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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Berry Show is on the air. Oh yes, that
means it's Friday, fabulous Friday here on the Michael Berry
(00:29):
Show and in your world, all of us here together,
get your mind right. It's gonna be a great day.
I've got something, you got some good news.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Heavy d happy day? When do when it war?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
When she is away, he loves me a happy day
or happy de happy or happy d.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
When Jesus war at many wars, and when Jesus war
what chel away he loved's.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A happy day.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Happy or a happy day? Winter those war, oh whitty war,
windry those war three years away?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He luck happy day, happy, oh, happy.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Day because.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh happy, Oh habit when Jesus war waity war, when
(04:51):
Jesus war three years away, he needed to habit. Oh
good God.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And with that, the phone lines are open in three
two one seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Of course
you can email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot
(05:30):
com Michael Berryshow dot com. And now to get us started,
as we always do, courtesy of the greatest executive producer
in all the land, Chattaconi nakanishis were your weekend review.
(05:57):
I believe the children are our future. All across the state.
I have to hear about it daily. We need more money.
Just play that all the time, real cheesy and real loud.
And anyone who doesn't want to give you more money
is a bad person. When I say freebird, I ain
know what you think is an own guitar riff at
(06:18):
the end of the song. However, the part of that
song that does not get its due that I think
makes the song special is not the ending. It is
the opening of a piano. The rest of the song
goes downhill.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
UFC CEO Dana White said, a Fight night at the
White House on the fourth of July next year is
quote absolutely going to happen.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
July fourth, Fight America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Next summer.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
We're at the White House, a pretty big venue.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It is definitely going to happen.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
I talked to him last night, him being the president.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I'm getting on the screen,
you see being pouchild being bow.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
I caught my son taking a dump on the upper
part of the toilet, all right, he calls it an
upper deck.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
His story is not about my friend being crazy saving
except for the fact that he dates and marries women
that are crazy. This is where she thinks, all right,
I stolen as I've ransacked this house. She's done a
number of things.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
To this man.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
She goes into his restroom and delivers what I now
know the upper decker.
Speaker 9 (07:31):
The upper decker for you drop a deuce and the
upper part of the toilet when you bring doodo into
the equation.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
That's straight hostility, dude, that's personal.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So many bottoms that we pay, so many bobs says,
it's broken.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Why it's awful that smart a Michael Berry joke, crackers
slop bad.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It's gonna calm back and round.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
You gotta keep on around him.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I can't let trouble me the brown.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm ready to feel that feeling. Nothing add but the jip.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Back singing, damn a torpedoes pearl, Little Tito's Briday is
here again.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Try to give a mess to the stress and my
brain want the co mom, But I do my best
to free well most of the time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Sure'll do the job on a deadline way behind. Have
to tell the posts how to do his job half
the time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
An interesting week, I've heard from people haven't heard from
in forever. Listener, I think, did Joyce call this week
or was it last week? Okay, we had a Joyce
call last week. That's the first in quite a while.
We've had a number of people reach out that we
haven't heard on the show in quite some time. Overnight
we got a message from Trump and Tom, which is
(09:37):
always a treat.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Wellhallmoufles talm again a long time they'll call. Because I've
been super busy with all this Donald Trump winning. I'm
stirring out right now the Gulf of America and it's beautiful.
And you know, when you start to open, it makes
you think. And here's what I think, man. I think
it's like every time I wake up, Bowler's another win.
(10:00):
Oh you want some samples? Huh okay, no problem. Let
me pull out this little list. It's like, as long
as the CVS receipt of border security done, no problem,
Big viewful bill EZYPZ limit, squeeze guys through, no problem.
Deportations Audios Mexicanos, no problem there either. Big old war
between ibords I gone, And like Argentina, I don't even Arabia.
(10:23):
I don't know who the other country was, but started
with a And it doesn't matter because that war was
over now because Donald J. Trump broke it up. But Michael,
there's one huge win that is only just now beginning
to start, and that is cleaning up the filth that
is Washington gross DC. Okay, Like for decades I see
has been a dumpster fire, murderers and robbers and pickpockets
(10:43):
and like people playing that shell game where they just
rook people. But the DC police have done absolutely nothing.
But then Donald J. Trump's friend from those his name's
Big Balls. And side note, if my name was Big Balls,
I'd wear like nineteen seventies NBA basketball a little mini
short shorts everywhere. But anyhow, Big Balls he tried to
(11:04):
save the day because some woman had got carjacked by
like eight dudes, and then they beat the tar out
of Big Balls. And Michael, that was the straw that
broke the Campbell's toes because like ten minutes later, Donald J.
Trump federalized DC and now National Guard is basically wrecking
shop on thugs. Well that's one of Listen, Michael's a
beautiful day staring out at the Gulf of America. Man,
(11:25):
it's it's a beautiful day out here. I wish you
could see it. I can tell you a picture, all right,
thought we'll tell one On nine. I said, Hello Trump, Trump,
twenty twenty eight. We'll talk a little soon, all right,
Trump can tomp out. Hello, Michael, are you still there?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hello, old buddy of mine. This morning on the drive in,
he was over the moon and the good news had come.
We'd been waiting on this for a little while, that
his sixth grandchild was born to his daughter, Uh nine
pounds eight ounces, max writer. I guess they're gonna the
(12:07):
child is gonna be Maximus. They're gonna call it max
Writer R E I T E R. Now what's interesting
about that? That is interesting in and of itself, the
world welcoming another life. But she did it at home,
(12:31):
in her bedroom, in her bed. They had a midwife. Now,
as I said, it's a sixth child she's given.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Birth to.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That sounds like a I didn't. It's a sixth child
she's given birth to the child is so it's the
fifth separate birthing incident for the child because numbers three
and four are twins. Now, there were some complications on three,
and four, So they broke down and went to a hospital.
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But one, two, five, and now six all at home.
One of these, so midwife, I'll tell you about that
in a second went to the hospital, midwife, and now
midwife one of them. It's him and her at home.
(13:33):
Now that is old school right there. He was probably
watching TV. Honey, how long you think it's gonna be,
because I'm about to make myself a sandwich and some cheetos,
maybe some iced tea. This is the daughter that his
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wife goes and cleans their house once a week. Remember
we were talking about Jesus washing the the disciples feet
and that the act of service is to reduce yourself,
not aggrandize yourself, and that Christ wanted to make that
statement by washing the filthy feet of his disciples because
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in an era of sandals or bare feet, you can
imagine your feet are dirty either. And he knelt before
them and washed their feet. And I thought it was
the most awesome thing that my buddy, his wife goes
over very weak and cleans her adult daughter's home for her,
and because they can't afford a maid, so she becomes
(14:38):
the maid. And I think that that is a great
show of love.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
An out an outpouring of love. To do such a
thing and things like that humble me because I think,
to my do one thing, to hire a maid and
go with that would also be nice. But to every
week get up yourself, uh and do that, I think
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was a was a pretty awesome, pretty awesome statement. And
I'm imagining this baby, the one that was born at home,
would no midwife, know nothing. And I'm thinking now that
can you imagine at the end of all that, I mean,
(15:33):
what a sense of righteousness you have you have to
have when you know you and your wife y'all just
brought a baby into the world. You didn't get any
insurance companies involved, You didn't you didn't have any green gowns.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
You don't have all the.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The woman is a doula. Do you know what a
doula is? She's involved in all you know. It's amazing.
The people I used to think were the most crazy,
I've come to find out are the best people in
our society. We need more people like that. What's there
white people reproducing? You just don't see that.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
His David michael Berry, I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's an overlying Friday, we go to Debbie let it down.
That was weird. Debbie, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Hey Michael, we've talked before on a Valentine's segment. But
I was made of honor in a wedding a few
weeks back, and the most impressive thing was in the
bride knew nothing about it. The groom had someone bring
out like a washtub of water with rags and he
literally knelt down and washed her feet because he promised her,
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just like Christ did with the disciples, that as her husband,
he would always be there to serve her. I just
stood out balling. That was just the most touching thing.
And and he is. He is a great husband. Their
names are Terence and Elise, and I'm so proud to
know them. Yes, what an he's had to stand it.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But you know what is what an act? What a statement?
I like that a lot.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
I Uh.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Well, he adores her. He adores her, and she's got
two kids and he's never been married before. He doesn't
have any kids, but he is stepping up to be
a good step dad. He's not going to replace their dad,
but he wants to be an example for them as well.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
If more men love their women, and if more women
loved their men, it would solve a lot of problems.
But that is not at the core of how many
children are brought into this world. And you've you've, you're
you're removing the very basis upon which the family unit operates,
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and when that works, it works. It's amazing that it's
become rare, not extinct, but rare to such a to
such a degree that we notice it and remark on it.
It's it's an area where we need to fix that
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in our culture because the rot is too much. But
one of the ways you fix it is you extol
the virtues where you see it. So let's go to Julie. Julie,
you are on the Michael Berry Show, sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Go ahead, Well, good morning, Michael.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can hear I am?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I'm calling regarding that I'm calling regarding that home birth
you and I've met. I obviously have a scene name.
I'm a female. I have an aunt who also attempted
to do a home birth with a midwife some years ago,
and the birth went sideways. Fortunately, the child did just fine.
(19:14):
He's an amazing thirty five year old man now. And
I'm grateful that this child that this woman had is
healthy and everything went wild and great for her and
has been progressive. But having that child end up that birth,
that my family end up in the county hospital because
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she'd never gone to any other hospitals, nobody else would
accept her during her pregnancy. He was born in a
county hospital here. I believe home births are reckless in
this city, and I wouldn't risk my child's life for that.
So I'm grateful she's happy, and I'm grateful that that
(19:57):
child is safe, But I I wouldn't do that, not
in this day and age.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, I understand you wouldn't, but other people would. How
about this anecdote is the basis of your opinion? Do
you know that the number three cause of death in
hospitals is medical error, not negligence, medical error of error
(20:29):
leaving the scissors inside. So many things that go wrong,
people that go septic. I'll bet you that the rate
of birth healthy full birth for midwife and doulah informed
(20:49):
birds in this country is healthier and a higher rate
than hospital based bursts.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
And I won't disagree on that part. And You're right.
We have we have humans that are working on humans,
and they make mistakes and they get in a hurry
for the almighty whatever their goal is in life. But
the way I personally look at it, and I'm only
speaking for me, I would not have ever done that.
(21:21):
I believe that would be terribly reckless, because we've gotten
past having children that are born at home. And you're
standing there in a cemetery in the eighteen forties and
there's six children and they're all dead within two years
of their lives, and there's a whole string of them.
And we are a better culture than that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Oh no, no, no, no, And that's I'm gonna I'm
gonna stop you there, because this talk about this is
like the scientists in Louisiana that bred a crab with
the cheetah. It went sideway fast. This is no, no, no,
(22:03):
We're not better than that. I'm coming to the conclusion
that when I hear someone say that someone is better
than that, I always disagree. It's seemingly always disagree. The
reason you believe that is because you have been convinced
(22:25):
that there is advancement and development and peer pressure, and
this idea that there are these god figures who operate
behind general hospital or whatever television show the exalted hospital
(22:48):
and it is the great institution. And by the way,
I grew up this way too, believing this nonsense. And
so you would go to this place. There would be
the hospital, and the doors would pop open, and you'd
have the air conditioning curtain as you went in, and
there would be wheelchairs over here in a waiting room
(23:15):
with people looking sad, and a person at the intake,
Who's who's hassled and bothered? And have you been to
a hospital lately? My I can't remember my mother or
my father for about two years there, we had a
lot of problems, and I would have them sent to
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Houston because I could get them in faster. And they
were at one of the major Houston hospital systems. And
my dad was almost comatose, and so I had a
doctor come and treat him in the in the waiting
room as a favorite of me, and and but had
I not had that personal relationship, he possibly could have died.
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They're in the waiting room. And as I waited in
the waiting room, or as I like to call it Mexico,
nobody spoke English, which is fine. I speak Spanish. I
knew everything they were saying, and every single person there
was gaming the system. So they couldn't put my dad
in a room. They put him in a hallway. There
was a guy waiting in the hallway that had been
(24:22):
there for over twenty years, hit an open, rotting sore
in his leg.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You have.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
An unnaturally high view of hospitals and the medical medical
community and all that crime is so bad in Chicago.
A black man quoted as saying that he is fleeing
the city and moving back to Africa.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Hey, Trump, Trump, you need to bring the National Guards
to Chicago.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Man.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
You got kids killing kids. Man, that's not good. Man, DC,
It's not much going on compared to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Man, I'm running. It's all happening right now in Chicago. Man.
Speaker 11 (25:08):
Hey hey, look man, look, going to newis going to news.
I'm going Google type of Chicago. I'm going back home
to Africa.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Man, I can't. I can't too much gon No man
in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Man reminds me of Shirley q lickor having to lay
down the law in Watusi.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
I won't go back to Africa, said what. I won't
go back to Africa back to Africa. You ain't ever
been to Africa. I'm Africa and America. Yeah that's just
a word that don't mean nothing.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
I'm from Africa.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
No you're not.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You from Louisiana, you dumb ass. Watch you said.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
Let me explain something to you.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Don't make it hard. No, it's not gonna be hard.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Look here, where was you born, Louisjafla?
Speaker 11 (25:55):
Where did you grow up at?
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (25:58):
Louisjada?
Speaker 8 (26:00):
So why are you gonna thank you from Africa? I'm
an African American. God, look here, there's not one democracy
in Africa worth living in.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
The people over there, they live in mud huts.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They ain't got running why, they ain't got.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Electricitan, they ain't voting, they don't got no freedom of nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Africa not all that.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
But I'm African.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Shut up, God, let me explain something to you.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
What we're the lucky ones.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
We got the hell out of Africa.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Raman. What's a Vietnamese giants' favorite meal? What's a Vietnamese
giants favorite meal? Three? Five four? But it's pronounced buff.
(26:55):
You know when babies are born today? You know when
the baby comes out of the most important factor determining
when a baby is born? What time and date do
you know the doctor's tea time? I wish that was
(27:20):
a joke. Just pay attention to young people, and notice
the trend of how many scheduled births we have today.
And notice a number of C sections that are conducted today.
(27:42):
I'll bet you there are twenty five times the number
of sea sections performed today as there used to be
used to. If they couldn't get the baby out or
there was some significant problem, they would rush the baby
in and go digging around in there, and they'd pull
it out from the belly if they had to. Today
(28:07):
obstetricians decided I don't want to be called at two
twenty because your wife's water broke and y'all are driving
in and getting all dramatic. I'm over this. Let me
look at my schedule here. We'll have the baby on
October ninth. Y'all need to be here early. We'll do
the procedure at nine, and you'll have your baby by noon.
(28:31):
And that's that's what we're Let's see, Maria, do we
have October nights? Still look good? Okay? Well, schedule it
that week is good because I'm going on safari the
week before and we've got a house. We got a
house in northern California that week after, so you can
you can have the baby anytime that week. I'm not
(28:53):
anti doctor, I'm not anti hospital, I'm not anti medicine.
I am wake up and look at everything anew because
everything you thought you knew is now wrong. Our country
has changed dramatically. If your doctor prescribes a drug for you,
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you should spend ten hours on the internet before you
put that poison in your body. The products that you
buy on the shelves at the grocery store that you
thought you could trust, that it turns out, can be
left outside for years. The meats, the different products that
(29:39):
are no longer made by somebody who lives in your state,
those things should wake you up. We don't go to
war because we're attacked. We're not protecting America. We're making
a few people very happy. There's a church for every crazy, kooky, ungodly,
(30:04):
unbiblical position out there, so the most wicked amongst us
can be church goers and not sinners. Oh sure, I
know that sounds crazy, and I'm okay with that. It's
better not to know. But when you tell me it
is reckless to do the most natural thing in the world,
(30:28):
and that is a natural childbirth, and that somehow that
is reckless because babies all died before on an otherwise
very healthy pregnancy, on a woman giving birth to number six,
and then have this sort of chastising view that these
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people are backward. I can't abide that. You know, for
every joke we made growing up of the Mormons, Mormons
are the Amish, are the homeschoolers? Are the doulas or
(31:14):
the midwives are the cord cutters. For every joke that
was made, there was based in that a slight uncertainty
that maybe, just maybe they're right. See, if you're a Christian,
(31:38):
you don't have to doubt, but if you're a non believer,
you go, well, if I'm right and he's wrong, we're
both dead. But if he's right and I'm wrong, So
there's always that nagging doubt. There is always the sense
of superiority that those people who are doing something that
(31:59):
I would never dare do because it's brave and it's bold,
and it's different and it's unconventional. So it's better for
me to judge them and reduce them to being beneath me.
Using ideas that have been fed to me by people
(32:22):
who profited from them makes me feel better about myself.
I make good decisions, I put my hands, I put
my life into the hands of people who pay their
mortgages off of me and rely on me, and all
the while I get to feel righteous about it that
(32:43):
someone else did not or could not do that, so
I'm better than them, smarter than them, and deep down
I secretly hope something goes wrong in those people's lives
because of the decisions they made as to how they
lived their lives that I would never have the strength
(33:07):
of character and self confidence to make for myself.
It's that time, time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Berry Show is on the air. Oh yes, that
means it's Friday, fabulous Friday here on the Michael Berry
(00:29):
Show and in your world, all of us here together,
get your mind right. It's gonna be a great day.
I've got something, you got some good news.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Heavy d happy day? When do when it war?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
When she is away, he loves me a happy day
or happy de happy or happy d.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
When Jesus war at many wars, and when Jesus war
what chel away he loved's.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A happy day.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Happy or a happy day? Winter those war, oh whitty war,
windry those war three years away?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He luck happy day, happy, oh, happy.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Day because.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh happy, Oh habit when Jesus war waity war, when
(04:51):
Jesus war three years away, he needed to habit. Oh
good God.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And with that, the phone lines are open in three
two one seven one three nine nine nine one thousand
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. Of course
you can email me through the website Michael Berryshow dot
(05:30):
com Michael Berryshow dot com. And now to get us started,
as we always do, courtesy of the greatest executive producer
in all the land, Chattaconi nakanishis were your weekend review.
(05:57):
I believe the children are our future. All across the state.
I have to hear about it daily. We need more money.
Just play that all the time, real cheesy and real loud.
And anyone who doesn't want to give you more money
is a bad person. When I say freebird, I ain
know what you think is an own guitar riff at
(06:18):
the end of the song. However, the part of that
song that does not get its due that I think
makes the song special is not the ending. It is
the opening of a piano. The rest of the song
goes downhill.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
UFC CEO Dana White said, a Fight night at the
White House on the fourth of July next year is
quote absolutely going to happen.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
July fourth, Fight America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Next summer.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
We're at the White House, a pretty big venue.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It is definitely going to happen.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
I talked to him last night, him being the president.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I'm getting on the screen,
you see being pouchild being bow.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
I caught my son taking a dump on the upper
part of the toilet, all right, he calls it an
upper deck.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
His story is not about my friend being crazy saving
except for the fact that he dates and marries women
that are crazy. This is where she thinks, all right,
I stolen as I've ransacked this house. She's done a
number of things.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
To this man.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
She goes into his restroom and delivers what I now
know the upper decker.
Speaker 9 (07:31):
The upper decker for you drop a deuce and the
upper part of the toilet when you bring doodo into
the equation.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
That's straight hostility, dude, that's personal.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So many bottoms that we pay, so many bobs says,
it's broken.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Why it's awful that smart a Michael Berry joke, crackers
slop bad.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It's gonna calm back and round.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
You gotta keep on around him.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I can't let trouble me the brown.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm ready to feel that feeling. Nothing add but the jip.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Back singing, damn a torpedoes pearl, Little Tito's Briday is
here again.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Try to give a mess to the stress and my
brain want the co mom, But I do my best
to free well most of the time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Sure'll do the job on a deadline way behind. Have
to tell the posts how to do his job half
the time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
An interesting week, I've heard from people haven't heard from
in forever. Listener, I think, did Joyce call this week
or was it last week? Okay, we had a Joyce
call last week. That's the first in quite a while.
We've had a number of people reach out that we
haven't heard on the show in quite some time. Overnight
we got a message from Trump and Tom, which is
(09:37):
always a treat.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Wellhallmoufles talm again a long time they'll call. Because I've
been super busy with all this Donald Trump winning. I'm
stirring out right now the Gulf of America and it's beautiful.
And you know, when you start to open, it makes
you think. And here's what I think, man. I think
it's like every time I wake up, Bowler's another win.
(10:00):
Oh you want some samples? Huh okay, no problem. Let
me pull out this little list. It's like, as long
as the CVS receipt of border security done, no problem,
Big viewful bill EZYPZ limit, squeeze guys through, no problem.
Deportations Audios Mexicanos, no problem there either. Big old war
between ibords I gone, And like Argentina, I don't even Arabia.
(10:23):
I don't know who the other country was, but started
with a And it doesn't matter because that war was
over now because Donald J. Trump broke it up. But Michael,
there's one huge win that is only just now beginning
to start, and that is cleaning up the filth that
is Washington gross DC. Okay, Like for decades I see
has been a dumpster fire, murderers and robbers and pickpockets
(10:43):
and like people playing that shell game where they just
rook people. But the DC police have done absolutely nothing.
But then Donald J. Trump's friend from those his name's
Big Balls. And side note, if my name was Big Balls,
I'd wear like nineteen seventies NBA basketball a little mini
short shorts everywhere. But anyhow, Big Balls he tried to
(11:04):
save the day because some woman had got carjacked by
like eight dudes, and then they beat the tar out
of Big Balls. And Michael, that was the straw that
broke the Campbell's toes because like ten minutes later, Donald J.
Trump federalized DC and now National Guard is basically wrecking
shop on thugs. Well that's one of Listen, Michael's a
beautiful day staring out at the Gulf of America. Man,
(11:25):
it's it's a beautiful day out here. I wish you
could see it. I can tell you a picture, all right,
thought we'll tell one On nine. I said, Hello Trump, Trump,
twenty twenty eight. We'll talk a little soon, all right,
Trump can tomp out. Hello, Michael, are you still there?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hello, old buddy of mine. This morning on the drive in,
he was over the moon and the good news had come.
We'd been waiting on this for a little while, that
his sixth grandchild was born to his daughter, Uh nine
pounds eight ounces, max writer. I guess they're gonna the
(12:07):
child is gonna be Maximus. They're gonna call it max
Writer R E I T E R. Now what's interesting
about that? That is interesting in and of itself, the
world welcoming another life. But she did it at home,
(12:31):
in her bedroom, in her bed. They had a midwife. Now,
as I said, it's a sixth child she's given.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Birth to.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That sounds like a I didn't. It's a sixth child
she's given birth to the child is so it's the
fifth separate birthing incident for the child because numbers three
and four are twins. Now, there were some complications on three,
and four, So they broke down and went to a hospital.
(13:09):
But one, two, five, and now six all at home.
One of these, so midwife, I'll tell you about that
in a second went to the hospital, midwife, and now
midwife one of them. It's him and her at home.
(13:33):
Now that is old school right there. He was probably
watching TV. Honey, how long you think it's gonna be,
because I'm about to make myself a sandwich and some cheetos,
maybe some iced tea. This is the daughter that his
(13:54):
wife goes and cleans their house once a week. Remember
we were talking about Jesus washing the the disciples feet
and that the act of service is to reduce yourself,
not aggrandize yourself, and that Christ wanted to make that
statement by washing the filthy feet of his disciples because
(14:17):
in an era of sandals or bare feet, you can
imagine your feet are dirty either. And he knelt before
them and washed their feet. And I thought it was
the most awesome thing that my buddy, his wife goes
over very weak and cleans her adult daughter's home for her,
and because they can't afford a maid, so she becomes
(14:38):
the maid. And I think that that is a great
show of love.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That is.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
An out an outpouring of love. To do such a
thing and things like that humble me because I think,
to my do one thing, to hire a maid and
go with that would also be nice. But to every
week get up yourself, uh and do that, I think
(15:12):
was a was a pretty awesome, pretty awesome statement. And
I'm imagining this baby, the one that was born at home,
would no midwife, know nothing. And I'm thinking now that
can you imagine at the end of all that, I mean,
(15:33):
what a sense of righteousness you have you have to
have when you know you and your wife y'all just
brought a baby into the world. You didn't get any
insurance companies involved, You didn't you didn't have any green gowns.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
You don't have all the.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The woman is a doula. Do you know what a
doula is? She's involved in all you know. It's amazing.
The people I used to think were the most crazy,
I've come to find out are the best people in
our society. We need more people like that. What's there
white people reproducing? You just don't see that.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
His David michael Berry, I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's an overlying Friday, we go to Debbie let it down.
That was weird. Debbie, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
Hey Michael, we've talked before on a Valentine's segment. But
I was made of honor in a wedding a few
weeks back, and the most impressive thing was in the
bride knew nothing about it. The groom had someone bring
out like a washtub of water with rags and he
literally knelt down and washed her feet because he promised her,
(16:54):
just like Christ did with the disciples, that as her husband,
he would always be there to serve her. I just
stood out balling. That was just the most touching thing.
And and he is. He is a great husband. Their
names are Terence and Elise, and I'm so proud to
know them. Yes, what an he's had to stand it.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But you know what is what an act? What a statement?
I like that a lot.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
I Uh.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Well, he adores her. He adores her, and she's got
two kids and he's never been married before. He doesn't
have any kids, but he is stepping up to be
a good step dad. He's not going to replace their dad,
but he wants to be an example for them as well.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
If more men love their women, and if more women
loved their men, it would solve a lot of problems.
But that is not at the core of how many
children are brought into this world. And you've you've, you're
you're removing the very basis upon which the family unit operates,
(18:09):
and when that works, it works. It's amazing that it's
become rare, not extinct, but rare to such a to
such a degree that we notice it and remark on it.
It's it's an area where we need to fix that
(18:29):
in our culture because the rot is too much. But
one of the ways you fix it is you extol
the virtues where you see it. So let's go to Julie. Julie,
you are on the Michael Berry Show, sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Go ahead, Well, good morning, Michael.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can hear I am?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I'm calling regarding that I'm calling regarding that home birth
you and I've met. I obviously have a scene name.
I'm a female. I have an aunt who also attempted
to do a home birth with a midwife some years ago,
and the birth went sideways. Fortunately, the child did just fine.
(19:14):
He's an amazing thirty five year old man now. And
I'm grateful that this child that this woman had is
healthy and everything went wild and great for her and
has been progressive. But having that child end up that birth,
that my family end up in the county hospital because
(19:37):
she'd never gone to any other hospitals, nobody else would
accept her during her pregnancy. He was born in a
county hospital here. I believe home births are reckless in
this city, and I wouldn't risk my child's life for that.
So I'm grateful she's happy, and I'm grateful that that
(19:57):
child is safe, But I I wouldn't do that, not
in this day and age.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, I understand you wouldn't, but other people would. How
about this anecdote is the basis of your opinion? Do
you know that the number three cause of death in
hospitals is medical error, not negligence, medical error of error
(20:29):
leaving the scissors inside. So many things that go wrong,
people that go septic. I'll bet you that the rate
of birth healthy full birth for midwife and doulah informed
(20:49):
birds in this country is healthier and a higher rate
than hospital based bursts.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
And I won't disagree on that part. And You're right.
We have we have humans that are working on humans,
and they make mistakes and they get in a hurry
for the almighty whatever their goal is in life. But
the way I personally look at it, and I'm only
speaking for me, I would not have ever done that.
(21:21):
I believe that would be terribly reckless, because we've gotten
past having children that are born at home. And you're
standing there in a cemetery in the eighteen forties and
there's six children and they're all dead within two years
of their lives, and there's a whole string of them.
And we are a better culture than that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Oh no, no, no, no, And that's I'm gonna I'm
gonna stop you there, because this talk about this is
like the scientists in Louisiana that bred a crab with
the cheetah. It went sideway fast. This is no, no, no,
(22:03):
We're not better than that. I'm coming to the conclusion
that when I hear someone say that someone is better
than that, I always disagree. It's seemingly always disagree. The
reason you believe that is because you have been convinced
(22:25):
that there is advancement and development and peer pressure, and
this idea that there are these god figures who operate
behind general hospital or whatever television show the exalted hospital
(22:48):
and it is the great institution. And by the way,
I grew up this way too, believing this nonsense. And
so you would go to this place. There would be
the hospital, and the doors would pop open, and you'd
have the air conditioning curtain as you went in, and
there would be wheelchairs over here in a waiting room
(23:15):
with people looking sad, and a person at the intake,
Who's who's hassled and bothered? And have you been to
a hospital lately? My I can't remember my mother or
my father for about two years there, we had a
lot of problems, and I would have them sent to
(23:37):
Houston because I could get them in faster. And they
were at one of the major Houston hospital systems. And
my dad was almost comatose, and so I had a
doctor come and treat him in the in the waiting
room as a favorite of me, and and but had
I not had that personal relationship, he possibly could have died.
(24:02):
They're in the waiting room. And as I waited in
the waiting room, or as I like to call it Mexico,
nobody spoke English, which is fine. I speak Spanish. I
knew everything they were saying, and every single person there
was gaming the system. So they couldn't put my dad
in a room. They put him in a hallway. There
was a guy waiting in the hallway that had been
(24:22):
there for over twenty years, hit an open, rotting sore
in his leg.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You have.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
An unnaturally high view of hospitals and the medical medical
community and all that crime is so bad in Chicago.
A black man quoted as saying that he is fleeing
the city and moving back to Africa.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Hey, Trump, Trump, you need to bring the National Guards
to Chicago.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Man.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
You got kids killing kids. Man, that's not good. Man, DC,
It's not much going on compared to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Man, I'm running. It's all happening right now in Chicago. Man.
Speaker 11 (25:08):
Hey hey, look man, look, going to newis going to news.
I'm going Google type of Chicago. I'm going back home
to Africa.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Man, I can't. I can't too much gon No man
in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Man reminds me of Shirley q lickor having to lay
down the law in Watusi.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
I won't go back to Africa, said what. I won't
go back to Africa back to Africa. You ain't ever
been to Africa. I'm Africa and America. Yeah that's just
a word that don't mean nothing.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
I'm from Africa.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
No you're not.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You from Louisiana, you dumb ass. Watch you said.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
Let me explain something to you.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Don't make it hard. No, it's not gonna be hard.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Look here, where was you born, Louisjafla?
Speaker 11 (25:55):
Where did you grow up at?
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (25:58):
Louisjada?
Speaker 8 (26:00):
So why are you gonna thank you from Africa? I'm
an African American. God, look here, there's not one democracy
in Africa worth living in.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
The people over there, they live in mud huts.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They ain't got running why, they ain't got.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Electricitan, they ain't voting, they don't got no freedom of nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Africa not all that.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
But I'm African.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Shut up, God, let me explain something to you.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
What we're the lucky ones.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
We got the hell out of Africa.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Raman. What's a Vietnamese giants' favorite meal? What's a Vietnamese
giants favorite meal? Three? Five four? But it's pronounced buff.
(26:55):
You know when babies are born today? You know when
the baby comes out of the most important factor determining
when a baby is born? What time and date do
you know the doctor's tea time? I wish that was
(27:20):
a joke. Just pay attention to young people, and notice
the trend of how many scheduled births we have today.
And notice a number of C sections that are conducted today.
(27:42):
I'll bet you there are twenty five times the number
of sea sections performed today as there used to be
used to. If they couldn't get the baby out or
there was some significant problem, they would rush the baby
in and go digging around in there, and they'd pull
it out from the belly if they had to. Today
(28:07):
obstetricians decided I don't want to be called at two
twenty because your wife's water broke and y'all are driving
in and getting all dramatic. I'm over this. Let me
look at my schedule here. We'll have the baby on
October ninth. Y'all need to be here early. We'll do
the procedure at nine, and you'll have your baby by noon.
(28:31):
And that's that's what we're Let's see, Maria, do we
have October nights? Still look good? Okay? Well, schedule it
that week is good because I'm going on safari the
week before and we've got a house. We got a
house in northern California that week after, so you can
you can have the baby anytime that week. I'm not
(28:53):
anti doctor, I'm not anti hospital, I'm not anti medicine.
I am wake up and look at everything anew because
everything you thought you knew is now wrong. Our country
has changed dramatically. If your doctor prescribes a drug for you,
(29:16):
you should spend ten hours on the internet before you
put that poison in your body. The products that you
buy on the shelves at the grocery store that you
thought you could trust, that it turns out, can be
left outside for years. The meats, the different products that
(29:39):
are no longer made by somebody who lives in your state,
those things should wake you up. We don't go to
war because we're attacked. We're not protecting America. We're making
a few people very happy. There's a church for every crazy, kooky, ungodly,
(30:04):
unbiblical position out there, so the most wicked amongst us
can be church goers and not sinners. Oh sure, I
know that sounds crazy, and I'm okay with that. It's
better not to know. But when you tell me it
is reckless to do the most natural thing in the world,
(30:28):
and that is a natural childbirth, and that somehow that
is reckless because babies all died before on an otherwise
very healthy pregnancy, on a woman giving birth to number six,
and then have this sort of chastising view that these
(30:51):
people are backward. I can't abide that. You know, for
every joke we made growing up of the Mormons, Mormons
are the Amish, are the homeschoolers? Are the doulas or
(31:14):
the midwives are the cord cutters. For every joke that
was made, there was based in that a slight uncertainty
that maybe, just maybe they're right. See, if you're a Christian,
(31:38):
you don't have to doubt, but if you're a non believer,
you go, well, if I'm right and he's wrong, we're
both dead. But if he's right and I'm wrong, So
there's always that nagging doubt. There is always the sense
of superiority that those people who are doing something that
(31:59):
I would never dare do because it's brave and it's bold,
and it's different and it's unconventional. So it's better for
me to judge them and reduce them to being beneath me.
Using ideas that have been fed to me by people
(32:22):
who profited from them makes me feel better about myself.
I make good decisions, I put my hands, I put
my life into the hands of people who pay their
mortgages off of me and rely on me, and all
the while I get to feel righteous about it that
(32:43):
someone else did not or could not do that, so
I'm better than them, smarter than them, and deep down
I secretly hope something goes wrong in those people's lives
because of the decisions they made as to how they
lived their lives that I would never have the strength
(33:07):
of character and self confidence to make for myself.
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