AM Show Hr 2 | Denise Bell on Bellaire High’s Social Transition Controversy

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Let's test your classic country knowledge. You know, of course,
everybody knows David allen Coe did not write you never
even called me by my name, because he says so
he added another verse, he said, a friend of mine

(00:47):
named Steve Goodman wrote that song. He told me he
had written a perfect country and Western song. And I
told him he hadn't had the same thing about mama
trucks or getting drunk. And he sat down and wrote
another verse of that song I liked included here. You
know that, all right. So that's the version that everybody knows.
Steve Goodman a songwriting legend who died far too young.

(01:13):
And you probably also know that Willie Nelson was quite
close to Steve Goodman and.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
The song City of New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
He wrote to to raise money for Steve Goodman. He
gave him he Steve Goodman would get the writing credit
and he would donate all proceeds for it, because Steve
Goodman had cancer and he was dying and he needed
he needed he needed treatment, and so Willie did that

(01:44):
as favor for him. But did you know who co wrote,
you never even called me by my name, because he
doesn't he doesn't get the credit. But it is known
in Nashville circles that there is another singer songwriter who
co wrote that with him and just didn't get mentioned
in the song, and that is the legendary John Prime.

(02:08):
Here he is at one moment. It's bad audio, but
you can hear him talking about so he saw about
songs that he's written, and he just kind of throws
in there.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Here's another one I wrote, which leads me to.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
The song as Steve and I wrote, I think maybe
the summer in nineteen seventy one, we were sharing a
hotel room, went to the Hotel Roosevelt in New York City,
and I went out for the evening and Steve stay
back at the hotel.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'll come in pretty late.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
And there was just one little light on in the corner,
and Steve was sitting there writing stuffing in on this
hotel station here. So I looked over his shoulder and
the words grow here was all I could do to
keep them crying. Sometimes it seems so easy to remaining,
and I must feel a pretty good So I jumped
up off the bed, left ahead imaginary fell and I said,

(03:02):
you don't have to call me don about in every
even call me got my name, so Steve, when I
started that, you know, we just decided to have some
fun with it.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
And this is what came out. And now you know
the rest of the story.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
The years, people been very angry with Quant Elex popping
up at moments here and there as a spokesman seemingly
self appointed for this or that person or cause. And
I was quoted in the Houston Press as saying that

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if Quant eleven at quantel Acts was Darnell Evans as
a young man, had not gotten in legal trouble in
his teens and had instead had a mentor who put
him on a course to academics and advocacy, he could
have gone to.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Harvard Law School.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'm not saying could have gone to ut Law school,
but he could have gone to at least Harvard Law School.
You don't want to shoot too high, you know what
I mean. And he could have been a great advocate
for great causes and done it legally.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
And yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
There is a place in America for the advocate of
whatever the cause may be. And I would like to
see more people do this. I mean Catherine Ingelbrecht and
what she did with true of the Vote was legendary.
It was so big that Lois Lerner, the head of
the IRS, prevented her from getting tax exempt status to

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keep her out of the twenty twelve election campaign because
she was so effective.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, there is a group who you.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
May have seen these videos popping up, kind of bubbling up,
just keep coming up again and end.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's called Moms for Liberty. I believe it's become a
national organization. And what I.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Love about this is these are the type of people
Moms for Liberty, who you don't normally see in the
news as advocates. These are the type of people who
you talk to at at dinner party or you sit
next to it a league baseball game because your kids
playing their kid and you talk about what's going wrong
in the country.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
And these are the voiceless.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
They're smart, they're accomplished, they run households, many of them
work in the workplace, but they're not really the types
that are going to get engaged and battle it out,
except this group does. So we told you this story.
I guess it was yesterday or is this Wednesday? This
is Thursday. I guess it was Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
We told you this.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Story about the woman with Moms for Liberty who went
to the HISD school board meeting because another woman didn't
feel comfortable present her case but asked Moms for Liberty
to do it. And that was this kid that was
being groomed. And the woman who went and did that,
God bless her is Denise Bell. Denise Thompson Bell. Turns

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out we have some friends in common and she's our guest.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Denise.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'm here, Michael, thanks so much for having me on.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
You bet, so tell me what first. Let's start with
what happened with this child? Why don't you tell that
story again?

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yes, So this is a family that had reached out
to us this past fall, and anytime someone comes to
us with a frontal rights infringement, we want to try
to help in any way that we can. And so
this family, basically, just like what I said at the
AHISD board meeting a couple of weeks ago, has a
daughter that's been socially transitioned by her high school. And

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social transitioning includes things like different pronouns than biological sex,
different name. It could include things like using a different
bathroom and really kind of at gateway ultimately to medical transition.
We're not talking about medical transition in this case. It's
just social transitioning. But it is a really serious thing.

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And so the family came to us and we felt
compelled to help in any way that we could. And
the biggest thing that they really wanted to do is
make sure the story was heard and that HISD took action.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
And hum, well, we're up against a break here. I
want to take the entirety of the next segment to
tell the story of them cutting off your mic. But
if someone wants to reach out to you through Moms
for Liberty, how do they do that?

Speaker 5 (07:41):
So the best way to find us is on our website,
Moms for Liberty dot org. And there's a map on
there that you can search for a chapter anywhere in
the United States, And so in our case, if you're
here in Houston, you would just search on Harris County
and then you'll get a you'll be directed to our
portal and you can email me from there.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Awesome hold type. Denise Bell is our guest. The group
is Moms for Liberty. This is how you take back
your country, folks. This is how you make America great again.
If you don't wait on Donald Trump's executive orders, you
do your part in your community.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
And yes, that means being criticized. I love this.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
The Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Please clap, please, police clap.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Some ones on the The song they sang, since you
have asked.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Was blues Man.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
The three of them handling parts, kind of stepping in.
I think t Bird started, and then Chestnut and then
Clay Walker third. So there's a group called Moms for Liberty,
God bless them. So easy for people to think that
they're part of fixing this country's problems because they.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Watch a lot of Foxnoths. Michael, I'm so mad at
what's going on. I just listened at radio and watch
Fox News all day. Okay, what else I'd say it?
I just watch it, Just watch it harder. Are you
watching it? Wow?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Okay, Well, well that's like being a part of the
war effort by watching the coverage on TV. And then
you get these crazy people, and you got to be
a little bit off kilter.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
You gotta be a little cuckoo to go.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I got a great life at home, I got kids,
I got a household, I financially said, I'm gonna go
do this for no personal gain because it needs to
be done and if it is to be, it's up
to me. And God blessed the people that are willing
to do this. So Denise Thompson Bell is one of
those people. You go to HISD because this woman contacted

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y'all and said that her child was being groomed by
the school, and you go to tell your story and
then what happened Denise.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
So yeah, the hist Bour meeting is a really interesting event.
Usually there's a lot of public comment, a lot of
people sign up to speak, and what HISD typically does
is put their public comment after their meeting portion, and
I do think that is intentional to try to discourage
public comment. So when you go to HISD, you have

(10:19):
to sign up in advance. It's a whole production and
you're going to be going there and expecting to wait
for a couple of hours. And that's what happened. We
arrived around four and we didn't have a chance to
speak until after seven, which is fine because this is
really important and we're willing to sit there and wait
so that we can tell this story. But we were
given one minute to speak. Now there were some people

(10:40):
that got to speak ahead of us, and they were
speaking on agenda items. We were not speaking on an
agenda item because of course, this topic is not something
the board is going to want to put on the agenda,
and so we were just given that one minute timeframe,
and yes, my mic was turned off. But you know what, Michael,
the great thing is in that one day, we were
able to share enough of the story to make an impact.

(11:04):
And I am so grateful that the governor of Texas
took note of it and has opened a tea investigation.
I mean, that truly is the best outcome here.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well, I'm glad that happened, but he's useless and he
won't do anything about it. But you know, if he
got a headline. You know, the guy yesterday posts about
Colony Ridge saying, you know, really happy to see ice
and folks, you know, raiding Colinie Ridge. We have to
keep an eye on this neighborhood while they give you,

(11:32):
while the Harris brothers give you. How many thousand dollars
this guy has. He is not a leader on anything,
but hey, if he can accidentally help get a resolution
to the problem, just don't expect him to be the
tip of the spirit. It ain't that, ain't Greg Abbott,
not unless the polls tell him that the parade's going
on and he can lead it.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
But I want to go back something.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Why don't you tell the story of this child, the
details you didn't get a chance to tell, because I
think people need to hear this.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
So would you like me to read my entire public
comment and read.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
What was a love that?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Let me ask you this. I got to manage a clock.
How long would you guess that would.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Take a little over a minute? Maybe you know?

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Otherwise we'd push it into the next week.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Okay, okay, yes, go next speaker, missus Denise Thompson Bell,
Miss Bell, you have the floor.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
Okay, all right. So I introduced myself, and then these
are the words of the parents that is having the
child socially transitioned, she said. My youngest daughter is now
a junior at bel Air High School. Within the last
two years, we were shocked to learn that the high
school was actively socially transitioning our daughter by calling her
by a different name and pronouns. On the first day

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of ninth grade, my daughter's theater teacher sent home an
information sheet for us to fill out the second line
of the sheet asked for her pronouns. Multiple teachers started
calling her by a different name and pronouns. One teacher
even went as far as to cross out my daughter's
legal name that she had written on her paper and
write her chosen name in red ink. This occurred without

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our knowledge and certainly without our consents. This goes against
our Christian faith, the advice of her therapists, and quite
frankly common sense we met with her teachers, counselors, and
the principle to no avail hisd is purposely and secretively
transitioning minors without parental consent.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Okay, so imagine that's where we were in this process
and they killed her mike as we just did. That's sick,
all right, continue on, I want people to get the
full effect.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Go ahead, okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
So they are following the unproven claims of activists rather
than evidence based science. It is like telling an anorexic
adolescent that if you feel fat, then you need to
go on a diet and get life. A section. Up
to eighty eight percent of transgender identified youth have a
concurrent neurodivergence such as autism. ADHD, depression, and anxiety. HISD
is causing a huge division within the family for those

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vulnerable kids who need the love and support of their
family the most. Nobody knows their child better or loves
them more than their parents. HISD is attempting to override
our parental rights at the detriment of our children's physical
and psychological well being. I encourage the board to enact
a policy that prevents schools from encouraging children to change

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genders or discuss gender ideology with students.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
And that was it, Denise, forgive me, how old is
this child again?

Speaker 5 (14:26):
This is a junior in high school now.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And what would be the proper resolution for you that
they simply stop misgendering this child.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
They would need to stop doing that because the parents
have the right to direct the medical care and the
mental health care of this child. Yeah, And so the
school is not following the parents' desires or wishes here,
and they're really creating a wedge between the parent and
child relationship. And that's extremely, extremely troubling and detrimental.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'm a school choice guy.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
In cases like this are, in my opinion, should be
one of the biggest arguments in favor of school choice
and funding vouchers for homeschooling, because the schools are out
of control. And I believe that most schools are doing
a wonderful job, and most teachers at most schools are
doing a wonderful job. But you get a case like
this and you realize that the public education system is

(15:21):
a very powerful lobby, far more than any parent or
Denise Bell going up there. Unless you are fearless, talk
more to Denise Bell community than the.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Michael Barry's shows.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
School kids at Marnard College today, the Hellas terror sympathizers

(16:15):
and terror promoters have taken over the college. These people
make me crazy because they don't have day jobs. They
just go out bothering people all day. They wake up,
Who can I bother today? And unfortunately our side is
so busy raising babies and running businesses and doing the
things we do, we don't have time for it, but

(16:38):
we have to make time. My wife is in Orange
today moving my dad. We're bringing him to an assisted
living facility in Houston, and my wife, being the saint
that she is, is coordinating all of this. It's not
pleasant when you've lived in the same house for forty
seven years, it's not pleasant to have to, you know,

(16:58):
up and move. But my wife is taking this over
for me, and I'm so grateful that she has. But
Denise Bell and other people like this, we need more
of this. We need more people. Will people ask me
about how can I help? I don't know where you are.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
I don't know. It's like showing up at the church.
How can I help? I don't know? Can you?

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Can you be a Mother's day Out mom? You know, coordinator?
My mom volunteered at Mother's Day Out for twenty five years.
It gave her something to do. She loved it. Can
you be the person that cuts the grass at the church?
Can you help with the roof for pair? Can you
work the nursery during church? Can you play the organ?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I don't know what your skills are. I don't know
what your talents are. But if you, if you are
determined to help, don't wait on it. Nobody's gonna come
knocking on your door like a Jehovah's witness. Denise, you're
not Jehovah's witness, are you?

Speaker 5 (17:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (17:46):
I'm not okay.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I saw I saw a report that they have footage
from Mars and they saw what looks like a hole
in the there's a hole in the wall, that there's
a hole kind of in a mountain, and they're claiming
but it's a door, and I thought, Oh, if they
tell the Jehovah's witnesses that they will be on Mars tomorrow, Denise,

(18:08):
I don't like people to come knock on my door.
I have gates inside of gates around my house. I
don't believe you should be able to come up and
knock on. I don't care if you're running for office.
I don't care what. I believe that your property is
your property and nobody should get to come up there.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
What do you think I agree with that?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, you seem like a blockwalker. I bet you blockwalk
for some campaigns.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Haven't you.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well, I will be honest, yes I do blockwalk, but
maybe you would like it if I came to your door.
I'm very pleasant when I come to the door.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know what you look like.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
But we have a mutual friend whose name I won't
mention right now, who says you're a cutie. She says
you are adorable, and I guess she's known you since
the ut days. You were a sorority girl.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yes, I was whaty girl. I was a capitalta at
ut and I think I know who you're talking about.
And she and I were both on the board together.
She's also adorable.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
And she's also fearless like you, And to me, that's
the most adorable. The hottest of hot traits in women,
in my opinion, is not a waistline or a cut
of hair or clothing or anything else. It is women
who are tough and fearless and kick ass.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
And that's what you do. How did you get involved
with Moms for Liberty.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
By the way, Well, like a lot of parents, around
the time of the pandemic, I started seeing a lot
of issues and initially I was very concerned about this
actually explicit content in our schools, and so I did
a lot of work in that area in my own
school district. And because of that work, I got to

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know lots of other advocates across the state of Texas,
and I just started getting pulled into more and more groups.
And about two years ago, friend of mine approached me
about Moms for Liberty and starting a chapter here in
Harrison County, and so that's what we did. In the
fall of twenty twenty three, we launched the Harris County chapter.
Moms for Liberty is a grassroots organization is national, but

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it's organized by county across the United States, and we
have probably close to a dozen chapters in the state
of Texas. So obviously we have so many counties and
we have a lot of work to do. We do
want to expand and get into as many counties as possible.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
So I'm on the website now and so someone that
can't participate for whatever reason can donate, and we're trying
to see how somebody signs up. You are the chapter chair.
Oh she's a cutie, Ramont, I am. How come Mariah
doesn't put her last name?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Is she likes share.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
But well no, she has just opted to keep her
first name on there. I will tell you, Michael that
sometimes we get some fan mail and so I you know,
the chapter chair. I'm very comfortable putting my name out
there that I am who I am, and you can
contact us. But for privacy reasons, sometimes people choose to
just have their first time.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
That's not you're not comfortable with it. You're tough.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I mean it's hard to become I've been a public
figure for twenty five years. People will say, you know,
does it hurt your feelings when someone says this about
your husband's hurt his feelings, And she's like, no, for
better or for worse, he's emotionally dead to criticism, which
is not entirely true. I'm very bothered when a show
fan criticizes, but when an enemy criticizes, oh, I wear

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it is a badge of honor. So let's not understate
your fearlessness and strength and courage at being willing to
do that, because frankly, most people won't.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
People email me all the time, hey, can you help
me with this?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
I'm being wronged by the school or I'm being wronged
by this, And I'll say, sure, come on and we'll
tell your story. That's how we bring change. And they go,
oh no, no, I don't want to do that, and
I go, well, then I can't help you, because that's
how I can help you. It's the only way I.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
Can help you.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I can't take up your issue behind the scenes. So
I'm looking on here as to how somebody gets involved.
Log in store, donate about join join, I.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
See join, Yeah, so you can join the fight, and
that's how you can become in them of our chapter,
and we have different forms of membership, but we have
voting membership which allows you to help us endorse candidates.
We do endorse some school board races. That is the
only race that we endorse them at this time. You
can also become an associate member and that still gives

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you all the national benefits. Monster Liberty has great training
on their website and every month right now this spring
we have a different topic and this month it's restorative justice,
so we'll have some upcoming trainings on that. There'll be
a toolkit on that. There's usually a book club event
where an author comes on and you have the opportunity
to read the book in advance and then actually interact

(22:37):
with the author during the book club. So really there's
fantastic resources on there. We as a chapter have monthly
meetings in the spring and the fall. We take a
couple months off in the summertime. But we've got an
upcoming meeting on March twenty eighth, and so anyone in
the Houston area. You don't even have to just be
in Harris County. We really care about the greater Houston

(22:59):
ARAA and so if you're in the area and want
to join us. You can reach out to me via
email and I can get you more information about that
fast and Michael, one of I did want to say
just one other thing because there's some important legislation that's
being discussed in the legislature this spring and one bills

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and I'm really proud that Moms for Liberty Texas Legislative
Committee has decided to endorse is House Bill twenty two
fifty eight. Steve Toath is the author of that bill,
and it's also called the Vulnerable Youth Protection Act, and
this bill would stop the social transition of minors in

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our schools. It's a really great piece of legislation and
I encourage everyone to go look it up and read
about it and then email their their reps that this
is something they want them to support. And we really
need to hold our reps accountable that they protect our youth.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Thank God for women and mommies because men just won't
get involved like this.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
That's a fact. Denise Thompson Bell, it's.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Momstliberty dot orgon and you go to Harris County where
she's the chair.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
God bless you, mount.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
W twenty five package and you get it all fiberglass
hood with air grabbing scoops.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Mit the Michael Berry fucking.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Hood pins sends mobile escaped from the ordinary.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Us in seat Sir for me.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
She threw hoars around him, whispered God will keep us free.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
They could hear the rite that's coming.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
He said, this is my last fight if they take
me back to Texas. You think Texas is the most
mentioned in all the music I do too, followed by
New York and then Chicago and then Detroit. California is

(25:05):
not a city? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, you're actually right. No,
I don't think California would be as much. I think
you'd have more Texas than probably even New York.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
I don't know. It's momsfliberty dot org.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Reminder that if you want to communicate something to me
during the show, Twitter and Facebook are not the most
efficient way to do that. If you send it by Twitter,
I may or may not ever see it, but it
will definitely be later, in which case it'll be too
late to go back and fix it. If you do
it on a Facebook post, You're welcome to comment on

(25:48):
anything I do on Facebook and add your comment to
whatever's up there. Just know that I can't read every
Facebook message period, And what I do do is at night,
once I'm trying to relax, to slow my brain down
from reading and prepping for the next day, I may

(26:08):
take twenty minutes or ten minutes and read comments that
people have put up. But by the time I get
back in the studio, you're not going to be able
to give me information I can use on the show,
certainly not in real time. I do keep my emails open,
and they're popping up all the time, and during each
break I go over there and read those. You can
send me an email through the website Michael Berryshow dot

(26:30):
com and it says send Michael an email, or you
can send me an email directly Michael at Michael Berryshow
dot com, and the response I send you will say
from Michael or Emily, but most likely Michael. Emily reads
all my emails to make sure nothing gets lost, and

(26:52):
if there's something she can handle, she handles it for me.
But I do read every single email. And if you
want to be blocked forever, just starts your email because
you so desperately want me to do something for you.
If you want to be blocked forever, just go ahead
and start with you say you read every email. Well,
let's see now, trying to guilt me into whatever it

(27:13):
is you want me to do. That's really not your
best move. Our show in the embodiment of Jim Mudd,
our creative director, a task that is about to be
handed to Daryl Kunda. Does Kunda have a title? Have
you come up with a title for Kunda yet?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Grand Kunda?

Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's his title. That's what it's all you had for
a second. Okay, all right? Not your best work, not
your best work. Kunda is spelled see you in DA
for those of you who know Daryl Kunda d A
R Y L see you in DA. He is going
to be taking over the newsletter, the daily news letter
shortly so that we can whip Jim even harder to

(27:57):
produce more content for the show. Seemingly impossible task, but
we're going to do it. And nothing more can ever
be added to Chad Knockanishi's desk because a he's executive producer,
so he decides who does what anyway.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Including me and number two.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
He's already doing the job of five people, and we
could all die and Chad would keep the show going.
But he's the only one that is irreplaceable in the group.
But our Daily Blast is something that Darryl kunda Is
want to take over and we'll have a little more
time to devote to it because Jim is overwhelmed with
everything else we've got him doing. But that Daily Blast

(28:36):
is where every day when the morning show is over,
we tell you what we're going to talk about that
evening and we put links to stories that we talked
about that morning, and that is literally my show prep.
So if we're talking to Moms for Liberty this morning,
which we were, there will be a link to their website.
So if you sign up for that email, which is free,

(28:57):
we never share your email. We never sell your never
have never will. If you sign up for that email,
then every day after the morning show is over, you
will get an email with what we think is a
funny meme.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
It's usually something silly, it's usually.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Something one of our guys, Landa McDonald, our graphics guru,
has made, and then there will be links to the
articles that we've talked about that day and clips of audio.
We've learned over the years that if we put some
of our best stuff as a clip, that you can
share a lot of you who are are big not
fans of the show, supporters of the show.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
You help the show succeed. You are the folks who
will will then.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Forward those and that's how we develop new new listeners
and the like. That's how our little podcast is going
from the little podcast that could to over a million
downloads per month, which is pretty whopping. And the companies
never advertised it. They've never promoted it. It's just people
understand that after our show is over, our broadcast, which

(30:00):
goes through the air or through your phone or your computer,
is then posted as a rebroadcast as a podcast. And
that's been our fastest growth. Even though we're over sixty
stations now, we are growing faster by a podcast because
it's the way that people can listen to the show
without ever needing a radio station as the gatekeeper. It's

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the way people can listen to the show as they travel,
as they're away from the radio or whatever reason. And
it's also a way that if you missed a part
of the show, you can go back and listen to
that part every day, and a lot of people do.
And I know there are a lot of people who
do that because I get emails about something we talked
about at eight fifteen in the morning, and I get

(30:42):
it two days later at four o'clock in the afternoon
out of context, so I have no idea what they're
talking about. And then I'll say context question mark and
then so, oh, well you were talking about so and
so that was two days ago, completely forgotten.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Well, let's open the phone lines, shall we? Seven to
one three.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Nine nine nine one thousand read nine nine nine one
thousand seven one three nine nine nine one thousand. That
website was Moms for Liberty dot org and our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com is where you can go to
sign up for our daily e blast.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
We send it five days a week, Monday through Friday.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
And when you do that, make sure you when you
get our first one, make sure you put yourself on,
make sure you go to your white list, and that
we're not blocked because some spam filters.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Will catch it.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Because we use constant contact or our blast, Jim puts
it in there. Soon it'll be kon to doing that,
and sometimes your filters will we'll catch that and not
let it through. But we're we're pretty proud of it,
and we're pretty happy. Archpublic Archpublic dot com. The cryptocurrency guys.
We had Tilman on Tilman Holloway on a few weeks ago.

(31:51):
They you can you can trade crypto through them, and
they have asked to be the lead sponsor of our
new letter, and we are honored to have them join
our ranks. It also means we can devote more time
to it. Yeah, that's how that works. Rome on all
right seven one three nine nine nine one thousand seven

(32:12):
one three nine nine nine one thousand. When we went
nationally syndicated October seventh, it changed our clock. So when
we go to break at the same time, we have
what are called hard breaks. In some radio shows, you
have hard and soft soft. Rush used to talk about this.
We have all horror hardwired breaks. The problem is, for

(32:32):
twenty years, our breaks were always at the same time,
and now all of our breaks have changed. And so
I find myself mentally go, you know, like Tom Brady
and you know you're in the pocket for too long.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
I get happy feet. I'm going to wait. I should
be we should be going to break, and we're not yet.