AM Show Hr 2 | Society's Overreaction To Societal Issues

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Vari Show is on the air. This town
needs an edema. The following feature has been rated R.
It is intended for mature audiences. Have you been with
a girl's hearts?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
That's it? More get in the last deeper.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I can put my whole fist in my mouth or see.
You know what you look like to me, but you
have good dag and your cheap shoes. You look like
a load. Don't put that evil only Brickie, Bobby, don't
do put that on up a heart in your gender direction.
That's famous stuff.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Oh, celebrities use that radio announcers and everything.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'll say that bars just like a tattoo, gets under
your skin.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
What we're dealing with here is a complease lack of
respect for the law.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
We'll go down with this, Billy, Mike, John and John, Billy,
you're up. Go ahead, sir. You're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Morning, Michael. So, yesterday you were talking about sea sections
and I just wanted to tell you what happened to
us in the eighties. Our second child during childbirths and
the problem came up, and so they took her with
a c section and then pregnant again, and my wife
didn't want a sea section because it was the recuperation time.

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But she went to a doctor who was a great doctor.
He said, well, you know, once a sea section, always
a C section, and she said, wow, I don't really
want to go through that. So she started looking around
for doctors and she she couldn't find anybody that wouldn't
give her a sea section, I mean that would let
her have it naturally. And so she ended up at

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Herman Hospital and she walked in and told the people
what she was doing and they said, oh, oh, you
need to see I forget the doctor's name, And so
she got an appointment with this doctor and he said,
we're trying to do a trial now to say that
after sea sections you can continue to have natural trialbirth.

(02:33):
And so my wife got in there. It was the
greatest thing because they would bring and they would bring
all the little trainee doctors and everybody in there. She said,
every time she went in for a checkup, she'd have
the best, the best of best in there looking at
her and everything. And sure enough, her child was born

(02:54):
natural childbirth. And my wife bounced back from it real quick,
like she had done on the first one, and I
just wanted to so first was so, first was natural conversation, First.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Was natural, second one C section third natural. Yes, that's
very interesting. That's kind of I'm no expert on it,
but that's kind of what I'd always heard that once
you go was it C section or black, you'd never
go back which one? Was it wrong? Big Jeff at

(03:26):
Trailer Will and Frame tells me that oil and gas
money is starting to come back into the store. The
oil and gas folks are starting to spend money on
capital expenses like trailers. At Trailer Will and Frame, I
asked my show sponsors, we have over eighty of them,
to tell me how business is going and who's spending money,

(03:48):
who's coming in, who, what are they buying. I'm not
asking you to violate any you know, privacy of your
customers or anything like that, but this is this is
one of the ways I find out what's going on,
at least in the Houston economy. Michael Petri, my trainer,
sends me a message this morning. A small business hired
us to come to the office to train six employees.

(04:10):
We will teach all six how to safely train and
they're hoping that this builds a team camaraderie. It's in
Southeast Houston a company called doc to e file. They
convert paper and film documents to digital and sell software
to manage the digital records. By the way, I got
a message from my buddy Donnie that he is a

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cursive translator. The National Archive Project has a citizen Archive
project where you sign up and you take documents that
are cursive in American history and you translate them into print.
You write them out in our traditional printed script so

(04:58):
that those documents can be preserved. He said, I absolutely
love doing it. I'll put a link to that in
the Daily Blast today. If you go to Michael Berryshow
dot com and sign up for the Daily Blast, Kunda
will put a link to how to sign up for
that if you retired or just have interest in that,
or just want to read cursive and make sure to

(05:19):
preserve those documents. That was pretty cool, Mike, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Go ahead, Okay, Two things real quick, somewhat related. When
I was in school, we were looking at history, and
in the early seventeen hundreds, when the printing press, you know,
came out a little earlier, they would put a news,
a one page newspaper up in the town square once
a week, and the academics would converse with each other

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that way, and there was a serious long term discussion
going on from you know, week to week to week
tw weeek on the value of standard spelling in the
English language. Imagine cursive. With no standardized spelling, you got
no chance.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Two.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
The reason cursive was developed, I've been told, is that
the quill pens would often blot where you first put
the pin down. Yeah, and when you first picked it
up you would use it kind of link as many
letters to get yes that have you heard that too?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I have read that. I follow a podcast called the
History of English uh, and there's a couple other podcasts
that I follow it that go pretty deep in that.
But but hold on, Mike, I think that's important for
people to understand. My understanding is that one of the
beliefs as to why cursive came about. Mike said it well,
is you put the quill into your ink bottle, and

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when you pull it out, if it clotted and you
had a bigger clump of ink than you needed, you
were simply spreading it around by linking one letter to
the next like a Neon light machine. You you would you,
and so that that developed. That was there a number
three because I wanted to speak to what you just said.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
No, the only thing I was going to add is
I've been to Montcello and seen that device that Jefferson
used to write two letters at the same time. It
really had to slow him down.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Though.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes it looked fragile. Yes, it looked fragile.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
So I don't know how effective it was.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, you know, he's brilliant. You're absolutely right, you know,
because it wasn't mechanized, it wasn't a machine shop making it.
You're you're absolutely right. It's held together by what looks
like a thread. The dumb waiter was pretty impressive that
he had as well. I forgot what I was gonna say.
Uh oh, you know. It's it's interesting to me how

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people will email me and say that's not the right word,
or that's not the right spelling, And I wonder if
they understand that we've only spelled that word for in
some cases fifty years or maybe one hundred. That word
comes from the Middle English or the Old English or
the French. And do you understand it. For three hundred
years it was spelled this way, and this one guy

(08:12):
who turned out to be a drunk, he spelled it this.
There is no right or wrong with all this, and
these people they need some certainty in life. You're gonna die, okay.
Everything that is your neurosis is related to not wanting
to an email. A fella this morning said, hey, did
you ever find a chimney sweep, chimney repair, chimney installation company?

(08:40):
Because I got a leak in my chimney. And that's
not a euphemism, moon, I know it sounds like it is,
And the answer is no, I didn't. I gave that
to Robert Rees and he made a run at it.
And I think part of it is it's a hard
category to monetize. When we needed a siding company, Allied

(09:03):
Siding Windows, they've got to throw everything they've got at
our listeners because our listeners all need siding, and they
all need windows, and they all need roofs, and you know,
so when somebody needs jewelry. Buddy of mine lives three
hours northeast of Houston, and he sent me a message

(09:26):
the other day a picture of him at Corey diamonds,
so he needed jewelry. He drove past probably five jewelry
stores to drive to Friendswood to do business with Connie
and Billy, so he had a good experience. They had
a good experience. They made money off the deal. He

(09:46):
was happy he did it because he got exactly what
he wanted and he felt good about it, and he
dealt with people he liked. And as a result, they
pay our company to continue to sponsor our show, and
we get to do what we do here. And I
don't know if you notice. That's why they keep expanding
our show is because we provide results for listeners, because
you provide the results for listeners. By the way, yesterday

(10:09):
we were talking about somebody being Jewish. I don't remember why.
I asked the guy if he was Jewish. Remember he
said non from Missouri. I said, well, what is it.
That's a weird answer, isn't it. I like to put
people under stretch. You just never know what kind of
goofy stuff they'll say in response. But anyway, oh, I

(10:29):
hadn't mentioned Saint Louis on the show in years. I
think I think Jim Mutz from Saint Louis. And then
yesterday afternoon, we get an emails that's how you're going
on in Saint Louis. Just out of nowhere, you're going
on in Saint Louis. Who knew? All right, let's go
to John, John, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, So yesterday I'm driving down scenic Washington Avenue eastbound
and uh and it's imploded. I might add from Memorial
Park area down to Shepherd it's imploded on both sides,

(11:08):
down to one lane. So anyway, so at the corner
there's an individual wearing a sandwich board and he's, you know,
advertising for a company that will put cannabis inside your

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dockory so you can drive down the imploded Washington Avenue wasted.
I So you wonder why drivers in Houston are so bad.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
There you have it, John, how old are you?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'm seventy.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Okay, Well, let me just tell you. First of all,
I reject wholeheartedly and always will, the idea that it
should be the role of the government to tell people
what dangerous activities they can undertake. Now, however dangerous you
think either alcohol, dackery or pot marijuana are, it is

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not the role of the government to decide what you do.
And there are and I can't even win that argument
because there's probably sixty percent of the population, particularly older people,
who say, but everybody'll be out drunk and dope duck Michaels,
they'll be seate up with the dope, they won't go

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to work or nothing, and the whole country will fall apart. Well,
that's not true. Number One, in any government powerful enough
to keep you from doing this bad behavior, is powerful
enough to keep you from doing that bad behavior that
Oh you do want to do that over there? Oh well,
I'm sorry, but I've decided that that's a dangerous behavior
that I don't want and I want the government to

(13:03):
stop you. So as long as the governments stopping everybody
from doing everything. How many times have you heard somebody say,
you know, they've set up a new park where you
can drive tractors or drive heavy equipment. You do are
you doing something in the backyard? And they go, can
they do that? And they say, I don't think it's illegal.
We are a nation a feared of a government telling

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us we can't do anything because they're keeping us safe
and healthy and all. How's that worked out? But I
don't like the idea of putting restrictions on people. You go, well,
they'll just drive down the road drunk and stoned, and
first time somebody does that, you throw the book at them.
People understand the risk driving baked or driving drunk or

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extremely dangerous behaviors, and if you have an accident, that's
an aggravating factor, and we're going to send you to prison.
This is really this is the downstream of what happens
upstream when you don't prosecute crimes. You're drunk, you blow hot,
you get in an accident. You better hope you don't

(14:09):
get in an accident, and you've had too much to drink,
because even if it's the other guy's fault, you're going
to jail for manslaughter. Okay, all right, I'll take that seriously. Okay.
The other thing is you were told that marijuana was
a terrible drug. You were told that, and you were
told that by the liquor industry through the big government.

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And the reason was marijuana was the drug that Mexicans took.
So what they used as an example to fire people
up was in the town square of Santa Fe, the
Mexican laborers would come in if nobody was the home
depot of the day, and if nobody hired them, they'd
lay up against the wall, stoned out of there. They'd

(14:55):
start smoking dope and they'd sit there until they passed
out in the town square and the nice white people
would walk in and go, augh, we got this nice
town with beautiful architecture in great weather. He got a
bunch of Mexicans laying around here. Well, I know how
we'll deal with that. We'll make their drug of choice,
which is not our drug of choice because we're good,

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proper people that drink alcohol. We'll make that a crime
and throw them in jail. And that's what they did.
And then you had an enterprising young deea director who
wanted to be the next j Edgar Hoover, who made
a refer madness movie that is so laughable it's amazing.
People took it for granted. But some people don't realize
it was ever debunked. The myth that pot is horrible

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is ridiculous. But then again, there are people walking around
in this country that think the COVID shot worked or
didn't kill people, or that OJ's innocent. I mean, it's
only so much you can do. I feel sorry for
these people. I will tell you this. My brother, the
longtime police officer, would tell me that if he was
king and he could choose between marijuana and alcohol, he'd

(16:03):
have people do marijuana instead of alcohol, because he never
showed up at a trailer to watch some guy beat
his girlfriend half to death under the influence of marijuana.
And potheads stay home. They don't get out on the
road and drive. And pot is not typically or as
consistently a social drug as alcohol is. But hey, that's
all right. We fund our government on alcohol taxes. Let's

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keep up with that. It's working out great.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
We fund your money, no matter whose fault it is.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
The Michael Verie show your photo matters.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Hunt Ramond, prepare yourself to receive. We've got to get
some knowledge dropped on you. You ready. I got an
email from a lady named Karen North. She said I

(16:56):
had six V backs capital V capital capital A capital C.
Do you know what that is? Don't look it up yet.
I had six V backs after a C section from
eighty six to ninety eight. It's not a big deal
with the right medical care. A V back, I had

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to look it up, is a vaginal birth after cesarean,
meaning a person delivers their baby vaginally after a previous
T section. You might be thinking to yourself, Yeah, but
what if I throw down v back and another person
at the table knows what the word is, then I've
lost the high ground. Okay. You may also refer to

(17:40):
it as a tolac. That's when you deliver the baby
through your foot. I'm just kidding. That is a trial
of labor after cesarean. I don't like the word trial,
like I like my labor to be more kind of
you know, certain, you know what I mean. It is
sometimes refer to as a tolak trial of labor after

(18:03):
cesarean if the attempt to deliver vaginally is successful. Like
they're being honest, Okay, you can, I mean, yeah, you
win some, you lose some, you know. But she says
I had six v backs after a C section from
eighty six to ninety eight. Okay, so we know she's

(18:23):
got at least seven kids, right, that's a tough woman.
I get women get aggravated with me when I talk
about how tough a woman is to give birth. I
don't know why. I don't know why y'all think that's
something you need to be quiet about. You should scream
that to the rooftops. You got the moral high ground.

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If a woman says, oh, sorry about your booboo, there
you hamstring tour, you could have died. I gave birth
seven times. I go, I look around, make sure nobody's
listening to ruin my you know image, and go, you
damn tuting lady. You ought to be proud of that.
It's not a big deal deal with the right medical care.
Our society is irrationally afraid of childbirth, as though it

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weren't the most fundamental reason we were created. I like this, lady.
I believe we have a spirit to herod over our nation.
The enemy wants to prevent life and has succeeded through abortion,
gender education, toxic femininity, femininity, and fear. Young women are
taught that having children is a sacrifice that will steal

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their youth, freedom, happiness, and health. It's a spiritual battle
we are losing. Ask yourself, why are they so passionate
about sterilizing our children. They always want to steal, keel
and destroy. It's the root of all these evils. I
like this, lady. See this is why I read my emails.

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This is why I read my emails sometimes I ask myself,
why do you read your emails? Why do you beat
yourself up? Because some people are idiots and it ruins
your mood. And this right here, because Karen or It
is a lady that if she was coming down to
the Tomato sauce ise and I was coming back, I
probably wouldn't give her a second look unless she had
open toad shoes and you know, Jankie feed or you

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know something weird about her. She just probably just another
lady walking walking along. But then you listen to this
lady and you go, man, she's got that ruddy spirit.
She's from strong Stock. That's the kind of people you
you know, that's your mother and your grandmother right there.
That's she's old school. I'll tell you this. I've had

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occasion to be at a couple of public events lately,
and I'm not normally out in public. Eddie says that
I don't like people anymore. It's not true. Okay, it
is true. I like my people. I just don't. I'm
going to tell you something. I've been out of events,
a few more events than usual of late, and I
have noticed when you see crowds, you know, there's there's

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these new studies coming out that are saying that testosterone
levels of teenage males today are lower than sixty one
of them was lower than sixty eight year olds. I
think that's in the food. I think that's in the culture.
I think that's in the training. You know, kids didn't
wear a coonskin cap because there wasn't anything else to wear.

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They wore a coonskin cap because Davy Crockett aka or
as Fast Parker or Fast Parker as Davy Crockett. They
wanted to be like Fast Parker. Right. You didn't buy
a charger because you want to charge. You want to
buy a charger because you wanted to put the Virginia
battle flag on it and make it a general lee.

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You didn't buy trans am because you needed a transam.
You bought a trans am because the bandit drove it.
I saw a meme the other day that said, you're
telling me I can't that you're telling me that cigarette
companies can't put their logo on NASCAR viavehicles because it
might lead me to smoke, But Drag Queen's Story hour

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won't make me want to well. I think that we
need to be very careful. Going back to what I saw.
I see this even in people, maybe especially with people.
I noticed a number of men with just a little bit,
just a little bit lighter than their loafers than they
used to be. I notice men who are less what

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I would call traditionally manly. Now these are cultural traits.
The friendship embodied them for a long time. But what
used to look like a Southern man with a certain
swagger and a look about him that you didn't pinch
his girl's butt or he'd beat you to death is gone,
largely gone. And I'm not just talking about muscle mass.

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I'm talking about a certain bearing, a certain presentation, a
certain mindset. And I'll tell you where you see it.
You see it out in public when a little old
lady is punched by a young pump and a young
man at thirty two years old films it instead of
jumping in and solving it. Man, if that had happened

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in Orange when I was growing up, God help you.
You don't need to call the cops. Call call the morgue,
because they beat him to death. And I mean that
they would beat him to death. There was a time
when people would would would actually regulate when when the

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people today, when I say, they go, well we'll get sued,
Well they'll arrest us, can arrest you all. Can't arrest
you all. I mean, go back and look at what
happened to the signers of the of the Director Dectoration
of Independence. It ended up badly for all of them.
Go back and look at what happened to the disciples.

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They all died except for I'm trying to remember, because
Paul writes the letters from prison, I have been I'm
thinking one of the apostles was not money. I was
corrected on this other day, and I kind of got annoyed,

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and I went and looked, and it was right. I have,
for all these years labored that every apostle, that every
every disciple of Christ was put to death, and it
turns out that's not true. I'll get you an answer
on that just a minute. But the point is taking
back our society is not mean electing Donald Trump. Okay,

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he's not God, he's not the Savior, and he'll be gone.
Taking back our society is every single one of us
doing more and being braver, more courageous, and more fearless. George,
I can't excited, Frank, writes, listening to the show, I

(25:09):
felt compelled regarding marijuana. I'm a little older than you,
and it has been my observation that habitual marijuana users
tend to be less than energetic and not in high
performance occupations. This is a very important moment for me,

(25:31):
a teachable moment, if you will, because people will say
to me, we got to keep marijuana illegal because everybody
I've ever known marijuana they you know, they're just happy
in some dead end job. They're not ambitious at all.

(25:53):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I want you to
hear what you're saying. You're saying, we're gonna use We've
set aside our own domestic army. We'll call them cops,
and we give them guns and tanks and all this equipment.

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And you say, I'm willing to go kick down a
guy's door because he is taking something that is going
to reduce his desire for excellence. And we cannot have
people who are not sufficiently ambitious. Anything you do to

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reduce your ambition, we're going to arrest you. Well, I'm
just saying, do you think that guy started as the
most ambitious guy in the world, wanting to claw and
scratch his way up to the corporate ladder, to get
to be CEO and wear a suit and a tie
and stand around and say, why, Wilford, what have we

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done this quarter? And what do you project for Q?

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Two?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
And dare I ask old boy Q three? And uh,
feeling a little of chiggy, I'm curious what Q four
will look like. Do you think that's his interest, because
that's how he perceives the corporate suite. Well, it was
his interest. He wanted to be CEO until he got

(27:31):
on that dope. Now he don't even want to be
CEO anymore. He's just happy working in a record shop.
The guy who smokes marijuana wasn't on the chart to
be Tillman for Tita or Donald Trump. He's a guy
who enjoys solace in peace, and his brain moves too

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fast and he wants to slow it down, and the
world doesn't make any sense to him. And truth is,
it doesn't make sense to you either. But right now
you're in the righteous position. The world doesn't make any
sense to him. The evil that's done, the wrong that's done.
Maybe the war he served in. A lot of veterans

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smoke that dope makes them feel better, and there's a
lot of little old ladies that do it too, And
the way that goes down is like this. She's got
chronic pain that's unbearable. She wishes she could die to
make the pain stop. And her grandson, who she said
he stopped with that dope won't kill you, which it won't.
Nobody dies from dope, and I can't convince people of that.

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But you know what, I can't convince people that you
shouldn't have taken that shot. And more people died from
it than not, so hey, it's not my cross to bear,
but she doesn't liked it. Her grandson smokes that dope
and she's at her doctor's office and she's got pain
so bad that she does not want to live any
longer and discomfort constantly. And she says to the doctor

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who's not been able to solve her problem with traditional
pharmaceuticals from these evil pharmaceutical companies, and she says, my
grandson said I should just take a couple of puffs
on his joint and I'd feel better. And the doctor
leans in and says, I can't tell you to do
that when when happens more than you realize, I'll get

(29:25):
twenty emails today after this conversation with people going, my
eighty four year old dad took to gummies or took
to joints or whatever else, and he just decided, I
can't live like this anymore. I'm in such chronic pain.
It has a palliative effect that is greater than most pharmaceuticals.
It is completely all natural, and you know what, you're

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welcome to waste a lot of police time and throw
a lot of people in prison. You know, we have
six hundred thousand people incarcerated for marijuana. Will Michael, I
ain't mad the ones that use it. I'm mad the
ones that distributed me too. We got all these fat
people out there, So I don't think we should incarcerate

(30:08):
the chocolate makers. We got to go after the grocery stores.
See are the chocolate eaters. It's all right. If you
eat too much chocolate, too much Bluebell ice cream, make
too much fried chicken, and eat too much Kraft macaroni
and cheese. You know what, it's not good. You're getting
fat kills your ambition. It costs the rest of us

(30:29):
in healthcare costs, because now we have socialized medicine. All
of that's bad. But we're not gonna prosecute you. We
understand you got a problem, you're a fat ass, But
we're gonna get them grocery stores because they're making money
off this. Probably should have stuck the cursive. Hunh, Jason,
you're on a Michael Berry show.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Hey Michael, how are you doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I'm all right? How are you.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
All right?

Speaker 5 (30:56):
So?

Speaker 6 (30:56):
I was an alcoholic for twenty eight years. I've been
sober for nine. I went to prison for an alcohol
related offense that it wasn't drinking and driving. I did
a whole bunch of drinking and driving in my day.
Never killed anybody, never hurt anybody, never had a single accident.
So in my eight years in prison, I encountered quite
a few people that were there for no accident, no injury.

(31:19):
D w I. I appreciate what you said about throw
the book at them if they hurt somebody. I've met
a lot of people in there from manslaughter, double hemat
or double manslaughter, killed two killed kids from driving while intoxicated.
But why are we locking people up and putting them

(31:40):
in prison for something that could have happened. I could
just as easily kill somebody by running a stop sign,
running a red light, or habitual speeding. Why not lock
me up? And why not put me in prison for that?
So why are we locking people up, ruining their lives
and taking their families away from them for what could
have happened? What's your solution to that tough question?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
It's a fair question. It's kind of questions we ought
to ask, you know, we ought to ask when we
initiate Operation Warp Speed. We ought to ask every single day,
even if we answered the question yesterday, is this thing
solving more problems than harms? Should we compel people to

(32:27):
do this or let them choose it on? Should we
release every bit of information even when some of it's damning,
despite the fact that we want all the people to
take the shot anyway? I think we ought to ask
questions like this. It's it's a tough question, and unfortunately,
policies on things like DWI are not driven, are not
data driven, and they're not rational policies. Everybody has a

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relative who was harmed or killed by a drunk driver,
so we all secretly want a curb stop a drunk driver,
curb curb stomp runk driver like the American History X
you know, where Edward Norton puts the guy's head on there.
I agree being arrested for drunk driving should be a

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certain level of offense. Being a drunk driver who causes
an accident should be times fifty. You're absolutely right, it
could have. Doug Stanhope has a bit that only about
thirty percent of our audience would think was interesting, but
I do. And he talks about how are you going
to choose an actual number to decide who is and

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isn't drunk? It is an inherently dangerous idea, and we
have agreed that we don't want it, but we're not
rational in the ways that we try to come to
that conclusion.