April 11, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time lucking load. So Michael
Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh yes, yes, two six packs Shiner now and nine
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Speaker 4 (00:38):
Fifth U, patrol I s down, Netted Lue Cooler. Take
a guess at all the doer. I can feel a
good one coming on. Throw in a real wild cover,
single mound.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Red deck and any blues.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I have before another working week is over.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No chance staying sober.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
We gonna get the feeling around.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We gonna keep this higher.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I can feel the brig.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And yeah, I can feel a good one another.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh yes, let's begin the show with a little celebration.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Sometimes on our side, we're so good at opposing things.
We're fighting against things because we've had to at every turn.
It's like we're the Vishy underground, the French underground and
the Germans have occupied us, or we're the Polish underground.
We're having to fight back and pass messages and push
back here and do what we can in there. Sometimes
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we have to remember to celebrate our victories. Sometimes we
have to remember a lot of folks on our side
don't like to celebrate when we have a victory because
they think that we'll get fat and lazy and we
won't try any line. These are the people that if
your team is winning, that I want you to cheer
because you'll jinx them as if the fans up in
the stand have anything to do with what's happening on
the field. It's the silliest thing I've ever heard, and
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I don't listen to people when they do this because
it's the sad and desperate attempt to believe that you
have anything to do with what's happening on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because you need to feel like you're participating. You're not.
You're cheering. So whether you cheer.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Louder or not as loud when your team goes up
by ten is not going to effect whether they win
or lose. It's all an attempt to feel like you're
part of the process. Be part of the process. Be
the cheering section, because you're nothing more or less than
the cheering section. You're not jinxing your team. You think
you're the only person out there that may or may
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not jinx the team. Stop thinking about that for a moment.
How did you talk yourself into believing that you have
anything to do with whether the team wins or not.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So back to the point.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
So let's say we stop and celebrate. What do you
say the fact that we've got a solid cabinet, a
strong cabinet, a strong government, good people coming in from
the outside, the richest man alive to find all the
waste and fraud so that we can make this thing better.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It's true, We've got adults in the White House. Isn't
it awesome?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
All?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yea is Washington, DC has been a playground. The kids
were in charge, and the results broken toys, exploding budgets
and someone blushed the Constitution down an m say on,
but something's changing. Suddenly there are adults in the room.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I gat.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Under new leadership.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
We've installed real secretaries at real agencies, not influencers, not activists,
not someone whose only experience was tweeting about oppression from
their parents' beach house. We're talking about a secretary of
Energy who's seen a power plant and those which way
electrons flow. A secretary of Transportation who can find Ohio
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on a map, a secretary of education who thinks reading should.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Come before drag shows. The road is still long, the
swamp still smells, but for.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
The first time in a while, it feels like someone
brought a muff instead.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Of a selfie stick.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
The new Trump administration now hiring competence, no pronoun workshops,
no safe spaces, no book because America runs better when
it's run by a dunce.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
And let me say this lest I've not said it
most recently enough. There are a lot of people that
work very hard to put Trump back in the White House,
a lot of people that work very hard to keep
our Republican majority in the House, in the Senate. And
by giving them a victory lap doesn't mean they're going
to stop working. But a lot of these people are elderly.
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A lot of these people did it on their own dime.
A lot of these people went block walking in the neighborhood.
They contribute a dollar here, a dollar there, good honest, honorable,
decent people working hard to take back our country.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And that's you, and you know what, be proud of that.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Don't get so concerned about how bad things are that
you don't stop and take a moment to say, you
know what, we got a victory here because you did
now to get us started as we always do, courtesy
of the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi Nakanishi.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You we can review. He s got uncovered smothered chunks,
which means.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
I either scattered on the griddle, keeaped with brown onions, cheese,
and chunks of.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Perea smoked ham.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Y'all can stop sending me your hash brown comments. I
don't care that you like horse used to potatoes out there.
One of my friends said, whether to do potatoes, how
can you be against her? Well, I tell you, put
them in a blender and make potato juice out of it. Here,
here's your potato sludge. This is a potato smoothie.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That's gross.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Why'd you give me that? Well, it's potatoes. The point
is you got ten things you can do with potatoes.
Why would you ever get on your check down.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his run for Senate,
setting up one of the fiercest in our party campaign
battles in the years.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Certainly many things to focus on that he has not done,
And I think it's time that somebody hell of macalphas.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
John Cornan has betrayed Texas values for years.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Every six years.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
He comes home and puts on his John Wayne mccornan act,
hills about how.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He's got to go back Washington for us.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Half of our audience frighten, m oh cool. Finally you're
playing something for people under the age of eighty.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The other half turn off all that game music.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Suck talking about get back to talking about Trump.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Clearly, the madness is already in full swing.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
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Speaker 1 (07:20):
Playing for a spot in the Elite.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
Us in gets it in, gets it back, gets in
what way we would call Klutt City.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
They are the new Klutch City in Houston for the
Houston childers a flavorious truck back all film from the
moment tonight when everybody was watching. He prepared himself when
nobody was watching.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I had an odd sense, especially after what happened last year.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I think that this was going to be a special team.
And it was a special team. The Baldings.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
You're running for your algic.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
This is the Michael Berry Show. Yeah, that's the one.
We had some fun this morning.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I a little segment, it turned into more than a segment,
and I thought it might be a good opportunity about
to extend that this evening. President Trump in his if
you heard our interview with Sean Spicery yesterday, he's a
better president this term. He's been more effective in sixty
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days going on ninety days than he was as the
entirety of his first administration, because this time he just
decided to be the bull in a china shop. You
can't Washington doesn't get anything done. These people exist for
the sake of headlines. They don't want to accomplish anything.
They don't want to solve any problems. They just talk
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about them.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And he wants he.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Actually genuinely has a heart for America, who wants to
solve these problems. So he realized, I got to do
it by executive order. Biden did it, Obama did it.
I'm going to do it too, and they can squeal
all they want, I'm going to do it too. So
that's what he's been doing, and these executive order it's
the shower deal. Why did we allow this nonsense of
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the shower, which is so much more than just getting clean.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A shower is your meditation man.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
That was a great joy for the common man, getting
in the shower in a good high pressure hot shower
was a tree.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Take that away.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Remember the stupidity of the gas tank. Remember they put
the regulator valve on us. You had to sit there
and hold it because it was going to kill the earth.
It wasn't gonna kill anything.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Remember all that.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
So anyway, Scott Jennings was on CNN and he came
up with used two. We'd say, we're going to send
you to Siberia. That's what That's what the Russians would
send you when you were that was an exile. Now
we send you to El Salvador because we've outsourced our
prisons there and I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So with that context, he says.
Speaker 12 (10:22):
This, more than fifteen seconds at the coffee creamer bar
at the coffee shop.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Straight to L Salvador.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Two or more, walking side by side on a sidewalk,
You're gone El Salvador. Recline your seat on an airplane,
El Salvador, Disney adults, you're going to And finally, pronouns
in your email signature out of here.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Those are my eos.
Speaker 11 (10:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Pete Buttergig removed the pronouns in his emails because he's
getting ready to run for governor Michigan. It's like those
people have suddenly, all of a sudden, realized that their
freakishness went too far. Kem Jeffries this week saying we
have to secure the border. Wait, what I thought the
border was our strength. I thought all those illegal cartel
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members and people being trafficked and in fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Was making us better.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Look, I'm glad they're quoting what we said. I'm glad
they're coming around. We just have to make sure that
everyone remembers they didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Come by this.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Honestly, they got whipped in elections. They're freaks. The American
people turned against them. They are now picking up our
policies and announcing that they're for them.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
They're not.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
They don't believe them, not for one second. But it's important.
So what we're going to do now is open the
phone line seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Our emails are always open.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
You can go to Michael Berryshow dot com Michael Berryshow
dot com. And remember the phone lines are opened even
when we're not on the air. So at midnight tonight
and you get a wild hair and you want to
call it'll be used on the air, but we'd love
to hear from you. So that being said, Ramon's got
his whole popatop list, I mean his whole executive order list.
And we'll get to that in just a moment. Let's
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go to your calls. Will you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What is your executive order?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
My executive order is to sign.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
An executive order allowing every hard working man and woman
to enjoy that beer on Friday after.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Coming home, man and a man romo.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Can we get a little far at the top, you
know what? Will This one's for you, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Happy Friday.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Thank you buddy, Yes, sir, thank you. You know, for
those of you new to the show for years and years,
we do a We do a morning show and an
evening show. You are getting the evening show and Friday
morning we start with oh Happy Day. And we start
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the show by setting our balance, by centering ourselves and
know that I am god kind.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Of thing, a sort of prayerful mode of.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
A resounding sense of completeness and calm.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And I do that because people are on their way
into work. It's Friday. Let's have a good Friday.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Let's extend the weekend so that Friday is a happy day,
and that's why we started that. Then by the end
of the day, when people are headed home, we do
BlackBerry smoke and I can feel a good one coming on.
And the idea there was to pop a top crack
of beer on the drive home and relax, because I
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am mindful of the fact that the Friday drive home
is the bridge between your work, wife and what matters,
which is what's waiting for you at home.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And that was a way to reset the mood and
put a smile on. Put a smile on your face
and really focus on being that breath.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Of fresh air as you come blowing into the house,
so that your family is you know, your family does
not see the guy who comes home and complains about
the work he's already left.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You've already left work. Well, I complain about it, but.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Instead you come blowing in and pick the kids up
and swing them around and take mom and a dinner,
and let's take the kids out and go on the swing.
And and so the idea was to pop a top
to the end of the week and the journey. Now
there will be people who live in fear and love
to constantly be afraid of everything and getting in trouble
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over everything. It's a sad, sad, depressing, defeatist mentality, and
they'll say, oh, you ought not drink a beer. And
it's been my mentality for years that it is safer
for a person if they're going to have one beer
to have one beer on the drive home that's open container,
not drunk driving one beer and one beer only on
the drive home, than it is for them to stop
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at a bar. But in the state of Texas you
have to stop at a bar. You can't have an
open container, but you can stop at a bar and
have a beer, except you're never just going to have
one at a bar. You're going to have multiples, which
makes it more likely you're actually going to drive drunk.
One beer does not make you drunk. That's what people
seem to struggle with. And the only reason we have
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that rule is in the state of Texas in nineteen
ninety eight, before he ran for president in two thousand,
George W. Bush was hiding a DWI from twenty years before,
and so the way he was going to sort of
inoculate himself to that fact was to close off our
open container law. So it wasn't a good policy. It
was a way for him to run for president and
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cover his track. So anyway, here's to you, Papa. Top
to you after a long, hard week and being a great,
great person when you walk in the door in a breath. Official,
we're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Gulf of michael Berry, which has a beautiful room.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Before we get into the calls, we had a call
this week with shrimp boat Captain Tammy Hall, and this
fellow said it made his mouthwater. Not like that, Ramond,
don't be a weirdo. He's talking about the shrimp. The
shrimp had his mouthwater, and I'll be honest, it did
mine too, Man.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Michael That lady was talking about those ice boat with
the shrimp and you buy it right off the dock
and it's never frozen. Man, and my mama on the
way home from work, my mouth's all water because I
only eat golf shrimp. I live in Alabama and I
only eat golf shrimp. I don't eat none of that
other craft that. If you go to a restaurant, it
ain't from America unless they absolutely tell you this is
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this is golf shrimp. So that lady man, well, she's
making my mouthwater. But yeah, I only eat golf shrimp,
and I love to soak it in that fresh water
and then I'll fry or boil or bake it or
I don't even care. But man, when it ain't never frozen,
it's on those ice boats and you buy it fresh wool. Ooh, man,
it's making my mouth water. Appreciated, Michael, I have a
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good one.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
He's so right, our natural resources exploiting our natural resources.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Andy, you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your
executive order?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I would shut down Social Security for about a year.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Anybody that's over one hundred years old would be cut off.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
And when they get cut off, I'll pay them five thousand.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Dollars bonus for inconvenience if they let me know that
they got cut off.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Other than that, I don't.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Have to cut it back on.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I like the way you think. I like the way
you think. Andy. George, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What executive order would you have?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
My executive order would be loser pays on these frivolous lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There are lots of countries where that is the case,
I will tell you this. Yeah, we just got good.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I was just gonna say that. What brought it to
my mind is that I barely bumped this lady not
too long ago, and the insurance company, my insurance company
actually came out and did a black box search on
my jeep and there was no impact, no noticeable impact.
But he's getting all his medical care and all this stuff.
It's just it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Well, uh, the tort reform in the state of Texas
changed a lot of that, but basically, if there is
a lawyer willing to take the case, then they're gonna
What ended up happening was that companies didn't want to
fight these cases.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So you would have law firms that were basically just
a mill.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
They'd have one lawyer, but he'd have a bunch of paralegals.
They're not even really paralegals. He'd have a bunch of
young women who were good on the computer, and they
would just generate letters demand letters all day long. And
so they'd say, hey, you know, this guy walked into
your grocery store and he slipped in and the demand
is for one hundred thousand, and you'd call back and
go well, will you settle in ten thousand and so
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they have nothing in the case ten thousand, they keep forty,
they make four grand, they give six to the client.
And over a period of time, because nobody would fight
these cases.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Then they became.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
You know, these demand letters just became through the roof,
and the combination of tort reform and some people fighting
back made a world of difference to stop that nonsense. Rebecca,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your executive order?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Executive order is I'm out here in Katie and I
would draft legislation that would protect our children in the
classroom nationwide, because there was a Republican girl a couple
of weeks ago that was assaulted in class at Taylor
High School. And I'm going to talk with your producers
afterwards about it, so maybe we can do a show
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on it. But our children need to be protected and
they're not, and it's it's disgusting. You know, we can't
send our children to public school without wondering if they're
going to be injured or you know, something's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I saw a video on this.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
It was a tiny, little white girl and a big
black fellow. I mean, he looked like he'd be a
starting offensive guard potentially in college. And she was tougher
that I would have expected, considering the blows he was
raining down on her. Is that that same case?
Speaker 11 (20:32):
It's that same case, and you know now they're trying
to hold the girl accountable when she was being attacked
and no officials were there to stop it. And it's frightening,
and it's frightening how she's being treated, and it's frightening
how it's being handled, and parents across America need to know.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They do need it. But hold on.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I saw the video and I agree. I think they're
covering kit up. They're covering up what happened. And I
think that a guy of this size pummeling a girl
of that size is wrong. But I did see her
hit him. I saw her hit him before he hit her.
I did see that on the video, and I got
we've got the racial element, we got the cover up.
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She hit him, and I think she might have hit
him twice. I think that girl was not exactly trying
to get away from the confrontation. I don't think she
expected him to respond. And I think a lot of
girls get themselves into trouble going and looking for problems
like that.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Do you deny that she hit him?
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Well, I have the whole video, and what I know
is that she was not the one who started it.
And what I know is from the information that I have,
there was some sexual harassment beforehand. But from what I know,
knowing the family and having the full and edited video,
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is that he hit first, and any kind of hitting
that she did was in defense. So I have the
whole video that I can send to you.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I would love to see it and listen. He should
not given the size difference. He should never have done
what he's done, and he should have been punished more
than that. And I'd be shocked if any football team
would ever want him on their team, because he's clearly
got some serious impulse control and discipline problems. But the
video I saw is at least five seconds of her
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walking and he's there both in the middle of the
room and everybody's watching the fireworks. There had clearly been
some things before that, and she takes about two steps
toward him and she punches him very hard in the chest,
and I think she may have hit him in the face,
whereupon he pounces.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But there is no doubt in my mind that.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
She approached him, She took steps to approach him, then
she hit him at least once, if not twice. I'll
go back and review it, and I remember thinking, that's
a girl with some big brothers. That is a tomboy
girl who has had fights before. I will tell you
the fact that she held her own in the fight
as well as she did, consider that he had one
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hundred pounds on her, was impressive. But I think we've
got to be careful here that we don't position this
just because there are so many cases like this as
if this is a damsel in distress and this guy
just came and jumped on her and dropped her. She
approached him physically, I'm certain of that she punched him physically.
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I'm certain of that at least one time, she was
not removing herself from the situation. She was approaching the situation.
And I'm just look, I get these all day, every day,
the racial element, the male female element of what's gone
wrong with the school, the football player getting the.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Preferential treatment.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
However, all of that being said, I think we have
to be honest about what that video show.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Hey job, who'd use that tone to me, not a joe.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
That's sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Everything because you're a man. Then I know nothing because
I'm a woman. That is not a joke. That is
a natural fact.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
The Michael Verry.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Show from Livings to Louisiana is excited to call in
and talk about American made nuts and bolts from the
voicemail line.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Him Michael Berry, this is Jim from the reach they
of living to Louisiana, but other way around. Want getting
down the nuts and bolts or nuts and bolts work
for nuts and boat guy. The nuts and bolts in
America are extremely high quality. They are not a little
bit better than Chinese. They are a thousand times better.
They have numbers on the heads, numbers on the nuts.
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They match up. They show the high quality hardened steel
that they need for that job, and that specification exactly.
That's why you pay twelve dollars for it. It ain't gonna break,
it ain't gonna kill nobody. They have certain specifications. When
you're doing buildings and everything, you get the American nuts
and bolts because the Chinese will print it on there,
but they buying so you have to buy the American
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products because that's the stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That I'll hold up.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
It ain't gonna break.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
You have.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
They have whole lists of what the nothing bolting letters mean,
and that's just ten times better American quality. You pay
that twelve dollars that people live.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
To the phone calls, We go, Bob, what is your
executive order?
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Field service? Repair and technicians should not be on commission?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Because they upsel a lot of needless crap.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Okay, are you talking in oil and gas or are
you talking about just generally.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Generally mainly household stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You know, I agree, But here's the problem. What we're
this is sort of like how I.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Get into the arguments or term limits. What we're talking
about out here are people with no scruples, people with
know ethics, consumers having to defend themselves and protect themselves
and not assume that everybody's.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
A good guy.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
But when you are a company and you're trying to
get people to show up and work hard and put
in long hours, we have found that increased compensation tends
to be a very powerful motivator. So the business is
trying to motivate them to do more. A good salesman
will show up and do what's right, or the person
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that they're serving at their home. A bad salesman will
simply try to.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Make more money. I don't think you're going to replace.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Bad people by replacing the financing mechanism. They just won't
show up to the house or whatever else that being said,
I get it. It's frustrating. I have seen over the years,
and in fact, I've had to fire some show sponsors
over the years, or their salesmen going out and they're
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behind on their mortgage payment and their child support and
you know the court costs for their DWI, and so
they're trying to tack on every little thing they can
to a sell and it creates a very very acrimonious relationship,
a contentious, adverse relationship between the customer and the salesman
who is pushing all of these things that the person
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doesn't need. And I mean, look, I got to tell
you right now, when I go in to buy something.
If I go into a store to buy something and
I get to the cash register and they go, would
you like this?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
No, would you like that? Okay?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Let me and I now say to them, I've had
to be an ass about it. Look, I'm not giving
you my information, none of it. And I'm not signing
up for anything and I'm not paying for anything extra.
If you want to check me out for this right here.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
We could do this.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Otherwise I will leave, and I'm okay leaving, and it
shouldn't have to come to that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
I'm not sure commissions were the problem, but I agree
with you that they've they've taken how many businesses have
taken the joy out of the transaction?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Robert, what is your executive order?
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Go ahead?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
My executive order is keep deporting until I don't have
to press one for English.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I'm sorry, say that again.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Keep deporting until I don't have to press one for English.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Keep deporting until you don't have to press one for English.
All right, I got it. Jeff, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. What is your executive order?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Michael?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
We need to eliminate the federal minimum wage.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
You know, it's an interesting thing, isn't it, Because the
federal minimum wage only comes into effect for the positions that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Require the least amount of value added.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Do you have a company that that hires people at
minimum wage? No, we don't, but I'll tell you it's
an interesting conversation I have with many people when we
talk about minimum wage, and they will tell you that
any employee that will work for minimum wage in today's
society is your least desirable. And if people are honest,
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especially on the left, if they're honest, when you get
deep into this conversation, they'll say, well, what about people
with a felony? And what about people with this problem?
And what about people with this So now what you
are doing is a guaranteed floor for the worst in society.
What if we allow a state of nature and people fail.
What if we say the marketplace will.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Set the revenues.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
If the government is having to tell a company how
much they have to pay you, that means you're not
worth that much to the company. Because wages are an
interesting thing people have been taught to everybody gets a
trophy and everybody happy, and everybody's valuable. And that's just
not true. Tom Brady is not equally valuable to the
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third string punter on the team. It's just not And
their salaries are commensurate with that. People who feel like
they are underpaid need to understand. If you're making let's
fill in the number fifty thousand dollars a year. If
you're making fifty thousand dollars a year and you are
underpaid at your company, you simply need to start picking
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up the phone and calling other companies who need someone
who does what you do and say I'll come to
work whatever. What are you worth sixty seventy eighty, set
your rate, Say hey, I'll come to work for you
for this amount of money, and if they accept it,
you have just validated your position.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You are in fact worth that to someone else.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Now you might not be to the company you're at
because the company may not be able to monetize your
unique and extraordinary skills, but okay, somebody else may be
able to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Or the other companies go, we can't pay you that.
And if they.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Can't pay you that, then you're not worth that. You see,
you're worth what someone will pay you. And if you
can't get anybody to pay you, but you're really, really,
really good and you're convinced of it, then leave and
start your own business. Oh well, I count Okay, then
you're not worth that because somebody else had to start
a business. Wages are unfortunately a mirror to value, and
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people don't want to admit they don't want to process that.
They're simply not that valuable. If you're not a person who.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Can add value to a company.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Compared to the rest of the labor market, then you're
not going to get paid that way. It's not a
charitable contribution. That's not what wages are. If you're the
guy that can program a computer to make it do
what it does, that they get paid for billions of
dollars and you say I'm leaving and I'm going next door,
they're going to start negotiating.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
So make yourself valuable hard work. I work hard.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
That's very rarely the basis upon which you're paid value added.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
How are you adding value to that company? What can
they not replace if you leave? That's how you earn
higher wages.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
And if you're a person that has to have the
government set a wage, that's basically charity, that's welfare because
you're not worth that. If you were worth that, they
wouldn't be required to pay you that you'd be able
to demand it.
It's that time time time, time lucking load. So Michael
Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoking.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh yes, yes, two six packs Shiner now and nine
sid Putaine Ladder, look Astrack Center.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Fifth U, patrol I s down, Netted Lue Cooler. Take
a guess at all the doer. I can feel a
good one coming on. Throw in a real wild cover,
single mound.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Red deck and any blues.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I have before another working week is over.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No chance staying sober.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
We gonna get the feeling around.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We gonna keep this higher.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I can feel the brig.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
And yeah, I can feel a good one another.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh yes, let's begin the show with a little celebration.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Sometimes on our side, we're so good at opposing things.
We're fighting against things because we've had to at every turn.
It's like we're the Vishy underground, the French underground and
the Germans have occupied us, or we're the Polish underground.
We're having to fight back and pass messages and push
back here and do what we can in there. Sometimes
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we have to remember to celebrate our victories. Sometimes we
have to remember a lot of folks on our side
don't like to celebrate when we have a victory because
they think that we'll get fat and lazy and we
won't try any line. These are the people that if
your team is winning, that I want you to cheer
because you'll jinx them as if the fans up in
the stand have anything to do with what's happening on
the field. It's the silliest thing I've ever heard, and
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I don't listen to people when they do this because
it's the sad and desperate attempt to believe that you
have anything to do with what's happening on the field.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because you need to feel like you're participating. You're not.
You're cheering. So whether you cheer.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Louder or not as loud when your team goes up
by ten is not going to effect whether they win
or lose. It's all an attempt to feel like you're
part of the process. Be part of the process. Be
the cheering section, because you're nothing more or less than
the cheering section. You're not jinxing your team. You think
you're the only person out there that may or may
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not jinx the team. Stop thinking about that for a moment.
How did you talk yourself into believing that you have
anything to do with whether the team wins or not.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So back to the point.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
So let's say we stop and celebrate. What do you
say the fact that we've got a solid cabinet, a
strong cabinet, a strong government, good people coming in from
the outside, the richest man alive to find all the
waste and fraud so that we can make this thing better.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It's true, We've got adults in the White House. Isn't
it awesome?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
All?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yea is Washington, DC has been a playground. The kids
were in charge, and the results broken toys, exploding budgets
and someone blushed the Constitution down an m say on,
but something's changing. Suddenly there are adults in the room.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I gat.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Under new leadership.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
We've installed real secretaries at real agencies, not influencers, not activists,
not someone whose only experience was tweeting about oppression from
their parents' beach house. We're talking about a secretary of
Energy who's seen a power plant and those which way
electrons flow. A secretary of Transportation who can find Ohio
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on a map, a secretary of education who thinks reading should.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Come before drag shows. The road is still long, the
swamp still smells, but for.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
The first time in a while, it feels like someone
brought a muff instead.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Of a selfie stick.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
The new Trump administration now hiring competence, no pronoun workshops,
no safe spaces, no book because America runs better when
it's run by a dunce.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
And let me say this lest I've not said it
most recently enough. There are a lot of people that
work very hard to put Trump back in the White House,
a lot of people that work very hard to keep
our Republican majority in the House, in the Senate. And
by giving them a victory lap doesn't mean they're going
to stop working. But a lot of these people are elderly.
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A lot of these people did it on their own dime.
A lot of these people went block walking in the neighborhood.
They contribute a dollar here, a dollar there, good honest, honorable,
decent people working hard to take back our country.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And that's you, and you know what, be proud of that.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Don't get so concerned about how bad things are that
you don't stop and take a moment to say, you
know what, we got a victory here because you did
now to get us started as we always do, courtesy
of the greatest executive producer in all the land, Chattaconi Nakanishi.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You we can review. He s got uncovered smothered chunks,
which means.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
I either scattered on the griddle, keeaped with brown onions, cheese,
and chunks of.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Perea smoked ham.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Y'all can stop sending me your hash brown comments. I
don't care that you like horse used to potatoes out there.
One of my friends said, whether to do potatoes, how
can you be against her? Well, I tell you, put
them in a blender and make potato juice out of it. Here,
here's your potato sludge. This is a potato smoothie.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That's gross.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Why'd you give me that? Well, it's potatoes. The point
is you got ten things you can do with potatoes.
Why would you ever get on your check down.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his run for Senate,
setting up one of the fiercest in our party campaign
battles in the years.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Certainly many things to focus on that he has not done,
And I think it's time that somebody hell of macalphas.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
John Cornan has betrayed Texas values for years.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Every six years.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
He comes home and puts on his John Wayne mccornan act,
hills about how.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He's got to go back Washington for us.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Half of our audience frighten, m oh cool. Finally you're
playing something for people under the age of eighty.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The other half turn off all that game music.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Suck talking about get back to talking about Trump.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Clearly, the madness is already in full swing.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Houston Couver's number one scene for the third straight season.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Playing for a spot in the Elite.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
Us in gets it in, gets it back, gets in
what way we would call Klutt City.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
They are the new Klutch City in Houston for the
Houston childers a flavorious truck back all film from the
moment tonight when everybody was watching. He prepared himself when
nobody was watching.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I had an odd sense, especially after what happened last year.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I think that this was going to be a special team.
And it was a special team. The Baldings.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
You're running for your algic.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
This is the Michael Berry Show. Yeah, that's the one.
We had some fun this morning.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I a little segment, it turned into more than a segment,
and I thought it might be a good opportunity about
to extend that this evening. President Trump in his if
you heard our interview with Sean Spicery yesterday, he's a
better president this term. He's been more effective in sixty
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days going on ninety days than he was as the
entirety of his first administration, because this time he just
decided to be the bull in a china shop. You
can't Washington doesn't get anything done. These people exist for
the sake of headlines. They don't want to accomplish anything.
They don't want to solve any problems. They just talk
(09:13):
about them.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And he wants he.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Actually genuinely has a heart for America, who wants to
solve these problems. So he realized, I got to do
it by executive order. Biden did it, Obama did it.
I'm going to do it too, and they can squeal
all they want, I'm going to do it too. So
that's what he's been doing, and these executive order it's
the shower deal. Why did we allow this nonsense of
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the shower, which is so much more than just getting clean.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A shower is your meditation man.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
That was a great joy for the common man, getting
in the shower in a good high pressure hot shower
was a tree.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Take that away.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Remember the stupidity of the gas tank. Remember they put
the regulator valve on us. You had to sit there
and hold it because it was going to kill the earth.
It wasn't gonna kill anything.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Remember all that.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
So anyway, Scott Jennings was on CNN and he came
up with used two. We'd say, we're going to send
you to Siberia. That's what That's what the Russians would
send you when you were that was an exile. Now
we send you to El Salvador because we've outsourced our
prisons there and I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So with that context, he says.
Speaker 12 (10:22):
This, more than fifteen seconds at the coffee creamer bar
at the coffee shop.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Straight to L Salvador.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Two or more, walking side by side on a sidewalk,
You're gone El Salvador. Recline your seat on an airplane,
El Salvador, Disney adults, you're going to And finally, pronouns
in your email signature out of here.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Those are my eos.
Speaker 11 (10:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Pete Buttergig removed the pronouns in his emails because he's
getting ready to run for governor Michigan. It's like those
people have suddenly, all of a sudden, realized that their
freakishness went too far. Kem Jeffries this week saying we
have to secure the border. Wait, what I thought the
border was our strength. I thought all those illegal cartel
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members and people being trafficked and in fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Was making us better.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Look, I'm glad they're quoting what we said. I'm glad
they're coming around. We just have to make sure that
everyone remembers they didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Come by this.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Honestly, they got whipped in elections. They're freaks. The American
people turned against them. They are now picking up our
policies and announcing that they're for them.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
They're not.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
They don't believe them, not for one second. But it's important.
So what we're going to do now is open the
phone line seven one three nine nine nine one thousand,
seven one three nine nine nine one thousand.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Our emails are always open.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
You can go to Michael Berryshow dot com Michael Berryshow
dot com. And remember the phone lines are opened even
when we're not on the air. So at midnight tonight
and you get a wild hair and you want to
call it'll be used on the air, but we'd love
to hear from you. So that being said, Ramon's got
his whole popatop list, I mean his whole executive order list.
And we'll get to that in just a moment. Let's
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go to your calls. Will you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What is your executive order?
Speaker 7 (12:08):
My executive order is to sign.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
An executive order allowing every hard working man and woman
to enjoy that beer on Friday after.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Coming home, man and a man romo.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Can we get a little far at the top, you
know what? Will This one's for you, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Happy Friday.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Thank you buddy, Yes, sir, thank you. You know, for
those of you new to the show for years and years,
we do a We do a morning show and an
evening show. You are getting the evening show and Friday
morning we start with oh Happy Day. And we start
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the show by setting our balance, by centering ourselves and
know that I am god kind.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Of thing, a sort of prayerful mode of.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
A resounding sense of completeness and calm.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
And I do that because people are on their way
into work. It's Friday. Let's have a good Friday.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Let's extend the weekend so that Friday is a happy day,
and that's why we started that. Then by the end
of the day, when people are headed home, we do
BlackBerry smoke and I can feel a good one coming on.
And the idea there was to pop a top crack
of beer on the drive home and relax, because I
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am mindful of the fact that the Friday drive home
is the bridge between your work, wife and what matters,
which is what's waiting for you at home.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And that was a way to reset the mood and
put a smile on. Put a smile on your face
and really focus on being that breath.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Of fresh air as you come blowing into the house,
so that your family is you know, your family does
not see the guy who comes home and complains about
the work he's already left.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You've already left work. Well, I complain about it, but.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Instead you come blowing in and pick the kids up
and swing them around and take mom and a dinner,
and let's take the kids out and go on the swing.
And and so the idea was to pop a top
to the end of the week and the journey. Now
there will be people who live in fear and love
to constantly be afraid of everything and getting in trouble
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over everything. It's a sad, sad, depressing, defeatist mentality, and
they'll say, oh, you ought not drink a beer. And
it's been my mentality for years that it is safer
for a person if they're going to have one beer
to have one beer on the drive home that's open container,
not drunk driving one beer and one beer only on
the drive home, than it is for them to stop
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at a bar. But in the state of Texas you
have to stop at a bar. You can't have an
open container, but you can stop at a bar and
have a beer, except you're never just going to have
one at a bar. You're going to have multiples, which
makes it more likely you're actually going to drive drunk.
One beer does not make you drunk. That's what people
seem to struggle with. And the only reason we have
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that rule is in the state of Texas in nineteen
ninety eight, before he ran for president in two thousand,
George W. Bush was hiding a DWI from twenty years before,
and so the way he was going to sort of
inoculate himself to that fact was to close off our
open container law. So it wasn't a good policy. It
was a way for him to run for president and
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cover his track. So anyway, here's to you, Papa. Top
to you after a long, hard week and being a great,
great person when you walk in the door in a breath. Official,
we're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Gulf of michael Berry, which has a beautiful room.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Before we get into the calls, we had a call
this week with shrimp boat Captain Tammy Hall, and this
fellow said it made his mouthwater. Not like that, Ramond,
don't be a weirdo. He's talking about the shrimp. The
shrimp had his mouthwater, and I'll be honest, it did
mine too, Man.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Michael That lady was talking about those ice boat with
the shrimp and you buy it right off the dock
and it's never frozen. Man, and my mama on the
way home from work, my mouth's all water because I
only eat golf shrimp. I live in Alabama and I
only eat golf shrimp. I don't eat none of that
other craft that. If you go to a restaurant, it
ain't from America unless they absolutely tell you this is
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this is golf shrimp. So that lady man, well, she's
making my mouthwater. But yeah, I only eat golf shrimp,
and I love to soak it in that fresh water
and then I'll fry or boil or bake it or
I don't even care. But man, when it ain't never frozen,
it's on those ice boats and you buy it fresh wool. Ooh, man,
it's making my mouth water. Appreciated, Michael, I have a
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good one.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
He's so right, our natural resources exploiting our natural resources.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Andy, you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your
executive order?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I would shut down Social Security for about a year.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Anybody that's over one hundred years old would be cut off.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
And when they get cut off, I'll pay them five thousand.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Dollars bonus for inconvenience if they let me know that
they got cut off.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
Other than that, I don't.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Have to cut it back on.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I like the way you think. I like the way
you think. Andy. George, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What executive order would you have?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
My executive order would be loser pays on these frivolous lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There are lots of countries where that is the case,
I will tell you this. Yeah, we just got good.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I was just gonna say that. What brought it to
my mind is that I barely bumped this lady not
too long ago, and the insurance company, my insurance company
actually came out and did a black box search on
my jeep and there was no impact, no noticeable impact.
But he's getting all his medical care and all this stuff.
It's just it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Well, uh, the tort reform in the state of Texas
changed a lot of that, but basically, if there is
a lawyer willing to take the case, then they're gonna
What ended up happening was that companies didn't want to
fight these cases.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So you would have law firms that were basically just
a mill.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
They'd have one lawyer, but he'd have a bunch of paralegals.
They're not even really paralegals. He'd have a bunch of
young women who were good on the computer, and they
would just generate letters demand letters all day long. And
so they'd say, hey, you know, this guy walked into
your grocery store and he slipped in and the demand
is for one hundred thousand, and you'd call back and
go well, will you settle in ten thousand and so
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they have nothing in the case ten thousand, they keep forty,
they make four grand, they give six to the client.
And over a period of time, because nobody would fight
these cases.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Then they became.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
You know, these demand letters just became through the roof,
and the combination of tort reform and some people fighting
back made a world of difference to stop that nonsense. Rebecca,
you're on the Michael Berry Show. What is your executive order?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Executive order is I'm out here in Katie and I
would draft legislation that would protect our children in the
classroom nationwide, because there was a Republican girl a couple
of weeks ago that was assaulted in class at Taylor
High School. And I'm going to talk with your producers
afterwards about it, so maybe we can do a show
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on it. But our children need to be protected and
they're not, and it's it's disgusting. You know, we can't
send our children to public school without wondering if they're
going to be injured or you know, something's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I saw a video on this.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
It was a tiny, little white girl and a big
black fellow. I mean, he looked like he'd be a
starting offensive guard potentially in college. And she was tougher
that I would have expected, considering the blows he was
raining down on her. Is that that same case?
Speaker 11 (20:32):
It's that same case, and you know now they're trying
to hold the girl accountable when she was being attacked
and no officials were there to stop it. And it's frightening,
and it's frightening how she's being treated, and it's frightening
how it's being handled, and parents across America need to know.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They do need it. But hold on.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I saw the video and I agree. I think they're
covering kit up. They're covering up what happened. And I
think that a guy of this size pummeling a girl
of that size is wrong. But I did see her
hit him. I saw her hit him before he hit her.
I did see that on the video, and I got
we've got the racial element, we got the cover up.
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She hit him, and I think she might have hit
him twice. I think that girl was not exactly trying
to get away from the confrontation. I don't think she
expected him to respond. And I think a lot of
girls get themselves into trouble going and looking for problems
like that.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Do you deny that she hit him?
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Well, I have the whole video, and what I know
is that she was not the one who started it.
And what I know is from the information that I have,
there was some sexual harassment beforehand. But from what I know,
knowing the family and having the full and edited video,
(21:56):
is that he hit first, and any kind of hitting
that she did was in defense. So I have the
whole video that I can send to you.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I would love to see it and listen. He should
not given the size difference. He should never have done
what he's done, and he should have been punished more
than that. And I'd be shocked if any football team
would ever want him on their team, because he's clearly
got some serious impulse control and discipline problems. But the
video I saw is at least five seconds of her
(22:27):
walking and he's there both in the middle of the
room and everybody's watching the fireworks. There had clearly been
some things before that, and she takes about two steps
toward him and she punches him very hard in the chest,
and I think she may have hit him in the face,
whereupon he pounces.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But there is no doubt in my mind that.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
She approached him, She took steps to approach him, then
she hit him at least once, if not twice. I'll
go back and review it, and I remember thinking, that's
a girl with some big brothers. That is a tomboy
girl who has had fights before. I will tell you
the fact that she held her own in the fight
as well as she did, consider that he had one
(23:06):
hundred pounds on her, was impressive. But I think we've
got to be careful here that we don't position this
just because there are so many cases like this as
if this is a damsel in distress and this guy
just came and jumped on her and dropped her. She
approached him physically, I'm certain of that she punched him physically.
(23:26):
I'm certain of that at least one time, she was
not removing herself from the situation. She was approaching the situation.
And I'm just look, I get these all day, every day,
the racial element, the male female element of what's gone
wrong with the school, the football player getting the.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Preferential treatment.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
However, all of that being said, I think we have
to be honest about what that video show.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Hey job, who'd use that tone to me, not a joe.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
That's sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Everything because you're a man. Then I know nothing because
I'm a woman. That is not a joke. That is
a natural fact.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
The Michael Verry.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Show from Livings to Louisiana is excited to call in
and talk about American made nuts and bolts from the
voicemail line.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Him Michael Berry, this is Jim from the reach they
of living to Louisiana, but other way around. Want getting
down the nuts and bolts or nuts and bolts work
for nuts and boat guy. The nuts and bolts in
America are extremely high quality. They are not a little
bit better than Chinese. They are a thousand times better.
They have numbers on the heads, numbers on the nuts.
(24:40):
They match up. They show the high quality hardened steel
that they need for that job, and that specification exactly.
That's why you pay twelve dollars for it. It ain't gonna break,
it ain't gonna kill nobody. They have certain specifications. When
you're doing buildings and everything, you get the American nuts
and bolts because the Chinese will print it on there,
but they buying so you have to buy the American
(25:02):
products because that's the stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That I'll hold up.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
It ain't gonna break.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
You have.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
They have whole lists of what the nothing bolting letters mean,
and that's just ten times better American quality. You pay
that twelve dollars that people live.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
To the phone calls, We go, Bob, what is your
executive order?
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Field service? Repair and technicians should not be on commission?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Because they upsel a lot of needless crap.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Okay, are you talking in oil and gas or are
you talking about just generally.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Generally mainly household stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You know, I agree, But here's the problem. What we're
this is sort of like how I.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Get into the arguments or term limits. What we're talking
about out here are people with no scruples, people with
know ethics, consumers having to defend themselves and protect themselves
and not assume that everybody's.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
A good guy.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
But when you are a company and you're trying to
get people to show up and work hard and put
in long hours, we have found that increased compensation tends
to be a very powerful motivator. So the business is
trying to motivate them to do more. A good salesman
will show up and do what's right, or the person
(26:36):
that they're serving at their home. A bad salesman will
simply try to.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Make more money. I don't think you're going to replace.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Bad people by replacing the financing mechanism. They just won't
show up to the house or whatever else that being said,
I get it. It's frustrating. I have seen over the years,
and in fact, I've had to fire some show sponsors
over the years, or their salesmen going out and they're
(27:05):
behind on their mortgage payment and their child support and
you know the court costs for their DWI, and so
they're trying to tack on every little thing they can
to a sell and it creates a very very acrimonious relationship,
a contentious, adverse relationship between the customer and the salesman
who is pushing all of these things that the person
(27:27):
doesn't need. And I mean, look, I got to tell
you right now, when I go in to buy something.
If I go into a store to buy something and
I get to the cash register and they go, would
you like this?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
No, would you like that? Okay?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Let me and I now say to them, I've had
to be an ass about it. Look, I'm not giving
you my information, none of it. And I'm not signing
up for anything and I'm not paying for anything extra.
If you want to check me out for this right here.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
We could do this.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Otherwise I will leave, and I'm okay leaving, and it
shouldn't have to come to that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
I'm not sure commissions were the problem, but I agree
with you that they've they've taken how many businesses have
taken the joy out of the transaction?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Robert, what is your executive order?
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Go ahead?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
My executive order is keep deporting until I don't have
to press one for English.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I'm sorry, say that again.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Keep deporting until I don't have to press one for English.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Keep deporting until you don't have to press one for English.
All right, I got it. Jeff, you're on the Michael
Berry Show. What is your executive order?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Michael?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
We need to eliminate the federal minimum wage.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
You know, it's an interesting thing, isn't it, Because the
federal minimum wage only comes into effect for the positions that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Require the least amount of value added.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Do you have a company that that hires people at
minimum wage? No, we don't, but I'll tell you it's
an interesting conversation I have with many people when we
talk about minimum wage, and they will tell you that
any employee that will work for minimum wage in today's
society is your least desirable. And if people are honest,
(29:21):
especially on the left, if they're honest, when you get
deep into this conversation, they'll say, well, what about people
with a felony? And what about people with this problem?
And what about people with this So now what you
are doing is a guaranteed floor for the worst in society.
What if we allow a state of nature and people fail.
What if we say the marketplace will.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Set the revenues.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
If the government is having to tell a company how
much they have to pay you, that means you're not
worth that much to the company. Because wages are an
interesting thing people have been taught to everybody gets a
trophy and everybody happy, and everybody's valuable. And that's just
not true. Tom Brady is not equally valuable to the
(30:05):
third string punter on the team. It's just not And
their salaries are commensurate with that. People who feel like
they are underpaid need to understand. If you're making let's
fill in the number fifty thousand dollars a year. If
you're making fifty thousand dollars a year and you are
underpaid at your company, you simply need to start picking
(30:28):
up the phone and calling other companies who need someone
who does what you do and say I'll come to
work whatever. What are you worth sixty seventy eighty, set
your rate, Say hey, I'll come to work for you
for this amount of money, and if they accept it,
you have just validated your position.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You are in fact worth that to someone else.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Now you might not be to the company you're at
because the company may not be able to monetize your
unique and extraordinary skills, but okay, somebody else may be
able to.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Or the other companies go, we can't pay you that.
And if they.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Can't pay you that, then you're not worth that. You see,
you're worth what someone will pay you. And if you
can't get anybody to pay you, but you're really, really,
really good and you're convinced of it, then leave and
start your own business. Oh well, I count Okay, then
you're not worth that because somebody else had to start
a business. Wages are unfortunately a mirror to value, and
(31:27):
people don't want to admit they don't want to process that.
They're simply not that valuable. If you're not a person who.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Can add value to a company.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Compared to the rest of the labor market, then you're
not going to get paid that way. It's not a
charitable contribution. That's not what wages are. If you're the
guy that can program a computer to make it do
what it does, that they get paid for billions of
dollars and you say I'm leaving and I'm going next door,
they're going to start negotiating.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
So make yourself valuable hard work. I work hard.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
That's very rarely the basis upon which you're paid value added.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
How are you adding value to that company? What can
they not replace if you leave? That's how you earn
higher wages.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
And if you're a person that has to have the
government set a wage, that's basically charity, that's welfare because
you're not worth that. If you were worth that, they
wouldn't be required to pay you that you'd be able
to demand it.
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