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November 26, 2025 • 30 mins

Michael Berry takes aim at America’s crime wave, soft-on-crime laws, and the absurd idea that kickboxing classes can fix gang violence. Plus, meet Vincent Reyes, the guy just trying to open a senior care home while his neighbors act like he’s building a prison.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very show is on the air. Where was his father?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It starts in the house and starts in the home,
and yet, well, well my father got locked up?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Where was his father? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends,
and they did you know, fifteen and twenty five one
did twenty eight this, and that I was the only
one of the three to have a father in my life,
even though my parents were together.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
But I still had a father who was a gentle
man and a good example. And they didn't.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Still dam goes out Tom stamp.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Out.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young
punks who think that they can get together in games
and crews and beat the hell out of you or
anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
be in DuPont Circle, but they know that we can't
touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
touch you if you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old

(01:28):
and you have a gun.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
He just goes out to up.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
I convict someone of shooting another person with an illegal
gun on a public bus in the chest, intent to kill.
I convict him and you know what, the judge gives him, says,
you should go to college. We need to go after
the DCENT Council and their absurd laws. We need to
get rid of this concept of no cash fail. We

(02:10):
need to recognize that the people who matter are the
law abiding citizens.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wait, hold on, hold on, can you rewind that you
know who? That sounds like talking? Do you know who
that is? It's talking? You don't know? Do you that's
Joe Goimaldi, former president of the Euston Police Officers Union.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Just listen, test intent to kill? I convict him given?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
But then it sounds like Joe to college.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
We need to go after the DCENT Council and their
absurd laws just like it to this concept of no
cash fail. We need to recognize that the people who
matter are the law abiding citizens. I did a poster

(03:20):
of the young man from Doge who was beaten, bloody,
with a severe concussion, a broken nose, And then I
did a poster of what happens to those kids because
I can't arrest them, I can't prosecute them. They go
to family court and they get to do yoga and
arts and crafts. Enough it changes.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Test is infinitely more dangerous place than it used to be.
Last year, we had fifteen American cities experienced their highest.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Murder rates ever recorded.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
In twenty twenty, we had over twenty thousand icides in
this country. We haven't seen that number since.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
The mid nineties.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
And then, you know, Jensaki has the nerve to laugh
when we talk about violent crime. I mean, is there
a person that is more to what's going on in
this country?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Right now? You put that laughs as people are sorry,
she realized I did not see that being on the fly. Dude,
that's good right now? Or take a kickboxing class? Are
you kidding me?

Speaker 5 (04:29):
We are seeing police officers shot left and right. Last
year we had three hundred and forty six police officers shot,
which was a record. This year, we've already had thirty
police officers shot this month. The FBI just released the
study that said twenty twenty one was the deadliest year
for law enforcement intentional homicides in the last twenty years.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
The person I convict someone of shooting another person with
an illegal gun on a public bus in the chest
intent to kill, I convict him.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
And you know what, people need to understand that America
is an infinitely more dangerous place than it used to be.
Last year we had fifteen American cities experienced their highest.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Murder rates ever recorded.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
In twenty twenty, we had over twenty thousand homicides in
this country. We haven't seen that number since the mid nineties.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Stamelessness. People ask what kind of dog was it. I
didn't think to ask. I just asked how big the

(06:04):
dog was, because I needed to know how big the
hole was that she crawled through. We'll get to your
crazy exit stories, but I got an email a couple
of days ago that went thusly, Czar, my name is Vincent.
I listened to your show and I love everything about
you and your show. I'm sorry to bother you with this,

(06:25):
but just wondering what your thoughts are. I have been
in the senior care field for about twelve years. My
wife is also a nurse for twenty years and works
in hospice. We love working and caring for seniors, and
an opportunity to buy a newer home with the right
layout was presented to me, and I bought the home

(06:45):
with the intentions at first to possibly rent it out
or have my mom move there, which is still the plan.
In the next six months, she lives out of state.
As we were looking at it, we figured this was
a perfect fit for a care home for the elderly,
so we decided to move forward. HOA and City Ordnance
can't deny this process as it's within the legal limits
of six residents max. Due to Fair Housing Act and

(07:08):
Adults with Disability Act. We're in the process of being
licensed by the state and following all state and local
laws to be legal. In the last few weeks, since
we are now in the stage of promoting our care home,
most of the neighbors have done nothing but give us
bad reviews and are saying very hateful and untrue statements.
Me and my wife have spent a lot of money

(07:29):
to make this dream come true. We feel belittled and
disrespected by all the false comments. We haven't even had
a resident move in yet. I'm not sure if you'll
even read this, but if you do, can you help
me with anyone that can provide more guidance. I have
never ever felt so belittled in my life. I'm a
father of two and we're family people just trying to

(07:51):
make a difference in the senior care world and giving
a safe home with a good atmosphere to elderly people
who prefer not to live in a big facility. We
will have caretakers around the clock and provide warm meals
and activities in a home like in a homelike setting.
You feel like this is a witch hunt. They want
to burn us out of stakes. I have attached some
of the negative things that have been said, and that

(08:12):
is from Vincent Frees And he is our guest coming up.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
At least chairs, keep rolling around.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Damn it.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
All right, this is Mark Chestnut enjoy Bizaar of Talk Radio.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
This was back when white people made music for white
people in a white people way.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
One.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
This is the whitest white music you can ever get. Oh,
I love it, absolutely love it. But I'm just saying.
Now you've got Morgan Wallen wearing Affliction shirts and skinny
jeans with a bunch of tattoos. That's the thing, now, tattoos.
Roll that shirt up, my too, elbows. Get his hair

(08:57):
done and makeup done, the right kind of boots that
are not the boots at anybody I've ever seen wear them.
Skinny Jean Joe got that Affliction shirt straight from them.
All Yeah, all right, y'all have good time. Out there tonight.
You'll want a rock No, no, we want to hear
the wild side. It's what we want. We want some lefty,

(09:18):
we want some Hank Senior, maybe throwing a little Jim Reeves,
Eddie Arnold, that's what we want. Some Vern Gosden the voice,
that's what. No, we don't want to rock. If we
wanted to rock, we would go to a ministry concert
or tool. We are here for some good old fashioned
white people music that maybe we can slow dance to,

(09:39):
maybe a two step or a polka if you will,
perhaps a waltz to mix it up. Vincent Rayes is
our guest. Vincent, welcome to the program for having me.
So tell me about the economics of a group home
like this. You say you could have up to six people.

(10:01):
There is the intention to have six residents.

Speaker 7 (10:05):
Yes we I mean we can have up to six.
Actually can go more if you wanted to. But we
just being that deserved first one. We didn't, you know,
we wanted to get better the host care.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, now, how many bedrooms does the house.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Five?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
So how do you get six residents in a five bedroom?

Speaker 7 (10:29):
One of them is shared in the rest.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Of oh i geah Okay, that makes sense. And and
so then did the before they start trashing you on
the reviews of websites as to how awful the place
is that hasn't opened, by the way, before they do that,
does anybody approach you and say, hey, we really don't
want this in our neighborhood.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Yes, when I guess they found out what we were doing,
that's when I tried to you know, when ill, well,
no one encouraged me. I don't know if you saw it,
but they put signs on their yards and and the
signs said, you know, group homes like not allowed in
this neighborhood or something to sort.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
So I tried to approach.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
Them and talk to them, you know, and sitting kind
of and educate them on what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's not like a group home.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
Smart, you know, let just take care of the elderly.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
How is that not like a group home?

Speaker 7 (11:32):
Well, group homes typically they you know, because when people
think group homes sometimes they think like a soil were
living or something like that. You know, this is more
of a community care home. So we're caring more for
the elderly.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
How much how much can you get per month for
a person in a home life. Is this medicaid or
is this cash pay? How does that work?

Speaker 7 (12:04):
Typically it's private paid that you can't accept medicaid. But
and it's all on kind of like the level of
the level of assistance that they need.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
All right, what's the entry level?

Speaker 7 (12:13):
And based on the.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
For for individual ward DOT.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
Probably afforded for to forty five thousand per moment, just
high at six so you get there.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
You could gross out of this thing if you've got
six times five thirty, you mean you could end up
grossing three fifty a year out of this cus.

Speaker 7 (12:39):
Yes, if we had that many.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yes, And so what is the complaint? So I don't
understand you talk very low by the way, I don't
know if you're in the library, But uh, I don't
understand what their complaint are. They worried too many people
are going to because because that I mean, I don't
people tend to get very fussy about not one things
in their their neighborhood and mby. But I'm just curious,

(13:03):
what are they concerned is going to happen if if this,
if you have this thing there.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
They're concerned that like I guess it's you know, lower
property value somehow, Yeah, but but what I feel like
there's going to be a lot of.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (13:22):
That's the part I don't understand. I mean, we don't
do anything to the I mean the home. It's like
a normal home. You wouldn't know otherwise. They're they're also
concerned that there's going to be a lot of staffs
and cars, and there's not. I mean, we do have
a garage for you know, the caretakers to part.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
And how uh how big a lot is the house's.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
About seven eight thousand and.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
How what's the this is it a deep setback persist
in the middle of a neighborhood where it's the houses
are close to the road.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yeah, just a normal sized neighborhood, just the regular I
don't really promote.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
I'm gonna let you be judge Watmer. Can he have
the group home there? The short answer is, you can't
stop people from writing nasty reviews. But I don't know
how many people go check out a review and you
just time date the reviews and show that they were
saying nasty things about us before we ever even open.
I wouldn't worry about it.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
This is Mark Chestnut and jar Bizaar of Talk Radio.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
We are at a point, the crossroads, as it were,
where we have to decide whether to take a serious
direction for the next segment and talk about the things
that the hardcore conservative talk radio folks. One old guy

(14:49):
sent me an email. You've been talking about a woman. Pooh,
you're better than this. I always love the you're better
than this. No, I'm not. You don't know me. I'm
not better than this. You wouldn't believe. The extent to
which I am not better than this would shock you,

(15:13):
just shock you. I'm sure there's a rerun of another
show that will start the show and end the show,
and ten times in between, read a list of all
the things Biden did bad and Trump is doing well,
and I'm sure you can go grind your teeth to
another happy edition of that. I'm sure you could, because
that's what turns you on, You sad, miserable, grumpy person

(15:38):
who wants his money back for a free radio program.
Relax already, I don't mind somebody not liking what we're
doing on a particular day. Doesn't bother me at all.
I don't mind somebody turning the doll that people wish
you would. I would not gonna listen Okay, somehow I'll survive.
I will. But thanks glad you let me know you
weren't listening, because I wasn't aware if you were listening

(15:59):
or not. I was wondering, wonderful, Jonathan g out there
is listening. You think he's listening orng Huh wonderfully? Is
maybe I should email and ask? Oh no, no, he
just email. He's not listening. He's not listen. He's mad.
He's mad. Okay, Jonathan G all right, uh, okay, you're not.
How long will you not be listening? Just so we'll
know we gonna enjoy ourselves for the and and and

(16:22):
be not better than that, as you said, we needed
to be. Man. It just it shocks me. It genuinely
shocks me. How many people desperately want you to just
talk about what's going on in Washington, d C. All day,
every day, and they're angry when you don't. There's nothing

(16:43):
new that you're talking about that they're waiting on. That's
the same guy saying, hey, you ain't tell them Pete.
Hesex's going on, keick on, kick him out a military over.
I got news for you, brother Trump is president, he's
taken over DC. He's put the best cabinet in we've

(17:04):
ever had. The illegals are getting kicked out one by one,
home depot, parking lot, deportation. Hearing just booting them out
of here. The tariffs are working. Inflation zero point two percent.
This is amazing. We're about to get JP Morgan set
Chase says four rate cuts between now and the end

(17:27):
of the year beginning next month, which is going to
set our economy on fire. We're redistricting in Texas. We're
going to get five more Republican votes. The left is
imploding that Cole Beart has lost his job. They're all
going to lose their jobs. Everything is coming up roses

(17:49):
and you're still mad. Dare I say, I'm not sure
the direction of the country is what is upsetting you
so much. I'm really not sure. I think this might
be an outlet. Like the guy that was a rather

(18:10):
famous Houstonian. He had tickets about eight ten rows maybe less.
It was in the lower bowl Ramon actually wasn't. It
went on the floor. It was that next lower bowl.
He's about two rows up on that, so you got
the floor and then you got that. And he would
go to the Rockets games and he would stand up
and he would say things that you know, if you

(18:34):
but I'm I don't understand why people cuss in public.
I don't understand that because if I got when my
kids were little and people would cuss, I'm just thinking,
you know, how classicly how trashy are you?

Speaker 7 (18:48):
That?

Speaker 1 (18:49):
That is complete trash in my opinion, total utter lack
of any decency in public because like that, and he
would he would say, you know, hey, Kobe, I enjoyed
you know, being and your wife, but hole, last time,
I would just like things that you're listening on. Oh

(19:11):
my god, are you kidding me? It was just vile,
horrible stuff. And I asked him one time about it
is a prominent person, you know who he is, and
he said, I go to counseling. I have severe rage issues.

(19:35):
Turned out he'd been arrested for it. I have severe
rage issues. And my counselor told me that I've got
all this rage that I am unloading on the people
around me at work, in my personal relationships. And he
told me that what I need to do is find
an outlet. You know, like a person with touretts just

(19:57):
mark things out. I need to find an outlet. And
we figured out that I could go to the Rockets
games and I could yell at the other team, and
that way I could get all this this venom out
of me and it would be normal. Because it sporting events.
You already say hey boo, other teams don't go give
you up for Decker, you know. And he said, so

(20:20):
that is how I deal with it. And I said, well,
just so you know, I know you think you know,
you're hiding in playing side, and this is your therapy session,
and this has made you normally. The things you're saying
are I hate the word inappropriate, but let me just
suggest that those things are not narrowly tailored to fit

(20:43):
the occasion. They are also overheard by children. And maybe
that's how you raise your children to talk like that.
But it's not for me. I find it. I do
not find it beguiling. I will tell you, if disturbing
and disgusting and you need to knock it off, why

(21:04):
don't you go out into the woods and scream at
the trees because you're a little process. Well that told
me that this is a person, and that began to
make sense. So I'd see him at basketball games after that,
and he'd stand up me, he'd go into barking again,
and I think to myself, I wonder how many people
realize this is not about Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan

(21:27):
or whoever the other player on the other team was
at the time, Gary Payton the glove, playing some shutdown
d and draining threes. That's not what this is about.
And having babies. How many babies? Gary Payton? Mate? That sucker,
My goodness, he was all over the offense and the women.

(21:48):
And then you start realizing, and this is where I chuckle.
You know, the guy that sends you an email talking
about that it's not about the show. He said, he's
got a miserable, sad life lifestyle and yelling at me
is what makes him feel like. I hope Michael choke
on a chicken boater or anything. So a guy that's

(22:08):
been working at a job every year, and granted he's
not an inside the air conditioning working kind of guy.
He wears boots, jeans, he's from a small town. He
might smoke, and I guess we have to have a

(22:30):
few of those around here. He wears out in the
heat all day. He doesn't complain. Truck may not have
air conditioning. He might have had a divorce. He might
have a dwi, he might have more than one of each.
He might have a mustache. He might look older than

(22:52):
his age. He might speak in a manner unbecoming of
the print boardroom. But he's the front line of the company.
You've got to have him, and that's the only reason
they keep him. And the people like him, but they cringe.

(23:15):
His very existence makes them cringe. You couldn't have him
come to the offices, to the corporate headquarters. We make
movies about things like this. You know the guy that
comes in from the wild. He doesn't know which button

(23:36):
to mash, where to get off, and everybody giggles at him.
We know the tyme in his big old truck with
his bumper stickers on it about guns and god knows
what else. And he doesn't have the right views. He
doesn't tell the right jokes, he doesn't use the right fork,

(24:00):
he doesn't live the way you're supposed to live. There's
a lot of him. And by the way, it wasn't
the guys on the eighteenth floor of the corporate headquarters
that went and fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. You didn't

(24:23):
mind him then, but as he's gotten older since he
came back, you don't want him around. It's not just
that you don't want him around mister Hr or missus
HR or missus that used to be mister Hr. It's
that he represents the north Star and you hate that

(24:50):
because he never pretends to be anything he's not. He's
not an evolutionary character. He's not desperately try to keep
up with the trends of the fads. Right the opposite,
he doesn't seek your approval, and he kind of disdains
you because he has a clarity of purpose to his

(25:15):
life and conscience, and he doesn't do things he doesn't
want to do.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
He is.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
The savage. He is what the Christians saw in the
savages that they went to evangelize to. He has to
be changed, He has to be molded into what must
he be molded why missus HR director says, he must

(25:48):
be molded into the image I have crafted. He must
be learned. He must learn to use the language I use.
He must learn to behave in the manner that I do.
He must learn that everything about his very existence is
wrong and always has been. He was raised wrong. The

(26:13):
cowboys and Indians, the shooting, the b begun, the killing
the deer to go and fishing, all of those things,
those must be destroyed. Every part of him. She resents
every part of him, and that's okay until it comes

(26:36):
time that for whatever reason, and occasionally he does do
some things wrong. He's dragged down to HR thinks she's
going to give him a fair hearing her lesbian buddy
three doors over that's been harassing the secretary, she didn't
get her fired, She didn't require her to go to
sensitivity training. I've seen some lesbians, homos, blacks, Arabs, you

(27:01):
name it, that are the meanest, nastiest, vicious people that
they don't get sensitivity training. Why would they? They are culture,
You're not so after a period of time, the guys
like him individually, they never gather individually. They start deciding

(27:24):
they're angry. Now many of them turn inward. The bottle helps.
If you can get drunk enough fast enough at the
minute you get off of work, it makes life bearable.
Of course, that also makes personal relationships difficult, and then
that can complicate your whole life. So what are we

(27:47):
doing to these people? What are they doing to you?
We can turn that to the women. What about a
woman who decides that, like her mother or mine, they
want to stay at home and raise the kids. They
don't want to go to a workplace. They want to

(28:10):
stay home and keep a clean house where the family's
well fed. The bills are paid, the plumbing and electrical works,
They meet the people there, Things are done. There's a
lot of tasks in the house. They're not left undone.

(28:33):
The beds are made, breakfast is made, bed times are met,
homework is done. That's what they want to do. That's
what makes them feel whole and wholesome and fulfilled. Is
that honored? No, No, they're marginalized. They're lesser people. You

(29:02):
remember Hillary Clinton when she lost in twenty sixteen, Remember
the nasty speech she gave in Chicago about these stupid
women who just voted the way their husband did. She's
always had a disdain for these women, those women, for

(29:25):
many of you. Are you so you just keep you
just keep saying these things, and you just keep doing
these things, and you're noticing the world is changing around you,
and they're constantly and your opinion doesn't matter. And how
dare a black person a transgender if they say Hey,

(29:48):
this is screwed up. If you do it, you're somehow
a threat, you're treated everyone's against you. And the minute
you start pointing out what is actually true, now it's
laughable that you're crazy and you think all these things.
But you know what you see, you know what you feel,
you know what you're going through. I have black listeners

(30:15):
who will email and say, I'm surprised, I'm surprised more
white people aren't pissed off watching what people say about it.
We're kind of like the white Avengers.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
For all.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
They might need you to be Mexican next week, just
for diversity
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