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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. I want to
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take a minute longer to talk about school choice. And
I understand a lot of people who would vote for
Trump or against school choice, and I understand why. I
followed this issue in the state legislature over twenty years ago,
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and what I learned was the state representatives. A lobbyist
actually told me this twenty would have been twenty two
years ago, and I just had another person send me
an email to the same effect. In rural counties where
people live but don't necessarily work, or family farms and
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the like. But you get some of these counties where
people drive to work into another county or into another
state REPS district. The largest employer in that particular REPS
district will be the public schools, which makes the superintendent
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what Elon Musk was to Trump, a guy with a
business acumen could move a lot of people, or a
Joe Rogan was to the Trump campaign. That is what
the superintendent in the rural school district is to the
often Republican state rep The superintendent is against school choice.
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The superintendent, I want you to hear this very clearly,
I don't care if your wife's a teacher, or you're
a teacher, or whatever you've thought about before. I want
you to step back and ask this question, why would
a superintendent be scared of competition with his district if
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he's doing a great job. When you don't have competition,
you don't get efficiency and effectiveness, you don't get great
customer service. You can't possibly think it's a good idea
for these school districts to keep floating bonds to build
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massive football stadiums. Oh I do, Michael, I love my
Friday night football. Good pay for it. The taxpayers of
any community should not have to pay for sports stadiums,
whether they be professional or the local high school. If
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you want a nice stadium, then pay fifty bucks for
every Friday night game. We have created a taxation system
in the state of Texas with the property tax. We've
created a system where you never actually own your own home.
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I first read this theory proffered by Kevin Williamson at
National Review years ago, and it's true. Let's say you're
eighty year old retiree and you got your house that
it took you thirty years to pay off. People back
then didn't take thirty years. You've paid off your house.
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You own it free and clear. Look at that boy,
and it's great. But you still are renting it from
the state because you have to pay a property tax
every year. You don't have an income any longer. You
may not spend much, if anything, if you're completely self
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sufficient on sales taxes. But the one tax you cannot
hide from is the tax on the existence of your property.
You will never stop paying taxes. You don't technically own that.
You didn't own it before you paid it off. The
bank did. And once you paid them for what they
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loaned you plus the cost of loaning it to you,
then they let you own it and you no longer
have to pay them. But you will always have to
pay the state. And what are you paying the state for?
What's your biggest hit? The school system? And what is
our school system using the money for stadiums? I love
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sports as much as the next guy, but do you
ever think about the inefficiency of this? You know, every
four years we have the Olympics. In some country can't
wait to win the Olympics because that's going to be
their lottery ticket. And so what do they do? They
spend from three hundred million to a billion dollars sometimes
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more building stadiums. Go look online at the abandoned stadiums
from the Olympics, from Croatia to Brazil to China. But
this was going to turn everything around. The world was
going to come there and see that Sarajevo was the
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place that we all wanted to visit and it was
going to replace Paris. Well, the war didn't help or China.
We're all going to realize we all want to go
see China. No we don't. The air is filthier than Athens.
So what ends up happening is you spend all this
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money to lure the Olympics, which ends up being a
net loss. I was on Houston City Council when we
won the Super Bowl, when we hosted the Super Bowl No. Five,
and every week there would be massive expenditures we had
to we had to approve, and I'd raise my hand
and say, why are we? Why are we? Why do
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you need two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to line
Main Street with rose bushes? Oh, it's part of our
super Bowl contract. I didn't sign your Super Bowl contract,
so no, I'm I'm here on behalf of the taxpayer
to determine whether their money goes toward wasteful landscaping. You
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think anybody going to the super Bowl gives a damn?
And by the way, you got all these boosters, these
super Bowl boosters, same people that want the Olympics here,
same people want the super Bowl here. Fine, these are
the people that get the complimentary sweet These are the
people that have all the money. Why don't they donate
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instead of the taxpayers paying for this. If you want
a new stadium, let the people who use it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No, Michael, we gotta have football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and
each one of them's got to have a different stadium
because if we don't, we're not world class.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, did in that why you needed hundreds of millions
of dollars for a fixed route trolley system that mirrors
the fixed route trolley system that we ripped out in
nineteen twenty seven. You think people want to get out
of their car and wait at the bus stop with
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those crazy people and they're crazy. That crazy dude lives
at that bus stop and he smells of ass and
urine and filth, and he's spitting on you and peeing
on you. And whacking off, and there's your wife sitting
at the bus stop, waiting on the metro because it's
world class. And it pulls up, oh and it's curving.
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Oh and it's great. And then it smashes into people
at the intersection. But what do I know. I'm some
old fuddy duddy that doesn't get a heart on for
massive government boondoggle projects. But you know who does. The
people who write the checks for the local elected officials.
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It's the same people, over and over and over again.
They're not bad people. That's their business. Their business is
buying elected officials and getting elected officials to get all
of your money and then giving it to them. Southern
Friede Southern Friede to Michael Barry show, I wouldn't know
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on this Veteran's day. Musical stylings of Freddie Hardy. During
World War Two, he was too young to serve, but
the greatest generation was they were a different breed. He
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lied about his age and joined the Marines. He would
go on to serve at Ewajima and at Guam. Then
he would, having survived World War Two, try to make
it in the music business. He bounced around from label
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to label, with at best modest success, which is almost
worse than none, because it's just enough to think, well,
maybe I ought to stick with this, but never enough
that anybody thinks it's a great idea. Persistence, You know,
if you can teach your kids one thing, it is
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what is the line? Ramon Russell uses it all the time.
Failure is not final, success is not permanent. Maybe that's it.
You look at people who are successful. Donald Trump ran
and won in twenty sixty, then in twenty twenty he
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has the election stolen from him. They're even Democrats now
coming out and going to say one hundred twenty one
to one hundred and twenty nine million votes every year
from two thousand except the anomaly of twenty twenty, when
another fifteen million votes shows up. Nobody believe eves that
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Joe Biden got eighty one million votes. But what does
Trump do? He just hangs in there. They raid his home,
they raised his wife's panty drawer, They drag him to court,
they convict him of thirty four felonies. You got the
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weight of the entire American government against you, and you
just keep persisting. So here's Freddy Hart. It's nineteen seventy one,
twenty five years since he served in World War Two.
He's probably not gonna make it very big. He's probably
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just going to keep struggling. And a disc jockey at
a radio station in Atlanta, Georgia WPLO started playing this
song that Freddy Hart had called easy Lovin. And it's
not a theme that would catch you on at the time,
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because it's not It's not about barroom drinking or brawls,
or a life of crime, or telling your boss to
take this job and shove it, or the lust you
feel for a woman that's not your own wife, or
a love that has been lost. It's about the beauty,
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the simple, glorious beauty of a monogamous life with the
woman you love. And there's no great riff, no great
turn of phrase, but it's just a wonderful, wonderful song.
So this DJ in Atlanta starts playing it, and it
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starts building and starts building. He was set to be
dropped from his contract with Capitol Records, which was I
believe the third or maybe the fourth label he had
been with. And you don't have a label, you ain't
getting a hip because you can't get it on the radio.
And this organic grassroots support for this song just grew
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and grew and grew until it took off and he
made it. It would make him. At the CMA's that year,
he would be named Top Male Vocalist and Entertainer of
the Year. That song would be hold On. I had
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written it down here, single of the Year and Song
of the Year, an Album of the Year for Easy Loved,
and he would win Song of the Year for Easy Lovin.
Because it came out in late seventy one, in both
seventy one and seventy two, certified gold for sales of
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a million. It was the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart
of the Year. It even went over into the mainstream
or pop chart. I don't think they called it pop
yet at that point. Maybe they did. It's a pretty
amazing story, and he's a pretty amazing dude. Some of
you had grandfathers and fathers who at sixteen and seventeen
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years old, wanted to go whip the crowds, Go whip
the Japanese, go whip the Italians, go whip the folks
that had attacked us, and they went down and signed up.
My boys are seventeen and eighteen, and I think to myself. Man,
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It's incredible the love of country those young men have,
who instilled that their parents, movies, music, the schools. You
lose the schools, you lose your people within a generation.
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The Marxists have preached this for one hundred years. If
you can take the schools within a generation, you can
take the nation. And what has happened to our schools?
Look at the state of our schools. HISD last week
or the week before the story broke kme of prosecuting.
Was it five hundred teachers who didn't take the test
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to be a teacher? They paid someone to do it.
The Booker T Washington basketball coach was running a scheme.
But you see how complex the scheme was. They had
people taking the test for the other people. Well, why
do you pay somebody to take the test to certify
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you as a teacher? Because you're a dumb, dumb And
why are you so eager to become a teacher? You
have low morals and values? Why are these people so
eager to be teachers? Do you ever think about this?
Because they have no alternatives. These aren't people who sought
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to be teachers their whole lives. These aren't people who
went to college and studied the process, the system, the
history of educational techniques. What are these people? Lazy people
who want full benefits to go into a school and
then presumably advanced to administration because that's where the money is.
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So why wouldn't we want our public schools to have competition?
Why wouldn't we If you're doing your job well, why
are you afraid that unless people are forced to come
to your school, they won't. You know, nobody forces you
to buy an apple. They change the damn chargers, they
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change the models, they slow it down. Nobody forces you
to buy an apple. You buy an apple because you
like it. It's a good product. Why are we forcing
people into the public schools? You think about that for me.
And Republicans have gotten in bed with teachers' unions, one
of the most odious organizations, one of the most odious
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special interests in America today. And you see these wacky teachers,
they got the purple hair, they're dudes that want to
be girls. They're communists, and they're talking about what they're
going they're canceling class. When Trump wins, you're in bed
with those people. You're protecting those people, and they'll lie
good lord, the anti school choice that the establishment public
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education people will lie to my face. I read the
things they'll say, You're going to destroy the public schools. No,
you've already done that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
To demands of illegal amas that Joe Biden release in
our country and violation of federal law, you better start
packing out.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The Michael Berry Show such you're going home.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Inside. Many times I being gear and be anytimes I
pray we used to be so happy when we were
in love.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I own about on this Veteran's Day, we paid tribute
to Army veteran Charlie Pride. You know that Tom Homan
is set to be the borders are under Donald Trump
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Clip number nine ramon. Tom Holman has been a guest
of our show many many times, and we are delighted
with this choice. It is a tough thing to deport illegals.
Everyone understands this. The Democrats and the media are cheering
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get as many illegals into the country as you possibly can,
because once they're here, you claim you're a Nazi for
kicking them out. This is how you do it.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Well. Look, I agree with the President's planning on this
in the same than he had during the first administration.
You concentrate on the public safety threats and the national
security threats first because they're the worst, are the worst,
so it's going to be the worst first. That's how
it has to be done. And we know a recog
number of people on the terrorists watch this across this border.
We know record number of terrorists have been released in
this country. We've already arrested some planning attacks. So look,
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the President is dead on when he says criminal threats,
national security threats are going to be prioritized. And that's
the way it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a tough thing. It's a tough thing. It's a
tough thing to be a cop. It's a tough thing
to be a criminal judge. It's a tough thing to
be a parent or a coach. It's difficult, you know,
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you think about We spent the weekend with Michael t.
This weekend, it was parents weekend for his fraternity. I
never saw him joining a fraternity, but it's turned out
to work out well for him and the fraternities very
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It's given him structure, it's given him some order, it's
given him some oversight. They have a required mandatory study
session and I was not into Greek life, so I
was not a fan of Greek life. Although a lot
of my friends man, that was the highlight of their
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kid going to college is the drink fest that is
fraternity life. I did not think that was a good idea.
Didn' drink til I was twenty nine. I'm not a
fan of high school students drinking. I don't care what
you think. You can think, I'm apprude all you want.
I don't believe there's any place for it, but whatever.
So I did not want that to happen. But it
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turned out to be a good group of guys that
are focused on their academics and their team building and
their camaraderie, their careers, and they preach respect for the
opposite sex, respect for yourself, respect for your parents. Anyway,
I think it's been a good thing for him. What
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were we talking about that led to that? The quote
was from Churchill. Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts. I know
what it was. So Michael T said something that just
caused me to absolute melt, absolutely melt. We went to
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have breakfast yesterday morning because yesterday was my birthday and
Crockett's twelfth homecoming, and before we headed back to Houston,
we had breakfast and I said, Michael, I'm very proud
of the man you're becoming. I'm very proud of I
respectful you are. I'm very proud of the way your
peers look at you because his pledge ship is over,
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he's joined. I'm very proud of what your peers told
me about you, and how you are protective of weaker
members and smaller guys, and how you're always willing to
help something needs to be done. You step, you know
all the things you want to hear about your kid,
right And he said, well, Dad, I give you and
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mom all the credit. You should pat yourself on the
back because that's why I am the way I am.
And I said, that's very kind of you to say,
but your mother thinks that I have been and I
still am too hard on you. And he said, you know,
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I knew all along, but now I know better than ever.
That's what I needed. That's what young people need. And
it's true. I see parents who are the best friend
of their kid. I don't think you have to be stern,
never speak to them and never show them you love them,
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but they don't need a buddy. They need they need
a person that can draw a line in the sand.
They need a person that can tell them, no, you
can't go to that party, because I know that when
that family has parties, the cops are going to show
up because there's going to be drinking. There's going to
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be it's going to spill out into the road, and
some kids are going to get arrested. And we have
very very very honest, blunt conversations in our household, and
I tell them, and I believe this, all your friends
are white. If there's six of y'all standing outside, even
if you're not drinking, you're the one black dude, you
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are more likely to be hauled in. Go through life
expecting that and be better than everybody else. Don't be
at a party where you know the cops are going
to show up, period, end of story. Because if you do,
we can argue over whether you were doing anything wrong
or whether why you were the only one that was
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pulled out, even if all six of you were pulled out.
Don't go to a party. These kinds of things are difficult.
It's difficult to fire someone from the workplace who doesn't
show up, and so people will say, well he's got
a drug problem, now he's an alcoholic. Well he's having
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trouble at his marriage. Well nobody's firing you the first day.
But over a period of time and that pattern, you
are establishing a culture. And other people also drank too much,
smoked too much, or fighting with their wives or their husbands,
and somehow they managed to make it there on time,
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getting good results, enforcing laws, creating structure, ending chaos. You've
got to make tough decisions. You've got to close the border,
and we have to deport millions and millions of people
and home. It's going to do it without separating families.
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
There was a moment on CNN this past weekend where
Kamala Harris's press campaign press secretary. I guess it was
this effeminate dude, black guy. Forget his name, Jamal Jamal.
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I can't remember his name. It doesn't matter, he's not important.
But he made the point. Want to see an end
panel that Joe Biden should do the right thing and
resign and let Kamala Harris become the president, because that
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would be a historic first, be our first woman president,
and it was met with derisive laughter. And many people
are laughing at this, and I will tell you that
sometimes we laugh at things to avoid confronting them. The
reality is that that conversation is being held. Absolutely, I
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have predicted all along. I thought there was a better
than average chance, no, not better than average. I thought
there was probably a forty to fifty percent chance that
Biden would step down and Kamala would become the president.
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Prior to the election to give her because she would
own the media cycle. And when we look back on
what happened, I'm gonna get into this on the Evening
Show today. I don't want to say she raised because
she had nothing to do with it. There was just
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over a billion dollars raised on her campaign. Trump had
a little over three hundred million. And this doesn't include
the pack money that came in, but there was a
ton of it for her. There were people and let
me tell you something. I've seen this with city politics,
I've seen it with county politics. The people who give
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the big money to the political process are by and
large people who have as a business government arms, bullets, MREs, uniforms, engineering,
The people who make money off government or off government
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policies are the people giving the money. There are entire
industries that would no longer exist but for sub item
one three, two five four to one sub A sub
little I, sub little A being changed for them to
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no longer get the subsidy that they get, or for
their for their biggest competitor to no longer get the subsidy,
for their biggest competitor to be prevented from doing business
here and to make that an American only business, or
flip it around, to open it up to the marketplace.
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For a tariff to be imposed or removed. For the
tax rate on depleted oil reserves to be accelerated or decelerated,
could make a could make or break a billionaire. So
the money was there. The money was absolutely there. And
now we find out that the Oprah, for instance, received
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a million dollars. How shameful. I've heard tell that Lizzo
received two point five million to appear on stage with her.
I've heard varying accounts on what Cardi b was paid
to talk about how lubricated her reproductive organ is. I
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wonder how much Beyonce was paid. You know you look
at you look at all the people who appeared on
stage with her now and it's coming out they were
all paid to do so. That's not an endorsement, that's
not an I believe in her. That's an exchange of services.
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That's pitiful. I wonder how many people fully understood that,
or if they would even care. Her campaign was left
with eighteen million dollars and a woman by the name
of Leing, who's a senior Democrat in the DNC, senior
official in DNC, is now blowing the whistle on where
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the money went. She had staffers getting massive and there's
money that's come up missing now, loads of money that's
come up missing, and that would have happened with the
federal government. That's been happening for eight years under Sylvester Turner.
At the City of Houston, the person who was in
charge of fixing busted water mains was handing deals to
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her brother. And her brother didn't even own a truck,
much less of business. And you wonder why the taxes
are going up, the services are going down, and you
don't think that's happening in the school system. How do
you fix it? Competition, It's just that simple. You know
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who's driving the school choice movement. I would love to
say it is the people who would benefit the most,
which is single mom minorities in major urban school districts.
I would love to say that that's who's driving this,
because that's who will benefit because they will no longer
be stuck at crappy public schools in Kashmir gardens or
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Lakewood or acres homes. They'll be able to go to
the local Catholic church temple or just hip academy or
wherever else. They'll be able to go wherever they want,
where the teachers are passionate and love those kids. You
got a lot of public school teachers, especially at the
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big public schools, that are there for a paycheck, and
you got a teacher's union that has gone all wrong.
It's almost like you'd need two funding systems because the
rural school district's the only game in town. But you
know who's pushing this. Homeschoolers. So many good things have
come from the homeschooling communities. Because who are homeschoolers. They're mommies,
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mostly mommies who left their day job to stay home
with their kids. I get emails from these people every day.
They were lawyers and accountants, doctors, pharmacists, business owners, and
they and their husbands. It's almost always the wife. They
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and their husbands decided, I'm going to stay home and
I'm going to teach these kids. Is it worth it?
It's been absolutely worth it. These kids are well socialized.
They now they take them out for enrichment activities. They
go to the zoo, they go here, they go to
the park. They learn this, they go spend a day
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interning here and there. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
The truth is, for Abbot and Republicans, it's easier to
leave school choice alone because it's going to split the
Republican It's easier to just leave it alone, and the
kids would suffer. It takes courage to stand up and
do the right thing that politically will be a loser.
Because the people who will benefit most, inner city blacks,
inner city Hispanic especially single moms and poor districts. They're
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not going to be appreciative and realize how this is
going to help them. But it will
It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. I want to
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take a minute longer to talk about school choice. And
I understand a lot of people who would vote for
Trump or against school choice, and I understand why. I
followed this issue in the state legislature over twenty years ago,
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and what I learned was the state representatives. A lobbyist
actually told me this twenty would have been twenty two
years ago, and I just had another person send me
an email to the same effect. In rural counties where
people live but don't necessarily work, or family farms and
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the like. But you get some of these counties where
people drive to work into another county or into another
state REPS district. The largest employer in that particular REPS
district will be the public schools, which makes the superintendent
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what Elon Musk was to Trump, a guy with a
business acumen could move a lot of people, or a
Joe Rogan was to the Trump campaign. That is what
the superintendent in the rural school district is to the
often Republican state rep The superintendent is against school choice.
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The superintendent, I want you to hear this very clearly,
I don't care if your wife's a teacher, or you're
a teacher, or whatever you've thought about before. I want
you to step back and ask this question, why would
a superintendent be scared of competition with his district if
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he's doing a great job. When you don't have competition,
you don't get efficiency and effectiveness, you don't get great
customer service. You can't possibly think it's a good idea
for these school districts to keep floating bonds to build
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massive football stadiums. Oh I do, Michael, I love my
Friday night football. Good pay for it. The taxpayers of
any community should not have to pay for sports stadiums,
whether they be professional or the local high school. If
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you want a nice stadium, then pay fifty bucks for
every Friday night game. We have created a taxation system
in the state of Texas with the property tax. We've
created a system where you never actually own your own home.
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I first read this theory proffered by Kevin Williamson at
National Review years ago, and it's true. Let's say you're
eighty year old retiree and you got your house that
it took you thirty years to pay off. People back
then didn't take thirty years. You've paid off your house.
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You own it free and clear. Look at that boy,
and it's great. But you still are renting it from
the state because you have to pay a property tax
every year. You don't have an income any longer. You
may not spend much, if anything, if you're completely self
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sufficient on sales taxes. But the one tax you cannot
hide from is the tax on the existence of your property.
You will never stop paying taxes. You don't technically own that.
You didn't own it before you paid it off. The
bank did. And once you paid them for what they
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loaned you plus the cost of loaning it to you,
then they let you own it and you no longer
have to pay them. But you will always have to
pay the state. And what are you paying the state for?
What's your biggest hit? The school system? And what is
our school system using the money for stadiums? I love
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sports as much as the next guy, but do you
ever think about the inefficiency of this? You know, every
four years we have the Olympics. In some country can't
wait to win the Olympics because that's going to be
their lottery ticket. And so what do they do? They
spend from three hundred million to a billion dollars sometimes
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more building stadiums. Go look online at the abandoned stadiums
from the Olympics, from Croatia to Brazil to China. But
this was going to turn everything around. The world was
going to come there and see that Sarajevo was the
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place that we all wanted to visit and it was
going to replace Paris. Well, the war didn't help or China.
We're all going to realize we all want to go
see China. No we don't. The air is filthier than Athens.
So what ends up happening is you spend all this
(06:15):
money to lure the Olympics, which ends up being a
net loss. I was on Houston City Council when we
won the Super Bowl, when we hosted the Super Bowl No. Five,
and every week there would be massive expenditures we had
to we had to approve, and I'd raise my hand
and say, why are we? Why are we? Why do
(06:37):
you need two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to line
Main Street with rose bushes? Oh, it's part of our
super Bowl contract. I didn't sign your Super Bowl contract,
so no, I'm I'm here on behalf of the taxpayer
to determine whether their money goes toward wasteful landscaping. You
(06:58):
think anybody going to the super Bowl gives a damn?
And by the way, you got all these boosters, these
super Bowl boosters, same people that want the Olympics here,
same people want the super Bowl here. Fine, these are
the people that get the complimentary sweet These are the
people that have all the money. Why don't they donate
(07:19):
instead of the taxpayers paying for this. If you want
a new stadium, let the people who use it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No, Michael, we gotta have football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and
each one of them's got to have a different stadium
because if we don't, we're not world class.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, did in that why you needed hundreds of millions
of dollars for a fixed route trolley system that mirrors
the fixed route trolley system that we ripped out in
nineteen twenty seven. You think people want to get out
of their car and wait at the bus stop with
(08:00):
those crazy people and they're crazy. That crazy dude lives
at that bus stop and he smells of ass and
urine and filth, and he's spitting on you and peeing
on you. And whacking off, and there's your wife sitting
at the bus stop, waiting on the metro because it's
world class. And it pulls up, oh and it's curving.
(08:20):
Oh and it's great. And then it smashes into people
at the intersection. But what do I know. I'm some
old fuddy duddy that doesn't get a heart on for
massive government boondoggle projects. But you know who does. The
people who write the checks for the local elected officials.
(08:41):
It's the same people, over and over and over again.
They're not bad people. That's their business. Their business is
buying elected officials and getting elected officials to get all
of your money and then giving it to them. Southern
Friede Southern Friede to Michael Barry show, I wouldn't know
(09:04):
on this Veteran's day. Musical stylings of Freddie Hardy. During
World War Two, he was too young to serve, but
the greatest generation was they were a different breed. He
(09:26):
lied about his age and joined the Marines. He would
go on to serve at Ewajima and at Guam. Then
he would, having survived World War Two, try to make
it in the music business. He bounced around from label
(09:51):
to label, with at best modest success, which is almost
worse than none, because it's just enough to think, well,
maybe I ought to stick with this, but never enough
that anybody thinks it's a great idea. Persistence, You know,
if you can teach your kids one thing, it is
(10:19):
what is the line? Ramon Russell uses it all the time.
Failure is not final, success is not permanent. Maybe that's it.
You look at people who are successful. Donald Trump ran
and won in twenty sixty, then in twenty twenty he
(10:40):
has the election stolen from him. They're even Democrats now
coming out and going to say one hundred twenty one
to one hundred and twenty nine million votes every year
from two thousand except the anomaly of twenty twenty, when
another fifteen million votes shows up. Nobody believe eves that
(11:02):
Joe Biden got eighty one million votes. But what does
Trump do? He just hangs in there. They raid his home,
they raised his wife's panty drawer, They drag him to court,
they convict him of thirty four felonies. You got the
(11:23):
weight of the entire American government against you, and you
just keep persisting. So here's Freddy Hart. It's nineteen seventy one,
twenty five years since he served in World War Two.
He's probably not gonna make it very big. He's probably
(11:43):
just going to keep struggling. And a disc jockey at
a radio station in Atlanta, Georgia WPLO started playing this
song that Freddy Hart had called easy Lovin. And it's
not a theme that would catch you on at the time,
(12:04):
because it's not It's not about barroom drinking or brawls,
or a life of crime, or telling your boss to
take this job and shove it, or the lust you
feel for a woman that's not your own wife, or
a love that has been lost. It's about the beauty,
(12:27):
the simple, glorious beauty of a monogamous life with the
woman you love. And there's no great riff, no great
turn of phrase, but it's just a wonderful, wonderful song.
So this DJ in Atlanta starts playing it, and it
(12:51):
starts building and starts building. He was set to be
dropped from his contract with Capitol Records, which was I
believe the third or maybe the fourth label he had
been with. And you don't have a label, you ain't
getting a hip because you can't get it on the radio.
And this organic grassroots support for this song just grew
(13:15):
and grew and grew until it took off and he
made it. It would make him. At the CMA's that year,
he would be named Top Male Vocalist and Entertainer of
the Year. That song would be hold On. I had
(13:35):
written it down here, single of the Year and Song
of the Year, an Album of the Year for Easy Loved,
and he would win Song of the Year for Easy Lovin.
Because it came out in late seventy one, in both
seventy one and seventy two, certified gold for sales of
(13:58):
a million. It was the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart
of the Year. It even went over into the mainstream
or pop chart. I don't think they called it pop
yet at that point. Maybe they did. It's a pretty
amazing story, and he's a pretty amazing dude. Some of
you had grandfathers and fathers who at sixteen and seventeen
(14:22):
years old, wanted to go whip the crowds, Go whip
the Japanese, go whip the Italians, go whip the folks
that had attacked us, and they went down and signed up.
My boys are seventeen and eighteen, and I think to myself. Man,
(14:43):
It's incredible the love of country those young men have,
who instilled that their parents, movies, music, the schools. You
lose the schools, you lose your people within a generation.
(15:05):
The Marxists have preached this for one hundred years. If
you can take the schools within a generation, you can
take the nation. And what has happened to our schools?
Look at the state of our schools. HISD last week
or the week before the story broke kme of prosecuting.
Was it five hundred teachers who didn't take the test
(15:30):
to be a teacher? They paid someone to do it.
The Booker T Washington basketball coach was running a scheme.
But you see how complex the scheme was. They had
people taking the test for the other people. Well, why
do you pay somebody to take the test to certify
(15:51):
you as a teacher? Because you're a dumb, dumb And
why are you so eager to become a teacher? You
have low morals and values? Why are these people so
eager to be teachers? Do you ever think about this?
Because they have no alternatives. These aren't people who sought
(16:13):
to be teachers their whole lives. These aren't people who
went to college and studied the process, the system, the
history of educational techniques. What are these people? Lazy people
who want full benefits to go into a school and
then presumably advanced to administration because that's where the money is.
(16:38):
So why wouldn't we want our public schools to have competition?
Why wouldn't we If you're doing your job well, why
are you afraid that unless people are forced to come
to your school, they won't. You know, nobody forces you
to buy an apple. They change the damn chargers, they
(17:02):
change the models, they slow it down. Nobody forces you
to buy an apple. You buy an apple because you
like it. It's a good product. Why are we forcing
people into the public schools? You think about that for me.
And Republicans have gotten in bed with teachers' unions, one
of the most odious organizations, one of the most odious
(17:24):
special interests in America today. And you see these wacky teachers,
they got the purple hair, they're dudes that want to
be girls. They're communists, and they're talking about what they're
going they're canceling class. When Trump wins, you're in bed
with those people. You're protecting those people, and they'll lie
good lord, the anti school choice that the establishment public
(17:48):
education people will lie to my face. I read the
things they'll say, You're going to destroy the public schools. No,
you've already done that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
To demands of illegal amas that Joe Biden release in
our country and violation of federal law, you better start
packing out.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The Michael Berry Show such you're going home.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Inside. Many times I being gear and be anytimes I
pray we used to be so happy when we were
in love.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I own about on this Veteran's Day, we paid tribute
to Army veteran Charlie Pride. You know that Tom Homan
is set to be the borders are under Donald Trump
(18:42):
Clip number nine ramon. Tom Holman has been a guest
of our show many many times, and we are delighted
with this choice. It is a tough thing to deport illegals.
Everyone understands this. The Democrats and the media are cheering
(19:04):
get as many illegals into the country as you possibly can,
because once they're here, you claim you're a Nazi for
kicking them out. This is how you do it.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Well. Look, I agree with the President's planning on this
in the same than he had during the first administration.
You concentrate on the public safety threats and the national
security threats first because they're the worst, are the worst,
so it's going to be the worst first. That's how
it has to be done. And we know a recog
number of people on the terrorists watch this across this border.
We know record number of terrorists have been released in
this country. We've already arrested some planning attacks. So look,
(19:41):
the President is dead on when he says criminal threats,
national security threats are going to be prioritized. And that's
the way it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a tough thing. It's a tough thing. It's a
tough thing to be a cop. It's a tough thing
to be a criminal judge. It's a tough thing to
be a parent or a coach. It's difficult, you know,
(20:11):
you think about We spent the weekend with Michael t.
This weekend, it was parents weekend for his fraternity. I
never saw him joining a fraternity, but it's turned out
to work out well for him and the fraternities very
(20:33):
It's given him structure, it's given him some order, it's
given him some oversight. They have a required mandatory study
session and I was not into Greek life, so I
was not a fan of Greek life. Although a lot
of my friends man, that was the highlight of their
(20:53):
kid going to college is the drink fest that is
fraternity life. I did not think that was a good idea.
Didn' drink til I was twenty nine. I'm not a
fan of high school students drinking. I don't care what
you think. You can think, I'm apprude all you want.
I don't believe there's any place for it, but whatever.
So I did not want that to happen. But it
(21:14):
turned out to be a good group of guys that
are focused on their academics and their team building and
their camaraderie, their careers, and they preach respect for the
opposite sex, respect for yourself, respect for your parents. Anyway,
I think it's been a good thing for him. What
(21:39):
were we talking about that led to that? The quote
was from Churchill. Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts. I know
what it was. So Michael T said something that just
caused me to absolute melt, absolutely melt. We went to
(22:04):
have breakfast yesterday morning because yesterday was my birthday and
Crockett's twelfth homecoming, and before we headed back to Houston,
we had breakfast and I said, Michael, I'm very proud
of the man you're becoming. I'm very proud of I
respectful you are. I'm very proud of the way your
peers look at you because his pledge ship is over,
(22:26):
he's joined. I'm very proud of what your peers told
me about you, and how you are protective of weaker
members and smaller guys, and how you're always willing to
help something needs to be done. You step, you know
all the things you want to hear about your kid,
right And he said, well, Dad, I give you and
(22:51):
mom all the credit. You should pat yourself on the
back because that's why I am the way I am.
And I said, that's very kind of you to say,
but your mother thinks that I have been and I
still am too hard on you. And he said, you know,
(23:11):
I knew all along, but now I know better than ever.
That's what I needed. That's what young people need. And
it's true. I see parents who are the best friend
of their kid. I don't think you have to be stern,
never speak to them and never show them you love them,
(23:33):
but they don't need a buddy. They need they need
a person that can draw a line in the sand.
They need a person that can tell them, no, you
can't go to that party, because I know that when
that family has parties, the cops are going to show
up because there's going to be drinking. There's going to
(23:54):
be it's going to spill out into the road, and
some kids are going to get arrested. And we have
very very very honest, blunt conversations in our household, and
I tell them, and I believe this, all your friends
are white. If there's six of y'all standing outside, even
if you're not drinking, you're the one black dude, you
(24:17):
are more likely to be hauled in. Go through life
expecting that and be better than everybody else. Don't be
at a party where you know the cops are going
to show up, period, end of story. Because if you do,
we can argue over whether you were doing anything wrong
or whether why you were the only one that was
(24:38):
pulled out, even if all six of you were pulled out.
Don't go to a party. These kinds of things are difficult.
It's difficult to fire someone from the workplace who doesn't
show up, and so people will say, well he's got
a drug problem, now he's an alcoholic. Well he's having
(25:01):
trouble at his marriage. Well nobody's firing you the first day.
But over a period of time and that pattern, you
are establishing a culture. And other people also drank too much,
smoked too much, or fighting with their wives or their husbands,
and somehow they managed to make it there on time,
(25:23):
getting good results, enforcing laws, creating structure, ending chaos. You've
got to make tough decisions. You've got to close the border,
and we have to deport millions and millions of people
and home. It's going to do it without separating families.
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
There was a moment on CNN this past weekend where
Kamala Harris's press campaign press secretary. I guess it was
this effeminate dude, black guy. Forget his name, Jamal Jamal.
(26:11):
I can't remember his name. It doesn't matter, he's not important.
But he made the point. Want to see an end
panel that Joe Biden should do the right thing and
resign and let Kamala Harris become the president, because that
(26:34):
would be a historic first, be our first woman president,
and it was met with derisive laughter. And many people
are laughing at this, and I will tell you that
sometimes we laugh at things to avoid confronting them. The
reality is that that conversation is being held. Absolutely, I
(27:01):
have predicted all along. I thought there was a better
than average chance, no, not better than average. I thought
there was probably a forty to fifty percent chance that
Biden would step down and Kamala would become the president.
(27:21):
Prior to the election to give her because she would
own the media cycle. And when we look back on
what happened, I'm gonna get into this on the Evening
Show today. I don't want to say she raised because
she had nothing to do with it. There was just
(27:43):
over a billion dollars raised on her campaign. Trump had
a little over three hundred million. And this doesn't include
the pack money that came in, but there was a
ton of it for her. There were people and let
me tell you something. I've seen this with city politics,
I've seen it with county politics. The people who give
(28:06):
the big money to the political process are by and
large people who have as a business government arms, bullets, MREs, uniforms, engineering,
The people who make money off government or off government
(28:27):
policies are the people giving the money. There are entire
industries that would no longer exist but for sub item
one three, two five four to one sub A sub
little I, sub little A being changed for them to
(28:49):
no longer get the subsidy that they get, or for
their for their biggest competitor to no longer get the subsidy,
for their biggest competitor to be prevented from doing business
here and to make that an American only business, or
flip it around, to open it up to the marketplace.
(29:10):
For a tariff to be imposed or removed. For the
tax rate on depleted oil reserves to be accelerated or decelerated,
could make a could make or break a billionaire. So
the money was there. The money was absolutely there. And
now we find out that the Oprah, for instance, received
(29:31):
a million dollars. How shameful. I've heard tell that Lizzo
received two point five million to appear on stage with her.
I've heard varying accounts on what Cardi b was paid
to talk about how lubricated her reproductive organ is. I
(29:55):
wonder how much Beyonce was paid. You know you look
at you look at all the people who appeared on
stage with her now and it's coming out they were
all paid to do so. That's not an endorsement, that's
not an I believe in her. That's an exchange of services.
(30:21):
That's pitiful. I wonder how many people fully understood that,
or if they would even care. Her campaign was left
with eighteen million dollars and a woman by the name
of Leing, who's a senior Democrat in the DNC, senior
official in DNC, is now blowing the whistle on where
(30:41):
the money went. She had staffers getting massive and there's
money that's come up missing now, loads of money that's
come up missing, and that would have happened with the
federal government. That's been happening for eight years under Sylvester Turner.
At the City of Houston, the person who was in
charge of fixing busted water mains was handing deals to
(31:05):
her brother. And her brother didn't even own a truck,
much less of business. And you wonder why the taxes
are going up, the services are going down, and you
don't think that's happening in the school system. How do
you fix it? Competition, It's just that simple. You know
(31:28):
who's driving the school choice movement. I would love to
say it is the people who would benefit the most,
which is single mom minorities in major urban school districts.
I would love to say that that's who's driving this,
because that's who will benefit because they will no longer
be stuck at crappy public schools in Kashmir gardens or
(31:53):
Lakewood or acres homes. They'll be able to go to
the local Catholic church temple or just hip academy or
wherever else. They'll be able to go wherever they want,
where the teachers are passionate and love those kids. You
got a lot of public school teachers, especially at the
(32:14):
big public schools, that are there for a paycheck, and
you got a teacher's union that has gone all wrong.
It's almost like you'd need two funding systems because the
rural school district's the only game in town. But you
know who's pushing this. Homeschoolers. So many good things have
come from the homeschooling communities. Because who are homeschoolers. They're mommies,
(32:41):
mostly mommies who left their day job to stay home
with their kids. I get emails from these people every day.
They were lawyers and accountants, doctors, pharmacists, business owners, and
they and their husbands. It's almost always the wife. They
(33:03):
and their husbands decided, I'm going to stay home and
I'm going to teach these kids. Is it worth it?
It's been absolutely worth it. These kids are well socialized.
They now they take them out for enrichment activities. They
go to the zoo, they go here, they go to
the park. They learn this, they go spend a day
(33:23):
interning here and there. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
The truth is, for Abbot and Republicans, it's easier to
leave school choice alone because it's going to split the
Republican It's easier to just leave it alone, and the
kids would suffer. It takes courage to stand up and
do the right thing that politically will be a loser.
Because the people who will benefit most, inner city blacks,
inner city Hispanic especially single moms and poor districts. They're
(33:50):
not going to be appreciative and realize how this is
going to help them. But it will
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