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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Berry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Too quick. Programming notes. Tomorrow is our annual adoption special.
If you are Verklempt when it comes to being on
the air or speaking publicly, and you would like to
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nevertheless share your adoption story, you may email those to me.
Our website is Michael Berryshow dot com Michael Berryshow dot com,
and it will say send me Michael an email. Please
put adoption as the subject line, because then when I
print those out, I can put all of those in
one stack, and I can keep that folder for adoption
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because there'll be emails on all sorts of different things,
and that helps me to organize a useful subject line
is very very helpful to me on the show. I
would like to hear your adoption story, whether you're the parent,
whether you're the person who was adopted, or you were
a mother who gave up their child. Every year will
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have at least one mother who will, I think, very
bravely share their story.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Kind of put it in the for God. So is
no greater love hath any mail than to lay down
his life for a friend. I think carrying a child
to term rather than having an abortion for a child
that is. As much as I hate the word, the
word that is widely he's unwanted or unplanned. I think
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that carrying a child to term and handing that child over,
giving that child life, and handing that child over despite
the maternal instinct and after everything you have been through,
I think it is so selfless and so sacred and
so good. And there are more women who have done
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that walking among us than we realize. Many times, it's
a young woman sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old, and she
gives up this child, and she's at a point in
her life who knows what's going on. And then she
kind of gets her stuff together, she moves back in
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with her parents, starts to work, and meets a guy.
Maybe she goes to college, maybe she starts a career,
she gets married, they have children, and years later, that's
a secret, it's always back there in the back of
her mind. I don't think a woman needs to be
ashamed of that. I think it's a very very honorable thing.
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I don't think that life is perfect. I think that
there is beauty all around us, and sometimes that beauty
is in areas that we might not have noticed, or
we may not always realize. Tomorrow will be our Adoption Special.
If you want to take a moment today and share
your thoughts, you can still call in tomorrow if you
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build up the confidence to do it in the meantime.
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to it. We're not a political campaign. Thursday tomorrow is
the Adoption Special. Friday is the Thanksgiving Special. We always
do that the Friday before Thanksgiving. The reason being we
are well aware that a number of you will after
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you finish work or school on Friday or the kids
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begin your journeys to Memo in Papov's house for Thanksgiving,
and we may not get you live, and for the
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If you're listening to the podcast and you're compelled to
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call in, it'll be too late. So Friday will be
our Thanksgiving show. There'll be a couple of things that
we always play on Thanksgiving, including Rush Limbaugh's The Meaning
of Thanksgiving, which of course takes on a whole new
meaning after his passing. And our favorite call, maybe our
favorite call to the show of all time, the woman
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who called the Sardines story. And those of you who
remember that will remember that. But anyway, if you want
to share your Thanksgiving story with us and you're worried
you won't get in or you're afraid you wouldn't be
able to speak on there, you can send that as well.
Please put Thanksgiving in the subject line so again we
can pull that out and separate it for that show
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and make sure it stays on point. Alice, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning, Michael. Your observation of the
man walking down the street with the two double bags. Yeah,
was he an older man?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, I don't know what that's a relative term. My
guess is he's between fifty seven and sixty three.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Okay. My immediate thought was he has dementia and he
is running away, either from home or an assisted living center.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I'm pretty sure now I'm gonst strike that as a
as an alibi. He's he's, he's. I don't think he
has dementia. He still had his wits about him. I
believe he's the mastermind of a bank heist. He did
not carry himself, you know, in a Joe Biden dementia
sort of way. And the place he was walking out
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of was not a it was a residence, it was
not an assisted living facility, and he drove himself off.
He was very purposeful in the way that he walked,
so he was a guy carrying out an order. And
it was odd actually that he never looked around him.
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He did not scope the circumstances. This was the guy
who was purposely focused and refusing to look around in
order to avoid making any eye contact or his face
being spotted or drawing any attention in that way. So
I think this guy's a professional. I really do. I
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don't think this is the first time I think this
guy is an actual professional. I've watched a lot of
movies and a lot of documentaries, and I have a
vivid imagination. I'm pretty sure this guy is. Yeah, this
is gonna I have asked for a report on all
bank robberies within the last week. This guy's so good
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it is possible. It is possible that this bank heist
was a month ago and he's just been laying low
in that house. And that house never I drive past
that house every day. That house never sees any action,
never has any activity. And uh, it would be a
perfect place to lay low because it's off the beaten path.
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It's not far from our studio. It's off the beaten path,
so you're not going to get a lot of people,
you know, just kind of around the area checking things out.
And when he came out, it was both bags in hand,
which were heavy for him. He could have carried one
and put it in the truck, but he didn't. He
carried him with two hands like they always do in
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the movies, and he went to the a It's a
Kingcab to the to the second door, dropped them both
opened the door. He didn't have a clicker because it's
an older Chevy truck, opened the door, placed him in there,
closed the door and got in. And when he got in,
he got in with the complete bank heist mindset. Looking. Dude,
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I'm pretty sure of this. I used to do aerobics
till I dropped. Then I tell you to Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I recommend it.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
And so this next story, as reported by ABC thirteen,
this guy gets shot.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
By his ex girlfriend and then she's out on bond.
If you've ever known somebody who was a victim of
violent crime and the violent criminal is then given a bond,
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it is the victim and their family who are now
put in jail because you're having to live in fear,
first of all, because you're the witness to the crime,
because you're the victim. Second, because you got all the
stories on how OJ beat you up, as Nicole Simpson
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so many years before. You've got stories that aren't in
the that aren't in the crime reports, weren't weren't reported
for you know that he beat up all his other girlfriends,
you know their names. You know how to reach them,
stuff that the cops would never find. But if he
can off you, and he's just dumb enough to do that,
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he's just dumb enough to think, well, if i'd just
kill her, which in today's in today's criminal justice system,
it might actually be a good a good strategy. So
here's a dude whose ex girlfriend shoots him and multiple
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times and then they give her a low bond. ABC
thirteen with the story Here.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
In this wooded area off of two eighty eight and
your Houston Community colleges were twenty four year old Elvis
Munos nearly lost his life in September. He says his
now ex girlfriend, Alexis Pentho lured him to watch the
sunset in this area and then his accused of shooting
him multiple times, including in the chest and hands. Munyo
says he begged Bento to get him help, and she
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finally took him to a gas station where people stepped
in and called police. Court document show Pinto was accused
of aggravator assault in connection to the September twentieth shooting.
Initial bond document showed the state was asking for a
high bond because of the nature of the offense and
for the safety of the victim and community. Months later,
a judge granted her a ten thousand dollars bond, and
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she posted bail This morning. As she awaits her next
court hearing, Munyo says Pento was his girlfriend for three
years and lived with him before. He says she betrayed
him and caught him by surprise with a gun to
his head.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
She knew exactly what should be she should face her
consequences and or just want to know why she did
it since I mean I deal with.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Sever At this point, police have not released a motive
for the shooting. We have reached out to the Pinto
family and their defense attorney, and we have not heard
back yet. As for Munols and his family, they tell
us right now they're not living in peace and are afraid.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Dude, what kind of chick is miss Pinto? I mean,
how does that work? She lured you out to see
the sunset.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Puppy pull over, pull over, fuffy, This sunset is a romantic.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
No, just pull over for a minie. Let's go, let's
go enjoy this, I.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Said, I do for you. Well, you like, come up,
puppy pull over. I make it worth you a while? Yeah,
I have to bring my extra purse. While you're asking
why I have my extra purse? You just come and
see the sunset over here? Uh oh no, no, over
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here some more. They can still see us from the road.
I'll be where your keys in case I should have
to leave without you.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do know anything I happen? In case you're having a
heart attack, I have to what's there? And what is
bank account password? In case I have to get money
for the hospital if you have a heart attack or something.
I'll become a little further over here.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Look what I'm showing you, puppy, I'm to see.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Okay, that's good enough. Now now stand over there and
turn around and don't look.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
At me.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And count to demn puppy, Now stand up straight. I
can't seem to get a good angle on you, puppy.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
How does that word?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean, at what point does she go from luring
to firing? I mean she probably not a very good
shot because she has the element of surprise here, right,
and if she shot him multiple times, I'd like to
have some details on this deal. And then who is
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the magistrate? When they bring her in, they say, look,
she got seventy five thousand dollars. She got seventy five
thousand dollars bond, which is she got to come up
with seven thousand, five hundred. You have to come up
with ten percent of it. The fellow says that, you know,
she blasted away at him, just came out of nowhere.
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He has no idea why she did it. She lured
him over here, and he's worried that she'll if we
let her out, If she gets out, she'll kill him
and his family. And she's obviously crazy. Right, we got
a pretty good idea. She's crazy. She's show man multiple times.
This is not self defense. Okay, So at that point, yeah, well,
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let's not make it real hard for her to get out.
Let's drop that seventy five thousand down to ten thousand,
which means for one thousand dollars, she's back out on
the street. I'd like to know whose gun this was.
Does she take his gun and shoot him with it?
Or is this Pentho's gun? Where did she get this gun?
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I need some more details on this story, but this is,
you know, all kidding aside. This is an fed up
fact pattern, but it's not that uncommon, the woman shooting
a man. It is Usually, if a woman shoots a man,
he'd been knocking her around at the house and finally
she's had enough and she's she gets hold of a
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gun and makes it stop. Okay, that's different. Usually it's
a man beating a woman. And you know, I wonder
how many women in the Greater Houston area right now,
right now are living in fear of a man who
went who was arrested for beating them up, trying to
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kill him, getting close to killing them, and they're out
on a bond. And when you see these guys that
they're not just sitting around watching the fights and have
too much to drink and start knocking her around. They
go there with the purpose of killing her and sometimes
her kids. Every time that guy is out on a
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domestic assault charge against him for beating her up before,
because the moment the cops haul him away from the
scene and he's being arrested and she's well, she knows,
and he knows he's coming back. He's coming back now,
and now he's going to finish the job because he
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feels betrayed because these officers are arresting him because of her.
My brother told me that in almost every case when
you would respond to a domestic abuse, domestic violence, and
you get there, no matter how bad he has beaten her,
no matter how long the beatings have been going on,
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no matter if he's beaten the kids, no matter how
no matter how much you just want to grab him
and get him out of there and throw him in
a cage. At some point she will beg you not
to take him every time, not because she doesn't want
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you to take him chexy. If she could make him evaporate,
she would, but because she doesn't want to be the
one going, yeah, yeah, get him out of here, because
he's coming back, and our system is going to let
him out to come back and kill her, and in
this case, let her kill him.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Old times Michael Varry, I did say play a survivors song.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I said, what you did. It's not a song about survivors,
but it is a survivor song, so it qualifies. I'm
not I'm not gonna beat up on you for that.
I got a lot of messages from folks related to
the Bonfire collapse in ninety nine. One of them was,
my name is Bill Davis. I'm a Bonfire ninety nine
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collapse survivor. I was trapped for four hours in the
hospital for several weeks. If you'd like to talk, I
am open to it. Bill Davis, Bill is our guest.
Welcome Bill, Howry, Michael. What that's quite the voice? What
was that a result of the bonfire? Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I was up on the second layer, second stack.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But did you always have that great voice? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
The voice? Yeah, just God gifted.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's a good voice. What do you do for a living?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Counting? Nothing related to my voice?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So walk me up to that moment. You were what
year at A and M And why were you out
on the stack.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, I was a sophomore. It was my second year
working on bonfire. I was a crew chief, in charge
of a dorm with the several other guys, and I
was up on bonfire working on it.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
How high up were you?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I was on the second stack, so roughly, you know,
forty forty five feet up.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I've never been to it. So you're you're you're talking
to me blind. Uh, So that's pretty pretty high up there.
And and when you're when you're climbing up there, there's
no external ladder or anything, right, You're just you're climbing
up the logs.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
That's right. You're you're grabbing on the wire. You know,
we wire the logs in to give it some structure,
and you're you're stepping on knots, you're stepping on cut
branches and wire climbing your way up there.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So how long before it comes down do you start
noticing a sway?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I didn't even notice it. I was. I was up
there and I just happened to be looking down towards
the ground, and I realized I kind of saw the
ground moving. So for me, it was it happened right away.
Some people heard noises, some people felt movement, but I
just the way I was standing on what I was doing,
I didn't notice any of that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And what what were you actually in the act of doing.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Up there, wiring wiring logs. They'd send logs up and
we'd wire them to the stack. Okay, At that moment though,
I was looking down at the ground towards my dorm.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay. And then did it did it start falling from
the top on to you or did it tip over
and you went with it? What happened then?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, I was on the fall side, so the side
it fell towards, so I you know, it all happened
extremely fast. What felt like a fraction of a second
as it was falling, I realized it was falling. I
pushed off and I hit the ground and it fell
over the top of me.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And you were trapped for four hours? Did you think
you were going to make it.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I don't remember a thought of ever feeling like I
was going to die. I'll tell you this. So there
was there was a log across my elbow, and I
was right up against the dirt. One of the first
people to find me was a restistory therapist, and she
said the way she describes it is she watched bonfire
fall through her camera lens, and as soon as it started,
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she chucked her camera and ran to stack to help.
And she came right away and said, hey, do you
believe in Jesus chrites to your Lord and Savior? I
said yes, and then she started working on me. She
gave me oxygen and said she had to move on
and said other people needed help. So, and I've heard
several people repeat that they met her. She talked to him.
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I couldn't see her. I was faced in and I
literally didn't have enough room in underneath the kind of
the area that I was trapping. I couldn't lift my
head and turn outwards, but she could see me and
she could kind of hear me.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
So you were face down in the dirt.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, I was if I don't know how to
describe it, but I was three to five feet in
from I think what was going to be the western side.
I couldn't. I was faced inward from that three to
five feet in and couldn't. I was trapped, pinned down
enough that I always just describe it as it was
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kind of the width or the size of my body
cavity I was. My left elbow was sticking out but
my right but my left hand was near my left hip.
My right elbow was underneath me. My hand was kind
of cross my chest, and I couldn't lift my head
to turn. It was that tight, But I didn't feel
like I was being squeezed, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
So did you think to yourself, they got to get
me out of here for me to survive, or did
you think to yourself, it's gonna take time. This is
a logistical nightmare, but they will get to me and
I will be fine.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
One of my guys from my dorm got to me
pretty quick, and I was screaming. I said, grab the guys, let's,
you know, lift these logs off me. I didn't know
what was on top of me. I didn't know what
it looked like, but I knew I needed to get
out of there. I was in pain. I was I
had broken There was a log across my elbow. My
doctor later told me it was in twenty pieces. So
three bones got broken up. I shot at my femur
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punctured and collapse where I long last right of my liver,
cracked both my cheekbones. So I was I would be
willing to bet I was in shock because I wasn't
in extreme pain, but you know, I was going through it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So they get you out after four hours, and then
they take you to which hospital, Saint Joseph, and then
you're there for several weeks, and then what happened right.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Then I went home. I had started rehab right away,
but I continued rehab on my leg and my elbow
probably for the next till I think they end of
March early April.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That elbow seems to be your primary focus, because you
bring that up a lot. That one was bad.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It was that's what kept me under there for so long.
There was literally a log on top of my elbow.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And how did you feel when all this was over
about what had happened?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
To be honest, you know, for the first I was
in ICU for six days, I didn't know somebody died.
You know. They got me out of they literally they
pulled me out of stack. They told me to lift
my head, and they drugged me out of there, put
me on a backboard and got me a hospital. And
I was in ICU for six days, so I didn't
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find out people had passed away until six days later.
And it was a blessing in some ways, because you know,
I didn't I have so many friends. They couldn't talk
about it afterwards.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Do you use stuff on it? Would you want the
university to bring it back and sanction itia property supervisor?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
As long as the parents were okay with it and
it was safe.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Yeah, to come up with the right character, mister Michael Barry,
That's how I found my.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
First ten wives long.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Wrong.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
So there's a tweet.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That John Thune from Sandy from South Dakota posted November
eight of twenty sixteen, and he said Donald Trump should
withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately.
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Now that does not sit well with Trump supporters, as
you might imagine.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
That is.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
That is not being well received. I am not going
to endorse John Thune and tell you that he's going
to be a good partner for Donald Trump, because I
don't know that to be true, and I think his
temptations will be too grand. I spent a lot of
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time today talking through in communications with people, why wouldn't
he just do what Trump asked him to do. Trump
just won in a big way. And the answer is this,
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It's not as simple as it looks. Remember when I
told you again and again that naivete is what is
our biggest problem. You keep thinking that John Thune is
out for what's best for this country, and you keep
thinking that John Thune sees the power in this country
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to be based in your consent, in your votes. Neither
of those is true. Almost every person in government would
allow this country to burn to the ground if it
benefited them personally. And you've got to understand that. Until
you can understand that, then you're never going to understand
why they do what they do. Remember, they're not like you,
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and you're not like them. This is like you're studying
a whole different species from your own. So first of all,
they're not out to do what's best for the country.
And number two, they do not perceive you as their boss.
Our constitution does, but they do not. They perceive that
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you are a constant nuisance. They love being senators. You
have no idea what a great life it is. You
have no idea. They are daily told by staffers of
their own choosing how smart they are, how clever they are.
They're daily being honored in their home state. They're being
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begged to be fitted, you know, please come back to
whatever state and come to this little town and bestow
your glory on us by being here. And they have
old staff of people schedulers, and also and no we
can't do it, then we do it. We'll come there.
They're introduced as if they're the greatest person in the
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history of mankind. Truth is, for ninety of them, nobody
in the country knows who they are. I could read
you some of the names and you'd go and if
I gave you the name of them or a professional
baseball player, you wouldn't know which was well, the professor,
you'd know because if it was, if it sounded Dominican,
you know, as a professional baseball player, but nobody knows
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whose people are but within their own little club. And
you will often hear the Senate referred to as a
as a clubby atmosphere. One thing you need to know,
it's not Republicans versus Democrats. Throw that out. It is
us versus them, and they view it as them versus us.
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You are the enemy. They don't want you to know that,
and they typically won't say it unless you catch them
when they get mad. Arlen Spector said it. There have
been a few on their way out they'll say it,
but what ends up happening is once they're out the door,
then they're free to say and do. Paul Ryan, Oh,
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people thought I never liked Paul Ryan, never trusted him.
Paul Ryan leadership positioned Republican Party in the House. The
minute he got out, he starts cashing in and doing
everything he could to keep the corporate media and government
from having to listen to you. You annoy them. You
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don't know as much as they do. You're you're you're
simple minded. You are full of biases and cravings and opinions,
and none of it matters you're all out there just
Dan Crenshaw says this all the time. You're all just idiots.
You're listening to those talk show hosts and these people
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firing you up. But none of it is true. That's
that's that's what they believe. They believe that only they
who are meeting with the heads of the companies that
are writing in the checks, only they understand why the
big businesses need to be bailed out. Only they need
to Only they understand why they have to take your
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money and send it to Hamas and send it to Ukraine.
Only that you don't understand. You can't understand how the
real world works. You're just down there pulling a paycheck.
You don't grasp the important things that they are doing.
That's how these people look at this. That is absolutely
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how these people look at this. All right, That's all
I have to say about the Senate. Time will tell
a lot of people have come around on Trump. There
are people that were very close to Trump in sixteen
that now hate him, Michael Cohen, for instance, And there
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are people like me who did not like him or
worked against him and are now big supporters. Kelly and
Conway is another one of those. She was on the
cruise team. So one thing about Trump is he will
turn on someone who was a friend if he feels
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that person is no longer loyal. But the flip side
of that, he will make friends with former enemies if
he feels some good can be done. It's very transactional.
He's very mission focused. So I can't tell you whether
to like or not like the John Thune choice. I'm
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certainly not going to put my credibility behind him because
I know what really drives him to the extent that
it is in his own personal best interests to go
along with Trump. If and when that is the case,
he will do it. And that's all you can expect.
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But do not be naive. Do not believe that he
in any way is a public servant out to do
not believe that he respects the results of the Trump election.
That's not how these people work. They will work behind
the scenes. And you're still gonna have John Cornyn in there.
Weaseling around, knifing people in the back and out to
get you because now he's got a vendetta. You kept
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him from having his powerful position, which he's so desperately
wanted to wield. His power because that's what these people do,
that's what these people do.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Berry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Too quick. Programming notes. Tomorrow is our annual adoption special.
If you are Verklempt when it comes to being on
the air or speaking publicly, and you would like to
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nevertheless share your adoption story, you may email those to me.
Our website is Michael Berryshow dot com Michael Berryshow dot com,
and it will say send me Michael an email. Please
put adoption as the subject line, because then when I
print those out, I can put all of those in
one stack, and I can keep that folder for adoption
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because there'll be emails on all sorts of different things,
and that helps me to organize a useful subject line
is very very helpful to me on the show. I
would like to hear your adoption story, whether you're the parent,
whether you're the person who was adopted, or you were
a mother who gave up their child. Every year will
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have at least one mother who will, I think, very
bravely share their story.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Kind of put it in the for God. So is
no greater love hath any mail than to lay down
his life for a friend. I think carrying a child
to term rather than having an abortion for a child
that is. As much as I hate the word, the
word that is widely he's unwanted or unplanned. I think
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that carrying a child to term and handing that child over,
giving that child life, and handing that child over despite
the maternal instinct and after everything you have been through,
I think it is so selfless and so sacred and
so good. And there are more women who have done
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that walking among us than we realize. Many times, it's
a young woman sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old, and she
gives up this child, and she's at a point in
her life who knows what's going on. And then she
kind of gets her stuff together, she moves back in
(02:48):
with her parents, starts to work, and meets a guy.
Maybe she goes to college, maybe she starts a career,
she gets married, they have children, and years later, that's
a secret, it's always back there in the back of
her mind. I don't think a woman needs to be
ashamed of that. I think it's a very very honorable thing.
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I don't think that life is perfect. I think that
there is beauty all around us, and sometimes that beauty
is in areas that we might not have noticed, or
we may not always realize. Tomorrow will be our Adoption Special.
If you want to take a moment today and share
your thoughts, you can still call in tomorrow if you
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do that the Friday before Thanksgiving. The reason being we
are well aware that a number of you will after
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you finish work or school on Friday or the kids
finish school. You will on Friday or Saturday or Sunday
begin your journeys to Memo in Papov's house for Thanksgiving,
and we may not get you live, and for the
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If you're listening to the podcast and you're compelled to
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call in, it'll be too late. So Friday will be
our Thanksgiving show. There'll be a couple of things that
we always play on Thanksgiving, including Rush Limbaugh's The Meaning
of Thanksgiving, which of course takes on a whole new
meaning after his passing. And our favorite call, maybe our
favorite call to the show of all time, the woman
(05:21):
who called the Sardines story. And those of you who
remember that will remember that. But anyway, if you want
to share your Thanksgiving story with us and you're worried
you won't get in or you're afraid you wouldn't be
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Please put Thanksgiving in the subject line so again we
can pull that out and separate it for that show
(05:41):
and make sure it stays on point. Alice, you're on
the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning, Michael. Your observation of the
man walking down the street with the two double bags. Yeah,
was he an older man?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, I don't know what that's a relative term. My
guess is he's between fifty seven and sixty three.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Okay. My immediate thought was he has dementia and he
is running away, either from home or an assisted living center.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I'm pretty sure now I'm gonst strike that as a
as an alibi. He's he's, he's. I don't think he
has dementia. He still had his wits about him. I
believe he's the mastermind of a bank heist. He did
not carry himself, you know, in a Joe Biden dementia
sort of way. And the place he was walking out
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of was not a it was a residence, it was
not an assisted living facility, and he drove himself off.
He was very purposeful in the way that he walked,
so he was a guy carrying out an order. And
it was odd actually that he never looked around him.
(07:03):
He did not scope the circumstances. This was the guy
who was purposely focused and refusing to look around in
order to avoid making any eye contact or his face
being spotted or drawing any attention in that way. So
I think this guy's a professional. I really do. I
(07:24):
don't think this is the first time I think this
guy is an actual professional. I've watched a lot of
movies and a lot of documentaries, and I have a
vivid imagination. I'm pretty sure this guy is. Yeah, this
is gonna I have asked for a report on all
bank robberies within the last week. This guy's so good
(07:45):
it is possible. It is possible that this bank heist
was a month ago and he's just been laying low
in that house. And that house never I drive past
that house every day. That house never sees any action,
never has any activity. And uh, it would be a
perfect place to lay low because it's off the beaten path.
(08:08):
It's not far from our studio. It's off the beaten path,
so you're not going to get a lot of people,
you know, just kind of around the area checking things out.
And when he came out, it was both bags in hand,
which were heavy for him. He could have carried one
and put it in the truck, but he didn't. He
carried him with two hands like they always do in
(08:29):
the movies, and he went to the a It's a
Kingcab to the to the second door, dropped them both
opened the door. He didn't have a clicker because it's
an older Chevy truck, opened the door, placed him in there,
closed the door and got in. And when he got in,
he got in with the complete bank heist mindset. Looking. Dude,
(08:50):
I'm pretty sure of this. I used to do aerobics
till I dropped. Then I tell you to Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I recommend it.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
And so this next story, as reported by ABC thirteen,
this guy gets shot.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
By his ex girlfriend and then she's out on bond.
If you've ever known somebody who was a victim of
violent crime and the violent criminal is then given a bond,
(09:37):
it is the victim and their family who are now
put in jail because you're having to live in fear,
first of all, because you're the witness to the crime,
because you're the victim. Second, because you got all the
stories on how OJ beat you up, as Nicole Simpson
(10:01):
so many years before. You've got stories that aren't in
the that aren't in the crime reports, weren't weren't reported
for you know that he beat up all his other girlfriends,
you know their names. You know how to reach them,
stuff that the cops would never find. But if he
can off you, and he's just dumb enough to do that,
(10:27):
he's just dumb enough to think, well, if i'd just
kill her, which in today's in today's criminal justice system,
it might actually be a good a good strategy. So
here's a dude whose ex girlfriend shoots him and multiple
(10:48):
times and then they give her a low bond. ABC
thirteen with the story Here.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
In this wooded area off of two eighty eight and
your Houston Community colleges were twenty four year old Elvis
Munos nearly lost his life in September. He says his
now ex girlfriend, Alexis Pentho lured him to watch the
sunset in this area and then his accused of shooting
him multiple times, including in the chest and hands. Munyo
says he begged Bento to get him help, and she
(11:16):
finally took him to a gas station where people stepped
in and called police. Court document show Pinto was accused
of aggravator assault in connection to the September twentieth shooting.
Initial bond document showed the state was asking for a
high bond because of the nature of the offense and
for the safety of the victim and community. Months later,
a judge granted her a ten thousand dollars bond, and
(11:38):
she posted bail This morning. As she awaits her next
court hearing, Munyo says Pento was his girlfriend for three
years and lived with him before. He says she betrayed
him and caught him by surprise with a gun to
his head.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
She knew exactly what should be she should face her
consequences and or just want to know why she did
it since I mean I deal with.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Sever At this point, police have not released a motive
for the shooting. We have reached out to the Pinto
family and their defense attorney, and we have not heard
back yet. As for Munols and his family, they tell
us right now they're not living in peace and are afraid.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Dude, what kind of chick is miss Pinto? I mean,
how does that work? She lured you out to see
the sunset.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Puppy pull over, pull over, fuffy, This sunset is a romantic.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
No, just pull over for a minie. Let's go, let's
go enjoy this, I.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Said, I do for you. Well, you like, come up,
puppy pull over. I make it worth you a while? Yeah,
I have to bring my extra purse. While you're asking
why I have my extra purse? You just come and
see the sunset over here? Uh oh no, no, over
(13:12):
here some more. They can still see us from the road.
I'll be where your keys in case I should have
to leave without you.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do know anything I happen? In case you're having a
heart attack, I have to what's there? And what is
bank account password? In case I have to get money
for the hospital if you have a heart attack or something.
I'll become a little further over here.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Look what I'm showing you, puppy, I'm to see.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Okay, that's good enough. Now now stand over there and
turn around and don't look.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
At me.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And count to demn puppy, Now stand up straight. I
can't seem to get a good angle on you, puppy.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
How does that word?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean, at what point does she go from luring
to firing? I mean she probably not a very good
shot because she has the element of surprise here, right,
and if she shot him multiple times, I'd like to
have some details on this deal. And then who is
(14:23):
the magistrate? When they bring her in, they say, look,
she got seventy five thousand dollars. She got seventy five
thousand dollars bond, which is she got to come up
with seven thousand, five hundred. You have to come up
with ten percent of it. The fellow says that, you know,
she blasted away at him, just came out of nowhere.
(14:43):
He has no idea why she did it. She lured
him over here, and he's worried that she'll if we
let her out, If she gets out, she'll kill him
and his family. And she's obviously crazy. Right, we got
a pretty good idea. She's crazy. She's show man multiple times.
This is not self defense. Okay, So at that point, yeah, well,
(15:09):
let's not make it real hard for her to get out.
Let's drop that seventy five thousand down to ten thousand,
which means for one thousand dollars, she's back out on
the street. I'd like to know whose gun this was.
Does she take his gun and shoot him with it?
Or is this Pentho's gun? Where did she get this gun?
(15:32):
I need some more details on this story, but this is,
you know, all kidding aside. This is an fed up
fact pattern, but it's not that uncommon, the woman shooting
a man. It is Usually, if a woman shoots a man,
he'd been knocking her around at the house and finally
she's had enough and she's she gets hold of a
(15:54):
gun and makes it stop. Okay, that's different. Usually it's
a man beating a woman. And you know, I wonder
how many women in the Greater Houston area right now,
right now are living in fear of a man who
went who was arrested for beating them up, trying to
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kill him, getting close to killing them, and they're out
on a bond. And when you see these guys that
they're not just sitting around watching the fights and have
too much to drink and start knocking her around. They
go there with the purpose of killing her and sometimes
her kids. Every time that guy is out on a
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domestic assault charge against him for beating her up before,
because the moment the cops haul him away from the
scene and he's being arrested and she's well, she knows,
and he knows he's coming back. He's coming back now,
and now he's going to finish the job because he
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feels betrayed because these officers are arresting him because of her.
My brother told me that in almost every case when
you would respond to a domestic abuse, domestic violence, and
you get there, no matter how bad he has beaten her,
no matter how long the beatings have been going on,
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no matter if he's beaten the kids, no matter how
no matter how much you just want to grab him
and get him out of there and throw him in
a cage. At some point she will beg you not
to take him every time, not because she doesn't want
(17:41):
you to take him chexy. If she could make him evaporate,
she would, but because she doesn't want to be the
one going, yeah, yeah, get him out of here, because
he's coming back, and our system is going to let
him out to come back and kill her, and in
this case, let her kill him.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Old times Michael Varry, I did say play a survivors song.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I said, what you did. It's not a song about survivors,
but it is a survivor song, so it qualifies. I'm
not I'm not gonna beat up on you for that.
I got a lot of messages from folks related to
the Bonfire collapse in ninety nine. One of them was,
my name is Bill Davis. I'm a Bonfire ninety nine
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collapse survivor. I was trapped for four hours in the
hospital for several weeks. If you'd like to talk, I
am open to it. Bill Davis, Bill is our guest.
Welcome Bill, Howry, Michael. What that's quite the voice? What
was that a result of the bonfire? Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I was up on the second layer, second stack.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But did you always have that great voice? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
The voice? Yeah, just God gifted.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's a good voice. What do you do for a living?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Counting? Nothing related to my voice?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So walk me up to that moment. You were what
year at A and M And why were you out
on the stack.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, I was a sophomore. It was my second year
working on bonfire. I was a crew chief, in charge
of a dorm with the several other guys, and I
was up on bonfire working on it.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
How high up were you?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I was on the second stack, so roughly, you know,
forty forty five feet up.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I've never been to it. So you're you're you're talking
to me blind. Uh, So that's pretty pretty high up there.
And and when you're when you're climbing up there, there's
no external ladder or anything, right, You're just you're climbing
up the logs.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
That's right. You're you're grabbing on the wire. You know,
we wire the logs in to give it some structure,
and you're you're stepping on knots, you're stepping on cut
branches and wire climbing your way up there.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So how long before it comes down do you start
noticing a sway?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I didn't even notice it. I was. I was up
there and I just happened to be looking down towards
the ground, and I realized I kind of saw the
ground moving. So for me, it was it happened right away.
Some people heard noises, some people felt movement, but I
just the way I was standing on what I was doing,
I didn't notice any of that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And what what were you actually in the act of doing.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Up there, wiring wiring logs. They'd send logs up and
we'd wire them to the stack. Okay, At that moment though,
I was looking down at the ground towards my dorm.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay. And then did it did it start falling from
the top on to you or did it tip over
and you went with it? What happened then?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, I was on the fall side, so the side
it fell towards, so I you know, it all happened
extremely fast. What felt like a fraction of a second
as it was falling, I realized it was falling. I
pushed off and I hit the ground and it fell
over the top of me.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And you were trapped for four hours? Did you think
you were going to make it.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I don't remember a thought of ever feeling like I
was going to die. I'll tell you this. So there
was there was a log across my elbow, and I
was right up against the dirt. One of the first
people to find me was a restistory therapist, and she
said the way she describes it is she watched bonfire
fall through her camera lens, and as soon as it started,
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she chucked her camera and ran to stack to help.
And she came right away and said, hey, do you
believe in Jesus chrites to your Lord and Savior? I
said yes, and then she started working on me. She
gave me oxygen and said she had to move on
and said other people needed help. So, and I've heard
several people repeat that they met her. She talked to him.
(22:03):
I couldn't see her. I was faced in and I
literally didn't have enough room in underneath the kind of
the area that I was trapping. I couldn't lift my
head and turn outwards, but she could see me and
she could kind of hear me.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
So you were face down in the dirt.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, I was if I don't know how to
describe it, but I was three to five feet in
from I think what was going to be the western side.
I couldn't. I was faced inward from that three to
five feet in and couldn't. I was trapped, pinned down
enough that I always just describe it as it was
(22:43):
kind of the width or the size of my body
cavity I was. My left elbow was sticking out but
my right but my left hand was near my left hip.
My right elbow was underneath me. My hand was kind
of cross my chest, and I couldn't lift my head
to turn. It was that tight, But I didn't feel
like I was being squeezed, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
So did you think to yourself, they got to get
me out of here for me to survive, or did
you think to yourself, it's gonna take time. This is
a logistical nightmare, but they will get to me and
I will be fine.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
One of my guys from my dorm got to me
pretty quick, and I was screaming. I said, grab the guys, let's,
you know, lift these logs off me. I didn't know
what was on top of me. I didn't know what
it looked like, but I knew I needed to get
out of there. I was in pain. I was I
had broken There was a log across my elbow. My
doctor later told me it was in twenty pieces. So
three bones got broken up. I shot at my femur
(23:41):
punctured and collapse where I long last right of my liver,
cracked both my cheekbones. So I was I would be
willing to bet I was in shock because I wasn't
in extreme pain, but you know, I was going through it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So they get you out after four hours, and then
they take you to which hospital, Saint Joseph, and then
you're there for several weeks, and then what happened right.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Then I went home. I had started rehab right away,
but I continued rehab on my leg and my elbow
probably for the next till I think they end of
March early April.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That elbow seems to be your primary focus, because you
bring that up a lot. That one was bad.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It was that's what kept me under there for so long.
There was literally a log on top of my elbow.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And how did you feel when all this was over
about what had happened?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
To be honest, you know, for the first I was
in ICU for six days, I didn't know somebody died.
You know. They got me out of they literally they
pulled me out of stack. They told me to lift
my head, and they drugged me out of there, put
me on a backboard and got me a hospital. And
I was in ICU for six days, so I didn't
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find out people had passed away until six days later.
And it was a blessing in some ways, because you know,
I didn't I have so many friends. They couldn't talk
about it afterwards.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Do you use stuff on it? Would you want the
university to bring it back and sanction itia property supervisor?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
As long as the parents were okay with it and
it was safe.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Yeah, to come up with the right character, mister Michael Barry,
That's how I found my.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
First ten wives long.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Wrong.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
So there's a tweet.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That John Thune from Sandy from South Dakota posted November
eight of twenty sixteen, and he said Donald Trump should
withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately.
(26:04):
Now that does not sit well with Trump supporters, as
you might imagine.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
That is.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
That is not being well received. I am not going
to endorse John Thune and tell you that he's going
to be a good partner for Donald Trump, because I
don't know that to be true, and I think his
temptations will be too grand. I spent a lot of
(26:43):
time today talking through in communications with people, why wouldn't
he just do what Trump asked him to do. Trump
just won in a big way. And the answer is this,
(27:05):
It's not as simple as it looks. Remember when I
told you again and again that naivete is what is
our biggest problem. You keep thinking that John Thune is
out for what's best for this country, and you keep
thinking that John Thune sees the power in this country
(27:28):
to be based in your consent, in your votes. Neither
of those is true. Almost every person in government would
allow this country to burn to the ground if it
benefited them personally. And you've got to understand that. Until
you can understand that, then you're never going to understand
why they do what they do. Remember, they're not like you,
(27:53):
and you're not like them. This is like you're studying
a whole different species from your own. So first of all,
they're not out to do what's best for the country.
And number two, they do not perceive you as their boss.
Our constitution does, but they do not. They perceive that
(28:19):
you are a constant nuisance. They love being senators. You
have no idea what a great life it is. You
have no idea. They are daily told by staffers of
their own choosing how smart they are, how clever they are.
They're daily being honored in their home state. They're being
(28:44):
begged to be fitted, you know, please come back to
whatever state and come to this little town and bestow
your glory on us by being here. And they have
old staff of people schedulers, and also and no we
can't do it, then we do it. We'll come there.
They're introduced as if they're the greatest person in the
(29:06):
history of mankind. Truth is, for ninety of them, nobody
in the country knows who they are. I could read
you some of the names and you'd go and if
I gave you the name of them or a professional
baseball player, you wouldn't know which was well, the professor,
you'd know because if it was, if it sounded Dominican,
you know, as a professional baseball player, but nobody knows
(29:28):
whose people are but within their own little club. And
you will often hear the Senate referred to as a
as a clubby atmosphere. One thing you need to know,
it's not Republicans versus Democrats. Throw that out. It is
us versus them, and they view it as them versus us.
(29:50):
You are the enemy. They don't want you to know that,
and they typically won't say it unless you catch them
when they get mad. Arlen Spector said it. There have
been a few on their way out they'll say it,
but what ends up happening is once they're out the door,
then they're free to say and do. Paul Ryan, Oh,
(30:12):
people thought I never liked Paul Ryan, never trusted him.
Paul Ryan leadership positioned Republican Party in the House. The
minute he got out, he starts cashing in and doing
everything he could to keep the corporate media and government
from having to listen to you. You annoy them. You
(30:34):
don't know as much as they do. You're you're you're
simple minded. You are full of biases and cravings and opinions,
and none of it matters you're all out there just
Dan Crenshaw says this all the time. You're all just idiots.
You're listening to those talk show hosts and these people
(30:56):
firing you up. But none of it is true. That's
that's that's what they believe. They believe that only they
who are meeting with the heads of the companies that
are writing in the checks, only they understand why the
big businesses need to be bailed out. Only they need
to Only they understand why they have to take your
(31:18):
money and send it to Hamas and send it to Ukraine.
Only that you don't understand. You can't understand how the
real world works. You're just down there pulling a paycheck.
You don't grasp the important things that they are doing.
That's how these people look at this. That is absolutely
(31:41):
how these people look at this. All right, That's all
I have to say about the Senate. Time will tell
a lot of people have come around on Trump. There
are people that were very close to Trump in sixteen
that now hate him, Michael Cohen, for instance, And there
(32:03):
are people like me who did not like him or
worked against him and are now big supporters. Kelly and
Conway is another one of those. She was on the
cruise team. So one thing about Trump is he will
turn on someone who was a friend if he feels
(32:23):
that person is no longer loyal. But the flip side
of that, he will make friends with former enemies if
he feels some good can be done. It's very transactional.
He's very mission focused. So I can't tell you whether
to like or not like the John Thune choice. I'm
(32:46):
certainly not going to put my credibility behind him because
I know what really drives him to the extent that
it is in his own personal best interests to go
along with Trump. If and when that is the case,
he will do it. And that's all you can expect.
(33:07):
But do not be naive. Do not believe that he
in any way is a public servant out to do
not believe that he respects the results of the Trump election.
That's not how these people work. They will work behind
the scenes. And you're still gonna have John Cornyn in there.
Weaseling around, knifing people in the back and out to
get you because now he's got a vendetta. You kept
(33:30):
him from having his powerful position, which he's so desperately
wanted to wield. His power because that's what these people do,
that's what these people do.
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