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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right,
that's not yours, Well it becomes ours.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
How is that not stealing? I don't think I don't
think that. I'm explaining this very well. It's seven to eleven, right,
you take a penny from the tray from the crippled children. No,
that's the job. I'm talking about the tray the you know,
the pennies for for everybody, oh, for everybody. Yeah, well
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those are.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Whole pennies, all right, all right, I'm just talking about
fractions of a penny here, okay, But we do it
from a much bigger tray, and we're doing a couple
of million times.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
In a post on x, Doge said the Department of
Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family
Endeavors eight ten million dollars a month to operate an
empty facility in West Texas. DOJ also claims Endeavors received
its HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former
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ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
You ever think about the fact that if you were
if you were to go to Karachi in Pakistan and
you were to jump up on a soapbox and say
the American way of life is a better way of life.
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They're not all the same, they're not all equal, they're
not all equally enjoyable. In America, you're free to practice
any religion or none. You're free to criticize religion. You're
even free to criticize the prophet Muhammad, although very few
people do, I think frankly out of fear. But you're
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free to criticize Jesus Christ. You're free to criticize God,
the president, and anybody else you want. Yeah, that's freedom,
and that's not just freedom guaranteed in the Constitution. That's
freedom and a culture. Right, that's a better way to live.
That's what you believe, that's what I believe. Ever, cross
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your mind that if you were to say that in
a public square in Karachi, Pakistan, you'd probably be beaten
to death. You'd certainly be beaten. So with that in mind,
truth is not universal. Our values are not universal. We'd
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like to believe they are. Makes us feel better. Everybody's
the same to world over. We all want the same things.
But that's not actually true. There are cultures where the
raping of young boys by grown men is acceptable. It's
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what's done.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Boys will be boys, and they will be raped by
grown men. There are cultures where women are not allowed
to show even an inch of their body. They must
be covered at all times and never seen by anyone.
There are cultures where the rape of women is not
frowned upon, or women can't be educated. We don't all
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share the same values. Now, you understand that if you
hopped a plane and went to Karachi or maybe Kuala Lumpur,
gulambatour Jedda djabbuty yes or well, thank you for your Jibouti,
you understand that you probably wouldn't find a welcome audience
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for these theories.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You'd think you would in New York.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
And then when you don't, you ask yourself the question,
have we reached the point where New York is no
longer an American city? I don't mean the zip code,
I don't mean where it's located. Does New York not
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have American values? And if not, how did that come
to be? There are enough Muslims to win that race,
or Puerto Ricans or Latin Americans or Haitians. But what
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if all of those groups were to pull together and
do what they're doing in Somalia, where they're going to
kick out the mayor who played with fire and now
they don't need him anymore. What if the election of Mamdani,
despite all the things that are coming out about.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Him, if you can't beat him.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
In an American city, what does it tell you of
the people in that city? You see, we tend to
think of cities as as kind of this conglomerate, you know,
this a single unit, but it's a lot of individual people.
The liberal Democrats have been playing with fire. They've been
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pushing for this open immigration because they thought they could
ride the wave of these people against you and me.
And they could and they did. But as Andrew Cuomo
has seen, and Kate Hokle will see you and Jacob
Fries saw in Minneapolis, you like this fire, it's going
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to get out of hand, and these groups are only
going to need you so long and then they will
replace you too. Andrew Pilmo YouTube, Jacob Ryan.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And Michael Show.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Well, if I've never been a kid rock fans, I
like him as a personality, but I never knew what
his music was never cared to.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I didn't dislike him.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
People always think when I say I don't know of
somebody or their music, that I'm in some way dissing them.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
There's a whole world out there that I haven't discovered,
and you can't know everything about everything. I tend to
be a mild deep and an inch wide on things
I like. I like Mickey Gilly and Don Williams and
Merle Haggard. I like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley and
Jerry Lee Lewis, and so people will say, oh, you
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need to hear this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's maybe, but I'm not going to anyway.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
So this album came out in two thousand and seven,
and it caught my attention because I'm I'm a huge
Skinner fans, my favorite band of all time, and I love.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I love Werewolves of London, and I just think.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Zivonne was genius in that song, and I've always loved
his career. You know, here was a guy who's kind
of toiling away and he's writing, he's getting He's at
that point where he's getting just enough success as a
writer and getting just enough positive feedback to make it
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to make it make sense. To stay in the game,
but not enough to ever have any comfort and security.
You know, the kind of thing like when you left
high school and maybe you toured with the band, or
y'all had a garage band, and your parents are like,
all right, now, get a real job, and you're like, dad, Dad, Dad,
give me one more month. We just won the local
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you know, that's local up and coming band at the
County Fair. We just got the gig for the Adjoining
County County Fair. We're going to headline on Sunday night
at the end of the festival. Just just give us
one more month, hard, one more month. But you never
quite make it. There's a lot of people that had
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a band and they were gonna make it, but at
some point somebody got their girlfriend pregnant and they got
to go get a job, or at some point some
guy said, look, the band band is my van and
it's thrown a rod, and y'all aren't going.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
To help pay.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Y'all are get to pay to fix this dag thing,
and I'm not fixing it and then putting it back
out for us, So I'm leaving the band. Robert o'
keane tells a story about they were playing a bluegrass
festival and the guys were on mescaline all weekend and
and then they come out and they decide that they're
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kicking him out of the band, and he said, oh no,
it's only Robert o' king can do. So it wasn't
until a little later that he left if they realized
that he had the truck they were riding in and
the amp the only amp. Bad move, Bad Move Boys,
Bad Move. Anyway, that song was kid Rock's first number
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one album, came out in two thousand and seven. It's
a great mashup. Well, let's talk about coming mom, Donnie,
shall we before we do that? I have a show
sponsor called Berna Brna burna dot com and I was
talking to a guy this morning from Portland and his
name is Andrew McNulty. And last week I asked the question, Hey,
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if you've ever ended up in jail, call and tell
the story. I did it on the morning show. If
you go back and listen to podcast, you can you
can hear those. I played a couple of those the
evening show, but mostly it was a morning show. And
Andrew listens to the podcast, so he listens to the
morning and the evening, and I have a connection to Portland.
We used to spend our summers there when we added
k EX eleven to ninety as an affiliate. And what happens,
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This crazy lunatics, chizophrenic black guy tells him he's going
to kill him and charges him to kill him, and
he draws his gun, shoots and kills the guy. And
it cost him. His homeowners paid three hundred thousand capped out,
that's the limit. He ended up paying over two hundred
thousand dollars, and he spent one hundred and thirty thousand
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dollars on legal fees.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And you say, well, he shouldn't have to do that.
It was self defense, not how this works.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Well, I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
All of that is true.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
But he says to me during the conversation, he said,
I wish I had that burner gun. I wish I
hadn't had to kill the guy. I've talked to a
lot of cops over the years.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
My brother was one for many years.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I've talked to people who've engaged in self defense, and
I would tell you I'm firmly of the belief that
if lethal force is needed. Lethal force should be used,
and often it is not used when it should be.
But that is such a small percentage of the time,
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and so I'm a big believer in Berner. Yes, they
are a sponsor. Know this isn't a paid sponsorship. Today
is the last day of their four day fifteen percent
off the whole site. I actually speak for things that
I believe in so deeply. Well, don't tell them this,
but I'd talk about them even if they weren't paying
the company for me to talk about them.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I believe in them.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I had bought over ten of these Burner guns and
given them as gifts to people who didn't carry a pistol,
especially women. Women have a psychological barrier against killing someone.
Men say you attack me, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Women will not do that. They will not, That's not
their mindset.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
That being said, of the men I've known who had
to kill somebody, almost to a man, it bothered them
the rest of their lives. They might have still killed
the guy because it had to be done. But if
you can incapacitate somebody, they say, for forty minutes, but
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usually get it. If you can incapacitate somebody for thirty seconds,
you can get out of a situation.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And you know the other thing. And I talk.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
About this all the time to people who will ask
for advice on a problem with the neighbor or whatever else.
Don't let it escalate. If somebody is doing something that
is stupid, don't go in there and argue with them.
If they're calling at you from across the street, be
the bigger man who walk away. If you think you're
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going to go over there and beat the snot out
of that guy and teach him a lesson, it's like
the old It's like the old football coaches that didn't
want to pass the ball because there's three things that
could happen and two of them are bad. Well, if
you think you're going to solve the problem by knocking
him in the head, more often than not, that's not
going to end.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Up solving the problem. It's going to cause you more problems.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And I can't imagine sitting in a jail cell because
you had to teach some idiot a lesson, because guess what,
there's another idiot on the next corner.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You've got dumb. Michael Berry Show ever seen video of
Elvis wiggling in his finger was on this day in
nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
He's performing in Oakland, California, and the popo tell him
that he is not allowed to swivel his hips on
stage at the performance tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
So, Elvis, a good Southern boy, you don't want to
be arrested.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
But there is still a little mischievous deep down in him,
responds by sarcastically wiggling his little finger while singing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The cops were there and filmed the show.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Just in case this this lord knows we don't want
him wiggling those hips.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Elvis, the pelvis, You'll lead to the degradation of this nation,
all right.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
This clip has two of the three types of people
that I'm about to talk about, three kinds of people
with whom you disagree.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
The first is the dishonest person.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
He lies so much that you'll never find common around
with him. These are the kind of people that rise
up in the Democrat ranks. They just lie, They have
no truth in them. Think Gavin Newsome, Joe Biden. The
second is the intellectually dishonest person. This is your average
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liberal white woman. She doesn't know she's lying. You will
never find common ground with her, though she will believe
the dishonest person because they say things that make her
feel good about herself.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
This is the Mary Ann Williams.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
They say, you're Remember when Oprah said, you're one of
the good white people because you don't like those other
white people. You're one of the good white people because
you admit that deep down you've got a racist in you,
and you're willing to make up for it by throwing
other white people into a pit of hell. You will
never convince them with facts because these people don't deal
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with facts. As Reagan said, it's not what they say.
It's not that they don't know anything, it's that so
much of what they know is wrong. The third person
has a different opinion, but he's intellectually honest, and he'll
listen to your opinion with an open mind. I can
tolerate this. You might have friends like this. He will
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listen to you. He might come to the wrong conclusion,
but he will listen to you. This clip we're going
to start with has three types of people.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Sorry. Two of the three.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
CNN's Kate Bettingfeld is an intellectually dishonest person, and she's
joined by Bill Maher, who has quickly become the third
kind of person. He will at least listen to an argument.
He might have a different opinion, but you could have
conversations with him. Here he is presenting betting Feld with
facts about Zora and Mundani, and she sidesteps his point
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because she lacks the intellectual honesty to even consider that
mar is correct. They don't want to follow the path
of the facts and where they lead because it might
embarrass them.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The issue now that Andrew Cuomo is bringing up in
New York is that he is a Ugandan citizen. You
Ganda is a country where they kill homosexuals.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So is somebody who is a dual citizen can't be
mayor of.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
New York Or I would renounce if I was a
dual citizen with the country policy, the government policy was
we kill homosexuals. Yeah, I would renounce that citizenship.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I don't know and not also think it's buying into
a fear. I think that is buying into a fear
framework that it's good for the country. It's not good
for the country.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You shouldn't be afraid.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I think the way that Cloma, I think the way
that Cuomo is closing out this race and really and
really race fading and really leaning in.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
On you know what, just because for the country, I understand.
But just because something is done by people in Africa
doesn't mean it's all okay.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
See, there is your point when you say, ooh, don't
judge the Muslims for rape, that's what they do in
their culture. Or don't judge a pedophile. They don't choose
to be that way. That's the way they love. It's
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very difficult for them because they love in a way
that the rest of us don't like. Okay, well, well
what about the guy who is a serial killer. Don't
judge him. He just enjoys killing people.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Poor guy. Can you imagine how lonely he must feel.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Back in twenty twenty, Kamiye Mamdani was running for the
New York State Assembly when he claimed that Muslims were
the victims of nine to eleven. See, you didn't think
about how hard it was for Muslims while you were
thinking about your relatives who died inside the Twin Towers.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I was actually born and raised in Kampala. You got done,
and yet even though we had returned, even though there
was a new president, I inherited these same questions of South,
the same kind of legacies of trauma and the question
of who am I and where is my home? Because
in Uganda I was Indian, and in India I was Muslim,
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and then when we moved to New York, I was
all of those things. And New York still has something
about it which lulls us all into believing that we
too can become New Yorkers, no matter where we come
from and who we are, what we look like, in
which God we pray to, or if we.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Don't pray at all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And yet there would be these multiple moments in my
childhood where I was reminded that this promise came with exceptions,
It came with terms and conditions, and I didn't apply
to all of us. And I think of on nine
to eleven, when my teacher pulled me out of school,
pulled me out of class rather a classmate of mine myself,
and told us that may get bullied because of what
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it just happened. We didn't understand what had happened, and
in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher
as kind of caring as that, because most Muslim students did.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Not have that.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And yet what I really remember from that interaction was
the understanding that now I was distinct, there was something
about me that was different from my classmates. And it's
a lesson that I was made to learn again and
again because a few years later, when I returned to
New York City after a trip with my family abroad,
I was taken aside at JFK and put in a
double mirrored room with immigration agents and asked if I
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had just come from attending a terrorist training camp, and
if I had intentions on attacking in this country, and
what my thoughts were on the government. And I was
fifteen years old, and I was terrified. And it even
happened a few months ago where I accompanied a client
of mine to a bankruptcy proceeding in court in Brooklyn,
and the security officers pulled me aside and patted me
down with extra care and asked me if I had
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the weapons of mass destruction of it. And so I
realized in that moment that for many people, we are
born into a home. Some people find a home, and
then there are others of us who are forced to
fight for a home. And I realized that that was
what I had to do. I had to.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Fight who is he fighting? You notice this?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
These people come here as immigrants and they talk about fighting.
Make no mistake, they hate you. His father hates white people.
He has said so. His father claims that Hitler was
inspired by Abraham Lincoln to hate people. His father claimed
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his father, a professor at a university I think he's
Princeton or Columbia, claims that white people the most dangerous
people in the world.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Then why do you live here?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Go back to the crap whole you're from, You white
hating racist when.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It comes to beers, briskets and barry, letting it all
hang out.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Going against the grain is what we do on the
Michael Berry Show. Ah Yes, Little Shanny Ribs Kevin Russell,
the former lead singer of the Gourds, very talented, very
talented man. Indeed, he calls that his version of his
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miss his mash up version of art called Salvador Dolly
Pardon with yodeling to boot. I always encourage people to
grow comfortable with their business model. Understand your business model.
Don't be afraid of your business model. So many people
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try to hide the fact that they make money. I
don't do advertising. There is advertising around our around me,
but I don't do that. Advertising is buying time for
someone to say, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, it's the big sale
at the electronics store one day only. I don't do that.
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I do have people who sponsor our show. That means
they believe in what I'm doing. They believe in our message.
They have to believe in that because otherwise they're going
to get complaints from people, and I don't. I don't
lose clients. I don't lose show sponsors because of complaints.
You understand what I'm about, You understand what I believe in.
I'm rough around the edges. I poke people, I argue
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with people. I say things that make people uncomfortable because
I don't care what you think. I just want you
to think. And that makes people people like to get in.
If you've ever ridden a snowmobil, you get on a
snowmobile where someone has written before, you don't have to
steer it. It'll get right in that track. People like
to get in that track. They don't want to have
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to think about things. They they just want. They wan't
to be on an autopilot. I don't want autopilot. Autopilot's
what gets us into trouble. So our sponsors have to
believe in what we believe in, share our values, but
also I have to believe in what they do. And
I have to say we went national October seventh.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Premiere picked us up. That's the same group that did Rush.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
That's Clay and Buck, that's Sean Hannity, that's Jesse Kelly,
that's Glenn Beck. They have been very good to us,
and I am delighted by every station we have added.
Because of them, we doubled overnight. I think we went
from thirty two to sixty five, and I don't know
what we're at now.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But we also had.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Companies that stepped up immediately for us and began sponsoring
our show on day one, Rough Greens and Top Tax
Defenders and US Coins, the gold folks, and I am
so grateful for that. And I get emails from folks
that I hand off to Premiere, from people who say,
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I want to sponsor your show. But the other thing
that's important to remember, and this isn't just true of
our show. It's true of there's other shows out there.
I mentioned them just now. When you go looking for
the kind of people you want to do business with,
just like when you go looking for the kind of
person you want to be married to, kind of people
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you want to work in your business, kind of people
you want to be your neighbors. You want people you
get along with that you share their values. I took
a big group to Palm Beach this weekend, went to
mar A Lago, went out on the yacht. We did
private planes, and most of the group had never been
on a private plane, never been on a yacht, never
been to mar A Lago.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And we share these experiences with like minded people. You
come alive.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
You realize for all the bad news out there, for
all the you know, the obligations of responding to emails,
responding to phone calls and making sales calls, and driving
through traffic and getting your health, taking care of and
taking care of your parents, and taking care of your kids,
and mowing the grass and paying this person. You need
to engage with other human beings. You need the endorphins
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that are released by the human connection. And I don't
just mean sexually. I mean the intimacy of platonic friendships.
I mean the agape concept of friendships and connection and
helping someone else and them helping you. Those are very
natural endorphins that are released from all of this, and
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I tell you that because we knew those things, the
left are very unhappy. So when people go, well, I'll
be glad. Can't we all just get along? Can't we
just get back to the way we were, it's important
that you understand, No, we can't. They will never let
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you do that. Does this make sense. Let's say burglars
break into your home when you're away and you come
home and it's very traumatic, and you go, all right,
they broke in.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Can we just make sure that never happens again.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
No, you can't, because Burglars burgle. That's what they do.
They burgle or burglarise, if you prefer the American version,
you know, being from Orange and oh, I got some
English ways about me, Ramonent, I spend a year in England.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I took on some heirs like Madonna. I might start
speaking in an English accent.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Burglars burgle, It's what they do, right, That's what they're
going to do. That's like asking gang members not to
be gang members. Once you understand that there are people
who are paying for the arguments, for the discomfort, for
the anger, for the bitterness, for the division, then you say,
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wait a minute, I'm not going to let them control me,
because you see a lot of our people get home
from work every day, PLoP down in front of Fox
News and say, fox News, tell me what to be
mad about. They weren't even mad, but now they need
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to find out what they're supposed to be mad about.
Maybe get them a good stiff drink or an iced
tea chocolate milk bowl of ice cream, sit down on
their recline. All right, all right, fox News tell me
what I'm mad about, because I didn't have anything else
mad about yet. And Fox News tells you you're mad.
They bring you what all the liberals are doing, and
everybody's mad and we're good. But wait a minute. That
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was what the left wanted for you. They want to
balkanize us. They want the blacks mat at the whites,
and then they want the whites mat at the blacks.
They want the immigrants mad at the natives. They want
the Muslims mad at the Christians. They want the Jews
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so confused they can't figure out which side they're on.
This is what they want.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Now.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You can't control other people. You can't say, well, I'm
not going to participate in that. I'm going to get
along with everybody. If you get on the subway and
a guy pulls a knife on you and he's going
to rob you, you can't just choose to let him
stab you. You have to get off that subway and
change your life. You have to get those people out
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of your life. You have to choose to do business,
to be married to, to live next to, to hire
and fire. You have to choose around you in your
life people who share your values. That's the model I
have used for our show that came up in Houston.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's a model I have used as we have.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Gone national on premiere and we will be adding more
show sponsors in time. I spent the day talking to
Lewon Famitt at Burnha because today is the fourth day
of the last day of their big sale. Over All
these cases of burna gunns, we've got police departments that
I know who've used them.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I believe in them.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Do business with people in your life, in your community
that you share their values, You'll be a whole lot happier.
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're gonna make a lot of money, right, yeah right,
that's not yours, Well it becomes ours.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
How is that not stealing? I don't think I don't
think that. I'm explaining this very well. It's seven to eleven, right,
you take a penny from the tray from the crippled children. No,
that's the job. I'm talking about the tray the you know,
the pennies for for everybody, oh, for everybody. Yeah, well
(00:41):
those are.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Whole pennies, all right, all right, I'm just talking about
fractions of a penny here, okay, But we do it
from a much bigger tray, and we're doing a couple
of million times.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
In a post on x, Doge said the Department of
Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family
Endeavors eight ten million dollars a month to operate an
empty facility in West Texas. DOJ also claims Endeavors received
its HHS contract in twenty twenty one after a former
(01:12):
ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
You ever think about the fact that if you were
if you were to go to Karachi in Pakistan and
you were to jump up on a soapbox and say
the American way of life is a better way of life.
(01:38):
They're not all the same, they're not all equal, they're
not all equally enjoyable. In America, you're free to practice
any religion or none. You're free to criticize religion. You're
even free to criticize the prophet Muhammad, although very few
people do, I think frankly out of fear. But you're
(02:00):
free to criticize Jesus Christ. You're free to criticize God,
the president, and anybody else you want. Yeah, that's freedom,
and that's not just freedom guaranteed in the Constitution. That's
freedom and a culture. Right, that's a better way to live.
That's what you believe, that's what I believe. Ever, cross
(02:21):
your mind that if you were to say that in
a public square in Karachi, Pakistan, you'd probably be beaten
to death. You'd certainly be beaten. So with that in mind,
truth is not universal. Our values are not universal. We'd
(02:44):
like to believe they are. Makes us feel better. Everybody's
the same to world over. We all want the same things.
But that's not actually true. There are cultures where the
raping of young boys by grown men is acceptable. It's
(03:05):
what's done.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Boys will be boys, and they will be raped by
grown men. There are cultures where women are not allowed
to show even an inch of their body. They must
be covered at all times and never seen by anyone.
There are cultures where the rape of women is not
frowned upon, or women can't be educated. We don't all
(03:33):
share the same values. Now, you understand that if you
hopped a plane and went to Karachi or maybe Kuala Lumpur,
gulambatour Jedda djabbuty yes or well, thank you for your Jibouti,
you understand that you probably wouldn't find a welcome audience
(03:57):
for these theories.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You'd think you would in New York.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
And then when you don't, you ask yourself the question,
have we reached the point where New York is no
longer an American city? I don't mean the zip code,
I don't mean where it's located. Does New York not
(04:29):
have American values? And if not, how did that come
to be? There are enough Muslims to win that race,
or Puerto Ricans or Latin Americans or Haitians. But what
(04:50):
if all of those groups were to pull together and
do what they're doing in Somalia, where they're going to
kick out the mayor who played with fire and now
they don't need him anymore. What if the election of Mamdani,
despite all the things that are coming out about.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Him, if you can't beat him.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
In an American city, what does it tell you of
the people in that city? You see, we tend to
think of cities as as kind of this conglomerate, you know,
this a single unit, but it's a lot of individual people.
The liberal Democrats have been playing with fire. They've been
(05:35):
pushing for this open immigration because they thought they could
ride the wave of these people against you and me.
And they could and they did. But as Andrew Cuomo
has seen, and Kate Hokle will see you and Jacob
Fries saw in Minneapolis, you like this fire, it's going
(05:56):
to get out of hand, and these groups are only
going to need you so long and then they will
replace you too. Andrew Pilmo YouTube, Jacob Ryan.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And Michael Show.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Well, if I've never been a kid rock fans, I
like him as a personality, but I never knew what
his music was never cared to.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I didn't dislike him.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
People always think when I say I don't know of
somebody or their music, that I'm in some way dissing them.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
There's a whole world out there that I haven't discovered,
and you can't know everything about everything. I tend to
be a mild deep and an inch wide on things
I like. I like Mickey Gilly and Don Williams and
Merle Haggard. I like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley and
Jerry Lee Lewis, and so people will say, oh, you
(06:48):
need to hear this.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's maybe, but I'm not going to anyway.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
So this album came out in two thousand and seven,
and it caught my attention because I'm I'm a huge
Skinner fans, my favorite band of all time, and I love.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I love Werewolves of London, and I just think.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Zivonne was genius in that song, and I've always loved
his career. You know, here was a guy who's kind
of toiling away and he's writing, he's getting He's at
that point where he's getting just enough success as a
writer and getting just enough positive feedback to make it
(07:36):
to make it make sense. To stay in the game,
but not enough to ever have any comfort and security.
You know, the kind of thing like when you left
high school and maybe you toured with the band, or
y'all had a garage band, and your parents are like,
all right, now, get a real job, and you're like, dad, Dad, Dad,
give me one more month. We just won the local
(07:59):
you know, that's local up and coming band at the
County Fair. We just got the gig for the Adjoining
County County Fair. We're going to headline on Sunday night
at the end of the festival. Just just give us
one more month, hard, one more month. But you never
quite make it. There's a lot of people that had
(08:20):
a band and they were gonna make it, but at
some point somebody got their girlfriend pregnant and they got
to go get a job, or at some point some
guy said, look, the band band is my van and
it's thrown a rod, and y'all aren't going.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
To help pay.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Y'all are get to pay to fix this dag thing,
and I'm not fixing it and then putting it back
out for us, So I'm leaving the band. Robert o'
keane tells a story about they were playing a bluegrass
festival and the guys were on mescaline all weekend and
and then they come out and they decide that they're
(09:02):
kicking him out of the band, and he said, oh no,
it's only Robert o' king can do. So it wasn't
until a little later that he left if they realized
that he had the truck they were riding in and
the amp the only amp. Bad move, Bad Move Boys,
Bad Move. Anyway, that song was kid Rock's first number
(09:25):
one album, came out in two thousand and seven. It's
a great mashup. Well, let's talk about coming mom, Donnie,
shall we before we do that? I have a show
sponsor called Berna Brna burna dot com and I was
talking to a guy this morning from Portland and his
name is Andrew McNulty. And last week I asked the question, Hey,
(09:51):
if you've ever ended up in jail, call and tell
the story. I did it on the morning show. If
you go back and listen to podcast, you can you
can hear those. I played a couple of those the
evening show, but mostly it was a morning show. And
Andrew listens to the podcast, so he listens to the
morning and the evening, and I have a connection to Portland.
We used to spend our summers there when we added
k EX eleven to ninety as an affiliate. And what happens,
(10:15):
This crazy lunatics, chizophrenic black guy tells him he's going
to kill him and charges him to kill him, and
he draws his gun, shoots and kills the guy. And
it cost him. His homeowners paid three hundred thousand capped out,
that's the limit. He ended up paying over two hundred
thousand dollars, and he spent one hundred and thirty thousand
(10:37):
dollars on legal fees.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And you say, well, he shouldn't have to do that.
It was self defense, not how this works.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Well, I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
All of that is true.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
But he says to me during the conversation, he said,
I wish I had that burner gun. I wish I
hadn't had to kill the guy. I've talked to a
lot of cops over the years.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
My brother was one for many years.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I've talked to people who've engaged in self defense, and
I would tell you I'm firmly of the belief that
if lethal force is needed. Lethal force should be used,
and often it is not used when it should be.
But that is such a small percentage of the time,
(11:31):
and so I'm a big believer in Berner. Yes, they
are a sponsor. Know this isn't a paid sponsorship. Today
is the last day of their four day fifteen percent
off the whole site. I actually speak for things that
I believe in so deeply. Well, don't tell them this,
but I'd talk about them even if they weren't paying
the company for me to talk about them.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I believe in them.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I had bought over ten of these Burner guns and
given them as gifts to people who didn't carry a pistol,
especially women. Women have a psychological barrier against killing someone.
Men say you attack me, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Women will not do that. They will not, That's not
their mindset.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
That being said, of the men I've known who had
to kill somebody, almost to a man, it bothered them
the rest of their lives. They might have still killed
the guy because it had to be done. But if
you can incapacitate somebody, they say, for forty minutes, but
(12:38):
usually get it. If you can incapacitate somebody for thirty seconds,
you can get out of a situation.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And you know the other thing. And I talk.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
About this all the time to people who will ask
for advice on a problem with the neighbor or whatever else.
Don't let it escalate. If somebody is doing something that
is stupid, don't go in there and argue with them.
If they're calling at you from across the street, be
the bigger man who walk away. If you think you're
(13:05):
going to go over there and beat the snot out
of that guy and teach him a lesson, it's like
the old It's like the old football coaches that didn't
want to pass the ball because there's three things that
could happen and two of them are bad. Well, if
you think you're going to solve the problem by knocking
him in the head, more often than not, that's not
going to end.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Up solving the problem. It's going to cause you more problems.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And I can't imagine sitting in a jail cell because
you had to teach some idiot a lesson, because guess what,
there's another idiot on the next corner.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
You've got dumb. Michael Berry Show ever seen video of
Elvis wiggling in his finger was on this day in
nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
He's performing in Oakland, California, and the popo tell him
that he is not allowed to swivel his hips on
stage at the performance tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
So, Elvis, a good Southern boy, you don't want to
be arrested.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
But there is still a little mischievous deep down in him,
responds by sarcastically wiggling his little finger while singing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The cops were there and filmed the show.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Just in case this this lord knows we don't want
him wiggling those hips.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Elvis, the pelvis, You'll lead to the degradation of this nation,
all right.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
This clip has two of the three types of people
that I'm about to talk about, three kinds of people
with whom you disagree.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
The first is the dishonest person.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
He lies so much that you'll never find common around
with him. These are the kind of people that rise
up in the Democrat ranks. They just lie, They have
no truth in them. Think Gavin Newsome, Joe Biden. The
second is the intellectually dishonest person. This is your average
(15:18):
liberal white woman. She doesn't know she's lying. You will
never find common ground with her, though she will believe
the dishonest person because they say things that make her
feel good about herself.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
This is the Mary Ann Williams.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
They say, you're Remember when Oprah said, you're one of
the good white people because you don't like those other
white people. You're one of the good white people because
you admit that deep down you've got a racist in you,
and you're willing to make up for it by throwing
other white people into a pit of hell. You will
never convince them with facts because these people don't deal
(16:00):
with facts. As Reagan said, it's not what they say.
It's not that they don't know anything, it's that so
much of what they know is wrong. The third person
has a different opinion, but he's intellectually honest, and he'll
listen to your opinion with an open mind. I can
tolerate this. You might have friends like this. He will
(16:20):
listen to you. He might come to the wrong conclusion,
but he will listen to you. This clip we're going
to start with has three types of people.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Sorry. Two of the three.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
CNN's Kate Bettingfeld is an intellectually dishonest person, and she's
joined by Bill Maher, who has quickly become the third
kind of person. He will at least listen to an argument.
He might have a different opinion, but you could have
conversations with him. Here he is presenting betting Feld with
facts about Zora and Mundani, and she sidesteps his point
(16:52):
because she lacks the intellectual honesty to even consider that
mar is correct. They don't want to follow the path
of the facts and where they lead because it might
embarrass them.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The issue now that Andrew Cuomo is bringing up in
New York is that he is a Ugandan citizen. You
Ganda is a country where they kill homosexuals.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So is somebody who is a dual citizen can't be
mayor of.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
New York Or I would renounce if I was a
dual citizen with the country policy, the government policy was
we kill homosexuals. Yeah, I would renounce that citizenship.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I don't know and not also think it's buying into
a fear. I think that is buying into a fear
framework that it's good for the country. It's not good
for the country.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You shouldn't be afraid.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I think the way that Cloma, I think the way
that Cuomo is closing out this race and really and
really race fading and really leaning in.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
On you know what, just because for the country, I understand.
But just because something is done by people in Africa
doesn't mean it's all okay.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
See, there is your point when you say, ooh, don't
judge the Muslims for rape, that's what they do in
their culture. Or don't judge a pedophile. They don't choose
to be that way. That's the way they love. It's
(18:22):
very difficult for them because they love in a way
that the rest of us don't like. Okay, well, well
what about the guy who is a serial killer. Don't
judge him. He just enjoys killing people.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Poor guy. Can you imagine how lonely he must feel.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Back in twenty twenty, Kamiye Mamdani was running for the
New York State Assembly when he claimed that Muslims were
the victims of nine to eleven. See, you didn't think
about how hard it was for Muslims while you were
thinking about your relatives who died inside the Twin Towers.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I was actually born and raised in Kampala. You got done,
and yet even though we had returned, even though there
was a new president, I inherited these same questions of South,
the same kind of legacies of trauma and the question
of who am I and where is my home? Because
in Uganda I was Indian, and in India I was Muslim,
(19:23):
and then when we moved to New York, I was
all of those things. And New York still has something
about it which lulls us all into believing that we
too can become New Yorkers, no matter where we come
from and who we are, what we look like, in
which God we pray to, or if we.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Don't pray at all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And yet there would be these multiple moments in my
childhood where I was reminded that this promise came with exceptions,
It came with terms and conditions, and I didn't apply
to all of us. And I think of on nine
to eleven, when my teacher pulled me out of school,
pulled me out of class rather a classmate of mine myself,
and told us that may get bullied because of what
(20:01):
it just happened. We didn't understand what had happened, and
in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher
as kind of caring as that, because most Muslim students did.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Not have that.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And yet what I really remember from that interaction was
the understanding that now I was distinct, there was something
about me that was different from my classmates. And it's
a lesson that I was made to learn again and
again because a few years later, when I returned to
New York City after a trip with my family abroad,
I was taken aside at JFK and put in a
double mirrored room with immigration agents and asked if I
(20:32):
had just come from attending a terrorist training camp, and
if I had intentions on attacking in this country, and
what my thoughts were on the government. And I was
fifteen years old, and I was terrified. And it even
happened a few months ago where I accompanied a client
of mine to a bankruptcy proceeding in court in Brooklyn,
and the security officers pulled me aside and patted me
down with extra care and asked me if I had
(20:54):
the weapons of mass destruction of it. And so I
realized in that moment that for many people, we are
born into a home. Some people find a home, and
then there are others of us who are forced to
fight for a home. And I realized that that was
what I had to do. I had to.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Fight who is he fighting? You notice this?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
These people come here as immigrants and they talk about fighting.
Make no mistake, they hate you. His father hates white people.
He has said so. His father claims that Hitler was
inspired by Abraham Lincoln to hate people. His father claimed
(21:41):
his father, a professor at a university I think he's
Princeton or Columbia, claims that white people the most dangerous
people in the world.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Then why do you live here?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Go back to the crap whole you're from, You white
hating racist when.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It comes to beers, briskets and barry, letting it all
hang out.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Going against the grain is what we do on the
Michael Berry Show. Ah Yes, Little Shanny Ribs Kevin Russell,
the former lead singer of the Gourds, very talented, very
talented man. Indeed, he calls that his version of his
(22:23):
miss his mash up version of art called Salvador Dolly
Pardon with yodeling to boot. I always encourage people to
grow comfortable with their business model. Understand your business model.
Don't be afraid of your business model. So many people
(22:45):
try to hide the fact that they make money. I
don't do advertising. There is advertising around our around me,
but I don't do that. Advertising is buying time for
someone to say, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, it's the big sale
at the electronics store one day only. I don't do that.
(23:06):
I do have people who sponsor our show. That means
they believe in what I'm doing. They believe in our message.
They have to believe in that because otherwise they're going
to get complaints from people, and I don't. I don't
lose clients. I don't lose show sponsors because of complaints.
You understand what I'm about, You understand what I believe in.
I'm rough around the edges. I poke people, I argue
(23:30):
with people. I say things that make people uncomfortable because
I don't care what you think. I just want you
to think. And that makes people people like to get in.
If you've ever ridden a snowmobil, you get on a
snowmobile where someone has written before, you don't have to
steer it. It'll get right in that track. People like
to get in that track. They don't want to have
(23:51):
to think about things. They they just want. They wan't
to be on an autopilot. I don't want autopilot. Autopilot's
what gets us into trouble. So our sponsors have to
believe in what we believe in, share our values, but
also I have to believe in what they do. And
I have to say we went national October seventh.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Premiere picked us up. That's the same group that did Rush.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
That's Clay and Buck, that's Sean Hannity, that's Jesse Kelly,
that's Glenn Beck. They have been very good to us,
and I am delighted by every station we have added.
Because of them, we doubled overnight. I think we went
from thirty two to sixty five, and I don't know
what we're at now.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But we also had.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Companies that stepped up immediately for us and began sponsoring
our show on day one, Rough Greens and Top Tax
Defenders and US Coins, the gold folks, and I am
so grateful for that. And I get emails from folks
that I hand off to Premiere, from people who say,
(24:57):
I want to sponsor your show. But the other thing
that's important to remember, and this isn't just true of
our show. It's true of there's other shows out there.
I mentioned them just now. When you go looking for
the kind of people you want to do business with,
just like when you go looking for the kind of
person you want to be married to, kind of people
(25:18):
you want to work in your business, kind of people
you want to be your neighbors. You want people you
get along with that you share their values. I took
a big group to Palm Beach this weekend, went to
mar A Lago, went out on the yacht. We did
private planes, and most of the group had never been
on a private plane, never been on a yacht, never
been to mar A Lago.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And we share these experiences with like minded people. You
come alive.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
You realize for all the bad news out there, for
all the you know, the obligations of responding to emails,
responding to phone calls and making sales calls, and driving
through traffic and getting your health, taking care of and
taking care of your parents, and taking care of your kids,
and mowing the grass and paying this person. You need
to engage with other human beings. You need the endorphins
(26:06):
that are released by the human connection. And I don't
just mean sexually. I mean the intimacy of platonic friendships.
I mean the agape concept of friendships and connection and
helping someone else and them helping you. Those are very
natural endorphins that are released from all of this, and
(26:31):
I tell you that because we knew those things, the
left are very unhappy. So when people go, well, I'll
be glad. Can't we all just get along? Can't we
just get back to the way we were, it's important
that you understand, No, we can't. They will never let
(26:51):
you do that. Does this make sense. Let's say burglars
break into your home when you're away and you come
home and it's very traumatic, and you go, all right,
they broke in.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Can we just make sure that never happens again.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
No, you can't, because Burglars burgle. That's what they do.
They burgle or burglarise, if you prefer the American version,
you know, being from Orange and oh, I got some
English ways about me, Ramonent, I spend a year in England.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I took on some heirs like Madonna. I might start
speaking in an English accent.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Burglars burgle, It's what they do, right, That's what they're
going to do. That's like asking gang members not to
be gang members. Once you understand that there are people
who are paying for the arguments, for the discomfort, for
the anger, for the bitterness, for the division, then you say,
(27:52):
wait a minute, I'm not going to let them control me,
because you see a lot of our people get home
from work every day, PLoP down in front of Fox
News and say, fox News, tell me what to be
mad about. They weren't even mad, but now they need
(28:14):
to find out what they're supposed to be mad about.
Maybe get them a good stiff drink or an iced
tea chocolate milk bowl of ice cream, sit down on
their recline. All right, all right, fox News tell me
what I'm mad about, because I didn't have anything else
mad about yet. And Fox News tells you you're mad.
They bring you what all the liberals are doing, and
everybody's mad and we're good. But wait a minute. That
(28:38):
was what the left wanted for you. They want to
balkanize us. They want the blacks mat at the whites,
and then they want the whites mat at the blacks.
They want the immigrants mad at the natives. They want
the Muslims mad at the Christians. They want the Jews
(28:58):
so confused they can't figure out which side they're on.
This is what they want.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Now.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
You can't control other people. You can't say, well, I'm
not going to participate in that. I'm going to get
along with everybody. If you get on the subway and
a guy pulls a knife on you and he's going
to rob you, you can't just choose to let him
stab you. You have to get off that subway and
change your life. You have to get those people out
(29:29):
of your life. You have to choose to do business,
to be married to, to live next to, to hire
and fire. You have to choose around you in your
life people who share your values. That's the model I
have used for our show that came up in Houston.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's a model I have used as we have.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Gone national on premiere and we will be adding more
show sponsors in time. I spent the day talking to
Lewon Famitt at Burnha because today is the fourth day
of the last day of their big sale. Over All
these cases of burna gunns, we've got police departments that
I know who've used them.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I believe in them.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Do business with people in your life, in your community
that you share their values, You'll be a whole lot happier.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!