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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael vari Show is on the air. The question
is froul Helm.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We are you lying then?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Are you lying now?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Or are you not in fact to chronic and habitual liar.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
When you hear the term fake news, you probably think
about how it's used often today by President Trump. But
it's actually an old term used by the Soviet Union
as a reference to disinformation campaigns that the Soviets and
now the Russians have long used to destabilize the West.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
US officials have warned that Russian interference remains an active
threat for the twenty twenty presidential elections.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Why can't you see what you do to me when
you don't the word.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Say, CNN is scum, MSDNUS scum, The New York Times
is scum.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
We can together were suspicious, We all suspicious.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
Rudy Giuliani already had open contact with a person that
the US has.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Called an agent for the Kremlin.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Now we are being told by two people who've been
briefed on what the FBI is doing that they're looking
into whether these unverified emails about Hunter Biden that were
published earlier this week by the New York Post about
his business dealings in Ukraine and China are part of
this bigger Russian disinformation effort in the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
CNN is scum, msdnngus scum. The New York Times is scum.
Speaker 8 (01:50):
We can't suspicious.
Speaker 9 (02:08):
President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be
standing in front of a monument of two slave owners
and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We do have now some of the sound. As I
told you, we're not in the audience.
Speaker 10 (02:21):
We're not carrying his remarks live because, frankly, he says a.
Speaker 9 (02:25):
Lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
CNN is scum, MSDNNG is scum. The New York Times
is scum. Start your tape right now, because I'm about
to tell you the truth and f you if you
can't handle the truth.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically.
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Is the best Biden ever looking at the images and
looking at what was actually damaged. The Defense Intelligence Agency
has assessed that the core component of Aron's nuclear program
are largely intact, and that Iron's nuclear program has essentially
only been set back by months.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
World. I can't to.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Over SI, especially suspicious minds.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
Then I can't come in after the intro is just impossible.
How am I going to talk over that story from
k p r C TV about a family and acres homes.
They say their home was stolen from them in a
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in a legal document sort of way, in a title
fraud scheme, and then the home was demolished. So they're
family photos. It's a home that they inherited. Now, when
you listen to this story, I want you to see
it as part of a theme a pattern we've talked
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about again and again and again, and that pattern is
the breakdown of the rule of law. When you don't
have structure, when you don't have law and order, then
you have nothing. You can't protect value, you can't hold value,
you can't transfer value, because value dissipates. It becomes a
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reward to fraudsters and bullies.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The strong survive.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
And when this happens, you see the collapse of a
civil society. And this is what most of Africa, much
of Asia, parts of South America, this is what that
looks like.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is what.
Speaker 10 (05:00):
Happens when you've got to go to this, when you
go to the CBS and you have to ask them
to come and open the commissary so that you can
get an item out of there that five years ago
you could have walked in taken off the shelf. This
is what happens when you don't prosecute, when you don't enforce,
when you don't have a system, then there is a
complete breakdown in society.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
The Kelly family had a home on this property since
the nineteen sixties, but what's here now is nothing like
what they knew. It's a rebuild that destroyed years of
memories and heirlooms. Home videos in the yard like these
are some of the only ways the Kelly family remembers
their time on Conklin Street.
Speaker 11 (05:40):
He was very proud, as a black man in the
sixties to be a homeowner.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Vanessa Voldbachin's father, Carl, raised five children and several grandchildren
at the home, where he also had pecan, pear and
fig trees.
Speaker 11 (05:52):
My dad loved his property, but the.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Trouble started in twenty nineteen when they planned to sell
the property, got an unagreeable offer, and then ended up
losing the home altogether.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
We were absolutely flabbergasts because, first of all, I was
in ice you when they forged my signature had the
open heart surgery, so there was no way I was there.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And it was not just one, but six fort sign
six of us. Their attorney claims the now.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Defunct Patriot Title Company then enabled the fraudulent sale to
a third party, before the Harris County Attorney's Office in
twenty twenty three launched a consumer fraud investigation.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Patriot Title was the title.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Company that you would go to if you wanted to
do something fraudulent.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Attorney Jacob Schul represented the family pro bono, and last
month a judge signed a two hundred thousand dollars judgment
against Jerry Gurley, the man who first approached the Kellys
to buy the property, didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Answer a call or text to discuss.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Hours after, the Kellys filed a report with Houston Police,
hoping to hold someone accountable for the home they say
was ripped away.
Speaker 11 (06:52):
At legacy has been erased. All of our family heirlooms,
family memento, those have been destroyed and we want justice.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
So far, the Kelly family says they haven't seen any
of the money that they are owed. An attorney who
represented Jerry Gurley on the civil case told me over
the phone today he had no comment.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Buddy of mine sent me an email Today's Thursday yesterday, says,
here's a link to the story of when my dad
got arrested back in twenty twenty two for stealing four
different trucks from four different dealerships using fake checks. It's
three years later. He still doesn't have a court date.
He got married on Easter Sunday, and now he's driving
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a new twenty twenty five Dodge Ram. I can only
imagine how he got it. Our system has collapsed. There
is an unwillingness to deal with people who have zero conscience,
and that adds a cost, a frustration, an uncertainty to
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the rest of us that we all bear.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's just it's sickness.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Bullets in your life, it's there. We have all your
formal war needs, from morning suits to coordinating Accessories's.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
A friend of mine, says, begins his message. I'm an
art major, not a professional political scientist, and that too,
an art major from LSU. So let's give him every
bit of humility you can before he makes a very
profound point. I'm an art major from LSU, not a
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professional political analyst. Want to see something interesting. Here is
the result of how many times over the last ninety
days the residents of New York City googled the word socialist.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Do you see that spike?
Speaker 10 (09:01):
That's the result from June twenty fifth, the day after
the election. And let me give this to you. I
don't know if that's how many thousand, but whatever the
metric is, you've got the ground zero and then you've
got twenty five fifty seventy five one hundred. Today after
(09:24):
the election, there's more than one hundred. I'm assuming that thousand.
Going back to March twenty sixth that number is down
around five or six thousand every day after the election.
The day after it goes up to one hundred thousand.
Too late to figure out who he is now, he says.
(09:48):
The second draft attached shows the same results for searches
of the term Zorn Mamdani.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's the guy who won the primary.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
That spike is also from June ti twenty fifth, the
day after he was elected. New York City seems to
have had a vote now research later plan for choosing
their new mayor. What this means is that people voted
(10:19):
for this guy under the idea his One of his
mottos was afford to dream, afford to live. And you
know how you're going to be able to afford to
dream and afford to live. The city's going to run
the grocery stores. Bus service is going to be free.
(10:41):
I'm not actually I will tell you. I would like
to see the numbers, but I'm not actually necessarily against
a free bus service. And I'll tell you why. When
you look at the cost of congestion to a set
if you can encourage people to take public transit, there
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is a benefit to society. This is why every city
tries to get you out of your car and into
the public transit. From a purely financial perspective, it's better
for the municipality if everybody would ride public transit. But
we don't believe in that because we believe in agency
(11:28):
for the individual, the freedom to move however you want
to move. Municipalities provide public goods. Now, how many should
they provide?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
If any?
Speaker 10 (11:41):
Those are the types of arguments we should have. But
municipalities provide public goods. This wouldn't be the first parks,
for instance, libraries, for instance, overpasses, under passes, although those
are usually the state sidewalks. Love to do the little
(12:02):
share a bike program. Houston got into that where these
raggedy old grandma bikes are put on a rack and
you go and check it out.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Don't try to ride it.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
They're really really hard to get around. But as a
public good assisting people in moving around at little or
no cost, the people who are going to use that
are the people who are the working class service provider.
So in New York that's going to be nannies, or
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if they're white, you can call them an old parrots.
Still a nanny, cooks, bus boys, janitors. That's a big
portion of what they spend is on transportation, whether that's
on a.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Bus or a hootie.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
And you take those cars off the road, you start
being able to move goods and services faster, and you've
provided a service to people that they will use use
that's valuable. That's valuable to them individually and to the
common good. Do you need so many libraries? Absolutely not,
absolutely not. I have oh it's as a percentage of oh,
(13:17):
I say, okay, it says a percentage of searches. So
it was a very low percentage to a very high percentage.
It's not the aggregate number. He just told me that
our LSU Digital Art major. But when you look at
things municipalities and counties provide, let's look in Houston and
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Harris County, Rodney Ellis wanted to give away for the
Guaranteed Income Program.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, we all know what that was.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
That was he would be able to pick and choose
who he gave money to every month.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And who would that be, Oh, precinct.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
Chairman, activists, people who show up on his command to
rally or protest or threaten or register people to vote,
or stuff ballots or move African art from one. Yeah,
and this just gave him a pool of cash to
use to give to them and their friends. And that's
(14:12):
what the Guaranteed Income Program was. It was using money
to reward your friends. Well, if you were actually going
to use if you were going to do one thing
as a municipality, keep the roads clean, make the traffic
lights work, pick up the trash, make sure the water
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is drinkable, police the streets, respond to fires and emergencies,
and provide a means by which people could move around.
I'd be okay with that. That's what sidewalks are at
the end of the day. That's what roads are at
the end of the day. That's supposed to be what
traffic enforcement is about, is providing a safer, better way
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for traffic to move. But it becomes every single time
a means by which you raise more money for the city.
Because why wouldn't you, Why wouldn't you just send officers
out with a quota, which they do, and then tag
people and make them pay money for the city.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You are listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
It was eighty years ago today the United Nations Charter
was signed by fifty Allied nations in San Francisco, California. My,
how the world has changed, including no less the once
great city of San Francisco, California. It was sixty two
(15:46):
years ago on this day that President Kennedy announced I
am a jelly donut. Two thousands gathered in Germany.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
All free man.
Speaker 12 (16:04):
Wherever they may live, a citizen to Berlina, and therefore,
as a freeman, I say pride in the word ish
ben i'm deelina.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
So much is made of that moment. By including the
indefinite article i'm he I have read supposedly changed the
meaning of the sentence from what was intended which was
I am a citizen of Berlin to I am a Berliner,
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and a Berliner was a type of German pastry like
a jam or jelly filled donut. And the story goes
that the German people laughed at him for that because
he said I am a jelly donut. But that's not true.
It makes for a good story to a history class,
(17:09):
it makes for a good anecdote.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's making history come alive.
Speaker 10 (17:15):
But the German people, if you watch their reaction, aren't
laughing and scoffing like, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You idiot.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
They are delighted that their savior, the United States, remember
what's happening in Germany post World War Two. They are
delighted that the president of the United States, this young,
handsome president with his young, beautiful, well dressed, highly respected wife,
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is attempting to say something in Germany. And what he's
attempting to say is pandering. I am a citizen of Berlin,
I am one of you. I love you, you are great.
They're not actually laughing at him. They are delighted. Play
it again and listen to the roar. They know what
he meant.
Speaker 12 (18:05):
All free men, wherever they may live, a citizens at Berlina,
and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in
the word if ben I'm Deelina.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
It was on this day, Ramon, I got a question
for you. It was on this day in what year
that the universal Product code was scanned for the first
time to sell a package, to sell a product, a
consumer product? What year do you think the UPC code
that we now use are the earlier what eighty five
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is not correct? It was only back to nineteen seventy four.
That is earlier than I would have expected as well.
And the first product that was scanned was at the
Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, and the product was a
package of.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wrigley's chewing gum. How about that? How are you going
to scan a package of Wrigley's.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Chewing gum and not do that in Chicago? I guess
the scanner was in was in Troy, Ohio. And sadly,
it was on this day in nineteen seventy seven that
Elvis would perform his last concert in Indianapolis, Indiana. He
would die a few months later, on August sixteenth of
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nineteen seventy seven. It was on this day.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
That Terry Nunn, American singer, songwriter and actress, was born.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And that's only noteworthy.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
And I only tell you because she perform take My
Breath Away with the band Ramon Verlin. Correct And sadly
it was on this day in nineteen seventy nine, two
years after his son's death, that Vernon Presley would die
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of heart failure at only sixty three.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
What's amazing, is it?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
Sixty three is pretty young and he died two years after.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
His son dies and he's still young.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
So Elvis is forty two seems really really young. Jim
had a question that I wanted to ask, and I
can't find it now. I had it open and I
cannot find it now, So I guess we'll get to
it in a moment. There was a piece we played
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last night. In fact, I think we might have twice.
Denesh de Suza had sat down with This is in
Chad's prep this morning, but it also comes from gyms
last night. I don't know if you see it. It
was a discussion Danesh de Susa had with an imm
(21:19):
and IMM to Whitey I think is how his name
is pronound could be Tweedy who was previously radicalized and
having left, that radicalization.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
He has the zeal of the.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Recently converted, and he is explaining to Christians and the West,
let me explain to you what's happening with radical Islam
because you people don't see it, and you're at your peril.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You are overlooking it. And I want you to listen
very carefully. His name is.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
Imam Mohammed to Whitey, he's talking to Denesh de Suza,
and he's talking about why Muslims always align themselves with
the left. And we say, well, well, why do you
align yourself with the left. You don't believe in gay rights,
you don't believe in trainees, you don't believe in abortion.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Listen to what he says.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
When I was an extremist Islamist, fundamentalist, I would only
vote left.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Why that I saw them as very stupid.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
I would fear the conservatives because they come with principle,
that's not someone they can brainwash.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But the left, I know.
Speaker 13 (22:32):
They have no values and no principles to begin with.
I dare you to find one Islamic extremists the votes
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Never do it. They'd give their.
Speaker 13 (22:42):
Vote to the leftist who wants to run around in
pride trades and Islamic extremists are against gays and homosexuals
and transgenders. But they want the left to go and
get busy with that. They want them go go, go
speak about the climate, to go, go go speak about
the abortion, Go go kill your skis, go go do that,
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and allah, she's fighting for abortion rights and all the
other my about you, my choice, Yes, good, do that.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
But would she have an abortion? Never? Never?
Speaker 13 (23:14):
Would she kill Almo slip and her stomach never?
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Heavy.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
Starbucks says a turnaround is on track, but their quarterly
earnings and sales continue to fall short. That is Starbucks,
as in the grandfather of Go Woke, Go broke. Once
upon a time, not so long ago, Starbucks was America's
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favorite overpriced guilty pleasure. I am fascinated by Starbucks and
have been for a very long time in much the
same way I'm fascinated by BUCkies for many of the
same reasons, and that is that they did not create
a new product. There is nothing new about Starbucks. There
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is no single thing about Starbucks that is new. You
could say the Caromel frappuccino. But there were places that
offered basically a dessert drink under the guise of a
morning coffee that's been going on a long time. We
have cream on top, various flavors, all of that sour
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service done. Kind of a cool chic coffee shop, vibe,
already done, drive through, already done. It's a commodity, it's
a coffee bean. Now they over roast their bean. But
it's not that they overroasted their bean, put it on
the market, and people said this was what we needed.
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People weren't roasting the bean sufficiently. This is how you
should You should do the be You should over roast
it just like this.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We like this.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
We're going to make this the new standard, and a
properly roasted bean by traditional standards will be an undercooked bean.
That will be the outlier. This will be the new standard.
We'll do this three four times a day. So you've
got a commodity that had been around for I don't know,
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't know how long coffee's been around. You weren't
getting it anywhere.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Nobody else was the Ethiopian bean, the Indonesian bean, those
were already on the market. Everybody was serving coffee everybody.
You could walk into a lot of small shops and
they would have a pot of coffee on. You could
go to every convenience store, you could go to every
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gas station, every donut shop. Everybody had coffee. Everybody had
this very simple commodity. It's amazing, It's absolutely amazing. They
raised the price, built in many cases ground up or
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retail tenant improvement shops, increased the price, added some silly
little kind of Italian names for the sizes, tried to
make the coffee server into a bartender that turned out
to bite them on the ass. And the Lululemon wearing
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moms would go to Whole Foods and there people would
stop in multiple times a day, multiple times.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
A day to over pay for their coffee.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
I'm not madam them. It was something to do. As
my mother used to say, she didn't go to Starbucks. Well,
Starbucks reported his first quarterly sales increase in more than
a year, but the coffee giant said that its turnaround
effort is afar from complete, and its second quarter saw
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lagging store traffic and lower than expected earnings. The problem
is they went woke for the baristas, for their staff.
They ended up having a staff of people who they
became the show bones through.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The nose green hair.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
In related news, two thousand glorified coffee pours baristas are
now in a fit because they've gone on strike protesting
the company's new dress code. They may be off the
strike now, and it is so on brand for the
Starbucks coffee clowns. The dress code it started last month
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requires some ridiculous requests for employees. These are the ridiculous requests.
They can't handle. Solid black shirt, No, we're not doing that.
Khaki pants no way black or blue denim bottoms nightmare.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
You mean we gotta dress like.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
The suburban white people who come in here and buy
the coffee. You mean we got a dress like our parents.
Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader
range of dark colors and patterned shirts that became rainbows.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Here's the kicker.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons
stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers
as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling
in its stores. Oh, you mean the fact that when
the white suburban moms walked in, they were being judged
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as Trump voters and harassed by the baristas.
Speaker 14 (29:10):
Oh okay, more, how long do.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You think it's been since you've been to a Starbucks?
A month? Amy took you. It's interesting.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
I follow personal finance newsletters and they all say, you know,
get off this, you know, figure out what you're spending
on Starbucks and stop, And then people will put in
the comments. I didn't realize I was spending three hundred
and twelve.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
What are you doing? It's a cup of coffee.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael vari Show is on the air. The question
is froul Helm.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We are you lying then?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Are you lying now?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Or are you not in fact to chronic and habitual liar.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
When you hear the term fake news, you probably think
about how it's used often today by President Trump. But
it's actually an old term used by the Soviet Union
as a reference to disinformation campaigns that the Soviets and
now the Russians have long used to destabilize the West.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
US officials have warned that Russian interference remains an active
threat for the twenty twenty presidential elections.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Why can't you see what you do to me when
you don't the word.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Say, CNN is scum, MSDNUS scum, The New York Times
is scum.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
We can together were suspicious, We all suspicious.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
Rudy Giuliani already had open contact with a person that
the US has.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Called an agent for the Kremlin.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Now we are being told by two people who've been
briefed on what the FBI is doing that they're looking
into whether these unverified emails about Hunter Biden that were
published earlier this week by the New York Post about
his business dealings in Ukraine and China are part of
this bigger Russian disinformation effort in the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
CNN is scum, msdnngus scum. The New York Times is scum.
Speaker 8 (01:50):
We can't suspicious.
Speaker 9 (02:08):
President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be
standing in front of a monument of two slave owners
and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We do have now some of the sound. As I
told you, we're not in the audience.
Speaker 10 (02:21):
We're not carrying his remarks live because, frankly, he says a.
Speaker 9 (02:25):
Lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
CNN is scum, MSDNNG is scum. The New York Times
is scum. Start your tape right now, because I'm about
to tell you the truth and f you if you
can't handle the truth.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically.
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Is the best Biden ever looking at the images and
looking at what was actually damaged. The Defense Intelligence Agency
has assessed that the core component of Aron's nuclear program
are largely intact, and that Iron's nuclear program has essentially
only been set back by months.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
World. I can't to.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Over SI, especially suspicious minds.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
Then I can't come in after the intro is just impossible.
How am I going to talk over that story from
k p r C TV about a family and acres homes.
They say their home was stolen from them in a
(03:56):
in a legal document sort of way, in a title
fraud scheme, and then the home was demolished. So they're
family photos. It's a home that they inherited. Now, when
you listen to this story, I want you to see
it as part of a theme a pattern we've talked
(04:18):
about again and again and again, and that pattern is
the breakdown of the rule of law. When you don't
have structure, when you don't have law and order, then
you have nothing. You can't protect value, you can't hold value,
you can't transfer value, because value dissipates. It becomes a
(04:42):
reward to fraudsters and bullies.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The strong survive.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
And when this happens, you see the collapse of a
civil society. And this is what most of Africa, much
of Asia, parts of South America, this is what that
looks like.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is what.
Speaker 10 (05:00):
Happens when you've got to go to this, when you
go to the CBS and you have to ask them
to come and open the commissary so that you can
get an item out of there that five years ago
you could have walked in taken off the shelf. This
is what happens when you don't prosecute, when you don't enforce,
when you don't have a system, then there is a
complete breakdown in society.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
The Kelly family had a home on this property since
the nineteen sixties, but what's here now is nothing like
what they knew. It's a rebuild that destroyed years of
memories and heirlooms. Home videos in the yard like these
are some of the only ways the Kelly family remembers
their time on Conklin Street.
Speaker 11 (05:40):
He was very proud, as a black man in the
sixties to be a homeowner.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Vanessa Voldbachin's father, Carl, raised five children and several grandchildren
at the home, where he also had pecan, pear and
fig trees.
Speaker 11 (05:52):
My dad loved his property, but the.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Trouble started in twenty nineteen when they planned to sell
the property, got an unagreeable offer, and then ended up
losing the home altogether.
Speaker 11 (06:03):
We were absolutely flabbergasts because, first of all, I was
in ice you when they forged my signature had the
open heart surgery, so there was no way I was there.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And it was not just one, but six fort sign
six of us. Their attorney claims the now.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Defunct Patriot Title Company then enabled the fraudulent sale to
a third party, before the Harris County Attorney's Office in
twenty twenty three launched a consumer fraud investigation.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Patriot Title was the title.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Company that you would go to if you wanted to
do something fraudulent.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Attorney Jacob Schul represented the family pro bono, and last
month a judge signed a two hundred thousand dollars judgment
against Jerry Gurley, the man who first approached the Kellys
to buy the property, didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Answer a call or text to discuss.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Hours after, the Kellys filed a report with Houston Police,
hoping to hold someone accountable for the home they say
was ripped away.
Speaker 11 (06:52):
At legacy has been erased. All of our family heirlooms,
family memento, those have been destroyed and we want justice.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
So far, the Kelly family says they haven't seen any
of the money that they are owed. An attorney who
represented Jerry Gurley on the civil case told me over
the phone today he had no comment.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Buddy of mine sent me an email Today's Thursday yesterday, says,
here's a link to the story of when my dad
got arrested back in twenty twenty two for stealing four
different trucks from four different dealerships using fake checks. It's
three years later. He still doesn't have a court date.
He got married on Easter Sunday, and now he's driving
(07:40):
a new twenty twenty five Dodge Ram. I can only
imagine how he got it. Our system has collapsed. There
is an unwillingness to deal with people who have zero conscience,
and that adds a cost, a frustration, an uncertainty to
(08:03):
the rest of us that we all bear.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's just it's sickness.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Bullets in your life, it's there. We have all your
formal war needs, from morning suits to coordinating Accessories's.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
A friend of mine, says, begins his message. I'm an
art major, not a professional political scientist, and that too,
an art major from LSU. So let's give him every
bit of humility you can before he makes a very
profound point. I'm an art major from LSU, not a
(08:41):
professional political analyst. Want to see something interesting. Here is
the result of how many times over the last ninety
days the residents of New York City googled the word socialist.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Do you see that spike?
Speaker 10 (09:01):
That's the result from June twenty fifth, the day after
the election. And let me give this to you. I
don't know if that's how many thousand, but whatever the
metric is, you've got the ground zero and then you've
got twenty five fifty seventy five one hundred. Today after
(09:24):
the election, there's more than one hundred. I'm assuming that thousand.
Going back to March twenty sixth that number is down
around five or six thousand every day after the election.
The day after it goes up to one hundred thousand.
Too late to figure out who he is now, he says.
(09:48):
The second draft attached shows the same results for searches
of the term Zorn Mamdani.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's the guy who won the primary.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
That spike is also from June ti twenty fifth, the
day after he was elected. New York City seems to
have had a vote now research later plan for choosing
their new mayor. What this means is that people voted
(10:19):
for this guy under the idea his One of his
mottos was afford to dream, afford to live. And you
know how you're going to be able to afford to
dream and afford to live. The city's going to run
the grocery stores. Bus service is going to be free.
(10:41):
I'm not actually I will tell you. I would like
to see the numbers, but I'm not actually necessarily against
a free bus service. And I'll tell you why. When
you look at the cost of congestion to a set
if you can encourage people to take public transit, there
(11:05):
is a benefit to society. This is why every city
tries to get you out of your car and into
the public transit. From a purely financial perspective, it's better
for the municipality if everybody would ride public transit. But
we don't believe in that because we believe in agency
(11:28):
for the individual, the freedom to move however you want
to move. Municipalities provide public goods. Now, how many should
they provide?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
If any?
Speaker 10 (11:41):
Those are the types of arguments we should have. But
municipalities provide public goods. This wouldn't be the first parks,
for instance, libraries, for instance, overpasses, under passes, although those
are usually the state sidewalks. Love to do the little
(12:02):
share a bike program. Houston got into that where these
raggedy old grandma bikes are put on a rack and
you go and check it out.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Don't try to ride it.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
They're really really hard to get around. But as a
public good assisting people in moving around at little or
no cost, the people who are going to use that
are the people who are the working class service provider.
So in New York that's going to be nannies, or
(12:35):
if they're white, you can call them an old parrots.
Still a nanny, cooks, bus boys, janitors. That's a big
portion of what they spend is on transportation, whether that's
on a.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Bus or a hootie.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
And you take those cars off the road, you start
being able to move goods and services faster, and you've
provided a service to people that they will use use
that's valuable. That's valuable to them individually and to the
common good. Do you need so many libraries? Absolutely not,
absolutely not. I have oh it's as a percentage of oh,
(13:17):
I say, okay, it says a percentage of searches. So
it was a very low percentage to a very high percentage.
It's not the aggregate number. He just told me that
our LSU Digital Art major. But when you look at
things municipalities and counties provide, let's look in Houston and
(13:37):
Harris County, Rodney Ellis wanted to give away for the
Guaranteed Income Program.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, we all know what that was.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
That was he would be able to pick and choose
who he gave money to every month.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And who would that be, Oh, precinct.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
Chairman, activists, people who show up on his command to
rally or protest or threaten or register people to vote,
or stuff ballots or move African art from one. Yeah,
and this just gave him a pool of cash to
use to give to them and their friends. And that's
(14:12):
what the Guaranteed Income Program was. It was using money
to reward your friends. Well, if you were actually going
to use if you were going to do one thing
as a municipality, keep the roads clean, make the traffic
lights work, pick up the trash, make sure the water
(14:35):
is drinkable, police the streets, respond to fires and emergencies,
and provide a means by which people could move around.
I'd be okay with that. That's what sidewalks are at
the end of the day. That's what roads are at
the end of the day. That's supposed to be what
traffic enforcement is about, is providing a safer, better way
(14:59):
for traffic to move. But it becomes every single time
a means by which you raise more money for the city.
Because why wouldn't you, Why wouldn't you just send officers
out with a quota, which they do, and then tag
people and make them pay money for the city.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You are listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
It was eighty years ago today the United Nations Charter
was signed by fifty Allied nations in San Francisco, California. My,
how the world has changed, including no less the once
great city of San Francisco, California. It was sixty two
(15:46):
years ago on this day that President Kennedy announced I
am a jelly donut. Two thousands gathered in Germany.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
All free man.
Speaker 12 (16:04):
Wherever they may live, a citizen to Berlina, and therefore,
as a freeman, I say pride in the word ish
ben i'm deelina.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
So much is made of that moment. By including the
indefinite article i'm he I have read supposedly changed the
meaning of the sentence from what was intended which was
I am a citizen of Berlin to I am a Berliner,
(16:45):
and a Berliner was a type of German pastry like
a jam or jelly filled donut. And the story goes
that the German people laughed at him for that because
he said I am a jelly donut. But that's not true.
It makes for a good story to a history class,
(17:09):
it makes for a good anecdote.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's making history come alive.
Speaker 10 (17:15):
But the German people, if you watch their reaction, aren't
laughing and scoffing like, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You idiot.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
They are delighted that their savior, the United States, remember
what's happening in Germany post World War Two. They are
delighted that the president of the United States, this young,
handsome president with his young, beautiful, well dressed, highly respected wife,
(17:45):
is attempting to say something in Germany. And what he's
attempting to say is pandering. I am a citizen of Berlin,
I am one of you. I love you, you are great.
They're not actually laughing at him. They are delighted. Play
it again and listen to the roar. They know what
he meant.
Speaker 12 (18:05):
All free men, wherever they may live, a citizens at Berlina,
and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in
the word if ben I'm Deelina.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
It was on this day, Ramon, I got a question
for you. It was on this day in what year
that the universal Product code was scanned for the first
time to sell a package, to sell a product, a
consumer product? What year do you think the UPC code
that we now use are the earlier what eighty five
(18:51):
is not correct? It was only back to nineteen seventy four.
That is earlier than I would have expected as well.
And the first product that was scanned was at the
Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, and the product was a
package of.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wrigley's chewing gum. How about that? How are you going
to scan a package of Wrigley's.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Chewing gum and not do that in Chicago? I guess
the scanner was in was in Troy, Ohio. And sadly,
it was on this day in nineteen seventy seven that
Elvis would perform his last concert in Indianapolis, Indiana. He
would die a few months later, on August sixteenth of
(19:40):
nineteen seventy seven. It was on this day.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
In nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
That Terry Nunn, American singer, songwriter and actress, was born.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And that's only noteworthy.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
And I only tell you because she perform take My
Breath Away with the band Ramon Verlin. Correct And sadly
it was on this day in nineteen seventy nine, two
years after his son's death, that Vernon Presley would die
(20:19):
of heart failure at only sixty three.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
What's amazing, is it?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
Sixty three is pretty young and he died two years after.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
His son dies and he's still young.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
So Elvis is forty two seems really really young. Jim
had a question that I wanted to ask, and I
can't find it now. I had it open and I
cannot find it now, So I guess we'll get to
it in a moment. There was a piece we played
(20:58):
last night. In fact, I think we might have twice.
Denesh de Suza had sat down with This is in
Chad's prep this morning, but it also comes from gyms
last night. I don't know if you see it. It
was a discussion Danesh de Susa had with an imm
(21:19):
and IMM to Whitey I think is how his name
is pronound could be Tweedy who was previously radicalized and
having left, that radicalization.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
He has the zeal of the.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Recently converted, and he is explaining to Christians and the West,
let me explain to you what's happening with radical Islam
because you people don't see it, and you're at your peril.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You are overlooking it. And I want you to listen
very carefully. His name is.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
Imam Mohammed to Whitey, he's talking to Denesh de Suza,
and he's talking about why Muslims always align themselves with
the left. And we say, well, well, why do you
align yourself with the left. You don't believe in gay rights,
you don't believe in trainees, you don't believe in abortion.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Listen to what he says.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
When I was an extremist Islamist, fundamentalist, I would only
vote left.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Why that I saw them as very stupid.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
I would fear the conservatives because they come with principle,
that's not someone they can brainwash.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But the left, I know.
Speaker 13 (22:32):
They have no values and no principles to begin with.
I dare you to find one Islamic extremists the votes
for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Never do it. They'd give their.
Speaker 13 (22:42):
Vote to the leftist who wants to run around in
pride trades and Islamic extremists are against gays and homosexuals
and transgenders. But they want the left to go and
get busy with that. They want them go go, go
speak about the climate, to go, go go speak about
the abortion, Go go kill your skis, go go do that,
(23:04):
and allah, she's fighting for abortion rights and all the
other my about you, my choice, Yes, good, do that.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
But would she have an abortion? Never? Never?
Speaker 13 (23:14):
Would she kill Almo slip and her stomach never?
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Heavy.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
Starbucks says a turnaround is on track, but their quarterly
earnings and sales continue to fall short. That is Starbucks,
as in the grandfather of Go Woke, Go broke. Once
upon a time, not so long ago, Starbucks was America's
(24:03):
favorite overpriced guilty pleasure. I am fascinated by Starbucks and
have been for a very long time in much the
same way I'm fascinated by BUCkies for many of the
same reasons, and that is that they did not create
a new product. There is nothing new about Starbucks. There
(24:27):
is no single thing about Starbucks that is new. You
could say the Caromel frappuccino. But there were places that
offered basically a dessert drink under the guise of a
morning coffee that's been going on a long time. We
have cream on top, various flavors, all of that sour
(24:48):
service done. Kind of a cool chic coffee shop, vibe,
already done, drive through, already done. It's a commodity, it's
a coffee bean. Now they over roast their bean. But
it's not that they overroasted their bean, put it on
the market, and people said this was what we needed.
(25:11):
People weren't roasting the bean sufficiently. This is how you
should You should do the be You should over roast
it just like this.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We like this.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
We're going to make this the new standard, and a
properly roasted bean by traditional standards will be an undercooked bean.
That will be the outlier. This will be the new standard.
We'll do this three four times a day. So you've
got a commodity that had been around for I don't know,
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't know how long coffee's been around. You weren't
getting it anywhere.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Nobody else was the Ethiopian bean, the Indonesian bean, those
were already on the market. Everybody was serving coffee everybody.
You could walk into a lot of small shops and
they would have a pot of coffee on. You could
go to every convenience store, you could go to every
(26:06):
gas station, every donut shop. Everybody had coffee. Everybody had
this very simple commodity. It's amazing, It's absolutely amazing. They
raised the price, built in many cases ground up or
(26:26):
retail tenant improvement shops, increased the price, added some silly
little kind of Italian names for the sizes, tried to
make the coffee server into a bartender that turned out
to bite them on the ass. And the Lululemon wearing
(26:50):
moms would go to Whole Foods and there people would
stop in multiple times a day, multiple times.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
A day to over pay for their coffee.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
I'm not madam them. It was something to do. As
my mother used to say, she didn't go to Starbucks. Well,
Starbucks reported his first quarterly sales increase in more than
a year, but the coffee giant said that its turnaround
effort is afar from complete, and its second quarter saw
(27:21):
lagging store traffic and lower than expected earnings. The problem
is they went woke for the baristas, for their staff.
They ended up having a staff of people who they
became the show bones through.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The nose green hair.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
In related news, two thousand glorified coffee pours baristas are
now in a fit because they've gone on strike protesting
the company's new dress code. They may be off the
strike now, and it is so on brand for the
Starbucks coffee clowns. The dress code it started last month
(28:06):
requires some ridiculous requests for employees. These are the ridiculous requests.
They can't handle. Solid black shirt, No, we're not doing that.
Khaki pants no way black or blue denim bottoms nightmare.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
You mean we gotta dress like.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
The suburban white people who come in here and buy
the coffee. You mean we got a dress like our parents.
Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader
range of dark colors and patterned shirts that became rainbows.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Here's the kicker.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons
stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers
as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling
in its stores. Oh, you mean the fact that when
the white suburban moms walked in, they were being judged
(29:05):
as Trump voters and harassed by the baristas.
Speaker 14 (29:10):
Oh okay, more, how long do.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You think it's been since you've been to a Starbucks?
A month? Amy took you. It's interesting.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
I follow personal finance newsletters and they all say, you know,
get off this, you know, figure out what you're spending
on Starbucks and stop, And then people will put in
the comments. I didn't realize I was spending three hundred
and twelve.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
What are you doing? It's a cup of coffee.
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