December 9, 2025 • 32 mins
From identity theft to global tech espionage, Michael Berry exposes the hidden threats draining your time, money, and peace of mind.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
So Michael Varry Show is on the air, and now
a totally random week in review from the past. Take
a guess when this way, I said, good morning, Uncle Presson. Yeah,
I said, Glenn Campbell's coming to the Astronomer. He's gonna
be in Houston. And he said I would watch Glenn
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Campbell bevis across the street. And what bothers me is
I'm fifty four years old. That's approximately fifty years ago,
and I can't understand why he was so mad at
Glenn Gamble.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Dozens of Texas Democrats are waking up in Illinois and
New York after leaving the state in elastish.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Effort to stop a congressional redistricting attack.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They've left the state, abandon their posts, and turn their
backs on the constituents they swore.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
To represent, to run to stay site New York and
Hill to protest redistrict and is kind of like a
running to Wisconsin to protest cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's just kind of outrageous. Dear God, bless his heart,
Please don't let him do national interviews anymore. It's just
setting him up for failure. A priesting five constable deputy
under an internal investigation after posting a TikTok that went viral.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You see a priesting five constable deputy joining on a
TikTok trend and having some fun, but that could.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Cause her to lose her jobs.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Like they plan.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, you're just being childish, like y'all ain't. You ain't
taking that too seriously. You're gonna write me some texts
because you ain't get great.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I love how they always have to have the man
on the street response to the story, because we wouldn't
really know how to respond if they told us that
a constable's deputy filmed herself saying I didn't get banged
last night, So everybody's getting a ticket today for the third.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Time since last week.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Someone throw an adult toy onto the court during a
WNBA game.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's putting people in danger.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, these are athletes who are running, they're cutting their
jumping and very.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Unhygienic and also not hygenic. It's not hygienic. It's not
Why exactly is it unhygienic Unless you've the correct answer.
There is August eighth, there's an old man riding a
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razor out in front of our studio. I don't I
don't know. He's dressed like he's going to church, but
he's on a razor riding around clearly for maybe maybe
his granddaughter left it at his house and he thought, well,
it'll be fun. We're going to give this a go
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a listener in Fayette County Rights. We have five people
running for the Fayette County judge position here. One of
them happens go to the same church as we do. Unfortunately, Ramon,
you're gonna want to listen to this. During the summer,
he stopped off for a beer at a little beer
joint here in Lagrange after he left a city council meeting. Okay,
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you're in Lagrange, you have a city council meeting. Maybe
you have a beer on the drive home. Yeah, well
yeah they do have the coulder beer. That's not very nice.
Video killed a radio star while telling the three people
there he was thinking of teaching a gun safety course. Okay,
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so he's been at a city council meeting. Meeting is over,
he's on his way home, stops off to have a beer, right,
and then he's telling the three people who were there,
wasn't a busy time at the bar that he's thinking
of teaching a gun safety course. Okay, he went to
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pull his pistol out of his pocket. Wait a second,
you don't need to pull your pistol out of your
pocket to explain that you're thinking about selling and teaching
a gun safety course. In fact, that might be reason
enough to believe that you shouldn't be teaching a gun
safety course. He went to pull his pistol out of
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his pocket and shot himself in the leg. Shot himself
and a lady in the leg. Oh ooh, this is
no good. You can't make this stuff up. It's a
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big deal in the butt of many jokes all over
the county. He's normally a straight shooter. I thought you
might get a kick out of this. I feel like
there are probably some more details here we should know.
I mean, this is this is uh, this is interesting stuff.
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So an issue that gets almost no attention, but I
get emails on it every single day. I'll give you
an example. A friend of mine's daughter, she's away at college.
These people have pretty good amount of money. I mean,
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I would say they were rich, but he's got his
kid on an allowance. Who knows what that is. I'm
sure It's sure most of us would would live off
just that allowance. But he's trying to teach her to
manage her money. We do the same thing. I think
it's a great idea. His daughter finds a dog online
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that she wants to buy, so she sends some money
and they say, okay, great, feefees ready for you. Would
you like to pick up feefee? Would you like us
to safely and carefully send feefee to you?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, it's tended to me. Your two states away. A
month later and five thousand dollars in transportation costs, permits, licenses, fees, penalties, fines,
the cops got involved in. Long story short, it was
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all a scam. There was no fee fee. You can
look these scams up online. They are all sorts of
different ones. They can now use AI to make the dog.
They don't have to. There's enough. It's not just dogs,
It's all sorts of things people will send you. I've
always wondered how on earth eBay were because it's completely
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off of trust. People say, yeah, but you can get
a score. You can get a score, but you have
to realize there are people sitting in Nigeria and India
who have no money, and they're really smart, and they
should have been running the IT department for a major
international corporation, but there aren't enough of those jobs available,
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so they're just sitting and putting their wherewithal to scamming
people in the United States. And I got to thinking,
you know, we are under attack at all times. Here
it comes again. Every time I go online and log
into my bank, my investment account fill in the blank,
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it says your password has been bought. We are under
constant attack physically by people illegally entering this country in online,
and we should declare war against it. There should be
real consequences to doing this to people, because I bet
every one of you has been hit by one of
these gams on this day. In nineteen sixty five, Roon
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a Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut, airing on CBS
in place of The Monsters. Another great show. The Monsters
was such a good show. The Adams Family really good.
The Monsters next level. The famous score for a Charlie
Brown Christmas, which became synonymous with The Peanuts, is written
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by the jazz musician Vince Guaraldi and performed by his
trio Interesting. It was on this day that Billy Joels
we didn't start the fire hit number one in America
in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty nine, and I guess
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that would have been I graduated in eighty nine, so
that would have been in the spring of eighty nine.
This would have been, so I would have been off
of college. Yeah, I remember it, but I wasn't listening
to the radio. Then that's part of my lost decade
that begins, that begins about that time. Indeed, back to
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the subject, the whole world is like flies on the
carcass of the United States. What we have is so great,
so wonderful, what we built that the rest of the
world is trying to figure out how to feed off
of it, legally or illegally. China would collapse without the
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ability to sell us their cheap crap in many other
countries as well. That's what the tariffs have exposed, is
that we have the leverage, not them. That's why the
people of the rest of the world all want to
flee every one of their countries and come here. The
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online scams or the scams period, the stealing of your identity.
This is a situation that I feel like if we
can track down Osama bin Laden. If they can put
a pager in the pocket of the Hezbollah leadership and
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all at once blow them up. If we can pinpoint
a bomb in Iran to knock out their centerfuge, we
can stop this. And I don't hear anybody talk about it.
You ever think about how much of your time is
spent wasted because people are constantly stealing your identity and
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stealing your money. Well, let's try going online to one
of your accounts right now. How much stress does that
cause the American people think about this, Maybe not you,
but other people, especially the older people. They need to
send some money to their grandchild, for instance, another one
of the big scams. But let's say they're legitimately sending
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money for something. So if they go online to their bank,
they have to go in. They have to have these
codes and keys and passwords. God help you if you've
forgotten it. Why do we have to have all that?
It's not necessary unless you've got people trying to crack
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into our accounts. Why should it be so difficult to
get into our accounts because we first have to make
sure that we can prove we're not one of those
millions of people think about that. You know how much
stress that causes you about all the all the time.
Let's just take the time first, and then we'll talk
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about the money that you spend because evil people are
trying to do you harm. Alarm systems are on your vehicles,
on your house, locks, alarms, cameras, monitoring systems, all the
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things you have to have or feel like you need
to have because there are legitimate threats from other people.
And how about the stress? How about the anxiety every
time there's a bump in the night, you've got to
worry that somebody breaking in to steal all your stuff
and kill you in the process because you're inconvenient to
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what they're trying to carry out. How about the carjackings?
How much money has to be spent by cell phone
companies and banks to have an officer sullenly stand in
the corner because of all the people and what they do.
Law abiding citizens are spending a massive amount of their time, energy,
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mental health and money because of these scavengers, these parasites.
And yet when they're caught, what's done to them, what's
actually done to them. We could shut Nigeria down, and
we can make a real dent in India, the two
countries from which most of these online frauds occur. I sometimes,
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just for I'm a vigilanting justice kind of guy. I
sometimes will go on to YouTube and there are a
few accounts that I follow who they prank these people,
So when they find out there's a particular scammer who's active,
they go on and they'll waste hours of the guy's time,
making him think he's just about to steal their money,
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but he's not, and then he threatens them and curses them.
And the number of people who feed off of the
American public living in foreign countries, who add no value,
do not engage in a consensual transaction, but survive and
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thrive off stealing them from our people. You know, one
of the reasons that Visa has grown in popularity and
wealth is that people would rather use a visa than
their own money because if there's fraud, they'll cover it.
Not because they're nice guys. Visa just builds that into
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the business model. They just bake that into the pricing.
A certain amount of money will have to be written
off to fraud. That's the cost of doing business, that's
the cost of being the dealer, that's what they do.
But for the rest of us, I don't know. Maybe
it just feels like the walls are closing in on
me with these people. But it just feels like every
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aspect of my life has now been invaded by these
types of people. And it's the sort of thing that
Americas might could stop. We've got this amazing military equipment
that we can zap you from the air with a drone.
I would like these call centers that are doing this
to be wiped out. I would like to see these
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people destroyed. And I think we could do it, and
yet nobody talks about it. You're listening to Michael Barry Show.
There is a troubling and recurring pattern of not just
individual scams and attacks on the United States, but state
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sponsored When the nation of China devotes their attention to
sabotaging the United States for their own gain, now you're
bringing a level of resources that is unimaginable. A sugar
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Land business owner has pled guilty to smuggling some of
the world's most advanced AI chips into China. Federal prosecutors
say these chips are the building blocks of AI superiority
and are integral to modern military applications. The country that
controls these ships will control AI technology. The country that
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controls AI technology will control the future. I believe that's true.
US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security strictly controls
the export of these advanced chips to China due to
national security concerns. The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
They are among the most powerful processors on the planet.
This AI can be used for direct military applications such
a designing way weapons, operating drones, and analyzing intelligence data.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
These chips are called GPU or graphic processing units. They're
super powerful and can handle many calculations at once. That's
why they're used for artificial intelligence, and the district Attorney,
Nikolas Kanji says the powerful tech was headed to China.
Because the computer chips are so powerful, the US Commerce
Department actually made it illegal for China to buy these chips.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Ironically, on the same day this operation was released, that
Department of Commerce said those exact chips that they were
arrested for, they're thinking about actually exporting of the China.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Finally, this is according to a Reuters report.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
At the center of the investigation is how global in
owner Alan Sue. He formed the sugar Land based company
in twenty fourteen. They had no sales in no business
until last year. That's when he ordered one hundred and
sixty million dollars in super high tech computer chips from
a North Carolina company.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
The money reportedly funneled.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
In from Hong Kong, where he's accused of shipping the
tech too, but not before the brand name labels were
removed to disguise the tech as something else. That's where
two others come in, Fan Wu Gong and Benln wont,
both accused of helping relabel and ship the chips to China.
This investigation was able to stop one hundred and sixty
million dollars of these computer chips from going overseas. However,
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by the time investigators caught on, about fifty million dollars
computer chips were already sent to China.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Alan Chu from sugar Land.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
He is pleading guilty to charges of smuggling and and
lawful experts.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Two other men were arrested for their role in the scheme,
Fan You Gong of Brooklyn and Ben Lin Yuan, also
of New York. So one can't help but notice how
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often people who were being caught here spying for China,
have Chinese names. At what point do we say enough?
Whether you're married to the former Senate major leader, or
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you're a university student or a business owner running a
business front, at what point do we stop China from
sabotaging our country, spying on our country, stealing from our
country through Chinese Americans. We could do it. It's kind
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of like the Narco terrace. We've always had the technology
to wherewithal to shoot the boats out of the water.
Question is are you willing to fade the heat. We've
always been able to secure the border. Question is are
you able to fade the heat. We've always been able
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to round up illegal aliens from the communities where they
now live. Question is are you willing to fade the heat?
At what point? I have a theory, just theory, that
the Chinese government was part of what was funding Jeffrey
Epstein through Les Wexner. Jeffrey Epstein was supposedly worth five
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hundred and fifty million dollars, supposedly in the finance field,
but he had no financial licenses. There's no record of
him making any trades or investments. He just spent a
lot of money, and nobody can seem to figure out
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where it came from. Somebody seems to have wanted him
to bring very powerful people outside America's jurisdiction to a
private little island to engage in debauched, deviant, illegal behavior
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with minors. I don't know why anybody would do this,
even if that was your love language and you really
liked your friends. It was a wide assortment of friends.
Somebody can be close friends with that many people, not
so close that you're willing to damage the blow to
suffer the blowback of setting up sexcapades on this level
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with this many people. Is it an amazing None of
them ever spoke of it. That's how you know how
bad what was happening was that no one ever bragged
that they did it. But why would you do that?
And cover all the expenses and film it? And film
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it is the most important part because once you filmed it,
you own that person. Bill Gates is owned. There are
a lot of people you can look at the manifests
who are now owned. But by who? Some people say,
some people say China. Some people think the Russians are involved.
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I have no doubt, not even the slightest that there
are foreign governments involved, maybe through their spy agencies, but
foreign governments involved, and the threat of being compromised by
people whose reputation is everything to them makes them do
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crazy things. There's a video us all last night Neil
Bush at a Chinese investment seminar. He's sitting up on
stage being questioned at that great Bush name the Pedigree,
and he was saying, we have nothing to fear in China.
We should give them our chips. In President Trump did
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we should give them our chips. China is our friend.
We'd rather have them as our friend and our enemy.
We should give them the chips. Well, Lord knows, they've
shown themselves to be such a trustworthy nation. Nothing to
fear there. I remember an article years ago we read
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it here on the air. Microsoft was selling a billion
dollars worth of sophomore were in China, and then they
were selling twenty million, which was less than they sold
in Brussels. So they went there and you could walk
on every street by Microsoft, everywhere, all of it counterfeit.
Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
My name is MITCHA Michael Berry genius.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
They rush off his Kennedy Center honors and a visit
to the White House. We are joined by George Strait,
the King of Country. He hung up, Okay, we're not
joined right now. Maybe maybe we will be stuttering, Kevin,
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you'll have to do go ahead, well, good morning.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
What I've what I've noticed lately with the scammers, they
will do landom inactive.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Numbers like.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Like UH I got uh memorial Hermann was one of
the uh.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It was one of the uh.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I was one of the numbers that I had gotten.
So I decided to living the fun with him. So
I just said, Okay, the other result of the other's
all too my no, do the other results of my
tests if you don't have the results of my test,
and and I say no, no, no, I'm just that
this that, this that, And I'll just say all right
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to them if I continue on, this is broad and
and then hang up.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
On because.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
If I did continue with them on, it would have been.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Set up on a fraudulent.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Oh all the fraudulent uh fraudulent.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It was set up the relationship.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
On a on a frogulent basis.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That's what I'm trying to say here. So I do
understand understand that, yes, sir, I got it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
People are always very keen to tell me how they
have cleverly dooped the scammer or the fraud Sure, and
it's usually with a great line, clever quip or and
I say, do you realize that guy does this for
eighteen hours a day? Do you realize two hundred other
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people have done this today? I wouldn't be too proud
of myself. The other one is that people think they're
going to shame the guy in the stopping doing that.
I don't have a little perspective here. Let's say that
you're homeless and you live in a bus stop and
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in the middle of the night, other people come and
throw stuff on you, kick you, shoot b B guns
at you, do the various things that homeless people endure.
You're out in the heat when it's hot and cold,
when it's cold, and there's no relief from it. That's
your life. And then you get the ability to sell
your soul for one hundred dollars a day. Now, all
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of a sudden, you got a warm meal, you got heat,
you got cool, you got a nice shower. I never hungry.
It's a world of difference. That's a bigger difference than
going from your stage in life to being a millionaire.
It's that big a difference to that person. And now
you say, shame on you, you're doing something immoral, expecting him
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to go. You're right, I'll go back to the living hell.
That was the alternative. That's who these people are. There's
no opportunity for them. Of course they're going to do this.
If they don't, someone else does it behind them. I
don't get into whether they shoot or shouldn't do it.
I get in to destroy them. Protect the American people.
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Of course, you have to protect the American people from
the political scammers. And that's going to start now. You're
going to start getting the stupidest text messages all day long.
What I don't understand is people who send me a message,
here's a screenshot of it, Michael. All right, they'll say,
here's a screen shot, Michael. I got this text from
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candidate X and he says this is about CANADID. Why
I don't believe him? Is it true? I don't know
what people think I'd do with my day, but I
assure you tracking down a random text from a random
candidate to a random person and determining whether it is
or isn't true, not that it would matter if it did,
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and the time necessary, How many of those? How much
time would I allot per day to just that? Nonsense report?
Junk report, jump report, junk report. Ju'nt move on. But
I guess when you get as many messages as I
do from as many different people, you get really good
at not giving one ounce of care. You just delete,
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move on. But I'd kick these people to nuts if
I could, and if I could get the unsolicited text
bill passed where you cannot just spray this stuff out,
which is what they're going to do from now until March,
and nobody in politics wants to do anything about it.
And most people in politics are let around by the
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nose by their consultant, and their consultant makes money off this.
Their consultant gets rich off of this. They sell these lists,
they sell these programs. That's what they do.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, good morning, Mike.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Before I tell you why I called, I was calling
about one of your sponsors. I want to piggyback off
of what you said about the scamming. I got a
phone call Texas morning with my ninety one year old
father up in Luskin, who has an eight fifty credit score,
called me to our texting concern because they had to
shut his credit card down to security risk and he'd
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never had that before.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So it's going on.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
But the reason I called is because you've got one
sponsor I know of name Justin White of Senior Health Services.
And I'll tell you what. He is a rock star
in my book. And he stops the scammers too, because
if you're out, they're getting Medicare and everybody's getting about
forty plus phone calls a day from scammers trying to
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sell you a Medicare. You can just hang up the
phone and get a hold of Justin White and Senior
Health Services. He will help you. He's just like all
your other sponsors, Michael. I mean, if you need furniture,
I know Mactor's Mac. That man is spot on. Everything
we say about him is true. I haven't met Kannie
and Billy I was in jewelry for twenty two years,
but that Corey Diamonds. He's got a stellar reputation and
look forward to going after someday and I go to
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top gun range to shoot my gun. You've got good sponsors,
Michael and I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
For bringing them aboard. Well, what I'm nicely going to say,
I appreciate that. That's very kind. You know. They say,
they say convenience comes at a cost. I am. I
am amazed. It's a value system. So let me start there.
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But if I can do business with someone that I
can look in the eye and I can know that
the money I'm paying them for the service or good
that I want is supporting their household in my local community,
and if there's a problem, I can come storming back
through their front doors. That's a world of difference. We
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speak for us coins all over the country, and I
get emails from people all over the country that are
doing business with them. I've sent people to Billy and
Connie for going on twenty years, fifteen years. Let's say,
Senior Health Services has only been a few years. But
I'll tell you what this medicare season and people signing up.
You know, No, I can't imagine anybody ever doing business
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with someone who meets you through a random email or
a text message or whatever. The chances that these are frauds,
and those frauds are so good now at making it
seem like they know you you know. Look, you get
what you pay for. What's good in cheap what's cheapen
good
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
So Michael Varry Show is on the air, and now
a totally random week in review from the past. Take
a guess when this way, I said, good morning, Uncle Presson. Yeah,
I said, Glenn Campbell's coming to the Astronomer. He's gonna
be in Houston. And he said I would watch Glenn
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Campbell bevis across the street. And what bothers me is
I'm fifty four years old. That's approximately fifty years ago,
and I can't understand why he was so mad at
Glenn Gamble.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Dozens of Texas Democrats are waking up in Illinois and
New York after leaving the state in elastish.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Effort to stop a congressional redistricting attack.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They've left the state, abandon their posts, and turn their
backs on the constituents they swore.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
To represent, to run to stay site New York and
Hill to protest redistrict and is kind of like a
running to Wisconsin to protest cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's just kind of outrageous. Dear God, bless his heart,
Please don't let him do national interviews anymore. It's just
setting him up for failure. A priesting five constable deputy
under an internal investigation after posting a TikTok that went viral.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You see a priesting five constable deputy joining on a
TikTok trend and having some fun, but that could.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Cause her to lose her jobs.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Like they plan.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, you're just being childish, like y'all ain't. You ain't
taking that too seriously. You're gonna write me some texts
because you ain't get great.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I love how they always have to have the man
on the street response to the story, because we wouldn't
really know how to respond if they told us that
a constable's deputy filmed herself saying I didn't get banged
last night, So everybody's getting a ticket today for the third.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Time since last week.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Someone throw an adult toy onto the court during a
WNBA game.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's putting people in danger.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, these are athletes who are running, they're cutting their
jumping and very.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Unhygienic and also not hygenic. It's not hygienic. It's not
Why exactly is it unhygienic Unless you've the correct answer.
There is August eighth, there's an old man riding a
(02:27):
razor out in front of our studio. I don't I
don't know. He's dressed like he's going to church, but
he's on a razor riding around clearly for maybe maybe
his granddaughter left it at his house and he thought, well,
it'll be fun. We're going to give this a go
(02:51):
a listener in Fayette County Rights. We have five people
running for the Fayette County judge position here. One of
them happens go to the same church as we do. Unfortunately, Ramon,
you're gonna want to listen to this. During the summer,
he stopped off for a beer at a little beer
joint here in Lagrange after he left a city council meeting. Okay,
(03:14):
you're in Lagrange, you have a city council meeting. Maybe
you have a beer on the drive home. Yeah, well
yeah they do have the coulder beer. That's not very nice.
Video killed a radio star while telling the three people
there he was thinking of teaching a gun safety course. Okay,
(03:36):
so he's been at a city council meeting. Meeting is over,
he's on his way home, stops off to have a beer, right,
and then he's telling the three people who were there,
wasn't a busy time at the bar that he's thinking
of teaching a gun safety course. Okay, he went to
(03:58):
pull his pistol out of his pocket. Wait a second,
you don't need to pull your pistol out of your
pocket to explain that you're thinking about selling and teaching
a gun safety course. In fact, that might be reason
enough to believe that you shouldn't be teaching a gun
safety course. He went to pull his pistol out of
(04:21):
his pocket and shot himself in the leg. Shot himself
and a lady in the leg. Oh ooh, this is
no good. You can't make this stuff up. It's a
(04:45):
big deal in the butt of many jokes all over
the county. He's normally a straight shooter. I thought you
might get a kick out of this. I feel like
there are probably some more details here we should know.
I mean, this is this is uh, this is interesting stuff.
(05:08):
So an issue that gets almost no attention, but I
get emails on it every single day. I'll give you
an example. A friend of mine's daughter, she's away at college.
These people have pretty good amount of money. I mean,
(05:31):
I would say they were rich, but he's got his
kid on an allowance. Who knows what that is. I'm
sure It's sure most of us would would live off
just that allowance. But he's trying to teach her to
manage her money. We do the same thing. I think
it's a great idea. His daughter finds a dog online
(05:56):
that she wants to buy, so she sends some money
and they say, okay, great, feefees ready for you. Would
you like to pick up feefee? Would you like us
to safely and carefully send feefee to you?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, it's tended to me. Your two states away. A
month later and five thousand dollars in transportation costs, permits, licenses, fees, penalties, fines,
the cops got involved in. Long story short, it was
(06:40):
all a scam. There was no fee fee. You can
look these scams up online. They are all sorts of
different ones. They can now use AI to make the dog.
They don't have to. There's enough. It's not just dogs,
It's all sorts of things people will send you. I've
always wondered how on earth eBay were because it's completely
(07:01):
off of trust. People say, yeah, but you can get
a score. You can get a score, but you have
to realize there are people sitting in Nigeria and India
who have no money, and they're really smart, and they
should have been running the IT department for a major
international corporation, but there aren't enough of those jobs available,
(07:23):
so they're just sitting and putting their wherewithal to scamming
people in the United States. And I got to thinking,
you know, we are under attack at all times. Here
it comes again. Every time I go online and log
into my bank, my investment account fill in the blank,
(07:48):
it says your password has been bought. We are under
constant attack physically by people illegally entering this country in online,
and we should declare war against it. There should be
real consequences to doing this to people, because I bet
every one of you has been hit by one of
these gams on this day. In nineteen sixty five, Roon
(08:14):
a Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut, airing on CBS
in place of The Monsters. Another great show. The Monsters
was such a good show. The Adams Family really good.
The Monsters next level. The famous score for a Charlie
Brown Christmas, which became synonymous with The Peanuts, is written
(08:38):
by the jazz musician Vince Guaraldi and performed by his
trio Interesting. It was on this day that Billy Joels
we didn't start the fire hit number one in America
in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty nine, and I guess
(09:02):
that would have been I graduated in eighty nine, so
that would have been in the spring of eighty nine.
This would have been, so I would have been off
of college. Yeah, I remember it, but I wasn't listening
to the radio. Then that's part of my lost decade
that begins, that begins about that time. Indeed, back to
(09:24):
the subject, the whole world is like flies on the
carcass of the United States. What we have is so great,
so wonderful, what we built that the rest of the
world is trying to figure out how to feed off
of it, legally or illegally. China would collapse without the
(09:48):
ability to sell us their cheap crap in many other
countries as well. That's what the tariffs have exposed, is
that we have the leverage, not them. That's why the
people of the rest of the world all want to
flee every one of their countries and come here. The
(10:09):
online scams or the scams period, the stealing of your identity.
This is a situation that I feel like if we
can track down Osama bin Laden. If they can put
a pager in the pocket of the Hezbollah leadership and
(10:33):
all at once blow them up. If we can pinpoint
a bomb in Iran to knock out their centerfuge, we
can stop this. And I don't hear anybody talk about it.
You ever think about how much of your time is
spent wasted because people are constantly stealing your identity and
(10:59):
stealing your money. Well, let's try going online to one
of your accounts right now. How much stress does that
cause the American people think about this, Maybe not you,
but other people, especially the older people. They need to
send some money to their grandchild, for instance, another one
of the big scams. But let's say they're legitimately sending
(11:22):
money for something. So if they go online to their bank,
they have to go in. They have to have these
codes and keys and passwords. God help you if you've
forgotten it. Why do we have to have all that?
It's not necessary unless you've got people trying to crack
(11:46):
into our accounts. Why should it be so difficult to
get into our accounts because we first have to make
sure that we can prove we're not one of those
millions of people think about that. You know how much
stress that causes you about all the all the time.
Let's just take the time first, and then we'll talk
(12:08):
about the money that you spend because evil people are
trying to do you harm. Alarm systems are on your vehicles,
on your house, locks, alarms, cameras, monitoring systems, all the
(12:30):
things you have to have or feel like you need
to have because there are legitimate threats from other people.
And how about the stress? How about the anxiety every
time there's a bump in the night, you've got to
worry that somebody breaking in to steal all your stuff
and kill you in the process because you're inconvenient to
(12:50):
what they're trying to carry out. How about the carjackings?
How much money has to be spent by cell phone
companies and banks to have an officer sullenly stand in
the corner because of all the people and what they do.
Law abiding citizens are spending a massive amount of their time, energy,
(13:14):
mental health and money because of these scavengers, these parasites.
And yet when they're caught, what's done to them, what's
actually done to them. We could shut Nigeria down, and
we can make a real dent in India, the two
countries from which most of these online frauds occur. I sometimes,
(13:38):
just for I'm a vigilanting justice kind of guy. I
sometimes will go on to YouTube and there are a
few accounts that I follow who they prank these people,
So when they find out there's a particular scammer who's active,
they go on and they'll waste hours of the guy's time,
making him think he's just about to steal their money,
(14:01):
but he's not, and then he threatens them and curses them.
And the number of people who feed off of the
American public living in foreign countries, who add no value,
do not engage in a consensual transaction, but survive and
(14:21):
thrive off stealing them from our people. You know, one
of the reasons that Visa has grown in popularity and
wealth is that people would rather use a visa than
their own money because if there's fraud, they'll cover it.
Not because they're nice guys. Visa just builds that into
(14:46):
the business model. They just bake that into the pricing.
A certain amount of money will have to be written
off to fraud. That's the cost of doing business, that's
the cost of being the dealer, that's what they do.
But for the rest of us, I don't know. Maybe
it just feels like the walls are closing in on
me with these people. But it just feels like every
(15:08):
aspect of my life has now been invaded by these
types of people. And it's the sort of thing that
Americas might could stop. We've got this amazing military equipment
that we can zap you from the air with a drone.
I would like these call centers that are doing this
to be wiped out. I would like to see these
(15:29):
people destroyed. And I think we could do it, and
yet nobody talks about it. You're listening to Michael Barry Show.
There is a troubling and recurring pattern of not just
individual scams and attacks on the United States, but state
(15:51):
sponsored When the nation of China devotes their attention to
sabotaging the United States for their own gain, now you're
bringing a level of resources that is unimaginable. A sugar
(16:11):
Land business owner has pled guilty to smuggling some of
the world's most advanced AI chips into China. Federal prosecutors
say these chips are the building blocks of AI superiority
and are integral to modern military applications. The country that
controls these ships will control AI technology. The country that
(16:35):
controls AI technology will control the future. I believe that's true.
US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security strictly controls
the export of these advanced chips to China due to
national security concerns. The story from KPRCTV.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
They are among the most powerful processors on the planet.
This AI can be used for direct military applications such
a designing way weapons, operating drones, and analyzing intelligence data.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
These chips are called GPU or graphic processing units. They're
super powerful and can handle many calculations at once. That's
why they're used for artificial intelligence, and the district Attorney,
Nikolas Kanji says the powerful tech was headed to China.
Because the computer chips are so powerful, the US Commerce
Department actually made it illegal for China to buy these chips.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Ironically, on the same day this operation was released, that
Department of Commerce said those exact chips that they were
arrested for, they're thinking about actually exporting of the China.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Finally, this is according to a Reuters report.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
At the center of the investigation is how global in
owner Alan Sue. He formed the sugar Land based company
in twenty fourteen. They had no sales in no business
until last year. That's when he ordered one hundred and
sixty million dollars in super high tech computer chips from
a North Carolina company.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
The money reportedly funneled.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
In from Hong Kong, where he's accused of shipping the
tech too, but not before the brand name labels were
removed to disguise the tech as something else. That's where
two others come in, Fan Wu Gong and Benln wont,
both accused of helping relabel and ship the chips to China.
This investigation was able to stop one hundred and sixty
million dollars of these computer chips from going overseas. However,
(18:09):
by the time investigators caught on, about fifty million dollars
computer chips were already sent to China.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Alan Chu from sugar Land.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
He is pleading guilty to charges of smuggling and and
lawful experts.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Two other men were arrested for their role in the scheme,
Fan You Gong of Brooklyn and Ben Lin Yuan, also
of New York. So one can't help but notice how
(18:42):
often people who were being caught here spying for China,
have Chinese names. At what point do we say enough?
Whether you're married to the former Senate major leader, or
(19:02):
you're a university student or a business owner running a
business front, at what point do we stop China from
sabotaging our country, spying on our country, stealing from our
country through Chinese Americans. We could do it. It's kind
(19:27):
of like the Narco terrace. We've always had the technology
to wherewithal to shoot the boats out of the water.
Question is are you willing to fade the heat. We've
always been able to secure the border. Question is are
you able to fade the heat. We've always been able
(19:47):
to round up illegal aliens from the communities where they
now live. Question is are you willing to fade the heat?
At what point? I have a theory, just theory, that
the Chinese government was part of what was funding Jeffrey
Epstein through Les Wexner. Jeffrey Epstein was supposedly worth five
(20:15):
hundred and fifty million dollars, supposedly in the finance field,
but he had no financial licenses. There's no record of
him making any trades or investments. He just spent a
lot of money, and nobody can seem to figure out
(20:36):
where it came from. Somebody seems to have wanted him
to bring very powerful people outside America's jurisdiction to a
private little island to engage in debauched, deviant, illegal behavior
(20:57):
with minors. I don't know why anybody would do this,
even if that was your love language and you really
liked your friends. It was a wide assortment of friends.
Somebody can be close friends with that many people, not
so close that you're willing to damage the blow to
suffer the blowback of setting up sexcapades on this level
(21:19):
with this many people. Is it an amazing None of
them ever spoke of it. That's how you know how
bad what was happening was that no one ever bragged
that they did it. But why would you do that?
And cover all the expenses and film it? And film
(21:43):
it is the most important part because once you filmed it,
you own that person. Bill Gates is owned. There are
a lot of people you can look at the manifests
who are now owned. But by who? Some people say,
some people say China. Some people think the Russians are involved.
(22:09):
I have no doubt, not even the slightest that there
are foreign governments involved, maybe through their spy agencies, but
foreign governments involved, and the threat of being compromised by
people whose reputation is everything to them makes them do
(22:31):
crazy things. There's a video us all last night Neil
Bush at a Chinese investment seminar. He's sitting up on
stage being questioned at that great Bush name the Pedigree,
and he was saying, we have nothing to fear in China.
We should give them our chips. In President Trump did
(22:53):
we should give them our chips. China is our friend.
We'd rather have them as our friend and our enemy.
We should give them the chips. Well, Lord knows, they've
shown themselves to be such a trustworthy nation. Nothing to
fear there. I remember an article years ago we read
(23:15):
it here on the air. Microsoft was selling a billion
dollars worth of sophomore were in China, and then they
were selling twenty million, which was less than they sold
in Brussels. So they went there and you could walk
on every street by Microsoft, everywhere, all of it counterfeit.
Allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
My name is MITCHA Michael Berry genius.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
They rush off his Kennedy Center honors and a visit
to the White House. We are joined by George Strait,
the King of Country. He hung up, Okay, we're not
joined right now. Maybe maybe we will be stuttering, Kevin,
(24:07):
you'll have to do go ahead, well, good morning.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
What I've what I've noticed lately with the scammers, they
will do landom inactive.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Numbers like.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Like UH I got uh memorial Hermann was one of
the uh.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It was one of the uh.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I was one of the numbers that I had gotten.
So I decided to living the fun with him. So
I just said, Okay, the other result of the other's
all too my no, do the other results of my
tests if you don't have the results of my test,
and and I say no, no, no, I'm just that
this that, this that, And I'll just say all right
(24:53):
to them if I continue on, this is broad and
and then hang up.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
On because.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
If I did continue with them on, it would have been.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Set up on a fraudulent.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Oh all the fraudulent uh fraudulent.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It was set up the relationship.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
On a on a frogulent basis.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That's what I'm trying to say here. So I do
understand understand that, yes, sir, I got it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
People are always very keen to tell me how they
have cleverly dooped the scammer or the fraud Sure, and
it's usually with a great line, clever quip or and
I say, do you realize that guy does this for
eighteen hours a day? Do you realize two hundred other
(26:05):
people have done this today? I wouldn't be too proud
of myself. The other one is that people think they're
going to shame the guy in the stopping doing that.
I don't have a little perspective here. Let's say that
you're homeless and you live in a bus stop and
(26:31):
in the middle of the night, other people come and
throw stuff on you, kick you, shoot b B guns
at you, do the various things that homeless people endure.
You're out in the heat when it's hot and cold,
when it's cold, and there's no relief from it. That's
your life. And then you get the ability to sell
your soul for one hundred dollars a day. Now, all
(26:54):
of a sudden, you got a warm meal, you got heat,
you got cool, you got a nice shower. I never hungry.
It's a world of difference. That's a bigger difference than
going from your stage in life to being a millionaire.
It's that big a difference to that person. And now
you say, shame on you, you're doing something immoral, expecting him
(27:18):
to go. You're right, I'll go back to the living hell.
That was the alternative. That's who these people are. There's
no opportunity for them. Of course they're going to do this.
If they don't, someone else does it behind them. I
don't get into whether they shoot or shouldn't do it.
I get in to destroy them. Protect the American people.
(27:41):
Of course, you have to protect the American people from
the political scammers. And that's going to start now. You're
going to start getting the stupidest text messages all day long.
What I don't understand is people who send me a message,
here's a screenshot of it, Michael. All right, they'll say,
here's a screen shot, Michael. I got this text from
(28:02):
candidate X and he says this is about CANADID. Why
I don't believe him? Is it true? I don't know
what people think I'd do with my day, but I
assure you tracking down a random text from a random
candidate to a random person and determining whether it is
or isn't true, not that it would matter if it did,
(28:25):
and the time necessary, How many of those? How much
time would I allot per day to just that? Nonsense report?
Junk report, jump report, junk report. Ju'nt move on. But
I guess when you get as many messages as I
do from as many different people, you get really good
at not giving one ounce of care. You just delete,
(28:45):
move on. But I'd kick these people to nuts if
I could, and if I could get the unsolicited text
bill passed where you cannot just spray this stuff out,
which is what they're going to do from now until March,
and nobody in politics wants to do anything about it.
And most people in politics are let around by the
(29:07):
nose by their consultant, and their consultant makes money off this.
Their consultant gets rich off of this. They sell these lists,
they sell these programs. That's what they do.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, good morning, Mike.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Before I tell you why I called, I was calling
about one of your sponsors. I want to piggyback off
of what you said about the scamming. I got a
phone call Texas morning with my ninety one year old
father up in Luskin, who has an eight fifty credit score,
called me to our texting concern because they had to
shut his credit card down to security risk and he'd
(29:42):
never had that before.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So it's going on.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
But the reason I called is because you've got one
sponsor I know of name Justin White of Senior Health Services.
And I'll tell you what. He is a rock star
in my book. And he stops the scammers too, because
if you're out, they're getting Medicare and everybody's getting about
forty plus phone calls a day from scammers trying to
(30:06):
sell you a Medicare. You can just hang up the
phone and get a hold of Justin White and Senior
Health Services. He will help you. He's just like all
your other sponsors, Michael. I mean, if you need furniture,
I know Mactor's Mac. That man is spot on. Everything
we say about him is true. I haven't met Kannie
and Billy I was in jewelry for twenty two years,
but that Corey Diamonds. He's got a stellar reputation and
look forward to going after someday and I go to
(30:28):
top gun range to shoot my gun. You've got good sponsors,
Michael and I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
For bringing them aboard. Well, what I'm nicely going to say,
I appreciate that. That's very kind. You know. They say,
they say convenience comes at a cost. I am. I
am amazed. It's a value system. So let me start there.
(30:53):
But if I can do business with someone that I
can look in the eye and I can know that
the money I'm paying them for the service or good
that I want is supporting their household in my local community,
and if there's a problem, I can come storming back
through their front doors. That's a world of difference. We
(31:15):
speak for us coins all over the country, and I
get emails from people all over the country that are
doing business with them. I've sent people to Billy and
Connie for going on twenty years, fifteen years. Let's say,
Senior Health Services has only been a few years. But
I'll tell you what this medicare season and people signing up.
You know, No, I can't imagine anybody ever doing business
(31:38):
with someone who meets you through a random email or
a text message or whatever. The chances that these are frauds,
and those frauds are so good now at making it
seem like they know you you know. Look, you get
what you pay for. What's good in cheap what's cheapen
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