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and strike him the child.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I mean, I don't think the average mom wants to
shoot her thirteen year old son. And a thirteen year
old kid can drive a mother absolutely up the wall.
I know. I certainly did my mom hit me with
a broom one time. I mean walt me with a
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last couple of weeks. In last few weeks in December,
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we play a week from earlier in the year, a
week in review. Every Friday, Chad Knockinishier, executive producer, will
pull together some different audio from the week and do
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the year, and you guess about when that week would
have been, so you'll be mindful of that as we
go forward through the end of the year. So why
was it important in covering up the January sixth pipe
bomber that he be white. It's important that he be
white because that was part of the narrative. He needs
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to be a white Maga Trump supporter. That's why I
think he was told to cover up every inch of
his body. That's why you couldn't see his skin. It
turns out that he wasn't white, that he was black.
So why why did Jilani Cobb, Columbia professor on MSNBC
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with Mehdi Hassan, Why did these two individuals say this
was white domestic terrorism without any any evidence to that fact.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Jilani, you're a black man, I'm a Muslim. When you
consider how black criminals and Muslim terrorists are treated both
by the legal system and by the media, and yet
the January sixth pipe bomber, who laid explosives in front
of the RNC and DNC headquarters still walks free. We
just learned today that then Vice President Alect Harris was
inside the DNC when the bomb was found there. We
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still don't take domestic terrorism of the far right white
variety seriously in this country, do we.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No, we don't.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
We've seen this since the Obama administration, where they pointed
out that there was this rise of white nationalist terror
that and that was promptly squashed and jumped upon by
the Republicans in Congress, and so great cries of outrage
in response to that. And this has been what we've
seen since then, nowhere near the level of alarm that
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we've had around the what was the phrase they used,
Islamic terror that they weren't trying to make Barack Olama
say all the time.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Yeah, it's just so depressing, the double standards. I don't
know how many times you can draw attention to Ay
as a Muslim.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Keep drawing attention to it kills me. It is a superpower.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
To be.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So diabolical and pathological. It's actually a superpower. You know,
remember Quincy the Medical Examiner. The opening scene, he pulls
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the cover back and all the residents, you know, they
pass out faint. If you're going to be a medical examiner,
you're going to have to get comfortable with dead naked bodies.
Same is true of a mortician. If you're gonna replace
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cell phone towers, you're gonna get used to heights. If
you're gonna serve in war, you're gonna have to overcome
your fear and have a killer instinct. So it is
a superpower to do what they do, to be able
to take any fact which cuts against you and make
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that about white people, Conservatives, trump, maga. It's a real
superpower because otherwise you wouldn't be able to show your face.
And this is what makes you crazy. You hear these people,
You see these people say things like this, and you
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know your eyes do not deceive you. Just understand. That's
their superpower. That's what they do. They're never to be trusted.
They're never to be believed. You always know that whatever
they're saying is a lie. Can you move on down
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the road. When they have no credibility, when nobody ever
believes them, that's when they're bankrupt. Meanwhile, Ashley Allison of
CNN had this strange thing to.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Say, maybe he put a bom at the DNC because
he was he believed the Democrats stole the election because
Republicans and conspiracies theories pushed that, and he put the
bomb at the RNC because the vice president who was
about to be sworn in, was going to ride by
that area. There are many scenarios that the prosecution will
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have to play out this case. I'm just gonna I'm
gonna say the thing out loud that I think everyone
is not saying and is actually surprised, and why I
think Jannine Pierro is actually saying it. I think the
fact that this man is a black man was surprising
the people. I think people thought this was going to
be a white man that did this. They were going
to be able to say he was a part of
the progressive left. And the fact that there's a black
man that is saying I too was susceptible to conspiracy
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theorists that the president and conservative podcasts were pushing that
this election was stolen. Is a fact that they were
not expecting. And now everyone is on their heels and
they're trying to spin it. And I think that might
be also why you think, let's not believe that's the
story right now.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I'm not sure what your question was, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I lost the plot somewhere. Did you did big in
the news, And I hope President Trump will keep it
in the news. What's happening in Mogadishu used to be
in Minneapolis. This level of fraud and corruption that has
been alleged. If this turns out to be true, this
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is the rot that has destroyed our country. The difference
here is this rot comes from without instead of from within.
It is the same rot that caused a slow decay
and decline in once great American cities like Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
D C.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
New York, Saint Louis, New Orleans. New Orleans was my
favorite American city. Hell still is, but it's not what
it once was. That's not the progress we wanted to see.
You know, I have we have some friends and they
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have a son who's in eighth grade and brilliant kid,
high emotional intelligence, and I think that's very important. I
think it's important to be able to look adults in
the eye and shake their hand, interact, and that is
as important as the academic work. I was a nerdy student.
I loved school. I loved every I loved it. I
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took I think twenty one hours my last semester of college,
and I only needed nine because I had scholarships. We
pay for it, and I wanted to take fun classes.
I know that sounds dorky, that's fine, but I loved it.
I love to learn. That's why I love getting to
talk to you every day. Because my excuse for why
I'm always watching documentaries and reading books and asking questions
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and quizzing people. People don't mind me asking them a
thousand questions questions because they go, well, he's just preparing
for his show. Okay, I'd still be doing it. It's
just it would be really creepy if I didn't have
a show. So what we're witnessing is finally pulling back
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the covers and seeing what's going on in Mogadishu. And
it's ugly. Oh, it's ugly. The mayor there, Jacob Fry,
who had a real scare from a Somali immigrant, ran
against him. He cannot suck up to the Somali community
fast enough. He and Tim Walls will hand our country
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over to foreigners if they could. That's what makes white
liberals so dangerous. So here is Mayor Jacob Fry, the
Mayor of Mogadishu, on MSNBC with that great talker and
journalist Al Sharpton.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I wanted to get you a take on the fraud
case that has created political shockwaves in your state. Federal
prosecutors have charged dozens of people in connection with an
alleged scheme to steal money from a food charity for children.
According to The New York Times, some of them were
linked to the Democratic Party and others members of the
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Somali community. The administration is seizing on the controversy to
question the credibility of prominent lawmakers in the state, including
Governor Tim Wallas. What's your reaction to what's been coming out.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
The fraud that occurred is real at this point, It's
not just alleged. People have indeed been convicted. They were
stealing money from kids that was supposed to go to
food that would feed them. People were stealing money that
should have gone towards housing stabilization. And when that happens,
you prosecute, you charge, you hold the person accountable. And
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yet they go to jail as individuals.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
They go to jail.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
As individuals because you should rise based on your own merit,
you should fall based on your own flaws. The entire
community of Somali's or any other community, should not be
held accountable. You know, Reverend, I'm Jewish, but when Bernie
Madoff gotten big trouble for financial crimes, a Jew himself,
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nobody held me accountable for that. Ted Kaczynski, you know,
the unibomber Polish, but nobody held all the Polish people
in the United States accountable for what he did. And
so in America again, you have the freedom of choice,
you make decisions. When those decisions are against the law,
you get count held accountable as an individual. The whole community, however,
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does not.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
When in the middle of your comments to Al Sharpton,
you say, well, Reverend, imagine this. You've got a pandering,
self proclaimed Jew who's the mayor of Mogadishu, who has
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handed the city over to Somali's where where fraud is
rampant and the city is bankrupt, going on a network
that's had to change their name because they were so irrelevant,
on a show anchored by Al Sharpton, who you are
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calling reverend twenty twenty five in America. So my friend's son,
I was telling you about such a smart kid. He's
going for a treatment called neurotherapy, and as I understand it,
it's an alternative to riddling or adderall or whatever. The
designer drug of the day is to get little boys
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to focus. Whatever you may think of that fine, but
there is a treatment now that is being applied. I
can't tell you that it works. I don't know that
it works. But what they do is they have these
kids watch a television show and if their brain starts
racing forward or getting distracted, the television goes off and
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the idea is that their brain will rewire itself again.
I don't know that it works. I'm just telling you
what the child told me, and is a smart kid,
as I mentioned, he understands what's going on here, and
so the idea is now. We do know some families
who've had their kids in this neurotherapy, and the kids
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swear by it. One kid stating he didn't say it
saved my educational status, he said it saved my life.
I don't know if if if ADHD or OCD or
whatever he had was was was making him suice. I
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don't know, but he swears by it. And the kids
in college today and you know, pretty pretty grounded kid.
So anyway, the program that the kid is watching that
he wants to see till the end, so when his
brain starts racing, he has to train his brain to change.
It is the Jetsons, the other ones of the fl Winston's.
And I said to this kid, you know, when I
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was a little kid, we thought twenty twenty five would
be the Jetsons. Instead, it's Jacob Fry, the mayor of
Mogadishu on the Al Sharpton Show. All Greek cities in
between the Michael Berry Show is nichewide. I think it's
important that we give proper focus to the Somali fraud scandal.
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Here is here is the Attorney General, Keith Ellison, the
man who should be reviewing such things, and he says,
let's don't politicize it. Of course, he has politicized it
by refusing to ever investigate and prosecute, so that when
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you prosecute, he says, you have politicized. That's what they do.
But let me just say this.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We all want to protect the public dollar. We want
to prosecute people who engage in fraud. We are up
for that, but we can't do it on a partisan basis.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We got to do it together.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
We can't use incidents like this to score a political point.
We got to come in as a state and say
you will not steal money intended for poor people and
prosecute them. That's what that's how we protect the resources
of the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Resources of the state of Minnesota. I think what he
really means, he's honest, is we want to keep that
federal spigot of funds coming through MOGO issue. And maybe
I don't know this to be the case, maybe some
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of that money ends up in the back pocket of
elected officials like Timmy Walls or him, or ilhan Omar.
You do find it odd that ilhan Omar has racked
up such an impressive net worth in such a short
period of time on a salary of around two hundred thousand.
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She's got more money than the ten richest people you
know combined. How did that happen? Doctor Oz was the
administrator of the Sinners for Medicare and Medicaid Services, talking
about how the Minnesota government looked the other way while
Somali residents stole over one billion dollars. Think of doctor Evil,
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pinky finger in hand, but this time it's a B
not an M.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
It's true, a Somali fraud ring in Minnesota stole over
a billion dollars for medicaid.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
How did this happen?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, Medicaid programs that were run by the states, which
in Minnesota means the Tim Walls administration. Governor Walls and
the state's other Democrat rely on Somali votes to get elected.
So they decided to look the other way because they
were afraid of quote unquote political backlash. Don't take my
word for it, That's what a Somali American fraud investigator
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told New York Times. When these scammers realized that nobody
was guarding the cash register, they went gangbusters. One program
designed to provide housing stabilization assistance to patients ballooned to
one hundred and four million dollars when four years ago
it was projective to cost only two point six million.
Some of these taxpayer funds made even ended up in
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the hands of a Somalian terrorist group.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Scary stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
When CMS became aware of the housing program situation, Minnesota
insisted it could clean up its own mess. A few
months ago, it admitted it could not, so we stepped
in the shutdown the fraud infested housing initiative. Today, we're
taking action on more than a dozen other programs which
I've outlined in the post below. Our message to WATS
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is clear. Either fix this in sixty days or start
looking under your cash for spare change, because we are
done footing the bill for your incompetence. This administration will
never stop fighting to protect the vulnerable Americans who rely
on these programs and the taxpayers who fund them. We're
going to crush waste, fraud.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And abuse. Pretty good, Pretty solid, I'd say. Then we
turned to Stephen Miller, the biggest brain in the White House,
the real driving force, the engine of policy of this administration.
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His official title is White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
But make no mistake, this guy has President Trump's ear.
This guy is the one who is framing this building
that is the Trump administration. Here he is on Fox
News talking about the ilhan Omar welfare ring in Minnesota
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being the biggest theft of taxpayer money in American history.
And he is a student of history. I don't think
he intends this to be hyperbole.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
We have found so far, we believe that the Somali
fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of
taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history. We believe
that we have only scratched the very top of the
surface of how deep this goes. And you're familiar with
all the scams, with pretending that children have autism who
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are not in fact autistic, with pretending to enroll people
in food programs when in fact nobody was ever enrolled,
and engaging in massive fraud, lying and theft and grift
on a skill we've never seen before in American history.
The total bill, the total tab for this is going
to be far beyond the numbers you've already seen reported.
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We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme,
and we believe that what we are going to uncover
is going to shock the American people. But based on
the rutgers that we already have, this is a significant undercount.
By the way, seventy five percent of the Smali population
in Minnesota is on welfare. That's likely a significant undercount
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of just how much of a financial burden the Smali
refugee population is imposing.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well this country, if that is true, hell, if half
that is true, we should pause any immigration from that
country or any other country for whom more than three
percent of the people are on welfare or food stamps
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or any of the other.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Immediate reaction is, oh, but that's not nice to these people.
Let me tell you some for once, in modern America,
think about Americans. We are the only country I know,
We're the leadership of the country thinks of outsiders. First.
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Americans are struggling, Americans are sacrificing, Americans are working hard.
And I'm tired of the argument always being made, Well,
we need to help all these people from around the world.
Now we need to help our own people by getting
out of their back pocket with taxes, lowering their taxes
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and lowering the burden and the enjoyment. Frankly, we don't
talk about this enom of living in this country. We
need to stop bringing people into this country who are
pedophiles and traffickers and monsters. Not racist, that's not xenophobic.
And if anyone thinks it is, stop and ponder for
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a moment what they're actually saying. If I say I
don't want any more fraud in this country, I don't
want people. I don't want people cheating welfare. I don't
want them cheating food stamps. And if their immediate reaction
is that I am targeting immigrants or minorities. What would
make them think that? That says a lot, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
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Speaker 2 (23:49):
Notice the woman named Merrill Kennedy from The Kennedy Rice Meal.
She met with President Trump. And I keep different TV
stations on in the background. I flip around and just
see what headlines are. But I look and she was
staggeringly attractive in the most natural way. I don't think
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she's had any work done. She has kind of a
girl next door pretty that, you know, nothing looked to
be altered on her face. Ramon, tell me if you
agree with this. I think that what happened, and I
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wonder how much of this was the Kardashians, although I
think women. I think what happened is that women started
getting plastic surgery and other women saw it and they thought, oh, well,
Denise got plastic surgery. I want plastic surgery. And so
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what ended up happening is, well, Denise got surgery because
she got divorced, and now Angela wants surgery, and she
tells her husband Denise got surgery. I want surgery. So
it becomes this competition, and I don't know. I'm sure
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there's somebody that has studied this and written about it.
It'd be a fascinating read. It's one of those things
that I'm interested in the answer, but I don't have
an answer. And maybe some ladies out there could explain
this to me if you ever got caught up in this,
and that is this why can't women figure out where
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to stop on the surgeries? Now, I know what you're
going to say, Well, that's just you being an arrogant man.
We don't want to stop, Okay, But I'm gonna go
ahead and tell you what everybody else is thinking. When
your top lip is coming off your mouth so much
so that you look like a cartoon sketch character from
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the Simpsons. That is, your top lift can never attach
to your lower lip because it has it's can't delevered
out with an upward trajectory like a plane getting ready
to go off. That's too much filler or plumper or
whatever they call it. It's too much. The other thing
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that these women don't seem to understand is that after
enough surgeries, all women look the same, which is like
a cat and it's not pretty. It's not attractive. Now.
One other thing, there is a certain beauty who did
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I see that said this. It's a famous actress, they
were famous person, older woman, and she said, I earned
these lines. I'm not having them removed. You know. I've
come to the conclusion that what looks so odd about
a lot of plastic surgery on women as they get older,
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when they have it done when they're older, is not
that the work is bad. It's that the work is good,
and it's unnatural not to have any lines. No one
believes it, and so there's a loss of authenticity. Ramon,
would you ever have plastic surgery done? What would you
have done? A tummy tuck? Actually, you probably could use
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a tummy tuck. You've lost so much weight.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
What people don't realize is when you lose as much
weight as Ramona has one hundred and sixty pounds, you
end up with skin you don't lose. So a lot
of people do go in and have the skin tightened up.
That I wouldn't fault you for that. What else would
you have done? Would you ever do hair plugs? You would?
I had a buddy call me this morning wanted to
know my hair plug company, my hair plug sponsor. He said,
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my wife is too beautiful to have to walk around
with a dude who's losing all his hair. I said, well,
a lot of guys go bald now, but if you
want hair, here's who to call, and I connected him.
What else would you have done? That's it. You do
some hair and it tell me Tuck, Huh, you'd be
perfect at that point. You know, I've thought about that
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if I start doing more video. We turned down video.
I turned down a lot of video podcasts and uh,
I've resisted doing a lot of TV interviews, but I've
thought about doing more video. Just as I'm driving, put
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my phone down and comment on issues of the day.
And the reason for that is not you know, I'm
not the guy who're they're begging me to run for president.
The reason for that is people do ask, hey, why
don't you do any videos? And I'll tell you the
honest truth is people will nitpick you, and I hate it. Hey,
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you need to stand up straight, right, you need to
go jump in a lake and hopefully forget how to swim.
Why would you tell someone that and then you go
look at their picture and you're like, you look hideous.
What are you doing telling me or anyone else, I'm
not some project for you. So that's the reason I
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haven't done it. But I have thought. I've thought about this. Okay,
once you know your crows feet and all that get
really bad, would you ever have face the face surgery done?
And I decided I would not. But I also don't
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blame people who do, because that's their own thing, especially women,
because look, men are vain. We say we're not, but
we are, but nothing like women. Nothing like women, And
being thought to be attractive is wired into women. And
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you know, you look in the bird family. In the
bird family, the peacock's is the best example, but the
cardinal of the blue jay, the more beautiful of the
species is the male because kind of like in the
inner city, the women chase the men, and so they peacock.
You know that became a verb. Well, women are chased
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by men in our species mostly, And it is understandable
that a woman wants to be thought attractive and if
she feels like she needs a little bump to get there.
I don't have a problem. Many women don't, and they
say they don't. My wife. A lot of people consider
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it brave and bold that she doesn't dye her hair,
and so her hair is grown, has gone almost entirely gray.
And it's kind of funny because when we're out in public,
it's very striking because she's a beautiful woman. She's fifty eight,
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she's a beautiful woman. She takes incredible care of herself.
She works out like a maniac, she eats very healthy,
she doesn't drink, and so you don't expect that. You see,
the gray hair is supposed to a older woman, and
people think it's some big statement. No, she's allergic to
hair dye. Most Indians dye their hair because they prematurely
gray because their hair is so dark. But anyway, that's
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not what I was going to talk about this last segment.
But I think it's nice to have a few, you know,
personal discussions. I will also tell you that I do
love to hear from you, And so if you get
a stray moment you're bored, go to Michael Berryshow dot com.
It says, send Michael an email that comes directly to me.
I read every single one of them, every single one
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of them, and I enjoy it. Now, if you write
a Dostoski novel, I'm not going to read the whole email,
and I can't respond to everyone, but I will promise
you this. I literally read everyone or hard to believe,
but I do because I enjoy it.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. This song
is so bad that Peter Stara turned it down. Peter
Sara said it was too sappy. You want just We're
gonna give it to Brian Ana. Give it to him,
that sucker. Do anything hard to say I'm sorry and
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glory of love. But this this is the line too far.
But you're gonna have to do your the inspiration. Oh man,
please say.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
A mother is accused of shooting our thirteen year old
son tore an argument.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
According to pre sainct For, they say around five point
thirty they got a call saying that the mom and
the son were fighting each other and let's go a.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Verbal disturbance and ultimately let her the fire her handgun
and strike him the child.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I mean, I don't think the average mom wants to
shoot her thirteen year old son. And a thirteen year
old kid can drive a mother absolutely up the wall.
I know. I certainly did my mom hit me with
a broom one time. I mean walt me with a
broom and I had a bruise the next day.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Nicolob Ultra has officially claimed the title of America's number
one beer.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
And I want to say thank you to all of
our partner's many who have joined us today.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Raising Caine, mitchell Oo, Ultra, Raising Cain, No s he
don't own it. He's raising Caine and Mitchello, Oh, Mitchello, Ultra.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
You and me.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Fishing in the dark, line on the packs and counting
the stars.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
The worst day of fishing is better than the best
day at work.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I'm one of these people's like to cast more
than I like to catch fishing boos, Why kid, why fish?
I like to throw it out there to bring in.
That's why I don't hire guy anymore because they'll go,
h you do a wire cast? Won't you let it
sit down for a minute. Oh no, I need some action,
constant options. So if you knew to the program the
last couple of weeks. In last few weeks in December,
(02:14):
we play a week from earlier in the year, a
week in review. Every Friday, Chad Knockinishier, executive producer, will
pull together some different audio from the week and do
a week in review. And so at the end of
the year, just have a little fun. We will play
a week in review from at some point earlier in
(02:36):
the year, and you guess about when that week would
have been, so you'll be mindful of that as we
go forward through the end of the year. So why
was it important in covering up the January sixth pipe
bomber that he be white. It's important that he be
white because that was part of the narrative. He needs
(02:57):
to be a white Maga Trump supporter. That's why I
think he was told to cover up every inch of
his body. That's why you couldn't see his skin. It
turns out that he wasn't white, that he was black.
So why why did Jilani Cobb, Columbia professor on MSNBC
(03:24):
with Mehdi Hassan, Why did these two individuals say this
was white domestic terrorism without any any evidence to that fact.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Jilani, you're a black man, I'm a Muslim. When you
consider how black criminals and Muslim terrorists are treated both
by the legal system and by the media, and yet
the January sixth pipe bomber, who laid explosives in front
of the RNC and DNC headquarters still walks free. We
just learned today that then Vice President Alect Harris was
inside the DNC when the bomb was found there. We
(03:56):
still don't take domestic terrorism of the far right white
variety seriously in this country, do we.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
No, we don't.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
We've seen this since the Obama administration, where they pointed
out that there was this rise of white nationalist terror
that and that was promptly squashed and jumped upon by
the Republicans in Congress, and so great cries of outrage
in response to that. And this has been what we've
seen since then, nowhere near the level of alarm that
(04:25):
we've had around the what was the phrase they used,
Islamic terror that they weren't trying to make Barack Olama
say all the time.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Yeah, it's just so depressing, the double standards. I don't
know how many times you can draw attention to Ay
as a Muslim.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Keep drawing attention to it kills me. It is a superpower.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
To be.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So diabolical and pathological. It's actually a superpower. You know,
remember Quincy the Medical Examiner. The opening scene, he pulls
(05:09):
the cover back and all the residents, you know, they
pass out faint. If you're going to be a medical examiner,
you're going to have to get comfortable with dead naked bodies.
Same is true of a mortician. If you're gonna replace
(05:30):
cell phone towers, you're gonna get used to heights. If
you're gonna serve in war, you're gonna have to overcome
your fear and have a killer instinct. So it is
a superpower to do what they do, to be able
to take any fact which cuts against you and make
(05:51):
that about white people, Conservatives, trump, maga. It's a real
superpower because otherwise you wouldn't be able to show your face.
And this is what makes you crazy. You hear these people,
You see these people say things like this, and you
(06:13):
know your eyes do not deceive you. Just understand. That's
their superpower. That's what they do. They're never to be trusted.
They're never to be believed. You always know that whatever
they're saying is a lie. Can you move on down
(06:33):
the road. When they have no credibility, when nobody ever
believes them, that's when they're bankrupt. Meanwhile, Ashley Allison of
CNN had this strange thing to.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Say, maybe he put a bom at the DNC because
he was he believed the Democrats stole the election because
Republicans and conspiracies theories pushed that, and he put the
bomb at the RNC because the vice president who was
about to be sworn in, was going to ride by
that area. There are many scenarios that the prosecution will
(07:08):
have to play out this case. I'm just gonna I'm
gonna say the thing out loud that I think everyone
is not saying and is actually surprised, and why I
think Jannine Pierro is actually saying it. I think the
fact that this man is a black man was surprising
the people. I think people thought this was going to
be a white man that did this. They were going
to be able to say he was a part of
the progressive left. And the fact that there's a black
man that is saying I too was susceptible to conspiracy
(07:30):
theorists that the president and conservative podcasts were pushing that
this election was stolen. Is a fact that they were
not expecting. And now everyone is on their heels and
they're trying to spin it. And I think that might
be also why you think, let's not believe that's the
story right now.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I'm not sure what your question was, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I lost the plot somewhere. Did you did big in
the news, And I hope President Trump will keep it
in the news. What's happening in Mogadishu used to be
in Minneapolis. This level of fraud and corruption that has
been alleged. If this turns out to be true, this
(08:12):
is the rot that has destroyed our country. The difference
here is this rot comes from without instead of from within.
It is the same rot that caused a slow decay
and decline in once great American cities like Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
D C.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
New York, Saint Louis, New Orleans. New Orleans was my
favorite American city. Hell still is, but it's not what
it once was. That's not the progress we wanted to see.
You know, I have we have some friends and they
(08:56):
have a son who's in eighth grade and brilliant kid,
high emotional intelligence, and I think that's very important. I
think it's important to be able to look adults in
the eye and shake their hand, interact, and that is
as important as the academic work. I was a nerdy student.
I loved school. I loved every I loved it. I
(09:20):
took I think twenty one hours my last semester of college,
and I only needed nine because I had scholarships. We
pay for it, and I wanted to take fun classes.
I know that sounds dorky, that's fine, but I loved it.
I love to learn. That's why I love getting to
talk to you every day. Because my excuse for why
I'm always watching documentaries and reading books and asking questions
(09:40):
and quizzing people. People don't mind me asking them a
thousand questions questions because they go, well, he's just preparing
for his show. Okay, I'd still be doing it. It's
just it would be really creepy if I didn't have
a show. So what we're witnessing is finally pulling back
(10:01):
the covers and seeing what's going on in Mogadishu. And
it's ugly. Oh, it's ugly. The mayor there, Jacob Fry,
who had a real scare from a Somali immigrant, ran
against him. He cannot suck up to the Somali community
fast enough. He and Tim Walls will hand our country
(10:23):
over to foreigners if they could. That's what makes white
liberals so dangerous. So here is Mayor Jacob Fry, the
Mayor of Mogadishu, on MSNBC with that great talker and
journalist Al Sharpton.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I wanted to get you a take on the fraud
case that has created political shockwaves in your state. Federal
prosecutors have charged dozens of people in connection with an
alleged scheme to steal money from a food charity for children.
According to The New York Times, some of them were
linked to the Democratic Party and others members of the
(11:01):
Somali community. The administration is seizing on the controversy to
question the credibility of prominent lawmakers in the state, including
Governor Tim Wallas. What's your reaction to what's been coming out.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
The fraud that occurred is real at this point, It's
not just alleged. People have indeed been convicted. They were
stealing money from kids that was supposed to go to
food that would feed them. People were stealing money that
should have gone towards housing stabilization. And when that happens,
you prosecute, you charge, you hold the person accountable. And
(11:37):
yet they go to jail as individuals.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
They go to jail.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
As individuals because you should rise based on your own merit,
you should fall based on your own flaws. The entire
community of Somali's or any other community, should not be
held accountable. You know, Reverend, I'm Jewish, but when Bernie
Madoff gotten big trouble for financial crimes, a Jew himself,
(12:03):
nobody held me accountable for that. Ted Kaczynski, you know,
the unibomber Polish, but nobody held all the Polish people
in the United States accountable for what he did. And
so in America again, you have the freedom of choice,
you make decisions. When those decisions are against the law,
you get count held accountable as an individual. The whole community, however,
(12:28):
does not.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
When in the middle of your comments to Al Sharpton,
you say, well, Reverend, imagine this. You've got a pandering,
self proclaimed Jew who's the mayor of Mogadishu, who has
(12:51):
handed the city over to Somali's where where fraud is
rampant and the city is bankrupt, going on a network
that's had to change their name because they were so irrelevant,
on a show anchored by Al Sharpton, who you are
(13:16):
calling reverend twenty twenty five in America. So my friend's son,
I was telling you about such a smart kid. He's
going for a treatment called neurotherapy, and as I understand it,
it's an alternative to riddling or adderall or whatever. The
designer drug of the day is to get little boys
(13:37):
to focus. Whatever you may think of that fine, but
there is a treatment now that is being applied. I
can't tell you that it works. I don't know that
it works. But what they do is they have these
kids watch a television show and if their brain starts
racing forward or getting distracted, the television goes off and
(14:01):
the idea is that their brain will rewire itself again.
I don't know that it works. I'm just telling you
what the child told me, and is a smart kid,
as I mentioned, he understands what's going on here, and
so the idea is now. We do know some families
who've had their kids in this neurotherapy, and the kids
(14:21):
swear by it. One kid stating he didn't say it
saved my educational status, he said it saved my life.
I don't know if if if ADHD or OCD or
whatever he had was was was making him suice. I
(14:42):
don't know, but he swears by it. And the kids
in college today and you know, pretty pretty grounded kid.
So anyway, the program that the kid is watching that
he wants to see till the end, so when his
brain starts racing, he has to train his brain to change.
It is the Jetsons, the other ones of the fl Winston's.
And I said to this kid, you know, when I
(15:03):
was a little kid, we thought twenty twenty five would
be the Jetsons. Instead, it's Jacob Fry, the mayor of
Mogadishu on the Al Sharpton Show. All Greek cities in
between the Michael Berry Show is nichewide. I think it's
important that we give proper focus to the Somali fraud scandal.
(15:26):
Here is here is the Attorney General, Keith Ellison, the
man who should be reviewing such things, and he says,
let's don't politicize it. Of course, he has politicized it
by refusing to ever investigate and prosecute, so that when
(15:52):
you prosecute, he says, you have politicized. That's what they do.
But let me just say this.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We all want to protect the public dollar. We want
to prosecute people who engage in fraud. We are up
for that, but we can't do it on a partisan basis.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We got to do it together.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
We can't use incidents like this to score a political point.
We got to come in as a state and say
you will not steal money intended for poor people and
prosecute them. That's what that's how we protect the resources
of the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Resources of the state of Minnesota. I think what he
really means, he's honest, is we want to keep that
federal spigot of funds coming through MOGO issue. And maybe
I don't know this to be the case, maybe some
(16:52):
of that money ends up in the back pocket of
elected officials like Timmy Walls or him, or ilhan Omar.
You do find it odd that ilhan Omar has racked
up such an impressive net worth in such a short
period of time on a salary of around two hundred thousand.
(17:13):
She's got more money than the ten richest people you
know combined. How did that happen? Doctor Oz was the
administrator of the Sinners for Medicare and Medicaid Services, talking
about how the Minnesota government looked the other way while
Somali residents stole over one billion dollars. Think of doctor Evil,
(17:40):
pinky finger in hand, but this time it's a B
not an M.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
It's true, a Somali fraud ring in Minnesota stole over
a billion dollars for medicaid.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
How did this happen?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, Medicaid programs that were run by the states, which
in Minnesota means the Tim Walls administration. Governor Walls and
the state's other Democrat rely on Somali votes to get elected.
So they decided to look the other way because they
were afraid of quote unquote political backlash. Don't take my
word for it, That's what a Somali American fraud investigator
(18:13):
told New York Times. When these scammers realized that nobody
was guarding the cash register, they went gangbusters. One program
designed to provide housing stabilization assistance to patients ballooned to
one hundred and four million dollars when four years ago
it was projective to cost only two point six million.
Some of these taxpayer funds made even ended up in
(18:35):
the hands of a Somalian terrorist group.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Scary stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
When CMS became aware of the housing program situation, Minnesota
insisted it could clean up its own mess. A few
months ago, it admitted it could not, so we stepped
in the shutdown the fraud infested housing initiative. Today, we're
taking action on more than a dozen other programs which
I've outlined in the post below. Our message to WATS
(18:59):
is clear. Either fix this in sixty days or start
looking under your cash for spare change, because we are
done footing the bill for your incompetence. This administration will
never stop fighting to protect the vulnerable Americans who rely
on these programs and the taxpayers who fund them. We're
going to crush waste, fraud.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And abuse. Pretty good, Pretty solid, I'd say. Then we
turned to Stephen Miller, the biggest brain in the White House,
the real driving force, the engine of policy of this administration.
(19:38):
His official title is White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
But make no mistake, this guy has President Trump's ear.
This guy is the one who is framing this building
that is the Trump administration. Here he is on Fox
News talking about the ilhan Omar welfare ring in Minnesota
(20:01):
being the biggest theft of taxpayer money in American history.
And he is a student of history. I don't think
he intends this to be hyperbole.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
We have found so far, we believe that the Somali
fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of
taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history. We believe
that we have only scratched the very top of the
surface of how deep this goes. And you're familiar with
all the scams, with pretending that children have autism who
(20:36):
are not in fact autistic, with pretending to enroll people
in food programs when in fact nobody was ever enrolled,
and engaging in massive fraud, lying and theft and grift
on a skill we've never seen before in American history.
The total bill, the total tab for this is going
to be far beyond the numbers you've already seen reported.
(20:58):
We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme,
and we believe that what we are going to uncover
is going to shock the American people. But based on
the rutgers that we already have, this is a significant undercount.
By the way, seventy five percent of the Smali population
in Minnesota is on welfare. That's likely a significant undercount
(21:22):
of just how much of a financial burden the Smali
refugee population is imposing.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well this country, if that is true, hell, if half
that is true, we should pause any immigration from that
country or any other country for whom more than three
percent of the people are on welfare or food stamps
(21:51):
or any of the other.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
And so the.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Immediate reaction is, oh, but that's not nice to these people.
Let me tell you some for once, in modern America,
think about Americans. We are the only country I know,
We're the leadership of the country thinks of outsiders. First.
(22:18):
Americans are struggling, Americans are sacrificing, Americans are working hard.
And I'm tired of the argument always being made, Well,
we need to help all these people from around the world.
Now we need to help our own people by getting
out of their back pocket with taxes, lowering their taxes
(22:44):
and lowering the burden and the enjoyment. Frankly, we don't
talk about this enom of living in this country. We
need to stop bringing people into this country who are
pedophiles and traffickers and monsters. Not racist, that's not xenophobic.
And if anyone thinks it is, stop and ponder for
(23:08):
a moment what they're actually saying. If I say I
don't want any more fraud in this country, I don't
want people. I don't want people cheating welfare. I don't
want them cheating food stamps. And if their immediate reaction
is that I am targeting immigrants or minorities. What would
make them think that? That says a lot, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
This segment exclusively produced my Hawaiian Chad Makanishi Aloha bro
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Speaker 2 (23:49):
Notice the woman named Merrill Kennedy from The Kennedy Rice Meal.
She met with President Trump. And I keep different TV
stations on in the background. I flip around and just
see what headlines are. But I look and she was
staggeringly attractive in the most natural way. I don't think
(24:12):
she's had any work done. She has kind of a
girl next door pretty that, you know, nothing looked to
be altered on her face. Ramon, tell me if you
agree with this. I think that what happened, and I
(24:33):
wonder how much of this was the Kardashians, although I
think women. I think what happened is that women started
getting plastic surgery and other women saw it and they thought, oh, well,
Denise got plastic surgery. I want plastic surgery. And so
(24:53):
what ended up happening is, well, Denise got surgery because
she got divorced, and now Angela wants surgery, and she
tells her husband Denise got surgery. I want surgery. So
it becomes this competition, and I don't know. I'm sure
(25:13):
there's somebody that has studied this and written about it.
It'd be a fascinating read. It's one of those things
that I'm interested in the answer, but I don't have
an answer. And maybe some ladies out there could explain
this to me if you ever got caught up in this,
and that is this why can't women figure out where
(25:36):
to stop on the surgeries? Now, I know what you're
going to say, Well, that's just you being an arrogant man.
We don't want to stop, Okay, But I'm gonna go
ahead and tell you what everybody else is thinking. When
your top lip is coming off your mouth so much
so that you look like a cartoon sketch character from
(25:58):
the Simpsons. That is, your top lift can never attach
to your lower lip because it has it's can't delevered
out with an upward trajectory like a plane getting ready
to go off. That's too much filler or plumper or
whatever they call it. It's too much. The other thing
(26:19):
that these women don't seem to understand is that after
enough surgeries, all women look the same, which is like
a cat and it's not pretty. It's not attractive. Now.
One other thing, there is a certain beauty who did
(26:42):
I see that said this. It's a famous actress, they
were famous person, older woman, and she said, I earned
these lines. I'm not having them removed. You know. I've
come to the conclusion that what looks so odd about
a lot of plastic surgery on women as they get older,
(27:02):
when they have it done when they're older, is not
that the work is bad. It's that the work is good,
and it's unnatural not to have any lines. No one
believes it, and so there's a loss of authenticity. Ramon,
would you ever have plastic surgery done? What would you
have done? A tummy tuck? Actually, you probably could use
(27:27):
a tummy tuck. You've lost so much weight.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
What people don't realize is when you lose as much
weight as Ramona has one hundred and sixty pounds, you
end up with skin you don't lose. So a lot
of people do go in and have the skin tightened up.
That I wouldn't fault you for that. What else would
you have done? Would you ever do hair plugs? You would?
I had a buddy call me this morning wanted to
know my hair plug company, my hair plug sponsor. He said,
(27:53):
my wife is too beautiful to have to walk around
with a dude who's losing all his hair. I said, well,
a lot of guys go bald now, but if you
want hair, here's who to call, and I connected him.
What else would you have done? That's it. You do
some hair and it tell me Tuck, Huh, you'd be
perfect at that point. You know, I've thought about that
(28:15):
if I start doing more video. We turned down video.
I turned down a lot of video podcasts and uh,
I've resisted doing a lot of TV interviews, but I've
thought about doing more video. Just as I'm driving, put
(28:37):
my phone down and comment on issues of the day.
And the reason for that is not you know, I'm
not the guy who're they're begging me to run for president.
The reason for that is people do ask, hey, why
don't you do any videos? And I'll tell you the
honest truth is people will nitpick you, and I hate it. Hey,
(28:59):
you need to stand up straight, right, you need to
go jump in a lake and hopefully forget how to swim.
Why would you tell someone that and then you go
look at their picture and you're like, you look hideous.
What are you doing telling me or anyone else, I'm
not some project for you. So that's the reason I
(29:20):
haven't done it. But I have thought. I've thought about this. Okay,
once you know your crows feet and all that get
really bad, would you ever have face the face surgery done?
And I decided I would not. But I also don't
(29:40):
blame people who do, because that's their own thing, especially women,
because look, men are vain. We say we're not, but
we are, but nothing like women. Nothing like women, And
being thought to be attractive is wired into women. And
(30:04):
you know, you look in the bird family. In the
bird family, the peacock's is the best example, but the
cardinal of the blue jay, the more beautiful of the
species is the male because kind of like in the
inner city, the women chase the men, and so they peacock.
You know that became a verb. Well, women are chased
(30:28):
by men in our species mostly, And it is understandable
that a woman wants to be thought attractive and if
she feels like she needs a little bump to get there.
I don't have a problem. Many women don't, and they
say they don't. My wife. A lot of people consider
(30:50):
it brave and bold that she doesn't dye her hair,
and so her hair is grown, has gone almost entirely gray.
And it's kind of funny because when we're out in public,
it's very striking because she's a beautiful woman. She's fifty eight,
(31:11):
she's a beautiful woman. She takes incredible care of herself.
She works out like a maniac, she eats very healthy,
she doesn't drink, and so you don't expect that. You see,
the gray hair is supposed to a older woman, and
people think it's some big statement. No, she's allergic to
hair dye. Most Indians dye their hair because they prematurely
gray because their hair is so dark. But anyway, that's
(31:33):
not what I was going to talk about this last segment.
But I think it's nice to have a few, you know,
personal discussions. I will also tell you that I do
love to hear from you, And so if you get
a stray moment you're bored, go to Michael Berryshow dot com.
It says, send Michael an email that comes directly to me.
I read every single one of them, every single one
(31:54):
of them, and I enjoy it. Now, if you write
a Dostoski novel, I'm not going to read the whole email,
and I can't respond to everyone, but I will promise
you this. I literally read everyone or hard to believe,
but I do because I enjoy it.
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