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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. It could be
we're going to run against crazy Bernie. That could be
he's a crazy man. But that's okay. We like crazy people.
I love running against Crooked Hillary. I love that Crooked
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Hillary Clinton. Crooked Hillary. He is a crooked one.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Gavin Newscomb, he's the governor of California.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He signed Newscomb. Michael, they're going to cover Pocahontas.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I've named him deranged Jack Smith.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But we'll work together with Shifty Shifts. We're going to
defeat crazy Kamala.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We have a representative in Congress who they say was.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Here a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They call her a Pocahontas.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
But you know what I like.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The people were talking about funny or sad. I think
it's more sad than funny. He has one ability I
don't have. He sleeps.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He can sleep sleepy Joe Biden a sleepy Joe crying Chuck,
do you want to keep it going for.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Another five years? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, Usa.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
PoCA Hunter says yes, still a rocketman.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Raised suspect in the January sixth pipe bomb case.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We'll get to that in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
In the next segment, we'll talk to a Treasury Department
official about the new Trump account, who qualifies and what
it means. And I'll add one, I think it's a
great idea to teach children about investing and investments in
how you capitalize businesses, and how public ownership through stock works.
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These are the sorts of things that more children need
to learn so that as adults they can engage in
these things. They can raise money, they can build businesses,
they can invest, they can accumulate wealth. These are all
wonderful things that people don't do because they're not aware.
They don't know how, and they would if they could,
and for most folks they're never going to learn. But first,
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how about the fact that we're very upset, supposedly the
media and the Democrats with the President for dealing with
Narco terrorists, for striking at them militarily.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's a terrible thing, a horrible thing. Right.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, let's listen to then Senator Joe Biden, Democrat from Delaware,
in nineteen eighty nine talking to the New President George H. W.
Bush about what we needed to do with these narco terrorists.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Every president for the past two decades, Democrat and Republican alike,
has declared war on drugs, and each of them has
lost that war and lost it miserably. They lost because
they attempted to deal with only part of the drug problem.
They lost because their initiatives were pulled apart by bureaucratic
squabbling among their advisors. They lost because they always did
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too little and they did it too late. We don't
oppose the President's plan. All we want to do is
strengthen it. We don't doubt is resolve. All we want
to do is stiffen it. The trouble is that the
President's proposals are not big enough to deal with the problem.
We think we should do more to stem the flow
of drugs across our borders.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And we think we should go one step further.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Let's go after the drug lords where they live with.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
An international strike force.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
There must be no safe haven for these narco terrorists,
and they must know it. We have to lock up
the dealers for a long long time, and we have
to attack the source from which the drugs come. And
we have to do that, not a piece of a time,
but all at once, and we have to do it now.
And there's not any reason why we can't do that.
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We have the power, we have the money, and we
have the knowledge.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The fact is it's the right approach. But Joe Biden
said was the right thing to do. But now Trump's
actually doing it, and therefore it must be criticized. One
of the many reasons President Trump is popular among the
American people is that he.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Does the things that we want done.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
For instance, you know when you buy a new vehicle
and you pull up to the red light and it
goes off, and then you get ready to accelerate and
it starts back up like a golf cart. You've been
out playing golf and and then it dies.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That wasn't necessary.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You remember the You remember the nonsense of the of
the the caps they put on your your gas pump
when you'd go to get gas, they had these limitters
on there. You remember that whole deal, And then it
turns out all I didn't work anyway. President Trump is
rolling back the Biden administration fuel efficiency standards, which were stupid,
which cost you money.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
This is just good government. This is what makes you popular.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I've been taking action to make buying a car more affordable.
I signed an executive order to end the unfair expensive
electric vehicle mandate.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
As you know, you had to.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Have an electric car within a very short period of time,
even though there was no way of charging them.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And lots of other things.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Would of course five trillion dollars to build the charging plants,
and as you know, in certain parts of the Midwest,
they spent to build nine chargers. They spent eight billion dollars.
So that wasn't working out too well. That was done
before me. By the way, I wouldn't have let it
go forward. We're casling the epas observed tailpipe emission standards,
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one of the most important things that I've never had
a group of people come to me more powerfully and
really just devastated that they had to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It was killing him.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Then the automobile manufactures the tailpipe emission standards, and I
can tell you your people at fort were coming to me
all the time and they were saying, like, please, it
doesn't do anything, and it's killing us, and it's driving
the course through the roof. And we revoked Biden's emissions
waiver for California, so that California communists could not regulate
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the automobile industry and ruin the entire nation of automobiles.
And they were doing that too, but we have that
now under control, also with your governor, who's got much
more than he can control.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Now under the new rules being issued today.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
By Secretary of Duffy, the Department of Transportation will rescind
the Biden fuel economy prices.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I hate to say that because they were really
not economy. They were really they were anti economy.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They were horrible what they were doing to the costs
and actually making the car much worse. But these policies
forced potomakers to build cars using expensive technologies that drove
up costs, drove.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Up prices, and made the car much worse.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The action is expected to save the typical consumer at
least one thousand dollars off the price of a new car,
and we think substantially more than that.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
It's one that Berri show, Well, you know, things are
getting weird When President Trump promote, proposes and implements a
savings account, a Trump account.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Of course it has to have his name on it.
It should.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He's the one that came up with it, a Trump account,
one thousand dollars for every child. And you know things
are crazy when Corey Booker.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Who.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Just got married to a woman, says that was actually
my idea, So the Democrats. When the Democrats are not
criticizing his idea but are now claiming it was their own, well,
we have reached an interesting point, an interesting point on
the spectrum.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What is the Trump account? How does it work?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Luke Pettitt is the Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets,
and he is our guest. Luke, I guess the first
question is what exactly is this account?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Who qualifies for it? When does it begin?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah, So the Trump accounts, which are going to go
live in the fourth of July next year, are really
a transformational program that are going to open up investment
accounts for children under eighteen starting next year to allow
them to build real net worth for their futures, allow
them to harness the power of compound growth and give
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them a stake in America's future. And so as america
and economy growth, so does their net worth. And so
these will be broad based investment accounts that will be
investing in US stock in This is ensuring that, you know,
families and children get simple and transparent and affordable growth
options for them. But it'll be essentially an investment account
that they will have and let it grow. Their parents
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and their parents' employers will contribute to and once I
turn eighteen, it'll for traditional wroth or traditional rather.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I've talked on their in fact as recently as yesterday
about the fact that growing up in a working class home,
parents didn't go to college, nobody and our family ever had,
and the idea of of you saved your money, the
idea of investing was was not something that was ever discussed.
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And I realized as I got much older that if
you will start putting money in the earlier, the better,
a little money consistently over a lot of time turns
out to be a great deal of money. And there
is this idea that you earn it and you save it,
but investing is how you ca eight real wealth. And
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I love the idea of encouraging people to understand that
sooner rather than later.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
You're exactly right. And if you think about it, those
those first formative years when a child is growing up,
if they have money sitting in a savings account from
their parents and not being invested that they're losing out
on a lot of returns.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Since ninety fifty.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Seven, the S and P five hundred is delivered an
average annual return of ten point five percent.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I mean, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
And if you think about it, even this thousand dollars
seed which children born between calend years twenty five through
twenty eight will get, that alone, compounded at that rate
for sixty five years is six hundred and seventy four
thousand dollars. I mean, we're talking about a lot of
compound investment over the course of their life. And then
when you think about the engagement that children will have
with these accounts, learning about what is compounding, what is investing,
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and how do I plan for my future so I
can have a nest egg for when I'm older and
ready for retirement. This is this is a profound and
power powerful paradigm shift we're about to witness year.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Luke gets it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Luke Pettitt is our guest Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for
Financial Markets. I started a Robinhood account for my kids
when they were in middle school, and it was fascinating
to me how all of a sudden they were interested
in investing. They wanted to talk about particular companies and
their stock and their future, and disclosures that they had
made that might potentially harm their stock price, are new
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announcements of products that they were launching. They began to
understand how capital funds deals, and how capital is liquid
and how it moves, and how capital gets scared, and
how capital gets excited and sometimes that exuberance can be
silly and sometimes the fear can be nonsensical. But understanding
that this is the underpinning of how our economy works,
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particularly as regards public companies, it was amazing to me
how this was the best thing. You know. You know,
you try to explain these things on long driving trips.
It's not until their money is at play. I started
them checking accounts and gave them access, and it was
amazing how all of a sudden, when they had to
pay for their own things, things that made sense.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Before you know.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Crockett was having his sports team over to the house,
and we've always done raising canes for all the kids,
and he said, I don't think we need to have food.
It was for his young life group. I don't think
we need to have food for the event. My wife said,
well why not, we always do. I don't think anybody
likes it. Well, he didn't want to have to pay
for it. So all of a sudden, money makes sense.
There's a cost to things, and I think the earlier
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that kids can learn these things the better.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That's right, It comes down to ownership.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
In these programs, these Trump accounts are going to give
every child in ownership stake in the American economy, American companies,
and a first hand experience with capitalism and markets in
a way that would be hard to deliver otherwise. And
so it's filling a gap that I don't think people
realize needed to be filled until President Trump really leaned
in in the working family and tax cuts that we
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saw past or the summer. And like I said before,
we're about to see a transformational shift in how children
are viewing capitalism, the markets, and their stake in the
American economy.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I love it. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
We're talking about children born beginning January first of this year,
So if you have a baby that was born in
this calendar year and that goes through the end of
twenty twenty eight, so December thirty, first of twenty twenty eight.
It is a pilot program. That's who qualifies. Look, how
did you end up in Department of Treasury?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You know, I was.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
I had the pleasure of being nominated by the President
to fill the role for Assistence Secretary for Financial Institutions
Secretary Best in Places trust in me to fulfill this role.
And as part of that, I've been tasked with helping
ensure the Treasury Department, which is leading the implementation of
Trump Accounts, that we have a successful launch on the
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fourth of July because of how important this program is.
But by the grace of God, I got here, and
I'm honored to be here in this building working for
Secretary and for President Jones. But one thing on your
point earlier, it's not just for kids who are born
in January first, twenty five through the end of twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Any children can create these accounts.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
And you know Michael Dell's historic announcement on Tuesday six
point twenty five million dollars, that's two hundred and fifty
dollars per child from to twenty five million Americans, And
that expands the scope of eligible children who can not
only create accounts, but also receive a seed an investment
to start and to base their investments off of.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You know, it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I saw a chart the other day that if every
person would contribute from when they're a child one dollar
into an investment.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What that number will be by the time.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
They're thirty, forty, fifty sixty, you're tromount retirement level dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And we can each set aside a dollar. That's easy
enough to do.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
It's amazing to get people to start thinking in terms
of not just saving, but investing and putting your work,
your money to work, and creating more wealth. I love
the concept. Look Pettitt, Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Thank you, good sir, thanks for having me there.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
The first I've been destroying the black community is to
dismantle the black family.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Michael Show, why don't we.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Ask missus Willie Brown if Kamala Harris cares about black families.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
The announcement was made this morning the press conference early
afternoon that the suspect in the January sixth pipe bombs, one.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Near the RNC, one near the DNC.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Had been arrested. Great news. His name is Brian Cole,
at this point. I don't believe we know that much
about him. He's a little freak five seven, apparently the
same profile as everyone else that does these sorts of things.
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Young loner, without any real emotional connection to anyone or
anything else, disconnected, probably spends a lot of time on
social media. Unfortunately, the press conference was not particularly revealing.
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It was mostly everybody saying that everyone else is great
and that everyone was allowed to do their jobs, which
I guess is fine. You know, a lot of time
goes into this sort of thing. I was particularly happy
to see Dan Bongino get some credit because he gave
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up a big podcast and radio presence, which is a
daily feed to your ego to go inside the government
and serve and mostly do so without anyone noticing you're
doing it, and that's not a small feat. He also
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probably gave up a.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Lot of money. I'm sure he was making a lot
of money.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Now he can come back out and do that, but
most people would not give all that up. And I'm
sure there are days where he's grinding away and beating
his head against a wall because you're still part of
a bureaucracy and not getting the results. He would like
to see as fast as like to see him, because
DC is slow. So it was nice to see him
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have a moment of accomplishment that doesn't happen that often
in the government. And yeah, it made me feel good
to see that for him. I don't know him personally,
but I was impressed that he took the job. And
I think he's doing the best he can within those circumstances.
And I think he'll have a lot of good stories
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to tell in the coming years about inside the beast. Well,
it's always a little interesting. They asked a neighbor of
Cole who lived in one of the suburbs in Virginia.
I forget what it was, doesn't matter, but the neighbors said,
I never would have expected it. It didn't seem like
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the kind of person, you know, you know, stuff going
on to his house that would do that. I'm always
curious when that when they when they asked the neighbors, Hey,
the pipe bomber, he lives next door. Really I never
would have expected it. Well, is there ever going to
be a case where somebody's going to go? You know,
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most days I'd say to my wife, bet you that
guy he'll probably end up being the pipe bomber guy
next door, Yeah, just kind of walks like a pipe bomber,
looks like what a pipe bomber would would would look like.
But I will say this, there's a problem in this
country that the pipe bomber is now going to have
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more criminal defense attorneys than you can imagine. Oh, we'll
call them the media. But they're now going to do
studies on him. They're going to try to find reasons
why he would do this. I'm tired in this country
of awful human beings that create terror amongst the rest
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of us having.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Their psychology explored.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
This little turd Afghan that drove across the country, left
his kids behind, killed, killed Sarah Beckstrom, murdered her. She's
twenty years old from West Virginia, and she'll never see
her family again. They'll never see her, not on this
earth anyway. And what did we hear? Well, you know
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he was under financial stress, he was living in government housing. Well,
you know he didn't really have a job or so
go back to Afghanistan, were things good there. I'm tired
of hearing excuses for these people, the brothers who blew
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up the Boston Marathon. I had a young lady on
our show. Her name is Rebecca Gregory. She wrote a
book called Taking My Life Back, and the book was
about the fact that she had just an insane number
of surgeries thirty forty I don't remember, maybe fifty surgeries
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on her leg trying to save her leg, and she
finally decided, I've got to live my life. Take off
the leg. It's a beautiful woman. She could be a
professional model, she could be a movie star. Beautiful woman.
To give up her leg? Can you imagine? Can imagine
the process mentally that you go through as a woman especially,
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And yet there were those brothers. I'm not going to
say their names. Rolling Stone put one of them on
the front cover as if he was a troubled artist,
you know, Jim Morrison or Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I'm tired of it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I want these people tried swiftly and put to death.
I want my country back. I am tired of people
who destroy the lives of lots of other people and
instill fear in our people, and then everyone acts like, well,
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they're just a troubled artist, bless their soul. No, no,
you tormented the January sixth patriots who walked through the Capitol.
You put them in prison overnight. You terrorize those people.
You destroyed some of those people, some of them never,
some of them took their own lives. These people like this.
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How about the guy who shocked the healthcare CEO. I'm
not going to say his name, gunned him down, We've
got a video. There's no doubt he did it. There's
no doubt he didn't know the CEO. He committed cold
blooded murder. And now, oh, it's gonna be his day
in court. Oh look how he's wearing his hair. Grab
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that bastard and hang him. Let's have a swift trial,
swift justice, and be done with him. How about the
guy who killed Charlie Kirk. Nobody even talks about that anymore.
What about him? What do we waiting on? What are
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we waiting on? Throw all the resources necessary, do a
thorough investigation, drag him out like we did Saddam Hussein,
and hang him in front of every make an example
of him.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I am tired. We have grown weak as a nation.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
These people are celebrated as if as if they're the
great poet of our day, as if they speak for
the underclass or the disgruntled. And it's encouraging more of it,
and it filters all the way down the line. You
see these people protesting. They're out in the middle of
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the road, so that mothers and fathers can't get to
the school to pick up their kids. People can't get
to work because you can't run them over. So you're
left terrorized by them out in the middle of the street.
You got these people gluing themselves, gluing their hands to
the road, and then we're spending tax dollars shipping it out.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
No, let them sit there till they starve to death.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Why how do they know we're gonna get them out?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Sit there?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You glued yourself, Okay, that's what my parents would have done.
Now suffer the consequences. The word legend is overused so
that it becomes commonplace. The nature of being a legend
is being rare and unique. I say with full force.
Steve Cropper was a legend. He ran the talent and
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studio portion of Stax Records. Funny thing it was a
fellow named Bill Brower who was there, who was out
acquiring talent for the label. Bill Brower would end up
getting associated with Elvis by MCA Records when he was
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hired away, and while while working as the MCA representative
with Elvis, Elvis once told Bill Brower, hey, let's fly
out to Vegas and check on my new plane. It's
gonna be cool. A fly out to Dallas check on
my new plane and will fly from there to Vegas.
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And Bill Brower said, Elvis, I can't do that. I've
got other artists I managed for MBA for MCA, you know,
I managed Whalen, to which Elvis picked up the phone
and called the CEO of MCA and said Brower works
for me. Now slams the phone down, and he didn't
pay Bill Brower. He just was basically saying, I don't
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want him work for anybody else. And Bill Brower never
talked to the CEO of MCA again. He just continued
to get his paycheck and continued to be with Elvis
twenty four to seven. So Bill Brower during that time
had an album on the radio and Elvis said, Hey,
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this guy in the radio singing this song sounds like you.
Somebody told me that issue and he said, well it is, well,
how come he's used the name TG Shepherd. That's a
whole different story. And he went with Elvis's blessing. So
that's the story of TG. Shepherd, the country music singer
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who started at Stax Record, which was the soul operation
of the time. And you have two white guys there,
Bill Brower, TG. Shepherd and Steve Cropper. Cropper would be
the guitarist and bandleader for Booker t and the MG's.
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He would be the inspiration and muse for Otis Redding
and sitting by the dock of the Bay, Sitting on
the dock of the Bay, which he got co writing
credit for because Otis died before the song was finished
and Steve Cropper had to go back into the studio
and finish it. The famous whistling segment was a place
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marker because Otis couldn't figure out what to put in there,
so he just whistled it. And he would die shortly
thereafter in a plane crash in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Steve Cropper was devastated and.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
It took him a little while so he was able
to go into the studio and listen to what they had,
the tapes they had dubbed and they had recorded, and
to put it together and publish it, and of course
the rest is history. It turns out to be that
was never an album, that was never a song of
a quality that was meant to be released, but look
what it went on to do. Steve Cropper would be
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the force behind Sam and Dave. He would be the
force behind so much of what was going on at
Stax Records at the time. There's a great documentary on
Stacks that includes a lot about Crop. And then of
course the Blues Brothers came along and he and Donald
Duck Dunn, his best friend, would be the backing, the
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real musician behind the Blues Brothers, and that would give
them a whole new audience and a whole new generation
and a whole more mainstream following. It's an incredible, incredible
life of an incredible man. I met him when I
had come for an event that WLAC, which Dan endhim
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at the time was the market manager, and he said, look,
we got a lot of momentum for you in Nashville.
Why don't you come here and we'll do a listener event.
And I'd only been on the air for a few months,
but I was really excited. I was getting a lot
of emails. I remember Eddie Raven sent me an email
like a week after we were on the air, and
all these folks from Nashville were reaching out and saying,
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we love your show here, and so I thought, well,
I don't want to do an event and nobody shows up.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That looks bad.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
So I waited about another month and finally I said,
all right, we'll do.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It, and we were going to do it.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I don't remember where exactly, but it turned out the
response they were getting at the station was big enough
that they said we need a bigger venue. So for
the first one we did, we didn't have a musical act.
We would later do that, but I just they would
just come out and meet Michael Berry. And so people
brought stuff for me to sign, which is silly because
I don't feel like I should be signing autographs and
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then shake your hand and take a photo.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Well, the lines snaked down the road and it was hot.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It was a summer day, and our market manager at
the time, Dan Inham, come in. He said, hey, Steve
Cropper's here and he was standing out in the heat.
And I said, well, go get him and bring him
in and he said, he said, he doesn't want to.
He said he needs to wait and line like everyone else.
So he did. When he got up there where we
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spent some time talking and he said, well, look, you
need to talk to these people, so here's my number,
give me a call. I did that night. Got to
know him and his wife Angel. They came to Houston
to see us. We went to Nashville to see them,
and we would text and we would talk a lot.
He did a concert for me in Houston. He spent
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spent time with us in the studio. We'll post those interviews.
There are a whole lot of fun but mostly he
just became a friend and someone that I enjoyed walking
down the memory lane of his life with him. And
there's constant I'm always watching music video of music documentaries,
and there are constant there. He is constantly popping up
and text him crop I didn't know you worked with
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this guy, and he was like yeah, And he would
tell me stories about So he'd be on tour and it's, ah,
let me figure out what time it is in Houston,
but right now it's it's one o'clock in the morning
in London and I'm over here playing with the animals.
And he loved playing with the animals because he got
to play House of the Rise and Sun and that
was one of his favorite songs to play. And one
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time he texted me and he was in Dallas and
he was with h who is a dom Doom Doom,
Doom doom. What's the guy's name that does the tube
out of his mouth?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And uh.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Oh, shoot, what's his name? You know what I'm talking about?
Peter Frampton.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Dog. I can't stand when I can't remember names.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
And Frampton was doing this thing, Frampton and his band
of guitars or so.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I can't remember what it was called, but it was, you.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Know, Frampton such a legend that he would go on
tour and it was gonna and Clapton was cycling off
and Cropper was cycling on. And you talk about guitarists, right,
but he would have this this group of guitarists on
stage with him and it was like an all star cast. Anyway,
a great music legend, a great coach and mentor to
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a lot of other people, helped a lot of other
people succeed, and a good friend. I know his wife
angel is h is hurting.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
He was a real love affair. They were a wonderful couple.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
And his kids and his many friends in music and
his many, many, many fans of which we all are one.
Rest in peace, Steve Cropper, great Man,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud. The
Michael Very Show is on the air. It could be
we're going to run against crazy Bernie. That could be
he's a crazy man. But that's okay. We like crazy people.
I love running against Crooked Hillary. I love that Crooked
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Hillary Clinton. Crooked Hillary. He is a crooked one.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Gavin Newscomb, he's the governor of California.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He signed Newscomb. Michael, they're going to cover Pocahontas.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I've named him deranged Jack Smith.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
But we'll work together with Shifty Shifts. We're going to
defeat crazy Kamala.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We have a representative in Congress who they say was.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Here a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They call her a Pocahontas.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
But you know what I like.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The people were talking about funny or sad. I think
it's more sad than funny. He has one ability I
don't have. He sleeps.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He can sleep sleepy Joe Biden a sleepy Joe crying Chuck,
do you want to keep it going for.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Another five years? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, Usa.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
PoCA Hunter says yes, still a rocketman.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Raised suspect in the January sixth pipe bomb case.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We'll get to that in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
In the next segment, we'll talk to a Treasury Department
official about the new Trump account, who qualifies and what
it means. And I'll add one, I think it's a
great idea to teach children about investing and investments in
how you capitalize businesses, and how public ownership through stock works.
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These are the sorts of things that more children need
to learn so that as adults they can engage in
these things. They can raise money, they can build businesses,
they can invest, they can accumulate wealth. These are all
wonderful things that people don't do because they're not aware.
They don't know how, and they would if they could,
and for most folks they're never going to learn. But first,
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how about the fact that we're very upset, supposedly the
media and the Democrats with the President for dealing with
Narco terrorists, for striking at them militarily.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's a terrible thing, a horrible thing. Right.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well, let's listen to then Senator Joe Biden, Democrat from Delaware,
in nineteen eighty nine talking to the New President George H. W.
Bush about what we needed to do with these narco terrorists.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Every president for the past two decades, Democrat and Republican alike,
has declared war on drugs, and each of them has
lost that war and lost it miserably. They lost because
they attempted to deal with only part of the drug problem.
They lost because their initiatives were pulled apart by bureaucratic
squabbling among their advisors. They lost because they always did
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too little and they did it too late. We don't
oppose the President's plan. All we want to do is
strengthen it. We don't doubt is resolve. All we want
to do is stiffen it. The trouble is that the
President's proposals are not big enough to deal with the problem.
We think we should do more to stem the flow
of drugs across our borders.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And we think we should go one step further.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Let's go after the drug lords where they live with.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
An international strike force.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
There must be no safe haven for these narco terrorists,
and they must know it. We have to lock up
the dealers for a long long time, and we have
to attack the source from which the drugs come. And
we have to do that, not a piece of a time,
but all at once, and we have to do it now.
And there's not any reason why we can't do that.
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We have the power, we have the money, and we
have the knowledge.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The fact is it's the right approach. But Joe Biden
said was the right thing to do. But now Trump's
actually doing it, and therefore it must be criticized. One
of the many reasons President Trump is popular among the
American people is that he.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Does the things that we want done.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
For instance, you know when you buy a new vehicle
and you pull up to the red light and it
goes off, and then you get ready to accelerate and
it starts back up like a golf cart. You've been
out playing golf and and then it dies.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That wasn't necessary.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You remember the You remember the nonsense of the of
the the caps they put on your your gas pump
when you'd go to get gas, they had these limitters
on there. You remember that whole deal, And then it
turns out all I didn't work anyway. President Trump is
rolling back the Biden administration fuel efficiency standards, which were stupid,
which cost you money.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
This is just good government. This is what makes you popular.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I've been taking action to make buying a car more affordable.
I signed an executive order to end the unfair expensive
electric vehicle mandate.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
As you know, you had to.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Have an electric car within a very short period of time,
even though there was no way of charging them.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And lots of other things.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Would of course five trillion dollars to build the charging plants,
and as you know, in certain parts of the Midwest,
they spent to build nine chargers. They spent eight billion dollars.
So that wasn't working out too well. That was done
before me. By the way, I wouldn't have let it
go forward. We're casling the epas observed tailpipe emission standards,
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one of the most important things that I've never had
a group of people come to me more powerfully and
really just devastated that they had to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It was killing him.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Then the automobile manufactures the tailpipe emission standards, and I
can tell you your people at fort were coming to me
all the time and they were saying, like, please, it
doesn't do anything, and it's killing us, and it's driving
the course through the roof. And we revoked Biden's emissions
waiver for California, so that California communists could not regulate
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the automobile industry and ruin the entire nation of automobiles.
And they were doing that too, but we have that
now under control, also with your governor, who's got much
more than he can control.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Now under the new rules being issued today.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
By Secretary of Duffy, the Department of Transportation will rescind
the Biden fuel economy prices.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I hate to say that because they were really
not economy. They were really they were anti economy.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They were horrible what they were doing to the costs
and actually making the car much worse. But these policies
forced potomakers to build cars using expensive technologies that drove
up costs, drove.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Up prices, and made the car much worse.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The action is expected to save the typical consumer at
least one thousand dollars off the price of a new car,
and we think substantially more than that.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
It's one that Berri show, Well, you know, things are
getting weird When President Trump promote, proposes and implements a
savings account, a Trump account.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Of course it has to have his name on it.
It should.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He's the one that came up with it, a Trump account,
one thousand dollars for every child. And you know things
are crazy when Corey Booker.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Who.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Just got married to a woman, says that was actually
my idea, So the Democrats. When the Democrats are not
criticizing his idea but are now claiming it was their own, well,
we have reached an interesting point, an interesting point on
the spectrum.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What is the Trump account? How does it work?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Luke Pettitt is the Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets,
and he is our guest. Luke, I guess the first
question is what exactly is this account?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Who qualifies for it? When does it begin?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah, So the Trump accounts, which are going to go
live in the fourth of July next year, are really
a transformational program that are going to open up investment
accounts for children under eighteen starting next year to allow
them to build real net worth for their futures, allow
them to harness the power of compound growth and give
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them a stake in America's future. And so as america
and economy growth, so does their net worth. And so
these will be broad based investment accounts that will be
investing in US stock in This is ensuring that, you know,
families and children get simple and transparent and affordable growth
options for them. But it'll be essentially an investment account
that they will have and let it grow. Their parents
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and their parents' employers will contribute to and once I
turn eighteen, it'll for traditional wroth or traditional rather.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I've talked on their in fact as recently as yesterday
about the fact that growing up in a working class home,
parents didn't go to college, nobody and our family ever had,
and the idea of of you saved your money, the
idea of investing was was not something that was ever discussed.
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And I realized as I got much older that if
you will start putting money in the earlier, the better,
a little money consistently over a lot of time turns
out to be a great deal of money. And there
is this idea that you earn it and you save it,
but investing is how you ca eight real wealth. And
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I love the idea of encouraging people to understand that
sooner rather than later.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
You're exactly right. And if you think about it, those
those first formative years when a child is growing up,
if they have money sitting in a savings account from
their parents and not being invested that they're losing out
on a lot of returns.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Since ninety fifty.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Seven, the S and P five hundred is delivered an
average annual return of ten point five percent.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I mean, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
And if you think about it, even this thousand dollars
seed which children born between calend years twenty five through
twenty eight will get, that alone, compounded at that rate
for sixty five years is six hundred and seventy four
thousand dollars. I mean, we're talking about a lot of
compound investment over the course of their life. And then
when you think about the engagement that children will have
with these accounts, learning about what is compounding, what is investing,
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and how do I plan for my future so I
can have a nest egg for when I'm older and
ready for retirement. This is this is a profound and
power powerful paradigm shift we're about to witness year.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Luke gets it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Luke Pettitt is our guest Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for
Financial Markets. I started a Robinhood account for my kids
when they were in middle school, and it was fascinating
to me how all of a sudden they were interested
in investing. They wanted to talk about particular companies and
their stock and their future, and disclosures that they had
made that might potentially harm their stock price, are new
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announcements of products that they were launching. They began to
understand how capital funds deals, and how capital is liquid
and how it moves, and how capital gets scared, and
how capital gets excited and sometimes that exuberance can be
silly and sometimes the fear can be nonsensical. But understanding
that this is the underpinning of how our economy works,
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particularly as regards public companies, it was amazing to me
how this was the best thing. You know. You know,
you try to explain these things on long driving trips.
It's not until their money is at play. I started
them checking accounts and gave them access, and it was
amazing how all of a sudden, when they had to
pay for their own things, things that made sense.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Before you know.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Crockett was having his sports team over to the house,
and we've always done raising canes for all the kids,
and he said, I don't think we need to have food.
It was for his young life group. I don't think
we need to have food for the event. My wife said,
well why not, we always do. I don't think anybody
likes it. Well, he didn't want to have to pay
for it. So all of a sudden, money makes sense.
There's a cost to things, and I think the earlier
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that kids can learn these things the better.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That's right, It comes down to ownership.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
In these programs, these Trump accounts are going to give
every child in ownership stake in the American economy, American companies,
and a first hand experience with capitalism and markets in
a way that would be hard to deliver otherwise. And
so it's filling a gap that I don't think people
realize needed to be filled until President Trump really leaned
in in the working family and tax cuts that we
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saw past or the summer. And like I said before,
we're about to see a transformational shift in how children
are viewing capitalism, the markets, and their stake in the
American economy.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I love it. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
We're talking about children born beginning January first of this year,
So if you have a baby that was born in
this calendar year and that goes through the end of
twenty twenty eight, so December thirty, first of twenty twenty eight.
It is a pilot program. That's who qualifies. Look, how
did you end up in Department of Treasury?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You know, I was.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
I had the pleasure of being nominated by the President
to fill the role for Assistence Secretary for Financial Institutions
Secretary Best in Places trust in me to fulfill this role.
And as part of that, I've been tasked with helping
ensure the Treasury Department, which is leading the implementation of
Trump Accounts, that we have a successful launch on the
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fourth of July because of how important this program is.
But by the grace of God, I got here, and
I'm honored to be here in this building working for
Secretary and for President Jones. But one thing on your
point earlier, it's not just for kids who are born
in January first, twenty five through the end of twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Any children can create these accounts.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
And you know Michael Dell's historic announcement on Tuesday six
point twenty five million dollars, that's two hundred and fifty
dollars per child from to twenty five million Americans, And
that expands the scope of eligible children who can not
only create accounts, but also receive a seed an investment
to start and to base their investments off of.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You know, it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I saw a chart the other day that if every
person would contribute from when they're a child one dollar
into an investment.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What that number will be by the time.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
They're thirty, forty, fifty sixty, you're tromount retirement level dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And we can each set aside a dollar. That's easy
enough to do.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
It's amazing to get people to start thinking in terms
of not just saving, but investing and putting your work,
your money to work, and creating more wealth. I love
the concept. Look Pettitt, Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Thank you, good sir, thanks for having me there.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
The first I've been destroying the black community is to
dismantle the black family.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Michael Show, why don't we.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Ask missus Willie Brown if Kamala Harris cares about black families.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
The announcement was made this morning the press conference early
afternoon that the suspect in the January sixth pipe bombs, one.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Near the RNC, one near the DNC.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Had been arrested. Great news. His name is Brian Cole,
at this point. I don't believe we know that much
about him. He's a little freak five seven, apparently the
same profile as everyone else that does these sorts of things.
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Young loner, without any real emotional connection to anyone or
anything else, disconnected, probably spends a lot of time on
social media. Unfortunately, the press conference was not particularly revealing.
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It was mostly everybody saying that everyone else is great
and that everyone was allowed to do their jobs, which
I guess is fine. You know, a lot of time
goes into this sort of thing. I was particularly happy
to see Dan Bongino get some credit because he gave
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up a big podcast and radio presence, which is a
daily feed to your ego to go inside the government
and serve and mostly do so without anyone noticing you're
doing it, and that's not a small feat. He also
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probably gave up a.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Lot of money. I'm sure he was making a lot
of money.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Now he can come back out and do that, but
most people would not give all that up. And I'm
sure there are days where he's grinding away and beating
his head against a wall because you're still part of
a bureaucracy and not getting the results. He would like
to see as fast as like to see him, because
DC is slow. So it was nice to see him
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have a moment of accomplishment that doesn't happen that often
in the government. And yeah, it made me feel good
to see that for him. I don't know him personally,
but I was impressed that he took the job. And
I think he's doing the best he can within those circumstances.
And I think he'll have a lot of good stories
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to tell in the coming years about inside the beast. Well,
it's always a little interesting. They asked a neighbor of
Cole who lived in one of the suburbs in Virginia.
I forget what it was, doesn't matter, but the neighbors said,
I never would have expected it. It didn't seem like
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the kind of person, you know, you know, stuff going
on to his house that would do that. I'm always
curious when that when they when they asked the neighbors, Hey,
the pipe bomber, he lives next door. Really I never
would have expected it. Well, is there ever going to
be a case where somebody's going to go? You know,
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most days I'd say to my wife, bet you that
guy he'll probably end up being the pipe bomber guy
next door, Yeah, just kind of walks like a pipe bomber,
looks like what a pipe bomber would would would look like.
But I will say this, there's a problem in this
country that the pipe bomber is now going to have
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more criminal defense attorneys than you can imagine. Oh, we'll
call them the media. But they're now going to do
studies on him. They're going to try to find reasons
why he would do this. I'm tired in this country
of awful human beings that create terror amongst the rest
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of us having.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Their psychology explored.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
This little turd Afghan that drove across the country, left
his kids behind, killed, killed Sarah Beckstrom, murdered her. She's
twenty years old from West Virginia, and she'll never see
her family again. They'll never see her, not on this
earth anyway. And what did we hear? Well, you know
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he was under financial stress, he was living in government housing. Well,
you know he didn't really have a job or so
go back to Afghanistan, were things good there. I'm tired
of hearing excuses for these people, the brothers who blew
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up the Boston Marathon. I had a young lady on
our show. Her name is Rebecca Gregory. She wrote a
book called Taking My Life Back, and the book was
about the fact that she had just an insane number
of surgeries thirty forty I don't remember, maybe fifty surgeries
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on her leg trying to save her leg, and she
finally decided, I've got to live my life. Take off
the leg. It's a beautiful woman. She could be a
professional model, she could be a movie star. Beautiful woman.
To give up her leg? Can you imagine? Can imagine
the process mentally that you go through as a woman especially,
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And yet there were those brothers. I'm not going to
say their names. Rolling Stone put one of them on
the front cover as if he was a troubled artist,
you know, Jim Morrison or Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I'm tired of it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I want these people tried swiftly and put to death.
I want my country back. I am tired of people
who destroy the lives of lots of other people and
instill fear in our people, and then everyone acts like, well,
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they're just a troubled artist, bless their soul. No, no,
you tormented the January sixth patriots who walked through the Capitol.
You put them in prison overnight. You terrorize those people.
You destroyed some of those people, some of them never,
some of them took their own lives. These people like this.
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How about the guy who shocked the healthcare CEO. I'm
not going to say his name, gunned him down, We've
got a video. There's no doubt he did it. There's
no doubt he didn't know the CEO. He committed cold
blooded murder. And now, oh, it's gonna be his day
in court. Oh look how he's wearing his hair. Grab
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that bastard and hang him. Let's have a swift trial,
swift justice, and be done with him. How about the
guy who killed Charlie Kirk. Nobody even talks about that anymore.
What about him? What do we waiting on? What are
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we waiting on? Throw all the resources necessary, do a
thorough investigation, drag him out like we did Saddam Hussein,
and hang him in front of every make an example
of him.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I am tired. We have grown weak as a nation.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
These people are celebrated as if as if they're the
great poet of our day, as if they speak for
the underclass or the disgruntled. And it's encouraging more of it,
and it filters all the way down the line. You
see these people protesting. They're out in the middle of
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the road, so that mothers and fathers can't get to
the school to pick up their kids. People can't get
to work because you can't run them over. So you're
left terrorized by them out in the middle of the street.
You got these people gluing themselves, gluing their hands to
the road, and then we're spending tax dollars shipping it out.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
No, let them sit there till they starve to death.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Why how do they know we're gonna get them out?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Sit there?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You glued yourself, Okay, that's what my parents would have done.
Now suffer the consequences. The word legend is overused so
that it becomes commonplace. The nature of being a legend
is being rare and unique. I say with full force.
Steve Cropper was a legend. He ran the talent and
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studio portion of Stax Records. Funny thing it was a
fellow named Bill Brower who was there, who was out
acquiring talent for the label. Bill Brower would end up
getting associated with Elvis by MCA Records when he was
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hired away, and while while working as the MCA representative
with Elvis, Elvis once told Bill Brower, hey, let's fly
out to Vegas and check on my new plane. It's
gonna be cool. A fly out to Dallas check on
my new plane and will fly from there to Vegas.
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And Bill Brower said, Elvis, I can't do that. I've
got other artists I managed for MBA for MCA, you know,
I managed Whalen, to which Elvis picked up the phone
and called the CEO of MCA and said Brower works
for me. Now slams the phone down, and he didn't
pay Bill Brower. He just was basically saying, I don't
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want him work for anybody else. And Bill Brower never
talked to the CEO of MCA again. He just continued
to get his paycheck and continued to be with Elvis
twenty four to seven. So Bill Brower during that time
had an album on the radio and Elvis said, Hey,
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this guy in the radio singing this song sounds like you.
Somebody told me that issue and he said, well it is, well,
how come he's used the name TG Shepherd. That's a
whole different story. And he went with Elvis's blessing. So
that's the story of TG. Shepherd, the country music singer
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who started at Stax Record, which was the soul operation
of the time. And you have two white guys there,
Bill Brower, TG. Shepherd and Steve Cropper. Cropper would be
the guitarist and bandleader for Booker t and the MG's.
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He would be the inspiration and muse for Otis Redding
and sitting by the dock of the Bay, Sitting on
the dock of the Bay, which he got co writing
credit for because Otis died before the song was finished
and Steve Cropper had to go back into the studio
and finish it. The famous whistling segment was a place
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marker because Otis couldn't figure out what to put in there,
so he just whistled it. And he would die shortly
thereafter in a plane crash in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Steve Cropper was devastated and.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
It took him a little while so he was able
to go into the studio and listen to what they had,
the tapes they had dubbed and they had recorded, and
to put it together and publish it, and of course
the rest is history. It turns out to be that
was never an album, that was never a song of
a quality that was meant to be released, but look
what it went on to do. Steve Cropper would be
(27:36):
the force behind Sam and Dave. He would be the
force behind so much of what was going on at
Stax Records at the time. There's a great documentary on
Stacks that includes a lot about Crop. And then of
course the Blues Brothers came along and he and Donald
Duck Dunn, his best friend, would be the backing, the
(27:59):
real musician behind the Blues Brothers, and that would give
them a whole new audience and a whole new generation
and a whole more mainstream following. It's an incredible, incredible
life of an incredible man. I met him when I
had come for an event that WLAC, which Dan endhim
(28:19):
at the time was the market manager, and he said, look,
we got a lot of momentum for you in Nashville.
Why don't you come here and we'll do a listener event.
And I'd only been on the air for a few months,
but I was really excited. I was getting a lot
of emails. I remember Eddie Raven sent me an email
like a week after we were on the air, and
all these folks from Nashville were reaching out and saying,
(28:43):
we love your show here, and so I thought, well,
I don't want to do an event and nobody shows up.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That looks bad.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
So I waited about another month and finally I said,
all right, we'll do.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It, and we were going to do it.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I don't remember where exactly, but it turned out the
response they were getting at the station was big enough
that they said we need a bigger venue. So for
the first one we did, we didn't have a musical act.
We would later do that, but I just they would
just come out and meet Michael Berry. And so people
brought stuff for me to sign, which is silly because
I don't feel like I should be signing autographs and
(29:17):
then shake your hand and take a photo.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Well, the lines snaked down the road and it was hot.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It was a summer day, and our market manager at
the time, Dan Inham, come in. He said, hey, Steve
Cropper's here and he was standing out in the heat.
And I said, well, go get him and bring him
in and he said, he said, he doesn't want to.
He said he needs to wait and line like everyone else.
So he did. When he got up there where we
(29:43):
spent some time talking and he said, well, look, you
need to talk to these people, so here's my number,
give me a call. I did that night. Got to
know him and his wife Angel. They came to Houston
to see us. We went to Nashville to see them,
and we would text and we would talk a lot.
He did a concert for me in Houston. He spent
(30:05):
spent time with us in the studio. We'll post those interviews.
There are a whole lot of fun but mostly he
just became a friend and someone that I enjoyed walking
down the memory lane of his life with him. And
there's constant I'm always watching music video of music documentaries,
and there are constant there. He is constantly popping up
and text him crop I didn't know you worked with
(30:27):
this guy, and he was like yeah, And he would
tell me stories about So he'd be on tour and it's, ah,
let me figure out what time it is in Houston,
but right now it's it's one o'clock in the morning
in London and I'm over here playing with the animals.
And he loved playing with the animals because he got
to play House of the Rise and Sun and that
was one of his favorite songs to play. And one
(30:50):
time he texted me and he was in Dallas and
he was with h who is a dom Doom Doom,
Doom doom. What's the guy's name that does the tube
out of his mouth?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And uh.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Oh, shoot, what's his name? You know what I'm talking about?
Peter Frampton.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Dog. I can't stand when I can't remember names.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
And Frampton was doing this thing, Frampton and his band
of guitars or so.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I can't remember what it was called, but it was, you.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Know, Frampton such a legend that he would go on
tour and it was gonna and Clapton was cycling off
and Cropper was cycling on. And you talk about guitarists, right,
but he would have this this group of guitarists on
stage with him and it was like an all star cast. Anyway,
a great music legend, a great coach and mentor to
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a lot of other people, helped a lot of other
people succeed, and a good friend. I know his wife
angel is h is hurting.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
He was a real love affair. They were a wonderful couple.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
And his kids and his many friends in music and
his many, many, many fans of which we all are one.
Rest in peace, Steve Cropper, great Man,
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