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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right,
that's not yours?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well it becomes ours. How is that not stealing? I
don't think I don't think that. I'm explaining this very well.
It's seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You can take a penny from the tray from the crippled,
you know, that's the job.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm talking about the tray the you know, the pennies
for for everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
For everybody. Yeah, well those are whole pennies a right,
all right, I'm just.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Talking about fractions of a penny here, okay, But we
do it from a much bigger tray, and we're doing
a couple of million times, So what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's spending? Has the spend?
Speaker 6 (01:04):
In a post on x, Doge said the Department of
Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family
Endeavors eighteen million dollars a month to operate an empty
facility in West Texas. Doje also claims Endeavors received its
HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former ICE
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employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit Endeavor's
government disclosure forms show its revenues shot up in twenty
twenty one from fifty million to six hundred and fifty
eight million.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Spin has the spend.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And when you see the people there in Tennessee paying
fifty percent of their their income to state, federal, and
local taxes through other end, you know, through everything else,
fees and everything else, and then they see us sending
literally billions overseas to our enemies. You know, I've uncovered
forty million dollars going to the Taliban. A guy named
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Sean Ryan over Middle Tennessee, former Navy seal podcaster. He
and another guy named Legend had brought this to my attention.
And you know, last term I could not even get
the Democrats to bring it up in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It passed nanimous in the House, not.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Even a question because they're going to have to admit
they made a mistake, and they continuously made a mistake,
and they did it on.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Purpose is the worst part about it.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And this graph that you're seeing, and that's one hundred
percent what it is, I think you're going to see
a paper trail.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Come back to Washington, d C. And that's why I
think a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Are nervous, and you'll see a lot of retirements because
they are stealing from the American taxpayer and now they've
got their hand caught in the cookie jar, and all
they can do is attack elon Busk.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Ukraine is so much more complicated than most people understand,
and yet that doesn't stop them from virtue signally. And
the reason is because nobody really cares about Ukraine. They
don't care about Ukraine. They don't care about the people there.
They don't understand the role of Russia Ukraine, the Baltic nations,
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the fuel supply, the rare earth minerals, the history, the
ethnic Russians in Ukraine, the corruption in the Ukraine government.
They don't understand any of that. As with most things,
it is about a public statement for them. Hey look
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at me over here. I care about Ukraine, always have.
You know, Houston has not had a Super Bowl victory,
and we had some rough years when the Oilers left
and went to Nashville. Then we had a few years
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we didn't have a team, and then Bob and now
kalmcner had to build a team and that's not an
easy thing to do. So I found it interesting that
when the Patriots were winning championships, all of a sudden,
people that I knew would have on Patriot jerseys. Oh,
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didn't realize that living in Houston, you were a huge
fan of Boston's football team. Oh, I love them?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He of them.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wonder how long that's been going on. That feels odd,
doesn't it? Or do you just like to pick a winner?
Because then that guy tells everybody, ma'am, I'm a Patriots fan,
and you're supposed to go, oh, Bob, tell you what.
Patriots don't win, he's to be bummed out because he's
a huge fan. But when they win, which better chance
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of them winning anybody else at the time? Then Bob
gets the glory. Look at me, I was a fan,
y'all aren't a fan. I am a fan. How long
you've been a fan, Bob? Since they started winning Super Bowls?
So you get these people who all of a sudden
decide they're going to put the Ukraine flag as their
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profile picture. Now imagine that that's your identity. That's what
you want people to think of as you. I'll tell
you what old Michelle fifty seven years old, And there's
a lot of things you could know about Michelle. Okay,
how many kids she has, where she grew up, what
she does for a living, how she beat breast cancer.
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There's a lot of things you could know about Michelle
that that would tell you who Michelle is. But the
first thing you need to know and the most defining
a bit about Michelle is that she's really, really, really
standing with Ukraine, really standing with Ukraine. She is determined
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that Ukraine win the soccer match or whatever they're doing.
And she found the flag and she is boy, she
is on this Ukraine thing. Do not talk about Ukraine
in front of her unless you want a mouthful, because
she is very much for Ukraine.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
It's a full time job, from the first thing in
the morning, last thing at night.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
We were one of the first people to actually make
the ultimate sacrifice for the Ukrainian War.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Did no, no, noop?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
We actually change our profile pictures to the Ukraine Prockett.
I think I'm starting to understand how Martin Luther King
felt out. Yeah, changing the world on profile picture at
the time, How does that help we stunded with Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That one's pretty obvious.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
You're coming across a little bit of fire right question
in this in.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
While Scott Jennings on CNN says Europeans spend more money
on oil and gas from Russia than they send to Ukraine. Yeah,
you mentioned the Europeans.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
It's interesting to me they spend more money on Russian
oil and gas last year than they sent to Ukraine collectively.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's number one, number two.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
It's interesting to me that Zelensky could not see on
Friday the benefit of signing the minerals deal that in
and of itself is a security guarantee. When our interests
become your interests, that is a security guarantee. You're never
going to get Trump to sign an agreement saying well,
we'll eventually.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Put most Is that a security.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Is because we would we would have guaranteed our ownnots.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
On top of that, most of the minerals are in
territory that is being.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Held by Russia.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
This mineral deal is something that is are you hearing
that we would have entered into an economics It's near
the deer would Donald Trump's heart, but it is not
a security guarantee. Southern Fried with Michael Berry Show. Mike
Godwin is a lawyer. I think he's still alive. He
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is a lawyer who observed the tendency for people in
online arguments, in discussion groups and the like, the tendency
to call the other person with whom they were disagreeing
and discussing and arguing, debating and whatever else, that there
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was a tendency to call the other person hitler. And
the reasoning for this is there is a great inability
that someone can't get the other side to capitulate and
just say they're right, and they crave this. There are
a lot of people seeking It's an addiction. I mean,
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it's a form of a mental addiction. They are craving
so hard to be told that they are right. It's
a validation. And so a debate becomes not an attempt
to persuade another person, It becomes an attempt to get
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validation from that person with whom they disagreed. And when
they can't get it, the more they can't get it,
the more upset they become, and the harder they're trying,
and the more desperate they become. So Mike Godwin coined
what came to be known as god Wins Law, which
says that as an online discussion grows longer continues longer,
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the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
In other words, an absolute certainty. It goes from five
percent on the first exchange to ten percent to twenty percent.
But at twenty or thirty exchanges of now oh yeah, huh,
you know, uh yeah huh, you're a Nazi or you're
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a Hitler. It is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
It is the weakest, most desperate thing the vanquished can do.
It is an announcement that you've lost. Well, Larry O'Donnell
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of MSNBC has lost here. He is talking about the
fact that Trump is abandoning our dear ally, Vladimir Zelensky.
He's not our ally, he's our welfare recipient. But O'Donnell
says Trump is abandoning Vladimir. And the last world leader
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to turn on an ally was and Alf Hitler.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
The term leader of the Free World was not widely
applied to American presidents until the Cold War era, when
the United States and the Soviet Union, led by a
Russian dictator, were locked into a decades long standoff with
nuclear weapons aimed at each other twenty four hours a day.
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The Free World was easily identifiable as the countries who
elected their leaders in free and fair elections. The cruel
dictatorships like the Soviet Union in China, who had been
our allies during World War II, represented the other side
of the Cold War. Those adversarial positions held even after
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the Cold War faud But now Donald Trump, for the
first time in American history, has become the president who
is changing sides in the middle of a war. The
last leader to do that, the last head of state
to do that was Adolf Hitler in World War Two,
when he suddenly and intemperately, to say the least, after
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conquering Poland and France and other countries, turned and attacked
his ally, the Soviet Union. No other European country has
ever done that, which is why after Donald Trump's incoherent,
raging performance in the Oval Office on Friday, European leaders
embraced President Zelenski in London this weekend, vowing to continue
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to support Ukraine against a murderous Russian dictator war crew
in every way they can. While Donald Trump was yelling
in the Oval Office Friday, the war criminal Vladimir Putin
was firing missiles and drones into Ukraine all day long
Ukraine on Friday didn't fire a single shot across the
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Russian border into Russia, not one shot. And so the
President of the United States is no longer the leader
of the free world, or even a defender of the
free world. The free world has rallied around the leader who,
though struggling with the language barrier, tried to cut through
Donald Trump's lies in the Oval Office on Friday. President
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Volodimir Zelenski might never be called the leader of the
free world, but he is, without.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
A doubt, the.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Bravest leader in the free world.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I'm you're se in the videos of him in high
heels with his shirt off and he puts cups on
his chest for boobs and another one on his crotch,
and the guys come behind him, and nobody worships this guy,
tharie O'Donnell. You don't know anything about him, and frankly
don't care. This is a desperate attempt in your mind
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to embarrass Trump, and it's not working because, as CNN's
Harry Inton notes, a new CNN poll shows Americans want
the war in Ukraine to end, and what Trump is
doing is ending the war the.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Easiest way we can kind of just ask this, say,
is do Americans like the way that Trump's handling his
job in compared to how they felt about Joe Biden.
So this is the net approval rating. You look at
Joe Biden back in twenty twenty four, he was twenty
two points on the water Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You look at Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
It's just a different planet entirely. I mean, the gulf
between these two is wider than the Gulf of America
or Mexico, depending on which side of the AI you
stand on.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
He's at plus two.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So look at this particular point, Americans are giving Donald
Trump the better of the doubt. He's doing considerably better
than Joe Biden was doing on the handling of the
Russia Ukraine conflict, and so on this simple question, I
think Americans are saying, Okay, Donald Trump's doing all right
on this.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
What about specifically on how they feel about bringing the
war to an end?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, okay, So you know, look, questions on this can
be quite complicated, but I think this kind of gets
at sort of where the American trend line is. Americans
on the Rushi of Ukraine war want a quicker end
of the war, but Rush keeps its captured land. Look
at this, fifty fifty percent Bear majority, Bear majority coming
in here, support you Ukraine's right to fight, even if
it means a long war.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's a forty eight. This is very, very close. But
the trend line.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
On this question is so important because that want a
quick end of the war.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Look at this.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You go back to August of twenty twenty two, it
was at thirty one percent. Now we're at fifty percent.
I mean, that is a rocket ship upwards in terms
of the Americans who want a quick end to the war,
even if it means Russia keeps the captured Ukraine land.
Americans are moving closer and closer to one a compromise,
even if it means that Ukraine doesn't really get what
it's set out to one at least at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Of this field. This is the Michael Berry Show. I
love this country so much, but sometimes you know, as
you travel about, with the nationalization and even globalization of
so much of retail, which is so much of life
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outside our homes, so much of it is just cookie
cutter replication. It's one company and private equity came in
and they just they just put in every mall and
every strip center, and it ends up being kind of
a faceless, soulless, heartless entity with whatever the professional graphics
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and pr people have have given them to put on there,
because that's what they've told them that we need to hear. However,
there are certain places in this country where the culture
is so distinctive and special. The Cubans in Miami, for instance,
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the Eastern Europeans in Chicago, or the Irish in Chicago
or Boston or New York. There you see the Southeast,
for instance, and it's neat. I like it, But there
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is nothing in this country for my money like the Kunasses.
I love them so much. I grew up in Southeast Texas,
which if you don't have the map in your head,
I tend runs across the southern band of the United States.
And if you're coming from California on iten and your
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cruising through Texas, you're going to be a while. One
thousand miles or so. It's a long way. And the
last little place you're going to pass before you go
into Louisiana, then Mississippi, then Alabama into Florida. Last little
place you're going to pass is Orange, Texas. My little
town and it was a home. Two things that Orange
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was kind of famous for. Number one is they built
a port there that during World War two was an
important naval port and it was very important and vital
to the war interest. And so that little, tiny little
port had an outsized importance because it was away from
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the bigger ports of Houston and New Orleans. The second
thing is the chemical plan. Almost everybody that I knew
growing up was a son or daughter of a chemical
plant worker. And if you weren't the son or a
daughter of a chemical plant worker, because that was almost
everybody in Orange, your daddy was either a pastor there's
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a lot of churches in the little town, or a
cop or worked for one of the retail shops, or
owned a little business, a little furniture shop or little
jewelry shop and that was or a restaurant, and that
was it. And because of that, it was such a
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big employer. DuPont, Chevron, Crown, Zellerbach. There were these massive
chemical plants, and my dad worked for DuPont. His dad
worked for DuPont, his brother worked for DuPont, his sister
worked for DuPont, his other sister worked for DuPont. We
were a DuPont family. You could say not that we
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loved it. He hated to do, hated the work like
the people, but hated the company. They made him shave
his beard, among other things, and he didn't like that.
He was a maintenance worker. And he gave a lot
of his life to DuPont over the years. But because
southwest Louisiana, from New Orleans and some east of New Orleans,
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Santa Ma and all that, all the way west, the
nearest place to find work was to go not all
the way to Houston, which also had a lot of
chemical plans. But kuon Asses don't like to go very
far from Louisiana. They like to come home because nobody
can cook like they do. They love the swamp. They
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love their family, love their family. They're like Mexicans. And
you marry into you marry into a kun Ass family.
You marry Kunas girl, you have acquired a whole new family,
just like marrying a Mexican girl. You're gonna play on
her brother's softball team. They're gonna have Barbercoa on the
back porch every weekend. You know, you're they're gonna be
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over there all the time. Much gonna be a bunch
of babies, and you're in it. When you marry into
a Mexican family man, you are in it. Well, Kunas
families are the same way. So there were a lot
of those folks didn't want to come all the way
to Houston, which would be another two hours if you
were heading west, and they would stop at Orange. So
they were just on the Texas side and they'd worked there,
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but that way they could get back home to what
we're really home was, and even if they'd lived there
for thirty or forty years, in their minds, in their
minds they were from. They were Louisiana folks. They were
coon Asses. That was what they who who they were.
And that was true of the whites, which we called
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kuon Asses, they called themselves Konasses, and the blacks, which
were the Creole, and so the Kunases were also known
as Cajuns. So you had Cajuns, which are the whites,
and the Creoles, which were the black. But the black
were pretty light skin and the white were sometimes a
little darker because there was a lot of intermixing going
on at that time and still to this day. But
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I found that culture to be such a wonderful culture. Look,
you're gonna have high blood pressure because you're going to
eat too much and drink too much. But when I
look at the fabric of American society, you don't have
to have diversity programs. We are, in and of ourselves
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very diverse, not just skin colors, not just denominations within religions,
but our ethnic backgrounds where we came from. There is
this idea that all white people are the same. Man.
I'm going to tell you something. The white Southern Baptists
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of Orange, Texas, where I grew up, are very different
than the white Irish Catholics of Boston, or the white
Ish Italian Americans of New York Work or Chicago, or
the French. I mean, all of these cultures came and
retained to varying degrees over a period of time. They're cultures,
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the German cultures that mark so much of Texas from
Schulenberg up to Fredericksburg. I mean, all of these things
are what makes the checks. All of these things are
what make America wonderful. And I don't want you to
ever think that I don't celebrate all of that. I do.
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We just don't need to make it into laws or
go looking for stuff beyond that. So to our Louisiana listeners,
we love you.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Where I can't believe you just said that happens to
Michael Varie show.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
If you've never been to New Orleans, go check it out.
Now you're probably I'll be honest with you. Go see
Bourbon Street, Go see it, go enjoy it. So eat
and drink too much. You're gonna get mugged. That's just
gonna happen. But that's part of it. I mean, that's
part of the charm. Right, You're gonna get mugged. I'd
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like to say, you get mugged and then you get
past it and you but you could get mugged again.
You know the next guy you turned the corner, and
you know, the guy doesn't know on Ibberville you got mugged,
and so here you are on Bourbon and he doesn't know.
You just got through getting mugged. And that's not a defense.
I know. I already gave it to the office. No,
you're getting mugged again because you look like the demo
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of tourists that I'm about to mug And that's just
all there is to it. This is also Texas Independence time.
March second being Texas independence. So I think I'd like
to close the show room moment with your permission, with
a reading of the letter from the Alamo, that is,
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forget Ukraine. You want to talk about ca a freedom.
But before we do that, the last thing I didn't
get to of JD. Van's is he's answering the question
about the rumor Sean Hanned. He's talking to him on
Fox News. He's answering the questions about the rumor that
the Ukrainians have called and they already want to come
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back to the White House.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
I don't know about numerous calls, but they certainly made
at least one request to come back in and continue
the conversation. The President was like, look, first of all,
they were disrespectful, and second of all, what are we
even going to talk about? They've shown a clear unwillingness
to discuss the peaceful settlement that President Trump is trying
to bring to this situation.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I think a lot of Americans are sort.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Of, you know, it's useful to step back and ask
ourselves what is the actual plan here. You can't just
fund the war forever. The American people won't stand for it.
And by the way Sean. If you look at European
opinion polls, the Europeans aren't going to stand forever for
it either. We need to bring this thing to a
peaceful settlement. The President was trying to do that. He'll
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continue to try to do but you've got to have
two to ten Goo. You've got to have a negotiating
partner in the Ukrainians who recognize that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know, of course they have their views, and of course.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
They're not always going to agree with us, but they've
got to participate in the conversation. They weren't willing to
do that on Friday, so the President said, sent.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Him home, and he did, and he did. No soup
for you, Crane, No soup for you. Even Lindsey Graham
is now having to try to act like, you know,
he's mad at Zelensky. Do I need to remind you
it was Lindsey Graham who called for Putin to be assassinated.
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Do you remember this? You still stand by her?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I hope he will be taken out one way or
the other. I don't care how they take him out.
I don't care if we send him to the Hague
and try him. I just want him to go. Yes,
I'm on record, Please understand Senator Lendsey Graham and John
mccam we're here, he'd be saying the same thing you think.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But it's time for him to go. He's a war criminal.
If John McCain we're here, I bet he'd be saying
the same stupid thing you're saying. You're exactly right, because
all the stupid stuff you said, he said too, because
that's what John McCain did, your little running buddy. He
wanted us in every war we could possibly be in.
He loved to be for war, thought it was the
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best thing possible. Just love, love, love war. Well count
me out. I'm not for it, you idiot. And by
the way, who is Lindsey Graham to be calling for
the assassination of Putin? You know this is the mindset
of the neocons. It gets me every time. So everybody
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wanted Saddam Hussein out of Iraq, right, we had to
topple Saddam Hussein and we did. Now do you think,
and I know this is gonna upset a lot of
people to hear me say, do you think that Iraq
is more stable to than when we toppled Saddam do
you think that the region is more stable today? I
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will tell you this, Iran is stronger now than they
were when Iraq was keeping them in check. That is
for sure. The militant elements within Iraq were under control
under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. But we had
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to topple Saddam and we had to topple Kadafi in Libya.
Do you think Libya is safer today and we had
to push Hasni Mubarik out in Egypt? Do you think
Egypt is better off today under the Muslim brotherhood? These
people love to topple people, except they don't know that
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who's waiting in the wings is worse. Maestro Ramon, might
you fire up some Texas music as I close the
show with the letter from Travis from inside the Alamo.
He's desperately seeking reinforcements. He writes Commandant See of the
Alamo from Bear which San Antonio is now in Bear County,
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b e Xar, February twenty fourth, eighteen thirty six, to
the people of Texas and all Americans in the world,
fellow citizens and compatriots. He was writing to the world.
Friends there think about Alimo. Think about idea that you
are writing a letter to the world. He knew they
were all about to be slaughtered. I am besieged by
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one thousand or more of the Mexicans second Home depot
parking lot under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual
bombardment and cannonade for twenty four hours and have not
lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion.
Otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword.
If the fort is taken new body we continue to fight,
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They're gonna kill us all. They've made it very clear.
I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and
our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall
never surrender or retreat. Then I call on you, in
the name of liberty, of patriots and everything dear to
the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch.
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The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt
increase to three or four thousand in four or five days.
If this call is neglected. I am determined to sustain
myself as long as possible, and die like a soldier
who never forgets what is due to his own honor
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and that of his country, victory or death. William Barrett Travis,
Lieutenant lieutenant colonel Commandant PS. The Lord is on our side.
When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three
bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses
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eighty or ninety bushels, and got into the walls of
twenty or thirty head of beeves. The Lord was providing
food that they might fight for Texas independence. Now, how
glorious is that faith will us has attend? Thank you,
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and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right,
that's not yours?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well it becomes ours. How is that not stealing? I
don't think I don't think that. I'm explaining this very well.
It's seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You can take a penny from the tray from the crippled,
you know, that's the job.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm talking about the tray the you know, the pennies
for for everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
For everybody. Yeah, well those are whole pennies a right,
all right, I'm just.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Talking about fractions of a penny here, okay, But we
do it from a much bigger tray, and we're doing
a couple of million times, So what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's spending? Has the spend?
Speaker 6 (01:04):
In a post on x, Doge said the Department of
Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family
Endeavors eighteen million dollars a month to operate an empty
facility in West Texas. Doje also claims Endeavors received its
HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former ICE
(01:25):
employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit Endeavor's
government disclosure forms show its revenues shot up in twenty
twenty one from fifty million to six hundred and fifty
eight million.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Spin has the spend.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And when you see the people there in Tennessee paying
fifty percent of their their income to state, federal, and
local taxes through other end, you know, through everything else,
fees and everything else, and then they see us sending
literally billions overseas to our enemies. You know, I've uncovered
forty million dollars going to the Taliban. A guy named
(02:14):
Sean Ryan over Middle Tennessee, former Navy seal podcaster. He
and another guy named Legend had brought this to my attention.
And you know, last term I could not even get
the Democrats to bring it up in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
It passed nanimous in the House, not.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Even a question because they're going to have to admit
they made a mistake, and they continuously made a mistake,
and they did it on.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Purpose is the worst part about it.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And this graph that you're seeing, and that's one hundred
percent what it is, I think you're going to see
a paper trail.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Come back to Washington, d C. And that's why I
think a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Are nervous, and you'll see a lot of retirements because
they are stealing from the American taxpayer and now they've
got their hand caught in the cookie jar, and all
they can do is attack elon Busk.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Ukraine is so much more complicated than most people understand,
and yet that doesn't stop them from virtue signally. And
the reason is because nobody really cares about Ukraine. They
don't care about Ukraine. They don't care about the people there.
They don't understand the role of Russia Ukraine, the Baltic nations,
(03:41):
the fuel supply, the rare earth minerals, the history, the
ethnic Russians in Ukraine, the corruption in the Ukraine government.
They don't understand any of that. As with most things,
it is about a public statement for them. Hey look
(04:04):
at me over here. I care about Ukraine, always have.
You know, Houston has not had a Super Bowl victory,
and we had some rough years when the Oilers left
and went to Nashville. Then we had a few years
(04:24):
we didn't have a team, and then Bob and now
kalmcner had to build a team and that's not an
easy thing to do. So I found it interesting that
when the Patriots were winning championships, all of a sudden,
people that I knew would have on Patriot jerseys. Oh,
(04:51):
didn't realize that living in Houston, you were a huge
fan of Boston's football team. Oh, I love them?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He of them.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wonder how long that's been going on. That feels odd,
doesn't it? Or do you just like to pick a winner?
Because then that guy tells everybody, ma'am, I'm a Patriots fan,
and you're supposed to go, oh, Bob, tell you what.
Patriots don't win, he's to be bummed out because he's
a huge fan. But when they win, which better chance
(05:23):
of them winning anybody else at the time? Then Bob
gets the glory. Look at me, I was a fan,
y'all aren't a fan. I am a fan. How long
you've been a fan, Bob? Since they started winning Super Bowls?
So you get these people who all of a sudden
decide they're going to put the Ukraine flag as their
(05:44):
profile picture. Now imagine that that's your identity. That's what
you want people to think of as you. I'll tell
you what old Michelle fifty seven years old, And there's
a lot of things you could know about Michelle. Okay,
how many kids she has, where she grew up, what
she does for a living, how she beat breast cancer.
(06:07):
There's a lot of things you could know about Michelle
that that would tell you who Michelle is. But the
first thing you need to know and the most defining
a bit about Michelle is that she's really, really, really
standing with Ukraine, really standing with Ukraine. She is determined
(06:28):
that Ukraine win the soccer match or whatever they're doing.
And she found the flag and she is boy, she
is on this Ukraine thing. Do not talk about Ukraine
in front of her unless you want a mouthful, because
she is very much for Ukraine.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
It's a full time job, from the first thing in
the morning, last thing at night.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
We were one of the first people to actually make
the ultimate sacrifice for the Ukrainian War.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Did no, no, noop?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
We actually change our profile pictures to the Ukraine Prockett.
I think I'm starting to understand how Martin Luther King
felt out. Yeah, changing the world on profile picture at
the time, How does that help we stunded with Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
That one's pretty obvious.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
You're coming across a little bit of fire right question
in this in.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
While Scott Jennings on CNN says Europeans spend more money
on oil and gas from Russia than they send to Ukraine. Yeah,
you mentioned the Europeans.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
It's interesting to me they spend more money on Russian
oil and gas last year than they sent to Ukraine collectively.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's number one, number two.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
It's interesting to me that Zelensky could not see on
Friday the benefit of signing the minerals deal that in
and of itself is a security guarantee. When our interests
become your interests, that is a security guarantee. You're never
going to get Trump to sign an agreement saying well,
we'll eventually.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Put most Is that a security.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Is because we would we would have guaranteed our ownnots.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
On top of that, most of the minerals are in
territory that is being.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Held by Russia.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
This mineral deal is something that is are you hearing
that we would have entered into an economics It's near
the deer would Donald Trump's heart, but it is not
a security guarantee. Southern Fried with Michael Berry Show. Mike
Godwin is a lawyer. I think he's still alive. He
(08:35):
is a lawyer who observed the tendency for people in
online arguments, in discussion groups and the like, the tendency
to call the other person with whom they were disagreeing
and discussing and arguing, debating and whatever else, that there
(09:00):
was a tendency to call the other person hitler. And
the reasoning for this is there is a great inability
that someone can't get the other side to capitulate and
just say they're right, and they crave this. There are
a lot of people seeking It's an addiction. I mean,
(09:22):
it's a form of a mental addiction. They are craving
so hard to be told that they are right. It's
a validation. And so a debate becomes not an attempt
to persuade another person, It becomes an attempt to get
(09:42):
validation from that person with whom they disagreed. And when
they can't get it, the more they can't get it,
the more upset they become, and the harder they're trying,
and the more desperate they become. So Mike Godwin coined
what came to be known as god Wins Law, which
says that as an online discussion grows longer continues longer,
(10:08):
the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
In other words, an absolute certainty. It goes from five
percent on the first exchange to ten percent to twenty percent.
But at twenty or thirty exchanges of now oh yeah, huh,
you know, uh yeah huh, you're a Nazi or you're
(10:31):
a Hitler. It is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
It is the weakest, most desperate thing the vanquished can do.
It is an announcement that you've lost. Well, Larry O'Donnell
(10:53):
of MSNBC has lost here. He is talking about the
fact that Trump is abandoning our dear ally, Vladimir Zelensky.
He's not our ally, he's our welfare recipient. But O'Donnell
says Trump is abandoning Vladimir. And the last world leader
(11:17):
to turn on an ally was and Alf Hitler.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
The term leader of the Free World was not widely
applied to American presidents until the Cold War era, when
the United States and the Soviet Union, led by a
Russian dictator, were locked into a decades long standoff with
nuclear weapons aimed at each other twenty four hours a day.
(11:45):
The Free World was easily identifiable as the countries who
elected their leaders in free and fair elections. The cruel
dictatorships like the Soviet Union in China, who had been
our allies during World War II, represented the other side
of the Cold War. Those adversarial positions held even after
(12:07):
the Cold War faud But now Donald Trump, for the
first time in American history, has become the president who
is changing sides in the middle of a war. The
last leader to do that, the last head of state
to do that was Adolf Hitler in World War Two,
when he suddenly and intemperately, to say the least, after
(12:31):
conquering Poland and France and other countries, turned and attacked
his ally, the Soviet Union. No other European country has
ever done that, which is why after Donald Trump's incoherent,
raging performance in the Oval Office on Friday, European leaders
embraced President Zelenski in London this weekend, vowing to continue
(12:54):
to support Ukraine against a murderous Russian dictator war crew
in every way they can. While Donald Trump was yelling
in the Oval Office Friday, the war criminal Vladimir Putin
was firing missiles and drones into Ukraine all day long
Ukraine on Friday didn't fire a single shot across the
(13:19):
Russian border into Russia, not one shot. And so the
President of the United States is no longer the leader
of the free world, or even a defender of the
free world. The free world has rallied around the leader who,
though struggling with the language barrier, tried to cut through
Donald Trump's lies in the Oval Office on Friday. President
(13:42):
Volodimir Zelenski might never be called the leader of the
free world, but he is, without.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
A doubt, the.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Bravest leader in the free world.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I'm you're se in the videos of him in high
heels with his shirt off and he puts cups on
his chest for boobs and another one on his crotch,
and the guys come behind him, and nobody worships this guy,
tharie O'Donnell. You don't know anything about him, and frankly
don't care. This is a desperate attempt in your mind
(14:17):
to embarrass Trump, and it's not working because, as CNN's
Harry Inton notes, a new CNN poll shows Americans want
the war in Ukraine to end, and what Trump is
doing is ending the war the.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Easiest way we can kind of just ask this, say,
is do Americans like the way that Trump's handling his
job in compared to how they felt about Joe Biden.
So this is the net approval rating. You look at
Joe Biden back in twenty twenty four, he was twenty
two points on the water Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You look at Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
It's just a different planet entirely. I mean, the gulf
between these two is wider than the Gulf of America
or Mexico, depending on which side of the AI you
stand on.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
He's at plus two.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So look at this particular point, Americans are giving Donald
Trump the better of the doubt. He's doing considerably better
than Joe Biden was doing on the handling of the
Russia Ukraine conflict, and so on this simple question, I
think Americans are saying, Okay, Donald Trump's doing all right
on this.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
What about specifically on how they feel about bringing the
war to an end?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, okay, So you know, look, questions on this can
be quite complicated, but I think this kind of gets
at sort of where the American trend line is. Americans
on the Rushi of Ukraine war want a quicker end
of the war, but Rush keeps its captured land. Look
at this, fifty fifty percent Bear majority, Bear majority coming
in here, support you Ukraine's right to fight, even if
it means a long war.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's a forty eight. This is very, very close. But
the trend line.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
On this question is so important because that want a
quick end of the war.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Look at this.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You go back to August of twenty twenty two, it
was at thirty one percent. Now we're at fifty percent.
I mean, that is a rocket ship upwards in terms
of the Americans who want a quick end to the war,
even if it means Russia keeps the captured Ukraine land.
Americans are moving closer and closer to one a compromise,
even if it means that Ukraine doesn't really get what
it's set out to one at least at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Of this field. This is the Michael Berry Show. I
love this country so much, but sometimes you know, as
you travel about, with the nationalization and even globalization of
so much of retail, which is so much of life
(16:28):
outside our homes, so much of it is just cookie
cutter replication. It's one company and private equity came in
and they just they just put in every mall and
every strip center, and it ends up being kind of
a faceless, soulless, heartless entity with whatever the professional graphics
(16:58):
and pr people have have given them to put on there,
because that's what they've told them that we need to hear. However,
there are certain places in this country where the culture
is so distinctive and special. The Cubans in Miami, for instance,
(17:22):
the Eastern Europeans in Chicago, or the Irish in Chicago
or Boston or New York. There you see the Southeast,
for instance, and it's neat. I like it, But there
(17:45):
is nothing in this country for my money like the Kunasses.
I love them so much. I grew up in Southeast Texas,
which if you don't have the map in your head,
I tend runs across the southern band of the United States.
And if you're coming from California on iten and your
(18:07):
cruising through Texas, you're going to be a while. One
thousand miles or so. It's a long way. And the
last little place you're going to pass before you go
into Louisiana, then Mississippi, then Alabama into Florida. Last little
place you're going to pass is Orange, Texas. My little
town and it was a home. Two things that Orange
(18:32):
was kind of famous for. Number one is they built
a port there that during World War two was an
important naval port and it was very important and vital
to the war interest. And so that little, tiny little
port had an outsized importance because it was away from
(18:53):
the bigger ports of Houston and New Orleans. The second
thing is the chemical plan. Almost everybody that I knew
growing up was a son or daughter of a chemical
plant worker. And if you weren't the son or a
daughter of a chemical plant worker, because that was almost
everybody in Orange, your daddy was either a pastor there's
(19:16):
a lot of churches in the little town, or a
cop or worked for one of the retail shops, or
owned a little business, a little furniture shop or little
jewelry shop and that was or a restaurant, and that
was it. And because of that, it was such a
(19:37):
big employer. DuPont, Chevron, Crown, Zellerbach. There were these massive
chemical plants, and my dad worked for DuPont. His dad
worked for DuPont, his brother worked for DuPont, his sister
worked for DuPont, his other sister worked for DuPont. We
were a DuPont family. You could say not that we
(19:59):
loved it. He hated to do, hated the work like
the people, but hated the company. They made him shave
his beard, among other things, and he didn't like that.
He was a maintenance worker. And he gave a lot
of his life to DuPont over the years. But because
southwest Louisiana, from New Orleans and some east of New Orleans,
(20:19):
Santa Ma and all that, all the way west, the
nearest place to find work was to go not all
the way to Houston, which also had a lot of
chemical plans. But kuon Asses don't like to go very
far from Louisiana. They like to come home because nobody
can cook like they do. They love the swamp. They
(20:39):
love their family, love their family. They're like Mexicans. And
you marry into you marry into a kun Ass family.
You marry Kunas girl, you have acquired a whole new family,
just like marrying a Mexican girl. You're gonna play on
her brother's softball team. They're gonna have Barbercoa on the
back porch every weekend. You know, you're they're gonna be
(21:00):
over there all the time. Much gonna be a bunch
of babies, and you're in it. When you marry into
a Mexican family man, you are in it. Well, Kunas
families are the same way. So there were a lot
of those folks didn't want to come all the way
to Houston, which would be another two hours if you
were heading west, and they would stop at Orange. So
they were just on the Texas side and they'd worked there,
(21:22):
but that way they could get back home to what
we're really home was, and even if they'd lived there
for thirty or forty years, in their minds, in their
minds they were from. They were Louisiana folks. They were
coon Asses. That was what they who who they were.
And that was true of the whites, which we called
(21:43):
kuon Asses, they called themselves Konasses, and the blacks, which
were the Creole, and so the Kunases were also known
as Cajuns. So you had Cajuns, which are the whites,
and the Creoles, which were the black. But the black
were pretty light skin and the white were sometimes a
little darker because there was a lot of intermixing going
on at that time and still to this day. But
(22:05):
I found that culture to be such a wonderful culture. Look,
you're gonna have high blood pressure because you're going to
eat too much and drink too much. But when I
look at the fabric of American society, you don't have
to have diversity programs. We are, in and of ourselves
(22:27):
very diverse, not just skin colors, not just denominations within religions,
but our ethnic backgrounds where we came from. There is
this idea that all white people are the same. Man.
I'm going to tell you something. The white Southern Baptists
(22:48):
of Orange, Texas, where I grew up, are very different
than the white Irish Catholics of Boston, or the white
Ish Italian Americans of New York Work or Chicago, or
the French. I mean, all of these cultures came and
retained to varying degrees over a period of time. They're cultures,
(23:13):
the German cultures that mark so much of Texas from
Schulenberg up to Fredericksburg. I mean, all of these things
are what makes the checks. All of these things are
what make America wonderful. And I don't want you to
ever think that I don't celebrate all of that. I do.
(23:34):
We just don't need to make it into laws or
go looking for stuff beyond that. So to our Louisiana listeners,
we love you.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Where I can't believe you just said that happens to
Michael Varie show.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
If you've never been to New Orleans, go check it out.
Now you're probably I'll be honest with you. Go see
Bourbon Street, Go see it, go enjoy it. So eat
and drink too much. You're gonna get mugged. That's just
gonna happen. But that's part of it. I mean, that's
part of the charm. Right, You're gonna get mugged. I'd
(24:13):
like to say, you get mugged and then you get
past it and you but you could get mugged again.
You know the next guy you turned the corner, and
you know, the guy doesn't know on Ibberville you got mugged,
and so here you are on Bourbon and he doesn't know.
You just got through getting mugged. And that's not a defense.
I know. I already gave it to the office. No,
you're getting mugged again because you look like the demo
(24:37):
of tourists that I'm about to mug And that's just
all there is to it. This is also Texas Independence time.
March second being Texas independence. So I think I'd like
to close the show room moment with your permission, with
a reading of the letter from the Alamo, that is,
(24:58):
forget Ukraine. You want to talk about ca a freedom.
But before we do that, the last thing I didn't
get to of JD. Van's is he's answering the question
about the rumor Sean Hanned. He's talking to him on
Fox News. He's answering the questions about the rumor that
the Ukrainians have called and they already want to come
(25:18):
back to the White House.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
I don't know about numerous calls, but they certainly made
at least one request to come back in and continue
the conversation. The President was like, look, first of all,
they were disrespectful, and second of all, what are we
even going to talk about? They've shown a clear unwillingness
to discuss the peaceful settlement that President Trump is trying
to bring to this situation.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I think a lot of Americans are sort.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
Of, you know, it's useful to step back and ask
ourselves what is the actual plan here. You can't just
fund the war forever. The American people won't stand for it.
And by the way Sean. If you look at European
opinion polls, the Europeans aren't going to stand forever for
it either. We need to bring this thing to a
peaceful settlement. The President was trying to do that. He'll
(25:58):
continue to try to do but you've got to have
two to ten Goo. You've got to have a negotiating
partner in the Ukrainians who recognize that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know, of course they have their views, and of course.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
They're not always going to agree with us, but they've
got to participate in the conversation. They weren't willing to
do that on Friday, so the President said, sent.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Him home, and he did, and he did. No soup
for you, Crane, No soup for you. Even Lindsey Graham
is now having to try to act like, you know,
he's mad at Zelensky. Do I need to remind you
it was Lindsey Graham who called for Putin to be assassinated.
(26:39):
Do you remember this? You still stand by her?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I hope he will be taken out one way or
the other. I don't care how they take him out.
I don't care if we send him to the Hague
and try him. I just want him to go. Yes,
I'm on record, Please understand Senator Lendsey Graham and John
mccam we're here, he'd be saying the same thing you think.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But it's time for him to go. He's a war criminal.
If John McCain we're here, I bet he'd be saying
the same stupid thing you're saying. You're exactly right, because
all the stupid stuff you said, he said too, because
that's what John McCain did, your little running buddy. He
wanted us in every war we could possibly be in.
He loved to be for war, thought it was the
(27:22):
best thing possible. Just love, love, love war. Well count
me out. I'm not for it, you idiot. And by
the way, who is Lindsey Graham to be calling for
the assassination of Putin? You know this is the mindset
of the neocons. It gets me every time. So everybody
(27:45):
wanted Saddam Hussein out of Iraq, right, we had to
topple Saddam Hussein and we did. Now do you think,
and I know this is gonna upset a lot of
people to hear me say, do you think that Iraq
is more stable to than when we toppled Saddam do
you think that the region is more stable today? I
(28:08):
will tell you this, Iran is stronger now than they
were when Iraq was keeping them in check. That is
for sure. The militant elements within Iraq were under control
under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. But we had
(28:29):
to topple Saddam and we had to topple Kadafi in Libya.
Do you think Libya is safer today and we had
to push Hasni Mubarik out in Egypt? Do you think
Egypt is better off today under the Muslim brotherhood? These
people love to topple people, except they don't know that
(28:52):
who's waiting in the wings is worse. Maestro Ramon, might
you fire up some Texas music as I close the
show with the letter from Travis from inside the Alamo.
He's desperately seeking reinforcements. He writes Commandant See of the
Alamo from Bear which San Antonio is now in Bear County,
(29:16):
b e Xar, February twenty fourth, eighteen thirty six, to
the people of Texas and all Americans in the world,
fellow citizens and compatriots. He was writing to the world.
Friends there think about Alimo. Think about idea that you
are writing a letter to the world. He knew they
were all about to be slaughtered. I am besieged by
(29:38):
one thousand or more of the Mexicans second Home depot
parking lot under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual
bombardment and cannonade for twenty four hours and have not
lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion.
Otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword.
If the fort is taken new body we continue to fight,
(30:00):
They're gonna kill us all. They've made it very clear.
I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and
our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall
never surrender or retreat. Then I call on you, in
the name of liberty, of patriots and everything dear to
the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch.
(30:23):
The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt
increase to three or four thousand in four or five days.
If this call is neglected. I am determined to sustain
myself as long as possible, and die like a soldier
who never forgets what is due to his own honor
(30:45):
and that of his country, victory or death. William Barrett Travis,
Lieutenant lieutenant colonel Commandant PS. The Lord is on our side.
When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three
bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses
(31:07):
eighty or ninety bushels, and got into the walls of
twenty or thirty head of beeves. The Lord was providing
food that they might fight for Texas independence. Now, how
glorious is that faith will us has attend? Thank you,
(31:31):
and good night.
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