January 7, 2026 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, Time, Time, Luck and Load from
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is of Chief also checks another box when it
comes to inclusivity and diversity and this department. She's a
proud member of the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh, I.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Isn't nobody gets in Fordy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I am super inspired.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
She took time out of her already busy schedule to
tell us about her vision for the department's future, one
that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
People ask me, what number are you looking for us?
And I'm looking for a number. It's never enough.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Out of thirty three hundred city firefighters, there is only
one hundred and fifteen are women.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
She's already looking at ways to change that. She's quick
to point out that doing so has a greater purpose
attracting the best and brightest for the job.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part
of a cohesive tea.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
You might have recall a new story from last year.
There was some interest in the fire departments and the
firefighters in California, and the interest was whether there were
too many white men. There were firefighters, and we need
to have a program in California to make sure we
don't have enough white man as firefighters.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
We have no water, I said, do you have a drought. No,
we don't have a drought. I said, why did you
have no water? Because the water isn't allowed to flow down.
It's got an actual flow from Canada all the way
up north to pot more water than they could have used.
And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the
water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions
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and millions of gallons of water gets poured. I could
have water for all of that land, water for your forests.
You know your forest said dry as a bone. Okay,
that water could be routed. You know, you could have everything.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What is the situation with the water. Obviously in the palisage.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Ran now last night and the hydrants I tarned the
firefighter in this block.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
They left because there were no water in the hydrants.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Local folks are trying to figure that out.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Do you o citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars not in there. Have
you nothing to say today? Elon Musk says that you're
utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position another mayor? Have
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you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? You're
dealing with this disaster and.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
That brings us to the fires that it has been
one It has been one year since the fires ravaged
the Pacific Palisades area.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
The opinion editor for the California Post, Joel Pollock, was
on Fox News when he revealed that fires in the
state park local headed next to the Palisades were not
suppressed because the park contained rare plants and the fire
department needed an archaeologist to approve the action first. This
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would be funny if the consequences weren't so dire.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Here's what he said.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Smoking gun evidence wasn't found by me. It was uncovered
during the course of private lawsuits against public authorities who
failed in their duty to protect Pacific Palisades. And they
have released drone footage that shows smoke rising from an
earlier fire that took place on January first, twenty twenty five,
called the Lachman Fire, which the fire department failed to
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extinguish fully as it smoldered in the roots of plants.
And we believe and many others believe that part of
the reason that fire was never fully extinguished was that
the state of California had a policy on parkland of
not allowing heavy fire suppression equipment into areas that were
considered sensitive, either.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Because they had rare plants or.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Because they possibly had cultural resources. And if you read
the documents, these policies, which were crafted.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
In late twenty twenty four, said.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
That you could not suppress fire in the state park,
which is right up against specific polisades, unless you had
an archaeologist present to tell you where you could and could.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Not put out the fire. So as the result of
these policies, you.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Had this massive inferno that spread in high winds and
that destroyed the plants and likely many of the cultural sites. Anyway,
this policy helped guide firefighters because it had previously been
used even against public departments that tried to suppress fire
or to cut fire brakes. The Governor of California, Gavin
Newsom we showed there earlier.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Lying to one of my neighbors.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
He says that the state of California is not responsible
that this was a local decision by firefighters. He says
he sent one hundred and ten fire engines to southern
California in advance of the extreme winds, but he did
not send fire engines to that spot where there had
been a fire on January first, six days before the
wind event, where there was smoldering fire, where some residents
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had reported smoking, where the state knew there was a
huge risk of reignition.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I love this country. I'm not running for office. I
don't need anybody to vote for me. I don't say
that because people need to hear it. I'll say it
because I deeply believe it. And I don't just love
this country because this is a country I was born in.
Reminds me of the old Winston Churchill line French prominent Frenchman,
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proud Frenchman said to Winston Churchill, he said, Prime Minister Churchill,
if I were not born a Frenchman, I should want
to be born an Englishman, to which church Show famously,
without missing a beat, said, if I had not been
born an Englishman, I should want to be born an Englishman.
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I have seriously thoroughly studied the world. I have traveled,
not as much as some of you traveling salesmen and
engineers project consultant guys.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But I've traveled.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I've made it my business to travel to a lot
of countries and see a lot of different cultures and
ask people about the opportunities, the sense of security, of
faith in the system, a sense of justice. And I
got to tell you, it's the greatest nation on earth.
It's the greatest nation and the history of earth to
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the extent that we can trust history's telling of the
people of Sparta or Rome, Troy. But it pains me,
It genuinely pains me that the problems that plague other
countries have befallen our country when they hadn't before. And
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it troubles me because good people took for granted how
great this country is and assumed that somehow God had
just ordained it would be the case. America's great always
has been, always will be. We don't have anything to do.
Let's just open the borders to the entire third world.
Let's just let toxic, cancerous ideology take hold. Let's just
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assume that when people tell us what they're going to do,
they won't do it because things.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Are always great in America.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I love this countries and this kind of nonsense right here,
this cannot will not be accepted.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Christy know I'm doing her best, White Yoakum. Earlier today
there was an ice involved shooting.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
And she gave her speech or presser and a cowboy
had a touch too big for her body.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Touch too big.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
But I don't think she's worn hats for a long time.
I like the look, don't get me wrong. I like
the rugged individualism. And you know she is from the
Dakotas you got to You know that's an image, and
she is a woman trying to project strength.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I have no problem with that.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
It is harder for a woman to project strength in
a position like that, and it is a position of
strength than it is for a man. Feminine attire is
naturally not designed to look as tough.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That's a fact, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Somehow Margaret Thatcher pulled it off, and they called her
the Iron Lady. She had to be cold and frigid
at all times in order to be taken seriously as
a strong woman projecting the strength of the British in
their resurgence alongside Reagan, and I think she did an
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admirable job. I actually like the Christy noam of cowgirl chic.
I like that she exposes her arms. They're sexy, and
sometimes her shoulders, they're sexy.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
There's nothing wrong with being sexy.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Just because most women her age can't be that sexy
doesn't mean she can't show off her sexy. Don't be jealous,
and I can guarantee you this. If you're jealous, are
you going to run her down? And that's inappropriate. Just
because your husband says yeah, doesn't mean he agrees. The
woman is a smoke show for her age. She might
be a legitimate standalone smoke show, but she's definitely a
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smoke show for her age. Right, Oh, you know what?
You reminded me what you wanted me to do. I'll
get to the being in just a moment. But today
she wore her hat down real low over her eyes
like Doyle and Slinglade aka Dwight Yoakum, and I posted
to it on the social media is to get people's
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thoughts and reaction to that. But somebody has changed the
way she's wearing her ha hat on purpose. You can
tell it. It was a designed to play all right.
From the serious stuff I was talking about I was
lamenting my nation and how the systems have failed. I
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used to take great pride in by any statistical measure,
you'd say America was the best.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And when I would travel around the world.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And things would be broken, and I'd say, well, how
come we can't just do this and can hook do this?
Ain't America. These don't work like that here. They don't
work at all here. And then things started failing during
my lifetime. You know, Detroit went from the fifth largest
city in a great city of American industry and might
to a public housing project. Chicago one of the world's
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great cities that represented industrial might and commodities, trading and strength,
and design and invention and architecture of Frank wood Wright
and others. And journalism. American journalism was well represented in
this city. And then it fell into being the sort
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of the poster child for the Obama administration. And in
New York, which was the world's great city, the world
looked to the financial headquarters, to the arts and entertainment headquarters.
I mean, this was a city of great art and
music and live theater and finance and food. This was
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a special place right culture couture couldn't think of the word.
This was a city that replaced London and Paris for
what they had once been. And New York has plunged
into deep despair. But that began before Mamdani. Let's be
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clear about that. That began decades ago. But I just
keep looking at I keep used to be I could say, well,
this place is a terrible place. But my America is
still my America because there's the rest of the country.
But increasingly you see that the rest of the country
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that we just assume is great is shrinking in size,
and the parts of the country that have failed, the
parts of the country that are corrupted, the parts of
the country. Saw a video the other day of it
said be careful who you associate with, because they will
affect you. And it was two beautiful red strawberries and
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they were on a toothpick, and then a third strawberry
was added to the toothpick, and it was, you know,
squinched up beside them.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
It squenched a word or more I like that word.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Anyway, they put the third strawberry in there, touching the
middle one, and it showed you a time lapse of
that tainted strawberry tainting the middle one which didn't drag
the other one. It was like they were pulling them
under the water, drowning them. The decay was obvious. And
that's what I see happening Minnesota. Minnesota was a purple state.
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We had the governor of Minnesota on who ran for
president in twenty twelve. And look, he wasn't a Texas Republican.
He wasn't in Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi Republican,
but he was at least a Republican of some sort.
Now that state has fallen blue, and it is sad, sad,
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sad what has become of it? Fox nine in Minneapolis
reporting that a Somali restaurant was paid twelve million dollars
a year after claiming to feed four to six thousand
poor kids per day.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
In December and twenty twenty one, the FBI installed US
surveillance camera overlooking this building just off Lake Street in Minneapolis.
At the time, it was Safari Restaurant, which overall took
in twelve million dollars in federal child meal payments through
Feeding Our Future. Safari's former co owner, Salim Sayid is
on trial alongside Amy Bach, the Feeding our Future executive
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director Safari, claimed to feed four.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
To six thousand kids a day.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
It's invoices and meal counts shown to the jury alongside
the video an FBI agent testifying that an average of
forty people came and went during the six weeks it
was surveilled. The FBI set up a total of twelve
cameras at sites claiming to serve extraordinary numbers of meals.
Another was at a deli in Saint Paul, also registered
by defended Salim Sayid, which claimed eighteen hundred meals per day.
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The video shown to the jury showed an average of
twenty three people a day coming and going. The jury
was shown dozens of invoices, meal counts, and emails sees
from Feeding Our Futures headquarters in Saint Anthony. Some showed
links to websites that randomly generated names and ages to
create rosters of children who were served meals. Many were
signed or sent by Amy Bach, who's charged with wire
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fraud along with bribery for the alleged.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Kickbacks that she received.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Her defense attorney tried to raise doubt when it cross
examined the FBI agent that they didn't see the back
entrance where it's possible meals left packed in trucks for delivery.
He pushed back, insisting they'd still see congestion to that volume,
he said, I would say it would not make any sense.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
As a general rule, we do not here on the
Michael Berry Show comment on breaking news.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We may sometimes acknowledge.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It, so you know we are aware of it, but
we have a policy of not commenting on it. And
that policy comes from the fact that, sitting as we are,
which is what nine to nine percent of people who
are commenting on news breaking news do, we are dependent
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on primary news sources because we're not there on the scene.
We don't see it, so we have to depend on
a primary news source, which is almost never an objective source.
People have biases, and almost always its scus left excus
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anti white, excuse pro minority. It's scus pro immigrant, it
ECUs anti American citizen, excus anti Christian, excus pro Muslim.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It skews. You get the point.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
So, yes, I am always aware of the news story
that you may have watched in the in the around
the water cooler at work. I am of the belief
that when we make when we when I offer an
opinion on a subject, I should have some basis upon
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which to make that judgment, and not what I've kind
of heard happened, whether that's a shooting at Brown University
or George Floyd dying, Because as you later learn, there
are details that are that are obfuscated, that are that
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are hidden from you. There are people who have an
a desire to alter what has happened because it's a
first in time. It's a first mover advantage they call
it in a business world. Whoever gets in the in
the in the news space first gets to create the
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subject around which we're going to talk. And so if
they say this happened, most people will never know.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, that isn't what happened.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
And this is a perfect description of what happened on
January sixth, But what happened in Mogadishu where I'm not
you know what, I'm not even going to set the
stage because I don't know. And until I can feel
comfortable that I know. We know that an ice agent
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was involved, we know that another person is dead. There
are allegations that that person was attempting to do harm
to the ice agent. I believe it But again, I
don't believe it because I have good facts upon which
to believe it. I believe it because I think that
the Democrats have created an environment where nutjobs out there
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are trying to kill federal agents. But what I do know,
because this is I can watch it. It's just as
true for me watching it as it is to people
who are there on the scene. Is that little idiot
mayor of Mogadishu who has pandered to the Somalis. If
you ever see the moment that he's walking into the
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building attempting to do a Somali dance, or he's eating
Somali food attempting to act like this is his daily cuisine.
He's a little weasel, as all white liberals are. He's
a little pandering weasel. It's disgusting. But he did say
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today to ice to federal agents to get the f out.
This is part of what we talked about about six
eight months ago that Democrats were being told by the
James Carvels, by their consultants that they needed to be
more like Trump, they needed to cuss more. And know
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what you're thinking, Michael, come on, you really think they
told them cuss more? You'll sound more like Trump. People
will like you absolutely proofs into pudding. You can see it.
It's there. They all of a sudden started cussing more.
You saw Jasmine Crockett do it. You saw in this
case Jacob Fried to it. That gets attention. It is
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intended to convey a deeper conviction in what you're saying,
and that made the news. Y'all get the f out now,
you and I think, wait, you can't tell the feds
to get out. We're all in this together. Our constitution
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has a form of federalism. They have every constitutional right
and responsibility.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
To be there.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You can't do this. They're enforcing federal law. You don't
like the federal law, change it. That's what no one
ever talks about on the left. If you don't like
our immigration laws, simply change them. Oh you can't get
them changed. Why can't you change them? They've had a
Democrat majory. They got to I'm a care through and
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that was terribly unpopular. The reason they can't change it
is because the American people don't want it. And I
think it is ill understood the extent to which the
American people don't want a change.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
They want more enforcement. Not less.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
So that is probably more time than I should have
because I don't ever want to make statements. If I
can help it, then I have to walk back because
they're not true. And you may not think of yourself
as trusting me, but I want to be trustworthy, whether
you trust me or not, I want to be worthy
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of your trust. It is an honor to come into
your truck, your van, your car, your living room, your workplace,
your AirPods.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Either live or by podcast.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
It is an honor to get to talk to you
every day. And I take that responsibility. And maybe that's
me being over the top, taking myself too seriously, but
I want you to understand I'm not a shock shot,
I'm not a DJ, I'm not a time filler. This
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isn't a shift, as the radio business used to call it.
I love this country the way you love this country.
I get to do research and talk about what's going
on in this country while you're baking the bread and
making the meats and farming the land and defending the
country and defending our streets and running businesses and raising
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kids and teaching kids and suturing surgeries. So just as
you would take seriously if they rolled me into the
emergency room. Your job as a nurse or a doctor.
I take seriously what we do here. And that is why,
much to the chagrin of some people, a lot of
people in the industry and some lists, I do not
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engage in the real time commentary of what is happening
because I don't trust that I have good information, and
so why would I offer a subjective opinion that I
don't know I can stand behind tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I think that's unhealthy. I think there's too much of it.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I watched today as the stations they immediately, you know,
maybe they were going to talk about the LA fire
first anniversary, but then there's a shooting in the news
director say, all right, get us some guests on. So
they start calling people and you see the guests and
they're in their living room, and you know, they turn
their TV on and and the ladies don't have makeup
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on during the first interview, and by the second one
they do. They're rushing to get on TV and say something, Hi. Well,
I don't know the exact details earnest, but what I
do know is that and they state platitudes, so just know,
we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's a poll.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I'll see that we don't do it, and by tomorrow
I will be able to state an opinion. It will
matter if you need a rush to judgment, it's worth
what you paid for.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
We have just across the one hundred station threshold, so
we have a lot of new listeners who don't know
the show, don't know what I'm about, don't know what
I believe, and I don't believe what Tucker believes, or
what Buck or Clay or Candice Owens or Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Shapiro or whatever. I believe what I believe.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
And I don't want it assumed that I believe what
you know, the party platform or everyone else does, and
people will make that assumption that everyone agrees on everything,
and that's not true. I came to my conclusions based
on my life experiences and based on my own studies,
and some of those opinions are different. So let me
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say a couple of things right now. I am very
doctrainial about the position that people who wear the badge
are honorable people. They start as honorable people. The willingness
to wear the badge makes you an honorable people a person. Now,
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there are some absolute turds, I mean awful human beings
who wear the badge. But of all the fields that
we ever discuss, I find it interesting that this is
the only field law enforcement where people cannot say we
should respect the people who wear the badge without a
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disclaimer that they're not all perfect. Because you'll let your
kids wear the jersey of an adult football player, and
you'll let him worship that guy because he throws the
football or catches the football, or runs with the football,
or tackles the guy with the football. When the number
of absolute thugs baby Mama's in every city that NFL
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has a team beating up women, squandering their money, terrible
life choices, but we don't feel the need to talk
about You know, I like the NFL.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I like so and so.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
He's my hero, he's my kids he really I make
sure my kid worships him without pointing out that the
lifestyle he's leading. What about rappers, We don't feel the
need to do that. Oh, my kid loves so and so.
What about politicians complete scumbags? You should have to say,
I know almost every politician is a scumbag, but I
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like so and so.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
As opposed to the reverse, because the numbers are.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
So high it is a magnet for scumbacks. So let
me say this, the people who wear the badge deserve respect.
I am a civil liberties guy. If there is a
bad law, change it. If a law enforcement officer enforces
the law inappropriately, then in a court of law, it
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needs to be overturned. No matter how much we want
to believe that every bad guy, every person that's that's
apprehended is a bad guy, that's just not true. There
are over zealous cops, often with the best of intentions.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
My brother was a cop.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Sure, that's part of what colors my opinion, but I
learned a lot about the process.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I know a lot of cops. I talk to cops
every single day.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
They send me stories of what's going on, they send me, perspectives,
they send me. I'll get feed I'll get more feedback
than usual tonight from officers across the country, and I
will engage them. And all many officers think that officers
can never be wrong because in their opinion, we're all
out there criticizing everything they do.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And that's understandable.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
If you're a cop, you put on your badge, you
leave your more cops that are men than are women.
So if you're if you're a male cop or female,
you're leaving your house and the people who love you,
and you're going out into a world that is constantly
questioning you, constantly questioning you. I told you I wasn't
going to talk about that Minnesota Ice Minnesota story with
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the Ice shooting because it happened today. I'm not speaking
about the facts of the story itself. I'm speaking generally
about that. But we have expectations of law enforcement officers
at every level.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That they be so many things in one for the paycheck.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Of your average civil servant, we expect them to be perfect.
And they walk out of their house every day, and
this is true. This is more true of Ice today
than any other level of government.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They walk out of their house every.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Day, especially in the major urban areas where the mayors
and police chiefs are basically putting a bounty on their head.
If someone were to say about Mayor Jacob Fryar the
kinds of things he said about Ice today, there would
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be a howl.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You're going to get him killed. Folks.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Let's just look at what's happened in this country in
the last few years, which is exactly what George Soros wants.
Charlie Kirk assassinated, martyred while giving a speech.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Just think about this for a moment.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
You know, these things have been so normalized. Step back
for a moment and think about this. Do you realize
Charlie Kirk was murdered giving a speech engaging in people
of Hey, what's your opinion. I'll tell you mine, you
tell me yours. Let's talk about that was so offensive
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to somebody. He had opinions that were so offensive to someone.
Imagine how much you've got people twisted up that they're
willing to do that.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So, whether it's a.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Police officer, sir at the local, county, state, or federal,
these people are heroes. And I don't know what happened
in this story.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I'll know about tomorrow, but these people are heroes.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Paul Harvey's father was murdered in the line of duty,
and I think Paul Harvey said it the way I
feel better than anybody.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Else possibly could. A policeman is acomposite of what all
men are. I guess a mingling of saint and center,
dust and deity called statistics wave the fan over stinkers
underscore instances of dishonesty and brutality because they are news.
What that really means is that they are exceptional. They
are unusual, They are not commonplace. Buried under the fraud
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is the fact, and the fact is the less than
one half of one percent of policemen misfit that uniform,
and that is a better average than you'd find among clergymen.
What is a policeman? He, of all men, is at
once the most needed and the most wanted, a strangely
nameless creature who is sir to his face and pig
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or worse behind his back. He must be such a
diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that
each will think he won. But if a policeman is neat,
he's conceited. If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant,
he's a flirt. If he's not, he's a grouch. He
must make instant decisions, which would require months for a lawyer.
But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's delivered, he's lazy.
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He must be first to an accident, infallible with the diagnosis.
He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, ty splints,
and above all, be sure the victim goes home without
a limp or expect to be sued. The police officer
must know every gun draw on the run and hit
where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip
two men twice his size and half his age without
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damaging his uniform and without being brutal. If you hit him,
he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully.
A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must
know where all of the sin is and not partake.
The policeman from a single human hair must be able
to describe the crime the weamon the criminal and tell
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you where the.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Criminal is hiding.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
But if he catches the criminal, he's lucky.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
If he doesn't, he's a dunce. If he gets promoted,
he has a political pool. If he doesn't, he's a dullard.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
The policeman must chase bum leads to a dead end,
stake out ten nights to tag one witness who saw
it happen but refuses to remember. He runs files and
writes reports until his eyes ache to build a case
against some felon who will get dealed out by a
shameless shamus or an honorable who isn't honorable. The policeman
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must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a
tough guy and a gentleman. And of course he'll have
to be a genius because he'll have to feed a family.
It's on a policeman's salary.
It's that time, time, Time, Time, Luck and Load from
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is of Chief also checks another box when it
comes to inclusivity and diversity and this department. She's a
proud member of the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh, I.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Isn't nobody gets in Fordy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I am super inspired.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
She took time out of her already busy schedule to
tell us about her vision for the department's future, one
that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
People ask me, what number are you looking for us?
And I'm looking for a number. It's never enough.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Out of thirty three hundred city firefighters, there is only
one hundred and fifteen are women.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
She's already looking at ways to change that. She's quick
to point out that doing so has a greater purpose
attracting the best and brightest for the job.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part
of a cohesive tea.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
You might have recall a new story from last year.
There was some interest in the fire departments and the
firefighters in California, and the interest was whether there were
too many white men. There were firefighters, and we need
to have a program in California to make sure we
don't have enough white man as firefighters.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
We have no water, I said, do you have a drought. No,
we don't have a drought. I said, why did you
have no water? Because the water isn't allowed to flow down.
It's got an actual flow from Canada all the way
up north to pot more water than they could have used.
And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the
water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions
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and millions of gallons of water gets poured. I could
have water for all of that land, water for your forests.
You know your forest said dry as a bone. Okay,
that water could be routed. You know, you could have everything.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What is the situation with the water. Obviously in the palisage.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Ran now last night and the hydrants I tarned the
firefighter in this block.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
They left because there were no water in the hydrants.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Local folks are trying to figure that out.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Do you o citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars not in there. Have
you nothing to say today? Elon Musk says that you're
utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position another mayor? Have
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you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? You're
dealing with this disaster and.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
That brings us to the fires that it has been
one It has been one year since the fires ravaged
the Pacific Palisades area.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
The opinion editor for the California Post, Joel Pollock, was
on Fox News when he revealed that fires in the
state park local headed next to the Palisades were not
suppressed because the park contained rare plants and the fire
department needed an archaeologist to approve the action first. This
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would be funny if the consequences weren't so dire.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Here's what he said.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Smoking gun evidence wasn't found by me. It was uncovered
during the course of private lawsuits against public authorities who
failed in their duty to protect Pacific Palisades. And they
have released drone footage that shows smoke rising from an
earlier fire that took place on January first, twenty twenty five,
called the Lachman Fire, which the fire department failed to
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extinguish fully as it smoldered in the roots of plants.
And we believe and many others believe that part of
the reason that fire was never fully extinguished was that
the state of California had a policy on parkland of
not allowing heavy fire suppression equipment into areas that were
considered sensitive, either.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Because they had rare plants or.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Because they possibly had cultural resources. And if you read
the documents, these policies, which were crafted.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
In late twenty twenty four, said.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
That you could not suppress fire in the state park,
which is right up against specific polisades, unless you had
an archaeologist present to tell you where you could and could.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Not put out the fire. So as the result of
these policies, you.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Had this massive inferno that spread in high winds and
that destroyed the plants and likely many of the cultural sites. Anyway,
this policy helped guide firefighters because it had previously been
used even against public departments that tried to suppress fire
or to cut fire brakes. The Governor of California, Gavin
Newsom we showed there earlier.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Lying to one of my neighbors.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
He says that the state of California is not responsible
that this was a local decision by firefighters. He says
he sent one hundred and ten fire engines to southern
California in advance of the extreme winds, but he did
not send fire engines to that spot where there had
been a fire on January first, six days before the
wind event, where there was smoldering fire, where some residents
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had reported smoking, where the state knew there was a
huge risk of reignition.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I love this country. I'm not running for office. I
don't need anybody to vote for me. I don't say
that because people need to hear it. I'll say it
because I deeply believe it. And I don't just love
this country because this is a country I was born in.
Reminds me of the old Winston Churchill line French prominent Frenchman,
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proud Frenchman said to Winston Churchill, he said, Prime Minister Churchill,
if I were not born a Frenchman, I should want
to be born an Englishman, to which church Show famously,
without missing a beat, said, if I had not been
born an Englishman, I should want to be born an Englishman.
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I have seriously thoroughly studied the world. I have traveled,
not as much as some of you traveling salesmen and
engineers project consultant guys.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But I've traveled.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I've made it my business to travel to a lot
of countries and see a lot of different cultures and
ask people about the opportunities, the sense of security, of
faith in the system, a sense of justice. And I
got to tell you, it's the greatest nation on earth.
It's the greatest nation and the history of earth to
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the extent that we can trust history's telling of the
people of Sparta or Rome, Troy. But it pains me,
It genuinely pains me that the problems that plague other
countries have befallen our country when they hadn't before. And
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it troubles me because good people took for granted how
great this country is and assumed that somehow God had
just ordained it would be the case. America's great always
has been, always will be. We don't have anything to do.
Let's just open the borders to the entire third world.
Let's just let toxic, cancerous ideology take hold. Let's just
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assume that when people tell us what they're going to do,
they won't do it because things.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Are always great in America.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I love this countries and this kind of nonsense right here,
this cannot will not be accepted.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Christy know I'm doing her best, White Yoakum. Earlier today
there was an ice involved shooting.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
And she gave her speech or presser and a cowboy
had a touch too big for her body.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Touch too big.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
But I don't think she's worn hats for a long time.
I like the look, don't get me wrong. I like
the rugged individualism. And you know she is from the
Dakotas you got to You know that's an image, and
she is a woman trying to project strength.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I have no problem with that.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
It is harder for a woman to project strength in
a position like that, and it is a position of
strength than it is for a man. Feminine attire is
naturally not designed to look as tough.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That's a fact, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Somehow Margaret Thatcher pulled it off, and they called her
the Iron Lady. She had to be cold and frigid
at all times in order to be taken seriously as
a strong woman projecting the strength of the British in
their resurgence alongside Reagan, and I think she did an
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admirable job. I actually like the Christy noam of cowgirl chic.
I like that she exposes her arms. They're sexy, and
sometimes her shoulders, they're sexy.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
There's nothing wrong with being sexy.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Just because most women her age can't be that sexy
doesn't mean she can't show off her sexy. Don't be jealous,
and I can guarantee you this. If you're jealous, are
you going to run her down? And that's inappropriate. Just
because your husband says yeah, doesn't mean he agrees. The
woman is a smoke show for her age. She might
be a legitimate standalone smoke show, but she's definitely a
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smoke show for her age. Right, Oh, you know what?
You reminded me what you wanted me to do. I'll
get to the being in just a moment. But today
she wore her hat down real low over her eyes
like Doyle and Slinglade aka Dwight Yoakum, and I posted
to it on the social media is to get people's
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thoughts and reaction to that. But somebody has changed the
way she's wearing her ha hat on purpose. You can
tell it. It was a designed to play all right.
From the serious stuff I was talking about I was
lamenting my nation and how the systems have failed. I
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used to take great pride in by any statistical measure,
you'd say America was the best.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And when I would travel around the world.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And things would be broken, and I'd say, well, how
come we can't just do this and can hook do this?
Ain't America. These don't work like that here. They don't
work at all here. And then things started failing during
my lifetime. You know, Detroit went from the fifth largest
city in a great city of American industry and might
to a public housing project. Chicago one of the world's
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great cities that represented industrial might and commodities, trading and strength,
and design and invention and architecture of Frank wood Wright
and others. And journalism. American journalism was well represented in
this city. And then it fell into being the sort
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of the poster child for the Obama administration. And in
New York, which was the world's great city, the world
looked to the financial headquarters, to the arts and entertainment headquarters.
I mean, this was a city of great art and
music and live theater and finance and food. This was
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a special place right culture couture couldn't think of the word.
This was a city that replaced London and Paris for
what they had once been. And New York has plunged
into deep despair. But that began before Mamdani. Let's be
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clear about that. That began decades ago. But I just
keep looking at I keep used to be I could say, well,
this place is a terrible place. But my America is
still my America because there's the rest of the country.
But increasingly you see that the rest of the country
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that we just assume is great is shrinking in size,
and the parts of the country that have failed, the
parts of the country that are corrupted, the parts of
the country. Saw a video the other day of it
said be careful who you associate with, because they will
affect you. And it was two beautiful red strawberries and
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they were on a toothpick, and then a third strawberry
was added to the toothpick, and it was, you know,
squinched up beside them.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
It squenched a word or more I like that word.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Anyway, they put the third strawberry in there, touching the
middle one, and it showed you a time lapse of
that tainted strawberry tainting the middle one which didn't drag
the other one. It was like they were pulling them
under the water, drowning them. The decay was obvious. And
that's what I see happening Minnesota. Minnesota was a purple state.
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We had the governor of Minnesota on who ran for
president in twenty twelve. And look, he wasn't a Texas Republican.
He wasn't in Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi Republican,
but he was at least a Republican of some sort.
Now that state has fallen blue, and it is sad, sad,
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sad what has become of it? Fox nine in Minneapolis
reporting that a Somali restaurant was paid twelve million dollars
a year after claiming to feed four to six thousand
poor kids per day.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
In December and twenty twenty one, the FBI installed US
surveillance camera overlooking this building just off Lake Street in Minneapolis.
At the time, it was Safari Restaurant, which overall took
in twelve million dollars in federal child meal payments through
Feeding Our Future. Safari's former co owner, Salim Sayid is
on trial alongside Amy Bach, the Feeding our Future executive
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director Safari, claimed to feed four.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
To six thousand kids a day.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
It's invoices and meal counts shown to the jury alongside
the video an FBI agent testifying that an average of
forty people came and went during the six weeks it
was surveilled. The FBI set up a total of twelve
cameras at sites claiming to serve extraordinary numbers of meals.
Another was at a deli in Saint Paul, also registered
by defended Salim Sayid, which claimed eighteen hundred meals per day.
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The video shown to the jury showed an average of
twenty three people a day coming and going. The jury
was shown dozens of invoices, meal counts, and emails sees
from Feeding Our Futures headquarters in Saint Anthony. Some showed
links to websites that randomly generated names and ages to
create rosters of children who were served meals. Many were
signed or sent by Amy Bach, who's charged with wire
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fraud along with bribery for the alleged.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Kickbacks that she received.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Her defense attorney tried to raise doubt when it cross
examined the FBI agent that they didn't see the back
entrance where it's possible meals left packed in trucks for delivery.
He pushed back, insisting they'd still see congestion to that volume,
he said, I would say it would not make any sense.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
As a general rule, we do not here on the
Michael Berry Show comment on breaking news.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We may sometimes acknowledge.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It, so you know we are aware of it, but
we have a policy of not commenting on it. And
that policy comes from the fact that, sitting as we are,
which is what nine to nine percent of people who
are commenting on news breaking news do, we are dependent
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on primary news sources because we're not there on the scene.
We don't see it, so we have to depend on
a primary news source, which is almost never an objective source.
People have biases, and almost always its scus left excus
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anti white, excuse pro minority. It's scus pro immigrant, it
ECUs anti American citizen, excus anti Christian, excus pro Muslim.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It skews. You get the point.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
So, yes, I am always aware of the news story
that you may have watched in the in the around
the water cooler at work. I am of the belief
that when we make when we when I offer an
opinion on a subject, I should have some basis upon
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which to make that judgment, and not what I've kind
of heard happened, whether that's a shooting at Brown University
or George Floyd dying, Because as you later learn, there
are details that are that are obfuscated, that are that
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are hidden from you. There are people who have an
a desire to alter what has happened because it's a
first in time. It's a first mover advantage they call
it in a business world. Whoever gets in the in
the in the news space first gets to create the
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subject around which we're going to talk. And so if
they say this happened, most people will never know.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, that isn't what happened.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
And this is a perfect description of what happened on
January sixth, But what happened in Mogadishu where I'm not
you know what, I'm not even going to set the
stage because I don't know. And until I can feel
comfortable that I know. We know that an ice agent
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was involved, we know that another person is dead. There
are allegations that that person was attempting to do harm
to the ice agent. I believe it But again, I
don't believe it because I have good facts upon which
to believe it. I believe it because I think that
the Democrats have created an environment where nutjobs out there
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are trying to kill federal agents. But what I do know,
because this is I can watch it. It's just as
true for me watching it as it is to people
who are there on the scene. Is that little idiot
mayor of Mogadishu who has pandered to the Somalis. If
you ever see the moment that he's walking into the
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building attempting to do a Somali dance, or he's eating
Somali food attempting to act like this is his daily cuisine.
He's a little weasel, as all white liberals are. He's
a little pandering weasel. It's disgusting. But he did say
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today to ice to federal agents to get the f out.
This is part of what we talked about about six
eight months ago that Democrats were being told by the
James Carvels, by their consultants that they needed to be
more like Trump, they needed to cuss more. And know
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what you're thinking, Michael, come on, you really think they
told them cuss more? You'll sound more like Trump. People
will like you absolutely proofs into pudding. You can see it.
It's there. They all of a sudden started cussing more.
You saw Jasmine Crockett do it. You saw in this
case Jacob Fried to it. That gets attention. It is
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intended to convey a deeper conviction in what you're saying,
and that made the news. Y'all get the f out now,
you and I think, wait, you can't tell the feds
to get out. We're all in this together. Our constitution
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has a form of federalism. They have every constitutional right
and responsibility.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
To be there.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You can't do this. They're enforcing federal law. You don't
like the federal law, change it. That's what no one
ever talks about on the left. If you don't like
our immigration laws, simply change them. Oh you can't get
them changed. Why can't you change them? They've had a
Democrat majory. They got to I'm a care through and
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that was terribly unpopular. The reason they can't change it
is because the American people don't want it. And I
think it is ill understood the extent to which the
American people don't want a change.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
They want more enforcement. Not less.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
So that is probably more time than I should have
because I don't ever want to make statements. If I
can help it, then I have to walk back because
they're not true. And you may not think of yourself
as trusting me, but I want to be trustworthy, whether
you trust me or not, I want to be worthy
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of your trust. It is an honor to come into
your truck, your van, your car, your living room, your workplace,
your AirPods.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Either live or by podcast.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
It is an honor to get to talk to you
every day. And I take that responsibility. And maybe that's
me being over the top, taking myself too seriously, but
I want you to understand I'm not a shock shot,
I'm not a DJ, I'm not a time filler. This
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isn't a shift, as the radio business used to call it.
I love this country the way you love this country.
I get to do research and talk about what's going
on in this country while you're baking the bread and
making the meats and farming the land and defending the
country and defending our streets and running businesses and raising
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kids and teaching kids and suturing surgeries. So just as
you would take seriously if they rolled me into the
emergency room. Your job as a nurse or a doctor.
I take seriously what we do here. And that is why,
much to the chagrin of some people, a lot of
people in the industry and some lists, I do not
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engage in the real time commentary of what is happening
because I don't trust that I have good information, and
so why would I offer a subjective opinion that I
don't know I can stand behind tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I think that's unhealthy. I think there's too much of it.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I watched today as the stations they immediately, you know,
maybe they were going to talk about the LA fire
first anniversary, but then there's a shooting in the news
director say, all right, get us some guests on. So
they start calling people and you see the guests and
they're in their living room, and you know, they turn
their TV on and and the ladies don't have makeup
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on during the first interview, and by the second one
they do. They're rushing to get on TV and say something, Hi. Well,
I don't know the exact details earnest, but what I
do know is that and they state platitudes, so just know,
we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's a poll.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I'll see that we don't do it, and by tomorrow
I will be able to state an opinion. It will
matter if you need a rush to judgment, it's worth
what you paid for.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
We have just across the one hundred station threshold, so
we have a lot of new listeners who don't know
the show, don't know what I'm about, don't know what
I believe, and I don't believe what Tucker believes, or
what Buck or Clay or Candice Owens or Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Shapiro or whatever. I believe what I believe.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
And I don't want it assumed that I believe what
you know, the party platform or everyone else does, and
people will make that assumption that everyone agrees on everything,
and that's not true. I came to my conclusions based
on my life experiences and based on my own studies,
and some of those opinions are different. So let me
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say a couple of things right now. I am very
doctrainial about the position that people who wear the badge
are honorable people. They start as honorable people. The willingness
to wear the badge makes you an honorable people a person. Now,
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there are some absolute turds, I mean awful human beings
who wear the badge. But of all the fields that
we ever discuss, I find it interesting that this is
the only field law enforcement where people cannot say we
should respect the people who wear the badge without a
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disclaimer that they're not all perfect. Because you'll let your
kids wear the jersey of an adult football player, and
you'll let him worship that guy because he throws the
football or catches the football, or runs with the football,
or tackles the guy with the football. When the number
of absolute thugs baby Mama's in every city that NFL
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has a team beating up women, squandering their money, terrible
life choices, but we don't feel the need to talk
about You know, I like the NFL.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I like so and so.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
He's my hero, he's my kids he really I make
sure my kid worships him without pointing out that the
lifestyle he's leading. What about rappers, We don't feel the
need to do that. Oh, my kid loves so and so.
What about politicians complete scumbags? You should have to say,
I know almost every politician is a scumbag, but I
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like so and so.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
As opposed to the reverse, because the numbers are.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
So high it is a magnet for scumbacks. So let
me say this, the people who wear the badge deserve respect.
I am a civil liberties guy. If there is a
bad law, change it. If a law enforcement officer enforces
the law inappropriately, then in a court of law, it
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needs to be overturned. No matter how much we want
to believe that every bad guy, every person that's that's
apprehended is a bad guy, that's just not true. There
are over zealous cops, often with the best of intentions.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
My brother was a cop.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Sure, that's part of what colors my opinion, but I
learned a lot about the process.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I know a lot of cops. I talk to cops
every single day.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
They send me stories of what's going on, they send me, perspectives,
they send me. I'll get feed I'll get more feedback
than usual tonight from officers across the country, and I
will engage them. And all many officers think that officers
can never be wrong because in their opinion, we're all
out there criticizing everything they do.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And that's understandable.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
If you're a cop, you put on your badge, you
leave your more cops that are men than are women.
So if you're if you're a male cop or female,
you're leaving your house and the people who love you,
and you're going out into a world that is constantly
questioning you, constantly questioning you. I told you I wasn't
going to talk about that Minnesota Ice Minnesota story with
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the Ice shooting because it happened today. I'm not speaking
about the facts of the story itself. I'm speaking generally
about that. But we have expectations of law enforcement officers
at every level.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That they be so many things in one for the paycheck.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Of your average civil servant, we expect them to be perfect.
And they walk out of their house every day, and
this is true. This is more true of Ice today
than any other level of government.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They walk out of their house every.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Day, especially in the major urban areas where the mayors
and police chiefs are basically putting a bounty on their head.
If someone were to say about Mayor Jacob Fryar the
kinds of things he said about Ice today, there would
(29:09):
be a howl.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You're going to get him killed. Folks.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Let's just look at what's happened in this country in
the last few years, which is exactly what George Soros wants.
Charlie Kirk assassinated, martyred while giving a speech.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Just think about this for a moment.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
You know, these things have been so normalized. Step back
for a moment and think about this. Do you realize
Charlie Kirk was murdered giving a speech engaging in people
of Hey, what's your opinion. I'll tell you mine, you
tell me yours. Let's talk about that was so offensive
(29:47):
to somebody. He had opinions that were so offensive to someone.
Imagine how much you've got people twisted up that they're
willing to do that.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So, whether it's a.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Police officer, sir at the local, county, state, or federal,
these people are heroes. And I don't know what happened
in this story.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I'll know about tomorrow, but these people are heroes.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Paul Harvey's father was murdered in the line of duty,
and I think Paul Harvey said it the way I
feel better than anybody.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Else possibly could. A policeman is acomposite of what all
men are. I guess a mingling of saint and center,
dust and deity called statistics wave the fan over stinkers
underscore instances of dishonesty and brutality because they are news.
What that really means is that they are exceptional. They
are unusual, They are not commonplace. Buried under the fraud
(30:38):
is the fact, and the fact is the less than
one half of one percent of policemen misfit that uniform,
and that is a better average than you'd find among clergymen.
What is a policeman? He, of all men, is at
once the most needed and the most wanted, a strangely
nameless creature who is sir to his face and pig
(30:59):
or worse behind his back. He must be such a
diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that
each will think he won. But if a policeman is neat,
he's conceited. If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant,
he's a flirt. If he's not, he's a grouch. He
must make instant decisions, which would require months for a lawyer.
But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's delivered, he's lazy.
(31:22):
He must be first to an accident, infallible with the diagnosis.
He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, ty splints,
and above all, be sure the victim goes home without
a limp or expect to be sued. The police officer
must know every gun draw on the run and hit
where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip
two men twice his size and half his age without
(31:43):
damaging his uniform and without being brutal. If you hit him,
he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully.
A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must
know where all of the sin is and not partake.
The policeman from a single human hair must be able
to describe the crime the weamon the criminal and tell
(32:04):
you where the.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Criminal is hiding.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
But if he catches the criminal, he's lucky.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
If he doesn't, he's a dunce. If he gets promoted,
he has a political pool. If he doesn't, he's a dullard.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
The policeman must chase bum leads to a dead end,
stake out ten nights to tag one witness who saw
it happen but refuses to remember. He runs files and
writes reports until his eyes ache to build a case
against some felon who will get dealed out by a
shameless shamus or an honorable who isn't honorable. The policeman
(32:35):
must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a
tough guy and a gentleman. And of course he'll have
to be a genius because he'll have to feed a family.
It's on a policeman's salary.
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