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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
To the phone lines, we go, Oh, James, you are
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Welcome sir, Well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Mike. Well, Mike, I'm a long time listener.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I just feel like you're going a little too far
with this North Texas situation.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, tell me why.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well, I mean when I first heard the situation, you know,
we're saying the blacks are stabbing and the boiler terrified,
and you know, new details are coming out that he
was bullied, you know, and I don't know the whole story,
but I feel like it's a Sometimes it's a farce
on blacks. It's all the time that you forced with.
I have buddies from East Textas, the Coons, the Winning area,
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the just the same area that you're from, Nederland, all
the area. And you know, we we play around with
race jokes all the time. But some of this crime
and I think we're using the nineties, the Boys in
the Hood, the Minutes of Society. We're using that that
that imagery from the early nineties to project that all
black neighborhoods are crime ridden and they're they're they're necessarily
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they're not. Really the crime actually is when you mix
blacks and Hispanics. That's where the crime comes in. The
predominantly black areas don't have a lot of crime. They
have education, they have elders, and they have children, and
it's not a lot of rival gangs. The rival gangs
when you mix racist also the use they don't have anything.
They're taking out all the commercial businesses, they don't have
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any walmarts, targets that it's just the urban. It's the
urban urban Plannet and know a lot of Blacks don't
necessarily want to leave. Its the fact they don't have
the education, the schooling, or the resources. So I feel
it's just a lot of we you know, I mean,
you pretty much lost a listener. I percaly Land in
Republic Grand Ranch. You know, you know your your suggestion
really helped out a lot. With that, I'm ready to
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pull out. I mean, those Montgomery people they're not necessarily
like that. I don't feel I don't feel, you know,
threatened or anything, but you've kind of lost the listener today, Michael.
That's what I want to tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, I appreciate you, you sharing that with me. Let
me start by telling you my approach to doing the show.
I arrive every day with the intention of entertaining, engaging,
interacting with people and ideas, and.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I believe in the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I also know that I might like my corn bread
different than the other person. But I'm going to tell
you how I like it, and I must tell you
that if you choose not to listen, that's perfectly understandable.
We add and subtract listeners every day, and that's the
nature of what we do. If I concerned myself with
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whether people liked what I have to say, if I
believe it is important to say it, then I couldn't
look myself in the mirror, and I think I would
lose the respect of a lot of other listeners, black
and white alike. Now you're free to not like what
I have to say, But you've made some statements, and
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let me respond to those. First of all, you don't
know if the black kid who stabbed the white kid
was bullied or not.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You don't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You've heard that because the quant LX of North Texas
has said that, the Al Sharpton of North Texas has
said that, and there are people who are complete Charlattan grifters,
who put on a tie from Soup Mart and get
in front of the camera and talk in that style
and try to tried to harken back to the civil
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rights movement and make people think that blacks are being
abused and that's why this kid got stabbed to death
is because this black guy's being abused somehow.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
These are people who will lie, cheat steel.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
They are knaves. I've watched Sheila Jackson Leed do it.
I watched Sylvester Turner do it. These are people who
will make claims. I watched the George Floyd case rollout,
and the fact of the matter is, oh j And
I'm sure you know this, whether you admit it or not.
Most white people have been so maumowed into this in
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this country, into submission that y'all think that's progress. And
if anyone doesn't know what mau mawing means, it's a
verb to come from the Mau Mau revolution that Barack
Obama's father was a part of in Kenya that swept
through eastern Africa, and it was a a very angry,
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very violent revolution of black African natives who were throwing
off the yoke of British imperialism. They were tired of
the white man. They didn't want Cecil Roads, they didn't
want Kipling, they didn't want Churchill. They did not want
the English occupation. It wasn't just English. There was the French.
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There were the Belgians in the Congo, there were the
French in Cameroon. But they wanted Africa for Africa. Understandable.
The Indians wanted the same thing, they just took a
different approach with that. I don't have a problem. The
means by which they took back power, just as in Cuba,
was one of great violence. The whites who remained were
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basically subjugated in a reverse reversal of power, and that
term came to be used here for the menace that
was imposed upon whites in public life by the threat
of violence of groups like the Black Panthers. All of
those things are facts. You don't have to like them,
but you cannot keep thinking that. You can feign indignance
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and white people will not.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
State the truth.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Failure to be honest about things like this has plunged
us deeper into problems. Because I'll tell you this, when
I'm with a group of blacks, and they feel very
comfortable with me because we go back twenty years or
more and somebody will make a statement about something that
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is an internacine, intercommunity, intra community issue, whether it's ashy
elbows or skin or some kind of black secret. They'll say, oh, y'all,
don't say that, Michael Logo, tell the white people, we
don't want the white people knowing. And it's a joke
and we all laugh, right, But there's also talk that
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is held amongst blacks that knows that OJ committed to
murder right, they know, they know that knows that George
Floyd was a drughead, that he wasn't held down to death,
that knows that Jesse Jackson is a complete charlatan who's
out to rip everybody off and doesn't believe a word
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he says.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's no, Well, I'm gonna tell you something else.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
White people know things too that they don't say across
the tracks.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And you know what happened. You know who gets hurt? OJ,
You get hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
My kids get hurt when somebody sees you or my
kids walk into a workplace and they go, I ain't
gonna say a word, but I ain't gonna hire him.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I ain't gonna say a word, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Not gonna trust him because I've seen you can't trust
those people. The minute something goes wrong, they'll say that
the guy who stabbed the other kid, that he was
a victim. They'll hang together. That's what they do. They'll
lie cheap, they'll support George Floyd. We have to be honest, right.
The problem is not black in Hispanic The problem is
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black home black. And the reason there aren't any commercial
businesses is because there's pilfering and stealing at those businesses
and they can't succeed there.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We ought to make that stop and then the businesses
will come back. You know, we got an email doing
the break from our fellows. I'm a Vietnam veteran. I'm
not listening anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Your service in Vietnam is appreciated it, but I'm not
sure how that's relevant to where we're going. Let me
see why he's not listening anymore. He's not listening because
I said that if you get COVID or die of
COVID after having taken the VACS, then that is poetic justice.
It's not what I said. I said those who pushed
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the vacs. That is Fauci and Biden. I do hope
they get COVID. I do hope it takes them down.
You don't need to tell me that's evil or devilish
or not Christian. I understand I have family members who
died from taking that shot. I feel pretty passionately about it.
You're free to have your opinion. You're free to forgive, forget, justify, judge,
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But I'm not changing my position. My wife and kids
took that stupid thing. You think I want people to
die from that. But the bigger issue is not the
COVID shot. The bigger issue is this, As I wrote
to the guy, you misunderstood what I said. Here's what
I said, and here's what I intended. But if you
say you're not listening ever again because I said something
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with which you disagree, I want to be as clear
as I possibly can. If I'm left with three people listening,
but there are three honest to goodness, truth seeking, honorable, honest,
open minded, thoughtful people, I consider that better. I don't
listen to other shows. But we've all heard it. We've
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all heard the pandering, the jingoistic patriotism, the jingoistic manhood,
We've all heard it. If the only reason you listen
to our show is you agree one hundred percent with
what I say, why are you listening honestly for an
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affirmation of what you already believe? That feels weird. The
old line, if we agree on everything one of us
isn't necessary to me. The interesting parts are where we disagree.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Why I disagree? Shot, I'm not gonna listen.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Look, I know this sounds arrogant, but why not be honest?
You not listening is not enough to make a difference.
Our show is not sold on ratings. Our ratings are great.
Our show is sold on the basis that people who
sponsor the show spend a lot of money on it
because they know that our listener it's a qualitative not
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a quantitative back They don't want everybody groupon didn't end.
Groupon didn't fall apart because nobody came to the restaurant.
Groupon fell apart because everybody came to the restaurant. It
was just all the wrong kind of people. Houston Restaurant
Week is not a bust because people don't come out
to eat at a restaurant that would normally be one
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hundred dollars per person for a twenty dollars that goes
to charity. Houston Restaurant Week is a bust because you
find out that those people coming out there that you're
not gonna make any money on, they're not samplers that
you want to come back. They're the deal seekers. They
eat half their meal and send it back. They show
up drunk, They stand up and stagger through the aisles,
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They argue with your staff, they humiliate your staff. They
don't tip, they spill things, They piss all over the
floor in the bathroom. The only thing worse than groupon
not or the Houston Restaurant Week, or groupon not delivering
people to your rest is they delivered too many of
all the wrong kind. What makes our show special is
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that companies partner with us because they get the kind
of people that you you would seek out that special person.
How often is it during a transaction that you enjoy
the experience. How often is it that you are providing
air conditioning services or plumbing or roofing or whatever else
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and you feel the need when you're done to send
me an email because you just talked to the most
interesting guy ever.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That's where our listener is.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You passed up nine houses to get there, and eight
of those nine you don't want to do that roof.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You do not want to have to argue. You do
not want to worry he's going to sue you. You do
not want to worr he's going to threaten. You don't
where you're gonna call the cops. You don't know where
he's going.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
To show up or not show up tomorrow. So if
you're that person, you got me fed up. You don't
get me, And that's okay. I say this all the time.
Not every marriage works. Hey, we're not meant to be together.
I'm not offering what you're wanting in you're wanting what
I am not offering what I am offering you don't want,
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which is to have your opinions challenged.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm gonna say things on the air that you might
not agree with.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm gonna say things that you might agree with but
don't realize it and can't give voice to it. I'm
gonna say things that are gonna upset your wife or
your mother, or your secretary or your boss.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Know that in advance.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That shouldn't come as a surprise, even though I haven't
done it in a little while, because I've gone softer
of late. I'm gonna do that, and I'm going to
keep doing it, not to provoke, not because I'm a
shock jock, because I believe the truth is more important
than people's feelings. If you can't tell the truth, you
can't be honest. If you can't offend, you can't be honest.
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That was the essence of Thomas Payne's statements. A series
of them being completely honest is going to upset people.
And if you respond by saying, but I'm going to
not listen anymore, good, But I need you to know
I'm not listening. Okay, Ramote, can you redo the role
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and not call out Bob tomorrow so we don't have
him as absent. We just we already know he's moved
school districts. You're not with us anymore. The last statement
I didn't get to was the commercial when OJ said,
you got to understand in the inner City, we don't
have business in our neighborhood. You know, when I was
on city council, I really dug into that, and I
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talked to grocery stores. They all wanted star but we
want to Starbucks in our neighborhood. It was tried, but
when it happens, there's staff, there's violence, and so the
business says, we're getting out of here.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Did you jump in and say no, no, no, we
want that violence. Proust you you said no, it's a
young black man doing it. Businesses aren't going to stay there,
and that's what you're left with.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
How you respond to adversity, whether you demand exceptionalism or
make excuses for failure, is going to determine what you
end up with. It's while mommies don't make good football
coaches because Billy fumbling five times in a row, Mommy says, well,
he's doing his best. Nick Saban gets in his head
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and before you know it, he's got stick them. He's
holding that ball so tight it ain't come and loose.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
When you.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Explain things away, excuse things away, you end up perpetuating
that and making it worse. George Zimmerman was scoffed at
as this over the top neighborhood patrol guy in an
association that had an over the top neighborhood patrol. And
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that's why they don't have gang banging in the neighborhood.
Because they don't have their own police force. They have
to do it themselves and that was laughed at. But
that's what that's what middle class neighborhoods have taken to doing.
It's a broken pain theory. You don't allow individuals to
be picked off by the gang bangers.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You aggressively patrol your own streets.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
When I hear someone say as OJ did that, you
know we don't have businesses in our black community.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's true, and that's tragic.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Let's start. Let's start with where we can all agree.
It's a real bummer that many Blacks in America live
in majority, if not exclusively, black neighborhoods that have high
crime and poor schools and businesses around. Let's come a bummer.
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You know, you'd like to be able to stop and
get a cup of coffee. You'd like to be able
to stop and get something to eat, a cafe. You
like to be able to walk up to something if
there's but you don't have that, Well, why don't you
have it? Because of racism? No, racism. Commerce is green.
It only wants money. They're typically our businesses. They'll be
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a check cashing shop. There'll be a fried chicken joint.
There may be a you buy we fry shrimp place.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And there may.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Be because there's a brave bug, greedy Asian owned convenience store,
and that's all there will be. We don't have nice
things in our neighborhood. Okay, all right, we'll have grocery stores.
Look at how many grocery stores have opened and closed
in inner cities in the last ten twenty years.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
There was a big movement. There was free money for it.
The government would loan them money to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Businesses didn't want to come out and say we're closed.
They closed, and he goes, see, y'a, I don't want
to serve black people. No, we don't want our employees
to get shot. And our employees won't show up to
work because they're getting jacked every day. The theft was
through the roof. Well, how does that happen? How come
nobody stops it? You can't tell me that everybody coming
in and doing this, nobody knows who they are. How
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come that doesn't happen on the other side of town.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
But it's happening.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And when it's happening, people are going to respond and
the dollars are going to flee.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Dunkin Donut franchises in Chicago are now installing bulletproof glass
after a record six hundred and fifty three restaurant burglaries
in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Listen to this, Look.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
How they taking money at dunkin Donuts shall Like, come on, man,
what is this? It's crazy straight bulletproof glass through the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I mean, you can't even breathe on these people. Look
how see what this is? This is a professional seal,
Like you can't even talk to these people.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Bar I appreciate you mane.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Fetting up every day and singing something like this, Bro,
that do something to your mental output. They tell you
like this is how you feed animals in a zoo
gang Like that's pretty much what it's telling your mentality, Like.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I don't I just say I don't trust you. You
feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
At what point do we be like we tied of
getting treated like animals, tried to getting treated like this,
like bro, like you telling me I can't even hand
you my money game like bro, Like the people who
be owning these don't be for the community. They don't
be from the city you grow up. Imagine you see
this every day for your whole life. And then you
go to someplace else and you see them handing the money,
you gonna think something wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Gang like it's it's crazy mentality.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So the guy who owns that page is called Rickoff
an impact. You know, I gotta wonder, do you really
believe you genuinely let's be honest. Okay, let's cut the crap.
Do you you really think people go to all these
links to spend all this money on security measures in
this neighborhood but not across town.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Because they hate black people?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You really believe that, you really think this is their
way of insulting black people. Open a store yourself, Open
a store yourself, Ask the small business owner, the black
small business owner, what he thinks. Open a store yourself.
Tell me how it goes. If right, let's make this subjunctive.
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Let's make this conditional hypothetical. If there are more stick
ups at a store in the black neighborhood committed by
black patrons than there are across town in the predominantly
white neighborhood, would that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Make it okay to put the bulletproof glass? If you
were a black.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Owner, would you say, well, I don't mind that pistol
in my face as long as a hand holding it
is black, because I shan't insult your skin color by
putting a barrier between me and you, knowing that you're
tweaking and you might blast my head off because we've
had three Indian owned convenience stores killed in the last
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two years. But I don't care because I don't want
to offend anybody. Really, I've heard all these arguments the
schools are failing because of the white people, and then
what happened. You bring in this black guy, Mike Miles
to be the superintendent, and all we heard was how
he's hurting the kids, hurting the kids, hurting the kids.
On Monday of this week, five former HISD employees pled
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guilty to a pay for play scheme stealing money from
the school district.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
All of them black, and not a word one. It's
a broken culture.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Our culture is a broken culture that has said, when
it's black, just don't say anything.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And just do this over here because you don't want
to upset them.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And hopefully we can all just get along and you
won't need any government employee. Hopefully, hopefully it all just
kind of keep itself together because we don't want to
confront it because we don't want to upset people. Because
there are certain people who have learned that if you
scream loud enough, you're going to get it free. If
you scream loud enough, you're going to get hired. If
you scream loud enough, you'll get your job back. If
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you scream loud enough, you'll get released after committing a murder.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
If you scream loud enough, you'll get elected.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, you think everybody else in society isn't see what's
seeing what's happening, and they.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Go, oh, that's good.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
We like that we're falling, declining into a third world country.
We really like this, We really enjoy and appreciate this.
When we see the videos of you know, electronics store
being raided and all this stuff, and I think to myself,
you know what, maybe we had slavery, but we sure
are making progress today. Nobody's thinking that because everybody is afraid.
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And by the way, the problem is not just the
violent thug. The problem is every single person, white and black,
who refuses to say anything about it. Who knew all
these people supported Trump, who knew all these people hated
the government waste?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
So people came out and said something about it. Michael
Berry all back, huh, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, if he calls back, I'll turn my mic off
and let him make his point. It is not my
intention to disagree with someone's position, and I do do
it passionately. I understand that it's nothing personal. I've come
to learn it can seem a bit overbearing, but it
is not my intention for some want to state their
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position and then me go back and undercut it. If
he wants to call back, I will just simply let
him make his his points if he feels that I
have said something that is untrue. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It breaks my heart for this country, It really does.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It is.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It is a really awful thing. What has happened in
this country. So many things. How many young black kids
are in an apartment with no furniture that the government
is paying for and mom is turning tricks and there's
no one there for them.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's awful. It's horrible. The only thing worse that nobody
will talk.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
About it is it happening with white kids and Hispanic kids. Yes,
but not nearly to the extent. How many young black
men are shooting each other, But that's okay. I mean,
as Jesse said, that's just Miller time. How many young
black kids are getting through school and can't don't have
the skill set to compete. But I'm the bad guy
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for pointing it out instead of demanding higher standards.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Why is it?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It was a guy the other day when the Cougar's lost.
He said, I'm done with the Cougars. Never gonna root
for them again. Fifty three years I've rooted for them
and they lose like this, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I thought, well, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So two minutes ago, if when he elevates, if there's
nobody out to block the shot, he elevates, shoots, strokes
that shot and they make it. You love the school
and you'd give them your kidney. You love that school,
you love that team, you love everything about them. Whatever
you guys need, I'm gonna go spend my heart earned money.
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I'm gonna get a jersey, I'm gonna put a sticker
on my vehicle. I'm gonna tell everybody, I'm gonna post
about it. I love them, I love them, I love
I love them. They are me and I am them,
and we're together and this is deep and abiding love.
But because the other player bested him on that one
play and they didn't score more points than the other team,
you hate them and you want nothing to do with
them again. On a profound level. Think about this for more.
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It's the silliness of sports fandom. We start there. But
let me do you the disfavor of assuming you're being serious.
Let's take your words at face value. What you've just
told me is he wasn't good enough to win that game.
And when you root for somebody, you want them to
win because then you win. Right, That's why we struck
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when our team won. You didn't throw it, catch it,
kick it, tackle, but you rooted for the team that won.
You picked correctly, You had an affinity with the right jersey,
whether you went to school there or just saw him
on TV.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Likewise, when that team loses, that's an insult to you.
You bear shame. There is embarrassment to you because you
picked and your team lost, and now someone's going to
taunt you and you want nothing to do with it.
So you're gonna go find a team that's definitely gonna win,
and you're gonna root for them because you want the
feeling of winning, because you don't get to.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Win a lot in life.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But you could have won this time, and they let
you down. They stole that from you, and they did
it on purpose. They didn't want to win. They wanted
to lose. Those kids have put thousands of hours in,
They've sacrificed everything to get here, and they chose to lose.
They wanted to lose. They preferred to lose. Losing was
more fun, No, of course not. They wanted it more
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than you did. They wanted it so desperately. We would
have changed their lives. They would get a ring, they
would have bragging rights, they would be in the books,
they would do more interviews, they would make more money,
they would have celebrity. They would get more girls, which
is what really matters at twenty one, right, maybe rock stars,
they wanted it more than you did. You've never worked
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so hard. You've never worked a day in your life
the way they've worked, months at a time to get
to that point. You've never suffered. Every one of them
ankles hurt, their fingers hurt, their neck hurts, their back hurts,
their eye sockets path blown out, to have surgery.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
After the season.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Their hamstring hurts every time they come up and down
the court, their toes are gnarled, They're in extreme, excruciating pain,
and they put it aside because they want to win.
And you're up there, eight beers in pissing your pants,
aggravated that the shot didn't go in.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I buy again. All right, But let's take that to
a logical extreme. You want them to win.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
What is winning scoring more points than the other team,
so that when the last buzzer rings, you have more points.
You want them to win so much that you're willing
to tell them to be better, to do something differently,
to work harder, to build a better team, to employ
new tactics. But you wouldn't dare say that what we
(28:59):
ought to do. Yeah, it's let's ope, let's set up
a black owned business, and let's set up a neighborhood patrol,
and let's get local law enforcement involved, because at some point, see,
here's the problem with crime in the hood. The person
who is caught for committing the crime is going to
be black. And here is the social breakdown that no
(29:22):
one will ever say. Nobody wants to say, punish a
black man who's committed a crime, they don't want to
do it. Blacks will hide from that fact. And that's
why you'll see the mama, her daughter's just been murdered
by domestic disserbent.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Eight of them. He's out, he's cut the thing now,
he's killed her, and.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
She's like, my girl, my baby girl, he killed my
baby girl. Nobody black will say anything like, yeah, he's
a black and uh, it's on force, and let's just
keep on moving on a road.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
See, we can't talk about George Floyd. Well what wait?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
What what about when the guy that goes in and
robs the or robs the store or shoots the store
up as black, Nobody.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Wants to say anything about it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And then you got some poor comp he's the one
got arrest him, and you arrest one hundred black dudes.
One of them's going George Floyd. One of them's gonna
fight you till the death. One of them's got a
brother in law who's an attorney. One of them's got
kwant lex on speed dive. It's gonna happen. And there
you are and you're not allowed to talk. You're suspended
(30:29):
with pay. Your wife and kids are scared.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
They dots.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
You. Everybody knows where you live. And this is going
on every day. We just keep letting it go on.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
This is what and this is good for black people.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
See, this is good for black people because if you
don't ever call out the black criminal, then everything is good.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But the black criminal's victim is black. You can't put
any business.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Nobody wants to put businesses in black neighborhoods. Black kids
are only seeing people shot in their neighborhoods. We're only
electing Sylvester Turner and Rodney Elysis and Sheila Jackson Leeze.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And I'm the bad guy. Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I feel like al Pacino, you know, and Scarface being
taken out of the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
But I set my piece. RJ called up to defend me.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I couldn't let that happen because they're like, oh, he
got that black dude on call bar and tell him
he's all right.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I don't need a black dude to tell me I'm
all right. But I do love you, RJ. Thank you.
And it ain't racial with OJ, It's about truth.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You tell me you might not like it, that's racist, okay,
what about it's racist?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Just racist? Here we are Okay, keep going.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
This dude sent me an email being disappointed and Dunkin
Donuts
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
To the phone lines, we go, Oh, James, you are
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Welcome sir, Well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Mike. Well, Mike, I'm a long time listener.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I just feel like you're going a little too far
with this North Texas situation.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, tell me why.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well, I mean when I first heard the situation, you know,
we're saying the blacks are stabbing and the boiler terrified,
and you know, new details are coming out that he
was bullied, you know, and I don't know the whole story,
but I feel like it's a Sometimes it's a farce
on blacks. It's all the time that you forced with.
I have buddies from East Textas, the Coons, the Winning area,
(01:05):
the just the same area that you're from, Nederland, all
the area. And you know, we we play around with
race jokes all the time. But some of this crime
and I think we're using the nineties, the Boys in
the Hood, the Minutes of Society. We're using that that
that imagery from the early nineties to project that all
black neighborhoods are crime ridden and they're they're they're necessarily
(01:26):
they're not. Really the crime actually is when you mix
blacks and Hispanics. That's where the crime comes in. The
predominantly black areas don't have a lot of crime. They
have education, they have elders, and they have children, and
it's not a lot of rival gangs. The rival gangs
when you mix racist also the use they don't have anything.
They're taking out all the commercial businesses, they don't have
(01:47):
any walmarts, targets that it's just the urban. It's the
urban urban Plannet and know a lot of Blacks don't
necessarily want to leave. Its the fact they don't have
the education, the schooling, or the resources. So I feel
it's just a lot of we you know, I mean,
you pretty much lost a listener. I percaly Land in
Republic Grand Ranch. You know, you know your your suggestion
really helped out a lot. With that, I'm ready to
(02:10):
pull out. I mean, those Montgomery people they're not necessarily
like that. I don't feel I don't feel, you know,
threatened or anything, but you've kind of lost the listener today, Michael.
That's what I want to tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, I appreciate you, you sharing that with me. Let
me start by telling you my approach to doing the show.
I arrive every day with the intention of entertaining, engaging,
interacting with people and ideas, and.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I believe in the truth.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I also know that I might like my corn bread
different than the other person. But I'm going to tell
you how I like it, and I must tell you
that if you choose not to listen, that's perfectly understandable.
We add and subtract listeners every day, and that's the
nature of what we do. If I concerned myself with
(03:07):
whether people liked what I have to say, if I
believe it is important to say it, then I couldn't
look myself in the mirror, and I think I would
lose the respect of a lot of other listeners, black
and white alike. Now you're free to not like what
I have to say, But you've made some statements, and
(03:28):
let me respond to those. First of all, you don't
know if the black kid who stabbed the white kid
was bullied or not.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You don't know that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You've heard that because the quant LX of North Texas
has said that, the Al Sharpton of North Texas has
said that, and there are people who are complete Charlattan grifters,
who put on a tie from Soup Mart and get
in front of the camera and talk in that style
and try to tried to harken back to the civil
(04:03):
rights movement and make people think that blacks are being
abused and that's why this kid got stabbed to death
is because this black guy's being abused somehow.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
These are people who will lie, cheat steel.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
They are knaves. I've watched Sheila Jackson Leed do it.
I watched Sylvester Turner do it. These are people who
will make claims. I watched the George Floyd case rollout,
and the fact of the matter is, oh j And
I'm sure you know this, whether you admit it or not.
Most white people have been so maumowed into this in
(04:39):
this country, into submission that y'all think that's progress. And
if anyone doesn't know what mau mawing means, it's a
verb to come from the Mau Mau revolution that Barack
Obama's father was a part of in Kenya that swept
through eastern Africa, and it was a a very angry,
(05:03):
very violent revolution of black African natives who were throwing
off the yoke of British imperialism. They were tired of
the white man. They didn't want Cecil Roads, they didn't
want Kipling, they didn't want Churchill. They did not want
the English occupation. It wasn't just English. There was the French.
(05:25):
There were the Belgians in the Congo, there were the
French in Cameroon. But they wanted Africa for Africa. Understandable.
The Indians wanted the same thing, they just took a
different approach with that. I don't have a problem. The
means by which they took back power, just as in Cuba,
was one of great violence. The whites who remained were
(05:50):
basically subjugated in a reverse reversal of power, and that
term came to be used here for the menace that
was imposed upon whites in public life by the threat
of violence of groups like the Black Panthers. All of
those things are facts. You don't have to like them,
but you cannot keep thinking that. You can feign indignance
(06:14):
and white people will not.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
State the truth.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Failure to be honest about things like this has plunged
us deeper into problems. Because I'll tell you this, when
I'm with a group of blacks, and they feel very
comfortable with me because we go back twenty years or
more and somebody will make a statement about something that
(06:38):
is an internacine, intercommunity, intra community issue, whether it's ashy
elbows or skin or some kind of black secret. They'll say, oh, y'all,
don't say that, Michael Logo, tell the white people, we
don't want the white people knowing. And it's a joke
and we all laugh, right, But there's also talk that
(07:00):
is held amongst blacks that knows that OJ committed to
murder right, they know, they know that knows that George
Floyd was a drughead, that he wasn't held down to death,
that knows that Jesse Jackson is a complete charlatan who's
out to rip everybody off and doesn't believe a word
(07:22):
he says.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's no, Well, I'm gonna tell you something else.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
White people know things too that they don't say across
the tracks.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And you know what happened. You know who gets hurt? OJ,
You get hurt.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
My kids get hurt when somebody sees you or my
kids walk into a workplace and they go, I ain't
gonna say a word, but I ain't gonna hire him.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I ain't gonna say a word, but I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Not gonna trust him because I've seen you can't trust
those people. The minute something goes wrong, they'll say that
the guy who stabbed the other kid, that he was
a victim. They'll hang together. That's what they do. They'll
lie cheap, they'll support George Floyd. We have to be honest, right.
The problem is not black in Hispanic The problem is
(08:06):
black home black. And the reason there aren't any commercial
businesses is because there's pilfering and stealing at those businesses
and they can't succeed there.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We ought to make that stop and then the businesses
will come back. You know, we got an email doing
the break from our fellows. I'm a Vietnam veteran. I'm
not listening anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Your service in Vietnam is appreciated it, but I'm not
sure how that's relevant to where we're going. Let me
see why he's not listening anymore. He's not listening because
I said that if you get COVID or die of
COVID after having taken the VACS, then that is poetic justice.
It's not what I said. I said those who pushed
(08:53):
the vacs. That is Fauci and Biden. I do hope
they get COVID. I do hope it takes them down.
You don't need to tell me that's evil or devilish
or not Christian. I understand I have family members who
died from taking that shot. I feel pretty passionately about it.
You're free to have your opinion. You're free to forgive, forget, justify, judge,
(09:16):
But I'm not changing my position. My wife and kids
took that stupid thing. You think I want people to
die from that. But the bigger issue is not the
COVID shot. The bigger issue is this, As I wrote
to the guy, you misunderstood what I said. Here's what
I said, and here's what I intended. But if you
say you're not listening ever again because I said something
(09:40):
with which you disagree, I want to be as clear
as I possibly can. If I'm left with three people listening,
but there are three honest to goodness, truth seeking, honorable, honest,
open minded, thoughtful people, I consider that better. I don't
listen to other shows. But we've all heard it. We've
(10:02):
all heard the pandering, the jingoistic patriotism, the jingoistic manhood,
We've all heard it. If the only reason you listen
to our show is you agree one hundred percent with
what I say, why are you listening honestly for an
(10:23):
affirmation of what you already believe? That feels weird. The
old line, if we agree on everything one of us
isn't necessary to me. The interesting parts are where we disagree.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Why I disagree? Shot, I'm not gonna listen.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Look, I know this sounds arrogant, but why not be honest?
You not listening is not enough to make a difference.
Our show is not sold on ratings. Our ratings are great.
Our show is sold on the basis that people who
sponsor the show spend a lot of money on it
because they know that our listener it's a qualitative not
(11:02):
a quantitative back They don't want everybody groupon didn't end.
Groupon didn't fall apart because nobody came to the restaurant.
Groupon fell apart because everybody came to the restaurant. It
was just all the wrong kind of people. Houston Restaurant
Week is not a bust because people don't come out
to eat at a restaurant that would normally be one
(11:23):
hundred dollars per person for a twenty dollars that goes
to charity. Houston Restaurant Week is a bust because you
find out that those people coming out there that you're
not gonna make any money on, they're not samplers that
you want to come back. They're the deal seekers. They
eat half their meal and send it back. They show
up drunk, They stand up and stagger through the aisles,
(11:44):
They argue with your staff, they humiliate your staff. They
don't tip, they spill things, They piss all over the
floor in the bathroom. The only thing worse than groupon
not or the Houston Restaurant Week, or groupon not delivering
people to your rest is they delivered too many of
all the wrong kind. What makes our show special is
(12:08):
that companies partner with us because they get the kind
of people that you you would seek out that special person.
How often is it during a transaction that you enjoy
the experience. How often is it that you are providing
air conditioning services or plumbing or roofing or whatever else
(12:33):
and you feel the need when you're done to send
me an email because you just talked to the most
interesting guy ever.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That's where our listener is.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You passed up nine houses to get there, and eight
of those nine you don't want to do that roof.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You do not want to have to argue. You do
not want to worry he's going to sue you. You do
not want to worr he's going to threaten. You don't
where you're gonna call the cops. You don't know where
he's going.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
To show up or not show up tomorrow. So if
you're that person, you got me fed up. You don't
get me, And that's okay. I say this all the time.
Not every marriage works. Hey, we're not meant to be together.
I'm not offering what you're wanting in you're wanting what
I am not offering what I am offering you don't want,
(13:17):
which is to have your opinions challenged.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm gonna say things on the air that you might
not agree with.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm gonna say things that you might agree with but
don't realize it and can't give voice to it. I'm
gonna say things that are gonna upset your wife or
your mother, or your secretary or your boss.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Know that in advance.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That shouldn't come as a surprise, even though I haven't
done it in a little while, because I've gone softer
of late. I'm gonna do that, and I'm going to
keep doing it, not to provoke, not because I'm a
shock jock, because I believe the truth is more important
than people's feelings. If you can't tell the truth, you
can't be honest. If you can't offend, you can't be honest.
(14:04):
That was the essence of Thomas Payne's statements. A series
of them being completely honest is going to upset people.
And if you respond by saying, but I'm going to
not listen anymore, good, But I need you to know
I'm not listening. Okay, Ramote, can you redo the role
(14:27):
and not call out Bob tomorrow so we don't have
him as absent. We just we already know he's moved
school districts. You're not with us anymore. The last statement
I didn't get to was the commercial when OJ said,
you got to understand in the inner City, we don't
have business in our neighborhood. You know, when I was
on city council, I really dug into that, and I
(14:50):
talked to grocery stores. They all wanted star but we
want to Starbucks in our neighborhood. It was tried, but
when it happens, there's staff, there's violence, and so the
business says, we're getting out of here.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Did you jump in and say no, no, no, we
want that violence. Proust you you said no, it's a
young black man doing it. Businesses aren't going to stay there,
and that's what you're left with.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
How you respond to adversity, whether you demand exceptionalism or
make excuses for failure, is going to determine what you
end up with. It's while mommies don't make good football
coaches because Billy fumbling five times in a row, Mommy says, well,
he's doing his best. Nick Saban gets in his head
(15:37):
and before you know it, he's got stick them. He's
holding that ball so tight it ain't come and loose.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
When you.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Explain things away, excuse things away, you end up perpetuating
that and making it worse. George Zimmerman was scoffed at
as this over the top neighborhood patrol guy in an
association that had an over the top neighborhood patrol. And
(16:08):
that's why they don't have gang banging in the neighborhood.
Because they don't have their own police force. They have
to do it themselves and that was laughed at. But
that's what that's what middle class neighborhoods have taken to doing.
It's a broken pain theory. You don't allow individuals to
be picked off by the gang bangers.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You aggressively patrol your own streets.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
When I hear someone say as OJ did that, you
know we don't have businesses in our black community.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's true, and that's tragic.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Let's start. Let's start with where we can all agree.
It's a real bummer that many Blacks in America live
in majority, if not exclusively, black neighborhoods that have high
crime and poor schools and businesses around. Let's come a bummer.
(17:03):
You know, you'd like to be able to stop and
get a cup of coffee. You'd like to be able
to stop and get something to eat, a cafe. You
like to be able to walk up to something if
there's but you don't have that, Well, why don't you
have it? Because of racism? No, racism. Commerce is green.
It only wants money. They're typically our businesses. They'll be
(17:25):
a check cashing shop. There'll be a fried chicken joint.
There may be a you buy we fry shrimp place.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And there may.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Be because there's a brave bug, greedy Asian owned convenience store,
and that's all there will be. We don't have nice
things in our neighborhood. Okay, all right, we'll have grocery stores.
Look at how many grocery stores have opened and closed
in inner cities in the last ten twenty years.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
There was a big movement. There was free money for it.
The government would loan them money to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Businesses didn't want to come out and say we're closed.
They closed, and he goes, see, y'a, I don't want
to serve black people. No, we don't want our employees
to get shot. And our employees won't show up to
work because they're getting jacked every day. The theft was
through the roof. Well, how does that happen? How come
nobody stops it? You can't tell me that everybody coming
in and doing this, nobody knows who they are. How
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come that doesn't happen on the other side of town.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
But it's happening.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And when it's happening, people are going to respond and
the dollars are going to flee.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Dunkin Donut franchises in Chicago are now installing bulletproof glass
after a record six hundred and fifty three restaurant burglaries
in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Listen to this, Look.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
How they taking money at dunkin Donuts shall Like, come on, man,
what is this? It's crazy straight bulletproof glass through the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I mean, you can't even breathe on these people. Look
how see what this is? This is a professional seal,
Like you can't even talk to these people.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Bar I appreciate you mane.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Fetting up every day and singing something like this, Bro,
that do something to your mental output. They tell you
like this is how you feed animals in a zoo
gang Like that's pretty much what it's telling your mentality, Like.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I don't I just say I don't trust you. You
feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
At what point do we be like we tied of
getting treated like animals, tried to getting treated like this,
like bro, like you telling me I can't even hand
you my money game like bro, Like the people who
be owning these don't be for the community. They don't
be from the city you grow up. Imagine you see
this every day for your whole life. And then you
go to someplace else and you see them handing the money,
you gonna think something wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Gang like it's it's crazy mentality.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So the guy who owns that page is called Rickoff
an impact. You know, I gotta wonder, do you really
believe you genuinely let's be honest. Okay, let's cut the crap.
Do you you really think people go to all these
links to spend all this money on security measures in
this neighborhood but not across town.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Because they hate black people?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You really believe that, you really think this is their
way of insulting black people. Open a store yourself, Open
a store yourself, Ask the small business owner, the black
small business owner, what he thinks. Open a store yourself.
Tell me how it goes. If right, let's make this subjunctive.
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Let's make this conditional hypothetical. If there are more stick
ups at a store in the black neighborhood committed by
black patrons than there are across town in the predominantly
white neighborhood, would that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Make it okay to put the bulletproof glass? If you
were a black.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Owner, would you say, well, I don't mind that pistol
in my face as long as a hand holding it
is black, because I shan't insult your skin color by
putting a barrier between me and you, knowing that you're
tweaking and you might blast my head off because we've
had three Indian owned convenience stores killed in the last
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two years. But I don't care because I don't want
to offend anybody. Really, I've heard all these arguments the
schools are failing because of the white people, and then
what happened. You bring in this black guy, Mike Miles
to be the superintendent, and all we heard was how
he's hurting the kids, hurting the kids, hurting the kids.
On Monday of this week, five former HISD employees pled
(21:38):
guilty to a pay for play scheme stealing money from
the school district.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
All of them black, and not a word one. It's
a broken culture.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Our culture is a broken culture that has said, when
it's black, just don't say anything.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And just do this over here because you don't want
to upset them.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And hopefully we can all just get along and you
won't need any government employee. Hopefully, hopefully it all just
kind of keep itself together because we don't want to
confront it because we don't want to upset people. Because
there are certain people who have learned that if you
scream loud enough, you're going to get it free. If
you scream loud enough, you're going to get hired. If
you scream loud enough, you'll get your job back. If
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you scream loud enough, you'll get released after committing a murder.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
If you scream loud enough, you'll get elected.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, you think everybody else in society isn't see what's
seeing what's happening, and they.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Go, oh, that's good.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
We like that we're falling, declining into a third world country.
We really like this, We really enjoy and appreciate this.
When we see the videos of you know, electronics store
being raided and all this stuff, and I think to myself,
you know what, maybe we had slavery, but we sure
are making progress today. Nobody's thinking that because everybody is afraid.
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And by the way, the problem is not just the
violent thug. The problem is every single person, white and black,
who refuses to say anything about it. Who knew all
these people supported Trump, who knew all these people hated
the government waste?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
So people came out and said something about it. Michael
Berry all back, huh, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, if he calls back, I'll turn my mic off
and let him make his point. It is not my
intention to disagree with someone's position, and I do do
it passionately. I understand that it's nothing personal. I've come
to learn it can seem a bit overbearing, but it
is not my intention for some want to state their
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position and then me go back and undercut it. If
he wants to call back, I will just simply let
him make his his points if he feels that I
have said something that is untrue. Seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It breaks my heart for this country, It really does.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It is.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It is a really awful thing. What has happened in
this country. So many things. How many young black kids
are in an apartment with no furniture that the government
is paying for and mom is turning tricks and there's
no one there for them.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's awful. It's horrible. The only thing worse that nobody
will talk.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
About it is it happening with white kids and Hispanic kids. Yes,
but not nearly to the extent. How many young black
men are shooting each other, But that's okay. I mean,
as Jesse said, that's just Miller time. How many young
black kids are getting through school and can't don't have
the skill set to compete. But I'm the bad guy
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for pointing it out instead of demanding higher standards.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Why is it?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It was a guy the other day when the Cougar's lost.
He said, I'm done with the Cougars. Never gonna root
for them again. Fifty three years I've rooted for them
and they lose like this, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I thought, well, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So two minutes ago, if when he elevates, if there's
nobody out to block the shot, he elevates, shoots, strokes
that shot and they make it. You love the school
and you'd give them your kidney. You love that school,
you love that team, you love everything about them. Whatever
you guys need, I'm gonna go spend my heart earned money.
(25:49):
I'm gonna get a jersey, I'm gonna put a sticker
on my vehicle. I'm gonna tell everybody, I'm gonna post
about it. I love them, I love them, I love
I love them. They are me and I am them,
and we're together and this is deep and abiding love.
But because the other player bested him on that one
play and they didn't score more points than the other team,
you hate them and you want nothing to do with
them again. On a profound level. Think about this for more.
(26:12):
It's the silliness of sports fandom. We start there. But
let me do you the disfavor of assuming you're being serious.
Let's take your words at face value. What you've just
told me is he wasn't good enough to win that game.
And when you root for somebody, you want them to
win because then you win. Right, That's why we struck
(26:36):
when our team won. You didn't throw it, catch it,
kick it, tackle, but you rooted for the team that won.
You picked correctly, You had an affinity with the right jersey,
whether you went to school there or just saw him
on TV.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Likewise, when that team loses, that's an insult to you.
You bear shame. There is embarrassment to you because you
picked and your team lost, and now someone's going to
taunt you and you want nothing to do with it.
So you're gonna go find a team that's definitely gonna win,
and you're gonna root for them because you want the
feeling of winning, because you don't get to.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Win a lot in life.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But you could have won this time, and they let
you down. They stole that from you, and they did
it on purpose. They didn't want to win. They wanted
to lose. Those kids have put thousands of hours in,
They've sacrificed everything to get here, and they chose to lose.
They wanted to lose. They preferred to lose. Losing was
more fun, No, of course not. They wanted it more
(27:35):
than you did. They wanted it so desperately. We would
have changed their lives. They would get a ring, they
would have bragging rights, they would be in the books,
they would do more interviews, they would make more money,
they would have celebrity. They would get more girls, which
is what really matters at twenty one, right, maybe rock stars,
they wanted it more than you did. You've never worked
(27:56):
so hard. You've never worked a day in your life
the way they've worked, months at a time to get
to that point. You've never suffered. Every one of them
ankles hurt, their fingers hurt, their neck hurts, their back hurts,
their eye sockets path blown out, to have surgery.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
After the season.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Their hamstring hurts every time they come up and down
the court, their toes are gnarled, They're in extreme, excruciating pain,
and they put it aside because they want to win.
And you're up there, eight beers in pissing your pants,
aggravated that the shot didn't go in.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I buy again. All right, But let's take that to
a logical extreme. You want them to win.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
What is winning scoring more points than the other team,
so that when the last buzzer rings, you have more points.
You want them to win so much that you're willing
to tell them to be better, to do something differently,
to work harder, to build a better team, to employ
new tactics. But you wouldn't dare say that what we
(28:59):
ought to do. Yeah, it's let's ope, let's set up
a black owned business, and let's set up a neighborhood patrol,
and let's get local law enforcement involved, because at some point, see,
here's the problem with crime in the hood. The person
who is caught for committing the crime is going to
be black. And here is the social breakdown that no
(29:22):
one will ever say. Nobody wants to say, punish a
black man who's committed a crime, they don't want to
do it. Blacks will hide from that fact. And that's
why you'll see the mama, her daughter's just been murdered
by domestic disserbent.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Eight of them. He's out, he's cut the thing now,
he's killed her, and.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
She's like, my girl, my baby girl, he killed my
baby girl. Nobody black will say anything like, yeah, he's
a black and uh, it's on force, and let's just
keep on moving on a road.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
See, we can't talk about George Floyd. Well what wait?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
What what about when the guy that goes in and
robs the or robs the store or shoots the store
up as black, Nobody.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Wants to say anything about it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
And then you got some poor comp he's the one
got arrest him, and you arrest one hundred black dudes.
One of them's going George Floyd. One of them's gonna
fight you till the death. One of them's got a
brother in law who's an attorney. One of them's got
kwant lex on speed dive. It's gonna happen. And there
you are and you're not allowed to talk. You're suspended
(30:29):
with pay. Your wife and kids are scared.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
They dots.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
You. Everybody knows where you live. And this is going
on every day. We just keep letting it go on.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
This is what and this is good for black people.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
See, this is good for black people because if you
don't ever call out the black criminal, then everything is good.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But the black criminal's victim is black. You can't put
any business.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Nobody wants to put businesses in black neighborhoods. Black kids
are only seeing people shot in their neighborhoods. We're only
electing Sylvester Turner and Rodney Elysis and Sheila Jackson Leeze.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And I'm the bad guy. Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I feel like al Pacino, you know, and Scarface being
taken out of the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
But I set my piece. RJ called up to defend me.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I couldn't let that happen because they're like, oh, he
got that black dude on call bar and tell him
he's all right.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I don't need a black dude to tell me I'm
all right. But I do love you, RJ. Thank you.
And it ain't racial with OJ, It's about truth.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You tell me you might not like it, that's racist, okay,
what about it's racist?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Just racist? Here we are Okay, keep going.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
This dude sent me an email being disappointed and Dunkin
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