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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Blessed other merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are
the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed
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other peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
John.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
The contours of a potential peace plan are coming together
after President Putin's visit here in Alaska. Russia essentially wants
control of two terrorries in eastern Ukraine if they are
going to agree to cease fire everywhere else. Ukraine wants
security guarantees. They want Western troops to come into their
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country and guarantee that Russia doesn't come back and try
anything again.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
We were together almost three hours and it was very
extensive and we agreed with a lot of points. I
mean a lot of points were agreeing on, but there's
not that much, as you know, one or two pretty
significant items, but I think they can be reached.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
It's really up to President Zolynsky to get it done.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
President Zelenski has confirmed for a White House visit on Monday.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
I refuse to bend the knee to their next endless
war in Ukraine. I want peace they want money, and
they want conflict, even if it means walking us into
the brink of World War three, which frankly it is doing.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
It was determined by all but the best way to
end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to
go directly to a peace agreement which would end the war,
and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which oftentimes do not
hold up.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
Can you say, if you want Ukraine or Russia to.
Speaker 8 (02:02):
Win this war, I want everybody to stop dying, dead,
dying Russians and Ukrainians.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I wanted to stop dying.
Speaker 10 (02:11):
Friday we had the Trump Putin meeting in Alaska, and
today we had the Trump Zelensky meeting in DC. And
I am reminded of Matthew five nine. Blessed are the peacemakers,
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for they shall be called the children of God.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You know, I goof a lot.
Speaker 10 (02:40):
It's how I deal with disease and death and sadness,
frustration and corruption. It's hard when you allow yourself to
be hopeful, when you take something so seriously. This president
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has shown that so many things are possible if you
actually want to do them, and when you understand that
so many people don't want there to be peace between
Ukraine and Russia. They benefit from the war. And then
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you understand those poor pawns, those poor boys in Ukraine
being grabbed off the street for that matter, those poor
Russian boys who are getting zapped by the drones. They
just want to go home to their wives. They just
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want to go home to their mamas. They just want
to go home and sleep in their own bed. This
is a nasty business, nasty, nasty and evil. Evil people
perpetuate this nonsense. Donald Trump is committed to peace, and
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damn it if that can't rally every American. I don't
know what can. I really don't know what can. I
really don't know what can.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We have spent.
Speaker 10 (04:31):
Enough money in Ukraine to have rebuilt our highways, to
have given a rebate. We could have done incredible things,
but instead we send money so that people can be killed.
We have been dragged, We've allowed ourselves to be dragged
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into what is by historical standards, you take the long
view on Russia.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
This is a civil war.
Speaker 10 (05:06):
Ukraine has been a part of the Russian Empire for
most of that empire. The people are inextricably linked. This
is a brutal brutal fight, a nasty, nasty fight, and
it takes an adult to pull these guys together and
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say we're going to end this. Putin wants to end
this war. It's hurting him financially, it's distracting him, it's
hurting his image in the world. He knows that it's
hurting him financially, and it's costing him a lot of
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money and men. And he doesn't have great respect for
whether he loses a little or a lot. He can
beat anybody in a war of attrition in this kind
of war because he doesn't care how many many loses.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But he's ready for the war to be over.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Trump wants to be the man who brings peace, who
does the deal, the art of the deal. He wants
to get the deal done. Zelensky does not want peace.
And the reason he can do this is because there
are Americans who've been working very hard behind the scenes
to keep this war going. Because Ukraine is a front
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for are a lot of powerful Americans on both sides
of the aisle to funnel money and it ends up
back in their pockets. It is a vast, nasty, evil
conspiracy and that will come out.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The truth will be revealed. It may take a while,
but it will. The mayor of New.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Orleans, Latoria Cantrell, has been indicted on charges for using
seventy thousand dollars of city funds to travel with her bodyguard,
who she was banging. It was all done, okay, he
was banging her. It was all done under the guise
of official business. Flashback to twenty twenty two, New Orleans
City Council threatened to dock the pay of the mayor
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because she refused to pay the city back for jetting
around the globe first class, saying that she was entitled
to taxpayer funded first class travel because as a black woman,
traveling in kutsch is not safe. You see, you see
what we've done. We have empowered this fraud. Your answer
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to everything you do is as a black woman. We've
tolerated this. We've actually encouraged it. We've incubated it. Stop
making victims out of people based on their race. Stop
allowing race to be the explanation for anything. Stop assuming
everyone is a racist. The racist in this country are
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black people, not white people. And that's a fact. The
violence being conducted on the basis of race against another
is black people against white people, and that's when black
people aren't beating the snot out of other black people.
All of those are facts. Everyone knows this. No one
says it, nobody ever says it. Everyone is afraid of
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the truth. Truth is dead in this country because there
is a fear you will upset someone, particularly someone black,
and that someone black will likely be in a position
of authority.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's a fact, all right.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
WWLV out of New Orleans, Louisiana on the story.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
On Friday, a federal grand jury charged New Orleans Mayor
Glatoya Cantrelle with conspiring with their former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappi
to commit wire fraud and cover up an affair for
years while both were married. That includes allegedly charging city
taxpayers seventy thousand dollars for Vappie's expenses during trips together,
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and cantrell allegedally deleted thousands of WhatsApp messages and then
why to a federal grand jury under oath about it.
Acting US Attorney Michael Simpson says, this prosecution isn't about
Cantro and Vappi's alleged affair.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Did you take pause.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
At all about bringing criminal charges that at the heart
are based on a romantic relationship, especially with the first
woman mayor.
Speaker 12 (09:31):
Of the city of New Orleans.
Speaker 13 (09:33):
To me, it's irrelevant that it's romance or that it's female.
What is relevant is that it is an incredible breach
of the public trust. It's an incredible betrayal of people's
confidence in their own government, and it's a violation of
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innumerable federal criminal laws.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
Form obscutor Matt Chester helped convict former mayor Ray Nagan
in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 14 (10:04):
There are serious allegations in here. There are allegations of
falsification of documentation to get city money, their allegations of
lying to a federal grand jury, lying to federal law enforcement.
But at its core, those lies, those activities were about
hiding the illicit relationship.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
A twenty eighteen state case in Tennessee also involved the
first female mayor of Nashville spending the public's money on
an affair with their bodyguard. An associate alleged we warrened
Cantreue about that in twenty twenty two, and she texted back,
don't accuse me.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
Remember fat Fanny in Atlanta who was trying to put
Trump in prison, and she was riding Nathan's hot dog
her investigator. Remember that little story. This is the pattern.
This is the pattern Big Tish in New York. This
is the patterns eight in New Orleans back in twenty
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twenty two.
Speaker 15 (11:03):
The stage is now set for a November budget showdown,
at which the New Orleans City Council will seek to
reduce Mayor Cantrell's twenty twenty three salary by thirty grand I.
Speaker 16 (11:13):
Believe that we have to be transparent and accountable when
it comes to public funding, the.
Speaker 15 (11:21):
Council attorney says, Mary Cantrell is in fact a city
employee and must follow city policy which requires employees who
choose to upgrade travel accommodations to be solely responsible for
the difference in costs.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And I think the City New Orleans policy was very clear.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'm in one hundred percent agreeance and I support them
one hundred percent with it.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
I don't think it's right. I think she should pay
it back.
Speaker 15 (11:44):
In the past, Mayor Contrell has adamantly refused to reimburse
the city for her first class business travel expenses, in
spite of a city law which requires all city employees
to do so.
Speaker 17 (11:55):
All expenses incurred doing business on behalf of the city
New Orleans will not be reimbursed to the City of
New Orleans.
Speaker 16 (12:03):
I hope we don't have to take it this far,
that she'll see some of these legal opinions coming out
and do the right thing, but we will be forced
to take the necessary steps if she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The masters that it sends is that the mayor's above
the law.
Speaker 15 (12:15):
Council President Helena Moreno believes the majority of council members
will support the move to doctor mayor's pay unless she
reimburses the city before the November budget cycle.
Speaker 16 (12:26):
As I've definitely talked to other council members about it,
and you know they receive the memo as well, and
you know they believe that the money should be paid back.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Citizens have mixed views.
Speaker 17 (12:38):
If you're going to represent me, I want you to
go first class all the way, and I do not want.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You to have to pay for I drive on these
city streets every day, bumpaty bumpety bump.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
You can't see half the powertholes we have in the city.
Speaker 18 (12:52):
I think that money should be put forward to Getney
streets fixed.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Then we go back to the former mayorgan who went
to prison.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We as black people. It's time.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
It's time for us to come together.
Speaker 19 (13:10):
It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the
one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I
don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Are, this city will be chocolate. At the end of
the day.
Speaker 19 (13:31):
This city will be a majority African American city. It's
the way God wants it to be. You can't have
New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
So Ray Nagen was there was a great deal of excitement.
I remember like it was yesterday at his campaign when
he was running for mayor, because he was an executive
with Ox Communications, and he was a guy that the
thought was he could bridge the black white divide. He'd
be the punch chain, ponture train, you know, bridge of
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the communities. And then he was business oriented. Then Nagan
gets in, he's up for reelection and he had he
had he had home depot. He had them in order
to give them the ability, he'd held up a home depot.
And in order for them to get to open a
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home depot that they really wanted to open, they had
to buy their granite slabs from his son, which was
his company, and they started doing these projects and the
son couldn't deliver.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
He was a good for nothing loser and the projects
were bad. And so the story broke. I think somebody
Home Depot leaked it.
Speaker 10 (14:56):
And so Nagan was in trouble ethically and he's up
for re election and all of a sudden, Ray Nagan,
who talked like this, we got.
Speaker 20 (15:04):
To make this a black set out. I got somebody
aw and it's just you're wondering who's going for this.
This is happening all across the country, and everybody's pretending
it's not.
Speaker 18 (15:17):
You are listening to the Michael Berry shows.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Just down the road.
Speaker 12 (15:22):
From New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Is Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
Parish officials said Wednesday that a former mayor of Port Allen,
who once served time on a federal racketeering charge, has
been accused of indecent behavior with juveniles. Wb r Z
two in Port Allen with the report.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Allan Mayor Derek Lewis has been both into the West
Fadricks Parish Prison on indecent behavior with juvenile charges.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
The sixty four year old was arrested Monday.
Speaker 12 (15:57):
We were asking for some more.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Details on this arrest.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Was sentenced to prison in twenty twelve to forty months
in prison in two years of probation after pleading guilty
to racketeering in an FBI sting called Operation Blighted Officials.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Lewis was sentenced in twenty twelve to forty months in
prison in two years of probation after pleading guilty to racketeering.
A sting operation targeted various municipal officials and asked them
to promote a wastemend cleaning service in return for cash.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Take a note how often black.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Elected officials are busted for bribes in reality. In that case,
the businessmen with whom they were doing this behind the
operation were actually undercover officers.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
What is it with mayors of Port Allen?
Speaker 17 (16:49):
Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
D D Slaughter? She tried to issue herself a third paycheck.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
makes me to lie down in green passes. He restored
my soul.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
An enthusiastic greeting.
Speaker 21 (17:04):
Friday has more problems emerged surrounding Port Island Mayor Di D.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Slaughter.
Speaker 21 (17:08):
This week we showed you the mayor's salary ran out
and she tried to get a third check. Today, we
learned she removed the ability for the CFO to sign checks,
blocked her out of all city accounts, and issued herself
a direct deposit for her paycheck today.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Tell us about your paycheck.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
I'm only doing my job.
Speaker 21 (17:27):
The council never approved you to make eighty five thousand dollars,
yet you issued yourself a paycheck today.
Speaker 18 (17:33):
I'm only doing my job.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Why did you do that? Yeah, I have a good day.
Speaker 21 (17:38):
Flutter sited Statute thirty three four oh four, part of
the Larsenact for the reason she locked the CFO out
of the city's bank accounts.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Are you comfortable with what you're doing?
Speaker 18 (17:49):
I have the right with the loss in Act and
with the revised statue.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Of course, she had been which hunt.
Speaker 18 (18:00):
I've been which hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (18:03):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisitions.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
They're always making acquisitions on her Mayor d d Have
you ever traveled to Washington, d C?
Speaker 17 (18:12):
Went, uh, you know, to Washington, d C. And I
did meet with Senator Maryland Drew. I ran on the
basis of interrogatuit.
Speaker 18 (18:22):
I've been which hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (18:25):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 10 (18:29):
Hm, I need to unpack that. There's some verb conjugation,
challenges and contortions in that sentence from can you give
us that again?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
I did went uh, you know, to h Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And I didn't she did went?
Speaker 12 (18:46):
She did?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Went? Okay, all right?
Speaker 17 (18:48):
I did, went uh you know to Washington, d C.
And I did meet with Senator Maryland Drew. I ran
on the basis of interrogat hold on.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
Integrity is a hard thing to have, but it's a
real hard thing to say.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
Yes, It's like putting both those rs in library or
the S before the K and as it'll get you now,
it'll sneak up on you.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Let's hear that again, the whole thing. Let's say if
we can get it again there.
Speaker 17 (19:18):
I did, went you know to Washington, DC, and I
did meet with Senator mary Land Drew.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I ran on the basis of interrogatuit hunt.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
When she's running on the basis of interrogation, is is
she's running on that basis? Did she always stumble over it?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And to the people of Port Allen, I would like
y'all to know D. D. Slaughter would like y'all.
Speaker 19 (19:47):
To know that D. D.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Slaughter is running right now. I am right now D. D.
Slaughter running on the basis of integers and and interrogatories.
And I will I will always lead with.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
In terror, interrogate, and I will DEDE. Slaughter is gonna
have one thing she's gonna have. She's gonna have in
in terror, in terror.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Yeah, it's me, that's me, interrogatuity.
Speaker 18 (20:20):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (20:23):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Now, imagine that person. Imagine casting a vote for that
person to make the decisions. All right, we've got to
pave roads. We've got to get the ditches dug. We've
got to make sure the water treatment plant is operational.
We have to make sure we stay on budget with
our employees. We've got to make sure that we have
sufficient police resources, fire resources. Imagine that person making those decisions.
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Just imagine for a moment, imagine thinking that person. We
got a voting problem. You've got pockets of people incapable
of electing anything other than a street corner criminal.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's what we've come down to.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
That's that's what we're down And by the way, Sylvester
Turner was just a slightly cleaned up D. D. Slaughter drinking.
Mitchello ultra. He wasn't any better, just as crooked, just
better at hiding it. Play that one one more time.
Mind was so good.
Speaker 17 (21:36):
I did went, you know, to Washington, DC, and I
did meet with Senator Maryland Drew.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
I ran on the basis of interrogating.
Speaker 18 (21:46):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (21:49):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Then what are we arguing about?
Speaker 18 (21:56):
We just argue about things that we should not be
arguing about.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Argue about things this everybody argon just running around argon, ramon,
can you give me some of that church organ you
play with?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
George calls this is Mayor d. D. Slaughter preaching a sermon.
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
This is real. She was preaching a sermon after she
was accused, After her interrogatory was questioned and she didn't
want to argue.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
She went to a church because that's where you hide.
She went to a church to preach preaching My step
quick is my sweery.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Come every.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Y'all here.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Listening see the Why he's a time that we want wrong?
Speaker 18 (23:13):
The scriptures in our lives.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Don't we want to be read somebody we are right?
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Why we have.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Not hearing her.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Worse than they do. Come.
Speaker 18 (23:32):
There's a fun thing swiping them on.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Don't you call me? Don't you call me your chicken, Michael.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Chicken.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I think back, he said, over the last ten years
SLA streams.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
There have been things that happened in this country. I
never would have believed what happened.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
There have been people I respected who betrayed that respect,
individuals that I respected, and institutions that I respected, the FBI,
for instance. And it's unfortunate because I know some folks
in the FBI, and they are patriots. They have devoted
their lives to a very difficult job. I think about
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the Capitol Police in what they were complicit in, and
how many of those folks would love to come forward
and be a whistleblower. And I think they will. I
think in time they will. I think about the FBI director,
Jim Comey. I didn't have any opinion of Jim Comy
one way or another, good or bad, didn't have enough
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to base it. But Jim Comey, who was the FBI
director when Trump became president during that election, he went
out of his way to protect Hillary and then made
the decision not to prosecute Hillary. And he had folks
within his bureau working very hard to bring Trump down.
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I wonder how many people could have withstood being spied upon.
I wonder how many people could have withstood the false
Steel dossier from GPS fusion.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And all of the nasty.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Lies that were told about Trump. A lot of people,
lesser men, would not have been able to withstand that
level of scrutiny and those lies being told. They'd go crazy,
or they would there would have been something found, and
in this case, amazingly there wasn't.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
Well.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Jim Comey thought he was in the catbird seat. Remember
his little comment, his little writing out on the beach.
Jim Comy sees the walls closing in. I'm going to
play you a longer clip and I normally would, and
you're going to wish I would turn it off. I
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know that in advance. But what I want you to
do is take a moment and enjoy this. I want
you to revel in this. I like to see my
enemies vanquished before me. Don't do it behind a wall.
I want to watch it. I want to enjoy it
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like a fine wine. I want in every sinew of
my body. This is Jim Comy making a video that
he posted over the weekend, where he proclaims himself a swiftye,
a fan of Taylor Swift's music, and that that is
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what has enabled him to deal with Donald Trump. This
is a man who is panicked but trying very hard
to give off vibes that he's not.
Speaker 12 (27:03):
Enjoy this. Hey, everybody, welcome back to my substack.
Speaker 23 (27:07):
Last week's cold turns out to have been COVID quite
a flashback, and Donald Trump is still president and still
humiliating America on a national stage standing next to Vladimir Putin.
It's like a dream, a bad dream you can't wake
up from. But I don't want to talk about that
bad dream this week. I want to talk about a
truly inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift. Of course I
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watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey Brothers. Of course
I watched the whole thing, although on YouTube. Teresa and
I got kicked off for the last fifteen minutes.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
And finished it on her phone. But I watched it.
Speaker 23 (27:40):
You see Taylor Swift and I go way back. I
went to my first concert of hers fifteen years ago.
I've been to a second, and I have helped financially
support the attendance of a lot of family members. At others,
I'm in a family's swifty group chat. I know all
her music and I listened to it on my headphones
when I cut the grass. So yes, I have a
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favorite of hers, although honestly, for me, it's a tie
between all two well ten minute version and Exile featuring
Bony Ver.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
Tamas Swift has grown up with my.
Speaker 23 (28:12):
Family and provided us as soundtrack really as we've grown
ourselves and learned and adapted and dealt with adversity and celebration.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
She had songs for all of it.
Speaker 23 (28:23):
I suspect that's something that millions of Americans have also experienced.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
In their families.
Speaker 23 (28:28):
I think that's because Taylor Swift produces great art, but
also because she models something at every stage of her career.
She's shown a certain way of being that resonated with
my kids and also felt right to me as a parent,
and she's still doing that as.
Speaker 12 (28:45):
A grown up.
Speaker 23 (28:47):
Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to
stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me
and change me. You may have seen that the governor
of California has been generating a lot of attention lately
by posting on social media in a satirical way where
he mocks Donald Trump and his all caps megalomania and
his absurdity. And I find it very funny, hilarious even sometimes,
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but I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with
a strange feeling at times, because I don't want us
to become like Trump and his followers. There are far
more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are
mean jerks.
Speaker 12 (29:27):
And don't get me wrong, we have our jerks, millions
of them.
Speaker 23 (29:29):
You may have noticed in particularly, there's a stunning coarseness
and ugliness in the Republican Party today. It's upsetting, but
it's also a minority of America on the whole.
Speaker 12 (29:41):
We aren't like that, and we don't like that.
Speaker 23 (29:44):
I think that's a big part of the reason so
few Americans support Donald Trump when they have to see
him and that up close, and why Republicans are so
worried about what's coming for them next year.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
And to be clear, I am not an advocate for weakness.
Of course, we need to stand.
Speaker 23 (30:01):
Up to jerks and defend what matters, but I think
we have to try to do that without becoming like them,
which is what makes me think about Taylor Swift. She's
made clear that she sees Donald Trump for what he is,
and last year she urged Americans not to make the
serious mistake of electing him.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Of course, we're now living with the consequences of that mistake.
Speaker 23 (30:23):
But while our elderly, makeup covered president is posting about
whether Taylor Swift is still hot and declaring that he
can't stand her, what's she doing living her best life,
producing great music and as she urged all of us
to do during the podcast, not giving the jerks power
over her mind.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
She said something about dealing with internet trolls that stuck
with me.
Speaker 23 (30:48):
Think of your energy as if it's expensive, she said,
as if it's like a luxury item.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
Not everyone can afford it.
Speaker 23 (30:56):
I really enjoy reading Arthur Brooks, who writes columns about
happiness in The Atlantic.
Speaker 12 (31:01):
I don't know if he's a swifty.
Speaker 23 (31:03):
But last week he wrote about research on the way
that being rude or snarky actually hurts the rude person.
As he wrote, when you become less polite, the alteration
in your conduct can make you less happy, more depressed,
and angrier about life.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
I know you get that even without the research. Just
watch Fox.
Speaker 23 (31:24):
News or hang around a X and you'll see what
he means. We can't stop people from being jerks. What
we can do is stop it from hurting us, from
changing us. At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut,
fourteen years ago this summer, she sang a song about
this topic, asking why you got to be so mean?
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And she spoke directly to the nasty people. I bet
you got pushed around, somebody made you cold. But the
cycle ends right now because you can't leave me down
that road. You'll be glad I didn't sing that. That's
right because down that road is unhappiness. Nobody should have
that power for us. Thank you, Kellen Swift.
Speaker 13 (32:11):
Keep the thing.
Speaker 18 (32:13):
Nobody Elvis has some vertuity. Thank you, and good nightsh
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Blessed other merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are
the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed
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other peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
John.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
The contours of a potential peace plan are coming together
after President Putin's visit here in Alaska. Russia essentially wants
control of two terrorries in eastern Ukraine if they are
going to agree to cease fire everywhere else. Ukraine wants
security guarantees. They want Western troops to come into their
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country and guarantee that Russia doesn't come back and try
anything again.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
We were together almost three hours and it was very
extensive and we agreed with a lot of points. I
mean a lot of points were agreeing on, but there's
not that much, as you know, one or two pretty
significant items, but I think they can be reached.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
It's really up to President Zolynsky to get it done.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
President Zelenski has confirmed for a White House visit on Monday.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
I refuse to bend the knee to their next endless
war in Ukraine. I want peace they want money, and
they want conflict, even if it means walking us into
the brink of World War three, which frankly it is doing.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
It was determined by all but the best way to
end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to
go directly to a peace agreement which would end the war,
and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which oftentimes do not
hold up.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
Can you say, if you want Ukraine or Russia to.
Speaker 8 (02:02):
Win this war, I want everybody to stop dying, dead,
dying Russians and Ukrainians.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I wanted to stop dying.
Speaker 10 (02:11):
Friday we had the Trump Putin meeting in Alaska, and
today we had the Trump Zelensky meeting in DC. And
I am reminded of Matthew five nine. Blessed are the peacemakers,
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for they shall be called the children of God.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You know, I goof a lot.
Speaker 10 (02:40):
It's how I deal with disease and death and sadness,
frustration and corruption. It's hard when you allow yourself to
be hopeful, when you take something so seriously. This president
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has shown that so many things are possible if you
actually want to do them, and when you understand that
so many people don't want there to be peace between
Ukraine and Russia. They benefit from the war. And then
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you understand those poor pawns, those poor boys in Ukraine
being grabbed off the street for that matter, those poor
Russian boys who are getting zapped by the drones. They
just want to go home to their wives. They just
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want to go home to their mamas. They just want
to go home and sleep in their own bed. This
is a nasty business, nasty, nasty and evil. Evil people
perpetuate this nonsense. Donald Trump is committed to peace, and
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damn it if that can't rally every American. I don't
know what can. I really don't know what can. I
really don't know what can.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We have spent.
Speaker 10 (04:31):
Enough money in Ukraine to have rebuilt our highways, to
have given a rebate. We could have done incredible things,
but instead we send money so that people can be killed.
We have been dragged, We've allowed ourselves to be dragged
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into what is by historical standards, you take the long
view on Russia.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
This is a civil war.
Speaker 10 (05:06):
Ukraine has been a part of the Russian Empire for
most of that empire. The people are inextricably linked. This
is a brutal brutal fight, a nasty, nasty fight, and
it takes an adult to pull these guys together and
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say we're going to end this. Putin wants to end
this war. It's hurting him financially, it's distracting him, it's
hurting his image in the world. He knows that it's
hurting him financially, and it's costing him a lot of
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money and men. And he doesn't have great respect for
whether he loses a little or a lot. He can
beat anybody in a war of attrition in this kind
of war because he doesn't care how many many loses.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
But he's ready for the war to be over.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Trump wants to be the man who brings peace, who
does the deal, the art of the deal. He wants
to get the deal done. Zelensky does not want peace.
And the reason he can do this is because there
are Americans who've been working very hard behind the scenes
to keep this war going. Because Ukraine is a front
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for are a lot of powerful Americans on both sides
of the aisle to funnel money and it ends up
back in their pockets. It is a vast, nasty, evil
conspiracy and that will come out.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The truth will be revealed. It may take a while,
but it will. The mayor of New.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Orleans, Latoria Cantrell, has been indicted on charges for using
seventy thousand dollars of city funds to travel with her bodyguard,
who she was banging. It was all done, okay, he
was banging her. It was all done under the guise
of official business. Flashback to twenty twenty two, New Orleans
City Council threatened to dock the pay of the mayor
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because she refused to pay the city back for jetting
around the globe first class, saying that she was entitled
to taxpayer funded first class travel because as a black woman,
traveling in kutsch is not safe. You see, you see
what we've done. We have empowered this fraud. Your answer
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to everything you do is as a black woman. We've
tolerated this. We've actually encouraged it. We've incubated it. Stop
making victims out of people based on their race. Stop
allowing race to be the explanation for anything. Stop assuming
everyone is a racist. The racist in this country are
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black people, not white people. And that's a fact. The
violence being conducted on the basis of race against another
is black people against white people, and that's when black
people aren't beating the snot out of other black people.
All of those are facts. Everyone knows this. No one
says it, nobody ever says it. Everyone is afraid of
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the truth. Truth is dead in this country because there
is a fear you will upset someone, particularly someone black,
and that someone black will likely be in a position
of authority.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's a fact, all right.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
WWLV out of New Orleans, Louisiana on the story.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
On Friday, a federal grand jury charged New Orleans Mayor
Glatoya Cantrelle with conspiring with their former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappi
to commit wire fraud and cover up an affair for
years while both were married. That includes allegedly charging city
taxpayers seventy thousand dollars for Vappie's expenses during trips together,
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and cantrell allegedally deleted thousands of WhatsApp messages and then
why to a federal grand jury under oath about it.
Acting US Attorney Michael Simpson says, this prosecution isn't about
Cantro and Vappi's alleged affair.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Did you take pause.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
At all about bringing criminal charges that at the heart
are based on a romantic relationship, especially with the first
woman mayor.
Speaker 12 (09:31):
Of the city of New Orleans.
Speaker 13 (09:33):
To me, it's irrelevant that it's romance or that it's female.
What is relevant is that it is an incredible breach
of the public trust. It's an incredible betrayal of people's
confidence in their own government, and it's a violation of
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innumerable federal criminal laws.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
Form obscutor Matt Chester helped convict former mayor Ray Nagan
in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 14 (10:04):
There are serious allegations in here. There are allegations of
falsification of documentation to get city money, their allegations of
lying to a federal grand jury, lying to federal law enforcement.
But at its core, those lies, those activities were about
hiding the illicit relationship.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
A twenty eighteen state case in Tennessee also involved the
first female mayor of Nashville spending the public's money on
an affair with their bodyguard. An associate alleged we warrened
Cantreue about that in twenty twenty two, and she texted back,
don't accuse me.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
Remember fat Fanny in Atlanta who was trying to put
Trump in prison, and she was riding Nathan's hot dog
her investigator. Remember that little story. This is the pattern.
This is the pattern Big Tish in New York. This
is the patterns eight in New Orleans back in twenty
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twenty two.
Speaker 15 (11:03):
The stage is now set for a November budget showdown,
at which the New Orleans City Council will seek to
reduce Mayor Cantrell's twenty twenty three salary by thirty grand I.
Speaker 16 (11:13):
Believe that we have to be transparent and accountable when
it comes to public funding, the.
Speaker 15 (11:21):
Council attorney says, Mary Cantrell is in fact a city
employee and must follow city policy which requires employees who
choose to upgrade travel accommodations to be solely responsible for
the difference in costs.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And I think the City New Orleans policy was very clear.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'm in one hundred percent agreeance and I support them
one hundred percent with it.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
I don't think it's right. I think she should pay
it back.
Speaker 15 (11:44):
In the past, Mayor Contrell has adamantly refused to reimburse
the city for her first class business travel expenses, in
spite of a city law which requires all city employees
to do so.
Speaker 17 (11:55):
All expenses incurred doing business on behalf of the city
New Orleans will not be reimbursed to the City of
New Orleans.
Speaker 16 (12:03):
I hope we don't have to take it this far,
that she'll see some of these legal opinions coming out
and do the right thing, but we will be forced
to take the necessary steps if she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
The masters that it sends is that the mayor's above
the law.
Speaker 15 (12:15):
Council President Helena Moreno believes the majority of council members
will support the move to doctor mayor's pay unless she
reimburses the city before the November budget cycle.
Speaker 16 (12:26):
As I've definitely talked to other council members about it,
and you know they receive the memo as well, and
you know they believe that the money should be paid back.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Citizens have mixed views.
Speaker 17 (12:38):
If you're going to represent me, I want you to
go first class all the way, and I do not want.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You to have to pay for I drive on these
city streets every day, bumpaty bumpety bump.
Speaker 12 (12:50):
You can't see half the powertholes we have in the city.
Speaker 18 (12:52):
I think that money should be put forward to Getney
streets fixed.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Then we go back to the former mayorgan who went
to prison.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We as black people. It's time.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
It's time for us to come together.
Speaker 19 (13:10):
It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the
one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I
don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Are, this city will be chocolate. At the end of
the day.
Speaker 19 (13:31):
This city will be a majority African American city. It's
the way God wants it to be. You can't have
New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
So Ray Nagen was there was a great deal of excitement.
I remember like it was yesterday at his campaign when
he was running for mayor, because he was an executive
with Ox Communications, and he was a guy that the
thought was he could bridge the black white divide. He'd
be the punch chain, ponture train, you know, bridge of
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the communities. And then he was business oriented. Then Nagan
gets in, he's up for reelection and he had he
had he had home depot. He had them in order
to give them the ability, he'd held up a home depot.
And in order for them to get to open a
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home depot that they really wanted to open, they had
to buy their granite slabs from his son, which was
his company, and they started doing these projects and the
son couldn't deliver.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
He was a good for nothing loser and the projects
were bad. And so the story broke. I think somebody
Home Depot leaked it.
Speaker 10 (14:56):
And so Nagan was in trouble ethically and he's up
for re election and all of a sudden, Ray Nagan,
who talked like this, we got.
Speaker 20 (15:04):
To make this a black set out. I got somebody
aw and it's just you're wondering who's going for this.
This is happening all across the country, and everybody's pretending
it's not.
Speaker 18 (15:17):
You are listening to the Michael Berry shows.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Just down the road.
Speaker 12 (15:22):
From New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Is Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
Parish officials said Wednesday that a former mayor of Port Allen,
who once served time on a federal racketeering charge, has
been accused of indecent behavior with juveniles. Wb r Z
two in Port Allen with the report.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Allan Mayor Derek Lewis has been both into the West
Fadricks Parish Prison on indecent behavior with juvenile charges.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
The sixty four year old was arrested Monday.
Speaker 12 (15:57):
We were asking for some more.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Details on this arrest.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Was sentenced to prison in twenty twelve to forty months
in prison in two years of probation after pleading guilty
to racketeering in an FBI sting called Operation Blighted Officials.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Lewis was sentenced in twenty twelve to forty months in
prison in two years of probation after pleading guilty to racketeering.
A sting operation targeted various municipal officials and asked them
to promote a wastemend cleaning service in return for cash.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Take a note how often black.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Elected officials are busted for bribes in reality. In that case,
the businessmen with whom they were doing this behind the
operation were actually undercover officers.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
What is it with mayors of Port Allen?
Speaker 17 (16:49):
Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
D D Slaughter? She tried to issue herself a third paycheck.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
makes me to lie down in green passes. He restored
my soul.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
An enthusiastic greeting.
Speaker 21 (17:04):
Friday has more problems emerged surrounding Port Island Mayor Di D.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Slaughter.
Speaker 21 (17:08):
This week we showed you the mayor's salary ran out
and she tried to get a third check. Today, we
learned she removed the ability for the CFO to sign checks,
blocked her out of all city accounts, and issued herself
a direct deposit for her paycheck today.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Tell us about your paycheck.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
I'm only doing my job.
Speaker 21 (17:27):
The council never approved you to make eighty five thousand dollars,
yet you issued yourself a paycheck today.
Speaker 18 (17:33):
I'm only doing my job.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Why did you do that? Yeah, I have a good day.
Speaker 21 (17:38):
Flutter sited Statute thirty three four oh four, part of
the Larsenact for the reason she locked the CFO out
of the city's bank accounts.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Are you comfortable with what you're doing?
Speaker 18 (17:49):
I have the right with the loss in Act and
with the revised statue.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Of course, she had been which hunt.
Speaker 18 (18:00):
I've been which hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (18:03):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisitions.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
They're always making acquisitions on her Mayor d d Have
you ever traveled to Washington, d C?
Speaker 17 (18:12):
Went, uh, you know, to Washington, d C. And I
did meet with Senator Maryland Drew. I ran on the
basis of interrogatuit.
Speaker 18 (18:22):
I've been which hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (18:25):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 10 (18:29):
Hm, I need to unpack that. There's some verb conjugation,
challenges and contortions in that sentence from can you give
us that again?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
I did went uh, you know, to h Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And I didn't she did went?
Speaker 12 (18:46):
She did?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Went? Okay, all right?
Speaker 17 (18:48):
I did, went uh you know to Washington, d C.
And I did meet with Senator Maryland Drew. I ran
on the basis of interrogat hold on.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
Integrity is a hard thing to have, but it's a
real hard thing to say.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yes.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
Yes, It's like putting both those rs in library or
the S before the K and as it'll get you now,
it'll sneak up on you.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Let's hear that again, the whole thing. Let's say if
we can get it again there.
Speaker 17 (19:18):
I did, went you know to Washington, DC, and I
did meet with Senator mary Land Drew.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I ran on the basis of interrogatuit hunt.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
When she's running on the basis of interrogation, is is
she's running on that basis? Did she always stumble over it?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And to the people of Port Allen, I would like
y'all to know D. D. Slaughter would like y'all.
Speaker 19 (19:47):
To know that D. D.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Slaughter is running right now. I am right now D. D.
Slaughter running on the basis of integers and and interrogatories.
And I will I will always lead with.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
In terror, interrogate, and I will DEDE. Slaughter is gonna
have one thing she's gonna have. She's gonna have in
in terror, in terror.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Yeah, it's me, that's me, interrogatuity.
Speaker 18 (20:20):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (20:23):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Now, imagine that person. Imagine casting a vote for that
person to make the decisions. All right, we've got to
pave roads. We've got to get the ditches dug. We've
got to make sure the water treatment plant is operational.
We have to make sure we stay on budget with
our employees. We've got to make sure that we have
sufficient police resources, fire resources. Imagine that person making those decisions.
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Just imagine for a moment, imagine thinking that person. We
got a voting problem. You've got pockets of people incapable
of electing anything other than a street corner criminal.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's what we've come down to.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
That's that's what we're down And by the way, Sylvester
Turner was just a slightly cleaned up D. D. Slaughter drinking.
Mitchello ultra. He wasn't any better, just as crooked, just
better at hiding it. Play that one one more time.
Mind was so good.
Speaker 17 (21:36):
I did went, you know, to Washington, DC, and I
did meet with Senator Maryland Drew.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
I ran on the basis of interrogating.
Speaker 18 (21:46):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 22 (21:49):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Then what are we arguing about?
Speaker 18 (21:56):
We just argue about things that we should not be
arguing about.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Argue about things this everybody argon just running around argon, ramon,
can you give me some of that church organ you
play with?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
George calls this is Mayor d. D. Slaughter preaching a sermon.
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
This is real. She was preaching a sermon after she
was accused, After her interrogatory was questioned and she didn't
want to argue.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
She went to a church because that's where you hide.
She went to a church to preach preaching My step
quick is my sweery.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Come every.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
Y'all here.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Listening see the Why he's a time that we want wrong?
Speaker 18 (23:13):
The scriptures in our lives.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Don't we want to be read somebody we are right?
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Why we have.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Not hearing her.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Worse than they do. Come.
Speaker 18 (23:32):
There's a fun thing swiping them on.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Don't you call me? Don't you call me your chicken, Michael.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Chicken.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I think back, he said, over the last ten years
SLA streams.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
There have been things that happened in this country. I
never would have believed what happened.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
There have been people I respected who betrayed that respect,
individuals that I respected, and institutions that I respected, the FBI,
for instance. And it's unfortunate because I know some folks
in the FBI, and they are patriots. They have devoted
their lives to a very difficult job. I think about
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the Capitol Police in what they were complicit in, and
how many of those folks would love to come forward
and be a whistleblower. And I think they will. I
think in time they will. I think about the FBI director,
Jim Comey. I didn't have any opinion of Jim Comy
one way or another, good or bad, didn't have enough
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to base it. But Jim Comey, who was the FBI
director when Trump became president during that election, he went
out of his way to protect Hillary and then made
the decision not to prosecute Hillary. And he had folks
within his bureau working very hard to bring Trump down.
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I wonder how many people could have withstood being spied upon.
I wonder how many people could have withstood the false
Steel dossier from GPS fusion.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And all of the nasty.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Lies that were told about Trump. A lot of people,
lesser men, would not have been able to withstand that
level of scrutiny and those lies being told. They'd go crazy,
or they would there would have been something found, and
in this case, amazingly there wasn't.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
Well.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Jim Comey thought he was in the catbird seat. Remember
his little comment, his little writing out on the beach.
Jim Comy sees the walls closing in. I'm going to
play you a longer clip and I normally would, and
you're going to wish I would turn it off. I
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know that in advance. But what I want you to
do is take a moment and enjoy this. I want
you to revel in this. I like to see my
enemies vanquished before me. Don't do it behind a wall.
I want to watch it. I want to enjoy it
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like a fine wine. I want in every sinew of
my body. This is Jim Comy making a video that
he posted over the weekend, where he proclaims himself a swiftye,
a fan of Taylor Swift's music, and that that is
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what has enabled him to deal with Donald Trump. This
is a man who is panicked but trying very hard
to give off vibes that he's not.
Speaker 12 (27:03):
Enjoy this. Hey, everybody, welcome back to my substack.
Speaker 23 (27:07):
Last week's cold turns out to have been COVID quite
a flashback, and Donald Trump is still president and still
humiliating America on a national stage standing next to Vladimir Putin.
It's like a dream, a bad dream you can't wake
up from. But I don't want to talk about that
bad dream this week. I want to talk about a
truly inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift. Of course I
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watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey Brothers. Of course
I watched the whole thing, although on YouTube. Teresa and
I got kicked off for the last fifteen minutes.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
And finished it on her phone. But I watched it.
Speaker 23 (27:40):
You see Taylor Swift and I go way back. I
went to my first concert of hers fifteen years ago.
I've been to a second, and I have helped financially
support the attendance of a lot of family members. At others,
I'm in a family's swifty group chat. I know all
her music and I listened to it on my headphones
when I cut the grass. So yes, I have a
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favorite of hers, although honestly, for me, it's a tie
between all two well ten minute version and Exile featuring
Bony Ver.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
Tamas Swift has grown up with my.
Speaker 23 (28:12):
Family and provided us as soundtrack really as we've grown
ourselves and learned and adapted and dealt with adversity and celebration.
Speaker 12 (28:21):
She had songs for all of it.
Speaker 23 (28:23):
I suspect that's something that millions of Americans have also experienced.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
In their families.
Speaker 23 (28:28):
I think that's because Taylor Swift produces great art, but
also because she models something at every stage of her career.
She's shown a certain way of being that resonated with
my kids and also felt right to me as a parent,
and she's still doing that as.
Speaker 12 (28:45):
A grown up.
Speaker 23 (28:47):
Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to
stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me
and change me. You may have seen that the governor
of California has been generating a lot of attention lately
by posting on social media in a satirical way where
he mocks Donald Trump and his all caps megalomania and
his absurdity. And I find it very funny, hilarious even sometimes,
(29:11):
but I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with
a strange feeling at times, because I don't want us
to become like Trump and his followers. There are far
more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are
mean jerks.
Speaker 12 (29:27):
And don't get me wrong, we have our jerks, millions
of them.
Speaker 23 (29:29):
You may have noticed in particularly, there's a stunning coarseness
and ugliness in the Republican Party today. It's upsetting, but
it's also a minority of America on the whole.
Speaker 12 (29:41):
We aren't like that, and we don't like that.
Speaker 23 (29:44):
I think that's a big part of the reason so
few Americans support Donald Trump when they have to see
him and that up close, and why Republicans are so
worried about what's coming for them next year.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
And to be clear, I am not an advocate for weakness.
Of course, we need to stand.
Speaker 23 (30:01):
Up to jerks and defend what matters, but I think
we have to try to do that without becoming like them,
which is what makes me think about Taylor Swift. She's
made clear that she sees Donald Trump for what he is,
and last year she urged Americans not to make the
serious mistake of electing him.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Of course, we're now living with the consequences of that mistake.
Speaker 23 (30:23):
But while our elderly, makeup covered president is posting about
whether Taylor Swift is still hot and declaring that he
can't stand her, what's she doing living her best life,
producing great music and as she urged all of us
to do during the podcast, not giving the jerks power
over her mind.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
She said something about dealing with internet trolls that stuck
with me.
Speaker 23 (30:48):
Think of your energy as if it's expensive, she said,
as if it's like a luxury item.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
Not everyone can afford it.
Speaker 23 (30:56):
I really enjoy reading Arthur Brooks, who writes columns about
happiness in The Atlantic.
Speaker 12 (31:01):
I don't know if he's a swifty.
Speaker 23 (31:03):
But last week he wrote about research on the way
that being rude or snarky actually hurts the rude person.
As he wrote, when you become less polite, the alteration
in your conduct can make you less happy, more depressed,
and angrier about life.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
I know you get that even without the research. Just
watch Fox.
Speaker 23 (31:24):
News or hang around a X and you'll see what
he means. We can't stop people from being jerks. What
we can do is stop it from hurting us, from
changing us. At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut,
fourteen years ago this summer, she sang a song about
this topic, asking why you got to be so mean?
(31:48):
And she spoke directly to the nasty people. I bet
you got pushed around, somebody made you cold. But the
cycle ends right now because you can't leave me down
that road. You'll be glad I didn't sing that. That's
right because down that road is unhappiness. Nobody should have
that power for us. Thank you, Kellen Swift.
Speaker 13 (32:11):
Keep the thing.
Speaker 18 (32:13):
Nobody Elvis has some vertuity. Thank you, and good nightsh
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