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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Luck and load.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's a real honor to get to share your time
with you. I made the point yesterday or day before
they all run together that these funerals were having in
across Texas, a lot of them in Houston after the
Kerrville floods. And we're not unique, you know that this
(00:47):
happens across the country. There's always a natural disaster going on.
You just feel it more when it's in your community,
and we're feeling it right now. But it has the
added sadness, tragedy, pain suffering that his children. You know,
(01:09):
there's just something about the innocence of a child. You know,
we grieve the loss of what.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Could have been.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And we've had these series of funerals now as the
children are being brought back to their home community from
where they were at camp and they're being buried, and
especially in the smaller towns, the town is just overwhelmed
(01:37):
with the number of people who are coming in, some
of them driving one to three hours away, just to
line the street as the procession goes through for a
child and a family they don't know in the community
they've never visited. And I made the point earlier this
week that your time, your presence is presence enough. You've
(02:02):
heard that line. That really is true. I have come
to learn with rich people that if you ask them
to write a check, they're more likely to write you
a check than to show up at something you want
them to be at. For you, to give someone your
time is an incredible gift. I ask successful people. It's
(02:29):
almost always men, because that's the mentors I've had, and
they could be seventy eighty or more, and I will
ask them, what's your greatest regret? And almost every time,
and I've tried to use this in my own life,
it is I didn't spend enough time with my kids
when they were kids. Because by the time that you're
(02:51):
at the season in life to spend time with your kids,
they're at the season in life that you were when
you didn't spend time with them as kids. So now
they've got their own work obligations, they're trying to climb
the ladder, they're trying to build their business, they're trying
to play in the softball league and you know, handle
(03:15):
the yard and all the obligations they have, and so
it's a cat's in the cradle kind of deal. Your
time is so incredibly valuable, and so it is not
lost on me that you spend time with us here,
if not every day, many days, because you have so
(03:37):
many other things you could do. And I want you
to know I treasure hearing from you when folks send
me emails about where you listen, how you listen, who
turned you onto the show, things you like, things you
like to see improved, you know what we do differently,
(04:01):
and other shows that are inspirations. I absolutely love those.
And as a reminder, if you do enjoy our show,
we started, Oh, I don't know, Jim, how long ago?
Was a year or two ago? We started a Saturday
podcast because folks said, I listened to you all five
days during the week, but i'd like to hear you
on Saturday. Well, we're not broadcast on your radio show
(04:22):
on your radio station on Saturday, but we do put
together a separate show for you to listen to on Saturday.
And this is my programming reminder. If you are listening
to the show now and you only get two hours
of our show. We do a separate, other three hour
show every morning that airs in Houston, our flagship and
(04:45):
some other stations, and then we do this the nationally
syndicated show in the evening. But if you want more
of our nonsense, Tom Nonsense, Tom Fulerie, Shenanigan's, you name it,
that can be found on the podcast ever show. We
do every detail that you missed. What was the book
you mentioned?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What was a clip?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Where was that? From all of that, The easiest way
to get that is a podcast, and we'll get back
to the show. But one other thing. I read every
email you send me, so you can send them through
Michael Berryshow dot com. And I do love to hear
from you.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How to say Let's make America great again in Spanish almoso,
Michael Berry America grande all kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Micro is a fascinating figure in pop culture. We've had
him on the show multiple times. And Micro is a
talented multi tool performer, voice stage opera. Interestingly, and Micro,
(05:51):
you know, we should all hope we find our lane.
I think of say, Anthony Munos or Junior Seau or
Mike Webster, the old Steeler Jackie. What was it Jackie
Harris who was a great la the Rams lineman. You
(06:12):
remember Jackie Slater, Jackie Slater. You know, those guys were
great at what they did, Lyle Alzado, but they wouldn't
have been a good pinch runner in professional baseball and
they wouldn't have been a good point guard in basketball. Well,
I think in life, in all of life. You know
(06:33):
the old Jim Collins book, Good to Great, He said,
you got to get the right people on the bus,
and you got to get him in the right seat
on the bus. Because somebody is really good at being
the head of deacons and keeping the deacons united, motivated,
moving forward, sharing the same values. And one guy's really
good at delivering the sermon. He's a good preacher. Some
(06:56):
people are good preachers, not good pastors. Some people are
good pastors, not good preacher. Some people can minister to
the flock but not deliver the sermon on Sunday, and
vice versa. Mike Rowe found his place, and he was
open to finding his place. He was out looking for
his place, and dirty jobs was just the launching pad
(07:18):
to put him into a position to really and I
think I don't want to overstate this, I mean this.
I think Mike Rowe has done more for the working
man than probably anybody in modern America. He's on a
par with Donald Trump on a different in a different way.
(07:42):
But when you talk about celebrating guys who do tough jobs,
whether they be dirty or not, jobs that the rest
of us don't want to do, and they do them,
and it's rarely because it was their life submission to
do this. It's usually because it's a job, it pays
(08:05):
the bills, and then once they do it, they do it.
Many people don't want to leave the community they're born into.
There was a writer named Kevin Williamson at the National
Review and he had a theory that I read years ago,
and it was an interesting theory, and he said, you'd
have a lot less poverty in the world if people
(08:26):
would be willing to move. And that's not just true
of the United States, that's true of the world. There
are people living in arid, infertile soils where nothing will grow,
there is no industry, and there is corruption, and you'd
think that at least moved to an area where they'd
(08:49):
have a better shot at making a living. The Industrial
revolution drew people off the farm into the big city.
Is that always a good idea? No, but micro has
done more for the trades and working than anybody, I
mean anybody. Here was a great speech he gave at
Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, and I hope some of
(09:11):
you in the trades take heart.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
We've been telling kids for fifteen years to code, learn
to code. We said, yeah, well, AI is coming for
the coders. They're not coming for the welders. They're not
coming for the plumbers. They're not coming for the steam
fitters or the pipe fitters or the h fact. They're
not coming for the electricians. You know that ideas festival
(09:33):
I was telling you about an Aspen. I sat there
and listened to Larry Fink say we need five hundred
thousand electricians in the next couple of years. Not hyperbole,
it's this is me being the alarmist again. There's not
a week that goes by, and my humble little foundation,
it's called Microworks Shameless Plug. We award work ethics scholarships
(09:56):
every year right to kids who want to learn a
skill that's in man. These are trade school scholarships. Not
a week goes by where I don't get a phone
call from somebody like the Blue Forge Alliance, who oversees
our maritime industrial base. That's fifteen thousand individual companies who
are collectively charged with building and delivering three nuclear powered
(10:18):
subs to the Navy every year for ten years, right
to Virginia, one Columbia class. Mind bogglingly complicated. This guy
calls and says, we're having a hell of a time
finding trades people. Can you help? I said, I don't know, man,
it's pretty skinny out there. How many do you need?
He says, one hundred and forty thousand. One hundred and
forty thousand now granted over seven years, but they need
(10:41):
eighty ninety thousand right now. These are our submarines, folks.
Right things go hypersonic, little sideways with China, Taiwan, whatever.
Our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear.
They're vulnerable. Our submarines matter, and these guys have a
pinch point because they can't find welders and electricians to
(11:02):
get them built. Where are they? They said, We've looked everywhere,
do you know. I said, yeah, I know where they are.
They're in the eighth grade, man, They're in the eighth
grade and the same thing. The automotive industry needs eighty
thousand collision repair and technicians energy. I don't even know
what the number is. I hear three hundred, I hear
five hundred thousand everywhere. So not to filibuster, but that's
(11:27):
the underlying thing that I just really hope people take
from this conference. There is a clear and present freakout
going on right now. I've heard from six governors in
the last six months. I've heard from the heads of
the major companies in the country. It's like a memo
(11:49):
has gone out and people are realizing, you know something,
we need to tend to this both on the both
on the pr side and on the demograph. I don't
know what to do about the retiring demography. I don't
know what to do about seven million able bodied men
choosing not to work. But I do know that the
message to the young men and women in this state
(12:12):
that a bright future awaits if they would but learn
a skill that's in demand. That's going to resonate politically,
that's going to resgnate, resonate practically, it's going to move
the needle of the Michael Barry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It was on this day in nineteen sixty nine that
Massachusetts Senator Teddy Kennedy drove off a narrow wooden bridge
into a title pond after leaving a party on chap
Equittic Island. Ted Kennedy would manage to get himself out
(12:54):
of I think it was Lincoln Continental. He would manage
to get himself out of that car, but he didn't
bother with his passenger. She was only a secretary. She
wasn't a Kennedy, she wasn't a Boston Bramman. Fortunately her
(13:15):
name has not been lost to history, is well remembered,
Mary Joe Kopecney. I remember seeing an interview with her
parents and how distraught they were for Ted Kennedy and
the Kennedy Coteret. They'd lost JFK, they'd lost RFK. So
(13:37):
he was the last great hope for a return to
Camelot for a family obsessed with power and prestige. And
then here was this poor girl, her parents forgotten, pushed aside.
And the reason the story matters is in an era
(14:00):
of the Epstein Files, in an era of Diddy. You
ever see that video of Sean Combs with a sixteen
year old little Timy Justin Bieber about to probably be
raped all weekend long. It's painful. It's painful to realize
(14:24):
that in the freest, most democratic, although it's republican nation
in history, where there is more opportunity, more social mobility,
more protection for the week and the poor than anywhere
at any time, we still see the vestiges and they'll
(14:49):
never leave us of power and privilege. Ted Kennedy should
have gone to prison, not just for being drunk when
he drove off the bridge with the woman who died today.
That would be felony murder in most states, not just
for the fact that he's drunk driving occasioned a terrible
(15:13):
thing to another person without regard to intention. I don't
believe Teddy Kennedy wanted to kill her. It would harm
his political career. But for the fact that it is
believed that he made no real effort to get her out.
It tells you a lot about a person in what
(15:36):
they think of other people. Because what was Mary Joe
Capecny to Ted Kennedy a sex object, an item to
use to pleasure himself for a matter of minutes and
cast her off. Okay, that's his approach to humanity. This
(16:02):
is really what the Epstein files are about. It's about
power and how it's used. The victims aren't really human beings,
they're just sex objects. It's just more thrilling to people
if those sex objects have a pulse and in their name,
(16:23):
will they pass laws and will they make grand declarations
as to their own motives. But at the end of
the day, you're looking at self centered bastards, narcissistic, self dealing,
evil monsters. I've known rich people, I've known poor people.
(16:46):
I've known everything in between. I've heard their stories, I've
connected with them. I've seen how they live their lives,
how they treat their wives, how they treat their children,
how they treat the people they work with and for
and who work with them. I've seen how they behave
at church and how they behave outside of church. And
I'm going to tell you I have found more decency
(17:10):
and honor and valor among working class people than I
have the absolutely rich like the Kennedys, and that that
is the truth. Oh, you're right. Jim reminds me that
we have not played the weekend Review, which our executive
(17:31):
producer chatted Tony Knock and as she works so hard
on even as he is in Hawaii this week. So
here you go. This guy said, well, I'm Catholic, what
are you? I said, I'm Christian and he didn't think
that was funny. Find it hilarious. How many people do
not want any affiliation they have to have a joke
(17:52):
attached to it. And I've come to understand that is
because people don't understand what a joke is. A joke
is not an insult if you can't laugh at yourself
and you don't understand the point of humor. It was
one year ago today when a gunman opened fire at
a Trump campaign rally.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
In Butler, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
If you want to really see something that said, take
a look at what happened over.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
The US Secret Service, who has one clear cutt mission right,
that is the protection of the president, failed in that mission,
yet won't go and hold people accountable by firing people.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
The widow of Corey Competour, the man killed in the shooting,
she wants to know why the roof where crooks set
up wasn't covered by agents.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is
all over there.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
He is often overlooked in all of this is that
a firefighter, father husband Patriots was killed.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Cory comparatoris it's can Rally's Derby eight see the whole
runs in the final You did.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It with your father throwing to you. You know I
could hit zero runs and just as much fun.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Todd Raleigh, how much does this mean to you?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And why is this so great for the Raleigh family?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
As a dad, you.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Kind of dream about it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
To see it come true for your son is unbelievable.
For you doing awesome to think of the memory. Imagine
mom watching to the side. Imagine the team's tears streaming down.
This is what you dreamed of, but it never happens
for anybody ever. Nord Freeway, Louetta, there's this fall truck
and we had a guy trying to jumpstart it with
Hey Raw and more. You can't make Houston Freeways up,
(19:30):
you know it does. Racing Qui red Necker, I don't
know why it couldn't be a black guy. It's one
hundred percent not an Asian.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I don't love man. Don't know how many sons says
I got it and I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Want to do this moment bou one one comes next.
I just want.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Like gets on for jos enjoy you more, extend a
little less time again?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Who somebody who?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Somebody to be happy Lessen Roogain.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
She was twelve, I was thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But it was.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Wonderful to have you, mister President.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, if you are a radio real town listener, more
than more of our listeners or podcasts, which is good
because it means people can listen. They don't have to
be able to be in their car when we're lying,
and it means that we have been able to grow
at a massive rate because we don't have to be
added to a radio station for folks to hear, which
is pretty cool. That song signals though, for folks who
(21:07):
still listen as you're driving home on Friday evening, the
last segment of the week, obviously we have a Saturday
podcast Born on this day seemed in an appropriate way
to close the show, all to have one more thing
after this Born on this day one hundred and twelve
years ago was Red Skelton. And in nineteen sixty nine
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when celebrities would have a show with their name on it,
like Johnny Carson Show, The Johnny Cash Show, of course
it was Johnny Carson there was the Red Skelton Show,
and it was kind of hokey, homie homes fun variety show,
kind of what I would hope our radio program is.
(21:50):
And Red Skelton, who was an actor and a comedian,
he would die in nineteen ninety seven. He had one
show where he's talking about the Pledge of Allegiance and
I thought, it being his birthday, there's no greater tribute
I can give than to amplify and never forget the
great Red Skeleton.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I remember a teacher that I had now only I
went through the seventh grade.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I went to the seventh grade.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
And I left home when I was ten years old
because I was hungry.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And I used to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I work in the summer and I go to school
in the winter. But I had this one teacher.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
It was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincennes, Indiana.
To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real sage
of my time. Anyhow, he had such wisdom and we
were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance one day and
he walked over this little old teacher, Mister Lasswell was
his name, mister Laswell. He says, I've been listening to you,
(22:44):
boys and girls recite the pledge of allegiance all semester,
and it seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you.
If I may, may I recite it and try to
explain to you the meaning of each word.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
I me an individual, a committee of one pledge dedicate
all of my worldly goods to give without self pity, allegiance,
my love, and my devotion.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
To the flag, our standard old glory, a symbol of freedom.
Wherever she waives, there's respect because your loyalty has given
her a dignity that shouts Freedom is everybody's job. United.
(23:42):
That means that we have all come together, states, individual
communities that have united into forty eight great states, forty
eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all
with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose. And
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that's love for country and to the republic. Republic a
state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen
by the people to govern. And government is the people,
and it's from the people to the leaders, not from
the leaders to the people. For which it stands one nation,
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one nation, meaning so blessed by God, indivisible, incapable of
being divided. With liberty, which is freedom, the right of
power to live one's own life without threats, fear, or
some sort of retaliation, and justice the principle are qualities
(24:59):
of dealing fairly with others, for all, for all, which means,
boys and girls, it's as much your country as it
is mine. And now, boys and girls, let me hear
you recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to
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the flag of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible with
liberty and justice for all. Since I was a small boy,
two states have been added to our country, and two
(25:43):
words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance under God.
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is
a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools to
you know.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We were going to close with a discussion of the
CEO of the AI company who was with his HR
director at the Coldplay concert and they got busted and
it was on the Jumbo Trump. It's pretty darn embarrassing,
and we'll talk about that on Monday. But since we
were on the subject of our Pledge of Allegiance, our nation,
our pride. And you know, when I see our flag
(26:20):
being burned, when I see bad people who hate this country,
who need to be expelled, I always go back to
the nineteen seventy four song by Johnny Cash off his
forty seventh album, And I thought we'd close with that
today because it's just such a beautiful, beautiful tribute to
how I feel about our flag in our country.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'm mighty proud of that, ragged old thank you, I mean,
good night,
It's that time, time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Luck and load.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good
one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's a real honor to get to share your time
with you. I made the point yesterday or day before
they all run together that these funerals were having in
across Texas, a lot of them in Houston after the
Kerrville floods. And we're not unique, you know that this
(00:47):
happens across the country. There's always a natural disaster going on.
You just feel it more when it's in your community,
and we're feeling it right now. But it has the
added sadness, tragedy, pain suffering that his children. You know,
(01:09):
there's just something about the innocence of a child. You know,
we grieve the loss of what.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Could have been.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And we've had these series of funerals now as the
children are being brought back to their home community from
where they were at camp and they're being buried, and
especially in the smaller towns, the town is just overwhelmed
(01:37):
with the number of people who are coming in, some
of them driving one to three hours away, just to
line the street as the procession goes through for a
child and a family they don't know in the community
they've never visited. And I made the point earlier this
week that your time, your presence is presence enough. You've
(02:02):
heard that line. That really is true. I have come
to learn with rich people that if you ask them
to write a check, they're more likely to write you
a check than to show up at something you want
them to be at. For you, to give someone your
time is an incredible gift. I ask successful people. It's
(02:29):
almost always men, because that's the mentors I've had, and
they could be seventy eighty or more, and I will
ask them, what's your greatest regret? And almost every time,
and I've tried to use this in my own life,
it is I didn't spend enough time with my kids
when they were kids. Because by the time that you're
(02:51):
at the season in life to spend time with your kids,
they're at the season in life that you were when
you didn't spend time with them as kids. So now
they've got their own work obligations, they're trying to climb
the ladder, they're trying to build their business, they're trying
to play in the softball league and you know, handle
(03:15):
the yard and all the obligations they have, and so
it's a cat's in the cradle kind of deal. Your
time is so incredibly valuable, and so it is not
lost on me that you spend time with us here,
if not every day, many days, because you have so
(03:37):
many other things you could do. And I want you
to know I treasure hearing from you when folks send
me emails about where you listen, how you listen, who
turned you onto the show, things you like, things you
like to see improved, you know what we do differently,
(04:01):
and other shows that are inspirations. I absolutely love those.
And as a reminder, if you do enjoy our show,
we started, Oh, I don't know, Jim, how long ago?
Was a year or two ago? We started a Saturday
podcast because folks said, I listened to you all five
days during the week, but i'd like to hear you
on Saturday. Well, we're not broadcast on your radio show
(04:22):
on your radio station on Saturday, but we do put
together a separate show for you to listen to on Saturday.
And this is my programming reminder. If you are listening
to the show now and you only get two hours
of our show. We do a separate, other three hour
show every morning that airs in Houston, our flagship and
(04:45):
some other stations, and then we do this the nationally
syndicated show in the evening. But if you want more
of our nonsense, Tom Nonsense, Tom Fulerie, Shenanigan's, you name it,
that can be found on the podcast ever show. We
do every detail that you missed. What was the book
you mentioned?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What was a clip?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Where was that? From all of that, The easiest way
to get that is a podcast, and we'll get back
to the show. But one other thing. I read every
email you send me, so you can send them through
Michael Berryshow dot com. And I do love to hear
from you.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How to say Let's make America great again in Spanish almoso,
Michael Berry America grande all kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Micro is a fascinating figure in pop culture. We've had
him on the show multiple times. And Micro is a
talented multi tool performer, voice stage opera. Interestingly, and Micro,
(05:51):
you know, we should all hope we find our lane.
I think of say, Anthony Munos or Junior Seau or
Mike Webster, the old Steeler Jackie. What was it Jackie
Harris who was a great la the Rams lineman. You
(06:12):
remember Jackie Slater, Jackie Slater. You know, those guys were
great at what they did, Lyle Alzado, but they wouldn't
have been a good pinch runner in professional baseball and
they wouldn't have been a good point guard in basketball. Well,
I think in life, in all of life. You know
(06:33):
the old Jim Collins book, Good to Great, He said,
you got to get the right people on the bus,
and you got to get him in the right seat
on the bus. Because somebody is really good at being
the head of deacons and keeping the deacons united, motivated,
moving forward, sharing the same values. And one guy's really
good at delivering the sermon. He's a good preacher. Some
(06:56):
people are good preachers, not good pastors. Some people are
good pastors, not good preacher. Some people can minister to
the flock but not deliver the sermon on Sunday, and
vice versa. Mike Rowe found his place, and he was
open to finding his place. He was out looking for
his place, and dirty jobs was just the launching pad
(07:18):
to put him into a position to really and I
think I don't want to overstate this, I mean this.
I think Mike Rowe has done more for the working
man than probably anybody in modern America. He's on a
par with Donald Trump on a different in a different way.
(07:42):
But when you talk about celebrating guys who do tough jobs,
whether they be dirty or not, jobs that the rest
of us don't want to do, and they do them,
and it's rarely because it was their life submission to
do this. It's usually because it's a job, it pays
(08:05):
the bills, and then once they do it, they do it.
Many people don't want to leave the community they're born into.
There was a writer named Kevin Williamson at the National
Review and he had a theory that I read years ago,
and it was an interesting theory, and he said, you'd
have a lot less poverty in the world if people
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would be willing to move. And that's not just true
of the United States, that's true of the world. There
are people living in arid, infertile soils where nothing will grow,
there is no industry, and there is corruption, and you'd
think that at least moved to an area where they'd
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have a better shot at making a living. The Industrial
revolution drew people off the farm into the big city.
Is that always a good idea? No, but micro has
done more for the trades and working than anybody, I
mean anybody. Here was a great speech he gave at
Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, and I hope some of
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you in the trades take heart.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
We've been telling kids for fifteen years to code, learn
to code. We said, yeah, well, AI is coming for
the coders. They're not coming for the welders. They're not
coming for the plumbers. They're not coming for the steam
fitters or the pipe fitters or the h fact. They're
not coming for the electricians. You know that ideas festival
(09:33):
I was telling you about an Aspen. I sat there
and listened to Larry Fink say we need five hundred
thousand electricians in the next couple of years. Not hyperbole,
it's this is me being the alarmist again. There's not
a week that goes by, and my humble little foundation,
it's called Microworks Shameless Plug. We award work ethics scholarships
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every year right to kids who want to learn a
skill that's in man. These are trade school scholarships. Not
a week goes by where I don't get a phone
call from somebody like the Blue Forge Alliance, who oversees
our maritime industrial base. That's fifteen thousand individual companies who
are collectively charged with building and delivering three nuclear powered
(10:18):
subs to the Navy every year for ten years, right
to Virginia, one Columbia class. Mind bogglingly complicated. This guy
calls and says, we're having a hell of a time
finding trades people. Can you help? I said, I don't know, man,
it's pretty skinny out there. How many do you need?
He says, one hundred and forty thousand. One hundred and
forty thousand now granted over seven years, but they need
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eighty ninety thousand right now. These are our submarines, folks.
Right things go hypersonic, little sideways with China, Taiwan, whatever.
Our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear.
They're vulnerable. Our submarines matter, and these guys have a
pinch point because they can't find welders and electricians to
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get them built. Where are they? They said, We've looked everywhere,
do you know. I said, yeah, I know where they are.
They're in the eighth grade, man, They're in the eighth
grade and the same thing. The automotive industry needs eighty
thousand collision repair and technicians energy. I don't even know
what the number is. I hear three hundred, I hear
five hundred thousand everywhere. So not to filibuster, but that's
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the underlying thing that I just really hope people take
from this conference. There is a clear and present freakout
going on right now. I've heard from six governors in
the last six months. I've heard from the heads of
the major companies in the country. It's like a memo
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has gone out and people are realizing, you know something,
we need to tend to this both on the both
on the pr side and on the demograph. I don't
know what to do about the retiring demography. I don't
know what to do about seven million able bodied men
choosing not to work. But I do know that the
message to the young men and women in this state
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that a bright future awaits if they would but learn
a skill that's in demand. That's going to resonate politically,
that's going to resgnate, resonate practically, it's going to move
the needle of the Michael Barry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It was on this day in nineteen sixty nine that
Massachusetts Senator Teddy Kennedy drove off a narrow wooden bridge
into a title pond after leaving a party on chap
Equittic Island. Ted Kennedy would manage to get himself out
(12:54):
of I think it was Lincoln Continental. He would manage
to get himself out of that car, but he didn't
bother with his passenger. She was only a secretary. She
wasn't a Kennedy, she wasn't a Boston Bramman. Fortunately her
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name has not been lost to history, is well remembered,
Mary Joe Kopecney. I remember seeing an interview with her
parents and how distraught they were for Ted Kennedy and
the Kennedy Coteret. They'd lost JFK, they'd lost RFK. So
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he was the last great hope for a return to
Camelot for a family obsessed with power and prestige. And
then here was this poor girl, her parents forgotten, pushed aside.
And the reason the story matters is in an era
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of the Epstein Files, in an era of Diddy. You
ever see that video of Sean Combs with a sixteen
year old little Timy Justin Bieber about to probably be
raped all weekend long. It's painful. It's painful to realize
(14:24):
that in the freest, most democratic, although it's republican nation
in history, where there is more opportunity, more social mobility,
more protection for the week and the poor than anywhere
at any time, we still see the vestiges and they'll
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never leave us of power and privilege. Ted Kennedy should
have gone to prison, not just for being drunk when
he drove off the bridge with the woman who died today.
That would be felony murder in most states, not just
for the fact that he's drunk driving occasioned a terrible
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thing to another person without regard to intention. I don't
believe Teddy Kennedy wanted to kill her. It would harm
his political career. But for the fact that it is
believed that he made no real effort to get her out.
It tells you a lot about a person in what
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they think of other people. Because what was Mary Joe
Capecny to Ted Kennedy a sex object, an item to
use to pleasure himself for a matter of minutes and
cast her off. Okay, that's his approach to humanity. This
(16:02):
is really what the Epstein files are about. It's about
power and how it's used. The victims aren't really human beings,
they're just sex objects. It's just more thrilling to people
if those sex objects have a pulse and in their name,
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will they pass laws and will they make grand declarations
as to their own motives. But at the end of
the day, you're looking at self centered bastards, narcissistic, self dealing,
evil monsters. I've known rich people, I've known poor people.
(16:46):
I've known everything in between. I've heard their stories, I've
connected with them. I've seen how they live their lives,
how they treat their wives, how they treat their children,
how they treat the people they work with and for
and who work with them. I've seen how they behave
at church and how they behave outside of church. And
I'm going to tell you I have found more decency
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and honor and valor among working class people than I
have the absolutely rich like the Kennedys, and that that
is the truth. Oh, you're right. Jim reminds me that
we have not played the weekend Review, which our executive
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producer chatted Tony Knock and as she works so hard
on even as he is in Hawaii this week. So
here you go. This guy said, well, I'm Catholic, what
are you? I said, I'm Christian and he didn't think
that was funny. Find it hilarious. How many people do
not want any affiliation they have to have a joke
(17:52):
attached to it. And I've come to understand that is
because people don't understand what a joke is. A joke
is not an insult if you can't laugh at yourself
and you don't understand the point of humor. It was
one year ago today when a gunman opened fire at
a Trump campaign rally.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
In Butler, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
If you want to really see something that said, take
a look at what happened over.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
The US Secret Service, who has one clear cutt mission right,
that is the protection of the president, failed in that mission,
yet won't go and hold people accountable by firing people.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
The widow of Corey Competour, the man killed in the shooting,
she wants to know why the roof where crooks set
up wasn't covered by agents.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is
all over there.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
He is often overlooked in all of this is that
a firefighter, father husband Patriots was killed.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Cory comparatoris it's can Rally's Derby eight see the whole
runs in the final You did.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It with your father throwing to you. You know I
could hit zero runs and just as much fun.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Todd Raleigh, how much does this mean to you?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And why is this so great for the Raleigh family?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
As a dad, you.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Kind of dream about it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
To see it come true for your son is unbelievable.
For you doing awesome to think of the memory. Imagine
mom watching to the side. Imagine the team's tears streaming down.
This is what you dreamed of, but it never happens
for anybody ever. Nord Freeway, Louetta, there's this fall truck
and we had a guy trying to jumpstart it with
Hey Raw and more. You can't make Houston Freeways up,
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you know it does. Racing Qui red Necker, I don't
know why it couldn't be a black guy. It's one
hundred percent not an Asian.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I don't love man. Don't know how many sons says
I got it and I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Want to do this moment bou one one comes next.
I just want.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Like gets on for jos enjoy you more, extend a
little less time again?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Who somebody who?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Somebody to be happy Lessen Roogain.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
She was twelve, I was thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But it was.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Wonderful to have you, mister President.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, if you are a radio real town listener, more
than more of our listeners or podcasts, which is good
because it means people can listen. They don't have to
be able to be in their car when we're lying,
and it means that we have been able to grow
at a massive rate because we don't have to be
added to a radio station for folks to hear, which
is pretty cool. That song signals though, for folks who
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still listen as you're driving home on Friday evening, the
last segment of the week, obviously we have a Saturday
podcast Born on this day seemed in an appropriate way
to close the show, all to have one more thing
after this Born on this day one hundred and twelve
years ago was Red Skelton. And in nineteen sixty nine
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when celebrities would have a show with their name on it,
like Johnny Carson Show, The Johnny Cash Show, of course
it was Johnny Carson there was the Red Skelton Show,
and it was kind of hokey, homie homes fun variety show,
kind of what I would hope our radio program is.
(21:50):
And Red Skelton, who was an actor and a comedian,
he would die in nineteen ninety seven. He had one
show where he's talking about the Pledge of Allegiance and
I thought, it being his birthday, there's no greater tribute
I can give than to amplify and never forget the
great Red Skeleton.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I remember a teacher that I had now only I
went through the seventh grade.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I went to the seventh grade.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
And I left home when I was ten years old
because I was hungry.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And I used to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I work in the summer and I go to school
in the winter. But I had this one teacher.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
It was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincennes, Indiana.
To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real sage
of my time. Anyhow, he had such wisdom and we
were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance one day and
he walked over this little old teacher, Mister Lasswell was
his name, mister Laswell. He says, I've been listening to you,
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boys and girls recite the pledge of allegiance all semester,
and it seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you.
If I may, may I recite it and try to
explain to you the meaning of each word.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
I me an individual, a committee of one pledge dedicate
all of my worldly goods to give without self pity, allegiance,
my love, and my devotion.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
To the flag, our standard old glory, a symbol of freedom.
Wherever she waives, there's respect because your loyalty has given
her a dignity that shouts Freedom is everybody's job. United.
(23:42):
That means that we have all come together, states, individual
communities that have united into forty eight great states, forty
eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all
with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose. And
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that's love for country and to the republic. Republic a
state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen
by the people to govern. And government is the people,
and it's from the people to the leaders, not from
the leaders to the people. For which it stands one nation,
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one nation, meaning so blessed by God, indivisible, incapable of
being divided. With liberty, which is freedom, the right of
power to live one's own life without threats, fear, or
some sort of retaliation, and justice the principle are qualities
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of dealing fairly with others, for all, for all, which means,
boys and girls, it's as much your country as it
is mine. And now, boys and girls, let me hear
you recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to
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the flag of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible with
liberty and justice for all. Since I was a small boy,
two states have been added to our country, and two
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words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance under God.
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is
a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools to
you know.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We were going to close with a discussion of the
CEO of the AI company who was with his HR
director at the Coldplay concert and they got busted and
it was on the Jumbo Trump. It's pretty darn embarrassing,
and we'll talk about that on Monday. But since we
were on the subject of our Pledge of Allegiance, our nation,
our pride. And you know, when I see our flag
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being burned, when I see bad people who hate this country,
who need to be expelled, I always go back to
the nineteen seventy four song by Johnny Cash off his
forty seventh album, And I thought we'd close with that
today because it's just such a beautiful, beautiful tribute to
how I feel about our flag in our country.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'm mighty proud of that, ragged old thank you, I mean,
good night,
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