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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, Time, Time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air for more deep.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Because of the obvious threat to untold numbers of citizens,
and because of the crisis which is even now developing,
this radio station will remain on the air day and night.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There are warnings that the US is dangerously close to
a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
The media is convinced that the actions of President Trump,
like executive orders and Department of Government efficiency, have created
or will soon create a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Those that have said that we may face a constitution crisis,
I want you to know that the crisis is here.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Constitutional crisis, grossly unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
This is a genuine constitutional crisis. I think this is
the most serious constitution crisis the country is faced, certainly
since Watergate. The president is attempting to.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Seize control of power and for corrupt purposes.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, you can cry the river.
Speaker 8 (01:29):
I am not going to elect almos as a Bond
villain as our president United States.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We have to upholl the constitutions.
Speaker 9 (01:37):
That's what we're here.
Speaker 10 (01:37):
To do now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Republicans have attacked this.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Time and time again because we model, the values of
diversity and inclusion.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, that is what America is about. Don't let us
then tell us we're not American. We are the true
Americans here. America is about us.
Speaker 11 (01:54):
We have to reclaim our country.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
USA, USA, US.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
It says all about taking over the government in order
to advance the interests of Elon Musk and the billionaires
at the expense of everybody else in America. It was
the big lie and the big betrayal.
Speaker 11 (02:17):
We have got to tell Elon Musk, Nobody elected your ass,
nobody talk to you could get all of our private information.
Nobody told you you could be in charge of the
payments of this country. We have told you you've made
enough money off our government yourself. Elon Musk is seizing
(02:40):
power from the American people.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh my Jim, thank you so hard. That was just wonderful.
We had Maxine Waters, Maxine Waters, who sounds like some
street corner politician, I'll say politician Maxie and Waters who
(03:13):
sounds like some street.
Speaker 12 (03:15):
Corner politician, and followed, So you get the most ghetto, angry.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
World star congressman, and you follow it up by the
most breathless, hysterical, frustrated Karen socialist in the Senate. Just
back to back. That juxtaposition is just perfect. So what
(03:56):
the Democrats are doing is trying to push Platin out
fast because they only have a couple of days left
if he doesn't withdraw, and he can choose not to withdraw.
They are threatening him, they are pressuring him. He's new
to this process, so he's scared. They're making it seem
(04:17):
horrible for him. Will you won't even have you won't
even have Maxine Water supporting you, because you know in
Maine they ask me, they ask California's maxine Water is
what she thinks? First? You won't even have then fill
in thank politician because they got to get him out
(04:38):
to replace him, because they know the Republicans are going
to beat him, and all they care about is winning
that seat. That's it. You know things are bad when
Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, who would endorse a wet
paper bag if it had a D next to it
just so they can get control of the Senate. If
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they're doubting you, listen to this, it's six o eight, Jim,
I'll just say that I didn't.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
He basically said no, but I didn't necessarily feel like
that no was one hundred percent convincing. Again, this is
me just like reading body language and making a personal judgment.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's not because I didn't say no, it's just the.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Way that you react. That no felt like a little wobbly.
I'll just say it.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
I think other people who were the no felt like
it was a little wobbly too. And I think, you know,
I think that's uh, that's obviously born out.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, And I will tell you just a little.
Speaker 13 (05:41):
When you did that interview, I listened to it live
on Sirius XM as it was happening, and on that point,
which you were very insistent with him on, I was like,
that doesn't sound like a categorical, clear no. And I
went home and watched the tape version of you do
It because I wanted to see him give his answer to.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And that was my take too. Nothing worse than watching
Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow lather each other up. I'm
not I'm not sure if that's called scissor ing. I
don't really know what you call that. Then, of course
there was Pocahontas Wig and this is four oh four.
(06:23):
This was Pocahontas telling us that Graham Plattner was her
guy because we've got to get a Senate majority. This
is what she said. That's my kind of man. Oh
my goodness, slow down there, that's my kind of man.
Elizabeth Warren getting a thrill up her leg. Senator Corey
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Booker of New Jersey, speaking of pep sexuality. He knows
Graham Platner has a Nazi tattoo. He's called people Nazis
who don't he knows about the abuse allegations. He said
all of it on camera, and then he said, dear God,
we need to get the Senate back. That's it, that's
(07:06):
all it matters. They could literally run Hitler. They could
literally run Hitler as long as that person will vote Democrat.
This is what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Those opportunities to elect a new leader is in Maine.
We have a competitive contest. Democrats just nominated Graham Plattner
despite past offensive comments about a tattoo associated past offensive comments.
He's got this tattoo that's associated with a Nazi symbol.
He also said he didn't understand it's a meeting. He's
covered it up. And he's also faced allegations from former
girlfriends of abusive behavior, which he denies. Do you think
(07:39):
Graham Plattner has the character to serve in the United
States Senate?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, this is what campaigns are for.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He certainly has a lot of issues and a lot
of questions to answer and address. And I think the
people are mean are going to give a lot of
examination to this going through in this election. For me,
I certainly hope we pick up a seat here for
me and people of the state of New Jersey. Dear God,
we need to get the Senate back so we can
start checking this out of control president. And that's why
(08:07):
again I'm going to be doing everything I can, all
the Mike, state of New Jersey and everywhere I can
to help him.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, well, we do. The Democrats have to take it back.
Before they were told that they had to push Platner overboard,
all the allegations were out there, the Democrats had closed ranks,
and they were still with him. Here was Senator Chris Coons.
(08:35):
You remember Coons was made a fool of on many occasions,
but one of the best was he was the chairman
of the Joe Biden campaign and he was doing the
Sunday morning talkers and he shows up to the show
and they told him, oh, there's been a palace who
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they put a pillow to Biden's face and smothered him out,
and they've auto signed a resignation. He's not running for reelection.
Chris Coon's literally found out in the middle of an
interview on one of the morning talk shows. He was
there to tell us how Joe Biden was lucid and
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I mean he was really sharp. I me, and he's
that guy. You know, you don't want to see how
smart this guy is. Forget Elon Musk, Forget this guy
who man, did he ever have snap?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well he is. They've auto signed a resignation for him.
Oh oh really, yeah, yeah, they went ahead. He's no
longer running for real estion. Oh well, nobody told me. Yeah,
So here he is. He's getting He was giving grace
to Graham Plattner. Grace. That's what Graham Platner needed at
this point. Grace.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
You know, frankly, mister Plattner's a four term excuse me,
four tour, a combat veteran, and someone who's conduct as
he came home from war. Many have questioned, I don't
know him and don't know him at all. Well, but
I'm going to give him a measure of grace and
wait until I get a chance to hear more about
(10:20):
the details of all these different allegations. In my view,
the folks who we have here in the Senate and
who we might have here in the Senate, we should
hold a high standard.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, we should hold him to a high standard, even
though I'm not that's how you say those things. Listen,
I'm not one to defend someone behaving badly. Okay, I'm not,
but we should give him a measure of Oh so
you are here, was Congressman John Garamendi from California on CNN.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
And I'm talking about the Senate race in Maine. Well
Grant Plattner, who is leading in all the polls there,
basically all the certain to be the Democratic nominee. The
New York Times on Wall Street Journal reported the existence
of these these sexually explicit text messages that.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
He sent to several women. The report say after he
was married.
Speaker 14 (11:12):
There's a twist that it was actually his wife who
turned it over to his campaign more than a year ago,
and then they were released. But how concerned are you
about his electability and his suitability to be a US senator.
Speaker 15 (11:27):
Well, he certainly has many good attributes. He has a
great background. He comes to this issue with a strength
both of personality and determination as well as his as
well as his history. But like most everybody, there are
stumbles along the way, and there are some things that
he regrets having done, and I'm sure the public will
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hear about them.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh, okay. And then we have Congressman Debbie Dingle. Oh,
she's a real doozy this one. She has spent most
of her life fighting against domestic violence. You need to
know that. So since she is a warrior against domestic violence,
she would never ever suggest it's okay. Ever, and she
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has all the credibility, but we don't know all the facts.
It's it's complicated. What a second, Debbie. I thought we
were supposed to believe all women all the time. Isn't
that how that works? Let's listen to Debbie.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
So, like many people, including the candidate that we just
heard from, I'm trying to process it because I mean, this, ultimately,
isn't This is up to the people of Maine. And
they spoke loud and cleer at the beginning of June
that they want change, they want someone who's going to
stand up to Donald Trump and is going to get
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changed in a United States Senate that is a rubber
stamp and not stepping up for the American people bully
in votes that they're taking every single day. I've spent
my life, as you know, living in a home that
had violence, of fighting for women and men too, but
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for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. So I
am never going to say that that is okay the
candidate is denying these charges.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
We've got to careful.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
We don't know what all the facts are, but women
find themselves afraid to come forward because it just gets complicated.
What I do know, he said he's taking a step back,
and that was a.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Very powerful statement.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
He understands the need for change and what his pass
forward is we need change in the United States House
and the United States Senate. I will always be concerned
about domestic violence allegations, sexual assault allegations, yea. But also
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we got a man in the White House that's a predator,
has been convicted of sexual assault.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yes, so she will always be impacted by She will
always be against it, except when she's complicated. She will
always she will always be against sexual violence until she's
not because there's something bigger and that's Trump, Orange man bad. Mean, Look,
sometimes you just you got to support somebody other than
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you got to support somebody who terrorized Trump because Trump bad.
And then we turned to Texas. James Talerico over the
weekend said he will not tolerate anyone speaking ill of
Jasmine Crockett because she's an American hero. Meanwhile, Jasmine Crockett
talking about the race in Maine clip number four thirteen,
(14:53):
You see a.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Lot of hater's got a lot of things to say
about me and my race and how I ran it.
But the reality is that there was a lot of races,
not a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It was racist. It was a racist race.
Speaker 16 (15:03):
It is what it is.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Right, But we live in America and y'all are celebrating
too fifty. Okay, we know what this country is.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Wait what let's this was the person who almost beat
James tall Rico in the Senate Democrat and this is
their party. Here we go.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
You see a lot of hater's got a lot of
things to say about me and my race and how
I ran it. But the reality is that there was
a lot of racist not a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It was racist.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
It was a racist race.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is what it is, right.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
But we live in America and y'all are celebrating too fifty. Okay,
we know what this country is.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Y'all celebrating two fifty. So James tall Rico over the weekend,
in order to begin wooing back black voters went to
a soul food restaurant in Missouri City. That's true. How'd
that go?
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
DEM's good? Hit liss. Y'all vote for me now because
I'm down with the calls. Taking any issue that is
a problem in our country, any issue, and ask yourself
why we can't solve that problem, and you will find
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a profit motive for some individual or entity that is
protecting their turf. Why can't we solve cancer? A lot
of people with far more expertise in medical matters than
me believe that it's a whole lot more profitable to
(16:34):
treat things long term than to solve them. There was
an executive at a tire company eighty years ago who said,
we don't have to have tires that were out, it's
planned obsolescence. You could make a tire that would last forever,
at least last our lifetime, last the lifetime of the vehicle.
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But that wouldn't be profitable, now would it. And you
could do that with most everything Chinese birth tourism. Why
does it exist because some people make a lot of
money off that, and those people use that money and
influence to keep the policy from ever changing. You look
at illegal immigration, there were a lot of people, a
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lot of people getting rich off of illegal immigration. The
issue of birthright citizenship has been top of mind the
last few weeks with the Supreme Court decision, and when
we look at immigration to this country and illegal immigration
and what we intended in what is right and what
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is proper? We were told for years you couldn't close
the border. The problem was too big, it was multifaceted,
so let's do nothing and let it get worse. But
President Trump did close the border and did begin deporting.
And once that happened, you started noticing that it wasn't
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as complicated it is. You thought there were people who
were creating winners and losers based on how much money
they made on illegal immigration. So a news story out
a South Texas hospital caught advertising birth packages on billboards
inside Mexico. Greg Abbott has ordered officials to determine whether
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it violated Texas law. Former Republican Rep. Mara Flores posted
a photo of the billboard she says was in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico,
which went viral After being caught. The hospital says it
immediately ceased the campaign. The story from kvue CAUW in Austin.
Speaker 16 (18:45):
Governor Greg Abbott orders an immediate investigation into a South
Texas hospital accused of marketing to foreign nationals. The directive
target's Mission Regional Medical Center, alleging the facility is an
advertising birth packages abroad in order to profit from one
officials call birth tourism.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The governor says.
Speaker 16 (19:05):
American citizenship isn't for sale and wants the state health
agency to check for any law violations.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
If proof of wrongdoing is found.
Speaker 16 (19:14):
The hospital could face fines or even criminal prosecution, with
the governor promising tougher state laws to stop the practice
during the next legislative session. KAV reached out to Mission
Regional Medical Center. They sent us the following statement, reading
that the hospitals across the country and throughout the region
share information about the healthcare services provided. It goes on
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to say quote the marketing materials regarding maternity services are
no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding, and
they plan to work cooperatively with local and state officials.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh, it's just a misunderstanding. Every licensing, every regulation, every
a lot of dollars these folks receive are from state
and federal AIAS agencies. You could shut them down in
a second, in a second if you wanted to. They
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wouldn't try this if they didn't think they could get
away with it. The hospital had an international maternity website
entitled have my Baby in Texas? Isn't that interesting? Spokesman
for Mission Regional Medical Centers said the hospital has discontinued
its maternity marketing materials quote due to any unintended misunderstanding.
(20:37):
I don't think there's any misunderstanding at all. The billboard,
written in Spanish and English, advertised bundled birth packages starting
at thirty nine to fifty three nine hundred and fifty
for natural birth and five thy five twenty five for
C section birth packages. Advertised services that come with packages
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include breastfiting support and prenatal classes, private delivery and postpartum rooms.
Nick you discharge education rooms and quote much more you
think that much more might include some help with some
legal documentation. The website featured multiple testimonials of success stories
from their maternity services, including a review from as far
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as Mexico City. Social media posts also echo similar messaging
targeting non US residents to come to their hospital, with
one translated post on Instagram stating, are you pregnant, living
abroad and looking to welcome your baby to South Texas?
Look no further. See this is the problem with birthright citizenship.
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We would normally not have a problem with a hospital
marketing their services to anyone to partake of them, unless
the hospital was already overcrowded. They're a service delivery provider.
Have a problem with that. But when you can have
your baby on American soil and get immediate American citizenship,
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creating all sorts of problems that we've all dealt with
and decided we're not going to continue dealing with in
that manner any longer, then this becomes a nefarious act.
This is yet another reason why birthright citizenship is so wrong,
and the Supreme Court knows it. There's been a lot
written that Justice Kavanaugh since then opened the door to
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a change in law that would correct what they call cure.
What was the intention, Because nobody intended. What we've ended
up with the reality is, we all know that a
country cannot sustain itself if people from around the world
are allowed to invade without any regulation, without any sense
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of strategic admission. We all know that. And the people
who do know that but work against us, or people
who want to transform the United States away from what
it is into something that they can control or profit
off of, or rise to a political position of power
over because they don't feel that the Natives would ever
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vote for them and their crazy ideas and their crazy
views and their crazy policy plans. So yet you've been
left with this ugly situation from within, where we're having
to deal with a situation that frankly was worsened by
illegal immigration itself. A situation where you've had people come
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to this country, who arrive in this country and begin
the process of hating it the moment they arrived. That's
what we're dealing with, and a lot of very naive
Americans who cannot see through that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We to the lifestyles of the not so rich and
famous are as.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I call it the Michael Bay.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
There's always somebody whose manager tells them, Hey, you haven't
had a hit in a while. Hey you haven't been
in a movie in a while. You need to do
something real stupid to put yourself out there. The more
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stupid and ridiculous, the more likely it'll be covered. Don't
worry about saying something so stupid, because all that matters
is that you will be the subject of debate. And
then the chirn that little graphic at the bottom that'll
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say your name, So whether it's Fox or CNN or MSNBC,
it'll say Alicia Keys says women need equal rights, and
all anybody will will remember. If the volumes down, they'll
just see Alicia Keys. If the volume's up, they're not
paying attention anyway. The only thing that will matter is
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Alicia Keys. Mora Alicia Keys. And by the way, this
is why actors and singers are always jumping up and claiming,
you know, to defend the rights of the indigenous, left handed, lesbian,
mobility impaired, mute person, because this is how you keep
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your name in the public light. If you go to
work every day, if you wake up and get the
family ready and send them off, or if you're a
caretaker for your elderly parent or for your disabled child.
You don't need everybody talking about you. In fact, chances
are you don't want anybody talk about you. You just
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kind of want to disappear under the radar because everybody
talking about you means somebody's criticizing you. When you're a
singer or an actor, you are desperately trying to be
noticed at all times. If you ever walk along the
strip in Vegas or parts of New York, they'll be
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these guys and they pop. They'll take the cards and
they pop the cards. They usually little Guatemalan or Hunduran dudes.
I don't know who they use now because those guys
might have been deported. But they just stand in the
background and they pop the card, one on the other
and it's designed to make you turn and look. And
when that happens, they will hand to you the card
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for a free drink inside the strip club or the
cabaret show, or if you're a married couple, they'll offer
you a card for a show that a married couples
more likely to go to. If you're a group of
single guys, you're a perfect target for a strip club,
so they're any of that card. But The point is
they got to get noticed because for every person that
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they direct into the strip club or the cabaret show
or the lounge show or whatever else, they get a commission. Well,
it's kind of like that for actors and singers. There's always,
no matter how hot you've been, there's always the hot
new thing that's being talked about. There's always the new
ben a Flacker. Who was the one that was with
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Brad Pitt.
Speaker 15 (27:20):
What was the one? What?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
After Angelina and Joelie? Oh no, before Angelina Jolie the
one that was on Yeah, Jennifer Andersen. There's always the
hot new Julia Roberts. So you got to do something
so that people will show up at your concerts and
put you in the movie. So it's Alisia Keys turn.
It's been one hundred years since the Equal rightsman was
first introduced, and she doesn't understand that women have the
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same constitutional rights as women as men. She just wants
you to talk about her, So will oblige. Here we are,
here's Alisia Keys. Women want equal rights? Here we go.
Speaker 17 (27:57):
Did you know that it's been one hundred years since
the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced and now still
women don't have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under
the US Constitution.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 17 (28:14):
I couldn't even believe that was real. I mean, women
are not asking for special rights, just equal rights. Let's
turn outrage into authorship. If it's the two hundred and
fiftieth celebration of the country, isn't it time to update
some things. What rights or guarantees do you feel all
women should have in America? That's a good question. I'm
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not here to speak for you. I just want to
pass you the mic, So have your say at People's
Bill of Rights two fifty dot org, not red, not blue,
just you, oh please.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know there are certain women out there who try
to elevate themselves on the basis of speaking for women,
and they will often talk about how much money women
make compared to men. And then there'll be a Thomas
Soul who will pull out the data and show dangerous
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jobs tend to pay more than clerical jobs. Turns out,
men working in clerical jobs don't make as much as
men working in dangerous jobs. My friend uncle Jerry, his
son Chad. For years before he had a motorcycle accident.
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He used to be one of the guys that would
climb up to the top of the telephone tower. Now,
I don't know about you. I'm not necessarily unnaturally scared
of heights, but I don't want to crawl up there.
And one of the things I asked him about this,
and he said, well, one of the things it's hard
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to get used to is those have to sway.
Speaker 13 (30:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
What's the country song, Jim, like a tree out in
the backyard that bends but doesn't break. You remember that song. Well,
it's like that, he says. Those towers they have a
little give to them. That give is what keeps them
from breaking over. And so when you're up there at
the top changing out the bulbs and changing out the fuses,
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that thing is swaying with you a little. Well, he
got paid a lot of money. I don't remember what
it was, but per hour it was an insane amount
of money. Now, you're not working eight hours a day,
so you're not doing that. But one day of work
for him was more than a week for most people.
Because it was highly highly dangerous, there aren't people lining
up to do that. This whole silly idea that somehow,
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some way, women are getting the short end of the stick.
If you want to know how women got short in
the stick, I'll tell you. Women have to bleed every month.
That's unpleasant. Nobody's happy about that, no man. That's why
I don't understand men that want to be women and
they create these I don't want to gross you out
because you might be eating, but these men, they create
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these moments so that they have something so awful as
a period. No woman thinks that's a good thing. That's
their lot in life, that's what God assigned them. But
nobody's signing up for that. My goodness, alife and then
women have to childbirth is their burden, My goodness, I
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can't imagine. I don't know that there's anything that's so
awful in life. And they do it somehow, some way,
they do it. But this idea that women need an
equal right, you have equal rights. You sound silly saying
stuff like that. You sound absurd. Stop you're embarrassing other women.
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Women have it great in this country. You want to
know where women don't have it great? Do you notice
the Muslim countries have a men's soccer team but not
a women's soccer team. You want to make life better
for women, go to the Middle East, go to Pakistan.
That'd be a good place to start. But you wouldn't
dare do that there, or if you did, you'd cover
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your head. Because even Hillary Clinton, little miss I'm the
defender of all women, she covered her head like they
told her to when she went to the Middle East,
didn't she. Hey, wommen Ellus has little her Thank you
and good night.
It's that time, time, Time, Time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air for more deep.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Because of the obvious threat to untold numbers of citizens,
and because of the crisis which is even now developing,
this radio station will remain on the air day and night.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There are warnings that the US is dangerously close to
a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
The media is convinced that the actions of President Trump,
like executive orders and Department of Government efficiency, have created
or will soon create a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Those that have said that we may face a constitution crisis,
I want you to know that the crisis is here.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Constitutional crisis, grossly unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
This is a genuine constitutional crisis. I think this is
the most serious constitution crisis the country is faced, certainly
since Watergate. The president is attempting to.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Seize control of power and for corrupt purposes.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, you can cry the river.
Speaker 8 (01:29):
I am not going to elect almos as a Bond
villain as our president United States.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We have to upholl the constitutions.
Speaker 9 (01:37):
That's what we're here.
Speaker 10 (01:37):
To do now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Republicans have attacked this.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Time and time again because we model, the values of
diversity and inclusion.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, that is what America is about. Don't let us
then tell us we're not American. We are the true
Americans here. America is about us.
Speaker 11 (01:54):
We have to reclaim our country.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
USA, USA, US.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
It says all about taking over the government in order
to advance the interests of Elon Musk and the billionaires
at the expense of everybody else in America. It was
the big lie and the big betrayal.
Speaker 11 (02:17):
We have got to tell Elon Musk, Nobody elected your ass,
nobody talk to you could get all of our private information.
Nobody told you you could be in charge of the
payments of this country. We have told you you've made
enough money off our government yourself. Elon Musk is seizing
(02:40):
power from the American people.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh my Jim, thank you so hard. That was just wonderful.
We had Maxine Waters, Maxine Waters, who sounds like some
street corner politician, I'll say politician Maxie and Waters who
(03:13):
sounds like some street.
Speaker 12 (03:15):
Corner politician, and followed, So you get the most ghetto, angry.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
World star congressman, and you follow it up by the
most breathless, hysterical, frustrated Karen socialist in the Senate. Just
back to back. That juxtaposition is just perfect. So what
(03:56):
the Democrats are doing is trying to push Platin out
fast because they only have a couple of days left
if he doesn't withdraw, and he can choose not to withdraw.
They are threatening him, they are pressuring him. He's new
to this process, so he's scared. They're making it seem
(04:17):
horrible for him. Will you won't even have you won't
even have Maxine Water supporting you, because you know in
Maine they ask me, they ask California's maxine Water is
what she thinks? First? You won't even have then fill
in thank politician because they got to get him out
(04:38):
to replace him, because they know the Republicans are going
to beat him, and all they care about is winning
that seat. That's it. You know things are bad when
Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, who would endorse a wet
paper bag if it had a D next to it
just so they can get control of the Senate. If
(04:59):
they're doubting you, listen to this, it's six o eight, Jim,
I'll just say that I didn't.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
He basically said no, but I didn't necessarily feel like
that no was one hundred percent convincing. Again, this is
me just like reading body language and making a personal judgment.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's not because I didn't say no, it's just the.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Way that you react. That no felt like a little wobbly.
I'll just say it.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
I think other people who were the no felt like
it was a little wobbly too. And I think, you know,
I think that's uh, that's obviously born out.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, And I will tell you just a little.
Speaker 13 (05:41):
When you did that interview, I listened to it live
on Sirius XM as it was happening, and on that point,
which you were very insistent with him on, I was like,
that doesn't sound like a categorical, clear no. And I
went home and watched the tape version of you do
It because I wanted to see him give his answer to.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And that was my take too. Nothing worse than watching
Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow lather each other up. I'm
not I'm not sure if that's called scissor ing. I
don't really know what you call that. Then, of course
there was Pocahontas Wig and this is four oh four.
(06:23):
This was Pocahontas telling us that Graham Plattner was her
guy because we've got to get a Senate majority. This
is what she said. That's my kind of man. Oh
my goodness, slow down there, that's my kind of man.
Elizabeth Warren getting a thrill up her leg. Senator Corey
(06:44):
Booker of New Jersey, speaking of pep sexuality. He knows
Graham Platner has a Nazi tattoo. He's called people Nazis
who don't he knows about the abuse allegations. He said
all of it on camera, and then he said, dear God,
we need to get the Senate back. That's it, that's
(07:06):
all it matters. They could literally run Hitler. They could
literally run Hitler as long as that person will vote Democrat.
This is what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Those opportunities to elect a new leader is in Maine.
We have a competitive contest. Democrats just nominated Graham Plattner
despite past offensive comments about a tattoo associated past offensive comments.
He's got this tattoo that's associated with a Nazi symbol.
He also said he didn't understand it's a meeting. He's
covered it up. And he's also faced allegations from former
girlfriends of abusive behavior, which he denies. Do you think
(07:39):
Graham Plattner has the character to serve in the United
States Senate?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Well, this is what campaigns are for.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He certainly has a lot of issues and a lot
of questions to answer and address. And I think the
people are mean are going to give a lot of
examination to this going through in this election. For me,
I certainly hope we pick up a seat here for
me and people of the state of New Jersey. Dear God,
we need to get the Senate back so we can
start checking this out of control president. And that's why
(08:07):
again I'm going to be doing everything I can, all
the Mike, state of New Jersey and everywhere I can
to help him.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, well, we do. The Democrats have to take it back.
Before they were told that they had to push Platner overboard,
all the allegations were out there, the Democrats had closed ranks,
and they were still with him. Here was Senator Chris Coons.
(08:35):
You remember Coons was made a fool of on many occasions,
but one of the best was he was the chairman
of the Joe Biden campaign and he was doing the
Sunday morning talkers and he shows up to the show
and they told him, oh, there's been a palace who
(09:01):
they put a pillow to Biden's face and smothered him out,
and they've auto signed a resignation. He's not running for reelection.
Chris Coon's literally found out in the middle of an
interview on one of the morning talk shows. He was
there to tell us how Joe Biden was lucid and
(09:24):
I mean he was really sharp. I me, and he's
that guy. You know, you don't want to see how
smart this guy is. Forget Elon Musk, Forget this guy
who man, did he ever have snap?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well he is. They've auto signed a resignation for him.
Oh oh really, yeah, yeah, they went ahead. He's no
longer running for real estion. Oh well, nobody told me. Yeah,
So here he is. He's getting He was giving grace
to Graham Plattner. Grace. That's what Graham Platner needed at
this point. Grace.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
You know, frankly, mister Plattner's a four term excuse me,
four tour, a combat veteran, and someone who's conduct as
he came home from war. Many have questioned, I don't
know him and don't know him at all. Well, but
I'm going to give him a measure of grace and
wait until I get a chance to hear more about
(10:20):
the details of all these different allegations. In my view,
the folks who we have here in the Senate and
who we might have here in the Senate, we should
hold a high standard.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, we should hold him to a high standard, even
though I'm not that's how you say those things. Listen,
I'm not one to defend someone behaving badly. Okay, I'm not,
but we should give him a measure of Oh so
you are here, was Congressman John Garamendi from California on CNN.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
And I'm talking about the Senate race in Maine. Well
Grant Plattner, who is leading in all the polls there,
basically all the certain to be the Democratic nominee. The
New York Times on Wall Street Journal reported the existence
of these these sexually explicit text messages that.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
He sent to several women. The report say after he
was married.
Speaker 14 (11:12):
There's a twist that it was actually his wife who
turned it over to his campaign more than a year ago,
and then they were released. But how concerned are you
about his electability and his suitability to be a US senator.
Speaker 15 (11:27):
Well, he certainly has many good attributes. He has a
great background. He comes to this issue with a strength
both of personality and determination as well as his as
well as his history. But like most everybody, there are
stumbles along the way, and there are some things that
he regrets having done, and I'm sure the public will
(11:49):
hear about them.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh, okay. And then we have Congressman Debbie Dingle. Oh,
she's a real doozy this one. She has spent most
of her life fighting against domestic violence. You need to
know that. So since she is a warrior against domestic violence,
she would never ever suggest it's okay. Ever, and she
(12:13):
has all the credibility, but we don't know all the facts.
It's it's complicated. What a second, Debbie. I thought we
were supposed to believe all women all the time. Isn't
that how that works? Let's listen to Debbie.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
So, like many people, including the candidate that we just
heard from, I'm trying to process it because I mean, this, ultimately,
isn't This is up to the people of Maine. And
they spoke loud and cleer at the beginning of June
that they want change, they want someone who's going to
stand up to Donald Trump and is going to get
(12:52):
changed in a United States Senate that is a rubber
stamp and not stepping up for the American people bully
in votes that they're taking every single day. I've spent
my life, as you know, living in a home that
had violence, of fighting for women and men too, but
(13:14):
for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. So I
am never going to say that that is okay the
candidate is denying these charges.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
We've got to careful.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
We don't know what all the facts are, but women
find themselves afraid to come forward because it just gets complicated.
What I do know, he said he's taking a step back,
and that was a.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Very powerful statement.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
He understands the need for change and what his pass
forward is we need change in the United States House
and the United States Senate. I will always be concerned
about domestic violence allegations, sexual assault allegations, yea. But also
(14:02):
we got a man in the White House that's a predator,
has been convicted of sexual assault.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yes, so she will always be impacted by She will
always be against it, except when she's complicated. She will
always she will always be against sexual violence until she's
not because there's something bigger and that's Trump, Orange man bad. Mean, Look,
sometimes you just you got to support somebody other than
(14:30):
you got to support somebody who terrorized Trump because Trump bad.
And then we turned to Texas. James Talerico over the
weekend said he will not tolerate anyone speaking ill of
Jasmine Crockett because she's an American hero. Meanwhile, Jasmine Crockett
talking about the race in Maine clip number four thirteen,
(14:53):
You see a.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Lot of hater's got a lot of things to say
about me and my race and how I ran it.
But the reality is that there was a lot of races,
not a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It was racist. It was a racist race.
Speaker 16 (15:03):
It is what it is.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Right, But we live in America and y'all are celebrating
too fifty. Okay, we know what this country is.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Wait what let's this was the person who almost beat
James tall Rico in the Senate Democrat and this is
their party. Here we go.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
You see a lot of hater's got a lot of
things to say about me and my race and how
I ran it. But the reality is that there was
a lot of racist not a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It was racist.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
It was a racist race.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is what it is, right.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
But we live in America and y'all are celebrating too fifty. Okay,
we know what this country is.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Y'all celebrating two fifty. So James tall Rico over the weekend,
in order to begin wooing back black voters went to
a soul food restaurant in Missouri City. That's true. How'd
that go?
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
DEM's good? Hit liss. Y'all vote for me now because
I'm down with the calls. Taking any issue that is
a problem in our country, any issue, and ask yourself
why we can't solve that problem, and you will find
(16:12):
a profit motive for some individual or entity that is
protecting their turf. Why can't we solve cancer? A lot
of people with far more expertise in medical matters than
me believe that it's a whole lot more profitable to
(16:34):
treat things long term than to solve them. There was
an executive at a tire company eighty years ago who said,
we don't have to have tires that were out, it's
planned obsolescence. You could make a tire that would last forever,
at least last our lifetime, last the lifetime of the vehicle.
(16:55):
But that wouldn't be profitable, now would it. And you
could do that with most everything Chinese birth tourism. Why
does it exist because some people make a lot of
money off that, and those people use that money and
influence to keep the policy from ever changing. You look
at illegal immigration, there were a lot of people, a
(17:17):
lot of people getting rich off of illegal immigration. The
issue of birthright citizenship has been top of mind the
last few weeks with the Supreme Court decision, and when
we look at immigration to this country and illegal immigration
and what we intended in what is right and what
(17:38):
is proper? We were told for years you couldn't close
the border. The problem was too big, it was multifaceted,
so let's do nothing and let it get worse. But
President Trump did close the border and did begin deporting.
And once that happened, you started noticing that it wasn't
(17:59):
as complicated it is. You thought there were people who
were creating winners and losers based on how much money
they made on illegal immigration. So a news story out
a South Texas hospital caught advertising birth packages on billboards
inside Mexico. Greg Abbott has ordered officials to determine whether
(18:23):
it violated Texas law. Former Republican Rep. Mara Flores posted
a photo of the billboard she says was in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico,
which went viral After being caught. The hospital says it
immediately ceased the campaign. The story from kvue CAUW in Austin.
Speaker 16 (18:45):
Governor Greg Abbott orders an immediate investigation into a South
Texas hospital accused of marketing to foreign nationals. The directive
target's Mission Regional Medical Center, alleging the facility is an
advertising birth packages abroad in order to profit from one
officials call birth tourism.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The governor says.
Speaker 16 (19:05):
American citizenship isn't for sale and wants the state health
agency to check for any law violations.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
If proof of wrongdoing is found.
Speaker 16 (19:14):
The hospital could face fines or even criminal prosecution, with
the governor promising tougher state laws to stop the practice
during the next legislative session. KAV reached out to Mission
Regional Medical Center. They sent us the following statement, reading
that the hospitals across the country and throughout the region
share information about the healthcare services provided. It goes on
(19:35):
to say quote the marketing materials regarding maternity services are
no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding, and
they plan to work cooperatively with local and state officials.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh, it's just a misunderstanding. Every licensing, every regulation, every
a lot of dollars these folks receive are from state
and federal AIAS agencies. You could shut them down in
a second, in a second if you wanted to. They
(20:10):
wouldn't try this if they didn't think they could get
away with it. The hospital had an international maternity website
entitled have my Baby in Texas? Isn't that interesting? Spokesman
for Mission Regional Medical Centers said the hospital has discontinued
its maternity marketing materials quote due to any unintended misunderstanding.
(20:37):
I don't think there's any misunderstanding at all. The billboard,
written in Spanish and English, advertised bundled birth packages starting
at thirty nine to fifty three nine hundred and fifty
for natural birth and five thy five twenty five for
C section birth packages. Advertised services that come with packages
(20:58):
include breastfiting support and prenatal classes, private delivery and postpartum rooms.
Nick you discharge education rooms and quote much more you
think that much more might include some help with some
legal documentation. The website featured multiple testimonials of success stories
from their maternity services, including a review from as far
(21:21):
as Mexico City. Social media posts also echo similar messaging
targeting non US residents to come to their hospital, with
one translated post on Instagram stating, are you pregnant, living
abroad and looking to welcome your baby to South Texas?
Look no further. See this is the problem with birthright citizenship.
(21:45):
We would normally not have a problem with a hospital
marketing their services to anyone to partake of them, unless
the hospital was already overcrowded. They're a service delivery provider.
Have a problem with that. But when you can have
your baby on American soil and get immediate American citizenship,
(22:07):
creating all sorts of problems that we've all dealt with
and decided we're not going to continue dealing with in
that manner any longer, then this becomes a nefarious act.
This is yet another reason why birthright citizenship is so wrong,
and the Supreme Court knows it. There's been a lot
written that Justice Kavanaugh since then opened the door to
(22:32):
a change in law that would correct what they call cure.
What was the intention, Because nobody intended. What we've ended
up with the reality is, we all know that a
country cannot sustain itself if people from around the world
are allowed to invade without any regulation, without any sense
(22:54):
of strategic admission. We all know that. And the people
who do know that but work against us, or people
who want to transform the United States away from what
it is into something that they can control or profit
off of, or rise to a political position of power
over because they don't feel that the Natives would ever
(23:16):
vote for them and their crazy ideas and their crazy
views and their crazy policy plans. So yet you've been
left with this ugly situation from within, where we're having
to deal with a situation that frankly was worsened by
illegal immigration itself. A situation where you've had people come
(23:41):
to this country, who arrive in this country and begin
the process of hating it the moment they arrived. That's
what we're dealing with, and a lot of very naive
Americans who cannot see through that.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
We to the lifestyles of the not so rich and
famous are as.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I call it the Michael Bay.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
There's always somebody whose manager tells them, Hey, you haven't
had a hit in a while. Hey you haven't been
in a movie in a while. You need to do
something real stupid to put yourself out there. The more
(24:23):
stupid and ridiculous, the more likely it'll be covered. Don't
worry about saying something so stupid, because all that matters
is that you will be the subject of debate. And
then the chirn that little graphic at the bottom that'll
(24:43):
say your name, So whether it's Fox or CNN or MSNBC,
it'll say Alicia Keys says women need equal rights, and
all anybody will will remember. If the volumes down, they'll
just see Alicia Keys. If the volume's up, they're not
paying attention anyway. The only thing that will matter is
(25:05):
Alicia Keys. Mora Alicia Keys. And by the way, this
is why actors and singers are always jumping up and claiming,
you know, to defend the rights of the indigenous, left handed, lesbian,
mobility impaired, mute person, because this is how you keep
(25:27):
your name in the public light. If you go to
work every day, if you wake up and get the
family ready and send them off, or if you're a
caretaker for your elderly parent or for your disabled child.
You don't need everybody talking about you. In fact, chances
are you don't want anybody talk about you. You just
(25:49):
kind of want to disappear under the radar because everybody
talking about you means somebody's criticizing you. When you're a
singer or an actor, you are desperately trying to be
noticed at all times. If you ever walk along the
strip in Vegas or parts of New York, they'll be
(26:11):
these guys and they pop. They'll take the cards and
they pop the cards. They usually little Guatemalan or Hunduran dudes.
I don't know who they use now because those guys
might have been deported. But they just stand in the
background and they pop the card, one on the other
and it's designed to make you turn and look. And
when that happens, they will hand to you the card
(26:33):
for a free drink inside the strip club or the
cabaret show, or if you're a married couple, they'll offer
you a card for a show that a married couples
more likely to go to. If you're a group of
single guys, you're a perfect target for a strip club,
so they're any of that card. But The point is
they got to get noticed because for every person that
(26:56):
they direct into the strip club or the cabaret show
or the lounge show or whatever else, they get a commission. Well,
it's kind of like that for actors and singers. There's always,
no matter how hot you've been, there's always the hot
new thing that's being talked about. There's always the new
ben a Flacker. Who was the one that was with
(27:17):
Brad Pitt.
Speaker 15 (27:20):
What was the one? What?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
After Angelina and Joelie? Oh no, before Angelina Jolie the
one that was on Yeah, Jennifer Andersen. There's always the
hot new Julia Roberts. So you got to do something
so that people will show up at your concerts and
put you in the movie. So it's Alisia Keys turn.
It's been one hundred years since the Equal rightsman was
first introduced, and she doesn't understand that women have the
(27:46):
same constitutional rights as women as men. She just wants
you to talk about her, So will oblige. Here we are,
here's Alisia Keys. Women want equal rights? Here we go.
Speaker 17 (27:57):
Did you know that it's been one hundred years since
the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced and now still
women don't have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under
the US Constitution.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 17 (28:14):
I couldn't even believe that was real. I mean, women
are not asking for special rights, just equal rights. Let's
turn outrage into authorship. If it's the two hundred and
fiftieth celebration of the country, isn't it time to update
some things. What rights or guarantees do you feel all
women should have in America? That's a good question. I'm
(28:38):
not here to speak for you. I just want to
pass you the mic, So have your say at People's
Bill of Rights two fifty dot org, not red, not blue,
just you, oh please.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know there are certain women out there who try
to elevate themselves on the basis of speaking for women,
and they will often talk about how much money women
make compared to men. And then there'll be a Thomas
Soul who will pull out the data and show dangerous
(29:14):
jobs tend to pay more than clerical jobs. Turns out,
men working in clerical jobs don't make as much as
men working in dangerous jobs. My friend uncle Jerry, his
son Chad. For years before he had a motorcycle accident.
(29:36):
He used to be one of the guys that would
climb up to the top of the telephone tower. Now,
I don't know about you. I'm not necessarily unnaturally scared
of heights, but I don't want to crawl up there.
And one of the things I asked him about this,
and he said, well, one of the things it's hard
(29:57):
to get used to is those have to sway.
Speaker 13 (30:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
What's the country song, Jim, like a tree out in
the backyard that bends but doesn't break. You remember that song. Well,
it's like that, he says. Those towers they have a
little give to them. That give is what keeps them
from breaking over. And so when you're up there at
the top changing out the bulbs and changing out the fuses,
(30:27):
that thing is swaying with you a little. Well, he
got paid a lot of money. I don't remember what
it was, but per hour it was an insane amount
of money. Now, you're not working eight hours a day,
so you're not doing that. But one day of work
for him was more than a week for most people.
Because it was highly highly dangerous, there aren't people lining
up to do that. This whole silly idea that somehow,
(30:53):
some way, women are getting the short end of the stick.
If you want to know how women got short in
the stick, I'll tell you. Women have to bleed every month.
That's unpleasant. Nobody's happy about that, no man. That's why
I don't understand men that want to be women and
they create these I don't want to gross you out
because you might be eating, but these men, they create
(31:15):
these moments so that they have something so awful as
a period. No woman thinks that's a good thing. That's
their lot in life, that's what God assigned them. But
nobody's signing up for that. My goodness, alife and then
women have to childbirth is their burden, My goodness, I
(31:37):
can't imagine. I don't know that there's anything that's so
awful in life. And they do it somehow, some way,
they do it. But this idea that women need an
equal right, you have equal rights. You sound silly saying
stuff like that. You sound absurd. Stop you're embarrassing other women.
(32:00):
Women have it great in this country. You want to
know where women don't have it great? Do you notice
the Muslim countries have a men's soccer team but not
a women's soccer team. You want to make life better
for women, go to the Middle East, go to Pakistan.
That'd be a good place to start. But you wouldn't
dare do that there, or if you did, you'd cover
(32:22):
your head. Because even Hillary Clinton, little miss I'm the
defender of all women, she covered her head like they
told her to when she went to the Middle East,
didn't she. Hey, wommen Ellus has little her Thank you
and good night.
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Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.