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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air, Readings and salutations.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Keep your eye on the Jelhouse camera because I suspect
mister Ryan Roath may not make it. He knows too
many things and they don't add up. He would be
Trump assassin. Makes three thousand dollars a month. As Chad says,
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it's just a guy living in Kaawa, Hawaii, right on
the ocean. Some of you've been to Hawaii. It is
surprisingly expensive because you think to yourself, I'm not leaving
the country. Well, you're passing a lot of other countries
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on the way. You're going to a part of the
world that is highly desirable for a lot of people,
and there's a limited amount of space. How's he afford
to live there? Okay, it's a smaller rural community, Chad
(01:51):
tells me. So maybe once he's got his place there,
he goes out and serves it's not an uncommon life.
He's right on the ocean. He said in court yesterday
that he could not afford a lawyer because he only
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makes three thousand dollars a month and his only assets
are two trucks in Hawaii. Valued at one thousand dollars each. Okay,
all right, you have no money, you live on the beach,
you have no assets, you live in Hawaii. All right, Well,
maybe you scrounged out a living. He traveled to Ukraine
(02:35):
in twenty twenty two. He has a website online offering
to pay twelve hundred dollars a month for fighters to
join in the war effort in Ukraine, and he claims
to have placed those folks. We've got pictures of him
with the White House chef in Washington, d C. We've
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got multiple inner views of him while in Washington, d C.
On various trips. He somehow got to Palm Beach, Florida.
Presumably he didn't step off the plane and immediately goes
set up his sniper's nest, so he had to stay
there for a while. He goes back and forth to Ukraine. Wow,
(03:24):
who's paying for that? The Sheriff of Martin County, Florida,
William Snyder, talking about the would be assassin and asking
the questions that everyone should be asking. This would seem
rather obvious. Clip number eleven or a month. Did he
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have any to your knowledge, any ties to Martin County
or a trader coast.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
To my knowledge, is having to tie someone. Can I
think the answer to my knowledge answers no, I have
no knowledge. I think what we're fraying? Ye, he's not
from this area, which of course raises the bigger question
is how does a guy from not here it all
the way to Trump International realized that the president, former
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president of United States is golfing and he's able to
get a rifle in that vicinity. I think that's the
question that BI secret Service or laser focused on today.
Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Is he a
lone government? If he's a lone government, President Trump is
that much safer because we have him. But if he's
probably of a conspiracy, then this whole thing really takes
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on a very ominous tone.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, let's see, twenty years ago, he had a machine
gun arrested for that. He fled from police after first
making moves that he was going to fight them killed him.
He barricked cad himself for three hours into a building.
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He's had multiple arrests over the years. He's not exactly hiding.
He's out in front of the White House on multiple occasions.
He's done multiple network interviews He's been interviewed by The
New York Times, and he's always interviewed in Ukraine or
in Washington, d c. There are pictures of him in
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Ukraine moving around the Defense Ministry. This is not what
they would like you to believe it is. This doesn't
just happen. The Wall Street Journal reports it was Rod's
time in Ukraine, where he traveled shortly after the Russia
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invasion in twenty twenty two, hoping to join the fight,
where his tumultuous life, full of failures and brushes with
the law, seemed to spiral further downward and to alarm
those who came in contact with him. Chelsea Walsh, a
nurse who had several encounters with Ruth in Kiev in
twenty twenty two, said his threats of violence worried her
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so much that she conveyed her concerns to a Customs
and Border Protection officer in an hour long interview at
Washington's Dulles Airport in June of twenty two. Walsh told
the officer during the interview, which took place after she
returned to the US, that Roath was among the most
dangerous Americans she met during her month, and a half
long stint in Ukraine. She showed the officer a notebook
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listing more than a dozen names of Americans and others
whose actions had alarmed her. She recounted under the heading
overall predatory behavior or antisocial traits were names. Roaths was
at the top. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately
respond to inquiries about the meeting. Of course they didn't.
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Roath's behavior had been flagged to the FB in the past,
though not in connection to Ukraine. A tipster told the
FBI in twenty nineteen that Roth had a firearm despite
being a felon, but when question further, wouldn't verify providing
the information, an FBI official said Monday. The bureau passed
the information onto authorities in Honolulu, where Roath was living
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at the time, and of course closed the investigation because
you see, we need gun control in this country. Except
when a felon has a gun, which gun control would
prevent our basic gun laws, we don't do anything about it,
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especially not if he's a government asset. His activities related
to Ukraine brought him to the attention of a large
group of people, many of whom quickly grew suspicious. Roath
was well known among volunteer aid groups in Ukraine as
a fraudster and kind of a whacked job, said Sarah Adams,
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a pharmacya officer who helped run a network that linked
fifty aid groups to share information and coordinate humanitarian and
volunteer efforts. You think they were aid groups, You think
that's what they were doing. He claimed to be working
with the Ukrainian government to recruit foreign fighters, but he
was not. She said, So you were a humanitarian worker
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and he was lying about working with the Ukrainian government.
I don't believe you. I don't believe anything about what
you say. How does this guy end up on the
golf course at that time set up to shoot the president,
because there's no way he did that on his own.
(08:51):
When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans
are better off than they were four years ago? Michael Berry?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So, I was raised as a middle class kid, like.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Tom Petty.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Too.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's kind of like Bob Seger to me. I think
I like him probably more than most people, and I
think he tends to be forgotten. I've always felt he
was a little more classic rock than pop can handle
and a little more pop than classic rock can handle,
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and he comes at an odd time with his sound.
I think he hits in about seventy nine is where
he really crosses over, and it's a sound from about
seventy five. It's an interesting trajectory of his because he
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just kind of keeps hanging around. When you figure that
that style of music, you know, music at that point
is given way a new wave and is beginning to
be you know, hairband and more of the GNR and
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bon Jovi and that sort of stuff. And then there's
just there's Tom Pettio there just writing and performing good songs.
He did, I think, make a big stamp with the
Don't Come around Here No More video, which made him
maybe more culturally relevant than he would have been otherwise.
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And then he stole Stevie Nix's song, and then What's that?
And then and then he does the duet. Interesting guy?
Interesting guy. But I do like his stuff, although I
consume a lot of music from that era in a
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way that bothers people like you because I never bought
albums ever, and never bought albums because or anything else.
I bought greatest hits, and because I didn't listen to
music with anybody else, I didn't. I came to it
on my own. Honestly, if I liked it, I listened
to it. But since I didn't buy, so when I
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did finally start purchasing music for myself was much later
than most people in my life, well passed my teenage years.
Then I didn't. I didn't want to go dive into
the Eagles and buy all those albums, or Tom Petty
or whatever else. So I've got that. You know, there
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are classic that there are greatest hits albums that everybody identifies,
the Pink Floyd, the Steve Miller Band, the Eagles, the Stones,
you can eat what's that? Bob Marlee?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Was that legend? And you can see in your mind's
eye the cover of that album. Back to Ryan Roath,
You'll never guess what the FBI said hated. Did you
guys know he was there? Uh? Uh yeah, tell me
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he was on your radar? Uh he uh will tell
me he said he was on our radar. They're always
on the radar, aren't they. Gosh, it's almost as if.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
The FBI should spend their time on the kinds of
people who shoot up the Pulse nightclub or schools or
the president and stop harassing January sixth.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But we've only got so much time, and we do
have priorities now, don't we. Scott Jennings, I don't know
where he came from. Maybe some of you do. I'd
never heard of him before, but he shows up on
CNN as kind of the loan conservative or even conservative,
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the loan guy to give any pushback. But every clip
I see of his I really like what the guy's doing.
I think he's making a difference over there. I really
do clip number thirteen. But the rhetoric is on both sides.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
It's coming from the right, rhetoric from the left.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The rhetoric. They have tried to kill this man twice.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Okay, he got shot in the ear, and this guy
was sitting up shop outside of a golf course to
try to kill him this weekend. And I know, after
something like this happens, it's very fashionable to, you know,
talk about rhetoric on both sides.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Donald Trump is the target.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Okay, he's the current target, and it's happening and it's
happened again, and I just honestly, we have to have
a conversation about elections. If you lose an election, the
country's not going to come to an okay. What I
want Democrats to do, honestly, is to say it's okay,
if Donald Trump wins, democracy will not end, the constitution
will not in We're not going to live in a dictatorship.
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There will not be a blood bath. All the things
they say that are totally fabricated. To me, it would
be a good day to stop doing that. The most
important thing that could possibly happen, in my opinion, is
for everybody to agree, especially Democrats, that the country is
not going to be irreparably damaged if Democrats lose that
where constitution is not going to go away, Democracy is
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not going to come to an end. There will be
no blood bath, there will be no dictatorship on day one,
which they all say all day long on this network
and others. If everyone could just agree that that kind
of hyperbolic statement will not take place anymore, and that
it's not been true every time it's been said, that
would be a step in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He's absolutely right. There is also an op that there
were bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. Because remember this is Charlottesvielle,
this is January sixth. All this all goes back. They
need you to believe that Trump is dangerous. If you
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start calling out the left for what they're doing, that's
dangerous and people get killed. What sure sounds like the
mainstream media is colluding with the Russians or some foreign entity.
I say the Russians because that's the joke to help
Kamala by pushing the bogus Springfield, Ohio threats talking points.
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Remember we were told he's poor people in Springfield. Their
bomb's gonna go off and they can't go to school
and none of the business. Everybody's gonna die. It's all
because of Trump. Right. Ohio's Governor Mike Dwaine said that's
not true.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Least thirty three separate bomb threats, each one of which
UH has been responded to, and each one of whom
has been found uh T as a hoax. So thirty
three UH threats, thirty three hoax. I wanna make that
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very very clear. None of these had any validity uh
at all. UH. We know UH that people are very
very concerned, UH, and we have taken some actions and
UH in a moment, I'll let uh Andy Wilson go
into more detail. UH, but we've moved resources uh into
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into Springfield. So I wanna say to the parents in Springfield. Uh,
these hoaxes have these these threats uh have all been hoaxes.
None of them have panned out.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We have people, unfortunately overseas uh who are taking these actions.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Some of them are coming from one particular country. We
think that this is one more opportunity to mess with
the United States, and they're continuing to do that. So
we cannot let the bad guys win. Our schools must
remain open.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We're talking about paper ballots, but that actually might be
one of the smartest systems the Michael Ferry Show, because
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper. Happy Constitution Day.
It was on this day in seventeen eighty seven at
the United States Constitution was signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia,
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bringing the swelteringly hot and often very contentious Constitutional Convention
to an end. My senior year of college at the
University of Houston, I had a professor who I was
very fond of that there were a group of us
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who were his acolytes, and not just our year, but
every year he had a group of almost all young men,
although there was one female in our group who ended
up marrying one of the group who were students of
his who would take every course that he taught, and
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that was Ross Lentz, or as he was referred to,
the reasonable mister Lynz, and he taught there. I bet
he taught there for forty years, maybe longer. And Ross
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Lnz created a course because there was a group there
were a group of us. There was a group of
us who had taken everything he offered and there was
nothing else for us to take, and we talked him
into doing a course on the Constitutional Convention, and it
was there were maybe twelve of us. He did it
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as a favor for us, and he didn't have time
in his regular schedule during the week, so it became
a one night a week, three hours, three hour course.
I didn't need the hours. I just just the nerdy
side of me. It appealed to me. And it's my
very last semester there. And it was like a Wednesday
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night from seven to ten, and then we'd all go
for Taco bell or something afterwards. We were on a
student budget and each week we would meet for our
three hours. We picked a character. Everybody in the class
picked a character at the convention, but you couldn't pick
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the most obvious. You couldn't pick jeffersoner Madison, and I
picked Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania because I was interested in
him already. And my friend Earl Spencer chose Elbridge Gary,
after whom gerry mandering is named, because Elbridge Gary designed
a voting district that would be favorable and it really
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should have been Gary Mandering, but whatever, g r R.
It was such a fun class and it what it
really accomplished with me was understanding how tenuous this process was.
If you have ever tried to found anything, to create
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anything where people have differing views and you gather people
together as to what the structure of this thing is
going to look like? Hell for people who do a prenup.
I've heard stories of these people who one or the
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other has a lot of money before they start, and
they they fashion a prenup because everybody has this idea.
I've had some friends over the years who you know,
they've got a fair amount of money and they're on
marriage number two or three, and tell you what, this
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one's not going to clean me out like the others did.
I'm going to do a prenup. Okay, isn't that the
first red flag? Really? Isn't that the first red flag?
That you're already prepared for the breakup? How about this?
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How about I give you the advice no one else
will give you, and that is this. You really like
the chase, you do. You've enjoyed the chase since middle school.
You enjoy the chase like Savoa fare as she bounces alone.
You bounce along behind her and not Pepi laput. You
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like to bounce around behind her. And then you like
her to be a little bit flirty but a little
bit distant, and you like to wow her, leaving aside
that that's your Bentley or Lamborghini or Ferrari, that they've
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parked in the front spot at the restaurant, that's not accidental.
And then you suggest maybe I'll go for a in
this car, and she pretends to not be impressed because
the first time she's been in a car like this,
and you ain't the first guy she's been in a
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car like this with. But you want the wind, You
want her to be interested in you, and so in
time she plays her part, and she grows more and
more into and you want to woo her. You want
to impress her. Now, this is where the biggest part
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of the relationship goes sour. And if I've seen it
one time, I have seen it. I don't want to exaggerate.
I've seen it dozens. I'll say I've seen it dozens
at the time. And this is what apparently the young
people call love bombing. And this is where he takes
her to Paris, and he takes her to all these
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amazing places and spends all this money, and she's just
wrapped it and secs every day and romance every day
and having this arrive and having this arrive, and then
and they get married and she's not doing that anymore,
and he's not doing that anymore. And now they have
so all that trouble, all that trouble just for two
people to come together, imagine a constitutional convention, and damned
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if they didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Everybody needs to be woke.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I just say, more woke than left woke.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
One guy said, I got so caught up in that romance.
I forgot you was talking about the constitutional convention hurting cats.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh somebody pointed out, And I know this, but I
don't mind being reminded because I was in error. Jefferson
was not at the convention. It is the case that
we tend to think of things ending exactly the way
they did, because that was the way they were supposed
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to be. The Allies were supposed to win the World
of War. Wasn't any other alternative it could be. The
Constitution was to be written because these were great men,
and we admire them, And here's the constitution a republic.
If you can keep it, ma'am, and we'll move on
about our business. Except that's not how it works. Every
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single person at that convention, every single one of them was,
in his own way, a star, a king, a potentate,
a powerful man, a rich man, an influential man, a
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celebrity in his day. You try to bring together a
bunch of people like that, because you have to have
some degree of hierarchy, in the sense that someone's gonna
have to chair the meeting, someone's going to have to
call for a vote and record the vote, someone's going
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to have to arbitrate the disputes. And these are men,
all men, These are men who are unaccustomed to not
getting their way. When you're talking about men of incredible accomplishment, power,
influence wealth, and they each had their own idea. You
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had at the time two schools of thought. And I
know you were assigned this in high school or college,
and I know at the time it was the lasting
on your mind. You'd be surprised how many things that
were assigned to you when you were seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one that now you would pick up and
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you would see the relevance of it all. Pick up
the Federalist papers. Be a dork. Go sit on the
back porch, get yourself a good light, a coffee, a tea,
a beer, whatever it is. Turn the television off, and
sit down and start on the Federalist paper papers. Any
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reading like this is going to feel inaccessible at first,
because it's not in the common vernacular that you're using
day to day. But it will take you no time.
Do what I do. Get yourself a pen, and as
you're reading, you see a word you don't understand, circle
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it if you have an iPad or a phone or apparently,
they used to have books that had definitions of words
in them. I've heard story, I've heard tell stop for
a moment and read what does that word mean? I've
heard that word used a number of times. Really wonder
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what that is? And then slowly, but surely, you'll, I
would argue, and let me not get carried away, and
I would I would argue for the average person to
understand our government and our governance and our philosophy, that
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reading the Federalist papers will be more enlightening to you
than the Constitution itself. The Constitution is a bit dry
and perhaps not as revealing at first read as the
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Federalist papers, which are arguments on behalf of certain governing styles,
governing philosophies. And they were arguing them that the same
way you would argue something today that is of great importance,
and you had people on both sides of the aisle.
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But as you start reading the Federalist papers, then when
you're done, then you'll want to read the Constitution. Every
day I get emails from people who tell me that
I recommended a book that I only vaguely recall recommending
because whatever I'm reading at the time, I'll reference and
how much they enjoyed it, and now they've moved on
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to this book or do I have another recommendation? They
go on, without being too tedious. Let me just take
a second to say, if you're not presently reading, I
can't tell you how much this point in your life
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you would enjoy doing so. It may never have been
the case in your life that for enjoyment you sat
down with a book and began to read it. But
you're not at any point you were at in your
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life before think about this. Did you ever think about
the FBI, the CIA, foreign assets January sixth, the United
the electoral College, the influence of media on our minds,
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the skewed perspective of the drive by media. Did you
ever think about things like that earlier in your life?
Because it's so easy to PLoP down and click on TV,
very passively observe and consume media. You've got the colors
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and the scrolling, and hopefully some things that if they're
not entertaining, because very few people can do funny, Gutfeld can.
If they're not funny, well at least they'll get me
really mad, and that makes me feel alive. I'll post
a couple of books today just you'll be surprised, and
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you will realize how different you are, how much you've
I don't want to say grown how much you've changed,
because the writings are timeless, and you will feel so alive,
and then you'll be that obnoxious guy quote I'm everywhere,
well poork Chop. I was reading the Federalists paper today,
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and you know what Hamilton said. I can't wait to
hear your workmates when you do that.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varry Show is on the air, Readings and salutations.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Keep your eye on the Jelhouse camera because I suspect
mister Ryan Roath may not make it. He knows too
many things and they don't add up. He would be
Trump assassin. Makes three thousand dollars a month. As Chad says,
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it's just a guy living in Kaawa, Hawaii, right on
the ocean. Some of you've been to Hawaii. It is
surprisingly expensive because you think to yourself, I'm not leaving
the country. Well, you're passing a lot of other countries
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on the way. You're going to a part of the
world that is highly desirable for a lot of people,
and there's a limited amount of space. How's he afford
to live there? Okay, it's a smaller rural community, Chad
(01:51):
tells me. So maybe once he's got his place there,
he goes out and serves it's not an uncommon life.
He's right on the ocean. He said in court yesterday
that he could not afford a lawyer because he only
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makes three thousand dollars a month and his only assets
are two trucks in Hawaii. Valued at one thousand dollars each. Okay,
all right, you have no money, you live on the beach,
you have no assets, you live in Hawaii. All right, Well,
maybe you scrounged out a living. He traveled to Ukraine
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in twenty twenty two. He has a website online offering
to pay twelve hundred dollars a month for fighters to
join in the war effort in Ukraine, and he claims
to have placed those folks. We've got pictures of him
with the White House chef in Washington, d C. We've
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got multiple inner views of him while in Washington, d C.
On various trips. He somehow got to Palm Beach, Florida.
Presumably he didn't step off the plane and immediately goes
set up his sniper's nest, so he had to stay
there for a while. He goes back and forth to Ukraine. Wow,
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who's paying for that? The Sheriff of Martin County, Florida,
William Snyder, talking about the would be assassin and asking
the questions that everyone should be asking. This would seem
rather obvious. Clip number eleven or a month. Did he
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have any to your knowledge, any ties to Martin County
or a trader coast.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
To my knowledge, is having to tie someone. Can I
think the answer to my knowledge answers no, I have
no knowledge. I think what we're fraying? Ye, he's not
from this area, which of course raises the bigger question
is how does a guy from not here it all
the way to Trump International realized that the president, former
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president of United States is golfing and he's able to
get a rifle in that vicinity. I think that's the
question that BI secret Service or laser focused on today.
Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Is he a
lone government? If he's a lone government, President Trump is
that much safer because we have him. But if he's
probably of a conspiracy, then this whole thing really takes
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on a very ominous tone.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, let's see, twenty years ago, he had a machine
gun arrested for that. He fled from police after first
making moves that he was going to fight them killed him.
He barricked cad himself for three hours into a building.
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He's had multiple arrests over the years. He's not exactly hiding.
He's out in front of the White House on multiple occasions.
He's done multiple network interviews He's been interviewed by The
New York Times, and he's always interviewed in Ukraine or
in Washington, d c. There are pictures of him in
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Ukraine moving around the Defense Ministry. This is not what
they would like you to believe it is. This doesn't
just happen. The Wall Street Journal reports it was Rod's
time in Ukraine, where he traveled shortly after the Russia
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invasion in twenty twenty two, hoping to join the fight,
where his tumultuous life, full of failures and brushes with
the law, seemed to spiral further downward and to alarm
those who came in contact with him. Chelsea Walsh, a
nurse who had several encounters with Ruth in Kiev in
twenty twenty two, said his threats of violence worried her
(06:12):
so much that she conveyed her concerns to a Customs
and Border Protection officer in an hour long interview at
Washington's Dulles Airport in June of twenty two. Walsh told
the officer during the interview, which took place after she
returned to the US, that Roath was among the most
dangerous Americans she met during her month, and a half
long stint in Ukraine. She showed the officer a notebook
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listing more than a dozen names of Americans and others
whose actions had alarmed her. She recounted under the heading
overall predatory behavior or antisocial traits were names. Roaths was
at the top. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately
respond to inquiries about the meeting. Of course they didn't.
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Roath's behavior had been flagged to the FB in the past,
though not in connection to Ukraine. A tipster told the
FBI in twenty nineteen that Roth had a firearm despite
being a felon, but when question further, wouldn't verify providing
the information, an FBI official said Monday. The bureau passed
the information onto authorities in Honolulu, where Roath was living
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at the time, and of course closed the investigation because
you see, we need gun control in this country. Except
when a felon has a gun, which gun control would
prevent our basic gun laws, we don't do anything about it,
(07:41):
especially not if he's a government asset. His activities related
to Ukraine brought him to the attention of a large
group of people, many of whom quickly grew suspicious. Roath
was well known among volunteer aid groups in Ukraine as
a fraudster and kind of a whacked job, said Sarah Adams,
(08:02):
a pharmacya officer who helped run a network that linked
fifty aid groups to share information and coordinate humanitarian and
volunteer efforts. You think they were aid groups, You think
that's what they were doing. He claimed to be working
with the Ukrainian government to recruit foreign fighters, but he
was not. She said, So you were a humanitarian worker
(08:28):
and he was lying about working with the Ukrainian government.
I don't believe you. I don't believe anything about what
you say. How does this guy end up on the
golf course at that time set up to shoot the president,
because there's no way he did that on his own.
(08:51):
When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans
are better off than they were four years ago? Michael Berry?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So, I was raised as a middle class kid, like.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Tom Petty.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Too.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's kind of like Bob Seger to me. I think
I like him probably more than most people, and I
think he tends to be forgotten. I've always felt he
was a little more classic rock than pop can handle
and a little more pop than classic rock can handle,
(09:29):
and he comes at an odd time with his sound.
I think he hits in about seventy nine is where
he really crosses over, and it's a sound from about
seventy five. It's an interesting trajectory of his because he
(09:50):
just kind of keeps hanging around. When you figure that
that style of music, you know, music at that point
is given way a new wave and is beginning to
be you know, hairband and more of the GNR and
(10:10):
bon Jovi and that sort of stuff. And then there's
just there's Tom Pettio there just writing and performing good songs.
He did, I think, make a big stamp with the
Don't Come around Here No More video, which made him
maybe more culturally relevant than he would have been otherwise.
(10:34):
And then he stole Stevie Nix's song, and then What's that?
And then and then he does the duet. Interesting guy?
Interesting guy. But I do like his stuff, although I
consume a lot of music from that era in a
(10:55):
way that bothers people like you because I never bought
albums ever, and never bought albums because or anything else.
I bought greatest hits, and because I didn't listen to
music with anybody else, I didn't. I came to it
on my own. Honestly, if I liked it, I listened
to it. But since I didn't buy, so when I
(11:15):
did finally start purchasing music for myself was much later
than most people in my life, well passed my teenage years.
Then I didn't. I didn't want to go dive into
the Eagles and buy all those albums, or Tom Petty
or whatever else. So I've got that. You know, there
(11:36):
are classic that there are greatest hits albums that everybody identifies,
the Pink Floyd, the Steve Miller Band, the Eagles, the Stones,
you can eat what's that? Bob Marlee?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Was that legend? And you can see in your mind's
eye the cover of that album. Back to Ryan Roath,
You'll never guess what the FBI said hated. Did you
guys know he was there? Uh? Uh yeah, tell me
(12:15):
he was on your radar? Uh he uh will tell
me he said he was on our radar. They're always
on the radar, aren't they. Gosh, it's almost as if.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
The FBI should spend their time on the kinds of
people who shoot up the Pulse nightclub or schools or
the president and stop harassing January sixth.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But we've only got so much time, and we do
have priorities now, don't we. Scott Jennings, I don't know
where he came from. Maybe some of you do. I'd
never heard of him before, but he shows up on
CNN as kind of the loan conservative or even conservative,
(13:12):
the loan guy to give any pushback. But every clip
I see of his I really like what the guy's doing.
I think he's making a difference over there. I really
do clip number thirteen. But the rhetoric is on both sides.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
It's coming from the right, rhetoric from the left.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The rhetoric. They have tried to kill this man twice.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Okay, he got shot in the ear, and this guy
was sitting up shop outside of a golf course to
try to kill him this weekend. And I know, after
something like this happens, it's very fashionable to, you know,
talk about rhetoric on both sides.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Donald Trump is the target.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Okay, he's the current target, and it's happening and it's
happened again, and I just honestly, we have to have
a conversation about elections. If you lose an election, the
country's not going to come to an okay. What I
want Democrats to do, honestly, is to say it's okay,
if Donald Trump wins, democracy will not end, the constitution
will not in We're not going to live in a dictatorship.
(14:09):
There will not be a blood bath. All the things
they say that are totally fabricated. To me, it would
be a good day to stop doing that. The most
important thing that could possibly happen, in my opinion, is
for everybody to agree, especially Democrats, that the country is
not going to be irreparably damaged if Democrats lose that
where constitution is not going to go away, Democracy is
(14:29):
not going to come to an end. There will be
no blood bath, there will be no dictatorship on day one,
which they all say all day long on this network
and others. If everyone could just agree that that kind
of hyperbolic statement will not take place anymore, and that
it's not been true every time it's been said, that
would be a step in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
He's absolutely right. There is also an op that there
were bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. Because remember this is Charlottesvielle,
this is January sixth. All this all goes back. They
need you to believe that Trump is dangerous. If you
(15:11):
start calling out the left for what they're doing, that's
dangerous and people get killed. What sure sounds like the
mainstream media is colluding with the Russians or some foreign entity.
I say the Russians because that's the joke to help
Kamala by pushing the bogus Springfield, Ohio threats talking points.
(15:34):
Remember we were told he's poor people in Springfield. Their
bomb's gonna go off and they can't go to school
and none of the business. Everybody's gonna die. It's all
because of Trump. Right. Ohio's Governor Mike Dwaine said that's
not true.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Least thirty three separate bomb threats, each one of which
UH has been responded to, and each one of whom
has been found uh T as a hoax. So thirty
three UH threats, thirty three hoax. I wanna make that
(16:15):
very very clear. None of these had any validity uh
at all. UH. We know UH that people are very
very concerned, UH, and we have taken some actions and
UH in a moment, I'll let uh Andy Wilson go
into more detail. UH, but we've moved resources uh into
(16:36):
into Springfield. So I wanna say to the parents in Springfield. Uh,
these hoaxes have these these threats uh have all been hoaxes.
None of them have panned out.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We have people, unfortunately overseas uh who are taking these actions.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Some of them are coming from one particular country. We
think that this is one more opportunity to mess with
the United States, and they're continuing to do that. So
we cannot let the bad guys win. Our schools must
remain open.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We're talking about paper ballots, but that actually might be
one of the smartest systems the Michael Ferry Show, because
Russia cannot hack a piece of paper. Happy Constitution Day.
It was on this day in seventeen eighty seven at
the United States Constitution was signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia,
(17:48):
bringing the swelteringly hot and often very contentious Constitutional Convention
to an end. My senior year of college at the
University of Houston, I had a professor who I was
very fond of that there were a group of us
(18:09):
who were his acolytes, and not just our year, but
every year he had a group of almost all young men,
although there was one female in our group who ended
up marrying one of the group who were students of
his who would take every course that he taught, and
(18:30):
that was Ross Lentz, or as he was referred to,
the reasonable mister Lynz, and he taught there. I bet
he taught there for forty years, maybe longer. And Ross
(18:50):
Lnz created a course because there was a group there
were a group of us. There was a group of
us who had taken everything he offered and there was
nothing else for us to take, and we talked him
into doing a course on the Constitutional Convention, and it
was there were maybe twelve of us. He did it
(19:11):
as a favor for us, and he didn't have time
in his regular schedule during the week, so it became
a one night a week, three hours, three hour course.
I didn't need the hours. I just just the nerdy
side of me. It appealed to me. And it's my
very last semester there. And it was like a Wednesday
(19:35):
night from seven to ten, and then we'd all go
for Taco bell or something afterwards. We were on a
student budget and each week we would meet for our
three hours. We picked a character. Everybody in the class
picked a character at the convention, but you couldn't pick
(19:57):
the most obvious. You couldn't pick jeffersoner Madison, and I
picked Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania because I was interested in
him already. And my friend Earl Spencer chose Elbridge Gary,
after whom gerry mandering is named, because Elbridge Gary designed
a voting district that would be favorable and it really
(20:22):
should have been Gary Mandering, but whatever, g r R.
It was such a fun class and it what it
really accomplished with me was understanding how tenuous this process was.
If you have ever tried to found anything, to create
(20:46):
anything where people have differing views and you gather people
together as to what the structure of this thing is
going to look like? Hell for people who do a prenup.
I've heard stories of these people who one or the
(21:08):
other has a lot of money before they start, and
they they fashion a prenup because everybody has this idea.
I've had some friends over the years who you know,
they've got a fair amount of money and they're on
marriage number two or three, and tell you what, this
(21:33):
one's not going to clean me out like the others did.
I'm going to do a prenup. Okay, isn't that the
first red flag? Really? Isn't that the first red flag?
That you're already prepared for the breakup? How about this?
(21:54):
How about I give you the advice no one else
will give you, and that is this. You really like
the chase, you do. You've enjoyed the chase since middle school.
You enjoy the chase like Savoa fare as she bounces alone.
You bounce along behind her and not Pepi laput. You
(22:25):
like to bounce around behind her. And then you like
her to be a little bit flirty but a little
bit distant, and you like to wow her, leaving aside
that that's your Bentley or Lamborghini or Ferrari, that they've
(22:47):
parked in the front spot at the restaurant, that's not accidental.
And then you suggest maybe I'll go for a in
this car, and she pretends to not be impressed because
the first time she's been in a car like this,
and you ain't the first guy she's been in a
(23:08):
car like this with. But you want the wind, You
want her to be interested in you, and so in
time she plays her part, and she grows more and
more into and you want to woo her. You want
to impress her. Now, this is where the biggest part
(23:30):
of the relationship goes sour. And if I've seen it
one time, I have seen it. I don't want to exaggerate.
I've seen it dozens. I'll say I've seen it dozens
at the time. And this is what apparently the young
people call love bombing. And this is where he takes
her to Paris, and he takes her to all these
(23:50):
amazing places and spends all this money, and she's just
wrapped it and secs every day and romance every day
and having this arrive and having this arrive, and then
and they get married and she's not doing that anymore,
and he's not doing that anymore. And now they have
so all that trouble, all that trouble just for two
people to come together, imagine a constitutional convention, and damned
(24:15):
if they didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Everybody needs to be woke.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I just say, more woke than left woke.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
One guy said, I got so caught up in that romance.
I forgot you was talking about the constitutional convention hurting cats.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh somebody pointed out, And I know this, but I
don't mind being reminded because I was in error. Jefferson
was not at the convention. It is the case that
we tend to think of things ending exactly the way
they did, because that was the way they were supposed
(25:10):
to be. The Allies were supposed to win the World
of War. Wasn't any other alternative it could be. The
Constitution was to be written because these were great men,
and we admire them, And here's the constitution a republic.
If you can keep it, ma'am, and we'll move on
about our business. Except that's not how it works. Every
(25:33):
single person at that convention, every single one of them was,
in his own way, a star, a king, a potentate,
a powerful man, a rich man, an influential man, a
(25:53):
celebrity in his day. You try to bring together a
bunch of people like that, because you have to have
some degree of hierarchy, in the sense that someone's gonna
have to chair the meeting, someone's going to have to
call for a vote and record the vote, someone's going
(26:15):
to have to arbitrate the disputes. And these are men,
all men, These are men who are unaccustomed to not
getting their way. When you're talking about men of incredible accomplishment, power,
influence wealth, and they each had their own idea. You
(26:40):
had at the time two schools of thought. And I
know you were assigned this in high school or college,
and I know at the time it was the lasting
on your mind. You'd be surprised how many things that
were assigned to you when you were seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one that now you would pick up and
(27:03):
you would see the relevance of it all. Pick up
the Federalist papers. Be a dork. Go sit on the
back porch, get yourself a good light, a coffee, a tea,
a beer, whatever it is. Turn the television off, and
sit down and start on the Federalist paper papers. Any
(27:27):
reading like this is going to feel inaccessible at first,
because it's not in the common vernacular that you're using
day to day. But it will take you no time.
Do what I do. Get yourself a pen, and as
you're reading, you see a word you don't understand, circle
(27:50):
it if you have an iPad or a phone or apparently,
they used to have books that had definitions of words
in them. I've heard story, I've heard tell stop for
a moment and read what does that word mean? I've
heard that word used a number of times. Really wonder
(28:13):
what that is? And then slowly, but surely, you'll, I
would argue, and let me not get carried away, and
I would I would argue for the average person to
understand our government and our governance and our philosophy, that
(28:34):
reading the Federalist papers will be more enlightening to you
than the Constitution itself. The Constitution is a bit dry
and perhaps not as revealing at first read as the
(28:55):
Federalist papers, which are arguments on behalf of certain governing styles,
governing philosophies. And they were arguing them that the same
way you would argue something today that is of great importance,
and you had people on both sides of the aisle.
(29:17):
But as you start reading the Federalist papers, then when
you're done, then you'll want to read the Constitution. Every
day I get emails from people who tell me that
I recommended a book that I only vaguely recall recommending
because whatever I'm reading at the time, I'll reference and
how much they enjoyed it, and now they've moved on
(29:40):
to this book or do I have another recommendation? They
go on, without being too tedious. Let me just take
a second to say, if you're not presently reading, I
can't tell you how much this point in your life
(30:02):
you would enjoy doing so. It may never have been
the case in your life that for enjoyment you sat
down with a book and began to read it. But
you're not at any point you were at in your
(30:23):
life before think about this. Did you ever think about
the FBI, the CIA, foreign assets January sixth, the United
the electoral College, the influence of media on our minds,
(30:47):
the skewed perspective of the drive by media. Did you
ever think about things like that earlier in your life?
Because it's so easy to PLoP down and click on TV,
very passively observe and consume media. You've got the colors
(31:08):
and the scrolling, and hopefully some things that if they're
not entertaining, because very few people can do funny, Gutfeld can.
If they're not funny, well at least they'll get me
really mad, and that makes me feel alive. I'll post
a couple of books today just you'll be surprised, and
(31:28):
you will realize how different you are, how much you've
I don't want to say grown how much you've changed,
because the writings are timeless, and you will feel so alive,
and then you'll be that obnoxious guy quote I'm everywhere,
well poork Chop. I was reading the Federalists paper today,
(31:51):
and you know what Hamilton said. I can't wait to
hear your workmates when you do that.
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