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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and low. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What we've got here is failure, mil kate.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past and didn't you know, may not
have even known that. You know, America firsters pac Madison
Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi
Germany rally.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You said over the weekend, referring to it, there's a
direct parallel to a big rally that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Happened in the mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square Garden.
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes?
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating down there is just supporters.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
His demonizational scene is unconstable, and.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorable.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
You know, that's a little bit old, that shot that
sharts a couple of months old.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And if you want to really see.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Something, that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We bleed the same blood.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
We share the same home, and we salute the same
great American flag.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We are one people, one family.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
And one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims
and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining
our cores and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever
seen in this country before, larger than they've ever I've
seen in any country. And the Republican Party has really
(02:04):
become the Party of inclusion, and that's something very nice
about that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Can we just take a moment. I'm fifty four. If
you were my age, GNR was our Beatles. I don't
need to hear it from you that grew up with
the Beatles. I'm just telling you. GNR was ubiquitous. They
were everywhere all the time. You listened to them on
(02:30):
the radio. You it was really the only place you
could get music back then. Somebody maybe had a cassette tape.
If you were in a public place, if there was
a festival, if there was a sporting event, man, it
was GNR actual road. I mean it was. They were
so darn big. It is hard to imagine. I mean,
(02:54):
I don't know who's that big today because the eighties
had brought in this this a new wave, which was
just basically a shaving the edges off of disco and
calling it pop, but it was really disco. You can
(03:15):
go back and look at it mathematically, the way the
music is structured, so many the glam version of it. Anyway,
we didn't. We're going to talk about terrorism in America today,
which is what's going on across the country, who's funding it,
how it should be dealt with, why it matters. But
(03:38):
first I want to take you back to nineteen eighty
eight because we're also in about that era, in that mode.
In nineteen eighty eight, the largest grossing film of the
year was rain Man. Follow Me Here for a Moment.
Rainman was nominated for eight awards at the sixty first
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Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman,
Best Original screenpay Play. I am not a Tom Cruise fan,
not at all, but I think he is so good
in Tropic Thunder, in a role that's outside the norm
for him, which is why I like it, and it's awesome.
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And I think he is so good in rain Men.
He's got you so twisted off, bent out of shape,
aggravated by his character in rain Man that you almost
wonder if they starved him of sleep and food for
days to get him that edgy to play that role.
(04:49):
The movie is so incredibly good, it's just wonderful. It's
such a frame of reference. You know, if Judge Watner's
name is mentioned, or if somebody is just too locked
in on doing something at a certain time and refuses
to be the character that was Dustin Hawkman in that film,
(05:15):
it really moves the conversation forward because it gives you
a frame of reference to talk about certain obsessive, compulsive behaviors.
That was before we started referring to people, including ourselves,
as somewhere on the spectrum, which I think most people
are somewhere on the spectrum, including and especially high performing individuals.
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Elon Musk is way out there on the spectrum. But
then again, you're not a normal guy if you build
Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink and the Boring Company and
everything that he's done, and you want to father a
bunch of kids to you know, further the race or
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the species or whatever else. But thank God for him,
we need people like that. They move They moved the
ball forward anyway, Dustin Hoffman's character was was really an
opportunity for us to kind of to put our arms
around and begin to grasp this concept of not even
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retardation because we had dealt with that, this concept of
people that are somewhere on the spectrum and yet still
able to function. But the reason I brought this up
is there is a scene in the movie where the
two of them are in the phone booth. Remember Tom
Cruise has basically kidnapped him, and they call back to
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the doctor. Remember that, and Dustin Hoffman farts. It's just
right after the farts scene in the phone booth.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Oh far, Charlie Babbot, I'm home far did you fart?
Did you fart? How can you stare in that my
own mind? How can you stand now?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The reason I told you that is I just learned
today that Dustin Hoffman did fart and it wasn't in
the script and they improvised that. How awesome is that?
Don't worry, we'll talk about the riots. I just want
to start with that because I think it's a great story.
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show, It's one of
my all time favorite songs, Just a great pure beautiful song,
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and yet I will play it for people and they
will always say, well, I know it's Frank Sinatra, come
back up again, ramon Joy beyond. I agree. It sounds something.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Like I can't wait, such a great era of music,
such a great style.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
See it's me, but it's Inglbert. When I was a kid,
I thought that was the coolest name ever. And you
got to figure, you know, usually like if you have
a Jewish name, a long Jewish name, an ashconasm name
from from Eastern Europe, Polish, Russian, lot, being Bulgarian, Czech,
(08:23):
they would shorten those, They'd take off all the consonants
at the end. Make it simple. You know you don't
you don't want people John Denver toda. You don't want
people to be intimidated of your name. Makes it hard
enough to get their attention with just your art. You
don't want to make it harder. You don't want to
make yourself less accessible to them. But the funny thing
about Engelbert Humperding is he did the opposite his real name.
(08:48):
Extra credit if you say it out loud, real quick,
Arnold George Dorsey. He actually started his profession career under
the name Gary Dorsey, which was close enough to his
real name, But then he found that he wanted to
(09:10):
make a splash, and so he came up with the
name Engelbert Humperdink, which was actually a real name of
a German composer. The composer you will know, whether you
knew his name or not, as the composer of the
opera Hanselin Gretlor Gretel. All right, enough of that to
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the real issue. So President Trump has redirected the focus
away from the actual street terrorists and the activities they're
engaged in, and instead focused on who's funding this, who's
organizing this. Now, I think this is where we have
to apply our big boy brain, and that means we
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have to pull ourselves back from the natural and very
predictable guttural visceral reaction to what we see. We are
an orderly people, We are a structured people. And when
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you look at cultures historically around the world, you think
of the Germans, who are very known for this. You
think of the Japanese who are incredibly well known for this.
The Germans and some of the German cultures in the Austrians,
(10:39):
for instance, the English. We like structure, we like organization.
We like rules and we want them followed. It gives
us comfort, and I will tell you that investors, for instance,
tend to follow the lead on this. International investors have
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long invested in the United States because there was stability, consistency,
rule of law. There is a greater upside in third
world countries because your year over year return you have
an opportunity to make more because the ceiling may not
be as high, but the floor is so low. Well.
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There are also cultures that are less orderly and structured. Historically,
that's been a problem in Africa. In terms of Europe,
that's less true. In Italy and France. They're not famous
for being structured and orderly. They're famous for being more artistic,
for having more sensibilities in the arts, for instance, as
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opposed to sort of the stereotypical German. Of course, there
are exceptions to all of these rules, but they tend
to be rather true. I visited Japan for the first
time at Christmas this past year, and it was amazing
the extent to which everything I have studied about Japan
going back thousands of years was just as true today.
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And I like it. You either love or hate Singapore
depending on how much you like the idea of structure, orderliness,
and cleanliness. All by way of saying, to the average
American watching what is happening in the streets, watching destruction
and mayhem and chaos and disorder, violence, lawlessness, we react
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in the same way you react if someone is abusing
a child or a dog, you react without thinking. Or
if there is a person stranded in a house, you
immediately want to go in and help. You want to
fix it, you want to change it. All of the
people who manipulate your behaviors on their behalf know that
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you feel this way. They know that these images play
out this way. Now, that's not to say that the
idiots who are engaged in the violence are completely operating
without understanding what they're doing. These are people who enjoy
If you watch how they strut down the street, they
feel like they are engaged in a great war. They're
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really really proud of themselves. They really are. They think
that they are doing something very important. They really and
they're enjoying it. Smashing stuff up, tearing stuff up, burning things.
They're part of a crowd. Yeah, ooh, it's like a
rave concert. Oh yeah, right, we're rolling this together. That's
the concert mentality what Trump is managing to do. And
(13:49):
we're going to talk in the next segment about why
that is. Is change you away from the anger that
you're naturally feeling there, which is healthy. It's important because
the less has to support that, and that drags them
into being associated the filth with these types of people,
and that makes Middle America think you're not like me,
You're weird. I can't support you. But now we've moved
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the focus to the financiers and the coordinators. The reason
that's important is because a it makes everyone understand what
you're seeing is not grassroots up, it's top down. That's
the way the left operates. But it also gets to
how you actually stop this. If the goal is to
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stop the nonsense, there is an argument to be made.
You may or may not agree with it, but there
is an argument that's being made, and I've heard it
made at the top levels of our government today, that
you stop this at the top, you cut off the
head of the snake. You don't stop it as it's
popping up as little flash fires in city after city.
You're talking about, Well, I'm sorry to and I'll have
(15:01):
to hear from some of you, but I'll block you.
It'll be fine. I thought you weren't a breaking news show.
We're not, but this one hits, and so we have
to tell you. Brian Douglas Wilson has passed earlier today
at eighty two years old. In nine days it would
have been eighty three. And we've talked a lot more
about music today than we normally do. And if I
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had my way, we talk about music all the time,
and how it affects our lives and our culture, and
how it's a representation of art, and how we once
had great poets and now we call them songwriters, and
you know the artistry behind musicianship and instruments. But I
realize I do that on the morning show. I realize
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on the evening show that most of the cases where
you hear us, if you listen to the radio, we
are in a lineup of traditional talk that is consistently
about what's going on in Washington, d C. And what
Fox News is covering. So I try to handcuff my
self and play within the rules. But I must say this.
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The Barenaked Ladies tribute to Brian Wilson's one of the
greatest tributes in all of music. I believe that. I
know it's hard to put Barenked Ladies in anything real
serious to start with because of their name, but I
think it's fantastic, partly because I think Brian Wilson is
one of the greatest American artists of all time. Songwriter, singer, vocalists,
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the concept of vocal layering that any of which you
saw for decades. He sort of pioneered the idea that
the Beatles basically worshiped him, as did every other artist
for decades. The influence he had not just on the
Beach Boys, but on American and britpop for decades, really
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extending into today. Those beautiful harmonies, the blood harmonies early
on incredible for a lot of you out there, The Beatles,
the Beatles, the uh easy to get them mixed up
pet sounds and and and the Beach Boys. That was
your teenage years, that was your your growing up. That's
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the soundtrack of your life. And you know, at the
older I've gotten, the more I embraced the fact that
sometimes people are troubled and what troubles them may be
part of what makes them great in an odd way,
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and that's an that's a that's a weird deal. It
really is. And and you wonder what they have been
happy just being normal like the rest of us. Brian
Wilson was not normal. He was cursed with with this
incredible artistic sensibility. Uh, he was also cursed with with
incredible instability emotionally and and he had a difficult life
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because of it. But we're the better for his art.
And I'll leave it there. So let's talk about why
President Trump is focusing now on the people who are
coordinating and funding these protests. Oacom's razor would tell you
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that the simplest answer to get you from A to
B is he wants the protest to be over because
they're not good for our country. They look bad. They
arguably reduce his stature when he goes abroad, your country's
on fire, it doesn't look good. It distracts from his agenda.
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He's got the one big, beautiful bill he's trying to
get past. He's got reforms. He wants to make advancements
in normalizing and legitimizing crypto. He wants to drive inflation down,
in the standard of living up. He wants to ensure
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our energy supply is secured. There are things he wants
to do that are very important. He wants to stabilize
our trade relations by making them more appropriate in defending
American interests. He wants to bring an end to the
war in Ukraine and Putin. There's a meme going around
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where putin it's Putent offering to resolve the dispute between
Elon and Trump. These things are distractions from a very
important agenda. And you only have a few days that
you're president. It's not many in the life of the republic.
It's not many at all. And he wants he wants
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to be a president of accomplishment. It's very important to him.
He's not there to get to be president. He's there
to be a man of great accomplishment. And these things
distract him by shining a light on the people with
more to loose. Look, you can put these guys in
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their graves that are down there running their motorcycles into
the cops, and there's another one ready to step up.
These are not smart people. These are people who get
tattoos on their face and don't even think about the
fact that they're going to regret it. These are people
who don't have career options, professional options. Most of them
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are unstable. They may or may not be seeing three
therapists right now. These are people who are making all
sorts of bad life decisions, fathering children they don't raise,
or laying down with men and having children by them
when you know the dad won't be around. These are
hard people to wrangle, so other than killing them or
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putting them in prison, there's not a lot you can do.
And there are a lot of them, but to be clear,
they can't operate without organization. There may be more of them,
but you withdraw the funding and you withdraw the direction.
They are actually a hierarchical structure. CNN and Fox and
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all these people are following these folks, and that gives
them more legitimacy. Right, I'm on TV all day. You
ever been in a movie, I mean, you're excited, look
at me on the big screen. So they're out there.
They're being filmed all day. So it keeps them going,
it sustains them and invigorates them. But if you watch,
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there's guys with bullhorns and they're running things. All right, guys,
keep moving, keep moving, move over here, all we're gonna
go over here. We're gonna turn down here. Those are
KPO's within new organization. What Trump is trying to do now,
which is less about winning over the public's support of
how you deal with the protest, is bringing the protest
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to an end. He is threatening the Chrissy Waltons, He
is threatening the Walton family heir and the George Soros says,
And believe it or not, those people have a lot
to lose, and they are mindful. They love playing the
game with their steads, with their proxies out in the street.
When that turns on them, you'll watch them reduce to puddles.
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They have the best lawyer's money can buy. They don't
want Trump turning the artillery on them figuratively, not literally.
They certainly don't want it literally. But watching C, watching C,
and I wouldn't be shocked if you don't see some results,
if you don't see some things changing. So what the
President is doing, while it's less gratifying because it's slower moving,
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is he's focusing on shutting off the supply chain, because
the supply chain starts at the top, not at the bottom.
And let's hope it's successful.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You've got the Michael Berry Show, the passing that Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Is noteworthy on many levels, his musical acumen, his influence
on culture. You know, isn't it interesting the early sixties
that brought us the Beach Boys, through the mid sixties
and into the seventies, and Brian Wilson would go in
and out of the Beach Boys as he wouldn't join
them on tour. He was suffering a mental struggle, a collapse,
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a depression, and yet he continued to write throughout all
of that. But he glamorized California culture, the Beach Boys,
the beach culture, the convertible soaking up the sun, the
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beautiful people, and the whole world wanted to come to
California to experience this culture. Fast forward sixty years, It's
not that California anymore. It's illegal aliens who want to
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burn the place down. It's illegal aliens declaring that Mexico
owns this and so you need to get out of
the way because they own it, because somehow they're Mexican
even though they live here, and there's going to be
a reconquista. It's violence, it's bloodshed, it's burnings, it's third
world country standards. A bunch of people from the Third
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World engaged in third world behaviors, making California look like
a third world country. There's no law, there's no order,
there's no stability. It's filth and fire. You've got the
guy riding in the motorcycle with a face mask on,
hoisting the Mexican flag. The passing of Brian Wilson reflects
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in that sense not to be two over the top,
a passing of a generation. My dad's eighty five, Brian
Wilson eighty two, a passing of a generation in the
world that they lived in, a world that in the
sixties they were coming of age, going to work making
their mark, whether it be as a maintenance worker at
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DuPont and Orange, or as a songwriter, artist, or doctor, engineer, architect,
small business owner, army ranger, navy sailor. It really is
a moment to take stock and ask yourself, how did
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we end up in this situation? What role do we play?
What role does Brian Wilson's generation play. I'll tell you
this that guilt is our worst enemy. Guilt is the
tool that the Left used to pry you away from
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your natural heritage, from your common sense, from your culture,
from your ancestry from the pride and who you are.
Pride such an interesting word. Here we are, It's Pride month.
We made a little Pride month reference, did Darryl Kunda
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on our team, to reflect the fact that, Yeah, June
is pride month for us too.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
It's pride month at our grade country and here at
the Michael Berry Show, we embrace it, we celebrate it,
we honor it pride. On June twenty first, seventeen eighty eight,
the US Constitution was officially ratified Pride That. On June second,
eighteen sixty five, the Civil War officially ended Pride that.
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On June fourth, nineteen nineteen, Congress passed the nineteenth Amendment
granting women the right of a And shall we never
forget d Day June sixth, nineteen forty four, the.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Bravest men of all generations storm the beaches of Normandy
and what would be.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
The largest troop invasion in military history.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So celebrate pride.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Whatever that means to you, but always give thanks to
those before us who gave everything for the Red, white,
and blue.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So how did we end up with our cities on fire?
How didn't we end up with police chiefs who won't
do much, if anything about it, because they report to
mayors who will defend those people and leave officers to die.
How did we end up with governors who refused to
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send in the national Guard to keep their largest city safe,
second largest city in America safe, all the while they
would send in the national Guard or law enforcement officers
to harass Christian schools or schools who wouldn't mask two
year olds or Americans Californians who were just following the
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law but didn't vote Democrat. How did we end up there?
And the thing it's important that we ask ourselves a question.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
When you say, yeah, I'd like to go back nineteen
sixty five and Brian Wilson, I like to go back
to the way things used to be. I like to
go back to when we had, oh, I don't know,
when you could call customer service and they spoke English
and they were located in America. I like to go
back to when the hardware store was locally owned. I'd
like to go back to fill in the blank. Companies
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didn't preach it me.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Look, it's not very popular for me to say it's
good to have a boogeyman that is somewhere over there
that we point to as the problem. That's what Palestinians
are raised to believe. Yeah, I know we don't have
running water in our hovel, but it's those damned Jews.
So your job is to grow up and kill those
damn Jews. I don't think that damn Jews, or why
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you don't have running water. I don't think the damn Jews,
or why the man who fathered you died in a
kamikaze attack where the bombs trapped to him. I don't
think anybody bothers to remember his name. I don't think
that's the reason this kid can't eat. It's because his
dad was a dumb ass. I think it's important that
we not just blame everybody else, and we start asking
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ourselves the question. Sure the communists are out there, Sure
they're doing everything they can to destroy our way of life.
Sure they have plenty of foot soldiers. But how did
we get there? How did we get to the point
that Republicans allowed illegal immigration didn't do anything about it.
How did we get to the point that Democrats did.
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How did we get to the point that our schools
were lost, our universities were lost. I'll tell you how
we got there because we weren't as rough and tough
as our fathers and their fathers before them. Brian Wilson's
generation was not as tough as his father's generation because
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what we were taught to believe was white supremacists or
evil or backward or well, you know, that's how things
were back then. Many of those things were better, law
and order. You got out of line, you were dealt with. Yeah,
we don't want to do that. We don't want to
raise our kids like that. What like we were raised,
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why don't we raise our kids away we were raised?
Were we raised wrong? Well, my dad pulled his belt out,
whoop my butt? Well, how come you don't whip your
kids butt? Well, you know you can't nowadays? Who says,
why did we allow the left to win? And if
we admit we've allowed the left to win up until now,
why don't we starting tomorrow prevent the left from winning?
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Do you know why Donald Trump is so damn popular
because he's saying what we all believe and most of us, frankly,
aren't living in our own lives,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and low. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What we've got here is failure, mil kate.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past and didn't you know, may not
have even known that. You know, America firsters pac Madison
Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi
Germany rally.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You said over the weekend, referring to it, there's a
direct parallel to a big rally that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Happened in the mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square Garden.
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes?
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating down there is just supporters.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
His demonizational scene is unconstable, and.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorable.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
You know, that's a little bit old, that shot that
sharts a couple of months old.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And if you want to really see.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Something, that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We bleed the same blood.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
We share the same home, and we salute the same
great American flag.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We are one people, one family.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
And one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims
and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining
our cores and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever
seen in this country before, larger than they've ever I've
seen in any country. And the Republican Party has really
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become the Party of inclusion, and that's something very nice
about that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Can we just take a moment. I'm fifty four. If
you were my age, GNR was our Beatles. I don't
need to hear it from you that grew up with
the Beatles. I'm just telling you. GNR was ubiquitous. They
were everywhere all the time. You listened to them on
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the radio. You it was really the only place you
could get music back then. Somebody maybe had a cassette tape.
If you were in a public place, if there was
a festival, if there was a sporting event, man, it
was GNR actual road. I mean it was. They were
so darn big. It is hard to imagine. I mean,
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I don't know who's that big today because the eighties
had brought in this this a new wave, which was
just basically a shaving the edges off of disco and
calling it pop, but it was really disco. You can
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go back and look at it mathematically, the way the
music is structured, so many the glam version of it. Anyway,
we didn't. We're going to talk about terrorism in America today,
which is what's going on across the country, who's funding it,
how it should be dealt with, why it matters. But
(03:38):
first I want to take you back to nineteen eighty
eight because we're also in about that era, in that mode.
In nineteen eighty eight, the largest grossing film of the
year was rain Man. Follow Me Here for a Moment.
Rainman was nominated for eight awards at the sixty first
(04:05):
Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman,
Best Original screenpay Play. I am not a Tom Cruise fan,
not at all, but I think he is so good
in Tropic Thunder, in a role that's outside the norm
for him, which is why I like it, and it's awesome.
(04:25):
And I think he is so good in rain Men.
He's got you so twisted off, bent out of shape,
aggravated by his character in rain Man that you almost
wonder if they starved him of sleep and food for
days to get him that edgy to play that role.
(04:49):
The movie is so incredibly good, it's just wonderful. It's
such a frame of reference. You know, if Judge Watner's
name is mentioned, or if somebody is just too locked
in on doing something at a certain time and refuses
to be the character that was Dustin Hawkman in that film,
(05:15):
it really moves the conversation forward because it gives you
a frame of reference to talk about certain obsessive, compulsive behaviors.
That was before we started referring to people, including ourselves,
as somewhere on the spectrum, which I think most people
are somewhere on the spectrum, including and especially high performing individuals.
(05:41):
Elon Musk is way out there on the spectrum. But
then again, you're not a normal guy if you build
Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink and the Boring Company and
everything that he's done, and you want to father a
bunch of kids to you know, further the race or
(06:02):
the species or whatever else. But thank God for him,
we need people like that. They move They moved the
ball forward anyway, Dustin Hoffman's character was was really an
opportunity for us to kind of to put our arms
around and begin to grasp this concept of not even
(06:26):
retardation because we had dealt with that, this concept of
people that are somewhere on the spectrum and yet still
able to function. But the reason I brought this up
is there is a scene in the movie where the
two of them are in the phone booth. Remember Tom
Cruise has basically kidnapped him, and they call back to
(06:47):
the doctor. Remember that, and Dustin Hoffman farts. It's just
right after the farts scene in the phone booth.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Oh far, Charlie Babbot, I'm home far did you fart?
Did you fart? How can you stare in that my
own mind? How can you stand now?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The reason I told you that is I just learned
today that Dustin Hoffman did fart and it wasn't in
the script and they improvised that. How awesome is that?
Don't worry, we'll talk about the riots. I just want
to start with that because I think it's a great story.
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show, It's one of
my all time favorite songs, Just a great pure beautiful song,
(07:35):
and yet I will play it for people and they
will always say, well, I know it's Frank Sinatra, come
back up again, ramon Joy beyond. I agree. It sounds something.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Like I can't wait, such a great era of music,
such a great style.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
See it's me, but it's Inglbert. When I was a kid,
I thought that was the coolest name ever. And you
got to figure, you know, usually like if you have
a Jewish name, a long Jewish name, an ashconasm name
from from Eastern Europe, Polish, Russian, lot, being Bulgarian, Czech,
(08:23):
they would shorten those, They'd take off all the consonants
at the end. Make it simple. You know you don't
you don't want people John Denver toda. You don't want
people to be intimidated of your name. Makes it hard
enough to get their attention with just your art. You
don't want to make it harder. You don't want to
make yourself less accessible to them. But the funny thing
about Engelbert Humperding is he did the opposite his real name.
(08:48):
Extra credit if you say it out loud, real quick,
Arnold George Dorsey. He actually started his profession career under
the name Gary Dorsey, which was close enough to his
real name, But then he found that he wanted to
(09:10):
make a splash, and so he came up with the
name Engelbert Humperdink, which was actually a real name of
a German composer. The composer you will know, whether you
knew his name or not, as the composer of the
opera Hanselin Gretlor Gretel. All right, enough of that to
(09:34):
the real issue. So President Trump has redirected the focus
away from the actual street terrorists and the activities they're
engaged in, and instead focused on who's funding this, who's
organizing this. Now, I think this is where we have
to apply our big boy brain, and that means we
(09:56):
have to pull ourselves back from the natural and very
predictable guttural visceral reaction to what we see. We are
an orderly people, We are a structured people. And when
(10:18):
you look at cultures historically around the world, you think
of the Germans, who are very known for this. You
think of the Japanese who are incredibly well known for this.
The Germans and some of the German cultures in the Austrians,
(10:39):
for instance, the English. We like structure, we like organization.
We like rules and we want them followed. It gives
us comfort, and I will tell you that investors, for instance,
tend to follow the lead on this. International investors have
(11:03):
long invested in the United States because there was stability, consistency,
rule of law. There is a greater upside in third
world countries because your year over year return you have
an opportunity to make more because the ceiling may not
be as high, but the floor is so low. Well.
(11:28):
There are also cultures that are less orderly and structured. Historically,
that's been a problem in Africa. In terms of Europe,
that's less true. In Italy and France. They're not famous
for being structured and orderly. They're famous for being more artistic,
for having more sensibilities in the arts, for instance, as
(11:54):
opposed to sort of the stereotypical German. Of course, there
are exceptions to all of these rules, but they tend
to be rather true. I visited Japan for the first
time at Christmas this past year, and it was amazing
the extent to which everything I have studied about Japan
going back thousands of years was just as true today.
(12:18):
And I like it. You either love or hate Singapore
depending on how much you like the idea of structure, orderliness,
and cleanliness. All by way of saying, to the average
American watching what is happening in the streets, watching destruction
and mayhem and chaos and disorder, violence, lawlessness, we react
(12:45):
in the same way you react if someone is abusing
a child or a dog, you react without thinking. Or
if there is a person stranded in a house, you
immediately want to go in and help. You want to
fix it, you want to change it. All of the
people who manipulate your behaviors on their behalf know that
(13:06):
you feel this way. They know that these images play
out this way. Now, that's not to say that the
idiots who are engaged in the violence are completely operating
without understanding what they're doing. These are people who enjoy
If you watch how they strut down the street, they
feel like they are engaged in a great war. They're
(13:27):
really really proud of themselves. They really are. They think
that they are doing something very important. They really and
they're enjoying it. Smashing stuff up, tearing stuff up, burning things.
They're part of a crowd. Yeah, ooh, it's like a
rave concert. Oh yeah, right, we're rolling this together. That's
the concert mentality what Trump is managing to do. And
(13:49):
we're going to talk in the next segment about why
that is. Is change you away from the anger that
you're naturally feeling there, which is healthy. It's important because
the less has to support that, and that drags them
into being associated the filth with these types of people,
and that makes Middle America think you're not like me,
You're weird. I can't support you. But now we've moved
(14:12):
the focus to the financiers and the coordinators. The reason
that's important is because a it makes everyone understand what
you're seeing is not grassroots up, it's top down. That's
the way the left operates. But it also gets to
how you actually stop this. If the goal is to
(14:34):
stop the nonsense, there is an argument to be made.
You may or may not agree with it, but there
is an argument that's being made, and I've heard it
made at the top levels of our government today, that
you stop this at the top, you cut off the
head of the snake. You don't stop it as it's
popping up as little flash fires in city after city.
You're talking about, Well, I'm sorry to and I'll have
(15:01):
to hear from some of you, but I'll block you.
It'll be fine. I thought you weren't a breaking news show.
We're not, but this one hits, and so we have
to tell you. Brian Douglas Wilson has passed earlier today
at eighty two years old. In nine days it would
have been eighty three. And we've talked a lot more
about music today than we normally do. And if I
(15:21):
had my way, we talk about music all the time,
and how it affects our lives and our culture, and
how it's a representation of art, and how we once
had great poets and now we call them songwriters, and
you know the artistry behind musicianship and instruments. But I
realize I do that on the morning show. I realize
(15:42):
on the evening show that most of the cases where
you hear us, if you listen to the radio, we
are in a lineup of traditional talk that is consistently
about what's going on in Washington, d C. And what
Fox News is covering. So I try to handcuff my
self and play within the rules. But I must say this.
(16:04):
The Barenaked Ladies tribute to Brian Wilson's one of the
greatest tributes in all of music. I believe that. I
know it's hard to put Barenked Ladies in anything real
serious to start with because of their name, but I
think it's fantastic, partly because I think Brian Wilson is
one of the greatest American artists of all time. Songwriter, singer, vocalists,
(16:25):
the concept of vocal layering that any of which you
saw for decades. He sort of pioneered the idea that
the Beatles basically worshiped him, as did every other artist
for decades. The influence he had not just on the
Beach Boys, but on American and britpop for decades, really
(16:50):
extending into today. Those beautiful harmonies, the blood harmonies early
on incredible for a lot of you out there, The Beatles,
the Beatles, the uh easy to get them mixed up
pet sounds and and and the Beach Boys. That was
your teenage years, that was your your growing up. That's
(17:14):
the soundtrack of your life. And you know, at the
older I've gotten, the more I embraced the fact that
sometimes people are troubled and what troubles them may be
part of what makes them great in an odd way,
(17:34):
and that's an that's a that's a weird deal. It
really is. And and you wonder what they have been
happy just being normal like the rest of us. Brian
Wilson was not normal. He was cursed with with this
incredible artistic sensibility. Uh, he was also cursed with with
incredible instability emotionally and and he had a difficult life
(17:57):
because of it. But we're the better for his art.
And I'll leave it there. So let's talk about why
President Trump is focusing now on the people who are
coordinating and funding these protests. Oacom's razor would tell you
(18:17):
that the simplest answer to get you from A to
B is he wants the protest to be over because
they're not good for our country. They look bad. They
arguably reduce his stature when he goes abroad, your country's
on fire, it doesn't look good. It distracts from his agenda.
(18:39):
He's got the one big, beautiful bill he's trying to
get past. He's got reforms. He wants to make advancements
in normalizing and legitimizing crypto. He wants to drive inflation down,
in the standard of living up. He wants to ensure
(19:00):
our energy supply is secured. There are things he wants
to do that are very important. He wants to stabilize
our trade relations by making them more appropriate in defending
American interests. He wants to bring an end to the
war in Ukraine and Putin. There's a meme going around
(19:21):
where putin it's Putent offering to resolve the dispute between
Elon and Trump. These things are distractions from a very
important agenda. And you only have a few days that
you're president. It's not many in the life of the republic.
It's not many at all. And he wants he wants
(19:42):
to be a president of accomplishment. It's very important to him.
He's not there to get to be president. He's there
to be a man of great accomplishment. And these things
distract him by shining a light on the people with
more to loose. Look, you can put these guys in
(20:03):
their graves that are down there running their motorcycles into
the cops, and there's another one ready to step up.
These are not smart people. These are people who get
tattoos on their face and don't even think about the
fact that they're going to regret it. These are people
who don't have career options, professional options. Most of them
(20:23):
are unstable. They may or may not be seeing three
therapists right now. These are people who are making all
sorts of bad life decisions, fathering children they don't raise,
or laying down with men and having children by them
when you know the dad won't be around. These are
hard people to wrangle, so other than killing them or
(20:47):
putting them in prison, there's not a lot you can do.
And there are a lot of them, but to be clear,
they can't operate without organization. There may be more of them,
but you withdraw the funding and you withdraw the direction.
They are actually a hierarchical structure. CNN and Fox and
(21:10):
all these people are following these folks, and that gives
them more legitimacy. Right, I'm on TV all day. You
ever been in a movie, I mean, you're excited, look
at me on the big screen. So they're out there.
They're being filmed all day. So it keeps them going,
it sustains them and invigorates them. But if you watch,
(21:33):
there's guys with bullhorns and they're running things. All right, guys,
keep moving, keep moving, move over here, all we're gonna
go over here. We're gonna turn down here. Those are
KPO's within new organization. What Trump is trying to do now,
which is less about winning over the public's support of
how you deal with the protest, is bringing the protest
(21:54):
to an end. He is threatening the Chrissy Waltons, He
is threatening the Walton family heir and the George Soros says,
And believe it or not, those people have a lot
to lose, and they are mindful. They love playing the
game with their steads, with their proxies out in the street.
When that turns on them, you'll watch them reduce to puddles.
(22:18):
They have the best lawyer's money can buy. They don't
want Trump turning the artillery on them figuratively, not literally.
They certainly don't want it literally. But watching C, watching C,
and I wouldn't be shocked if you don't see some results,
if you don't see some things changing. So what the
President is doing, while it's less gratifying because it's slower moving,
(22:41):
is he's focusing on shutting off the supply chain, because
the supply chain starts at the top, not at the bottom.
And let's hope it's successful.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You've got the Michael Berry Show, the passing that Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Is noteworthy on many levels, his musical acumen, his influence
on culture. You know, isn't it interesting the early sixties
that brought us the Beach Boys, through the mid sixties
and into the seventies, and Brian Wilson would go in
and out of the Beach Boys as he wouldn't join
them on tour. He was suffering a mental struggle, a collapse,
(23:23):
a depression, and yet he continued to write throughout all
of that. But he glamorized California culture, the Beach Boys,
the beach culture, the convertible soaking up the sun, the
(23:44):
beautiful people, and the whole world wanted to come to
California to experience this culture. Fast forward sixty years, It's
not that California anymore. It's illegal aliens who want to
(24:08):
burn the place down. It's illegal aliens declaring that Mexico
owns this and so you need to get out of
the way because they own it, because somehow they're Mexican
even though they live here, and there's going to be
a reconquista. It's violence, it's bloodshed, it's burnings, it's third
world country standards. A bunch of people from the Third
(24:32):
World engaged in third world behaviors, making California look like
a third world country. There's no law, there's no order,
there's no stability. It's filth and fire. You've got the
guy riding in the motorcycle with a face mask on,
hoisting the Mexican flag. The passing of Brian Wilson reflects
(24:58):
in that sense not to be two over the top,
a passing of a generation. My dad's eighty five, Brian
Wilson eighty two, a passing of a generation in the
world that they lived in, a world that in the
sixties they were coming of age, going to work making
their mark, whether it be as a maintenance worker at
(25:20):
DuPont and Orange, or as a songwriter, artist, or doctor, engineer, architect,
small business owner, army ranger, navy sailor. It really is
a moment to take stock and ask yourself, how did
(25:41):
we end up in this situation? What role do we play?
What role does Brian Wilson's generation play. I'll tell you
this that guilt is our worst enemy. Guilt is the
tool that the Left used to pry you away from
(26:01):
your natural heritage, from your common sense, from your culture,
from your ancestry from the pride and who you are.
Pride such an interesting word. Here we are, It's Pride month.
We made a little Pride month reference, did Darryl Kunda
(26:22):
on our team, to reflect the fact that, Yeah, June
is pride month for us too.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
It's pride month at our grade country and here at
the Michael Berry Show, we embrace it, we celebrate it,
we honor it pride. On June twenty first, seventeen eighty eight,
the US Constitution was officially ratified Pride That. On June second,
eighteen sixty five, the Civil War officially ended Pride that.
(26:53):
On June fourth, nineteen nineteen, Congress passed the nineteenth Amendment
granting women the right of a And shall we never
forget d Day June sixth, nineteen forty four, the.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Bravest men of all generations storm the beaches of Normandy
and what would be.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
The largest troop invasion in military history.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So celebrate pride.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Whatever that means to you, but always give thanks to
those before us who gave everything for the Red, white,
and blue.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
So how did we end up with our cities on fire?
How didn't we end up with police chiefs who won't
do much, if anything about it, because they report to
mayors who will defend those people and leave officers to die.
How did we end up with governors who refused to
(28:04):
send in the national Guard to keep their largest city safe,
second largest city in America safe, all the while they
would send in the national Guard or law enforcement officers
to harass Christian schools or schools who wouldn't mask two
year olds or Americans Californians who were just following the
(28:28):
law but didn't vote Democrat. How did we end up there?
And the thing it's important that we ask ourselves a question.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
When you say, yeah, I'd like to go back nineteen
sixty five and Brian Wilson, I like to go back
to the way things used to be. I like to
go back to when we had, oh, I don't know,
when you could call customer service and they spoke English
and they were located in America. I like to go
back to when the hardware store was locally owned. I'd
like to go back to fill in the blank. Companies
(29:00):
didn't preach it me.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Look, it's not very popular for me to say it's
good to have a boogeyman that is somewhere over there
that we point to as the problem. That's what Palestinians
are raised to believe. Yeah, I know we don't have
running water in our hovel, but it's those damned Jews.
So your job is to grow up and kill those
damn Jews. I don't think that damn Jews, or why
(29:25):
you don't have running water. I don't think the damn Jews,
or why the man who fathered you died in a
kamikaze attack where the bombs trapped to him. I don't
think anybody bothers to remember his name. I don't think
that's the reason this kid can't eat. It's because his
dad was a dumb ass. I think it's important that
we not just blame everybody else, and we start asking
(29:47):
ourselves the question. Sure the communists are out there, Sure
they're doing everything they can to destroy our way of life.
Sure they have plenty of foot soldiers. But how did
we get there? How did we get to the point
that Republicans allowed illegal immigration didn't do anything about it.
How did we get to the point that Democrats did.
(30:08):
How did we get to the point that our schools
were lost, our universities were lost. I'll tell you how
we got there because we weren't as rough and tough
as our fathers and their fathers before them. Brian Wilson's
generation was not as tough as his father's generation because
(30:30):
what we were taught to believe was white supremacists or
evil or backward or well, you know, that's how things
were back then. Many of those things were better, law
and order. You got out of line, you were dealt with. Yeah,
we don't want to do that. We don't want to
raise our kids like that. What like we were raised,
(30:51):
why don't we raise our kids away we were raised?
Were we raised wrong? Well, my dad pulled his belt out,
whoop my butt? Well, how come you don't whip your
kids butt? Well, you know you can't nowadays? Who says,
why did we allow the left to win? And if
we admit we've allowed the left to win up until now,
why don't we starting tomorrow prevent the left from winning?
(31:14):
Do you know why Donald Trump is so damn popular
because he's saying what we all believe and most of us, frankly,
aren't living in our own lives,
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