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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on.

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It's the Michael Berry Show. Like you two. I found
what I was looking for, and that was the reference
to San Francisco and retail there. It was posted by
a fellow named John LeFave, who these days has returned
from New York and lives in Houston. He has a

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very interesting background and broad range of life experiences. He's
a very good follow for those of you who are
on Twitter. L E F E V R E. I
believe it is and this was what he said. There
was a reference from San Francisco City government to retail

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is coming back to San Francisco. It's an interesting way
to say that. Why do you say it's coming back.
You've had to admit it left. See for years they
said there's no problem. Yeah, there is a problem. You're
losing businesses. Businesses are closing their doors and leaving San Francisco. Oh,

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that happens. Businesses come, businesses go. They denied it, and
you would see anecdotally, you'd see the video of they'd
be a gang of four, eight, ten, twelve, young black thugs,
and they'd go into department stores and they would just
they'd take entire racks and they ring them outside, put

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it in a stolen vehicle drive off and stores would say, well,
we can't operate on this, babe. Nobody wants to shop
in these stores. Doors don't want to stay open, so
they would they would close down. Do you know what
it costs to build out a retail department store? Millions
and millions of dollars. It's a massive investment that can

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take ten to twenty years to pay back. So for
them to shutter the doors and say that location is lost.
So this San Francisco post that retail has come back
to San Francisco. It was a ross dress for less.
Nothing wrong with that, but that's not a sign that
retail has come back. In fact, we do a segment

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on the Morning Show signs that your neighborhood is going
to hell, and one of them is restaurants have closed,
but the restaurant space has been converted to a check
cashing location. That's a sign. John writes, thanks to insane
left wing policies Market Street in San Francisco, this that

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they're saying that retail is coming back to San Francisco
because Ross Dress for Less just open a second Main
Street location. Thanks to insane left wing policies, market Street
in San Francisco lost Rolex, Whole Foods, Sacks, Nordstrom, Chase Bank,
and most other reputable retailers. Now the mayor has declared

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retail is back because they're getting a new tenant, Ross
Dress for Less. And as I said, there's nothing wrong
with Ross Dress for Less. In fact, it's pretty cost
effective clothing. However, that is not a sign of high

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end retail. In fact, it's a sign that your retail
tenant mix has changed dramatically. So you get the sense
that what is occurring there is is that the old
allure of high dollar shopping has gone. And do you

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know why the last vestige in a city in decline
is working class and black because historically they weren't able
to leave the urban core as fast as the rich

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people could. If you want to see what's happening to
a city, look at whether rich people are moving in
or moving out. Not that rich people are any better,
but rich people have an easy facility, a facility of
moving in and out of places easily. They can simply sell.

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If they don't recover what they paid for the property,
they can afford to eat the loss and they'll move
somewhere else. They also can afford to value their own
personal security in a way that the working class and
inner city blacks cannot. You know, if you watch Boys

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in the Hood, for instance, which was a really groundbreaking program,
and you wonder, well, if Laurence Fishburne is having this
much trouble raising Kuba Gooding junior in this neighborhood, why
doesn't he move? Well, he can't. He can't afford that
house somewhere else. He can't he can't get anything back

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for his house, and then he can't afford to move
somewhere else. So you're forced to do the best in
a bad neighborhood where shots are firing every day. Rich
people won't tolerate that. Guitars, cigars and a few thoughts
from Bizarre on Michael Little Paul Harvey Way, let me

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ask you to ask yourself who sang that song? Do
you remember? Do you remember the name of the band
who sang that song that you have heard a thousand
times in your life? If you were at least ten
years old in nineteen sixty nine. So if you are
sixty six and over, you've probably literally heard that song

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a thousand times or been exposed to it. As we say,
you've gone into a donut shop that had to you know,
adult listening, easy listening on in the background, and you
sang along to it. I mean, not real advanced lyrics,
but you you got the cadence, you got the beat.
It came out on May twenty fourth, nineteen sixty nine,

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and it's one of those, one of those songs. And
Ramona and I played games with this all the time.
And as to who sang this song that you've heard
so many times you go, come to think of it,
I don't know. I don't actually know who saying that. Well,
that song went to number one. It was a massive

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hit in the United States, and it would do pretty
well around the world. The song was among the selections
at astronaut Alan Bean chose when allowed to bring an
audio cassette of music to listen to during the Apollo
twelve mission in November of sixty nine. According to historian

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Andrew Chaikin quote, when it came on during the trip
out from Earth, the three of them, Bean Pete Conrad
and Dick Gordon would hold on to the struts in
the command module and bounce weightlessly to the beat, dancing
their way to the moon. In the issue of Billboard

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magazine dated September twentieth, the single started a four week
run at number one on the Hot one hundred, replacing
Honky Tonk Women by the Rolling Stones. It spent a
then lengthy twenty two weeks on the Hot one hundred,
which was longer than any single in nineteen sixty nine.

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That song was bigger than anything that Three Dog Night did,
anything that The Stones did, anything that the Beatles did,
and any other band you can think of that was
big in sixty nine. It was one of only ten
singles to spend twelve weeks in the top ten during
that entire decade. It topped the Billboard Top one hundred

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Singles of the year. It was named the biggest single
of nineteen sixty nine. It was certified that year by
the RA for sales of one million. That was huge.
In fact, that was nineteen sixty nine. In nineteen eighty nine,

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twenty years later, it became twice as easy, a whole
lot more likely that you could have a gold record
because they lowered the threshold of five hundred thousand, and
the reason was people would sell somewhere between five hundred
thousand and a million records, and that was a pretty
darn good effort, but it wouldn't be certified gold, which

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was kind of one of those things that was a
real badge on your letterman jacket. In twenty eighteen, Sugar
Sugar ranked eighty one in Billboard's Hot one hundred and
sixtieth anniversary chart. Hang with Me, There's a reveal here.
Between late October and mid December of sixty nine, that

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song spent eight weeks at the top of the UK
Singles Chart. It was awarded a gold disc in January
of seventy. In February of twenty twenty four, last year,
it was certified gold by the BPI for selling four
hundred thousand units since it was made available digitally in

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November of two thousand and four, A song that had
been thirty five years old at the time went on
to be certified gold to an all new audience. It's
been inducted into Halls of Fame for the records it

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has broken, and yet at the end of it, nobody
knows who the band is that sang it. It is
literally one of the biggest songs in American history. And
I geek out on this stuff. And the reason you
don't know who the band is that sang it is

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that the band that is listed on the album. Well, first,
I should probably tell you this story. It was sent
by Kershner to play for a radio station, and there
was no name listed on the album. They said, hey,

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listen to this and tell us what you think. It
was taken to one of the top radio stations in
the country, twelve sixty KYA in San Francisco. It was
handed to the program director and he was told just
play it, and he said, but who is it? And

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they said it's a mystery group? Was it? Ever? The
mystery group was the Archiees. If you grew up on
Archie's comics and my wife, who was born in sixty
eight did, as did I, the Archie's Comics became a
cartoon and on Archie's Comics they created a fictional bubblegum

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pop band. You remember when on The Brady Bunch they
did this or the Partridge Family. That was kind of
the first of these sorts of shows that would later
in the eighties and nineties, take Off the Archies weren't
a real band. The lead singer on this was Andy Kim,
who would have a number of big hits Baby I
Love You, rock Me Gently, and he was the voice

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behind this song. Sugar Sugar is also written by Jeff Barry,
who also had a lot of success. And we'll take
it to the break with the intro of the song
with the cartoon characters. I find stuff like this so
much fun. And why do I tell you this Because
it's a great connection with the generation before you to

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learn about their music and be able to talk to
them about it. So here is how it was first
introduced the Michael Berry Show. Michael Berry Show, and I
sign an executive order that pushes cities and local governments
to remove homeless people from the streets. The order will

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redirect federal funds so that these people who are homeless,
which that's a term that sociologists use, they are not
just absent a home. There are people who have become vagrants.
They live on the stoop of private businesses. For instance,

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there are some places in downtown Austin. Downtown Austin used
to be a great downtown, had a very lively music
scene on something called Sixth Street you might have heard of,
and a number of country music artists that you know of,
especially singer songwriters, either cut their teeth there or spent
years honing their craft there in much the same way

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that comedians would go to Paully Shor's mom's in La
that Joe Rogan talks about, and they would try out
their material there. And you know, it's in the late twenties.
You had some great authors who met in Paris and
there was kind of an artistic renaissance of American and

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European artists who would meet at the cafes and swap ideas.
These things, you know, tend to spur creativity. Well, that's
what downtown Austin was until the local liberal government decided
that homeless people were to be treated like gods and so.

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And this was a trend of the far left, that
is a self defeating, sorrow's funded trend. The major cities
of American of America have in large part been destroyed.
They are a vestige of what they used to be.
When I was growing up, I sought to visit the

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major cities of this country and the world, which by
the way has happened across the world as well. The
London's of Paris, is, the New York, San Francisco, Chicago.
I wanted to see those major cities because that's where
great things happened. That's where the great artists performed, that's
where sports teams were housed. That's where communities were built

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up and always had been. That's where the great restaurants
and theaters and music halls were and universities. But the
white liberal left imploded, it cannibalized itself. It said what weird, creepy,

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freaky things can we do? And they all said it
with sincerity, so that you were the outcast if you
didn't go along with it, and they pushed to make
the most freakish things. The grown men in panties gyrating
on your six year old at elementary school was just

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three or four phases down the road. This has been
going on for decades, and this is why. If you
notice how many national leftist political leaders came out of
being urban mayors where they were awful. Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco,

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Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom San Francisco. I mentioned Kamala Harris,
San Francisco, where she was Willie's mattress, to quote Willie
Brown's mattress, to quote the great late Rush Limbaugh. But
what Trump is trying to do, and credit him for this,

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he is trying to, in some small way, save the
major cities of this country from themselves. And you might
say to yourself, well, why do that. They don't want
your help. It's their bad decisions that have left them
to rot and decay. Needles thrown about everywhere, people with

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eyes the size of saucers, urinating, having sex in public, defecating,
destroying business owners. In Houston, you'll have business owners who've
been broken into ten or twenty times, and the guy
who's doing it is sleeping on the front stoop, the

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front steps of the business. There's nothing you can do
to stop them. The cops arrive and arrest them, they
haul them down. The guy's been arrested forty times. They
don't do anything to them because the left wing judiciary
and the left wing district attorney have collaborated to all

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buy in to the tenets of the cult, which is
we don't prosecute bad people, we prosecute good people. We
go after January sixth, protesters, not rapist pedophiles. But this
problem of homelessness all of a sudden exploded across the country.

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Not because there were more people seeking to inject heroine
in their veins and sleep on a park bench, but
because the cities made a decision. See, this is why
they all go to the same conferences. This is why
they all communicate with each other. They take their orders

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that the mind warp spreads, it is contagious, and they
all agree to subscribe to and apply the principles of
this evil doctrine. That's why if you've noticed, if you travel,
those of you who if you're a business traveler, you

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notice that you want to stay out of the downtowns
of all the major cities. Now Detroit was once the
fifth largest city in America, a great city. Philadelphia, Baltimore
had the greatest public library in the world, the Pratt Library.
These were great urban areas San Francisco, Seattle, Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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Minneapolis just elected a Somali American, a state senator named
Omar Fate, who has said the most Antai American anti
white things imaginable if you just flipped white to black,
and he had said that the man would be in prisoned,
he'd be driven from the country. And yet Jacob fry

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the little Weasley mayor there, who no matter what, would
never criticize the thugs and violent elements that burned that
city to the ground. After that thug George Floyd from Houston,
Texas who relocated there because the cops all knew him.
Here Jacob frye who pandered to the Somalis who've taken

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over that city, and they still voted for his replacement,
because you see, Jacob fry was only useful until they
had their own candidate. Omar Fate is going to end
up being worse than Kami Mumdani. But here we are again, Minneapolis,
another large American city, New York soon to be taken

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over by Kami Mumdani. Look at what's happening in these cities.
Look at the mayor of Los Angeles who went down
as a teenager to worship at the foot of Fidel Castro,
an avowed communist. She came back and into her forties

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was talking about the excellence of the Cuban healthcare system
and that we should have that here. Nobody in the
world goes to Cuba for healthcare because it's not good.
Just because you have a clinic on every corner doesn't
mean that they have a basic aspirin inside. The shelves

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are barren. At least Trump's trying to do something for
the Michael I got an email this week. I don't
know where this always from Alabama follow nam Jason Haynes,
and he said, Zora, my mom celebrated her fiftieth five
zero fiftieth work anniversary today at the age of eighty one.

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This was yesterday. She took a part time job at
a physician's clinic in ope Lika, Alabama, July twenty fourth,
nineteen seventy five, and she just never left. She's the
best mom ever, and she's been such a blessing in
our lives. I don't know the exact statistics, but I'm

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sure that less than ten percent of the population has
made it to this milestone. Cheers to Teresa O'Connor Haynes.
Well in my best casey Cason. Without trying his voice, Jason,
I can tell you with some certainty or confidence that

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it's not less than ten percent of the population that
has made fifty years with one company. I guarantee you
it's less than one percent. It might be less than
point one percent. It just doesn't happen. This woman took
a part time job at a physician's clinic July twenty fourth,

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nineteen seventy five. And he didn't say, but I'll bet
you she was a single mom. Maybe I guarantee that
the purpose was to take care of her children, to
provide for her kids, to help pay the bills, to
buy clothes for them to go back to school, he says,

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And she never left. As a society, we have grown
to celebrate some of the wrong things, and social media
is an instrument that allows us to do that. There
are people who can tell you all about the background
of the CEO of astronomer or his HR director, the

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state of her marriage and his how much each one
of their homes cost and when they built them, and
how many kids they have, and what song had just
played and was about to play, and what Chris Martin
said at the concert the next night. Because that's what

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we study, that's what we celebrate, even begrudgingly. But what
we don't tend to celebrate is the people that keep
the trains running, the mom that goes to work to
take the part time job and never leaves because she's

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a person who will never be celebrated on social media.
She's a person who makes sure her kids are fed,
make sure the homework is done, who make sure they
go to school, who make sure that they are a
solid person, A disciplined person, a self respecting person, A
young man who respects ladies just as he was taught

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to respect his mother. Those are the sorts of cultural
traits that we are failing to pass to the next generation.
A woman who went to work in a part time
job July twenty fourth, nineteen seventy five and never left it.
She's eighty one years old. Now, that was a woman
who was raised with certain values. Guarantee you if she's

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not a person who's a me me me person, a
person who needs everything to be about her, a person
who creates drama, a person who constantly feels that she's
not sufficiently appreciated. Guarantee you that this is a person
who at her work for fifty years and at home,
as her son notes, gives of herself to everyone else.

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You know the old line that behind every successful man
is a strong woman. I guarantee you the seeds she
has planted. She's probably involved at her church. She probably
helps some other kids in the family. Maybe her sister
wasn't as good at raising her kids, so she helps

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that kid out. Probably involved in the life of her
grandchildren in more ways than you would expect, slipping them
a fifty or a twenty or whatever that is here
and there when they need something their mom or dad
can't pay for. If you want to have more of
a cultural trait in your society, you've got to celebrate that.

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You've got to make that the thing about which you
pay tribute. That's the thing you build monuments off. Because
whatever you build monuments of is what young people will
want to do. When you make legends of rappers, and
kids will want to grow up and be rappers. When
you make legends of movie stars, they'll leave Omaha, go

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out to la and wait tables for ten years and
subject themselves to a living hell of penury in order
to stay in town and keep auditioning for that one
big role, because that's the only thing that can give
their life meaning. When you celebrate sports, they'll want to

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be a sports star. When you elevate your politicians to gods,
you will create generations of young people who will do
anything to get to Washington, d C. And stay there
and won't leave until they come home to pretend they
like the hayseeds they left and that's how they consider them,

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and pretend that they like the community where they were raised,
but only so that they can be elected and go
back to Washington, D C. And live there forever. And
when you do that for long enough, and you don't
question your politicians, you don't replace them. Who was it
that said that politicians are like underwear. They need to

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be replaced quite often, or they start to stink. When
you don't replace those people, when you don't remind them
that you're the boss, not him, then you end up
creating an elite class, which is what we've done of people.
And that elite class is funded by people who make

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a lot of money off the government, whether it be
big pharma or arms manufacturers, and they give them all
the money they need to hire the karl Roves, and
the karl Roves are sort of the common man whisperer.
They learn what needs to be said to you to
get to keep that office. That's how John Cornyon has

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remained a United States Senator for this Loan or Mitch
McConnell or Nancy Pelosi or any number of other folks.
And that's how you end up with a dysfunctional government.
That's how you end up with a dysfunctional government. The
values of this lady eighty one years old, fifty years

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at a job that's never had a parade in her honor,
when you've got politicians who you know. I was in
Vegas with some friends a couple weeks ago and we're
driving along and we come upon the Harry Reid Airport.
Harry Reid, a man who should be in prison, not

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have his name emblazoned on an airport. A man who
bragged that he lied to the American people that the
Republican presidential candidate in twenty twelve had never paid taxes,
and that a source inside the government had given him
that information. And when the election was over and he
was called on and he said, well Obama won, didn't

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he Seeing the truth didn't matter. Winning was all that matters.
And yet his name is on the airport. We got
to do better. Have a good weekend. I do love
to hear from you. Send me an email Michael Berryshow
dot com. Goodunity, Thank you, and good night eight