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Speaker 1 (00:05):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Berry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On the air, as promised to the phone lines, we
go seven one three nine nine one thousand, seven nine
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nine nine one thousand. Let's start with Fred. Fred, you
are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Let's say you, sir, Hi Michael.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
My name is Fred. I'm from Ford, author, retired from Dupah.
All right, and I remember back when Jimmy Corner was
president and Iran failed to the bluelaws. Jimmy Carter allowed that,
and it's been just a history from then till now.
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The Democrats order of appeasement. Appease them be, you know,
give them what they want. How many billions went over
there when Obama was resident? It was time back then,
toniff it in the bud and we've been dealing with
it ever since. That's my part. We got to stop them.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Fred, I'm going to ask questions. I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm asking questions. The number I believe, by the way
that that Obama gave them was one point seven billion
dollars and Biden did more than that. But but be
that as it may in your opinion, what should and
you may not have an opinion. I'm just asking what
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should Carter have done to have prevented the revolution?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, the revolutions started on their college campuses with a
bunch of radicals and violence. I mean he could have
he could have backed there then military and just put
it They could have put it down, but they went
to him. He was he was totally shocked. One day,
took over one day, took the government. He was totally
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shocked at the violence that happened. How how could they
be that violent? Behind He never spoke out loud about it,
but his some of his advisors said he was totally
shocked and totally didn't expect that they could have put
it down. He could have continued back, and they pulled
their backing away from the Shaw's government. Remember the Shaw
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was in America being treeb I think it was pancreatic cancer. Yeah,
they they pulled, they pulled it back, didn't support his government,
and it fell almost with permission from Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter,
good old boy.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, Jimmy Carter was the problem with Jimmy Carter. And
we've all seen this, We've all seen the coach who
can't keep control of his team, or the manager who
can't lead his group, or guys in the military told
me about you know a lieutenant that can't lead his troops.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I don't know. I don't have that experience.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But we've all seen the guy who comes across as
a nice guy. I don't actually believe that Jimmy Carter
is as nice a guy as he has led people
to believe. And he turned out to be a monster
post presidency. While he's hammering nails for habitat, for humanity,
for the cameras. He turned out to have traveled the
world and supported the worst elements while claiming to speak
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for election integrity. I don't know that Jimmy Carter ever
met a terrorist revolution, certainly not an Islamic revolution that
he didn't fall in love with. He's one of these
white liberals who has this a bye belief in self governance,
even if that self governance is theocratic and evil. That
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naivete was his and our downfall. I would argue that
the Shaw was engaged in an arrogant, self dealing, inaccessible
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form of government that over the course of twenty five years,
alienated him from his people. I think that Syria will
end up becoming such a radical. Once the revolution gets
its feet under itself, and once we see what that's
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going to look like, there is a potential for a
very very dangerous situation there. As bad as Basher Asad
was within reason, Putin could control him. But basha Asad
also grew so arrogant, having inherited the throne and so
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alienated from his people, he and his wife being paraded
around London, as you know, for the wealth and opulence
that they had displayed. We saw this in Sri Lanka
a few years ago where the presidential palace was overtaken.
We saw this with Kadafi when his own people dragged
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him and murdered him. We saw this in Iraq when
it was external influences, but where the people were less
willing to support him outside of his immediate tribal community.
You see these folks who become so arrogant and inaccessible
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to their people and so show, oh, we ostentatious with
their displays of wealth. And at some point, and I'll
tell you who keeps an eye on this sort of
thing is the Saudi royal family, because they are very
mindful that their populace would rise up in revolution. The
moment they have a chance. We saw this with Hasenni
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Lebark in Egypt, where Mabarik again got out of touch
with his own people, and then the Arab spring, led
by the Muslim Brotherhood, had an opportunity to take hold.
Good call, Fred, very good call. There is no right
or wrong. We just want various perspectives, and yours is
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well informed. I appreciate you, Marc May because you're a
DuPont guy. I'm a little soft on that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Marcus. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Go ahead, sir, Yes, Sir, Michael, thank you for having me.
In general, I think it's strategics right, not an invasion.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Success.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Well, where did the Iranians take the erased uranium of
the trucks that pulled up on Wednesday? I think the
Israeli is no. I do like the fact, you know,
we're not looking at it regime change. But Trump injected
the Amiga movement make I ran great again, So I
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think that's intended for an internal to support the internal citizens.
But what are they gonna do with the straight of
horror moves? Well, I think Trump's not gonna let that happen,
and they won't close it down, But uh, pretty ballsy move.
Pretty impressive to go from two weeks to two days.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So we're still on top of our game.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Thank you for the call, Marcus. The straight of horror
moves that don't seek closing because that's fifty percent of
China's oil supply and only five percent of hours. Iran
still needs to move their own primary commodity and it's
twenty one miles wide. My understanding is the military capability
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of Iran to keep that closed for any serious period
of time is questionable. With regard to regime change, you
can't have regime change at our direction if we don't
have a regime that we're ready to install.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's the biggest challenge for the bal Michael y who
that was asking where the party is?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Everybody know the best party in town is at Tiger Stadium, honey,
and then.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
People crazy down there. How do you open a cold
salty honey? Comes sick with you? They say, Mike, the
Tiger is feeling hungry.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
From ad tonight. And if you Hunt is in the
house her lands gold just like this wig.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I have my own Hunt in Fine.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
We here for Lsu, don it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Gord and somebody say they were supposed to win.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Good lost.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Get them tagers. Cuts the Tigers, fight them Tigers, Honey,
just slap them tigers, fight them tigers.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Cut him out.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Talk real bad about that, Mama.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Then jump up and holler and make some touchdown things.
He'll go whatever it take.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Hunter clees win, I a ra. That's them Edif you
tiger me low, you gotta love him well.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
If you need to ask a favor of Eddie Martini,
today is the day to do it, because he is
riding high on yet another LSU Tiger national championship in
a very very interesting college baseball season.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
The Tigers having ended up on top.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think that coach. I think that's two championships for
him in four years.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Is that right? That is a hell of a program, man.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I was wondering how they would fare in the NIL era,
and I don't think we know just yet, because the
strength of the program is still probably enough. I must
be the only guy in America that speaks publicly in
favor of NIL. I think it's been great for college sports.
I understand that people keep telling me, oh no, Michael,
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it's terrible. Why because you're told it's terrible, because Nick
Saban says it is. You can't coach the kids anymore.
Wait a minute, and Dan hold on, I get right
to you.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You mean the greatest college football coach of all time
can no longer coach the boys if they're getting paid
good money, well, Michael, they can just up and leave.
Go somewhere else. It'll pay them more. You mean, like
the coaches do. So let's go back to LSU. You
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mean when Nick Saban abandoned Baton Rouge to go to Miami.
You mean, when the Tiger Faithful saw Wayne heisingas Miami
dolphin flagged plane at the FBO there in Baton Rouge,
and it turned out the rumors were true, and so
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Nick Saban flew off to Miami and left them in
the lurch. You mean, then, you mean when Nick Saban
did what he's complaining about the players doing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So Nick Saban can sell his services to the highest
bidder with zero loyalty to the institution, but the players
can't because used to they couldn't. You don't think they've
been getting paid. You think Dickerson was the first one
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to get paid. You think that's the first goal transam
ever get paid for, because I know people that played
on that team. They'll tell you they were getting paid.
Some schools did it, some didn't. You don't think Paterno
paid people. Oh yeah, absolutely did, Absolutely did. There are
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plenty of college athletes that have told me from their
own voice about getting paid. It's just now they get
paid more.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, it just.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Doesn't seem like, you know, the kids care about the
school anymore. You know they're supposed to be there to
get an education, are they? So you're you're telling me
that you're saying that you really enjoy your quarterback running
up and down the field while you recite his GPA
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and his college degree, and you really hope that after
all this is over, he gets a good.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Job in construction. That's what you hope for.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Huh, hear yourself. It's a sport, it's entertainment. Well, but
it makes me feel better about my college degree. Then
you don't understand the point of the development process that
college was supposed to be in the first place. I'm
fully well well aware that college sports are more important
than the educational process to most people in our society.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I completely get that, But why do you want to
restrict what they get paid.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You're not restricted. Well, they're already paid with an education.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
How about this.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
If you say they can't get a free education and
play football and get paid, how about we give them
the option.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You don't have to go to school.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You can just get paid and play for my school
because it makes me feel better about where I went
to college if my team beats the other team this year.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Wait, what.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You chose where to go to school based on whether
your team makes the right call on fourth and one
in the fourth quarter. That's the The value of your
degree is whether some quarterback makes the right read, throws
the ball in the right place, and the guy catches
It's that's what your pride in your institution is based on.
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Do you hear yourself? That's ridiculous. It's a sport, it's
a game, it's fun, and there are people who will
pay people to come to their school and play because
they'd like to win in the same way that they
paid the coach. We've been injecting money into college sports
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for a long time to give people artificial advantages.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's just used to you'd build a better stadium, better
workout facility, more tutors.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You think those kids want to go to school because
a lot of them don't. Most of them don't. That's
why you got to make them pass. That's why you've
got to hire all these.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Tutors to get them to pass.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Because they're not there to go to science in English,
they're there for a ticket at the NFL.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, I just really, we said, really take the education serious? Like, really,
do you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Ask the GPA before you root for him on Sunday?
And if somebody's on the bubble of failing out, do
you think you know, that's one hell of a wide receiver,
but he really needs to get his grades up. I
don't think you do when you're all painted up down
on the front row at nineteen years old, rooting for
your team and hoping you'll score with your girl later tonight.
After your team scores on the field, you go. But
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you know, really, Marcus really likes to see you get
your grades up. Come on, man, let's be honest. That's ridiculous. Dan,
I'm sorry, I got distracted.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Dan. What's your opinion on all this, sir? The Iran
thing that is.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yes, sir, you're very much on.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Oh wow, okay, so yeah, yeah, I have an opinion
it's probably not going to be very popular. But years
of service and then twenty years in the old field,
and so.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I weren't with some old timers. Then hold on justin
late to the Keeper the Star, and.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I had to cut Dan off. Dan, I'm sorry I
went to you too late in the segment. My man,
go ahead and start over. My apologies.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
No, that's quite all right.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
So, uh, ten years in the Air Force, twenty years
in the old field, and I don't think that the
general populace speaking of Americans, right, and I think there's
probably a number of people over forty of them would
agree with me. A lot of people who've never been anywhere,
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a lot of people who've never read a book from
cover to cover, have not delved at all into history
in any aspect except maybe what they got in grade school.
So if they don't understand what dealing with. I was
concerned about the decision the President made, but I support
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his decision. When I went to Saudi Arabia for after
the initial desert storm operation for operations provide comfort. When
I arrived in country on an American installation. We had
to go through the police, the local police, where they
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checked your bags looking for anything that they find offensive
in their country. So of course they found my Bible
and they took it out of my briefcase. And now,
of course we've got the military representatives interpreters there for
us to get through that process. And he holds the
Bible up and starts shaking it and shouting, and so
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the interpreter asked me, you know that this is not
allowed here, said I'm a US service, Remember I'm a Christian,
And yes, it is going to be allowed here because
I'm here, and so it's going to be with me.
And there was a little back and forth there for
a little bit, and he put it back in my
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in my suitcase, and the guy told him that. The
interpreter told me, just make sure that it doesn't leave
the base. It needs to stay with you and you're
in your living quarters the whole time you're here. I said, yeah,
no problem. And of course we went out, you know,
on the only economy at various points in time to
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get things we needed or maybe things we wanted. And
it's time for prayer. The prayer call goes out, and
you know, they've got prayer centers, prayer rooms all over
the Middle East, right, and you see the prayer police
come out with their sticks and they are hitting people
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on their calves. I didn't see anything extremely violent, but
they're getting everybody off the street to get into prayer rooms.
You know, all the shops closed immediately and so and
then when of course, when I was in Algeria, it
was a very similar. Actually it was more absurd there.
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When we were leaving Algiers to get to Hotsimu side,
we got a medium sized aircraft and they have very
old school airport, no jetways. You go out on the
tarmac on a bus and then you get to the
stairs and go up to the aircraft. And there's two
sets of stairs.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
One is for the.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Women and one is for the men. And even though
families are trying to stay together, the religious police are
there with their sticks, you know, whacking men on their shoulder.
Tell them to get their kids and their wife on
the other side of stairs because they can't mix. And
these are just some examples of a different world view.
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So when people talk on the news about this situation
between Israel and every other person in the region, it's
a hatred that's historic and it's intense, and you're not
gonna change it. All you can do is contain problems.
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They can have a negative impact on their neighbors and
the world at large, and that's the best you can
hope for, in my opinion. When I was when I
first started the oil field, I had met a few
old timers and I was working in Algeria and this
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guy was probably I would guess he's probably in his
mid sixties.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We're sitting around one.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Evening having a cup of coffee and the topic of
you know, desert oil came up and he said, well,
it's our oil. I said, what do you mean by that?
He said, well, we gave them a technology, didn't know
how to get it out of ground. We taught him
how to get it out of ground. We taught them
how to transport refine it. I said, so it's our
oil and I laughed. I said, you've got to be
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a kidney. Said no, that's the way I feel, I said,
I I sweated. I bled to help these people get
to a certain level, and now they play these games
with us. So yeah, it's it's hard line approach to
dealing with a culture. That's one hundred and eighty degrees
out from our worldview. But if we're going to hold
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on to anything good, we have to maintain a stance
to do the right thing the best we can, you know,
and hopefully we can bring some peace and some happiness
to somebody else.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You mentioned Algeria as being the second country that you
were referring to.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
What was the first, Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia? Okay, interesting,
good call. I think that we have come to the
conclusion this is white guilt. That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
White guilt makes white Americans do really stupid things. It's
a very powerful emotion. There's never been a richer country
and culture and a more powerful country and culture. And
this is an extension of the British as well.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And there was such.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Guilt hand ringing over this success that was achieved that
there has been an almost suicidal, self destructive.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
One hundred year.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Campaign to a sage this guilt, sort of the wealthy
king giving away everything to absolve himself of the feelings
that he has feasted while.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
His serfs have starved.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
White people have become this have engaged in this self
flagellation to such an extent that it defies common sense.
Have a number of Muslim friends, wonderful folks. Interestingly, they
don't live in Muslim majority countries. There's not a Muslim
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majority country where anybody actually wants to live. There are
Muslims on a continuum, just like every other religion, who
engage in such repressive, oppressive.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Backward cruel.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Authoritarianism that when they come to power, you simply cannot
live there.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now, the question is the Michael Barry Show, please clap,
Please lease clash.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Charlie Daniels and the Charlie Daniels Band's biggest hit at
least on this day in nineteen seventy nine. It's actually
based on a melody and octave lower in a tune
called Lonesome Fiddle Blues by Vast Clements on his self
titled nineteen seventy five album, on which Charlie Daniels played guitar.
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He moved it up an octave and put words to it,
and was known as a recitation. The song would reach
number one on the Country Music chart and make it
all the way to number three on the Billboard Hot
one hundred, a huge hit for Charlie Daniels which would
be released on his nineteen seventy nine album Million Mile Reflections,
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and it was, of course, as you remember, released in
the a part of featured.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
In Urban Cowboy. What a great time, What a great time.
I read an article several years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
This said the public's view of what happened to Johnny,
who defeated the devil supposedly in the competition, was that
Johnny was actually lost to that. Quoting proverb sixteen eighteen,
pride go with before destruction, and a haughty spirit before
a fall. Better it is to be of a lowly
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spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with
the proud, and that Johnny saying, come on back if
you ever want to try again, before repeating the statement,
because I'm the it's ever been that this was a
sign of great pride, which was in violation of the
Bible's dictates.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Take from it what you will. I always viewed as
Johnny got the better of the devil. Although I don't
know about you or Mom, but I was standing over
the side going, I don't know if you should take
this challenge, and honestly, honestly, the Devil's performance, I mean,
I know we're not supposed to side with the devil
and all that, but I like his performance, I really do.
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Charlie Daniels claimed later that it was just some random
sounds that he put together that were the Devil's doing.
It wasn't any song in particular four songs referenced in
Johnny's performance, Fire on the Mountain, which goes back to
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the song and also the name of Charlie daniels nineteen
seventy four album The House of the Rising Sun, which
I think the animals did the best version of that
chicken in the bread pan picking out dough, a line
from Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys song I'd have read.
We did an entire segment on that a couple of
years ago. And then finally Granny will yourd dog Bite,
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which I think I read as an old Scottish Maybe
it's yeah, I think it's an old Scottish military tune.
If I am correct on that, good, Maybe I am,
Maybe I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Let's go to Alex. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, my man.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Waitchel, you just made me think I remember that in
seventy nine, man, and in the eighties, and we were
actually skating to that Now that I think that's amazing.
Something could cross over to the pop charts. That would, right,
you know, hicky sounding man, right that is tell me
if that's not great, man.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
It is.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You know, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
That's why I said it was surprising you got to
number three. But you know, in the late seventies, a
really popular country song, as you recall, could make it
over to the pop chart and still be considered country.
Today you have they call country songs, yeah that are popping,
that are topping the charts. Morgan Wallen in one of them.
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But I would argue those are pop saws with a twain.
But in any case, go ahead, my man.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Yeah, yeah, Hey Pardner, you know what I truly think.
You know, as time go on, you know they're not
giving President Trump is fair due. But you know, twenty
thirty forty years from now, Trump will be one of
the greatest one to two presidents in our history. That
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man does not have a poker face. I mean he
fooled even our silliest media from what he was going
to do. I mean, don't give him, you know, five
cards and think he's going to be fooling with you.
You better believe what he says. That was a fantastic
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even you know, Pete Hesterrick, I'm you know, I thought
he might, you know, be a little water on the feet.
But I think he's gonna be okay. I think he's
just getting the ground under him. I think he's gonna
be just fine. And you know, I don't think any
other person that we may have elected president, you know,
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DeSante is you know, our man here Cruz. I don't
think they would have had the stones to do what
President Trump did, because you know, Iran has been a
paper tiger in that part of the world for years,
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for years, and finally somebody put their foot down and say,
know what, we need to put this to an end.
And that was just a fantastic move. Really, you got
to hand it to him. He will be one of
the greatest presidents.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
In time.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
He really will. And and and I think the history
books will note that once we get all these silly
people out, you know, once once they just die off.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You know.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And in the and you know, they were talking about
the the the award, what what's the award?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I can't hm, the uh the Prize Award for Peace, uh.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
The Nobel prize. You know it, it's not worth what
is printed on now. I don't know what it's printed with,
But after they had given it to Obama, I just say,
it's not worth crap anymore. But maybe with the President Trump,
Maybe with President Trump, it could bring back to what
we thought, you know, what we used to think that
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it was supposed to be because you just I mean,
in just a little time he's been president. Wow, I
mean really just wow, Eggs. Look at the economy. That's
all we heard. How horrible it was supposed to be,
How horrible it was supposed to be. Look where it is. Okay,
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we know gas has gone up in the past few
weeks a little bit because of what's going on, but
I guarantee you by the end of the year, it's
probably gonna be down by a dime of fifteen cents
or more. Food you can actually go into the store
and afford to spend not out of your savings, or
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spend on your credit card to buy your groceries now,
or buy the other little extra that you need. But
I just wanted to put my tooth stancy in Michael,
thank you for letting me say what I wanted to say.
But you know he will be. I guarantee you he
will be.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Thank you Pardner.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
We are about to have a keen appreciation for fracking
technology and the ability to ramp up quickly and that
keep price is more affordable at the pump for gas
lots to talk about this week
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Berry Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On the air, as promised to the phone lines, we
go seven one three nine nine one thousand, seven nine
(00:35):
nine nine one thousand. Let's start with Fred. Fred, you
are on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Let's say you, sir, Hi Michael.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
My name is Fred. I'm from Ford, author, retired from Dupah.
All right, and I remember back when Jimmy Corner was
president and Iran failed to the bluelaws. Jimmy Carter allowed that,
and it's been just a history from then till now.
(01:06):
The Democrats order of appeasement. Appease them be, you know,
give them what they want. How many billions went over
there when Obama was resident? It was time back then,
toniff it in the bud and we've been dealing with
it ever since. That's my part. We got to stop them.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Fred, I'm going to ask questions. I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm asking questions. The number I believe, by the way
that that Obama gave them was one point seven billion
dollars and Biden did more than that. But but be
that as it may in your opinion, what should and
you may not have an opinion. I'm just asking what
(01:52):
should Carter have done to have prevented the revolution?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, the revolutions started on their college campuses with a
bunch of radicals and violence. I mean he could have
he could have backed there then military and just put
it They could have put it down, but they went
to him. He was he was totally shocked. One day,
took over one day, took the government. He was totally
(02:21):
shocked at the violence that happened. How how could they
be that violent? Behind He never spoke out loud about it,
but his some of his advisors said he was totally
shocked and totally didn't expect that they could have put
it down. He could have continued back, and they pulled
their backing away from the Shaw's government. Remember the Shaw
(02:43):
was in America being treeb I think it was pancreatic cancer. Yeah,
they they pulled, they pulled it back, didn't support his government,
and it fell almost with permission from Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter,
good old boy.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, Jimmy Carter was the problem with Jimmy Carter. And
we've all seen this, We've all seen the coach who
can't keep control of his team, or the manager who
can't lead his group, or guys in the military told
me about you know a lieutenant that can't lead his troops.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I don't know. I don't have that experience.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But we've all seen the guy who comes across as
a nice guy. I don't actually believe that Jimmy Carter
is as nice a guy as he has led people
to believe. And he turned out to be a monster
post presidency. While he's hammering nails for habitat, for humanity,
for the cameras. He turned out to have traveled the
world and supported the worst elements while claiming to speak
(03:46):
for election integrity. I don't know that Jimmy Carter ever
met a terrorist revolution, certainly not an Islamic revolution that
he didn't fall in love with. He's one of these
white liberals who has this a bye belief in self governance,
even if that self governance is theocratic and evil. That
(04:08):
naivete was his and our downfall. I would argue that
the Shaw was engaged in an arrogant, self dealing, inaccessible
(04:29):
form of government that over the course of twenty five years,
alienated him from his people. I think that Syria will
end up becoming such a radical. Once the revolution gets
its feet under itself, and once we see what that's
(04:49):
going to look like, there is a potential for a
very very dangerous situation there. As bad as Basher Asad
was within reason, Putin could control him. But basha Asad
also grew so arrogant, having inherited the throne and so
(05:10):
alienated from his people, he and his wife being paraded
around London, as you know, for the wealth and opulence
that they had displayed. We saw this in Sri Lanka
a few years ago where the presidential palace was overtaken.
We saw this with Kadafi when his own people dragged
(05:35):
him and murdered him. We saw this in Iraq when
it was external influences, but where the people were less
willing to support him outside of his immediate tribal community.
You see these folks who become so arrogant and inaccessible
(05:57):
to their people and so show, oh, we ostentatious with
their displays of wealth. And at some point, and I'll
tell you who keeps an eye on this sort of
thing is the Saudi royal family, because they are very
mindful that their populace would rise up in revolution. The
moment they have a chance. We saw this with Hasenni
(06:19):
Lebark in Egypt, where Mabarik again got out of touch
with his own people, and then the Arab spring, led
by the Muslim Brotherhood, had an opportunity to take hold.
Good call, Fred, very good call. There is no right
or wrong. We just want various perspectives, and yours is
(06:39):
well informed. I appreciate you, Marc May because you're a
DuPont guy. I'm a little soft on that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Marcus. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Go ahead, sir, Yes, Sir, Michael, thank you for having me.
In general, I think it's strategics right, not an invasion.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Success.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Well, where did the Iranians take the erased uranium of
the trucks that pulled up on Wednesday? I think the
Israeli is no. I do like the fact, you know,
we're not looking at it regime change. But Trump injected
the Amiga movement make I ran great again, So I
(07:22):
think that's intended for an internal to support the internal citizens.
But what are they gonna do with the straight of
horror moves? Well, I think Trump's not gonna let that happen,
and they won't close it down, But uh, pretty ballsy move.
Pretty impressive to go from two weeks to two days.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So we're still on top of our game.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Thank you for the call, Marcus. The straight of horror
moves that don't seek closing because that's fifty percent of
China's oil supply and only five percent of hours. Iran
still needs to move their own primary commodity and it's
twenty one miles wide. My understanding is the military capability
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of Iran to keep that closed for any serious period
of time is questionable. With regard to regime change, you
can't have regime change at our direction if we don't
have a regime that we're ready to install.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's the biggest challenge for the bal Michael y who
that was asking where the party is?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Everybody know the best party in town is at Tiger Stadium, honey,
and then.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
People crazy down there. How do you open a cold
salty honey? Comes sick with you? They say, Mike, the
Tiger is feeling hungry.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
From ad tonight. And if you Hunt is in the
house her lands gold just like this wig.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I have my own Hunt in Fine.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
We here for Lsu, don it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Gord and somebody say they were supposed to win.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Good lost.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Get them tagers. Cuts the Tigers, fight them Tigers, Honey,
just slap them tigers, fight them tigers.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Cut him out.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Talk real bad about that, Mama.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Then jump up and holler and make some touchdown things.
He'll go whatever it take.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Hunter clees win, I a ra. That's them Edif you
tiger me low, you gotta love him well.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
If you need to ask a favor of Eddie Martini,
today is the day to do it, because he is
riding high on yet another LSU Tiger national championship in
a very very interesting college baseball season.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
The Tigers having ended up on top.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think that coach. I think that's two championships for
him in four years.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Is that right? That is a hell of a program, man.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I was wondering how they would fare in the NIL era,
and I don't think we know just yet, because the
strength of the program is still probably enough. I must
be the only guy in America that speaks publicly in
favor of NIL. I think it's been great for college sports.
I understand that people keep telling me, oh no, Michael,
(10:27):
it's terrible. Why because you're told it's terrible, because Nick
Saban says it is. You can't coach the kids anymore.
Wait a minute, and Dan hold on, I get right
to you.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You mean the greatest college football coach of all time
can no longer coach the boys if they're getting paid
good money, well, Michael, they can just up and leave.
Go somewhere else. It'll pay them more. You mean, like
the coaches do. So let's go back to LSU. You
(11:01):
mean when Nick Saban abandoned Baton Rouge to go to Miami.
You mean, when the Tiger Faithful saw Wayne heisingas Miami
dolphin flagged plane at the FBO there in Baton Rouge,
and it turned out the rumors were true, and so
(11:23):
Nick Saban flew off to Miami and left them in
the lurch. You mean, then, you mean when Nick Saban
did what he's complaining about the players doing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So Nick Saban can sell his services to the highest
bidder with zero loyalty to the institution, but the players
can't because used to they couldn't. You don't think they've
been getting paid. You think Dickerson was the first one
(11:56):
to get paid. You think that's the first goal transam
ever get paid for, because I know people that played
on that team. They'll tell you they were getting paid.
Some schools did it, some didn't. You don't think Paterno
paid people. Oh yeah, absolutely did, Absolutely did. There are
(12:18):
plenty of college athletes that have told me from their
own voice about getting paid. It's just now they get
paid more.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, it just.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Doesn't seem like, you know, the kids care about the
school anymore. You know they're supposed to be there to
get an education, are they? So you're you're telling me
that you're saying that you really enjoy your quarterback running
up and down the field while you recite his GPA
(12:48):
and his college degree, and you really hope that after
all this is over, he gets a good.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Job in construction. That's what you hope for.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Huh, hear yourself. It's a sport, it's entertainment. Well, but
it makes me feel better about my college degree. Then
you don't understand the point of the development process that
college was supposed to be in the first place. I'm
fully well well aware that college sports are more important
than the educational process to most people in our society.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I completely get that, But why do you want to
restrict what they get paid.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You're not restricted. Well, they're already paid with an education.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
How about this.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
If you say they can't get a free education and
play football and get paid, how about we give them
the option.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You don't have to go to school.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You can just get paid and play for my school
because it makes me feel better about where I went
to college if my team beats the other team this year.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Wait, what.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You chose where to go to school based on whether
your team makes the right call on fourth and one
in the fourth quarter. That's the The value of your
degree is whether some quarterback makes the right read, throws
the ball in the right place, and the guy catches
It's that's what your pride in your institution is based on.
(14:12):
Do you hear yourself? That's ridiculous. It's a sport, it's
a game, it's fun, and there are people who will
pay people to come to their school and play because
they'd like to win in the same way that they
paid the coach. We've been injecting money into college sports
(14:33):
for a long time to give people artificial advantages.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's just used to you'd build a better stadium, better
workout facility, more tutors.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You think those kids want to go to school because
a lot of them don't. Most of them don't. That's
why you got to make them pass. That's why you've
got to hire all these.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Tutors to get them to pass.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Because they're not there to go to science in English,
they're there for a ticket at the NFL.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, I just really, we said, really take the education serious? Like, really,
do you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Ask the GPA before you root for him on Sunday?
And if somebody's on the bubble of failing out, do
you think you know, that's one hell of a wide receiver,
but he really needs to get his grades up. I
don't think you do when you're all painted up down
on the front row at nineteen years old, rooting for
your team and hoping you'll score with your girl later tonight.
After your team scores on the field, you go. But
(15:28):
you know, really, Marcus really likes to see you get
your grades up. Come on, man, let's be honest. That's ridiculous. Dan,
I'm sorry, I got distracted.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Dan. What's your opinion on all this, sir? The Iran
thing that is.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yes, sir, you're very much on.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Oh wow, okay, so yeah, yeah, I have an opinion
it's probably not going to be very popular. But years
of service and then twenty years in the old field,
and so.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I weren't with some old timers. Then hold on justin
late to the Keeper the Star, and.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I had to cut Dan off. Dan, I'm sorry I
went to you too late in the segment. My man,
go ahead and start over. My apologies.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
No, that's quite all right.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
So, uh, ten years in the Air Force, twenty years
in the old field, and I don't think that the
general populace speaking of Americans, right, and I think there's
probably a number of people over forty of them would
agree with me. A lot of people who've never been anywhere,
(16:47):
a lot of people who've never read a book from
cover to cover, have not delved at all into history
in any aspect except maybe what they got in grade school.
So if they don't understand what dealing with. I was
concerned about the decision the President made, but I support
(17:08):
his decision. When I went to Saudi Arabia for after
the initial desert storm operation for operations provide comfort. When
I arrived in country on an American installation. We had
to go through the police, the local police, where they
(17:31):
checked your bags looking for anything that they find offensive
in their country. So of course they found my Bible
and they took it out of my briefcase. And now,
of course we've got the military representatives interpreters there for
us to get through that process. And he holds the
Bible up and starts shaking it and shouting, and so
(17:53):
the interpreter asked me, you know that this is not
allowed here, said I'm a US service, Remember I'm a Christian,
And yes, it is going to be allowed here because
I'm here, and so it's going to be with me.
And there was a little back and forth there for
a little bit, and he put it back in my
(18:14):
in my suitcase, and the guy told him that. The
interpreter told me, just make sure that it doesn't leave
the base. It needs to stay with you and you're
in your living quarters the whole time you're here. I said, yeah,
no problem. And of course we went out, you know,
on the only economy at various points in time to
(18:38):
get things we needed or maybe things we wanted. And
it's time for prayer. The prayer call goes out, and
you know, they've got prayer centers, prayer rooms all over
the Middle East, right, and you see the prayer police
come out with their sticks and they are hitting people
(18:58):
on their calves. I didn't see anything extremely violent, but
they're getting everybody off the street to get into prayer rooms.
You know, all the shops closed immediately and so and
then when of course, when I was in Algeria, it
was a very similar. Actually it was more absurd there.
(19:19):
When we were leaving Algiers to get to Hotsimu side,
we got a medium sized aircraft and they have very
old school airport, no jetways. You go out on the
tarmac on a bus and then you get to the
stairs and go up to the aircraft. And there's two
sets of stairs.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
One is for the.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Women and one is for the men. And even though
families are trying to stay together, the religious police are
there with their sticks, you know, whacking men on their shoulder.
Tell them to get their kids and their wife on
the other side of stairs because they can't mix. And
these are just some examples of a different world view.
(20:01):
So when people talk on the news about this situation
between Israel and every other person in the region, it's
a hatred that's historic and it's intense, and you're not
gonna change it. All you can do is contain problems.
(20:22):
They can have a negative impact on their neighbors and
the world at large, and that's the best you can
hope for, in my opinion. When I was when I
first started the oil field, I had met a few
old timers and I was working in Algeria and this
(20:42):
guy was probably I would guess he's probably in his
mid sixties.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We're sitting around one.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Evening having a cup of coffee and the topic of
you know, desert oil came up and he said, well,
it's our oil. I said, what do you mean by that?
He said, well, we gave them a technology, didn't know
how to get it out of ground. We taught him
how to get it out of ground. We taught them
how to transport refine it. I said, so it's our
oil and I laughed. I said, you've got to be
(21:09):
a kidney. Said no, that's the way I feel, I said,
I I sweated. I bled to help these people get
to a certain level, and now they play these games
with us. So yeah, it's it's hard line approach to
dealing with a culture. That's one hundred and eighty degrees
out from our worldview. But if we're going to hold
(21:32):
on to anything good, we have to maintain a stance
to do the right thing the best we can, you know,
and hopefully we can bring some peace and some happiness
to somebody else.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You mentioned Algeria as being the second country that you
were referring to.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
What was the first, Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia? Okay, interesting,
good call. I think that we have come to the
conclusion this is white guilt. That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
White guilt makes white Americans do really stupid things. It's
a very powerful emotion. There's never been a richer country
and culture and a more powerful country and culture. And
this is an extension of the British as well.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And there was such.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Guilt hand ringing over this success that was achieved that
there has been an almost suicidal, self destructive.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
One hundred year.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Campaign to a sage this guilt, sort of the wealthy
king giving away everything to absolve himself of the feelings
that he has feasted while.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
His serfs have starved.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
White people have become this have engaged in this self
flagellation to such an extent that it defies common sense.
Have a number of Muslim friends, wonderful folks. Interestingly, they
don't live in Muslim majority countries. There's not a Muslim
(23:42):
majority country where anybody actually wants to live. There are
Muslims on a continuum, just like every other religion, who
engage in such repressive, oppressive.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Backward cruel.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Authoritarianism that when they come to power, you simply cannot
live there.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now, the question is the Michael Barry Show, please clap,
Please lease clash.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Charlie Daniels and the Charlie Daniels Band's biggest hit at
least on this day in nineteen seventy nine. It's actually
based on a melody and octave lower in a tune
called Lonesome Fiddle Blues by Vast Clements on his self
titled nineteen seventy five album, on which Charlie Daniels played guitar.
(24:45):
He moved it up an octave and put words to it,
and was known as a recitation. The song would reach
number one on the Country Music chart and make it
all the way to number three on the Billboard Hot
one hundred, a huge hit for Charlie Daniels which would
be released on his nineteen seventy nine album Million Mile Reflections,
(25:11):
and it was, of course, as you remember, released in
the a part of featured.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
In Urban Cowboy. What a great time, What a great time.
I read an article several years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
This said the public's view of what happened to Johnny,
who defeated the devil supposedly in the competition, was that
Johnny was actually lost to that. Quoting proverb sixteen eighteen,
pride go with before destruction, and a haughty spirit before
a fall. Better it is to be of a lowly
(25:47):
spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with
the proud, and that Johnny saying, come on back if
you ever want to try again, before repeating the statement,
because I'm the it's ever been that this was a
sign of great pride, which was in violation of the
Bible's dictates.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Take from it what you will. I always viewed as
Johnny got the better of the devil. Although I don't
know about you or Mom, but I was standing over
the side going, I don't know if you should take
this challenge, and honestly, honestly, the Devil's performance, I mean,
I know we're not supposed to side with the devil
and all that, but I like his performance, I really do.
(26:31):
Charlie Daniels claimed later that it was just some random
sounds that he put together that were the Devil's doing.
It wasn't any song in particular four songs referenced in
Johnny's performance, Fire on the Mountain, which goes back to
(26:54):
the song and also the name of Charlie daniels nineteen
seventy four album The House of the Rising Sun, which
I think the animals did the best version of that
chicken in the bread pan picking out dough, a line
from Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys song I'd have read.
We did an entire segment on that a couple of
years ago. And then finally Granny will yourd dog Bite,
(27:17):
which I think I read as an old Scottish Maybe
it's yeah, I think it's an old Scottish military tune.
If I am correct on that, good, Maybe I am,
Maybe I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Let's go to Alex. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Go ahead, my man.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Waitchel, you just made me think I remember that in
seventy nine, man, and in the eighties, and we were
actually skating to that Now that I think that's amazing.
Something could cross over to the pop charts. That would, right,
you know, hicky sounding man, right that is tell me
if that's not great, man.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
It is.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You know, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
That's why I said it was surprising you got to
number three. But you know, in the late seventies, a
really popular country song, as you recall, could make it
over to the pop chart and still be considered country.
Today you have they call country songs, yeah that are popping,
that are topping the charts. Morgan Wallen in one of them.
(28:24):
But I would argue those are pop saws with a twain.
But in any case, go ahead, my man.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Yeah, yeah, Hey Pardner, you know what I truly think.
You know, as time go on, you know they're not
giving President Trump is fair due. But you know, twenty
thirty forty years from now, Trump will be one of
the greatest one to two presidents in our history. That
(28:51):
man does not have a poker face. I mean he
fooled even our silliest media from what he was going
to do. I mean, don't give him, you know, five
cards and think he's going to be fooling with you.
You better believe what he says. That was a fantastic
(29:11):
even you know, Pete Hesterrick, I'm you know, I thought
he might, you know, be a little water on the feet.
But I think he's gonna be okay. I think he's
just getting the ground under him. I think he's gonna
be just fine. And you know, I don't think any
other person that we may have elected president, you know,
(29:33):
DeSante is you know, our man here Cruz. I don't
think they would have had the stones to do what
President Trump did, because you know, Iran has been a
paper tiger in that part of the world for years,
(29:54):
for years, and finally somebody put their foot down and say,
know what, we need to put this to an end.
And that was just a fantastic move. Really, you got
to hand it to him. He will be one of
the greatest presidents.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
In time.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
He really will. And and and I think the history
books will note that once we get all these silly
people out, you know, once once they just die off.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You know.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And in the and you know, they were talking about
the the the award, what what's the award?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I can't hm, the uh the Prize Award for Peace, uh.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
The Nobel prize. You know it, it's not worth what
is printed on now. I don't know what it's printed with,
But after they had given it to Obama, I just say,
it's not worth crap anymore. But maybe with the President Trump,
Maybe with President Trump, it could bring back to what
we thought, you know, what we used to think that
(31:11):
it was supposed to be because you just I mean,
in just a little time he's been president. Wow, I
mean really just wow, Eggs. Look at the economy. That's
all we heard. How horrible it was supposed to be,
How horrible it was supposed to be. Look where it is. Okay,
(31:33):
we know gas has gone up in the past few
weeks a little bit because of what's going on, but
I guarantee you by the end of the year, it's
probably gonna be down by a dime of fifteen cents
or more. Food you can actually go into the store
and afford to spend not out of your savings, or
(31:53):
spend on your credit card to buy your groceries now,
or buy the other little extra that you need. But
I just wanted to put my tooth stancy in Michael,
thank you for letting me say what I wanted to say.
But you know he will be. I guarantee you he
will be.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Thank you Pardner.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
We are about to have a keen appreciation for fracking
technology and the ability to ramp up quickly and that
keep price is more affordable at the pump for gas
lots to talk about this week
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.