November 20, 2025 • 32 mins
Congress is stealing, fans are threatening coaches, coconuts are on fire, and someone invented chess boxing—so naturally, Michael Berry is here to make sense of the madness.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. Congress often attracts
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the wrong kind of people, and when they get there,
it instills in them a belief that they are better
than everyone else. A Florida Congressman, Sheila Cheerfulless McCormick, a Democrat,
has been arrested and charged with stealing five million dollars
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in COVID FEMA funds, laundering that money which ended up
in her twenty twenty one congressional campaign. The indictment says
that Cherfilis McCormick and her brother conspired to steal a
five million dollar overpayment they received from FEMA for a
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COVID vaccination staffing contract in twenty twenty one. Oh what
are the chances that a Democrat congressman would put her
brother in the vaccine staffing business and that they would
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accidentally get overpaid and steal the money. The story from
WPLG TV in Miami. Everybody feels like the under attack.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Tonight, a federal grand jury indicting Congresswoman Sheila Scherphalus McCormick
and several associates, accusing them of dealing millions and federal
disaster funds, laundering the money and using part of it
to support her twenty twenty one congressional campaign.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The money we invested was to make sure that we
can touch the people in the community.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But the money didn't determine this election.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Because most people put a lot of money in the
community in the campaigns they don't win. Federal prosecutors say,
Cheerflus McCormick and her brother, Edwin Shurfless ran a FEMA
funded COVID nineteen vaccination staffing contract through their family healthcare company.
Prosecutors say in July twenty twenty one, the company received
a five million dollars over payment. Prosecutors say the group
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diverted that money and tried to hide it through multiple accounts.
The indictment says a large portion of those funds was
used for campaign contributions and personal expenses. Prosecutors alleged the
South Florida Democrat in nadiez le Blanc arranged additional donations
using straw donors, funneling money to friends and relatives, who
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then donated to the campaign as if using their own money.
Investigators say the congresswoman, with the help of her tax
preparer David K. Spencer filed a false federal tax return,
allegedly disguising political spending and personal costs as business deductions.
US attorney Jason Reading Kenyonez writing, public money belongs to
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the American people. When FEMA funds are diverted for personal
or political gain in a roads trust and harms US.
All attorneys for the congresswoman writing, she is a committed
public servant who is dedicated to her constituents. We will
fight to clear her good name. If convicted of South Florida,
congresswoman could face up to fifty three years in prison.
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The co defendants could also face decades behind bars.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
She may have her lawyers write threatening letters to the
media tell them to stop questioning her. How dare you
question her? What she's doing now? There? You you ever
notice how many of these programs end up with fraud
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as part of them. It's not by accident. There is
a Somali led welfare fraud that is being uncovered daily
and prosecuted daily. More and more of them are taking deals.
And you've got a bunch of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis,
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and it's the large, supposedly the largest welfare fraud in
American history to date, and it all happened right under
Tim Waltz's nose. But that's really too kind to Tim Waltz,
because if you actually look at the details of what happened,
the governor not only should have known what happened, but
I suspect may have, which makes this story much more interesting.
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What if he did know? What if he didn't know
and didn't dare do anything about it. He didn't dare
do anything about it because he needed the Somali support.
Very interesting question. California has revoked the commercial driver's licenses
they issued to seventeen thousand illegal aliens. Transportation Secretary Sean
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Duffy says, after weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong,
Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red handed now
that we've exposed their lives. Seventeen thousand illegally issued trucking
license licenses are being revoked. So your first question is,
wait a second, why is Newsom revoking something he did?
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He loves illegal aliens, he does, but they're spending a
lot of money on his presidential campaign right now, and
they're going out into swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,
North Carolina. Hey, do you think government should issue a
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commercial driver's license that means you're driving around an eighteen
wheeler to an illegal alien? And the polls are coming
back saying not no, but hell no. Only eighty six
percent of Americans said they don't want members of Congress
trading stock. They're probably a higher percentage that don't want
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illegal aliens driving eighteen wheelers on the roads that we're
all on. That case of the Indian illegal alien that
came through Canada, which is how it happens when they're
from India on the freeway, killing the family, that has
received a lot of attention and got a lot of
people thinking hard about this issue and the real consequences
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because that was a commercial driver's license issued in California
to an illegal alien there on the West coast of
the United States, and the death he caused was on
the East coast. Because they're driving all over the country
without proper training, in many cases, without the ability to
speak our language. So if there is a problem, if
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there is a problem, you see these cases where somebody
calls nine to one one. They can't they can't take direction,
they can't give direction, it's the Tower of Babel. It's
just insane. It's terrible. We don't want our country to
fall into this. We can stop it. There's no shame
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in stopping it. Oh you think so? Ramone thinks the
driving test? Where do you come up with this stuff?
Ramone thinks that the driving test for illegal aliens before
they can get an eighteen wheeler commercial driving license was
to have them drive slowly on the highway. She just
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seems like it, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah, that's been drives. Go on a driveway Saturday. Of course,
the seats were originally leather. Now they're pitiful red.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You know these seats were brown on there? Do you
know this car?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I know this car?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
How do you know this car? Definitely know this car?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Ninety fourty on Buick Roadmasters Straight eight Fireball eight only
eighty ninety five production models. Dad, let's be drive still
on a driveway.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
But not a Monday.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Definitely not a Monday.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The Michael Arry Show, to be part of your sixty
minutes did a profile on an interesting new sport called
chess boxing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's just what it sounds like. They alternate rounds of
playing chess and boxing. You can win by either knocking
out your opponent or checkmate, whichever happens first.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Fighters from eighteen countries are here trying to knock each
other's heads off.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
There's the bell.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But wait now, the fighters strip off their gloves and
sit down.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's chess time.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Competitors have three minutes to vanquish their enemy on the board.
If they don't, it's back to the slugfest for three
more minutes. It's gloves on, gloves off until checkmate, knockout,
or judge's decision.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
I had the body of a chess player. I was
just like a scrunny kid, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Meet William Gambitman Graef, a New York state chess champ.
He's been playing competitive chess since the age of five. Yeah,
we saw his take no prisoner's approach. Howd I get
in this horrible position? When he demolished four of us
at once just for fun?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Check me, check me?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Graefe told us he added thirty pounds of muscle to
become a chess boxer. He's still only one hundred and
sixty pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Are you even scared in any way?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I'd be a little crazy not to be terrified.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
But why are you willingly deciding to step into a
ring where you can at your head beaten in.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, you sound like my mother.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
One of the things is cleart of the opportunity to
tell my story here of like a kid who played
chess growing up throughout school and was to an extent
ridiculed and ostracized.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
For being a scrunny chess player. Exactly.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Okay, you know, I've been doing chess for a very
long time. What better time to sort of try something
new and challenge myself.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Doing chess. Okay, you know you hear these stories. I
was picked on and humiliated for playing chess. No, you weren't.
In your mind, it felt like it. Your perception was
that you were being humiliated, but actually you were mostly
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just being ignored. And when someone when it came time
to pick teams three on three in the neighborhood, and
there were two left, and somebody said I'll take chest boy,
that's it. But in your mind it felt like they
were just holding you down and pulling at your ear
and pouring acid on you. That's not true. It's just
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what we convince ourselves. Ridiculous sports ideas that actually exist.
Fireball soccer true story, a game in which players use
balls made from coconuts, but a week before the match,
the coconut balls are immersed in gasoline to make them
easy to ignite for the game, and they are set
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on fire, and you play soccer with flaming coconuts as
the ball. And as if that wasn't tough enough, you
don't wear any shoes. Look, we're a really poor country.
We don't have a lot going for us. We've kept
TV out as long as we can. We've got to
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have some sporting for the people. We don't have the
money for anything nice. We can't afford a baseball and
a baseball bat. We could do a rock and a
stick like the other countries. No, we're gonna have our
own thing. It's gonna be soccer related. We can't afford
the ball. I remember we had the one ball, but then
we didn't have a pump for it, so the ball
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went flat and everybody was aggravated. But we'll do coconuts
because the coconut makes for a real nice ball. I mean,
just it's round if nothing else is round. Yeah, kicking
coconuts with our bare feet because we don't have any
shoes on a field that isn't marked with two sticks
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at the end for a goal. I just I don't know,
it just feels like it's missing something. Well, we got
a little extra gasoline left over. What if we set
them on fire and we put the ball out on
the field and it's it's on fire. Okay, Now, now
you've got something to work with. Then there Hakapay a
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perilous race originated in Chile's Eastern Ireland. Young people under
the ages of twenty raced down a volcano's edge on
a sled made of two banana tree trunks, while only
wearing a loin cloth. When they koreene down the steep hill,
Participants frequently reached speeds of about fifty miles an hour,
which can occasionally, you won't believe this cause serious injury.
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The sledter who makes it the farthest from the launch
point is declared the winner. Apparently, Hakapey was once used
to test young people's maturity and fortitude in preparation for adulthood.
Do you think little is ready from manhood? Maybe get
him married, be a father, what do you think? Well,
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I don't know. Let's see how you do in Hakapey.
That'll tell us whether you're ready. That'll tell us whether
you're ready for something as serious as being an adult.
Remember when COVID was going on and we had nothing
to watch in the sports world, and ESPN was just
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grasping for straws, trying to find anything that viewers would
be willing to watch.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
We have a full day of action right here on
ESPN Sinco tonight at six Eastern. We kick it off
with chess boxing where brainiac meets Maniac. Then we go
prime time with an abut of basket Bowl All you
could Eat Inchilados one thrown contestants shoot threes.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
While dropping abuse.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Then starting at ten, it's late night action, a little
Drinko with the sinko as we go back to back.
First it's Beer Mile Run contestants chugging four beers throughout
a one mile race.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
This competition is set to make any liver quiver.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Then it's curling and hurling the Olympic Trials begin. Contestine
slide heavy stones down a sheet of ice and the
prize is Lukewarm Chief to Keep. And then wake up
with us tomorrow morning for a brand new episode of
Tic Tac Doughnut Contestants Gram twenty four Do I'd said
twenty four? Minutes, no milk, all while playing human tic
tac Toe sponsored by Wilford Beverley's Diabetes Foundation, ESPN Sinco.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
When there's nothing else to watch, it's under to do us.
Several years ago, our show sponsor, Specs Liquors, Wine, Spirits
and Finer Foods, dedicated a month at their store to
raising money for Camp Hope, and now several years into this,
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for the month of October again Camp Hope was was
the cause of choice. I don't like the term charity.
It's not a charity. These men have earned it, but
it is a charitable donation from a legal perspective. And
for the month of October the hall was one hundred
and forty seven three eight dollars, So thank you very much.
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Did you see that AOC bought her first car with
all this money she's made?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
She was It has a rear wiper, Michael Berry's.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
You put it on your sense of humor and your
sense of decorum. You either love or hate to watch
the drunk sports fan and the stupid stuff they say
and do. Their's site upon site upon site. They're highlight
reels for hours of drunk sports fans doing something stupid.
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Either because they're really excited their team's playing well, or
they're really angry their team is playing poorly. There is
a scene in the new movie Love You bum which
will come out on the twenty fifth, so I am
excited to be a part of that. There is the
scene where during the early days in the early seventies,
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the oilers are not good. They would be in a
few years, but they're not good that year, and they've
lost several games in a row, and it's Monday night
football and they pan in on a guy and he
gives him the rod, shoots the finger and Don Meredith.
There's a pause because nobody knows what to do, and
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there's no delay yet. So this is going out over
national television, and Don Meredith very casually says, yep, his
team's number one, as only Don Meredith could do well.
Here is an unhinged sports fan that has a little
different ending. This guy's got to be liquored up when
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this happens. I mean, he's got to be so liquored up.
I'd be surprised if he remembers doing it. The vice
chairman of Corpus Christie's Planning Commission, Brian Mandel, has resigned
from the planning commission. Why you asked, well, he's sent
threatening text messages to the head football coach at the
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University of Louisville, as well as the head football coach
which his family, as well as the quarterback because the
team lost on November eighth to Color. Apparently in a
drunken stupor of anger, he started firing off messages that
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rose to the level of serious crime. He now faces
six counts of second degree terroristic threat and one count
of criminal attempt theft by extortion over ten thousand dollars.
He also he also insulted their offensive coordinator and the
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families of the coaches not insulted threatened them. He was expedited.
He was expedited. He was extradited in an expedited fashion.
He was extradited from Corpus Christi, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky
to face charges. How does that work yet? How do
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you tell your wife your wife's going Oh no, no,
tell me you did not tell me? You did not?
I did. I told you you were getting way into
way too into some It's a sport, Brian, It's a sport.
Whas eleven TV.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
In Louisville and we're hearing from the coach about the
alleged threats made to him and his family after an
overtime loss here in Louisville. University of Louisville had football
coach Jeff Brohm says those recent threats against him and
his family crossed the line. The threats coming from a
Texas businessman who posted his bond of one hundred thousand
dollars in Louisville last.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Week and is free tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
He's also been indicted for attempting to extort the quarterback
Miller Moss. Brom says his focus remains on football, leaving
the legal process to authorities.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
But it was a you know, a direct message to
my phone right after the game with I'm not gonna
beat what was said because you know it was not good.
But know what, like I said, thanks directed to me,
I'm fine with when it's directed to my family and
wife and kids. That's that's that's going over the line.
But you know what, we move on and hey, people
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aren't happy with losses. I'm not as well.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The suspect right here, Brian Mendel, spent a day in
jail and posted this bun here in Louisville in February,
he had been extradited to our city from Texas.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
A judge has barred.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Him from contacting anyone involved in this case while it proceeds.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You know, fellas just get really, really excited over sports.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You guys are so obsessed with sports that you guys.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
Will wear jerseys for teams that you're not even.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
On, but you think you're on the team.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
You'll be like, yeah, last night, I guess we just
didn't score enough last night. I guess we just didn't
play enough defense.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We the Redskins don't need you.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Okay, that's like me watching Gray's Anatomy in Scrubs.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's pretty good. Actually, Whitney Cummings. Not all men like
sports oddly enough, but they still get thirsty. As Mitch
Hedberg notes, you know, people.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
Think I'm into sports just because I'm a man. I'm
not into sports. I mean, I like gatorade.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's about sparser go.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
By the way, you don't have to be sweating and
holding a basketball to enjoy a gatorade.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You could just be a thirsty dude.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
Gata Rade forgets about this demographic.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I'm thirsty for absolutely.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
No reason other than the fact that liquid has not
touched my list.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
For some time.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Can I have a Gatorade too? Or is that lightning
boat me? No, Yeah, I'm not into sports. If I
had athletes my first reaction movie, that's not my foot.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't want to have my face on the cover
of a Wheati's box.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
I want to have my face on the cover of
a Rice Chrismi's box.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Snap, crackle, Mitch and Pop. Hey, how did he do that? Hey? Hollywood,
it's all who you know and I know crackle. So
our question to you, what is the most ridiculous, absurd, insane,
potentially criminal, terribly embarrassing thing you've ever done as a
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sports fan due to your team winning or losing. I
grew up across the street from a fellow that was
like a big brother to me. His name's Keith mccommeyck
and Keith had two little bitty girls at the time,
Tristan and Miranda. And he's so desperately wanted a boy.
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I think he ended up being a great girl dad,
and he's a great guy, but he's so desperately wanted
a boy. And then here's these two young men across
the street, and he would come over. We'd play football together.
We'd played basketball. He was a phenomenal, I really fantastic
basketball player. He's from Johnson's Buyu, Louisiana and he still
played in basketball League's there with him there, and we
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would go with him play basketball. We'd drive back and
forth and he would always buy us fast food on
the way and that was a treat. We didn't eat
fast food in our household, so it was a treat
to get to eat fast food like a Big Mac
or whatever on the way there and back. And Keith
was the biggest Cowboys fan you have ever met. You
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would get very, very angry at the Cowboys, and he
would say that the prevent defense, which was Tom Landry's
you know, Ben, but don't break you know, we've got
a lead, would prevent victories. And one time he stood
up and threw I was bottle of what it was
and smashed the television screen. And that was when his
wife Ronda said enough and read the Riot Act. But
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he would get so mad he'd punch the wall. I've
never seen anybody get as intense on any teams as
he did. And that was back when the Cowboys were good.
Mind you anyway, what's the craziest thing you did, either
because you were happy or because you were furious over
your team seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
And what I see all over the place is people
who care about looking good while doing evil.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
The Michael Verry, Hugh Oh, the crazy drunk fan. They're
funny as loans. They're not near you and within reason,
but some of them can make the experience quite unpleasant.
Mart you know the Michael Berry Show. What is your experience?
Speaker 11 (24:56):
I was watching the Oilers lose to the Buffalo in
that infamous game.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
Oh, if you can call it that.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, whatever you did, you say? You know, Mark, I
have already given you a great deal more latitude because
of the the extent of disappointment and hurt and anguish
as a result of that of falling apart. So I'm
going to judge you much less harshly than I normally would.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
I'm actually still kind of feeling it, But I really
it wasn't wasn't so so bad. I just went to
bed slabbered on my pillow. But the next morning I
got up and I quit drinking for twelve years.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Oh well, that's not necessarily such a bad thing.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
No, it was probably a high time it happened. But
when the Texans came to town, I started drinking again.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You said, you know what, I got to have some
way to some way to deal with this. Where were
you sitting at that game? Oh no, no, no, that was
that was in Buffalo, Yeah it was. I remember the
fans were climbing back in. Not only fans, people were
climbing back into the stadium once it started getting close.
Speaker 12 (26:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
So I wasn't actually there. I was just sitting on
the couch slamming beers.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You know what, what was your beer of choice?
Speaker 12 (26:15):
Then?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (26:17):
Man, I thinks I want to say, okay, and now
sixteen out or something?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Shiner? Okay? Was it Haywood Jefferies that that reaches out
and doesn't quite get get the ball over the well?
Speaker 11 (26:32):
I remember Ron Bby just hating Ron bb and that
big giant helmet that he had. He kind of looked
like that guy on like a yeah no, it looked
like a yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Well what a man. Interesting times I have. I had
a classmate in college. We were flying somewhere or flying back,
and we stopped at my buddy's place and watched that
until it was the game was practically over, or so
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we thought, because there was no way. Of course, that's
probably what South Carolina fans were thinking this weekend with
Texas A and M. And you know, somebody made the
point online. I'm sure a few did. But I saw
it that seemingly that it was thirty to three at
halftime at Kyle Field and it didn't look like a
single Aggie fan had left. Man, you can't, you can't.
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You can't manufacture that level of fan loyalty. They were
going to stay there and support their team till the
very end, no matter what. They might be getting routed
and they were, but they but the fans were not
going to leave them. And man, it was you started
seeing the crowd once they started scoring. You started seeing
the crowd get more and more into it. And that
place is special when they're fired up, that place is special.
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What do you do for a living, bart Oh?
Speaker 11 (27:52):
I work in refineries and new chemical plants and repair
ships and all that kind of stuff. I'm actually on
my way to finally right now.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
What do you actually do?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
How?
Speaker 11 (28:03):
We repair them with epoxyes and carbon fibers. We fixed
pipes and coat the inside of vessels that type thing.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
How did you develop that skill? I?
Speaker 11 (28:17):
Yeah, but I was a commercial diver back in the
eighties and we started using composites underwater, and I just
kind of fell into the career of doing repairs. We've
known that for forty years.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You used to play stas with a guy named Jim Donnelly
who was a commercial diver, and I had so many
questions from I thought that was just fascinating to imagine
going under the water to do these things like how
you get an epoxy, how you open an epoxy into
the open water, and how you get it to adhere
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is just amazing to me. If it was left to
me how things like that work, it would never it
would never happen. In fact, tell you a funny story.
I was talking to Michael Robinson about your case yesterday
and Ramon we were talking about hot water heaters and
he was saying what he suggested he do, and he
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has a fifty gallon water heater and he said, you
ought to just put another fifty gallon in there, and
I said, all right, I'm not afraid of asking a
dumb question, because that's how you learn. How does the
system switch. When you burn through that first fifty gallons,
how does the system switch over to the next fifty gallons?
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And he went through the whole deal of how the
thing heats up and when it does this, and when
it does this, And at the end of it, I said,
do you realize if society had been people like me
exclusively from the beginning of time, we wouldn't have hot water.
I think about this all the time. There are people
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who could not do a talk, could not stand up
and give a speech, couldn't do a number of things
that we take for granted, maybe can't talk to a girl,
but they could figure out one piece in the building
blocks of how we get to where we are today.
And when it comes to structural architectural engineering, physics, chemistry.
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I enjoyed the study of those things in school, but
I have no aptitude and no common sense with regard
to any of that stuff. It's just crazy to me
that people can figure things like that out. I admire that, Dan.
What's your story, sir?
Speaker 12 (30:37):
Hey Michael, So this was January nineteen eighty one, and
I'll have to say we were not in a drunken stupor,
but some friends of mine from high school. We had
gone to participate in that close up program. You remember
what that was?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Tell me more, it sounds a vague.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
High school kids could miss school for a while. You
go to Washington, d C. You get to visit government officials,
actual commit Ron Paul there.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Anyway, but that.
Speaker 12 (31:03):
Same weekend, the Oilers were playing a pretty important game.
I think it might have been against Washington. I think
it was that game where they came back and everybody
met him. Anyway, we were up in our hotel room
watching the game, and when they won, we just burst
out into the hall started banging on everyone's doors. They won,
they won, and yep, we got in a bit of
trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Well, you know that there is sports give us such
an outlet for emotion. And I think I have told
the story before, so forgive me if you've heard it
a few times. When there used to be a guy
in town who had seats to the Rockets about six
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or seven rows up mid court, close enough to the
court that when he stood up with this loud, booming
voice and insulted the other players, the players could hear it,
and he would say the most vile things. And I
remember I had my young son there and I said
to him one day, I said, you know what you're
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doing at those games? What is going on, dude that
because there's kids here in that and those people, one
of those players is going to come up there mad
Max style one day and punch you out. And he said,
you know, I went to the doctor. I was in
therapy and I had all this rage and all this anger,
and the doctor said, why don't you take it out
on sports? So I bought the best tickets I could
afford to see the Rockets, and I go, and that
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is my outlet. I just go and I just scream
and hawk. I said, you insult the players on the
most personal level, somebody in the stands or on the
on the court's going to hurt you
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. Congress often attracts
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the wrong kind of people, and when they get there,
it instills in them a belief that they are better
than everyone else. A Florida Congressman, Sheila Cheerfulless McCormick, a Democrat,
has been arrested and charged with stealing five million dollars
(00:59):
in COVID FEMA funds, laundering that money which ended up
in her twenty twenty one congressional campaign. The indictment says
that Cherfilis McCormick and her brother conspired to steal a
five million dollar overpayment they received from FEMA for a
(01:20):
COVID vaccination staffing contract in twenty twenty one. Oh what
are the chances that a Democrat congressman would put her
brother in the vaccine staffing business and that they would
(01:43):
accidentally get overpaid and steal the money. The story from
WPLG TV in Miami. Everybody feels like the under attack.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Tonight, a federal grand jury indicting Congresswoman Sheila Scherphalus McCormick
and several associates, accusing them of dealing millions and federal
disaster funds, laundering the money and using part of it
to support her twenty twenty one congressional campaign.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The money we invested was to make sure that we
can touch the people in the community.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But the money didn't determine this election.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Because most people put a lot of money in the
community in the campaigns they don't win. Federal prosecutors say,
Cheerflus McCormick and her brother, Edwin Shurfless ran a FEMA
funded COVID nineteen vaccination staffing contract through their family healthcare company.
Prosecutors say in July twenty twenty one, the company received
a five million dollars over payment. Prosecutors say the group
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diverted that money and tried to hide it through multiple accounts.
The indictment says a large portion of those funds was
used for campaign contributions and personal expenses. Prosecutors alleged the
South Florida Democrat in nadiez le Blanc arranged additional donations
using straw donors, funneling money to friends and relatives, who
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then donated to the campaign as if using their own money.
Investigators say the congresswoman, with the help of her tax
preparer David K. Spencer filed a false federal tax return,
allegedly disguising political spending and personal costs as business deductions.
US attorney Jason Reading Kenyonez writing, public money belongs to
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the American people. When FEMA funds are diverted for personal
or political gain in a roads trust and harms US.
All attorneys for the congresswoman writing, she is a committed
public servant who is dedicated to her constituents. We will
fight to clear her good name. If convicted of South Florida,
congresswoman could face up to fifty three years in prison.
(03:41):
The co defendants could also face decades behind bars.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
She may have her lawyers write threatening letters to the
media tell them to stop questioning her. How dare you
question her? What she's doing now? There? You you ever
notice how many of these programs end up with fraud
(04:09):
as part of them. It's not by accident. There is
a Somali led welfare fraud that is being uncovered daily
and prosecuted daily. More and more of them are taking deals.
And you've got a bunch of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis,
(04:34):
and it's the large, supposedly the largest welfare fraud in
American history to date, and it all happened right under
Tim Waltz's nose. But that's really too kind to Tim Waltz,
because if you actually look at the details of what happened,
the governor not only should have known what happened, but
I suspect may have, which makes this story much more interesting.
(05:00):
What if he did know? What if he didn't know
and didn't dare do anything about it. He didn't dare
do anything about it because he needed the Somali support.
Very interesting question. California has revoked the commercial driver's licenses
they issued to seventeen thousand illegal aliens. Transportation Secretary Sean
(05:26):
Duffy says, after weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong,
Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red handed now
that we've exposed their lives. Seventeen thousand illegally issued trucking
license licenses are being revoked. So your first question is,
wait a second, why is Newsom revoking something he did?
(05:47):
He loves illegal aliens, he does, but they're spending a
lot of money on his presidential campaign right now, and
they're going out into swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,
North Carolina. Hey, do you think government should issue a
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commercial driver's license that means you're driving around an eighteen
wheeler to an illegal alien? And the polls are coming
back saying not no, but hell no. Only eighty six
percent of Americans said they don't want members of Congress
trading stock. They're probably a higher percentage that don't want
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illegal aliens driving eighteen wheelers on the roads that we're
all on. That case of the Indian illegal alien that
came through Canada, which is how it happens when they're
from India on the freeway, killing the family, that has
received a lot of attention and got a lot of
people thinking hard about this issue and the real consequences
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because that was a commercial driver's license issued in California
to an illegal alien there on the West coast of
the United States, and the death he caused was on
the East coast. Because they're driving all over the country
without proper training, in many cases, without the ability to
speak our language. So if there is a problem, if
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there is a problem, you see these cases where somebody
calls nine to one one. They can't they can't take direction,
they can't give direction, it's the Tower of Babel. It's
just insane. It's terrible. We don't want our country to
fall into this. We can stop it. There's no shame
(07:34):
in stopping it. Oh you think so? Ramone thinks the
driving test? Where do you come up with this stuff?
Ramone thinks that the driving test for illegal aliens before
they can get an eighteen wheeler commercial driving license was
to have them drive slowly on the highway. She just
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seems like it, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah, that's been drives. Go on a driveway Saturday. Of course,
the seats were originally leather. Now they're pitiful red.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You know these seats were brown on there? Do you
know this car?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I know this car?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
How do you know this car? Definitely know this car?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Ninety fourty on Buick Roadmasters Straight eight Fireball eight only
eighty ninety five production models. Dad, let's be drive still
on a driveway.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
But not a Monday.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Definitely not a Monday.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The Michael Arry Show, to be part of your sixty
minutes did a profile on an interesting new sport called
chess boxing.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's just what it sounds like. They alternate rounds of
playing chess and boxing. You can win by either knocking
out your opponent or checkmate, whichever happens first.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Fighters from eighteen countries are here trying to knock each
other's heads off.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
There's the bell.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But wait now, the fighters strip off their gloves and
sit down.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's chess time.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Competitors have three minutes to vanquish their enemy on the board.
If they don't, it's back to the slugfest for three
more minutes. It's gloves on, gloves off until checkmate, knockout,
or judge's decision.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
I had the body of a chess player. I was
just like a scrunny kid, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Meet William Gambitman Graef, a New York state chess champ.
He's been playing competitive chess since the age of five. Yeah,
we saw his take no prisoner's approach. Howd I get
in this horrible position? When he demolished four of us
at once just for fun?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Check me, check me?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Graefe told us he added thirty pounds of muscle to
become a chess boxer. He's still only one hundred and
sixty pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Are you even scared in any way?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I'd be a little crazy not to be terrified.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
But why are you willingly deciding to step into a
ring where you can at your head beaten in.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, you sound like my mother.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
One of the things is cleart of the opportunity to
tell my story here of like a kid who played
chess growing up throughout school and was to an extent
ridiculed and ostracized.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
For being a scrunny chess player. Exactly.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Okay, you know, I've been doing chess for a very
long time. What better time to sort of try something
new and challenge myself.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Doing chess. Okay, you know you hear these stories. I
was picked on and humiliated for playing chess. No, you weren't.
In your mind, it felt like it. Your perception was
that you were being humiliated, but actually you were mostly
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just being ignored. And when someone when it came time
to pick teams three on three in the neighborhood, and
there were two left, and somebody said I'll take chest boy,
that's it. But in your mind it felt like they
were just holding you down and pulling at your ear
and pouring acid on you. That's not true. It's just
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what we convince ourselves. Ridiculous sports ideas that actually exist.
Fireball soccer true story, a game in which players use
balls made from coconuts, but a week before the match,
the coconut balls are immersed in gasoline to make them
easy to ignite for the game, and they are set
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on fire, and you play soccer with flaming coconuts as
the ball. And as if that wasn't tough enough, you
don't wear any shoes. Look, we're a really poor country.
We don't have a lot going for us. We've kept
TV out as long as we can. We've got to
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have some sporting for the people. We don't have the
money for anything nice. We can't afford a baseball and
a baseball bat. We could do a rock and a
stick like the other countries. No, we're gonna have our
own thing. It's gonna be soccer related. We can't afford
the ball. I remember we had the one ball, but then
we didn't have a pump for it, so the ball
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went flat and everybody was aggravated. But we'll do coconuts
because the coconut makes for a real nice ball. I mean,
just it's round if nothing else is round. Yeah, kicking
coconuts with our bare feet because we don't have any
shoes on a field that isn't marked with two sticks
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at the end for a goal. I just I don't know,
it just feels like it's missing something. Well, we got
a little extra gasoline left over. What if we set
them on fire and we put the ball out on
the field and it's it's on fire. Okay, Now, now
you've got something to work with. Then there Hakapay a
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perilous race originated in Chile's Eastern Ireland. Young people under
the ages of twenty raced down a volcano's edge on
a sled made of two banana tree trunks, while only
wearing a loin cloth. When they koreene down the steep hill,
Participants frequently reached speeds of about fifty miles an hour,
which can occasionally, you won't believe this cause serious injury.
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The sledter who makes it the farthest from the launch
point is declared the winner. Apparently, Hakapey was once used
to test young people's maturity and fortitude in preparation for adulthood.
Do you think little is ready from manhood? Maybe get
him married, be a father, what do you think? Well,
(13:45):
I don't know. Let's see how you do in Hakapey.
That'll tell us whether you're ready. That'll tell us whether
you're ready for something as serious as being an adult.
Remember when COVID was going on and we had nothing
to watch in the sports world, and ESPN was just
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grasping for straws, trying to find anything that viewers would
be willing to watch.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
We have a full day of action right here on
ESPN Sinco tonight at six Eastern. We kick it off
with chess boxing where brainiac meets Maniac. Then we go
prime time with an abut of basket Bowl All you
could Eat Inchilados one thrown contestants shoot threes.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
While dropping abuse.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Then starting at ten, it's late night action, a little
Drinko with the sinko as we go back to back.
First it's Beer Mile Run contestants chugging four beers throughout
a one mile race.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
This competition is set to make any liver quiver.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Then it's curling and hurling the Olympic Trials begin. Contestine
slide heavy stones down a sheet of ice and the
prize is Lukewarm Chief to Keep. And then wake up
with us tomorrow morning for a brand new episode of
Tic Tac Doughnut Contestants Gram twenty four Do I'd said
twenty four? Minutes, no milk, all while playing human tic
tac Toe sponsored by Wilford Beverley's Diabetes Foundation, ESPN Sinco.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
When there's nothing else to watch, it's under to do us.
Several years ago, our show sponsor, Specs Liquors, Wine, Spirits
and Finer Foods, dedicated a month at their store to
raising money for Camp Hope, and now several years into this,
(15:32):
for the month of October again Camp Hope was was
the cause of choice. I don't like the term charity.
It's not a charity. These men have earned it, but
it is a charitable donation from a legal perspective. And
for the month of October the hall was one hundred
and forty seven three eight dollars, So thank you very much.
(15:53):
Did you see that AOC bought her first car with
all this money she's made?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
She was It has a rear wiper, Michael Berry's.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
You put it on your sense of humor and your
sense of decorum. You either love or hate to watch
the drunk sports fan and the stupid stuff they say
and do. Their's site upon site upon site. They're highlight
reels for hours of drunk sports fans doing something stupid.
(16:29):
Either because they're really excited their team's playing well, or
they're really angry their team is playing poorly. There is
a scene in the new movie Love You bum which
will come out on the twenty fifth, so I am
excited to be a part of that. There is the
scene where during the early days in the early seventies,
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the oilers are not good. They would be in a
few years, but they're not good that year, and they've
lost several games in a row, and it's Monday night
football and they pan in on a guy and he
gives him the rod, shoots the finger and Don Meredith.
There's a pause because nobody knows what to do, and
(17:12):
there's no delay yet. So this is going out over
national television, and Don Meredith very casually says, yep, his
team's number one, as only Don Meredith could do well.
Here is an unhinged sports fan that has a little
different ending. This guy's got to be liquored up when
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this happens. I mean, he's got to be so liquored up.
I'd be surprised if he remembers doing it. The vice
chairman of Corpus Christie's Planning Commission, Brian Mandel, has resigned
from the planning commission. Why you asked, well, he's sent
threatening text messages to the head football coach at the
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University of Louisville, as well as the head football coach
which his family, as well as the quarterback because the
team lost on November eighth to Color. Apparently in a
drunken stupor of anger, he started firing off messages that
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rose to the level of serious crime. He now faces
six counts of second degree terroristic threat and one count
of criminal attempt theft by extortion over ten thousand dollars.
He also he also insulted their offensive coordinator and the
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families of the coaches not insulted threatened them. He was expedited.
He was expedited. He was extradited in an expedited fashion.
He was extradited from Corpus Christi, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky
to face charges. How does that work yet? How do
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you tell your wife your wife's going Oh no, no,
tell me you did not tell me? You did not?
I did. I told you you were getting way into
way too into some It's a sport, Brian, It's a sport.
Whas eleven TV.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
In Louisville and we're hearing from the coach about the
alleged threats made to him and his family after an
overtime loss here in Louisville. University of Louisville had football
coach Jeff Brohm says those recent threats against him and
his family crossed the line. The threats coming from a
Texas businessman who posted his bond of one hundred thousand
dollars in Louisville last.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Week and is free tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
He's also been indicted for attempting to extort the quarterback
Miller Moss. Brom says his focus remains on football, leaving
the legal process to authorities.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
But it was a you know, a direct message to
my phone right after the game with I'm not gonna
beat what was said because you know it was not good.
But know what, like I said, thanks directed to me,
I'm fine with when it's directed to my family and
wife and kids. That's that's that's going over the line.
But you know what, we move on and hey, people
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aren't happy with losses. I'm not as well.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The suspect right here, Brian Mendel, spent a day in
jail and posted this bun here in Louisville in February,
he had been extradited to our city from Texas.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
A judge has barred.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Him from contacting anyone involved in this case while it proceeds.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You know, fellas just get really, really excited over sports.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You guys are so obsessed with sports that you guys.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
Will wear jerseys for teams that you're not even.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
On, but you think you're on the team.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
You'll be like, yeah, last night, I guess we just
didn't score enough last night. I guess we just didn't
play enough defense.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We the Redskins don't need you.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Okay, that's like me watching Gray's Anatomy in Scrubs.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's pretty good. Actually, Whitney Cummings. Not all men like
sports oddly enough, but they still get thirsty. As Mitch
Hedberg notes, you know, people.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
Think I'm into sports just because I'm a man. I'm
not into sports. I mean, I like gatorade.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's about sparser go.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
By the way, you don't have to be sweating and
holding a basketball to enjoy a gatorade.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You could just be a thirsty dude.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
Gata Rade forgets about this demographic.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I'm thirsty for absolutely.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
No reason other than the fact that liquid has not
touched my list.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
For some time.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
Can I have a Gatorade too? Or is that lightning
boat me? No, Yeah, I'm not into sports. If I
had athletes my first reaction movie, that's not my foot.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't want to have my face on the cover
of a Wheati's box.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
I want to have my face on the cover of
a Rice Chrismi's box.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Snap, crackle, Mitch and Pop. Hey, how did he do that? Hey? Hollywood,
it's all who you know and I know crackle. So
our question to you, what is the most ridiculous, absurd, insane,
potentially criminal, terribly embarrassing thing you've ever done as a
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sports fan due to your team winning or losing. I
grew up across the street from a fellow that was
like a big brother to me. His name's Keith mccommeyck
and Keith had two little bitty girls at the time,
Tristan and Miranda. And he's so desperately wanted a boy.
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I think he ended up being a great girl dad,
and he's a great guy, but he's so desperately wanted
a boy. And then here's these two young men across
the street, and he would come over. We'd play football together.
We'd played basketball. He was a phenomenal, I really fantastic
basketball player. He's from Johnson's Buyu, Louisiana and he still
played in basketball League's there with him there, and we
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would go with him play basketball. We'd drive back and
forth and he would always buy us fast food on
the way and that was a treat. We didn't eat
fast food in our household, so it was a treat
to get to eat fast food like a Big Mac
or whatever on the way there and back. And Keith
was the biggest Cowboys fan you have ever met. You
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would get very, very angry at the Cowboys, and he
would say that the prevent defense, which was Tom Landry's
you know, Ben, but don't break you know, we've got
a lead, would prevent victories. And one time he stood
up and threw I was bottle of what it was
and smashed the television screen. And that was when his
wife Ronda said enough and read the Riot Act. But
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he would get so mad he'd punch the wall. I've
never seen anybody get as intense on any teams as
he did. And that was back when the Cowboys were good.
Mind you anyway, what's the craziest thing you did, either
because you were happy or because you were furious over
your team seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 11 (24:30):
And what I see all over the place is people
who care about looking good while doing evil.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
The Michael Verry, Hugh Oh, the crazy drunk fan. They're
funny as loans. They're not near you and within reason,
but some of them can make the experience quite unpleasant.
Mart you know the Michael Berry Show. What is your experience?
Speaker 11 (24:56):
I was watching the Oilers lose to the Buffalo in
that infamous game.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
Oh, if you can call it that.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, whatever you did, you say? You know, Mark, I
have already given you a great deal more latitude because
of the the extent of disappointment and hurt and anguish
as a result of that of falling apart. So I'm
going to judge you much less harshly than I normally would.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
I'm actually still kind of feeling it, But I really
it wasn't wasn't so so bad. I just went to
bed slabbered on my pillow. But the next morning I
got up and I quit drinking for twelve years.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Oh well, that's not necessarily such a bad thing.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
No, it was probably a high time it happened. But
when the Texans came to town, I started drinking again.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You said, you know what, I got to have some
way to some way to deal with this. Where were
you sitting at that game? Oh no, no, no, that was
that was in Buffalo, Yeah it was. I remember the
fans were climbing back in. Not only fans, people were
climbing back into the stadium once it started getting close.
Speaker 12 (26:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
So I wasn't actually there. I was just sitting on
the couch slamming beers.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You know what, what was your beer of choice?
Speaker 12 (26:15):
Then?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (26:17):
Man, I thinks I want to say, okay, and now
sixteen out or something?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Shiner? Okay? Was it Haywood Jefferies that that reaches out
and doesn't quite get get the ball over the well?
Speaker 11 (26:32):
I remember Ron Bby just hating Ron bb and that
big giant helmet that he had. He kind of looked
like that guy on like a yeah no, it looked
like a yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Well what a man. Interesting times I have. I had
a classmate in college. We were flying somewhere or flying back,
and we stopped at my buddy's place and watched that
until it was the game was practically over, or so
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we thought, because there was no way. Of course, that's
probably what South Carolina fans were thinking this weekend with
Texas A and M. And you know, somebody made the
point online. I'm sure a few did. But I saw
it that seemingly that it was thirty to three at
halftime at Kyle Field and it didn't look like a
single Aggie fan had left. Man, you can't, you can't.
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You can't manufacture that level of fan loyalty. They were
going to stay there and support their team till the
very end, no matter what. They might be getting routed
and they were, but they but the fans were not
going to leave them. And man, it was you started
seeing the crowd once they started scoring. You started seeing
the crowd get more and more into it. And that
place is special when they're fired up, that place is special.
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What do you do for a living, bart Oh?
Speaker 11 (27:52):
I work in refineries and new chemical plants and repair
ships and all that kind of stuff. I'm actually on
my way to finally right now.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
What do you actually do?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
How?
Speaker 11 (28:03):
We repair them with epoxyes and carbon fibers. We fixed
pipes and coat the inside of vessels that type thing.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
How did you develop that skill? I?
Speaker 11 (28:17):
Yeah, but I was a commercial diver back in the
eighties and we started using composites underwater, and I just
kind of fell into the career of doing repairs. We've
known that for forty years.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You used to play stas with a guy named Jim Donnelly
who was a commercial diver, and I had so many
questions from I thought that was just fascinating to imagine
going under the water to do these things like how
you get an epoxy, how you open an epoxy into
the open water, and how you get it to adhere
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is just amazing to me. If it was left to
me how things like that work, it would never it
would never happen. In fact, tell you a funny story.
I was talking to Michael Robinson about your case yesterday
and Ramon we were talking about hot water heaters and
he was saying what he suggested he do, and he
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has a fifty gallon water heater and he said, you
ought to just put another fifty gallon in there, and
I said, all right, I'm not afraid of asking a
dumb question, because that's how you learn. How does the
system switch. When you burn through that first fifty gallons,
how does the system switch over to the next fifty gallons?
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And he went through the whole deal of how the
thing heats up and when it does this, and when
it does this, And at the end of it, I said,
do you realize if society had been people like me
exclusively from the beginning of time, we wouldn't have hot water.
I think about this all the time. There are people
(29:58):
who could not do a talk, could not stand up
and give a speech, couldn't do a number of things
that we take for granted, maybe can't talk to a girl,
but they could figure out one piece in the building
blocks of how we get to where we are today.
And when it comes to structural architectural engineering, physics, chemistry.
(30:23):
I enjoyed the study of those things in school, but
I have no aptitude and no common sense with regard
to any of that stuff. It's just crazy to me
that people can figure things like that out. I admire that, Dan.
What's your story, sir?
Speaker 12 (30:37):
Hey Michael, So this was January nineteen eighty one, and
I'll have to say we were not in a drunken stupor,
but some friends of mine from high school. We had
gone to participate in that close up program. You remember
what that was?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Tell me more, it sounds a vague.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
High school kids could miss school for a while. You
go to Washington, d C. You get to visit government officials,
actual commit Ron Paul there.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Anyway, but that.
Speaker 12 (31:03):
Same weekend, the Oilers were playing a pretty important game.
I think it might have been against Washington. I think
it was that game where they came back and everybody
met him. Anyway, we were up in our hotel room
watching the game, and when they won, we just burst
out into the hall started banging on everyone's doors. They won,
they won, and yep, we got in a bit of
trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Well, you know that there is sports give us such
an outlet for emotion. And I think I have told
the story before, so forgive me if you've heard it
a few times. When there used to be a guy
in town who had seats to the Rockets about six
(31:44):
or seven rows up mid court, close enough to the
court that when he stood up with this loud, booming
voice and insulted the other players, the players could hear it,
and he would say the most vile things. And I
remember I had my young son there and I said
to him one day, I said, you know what you're
(32:04):
doing at those games? What is going on, dude that
because there's kids here in that and those people, one
of those players is going to come up there mad
Max style one day and punch you out. And he said,
you know, I went to the doctor. I was in
therapy and I had all this rage and all this anger,
and the doctor said, why don't you take it out
on sports? So I bought the best tickets I could
afford to see the Rockets, and I go, and that
(32:25):
is my outlet. I just go and I just scream
and hawk. I said, you insult the players on the
most personal level, somebody in the stands or on the
on the court's going to hurt you
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