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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie
from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
One coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I'm gonna tell you something. You might have had a
rough day or a rough week, but things are great
in America right now. An incredible honor to get to
talk to you, just today, every day, every minute you
give us of your time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know, the way I look at it.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
If you're listening on the radio, you've got, depending on
your market, you got at least ten other stations you
could listen to, probably way more. You could listen to
music on your phone, all the various phone apps or
music apps. You could call and talk to somebody on
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your phone. You could sit in silence, which for many
people you know who I don't understand how they do it.
People I don't understand how they do it is people
who work in an environment where they got backup beepers
like a like A like a forklift.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
B B B.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
There's always somebody backing up the forklift and you always
hear it. And you know who else does that? Those
damn electric cars. Somebody gets electric car next door to you.
You're not going to sleep anymore. Just just realize their
little uh virtue signaling is going to keep you up
at night.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I know this. I hear about it.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I hear about it from people. The good news is
that when you get old enough, you can take your
hearing aid out.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
My dad told me.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
My dad's eighty five years ago, we got him a
hearing aid, and I was so proud. I had the
hearing aid company come out to the house and then
they ordered him special and it was the top of
the line, and I got the candling or whatever they
call where they take all your earwax out, and they, oh, man,
We had him set up, and so I asked him
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about three months later, I said, Dad, because he couldn't
hear anything. Huh huh. You walk in the house and
he'd have the TV up real loud. That's your signal
that there is a problem. He'd have that TV so loud,
and it drove my mother crazy, and then of course
eventually she had worse hearing problems than him. I didn't
see that coming, but he would say he could never hear,
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and he didn't like to go out. We'd let my
wife and I go into Orange, the town where we're from,
and we'd want to take them to dinner, and he
didn't like to go out because all the ambient noise
he couldn't hear, and so it was frustrating. So I
called him one day, got three months into his hearing age,
and I'm real happy because my hearing aid company has
taken great care of him. And I said, Dad, or
the hearing age working? And he said, oh, yeah, they're working.
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And my dad is not, shall we say, an eternal optimist. Okay,
he can take a lot of bad. He can have
a heap of bad piled on him and he'll get
through it. Just don't ask him to be Pollyanna because
he has not had an easy life. Don't expect him
to wake up and hear the bird's chirping, literally our figure.
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So I said, Dad, how the hearing ade's working. Yeah, yeah, well,
well they're working other or not.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh no, they're working. They work well.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
For the last twenty five years, you couldn't hear, and
it was frustrating and it bothered you and it angered you.
And now I've solved the problem. I'm a problem solver,
I'm a fixer. I thrive on the the joy of
having solved a problem. It's a personality type. And I
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just need to hear you say that you enjoy it,
all right, that's fine. Well is there something wrong with
it we need to get fixed? Well, I just didn't
think about the fact there's a lot of stuff I
don't want to hear. And I said, well, what what like?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
What he said? The blinker? I never knew.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I'd bought him this truck. And I was so proud
of this truck. He never had a new truck in
his life. And I bought him this big, beautiful, glorious
truck with everything on it, every package you name it,
like Ramon drives. Now, I mean it was everything on it.
This thing was perfect. And he said, Blinker's too loud.
I don't even like turn on my blinker. Turn on
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my blinker because you got to turn the blinker. But
I don't turn it on till late. I turn it
off before it goes off when it's own.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's too loud.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And I thought, wow, And I say all that to
say this good.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I say all that because that's what popped into my head.
And that's what I do, is I just say what
pops in my head. But there is a lesson to
be learned from them. We are living through the best
times of my life. I don't mean me personally, I
mean as a country. And if you have grown accustomed
to having to live through Jimmy Carter, to having to
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listen to have to live through the disappointment of George H. W.
Bush and the Americans with Disability Act, which was horrible,
and the tax increases, and then eight years of Bill
Clinton and then the Forever Wars that were begun under Bush,
and then eight years of hell under Obama, and then
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finally Trump. But they harassed him and harangued him, and
that was almost worse because here was a guy trying
to do some good that we supported, and they were
cutting him off at every pass. And then they stole
the election from us. And we had to live through
all of this and it was frustrating. It was awful.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
It was.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And now now Trump has not only been elected, he's
put in a team and they're doing great things, which
we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Smile. These are the good old days, folks. It won't
always be this great.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
He told now.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
How bad things were, how bad things were and what
they did to Donald Trump. He was on CNBC squawk
Box a few days ago. Oh, by the way, I
want to tell you something we do. You might be
listening to us on the radio, and folks would tell us, hey,
I listened to you every day. Some of you listen
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to our morning show and separately to our evening show,
two different shows. But some of you would say, hey,
you know, I feel like I hang out with you
every day, and then on Saturday, I like to hang
out with you guys again, but y'all aren't on the air.
I say, we'll go back and listen to shows that
you missed on the podcast, and folks will say, I've
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already done that in the evening. If I miss one
of the shows, I go back and listen, or I
listen to a segment, I go back and listen.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
We shall did something on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So we thought long and hard about it, and as
our team grew from just me and Chad, our executive producer,
to me, Chad and Ramone the King of Dan, and
then we added Jim Mutt, who was a huge addition
to our team and has enabled us to do so
many things we couldn't do before and Jim said, I'll
take it on. I'll do a Saturday bonus podcast. And
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as I've said many times, that gives us an opportunity
to play some things that it doesn't make sense to
play on the radio, only on the podcast. And it
gives a speech, for instance, a twenty minute speech that
we really like. It's in fact, we got one this weekend.
It's hard to play that and then cut it up
because we have to go to commercial break and come
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out of break and then do you know, traffic and
weather and all the things that have to be done
service elements are called. So we started doing that. Well,
then folks said, I love the Saturday. Would you consider
a Sunday And it wasn't until we added Daryl Kunda,
our latest part of addition to the team that Kunda said,
I'll handle Sunday. So this will be our first Sunday
(08:22):
that there will be a separate bonus podcast that will
not be part of our radio show that will air
this Sunday. So if you don't already get our podcast
and you download podcasts, add us to the list and
on Saturday you'll get at least one.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We got a lot of material this week there.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
We may do two bonus podcasts, either on Saturday or Sunday,
just because there were so many things I didn't get
to during the week that we had prepped for you.
We spent people ask people will ask my wife how
much time does Michael spend preparing for the show, and
she says, he's literally never stopping. If you ask him
a question, make a statement, pass him in the street,
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hand him a newspaper that's going to get on the show.
One way or another. He's going to find a way
to make that into a teachable moment, an entertaining moment,
or whatever else that might be. President Trump was on
CNBC's squawk Box when he disclosed how he was debanked
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after he left office after his first term. Now, before
we play this, everybody who thinks Trump is mean. Deportation
is mean, dragging Hillary before the house is mean. Threatening
to put these people in prison is mean. What you
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have to understand is what has already been done. The
levee has broke, The levee has broke, and it's already
been done. These things need to be The Democrats have
stopped at nothing, and we must stop at nothing. There
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are people on our side who are weak. Well, I
don't want to be like them. I do the next
time they try to do these things, I want them
to think to themselves, oh no, no, no no. And
Republicans are vindictive. There will be justice, there will be retribution,
there will be a reckoning. Let's not do that, or
we might all end in prison. Right here was President
Trump talking about one of many things they did to him.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Well, they did discriminate. I had JP Morgan Chase. I
had hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. I could
see if they want to, you know, if they want
to do something bad because you don't have any money
and you defaulted and they took people out. But I'll
give you me as an example. I had hundreds of millions.
I had many many accounts loaded.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Up with cash.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I was loaded up with cash, and they told me,
I'm sorry, sir, we can't have you. You have twenty
days to get out. They said, you got to be kidding.
I've been with you for thirty five forty years, they said.
And I mean I had all this guys, I didn't
know what to do with it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And I went to and you.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Could ask him. Maybe he's not going to admit it.
So I said, you know, I was informed by my
people that we have to get out of Chase man
Had and that's Jamie and JP mortgages. So I said,
I can't believe it. Well, I was never in this
situation before. I've never had anything like it. And it's
not like g you're defaulted and alone. You know, Jesus
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if I could understand that, that's different. But there's no default.
I mean, there's nothing but cats. It's a really gut
I have a really great company. And then what happens
is I call a Bank of America routinely, because when
I was president, this was after I got out.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I call a.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Bank of America routinely, and I speak to him, and
I speak to a couple of people, and they have
this zero interest. Brian was kissing my ass when I
was president, and when I called him after I was
president to deposit a billion dollars plus and a.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Lot of other things.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
More importantly, to open accounts, which banks always liked the
accounts because they get interest free, you know, the overnights
and things are a lot of reasons for it, but
they like accounts. I had hundreds of accounts and he said,
we can't do it. Nope, we can't do it. So
I went to another, one, another, one another one. I
ended up going to small banks all over the place.
I mean I was putting ten million here, ten million there,
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did five million, ten million, twelve million and a half
them all over the places. The craziest thing. And it's
lucky I even had them.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
They were doing me a favor.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
And that's because the banks discriminated against me very badly.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And I was very good to the banks.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I had the greatest economy in the history of ock.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Country when I was president.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
And by the way, our economy now will blow that away.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And you see it happening.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
But our economy now, because we're a rich country against
because of our trade deals, we've become a rich country again.
But now they totally discriminate against I think me, maybe
even more. But they discriminated against many conservatives. You know,
I told that story, and sitting around tables with other
people that were conservative or Trump supporters. I think the
word might be Trump supporters more than conservative. And I
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believe what they did is they went to the regulators.
You know, banks are not afraid of anything but a regulator.
Their regulators and their wives. They're more afraid of their
wives than the regulators. But the first the group, they're
really afraid of his bank regulators. And I believe that
Biden or Kamala and I don't think they're smart enough
to do. But the people that are surrounding the beautiful
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resolute desk, you know, the high IQ, people that are
radical left. I believe they told the Banking Commission, the bankers,
that the banking regulators do everything you can to destroy Trump.
And that's what they did. And guess what, I'm president,
How did that happen? Hell?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yes, we're going to take your AR fifteen.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
At OPO Michael, Yes, yes, yes, required.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
A will is going to require that new teachers pass
an America First test to keep their license.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Fox News with the report and we.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Approveklahoma as a state now is going to require new
teachers pass an America first test to keep their license.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They're going to have to have.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Knowledge of the US Constitution, an understanding of American exceptionalism,
a grasp of fundamental biological differences between boys and girls.
Perhaps for some that sounds like common.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Sense, it's called science. I have many.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Teachers in the family in Oklahoma, so I'll have to
get their thoughts on all of this.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
President Trump claimed during his interview on CNBC that he
had received the highest number of votes in Texas history.
The host Joe Kernan decided to fact check the president
as if it was important, and.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Turns out it was true.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
So you did get the highest number of votes in Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So that's true.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
But when you're talking, you don't have to say anything more, Joe.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I gotta say that. Don't say anything more. Don't qualify
it by second.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
No, I've got the highest you did and they did.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I'm moving on.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Resident Trump has signed an executive order creating a task
force to oversee the twenty twenty eighth Los Angeles Olympics.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I love this so much.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
He has taking the Olympics away from Gavin Newsom. You
see our side, the Bushes, the Romney's and McCain's.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
They like to play nice. They love to lose, but
be high minded about it. We're not going to be
like the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
All the while, the crabboley Democrats are punching us in
the face and then claiming they're a victim, and our
side says.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh, we won't behave like that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Oh no, We're going to honor Gavin Newsom's prerogative and
let him run the Olympics, which is a great deal
of fun. President also took over the Kennedy Center, which
had been morphed into some left wing nonsense. You know,
there's an interesting thing about this. Remind me mohe I
got to get back to the Olympics. But there's an
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interesting aspect to all of this. One of the ways
the left attained, accumulated and maintains and wields power is by,
for instance, the fact checkers. So Facebook put in place
these fact checkers, and they said, we are a platform
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where you can express yourself, share your family, pictures, have opinions,
tell updates. But since the mass of America, the vast
majority of America are actually conservative, especially when you get
out of the big cities, they said, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We don't like this. There.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
They're passing comments on big city district attorneys. They're questioning
the COVID shot, which we all all know now doesn't work,
and in fact, the spike proteins kill people.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
They're questioning the election integrity. They're criticizing Barack Obama. He's
the greatest thing ever happened.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So we're going to put in place fact checkers because
you know, we want integrity at all, and the fact
checkers silence you and me. I lost my account had
almost five hundred thousand followers. I can't get back into
my account. I wish somebody knew how to get back
into my account, but I can't. Facebook won't let me
back into it. Had to start over. It doesn't matter.
I'm at forty five thousand, We'll be back at five
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hundred thousand. It doesn't matter. But the point it does matter.
Though they have special protections from the United States government,
they are called a platform instead of a publisher, And
I know you know the difference, but I want to
explain it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
In case somebody doesn't.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
If you are a platform, you are not responsible for
publishing content. You are just like the town Square or
the town Center. You just open the door. So whether
Republicans or Democrats, right wing, left wing Christians, Jews, mostly
you just let people on there to have their opinion.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
As a platform you have special legal protections. You are
not responsible for the content on that platform. If, however,
you are a publisher, that means just like the New
York Times, or the Washington Post. You can be sued
for the content that you put out. Well, the United
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States Senate and the House gave special protections to Facebook, Twitter,
to the the social media companies in protecting them as
a platform rather than as a publisher, which meant they
couldn't be sued or content on that platform that might
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be left wing, right wing, libelous, slanderous, actionable words in
a court of law would not rise to the level
of liability to them. They would not be in peril.
But what they did do is they engaged in publishing.
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Instead of an active co mission, it's an active o mission.
They said, we don't write on Facebook, were just a platform.
All right, Well, I'd like to say that Obama was
the worst president. I think he's a criminal. Joe Biden
stole the election, and the vaccine doesn't work and it
killed my brother and a lot of other people.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They remove that.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
So, whether it's making a statement or removing a statement,
they are acting as a publisher, not as a platform,
which means they lose their legal protections. If they lose
their legal protections, they would go bankrupt overnight. There would
be so many class action lawsuits for all the things
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they've done, So back to it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh you know you're right, You're right, right right. Rom
one moment just wants me to.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Get back to the executive order by President Trump creating
a task force to oversee the twenty twenty eight Los
Angeles Olympics.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Is a big one here. Damn go photopen.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I love this. Nineteen eighty four Olympics.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Houston's own Karl Lewis was the dominant dominant athlete at
the LA Olympics. Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the twenty
twenty eight LA Olympics, presented President Trump with a full
set of original medals from the eighty four Olympics.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
In Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
The Chairman of the Olympics is delighted that President Trump
is involved.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And by the way, Trump's the ultimate showman.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He will make the Olympics so much better than that
idiot fool Gavin Newsom was. Gavin Newsom would probably have
a boy have his wiener cut off at the beginning
of the ceremony instead of passing the torch.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I mean, that's the kind of nonsense that he does.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
His performative art for the weirdest, most wicked in our society.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
As you know, nineteen eighty four hosted the Olympics in
Los Angeles, right and someone we admired, President Reagan. Both
of us presided over those, and you will preside over
our games.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
We have for you a full set of the four
original medals.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Can I say that I won them athletically?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yes, that would be a great I don't care if
somebody strikes shoe. You can't shoot Michael's bus. President Trump
is proud of America, and Americans are proud of Americans.
And we are delighted to be back in a position
where our elected officials, whether it be a fraudulent election
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or a legitimate one, where they are not proud of
our country. Donald Trump is Americans are a proud people.
So when Donald Trump says America is a nation of champions,
that is a very popular statement. We believe that we
don't flee this country to go live elsewhere. Other people
come here. We are proud of our people. That's why
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you see these Somali congressmen state reps. You see these
people from There was a woman this week, I think
she was from Guatemala talking about how she hated living here.
We've had Haitians who say they hate living elected officials.
Ilhan omar Omar fate in Mogolishu, Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Hey, if you.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Hate this country, get out. Honestly, I don't want you
here anyway. You're not a contributor. We don't want you
on our team. Go back to the hellhole you're from.
And the truth is, those countries are hellholes. I've visited them.
They're awful, they're terrible, they're they're violent, they're filthy, they're corrupt.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Go back and live there. You hate it so bad here,
go back and live there. Anyway. Ramone I promised I
was going to stay in a good mood. Today.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
President Trump calling America a nation of champions, and he said,
we will show the world at the Olympics with the
wonderful Olympics we will host and the fact that we'll win.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
My first time.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
We were instrumental in helping the city of Los Angeles
win the bid to bring the Olympics George back.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
To American soil.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
And today I will signed an executive order establishing the
White House Task Force on the twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics,
mobilizing the entire federal government to ensure the games are
safe seamless and historically successful. It's going to be amazing.
I think it's going to be amazing. America is a
nation of champions, and in July twenty twenty eight, we'll
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show the world what America does best. And that's when
we're winning like we have never won before. You see
that all the time. A year ago, we were not
a country that was doing well, and now with the
hottest country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I would be remiss if I continued to forget. As
Ramone has reminded me of the great contribution of our
executive producer. Some people don't know this, Chattaconi Nakanishi was
my first producer, before even Ramone.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
When I started in radio, I had a day job.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I was the Mayor pro tem of the City of Houston,
and I would come in early in the morning before.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I went to city Hall and I do a radio show.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And Ramon would be sitting at one little workstation, a
little cubicle, and I'd be sitting not even a full cubicle.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It was just a little piece of a desk with.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
A slight divider in between the other one, and there
was a slow computer there and really uncomfortable chairs, and
I would ask him what the shows that he was
working on we're going to be talking about that day,
and he would tell me, and I'd write the listen
down and then I would.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Talk about that because I didn't know what talk about.
I was new to radio, and he helped me.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
And so when I was given an opportunity to do
a show, I started on the weekends, they moved me
to week days. Chad Nakanishi was the producer of the
Chris Baker Show, and Chris Baker was the star of
ktr H, which is our flagship, and he did the
evening show. Chris was always very kind to me, and
he was a comic by training. He was good friends
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with Larry the cable guy. Chris was a very very
funny talk show host in my opinion, and I did
you ever see him just stand up? I actually drove
out to champions WHET Northwest Houston and saw him do
stand up. Anyway, Chad was his producer. So when Chris
was let go and they put me in his slot,
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I actually asked Chad if he would be willing to
stay on. I didn't know if he was going to
leave because Chris had been fired I don't know if
they were going to fire Chad. I didn't know what
was going to happen. I said, would you be willing
to stay on and be my producer? And he said yes.
I took him to Panera Bread, which was right across
the street from the building where we were at lunch,
and so that was a relief. Now I didn't know
how long he'd stay. I didn't know how well i'd
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get along with him. I didn't really know him very well.
But here we are twenty years later. Dikes thieves. He's
our executive producer, and Ramon and Kunda and Mud, we'll
all tell you. He makes the trains run on time.
He is the big boss. You know, when you show
up at an event and you're going to be on stage,
there's always somebody that has a headset on with a
microphone and a clipboard and a pen and they're barking
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and you go, hey, I'm an extra on this thing
where that person over there? And you go ooh, I
don't want to go talk to them. They seem like
they're in charge and lord and loud and mean. Well
that's Chad, except he's not mean anyway. So Chad and
I started the show together and he would be on
the other side of the glass and he would produce
the show and run the show the board. And then
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a couple of years in Ramone who was who was
running another one of our stations, which was nine fifty
am KPRC in Houston, which is the PRC stood for
port Rail and Cotton, the three pillars of Jesse Jones's empire.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
He was.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
He owned the station KTRH, which is our home station
in Houston stands for come to the Rice Hotel because
he also owned the Rice Hotel where John F. Kennedy
stayed the night before he was assassinated the next day
when he flew up to Dallas by who we don't know.
So Chad and I started. Then Ramone comes on, so
Chad starts working behind the scenes. Ramone's on the other
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side of the glass. And then years later, many years later,
Jim Mudd comes on. We brought Jim on when we
were guess toasting for the Rush Limball show playing Buck
and we brought him on a trial basis just.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
To help us beef up for those shows, and it
worked out. It was great.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
And then from there Darryl Kunda, who was the production
director of our company, the whole radio station cluster. We
brought him on and he's our last addition to the team.
We also have some wonderful, brilliant folks. Sandy's great, She's fantastic.
She's our research director. Rachel's amazing, she keeps me up
(28:30):
on legal news. Chance McLean contributes constantly to our production.
So anyway, it's all turned out to be great. All
that by way of saying that, Chattacone Nakanishi every week
reviews what we've talked about, takes little clips and as
kind of a putting the week to bed, he makes
what we call our week in review. And this has
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been twenty years we've been doing this, and it's always
fun for us. Ramoning and I look forward on Friday
morning and evening because we played on both shows. We
look forward to hearing it to remind us what we
talked about that week, and sometimes we go, oh, that
was just yesterday and we'd completely forgotten it. And so
without further adieu, if that's possible, I don't think I'm
(29:12):
going to make a long story short, but maybe I
can make it shorter than I was already going to
make it. Without further ado, courtesy of the greatest executive
producer in all the land. And that is true. I
might not be the best host, but we have the
best executive producer. Chatakoni Nakanishi your weekend review. I said,
good morning, Uncle Presson, and I said, Glenn camb was
(29:35):
coming to the astronom.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
He's gonna be at Houston. And he said, I would
watch Glenn CAMBOI is across the street. And what bothers
me is I'm fifty four years old. That's approximately fifty years.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Ago, and I can't understand it why he was so
mad at Glenn Gamble.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Dozens of Texas Democrats are waving up in Illinois and
New York after leaving the state in a last ditched
effort to stop a congressional redistricting attest.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
They've left u date, abandon their posts and turn their
backs from the constituents they swore to representative to run
two states like New York and Illinois to protest redistrict
And it is kind of like running to Wisconsin to
protest cheese.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's just kind of outrageous. Oh dear God, bless his arm.
Please don't let him do national interviews. Anymore. It's just
setting him up for failure.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
A priesting five constable deputy under an internal investigation after
posting a TikTok that went viral. You see a priesting
five constable deputy joining on a TikTok trend.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And having some fun, but that could cause her to
lose her job like they planned.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, you're just being childish, like y'all ain't you
ain't taking that just seriously.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We're gonna write me some checks because you ain't get great.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I love how they always have to have the man
on the street response to the story, because we wouldn't
really know how to respond if they told us that
a constable's deputy filmed herself saying I didn't get banged
last night, So everybody's getting a ticket today for the third.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Time since last week.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Someone throw an adult toy onto the court during a
WNBA game.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It's putting people in danger.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
You want to These are athletes who are running, they're
cutting their jumping and very unhygienic.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
And also not hygienic.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It's not hygienic, it's not Why exactly is it unhygienic
unless you
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie
from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
One coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I'm gonna tell you something. You might have had a
rough day or a rough week, but things are great
in America right now. An incredible honor to get to
talk to you, just today, every day, every minute you
give us of your time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know, the way I look at it.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
If you're listening on the radio, you've got, depending on
your market, you got at least ten other stations you
could listen to, probably way more. You could listen to
music on your phone, all the various phone apps or
music apps. You could call and talk to somebody on
(01:09):
your phone. You could sit in silence, which for many
people you know who I don't understand how they do it.
People I don't understand how they do it is people
who work in an environment where they got backup beepers
like a like A like a forklift.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
B B B.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
There's always somebody backing up the forklift and you always
hear it. And you know who else does that? Those
damn electric cars. Somebody gets electric car next door to you.
You're not going to sleep anymore. Just just realize their
little uh virtue signaling is going to keep you up
at night.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I know this. I hear about it.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I hear about it from people. The good news is
that when you get old enough, you can take your
hearing aid out.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
My dad told me.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
My dad's eighty five years ago, we got him a
hearing aid, and I was so proud. I had the
hearing aid company come out to the house and then
they ordered him special and it was the top of
the line, and I got the candling or whatever they
call where they take all your earwax out, and they, oh, man,
We had him set up, and so I asked him
(02:23):
about three months later, I said, Dad, because he couldn't
hear anything. Huh huh. You walk in the house and
he'd have the TV up real loud. That's your signal
that there is a problem. He'd have that TV so loud,
and it drove my mother crazy, and then of course
eventually she had worse hearing problems than him. I didn't
see that coming, but he would say he could never hear,
(02:47):
and he didn't like to go out. We'd let my
wife and I go into Orange, the town where we're from,
and we'd want to take them to dinner, and he
didn't like to go out because all the ambient noise
he couldn't hear, and so it was frustrating. So I
called him one day, got three months into his hearing age,
and I'm real happy because my hearing aid company has
taken great care of him. And I said, Dad, or
the hearing age working? And he said, oh, yeah, they're working.
(03:11):
And my dad is not, shall we say, an eternal optimist. Okay,
he can take a lot of bad. He can have
a heap of bad piled on him and he'll get
through it. Just don't ask him to be Pollyanna because
he has not had an easy life. Don't expect him
to wake up and hear the bird's chirping, literally our figure.
(03:31):
So I said, Dad, how the hearing ade's working. Yeah, yeah, well,
well they're working other or not.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh no, they're working. They work well.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
For the last twenty five years, you couldn't hear, and
it was frustrating and it bothered you and it angered you.
And now I've solved the problem. I'm a problem solver,
I'm a fixer. I thrive on the the joy of
having solved a problem. It's a personality type. And I
(04:03):
just need to hear you say that you enjoy it,
all right, that's fine. Well is there something wrong with
it we need to get fixed? Well, I just didn't
think about the fact there's a lot of stuff I
don't want to hear. And I said, well, what what like?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
What he said? The blinker? I never knew.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I'd bought him this truck. And I was so proud
of this truck. He never had a new truck in
his life. And I bought him this big, beautiful, glorious
truck with everything on it, every package you name it,
like Ramon drives. Now, I mean it was everything on it.
This thing was perfect. And he said, Blinker's too loud.
I don't even like turn on my blinker. Turn on
(04:43):
my blinker because you got to turn the blinker. But
I don't turn it on till late. I turn it
off before it goes off when it's own.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's too loud.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And I thought, wow, And I say all that to
say this good.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I say all that because that's what popped into my head.
And that's what I do, is I just say what
pops in my head. But there is a lesson to
be learned from them. We are living through the best
times of my life. I don't mean me personally, I
mean as a country. And if you have grown accustomed
to having to live through Jimmy Carter, to having to
(05:20):
listen to have to live through the disappointment of George H. W.
Bush and the Americans with Disability Act, which was horrible,
and the tax increases, and then eight years of Bill
Clinton and then the Forever Wars that were begun under Bush,
and then eight years of hell under Obama, and then
(05:40):
finally Trump. But they harassed him and harangued him, and
that was almost worse because here was a guy trying
to do some good that we supported, and they were
cutting him off at every pass. And then they stole
the election from us. And we had to live through
all of this and it was frustrating. It was awful.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
It was.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And now now Trump has not only been elected, he's
put in a team and they're doing great things, which
we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Smile. These are the good old days, folks. It won't
always be this great.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
He told now.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
How bad things were, how bad things were and what
they did to Donald Trump. He was on CNBC squawk
Box a few days ago. Oh, by the way, I
want to tell you something we do. You might be
listening to us on the radio, and folks would tell us, hey,
I listened to you every day. Some of you listen
(06:43):
to our morning show and separately to our evening show,
two different shows. But some of you would say, hey,
you know, I feel like I hang out with you
every day, and then on Saturday, I like to hang
out with you guys again, but y'all aren't on the air.
I say, we'll go back and listen to shows that
you missed on the podcast, and folks will say, I've
(07:06):
already done that in the evening. If I miss one
of the shows, I go back and listen, or I
listen to a segment, I go back and listen.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
We shall did something on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So we thought long and hard about it, and as
our team grew from just me and Chad, our executive producer,
to me, Chad and Ramone the King of Dan, and
then we added Jim Mutt, who was a huge addition
to our team and has enabled us to do so
many things we couldn't do before and Jim said, I'll
take it on. I'll do a Saturday bonus podcast. And
(07:38):
as I've said many times, that gives us an opportunity
to play some things that it doesn't make sense to
play on the radio, only on the podcast. And it
gives a speech, for instance, a twenty minute speech that
we really like. It's in fact, we got one this weekend.
It's hard to play that and then cut it up
because we have to go to commercial break and come
(07:58):
out of break and then do you know, traffic and
weather and all the things that have to be done
service elements are called. So we started doing that. Well,
then folks said, I love the Saturday. Would you consider
a Sunday And it wasn't until we added Daryl Kunda,
our latest part of addition to the team that Kunda said,
I'll handle Sunday. So this will be our first Sunday
(08:22):
that there will be a separate bonus podcast that will
not be part of our radio show that will air
this Sunday. So if you don't already get our podcast
and you download podcasts, add us to the list and
on Saturday you'll get at least one.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We got a lot of material this week there.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
We may do two bonus podcasts, either on Saturday or Sunday,
just because there were so many things I didn't get
to during the week that we had prepped for you.
We spent people ask people will ask my wife how
much time does Michael spend preparing for the show, and
she says, he's literally never stopping. If you ask him
a question, make a statement, pass him in the street,
(09:00):
hand him a newspaper that's going to get on the show.
One way or another. He's going to find a way
to make that into a teachable moment, an entertaining moment,
or whatever else that might be. President Trump was on
CNBC's squawk Box when he disclosed how he was debanked
(09:21):
after he left office after his first term. Now, before
we play this, everybody who thinks Trump is mean. Deportation
is mean, dragging Hillary before the house is mean. Threatening
to put these people in prison is mean. What you
(09:41):
have to understand is what has already been done. The
levee has broke, The levee has broke, and it's already
been done. These things need to be The Democrats have
stopped at nothing, and we must stop at nothing. There
(10:01):
are people on our side who are weak. Well, I
don't want to be like them. I do the next
time they try to do these things, I want them
to think to themselves, oh no, no, no no. And
Republicans are vindictive. There will be justice, there will be retribution,
there will be a reckoning. Let's not do that, or
we might all end in prison. Right here was President
Trump talking about one of many things they did to him.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Well, they did discriminate. I had JP Morgan Chase. I
had hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. I could
see if they want to, you know, if they want
to do something bad because you don't have any money
and you defaulted and they took people out. But I'll
give you me as an example. I had hundreds of millions.
I had many many accounts loaded.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Up with cash.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I was loaded up with cash, and they told me,
I'm sorry, sir, we can't have you. You have twenty
days to get out. They said, you got to be kidding.
I've been with you for thirty five forty years, they said.
And I mean I had all this guys, I didn't
know what to do with it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And I went to and you.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Could ask him. Maybe he's not going to admit it.
So I said, you know, I was informed by my
people that we have to get out of Chase man
Had and that's Jamie and JP mortgages. So I said,
I can't believe it. Well, I was never in this
situation before. I've never had anything like it. And it's
not like g you're defaulted and alone. You know, Jesus
(11:25):
if I could understand that, that's different. But there's no default.
I mean, there's nothing but cats. It's a really gut
I have a really great company. And then what happens
is I call a Bank of America routinely, because when
I was president, this was after I got out.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I call a.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Bank of America routinely, and I speak to him, and
I speak to a couple of people, and they have
this zero interest. Brian was kissing my ass when I
was president, and when I called him after I was
president to deposit a billion dollars plus and a.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Lot of other things.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
More importantly, to open accounts, which banks always liked the
accounts because they get interest free, you know, the overnights
and things are a lot of reasons for it, but
they like accounts. I had hundreds of accounts and he said,
we can't do it. Nope, we can't do it. So
I went to another, one, another, one another one. I
ended up going to small banks all over the place.
I mean I was putting ten million here, ten million there,
(12:19):
did five million, ten million, twelve million and a half
them all over the places. The craziest thing. And it's
lucky I even had them.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
They were doing me a favor.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
And that's because the banks discriminated against me very badly.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And I was very good to the banks.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I had the greatest economy in the history of ock.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Country when I was president.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
And by the way, our economy now will blow that away.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
And you see it happening.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
But our economy now, because we're a rich country against
because of our trade deals, we've become a rich country again.
But now they totally discriminate against I think me, maybe
even more. But they discriminated against many conservatives. You know,
I told that story, and sitting around tables with other
people that were conservative or Trump supporters. I think the
word might be Trump supporters more than conservative. And I
(13:03):
believe what they did is they went to the regulators.
You know, banks are not afraid of anything but a regulator.
Their regulators and their wives. They're more afraid of their
wives than the regulators. But the first the group, they're
really afraid of his bank regulators. And I believe that
Biden or Kamala and I don't think they're smart enough
to do. But the people that are surrounding the beautiful
(13:25):
resolute desk, you know, the high IQ, people that are
radical left. I believe they told the Banking Commission, the bankers,
that the banking regulators do everything you can to destroy Trump.
And that's what they did. And guess what, I'm president,
How did that happen? Hell?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yes, we're going to take your AR fifteen.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
At OPO Michael, Yes, yes, yes, required.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
A will is going to require that new teachers pass
an America First test to keep their license.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Fox News with the report and we.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Approveklahoma as a state now is going to require new
teachers pass an America first test to keep their license.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They're going to have to have.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Knowledge of the US Constitution, an understanding of American exceptionalism,
a grasp of fundamental biological differences between boys and girls.
Perhaps for some that sounds like common.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Sense, it's called science. I have many.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Teachers in the family in Oklahoma, so I'll have to
get their thoughts on all of this.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
President Trump claimed during his interview on CNBC that he
had received the highest number of votes in Texas history.
The host Joe Kernan decided to fact check the president
as if it was important, and.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Turns out it was true.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
So you did get the highest number of votes in Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So that's true.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
But when you're talking, you don't have to say anything more, Joe.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I gotta say that. Don't say anything more. Don't qualify
it by second.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
No, I've got the highest you did and they did.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I'm moving on.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Resident Trump has signed an executive order creating a task
force to oversee the twenty twenty eighth Los Angeles Olympics.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I love this so much.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
He has taking the Olympics away from Gavin Newsom. You
see our side, the Bushes, the Romney's and McCain's.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
They like to play nice. They love to lose, but
be high minded about it. We're not going to be
like the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
All the while, the crabboley Democrats are punching us in
the face and then claiming they're a victim, and our
side says.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh, we won't behave like that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Oh no, We're going to honor Gavin Newsom's prerogative and
let him run the Olympics, which is a great deal
of fun. President also took over the Kennedy Center, which
had been morphed into some left wing nonsense. You know,
there's an interesting thing about this. Remind me mohe I
got to get back to the Olympics. But there's an
(16:25):
interesting aspect to all of this. One of the ways
the left attained, accumulated and maintains and wields power is by,
for instance, the fact checkers. So Facebook put in place
these fact checkers, and they said, we are a platform
(16:49):
where you can express yourself, share your family, pictures, have opinions,
tell updates. But since the mass of America, the vast
majority of America are actually conservative, especially when you get
out of the big cities, they said, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We don't like this. There.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
They're passing comments on big city district attorneys. They're questioning
the COVID shot, which we all all know now doesn't work,
and in fact, the spike proteins kill people.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
They're questioning the election integrity. They're criticizing Barack Obama. He's
the greatest thing ever happened.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So we're going to put in place fact checkers because
you know, we want integrity at all, and the fact
checkers silence you and me. I lost my account had
almost five hundred thousand followers. I can't get back into
my account. I wish somebody knew how to get back
into my account, but I can't. Facebook won't let me
back into it. Had to start over. It doesn't matter.
I'm at forty five thousand, We'll be back at five
(17:55):
hundred thousand. It doesn't matter. But the point it does matter.
Though they have special protections from the United States government,
they are called a platform instead of a publisher, And
I know you know the difference, but I want to
explain it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
In case somebody doesn't.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
If you are a platform, you are not responsible for
publishing content. You are just like the town Square or
the town Center. You just open the door. So whether
Republicans or Democrats, right wing, left wing Christians, Jews, mostly
you just let people on there to have their opinion.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
As a platform you have special legal protections. You are
not responsible for the content on that platform. If, however,
you are a publisher, that means just like the New
York Times, or the Washington Post. You can be sued
for the content that you put out. Well, the United
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States Senate and the House gave special protections to Facebook, Twitter,
to the the social media companies in protecting them as
a platform rather than as a publisher, which meant they
couldn't be sued or content on that platform that might
(19:16):
be left wing, right wing, libelous, slanderous, actionable words in
a court of law would not rise to the level
of liability to them. They would not be in peril.
But what they did do is they engaged in publishing.
(19:39):
Instead of an active co mission, it's an active o mission.
They said, we don't write on Facebook, were just a platform.
All right, Well, I'd like to say that Obama was
the worst president. I think he's a criminal. Joe Biden
stole the election, and the vaccine doesn't work and it
killed my brother and a lot of other people.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They remove that.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
So, whether it's making a statement or removing a statement,
they are acting as a publisher, not as a platform,
which means they lose their legal protections. If they lose
their legal protections, they would go bankrupt overnight. There would
be so many class action lawsuits for all the things
(20:22):
they've done, So back to it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh you know you're right, You're right, right right. Rom
one moment just wants me to.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Get back to the executive order by President Trump creating
a task force to oversee the twenty twenty eight Los
Angeles Olympics.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Is a big one here. Damn go photopen.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I love this. Nineteen eighty four Olympics.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Houston's own Karl Lewis was the dominant dominant athlete at
the LA Olympics. Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the twenty
twenty eight LA Olympics, presented President Trump with a full
set of original medals from the eighty four Olympics.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
In Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
The Chairman of the Olympics is delighted that President Trump
is involved.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And by the way, Trump's the ultimate showman.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
He will make the Olympics so much better than that
idiot fool Gavin Newsom was. Gavin Newsom would probably have
a boy have his wiener cut off at the beginning
of the ceremony instead of passing the torch.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I mean, that's the kind of nonsense that he does.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
His performative art for the weirdest, most wicked in our society.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
As you know, nineteen eighty four hosted the Olympics in
Los Angeles, right and someone we admired, President Reagan. Both
of us presided over those, and you will preside over
our games.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
We have for you a full set of the four
original medals.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Can I say that I won them athletically?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yes, that would be a great I don't care if
somebody strikes shoe. You can't shoot Michael's bus. President Trump
is proud of America, and Americans are proud of Americans.
And we are delighted to be back in a position
where our elected officials, whether it be a fraudulent election
(22:36):
or a legitimate one, where they are not proud of
our country. Donald Trump is Americans are a proud people.
So when Donald Trump says America is a nation of champions,
that is a very popular statement. We believe that we
don't flee this country to go live elsewhere. Other people
come here. We are proud of our people. That's why
(22:58):
you see these Somali congressmen state reps. You see these
people from There was a woman this week, I think
she was from Guatemala talking about how she hated living here.
We've had Haitians who say they hate living elected officials.
Ilhan omar Omar fate in Mogolishu, Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Hey, if you.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Hate this country, get out. Honestly, I don't want you
here anyway. You're not a contributor. We don't want you
on our team. Go back to the hellhole you're from.
And the truth is, those countries are hellholes. I've visited them.
They're awful, they're terrible, they're they're violent, they're filthy, they're corrupt.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Go back and live there. You hate it so bad here,
go back and live there. Anyway. Ramone I promised I
was going to stay in a good mood. Today.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
President Trump calling America a nation of champions, and he said,
we will show the world at the Olympics with the
wonderful Olympics we will host and the fact that we'll win.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
My first time.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
We were instrumental in helping the city of Los Angeles
win the bid to bring the Olympics George back.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
To American soil.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
And today I will signed an executive order establishing the
White House Task Force on the twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics,
mobilizing the entire federal government to ensure the games are
safe seamless and historically successful. It's going to be amazing.
I think it's going to be amazing. America is a
nation of champions, and in July twenty twenty eight, we'll
(24:22):
show the world what America does best. And that's when
we're winning like we have never won before. You see
that all the time. A year ago, we were not
a country that was doing well, and now with the
hottest country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I would be remiss if I continued to forget. As
Ramone has reminded me of the great contribution of our
executive producer. Some people don't know this, Chattaconi Nakanishi was
my first producer, before even Ramone.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
When I started in radio, I had a day job.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I was the Mayor pro tem of the City of Houston,
and I would come in early in the morning before.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I went to city Hall and I do a radio show.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And Ramon would be sitting at one little workstation, a
little cubicle, and I'd be sitting not even a full cubicle.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It was just a little piece of a desk with.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
A slight divider in between the other one, and there
was a slow computer there and really uncomfortable chairs, and
I would ask him what the shows that he was
working on we're going to be talking about that day,
and he would tell me, and I'd write the listen
down and then I would.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Talk about that because I didn't know what talk about.
I was new to radio, and he helped me.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
And so when I was given an opportunity to do
a show, I started on the weekends, they moved me
to week days. Chad Nakanishi was the producer of the
Chris Baker Show, and Chris Baker was the star of
ktr H, which is our flagship, and he did the
evening show. Chris was always very kind to me, and
he was a comic by training. He was good friends
(25:48):
with Larry the cable guy. Chris was a very very
funny talk show host in my opinion, and I did
you ever see him just stand up? I actually drove
out to champions WHET Northwest Houston and saw him do
stand up. Anyway, Chad was his producer. So when Chris
was let go and they put me in his slot,
(26:09):
I actually asked Chad if he would be willing to
stay on. I didn't know if he was going to
leave because Chris had been fired I don't know if
they were going to fire Chad. I didn't know what
was going to happen. I said, would you be willing
to stay on and be my producer? And he said yes.
I took him to Panera Bread, which was right across
the street from the building where we were at lunch,
and so that was a relief. Now I didn't know
how long he'd stay. I didn't know how well i'd
(26:31):
get along with him. I didn't really know him very well.
But here we are twenty years later. Dikes thieves. He's
our executive producer, and Ramon and Kunda and Mud, we'll
all tell you. He makes the trains run on time.
He is the big boss. You know, when you show
up at an event and you're going to be on stage,
there's always somebody that has a headset on with a
microphone and a clipboard and a pen and they're barking
(26:52):
and you go, hey, I'm an extra on this thing
where that person over there? And you go ooh, I
don't want to go talk to them. They seem like
they're in charge and lord and loud and mean. Well
that's Chad, except he's not mean anyway. So Chad and
I started the show together and he would be on
the other side of the glass and he would produce
the show and run the show the board. And then
(27:13):
a couple of years in Ramone who was who was
running another one of our stations, which was nine fifty
am KPRC in Houston, which is the PRC stood for
port Rail and Cotton, the three pillars of Jesse Jones's empire.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
He was.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
He owned the station KTRH, which is our home station
in Houston stands for come to the Rice Hotel because
he also owned the Rice Hotel where John F. Kennedy
stayed the night before he was assassinated the next day
when he flew up to Dallas by who we don't know.
So Chad and I started. Then Ramone comes on, so
Chad starts working behind the scenes. Ramone's on the other
(27:52):
side of the glass. And then years later, many years later,
Jim Mudd comes on. We brought Jim on when we
were guess toasting for the Rush Limball show playing Buck
and we brought him on a trial basis just.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
To help us beef up for those shows, and it
worked out. It was great.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
And then from there Darryl Kunda, who was the production
director of our company, the whole radio station cluster. We
brought him on and he's our last addition to the team.
We also have some wonderful, brilliant folks. Sandy's great, She's fantastic.
She's our research director. Rachel's amazing, she keeps me up
(28:30):
on legal news. Chance McLean contributes constantly to our production.
So anyway, it's all turned out to be great. All
that by way of saying that, Chattacone Nakanishi every week
reviews what we've talked about, takes little clips and as
kind of a putting the week to bed, he makes
what we call our week in review. And this has
(28:51):
been twenty years we've been doing this, and it's always
fun for us. Ramoning and I look forward on Friday
morning and evening because we played on both shows. We
look forward to hearing it to remind us what we
talked about that week, and sometimes we go, oh, that
was just yesterday and we'd completely forgotten it. And so
without further adieu, if that's possible, I don't think I'm
(29:12):
going to make a long story short, but maybe I
can make it shorter than I was already going to
make it. Without further ado, courtesy of the greatest executive
producer in all the land. And that is true. I
might not be the best host, but we have the
best executive producer. Chatakoni Nakanishi your weekend review. I said,
good morning, Uncle Presson, and I said, Glenn camb was
(29:35):
coming to the astronom.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
He's gonna be at Houston. And he said, I would
watch Glenn CAMBOI is across the street. And what bothers
me is I'm fifty four years old. That's approximately fifty years.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Ago, and I can't understand it why he was so
mad at Glenn Gamble.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Dozens of Texas Democrats are waving up in Illinois and
New York after leaving the state in a last ditched
effort to stop a congressional redistricting attest.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
They've left u date, abandon their posts and turn their
backs from the constituents they swore to representative to run
two states like New York and Illinois to protest redistrict
And it is kind of like running to Wisconsin to
protest cheese.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's just kind of outrageous. Oh dear God, bless his arm.
Please don't let him do national interviews. Anymore. It's just
setting him up for failure.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
A priesting five constable deputy under an internal investigation after
posting a TikTok that went viral. You see a priesting
five constable deputy joining on a TikTok trend.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
And having some fun, but that could cause her to
lose her job like they planned.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, you're just being childish, like y'all ain't you
ain't taking that just seriously.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We're gonna write me some checks because you ain't get great.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I love how they always have to have the man
on the street response to the story, because we wouldn't
really know how to respond if they told us that
a constable's deputy filmed herself saying I didn't get banged
last night, So everybody's getting a ticket today for the third.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Time since last week.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Someone throw an adult toy onto the court during a
WNBA game.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It's putting people in danger.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
You want to These are athletes who are running, they're
cutting their jumping and very unhygienic.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
And also not hygienic.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It's not hygienic, it's not Why exactly is it unhygienic
unless you
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