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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh that's music to mine.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Ear It is Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Happy day or happy day?
Speaker 5 (00:48):
When do does war? Whendy war? When does war?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Three is away?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Love? Happy day? Or have you de happy? Or have
you dad?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
When Jesus war? Oh whitty war? When Jesus war tree away?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He loved? It's a habit.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Day, happy day or.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
A happy day?
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Happy?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
When those war? Oh witty war? When those war.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Three years away? You need to duck.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Happy day? He happy? Oh happy deal.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Or happy? Oh habited?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Happy?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
When Jesus war? When it war?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
When je thos war.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Three years away?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
He needed to look.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Have the d.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Oh lop good girl?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Oh yes, Open line Friday seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand. Has
your week flown or blown? Some announcement you'd like to make,
some opinion?
Speaker 9 (05:34):
You'd like the state seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand to get a start as we always do
for us here the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi, Nakanishi.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You'll get them.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
And then when you drive over the little cord, it
goes ding dang And I gotta tell you, is there
a happier noise than the ding dame when you drive
into the gas station? That man, that just make you happy?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Hunger crisis growing for millions of Americans, with SNAP benefits
set to run dry in just days.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Forty two million Americans who rely on SNAP, the federal
program that helps families afford groceries.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
This program helps one in eight Americans buy groceries. Millions
of Americans are questioning how they will get enough to eat.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Who's starving to death in this country? Why are you
starving to death? When's the last time you provided your
own food? Are you working? Are you trying to work?
I think there's a lot of resentment among working class
and middle class Americans that we have a professionally poor,
supposedly class and that they're living well.
Speaker 12 (06:39):
A huge star studded rally on Queen's Zora on Mundani,
there was chance calling for a taxi ridge.
Speaker 9 (06:50):
What's going on in your life that you think, if
only we could tax the rich, my life would be better.
Is it because you think, well, those people have so
much money, I'd like some of it for myself.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Hey, we're in New York I've got a gun.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Let's get to the Broadway show.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
It always amazes me when people come here from New York.
This is people from New York City, not.
Speaker 12 (07:14):
Upstate New York City, New York City.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
They'll say, from New York who cares? And they try
to act like, oh, well, you know you've seen Mafia movies.
That's me. Honestly, nobody is impressed with you. I've heard
people in all sorts of walks of life say they're
from New York as if that's a flex. Nobody cares
that you're from New York. Nobody's impressed with it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Go back.
Speaker 12 (08:04):
If you could find it.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
The Michael Mary with these features for less money by
one thousand on Friday.
Speaker 13 (08:16):
To the phones, we go, Robert Eure up, Go ahead, sir, yes, sir,
thank you everything about call sir.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I saw the President Trump and some Republicans were talking
about eliminating the filibuster to win the shutdown. I am
in favor of that. But the problem is this that
Lord forbid, Lord forbid. If the Democrats retake power, uh,
they're going to have their way that they couldn't get
with Biden or Obama. And that's my fear I hope
that doesn't happen, but the same time, we got to
make sure we're ready for that.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Wait wait wait wait, wait wait wait wait wait, slow down.
So what are you worried that we're doing? That They're
going to take power and then they're going to do.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I'm worried that even after the Republicans eliminate the filibuster
and we end the shutdown, Lord for bid, if the
Democrats regain power after midterms or later, they'll do the
same thing, and they'll be able to do all that
stuff that Biden wanted to do, but we're not able
to because of two people stopping it.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, Arbert, I appreciate that, but I would argue that
our weakness is that we hold fast to structure and
procedures and norms, and they don't. If someone breaks into
your home armed and you say, well, I'd like to
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shoot him and defend myself, but I'm afraid if I
shoot him and defend myself, then more of them will
come later. They don't care about norms and procedures and decency.
They do what they want. They've proven that, and what
Trump has shown is that Republicans are going to have
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to take off the gloves and start bashing them back.
Look what they did to him. Look what they did
to him that alone. If every American had to go
through what Donald Trump went through, you'd understand why he
is so fearless. Now. He played the game the first term,
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he did nothing wrong. They impeached him twice. Might I
remind you they set up January sixth. Look at all
the things, and then they went after him when he
got out of office. I mean they harassed him, They
tried to put him in prison, they tried to bankrupt him.
(10:40):
At what point do you go, ef I'm and start
pinning them to the wall. And that's where I am.
I am for being as awful to them as they've
been to us plus ten because whatever they're going to
do coming up, they're going to do, they're not going
to say, well, we're not going to do that because
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the Republicans didn't do that. They believe Mike makes right.
When they get power, they do what they want to do.
Our job is to keep them from ever having power.
But I don't believe in letting our foot off the
throttle one bit. I like them all sent to prison.
I'd like I'd like everyone, I'd like Pelosi to be
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in prison for her trading activities. I'm sure Schumer's got
twenty five crimes. I'd like Brennan, Komi, Biden and his
son break through that auto pin. Let's go put them
all away.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I mean it.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Well they'll come back and the next Feller, we'll go
out for him. Well, look what they did to Trump,
They've already done that. That door has been open. We're
we're we've passed that point. It's the veil has been pierced.
We're not going back. Pantelia or pantelia.
Speaker 14 (12:01):
Untalia. I agree, it's Greek.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Oh okay, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 14 (12:11):
Yeah, So I was talking.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
About welfare reform, but I agree with everything you just
said about pinning them Democrats to the wall. Every time
we take the nice road, we give and give and give,
and they take and take, and all they do is
just hurt us more and more. But anyway, the reason
I called was, we need welfare reform.
Speaker 14 (12:34):
It's okay to be on.
Speaker 12 (12:37):
Assistance, but you need a reason to be getting off
of assistance. So make it available for people. Give them
everything they need for a time four to six years,
but they need to be going to college. They need
to be working. They need to become an asset and
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give back to what they've taken, but make it available
that they can actually do something to be able to
get off of government assessments. We need reform.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Yeah, well they don't want. Most people who are abusing
the system, they don't want to be fixed, and we
tend to focus on the end user, the person who
is abusing it by accepting it. Just like every other
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structure of government in this country, they have so insinuated
themselves into the bureaucracy. The only way you're ever going
to stop this is starve the beasts, cut off the phones.
The number of people who are working administering food stamps
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who are running the hustle picking up the phone and
calling people they know and bringing them in and getting
them signed up. And it doesn't seem like much, but
every one of them is doing it across the country.
This is a whole thing. Once you get in the system,
nobody's ever asking you again. You just you're on the
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gravy train. Look at all the things that have been
given out. Remember the Obama Phone. You've got Snap, you've
got rental assistance, you've got all of these games people
play a lot of the people actually do do some work,
but you can't. They will not take a paycheck has
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to be cash, So they create the underground economy. And
they do that because they don't want to throw off
their SNAP benefits, and they won't go take a job
that pays a certain amount because then they would lose
their benefits. This is all created a perverse incentive to
live a certain lifestyle, and the problem is it becomes
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a ceiling to their growth and development because if they
were to improve themselves, there would be a period of
time when they were being weaned off of the benefits,
and that's they they grow addicted to it, and so
over a period of time they develop this lifestyle and
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they get out of They don't live around anyone who
works a day job. They don't know anyone who works
a day job. Because, by the way, they're not just
on SNAP, they're on Section eight. They're on a lot
of other things. And if you start digging deep into
the behaviors and the lifestyle, the number of children, the
number of people in prison, you start realizing nobody's going hungry.
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It's just whether the grift is going to continue.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
To say this, it is very well documented that words
nowadays can actually break your bones.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Why you're not, that's right the Michael Berry Show. My
kids don't trigger.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Eat any longer.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
But if you have kids who do, the weather is
perfect for it. You're going to have a heck of
a good night. For I didn't even check for tonight.
Do you know what the weather's gonna be. Oh, it's
gonna be nice.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Oh man.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I can remember one year we didn't have kids yet,
but I got some spacesuit and it really just looked
like the michela Man or Pillsbury dough Boy, but in
my mind it was gonna be a space suit. And
it had this lead. You put on the helmet and
then it was blacked out so you couldn't see my face.
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And when you put that thing on, I don't know.
They must have insulated it with asbestos or something. That
thing was hot, and I remember that year was particularly
hot and I had to take off my helmet, ruining
the surprise for some of the kids. We used to
get so into Halloween before we even had kids. We
would out in the shrubs and things I would I
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would put music and I really wanted was a boom,
but I thought it was cool, little lights and things,
and you got ross in the late nineties, you didn't
have all the stuff you have now. It was it
was it was elaborate for the day. Then then it
was just you're walking up down the streets with your
kids because they're going through that phase. And then you
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get out of it and you kind of I don't
know that I miss it. No, I don't think I
miss it. I feel like we did it, like Little
League Baseball. We did it, and then you move on,
or you know, an any number of swim lessons. You
do your thing, and then you you kind of you
kind of move on, you kind of move on from there. Yeah,
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but it was a good time. I don't regret it.
I don't, But no, I don't pine for it either.
What a couple of weeks it's been for the no
Kings folks. A couple of weeks they wore there doory
costumes and they chanted, no more Kings, we hate the King.
Then they caught win at the gravy train called snap
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is running dry with the government shutdown, they said, oh,
we don't really care about the King. We gotta we
gotta get our stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No Kings.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Uh, Okay, how about feed us and give us money. King.
Speaker 13 (18:29):
Just two weeks ago the streets were filled with chance
so no kings, no rulers, no masters. But now those
same voices have changed their tune.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Give us our food, we're starving, where's our check?
Speaker 13 (18:45):
Hold on, So you don't want a king, but you
do want the king to feed you. You reject the crown,
but demand the castle pantry stay open. Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to the United States of contradiction. Independence is sacred
until the free buffet closes.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
So which is it, folks?
Speaker 13 (19:08):
Do we want freedom or do we want freebies? Because
you can't yell no kings one week and then beg
feed us, o generous ruler the next, you'll majestee the
peasants say their free feast is late again, you wanted
a revolution. Turns out he just wanted a refill.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
The crazy things men do for Booty, a now former
New York State trooper, shot himself in the leg while
on duty in order to gain sympathy from his ex girlfriend,
the nurse. What is it with cops and nurses? My
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brother only ever dated nurses and then married a nurse.
It's there's something going on. There and I see it's
cops and nurses, and cops and school teachers. That's the
two you see. Prosecutors say he was determined to impress
the woman after she dumped him last year, so he
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staged an incident, claiming a dark skinned man in a
black Dodge Charger shot him in the leg during a
traffic stop. He has now pleaded guilty to charges of
official misconduct and tampering with evidence. Sentenced to six months
in jail. I don't want false police claims. It feels
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like a long time to get butt raped, CBS New York.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Sentencing day for former New York State trooper Thomas Mascia,
and though he pleaded guilty, he said nothing when the
judge asked if he had a statement.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It's mortified at his behavior. He regrets it. Obviously. It
was a mistake. He regrets it, and he'll live with
it the rest of his life.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
His attorney said lifelong struggles with mental health led Massia
to shoot himself in the leg last year, then concoct
a story he was shot while on duty, setting off
a manhunt for a motorist he even described as dark skinned.
A planned and researched force say prosecutors to get attention
and sympathy.
Speaker 15 (21:19):
There was an ex girlfriend he was trying to impress,
and I we believe that he wanted the public to
see him as a hero.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Just released evidence shows the bullet casings. Massia admits he
scattered on the Southern State Parkway at a stage of
fake crime scene, a highway he allegedly chose because of
its lack of cameras. Internet searches show research into which
body part to shoot and what temporary new jersey plates
look like so he could describe a fleeing car. Following
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the shooting, everyone started out rooting for you, the judge
told Massia, calling the wild goose chase he set off
dangerous and outrageous, sentencing Massi out of six months in jail,
five years probation, two hundred and eighty nine thousand dollars
in restitution for the manhunt for a phantom shooter, and
mental health treatment.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Why did this occur? Doesn't just occur out of the blue.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
It occurs because it was a result of many years
of mental health issues that were never treated.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
His parents will serve no time, charged with illegal gun
possession during a search of their home of the six
month sentence. MASSI is only required to serve four and
he'll spend that time in protective custody for his own safety.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Wow, the stupid things we do. Of course, women do
stupid things for men too. I'm always surprised how fast
and how thorough this process is. I've seen friends who
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they and their wives get divorced, and she's, over the
years put on some weight, and she's constantly saying wearing
you know, house slippers and sweats. Uh man, I'm I'm
gonna lose some weight. I mean, I've put on weight.
I'm gonna lose some weight, but never does and no makeup,
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hair's not done, fine, whatever. And then they get divorced.
We'll be out to dinner and none they'll say, is
that is that Ramon's ex wife? And there you look
over there and this stunning beauty queen has slimmed down,
got a new rack, I mean the whole thing. What
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have you done for the opposite sex that you look
back now? And it was crazy?
Speaker 16 (23:46):
Seven three one thousand, say you feature packed PCRs refrigerators.
The Michael Berry Show Low can't last long, so hurry
into Cricket City.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
It's over line Friday. We start with John. But if
there is something out there that you remember doing for
the man or woman you wanted to woo, that you
look back and think how stupid it was seven one three,
one thousand, John, I know that's not what you called about.
Go ahead, moment.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Yeah, Hey, let me ask you. Let me ask you this.
You're Uh, Oh, I good a good friend, Elma. Wayne.
It's up for parole review this week, and Uh, I said,
we don't think he's.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Gonna really, but do you know if if if the governor,
I say, that's.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
A Are you on a speaker phone?
Speaker 14 (24:58):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Did you have the idea?
Speaker 12 (25:00):
How?
Speaker 9 (25:01):
It just sounds awful? I'll tell you what it's. It's
kind of a little bit like this.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So can you hear me?
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Okay, let me let me get off.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, no, no, you do that.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
I'll be over here, okay.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Sonny way. My question is uh, at the at the
pro board recomens his release, then it goes to the
governor uh for his approval or rejection. And if the governor.
Speaker 14 (25:34):
Does not, you know, he rejects the pro board recommendation.
I understand. I can californ you, Uh, they can take
it to the space Supreme Court, where the Space Supreme
Court can rule uh against the governor.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
And then and so that prisoner is in we leaks into.
Speaker 14 (26:01):
Society, and you know, so I'm wondering, is that the
case in Texas?
Speaker 9 (26:08):
Ron writes, Zar. Do you remember that nineteen sixties show
Emergency which featured that fire station in Los Angeles? Jack
Webb produced it. Those medics were always flirting with the
nurses at Rampart Hospital. Hmmm, maybe I watch almost as
much me TV as Sleepy Joe. Just the facts, Zar,
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Just the facts, James, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 15 (26:33):
Go ahead, Hey Michael, did everybody miss the fact that
they said that guy had years of mental problems and
here it he's a cop? I mean, think about that.
That's pretty rough. What do you mean, well, I mean
they said he had years of mental problems and then
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now he's a comp and he's out toting I'm going
out in public. Well, that's a lot of the problems
we got going on right now. Is the wrong people
have gone?
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Well, I understand that makes sense from where you're coming from.
But let me just let me let me give you
two things to think about. Number one is his lawyers
said he did this because he was struggling with mental problems.
Any time you commit any crime that looks crazy, your
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lawyer has practically a duty to say, well, you got
to realize he has mental problems. That's going to be
part of your defense because what you're trying to do
is you're trying to get to his state of mind.
You're trying to suggest that he was not, as my
grandmother would say, he was not at hisself. He was
not his normal self. He was making bad decisions. He
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was in and he wasn't at himself. It was in
a bad place. We don't know if that's true or not.
We don't know if he made a cold calculated decision,
dumb as it sounds to us, to shoot himself in
the leg because he wanted her attention, or if he was,
you know, in the middle of a mental health episode.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
We don't know.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
They're gonna argue the latter, obviously, right. But then I
suppose you you start looking at the details. Had he
planned this for some period of time, had he threatened
it in the past, What are some other factors cutting
forward against now? Your next point, I think is the
more important point, and that is, how about the fact
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that this guy is having some mental health issues and
he's walking around with a gun. I will tell you this,
if you start as a cop and don't have any
mental health issues, you're gonna have some in time. We
love to have this idea that cops should be just
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like the rest of us, you know, to work surfing
in that a little while, return some emails, go down
and get some coffee, flirt with Peggy soou a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Check the mail.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
We got a meeting here about ten forty five. Stroll
into there, got a fresh cup of coffee, pick up
a donut on the way down, carry some papers in,
Read some emails while the meeting's going on, because nobody's
paying attention to our particular participation. Find out where we're
going to go to lunch, See what we can have
for lunching. But I got a special what they're doing.
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Figure out how maybe we could work a drink or
two in. Nobody will notice, especially if we can get
ourselves on a run away from the restaurant where we
got to make a drop off. Figure out how we
can cut out early, maybe go get some more drinks,
or go fishing, or get to the game early. And
then we got to figure out where we're gonna park.
Let's see what parking did they give us? This company
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so cheap they get us, Oh, they gave us that
lot's like five lots away.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I gotta find out.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I gotta buddy to have Diamond Club tickets. Let me
see if I can get hit. If he's not using
his tickets for tonight, then we got to figure out
where these tickets are. So we go online and look
and see over over in the right fielding's a little
far out, but then borrow over there, and then what
we're gonna do from there? And let's stop off and
at Tommy at his restaurant before that. That's not a
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CoP's life. You see those really really really bad guys
in the news every day. They have to interact with
them day in and day out, and most of the
time let them off or the DA lets them off,
And you have to deal with that day in and
day out. You have to hug the wives or the
baby mamas after the guys killed their kid. You've got
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to hug the victims of people. You've got to write
the reports of that and know nothing will be done,
and see the frustration and anger in people's faces. Yeah,
they're gonna end up with some mental health problems after
a while, they're gonna end up broken and shattered. That's
why so many of them drink. That's why the suicide
rate is so high. That's why the toll it takes
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on their marriages. Yeah, if you say you can't have
a mental health problem be a cop, you won't have
a police department.
It's that time time time time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh that's music to mine.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Ear It is Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Happy day or happy day?
Speaker 5 (00:48):
When do does war? Whendy war? When does war?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Three is away?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Love? Happy day? Or have you de happy? Or have
you dad?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
When Jesus war? Oh whitty war? When Jesus war tree away?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He loved? It's a habit.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Day, happy day or.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
A happy day?
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Happy?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
When those war? Oh witty war? When those war.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Three years away? You need to duck.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Happy day? He happy? Oh happy deal.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Or happy? Oh habited?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Happy?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
When Jesus war? When it war?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
When je thos war.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Three years away?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
He needed to look.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Have the d.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Oh lop good girl?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Oh yes, Open line Friday seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand, seven one three nine one thousand. Has
your week flown or blown? Some announcement you'd like to make,
some opinion?
Speaker 9 (05:34):
You'd like the state seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand to get a start as we always do
for us here the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi, Nakanishi.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You'll get them.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
And then when you drive over the little cord, it
goes ding dang And I gotta tell you, is there
a happier noise than the ding dame when you drive
into the gas station? That man, that just make you happy?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Hunger crisis growing for millions of Americans, with SNAP benefits
set to run dry in just days.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Forty two million Americans who rely on SNAP, the federal
program that helps families afford groceries.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
This program helps one in eight Americans buy groceries. Millions
of Americans are questioning how they will get enough to eat.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Who's starving to death in this country? Why are you
starving to death? When's the last time you provided your
own food? Are you working? Are you trying to work?
I think there's a lot of resentment among working class
and middle class Americans that we have a professionally poor,
supposedly class and that they're living well.
Speaker 12 (06:39):
A huge star studded rally on Queen's Zora on Mundani,
there was chance calling for a taxi ridge.
Speaker 9 (06:50):
What's going on in your life that you think, if
only we could tax the rich, my life would be better.
Is it because you think, well, those people have so
much money, I'd like some of it for myself.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Hey, we're in New York I've got a gun.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Let's get to the Broadway show.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
It always amazes me when people come here from New York.
This is people from New York City, not.
Speaker 12 (07:14):
Upstate New York City, New York City.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
They'll say, from New York who cares? And they try
to act like, oh, well, you know you've seen Mafia movies.
That's me. Honestly, nobody is impressed with you. I've heard
people in all sorts of walks of life say they're
from New York as if that's a flex. Nobody cares
that you're from New York. Nobody's impressed with it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Go back.
Speaker 12 (08:04):
If you could find it.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
The Michael Mary with these features for less money by
one thousand on Friday.
Speaker 13 (08:16):
To the phones, we go, Robert Eure up, Go ahead, sir, yes, sir,
thank you everything about call sir.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I saw the President Trump and some Republicans were talking
about eliminating the filibuster to win the shutdown. I am
in favor of that. But the problem is this that
Lord forbid, Lord forbid. If the Democrats retake power, uh,
they're going to have their way that they couldn't get
with Biden or Obama. And that's my fear I hope
that doesn't happen, but the same time, we got to
make sure we're ready for that.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Wait wait wait wait, wait wait wait wait wait, slow down.
So what are you worried that we're doing? That They're
going to take power and then they're going to do.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I'm worried that even after the Republicans eliminate the filibuster
and we end the shutdown, Lord for bid, if the
Democrats regain power after midterms or later, they'll do the
same thing, and they'll be able to do all that
stuff that Biden wanted to do, but we're not able
to because of two people stopping it.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, Arbert, I appreciate that, but I would argue that
our weakness is that we hold fast to structure and
procedures and norms, and they don't. If someone breaks into
your home armed and you say, well, I'd like to
(09:32):
shoot him and defend myself, but I'm afraid if I
shoot him and defend myself, then more of them will
come later. They don't care about norms and procedures and decency.
They do what they want. They've proven that, and what
Trump has shown is that Republicans are going to have
(09:56):
to take off the gloves and start bashing them back.
Look what they did to him. Look what they did
to him that alone. If every American had to go
through what Donald Trump went through, you'd understand why he
is so fearless. Now. He played the game the first term,
(10:18):
he did nothing wrong. They impeached him twice. Might I
remind you they set up January sixth. Look at all
the things, and then they went after him when he
got out of office. I mean they harassed him, They
tried to put him in prison, they tried to bankrupt him.
(10:40):
At what point do you go, ef I'm and start
pinning them to the wall. And that's where I am.
I am for being as awful to them as they've
been to us plus ten because whatever they're going to
do coming up, they're going to do, they're not going
to say, well, we're not going to do that because
(11:02):
the Republicans didn't do that. They believe Mike makes right.
When they get power, they do what they want to do.
Our job is to keep them from ever having power.
But I don't believe in letting our foot off the
throttle one bit. I like them all sent to prison.
I'd like I'd like everyone, I'd like Pelosi to be
(11:22):
in prison for her trading activities. I'm sure Schumer's got
twenty five crimes. I'd like Brennan, Komi, Biden and his
son break through that auto pin. Let's go put them
all away.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I mean it.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Well they'll come back and the next Feller, we'll go
out for him. Well, look what they did to Trump,
They've already done that. That door has been open. We're
we're we've passed that point. It's the veil has been pierced.
We're not going back. Pantelia or pantelia.
Speaker 14 (12:01):
Untalia. I agree, it's Greek.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Oh okay, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 14 (12:11):
Yeah, So I was talking.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
About welfare reform, but I agree with everything you just
said about pinning them Democrats to the wall. Every time
we take the nice road, we give and give and give,
and they take and take, and all they do is
just hurt us more and more. But anyway, the reason
I called was, we need welfare reform.
Speaker 14 (12:34):
It's okay to be on.
Speaker 12 (12:37):
Assistance, but you need a reason to be getting off
of assistance. So make it available for people. Give them
everything they need for a time four to six years,
but they need to be going to college. They need
to be working. They need to become an asset and
(12:59):
give back to what they've taken, but make it available
that they can actually do something to be able to
get off of government assessments. We need reform.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Yeah, well they don't want. Most people who are abusing
the system, they don't want to be fixed, and we
tend to focus on the end user, the person who
is abusing it by accepting it. Just like every other
(13:32):
structure of government in this country, they have so insinuated
themselves into the bureaucracy. The only way you're ever going
to stop this is starve the beasts, cut off the phones.
The number of people who are working administering food stamps
(13:55):
who are running the hustle picking up the phone and
calling people they know and bringing them in and getting
them signed up. And it doesn't seem like much, but
every one of them is doing it across the country.
This is a whole thing. Once you get in the system,
nobody's ever asking you again. You just you're on the
(14:15):
gravy train. Look at all the things that have been
given out. Remember the Obama Phone. You've got Snap, you've
got rental assistance, you've got all of these games people
play a lot of the people actually do do some work,
but you can't. They will not take a paycheck has
(14:37):
to be cash, So they create the underground economy. And
they do that because they don't want to throw off
their SNAP benefits, and they won't go take a job
that pays a certain amount because then they would lose
their benefits. This is all created a perverse incentive to
live a certain lifestyle, and the problem is it becomes
(15:01):
a ceiling to their growth and development because if they
were to improve themselves, there would be a period of
time when they were being weaned off of the benefits,
and that's they they grow addicted to it, and so
over a period of time they develop this lifestyle and
(15:21):
they get out of They don't live around anyone who
works a day job. They don't know anyone who works
a day job. Because, by the way, they're not just
on SNAP, they're on Section eight. They're on a lot
of other things. And if you start digging deep into
the behaviors and the lifestyle, the number of children, the
number of people in prison, you start realizing nobody's going hungry.
(15:42):
It's just whether the grift is going to continue.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
To say this, it is very well documented that words
nowadays can actually break your bones.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Why you're not, that's right the Michael Berry Show. My
kids don't trigger.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Eat any longer.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
But if you have kids who do, the weather is
perfect for it. You're going to have a heck of
a good night. For I didn't even check for tonight.
Do you know what the weather's gonna be. Oh, it's
gonna be nice.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Oh man.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I can remember one year we didn't have kids yet,
but I got some spacesuit and it really just looked
like the michela Man or Pillsbury dough Boy, but in
my mind it was gonna be a space suit. And
it had this lead. You put on the helmet and
then it was blacked out so you couldn't see my face.
(16:43):
And when you put that thing on, I don't know.
They must have insulated it with asbestos or something. That
thing was hot, and I remember that year was particularly
hot and I had to take off my helmet, ruining
the surprise for some of the kids. We used to
get so into Halloween before we even had kids. We
would out in the shrubs and things I would I
(17:04):
would put music and I really wanted was a boom,
but I thought it was cool, little lights and things,
and you got ross in the late nineties, you didn't
have all the stuff you have now. It was it
was it was elaborate for the day. Then then it
was just you're walking up down the streets with your
kids because they're going through that phase. And then you
(17:24):
get out of it and you kind of I don't
know that I miss it. No, I don't think I
miss it. I feel like we did it, like Little
League Baseball. We did it, and then you move on,
or you know, an any number of swim lessons. You
do your thing, and then you you kind of you
kind of move on, you kind of move on from there. Yeah,
(17:45):
but it was a good time. I don't regret it.
I don't, But no, I don't pine for it either.
What a couple of weeks it's been for the no
Kings folks. A couple of weeks they wore there doory
costumes and they chanted, no more Kings, we hate the King.
Then they caught win at the gravy train called snap
(18:09):
is running dry with the government shutdown, they said, oh,
we don't really care about the King. We gotta we
gotta get our stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No Kings.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Uh, Okay, how about feed us and give us money. King.
Speaker 13 (18:29):
Just two weeks ago the streets were filled with chance
so no kings, no rulers, no masters. But now those
same voices have changed their tune.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Give us our food, we're starving, where's our check?
Speaker 13 (18:45):
Hold on, So you don't want a king, but you
do want the king to feed you. You reject the crown,
but demand the castle pantry stay open. Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to the United States of contradiction. Independence is sacred
until the free buffet closes.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
So which is it, folks?
Speaker 13 (19:08):
Do we want freedom or do we want freebies? Because
you can't yell no kings one week and then beg
feed us, o generous ruler the next, you'll majestee the
peasants say their free feast is late again, you wanted
a revolution. Turns out he just wanted a refill.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
The crazy things men do for Booty, a now former
New York State trooper, shot himself in the leg while
on duty in order to gain sympathy from his ex girlfriend,
the nurse. What is it with cops and nurses? My
(19:57):
brother only ever dated nurses and then married a nurse.
It's there's something going on. There and I see it's
cops and nurses, and cops and school teachers. That's the
two you see. Prosecutors say he was determined to impress
the woman after she dumped him last year, so he
(20:19):
staged an incident, claiming a dark skinned man in a
black Dodge Charger shot him in the leg during a
traffic stop. He has now pleaded guilty to charges of
official misconduct and tampering with evidence. Sentenced to six months
in jail. I don't want false police claims. It feels
(20:40):
like a long time to get butt raped, CBS New York.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Sentencing day for former New York State trooper Thomas Mascia,
and though he pleaded guilty, he said nothing when the
judge asked if he had a statement.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It's mortified at his behavior. He regrets it. Obviously. It
was a mistake. He regrets it, and he'll live with
it the rest of his life.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
His attorney said lifelong struggles with mental health led Massia
to shoot himself in the leg last year, then concoct
a story he was shot while on duty, setting off
a manhunt for a motorist he even described as dark skinned.
A planned and researched force say prosecutors to get attention
and sympathy.
Speaker 15 (21:19):
There was an ex girlfriend he was trying to impress,
and I we believe that he wanted the public to
see him as a hero.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Just released evidence shows the bullet casings. Massia admits he
scattered on the Southern State Parkway at a stage of
fake crime scene, a highway he allegedly chose because of
its lack of cameras. Internet searches show research into which
body part to shoot and what temporary new jersey plates
look like so he could describe a fleeing car. Following
(21:49):
the shooting, everyone started out rooting for you, the judge
told Massia, calling the wild goose chase he set off
dangerous and outrageous, sentencing Massi out of six months in jail,
five years probation, two hundred and eighty nine thousand dollars
in restitution for the manhunt for a phantom shooter, and
mental health treatment.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Why did this occur? Doesn't just occur out of the blue.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
It occurs because it was a result of many years
of mental health issues that were never treated.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
His parents will serve no time, charged with illegal gun
possession during a search of their home of the six
month sentence. MASSI is only required to serve four and
he'll spend that time in protective custody for his own safety.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Wow, the stupid things we do. Of course, women do
stupid things for men too. I'm always surprised how fast
and how thorough this process is. I've seen friends who
(22:57):
they and their wives get divorced, and she's, over the
years put on some weight, and she's constantly saying wearing
you know, house slippers and sweats. Uh man, I'm I'm
gonna lose some weight. I mean, I've put on weight.
I'm gonna lose some weight, but never does and no makeup,
(23:20):
hair's not done, fine, whatever. And then they get divorced.
We'll be out to dinner and none they'll say, is
that is that Ramon's ex wife? And there you look
over there and this stunning beauty queen has slimmed down,
got a new rack, I mean the whole thing. What
(23:42):
have you done for the opposite sex that you look
back now? And it was crazy?
Speaker 16 (23:46):
Seven three one thousand, say you feature packed PCRs refrigerators.
The Michael Berry Show Low can't last long, so hurry
into Cricket City.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
It's over line Friday. We start with John. But if
there is something out there that you remember doing for
the man or woman you wanted to woo, that you
look back and think how stupid it was seven one three,
one thousand, John, I know that's not what you called about.
Go ahead, moment.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Yeah, Hey, let me ask you. Let me ask you this.
You're Uh, Oh, I good a good friend, Elma. Wayne.
It's up for parole review this week, and Uh, I said,
we don't think he's.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Gonna really, but do you know if if if the governor,
I say, that's.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
A Are you on a speaker phone?
Speaker 14 (24:58):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Did you have the idea?
Speaker 12 (25:00):
How?
Speaker 9 (25:01):
It just sounds awful? I'll tell you what it's. It's
kind of a little bit like this.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So can you hear me?
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Okay, let me let me get off.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, no, no, you do that.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
I'll be over here, okay.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Sonny way. My question is uh, at the at the
pro board recomens his release, then it goes to the
governor uh for his approval or rejection. And if the governor.
Speaker 14 (25:34):
Does not, you know, he rejects the pro board recommendation.
I understand. I can californ you, Uh, they can take
it to the space Supreme Court, where the Space Supreme
Court can rule uh against the governor.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
And then and so that prisoner is in we leaks into.
Speaker 14 (26:01):
Society, and you know, so I'm wondering, is that the
case in Texas?
Speaker 9 (26:08):
Ron writes, Zar. Do you remember that nineteen sixties show
Emergency which featured that fire station in Los Angeles? Jack
Webb produced it. Those medics were always flirting with the
nurses at Rampart Hospital. Hmmm, maybe I watch almost as
much me TV as Sleepy Joe. Just the facts, Zar,
(26:30):
Just the facts, James, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 15 (26:33):
Go ahead, Hey Michael, did everybody miss the fact that
they said that guy had years of mental problems and
here it he's a cop? I mean, think about that.
That's pretty rough. What do you mean, well, I mean
they said he had years of mental problems and then
(26:54):
now he's a comp and he's out toting I'm going
out in public. Well, that's a lot of the problems
we got going on right now. Is the wrong people
have gone?
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Well, I understand that makes sense from where you're coming from.
But let me just let me let me give you
two things to think about. Number one is his lawyers
said he did this because he was struggling with mental problems.
Any time you commit any crime that looks crazy, your
(27:28):
lawyer has practically a duty to say, well, you got
to realize he has mental problems. That's going to be
part of your defense because what you're trying to do
is you're trying to get to his state of mind.
You're trying to suggest that he was not, as my
grandmother would say, he was not at hisself. He was
not his normal self. He was making bad decisions. He
(27:51):
was in and he wasn't at himself. It was in
a bad place. We don't know if that's true or not.
We don't know if he made a cold calculated decision,
dumb as it sounds to us, to shoot himself in
the leg because he wanted her attention, or if he was,
you know, in the middle of a mental health episode.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
We don't know.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
They're gonna argue the latter, obviously, right. But then I
suppose you you start looking at the details. Had he
planned this for some period of time, had he threatened
it in the past, What are some other factors cutting
forward against now? Your next point, I think is the
more important point, and that is, how about the fact
(28:38):
that this guy is having some mental health issues and
he's walking around with a gun. I will tell you this,
if you start as a cop and don't have any
mental health issues, you're gonna have some in time. We
love to have this idea that cops should be just
(28:58):
like the rest of us, you know, to work surfing
in that a little while, return some emails, go down
and get some coffee, flirt with Peggy soou a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Check the mail.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
We got a meeting here about ten forty five. Stroll
into there, got a fresh cup of coffee, pick up
a donut on the way down, carry some papers in,
Read some emails while the meeting's going on, because nobody's
paying attention to our particular participation. Find out where we're
going to go to lunch, See what we can have
for lunching. But I got a special what they're doing.
(29:31):
Figure out how maybe we could work a drink or
two in. Nobody will notice, especially if we can get
ourselves on a run away from the restaurant where we
got to make a drop off. Figure out how we
can cut out early, maybe go get some more drinks,
or go fishing, or get to the game early. And
then we got to figure out where we're gonna park.
Let's see what parking did they give us? This company
(29:53):
so cheap they get us, Oh, they gave us that
lot's like five lots away.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I gotta find out.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
I gotta buddy to have Diamond Club tickets. Let me
see if I can get hit. If he's not using
his tickets for tonight, then we got to figure out
where these tickets are. So we go online and look
and see over over in the right fielding's a little
far out, but then borrow over there, and then what
we're gonna do from there? And let's stop off and
at Tommy at his restaurant before that. That's not a
(30:18):
CoP's life. You see those really really really bad guys
in the news every day. They have to interact with
them day in and day out, and most of the
time let them off or the DA lets them off,
And you have to deal with that day in and
day out. You have to hug the wives or the
baby mamas after the guys killed their kid. You've got
(30:38):
to hug the victims of people. You've got to write
the reports of that and know nothing will be done,
and see the frustration and anger in people's faces. Yeah,
they're gonna end up with some mental health problems after
a while, they're gonna end up broken and shattered. That's
why so many of them drink. That's why the suicide
rate is so high. That's why the toll it takes
(31:00):
on their marriages. Yeah, if you say you can't have
a mental health problem be a cop, you won't have
a police department.
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