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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The US is the first time in the history of
the world where a government was organized with a constitution
laying out the rules that the individual was supreme dumb,
and that is what led to the US becoming the
greatest country ever because it unleashed people.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
To be the best they could be, unlike it had
ever happened. That's American exceptional.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain
by thirty five years ago?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why the Atlantic?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Why does Rice play Texas?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to
go to the moon, choose to go to the moon
and disscate and do the other thing, not because they
are easy, but because they are hard.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
If we look to the answers as to why for
so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no
other people on earth, it was because here in this
land we unleash the energy and individual genius of man
to a greater extent than has ever been done before.
Freedom and the dignity the individual have been more available
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and assured here than in any other place on Earth.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Your fr sirity.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well There is an update on the Laosian store. The
Laosian national who raped repeatedly a ten year old girl
in Minnesota that Tim Waltz pardoned for his crime so
that he wouldn't be deported. Imagine that. Imagine pardoning a
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rapist of a child as a way to say an
f you to Trump. Well, that's a you got real
TDS at that point. And what about the little girl
and what about her family? I don't worry about that.
This is this is all we're going to show Trump
we have ultimate authority. Well wrong again, Timmy. It turns out,
(02:56):
and I was not aware of this, that Marco Rubio
has removed him him from the United Well, Ice has
removed him by revoking his legal status. This was Marco
Rubio telling that.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign
national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota.
Lootian national to Lee Van was convicted of repeatedly sexually
abusing a ten year old girl in the state of Minnesota.
He even tried to pay his victim for her silence,
and he called as heinous crimes a minor thing. Just
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days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be
deported Tim Waltz, the Governor, issued him a pardon, setting
him free to once again in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Danger the children of America.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Well, this week, I revoked his legal status in the
United States and as a result, federal agents took him
into custody and as of today, he has been removed
from the United States. Because of our action, this foreign
criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again.
Americans must never be forced by their elective leaders to
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live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to
begin with, to reside in our country. This administration will
always stand with the American people and defend them from
violent criminals.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's amazing that it comes to this. And what about
the little girl she has to live through all this? Wow,
just amazing. In twenty eighteen, one of the closest gubernatorial
elections in American history occurred. Ron DeSantis was running for
governor and the Democrat nominee was a fellow named Andrew Gillim.
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The race was decided by fewer than thirty four thousand votes.
It was less than one half of one percent separating
DeSantis from Gillam, and then Gilliam was in for a
number of different crimes going back to and including the
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time when he was the mayor of Tallahassee prior to
the election, and then there were a series of things
that came out about him, including that there was an
arrest in a hotel room, picture of him laid out
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butt naked, drugs all over the floor with a male prostitute.
But to his credit, he thought fast on his feet.
The Emperor had no close but he was fast on
his feet. He rushed into the restroom and slammed the
door and locked the door so they couldn't get in,
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And by the time they broke the door down to
get in, he was supposedly unresponsive, so they sent him
to the hospital instead of the jail, and he never
actually spoke public about what was happening. In the middle
of all that. Well, a few days ago he was rested.
He was arrested again, this time in Georgia, and there
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was a boatload of drugs on him. In a number
of questionable circumstances surrounding this case that I suppose we
will be hearing more about in the coming days. But
imagine less than one half of one percent If Gillham
wins that governor's race over DeSantis, Florida was the model
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of this is what you do when there's a national lockdown.
You don't panic, you don't close everything down. Remember Abbot
Abbot was shutting everything down, and try the Pakistani guide
that he had as the head of the medical board
still does gave him a lot of money trying to
take the medical license of Mary Tally Boden Abbot. Abbot
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freaked out and was as bad as Tim Waltz on
the front end of it. But there's DeSantis in Florida going, well,
calm down, you bunch of nervous nellies. Relax, relax, stop
acting silly. And so there was a lot of pressure
being put on Abbot. Do what DeSantis is doing, not
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what your Democrat buddies in, your Pakistani doctor buddy that
gave you all the money. Calm down and stop spazzing
out here. In any case, if Gillim wins, then Florida
is not the model that every other state since then
has looked to. Oh, Oh I guess we can do that.
(07:44):
Oh I guess, I guess we can do what Florida
has done. Florida has shown the way Gillim would have
been the governor of Florida, and things would have been very,
very different as a result of it. Votes matter, elections matter.
Getting folks to show up and think with the big head,
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think properly, not based on rays, not based on sex,
not based on some silly pie in the sky idea.
Because it matters, all right, Phone lines are open. Seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand To Michael Berry, show simple man.
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You know, one of the things that Trump has shown
is that problems can be solved if the goal is
to solve the problem. We heard for decades from Democrats
and Republicans, perhaps especially from Republicans, that we couldn't close
the border, we couldn't solve the illegal immigration problem because
(08:53):
just too complicated. It was just too complicated. So if
you'd say, well, just close the border, just do that
one thing, Uh, it's not the border, it's it's it's
the jobs and people stop, people stop hiring them. Okay,
but let's just close the border. No, no, no, no.
If they didn't have jobs, you got to go after
the employers. Well, you don't sound like you want to
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solve the problem. To me, Trump has shown you just
solved the problem. Then you deal with it. If they
take you to court, you deal with it. So here
is a perfect example this whole squatters issue. We have
had issue after issue of infringements on property rights in
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the state of Texas by people who were just bold
enough to flout the law. So you've got now this
the Heights home of the Gilly family. So you'll remember
Lee Gilly was arrested for murdering his pregnant wife, Krista Bauer,
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and then he's freed on bond before the trial and
he flees to Italy. And then you get a guy
who moves in and everyone keeps talking about his LLC,
which drives me crazy. An LLC is not such an imprint,
it's a document you file, It takes ten minutes to
do it. And he tried to claim ownership. This this
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crazy duty. He's doing this every one of these houses
where somebody is murdered or somebody's arrested something, you know
that they're in the news somehow. He then breaks into
the home and says, no, I live here, I own it,
I have LLC. And we act like we don't know
how to solve this problem, as if this oh we well,
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we do this Texas law. We don't know. And then
you get people saying, well, it's a civil issue, it's
not criminal, so we have to be handling this. This
is absurd. It is criminal, and we can solve it
if you want to solve it. When they were when
the Laotian guy in Minnesota was given a special protection
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by Timmy Walls after he repeatedly raped a ten year
old girl, the Trump administration said, all right, we'll just
revoke his legal status. Boop, you're out here gone. What
would the Bush administration have done? What would any other
Republican have done? Well, this is most unfortunate. We're issuing
a press statement. We're issuing a press release that says
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we're opposed to it. But you do anything, No, we can't.
Our hands are tied. Well, this is absurd. Solve this problem,
make it stop. Story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
On Allstin Street Monday, Harris County Precinct one Constable investigators
carried away boxes of evidence after removing it, recently installed
surveillance cameras and changing the locks at the home worth
more than a million dollars.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
This family has got their house back.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
It's where Lee Gilly alleged murdered his pregnant wife, Christa
Bauer in October twenty twenty four, then lived while on
bond for capital murder, that is until he cut off
his ankle monitor in May and flew to Italy, where
he's claimed asylum, weeks before his trial.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
This is very much akin to a squatter and to
take advantage of a family when they're already hurting, when
they're already they already have chaos in their lives.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
They lost a daughter.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
A deed filed in Harris County property records shows a
transfer of the home to Matthew Jackson and Save a
Life Homes LLC, signed days after investigators executed a search
warrant when Gilly left the country. A trespassing AFFIDAVID is
now posted on the front door, replacing paperwork posted at
the house showing Jackson claimed adverse possession, a grueling legal
process that Constable Alan Rosen says didn't happen here. Last year,
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Houston police arrested Jackson at a different home where a
murder happened. While records show other questionable property filings, including
claiming ownership of this nearly two million dollar memorial home,
owned by a bank.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
There's a much bigger process that's going on right now,
but I don't want to go into any details about
the current investigation.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Well, Rosen says, a criminal investigation is underway. Jackson has
not been named a suspect and is not facing any
criminal charges tied to the deed transfer of the Heights
murder House.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
There's a special place for this person. Again, this family
has suffered greatly.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
In addition to the criminal investigation, Harris County Attorney Abby
Kyman's office is also investigating on the civil side, and
despite there being no charges yet, Rosen says he hopes
to have unarrest soon. This case, he said, has also
brought his attention to other similar cases. He's urging anyone
dealing with an attempted property takeover to contact his office.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I do not buy the idea that problems cannot be solved.
I do not buy the idea that we make excuses
for things. By the way, I'm not necessarily blaming Alan
Rosen the constable for this. If the district attorney. There's
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an old line that lawyers know that I probably first
heard when I was in law school thirty years ago
that a district attorney can indict a ham sandwich. You
can get an indictment on anyone. Now, all you need
is a grand jury to agree. And a grand jury
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is not picked at random. A grand jury is a
somewhat stacked pool that meets relatively frequently, and you tend
to be more pro law enforcement pro law in order
a composition. You're not pulling at random from the public.
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So the concept has always been that a district attorney
can indict a ham sandwich. A district attorney can get
an indictment. This guy should be indicted. What he's doing
is criminal. He should be indicted, and he should be prosecuted,
and his life should be made miserable. Imagine this guy
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he sees a murder in the news, sees a murder
in the news and said, let me go drive by
the house. I bet there's nobody there, goes up, peaks
in the window, nobody's living there, and somehow goes about
the process of taking over the house. I don't know
if he hires a locksmith, if he picks the lock,
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he busts out a window and replaces it. Whatever he does,
everybody in their grandmother knows this is wrong. He doesn't
own it and I keep seeing these stories way he
has an LLC.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
It.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
One of the things that law school allows you to
do is not take things so seriously that other people do.
You know the fat black woman that went to Must
Be Heaven in Brenham and posted the pie was running.
I wanted my money back and they only gave me
a gift certificate. I'm gonna ruin their lives. They messed
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with the wrong person and then must be having probably
had the best week they've ever had. Well, the woman
couldn't write. She was an absolute imbecilem People kept saying
she's a lawyer. She's supposed to. There are lawyers who
are idiots. You need to understand that. To the phone
lines we go seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand seven one three nine nine one thousand. RJ on
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the black line, you are up, sir, take it away.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
Oh it goes on.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
I know you have an announced you know, on on
Friday yet, but I'm gonna enforce my black privilege. And uh,
I just wanted to wish RJ the fourth a happy
nineteenth birthday.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
My little man's growing up above my.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Eyes, and uh, they'll be off to the Air Force.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
In January.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
So we're gonna take this day and celebrate him and
just enjoy him. That's really what it is. By the'salla,
I want to see him on there aren't aren't you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Are you an Air force veteran?
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Oh? No, no, no I was.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
I was a real military army No chair force for me.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
No chair force should be army man myself.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Where will he go? Where will they send him?
Speaker 10 (17:13):
No, that's what we're working out, those those ifs and
and and where's he's taking this as doing things to
you know, find what he wants to do and where
he wants to be.
Speaker 11 (17:23):
He's going in it realm.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
So the recruiters getting you know, they're going to earn
their money on this one.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
They're going to earn their money on this one.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So apparently what was his thought process of wanting to
do this?
Speaker 11 (17:38):
So really coming out of high school, he really wasn't
sure what he wanted to do.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
Right, So, like we we discussed, you know, between myself,
him and his mother, takes take this year. He got
himself a job, you know, try to see what it's
like out there right, making a little bit of money,
but it's nothing that you're gonna be able to support
your family with support yourself with So he said, you know, Daddy,
he really doesn't see himself going to you know, your
traditional college route. For a little while, he was thinking about,
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you know, taking a tech school or something like that
for it work. But we speaking to them just trying
to encourage them. The military has so many great options
for young men, and I encourage all young men if
you don't have a direction, if you're really not sure
what you want to do, go put those four years
in right. What is t to you to understand that
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you get the camaraderie, that you get, the technical skills
that you're obtained, it is something that you'll be able
to keep for life. That's that's what I'm able to do.
That's why I'm able to have my own business because
joining the military at a young age. So he came
upart you know that I see, the army really is
not my style, but the Air Force is more you know,
inclined to the technical fields and things like that. So
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we started looking into him joining the Air Force if
he decided that's what he wanted to do. So we're
proud of him and you know, ready for him to
take that next step.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's interesting. Where do they send them?
Speaker 11 (18:58):
Where?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Where is boot camp?
Speaker 11 (18:59):
For so?
Speaker 10 (19:00):
I believe that it's still in Lackland. I believe it's
still in San Antonio. Yeah, that's their major their major hub,
major hub.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Is he your only well only sons?
Speaker 10 (19:11):
Yes, I have a beautiful eleven year old daughter Avery,
but r J the fourth yea, that's my that's the
only boy.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Very interesting. Do you know which Air Force recruiting station
he went to?
Speaker 10 (19:24):
So is it'll be the one in There's one located
in Pasadena.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Okay, yeah, that's where it were going to speaking.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
With now, to walk me through your process when you
signed up, when you went into the army, were you
about the same age? Had you thought about it before?
Were you not sure where you wanted to go? And
the more you started, how did it work for you?
Speaker 11 (19:45):
So for me to Michael, it was one of those
go to war, go totail.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
I was running the South Houston streets and a couple
of my friends were getting in a lot of trouble
and I didn't want to end up behind the behind bars.
I really had no direction as a youth. I was
just getting in a lot of trouble and I had
a friend that actually joined the Air Force and stated
that it was one of the best things they had
ever done. Uh, you know, my cern about me. I
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went down. I went down. One day I started at
the Army. Was the very first one walked in and said, hey,
I really don't know what I want to do or
where I want to be, but I know I don't
want to be here in these streets. And the recruiter
was like, yeah, sure, let's let's get you signed up
and going. So I I got ready to just whatever
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job they gave me. I was going to take whatever
job they're going to give me, I was gonna take.
And that's what I did. It was really I want
to say, within about three months I was I was
shipping out to taboo camp. Everybody was shocked and surprised.
It wasn't something that I really put though into. I
just decided that I needed to get out of here.
So I did it. Yeah, I did it.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
So, you know, with a.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Little different he he took in high school. He took
all his ROTC classes. And I really think it's not
only with myself, because I really I didn't want to
push it on him, you know, to go to the
military I wanted him to be able to make that
own decision. But when he started taking the ROTC in
high school, he started kind of to make him ended
up that he was going to go to the to
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the military. I just I don't believe he really really
went short branch. He wanted to go with too. How
to hold out against And I still love him myself.
I was in the Army, my grandfather was actually in
the Navy. So my son will actually complete the whole
cycle of all four branches. So yeah, that's definitely something
that I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Cool.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So you said four years, Is it a four year commitment?
Speaker 11 (21:44):
Now?
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I believe they have two years, four years, six years.
But as far as the Air Force goes, I believe
some of their their advanced individual training is more extensive
than some of the other branches. So I believe you
have to have a four year commitment in Air Force.
Don't believe he could do it two years.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Interesting. There's a young man that we're very fond of.
His mom, Tamisha, his family to us and her kids
are family to us. And I had actually met with
a coach at Orgeron when he was at LSU. I
wanted him to at least take a look at this kid,
and he did. He wasn't big enough, he wasn't tall enough,
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but he was playing middle linebacker for Stirling High School.
He was all district. I think he was like second
team all state. He was a fantastic football player, and
I wanted to play college football. He was a little
small for d one, certainly to be a linebacker, but
maybe a defensive back. But he really really wanted to
do the Marines, and he had been from his junior year.
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He'd been in. It wasn't ROTC, but it was like
a feeder program to that. And then he was like,
mister bar I'm going into Marines, and that's what he did.
We flew out to San Diego to see his graduation,
which was the coolest, and we followed him. He's become
a recruiter and now they've they've called him back up
for more active duty. And he doesn't like me to
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talk about it publicly than I'm supposed to, so I'll
leave it at that. But he has re upped now
I think he's on his third re up and and
I you know, he you know, once you get a
certain number of years, as you know, it starts making
out for Yeah, maybe I you know, maybe I hang
around and here long enough to get the retirement and
then go do something else. But it is it's amazing.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
So I saw him have your birthday.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh there you go, all right, it is amazing. What
how he he is suited to it. Now I realize
it's not for everybody, but he is so perfectly suited
to it. It's just just been amazing how well it's
worked for him.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
And this this is what I expressed to him as
well four years. See how you like it?
Speaker 11 (23:51):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Of course he has no children, you know, it's just him.
Will support him myself, his mother, his younger sister will
definitely be there to support him along his journey all
his graduations. This is something I missed out on my
basic Graat basic training graduation, you know, no one was there,
uh you know when I finished advance, you know, when
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it went off to war, it was just my wife.
So there's a lot of different things that I experienced
that he won't have to experience. So he's definitely going
to have to support the knowledge that I had, you know,
being previous military support from his mother, his sister. So
we're excited for him. He excited for him to be
taking this next step in life, you know, towards manhood.
And that's what I would encourage him.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Son.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
You know, three your four years, he's going to go
by so fast, and you know, if you could make
a career out of it, you'll be, you know, retiring
from the military at thirty eight years old, with the
rest of your life in front of you. So you know,
we give law glory to God that you know, he's
a young man, doesn't give me any trouble.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Any hardships, and we just love him.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You're doing it right, r Jay, You're doing it right.
Speaker 11 (24:51):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Happy birthday to your baby boy. Everyone listens. It's Michael
Barry show.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I still break out in the hives hearing that stupid song.
Do you know the story behind that gym? No, I'm
talking about when I started, when I got my own show,
the program director, I wanted to do hold On, I'm
(25:20):
Coming by Sam and Dave.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
First I wanted to do uh uh Strauss, the that
that that leads into two thousand and one of Space
Odyssey or two thousand and one of Space Odyssey, which
is Strauss and then goes into.
Speaker 11 (25:41):
C.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
C Ryder, which was how Elvis entered, and the program director,
who was a senior programming guy at the company nationally, said, no,
Elvis is old. I'm sad the most it's just outdated.
I said, oh, it's Elvis. It's kind of times. I said,
all right, well, I'd like to do hold on, I'm
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coming by Sam and Dave. He says, you can't do that.
You're white, and that's no. It's that they're black.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's that wouldn't it wouldn't fit. I got something for you,
and he had He had the production guy make a
version of Let's Dance into Let's Talk. It was horrible.
I mean, it was Iggy stardust, uh, David Bowie at
his weirdest. It was just lame. It was awful. And
(26:31):
I would have to start the show with that vibe
all right, goodness alive. Yeah, it was terrible, horrible, Yeah,
I'd have to the start of every show. Was was
all the wrong vibe every single day. Well, anyway, Preston,
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you're on the Michael Berry Show. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine, one thousand,
Go ahead, Preston.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Good morning, Michael. Think of a RJ that you were
just talking to, and his son was thinking about going
into the Air Force, and my dad helped my brother.
He went to the Air Force, Army and the Marines
and see the recruiters, I mean, and something at RJ
and his son might want to look into is the nuclear.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Propulsion in the Navy.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
My brother's in there.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I mean, he's getting ready to have twenty years in
and he already has six figure jobs offered to him.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting, not as much when I
was coming up, but my dad's generation, how many guys
didn't know what they wanted to do professionally work wise,
and they're looking around and they don't see a path,
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so they go into the military and they learn skills.
And I grew up, you know, believing that this was
a very viable option for a lot of people, especially
if you were uncertain kind of what you wanted to do,
that this was a very viable option. And the thing
about it is you're way more marketable coming out of
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the military than you were as the young man without
any skills or experience they used to I don't watch
TV like I used to, but when I was growing
up in the seventies and into the eighties, you would
see a lot of commercials on TV of you know,
why you wanted to go in, and the Marines was
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always this very cool, exclusive society, you know, the few,
the proud. You know, you were going to be a
marine for life. That's what they always sold. The Army
always seemed or often seemed to be talking about career
options that you know, you you will learn technical skills,
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and nobody knew how to get technical skills. So I
think a lot of people went in out of patriotism,
but also out of an understanding that I'm going to
be preparing myself for life out of this. So yeah,
I our J's a listener, so I'm sure he will
have heard what you had to say. But it sounds
like his boy's ready for the Air Force and and
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that's what he wants to do, and that's what he's
going to do, and good for him, good good, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
And just to know for anybody else, the young men
that are in women you know, thinking about it is
there's a lot of moss and I know that's an
acronym job in the military that do not translate into
civilian world. So that is what I'm trying to pass
on which I had. I was ap pursing the soul
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crewman in the Army. I had a job offer from
Martin Marietta.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
It is forty some years ago.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I'm an old man, but that job was obsolete two
years after I got all the military. So just trying
to on the parents young people, and I'll think ahead,
you know, do your three years find the career path
that can translate into civilian life. And thank you for
your time. And I've listened to your show ever since
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you've been on there.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well I appreciate that, and yeah, thanks for Carl. But
it's interesting. You know, I have a little bit of
a different opinion with regard to job skills. And I
don't believe, and I realize I'm probably in the minority
in this. I don't believe that the way to get
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the job you want to get is necessarily doing that
job in a lesser form somewhere else. First, I believe,
and I told my kids this, and I've told anybody
else who will listen, whether not just for young people.
Our economy and our society has changed so much with
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regard to how people make a living that many of
the many of the positions themselves are now obsolete, and
that will continue to be the case, as robotics, for instance,
made things obsolescent obsolete. But I also believe it's the
case that if you are a person who is coachable, trainable, teachable,
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that is, an eager learner, good social skills, ability to
work well with others, ability to present well. It's a
big skill. A lot of people can do jobs, but
you can't ask them three questions that they can answer.
And I blame parents for this. I have said this
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for years. If you don't teach your will I am
shocked how often I see it the case that I
will speak to someone's kid. You know, they'll come up
to be in public, Hey I'm a big fan, and
then I'll say, oh, are these your kids? And you
turn and speak to the kids, and the kids turned away,
don't speak, look down, can't make eye contact. And my
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thought is, teach that child to interact with adults. I'm
not saying take candy from the guy in the white van.
I am saying, learn to engage and interact. And I
don't know where people think their child is going to
learn that skill. I see people who are sixteen seventeen, eighteen,
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twenty twenty three, who still cannot look you in the
eye and communicate, And if you can, communication is key.
But I don't know that you necessarily have to do
the job in the military that you want to do
when you're outside. I think you can, like an athlete,
you can train for skills and then whatever position you're
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put in, you have good cardio, good strength, you're coachable,
you're intense, your competitive. I think learning those life skills
makes you very, very valuable because there are a lot
of jobs in our economy that there really is no
precursor for. There really is no farm team. You're just
gonna have to get in there and learn it.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The US is the first time in the history of
the world where a government was organized with a constitution
laying out the rules that the individual was supreme dumb,
and that is what led to the US becoming the
greatest country ever because it unleashed people.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
To be the best they could be, unlike it had
ever happened. That's American exceptional.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain
by thirty five years ago?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why the Atlantic?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Why does Rice play Texas?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to
go to the moon, choose to go to the moon
and disscate and do the other thing, not because they
are easy, but because they are hard.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
If we look to the answers as to why for
so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no
other people on earth, it was because here in this
land we unleash the energy and individual genius of man
to a greater extent than has ever been done before.
Freedom and the dignity the individual have been more available
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and assured here than in any other place on Earth.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Your fr sirity.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well There is an update on the Laosian store. The
Laosian national who raped repeatedly a ten year old girl
in Minnesota that Tim Waltz pardoned for his crime so
that he wouldn't be deported. Imagine that. Imagine pardoning a
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rapist of a child as a way to say an
f you to Trump. Well, that's a you got real
TDS at that point. And what about the little girl
and what about her family? I don't worry about that.
This is this is all we're going to show Trump
we have ultimate authority. Well wrong again, Timmy. It turns out,
(02:56):
and I was not aware of this, that Marco Rubio
has removed him him from the United Well, Ice has
removed him by revoking his legal status. This was Marco
Rubio telling that.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign
national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota.
Lootian national to Lee Van was convicted of repeatedly sexually
abusing a ten year old girl in the state of Minnesota.
He even tried to pay his victim for her silence,
and he called as heinous crimes a minor thing. Just
(03:30):
days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be
deported Tim Waltz, the Governor, issued him a pardon, setting
him free to once again in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Danger the children of America.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Well, this week, I revoked his legal status in the
United States and as a result, federal agents took him
into custody and as of today, he has been removed
from the United States. Because of our action, this foreign
criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again.
Americans must never be forced by their elective leaders to
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live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to
begin with, to reside in our country. This administration will
always stand with the American people and defend them from
violent criminals.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's amazing that it comes to this. And what about
the little girl she has to live through all this? Wow,
just amazing. In twenty eighteen, one of the closest gubernatorial
elections in American history occurred. Ron DeSantis was running for
governor and the Democrat nominee was a fellow named Andrew Gillim.
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The race was decided by fewer than thirty four thousand votes.
It was less than one half of one percent separating
DeSantis from Gillam, and then Gilliam was in for a
number of different crimes going back to and including the
(05:05):
time when he was the mayor of Tallahassee prior to
the election, and then there were a series of things
that came out about him, including that there was an
arrest in a hotel room, picture of him laid out
(05:26):
butt naked, drugs all over the floor with a male prostitute.
But to his credit, he thought fast on his feet.
The Emperor had no close but he was fast on
his feet. He rushed into the restroom and slammed the
door and locked the door so they couldn't get in,
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And by the time they broke the door down to
get in, he was supposedly unresponsive, so they sent him
to the hospital instead of the jail, and he never
actually spoke public about what was happening. In the middle
of all that. Well, a few days ago he was rested.
He was arrested again, this time in Georgia, and there
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was a boatload of drugs on him. In a number
of questionable circumstances surrounding this case that I suppose we
will be hearing more about in the coming days. But
imagine less than one half of one percent If Gillham
wins that governor's race over DeSantis, Florida was the model
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of this is what you do when there's a national lockdown.
You don't panic, you don't close everything down. Remember Abbot
Abbot was shutting everything down, and try the Pakistani guide
that he had as the head of the medical board
still does gave him a lot of money trying to
take the medical license of Mary Tally Boden Abbot. Abbot
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freaked out and was as bad as Tim Waltz on
the front end of it. But there's DeSantis in Florida going, well,
calm down, you bunch of nervous nellies. Relax, relax, stop
acting silly. And so there was a lot of pressure
being put on Abbot. Do what DeSantis is doing, not
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what your Democrat buddies in, your Pakistani doctor buddy that
gave you all the money. Calm down and stop spazzing
out here. In any case, if Gillim wins, then Florida
is not the model that every other state since then
has looked to. Oh, Oh I guess we can do that.
(07:44):
Oh I guess, I guess we can do what Florida
has done. Florida has shown the way Gillim would have
been the governor of Florida, and things would have been very,
very different as a result of it. Votes matter, elections matter.
Getting folks to show up and think with the big head,
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think properly, not based on rays, not based on sex,
not based on some silly pie in the sky idea.
Because it matters, all right, Phone lines are open. Seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand To Michael Berry, show simple man.
(08:30):
You know, one of the things that Trump has shown
is that problems can be solved if the goal is
to solve the problem. We heard for decades from Democrats
and Republicans, perhaps especially from Republicans, that we couldn't close
the border, we couldn't solve the illegal immigration problem because
(08:53):
just too complicated. It was just too complicated. So if
you'd say, well, just close the border, just do that
one thing, Uh, it's not the border, it's it's it's
the jobs and people stop, people stop hiring them. Okay,
but let's just close the border. No, no, no, no.
If they didn't have jobs, you got to go after
the employers. Well, you don't sound like you want to
(09:18):
solve the problem. To me, Trump has shown you just
solved the problem. Then you deal with it. If they
take you to court, you deal with it. So here
is a perfect example this whole squatters issue. We have
had issue after issue of infringements on property rights in
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the state of Texas by people who were just bold
enough to flout the law. So you've got now this
the Heights home of the Gilly family. So you'll remember
Lee Gilly was arrested for murdering his pregnant wife, Krista Bauer,
(10:02):
and then he's freed on bond before the trial and
he flees to Italy. And then you get a guy
who moves in and everyone keeps talking about his LLC,
which drives me crazy. An LLC is not such an imprint,
it's a document you file, It takes ten minutes to
do it. And he tried to claim ownership. This this
(10:26):
crazy duty. He's doing this every one of these houses
where somebody is murdered or somebody's arrested something, you know
that they're in the news somehow. He then breaks into
the home and says, no, I live here, I own it,
I have LLC. And we act like we don't know
how to solve this problem, as if this oh we well,
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we do this Texas law. We don't know. And then
you get people saying, well, it's a civil issue, it's
not criminal, so we have to be handling this. This
is absurd. It is criminal, and we can solve it
if you want to solve it. When they were when
the Laotian guy in Minnesota was given a special protection
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by Timmy Walls after he repeatedly raped a ten year
old girl, the Trump administration said, all right, we'll just
revoke his legal status. Boop, you're out here gone. What
would the Bush administration have done? What would any other
Republican have done? Well, this is most unfortunate. We're issuing
a press statement. We're issuing a press release that says
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we're opposed to it. But you do anything, No, we can't.
Our hands are tied. Well, this is absurd. Solve this problem,
make it stop. Story from KPRC TV.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
On Allstin Street Monday, Harris County Precinct one Constable investigators
carried away boxes of evidence after removing it, recently installed
surveillance cameras and changing the locks at the home worth
more than a million dollars.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
This family has got their house back.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
It's where Lee Gilly alleged murdered his pregnant wife, Christa
Bauer in October twenty twenty four, then lived while on
bond for capital murder, that is until he cut off
his ankle monitor in May and flew to Italy, where
he's claimed asylum, weeks before his trial.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
This is very much akin to a squatter and to
take advantage of a family when they're already hurting, when
they're already they already have chaos in their lives.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
They lost a daughter.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
A deed filed in Harris County property records shows a
transfer of the home to Matthew Jackson and Save a
Life Homes LLC, signed days after investigators executed a search
warrant when Gilly left the country. A trespassing AFFIDAVID is
now posted on the front door, replacing paperwork posted at
the house showing Jackson claimed adverse possession, a grueling legal
process that Constable Alan Rosen says didn't happen here. Last year,
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Houston police arrested Jackson at a different home where a
murder happened. While records show other questionable property filings, including
claiming ownership of this nearly two million dollar memorial home,
owned by a bank.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
There's a much bigger process that's going on right now,
but I don't want to go into any details about
the current investigation.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Well, Rosen says, a criminal investigation is underway. Jackson has
not been named a suspect and is not facing any
criminal charges tied to the deed transfer of the Heights
murder House.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
There's a special place for this person. Again, this family
has suffered greatly.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
In addition to the criminal investigation, Harris County Attorney Abby
Kyman's office is also investigating on the civil side, and
despite there being no charges yet, Rosen says he hopes
to have unarrest soon. This case, he said, has also
brought his attention to other similar cases. He's urging anyone
dealing with an attempted property takeover to contact his office.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I do not buy the idea that problems cannot be solved.
I do not buy the idea that we make excuses
for things. By the way, I'm not necessarily blaming Alan
Rosen the constable for this. If the district attorney. There's
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an old line that lawyers know that I probably first
heard when I was in law school thirty years ago
that a district attorney can indict a ham sandwich. You
can get an indictment on anyone. Now, all you need
is a grand jury to agree. And a grand jury
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is not picked at random. A grand jury is a
somewhat stacked pool that meets relatively frequently, and you tend
to be more pro law enforcement pro law in order
a composition. You're not pulling at random from the public.
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So the concept has always been that a district attorney
can indict a ham sandwich. A district attorney can get
an indictment. This guy should be indicted. What he's doing
is criminal. He should be indicted, and he should be prosecuted,
and his life should be made miserable. Imagine this guy
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he sees a murder in the news, sees a murder
in the news and said, let me go drive by
the house. I bet there's nobody there, goes up, peaks
in the window, nobody's living there, and somehow goes about
the process of taking over the house. I don't know
if he hires a locksmith, if he picks the lock,
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he busts out a window and replaces it. Whatever he does,
everybody in their grandmother knows this is wrong. He doesn't
own it and I keep seeing these stories way he
has an LLC.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
It.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
One of the things that law school allows you to
do is not take things so seriously that other people do.
You know the fat black woman that went to Must
Be Heaven in Brenham and posted the pie was running.
I wanted my money back and they only gave me
a gift certificate. I'm gonna ruin their lives. They messed
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with the wrong person and then must be having probably
had the best week they've ever had. Well, the woman
couldn't write. She was an absolute imbecilem People kept saying
she's a lawyer. She's supposed to. There are lawyers who
are idiots. You need to understand that. To the phone
lines we go seven one three nine nine nine one
thousand seven one three nine nine one thousand. RJ on
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the black line, you are up, sir, take it away.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
Oh it goes on.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
I know you have an announced you know, on on
Friday yet, but I'm gonna enforce my black privilege. And uh,
I just wanted to wish RJ the fourth a happy
nineteenth birthday.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
My little man's growing up above my.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Eyes, and uh, they'll be off to the Air Force.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
In January.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
So we're gonna take this day and celebrate him and
just enjoy him. That's really what it is. By the'salla,
I want to see him on there aren't aren't you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Are you an Air force veteran?
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Oh? No, no, no I was.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
I was a real military army No chair force for me.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
No chair force should be army man myself.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Where will he go? Where will they send him?
Speaker 10 (17:13):
No, that's what we're working out, those those ifs and
and and where's he's taking this as doing things to
you know, find what he wants to do and where
he wants to be.
Speaker 11 (17:23):
He's going in it realm.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
So the recruiters getting you know, they're going to earn
their money on this one.
Speaker 11 (17:30):
They're going to earn their money on this one.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So apparently what was his thought process of wanting to
do this?
Speaker 11 (17:38):
So really coming out of high school, he really wasn't
sure what he wanted to do.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
Right, So, like we we discussed, you know, between myself,
him and his mother, takes take this year. He got
himself a job, you know, try to see what it's
like out there right, making a little bit of money,
but it's nothing that you're gonna be able to support
your family with support yourself with So he said, you know, Daddy,
he really doesn't see himself going to you know, your
traditional college route. For a little while, he was thinking about,
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you know, taking a tech school or something like that
for it work. But we speaking to them just trying
to encourage them. The military has so many great options
for young men, and I encourage all young men if
you don't have a direction, if you're really not sure
what you want to do, go put those four years
in right. What is t to you to understand that
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you get the camaraderie, that you get, the technical skills
that you're obtained, it is something that you'll be able
to keep for life. That's that's what I'm able to do.
That's why I'm able to have my own business because
joining the military at a young age. So he came
upart you know that I see, the army really is
not my style, but the Air Force is more you know,
inclined to the technical fields and things like that. So
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we started looking into him joining the Air Force if
he decided that's what he wanted to do. So we're
proud of him and you know, ready for him to
take that next step.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's interesting. Where do they send them?
Speaker 11 (18:58):
Where?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Where is boot camp?
Speaker 11 (18:59):
For so?
Speaker 10 (19:00):
I believe that it's still in Lackland. I believe it's
still in San Antonio. Yeah, that's their major their major hub,
major hub.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Is he your only well only sons?
Speaker 10 (19:11):
Yes, I have a beautiful eleven year old daughter Avery,
but r J the fourth yea, that's my that's the
only boy.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Very interesting. Do you know which Air Force recruiting station
he went to?
Speaker 10 (19:24):
So is it'll be the one in There's one located
in Pasadena.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Okay, yeah, that's where it were going to speaking.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
With now, to walk me through your process when you
signed up, when you went into the army, were you
about the same age? Had you thought about it before?
Were you not sure where you wanted to go? And
the more you started, how did it work for you?
Speaker 11 (19:45):
So for me to Michael, it was one of those
go to war, go totail.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
I was running the South Houston streets and a couple
of my friends were getting in a lot of trouble
and I didn't want to end up behind the behind bars.
I really had no direction as a youth. I was
just getting in a lot of trouble and I had
a friend that actually joined the Air Force and stated
that it was one of the best things they had
ever done. Uh, you know, my cern about me. I
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went down. I went down. One day I started at
the Army. Was the very first one walked in and said, hey,
I really don't know what I want to do or
where I want to be, but I know I don't
want to be here in these streets. And the recruiter
was like, yeah, sure, let's let's get you signed up
and going. So I I got ready to just whatever
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job they gave me. I was going to take whatever
job they're going to give me, I was gonna take.
And that's what I did. It was really I want
to say, within about three months I was I was
shipping out to taboo camp. Everybody was shocked and surprised.
It wasn't something that I really put though into. I
just decided that I needed to get out of here.
So I did it. Yeah, I did it.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
So, you know, with a.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Little different he he took in high school. He took
all his ROTC classes. And I really think it's not
only with myself, because I really I didn't want to
push it on him, you know, to go to the
military I wanted him to be able to make that
own decision. But when he started taking the ROTC in
high school, he started kind of to make him ended
up that he was going to go to the to
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the military. I just I don't believe he really really
went short branch. He wanted to go with too. How
to hold out against And I still love him myself.
I was in the Army, my grandfather was actually in
the Navy. So my son will actually complete the whole
cycle of all four branches. So yeah, that's definitely something
that I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Cool.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So you said four years, Is it a four year commitment?
Speaker 11 (21:44):
Now?
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I believe they have two years, four years, six years.
But as far as the Air Force goes, I believe
some of their their advanced individual training is more extensive
than some of the other branches. So I believe you
have to have a four year commitment in Air Force.
Don't believe he could do it two years.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Interesting. There's a young man that we're very fond of.
His mom, Tamisha, his family to us and her kids
are family to us. And I had actually met with
a coach at Orgeron when he was at LSU. I
wanted him to at least take a look at this kid,
and he did. He wasn't big enough, he wasn't tall enough,
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but he was playing middle linebacker for Stirling High School.
He was all district. I think he was like second
team all state. He was a fantastic football player, and
I wanted to play college football. He was a little
small for d one, certainly to be a linebacker, but
maybe a defensive back. But he really really wanted to
do the Marines, and he had been from his junior year.
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He'd been in. It wasn't ROTC, but it was like
a feeder program to that. And then he was like,
mister bar I'm going into Marines, and that's what he did.
We flew out to San Diego to see his graduation,
which was the coolest, and we followed him. He's become
a recruiter and now they've they've called him back up
for more active duty. And he doesn't like me to
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talk about it publicly than I'm supposed to, so I'll
leave it at that. But he has re upped now
I think he's on his third re up and and
I you know, he you know, once you get a
certain number of years, as you know, it starts making
out for Yeah, maybe I you know, maybe I hang
around and here long enough to get the retirement and
then go do something else. But it is it's amazing.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
So I saw him have your birthday.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh there you go, all right, it is amazing. What
how he he is suited to it. Now I realize
it's not for everybody, but he is so perfectly suited
to it. It's just just been amazing how well it's
worked for him.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
And this this is what I expressed to him as
well four years. See how you like it?
Speaker 11 (23:51):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Of course he has no children, you know, it's just him.
Will support him myself, his mother, his younger sister will
definitely be there to support him along his journey all
his graduations. This is something I missed out on my
basic Graat basic training graduation, you know, no one was there,
uh you know when I finished advance, you know, when
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it went off to war, it was just my wife.
So there's a lot of different things that I experienced
that he won't have to experience. So he's definitely going
to have to support the knowledge that I had, you know,
being previous military support from his mother, his sister. So
we're excited for him. He excited for him to be
taking this next step in life, you know, towards manhood.
And that's what I would encourage him.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Son.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
You know, three your four years, he's going to go
by so fast, and you know, if you could make
a career out of it, you'll be, you know, retiring
from the military at thirty eight years old, with the
rest of your life in front of you. So you know,
we give law glory to God that you know, he's
a young man, doesn't give me any trouble.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Any hardships, and we just love him.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You're doing it right, r Jay, You're doing it right.
Speaker 11 (24:51):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Happy birthday to your baby boy. Everyone listens. It's Michael
Barry show.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I still break out in the hives hearing that stupid song.
Do you know the story behind that gym? No, I'm
talking about when I started, when I got my own show,
the program director, I wanted to do hold On, I'm
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Coming by Sam and Dave.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
First I wanted to do uh uh Strauss, the that
that that leads into two thousand and one of Space
Odyssey or two thousand and one of Space Odyssey, which
is Strauss and then goes into.
Speaker 11 (25:41):
C.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
C Ryder, which was how Elvis entered, and the program director,
who was a senior programming guy at the company nationally, said, no,
Elvis is old. I'm sad the most it's just outdated.
I said, oh, it's Elvis. It's kind of times. I said,
all right, well, I'd like to do hold on, I'm
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coming by Sam and Dave. He says, you can't do that.
You're white, and that's no. It's that they're black.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's that wouldn't it wouldn't fit. I got something for you,
and he had He had the production guy make a
version of Let's Dance into Let's Talk. It was horrible.
I mean, it was Iggy stardust, uh, David Bowie at
his weirdest. It was just lame. It was awful. And
(26:31):
I would have to start the show with that vibe
all right, goodness alive. Yeah, it was terrible, horrible, Yeah,
I'd have to the start of every show. Was was
all the wrong vibe every single day. Well, anyway, Preston,
(26:52):
you're on the Michael Berry Show. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine, one thousand,
Go ahead, Preston.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Good morning, Michael. Think of a RJ that you were
just talking to, and his son was thinking about going
into the Air Force, and my dad helped my brother.
He went to the Air Force, Army and the Marines
and see the recruiters, I mean, and something at RJ
and his son might want to look into is the nuclear.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Propulsion in the Navy.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
My brother's in there.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I mean, he's getting ready to have twenty years in
and he already has six figure jobs offered to him.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting, not as much when I
was coming up, but my dad's generation, how many guys
didn't know what they wanted to do professionally work wise,
and they're looking around and they don't see a path,
(27:53):
so they go into the military and they learn skills.
And I grew up, you know, believing that this was
a very viable option for a lot of people, especially
if you were uncertain kind of what you wanted to do,
that this was a very viable option. And the thing
about it is you're way more marketable coming out of
(28:15):
the military than you were as the young man without
any skills or experience they used to I don't watch
TV like I used to, but when I was growing
up in the seventies and into the eighties, you would
see a lot of commercials on TV of you know,
why you wanted to go in, and the Marines was
(28:36):
always this very cool, exclusive society, you know, the few,
the proud. You know, you were going to be a
marine for life. That's what they always sold. The Army
always seemed or often seemed to be talking about career
options that you know, you you will learn technical skills,
(28:59):
and nobody knew how to get technical skills. So I
think a lot of people went in out of patriotism,
but also out of an understanding that I'm going to
be preparing myself for life out of this. So yeah,
I our J's a listener, so I'm sure he will
have heard what you had to say. But it sounds
like his boy's ready for the Air Force and and
(29:21):
that's what he wants to do, and that's what he's
going to do, and good for him, good good, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
And just to know for anybody else, the young men
that are in women you know, thinking about it is
there's a lot of moss and I know that's an
acronym job in the military that do not translate into
civilian world. So that is what I'm trying to pass
on which I had. I was ap pursing the soul
(29:45):
crewman in the Army. I had a job offer from
Martin Marietta.
Speaker 10 (29:50):
It is forty some years ago.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I'm an old man, but that job was obsolete two
years after I got all the military. So just trying
to on the parents young people, and I'll think ahead,
you know, do your three years find the career path
that can translate into civilian life. And thank you for
your time. And I've listened to your show ever since
(30:12):
you've been on there.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well I appreciate that, and yeah, thanks for Carl. But
it's interesting. You know, I have a little bit of
a different opinion with regard to job skills. And I
don't believe, and I realize I'm probably in the minority
in this. I don't believe that the way to get
(30:37):
the job you want to get is necessarily doing that
job in a lesser form somewhere else. First, I believe,
and I told my kids this, and I've told anybody
else who will listen, whether not just for young people.
Our economy and our society has changed so much with
(31:00):
regard to how people make a living that many of
the many of the positions themselves are now obsolete, and
that will continue to be the case, as robotics, for instance,
made things obsolescent obsolete. But I also believe it's the
case that if you are a person who is coachable, trainable, teachable,
(31:25):
that is, an eager learner, good social skills, ability to
work well with others, ability to present well. It's a
big skill. A lot of people can do jobs, but
you can't ask them three questions that they can answer.
And I blame parents for this. I have said this
(31:45):
for years. If you don't teach your will I am
shocked how often I see it the case that I
will speak to someone's kid. You know, they'll come up
to be in public, Hey I'm a big fan, and
then I'll say, oh, are these your kids? And you
turn and speak to the kids, and the kids turned away,
don't speak, look down, can't make eye contact. And my
(32:08):
thought is, teach that child to interact with adults. I'm
not saying take candy from the guy in the white van.
I am saying, learn to engage and interact. And I
don't know where people think their child is going to
learn that skill. I see people who are sixteen seventeen, eighteen,
(32:29):
twenty twenty three, who still cannot look you in the
eye and communicate, And if you can, communication is key.
But I don't know that you necessarily have to do
the job in the military that you want to do
when you're outside. I think you can, like an athlete,
you can train for skills and then whatever position you're
(32:53):
put in, you have good cardio, good strength, you're coachable,
you're intense, your competitive. I think learning those life skills
makes you very, very valuable because there are a lot
of jobs in our economy that there really is no
precursor for. There really is no farm team. You're just
gonna have to get in there and learn it.
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