November 10, 2025 • 30 mins
Michael Berry breaks down political division, judicial vacancies, and the personal cost of ideology.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air. Replace where
we went, the carry and the sense of joy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I know it's incredibly disappointing now, and look candidly, it's
it's a bit scary because there's a very different vision
that's being put out there.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump
Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.
We are told that when Trudeau told President elect Trump
that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked
to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off
the US to the tune of one hundred billion dollars
a year, then maybe Canada should become the fifty first
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state and Trudeau could become It's got replace.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We went the carrying and the sense of joy.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I know it's incredibly disappointing now and look candidly, it's
it's a bit scary because there's a very different vision,
uh that's being put out there.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
President Trump looked at at the Talle Band leader and
said this, I want to leave Afghanistan, but it's going
to be a conditions based withdrawal. And translator translated, and
he said, if you harm a hair on a single American,
I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And translator goes, and Trump goes.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Tell me, said, reached in his pocket, hold out a
satellite photo of the leader of the Talibance home.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
And handed it to shut up, got up and walked
off and run.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
One of the great frustrations for most people is to
wake up around the time of the primary and realize
that the candidate you don't like and nobody seems to like,
doesn't have a challenger, or worse, that there's nobody running
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in a particular race, which of course is going to
mean that the Democrats are going to win that race.
No matter how effective we are, the Democrats are going
to win that race because we don't even have a
candidate in the race. That happened in the last election.
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And I was very critical of the Harris County Republican
Party for that fact, and I have friends. It's nothing personal.
It's hard for people to understand. Very little of it
is personal.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
To me.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
There are a few things that if someone makes it
personal or does something evil, But for ninety nine percent
of the people that I criticize, it's not that I
think you're a that I wish bad things for you.
I view it as my mission. You get enough applause.
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My job is to keep people honest. And I'll tell
you exactly the best analogy I can give. When my
kids were younger, they would say, deck, can we do this?
I would say, no, I don't feel comfortable with that.
Everybody else is doing it. Well, everybody else has everybody
else's parents. You have me as a parent. And today
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that might seem unfortunate for you. But if when everybody
else does what they do, like these kids at Memorial
High School that got into all this trouble with the
Stratford High School kids, and they were driving through the
neighborhood shooting up the neighborhood with paintball. They're being charged
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as adults. They're seventeen. They're being charged as adults and
with a felony case. I don't know that their parents
knew or not, but I was rather strict with my
kids when they were younger. Could not drive to a party,
could not stay. They were the first ones that have
to leave the party because at a certain point, sixteen seventeen,
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eighteen year old kids, when a party drags for too long,
bad things are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They can't help themselves.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Young men, they've got testosterone, their frontal lobe is not developed.
They want to impress the girls. They want to do
something dramatic. They've heard their dad tell the stories, which
are usually exaggerations of the crazy things they did. Well,
we got to do crazy things. We're only boring guys.
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Come on, let's do something crazy like my dad and
his friends did. Well, Now you get arrested and charged,
used to the cop take you home and deposit you
at the door, and your dadd whipped your button mo
one down the road, and you hopefully learn from it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Not today, But I.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
View our job here with this show in having to
criticize people that we often know as they should fear.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Their supporters. It's too easy.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
And cynical to simply say we're not Democrats, vote for us.
That's why we supported Mitt Romney in twenty twelve when
he won the nomination. That's why we supported McCain in eight.
That's why we supported Bush and four in two thousand.
That's why we supported Bob Dole in ninety six or
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George H. W. Bush in ninety two, because they weren't Democrats,
and we get a lot of that's that's Greg Abbott
because he's not a Democrat. Because by the time he
wins the primary, well, people aren't paying attention soon enough
to file for a primary, to build a campaign, to
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raise the money for a primary. So it is now
the season and it's a tight window if you are
considering running for office. And by the way, there is
no shame to running and losing. It's not the end
of the world. You're not going to debtors prison, You're
not you know, it's not an African nation where if
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your tribe loses, you're going to be tortured. There is
no downside to running and losing. So if you've thought
about doing it, pick a seat where you live and.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Run and if you don't win, that's okay.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Because if our Republicans are not constantly parented because we're
their boss, never forget that. It bothers me when people,
and you see a lot of people do this. They
they want to treat elected officials like they're some celebrity,
like there's some god. They think that's what you're supposed
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to do. You know, he's up there, he's on the pedestal.
We're supposed to show him all this respect. That is
not true. The term public servant was used for a reason.
The servant of you. The people, they are lower than you,
not above you. And when you keep that in mind,
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it makes all the difference. I got word that the
Harris County Republican Party still has well over ten judicial
candidates seats that are that are not filled. Sidney siegeld
Or party chairman, and she said, they said we why
don't you talk to Michael Berry And she said, no, he.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Bashes me on the air.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I'm gonna bash you real bad if you don't fill
every seat and tell you that right now. Watching them
music documentary this weekend and said this song was the
first song to be number one on all three major
US charts at the same time.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That surprised me. It's a good song. I wouldn't put
it this, but I guess it just had a moment.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
That's Paul Simon's son, you know that, right, Yeah, Paul
Simon Son.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Seven one three nine nine one thousand. That's our number.
That's our number.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
If you ever want to call this show and teleramone anything,
seven one three nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, that's crazy. That's Paul Simon's son, crazy Paul Simon
Son seven one three none none, one thousand. You have
that audio. So I don't know who this woman is, but.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
People will send me videos sometimes, and somebody sent me
this one and said, this happened between my daughter and me,
and he and his daughter had split. They didn't talk anymore,
and it well, let's play the audio, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
I allowed politics to ruin the relationship I had with
my mother.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
For three years when I was a diehard liberal, I
was wearing the pink hat, I was marching against Donald Trump.
I was doing all the things. I was listening to
CNN every single day. And part of the program that
CNN offers is telling you that people who don't think
like you are bad people, they're racist people, they should
all die. That is part of the program and it
is intentional so that it ca this all divided. And
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during that time, my mom was conservative and I was liberal,
and I literally put my mom our relationship. I put
that below my allegiance to this ideology. And it wasn't
until I turned the media off that I realized it
was totally a program.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And that's what's happening right now.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
They are programming us to believe that if you're on
this side, you can't get along with people on that side,
and it is total. The government is the same side.
It's the same wealthy technocrats that are taking over society.
So we all need to start getting along so that
we can be free.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
What's interesting is in that sense it mirrors a cult,
and in that way it is a cult. The first
thing cults do in recruiting their members, once the brainwashing begins,
pretty early on, they have to distance their victim from
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their family, from their support network. And it is only
by distancing that person that they can take complete control
of the person. Because whoever you are, wherever you are,
at whatever stage in your life, you have a support network.
You have a family and friends to which you belong.
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You are interconnected with relationships and place and connection and belonging,
and so when you add a new relationship to that,
you are threatening to affect the rest of your network.
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And so the first thing the cult has to do,
even before the brainwashing is complete, is to turn you
against your family. It's why so many cults will recruit,
especially of women, will recruit women who are runaways because
they can play on the resentment toward the family you
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have left. They abandon you, they're bad people, and so
that becomes the connection is we hate your family, and
you hate your family. The Democrat Party does this. They
do it. It's textbook what they do. It's also what
they do to the church. The church and government as
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religion cannot coexist because the church becomes competition for government
as religion. We are raised in this country to believe
that certain things are truly evil Hitler for instance, and
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racism for instance, and we all buy into that, and
so it becomes a shared value that we all agree
these things are bad. So what the Democrats do is
they already have you half the way there. Racism is bad,
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Hitler is bad. If they can just turn that and
make us racist and Hitler, they don't have to make
them hate us. They already hate those things, so they
make us those things. And once we become those things,
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the depth of hatred is more than you would feel
towards someone otherwise. But when you already have a resume
of hatred, you know when when when people imagine you
know that there's a there's a kind of an urban
myth game sort of thing the way you'd have seances
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when we were a kid, and the game for young
people is would you kill baby Jesus? And so the
paradigm is, uh, here is this precious baby, because a
baby is precious, but it's going to grow up to
be Hitler, and you're supposed to come to the conclusion that, yes,
I would murder that baby to avoid what Hitler did
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to the world. Well, when when this is kind of
the mindset you have developed, Hitler evil racism evil if
you can convince somebody that another person or group is racist,
and therefore Hitler, your work is done. And that's the
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part that really breaks my heart. That's it's a part
that makes me truly sad. I see people who have
been who have alienated themselves, estranged from their own family,
the people who love them, breaking the hearts of their
parents and grandparents and siblings, all because in their mind
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they're doing a noble thing, because those people are racist Hitlers.
And that's they've been taught that very effectively. It's programming,
it's propaganda, it's it's not sea level mind control. And
and so they're not starting from scratch, they're starting from
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this person believes these things are evil because that's what
we're all taught to believe. But once you get that,
now you apply that tag. It's a classic, classic case.
That's how hate crimes, hate crime legislation in state of
Texas started. Rodney Ellis, believe it or not, in the
Senate pushed this thing. And so you know when bird
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was was dragged through the streets of Jasper, that was awful.
That was horrible. That's a hate crime. So now we're
going to create hate crime. Now all they have to
do is whatever you do, that's a hate crime. Well,
we all agreed that hate crimes are bad. Now that
that which you did, not hiring that guy, that's really
really bad.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Is there a woman's vocal in there. I can't hear
it very well.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Cigarette he's got Maybe it's not this, maybe it's uh,
it's kind of version with this woman.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I don't think it's Shaney Fricky, but it's somebody of
that era, like a Dotty West era, Shelley Webb. I
can't remember who it is. Somebody will know it and
email me. But she's saying the most beautiful, beautiful harmony
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with him in this duet.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No, it's not really knows it is.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Uh man, I can't remember who it is, but if
I can think of this, I don't think it's misery
and gen anyway, it's another song.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's more of a true love song. And uh you
know he.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
He did do He did a number of duets, including
with Ray Charles that it's just amazing. But there is
a duet with a woman. And I can't think of
who it is. But when you hear it and you
hear her singing, you it just it's a song you've
heard one hundred times. You might have heard this version
one hundred times and never paid attention to her. But
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once you do, you can't. You can't listen, You can't
pay attention to him anymore. You notice her in the background.
Somebody will know it and tell me. I just cannot
think of who in the heck it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
A place to fall apart? That might be it letters
who's that with? That is Jenny Frecky? Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Maybe it is Jenny Fricky.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I don't know why I remember it being Jenny Fricky,
but may not be Jenny Fricky. I can't remember exactly,
but once I hear it it's like love lifts us
up where we belong.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But that's not the song. That's obviously not his song.
A friend of mine wrote during the.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Marcus Latrell conversation, I'll hear stories about people doing things
that I would like to accomplish, and I think, if
that guy can do it, I can surely do it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But a forty day fast sounds interesting. Maybe I'll try.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Wait, the guy who did it's a Navy seal who
crawled out of a war zone, his back broken and
body full of bullets. Pretty sure he's got a gear
that I don't. Maybe I'll sit this one out. I
think that's kind of the I'm surprised I didn't get
more of the of the the any emails.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You can't do that, you'll die. If he did that,
he died, he's dead.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Well technically he's died before, so maybe he died every
day with this as well. Oh you know what else
he told me? He's told me something after we got off,
he said, I fear He said, Oh, I forgot to
tell you. My blood pressure used to be one to
ninety over one oh eight regularly, and with med's one
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eighty five over ninety, it's now one ten over sixty four.
How about that, Ramond? That's pretty solid. Mama Martha called
up here and asked her baby boy Ramone.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
She said, is Michael sentimental today or does he have allergies?
He said, I don't know. I'll ask him. I have allergies.
I don't know what's going on. It just it just
started this morning. I didn't have it.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I don't know what's going on. But anyway, there must
be something dropping right now? Do I need to take that.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You're on Michael Berry Show? What say you?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Okay? In the last couple of years, in the judicial benches,
we've had empty benches that the Democrats won by default.
One of them was a beautician. On the day of
the election, judge, some of them used to said, I
don't need to.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Know the law.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I got two lawyers there who will tell me what
it is. I sent a lawyer over who's highly qualified
to who he wanted to run for judges the Republican.
By the time he had cleared it with his bosses
and everything. By the time he got through being interviewed,
he decided not to run. Uh, the people in charge,
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they wouldn't just nominate anyone They want people who were
qualified now unlike beauticians. So as a result, right now
we have four or five family court benches that are open,
and people family court practitioners don't want to run because
they're they're worried about the blowback. It's a small nish practice.
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The Democrats would have gone to the criminal courts and
founded a lawyer who doesn't practice them, doesn't give up
flip and they would have filled that slot. But no,
we need people who are qualified. And they went out
and they hired a couple of years ago, they hired
a guy to the outreached chairman. Well they got hired
him from California. Now they've replaced him with a woman
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from Dallas. She didn't even know who LBJ was. After
a year that outreached chairman didn't know what TSU and
Prairie View were. And they won't go to African American
News and Issues Roy Malossaw and visit with him. They
won't go to Houston forward time and go on Jeffrey
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Boney's radio show. But yet last time Mike Langram lost
his election by five hundred votes. Do you think maybe
if they must those two entities, they may have gotten
six hundred votes. They just won't do it because they've
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got some power there and by got it, they're going
to wield it, just like running off my friend who
was highly qualified. And I'll tell you when you run
for an office for events like that, it is a
great practice builder because you meet all the judges, to
meet all the lawyers who might refer you the cases
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that are in your areas. They don't practice. But no,
we're too good. We have to have highly qualified people.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Man.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
But Michael mary Shaw.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
That's why it was reminding me of love lifts us
up where we belong. Is natural high my brain would
a file that away.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
In that manner? Yes, yes, yes, that is that is correct.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
A Virginia first grade teacher shot in her classroom by
a first grade student.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This is clip number seven.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Ramon is awarded ten million dollars because it is believed
that administrators knew the student had a gun and was violent,
but refused to act because the student was.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Take a guess.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
The assistant principal is facing criminal charges for refusing to
act upon learning that the boy had a gun. NBC
News with the story.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
Abby's werner still bears the scars from the day she
was shot by her first grade student, but in this
Virginia civil courtroom, a legal victory with a jury awardings
Werner millions in damages.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
We the jury on the Issues joined find in favor
of the plaintiff, Abigail's Werner, and assays her damages at
ten million dollars.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Werner's eyes filled with tears after the verdict was read.
Former Richnek Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker held liable,
the jury finding Parker's gross negligence led to the shooting.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I was convinced that there was a gun.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
Two Richnek Elementary School teachers testified they warn't Parker that
the student may be carrying a gun, and they said
Parker did not act. Body camera and surveillance video shown
in court captured the chaos after the student pulled the trigger,
the bullet strikings Werner's hand before lodging in her chest.
The defense tried to argue that even with warnings, no
one could have predicted what would happen.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It was a tragedy that until that day was unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It was unthinkable, and it was unforseeable. I thought, I
was saying almost three years laters.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Werner testified she's been unable to work while recovering from
yet another surgery on her hand. She said her relationships
have been altered too.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I still feel connected and closed, but it's also that
feeling of distance, a little numbness.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Legal experts say the rare instance of an administrator being
held liable for school shooting could set a new precedent.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
Now we're looking at teachers, administrators, anybody who had reason
to know that the shooting could occur and did nothing
to stop it. This is a major shift in the
legal world.
Speaker 11 (25:27):
Is war understanding arm in arm with her mother as
her lawyers applauded the verdict.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
She's smiling, her mother's smiling, and her sister's crying.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I think that tells you all you need to know.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I am often asked why we can't charge criminally some
of these people who put bad gas back out on
the street and then they go on to do horrible things,
and I don't want them charged. I genuinely hope, and
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I know this makes me sound like a monster, I'm
okay with it. I genuinely hope. It's my prayer that
people who put evil doers back out on the street
knowing good and well. The recidivism rate for most of
these crimes is well over ninety percent. Are intentionally bringing
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harm to someone they just don't know who. What is
the line, let me see if I can summon it.
Mercy to the criminal is cruelty to the victim. Mercy
maybe it's compassion, mercy It think it's mercy. Mercy to
the criminal is to mercy to the guilty is cruelty
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to the victim. You know, I sometimes think to myself
when you see these cases, well, let's take the case
of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Imagine their family.
I just remember seeing Ron Goldman's dad with those goofy
ass glasses he wore every day and that kind of
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roleigh fingers inspired mustache, and the dude just looked goofy.
And I would watch him in the courtroom every day,
and the anguish on this man's face. It just tore
my heart out because here was a whole nation talking
about everything but the fact that his son was murdered,
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gutted hallal style like a butcher would a goat, and
for nothing. For nothing, the man did nothing wrong, He
was a victim, and nobody cared. Nobody cared. And my
prayer has always been that these evil people, somehow they
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would be a force directing them, and that force would
send them to the homes of these elected officials, judges
and politicians who insist on putting them back out on
the street, and that they and their families. And I
say that only because if there's going to be a victim,
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I would want that victim to be someone in the family,
or preferably the person who causes that, because I have
noticed how many latter day conversions we have had of
Democrats over the last few years. You know, Andrew Cuomo
started sounding more like a Republican, didn't he He wasn't
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mister Democrat once he got out democrated by Zorin Mundani.
Once everything they said about the rest of us being
evil and awful, once they there's a guy running wind
sprints in front of our office. See this is what
happens when the temperature drops. People get crazy, they start
getting active. It's amazing. Fifty five degrees drove by Memorial
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Park this weekend, packed, absolutely packed.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I see it.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
In the middle of the afternoon, I go see my
dad and I will pass twenty thirty people out just walking,
just enjoy It's amazing that little thing, such a little
thing as changing, you know, the temperature dropping a few degrees,
such a simple thing, and what a difference it makes. Well,
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thank you all very much for the birthday wishes. It's
very kind. Thank you even more for the kind wishes
about Crockett. I made a decision thirteen years ago that
I have had enough wonderful birthdays. My birthday now is
this day is now Crockett's homecoming, and that is our celebration.
And I woke up to my little fellow giving me
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a big hug as his mom was patting him on
the back behind him, and that makes me a very,
very happy man. A number of you have asked about
Marcus is pooping, and I feel comfortable talking to Marcus
about that off air, but I didn't feel comfortable asking
him because you know, he's kind of formal in the air, so.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I don't know. I guess you's still pooped. You don't
need right not to say, though, huh.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air. Replace where
we went, the carry and the sense of joy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I know it's incredibly disappointing now, and look candidly, it's
it's a bit scary because there's a very different vision
that's being put out there.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump
Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.
We are told that when Trudeau told President elect Trump
that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked
to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off
the US to the tune of one hundred billion dollars
a year, then maybe Canada should become the fifty first
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state and Trudeau could become It's got replace.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We went the carrying and the sense of joy.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I know it's incredibly disappointing now and look candidly, it's
it's a bit scary because there's a very different vision,
uh that's being put out there.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
President Trump looked at at the Talle Band leader and
said this, I want to leave Afghanistan, but it's going
to be a conditions based withdrawal. And translator translated, and
he said, if you harm a hair on a single American,
I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And translator goes, and Trump goes.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Tell me, said, reached in his pocket, hold out a
satellite photo of the leader of the Talibance home.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
And handed it to shut up, got up and walked
off and run.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
One of the great frustrations for most people is to
wake up around the time of the primary and realize
that the candidate you don't like and nobody seems to like,
doesn't have a challenger, or worse, that there's nobody running
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in a particular race, which of course is going to
mean that the Democrats are going to win that race.
No matter how effective we are, the Democrats are going
to win that race because we don't even have a
candidate in the race. That happened in the last election.
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And I was very critical of the Harris County Republican
Party for that fact, and I have friends. It's nothing personal.
It's hard for people to understand. Very little of it
is personal.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
To me.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
There are a few things that if someone makes it
personal or does something evil, But for ninety nine percent
of the people that I criticize, it's not that I
think you're a that I wish bad things for you.
I view it as my mission. You get enough applause.
(03:47):
My job is to keep people honest. And I'll tell
you exactly the best analogy I can give. When my
kids were younger, they would say, deck, can we do this?
I would say, no, I don't feel comfortable with that.
Everybody else is doing it. Well, everybody else has everybody
else's parents. You have me as a parent. And today
(04:11):
that might seem unfortunate for you. But if when everybody
else does what they do, like these kids at Memorial
High School that got into all this trouble with the
Stratford High School kids, and they were driving through the
neighborhood shooting up the neighborhood with paintball. They're being charged
(04:33):
as adults. They're seventeen. They're being charged as adults and
with a felony case. I don't know that their parents
knew or not, but I was rather strict with my
kids when they were younger. Could not drive to a party,
could not stay. They were the first ones that have
to leave the party because at a certain point, sixteen seventeen,
(04:55):
eighteen year old kids, when a party drags for too long,
bad things are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They can't help themselves.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Young men, they've got testosterone, their frontal lobe is not developed.
They want to impress the girls. They want to do
something dramatic. They've heard their dad tell the stories, which
are usually exaggerations of the crazy things they did. Well,
we got to do crazy things. We're only boring guys.
(05:27):
Come on, let's do something crazy like my dad and
his friends did. Well, Now you get arrested and charged,
used to the cop take you home and deposit you
at the door, and your dadd whipped your button mo
one down the road, and you hopefully learn from it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Not today, But I.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
View our job here with this show in having to
criticize people that we often know as they should fear.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Their supporters. It's too easy.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
And cynical to simply say we're not Democrats, vote for us.
That's why we supported Mitt Romney in twenty twelve when
he won the nomination. That's why we supported McCain in eight.
That's why we supported Bush and four in two thousand.
That's why we supported Bob Dole in ninety six or
(06:24):
George H. W. Bush in ninety two, because they weren't Democrats,
and we get a lot of that's that's Greg Abbott
because he's not a Democrat. Because by the time he
wins the primary, well, people aren't paying attention soon enough
to file for a primary, to build a campaign, to
(06:46):
raise the money for a primary. So it is now
the season and it's a tight window if you are
considering running for office. And by the way, there is
no shame to running and losing. It's not the end
of the world. You're not going to debtors prison, You're
not you know, it's not an African nation where if
(07:08):
your tribe loses, you're going to be tortured. There is
no downside to running and losing. So if you've thought
about doing it, pick a seat where you live and.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Run and if you don't win, that's okay.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Because if our Republicans are not constantly parented because we're
their boss, never forget that. It bothers me when people,
and you see a lot of people do this. They
they want to treat elected officials like they're some celebrity,
like there's some god. They think that's what you're supposed
(07:46):
to do. You know, he's up there, he's on the pedestal.
We're supposed to show him all this respect. That is
not true. The term public servant was used for a reason.
The servant of you. The people, they are lower than you,
not above you. And when you keep that in mind,
(08:11):
it makes all the difference. I got word that the
Harris County Republican Party still has well over ten judicial
candidates seats that are that are not filled. Sidney siegeld
Or party chairman, and she said, they said we why
don't you talk to Michael Berry And she said, no, he.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Bashes me on the air.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I'm gonna bash you real bad if you don't fill
every seat and tell you that right now. Watching them
music documentary this weekend and said this song was the
first song to be number one on all three major
US charts at the same time.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That surprised me. It's a good song. I wouldn't put
it this, but I guess it just had a moment.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
That's Paul Simon's son, you know that, right, Yeah, Paul
Simon Son.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Seven one three nine nine one thousand. That's our number.
That's our number.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
If you ever want to call this show and teleramone anything,
seven one three nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, that's crazy. That's Paul Simon's son, crazy Paul Simon
Son seven one three none none, one thousand. You have
that audio. So I don't know who this woman is, but.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
People will send me videos sometimes, and somebody sent me
this one and said, this happened between my daughter and me,
and he and his daughter had split. They didn't talk anymore,
and it well, let's play the audio, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
I allowed politics to ruin the relationship I had with
my mother.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
For three years when I was a diehard liberal, I
was wearing the pink hat, I was marching against Donald Trump.
I was doing all the things. I was listening to
CNN every single day. And part of the program that
CNN offers is telling you that people who don't think
like you are bad people, they're racist people, they should
all die. That is part of the program and it
is intentional so that it ca this all divided. And
(10:01):
during that time, my mom was conservative and I was liberal,
and I literally put my mom our relationship. I put
that below my allegiance to this ideology. And it wasn't
until I turned the media off that I realized it
was totally a program.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And that's what's happening right now.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
They are programming us to believe that if you're on
this side, you can't get along with people on that side,
and it is total. The government is the same side.
It's the same wealthy technocrats that are taking over society.
So we all need to start getting along so that
we can be free.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
What's interesting is in that sense it mirrors a cult,
and in that way it is a cult. The first
thing cults do in recruiting their members, once the brainwashing begins,
pretty early on, they have to distance their victim from
(11:02):
their family, from their support network. And it is only
by distancing that person that they can take complete control
of the person. Because whoever you are, wherever you are,
at whatever stage in your life, you have a support network.
You have a family and friends to which you belong.
(11:24):
You are interconnected with relationships and place and connection and belonging,
and so when you add a new relationship to that,
you are threatening to affect the rest of your network.
(11:47):
And so the first thing the cult has to do,
even before the brainwashing is complete, is to turn you
against your family. It's why so many cults will recruit,
especially of women, will recruit women who are runaways because
they can play on the resentment toward the family you
(12:09):
have left. They abandon you, they're bad people, and so
that becomes the connection is we hate your family, and
you hate your family. The Democrat Party does this. They
do it. It's textbook what they do. It's also what
they do to the church. The church and government as
(12:33):
religion cannot coexist because the church becomes competition for government
as religion. We are raised in this country to believe
that certain things are truly evil Hitler for instance, and
(13:01):
racism for instance, and we all buy into that, and
so it becomes a shared value that we all agree
these things are bad. So what the Democrats do is
they already have you half the way there. Racism is bad,
(13:24):
Hitler is bad. If they can just turn that and
make us racist and Hitler, they don't have to make
them hate us. They already hate those things, so they
make us those things. And once we become those things,
(13:49):
the depth of hatred is more than you would feel
towards someone otherwise. But when you already have a resume
of hatred, you know when when when people imagine you
know that there's a there's a kind of an urban
myth game sort of thing the way you'd have seances
(14:12):
when we were a kid, and the game for young
people is would you kill baby Jesus? And so the
paradigm is, uh, here is this precious baby, because a
baby is precious, but it's going to grow up to
be Hitler, and you're supposed to come to the conclusion that, yes,
I would murder that baby to avoid what Hitler did
(14:36):
to the world. Well, when when this is kind of
the mindset you have developed, Hitler evil racism evil if
you can convince somebody that another person or group is racist,
and therefore Hitler, your work is done. And that's the
(14:58):
part that really breaks my heart. That's it's a part
that makes me truly sad. I see people who have
been who have alienated themselves, estranged from their own family,
the people who love them, breaking the hearts of their
parents and grandparents and siblings, all because in their mind
(15:22):
they're doing a noble thing, because those people are racist Hitlers.
And that's they've been taught that very effectively. It's programming,
it's propaganda, it's it's not sea level mind control. And
and so they're not starting from scratch, they're starting from
(15:44):
this person believes these things are evil because that's what
we're all taught to believe. But once you get that,
now you apply that tag. It's a classic, classic case.
That's how hate crimes, hate crime legislation in state of
Texas started. Rodney Ellis, believe it or not, in the
Senate pushed this thing. And so you know when bird
(16:09):
was was dragged through the streets of Jasper, that was awful.
That was horrible. That's a hate crime. So now we're
going to create hate crime. Now all they have to
do is whatever you do, that's a hate crime. Well,
we all agreed that hate crimes are bad. Now that
that which you did, not hiring that guy, that's really
really bad.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Is there a woman's vocal in there. I can't hear
it very well.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Cigarette he's got Maybe it's not this, maybe it's uh,
it's kind of version with this woman.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I don't think it's Shaney Fricky, but it's somebody of
that era, like a Dotty West era, Shelley Webb. I
can't remember who it is. Somebody will know it and
email me. But she's saying the most beautiful, beautiful harmony
(17:05):
with him in this duet.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No, it's not really knows it is.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Uh man, I can't remember who it is, but if
I can think of this, I don't think it's misery
and gen anyway, it's another song.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's more of a true love song. And uh you
know he.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
He did do He did a number of duets, including
with Ray Charles that it's just amazing. But there is
a duet with a woman. And I can't think of
who it is. But when you hear it and you
hear her singing, you it just it's a song you've
heard one hundred times. You might have heard this version
one hundred times and never paid attention to her. But
(17:45):
once you do, you can't. You can't listen, You can't
pay attention to him anymore. You notice her in the background.
Somebody will know it and tell me. I just cannot
think of who in the heck it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
A place to fall apart? That might be it letters
who's that with? That is Jenny Frecky? Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Maybe it is Jenny Fricky.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I don't know why I remember it being Jenny Fricky,
but may not be Jenny Fricky. I can't remember exactly,
but once I hear it it's like love lifts us
up where we belong.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But that's not the song. That's obviously not his song.
A friend of mine wrote during the.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Marcus Latrell conversation, I'll hear stories about people doing things
that I would like to accomplish, and I think, if
that guy can do it, I can surely do it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
But a forty day fast sounds interesting. Maybe I'll try.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Wait, the guy who did it's a Navy seal who
crawled out of a war zone, his back broken and
body full of bullets. Pretty sure he's got a gear
that I don't. Maybe I'll sit this one out. I
think that's kind of the I'm surprised I didn't get
more of the of the the any emails.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You can't do that, you'll die. If he did that,
he died, he's dead.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Well technically he's died before, so maybe he died every
day with this as well. Oh you know what else
he told me? He's told me something after we got off,
he said, I fear He said, Oh, I forgot to
tell you. My blood pressure used to be one to
ninety over one oh eight regularly, and with med's one
(19:26):
eighty five over ninety, it's now one ten over sixty four.
How about that, Ramond? That's pretty solid. Mama Martha called
up here and asked her baby boy Ramone.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
She said, is Michael sentimental today or does he have allergies?
He said, I don't know. I'll ask him. I have allergies.
I don't know what's going on. It just it just
started this morning. I didn't have it.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I don't know what's going on. But anyway, there must
be something dropping right now? Do I need to take that.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You're on Michael Berry Show? What say you?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Okay? In the last couple of years, in the judicial benches,
we've had empty benches that the Democrats won by default.
One of them was a beautician. On the day of
the election, judge, some of them used to said, I
don't need to.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Know the law.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I got two lawyers there who will tell me what
it is. I sent a lawyer over who's highly qualified
to who he wanted to run for judges the Republican.
By the time he had cleared it with his bosses
and everything. By the time he got through being interviewed,
he decided not to run. Uh, the people in charge,
(20:39):
they wouldn't just nominate anyone They want people who were
qualified now unlike beauticians. So as a result, right now
we have four or five family court benches that are open,
and people family court practitioners don't want to run because
they're they're worried about the blowback. It's a small nish practice.
(21:02):
The Democrats would have gone to the criminal courts and
founded a lawyer who doesn't practice them, doesn't give up
flip and they would have filled that slot. But no,
we need people who are qualified. And they went out
and they hired a couple of years ago, they hired
a guy to the outreached chairman. Well they got hired
him from California. Now they've replaced him with a woman
(21:24):
from Dallas. She didn't even know who LBJ was. After
a year that outreached chairman didn't know what TSU and
Prairie View were. And they won't go to African American
News and Issues Roy Malossaw and visit with him. They
won't go to Houston forward time and go on Jeffrey
(21:46):
Boney's radio show. But yet last time Mike Langram lost
his election by five hundred votes. Do you think maybe
if they must those two entities, they may have gotten
six hundred votes. They just won't do it because they've
(22:09):
got some power there and by got it, they're going
to wield it, just like running off my friend who
was highly qualified. And I'll tell you when you run
for an office for events like that, it is a
great practice builder because you meet all the judges, to
meet all the lawyers who might refer you the cases
(22:31):
that are in your areas. They don't practice. But no,
we're too good. We have to have highly qualified people.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Man.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
But Michael mary Shaw.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
That's why it was reminding me of love lifts us
up where we belong. Is natural high my brain would
a file that away.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
In that manner? Yes, yes, yes, that is that is correct.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
A Virginia first grade teacher shot in her classroom by
a first grade student.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
This is clip number seven.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Ramon is awarded ten million dollars because it is believed
that administrators knew the student had a gun and was violent,
but refused to act because the student was.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Take a guess.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
The assistant principal is facing criminal charges for refusing to
act upon learning that the boy had a gun. NBC
News with the story.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
Abby's werner still bears the scars from the day she
was shot by her first grade student, but in this
Virginia civil courtroom, a legal victory with a jury awardings
Werner millions in damages.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
We the jury on the Issues joined find in favor
of the plaintiff, Abigail's Werner, and assays her damages at
ten million dollars.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Werner's eyes filled with tears after the verdict was read.
Former Richnek Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker held liable,
the jury finding Parker's gross negligence led to the shooting.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I was convinced that there was a gun.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
Two Richnek Elementary School teachers testified they warn't Parker that
the student may be carrying a gun, and they said
Parker did not act. Body camera and surveillance video shown
in court captured the chaos after the student pulled the trigger,
the bullet strikings Werner's hand before lodging in her chest.
The defense tried to argue that even with warnings, no
one could have predicted what would happen.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It was a tragedy that until that day was unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It was unthinkable, and it was unforseeable. I thought, I
was saying almost three years laters.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Werner testified she's been unable to work while recovering from
yet another surgery on her hand. She said her relationships
have been altered too.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I still feel connected and closed, but it's also that
feeling of distance, a little numbness.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Legal experts say the rare instance of an administrator being
held liable for school shooting could set a new precedent.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
Now we're looking at teachers, administrators, anybody who had reason
to know that the shooting could occur and did nothing
to stop it. This is a major shift in the
legal world.
Speaker 11 (25:27):
Is war understanding arm in arm with her mother as
her lawyers applauded the verdict.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
She's smiling, her mother's smiling, and her sister's crying.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I think that tells you all you need to know.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I am often asked why we can't charge criminally some
of these people who put bad gas back out on
the street and then they go on to do horrible things,
and I don't want them charged. I genuinely hope, and
(26:00):
I know this makes me sound like a monster, I'm
okay with it. I genuinely hope. It's my prayer that
people who put evil doers back out on the street
knowing good and well. The recidivism rate for most of
these crimes is well over ninety percent. Are intentionally bringing
(26:21):
harm to someone they just don't know who. What is
the line, let me see if I can summon it.
Mercy to the criminal is cruelty to the victim. Mercy
maybe it's compassion, mercy It think it's mercy. Mercy to
the criminal is to mercy to the guilty is cruelty
(26:43):
to the victim. You know, I sometimes think to myself
when you see these cases, well, let's take the case
of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Imagine their family.
I just remember seeing Ron Goldman's dad with those goofy
ass glasses he wore every day and that kind of
(27:03):
roleigh fingers inspired mustache, and the dude just looked goofy.
And I would watch him in the courtroom every day,
and the anguish on this man's face. It just tore
my heart out because here was a whole nation talking
about everything but the fact that his son was murdered,
(27:26):
gutted hallal style like a butcher would a goat, and
for nothing. For nothing, the man did nothing wrong, He
was a victim, and nobody cared. Nobody cared. And my
prayer has always been that these evil people, somehow they
(27:48):
would be a force directing them, and that force would
send them to the homes of these elected officials, judges
and politicians who insist on putting them back out on
the street, and that they and their families. And I
say that only because if there's going to be a victim,
(28:08):
I would want that victim to be someone in the family,
or preferably the person who causes that, because I have
noticed how many latter day conversions we have had of
Democrats over the last few years. You know, Andrew Cuomo
started sounding more like a Republican, didn't he He wasn't
(28:30):
mister Democrat once he got out democrated by Zorin Mundani.
Once everything they said about the rest of us being
evil and awful, once they there's a guy running wind
sprints in front of our office. See this is what
happens when the temperature drops. People get crazy, they start
getting active. It's amazing. Fifty five degrees drove by Memorial
(28:53):
Park this weekend, packed, absolutely packed.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I see it.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
In the middle of the afternoon, I go see my
dad and I will pass twenty thirty people out just walking,
just enjoy It's amazing that little thing, such a little
thing as changing, you know, the temperature dropping a few degrees,
such a simple thing, and what a difference it makes. Well,
(29:24):
thank you all very much for the birthday wishes. It's
very kind. Thank you even more for the kind wishes
about Crockett. I made a decision thirteen years ago that
I have had enough wonderful birthdays. My birthday now is
this day is now Crockett's homecoming, and that is our celebration.
And I woke up to my little fellow giving me
(29:46):
a big hug as his mom was patting him on
the back behind him, and that makes me a very,
very happy man. A number of you have asked about
Marcus is pooping, and I feel comfortable talking to Marcus
about that off air, but I didn't feel comfortable asking
him because you know, he's kind of formal in the air, so.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I don't know. I guess you's still pooped. You don't
need right not to say, though, huh.
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