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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air. We'll get into Mico.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I don't plan.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
To shave, and it's goog the thing, but I just
gotta see I'm doing all right.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We'll go make me some point meets beating. Ready done,
that's a true. It's neither drink well. Quite a weekend
for the news it was. We will get to all
of that, but we will start with the issue of scabs.
Why do we get them? Do you pick yours? Or
(00:55):
do you put a band aid over it to avoid that?
Do you like to see the wound beneath the scab
or do you let the scab dry and flake off
when it's healed underneath? Do you moisturize your scab? Ramon,
Nobody names their scab. You are the only person that
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names your scab. There was a very nice note I
got this weekend from a teacher, and she said that,
with mixed emotions, she was packing up her classroom after
twenty seven years of being a teacher, and she was
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describing the various things she was taking off the walls,
and I guess taking home. I don't know I don't
know what would happen with them, but probably some things
from home that made her feel good, felt a little
home at the school, and that it was time for
her to retire after twenty seven years, but that she
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would miss it and how much she enjoyed it, and
in a few reminiscences. And it's interesting because before I
had kids, you don't think about life on the school calendar,
but when you have kids, the school calendar controls everything.
When can we leave town, When can we do this?
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When can we do this? When do we have to
be back at school, When do we have to have
you know, our books ready, when do we and your
whole life as a family for about a twelve to
fifteen year period there, depending on how many kids you have,
is determined by this calendar that somebody else is creating
and you're marking it up on your calendar at home,
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and in our home, it was mama. In many cases
it is Mama is saying, you know, this is the
date this happens, and this is the date this happens,
and we just consult it. We don't give a lot
of strategic thought to it. The men in our home,
we just consult what Mama has put up there. This
is an open house for parents, parent teacher conference. This
is last day of school, this is last exam day
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and all that. And I just got to thinking about
all the wonderful teachers I had in my life, and
I realized not everybody had that experience, because I hear
that from people, but I did, and I'm grateful for it.
I consider these people up there with preachers and coaches,
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and they're like many parents, at least for me, and
were in my life. I was also very fortunate to
have wonderful teachers, to a person, wonderful teachers for both
of my boys, and for that I am extraordinarily, extraordinarily grateful.
But I thought it would be an appropriate way to
start the show today to thank the teachers who are
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finishing their school year, and to those of you who
are retiring, and maybe nobody has thrown you a party
or made big deal about it, we do appreciate what
you do. You think they can You think they got
to watch after twenty five years, I'll let anyone you
know that they probably got to watch. If y'all don't know,
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Ramone is very sore. It was the tradition that you
would get a watch after twenty years at our company.
But Ramone didn't get a watch, and he still can't
quite seem to let that go. I'm not sure why,
but that watch has turned out to be very important.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
On Friday, her report was released hu R and it
was the set of interviews that were done as part
of the Joe Biden investigation. And we'll place some of
that here in just a moment, but it's clear from
that that Joe Biden, because for once there's no teleprompter
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and all that he's trying to answer questions, he can't
remember anything. And her came to the conclusion in his
report that yes, Joe Biden had committed crimes, but his
mind was so fried, he was basically so mentally close
to death that there was no point in bringing charges
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against him. Now that at a time that the man
is running for president, and nobody blinked to I he
is unfit to stand trial for crimes we believe he committed,
and here they are, but he is unfit to stand trial.
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But he's also running for president. If he's unfit to
stand trial and you think he committed crimes, then somebody
needs to step in and say he can't run for president. Okay,
so that's on Friday. That was pretty damning and drops
on a Friday, so you don't get the full news
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cycle out of it. It would have been the big
story today. However, it is soft today, hard tomorrow. The
launch of Original Sin by Jake Tapper at CNN and
Alex Thompson at Axios. Now, for you and me, we say, well,
Tapper is a clown. What a loser. Oh now he's
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writing a book that Biden was demented all along, when,
of course he knew it or should have known it.
We're pretty sure he had to know it because we
knew it from a distance. But it's important to remember that, Jake,
that this is important. This is significant because inside the Beltway.
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I'm in Washington, DC right now, it's all anybody can
talk about. I go to a cigar lounge and it
is all anybody is talking about. People have seen advanced
manuscripts and they're reading out to each other because they're
all lobbyists and political people the segments of it. If
this had been a conservative writer, those people wouldn't have
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paid attention to it. It will have more impact, at
least inside the Beltway. From because of the fact that
it's written by Jake Tapper, and so in that sense,
it forces them to have to confront Biden's dementia. So
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you've got the report, which is where he's bumbling and stumbling.
We'll play that for you in a moment on Friday.
Then you've got Jake Tapper in the early part of
this week's book being released, which he's going to be
on the book tour. It's all anybody's going to talk about.
And he's got all sorts of staffers in there saying, yeah,
we were gonna put him in a wheelchair and he
didn't know where he was and so what happens? I mean,
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this is Rodney ellis level shameless. Over the weekend, they
announce he's got stage five metastatic prostate cancer. It has
metastasized into his bones. This guy has had the best
medical care you could get, at least for the last
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four years, and especially for the last four years, and
we're supposed to believe that just now you're releasing this
to try to distract us from the her report and
the book about what all happened. I'm not sure if
it's worse that they think we're stupid, or that some
people will mold Martha Berry's shore. President Trump scheduled to
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take part in a Rose Gardens bill signing event at
two o'clock Central today and an hour and a half
later a law enforcement event. Last week was Law Enforcement Week,
the National Police Officer Memorial event honoring those fallen. President
Trump will take part in a Kennedy Center Board dinner
(08:51):
tonight at six o'clock Central. Reminder that he made himself
the chairman of the Kennedy Center and board. He wants
to bring back the luster to that organization and stop
the left wing tilt. I like it. He is set
to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who it is
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being said, is slow walking the Ukraine peace talk. The
UK and europe struck a trade and security deal over Brexit.
Very interesting, what is developing there with UK armsmakers and
an interesting election we'll get to in a moment. The
Leading Economic Indicators for April report on the economy is
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due in about forty minutes, so hopefully we'll be able
to get to those before the show is over. So
this is not just a Joe Biden story, because Joe
Biden wasn't really the one hiding his own dementia. That's
the interesting thing about this. He would have he would
have hidden as much as he could for as long
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as he did. But Joe Biden became the vehicle by
with which people controlled the government. And those people are
still around and they had a lot of people helping
them do that because they too want to control the government.
The Pete Buddy gig, the Gavin Newsom's, the Hillary Clinton's,
all the people who played along with this thing. So
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we are to find out over the weekend, and I
don't doubt it that Joe Biden has a stage five
metastatic cancer prostate cancer that has supposedly beentastasized into his bones.
That is not an overnight process. We'll get to that
in a moment. That means he had this for years.
So Clip four thirteen A flashback to twenty twenty two,
three years ago when very oddly Joe Biden said this.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
And because it was a four lane highway that was accessible,
my mother drove us and rather than us to be
able to walk and guess what the first frost you
know what was happening, It had to put on and
which of wipers to get literally the oil slick off
the window. That's why I and so damn any other
people I grew up have cancer, and why camp for
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the longest time Dellawer had the highest cancer rate in
the nation.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So did he forget? He wasn't supposed to say that
he had cancer. This was two years into his term
and they needed him to run again because they didn't
have a replacement. That's why I and so many others
I grew up with have cancer. Joe Biden has had
a tendency to bluff accomplishments. You remember Cornpop. He's had
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a tendency to make up stories. But I believe him.
I think he did have prostate cancer. I think they
lied to us all along, which brings up flashback from
twenty twenty clip four fourteen of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Do voters have a right to know more detailed health
information about president of candidates and especially about presidents?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Says that I'm glad you ask about transparency because it
has to be across the board. Joe has been incredibly
transparent over many, many years. The one thing we all
know about Joe, he puts it all out there. He
is honest, he is forthright. But Donald Trump on the
other hand, has been about covering up everything.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, let's go to six fifteen doctor Schustermann, a urologist
on News Nation.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's very unlikely that someone could get annual checkups and
not notice a PSA elevation over the past, you know.
But this is what I typically would see in a
VA hospital where a patient hasn't had medical attention in
ten years, presents to an emergency room with bone pain
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and then they find that it's metastatic prostate cancer. But
in the modern age of medicine, especially the fact that
he was a former president, he had intensive state of
the art you care where we can see prostate cancer,
you know, years in the past. So this is I mean,
it's it's very unusual to hear that someone has prosy
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cancer where they're annually being followed up, and the fact
that we just find it at a Gleason nine is
just pretty much unheard of it in this day and
age of the medicine.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
In other words, he's had this for a long time.
Then we go to a two part clip. We'll start
with six sixteen doctor Jamine brumbat urologist on CNN. And
this is important. It suggests that the hormone treatment he
was on probably contributed to his cognitive decline.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
So the treatment auctions initially start with like putting a
brake on the cancer, and that's done with medications. They're
pretty much we call it male menopause or like they're
called androgen deprivation therapy, so you try to stop the
hormones that feed the cancer. That's how it initially starts.
Then what the next treatments could include steroid treatments. There's
immune therapies that can be done. There's also medicines that
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target like things in the bones, but all of those
are medical management. Rarely there's an option of surgery or radiation.
There's all these different medications that can be taken through
the IV or by mouth to help control the cancer
based on where it's spread.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now let's go to six seventeen. So they've got him
on this hormone treatment, this male menopause hormone treatment, and
this is what that can do to you.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
He's not my patient, but if I had a patient
like him with all the medical stuff that he has,
including whether it's the physical or the mental, you know,
you really have to take that into account because all
these treatments do have potential side effects. One of the
biggest side effects that I see in my patients that
get these hormone treatments could be cognitive changes. So you
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have to kind of balance that people can also get
issues with fatigue and weight loss.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
The point of the matter is Joe Biden has been
physically and mentally infirm for the entirety of his president
and probably before, and there are enough facts in the
public domain to start to notice some trends, as many
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people have, including he had a major brain surgery for
an aneurysm. He's never been the same since then. Now
I don't like Joe Biden, but he had his full
faculties when he ran for president in two thousand and eight.
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You start to see the decline later in the brain
incident and all of these people covering him up to
control your government and lying to you in the Mate
the girls all get pretty close in time. When you're
listening to the Michael Berry Show. So we know that
the herb Whek came out on Friday. We'll discuss that
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in a moment. We know that Jake Tapper's books coming
out today and tomorrow called Original Sin Again. I know
you hate Jake Tapper. I despise Jake Tapper. I get it,
but you have to understand there's real America and then
there's their little bubble in Washington, d C. In their
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little bubble, people like Morning Joe are important. In their
little bubble. Jake Tapper is a sphere of influence. For
him to be calling all this out means that that's
a reckoning that is taking place at a level above
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where Republicans are, that is outside the public view. This
is an attempt to clean house within the party and
rid the party of the peopleeople who were responsible being
driven not by Republicans. This is Trump has nothing to
do with this. The Republican Party has undo with this.
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This is Democrats trying to get their party back and
using this in a Salem witch hunt sort of way
to drive those forces out. This is the killing off
of Kamala Harris, for instance, but there will be lots more.
This is the attempt to grab back the party from
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the nuts and the weirdos and the people who've been
there and get them out. That's what this is. It's
a much bigger thing. Even Brian Stelter, so this is
it's interesting once what a bandwagon this This, this has
a bandwagon effect. This has so Brian Stelter, remember the
potato head low Tator. He's he's in there, Tomas every
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day that Biden's good, and you know, don't criticize Biden.
And he's very he very uphead about it if we
say it, if he here, he is saying, you got
her report on Friday, This book original sin, that's going
to expose how they all knew and how they were
covering up and it's worse than you thought. And sandwiched
in the middle over the weekend to try to take
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back the narrative. Oh, by the way, Joe Biden has
stage five prostate cancer. And as we'll hear, there are
people stepping in and saying, y'all should not be criticizing
the president right now. He has a very severe cancer.
This is the game. Nothing is sacred to these people.
They will say and do anything to keep control, including
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an announcement like this to keep you from criticizing. All right,
here's Brian Stelter, clip six eleven.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I'm seeing some prostate cancer survivors, people who have lived
with this disease, who have been through this, expressing support
but condolences, but also support and cheering Biden on as
he faces this. The timing, Jessica is just extraordinary. We
know from the statement from his personal spokesman that Biden
learned the die knows this on Friday. Well, what was
the biggest Biden story on Friday? It was the release
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of those audio excerpts from his conversations with Robert Herb
back in twenty twenty three. This was the audio that
Axios obtained almost certainly from the Trump administration, showing memory lapses.
And you heard a lot of people on Friday talking
about that audio being hard to hear, even excruciating to
hear Biden showing his age on those audio tapes that
had never been heard by the.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Public until now.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
So on the day that story was breaking, Biden was
facing this personal news, at least that's according to this
statement from his personal spokesman. So you have that as
one element of the timing here, and then you have,
as you and Paul just acknowledged, this book coming out
one of the biggest political books in several years. Take
out our colleague Diake Tapper for a second. This book,
no matter who, no matter where was coming from, was
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going to be a very big blockbuster book, and it
just so happens two of the best reporters in Washington,
Jake Tapernow and Thompson, are the authors of it. It's
already a best seller, basically a number of pre orders.
And so this book comes out in two days, but
some of the excerpts have already out, and it's reignited
this debate in Washington and beyond within the Democratic Party
about Biden, about whether he should have run for reelection
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at all. So it seems to me, Jessica, this debate
doesn't end at all, but it is briefly put on
pause as a result of today's news.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Remember it's not just Joe Biden, it is the people
around him. It is the power structure around him that
they are trying to kill off and diminish. A year
from now, CNN will claim that they led the charge
to point out Joe Biden's demise and no, no, no, Remember
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it was our own Jake Tapper, who wrote the book.
Look at all these clips we came out. We just
wanted what was best for our country. Well, here's another
attempt to rewrite it. CBS News is Nancy Cortis talking
to Frank Biden, Joe Biden's brother, and he says, well,
it was the prostate cancer that is the reason he
dropped out of the race. That he was slaughtered on
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national TV in front of Donald Trump, who embarrassed him.
That's not the reason. It's because of his health. Well,
why didn't you ever tell us about that during any
of this clip?
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Four twenty two, CBS News had a brief conversation with
Frank Biden, one of President Biden's two younger brothers, and
here's what he told us. He said, I'm incredibly proud
of my brother. Selfishly, I will have him back to
enjoy whatever time we have left. He is a genuine
hero country over self sounds corny in our cynical political environment,
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but he nor I are cynical. The goal remains the same,
defeat Trump and continued the work that Joe has done.
My hope is that our party rallies around this heroic act.
We asked him whether he feels at his brother's overall
health and vitality played a major role in this decision,
and he says, in my humble opinion, absolutely so. A
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member of the president's family now confirming that the resident's
health was indeed a major factor in this decision, and
calling his brother a hero for making the decision to
pass the torch to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
So, Nancy Sor, can you clarify that that the family
is saying his health was or was not a factor.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
He's saying that in his humble opinion, yes, the president's
health and vitality played a considerable role in his decision.
It's important to note Frank Biden is not speaking for
the family writ large. This was simply a conversation between
CBS News and Frank Biden. Unclear how much input he
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had in this decision, but he says it says that
he believes that his brother's health did play a role,
and he says that the goal remains the same to
defeat Donald Trump.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Well, that is notable because today the family, the White House,
the establishment has rejected the premise that there was anything
that was challenging the president's mental acuity or his health
and not all these accusations were baseless, that it was
just aged and a few difficult nights like he had
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on the debate stage. So that is a change in message.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
When cops catch two guys at a crime scene, that
was planned a scheme, and they take them back to
the station, they separate them and they put them into
separate rooms because you don't want them coordinating their story.
At one time, you have Joe Biden's brother saying, look,
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he has severe prostate cancer. He has for a while,
that's why he dropped out a year ago. Now that
was dropping out from running. He was still the president,
mind you, and the auto pin was hard at work
signing all sorts of things. And yet the rest of
the people in the administration saying, no, no, he was fine
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up until yesterday. He just he got a really, really
bad advanced diagnosis that takes years to grow. Hello, everybody,
this is Nikki Giogi and you listen to this. Thes
are Radio. Michael Berry Man a lot more audio than
we usually play on the morning show. I typically do
that on the evening program. But this is all developing,
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and it's very important that the narrative classify this properly.
These are not things that are happening by coincidence. This
is very carefully crafted and planned the way Rodney Ellis plans.
Lena hud All goes every move and every announcement. We
have the Her Report which came out on Friday. The
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actual audio. Remember we got the report last year and
the report said, and I'm summarizing, but this is this
is very accurate. The report said, he committed many crimes,
but we do not recommend prosecuting him because he he's
incapable to stand for trial because his mental faculties are
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so poor. That was while he was still a candidate
for president. Nobody in the Democrat Party said, wait a minute,
you're telling me he is incapable of standing trial for
high crimes against this country, and yet he's still the
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nominee for the party. Guys, what are we doing here?
What is going on here? But that's exactly what happened.
He played out right before our very eyes. So here
is a clip, a longer clip than we typically play.
It's a four minute clip, but I want you to
get a sense of how frail he sounds, how his
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voice trails off. He talked almost daily about his son Bo.
Now he has had a tendency to make it seem
that he's a gold star dad that bow died in battle.
That's not true. He was in the jag Corps. He
was a lawyer within the military. Now they're wrong with that.
Much like the Kennedy family where Joseph was the star,
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or the Gandhi family where son Jeev was the star,
or Sonjay was the star. You have these families where
the oldest son is groomed to be daddy's heir. That
was true of the Biden family. Hunter was the screw
up little drug head brother who couldn't keep his pants zipped.
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When Bo died, that was the moment that Joe Biden's
plan falls apart and Hunter now has to take over.
It's a bad scene in the Godfather, and he's fraid
of he's not equipped for this. But when he can't
remember when his son died, something that he talked about
daily because he thought that gave him made him a
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good victim. You know, he's the dad of a guy
who died. He can't remember when Trump was elected. It's
the year you left being vice president. Obviously, this is
your whole life. You've lived politics for fifty years, all right,
clip four oh three, Just give it a good listen.
You may have to boost it a little bit. Moment
dress work related to the bus team.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Shot, Where did you keep teams that alids those things
that you're absolutely working.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well, I I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
This is what twenty seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Then cart remember in this time frame, my son is
either been deployed or is dying. And uh, and so.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It was.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And by the way, there were still a lot of
people at the time when I got out of the
center that were.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Encouraging me to run in this period except the president. No,
not not a mean, I said, man, we just thought
that she had a better shot of winning president.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And I did.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
And so I hadn't.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I hadn't at this point, you know, not a pen
I hadn't walked away with the idea that I might
run for all this again if I granted, then if
you're running for president and and so.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
What was happening though, went too die.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Got made there is when twenty fifteen and died twenty
fifteen or you got up in the month. So then
he goes, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
And what's happened in the meantime is that.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It has.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Chump gets elected in November of twenty seventeenth. By sixteen
and sixteen twenty sixteen, all right, so.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Why actually seventeen that's when we left office in January?
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Okay, but that's when jump gets worn in I okay
Aslu and in twenty seventeen both had passed and h.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It was this personal.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
The genesis.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Of the book. The title promised me Dad.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Was ah, I know they're all closer to your sons
and daughters, but BO is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Like my right arm. And that was my letter.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
These guys were a year and a day apart.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And they could finish each other's sentences, and.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Bo I used to go home on the train and
the period.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That I was still the sentence. Anyway, you remember, there was.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Pressure, not pressure. Bo knew how much I do it now,
and uh it sounds so maybe it sounds so everybody
knew how close you were. There's not anybody we're on
wonder whether or not.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Anywhere break No, let me just keep coming and got
it done. So you can be empathetic for someone who's
lost their son, no doubt. But that pattern of trailing off,
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that pattern of not being able to finish a thought,
to wandering to lacking basic details. We're not talking about
arcane arcane things. What someone was wearing at a particular time,
and these are important details about his life and what's
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going on, and he can't remember anything, and he falls
back on things like I love my son, Okay, but
I think you really do. I think you really did
love your son. But that's not It does not excuse
his mental state or his criminal actions.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air. We'll get into Mico.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I don't plan.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
To shave, and it's goog the thing, but I just
gotta see I'm doing all right.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We'll go make me some point meets beating. Ready done,
that's a true. It's neither drink well. Quite a weekend
for the news it was. We will get to all
of that, but we will start with the issue of scabs.
Why do we get them? Do you pick yours? Or
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do you put a band aid over it to avoid that?
Do you like to see the wound beneath the scab
or do you let the scab dry and flake off
when it's healed underneath? Do you moisturize your scab? Ramon,
Nobody names their scab. You are the only person that
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names your scab. There was a very nice note I
got this weekend from a teacher, and she said that,
with mixed emotions, she was packing up her classroom after
twenty seven years of being a teacher, and she was
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describing the various things she was taking off the walls,
and I guess taking home. I don't know I don't
know what would happen with them, but probably some things
from home that made her feel good, felt a little
home at the school, and that it was time for
her to retire after twenty seven years, but that she
(01:58):
would miss it and how much she enjoyed it, and
in a few reminiscences. And it's interesting because before I
had kids, you don't think about life on the school calendar,
but when you have kids, the school calendar controls everything.
When can we leave town, When can we do this?
(02:19):
When can we do this? When do we have to
be back at school, When do we have to have
you know, our books ready, when do we and your
whole life as a family for about a twelve to
fifteen year period there, depending on how many kids you have,
is determined by this calendar that somebody else is creating
and you're marking it up on your calendar at home,
(02:41):
and in our home, it was mama. In many cases
it is Mama is saying, you know, this is the
date this happens, and this is the date this happens,
and we just consult it. We don't give a lot
of strategic thought to it. The men in our home,
we just consult what Mama has put up there. This
is an open house for parents, parent teacher conference. This
is last day of school, this is last exam day
(03:03):
and all that. And I just got to thinking about
all the wonderful teachers I had in my life, and
I realized not everybody had that experience, because I hear
that from people, but I did, and I'm grateful for it.
I consider these people up there with preachers and coaches,
(03:25):
and they're like many parents, at least for me, and
were in my life. I was also very fortunate to
have wonderful teachers, to a person, wonderful teachers for both
of my boys, and for that I am extraordinarily, extraordinarily grateful.
But I thought it would be an appropriate way to
start the show today to thank the teachers who are
(03:50):
finishing their school year, and to those of you who
are retiring, and maybe nobody has thrown you a party
or made big deal about it, we do appreciate what
you do. You think they can You think they got
to watch after twenty five years, I'll let anyone you
know that they probably got to watch. If y'all don't know,
(04:12):
Ramone is very sore. It was the tradition that you
would get a watch after twenty years at our company.
But Ramone didn't get a watch, and he still can't
quite seem to let that go. I'm not sure why,
but that watch has turned out to be very important.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
On Friday, her report was released hu R and it
was the set of interviews that were done as part
of the Joe Biden investigation. And we'll place some of
that here in just a moment, but it's clear from
that that Joe Biden, because for once there's no teleprompter
(04:52):
and all that he's trying to answer questions, he can't
remember anything. And her came to the conclusion in his
report that yes, Joe Biden had committed crimes, but his
mind was so fried, he was basically so mentally close
to death that there was no point in bringing charges
(05:12):
against him. Now that at a time that the man
is running for president, and nobody blinked to I he
is unfit to stand trial for crimes we believe he committed,
and here they are, but he is unfit to stand trial.
(05:33):
But he's also running for president. If he's unfit to
stand trial and you think he committed crimes, then somebody
needs to step in and say he can't run for president. Okay,
so that's on Friday. That was pretty damning and drops
on a Friday, so you don't get the full news
(05:55):
cycle out of it. It would have been the big
story today. However, it is soft today, hard tomorrow. The
launch of Original Sin by Jake Tapper at CNN and
Alex Thompson at Axios. Now, for you and me, we say, well,
Tapper is a clown. What a loser. Oh now he's
(06:18):
writing a book that Biden was demented all along, when,
of course he knew it or should have known it.
We're pretty sure he had to know it because we
knew it from a distance. But it's important to remember that, Jake,
that this is important. This is significant because inside the Beltway.
(06:38):
I'm in Washington, DC right now, it's all anybody can
talk about. I go to a cigar lounge and it
is all anybody is talking about. People have seen advanced
manuscripts and they're reading out to each other because they're
all lobbyists and political people the segments of it. If
this had been a conservative writer, those people wouldn't have
(07:02):
paid attention to it. It will have more impact, at
least inside the Beltway. From because of the fact that
it's written by Jake Tapper, and so in that sense,
it forces them to have to confront Biden's dementia. So
(07:22):
you've got the report, which is where he's bumbling and stumbling.
We'll play that for you in a moment on Friday.
Then you've got Jake Tapper in the early part of
this week's book being released, which he's going to be
on the book tour. It's all anybody's going to talk about.
And he's got all sorts of staffers in there saying, yeah,
we were gonna put him in a wheelchair and he
didn't know where he was and so what happens? I mean,
(07:44):
this is Rodney ellis level shameless. Over the weekend, they
announce he's got stage five metastatic prostate cancer. It has
metastasized into his bones. This guy has had the best
medical care you could get, at least for the last
(08:06):
four years, and especially for the last four years, and
we're supposed to believe that just now you're releasing this
to try to distract us from the her report and
the book about what all happened. I'm not sure if
it's worse that they think we're stupid, or that some
people will mold Martha Berry's shore. President Trump scheduled to
(08:31):
take part in a Rose Gardens bill signing event at
two o'clock Central today and an hour and a half
later a law enforcement event. Last week was Law Enforcement Week,
the National Police Officer Memorial event honoring those fallen. President
Trump will take part in a Kennedy Center Board dinner
(08:51):
tonight at six o'clock Central. Reminder that he made himself
the chairman of the Kennedy Center and board. He wants
to bring back the luster to that organization and stop
the left wing tilt. I like it. He is set
to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who it is
(09:11):
being said, is slow walking the Ukraine peace talk. The
UK and europe struck a trade and security deal over Brexit.
Very interesting, what is developing there with UK armsmakers and
an interesting election we'll get to in a moment. The
Leading Economic Indicators for April report on the economy is
(09:36):
due in about forty minutes, so hopefully we'll be able
to get to those before the show is over. So
this is not just a Joe Biden story, because Joe
Biden wasn't really the one hiding his own dementia. That's
the interesting thing about this. He would have he would
have hidden as much as he could for as long
(09:56):
as he did. But Joe Biden became the vehicle by
with which people controlled the government. And those people are
still around and they had a lot of people helping
them do that because they too want to control the government.
The Pete Buddy gig, the Gavin Newsom's, the Hillary Clinton's,
all the people who played along with this thing. So
(10:20):
we are to find out over the weekend, and I
don't doubt it that Joe Biden has a stage five
metastatic cancer prostate cancer that has supposedly beentastasized into his bones.
That is not an overnight process. We'll get to that
in a moment. That means he had this for years.
So Clip four thirteen A flashback to twenty twenty two,
three years ago when very oddly Joe Biden said this.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
And because it was a four lane highway that was accessible,
my mother drove us and rather than us to be
able to walk and guess what the first frost you
know what was happening, It had to put on and
which of wipers to get literally the oil slick off
the window. That's why I and so damn any other
people I grew up have cancer, and why camp for
(11:07):
the longest time Dellawer had the highest cancer rate in
the nation.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So did he forget? He wasn't supposed to say that
he had cancer. This was two years into his term
and they needed him to run again because they didn't
have a replacement. That's why I and so many others
I grew up with have cancer. Joe Biden has had
a tendency to bluff accomplishments. You remember Cornpop. He's had
(11:35):
a tendency to make up stories. But I believe him.
I think he did have prostate cancer. I think they
lied to us all along, which brings up flashback from
twenty twenty clip four fourteen of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Do voters have a right to know more detailed health
information about president of candidates and especially about presidents?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Says that I'm glad you ask about transparency because it
has to be across the board. Joe has been incredibly
transparent over many, many years. The one thing we all
know about Joe, he puts it all out there. He
is honest, he is forthright. But Donald Trump on the
other hand, has been about covering up everything.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, let's go to six fifteen doctor Schustermann, a urologist
on News Nation.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's very unlikely that someone could get annual checkups and
not notice a PSA elevation over the past, you know.
But this is what I typically would see in a
VA hospital where a patient hasn't had medical attention in
ten years, presents to an emergency room with bone pain
(12:43):
and then they find that it's metastatic prostate cancer. But
in the modern age of medicine, especially the fact that
he was a former president, he had intensive state of
the art you care where we can see prostate cancer,
you know, years in the past. So this is I mean,
it's it's very unusual to hear that someone has prosy
(13:06):
cancer where they're annually being followed up, and the fact
that we just find it at a Gleason nine is
just pretty much unheard of it in this day and
age of the medicine.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
In other words, he's had this for a long time.
Then we go to a two part clip. We'll start
with six sixteen doctor Jamine brumbat urologist on CNN. And
this is important. It suggests that the hormone treatment he
was on probably contributed to his cognitive decline.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
So the treatment auctions initially start with like putting a
brake on the cancer, and that's done with medications. They're
pretty much we call it male menopause or like they're
called androgen deprivation therapy, so you try to stop the
hormones that feed the cancer. That's how it initially starts.
Then what the next treatments could include steroid treatments. There's
immune therapies that can be done. There's also medicines that
(13:59):
target like things in the bones, but all of those
are medical management. Rarely there's an option of surgery or radiation.
There's all these different medications that can be taken through
the IV or by mouth to help control the cancer
based on where it's spread.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now let's go to six seventeen. So they've got him
on this hormone treatment, this male menopause hormone treatment, and
this is what that can do to you.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
He's not my patient, but if I had a patient
like him with all the medical stuff that he has,
including whether it's the physical or the mental, you know,
you really have to take that into account because all
these treatments do have potential side effects. One of the
biggest side effects that I see in my patients that
get these hormone treatments could be cognitive changes. So you
(14:51):
have to kind of balance that people can also get
issues with fatigue and weight loss.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
The point of the matter is Joe Biden has been
physically and mentally infirm for the entirety of his president
and probably before, and there are enough facts in the
public domain to start to notice some trends, as many
(15:19):
people have, including he had a major brain surgery for
an aneurysm. He's never been the same since then. Now
I don't like Joe Biden, but he had his full
faculties when he ran for president in two thousand and eight.
(15:40):
You start to see the decline later in the brain
incident and all of these people covering him up to
control your government and lying to you in the Mate
the girls all get pretty close in time. When you're
listening to the Michael Berry Show. So we know that
the herb Whek came out on Friday. We'll discuss that
(16:02):
in a moment. We know that Jake Tapper's books coming
out today and tomorrow called Original Sin Again. I know
you hate Jake Tapper. I despise Jake Tapper. I get it,
but you have to understand there's real America and then
there's their little bubble in Washington, d C. In their
(16:23):
little bubble, people like Morning Joe are important. In their
little bubble. Jake Tapper is a sphere of influence. For
him to be calling all this out means that that's
a reckoning that is taking place at a level above
(16:47):
where Republicans are, that is outside the public view. This
is an attempt to clean house within the party and
rid the party of the peopleeople who were responsible being
driven not by Republicans. This is Trump has nothing to
do with this. The Republican Party has undo with this.
(17:10):
This is Democrats trying to get their party back and
using this in a Salem witch hunt sort of way
to drive those forces out. This is the killing off
of Kamala Harris, for instance, but there will be lots more.
This is the attempt to grab back the party from
(17:30):
the nuts and the weirdos and the people who've been
there and get them out. That's what this is. It's
a much bigger thing. Even Brian Stelter, so this is
it's interesting once what a bandwagon this This, this has
a bandwagon effect. This has so Brian Stelter, remember the
potato head low Tator. He's he's in there, Tomas every
(17:51):
day that Biden's good, and you know, don't criticize Biden.
And he's very he very uphead about it if we
say it, if he here, he is saying, you got
her report on Friday, This book original sin, that's going
to expose how they all knew and how they were
covering up and it's worse than you thought. And sandwiched
in the middle over the weekend to try to take
(18:13):
back the narrative. Oh, by the way, Joe Biden has
stage five prostate cancer. And as we'll hear, there are
people stepping in and saying, y'all should not be criticizing
the president right now. He has a very severe cancer.
This is the game. Nothing is sacred to these people.
They will say and do anything to keep control, including
(18:36):
an announcement like this to keep you from criticizing. All right,
here's Brian Stelter, clip six eleven.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I'm seeing some prostate cancer survivors, people who have lived
with this disease, who have been through this, expressing support
but condolences, but also support and cheering Biden on as
he faces this. The timing, Jessica is just extraordinary. We
know from the statement from his personal spokesman that Biden
learned the die knows this on Friday. Well, what was
the biggest Biden story on Friday? It was the release
(19:04):
of those audio excerpts from his conversations with Robert Herb
back in twenty twenty three. This was the audio that
Axios obtained almost certainly from the Trump administration, showing memory lapses.
And you heard a lot of people on Friday talking
about that audio being hard to hear, even excruciating to
hear Biden showing his age on those audio tapes that
had never been heard by the.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Public until now.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
So on the day that story was breaking, Biden was
facing this personal news, at least that's according to this
statement from his personal spokesman. So you have that as
one element of the timing here, and then you have,
as you and Paul just acknowledged, this book coming out
one of the biggest political books in several years. Take
out our colleague Diake Tapper for a second. This book,
no matter who, no matter where was coming from, was
(19:46):
going to be a very big blockbuster book, and it
just so happens two of the best reporters in Washington,
Jake Tapernow and Thompson, are the authors of it. It's
already a best seller, basically a number of pre orders.
And so this book comes out in two days, but
some of the excerpts have already out, and it's reignited
this debate in Washington and beyond within the Democratic Party
about Biden, about whether he should have run for reelection
(20:07):
at all. So it seems to me, Jessica, this debate
doesn't end at all, but it is briefly put on
pause as a result of today's news.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Remember it's not just Joe Biden, it is the people
around him. It is the power structure around him that
they are trying to kill off and diminish. A year
from now, CNN will claim that they led the charge
to point out Joe Biden's demise and no, no, no, Remember
(20:38):
it was our own Jake Tapper, who wrote the book.
Look at all these clips we came out. We just
wanted what was best for our country. Well, here's another
attempt to rewrite it. CBS News is Nancy Cortis talking
to Frank Biden, Joe Biden's brother, and he says, well,
it was the prostate cancer that is the reason he
dropped out of the race. That he was slaughtered on
(21:01):
national TV in front of Donald Trump, who embarrassed him.
That's not the reason. It's because of his health. Well,
why didn't you ever tell us about that during any
of this clip?
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Four twenty two, CBS News had a brief conversation with
Frank Biden, one of President Biden's two younger brothers, and
here's what he told us. He said, I'm incredibly proud
of my brother. Selfishly, I will have him back to
enjoy whatever time we have left. He is a genuine
hero country over self sounds corny in our cynical political environment,
(21:34):
but he nor I are cynical. The goal remains the same,
defeat Trump and continued the work that Joe has done.
My hope is that our party rallies around this heroic act.
We asked him whether he feels at his brother's overall
health and vitality played a major role in this decision,
and he says, in my humble opinion, absolutely so. A
(21:56):
member of the president's family now confirming that the resident's
health was indeed a major factor in this decision, and
calling his brother a hero for making the decision to
pass the torch to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
So, Nancy Sor, can you clarify that that the family
is saying his health was or was not a factor.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
He's saying that in his humble opinion, yes, the president's
health and vitality played a considerable role in his decision.
It's important to note Frank Biden is not speaking for
the family writ large. This was simply a conversation between
CBS News and Frank Biden. Unclear how much input he
(22:38):
had in this decision, but he says it says that
he believes that his brother's health did play a role,
and he says that the goal remains the same to
defeat Donald Trump.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Well, that is notable because today the family, the White House,
the establishment has rejected the premise that there was anything
that was challenging the president's mental acuity or his health
and not all these accusations were baseless, that it was
just aged and a few difficult nights like he had
(23:10):
on the debate stage. So that is a change in message.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
When cops catch two guys at a crime scene, that
was planned a scheme, and they take them back to
the station, they separate them and they put them into
separate rooms because you don't want them coordinating their story.
At one time, you have Joe Biden's brother saying, look,
(23:36):
he has severe prostate cancer. He has for a while,
that's why he dropped out a year ago. Now that
was dropping out from running. He was still the president,
mind you, and the auto pin was hard at work
signing all sorts of things. And yet the rest of
the people in the administration saying, no, no, he was fine
(23:57):
up until yesterday. He just he got a really, really
bad advanced diagnosis that takes years to grow. Hello, everybody,
this is Nikki Giogi and you listen to this. Thes
are Radio. Michael Berry Man a lot more audio than
we usually play on the morning show. I typically do
that on the evening program. But this is all developing,
(24:21):
and it's very important that the narrative classify this properly.
These are not things that are happening by coincidence. This
is very carefully crafted and planned the way Rodney Ellis plans.
Lena hud All goes every move and every announcement. We
have the Her Report which came out on Friday. The
(24:44):
actual audio. Remember we got the report last year and
the report said, and I'm summarizing, but this is this
is very accurate. The report said, he committed many crimes,
but we do not recommend prosecuting him because he he's
incapable to stand for trial because his mental faculties are
(25:06):
so poor. That was while he was still a candidate
for president. Nobody in the Democrat Party said, wait a minute,
you're telling me he is incapable of standing trial for
high crimes against this country, and yet he's still the
(25:27):
nominee for the party. Guys, what are we doing here?
What is going on here? But that's exactly what happened.
He played out right before our very eyes. So here
is a clip, a longer clip than we typically play.
It's a four minute clip, but I want you to
get a sense of how frail he sounds, how his
(25:48):
voice trails off. He talked almost daily about his son Bo.
Now he has had a tendency to make it seem
that he's a gold star dad that bow died in battle.
That's not true. He was in the jag Corps. He
was a lawyer within the military. Now they're wrong with that.
Much like the Kennedy family where Joseph was the star,
(26:09):
or the Gandhi family where son Jeev was the star,
or Sonjay was the star. You have these families where
the oldest son is groomed to be daddy's heir. That
was true of the Biden family. Hunter was the screw
up little drug head brother who couldn't keep his pants zipped.
(26:29):
When Bo died, that was the moment that Joe Biden's
plan falls apart and Hunter now has to take over.
It's a bad scene in the Godfather, and he's fraid
of he's not equipped for this. But when he can't
remember when his son died, something that he talked about
daily because he thought that gave him made him a
(26:51):
good victim. You know, he's the dad of a guy
who died. He can't remember when Trump was elected. It's
the year you left being vice president. Obviously, this is
your whole life. You've lived politics for fifty years, all right,
clip four oh three, Just give it a good listen.
You may have to boost it a little bit. Moment
dress work related to the bus team.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Shot, Where did you keep teams that alids those things
that you're absolutely working.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well, I I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
This is what twenty seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Then cart remember in this time frame, my son is
either been deployed or is dying. And uh, and so.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It was.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And by the way, there were still a lot of
people at the time when I got out of the
center that were.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Encouraging me to run in this period except the president. No,
not not a mean, I said, man, we just thought
that she had a better shot of winning president.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And I did.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
And so I hadn't.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I hadn't at this point, you know, not a pen
I hadn't walked away with the idea that I might
run for all this again if I granted, then if
you're running for president and and so.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
What was happening though, went too die.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Got made there is when twenty fifteen and died twenty
fifteen or you got up in the month. So then
he goes, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
And what's happened in the meantime is that.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It has.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Chump gets elected in November of twenty seventeenth. By sixteen
and sixteen twenty sixteen, all right, so.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Why actually seventeen that's when we left office in January?
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Okay, but that's when jump gets worn in I okay
Aslu and in twenty seventeen both had passed and h.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It was this personal.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
The genesis.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Of the book. The title promised me Dad.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Was ah, I know they're all closer to your sons
and daughters, but BO is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Like my right arm. And that was my letter.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
These guys were a year and a day apart.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And they could finish each other's sentences, and.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Bo I used to go home on the train and
the period.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That I was still the sentence. Anyway, you remember, there was.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Pressure, not pressure. Bo knew how much I do it now,
and uh it sounds so maybe it sounds so everybody
knew how close you were. There's not anybody we're on
wonder whether or not.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Anywhere break No, let me just keep coming and got
it done. So you can be empathetic for someone who's
lost their son, no doubt. But that pattern of trailing off,
(31:36):
that pattern of not being able to finish a thought,
to wandering to lacking basic details. We're not talking about
arcane arcane things. What someone was wearing at a particular time,
and these are important details about his life and what's
(31:58):
going on, and he can't remember anything, and he falls
back on things like I love my son, Okay, but
I think you really do. I think you really did
love your son. But that's not It does not excuse
his mental state or his criminal actions.
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