December 4, 2025 • 32 mins
From shocking immigration loopholes to the college degree dilemma, Michael Berry dives into the stories shaping America today. Plus, heartwarming tales of lifelong friendships and reunions that stand the test of time.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, Luck and Load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Suburban Chicago police officer who was arrested by federal immigration
authorities for living in the United States illegally has returned
to duty. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin
points out that a so called law enforcement officer is
actively breaking the law.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Fox News with the story.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I says officer Radu Lai Boyevich was arrested because he
allegedly overstayed his tourist visa and was living in the
US illegally.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
For ten years.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
But two weeks after his arrest on October fifteenth, Boyevich
was released on bond and has now been re hired
as a police officer for Hanover Park, a Chicago suburb,
The police department saying quote, given that his bond was
not contested and he remains authorized to work by the
federal government, the Handover Park Police Department determined that he
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may work. The Department of Homeland Security, though, is outraged,
telling Fox quote, it is absolutely deranged that this activist
judge released this criminal, illegal alien and now he is
back on full duty as a police officer to enforce
the law which he is breaking with every breath he
takes on US soil, among a litany of other crimes.
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It is a felony for an illegal alien to possess
a firearm.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
We will be pursuing.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Every legal option available to us, including criminal charges. Boievich
was one of more than forty two hundred people arrested
in the Chicago area during DHS's immigration enforcement operation called
Midway Blitz. Hanover Park Police says it hired Boyevich in
January because he has a valid federal work Authorization card
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and no criminal history, but at the time of his arrest,
ISI's Chicago director explained, the work authorization card does not
mean that Boyevich is here legally.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
He was admitted on a VSA.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
He overseved that visa for nearly a decade, so he
doesn't have any lawful status in the US. I mean
he did USCIS, which is Citizenship and Immigration Service did
issue him a work authorization card, but he didn't have
any lawful status here in the US. Officer Boyovich was
back to work yesterday. He will be receiving back pay
for all the time that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He will is on leave.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The Pentagon says that every member of the National Guard
in DC is now armed. Wait, why did you need
to tell us that? Were they not armed before?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
This?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Coming after the Afghan terrorist Biden brought to the United States,
which was supported by John Cornyn in a vote, and
a letter was written by Dan Crenshaw along with Sylvia
Garcia to relocate them to Houston.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
We want them here.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Depending on press.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters, I can confirm that everybody
in DC is now armed, and a lot of our
DC National guardsmen are now also doing joint patrols with
members of the police Department here in d C. Wait,
this is concerning what was the point of them walking
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around if they weren't armed, They were in uniform, they
were there for a purpose. That purpose, presumably was to
keep protesters from burning the city down, our nation's capital,
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and they weren't armed.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're up to two generations of Americans that were lied
to being told that the key to financial stability was
a four year college degree. Turns out that psychology, sociology,
gender studies, and other such degrees plus thousands of dollars
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in debt worthless Bloomberg reporting Americans with four year degrees
now comprise a record twenty five percent of unemployed workers.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate for
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bachelor's degree holders rose to two point eight percent in September,
up half a percent from a year earlier. Other levels
of education, by contrast, registered little or no increases over
the same period. So Americans with four year college degrees
now comprise the record twenty five percent of total unemployment.
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From the Bloomberg article quote, there were more than one
point nine million Americans age twenty five and older with
at least a bachelor's degree who were unemployed in September,
one in four of the total number of unemployed Before
twenty twenty five, The ratio never reached such a high
in going back to nineteen ninety two. Younger recent college
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grads have also been struggling to find work. Rising unemployment
among the college education quote should further fuel AI related
job loss fears, Michael Faroli, chief US economist at JP
Morgan Chase, said Thursday in a note following the release
for the new graduates from college, they did get hit
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by a bit of a perfect storm fed a Reserve
Bank of New York President John Williams said Friday. Normally,
college graduates are being swept into the labor market as
they get out of college, and this has not happened
as much this year. Americans are bearing the brunt of
the recent rise in joblessness. The unemployment rate for those
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between the age of twenty and twenty four was nine
point two percent, up two point two percentage points from
a year earlier. Unemployment rates for older Americans, meanwhile, remain
below four percent and have seen smaller increases in recent months.
What no one wants to talk about, Let's leave AI
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out of this for just a moment. What no one
wants to talk about is it going to college for
the sake of going to college does not make you
a task performer, solution provider. That's what people don't realize
that jobs are. We didn't have a jobs program. Some
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people think jobs are welfare. We need to have jobs programs. No,
when there are tasks that need to be performed and
solutions that need to be provided, people will.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Pay you to do that. Simple as that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So, are you a person that is learning the skills
and the mindset to perform tasks and provide solutions. I
don't think so. I don't think that's been taught to anyone.
I don't think they understand that. I think they think
I get my degree, they're gonna have to have me.
I'm somebody. Nobody needs you, nobody cares, nobody wants you.
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But what about your attitude? What about your understanding of
your role in an organization? You think you're there because
you add to what they have. You're there to step
and fetch it, period.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
And if you can't.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Understand that, you're not getting hired, and most kids don't
understand that. In my error, I must correct you. Earlier
today I said that I'm earlier to the show. Penn
State fired James Franklin because he didn't win the big game,
and they're Penn State. They've got to win the big game.
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Franklin had, by all accounts, done a great job. They
fired him because they can do better than that, so
they thought. And I made the point that their recruiting
class for next year came in at one twenty nine,
just behind Harvard and just ahead of University of Louisiana
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at Monroe Wow. But as Chad pointed out, it has
dropped since then. Because they lost some commits, some people
committed to them, and they've moved on to other schools now,
so now they've dropped to a nice clean one hundred
and fifty. But to their credit, they are ahead of
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Prairie View, A and M. That's where Penn State's recruiting
class has landed. They have a whopping two commits. They
have two players who have committed to play there. I
guess you're thinking, well, I'll stay there because I'm going
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to get to play because everybody will be gone.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah. I mean, I'm like Mike to play right off.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
A New York Post editorial quote, Americans are rightly waking up.
Much of higher education is now a scan. A new
NBC News poll finds it a full sixty three percent
of voters believe that a four year college degree now
isn't worth it, since many students graduate with a large
amount of debt but no specific job skills. From the
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piece quote, more Americans are wising up to the fact
that higher education has become a raw deal for all.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Too many young people.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
A new NBC News poll finds it a full sixty
three percent of voters believe a four year college degree
now just isn't worth it, since many students graduate with
a large amount of debt but no specific job skills.
That's up markedly since twenty thirteen, when a majority took
the opposite view, as fifty three percent called a degree
worth the cost because people have a better chance to
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get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.
That was the case for generations of Americans who saw
college as a key step.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
To higher paying jobs in a better life.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Upwardly, mobile was almost entirely synonymous with college educated, but
over the last few decades the dynamic has shifted far
too many college degrees guarantee nothing except onerous debt. Tuition
costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last twenty years, are
redoubling from two decades earlier as universities jacked up prices
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to match increased help such as federal aid and ever
larger government facilitated student loans.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
But in return for.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Seventy grand or more a year, students today often don't
get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career. Countless
colleges have transformed into woken doctrination factories that churn out
grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
A report last.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Year found that two thirds of colleges required DEI related
cases courses to graduate. By the way, in the news
this week, Texas Tech amountcing that they will know no
longer allow reference to more than two sexes because there
aren't more than two sexes. Good on you, Brandon Creighton,
offering classes like Understanding Diversity in a pluralistic society and
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Abolition of Whiteness. Why take on huge debt to be
pummeled NonStop with identity politics? Meanwhile, great inflation and faculties
increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduced the return even on
real classes. Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white
collar jobs and increasingly safe unsafe bet. Prospective students once
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could safely bet that a hard science or math degree
was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is
already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors,
including tech. Americans have noticed college enrollment has plummeted these
last few years, while numbers of gen zers are eyeing
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high paying, high demand careers as welders, plumbers, and electricians.
Trade school was once stigmatized as a less appealing option
than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a
less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable
skill now often seems the far wiser choice. Yes, college
can still absolutely make sense for many young people, especially
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at the schools that have kept tuition affordable and academic
standards rigorous, But the idea that everyone should go never
made much sense and is plainly false.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Today, higher education inc. Is on notice.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Squeezing students with sky high tuition while offering subpar ideology
driven curriculum is a death sentence. America's students have caught
on to the scam. I heard a speech by the
President of University of Texas, Jim Davis, a month or
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so ago, and without making it overtly political, he seemed
determined to con to the donors in the audience that
the university would return to its roots as an educational institution,
as a place of opportunity, and as a place that
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was proud to be in Texas and of Texas. I
thought it was a very very prescient message. You know,
it's an unfortunate thing because college has increasingly cost more
and more and more. That's undeniable. The numbers bear out.
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College has at the same time a harder thing to prove.
But I don't think anyone doubts it become more ideologically,
almost exclusively liberal, and I think that's problematic. The real
problem is the donors are by and large not liberals,
so they find themselves wanting to help their institution, and
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it's a two way street. They like They like having
their name on a field, or on a building, or
on a scholarship, or being called out. They liked the
recognition from their school. Many of them didn't do so
well in school, but now look at me. I've made
all the money. So they struggle with this.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, I really.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Want to have my name on a building, but I
don't like the direction the school has taken, and I'm not.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Willing to crack down.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, they're starting to crack down. The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
A truck drive dollar charged with killing a couple in
a horrific crash in Beautiful Bend, Oregon, turns out to
be an illegal alien who was granted a commercial driver's
license in Governor Gavin Newsom's California.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
See the Problems of California. Don't stay in California, that's
the problem. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Trisha McLaughlin says,
how many more seamless tragedy senseless tragedies must take place
before sanctuary politicians stop allowing illegal aliens to dangerously operate
semi trucks on America's roads. I only wish the people
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they crash into would be the politicians who provide them
the sanctuary to conduct their crimes in this country, because then,
and only then would it change the story from KTVZTV
in Bend, Oregon.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Federal officials say a truck driver charged in a deadly
crash on Highway twenty last week is in the US illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed tonight ice filed an
arrest warrant for thirty two year old Rajender Kumar of Fresno, California.
Here's an image of Rajender. The Department of Homeland Security
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says he's originally from India. Oregon State police say Kumar's
a semi jackknifed on Highway twenty last week.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Two people drove into it.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
And were killed, twenty five year old William Harder of
Springfield and twenty four year old Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Lower of john Day.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
The newlyweds had just married sixteen days earlier. Court record
show Kumar faces two counts of criminally negligent homicide. He's
in the Dashud's County jail tonight admit a passport issue.
Federal authorities say Ice will seek custody if he's released.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
So when illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Is fostered in California, the problems it causes aren't limited
to California, not that that would make it okay, because
if you live in California, you have every right to expect.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
To be able to.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Pursue happiness in a safe, free environment. These people are
determined to sell our country to foreigners, determined to destroy
our country without any regard, I mean without the slightest
regard for the effects that it will have on the
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people who live here. And that is terrible. A heartwarming story.
Fifty years ago, a group of high school friends in
Orange County, California made a pack with each others to
be with each other, to be friends until there is
last one. There is one last man standing. They call
it the Last Man's Society. Every Thanksgiving they reunite to
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celebrate brotherhood and life.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
The story from ABC seven Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
Each year we'll toast the friendships that we have shared
until the last Man, and.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
The term lifelong friends is a statement this group of
brothers takes to heart.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
We were such good friends we figured we cannot let.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This go well.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
In high school in nineteen seventy six, the group of
guys eighteen deep made a pack with each other to
be friends until there was one last man standing.
Speaker 12 (19:00):
The last guy has access to a bottle that was
purchased in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
It's nineteen seventy.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Six, cognyak, and that person will open that and toast
all of his Last Man brothers and the unbelievable friendships
in love we've had. Over the years.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
We've all written letters to the Last Man so, and
the last Man's going to open the last letter and
toast alone.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
Over the last five decades, the boys have grown into men,
and Everythanksgiving, members of the Last Man Society reunite to
celebrate brotherhood and life.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
My wife will tell you that our Thanksgivings planned around
the Last Man in.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
The celebration, so it's a priority in my year.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Our families are all friends and getting everybody together is
a challenge, but we accomplished it.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
The festivities include team building exercises and their annual Turkey
Bowl game. Fifty years later, the group is still intact.
Speaker 12 (19:54):
You know, we're well aware that all of us are
closer to the crypt than we are the cradle, so
it's it's escaped.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Nobody's noticed that.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Yeah, we're going to start falling off, but you know,
thank god, we're all still alive. And what better time
to celebrate than at Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
They know it'll be time to say goodbye to each
other at some point until one of them is crowned
the last man.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
That's going to be.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
That'll be a challenge, that'll be a huge challenge. These
are my friends for life, and it's.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Hard to think about that.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, and you heard right there.
Speaker 11 (20:28):
Being the last man standing, it's going to be absolutely
hard for whoever it is. But they hope the Last
Man Society inspires everyone out there to make a promise
to their friends to get together any chance they get.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I thoroughly enjoyed hosting high school reunions at the RCC.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
We had some that.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Were fifty years I don't think we had more than
that longer than that period of time, but we had
plenty that were ten twenty thirty, Uncle Jerry's class reunion
at Brian High School would meet and they were let's
say fifty forty five. They were probably forty years at
that point. So if you are part of a group
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that commemorates your time together, whether it was a high
school reunion or whatever, and you'll do something fun, give
me a call and tell us about it. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. The Governor of Minnesota, Timmy Waltz,
has been in the news this week for all the
wrong reasons. The White House has opened up an investigation
on the alleged fraud of a billion dollars in COVID
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relief funds involving the Somali community. Old Timmy Waltz is
staying positive through all of it, though. Let's pop in
on his podcast and see what he's saying about this scandal.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
He's embroiled in Timmy Wolf.
Speaker 14 (21:42):
Timm Walton, It's the Timmy walt podcash Well, good morning,
and as subox wanta go sign to our Somali community.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
That's right, I said it.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
I'm still behind you guys, and we're gonna get through
this together. Well, well, as you probably noticed, due to
the ongoing investigation and fundings being cut for our podcast,
we had to cut loose as a goose the Grand
Open singers, so it's just me, a one man show,
mister Vaudeville. Also some really tough news to share, and
this one hurts. We had to say goodbye to the
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most talented, wonderful grand assistant in all the land, Bruce, Oh,
our beloved Bruce. I did get a chance to enjoy
a little turkey and stuffing with Bruce over the Thanksgiving holiday,
and he wanted me to let all of you know
he's getting back into the ballet. That's the Walls applause
for our lovely Bruce. Okay, we're going to start the
show today by opening a gift from one of you
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out there.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Not sure who it's from, doesn't really say.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Here.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
It showed up at the studio today. Let's see. It
looks like a Christmas record. Let's que it up here.
Speaker 15 (22:51):
Oh lucky here, it's kidding us all in the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
One of my.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Favorite songs all the time, Timmy Walls chestnuts roasting on
an open fall.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Wait what the government sniffing at your nose?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
In the Somalie Tomali.
Speaker 15 (23:15):
Oh, I should have known this came from the White House.
That is not funny, mister Trump. Look, I know the
Feds are wrapped my pants with a paddle, but I'm
not worried about it. Nope, I am taking the high road.
I'm gonna be positive. Matter of fact, this morning, I
found a one hundred dollars bill in the wash. That's
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gotta mean good things. They're ahead from me. So I'm
gonna put on another pot of wastle. I'm gonna get
my nutcrackers all lined up by the fireplace, and this
is gonna be a wonderful Christmas holiday. I want to
wish you all a super holiday. Until next time, Timmy walls.
Speaker 16 (23:52):
Out happen something wong, well, something must be right.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
You are listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
High school friends in Orange County, California created the Last
Man's Society when they were eighteen years old. But they
would gather once a year that they would toast each
other until there was but one last man standing. They
bought a bottle of cognac and that person would toast
each of the members that had fallen before them, eighteen
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of them at that moment. Gives them a good excuse
to get together. We thought that was pretty cool. There's
something about friendships you make early in life. I've met
a lot of people since the time I left high school.
But it's interesting how when I see someone from high
school who was a friend, and I reconnected with a
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few friends recently, how there's just a bond there.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I don't know if it's it takes you back to
a moment or if you were more trusting at that moment.
I don't know what it is. But there's something about
the people who were your friends at those early ages
that you always have a special bond with. At least
I have found that to be the case, Richard, what
does your group do.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Well?
Speaker 17 (25:18):
Six years ago we started getting together. There's about ken
the fourteen of us. We are spring highly class of
seventy five. So we get together up a seeds of one,
two ninety and you know, just friends and tell us
you we have about six seventy nine ers that are
coming in this year that have joined our group. Some
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of them are brothers to some of the guys that come.
Some of them are just you know, graduates of that class.
So we get together in December at least once a year.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And what is y'all's connection. I didn't hear what you said.
Where did y'all go to school or whatever?
Speaker 17 (25:59):
Spring high school class at seventy five?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
All right, very cool? How many? How many members in
the group?
Speaker 17 (26:06):
There's normally ken the fourteen of us to get together?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
All right, give me give me the ten names quickly
without without stopping.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Let's see how well you can do.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Well?
Speaker 17 (26:20):
Uh, Kyle Key, Brandy, rawl myself, Richard? Uh another key?
Now you put me on the spot, So.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
All right, that'll do.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I just wanted you to get in trouble with whoever
you didn't remember, Craig what you got.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Michael, very It is a honor to be on your show.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
This is uh, this is about a dear friend of
mine who's who's now passed away. But I'm originally from
upstate New York. Moved down to Texas when I was eighteen.
I'm sixty nine now. And this person I met down here,
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his name was Kenny Simmons, and Kenny was like a
cross between you and John. What's that comedian that drinks
guts on stage?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Ryan White? He was full of intelligence and humor and
had a wit that was crazy good like yours. Long
story short. At one point after we met became extremely
good friends. He introduced me to his family. He comes
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from a family of ten kids, and of course I'm
down here. I don't have I left on my family
back home in New York. Well, I did get here
stat so I could, by the way, and Kenny introduced
me to his family, and his family became my family.
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At some point, fifteen years into our friendship, Kenny was
diagnosed with the disease that would only allow him to
live for six months, and so Kenny decided, you know what,
We're gonna all have one last party. And there were
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there were one hundred, one hundred and twenty five people
that came to that last party on a golf course
north of Houston, and he played eight holes with all
of us, and long story short, Kenny never died. Kenny
kept making it one year after another after another, and
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after that first party, we had one all this that
we're friends that you know, we're going to have to
have another party, and so we did for the next
thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's a great story, but I got to keep to
the love story short and I think we're going to
go for a while.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Mary, You're old and Michael Berry show, what's your story?
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Hi?
Speaker 18 (29:22):
Michael. We don't get together all the time, but we
just rekindled our friendships from the class of nineteen seventy
five grade school. We all graduated eighth grade from Saint
Rita in Dallas, and after one of our classmates died,
several people went to the funeral reconnected and said, you know,
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we should get the whole class together. Well, we threw
together quick reunion over a three day period, and I
was a little skeptical how it would go. But Friday
night we shut down a bar. Saturday night ended up
at one of the girls' houses she hosted. Everybody was there,
had a great time, and then Sunday morning ended with
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a brunch. On that Saturday night, though out of this
group of people, two of the folks had been both
been divorced and found each other and now looks like
gost forward six months, looks like they're getting married. So
friendships that are that old are.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Friendships. Yes, the relationships I can I can't. I won't
say the names, but the number of people I know
who were high school sweethearts, and you know, she doesn't
have a nice enough car, so he so sorry, he
doesn't have a nice enough car, so and he ain't
really headed anywhere and with any real directions. So she
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dumps him and goes off to school ut and he
goes to Stephen f.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Or starts to work or whatever he does.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And then she gets married and kids, and he gets
married and gets divorced and they reconnect at some point
thirty years later and they're.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Meant to be.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I can't tell you how many of these stories with people,
whether they get married to other people and then they
go off and can be forty to fifty years later,
and they reconnect and they get back together and they're
madly in love. It's like they're making up for lost time.
It's the craziest darned thing. I've seen this so many
that it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Something to it.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Frank, you got forty two seconds?
Speaker 13 (31:33):
Go, Oh my, Frank Robb. I live out near Columbus.
I graduated from Rolla, Missouri in nineteen seventy University Missouri,
rollam our group of about twenty five fraternity brothers went
through Hell Week together and had bonded for life. We've
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been to fifty five years of class reunions with our
fraternity group, typically a four day weekend anywhere from California
to Nashville to Washington, d C. The Table Rock Lake
in Branson, Missouri. And it's just a great group of guys.
Their kids, our kids and grandkids are all friends.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I love those stories. More of your stories coming up.
It's that time time time, time, Luck and Load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Suburban Chicago police officer who was arrested by federal immigration
authorities for living in the United States illegally has returned
to duty. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin
points out that a so called law enforcement officer is
actively breaking the law.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Fox News with the story.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I says officer Radu Lai Boyevich was arrested because he
allegedly overstayed his tourist visa and was living in the
US illegally.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
For ten years.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
But two weeks after his arrest on October fifteenth, Boyevich
was released on bond and has now been re hired
as a police officer for Hanover Park, a Chicago suburb,
The police department saying quote, given that his bond was
not contested and he remains authorized to work by the
federal government, the Handover Park Police Department determined that he
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may work. The Department of Homeland Security, though, is outraged,
telling Fox quote, it is absolutely deranged that this activist
judge released this criminal, illegal alien and now he is
back on full duty as a police officer to enforce
the law which he is breaking with every breath he
takes on US soil, among a litany of other crimes.
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It is a felony for an illegal alien to possess
a firearm.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
We will be pursuing.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Every legal option available to us, including criminal charges. Boievich
was one of more than forty two hundred people arrested
in the Chicago area during DHS's immigration enforcement operation called
Midway Blitz. Hanover Park Police says it hired Boyevich in
January because he has a valid federal work Authorization card
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and no criminal history, but at the time of his arrest,
ISI's Chicago director explained, the work authorization card does not
mean that Boyevich is here legally.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
He was admitted on a VSA.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
He overseved that visa for nearly a decade, so he
doesn't have any lawful status in the US. I mean
he did USCIS, which is Citizenship and Immigration Service did
issue him a work authorization card, but he didn't have
any lawful status here in the US. Officer Boyovich was
back to work yesterday. He will be receiving back pay
for all the time that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He will is on leave.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The Pentagon says that every member of the National Guard
in DC is now armed. Wait, why did you need
to tell us that? Were they not armed before?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
This?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Coming after the Afghan terrorist Biden brought to the United States,
which was supported by John Cornyn in a vote, and
a letter was written by Dan Crenshaw along with Sylvia
Garcia to relocate them to Houston.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
We want them here.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Depending on press.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters, I can confirm that everybody
in DC is now armed, and a lot of our
DC National guardsmen are now also doing joint patrols with
members of the police Department here in d C. Wait,
this is concerning what was the point of them walking
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around if they weren't armed, They were in uniform, they
were there for a purpose. That purpose, presumably was to
keep protesters from burning the city down, our nation's capital,
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and they weren't armed.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're up to two generations of Americans that were lied
to being told that the key to financial stability was
a four year college degree. Turns out that psychology, sociology,
gender studies, and other such degrees plus thousands of dollars
(04:55):
in debt worthless Bloomberg reporting Americans with four year degrees
now comprise a record twenty five percent of unemployed workers.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate for
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bachelor's degree holders rose to two point eight percent in September,
up half a percent from a year earlier. Other levels
of education, by contrast, registered little or no increases over
the same period. So Americans with four year college degrees
now comprise the record twenty five percent of total unemployment.
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From the Bloomberg article quote, there were more than one
point nine million Americans age twenty five and older with
at least a bachelor's degree who were unemployed in September,
one in four of the total number of unemployed Before
twenty twenty five, The ratio never reached such a high
in going back to nineteen ninety two. Younger recent college
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grads have also been struggling to find work. Rising unemployment
among the college education quote should further fuel AI related
job loss fears, Michael Faroli, chief US economist at JP
Morgan Chase, said Thursday in a note following the release
for the new graduates from college, they did get hit
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by a bit of a perfect storm fed a Reserve
Bank of New York President John Williams said Friday. Normally,
college graduates are being swept into the labor market as
they get out of college, and this has not happened
as much this year. Americans are bearing the brunt of
the recent rise in joblessness. The unemployment rate for those
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between the age of twenty and twenty four was nine
point two percent, up two point two percentage points from
a year earlier. Unemployment rates for older Americans, meanwhile, remain
below four percent and have seen smaller increases in recent months.
What no one wants to talk about, Let's leave AI
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out of this for just a moment. What no one
wants to talk about is it going to college for
the sake of going to college does not make you
a task performer, solution provider. That's what people don't realize
that jobs are. We didn't have a jobs program. Some
(07:30):
people think jobs are welfare. We need to have jobs programs. No,
when there are tasks that need to be performed and
solutions that need to be provided, people will.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Pay you to do that. Simple as that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So, are you a person that is learning the skills
and the mindset to perform tasks and provide solutions. I
don't think so. I don't think that's been taught to anyone.
I don't think they understand that. I think they think
I get my degree, they're gonna have to have me.
I'm somebody. Nobody needs you, nobody cares, nobody wants you.
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But what about your attitude? What about your understanding of
your role in an organization? You think you're there because
you add to what they have. You're there to step
and fetch it, period.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
And if you can't.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Understand that, you're not getting hired, and most kids don't
understand that. In my error, I must correct you. Earlier
today I said that I'm earlier to the show. Penn
State fired James Franklin because he didn't win the big game,
and they're Penn State. They've got to win the big game.
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Franklin had, by all accounts, done a great job. They
fired him because they can do better than that, so
they thought. And I made the point that their recruiting
class for next year came in at one twenty nine,
just behind Harvard and just ahead of University of Louisiana
(09:10):
at Monroe Wow. But as Chad pointed out, it has
dropped since then. Because they lost some commits, some people
committed to them, and they've moved on to other schools now,
so now they've dropped to a nice clean one hundred
and fifty. But to their credit, they are ahead of
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Prairie View, A and M. That's where Penn State's recruiting
class has landed. They have a whopping two commits. They
have two players who have committed to play there. I
guess you're thinking, well, I'll stay there because I'm going
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to get to play because everybody will be gone.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah. I mean, I'm like Mike to play right off.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
A New York Post editorial quote, Americans are rightly waking up.
Much of higher education is now a scan. A new
NBC News poll finds it a full sixty three percent
of voters believe that a four year college degree now
isn't worth it, since many students graduate with a large
amount of debt but no specific job skills. From the
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piece quote, more Americans are wising up to the fact
that higher education has become a raw deal for all.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Too many young people.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
A new NBC News poll finds it a full sixty
three percent of voters believe a four year college degree
now just isn't worth it, since many students graduate with
a large amount of debt but no specific job skills.
That's up markedly since twenty thirteen, when a majority took
the opposite view, as fifty three percent called a degree
worth the cost because people have a better chance to
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get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.
That was the case for generations of Americans who saw
college as a key step.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
To higher paying jobs in a better life.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Upwardly, mobile was almost entirely synonymous with college educated, but
over the last few decades the dynamic has shifted far
too many college degrees guarantee nothing except onerous debt. Tuition
costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last twenty years, are
redoubling from two decades earlier as universities jacked up prices
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to match increased help such as federal aid and ever
larger government facilitated student loans.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
But in return for.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Seventy grand or more a year, students today often don't
get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career. Countless
colleges have transformed into woken doctrination factories that churn out
grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
A report last.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Year found that two thirds of colleges required DEI related
cases courses to graduate. By the way, in the news
this week, Texas Tech amountcing that they will know no
longer allow reference to more than two sexes because there
aren't more than two sexes. Good on you, Brandon Creighton,
offering classes like Understanding Diversity in a pluralistic society and
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Abolition of Whiteness. Why take on huge debt to be
pummeled NonStop with identity politics? Meanwhile, great inflation and faculties
increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduced the return even on
real classes. Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white
collar jobs and increasingly safe unsafe bet. Prospective students once
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could safely bet that a hard science or math degree
was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is
already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors,
including tech. Americans have noticed college enrollment has plummeted these
last few years, while numbers of gen zers are eyeing
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high paying, high demand careers as welders, plumbers, and electricians.
Trade school was once stigmatized as a less appealing option
than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a
less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable
skill now often seems the far wiser choice. Yes, college
can still absolutely make sense for many young people, especially
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at the schools that have kept tuition affordable and academic
standards rigorous, But the idea that everyone should go never
made much sense and is plainly false.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Today, higher education inc. Is on notice.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Squeezing students with sky high tuition while offering subpar ideology
driven curriculum is a death sentence. America's students have caught
on to the scam. I heard a speech by the
President of University of Texas, Jim Davis, a month or
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so ago, and without making it overtly political, he seemed
determined to con to the donors in the audience that
the university would return to its roots as an educational institution,
as a place of opportunity, and as a place that
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was proud to be in Texas and of Texas. I
thought it was a very very prescient message. You know,
it's an unfortunate thing because college has increasingly cost more
and more and more. That's undeniable. The numbers bear out.
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College has at the same time a harder thing to prove.
But I don't think anyone doubts it become more ideologically,
almost exclusively liberal, and I think that's problematic. The real
problem is the donors are by and large not liberals,
so they find themselves wanting to help their institution, and
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it's a two way street. They like They like having
their name on a field, or on a building, or
on a scholarship, or being called out. They liked the
recognition from their school. Many of them didn't do so
well in school, but now look at me. I've made
all the money. So they struggle with this.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well, I really.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Want to have my name on a building, but I
don't like the direction the school has taken, and I'm not.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Willing to crack down.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, they're starting to crack down. The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
A truck drive dollar charged with killing a couple in
a horrific crash in Beautiful Bend, Oregon, turns out to
be an illegal alien who was granted a commercial driver's
license in Governor Gavin Newsom's California.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
See the Problems of California. Don't stay in California, that's
the problem. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Trisha McLaughlin says,
how many more seamless tragedy senseless tragedies must take place
before sanctuary politicians stop allowing illegal aliens to dangerously operate
semi trucks on America's roads. I only wish the people
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they crash into would be the politicians who provide them
the sanctuary to conduct their crimes in this country, because then,
and only then would it change the story from KTVZTV
in Bend, Oregon.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Federal officials say a truck driver charged in a deadly
crash on Highway twenty last week is in the US illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed tonight ice filed an
arrest warrant for thirty two year old Rajender Kumar of Fresno, California.
Here's an image of Rajender. The Department of Homeland Security
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says he's originally from India. Oregon State police say Kumar's
a semi jackknifed on Highway twenty last week.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Two people drove into it.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
And were killed, twenty five year old William Harder of
Springfield and twenty four year old Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Lower of john Day.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
The newlyweds had just married sixteen days earlier. Court record
show Kumar faces two counts of criminally negligent homicide. He's
in the Dashud's County jail tonight admit a passport issue.
Federal authorities say Ice will seek custody if he's released.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
So when illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Is fostered in California, the problems it causes aren't limited
to California, not that that would make it okay, because
if you live in California, you have every right to expect.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
To be able to.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Pursue happiness in a safe, free environment. These people are
determined to sell our country to foreigners, determined to destroy
our country without any regard, I mean without the slightest
regard for the effects that it will have on the
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people who live here. And that is terrible. A heartwarming story.
Fifty years ago, a group of high school friends in
Orange County, California made a pack with each others to
be with each other, to be friends until there is
last one. There is one last man standing. They call
it the Last Man's Society. Every Thanksgiving they reunite to
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celebrate brotherhood and life.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
The story from ABC seven Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
Each year we'll toast the friendships that we have shared
until the last Man, and.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
The term lifelong friends is a statement this group of
brothers takes to heart.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
We were such good friends we figured we cannot let.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This go well.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
In high school in nineteen seventy six, the group of
guys eighteen deep made a pack with each other to
be friends until there was one last man standing.
Speaker 12 (19:00):
The last guy has access to a bottle that was
purchased in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
It's nineteen seventy.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Six, cognyak, and that person will open that and toast
all of his Last Man brothers and the unbelievable friendships
in love we've had. Over the years.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
We've all written letters to the Last Man so, and
the last Man's going to open the last letter and
toast alone.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
Over the last five decades, the boys have grown into men,
and Everythanksgiving, members of the Last Man Society reunite to
celebrate brotherhood and life.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
My wife will tell you that our Thanksgivings planned around
the Last Man in.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
The celebration, so it's a priority in my year.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Our families are all friends and getting everybody together is
a challenge, but we accomplished it.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
The festivities include team building exercises and their annual Turkey
Bowl game. Fifty years later, the group is still intact.
Speaker 12 (19:54):
You know, we're well aware that all of us are
closer to the crypt than we are the cradle, so
it's it's escaped.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Nobody's noticed that.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Yeah, we're going to start falling off, but you know,
thank god, we're all still alive. And what better time
to celebrate than at Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
They know it'll be time to say goodbye to each
other at some point until one of them is crowned
the last man.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
That's going to be.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
That'll be a challenge, that'll be a huge challenge. These
are my friends for life, and it's.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Hard to think about that.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, and you heard right there.
Speaker 11 (20:28):
Being the last man standing, it's going to be absolutely
hard for whoever it is. But they hope the Last
Man Society inspires everyone out there to make a promise
to their friends to get together any chance they get.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I thoroughly enjoyed hosting high school reunions at the RCC.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
We had some that.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Were fifty years I don't think we had more than
that longer than that period of time, but we had
plenty that were ten twenty thirty, Uncle Jerry's class reunion
at Brian High School would meet and they were let's
say fifty forty five. They were probably forty years at
that point. So if you are part of a group
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that commemorates your time together, whether it was a high
school reunion or whatever, and you'll do something fun, give
me a call and tell us about it. Seven one
three nine nine nine one thousand. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. The Governor of Minnesota, Timmy Waltz,
has been in the news this week for all the
wrong reasons. The White House has opened up an investigation
on the alleged fraud of a billion dollars in COVID
(21:28):
relief funds involving the Somali community. Old Timmy Waltz is
staying positive through all of it, though. Let's pop in
on his podcast and see what he's saying about this scandal.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
He's embroiled in Timmy Wolf.
Speaker 14 (21:42):
Timm Walton, It's the Timmy walt podcash Well, good morning,
and as subox wanta go sign to our Somali community.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
That's right, I said it.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
I'm still behind you guys, and we're gonna get through
this together. Well, well, as you probably noticed, due to
the ongoing investigation and fundings being cut for our podcast,
we had to cut loose as a goose the Grand
Open singers, so it's just me, a one man show,
mister Vaudeville. Also some really tough news to share, and
this one hurts. We had to say goodbye to the
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most talented, wonderful grand assistant in all the land, Bruce, Oh,
our beloved Bruce. I did get a chance to enjoy
a little turkey and stuffing with Bruce over the Thanksgiving holiday,
and he wanted me to let all of you know
he's getting back into the ballet. That's the Walls applause
for our lovely Bruce. Okay, we're going to start the
show today by opening a gift from one of you
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out there.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Not sure who it's from, doesn't really say.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Here.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
It showed up at the studio today. Let's see. It
looks like a Christmas record. Let's que it up here.
Speaker 15 (22:51):
Oh lucky here, it's kidding us all in the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
One of my.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Favorite songs all the time, Timmy Walls chestnuts roasting on
an open fall.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Wait what the government sniffing at your nose?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
In the Somalie Tomali.
Speaker 15 (23:15):
Oh, I should have known this came from the White House.
That is not funny, mister Trump. Look, I know the
Feds are wrapped my pants with a paddle, but I'm
not worried about it. Nope, I am taking the high road.
I'm gonna be positive. Matter of fact, this morning, I
found a one hundred dollars bill in the wash. That's
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gotta mean good things. They're ahead from me. So I'm
gonna put on another pot of wastle. I'm gonna get
my nutcrackers all lined up by the fireplace, and this
is gonna be a wonderful Christmas holiday. I want to
wish you all a super holiday. Until next time, Timmy walls.
Speaker 16 (23:52):
Out happen something wong, well, something must be right.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
You are listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
High school friends in Orange County, California created the Last
Man's Society when they were eighteen years old. But they
would gather once a year that they would toast each
other until there was but one last man standing. They
bought a bottle of cognac and that person would toast
each of the members that had fallen before them, eighteen
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of them at that moment. Gives them a good excuse
to get together. We thought that was pretty cool. There's
something about friendships you make early in life. I've met
a lot of people since the time I left high school.
But it's interesting how when I see someone from high
school who was a friend, and I reconnected with a
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few friends recently, how there's just a bond there.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I don't know if it's it takes you back to
a moment or if you were more trusting at that moment.
I don't know what it is. But there's something about
the people who were your friends at those early ages
that you always have a special bond with. At least
I have found that to be the case, Richard, what
does your group do.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Well?
Speaker 17 (25:18):
Six years ago we started getting together. There's about ken
the fourteen of us. We are spring highly class of
seventy five. So we get together up a seeds of one,
two ninety and you know, just friends and tell us
you we have about six seventy nine ers that are
coming in this year that have joined our group. Some
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of them are brothers to some of the guys that come.
Some of them are just you know, graduates of that class.
So we get together in December at least once a year.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And what is y'all's connection. I didn't hear what you said.
Where did y'all go to school or whatever?
Speaker 17 (25:59):
Spring high school class at seventy five?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
All right, very cool? How many? How many members in
the group?
Speaker 17 (26:06):
There's normally ken the fourteen of us to get together?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
All right, give me give me the ten names quickly
without without stopping.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Let's see how well you can do.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Well?
Speaker 17 (26:20):
Uh, Kyle Key, Brandy, rawl myself, Richard? Uh another key?
Now you put me on the spot, So.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
All right, that'll do.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I just wanted you to get in trouble with whoever
you didn't remember, Craig what you got.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Michael, very It is a honor to be on your show.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
This is uh, this is about a dear friend of
mine who's who's now passed away. But I'm originally from
upstate New York. Moved down to Texas when I was eighteen.
I'm sixty nine now. And this person I met down here,
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his name was Kenny Simmons, and Kenny was like a
cross between you and John. What's that comedian that drinks
guts on stage?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Ryan White? He was full of intelligence and humor and
had a wit that was crazy good like yours. Long
story short. At one point after we met became extremely
good friends. He introduced me to his family. He comes
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from a family of ten kids, and of course I'm
down here. I don't have I left on my family
back home in New York. Well, I did get here
stat so I could, by the way, and Kenny introduced
me to his family, and his family became my family.
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At some point, fifteen years into our friendship, Kenny was
diagnosed with the disease that would only allow him to
live for six months, and so Kenny decided, you know what,
We're gonna all have one last party. And there were
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there were one hundred, one hundred and twenty five people
that came to that last party on a golf course
north of Houston, and he played eight holes with all
of us, and long story short, Kenny never died. Kenny
kept making it one year after another after another, and
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after that first party, we had one all this that
we're friends that you know, we're going to have to
have another party, and so we did for the next
thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's a great story, but I got to keep to
the love story short and I think we're going to
go for a while.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Mary, You're old and Michael Berry show, what's your story?
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Hi?
Speaker 18 (29:22):
Michael. We don't get together all the time, but we
just rekindled our friendships from the class of nineteen seventy
five grade school. We all graduated eighth grade from Saint
Rita in Dallas, and after one of our classmates died,
several people went to the funeral reconnected and said, you know,
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we should get the whole class together. Well, we threw
together quick reunion over a three day period, and I
was a little skeptical how it would go. But Friday
night we shut down a bar. Saturday night ended up
at one of the girls' houses she hosted. Everybody was there,
had a great time, and then Sunday morning ended with
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a brunch. On that Saturday night, though out of this
group of people, two of the folks had been both
been divorced and found each other and now looks like
gost forward six months, looks like they're getting married. So
friendships that are that old are.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Friendships. Yes, the relationships I can I can't. I won't
say the names, but the number of people I know
who were high school sweethearts, and you know, she doesn't
have a nice enough car, so he so sorry, he
doesn't have a nice enough car, so and he ain't
really headed anywhere and with any real directions. So she
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dumps him and goes off to school ut and he
goes to Stephen f.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Or starts to work or whatever he does.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And then she gets married and kids, and he gets
married and gets divorced and they reconnect at some point
thirty years later and they're.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Meant to be.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I can't tell you how many of these stories with people,
whether they get married to other people and then they
go off and can be forty to fifty years later,
and they reconnect and they get back together and they're
madly in love. It's like they're making up for lost time.
It's the craziest darned thing. I've seen this so many
that it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Something to it.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Frank, you got forty two seconds?
Speaker 13 (31:33):
Go, Oh my, Frank Robb. I live out near Columbus.
I graduated from Rolla, Missouri in nineteen seventy University Missouri,
rollam our group of about twenty five fraternity brothers went
through Hell Week together and had bonded for life. We've
(31:55):
been to fifty five years of class reunions with our
fraternity group, typically a four day weekend anywhere from California
to Nashville to Washington, d C. The Table Rock Lake
in Branson, Missouri. And it's just a great group of guys.
Their kids, our kids and grandkids are all friends.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I love those stories. More of your stories coming up.
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