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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verry's show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
One of the ladies on the program with Benstein pushed
back at this notion he had that television had any
influence on the viewer. Benstein pointed to the commercials as
an example that television was being used to influence the masses.
I don't think the television has done it at all,
but one.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Must not forget also that in these polls that are
taking about the standings of the respectability of various occupational.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Groups, the groups that are demeaned.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
By television consistently get lower and lower ratings. I don't
whether there's cause and effect or not, but what I
would like to suggest to you is that about five
years ago, a big pharmaceutical company came out with an
ad for a new deodorant called Sure, and they had
a six week, very intensive flight of commercials, and at
the end of six weeks, that product, which had just
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been introduced with the largest selling deodorant in America. I
would like to say, I don't see how It's possible
that you can advertise a deodorant and get people to
buy it, and advertise for thirty years a point of
view about businessmen, about military men, about small towns, about
poor people, that rich people, about black people and white people,
and not have that get bought too. It's simply beggars
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reality to say the television time is worth ninety thousand
dollars for thirty seconds for selling something, and also say
that you don't sell anything on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
People are smart enough to understand the difference between a
commercial and an idea.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The message of non commercial shouldn't be all the stronger,
because if people are prepared to resist commercials, they are
not prepared to resist what comes.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Between the commercials.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And it seems to me that even people who are
not fools can eventually be persuaded by what they see
on TV. I know that I constantly run into people
who are bitterly disappointed at some facet of real life
because it does not conform to what they had expected
based on television. As I am always running into people
who say, why do I have to do such and such?
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Why do I have to work all day sitting behind
a typewriter? Why do I have to work all day
sitting in a law library. Starsky and Hutch don't do that,
or Suzanne sommers On Three's company don't do that. Well,
I think the stereotypes exist exclusively because those are the
stereotypes in the minds of the producers and writers of
TV shows. A producer of a TV show, as you
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probably know, is not like the producer of a movie.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He actually wrote.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The producer of a TV show actually writes a great
deal of the TV show. And what I found in
doing the research for my book was that the same
stereotypes that you see on the television tube are the
same stereotypes that are in the minds of people who
write for television. Now, these are a group of a
couple of hundred, very influential, very well wired TV writers
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in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
There's a very small pool of.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Veteran qualified TV writers, and they all know each other,
they all share the same values. They're all friends with
each other and reinforce each other's values. The question that
comes to mind is why these people, who are extremely
well healed people by almost any standard that is, a
successful TV producer makes about fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Dollars a week it should be a week a week.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Why they should be, why we're making why they should
why they should be so hostile to businessmen and to
wealthy people in general. And I think it has something
to do with the fact that almost none of them
grew up wealthy, and they have a kind of vestigial
hostility towards what they see as power centers of the world.
I mean, I think they would see the world I
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imagine how mister Buckley comes from as the real power.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Center, and they hate. Now you may say to yourself,
I'm not influenced by TV. You'd be surprised. Had a
Sunday school teacher tell me twenty six years ago, tell
all of us, if you want to know where you're
going to be in five years, look at the people
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around you. And it's true. We have been actively influential
in the lives of our children growing up as to
who they associate with. If a kid is a known
drug user, we don't want you associating with them. If
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a kid's having a party at his house and the
cops have been called in the past, you're not going
You're not staying out late with them. Who you associate
with and what they feel about things is going to
influence your views, whether you realize it or not. And
a lot of people think, well, I'm ministering to this
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left wing nut. That's not how it works. They will
drag you into their misery long before you will elevate
them from it. I've seen it happen too many times,
too many times. Be careful who you associate with. Do
not be unequally yoked. Be around people who make you better,
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around people who you love and love you. If you
are associating with frenemies, as the silly term win, if
you don't trust the people around you, if you don't
believe they would be there for you, Why are you
wasting time on them because you grew up in the
same town, because they live next door, because he married
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your wife, sorry he married your wife's sister. Ladies, why
are you associating with women who are catty? You do
realize that if the person you're with is always talking
bad about everybody else, and you realize unreasonably so, they're
going to do that about you as well. The people
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who can't keep a secret from anyone else, they won't
keep yours. You got to figure out who you want
to be in the world and what you aspire to be,
and find other people who share those values. I have
for years and years maintained that I'm going to surround
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myself with people who are going to help me get
where I want to go, who are on the same
and similar journeys, who share my values, because I fully
understand if you associate with people who don't, you will
get off track and you won't know how you got there.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
But it was as clear as death, Michael Berry in
the system to modern democrats.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Have destroyed the urban environments of this country rapt in,
and the worse they've gotten, the more normal people, not
even conservatives, not even Republican, just normal people, what we
used to call normal, have fled the cities, leaving the
only people in the cities the crazies. So the crazies
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just get more and more crazy because there's no normal
people to appeal to to be the wall against it.
For instance, they love they love, love, love to be
sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. Bring all the criminals, pedophiles, rapists, murderers, assassins,
hit men, drug dealers, drug traffickers, human tracks. Bring them all.
(07:58):
Here will be a sanctuary city. We will welcome them.
So now Wooster City, Massachusetts, or as my mother used say, Massachusetts,
has voted to become a sanctuary city for transgenders. Yeah, yeah, okay,
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And the public testimony at the city council meeting went
exactly the way you would expect. Now, if I play
this and you're banging your head against a wall, you're
not doing it right. You're supposed to listen to this
and laugh, not listen to this and get angry, because
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when you laugh, you own them. When you get angry,
they own you.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I need the city to protect me because the federal
government won't. And if you think you're afraid of Trump,
you should see how afraid of Trump I am.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wrap up, please, yes I can.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
If you say that you're afraid of Trump and that's
why you don't want city to be in the city
to be a space, save space for trans people, you
better prepare for trans people to make this a very
unsaved space.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'm shaking right now. I don't want to be here.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Am I taking too long pleading for my life?
Speaker 8 (09:24):
You remember how many children I have and how many
and that two of them are trans.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I speak as both the B and the T in
the LGBT.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
I'm multiply disabled. I have Ellers Danlous syndrome, which is
a connective tissue disorder that causes me immense physical pain.
I'm on the autism spectrum and I have NARCOLEPSI and
I couldn't drive myself here, so I had to hide
from my driver that I was in drag, which is
not an easy thing to do in bread.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I do not want to be here, it's my day off.
I do not want to be in your DMS.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
I do not want to be in your email in boxes.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I do not want my creativity writing disc tracks like Kendrick.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
I don't want to spend an hour.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Applying glitter on my face so that you will hear
and see me. I want you.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
To listen to me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Let us remember that the Nazis burned the books. That
the Nazis burned books on gender sciences. First, Now, the
administration has villainized and marginalized migrant workers, trans lg LGBT people,
and even special needs, denying life saving and affirm and care.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Can you look at me and.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Tell me how many of my friends need to die
before you do anything? Look at me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay, we're all gone here.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Of course, we need to continue celebrating Black History Month
because in spite of what's coming down from Washington, we
all know that we all exist and we all need
to be recognized for our existence.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I don't know who needs to hear this, but I
know some of you will appreciate it because it's deep.
It's deep ramonent, It's gonna be deep. You know about
the supergroup the Highwaymen, a couple of supergroups in history
traveling Wilbury's and the music they create might not be
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anything like the sum of the parts. Individually, they're more impressive.
It's just the idea that there's that much greatness in
the same room at the same time, right harmonizing Well,
you think about So there's an interview with I don't
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know who this guy is. The thing, he's an Englishman,
I should know because obviously he knows something about music.
You'll hear that when he mentions Jim Reaves. But imagine
Willie Nelson, Johnny cash Waylon Jenny's and Chris Christofferson are
sitting together and you're interviewing them. That's what's about to happen,
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and they're they're doing these interviews which you have to
do to to to promote their project of the Highwaymen.
And all four of them, their careers were suffering at
the time. By the way, this is forgotten because then
they had a resurgence later, especially Johnny cash Well Willie
Nelson also. But I want you to listen to the
answers when the when the interviewer, if you know his name,
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tell me I didn't bother look it up, when he
asked each member which country song they considered the best. Well,
people like this don't like to answer a question like
that the best, especially them, had time to think about it,
because then they say something they go, well, I forgot
about so ands on summer. But there there's one moment
in here. It happened pretty early. It's gonna that's going
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to be You're gonna be glad you heard it.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
How about that the best country song you think was
ever written? Christopas could be starting with you. What do
you think is the best country song?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Maybe Big River?
Speaker 12 (13:20):
I've often thought that that may be the best song country.
Speaker 13 (13:24):
Otherwise, can you do a couple of bis of that
for me?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Would you mind?
Speaker 12 (13:29):
I met her accidentally in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and she
tore me up every time I heard that drawl, southern drawl,
and I heard my dream moved back down stream Cave
Orton and Davenport, and I followed you big river when
you called.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
What about you? Johnny?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, I'm overwhelmed because I wrote that song. The best
song that I think was ever written. I don't know,
I think probably country song. I love you because I.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
Want to give me the first verse of that, please, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I love you because you understand, dear every single thing
I try to do. You're always there to lind a
helping hand here. But most of all, I love you
because you're you. Leon thing wrote that. Yes, Jim Reeves
hit down. Then we go to wedding, Jennings, What do
you think wedding?
Speaker 13 (14:27):
One of the best songs I ever heard, and several
people recorded I recorded it, but I had nothing to
do with it. It just says something I think is
really great, and it's called dreaming my Dreams, and it says,
no matter how bad things have been, you know, like
when it's in a relationship of any kind, you know
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you should come out of it, you know, with no
bitterness and go ahead with your life, you know, and
you're not supposed to hate anybody. If you ever let me,
I don't think you can, Nelson.
Speaker 14 (15:02):
I think the best song I've ever heard, especially country song,
is I'm so long.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Since I could cry Hanque of song. One verse in.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
Particular, I think is the greatest lines that I've ever
heard heard is the silence of a falling star lights
up a purple sky.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
A man named George Mack was on the podcast called
Modern Wisdom, and he told a great story. I don't
know if it's true. I don't know if it's true.
There are people who believe it to be true about
how one artist drew inspiration from a bad situation to
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write what would go on to become his biggest hit.
And you may know that story. But what's interesting is
the twist this story takes at the end, which there's
no way you could have known. And I don't want
to tell you why or it will give it away
longer clip than we normally play, But I think the
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payoff is there and I think you might find it interesting.
If not, shoot me an email, go to Michael Berryshow
dot com, say Michael that story about I don't want
to say the names because then it'll give it away
it wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be.
Or Michael, as always, you're the best.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Let's tell you a story about the worst phone called
of all time.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You have my interest. Okay, so it's pictureless.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
We're gonna go back to nineteen seventies Surrey in England.
There's like a beautiful old farmhouse called Old Croft and
a musician has just moved in and he's in a
band and they just had their first like top forty song.
So it's at that point of a musician's career where
either this is like we're about to take off or
we had that like one blithe only that. And he's
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just mortgage like the most insane house for like his
wealth size, like way above his income, because he's betting
on his future success and he's like this is the
childhood sweetheart dream. He met his wife when they were
eleven years old in drama class, and we've got two
kids together. So they've moved into this house together. It
was beautiful old farmhouse with their two kids, and like
he's managed to get the deal on it, so it's
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slightly cheaper than he can afford, but it's still way
too expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But the whole thing needs a whole pay job.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
It's like the whole building needs a load of different work,
kind of like this stuff he are, right, and so
he has to go on tour, go try and crack
America to see if he can pay for this house.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So he's kind of leaving the house.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
There's painters there that are doing everything up, and he's
kind of saying goodbye to his family. And as he's
saying goodbye, he doesn't know if this is going to
be the last time he sees this house or if
this is going to be the new family home. So
he goes on tour for a year, and surprisingly the
tour goes really really well. So he's basically going to
pay for this mortgage. And at the end of the tour,
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he's having a phone call for his wife and it's
not going well, and she basically confesses whilst he's been away,
she's been having an affair and like he's hardest drops
He's like who she's start thinking of over It's like
a singer or somebody else in the band. The guy
she was having the affair with was the painter he
was paying for the house. So he like goes he
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just loses his mind. He ends up flying back from
the tour, tries to win her back. The not only
can he not win her back, she basically says, I'm
taking the kids and I'm leaving to Canada. So he
sits down the band and he says, well, I think
the band's over, like I've got to go.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Says, no remote work.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I've got to go and fly to Canada and try
and put my marriage together. So the band say, hey,
we'll just do a solo hiatus. We'll go on solo
and we'll get back together. So he goes to Canada
for three months putting the marriage back together, flies back
to them three months later. It's completely failed and the
only place he has to stay is he goes back
to this old house and he says, he walks in
and he says, the paint was still wet with the
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man who cookholded me, so he got he can't so
he's just fuming.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So he leaves, goes.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
To his favorite restaurant, orders a ravioli and he's just
staring at this raveoli. He's starving because he's not end
days and this ravioli start Him's staring back at the
ravioli he just can't eat.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He goes back to the house.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
It's just this old derelicts house that he's made all
his money and paid for, but his family are no
longer there.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So he starts drinking.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
He's calling her and she's ignoring his calls in Canada,
starts drinking, he's calling her, and finally he goes, well,
I've got to start channeling this thing. So he decides
he looks at the master bedroom that she slept with
the guy who was on his payroll whilst he's on tour,
and goes, well, you know what, this is going to
become my new music studio. So he starts like channeling
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all the energy that's coming up. And as he's like
in the moment, he grabs the invoice from the painting
and decorating company that slept with his wife and he
writes a song on it. Okay, so should I play
I've got on my phone.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I'll play the song. We read it.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
This is the song that he writes. So that's how
Phil Collins wrote in the Air Tonight. It's on the
invoice of the painter that slept with his wife. And
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what's interesting, what's funny? Do you know this sorry, what's
what's funny about this?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
This story is nothing. It's a sad story. We got
a bager out of it.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
But he well, anyways, so well he's in this house
or in this new music studio that it's great. And
he then is in a fugue state Rights against All Lots,
which goes on to win a Grammy. So he makes
that song then against a LODs the next day. What's
interesting about the story, The funny part is what he
makes against a Lots obviously becomes a smash it on
the radio. And there's a guy in Manchester who's listening
to the song on loop because he's stood up with
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his partner five years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He's girl friend five years ago.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
He's listening to this song thinking about her Caesar a
bus station and they end up going out on a day,
spend all night till six am. They get back together,
smithing six months for engage. They have three children. Second
child is me, so the whool, so.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The whole thing. Tom Cruise is a weird dude. Remember
when he jumped up and down on the couch during
the Oprah's Show to uh to make it seem like
he was really really in love with this woman and
he's not gay. That was the gayest thing you ever
could have done. It's always weird when dudes, it's like, dude,
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be you. Nobody cares, honestly, nobody cares what you are anymore.
But when you try so hard to not, it's weird.
So I say all that to say this, Tom Cruise
is a freak. Everybody knows that. His church, all of them,
the whole thing freakish. However, kind of like Jim Carrey,
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sometimes those dudes say some things that make you realize
you're looking back, they were on to something. He can
be a freak and also have had a premonition or
have had a vision into something or an experience with something.
Let's go back to two thousand and five. Tom Cruise
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was on the Today Show, and because he was so
weird and everything else, this just gets added into him
being weird. But wait, that program made all the news
shows at the time because it was Tom Cruise being crazy.
But let's revisit the audio again. I'm not trying to
make Tom Cruise normal, but twenty one years later, I'm
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not so sure this was crazy. Tom Cruise speaking out
against the pharmaceutical companies sounds to me strangely like he's
onto something.
Speaker 15 (22:40):
Here we are today where I talk out against drugs
and psychiatric abuses of electric shocking people, okay, against their will,
of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of
these drugs. Do you know what adderall is? Do you
know ridlin? Do you know now that ridlan is a
street drug?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Do you understand that the different is?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
No?
Speaker 15 (23:01):
Madame was against question, madam asking a question. I understand
there's abuse of all of these things. Now you see,
here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I do.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
All it does is mask the problem, matt And if
you understand the history of it, it masks the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's what it does. That's all it does.
Speaker 15 (23:20):
You're not getting to the reason why there is no
such thing as a chemical imbalance. I'm saying that drugs
aren't the answer. That these drugs are very dangerous, they're
mind altering antipsychotic drugs, and there are ways of doing
it without that, so that we don't end up in
a brave new world. Yes there are abuses, and yes,
maybe they've gone too far in certain areas.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Maybe there are too many kids on Riddlin. Maybe electric
shock that kids on riddling. I'm just saying, but aren't
there examples where it works? Man, you don't even you're glid.
You don't even know what really is.
Speaker 15 (23:51):
If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to
evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
With these theories. Matt Okay, that's what I've done.
Speaker 15 (24:00):
When you go and you say where's the medical test,
where's the blood test, it says how much?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Really?
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Story turns on Michael Bay did show bullflump?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You know we get so attached to products, don't we.
I know I do. And when a product of which
we are just the consumer, we're not the owner, they
have every right to change it. But it makes us
mad because that product gives us joy, and when it
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gives us joy, we have the expectation that it should
keep giving us joy and they shouldn't change it. And so, unfortunately,
the way the marketplace works is that many times in
order well, in order for us to communicate in the
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marketplace with the seller in a marriage where you can say, hey, honey,
how about you not leave the sink on and flood
the house? How about how about we not do that?
And let's talk through how we do that. And she says,
how about you take the trash out, and you take
the trash out and I won't nag you about taking
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the trash out. How about you just take it out?
You go, okay, yeah, I'll do it all right. So
this is how you communications, well, just as you communicate
with your dog. This is when I want you to sit,
this is when I want you to stay. It's when
I want you to sick them using verbal and nonverbal
cues behaviors, and your dog communicates with you. Your dog
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lets you know when they got to go pee, right
they go to the door, or you know, they pull
on their leash or in different ways like that. The
marketplace works whether we like it or not when we communicate.
How do you communicate? Well, you can complain and that
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actually does work, but only if the complaining is accompanied
by taking away your dollars. So there has been a
I haven't had a reciss peanut butter cup in a minute.
It's it's one of my favorite all time candies or doessert.
I wouldn't call it dessert, one of my all time
favorite candies that you purchase the mean, there's nothing I'd
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probably prefer more. But there is a raging online discussion
over the fact that Reesis has that the Hershey Company
has changed their recipe and probably cheaper ingredients to make
more money on the Reci's peanut butter cup. The Reese family,
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who originated this thing, has criticized the company for this change,
and it has prompted the company to announce that it
will shift back to quote their classic milk, chocolate and
dark chocolate recipes. If they switching back, that means they're
admitting that they had changed. Here is the story NBC
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News with Reese's family blasts cheaper ingredients in the classic
tree a bitter taste in the world of chocolate.
Speaker 16 (27:16):
Brad Reese, the grandson of the inventor of the iconic
Reese's Peanut butter cups, posting an open letter to Hershey
on LinkedIn saying it is quietly replacing the very ingredients
that Bill at Reese's trust in the first place. Some
experts say it has to do with cost. The price
of cocoa skyrocketed over the past two years due to
climate impacts in West Africa, and that caused some brands
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to swap in different ingredients. Now Reese telling the ap
He recently threw out a bag of Reese's Valentine's Day
Mini hearts after seeing the company describe the treat as
made with quote peanut butter cream and covered in chocolate candy. Hershey,
responding to Reese's criticism, saying in a statement, in part
are iconic. Reese's peanut butter cups are made the same
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way they always have been, starting with roasting fresh peanuts
to make our unique, one of a kind peanut butter
that is then combined with milk chocolate, adding they do
make recipe adjustments for new products and innovations without addressing
the mini hearts directly. Consumers broadly are starting to notice
some changes in the chocolates. They're buying chocolate candy that
we used to eat growing off, which just doesn't taste
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the same. Rich Artella, professor of food science, says some
brands are turning to less expensive vegetable oils and swapping
out cocoa for more sugar. When we spoke to him
at the end of last year, what are some common
ways manufacturers cut costs?
Speaker 13 (28:33):
Coca Butter is probably the most expensive component in chocolate,
so if you can replace some of the cocoa butter
with a different, cheaper fat than You're saving.
Speaker 16 (28:41):
Money Without cocoa, candy can't be called chocolate under FDA rules.
What you may see on packages now instead products with
labels like Chocolate Flavor, Chocolate Taste, or chocolate Eat. Cocoa
prices have come back down this year, but just like
at the gas pump, companies are often quick to raise
prices due to a shortage and raw ingredients, and slower
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to lower them. Retail sales for chocolate were up in
twenty twenty five, mostly due to price increases, as the
number of individual products consumers bought was actually down.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
It does not taste the same, and I don't know
what has happened.
Speaker 16 (29:15):
Changes that may have Americans looking for other ways to
satisfy their sweet tooth.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Mitch Hedberg had a funny bit on Reese's peanut butter
cups and kitkats.
Speaker 17 (29:25):
I get the Reese's candue. If you read that name
reesis that's an apostrophe. Yes, Reese's apostropheys on the end
of that name.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That means the candy bars is. I didn't know that.
Speaker 17 (29:34):
Next time you're reading a Esus candybar, and a guy
named Reese goes by and says, let me have that.
You better hand it over. I'm sorry, Reese. I didn't
think I've ever run into you.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
You're a bully man. Let me at least have a piece.
Speaker 17 (29:52):
The Kitcat candy bar has a name KitKat imprinted into
the chocolate.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That robs you have chocolate.
Speaker 17 (30:00):
That's a clever talk and saving technique.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I went out in the Factor. You owe me some letters, Ramon.
I don't think we've talked about this on the morning show.
Maybe we talked about it on the evening show. But
it was in my prep and I didn't throw it out.
A twelve ton shipment of KitKat bars were stolen in
Europe in a heist that risks causing a shortage in
stores right before Easter. Oh well that's why. So this
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story was right before Easter. Well, I don't know if
there was a shortage now, I don't know Fox Live
Now had the story. I need to find out what happened.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Thorti's investigating a massive heist of chocolate bars. Nslie says
nearly twelve tons of Kitkats. That means more than four
hundred and thirteen thousand candy bars have been stolen as
they were leaving the company's production site in Italy earlier
this week. The Kitkats were in a truck headed to
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Poland to later distributed throughout Europe, and Neslie says the
candy can be traced using a unique batch code that's
assigned to each bar, But so far that truck and
it's sweet cargo is still in nowhere to be found
and we have this statement posted a by Kitcat today
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in response to this news, saying we can confirm that
twelve tons of KitKat products were stolen while in transit
between our factory in central Italy and their destination in Poland.
We are working closely with local authorities and supply chain
partners to investigate.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
To solve the case, European authorities had to call in
America's finest and it appears we are looking at a
serial criminal. Copro station name.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
For the record, you may call me dull count Right.
You have picked up three blocks from aware house containing
sixteen tons of stolen KitKat bars. Cant to explain that
I go where the night thanks me that I took
you to a full I have many talans. We've got
security footage cloak crates a candy. You expect me to
believe that's not you. The shadows can be misleading, so
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can fingerprints. And yours are all over the chocolate. Oh yes,
the chocolate. Funny Thing lab says there were traces of
cereal dust, cereal chocolate flavored, crunchy ring any bells. Lots
of people enjoy breakfast, not like this. Witness says you
kept muttering something while loading the truck. I mother many things. Well, chocula, chocula, chocula.
(32:33):
That proves nothing. Take off the cape. I will not
take off the cape. Is that a Cereal box on
your shirt? It's vintage your count chocula? Yes, I am
he You stole sixteen tons of kit cats, But why
because they snap, they crunch, they have layers. Do you
know how hard it is to find a good chocolate
texture these days? You have your own cereal? Oh please?
(32:55):
That is seasonal. I need year round chocolate fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So your plan was what eat it all?
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Eat some hardsome, build a small parkas leman Elis.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Has left Fortuna, thank you and midnight
Speaker 6 (33:12):
H
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verry's show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
One of the ladies on the program with Benstein pushed
back at this notion he had that television had any
influence on the viewer. Benstein pointed to the commercials as
an example that television was being used to influence the masses.
I don't think the television has done it at all,
but one.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Must not forget also that in these polls that are
taking about the standings of the respectability of various occupational.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Groups, the groups that are demeaned.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
By television consistently get lower and lower ratings. I don't
whether there's cause and effect or not, but what I
would like to suggest to you is that about five
years ago, a big pharmaceutical company came out with an
ad for a new deodorant called Sure, and they had
a six week, very intensive flight of commercials, and at
the end of six weeks, that product, which had just
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been introduced with the largest selling deodorant in America. I
would like to say, I don't see how It's possible
that you can advertise a deodorant and get people to
buy it, and advertise for thirty years a point of
view about businessmen, about military men, about small towns, about
poor people, that rich people, about black people and white people,
and not have that get bought too. It's simply beggars
(01:42):
reality to say the television time is worth ninety thousand
dollars for thirty seconds for selling something, and also say
that you don't sell anything on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
People are smart enough to understand the difference between a
commercial and an idea.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The message of non commercial shouldn't be all the stronger,
because if people are prepared to resist commercials, they are
not prepared to resist what comes.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Between the commercials.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And it seems to me that even people who are
not fools can eventually be persuaded by what they see
on TV. I know that I constantly run into people
who are bitterly disappointed at some facet of real life
because it does not conform to what they had expected
based on television. As I am always running into people
who say, why do I have to do such and such?
(02:27):
Why do I have to work all day sitting behind
a typewriter? Why do I have to work all day
sitting in a law library. Starsky and Hutch don't do that,
or Suzanne sommers On Three's company don't do that. Well,
I think the stereotypes exist exclusively because those are the
stereotypes in the minds of the producers and writers of
TV shows. A producer of a TV show, as you
(02:49):
probably know, is not like the producer of a movie.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He actually wrote.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The producer of a TV show actually writes a great
deal of the TV show. And what I found in
doing the research for my book was that the same
stereotypes that you see on the television tube are the
same stereotypes that are in the minds of people who
write for television. Now, these are a group of a
couple of hundred, very influential, very well wired TV writers
(03:14):
in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
There's a very small pool of.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Veteran qualified TV writers, and they all know each other,
they all share the same values. They're all friends with
each other and reinforce each other's values. The question that
comes to mind is why these people, who are extremely
well healed people by almost any standard that is, a
successful TV producer makes about fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Dollars a week it should be a week a week.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Why they should be, why we're making why they should
why they should be so hostile to businessmen and to
wealthy people in general. And I think it has something
to do with the fact that almost none of them
grew up wealthy, and they have a kind of vestigial
hostility towards what they see as power centers of the world.
I mean, I think they would see the world I
(04:00):
imagine how mister Buckley comes from as the real power.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Center, and they hate. Now you may say to yourself,
I'm not influenced by TV. You'd be surprised. Had a
Sunday school teacher tell me twenty six years ago, tell
all of us, if you want to know where you're
going to be in five years, look at the people
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around you. And it's true. We have been actively influential
in the lives of our children growing up as to
who they associate with. If a kid is a known
drug user, we don't want you associating with them. If
(04:44):
a kid's having a party at his house and the
cops have been called in the past, you're not going
You're not staying out late with them. Who you associate
with and what they feel about things is going to
influence your views, whether you realize it or not. And
a lot of people think, well, I'm ministering to this
(05:09):
left wing nut. That's not how it works. They will
drag you into their misery long before you will elevate
them from it. I've seen it happen too many times,
too many times. Be careful who you associate with. Do
not be unequally yoked. Be around people who make you better,
(05:31):
around people who you love and love you. If you
are associating with frenemies, as the silly term win, if
you don't trust the people around you, if you don't
believe they would be there for you, Why are you
wasting time on them because you grew up in the
same town, because they live next door, because he married
(05:52):
your wife, sorry he married your wife's sister. Ladies, why
are you associating with women who are catty? You do
realize that if the person you're with is always talking
bad about everybody else, and you realize unreasonably so, they're
going to do that about you as well. The people
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who can't keep a secret from anyone else, they won't
keep yours. You got to figure out who you want
to be in the world and what you aspire to be,
and find other people who share those values. I have
for years and years maintained that I'm going to surround
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myself with people who are going to help me get
where I want to go, who are on the same
and similar journeys, who share my values, because I fully
understand if you associate with people who don't, you will
get off track and you won't know how you got there.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
But it was as clear as death, Michael Berry in
the system to modern democrats.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Have destroyed the urban environments of this country rapt in,
and the worse they've gotten, the more normal people, not
even conservatives, not even Republican, just normal people, what we
used to call normal, have fled the cities, leaving the
only people in the cities the crazies. So the crazies
(07:37):
just get more and more crazy because there's no normal
people to appeal to to be the wall against it.
For instance, they love they love, love, love to be
sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. Bring all the criminals, pedophiles, rapists, murderers, assassins,
hit men, drug dealers, drug traffickers, human tracks. Bring them all.
(07:58):
Here will be a sanctuary city. We will welcome them.
So now Wooster City, Massachusetts, or as my mother used say, Massachusetts,
has voted to become a sanctuary city for transgenders. Yeah, yeah, okay,
(08:20):
And the public testimony at the city council meeting went
exactly the way you would expect. Now, if I play
this and you're banging your head against a wall, you're
not doing it right. You're supposed to listen to this
and laugh, not listen to this and get angry, because
(08:44):
when you laugh, you own them. When you get angry,
they own you.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I need the city to protect me because the federal
government won't. And if you think you're afraid of Trump,
you should see how afraid of Trump I am.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wrap up, please, yes I can.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
If you say that you're afraid of Trump and that's
why you don't want city to be in the city
to be a space, save space for trans people, you
better prepare for trans people to make this a very
unsaved space.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'm shaking right now. I don't want to be here.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Am I taking too long pleading for my life?
Speaker 8 (09:24):
You remember how many children I have and how many
and that two of them are trans.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I speak as both the B and the T in
the LGBT.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
I'm multiply disabled. I have Ellers Danlous syndrome, which is
a connective tissue disorder that causes me immense physical pain.
I'm on the autism spectrum and I have NARCOLEPSI and
I couldn't drive myself here, so I had to hide
from my driver that I was in drag, which is
not an easy thing to do in bread.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I do not want to be here, it's my day off.
I do not want to be in your DMS.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
I do not want to be in your email in boxes.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I do not want my creativity writing disc tracks like Kendrick.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
I don't want to spend an hour.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Applying glitter on my face so that you will hear
and see me. I want you.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
To listen to me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Let us remember that the Nazis burned the books. That
the Nazis burned books on gender sciences. First, Now, the
administration has villainized and marginalized migrant workers, trans lg LGBT people,
and even special needs, denying life saving and affirm and care.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Can you look at me and.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Tell me how many of my friends need to die
before you do anything? Look at me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay, we're all gone here.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Of course, we need to continue celebrating Black History Month
because in spite of what's coming down from Washington, we
all know that we all exist and we all need
to be recognized for our existence.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I don't know who needs to hear this, but I
know some of you will appreciate it because it's deep.
It's deep ramonent, It's gonna be deep. You know about
the supergroup the Highwaymen, a couple of supergroups in history
traveling Wilbury's and the music they create might not be
(11:29):
anything like the sum of the parts. Individually, they're more impressive.
It's just the idea that there's that much greatness in
the same room at the same time, right harmonizing Well,
you think about So there's an interview with I don't
(11:51):
know who this guy is. The thing, he's an Englishman,
I should know because obviously he knows something about music.
You'll hear that when he mentions Jim Reaves. But imagine
Willie Nelson, Johnny cash Waylon Jenny's and Chris Christofferson are
sitting together and you're interviewing them. That's what's about to happen,
(12:12):
and they're they're doing these interviews which you have to
do to to to promote their project of the Highwaymen.
And all four of them, their careers were suffering at
the time. By the way, this is forgotten because then
they had a resurgence later, especially Johnny cash Well Willie
Nelson also. But I want you to listen to the
answers when the when the interviewer, if you know his name,
(12:37):
tell me I didn't bother look it up, when he
asked each member which country song they considered the best. Well,
people like this don't like to answer a question like
that the best, especially them, had time to think about it,
because then they say something they go, well, I forgot
about so ands on summer. But there there's one moment
in here. It happened pretty early. It's gonna that's going
(13:00):
to be You're gonna be glad you heard it.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
How about that the best country song you think was
ever written? Christopas could be starting with you. What do
you think is the best country song?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Maybe Big River?
Speaker 12 (13:20):
I've often thought that that may be the best song country.
Speaker 13 (13:24):
Otherwise, can you do a couple of bis of that
for me?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Would you mind?
Speaker 12 (13:29):
I met her accidentally in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and she
tore me up every time I heard that drawl, southern drawl,
and I heard my dream moved back down stream Cave
Orton and Davenport, and I followed you big river when
you called.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
What about you? Johnny?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, I'm overwhelmed because I wrote that song. The best
song that I think was ever written. I don't know,
I think probably country song. I love you because I.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
Want to give me the first verse of that, please, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I love you because you understand, dear every single thing
I try to do. You're always there to lind a
helping hand here. But most of all, I love you
because you're you. Leon thing wrote that. Yes, Jim Reeves
hit down. Then we go to wedding, Jennings, What do
you think wedding?
Speaker 13 (14:27):
One of the best songs I ever heard, and several
people recorded I recorded it, but I had nothing to
do with it. It just says something I think is
really great, and it's called dreaming my Dreams, and it says,
no matter how bad things have been, you know, like
when it's in a relationship of any kind, you know
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you should come out of it, you know, with no
bitterness and go ahead with your life, you know, and
you're not supposed to hate anybody. If you ever let me,
I don't think you can, Nelson.
Speaker 14 (15:02):
I think the best song I've ever heard, especially country song,
is I'm so long.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Since I could cry Hanque of song. One verse in.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
Particular, I think is the greatest lines that I've ever
heard heard is the silence of a falling star lights
up a purple sky.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
A man named George Mack was on the podcast called
Modern Wisdom, and he told a great story. I don't
know if it's true. I don't know if it's true.
There are people who believe it to be true about
how one artist drew inspiration from a bad situation to
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write what would go on to become his biggest hit.
And you may know that story. But what's interesting is
the twist this story takes at the end, which there's
no way you could have known. And I don't want
to tell you why or it will give it away
longer clip than we normally play, But I think the
(16:03):
payoff is there and I think you might find it interesting.
If not, shoot me an email, go to Michael Berryshow
dot com, say Michael that story about I don't want
to say the names because then it'll give it away
it wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be.
Or Michael, as always, you're the best.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Let's tell you a story about the worst phone called
of all time.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You have my interest. Okay, so it's pictureless.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
We're gonna go back to nineteen seventies Surrey in England.
There's like a beautiful old farmhouse called Old Croft and
a musician has just moved in and he's in a
band and they just had their first like top forty song.
So it's at that point of a musician's career where
either this is like we're about to take off or
we had that like one blithe only that. And he's
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just mortgage like the most insane house for like his
wealth size, like way above his income, because he's betting
on his future success and he's like this is the
childhood sweetheart dream. He met his wife when they were
eleven years old in drama class, and we've got two
kids together. So they've moved into this house together. It
was beautiful old farmhouse with their two kids, and like
he's managed to get the deal on it, so it's
(17:11):
slightly cheaper than he can afford, but it's still way
too expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But the whole thing needs a whole pay job.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
It's like the whole building needs a load of different work,
kind of like this stuff he are, right, and so
he has to go on tour, go try and crack
America to see if he can pay for this house.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So he's kind of leaving the house.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
There's painters there that are doing everything up, and he's
kind of saying goodbye to his family. And as he's
saying goodbye, he doesn't know if this is going to
be the last time he sees this house or if
this is going to be the new family home. So
he goes on tour for a year, and surprisingly the
tour goes really really well. So he's basically going to
pay for this mortgage. And at the end of the tour,
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he's having a phone call for his wife and it's
not going well, and she basically confesses whilst he's been away,
she's been having an affair and like he's hardest drops
He's like who she's start thinking of over It's like
a singer or somebody else in the band. The guy
she was having the affair with was the painter he
was paying for the house. So he like goes he
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just loses his mind. He ends up flying back from
the tour, tries to win her back. The not only
can he not win her back, she basically says, I'm
taking the kids and I'm leaving to Canada. So he
sits down the band and he says, well, I think
the band's over, like I've got to go.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Says, no remote work.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I've got to go and fly to Canada and try
and put my marriage together. So the band say, hey,
we'll just do a solo hiatus. We'll go on solo
and we'll get back together. So he goes to Canada
for three months putting the marriage back together, flies back
to them three months later. It's completely failed and the
only place he has to stay is he goes back
to this old house and he says, he walks in
and he says, the paint was still wet with the
(18:48):
man who cookholded me, so he got he can't so
he's just fuming.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So he leaves, goes.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
To his favorite restaurant, orders a ravioli and he's just
staring at this raveoli. He's starving because he's not end
days and this ravioli start Him's staring back at the
ravioli he just can't eat.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He goes back to the house.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
It's just this old derelicts house that he's made all
his money and paid for, but his family are no
longer there.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So he starts drinking.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
He's calling her and she's ignoring his calls in Canada,
starts drinking, he's calling her, and finally he goes, well,
I've got to start channeling this thing. So he decides
he looks at the master bedroom that she slept with
the guy who was on his payroll whilst he's on tour,
and goes, well, you know what, this is going to
become my new music studio. So he starts like channeling
(19:30):
all the energy that's coming up. And as he's like
in the moment, he grabs the invoice from the painting
and decorating company that slept with his wife and he
writes a song on it. Okay, so should I play
I've got on my phone.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I'll play the song. We read it.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
This is the song that he writes. So that's how
Phil Collins wrote in the Air Tonight. It's on the
invoice of the painter that slept with his wife. And
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what's interesting, what's funny? Do you know this sorry, what's
what's funny about this?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
This story is nothing. It's a sad story. We got
a bager out of it.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
But he well, anyways, so well he's in this house
or in this new music studio that it's great. And
he then is in a fugue state Rights against All Lots,
which goes on to win a Grammy. So he makes
that song then against a LODs the next day. What's
interesting about the story, The funny part is what he
makes against a Lots obviously becomes a smash it on
the radio. And there's a guy in Manchester who's listening
to the song on loop because he's stood up with
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his partner five years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He's girl friend five years ago.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
He's listening to this song thinking about her Caesar a
bus station and they end up going out on a day,
spend all night till six am. They get back together,
smithing six months for engage. They have three children. Second
child is me, so the whool, so.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The whole thing. Tom Cruise is a weird dude. Remember
when he jumped up and down on the couch during
the Oprah's Show to uh to make it seem like
he was really really in love with this woman and
he's not gay. That was the gayest thing you ever
could have done. It's always weird when dudes, it's like, dude,
(21:24):
be you. Nobody cares, honestly, nobody cares what you are anymore.
But when you try so hard to not, it's weird.
So I say all that to say this, Tom Cruise
is a freak. Everybody knows that. His church, all of them,
the whole thing freakish. However, kind of like Jim Carrey,
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sometimes those dudes say some things that make you realize
you're looking back, they were on to something. He can
be a freak and also have had a premonition or
have had a vision into something or an experience with something.
Let's go back to two thousand and five. Tom Cruise
(22:05):
was on the Today Show, and because he was so
weird and everything else, this just gets added into him
being weird. But wait, that program made all the news
shows at the time because it was Tom Cruise being crazy.
But let's revisit the audio again. I'm not trying to
make Tom Cruise normal, but twenty one years later, I'm
(22:28):
not so sure this was crazy. Tom Cruise speaking out
against the pharmaceutical companies sounds to me strangely like he's
onto something.
Speaker 15 (22:40):
Here we are today where I talk out against drugs
and psychiatric abuses of electric shocking people, okay, against their will,
of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of
these drugs. Do you know what adderall is? Do you
know ridlin? Do you know now that ridlan is a
street drug?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Do you understand that the different is?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
No?
Speaker 15 (23:01):
Madame was against question, madam asking a question. I understand
there's abuse of all of these things. Now you see,
here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I do.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
All it does is mask the problem, matt And if
you understand the history of it, it masks the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's what it does. That's all it does.
Speaker 15 (23:20):
You're not getting to the reason why there is no
such thing as a chemical imbalance. I'm saying that drugs
aren't the answer. That these drugs are very dangerous, they're
mind altering antipsychotic drugs, and there are ways of doing
it without that, so that we don't end up in
a brave new world. Yes there are abuses, and yes,
maybe they've gone too far in certain areas.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Maybe there are too many kids on Riddlin. Maybe electric
shock that kids on riddling. I'm just saying, but aren't
there examples where it works? Man, you don't even you're glid.
You don't even know what really is.
Speaker 15 (23:51):
If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to
evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
With these theories. Matt Okay, that's what I've done.
Speaker 15 (24:00):
When you go and you say where's the medical test,
where's the blood test, it says how much?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Really?
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Story turns on Michael Bay did show bullflump?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You know we get so attached to products, don't we.
I know I do. And when a product of which
we are just the consumer, we're not the owner, they
have every right to change it. But it makes us
mad because that product gives us joy, and when it
(24:35):
gives us joy, we have the expectation that it should
keep giving us joy and they shouldn't change it. And so, unfortunately,
the way the marketplace works is that many times in
order well, in order for us to communicate in the
(24:56):
marketplace with the seller in a marriage where you can say, hey, honey,
how about you not leave the sink on and flood
the house? How about how about we not do that?
And let's talk through how we do that. And she says,
how about you take the trash out, and you take
the trash out and I won't nag you about taking
(25:16):
the trash out. How about you just take it out?
You go, okay, yeah, I'll do it all right. So
this is how you communications, well, just as you communicate
with your dog. This is when I want you to sit,
this is when I want you to stay. It's when
I want you to sick them using verbal and nonverbal
cues behaviors, and your dog communicates with you. Your dog
(25:39):
lets you know when they got to go pee, right
they go to the door, or you know, they pull
on their leash or in different ways like that. The
marketplace works whether we like it or not when we communicate.
How do you communicate? Well, you can complain and that
(25:59):
actually does work, but only if the complaining is accompanied
by taking away your dollars. So there has been a
I haven't had a reciss peanut butter cup in a minute.
It's it's one of my favorite all time candies or doessert.
I wouldn't call it dessert, one of my all time
favorite candies that you purchase the mean, there's nothing I'd
(26:22):
probably prefer more. But there is a raging online discussion
over the fact that Reesis has that the Hershey Company
has changed their recipe and probably cheaper ingredients to make
more money on the Reci's peanut butter cup. The Reese family,
(26:45):
who originated this thing, has criticized the company for this change,
and it has prompted the company to announce that it
will shift back to quote their classic milk, chocolate and
dark chocolate recipes. If they switching back, that means they're
admitting that they had changed. Here is the story NBC
(27:07):
News with Reese's family blasts cheaper ingredients in the classic
tree a bitter taste in the world of chocolate.
Speaker 16 (27:16):
Brad Reese, the grandson of the inventor of the iconic
Reese's Peanut butter cups, posting an open letter to Hershey
on LinkedIn saying it is quietly replacing the very ingredients
that Bill at Reese's trust in the first place. Some
experts say it has to do with cost. The price
of cocoa skyrocketed over the past two years due to
climate impacts in West Africa, and that caused some brands
(27:38):
to swap in different ingredients. Now Reese telling the ap
He recently threw out a bag of Reese's Valentine's Day
Mini hearts after seeing the company describe the treat as
made with quote peanut butter cream and covered in chocolate candy. Hershey,
responding to Reese's criticism, saying in a statement, in part
are iconic. Reese's peanut butter cups are made the same
(27:59):
way they always have been, starting with roasting fresh peanuts
to make our unique, one of a kind peanut butter
that is then combined with milk chocolate, adding they do
make recipe adjustments for new products and innovations without addressing
the mini hearts directly. Consumers broadly are starting to notice
some changes in the chocolates. They're buying chocolate candy that
we used to eat growing off, which just doesn't taste
(28:20):
the same. Rich Artella, professor of food science, says some
brands are turning to less expensive vegetable oils and swapping
out cocoa for more sugar. When we spoke to him
at the end of last year, what are some common
ways manufacturers cut costs?
Speaker 13 (28:33):
Coca Butter is probably the most expensive component in chocolate,
so if you can replace some of the cocoa butter
with a different, cheaper fat than You're saving.
Speaker 16 (28:41):
Money Without cocoa, candy can't be called chocolate under FDA rules.
What you may see on packages now instead products with
labels like Chocolate Flavor, Chocolate Taste, or chocolate Eat. Cocoa
prices have come back down this year, but just like
at the gas pump, companies are often quick to raise
prices due to a shortage and raw ingredients, and slower
(29:01):
to lower them. Retail sales for chocolate were up in
twenty twenty five, mostly due to price increases, as the
number of individual products consumers bought was actually down.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
It does not taste the same, and I don't know
what has happened.
Speaker 16 (29:15):
Changes that may have Americans looking for other ways to
satisfy their sweet tooth.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Mitch Hedberg had a funny bit on Reese's peanut butter
cups and kitkats.
Speaker 17 (29:25):
I get the Reese's candue. If you read that name
reesis that's an apostrophe. Yes, Reese's apostropheys on the end
of that name.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That means the candy bars is. I didn't know that.
Speaker 17 (29:34):
Next time you're reading a Esus candybar, and a guy
named Reese goes by and says, let me have that.
You better hand it over. I'm sorry, Reese. I didn't
think I've ever run into you.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
You're a bully man. Let me at least have a piece.
Speaker 17 (29:52):
The Kitcat candy bar has a name KitKat imprinted into
the chocolate.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That robs you have chocolate.
Speaker 17 (30:00):
That's a clever talk and saving technique.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I went out in the Factor. You owe me some letters, Ramon.
I don't think we've talked about this on the morning show.
Maybe we talked about it on the evening show. But
it was in my prep and I didn't throw it out.
A twelve ton shipment of KitKat bars were stolen in
Europe in a heist that risks causing a shortage in
stores right before Easter. Oh well that's why. So this
(30:29):
story was right before Easter. Well, I don't know if
there was a shortage now, I don't know Fox Live
Now had the story. I need to find out what happened.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Thorti's investigating a massive heist of chocolate bars. Nslie says
nearly twelve tons of Kitkats. That means more than four
hundred and thirteen thousand candy bars have been stolen as
they were leaving the company's production site in Italy earlier
this week. The Kitkats were in a truck headed to
(30:59):
Poland to later distributed throughout Europe, and Neslie says the
candy can be traced using a unique batch code that's
assigned to each bar, But so far that truck and
it's sweet cargo is still in nowhere to be found
and we have this statement posted a by Kitcat today
(31:19):
in response to this news, saying we can confirm that
twelve tons of KitKat products were stolen while in transit
between our factory in central Italy and their destination in Poland.
We are working closely with local authorities and supply chain
partners to investigate.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
To solve the case, European authorities had to call in
America's finest and it appears we are looking at a
serial criminal. Copro station name.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
For the record, you may call me dull count Right.
You have picked up three blocks from aware house containing
sixteen tons of stolen KitKat bars. Cant to explain that
I go where the night thanks me that I took
you to a full I have many talans. We've got
security footage cloak crates a candy. You expect me to
believe that's not you. The shadows can be misleading, so
(32:10):
can fingerprints. And yours are all over the chocolate. Oh yes,
the chocolate. Funny Thing lab says there were traces of
cereal dust, cereal chocolate flavored, crunchy ring any bells. Lots
of people enjoy breakfast, not like this. Witness says you
kept muttering something while loading the truck. I mother many things. Well, chocula, chocula, chocula.
(32:33):
That proves nothing. Take off the cape. I will not
take off the cape. Is that a Cereal box on
your shirt? It's vintage your count chocula? Yes, I am
he You stole sixteen tons of kit cats, But why
because they snap, they crunch, they have layers. Do you
know how hard it is to find a good chocolate
texture these days? You have your own cereal? Oh please?
(32:55):
That is seasonal. I need year round chocolate fulfillment.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So your plan was what eat it all?
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Eat some hardsome, build a small parkas leman Elis.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Has left Fortuna, thank you and midnight
Speaker 6 (33:12):
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