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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Varry Show is on the air. Well, Chicago has been

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in the news of particular interests of late, not simply
because it's a dangerous hellhole where thugs who the Democrat
Party protects shoot each other up, but because the President
intends to fix it, and they'll have none of that.

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You will not fix Chicago. We like it broken. And
once you understand that, you learn a lot. Well, then
you had another bloody weekend over the Labor Day weekend,
and the mayor of Chicago was out and governor of
Illinois where out was out, and they're both out screaming

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about Trump while their people are being shot and killed.
To put it into perspective, you know, these these are
data points. Were forty seven wounded in nine killed or
fifty four wounded, depends on what hour you stopped counting.
The point is every minute that goes by, more people
are going to get shot. And those are just data points.

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They're statistics until they're not till they're real human beings.
And so we thought we would dive in a little deeper,
dig into the archive and do another round of the
Chicago Weekend Crime Report. Chicago is just I mean, it
really is just miserable.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes, now like Chicago and now the Michael Berry Show
presents the Chicago Weekend Crime Report.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
That was the later verse. Yeah we had a burlier
I forgot about that RNA. Eleven fiftive pm on Friday,
CPS responded to reports of gunfire, finding the door to
a home standing wide open. When they entered, they found

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a twenty three year old woman with a gunshot wound
to thee to the leg, ramon to the leg, and
a twenty five year old woman with a multiple gunshot
wounds too. Yeah, pretty much everywhere. The twenty five year
old woman tragically passed away en route to the hospital. Saturday,

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in a very unusual case, a sixty three year old
man drowned. It's not unusual that someone drowns, is that
another person did it? Only the third time the Chicago
Police Department has ruled a drowning as a homicide, meaning
another person forced the person under the water until they

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couldn't breathe any longer. Not a real common way to
kill somebody. Happened in a pretty nice area along Lake
Michigan eleven am Saturday morning, a twenty nine year old
man and a thirty two year old man. We're standing
around outside when a dark SUV pulled up and the

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bullet started flying. Suspect in the shooting is unknown and
shall we say unknowable because we're not about to tell
you what he looks like. Where was he driving? Acrist
of three thousand, cause that a help. The twenty nine
year old pulled up. The twenty nine year old took bullet,

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took multiple bullets to THEE to the torso, little buddy
to the torso. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The thirty two year old man was shot in the
in the right side. Insufficiently specific for my taste. These
people don't realize in they're filling out reports. We're trying

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to make a show here. Yeah, yeah, not the right
side to get shot. Yeah, he's shot on the wrong side.
Seven forty five pm a forty three year old woman
standing outside of her home when five men approached her
and said, if one of us fouls out, we need
a sixth man. They began shooting and she died at

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the scene. Sunday, eight thirty one, at one forty a
m three men aged forty one, forty three and forty six.
We're standing outside when someone approached them and opened fire.
The forty one and forty three year olds each had
wounds to their to their legs from home, and we're

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in good condition at the hospital. The forty six year
old was not so lucky. He expired of his wounds
after arriving at the er. Two fifty am, a thirty
three year old man got into an argument with another
man who he knew. The second man pulled out a
weapon and shot the victim in the head. His conflict
conflict dispute resolution skills were not well honed. He was

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pronounced dead at the scene. Seven thirty pm, twenty six
year old woman stand outside when she got into an
argument with another woman. The second woman shot the victim
in the chest. She died at the hospital. See I
told you, see, I told you. See Now I win
the argument we just argued about. They might not be argued.
Eight thirty pm an adult male was found lying in

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the street with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead
at the scene, but before cops could arrive, eighteen people
passed by and filmed it on their phone without telling
a single soul, because that's what you do. In Chicago
in certain communities. Monday morning, eleven to twenty am. Man outside,

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another man approaches, shot him in the chest multiple times.
Dead at the er Welcome to Chicago. Eleven forty two pm,
twenty five year old woman walked into the er. She
said she'd been a passenger in a vehicle when she
heard some pops and then felt pain. She had been
shot in the left temple. She died at the hospital
shortly thereafter. Chicago had quite the number of multiple victim

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shooting events this weekend, called mass shooting events. On Saturday night,
seven people were outside around the corner from the Chicago
Public Safety headquarters and got shot as a vehicle passed
their group. At least one person a vehicle opened fire.
Everyone who was wounded is in stable condition. Sunday morning,
early four people shot when several men began firing at

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the group from two vehicles. All the victims are in
good condition, except they live in Chicago's they'll be dead tomorrow.
I mean, we saw boys in the hood early Monday
morning when POPO were called to the scene of a
large disturbance. Big street party. That's always a good sign.
We're gonna have a big street party and guess who
we're gonna invite. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna end. Well, shots

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rang out. When the Popo ran to investigate, they discovered
five people had been shot. Four of the victims are
in fair to good condition. The fifth, a seventeen year
old men, had been gut shot and is in critical condition. Well,
is this what we want on the streets of American cities? No,
it is not. It is that time, Tonto. It is

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time to call in the Loane.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
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Speaker 2 (08:25):
Little Chicago, Niki, Gilly and the girls all get pretty
At closing time when you're listening to the Michael Berry Show, part.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Believe you can't missed it. July fourth, awful flood was
exactly two months ago today. Does it feel like it
was longer than that? It feels like that was forever ago.

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There's so many things happening so fast, so many things
happening so fast, that we can only retain so much,
so things get pushed to the back of our memory.
My wife when she came to this country after years

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of being here, she said, you know, it's amazing in India,
building stand for one hundred, one hundred and fifty years more.
She grew up in a house that was several hundred
years old. It was basically like a plaster as the exterior,
and you know, they're just boxes for all intents and purposes,

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and the staircases just a it's just concreted stairs. It's
just amazing. You know, the old paved paradise. Put up
a parking lot. We just knocked stuff down. We knocked
stuff down and put other stuff there. I saw a

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house on the street we used to live on, went
back to look at the old house we used to
live on it near Memorial Park. We'd go driving down there,
and the house that was there was beautiful. It's a big,
sprawling home. And my wife said, oh, Bob's house. They
tore Bob's house down. They tore this big house down

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to build an even bigger house on the same lot,
and the house that was there wasn't an old house,
was probably at most twenty years old. And the American
mindset is to just keep moving building, and I think
that's the reason we create so much wealth. At any
given time. There's more construction going on in this country

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than any three, four or five countries combined. China would
be the exception. But those are not market that's not
market driven construction. It's government sponsored construction. It's a very
different model and it's not comparable. And there are entire
cities in China that they will level after they build them.
It's a very weird dynamic. But in any case, this

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is also true of our media environment, especially in the
era of Trump, because he's conscious he only has so
many hours as president, so he is moving as fast
as he can to make as many changes. But he's
being very smart about something. He's not just picking one
big lighthouse in the distance that will be his crowning achievement.

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As he walks out the door, he knows, I've got
to make constant. I've got to show the other Republicans, yes,
you can do this. You can arrest illegal aliens, you
can arrest Democrat politicians who break the law. This sort
of unspoken rule that the Democrats and the media and

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the academt they all have of Oh, you couldn't do it.
You couldn't arrest Hillary Clinton. I mean, she's Hillary Clinton.
Yes you can, that's just it. You can. Two months
ago hard to believe. I I think many times about

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the mothers and fathers of those girls and how they
suffered the grief related. You know, there are still people
there daily doing recovery efforts. It's called rescue when there
are people still alive. It's recovery when you know you're
past that point. There are people still daily. We sent

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a film crew on Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I think it
was to get footage. And I don't know that I
don't know that I'll make it in the film. I
don't know that that's I don't know that that's really understood.
But I can tell you today, on September fourth, isn't
it amazing there are people still out there in that muck.

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You know how depressing it is after a flood, and
they're out there trying to find some fragment of a
human being to say to the family, here here's your baby,
here's your child. I'm sorry I couldn't do better, but
here's your child. Imagine what drives a person to be
willing to do that, because odds are you not going

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to find that person. It's a needle in the haystack.
I would like to take your calls on the subject,
whether that is reform, whether that is hey, they did
the best they could do. We shouldn't be trying to reform.
We don't need government overreach or we need better standards.
I just ask you to be mindful that we're talking

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about the loss of life of human beings of Texans.
We're talking about something that hits home for a lot
of our audience. A number of those families and their
friends and their friends listen to our show. So don't
be callous. Consider that no matter what you say, you
are still talking in an environment where there this is

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still very very raw, very very recent to them. And
with that will open the phone lines. I'm not going
to narrow the topic any further than that. It's two
months to the day seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
While the phone lines are ringing, Let's take Christy's call
on Raisin Brand, and then you can take the rest
on camp Mystic Christy. Go ahead, dear, Hey, good morning, Michael.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
I'm calling to tell you that there are people who
love Raisin Brand. I like it.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
My dad good.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
My dad is in his eighties.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
He's been eating it for fifty plus years. It's gotta
be Calloggs. It can't be Post, it can't be any
off brand. His big change a few years, probably twenty
years ago, was going from whole milk to two percent.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
It took a long time to convince him to do that.
He used to put sugar on.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
It, but now he he doesn't.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
He just slices a half of bananna.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Maybe that makes it more edible. But I don't eat
freeze and Brand because I don't eat carbs. But I
don't mind it.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
But he loves it.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, obviously you're you're you're onto something, because I'm just
looking through my emails right here. Belinda Foltz, who does
all our printing, says she loves Raisin Brand. Sky Mike
says he loves Raisin Brand. Scott says, I grew up

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in Australia and as a kid I loved sultana brand.
I just learned sultanas and raisins are almost the same thing,
but come from different grapes. I didn't even know that
people ate that stuff to stay regular, but I guess
that makes sense. Somebody moving to New Orleans, Jason says,
I avoiding avoiding cereal because it's bad for you, But

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it's that guy wrote a tome It's You're poisoning me
now but growing up, But this was my favorite raisin
brand and Quaker oatmeal squares Ron writes, I knew a
girl in college who bought a box of Raisin Brand
for the first time, poured a bowl and really liked it.
She then had a couple more bowls that morning. She
wasn't able to make it to her classes that day.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
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Speaker 1 (16:28):
Low can't last long, so hurry into Cricket City Circle
Fast and Slow. That's Paula Nelson's there's a show on
Serious XM on the Little Willie Neilson Willi's roadhouse. It's
called Lily Nelson Station. The phone calls we go. Yesterday

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I announced that we will be talking to a menopause expert.
Doctor Davis. She's a concierge doctor. She's now my dad's
concierge doctor. Menopause is one of her areas of specialty.
In fact, she's a diabetes doctor endochronologist, but she serves
as a family physician as well. That way you don't

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have to have two different doctors. When I was talking
to her about her passion for diabetes, which you would
know that she has based on how she treats my dad,
and she said, well, my first love is intellectually is
menopause and women's hormonal aging issues. And I said, what
is that? And she said, well, men are comfortable talking

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about testosterone, and men are comfortable talking about the changes
that begin to occur and continue to occur and accelerate
as you age, as you lose the male hormone, and
as your body begins these changes. And men have come
out out of the woodwork to be willing to talk

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about this openly and it's I've heard you talk about it,
and I do, she said, but for women it's very
very covered up. And we started talking about menopause and
I said, well, my first brush with menopause was about
nineteen eighty five. My mom was forty years old, and

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she was how best to say this in the words
of a fifteen year old, She was crazy. She had
gone completely nuts, bonkers. And we always thought my mom
was little nuts, as you know, men will say of
there the boys will say with their mom. But she
started just flying off the handle. She started acting crazy,

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and till her dying day, my brother Chris and we
would talk to her about those years and she said,
it's going through my menopause and that was her end
her for everything. So we always viewed menopause as an
excuse that you make. You know, Mom's being a bee

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and she wants to blame her no menopause. Well, now,
with the virtue of age forty years later, I go
she didn't want to be crazy. I know that what
benefit was it to her to be crazy? What benefit
was to her to scream and shower? And she would
tell us about things you don't understand, these hot flashes,

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and women's health, particularly as it related to sexual health
and hormones at that time, was not very advanced. And
in fact, most women and I think many women to
this day, do not go and get any medical treatment.

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I'm not a believer that that doctors are God's But
I am a believer that there are medical treatments that
you should consider. If you're able under the guidance of
a doctor just understanding, then you go and read about
it and learn about it. But I think a lot
of women are in the situation where my mom was,
where they don't have the resources. And you know, she

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had a physician's desk reference because she'd been a nurse's
assistant at an old folks home in Orange, and you know,
you go to that thing and you're going to die
of everything you got. You spend two minutes in that thing,
and you know you got dry eyes and they're probably
going to rip your eyeballs out. So that thing's not
particularly helpful. At least Now with the Internet, you can

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you know, you got to be careful, but you can
start to learn more things, and you can read different opinions,
and it's healthy to get different opinions. I find that
a lot of people want to know the answer to
the question and just tell me the answer. Well, whose
answer are you going to take? Who's right and who's
wrong in Ukraine in Russia, because who you asked is

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going to make all the difference in the same war.
Is Trump the best president of the worst president? Who
you ask is going to make all the difference. So
you asked the wrong person, you come to the wrong
conclusion anyway, So I've thought a lot about that. And then,
as I mentioned, yesterday, we had a dinner party and
our knew Davis was there and we were talking about

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my dad and we started talking about menopause. And it
was either late that night or the next morning. I said,
did you notice how interested the women, because all the
women were fifties plus, were in talking about menopause as
something let's call it women's hormonal aging. And so I thought,
let me, let me check on that, and I thought

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about it, and I decided it was a good idea.
I don't know that I have ever suggested doing a
topic for the future. Usually we just you tune in,
and you know, it's a variety show. You don't know
what's going to happen. I very rarely say we're going
to talk about something. In evance, I said, we're going
to talk about this next Friday. I can't tell how

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many emails I got it said which hour? That just
doesn't happen. Not that we don't talk about interesting things ay,
we don't tease the head what we're going to talk about,
but be people listen or they don't. They listen if
it's convenient. They don't plan to set their clock by it.
So that tells me there is a great untapped need

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to learn more about this issue. And I was surprised
how many men and I think this is cool, who
reached out to me and said, hey, I'm glad you're
doing that. I told my wife about it, and we're
going to listen to it together, because look, I make
jokes about awkward situations because it makes it easier. Some

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people are uncomfortable with jokes about awkward situations, you know,
not taking it seriously. You don't understand the point of
humor because you don't sense of humor. But I do understand,
and I do consider this a serious, very serious issue.
As we age, we change, and a lot of people
are going through these changes alone, not just hormonal, but

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losing loved ones and financial stress and all these things
physical decline. And to the extent we can bring you resources,
people to talk to doctors that may be able to
treat you, websites where you can learn more, I think
that is one of the most rewarding things that we
get to do, and I'm looking forward to it. If

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you have a question about menopause for next Friday's show,
send it to me sooner rather than later through the
website Michael Berryshow dot com.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Michael Berry, you are.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
More to ring the King's English.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yes, I'm a fool, as you may have divined.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
So I got an email from a fellow named Tex Crowley,
subject line gritty music Evening, Michael, I'm currently up in
Illinois running flowers and an eighteen wheeler for a friend
of mine. I'll be back in college station in about
ten days. It's hit and miss, but I'm able to
tune into your program when I'm not in the trailer unloading.

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I heard you talk about Tom Waits and other gritty
voices that you like. Figured i'd clue you in on
a friend of mine, Paul Marhofer aka long Haul Paul.
He's a semi retired trucker see what I did there
in his mid sixties, and he didn't break out of
his shell till about ten years ago. He definitely has

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that gritty, real world sound to his voice. The man
is a gentle giant but has a gravitas about his sound.
Here's a couple of tunes that I actually shot video for.
The song thirty Weight Coffee is an old is an
ode to the old school outlaw truckers, especially bullhulers, who
took plenty of speed back in the day to get

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the cattle to where they needed to be. There may
have been plenty of instances of illicit drug use back
in the day of cattle hauling, but hardly ever did
you hear of cattle trucks involved in wrecks. And he
sent me another one, a song called Chevrolet Jesus, and
he says, that's me and my seventy seven Chevy starring

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in it. The guy's name is long Haul Paul and
the song is Thirtyweight Coffee. It has the melancholy and
loneliness of a guy that is on a truck late

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at night, all alone, a long way from home, and
you just kind of imagine that cigarette and the coffee. Now,
maybe it's because he's lived it, it manages to come
through in his voice. Phil, you're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yes, mister Barry, thank you. But what I haven't heard
too much about about those rivers and valleys and dry
creeks and creeks and things of that nature. Is the
people that live in that country, for example, in this camps,
are in these camps that we're talking about. They know

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all about the problems with rain in those areas. And
so my problem, and it's entirely mine, is I don't understand.
I have a friend out there where I stayed, and
he told me, if it begins to rain, get your
r V up and out of here and get on

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high ground across the river. My question to you is,
I haven't heard any discussion about why those people allowed
those kids and other people on the river without warning them.
When it begins to rain, get your rear ends out

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and get up the hill because we may have some flooding.
And so that is my question to you.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Unfortunately, I don't have an answer. I don't have an answer,
but I will share some assorted comments I have heard.
I have heard from a number of people who understand
this issue and who have more experience with this than
I do. So let me start there, and I will

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say that you know, higher ground is very important during flooding,
and you can't be seeking higher ground at the last minute.
I've never been to the site of Camp Mystic. I
do know that there was a neighboring boys camp where

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not a single person perished. It strikes me the basics
of scientific investigation would tell you look at those two
cases and tell me what was done differently. And I
think you have the likelihood that there is Your answer.

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Was it simply because the boys were stronger, that they
could climb higher, run faster. I don't know. I suspect
there were different measures taken. One of the complicating factors
is that Dick Eastland, who was the head of Camp Mystic,

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I knew his name, never having sent a daughter. You
can't miss it. And to this moment, I've never heard
a foul word spoken, a cross word spoken of him.
He was beloved, he and his wife. These camps become

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like a church, and in many cases it is a church,
but in some senses of the word. But these girls
were so connected to this place and space and each other.
I can't tell you how many friends I have whose daughters,

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you know, they can't wait after they graduate and they
go to they go to college that first year and
they get to come back and be a camp counselor
they can't wait as a highlight. They're going to get
to be They're going to get to be what they
looked up to just a couple of years ago. Did
that Did that blind people to safety measures? Very likely?

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The cult of personality. It happens, It doesn't mean there
are any ill intentions. I don't know. I think we
will learn more. I fear that because it's so painful,
people will just move on and we won't take better
measures because the government's not going to be the one
that solves the problem. I'll tell you that