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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Varies show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
If your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement,
you can go straight.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
To hell and you have no place in.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The political conversation of the United States of America.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
ICE is looking more and more like an American Gestopo.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
They're huddled around the elevator banks in masks without identifying
information whether they're terrifying, like these are Gestapo tactics, but
as created.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
This year, as they've seen the kind of fascist ICE
Gestapo militias go around Latino American citizens in playss like
la ICE agents, masked ICE GESTOPO agents getting more funding
than any other law enforcement agency in the history of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
ICE running Guestopo like around our country.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
The Gestopo had the same function. It was there to
draw distinction between us and them. It was not federally,
It was controlled from the by the leader. And we're
seeing undisturbing similarities between this force and.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Estoper We've got these mask doug cowards kidnapping innocent people
and sending them off to be slaves or tortured in
other countries.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Dressing like thugs and acting like thugs.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
People still want to come here, despite the crazy They
still want to come here because they know in this
land their voice is protected, their rights are protected, and
there won't be jack booted thugs coming in wearing masks
over their face to take them.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Off the streets. Oh wait, oh wait, I'm sorry someone
that's happening. Oh it happen, that's happening right now.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
We've got to figure out a way to stop ICE
from what they are doing as soon as possible. You've
got to figure out a way to stop ICE from
what they are doing as soon as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is not about the pronoun police.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
This is about the secret police.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We're not North Korea, mister President. We're not the Soviet
Unity from.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Today speaking about deals with pharmaceutical companies. And the amazing
thing about this is somewhere along the way, we lost
faith in our institutions, which really means we lost faith
in our fellow man. Somewhere along the way. We can
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blame tax codes, we can blame well, everybody else is
doing it. Somewhere along the way, people made decisions. You
know what, We're going to put aluminum in a syringe
and inject it into a baby, and we don't care
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the consequences. We're going to give people a placebo and
call it a corona or a COVID vaccine and make
a lot of money off of it. You know, if
they'd done that, I would have been a lot better off,
because then people wouldn't have died from it. The COVID
vaccine didn't actually work. So the difference between a COVID
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vaccine and placebo is a fags, sugar water or salt
or whatever, is that the placebo wouldn't have hurt you.
The COVID quote unquote vaccine killed people, healthy people who
had no business taking the damn thing in the first place.
Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of how to
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run things. We can't get roads built, we can't get
policing done. The President is having to send in federal
officers and nationalize that the National Guard to do something
as simple as keep the streets of Baltimore, in Chicago
and Portland safe. How did this happen? You ever start
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to ask yourself, ton, how did this happen? Was it intentional?
Was it a failure? Well, we're going to talk about
the pharmaceutical companies, but first we're going to talk about
the shutdown. Here we are again talking about a government shutdown.
If you work for a business at every few months,
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it says, hey, guys, you'll gonna run out and make
five sales today. This is Glenngarry, Glenn Ross. You ain't
getting the good leads. You got to bring them in faster.
We're going out of business. If you work for that company,
it wouldn't take long till you'd go somewhere else because
you would realize we're unstable. They create this government shutdown
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scenario to make what they do more interesting, because otherwise
people don't care, and we don't care anymore. What's interesting
is we went into the archives and we found a
bit we made, not last government shut down, but the
one before that. But it's all the same. It's it's
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just another day. It's groundhog Day, except finally people have
stopped caring. Oh, you're going to shut down the government?
Good do it?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Hey, did you hear the news about the government? Excuse me,
the government? Did you hear the news?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Is that a real question?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Why wouldn't it be a real question?
Speaker 9 (05:36):
It just sounded like a really generic setup to some
stupid vehicle for like I don't know, a comedy bit
on the radio or something.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Comedy bit on the radio. Don't be silly, this is
real life. We're real people.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Yeah, okay, whatever you say. So, what did you want
to tell me about the government.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Well, thanks to a budget crisis, the government's on the
verge of shutting down.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh great.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
Not only is this a really stupid comedy bit on
the radio, but it's also a rerun.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
This isn't a rerun, No, yes it is. This is
definitely a rerun.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
We already did the government shutdown bit last month, and
another government shut down the month before that.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Yeah, but this is another another government shut down. The
government's on the verge of shutting down for the third
time in two months.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Seriously, who even cares?
Speaker 9 (06:18):
At this point, nothing ever happens, and then we all
laugh about how the Democrats overreact. And then someone at
the Washington DC Zoo is gonna shut off the pandacam.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Shut off the pandacam. How did you know? Because this
already happened before.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
This is a comedy bit on a talk radio show
that's about a topic that's already been exhausted to death,
and it's not even very funny.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Oh, yeah, so what do we do now? How do
we get out of here? Are we stuck?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I don't know. I'm not sure how this thing is
supposed to end.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, if my.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Memory serves me correctly, one of us has to say
a really clever punchline and then a topical song will
suddenly interrupt us.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
When we had always died, michael Berry just put her
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head down and she went to work.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Some reason.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
In every election, Democrats have managed to choose the wrong
side on every issue. I mean, it's like we're gonna
have we're gonna pick teams, and we're going to root
for one or the other. You want Tanya Harding or
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Nancy Kerrigan after we already knew about Jeff Glooley in
the whole thing. Oh, I want the woman that had
I want the trailer trash psycho bitch who had her
opponent's knee bashed in. Yeah, I want her. Okay, you
got her. Make your argument on how we should all
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root for her.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now we're gonna we're gonna cast who would make a
better American hero. Okay, better American hero. We're gonna have
Marcus Latrell over here Loan Survivor or Charlie Manson. Oh
we want Charlie Manson.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
We want Charlie.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Y'all want Charlie Manson. Yes, yes, we want Charlie Manson. Okay,
well we'll take Marcus Latrell. It's every issue that they
picked is wrong. And I don't say that to advocate
for you to vote a certain way. You already know this.
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I say this because you know what scares me to death.
If they ever figure this out and turn it around,
we're going to be in real trouble because they once did.
This is four h two Ramon. This was Chuck Schumer
in nineteen ninety six. This is Chuck Schumer in nineteen
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ninety six, sounding like a Republican today, this is harder
for us to beat. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
First of all, social Security card is used from one
end of America to the other. Is an identification card?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Right now? Who are we kidding?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
If you want to pass a law and says it
shouldn't be I would ask the Chairman and the distinguished
Minority Member of the Social Security Meeting but Committee to
pass that law. But let's admit the truth. Everywhere people go,
they're asked for a Social Security card. In fact, One
way to prove you're a bona fide person who can
have a job is to ask for a driver's license
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and a social Security card. This is an anti fraud amendment.
All over where we go, people say, well, why can't
you stop illegal immigran or others from coming here? And
the number one answer we give our constituencies when they
come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Because of fraud.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And here the gentleman from Florida has put together the
most effective anti fraud measure we can find without it
changing the actions of the government one bit, and we
find all this opposition, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Of this chamber.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
What I worry.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
About is that this bill, which started out with good intentions,
whether you agree with it or disagree with it, is
going to end up being the same kind of thing
that the public gets angry with us on. We say
we're doing something and we do nothing because every time
someone makes a rational and small proposal to get something done,
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people say, well what about this hypothetical, that hypothetical, etc.
I urge support of this amendment. If you believe you
want to stop fraud in immigration, you have no choice
but to support this amendment.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
If you want to stop fraud in immigration. Chuck Schumer,
the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, in nineteen
ninety six, said the number one reason that people come
to the United States illegally is to defraud our systems
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like social security and healthcare. Well, that wasn't a genius statement.
We all know this to be true. None of us
doubt this. This is not open for discussion. We have
reached a very weird point in our country where there's
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really no point in debating the left. All you have
to do is make sure that every voter knows where
the left stands on the major issues of the day. Hey,
just so you know the difference between us and them.
You have a daughter, right, yeah, she's eight. Yeah. Well
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they think that little boys and grown men should be
able to go into your daughter's bathroom. If you're good
with that, that's your party. Oh hell no, I'm gonna
whoop somebody's ass. Okay, Well, that's their party. So there
should be no reason you would ever vote for that
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if that matters a lot to you, So don't let
them do the Hey, you're black and stupid. I know
you're stupid, because you're going to vote for me on
the basis that I'm black. Right, we're doing the black
thing together. Now. I'm doing something that ninety percent of
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blacks disapprove of, maybe ninety nine, which is boys going
into girls' bathrooms. But I have to do that to
be part of the Democrat Party that is run by
white liberals. You understand, a black guy should never vote
for that. A Hispanic should never vote for that. Here
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is Vice President jd Vance saying that Democrats want free
health care for illegals, or they will shut down the government.
And I say, shut down the government. We are right
on this issue. Play chicken on this issue, win this issue.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We have disagreements about healthcare policy, but you don't shut
the government down. You don't use your policy disagreements as
leverage to not pay our troops, to not have for
services of government actually function.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You don't say the fact that you disagree about a
particular tax.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Provision is an excuse for shutting down to the people's
government and all the essential services that come along with it.
If you look at what Chuck Schumer has said in
the past consistently, it's whatever our disagreements are, let's negotiate
with them. Let's talk about them, let's figure out apartisan solution.
But you don't shut the government down. In other words,
you don't put a gun to the American people's head
and say unless you do exactly what Senate and House
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Democrats want you to do, we're going to shut down
your government. That's exactly what they're proposing out there now.
We have to remember they're very frustrated. They say that
they're very frustrated about the fact that this negotiation has
not taken place until today. But if you look at
the original the original thing they did with this negotiation,
it was a one point five trillion dollar spending package,
basically saying the American people, we want to give massive
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amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal
aliens for their healthcare while Americans are struggling to pay
their health care bills. That was their initial foray into
this negotiation.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
We thought it was absurd.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We told them it was absurd, and now they come
in here it's saying that if you don't give us
everything that we want, we're going to shut down the government.
We think that's preposterous, we think it's totally unacceptable, and
we think the American people are going to suffer because
these guys won't do the right thing. Now, I want
to make one final point here. You will hear a
lot Senate Democrats from House Democrats about the fact that
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American health care policy is broken. Well, we know that
American health care policy is broken. We've been trying to
fix it for the eight months that we've been in office.
But every single thing that they accuse about being broken
about American health care is policy.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
The Democrats, do you take care of it?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Down?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Thank you about it, Michael. Democrats say, either you give
us hundreds of billions of dollars or illegal aliens in
their health care, or we'll shut the government down. And
Americans are saying shut the government down, because what you'll
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come to find out is its Democrats who live off
the government, not the rest of us. It's not even
just Republicans. Most people want to be left the hell alone.
Most people are spending most of their time these days
trying to get away from Democrats, their government officials, their
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invasive FBI, their national securities, all of their spying, the spamming,
the junk mail, the phone calls, the muggings, the juggings,
the break ins, the car theft, the smash and grab,
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the taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes. Most Americans,
even if they don't consider themselves Republicans, are in the
process of just trying to get away from Democrats. That's it.
They just want to be left alone. Do you ever
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notice how often non white people go to places that
are full of white people to tell them that they
feel discriminated against. It's the irony not lost during these
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people wait to say, so, you leave Pakistan to come
here and tell us how you don't feel loved here
because you don't look like everybody else. And it won't
be until everybody who lives here is from Pakistan that
you will I got news for you. You won't want
to live here. When that's the case. The people who
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come here from other countries who feel uncomfortable because they're
not Christian, they're not white, they're not English first language,
they don't share the same cultural traditions, and they want
to bring a bunch of people just like them and
PLoP them down in the area where they live. In
the minute they do, they will feel cultural comfort and
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economic oppression because you will see a recreation of where
they left. These are the sorts of things that get
people canceled stating these truths. It's a fellow named Murray,
I forget his name. He spoke a lot about race,
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and he spoke a lot about test scores and innate
intelligence and all this sort of stuff, and a lot
of what he said made people very uncomfortable. And I
could say I don't agree with everything he says, but
I shouldn't need to say that, because I don't actually
agree with everything Donald Trump says or jd Vance or
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anybody else. And there shouldn't be this desperate need to
put space in between me and another person lest I
be judged for the more fringe marginal of their opinions. See,
I don't endorse every opinion that you have, and you
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don't need to endorse everyone that I have. This is
a very very careful trap that is laid by the
left is to take people of influence, find one thing
out of context, or one bad moment, or one weak moment,
or one moment of darkness. Take one thing one person says,
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amplify that, and then slap that as a wrapping around
that person. Now no one will have anything to do
with that person. Lest people be said to agree with
everything that person says. And when you get to that point,
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then you silence influential people. You silence. It's not the first,
won't be the last time Galileo was silenced. For that matter,
Victor Hugo died incredibly poor. There have been pastors and
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priests run out of their parishes or their congregations, not
by the people themselves, but by the upper echelon of
the money grubbing church institutions who use it as a
cash cow, calling them heretics. It's always been one. You
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look throughout history at how many men of the cloth
are referred to as heretics. You may have even studied
them as such, and then you go back to actually
read what they've written, and you say, wait a second,
what was so heretical about what he said? Why did
that man not just have to be disagreed with but destroyed?
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What was it about Martin Luther that made him so dangerous?
What was it about the powerful Catholic Church of that era?
What was it about German leaders or English leaders that
they would hunt down a traveling revival preacher evangelist. What
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exactly about their sermons was so upsetting. If you believe
in an all powerful God, why do you need to
put to death someone who you claim is engaged in heresy?
Is your God so weak that someone who offers a
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different interpretation of God's word must be put to death
lest anyone else hear it? Why? What is it about
those words? What was is it about Charlie Kirk's words
that he had to be murdered? What level of conviction
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did that young man have? You know? I find that
people often lash out at another person who states opinions
as to what they say, because if they can silence
them with an ad hominem attacker, in this case, a murder,
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then they don't personally have to continue to struggle with
what's eating them up inside, only to find that what
they're missing, that what bothers them is not that other person.
When you become a public person, whether a YouTube or
a instagramm er, maybe you have a Facebook page has
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developed over the last few years, Maybe you were on
the Trump train early, Maybe you've developed a gathering and
maybe people who you work with or in your neighborhood
or you went to high school with, have noticed and
they're extremely jealous. Well, they don't go off on their
own and be jealous. No, no, no, they will get
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on your page and they will comment, and they will
take they will make insults of Trump and you, and
they'll claim that you hate babies, or women, or foreigners
or blacks or gays or trainies or any number of
different things. They will to say the most bombastic, provocative thing.
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And many people who don't understand this game. I've been
in it a long time. It hurts their feelings. They internalize, No,
it's not about you, it's about that person. That person
is telling you they are broken.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Southern Pride.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Southern Pride with Michael Berry Show. If I told the
story the other day and we're going to can I
tell the Eagles that the Sphere story on the evening
Charge this morning show. Okay, so you haven't heard this story,
I'm gonna tell it real quickly again. So I have
a friend who owns tex Mex restaurants Text mess best
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tex Mex Restaurants in Texas. They're called Gringos and Jimmy
Chonga's two different restaurants and he has over twenty of them,
and he gives back to Camp Hope that veterans with PTSD.
He supports our show, he supports all our causes, and
he's become a very good friend over the years. And
I love the way they do business. I love their food,
but I love the way they do business. I love
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that way they support their people. I love the way
they give back to the community, and love the way
they take care of their employees and their customers. They
support law enforcement veterans. And he is the biggest Eagles
fan you'll ever meet. So when it was announced about
a year ago that the Eagles would be coming to
the Sphere, this new concert facility in Vegas, we he said, Hey,
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would you like to go? I'll take you and Ramon
and we'll go and see the Eagles. This is probably
the last time ever see the Eagles. And it's inside
the Sphere, which we hadn't been to yet, and it's amazing.
You know, you're inside this bubble of screens. It's pretty neat.
I mean, I'm not a technology geek, but someone was.
They'd really geek out. But even I could appreciate how
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neat this was. So we went and saw it was amazing,
and I came home and I wanted my wife to
my wife and kiss to say it so I took
them back a couple of weeks ago, and Russell we
all went together and I took my wife and my
two sons and they got to see the Eagles, and
I got to see the Eagles again. And you know,
it's their thirty sixth show. It could be over it
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at any moment, and it's just kind of went soundtrack
of my life. But there's an interesting thing that happened
both times, and having owned a concert venue, I have
watched this happen and thought about this over the years.
So Don Henley obviously kind of the driving force behind
the Eagles all along. You could argue Glenn Fry, but
I would argue Don Henley, it doesn't matter. Awful human
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being on a personal level, but an amazing musician songwriter.
At the beginning of the show, he says, it's great
to be here, and in fact, at our age, it's
great to be anywhere. Chuckle, chuckle, same line both concerts.
It's okay, it's a great line that this is rehearsed.
It's good he delivered it, and he said, for the
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next two hours, we want to take your mind off
of the rest of the world. We just want to
entertain you and distract you and for you to enjoy
this next two hours. He said that twice. Okay, so
the concert starts and the Sphere is I don't know
if i'd want to go to fifty shows at the Sphere.
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And I'm not a big concert guy anymore. Once you
own a concert facility, you don't want to go anywhere
else because you can't just walk in the green room
and hang out with the band. I have to sit
out there like everybody else. It's just I don't know,
maybe you get burned out. I don't know. So two
hours we had been told the show is exactly two hours.
It's very well rehearsed. The songs line up with what's
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on the screen. The whole this is the whole act.
And I'm not saying that's criticize. I think it's pretty cool.
At one hour twenty eight minutes. I know because I
looked at my watch. They finished their last song, and
they turned and they walked off the stage, whereupon everyone
stood up and proceeded to clap. And if you dropped
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a bomb on the Sphere in Las Vegas at that time,
I'm not saying you would have taken out every white
seventy year old man in America. But you'd have made
a dent because they were all right here right now,
and they were gone for about thirty to forty five
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seconds standard. Everyone cheered in hopes that they might come back.
But we're at one hour and twenty eight minutes. He
said they were going to play for two hours. Everyone
knows they're going to play for two hours. It's been
basically advertised. Nobody's sick, you know. It's a daily report,
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like an injury report on the Eagles, because at this
age you have to do that. And so within a
minute they come back out and everyone cheers, but it's
not really the cheers of oh my god, I can't
believe they come back out. It's the requisite cheers that
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are sort of like a lifetime achievement award. Right, a
lifetime achievement award is not the same as that first
major award, first number one hit, when you're still young
and everything is fresh. A lifetime achievement of war worries.
It's a slow burn. It's a calmer moment. It's sanguine,
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it's it's it's thoughtful, it's measured because it comes with
some scars, right, It comes with some time, and it's enjoyed,
but it's enjoyed maybe with creaky bones and a little
bit calmer disposition. So they cheered, and the band came
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back out and they started to play again, and Vince
Gil sang the Eagle songs occasional. Don Henley and Deacon Fry,
who's Lynn Fry's son, sang some and Joe Walsh did
Lissman good to Me so Far, which he's very old
and it's very hard for It's not an easy song
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to sing, very hard for him to sing. But I
enjoyed it. But I can't help but think. You know
what that moment? You know the all the worlds of stage? Right,
you heard that phrase. You might not get quote it
by wrote, but you remember it from English class, or
maybe you just heard reference to it. It's Shakespeare. It's
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from as you like it. All the worlds of stage,
and all the men and women merely players. They have.
He did not steal that from elness. They have their
exits and their entrances. And one man in his time
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plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. The point
of this phrase is that there is a song and
dance that has become a ritual devoid of the actual meaning.
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It's not impromptu, it's not organic, it's not authentic, it's
not real. And that's okay because everybody's playing along. In hell,
we're in it too. We're in the business. What I
got to tell you. Sometimes I put my head on
the pillow and say, do the people realize that this
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is all sport? And it'd be okay if it was sport,
if everybody was playing to win, But this is this
is the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals. It's actually
just sport as entertainment. Everybody knows they're cue. We know
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who's going to score, and when they're gonna score, we
know who's gonna look the fool. And we're gonna do
this day after day after day after day, and all
the little ants are out here seeking the clout, getting
more clicks.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I got the breaking news over here.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Hey guys, look over here, and then I'll get ten
emails from listeners, so we'll say, hey, how comeing out?
I just over here because it is not as important.
That's what we're talking over here. It seems to me
us I watched it last night, and then you got
the other guy he's been kicked off the network, and
this guy he's on the network, and it just, I
don't know, it just feels like the greatest nation on
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Earth just feels like we should be better than this.
So here we are talking about a government shut down
and everyone knows it's a silly little game. Shut it down, seriously,
shut it down. Shut the whole damn thing down, and
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don't open it up again. Now that that'd be a play,
I'd like to see
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Varies show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
If your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement,
you can go straight.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
To hell and you have no place in.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The political conversation of the United States of America.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
ICE is looking more and more like an American Gestopo.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
They're huddled around the elevator banks in masks without identifying
information whether they're terrifying, like these are Gestapo tactics, but
as created.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
This year, as they've seen the kind of fascist ICE
Gestapo militias go around Latino American citizens in playss like
la ICE agents, masked ICE GESTOPO agents getting more funding
than any other law enforcement agency in the history of
the United States.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
ICE running Guestopo like around our country.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
The Gestopo had the same function. It was there to
draw distinction between us and them. It was not federally,
It was controlled from the by the leader. And we're
seeing undisturbing similarities between this force and.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Estoper We've got these mask doug cowards kidnapping innocent people
and sending them off to be slaves or tortured in
other countries.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Dressing like thugs and acting like thugs.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
People still want to come here, despite the crazy They
still want to come here because they know in this
land their voice is protected, their rights are protected, and
there won't be jack booted thugs coming in wearing masks
over their face to take them.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Off the streets. Oh wait, oh wait, I'm sorry someone
that's happening. Oh it happen, that's happening right now.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
We've got to figure out a way to stop ICE
from what they are doing as soon as possible. You've
got to figure out a way to stop ICE from
what they are doing as soon as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is not about the pronoun police.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
This is about the secret police.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We're not North Korea, mister President. We're not the Soviet
Unity from.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Today speaking about deals with pharmaceutical companies. And the amazing
thing about this is somewhere along the way, we lost
faith in our institutions, which really means we lost faith
in our fellow man. Somewhere along the way. We can
(02:31):
blame tax codes, we can blame well, everybody else is
doing it. Somewhere along the way, people made decisions. You
know what, We're going to put aluminum in a syringe
and inject it into a baby, and we don't care
(02:55):
the consequences. We're going to give people a placebo and
call it a corona or a COVID vaccine and make
a lot of money off of it. You know, if
they'd done that, I would have been a lot better off,
because then people wouldn't have died from it. The COVID
vaccine didn't actually work. So the difference between a COVID
(03:16):
vaccine and placebo is a fags, sugar water or salt
or whatever, is that the placebo wouldn't have hurt you.
The COVID quote unquote vaccine killed people, healthy people who
had no business taking the damn thing in the first place.
Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of how to
(03:39):
run things. We can't get roads built, we can't get
policing done. The President is having to send in federal
officers and nationalize that the National Guard to do something
as simple as keep the streets of Baltimore, in Chicago
and Portland safe. How did this happen? You ever start
(04:05):
to ask yourself, ton, how did this happen? Was it intentional?
Was it a failure? Well, we're going to talk about
the pharmaceutical companies, but first we're going to talk about
the shutdown. Here we are again talking about a government shutdown.
If you work for a business at every few months,
(04:28):
it says, hey, guys, you'll gonna run out and make
five sales today. This is Glenngarry, Glenn Ross. You ain't
getting the good leads. You got to bring them in faster.
We're going out of business. If you work for that company,
it wouldn't take long till you'd go somewhere else because
you would realize we're unstable. They create this government shutdown
(04:49):
scenario to make what they do more interesting, because otherwise
people don't care, and we don't care anymore. What's interesting
is we went into the archives and we found a
bit we made, not last government shut down, but the
one before that. But it's all the same. It's it's
(05:14):
just another day. It's groundhog Day, except finally people have
stopped caring. Oh, you're going to shut down the government?
Good do it?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Hey, did you hear the news about the government? Excuse me,
the government? Did you hear the news?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Is that a real question?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Why wouldn't it be a real question?
Speaker 9 (05:36):
It just sounded like a really generic setup to some
stupid vehicle for like I don't know, a comedy bit
on the radio or something.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Comedy bit on the radio. Don't be silly, this is
real life. We're real people.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
Yeah, okay, whatever you say. So, what did you want
to tell me about the government.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Well, thanks to a budget crisis, the government's on the
verge of shutting down.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh great.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
Not only is this a really stupid comedy bit on
the radio, but it's also a rerun.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
This isn't a rerun, No, yes it is. This is
definitely a rerun.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
We already did the government shutdown bit last month, and
another government shut down the month before that.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Yeah, but this is another another government shut down. The
government's on the verge of shutting down for the third
time in two months.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Seriously, who even cares?
Speaker 9 (06:18):
At this point, nothing ever happens, and then we all
laugh about how the Democrats overreact. And then someone at
the Washington DC Zoo is gonna shut off the pandacam.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Shut off the pandacam. How did you know? Because this
already happened before.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
This is a comedy bit on a talk radio show
that's about a topic that's already been exhausted to death,
and it's not even very funny.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Oh, yeah, so what do we do now? How do
we get out of here? Are we stuck?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I don't know. I'm not sure how this thing is
supposed to end.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, if my.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Memory serves me correctly, one of us has to say
a really clever punchline and then a topical song will
suddenly interrupt us.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
When we had always died, michael Berry just put her
(07:17):
head down and she went to work.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Some reason.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
In every election, Democrats have managed to choose the wrong
side on every issue. I mean, it's like we're gonna
have we're gonna pick teams, and we're going to root
for one or the other. You want Tanya Harding or
(07:45):
Nancy Kerrigan after we already knew about Jeff Glooley in
the whole thing. Oh, I want the woman that had
I want the trailer trash psycho bitch who had her
opponent's knee bashed in. Yeah, I want her. Okay, you
got her. Make your argument on how we should all
(08:08):
root for her.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now we're gonna we're gonna cast who would make a
better American hero. Okay, better American hero. We're gonna have
Marcus Latrell over here Loan Survivor or Charlie Manson. Oh
we want Charlie Manson.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
We want Charlie.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Y'all want Charlie Manson. Yes, yes, we want Charlie Manson. Okay,
well we'll take Marcus Latrell. It's every issue that they
picked is wrong. And I don't say that to advocate
for you to vote a certain way. You already know this.
(08:50):
I say this because you know what scares me to death.
If they ever figure this out and turn it around,
we're going to be in real trouble because they once did.
This is four h two Ramon. This was Chuck Schumer
in nineteen ninety six. This is Chuck Schumer in nineteen
(09:13):
ninety six, sounding like a Republican today, this is harder
for us to beat. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
First of all, social Security card is used from one
end of America to the other. Is an identification card?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Right now? Who are we kidding?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
If you want to pass a law and says it
shouldn't be I would ask the Chairman and the distinguished
Minority Member of the Social Security Meeting but Committee to
pass that law. But let's admit the truth. Everywhere people go,
they're asked for a Social Security card. In fact, One
way to prove you're a bona fide person who can
have a job is to ask for a driver's license
(09:48):
and a social Security card. This is an anti fraud amendment.
All over where we go, people say, well, why can't
you stop illegal immigran or others from coming here? And
the number one answer we give our constituencies when they
come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Because of fraud.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And here the gentleman from Florida has put together the
most effective anti fraud measure we can find without it
changing the actions of the government one bit, and we
find all this opposition, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Of this chamber.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
What I worry.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
About is that this bill, which started out with good intentions,
whether you agree with it or disagree with it, is
going to end up being the same kind of thing
that the public gets angry with us on. We say
we're doing something and we do nothing because every time
someone makes a rational and small proposal to get something done,
(10:53):
people say, well what about this hypothetical, that hypothetical, etc.
I urge support of this amendment. If you believe you
want to stop fraud in immigration, you have no choice
but to support this amendment.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
If you want to stop fraud in immigration. Chuck Schumer,
the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, in nineteen
ninety six, said the number one reason that people come
to the United States illegally is to defraud our systems
(11:29):
like social security and healthcare. Well, that wasn't a genius statement.
We all know this to be true. None of us
doubt this. This is not open for discussion. We have
reached a very weird point in our country where there's
(11:53):
really no point in debating the left. All you have
to do is make sure that every voter knows where
the left stands on the major issues of the day. Hey,
just so you know the difference between us and them.
You have a daughter, right, yeah, she's eight. Yeah. Well
(12:16):
they think that little boys and grown men should be
able to go into your daughter's bathroom. If you're good
with that, that's your party. Oh hell no, I'm gonna
whoop somebody's ass. Okay, Well, that's their party. So there
should be no reason you would ever vote for that
(12:37):
if that matters a lot to you, So don't let
them do the Hey, you're black and stupid. I know
you're stupid, because you're going to vote for me on
the basis that I'm black. Right, we're doing the black
thing together. Now. I'm doing something that ninety percent of
(13:00):
blacks disapprove of, maybe ninety nine, which is boys going
into girls' bathrooms. But I have to do that to
be part of the Democrat Party that is run by
white liberals. You understand, a black guy should never vote
for that. A Hispanic should never vote for that. Here
(13:20):
is Vice President jd Vance saying that Democrats want free
health care for illegals, or they will shut down the government.
And I say, shut down the government. We are right
on this issue. Play chicken on this issue, win this issue.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We have disagreements about healthcare policy, but you don't shut
the government down. You don't use your policy disagreements as
leverage to not pay our troops, to not have for
services of government actually function.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
You don't say the fact that you disagree about a
particular tax.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Provision is an excuse for shutting down to the people's
government and all the essential services that come along with it.
If you look at what Chuck Schumer has said in
the past consistently, it's whatever our disagreements are, let's negotiate
with them. Let's talk about them, let's figure out apartisan solution.
But you don't shut the government down. In other words,
you don't put a gun to the American people's head
and say unless you do exactly what Senate and House
(14:08):
Democrats want you to do, we're going to shut down
your government. That's exactly what they're proposing out there now.
We have to remember they're very frustrated. They say that
they're very frustrated about the fact that this negotiation has
not taken place until today. But if you look at
the original the original thing they did with this negotiation,
it was a one point five trillion dollar spending package,
basically saying the American people, we want to give massive
(14:30):
amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal
aliens for their healthcare while Americans are struggling to pay
their health care bills. That was their initial foray into
this negotiation.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
We thought it was absurd.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
We told them it was absurd, and now they come
in here it's saying that if you don't give us
everything that we want, we're going to shut down the government.
We think that's preposterous, we think it's totally unacceptable, and
we think the American people are going to suffer because
these guys won't do the right thing. Now, I want
to make one final point here. You will hear a
lot Senate Democrats from House Democrats about the fact that
(15:02):
American health care policy is broken. Well, we know that
American health care policy is broken. We've been trying to
fix it for the eight months that we've been in office.
But every single thing that they accuse about being broken
about American health care is policy.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
The Democrats, do you take care of it?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Down?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Thank you about it, Michael. Democrats say, either you give
us hundreds of billions of dollars or illegal aliens in
their health care, or we'll shut the government down. And
Americans are saying shut the government down, because what you'll
(15:40):
come to find out is its Democrats who live off
the government, not the rest of us. It's not even
just Republicans. Most people want to be left the hell alone.
Most people are spending most of their time these days
trying to get away from Democrats, their government officials, their
(16:02):
invasive FBI, their national securities, all of their spying, the spamming,
the junk mail, the phone calls, the muggings, the juggings,
the break ins, the car theft, the smash and grab,
(16:27):
the taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes. Most Americans,
even if they don't consider themselves Republicans, are in the
process of just trying to get away from Democrats. That's it.
They just want to be left alone. Do you ever
(16:50):
notice how often non white people go to places that
are full of white people to tell them that they
feel discriminated against. It's the irony not lost during these
(17:10):
people wait to say, so, you leave Pakistan to come
here and tell us how you don't feel loved here
because you don't look like everybody else. And it won't
be until everybody who lives here is from Pakistan that
you will I got news for you. You won't want
to live here. When that's the case. The people who
(17:33):
come here from other countries who feel uncomfortable because they're
not Christian, they're not white, they're not English first language,
they don't share the same cultural traditions, and they want
to bring a bunch of people just like them and
PLoP them down in the area where they live. In
the minute they do, they will feel cultural comfort and
(17:58):
economic oppression because you will see a recreation of where
they left. These are the sorts of things that get
people canceled stating these truths. It's a fellow named Murray,
I forget his name. He spoke a lot about race,
(18:21):
and he spoke a lot about test scores and innate
intelligence and all this sort of stuff, and a lot
of what he said made people very uncomfortable. And I
could say I don't agree with everything he says, but
I shouldn't need to say that, because I don't actually
agree with everything Donald Trump says or jd Vance or
(18:45):
anybody else. And there shouldn't be this desperate need to
put space in between me and another person lest I
be judged for the more fringe marginal of their opinions. See,
I don't endorse every opinion that you have, and you
(19:05):
don't need to endorse everyone that I have. This is
a very very careful trap that is laid by the
left is to take people of influence, find one thing
out of context, or one bad moment, or one weak moment,
or one moment of darkness. Take one thing one person says,
(19:31):
amplify that, and then slap that as a wrapping around
that person. Now no one will have anything to do
with that person. Lest people be said to agree with
everything that person says. And when you get to that point,
(19:53):
then you silence influential people. You silence. It's not the first,
won't be the last time Galileo was silenced. For that matter,
Victor Hugo died incredibly poor. There have been pastors and
(20:13):
priests run out of their parishes or their congregations, not
by the people themselves, but by the upper echelon of
the money grubbing church institutions who use it as a
cash cow, calling them heretics. It's always been one. You
(20:34):
look throughout history at how many men of the cloth
are referred to as heretics. You may have even studied
them as such, and then you go back to actually
read what they've written, and you say, wait a second,
what was so heretical about what he said? Why did
that man not just have to be disagreed with but destroyed?
(20:57):
What was it about Martin Luther that made him so dangerous?
What was it about the powerful Catholic Church of that era?
What was it about German leaders or English leaders that
they would hunt down a traveling revival preacher evangelist. What
(21:23):
exactly about their sermons was so upsetting. If you believe
in an all powerful God, why do you need to
put to death someone who you claim is engaged in heresy?
Is your God so weak that someone who offers a
(21:47):
different interpretation of God's word must be put to death
lest anyone else hear it? Why? What is it about
those words? What was is it about Charlie Kirk's words
that he had to be murdered? What level of conviction
(22:09):
did that young man have? You know? I find that
people often lash out at another person who states opinions
as to what they say, because if they can silence
them with an ad hominem attacker, in this case, a murder,
(22:31):
then they don't personally have to continue to struggle with
what's eating them up inside, only to find that what
they're missing, that what bothers them is not that other person.
When you become a public person, whether a YouTube or
a instagramm er, maybe you have a Facebook page has
(22:55):
developed over the last few years, Maybe you were on
the Trump train early, Maybe you've developed a gathering and
maybe people who you work with or in your neighborhood
or you went to high school with, have noticed and
they're extremely jealous. Well, they don't go off on their
own and be jealous. No, no, no, they will get
(23:16):
on your page and they will comment, and they will
take they will make insults of Trump and you, and
they'll claim that you hate babies, or women, or foreigners
or blacks or gays or trainies or any number of
different things. They will to say the most bombastic, provocative thing.
(23:40):
And many people who don't understand this game. I've been
in it a long time. It hurts their feelings. They internalize, No,
it's not about you, it's about that person. That person
is telling you they are broken.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Southern Pride.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Southern Pride with Michael Berry Show. If I told the
story the other day and we're going to can I
tell the Eagles that the Sphere story on the evening
Charge this morning show. Okay, so you haven't heard this story,
I'm gonna tell it real quickly again. So I have
a friend who owns tex Mex restaurants Text mess best
(24:14):
tex Mex Restaurants in Texas. They're called Gringos and Jimmy
Chonga's two different restaurants and he has over twenty of them,
and he gives back to Camp Hope that veterans with PTSD.
He supports our show, he supports all our causes, and
he's become a very good friend over the years. And
I love the way they do business. I love their food,
but I love the way they do business. I love
(24:36):
that way they support their people. I love the way
they give back to the community, and love the way
they take care of their employees and their customers. They
support law enforcement veterans. And he is the biggest Eagles
fan you'll ever meet. So when it was announced about
a year ago that the Eagles would be coming to
the Sphere, this new concert facility in Vegas, we he said, Hey,
(25:01):
would you like to go? I'll take you and Ramon
and we'll go and see the Eagles. This is probably
the last time ever see the Eagles. And it's inside
the Sphere, which we hadn't been to yet, and it's amazing.
You know, you're inside this bubble of screens. It's pretty neat.
I mean, I'm not a technology geek, but someone was.
They'd really geek out. But even I could appreciate how
(25:21):
neat this was. So we went and saw it was amazing,
and I came home and I wanted my wife to
my wife and kiss to say it so I took
them back a couple of weeks ago, and Russell we
all went together and I took my wife and my
two sons and they got to see the Eagles, and
I got to see the Eagles again. And you know,
it's their thirty sixth show. It could be over it
(25:44):
at any moment, and it's just kind of went soundtrack
of my life. But there's an interesting thing that happened
both times, and having owned a concert venue, I have
watched this happen and thought about this over the years.
So Don Henley obviously kind of the driving force behind
the Eagles all along. You could argue Glenn Fry, but
I would argue Don Henley, it doesn't matter. Awful human
(26:06):
being on a personal level, but an amazing musician songwriter.
At the beginning of the show, he says, it's great
to be here, and in fact, at our age, it's
great to be anywhere. Chuckle, chuckle, same line both concerts.
It's okay, it's a great line that this is rehearsed.
It's good he delivered it, and he said, for the
(26:29):
next two hours, we want to take your mind off
of the rest of the world. We just want to
entertain you and distract you and for you to enjoy
this next two hours. He said that twice. Okay, so
the concert starts and the Sphere is I don't know
if i'd want to go to fifty shows at the Sphere.
(26:51):
And I'm not a big concert guy anymore. Once you
own a concert facility, you don't want to go anywhere
else because you can't just walk in the green room
and hang out with the band. I have to sit
out there like everybody else. It's just I don't know,
maybe you get burned out. I don't know. So two
hours we had been told the show is exactly two hours.
It's very well rehearsed. The songs line up with what's
(27:14):
on the screen. The whole this is the whole act.
And I'm not saying that's criticize. I think it's pretty cool.
At one hour twenty eight minutes. I know because I
looked at my watch. They finished their last song, and
they turned and they walked off the stage, whereupon everyone
stood up and proceeded to clap. And if you dropped
(27:39):
a bomb on the Sphere in Las Vegas at that time,
I'm not saying you would have taken out every white
seventy year old man in America. But you'd have made
a dent because they were all right here right now,
and they were gone for about thirty to forty five
(28:00):
seconds standard. Everyone cheered in hopes that they might come back.
But we're at one hour and twenty eight minutes. He
said they were going to play for two hours. Everyone
knows they're going to play for two hours. It's been
basically advertised. Nobody's sick, you know. It's a daily report,
(28:20):
like an injury report on the Eagles, because at this
age you have to do that. And so within a
minute they come back out and everyone cheers, but it's
not really the cheers of oh my god, I can't
believe they come back out. It's the requisite cheers that
(28:44):
are sort of like a lifetime achievement award. Right, a
lifetime achievement award is not the same as that first
major award, first number one hit, when you're still young
and everything is fresh. A lifetime achievement of war worries.
It's a slow burn. It's a calmer moment. It's sanguine,
(29:08):
it's it's it's thoughtful, it's measured because it comes with
some scars, right, It comes with some time, and it's enjoyed,
but it's enjoyed maybe with creaky bones and a little
bit calmer disposition. So they cheered, and the band came
(29:31):
back out and they started to play again, and Vince
Gil sang the Eagle songs occasional. Don Henley and Deacon Fry,
who's Lynn Fry's son, sang some and Joe Walsh did
Lissman good to Me so Far, which he's very old
and it's very hard for It's not an easy song
(29:52):
to sing, very hard for him to sing. But I
enjoyed it. But I can't help but think. You know
what that moment? You know the all the worlds of stage? Right,
you heard that phrase. You might not get quote it
by wrote, but you remember it from English class, or
maybe you just heard reference to it. It's Shakespeare. It's
(30:16):
from as you like it. All the worlds of stage,
and all the men and women merely players. They have.
He did not steal that from elness. They have their
exits and their entrances. And one man in his time
(30:39):
plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. The point
of this phrase is that there is a song and
dance that has become a ritual devoid of the actual meaning.
(31:02):
It's not impromptu, it's not organic, it's not authentic, it's
not real. And that's okay because everybody's playing along. In hell,
we're in it too. We're in the business. What I
got to tell you. Sometimes I put my head on
the pillow and say, do the people realize that this
(31:23):
is all sport? And it'd be okay if it was sport,
if everybody was playing to win, But this is this
is the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals. It's actually
just sport as entertainment. Everybody knows they're cue. We know
(31:45):
who's going to score, and when they're gonna score, we
know who's gonna look the fool. And we're gonna do
this day after day after day after day, and all
the little ants are out here seeking the clout, getting
more clicks.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I got the breaking news over here.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Hey guys, look over here, and then I'll get ten
emails from listeners, so we'll say, hey, how comeing out?
I just over here because it is not as important.
That's what we're talking over here. It seems to me
us I watched it last night, and then you got
the other guy he's been kicked off the network, and
this guy he's on the network, and it just, I
don't know, it just feels like the greatest nation on
(32:20):
Earth just feels like we should be better than this.
So here we are talking about a government shut down
and everyone knows it's a silly little game. Shut it down, seriously,
shut it down. Shut the whole damn thing down, and
(32:40):
don't open it up again. Now that that'd be a play,
I'd like to see
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Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.