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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I mean, Na, Paulie would not tell you that our
party is in good shape today any We are historically unpopular,
and part of that is just, you know, people expressing
their frustration about Trump's lawlessness.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It is an honor, of course, to be with you
this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we
speak truth about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four,
every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of
the European explorers who first landed on the shores of
(01:13):
the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That
has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in
a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land,
and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this
(01:36):
shameful past.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I would have picked up my daughter from water polo
practice and she's twelve, and she got in the car
and she was crying.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
And I said, did someone punch you?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That water pool is a rough sport.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I was like, did someone hit you? To the coach
yell at you? What happened? And she said, Mom, Trump won,
Trump's gonna win, And what if I get raped and
I need to have an abortion.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
This is from a twelve year old, my twelve year
old daughter, And so it was really a reminder of
how scary this time is for people.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The allegation of rumor and pophile. It is alleging that.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
A person is criminal, somehow engaged in criminal acts merely
because of their identity.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
There's sexual orientation in there's kind of identity.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
And Maya Mamdani, will you welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to
New York City for the for whatever he comes full
given the US is not the signature to the ICC,
so he can travel to the US unlike a lot
of other countries with a Mayamum doney, welcome Benjamin of
the city. No, as mayor New York City would arrest
Benjamin netanyah who this is a city that our values
are in line with international law.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
It's time that our actions are also.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No more subsidies for fossil foil industry, no more drilling
on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability
for the oil industry to continue to drill period ends.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
Such a consequential President of the United States, a Mount
Rushmore kind of president of the United States.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Want to know what comes next? That he belongs up
there on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Lincoln and Joe Biden, but you got Teddy Roosevelt up there,
and he's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I don't say take him down, but he can. There's
a line in that montage that Jim mud put together
(04:20):
where the woman says, and I forget who it is,
it says it. I don't know that it matters. But
if you remember, Jim, tell me where she says. My
daughter came home from school and said, Mommy, if Trump wins,
I'm gonna get raped and I won't be able to
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have an abortion the baby mommy, and my daughter's only twelve.
That's how scary things are in this country, to which
I respond, you are a horrible mother. You are a dreadful,
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awful mother. You have instilled that fear into your little diva.
Your child is emotionally unstable because you're emotionally unstable. And
I have seen crazy women make crazy wives that had
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a crazy mother before them, stable women, grounded women, based
women raise stable, grounded based daughters, crazy women, nutty women,
many of them in media, many of them democrat elected officials,
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many of them movie stars. They are as an individual,
severely extremely broken. And what we have to do is
bring back being honest about crazy. Crazy is not an
exalted status therapy every day, is not something to brag about.
(06:08):
It's not a notch on your belt to be crazy.
It's not something that excuses behaviors. It's not something that
somehow makes you special or interesting. It's something that we
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have for too long acknowledged and accepted in our public
conversation without calling it out for what it is. And
then you end up with the nutty, and you end
up with things that make no sense being discussed in
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the same conversation. This is how you end up with
conversations about whether little boys should decide at two that
they're a girl and by four cut their wiener off
and by twelve, oh, by the way, he's having some
severe psychological issues because he's been transitioned to a girl.
(07:16):
This is how little boys get talked into being little
girls by mommies who want to have a freak show
for a kid. So they give incentives for acting like
a girl and punishments for acting like a boy until
and that's why you see parents with more than one
kid like this. This is why you see famous people
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with these sorts of kids, because they wanted it. It's
another thing for them. It's their agent told them it
would make them more interesting, they would do more interviews.
Do you notice the percentage of people who are famous
celebrities that have children that have transitioned It is probably
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thirty to one. What you're riche plant worker in Beaumont has.
It's not an accident. They go looking for what's the
hot new thing. Used to be talking about global warming.
Now it's transitioning your kid. It's freakish, it's weird, and
we should never normalize. Michael, it is very important for
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you to understand that there will never be an end
to race based politics, activism, all of it. Not that
there is nothing you can do, whether you are black
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or white. There is nothing you can do to make
it ever stop. You can try. Many people have, and
it saddens me to read sweet little old ladies. It'll
send me emails that'll say, I don't know why they
keep saying we're racist. There's a nice black fellow down
(09:14):
the road and he's had some hard times, got laid
off from work. I don't know all the details. I
don't ask, but I helped them out. I paid their
rent for almost a year and I didn't, you know,
make no big deal about it or nothing. I just
wanted to help them out. I didn't matter to me
the skin. And I hear these stories people will say
I hired a black guy, and I'm mentoring none of
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that has anything to do with what you hear Maxine
Waters or what Sheila Jackson Lee did, or what you
hear from Rodney Ellis or what you hear from Hakem Jeffries.
None of that is related. There's a complete disconnect. You
have to understand it that there are people who are gamers,
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and they're going to be gamers whether you're a gamer
at home or not. And there are going to be
people who who play in gaming leagues, and that has
nothing to do with whether you play Peanuckle or Jin
Rummy or Majahung or anything else. They're unrelated. You're not
causing them to do that. What they're saying is in
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no way an indictment of you. Once you understand that
this is an entire industry. You know, strip clubs are
an entire industry. There's a lot of money comes in
and out of strip clubs. That's why there are so many.
In Houston's one of the headquarters. Charles Barkley, who I
think would know we traveled around the NBA, said Houston
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had the best. The strip clubs are not there because
of you. They exist independently. And whether you eat breakfast today,
or wave to somebody in the street, or tip somebody
well or not, or criticize somebody for the food they
served or the way they delivered it or the way
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they cut you off in tray, none of those things
have anything to do with each other. None of them.
So Jasmine Crockett ran for the Senate against tall Rico.
She's a pretty bad candidate, but she still did pretty
darn well because she was the black candidate, and there's
a certain machinery in place to elect the black candidate,
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because there are gonna be black business owners that are
gonna get contracts, and they are gonna be people that
are gonna get appointments, and we're gonna be able to
use this as leverage. So she got a surprising number
of votes. Granted she's runing against Taller Rico. It's not
saying a lot, but still, but still, there are people
who envisioned her as a US senator. So what does
she say a couple days ago?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
You see a lot of hater's got a lot of
things to say about me and my race and how
I ran it.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
But the reality is that there was a lot of
racist not a lot. It was racist.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
It was a racist race.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
It is what it is, right, But we live in
America as y'all are celebrating two fifty.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Okay, we know what this country is.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
We live in America as y'all are celebrating two point fifty.
So presumably she's not She was going to be our
US senator. There were people who wanted her to be
our US senator, and y'all are celebrating. Well, there is
not a black candidate on the statewide roster that the
Democrats are running. They don't have a black candidate who
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won a primary. So Jolanda Jones, who interestingly replaced me
on city council when my terms were up, she ran
and took the at large position. Five. She says that
James Taller Rico needs to she's talking to Roland Martin,
who's this fat, useless guy used to be on CNN
now he just does an independent podcast about how tall
(12:43):
Rico needs to spend money on the black infrastructure. Give
this a listen. I'll explain what that means.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Do I think that Taller Rico's refusal thus far to
engage black electeds and a black infrastructure has put him
at a disadvantage, absolutely, because there's not a lot of
time to try to rally us. But we actually had
a meeting today Roland earlier today where black people, black
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thought leaders, elected officials from Dallas and Houston met and
we are getting together and we're going to stand together.
And hopefully tall Rico and the text Democratic Party will
see that and they will listen to us. Because tall
Rico has giving out money to white GEOTV organizations, that right.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
There, GOOTV is get out the vote. So let me
tell you what this is about. Anytime there's a stadium
referendum or metro referendum, anytime there is a public vote
on the city or the county spending a lot of
money over the years, there are folks who get paid
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to get the vote out. Some of those people are pastors,
some of them are elected officials, some of them are consultants,
and the idea is you go into the churches and
you get the black folks to show up and vote
the way you tell them. Now, the white churches are
scared of their own shadow. They won't suggest you do
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anything other than vote. They won't dare tell you how
to vote, who they're voting for. Why this particular candidate
is more church friendly, is more religious expression friendly? I
doubt there'll be a white pastor in Harris County who
will tell that Letitia Plumber is a black Muslim woman
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running for county judge who, if she gets elected, will
be observing every Muslim holiday and not Christian holidays. She
will be talking. It will be it'll be Mamdani all
over again in Harris County. But the white Christian pastors
won't touch it because they're scared to death. I'll lose
my tax I've had pastors tell me I'll lose my tax,
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my tax free status. What does the gain a man
to win the world but lose his soul? I thought
you should stand up for the black churches aren't scared
of that? Why are you just go ahead and say it?
I'm sorry to Michael Arry Show. Bonnie Tyler turned seventy
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five yesterday and to honor the occasion, she died, joining
the club of people who died on the day they
were born, which includes, as you'll remember, Merrel Haggard, who
was April sixth, which was one year in five days
after he played the RCC. I'll never forget that. Also
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a pretty rarefied air William Shakespeare Ingrid Bergmann of the
fantastic Casablanca film. If you haven't watched Casablanca, I've been
going back and watching classic films. That's a nineteen forty
two film, and boy does it ever hold up well.
Raphael the Renaissance painter and architecto. By the way, Betty
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for Dan, I could do without her machine gun. Kelly,
the gangster from the Prohibition era, died of heart failure
on his fifty ninth birthday. Bonnie Tyler Jim looked it up.
Total Eclipse of the Heart has over a billion views
or a billion listens on Spotify. And I don't know
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how many songs have that, but it's not many. That's
pretty rarefied air. But Bonnie Tyler has a song. I
will ask you to take a moment before I tell
you she has another song that you know if you're
a big Bonnie Tyler fan, you may know more than
a few of her songs. But she has another song.
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She had been on the scene several years before she
hits it with Total Eclipse of the Heart, which is
one of the biggest songs of all time. It's one
of those songs that I don't think anybody views as
or would say it's their favorite song, but it just
it's like white or Shade of Pale. Everybody knows it.
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Although Paul McCartney said that was his favorite song of
the sixties. She has another hit. I'm not gonna tell
you yet, but I want you to rack your brain
and see if you can remember little known Bonnie Tyler fact.
She was born Gainer Hopkins in Wales, was actually from
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a Welsh family. She has an interesting career, very very
interesting career. Did you think of what the other song was, Jim,
you know what, We'll just come back with it. Yeah,
we'll just come back with it the next one and
if you remember it, good for you. I didn't realize
she had died. Oh no, no, she didn't down her birthday.
Damn it. She should have died a month ago. She died.
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She was born eighth of June nineteen fifty one. She
died eighth of July twenty twenty six. I mean, I'm
sure she wanted that last month. But you know, once
you're gone, it should kind of be interesting. You know
what happened? There was a story. I know, I know
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that that's terrible to say, but it's true. Years later,
we're going to talk about, you know what amazing thing
you did or you didn't. An Argentinean flight instructor committed
suicide mid lesson. He jumps out of the plane that
he is teaching his student in and he tells the student,
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you know what you have to do. The student did
have some solo flying experience, and if you're wondering, was
able to land the plane. Deandro Andres Bertasso was identified
as the instructor who bailed out of the Cessna one
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fifty G aircraft over the central Argentinian town of Toledo
on July fourth. Bertazzo's twenty two year old students. A
student says he told her, you know what you have
to do. Carry on. Then he unbuckled his seat, removed
his headset, opened the plane door and jumped out. The
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young lady who was flying the plane alerted officials at
the Flying Parrot Fly School in Cordoba to the mid
air tragedy and was guided through emergency protocols to safely
land the training plane. Flying Parrot director Eduardo Alvarez said
about the student, she was very shaken, you think, but
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with complete professionalism, she piloted the plane into the airfield
and landed perfectly. She maintained a very high level of
training and professionalism. Bertotso's body was later found. Investigators say
Bertotso had been suffering mentally and had checked himself into
a clinic for mental health, unbeknownst to anyone but his
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close relatives. Officials were mystified by Bertotzo's jump, saying it
is difficult to open the aircraft's doors midflight. That's what
I've always heard, comparing it to opening a car door
while driving roughly one hundred and twenty five miles an hour.
What if he had tried to open the doors the
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door but couldn't, and she's sitting there going, hey, what
are you doing. You're taking all your gear off, you're
taking your seat belt off, and you're trying to open
the door. It appears you're trying to jump out. I
am at this damn door. It's like opening a door underwater.
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The pressure I hadn't compensated for the Can you slow
down a little so we can reduce the wind pressure
on this door? What that I can jump, but keep
your altitude because I don't want to jump from too
short a distance and then just leave me maimed where
I have to suffer the rest of my life. It
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needs you to keep this altitude, a good high altitude,
but maybe slow down coast for a minute. And you
got to figure a guy's getting ready to die. It's
nothing for him to crash the plane with the both
of you. He doesn't care what are the consequence is
going to be. It's still we're talking about this during
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the break. It still takes me back to the moment
when the San Francisco news station played or voiced the
story of the crash, which was a legitimate crash, and
somebody in the newsroom who got fired, but who cares.
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He's got a story for the rest of his life.
I think he was an intern who actually wrote the
script that they delivered. You remember this.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
We have new information now also on the plane crash.
KTV has just learned the names of the four pilots
who are on board the flight. They are Captain some Ting, Wong,
we Too, Low, Ho, Lee Fuk, and Bang dang Ao.
The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the
pilots on board Flight two fourteen when it crashed. We
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are working to determine exactly what roles each of them
played during the landing on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Chad always reminds me that the story includes the line.
The NTSB has confirmed these are the names. Play that
one more time, because at each step the names actually
reflect that they're one more time sent. This is the
Michael Barry Show. It has been a fascinating, lifelong study
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for me. How many people achieve incredible success in their
chosen field who violate the fundamentals of that field that
are accepted for the tenets of excellence. Bonnie Tyler's voice.
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She wouldn't get the lead vocal at her school play
because her voice isn't quote unquote pretty. It's raspy. There
is what is understood to be a pretty voice, and
she ain't it. But she's got more Spotify, lessens, more
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record sales, more sold out shows than singers with far
prettier voices. Stevie Nick. Same way, those two wouldn't be
the lead in the high school choir. At Orangeville High School,
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we han't have a choir, so it's one reason they wouldn't.
But even if they did, we only had one hundred
people per grade, they wouldn't have been chosen. It's like
Tom Waits or Joe Cocker. You think about how many people. Jim,
make me a list real quick of three people in
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their chosen field, and it cannot be music. Who rose
to the top. I gave you a couple off the
top of my head. Oh a'll twove all may the
greatest example of anything ever of all time, spudweb All Twovey.
I mean you talk about an inspiration. I took my
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kids down in the locker room. The whole deal, of
the whole experience is life. You know, once in a
lifetime kind of memory. All tuove came over to talk
to us, and Michael t at twelve was taller than him,
considerably taller than him. And here's the guy. Here's a
guy that has more home runs and I'll bet you
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he will have in the course of his career. And
this also speaks to the longevity. But I'll bet you
he'll be in the top one percent of home runs
of all time. He ain't gonna beat Hank Aaron. He
ain't gonna beat Stan Musual or Babe Ruth or Mike
Schmidt or Mark McGuire or Semi Sosa. I don't know
what his career home runs are, but home runs per
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square inch, there's no doubt he's it man looking like
Eddie LeBaron hitting that many home runs. I'll give you
a good one for those of you who are tennis fans,
and that is John McEnroe. If you look at McEnroe's strokes,
his strokes are so outside the norm of what are taught.
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His forehand would be considered by any tennis instructor in
the country fundamentally unsound. His backhand would be considered fundamentally unsound.
They are not pretty strokes under any terms. His serve
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was a little different than some, but that wasn't as odd.
But to get the velocity out of his serve, and
of course he had the best control. He was a lefty,
so on the ad court he could bring you out wide.
But here's a guy that if you gathered up all
the kids on the team and you just watched them
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hit a couple of balls before you saw the competitive
advan the competitive edge. You know, Tom Brady coming out
of the draft, what was he picked number two hundred
and you see that picture of him and and he's
there's nothing about him that looks like an NFL quarterback.
He's he's kind of skinny, but he's also flabby. There's
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there's nothing athletic about it. He didn't he didn't score
well on the He didn't even ace the Wonder li like.
He didn't. He didn't. He wasn't physical, his jump, his
foot speed, none of it. I don't believe he's the
greatest player of all time, but I know that a
lot of people do. But he's definitely in the conversation
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and you wouldn't guess it. Doug Flutie, of course, he
had to go to Canada to get noticed and and
come back and could never really hold down a job
for you know, multiple seasons in the NFL. But look
how tall the dude was. He was, I mean Jimmy
anymore for me? John Daly. Although it's a little easier
in golf, isn't it. I mean, you gotta figure but
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to think about how many players can play that well,
he's not even supposed to be alive. How many players
can play that well? That drunk that long? And boy
has he ever done it? And who doesn't love John Daly?
I mean, you have to like John Dad. You can't
not like John Daily. If you don't like John Davia,
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you're not a good person. You can choose not to
like Tiger because he had some you know, a little
period there where he was cocky, which he deserved. He
didn't speak up for Fuzzy Zeller. I'll never forgive him
for that. Who else you got Steve Bushamy? Yeah, yeah,
well just because he's ugly, you mean, yeah, he's an
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ugly little fellow. But but it's almost like you do
need that role, right You had Michael Madsden, you had,
you know, you had your good You had what was it,
Timothy Roth. You had who played the old man? You
remember the old man Joe that put it together. He
was fantastic. Chris Penn was fat as a hog, but
somehow that worked for that character. Who else you got?
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Getty Lee of Rush If Ray Briars is listening right now,
he just had a, shall we say, an exciting moment.
Getty Lee of Rush. Why why do you say it's
not a typical vocal. You're right, and it's probably not
a vocal that if you were to say for that
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genre at that time when they really hit it. You know,
Rush is an interesting I never got into Rush, and
it makes people mad when I say that. I'm not
I'm not opposed to Rush. I don't dislike him, but
like Ray Briers named his kids after, you know, Getty Lee,
he's crazy over it, and I know a lot of
our listeners are. In fact, I asked for a quote
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the other day, you know, just one quote that you
really liked from a song, and I think the number
one quote was not making a choice? Is making a choice?
And I was surprised that that was the one that
came up. More like, there's a lot of really, I
know a number of people who I just happened to know.
They're probably more than that who went to see them
in Dallas the other day. I mean even without there,
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you know, yeah, Neil Perton, Getty Linn, who.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Is he?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
What?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Oh they have a woman drummer? Huh? Not as good
as RNL Panada, the little dude that replaced Steve Perry
in Journey, that little dude is Steve Perry. That would
kind of bother me if I Steve Perry. He's better
Steve Perry than Steve Perry.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I mean, Na, Paulie would not tell you that our
party is in good shape today any We are historically unpopular,
and part of that is just, you know, people expressing
their frustration about Trump's lawlessness.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It is an honor, of course, to be with you
this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we
speak truth about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four,
every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of
the European explorers who first landed on the shores of
(01:13):
the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That
has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in
a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land,
and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this
(01:36):
shameful past.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I would have picked up my daughter from water polo
practice and she's twelve, and she got in the car
and she was crying.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
And I said, did someone punch you?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That water pool is a rough sport.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I was like, did someone hit you? To the coach
yell at you? What happened? And she said, Mom, Trump won,
Trump's gonna win, And what if I get raped and
I need to have an abortion.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
This is from a twelve year old, my twelve year
old daughter, And so it was really a reminder of
how scary this time is for people.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The allegation of rumor and pophile. It is alleging that.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
A person is criminal, somehow engaged in criminal acts merely
because of their identity.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
There's sexual orientation in there's kind of identity.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
And Maya Mamdani, will you welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to
New York City for the for whatever he comes full
given the US is not the signature to the ICC,
so he can travel to the US unlike a lot
of other countries with a Mayamum doney, welcome Benjamin of
the city. No, as mayor New York City would arrest
Benjamin netanyah who this is a city that our values
are in line with international law.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
It's time that our actions are also.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No more subsidies for fossil foil industry, no more drilling
on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability
for the oil industry to continue to drill period ends.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
Such a consequential President of the United States, a Mount
Rushmore kind of president of the United States.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Want to know what comes next? That he belongs up
there on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Lincoln and Joe Biden, but you got Teddy Roosevelt up there,
and he's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I don't say take him down, but he can. There's
a line in that montage that Jim mud put together
(04:20):
where the woman says, and I forget who it is,
it says it. I don't know that it matters. But
if you remember, Jim, tell me where she says. My
daughter came home from school and said, Mommy, if Trump wins,
I'm gonna get raped and I won't be able to
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have an abortion the baby mommy, and my daughter's only twelve.
That's how scary things are in this country, to which
I respond, you are a horrible mother. You are a dreadful,
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awful mother. You have instilled that fear into your little diva.
Your child is emotionally unstable because you're emotionally unstable. And
I have seen crazy women make crazy wives that had
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a crazy mother before them, stable women, grounded women, based
women raise stable, grounded based daughters, crazy women, nutty women,
many of them in media, many of them democrat elected officials,
(05:45):
many of them movie stars. They are as an individual,
severely extremely broken. And what we have to do is
bring back being honest about crazy. Crazy is not an
exalted status therapy every day, is not something to brag about.
(06:08):
It's not a notch on your belt to be crazy.
It's not something that excuses behaviors. It's not something that
somehow makes you special or interesting. It's something that we
(06:29):
have for too long acknowledged and accepted in our public
conversation without calling it out for what it is. And
then you end up with the nutty, and you end
up with things that make no sense being discussed in
(06:50):
the same conversation. This is how you end up with
conversations about whether little boys should decide at two that
they're a girl and by four cut their wiener off
and by twelve, oh, by the way, he's having some
severe psychological issues because he's been transitioned to a girl.
(07:16):
This is how little boys get talked into being little
girls by mommies who want to have a freak show
for a kid. So they give incentives for acting like
a girl and punishments for acting like a boy until
and that's why you see parents with more than one
kid like this. This is why you see famous people
(07:36):
with these sorts of kids, because they wanted it. It's
another thing for them. It's their agent told them it
would make them more interesting, they would do more interviews.
Do you notice the percentage of people who are famous
celebrities that have children that have transitioned It is probably
(07:57):
thirty to one. What you're riche plant worker in Beaumont has.
It's not an accident. They go looking for what's the
hot new thing. Used to be talking about global warming.
Now it's transitioning your kid. It's freakish, it's weird, and
we should never normalize. Michael, it is very important for
(08:27):
you to understand that there will never be an end
to race based politics, activism, all of it. Not that
there is nothing you can do, whether you are black
(08:49):
or white. There is nothing you can do to make
it ever stop. You can try. Many people have, and
it saddens me to read sweet little old ladies. It'll
send me emails that'll say, I don't know why they
keep saying we're racist. There's a nice black fellow down
(09:14):
the road and he's had some hard times, got laid
off from work. I don't know all the details. I
don't ask, but I helped them out. I paid their
rent for almost a year and I didn't, you know,
make no big deal about it or nothing. I just
wanted to help them out. I didn't matter to me
the skin. And I hear these stories people will say
I hired a black guy, and I'm mentoring none of
(09:36):
that has anything to do with what you hear Maxine
Waters or what Sheila Jackson Lee did, or what you
hear from Rodney Ellis or what you hear from Hakem Jeffries.
None of that is related. There's a complete disconnect. You
have to understand it that there are people who are gamers,
(10:01):
and they're going to be gamers whether you're a gamer
at home or not. And there are going to be
people who who play in gaming leagues, and that has
nothing to do with whether you play Peanuckle or Jin
Rummy or Majahung or anything else. They're unrelated. You're not
causing them to do that. What they're saying is in
(10:21):
no way an indictment of you. Once you understand that
this is an entire industry. You know, strip clubs are
an entire industry. There's a lot of money comes in
and out of strip clubs. That's why there are so many.
In Houston's one of the headquarters. Charles Barkley, who I
think would know we traveled around the NBA, said Houston
(10:42):
had the best. The strip clubs are not there because
of you. They exist independently. And whether you eat breakfast today,
or wave to somebody in the street, or tip somebody
well or not, or criticize somebody for the food they
served or the way they delivered it or the way
(11:02):
they cut you off in tray, none of those things
have anything to do with each other. None of them.
So Jasmine Crockett ran for the Senate against tall Rico.
She's a pretty bad candidate, but she still did pretty
darn well because she was the black candidate, and there's
a certain machinery in place to elect the black candidate,
(11:24):
because there are gonna be black business owners that are
gonna get contracts, and they are gonna be people that
are gonna get appointments, and we're gonna be able to
use this as leverage. So she got a surprising number
of votes. Granted she's runing against Taller Rico. It's not
saying a lot, but still, but still, there are people
who envisioned her as a US senator. So what does
she say a couple days ago?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
You see a lot of hater's got a lot of
things to say about me and my race and how
I ran it.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
But the reality is that there was a lot of
racist not a lot. It was racist.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
It was a racist race.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
It is what it is, right, But we live in
America as y'all are celebrating two fifty.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Okay, we know what this country is.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
We live in America as y'all are celebrating two point fifty.
So presumably she's not She was going to be our
US senator. There were people who wanted her to be
our US senator, and y'all are celebrating. Well, there is
not a black candidate on the statewide roster that the
Democrats are running. They don't have a black candidate who
(12:20):
won a primary. So Jolanda Jones, who interestingly replaced me
on city council when my terms were up, she ran
and took the at large position. Five. She says that
James Taller Rico needs to she's talking to Roland Martin,
who's this fat, useless guy used to be on CNN
now he just does an independent podcast about how tall
(12:43):
Rico needs to spend money on the black infrastructure. Give
this a listen. I'll explain what that means.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Do I think that Taller Rico's refusal thus far to
engage black electeds and a black infrastructure has put him
at a disadvantage, absolutely, because there's not a lot of
time to try to rally us. But we actually had
a meeting today Roland earlier today where black people, black
(13:09):
thought leaders, elected officials from Dallas and Houston met and
we are getting together and we're going to stand together.
And hopefully tall Rico and the text Democratic Party will
see that and they will listen to us. Because tall
Rico has giving out money to white GEOTV organizations, that right.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
There, GOOTV is get out the vote. So let me
tell you what this is about. Anytime there's a stadium
referendum or metro referendum, anytime there is a public vote
on the city or the county spending a lot of
money over the years, there are folks who get paid
(13:51):
to get the vote out. Some of those people are pastors,
some of them are elected officials, some of them are consultants,
and the idea is you go into the churches and
you get the black folks to show up and vote
the way you tell them. Now, the white churches are
scared of their own shadow. They won't suggest you do
(14:11):
anything other than vote. They won't dare tell you how
to vote, who they're voting for. Why this particular candidate
is more church friendly, is more religious expression friendly? I
doubt there'll be a white pastor in Harris County who
will tell that Letitia Plumber is a black Muslim woman
(14:32):
running for county judge who, if she gets elected, will
be observing every Muslim holiday and not Christian holidays. She
will be talking. It will be it'll be Mamdani all
over again in Harris County. But the white Christian pastors
won't touch it because they're scared to death. I'll lose
my tax I've had pastors tell me I'll lose my tax,
(14:56):
my tax free status. What does the gain a man
to win the world but lose his soul? I thought
you should stand up for the black churches aren't scared
of that? Why are you just go ahead and say it?
I'm sorry to Michael Arry Show. Bonnie Tyler turned seventy
(15:18):
five yesterday and to honor the occasion, she died, joining
the club of people who died on the day they
were born, which includes, as you'll remember, Merrel Haggard, who
was April sixth, which was one year in five days
after he played the RCC. I'll never forget that. Also
(15:41):
a pretty rarefied air William Shakespeare Ingrid Bergmann of the
fantastic Casablanca film. If you haven't watched Casablanca, I've been
going back and watching classic films. That's a nineteen forty
two film, and boy does it ever hold up well.
Raphael the Renaissance painter and architecto. By the way, Betty
(16:06):
for Dan, I could do without her machine gun. Kelly,
the gangster from the Prohibition era, died of heart failure
on his fifty ninth birthday. Bonnie Tyler Jim looked it up.
Total Eclipse of the Heart has over a billion views
or a billion listens on Spotify. And I don't know
(16:32):
how many songs have that, but it's not many. That's
pretty rarefied air. But Bonnie Tyler has a song. I
will ask you to take a moment before I tell
you she has another song that you know if you're
a big Bonnie Tyler fan, you may know more than
a few of her songs. But she has another song.
(16:52):
She had been on the scene several years before she
hits it with Total Eclipse of the Heart, which is
one of the biggest songs of all time. It's one
of those songs that I don't think anybody views as
or would say it's their favorite song, but it just
it's like white or Shade of Pale. Everybody knows it.
(17:13):
Although Paul McCartney said that was his favorite song of
the sixties. She has another hit. I'm not gonna tell
you yet, but I want you to rack your brain
and see if you can remember little known Bonnie Tyler fact.
She was born Gainer Hopkins in Wales, was actually from
(17:34):
a Welsh family. She has an interesting career, very very
interesting career. Did you think of what the other song was, Jim,
you know what, We'll just come back with it. Yeah,
we'll just come back with it the next one and
if you remember it, good for you. I didn't realize
she had died. Oh no, no, she didn't down her birthday.
Damn it. She should have died a month ago. She died.
(17:58):
She was born eighth of June nineteen fifty one. She
died eighth of July twenty twenty six. I mean, I'm
sure she wanted that last month. But you know, once
you're gone, it should kind of be interesting. You know
what happened? There was a story. I know, I know
(18:20):
that that's terrible to say, but it's true. Years later,
we're going to talk about, you know what amazing thing
you did or you didn't. An Argentinean flight instructor committed
suicide mid lesson. He jumps out of the plane that
he is teaching his student in and he tells the student,
(18:45):
you know what you have to do. The student did
have some solo flying experience, and if you're wondering, was
able to land the plane. Deandro Andres Bertasso was identified
as the instructor who bailed out of the Cessna one
(19:07):
fifty G aircraft over the central Argentinian town of Toledo
on July fourth. Bertazzo's twenty two year old students. A
student says he told her, you know what you have
to do. Carry on. Then he unbuckled his seat, removed
his headset, opened the plane door and jumped out. The
(19:33):
young lady who was flying the plane alerted officials at
the Flying Parrot Fly School in Cordoba to the mid
air tragedy and was guided through emergency protocols to safely
land the training plane. Flying Parrot director Eduardo Alvarez said
about the student, she was very shaken, you think, but
(19:56):
with complete professionalism, she piloted the plane into the airfield
and landed perfectly. She maintained a very high level of
training and professionalism. Bertotso's body was later found. Investigators say
Bertotso had been suffering mentally and had checked himself into
a clinic for mental health, unbeknownst to anyone but his
(20:19):
close relatives. Officials were mystified by Bertotzo's jump, saying it
is difficult to open the aircraft's doors midflight. That's what
I've always heard, comparing it to opening a car door
while driving roughly one hundred and twenty five miles an hour.
What if he had tried to open the doors the
(20:41):
door but couldn't, and she's sitting there going, hey, what
are you doing. You're taking all your gear off, you're
taking your seat belt off, and you're trying to open
the door. It appears you're trying to jump out. I
am at this damn door. It's like opening a door underwater.
(21:04):
The pressure I hadn't compensated for the Can you slow
down a little so we can reduce the wind pressure
on this door? What that I can jump, but keep
your altitude because I don't want to jump from too
short a distance and then just leave me maimed where
I have to suffer the rest of my life. It
(21:26):
needs you to keep this altitude, a good high altitude,
but maybe slow down coast for a minute. And you
got to figure a guy's getting ready to die. It's
nothing for him to crash the plane with the both
of you. He doesn't care what are the consequence is
going to be. It's still we're talking about this during
(21:47):
the break. It still takes me back to the moment
when the San Francisco news station played or voiced the
story of the crash, which was a legitimate crash, and
somebody in the newsroom who got fired, but who cares.
(22:08):
He's got a story for the rest of his life.
I think he was an intern who actually wrote the
script that they delivered. You remember this.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
We have new information now also on the plane crash.
KTV has just learned the names of the four pilots
who are on board the flight. They are Captain some Ting, Wong,
we Too, Low, Ho, Lee Fuk, and Bang dang Ao.
The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the
pilots on board Flight two fourteen when it crashed. We
(22:39):
are working to determine exactly what roles each of them
played during the landing on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Chad always reminds me that the story includes the line.
The NTSB has confirmed these are the names. Play that
one more time, because at each step the names actually
reflect that they're one more time sent. This is the
Michael Barry Show. It has been a fascinating, lifelong study
(23:15):
for me. How many people achieve incredible success in their
chosen field who violate the fundamentals of that field that
are accepted for the tenets of excellence. Bonnie Tyler's voice.
(23:41):
She wouldn't get the lead vocal at her school play
because her voice isn't quote unquote pretty. It's raspy. There
is what is understood to be a pretty voice, and
she ain't it. But she's got more Spotify, lessens, more
(24:05):
record sales, more sold out shows than singers with far
prettier voices. Stevie Nick. Same way, those two wouldn't be
the lead in the high school choir. At Orangeville High School,
(24:27):
we han't have a choir, so it's one reason they wouldn't.
But even if they did, we only had one hundred
people per grade, they wouldn't have been chosen. It's like
Tom Waits or Joe Cocker. You think about how many people. Jim,
make me a list real quick of three people in
(24:49):
their chosen field, and it cannot be music. Who rose
to the top. I gave you a couple off the
top of my head. Oh a'll twove all may the
greatest example of anything ever of all time, spudweb All Twovey.
I mean you talk about an inspiration. I took my
(25:13):
kids down in the locker room. The whole deal, of
the whole experience is life. You know, once in a
lifetime kind of memory. All tuove came over to talk
to us, and Michael t at twelve was taller than him,
considerably taller than him. And here's the guy. Here's a
guy that has more home runs and I'll bet you
(25:34):
he will have in the course of his career. And
this also speaks to the longevity. But I'll bet you
he'll be in the top one percent of home runs
of all time. He ain't gonna beat Hank Aaron. He
ain't gonna beat Stan Musual or Babe Ruth or Mike
Schmidt or Mark McGuire or Semi Sosa. I don't know
what his career home runs are, but home runs per
(25:57):
square inch, there's no doubt he's it man looking like
Eddie LeBaron hitting that many home runs. I'll give you
a good one for those of you who are tennis fans,
and that is John McEnroe. If you look at McEnroe's strokes,
his strokes are so outside the norm of what are taught.
(26:20):
His forehand would be considered by any tennis instructor in
the country fundamentally unsound. His backhand would be considered fundamentally unsound.
They are not pretty strokes under any terms. His serve
(26:40):
was a little different than some, but that wasn't as odd.
But to get the velocity out of his serve, and
of course he had the best control. He was a lefty,
so on the ad court he could bring you out wide.
But here's a guy that if you gathered up all
the kids on the team and you just watched them
(27:01):
hit a couple of balls before you saw the competitive
advan the competitive edge. You know, Tom Brady coming out
of the draft, what was he picked number two hundred
and you see that picture of him and and he's
there's nothing about him that looks like an NFL quarterback.
He's he's kind of skinny, but he's also flabby. There's
(27:25):
there's nothing athletic about it. He didn't he didn't score
well on the He didn't even ace the Wonder li like.
He didn't. He didn't. He wasn't physical, his jump, his
foot speed, none of it. I don't believe he's the
greatest player of all time, but I know that a
lot of people do. But he's definitely in the conversation
(27:46):
and you wouldn't guess it. Doug Flutie, of course, he
had to go to Canada to get noticed and and
come back and could never really hold down a job
for you know, multiple seasons in the NFL. But look
how tall the dude was. He was, I mean Jimmy
anymore for me? John Daly. Although it's a little easier
in golf, isn't it. I mean, you gotta figure but
(28:11):
to think about how many players can play that well,
he's not even supposed to be alive. How many players
can play that well? That drunk that long? And boy
has he ever done it? And who doesn't love John Daly?
I mean, you have to like John Dad. You can't
not like John Daily. If you don't like John Davia,
(28:32):
you're not a good person. You can choose not to
like Tiger because he had some you know, a little
period there where he was cocky, which he deserved. He
didn't speak up for Fuzzy Zeller. I'll never forgive him
for that. Who else you got Steve Bushamy? Yeah, yeah,
well just because he's ugly, you mean, yeah, he's an
(28:53):
ugly little fellow. But but it's almost like you do
need that role, right You had Michael Madsden, you had,
you know, you had your good You had what was it,
Timothy Roth. You had who played the old man? You
remember the old man Joe that put it together. He
was fantastic. Chris Penn was fat as a hog, but
somehow that worked for that character. Who else you got?
(29:18):
Getty Lee of Rush If Ray Briars is listening right now,
he just had a, shall we say, an exciting moment.
Getty Lee of Rush. Why why do you say it's
not a typical vocal. You're right, and it's probably not
a vocal that if you were to say for that
(29:39):
genre at that time when they really hit it. You know,
Rush is an interesting I never got into Rush, and
it makes people mad when I say that. I'm not
I'm not opposed to Rush. I don't dislike him, but
like Ray Briers named his kids after, you know, Getty Lee,
he's crazy over it, and I know a lot of
our listeners are. In fact, I asked for a quote
(30:02):
the other day, you know, just one quote that you
really liked from a song, and I think the number
one quote was not making a choice? Is making a choice?
And I was surprised that that was the one that
came up. More like, there's a lot of really, I
know a number of people who I just happened to know.
They're probably more than that who went to see them
in Dallas the other day. I mean even without there,
(30:25):
you know, yeah, Neil Perton, Getty Linn, who.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Is he?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
What?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Oh they have a woman drummer? Huh? Not as good
as RNL Panada, the little dude that replaced Steve Perry
in Journey, that little dude is Steve Perry. That would
kind of bother me if I Steve Perry. He's better
Steve Perry than Steve Perry.
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