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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time, luck and load the
Michael verieshow is on the air? Where how you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
This is Shirley Q Lick of the nutritional consultant that
Orangefield High School, Orangefield, Texas. Is you hungry today?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Here's what we have it?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hot dog with chili fruit variety, a bell pepper with
some light dressing. That's sound nasty, chili beans, free todpie.
Ooh do they still make free toe pie?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
You know that's gonna be good. I hope y'all home
with Pete Hegseeth cannot be the Secretary of Defense because
he had a sexual assault charge against him or I
don't know what the charge. I don't care. That's their argument.
And Matt Gates was supposedly engaged in sex trafficking. Let's
see Donald Trump apparently committed rape. And then what thirty

(01:28):
five years ago, and then Brett Kavanaugh, Remember he was
at these parties in that crazy woman later showed up
and said he rape me. How'd you get to the party.
I don't remember. I remember the rape. They just don't
remember anything else about it. Clarence Thomas, he couldn't be
on the Supreme Court because remember the professor came out

(01:53):
and said, oh, he showed me a pubic hair on this.
Do you see what they were doing? Well, the wait,
the establishment Republicans that are part of all this, y'all
need to not overlook the fact that they did this
to George H. W.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Bush.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Also, remember they claimed the woman he had an affair
with late in life or late in his term. Remember
they smeared him. You will not be immune from the
deep state using the issue of sex as a cudgel.
Whether you did it or not does not matter. It

(02:32):
will be used against you. And since we're on the subject,
and I am rolling out conspiracy theories that I'm not
certain of, but I have suspicions of. So nobody remember
John Edwards from two thousand and eight, Rush called him
the Brett Girl. It looked like he was from a

(02:54):
shampoo commercial. John Edwards was a stronger candidate then people realize.
At the beginning of that campaign it was supposed to
be Hillary Clinton's nomination. Barack Obama was going to run
a gentle, chivalrous campaign and people were gonna say, Oh,

(03:21):
he's a nice black fellow who talks well, looks good.
Everyone likes him. It's a man. She needs a man.
He's running and he'll be Hillary's vice president and that'll
be great. And then we had a black person in there.
That was what everybody thought. But then he took off

(03:42):
and Tim tom Dashell and his team got behind him,
and that exposed how many people didn't like Hillary, even
from within. But one thing the Clintons kept their finger
on the button of was the type of people who
could expose another person. When John Edwards love child came forward,

(04:12):
my immediate thought at the time was this has the
Clinton's fingerprints all over it. Remember you didn't get to
hear about Hunter Biden's love child in Arkansas until she

(04:33):
the mother the stripper who he impregnated in Washington, d C.
Having gone back to Arkansas, until she started saying, you're
gonna pony up some money. I know, the Ukrainians, the Russians,
the Chinese, I know they're giving you a bunch of
cash and I want some of it. And rather than

(04:55):
share it, he denied paternity and she dragged him to court,
and they couldn't keep that from getting out. That was
news they could not prevent from getting out. I would
like to speak on the Matt Gates issue and whether
we should declassify all of it or nothing, because I'm
at the all of it stage now and I'm going

(05:19):
to tell you that's our options. Because if you defer
to them on the declassification, if you defer to them
on the well, let's have an attorney general who's nice.
Maybe Matt go Gates isn't perfect. You want to solve
this problem or not, because you're gonna have to go

(05:41):
in there and start chopping off some heads. That's all
it is to it. Here's Adam Schiff on CNN after
winning his Senate race, and let me tell you some
they are frightened that Matt Gates is going to get
in there and open the files. Listen to this. You
heard what Speaker Johnson's about Matt Gates.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
What do you think I think he's not only unqualified,
he is really disqualified. Are we really going to have
an Attorney general who there's credible allegation see was involved
in child sex trafficking, potential lists a drug use substruction investigation,
who has no experience serving in the Justice Department, only
being investigated by it.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
But Jake, I think the whole.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Point with these nominees several of them. Is their unqualification,
is their affirmative disqualification. That's Trump's point, because what he
wants to do with these nominees is establish that the
Congress Andized States will not stand up to him with anything.
If they will confirm Matt Gates, they will do anything

(06:43):
he wants. I mean, look how the Speaker had to
tie himself in knots a couple days ago, saying the
speaker effectively should stay out of this, there are important
reasons for that, and then getting involved in this, reversing himself.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
They do not want. Matt Gates is crazy, just crazy
enough to go in and start exposing things like who
is trading stock as congressman. It's not just the Democrats
who hate Matt Gates, it's the Republicans because they're scared

(07:23):
to death. For instance, the Uniparty hates him. For instance,
he called out their money laundering operation in Ukraine. You're
not supposed to know this, and he said it, you're
not supposed to say it.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
I think that the reason we are as involved in
Ukraine as we are is because Afghanistan wound down, and
if we still had Afghanistan to launder money through, there
probably wouldn't be the need for this type of excessive
involvement in Ukraine. But I think we can look at
Afghanistan and we can look at what's going on here
and say, what a lot of these defense contractors are
pushing toward is how to have an extended kind of

(07:57):
low yield war, Like if there's a way to stretch
this thing out, turn it into a twenty thirty year
kind of thing where there's a whole lot of money
moving around and unaccountable pots and a lot of weapons
getting bought, and then oh man, the stockpiles, well, we
got to spend more money to reload those.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Or maybe maybe they hate him because he wants to
abolish agencies like the ATF and that that they don't
want to happen.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be the name of a
chain of convenience stores in Florida, not a federal agency.
We need to abolish the ATF before they abolish our
Second Amendment rights.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
The government cabal is under attack and they're not going
to go easily. You're all going to be accused of
sexual crimes if they have to destroy you. If you
can't say something nice, you can always say it on
the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I guess their attendance is down, cause then damn Jehovah
witnesses back. That woman come beating on my door eight
o'clock this morning, That pine cone headed lady told in
the Bible in one hand and her cartoons and the
other one, talking about, Uh, you don't plan to over
celebrate Christmas?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Do you? I said, who is this man with you?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
She goes, oh, that's my husband. I said he looked
different than he did last time. And the man said, oh,
it's cause I got missed some new hair. He got
a tappa on his head what they call it, a
two pit, a two pair on his head. He said,
don't it look nice? I said, well, you look a
little younger than you did. I said how much it was?

(09:49):
He said it was over fifty dollars they got off
Amazon dot Com. I said, how do it stick on
your head? And he said, just regular scotch tape. And
I was fascinated by the thing.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I told him.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I said, you look at hell up a lot better
than you did when you come over here, bowled headed.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Well, I guess his wife got aggravated.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Because that pine combe on her head went to swelling
up and stuff. And she said, well, if you're not interested,
were just gonna leave. But I said, I have never
been interested. I don't know why y'all keep coming over
here bought in me, But anyway, I got rid of them.
They don't never do nothing for nobody. At least the
Marmans are asked you, could you move some furniture around,

(10:32):
or could they pick us up some boxes in the
backyard or whatever these you need?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Dead them jove withness that you.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Stand offish for my nerves.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I don't play that. How you doing? You know?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
There are a lot of aspects to the Gates nomination.
Let's explore those. One is one theory is there's no
way the Senate will approve Matt Gates. He's the turd
in the punch bowl. There's no way they will let

(11:08):
him get through. And all the Democrats would need is
four of the fifty three Republicans. Democrats have forty seven seats,
so they just need four out of the fifty three
to peel away. If you took a vote right now,
four out of the fifty three would peel away. I'm

(11:30):
certain of it. Maybe more now, what typically happens in
such a situation is to avoid embarrassment, the candidate will
withdraw their name. Let's go back to nineteen ninety two,
Bill Clinton nominated I forget her name, lean Lean Lena,

(12:00):
not Lena. I can't remember her name. But she had
a problem with domestic staff that was a legal alien.
So they decide, you can't be attorney, you can't be
the top law enforcement also, so she so it got real,
it got real, it got real. Uh, heated, and she
withdrew her name rather than being shot down. I think

(12:20):
she was a judge, maybe Pennsylvania. Then the second one
turns out she had the same problem. And then he
went to that spinster Janet Reno. What was that ever?
A clunky choice, But those first two withdrew their name

(12:42):
not uncommon. Look, maybe Matt Gates passes, but I don't
think Cornan votes for him. I think there are no
swamp creatures that say Matt Gates cannot pass. The conversations
I've had since the announcement yesterday was elected officials and

(13:02):
consultants saying, dear God, tell me you're not supporting Matt Gates.
Here's what's complicated. This is a very very complicated scenario,
and I'm gonna try to give it. I'm gonna try
to be as fair to it as I possibly can
and explain it. In order in order to reform our government,

(13:27):
you're gonna have to have some people who are gonna
go in there who are devil may care. They're not
just fearless, they're actually reckless. You're gonna have to have that.
You're gonna have to have people who go in who
set fire to everything, who are the type of people

(13:50):
who feed off of this intense hatred that they engender
and believe in what they're doing and don't care who
likes them. Ron Paul is one of those kinds of people.
Elon Musk is one of those kind of people. Mary
Tally Boden is one of those kind of people. Robert F.
Kennedy Junior is one of those type of people. Rand

(14:14):
Paul is one of those types of people. But they're
never put in charge of anything because they'd go in.
When Elon bought Twitter, he comes in with the kitchen
saying remember, and he immediately fires almost everybody that worked there,

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and the media went crazy because you have to have
this big, massive staff, now you don't. The staff wasn't
improving your experience. They weren't. They weren't coding to make
the site less glitchy. They were all there to keep
opinions from being stated that they didn't like. And it
took a lot of bodies to catch these opinions using

(14:55):
words in algorithms. The whole site was there to prevent
it from being a free speech site. So Elon came
in boom. But he could do that with the government.
You've got systems of checks and balances for Gates to
come in. You got a couple of things that play here.

(15:18):
First of all, there's nothing off limits that Gates won't
do nothing. If he believes something is wrong, he'll go
in and do it. He would go in immediately and
kill every one of the January sixth cases. He would
kill anything. He might burn the file on Juliana Sange

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because he truly believes, and so do I, that Assange
was wronged. He might burn the file on Edward Snowden
and say, Snowden, come on home. You've paid your dues enough.
You don't have to live in Russia anymore. And they're
scared to death of that. That organization, the Department of Justice,
is such an insidious, cant of evil, people like Peter

(16:01):
Straisik and Lisa Page, who the Biden administration paid for
the fact that they were carrying on like rabbits and
working as hard as they could to kill the Trump presidency.
There are so many dirty secrets that our government has hidden.

(16:22):
You're gonna think Alex Jones was holding back the number
of people who've been murdered, the number of businesses that
were lied about, the number of involved persons whose names
you know, and organizations of our government whose names you
know have their fingerprints all over assassinations, murders, people going missing,

(16:47):
car wrecks went bad. And there's only a handful of
people in the world that you would put into that
position as Attorney General that would say open it all up,
full transparency. Yeah, but but some things will get out
that shouldn't. That's part of the cost of doing business.

(17:10):
I'm hoping Pete Hegseth will be that way at the
Department of Defense, because that's the only way this ever
gets fixed is you lay it all out. There will
some things get exposed that shouldn't. Yes, but you have
to look at the overall best interest as it is now.

(17:32):
If they hide everything from us. Then arguably nothing ever
gets exposed that shouldn't have Okay, but is that good? No? No,
you you're gonna in order to make an omelet, you're
gonna have to crack some eggs. And I will assure
you of this. Matt Gates is gonna go in there

(17:52):
and crack eggs. You think he's gonna make Trump seem placid.
I just don't think they'll let him get within a
thousand feet of the Department of Justice. I don't think
they'll let him do it. I think they will not
allow him that kind of power, no matter that the
President wants him. That's what I believe. I believe this

(18:12):
will be the hill they die, Snowflakes, prepare for a
complete meltdown with more of the Michael Berry Show. So
I will open the phone line to you for your

(18:35):
thoughts on whether Bonfire should be continued in the manner
it was twenty five years ago. I know you're gonna
tell me, because everybody does there is an outside group
that does this unsanctioned and all of that. I mean,
should they return to what they had been doing before?

(18:57):
And let me let me say, I have a general
position that shutting everything down when something bad happens. When
a person dies, for instance, I think is a terrible idea.
For instance, I think that not having bonfire the one

(19:18):
year they didn't have it because John F. Kennedy was
assassinated is a terrible thing. I think the tribute is
the show must go on, And I'll take that to
another level seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
By the way, so that you can weigh in seven
one three nine nine nine one thousand. I do not

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believe it is the choice of the parents as to
whether or not bonfire goes on. I think proper tribute
was paid to those aggies who died. But in the
course of human events and great undertakings, people do die.

(20:01):
It happens. We don't shut down the streets for a
day every time someone dies in a fatal car crash.
There is this virtue signaling false sense that we all
have to say, uh, we can't have fraternities anymore because
someone died during hazing. H we can't open the roads

(20:23):
up because someone died in a car wreck. And no
one wants to say this. Everybody wants to say, yeah, yeah, listen.
There was a school in Houston that had a student
who committed suicide two years ago, and they shut the
school down for a week unless you wanted to come
to the school for counseling. And I thought, that is

(20:47):
the worst message to send to young people is when
something sad happens, you shut down. You tell me you
can't go in and learn history in English because a
student committed suicide. And I said this. I said this
to several parents and by the way, my kids brought
were the ones who brought to my attention. They agreed

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in life, the show must go on. You know when
DeMar Hamlin almost died a couple of years ago and
they were going to finish the game, and people, you
got to shut the deck game down. He almost died.
Why I'll take it to another level. I think everything

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you need to know about you can on this issue
and issues like this, whether you're a person who believes
shut everything down so we can show that we're concerned,
goes like this. If you died, would you want your
spouse to remarry and be happily remarried, Because if you

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want that person to live alone and never find happy
be missed with someone else, if that's your view, then
you were a shut it down, person, It's not my view.
I want the people around me to be happy if
I collapse today, I want them to live the rest
of their lives happy. I don't want them to sit

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around and mourn me, and I don't think it's love
to do that. No, you cannot do the show. I've
told you you're not doing the show. We'll find somebody
good you can sit over and ding your dinger. All right,
let's go through the line. David, you're up.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Hey, Michael, how are you doing today?

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Good? Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
I am my class ninety eight. I was actually on
at school there, working my sixth year, going through the process.
Knew a couple of kids that died on Bonfire is tragedy,
but I agree completely that it needs to be brought
back and kept going. But it's an opportunity, like you
were saying, it's an opportunity to learn from the mistakes
are made and make it better. If you never learn

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from mistakes you make, you don't get to make anything better.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
There were some things that could be made better and
improved and still keep the spirit alive and still remember
everybody had gone before that.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
You mean well, said sir. Well said David. Everything in
life is a learning experience and this could be two.
Got an email from Whitney and Birmingham Fighting Texas Aggie
class of one who writes czar I was a reporter
for the Battalion Radio at Texas A and M. The
day bonfire fell. There was a crane buried in the

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mess that made the fallen stack even more tricky to dismantle. Also,
the logs are wired together with heavy cables, so it
is not singular logs, rather several tied together. It was
like a giant pickup sticks game, complicated with people stuck
in between. There was one Aggi that didn't make it
that was in many of the pictures, Timothy Curly. He

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was laying across one layer telling the rescuers where to
find people who had fallen within the logs. He was
helping others to the very end, at just seventeen years old.
That's how these stories live on. That's how these traditions
live on. Just because someone dies in a house, you
don't level the house. Just because someone dies in a

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car accident, Just because someone dies from an accidental discharge
of a gun, you don't outlaw guns. This mentality is
a weak mentality, and I every time I bring this up,
I will get emails. I can't believe. I hope the
families don't hear you say this. The families are not
honored by you wanting to shut everything down. By the way,

(24:40):
forget bonfire. Why not shut the Texas A and M
University down? Why not close the entire campus? And twenty
five years later, Oh, it's still not soon enough because
we had an accident. There was an accident, there were
errors made, it was sloppy. People were having a lot
of fun. There had been close calls over all those years.

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You don't all of a sudden act like some elderly
person to go shut it all down. There's too much
fun being had down there at campus. We're terribly sorry
those kids perished, of course we are. You don't need
to show that you care more than the rest of us.
Now we have to make good decisions, and the decision
is carry on with the damn.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Boss sizes, black eyes take a Dolls.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Exactly a week before she died, my mom summoned me
and my bride to her hospital room in Houston, and
she'd had some really aggressive tests done that day. She
couldn't catch her breath, her lungs had collapsed, and we

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had wonderful, wonderful doctors treating her, my cardiologist Stan Dukman,
a phenomenon, an old pulmonary expert, pulmonologist named Connelly, and
Jim Munts, my primary care doctor, was stopping in to
make sure every day she was getting the best care.

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And truthfully, she probably wouldn't have still been alive if
if these folks hadn't done everything in their power. And
so she'd had a test done that day and it
was a lou Gerrig's disease type thing that she had,
and they they had to go in with these big needles,

(26:34):
and it was it was going to be painful, and
I didn't tell her ahead of time because she's needle
phobic the way I am, and I didn't want her
to obsess over it and make it worse. And I
hoped maybe they'd just knock her out and she wouldn't,
but that wasn't. So the doctor early in the evening
told me, you know, this is a very very painful procedure.

(26:58):
We do this as a last ditch. And so we
did this for your mom, as I told you we would,
because we've exhausted everything else, and it's excruciatingly painful. We
had to do it three times because we couldn't get
in the way we needed to. He said, I'm going

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to be honest with you. Your mother is one of
the toughest human beings I've ever met in my life.
So that night, later that night, and we knew, you know,
it was a matter of you know, a year at
the most six months, and she was. She was on
all these treatments and it was just a brutal life

(27:41):
in and out of the hospital every day. So she
summoned me and Nuditta and we got there at ten
o'clock and we sat for several hours. She said, I'm done.
I want to go home and die. And she had
a line that she used. She was telling me, you know,
I don't want to memorial I don't want to be
on exhibit. I don't want you announcing it on the air.
I don't want to hear from people. I don't want
people visiting. I want this kept quiet. I want to

(28:02):
die in my bed at home, in the living room,
surrounded by family, and then I want you to have
I want to be buried. I want Clay Bard to
do the service be buried next to your brother, and
I don't want anybody there except for the five of y'all,
six seven, whatever it is of y'all. Okay. So at

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some point she's telling a story about something and I said,
and she was talking about life after she was gone,
and you know your dad, You know your dad needed
you need to do this for your dad. You do this.
And I said, now, is this something you want to
be a part of or And she had this flippant
line that my wife and I laugh about. She said, no,

(28:44):
I'm going to peel off. Y'all are going to continue on.
And she did this kind of flip over like she
was peeling off, like like you're you know, in the
old days, you are all riding horses, and you go, hey, guys,
that's my pasture over. I'm gonna go over there. Y'all
keep going. And we left and my wife said, you know,
I think that is a lot of your attitude in life.

(29:08):
Obviously you get it from your mother. And that is
that we don't shut down when things get tough, don't.
We don't sit in the corner and cry. That is
not how you honor anyone. What if our warriors did
that in war. What if Marcus Latrell just laid over
and said, well, they've killed my buddies. You realize we

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would have never known what happened on that mountain if
Marcus Latrell doesn't defeat all odds, survive and right and
publish his diary. Right, But he didn't roll over and
die when he was supposed to in honor of his
buddies laid up next to him. No, he lived on
with one mission alone. He didn't have a girl at

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that time. He was alone. He wanted to go back
and tell their wives and girlfriends how honorably they died.
What if he had just curled up right beside him
and said, I can't survive, it wouldn't be right for
me to go on and survive. That's how you honor people.
You live your life. We are here with a mission
to live our lives to honor God. You don't cancel events,

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you don't cancel school, you don't cancel the game, you
don't cancel the wedding. All of these things we do
in tribute. All of these things we do to honor.
We are strong conquerors. You could literally close everything all
day long, every day because somebody died. That's no way

(30:44):
to live, that's no way to honor. You know, the
strength to get back up and do That's what's hard.
Shutting down school all the time, shutting down workplaces all
the time. No, you rebuild. It's what you do. Why.

(31:08):
I don't know. It's just what you do. I don't
have a good reason, but it's the proper thing to do.
The show must go on, life must go on. How
many women die and dad's got these kids and he
gets up and says, I'm gonna raise these kids. I'm

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gonna do it. I can't. I can't shut down. How
many people every day in America and the world for
that matter, get up, not knowing how they're gonna make
it through this. How many single moms? Single mom African
immigrant sends me a message. She's barely paying her rent.

(31:54):
She got a kid ten years old, ten twelve cent
I think ten. Her car broke down, she got the
car picked up, being worked on. She gets a rental car.
She can't afford rental cars parked in her apartment complex.
Within two hours of being home, they stole the four
tires off of it that she cannot afford and she's

(32:19):
just devastated. Just of course I helped, but you know,
you can't help everybody. And the thing is, that's one
little example that's happening hundreds of times every day. Those
are the real victims, because those turds who stole her tires,
they've done that to somebody else. But she can't just

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sit in the corner and cry. She got rent to do,
she got rent to pay, she got kid to drop
off at school, she's got a job to go to
every day. That's what I admire. You get back up,
you build that bonfire, and every year at that bonfire,
you spray paint the name of every one of those

(33:00):
kids on that bonfire. There's your tribute the next kids
that come along and do that bonfire like a pledge
ship for a fraternity, everybody has to learn the name
and place of birth of every kid who died there.
That's how you pay tribute. You build it up bigger
and better, because guess what, it was a fun tradition

(33:21):
by all accounts, that's why they did it. Nobody was
required to do it, That's why they did it. Was
it reckless and dangerous? Yeah, a lot of life is.
And those are the experiences that we remember, and those
kids would want you to continue on.