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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You know, I always think of myself as a Christian
who hates Christianity.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Up.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm always so so it's thrilled when I get invited,
you know, to the Duwalwei festival.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think I've gone two years in a row now,
and you know.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Also have gotten a chance to speak at some of
our local mosques. And I find such wisdom and comfort
and inspiration from faith traditions all over the world, and
I find that they're all kind of the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Equal pathways to truth.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Give Christianity points to the truth, I also think other
religions of love point to the same truth. I think
of different religious traditions as different languages. So you and
I could sit here and debate what to call this cup,
and you could call it a cup in English, you'd
call something else banished in French. But we are all
talking about the same reality. I believe Jesus Christ reveals
that reality to us. But I also think that other
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traditions reveal that reality in their own ways, with their
own symbol structures. And I've learned more about my tradition
by learning more about Buddhism and Hinduism and Islam and Judaism,
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I don't believe. So most Americans, and I'm talking ninety
five percent, do not believe that an embryo is a
legal person. Now, the embryo is biologically alive, that is
certainly true, but being alive and being a person are
two different things, and that's an important distinction to make
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these conversations. So the reason I think you have a
lot of pro choice people who push back against the
idea that abortion is immoral is because they believe that
it is not that in these situations, when there is
an unwonted pregnancy, it is moral for a woman to
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be able to control her own body, or any one
of our neighbors with uterist to be able to control
their own body.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I don't love.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I mentioned that my granddad was a Baptist preacher, and
when I was real little, he told me that we're
supposed to follow Jesus's two commandments, love God and love neighbor.
And I believe forcing my religion down the throats of
my Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, agnostic neighbors is not love,
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and it's why I fought so hard for the separation
of church and state. I was raised to believe that
that boundary in our First Amendment is a sacred boundary,
and it doesn't just benefit our democracy, although it certainly does,
it also benefits the church, because when the church gets
too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice.
And so I hope in the US Senate that I
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can continue my fight against Christian nationalism because it is
fundamentally Unchristian. It is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth,
his life, his death, and his teachings. Our faith in
Jesus should lead us away from theocracy, away from tyranny,
away from Christian nationalism, and toward a multi racial, multicultural democracy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But the chion.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
During the church service, the pastor asked if anyone in
the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers.
Would anyone like to come forward and tell us about
your answered prayers, because God answers prayers. A woman named
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Susie stood up, proudly walked to the podium, and she said,
two months ago, my husband Phil had a terrible bicycle
accident and his scrotum was crushed. There was a muffled
gasp from the men in the congregation. Phil was unable
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to hold me or the children. She went on. Every
move caused him terrible pain. We prayed as the doctors
performed a delicate operation. We were able to reconstruct the
crushed remnants of Phil's scrotum, using wire to reinforce and
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shape it. The men in the congregation cringed and squirmed uncontrollably, uncomfortably.
Now she announced in a quivering voice, Thank the Lord,
Phil is out of the hospital, and the doctor say
that with time his scrotom should recover completely. All the
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men sighed with relief. The pastor rose and asked if
anyone else had something to say. Man stood up and
walked slowly to the podium and he said, I'm Phil.
The entire congregation held its breath. I just want to
(05:55):
tell my wife the word is sternum. It was a
sternum ramon, It wasn't it was just it was his sternum. Yeah.
(06:23):
What did snow White do? After she sent her film
away to be developed, she waited, hoping that someday her
prints would come home. You see the way that that
joke is structured. Prince is p R I and T
(06:46):
S but the way you make it pooral it sounds
like a prince, which is which is uh, what do
you mean? What's it? Was it called or oh or hominem?
Is it a homonym? Yeah? But the way the joke
is structured, you see, you think you say prince, and
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your brain hears, oh, prince, like you've printed the film.
But then you realize, wait a second, snow White was
waiting for a prince, like the son of a king,
a young man who is handsome, and suddenly you remember, oh,
she's waiting for her prince, which are developed photography, and
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our brain hears prince like you know, a handsome fellow
or the guy that played guitar and saying purple rain.
And at that moment you realize, and then the music cues, Oh,
Johnny Carson, oh here's and you go, ha, that was
a joke. I don't think snow White's actually doing anything.
I think that was all a setup to use that
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word as a double on top under. And now I realize, huh,
I have to go home and tell my kids that joke.
That's clever right there? Yeah, and that all that all
that right there. That's just the first segment. There's more
to come.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
It claims key, it claims key.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's done for a girl and a boy. I like
like a berry show. Well, it appears that Alexandria Ocassio
Cortes has broken up with her fiance or he has
broken up with her. Number of people have suggested it's
because she has begun to eat what some white boys
(08:47):
who date Hispanic girls call the burrito bomb. She has
begun to swell. There's there's no, no, no doubt about that.
And I think the constant screeching. I think the constant
screeching is taking its toll her. Her face, Medusa's style
is beginning to turn to stone or or something that
(09:08):
has withered on the vine. She's she's she's not aging gracefully.
Of course the extra pounds uh. And she looks kind
of bloated. Now, I will tell you you don't have
to email me. I know what's gonna happen. I think
she's an attractive woman.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I do. I know that some of you don't. But
I don't think that a woman is ugly just because
she's an idiot. I don't think that because a woman
has terrible politics that means that she's ugly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I do find it's it's sort of comical to me
that people will email me shake no, Michael, she can't
be cute, she can't be kid, she's crazy. Sometimes those two,
often times those two are are hand in glove, not empathetical. Yeah,
I think she's attractive. Now, maybe you don't like brown eyed,
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brown haired Hispanic girls. I do. I find that to
be attractive. It's a good look. And most of the
time I think she's cute. I do think she's been
looking a little ragged lately. And my guess is she's
hitting the bars. She's not taking care of herself. And
I do think she has some mental health challenges. Lena
(10:25):
Hidalgo's style and I think that the screeching and screaming,
you know, it's an interesting thing. She and Bernie are
doing this little tour together and I don't know if
he's checked her oil, but that I mean, you process
that for a moment, but you have to realize when
she's going on stage every night, if you watch and
Jasmine Crockett turn people who do what she does. She
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doesn't go out on stage and make a speech and leave.
It's very important to her in her brand that the
crowd get riled up. She learns, as candidates like her will,
that in order to rile up her demographic she needs
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to she needs to say some kind of stupid stuff.
She needs to get out there. She can't, she can't
talk about high minded, aspirational things. She has to really
get down and put on a show, right. And so
I think doing that over a period of time is exhausting.
And so she has begun to look a little, a little,
(11:30):
shall we say, worse for wear. But now now it
turns out that she and her man have been separated.
Whose decision it was. I don't think that she dumped him.
I don't. I do find it interesting that women like
that always date a white man. You ever notice that
ilhan omar white man and nerdy white guy. And I
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don't know if that's just because he'll hold her purse,
but it's always very low t, effeminate, James Talerico type dudes.
You know, dudes that you're not really insipid dudes, the
kind of dudes who actually know what the word cis means.
I still don't don't want to the kind of dudes
that really really worry a lot about LGBTQ issues and
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claim they're straight. You know what I'm talking about. That
that kind of dude. So anyway, so they separated, and
it turns out he told her he voted for Trump.
It's not a joke. He told her he voted for Trump.
And that made her very upset, which okay. Uh. Anyway,
so now she and her man they've they've been, they're separated,
they've they're broken up. They're not getting married. Who would
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have guessed? And uh, shortly after the breakup, she posted
this audio describing loser qualities in a man, but then
it was taken down. I don't know if she was
feeling spurned. If she dumped him, she doesn't need to
go off and trash him. That's the way that game works,
which means he dumped her.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
By a loser, I mean someone who doesn't respect women,
someone who doesn't respect you, someone who doesn't treat you well,
someone that doesn't support your growth as a human.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Ooh, that tone, that lecturing tone of tedious, lecturing tone
of a liberal woman. That poor fella, because you know,
he wore her out for a while and then there
just came to a point where he's like, look you
gotta stop. You talk too much. You never shut up.
I said, you talk to you know what I'm saying.
You know, there was a point. I can only imagine
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what her dating profile would look like. Hey, can you
imagine some dude is scrolling along? I would love to
see her filling out her dating profile and see inside
that crazy head of hers.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Okay, new chapter. Riley and I we consciously. I'm coupled,
very mutual. He's keeping the kitchen name, I'm keeping the revolution.
He's fine, I'm fine, We're all fine.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Use her name. I can't just be Alexandria. That's not
a name. That's a brand, a c bartender.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Bronx building a movement, approachable now the bio okay, raw
hard to heart, Swipe right to dismantle late stage capitalism together.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
What should it read?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
More Bronx, they swipe right or more Tennessee will hello there, y'all?
Read the room, read the room photos, Oh, the met
gallag out text, the rich iconic one behind the bar,
working class icon and the hoops always the hoops.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Filters not a billionaire.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Obviously, minimum height six feet No, that is literally inequality
of the spine. I can't six' one, though upgrade to
platinum to see who liked?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
You?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Fine for the working, People, oh it's a. Match bryden
Founder miami oh an. Oligar he does, crypto he owns
a yacht slip.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Black we do not reward the billionaire. Class we shape
the table no matter.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
What oh he put ally in his.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Bio, okay one drake just to hear his side for the.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Movement other girls all get pretty at close in. Time
when you're listening to The Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Show fifty three years ago, today my favorite band and
the greatest. Band you, know sometimes you can have a favorite,
band but they're not the. Greatest and you could recognize
of a band that they're the, greatest but they're not your,
favorite right those? Two, NO i didn't say Led, Zeppelin,
(15:59):
Romont please do something. Else, Okay, see so now you've
interrupted my train of? Thought is how this? Works fifty
Three star fifty three years ago, today the greatest band
of all time and what also happens to be my
favorite band of all. Time same band released their debut
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album Called Pronounced leonard skinnerd with the phonetic. Pronunciation that
album would, include but not be limited, To Tuesday's gone
Simple man Free. Bird Free bird is probably the most
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requested song concert song of all. Time now somewhat, IRONICALLY
i understand. THAT i get, it but it turned into
the and SO i. DON'T i don't think you, know
the supposedly the most played song and highest ass gap
ratings or whatever is it's a small world after, all
(17:10):
because it plays On loop At Walt. Disney it doesn't
make that fact any less, true does. It? So, anyway
fifty three years ago, Today leonard, skinnered we're playing pickleball,
yesterday because that's what real men. Do ramon and my
Buddy Ike, claypool who does not like to be mentioned
(17:30):
on the. Air so that's that's like a one and.
DONE i. Forgot he hates me to mention his name
on the, Air like, no, Genuinely i'm not kidding he
he hates me to mention his name on. There he
he makes a, playlist and so he will make a,
playlist so he will include songs in there from different
dudes in our. Group it's not a mix, tape, no
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it's a it's a. Playlist and he Knows i'm A skinnered.
Fan AND U curtis love oh plays And ike, said
you like, that don't, You AND i, said, YES i.
DO i, mean it's a true. Story he would go
down there was black man who played the doughbro and
(18:11):
he would sit and he would do most anything for
that guy to keep performing in him watch, him and
eventually learn to. Play and that inspired him as a young,
man and he paid a tribute and and race relations
were different back, then in race was. Different this was
an old black man, who you, know sort of down and,
(18:31):
out but a great musician who hasn't known this. Situation
and this little boy admires him for his musical. Skill
and as he gets, older he writes a song in
tribute about a time that is long gone and in
a way of life in in you, know in the
the rural environs Of, Swamp. Florida and it's. Fantastic So
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i'm reveling in the fact, that, oh it's nice of
him to do. That and our Friend Josh patterson, SAID i,
say it's your favorite, band AND i said it is
and he, said well that's WHY i put it in.
There AND i said it's very, nice thank. You And
Josh patterson Said Marshall Tucker. Band AND i just sat there, thinking,
hey you just turned fifty Years how do you how
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can you not? Wait how does that happen that you don't?
Know this Is? Kinnard you know that just it really
it knocked me down a. Bit you. Know it was
one of those moments that you you got a process
(19:43):
for a. Moment it was fourteen years ago today THAT
i rode With Robert reese to Friends wood and we
visited A Corey diamonds And. Design Connie stagner And Billy
stagner and what grew into them being a big show
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sponsor continuously for fourteen years without, fail supporters at the
highest level Of Camp, Hope Saint. Jude they were big
ass guns at The Republic Country, club my. Jewelers my
mother would just revel In Mother's day And christmas and
(20:27):
her birthday because she. Knew And connie would call her
behind my back and, say all, right Mister, redda what
do you want? For and she'd, say, oh, no, no,
NO i don't need. Anything and she'd, SAY i know you,
don't but if you were to have, it my mother would.
Chuckle and she was being treated like a queen and
she deserved. It and it was fun AND i was
(20:47):
appreciated that and she knows what my wife wants at
any given. Times, well you know she likes this particular
stone and she does. That but most of, all aside
from all the financial transactions and gift giving and all,
that they are dear and abiding and, wonderful wonderful, friends
AND i love. Them that's what makes life rich is
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people that you, love that love, you not on a transactional,
basis not because it's your best, client or not because
it's your, boss or not because there is something you
can gain from, it but because you love that person
and they love. You AND ai cannot replace that, connection
and computers cannot replace that, connection and transactional relationships cannot
(21:37):
replace that. Connection when someone when you genuinely, worry when
somebody is ill or, injured that you know they wouldn't
be here and the world would not be as rich without,
Them when you genuinely care and they care about, you
there's nothing like. It there is nothing like. It and
we should all strive to build those types of relationships
(21:58):
because they. Matter that's what makes life worth. Living before we're,
GONE a dear friend of mine has a birthday. TODAY
i don't know what birthday it. IS i know she's
probably older THAN i think she is because she looks very.
Young and she's a beautiful woman and a very good
pickleball Player ramon and probably the most gracious host you've
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ever been to a dinner party, at and that Is
lisa Hold. House she and my Friend michael Hold house
are the. Best are the best dinner party Throwers i've ever.
Known they will go to such great. Links she will
find out what Drink i'm drinking at a particular, time
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AND i will show up and there will be a
bottle Of blantons down at the end of the table
in front of my, seat and her husband will, say
that's not for, everybody that's For michael today because it's
his birthday or whatever. Else, yeah, YEAH i can appreciate
a good a good. Host when you should try, harder
you know WHAT i, Mean you should try harder to do.
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Things the W nba convened a committee yesterday of owners
and former players and, managers and they are trying to
figure out what THE w in W, nba, wombats wing, nuts, whales.
Wistaria they can't figure it. Out they had the intention
(23:24):
of arriving at a conclusion a definition as to what
a woman, was but in Pure Matt walsh's, style they don't.
Know they left the meeting unclear what a woman, was
because now you got n s And Royce white and
The french. Dude french dw is even bigger than they're
Gonna where a? Woman, yeah just scratch my. Bot where a?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Woman?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yep and you can't tell them, no you can't have a.
Test this is the. Absurdity everybody keeps, saying, boy they
got to make this go. Away no they. Don't we
wouldn't talk about the W, nba about. Basketball this is
the best thing for, them trust. Me the story about
A Phillips Wheatley High school teacher who broke down in
tears On instagram in the middle of a post talking
(24:12):
about how on the second day of school kids are
going back to. School by the, WAY i love your
photos and you can send them by email as. WELL
i see them On. Facebook but if you want to
send them by, Email i've told you over the, YEARS
i will never complain about you sending an email to
me bragging about your kid. Ever AND i don't care
if your kids fifty. Five you are a, parent you
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should be invested in your children and rooting for their
success and enjoying their. Success that's one of the great
joys of. LIFE i will never think less of. YOU
i will never roll my eyes and, go oh. Good
she's bragging on her, kid who just hit twenty years
of teaching. School she's bragging on her kid who's just
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named valdict and he's the first white valedictorne at that
high school in twelve years because there weren't Any indian.
Kids or oh, good he's bragging on his son who's
been a mechanic for nine years and finally saved up
and he's opening his own. Shop if you send me an,
email you can say it in the first nine you
said it's okay to brag on my. Kids, ABSOLUTELY i
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will read that email with extra. INTEREST i love when
you brag on your. Kids And i've been watching the
photos that you've been posting of your kids going back to,
school AND i must SAY i do so a bit
wistfully BECAUSE i miss those. DAYS i have a great
picture of Taking michael t into a. Preschool he was
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three years old at the, time and we had him
in a Little my Friend Paul, strugg who went to
law school with his, wife was an administrator at a
little preschool called The Becker, school aimed for the donor
to the, school which Was Alan. Becker there's a little
bit of a clear channel connection. Here iHeartMedia. Connection some
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of you will Remember Clear Channel, entertainment which before that WAS,
sfx which before that was something, else which before that
was something. Else do you remember what it was before
it WAS? Sfx it was it was a concert. Company
And Alan becker And Barry, lewis and there was another
fellow what was his? Name he ended up opening warehouse
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over On Sant Emmanuel toolma starts with AN. L. Leonard,
Anyway Alan becker had given the money for this little
preschool and it was attached to the temple There Beth,
Israel beth you're sure And Beth Beth. Emmanuel what do you?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Know?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Wow, yes. Okay so, anyway we sent him there because
my friend's wife was an administrator there and it was
the first. School AND i went. In i'm not gonna.
LIE i felt LIKE i looked good, too BECAUSE i
had a lot of my PHOTOS i don't look, good
so it was about me and my. Son BUT i
also looked. GOOD i had on khaki, SLACKS i was
an administrator at the. Time REMEMBER i was running the.
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STAGE i was your, boss if you. Remember And i'm
walking in and i got a dress shirt on and,
slacks And i've Got michael T all dressed up for
his first. Day and someone called my name AND i
waved at, them and AS i waved as like a,
parade the photo was. Taken i'm not sure who took the. Photo,
anyway it's a great. Photo it's one of my happiest.
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Moments and my wife would of course do the photo
at the beginning of every year and at the end
of every. Year And i've been enjoying watching the photos
of people taking their kids to. School it's a wonderful.
Moment it's a tender. Moment and of, course as we,
know we all know it, intuitively but you know you
eventually live it is that it's a really, temporal it's.
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Momentary it's a, fleeting passing part in the wind in your,
life and it'll be gone and they'll grow, up and
that's all good and healthy. Too but it's a wonderful.
Thing it's uh AND i enjoy seeing. Those so if
you want to send me emails of you and and
your kids on the first, day last, day or anything
else through the Website Michael berryshow dot. COM i do
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enjoy seeing. Those so with it being the second day of,
school a teacher At Wheatley High school broke down in
tears talking about how he had a senior in his
class who simply cannot read and cannot. Write and you,
KNOW i Think i'm pretty good at knowing what people's
reaction is going to be to most. Things AND i
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think most people emotionally disconnect and and you WE i
read a book Called habits years, ago and it said
that we don't think anew about things that we already
know because we don't have the. Energy we don't we
can't invest in everything new when we when we drive
to work in the, morning we don't pull up to
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the stops and, say, Now i'm going to consider is
that an? Octagon is it? Red does it have white?
Lettering does that suggest THAT i should? Stop that's not a? Yield? Right,
okay So i'm going to? Stop SHOULD i stop? It about? Here?
Okay the red light is the red the red cess?
Stop is that a good idea for?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
It to?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Say? STOP i think when it turns, great we don't
think about stuff like. That our brain just files that
away and we're constantly processing new information and it goes
back to fight or flight and hunter gatherer and self,
defense and so most things we do we don't have
to think about because we don't have the bandwidth to
think about. Them we're always processing new stimuli coming, in
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processing new stimuli coming at. Us SO i think the
natural reaction is to, Go, yeah there's a bunch of
inner city kids with a bunch of dumb dumbs going
to end up in. Prison, okay that's, fair it's a fair.
Assessment it's not necessarily. Inaccurate but what does it. Mean
what if You're Darius, williams this, teacher and you actually
give a. Damn what if you're looking across from this kid, who,
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yes happens to be, black but it doesn't. Matter it's
more common than he would be black in this. Situation
but you're sitting here looking at these, kids and you've
watched enough of your kids go off and get killed
and kill each other and go to, prison and you're
thinking to, Yourself, wow this kid never had a. Chance,
anyway here's what he.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Said i'm teaching. Singers these kids are leaving high school
and going to college hopefully after they, finished we had
two paragraphs to, read one sentence complete to. WRITE i
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gave them the sentence. STAMPS i basically clanged the sentence
for them in the.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Minds he's a seventeen.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
An eighteen year old, kids and they couldn't fill in
four words four. WORDS i gave them the scenario we annotated.
TOGETHER i gave them the answers before we even had the, problem.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
And they couldn't do. IT i don't.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
KNOW i simply don't know where the problem. Is this
is only day two AND i have seniors who simply
cannot read and.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Sings cannot.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Write they cannot, Write they can, reason they have the
ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking to their,
homeboy but applying that to a written, text to, paragraphs.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
And they couldn't do.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
It our young black, men our young brown, man our
young black, girls and our young proud.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Girl, okay so who's gonna hire that? Person what's?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
That?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Is it gonna be? Racism if you don't have to
see where we're. Going it Was Pace, communications by the,
Way Pace entertainment
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You know, I always think of myself as a Christian
who hates Christianity.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Up.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm always so so it's thrilled when I get invited,
you know, to the Duwalwei festival.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think I've gone two years in a row now,
and you know.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Also have gotten a chance to speak at some of
our local mosques. And I find such wisdom and comfort
and inspiration from faith traditions all over the world, and
I find that they're all kind of the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Equal pathways to truth.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Give Christianity points to the truth, I also think other
religions of love point to the same truth. I think
of different religious traditions as different languages. So you and
I could sit here and debate what to call this cup,
and you could call it a cup in English, you'd
call something else banished in French. But we are all
talking about the same reality. I believe Jesus Christ reveals
that reality to us. But I also think that other
(01:08):
traditions reveal that reality in their own ways, with their
own symbol structures. And I've learned more about my tradition
by learning more about Buddhism and Hinduism and Islam and Judaism,
(01:34):
I don't believe. So most Americans, and I'm talking ninety
five percent, do not believe that an embryo is a
legal person. Now, the embryo is biologically alive, that is
certainly true, but being alive and being a person are
two different things, and that's an important distinction to make
(01:56):
these conversations. So the reason I think you have a
lot of pro choice people who push back against the
idea that abortion is immoral is because they believe that
it is not that in these situations, when there is
an unwonted pregnancy, it is moral for a woman to
(02:16):
be able to control her own body, or any one
of our neighbors with uterist to be able to control
their own body.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I don't love.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I mentioned that my granddad was a Baptist preacher, and
when I was real little, he told me that we're
supposed to follow Jesus's two commandments, love God and love neighbor.
And I believe forcing my religion down the throats of
my Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, agnostic neighbors is not love,
(03:00):
and it's why I fought so hard for the separation
of church and state. I was raised to believe that
that boundary in our First Amendment is a sacred boundary,
and it doesn't just benefit our democracy, although it certainly does,
it also benefits the church, because when the church gets
too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice.
And so I hope in the US Senate that I
(03:22):
can continue my fight against Christian nationalism because it is
fundamentally Unchristian. It is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth,
his life, his death, and his teachings. Our faith in
Jesus should lead us away from theocracy, away from tyranny,
away from Christian nationalism, and toward a multi racial, multicultural democracy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But the chion.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
During the church service, the pastor asked if anyone in
the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers.
Would anyone like to come forward and tell us about
your answered prayers, because God answers prayers. A woman named
(04:23):
Susie stood up, proudly walked to the podium, and she said,
two months ago, my husband Phil had a terrible bicycle
accident and his scrotum was crushed. There was a muffled
gasp from the men in the congregation. Phil was unable
(04:46):
to hold me or the children. She went on. Every
move caused him terrible pain. We prayed as the doctors
performed a delicate operation. We were able to reconstruct the
crushed remnants of Phil's scrotum, using wire to reinforce and
(05:08):
shape it. The men in the congregation cringed and squirmed uncontrollably, uncomfortably.
Now she announced in a quivering voice, Thank the Lord,
Phil is out of the hospital, and the doctor say
that with time his scrotom should recover completely. All the
(05:35):
men sighed with relief. The pastor rose and asked if
anyone else had something to say. Man stood up and
walked slowly to the podium and he said, I'm Phil.
The entire congregation held its breath. I just want to
(05:55):
tell my wife the word is sternum. It was a
sternum ramon, It wasn't it was just it was his sternum. Yeah.
(06:23):
What did snow White do? After she sent her film
away to be developed, she waited, hoping that someday her
prints would come home. You see the way that that
joke is structured. Prince is p R I and T
(06:46):
S but the way you make it pooral it sounds
like a prince, which is which is uh, what do
you mean? What's it? Was it called or oh or hominem?
Is it a homonym? Yeah? But the way the joke
is structured, you see, you think you say prince, and
(07:10):
your brain hears, oh, prince, like you've printed the film.
But then you realize, wait a second, snow White was
waiting for a prince, like the son of a king,
a young man who is handsome, and suddenly you remember, oh,
she's waiting for her prince, which are developed photography, and
(07:34):
our brain hears prince like you know, a handsome fellow
or the guy that played guitar and saying purple rain.
And at that moment you realize, and then the music cues, Oh,
Johnny Carson, oh here's and you go, ha, that was
a joke. I don't think snow White's actually doing anything.
I think that was all a setup to use that
(07:58):
word as a double on top under. And now I realize, huh,
I have to go home and tell my kids that joke.
That's clever right there? Yeah, and that all that all
that right there. That's just the first segment. There's more
to come.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
It claims key, it claims key.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's done for a girl and a boy. I like
like a berry show. Well, it appears that Alexandria Ocassio
Cortes has broken up with her fiance or he has
broken up with her. Number of people have suggested it's
because she has begun to eat what some white boys
(08:47):
who date Hispanic girls call the burrito bomb. She has
begun to swell. There's there's no, no, no doubt about that.
And I think the constant screeching. I think the constant
screeching is taking its toll her. Her face, Medusa's style
is beginning to turn to stone or or something that
(09:08):
has withered on the vine. She's she's she's not aging gracefully.
Of course the extra pounds uh. And she looks kind
of bloated. Now, I will tell you you don't have
to email me. I know what's gonna happen. I think
she's an attractive woman.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I do. I know that some of you don't. But
I don't think that a woman is ugly just because
she's an idiot. I don't think that because a woman
has terrible politics that means that she's ugly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I do find it's it's sort of comical to me
that people will email me shake no, Michael, she can't
be cute, she can't be kid, she's crazy. Sometimes those two,
often times those two are are hand in glove, not empathetical. Yeah,
I think she's attractive. Now, maybe you don't like brown eyed,
(10:01):
brown haired Hispanic girls. I do. I find that to
be attractive. It's a good look. And most of the
time I think she's cute. I do think she's been
looking a little ragged lately. And my guess is she's
hitting the bars. She's not taking care of herself. And
I do think she has some mental health challenges. Lena
(10:25):
Hidalgo's style and I think that the screeching and screaming,
you know, it's an interesting thing. She and Bernie are
doing this little tour together and I don't know if
he's checked her oil, but that I mean, you process
that for a moment, but you have to realize when
she's going on stage every night, if you watch and
Jasmine Crockett turn people who do what she does. She
(10:49):
doesn't go out on stage and make a speech and leave.
It's very important to her in her brand that the
crowd get riled up. She learns, as candidates like her will,
that in order to rile up her demographic she needs
(11:09):
to she needs to say some kind of stupid stuff.
She needs to get out there. She can't, she can't
talk about high minded, aspirational things. She has to really
get down and put on a show, right. And so
I think doing that over a period of time is exhausting.
And so she has begun to look a little, a little,
(11:30):
shall we say, worse for wear. But now now it
turns out that she and her man have been separated.
Whose decision it was. I don't think that she dumped him.
I don't. I do find it interesting that women like
that always date a white man. You ever notice that
ilhan omar white man and nerdy white guy. And I
(11:50):
don't know if that's just because he'll hold her purse,
but it's always very low t, effeminate, James Talerico type dudes.
You know, dudes that you're not really insipid dudes, the
kind of dudes who actually know what the word cis means.
I still don't don't want to the kind of dudes
that really really worry a lot about LGBTQ issues and
(12:12):
claim they're straight. You know what I'm talking about. That
that kind of dude. So anyway, so they separated, and
it turns out he told her he voted for Trump.
It's not a joke. He told her he voted for Trump.
And that made her very upset, which okay. Uh. Anyway,
so now she and her man they've they've been, they're separated,
they've they're broken up. They're not getting married. Who would
(12:32):
have guessed? And uh, shortly after the breakup, she posted
this audio describing loser qualities in a man, but then
it was taken down. I don't know if she was
feeling spurned. If she dumped him, she doesn't need to
go off and trash him. That's the way that game works,
which means he dumped her.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
By a loser, I mean someone who doesn't respect women,
someone who doesn't respect you, someone who doesn't treat you well,
someone that doesn't support your growth as a human.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Ooh, that tone, that lecturing tone of tedious, lecturing tone
of a liberal woman. That poor fella, because you know,
he wore her out for a while and then there
just came to a point where he's like, look you
gotta stop. You talk too much. You never shut up.
I said, you talk to you know what I'm saying.
You know, there was a point. I can only imagine
(13:27):
what her dating profile would look like. Hey, can you
imagine some dude is scrolling along? I would love to
see her filling out her dating profile and see inside
that crazy head of hers.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Okay, new chapter. Riley and I we consciously. I'm coupled,
very mutual. He's keeping the kitchen name, I'm keeping the revolution.
He's fine, I'm fine, We're all fine.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Use her name. I can't just be Alexandria. That's not
a name. That's a brand, a c bartender.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Bronx building a movement, approachable now the bio okay, raw
hard to heart, Swipe right to dismantle late stage capitalism together.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
What should it read?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
More Bronx, they swipe right or more Tennessee will hello there, y'all?
Read the room, read the room photos, Oh, the met
gallag out text, the rich iconic one behind the bar,
working class icon and the hoops always the hoops.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Filters not a billionaire.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Obviously, minimum height six feet No, that is literally inequality
of the spine. I can't six' one, though upgrade to
platinum to see who liked?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
You?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Fine for the working, People, oh it's a. Match bryden
Founder miami oh an. Oligar he does, crypto he owns
a yacht slip.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Black we do not reward the billionaire. Class we shape
the table no matter.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
What oh he put ally in his.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Bio, okay one drake just to hear his side for the.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Movement other girls all get pretty at close in. Time
when you're listening to The Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Show fifty three years ago, today my favorite band and
the greatest. Band you, know sometimes you can have a favorite,
band but they're not the. Greatest and you could recognize
of a band that they're the, greatest but they're not your,
favorite right those? Two, NO i didn't say Led, Zeppelin,
(15:59):
Romont please do something. Else, Okay, see so now you've
interrupted my train of? Thought is how this? Works fifty
Three star fifty three years ago, today the greatest band
of all time and what also happens to be my
favorite band of all. Time same band released their debut
(16:25):
album Called Pronounced leonard skinnerd with the phonetic. Pronunciation that
album would, include but not be limited, To Tuesday's gone
Simple man Free. Bird Free bird is probably the most
(16:47):
requested song concert song of all. Time now somewhat, IRONICALLY
i understand. THAT i get, it but it turned into
the and SO i. DON'T i don't think you, know
the supposedly the most played song and highest ass gap
ratings or whatever is it's a small world after, all
(17:10):
because it plays On loop At Walt. Disney it doesn't
make that fact any less, true does. It? So, anyway
fifty three years ago, Today leonard, skinnered we're playing pickleball,
yesterday because that's what real men. Do ramon and my
Buddy Ike, claypool who does not like to be mentioned
(17:30):
on the. Air so that's that's like a one and.
DONE i. Forgot he hates me to mention his name
on the, Air like, no, Genuinely i'm not kidding he
he hates me to mention his name on. There he
he makes a, playlist and so he will make a,
playlist so he will include songs in there from different
dudes in our. Group it's not a mix, tape, no
(17:51):
it's a it's a. Playlist and he Knows i'm A skinnered.
Fan AND U curtis love oh plays And ike, said
you like, that don't, You AND i, said, YES i.
DO i, mean it's a true. Story he would go
down there was black man who played the doughbro and
(18:11):
he would sit and he would do most anything for
that guy to keep performing in him watch, him and
eventually learn to. Play and that inspired him as a young,
man and he paid a tribute and and race relations
were different back, then in race was. Different this was
an old black man, who you, know sort of down and,
(18:31):
out but a great musician who hasn't known this. Situation
and this little boy admires him for his musical. Skill
and as he gets, older he writes a song in
tribute about a time that is long gone and in
a way of life in in you, know in the
the rural environs Of, Swamp. Florida and it's. Fantastic So
(19:00):
i'm reveling in the fact, that, oh it's nice of
him to do. That and our Friend Josh patterson, SAID i,
say it's your favorite, band AND i said it is
and he, said well that's WHY i put it in.
There AND i said it's very, nice thank. You And
Josh patterson Said Marshall Tucker. Band AND i just sat there, thinking,
hey you just turned fifty Years how do you how
(19:23):
can you not? Wait how does that happen that you don't?
Know this Is? Kinnard you know that just it really
it knocked me down a. Bit you. Know it was
one of those moments that you you got a process
(19:43):
for a. Moment it was fourteen years ago today THAT
i rode With Robert reese to Friends wood and we
visited A Corey diamonds And. Design Connie stagner And Billy
stagner and what grew into them being a big show
(20:04):
sponsor continuously for fourteen years without, fail supporters at the
highest level Of Camp, Hope Saint. Jude they were big
ass guns at The Republic Country, club my. Jewelers my
mother would just revel In Mother's day And christmas and
(20:27):
her birthday because she. Knew And connie would call her
behind my back and, say all, right Mister, redda what
do you want? For and she'd, say, oh, no, no,
NO i don't need. Anything and she'd, SAY i know you,
don't but if you were to have, it my mother would.
Chuckle and she was being treated like a queen and
she deserved. It and it was fun AND i was
(20:47):
appreciated that and she knows what my wife wants at
any given. Times, well you know she likes this particular
stone and she does. That but most of, all aside
from all the financial transactions and gift giving and all,
that they are dear and abiding and, wonderful wonderful, friends
AND i love. Them that's what makes life rich is
(21:09):
people that you, love that love, you not on a transactional,
basis not because it's your best, client or not because
it's your, boss or not because there is something you
can gain from, it but because you love that person
and they love. You AND ai cannot replace that, connection
and computers cannot replace that, connection and transactional relationships cannot
(21:37):
replace that. Connection when someone when you genuinely, worry when
somebody is ill or, injured that you know they wouldn't
be here and the world would not be as rich without,
Them when you genuinely care and they care about, you
there's nothing like. It there is nothing like. It and
we should all strive to build those types of relationships
(21:58):
because they. Matter that's what makes life worth. Living before we're,
GONE a dear friend of mine has a birthday. TODAY
i don't know what birthday it. IS i know she's
probably older THAN i think she is because she looks very.
Young and she's a beautiful woman and a very good
pickleball Player ramon and probably the most gracious host you've
(22:21):
ever been to a dinner party, at and that Is
lisa Hold. House she and my Friend michael Hold house
are the. Best are the best dinner party Throwers i've ever.
Known they will go to such great. Links she will
find out what Drink i'm drinking at a particular, time
(22:41):
AND i will show up and there will be a
bottle Of blantons down at the end of the table
in front of my, seat and her husband will, say
that's not for, everybody that's For michael today because it's
his birthday or whatever. Else, yeah, YEAH i can appreciate
a good a good. Host when you should try, harder
you know WHAT i, Mean you should try harder to do.
(23:01):
Things the W nba convened a committee yesterday of owners
and former players and, managers and they are trying to
figure out what THE w in W, nba, wombats wing, nuts, whales.
Wistaria they can't figure it. Out they had the intention
(23:24):
of arriving at a conclusion a definition as to what
a woman, was but in Pure Matt walsh's, style they don't.
Know they left the meeting unclear what a woman, was
because now you got n s And Royce white and
The french. Dude french dw is even bigger than they're
Gonna where a? Woman, yeah just scratch my. Bot where a?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Woman?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yep and you can't tell them, no you can't have a.
Test this is the. Absurdity everybody keeps, saying, boy they
got to make this go. Away no they. Don't we
wouldn't talk about the W, nba about. Basketball this is
the best thing for, them trust. Me the story about
A Phillips Wheatley High school teacher who broke down in
tears On instagram in the middle of a post talking
(24:12):
about how on the second day of school kids are
going back to. School by the, WAY i love your
photos and you can send them by email as. WELL
i see them On. Facebook but if you want to
send them by, Email i've told you over the, YEARS
i will never complain about you sending an email to
me bragging about your kid. Ever AND i don't care
if your kids fifty. Five you are a, parent you
(24:37):
should be invested in your children and rooting for their
success and enjoying their. Success that's one of the great
joys of. LIFE i will never think less of. YOU
i will never roll my eyes and, go oh. Good
she's bragging on her, kid who just hit twenty years
of teaching. School she's bragging on her kid who's just
(24:59):
named valdict and he's the first white valedictorne at that
high school in twelve years because there weren't Any indian.
Kids or oh, good he's bragging on his son who's
been a mechanic for nine years and finally saved up
and he's opening his own. Shop if you send me an,
email you can say it in the first nine you
said it's okay to brag on my. Kids, ABSOLUTELY i
(25:20):
will read that email with extra. INTEREST i love when
you brag on your. Kids And i've been watching the
photos that you've been posting of your kids going back to,
school AND i must SAY i do so a bit
wistfully BECAUSE i miss those. DAYS i have a great
picture of Taking michael t into a. Preschool he was
(25:46):
three years old at the, time and we had him
in a Little my Friend Paul, strugg who went to
law school with his, wife was an administrator at a
little preschool called The Becker, school aimed for the donor
to the, school which Was Alan. Becker there's a little
bit of a clear channel connection. Here iHeartMedia. Connection some
(26:08):
of you will Remember Clear Channel, entertainment which before that WAS,
sfx which before that was something, else which before that
was something. Else do you remember what it was before
it WAS? Sfx it was it was a concert. Company
And Alan becker And Barry, lewis and there was another
fellow what was his? Name he ended up opening warehouse
(26:30):
over On Sant Emmanuel toolma starts with AN. L. Leonard,
Anyway Alan becker had given the money for this little
preschool and it was attached to the temple There Beth,
Israel beth you're sure And Beth Beth. Emmanuel what do you?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Know?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Wow, yes. Okay so, anyway we sent him there because
my friend's wife was an administrator there and it was
the first. School AND i went. In i'm not gonna.
LIE i felt LIKE i looked good, too BECAUSE i
had a lot of my PHOTOS i don't look, good
so it was about me and my. Son BUT i
also looked. GOOD i had on khaki, SLACKS i was
an administrator at the. Time REMEMBER i was running the.
(27:12):
STAGE i was your, boss if you. Remember And i'm
walking in and i got a dress shirt on and,
slacks And i've Got michael T all dressed up for
his first. Day and someone called my name AND i
waved at, them and AS i waved as like a,
parade the photo was. Taken i'm not sure who took the. Photo,
anyway it's a great. Photo it's one of my happiest.
(27:34):
Moments and my wife would of course do the photo
at the beginning of every year and at the end
of every. Year And i've been enjoying watching the photos
of people taking their kids to. School it's a wonderful.
Moment it's a tender. Moment and of, course as we,
know we all know it, intuitively but you know you
eventually live it is that it's a really, temporal it's.
(27:56):
Momentary it's a, fleeting passing part in the wind in your,
life and it'll be gone and they'll grow, up and
that's all good and healthy. Too but it's a wonderful.
Thing it's uh AND i enjoy seeing. Those so if
you want to send me emails of you and and
your kids on the first, day last, day or anything
else through the Website Michael berryshow dot. COM i do
(28:17):
enjoy seeing. Those so with it being the second day of,
school a teacher At Wheatley High school broke down in
tears talking about how he had a senior in his
class who simply cannot read and cannot. Write and you,
KNOW i Think i'm pretty good at knowing what people's
reaction is going to be to most. Things AND i
(28:38):
think most people emotionally disconnect and and you WE i
read a book Called habits years, ago and it said
that we don't think anew about things that we already
know because we don't have the. Energy we don't we
can't invest in everything new when we when we drive
to work in the, morning we don't pull up to
(28:59):
the stops and, say, Now i'm going to consider is
that an? Octagon is it? Red does it have white?
Lettering does that suggest THAT i should? Stop that's not a? Yield? Right,
okay So i'm going to? Stop SHOULD i stop? It about? Here?
Okay the red light is the red the red cess?
Stop is that a good idea for?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
It to?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Say? STOP i think when it turns, great we don't
think about stuff like. That our brain just files that
away and we're constantly processing new information and it goes
back to fight or flight and hunter gatherer and self,
defense and so most things we do we don't have
to think about because we don't have the bandwidth to
think about. Them we're always processing new stimuli coming, in
(29:40):
processing new stimuli coming at. Us SO i think the
natural reaction is to, Go, yeah there's a bunch of
inner city kids with a bunch of dumb dumbs going
to end up in. Prison, okay that's, fair it's a fair.
Assessment it's not necessarily. Inaccurate but what does it. Mean
what if You're Darius, williams this, teacher and you actually
give a. Damn what if you're looking across from this kid, who,
(30:01):
yes happens to be, black but it doesn't. Matter it's
more common than he would be black in this. Situation
but you're sitting here looking at these, kids and you've
watched enough of your kids go off and get killed
and kill each other and go to, prison and you're
thinking to, Yourself, wow this kid never had a. Chance,
anyway here's what he.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Said i'm teaching. Singers these kids are leaving high school
and going to college hopefully after they, finished we had
two paragraphs to, read one sentence complete to. WRITE i
(30:42):
gave them the sentence. STAMPS i basically clanged the sentence
for them in the.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Minds he's a seventeen.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
An eighteen year old, kids and they couldn't fill in
four words four. WORDS i gave them the scenario we annotated.
TOGETHER i gave them the answers before we even had the, problem.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
And they couldn't do. IT i don't.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
KNOW i simply don't know where the problem. Is this
is only day two AND i have seniors who simply
cannot read and.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Sings cannot.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Write they cannot, Write they can, reason they have the
ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking to their,
homeboy but applying that to a written, text to, paragraphs.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
And they couldn't do.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
It our young black, men our young brown, man our
young black, girls and our young proud.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Girl, okay so who's gonna hire that? Person what's?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
That?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Is it gonna be? Racism if you don't have to
see where we're. Going it Was Pace, communications by the,
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