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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, wherever you may be in the country, you may
have glanced at the news out of Texas, or you
may be glued to the screen. You might be aware
of some flooding and a lot of people have died
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and a lot of people are missing, or you might
be intimately familiar with some of the families involved. What
I would like to do over the next couple of
hours is to give you perspective on this story close
to it as I am. I do not have a
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child that was at either of the camps that were flooded,
but my two sons did go to school with the
older young lady, Chloe Childress, who passed. She was a
camp counselor and knew a number of other kids who
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were rescued and some who passed. We were not at
the camp, as I said, so it was not our
immediate grief to experience, but certainly it is there but
for the grace of God go I. My oldest son, Crockett,
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went to Young Life Camp this summer, as his brother
did before him two years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That is in between your junior and senior years.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's a Christian based camp where you carry your gear
up a mountain and in the course of a week
you scale the mountain and come back and each day
you sleep outside after Bible study. And it's been a
wonderful experience for both of my boys. Wonderful experience. Young
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Life as a Christian organization for Bible study and fraternity
fellowship has been.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Really good for both of my boys.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But I would like to talk to you and give
you some perspective that perhaps National news cannot provide on
what has happened in what we call the hill country
of Texas. That phrase has been around for a long time.
You think of Texas as being flat, and you're mostly right.
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We have an incredible canyon called Polloduro Canyon, which I
believe is the second largest canyon in the country. Who
knew outside of the Grand Canyon. I believe it to
be the largest canyon in Canyon Texas. North of there,
Texas has a varied topography from South Texas, which is
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basically a very dry North Mexico, to East Texas, which
is very lush, piny trees, very green up that corridor,
a lot of rain, a lot of bayous to West Texas,
which is very arid and dry, dusty, to the Panhandle,
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which is one of my favorite places in Texas doesn't
doesn't get its due. From from Fort Worth up to
headed northwest, you have the Gulf Coast, which is where
I live, which is which is hot and humid, and
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you've got beaches, which most of you would say aren't
beautiful because you might have white sandy beach fantasies. We
don't have that, but we do have beaches, and we
have a lot of fishing along the Gulf Coast. But
one of the most beautiful areas of the state we
refer to as the Hill Country in central Texas. And
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you know where Austin is, or you have an idea
where Austin is. If you just head north, you just
head southwest of Austin, you over a bit to the west,
you'll get to San Antone and then just west of
there you'll get to the location we're going to talk
about today, which is Kerr County and Kerrville, Texas, which
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you may have heard of, is there. And you've got
some towns like Hunt and Prosper and Comfort. A lot
of Texans, a lot of Houstonians, will go to this
area because there is a river there known as the Guadaloupe,
and it is quite popular among young Houstonians. My wife
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and I used to go when we were younger, and
it's common to take your kids and you, quote unquote
float the river. It's a tourist attraction and people will
rent cabins along the Guadalupe River or the Guadaloupe as
we caught, and those people are going to be some
of the subject of what we talk about today. But
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also along that storied river are several youth camps. And
these youth camps are as close as Texas gets to
Andover or Exeter. They're not fancy, quite the opposite. They're
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stripped down. They're simple. There's no cell phone service, there's
no internet service. It's back to basics. But for generations
young kids from Dallas, San Anton, Austin, and Houston, and
we know a lot of kids from Houston who go
to these camps. And there's a I believe, a thirteen
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day option and a thirty three zero day option. These
kids go to camp and they stay and it's a
Christian based camp, and they sing Christian songs and they
have youth activities and they look forward to it. They
look forward to it all year long, and they go
year after year after year from when they start, most
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of them in about second or third grade. They go
every summer through graduation, and then they come back and
serve as a counselor. And that too, is a legendary
part of the experience because that is sort of the
graduation from child to adult.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You went from.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Being a camper to being a counselor, and you are
largely responsible for these little girls at Camp Mystic is
a girls camp in Camp Lahunta or sor Lahunta. There
in Hunt is a boy's so these are separated. There
are some other camps along there, but these are the
two that were hit hardiest by this storm, and this
is where the loss of life occurred.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Camp Lahunta.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The boys camp did not lose anyone, now, they came
very close. There were some actions of heroism, and I'll
tell you about those. But the girls camp, Camp Mystic
has lost some campers and there are still a number
of individuals who are missing. At this point, we have
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moved pretty far into this, so it would truly be
a miracle, but we're holding out for a miracle. But
there's a lot of politics behind this, a lot of
media coverage behind this, a lot of and I'm going
to try to cover all of that for you wherever
you live in the country. Coming out the Michael Berry Show,
Michael Berry's Show, I'm going to try to give some
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perspective to this story out of Texas that has made
national news. I don't want to talk about the politics
of it all, but the left can't help themselves, So
for now, I'm going to address this issue as follows.
The idea that the Big Beautiful Bill had made cuts
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to the National Weather Service and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That is the reason.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That these young ladies died is absolutely false.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It It is knowably false, by which I mean anyone
who has watched what's happened and spent five minutes looking
into it understands that it is false.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
To try to blame yet another thing on Donald Trump
at the expense of these children is sickening. This is
Fox News contributor Joe Kanca talking about that there were.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Flood warnings twelve hours before this happened. There were flash
flood warnings three hours before it happened. We keep seeing
on other networks talking about how there wasn't the proper
staffing at the National Weather Service in that area, they
actually had twice as many staffers.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
On as they normally would.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So again, if you're going to try to find blame
and in the name of accountability or at least get
your facts right and at this point, like we see
so often, especially in a world of social media, there's
a lot of information out there that is not accurate.
But twelve hours, three hours, as far as flash flood warnings,
twice as many staffers, those are the.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Facts I want to speak to.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
What happened in how fast it happened the Guadeloupe, the
river rose twenty six feet in forty five minutes. If
you see a time lapse photography, you cannot believe what
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happened and how fast it happened. You will be unwilling
to believe it. A wall of water moving through so
fast when you look at the number of inches of
water that are of rainfall that are dropping and how
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fast they're coming down, and you consider that's being funneled
into the instrument, the.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Vessel to get it out.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
That's the river, that's the natural floodplain, the watershed is
making its way into this narrow river, narrow relatively speaking
to the land mass around it. And when that water
is filling the river faster than the river can move it,
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the river jumps its banks and it becomes like a
monster on the loose.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It is so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It moves with so much speed, so swift, so powerful.
So I'll get back to that. There's a lot of
politics I wish I didn't have to discuss today. I
didn't discuss on a morning show. But first I want
to focus on what really matters here, and I want
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us not to lose out of this. A young man
by the name of Scott Ruskin, a Coastguard rescue swimmer,
rescued one hundred and sixty five of these precious little
girls at camp missed it. They are as young as
seven years old. He's being called an American hero, and
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he is. He says, the real heroes are the kids.
And there was some pure heroism, there's no doubt about that.
But when you talk about making a hero out of someone,
we should encourage people.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
To be like this.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We should lag this type of behavior. This was his
first effort. This guy was a a I believe an
accountant in New York and went into the Coastguard where
He's apparently one hell of a strong swimmer.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And a.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Petty officer, and this was the first time and he's
running triage on this effort. Can you imagine how scared
nervous he was, And boy did he ever rise to
the occasion. This is what I wanted to focus on.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
The Coast Guard launched us and decided to send a
rescue crew from Air Station Corpus Christie at about six
point thirty seven am on Friday, the fourth of July.
I just happened to be on the duty crew with
Ian Hopper Blair Rouge wor Seth Reeves, some of our
crew members in the Coast Guard, and yeah, they sent
us out. We kind of encountered some pretty serious weather,
some of the worst flying we've ever dealt with. Personally,
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it took us, you know, WHI should have been an
hour flight, probably took us about seven or eight just.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
To get into the landing zone.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Once we made about four different approaches trying to get in.
We were able to get out and get a boots
on the ground with the Air National Guard, Department of
Public Safety for Texas Game Wardens, and we decided to
leave me on scene at Camp Mistic that was kind
of our main triage we were trying to help out with,
and we decide, hey, if we leave the rescue summer
on scene, we'll have more space in our Dolphin MH
sixty five. So based on that, I got on scene
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boots on the ground, it can't miss it, kind of
discovered I was the only person there as far as
like first responders go. So yeah, I had about two
hundred kids, mostly all scared, terrified, cold, having probably the
worst day of their life, and I just kind of
need to triage them, get them to a higher level
care and get them off the flood zone. With a
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lot of the US sixty Army helicopters, i'd States Army
National Guard was landing their sixties with Task Force one
some of their rescue summers, and they were able to land.
We kind of came up with two different landing zones.
There's one off an archery field and then one at
a soccer field, So yeah, we were able to kind
of land those sixties in there, and then I was
kind of the main guy as far as like grabbing
people usually like fifteen to ten kids at a time,
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maybe one adult with them and bringing them over to
those sixties and getting them to a different LZ that
was kind of safe and had more first responders just
myself out there.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Had you ever done this before?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No, this is my first one. I haven't had any
cases before. I've been a rescue swimmer for about a year,
fully trained for about six months, so yeah, this was
my first experience. But I really just kind of relied on.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The training we get.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Coast Guard rescue swimmers get some of the highest level
training in the world, so really just kind of relied
on that and that, you know, just knowing that any
of the rescue swimmers in the Coast Guard would have
done the exact same, if not better than me.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Such is one thing, but this was the real deal.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, this is definitely the real deal. But I
just remember that, you know, when I got on scene,
there was you know, two hundred kids looking to someone
for some sort of comfort and safety. They don't really
know what my experience is, or my rank or my age.
They just know, hey, this guy's this guy's a professional
and he's here to help us. And I kind of
had to live up to that standard. But yeah, the
real heroes, I think were too the kids on the ground,
like those guys are heroic, and you know, they were
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dealing with some of the worst times of their lives
and they were staying strong, and that help inspire me
to kind of get in there and help them out.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Those children showed such bravery, such maturity, such strength.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
But this guy right here.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I mean, he's sitting in an office job and he decides, no,
I want to go learn to be a rescue swimmer,
not knowing that we'd need him in Kerr County, Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
But when we did, he was there.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
My goodness, my goodness, there there are good people out there.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of Michael Barry, which has a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Camp Mystic is the name of the summer camp for
girls where we have lost at this point an undetermined
number of young ladies who actually they're just girls, they're
just precious little children. A number were rescued and some
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are still missing, and some.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Have lost their lives.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
And it is.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It is a grand, bold tradition for young girls in
Texas to go to Camp Mystic. There are some other
summer camps, quite a few along that river and in
that portion of Texas which is central Texas, or as
we call it, the Hill Country, and it is an
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idyllic place where people from Austin, Dallas, Houston and beyond
will come and float this river by float.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
If you don't know what that means, you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Literally get on an inner tube, the inner tube of
an inflated inner tube of attire. And forgive me if
you know that term already, but not everybody does. It's
kind of a redneck thing and we love to do
it well along that river.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's a little calmer climb than.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Then Houston and a little cooler, and it's just a
beautiful place where little girls make beautiful memories. More important
than the place, the location and all of that is
the friendships that are made, and I think that's important
for children.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
This is a.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Young girl remembering her friend nay name, who was killed
during the flash bloods and this little girl was saved.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
These are her words. My friend Nanna was so funny.
I've been scrolling I've been scrolling through videos.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
And pictures on my mom's phone and watching it over
and over again.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Her dancing when she's excited.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
She was.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
She was so I said, missed her so much.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Tara Bradburne and her daughter Calliam mcmclary. We're on Fox
after Calli was rescued from Camp Mystic, and Tara, the mom, says,
this camp has been a major part of her daughter's life.
It's important to understand how connected these little girls were
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to this tradition. Laura Bush, among others, was a camp,
was a camper, and then when you graduate high school,
you go back as a counselor.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's a point of great pride.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You know, you finish your first year, you finish your
high school, and then you become a counselor.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And then a lot of girls will come back.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
For years, their first year of college or second year
of college. They will come back in the summer rather
than take a trip to Europe, and they will work
at the camp where they themselves were once campers, and
they will work there as a counselor.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
It's a really neat tradition.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Tara, this camp has been a big part of your
daughter's life.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
It has been a huge part of her life since
she finished. She entered at the end of second grade.
This is her year, was her eighth year. We chose
this camp. We lived I was a Texan. It was
important to me that my child to have Texas roots
and that faith formation be integral to the part of
her camp experience.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Living in Virginia.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
We brought her to Camp Mystic and turned her over
to the Dick and Tweety Eastland family and Camp Mystic
in their staff because we knew they would love on
our child, they would help her grow in her faith
and live the Mystic ideals of being a better person
and bringing out the best in her. And we are
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so devastated by what has happened, but truly grateful and
thankful to the Eastland family for all they have done
and all they have given is a family to save
the children that they could. It is devastating for us
and for the Mystic sister Hood to have lost so
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many children and for so many children to wait. But
we are here today because we feel as though it
is so important that this story remain in the news.
There are children out there that need to be found,
and we want the EMS and National Federal Services and
the state services to continue to stay on the job
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as they have said they are going to, because we
have children that need to be found and need to
be reunited with their parents.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And we are a truly.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Blessed and fortunate family, and we want the same for others.
We want those children to be found.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Dick Eastland, who she's referenced is, was the director of
the center and has been for a very long time.
He died saving the lives of little girls read skewing
them until he was swept away in the midst of
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rescuing these little girls. It's important to understand how fast
a flash flood happens. This is the Governor of Texas,
Greg Abbott, talking about if you haven't seen a time
lapse photography of this, if all you've ever been in
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was rising waters, you can't understand how fast these flash
floods happen in this part of the state where they
come down so fast, and you have to realize much
of the earth is impermeable. You've got a lot of limestone,
you've got a lot of other rock, and you've got
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a very.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Little soil to absorb this water.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So if the old you know, the old line is
raining like a calpe and on a flat rock, you've
got water coming down on the rock that is impermeable.
It can't absorb it, so it is deflecting it into
the river. Well when you get twenty eight inches of
water or more across the plaine, that's one thing. But
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when you've basically got a v you're working with that, it's.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Funneling it into there.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
All of that water is coming in and creating an
incredible pressure that is just and it happens fast.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
This was Texas governor talking about that. I know nothing
about the staffing.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
What I do know is what they put out, and
it's my understanding that what they put out was kind
of the information that the state was operating off of,
and that is that there were the largs or warnings
about heavy rain potential flash flooding in certain areas. A
problem with that is that to most people in the area,
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flesh flooding would mean one thing, not what it turned
out to be, because they deal with flesh floods all
the time, just like I put people on notice in
these regions of Texas right now, there's the potential for
flesh flooding, but there's no expectation of a water wall
of almost thirty feet high.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And you can go see it for yourself if you like,
and you will, you will understand that, yes, there was
a twelve hour alarm, and yes, it was a three
hour alarm.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But the expectation, based on.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Years and years of doing this, was that the waters
would rise, but not to the level they did. And
it's very easy to cast blame on the facility or
now on Trump. But that is that is Trump delusion syndrome.
That is the sickness infecting the mind.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I don't care if what your politics are, you don't
dance on the grave of little children. That's evil. I mean,
there has to be some amount of decency. The Trump
delusion syndrome also causes them to blame Donald Trump when
every person on the scene locally says, no, the Trump
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administration did everything right. Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary,
today answered just that question.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
You shared your thoughts earlier on how the way to
the left has really weaponized this to blame the.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Deaths in Texas on Trump For to call.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
That again, Yeah, I just do think those comments are
depraved and despicable, especially when so many Americans are mourning
the loss of their children.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Of the National Weather Service, as I said, did its job.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
Many experts, many meteorologists, have said that many of you
in the media, in all fairness have said that as well.
Unfortunately not all and many Democrat elected a fIF are
trying to turn this into a political game and it
is not. This is a national tragedy. In the administration
is treating it as such. We know the National Weather
Service provided early and consistent warnings. They gave out timely
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flash flood alerts, there were record breaking lead times and
the lead up to this catastrophe, there is ongoing flood monitoring,
and these offices were well staffed. In fact, one of
the offices was actually overstaffed. They had more people than
they need. So any claim to the contrary is completely false.
And it's just sad that people are pushing.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
These lacks.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
The climate change global warming alarmists.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It's a death cult, it really is. It's a sick
death cult, and they are gloom and doom and there.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Is no love of humanity among these people. Michael Schellenberger
is a professor at the Universe of Austin. That's not
the University of Texas, University of Austin. It's a conservative
school that was created in Austin a couple of years ago,
and it's incredible what they're doing. He explains here This
is a longer cliff than I would normally play. How
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climate change alarmists are living in a weird cult.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Again, this is Michael Schellenberger.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Over the past century, global flood debts declined by more
than eighty percent. That happened not because nations reduced rainfall,
but because they have learned how to live with it.
They built levees, dams, and drainage systems, They developed early
warning systems, and evacuated people before the water arrived. Kerr
County and Texas failed to do any of those things.
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Despite its location in one of the most flood prone
regions in the United States, the county had no formal
flood warning system. There were no sirens, no automated text alerts,
no rapid evacuation protocol. The river rose, and families had
no idea it was coming. Floods are not the only
extreme weather event that The New York Times and other
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media outlets wrongly attribute to climate change. Over the past decade,
reporters have increasingly blamed climate change for heat waves, hurricanes, wildfire,
even cold snaps, often before any formal scientific attribution was possible.
In an era of collapsing AD revenue and to climbing
public trust Sensational stories about apocalyptic climate disasters generate clicks,
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shares an urgency. The system rewards dishonesty and those who
lean into worst case scenarios. That bias shapes public understanding
and distorts what climate science actually shows. Another part of
the climate narrative is strictly ideological. Climate alarmism gives radical
Malthusian activists and intellectuals who view Western civilization as inherently
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destructive and a moral justification for demanding its dismantling. Part
of the climate alarmism discourse functions as a form of
secularized Christianity. It follows a familiar structure. Humanity has sinned
by running fossil fuels, and humanity now must suffer as
punishment through floods, fires, and storms. Salvation can only come
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through repentance and sacrifice, by giving up consumption, flying less
at least for the pleas not for the elites, eating
plants and bugs, and trusting in technocratic authorities. This moral
framework replaces God with the science, sin with carbon emissions,
and redemption with policy obedience. Like religious movements of the past,
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it promises both judgment and deliverance but only for the righteous.
It channels guilt, fear, and the desire for meaning into
a narrative that demands personal purity and societal transformation. The
apocalyptic climate discourse, however, differs from Christianity in some fundamental ways.
Traditional Christianity offers forgiveness, hope, and the possibility of redemption
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through the gift of grace. Climate Alarmism, by contrast, offers
no such forgiveness, only permanent guilt and endless sacrifice. Where
Christianity separates sin from the sinner, allowing for mercy, climate
alarmism tends to treat discent as heresy and skeptics as
morally corrupt. The result is a belief system that mimics
the structure of religion, but replaces its spiritual core with politics, fear,
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and control. In many ways, the climate discourse resembles the
spiritual of gnosticism more than Christianity. As my colleague and
co author Alex S. Guttentag has pointed out, narcissism emerged
in the first and second centuries eighty, teaching that the
material universe was a corrupt prison created by a false God,
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often equated with the God of the Old Testament. Which
they refer to as the demiurge. That's in contrast to
orthodox Christianity, which viewed creation as good in sin as
a moral failure. Gnostics believed that human beings contained a
divine spark trapped in flesh, and that salvation came not
through faith or obedience to God, but rather through hidden
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knowledge gnosis of their true spiritual origin. Alike like the
ancient Gnostics, climate alarmists often claim access to secret knowledge
that sets them apart from the masses. Writers like David
Wallace Wells, a New York Times columnist, openly describe their
understanding of climate change as a kind of revelation. Its
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information so dire, so morally charged, that it separates the
enlightened from the ignorant and corrupt. In his twenty nineteen
book The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace Wells wrote that one of
the most haunting aspects of learning about climate change is
carrying the knowledge that others don't share and that feels
impossible to convey. This mirror is the Gnostic belief that
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salvation comes not through faith or works, but through the
possession of hidden truths. In the modern climate version, those
truths are wrapped in technical jargon, worst case scenarios, and
apocalyptic timelines. Those who accept them are the elect those
who question them are heretics or deniers, And like gnoscissism,
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this framework often rejects the material world not as something
to steward and improve, but as something irreparably damaged, a
fallen system from which only a purified elite can escape.
This gnostic discourse flows from and reinforces a kind of
narcissism and arrogance. Those who embrace it often see themselves
as morally and intellectually superior, set apart from the ignorant
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masses who continue to drive and fly, eat meat, or
doubt the most extreme projections. They view their anxiety not
as a personal emotional dysregulation, but as evidence of their enlightenment,
their capacity to feel what others are too blind or
insensitive or selfish to comprehend. Now. The irony is that
their alarmism often showcases their ignorance, particularly when it comes
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to the long practical history of water management and flood control.
While they warn that rising seas and heavier rains make
catastrophe inevitable, they overlook the fact that humans have successfully
confronted those challenges for millennia or ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia
at the end is Valley, China Rome constructed canals, levies, dikes,
and aqueducts to harness rivers and safeguard city. In the
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modern era, countries such as the United States, the Netherlands,
Bangladesh have significantly reduced flood related deaths for the implementation
of early warning systems, basic infrastructure, and coordinated evacuation plans.
It's that time time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, wherever you may be in the country, you may
have glanced at the news out of Texas, or you
may be glued to the screen. You might be aware
of some flooding and a lot of people have died
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and a lot of people are missing, or you might
be intimately familiar with some of the families involved. What
I would like to do over the next couple of
hours is to give you perspective on this story close
to it as I am. I do not have a
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child that was at either of the camps that were flooded,
but my two sons did go to school with the
older young lady, Chloe Childress, who passed. She was a
camp counselor and knew a number of other kids who
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were rescued and some who passed. We were not at
the camp, as I said, so it was not our
immediate grief to experience, but certainly it is there but
for the grace of God go I. My oldest son, Crockett,
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went to Young Life Camp this summer, as his brother
did before him two years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That is in between your junior and senior years.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's a Christian based camp where you carry your gear
up a mountain and in the course of a week
you scale the mountain and come back and each day
you sleep outside after Bible study. And it's been a
wonderful experience for both of my boys. Wonderful experience. Young
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Life as a Christian organization for Bible study and fraternity
fellowship has been.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Really good for both of my boys.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But I would like to talk to you and give
you some perspective that perhaps National news cannot provide on
what has happened in what we call the hill country
of Texas. That phrase has been around for a long time.
You think of Texas as being flat, and you're mostly right.
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We have an incredible canyon called Polloduro Canyon, which I
believe is the second largest canyon in the country. Who
knew outside of the Grand Canyon. I believe it to
be the largest canyon in Canyon Texas. North of there,
Texas has a varied topography from South Texas, which is
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basically a very dry North Mexico, to East Texas, which
is very lush, piny trees, very green up that corridor,
a lot of rain, a lot of bayous to West Texas,
which is very arid and dry, dusty, to the Panhandle,
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which is one of my favorite places in Texas doesn't
doesn't get its due. From from Fort Worth up to
headed northwest, you have the Gulf Coast, which is where
I live, which is which is hot and humid, and
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you've got beaches, which most of you would say aren't
beautiful because you might have white sandy beach fantasies. We
don't have that, but we do have beaches, and we
have a lot of fishing along the Gulf Coast. But
one of the most beautiful areas of the state we
refer to as the Hill Country in central Texas. And
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you know where Austin is, or you have an idea
where Austin is. If you just head north, you just
head southwest of Austin, you over a bit to the west,
you'll get to San Antone and then just west of
there you'll get to the location we're going to talk
about today, which is Kerr County and Kerrville, Texas, which
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you may have heard of, is there. And you've got
some towns like Hunt and Prosper and Comfort. A lot
of Texans, a lot of Houstonians, will go to this
area because there is a river there known as the Guadaloupe,
and it is quite popular among young Houstonians. My wife
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and I used to go when we were younger, and
it's common to take your kids and you, quote unquote
float the river. It's a tourist attraction and people will
rent cabins along the Guadalupe River or the Guadaloupe as
we caught, and those people are going to be some
of the subject of what we talk about today. But
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also along that storied river are several youth camps. And
these youth camps are as close as Texas gets to
Andover or Exeter. They're not fancy, quite the opposite. They're
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stripped down. They're simple. There's no cell phone service, there's
no internet service. It's back to basics. But for generations
young kids from Dallas, San Anton, Austin, and Houston, and
we know a lot of kids from Houston who go
to these camps. And there's a I believe, a thirteen
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day option and a thirty three zero day option. These
kids go to camp and they stay and it's a
Christian based camp, and they sing Christian songs and they
have youth activities and they look forward to it. They
look forward to it all year long, and they go
year after year after year from when they start, most
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of them in about second or third grade. They go
every summer through graduation, and then they come back and
serve as a counselor. And that too, is a legendary
part of the experience because that is sort of the
graduation from child to adult.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You went from.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Being a camper to being a counselor, and you are
largely responsible for these little girls at Camp Mystic is
a girls camp in Camp Lahunta or sor Lahunta. There
in Hunt is a boy's so these are separated. There
are some other camps along there, but these are the
two that were hit hardiest by this storm, and this
is where the loss of life occurred.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Camp Lahunta.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The boys camp did not lose anyone, now, they came
very close. There were some actions of heroism, and I'll
tell you about those. But the girls camp, Camp Mystic
has lost some campers and there are still a number
of individuals who are missing. At this point, we have
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moved pretty far into this, so it would truly be
a miracle, but we're holding out for a miracle. But
there's a lot of politics behind this, a lot of
media coverage behind this, a lot of and I'm going
to try to cover all of that for you wherever
you live in the country. Coming out the Michael Berry Show,
Michael Berry's Show, I'm going to try to give some
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perspective to this story out of Texas that has made
national news. I don't want to talk about the politics
of it all, but the left can't help themselves, So
for now, I'm going to address this issue as follows.
The idea that the Big Beautiful Bill had made cuts
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to the National Weather Service and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That is the reason.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That these young ladies died is absolutely false.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It It is knowably false, by which I mean anyone
who has watched what's happened and spent five minutes looking
into it understands that it is false.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
To try to blame yet another thing on Donald Trump
at the expense of these children is sickening. This is
Fox News contributor Joe Kanca talking about that there were.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Flood warnings twelve hours before this happened. There were flash
flood warnings three hours before it happened. We keep seeing
on other networks talking about how there wasn't the proper
staffing at the National Weather Service in that area, they
actually had twice as many staffers.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
On as they normally would.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So again, if you're going to try to find blame
and in the name of accountability or at least get
your facts right and at this point, like we see
so often, especially in a world of social media, there's
a lot of information out there that is not accurate.
But twelve hours, three hours, as far as flash flood warnings,
twice as many staffers, those are the.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Facts I want to speak to.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
What happened in how fast it happened the Guadeloupe, the
river rose twenty six feet in forty five minutes. If
you see a time lapse photography, you cannot believe what
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happened and how fast it happened. You will be unwilling
to believe it. A wall of water moving through so
fast when you look at the number of inches of
water that are of rainfall that are dropping and how
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fast they're coming down, and you consider that's being funneled
into the instrument, the.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Vessel to get it out.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
That's the river, that's the natural floodplain, the watershed is
making its way into this narrow river, narrow relatively speaking
to the land mass around it. And when that water
is filling the river faster than the river can move it,
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the river jumps its banks and it becomes like a
monster on the loose.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It is so dangerous.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It moves with so much speed, so swift, so powerful.
So I'll get back to that. There's a lot of
politics I wish I didn't have to discuss today. I
didn't discuss on a morning show. But first I want
to focus on what really matters here, and I want
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us not to lose out of this. A young man
by the name of Scott Ruskin, a Coastguard rescue swimmer,
rescued one hundred and sixty five of these precious little
girls at camp missed it. They are as young as
seven years old. He's being called an American hero, and
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he is. He says, the real heroes are the kids.
And there was some pure heroism, there's no doubt about that.
But when you talk about making a hero out of someone,
we should encourage people.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
To be like this.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We should lag this type of behavior. This was his
first effort. This guy was a a I believe an
accountant in New York and went into the Coastguard where
He's apparently one hell of a strong swimmer.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And a.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Petty officer, and this was the first time and he's
running triage on this effort. Can you imagine how scared
nervous he was, And boy did he ever rise to
the occasion. This is what I wanted to focus on.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
The Coast Guard launched us and decided to send a
rescue crew from Air Station Corpus Christie at about six
point thirty seven am on Friday, the fourth of July.
I just happened to be on the duty crew with
Ian Hopper Blair Rouge wor Seth Reeves, some of our
crew members in the Coast Guard, and yeah, they sent
us out. We kind of encountered some pretty serious weather,
some of the worst flying we've ever dealt with. Personally,
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it took us, you know, WHI should have been an
hour flight, probably took us about seven or eight just.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
To get into the landing zone.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Once we made about four different approaches trying to get in.
We were able to get out and get a boots
on the ground with the Air National Guard, Department of
Public Safety for Texas Game Wardens, and we decided to
leave me on scene at Camp Mistic that was kind
of our main triage we were trying to help out with,
and we decide, hey, if we leave the rescue summer
on scene, we'll have more space in our Dolphin MH
sixty five. So based on that, I got on scene
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boots on the ground, it can't miss it, kind of
discovered I was the only person there as far as
like first responders go. So yeah, I had about two
hundred kids, mostly all scared, terrified, cold, having probably the
worst day of their life, and I just kind of
need to triage them, get them to a higher level
care and get them off the flood zone. With a
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lot of the US sixty Army helicopters, i'd States Army
National Guard was landing their sixties with Task Force one
some of their rescue summers, and they were able to land.
We kind of came up with two different landing zones.
There's one off an archery field and then one at
a soccer field, So yeah, we were able to kind
of land those sixties in there, and then I was
kind of the main guy as far as like grabbing
people usually like fifteen to ten kids at a time,
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maybe one adult with them and bringing them over to
those sixties and getting them to a different LZ that
was kind of safe and had more first responders just
myself out there.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Had you ever done this before?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No, this is my first one. I haven't had any
cases before. I've been a rescue swimmer for about a year,
fully trained for about six months, so yeah, this was
my first experience. But I really just kind of relied on.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The training we get.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Coast Guard rescue swimmers get some of the highest level
training in the world, so really just kind of relied
on that and that, you know, just knowing that any
of the rescue swimmers in the Coast Guard would have
done the exact same, if not better than me.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Such is one thing, but this was the real deal.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, this is definitely the real deal. But I
just remember that, you know, when I got on scene,
there was you know, two hundred kids looking to someone
for some sort of comfort and safety. They don't really
know what my experience is, or my rank or my age.
They just know, hey, this guy's this guy's a professional
and he's here to help us. And I kind of
had to live up to that standard. But yeah, the
real heroes, I think were too the kids on the ground,
like those guys are heroic, and you know, they were
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dealing with some of the worst times of their lives
and they were staying strong, and that help inspire me
to kind of get in there and help them out.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Those children showed such bravery, such maturity, such strength.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
But this guy right here.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I mean, he's sitting in an office job and he decides, no,
I want to go learn to be a rescue swimmer,
not knowing that we'd need him in Kerr County, Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
But when we did, he was there.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
My goodness, my goodness, there there are good people out there.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of Michael Barry, which has a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Camp Mystic is the name of the summer camp for
girls where we have lost at this point an undetermined
number of young ladies who actually they're just girls, they're
just precious little children. A number were rescued and some
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are still missing, and some.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Have lost their lives.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
And it is.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It is a grand, bold tradition for young girls in
Texas to go to Camp Mystic. There are some other
summer camps, quite a few along that river and in
that portion of Texas which is central Texas, or as
we call it, the Hill Country, and it is an
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idyllic place where people from Austin, Dallas, Houston and beyond
will come and float this river by float.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
If you don't know what that means, you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Literally get on an inner tube, the inner tube of
an inflated inner tube of attire. And forgive me if
you know that term already, but not everybody does. It's
kind of a redneck thing and we love to do
it well along that river.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's a little calmer climb than.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Then Houston and a little cooler, and it's just a
beautiful place where little girls make beautiful memories. More important
than the place, the location and all of that is
the friendships that are made, and I think that's important
for children.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
This is a.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Young girl remembering her friend nay name, who was killed
during the flash bloods and this little girl was saved.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
These are her words. My friend Nanna was so funny.
I've been scrolling I've been scrolling through videos.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
And pictures on my mom's phone and watching it over
and over again.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Her dancing when she's excited.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
She was.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
She was so I said, missed her so much.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Tara Bradburne and her daughter Calliam mcmclary. We're on Fox
after Calli was rescued from Camp Mystic, and Tara, the mom, says,
this camp has been a major part of her daughter's life.
It's important to understand how connected these little girls were
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to this tradition. Laura Bush, among others, was a camp,
was a camper, and then when you graduate high school,
you go back as a counselor.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's a point of great pride.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You know, you finish your first year, you finish your
high school, and then you become a counselor.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And then a lot of girls will come back.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
For years, their first year of college or second year
of college. They will come back in the summer rather
than take a trip to Europe, and they will work
at the camp where they themselves were once campers, and
they will work there as a counselor.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
It's a really neat tradition.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Tara, this camp has been a big part of your
daughter's life.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
It has been a huge part of her life since
she finished. She entered at the end of second grade.
This is her year, was her eighth year. We chose
this camp. We lived I was a Texan. It was
important to me that my child to have Texas roots
and that faith formation be integral to the part of
her camp experience.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Living in Virginia.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
We brought her to Camp Mystic and turned her over
to the Dick and Tweety Eastland family and Camp Mystic
in their staff because we knew they would love on
our child, they would help her grow in her faith
and live the Mystic ideals of being a better person
and bringing out the best in her. And we are
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so devastated by what has happened, but truly grateful and
thankful to the Eastland family for all they have done
and all they have given is a family to save
the children that they could. It is devastating for us
and for the Mystic sister Hood to have lost so
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many children and for so many children to wait. But
we are here today because we feel as though it
is so important that this story remain in the news.
There are children out there that need to be found,
and we want the EMS and National Federal Services and
the state services to continue to stay on the job
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as they have said they are going to, because we
have children that need to be found and need to
be reunited with their parents.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And we are a truly.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Blessed and fortunate family, and we want the same for others.
We want those children to be found.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Dick Eastland, who she's referenced is, was the director of
the center and has been for a very long time.
He died saving the lives of little girls read skewing
them until he was swept away in the midst of
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rescuing these little girls. It's important to understand how fast
a flash flood happens. This is the Governor of Texas,
Greg Abbott, talking about if you haven't seen a time
lapse photography of this, if all you've ever been in
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was rising waters, you can't understand how fast these flash
floods happen in this part of the state where they
come down so fast, and you have to realize much
of the earth is impermeable. You've got a lot of limestone,
you've got a lot of other rock, and you've got
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a very.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Little soil to absorb this water.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So if the old you know, the old line is
raining like a calpe and on a flat rock, you've
got water coming down on the rock that is impermeable.
It can't absorb it, so it is deflecting it into
the river. Well when you get twenty eight inches of
water or more across the plaine, that's one thing. But
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when you've basically got a v you're working with that, it's.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Funneling it into there.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
All of that water is coming in and creating an
incredible pressure that is just and it happens fast.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
This was Texas governor talking about that. I know nothing
about the staffing.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
What I do know is what they put out, and
it's my understanding that what they put out was kind
of the information that the state was operating off of,
and that is that there were the largs or warnings
about heavy rain potential flash flooding in certain areas. A
problem with that is that to most people in the area,
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flesh flooding would mean one thing, not what it turned
out to be, because they deal with flesh floods all
the time, just like I put people on notice in
these regions of Texas right now, there's the potential for
flesh flooding, but there's no expectation of a water wall
of almost thirty feet high.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And you can go see it for yourself if you like,
and you will, you will understand that, yes, there was
a twelve hour alarm, and yes, it was a three
hour alarm.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But the expectation, based on.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Years and years of doing this, was that the waters
would rise, but not to the level they did. And
it's very easy to cast blame on the facility or
now on Trump. But that is that is Trump delusion syndrome.
That is the sickness infecting the mind.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I don't care if what your politics are, you don't
dance on the grave of little children. That's evil. I mean,
there has to be some amount of decency. The Trump
delusion syndrome also causes them to blame Donald Trump when
every person on the scene locally says, no, the Trump
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administration did everything right. Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary,
today answered just that question.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
You shared your thoughts earlier on how the way to
the left has really weaponized this to blame the.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Deaths in Texas on Trump For to call.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
That again, Yeah, I just do think those comments are
depraved and despicable, especially when so many Americans are mourning
the loss of their children.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Of the National Weather Service, as I said, did its job.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
Many experts, many meteorologists, have said that many of you
in the media, in all fairness have said that as well.
Unfortunately not all and many Democrat elected a fIF are
trying to turn this into a political game and it
is not. This is a national tragedy. In the administration
is treating it as such. We know the National Weather
Service provided early and consistent warnings. They gave out timely
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flash flood alerts, there were record breaking lead times and
the lead up to this catastrophe, there is ongoing flood monitoring,
and these offices were well staffed. In fact, one of
the offices was actually overstaffed. They had more people than
they need. So any claim to the contrary is completely false.
And it's just sad that people are pushing.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
These lacks.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
The climate change global warming alarmists.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It's a death cult, it really is. It's a sick
death cult, and they are gloom and doom and there.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Is no love of humanity among these people. Michael Schellenberger
is a professor at the Universe of Austin. That's not
the University of Texas, University of Austin. It's a conservative
school that was created in Austin a couple of years ago,
and it's incredible what they're doing. He explains here This
is a longer cliff than I would normally play. How
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climate change alarmists are living in a weird cult.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Again, this is Michael Schellenberger.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Over the past century, global flood debts declined by more
than eighty percent. That happened not because nations reduced rainfall,
but because they have learned how to live with it.
They built levees, dams, and drainage systems, They developed early
warning systems, and evacuated people before the water arrived. Kerr
County and Texas failed to do any of those things.
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Despite its location in one of the most flood prone
regions in the United States, the county had no formal
flood warning system. There were no sirens, no automated text alerts,
no rapid evacuation protocol. The river rose, and families had
no idea it was coming. Floods are not the only
extreme weather event that The New York Times and other
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media outlets wrongly attribute to climate change. Over the past decade,
reporters have increasingly blamed climate change for heat waves, hurricanes, wildfire,
even cold snaps, often before any formal scientific attribution was possible.
In an era of collapsing AD revenue and to climbing
public trust Sensational stories about apocalyptic climate disasters generate clicks,
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shares an urgency. The system rewards dishonesty and those who
lean into worst case scenarios. That bias shapes public understanding
and distorts what climate science actually shows. Another part of
the climate narrative is strictly ideological. Climate alarmism gives radical
Malthusian activists and intellectuals who view Western civilization as inherently
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destructive and a moral justification for demanding its dismantling. Part
of the climate alarmism discourse functions as a form of
secularized Christianity. It follows a familiar structure. Humanity has sinned
by running fossil fuels, and humanity now must suffer as
punishment through floods, fires, and storms. Salvation can only come
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through repentance and sacrifice, by giving up consumption, flying less
at least for the pleas not for the elites, eating
plants and bugs, and trusting in technocratic authorities. This moral
framework replaces God with the science, sin with carbon emissions,
and redemption with policy obedience. Like religious movements of the past,
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it promises both judgment and deliverance but only for the righteous.
It channels guilt, fear, and the desire for meaning into
a narrative that demands personal purity and societal transformation. The
apocalyptic climate discourse, however, differs from Christianity in some fundamental ways.
Traditional Christianity offers forgiveness, hope, and the possibility of redemption
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through the gift of grace. Climate Alarmism, by contrast, offers
no such forgiveness, only permanent guilt and endless sacrifice. Where
Christianity separates sin from the sinner, allowing for mercy, climate
alarmism tends to treat discent as heresy and skeptics as
morally corrupt. The result is a belief system that mimics
the structure of religion, but replaces its spiritual core with politics, fear,
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and control. In many ways, the climate discourse resembles the
spiritual of gnosticism more than Christianity. As my colleague and
co author Alex S. Guttentag has pointed out, narcissism emerged
in the first and second centuries eighty, teaching that the
material universe was a corrupt prison created by a false God,
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often equated with the God of the Old Testament. Which
they refer to as the demiurge. That's in contrast to
orthodox Christianity, which viewed creation as good in sin as
a moral failure. Gnostics believed that human beings contained a
divine spark trapped in flesh, and that salvation came not
through faith or obedience to God, but rather through hidden
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knowledge gnosis of their true spiritual origin. Alike like the
ancient Gnostics, climate alarmists often claim access to secret knowledge
that sets them apart from the masses. Writers like David
Wallace Wells, a New York Times columnist, openly describe their
understanding of climate change as a kind of revelation. Its
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information so dire, so morally charged, that it separates the
enlightened from the ignorant and corrupt. In his twenty nineteen
book The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace Wells wrote that one of
the most haunting aspects of learning about climate change is
carrying the knowledge that others don't share and that feels
impossible to convey. This mirror is the Gnostic belief that
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salvation comes not through faith or works, but through the
possession of hidden truths. In the modern climate version, those
truths are wrapped in technical jargon, worst case scenarios, and
apocalyptic timelines. Those who accept them are the elect those
who question them are heretics or deniers, And like gnoscissism,
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this framework often rejects the material world not as something
to steward and improve, but as something irreparably damaged, a
fallen system from which only a purified elite can escape.
This gnostic discourse flows from and reinforces a kind of
narcissism and arrogance. Those who embrace it often see themselves
as morally and intellectually superior, set apart from the ignorant
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masses who continue to drive and fly, eat meat, or
doubt the most extreme projections. They view their anxiety not
as a personal emotional dysregulation, but as evidence of their enlightenment,
their capacity to feel what others are too blind or
insensitive or selfish to comprehend. Now. The irony is that
their alarmism often showcases their ignorance, particularly when it comes
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to the long practical history of water management and flood control.
While they warn that rising seas and heavier rains make
catastrophe inevitable, they overlook the fact that humans have successfully
confronted those challenges for millennia or ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia
at the end is Valley, China Rome constructed canals, levies, dikes,
and aqueducts to harness rivers and safeguard city. In the
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modern era, countries such as the United States, the Netherlands,
Bangladesh have significantly reduced flood related deaths for the implementation
of early warning systems, basic infrastructure, and coordinated evacuation plans.
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