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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel it good
when coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Up.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's working hard to straddle the fence. She used to
claim she was a Republican between Orange Man bad and
not openly gaslighting the few viewers that CNN has left.
I almost feel sorry for her here. Yeah, I think
a few things can be true.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
One is that I think he's using this issue to
distract some other things, but doesn't mean it's a bad
political strategy. I think it's a very good one, and
the numbers can be what they are.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But also people don't feel that way.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
And when it comes to two things, crime in the economy,
feelings don't really care about your fact. And I can't
tell you how profoundly stupid it is for Democrats to
get up with the facts and their figures and their
charts and the graphs and say, look, you're safe.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Can't you read this chart? Idiots? Why are you complaining?
I'm showing you.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Right here how safe you are, So shut up and
move along. I don't have to tell you how profoundly stupid.
That is because voters told you how profoundly stupid that
was in twenty twenty four, when Democrats said, see these
economic numbers.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Economy is great. What are you complaining about.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
See these crime numbers. Crimes down, You're safe. See these
immigration numbers. Obama deported way more. There's no migrant crisis.
I can't tell you enough that politics is perception and
the numbers can be right, but you never tell voters
they're wrong about how they feel.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Speaking of Mega Brazinski and being Joe Scarborough's mistress, Joe
Scarborough took a different path than se Cup. See they're
really focused. They're trying to get the narrative back. They're scared,
they're losing their people. They're taking on. There's a hole
in this ship. Joe Scarborough went with the I received
this text line as a way to admit the crime
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in DC is out of hand. Remember this is the
same Joe Scarborough that said I'm going to say something
and I don't care who likes it or not. I've
known Joe Biden for fifty years and this is the
best Joe Biden. Two days later, they smothered the old
man because he's about dead, and there's a palace coup
and he's looking like a fool out of that. Anyway,
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here's old Morning Joe.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I want to read you at texts from a someone
who I won't say their name, but we'll just.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Say they're very liberal.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
And he says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not
totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in DC.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I know he's doing it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
For politics, but crime remains rampant. I've had too many
friends carjacked, shot at none of I will walk more
than three blocks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
After eight pm.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Thirteen year olds are committing many of these crimes. Quite
a change from the decade ago when things were much calmer.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, that actually sounds.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Like the DC that I lived in, when I lived
a block behind the Supreme Court and you know, every
three days one of my neighbors was getting held up
at gunpoint. I mean, there has been a crime problem
in DC. At the same time, obviously a lot of concerns.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Will will this look like? June of twenty twenty and
then Joe Morning Joe had former Capitol Police Chief Tom
Manger on to give his thoughts on President Trump bringing
in the FEDS to fight crime in DC. I don't
think Joe's mistress Mika expected this answer. This sounds like
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sounds pretty darm pro Trump to.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Me, what's your sense of how this will work?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Well?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Tell you after listening to the press conference yesterday, I.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Feel much better this morning.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Just in the last twenty four hours, Chief Pam Smith
of the Metro Problem Police Department has spoken with Terry Cole,
the interim Commissioner for the Metro Problem Police Department.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
At least for the next thirty days. They have spoken.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Mister Cole has told Chief Smith that we would like
MPD to lead this effort. He wants this to be
a collaboration, and frankly, that's the only way I see
this as being successful.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
As you know, as a former police chief, if somebody.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Would have come to me and said, hey, we're going
to bring five hundred thousand more law enforcement officers in
to assist you, what's not to like about that? You
could certainly make an impact on crime with that kind
of surge. This is going to be a temporary thing,
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make no mistake about that. This is not something that
can be sustained over a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So I'm very particulate.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, I'm very encouraged that Chief Smith and mister Cole
have talked about this being a collaboration and that MPD
is going to to basically lead the decisions on how
these resources are deployed.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
To her credit, and I'm gonna give credit where it's due,
it's woman at CNN. They're they're so desperate. I mean,
they're so they don't know what to do. Over there,
cn n's Casey Hunt read headlines of juvenile crime to
Democrat district attorney. Yeah, district attorney. Well, they call them
the DC attorney general. I know they had an attorney
general in d C. What whatever, Brian Schwab or Schwab,
(05:52):
it doesn't matter, Brian something. I've never heard of this
guy's job title, and I've never heard of him. But
to her credit, seeing it, Casey Hunt sounds more like
Fox News here.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
So let's talk about DC residents for a second, because
these headlines, you know, and I was a resident of
DC for over twenty years. I've lived in all but
three DC wards. Okay, these headlines are different from when
I first came to the city. Thirteen year old girl
thirteen sentenced to seven years for twenty twenty three beating
death of a DC man teen sentenced and killing of
lift driver who came to US seeking safety. This was
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a guy who was a US military interpreter who was
shot and killed in an attempted carjacking, again by a
sixteen year old. Now juveniles fall under you, and the
DC Attorney General Jeanine Piro or a DC attorney Jannine
Piro has focused in on this inability that she says
she has to prosecute juveniles. The law allows people up
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to the age of twenty four years old to potentially
have more lenient sentences from judges.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Is that HPV HIV spooky VAGINOSI sinning with your nick
bod is evil and atrocious.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
This next story, I gotta tell you, first of all,
I feel sorry for a woman whose husband was killed
when a drunk driver crashed into him. Let me start there.
I feel for her pain. She didn't ask for that,
all right, now we got there. They'd been married for
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fifty years, okay, and this dude is so drunk he
can't he is way passed impairment. He got he's so
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drunk he kills her husband. He gets a twenty year
prison time prison sentence for killing. This is this is
manslaughter at this point, homicide by vehicle d UI, reckless driving,
driving like a maniac. By the way, this was an
accident in fall asleep. He deserves to be hanged, but okay,
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they give him a twenty year prison sentence. However, they
will suspend the sentence if he completes a two year
inpatient rehab program. I'll play this story. It's clip number
twenty three WSBTV from the wife of Tuck Johnson.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
The victim, Regina Johnson says she hugged Joseph Tillman, the
young man who played guilty to the crime, because God
told her he needed a mom hug, and in the
embrace she whispered, she forgives him and God loves him
more than he knows.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
She says. He whispered back, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Joey doesn't know yet how much God loves him.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
Join these healing of things in his past, as we
all do.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That is our heart and career.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
Mims Johnson says, for fifty years of marriage, she watched
her husband, a successful businessman, live his Christian faith through
playing his guitar and leave worship based prison ministry, mentoring,
and more and he was seventy eight when a car
with Tillman at the wheel hit him as he rode
his electric bike in the tal Lay Community.
Speaker 11 (09:07):
Investigation showed that the defendant had been drinking alcohol at
day Days four bar. After that, they were on the
way to the friends house obtaining ntrous outside where the
defendant began huffing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That and passed out shortly.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Before running off and inflicting fail injuries to Chuck Johnson.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Chersey County Assistant District Attorney Pete Lamb says Tillman pled
guilty as a first defender to three counts of homicide
by vehicle, all involving the death of Chuck Johnson, plus
felony hit and run, making a fault statement, duy, and
reckless driving in a non negotiated plea.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
Almost from the found a start, ntress cancers, finished.
Speaker 12 (09:45):
Classes, He's changed his way of life and seems like
he's on a trajectory to continue to move forward with
his life in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Chevy, you were created for a purpose and a traakeout.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
He uses this in your life for his glory, which
she's doing in mine.
Speaker 13 (10:00):
You never again get up the power of accountability for
yourself and your actions.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I've committed to all over of making emends.
Speaker 14 (10:06):
I've ever read an embraced sobriety, and began the hard
public work of healing.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I know I did not deserve a peace when I've
caused so much pain. If something has always bothered me
about the way judges sentence people for drunk driving. First
of all, let's say you never drank in your life,
and the very first time Dug stan Hope tells a
joke about this, But the very first time you drink,
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you drink too much because you don't know your limits
and you don't know how dangerous it could be to
get in behind the wheel because you've never been drunk before.
And let's say you're fifty years old. The first time
you drank, you get yourself really drunk, and you go
get into a car, you crash and kill somebody. The
judges want to send you to a drug addiction alcohol
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addiction program, but actually you don't have an alcohol addiction program.
You were impaired terribly and somebody died as a result
of it. But they just throw this in there. It
becomes kind of a throwdown thing. They do, Oh, okay,
well this happened, so we'll send you to this program.
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You might not be an habitual drinker, you might have
just made a really stupid mistake, but we'll just go
ahead and make part of your punishment that you cannot
have an addiction. Because here is my problem with all
of that. There are people who drink too much and
never drive. When I say too much, they drink a lot,
They drink to excess, they drink to impairment, and they go.
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But one thing I won't do is I won't get
behind the wheel, so they stay home. Well, you're saying
to that guy, if something happens, you can't drink at
home by yourself. Why do we care if this guy
sits in his living room every day and drinks till
he passes out. We don't, But nobody thinks through this nonsense.
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I realized this isn't the most principled position I have
of all the positions I have. I do realize that,
but it's something that I care about, and therefore I'm
sharing with you. A US postal worker admitted to stealing
mail containing checks, personal identifying information, and debit and credit
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cards from her job between twenty twenty two and July
of twenty twenty five. For three years she did this,
she posts she's not exactly ashamed of it. She posted
on Instagram stacks of one hundred dollar bills, Rolex watches,
and other luxurious goods. Man, I didn't know this was
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a woman. This is one of these ladies that dresses
like a dude that just got out of prison, you know,
the big baggy pants and kind of sagging down. She
got New York Yankees ball cap. This is I didn't
even know this was a girl, I swear when I
started the story, and knows a girl. Mary and Magdammitt.
Now that's a name. Rup there, Maryann Magdammit? Where is she?
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Where is Magdammit? Thirty one, a former letter carrier at
the Torrent's main post office in California, admitted to stealing
mail containing checks, person identifying information, and debit and credit
cards from her job between twenty twenty two and July
of twenty twenty five. The Department of Justice says, according
to her plea agreement and court documents previously filed from
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at least twenty twenty two through twenty twenty five, she
stole all these things. She activated the stolen bank issued
cards online, used the cards to make purchases, and sold
some stolen cards to her code conspirators. Oh this Morning.
Speaker 13 (13:43):
A mail carrier is accused of living a life of
luxury off stolen mail. Prosecutors in Los Angeles say thirty
one year old Mary and Magdamitt started stealing mail in
twenty twenty two, taking US Treasury checks and more than
one hundred and thirty credit and debit cards, allegedly activating
the stole and cards to buy luxury items and book
trips to Turks and Caicos and Aruba. Police Sayhue was
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caught after posting these photos posing with cash on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You like to seeal mail? You like to seal mail? Yeah,
you like to seal mail? Uh?
Speaker 13 (14:13):
Mail theft a nationwide problem. Vigilantes were recently seen tackling
another suspected mail thief in La now under arrest.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You like to seal mail? You like to steal mail.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
One growing concern an increase in checks stolen from mail
deposited in outdoor mailboxes. Police save four men arrested near
Philadelphia were carrying checks stolen from the mail. The amounts
and the names changed.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It was never an issue growing up, as a kid
like never even thought about it. It's interesting, it's a
little scary.
Speaker 13 (14:41):
Authorities now urging people to hand deliver their mail inside
the post office to guard against crime, but internal mail
theft inside the postal service surged after the pandemic, with
cases up forty seven percent. One official recently quoted saying
criminal organizations are recruiting people to get a job in
the postal Service so they can rob mail and drain
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bank accounts. A government report last year found the Postal
Service not doing enough to prevent cot.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You got the Michael Berry Show. I'm not sure why
anybody would take any type of nutritional or health advice.
By the way, this is Chad's prep clip number sixteen,
CBS News Chicago. Why would anybody take any type of
nutritional or health advice from Bill Gates? And yet here
we are the media hyping Bill Gates as the new
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or Bill Gates hyping Bill Gates's new fake butter? What's
it made from? You may ask, Oh, this isn't the
country crop you remember? Country car? Do you have country crop?
Good morning?
Speaker 15 (15:45):
Thanks in Ben, Yeah, orange juice, blueberry muffins and shed spread,
country crock, country card.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Huh Okay, what's the cat? I just thought you enjoyed
that rich buttery taste.
Speaker 15 (15:54):
Hmmm, I can't refuse one taste of country crock?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Is she much like butter.
Speaker 15 (16:00):
Red country croc? Fewer calories than regular my drin and
no cholesterol. Enjoy the rich buttery taste of country croc?
Cangs too delicious? Fact, that's sure. Now come on, what
do you want me?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
There's another muffin with country croc. Really, country croc was
was was a big thing in our household. And one
of the things that was most beloved about country croc
was that then you could use the container forever. So
if there was a country croc, which is a butter substitute,
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I guess substitute, and it was in the in the fridge,
you didn't just pop it open. You didn't put it
next to your chest to hold onto it, to pop
it open and think, oh, I got to get some butter.
You'd put that, you'd you'd push it away from you
a little and stand back open it because it might
be it could be beans that had been on the
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pot all day, that had been that had been put
in there. And you know, beans are one of those
things that when they've been in the French for lo while.
They get that little gelatinous and they get a little
crisco looking thing on the top. But it might it
was probably more likely not country croc inside there. By
the time you got to it, it was being used
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as a receptacle, receptacle or or something else. You know.
Before we play this, I gotta tell you there was this.
You know these fake products. Oh, it's made from carbon, Yeah,
Ramon said, I didn't tell you it's made from carbon.
Sounds delightful, doesn't. It reminds me of a product called Alestra.
A Lestra was supposed to be a game changer because
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it would separate the fat out like a little filter, Like, uh,
the fat goes over here and the rest of the
food goes down your belly and you'll enjoy it and
you won't absorb the fat and you won't be fat,
but you'll be able to eat ride foods, you know,
Pringles and Cheetos and Pritos. Oh. Lestra is going to
save your life. It's gonna make it. Oh, it's be great.
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Except the guy who founded the company sent a bunch
of free product to our offices, so that we talk
about it on the air. Well, I'm not going to
be the guinea pig or anything. So the sales assistants,
who were all women, everybody has twenty pounds they want
to lose. Right, that's just the way it is. You
get to be thirty forty years of everybody's got twenty
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pounds they want to lose. So the girls were like, oh,
this is awesome. We got this free drug and it's
over the counter, and we can eat fried foods and
we won't absorb the fried foods and it'll be great.
But nobody gave any thought to if you don't absorb
the oils from the food, where do you think they go?
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They don't just turn into vapor. So what ended up
happening was what they called bowel leakage. So true story,
sales assistance would be in the office. They don't mind
me telling us. We've laughed about this over the years.
So if you were wearing white pants on any given day,
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white pants will have brown spots because you would literally
poop your pants. Now, don't send me an email and say, Michael,
I'm eating That's not my fault. That's not my fault.
This is important stuff. We got to talk about with
Bill Gates is pushing a food product. That's how you
know you need this dear clear of it.
Speaker 16 (19:24):
It looks, smells, and tastes like the butter we're all
familiar with bothout the farmland, fertilizers or emissions tied to
that typical process, and this butter breakthrough. It's happening right
here in Batavia, in the middle of an industrial park
in a suburb west of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Something unprecedented is happening.
Speaker 14 (19:45):
So you're using this gas right now to like cook
your food, and we're proposing that we would like to
first make your food.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
With that gas.
Speaker 16 (19:53):
The company is called Savior, and you better believe it.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
They're pioneering tech.
Speaker 16 (19:59):
Uses carbon and hydrogen to make the stick of butter
you see on this plate.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
This is pretty novel to be able to make food
that looks and tastes and feels exactly like dairy butter,
but with no agriculture whatsoever.
Speaker 16 (20:12):
And no long ingredient list the average person can't pronounce.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's really just our fat, some water, a little bit
of less than as an emulsifier, and some natural flavor
and color.
Speaker 16 (20:23):
How fats are made up of carbon and hydrogen chains.
The goal here replicate those chains without animals or plants.
And they did it. They tell me to simplify. They
take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water,
heat them up, and oxidize them.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
The final result.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It looks like a wax, like a candle wax at first,
but they're fat molecules like the ones in beef, cheese
or vegetable oils.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Sustainability is why we are here.
Speaker 16 (20:54):
It's all done releasing zero greenhouse gases using no farmland
to feed.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
We're like not at full capacity in this facility.
Speaker 16 (21:03):
Yet, and even though we're standing in a factory setting,
and in addition to the carbon.
Speaker 14 (21:08):
Footprint being much lower for a process like this, right,
the land footprint is like a thousand times lower than
what you need in traditional agriculture.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Wondering what Nancy Pelosi has been up to, They didn't.
I mean Nancy's still around. She now says that sex
changes for transgender for transgender children is something she's working
for at the national level. You know, it's going to
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be a whole lot easier to win elections if the
Democrats will continue to do really really stupid things. So
I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am
to hear that Nancy Pelosi's focus is on doing something
that ninety five percent of Americans are opposed to. See.
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What we don't want them doing is things that might
be popular. But as long as she is trying to
make sure that all the little boys get their wieners
cut off before they're old enough to know what they're doing,
and that she's going to put every bit of effort
she has into doing that. Oh, we're going to be
in a We're going to be in good shape. That's
that's a good thing. Oh yeah, sorry, it's uh yeah,
(22:24):
the uh. This is her saying that you want to
hear it in her own words. This is a clip
number seventeen from Chad's prep.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
How's your office respondings of pauses and gender coming here
here in California?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Well, that is something I'm working for at the national level,
and we have, I said, are hoping that we can
have gender for me here, for our for our trans kids,
and that it's a sad thing for us. I'm not
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totally I don't know what. I don't know what effect
we can have nationally with what we have going on
in the White House and in the Congress. It's really
very sad. If you were there outside our door. We
have a trans flag outside of our door in the
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office Congressional Office building, we have the trans flag as
to some of our other colleagues. But that view is
not necessarily shared. People on the other side of the
aisle at.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
First have been destroying the black community. Is to dismantle
the black family.
Speaker 17 (23:37):
Why don't we ask missus Willie Brown, if Karmala Harris
cares about black families?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Lot, did you ever watch What's Happening? That was a
good show. That program. You know what's amazing because I
was born in sath so you work out where I
would have been at different points in my life compared
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to where you are. But most of what I watched
I watched in syndication.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I watched Green Acres, I watched Lee Majors as Heath Barkley,
I watched Gunsmoe, I watched Ponderoso. I've watched The Brady Bunch,
I watched I watched Leave It to Beaver. I watched
all this stuff that hadn't been filmed, most of it
in years. They just throw it back on TV. Beverly
(24:31):
HILLBILLI Is. I loved it. I thought it was fantastic. Anyway,
I meant to do this earlier. I can't remember what
day it was, But do you remember d On what's happening?
You remember her? She has passed away? And what's weird
about this? Is it fit? I thought to myself. You
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know people are always older when they died and you
remember them being. And the reason is like if you
ever see an actress that you used to be really
attracted to. She was hot and he's seen, he go ough,
she looks terrible. What happened? And you don't realize you
haven't seen her in thirty years. She aged just like
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you did, But in your mind she's still locked in
eighty two and now it's you know twenty seventeen, Well,
y're we know it was twenty twenty five. Anyway, So
she died and she's sixty. What's weird about that is
it feels like she should have been older than sixty.
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Her death was announced by her co star Heywood Nelson.
You remember Heywood Nelson. It is that's rerun, isn't it. Yeah?
He wrote brilliance It comes into great many forms. We
all have them, and we have all have This family's
doctor Daniel Spencer June twenty fourth, nineteen sixty five to
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August el So it's eleven, so just not long ago.
Doctor d Our, brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warrior without fail,
has finally found her release from the clutches of this
world and a body. We celebrate her and her contributions
as we regret to inform her departure and transition from
a long battle with cancer. We've lost a daughter, sister,
family member, What's Happening cast member, veterinarian, animal rights proponent
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and healer, and cancer heroin our she ro. Daniel is loved,
She will be missed in this form and forever embraced.
I might not should have read that, because that got
way too political. She played d Thomas, the sassy younger
sister of the Thomas family, on What's Happening, the series,
which was loosely based on the nineteen seventy five film Cooley, Hi,
(26:47):
Very Good, You Know Your TV History on ABC from
seventy six to seventy nine. The story from WTVR TV.
Speaker 12 (26:58):
On a quiet Tuesday evening insight Richmond's New Bridge Baptist Church.
The Hughes hold a weight of grieving and remembering.
Speaker 18 (27:07):
Such a wonderful, bright and warm soul, just sad to
see her transition.
Speaker 12 (27:14):
Reverend Marcus Martin is part of the community reflecting on
the life of doctor Danielle Spencer, who the World newsd
from the seventies sitcom What's Happening?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Is this what I'm supposed to be? If you d Thomas,
it is, I'm doctor Claymore.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Why don't you have a seat, then we'll discuss your problems.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Look first, let's get something strict.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
But Martin knew her as something even more cherished.
Speaker 18 (27:37):
A warm soul who greeted everyone with this big, beautiful,
energetic smile. She always took time to talk to people,
always took time to greet people.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
Spencer passed away Monday night in Richmond at the age
of sixty. Her brother, Jeremy Pelt says she was a
very loving spirit who fought courageously until the very end,
and her family says she lost her battle with gastric cancer,
but it wasn't her first fight. In twenty fourteen, Spencer
opened up to CBS six about her diagnosis with breast
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cancer and the.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Journey that followed.
Speaker 17 (28:13):
I came into the room, there were about five doctors
in there, so that scared the living daylights out of me,
and they told me that I had breast cancer.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
In Hollywood, she made history as the youngest female child
in a sitcom being inducted into the National Museum of
African American History and Culture. But en Richmond, she found
a different stage, one where she could serve, connect and inspire.
Spencer often appeared on CBS six's Virginia This Morning.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Good to Say You Again, Doctor Too.
Speaker 18 (28:44):
She showed up with a determination to live life, no
matter what the cards may have dealt her, no matter
what situation may have been, she continued to just fight
and to go forward.
Speaker 12 (29:02):
It was that determination she shared in her memoir Through
the Fire.
Speaker 18 (29:06):
And it's not that we become consumed by the fire,
but we go through the fire and we're made better.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
Spencer left her mark on people and animals alike, from
her work in the community to her work as a veterinarian.
Speaker 18 (29:19):
For Richmond, it's going to be an impact of a
person who loved humanity and who loved creation, animals and
things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Does everybody have to be a person who just devoted
themselves to baking cake for the hungry? Why can't it
just be that we really liked this person? We highlight
she volunteered at the animal shelter. Uh, oh, okay, great?
(29:56):
Does that make her any better than my grandmother who
smoking three packs of cigarettes today, sitting and watching the
prices ride all day. No, it doesn't, It doesn't doesn't
make her any this desperate need to create this, this
mother Teresa personality for people. Uh she she did this,
(30:19):
and she gave a dude to court. She gave a
bum a quarter outside the liquor store one time, and
she volunteered the animal shelter? And uh and what else
did she? What else can we say she did? How
about we just really liked her? She was fun. She
made a really really good short red. She made dressing
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at Thanksgiving that was fantastic, perfect amount of sage in it.
And she would do she could make ribs, not briskey.
A brisket with briskey was dry, but the ribs, her
ribs were good. I would like to leave you and
the program at this point by reminding you that I
(31:05):
do love to hear from you. Our website is Michael
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When you support our show, that gives us a win. Now,
I will leave you for this note. A man in Tyler, Texas,
was arrested for wearing nothing but a diaper and approaching
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girls telling them he needed a diaper change. He's a
grown man, while saying other sexual things. He reportedly told
some of the girls Google Gaga, I need a diaper change.
Why do I tell you that? Because as as bad
as you may think your life is, you're not putting
on a diaper with a pacifier and going to the
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mall and trying to hit on other girls, little girls,
Hey by saying you need your diaper change. Be proud. Hey,
you're doing great, Thank you and good night,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel it good
when coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Up.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's working hard to straddle the fence. She used to
claim she was a Republican between Orange Man bad and
not openly gaslighting the few viewers that CNN has left.
I almost feel sorry for her here. Yeah, I think
a few things can be true.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
One is that I think he's using this issue to
distract some other things, but doesn't mean it's a bad
political strategy. I think it's a very good one, and
the numbers can be what they are.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But also people don't feel that way.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
And when it comes to two things, crime in the economy,
feelings don't really care about your fact. And I can't
tell you how profoundly stupid it is for Democrats to
get up with the facts and their figures and their
charts and the graphs and say, look, you're safe.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Can't you read this chart? Idiots? Why are you complaining?
I'm showing you.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Right here how safe you are, So shut up and
move along. I don't have to tell you how profoundly stupid.
That is because voters told you how profoundly stupid that
was in twenty twenty four, when Democrats said, see these
economic numbers.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Economy is great. What are you complaining about.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
See these crime numbers. Crimes down, You're safe. See these
immigration numbers. Obama deported way more. There's no migrant crisis.
I can't tell you enough that politics is perception and
the numbers can be right, but you never tell voters
they're wrong about how they feel.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Speaking of Mega Brazinski and being Joe Scarborough's mistress, Joe
Scarborough took a different path than se Cup. See they're
really focused. They're trying to get the narrative back. They're scared,
they're losing their people. They're taking on. There's a hole
in this ship. Joe Scarborough went with the I received
this text line as a way to admit the crime
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in DC is out of hand. Remember this is the
same Joe Scarborough that said I'm going to say something
and I don't care who likes it or not. I've
known Joe Biden for fifty years and this is the
best Joe Biden. Two days later, they smothered the old
man because he's about dead, and there's a palace coup
and he's looking like a fool out of that. Anyway,
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here's old Morning Joe.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I want to read you at texts from a someone
who I won't say their name, but we'll just.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Say they're very liberal.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
And he says, this may sound controversial, but I'm not
totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in DC.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I know he's doing it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
For politics, but crime remains rampant. I've had too many
friends carjacked, shot at none of I will walk more
than three blocks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
After eight pm.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Thirteen year olds are committing many of these crimes. Quite
a change from the decade ago when things were much calmer.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, that actually sounds.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Like the DC that I lived in, when I lived
a block behind the Supreme Court and you know, every
three days one of my neighbors was getting held up
at gunpoint. I mean, there has been a crime problem
in DC. At the same time, obviously a lot of concerns.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Will will this look like? June of twenty twenty and
then Joe Morning Joe had former Capitol Police Chief Tom
Manger on to give his thoughts on President Trump bringing
in the FEDS to fight crime in DC. I don't
think Joe's mistress Mika expected this answer. This sounds like
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sounds pretty darm pro Trump to.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Me, what's your sense of how this will work?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Well?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Tell you after listening to the press conference yesterday, I.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Feel much better this morning.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Just in the last twenty four hours, Chief Pam Smith
of the Metro Problem Police Department has spoken with Terry Cole,
the interim Commissioner for the Metro Problem Police Department.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
At least for the next thirty days. They have spoken.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Mister Cole has told Chief Smith that we would like
MPD to lead this effort. He wants this to be
a collaboration, and frankly, that's the only way I see
this as being successful.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
As you know, as a former police chief, if somebody.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Would have come to me and said, hey, we're going
to bring five hundred thousand more law enforcement officers in
to assist you, what's not to like about that? You
could certainly make an impact on crime with that kind
of surge. This is going to be a temporary thing,
(05:02):
make no mistake about that. This is not something that
can be sustained over a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So I'm very particulate.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, I'm very encouraged that Chief Smith and mister Cole
have talked about this being a collaboration and that MPD
is going to to basically lead the decisions on how
these resources are deployed.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
To her credit, and I'm gonna give credit where it's due,
it's woman at CNN. They're they're so desperate. I mean,
they're so they don't know what to do. Over there,
cn n's Casey Hunt read headlines of juvenile crime to
Democrat district attorney. Yeah, district attorney. Well, they call them
the DC attorney general. I know they had an attorney
general in d C. What whatever, Brian Schwab or Schwab,
(05:52):
it doesn't matter, Brian something. I've never heard of this
guy's job title, and I've never heard of him. But
to her credit, seeing it, Casey Hunt sounds more like
Fox News here.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
So let's talk about DC residents for a second, because
these headlines, you know, and I was a resident of
DC for over twenty years. I've lived in all but
three DC wards. Okay, these headlines are different from when
I first came to the city. Thirteen year old girl
thirteen sentenced to seven years for twenty twenty three beating
death of a DC man teen sentenced and killing of
lift driver who came to US seeking safety. This was
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a guy who was a US military interpreter who was
shot and killed in an attempted carjacking, again by a
sixteen year old. Now juveniles fall under you, and the
DC Attorney General Jeanine Piro or a DC attorney Jannine
Piro has focused in on this inability that she says
she has to prosecute juveniles. The law allows people up
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to the age of twenty four years old to potentially
have more lenient sentences from judges.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Is that HPV HIV spooky VAGINOSI sinning with your nick
bod is evil and atrocious.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
This next story, I gotta tell you, first of all,
I feel sorry for a woman whose husband was killed
when a drunk driver crashed into him. Let me start there.
I feel for her pain. She didn't ask for that,
all right, now we got there. They'd been married for
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fifty years, okay, and this dude is so drunk he
can't he is way passed impairment. He got he's so
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drunk he kills her husband. He gets a twenty year
prison time prison sentence for killing. This is this is
manslaughter at this point, homicide by vehicle d UI, reckless driving,
driving like a maniac. By the way, this was an
accident in fall asleep. He deserves to be hanged, but okay,
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they give him a twenty year prison sentence. However, they
will suspend the sentence if he completes a two year
inpatient rehab program. I'll play this story. It's clip number
twenty three WSBTV from the wife of Tuck Johnson.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
The victim, Regina Johnson says she hugged Joseph Tillman, the
young man who played guilty to the crime, because God
told her he needed a mom hug, and in the
embrace she whispered, she forgives him and God loves him
more than he knows.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
She says. He whispered back, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Joey doesn't know yet how much God loves him.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
Join these healing of things in his past, as we
all do.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That is our heart and career.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
Mims Johnson says, for fifty years of marriage, she watched
her husband, a successful businessman, live his Christian faith through
playing his guitar and leave worship based prison ministry, mentoring,
and more and he was seventy eight when a car
with Tillman at the wheel hit him as he rode
his electric bike in the tal Lay Community.
Speaker 11 (09:07):
Investigation showed that the defendant had been drinking alcohol at
day Days four bar. After that, they were on the
way to the friends house obtaining ntrous outside where the
defendant began huffing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That and passed out shortly.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Before running off and inflicting fail injuries to Chuck Johnson.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Chersey County Assistant District Attorney Pete Lamb says Tillman pled
guilty as a first defender to three counts of homicide
by vehicle, all involving the death of Chuck Johnson, plus
felony hit and run, making a fault statement, duy, and
reckless driving in a non negotiated plea.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
Almost from the found a start, ntress cancers, finished.
Speaker 12 (09:45):
Classes, He's changed his way of life and seems like
he's on a trajectory to continue to move forward with
his life in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Chevy, you were created for a purpose and a traakeout.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
He uses this in your life for his glory, which
she's doing in mine.
Speaker 13 (10:00):
You never again get up the power of accountability for
yourself and your actions.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I've committed to all over of making emends.
Speaker 14 (10:06):
I've ever read an embraced sobriety, and began the hard
public work of healing.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I know I did not deserve a peace when I've
caused so much pain. If something has always bothered me
about the way judges sentence people for drunk driving. First
of all, let's say you never drank in your life,
and the very first time Dug stan Hope tells a
joke about this, But the very first time you drink,
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you drink too much because you don't know your limits
and you don't know how dangerous it could be to
get in behind the wheel because you've never been drunk before.
And let's say you're fifty years old. The first time
you drank, you get yourself really drunk, and you go
get into a car, you crash and kill somebody. The
judges want to send you to a drug addiction alcohol
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addiction program, but actually you don't have an alcohol addiction program.
You were impaired terribly and somebody died as a result
of it. But they just throw this in there. It
becomes kind of a throwdown thing. They do, Oh, okay,
well this happened, so we'll send you to this program.
(11:19):
You might not be an habitual drinker, you might have
just made a really stupid mistake, but we'll just go
ahead and make part of your punishment that you cannot
have an addiction. Because here is my problem with all
of that. There are people who drink too much and
never drive. When I say too much, they drink a lot,
They drink to excess, they drink to impairment, and they go.
(11:42):
But one thing I won't do is I won't get
behind the wheel, so they stay home. Well, you're saying
to that guy, if something happens, you can't drink at
home by yourself. Why do we care if this guy
sits in his living room every day and drinks till
he passes out. We don't, But nobody thinks through this nonsense.
(12:03):
I realized this isn't the most principled position I have
of all the positions I have. I do realize that,
but it's something that I care about, and therefore I'm
sharing with you. A US postal worker admitted to stealing
mail containing checks, personal identifying information, and debit and credit
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cards from her job between twenty twenty two and July
of twenty twenty five. For three years she did this,
she posts she's not exactly ashamed of it. She posted
on Instagram stacks of one hundred dollar bills, Rolex watches,
and other luxurious goods. Man, I didn't know this was
(12:45):
a woman. This is one of these ladies that dresses
like a dude that just got out of prison, you know,
the big baggy pants and kind of sagging down. She
got New York Yankees ball cap. This is I didn't
even know this was a girl, I swear when I
started the story, and knows a girl. Mary and Magdammitt.
Now that's a name. Rup there, Maryann Magdammit? Where is she?
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Where is Magdammit? Thirty one, a former letter carrier at
the Torrent's main post office in California, admitted to stealing
mail containing checks, person identifying information, and debit and credit
cards from her job between twenty twenty two and July
of twenty twenty five. The Department of Justice says, according
to her plea agreement and court documents previously filed from
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at least twenty twenty two through twenty twenty five, she
stole all these things. She activated the stolen bank issued
cards online, used the cards to make purchases, and sold
some stolen cards to her code conspirators. Oh this Morning.
Speaker 13 (13:43):
A mail carrier is accused of living a life of
luxury off stolen mail. Prosecutors in Los Angeles say thirty
one year old Mary and Magdamitt started stealing mail in
twenty twenty two, taking US Treasury checks and more than
one hundred and thirty credit and debit cards, allegedly activating
the stole and cards to buy luxury items and book
trips to Turks and Caicos and Aruba. Police Sayhue was
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caught after posting these photos posing with cash on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You like to seeal mail? You like to seal mail? Yeah,
you like to seal mail? Uh?
Speaker 13 (14:13):
Mail theft a nationwide problem. Vigilantes were recently seen tackling
another suspected mail thief in La now under arrest.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You like to seal mail? You like to steal mail.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
One growing concern an increase in checks stolen from mail
deposited in outdoor mailboxes. Police save four men arrested near
Philadelphia were carrying checks stolen from the mail. The amounts
and the names changed.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It was never an issue growing up, as a kid
like never even thought about it. It's interesting, it's a
little scary.
Speaker 13 (14:41):
Authorities now urging people to hand deliver their mail inside
the post office to guard against crime, but internal mail
theft inside the postal service surged after the pandemic, with
cases up forty seven percent. One official recently quoted saying
criminal organizations are recruiting people to get a job in
the postal Service so they can rob mail and drain
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bank accounts. A government report last year found the Postal
Service not doing enough to prevent cot.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You got the Michael Berry Show. I'm not sure why
anybody would take any type of nutritional or health advice.
By the way, this is Chad's prep clip number sixteen,
CBS News Chicago. Why would anybody take any type of
nutritional or health advice from Bill Gates? And yet here
we are the media hyping Bill Gates as the new
(15:32):
or Bill Gates hyping Bill Gates's new fake butter? What's
it made from? You may ask, Oh, this isn't the
country crop you remember? Country car? Do you have country crop?
Good morning?
Speaker 15 (15:45):
Thanks in Ben, Yeah, orange juice, blueberry muffins and shed spread,
country crock, country card.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Huh Okay, what's the cat? I just thought you enjoyed
that rich buttery taste.
Speaker 15 (15:54):
Hmmm, I can't refuse one taste of country crock?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Is she much like butter.
Speaker 15 (16:00):
Red country croc? Fewer calories than regular my drin and
no cholesterol. Enjoy the rich buttery taste of country croc?
Cangs too delicious? Fact, that's sure. Now come on, what
do you want me?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
There's another muffin with country croc. Really, country croc was
was was a big thing in our household. And one
of the things that was most beloved about country croc
was that then you could use the container forever. So
if there was a country croc, which is a butter substitute,
(16:32):
I guess substitute, and it was in the in the fridge,
you didn't just pop it open. You didn't put it
next to your chest to hold onto it, to pop
it open and think, oh, I got to get some butter.
You'd put that, you'd you'd push it away from you
a little and stand back open it because it might
be it could be beans that had been on the
(16:54):
pot all day, that had been that had been put
in there. And you know, beans are one of those
things that when they've been in the French for lo while.
They get that little gelatinous and they get a little
crisco looking thing on the top. But it might it
was probably more likely not country croc inside there. By
the time you got to it, it was being used
(17:15):
as a receptacle, receptacle or or something else. You know.
Before we play this, I gotta tell you there was this.
You know these fake products. Oh, it's made from carbon, Yeah,
Ramon said, I didn't tell you it's made from carbon.
Sounds delightful, doesn't. It reminds me of a product called Alestra.
A Lestra was supposed to be a game changer because
(17:38):
it would separate the fat out like a little filter, Like, uh,
the fat goes over here and the rest of the
food goes down your belly and you'll enjoy it and
you won't absorb the fat and you won't be fat,
but you'll be able to eat ride foods, you know,
Pringles and Cheetos and Pritos. Oh. Lestra is going to
save your life. It's gonna make it. Oh, it's be great.
(17:59):
Except the guy who founded the company sent a bunch
of free product to our offices, so that we talk
about it on the air. Well, I'm not going to
be the guinea pig or anything. So the sales assistants,
who were all women, everybody has twenty pounds they want
to lose. Right, that's just the way it is. You
get to be thirty forty years of everybody's got twenty
(18:20):
pounds they want to lose. So the girls were like, oh,
this is awesome. We got this free drug and it's
over the counter, and we can eat fried foods and
we won't absorb the fried foods and it'll be great.
But nobody gave any thought to if you don't absorb
the oils from the food, where do you think they go?
(18:41):
They don't just turn into vapor. So what ended up
happening was what they called bowel leakage. So true story,
sales assistance would be in the office. They don't mind
me telling us. We've laughed about this over the years.
So if you were wearing white pants on any given day,
(19:03):
white pants will have brown spots because you would literally
poop your pants. Now, don't send me an email and say, Michael,
I'm eating That's not my fault. That's not my fault.
This is important stuff. We got to talk about with
Bill Gates is pushing a food product. That's how you
know you need this dear clear of it.
Speaker 16 (19:24):
It looks, smells, and tastes like the butter we're all
familiar with bothout the farmland, fertilizers or emissions tied to
that typical process, and this butter breakthrough. It's happening right
here in Batavia, in the middle of an industrial park
in a suburb west of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Something unprecedented is happening.
Speaker 14 (19:45):
So you're using this gas right now to like cook
your food, and we're proposing that we would like to
first make your food.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
With that gas.
Speaker 16 (19:53):
The company is called Savior, and you better believe it.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
They're pioneering tech.
Speaker 16 (19:59):
Uses carbon and hydrogen to make the stick of butter
you see on this plate.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
This is pretty novel to be able to make food
that looks and tastes and feels exactly like dairy butter,
but with no agriculture whatsoever.
Speaker 16 (20:12):
And no long ingredient list the average person can't pronounce.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's really just our fat, some water, a little bit
of less than as an emulsifier, and some natural flavor
and color.
Speaker 16 (20:23):
How fats are made up of carbon and hydrogen chains.
The goal here replicate those chains without animals or plants.
And they did it. They tell me to simplify. They
take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water,
heat them up, and oxidize them.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
The final result.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It looks like a wax, like a candle wax at first,
but they're fat molecules like the ones in beef, cheese
or vegetable oils.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Sustainability is why we are here.
Speaker 16 (20:54):
It's all done releasing zero greenhouse gases using no farmland
to feed.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
We're like not at full capacity in this facility.
Speaker 16 (21:03):
Yet, and even though we're standing in a factory setting,
and in addition to the carbon.
Speaker 14 (21:08):
Footprint being much lower for a process like this, right,
the land footprint is like a thousand times lower than
what you need in traditional agriculture.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Wondering what Nancy Pelosi has been up to, They didn't.
I mean Nancy's still around. She now says that sex
changes for transgender for transgender children is something she's working
for at the national level. You know, it's going to
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be a whole lot easier to win elections if the
Democrats will continue to do really really stupid things. So
I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am
to hear that Nancy Pelosi's focus is on doing something
that ninety five percent of Americans are opposed to. See.
(22:01):
What we don't want them doing is things that might
be popular. But as long as she is trying to
make sure that all the little boys get their wieners
cut off before they're old enough to know what they're doing,
and that she's going to put every bit of effort
she has into doing that. Oh, we're going to be
in a We're going to be in good shape. That's
that's a good thing. Oh yeah, sorry, it's uh yeah,
(22:24):
the uh. This is her saying that you want to
hear it in her own words. This is a clip
number seventeen from Chad's prep.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
How's your office respondings of pauses and gender coming here
here in California?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Well, that is something I'm working for at the national level,
and we have, I said, are hoping that we can
have gender for me here, for our for our trans kids,
and that it's a sad thing for us. I'm not
(22:57):
totally I don't know what. I don't know what effect
we can have nationally with what we have going on
in the White House and in the Congress. It's really
very sad. If you were there outside our door. We
have a trans flag outside of our door in the
(23:18):
office Congressional Office building, we have the trans flag as
to some of our other colleagues. But that view is
not necessarily shared. People on the other side of the
aisle at.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
First have been destroying the black community. Is to dismantle
the black family.
Speaker 17 (23:37):
Why don't we ask missus Willie Brown, if Karmala Harris
cares about black families?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Lot, did you ever watch What's Happening? That was a
good show. That program. You know what's amazing because I
was born in sath so you work out where I
would have been at different points in my life compared
(24:04):
to where you are. But most of what I watched
I watched in syndication.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I watched Green Acres, I watched Lee Majors as Heath Barkley,
I watched Gunsmoe, I watched Ponderoso. I've watched The Brady Bunch,
I watched I watched Leave It to Beaver. I watched
all this stuff that hadn't been filmed, most of it
in years. They just throw it back on TV. Beverly
(24:31):
HILLBILLI Is. I loved it. I thought it was fantastic. Anyway,
I meant to do this earlier. I can't remember what
day it was, But do you remember d On what's happening?
You remember her? She has passed away? And what's weird
about this? Is it fit? I thought to myself. You
(24:53):
know people are always older when they died and you
remember them being. And the reason is like if you
ever see an actress that you used to be really
attracted to. She was hot and he's seen, he go ough,
she looks terrible. What happened? And you don't realize you
haven't seen her in thirty years. She aged just like
(25:14):
you did, But in your mind she's still locked in
eighty two and now it's you know twenty seventeen, Well,
y're we know it was twenty twenty five. Anyway, So
she died and she's sixty. What's weird about that is
it feels like she should have been older than sixty.
(25:35):
Her death was announced by her co star Heywood Nelson.
You remember Heywood Nelson. It is that's rerun, isn't it. Yeah?
He wrote brilliance It comes into great many forms. We
all have them, and we have all have This family's
doctor Daniel Spencer June twenty fourth, nineteen sixty five to
(25:59):
August el So it's eleven, so just not long ago.
Doctor d Our, brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warrior without fail,
has finally found her release from the clutches of this
world and a body. We celebrate her and her contributions
as we regret to inform her departure and transition from
a long battle with cancer. We've lost a daughter, sister,
family member, What's Happening cast member, veterinarian, animal rights proponent
(26:23):
and healer, and cancer heroin our she ro. Daniel is loved,
She will be missed in this form and forever embraced.
I might not should have read that, because that got
way too political. She played d Thomas, the sassy younger
sister of the Thomas family, on What's Happening, the series,
which was loosely based on the nineteen seventy five film Cooley, Hi,
(26:47):
Very Good, You Know Your TV History on ABC from
seventy six to seventy nine. The story from WTVR TV.
Speaker 12 (26:58):
On a quiet Tuesday evening insight Richmond's New Bridge Baptist Church.
The Hughes hold a weight of grieving and remembering.
Speaker 18 (27:07):
Such a wonderful, bright and warm soul, just sad to
see her transition.
Speaker 12 (27:14):
Reverend Marcus Martin is part of the community reflecting on
the life of doctor Danielle Spencer, who the World newsd
from the seventies sitcom What's Happening?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Is this what I'm supposed to be? If you d Thomas,
it is, I'm doctor Claymore.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Why don't you have a seat, then we'll discuss your problems.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Look first, let's get something strict.
Speaker 12 (27:33):
But Martin knew her as something even more cherished.
Speaker 18 (27:37):
A warm soul who greeted everyone with this big, beautiful,
energetic smile. She always took time to talk to people,
always took time to greet people.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
Spencer passed away Monday night in Richmond at the age
of sixty. Her brother, Jeremy Pelt says she was a
very loving spirit who fought courageously until the very end,
and her family says she lost her battle with gastric cancer,
but it wasn't her first fight. In twenty fourteen, Spencer
opened up to CBS six about her diagnosis with breast
(28:10):
cancer and the.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Journey that followed.
Speaker 17 (28:13):
I came into the room, there were about five doctors
in there, so that scared the living daylights out of me,
and they told me that I had breast cancer.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
In Hollywood, she made history as the youngest female child
in a sitcom being inducted into the National Museum of
African American History and Culture. But en Richmond, she found
a different stage, one where she could serve, connect and inspire.
Spencer often appeared on CBS six's Virginia This Morning.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Good to Say You Again, Doctor Too.
Speaker 18 (28:44):
She showed up with a determination to live life, no
matter what the cards may have dealt her, no matter
what situation may have been, she continued to just fight
and to go forward.
Speaker 12 (29:02):
It was that determination she shared in her memoir Through
the Fire.
Speaker 18 (29:06):
And it's not that we become consumed by the fire,
but we go through the fire and we're made better.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
Spencer left her mark on people and animals alike, from
her work in the community to her work as a veterinarian.
Speaker 18 (29:19):
For Richmond, it's going to be an impact of a
person who loved humanity and who loved creation, animals and
things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Does everybody have to be a person who just devoted
themselves to baking cake for the hungry? Why can't it
just be that we really liked this person? We highlight
she volunteered at the animal shelter. Uh, oh, okay, great?
(29:56):
Does that make her any better than my grandmother who
smoking three packs of cigarettes today, sitting and watching the
prices ride all day. No, it doesn't, It doesn't doesn't
make her any this desperate need to create this, this
mother Teresa personality for people. Uh she she did this,
(30:19):
and she gave a dude to court. She gave a
bum a quarter outside the liquor store one time, and
she volunteered the animal shelter? And uh and what else
did she? What else can we say she did? How
about we just really liked her? She was fun. She
made a really really good short red. She made dressing
(30:45):
at Thanksgiving that was fantastic, perfect amount of sage in it.
And she would do she could make ribs, not briskey.
A brisket with briskey was dry, but the ribs, her
ribs were good. I would like to leave you and
the program at this point by reminding you that I
(31:05):
do love to hear from you. Our website is Michael
Berryshow dot com. You can send me an email when
you're there. I know it might seem silly, like he
don't want to hear from I do. I want to
Where are you? Where do you listen to the show?
Like location and literally location in your woodshop, in the car,
are the kids in the back? What do you like
about the show? What do you not like about the show?
I love to hear if you sign up for our
blast while you're there. It's free, and I'm thankful. I'm
(31:28):
very thankful for your support of our show and our
show sponsors and what we do. Because guess what, like
everybody else, you know, if you're the head coach or
the quarterback, you got to have wins when you listen.
When you support our show, that gives us a win. Now,
I will leave you for this note. A man in Tyler, Texas,
was arrested for wearing nothing but a diaper and approaching
(31:51):
girls telling them he needed a diaper change. He's a
grown man, while saying other sexual things. He reportedly told
some of the girls Google Gaga, I need a diaper change.
Why do I tell you that? Because as as bad
as you may think your life is, you're not putting
on a diaper with a pacifier and going to the
(32:12):
mall and trying to hit on other girls, little girls,
Hey by saying you need your diaper change. Be proud. Hey,
you're doing great, Thank you and good night,
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