said he ran for the city council in Jamaica
Beach out on the west end of Galveston, and they're
trying to crack down on the short term rentals. I
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had some pushback from some folks who lived there, one
of whom said that out of between one thousand and
thirteen hundred residents, something like forty percent or Airbnb. One
woman said that's not true. They're not actively Airbnb. They
went and applied for the license when the law came out.
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They rushed to get the license so they'd be grandfathered in.
The Other thing they said is yeah, without the Airbnb's half,
our restaurants have post. I don't know if that's true,
but something to consider with the Michael Berry to the
bowlines we go Wes, what do you truly believe.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
A thousand years ago Jesus walked on this herd, four
thousand years ago there was a great flood, and six
thousand years ago God created everything. Thank you, Michael, Sir.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
A fellow named Jim Valentino sent me an email with
a subject line friendship. He said, have you read Kipling's
poem The Thousandth Man? The poem touches me. I've never
found him myself. I believe few of us do. I
was talking about friends and what a real friend is
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and is not. I can't imagine a friend of mine
unfriending me over something I posted on Facebook. Anyone who
unfriends you on Facebook is not actually a friend. That's
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a term they used. It's silly. It's not really a friend.
If you can push a button and eliminate the ties
that bind us, real ties that bind us, that's not
an actual friend. We use the term loosely. An old
friend of mine. Hey, friend, that's not a person would
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give you a kidney if you were dying. That's not
the guy you would trust to be the executor of
your will when you died, if no one was looking
over their shoulder to make sure the money was spent
on your family wisely. Here was the poem The thousandth
Man by Rudyard Kipling. Might I have some music? Please
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see Paul Schaeffer had music already ready.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
Really so stupid, maybe a little lighter that' a word
bring it down?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yep, very good. One man in a thousand Solomon says,
we'll stick more close than a brother, and it's worthwhile
seeking him half your days if you find him before
the other nine hundred and ninety nine depend on what
the world sees in you. But the thousandth man will
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stand your friend. With the whole world round again. You
'tis neither promise, nor prayer nor show will settle the
finding for e nine hundred and ninety nine of them
go by your looks, or your acts or your glory.
But if he finds you and you find him, the
rest of the world don't matter or is. The thousandth
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Man will sink or swim with you in any water.
You can use your purse with no more talk than
he uses yours for his spendings, and laugh and meet
in your daily walk as though there had been no lendings.
Nine hundred and ninety nine of them call for silver
and gold in their dealings. But the thousandth Man's worth
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them all because you can show him your feelings, his wrongs,
you're wrong, and his rights your right. In season or
out of season, stand up and back at all in
men's sight. With that for your only reason nine hundred
and ninety nine. Can't bide the shame or mocking or laughter.
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But the thousandth man will stand by your side to
the gallows foot and after. I know I've told the
story before, but our audience is always cycling in and out.
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I was preaching one day on the subject of friends,
and I said that your friends, you should choose your friends.
If your friends, If I were to ask you to
name your friends and you didn't choose those people, they
just happened to be in your life, I would argue
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that unless you got really lucky, they're probably not the
best you could do. You need friends. In this world.
It's a cold, cruel place. Things can go against you.
You can go bro. You could be jobless, you could
be ill, your wife could leave you, your kid could
be harmed, your kid could be in trouble. The call.
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You may remember the show we did about you're in
trouble in a foreign country and you're in jail and
it's bad, and you get one call and know who
that one call would be, because that person would figure
out how to get you out. We were talking about
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a person with a skill set, a problem solver. Elon
Musk would get you out, even if he wasn't famous.
Elon Musk would get you out. Donald Trump would get
you out. People like this would figure out how to
get you out. Problem solvers overcomers, right, But we didn't
spend as much time on that day. Was the person
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who would have the will to get you out, the
person who wouldn't fall back in the bed and fall
back asleep, the person who would do anything, person who'd
come help you out in the middle of the night.
That that is a true friend. So there was a
woman getting cancer treatment at MD Anderson. She was from Boston,
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I believe, and she was the editor of a magazine
on I don't know business, so I forget what it was.
And she heard the show and she sent me an
email and she said, I heard you talking about being
strategic about your friends. Could I interview you, and so
I did. I violated my rule of not doing interviews
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because it was clear that she wasn't out for a
gotcha moment, and I told her you should be. I
said everything I have to say I said on the show.
It's really nothing else I could say. But she said,
you choose your friends. I thought that was fascinating. You
choose your friends, I said, I do.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I do.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I choose my plumber, I choose my doctor. I choose
my financial advisor, I choose my lawyer. I chose my wife. Yeah,
I choose the things that I choose, the automobile I drive,
I choose who I'm going to work with. Why wouldn't I?
Why would I? I leave that to chance? That'd be
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What are the odds it would turn out well if
you don't.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Just in here listening, Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Major League Baseball, it appears, is prepared to make Pete
Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame as well as
shoeless Joe Jackson. This chap's my ass so bad I
cannot even begin to tell you. I'll read you the article.
It's in Yahoo, so it's not exactly great journalism, but
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the facts are not in dispute. Major League Baseball Commissioner
Rob Manfred took a major step Tuesday toward allowing both
Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson into the Baseball Hall
of Fame. Manfred officially removed Rose, Jackson, and all other
deceased players from MLB's permanently ineligible list on Tuesday. He
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ruled that the league's punishment of banned individuals ends after
their deaths okay quote. Obviously, a person no longer with
us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover,
it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has
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more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with
no reprieve. Therefore, I have concluded that permanent ineligibility ends
upon the passing of the disciplined individual, and mister Rose
will be removed from the permanently ineligible list. The harm
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that people do, the small mind and did actions that
people take. So what is the point of let's restrict
it to the Baseball Hall of Fame? Maybe there's a
mission statement. I don't know that anybody knows or cares.
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Do the voters, the electors, the journalists review that, do
they stay true to it? Do they root for players
from the city that they cover. Do they root for
players that they liked as a fan? Is this the
embodiment of the gold standard of the game? These the
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guys who fundamental, fundamentally were the best players, the best hitters,
base steelers, fielders, pitchers, whatever was their mark of distinction.
Is that what it is? The best proficiency at the
skills of the game. I don't know. It is, after all,
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a game. People tend to lose sight of them. It's
just a game. It's not war, it's not heart surgery.
It's entertainment. It is no different than getting on a
stage and singing or telling jokes. Some people can't seem that.
Some people lose sight of that very important fact. It's
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just a game like tiddley wings or chess, nothing more. So,
why do you want Pete Rose in the Hall of
Fame now? Because everybody knows he needs to be there.
There is an argument to be made that Pete Rose
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is the greatest baseball player of all time. That's not
to say that on his best day he was better
than the best player. His body of work simply cannot
be matched. It cannot be matched length of time he did,
what he did, and the way he did it. The
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greatest switch hitter of all time, there's no question about that.
It's not even up for debate. The most number of
years hitting three hundred. I looked up his stats for
years ago. I think he played. I may have this wrong.
Somebody will be so happy to tell me I was
wrong by one year. But I think he played for
twenty three years, and I think he was an All
Star seventeen or nineteen of those. I mean, think about
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the number of years he was an All Star was
more than the number of years Ninety nine percent of
players even play much less at the top of the game.
To do what he did. He played third, he played first,
he played outfield. In terms of pure skill in the game,
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I would argue unmatched Abru's ability to pitch and hit.
I tell you what, this this uh, this guy that
gambled and they let off. That guy's numbers are exactly
what Babe Bruce numbers are at this point. And I
would argue it's a lot tougher today than it was
when Babe Ruth did it. There's a lot more. It's
a lot it's just harder, harder to do. The league
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could have kicked him out for gambling. But they didn't,
did they because they preserved their their uh ATM. There's
their their money machine. He's good for the game, and
he opens up the game in Japan and that's a
lot more fans. So you're saying you want Pete Rose
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in the Hall of Fame, which is a business. You
want Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame so that
you can make money off of people coming to the
Hall of Fame and and seeing in Cooperstown where he is.
You can draw attention to the game which has been suffering.
Let's be honest. That's why you had to pitch clock
at a number of other things. You can draw some
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You can bring a little controversy back into the game
because people stop talking about Pete Rose because he died.
You can make people think, okay, maybe they have a heart.
They put Pete Rose back in there. But here's the
problem with that. You didn't let the man enjoy the
honor that he earned from the league. But Michael, he gambled.
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Do you honestly think get everybody that has gambled that
they are aware of that they have punished. This is
the cruelest cut of all. You didn't. You could have
let that man be inducted and enjoy that honor, which
he desperately wanted. Now you didn't, so you can go
to hell. It's just evil, It's sure evil. But Michael
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Barry Shaw, Prince and Rick James in the late eighties
were the stars of their scene, and they then each
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had competing, dueling, battling opening acts that they produced and
sent out, and so it became a kind of a
not only are you and I rivals, but our kids
are rivals. Prince had one band called Vanity six. He
had another one called The Time, and as of the
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release of this song in nineteen ninety, they were The Time.
Later they would be Morris Day and The Time. You
probably know what their biggest hit was, but they had
a lesser known hit just as The Time in nineteen
ninety that song about a guy who's so smooth, so
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suave that he pleases the lady, and he is Donald
Trump black version. It is hard to over state the
extent to which Donald Trump was a cultural icon long
before he ran for office. I think in nineteen eighty eight,
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when they prepared the media that he was going to
run for president, I don't think he had any intention
of running for president. I think he wanted to draw
attention to his book, The Art of the Deal, because
he wanted the book to sell. Donald Trump was bored
of just being a rich guy who opened hotels and
casinos or by that time, he was already at the
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point that other people did it, and he slapped his
name on it. He built a brand. You talk about branding,
he built a brand that was the gold standard. People
would pay money to put his label on their whatever
it was they were doing because his label represented something.
He was in more movies than you would imagine. He
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was on more TV shows. He was on He haw
for God's Sakes, Saturday Night, Lie you name it, And
I believe in eighty eight he had no intention of
running for president, really running presidents. Wanted to draw attention
to it, and nobody knew whether he would run as
a Democrat or Republican. So all the politicians were kissing
up to him because they didn't know which side he
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was going to come down on, but they knew they
knew he was a cultural icon. His name id you know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't win the governorship of California because he
made promises to do something special. He won because he
was a terminator. Jesse Ventura didn't win well that that
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may not be true. That may not be true. I
think his star power helped him. But Jesse Ventura was
a hard core libertarian, and I think that excited a
certain young group that the likes of which would also
get excited over Donald Trump later. Anyway, just a little
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just a little something to throw in there. Do you
remember how ABC killed Amy Roeback's story on Jeffrey Epstein
and the Clintons. Some of you will remember this. Amy
Roeback had a story on Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons,
and she would later tell the story that the network
killed it. They killed her investigation. They did not want
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these things to come out here. She isn't her own words.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
I've had the story for three years. I've had this
interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on
the air.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
First of all, I was told, who's Jeffrey Epstein? No
one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Then the Palace found out that we had her whole
allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.
We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview
Kate as will that that also quashed the story. And
then and then Alan Dershowitz was also.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Implicated in because of the planes. She told me everything,
she had, pictures, she had everything.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
She was in hiding for twelve or as we convinced
her to come out, we convinced her to talk to us.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton, we had everything.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
I tried for three years to get it on to
no avail, and now it's all coming out and it's
like these new relev revelations and I freaking had all
of it. I'm so pissed right now, Like every day
I get more and more pissed because I'm just like,
oh my god, it was what we had was unreal.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Other women backing it up.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Hey yep Bred Edwards, the attorney three years ago, saying
like like there will come a day when we will
realize Jeffrey Epsteen was the most prolific.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Pedophile this country has ever known. I had it all
three years ago.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
The guest she had interviewed or was prepared to interview,
who could blow this thing wide open. She referred to
as Virginia Roberts. Virginia Roberts would go on to Mary
and become Virginia Jeffrey.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
A couple of weeks ago, Virginia Jeoffrey committed suicide. Her
attorney cast doubt on her suicide, saying quote, we've got
big question marks over it. Attorney Carry Lowden says that
she had shown no signs she wanted to harm herself
before she was found dead at her farm in Western
Australia last Friday. She says, when I got the phone call,
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I was like, are you joking? Because there was no
sign that that was something she was considering. There's suicide
and then there's misadventure. Virginia Jeffrey Nay Roberts said she
was sex trafficked by Epstein to have sex with the
United Kingdoms Prince Andrew when she was a teen. Jeffrey's
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death came just weeks after she took social media to
claim she had just days to live after allegedly being
injured in a March twenty fourth collision with the school bus.
Jeffrey's family said in a statement she lost her life
to suicide after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse
and sex trafficking. She was a light that lifted so many.
Can you imagine if you walked in and saw what
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did he did to these people? If you walked in
and saw what powerful people who are still hidden to
this day did at Epstein's Orgy Island, If you walked
in and see and saw it, how traumatized you would be.
That there are victims that went through it, and how
traumatized they need to be, And that there are people
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that will be on your television today wearing a so
wearing a suit, sitting upright as if they are honorable,
decent people who know all of it, may have been
there and are going out of their way to prevent
the truth from ever coming out.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load from
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What does up must come down? Spinning wheel cut to borrow.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The bottom line is the White House was lying not
only to the press, not only to the public, but
they were lying to members of their own.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Cabinet a painted pony let the spin and wheel spin.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to donors
about how bad things had gotten. And then after the
election we found out all of these things that when
you looked at what was going on with President Biden
at the time, it probably doesn't surprise you the extent
to which he was to right.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
A painted pony let the spin and uncur.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So the White House position. Doctor Kevin O'Connor was telling
White House as that President Biden's deterioration of his spine,
the degeneration was so significant that if he fell one
more time, that he might have to be in a
wheelchair and serve in a wheelchair.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I twelve.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
President Biden, you know regularly, well sometimes several times in
a week, well usually several times in a week.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
His mental acuity is great, it's fine.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Is as good as it's been over the years. I've
been speaking to him for thirty years, since we worked
on the Brady Ability.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Assault Weapons Band when I was a young congressman.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
And he's fine.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
All this rightling propaganda that his mental acuity has declined
as wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
He's been winning elections some one his way.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Ten you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Spinning wheel spinding true trumb Are you trouble on the
river side? Catch a paided pony on the spinning wheel?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline?
I've been testing and constantly testing. Look all you.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
All I gotta do is watch me, and I can
hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Of the man I'm running.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
A ass.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Have changed in the way that now you're in a
situation where the forty fewer people coming across the border illegally.
It's better when he left office, and I'm going to
continue to move until we get the total band on,
the total initiative relative to what we're going to do
with more border control and.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
More President Trump, I really don't know what he said
at the end of this, and I don't think he
knows what he said either way.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Just for you steal in weird, steal into all your
trouble talking about Let a painted pony, Let the stending wheel.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Fly Bob Wright's Tzar. I just got back from celebrating
the graduation of my grandson Joshua from Northwest Technical College
in Bimidgi, Minnesota. He actually got his diploma for college
(03:27):
on Friday, before his diploma from high school on Saturday.
He was already a paid intern and has a full
time job waiting for him in August after a summer
of going on a mission to Honduras and counseling at
a summer camp. So proud of him as well. You
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shouldn't be, sir. I will say it again. There was
paper on my desk, all right, not Eric Swallwell. I
didn't want you to think it was, Oh you didn't you.
Oh never mind, find something for your kids to do
this summer. Preferably have them find it, even if it's
just a part time job, even if it's just a
basic part time job bussing tables at the local restaurant.
(04:14):
Who you are going to grow into as an adult
is going to be shaped and formed by experiences. A
very small percentage of that is what you learn in
the school. How many of you graduated high school, knocked
around for a while and got hired on at the plant.
(04:34):
Got hired on at the job, got hired on somewhere,
and you had to show up the first day and
figure it out. That's when you had a warp speed
growth in who you are. Why not give kids the opportunity.
They'll go back to school a different person. They'll go
back to school with a different understanding of what's going
on out there in the real world. Mark writes, I
(04:58):
begain treatment, Tzar. Just want to let you know my
son was addicted to opioids in twenty eighteen. He went
to Mexico for the treatment. He researched it and found
this out on his own and asked if we would
send into Mexico for the treatment. My wife and I
were skeptical, but were desperate and did not know what
to do. We agreed and sent him to San Diego.
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He was picked up at the airport and driven to Tijuana.
He was there for a week, came home and cured
of his addiction. He graduated later that year with a
degree in mechanical engineering and is doing great. It worked
for us. Just wanted you to know, man it rips
my heart out when the kid's in trouble. Given that
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kids in their twenties or thirties, how it tears a
parent up Man Brian writes, why not quick thoughts on
Airbnb from Barcelona? Why not simply enforce ordinances against the
undesirable behavior rather than restricting the ownership rights by limiting
short term rentals. Sex on balconies charge people with public
in decency parking everywhere, have residential parking permits for specific streets,
(06:08):
trash enforced littering ordinances against the property owner, allowed parties,
enforced noise restrictions. Barcelonas come out very strongly against STRs,
and many people blame them for housing price inflation. They're
mostly wrong. Housing price problems are due to California style
tenant protections, long term squatters, and high taxes that disincentivize
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new supply of long term leases. The libertarian and me
doesn't want government telling me how I can use a property,
and the way to ensure people still have freedom is
to enforce laws against the specific anti social behavior rather
than the economic model for a property. Localities could also
have a permitting system that charges appropriate fees to cover
additional costs. For example, sewer and infrastructure increases, which would
(06:51):
allow people to still do Airbnb whilst covering the costs
of potential negative externalities add to the mix. I heard
from someone yesterday who's a resident of Jamaica Beach. We
had a fellow named Brandon McDermott on. He's a city
councilman in Jamaica Beach and he's a musician. His band
(07:13):
performed multiple times at the RCC. I don't know him,
but he has emailed and I recognized his name, and
he said he ran for the city council in Jamaica
Beach out on the west end of Galveston, and they're
trying to crack down on the short term rentals. I
(07:35):
had some pushback from some folks who lived there, one
of whom said that out of between one thousand and
thirteen hundred residents, something like forty percent or Airbnb. One
woman said that's not true. They're not actively Airbnb. They
went and applied for the license when the law came out.
(07:55):
They rushed to get the license so they'd be grandfathered in.
The Other thing they said is yeah, without the Airbnb's half,
our restaurants have post. I don't know if that's true,
but something to consider with the Michael Berry to the
bowlines we go Wes, what do you truly believe.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
A thousand years ago Jesus walked on this herd, four
thousand years ago there was a great flood, and six
thousand years ago God created everything. Thank you, Michael, Sir.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
A fellow named Jim Valentino sent me an email with
a subject line friendship. He said, have you read Kipling's
poem The Thousandth Man? The poem touches me. I've never
found him myself. I believe few of us do. I
was talking about friends and what a real friend is
(08:52):
and is not. I can't imagine a friend of mine
unfriending me over something I posted on Facebook. Anyone who
unfriends you on Facebook is not actually a friend. That's
(09:13):
a term they used. It's silly. It's not really a friend.
If you can push a button and eliminate the ties
that bind us, real ties that bind us, that's not
an actual friend. We use the term loosely. An old
friend of mine. Hey, friend, that's not a person would
(09:36):
give you a kidney if you were dying. That's not
the guy you would trust to be the executor of
your will when you died, if no one was looking
over their shoulder to make sure the money was spent
on your family wisely. Here was the poem The thousandth
Man by Rudyard Kipling. Might I have some music? Please
(09:59):
see Paul Schaeffer had music already ready.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
Really so stupid, maybe a little lighter that' a word
bring it down?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yep, very good. One man in a thousand Solomon says,
we'll stick more close than a brother, and it's worthwhile
seeking him half your days if you find him before
the other nine hundred and ninety nine depend on what
the world sees in you. But the thousandth man will
(10:40):
stand your friend. With the whole world round again. You
'tis neither promise, nor prayer nor show will settle the
finding for e nine hundred and ninety nine of them
go by your looks, or your acts or your glory.
But if he finds you and you find him, the
rest of the world don't matter or is. The thousandth
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Man will sink or swim with you in any water.
You can use your purse with no more talk than
he uses yours for his spendings, and laugh and meet
in your daily walk as though there had been no lendings.
Nine hundred and ninety nine of them call for silver
and gold in their dealings. But the thousandth Man's worth
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them all because you can show him your feelings, his wrongs,
you're wrong, and his rights your right. In season or
out of season, stand up and back at all in
men's sight. With that for your only reason nine hundred
and ninety nine. Can't bide the shame or mocking or laughter.
(11:48):
But the thousandth man will stand by your side to
the gallows foot and after. I know I've told the
story before, but our audience is always cycling in and out.
(12:11):
I was preaching one day on the subject of friends,
and I said that your friends, you should choose your friends.
If your friends, If I were to ask you to
name your friends and you didn't choose those people, they
just happened to be in your life, I would argue
(12:35):
that unless you got really lucky, they're probably not the
best you could do. You need friends. In this world.
It's a cold, cruel place. Things can go against you.
You can go bro. You could be jobless, you could
be ill, your wife could leave you, your kid could
be harmed, your kid could be in trouble. The call.
(12:59):
You may remember the show we did about you're in
trouble in a foreign country and you're in jail and
it's bad, and you get one call and know who
that one call would be, because that person would figure
out how to get you out. We were talking about
(13:22):
a person with a skill set, a problem solver. Elon
Musk would get you out, even if he wasn't famous.
Elon Musk would get you out. Donald Trump would get
you out. People like this would figure out how to
get you out. Problem solvers overcomers, right, But we didn't
spend as much time on that day. Was the person
(13:43):
who would have the will to get you out, the
person who wouldn't fall back in the bed and fall
back asleep, the person who would do anything, person who'd
come help you out in the middle of the night.
That that is a true friend. So there was a
woman getting cancer treatment at MD Anderson. She was from Boston,
(14:05):
I believe, and she was the editor of a magazine
on I don't know business, so I forget what it was.
And she heard the show and she sent me an
email and she said, I heard you talking about being
strategic about your friends. Could I interview you, and so
I did. I violated my rule of not doing interviews
(14:27):
because it was clear that she wasn't out for a
gotcha moment, and I told her you should be. I
said everything I have to say I said on the show.
It's really nothing else I could say. But she said,
you choose your friends. I thought that was fascinating. You
choose your friends, I said, I do.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
I do.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I choose my plumber, I choose my doctor. I choose
my financial advisor, I choose my lawyer. I chose my wife. Yeah,
I choose the things that I choose, the automobile I drive,
I choose who I'm going to work with. Why wouldn't I?
Why would I? I leave that to chance? That'd be
(15:04):
What are the odds it would turn out well if
you don't.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Just in here listening, Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Major League Baseball, it appears, is prepared to make Pete
Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame as well as
shoeless Joe Jackson. This chap's my ass so bad I
cannot even begin to tell you. I'll read you the article.
It's in Yahoo, so it's not exactly great journalism, but
(15:45):
the facts are not in dispute. Major League Baseball Commissioner
Rob Manfred took a major step Tuesday toward allowing both
Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson into the Baseball Hall
of Fame. Manfred officially removed Rose, Jackson, and all other
deceased players from MLB's permanently ineligible list on Tuesday. He
(16:06):
ruled that the league's punishment of banned individuals ends after
their deaths okay quote. Obviously, a person no longer with
us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover,
it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has
(16:27):
more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with
no reprieve. Therefore, I have concluded that permanent ineligibility ends
upon the passing of the disciplined individual, and mister Rose
will be removed from the permanently ineligible list. The harm
(16:55):
that people do, the small mind and did actions that
people take. So what is the point of let's restrict
it to the Baseball Hall of Fame? Maybe there's a
mission statement. I don't know that anybody knows or cares.
(17:18):
Do the voters, the electors, the journalists review that, do
they stay true to it? Do they root for players
from the city that they cover. Do they root for
players that they liked as a fan? Is this the
embodiment of the gold standard of the game? These the
(17:39):
guys who fundamental, fundamentally were the best players, the best hitters,
base steelers, fielders, pitchers, whatever was their mark of distinction.
Is that what it is? The best proficiency at the
skills of the game. I don't know. It is, after all,
(18:02):
a game. People tend to lose sight of them. It's
just a game. It's not war, it's not heart surgery.
It's entertainment. It is no different than getting on a
stage and singing or telling jokes. Some people can't seem that.
Some people lose sight of that very important fact. It's
(18:24):
just a game like tiddley wings or chess, nothing more. So,
why do you want Pete Rose in the Hall of
Fame now? Because everybody knows he needs to be there.
There is an argument to be made that Pete Rose
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is the greatest baseball player of all time. That's not
to say that on his best day he was better
than the best player. His body of work simply cannot
be matched. It cannot be matched length of time he did,
what he did, and the way he did it. The
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greatest switch hitter of all time, there's no question about that.
It's not even up for debate. The most number of
years hitting three hundred. I looked up his stats for
years ago. I think he played. I may have this wrong.
Somebody will be so happy to tell me I was
wrong by one year. But I think he played for
twenty three years, and I think he was an All
Star seventeen or nineteen of those. I mean, think about
(19:33):
the number of years he was an All Star was
more than the number of years Ninety nine percent of
players even play much less at the top of the game.
To do what he did. He played third, he played first,
he played outfield. In terms of pure skill in the game,
(19:57):
I would argue unmatched Abru's ability to pitch and hit.
I tell you what, this this uh, this guy that
gambled and they let off. That guy's numbers are exactly
what Babe Bruce numbers are at this point. And I
would argue it's a lot tougher today than it was
when Babe Ruth did it. There's a lot more. It's
a lot it's just harder, harder to do. The league
(20:18):
could have kicked him out for gambling. But they didn't,
did they because they preserved their their uh ATM. There's
their their money machine. He's good for the game, and
he opens up the game in Japan and that's a
lot more fans. So you're saying you want Pete Rose
(20:39):
in the Hall of Fame, which is a business. You
want Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame so that
you can make money off of people coming to the
Hall of Fame and and seeing in Cooperstown where he is.
You can draw attention to the game which has been suffering.
Let's be honest. That's why you had to pitch clock
at a number of other things. You can draw some
(21:00):
You can bring a little controversy back into the game
because people stop talking about Pete Rose because he died.
You can make people think, okay, maybe they have a heart.
They put Pete Rose back in there. But here's the
problem with that. You didn't let the man enjoy the
honor that he earned from the league. But Michael, he gambled.
(21:22):
Do you honestly think get everybody that has gambled that
they are aware of that they have punished. This is
the cruelest cut of all. You didn't. You could have
let that man be inducted and enjoy that honor, which
he desperately wanted. Now you didn't, so you can go
to hell. It's just evil, It's sure evil. But Michael
(21:43):
Barry Shaw, Prince and Rick James in the late eighties
were the stars of their scene, and they then each
(22:05):
had competing, dueling, battling opening acts that they produced and
sent out, and so it became a kind of a
not only are you and I rivals, but our kids
are rivals. Prince had one band called Vanity six. He
had another one called The Time, and as of the
(22:26):
release of this song in nineteen ninety, they were The Time.
Later they would be Morris Day and The Time. You
probably know what their biggest hit was, but they had
a lesser known hit just as The Time in nineteen
ninety that song about a guy who's so smooth, so
(22:47):
suave that he pleases the lady, and he is Donald
Trump black version. It is hard to over state the
extent to which Donald Trump was a cultural icon long
before he ran for office. I think in nineteen eighty eight,
(23:14):
when they prepared the media that he was going to
run for president, I don't think he had any intention
of running for president. I think he wanted to draw
attention to his book, The Art of the Deal, because
he wanted the book to sell. Donald Trump was bored
of just being a rich guy who opened hotels and
casinos or by that time, he was already at the
(23:39):
point that other people did it, and he slapped his
name on it. He built a brand. You talk about branding,
he built a brand that was the gold standard. People
would pay money to put his label on their whatever
it was they were doing because his label represented something.
He was in more movies than you would imagine. He
(24:00):
was on more TV shows. He was on He haw
for God's Sakes, Saturday Night, Lie you name it, And
I believe in eighty eight he had no intention of
running for president, really running presidents. Wanted to draw attention
to it, and nobody knew whether he would run as
a Democrat or Republican. So all the politicians were kissing
up to him because they didn't know which side he
(24:21):
was going to come down on, but they knew they
knew he was a cultural icon. His name id you know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't win the governorship of California because he
made promises to do something special. He won because he
was a terminator. Jesse Ventura didn't win well that that
(24:41):
may not be true. That may not be true. I
think his star power helped him. But Jesse Ventura was
a hard core libertarian, and I think that excited a
certain young group that the likes of which would also
get excited over Donald Trump later. Anyway, just a little
(25:03):
just a little something to throw in there. Do you
remember how ABC killed Amy Roeback's story on Jeffrey Epstein
and the Clintons. Some of you will remember this. Amy
Roeback had a story on Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons,
and she would later tell the story that the network
killed it. They killed her investigation. They did not want
(25:25):
these things to come out here. She isn't her own words.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
I've had the story for three years. I've had this
interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on
the air.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
First of all, I was told, who's Jeffrey Epstein? No
one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Then the Palace found out that we had her whole
allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.
We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview
Kate as will that that also quashed the story. And
then and then Alan Dershowitz was also.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Implicated in because of the planes. She told me everything,
she had, pictures, she had everything.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
She was in hiding for twelve or as we convinced
her to come out, we convinced her to talk to us.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton, we had everything.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
I tried for three years to get it on to
no avail, and now it's all coming out and it's
like these new relev revelations and I freaking had all
of it. I'm so pissed right now, Like every day
I get more and more pissed because I'm just like,
oh my god, it was what we had was unreal.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Other women backing it up.
Speaker 10 (26:27):
Hey yep Bred Edwards, the attorney three years ago, saying
like like there will come a day when we will
realize Jeffrey Epsteen was the most prolific.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Pedophile this country has ever known. I had it all
three years ago.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
The guest she had interviewed or was prepared to interview,
who could blow this thing wide open. She referred to
as Virginia Roberts. Virginia Roberts would go on to Mary
and become Virginia Jeffrey.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
A couple of weeks ago, Virginia Jeoffrey committed suicide. Her
attorney cast doubt on her suicide, saying quote, we've got
big question marks over it. Attorney Carry Lowden says that
she had shown no signs she wanted to harm herself
before she was found dead at her farm in Western
Australia last Friday. She says, when I got the phone call,
(27:23):
I was like, are you joking? Because there was no
sign that that was something she was considering. There's suicide
and then there's misadventure. Virginia Jeffrey Nay Roberts said she
was sex trafficked by Epstein to have sex with the
United Kingdoms Prince Andrew when she was a teen. Jeffrey's
(27:43):
death came just weeks after she took social media to
claim she had just days to live after allegedly being
injured in a March twenty fourth collision with the school bus.
Jeffrey's family said in a statement she lost her life
to suicide after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse
and sex trafficking. She was a light that lifted so many.
Can you imagine if you walked in and saw what
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did he did to these people? If you walked in
and saw what powerful people who are still hidden to
this day did at Epstein's Orgy Island, If you walked
in and see and saw it, how traumatized you would be.
That there are victims that went through it, and how
traumatized they need to be, And that there are people
(28:27):
that will be on your television today wearing a so
wearing a suit, sitting upright as if they are honorable,
decent people who know all of it, may have been
there and are going out of their way to prevent
the truth from ever coming out.
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