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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh yes, that's what we needed right about now, right
about here, reset.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Balance, recenter.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Happy day, happy day when those war.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Where the war, when those war.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
She is the way he loves me.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Happy day or happy day happy or happy day.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
When those war witty warm when those war.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
She is the way he loved.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The abby day, happy day or a happy day winter
(02:20):
of war?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh whenny war winter the war? Three of the away
he need al.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy day, Hey, d.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
God, heavy deal bod heavy deal.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
O happy.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Oh habit when those walls when it was, when those
war three A way he need me.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I have a day?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh good god.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Well.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
I love this medium because I love the conversations. And
now they begin open line Friday in three two one, seven,
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Us started as we always do. Courtesy of the greatest
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Speaker 5 (05:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I saw a statement posted online that said, to all
these people crying online about losing their jobs for some thing,
they said imagine losing your life for it.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Those text messages between the suspect and Kirk's murder and
his roommate slash romantic partner, here's how one reporter at
ABC is describing them.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
It was very touching in a way that I think
many of us didn't expect. A very intimate portrait with
him repeatedly calling his roommate who was transitioning, calling him
my love and I want to protect him, my love.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It was very touch Do you masturbate to dog day afternoon?
The last scene? What kind of weirdo were you?
Speaker 9 (06:34):
The Nazi Herono of Hawaii actually just makes an admission
about men and women.
Speaker 12 (06:39):
You are not requiring applicants to be able to do
a certain kind of pullups, which a lot of women
came out because of physiological differences.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Are you requiring these kinds of pullups out of the
same ugly amount and it's ugly. Makes the argument that
men should be able to compete against women, but women
shouldn't have to perform at the same standard to be
in the FBI because of physiological differences. The man accused
of being the getaway driver in a string of terrifying
(07:14):
home invasions or a group of people pretended to be
police officers. Geraldine Easton is a neighbor who says she
was shocked to learn about what happened. How do you
stay sick?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Oh, I stay in my room with guy my baseball bet.
Speaker 13 (07:26):
Eason says she's taking extra steps to verify if police
knock on her door.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You got to show me your badgi.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
If you ain't the police, you get the one with
my duel, or you will get beat with a baseball.
Best you got that you can show some ida orre
you getting beat with a baseball?
Speaker 14 (07:41):
Bet?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That seems reasonable? I mean you agree with m On
that it seems like a reasonable proposition.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Scove and why you still let go like flags in
the town.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Stand up for you, call us.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Michael Berry, show trouble, the grown homedy, the mom I
feel and they sit me in email. Her and her
daughter holding a donut, said, happy donut Fridays are Friday
is my favorite day, not only because it's the start
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of the weekend, but because I take my daughter to
get donuts every Friday. Something so small means so much
to her and even more to me. Remember little little
traditions and little things like that as a kid, and
to your parent it's sort of a well, I'll do
this nice thing as a kid. It was the sky's
(09:07):
opening up. It was the biggest deal ever. Let's start
with the phone lines seven nine, nine, one thousand. Stacey,
you were the first call of the week. Be awesome, sweetheart.
Speaker 15 (09:18):
I will.
Speaker 16 (09:20):
I was calling in response to something I think he
said yesterday about Jimmy Kimmel, And when you first said it,
I disagreed until you explain.
Speaker 14 (09:27):
But you started off.
Speaker 16 (09:28):
By saying somebody else said, somebody else had said he
has a right to say whatever he wants, and you
said that's not true. Well, actually I'm splitting hairs here,
but it is true that he has a right to
say whatever he wants. What he does not have a
right to is a microphone with which to say it,
and a TV studio to say it in with a
TV camera play at him, and hair and makeup artists
to make him look good while he says it, and
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the whole network broadcast system and all the brilliance that
went into providing that. Basically, he does not have a
right to other people's resources to amplify his message and
get it out there.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And when those other people.
Speaker 16 (10:01):
Decide they no longer want to provide him with those resources.
That is absolutely their right and that is what they did.
And that's my point.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
All Right, you're splitting here, so I'm going to I'm
going to engage from Where does he get this right
to say whatever he wants? Forget who owns the microphone?
Where does that right come from?
Speaker 16 (10:22):
Well, I guess a Christian person would say it comes
from God. I'm actually not Christian, but I mean I
will okay, so I will base this on a book.
I'm a psychologist, and my favorite book, even though I'm
not Christian, a book that I recommend to almost every
single person I see is this book by two Christian counselors,
(10:43):
and it's called Boundaries, and it basically says that each
person has control over their.
Speaker 17 (10:50):
Own thoughts, feelings, behaviors, values, desires, and so forth, and
that is what each person can control and they are
the only person who can control that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
That's all right?
Speaker 16 (11:01):
His wait, okay, okay, right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Is a protectable thing in a court of law, under
a system of law.
Speaker 16 (11:14):
Okay, So I know, I mean I know that the
the the you know, I totally agree with you. You know,
the first mint is this Congress shall testmental law. So
there's there's definitely you know, it's not that the government
is trying to your point.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Was very well taken.
Speaker 16 (11:28):
It's not that the government is trying to stop him, right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And so that's the thing I think it's important for
people to remember, because this term is used very loosely,
that I got I have a First Amendment right to
you know, stand on your front porch and call you
the in word, or stand on your front porch and
threaten to kill you, or stand on your front porch
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and tell your child to come out because I want
to engage in pedophilia with your child. Well, first Amendment,
first Amendment, And people keep saying that, and they've learned
to say that because they've heard that at a cocktail party,
and so it's just kind of almost like an urban legend.
The First Amendment to the Constitution provides protections that are clear.
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In fact, the first ten Amendments are almost exclusively protections
that the individual has against the government that had been
established by the constitution. The understanding was, if we're going
to establish the constitution, we're going to have to make
specific and clear restrictions on the power that the government
we've just created can wield, because we know that man
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is prone to abusing that power. The government that was
established was intended to promote the public welfare and defend
its borders, but mostly to protect the freedoms and the
rights that God gives us. But with regard to that right,
the First Amendment reads, Congress shall make no law respecting
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and established of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. That
means you don't have a right to lie in court
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under oath, you don't have a right to harass someone.
All of those things are behaviors you can engage in.
It simply means that the government, particularly the federal government
in this case, the Congress, shall make no law.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
So I.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Don't quibble for the sake of quibbling. I think it matters.
I think it matters, and I think people have to
understand that most of what directs our lives is not
the law. It is behaviors, and it is how we
react to those behaviors. And if the stupid things that
Jimmy Kimmel had said and done years ago had caused
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him zero ratings, then they would have booted him earlier.
And it's important to understand that as a marketplace, you
have a reaction. How we spend our dollars largely drives
what happens in this country, and when you withhold those dollars.
That's what makes me crazy about people that spend all
day every day on CNN rage watching and then report
(14:26):
back on what they've eavesdropped on, because you're actually doing
the one thing you shouldn't do. There's no reason for
you to eavesdrop over there. We know they're engaged in nuttiness.
The only people see it and it's talking to is
conservatives anyway, Republicans anyway. I've never heard anybody say they
watch CNN. It's mostly just Republicans run away. Well they
watch it, Well, hey, time out of hair. It's trying
(14:49):
to time out of hair. Yeah, but you're the only
one watching it.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Why are you.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Worried about what they're saying. You're the only one watching it.
It's the nuttiest thing ever. Uh, Paul, you're up, You're on.
Michael Berry show Go.
Speaker 15 (14:59):
Ahead started off with old happy day. I was just
starting out heading away from my house and the sun
was slanting through the pines and the fog, and there's
a beautiful morning. And I said, I got to call
Michael and thank him for starting the morning off nice
and calm, and then I get the first caller and
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that all went to heck.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I'm calm, I get passionate about things I love. A
lot of our listeners will be heading to the port
O'Connor boracho pescador this weekend. Good fishing to all of you.
I printed this story out here. Here's a there's a
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so turning point. USA was. Charlie Kirk's organization still is
and they have had a massive increase in the number
of chapters that have opened after his assassination, which tells
you a lot about high school kids and when a
guy is assassinated, instead of running and hiding, they are
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proudly proclaiming. I was interviewed yesterday and I said, I
think the person was a little surprised to hear me
say this. So ten years from now, you're going to
think of Charlie Kirk as an evangelist. You're not going
to think of Charlie Kirk in political terms. You're going
to think of him as an evangelist in the way
that Billy Graham was an evangelist, because I think that's
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going to have been the results will have been a
zealous revival across the country. I think you're going to
find that to be the case more than anything else.
I think that's going to be his legacy, which nothing
would have made him prouder what he said anyway. But
(16:53):
there's a weird thing happening at one of the schools
I see. I can't figure out which school this is.
Maybe I can find out. It's getting a lot of attention.
Harmeat Dillon in the Trump administration has talked about it.
The director of Turning Point Now has talked about it.
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There is a woman named Natalie Herpin h e er
pi n and she's got a little group and I've
read that they have seven hundred and thirty members. It's
closed to the public, so the evil deeds they do
must be done in dark and at in Spring Branch,
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isd there is a school that is trying to open
a or has chartered a Turning Point USA chapter. It's
kids and a kid's group now, I will tell you
with a senior in high school and one in college,
there are lots of youth organizations in schools. You can
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start any chapter you want. You want to chart, you
want to start the we speak Arabic chapter, knock yourself out.
You want to start the Jews for Jesus, go ahead.
You want to start the Muslim Christian egypt toilet, you
can do it. Well. This woman, Natalie Herpin I think
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it's spelled in a T H A l I e
H E r p I n has apparently I've seen,
sent emails around to her little group to prevent this
organization from happening. She's screenshotting what these children are emailing
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back and forth about starting an organization, and she is
making claims that Charlie Kirk was this awful, monstrous person.
She has identified the teachers, one a coach and one
I think a female teacher, who have agreed to be
the sponsor of the organization, because typically you have to
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have a sponsor for your organization at a school, and
she is attempting to get in the middle of them
to get parents to shut down what these kids are doing.
She's not even talking to the parents of the kids
charting the organization. She's trying to intimidate these kids at
this school. She is trying to intimidate the kids and
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the teachers. She's telling parents to call the teachers to
prevent them from being a sponsor.
Speaker 18 (19:34):
You have, crazy, bitch, get out of the school.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
This woman, this woman needs to get such a negative
feedback that every person who ever wants to do something
like this ever again says, you know, maybe my whole scheme,
maybe it I won't be perceived by others as noble
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as I think it is. Maybe just maybe let me
stop for a moment. Maybe I'm nuts. Maybe I shouldn't
do this. Maybe I will bring shame upon myself and
anyone associated with me. I don't know why, but maybe
what I think makes all the sense in the world.
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Maybe it's wrong headed. Maybe people are going to react
and shame me. Maybe instead of me shaming anyone trying
to start a student organization of kids in the school.
I don't know how this could work, but maybe other
people will perceive what I'm doing is awful. How About
I stay in my lane. How about I go feed
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my fifty five f and cats. How about I go
to my therapist for the fourth time today. How About
I seek help for the fact that I'm unstable. How
About I.
Speaker 18 (20:58):
Get my ass out of this schools where I don't belong.
How About I and my seven thirty crazy women and
they are five thousand cats.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
How About we take a girl's trip to somewhere weird together,
and maybe we can start a fire and dance around
it and compare whose hair is purple and whose hair
is green. Maybe we can each share our trauma, because
I assure you there's plenty of it, and if there isn't,
they'll make it up. Maybe I, Natalie Herpin, have something
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wrong with me, and maybe I finally learned. I don't
know what I did that was wrong, but I know
it's weird, you know, like the guy who doesn't understand
why he has to wear clothes in public, or the
person who thinks, you know, if I engage in this
really freakish behavior, everyone love me. Or if I kill
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this famous person, everyone no one will respect me and
admire me and Jody Foster will want to date me.
Or if I kill this famous person, then then the
demons will go away and the catcher and the ride
will be fulfilled. Maybe just maybe I'll question what I'm
doing for a moment because I don't understand why. But
no one understands what I'm doing. I'm misunderstood. But what
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I did learn from that is the shame I brought
upon everyone in my group and everyone who's ever known
me was not worth it. So I will never engage
in behaviors that are questionable without asking ten people who
are reasonable, and all ten of them will tell me
I'm a fricking nut. See, this is what these bitches do.
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They operate behind the scenes, They do their little emails.
What kind of bitch is sitting at her house feeling
the need because a Turning Point USA chapter is being
started on a Ki Sampus. What kind of evil bitch
thinks to herself, Well, I think what I'm going to
do is I'm going to get a bunch of us
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together and we're going to shut down the ability of
those children to get together because I don't want them
praying before meetings. I don't want them talking about politics.
I don't want them talking about civic duty. I don't
want them I guarantee you this freak show is so
involved in every alternate lifestyle website that is out there.
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She's probably a witch. She's probably I'm not going to
say what I want to say, other than to say
that Natalie Herpin is not going to win this battle,
and she's going to learn a very, very bad lesson
about picking on children. The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 19 (24:06):
Little miss Natalie Harpin, who is this busybody vice president
of the Spring Branch Democrats, fat ugly Belgian woman who's
poking her nose into the school.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I hate that type, bitch. Get out of the school.
You had your time. You were fat and ugly then,
and you are fat and ugly now. Nobody wants you
in the school. Get out. You don't belong there. They're
trying to tell other kids. You know, that's one thing.
If you've got an issue with a teacher and your child,
you're trying to tell other kids about an organization that
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they can't start an organization. This whole group these and
they're all white liberals, by the way, it's always white
liberals are trying. They try to get involved in the
Spring Branch Independent School District changed hands. You remember there
were some great victories on the school board. Now I
think some of the school board members are a little
scared of these groups, so they are nicer to them
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and give in to them more than they should. But
you've got these You've got these white liberals who they're
in every organization, the cat Lovers Association, the Let's Improve
Cat Food Association, the no Cat Goes Unadopted Association, and
they just she calls herself a committed activist. Man, I
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can tell you this woman she's having seances and wicked
crap and beads and patuli. It never ends with these groups.
There is an endless, inexhaustible energy for mucking everything up
for everyone else. That's what she does. There is no
light in her life. I can tell you that. I
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can tell you this woman is miserable without ever knowing her.
But oddly enough, she voted in the Republican primary last year.
She's the vice chairs Spring Brands Democrats. Why would she
vote in the Republican primary? What local race she lives
in Spring Branch? What local race is on the ballot
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that would cause a Democrat to go vote in the
Republican primary. Hmm, Well, let's see. You had John Perez,
who was a Spring Branch School district board member, was
very conservative, and that group declared war on him, and
he was challenging incumbent Monodalla. How you think she voted
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in that against the man she hated because he joined
the Spring branch board and he's a conservative Republican or
against the state rep that has voted with the Democrats
to keep Dustin Burroughs in power in the State House,
giving the Democrats control of the House. Wonder how she
wonder why she would go vote in a Republican primary
as a Democrat. I don't know that it's final now.
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I know that they're working on it. Rachel Palmer Hooper
and was leading the charge. The state party chairman had
talked about it. I know they were trying to make
it so that Democrats couldn't vote in Republican primaries, because
that's how you skew results. That right there, All right,
to the phone lines we go. But first, Doug writes,
Zar took my elderly mother, as I often do, to
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Hungry's on Woodway last night. We each opted for the
chicken fried steak, a new item on their menu. It
was good. When it was time to order a dessert
there it was butterscotch pudding. I asked her if she
listened to your show yesterday morning. She said she hadn't yet,
and I told her you were asking listeners to mention
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an establishment that offered butterscotch pudding. Well, we stumbled upon
it at Hungry's and it was delicious. You definitely should
give it a try. Douglas Bratton, see he sent me anything.
He sent me a list. He sent me a screenshot
of their desserts. They've got ice cream scoops. I want
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you to rank these real quickly because I didn't get
to the calls. Okay, so you got ice cream scoops,
homemade bread pudding, chocolate molten lava cake, triple layer carrot cake,
and butterscotch pudding. Okay, what you got, all right? What
you got is number one. Lava cake is number one,
number number two, ice cream scoops number two, red pudding
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number three, butter Scott's number four, the carrot cake number five.
The highest score means it's the best. Right. I hope
you're right, because otherwise boring. Let's go to John in Alabama.
You're up, sir? Is this me? I don't know. John.
(28:52):
I'm glad to hear from you, but hold on because
we have to keep you for a while to catch
up with you. Just hold on round there, you got
nothing else to do. He's drunk, you remember John, He'll
he'll wait, We'll get to some other folks and I'll
go to him last. So I don't these other folks
don't miss out. Uh, Andrew, You're only Michael Berry show.
Speaker 14 (29:06):
Go ahead, said Michael Andrew Walmsley. I'm from Houston, Texas.
I live in Atlanta, Texas, and uh a long time listener.
Speaker 13 (29:17):
Man, you're just hitting the nail on the head and
on that last little rant you had. Man, I couldn't
agree more. I see that in the local area that
I live in, and uh, man, it's it's it's really crazy.
How how the Democrats part. We are gonna call it,
how extreme you know everything's becoming. I mean, especially with
the Charlie Kirk incident. I mean the fact that anybody
would be joking about it, laughing any kind of I
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mean the fact that that right now in our society
and culture is okay and people do that. It is
so disheartening, so upsetting to hear something like that and
to see the just see the amount of people that
do that. You don't think that's Okay, so.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, you know. But here's the problem, or here's the
way I deal with this. I am not unaware that
there are a lot of people out there who are pedophiles.
I am not unaware there are a lot of people
out there who beat their wives violently. I am not
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unaware that there are people out there who are lazy,
excuse makers and live off as adults, live off their parents.
I am not aware. I'm not unaware that there are
people who are complete evil and anything that is good.
They want to destroy anything that is pure. They want
to Sully Charlie Kirk bothered these people because he was
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too honest. They didn't just disagree with him. They couldn't
deal with the fact that he wasn't demonic like them,
he wasn't tortured like them, he wasn't vile like them.
They know they are dark hearts, they know it, and
out of that they have such anger. And the people
who cheer in a moment like that, they don't cheer
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and then go off to a life of happiness. These
people eat catfood. These are really really sick. That's when
you understand these people, and once you understand that, you
can't be nice to them. You don't deal with them.
You don't marry them, you don't hire them, you don't
ever deal with them.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh yes, that's what we needed right about now, right
about here, reset.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Balance, recenter.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Happy day, happy day when those war.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Where the war, when those war.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
She is the way he loves me.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Happy day or happy day happy or happy day.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
When those war witty warm when those war.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
She is the way he loved.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The abby day, happy day or a happy day winter
(02:20):
of war?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh whenny war winter the war? Three of the away
he need al.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy day, Hey, d.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
God, heavy deal bod heavy deal.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
O happy.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Oh habit when those walls when it was, when those
war three A way he need me.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I have a day?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh good god.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Well.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
I love this medium because I love the conversations. And
now they begin open line Friday in three two one, seven,
one three one thousand to join the conversation seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand and to get.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Us started as we always do. Courtesy of the greatest
executive producer in all the land, Chattikoni Nakanishi and your
you can review.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I saw a statement posted online that said, to all
these people crying online about losing their jobs for some thing,
they said imagine losing your life for it.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Those text messages between the suspect and Kirk's murder and
his roommate slash romantic partner, here's how one reporter at
ABC is describing them.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
It was very touching in a way that I think
many of us didn't expect. A very intimate portrait with
him repeatedly calling his roommate who was transitioning, calling him
my love and I want to protect him, my love.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It was very touch Do you masturbate to dog day afternoon?
The last scene? What kind of weirdo were you?
Speaker 9 (06:34):
The Nazi Herono of Hawaii actually just makes an admission
about men and women.
Speaker 12 (06:39):
You are not requiring applicants to be able to do
a certain kind of pullups, which a lot of women
came out because of physiological differences.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Are you requiring these kinds of pullups out of the
same ugly amount and it's ugly. Makes the argument that
men should be able to compete against women, but women
shouldn't have to perform at the same standard to be
in the FBI because of physiological differences. The man accused
of being the getaway driver in a string of terrifying
(07:14):
home invasions or a group of people pretended to be
police officers. Geraldine Easton is a neighbor who says she
was shocked to learn about what happened. How do you
stay sick?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Oh, I stay in my room with guy my baseball bet.
Speaker 13 (07:26):
Eason says she's taking extra steps to verify if police
knock on her door.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You got to show me your badgi.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
If you ain't the police, you get the one with
my duel, or you will get beat with a baseball.
Best you got that you can show some ida orre
you getting beat with a baseball?
Speaker 14 (07:41):
Bet?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That seems reasonable? I mean you agree with m On
that it seems like a reasonable proposition.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Scove and why you still let go like flags in
the town.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Stand up for you, call us.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Michael Berry, show trouble, the grown homedy, the mom I
feel and they sit me in email. Her and her
daughter holding a donut, said, happy donut Fridays are Friday
is my favorite day, not only because it's the start
(08:46):
of the weekend, but because I take my daughter to
get donuts every Friday. Something so small means so much
to her and even more to me. Remember little little
traditions and little things like that as a kid, and
to your parent it's sort of a well, I'll do
this nice thing as a kid. It was the sky's
(09:07):
opening up. It was the biggest deal ever. Let's start
with the phone lines seven nine, nine, one thousand. Stacey,
you were the first call of the week. Be awesome, sweetheart.
Speaker 15 (09:18):
I will.
Speaker 16 (09:20):
I was calling in response to something I think he
said yesterday about Jimmy Kimmel, And when you first said it,
I disagreed until you explain.
Speaker 14 (09:27):
But you started off.
Speaker 16 (09:28):
By saying somebody else said, somebody else had said he
has a right to say whatever he wants, and you
said that's not true. Well, actually I'm splitting hairs here,
but it is true that he has a right to
say whatever he wants. What he does not have a
right to is a microphone with which to say it,
and a TV studio to say it in with a
TV camera play at him, and hair and makeup artists
to make him look good while he says it, and
(09:48):
the whole network broadcast system and all the brilliance that
went into providing that. Basically, he does not have a
right to other people's resources to amplify his message and
get it out there.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And when those other people.
Speaker 16 (10:01):
Decide they no longer want to provide him with those resources.
That is absolutely their right and that is what they did.
And that's my point.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
All Right, you're splitting here, so I'm going to I'm
going to engage from Where does he get this right
to say whatever he wants? Forget who owns the microphone?
Where does that right come from?
Speaker 16 (10:22):
Well, I guess a Christian person would say it comes
from God. I'm actually not Christian, but I mean I
will okay, so I will base this on a book.
I'm a psychologist, and my favorite book, even though I'm
not Christian, a book that I recommend to almost every
single person I see is this book by two Christian counselors,
(10:43):
and it's called Boundaries, and it basically says that each
person has control over their.
Speaker 17 (10:50):
Own thoughts, feelings, behaviors, values, desires, and so forth, and
that is what each person can control and they are
the only person who can control that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
That's all right?
Speaker 16 (11:01):
His wait, okay, okay, right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Is a protectable thing in a court of law, under
a system of law.
Speaker 16 (11:14):
Okay, So I know, I mean I know that the
the the you know, I totally agree with you. You know,
the first mint is this Congress shall testmental law. So
there's there's definitely you know, it's not that the government
is trying to your point.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Was very well taken.
Speaker 16 (11:28):
It's not that the government is trying to stop him, right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And so that's the thing I think it's important for
people to remember, because this term is used very loosely,
that I got I have a First Amendment right to
you know, stand on your front porch and call you
the in word, or stand on your front porch and
threaten to kill you, or stand on your front porch
(11:52):
and tell your child to come out because I want
to engage in pedophilia with your child. Well, first Amendment,
first Amendment, And people keep saying that, and they've learned
to say that because they've heard that at a cocktail party,
and so it's just kind of almost like an urban legend.
The First Amendment to the Constitution provides protections that are clear.
(12:15):
In fact, the first ten Amendments are almost exclusively protections
that the individual has against the government that had been
established by the constitution. The understanding was, if we're going
to establish the constitution, we're going to have to make
specific and clear restrictions on the power that the government
we've just created can wield, because we know that man
(12:36):
is prone to abusing that power. The government that was
established was intended to promote the public welfare and defend
its borders, but mostly to protect the freedoms and the
rights that God gives us. But with regard to that right,
the First Amendment reads, Congress shall make no law respecting
(12:59):
and established of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. That
means you don't have a right to lie in court
(13:19):
under oath, you don't have a right to harass someone.
All of those things are behaviors you can engage in.
It simply means that the government, particularly the federal government
in this case, the Congress, shall make no law.
Speaker 13 (13:36):
So I.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Don't quibble for the sake of quibbling. I think it matters.
I think it matters, and I think people have to
understand that most of what directs our lives is not
the law. It is behaviors, and it is how we
react to those behaviors. And if the stupid things that
Jimmy Kimmel had said and done years ago had caused
(14:02):
him zero ratings, then they would have booted him earlier.
And it's important to understand that as a marketplace, you
have a reaction. How we spend our dollars largely drives
what happens in this country, and when you withhold those dollars.
That's what makes me crazy about people that spend all
day every day on CNN rage watching and then report
(14:26):
back on what they've eavesdropped on, because you're actually doing
the one thing you shouldn't do. There's no reason for
you to eavesdrop over there. We know they're engaged in nuttiness.
The only people see it and it's talking to is
conservatives anyway, Republicans anyway. I've never heard anybody say they
watch CNN. It's mostly just Republicans run away. Well they
watch it, Well, hey, time out of hair. It's trying
(14:49):
to time out of hair. Yeah, but you're the only
one watching it.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Why are you.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Worried about what they're saying. You're the only one watching it.
It's the nuttiest thing ever. Uh, Paul, you're up, You're on.
Michael Berry show Go.
Speaker 15 (14:59):
Ahead started off with old happy day. I was just
starting out heading away from my house and the sun
was slanting through the pines and the fog, and there's
a beautiful morning. And I said, I got to call
Michael and thank him for starting the morning off nice
and calm, and then I get the first caller and
(15:22):
that all went to heck.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I'm calm, I get passionate about things I love. A
lot of our listeners will be heading to the port
O'Connor boracho pescador this weekend. Good fishing to all of you.
I printed this story out here. Here's a there's a
(15:50):
so turning point. USA was. Charlie Kirk's organization still is
and they have had a massive increase in the number
of chapters that have opened after his assassination, which tells
you a lot about high school kids and when a
guy is assassinated, instead of running and hiding, they are
(16:12):
proudly proclaiming. I was interviewed yesterday and I said, I
think the person was a little surprised to hear me
say this. So ten years from now, you're going to
think of Charlie Kirk as an evangelist. You're not going
to think of Charlie Kirk in political terms. You're going
to think of him as an evangelist in the way
that Billy Graham was an evangelist, because I think that's
(16:32):
going to have been the results will have been a
zealous revival across the country. I think you're going to
find that to be the case more than anything else.
I think that's going to be his legacy, which nothing
would have made him prouder what he said anyway. But
(16:53):
there's a weird thing happening at one of the schools
I see. I can't figure out which school this is.
Maybe I can find out. It's getting a lot of attention.
Harmeat Dillon in the Trump administration has talked about it.
The director of Turning Point Now has talked about it.
(17:14):
There is a woman named Natalie Herpin h e er
pi n and she's got a little group and I've
read that they have seven hundred and thirty members. It's
closed to the public, so the evil deeds they do
must be done in dark and at in Spring Branch,
(17:35):
isd there is a school that is trying to open
a or has chartered a Turning Point USA chapter. It's
kids and a kid's group now, I will tell you
with a senior in high school and one in college,
there are lots of youth organizations in schools. You can
(17:59):
start any chapter you want. You want to chart, you
want to start the we speak Arabic chapter, knock yourself out.
You want to start the Jews for Jesus, go ahead.
You want to start the Muslim Christian egypt toilet, you
can do it. Well. This woman, Natalie Herpin I think
(18:21):
it's spelled in a T H A l I e
H E r p I n has apparently I've seen,
sent emails around to her little group to prevent this
organization from happening. She's screenshotting what these children are emailing
(18:42):
back and forth about starting an organization, and she is
making claims that Charlie Kirk was this awful, monstrous person.
She has identified the teachers, one a coach and one
I think a female teacher, who have agreed to be
the sponsor of the organization, because typically you have to
(19:03):
have a sponsor for your organization at a school, and
she is attempting to get in the middle of them
to get parents to shut down what these kids are doing.
She's not even talking to the parents of the kids
charting the organization. She's trying to intimidate these kids at
this school. She is trying to intimidate the kids and
(19:26):
the teachers. She's telling parents to call the teachers to
prevent them from being a sponsor.
Speaker 18 (19:34):
You have, crazy, bitch, get out of the school.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
This woman, this woman needs to get such a negative
feedback that every person who ever wants to do something
like this ever again says, you know, maybe my whole scheme,
maybe it I won't be perceived by others as noble
(20:04):
as I think it is. Maybe just maybe let me
stop for a moment. Maybe I'm nuts. Maybe I shouldn't
do this. Maybe I will bring shame upon myself and
anyone associated with me. I don't know why, but maybe
what I think makes all the sense in the world.
(20:27):
Maybe it's wrong headed. Maybe people are going to react
and shame me. Maybe instead of me shaming anyone trying
to start a student organization of kids in the school.
I don't know how this could work, but maybe other
people will perceive what I'm doing is awful. How About
I stay in my lane. How about I go feed
(20:48):
my fifty five f and cats. How about I go
to my therapist for the fourth time today. How About
I seek help for the fact that I'm unstable. How
About I.
Speaker 18 (20:58):
Get my ass out of this schools where I don't belong.
How About I and my seven thirty crazy women and
they are five thousand cats.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
How About we take a girl's trip to somewhere weird together,
and maybe we can start a fire and dance around
it and compare whose hair is purple and whose hair
is green. Maybe we can each share our trauma, because
I assure you there's plenty of it, and if there isn't,
they'll make it up. Maybe I, Natalie Herpin, have something
(21:34):
wrong with me, and maybe I finally learned. I don't
know what I did that was wrong, but I know
it's weird, you know, like the guy who doesn't understand
why he has to wear clothes in public, or the
person who thinks, you know, if I engage in this
really freakish behavior, everyone love me. Or if I kill
(21:58):
this famous person, everyone no one will respect me and
admire me and Jody Foster will want to date me.
Or if I kill this famous person, then then the
demons will go away and the catcher and the ride
will be fulfilled. Maybe just maybe I'll question what I'm
doing for a moment because I don't understand why. But
no one understands what I'm doing. I'm misunderstood. But what
(22:23):
I did learn from that is the shame I brought
upon everyone in my group and everyone who's ever known
me was not worth it. So I will never engage
in behaviors that are questionable without asking ten people who
are reasonable, and all ten of them will tell me
I'm a fricking nut. See, this is what these bitches do.
(22:48):
They operate behind the scenes, They do their little emails.
What kind of bitch is sitting at her house feeling
the need because a Turning Point USA chapter is being
started on a Ki Sampus. What kind of evil bitch
thinks to herself, Well, I think what I'm going to
do is I'm going to get a bunch of us
(23:10):
together and we're going to shut down the ability of
those children to get together because I don't want them
praying before meetings. I don't want them talking about politics.
I don't want them talking about civic duty. I don't
want them I guarantee you this freak show is so
involved in every alternate lifestyle website that is out there.
(23:36):
She's probably a witch. She's probably I'm not going to
say what I want to say, other than to say
that Natalie Herpin is not going to win this battle,
and she's going to learn a very, very bad lesson
about picking on children. The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 19 (24:06):
Little miss Natalie Harpin, who is this busybody vice president
of the Spring Branch Democrats, fat ugly Belgian woman who's
poking her nose into the school.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I hate that type, bitch. Get out of the school.
You had your time. You were fat and ugly then,
and you are fat and ugly now. Nobody wants you
in the school. Get out. You don't belong there. They're
trying to tell other kids. You know, that's one thing.
If you've got an issue with a teacher and your child,
you're trying to tell other kids about an organization that
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they can't start an organization. This whole group these and
they're all white liberals, by the way, it's always white
liberals are trying. They try to get involved in the
Spring Branch Independent School District changed hands. You remember there
were some great victories on the school board. Now I
think some of the school board members are a little
scared of these groups, so they are nicer to them
(25:04):
and give in to them more than they should. But
you've got these You've got these white liberals who they're
in every organization, the cat Lovers Association, the Let's Improve
Cat Food Association, the no Cat Goes Unadopted Association, and
they just she calls herself a committed activist. Man, I
(25:28):
can tell you this woman she's having seances and wicked
crap and beads and patuli. It never ends with these groups.
There is an endless, inexhaustible energy for mucking everything up
for everyone else. That's what she does. There is no
light in her life. I can tell you that. I
(25:50):
can tell you this woman is miserable without ever knowing her.
But oddly enough, she voted in the Republican primary last year.
She's the vice chairs Spring Brands Democrats. Why would she
vote in the Republican primary? What local race she lives
in Spring Branch? What local race is on the ballot
(26:13):
that would cause a Democrat to go vote in the
Republican primary. Hmm, Well, let's see. You had John Perez,
who was a Spring Branch School district board member, was
very conservative, and that group declared war on him, and
he was challenging incumbent Monodalla. How you think she voted
(26:39):
in that against the man she hated because he joined
the Spring branch board and he's a conservative Republican or
against the state rep that has voted with the Democrats
to keep Dustin Burroughs in power in the State House,
giving the Democrats control of the House. Wonder how she
wonder why she would go vote in a Republican primary
as a Democrat. I don't know that it's final now.
(27:03):
I know that they're working on it. Rachel Palmer Hooper
and was leading the charge. The state party chairman had
talked about it. I know they were trying to make
it so that Democrats couldn't vote in Republican primaries, because
that's how you skew results. That right there, All right,
to the phone lines we go. But first, Doug writes,
Zar took my elderly mother, as I often do, to
(27:25):
Hungry's on Woodway last night. We each opted for the
chicken fried steak, a new item on their menu. It
was good. When it was time to order a dessert
there it was butterscotch pudding. I asked her if she
listened to your show yesterday morning. She said she hadn't yet,
and I told her you were asking listeners to mention
(27:45):
an establishment that offered butterscotch pudding. Well, we stumbled upon
it at Hungry's and it was delicious. You definitely should
give it a try. Douglas Bratton, see he sent me anything.
He sent me a list. He sent me a screenshot
of their desserts. They've got ice cream scoops. I want
(28:07):
you to rank these real quickly because I didn't get
to the calls. Okay, so you got ice cream scoops,
homemade bread pudding, chocolate molten lava cake, triple layer carrot cake,
and butterscotch pudding. Okay, what you got, all right? What
you got is number one. Lava cake is number one,
number number two, ice cream scoops number two, red pudding
(28:28):
number three, butter Scott's number four, the carrot cake number five.
The highest score means it's the best. Right. I hope
you're right, because otherwise boring. Let's go to John in Alabama.
You're up, sir? Is this me? I don't know. John.
(28:52):
I'm glad to hear from you, but hold on because
we have to keep you for a while to catch
up with you. Just hold on round there, you got
nothing else to do. He's drunk, you remember John, He'll
he'll wait, We'll get to some other folks and I'll
go to him last. So I don't these other folks
don't miss out. Uh, Andrew, You're only Michael Berry show.
Speaker 14 (29:06):
Go ahead, said Michael Andrew Walmsley. I'm from Houston, Texas.
I live in Atlanta, Texas, and uh a long time listener.
Speaker 13 (29:17):
Man, you're just hitting the nail on the head and
on that last little rant you had. Man, I couldn't
agree more. I see that in the local area that
I live in, and uh, man, it's it's it's really crazy.
How how the Democrats part. We are gonna call it,
how extreme you know everything's becoming. I mean, especially with
the Charlie Kirk incident. I mean the fact that anybody
would be joking about it, laughing any kind of I
(29:37):
mean the fact that that right now in our society
and culture is okay and people do that. It is
so disheartening, so upsetting to hear something like that and
to see the just see the amount of people that
do that. You don't think that's Okay, so.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, you know. But here's the problem, or here's the
way I deal with this. I am not unaware that
there are a lot of people out there who are pedophiles.
I am not unaware there are a lot of people
out there who beat their wives violently. I am not
(30:15):
unaware that there are people out there who are lazy,
excuse makers and live off as adults, live off their parents.
I am not aware. I'm not unaware that there are
people who are complete evil and anything that is good.
They want to destroy anything that is pure. They want
to Sully Charlie Kirk bothered these people because he was
(30:42):
too honest. They didn't just disagree with him. They couldn't
deal with the fact that he wasn't demonic like them,
he wasn't tortured like them, he wasn't vile like them.
They know they are dark hearts, they know it, and
out of that they have such anger. And the people
who cheer in a moment like that, they don't cheer
(31:04):
and then go off to a life of happiness. These
people eat catfood. These are really really sick. That's when
you understand these people, and once you understand that, you
can't be nice to them. You don't deal with them.
You don't marry them, you don't hire them, you don't
ever deal with them.
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