December 2, 2025 • 31 mins
Michael Berry tackles billion-dollar scams, political finger-pointing, and why claiming victimhood might be the ultimate hustle. Plus, Somalian pirates get a shout-out (sort of), and we revisit Houston’s glory days with Bum Phillips—because nothing says family like cowboy boots and a flat top.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. While Jim Watts
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was running for Vice President of the United States, the
state was collapsing, had been for years. We've seen this
happen across the country. It's not always Somali's, but it's
different communities. And the Democrats decide that they're going to
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own a community, They're going to sap all the money
from their business owned, are going to feed government contracts
to them. And the dirty little secret is if you're
dealing with people from countries where corruption is widespread, those
people are more likely to engage in taking and giving
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bribes and doing illicit things. So if you're a member
of the government and a Democrat, you say, if I
give that contract to the company they can do the
best job. They might not feel like they need to
kick enough of it back to me. But if I
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give it to a company of a guy from Somalia,
who I already think is ready to do some bad dealings,
that'd be great. It be better for me. I can
make some of this government money. So The New York
Times actually stumbled on some journalism here, finding that Tim
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Waltz is Minnesota. Fraud took root in pockets some Minnesota's
Somali diaspora, as scores of individuals made small fortunes by
setting up companies that build state agencies for millions of
dollars worth of social services that were never actually provided,
turning out to be more than a billion dollars in
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fraud so far, and counting NBC's Meet the Press, dozens.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Of people of East African descent have been charged, convicted,
and sentenced for stealing more than a billion dollars in
taxpayer money from government programs during COVID. As you know, Governor,
that is more than Minnesota spends each year to run
its Department of Correction. So I want to give you
a chance to respond to this. Do you take responsibility
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for failing to stop this fraud in your state?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically. We have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota as the prosperous days
a well run state or triple A bond rated, but
that attracts criminals.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Those people are going to jail.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We're doing everything we can, but to demonize an entire
community on the actions of a few, it's lazy. And
as you heard Senator Kelly say, this president has cut
a lot of inspector generals. He's cut programs that could
help us tackle us on. So we are we'll take
it on. We'll put folks in jail. I don't care
what your nationality is. I don't care who your religion is,
your color, if you're committing crimes. These are programs that
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were meant to serve students with autism, to housing, and
to making sure people had enough to eat. There's a
reason Minnesota ranks as the top lowest childhood poverty, best
place for children to live. People are taking advantage that
they're going to prison. That is totally disconnected with demonizing
an entire group of people who came here fleeing civil
war and created a vibrant community that makes Minnesota in
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this country better.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
But that's Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Deflect demonizes, come up with no solutions. He's not going
to help fix anything. On fraud, my god, there's a
big difference between fraud and corruption, and corruption is something
he knows about.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So that's what you do. You just you just blame
Donald Trump. You just keep going. I don't know if
it was the Morning Show or the Evening Show yesterday,
probably the Evening Show or Moon if you remember. I
saw the stats on the amount of money that was
being spent on autism in Minnesota, and it went from
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three million dollars in twenty eighteen to three hundred and
ninety nine million dollars in twenty twenty four. And what
ended up happening was they made the argument that Somali's
had a special need that was not being served because
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they are Somalis. So it started with three million dollars
and it grew by a multiple of one hundred and
thirty three in just six years. And it turned out
that some of these clinics never even turned the lights on.
It was just a payment to somebody. Now, why would
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a politician allow this, Why would bureaucrats allow this? Three
hundred and ninety nine million dollars dollars that were supposed
to go to poor children and instead are being ripped
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off by Somali's. Well, it was being pitched as these
people aren't getting their fair share. One of the great
displays of genius is to be a person in this
country who can manage to get fraudulent money on the
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basis that you're a victim, and that's what you do. Really,
if you think about it, is you claim you're a
victim and you get more than everyone else. You ever
notice how much more people claiming to be victims in
our society, claiming that they have it so bad, how
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much more they're getting from the government than you are.
You have no idea how much of all this is
being spent, because it's all underground until it's not. And
then it's Trump's fault because Trump wouldn't give us the investigators.
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You think Tim Walls wanted national investigators coming in and
investigating government spending in the city of Minneapolis, the largest
city under Tim Walls, where I suspect he knew exactly
what was going on. At a minimum, at a minimum,
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they're trading votes for money at a minimum. Is it
possible they're trading way more than that? Is it possible
they're getting a kickback? And then you go back to
South Park, which always has a song for something.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
We drink and we pay it and we do what
we please. We get all that we want for free.
We'll kick yours and rape your last Simoni Empirates, we
go with a damn it peepa, with a yafafo yo
and with a ye take to the African Sea. We'll
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brave the squalls and bust your ball Samoi and pirates.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Web We we'll cut off and break your toast and
make you drink our beer and you sell it to you.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
We'll take your.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Get people to understand giving information, it's not snitching, Michael Berry.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Show how you doing this, Shirley. Look how many of
y'all's old enough to remember this song that used to
play on the radio called My Girl Beier talking about
my girl Bill. Everybody thought it was homosesical, but it
was something else.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But uh Mica Bear or.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Ramonro Blails or Chad Newknesia, one of them gonna find
it and reference to it. But uh maca be really
pressure all of us to look at what they call it.
We love bum and my lover of bum. Bum is
a British English Canadian word for buthole. But I think
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he's talking about bum. Phillips, who is from Range. You
are a n ge range Urge, Texas. And he's absolutely
right about the fact that they need to rename sixteenth
Street as bum Phillips Avenue.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't know what this so hard to have? Getten dead?
Speaker 7 (09:44):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Hell, you know what would sound Betry is Bum Philip Boulevoid.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's an excellent parent.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Oh so the movie that I was interviewed for, I'm
a tangential peace to it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I don't want to overstate my involvement, but I think
it's very well done. It's called Love You Bum, and
it is out and available now on Amazon Prime. LUV
Love You Bum. And I think it is absolutely a
fantastic film. I've watched it about ten times, and not
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just because I'm in it. I watched it because I
didn't live in Houston in seventy eight seventy nine eighty,
but I feel like I did because I've known a
lot of the major players of that time, and you
get such a sense for the excitement of what was
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happening at that time. We're talking about forty five years later.
So if you're sixty five today, you were really young. Then.
If you're eighty today, do the math you were thirty
five then. But the film is well, it's awkward for
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me to promote the film as much as I have.
And I have to say this because when the film
was pitched and when I first agreed to be part
of it, it was on the basis that it was
going to be the three generations of Phillips coaches, and
that was Bum Phillips, his son Wade, who won a
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Super Bowl, his son Wes, who won a Super Bowl
and is still coaching. In fact, Wade was coaching up
until a year ago, so this was a unique thing.
Three generations of NFL coaches. Coaching is in their blood,
this is what unites their family. Is a really big deal. Well,
when the film was bought out before completion by private
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equity group, it was then determined that the film has
to make money. It cannot just be a pass project
because we put up all this money to cover the expenses.
Now to recoup the expenses, so now it has to
be about just Bum Phillips. Well, for a lot of folks,
their involvement was because this was really a project highlighting
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Wade and Wade's role as the bridge between Bum and Wes.
And there were some pretty hard feelings about this from
people who participated in the movie and who made the
movie because they did so for Wade, because this is
really Wade's story.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
And.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'll put it like this. So my wife watched it
feeling sorry for me, and my kids had to watch it.
And the next morning I was troubled. You know, why,
why did Bum leave his job in New Orleans with
three years left on the contract? Four hundred and fifty
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thousand a year. There's a lot of money, a lot
of money in the early mid eighties. It was a
lot of money to him. He wasn't a wealthy man.
Four hundred fifty thousand dollars a year for three more years?
Why did he leave in the middle of the season,
toward the end of that season. And my wife said,
without being a football fan, without she said, I think
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he did that to ensure that Wade got a head
coaching job, because the most natural fit was to slide
Wade into that job. That was him falling on the
sword because he knew Wade should be a pro coach
and it's hard to get that first head coaching gig.
But that would be Wade would be the head coach
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and maybe he would stay or maybe he would go elsewhere,
but that would be it. And I thought to myself, Wow,
the ultimate dad moment, and I realize now she's right,
that was what he wanted. He saw that Wade had
had the chops to be a great head coach, as
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he had been a great decordinator anyway. So there is
that part of the film that some of the people
involved with it were upset about. But it is my
hope that when they see it. I don't own the film.
I'm not a producer. I don't have a financial investment.
I just I love the story. You know, there's been
a bump, There's been a bum Phillips, bumb Phillips opera.
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He's been profiled on NFL films. I think he was
named the fourth most interesting character in NFL history. You know,
I don't know that a man met his moment quite
like Boom. I don't know that a coach more reflected
the town in which they coached more than Boom at
that moment. It's really it's really a cool deal. There's
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a moment in the movie where Jerry Jones says, I
wanted to get into coaching because of personalities like Boom Phillips.
That's what the NFL was to me. I wanted part
of that. And there's all these sorts of people. JJ
Watt talking about Wade Phillips seeing him for the first
time and saying, You're going to be a Hall of Famer,
when nobody believed JJ was anything at that point. He
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wasn't a superstar yet, and he said, but he believed
that that was true, and of course it turned out
to be true. But really what it captures that I
love the most is that period of time and in
that time in Houston, and I lament that time that
I never got to see because I believe that that
city of Houston at that time was special what was
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going on, and not just on the sporting field as
a community urban cowboy and I that was a special
times your photos. Crockett was watching the movie Love You Bum,
which is out on Amazon Prime now with me and
we were talking. You had a bunch of questions, and
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I didn't think Michael was paying real close attention and
because he was texting his girlfriend. But at won point
he said, one of the themes of the movie was
that Bum Phillips h Dan Pastorini made the statement. He said,
players from around the league would ask me, what's it
like to play for that guy? Because he was different,
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right he's wearing cowboy boots. And when it was an
outdoor stadium, as cowboy had on, he was dressed as
this cowboy. He's got kind of he's got a crew
cut or flat top. We got these big old glasses.
You're not trying to look pretty. And Pastorini said it
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was like playing for your dad, if you had a
nice dad. And then Earl Campbell says that, then Mike Barber,
Mike Barber says, Bum always said when nobody loves you,
Bum loves you. And there's a line in his autobiography
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where phillips Is is he's in boot camp and he's
never gone west of Liberty County, born in Orange, raised
in the Beaumont area, and he's he's been sent out
to California for boot camp for World War two where
he would be sent to the Pacific. And he said,
I never understand why my drill sergeant needs to spit
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in my ear to yell at me to get me
to do my job. And so he said, when I
was a coach, I'm not going to do that either.
I don't need to spit in a guy's ear and
yell at him if he's a winner, if he cares
about this team. And if you read his autobiography and
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watch the movie and hear anything said about Boom Phillips,
he talks about how we're not going to build a
team here. Everybody's got a team. We're going to build
a family, because when you are a family, you do
anything for the people out there, and so there the
theme of all of this is is that this is
a group of misfits. You got Tony Fritch, this guy
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that hadn't played football and hadn't really done anything for
I think nine years. He got a bill belly and
they talk about he was voted the worst body in
the NFL. He said, well, that's not what I'm judged on,
is it. And you know, there's just different groups of
people that he cobbled together as a team, which became
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a family, which became in history, if not the most
famous team to not win a Super Bowl. I don't
know what is the Buffalo Bills went four times and
didn't win, But I don't think anybody thinks of them
in that in those terms. This is a beloved team
for the city of Houston that really was to see
if Houston. You know, I was talking the other day
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about how much money we spend on professional sports, and
I enjoy sports much in this guy, I just don't
believe the taxpayer should pay for it. And I had
a listener I can't remember his name, but take a bow,
whoever you are, because you deserve it said, the most
genius thing professional sports ever did was put the city's
name in their name. Because we tend to believe that
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the Houston Astros, Houston Olders, Houston Rockets, that these people
that they're one of us. But really they're just guys
that are hired to come here and run up and
down the field. What I think made the Oilers so special?
Is it Trump? I mean, is it Trump? Bum really
was Houston, And even when he went to New Orleans,
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he stayed here. And when his career was over, he
stayed here. When Wade Wade was coaching Philly, Los Angeles, Denver,
he stayed here. And I think that says a lot
I have said over the years. I think it says
a lot that Mark Chestnuts stayed in Beaumont, that Tracy
Bird stayed in Beaumont, that Clay Walker came to Houston
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State in Houston, I think it says a lot about
their careers in who they are and the music they made,
that they didn't go to Nashville, that they stayed in Beaumont,
Texas or Katie, Texas in the case of Clay and
I just get the sense that that was a team
that reflected Houston. And I made mention of Nolan Ryan
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in a movie. Nolan Ryan was a guy that was
from Alvin, goes to play for the Mets, goes to
play for the Angels, but when he came to Houston,
that was the moment, right that was the moment that
the Houston connection was made. I remember when Clyde left
to go to Portland. I was a big Clyd Drexler fan,
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and he goes to Portland. I remember thinking at the time, man,
if only we could watch him in our local stadium
play because this was a kid from the Third Ward.
I mean, his mother had the little barbecue joint right there.
This was a kid from the poor streets of the
Third Ward and went to the University of Houston and
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he should be playing for the Rockets and then finally
for the second championship he did. It was just special.
You know, there's moments like that that are just special.
Of course, I'm such a dork. I thought it was
really cool when Brandon Backy had that great season and
there would be his parents up about ten rows back
right behind the catcher when he was pitching, and I
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thought it was the coolest thing ever. Of course, I
thought it was cool when he and his buddies got
arrested out in from the San Louis fighting with the
Galveston Police Department, because it just kind of added to
the Galveston trash element that I found so charming about him.
But whatever, that was a moment. That was a moment
in time. Anyway, It's just such a good time for me.
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And you know because when my mom died, I went
through all the photos and there's all these photos of
me wearing Dan Pastornis jersey or him wearing mine. I
don't know which one. But and you know, my brother
and I were in our we're in our oilers gear.
And then here I am at the open house at
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the school and wearing my Oilers gear and everything was
about the Oilers to us, and right behind them the Astros,
but those Oilers teams. Oh my goodness, was that ever
a special time? And I don't know that a movie
had ever been made. To my liking, that captured what
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was going on at that time and how special Houston was,
because that was really where Houston was becoming a major
city on the national scene. You know, you'd had Humble
Awe move into downtown. You had Urban Cowboy about to happen,
you had the Astrodome, you had to do it oilers,
you had Nolan Ryan coming here. That's big time ramon.
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You don't know it was on this day in nineteen
fifty seven, Been All Pretty, a disc jockey at our Portland,
Oregon affiliate k e X, our first affiliate outside Houston,
was fired for playing the Elvis Presley version of White Christmas,
which the station had explicitly banned from being played on air.
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The program manager said it desecrates the spirit of Christmas
and transgresses the composer's intent. The whole debacle would make
national news, but it turned out to be a brilliant
publicity stunt. Pretty would be back on the air two
weeks later after a nice vacation with a station claiming
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letters were pouring in to support the DJ. As part
of the stunt, he recorded the general manager calling in
to fire him for playing the song and played the
conversation on a show before he left Old Time Radio.
You gotta love it, You gotta love it, the story
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about the Afghan national who was brought to this country
as part of this relocation of terrorists here in what
will turn out to be the death of our civilization,
shaming us, calling us racist, calling us awful people. Senator
Mark Kelly from Arizona saying, y'all just don't want more
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brown people here. No, we just don't want more people
killing our national guardsmen. How about Norm MacDonald had an
amazing joke with Margaret cho and she wasn't in on
the joke. She didn't get it, but he made his
point in that dry wit manner in which he always did,
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where people who get Norm got the joke, and that
joke turns out to be as true today as it
ever could have been back then. Listen to this clip
number nine. Roman.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
I can't say my friend's name, but he said his
biggest fear is that isis or some terrorist group like
that will get a hold of a dirty bomb and
exploded over a major city within the United States and
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kill tens of millions of people, because then the blowback
against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yes, that's right, that's true. Let's do some jokes. He's
just clowned them and they don't know it. Fifty million
Americans stead and he's worried about the Muslims. That's the joke. Well.
USA Today had a story about the Afghan community in
the United States living in fear. They're living in fear
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after our National guardsman one was killed, the others critically injured,
quoting one Afghan who says, there's a lot of fear
within the community that there will be collective punishment because
of the act of one individual. They don't fear one bit,
They don't fear one moment. His family won't be harmed,
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his countrymen won't be harmed, and anyone who dares suggest
they would or should would be canceled and destroyed in
this country. But what about the young lady who's dead,
who feels for her? What emotion is there for her?
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And that's what our country has become. A bunch of
self loathing white people so afraid of being called a racist,
a xenophobe, a transphobe, that they will hand over everything
they have and eventually commit suicide to please their invaders,
and that's the fact. And anyone who says otherwise, anyone
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who dares do anything about it, is an awful human being.
Call me whatever you want. It's coming up on a
year since President Trump was sworn in for his second
term as president, and this media continues to play the
same tired game of if it's something good, Biden did it.
If it's bad, it's Donald Trump's fault. Never Mind, those
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silly facts seemed to keep getting in the way. The
media will always remind you that Trump is hitler. Good
Evening America.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Tonight's big story, two National guardsmen have allegedly been shot.
We don't have any details at this point, but sources
tell us the shooter is a white supremacist.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Oh wait, John, we're getting news that the shooter is
an Afghan national.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Well, Trump probably brought him to kill us, all to
make brown people look bad, because Trump is literally hitler.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
No, John, we're getting reports that Biden brought him in.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Well, that's very doubtful, because Biden vetted the terrorist he
brought in. I'm sure of it. Biden said he vetted them.
And if I trust anything, I trust Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
John, Wait, hold.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
On, we're getting confirmation by the CIA and the Department
of Defense that Biden did not.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Vet those terrorists.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Lots of pedophiles and murders were brought here by Biden.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Oh well, I doubt the man intended to shoot National guardsmen.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
He probably thought they were Ice, and we know ice
deserves it.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Okay, Well, you know, Julie, this is just the environment
Trump is caused with all his hate and racism. So
to update our story, Trump killed two National guardsmen because
Trump is literally Hitler. In other news, in Michigan, a
group of proud, honest, honorable Americans marched for peace and
patriotism in America. Death to America, Death to America. Ah yes,
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music to my ears. Americans with diverse faiths and backgrounds
exercising their First Amendment rights and being brave and honorable,
very inspired John.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They're shouting death to America. No, No, Julie, I don't
think so.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
I think they're saying down with Erica, like down with
the cause, you know, kind of like, let's go.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
To America.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Well, who can blame them, It's only because slavery, racism,
white supremacists, privileged people, the Jews, the Christians, the cops,
maga people, and most of all Trump because he's literally Hitler.
All right, don't you go anywhere, because coming up next,
we'll talk to the brave and beautiful Michelle Obama about
how racist Americans are, how horrible this country is, how
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white people need to stop beating up black people over
their hair and let them buy whatever wig they walked,
and how white people have kept her down her entire life.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Special thanks to our own Emily Bull for her debut
in character bit recording. At the end, I said, now, Emily,
if you don't feel comfortable with that, you're not required.
I wrote it. You didn't. It's your voice. If you're
worried someone's going to hear you one of your liberal
friends and be upset with you, you don't have to
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do it. We'll find someone else. She said, no, it's fine.
What are one of my friends going to hear? They
don't listen anyway. I'm just saying you have the ability
not to, And she goes, well, what does it say?
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Am I not saying anything racist or anything?
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Am I? No?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Okay, yeah, you can use it. So if I can
leave you with anything, it is this. Don't take for
granted that your country will always be exactly what it
always has been. Don't take for granted that a white
knight superman will come in and save the day, whether
that be Trump or anyone else. Our country is comprised
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of well over three hundred people and thousands of communities,
in millions of households, workplaces, churches, schools. If it is
to be, it's up to me. Be reasonable, be rational,
be kind, be generous, be wonderful. But be proud of
who you are. And I do not be afraid, and
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. While Jim Watts
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was running for Vice President of the United States, the
state was collapsing, had been for years. We've seen this
happen across the country. It's not always Somali's, but it's
different communities. And the Democrats decide that they're going to
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own a community, They're going to sap all the money
from their business owned, are going to feed government contracts
to them. And the dirty little secret is if you're
dealing with people from countries where corruption is widespread, those
people are more likely to engage in taking and giving
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bribes and doing illicit things. So if you're a member
of the government and a Democrat, you say, if I
give that contract to the company they can do the
best job. They might not feel like they need to
kick enough of it back to me. But if I
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give it to a company of a guy from Somalia,
who I already think is ready to do some bad dealings,
that'd be great. It be better for me. I can
make some of this government money. So The New York
Times actually stumbled on some journalism here, finding that Tim
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Waltz is Minnesota. Fraud took root in pockets some Minnesota's
Somali diaspora, as scores of individuals made small fortunes by
setting up companies that build state agencies for millions of
dollars worth of social services that were never actually provided,
turning out to be more than a billion dollars in
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fraud so far, and counting NBC's Meet the Press, dozens.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Of people of East African descent have been charged, convicted,
and sentenced for stealing more than a billion dollars in
taxpayer money from government programs during COVID. As you know, Governor,
that is more than Minnesota spends each year to run
its Department of Correction. So I want to give you
a chance to respond to this. Do you take responsibility
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for failing to stop this fraud in your state?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically. We have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota as the prosperous days
a well run state or triple A bond rated, but
that attracts criminals.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Those people are going to jail.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We're doing everything we can, but to demonize an entire
community on the actions of a few, it's lazy. And
as you heard Senator Kelly say, this president has cut
a lot of inspector generals. He's cut programs that could
help us tackle us on. So we are we'll take
it on. We'll put folks in jail. I don't care
what your nationality is. I don't care who your religion is,
your color, if you're committing crimes. These are programs that
(03:30):
were meant to serve students with autism, to housing, and
to making sure people had enough to eat. There's a
reason Minnesota ranks as the top lowest childhood poverty, best
place for children to live. People are taking advantage that
they're going to prison. That is totally disconnected with demonizing
an entire group of people who came here fleeing civil
war and created a vibrant community that makes Minnesota in
(03:53):
this country better.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
But that's Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Deflect demonizes, come up with no solutions. He's not going
to help fix anything. On fraud, my god, there's a
big difference between fraud and corruption, and corruption is something
he knows about.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So that's what you do. You just you just blame
Donald Trump. You just keep going. I don't know if
it was the Morning Show or the Evening Show yesterday,
probably the Evening Show or Moon if you remember. I
saw the stats on the amount of money that was
being spent on autism in Minnesota, and it went from
(04:31):
three million dollars in twenty eighteen to three hundred and
ninety nine million dollars in twenty twenty four. And what
ended up happening was they made the argument that Somali's
had a special need that was not being served because
(04:57):
they are Somalis. So it started with three million dollars
and it grew by a multiple of one hundred and
thirty three in just six years. And it turned out
that some of these clinics never even turned the lights on.
It was just a payment to somebody. Now, why would
(05:21):
a politician allow this, Why would bureaucrats allow this? Three
hundred and ninety nine million dollars dollars that were supposed
to go to poor children and instead are being ripped
(05:41):
off by Somali's. Well, it was being pitched as these
people aren't getting their fair share. One of the great
displays of genius is to be a person in this
country who can manage to get fraudulent money on the
(06:09):
basis that you're a victim, and that's what you do. Really,
if you think about it, is you claim you're a
victim and you get more than everyone else. You ever
notice how much more people claiming to be victims in
our society, claiming that they have it so bad, how
(06:30):
much more they're getting from the government than you are.
You have no idea how much of all this is
being spent, because it's all underground until it's not. And
then it's Trump's fault because Trump wouldn't give us the investigators.
(06:50):
You think Tim Walls wanted national investigators coming in and
investigating government spending in the city of Minneapolis, the largest
city under Tim Walls, where I suspect he knew exactly
what was going on. At a minimum, at a minimum,
(07:15):
they're trading votes for money at a minimum. Is it
possible they're trading way more than that? Is it possible
they're getting a kickback? And then you go back to
South Park, which always has a song for something.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
We drink and we pay it and we do what
we please. We get all that we want for free.
We'll kick yours and rape your last Simoni Empirates, we
go with a damn it peepa, with a yafafo yo
and with a ye take to the African Sea. We'll
(07:57):
brave the squalls and bust your ball Samoi and pirates.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Web We we'll cut off and break your toast and
make you drink our beer and you sell it to you.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
We'll take your.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Get people to understand giving information, it's not snitching, Michael Berry.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Show how you doing this, Shirley. Look how many of
y'all's old enough to remember this song that used to
play on the radio called My Girl Beier talking about
my girl Bill. Everybody thought it was homosesical, but it
was something else.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But uh Mica Bear or.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Ramonro Blails or Chad Newknesia, one of them gonna find
it and reference to it. But uh maca be really
pressure all of us to look at what they call it.
We love bum and my lover of bum. Bum is
a British English Canadian word for buthole. But I think
(09:18):
he's talking about bum. Phillips, who is from Range. You
are a n ge range Urge, Texas. And he's absolutely
right about the fact that they need to rename sixteenth
Street as bum Phillips Avenue.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't know what this so hard to have? Getten dead?
Speaker 7 (09:44):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Hell, you know what would sound Betry is Bum Philip Boulevoid.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's an excellent parent.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Oh so the movie that I was interviewed for, I'm
a tangential peace to it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I don't want to overstate my involvement, but I think
it's very well done. It's called Love You Bum, and
it is out and available now on Amazon Prime. LUV
Love You Bum. And I think it is absolutely a
fantastic film. I've watched it about ten times, and not
(10:25):
just because I'm in it. I watched it because I
didn't live in Houston in seventy eight seventy nine eighty,
but I feel like I did because I've known a
lot of the major players of that time, and you
get such a sense for the excitement of what was
(10:47):
happening at that time. We're talking about forty five years later.
So if you're sixty five today, you were really young. Then.
If you're eighty today, do the math you were thirty
five then. But the film is well, it's awkward for
(11:11):
me to promote the film as much as I have.
And I have to say this because when the film
was pitched and when I first agreed to be part
of it, it was on the basis that it was
going to be the three generations of Phillips coaches, and
that was Bum Phillips, his son Wade, who won a
(11:32):
Super Bowl, his son Wes, who won a Super Bowl
and is still coaching. In fact, Wade was coaching up
until a year ago, so this was a unique thing.
Three generations of NFL coaches. Coaching is in their blood,
this is what unites their family. Is a really big deal. Well,
when the film was bought out before completion by private
(11:53):
equity group, it was then determined that the film has
to make money. It cannot just be a pass project
because we put up all this money to cover the expenses.
Now to recoup the expenses, so now it has to
be about just Bum Phillips. Well, for a lot of folks,
their involvement was because this was really a project highlighting
(12:15):
Wade and Wade's role as the bridge between Bum and Wes.
And there were some pretty hard feelings about this from
people who participated in the movie and who made the
movie because they did so for Wade, because this is
really Wade's story.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
And.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'll put it like this. So my wife watched it
feeling sorry for me, and my kids had to watch it.
And the next morning I was troubled. You know, why,
why did Bum leave his job in New Orleans with
three years left on the contract? Four hundred and fifty
(12:57):
thousand a year. There's a lot of money, a lot
of money in the early mid eighties. It was a
lot of money to him. He wasn't a wealthy man.
Four hundred fifty thousand dollars a year for three more years?
Why did he leave in the middle of the season,
toward the end of that season. And my wife said,
without being a football fan, without she said, I think
(13:19):
he did that to ensure that Wade got a head
coaching job, because the most natural fit was to slide
Wade into that job. That was him falling on the
sword because he knew Wade should be a pro coach
and it's hard to get that first head coaching gig.
But that would be Wade would be the head coach
(13:42):
and maybe he would stay or maybe he would go elsewhere,
but that would be it. And I thought to myself, Wow,
the ultimate dad moment, and I realize now she's right,
that was what he wanted. He saw that Wade had
had the chops to be a great head coach, as
(14:02):
he had been a great decordinator anyway. So there is
that part of the film that some of the people
involved with it were upset about. But it is my
hope that when they see it. I don't own the film.
I'm not a producer. I don't have a financial investment.
I just I love the story. You know, there's been
a bump, There's been a bum Phillips, bumb Phillips opera.
(14:24):
He's been profiled on NFL films. I think he was
named the fourth most interesting character in NFL history. You know,
I don't know that a man met his moment quite
like Boom. I don't know that a coach more reflected
the town in which they coached more than Boom at
that moment. It's really it's really a cool deal. There's
(14:46):
a moment in the movie where Jerry Jones says, I
wanted to get into coaching because of personalities like Boom Phillips.
That's what the NFL was to me. I wanted part
of that. And there's all these sorts of people. JJ
Watt talking about Wade Phillips seeing him for the first
time and saying, You're going to be a Hall of Famer,
when nobody believed JJ was anything at that point. He
(15:08):
wasn't a superstar yet, and he said, but he believed
that that was true, and of course it turned out
to be true. But really what it captures that I
love the most is that period of time and in
that time in Houston, and I lament that time that
I never got to see because I believe that that
city of Houston at that time was special what was
(15:31):
going on, and not just on the sporting field as
a community urban cowboy and I that was a special
times your photos. Crockett was watching the movie Love You Bum,
which is out on Amazon Prime now with me and
we were talking. You had a bunch of questions, and
(15:53):
I didn't think Michael was paying real close attention and
because he was texting his girlfriend. But at won point
he said, one of the themes of the movie was
that Bum Phillips h Dan Pastorini made the statement. He said,
players from around the league would ask me, what's it
like to play for that guy? Because he was different,
(16:15):
right he's wearing cowboy boots. And when it was an
outdoor stadium, as cowboy had on, he was dressed as
this cowboy. He's got kind of he's got a crew
cut or flat top. We got these big old glasses.
You're not trying to look pretty. And Pastorini said it
(16:35):
was like playing for your dad, if you had a
nice dad. And then Earl Campbell says that, then Mike Barber,
Mike Barber says, Bum always said when nobody loves you,
Bum loves you. And there's a line in his autobiography
(16:59):
where phillips Is is he's in boot camp and he's
never gone west of Liberty County, born in Orange, raised
in the Beaumont area, and he's he's been sent out
to California for boot camp for World War two where
he would be sent to the Pacific. And he said,
I never understand why my drill sergeant needs to spit
(17:20):
in my ear to yell at me to get me
to do my job. And so he said, when I
was a coach, I'm not going to do that either.
I don't need to spit in a guy's ear and
yell at him if he's a winner, if he cares
about this team. And if you read his autobiography and
(17:41):
watch the movie and hear anything said about Boom Phillips,
he talks about how we're not going to build a
team here. Everybody's got a team. We're going to build
a family, because when you are a family, you do
anything for the people out there, and so there the
theme of all of this is is that this is
a group of misfits. You got Tony Fritch, this guy
(18:03):
that hadn't played football and hadn't really done anything for
I think nine years. He got a bill belly and
they talk about he was voted the worst body in
the NFL. He said, well, that's not what I'm judged on,
is it. And you know, there's just different groups of
people that he cobbled together as a team, which became
(18:24):
a family, which became in history, if not the most
famous team to not win a Super Bowl. I don't
know what is the Buffalo Bills went four times and
didn't win, But I don't think anybody thinks of them
in that in those terms. This is a beloved team
for the city of Houston that really was to see
if Houston. You know, I was talking the other day
(18:46):
about how much money we spend on professional sports, and
I enjoy sports much in this guy, I just don't
believe the taxpayer should pay for it. And I had
a listener I can't remember his name, but take a bow,
whoever you are, because you deserve it said, the most
genius thing professional sports ever did was put the city's
name in their name. Because we tend to believe that
(19:13):
the Houston Astros, Houston Olders, Houston Rockets, that these people
that they're one of us. But really they're just guys
that are hired to come here and run up and
down the field. What I think made the Oilers so special?
Is it Trump? I mean, is it Trump? Bum really
was Houston, And even when he went to New Orleans,
(19:34):
he stayed here. And when his career was over, he
stayed here. When Wade Wade was coaching Philly, Los Angeles, Denver,
he stayed here. And I think that says a lot
I have said over the years. I think it says
a lot that Mark Chestnuts stayed in Beaumont, that Tracy
Bird stayed in Beaumont, that Clay Walker came to Houston
(19:58):
State in Houston, I think it says a lot about
their careers in who they are and the music they made,
that they didn't go to Nashville, that they stayed in Beaumont,
Texas or Katie, Texas in the case of Clay and
I just get the sense that that was a team
that reflected Houston. And I made mention of Nolan Ryan
(20:20):
in a movie. Nolan Ryan was a guy that was
from Alvin, goes to play for the Mets, goes to
play for the Angels, but when he came to Houston,
that was the moment, right that was the moment that
the Houston connection was made. I remember when Clyde left
to go to Portland. I was a big Clyd Drexler fan,
(20:42):
and he goes to Portland. I remember thinking at the time, man,
if only we could watch him in our local stadium
play because this was a kid from the Third Ward.
I mean, his mother had the little barbecue joint right there.
This was a kid from the poor streets of the
Third Ward and went to the University of Houston and
(21:03):
he should be playing for the Rockets and then finally
for the second championship he did. It was just special.
You know, there's moments like that that are just special.
Of course, I'm such a dork. I thought it was
really cool when Brandon Backy had that great season and
there would be his parents up about ten rows back
right behind the catcher when he was pitching, and I
(21:25):
thought it was the coolest thing ever. Of course, I
thought it was cool when he and his buddies got
arrested out in from the San Louis fighting with the
Galveston Police Department, because it just kind of added to
the Galveston trash element that I found so charming about him.
But whatever, that was a moment. That was a moment
in time. Anyway, It's just such a good time for me.
(21:46):
And you know because when my mom died, I went
through all the photos and there's all these photos of
me wearing Dan Pastornis jersey or him wearing mine. I
don't know which one. But and you know, my brother
and I were in our we're in our oilers gear.
And then here I am at the open house at
(22:06):
the school and wearing my Oilers gear and everything was
about the Oilers to us, and right behind them the Astros,
but those Oilers teams. Oh my goodness, was that ever
a special time? And I don't know that a movie
had ever been made. To my liking, that captured what
(22:27):
was going on at that time and how special Houston was,
because that was really where Houston was becoming a major
city on the national scene. You know, you'd had Humble
Awe move into downtown. You had Urban Cowboy about to happen,
you had the Astrodome, you had to do it oilers,
you had Nolan Ryan coming here. That's big time ramon.
(22:47):
You don't know it was on this day in nineteen
fifty seven, Been All Pretty, a disc jockey at our Portland,
Oregon affiliate k e X, our first affiliate outside Houston,
was fired for playing the Elvis Presley version of White Christmas,
which the station had explicitly banned from being played on air.
(23:11):
The program manager said it desecrates the spirit of Christmas
and transgresses the composer's intent. The whole debacle would make
national news, but it turned out to be a brilliant
publicity stunt. Pretty would be back on the air two
weeks later after a nice vacation with a station claiming
(23:32):
letters were pouring in to support the DJ. As part
of the stunt, he recorded the general manager calling in
to fire him for playing the song and played the
conversation on a show before he left Old Time Radio.
You gotta love it, You gotta love it, the story
(23:55):
about the Afghan national who was brought to this country
as part of this relocation of terrorists here in what
will turn out to be the death of our civilization,
shaming us, calling us racist, calling us awful people. Senator
Mark Kelly from Arizona saying, y'all just don't want more
(24:16):
brown people here. No, we just don't want more people
killing our national guardsmen. How about Norm MacDonald had an
amazing joke with Margaret cho and she wasn't in on
the joke. She didn't get it, but he made his
point in that dry wit manner in which he always did,
(24:41):
where people who get Norm got the joke, and that
joke turns out to be as true today as it
ever could have been back then. Listen to this clip
number nine. Roman.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
I can't say my friend's name, but he said his
biggest fear is that isis or some terrorist group like
that will get a hold of a dirty bomb and
exploded over a major city within the United States and
(25:13):
kill tens of millions of people, because then the blowback
against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yes, that's right, that's true. Let's do some jokes. He's
just clowned them and they don't know it. Fifty million
Americans stead and he's worried about the Muslims. That's the joke. Well.
USA Today had a story about the Afghan community in
the United States living in fear. They're living in fear
(25:49):
after our National guardsman one was killed, the others critically injured,
quoting one Afghan who says, there's a lot of fear
within the community that there will be collective punishment because
of the act of one individual. They don't fear one bit,
They don't fear one moment. His family won't be harmed,
(26:13):
his countrymen won't be harmed, and anyone who dares suggest
they would or should would be canceled and destroyed in
this country. But what about the young lady who's dead,
who feels for her? What emotion is there for her?
(26:36):
And that's what our country has become. A bunch of
self loathing white people so afraid of being called a racist,
a xenophobe, a transphobe, that they will hand over everything
they have and eventually commit suicide to please their invaders,
and that's the fact. And anyone who says otherwise, anyone
(26:57):
who dares do anything about it, is an awful human being.
Call me whatever you want. It's coming up on a
year since President Trump was sworn in for his second
term as president, and this media continues to play the
same tired game of if it's something good, Biden did it.
If it's bad, it's Donald Trump's fault. Never Mind, those
(27:20):
silly facts seemed to keep getting in the way. The
media will always remind you that Trump is hitler. Good
Evening America.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Tonight's big story, two National guardsmen have allegedly been shot.
We don't have any details at this point, but sources
tell us the shooter is a white supremacist.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Oh wait, John, we're getting news that the shooter is
an Afghan national.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Well, Trump probably brought him to kill us, all to
make brown people look bad, because Trump is literally hitler.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
No, John, we're getting reports that Biden brought him in.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Well, that's very doubtful, because Biden vetted the terrorist he
brought in. I'm sure of it. Biden said he vetted them.
And if I trust anything, I trust Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
John, Wait, hold.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
On, we're getting confirmation by the CIA and the Department
of Defense that Biden did not.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Vet those terrorists.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Lots of pedophiles and murders were brought here by Biden.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Oh well, I doubt the man intended to shoot National guardsmen.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
He probably thought they were Ice, and we know ice
deserves it.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Okay, Well, you know, Julie, this is just the environment
Trump is caused with all his hate and racism. So
to update our story, Trump killed two National guardsmen because
Trump is literally Hitler. In other news, in Michigan, a
group of proud, honest, honorable Americans marched for peace and
patriotism in America. Death to America, Death to America. Ah yes,
(28:42):
music to my ears. Americans with diverse faiths and backgrounds
exercising their First Amendment rights and being brave and honorable,
very inspired John.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They're shouting death to America. No, No, Julie, I don't
think so.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
I think they're saying down with Erica, like down with
the cause, you know, kind of like, let's go.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
To America.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Well, who can blame them, It's only because slavery, racism,
white supremacists, privileged people, the Jews, the Christians, the cops,
maga people, and most of all Trump because he's literally Hitler.
All right, don't you go anywhere, because coming up next,
we'll talk to the brave and beautiful Michelle Obama about
how racist Americans are, how horrible this country is, how
(29:27):
white people need to stop beating up black people over
their hair and let them buy whatever wig they walked,
and how white people have kept her down her entire life.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Special thanks to our own Emily Bull for her debut
in character bit recording. At the end, I said, now, Emily,
if you don't feel comfortable with that, you're not required.
I wrote it. You didn't. It's your voice. If you're
worried someone's going to hear you one of your liberal
friends and be upset with you, you don't have to
(30:00):
do it. We'll find someone else. She said, no, it's fine.
What are one of my friends going to hear? They
don't listen anyway. I'm just saying you have the ability
not to, And she goes, well, what does it say?
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Am I not saying anything racist or anything?
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Am I? No?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Okay, yeah, you can use it. So if I can
leave you with anything, it is this. Don't take for
granted that your country will always be exactly what it
always has been. Don't take for granted that a white
knight superman will come in and save the day, whether
that be Trump or anyone else. Our country is comprised
(30:35):
of well over three hundred people and thousands of communities,
in millions of households, workplaces, churches, schools. If it is
to be, it's up to me. Be reasonable, be rational,
be kind, be generous, be wonderful. But be proud of
who you are. And I do not be afraid, and
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