October 17, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Enrique, you are on the Michael Berry Show. Let's say you, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning Michael. All this talk about rainbows made me
think of the late great merle Hagar song rainbows too.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
There a big brown cloud in the city.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, sir, what a tune, what a very good tone.
Just it's crazy. It's crazy these days, man. They just democrats, demarrats,
I mean, whatever you want to call them. Just they
want to die on that sword. It's on them.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, yeah, Enrique. What's interesting about that is there are
actual policies that governments undertake, but those policies are not
really very interesting either to the general public or to
the people telling the stories. The medium tax rate, there's
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almost no discussion of tax rates, what the rate will be.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We tax property heavily in this state rather than income.
And the amount that we tax that that your your
real estate, and who will get an exemption from it.
Those are major issues that that's the primary revenue stream
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for for local government, and yet we're not having a
massive battle over that. We should. But the public doesn't
clamor for it, and they're not told to clamor for it,
and the politicians don't talk about it much. It just
keep it just keeps creeping up and up and up
and up and up, and it never stops, and more
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of your money is taken. And then there is how
your money is spent, the actual budget, and there is
so much waste, graft, corruption, pork. It is disgusting. And
the amazing thing is much more so than the federal
government the local government. When you get two hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars moved into budget, to overhear, you're getting
it for your brother, your sister, your next door neighbor,
your lover, your mistress. It's real like, it ends up
back in your pocket very quickly. You don't have to
go through the machinations and contortions of routing it to
you know, some organization that's meant to look legit, and
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so you hand the money to a department. That department
head is then handing the money to whoever they want
to have the money. And then you tell them, oh,
and also do this. You know this guy over here,
and as a result, he's kicking back to you, hiring
your kid, performing free services, giving you baseball tickets. This
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game just goes on, but none of that gets talked about,
and it really is. It's it's like a slapstick comedy
that Monty python that instead of instead of talking about
actual government, then it goes no, no, no, let's not
talk about that. Let's talk about something ridiculous, crosswalks. And
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that's what they do. And then they make the big
show of the crosswalks. I mean, can you imagine they
have a crosswalk press conference. No members of the public
are actually there. You heard the one person clapping, and
I guarantee you that was a staffer. I guarantee you
that was a staffer that was brought along because that's
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what they do. They bring along a staffer to drive
them and maybe perform some services and then and then
they do their little press conference and it makes it
on the news, so everybody thinks, oh, they did something today.
And then from there they go to lunch and they
put that on somebody's credit card other than their own.
And there they are at lunch. Did you see old
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so and so when he said this, Yeah, that was crazy,
And that's it. While the people whose money they're taking
and playing with don't get to leave for lunch or
have their lunch paid for by lobbyists or the government,
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they're the ones paying for all this, they're the ones
actually sweating and working and grinding day after day after day.
It's disgusting. It is truly disgusting. And yet that's the game,
and the media is in on it because they got
to have some content. I mean, you only have so
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many shootings you can you can get b roll of.
We'll start with that. If it leads, it bleeds, that's good.
People like that. Maybe we'll have some house fires. And
then they pay what's called a stringer, and he's got you.
You see this poor guy. You talk about a sad life,
This poor guy. I used to show up to shootings
and fires and things to watch. I was on city council,
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that's kind of what we do, and so I would
stand over to the side and I would watch. It
would always be some guys. It's always an old white guy.
I say old. He's probably sixty, but to me that
was old back then, and because I was thirty, and
he'd show up and he was grumbling and real, real crotchety,
and he'd been at home, you know, either asleep or
watching some old spinal tap. And he's got all his
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phones on his hips and pagers and all that and
he's got these big cameras and all his equipment, and
what he's going to do is he's going to shoot
the fire and then he's going to send that to
the various stations and they pay him like seventy five
bucks per film that they use. And that's how he
makes a living. He's a complete freelancer because they don't
have a reporter on duty at that time to send out.
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And that's his life. That's that's what he does. It's
it's a tough ground. But it was always interesting to
watch that guy because he would show up in a
bad mood and it would go downhill from there. Well,
y'all going to do a press conference? How long you
go to jelge that I would get my film and
go home the Michael Berry Show, Winshield, You're on the
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Michael Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm rolling back to the Big d with ten pounds
of shrimp, two nice flounder, some sand trout and the cooler.
But I uh oh, And by the way, I found
out that Mitch Little lives right down the street from
my Folks don't eat a burger at the Galves and
Yacht Basin.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But I was calling what's wrong with the burger at
the Galveson yacht basin oh Man.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
We went out fishing on Thursday morning and we came
back and had a burger and it just it was lackluster,
to say the least.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, I need some details that that's not descript paint
the picture takes when.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They went to when they went to toast the bun,
they barely even toasted it. They just let it hit
the flat top for like five seconds and it didn't
even do anything that It was a little stale. The uh,
it just I mean, look, that's the land of Hamburgers.
Everybody down there eats hamburgers, and so the bar is
pretty high, and they just they don't they don't even
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come anywhere close.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, I know about you're not telling me how, so
I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Maybe you okay, first of all, you need your bun
toasted more well, you can make a good burger without
even toasting a bun at all, So that's not helping me.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, you could, you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Wasn't that juicy? Now we did get there at about
ten forty five. They had just opened, so maybe that's why.
But the soda as of the soda machine was flat.
It didn't have any CO two in it, the U,
the onion rings. We were subpar as well. And I'd
give them some free restaurant consulting if they let me
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keep my boat there. By the way, your boats fixing
to get sold if you don't move on it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Did y'all put in there? Or you got your you
keep your boat there?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
No, sir, it's up in Dallas. My dad launched his
boat there. Yet we put in there, but me and
my boy. He caught his first flounder. We were kayak
fishing at Moses Lake yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
He got eighteen and I got a He got eighteen
a quarter and I got a eighteen. He lets you know,
he beat me black quarter inch.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, so you so, how many flounder did you catch?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
We got three, he got two. One was a short.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And what else did you catch?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
We got some sand trout, a couple of speckled trout
that were shorts. We were trying to get the flounder run.
We came down for the flounder run. They hadn't started
moving yet, but with this cold front they will be.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It is just you and your.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Boy, Me and my two boys. Yep, my wife just
had another baby, so her and my daughter stayed up
in Dallas, and uh we just I to go go
do some fishing and hang out with the folks.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Where did you uh? Where did you.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Stay at their house? They're in Clear Lake Shores?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh right on? Okay, Well cool, Yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Got some all their friends got docks with lights on them.
So at night we were fishing the lights and catching
stand trout. They had an absolute blast.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah that's fun. And you're doing something at night, you know,
you already kind of feel like you know you're you're
you're cheating, you're cheating the rules. You're doing something at night.
When you're a kid, you don't get do anything. They
get little bid So that in and of itself, what'd
you call about when Well, I was.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Going to see if you wanted me to hit on
the rainbow flag crosswalk or if you wanted me to
talk about a different topic and switch gears to what
antifa is. I'm sorry what the media apparatus is doing
with weaponizing the narrative of Antifa calling World War Two
soldiers the original Antifa.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I haven't heard that, but there's nothing that would surprise me.
You know, well, my my rule of thumb on all
of that is they don't believe anything of what they're saying.
To start with, it is all they're just throwing lines
in the water and and and and popping it a
few times to see what gets attention, right, And so
if that doesn't, then tomorrow they'll claim that Donald Trump's
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a cannibal, and then the next day that he's murdered
five hundred people. And it's just it's gonna just go
on and on and on, and the only people affected
by this are the people who get upset about it.
And and I don't I still don't understand why they
get upset about it, but they do because they they
think that there is some semblance of truth to it.
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And so they keep thinking that that's just this fool's erring,
you know, the Sisyphus pushing his rock up to the hill.
They're gonna they're gonna one day prove here's what you
said on Monday, and here's what you said on Tuesday,
and now you have to admit that you lie. Now
do it lie to tell the truth? You lie? And
it's never gonna happen. They're just gonna keep pivoting the game.
The game is ever over over. It is circular, and
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it just keeps going and going and going. And the
other reason is because the media member that's claiming that
Antifa that World War One soldiers were Antifa, has no
understanding of World War One anyway. They might have seen
one little thing and they took that out of context.
But you can't argue with idiots because they don't have
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the basis to understand what you're explaining anyway. So, yeah,
what was the other thing you were going to say?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
The greatest line I've found to use in the socials.
I go and I carpet bomb the Crosswalk Pride comments
section with a simple phrase. And just like you mentioned,
you cannot use rational, rational thought with these people. But
I go in there and I say, there is nothing
to be proud about poop poo on a pp because
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it's very sophomoric and it's right to the core of
the issue. That's exactly what all this is about.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You know, upsetting people on social media is so much fun.
I have to admit it is. So there are people who,
you know, they sit down to their computer and they
start looking at it, or they look on their phone
and they go to it and they have no idea
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what emotion they're about to experience. They don't know if
they're going to be happy or sad, or nostalgic or morose.
They're absolutely waiting to be told how to feel. They
go there and like a test dummy, all right, I'm here,
what are you gonna do to me? And then based
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on the algorithm and where it is at that moment,
and you know, sheer dumb luck, something pops up and
whatever that something is, they emotionally invest and they invest heavily.
And if it is something, you know, if they're a
person who is very, very worried that gays are not
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being respected enough and that you know, you know, gayism
is going to be their big issue that day, and
they see your comment, like, what is the comment again?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
There's nothing poop poo all over a PP is nothing
to be proud of. Kind of like it? What is
that an alliteration?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I like it better when you put the poop poo
in the PP at the end of the sentence. Okay,
I've never heard that before. I have never heard that before,
but I will I will be using that going forward.
That that is quality windshield that is quality. So y'all
are driving back today right now?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, sir, Yeah, we had to stop at Roses Seafood
and get a bunch of shrimp that we always bring out. Shrimp.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh, you want to.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Talk about fried shrimp. The best restaurant that serves fries
shrimp hasn't been invented, and it's been in my head
for the last twenty years. So whenever you're ready to
start a franchise, you let me know.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Do you want to give me the abbreviated version of
what's gonna be so great about this?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It is what it is, and shrimp is always overdone,
and it's such a delicate flavor, and they're suite naturally,
so you can't put all this stuff on it. It
is what it is, and it's got to be simplistic,
and there is the recipe of mine.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
No Michael Berry show. I'm vetoing that no Ace Freely
has passed. Paul Daniel Freeley, one of the co founders
of the band Kiss, passed away at seventy four. The
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Spaceman as he was known, or space Ace. I was
reading about him this morning. I never realized I wasn't
a student of music as kid, and you didn't have
access to the information you do now, And there was
a rolling stone, there were a few places, but you didn't.
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You couldn't. You didn't have the Internet where you could
go and just read everything that's been written about someone
like you can now. But I didn't realize that he
had had a successful solo career and his his was
his first album went platinum. I mean, if you knew that,
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that's good for you. I'm just telling you. I did
not know that he had released a solo studio album
last year called ten thousand Volt at what's seventy three
years old? Wow? How about that?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
To the phone line, one thousand BO.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
You're up, sir, Go ahead, Good morning, sir. I'm maybe
incorrect in my thinking, so maybe you can help clear
something up for me. About two weeks ago, I think
you'll us Paris County was all advertising about how they
pass this balanced budget and then all of a sudden
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this week, they all of a sudden have an extra
million plus dollars to give to the illegals. How does
that come into play?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, I mean where to begin. See, you are vexed bo,
because in your world, what you say has to be
the truth, and you don't say things that you don't
believe to be true, and you don't say things that
you know are false, and you don't engage in obfuscation
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Boondogghery and Chickannery, as W. C. Fields famously said, you
just say yes or no. If your boss says, are
we on budget? Well, no we're not, we're tracking eight
percent behind, or yes we are, we're eight percent up,
but we're expecting in a slow November. So I would
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project this is where we are, and that you could
take that to the bank. What these people say is
not in any way rooted in the truth. And I
really don't think I could ever convey what I know
of these people and how they think and what is
going on and how absurd it is. I really don't
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think I can ever convey that to people in a
manner that they wouldn't think I was being ridiculous and absurd.
I'll give you example. You have those Lena Padalgo audio clips.
So there is a gentleman who comes to city hall
meetings and county commission meetings, commissioner's court meetings, and I've
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seen the video. He is he's he's a little slow,
maybe a lot slow, but he is apparently beloved at
both places because he's a very sweet fellow and harmless
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and he shows up for the meetings. He probably doesn't
have a lot going on. He shows up for the meetings,
and the staff, the law enforcement, everybody likes him, and
so he is. He probably doesn't know. I'm sure he
doesn't know that that Lena had all Go is upset
at Leslie brione is a fellow Democrat, and so she
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calls her the leader of the GOP three. And so
that's her insult, is that Adrian Garcia and Leslie Brionis
are Republicans along with Tom Ramsey. And that's that's you know,
that's a real boy. She's she throws that out there
and feels very clever. Okay, so this fella comes down
to speak and he's wearing the shirt. I guarantee you
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it's a gimmea shirt. I guarantee you that that they
handed it to him, or she handed it to him
after a meeting, or maybe he worked on her campaign.
Remember Lena Hidalgo was all for Leslie brionnest. But it
really doesn't matter what was on the shirt. This was
out of line, and then Lena Hidalgo proceeds to hector him,
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including how's Mattress Mac doing? As her insult of this guy,
I don't I don't know what she really is. She
really is demonic, genuinely demonic. All right, listen, this this
is too bad.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
An Garcia isn't here because this is talk about his
uh his his his uh.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Four months we've all been asking for a sustained cease
fire Gaza's population.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Think of bedlish people.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
This go in the navy, doesn't this look?
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Captain and ship at I'm captain, captain and too, yes.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Thank you, thank you for your time.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
That yeah, you should hear the rest of it because
in the navy, because hey, we're having plate wiken is
very important.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well, they're too pippy, kept captain of the g P three.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Yes we got it.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We're good.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Thank you, all right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
A nice nice T shirt.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah you're welcome.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Lock your hat, jock. Thanks? Oh uh yes, why didn't
tell the nan commentions? I mean, I'm gonna tell a
n aggie joke.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
How's how's mattress Mac? Are you guys still best friends?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Not anymore?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
We had a disturbing and while I had kind him
a little and oh no, well, I brought an apology letter.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
To whether or not he.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He You know what if we shouldn't have discussions with
you outside the microphone, do you have anything to add?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Okay, thank you. So she taunts the man without him
knowing to show off, and I guess her mind. Get
a dig and a fellow county commissioner. You cannot hate
this little demon monster anymore. You cannot hate her anymore.
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Her term will be up at the end of next year,
and then she will not have deputies carrying her bicycle
for her when she goes up for a ride, driving
her here and there. She will not have her salary,
she will not have all the people overlooking her meltdowns.
And it is going to end very, very badly. She's
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gonna do something to the wrong person, say something, and
I'm here for it. I cannot wait for it. The
Michael Berry Show. John, you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
For a gentleman who just called about Harris County and
give it away else I tax money and for others
who might be interested. Tomorrow from ten am ten am
to uh to noon. Baronis is having a town hall
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out and Katie and uh you know you can go
and you can uh you know, speak your mind to her.
It's going to be at one eight three, Oh, Katie
Land Drive, and you know I'm going. You don't have
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to you don't have to be a resident of Precinct four.
You show up, walk on in and then when.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You charge, no cover charge, you take it or anything.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
No, not at all, and she'll have a Q and
A and you know it's a joke where she's what
they're doing. Of course, as you know, you know, the
list of Harris County residents who have been victimized by
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illegals is you know, is it long as your arm?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, And here we are, uh you know,
getting given them money.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
At at our at our expense, uh you know. And
this goes back years, you know, starting with the two
young girls that were raped and brutally killed by those
half a dozen game members, of which two or three
of them were illegals. And so we're supposed to pay,
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you know for those guys. I think you had the
real the railroad killer who was illegal and he he
killed that female doctor in West University.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, Raphael ras Anddez Ramirez, doctor Ben.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yes, So you know, everybody, everybody go tomorrow. I'm giving
up going to the University of Houston Arizonia game because
I'm gonna this is more important in the football game.
I mean, may not you know anything, What are you
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gonna say, Well, I'm gonna well, I'm gonna call her down,
you know, I'm not. I'm not gonna you know, let's
uh say why are you doing this? I'm just gonna
tell her our front it is, uh, this is wrong
and this is my show uh good responsibility to our
tax dollars as well as you're putting all our lives
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at risk. And and you know it's wrong. And she
cares more about illegal aliens than she dougs the people
of Harris County. And this has been going on, as
you know, for a very very long time. And so
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I hope everybody will come out and and and get
in line and speak for a minute or two.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
So how long are you going to speak?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'll speak as long as you as long as you'll
have me, you know. But you know, I mean I
could go down a list of criminals that that that
that that have picked the minds.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Uh ew Stonians, do you have your remarks written out?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yes, I do, and I actually I've spoken the front
of the Commissioner's court virtually the same subject two or
three years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And uh, what was the reception there?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Ah, you know, thank you for your remarks, and uh,
you know that's about it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You didn't get the impression that you you you swayed them?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
No, no, of course not. They don't care. Okay, you know,
I mean, I mean, I mean you talk about this
every day, how they're you know, how they all have
their little relationships with each other.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And yep, and you know what's amazing about it all, John,
is the actual functions of government, paving roads, picking up
the trash, draining off the water, policing fire, the actual
functions of government. They literally could not care less. It
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occupies a zero percent of their bandwidth. That has nothing
to do. And by the way, they never run for
office on the basis of those things, and in certain communities,
among certain voters, none of that stuff matters. Just you
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run for office on skin color and justice and bitterness
and jealousy and rivalry that you run for office. You know,
if you're feeling any of these emotions, which button do
I need to push for you. I am the antidote.
Take me. I'm the peel. Vote for me, and I'll
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make you, for just a second feel better. And this
has gone on for so long now, decades and decades,
that voters have come to learn that nothing will ever
be done about it, and so they grow to accept that,
and so now they look for different things. They look
for more of a show. They look. It becomes, you know,
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going out for the fireworks. They don't expect anyone to
accomplish anything. So they don't feel lied to it anymore
because they never believed the lies. They never believed the
lies in the first place. That's why people get upset.
For instance, black voters. Why black voters weren't mad at
Barack in bigger numbers, because they never believed Barack. This
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wasn't even about Barack. This was an opportunity in their
minds to piss white people off by having a black
president to show because they're pissed off. They're pissed off
about a lot of things that nobody else is responsible for,
and they're kind of looking for O. J. Simpson. Nobody
was excited that OJ was acquitted. It wasn't like, oh
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good now, OJ can get back to making our lives
better and OJ can get back to being a great guy.
They knew, they absolutely knew, this was an opportunity to
stick it to people who they feel have been sticking
it to them but frankly don't even know they exist.
This was an opportunity to piss off Whitey. And that
happens more than you would imagine. The guy who's walking
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too slow across the crosswalk that's and and giving you
that yeah, go ahead, try running me over. I dare
you that person that's about pissing off Whitey. There is,
there is, and that has been It's like a kid
in in Gaza, what the what Hamas does to them?
That person has been so so brainwashed to such an
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extent that you know it would take a reverse indoctrination
you camp years years to debunk all of that in
their minds. It's tragic, but it's real.
Enrique, you are on the Michael Berry Show. Let's say you, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning Michael. All this talk about rainbows made me
think of the late great merle Hagar song rainbows too.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
There a big brown cloud in the city.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, sir, what a tune, what a very good tone.
Just it's crazy. It's crazy these days, man. They just democrats, demarrats,
I mean, whatever you want to call them. Just they
want to die on that sword. It's on them.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, yeah, Enrique. What's interesting about that is there are
actual policies that governments undertake, but those policies are not
really very interesting either to the general public or to
the people telling the stories. The medium tax rate, there's
(00:58):
almost no discussion of tax rates, what the rate will be.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We tax property heavily in this state rather than income.
And the amount that we tax that that your your
real estate, and who will get an exemption from it.
Those are major issues that that's the primary revenue stream
(01:27):
for for local government, and yet we're not having a
massive battle over that. We should. But the public doesn't
clamor for it, and they're not told to clamor for it,
and the politicians don't talk about it much. It just
keep it just keeps creeping up and up and up
and up and up, and it never stops, and more
(01:50):
of your money is taken. And then there is how
your money is spent, the actual budget, and there is
so much waste, graft, corruption, pork. It is disgusting. And
the amazing thing is much more so than the federal
government the local government. When you get two hundred and
(02:13):
fifty thousand dollars moved into budget, to overhear, you're getting
it for your brother, your sister, your next door neighbor,
your lover, your mistress. It's real like, it ends up
back in your pocket very quickly. You don't have to
go through the machinations and contortions of routing it to
you know, some organization that's meant to look legit, and
(02:37):
so you hand the money to a department. That department
head is then handing the money to whoever they want
to have the money. And then you tell them, oh,
and also do this. You know this guy over here,
and as a result, he's kicking back to you, hiring
your kid, performing free services, giving you baseball tickets. This
(03:00):
game just goes on, but none of that gets talked about,
and it really is. It's it's like a slapstick comedy
that Monty python that instead of instead of talking about
actual government, then it goes no, no, no, let's not
talk about that. Let's talk about something ridiculous, crosswalks. And
(03:24):
that's what they do. And then they make the big
show of the crosswalks. I mean, can you imagine they
have a crosswalk press conference. No members of the public
are actually there. You heard the one person clapping, and
I guarantee you that was a staffer. I guarantee you
that was a staffer that was brought along because that's
(03:44):
what they do. They bring along a staffer to drive
them and maybe perform some services and then and then
they do their little press conference and it makes it
on the news, so everybody thinks, oh, they did something today.
And then from there they go to lunch and they
put that on somebody's credit card other than their own.
And there they are at lunch. Did you see old
(04:04):
so and so when he said this, Yeah, that was crazy,
And that's it. While the people whose money they're taking
and playing with don't get to leave for lunch or
have their lunch paid for by lobbyists or the government,
(04:25):
they're the ones paying for all this, they're the ones
actually sweating and working and grinding day after day after day.
It's disgusting. It is truly disgusting. And yet that's the game,
and the media is in on it because they got
to have some content. I mean, you only have so
(04:47):
many shootings you can you can get b roll of.
We'll start with that. If it leads, it bleeds, that's good.
People like that. Maybe we'll have some house fires. And
then they pay what's called a stringer, and he's got you.
You see this poor guy. You talk about a sad life,
This poor guy. I used to show up to shootings
and fires and things to watch. I was on city council,
(05:09):
that's kind of what we do, and so I would
stand over to the side and I would watch. It
would always be some guys. It's always an old white guy.
I say old. He's probably sixty, but to me that
was old back then, and because I was thirty, and
he'd show up and he was grumbling and real, real crotchety,
and he'd been at home, you know, either asleep or
watching some old spinal tap. And he's got all his
(05:34):
phones on his hips and pagers and all that and
he's got these big cameras and all his equipment, and
what he's going to do is he's going to shoot
the fire and then he's going to send that to
the various stations and they pay him like seventy five
bucks per film that they use. And that's how he
makes a living. He's a complete freelancer because they don't
have a reporter on duty at that time to send out.
(05:57):
And that's his life. That's that's what he does. It's
it's a tough ground. But it was always interesting to
watch that guy because he would show up in a
bad mood and it would go downhill from there. Well,
y'all going to do a press conference? How long you
go to jelge that I would get my film and
go home the Michael Berry Show, Winshield, You're on the
(06:21):
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm rolling back to the Big d with ten pounds
of shrimp, two nice flounder, some sand trout and the cooler.
But I uh oh, And by the way, I found
out that Mitch Little lives right down the street from
my Folks don't eat a burger at the Galves and
Yacht Basin.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But I was calling what's wrong with the burger at
the Galveson yacht basin oh Man.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
We went out fishing on Thursday morning and we came
back and had a burger and it just it was lackluster,
to say the least.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, I need some details that that's not descript paint
the picture takes when.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They went to when they went to toast the bun,
they barely even toasted it. They just let it hit
the flat top for like five seconds and it didn't
even do anything that It was a little stale. The uh,
it just I mean, look, that's the land of Hamburgers.
Everybody down there eats hamburgers, and so the bar is
pretty high, and they just they don't they don't even
(07:22):
come anywhere close.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, I know about you're not telling me how, so
I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Maybe you okay, first of all, you need your bun
toasted more well, you can make a good burger without
even toasting a bun at all, So that's not helping me.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, you could, you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Wasn't that juicy? Now we did get there at about
ten forty five. They had just opened, so maybe that's why.
But the soda as of the soda machine was flat.
It didn't have any CO two in it, the U,
the onion rings. We were subpar as well. And I'd
give them some free restaurant consulting if they let me
(07:57):
keep my boat there. By the way, your boats fixing
to get sold if you don't move on it.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Did y'all put in there? Or you got your you
keep your boat there?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
No, sir, it's up in Dallas. My dad launched his
boat there. Yet we put in there, but me and
my boy. He caught his first flounder. We were kayak
fishing at Moses Lake yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
He got eighteen and I got a He got eighteen
a quarter and I got a eighteen. He lets you know,
he beat me black quarter inch.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, so you so, how many flounder did you catch?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
We got three, he got two. One was a short.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And what else did you catch?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
We got some sand trout, a couple of speckled trout
that were shorts. We were trying to get the flounder run.
We came down for the flounder run. They hadn't started
moving yet, but with this cold front they will be.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It is just you and your.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Boy, Me and my two boys. Yep, my wife just
had another baby, so her and my daughter stayed up
in Dallas, and uh we just I to go go
do some fishing and hang out with the folks.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Where did you uh? Where did you.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Stay at their house? They're in Clear Lake Shores?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh right on? Okay, Well cool, Yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Got some all their friends got docks with lights on them.
So at night we were fishing the lights and catching
stand trout. They had an absolute blast.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah that's fun. And you're doing something at night, you know,
you already kind of feel like you know you're you're
you're cheating, you're cheating the rules. You're doing something at night.
When you're a kid, you don't get do anything. They
get little bid So that in and of itself, what'd
you call about when Well, I was.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Going to see if you wanted me to hit on
the rainbow flag crosswalk or if you wanted me to
talk about a different topic and switch gears to what
antifa is. I'm sorry what the media apparatus is doing
with weaponizing the narrative of Antifa calling World War Two
soldiers the original Antifa.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I haven't heard that, but there's nothing that would surprise me.
You know, well, my my rule of thumb on all
of that is they don't believe anything of what they're saying.
To start with, it is all they're just throwing lines
in the water and and and and popping it a
few times to see what gets attention, right, And so
if that doesn't, then tomorrow they'll claim that Donald Trump's
(10:20):
a cannibal, and then the next day that he's murdered
five hundred people. And it's just it's gonna just go
on and on and on, and the only people affected
by this are the people who get upset about it.
And and I don't I still don't understand why they
get upset about it, but they do because they they
think that there is some semblance of truth to it.
(10:41):
And so they keep thinking that that's just this fool's erring,
you know, the Sisyphus pushing his rock up to the hill.
They're gonna they're gonna one day prove here's what you
said on Monday, and here's what you said on Tuesday,
and now you have to admit that you lie. Now
do it lie to tell the truth? You lie? And
it's never gonna happen. They're just gonna keep pivoting the game.
The game is ever over over. It is circular, and
(11:02):
it just keeps going and going and going. And the
other reason is because the media member that's claiming that
Antifa that World War One soldiers were Antifa, has no
understanding of World War One anyway. They might have seen
one little thing and they took that out of context.
But you can't argue with idiots because they don't have
(11:23):
the basis to understand what you're explaining anyway. So, yeah,
what was the other thing you were going to say?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
The greatest line I've found to use in the socials.
I go and I carpet bomb the Crosswalk Pride comments
section with a simple phrase. And just like you mentioned,
you cannot use rational, rational thought with these people. But
I go in there and I say, there is nothing
to be proud about poop poo on a pp because
(11:51):
it's very sophomoric and it's right to the core of
the issue. That's exactly what all this is about.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You know, upsetting people on social media is so much fun.
I have to admit it is. So there are people who,
you know, they sit down to their computer and they
start looking at it, or they look on their phone
and they go to it and they have no idea
(12:26):
what emotion they're about to experience. They don't know if
they're going to be happy or sad, or nostalgic or morose.
They're absolutely waiting to be told how to feel. They
go there and like a test dummy, all right, I'm here,
what are you gonna do to me? And then based
(12:47):
on the algorithm and where it is at that moment,
and you know, sheer dumb luck, something pops up and
whatever that something is, they emotionally invest and they invest heavily.
And if it is something, you know, if they're a
person who is very, very worried that gays are not
(13:08):
being respected enough and that you know, you know, gayism
is going to be their big issue that day, and
they see your comment, like, what is the comment again?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
There's nothing poop poo all over a PP is nothing
to be proud of. Kind of like it? What is
that an alliteration?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I like it better when you put the poop poo
in the PP at the end of the sentence. Okay,
I've never heard that before. I have never heard that before,
but I will I will be using that going forward.
That that is quality windshield that is quality. So y'all
are driving back today right now?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, sir, Yeah, we had to stop at Roses Seafood
and get a bunch of shrimp that we always bring out. Shrimp.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Oh, you want to.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Talk about fried shrimp. The best restaurant that serves fries
shrimp hasn't been invented, and it's been in my head
for the last twenty years. So whenever you're ready to
start a franchise, you let me know.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Do you want to give me the abbreviated version of
what's gonna be so great about this?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It is what it is, and shrimp is always overdone,
and it's such a delicate flavor, and they're suite naturally,
so you can't put all this stuff on it. It
is what it is, and it's got to be simplistic,
and there is the recipe of mine.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
No Michael Berry show. I'm vetoing that no Ace Freely
has passed. Paul Daniel Freeley, one of the co founders
of the band Kiss, passed away at seventy four. The
(14:47):
Spaceman as he was known, or space Ace. I was
reading about him this morning. I never realized I wasn't
a student of music as kid, and you didn't have
access to the information you do now, And there was
a rolling stone, there were a few places, but you didn't.
(15:08):
You couldn't. You didn't have the Internet where you could
go and just read everything that's been written about someone
like you can now. But I didn't realize that he
had had a successful solo career and his his was
his first album went platinum. I mean, if you knew that,
(15:29):
that's good for you. I'm just telling you. I did
not know that he had released a solo studio album
last year called ten thousand Volt at what's seventy three
years old? Wow? How about that?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
To the phone line, one thousand BO.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
You're up, sir, Go ahead, Good morning, sir. I'm maybe
incorrect in my thinking, so maybe you can help clear
something up for me. About two weeks ago, I think
you'll us Paris County was all advertising about how they
pass this balanced budget and then all of a sudden
(16:08):
this week, they all of a sudden have an extra
million plus dollars to give to the illegals. How does
that come into play?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, I mean where to begin. See, you are vexed bo,
because in your world, what you say has to be
the truth, and you don't say things that you don't
believe to be true, and you don't say things that
you know are false, and you don't engage in obfuscation
(16:41):
Boondogghery and Chickannery, as W. C. Fields famously said, you
just say yes or no. If your boss says, are
we on budget? Well, no we're not, we're tracking eight
percent behind, or yes we are, we're eight percent up,
but we're expecting in a slow November. So I would
(17:02):
project this is where we are, and that you could
take that to the bank. What these people say is
not in any way rooted in the truth. And I
really don't think I could ever convey what I know
of these people and how they think and what is
going on and how absurd it is. I really don't
(17:25):
think I can ever convey that to people in a
manner that they wouldn't think I was being ridiculous and absurd.
I'll give you example. You have those Lena Padalgo audio clips.
So there is a gentleman who comes to city hall
meetings and county commission meetings, commissioner's court meetings, and I've
(17:48):
seen the video. He is he's he's a little slow,
maybe a lot slow, but he is apparently beloved at
both places because he's a very sweet fellow and harmless
(18:11):
and he shows up for the meetings. He probably doesn't
have a lot going on. He shows up for the meetings,
and the staff, the law enforcement, everybody likes him, and
so he is. He probably doesn't know. I'm sure he
doesn't know that that Lena had all Go is upset
at Leslie brione is a fellow Democrat, and so she
(18:32):
calls her the leader of the GOP three. And so
that's her insult, is that Adrian Garcia and Leslie Brionis
are Republicans along with Tom Ramsey. And that's that's you know,
that's a real boy. She's she throws that out there
and feels very clever. Okay, so this fella comes down
to speak and he's wearing the shirt. I guarantee you
(18:53):
it's a gimmea shirt. I guarantee you that that they
handed it to him, or she handed it to him
after a meeting, or maybe he worked on her campaign.
Remember Lena Hidalgo was all for Leslie brionnest. But it
really doesn't matter what was on the shirt. This was
out of line, and then Lena Hidalgo proceeds to hector him,
(19:15):
including how's Mattress Mac doing? As her insult of this guy,
I don't I don't know what she really is. She
really is demonic, genuinely demonic. All right, listen, this this
is too bad.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
An Garcia isn't here because this is talk about his
uh his his his uh.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Four months we've all been asking for a sustained cease
fire Gaza's population.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Think of bedlish people.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
This go in the navy, doesn't this look?
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Captain and ship at I'm captain, captain and too, yes.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Thank you, thank you for your time.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
That yeah, you should hear the rest of it because
in the navy, because hey, we're having plate wiken is
very important.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well, they're too pippy, kept captain of the g P three.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Yes we got it.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We're good.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Thank you, all right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
A nice nice T shirt.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah you're welcome.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Lock your hat, jock. Thanks? Oh uh yes, why didn't
tell the nan commentions? I mean, I'm gonna tell a
n aggie joke.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
How's how's mattress Mac? Are you guys still best friends?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Not anymore?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
We had a disturbing and while I had kind him
a little and oh no, well, I brought an apology letter.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
To whether or not he.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He You know what if we shouldn't have discussions with
you outside the microphone, do you have anything to add?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Okay, thank you. So she taunts the man without him
knowing to show off, and I guess her mind. Get
a dig and a fellow county commissioner. You cannot hate
this little demon monster anymore. You cannot hate her anymore.
(22:04):
Her term will be up at the end of next year,
and then she will not have deputies carrying her bicycle
for her when she goes up for a ride, driving
her here and there. She will not have her salary,
she will not have all the people overlooking her meltdowns.
And it is going to end very, very badly. She's
(22:28):
gonna do something to the wrong person, say something, and
I'm here for it. I cannot wait for it. The
Michael Berry Show. John, you are on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, sir, Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
For a gentleman who just called about Harris County and
give it away else I tax money and for others
who might be interested. Tomorrow from ten am ten am
to uh to noon. Baronis is having a town hall
(23:05):
out and Katie and uh you know you can go
and you can uh you know, speak your mind to her.
It's going to be at one eight three, Oh, Katie
Land Drive, and you know I'm going. You don't have
(23:31):
to you don't have to be a resident of Precinct four.
You show up, walk on in and then when.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You charge, no cover charge, you take it or anything.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
No, not at all, and she'll have a Q and
A and you know it's a joke where she's what
they're doing. Of course, as you know, you know, the
list of Harris County residents who have been victimized by
(24:09):
illegals is you know, is it long as your arm?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely, And here we are, uh you know,
getting given them money.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
At at our at our expense, uh you know. And
this goes back years, you know, starting with the two
young girls that were raped and brutally killed by those
half a dozen game members, of which two or three
of them were illegals. And so we're supposed to pay,
(24:50):
you know for those guys. I think you had the
real the railroad killer who was illegal and he he
killed that female doctor in West University.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, Raphael ras Anddez Ramirez, doctor Ben.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yes, So you know, everybody, everybody go tomorrow. I'm giving
up going to the University of Houston Arizonia game because
I'm gonna this is more important in the football game.
I mean, may not you know anything, What are you
(25:33):
gonna say, Well, I'm gonna well, I'm gonna call her down,
you know, I'm not. I'm not gonna you know, let's
uh say why are you doing this? I'm just gonna
tell her our front it is, uh, this is wrong
and this is my show uh good responsibility to our
tax dollars as well as you're putting all our lives
(25:57):
at risk. And and you know it's wrong. And she
cares more about illegal aliens than she dougs the people
of Harris County. And this has been going on, as
you know, for a very very long time. And so
(26:20):
I hope everybody will come out and and and get
in line and speak for a minute or two.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
So how long are you going to speak?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'll speak as long as you as long as you'll
have me, you know. But you know, I mean I
could go down a list of criminals that that that
that that have picked the minds.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Uh ew Stonians, do you have your remarks written out?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yes, I do, and I actually I've spoken the front
of the Commissioner's court virtually the same subject two or
three years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And uh, what was the reception there?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Ah, you know, thank you for your remarks, and uh,
you know that's about it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You didn't get the impression that you you you swayed them?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
No, no, of course not. They don't care. Okay, you know,
I mean, I mean, I mean you talk about this
every day, how they're you know, how they all have
their little relationships with each other.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And yep, and you know what's amazing about it all, John,
is the actual functions of government, paving roads, picking up
the trash, draining off the water, policing fire, the actual
functions of government. They literally could not care less. It
(28:12):
occupies a zero percent of their bandwidth. That has nothing
to do. And by the way, they never run for
office on the basis of those things, and in certain communities,
among certain voters, none of that stuff matters. Just you
(28:33):
run for office on skin color and justice and bitterness
and jealousy and rivalry that you run for office. You know,
if you're feeling any of these emotions, which button do
I need to push for you. I am the antidote.
Take me. I'm the peel. Vote for me, and I'll
(28:55):
make you, for just a second feel better. And this
has gone on for so long now, decades and decades,
that voters have come to learn that nothing will ever
be done about it, and so they grow to accept that,
and so now they look for different things. They look
for more of a show. They look. It becomes, you know,
(29:21):
going out for the fireworks. They don't expect anyone to
accomplish anything. So they don't feel lied to it anymore
because they never believed the lies. They never believed the
lies in the first place. That's why people get upset.
For instance, black voters. Why black voters weren't mad at
Barack in bigger numbers, because they never believed Barack. This
(29:44):
wasn't even about Barack. This was an opportunity in their
minds to piss white people off by having a black
president to show because they're pissed off. They're pissed off
about a lot of things that nobody else is responsible for,
and they're kind of looking for O. J. Simpson. Nobody
was excited that OJ was acquitted. It wasn't like, oh
(30:08):
good now, OJ can get back to making our lives
better and OJ can get back to being a great guy.
They knew, they absolutely knew, this was an opportunity to
stick it to people who they feel have been sticking
it to them but frankly don't even know they exist.
This was an opportunity to piss off Whitey. And that
happens more than you would imagine. The guy who's walking
(30:29):
too slow across the crosswalk that's and and giving you
that yeah, go ahead, try running me over. I dare
you that person that's about pissing off Whitey. There is,
there is, and that has been It's like a kid
in in Gaza, what the what Hamas does to them?
That person has been so so brainwashed to such an
(30:52):
extent that you know it would take a reverse indoctrination
you camp years years to debunk all of that in
their minds. It's tragic, but it's real.
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