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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Good morning, It's
Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm a little grumpy this morning with all these socialists
winning elections. I eat breakfast three hundred yards from two
thousand Cubans that want to kill me, and you expect
me to share my paycheck socialist. The only red I
like is a code red like Zoig Scoob. Socialists want
to open their own grocery stores, right. I don't like
that long lines for Scooby snacks.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
These socialists better keep their hands off my pro paine
and propane accessories.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Uh, they're probably be tane lovers anyway. Good money, Michael Beer.
How you learned that? I read it to my money.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Morney, Texas. Listen to Good Morning Texas. Your call Money Texas.
We're happy to talk about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good morning. We're not wearing that Good party Texan.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Good morning Texas, maryxod morning we go, Mistry.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Goddamn well, the long hung romp across Wisconsin is over.
Polling showed that Democrats socialist self avowed Francesca Hong would
win and win big. It was a ninety five percent
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chance she would win. The models told us, people put
money on Calshi, people made predictions. Everyone assumed in a
way she could lose, but she did. The polling was
all wrong, and just like that, Nate Silver says, yeah,
of course the polling was wrong. Here's why the polling
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was wrong. And polling is not accurate in such races. Well,
then why are we doing it? That's the important point,
because I've had a number of people tell me that
Talafrico is winning in Texas because he's winning in the polls.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
These aren't accidental. This doesn't just happen.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
This isn't looking up at the scoreboard and top of
the seventh to see how we're doing before we stretch
in a few minutes. No, no, no, no no. This
is intended to affect the outcome. The story from Fox News.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
This was not the outcome that many had predicted. Waukee
County Executive David Crowley be Francesca Honk by less than
a percentage point. Establishment Democrats are certainly celebrating this win.
They were afraid that a Honk victory would essentially hand
the GOP the keys to the governor's mansion.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In November, Honk had.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Faced scrutiny over previous social media posts and lack the
endorsements of prominent progressives like Senator Bernie Sanders and aoc
her narrow loss coming on the heels of a close
race in Michigan, showing that centrist voters still yields significant influence,
especially in swing states. Crowley will now take on Republican
Tom Tiffany in November, but the fall up did get
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a boost in Minnesota, where Progressive candidate Lieutenant Governor Peggy
Flanagan bead Moderate congress of an Angie Craig to win
the Democratic nomination for Senate. Flannagan was backed by Sanders,
and she will face former sports broadcaster Michelle Tafoya in
the general election.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
There was a great deal of excitement for different reasons
behind the Home campaign in the media. One of them
was Democrat socialists saw an opportunity to demonstrate there are
a lot of us out here and we have a
very sympathetic audience. America is ready for Democrat socialism. If
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we can win this race, we can recruit others to
come out and run. You've got the African woman in Denver,
straight up communist. You've got Mamdani's big win in New York.
You've got El sayed In winning the Democrat primary in Michigan.
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You've got Bernie Sanders ensconced in Vermont. You've got AOC
now talking about running for president. So you've got among
the crowd that wants this, that this is their fetish,
this is their little their little interest. They know it's
good for them to show that Democrat socialism is on the.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
March, and it is, there is no doubt about that.
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It's catching fire amongst a certain group of people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You see them interview daily.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You see the one woman, a fat woman with the
red glasses, and she talks about her walk into the
weird and how she ended up there. And these people,
there are a lot of people like this in our country.
They started out relatively normal. This is like the transition crowd.
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And some of them are the transition crowd. These are
people who who just never quite fit in life, didn't
make sense to them. Maybe they were in a normal home.
Maybe dad left home and took up with another family,
Maybe the mom left home. Maybe they were shuttled from
an aunt to a social worker, to a cousin to
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on their own. Very early, they're physically unsure what's going
on with themselves. They're mentally unsure what's going on with themselves.
None of it seems to make sense. They just don't
seem to fit in such a simple notion. But it's powerful,
it's important. And so in the midst of all this
unmored meandering around looking for a place to anchor a
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port at sea, they land on something that gives them
an identity. And what it is is the Weird Kids Club.
We've seen this, whether it's dungeons and dragons or furries
or any number.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Of other things.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You will find these organizations, these communities Online was great
for this because then they didn't have to leave home.
They could stay in mom's basement at that's still where
they lived, and they can find a place to connect,
and it deepens the intensity that hey, we're all weird
in this together.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's revenge of the nerds. Look at us. I'm a nerd.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I'm a nerd too, Except they're not nerds, they're weirdos.
They're confused. And so someone stands up and says, all right,
we've got to have rules here in this chapter that
we've just organized, and they go, well, I don't know
if I was Okay, yeah, I want to stay in
the club.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I want to be part of all this.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
And then that person starts barking out the rules and
they go, yes, this shall be our code. Yes, when
we have a handshake or an embrace, what will we do?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Do we get a card for membership? Will we organize?
Will we gather? What will we do?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
We have to do something, We have to manifest all
this exciting energy. Now they have a tribe, they have
a team, they have something to connect with. That is
a big part of the momentum, the grassroots behind all this.
But the other reason is the media loves it for
all the wrong reasons. Because the media loves a train wreck,
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they don't care about the long term consequences. They will
bolster something that has a very small percentage of ever
happening and increase the likelihood that it does because it's
more interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Change is good.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Tumult Rush used to say, it's good, it's good for ratings,
it's interesting, it's right.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Hey have you heard about this long over Wisconsin? Wasn't it?
She's crazy?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Go watch it go, you gotta watcher it's nuts.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You're listening to Michael Barry shaw.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Diren Straights frontman Martin Knopfler born on this day seventy
seven years ago in Glasgow, Sweden, making him a Glaswegian
sure mix a lot born on this day sixty three
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Did I say Sweden? I'm sorry, Glasgow, Scotland. Did I
say Sweden. See, that's one of those.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I would have argued that I didn't say Sweden. I
know it's Scotland. But you're thinking one step head as
you talk somewhere out there.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So that's white, Mada, that white. I's God. I've got
a man that's got get it around, Okay, all right,
he's gonna be all right. It's a straight frontman.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Mark Knopfler born on this day, seventy seven years ago
in Glasgow, Sweden, making him a glassy season. Like I said,
Michelle Tafoya, she's cute. In a former NFL sideline reporter,
Michelle Tafoya cruised victory in the Minnesota Republican Senate primary.
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She defeated retired Navy seal Adam Schwartz and soon to
be w NBA star Royce White for the nomination. Well
that's as it should be, because Royce is gonna be
so She's gonna be so busy with the WNBA she
wouldn't have had time to serve in the Senate anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So this this worked out well.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Tafoya campaign has a political outsider who can flip the
open seat held by retiring Tomocrat Senator Tina Smith. Dafoyle
wrote on X Minnesota is in play. We have a
real opportunity to flip the Senate seat and defeat far
left socialist Democrats in November. Delafoya has been endorsed by
the National Republican Senatorial Committee. She campaigned on cracking down
on fraud, supports imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences on convicted fraudsters,
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and deporting illegal migrants that steel tax payer money. Shall
also pledge to fight tooth and nail against left wing
efforts to abolish ice, support the Save Act in Congress,
and get men out of women's sports. Minnesotans have elected
a Republican to have not elected a Republican to represent
them in the Senate since two thousand and two. She
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will face far left Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan in the
November election.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I'll tell you what that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That Wisconsin race, Boy, did that ever get interesting? You
had Francesca Hong, who was getting a lot of publicity.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
She was going to win.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
She came out of nowhere, and it's one of those
things that you realize that she had said some really
dumb things. In twenty twenty at Thanksgiving she said that, oh,
we're canceling Thanksgiving. Well, it's about time. It shouldn't have
taken COVID to do that. We should have canceled it
in sixteen twenty one. It makes people feel uncomfortable you're
canceling Thanksgiving, and that gives you a window into the
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mindset of these people. Have you ever watched it? Most
people have seen this happen. And God help you if
it's your child, because in some cases it's not your fault.
I have known people to have a child. In fact,
I've known people who grew up like this, where the
kid something goes wrong, something just something right, and sometimes
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it's a period of time, but usually that person that
there's this crew loose and you see a kid raised
in a normal fan We had kids at old First
Orange Baptist Church. It'll do this and you start noticing
it manifests itself in usually in a couple of early
sort of odd things. They don't go out in public,
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so they end up kind of with a Marilyn Manson power.
They end up kind of whitish, really white, chalky, and
the way they take care of themselves are dope is
always kind of consistent in an old concert shirt. They
become withdrawn and sullen. They don't interact with the rest
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of the family, and as a school classmate, you start noticing, oh,
you know those bridget she's starting to act weird.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
She's starting to act weird.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Now, when I was growing up, this was pre internet,
so it would have to be magazines and subscriptions and
a phone call or television program. But now with the Internet,
they can find other freaks just like them and explore
their freak and that's when you start accelerating. The freakish
is because they're in an exploration. They are outside their
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own environment, they're not fitting in, they're not like anyone else.
So they then begin getting more and more weird, and
it's sort of an experimentation and an a self expression,
and they're not going to get the feedback that says, why, Bridget,
you're starting to look more and more like a boy
and you've now colored your hair purple, and you've put.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
A bone through your nose.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
My goodness, sweetheart, you're turning into quite the little beauty.
I love everything that's going on with your vibe. Here
show us. They're not going to get that. They're going
to be surrounded by a family that doesn't know what
to do. They're going to be teased by their sibling.
But more importantly, their dad is going to see this
as an affront. It's an insult to his dignity. What's
going on? Where did he go wrong? And he's going
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to employ the same tools that were employed on him,
but they're not going to work on her, and that
tool is to crack down, knock.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
This off doing weirdo? Do you think this looks good?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So the more of that you get, that kid grows
more and more estranged, unmoored, sent out to see in
a storm. They don't know what to do, and so
they're in this deeply experimental phase. They're deeply resentful around
their family. And whether they become a school shooter or
a democrat socialist, or start showing up or start shoplifting,
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you see this, well, the system began to sort of
recruit amongst this. It's sort of a marine, ad be
all you can be, or the army. We get more
done by six am or what it is in most
and so they start finding feelings of identification. Okay, now
I have my own community, I have my own tribe.
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I've lost my family. I'm disconnected from them. They don't
get me. They're crazy, they're weirdos, they're Nazis, they're Trump people,
their maga.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I hate them. Can't wait to get out of here. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
So, now you've got this person who is who is
in a cauldron of crazy, and there's no way for
them to get out. And now there's a whole pipeline
that takes them on this assembly line from point A
to point F along there, and it's almost as if
nobody can do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And you're seeing more and more and more of these
types of people.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And the Internet allows them to go into their room,
close the door, connect and get guidance and be recruited
and be deployed.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's the whole army of them. Now, allow me to
introduce myself.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
My name is mittor Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
She took in a snake, She was warned, she did
it anyway, and when it better, it said, you knew
what I was when you took me in. Donald Trump's
been reading Al Wilson's poem at rally since twenty fifteen,
and every time it gets a little more on the nose.
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Today it's literally on the nose. This is that poem.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Who has heard the poem called the Snake?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So I have it? Does anybody want to hear it again?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
You sure?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Are you sure? Okay?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
So let's dedicate this to General Kelly, the Border Patrol
and the Ice agents for doing such an incredible job.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
This was written by Al Wilson a long time ago,
and I thought of it having to do with our
borders and people coming in, and we know what we're
going to have.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
We're gonna have. We have to very very carefully vet.
We have to be smart, we have to be vigilant.
So here it is the snake.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
It's called the Snake. On her way to work one morning,
down the path along the lake, a tender hearted woman
saw a poor, half frozen snake.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
His pretty colored skin had been.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
All frosted with the dew. Poor things. He cried, I'll
take you in and I'll take care of you. The border.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Take me in. No tender woman. Take me in for
Heaven's sake.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Take me in, oh tender woman, sighed the vicious snake.
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of
silk and laid him by her firesie with some honey
and some milk. She hurried home from work that night,
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and as soon as she arrived, she found that pretty
snake she'd taken in.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Had been revived.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Take me in, a tender woman, Take me in for
Heaven's sake, Take me in, a tender woman, sighed that
vicious snake.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
She clutched him to her bosom. You're so beautiful, she cried.
But if I hadn't brought you in by now, oh heavens,
you would have died.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
She stroked his pretty skin again, and kissed him and
held him tight. But instead of saying thank you, that
snake gave her a vicious bite. Take me in, oh
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tender woman, Take me in for Heaven's sake. Take me in,
oh tender woman, sighed the vicious sake. I have saved you,
cried the woman, And you've bidden me. Heavens, why you
know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die.
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Oh shut up, silly woman, said the reptile with a grin.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You knew damn well, I was a snake.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Before you took me in.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I hate snakes. Hail Enough is enough.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I have had it with these snakes on this mother play.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Everybody stop in about to open some windows.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Arkansas high school football player at practice with a venomous
cotton mount snake inside his helmet managed to avoid being bitten.
I don't understand how, but during warmups he noticed unusual
movement inside his helmet, so he brought it to his
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defensive code. Hey, cod, I got something in my helen.
You just wanted to know there's something in there. The
coach discovered there was a snake underneath the helmet's patting.
The story from KATV Little Rock.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
I've removed a snake out of a car vent and
an engine pursu's backpack in a helmet.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Never it's an opponent that probably won't end up on
this season's football schedule.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's kind of unbelievable. What is a mensa?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
The Mammel High schoo FOOTBA team had to face anyway.
While their practice Thursday, one player noticed a snake in
his helmet, quickly turning that practice into a real deal situation.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
When the officers got there and stuff. They examined the
helmet and at that time they could see that there
was a snake in the helmet. They verified it was
not a copper head, but it possibly was a cotton
mouth or a water snake.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Chris Davis with Mormeo Animal Services says they responded to
the high school after a report of a copperhead and
a football helmet. Instead, it was actually a cotton mouth,
a venomous snake known to hide out in dark, sheltered places.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
The cotton mouth, in my opinion, is probably the second
most venomous snake here in Arkansas. I would say the
rattle snake is probably the number one. If this snake
would have bit the child, it probably would have been
very fatal.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
The snake was snowed in between patting of the helmet.
This made it hard to remove. David says they had
to flood the snake out in order to grab it,
bringing home a win for the hornets.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It was.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
It was very unreal, so you had to kind of
be there and take pictures to.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Say this was real. How about that reporter though he
should be hosting a quiet store amone Saturday night at
eleven thirty on Magic one O two doing dedications and
players with Teddy Prendagath.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I mean that was that's uh.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Jim, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the
program sir, take it away.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Hey, Michael, I come up with a perfect idea for
a protests against the flagged cameras. Okay, instead of damaging
them or you know, vandalizing them, putting a big American
flag right in front of them.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Okay, what do you think? Well? Sure, why not?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I let me ask you how you got interested in
the flock camera issue. It's not a trick question. I'm
curious because I get more flock camera commentary. It happened overnight,
and I'm curious how it came to your attention.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Been noticing them for months and remembering the bout in
nineteen eighty four, in all of the way that they
trick the population. It's the same thing, but it's for
real and it's here now, and I think the best
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way to protest it is to put an American symbol,
the flag, right in front of the camera without damaging it.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
You know, it's very interesting to meet Jim when you
can when you can boil an issue down on to
the two.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Sides of it, and.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You can really see the age old battle safety and
security versus liberty and independence, and there's people on both sides.
It's a fascinating conversation to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Everything is ready for your call.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
If you heard President Trump reading that poem in nineteen
sixty eight, and you're old enough and you listened to
music in your youth in nineteen sixty eight, Al Wilson
actually recorded that poem as a song.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Some of you will remember that the.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Song is written in nineteen sixty three by civil rights
activists by the name of Oscar Brown, who've recorded it
but to no real attention. It would go on to
be recorded on Johnny River's Soul City Records.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Label multiple times.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
The main ingredient would record it as late as nineteen
eighty nine as a beast side, but it never got
the attention that Al Wilson's version did. And you remember
Al Wilson, even if you can't remember why, you remember
him because he had one really, really sensual song that
you for sure knew. I love making those connections people's
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minds were things that were hidden in the recess you
pull it out. Oh that was Al Wilson, truth be told.
I don't know if I would have even remembered his
name was Al Wilson. I remember that song. I remember
my aunt liked that song. I remember hearing that song
when I was in sixth grade, A good song. I
never I don't know if I even knew who's that's
who's Oh and he.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Did this name?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh wow, okay, all right, because there's all these little
there's all these little rappers around and you don't know
what they held or when they held it. And you're
cleaning up and cleaning out, and you're in a hurry,
you've given away everything, and you reach down to pick
something up, and you I wonder when that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Got stuffed back there? When that got stuffed.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Into this hole? And we old My brother kicked me
and I moved and it busted a hole. And somehow
there's a rapper that get I probably put that back
there forty years ago, and there it was in the
recesses of your mind, those moments, those little connections, and
somehow somehow crygenically when when that song started playing. You
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might not have known the name or the words right off,
but something starts to revive and it it fires and
it goes ah, show and tell.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What was just a game? Is it?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
When I want to say yeah, I remember that, Yeah,
that was oh okay, because it's still back there in
your memory palace, it might just be really, really dusty.
It's an intriguing thing to clean out your childhood home.
Many of you have had this experience, or maybe a
home that you lived in for a number of years.
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But the reason the childhood home is so important is
because now you're not a child anymore, you're an adult.
So my mom passed September twenty fourth of twenty four
and my dad stayed there. We got him around the
clock care for several months until moving him to Houston.
And it was interesting when my wife and I went
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in and we talked about about moving him to Houston,
but we weren't going.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
To sell the house.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And not only was he ready to move to Houston
but to be near us, but he was also prepared
to sell the house, which I didn't see coming and
I didn't I wasn't eager to sell the house. That's
his house, he built up with his own hands, so
so we'd hold on to it till he died as
far as I was concerned, and so he consented, Yeah,
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I'm ready to move, which was a big thing. He
lived in that home since seventy eight and he's always
lived in Orange and so he said, uh, probably I'll
sell the house. And my wife, always the voice of reason,
she's she's she said, well, well, Dad, let's let's let's
not do that, because let's say we get on your
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nerves and you don't enjoy Houston and you want to
come back to the way things have been at least
these last few months, if not for you know, the
entirety of your life.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Let's just hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
There's no rush and do it. No, you go ahead
and sell it. And we did hold on to it
for quite a while. But my wife did the heavy
lifting because I was on the show. And there were
a few days that I would rush out and rush
back because she'd have stuff piled up and say, what
do you want to keep? What do you want to throw?
I've done the best I can do. But I don't
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know if this over here has meaning to you. It
says in the little note you wrote that this was
a jacket that Lee Majors wore in the opening sequence
of six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
May not it didn't happen, but she would have known
on that one.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
But in any case, you go into you go into cabinets,
and my mom was a bit of a hoarder. You
didn't throw things away. Wasn't a disposable, It wasn't based
on convenience. You didn't just throw stuff out and go
buy another one the way I would do.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You held on to it. You might need it.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
It's Vicks vapor. UB's only three quarters gone. That stuff
lasts forever. It'll be there.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
We'll just stuff, we'll just push it deeper into there,
and who knows one we'll go find it.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I'm fascinated by DNA and the crazy stories we learned
from them. I had two stories within a matter of
minutes a few days ago.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We're going to talk to one of them.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
We're not going to use her full name, where she
found out something about her family going back for decades
that she did not know due to the twenty three
and me. You might start now in the recesses of
your mind remembering your DNA revelation story that dad had
another family or who knows what.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But first we'll talk to her im
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michael Verie Show is on the air. Good morning, It's
Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm a little grumpy this morning with all these socialists
winning elections. I eat breakfast three hundred yards from two
thousand Cubans that want to kill me, and you expect
me to share my paycheck socialist. The only red I
like is a code red like Zoig Scoob. Socialists want
to open their own grocery stores, right. I don't like
that long lines for Scooby snacks.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
These socialists better keep their hands off my pro paine
and propane accessories.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Uh, they're probably be tane lovers anyway. Good money, Michael Beer.
How you learned that? I read it to my money.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Morney, Texas. Listen to Good Morning Texas. Your call Money Texas.
We're happy to talk about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good morning. We're not wearing that Good party Texan.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Good morning Texas, maryxod morning we go, Mistry.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Goddamn well, the long hung romp across Wisconsin is over.
Polling showed that Democrats socialist self avowed Francesca Hong would
win and win big. It was a ninety five percent
(02:02):
chance she would win. The models told us, people put
money on Calshi, people made predictions. Everyone assumed in a
way she could lose, but she did. The polling was
all wrong, and just like that, Nate Silver says, yeah,
of course the polling was wrong. Here's why the polling
(02:23):
was wrong. And polling is not accurate in such races. Well,
then why are we doing it? That's the important point,
because I've had a number of people tell me that
Talafrico is winning in Texas because he's winning in the polls.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
These aren't accidental. This doesn't just happen.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
This isn't looking up at the scoreboard and top of
the seventh to see how we're doing before we stretch
in a few minutes. No, no, no, no no. This
is intended to affect the outcome. The story from Fox News.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
This was not the outcome that many had predicted. Waukee
County Executive David Crowley be Francesca Honk by less than
a percentage point. Establishment Democrats are certainly celebrating this win.
They were afraid that a Honk victory would essentially hand
the GOP the keys to the governor's mansion.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In November, Honk had.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Faced scrutiny over previous social media posts and lack the
endorsements of prominent progressives like Senator Bernie Sanders and aoc
her narrow loss coming on the heels of a close
race in Michigan, showing that centrist voters still yields significant influence,
especially in swing states. Crowley will now take on Republican
Tom Tiffany in November, but the fall up did get
(03:36):
a boost in Minnesota, where Progressive candidate Lieutenant Governor Peggy
Flanagan bead Moderate congress of an Angie Craig to win
the Democratic nomination for Senate. Flannagan was backed by Sanders,
and she will face former sports broadcaster Michelle Tafoya in
the general election.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
There was a great deal of excitement for different reasons
behind the Home campaign in the media. One of them
was Democrat socialists saw an opportunity to demonstrate there are
a lot of us out here and we have a
very sympathetic audience. America is ready for Democrat socialism. If
(04:16):
we can win this race, we can recruit others to
come out and run. You've got the African woman in Denver,
straight up communist. You've got Mamdani's big win in New York.
You've got El sayed In winning the Democrat primary in Michigan.
(04:37):
You've got Bernie Sanders ensconced in Vermont. You've got AOC
now talking about running for president. So you've got among
the crowd that wants this, that this is their fetish,
this is their little their little interest. They know it's
good for them to show that Democrat socialism is on the.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
March, and it is, there is no doubt about that.
It is.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It's catching fire amongst a certain group of people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You see them interview daily.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You see the one woman, a fat woman with the
red glasses, and she talks about her walk into the
weird and how she ended up there. And these people,
there are a lot of people like this in our country.
They started out relatively normal. This is like the transition crowd.
(05:31):
And some of them are the transition crowd. These are
people who who just never quite fit in life, didn't
make sense to them. Maybe they were in a normal home.
Maybe dad left home and took up with another family,
Maybe the mom left home. Maybe they were shuttled from
an aunt to a social worker, to a cousin to
(05:54):
on their own. Very early, they're physically unsure what's going
on with themselves. They're mentally unsure what's going on with themselves.
None of it seems to make sense. They just don't
seem to fit in such a simple notion. But it's powerful,
it's important. And so in the midst of all this
unmored meandering around looking for a place to anchor a
(06:19):
port at sea, they land on something that gives them
an identity. And what it is is the Weird Kids Club.
We've seen this, whether it's dungeons and dragons or furries
or any number.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Of other things.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You will find these organizations, these communities Online was great
for this because then they didn't have to leave home.
They could stay in mom's basement at that's still where
they lived, and they can find a place to connect,
and it deepens the intensity that hey, we're all weird
in this together.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's revenge of the nerds. Look at us. I'm a nerd.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I'm a nerd too, Except they're not nerds, they're weirdos.
They're confused. And so someone stands up and says, all right,
we've got to have rules here in this chapter that
we've just organized, and they go, well, I don't know
if I was Okay, yeah, I want to stay in
the club.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I want to be part of all this.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
And then that person starts barking out the rules and
they go, yes, this shall be our code. Yes, when
we have a handshake or an embrace, what will we do?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Do we get a card for membership? Will we organize?
Will we gather? What will we do?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
We have to do something, We have to manifest all
this exciting energy. Now they have a tribe, they have
a team, they have something to connect with. That is
a big part of the momentum, the grassroots behind all this.
But the other reason is the media loves it for
all the wrong reasons. Because the media loves a train wreck,
(07:50):
they don't care about the long term consequences. They will
bolster something that has a very small percentage of ever
happening and increase the likelihood that it does because it's
more interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Change is good.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Tumult Rush used to say, it's good, it's good for ratings,
it's interesting, it's right.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Hey have you heard about this long over Wisconsin? Wasn't it?
She's crazy?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Go watch it go, you gotta watcher it's nuts.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You're listening to Michael Barry shaw.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Diren Straights frontman Martin Knopfler born on this day seventy
seven years ago in Glasgow, Sweden, making him a Glaswegian
sure mix a lot born on this day sixty three
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Did I say Sweden? I'm sorry, Glasgow, Scotland. Did I
say Sweden. See, that's one of those.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I would have argued that I didn't say Sweden. I
know it's Scotland. But you're thinking one step head as
you talk somewhere out there.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So that's white, Mada, that white. I's God. I've got
a man that's got get it around, Okay, all right,
he's gonna be all right. It's a straight frontman.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Mark Knopfler born on this day, seventy seven years ago
in Glasgow, Sweden, making him a glassy season. Like I said,
Michelle Tafoya, she's cute. In a former NFL sideline reporter,
Michelle Tafoya cruised victory in the Minnesota Republican Senate primary.
(09:36):
She defeated retired Navy seal Adam Schwartz and soon to
be w NBA star Royce White for the nomination. Well
that's as it should be, because Royce is gonna be
so She's gonna be so busy with the WNBA she
wouldn't have had time to serve in the Senate anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So this this worked out well.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Tafoya campaign has a political outsider who can flip the
open seat held by retiring Tomocrat Senator Tina Smith. Dafoyle
wrote on X Minnesota is in play. We have a
real opportunity to flip the Senate seat and defeat far
left socialist Democrats in November. Delafoya has been endorsed by
the National Republican Senatorial Committee. She campaigned on cracking down
on fraud, supports imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences on convicted fraudsters,
(10:20):
and deporting illegal migrants that steel tax payer money. Shall
also pledge to fight tooth and nail against left wing
efforts to abolish ice, support the Save Act in Congress,
and get men out of women's sports. Minnesotans have elected
a Republican to have not elected a Republican to represent
them in the Senate since two thousand and two. She
(10:40):
will face far left Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan in the
November election.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I'll tell you what that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That Wisconsin race, Boy, did that ever get interesting? You
had Francesca Hong, who was getting a lot of publicity.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
She was going to win.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
She came out of nowhere, and it's one of those
things that you realize that she had said some really
dumb things. In twenty twenty at Thanksgiving she said that, oh,
we're canceling Thanksgiving. Well, it's about time. It shouldn't have
taken COVID to do that. We should have canceled it
in sixteen twenty one. It makes people feel uncomfortable you're
canceling Thanksgiving, and that gives you a window into the
(11:26):
mindset of these people. Have you ever watched it? Most
people have seen this happen. And God help you if
it's your child, because in some cases it's not your fault.
I have known people to have a child. In fact,
I've known people who grew up like this, where the
kid something goes wrong, something just something right, and sometimes
(11:51):
it's a period of time, but usually that person that
there's this crew loose and you see a kid raised
in a normal fan We had kids at old First
Orange Baptist Church. It'll do this and you start noticing
it manifests itself in usually in a couple of early
sort of odd things. They don't go out in public,
(12:15):
so they end up kind of with a Marilyn Manson power.
They end up kind of whitish, really white, chalky, and
the way they take care of themselves are dope is
always kind of consistent in an old concert shirt. They
become withdrawn and sullen. They don't interact with the rest
(12:36):
of the family, and as a school classmate, you start noticing, oh,
you know those bridget she's starting to act weird.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
She's starting to act weird.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Now, when I was growing up, this was pre internet,
so it would have to be magazines and subscriptions and
a phone call or television program. But now with the Internet,
they can find other freaks just like them and explore
their freak and that's when you start accelerating. The freakish
is because they're in an exploration. They are outside their
(13:06):
own environment, they're not fitting in, they're not like anyone else.
So they then begin getting more and more weird, and
it's sort of an experimentation and an a self expression,
and they're not going to get the feedback that says, why, Bridget,
you're starting to look more and more like a boy
and you've now colored your hair purple, and you've put.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
A bone through your nose.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
My goodness, sweetheart, you're turning into quite the little beauty.
I love everything that's going on with your vibe. Here
show us. They're not going to get that. They're going
to be surrounded by a family that doesn't know what
to do. They're going to be teased by their sibling.
But more importantly, their dad is going to see this
as an affront. It's an insult to his dignity. What's
going on? Where did he go wrong? And he's going
(13:52):
to employ the same tools that were employed on him,
but they're not going to work on her, and that
tool is to crack down, knock.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
This off doing weirdo? Do you think this looks good?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So the more of that you get, that kid grows
more and more estranged, unmoored, sent out to see in
a storm. They don't know what to do, and so
they're in this deeply experimental phase. They're deeply resentful around
their family. And whether they become a school shooter or
a democrat socialist, or start showing up or start shoplifting,
(14:26):
you see this, well, the system began to sort of
recruit amongst this. It's sort of a marine, ad be
all you can be, or the army. We get more
done by six am or what it is in most
and so they start finding feelings of identification. Okay, now
I have my own community, I have my own tribe.
(14:48):
I've lost my family. I'm disconnected from them. They don't
get me. They're crazy, they're weirdos, they're Nazis, they're Trump people,
their maga.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I hate them. Can't wait to get out of here. Right.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
So, now you've got this person who is who is
in a cauldron of crazy, and there's no way for
them to get out. And now there's a whole pipeline
that takes them on this assembly line from point A
to point F along there, and it's almost as if
nobody can do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And you're seeing more and more and more of these
types of people.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And the Internet allows them to go into their room,
close the door, connect and get guidance and be recruited
and be deployed.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's the whole army of them. Now, allow me to
introduce myself.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
My name is mittor Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
She took in a snake, She was warned, she did
it anyway, and when it better, it said, you knew
what I was when you took me in. Donald Trump's
been reading Al Wilson's poem at rally since twenty fifteen,
and every time it gets a little more on the nose.
(16:11):
Today it's literally on the nose. This is that poem.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Who has heard the poem called the Snake?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So I have it? Does anybody want to hear it again?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
You sure?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Are you sure? Okay?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
So let's dedicate this to General Kelly, the Border Patrol
and the Ice agents for doing such an incredible job.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
This was written by Al Wilson a long time ago,
and I thought of it having to do with our
borders and people coming in, and we know what we're
going to have.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
We're gonna have. We have to very very carefully vet.
We have to be smart, we have to be vigilant.
So here it is the snake.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
It's called the Snake. On her way to work one morning,
down the path along the lake, a tender hearted woman
saw a poor, half frozen snake.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
His pretty colored skin had been.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
All frosted with the dew. Poor things. He cried, I'll
take you in and I'll take care of you. The border.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Take me in. No tender woman. Take me in for
Heaven's sake.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Take me in, oh tender woman, sighed the vicious snake.
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of
silk and laid him by her firesie with some honey
and some milk. She hurried home from work that night,
(18:08):
and as soon as she arrived, she found that pretty
snake she'd taken in.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Had been revived.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Take me in, a tender woman, Take me in for
Heaven's sake, Take me in, a tender woman, sighed that
vicious snake.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
She clutched him to her bosom. You're so beautiful, she cried.
But if I hadn't brought you in by now, oh heavens,
you would have died.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
She stroked his pretty skin again, and kissed him and
held him tight. But instead of saying thank you, that
snake gave her a vicious bite. Take me in, oh
(19:03):
tender woman, Take me in for Heaven's sake. Take me in,
oh tender woman, sighed the vicious sake. I have saved you,
cried the woman, And you've bidden me. Heavens, why you
know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die.
(19:28):
Oh shut up, silly woman, said the reptile with a grin.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You knew damn well, I was a snake.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Before you took me in.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I hate snakes. Hail Enough is enough.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I have had it with these snakes on this mother play.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Everybody stop in about to open some windows.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Arkansas high school football player at practice with a venomous
cotton mount snake inside his helmet managed to avoid being bitten.
I don't understand how, but during warmups he noticed unusual
movement inside his helmet, so he brought it to his
(20:24):
defensive code. Hey, cod, I got something in my helen.
You just wanted to know there's something in there. The
coach discovered there was a snake underneath the helmet's patting.
The story from KATV Little Rock.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
I've removed a snake out of a car vent and
an engine pursu's backpack in a helmet.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Never it's an opponent that probably won't end up on
this season's football schedule.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's kind of unbelievable. What is a mensa?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
The Mammel High schoo FOOTBA team had to face anyway.
While their practice Thursday, one player noticed a snake in
his helmet, quickly turning that practice into a real deal situation.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
When the officers got there and stuff. They examined the
helmet and at that time they could see that there
was a snake in the helmet. They verified it was
not a copper head, but it possibly was a cotton
mouth or a water snake.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Chris Davis with Mormeo Animal Services says they responded to
the high school after a report of a copperhead and
a football helmet. Instead, it was actually a cotton mouth,
a venomous snake known to hide out in dark, sheltered places.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
The cotton mouth, in my opinion, is probably the second
most venomous snake here in Arkansas. I would say the
rattle snake is probably the number one. If this snake
would have bit the child, it probably would have been
very fatal.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
The snake was snowed in between patting of the helmet.
This made it hard to remove. David says they had
to flood the snake out in order to grab it,
bringing home a win for the hornets.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It was.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
It was very unreal, so you had to kind of
be there and take pictures to.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Say this was real. How about that reporter though he
should be hosting a quiet store amone Saturday night at
eleven thirty on Magic one O two doing dedications and
players with Teddy Prendagath.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I mean that was that's uh.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Jim, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Welcome to the
program sir, take it away.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Hey, Michael, I come up with a perfect idea for
a protests against the flagged cameras. Okay, instead of damaging
them or you know, vandalizing them, putting a big American
flag right in front of them.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Okay, what do you think? Well? Sure, why not?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I let me ask you how you got interested in
the flock camera issue. It's not a trick question. I'm
curious because I get more flock camera commentary. It happened overnight,
and I'm curious how it came to your attention.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Been noticing them for months and remembering the bout in
nineteen eighty four, in all of the way that they
trick the population. It's the same thing, but it's for
real and it's here now, and I think the best
(23:43):
way to protest it is to put an American symbol,
the flag, right in front of the camera without damaging it.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
You know, it's very interesting to meet Jim when you
can when you can boil an issue down on to
the two.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Sides of it, and.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You can really see the age old battle safety and
security versus liberty and independence, and there's people on both sides.
It's a fascinating conversation to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Everything is ready for your call.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
If you heard President Trump reading that poem in nineteen
sixty eight, and you're old enough and you listened to
music in your youth in nineteen sixty eight, Al Wilson
actually recorded that poem as a song.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Some of you will remember that the.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Song is written in nineteen sixty three by civil rights
activists by the name of Oscar Brown, who've recorded it
but to no real attention. It would go on to
be recorded on Johnny River's Soul City Records.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Label multiple times.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
The main ingredient would record it as late as nineteen
eighty nine as a beast side, but it never got
the attention that Al Wilson's version did. And you remember
Al Wilson, even if you can't remember why, you remember
him because he had one really, really sensual song that
you for sure knew. I love making those connections people's
(25:18):
minds were things that were hidden in the recess you
pull it out. Oh that was Al Wilson, truth be told.
I don't know if I would have even remembered his
name was Al Wilson. I remember that song. I remember
my aunt liked that song. I remember hearing that song
when I was in sixth grade, A good song. I
never I don't know if I even knew who's that's
who's Oh and he.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Did this name?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh wow, okay, all right, because there's all these little
there's all these little rappers around and you don't know
what they held or when they held it. And you're
cleaning up and cleaning out, and you're in a hurry,
you've given away everything, and you reach down to pick
something up, and you I wonder when that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Got stuffed back there? When that got stuffed.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Into this hole? And we old My brother kicked me
and I moved and it busted a hole. And somehow
there's a rapper that get I probably put that back
there forty years ago, and there it was in the
recesses of your mind, those moments, those little connections, and
somehow somehow crygenically when when that song started playing. You
(26:23):
might not have known the name or the words right off,
but something starts to revive and it it fires and
it goes ah, show and tell.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What was just a game? Is it?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
When I want to say yeah, I remember that, Yeah,
that was oh okay, because it's still back there in
your memory palace, it might just be really, really dusty.
It's an intriguing thing to clean out your childhood home.
Many of you have had this experience, or maybe a
home that you lived in for a number of years.
(26:54):
But the reason the childhood home is so important is
because now you're not a child anymore, you're an adult.
So my mom passed September twenty fourth of twenty four
and my dad stayed there. We got him around the
clock care for several months until moving him to Houston.
And it was interesting when my wife and I went
(27:16):
in and we talked about about moving him to Houston,
but we weren't going.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
To sell the house.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And not only was he ready to move to Houston
but to be near us, but he was also prepared
to sell the house, which I didn't see coming and
I didn't I wasn't eager to sell the house. That's
his house, he built up with his own hands, so
so we'd hold on to it till he died as
far as I was concerned, and so he consented, Yeah,
(27:42):
I'm ready to move, which was a big thing. He
lived in that home since seventy eight and he's always
lived in Orange and so he said, uh, probably I'll
sell the house. And my wife, always the voice of reason,
she's she's she said, well, well, Dad, let's let's let's
not do that, because let's say we get on your
(28:04):
nerves and you don't enjoy Houston and you want to
come back to the way things have been at least
these last few months, if not for you know, the
entirety of your life.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Let's just hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
There's no rush and do it. No, you go ahead
and sell it. And we did hold on to it
for quite a while. But my wife did the heavy
lifting because I was on the show. And there were
a few days that I would rush out and rush
back because she'd have stuff piled up and say, what
do you want to keep? What do you want to throw?
I've done the best I can do. But I don't
(28:36):
know if this over here has meaning to you. It
says in the little note you wrote that this was
a jacket that Lee Majors wore in the opening sequence
of six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
May not it didn't happen, but she would have known
on that one.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
But in any case, you go into you go into cabinets,
and my mom was a bit of a hoarder. You
didn't throw things away. Wasn't a disposable, It wasn't based
on convenience. You didn't just throw stuff out and go
buy another one the way I would do.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You held on to it. You might need it.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
It's Vicks vapor. UB's only three quarters gone. That stuff
lasts forever. It'll be there.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
We'll just stuff, we'll just push it deeper into there,
and who knows one we'll go find it.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I'm fascinated by DNA and the crazy stories we learned
from them. I had two stories within a matter of
minutes a few days ago.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We're going to talk to one of them.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
We're not going to use her full name, where she
found out something about her family going back for decades
that she did not know due to the twenty three
and me. You might start now in the recesses of
your mind remembering your DNA revelation story that dad had
another family or who knows what.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But first we'll talk to her im
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