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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Live rob Television.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Stay at Hollywood happening, everybody, no man, Come.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
And listen to my story about a man named Jed
or Mountain Near, barely kept, his family sad.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Just a good old boy, never meaning no home. It's all.
You never saw men.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In trouble where the low sensity they was born.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome by your dreams were your ticket? I welcome by.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I say this calls for action and now nip it
in the bus. I'm missing on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
any w k R. Different, stroll the world, different, strong
the world.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Why the way Glenn Millow played songs?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Made parade?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yes, why gosh, we hadn't made ths?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
What clean Lisa bit, I'm coming to join us. H
m hmmm, I'll believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Be Get your lady behind out here and put that
trunk up in the back.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh no, no, the word we've got it. It's very heavy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
She don't mind. She's short and skinny, but she's strong.
Her first baby come outsideways. She didn't scream or nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Isn't that's something.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
We were told that the homeschoolers were backward. They wouldn't
learn socialization skills. You need to send your kid to
the school run by the state so your child will
learn social skills. They'll be socialized, socialismized, they'll be socialized.
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Because the child is subjected to homeschooling, they'll be backward,
be awkward. You won't know how to interact with people.
You can't teach. What are you a teacher? You're going
to teach at your home? You don't have an education
degree and a school with a proper cafeteria and a
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coke machine and bathrooms and bullying and school buses like
a school supposed to have. How's your kid gonna learn
with all without all that? What are you going to
unionize as a parent. You're gonna have a maintenance worker
with three felonies. It's diddled for the kids. You're gonna
have a principal that became a principal because they didn't
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want to teach and got out of the classroom as
fast as they could. What are you gonna float bonds
for hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to play
for to pay for stadiums and new schools and construction
costs because the administrator's family members are all on the take.
What are you gonna do that at home? You can't
run a school. You don't even know where the corruption
is supposed to be had. Idiot. So we were told
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that the kids couldn't learn at home because homeschool, and
they wouldn't socialize the bunch of little weirdos like Carl
and sling Blade. You don't want to raise a little
weirdo that doesn't go to school. Kind of weirdo is
your kid going to be? If they see somebody at
the park and they go up to enter a group
of kids that are all playing, the other kids will
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taunt them because they'll be a weirdo. They won't know
how to be socialized like you learn at school. Right,
And then COVID hit and the teachers didn't want to teach,
so they shut down the schools and they sent you home.
But nobody worried whether the kids would be socialized. Can't
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learn at home? There's no learning at home. What are
you doing? I go to school? Unless what do I
want you to go to school? But we'll tell you
when to go to school. Can't have a baby at home?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
What do you.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Somebody that knows something about biology. Well, actually she's a doula. See,
you gotta have certifications coming from the state. I fill
out the paperwork and some listless smug clerk in Austin
needs to open your paperwork. Make sure you put in
all the information in the boxes and send the fee,
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because if you don't send the fee, your license doesn't
work and you won't be able to deliver the service.
And then they take the they stamp it and send
it back. Now you know how to perform the service. See,
this is why we have licensing and regulation. This is
why if you go over to blodge it to eighty
eight and you see some black woman sitting on the
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porch and she's got another black woman sitting on the
steps in front of her, and she's doing twists in
her hair or extensions or braid, this is why you
must perform a citizen's arrest. Roll up and ask her
for her licensing and regulation because she can't twist or
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extend or braid that hair unless she has the license.
And it'll be two hundred dollars. This is how people die,
just just braiding the hair on the steps. You gotta
we created a whole industry around this. You gotta pay
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for all that. Remember when doctor Mary Tally Boden was
giving ivermectin to patience. They had tried traditional medicine, they
had died, people were dying from you couldn't get into
the hospital to see your loved one, and she gave ivermectin,
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which is a cheap over the counter drug. The rest
of the world has it hydrochloroquin. Remember that the Texas
Medical Board, Sharif Frafique Hafique something, the head of the
Texas Medical Board, came after her and has done nothing
but harass her ever since. For what she's a kook?
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Is that what we're supposed to believe because they tried.
She's crazy, she's a witch doctor. She saved lives. Isn't
that was supposed to happen. The idea that you need
state sanctioned people to perform functions that God taught us
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how to do. The idea that you're a lesser person
if you don't fill out all the forms and go
to the place that was designated for that. The idea
that you would try to do something for yourself because
you're a whole and complete, independent person, makes you somehow
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reckless because you don't have the impromater, the blessing of
the state. They've conditioned you, and it'll be very hard
to get it out of your head. It'll start with
thinking I'm crazy, and it'll end up with sending me
every article. And you now read on already on the
subject activated show. So the phone lines we go. Georgia,
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you're up first, sweetheart. Go ahead, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh howdy. I just wanted to call because I used
to work weekends and I always hated listening to the
Friday Morning Song. But now that I have weekends off,
I actually absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It's funny you say that, because we are actually conscious
of the fact that a growing percentage of our audience
is time shifting the show. They do not listen via
the radio, They listen by podcasts later, and they don't
listen at the same time. So some of what we do,
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and this goes back to starting twenty years ago, some
of what we do is to create a moment in time,
you know, Monday morning, Friday morning, Friday drive home, and
we're not going to change it, but it does create
a very different show. What do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'm a dog groomer.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh well, yeah, I would love to see the numbers
on how many people in our society make a living
with the care, treatment, grooming, walking of dogs, like a
total aggregate number, because first of all, I see the
sprinter vans everywhere. Think it's cool. I've got maybe five
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different lesbian listeners, five different sets. I'm not putting a
throuple and then one couple, but five different sets of
lesbian women, which seems to be a high propensity. Who
are listeners?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Are you lesbian?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
No? No, I'm not. But there's a big community in
the dog groomer world.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Why do you think that is? I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Dog groomers tend to be a little more e centric,
so I guess that falls into category.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Interesting. It's also something you can do without needing anyone
else's permission, or going to work with someone else, or
dressed however you want, or tats or piercings or hair
or whatever else. Yes, sir, that's interesting. Are you on
your own Georgia?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I work at a salon which one uh, it's called
Wolfgang Bakery in Bridgeland.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Wolfgang Bakery and and so they do dog treats there too.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yes, they're in like custom birthday cakes and all those
types of things.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
What percentage of your customers do not have children? The
dog is a proxy?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh, I don't know, maybe forty.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
How many dogs do you have.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Myself? I me, jeez, a lot. I do about five
to six dogs a day.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So you have at your home?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh, personally, sorry, I don't have any.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's weird. You get enough dogs?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, well, we used to have dogs, but whenever we
had our daughter, she got really sick and we found
out she was allergic, so we had to rehome them.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So when I went to the allergist doctor Chris Colosso,
I was going we love our German shepherd, George. I
was going to keep her. I didn't go there to
be tested for dog hair, but it was one of
the things that was on the sixty two most likely
things you could be allergic to. And I said, you
don't need to test me for dog care because I'm
not getting rid of my dog. And he said, no, no,
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it's just good to know because we can make some
minor tweaks. And the good news was I wasn't allergic
to her or cats, thank goodness, because I don't have
cats or want cats, but you know people do have
cat on them. And he said, oh, dog dog hair
allergy is way more common than you realize. And he said,
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it's not my job to make decisions for people, but
I do think they should know these are your triggers.
Tell me a sleeper breed of dog that may not
it may not have a lot of social cachet, but
it's a good dog. And for what reason. Don't say
a labradoodle or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
No, I get enough of those. I really come to
love Schnauzers. I think they're just cute and little and
have a lot of attitude, which I like.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You ever have a Jack Russell Terrier?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Uh No, But I think they're also the cutest things.
But they're very sassy.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think they're hideous. I have a friend named Stephanie
Cockran and she's got one, and he's he's got he
looks like Jim Nabers. He's got the vottom teeth out
in front of the thing and it's a her. Actually,
she's got your bottom teeth way out under there like
Herman munster, you know, like you could catch the rain
as it's falling in there, and your teeth are out
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under there. And little bitty tiny thing and just snappy
all the time. Her name is Jackie and she is hilarious.
Everybody loves this high strung dog.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yes, oh, the terriers are fine, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What's the dog that when somebody brings it in, you go, oh,
my goodes, that's gonna be about to keep an eye
on that one. That one's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Me personally, I'm absolutely terrified of Oh yeah, so I
always get nervous when I have one for the day.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
My wife and I have had two chuahuas across a
period of thirty years, one for thirteen years, one for
seventeen years, Boochie and Nickknack. And I never would have imagined.
I grew up with Cocker Spaniels, simple dog, loving dog,
sweet dogs. But these two dogs were yappy, snappy, yes, demanding.
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I loved them, love both of them. I love how
much spunk that they had. I love the fact that
they would bully bigger dogs that came around. And I
love the fact that they had great discernment if they told,
if they barked the bark of a you know, there's
somebody in the yard. It wasn't a leaf falling it
was somebody boocket, somebody's in there. Yar you've got corn?
Pop was a bad dude the Michael Berry Show. If
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you're on hole, hang tight right there, I will get
to you. Alan the trucker, you're up next, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, I got a story.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Alan. Did you get your gift card and bumper stickers
and all that? Oh? I don't know for coming.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Elan.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We're doing that thing again, you always do. I can't
hear you. I don't know if you've fallen into a
well like a Jonah well or a water well but
clear shoe or blue wooth, or you crawled up under
a house, or maybe they're holding you hostage. I don't
know what, but I can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Can you hear me out?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Not? Well? But anyway, go ahead? Did it? Did it arrive?
Or didn't it? That's all I need to know.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But I cannot About every six like boom hour, about
every third word I get Alan call us on uh
like a real telephone. Yeah, why don't oh you We're
gonna send him a landline. Those are expensive. Those are expensive, Melanie.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Hey, Michael, that lady that called in about uh home birth?
I think she's a little crazy, and I'll explain why
I have five children. And when we were getting ready
to have our fourth child, we went to the hospital
because I'm a high risk pregnancy. So we go into
the hospital because I'm an active labor. My doctor's not
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there because she happened to be out of town, and
so the resident on duty checks me out. I stay
for about an hour and he goes, well, you're not
progressing very fastly, so we're going to send you home. Now.
This was about four o'clock in the afternoon when he
decided to send me home. I told him, I says,
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you don't understand this baby is coming tonight. I always
kind of slow down when I get to about four centimeters,
so I don't really feel comfortable going home. And he goes, no,
you really need to go home because you're just not
going to have this baby. So fine, so we go home.
We go back in about eleven thirty that evening because
labor is still actively progressing, and he checks me out
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and he goes it's the same resident and he goes,
we're going to send you home. You're not progressing. I'm like,
you don't understand this baby is coming.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
To me all night.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
This is my fourth baby. I know what I'm doing.
He goes, no, no, no, You're not having this baby tonight,
maybe sometime tomorrow afternoon. So he sent me home. At
one o'clock in the morning, I wake up because something's
not right. I wake up my husband. He calls my
cousin so he could watch. They can watch our other
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three children, and we start heading to the hospital. Well,
my water broke at home, and I was like, oh
my god. My husband runs every red light, every stops,
signing that he can. At one thirty in the morning,
pulls into the e r They bring out a wheelchair,
bring me upstairs to labor and delivery. I told the nurse,
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we don't have time. We need to get into a
delivery room. She goes, we need to have you checked
out in this little examination room. So fine, So she
gets me on the bed, does her examination, and the
look on her face is priceless because she's feeling my
daughter's head there. So now they're rushing to get me
out of that room into a delivery room. And as
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I turn the corner in the hallway, I tell the
nurse I have to push, and she goes, well, don't
do it. I said, it's too late, and my daughter
was born in the hallway for everybody to see. So
the doctors are not to know all to safe deliveries
at all.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
True. I'm not anti doctor, far from it. I've made
it my business to get to know doctors who are
at the top of their field. I send a lot
of people to doctors with different maladies that they have.
I have a great deal of respect for people who
specialize in a field where I grow disturbed, which was
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Julie's call. Is this idea that you're a lesser person
if you choose to do things for yourself that you've
been told or better done over here? There is There's
no doubt that there are medical advancements with regard to
the pregnancy and birthing process that today save lives. The
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greatest medical advancement of the last one hundred and fifty years,
and it's not even in dispute. Is doctors washing their hands.
That turns out to be the most drastic improvement or
reduction in mortality rates of anything done in a hospital setting.
And it seems so simple now, but so does the wheel.
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I wouldn't have invented that either, yeah, you know, I
think it. The frustration I have is not with Julie.
The frustration I have is how we fall into these
ideas of nothing is good unless it has a sign
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out front, or it's in an office building, or it's formal,
or it's official. And then you've got people like gay
Dave over there off the grid raising his own vegetables,
or some other guy making his own moonshine, or some
other person you know, raising their family's own livestock or
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churning their own butter or any number of other things.
I just I think that so much of what we
are exposed to is a clash on our brain, and
it's hard to push back against the craziness at all
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times and have the confidence which most people do. Sorry,
most people lack the confidence to say. I know, they say,
this is what you're supposed to do at this point
in your life, but this is what I'm going to do,
and I'm going to have the confidence to do that,
you know, And so much of what we do is
you talk about peer pressure. I watched we had a
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lot of weddings at the RCC, and I watched the
whole process, and so the bride or worse, the bride's
the bride to be is groomed to be. We'll say, hey,
why are we spending all this money on this? Whyn't
you have to do that? Because the bride's mothers say yeah,
do that, and they'll go. But but that I mean,
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I'll be honest with you. Maybe in twenty years I'll
have more money. But you know, we're trying to cover
as much of this as we can. And I don't
know why we need embossed printed out envelopes and then
have the separate envelope that comes back that's also embossed,
and then we have to have gold leaf. I'm never
I've never known anybody to be sitting at home and
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their life's so empty that they go, I shall now
go to the mailbox and hopefully receive a proper wedding
invitation with sufficient embossing and gold leaf to befit a
real wedding, not some loser. Well, why are we spending
all this money that we don't have? You know, people
will forego medical procedures for half the cost of what
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they spend on some stupid, silly pre addressed special heavy
grade heavy weight paper, because somehow that shows that your
wedding is more valuable. But there's just all this is
social pressure, and then there's an industry around. I've seen
it with what I have. A friend bought a scratching
ding coffin for a loved one recently because they were
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short on money. He said, do you think less of me?
I said no, no, I think that's fantastic because nobody's
going to be looking at it. Save six thousand dollars
on the coffee. It's a real jello pudding. Julie writes,
Oh my god. I was giving birth to my second
daughter and I was in a hospital room when a
lady was screaming in the hallway. Five minutes later, a
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nurse came in and I asked what was all the
screaming about. The nurse told me some lady just had
a baby in the hallway. She also said, don't worry,
it was their fourth child. Let me tell you something,
when you meet a woman that has given birth five, six, eight,
nine times like this, that that lady is tough, no nonsense.
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You know, it's amazing how women before the Internet figured
out how to be parents. They didn't get to read,
you know, from all the PhDs in psychology, who will
counsel you to cut your kids winer off. They didn't
get all these They didn't go to Lama's, they didn't
learn to breathe, they didn't watch television shows, join organizations,
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didn't have a relative around. Military wives who were posted
to third world countries, didn't have air conditioning in tropical environments,
and they would just PLoP those kids out, one after
the other. That is a no nun that a wise woman.
Don't worry whether she uses present tents for past tens.
That is a wise woman right there, tough.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The one that always got me ramon is my mother
would keep other people's babies because in the country where
you have no money, you don't you can't give people
money gifts the way we do now, just stupid stuff
that people don't even want. They never unwrapped, they never use,
but it's a gift, so you spend money on it.
But if you don't have money, you have acts of service,
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you know, the foot washing. And so my mother would
would babysit people's kids as a you know, oh they
just had a baby, she needs to have some time off.
And I remember how she would check and see if
the baby had pooped the diaper. She'd just stick her
finger down in there mine, Oh my goodness, and it
would come out, you know, and it had caramel macchiato
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looking on there, and she'd have to I'd say, Mom,
why can't do you? She said, diapers are too expensive.
You can't take the diaper off to check and see
if the baby has pooped. What a different time. Remember
a few years ago there was a there was a
big deal that people were going all natural the cloth diapers.
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So they set up services and the people would deliver
the cloth diapers and you would you know, they'd have
some sort of a little like a like a cat
cat litter deal that you would throw it in that
would retain the smell so it wouldn't stink up your house,
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and then they would do that. I remember that that
phase for a while. I'm assuming it went away. I
don't know. Let's go to Holly. Holly, you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Hi, good morning. I just wanted to just say that
I was so appalled with Julie's call. I was working
out this morning in my garage, listening to like I
do every morning, and you told the story of your
friend's daughter, and I thought, Wow, what a beautiful story
for a Friday. And then this woman feels like she
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has to call you and tell you how that is
such a bad decision. And I think that is across
the board, a huge problem in our society now, with
everybody feeling like they must tell you what their opinion
is about it. And I just got so angry. That's
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a phone call.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't let it back towards you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Make me angry because, as you noted it, first of all,
it's my friend and his wife, so I have feelings
for them, and then it's their grand baby and it's,
you know, one of the greatest days of their lives.
And here is someone saying, you know, basically reducing it
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to rubble and it's not necessary. But you know, when
you do what I do for as long as I have,
my wife says, people will say, doesn't it bother him?
When you know people will say the nastiest things, and
she says, well, I don't know if this is good
or bad, but he grew a skin of leather and
you do. And it makes it very hard in your
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personal relationships because you no longer care what people think
about you, and that is a level of freedom that
is so exhilarating, but it's frightening to people when you
literally do not care that someone disapproves of your opinion,
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or you state a position that you know comes off
as sounding crazy, just as it sounded crazy when Ron
Paul said it, or when when you know some other
person said it, and yet you know it to be true,
and so you say it nonetheless, and that that is
a it's a transcendental state, but it can make for
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awkward relate. It makes you more of a recluse. I'll
tell you that because because most people have a surface
level understanding and development of their position on issues, which
is fine, just simply don't feel the need to state
your opinion on everything, especially when you're criticizing someone else's.
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I find Facebook to be comical and I have to
be careful what I say because it sounds mean. And
I can be mean, make no mistake about that. I
can be very dismissive and very mean. But when you
spend your whole day having people telling you I'm your
biggest fan. But you know, today, during the five hours
I was listening, there was thirty two seconds I didn't
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like because you were talking about something else over there,
and I didn't like that, and that was thirty two saves.
And so you have to kind of go, Okay, the
free show that you listen to five days a week,
for five hours a day, because it's so damn good.
You have no idea how hard we work to get
to that point, how good we are at what we do.
But for thirty two seconds of the last three hundred
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hours you've listened to, you didn't like that we talked
about building a stove or flying the Uganda, And rather
than let that thirty two seconds pass and move on,
you felt the need to tell me. So here, I
am reading every email. Nobody that does what I do
reads every email that comes in, and it would blow
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your mind the massive emails I get through, respond to,
forward to our team process. I'm pretty proud of it.
It's a machine. It's Lucille ball at the chocolate factory.
And yet I've now wasted part of my time reading
something that someone could have very easily kept to themselves.
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You know, I just I don't get it. And Facebook
is the absolute worst. YEP had a burger yesterday. They
put a double meat cheese mayonnaise. It was good on there,
and a person is sitting in her house scrolling right,
doesn't know me, doesn't have that level familiarity, and has
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scrolled through thirty thirty eight other things. But then they
get to yours and they go, I don't like mayonnaise
on minds. Okay, okay. Well, when I posted that, I
was wondering if Susan and Keema liked mayonnaise, and I
thought i'd flush her out, I'd sniffer out, throw a
little bait out there and see what her position was.
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Now I know Susan, Now I know it is. My
wife calls it the American overshare, this idea that because
I have an opinion, I had just stated, That's why
I try not to offer many opinions. You just got
to keep my thoughts myself.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Live rob Television.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Stay at Hollywood happening, everybody, no man, Come.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
And listen to my story about a man named Jed
or Mountain Near, barely kept, his family sad.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Just a good old boy, never meaning no home. It's all.
You never saw men.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
In trouble where the low sensity they was born.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome by your dreams were your ticket? I welcome by.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I say this calls for action and now nip it
in the bus. I'm missing on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
any w k R. Different, stroll the world, different, strong
the world.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Why the way Glenn Millow played songs?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Made parade?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yes, why gosh, we hadn't made ths?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
What clean Lisa bit, I'm coming to join us. H
m hmmm, I'll believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Be Get your lady behind out here and put that
trunk up in the back.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh no, no, the word we've got it. It's very heavy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
She don't mind. She's short and skinny, but she's strong.
Her first baby come outsideways. She didn't scream or nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Isn't that's something.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
We were told that the homeschoolers were backward. They wouldn't
learn socialization skills. You need to send your kid to
the school run by the state so your child will
learn social skills. They'll be socialized, socialismized, they'll be socialized.
(02:49):
Because the child is subjected to homeschooling, they'll be backward,
be awkward. You won't know how to interact with people.
You can't teach. What are you a teacher? You're going
to teach at your home? You don't have an education
degree and a school with a proper cafeteria and a
(03:16):
coke machine and bathrooms and bullying and school buses like
a school supposed to have. How's your kid gonna learn
with all without all that? What are you going to
unionize as a parent. You're gonna have a maintenance worker
with three felonies. It's diddled for the kids. You're gonna
have a principal that became a principal because they didn't
(03:38):
want to teach and got out of the classroom as
fast as they could. What are you gonna float bonds
for hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to play
for to pay for stadiums and new schools and construction
costs because the administrator's family members are all on the take.
What are you gonna do that at home? You can't
run a school. You don't even know where the corruption
is supposed to be had. Idiot. So we were told
(04:01):
that the kids couldn't learn at home because homeschool, and
they wouldn't socialize the bunch of little weirdos like Carl
and sling Blade. You don't want to raise a little
weirdo that doesn't go to school. Kind of weirdo is
your kid going to be? If they see somebody at
the park and they go up to enter a group
of kids that are all playing, the other kids will
(04:22):
taunt them because they'll be a weirdo. They won't know
how to be socialized like you learn at school. Right,
And then COVID hit and the teachers didn't want to teach,
so they shut down the schools and they sent you home.
But nobody worried whether the kids would be socialized. Can't
(04:46):
learn at home? There's no learning at home. What are
you doing? I go to school? Unless what do I
want you to go to school? But we'll tell you
when to go to school. Can't have a baby at home?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
What do you.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Somebody that knows something about biology. Well, actually she's a doula. See,
you gotta have certifications coming from the state. I fill
out the paperwork and some listless smug clerk in Austin
needs to open your paperwork. Make sure you put in
all the information in the boxes and send the fee,
(05:25):
because if you don't send the fee, your license doesn't
work and you won't be able to deliver the service.
And then they take the they stamp it and send
it back. Now you know how to perform the service. See,
this is why we have licensing and regulation. This is
why if you go over to blodge it to eighty
eight and you see some black woman sitting on the
(05:49):
porch and she's got another black woman sitting on the
steps in front of her, and she's doing twists in
her hair or extensions or braid, this is why you
must perform a citizen's arrest. Roll up and ask her
for her licensing and regulation because she can't twist or
(06:12):
extend or braid that hair unless she has the license.
And it'll be two hundred dollars. This is how people die,
just just braiding the hair on the steps. You gotta
we created a whole industry around this. You gotta pay
(06:33):
for all that. Remember when doctor Mary Tally Boden was
giving ivermectin to patience. They had tried traditional medicine, they
had died, people were dying from you couldn't get into
the hospital to see your loved one, and she gave ivermectin,
(06:56):
which is a cheap over the counter drug. The rest
of the world has it hydrochloroquin. Remember that the Texas
Medical Board, Sharif Frafique Hafique something, the head of the
Texas Medical Board, came after her and has done nothing
but harass her ever since. For what she's a kook?
(07:19):
Is that what we're supposed to believe because they tried.
She's crazy, she's a witch doctor. She saved lives. Isn't
that was supposed to happen. The idea that you need
state sanctioned people to perform functions that God taught us
(07:45):
how to do. The idea that you're a lesser person
if you don't fill out all the forms and go
to the place that was designated for that. The idea
that you would try to do something for yourself because
you're a whole and complete, independent person, makes you somehow
(08:08):
reckless because you don't have the impromater, the blessing of
the state. They've conditioned you, and it'll be very hard
to get it out of your head. It'll start with
thinking I'm crazy, and it'll end up with sending me
every article. And you now read on already on the
subject activated show. So the phone lines we go. Georgia,
(08:34):
you're up first, sweetheart. Go ahead, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh howdy. I just wanted to call because I used
to work weekends and I always hated listening to the
Friday Morning Song. But now that I have weekends off,
I actually absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It's funny you say that, because we are actually conscious
of the fact that a growing percentage of our audience
is time shifting the show. They do not listen via
the radio, They listen by podcasts later, and they don't
listen at the same time. So some of what we do,
(09:18):
and this goes back to starting twenty years ago, some
of what we do is to create a moment in time,
you know, Monday morning, Friday morning, Friday drive home, and
we're not going to change it, but it does create
a very different show. What do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'm a dog groomer.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh well, yeah, I would love to see the numbers
on how many people in our society make a living
with the care, treatment, grooming, walking of dogs, like a
total aggregate number, because first of all, I see the
sprinter vans everywhere. Think it's cool. I've got maybe five
(10:03):
different lesbian listeners, five different sets. I'm not putting a
throuple and then one couple, but five different sets of
lesbian women, which seems to be a high propensity. Who
are listeners?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Are you lesbian?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
No? No, I'm not. But there's a big community in
the dog groomer world.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Why do you think that is? I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Dog groomers tend to be a little more e centric,
so I guess that falls into category.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Interesting. It's also something you can do without needing anyone
else's permission, or going to work with someone else, or
dressed however you want, or tats or piercings or hair
or whatever else. Yes, sir, that's interesting. Are you on
your own Georgia?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I work at a salon which one uh, it's called
Wolfgang Bakery in Bridgeland.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Wolfgang Bakery and and so they do dog treats there too.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yes, they're in like custom birthday cakes and all those
types of things.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
What percentage of your customers do not have children? The
dog is a proxy?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh, I don't know, maybe forty.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
How many dogs do you have.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Myself? I me, jeez, a lot. I do about five
to six dogs a day.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So you have at your home?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh, personally, sorry, I don't have any.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's weird. You get enough dogs?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, well, we used to have dogs, but whenever we
had our daughter, she got really sick and we found
out she was allergic, so we had to rehome them.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So when I went to the allergist doctor Chris Colosso,
I was going we love our German shepherd, George. I
was going to keep her. I didn't go there to
be tested for dog hair, but it was one of
the things that was on the sixty two most likely
things you could be allergic to. And I said, you
don't need to test me for dog care because I'm
not getting rid of my dog. And he said, no, no,
(12:31):
it's just good to know because we can make some
minor tweaks. And the good news was I wasn't allergic
to her or cats, thank goodness, because I don't have
cats or want cats, but you know people do have
cat on them. And he said, oh, dog dog hair
allergy is way more common than you realize. And he said,
(12:53):
it's not my job to make decisions for people, but
I do think they should know these are your triggers.
Tell me a sleeper breed of dog that may not
it may not have a lot of social cachet, but
it's a good dog. And for what reason. Don't say
a labradoodle or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
No, I get enough of those. I really come to
love Schnauzers. I think they're just cute and little and
have a lot of attitude, which I like.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You ever have a Jack Russell Terrier?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Uh No, But I think they're also the cutest things.
But they're very sassy.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think they're hideous. I have a friend named Stephanie
Cockran and she's got one, and he's he's got he
looks like Jim Nabers. He's got the vottom teeth out
in front of the thing and it's a her. Actually,
she's got your bottom teeth way out under there like
Herman munster, you know, like you could catch the rain
as it's falling in there, and your teeth are out
(13:58):
under there. And little bitty tiny thing and just snappy
all the time. Her name is Jackie and she is hilarious.
Everybody loves this high strung dog.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yes, oh, the terriers are fine, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
What's the dog that when somebody brings it in, you go, oh,
my goodes, that's gonna be about to keep an eye
on that one. That one's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Me personally, I'm absolutely terrified of Oh yeah, so I
always get nervous when I have one for the day.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
My wife and I have had two chuahuas across a
period of thirty years, one for thirteen years, one for
seventeen years, Boochie and Nickknack. And I never would have imagined.
I grew up with Cocker Spaniels, simple dog, loving dog,
sweet dogs. But these two dogs were yappy, snappy, yes, demanding.
(14:58):
I loved them, love both of them. I love how
much spunk that they had. I love the fact that
they would bully bigger dogs that came around. And I
love the fact that they had great discernment if they told,
if they barked the bark of a you know, there's
somebody in the yard. It wasn't a leaf falling it
was somebody boocket, somebody's in there. Yar you've got corn?
Pop was a bad dude the Michael Berry Show. If
(15:24):
you're on hole, hang tight right there, I will get
to you. Alan the trucker, you're up next, Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, I got a story.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Alan. Did you get your gift card and bumper stickers
and all that? Oh? I don't know for coming.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Elan.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We're doing that thing again, you always do. I can't
hear you. I don't know if you've fallen into a
well like a Jonah well or a water well but
clear shoe or blue wooth, or you crawled up under
a house, or maybe they're holding you hostage. I don't
know what, but I can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Can you hear me out?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Not? Well? But anyway, go ahead? Did it? Did it arrive?
Or didn't it? That's all I need to know.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But I cannot About every six like boom hour, about
every third word I get Alan call us on uh
like a real telephone. Yeah, why don't oh you We're
gonna send him a landline. Those are expensive. Those are expensive, Melanie.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Hey, Michael, that lady that called in about uh home birth?
I think she's a little crazy, and I'll explain why
I have five children. And when we were getting ready
to have our fourth child, we went to the hospital
because I'm a high risk pregnancy. So we go into
the hospital because I'm an active labor. My doctor's not
(17:07):
there because she happened to be out of town, and
so the resident on duty checks me out. I stay
for about an hour and he goes, well, you're not
progressing very fastly, so we're going to send you home. Now.
This was about four o'clock in the afternoon when he
decided to send me home. I told him, I says,
(17:28):
you don't understand this baby is coming tonight. I always
kind of slow down when I get to about four centimeters,
so I don't really feel comfortable going home. And he goes, no,
you really need to go home because you're just not
going to have this baby. So fine, so we go home.
We go back in about eleven thirty that evening because
labor is still actively progressing, and he checks me out
(17:51):
and he goes it's the same resident and he goes,
we're going to send you home. You're not progressing. I'm like,
you don't understand this baby is coming.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
To me all night.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
This is my fourth baby. I know what I'm doing.
He goes, no, no, no, You're not having this baby tonight,
maybe sometime tomorrow afternoon. So he sent me home. At
one o'clock in the morning, I wake up because something's
not right. I wake up my husband. He calls my
cousin so he could watch. They can watch our other
(18:20):
three children, and we start heading to the hospital. Well,
my water broke at home, and I was like, oh
my god. My husband runs every red light, every stops,
signing that he can. At one thirty in the morning,
pulls into the e r They bring out a wheelchair,
bring me upstairs to labor and delivery. I told the nurse,
(18:43):
we don't have time. We need to get into a
delivery room. She goes, we need to have you checked
out in this little examination room. So fine, So she
gets me on the bed, does her examination, and the
look on her face is priceless because she's feeling my
daughter's head there. So now they're rushing to get me
out of that room into a delivery room. And as
(19:05):
I turn the corner in the hallway, I tell the
nurse I have to push, and she goes, well, don't
do it. I said, it's too late, and my daughter
was born in the hallway for everybody to see. So
the doctors are not to know all to safe deliveries
at all.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
True. I'm not anti doctor, far from it. I've made
it my business to get to know doctors who are
at the top of their field. I send a lot
of people to doctors with different maladies that they have.
I have a great deal of respect for people who
specialize in a field where I grow disturbed, which was
(19:47):
Julie's call. Is this idea that you're a lesser person
if you choose to do things for yourself that you've
been told or better done over here? There is There's
no doubt that there are medical advancements with regard to
the pregnancy and birthing process that today save lives. The
(20:09):
greatest medical advancement of the last one hundred and fifty years,
and it's not even in dispute. Is doctors washing their hands.
That turns out to be the most drastic improvement or
reduction in mortality rates of anything done in a hospital setting.
And it seems so simple now, but so does the wheel.
(20:32):
I wouldn't have invented that either, yeah, you know, I
think it. The frustration I have is not with Julie.
The frustration I have is how we fall into these
ideas of nothing is good unless it has a sign
(20:54):
out front, or it's in an office building, or it's formal,
or it's official. And then you've got people like gay
Dave over there off the grid raising his own vegetables,
or some other guy making his own moonshine, or some
other person you know, raising their family's own livestock or
(21:16):
churning their own butter or any number of other things.
I just I think that so much of what we
are exposed to is a clash on our brain, and
it's hard to push back against the craziness at all
(21:37):
times and have the confidence which most people do. Sorry,
most people lack the confidence to say. I know, they say,
this is what you're supposed to do at this point
in your life, but this is what I'm going to do,
and I'm going to have the confidence to do that,
you know, And so much of what we do is
you talk about peer pressure. I watched we had a
(22:00):
lot of weddings at the RCC, and I watched the
whole process, and so the bride or worse, the bride's
the bride to be is groomed to be. We'll say, hey,
why are we spending all this money on this? Whyn't
you have to do that? Because the bride's mothers say yeah,
do that, and they'll go. But but that I mean,
(22:21):
I'll be honest with you. Maybe in twenty years I'll
have more money. But you know, we're trying to cover
as much of this as we can. And I don't
know why we need embossed printed out envelopes and then
have the separate envelope that comes back that's also embossed,
and then we have to have gold leaf. I'm never
I've never known anybody to be sitting at home and
(22:43):
their life's so empty that they go, I shall now
go to the mailbox and hopefully receive a proper wedding
invitation with sufficient embossing and gold leaf to befit a
real wedding, not some loser. Well, why are we spending
all this money that we don't have? You know, people
will forego medical procedures for half the cost of what
(23:05):
they spend on some stupid, silly pre addressed special heavy
grade heavy weight paper, because somehow that shows that your
wedding is more valuable. But there's just all this is
social pressure, and then there's an industry around. I've seen
it with what I have. A friend bought a scratching
ding coffin for a loved one recently because they were
(23:29):
short on money. He said, do you think less of me?
I said no, no, I think that's fantastic because nobody's
going to be looking at it. Save six thousand dollars
on the coffee. It's a real jello pudding. Julie writes,
Oh my god. I was giving birth to my second
daughter and I was in a hospital room when a
lady was screaming in the hallway. Five minutes later, a
(23:49):
nurse came in and I asked what was all the
screaming about. The nurse told me some lady just had
a baby in the hallway. She also said, don't worry,
it was their fourth child. Let me tell you something,
when you meet a woman that has given birth five, six, eight,
nine times like this, that that lady is tough, no nonsense.
(24:19):
You know, it's amazing how women before the Internet figured
out how to be parents. They didn't get to read,
you know, from all the PhDs in psychology, who will
counsel you to cut your kids winer off. They didn't
get all these They didn't go to Lama's, they didn't
learn to breathe, they didn't watch television shows, join organizations,
(24:45):
didn't have a relative around. Military wives who were posted
to third world countries, didn't have air conditioning in tropical environments,
and they would just PLoP those kids out, one after
the other. That is a no nun that a wise woman.
Don't worry whether she uses present tents for past tens.
That is a wise woman right there, tough.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The one that always got me ramon is my mother
would keep other people's babies because in the country where
you have no money, you don't you can't give people
money gifts the way we do now, just stupid stuff
that people don't even want. They never unwrapped, they never use,
but it's a gift, so you spend money on it.
But if you don't have money, you have acts of service,
(25:32):
you know, the foot washing. And so my mother would
would babysit people's kids as a you know, oh they
just had a baby, she needs to have some time off.
And I remember how she would check and see if
the baby had pooped the diaper. She'd just stick her
finger down in there mine, Oh my goodness, and it
would come out, you know, and it had caramel macchiato
(25:54):
looking on there, and she'd have to I'd say, Mom,
why can't do you? She said, diapers are too expensive.
You can't take the diaper off to check and see
if the baby has pooped. What a different time. Remember
a few years ago there was a there was a
big deal that people were going all natural the cloth diapers.
(26:15):
So they set up services and the people would deliver
the cloth diapers and you would you know, they'd have
some sort of a little like a like a cat
cat litter deal that you would throw it in that
would retain the smell so it wouldn't stink up your house,
(26:36):
and then they would do that. I remember that that
phase for a while. I'm assuming it went away. I
don't know. Let's go to Holly. Holly, you're on the
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Hi, good morning. I just wanted to just say that
I was so appalled with Julie's call. I was working
out this morning in my garage, listening to like I
do every morning, and you told the story of your
friend's daughter, and I thought, Wow, what a beautiful story
for a Friday. And then this woman feels like she
(27:10):
has to call you and tell you how that is
such a bad decision. And I think that is across
the board, a huge problem in our society now, with
everybody feeling like they must tell you what their opinion
is about it. And I just got so angry. That's
(27:31):
a phone call.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't let it back towards you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Make me angry because, as you noted it, first of all,
it's my friend and his wife, so I have feelings
for them, and then it's their grand baby and it's,
you know, one of the greatest days of their lives.
And here is someone saying, you know, basically reducing it
(27:53):
to rubble and it's not necessary. But you know, when
you do what I do for as long as I have,
my wife says, people will say, doesn't it bother him?
When you know people will say the nastiest things, and
she says, well, I don't know if this is good
or bad, but he grew a skin of leather and
you do. And it makes it very hard in your
(28:13):
personal relationships because you no longer care what people think
about you, and that is a level of freedom that
is so exhilarating, but it's frightening to people when you
literally do not care that someone disapproves of your opinion,
(28:33):
or you state a position that you know comes off
as sounding crazy, just as it sounded crazy when Ron
Paul said it, or when when you know some other
person said it, and yet you know it to be true,
and so you say it nonetheless, and that that is
a it's a transcendental state, but it can make for
(28:56):
awkward relate. It makes you more of a recluse. I'll
tell you that because because most people have a surface
level understanding and development of their position on issues, which
is fine, just simply don't feel the need to state
your opinion on everything, especially when you're criticizing someone else's.
(29:17):
I find Facebook to be comical and I have to
be careful what I say because it sounds mean. And
I can be mean, make no mistake about that. I
can be very dismissive and very mean. But when you
spend your whole day having people telling you I'm your
biggest fan. But you know, today, during the five hours
I was listening, there was thirty two seconds I didn't
(29:37):
like because you were talking about something else over there,
and I didn't like that, and that was thirty two saves.
And so you have to kind of go, Okay, the
free show that you listen to five days a week,
for five hours a day, because it's so damn good.
You have no idea how hard we work to get
to that point, how good we are at what we do.
But for thirty two seconds of the last three hundred
(30:01):
hours you've listened to, you didn't like that we talked
about building a stove or flying the Uganda, And rather
than let that thirty two seconds pass and move on,
you felt the need to tell me. So here, I
am reading every email. Nobody that does what I do
reads every email that comes in, and it would blow
(30:22):
your mind the massive emails I get through, respond to,
forward to our team process. I'm pretty proud of it.
It's a machine. It's Lucille ball at the chocolate factory.
And yet I've now wasted part of my time reading
something that someone could have very easily kept to themselves.
(30:44):
You know, I just I don't get it. And Facebook
is the absolute worst. YEP had a burger yesterday. They
put a double meat cheese mayonnaise. It was good on there,
and a person is sitting in her house scrolling right,
doesn't know me, doesn't have that level familiarity, and has
(31:06):
scrolled through thirty thirty eight other things. But then they
get to yours and they go, I don't like mayonnaise
on minds. Okay, okay. Well, when I posted that, I
was wondering if Susan and Keema liked mayonnaise, and I
thought i'd flush her out, I'd sniffer out, throw a
little bait out there and see what her position was.
(31:27):
Now I know Susan, Now I know it is. My
wife calls it the American overshare, this idea that because
I have an opinion, I had just stated, That's why
I try not to offer many opinions. You just got
to keep my thoughts myself.
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